Editor's Note: Welcome to the adjusted and edited version of City Rescue Team. This time, there's a planned plot, and I'm going to work with it. Unlike previously, where a plot wasn't even existent until Act II. This time, the plot that I finally came up with comes into play, more or less. I also changed the perspective from first-person to third-person omniscient, since I couldn't explain things very well as the character themselves.
I also merged together some of the chapters, since I had a 500 word chapter somewhere that I didn't really put much thought into. On that note, this entire story is still being written with a Nintendo 3DS, and edited for spelling and grammar on Google Docs, then brought here for your entertainment. In retrospect, I could use a few informational reviews. Like I said, I'm always aiming to improve. So Read & Review, I always listen to opinions. I hope you enjoy the renewed story of "The Timeshifters."
Part 1: Introduction
Katherine is a human, or should I say "was" a human. She lived a normal life in Diaote City, but she had a big secret. She was given the ability to change forms from human to Pokemon whenever she wanted, but only three times. She never told anyone this secret, until one day where her life was changed entirely. I'm getting a little ahead of myself, let's start with how this all began.
It was a typical August day in Diaote City, where a human named Katherine lived. Katherine is a 19-year-old who lived in an apartment that was within a five-minute walk to the park. Katherine worked at the Pokemon Center as a nurse on most weekdays, taking weekends and the occasional Monday off. She typically wore a black long-sleeved shirt and jeans. Her light blond hair went down a couple of inches from her shoulders, and she typically didn't braid it.
Diaote City is in the middle of the Seronia region, which is not far southwest from the Hoenn region, but is far enough to be hidden behind the horizon. The city has a population of about six hundred thousand, and is powered by wind turbines a few minutes away from the city. The turbines are much more quiet than generators were, they constantly powered buildings efficiently, and didn't cause extremely major power outages; since, should one of them blow out from a power surge, there were a few more as a back-up, preventing a city-wide power outage.
In the center-most part of the city, the popular Glint Park was always fresh with different people every time. Glint Park got its name from the solar panels that were placed here as an experimental regime for powering the park's lights. Tourists constantly visit the park, and on occasion can get a tour of the park's new additions or things that are under construction at that moment. Katherine meets her friends from work at the park on some weekends.
The day was August 21st, which was a Sunday. Katherine went to the park with her friends, and brought along her Pokemon. Her Pokemon's name was an Eevee named Cloe. Cloe was colored brown, with creme-tan tufts of fur surrounding her neck. Her ears stood up like a rabbit's, and she had a very bushy tail that was brown, the tip also having a creme-tan color. With her large brown eyes, she looked like a rabbit-fox hybrid.
The park bench that Katherine and her friends sat at was near a small oak tree. Cloe liked to be underneath this tree, since being in the heat made her feel uncomfortable. On occasion, a breeze would flow underneath the tree's branches and give a very cold feeling, which Cloe didn't seem to mind that much. Not far to the right of the tree Cloe was lying down underneath was a lining of shrubbery and more trees. This line, should you go past it, has a clear view of the pond in the middle of the park.
The park also had battle areas for trainers, several hundred feet from where the park benches are, there are four circular zones where trainers can freely battle Pokemon. There are rules and regulations about fighting in the park. Including that the "lock-eyes" rule doesn't apply; you can fight whenever you feel like it, as long as you have a challenger. You also could not use any Pokemon that were larger than you were height-wise, which eliminated Pokemon like Aggron or Rhydon. This was good for the park and the visitors, since these kinds of Pokemon could cause damage with the kinds of moves they knew, such as Earthquake.
What had caught Cloe's attention was the battle that was occurring with one trainer and his Charmander. The battle had a disadvantage against the Fire-type Pokemon, his opponent using a Geodude, a Rock-type. The fight eventually ended with the Fire-type surprisingly winning. There were multiple spectators that briefly applauded once the trainers shook hands and parted ways.
A few moments had passed, and the trainer had begun to walk over to other nearby trainers. Looking at the distance Cloe was watching at, the other trainers looked like they were friends with each other. There was a slight conversation with as the trainer pulled out one of his Poke Balls and let out the Charmander. The other trainers did the same thing with their Pokemon, and the group of both trainers and Pokemon went their separate ways. There were three Pokemon in the group; there was a Vulpix, a Vaporeon, and the Charmander.
Katherine continued to talk to her friends about various subjects. It was nothing Cloe could understand, since she didn't know the human language very well. She also wasn't used to fighting other trainers, or other Pokemon in that matter; she was just a companion of Katherine's, and Cloe liked being just that. Cloe was still young, about four years old. She had only been Katherine's companion for three of those years. The Seronia region was a little different from other regions, since Pokemon weren't trained to learn the human language unless they learned it themselves through experience. Cloe understood very little of the language. The only thing she knew was her and Katherine's name. However, this day in particular, things would change drastically for the little Pokemon.
There was someone that Cloe didn't see. This human was very shady, and was dressed in all black. The person looked left and right, to make sure nobody was suspicious of his actions already. He then began to walk over towards the lining of shrubbery towards the pond. At that moment, two of the three Pokemon left the group and headed back to meet their trainers. Cloe didn't notice that the Charmander wasn't in the group, since she was looking at Katherine, who was still talking to her friends.
As Katherine continued talking, Cloe's attention shifted over to the shrubbery. There was the sound of fighting in-between shuffling noises. This caught Cloe's attention, along with Katherine's. Cloe found it odd that Katherine also noticed, but not her friends. "I'm going to go for a walk with Cloe for a few minutes." Katherine said as she stood up from the bench. Her friends nodded and continued their conversation. Katherine started heading towards the shrubbery. Cloe went with it and followed her.
I know it's a cliffhanger, but I need a topic to introduce in the next chapter. Some of this story might be a little hard to understand, since I didn't go into much detail about how Pokemon didn't understand humans in the first place the first time I wrote this. I also added an extra bit of detail that offers a little foreshadowing in future chapters. Although the word count is bigger, I had to cut out the fight scene for rewriting. Like Last Warrior 7 stated, "The fight scene was insignificant." I agree with this one hundred percent, so what I'm going to do is that I will merge the fight scene from part 1 & and the entirety of part 2, and work on those two parts since both of them were pretty bad detail-wise. We'll see how this works out in the next part.
In case you wonder, I did intentionally write cream as creme. I honestly think it looks better, so I wrote it as such. If you have a problem with it, tell me.