Authors notes: this story has nothing to do with the game 'Life is strange' .
This is the beginning chapter of a story about four companions in a war time period. Hope you enjoy :).
Chapter 1- Water, Fire and guns
(POV- Squirt)
I looked over at my trainer. He was just lounging around with Charmy on his lap. He seemed to be happiest with his charmander with him. So me and Spinach just lay down on one end of the chair.
"Man this is the life!" I said stretching my arms.
"Yeah I know Squirt! One day you're trapped within a pokeball in professor Oak's lab and the next you're out here with an awesome trainer!" Spinach replied with the best grin a bulbasaur could make. I smiled back.
"Do you remember what happened that day? The day we got to go with John? Probably the best day of my life!" I said.
(5 years ago)
"Charmander, charmander, charmander! Why is it always charmander?!" I asked frustrated. It has been months since I was brought to the pedestal to be one of three options for a trainer. But as it always was charmander was chosen. Professor Oak looked at me.
"Squirtle," he started with a somewhat sad tone in his voice, "I'm afraid that if you aren't chosen soon I'm going to have to release you!" he said. Shock hit my body. I was immobilized. I wanted to be with a trainer. I guess bulbasaur got told the same thing because I saw her face and she wasn't happy; she was very sad.
The next day hit and as always an eager trainer came rushing through the door. He seemed like he had some potential. "Well, well I see someone is eager!" professor Oak said with a smirk. "Now come with me young trainer and I'll present you with your options," Professor Oak said walking towards us.
"Here we have charmander; the fire type pokemon, here is bulbasaur; the grass type pokemon and last but certainly not least we have squirtle; the water type," He said pointing to each one of us respectively.
As they always do he leapt towards charmander and said "I'll take him!" I sighed and walked towards my pokeball but on my way towards it professor Oak called us over. The trainer looked at him confused. "What's going on?" he asked.
"Well you see John squirtle and bulbasaur have been here for 6 months now. And according to law after 6 months I have to release them," he explained.
I was expecting him to shrug his shoulders and walk off but he was different. The trainer walked over to us and asked, "If your just going to release them can I have them?". My eyes lit up, my heart pumped and I was exited.
"Well if you don't mind having half of your team cluttered up with starters then go right ahead!" Oak said surprised.
The eager ten year old picked me and bulbasaur up and said "Welcome to my team Charmy, Spinach and Squirt!" I smiled a big smile; he was a trainer that saw potential in every pokemon he saw! He as a trainer had some big potential.
(Present)
We heard a knocking at the door. John looked at the door confused. "I don't think I was expecting visitors today," he said confused as he put the charmander to the side and walked over to the door.
"Hello there sir," said the man at the door. "Terribly sorry for disturbing you on such a nice day. But I need to speak to a John Johnson"
"That's me," John said.
"Please accept this note. And…..good luck kid!" he said.
"Good luck? Good luck for what?" Asked John.
"Well…" he paused when he saw us at John's feet.
"Squirtle, bulbasaur and a charmander? You are the pokemon league champion!"
"Yes sir, Five year consecutive champion how you doin'?" he said.
"Well it really is an honor meeting you sir! But this is not a happy occasion," he said as John opened the envelope that was concealing the letter within.
"Greetings sir, we have some news for you. You have been selected to fight for your country in the…." John stopped reading; we had never seen a sadder look on his face. "In the war, congratulations soldier!" he finished.
John looked at us and then at the mailman. "what about my pokemon? What will happen to them?" he asked.
"Um….. I'm sorry to inform you but I'm afraid they have go with you," the man said in a soft tone. "But you are the pokemon league champion so these pokemon are extremely strong! They should make a great addition to the team!" he said trying to cheer us up.
John looked at the man and said "Thank you,"
The man replied with "The pleasure is all mine sir," before walking away with his head pointing at the ground.
I looked at John; oh boy he didn't look good! He slowly turned his head towards us and smiled slightly. "Don't worry guys we'll be back before you know it! But let's hope this small war won't turn into world war three!" he said lightly.
He looked toward the kitchen and said "I'll be right back just stay here." We nodded and did what we were told.
"Charmy, are you ready for war?" I asked.
"I'm not sure Squirt! I mean I want to be by his side 'till the very end but if the very end means potentially getting your head blown off by a gun I'm not too sure!" Charmy said.
Spinach was silent. She hadn't said anything since the man arrived at the door. I put my arm around her. She snuggled up friendly to me. "Thanks Squirt! This is just too much for me to take in!" she said.
"Don't worry Spinach; like John said we'll be back before we know it!" I said trying to cheer her up.
"Thanks Squirt; I needed that!" she said still snuggling into my comforting hug.
John appeared shortly after, "I've just packed in some pokemon food and normal food for rationing," he said coming in with what seemed like our entire cupboard's worth of food within his bag. He walked to the door and opened it. "After you," he said with a slight grin. I smiled at the sight and walked out the door followed very closely by Spinach and eventually Charmy. We began to walk down our street with our bag of food. We soon arrived at the place instructed on the note and we walked inside.
Within the tent was a table and a person sitting at it with a clip board within his hands. "Next!" he said.
We slowly walked up and John said, "John Johnson here, I believe you sent a telegram to me,"
The man looked up and said, "Well if it isn't the pokemon league champion!"
" lieutenant Surge?! What are you doing here?" asked John extremely surprised.
"Well Johnson you don't get the title of lieutenant for just lounging around all day in a gym now do you?" he asked.
"No sir!" John replied. "So where is your raichu at?" asked John.
He looked up with tears in his eyes. "Raichu was shot in battle! He had half of his head blown off!" he said as a tear fell down his face.
"Oh, shit! I'm so sorry sir!" John said in regret.
"Don't be! Raichu served the country well! He discovered one of the bastard's bases! And let's say they went off like a firework!" he said with a slight sparkle in his eyes.
"Of course! Now where do we need to go?" John asked.
"Just through that door," lieutenant Surge said pointing to an open doorway. "and we are glad to have you serve us; champion,"
"Oh the pleasure is all mine sir," John said. We walked through the doorway.
Inside we saw a lot of people. No army personnel just regular people. Some of them looked up and recognized us. John sat down next to a man and started conversation.
"Hi there!" John started, "I'm John Johnson, and who might you be?"
The man looked at him in shock. "You're telling me you are THE John Johnson? Pokemon league champion?" he said in a joking tone. We walked over to him.
"Hey guys how you doin'?" John asked.
The man looked at him confused and soon he gasped.
"Oh how rude of me! Meet Charmy, Squirt and Spinach!" He said pointing to each one of us respectively.
"Holy shit! You aren't kidding! I've only heard stories on the power of your charmander, squirtle and bulbasaur! Are they true? They say that your charmander took down an articuno! They say your squirtle took down a zapdos! They say that your bulbasaur took down a darkrai! So are they true?!" he asked completely fan-girling.
"Well believe it or not they are all true! Every challenge brings stronger and stronger opponents every time! One time I even went up against regigigas, regirock, registeel and regice! Oh boy it was tough but Squirt and Spinach here took them down pretty quickly!" John said.
The man's eyes lit up; "Whoa! That's amazing! You really are the strongest trainer in Kanto! I'm glad to be fighting beside you and your extremely strong pokemon!" he said as he saluted John.
I looked over at spinach; she still looked scared. "Spinach are you okay?" I asked. She slowly looked at me with teary eyes. "Whoa Spinach what's wrong?!" I asked worried.
"Squirt I'm really scared! I don't want to end up like Surge's raichu!" she said extremely scared.
"Spinach listen to me; as long as I am with you I will never let anything happen to you! I mean after all we've known each other since the very start haven't we?" I said.
She stopped her water flow and smiled.
"There you see! all better right?" I asked
"yes….thank you Squirt! You're the best friend ever! "she said giving me a hug.
A man came in and said "Could John Johnson please come over?"
We walked over to the tall man. "Just this way sir," he said
We followed him down a twisting and winding corridor before coming to a stop at a train station. "Just enter in and it's the first door on the left," said the man.
We walked in and entered the room. It was a small area with four seats. We all took a seat on each of them. Well except for Charmy that is! He just cuddled down onto John's lap. Spinach was looking between the two available seats and couldn't decide. I tapped my hand down on the seat next to mine signaling for her to sit next to me. She walked over to my seat and jumped up onto it and lay down next to me.
I looked at the sky. It was getting late. I lay down and fell asleep.
The next morning I was awoken by the bright sunlight seeping in through the rather large window. I look back and giggled lightly. The sight of Spinach sleeping on my shell was funny.
I lightly shook her. She opened her eyes and looked at me weirdly before realizing what she was resting on.
"Oh! Sorry Squirt!" she said lightly blushing.
"It's okay! Not the first time I've been mistaken for a pillow!" I said with a grin and a small giggle.
I jumped up onto the window and began watching the early sun rise. Spinach jumped up with me and sat next to me. We watched the sun rise over the horizon. Spinach put her head on my shoulder.
I walked over to John and woke him up. He then woke up Charmy. Soon after the train we were in began moving.
Oh shit! I know how Spinach gets on train rides. I quickly walked over to her and she began hugging me tightly. Why did she hate moving trains so much?
"Squirt?" she started. "I don't know why I'm terrified of trains but with you here it helps a lot!"
"Well what friend would I be if I didn't help you out?" I said. But to be completely honest I was terrified of moving trains as well and I tightly began hugging her.
"Spinach?" I started
"Yes Squirt?" she replied
"I'm starting to become terrified and I have no idea why!" I said not showing her my tearing up face.
"Squirt…. Listen I'm scared too and you know what helps?" she asked
"What?"
"a nice hug!" she said gripping me tightly and pulling me in for a comforting hug.
I was scared of war, I was scared of dying but I was most scared of losing my best friend!
"Spinach! I'm scared of war! Scared of dying but I'm most afraid of losing you!" I said in the middle of the hug.
I looked up and saw a bright hue of red on her face. She smiled at me and said, "Squirt the main reason I didn't want to go was that I was scared to see someone that I have known since birth die in front of my eyes!" she said tearing up.
I couldn't hold back the tears anymore! They began streaming down my face and I shuffled a bit. It was then I noticed that Spinach was doing the same thing but she was worse.
The train came to a halt. John led us off of the train and into another tent. This time the corridor lead to a boat. We boarded on the boat and got instructions on our accommodation for the night or two. We followed the directions and we found ourselves in a room all by ourselves. Within the room were two hammock beds.
Charmy and John took the one on the left and Spinach and I were on the right. We snuggled down closely as there wasn't much room within the miniscule bed.
That night I had trouble sleeping. I looked over to Spinach. Her face was greener then normal and then I remembered that Spinach got sea sickness.
I jumped from the bed slowly followed by the sea sick bulbasaur. I scanned the room for something to catch her vomit. And then I saw a small bucket. I pulled it out and brought it to Spinach. She smiled at me.
"I know it isn't much but if you need to vomit you don't need to worry about getting it onto the floor!" I said.
"Thank you Squirt! You're so selfless!" she said blushing slightly.
Her face turned an even darker green before being met with the sound of her vomiting. I petted her back lightly. "Let it all out. We will be docking soon," I said comforting her.
"I think I'm good for now Squirt" she said as she began walking over to the hammock
"Spinach, I think you should sleep near the bucket. You know just in case." She looked at me with droopy eyes and said, "Well if you think it's best for me then I guess it is okay,"
I waddled over to the hammock with a lot of guilt for some reason. I looked back at Spinach; she was very sad. I remembered that she doesn't like being alone so I began waddling over to her. She looked up and saw me. Spinach put her head down as I tucked myself into my shell next to her and drifted off to sleep.
I woke up to a morning that was still dark. I looked behind me to see Spinach once again sleeping on my shell.
"Spinach; wake up" I said softly. Her big eyes slowly opened, she looked at me for a while before looking down at what she was laying down on.
She threw her head back and as she did the last time she lightly blushed.
I began to walk over to the table that was by the small window and jumped up onto it. I don't know why but something about the sunrise just intrigued me. Maybe it was the soft glow of orange and yellow maybe it was the sight but I just don't know. I looked over to my right and almost had a heat attack! Spinach was right next to me and scared the daylight out of me. I fell onto the floor on my back. Oh boy this is not good. I tried to turn myself over but my shell was too heavy and my body too light.
Spinach jumped down and helped me to my feet.
"Thanks Spinach" I said
"oh no problem," she replied.
We walked over to Charmy and John and woke them up. They tossed and turned but we eventually saw their eyes. "Morning sleeping beauty!" me and Spinach said.
They looked up and yawned and stretched. John got up and tiredly walked over to the door to the bathroom.
Charmy just stayed in bed and didn't shuffle. I guess we had to find our own entertainment on this boat. I looked over at a closet and walked over to it. I opened it up to find a few game boys and board games. The game boys were out of the question as in this light you wouldn't able to see the screen! So I pulled out a snakes and ladders.
I asked Charmy if he wanted to play but he was asleep again! I sighed and walked over to Spinach and asked if she wanted to play.
"Sure! Why not?" she said.
I smiled lightly and set up the board and I chose blue and Spinach chose green.
We had been playing for hours and somehow Spinach has won five times in a row! But this time I was determined to win! I rolled the die and moved up.
I had finally gotten to 90 and I was hoping not to roll a five! I threw the die with my heart pumping and it landed on…..SIX!
"Yes!" I shouted before covering my mouth and blushing lightly. Spinach grew the die and moved.
Now all I needed was a four to finally win this blasted game. I threw the die. My heart was pumping and I was sweating the die landed on….FOUR!
"Yes! I won I am the king of snakes and ladders!" I shouted.
Spinach looked at me and laughed. "Okay, okay if you are getting like this over a game how are you going to be when we get to the…..warzone?" she asked softening her voice as she said 'warzone'.
I then remembered why we were on this boat in the first place and my heart sank.
We felt a sudden thump as we hit dry land.
"Okay guys time to go!" said John a little reluctant.
He opened up the door between us and the hallway and he was handed four hats and a green suit. He came back towards us and handed us a helmet each. I put mine on before helping Spinach with hers. John went into the other room and came out with his green coat on and big black boots on he also had his helmet on.
"Come on guys follow me and stay close okay?" he said. We all nodded and stated down the hallway. My heart was pumping, my legs were shaking and my gut had butterflies. I was nervous.
The back of the ship opened up and we walked out into a blinding white light. We entered a beach and were surrounded by the sea, burning bodies and John and many other people's guns!
Oh boy, what have we gotten ourselves into?!
Authors notes: This was the sort of chapter to pretty much introduce the characters and not so many deaths; well besides Lt. Surge's raichu that is! RIP raichu. Anyway the next chapter goes to shit! And that's all I'm saying.
Anyway as always: Stay cool, stay awesome and most importantly stay shocking!
-Shocking Pikachu