Pokémon: The Fourth Dimension
By Niko DelValle AKA Obrusnine
I made a large region map just for this story, plus wrote a lot of background. It's not required reading to enjoy this story, but if you want to see that stuff, you can google the title of this story and find the link that leads to the RPG Maker VX Ace Forums.
Prologue: Secret Plans
Deep in the bowels of the Elestis Mountains…
A man walked down a long hallway. He was clad in a fine suit, emblazoned on his pocket protector was the Letter L, in a diminutive purple shade. He walked with a measured stride past the lower ranked subordinates around him, wearing black leather jackets with gray shirts and black pants. Emblazoned on the backs of their jackets was the letter L, in the same diminutive purple as on the man's suit.
His black hair and blue eyes flitted between all of these subordinates, looking down upon them as merely means to an end, those not understanding the purpose they were here for.
As he approached the end of the hallway, the amount of subordinates thinned out until they were non-existent. He reached a door, large and metal with no obvious way to open it. He knew how though, he right to the right of the door and brushed his hand against the wall. A small receptacle emerged, demanding her insert something into a space reserved for a small sphere.
The man reached down to his belt and unclipped one of the Pokéballs hanging at his hip. He expanded it by pressing the center button and inserted the red-and-white ball into the space. The ball glowed as it was scanned, then a monitor popped out of the wall and flipped on. It revealed the information it had detected.
"Raichu, Pokéball registered to trainer ID 44036. Welcome Administrator Jackson. Routing call to Team Leader Erris." The monitor said, displaying a picture of his face and the Raichu that was his steadfast companion. He removed the Pokéball from the receptacle and clipped it back to his belt as the monitor flashed and revealed a different face. The face of the team leader, and his wife, Anna Erris Jackson. Though everyone called her Erris.
"Oh, hey honey, looks like you're back." She said as she saw his face. Her face lit up with a light smile, but as always she looked very threatening doing it, or at least it did now. It was what he loved about her the most, these days at least. She always looked like she was plotting a way to bring you down in her mind, or other things when he was concerned. "Did you get it done?"
He grinned back at her, though with a lot less evident menace.
"Yes I did. When are you going to program this door to just let me in? Don't you trust me?" He replied.
"Of course I do. But my security advisor wants me to buzz everyone through personally."
"Well I'll make sure to have a chat with him then."
"Oh, but not right now, I want to hear all the juicy details."
"Very well…" He said with a faux disappointed look on his face. The monitor went dark and the door issued a buzz before sliding open. He walked inside through into a dark hallway with the door closing behind him. He was temporarily enclosed in darkness before the inner door slid open to admit him.
He walked through into his wife's office. She was sitting behind her desk with her legs casually up on the surface. She put them down onto the ground and folded her hands in a mock official way of addressing him. He put on the most sarcastic smile he could muster before dropping into one of the chairs before her desk.
"Ooh." He said as the chair gave way comfortably beneath him. "You got new chairs when I was away."
"Yes I did Erik." Erris replied. "Do you like them?"
"Yes, I like them a lot." Erik replied with a grin. "But we have time for fun later, you want to hear all of those juicy details."
"Well yes I do." She grinned in reply. Then she let her face fall in mock sadness. "But I want to have some fun to."
"You are aware of how hilarious you look when you try to act innocent right?"
She grimaced.
"Fine, fun later. You said you got it done?"
"Yes, I deployed the plague ridden Pokémon into the forests. It should spread in no time." He replied. "Are you sure this is going to work? There's no guarantee this will get them to come out."
"Oh, they'll come. They're not that heartless. They may not be quite as godlike as the Northerners portray them, but I have no doubt that they care. They know they have the power to create the cure." She answered.
"Did you manage to get your hands on what we need to catch them?"
She grinned and pulled a box out from under her desk and placed in on top of it. She pushed it over in his direction. In response he sat up and reached for the box before unlatching it and pulling it open. He grinned as the treasure inside was revealed. Four completely pristine Master Balls.
"Ha, these are incredible." Erik said. "Did you get those defiance inhibitors installed?"
"Yes, I did, they will be completely docile and obedient." Erris replied.
"Hopefully this plague will get the response we're hoping for as well."
"With the tensions between North and South Averous like they are, there's no chance they won't blame each other. Especially with the evidence we planted. War shouldn't take that long to break out, and that'll give us the smokescreen we need. Uh… forgive the pun."
"Good. Sooner rather than later we'll have all four, and when we do we'll have access to the Fourth Dimension." Erik replied with a devious grin.
"And with that, unlimited power and riches for the men." Erris replied with a menacing grin of her own. "But more importantly, the power to bring her back. They took her away, now they're going to give her back."
"Yes, yes they will." He told her with a sudden ferocity. "Is… is her body being well preserved?"
"Yes… the body is being taken care of by the men." Both of them suddenly appeared very tired at the mentioning of her. Their daughter, Avarice, who now lie dead and was being preserved in an attempt to bring her back. A small amount of the humanity of their old selves emerged on their faces, but it didn't last long. "Anyways, there's one more thing I need you to do."
"Anything." He replied. She stood up and fetched a file from a nearby shelf. She slid it across the desk to him. He opened the file as she sat back down, a familiar face was revealed. He had seen it on the news often enough, the leading Professor of Pokémon in the region. Professor Planetree. "Professor Planetree, what about him?"
"The South Averous government has a contingency plan in this kind of situation." She replied. "I found out about it from our little spy."
"I can't believe he still hasn't figured out we have nothing on him." He replied. "I mean, does he think we have people sitting right outside her door waiting for him to slip up? That would stretch our resources way too far. His daughter's beyond our reach now."
"He probably does, best to let him keep thinking that if he doesn't tell us what we want to know she'll be killed." She replied. "We're… not that shallow though. I'd ever inflict that pain on someone else."
"Yea I thought not…" He answered. "We're criminals not murderers. I mean the plague isn't made to kill… Didn't kill in any of our tests… But regardless, what's the contingency?"
"In the event of a disease emergency like the one we're about to unleash, Professor Planetree is to take point on all research and prevention. He's the leading expert on Pokémon in the region plus an experienced medical doctor, of course they would. They'll give him all the money he needs." She replied. "He'd be able to figure it out way too quickly. It might get in the way of our plans, that can't happen."
"So what do you want me to do? Kidnap him?" Erik asked.
"No, the man is too well recognized, that would be far too difficult." Erris replied. "I didn't want to resort to this but I want you to kidnap his daughter. But… I don't want her to come to any harm."
"I know." He replied. "I'll get it done. One thing I want to say though… you think the plague not killing anyone is going to be enough to make them come out? Sure they'll be falling over and unable to take care of themselves… but not causing any permanent harm."
"It should be. They won't know if it has the potential to kill over time or not after all."
"That's a good point… just wanted to make sure."
"Of course."
"Guess I have to be off then. I need to get this done before the plague starts, and no better time than now. It shouldn't take that long, I'll be back by… maybe tomorrow night." Erik said standing up.
"Yes, you do that. I'll be waiting for your return." Erris replied.
"Do I get a kiss?"
"Only when you get back."
"Now I'll really hurry home."
With that, he turned and left. There were things to get done after all, and he was the type to get them done in a timely fashion.