Chapter 1

Carp's are better than Tuna's right?

Sawada Tsunayoshi, a brunette with soft, fluffy, gravity-defying hair lounged around lackadaisically as his eyes didn't even drift off from his handheld console, his mind intent on raising his team to beat the elite four.

His visitor, the closest thing to a god in his universe, didn't look impressed at the show of hospitability. The white-haired antique shop keeper crossed his arms and tapped his feet, prompting the other to slowly glance right at him.

"You know Tsunayoshi-kun, it wouldn't hurt for you to pause that game of yours and listen to what a guest has in store for you. That one is a turn based rpg game anyway, right?

I have a feeling you wouldn't be this lethargic if it was your tutor who came in to check on you right now."

"That's the reason why I have this very little and precious free time, Kawahira-san! No Reborn to shoot me into doing his every errand, no homework, no training sessions and no dangerous situation.

Life's good for this brief respite, so lemme be with my darling DS will you? We've been separated for far too long... so long that we'd give Romeo and Juliet a run for their money."

Kawahira rolled his eyes at the melodrama put on by the teen. He continued,

"I wonder where the Tsunayoshi-kun that looked upon me in awe and reverence, cautious and terrified went? You even called me the literal manifestation of God didn't you?"

"Well yeah. You can do some crazy things in reality. But its a whole other thing with games right?

I bet you can't make this game more immersive if you tried. After all, it was purely human genius that's propelled technology this far.

Right now at least, I'm just trying to play the games I've put off because of Reborn. I dunno when another opportunity like this will come by."

Kawahira came closer, his smile thinly veiling his irritation at being subtly mocked like that.

"Tsunayoshi-kun, I doubt that kind of issue is any challenge for a being like me. I'm sure I can grant that request for you, and quite easily at that."

"Eh~? I wasn't really challenging you or anything Kawahira-san. Besides modding the game would require - what did he say again? oh right- technological development? Hayato told me about the difficulty of porting old games into newer models to revamp the experience.

I, uh, doubt you have the expertise for that given your, uh, history? I mean isn't there a, uh, generation gap? A particularly huge one in your case..."

"...I can see why Reborn hovers around you to keep in you in check.

Tsunayoshi-kun... you see, being a god means you don't have to play by the rules to get what you want. And trust me, I can give you a far better immersive experience than you've ever imagined."

The taunted Checkerface chuckled darkly, his irritation at being implied to being too old to know what's cool made him extra eager at proving the child wrong.

And with a poof, Sawada Tsunayoshi vanished from the universe, his existence became removed from the future timelines.

"Au revoir, Tsunayoshi-kun. Bon Voyage~"

Then a thought popped into the God's mind.

"Oh, I've been a tad too hasty. I can't believe I let my emotions get the better of me. Whoops, didn't the kid have a lot of people who tangled their future with his?

Uh, maybe I'll just go into hiding for a bit; at least until things settle down."

Sawada Tsunayoshi woke up to a bright light and saw remants of a shell vaporizing into thin air. He couldn't feel his limbs, but when he wriggled around, he saw traces of red. He felt the familiar mane of hair but it didn't brush against the surface like a paintbrush but felt more... fins?

Feeling the first bit of panic, his mouth inevitably let out a shriek... that ended up sounding suspiciously like... MAGIKARP?! First Dame-Tsuna, and now- Magikarp?! Why was his life such a joke of an entertainment for fate?!

He panicking-ly flopped about, cursing the air resistance, and made his first Splash. It did

nothing.

He needed to see his reflection ASAP. Luckily, the body of water was not far from where he was. After minutes of crawling around the moist sand, he decided that he needed a better way of travel.

He hoisted himself by pushing down onto the ground- another splash- but this one made him jump a feet into air. It was liberating. The air was pushing right into him. He was covering a large amount of distance. The wind was blowing into his fins and the zooming out scenary was a sight to look at.

He felt enlightened. He now understood why Magikarps splash so much. This was amazing. He wanted to splash some more. He had been so blind before. His life instantly brightened up, he felt a field of meadows popped up in his mind as he could now splash amongst the flowers.

Splash is love, Splash is life.

Why didn't he do this before? Why didn't Magikarps do this more?

Just then a Pidgeotto swooshed right next to him as it accurately hunted down a magikarp which was also flopping around next to him.

Oh...

That's why...

But that was his breathen! He couldn't leave his sibling to the Pidgeotto!

So he splashed higher to fall right onto his predator.

Unbeknownst to him, his posse of Magikarp babies from that cave had been captivated by his splashing skills as they admiringly watched him flop out of the cave, splashed to a foot in height and now broke it with a super high jump. It looked like it would reach 7 feet! That was the maximum a Magikarp could reach, but if this Magikarp could reach that in such a short time, they can splash higher!

They had been following the former brunette, and now with the last jump- they all deeply desired to emulate the Splash.

The Pidgeotto who felt a Magikarp ram into it, fumbled a bit by the unwanted surprise and dipped slightly lower- only to get rammed by a crowd of Magikarp who arbitrarily decided to make it the marker of their splash prowess.

It was a sight for sore eyes- a cloud of Magikarps!

The splash didn't hurt one bit, but the sudden impact, plus the weight of a school fish made the Pidgeotto loosen its grip over that Magikarp- no doubt, getting the shock of its life.

It was the next progression of the unlikely event- a rain shower of Magikarps.

They fell right into a river of some sorts, which was right next to a waterfall.

Since they were away from danger for the moment, Tsuna wanted to regroup and lay low for the moment, since it wouldn't be strange to find that Pidgeot looking for second blood, now that they've done that.

"Hey, guys. Let's find a rock to hide under. We've got to lose that Pidgeotto ASAP!" he shouted anxiously, as his body started floating in the direction of the stream. When he tried to swivel his way over to his group to have a meaningful discussion, he saw them looking awfully seriously at the waterfall.

"Huh? Is there a cave or something under that? If so, that's really great-" but just when relief was flooding into his system, the Magikarps started chanting "Karp Karp!" and started splashing onto the fall themselves. It seemed like they were trying to ride the waterfall... upwards... when the waterfall was crashing down on them... when their muscles were weak enough that they'd just float with the stream flow...

"Stop screwing around, you guys!" Tsuna started panicking when he saw that more and more Magikarp were getting interested in this flash challenge that these Magikarps implicitly decided.

"Karp Karp." they spouted as a bunch of them flashily tried falling head over heels over the high maintenance, hot and sexy waterfall.

They might as well paint themselves neon to attract that Pidgeotto! How did Magikarps survive this long?!

Just as he thought that a bunch of Pidgeotto perched onto the waterfall's rocky perches and merrily picked up the oblivious Magikarp that wouldn't leave the waterfall regardless of the suicidal level of difficulty that it became right now.

Tsuna felt the urge to grip his head on the oncoming slaught of headaches from the mess of a situation.

Then when he swiveveled around, he saw a Magikarp floating near to him. He hurriedly splashed into its sight, thinking that at least one took his warnings seriously.

"Thank goodness, at least one of you has some resemblance of sense. Could you help me convince them to stop it with the waterfall jumping/courting business?!" he was aware he sounded slightly hysterical, but meh, desperate times call for desparate measures.

"Karp Karp."- then as Tsuna pondered about the possible language gap that could have arised from his language that he aquired from his past life-

His neighboring Magikarp's eyes glinted at that approach and decided to... use his body as a launchpad to hoist itself further into the waterfall. It even showed him a look filled with mirth, condescendence, and pride for being this ingenious. The other Magikarps looked at the newcomer with awe and respect for achieving this feat, as they started splashing around in show of approval and praise- as the fish was merrily lodged high enough for a Pelipper to simply open its mouth and swallow it whole.

"Oh My God! If you have that level of intelligence couldn't you use it for something more worthwhile, like I dunno, being easy prey for all these Pidgeotto or helping me herd these idiots out of the scene!"

That loss of composure made his body fall completely under the control of the stream and he drifted away from the lot, onto to deeper territories.

When he calmed down, he realized that he'd strayed from his herd and became splashing around to reunite with them. Even if they were idiots, he couldn't help but worry for their survival.

Then he spotted traces of red and immediately became flopping towards it.

"You guys finally came out of there. Do me a favor and don't do that anymore, will you?!

Oh, uh, I mean. Karp Karp karp... karp?" he tried adding a worried intonation into his wordings to convey his worry.

'How do you even speak Magikarp? Is there some kind of parlance? Accent? Dialect?'

When he looked closer at the other party, he noticed that they were a bunch of Carvanhas looking at him strangely.

"Whoops, wrong person. My bad! I mean Karp Karp.

No no no no. I mean, Carvanha Vanha...?"

"Don't you pull that racist shit on me, you weirdo." one of the Carvanha said, feeling irritated.

"I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to... Wait...

You can understand me? Wait... you can speak in a way I can understand?"

Seeing that the Carvanha was about to blow her top, one of its buddies chose to mediate, saying,

"Now, now. Calm down a bit. That's a child you're dealing with. He doesn't know better.

Yes, child. We can talk. Look, aren't we having a conversation even now?"

"But those Magikarps were only saying 'Karp Karp' at me."

Seeing the amused look that the others were sporting now, Tsuna realized with dawning mortification.

"Those guys were screwing around me?! Well Karp Karp to them too!

I thought that they simply couldn't comprehend basic things with how insistent they seemed at that waterfall."

"Kid, that waterfall thing happens regularly. You just gotta get used to it. Magikarps are just weird like that.

In fact, you're the one who's strange for not participating in that." the piranha inspired pokemon said with a look of resignment.

"Leave me be, will you? Besides it's not even my fault for thinking that pokemon just say their name over and over again. I thought most of them said that when facing pokemon trainers."

"Those guys are hopeless cases. They can't even learn a simple word of our language. We've gotta make sure we mimic their tone and actions if they want to know anything from us. I guess it's the same for us, but some of us know how to speak human. Those guys are special cases though.

The ones who end up their pokemon end up having really fun battles and stuff, so it'd be fun to find a worthy trainer."

"...Say, how plausible is it for me to be a trainer myself? After all, the only thing which makes them trainers is that they've caught pokemon inside pokeballs, right?"

"You must be jokin-" "Go for it kid. Nothin's impossible!"

And thus, the more sane advice got eclipsed by the other carvanhas who thought that this could get really entertaining, really fast. Their curiosity-driven minds and their urge to unleash chaos, became a trigger for Tsunayoshi to leave the peaceful base of Fortree to try out a lot of crazy shit, in hopes of finding a way to return back to his old world.

'First things first, I need to go to the Petelburg Woods, since they'd have pokemon who I can battle against and gain exp.

That would need me to go to Mauvile, then Slateport, Dewford and finally to Petalburg... Is there a better way?'