This is the second of my stories that is a rewrite of one of the Pokemon Movies. In this case, it's Destiny Deoxys, although it may not look much like it from the start. I missed out Wishmaker because frankly, it was boring and there wasn't much I could do to change the plot. No backstory to it as such to play with.
Warning: Rated T becasue I always rate them T. Obviously being a rewrite of Destiny Deoxys, it may contain spoilers for the movie.
Disclaimers: I do own the characters of Ganon, Laura, Moxis, and Kelvin. I also own locations not in the original movie, such as the university. I do not own Pokemon as a whole.
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Italics are thoughts. Typically Ganon's. That's the same in all of my fics.
I don't think Rafe actually had a surname in the movie, I've just added it.
Chapter 1: Of Physics and Ice-Cream
Light streamed through the high windows of the lecture theatre onto the floor below, lighting up dozens of rows of tired students lining the benches. They were a mixed group, some leaning forwards eagerly, hanging onto every word the teacher was saying, and others finding more enlightenment from discussing and refining the various techniques of the art of paper aviation.
"And detention for you Mr Smith." A teacher from the side of the room shouted up to the small boy who had tugged open the curtain. Most of the students turned to laugh at him.
"Well actually Billy, thank you for opening that curtain." The guest lecturer called up to the class, silencing them, "Now I can see who's picking their noses, holding hands with each other, or in quite a few cases, both."
Some of the students laughed at the speaker's unusual sense of humour, and the boy resentfully closed the curtain again.
"Thank you. Now if I could just get your attention again… This projection shows you the interior mechanism of a wind turbine. Would anyone care to identify…" He pointed at a component resembling a coil of wires with an iron core passing through the centre with a laser pen, "What this component is?"
None of the students put up there hands.
"No-one? Well that's disappointing." The guest said, as he started to stride around the room. The spotlight swivelled to follow him, the glare reflecting off his slightly spiky silver hair. He was wearing a navy blue suit with a white shirt, although he'd left his jacket on his chair to try and integrate better with the youngsters. His sleeves were rolled up past his elbows, and the glasses perched on the end of his nose were evidently more for decoration. His red eyes scanned the audience for any signs of an answer.
"I can just imagine aliens now in their search for intelligent life. They'd be wondering who had the map upside-down." More of the students laughed, "But seriously. You children are supposed to be the future. This is Larousse City, the land of Gadgetry and everything high-tech. If you don't even understand modern technology that you already have, how can you possibly advance on it?"
"Excuse me Professor." One of the students asked. The professor looked at him. The boy had brown hair and was wearing a grey tracksuit. He appeared quite young for the group, being about sixteen.
"Hand, Johnson." The student put up his hand, "What is it then."
"A dynamo sir." The boy said. The professor smiled.
"Very good. See, the human race has hope yet. That is in fact the armature of the dynamo, and the primary power source of this city." The bell outside the hall rang, "And I believe that is my cue to let you escape." The guest finished, rubbing his hands together. The accompanying teacher walked back into the pit.
"And if everyone could show their appreciation for Mr…" The teacher paused, looking at the guest.
"Ganon, but-"
"Okay then. Would everyone give a hand for Ganon." He called up. Everyone in the audience started applauding, and one or two of the older students at the back began whooping. Ganon sat there and waved awkwardly.
But please don't make a big fuss of it… He thought as the students began filing out of the hall. He walked back over to where he'd left his jacket, and one of the girls from the audience walked up behind him.
"Ganon?" The girl asked. Ganon jumped and looked around at her. She was a pretty girl that was about seventeen with light blue hair down to between her shoulders, "Would you want to go out with me?"
Ganon took a step backwards. He wasn't surprised that girls his age would be attracted to him, but he'd never expected them to be so forward.
"Why me?" He asked, not wanting to hurt her feelings too badly.
"Well, I don't know why, but when you were talking, I just thought, 'Wow! He's gorgeous'. So how about a date?" She said, bouncing slightly on the spot in anticipation.
"I'm sorry, but I'm already with someone." He said.
"Oh." The girl said, looking down at the floor for a few seconds before running off. Ganon watched her leave and shrugged. Nutters. He got them all the time.
He packed up his projector into a bag, along with a few of his models and the jacket, and walked out of the room. He walked over to the little café and presented a small piece of plastic to a card reader. A moment later, a cup of coffee came out of the machine, and Ganon walked to a nearby table with it. He sat back and watched some Pelippers riding the current on a lake outside. A few of the other students were lounging by the waters edge themselves, chatting between themselves. A girl with shoulder length red hair sat on the chair next to Ganon. She was also about seventeen.
"Hi Laura."
"Had a good lecture darling?" She asked. Ganon smiled.
"Well when Moxis got us the tickets, I thought I was going to be doing an investment demonstration for some businessmen. When I get here it turns out I'm a guest speaker for some kids doing science."
"The business demonstration is this afternoon." She said. Ganon groaned.
"That's the one at the Battle Tower right?"
"That's the one. Along with my battle."
"Well then." Ganon stood up and offered Laura his arm, "Shall we walk?"
"Ganon," She giggled, "We don't need to be there for another two hours."
"Who said we would be going straight there?" He said, kissing the back of her hand. She blushed and boys on nearby tables grimaced. He was making them look bad in front of their girlfriends. Ganon pulled her to her feet gently, and they walked off together hand in hand, prompting many rows between the other couples and causing about three break-ups.
"So how was your day? Did the training go well?" Ganon asked her as they sat down at an ice-cream parlour. The privacy it offered them was much better than the city campus, hence the reason why they'd moved. A waitress came up to them, and asked what they wanted, before wandering off again. Laura smiled.
"This must be about the only place here that still gets served by hand."
"It probably is." Ganon mused. He didn't want to rush her answering, even though in any other case he'd argue for them to get to the point. Laura sighed and watched as the waitress came back with two cones of ice-cream, one red and one blue.
"That's seven dollars please." The waitress said, holding out a card reader. Ganon held the end of his card against it, and a red light winked green. The attendant nodded and walked off.
"I don't see why you always go for Strawberry." Laura asked, watching as Ganon began eating his ice cream. He looked up and smiled at her again.
"Oh come on. You know why I like strawberry."
"No I don't." She said playfully, "Why do you like Strawberry?"
"Because it's my favourite colour. Red." He said, looking back at Laura. Everything she ever wore was red; her long summer dress, her small shoes, even her soft hair was the beautiful shade of burgundy that he loved. Except her eyes. Deep amber eyes that he could lose himself in whenever he looked at her.
"So why do you love Blueberry so much?" Ganon asked her in the same playful tone.
"Hey! That's not fair!" She said laughing slightly. Ganon leant forwards and ran his thumb over her top lip. She shivered slightly until Ganon pulled back slightly to reveal that she had had an ice-cream moustache. She blushed as she hadn't noticed.
"You looked so cute with that, although I'm sure that no-one else would think so." He said softly. She sighed, before looking down at the table again.
"I really wish we could have been together more often." She said quietly. Ganon's face fell. He hated seeing her unhappy.
"Laura… I'm always here for you." He said in little more than a whisper as he put his arms around her. She sobbed heavily into his shoulder as Ganon nuzzled her gently.
"It's okay." He whispered into her ear, kissing her just underneath it. She pulled back and looked into his face.
"Well, I just worried about you. I got this terrible feeling that-" Ganon stopped her babbling by kissing her again. She relaxed into the kiss for a few moments, until he pulled away again.
"Well, Moxis should be arriving at the station with Kelvin soon. How about we go greet him?" He asked her. She beamed at him, a sight that made it all worthwhile for him.
"I'd love to."
"Hey Brock. What kind of Pokemon do you think that is?" Max asked, pointing at a strange bluish Pokemon walking through the crowd at the train station. It looked humanoid with a dogs head, like an Anubis. Everyone else turned to look in the direction where Max had pointed, but they all missed the Lucario. Ash shrugged and stepped onto an escalator. As they reached the bottom, a robot approached them. It appeared to be made up four small green boxes attached to a slightly larger box with a screen embedded in the front displaying a smiling face. It stopped at the bottom of the escalator, and detached the four green boxes, connecting them into a bar on top of its 'head'.
"Welcome. You are now in Larousse City. Welcome again." The box robot chimed in a friendly, but obviously digitised voice.
"Cool!" Ash started.
"It's so cute!"
"A robot!" Max said, examining the contraption before him as it reformed its initial shape.
"What could be better than that?"
"Being greeted by a real life beautiful girl for one thing…" Brock moaned.
The robot floated up in front of May's face, a flap opening on front of the one remaining box on its top. A camera poked out from the recess.
"Smile!" It said, surprising May. The bulb flashed and May made a grotesque smile in shock. It moved on quickly to Max, Ash and Brock in turn before handing them small plastic cards with the photograph on it.
"These will serve as your passports. Whilst in Larousse City, please keep them with you at all times. Your passports can be used for shopping and other means." The machine said. May recoiled as she received her passport; the image attached to it looking like it belonged to a raving psychopath more than a travelling Coordinator. The machine flew off to their left and the group started walking towards the exit. A loud crunch could be heard from their left and they looked around to see the Lucario with its fist through the main screen of the robot.
"I'M A POKEMON. I DON'T NEED A GODDAMNED PASSPORT!" It bellowed watching the pieces of plastic float to the floor. A Sneasel next to it was shaking its head reproachfully. Surprisingly, it was bucktoothed. The Lucario looked around for a second, before grabbing the Sneasel by the wrist and belting out of the hall.
"Shneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeea-" Was all they heard before the two Pokemon left their line of sight. Ash was tempted to follow them, but Brock grabbed him by the arm to stop him.
"Ash, we don't have time to follow those Pokemon. Don't you want to see the battle tower?"
"No. I want to conquer the battle tower!" Ash yelled dramatically. Everyone else sweat dropped.
"Do you really have to say it like that?" May asked. The only bonus to it was that it had completely emptied their coach on the train there. Now it was just getting them funny looks. It was Ash's turn to sweat drop. He calmed down and led them outside to a plaza just in front of the station. A Lucario and Sneasel were sat at the far end of the courtyard looking at a map, unnoticed by the group.
Ganon and Laura were stood together on the fast lane of a moving sidewalk. It was due to take them to the railway station where they could meet Moxis.
"Anywhere you want to go after we've finished at this meeting? It should only take about half an hour."
"Surprise me." She said, still clinging onto his arm. He smiled as he saw the station roof peeking out from behind another city block.
"We're nearly there." He said. She pulled him around suddenly to face him, catching him off guard.
"Well I guess we'd better have one last kiss then before somebody sees." She said, planting her lips on his again. He pulled back after about thirty seconds, as she continued to smile at him.
"You always try and make out it's a naughty thing to do, don't you." He said. She continued playing with his hair.
"Well, you wouldn't just want everybody watching us now would you?"
"No. I suppose not." He answered looking back over his shoulder towards the station. A group of four people were just ahead of them, and there was someone else on the sidewalk going the other direction, although he was trying to run against the direction of the conveyor belt. A few snippets of conversation could be heard from just ahead.
"Dude! You're swimming upstream!" A guy with a slightly hippie voice said.
"There is an easier way." Said another speaker with a much sharper voice. Ganon recognised it as one of the boys from his class earlier. Rafe Johnson.
"Well maybe if I ever get off of this thing, maybe you can show it to me." The running boy panted. That was a voice he definitely recognised. Ash Ketchum. There was a loud thud as the boy landed flat on his face on the sidewalk. Ganon and Laura stepped onto the slow path just behind the group ahead of them to listen.
"Nice fall." The first guy said. It turned out he wasn't a hippy, as he was wearing a simple black T-shirt with yellow cargo shorts, and a silver dog-tag hanging from his neck. His black hair was held in place with a red sweatband, although his wide physique told Ganon he didn't run as much as the sweatband was supposed to suggest.
"Nice fall." Two smaller girls next to him mimicked. They looked like twins, one of them wearing pink, and the other wearing orange. They were both about eight. Rafe looked at Ganon behind him, and rather than heckle as he was inclined to, he took a Pokeball off of his belt and threw it into the air. No doubt it would save him from a detention. Ganon watched as it arced through the air, and a tall red and yellow Pokemon was released onto the path behind them. A Blaziken.
"Help him out Blaziken. Okay?" He asked. The Blaziken spun around on one heel, jumping into the air and landing besides the boy that had fallen over. The Pokemon picked him up, before jumping several times to bring him back to the rest of the group on the right side of the path. The large guy moved out of the way before the Blaziken almost landed on him, and the two girls started laughing. Ash resting his hands on his knees to catch his breath, before turning to Rafe.
"Hey. Thanks a lot." He said, still panting slightly. Rafe put his hands on his hips and smirked confidently.
"Sure. Don't thank me. I just couldn't continue watching you look like a fool." He answered back. Ash looked outraged, before falling backwards where the end of the conveyer met the tarmac at the end. Ganon walked over to his Pokemon in front of a robot showing a map of the area. The Lucario spun around and looked at him stony-faced.
"Well, I've brought the new guy; can I get some sleep now?" He said, gesturing to his Pokeball on Ganon's belt. Ganon was surprised.
"You're meaning to say you haven't slept at all on the way here?"
"The nerd wouldn't let me sleep." He said, gesturing to the Sneasel. Ganon scowled and returned both Pokemon, before turning around. Whilst everyone else was in some sort of conversation, Brock was staring at him. Ganon recognised something he had feared in the Breeders eyes.
Recollection.
Yep. My new Sneasel is a nerd. Hope you liked the introduction, but this is going to be my last update on anything until late January, due to having my A2 exams between 14/01/08 and 23/01/08. I can still reply to reviews, so if you've read this, REVIEW!