I Know my Destiny

Omaha, Nebraska, June 27 2038

It started as any other day at the zoo, the penguins were swimming, the lions were sleeping, and people from all over were running about to try to see all the animals. Meanwhile, I was shoveling Elephant poop.

"Oh my-Aw Come On! Seriously? I just finished the last pile and you have to make another one? This the fourth time in a row, either you're doing this on purpose or you need to see a vet." I complained to one of our elephants that some fellow zookeepers nicknamed Dumptruck.

"Oh my god!" "Ahhh, somebody do something!" "How'd she even get in there?" I heard this and many more cries of panic.

"That doesn't sound good, better go check it out, Dumptruck mind giving me a lift?" Another fun fact about Dumptruck, he likes to help lift zookeepers in and out of his pen.

After landing outside the elephant pen I sprint towards the sound of the screaming and when I got there I saw a little girl in the water with Hugo the polar bear heading her way. Not wasting any time to think, I dive into the water to pull the girl to safety and keep her out of Hugo's claws. I pull the girl onto dry land just as Hugo started to turn around in the water. We get halfway to the door when someone tells me to look out behind me, I do so and I see Hugo starting to get closer to us. Deciding that caution was already thrown far into the wind by then I tell the girl to head to the door as I run towards Hugo. Grab Hugo's torso and his attention while the girl tries to open the door, not knowing it can only be opened from the inside (I really need to talk to my boss about that). While holding onto him, I tried steering Hugo towards the other wall, away from the door and the girl while radioing in backup, only to learn that every one else was dealing with similar situations all over the place.

Suddenly I'm knocked away with a nasty looking bruise in my torso. I look up and saw Hugo inching closer to the girl who was up against the door. Summoning up the last of my strength I rush towards the bear and tackled him into the wall. When I stepped back everyone, including me, was surprised to see him knocked out. I a beaten up, 34 year old man, managed to knock out a full grown, male polar bear. I hear the door I turn around and saw the door opening and a few other zookeepers ran in to help get me and the girl out of the pen.

Afterwords, everyone involved in the incident was checked out at the hospital. While I was there the parents of the girl I saved came in and thanked me. But I was really concerned about what the mother said, "I don't understand how she ended up in that polar bear pen, one minute we were walking around with meholding onto her hand, the next minute I can't feel her hand and I hear a splash behind me." The same thing happened at the start of the other incidents, only after I managed to knock out Hugo all the other animals involved in the other incidents suddenly stopped and fell asleep. On my way home from the hospital I couldn't stop thinking about what happened. I had so many questions I almost had trouble driving. When I finally walked through the door to my apartment I instantly noticed something odd. I wasn't in my apartment, I was in what looked like the night sky. Suddenly several flashes of light nearly blinded me, when the light faded I looked and was surprised by what I saw. Every single legendary Pokemon from Generation one to six were in front of me.

"Zane Tarren, we come bearing news that affects all." The lead Pokemon I identified as Arceus said telepathically. "First you should know that everything in your world you thought was fiction is in reality, glimpses of alternate universes. We have search countless universes for a noble warrior who can help stop a great evil that is preparing to rise in a universe of heroes. If he succeeds all life will be lost throughout the multiverse. We believe you Zane, have the mind of a warrior and heart of a hero needed to stop this villain." "But why me? And who is this villain great Arceus?" "Because you have shown you are worthy to be our champion, we apologize for our test but know that the children were never in any danger. As for your second question, we don't know, whenever one of us tries to look at this particular universe something blocks us from seeing. But fear not for we shall bestow upon you several gifts to aid you should you accept. Do you accept?" It took me a few minutes to decide if I'm truly prepared for this. After a while I nod and a ring appears underneath me sending me to another world.

Unknown, July 5 2010

"Ugh, they could've warned me they were gonna do that. Where am I anyway?" I groan out as I look around the forest like area I was dropped in before noticing a voice I didn't recognize, my own. I look at my reflection in a nearby pond and see a young teenager, possibly 16, in a blue jacket, green tee shirt, blue jeans and a red and white baseball cap with the pokemon logo on it. "What the, why am I a teenager again? Aww man, puberty was bad enough the first time. What the, where'd this bag come from?" As soon as I sat down I finally noticed the weight on my back and saw a heavy looking backpack that was surprisingly light. Looking through it I took note of the surprising number of items inside: a foldable bicycle, a futuristic map that shows my current location anywhere in the world, several familiar looking berries, a case full of what looked like CDs, and a Pokedex along with six pokeballs and a booklet describing how to use it. Upon reading the booklet I learned that I could use the Pokedex to add any pokemon from every generation to one of the pokeballs and they'd know every move they can learn naturally, unfortunately they'd all be at their first stage of evolution. "Still pretty cool, now let's see where the nearest town is, ah here it-Central City?" I knew of only one Central City, one where a certain scarlet speedster called home. That's when I realized where I was. "I'm in the DC universe, that's just great, I mean I watched the shows but I don't know anything about the comics. Here's hoping it's one of the shows I saw when I was a kid." After placing the six Pokemon I wanted into the pokeballs I headed towards town to find a newspaper or something with todays date and maybe something to eat.

After leaving the Big Belly Burger I decided to look around the city for some idea on what to do when a nearby jewelry store suddenly blew up and a group of masked men ran out followed by a huge scaly man with metal jaws. "It's a robbery!" "It's Kingshark run!" As everyone started to panic I snuck behind an abandoned car and managed to hear some of the thugs talking. "Haha, great plan boss. With the Flash busy with the Justice League we can help ourselves to quite the haul." Kingshark just grunted while the rest of the thugs shared a laugh. Deciding that I need to do something before someone gets hurt grab two pokeballs, wrapped a handkerchief around my face to disguise myself, and stepped out from behind the car. "Alright, this can go the easy way, where you drop your guns and turn yourselves in, or the easier way, where Your guns are taken and all of you get your buts kicked starting with you." I point at one of the thugs. After about half a minute all the thugs started laughing. Figuring it was going to be the second option I threw on of the Pokeballs and after it opened all of the thugs guns were yanked out of there hands by an invisible force. "What the?" "What happened?" "What is that thing?" One of the thugs noticed my little friend of, a one-eyed floating steel ball with magnets attached to it, or as I know him as, Magnemite. Quickly I bring out my other Pokemon a blue humanoid beetle the size of a person. "Heracross use Horn Attack and try not to hurt them too bad." With a grin Heracross flew towards the thugs at incredible speeds while Magnemite brought the guns away from them and left them in a pile. After a few minutes all the thugs were down and all that was left was the ringleader, Kingshark. "I'll admit, trying to take me on with just a floating magnet and an oversized bug, you've got guts, I'm going to enjoy tearing them out." King Shark said as he grinned in a feral manner. "You can try but I'm about to Lock On." Magnemites' eye briefly glowed. "And bring the Thunder." On cue Magnemite unleashed a powerful bolt of electricity at King Shark. After twitching for a minute King Shark collapsed charred with sparks dancing all over his body.

After a few minutes of congratulating my pokemon some reporters flocked to the scene. Not wanting to attract ta much unwanted attention I returned Magnemite and Heracross and brought out Abra. "Abra Teleport us anywhere safe and with no people around." Nodding Abra glowed and suddenly we were in what looked like a cave filled with computers and upon further inspection, various living necessities. "Huh weird place, looks like no one lived here in a long time. Well let's see where I am, ah Happy Harbor Rhode Island, huh why does that sound so familiar?" Deciding to put aside figuring out why the name was so familiar for later, I took the oppurtunity to release all my Pokemon to explore our temporary home with me. First was Magnemite and Heracross, followed by Abra and what looked liked a dog with bony armor called Houndour, then I brought out one of my personal favorites an oversized shrimp with a big claw called Clauncher, my final Pokemon is one of my favorite starters, a being that looked like a turtle with a seedling on its head, Turtwig. After looking around the place we found a kitchen with no food unsurprisingly, a living room with an old looking couch, and a bedroom big enough for all of my current Pokemon but with no beds. When we got back to the big room we started in I noticed this giant hoop in a wall, getting a closer look I tried to remember where I saw it before. Stifling a yawn a rolled out a sleeping bag I found in my bag and went to sleep leaving my Pokemon out to stretch their legs, wings, and other extremities.

Unknown, July 6 2010

I slowly woke up when I felt something shaking me. I slowly blinked as I took in the fact that the face I was staring at was the dark cowl of the legendary dark knight of Gotham, Batman. I looked around and took note of several other great heroes around me including Superman, Green Arrow, Red Tornado, John Stewart the Green Lantern, and the Martian Manhunter himself. I quickly called back my Pokemon before anyone could react and said the first thing that came to mind. "Either I'm dreaming, or I've got some explaining to do." Without even showing a hint of emotion the Dark Knight replied. "What do you think?"