Forbidden Love?

Book 1, the beginning, Victorville, and Lycoming

Introduction\Welcome to my world\Random things you might want to know.

I decided to keep everything below for historical purposes, the entire purpose of re-writing this was to not have the chatroom style anymore, but it's still interesting to see what my mindset was like when I originally started writing half a decade ago. So now we can all laugh at how silly I was.

Some brief explanations, so you can understand my writing style. Believe it or not, I am actually better at writing than speaking, I think it has something to do with the fact that in writing, I have alot more time to put my thoughts together. When I speak, I tend to speak quickly, to get my thoughts out before I forget what I was thinking about, anyway, not many people can understand what I'm trying to say half the time, So, in an effort to prevent this same thing from happening to this story. Here are some brief explanations as to why I wrote some things in a certain way.

Because of the large amount of dialogue, I use more of a chatroom-like dialogue style. Stating the character's name, followed by a colon, followed by whatever they're saying in parentheses. Example:

Bob: "Hello everybody, my name is Bob."

This condensed the dialogue down into an easier to understand format. The only time I didn't use this style was in the earlier parts of the story, because the dialogue belonged to some nameless NPCs in a videogame. This story contains many references to the pokémon videogames, and so if you are not familiar with them, you may have a hard time understanding this story. Video game references may be subject to a slight amount of inaccuracy as well, because at the time this was written, I was either not that far in the game yet, or just simply forgot how that part in the game went. Please bear with me on this, this story was meant to entertain, not be 100% accurate. I tried my best to be as accurate as possible, I do occasionally make mistakes, keep in mind, this story is still being written, I try to complete at least 1 episode per day, and maybe even change a few details in the previous episodes to make them more coherent and consistent with each other. Feel free to sub the word "chapters" for "episodes" if you wish, I used the word episode, cause I wanted to give people the idea that this could make an awesome tv series. References to real towns, town names, and locations are completely coincidental, as I pretty much just made them up random. The main character is, essentially me, I'm a 18\19 year old lonely kid with a dark past. I've seen a lot of pain in my time, please understand, that because of this, that I do not possess the same sense of fear that most people have, and that in times that most people would cower in fear, I would try to keep fighting, until I was either killed, or there was simply nothing left to fight, It is this very courage and tenacious temperament that my uniquely badass personality stems from. I ally with few, and bow to no one. Despite this, I still try to fight for what's right, and I will do my best to serve the ones I love till the end. I believe that there are only two things you can truly possess in this world, and that is either the love or the hatred of others.

A few other things you may want to know are that in the dialogue of this story, a word in all caps means that the character is shouting this word, while a word in Italics, means the word was communicated telepathically. All dialogue is subject to grammatical errors, as natural dialogue almost never uses perfect grammar, unless you are some stereotypical old British lady or gentlemen who spent years as a child learning how to speak perfectly. I originally intended this to be a horror story, and it does retain some elements of that, but after working on it for a while and after Chapter\Episode 4, which is the longest chapter I've written so far at the time I wrote this, and contains arguably enough content to be a standalone story, was rejected by creepypasta,I decided it was much more suited as a romantic\action\adventure type story with some horror elements such as mass destruction, weapons, and death as a common theme. Episodes 1-3 are used to provide background to the story, while Episodes 4 and above are almost standalone short stories, except they follow the same story line built by chapters 1-3 in chronological order. Episodes 4 and above usually go by a day to day basis, stating all the significant events that happened during that particular day, and almost always end at night, with the next episode continuing from the morning is a large chance that there will be alterations to this, as so far, I've only written to episode there will be more episodes, and I'll probably take this series as far as I can until I get bored with it, or reach some conclusion of its plot. All that being said, enjoy the show.

Prologue\episode 1

Gardevoir...the desperate fanboy's favorite pokémon. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself here. So before you decide to write me off as a freak, please allow to explain what my situation was like before this romance started. I went through high school without ever having a single girlfriend. Why you ask? I guess it was because I was too afraid to talk to girls, and then later it became the fact that I didn't have a single thing in common with them, or anyone else from my school, and go figure, the only girls I could of had a fair chance with, pretty much always had boyfriends. I come from a small town with very little interest in anything other than sports and pop music, and with me being the stereotypical metal headed car fanatic and general anime nerd, knowing way more about cars and pokémon (a strange combination huh?) than any of them knew about sports, well let's just say I was a fish out of water in their athletics centered world, well high school came and went, and no I didn't even have a date for prom, and I have been a lone wolf ever since. The sad thing is after high school, it wasn't even because of shyness anymore, it was because there wasn't any girls in my class, and I was on the verge of sealing my heart from the world forever, so that I would not have to feel the pain of loneliness. I was beginning to think that there truly was no one out there for me, That I was uniquely created to be alone, and that no other soul could possibly be compatible with mine. Little did I know what was in store for me.

I was on the brink of insanity, my life, torn between my cold, mundane realities, and my warm, adventurous fantasies, which I had come to depend upon for survival in this harsh, cruel, world. I tried very hard to keep these two separate, trying to live my life, whilst holding on to my fantasies as long as I could. I was trying to get the best of both worlds, little did I know, one of my fantasies had a mind of its own. It was a typical fantasy, involving a female gardevoir, probably not much different than any other desperate man's fantasies about female gardevoir. Well, you'd probably suspect this one centered around my own gardevoir, her name was Phoebe. I originally caught her as a Ralts in platinum, I ev trained her for special attack as a special sweeper, she was part of my team when I beat the elite 4, it was shortly after that that I began to fantasize about her, she was beautiful, but yet so strong, strength that only someone like me could truly appreciate, none the less, I knew in my heart she wasn't real, or was she? And hell, we even had similar natures, both of us willing to die for the ones we love.

So I kept fantasizing, and playing Platinum alongside Fire Red for a while until I finally bought my copy of Black 2, I was saddened by the fact that I could not get a Ralts in black 2, and so I had my heart dead-set on beating the game as fast as possible to take advantage of the poke transfer feature, to transfer my beloved Phoebe and several others over to my cartridge. I wasn't even sure it would work as my Platinum and Fire Red are both roms. So now my focus had shifted from Fire Red and Platinum, to Fire Red and Black 2, as I was trying to get to a certain point in fire red ( The part where your starter learns its exclusive move) before I transferred all my good pokes off of it into platinum, and then into Black 2 once I beat the unovian elite 4. During this time frame, I never loaded my platinum rom to see how my beloved gardevoir was doing, as I was trying to beat Black 2 and get Fire red to an acceptable transfer point. I imagined her being upset, and us having a conversation about when I would transfer her to unova, I kept telling her she would have to wait, I can't beat this game over night. I imagined this conversation several times and each time she seemed a little more distressed. I kept telling her it will all be fine you just have to wait a little while. That never seemed to help. Of course, all these conversations were written off in my mind as a simple fantasy, and nothing more, just idle thought to distract myself from the misery of my life.

Finally the day came when I finally got to the point in Fire Red where I could deem my pokémon ready to be transferred. So I started up Desmume and loaded my Platinum rom, loading my save like I normally would, I was north of the battle frontier, were I last saved, I checked my party, glad I could finally see my Gardevoir again, except she wasn't there. It was strange, my shiny Magnezone "CapnMagnum" and my Houndoom "HellBlade" were there as well as my Cloyster "ShockaBomb", and my un-nicknamed Galade, but Phoebe wasn't there, I thought I might of left her in the PC, but when I checked, she wasn't there either. I was starting to freak out, wondering what happened to my beloved Gardevoir. "Did she just up and leave?", "Where the heck did she go?", "Did I accidently release her?", and "Will I ever see her again?" were just some of the many questions racing through my mind at this time. This moment reminded me of some of the dreams I would have about finding a beautiful girl, only to have her disappear to hell-knows-where and me spending the rest of the dream trying to find her, only to wake up disappointed about my wasted dream. Well anyway, despite this odd predicament, I decided to try to go ahead with the transfer from Fire red, I went to the nearest pokémon center and switched out some of my Pokémon, I switched ShockaBomb with my Staraptor, and withdrew my Seaking, because he knows surf. Using Staraptor I flew to Twin-Leaf town, and started making my way towards Pal Park. I decided to do some battling to get my mind off of the fact I probably lost Phoebe forever, so determinedly, I surfed in front of the first swimmer I saw, the little exclamation point appear over their head, they swam over to me, and said "I went over to pal park, I'm ready to go, come get me." There was no battle, and after talking to the swimmer again I realized this was all she would say.

Fully aware something strange was going on, I continued my quest toward pal park, passing several swimmers along the way, none of them seemed to want to battle me, instead they all said things like "Go to pal park" with one in particular just saying "pal park" over and over again. I was starting to get anxious, I wanted to get to the bottom of this. So I kept moving towards Pal Park, when I got there, I spoke to the guy behind the counter "Go on in, I want to talk to you." But I couldn't go in because every time I tried the guy would just repeat his line. I wanted to confront her, to tell her that she can't get to Unova from here, and she would have to wait until I beat Black 2, but how? The silly door wouldn't open. I didn't know what to do, so I just kept talking to the guy, until finally he said "Oh sorry, I forgot to open the door for you" I laughed a little bit, as my character automatically walked through the door, and into Pal Park, I saw Phoebe's over world sprite wandering through the grass, so I walked over to her and pressed "A".

"I'm glad you made it, I was worried you wouldn't come back." Appeared in the textbox.

It kind of looked like she was crying, realizing that I'm probably going insane, I decided it wouldn't hurt to talk to her, even though a part of me still wanted to believe that none of this was real.

" What are you doing here baby? I told you, you would have to wait until I could transfer you, you can't use this place to get to Unova anyway, it's just a one way trip from Hoen or Kanto to Sinnoh." I said, unsure if she could hear me or not, apparently she could because "Well, I thought that it was worth a try, but there doesn't seem to be anything here." Appeared in the text box.

At this point, I wasn't at all surprised that she could hear me.

Me:" Exactly, baby, you just have to wait that's all, now come on, stop bothering these people and follow me, I'm going to go put you in the pc for a little while, so I can transfer my pokes from fire red, and then I want you back in my team OK?"

Phoebe:" Just for a little while right?" she replied.

Me:" Yeah just for maybe a half hour or so"

So she followed me back into the building, and I put her and most of my other pokes in the pc, and began to transfer my pokes from Fire Red, the transfer went normally, or what I assumed to be normal ( I honestly wouldn't know as I had never done this before until now), I imported the pokémon from fire red, and caught each of them, one by one in the park balls. And then I put them all in the pc, except for Bubba, my Blastoise, then I withdrew Phoebe, ShockaBomb, CapnMagnum, HellBlade, and my Wiggly tuff. I moved Phoebe to the first slot in my party, thinking this would allow me to speak with her, and sure enough not even a minute later

"So when can I go to unova with you?" Came through my speakers. It caught me off guard as just a while ago she could only communicate through text. That was when I heard her voice for the first, and damn, it was pretty.

"When I beat the league." I replied.

"How close are you to getting that done?" She asked.

"I'm on the fifth gym, but it's not going so well, I keep losing." I replied.

"Oh c'mon, you're a better trainer then that, aren't you baby?" She said.

"Well.." I stuttered, not wanting to admit that I used a few hacks to train her, well actually all I really did was make a bunch of wild alakazams appear so she could kill them for evs plus the pokerus. and I hacked 2 pokemon just to get the macho brace.

" It's just I'm trying to go through it so fast, to get you on there, that I don't spend a lot of time training my unovian pokémon" I answered.

"You don't have to rush you know, just get it done." She replied.

As the weeks passed, we kept having conversations, I would load platinum on my pc and play my ds at the same time, just so we could have conversations while I played, it was strange, I mean it was purely just a fantasy before, but now we were actually falling in love? Well anyway, as our "love" grew, so did this overbearing feeling of hopelessness inside of me. After all, real or not, she was still just a character in a video game, even if I moved her to Black 2, she would still be just pixels, a particularly gorgeous array of pixels, but pixels none the less. We needed to be together, we needed to be able to see each other without there being a "screen" between us. This feeling became stronger and stronger, until one night, whilst challenging the elite 4 on Black 2 I decided I might as well talk to her about it.

"Listen Phoebe..." I began.

"What, what's wrong baby?" She replied.

"It's just" I stuttered.

"It's just what?" She asked.

I've got to admit, I was as nervous as hell right now.

"Sometimes, I just wish we could be together, I mean, not just here, but," I began.

"In your world?" She interrupted. "What? You mean in Unova?"

"Um honey, I don't know how to tell you this, but, the world you're in, in my world, Kanto,Johto,Hoen,Sinnoh,Unova, there all just games." I replied.

"You mean, I'm in a game?" She asked. "I'm just part of a game in your world?"

"Yeah." I replied.

"So this whole time, we've never actually been together?" She asked.

"Well, sort of." I said.

Her sprite appeared in front of my character in the game, she was looking right at it.

"Then who am I looking at right now?" She asked.

"That's not really me, that's my player character, he is just the guy I control in the game." I said.

"So that's why you've never said much until now, other than attack orders or "Go Phoebe" She replied.

"I didn't know I could talk to you, so I didn't really bother to say anything, until you did that thing at Pal Park, I didn't even think you were real." I said.

"So I guess my telepathy must of finally reached you somehow in your world." Phoebe said.

Me: "I guess, but I don't know how, by the way, your recent actions, this entire conversation, this isn't normally what happens in this game." I said.

"I've been trying to contact you ever since you caught me as a ralts, but you never responded, until just recently." Phoebe replied. "I know I'm in a game. I'm just playing with you."

"Then how come this hasn't happened to anyone before?" I asked.

"I don't know, your other pokémon try to contact you as well but to no avail." She said. "It's probably because I'm psychic."

"You must have found some sort of hole in the code, in the matrix of your world, previously and completely isolated from ours." I said.

"Um, sure, something like that." Phoebe replied.

"Do you think it's possible, if your telepathy can get through, then perhaps maybe you could get through as well? " I asked.

"That way we could be together." I said.

"What's your name by the way?" She asked.

"Just call me Cj, same as in your world honey." I replied.

"Cj, I don't know if it's entirely possible, but I can try, just try to get me to Unova, ok?" She asked.

"Ok, but it would still be better if you were here with me." I replied.

"I know, just wait and see ok, I'll try to find this, "hole" again. I love you." She said.

"I love you too." I nervously replied to what would be the very first of many, many I love yous.

Tomorrow came, and I finally managed to beat the E4. I was finally getting close to the point where I could transfer her to black 2, and that night I finally got poke transfer to work. There was a bad thunderstorm that night, but eagerly I started up my ds, and Desmume Wi-Fi version on my pc, wondering if any of this would even work to begin with. The transfer was working perfectly, I selected Phoebe from the box, intending to let her go first, but as my pc was loading, the power flashed. NOOOOOOOOO! I wanted to scream, this time I was sure I lost her, probably lost all of them, all of that work for nothing, and once again I am alone. NO! That didn't just happen, the monitor turned back on, showing a very pixelated fullscreen image of a battle screen with Phoebe against...no one? The screen said "Phoebe used teleport" the animation played and after it finished the graphics turned to garbage for a brief moment before the power flashed again. I was experiencing the biggest WTF? moment in my entire life up to that point. And then behind me I heard a familiar voice. "Um...Are you Cj ? "

I turned around, and there, right behind me, was Phoebe, she was holding my ds in one hand, and what I assumed to be her pokeball in the other.

"eheheh...um...yeah." I replied as every red flag in my brain went off at the same time.

"So this is your world?" She asked as she looked around the room.

"Yes, how the heck did you manage to get here?" I said.

I was badly shocked and extremely confused at this point.

"Teleport." She replied.

"Yes, but...how?" I asked.

Wondering if there was an even remotely rational way to explain this.

"During the transfer I figured I would be technically outside of both unova world and Sinnoh world, so I broke out of my ball and used teleport, and I wound up here." She explained.

"Ok I don't know how you did that, but this is great. You made it, I didn't even think it could happen." I said.

"Now what should we do?" She asked.

"I don't know." I said.

"It's getting pretty late, you want to just wait until tomorrow, and I'm sorry for this, but I'm probably going to have to keep you in your poke ball, during the day, just so my parents don't freak out or anything." I said.

"You'll let me back out at night right?" She asked as she handed me her pokeball.

"Yeah, and it's not going to be for forever, we'll figure out a solution eventually." I replied.

"Ok, so now what?" She asked.

"I don't know I honestly wasn't expecting you to escape from the confines of the game." I said.

"Yeah, I know, I can read your mind." She replied. "Stop thinking naughty things about me, we're not that close yet."

"Ok, well what else can you do?" I asked.

"Lots of things, a lot of which I already could do in the pokémon world." Phoebe replied.

"Shadow ball?" I asked.

"Yep!" She said as she briefly generated a shadowball in her hand.

"Psychic?" I asked.

"Yep!" She said as she made her eyes glow purple.

"But wait, teleport wasn't one of the moves you knew in the game." I said.

"What game?" She asked.

"Pokémon Platinum, the game you were in before you came here." I said.

"Oh you mean my world?" She asked.

"I guess." I replied.

I restarted my computer, and reloaded the rom.

"What the? That's HellBlade, and Magnum, and that Staraptor you have, and I take it that that guy was you?" She said.

"Um yeah but he's just my player character, this is the real me." I replied.

"You're are a lot older here then you are in there." She pointed out.

"Yeah it's supposed to be a kid's game, but a lot of older guys play it as well, it's very well made." I said.

"I love you." I nervously said as I looked into her eyes.

"Awe, I love you too Cj." She replied.

"Really?" I asked.

"Yeah, these past few weeks we've been talking I've really gotten to like you. But I never thought we could be together because you were just a kid, but apparently you're not so. So, this may be strange, but, now that I'm here, is it possible for us to be more than just trainer and pokémon?" She asked.

"I don't know baby, I just don't know, but I don't see why not." I replied, keep in mind she looked a bit different than she did in the game as well. The game freak sprites did not do her justice.

"Well, a human dating a pokemon is kind...of" She began.

"Weird?" I finished for her.

"Yeah." She said.

"But you can talk like a human, you can act like a human, you are vastly more powerful than a human, and you look a lot like a human." I said.

"So what are you saying, I'm a human? I'm not, I'm a pokémon silly." She said.

"You're human enough for me. I've been alone for a long time so if you think it would work." I replied.

"So we can be?" She asked.

" Yes." I replied.

"I can see it all in your head Cj, I love you." She said.

"I love you too, but I'm going to bed, I'm just too tired and even though I wanted someone like you for a long time this is a lot to take in." I said.

"Yeah, your right, none of us knew either of our worlds existed." She said.

Well anyway, I went to bed, she slept next to me, for lack of anywhere else to sleep.

Our relationship was just beginning, but for every triumph there is a tragedy, and we were both completely unaware of the disaster of what was about to happen tomorrow.