Minimum Pokémon
A Story by King
Background: So, lately I've begun watching a new anime called 'Minimum Holders'. It's about this group of teens who have this special power known as 'small miracles', also called 'Minimum,' and they take on job requests, like a small detective agency. I've noticed the Minimum is very much like Mutations from X-Men, so it can be anything you can think of. Now, I've also been meaning to write a NarutoxPokemon crossover, and then I saw this awesome picture of the initial Team Seven, and I was like 'I have to put this together!' Soo... here it is! Welcome to Minimum Pokémon, where battling has evolved to the point where only people with the Minimum battle in competitions, alongside their Pokémon partners, to see who is the strongest Minimum Trainer around.
Prologue – The Minimum
Though Pokémon battles were the very thing that ran the world; from the hot-topic for young kids, even into their teenage years, to the way their government was run and who the high powers were, it had anything and everything to do with Pokémon. That was without a doubt.
However, as with anything, people change with time.
Just over one hundred years ago came the birth of the Fourth Era; the Minimum Era. Following the death of the Pokémon Legend Ash J. Ketchum, the world's undisputed most powerful Pokémon trainer to have ever lived, came the rise of his grandson, along with the rise of the Minimum Era, and the fall of the Pokémon Era.
Alex A. Ketchum was, like his grandfather, born special. He had always been different, nobody liked him, but they never seemed to have a good reason why.
Then, at the age of thirteen, he changed the world forever.
During a worldwide Pokémon battle against the Indigo League Champion, a young man named Ethan Gold, Alex had whittled down the charismatic Champion down to his last Pokémon; his partner Typhlosion.
With a well-timed Eruption, Typhlosion had knocked out Alex's powerhouse Venesaur, but instead of sending out his sixth and final Pokémon... Alex himself had stepped out onto the field.
Though his actions had surprised and shocked the masses watching the battle from all corners of the world, it was what he did next that had changed the world forever.
Alex A. Ketchum, eldest grandson of the Legend Ash J. Ketchum, had begun to battle against Typhlosion as if he were a Pokémon himself. He began to spray high-powered jets of water around the field like a rampaging Blastoise, and eventually, he knocked out the helpless Typhlosion.
The Pokémon League had denied Alex his title of Champion, claiming his actions were 'an act of smoke-and-mirrors', and 'some form of illegal cheating, deeming him unworthy of a Pokémon license.'
Stripping Alex of that very license was the last straw.
As the authorities took a restrained-and-contained Alex to a highly-restricted military prison for rogue Pokémon and the worst of the world's murderers and villains, they were met with resistance.
Not by Alex, no, and not something planned by Alex either.
The authorities were halted in their public advance towards the high-security prison by an army of people, men women, children, there were easily more than a hundred of them.
These men and women were led by a young man who called himself Hashirama Senju, claiming that Alex's powers were not 'smoke-and-mirrors', and that he wasn't alone.
Before a televised crowd of millions, Hashirama grew a forest out of the ground on top of a desolate rock in the middle of the ocean.
This was the beginning of the Minimum Era, named after what Hashirama had called 'little miracles', or 'the Minimum'. He, and the Minimum Holders just like him, had been living in hiding and secrecy for years, afraid of what the general populace would think of them.
He explained, to the authorities, to the world, that what Alex had done at the tender age of thirteen, was what the lot of them had been striving, and failing, to do for years: showcase their power, their difference, to the world.
The rise of the Minimum Era also brought about a change in their society, and their culture. Though there were still some of the more 'Traditional' countries, like the Kanto and Johto regions, many people had begun to have romantic relationships with their Pokémon partners, bringing about something akin to a 'baby-boom' in the Minimum population. Pokémon were no longer seen as something you could collect or capture, they were quickly becoming equal to the 'human standard'.
There was no longer a language barrier, as Pokémon had slowly begun to learn how to speak the different languages spoken by people around the world. Just like how the Pokémon surrounding them had begun to change, people began to grow more accustomed to the different Pokémon cultures and ways of life.
And, along with all of this change, came a new form of entertainment.
Minimum Battling.
One person, one Pokémon, two beings that had formed a bond together, trained together, bled, sweat and cried together would battle in tournaments and try and rise to the top of the Pokémon world, and be crowned the title... of Minimum Kings.
(A/N): Hello everyone! So... yeah, this idea totally came out of left field and hit me like a stray Hyperbeam to the face, but I actually like this. So, tell me what you like, what you don't, and why? Your comments will help me grow as an author, as long as they aren't blatantly putting me down. That won't do any help at all.
Any-who, I wanted to put this out there! Sorry about the confuddling summary at the top, I had no idea how to put that down, so I just rambled. Hopefully, I'll have Chapter I out soon. See you guys later!
King