Survival of the Fittest

Author's Note:

Hello everyone. This is Gunmare and I want to say that I got into Pokemon and I'm very excited for Pokemon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby. In tribute for Pokemon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby. I decided to write a Pokemon story that I'll give more detail at the bottom. I don't own Nintendo or anything related. I own the story and such, please favorite, follow, and review.

Journal Entry # 00: Digital Reality

Kyle Morales wasn't sure what's just happen to himself. One minute he was at home and the next he was outside in the middle of the night, noticing a large, middle aged, brown hair man dressed with a lab coat that covers his black shirt, brown shorts, and sandals, running for his dear life from... a gray and black canine Pokemon?

'What the...?' Kyle thought, puzzled on what he's currently witnessing. He had seen this scenario multiple times. You constantly walked out the boundaries of your hometown to stumble upon a professor begin chased by a wild Pokemon without any Pokemon of his own. You, the player, must help this scientist by using one of the three Pokemon in the professor's bag, that was conveniently laying down on the ground.

'... Is this a dream?' Kyle pondered, unsure either or not it's the real reality.

"Y-You over there!" the brown hair professor wailed, grabbing Kyle's attention. "Please! Help! There's a Pokeball in the bag!"

'Oh well,' Kyle shrugged, heading his way towards the professor's bag. 'It's better off to go with the flow.'

By the time Kyle picked up the professor's bag, something caught his attention. When he opened the bag, Kyle noticed a single Pokeball. It was very odd for Kyle, especially since in the game there are supposed to be three.

"W-What are you waiting for!" the professor, who's now climbing for his dear life on a tree but is sliding back down, screamed.

"J-Just give me a second," Kyle said, trying to figure out why is there only one Pokeball in the bag. Kyle. Unable to think of a proper solution, Kyle decided to ask the professor. "Hey! I can only find one Pokeball here!"

"So! What about it?" The professor screamed frantically. "It's the only Pokemon I have left! I gave away the other two Pokemon not that long ago."

'Only Pokemon he has left? Gave the other two Pokemon not that long ago?' Kyle wasn't sure what exactly is going on. 'If this professor said what is true, then what kind of Pokemon is in this Pokeball?'

"Pokemon, I choose you!" Kyle shouted as he threw the Pokeball into the air. The pokeball opened in the air and released a bright white light towards the ground. The white light soon materialized into a blue body Pokemon. It has a large head with a blue fin on top, and a light-blue tail fin. It has black, beady eyes and orange, star-shaped gills on its cheeks. Kyle noticed there was an icon showing the stats and race above the blue Pokemon.

"Mudkip!" the Pokemon barked out with glee.

'A Mudkip?' Kyle blinked in surprised. He let out a sigh of relief and rubbed the back of his neck. 'That's good. At least I have the starter Pokemon I prefer to use.'

"*Growl!*"

The dark canine Pokemon noticed the presence of Kyle's Mudkip. It turned around and snarled directly at Mudkip, who sensed the hostility coming from the canine Pokemon.

*Wild Pokemon Encounter Theme*

"What the?" Kyle said out loud, hearing the battle theme song of encountering wild Pokemon. Kyle then noticed a panel above the hostile Pokemon's head, revealing its stats and second icon right in front of him.

*Wild Poochyena Appeared!* The panel in front of Kyle said.

Kyle blinked in surprised, unsure how to react to the icon in front of him. He rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things and looked back and forth between his Mudkip and the opposing Poochyena. They both are perfecting standing still, staring into each other's eyes. They've been like this for over a minute now.

'What kind of dream this?' Kyle pondered. Kyle looked back at the panel standing in front of him and thought of something. 'Hmm... I wonder what would happen if I click it.'

Out of his own curiosity, Kyle touched the panel with his index finger.

*What will Mudkip do?* There was a white box next to the question with four options written inside the box. The options were either to "Attack", "Bag", "Pokemon", and "Run." Kyle decides to click on the "Attack" option and the panel changed again with the type of the attacks Kyle can order his Mudkip to do. The only attacks Kyle could command his Mudkip was either "Tackle" or "Growl". Kyle clicked on "Tackle" and the icon disappeared.

"Mudkip, use tackle!" Kyle immediately cupped his mouth the second after he inadvertently commanded his Pokemon to attack. 'What just happen? It's like my mouth spoke on its own.'

As Kyle recomposed himself, his Mudkip ran straight towards the wild Poochyena as fast as he his four stubby feet can run with its body glowing in white aura, leaving a small streak from behind. Kyle's Mudkip then hits Poochyena head first, causing the Bite Pokemon to skid back a few feet. Kyle saw the green bar on Poochyena's stats dropped more than half, turning yellow in the process.

*Critical Hit!* The panel reappeared in front of Kyle. *Poochyena used Howl!*

Just as the panel explained, the Poochyena let out a loud howling sound in the sky, causing Kyle's Mudkip to slightly cringe.

*What will Mudkip do?* The icon changed back to the way it was before the first attack. The white panel with the four options appeared next to the question. Kyle clicked on "Attack" again and reused "Tackle".

Kyle's Mudkip attacked once again, colliding with the wild Poochyena. The yellow bar within Poochyena's lowered again, but not enough to go to change its color to red.

*Poochyena used tackle!*

Poochyena charged towards Kyle's Mudkip at full momentum, spearing it a few feet back. The green bar above Mudkip's stats got lower, but not enough to go yellow, much to Kyle's relief.

'Okay, I need to use one last tackle.' Kyle though clicking on the "Attack" icon and clicked on "Tackle" one last time. After making another inadvertently command, Mudkip made one last collision with the wild Poochyena.

*Poochyena has Fainted*

Kyle wasn't sure what to suspect when a Pokemon fainted in battle. He suspected that fainted Pokemon just make the expression it shows when it's defeated and shrink into nothing, but something else happened instead. The second Kyle's Mudkip tackled the wild Poochyena one last time, the wild Bite Pokemon made a expression that it's going to faint and... burst into pixels.

'What the-!? Did that Poochyena get pixelated!?' Kyle gasped in shock. He quickly eyed down towards his Mudkip and saw a blue line underneath the green health bar going up. It went up a third of what the health bar was.

*Mudkip gain 17 experience points!*

Meanwhile...

Name: Kyle Morales

Age: 17

HairThis: Black

Eyes: Brown

Sex: Male

Race: Latino

Country: USA

Education: High School Student

Occupation: High School Student/Part time worker

Reason to become a Beta Tester to Pokemon Delta Emerald: 'I couldn't afford much toys as a kid since my family is kind of poor. I was very fortunate enough to get myself a Game Boy Advance on my birthday with Pokemon Emerald from the flea market. Emerald is very important game to me that I still play it to this day. When I heard that Nintendo was redoing Emerald and were taking Beta testers from around the world, I was so eager that I applied myself for a hundreds time and such!'

"So the third and last Beta Tester has finally arrived through this world," a cloaked man said to himself, observing two different panels at top of sky pillar. The first panel had information of Kyle's application and the other panel was a live footage of Kyle and his Mudkip defeating the wild Poochyena. Both panels disappeared from the cloaked man's sight as he turned towards the tall large, stone building. "Now that all three beta testers have arrived to this world, I think it's time to go into the first phase. Don't you think so too... Rayquaza?"

This is the first chapter of Survival of the Fittest. I hope you enjoyed it. Now let me give you an explanation about how the story is going to be and how I was able to think of this story.

First off how I was able to think of this story first. I started to read this Japanese light novel called Tate No Yuusha no Nariagari/Rise of the Shield Hero. The story is mostly about a young college student transfer into a Fantasy world with three others from earth and become the chosen "Heroes" to save the world and the way they fight is similar to a Fantasy Online Game such as Sword Art Online or World of Warcraft.

The ideal of how the reality can be like a game made me think of writing this story.

Now how the story is going to be. Though I won't reveal whether or not the world Kyle and the other "Beta Testers", The game play of the Pokemon battle works (Each Pokemon takes a turned attacking one another, using items and switching Pokemon cost you your turn to attack and such) plays a part of the story while the same time trying to live through harsh environments first hand. So please continue reading this story to see how Kyle, the other two beta testers, and their Pokemon survive the wild on their own.

Now Preview of the next chapter:

In next chapter of SOTF: Kyle is off to start his journey through Hoenn, in search for the other "two trainers" that the the professor talks about, but his quest in searching for them becomes more difficult for as he realize that his walk to Oldale Town takes him longer than he suspected to be.

Next time in Survival of the Fittest: Farther than you think.

Kyle: "How much longer will it take before I get there?"