Chapter 1
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon in any way shape or form, that's Nintendo and Game Freak. (I do own my OC's though.)
AGT: In previous years, an upstart business known to the world as Vander Company has improved the world of Pokémon in various ways; the main thing being a new device called a PokéBracer that can store up to 12 Pokémon at one time. However, very little is known about the company and the odd thing is, they have never so much as hired one person.
Our Story begins, in the quiet home of Vincent Watanabe, in Little Root Town…
"WAKE UP!" Shouted Mrs. Watanabe, to her adolescent son, who was asleep with the blanket over his head. Vince stirred a little, but then his mother threw off the covers and just like that, he was wide awake.
"C'mon mom, just ten more minutes." He whined.
"Vincent Watanabe, if you sleep any longer you'll be too late to register for your Trainer's License!" his mother yelled.
"Alright, alright, I'm getting up." He pouted.
Vince got dressed in his usual outfit, which consisted of, black jeans with rips in the front, a dark orange short-sleeve shirt with the outline of a Blaziken, a black vest with a silver V on the left breast, green and black sneakers, and a pair of grey goggles that rested on his jet black hair. After he got dressed, he ran downstairs, grabbed some toast, and headed out the door for the lab of Professor Birch.
However, his curiosity got the better of him and he decided to go to his neighbor, Cora's house. As he knocked on the door, the voice of a middle-aged woman answered. "Come on in, Vince, I believe your friend is upstairs." Said with a smile. Vince Climbed up the stairs and noticed that the door on the right, at the end of the hall, was slightly cracked. Being the eavesdropper that he is, Vince looked thought the crack to see a beautiful, Violet-haired girl, getting dressed. Upon seeing this, he stifled a nose-bleed and knocked on the door.
"Hold on a second mom, I'm getting dressed; I know that I have to register today, but I want to look nice for…the day." She said hurriedly.
"Umm….actually, It's Vince." He stated.
"Don't you know it's rude to look at a girl while she's changing!?" She huffed.
"I was just coming to get you so you wouldn't be late. I know how you like to take your time getting ready, but today is the most important day of our lives." Vince replied.
"Hold your horses; you're not exactly the epitome of being on time either, mister." She argued.
"Just come on Cora, we're almost late as it is." Said Vince waiting behind the door.
A couple of minutes later, a beautiful girl with violet hair stepped out of her room to greet Vince. She was a few inches shorter than Vince and had the most stunning, grey-blue eyes. She was in her signature outfit, a blue, short-sleeve shirt with the words THE RHYDONS on it, faded navy blue jeans, and red sneakers, with a sword on her back.
"You ready to go?" she said.
"I've been ready." Vince moaned. Almost immediately, she took the sword off of her back and hit Vince in the head with the hilt.
"Ouch! What the hell was that for!" he said rubbing his enlarged melon.
"For being an ass." Cora said smugly.
After their small altercation, they went downstairs, told Mrs. Akiyama goodbye, and headed for the lab.
They reached the lab and headed inside, once inside, the lady at the front office asked what business they were here on.
"We're here to register for our Trainer's Licenses." They said in unison.
"Alright, just take these two forms and fill them out over there." She pointed to the waiting area on the right. "After you're done bring them here for processing and the professor will be with you shortly." The lab assistant stated.
They took the forms and filled out the information needed, then handed them in to the assistant. Five minutes went by and then they saw another assistant come out of the doors in the back.
"Come with me." He said "Professor Birch would like to see the both of you."
As they walked through the lab, they saw many research projects, tests, and even a few Pokémon.
Once they reached the back room, the professor swiveled out of his chair and spoke up.
"Hello! Might I ask why you two are here?" he exclaimed.
"Well, you see sir, my friend and I..." Vince stated to say but was cut off by the professor.
"Wanted to come here and ask me for a Pokédex and a Pokémon to start your very own journey with?" the professor stated.
"Actually, yes, that's the whole reason we came here today." Cora said shyly.
"Well now, why should I give you two a Pokémon? You've already shown to be quite late to things of great importance." Professor Birch said sternly.
"Well, umm…" Vince began to say as he bit his lip in thought.
"I'm just messing with you two!" he said as he laughed maniacally. "Of course I'll give you two a Pokémon; after living in this town for years, I've seen you two grow up and love and care for Pokémon that weren't even your own."
"Really!" both trainers shouted with glee.
"Yep, for reals. Now the only thing left to decide is which Pokémon would you like?" said the professor with a grin.
As the teenagers began to rack their brains, the professor hit a button and a big glass case that housed fifteen Pokéballs rose out of the lab floor and opened.
"Whoa…umm professor, I thought that we could only choose between three Pokémon?" Cora asked wide-eyed.
"Well, you see my dear Cora, back in my day that was exactly the case; but, nowadays, trainers want to go from region to region to test their strength and courage and the bond that they share with their Pokémon. To adhere to demand, all researchers must now give their pupils a selection between all starters from all known regions. With that being said, you can choose the starters from Kanto all the way to Unova, now decide." Said the now-out-of-breath professor. "I need to work on those speeches." he thought.
Vince instantly ran up to the table and hovered his hand over the Pokéballs, when his hand was over a warm one; he went back two rows, picked up the Pokéball and chucked it at the ground, and out popped a lively Torchic.
"Ahhh…, so you've chosen the chicken." Professor Birch stated.
"Hey, you take that back!" said Vince.
"Calm down, young one, I was just trying to get a rise out of you." The professor chuckled.
The Torchic didn't take too kindly to the insult and torched the professor's pant leg. Upon seeing the professor smack at his leg to extinguish the flame, the Torchic let out a small sound that resembled a snicker.
"Aha, I think I'll call you Flint, you like that buddy?" Vince asked the Torchic. Almost instantly the Torchic started to rub his little head on Vince's leg. "I'll take that as a yes." Vince said.
In all the antics that were going down, nobody seemed to notice Cora walk up to the glass and pick up a Pokéball. When the guys looked back at her she had already sent out the Pokémon sleeping within, a tiny blue penguin.
"Nice, it's a Piplup!" Vince yelled, waking the sleeping Pokémon. Almost instinctively, the Piplup shook off the sleepiness, and hit Vince in the head pretty hard.
"Ouch, what was that for!?" Vince asked.
"….." said Piplup. (This was probably something like, "For being an ass and waking me up!")
"Damn, I wish I could understand it." He said while rubbing the bump on his head.
"There's an app for that!" said the Professor, giggling ferociously.
"Professor now is not the time for jokes." Said Cora sternly.
"No, I'm speaking the truth; there really is an app for that. It's on this new device that the Vander Company released earlier this month." Said professor Birch, as he motioned over to the other part of the lab. "It really is a pretty amazing gadget, if I do say so myself. But anyways, onto the device; it's called a PokéBracer, it allows the storage of all the items you buy and find and brings them into tangible space from cyber space. It also allows the storage of up to twelve Pokémon, so you can essentially have three teams at any one time, pretty nifty huh?" said the professor, sure of himself.
"So we can have a team for any kind of situation we come across? That's amazing!" Cora remarked.
"Well, there is one down side to the PokéBracer; before you have any battle or go into any tournament, you can select which team you want with you and it will switch them out instantaneously, however, once a battle or tournament begins, it's aggro feature kicks in." the professor stated.
"What's an aggro feature?" Vince asked.
"It's a feature that, once enabled, locks the current Pokémon team you have and the ones in storage, it hurts them in no way whatsoever, but you cannot change them out while the feature is activated. There should be no problem, as long as you prepare yourself beforehand." Said the professor. "So which color would you like yours in?" he asked.
"You mean we actually get to have one, for keeps?" asked Vince, gazing lovingly at the PokéBracer.
"Of course you do." Said the professor heartily
"Can I have one in black and green?" asked Vince.
"Yup, let me just put it over here on the 3-D printer and it should be done in a jiffy." Said the professor.
"Well, if that's the case, I want one in black and blue." Cora replied.
A few minutes later the professor came back over to the teenagers and handed them their PokéBracers as well as their very own Pokédex.
"Now I want you two to make sure you don't do anything to damage either one of the things I just gave you, they cost an arm and leg to get." sighed the professor. " Alas, I have faith in you two though, now go and explore the world of Pokémon, learns its secrets, solve its mysteries, and above all else treat all Pokémon you come across with kindness, as long as you do that then I can allow you to keep the PokéBracer and the Pokédex. So what do you say guys?" asked the professor.
"I think I can do that." Replied Vince with a smile.
"I also think I can do that, but professor, what about bad Pokémon? "Asked Cora nervously.
"There is no such a thing as a bad Pokémon, my dear Cora; remember, Pokémon may do bad things, but there is no inherently bad Pokémon, they all have their reasons for the thing they do, but it up to trainers such as yourselves to find these reasons and help them." Said the professor all of a sudden with a shining light on him.
"I thought the rangers were supposed to help out Pokémon." Said Vince flatly.
Then the light flashed away from the professor as he smashed his fist into the top of Vince's head. "Brat." Seethed the professor through clenched teeth.
"What was that for?" asked Vince as he rubbed his throbbing head.
"For being an ass." Said the professor rubbing his now-sore hand.
"By the way, what did you name your Piplup Cora?" Vince asked.
"His name is Neptune." She said with a smile.
"Excellent choice of name Cora, the Piplup line is famous for wanting to be important, so a name like Neptune makes it feel confident in himself." Replied the professor.
At the Front of the lab
"Well, we should be hitting the old, dusty trail professor; I'll call you when we get to Petalburg City." Said Vince as he and Cora waved goodbye to the odd professor.
"There's an app for that too!" he shouted back at them as he waved goodbye.
"Boy that professor sure is a loon." Sighed Vince. He was too busy looking into the distance as a rouge blade handle came up and smashed down on his head.
"Ouch! What the hell Cora!" Vince whined as he rubbed his ever-larger-growing head.
"For being an ass." She stated smugly.
"Well, I suppose we should tell our parents goodbye then." Said Vince, still rubbing the knot on his noggin.
"Okay, so should we meet up in thirty minutes?" she asked.
"Thirty minutes is plenty of time." Said Vince smiling. "Catch ya then."
Thirty minutes later
"Mom, you can let go of me now, you've been holding me for ten minutes." Said Vince, annoyed.
"Okay, okay, I just don't want my little champion to leave the nest yet." Mrs. Watanabe pouted.
"Mom, I'm eighteen years old now, I think I can look out for myself now." Vince complained.
"Okay, but before you go take this." She said, handing him a thirty-five pound backpack.
"Arceus mom, what the hell did you put in here that can't fit in the PokéBracer?" asked Vince.
"well there's five changes of clothing in there so when your clothes get dirty you can wash them, there's a bike for when you might need one and there's fifty meals in there so you don't go hungry if you get lost." Smiled Mrs. Watanabe. "Oh, and here's something your father left you, it's an HM case that has all the HM's he ever got on his travels, he said to give this to you when the time was right."
"Well, next time you here from dad tell him I said thanks!" said Vince ecstatically. "I should be heading on to Petalburg City now mom, I'll call you later." Vince said.
"Goodbye Vincent, I wish you the best of luck in all you do." Said Mrs. Watanabe to her son.
Vince met up with Cora near the entrance to route 101.
"Hey Cora, how come you always have your sword with you? Ever since we met, you carry it around like your life depends on it."asked Vince.
"I...I don't wanna talk about it right now." she shuddered.
"Oh, okay then, I guess I'll ask you some other time." Vince said to Cora. "On another subject, I suppose it's about that time, wouldn't ya say Cora?" Vince said.
"The moment we've been waiting our entire lives for." She said solemnly.
"Well, let's hit it!" Vince yelled encouragingly as they headed towards Oldale town to the north.
A/N: And…done! So what do you guys think? I'm very open to all types of criticism, its how I plan on making the story better. If I missed anything, please let me know and I'll go back and try to change it. Oh and if the title seems a little misleading, don't worry I'll get to that in the next chapter.
~ AceGamerTaco
