Welcome to my first attempt at a story of really any kind, I've written small things before but never anything like this. I felt inspired to take a crack at the TF genre of Pokémon after reading some other stories written in it. (I took some inspiration from New Species, as well as Phases of Change which are awesome stories that you should check out even if they haven't been updated in a while they are still really good.) So please be gentle in the reviews which I really can't strain enough how important those are can't get better if I don't know what you don't like. Anyways as I envision it this will probably be a 25-30ish chapter series which I will hopefully finish. Because trust me I know how awful it is to read a story to find the author just gave up. But I digress the actually story, story starts at Chapter 3 which I already have the first 3 written. I hope to upload once a week on Sunday, but with school literally starting the day after I put this up idk. So I hope you enjoy my story as much as I've enjoyed writing it. SO ON WITH THE STORY
Chapter 1: Close Encounters of the Sharp Kind
If there is one thing I have learned about life it's how much I've come to love guaranteed schedule, you don't think much of it right now but imagine if suddenly your daily routine was completely ruined and taken away from you. I don't mean you had to take a different path to get to where you were going, or a store being out of the soda you liked I mean you not knowing what will happen next and you aren't guaranteed a next. It truly is horrifying to not know anything about what could happen next it makes you rather paranoid pretty quickly which was a good thing honestly. See I'm on the run from a group of people I don't even know who they are nor does anyone else I've tried to get help from but you see doing that is rather hard in my situation. So let me catch you up on the story to this point.
"RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" A loud bell can be heard as notifying the end of the day. Finally never thought summer would come, and this period has felt like an eternity. Walking out of school is fourteen-year old Jake Grey a pale kid with blue eyes, long light brown hair, he is fairly skinny and about 5"8. He is walking to his car where another figure is waiting for him. It was Stephen Grey his brother, Stephen is a sixteen-years old and Jake's brother, he has rather short brown hair it being darker than Jakes, he is tanner than Jake, but just as skinny.
"Hey Stephen ready to finally go home for the summer?" "You know it, but can we stop by the Pokémart on the way back have to pick up some stuff for the house." With a groan I unlock the doors of my car and get in along with Stephen. "Fine but be quick I just want to relax finals sucked." After driving through the tidal wave of traffic that was filled with both people getting off work and out of school we made it to the Pokémart. "I've just got to grab a few things mainly for Cinder. You coming in?" Stephen looked like he wanted my help with the shopping which told me he would be a while, but I had some plans of my own see I needed to go by the Professor's place and pick up my Pokémon from him. This was going to be my first Pokémon and I really didn't want to keep him waiting. Fortunately I was the only one who knew that my Bulbasaur would be showing up today because if my parents knew they would have wanted to be there and make it as awkward and drawn out as possible. Trust me having your parents take nonstop pictures of you and your first Pokémon when you haven't met before doesn't start a relationship off well my brother knew this from experience, when he got Cinder it took him about two weeks before he would come near our parents since he wasn't a fan of flash photos.
"No I have to run by the Professor's place real quick," before Stephen could realize what this meant I was already driving off. "Smart not telling mom and dad." He yelled after me. On my way there I was feeling rather scared I mean what if he didn't like me or he didn't get along with Cinder, Cinder was my brother's Charmander that he had gotten from the Professor as well, he was a fire type but Cinder is rather easy going and lazy so it should be fine. When I had pulled up outside of the Professor's place I saw another car was here. Weird I only thought he was only expecting me today. Also this doesn't look like a student's car considering no one drives a giant black van. Not thinking too much about it I shut off my car, locked it and went inside. When I went in I didn't see the Professor right away and got a little scared that I had missed him.
"Professor you in here?" that's when a door opened on the other side of the room and the Professor poked his head out. "Jake please follow me follow don't worry he is ready to go, and so is your gear." The Professor led me down some hallways to a room that had a table in it and some computers, it actually seemed more like a storage closet or something. On the table however is where I saw my first Pokémon waiting for me of course it was in its Pokéball. There was also a Pokédex and some empty Pokéballs. "Here you go Jake good luck with him, I do hope he gets along with Cinder grass and fire types don't tend to be the best of friends." He chuckled at this but there was a hint of seriousness when he said that. "It should be fine Cinder is pretty easy going after all." I picked up the Pokéball and after a bright flash went off a Bulbasaur appeared in front of us. "Hey Zero you ready to go home?" when he came out he seemed a little weary of me at first but he warmed up to me pretty quick I guess the mention of getting out the lab probably helped. "Zero is the name you gave him Jake, I like it." Again he chuckled "Here is your Pokédex and a few empty Pokéballs for you." "Thanks again Professor it does mean a lot, also the whole you agreeing not to tell my parents is awesome as well." "Don't worry I remember how horrified Cinder was of your parents due to their overload of love, but I can't blame them your kids first Pokémon is a rather huge thing." With that I returned Zero threw the Pokédex into my backpack and pocketed the Pokéballs. "Well I've got to head out Professor, I left Stephen at the Pokémart before I came so I'll talk to you later." He waved at me as I dashed out. While leaving I was too busy thinking about adventuring with Zero over the summer that I didn't realize there were to people in front of me and I ran straight into one of them falling down. They seemed to be wearing matching outfits I guess and looked rather serious. "Sorry about that should have watched where I was going." They only flashed me dirty looks and kept walking. Something seems off about them, and that something tells me it has to do with the Professor.
After I got up I followed the uniformed men back to where the Professor had just given me Zero to see them talking to the Professor. "Listen I don't care what you want to do we want that research you have been doing on genetic manipulation. If you don't hand it over then our boss has told us to make you his next lab rat and take your research anyways so make up your mind." Okay something is definitely up I should probably help him out considering there are two of them. I'll need an excuse so that way if this is something I shouldn't be stopping I don't look like a complete idiot. "Hey Professor I think I left my keys on the table." With that all eyes were on me. "Get out of here kid or we will make you leave." Okay something is definitely up that's for sure and I don't think these guys are here to do any good. While the guys were looking at me I saw the Professor dash across the run and hit a button. An alarm started going off, the two men looked very pissed at this point. "Damnit you grab the kid I'll go for the Professor we can't have any witnesses, plus we can use them if the cops get here to soon." Without hesitation I pulled Zero from my belt and let him out.
"Okay Zero I know this is a little sudden but need your help." He flashed me nod letting me know he was good to go, then the guys in front me sent out an Ekans and Zubat. "So the kid wants to play huh well let's play." "Zero Tackle" Zero bolted slamming into the Zubat, which didn't look like it was getting back up. "Poison Fang" was all I heard before I saw the Ekans take a bite out of Zero luckily he was still in motion from hitting the Zubat, and only managed to cut his side rather than latch onto him. He yelped in pain however. This isn't good if Zero just got poisoned then he doesn't have long considering this is his first battle so we need to end this quick. It was too late though as I saw the Ekans take another bite out of Zero. Zero managed to struggle out of the Ekans mouth but was hardly able to stand, I saw him prepping to charge the Ekans but I knew he couldn't take anymore and was definitely poisoned at this point. So I stepped in and returned him before he could get hurt anymore. This is not good, THIS IS SO NOT GOOD. I looked around to see if maybe the Professor was about to step in with some epic Pokémon to see that I was alone with these two crazy people. My fear turned into confusion however as they both returned their Pokémon the Zubat I can understand but why the Ekans. "Now then kid were going give you a gift you can't return and trust me you will want to." I saw one of the men pull out some metal object that looked like a dart almost. As they started approaching me I tried to move but I couldn't. MOVE BODY, MOVE COME ON WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOUR GONNA DIE IF YOU DON'T RUN. But my protests fell on deaf ears as all I could do was stand there wide eyed as they grabbed me. That was when I felt whatever one of the guys had hit me in the chest. It felt cold and foreign and then the pain started, screaming he pulled it out of me and I felt them start dragging me. "What about the Professor, wait where is he?" They had just noticed that the Professor had dipped out on me which I was pretty pissed about. "Whatever we need to get out of here before the cops show up, and you don't worry we'll be keeping tabs on you, see ya soon." With that the men ran out of the room as I lay on the floor bleeding heavily from my chest whatever that dart thing was it definitely hit something it shouldn't have. Need to get up and get to someone. I tried to get onto my feet by my body had lost too much blood, I managed to get on my knees to fall back down. What a shitty way to go being stabbed after getting my first Pokémon you've got a sick since of humor Arceus. With that my consciousness slipped and I fell into a sea of darkness.
There it is the first chapter of my story again will be trying to upload once a week on Sunday, please leave a review it helps a bunch and keeps me motivated to write knowing people are reading this.