A New Age

Hi, this is my first fanific, and I plan to make it pretty long. I will most likely take a while to update between chapters, like one chapter every couple weeks because I get a metric shit ton of homework every day, so I will most likely write for about 15 – 30 min. a day. Also, Pokemon can talk in this story, because that will make this SOOO much more interesting. So, here's the prologue.

Prologue

My name is Sam. Just Sam. A lot of people think it's short for Samuel, but it's just Sam. Now that we have that out of the way, I'll tell you a little bit about my past. I lived in Johto with my mom and dad until I was 14. I lived a pretty normal life, went to school, got good grades, had a few friends, had a couple hobbies. I loved playing guitar. I would even do gigs for some local bars, even though I was just barely a teenager. Then, one day, there was news about an aggron that killed about 15 poachers that tried to capture him, but nobody was able to find him after that. Nobody thought much of it, until about a year later.

October 17, 2014 11:34AM Age:14

I woke up to the sound of my phone getting a text. I slowly pulled off my covers, and swing my feet over the bed. I rubbed my eyes and started to walk over to the dresser my phone was on. I got another text. When I turned the screen on. The texts were from my best friend Foster. I opened them, and all it said was, "TURN ON THE NEWS NOW.". I got dressed into my house clothes, and walked into my living room.

I saw my parents standing up, looking at the TV. My mom whispered, "Oh my God,". I walked further in to get a view of the TV. There was a burning town shown from a helicopter, and the words "BREAKING NEWS, LIVE" scrolling across the bottom of the screen. Pokemon were running around, destroying everything in sight.

A reporter started talking, "A group of approximately 300 pokemon have destroyed a city leaving thousands dead. There are reports that this group is lead by the same aggron that killed 15 poachers last year.". Another reporter added, "These pokemon all appear to have red body paint on them, and the national guard has not been able to stop them.".

I asked my parents, "Where Is this happening?". "Only 50 miles from here." My mom replied.

"The motives of these pokemon are unknow- We are just getting news that there are attacks on even more cities as we speak." The reporter was starting to sound nervous. "The other cities ar-" The TV went to static. Then an explosion sent me flying into the kitchen. Part of the ceiling collapsed and some 2x4s pinned me to the ground. My ears were ringing.

I could bent my head to barely see around another pile of rubble. I saw my parents lying unconscious on the living room floor. There was a huge hole in the side of the house. I saw a charmeleon and a sneazel walk through the hole in the wall. They had red body paint splashed across their chests. I could barely hear the charmeleon order the sneazel to do something. I saw him approach my parents unconscious bodies an extend metal claws. I wanted to scream at my parents to run away, but I knew it was no use and I would only give away my position.

I watched in horror as the sneazel slashed both of mt parents' necks open. Blood poured out, and the charmeleon smiled at the sight. They both ran out of the hole in the wall. Once they were far away, I hung my head and began to cry. Why? Why is this happening? Whet did we do to deserve this? Another piece of rubble fell from the ceiling and hit my head, knocking me out.

9 Hours Later, 8:12PM

I had lied under the pile of rubble for hours. Around 8:00 I woke up and tried to get up. I pushed the rubble off of me and quietly walked to the beginning of the stairs that went up to the bedrooms. I started to walk up them, avoiding various damaged steps. I walked into my parents' room and took the five-seven my dad kept by the side of his bed. I went back downstairs, looked at my parents' bodies for the last time, and looked out of the hole in the wall.

I saw destruction. Every building in sight was either knocked down or badly damaged. I walked out of the house. I heard someone walking around a corner and immediately ran behind a bush. When I looked back out, I saw two more pokemon a gengar and a farfetch'd, both with red paint. I quickly hid back behind the bush. One of them stopped. "I think I heard something" My heart started racing.

"You're probably just jumpy from the one with the gun earlier, I didn't hear anything."

"I could have sworn I heard something. "

"I didn't hear anything, so lets keep moving."

"Okay"

I heard the footsteps start again and get quieter. I sighed in relief and started walking down the street. I needed to get something bigger than just a handgun to protect myself. The fifteen minute walk to the nearest gun store was uneventful after my near encounter with the two pokemon.

When I arrived at the gun store, the windows in front were broken in, and I saw bodies inside, but surprisingly all of the guns and ammo were still sitting on the shelves like nothing happened. I slowly walked inside, making sure there was nothing lurking in the shadows. I looked at the walls with guns on them, and took down an RSASS sniper rifle. I walked to the counter, took an ammo bag, and started stuffing it full of ammo and extra magazines for both the rifle and handgun. When I slung the rifle over my shoulder and turned to walk out of the store, I saw a typhlosion standing just outside of the store looking at me. He had the red paint all over him.

I slowly backed away, and turned around to look for an exit in the back of the store. There was none. I turned back around, and saw the typhlosion's mouth glowing orange. This is it. This is how I die. Right before the typhlosion released the flamethrower, a hydro pump came from out of my vision and hit the typhlosion in the side, sending him flying. When he tried to get up, a hyper beam hit him in the face, killing him.

I stood there, in disbelief about what just happened. A floatzel turned the corner and looked at me. "We need to get out of town" I could tell she was female. I slowly walked towards her, still unsure if I could trust her. "If I was going to kill you, I already would have". I started to trust her more, so I walked toward her faster. "This way"

As we started walking down the street out of town, I asked, "What's going on?" There was a scream in the distance, and then an explosion followed by silence. "I'll tell you after we get out of town, and we should hurry." We started running down the street that led out of town.

As we got past the archway that symbolized the beginning of town, the floatzel pointed towards the woods. "That way". We ran into the woods, and once we were about 500 feet in, we stopped and sat down. "Okay, what's happening?" My voice was raspy and I was breathing heavily from the run. "So, remember that aggron that got attacked by poachers about a year ago?"

"Yeah"

"Well, that was the first interaction he had ever had with humans, so he assumed they were all evil and cared about nobody but themselves, and he wanted to get revenge on them. He went around, trying to convince other pokemon to join his cause. Most of them thought he was crazy, but some thought he was right. Over about a month, he had gathered about 100 followers. After that, those 100 started trying to convince others to join them, and in about 10 months he had convinced about 30% of the pokemon in the world to join him. He started planning on how to attack humans, and decided to attack every human settlement in the world at once, and today he did that. Looking at how many people survived the attack on this town, I would say not even a percent of humans are alive anymore."

I just sat there in shock. I couldn't believe what she had just told me. It seemed so unlikely, but every event in the past 12 hours supported her. I sat there for what seemed like hours and said, "How do you know this?"

"They tried to recruit me, but I refused. About a month later, I heard rumors about their numbers and what they were going to do. I knew I couldn't do anything about it, so I just continued living like I had been."

"Why did you save me?"

"This morning, when I heard that the attack was going to be today, I decided that I was going to try to help people get away, but when I got there and saw the scale of the attack, I hid, because I knew they would kill me too when they saw me helping humans. When the attack ended, and there were only search parties looking for survivors, I came out to look for them too. I saw a typhlosion about to release a flamethrower inside a building, I decided to help whoever was inside. It was you."

I sat in silence again. I thought about my parents. How they were dead. About how I was most likely one of the last humans alive in the world. A tear ran down my cheek. "How did you get in the store?"

"I woke up to my friend texting me to look at the news"

"What's a text?"

"It's a thing that you send to someone else to instantly give them a message from far away. Anyway, I went into my living room to see the news, and saw that my parents were watching it too. Then it cut off. An explosion sent me flying an trapped me under rubble, and left my parents unconscious in the open. Two pokemon walked in from the hole in the wall, killed my parents and left. I guess they didn't see me. I fell asleep for a few hours and woke up around an hour after after sundown. I got my dad's gun, and headed to the gun store to get a bigger gun and ammo because I knew I would need it. You know the rest."

"I'm so sorry." She looked down for a few minutes. "A gun is a thing that shoots metal at stuff, right?"

"Yeah"

"Why does that one look so much different than that one?" She pointed towards my two guns.

"Some are meant to do different things."

"I thought they all did the same thing?"

"Well, they all do basically the same thing, but do it in different ways." I pointed to the five-seven. "That one does less damage, and is meant to be concealable and short ranged." I then pointed to the RSASS. "That one is almost always a one shot kill, and is very long ranged."

"Hmm. I should take you to my village, the pokemon there won't kill you, I promise."

"Okay" We started walking deeper into the woods.

This was a pretty short chapter in comparison to the later ones, only 1,996 words, but it was just a set up for the rest of the story. Make sure to keep an eye out for the next chapter!

Slight update, I read it again and saw a few mistakes. Some stuff didn't make too much sense, and a couple of spelling errors.