Authors Notes!
Yeah O.K. it's been a few years since I posted here and my 1st story… well it sucked. While I won't continue that one, what it started will live on in THIS story... And yes… It will be better… I've had a few years to practice…
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Stardart is based on the Male hero of Dragon Quest 4 by Square Enix; his "After story" was created by me
Dark times are approaching us. Everyone can sense it, most especially me. But, I sense new beginnings as well. Question is, how shall I deal with it all?
Chapter 1- The Near Tragedy of Pichuliet Part 1
It was a beautiful day in the land of Hoenn, on Pokeworld beta. It was especially beautiful along Route 120. The wind was blowing peacefully, barely disturbing the surrounding trees and grass. The sounds of Zigzagoons jogging about could be heard here and there along with the other sounds of nature all around. Suddenly, a Whoosh, a couple of yellow figures pass by at an impressive speed. One was Humanoid in shape; in fact, he was somewhat human, wearing golden armor, his short Brown hair being blown by the wind in his face as he dashed on ahead. His steel blue eyes peered down at his yellow companion, a Pichu, who was dashing along with him. This mysterious man was known as Stardart. He owns the largest company in the Alpha Quadrant, J.G. Network. He did it all, Pokemon training, running a business, supporting a family, practicing the Magical arts as well as the art of the blade, SAVING THE UNIVERSE, and then some. They say he was the busiest man in the Universe, and yet he never complained one bit… well maybe a little but not THAT much. Today was like any other day, Stardart was out training with his Pichu. Pichu was a rather brave little Pokemon. He had a dream of becoming one of the strongest Pokemon to ever exist, without evolving. Stardart could see this dream himself and has since been training Pichu, and today was no different than any other training day, or at least, for the moment…
They had started running from Fortree City, which was a rather long run for anyone to do, Stardart notice Pichu had been falling behind. "Come on Pichu" he called to him "Getting slow all of a sudden?"
Stardart saw Pichu looked a little tired from running this whole time. He too felt a bit tired but he knew this would strengthen the both of them. "Come on, Catch up with Volt Tackle!"
Pichu acknowledged him with a nod and started his move. Electrical energy crackled around the electric mouse as he started to speed up. His speed jumped as the full force of the attack was unleashed, creating a yellow electrical aura around him. Stardart let out a smile as he saw Pichu start to catch up "That's a bit better but-" he said before turning his attention ahead of him, noticing what was coming up "-WOH! Watch out for trees!"
As he finished his sentence, Stardart leapt over a tree root with Pichu going under it. Stardart saw an opportunity to try out a neat trick. He jumped up, jumped off the trunk of one tree towards the large branch of another tree. With more grace then an acrobat he swung himself around to hit the branch, feet 1st, and jump off that branch towards another tree trunk and, flipping around again, jumped off that one towards the ground, he rolled, then, suddenly back in his running position, dashed forward once again but faster then before. "Try to do that Pichu" He called back to his Pokemon "Perhaps you may learn something"
Nodding in acknowledgement, Pichu did the same, with the same kind of acrobatic grace as Stardart, Jumping and flipping of the trees, and it worked all to well, Pichu suddenly found himself going almost 5 times faster then before, easily blowing past his trainer. Stardart's eyes went wide with shock, "HOLY SHIT" he exclaimed as his partner dashed ahead "WAIT FOR ME!"
Stardart knew, at his current speed, he wouldn't be able to catch up, so he decided to use some black magic to aid him, which was possible with him being part sage. He quickly casted a couple of HASTE spells to make himself move faster then focused on catching up to his Pokemon. Meanwhile Pichu continued on, unaware that he had left his trainer in the dust until he looked behind him. Satisfied with the result, he decided to stop, from his position of running on all fours, he stood up and applied pressure to his heels to slow himself down, however this ended prematurely when he suddenly crashed into something, sending him back a bit. He rubbed his head a bit then took a look at what he ran into, only to find that what he ran into was looking back at him. To his surprise, it was another Pichu. He gazed at the Pichu for a sec. He could tell this one was female through his instincts. "Oh man" he started "I'm so sorry"
"Oh, ow" The girl Pichu started, rubbing her head as well "I-It's O.K., you just need to watch where you're going…"
"Yeah, sorry about that, when I'm training I tend to get out of hand sometimes."
The Girl Pichu seemed curious now "Training? For what?"
"Just training" Pichu started "I plan on being the most powerful Pokemon ever" he said proudly.
The girl Pichu giggled at the statement "That's a rather large dream there" she said.
"Yeah well" Pichu started, getting defensive about his dream "I've come a really long way since I started on it"
"Pichuliet! Where are you?" a voice called out from somewhere.
The girl Pichu turned towards where the voice had come from and answered it "I'm over here!"
From the bushes came out 2 Pikachus, one male, the other female. "There you are!" the male Pikachu started "Don't take off like that again!"
"You had me so worried" the female Pikachu said with concern "Don't do that to your poor mother"
"Mom," Pichuliet started while rolling her eyes "I'm not that young anymore y'know."
Pichu was starting to figure things out "Eh? Your parents?" he asked.
"Who's your friend here" the Father asked
"Just someone I bumped into" Pichuliet explained "Although, It's more like the other way around"
Pichu hung his head. "I said I was sorry…"
Pichuliet's mother had a look of concern on her face "You're not hurt are you?
Pichuliet rolled her eyes again " No of course not, you worry to much mom."
"And with good reason" her mother started again "I know before long you'll grow up and want to move out on your own and all but that won't keep me for worrying."
"Yeah I know." Pichuliet let out a sigh. She then turned to Pichu. "You know you still haven't told me your name yet."
"Eh? Oh!" Pichu had a rather sheepish look on his face when he realized this fact. "How silly of me, I forget these things sometimes. To be honest, I don't have much of a name. People just call me Pichu"
Pichuliet's father had a somewhat puzzled look on his face "That's a rather basic name, don't you think?"
"It works for me" Pichu said proudly
Just then, Stardart finally caught up. He cleared some trees and screeched to stop. Everyone turned to look as he did so "Ah-ha, There you are Pichu." he started "Dang it took me a while to catch up to you."
Pichu looked happy to see him while Pichuliet stared at him with a curious face. The Pikachus however, most especially the father, looked less the pleased.
"Wha? A Human?" The mother was Surprised
Stardart couldn't understand the Pokemon because they spoke in their native tongue. It was one thing for him to understand his Pokemon somewhat, but something different for the wild ones. "Hmm?" he pondered "Making new friends already Pichu?"
Pichu Nodded "yeah… somewhat" he said, his face turning into a sheepish look.
Stardart understood that one. He could tell from Pichu's tone of voice and body language "Somewhat?" he asked, raising an eyebrow
"Who's he?" Pichuliet asked, completely curious about this new thing in front of her.
"Oh!" Pichu exclaimed, once again he forgot introductions. "This is my Trainer, Stardart."
Stardart noticed he had become the subject of this talk "Introducing me are you? Yes, my name is Stardart, Pleased to meet you all."
"Enough!" Pichuliet's father called out. "Humans can not be trusted, we mustn't speak with him anymore."
Stardart raised an eyebrow to this. He could tell from the father's tone that there was some big distrust with humans. "Now hang on a sec. I can tell you don't like humans… How come?"
Pichuliet's father ignored him. "Come on Pichuliet, we gotta go,"
"What? Why so soon?" she still was very curious about Stardart.
"Don't argue with me. Let's go"
Just then, Pichu's ears went up. He could hear something… sense something. Something was off. He turned to Stardart. Stardart looked like he was picking up something too. "You sense it too don't you" he asked, and Pichu nodded.
This got the attention of Pichuliet's father. He started looking around to see what it could be. Pichuliet's mother, along with Pichuliet herself also looked around. But they couldn't see anything. Stardart closed his eyes and started to focus. Using all his senses and instincts, he searched, until, right there! "JUMP!" He exclaimed and he and Pichu Jumped out of the way as 3 nets came after them.
They missed their targets but instead came over Pichuliet. The nets started to head back to where they came from, dragging a surprised and frightened Pichuliet with them "What? HELP!" She exclaimed
"PICHULIET!" The Parents called out, both being overwhelmed with fear.
Stardart looked up to where the nets were taking the little Pichu. As he did he heard 3 voices start to laugh in a slightly evil way. The laughter came from up in the sky as 3 figures were looking over the area from a Meowth shaped hot air balloon "Oh you got to be kidding Me." he said, he knew who they were
"Listen is that a voice I hear?" a Female voice started.
"It's speaking to me loud and clear." a Male voice continued.
"Floating on the wind"
"Past the stars!"
"In your ear!" called out a Meowth, speaking plain English
"Bringing chaos at a break neck pace"
"Dashing hope, putting fear in its place"
"A rose by any other name's just as sweet"
"When everything's worse our work is complete"
"Jessie!" Called the Female voice. It came from a woman whose long Fuchsia Colored hair was made to curl somewhat around her.
"And it's James!" called the male voice, it came from a Purple haired Man who's hair could someone be described as a short mushroom top
"Meowth, now that's a name" the Meowth called out, again in English
"Putting the do-gooders in their place"
"Team Rocket!"
"IN YOUR FACE!" they all called out and as they did, a Wobbuffet and a Mime Jr. came out, adding in their own little bit at the end.
Stardart was not amused. "Oy, you 3 again, It bad enough you annoyed Red for so long. Now you decide just to come and annoy me? What's with that?"
"Well" James started "we though we'd take a break from the twerp and go after some bigger fish. And now we have your Pi-" he stopped mid-sentence when he notice that Stardart's Pichu was right there, perched on Stardart's shoulder "-Chu? Wait if it's there, then what do we have?"
The 5 of them looked down into the net under the basket of the balloon. There they saw Pichuliet, who was struggling to break free from the net that held her. "Well it's a Pichu alright." Meowth stated
"That's not what we were aiming for" Jessie said, she then turned to James "James, you were in control of the net on the balloon, what happened?"
"Well it's not like I had time to aim!" he argued "I had to fire quickly so I aimed for what looked like a Pichu. At least I got a Pichu!"
While Team Rocket continued to argue, Stardart grew tired of the fact that this was even happening in the 1st place. He focused. An aura of light surrounded him, growing more and more intense until it burst. Stardart was now floating, light energy flowing around him. He floated upwards to be in line with Team Rocket's balloon. Pichuliet's father was shocked at such a sight, never before had he seen a human do such a thing. Stardart's eyes narrowed at Team Rocket "Well while you guys play the blame game" he said as he brought his hands back, focusing his light energy into a ball that he intended to throw at the crooks "why don't you deal with THIS!"
Team rocket Screamed as they saw the energy ball form. "Quick James!" Jessie called out "Our secret weapon!"
"Right!" James replied as he started looking around for something in the basket
"It won't help you now!" Stardart called as he tossed the ball of light energy right at them
"Yes it will!" James insisted as he brought out the secret weapon. It was a Medium sized mirror.
The ball of light hit the mirror, but due to the mirror's properties, it reflected the ball right back at Stardart. "I hate you." he quietly said as his own energy ball hit him, sending him and Pichu crashing into the ground.
"It worked!" Meowth cheered
"At last!" James added
"But I don't think he'll say out like that" Jessie said with concern in her voice "Let's get out of here while the going is good"
James and Meowth nodded their agreement and they got their balloon to start moving away from the scene
Pichuliet's parents weren't about to let them get away. They started chasing after the balloon. "PICHULIET!" Her mother called out to her
"I won't let some dumb humans get away with my daughter!" Pichuliet's Father had that angry look on his face, the one most children would be afraid of if they saw their father with it.
Once again, the Pokemon Language couldn't be understood by the Humans. Jessie and James turned to Meowth for a translation "You know what they're saying Meowth?"
"They're talking about how we aren't gonna get away with this" he said, giving his rough translation
"Oh please" Jessie scoffed "That's what they all say."
"And they usually mean it!" Stardart called, getting back up from his rough landing. "Pichu, we're gonna have to take a different approach to this."
Pichu nodded. "Yes. For Pichuliet" He said, looking back at Pichuliet, who looked really frightened at the moment.
Stardart saw the look of concern on Pichu's face. He figured out what was going on. "Yes Pichu" he said "for your girlfriend."
Pichu turned a bright shade of red upon Stardart's words and was about to say something when Stardart regained his composure, his light aura flowed around him again and he flew like a super sayin at Team Rocket. Meowth screamed out "Stardart at 6 O'clock!"
"Again?" Asked Jessie "Get the Mirror ready"
Stardart smirked. Team Rocket hadn't realized that he wasn't going for them. "Not this time" he called out "PICHU! NOW!"
Pichu jumped off of Stardart's shoulder and executed a perfect Iron tail onto Pichuliet's Net. It suddenly dropped from the cut but Stardart was quick on the catch "Don't worry, I got ya" Stardart reassured the Pichu.
Stardart floated up again. "OH NO!" James cried out
Stardart smirked again. "Time to send you guys packing" he said preparing his next move.
"Just try it!" Jessie taunted
"With our Mirror, you can't hit us" James gloated
"Aye that be the problem." Stardart said as he flew up again, with Team Rocket holding up the Mirror in defense "or is it" he smirked, switching the net from holding in his hands to holding it between his feet so that his hands were free, "Now I got you. LIGHT COPY!"
His light aura flowed around him. By saying the word Stardart reached into his mind, looking for a move he remembered seeing. Letting his light aura take control, he let his muscles tense up. In preparation for the attack, His hand glowed with a Fighting power as he prepared to use Brick Break. With the light aura controlling his body, he executed the move normally reserved for Pokemon onto Team Rockets Mirror. It shattered into pieces, making James scream like a little girl. "Don't you know that's 7 years bad luck?" Meowth questioned, trying to sway Stardart from performing another move like that.
But it was too late for him. "Yeah" Stardart said "bad luck FOR YOU"
After saying Light copy once more. Stardart charged up an attack, holding his hands back as energy formed in-between them. The 3 of them could see what he was preparing. All Jessie could say was "Uh oh"
"KAMEHAMEHA!" Stardart called out, forcing his hands forward and unleashing a powerful beam attack at the balloon.
The Balloon exploded, sending Team Rocket sky high. "LOOKS LIKE TEAM ROCKET'S BLASTING OFF AGAIN!" the 3 called out as they disappeared into the distance.
Stardart carefully brought the net holding Pichuliet down, they proceed to cut it open and let her out. "There you go. Safe and sound" he reassured her.
Pichuliet bowed at him "Thank you so much."
While Stardart didn't understand the words, he surely understood its meaning. "Ahh, no biggy" he said, trying to be modest…
"Pichuliet! You're safe!" her mother caught up to them. She held her rather tightly, being rather relieved that she was safe at last
"Of course Mom" Pichuliet was getting embarrassed at her mothers actions
"Regardless" Her father started "This wouldn't have happened if that human never came around"
"What do you mean" the mother questioned.
"Humans bring nothing but trouble" He said. Then turned towards Stardart with an angry face "I think it's about time you left"
Stardart could tell from that look the father didn't like him "Something tells me I'm getting blamed for this."
"But Dad! He saved me, he can't be bad can he?" Pichuliet questioned
"Like I said. It was him that brought those other 2 and that Meowth. Pokemon can't live in peace with Humans around!"
"But!-" Pichuliet started to Protest
"No Buts about it!" her father scolded
"I know when I'm not welcome. Come on Pichu. We got a bit more training before we head back to the Fortree Network Building….
Pichu sulked a bit but nodded. He then turned to Pichuliet. "Goodbye"
"Goodbye" she responded politely. But it seemed she didn't like the idea of him leaving either.
Stardart darted off with Pichu fallowing behind him, glancing back only a second before pressing on. Pichuliet watched them as they disappeared into the distance. "Good reddens. I told you they only bring trouble" Her father said, reinforcing his views.
After that, the 3 of them started walking themselves, back towards their home. Pichuliet couldn't stop thinking about Stardart and Pichu. She figured that since Pichu had a Trainer, that they had a lot of adventures. A lot of fun, and maybe even discovered new things. She could only imagine the places they went, the things they did, and at the same time she tried to imagine herself in those situations. Granted the thing with Team Rocket was kind of scary, but she figured it was all part of the big adventure. Stopping the bad guys and everything, being a hero. Her life here was, as she put it, Very Dull. Sure she had friends to play with, like Azurill and Seedot, and looking for food wasn't necessarily easy all the time either, but it was nothing compared to the life Pichu had, not to mention Stardart. The more she thought about it, the more she wanted to go on an adventure herself. Maybe even with a Human trainer, although, she still didn't know why her father hated humans so much.
Pichuliet's mother noticed how zoned out she was. "Something wrong Pichuliet? You've been awfully quiet."
Pichuliet didn't want to talk about what she was day dreaming about so responded with "It's… It's nothing"
Her father saw right through this however and knew what she was thinking about "Still thinking about that Human? Don't, Like I said, humans only bring trouble. They can't be trusted"
Pichuliet didn't see it that way though, "Yeah but. That Stardart guy, he was a complete stranger yet when I was in trouble, he risked his life for me."
"Honey" the mother said "Your Daughter has a point, weren't you the one who said "Humans only care for themselves"?"
"Not the point dear" the father argued "He still brought the trouble in the 1st place in the form of that 'Team Rocket'."
The mention of Team Rocket made Pichuliet remember something. "There's another thing that's been bothering me. It's just… when Team Rocket had me in that net. I felt so helpless and little. I didn't like it." which brought her back to Stardart and Pichu. When they were coming to rescue her she noticed the look of determination on Pichu's face. Like nothing was gonna stop him, and that Iron Tail move he did. She didn't know such moves. The only damaging move she knew was Thundershock
"Dear, we all feel like that sometimes" her mother tried to comfort her.
"You just can't give up on your hopes, that's all" her Farther chimed in, trying to give wisdom.
"For once your father is right."
"Hey I thought you were on my side!"
Pichuliet's ears perked up. She thought she heard something. Then there it was again. Another noise. She glanced around a bit. She couldn't see anything but she kept hearing something, like something moving around in the bushes. Was it Team Rocket, wanting more trouble she wondered? "Feeling better" her mother asked.
She was certain of it now. "I… I think we're not alone" she whispered to her parents
Her father looked around "I don't see anything"
"GOTCHA!" a voice suddenly called out, then jumped out with a bunch of others, attacking the 3 of them. Pichuliet Gasped…
Meanwhile, Stardart and Pichu continued training. Stardart was thinking of ways to keep Pichu on his toes, he saw some large rocks ahead. Using his blades he sliced the rock into multiple sections and kicked them at Pichu, who countered with swift Iron Tails. "Not bad. But how about this?" Stardart then decided to cut an entire tree in one switch movement with his blade as well.
Pichu of course saw this and dodged it by going under it. They soon came to another big clearing, Stardart though of it as a good opportunity to rest and signaled for Pichu to stop and they both did. "O.K. take 5"
Stardart decided to stand while Pichu sat down on an old fallen log. "You seem a bit distracted"
It was true. Pichu couldn't take his mind off of Pichuliet, and he didn't even know why either. "Let me guess. Thinking about your GIRLFRIEND?" Stardart teased, Pichu blushed and tried to protest but Stardart continued "You can't hide it from me. Now what was her name again. I thought you told me it was… err… Pichuliet?" while it was true Stardart couldn't understand the tongue of Pokemon, he could understand his Pokemon from time to time, Crystal clear no less
Pichu nodded as his thoughts returned to her. He wondered what she was doing now. "It's nothing to be embarrassed about Pichu" Stardart reassured him "I've had those feelings before and look at me now! A Family man, with a loving family no less. So don't try to hide it Pichu. If you like her be open about it. That is if we do ever see her again" Stardart's thoughts turned back to the Father, and his hatred for Humans, Well Humanoids actually. As it was Stardart wasn't Human necessarily, but more half Dragon, meaning he had both human and dragon's blood coursing through his veins. "Bah, I don't like it when Pokemon generalize humans. They act as if all humans are the same when in fact, just like you guys we each are different in our own ways" Pichu nodded in agreement "Yeah you understand me there. Ahh well. There have been humans and other beings that have done the same thing. Can't blame them, they just don't know, or have learned such."
The Peaceful break was interrupted by a loud scream. Both of them recognized it. "That sounded like Pichuliet!"
The 2 of them had rushed as fast as they could to get to where they had heard that sound. When they got there they saw the 2 Pikachus they met earlier. Stardart checked them out, they were very badly hurt. Scratch Marks, Bite Marks, Bruises, you name it, it was on them. "What happened?" Pichu asked them.
"Ambushed… They took Pichuliet." The mother said, weakly.
"Which way did they go?" Pichu asked. They pointed north.
Stardart could understand what was going on "Looks like whoever did this went that way. Very fast, Very hard… shouldn't be too hard finding them judging by these tracks.." He looked over to Pichu, who had an angry face on him with sparks flying from his reddish cheeks. "I'll stay here with the Parents and use my Potions. You go on ahead and deal with their attackers and rescue Pichuliet… I know you can do it"
Pichu nodded and darted off, fallowing the tracks. Stardart pulled out some tan spray bottles "Good thing I carry a few Full Restores with me" he said, preparing to use them. The Father looked like he wanted to protest against the human using them on him. But he was to beat up to argue. As Stardart used the Full Restores on the Pikachus, he felt something on his head. He looked up. It was starting to rain.