Led by someone I did not know,
To a town I knew not of.
Thus it begins.
"What happened?"
"Is he okay?" "
"Let me through so I can look at him."
The boy lying on the sand slowly opened his eyes. As he sat up, the oldish looking man squatted and asked, "Are you okay?"
"I think so," he said before suddenly groaning in pain and putting his hand to his head. "Ohhhh, where am I?" He managed to stand up as he said this and he finally seemed to notice where he was. He looked around him, and no longer speaking in a pained voice, asked "Where am I? What are all these people doing here? How did I get here?"
The old man stood up and answered, "These people are here because you washed up on the beach and I have no idea how you got here. But I can tell you where you are."
"Where? Where am I?"
"Near Sparkleberry City." The old man uttered.
"Sparkleberry…" The boy turned to the old man before asking, "Where is Sparkleberry City?"
"On the East coast of Kojen." The old man replied, looking surprised and concerned.
"K-Kojen?" The boy looked around him then grabbed his head with right hand . "Whoa. This is too weird."
"Okay, I believe you. It's all just all my life I've been taught that Kojen is a myth, and now I'm here…" He looked up at the sky, which was quickly turning the dark blue of late evening. He then looked over at the oldish man and said, "You never told me your name."
"I'm Professor Pine. You?"
"Thunder…Ketchum" He replied, looking up at the sky again.
Prof. Pine looked slightly shocked when Thunder told him his name but he regained his composure seconds before Thunder glanced back at him. "Really?" He asked before noticing tears on Thunder's face. "What's the matter, Thunder?" He inquired after carefully looking at Thunder.
"I, I don't know if I'll ever get back home, Professor." Thunder looked at Prof. Pine before continuing. "You said there are no big ships in Kojen."
"That is true. But you'll get home. We can get a ship built and He trailed off and looked up at the top of the hill they were walking up.
Thunder raised one eyebrow while he asked, "What, Professor?"
"You can go through the Kojen League."
"Kojen League? You mean Kojen has one too? Awesome"
"Yes, we have one too."
"So where can I sign up?" Thunder looked at Prof. Pine, happy for the first time since washing up on the beach. "Where?"
"It's down there." Prof. Pine said as they reached the top of the hill and the two looked down on a town that was literately glowing bright silver.
"Wow, it's beautiful."
"Hmmmm, yes it is. Thunder, welcome to Sparkleberry City."
Meanwhile, down in the Sparkleberry City Pokemon Center, a scene of pure chaos was about to erupt.
"You found it yet, Zachary?" a tall, unshaven man wearing maroon pants and long sleeved shirt the same color asked gruffly.
"Not yet, sir." the other man, Zachary, who was dressed identically, answered.
"Well, hurry it up." the first man, Michel, said as his expression changed from one of anger to one of disinterest and he turned away from Zachary and looked out over the town. "Hmmm, when will we find it? We've been looking for this thing for over a year now and the boss…"
"Sir! Michel!"
"What!" Michel started at the sudden sound, but he quickly regained his composure and turned towards Zachary, an angry scowl plastered on his face.
"I've found it, sir." Zachary answered.
"You have?" Michel yelled excitedly as his scowl changed into an evil looking grin. "Where's it at? Where?"
"Right here." Zachary said, pointing at his computer screen, which was displaying a bunch of strange symbols over a map of the Sparkleberry Pokemon Center. And in one of the rooms on the map, a flashing white dot had just appeared. Zachary was pointing at this dot and said excitedly, "There. There is the Topaz."
About one hour later, outside recovery room three in the Pokemon center, we find Nurse Joy accompanied by Thunder.
"Your pikachu is in this room, Thunder." She said happily, "I'm glad they found you."
"Me too, Nurse Joy. I don't know what I'd have done if he hadn't." Thunder replied gratefully as he opened the door and began to walk in. "Thanks, Nurse Joy."
"You're welcome." Nurse Joy turned around and walked slowly down the hall as Thunder entered the room.
As he did, he saw two men standing around a bed, the knocked out outer wall visible behind them. "Hey, what are you two doing in here?" Thunder commanded.
Zachary, the one closest to the wall, looked up, saw Thunder, and then whispered, "Boss, we've got company."
"I heard." Michel replied, turning to face Thunder. "I didn't expect anyone to discover us here. I guess we had better eliminate you. I mean, we can't have someone messing with Team Royal's plans, you know."
"Team Royal?" Thunder said incredibly. "What is Team Royal?"
" You've never heard of Team Royal? Amazing."
"No, I'm not from around here. Got a problem with that?"
"Hmmmm, really?" Michel looks at Thunder questioningly before saying, "Well, we are dedicated to the total takeover of Kojen, and to achieve that goal we need this pikachu." He holds up an electricity proof cage containing Thunder's pikachu, who's asleep.
"You, you dirty, no-good…" Thunder adopts a look of almost pure hatred at the sight. "I am not going to let you take my best friend, you monsters!" he exploded.
"Oh, really?" Zachary replied, stepping forward, "Well, why don't we see about that?" He says, reaching into his right pocket and pulling out a poke ball. He presses the button, which releases an elect abuzz. "Electabuzz, use Set B!"
"Elec." The electric pokemon says.
"Good. Take care of him, Zachary." Michel says as he leaves the building with pikachu. Thunder tried to go after him but Electabuzz blocked him, his body now covered in a sheet of electricity.
'Danm, I forgot about that electabuzz.' Thunder says to himself. "You, I'll get my friend back." He pulls a poke ball from his belt and throws it into the air, releasing his pidgeot. "Let's show them what we got, Pidgeot!"
"Hmmm, a flying type. You do know you can't win, right?" Zachary sneered.
"Is that right?" Thunder replies. "Well, I'm going to prove you wrong." Thunder looks outside at the setting sun and then commands, "Pidgeot, let's take this fight outside."
"Pidgeooot!" pidgeot screeches as he flies towards electabuzz at high speed, ramming into him with his beak and slinging the pokemon backwards into Zachary. They two of them then flew back and hit a fence across the street.
"Danm! That hurt!" Zachary says as he pushes Electabuzz off of him. "Get off me, you're shocking." He looks at Thunder angrily then shouts, "Electabuzz, stop waiting already!"
"Buzz!" Electabuzz affirms before dashing running forward and slamming into Pidgeot, knocking him down and shocking him at the same time. When Electabuzz landed behind Pidgeot he turned around and brought both his arms backward. They began to crackle with electricity while Pidgeot was standing back up.
"Watch out!" Thunder yelled out as he began to run towards Pidgeot, ready to take the blow himself.
"Pidge?" Pidgeot looked back at Electabuzz and then hurriedly flapped his wings and flew into the air just as Electabuzz threw its arms forward in a double thunder punch. The attack missed, however , and Electabuzz stumbled but quickly recovered, turned around and looked up at Pidgeot, amazed.
'Well, good reflexes, but I still have the advantage.' Zachary remarked to himself. "Electabuzz, Set A!"
"Elec ." Electabuzz's eyes glow bright yellow, his body seems to pulsate for a split second, and he fires a thunder attack followed by another, which both hit Pidgeot, though he tried to move out of the way.
"Piiiid!" Pidgeot screeches as he plummets to the ground.
"Pidgeot, are you okay?" Thunder scrambles up to the fallen pokemon, but just as he reached Pidgeot, Electabuzz ran forward and, slamming into them both in a quick attack, threw them against the wall of the Pokemon Center. "Argggh!" Thunder howls as Pidgeot let's out a similar screech of pain and they collide into the hard wall. "You…you…" Thunder turns in Pidgeot's direction just as the determined pokemon struggled up to a standing position. Thunder looked to the top of the hill on the other side of town, where Michel stood, watching the battle carefully. ", I forgot about the other one." he whispered angrily before walking over to Pidgeot.
'What is he doing?' Zachary as he watched Thunder climb onto Pidgeot's back.
"Let's go get Pikachu back!" Thunder yelled after he had gotten onto Pidgeot. Pidgeot flapped his wings and rose into the air, stopping a few feet up. After he had reached this height, Pidgeot suddenly flew, screeching defiantly, past Zachary and Electabuzz and through a gap in the wall over which was a was an arch that read, "The Sparkleberry Orchard".
Zachary looked around at Pidgeot and Thunder zoomed past him. "That the…Wait a minute, Michel." He nearly screamed, looking at the pair flying towards his boss. "Electabuzz," he said, turning to his pokemon, "Set C, now."
"Elec. Tabuzz!" Electabuzz's eyes glow once more and sheet of electricity covered his body and continued to grow around him. Pidgeot burst out from the trees in the orchard and skimmed the top of them. When they made it to the hill they rocketed to the top and there Thunder saw Michel again and Pidgeot flew towards the surprised Team Royal thief As they went past him, Thunder grabbed the cage with pikachu inside.
"Thanks for the gift!" Thunder yelled back happily as he took pikachu out of the cage, "But you can have the wrapping back!" He threw it back at Michel and flies back toward the PokeCenter.
"You…" Michel begins to run down the hill after but when he spotted Zachary and Electabuzz he stopped. "Hmmm, Zachary can take care of him."
Thunder zoomed back down the hill but just as he reached the orchard Electabuzz released the shield of electricity, which had grown almost six inches thick.
"Come on, Electabuzz, let's finish him off now." Zachary declares as the electricity forms a constantly changing maze, which Pidgeot begins to skillfully navigate, wheeling and weaving to avoid each bolt. Finally, however, one hit Pidgeot and he plummeted to the ground, screeching.
"Oh, man!" Thunder screams as they hit ground and skid. "Good job there, Pidgeot. Now return." He says painfully while he pulls the pokeball from his belt.
"Good job?" Zachary sneered as the red light burst from the ball and took Pidgeot back in. "Now you have no pokemon that can fight. You're helpless and you say that your Pidgeot did a good job?"
"He did. Thanks to him, I got my pikachu back from your partner's grubby hands."
"Grubby…You little…Electabuzz, thund…" As he gave this command, a Sandslash jumped out of a nearby tree and landed in front of Electabuzz. "…der!" As Electabuzz let off the attack, Sandslash raised his claw and deflected the electricity. "Wha, what's up here?"
"I don't like thieves like you." An old man replied as he stepped out from behind as tree.
"I'm not afraid of you, old man." Zachary sneered as two police officers run up to him. "So…Hey, get off me." He screams at them as they try to get a pair of handcuffs on him. He recalls electabuzz and then sends out a fearow. As they rise into the air, he shouts down to everyone below, "See ya!"
As he flies off to rejoin Michel, the officers sigh. "He got away…"
"It's okay. At least I got my pikachu back from them. And now I'm going…" Thunder falls to the ground, writhing in pain, and the old man and the officers run up to him, worried expressions on their faces.
"Is he okay?"
"What happened?"
"How…"