A/N: Some of the Pokemon character's ages will be altered. E.g. a character that is probably twenty or so might be changed to fifteen to eighteen.
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
In a simple room furnished with a bed, a desk with a computer setup, a closet, and pretty much everything else you would expect to find in a bedroom. In this place was a boy holding a device with two screens.
He had straight black hair with green eyes which were slightly rounded along with his lean body and fair skin. He wore a black tight t-shirt and a white short-sleeved vest that reached halfway down his upperbody, tight black jeans and also white tall combat boots.
The boy appeared to be around the age of fifteen, his eyes staring at the screen while tapping on the multiple buttons. A few seconds passed before he sighed and rested the device on his stomach while lying on his bed.
"This is seriously boring, I've already beat all of the games and there isn't an opponent strong enough to give me a challenege..." He groaned. This boy is Austin Jade, someone who loves the pokemon games, he didn't really watch the anime but had a general idea.
As he rested his head against the pillow with both arms crossed behind his head, he stared at the ceiling with a bored look. As he was about to close his eyes to sleep, a sound coming from his game made him blink
"Eh? What's this?" Austin picked his game up and looked at the screen which had a popup occur, behind the popup, you could see the pokemon that were in his team, all already at their maximum level.
Austin read over the text which came with the sudden message, below the text were two option, a Yes and a No option, After reading the text, he could only give a confused look as something like this had never happened before during his time playing.
If you could go into the world of pokemon and show those the true power you possess, would you?
[Yes]-[No]
Austin was confused beyond anything possible, though he decided to play along, thus he clicked the [Yes] option. As soon as he did, he was shocked and almost dropped his game when it started glowing.
"What is this?!"
The next thing he knew, his vision became all white.
Austin opened his eyes as he could feel the rays of the sun shining between the gaps of his eyelids, he groaned before slowly sitting up from his position. He turned around to see that he was surrounded by trees and bushes, his body laying on a field of soft grass.
"Where is this?" Austin wondered. He walked over to a river which was nearby before looking down at his reflection, he could safely say that his body was intact and everything was definitely normal. "Ha? Wait..."
When he took a closer look on his body, he noticed a couple of differences. Strapped around his waist was a belt of sorts, he felt behind him and felt a strange spherical object, multiple actually. When he grabbed it and held it in front of himself, he was shocked.
"What? A Pokeball?!" He cried. He inspected the contraption closely before accidently tapping on the button at the front, he was shocked when it opened up and a red light shot out and struck the ground a couple of meters away. "No way..."
He stared wide-eyed as the red light began to form into a humanoid form, as the light died down, the Pokeball closed back up and landed in Austin's hand. He unconsciously put it back on the belt as he stared at the figure in front of him completely awestruck.
In front of his eyes was a pokemon, a real pokemon! It was probably as tall as he was, it was a white bipedal pokemon. The lower body consisted of rounded hips with strong looking legs, it had a think green torso along with sharp, red horns sticking out of its chest and back.
Its arms being shaped similar to tonfas with blades on its elbows, its head also resembled that of a gladiator helmet with a white face and teal head crest. There were also spikes on the sides of its face. Finally, a red velcro scarf was wrapped around its neck.
"A Gallade?! Why does it seem so familiar...?" Austin wondered. He watched as the Gallade opened its eyes to look Austin in the face as it had a pleasant smile.
'Hello, Austin.' A male voice was heard. Austin looked around for the source, but found nothing, he then looked at Gallade who held an amused smirk.
"Wait... was that you?" Austin asked. Gallade had its smile grow and gave a small chuckle as it nodded its head. "But, how can you talk? Wait... you're a psychic type, you're probably using telepathy, aren't you?"
'That's correct, I see that my trainer is as intelligent as I had thought he was.' Gallade said telepathically. Austin was surprised at this, but two words in Gallade's sentence made him even more shock.
"You said 'my trainer', are you saying that you're the Gallade that I had in my game?!" Austin asked. Gallade couldn't hold it in and began laughing before quickly calming down, he stared at Austin.
"B-But, there's no way that you're real... you were only in my game," Austin stated. He tried to think of a logical explanation but couldn't think of one, there was no way that pokemon actually existed, right?
'I'm just as confused as you are, though ever since you had caught me as a Ralts back a long time ago, me along with the rest of the team could see and hear you, we just never had a method of talking to you.' Gallade answered.
"Until now..." Gallade nodded his head at this.
'While I may not know how we have ended up in this place, nor do I know where we exactly are at the moment. I can say that you were most likely brought into a different world, our world to be more specific.' Gallade deduced. Austin looked surprised for a second before pondering on the matter.
It was the only logical explanation, there have been some theories on different worlds which had been explored on by scientists, but he never really knew if he should believe in such a thing. But he was definitely starting to, considering his situation.
"So, are the others in my team all here, those three guys as well," Austin asked. He had three pokemon in his team which he was truly curious if they were with him or not. Gallade looked at him blinking before understanding.
'Yep. The other five are in those Pokeballs on your belt, even those three.' Gallade answered. Austin looked at the Pokeballs for a second before turning back to his Gallade.
"Then I should be careful when I bring them out. So, we should probably look for any clues as to where we are." Austin stated. Gallade looked surprised for a moment, confusing Austin, Gallade nodded before Austin and him walked through the trees.
'I'm surprised that you are acting as calm as you are. People would normally freak out in this situation.' Gallade stated. Austin looked at his partner and blinked before shrugging his shoulders as they continued their way through with Gallade slashing the shrubs out of the way.
"I guess... though panicking in this situation wouldn't exactly be ideal, we need to stay calm and figure out our next course of action." Gallade smiled before nodding in agreement.
Austin and his Gallade were now walking on a dirt path, they had discovered it after walking for a couple of minutes through the forest. They were glad to have found an opening as they were probably going to get lost further into the forest if they hadn't.
"I'm curious..." Gallade looked at his partner in confusion. "Since we're in the actual pokemon world now, do you think the champions and other trainers will be a better challenge for us now?"
'...' Gallade pondered the matter. Gallade had certainly wanted it to be so, he is just as battle hungry as Austin was, wanting a great challenege, which they didn't get anymore back in the games. 'Maybe, since this is real now, we won't be limited to certain things.'
"Right."
'But, we should probably focus on the matter at hand first. We need to find out where we are.' Gallade reminded.
"Okay, luckily it seems that the money that I carry around has converted itself into this worlds currency, so we're good on the money side of things. Now, only to find out where we are..." Austin muttered.
'Hey, look over there.' Gallade's voice rung in his head, this caused Austin to looked to where Gallade was pointing. What he saw was a group of what appeared to be Patrat, they were all running on all fours into the forest as they crossed the path.
"A bunch of Patrat? I guess we are most likely in the Unova region..." Austin muttered. Gallade nodded his head at this as they watched all of the remaining Patrats quickly disappear into the shrubbery.
"Excuse me?" They both flinched at the sudden voice. They turned around to see a man who stared at them curiously. When the man looked at Austin and Gallade, he could tell how powerful their bond was.
Austin looked at the new comer with slight surprise, Gallade also was surprised but hid it well. The person was tall and had long flaming red hair which had been tied in a spiky ponytail. He was also wearing a garb that looked similar to a Native American.
"You're Alder, right?" Austin asked calmly. Austin remembered facing him in one of the games, he was decently strong, perhaps even more in this world, and that thought made an excited feeling grow in Austin.
"That's me alright, the Unova Champion." Alder greeted. He then chuckled in amusement, making them confused. "You know, kid? Many others would normally freak out after seeing me, you're pretty different."
"Meh." Austin shrugged his shoulder in response. He normally kept calm in situations, and he wasn't the type to go crazy after seeing someone. "I was wondering if you know where a town or something is around here, kind of lost right now."
"Really? Well, follow me, I'm heading to Floccesy Town right now anyway." Alder suggested. Gallade and Austin looked at each other before nodding and turned to Alder and did the same, this caused him to smile.
"Let's get going then."
"So, what's your name?" Austin was now sitting on the fence near a couple of buildings, Alder was sitting on a bench on the other side of the fence. He had returned Gallade to his Pokeball to rest.
"It's Austin Jade, nice to meet you." Austin introduced himself. There was a silence as Austic could feel Alder's eyes staring at the Pokeballs on his waist.
"So, where are you headed?" Alder wondered.
"I have no Idea," Austin answered. Alder blinked as he looked at Austin, he was confused at what the boy meant. "I'm just travelling around, battling other trainers."
Alder stared at him before saying. "Tell me something." Alder voiced. Austin turned his head slightly around as his eyes locked with Alder's. "Why is it you battle? The reason for your journey? What is your goal?"
"..." They both stayed silent as Austin looked into Alder's eyes while giving him a serious look, Austin then closed his eyes before giving a small smile. "It's quite simple. To find the ultimate challenge."
"What do you mean?" Alder asked. He gave a look of confusion at Austin.
"I'll answer with questions of my own," Austin stated. This made Alder sit up straight and stare seriously. "Have you ever been strong enough that it's boring? You can't find a challenge? And you travel the world searching for someone who will satisfy your lust for battle?"
"..." Alder looked at Austin in the eyes, he could see that the boy meant every single word he had just said. He could also see that there was definitely great power behind Austin's eyes. "I'm going to be honest. Sometimes I have, but I'm just not sure anymore..."
"I see..."
"But, what about afterwards? What would you do after finish this goal of yours?" Alder asked seriously. Austin smiled at him.
"What would I do afterwards? That sentence to me makes no sense." Austin stated. He smirked at Alder's extremely confused expression. "Once I find this so called ultimate challenge, who says that it is actually what I was looking for?"
"I think I need you to explain further."
"Think of it like this. Let's say that I face a trainer who gives me an amazing challenge, which I would consider the ultimate challenge, and defeat them. Who says that there isn't a greater challenge beyond them?"
The area was filled with silence as they didn't talk for a bit before Alder stood up as Austin turned his head to look at him. "How about this, why don't you and I have a battle?"
"Hm? A battle you say?"
"You said you wanted to find the ultimate challenge, right?" Austin nodded his head at this. Alder then took out a Pokeball and held it at Austin's face who didn't flinch at all. "Then battle me, let's see if I can give you what you seek."
"..."
"..."
"Very well." Austin smiled, followed along by Alder. Austin pushed himself off the fence before staring at Alder. "What will it be?"
"A simple one on one battle, whoever's pokemon is unable to battle first, loses," Alder explained. Austin stared before nodding.
"Alright, I accept."
It was fortunate since there was a dirt battlefield just next to them, Austin went to the far end while Alder stood on the opposite side of the field. Austin smiled before taking out a Pokeball and smiling at it.
"Whenever you're ready?!" Alder called out.
"Alright, let's do this!"
Austin Vs Alder
1 Vs 1
"Come on out, Bouffalant!" Aldin threw his Pokeball that opened up before returning to his hand, that was when the bull-like pokemon appeared on the field and gave a loud shout before stomping its foot and staring at Austin. "Alright, show me your pokemon, Aushton!"
"Aushton? It's Austin..." He sweatdropped. He just shook his head and refocused before throwing his Pokeball as his pokemon was called out before catching it in his hand. "I require your assistance, Gallade!"
Gallade stood tall as it gave its own loud cry into the air that shook the place, Gallade and Boufallant stared each other down intensely as their trainers remained calm. "Gallade, huh? That pokemon certainly has power, I can see that it's very well trained."
"Thanks, but let's begin! Gallade, start with Night Slash!" The blades on Gallade's arms glowed a purple colour before it lunged forwards at an incredible speed, Alder was slightly taken back by the speed as Gallade slashed at Bouffalant.
"Bouffalant!" Alder cried.
The bull pokemon gave a pained cry as it was sent skidding backwards and had to shake its head to snap out of the pain, it showed definite signs of damage. Alder looked at Gallade who had a neutral expression on its face.
'That Gallade is definitely well trained, that speed is incredible... I need to stay careful.' Alder thought. Alder acted quickly and held his hand out as he called his command. "Bouffalant, we need to deal with Gallade's speed! Use Earthquake!"
Austin instantly knew what Alder was going for. "Gallade, kneel down low on the ground!" Gallade obeyed and quickly got on its right knee and its body hunched over lower towards the ground.
Bouffalant had stomped its front two legs as it created a shock wave across the ground, the place shook violently with some of the trees uprooting themselves. Gallade remained strong as it stayed still on the ground.
"Now's our chance, Head Charge!" Alder commanded. Boufallant began charging towards Gallade who remained calm, the afro on the bull pokemon's head glowed red with the front being yellow.
"..." Alder was confused when Austin just stood still and had a neutral look on his face, as soon as Bouffalant crashed into Gallade, a big explosion was made as smoke enveloped the area where the two were.
"You have to agree, my Bouffalant's strength is rather impressive, no?" Alder asked. Austin looked at him and smiled as he looked at the smoke cloud.
"Are you sure?"
Alder blinked in confusion before looking into the smoke cloud that was slwoly dispersing, he could see two figures standing in it. He widened his eyes when it cleared, revealing Gallade holding Bouffalant back with one arm while standing up.
"What?" Alder had gasped. He could only stare in disbelief along with his Bouffalant at the Gallade's strength. 'Incredible, being able to block a Head Charge from Bouffalant is no easy feet, even more so with one arm...'
"Use Thunder Punch to send it up!"
Gallade pulled back its free arm as it glowed yellow before crackling with electricity, Gallade gave a small shout before uppercutting Bouffalant on the head as it cried in pain while it was sent into the air.
"Oh no, Bouffalant!" Alder cried. He was shocked to see a pokemon like Bouffalant get sent into the air by a simple punch.
"Finish this, Close Combat!"
Gallade nodded its head before bending its legs and jumping up high towards Bouffalant who could only widen its eyes at the sudden appearance of Gallade, Gallade gave a small smile before it began delivering multiple punches and kicks at blinding speed.
Bouffalant's body could only jerk as each of Gallade's punches and kicks made contact with it, Gallade stopped before giving a powerful bicycle kick that sent that bull downwards and causing an explosion as it made contact with the ground.
"Bouffalant!" Alder shouted in alarm. They all watched as the smoke cleared away, Gallade had landed on the ground and showed signs of minimal fatigue. When the dust had completely clear, they saw Bouffalant laying down in a crater with swirls in its eyes. "I can't believe it..."
"Great job, Gallade." Gallade looked at his trainer and nodded before Austin returned him to his Pokeball. "Thanks for the battle, I can see that you're strong."
"Hehe~, I can say the same for you. That Gallade of yours is a lot stronger than I had anticipated, and that was my downfall." Alder said as he returned Bouffalant to his Pokeball and walked over to Austin and smiled. "I suppose I'm not the ultimate challenge you're looking for."
"You don't know that. This was only a one on one battle, the results could have been different if it was a full on match," Austin assured. Alder gave a chuckle to the trainer as he heard this.
"I suppose."
Austin's Pokemon:
Gallade (M): (Close Combat - Thunder Punch - Night Slash - ?)
? (M): (? - ? - ? - ?)
? (M): (? - ? - ? - ?)
? (M): (? - ? - ? - ?)
? (M): (? - ? - ? - ?)
? (M): (? - ? - ? - ?)