Teen Titans: Yellow Version

I wiped my nose as Professor Oak took the stand in front of the portal, the swirling purple vortex lit the room with just adequate light. "Hello and as you know my name is Professor Oak," he declared, "some people call me the Pokémon professor. But that's obvious here on our world. I'm a veritable unknown through this portal in Jump City, but my expertise is none the less required. Fantastic creatures that we all know as Pokémon are unknown there too but… they've appeared there. The Justice League of that world has reached out and so a couple of my chosen pupils and I are going to go through to help them with the adjustment of suddenly being a Pokémon world."

He sighed and then smiled with gusto. "See, some of the people will know Pokémon as pets and others will travel and battle alongside them. It'll be our job to show them how. Red, Blue and I will be the guides of that world on their Pokémon journey!"

The professor looked down to Blue and I and said, "Well then, without further ado… down the diglet hole we go!"

I tightened my yellow backpack's straps, dusted off my faded jeans, and adjusted my favorite cap. "Let's do this!"

Blue sniggered and swaggered up the stage and through the portal first. I rolled my eyes and followed. When I came through on the other side I asked, "Have you ever taken in the moment? Just once? Always rushing around."

Blue didn't respond, or he didn't hear me, because he stood, jaw hanging, staring ahead. I turned and saw Jump City. The buildings seemed to go on forever before us. The crowded up on the mountains and pushed up against a harbor… a harbor without an inch of actual sand. It was all hidden beneath docks! "Whoa…" I gasped.

Professor Oak whooshed out of the portal behind us and nodded. "Jump City is over forty square miles. Make Saffron look rustic, eh?"

He stepped between us to stand in front of us and reached into his lab coat, procuring two red squares. "These are your pokedexes. It has all the information I've gathered over years of research in our world. It's blank now because these pokedexes will serve as… high tech encyclopedias on the Pokémon that exist in Jump County."

The Professor pointed out behind us, where a giant antennae rose out of the water behind the island we found ourselves on. "Those antennae have managed to contain the spread of Pokémon to just outside Jump City in what is now being referred to as Jump County."

Blue tapped my shoulder and I turned to see that next to us, on the island, was a giant building constructed in the shape of a "T." "That is a bit more complicated to explain than the pokedex," Professor Oak explained, "this world has people in it that aren't like anything like our world. Certain people have strange abilities that one might associate with a Pokémon. Some people use their powers for good and others… don't. The good ones are called superheroes and they have a Justice League to protect their earth. Their heroes in training are called the Teen Titans and they live and work here. The Justice League has arranged for you two to stay here as you work."

The Professor strolled towards the tower. "Let's go, shall we?"

As we came up to the entrance a guy stepped out in a red tunic emblazoned with a yellow "R", green pants and boots, a yellow cape, and a domino mask concealing his eyes. "You guys must be the lab assistants," he said, "We've been waiting and we can't wait to see what you can do."

The professor gestured to the strangely dressed guy and said, "This is Robin, the leader of the Teen Titans."

I held out my hand to shake his and he grasped it. "The name's Red. What are your super powers?"

Robin grinned and ran his other hand over his spikey hair, "Not all of us have powers. I'm just trained to fight. Are you?"

We let go of the shake and I scratched the back of my head, "I'm familiar with the concept, but probably not like a super hero."

Blue punched my arm lightly. "What a nerdy response!"

Robin shrugged, "I expected as much. We'll work on it as things go. That said: the meeting's started."

Robin led us into the tower, the base level of which was occupied by a lounge/garage with an airplane lookin' thing. At the back was an elevator which Robin got in, so we followed. The elevator climbed to nearly the top of the tower, opening to another lounge, but this one was well populated. There were costumed superheroes every which direction, but in the middle of the room was someone familiar. "Uncle Lance?" I shouted.

Lance wore a billowing red cape and a red and black costume that looked at home with everyone else in the room, complete with a pokeball print logo on his chest. His eyebrows climbed his forehead and then a grin spread over his face. "You're finally here? Took you long enough!"

A man in a blue and red suit with an "S" on his chest turned too. "If the professor is here then we can leave."

He levitated off the ground and said to Lance, "You guys say what you need to and then Zeta to the Hall of Justice."

Most of the heroes in the room disappeared in flashes of sparkling light leaving Robin, the Professor, Blue and I with Lance and three other people who looked vaguely familiar. "The Elite Four," Blue whistled, "In the same room as me."

Lance came over, put an arm over Blue and I before marching us over to a circular coffee table. He tapped the surface of the table and it came to life as a computer screen. A map of Jump County came to life. "Here's your mission," Lance said, "Outside of the pokedex, of course. Jump City has been split into 8 sections. We've put at least one competent Pokémon trainer from our world in each one of these sections. While you're exploring, capturing Pokémon, or working with the Titans, you need to meet with them and they'll help your training."

"Again, the focus should just be your pokedex though," Professor Oak said, and nudged Blue.

One of the Elite Four, Agatha, based on her age and flowy purple dress. "The situation has changed ya old geezer."

"What happened?" I asked.

Robin stepped forward and plugged a flash drive into the table. A red "R" popped up onto the screen and a yellow hexagon. "Several criminal syndicates have become a problem in Jump City. We've been dealing with H.I.V.E. for years but there's a new one called Team Rocket. Someone showed some thugs how to capture and train Pokémon that they're using to pull off robberies."

"That sounds like something Red and Blue could grow to help with," Oak said carefully.

Robin tapped the hexagon logo and video footage of a room with three pokeballs came up. "While you were gone H.I.V.E. infiltrated the tower. Grabbed the three starter Pokémon."

A girl dressed in a green body suit snuck into the room, threw the pokeballs into a bag, and snuck out. "This was all I managed to salvage from our servers after a H.I.V.E. virus hit our systems," Robin explained.

Oak lost his composure, gripping his hair he screeched, "Those were incredibly rare Pokémon!"

Lance patted my shoulder, "and while the Elite Four is partnered with the Justice League, we can't go after Rocket or H.I.V.E."

"Our city, our mission, our problem," Robin explained, "no leaguers come into Jump City without our permission."

Agatha grinned at me, "We'll get to see what these two can do. No arguments from me."

I looked over to Robin. "That seems a bit unorthodox."

He narrowed his eyes, "I was raised by Batman. Trust me. The Justice League being involved doesn't mean much more than a massively bigger mess."

I raised my hands in surrender and Blue sniggered again. "Makin' friends, huh?" he whispered.

Lance reached behind his back and procured two pokeballs, putting them on the table. "I've got these two Pokémon. A Pikachu and Dratini."

With shaking hands, I moved the closer pokeball so I could see inside it. The red top was just translucent enough for me to see the electric mouse inside. "A Pikachu?" I asked.

"Found it outside," Lance shrugged.

Blue snatched at the Dratini. "A dragon Pokémon! This one is mine!"

I looked at Lance and shrugged. "Pikachu will be a great partner anyway."

I threw the pokeball up and it released Pikachu. The Pokémon dropped into my arms and I smiled. "My very own Pokémon!"

Oak slipped a pokedex into my jeans pocket and a computer like voice came out of it. "Pikachu, the electric mouse Pokémon. When several of these Pokémon gather, they can combine their electricity to cause lightning storms."

I beamed at my new partner, "See? I told you."

Blue released Dratini, and snatched his pokedex from Professor Oak's hand. His said, "Dratini, the dragon Pokémon, long considered a mythical Pokémon until a colony was discovered underwater."

"I've got the best Pokémon there is!" Blue declared.

Robin cleared his throat. "Can we uh, get back to work?"

Oak tapped the map over the rural district and zoomed in on a lonely building in the middle of a field. "I've set up my lab away from home here. That's where these two will start. Half the day on my errand, half the day working in the tower."

"That sounds more than equitable," Robin said, "I'll see you here tomorrow for training exercises with the rest of the team then."