There are many worlds that surround ours, but they remain invisible to our senses. Yet the idea that we could connect two of the worlds is getting closer and closer to be reality.
The world was surprised one cold morning in December of 1908 when an image of two small monsters fighting each other spread around. No one knew where it came from. Someone submitted it to the newspapers one night and the next morning it was featured on the front page. At first critics claimed it to be a hoax, like Sober Sue or the Dreadnought Hoax. But after a couple of months, scientists began to believe that the picture was real. The public was made to believe it was fake, while scientists worked on a way to connect their world, dubbed the "First World", to the world were the monsters were, dubbed the "World II". Many countries raced to beat one another as to take World II as their own.
It wasn't until March of 1910 that they had become close to connecting the two worlds.
London, England
The lab was dimly lit while scientist sat in front of monitors with flashing lights.
"How close are we to opening the Gate?" asked a tall man.
The person he asked was another man, one who was much shorter than him, who sat in front of the largest monitor.
"We have the most advanced technology," the shorter man started to explain. "With all of this, we are just days from the Gate opening."
"Good," the tall man stated.
He stepped back to get a better look at the screens. They featured sepia pictures of strange looking monsters. The monsters appeared to be fighting each other.
"This world should be easy to conquer," he muttered.
Moscow, Russian Empire
The scientists scattered. Numbers continued to be listed on their screens and they were trying to quickly write them all down. A man walked into the room and suddenly became concerned by the sight of his scientists running around, looking like ants. He stopped a scientist that ran by him.
"What are these numbers?" he asked.
The scientist smiled.
"The key to the Vorota," the scientist answered.
The man let the scientist go, who in turn went back to trying to write down the numbers.
So the key to the Portal was close. This made the man extremely happy. Soon Russia will not only be the largest country in the world, but have control of an entire new world as well.
Chicago, USA
There were only five men allowed in the room. Each one having a special significance to the project. They were all sworn to secrecy on the topic.
"We are close sir," one man said to his superior.
The superior, a man dressed in a military general uniform, stood while the other four men sat.
"How close?" he asked.
Another scientist spoke up.
"About another day or two."
The general nodded.
"I want to be any other country," said the general.
The previous scientist stopped and turned to look at the general.
"Do you really think there are other countries trying to reach the other worlds?" he asked.
The general just stared.
"Do you think the other countries are stupid?" asked the general.
The scientist shook his head.
"Of course not."
"Well, why would they be so ignorant to over look the other worlds when we were handed such critical information about them?" asked the general.
That appeared to the end of that conversation because the scientist turned back around and went back to his work.
They had been working months straight on trying to open the passage between the two worlds and they were getting closer and closer.
Paris, France
The rain poured outside the building. The windows that lined the top part of the walls only showed grey and bleak weather. The scientists inside calmly worked, no one saying anything. It was just how the supervisor liked it, calm.
He walked back into his office; a room walled with windows so he could continue watching the men. Inside another man, this one in a French lieutenant uniform. He stood with his back straight and his chest puffed out.
"What does you superior want to know?" asked the supervisor.
"How much longer this will be going on?" asked the lieutenant. "This is taking a lot of money out of the budgets and people are starting to ask."
"First off, just a few more days, a week at the most, and then we should be able to open the passage between the two. Second of all, you sound like this is a waste of money..." started the supervisor.
The lieutenant nodded.
"That is exactly what I think," he stated. "I don't see the point in traveling to another world and wasting money on that travel when we have so many problems in this one."
The supervisor sighed.
"We aren't doing this for the hell of it. We are doing it to be the first ones there. If another country, say Germany or China, got there first and found an ultimate weapon. We as a world would be at a lost and would fall into the hands of those corbeille. Now is it a waste of money to stop someone from destroying two worlds?"
The lieutenant didn't respond.
"I'll take your lack of words as a confirmation," said the supervisor. After a pause, "You are dismissed. Unless you have some more ignorant comments."
The lieutenant stared at the man for a bit, but soon left.
Shanghai, China
The scientists huddled around one large screen. On it a sepia-toned video of two monsters fighting played on.
One was a cat-like creature. It was large, looking like a lioness. On its forehead sat a red gem. It fought a floating jellyfish.
The scientists watched in amazement at the video.
"Shuoming! Shuoming!" shouted a voice.
A shout man, a little smaller than an average female, walked into the room. His anger at the sight of none of his scientists working was obvious. He walked over to the group, but soon stopped at the sight of the video.
"What is this?" he asked.
A scientist turned to him to address him.
"It just appeared this morning. It appears to be a video image of two monsters, from World II, fighting. Very similar to the photograph," the scientist explained.
The short man paused.
"Do you know if anyone else has seen this?" he asked.
The scientist shook his head.
"I believe we are the only ones," he answered.
"Good. Let's keep it that way."
Okay, so long story short, this is a science fiction fanfic about two worlds. The first world is our world in 1910. The second world is the pokemon world, known as World II (2). In the prologue, scientists from England, USA, France, China, and Russia are trying to be the first to open a portal between the two world. Each country has their own reason for doing so. We already somewhat know France's, but we will discover the other's reasonings later on.
This story will take place between 1910 through 1940. I am going to start it off with characters, which you can submit, for 1910. I feel like once we get to 1925 or so, I may ask for some new characters. Rules for submissions will be on my profile, along with the form. Please be careful to read the rules because this story is very specific.
Also if you submit, please favourite and/or follow the story. And be sure to review, even if you don't submit. I love reading reviews, as long as they aren't rude and insulting.
Translations:
*The Gate - England calls the portal between the two worlds as the "Gate".
*Vorota - Russian for gate. The Russian's name for the portal.
*Corbeille - French for trash. Used as an insult.
*Shuoming - Chinese for explanation. The man is calling out for the others to explain.