Back to the Past
Author's Note: I decided to create this story because the author of one of the stories I followed and favorited did not want to make a sequel. This is what I sort of pictured my own characters reacting to those situations in there. I thank Spark Plug x for creating Games Between Gangs; all of those events occurring through high school, it makes me wish I could have that much fun at my own.
This is sort of a darker take. These characters are more like antagonists. Also, there is slight to moderate cursing in here, you have been warned.
Second to last note, I based the title on "Back to the Future," I thought it was kind of catchy.
Do me a small favor, readers, and listen to some of the game music as you read about the events in certain towns here. You don't have to, even though I think it'll be kind of cool.
Prologue
At a port in Vermillion City, a sailor stood on standby. He was waiting for a newly built ship that travelled between Kanto and a mysterious region called Zotra. He looked at the foggy horizon and saw a big shadow approach the dock. When it came close enough, it stopped, and a captain walked down from it. The captain wore a clean white uniform and flashed a similar looking smile at the sailor.
The captain spoke. "Tis not the usual, today we have only three passengers aboard."
The sailor couldn't help but break into laughter. "Three passengers! What nonsense is that?! Why would there be three passengers and not a couple hundred?!"
"Everyone else who booked this ship didn't want to go to Kanto," the captain responded, "they all want to go to somewhere like Hoenn or Sinnoh. I guess Lilycove and Veilstone top Celadon when it comes to prices and tourism."
The sailor continued laughing.
"Besides, these three really wanted to get to Kanto badly. They booked first class."
The sailor immediately stopped laughing. He seemed somewhat curious now. "Well bring them abroad now."
The captain motioned to his stewards and stewardesses who went inside to fetch their passengers. Three people came out onto the dock. There were a teenage boy with very light blonde hair; a young, spectacled, serious-looking young man; and a raven-haired young lady wearing a kimono.
"May I see your passports, please?" the sailor asked politely.
All three flashed them out, and all three of the passports had the same last name-Psychicus-and the same region of origin-Zotra. The sexes and the hair colors matched what the sailor judged. Even the eye colors corresponded with what he saw (they all had silverish grey eyes, even though the boy's were more silver, and the woman's were more darker grey.). What the sailor found really peculiar on the passports were the names.
"Um." he held his hand out to the boy, "Good afternoon Mr. Zeta Psychicus."
The boy grinned, "Yeah, that's right. Thank you and good afternoon to you, sir."
"His name can actually be pronounced two different ways." the woman said, "it can rhyme with Rita or beta." She came over and shook his hand, "My name is Chi, and no, it is not spelled K-A-I. When most people look at it, they pronounce it based on what it looks like. I'm fine with that, too, but only in most situations."
The sailor bowed in respect despite feeling very awkward. "And good afternoon to you, my dear lady Chi."
The young man approached him last and looked as if he was studying the sailor's soul.
"I'm not going to bother with this one. Can you please pronounce your name for me?"
The man coldly responded, "Upsilon. Don't say the first part as up. Let's just say it would somewhat rhyme with Soup-a-thon."
"Thank you, sir Upsilon."
Upsilon still shot him that stare.
"It was a pleasure meeting you all!" the sailor greeted, "And I hope you enjoy yourselves in the Kanto region. Please visit Celadon City, it has lots of great things there."
Chi smiled, Zeta grinned, and Upsilon had a very small smile. The sailor took a quick glimpse at a part of the passports before he gave them back.
NAME: ZETA PSYCHICUS
AGE: 14
NAME: UPSILON PSYCHICUS
AGE: 24
NAME: CHI PSYCHICUS
AGE: 26
The three received their passports back, and thanked the sailor before turning their backs on him and leaving the dock.
"Those three are a strange bunch." he remarked.
"I know, but then again a lot of people in Zotra are pretty strange." the captain responded.
"That lady was so sweet and pretty, I could date her. Hell, even marry her. She's my age." the sailor sighed.
"Don't get your hopes up." the captain retorted.
The sailor frowned at him.
The trio walked past various strangers, most of them demanded a battle, but the three fled quietly when that happened. When they finished dodging all of that madness, they were at the border between Saffron City and Route 6.
"I would like to chat with Sabrina." Chi said as she started to walk away from the remaining company, "Upsilon, I trust that you'll watch after our younger brother."
Upsilon nodded, and turned to Zeta. He whispered, "Besides, we have business to take care of."
Zeta grinned. Together, they opened the doors of Silph Co. and approached the front desk.
Zeta put on his best act and smiled cutely, "We would love to see the President! We're big fans of him, and I have always dreamed of meeting him one day!"
The female attendant hesitated. She was falling victim to his charm.
"Please!" his eyes started to water, "I mean if he's busy then fine. But if he's not, would you let a little boy cry from heartbroken dreams?"
Upsilon held back his laughter. His brother can be really ridiculous when it comes to begging, but his charisma and charm are effective.
"Aww… Well, you can use the elevator." she pointed to it which was halfway across the room from her desk. "Eleventh floor."
Zeta smiled, "Thank you very much for making a little boy's dream come true."
"No problem!" The clerk blushed a little, "you're very welcome."
The two brothers headed inside the elevator and made sure nobody could hear them.
"I swear that woman is a pedophile." Upsilon remarked.
"I know right?!" Zeta responded, "But let's get back to business. Where is the button for the basement floor?"
Upsilon grinned and started pressing a seemingly random combination of buttons. He put his hands back in his pockets, and the elevator started moving.
The light from the elevator flooded the dark room. It was really small and the only thing in there was a box situated in the center. The dust came into the elevator which caused the boys to start choking and their eyes to start watering.
Zeta quickly pulled out a tiny, grey, metallic cube and pressed the top circular button which created a small hologram listing his inventory. He searched through his stuff using the arrows and selected some goggles and air masks that instantly flashed out of the cube and materialized. The two brothers quickly put them on.
"Same science that allows pokémon to be stored on a PC and in pokéballs. It's amazing." Zeta said.
"I know, I was the one who created it." Upsilon said, "That is a fine invention." He grinned at it in pride.
"I know, and you are an amazing, smart big brother." Zeta smiled.
He proceeded to opening the box. "Giovanni wanted to know what these doohickeys are capable of." He pulled out two devices. One looked like a ray gun drilled through an empty hourglass while the other looked like a normal box with a screen on the side.
"One is a…" Upsilon was interrupted by a "Ding!"
The elevator's doors closed, and it started moving without them. The room instantly became dark. The boys' hearts started to race.
"How are we going to get out of here?" Zeta cried.
"I don't know."
They silently sat in darkness, listening for the elevator. After what seemed like a few minutes, it was starting to come down.
"What if it's the police?"
"I don't know. They'll arrest me, and possibly throw you in a juvenile detention hall."
Zeta thought his heart was going to explode. He was really wondering who was coming down here. Should he let them take him, or should he defend himself? If he tried the second option, there would probably be a few cops awaiting him on the first floor.
At that moment he started to ponder. He thought they weren't getting tailed, they really aren't well-known and plus they came from a different region. They also weren't well-known there ether. Unless, there was a traitor. Somebody who had given away the identities of him and his brother.
He would have thought of some possible suspects, if there was more time. The elevator stopped moving. Zeta immediately stood up. The doors started to creak open and light flooded the room once again. He quickly dashed up to the doors and raised his fist back.
"How dare you try to physically assault your own sister!"
He stopped. Chi was looking at him straight in the eye. Embarrassment flooded his cheeks.
"Sorry. I thought you were going to be some bad man."
Chi's glare changed into a sympathetic look. She leaned forward and hugged him.
"Apology accepted. Please try not to do that again."
"I will."
Chi let go of him. "Now what are you two doing here?"
"Testing out some equipment." Upsilon replied, "How did you get down here?"
"I remembered the same code."
"Oh."
Chi walked toward them.
Upsilon warned "Whatever you do don't…"
She was holding the hourglass ray. "What does this do?" she pushed the R icon on it.
ZAP!
A red light filled the whole room in an instant then disappeared.
"…touch anything."
"Upsilon your voice sounds a little high pitched. I also feel a little shorter."
She turned and faced him. He was also shorter, but younger. She looked at Zeta. He couldn't even wear his own clothes; they were too big for him. It was actually kind of funny looking at him. He stood on his own black pants while wearing white boots; a part of the pants were sticking out of them. His hair looked almost the same, but a little shorter; his lump of hair sticking out of the back was gone, and his bangs were neatly trimmed.
Chi laughed. "You looked the way you did when you were six."
Zeta looked at himself and blushed. He responded in a higher pitched voice.
"Oh stop it!"
Now both of his older siblings were laughing at him.
"No really, stop it! None of us would be eight years younger, if you haven't touched that device!"
They instantly stopped. Chi was starting to tear up. Upsilon wrapped his arm around her shoulders and hugged her close. She was making his shoulder wet.
Zeta pouted. "I'm sorry."
Chi looked up from Upsilon's shoulder, eyes red and still halfway filled with tears. "It's okay, but not right now. Let me have my moment please."
She continued sobbing into his shoulder. Her voice was muffled, but they could understand it. "In the meantime, find a way to fix this."
Zeta reached for the aging device and tried to set it to eight years older but didn't have any luck. It was out of power.
Chi stopped crying. "Maybe the box could help us."
She reached over and touched it. The box opened up to reveal a keyboard, another R button, and two screens that had the labels TIME and PLACE above them.
Upsilon pulled her hand back. "No more toying with the "Random button." he said, "I don't even know why I put that there."
"Well, what does it do?"
Upsilon answered, "It's a time travel device. After dabbling with some specimens taken from Celebi and Dialga, I have been able to create this. It can take you back to a certain place in a certain time."
"You can use the Random button to…" Zeta tried to walk over and point directly at it, but he tripped on his own pants and fell. His index finger was accidentally pressing it.
He quickly and nervously finished his own sentence, "Find a random location and time for an adventure!"
"You fool!" Upsilon shouted.
The ground started to shake. A wormhole came from the box and sucked the three siblings in. Surprisingly it sucked itself in, too.
It was like falling through a tornado. Anything that was loosely attached slipped out and fell with them. Everyone's clothes were wildly flapping around (Zeta's were doing the worst).
Even though everybody was going through the same situation, the siblings' individual reactions were different. Zeta looked deafly scared and was screaming as his boots were flying above him. Upsilon was trying to catch his glasses which seemed to get out of his reach every time he was close. Chi was looking down and wondering when they're going to land. It seemed to take forever.
Almost forever that is. Chi saw a speck of land below which kept growing larger and larger. The others noticed it, too. Upsilon caught his glass in time and was now making grabs for one of the devices; it was difficult for he was using only one hand. Zeta stopped screaming and copied Upsilon.
They eventually landed-the older two on their feet, but Zeta on his stomach- and caught all of the electronics that were floating in the air.
Upsilon looked up and saw that the wormhole was gone. He then looked at the box. TIME: 6:30 A.M. APRIL 5, 2013 PLACE: CENTRAL PLAINS, UNKNOWN REGION.
He started laughing. "That is supposed to be a discovered place, but yet it doesn't belong to a region. Ha! Get out of here."
He typed in TIME: 4:45 P.M. JANUARY 26, 2013, PLACE: SAFFRON CITY, KANTO, and pressed the "T button." No response. On the side of the box, the screen read: ERROR.
"You've got to be kidding me! We are stuck here for the time being."
He put the box down, kicked some grass, and cursed at the wind.
"Are you okay, little brother?" Chi asked with some concern.
"Uurp."
Zeta turned over and was now lying on his back.
"I've got a serious stomachache."
He sat up and pulled his legs close to him. All three of them scanned the unfamiliar area. They were all in a clearing. One of them spotted a building nearby.
"I think that's a school. I'm not too sure. I don't have my glasses."
Chi put Upsilon's glasses on him.
"It's a school. It is called Central Plains High."
Chi straightened her hair with her fingers and picked up Zeta's cube. "What are we waiting for? Let's fix ourselves up and get there!"
The money and devices they brought with them disappeared in flashes.
"Do we have to go to school? Elementary was a pain in my ass."
"Elementary and high were pains in my gluteus maximus, too."
Chi glared at Zeta. "Little boys shouldn't curse."
She stopped and continued to talk; "Besides, since we are stuck here for the time being, we need to live somewhat normal lives. We need a house, some more money, and not be in trouble with the law."
She narrowed her eyes at her brothers when she said that last part.
"While we are juggling our own responsibilities, we need to find a way to fix those devices. Without further ado, let's make our way to register with the school as students."
She started to walk toward the high school. She turned around and saw that her brothers were too busy fixing their hair. They finished up, noticed, and ran towards her. Zeta was carrying boots and keeping his pants' sleeves up while running.
When they met up, all three walked towards the school.
Author's Note: I hope this wasn't too bad. I might have probably done too much dialogue, not much action. Sorry if it got boring. Also, I accidentally made Chi seem annoying. I'll try and upload Chapter 1 tomorrow or tonight, afterwards I might upload chapters regularly within 4-7 days.