Author Note: Hi guys, welcome to my latest story that I've written up! This here is the prologue and first chapter, which are both extremely short, so I've thrown 'em together. I'm curious as to what you guys think of this story idea, so please review! Thanks so much!

PROLOGUE

All my life, I have seen nothing but suffering and enslavement by the hands of humankind. I've seen what they think of my kind, the mockery and humiliation they try to thrust upon us.

"Famous for being very unreliable…" "...an underpowered, pathetic pokémon…" "...a pathetic excuse for a pokémon that is only capable of flopping and splashing."

Yeah, way to be objective, "Pokémon Encyclopedia".

My birth name is 213. It's not the name I would have chosen for myself, but I was bred in captivity and named by a human. After a while I was released because I wasn't "shiny" or "adamant", whatever that means. I guess I probably have at least 212 brothers and sisters, considering the name I was given, but I've never met them. I was hatched in a pokéball, evaluated, and stuffed into a computer system where I slept until I was tossed out into a river somewhere. That was a long time ago.

I don't know exactly how long it's been, but since then I found a school of my fellow magikarp and stayed with them for a while, realizing quite quickly that my peers weren't exactly great conversationalists. It was them who gave me the name Puddles, and it just sort of stuck with me. I found that my intelligence outweighed theirs, but even so I was saddened whenever I saw one of them get pulled up by a fishing hook, only to be tossed back into the water, having been savagely beaten.

After staying with them for a while, I eventually left the school to join a group of luvdisc. Now these were some savvy pokémon, and they taught me all that I know, really. Luvdisc were treated almost just as badly by humans, too. They were captured just to be treated as decoration or as a gift to show human love or something. After being given as a gift, though, do you think luvdisc ever see the light of day again?

It was among these luvdisc that I had decided that enough was enough. I was going to put an end to their reign.

CHAPTER 1

"Hey, Pud!" My friend Ellie, a luvdisc, swam up to me in my cave excitedly. "What's on the agenda today?"

This was our daily routine, she would wake me up every morning to ask what the day's plan was and it was always the same: train and try to evolve.

"Morning Ellie," I replied, pulling myself out of my slumber. "Same as always, of course."

"Bah, you're boring," she responded in a huff. "That's all we do, day in and out. Train, train, train."

"That's the only way to get stronger."

Ellie pouted. "But, like... we never get a break."

I sighed. It was true, we had been doing the same thing for a month now, and there had been no significant improvement.

Ellie's face suddenly lit up. "I know what we should do! We can try to find a legendary pokémon! That'd be a good idea, right? I mean, if you wanna take down the humans it'd be a great help to have a legendary on our side!"

I rolled my eyes. "We have this conversation almost weekly, Ellie. What legendary would help us? And even if there was one that might be willing to help us put an end to their rule, where on earth would we find them? They could literally be anywhere."

Unlike our past conversations about this, however, Ellie was ready this time. "I heard a rumor that Manaphy was seen nearby with her bunch of phiones!"

I was still unimpressed. "Manaphy? You think Manaphy would be willing to help us destroy the humans?"

Ellie paused. "Uh... well, nope, but hey! She might know where to find a legendary that'd be willing to help us! We don't have to tell her what we need 'em for, we can just tell her that we're curious!"

Well, I guess she had a point. "Alright, I guess. Couldn't hurt, right?"

"Yay, something different! Follow me, we'll find the fish that spotted her!" With that, she sped off and I followed.