My Neighbor's a Legendary!

(Episode A: Pilot)

(In which we find out just how the heck our main character wound up with Legendary Pokémon for neighbors.)

Once upon a time, there was a kid named Roger.

"…"

(Say hi to the readers Roger!)

"Hi!"

He lives in the town of Tootville…

"Hey, just like your other story!"

(Yeah, we know kid.)

Where not a whole lot happens…

"But what about what happened to my pal Logan and his kid brother?"

(We're pretending that didn't happen here, AU Fic.)

Anyway, Roger, 11 years old, red haired, and a little on the chunky side, lives with his parents near the edge of town. Their house is the only one on the street they live on other than old Mr. Henderson across from where they live. Either side of their house is surrounded by an empty lot.

Roger is kind of a lonely kind of fellow, as his parents both tend to be working a lot, and aren't often at home, save for supper time and the like.

Roger often spends a lot of time either hanging out with Logan and Isaac or sitting in his room playing a Pokémon game. Roger is quite the Fanboy, often trying hard to find every one of the little (and not so little) critters.

Things are pretty quiet with him…for now anyways. Soon his life will never be the same.

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Our story begins on a sunny last day of school. It was a warm day in May, and a school bus was making its rounds dropping off the kids. Among them is Roger.

"Man, I don't feel so good," Roger said as he sat on the bus.

Roger had a little bit of a tummy ache from eating some cheese that was a little bit too old at lunch.

He felt even worse when he finally made it inside.

Not knowing what else to do, he flopped down onto the couch and started playing Pokémon Emerald. He was aiming to catch his favorite Legendary Pokémon, Rayquaza…for what seemed like the 9001st time. It was so difficult to catch it!

He was on his way to where Rayquaza was when his tummy made a very weird noise.

"Ugh…"

Roger didn't even feel like finishing, he felt so bad. He wound up just falling asleep.

…

After a moment, though, he woke up again, feeling a bit worse. He ran for the bathroom, just in case.

He decided to take the Game Boy with him and was starting the battle against the Legendary Pokémon. He sent out his Level 94 Swampert.

Suddenly, he felt even worse than he already. Oh boy…

One lost cheeseburger, bag of potato chips, and cupcake later; he lay back in the tub. He didn't even feel like playing his game some more.

He looked at his game and saw his Swampert facing Rayquaza and sighed. He really wanted to catch it so bad.

"Man, I wish I could meet all the Legendary Pokémon," he thought to himself, "It sure would be fun, going around trying to catch em all…"

This was still running in his mind as he fell asleep in the tub.

Unbeknownst to him, however, something heard his wish…

…

When Roger woke back up, it was an hour later, and he felt a lot better.

"Better make sure the cheese is good next time."

He noticed his Game Boy still lying on the edge of the tub. He remembered what he was trying to do and decided to get back to catching Rayquaza.

That was weird, it was still in the battle mode, but Rayquaza was missing. Curious, Roger tried to have his Swampert attack the empty space where Rayquaza should have been, and it said that the move failed. He tried a couple more times and got the same result.

"That's weird…" Roger said, turning the game off.

He went into his room to get his 3DS when he suddenly noticed something he hadn't noticed before.

The view out his bedroom window was usually nothing special, only showing his side yard and, beyond the fence, just that same old empty lot. But when he looked out this time, he was shocked to see a very large and very strange looking house. It was difficult for anyone to describe it, but it was about twice the size of Roger's not-exactly-that-small house.

"Where'd that come from?" Roger thought. Just to make sure he wasn't seeing things, he cleaned his glasses and rubbed his eyes, but the house was still there.

Curious, Roger went out the back door and could smell something cooking, and a plume of smoke coming from the house's back yard. Apparently, whoever lived in this huge house was having a cook out.

Roger crept over to a hole in the fence that he never really used except to…well, not really do anything. He looked through…

Roger thought he was gonna throw up again. To his absolute surprise, he saw something he had never thought he would see.

There, in the backyard of this huge house, was none other than the Legendary Pokémon he was always after…grilling something on a grill. Several other Legendaries were nearby.

Roger wasn't absolutely sure what shocked him more, the fact that he was seeing Legendary Pokémon in real life, or that Rayquaza apparently knew how to cook!

Not knowing what to do, Roger said something that would make his mom annoyed with him and dashed back into his house, slamming the door.

Roger was so shocked that he couldn't think of something to say about this. He looked back out the window to make sure what he saw was real or not. Nope, the house was definitely still there, as was Mew peeking over the fence, looking for what made that noise.

Roger didn't know what to do. His parents wouldn't be home for about another hour, and no one would believe him if he tried to tell them who just moved in next door.

Then it suddenly dawned on him. There were Legendary Pokémon next door! Why wouldn't he go over there to see them? (Though the fact that he didn't know if they would be friendly or not severely affected his judgment.)

Then there was a knock on the door. Roger turned and saw that Mew was standing there behind his glass back door.

Roger nervously walked to the door and opened it and stared down at the little cat-like critter.

"Hi, neighbor," said Mew, "What's your name?"

Roger opened his mouth, but nothing came out. He suddenly fainted.

…

"Hey, honey? Are you ok?" Roger heard his mom's voice and decided to wake up. He found himself on the sofa.

"I found you asleep by the back door, and you made a mess in the bathroom. Do I need to take you to the doctor's office?" Mom asked.

"No, I just ate something weird at lunch, I'm fine," Roger answered.

"That's good," said Mom, "If you feel sick again, just tell me."

Mom went to do something leaving Roger alone.

Roger remembered what had happened earlier and looked out the window. The large house was still there. There didn't seem to be any activity at all, save for what Roger figured was Jirachi sleeping by the window.

Roger decided that he would have enough gumption to try and pay a visit tomorrow. Hopefully, he wouldn't be nervous tomorrow…

(End Episode A, This is really just a prologue, so now let's have an actual episode!)