Pikatwig: Well, a new Pokemon story is here!

KKD: And for once, it doesn't necessarily take place in the Pokeverse.

Pikatwig: Correct aibou. Alrighty… you ready to roll the disclaimers?

KKD: You know it. We own nothing related to Pokemon, Nintendo & Game Freak do. We only own original characters and the original system seen in this story.


"It's the year 2018… and the world has continue to evolve… including the world of gaming." a voice began to narrate. "The Wii U was not the best of consoles with the rough times it had; it was even considered a peripheral to the Wii at first. However, with much feedback from our devoted fans and critics, we are positive the Virtual U will be a better commercial success."

That was Nintendo of America's main head at E3, five years ago. And true to his word… the Virtual U was a success! It defined modern virtual gaming, and was definitely more of a success than the flop known as the Virtual Boy. In fact, players felt they had such a great experience with the console that they felt like they were actually in the worlds of the games they were playing. With such a success, Nintendo decided to create something else fans have been begging for: a console Pokemon game that felt as cool and fun, if not better and moreso, than their portable main series counterparts. And with a time before the next portable system release, it felt like the logical thing to do.

Then an even bigger step came in, Nintendo had then created the "Pokemon Virtual Card" system. Which allowed the players to take their Pokemon from their Virtual U systems and into the real world. It's the closest humans and Pokemon have ever been.

"And with all the issues we have had with previous consoles and handhelds in previous years, our staff on both sides of the Pacific have worked their hardest to create the best hardware and software for this new system. Not only is the console the most advanced we have seen in years, but thanks to it's super advanced firewalls and security systems, the Virtual U is, pun unintended, virtually unhackable," the head of Nintendo of America added to the audience of E3 at that time.


It was now the year 2023, and our attention turns to a young boy with blonde hair that reached his neck, blue eyes, and wore a simple yellow t-shirt with the face of the Pokemon mascot, Pikachu, on the front. On top of that, he had a light-blue jacket, the hood portion having a magenta PokeBall symbol on it. He also wore blue jeans and black and white sneakers. He was just opening his copy of the Virtual U's Pokemon Advanced U into the black and silver system. "Alright… time to do the thing that brings me joy…"

He placed the game into the system part, and then he took out something like the Wii U's Gamepad, and looked at the card insert for his Pokemon. "Alrighty…"

And with that, he turned the system on, which caused it to send out a special light that engulfed the room before generating the start-up "scenery" for the game. He was always amazed by this, seeing the cutscenes around him, so much more advanced than any console before, even compared to Sony's and Microsoft's newest consoles to that day never looked so cool.

"Sugoi…" he smiled, as the three cards he put into the system's pad began to turn into pixels, and then turning into the Pokemon.

The first Pokemon that appeared next to him was a small light-blue frog with white hands, some white puff-things for his nose, some more white fluff around his neck, and yellow eyes. The second was a small pale green turtle, with a yellow jaw, matching feet and eyes, a brown and black shell, and a small stem on its head with two bright green leaves. Finally, there was the classic mascot of Pokemon since Gen 1, the familiar electric yellow mouse with red cheeks, black eyes and ear tips along with a lightning-bolt shaped tail that was brown near the base of it, and two brown stripes on its back.

"Good to see you all," the boy said, as he walked over, and then began to pet the yellow mouse, who was the all too familiar Pikachu.

"Pika!" Pikachu smiled.

The other two Pokemon then cuddled up with the boy, making him smile, these two are Froakie and Turtwig.

"Hydro… Grass… Spark, I really am glad I have you three…" the boy smiled. Spark giggled, and then took out a small paper, which had a small sign that read "You're the best Brody".

The boy, Brody began to tear up and hugged his three, as an alarm on his watch began to buzz. "Oh man… time to get to school. Alright, gotta get going." Brody said, as he quickly turned the game off, and then removed his cards from the gamepad, and after grabbing his bag he got onto a hoverboard and took off…


So you wanna be the Master of POKÉMON! *Various Pokémon all appear on Virtual Cards.*

Do ya have the skills to be NUMBER ONE! *Then they all seemingly pop out of the cards and into the real world.*

I wanna take the ultimate step... *We see Brody standing in an area, seemingly by himself.*

Find the courage to be bold (Pokémon) *We then see his friends around him, looking concerned*

To risk it all and not forget… *Brody stands with his three Pokémon in the virtual arena*

The lessons that I hold *He then commands his Pokémon as the arena shatters and the three Pokemon charge.*

I wanna go where no one's been… *Brody and his Pokémon are then seen traveling with Akira, Akiko, Kai, Yoko, and their Pokemon in the real world.*

Far beyond the crowd (Pokémon) *Many people look and see the five of them, and their Pokémon.*

Learn the ways to take command! *The five then see their gamepads spit out Pokeballs before they each grabbed one.*

Use the power that's in my hand (Oh hey!) *The five then throw these Pokeballs at a random wild Pokemon.*

We all live in a Pokémon World (Po-ké-mon!) *Hydro and Brody stand side-by-side, soon joined by Yoko, Kai, Akira and Akiko.*

I wanna be the greatest Master of them all! (Greatest Master) *We see the legendary Pokémon Victini fly around, as he is then joined by Mega Mewtwo Y.*

We all live in a Pokémon World (Po-ké-mon!) *A few people stand in the shadows, all ready to fight the heroes, as the heroes Pokémon stand ready.*

Put myself to the test... *Pikachu jumps up, then followed by Totodile, Torchic, Turtwig, Snivy and then Froakie.*

To be better than all the rest! *Each Pokémon from the heroes stands by their side, and then we see all of the trainers joined by one of their Pokémon.*

So you wanna be the Master of POKÉMON! *Multiple Water-Type Pokémon launch out their water gun attack, impacting against a Tyrantrum*

Do ya have the skills to be NUMBER ONE! (Oh hey!) *Similarly, we see Fairy-Type Pokémon attack a Salamence with their Fairy Wind attack.*

We all live in a Pokémon World (Po-ké-mon!) *Pikachu, Froakie, Turtwig, Torchic, Snivy, Totodile, Chikorita, Ralts, Axew, Eevee, Mareep, Munna, Piplup, Riolu, and Flabébé all stand by the Eiffel Tower.*

I wanna be the greatest Master of them all! (Got the power in your hand!) *Pikachu, at the very top then uses Thunderbolt, seen by people world wide.*

PO-KÉ-MON!


"I'm not late!" Brody announced as he arrived at the building on a little early.

As he approached the building, he accidentally bumped into a young man a bit older than him, but he went so fast, that he fell onto the ground.

"Huh?" the man asked, feeling Brody bump into him as he turned to look at him. "You okay?"

"Yea… I'm fine. Just in a bit of a hurry…" Brody sighed.

Brody got up and saw the young man before him had a very interesting look to him, and into his brown eyes. He had a sort of white bandana over his black hair, along with a red headband that had a white half-PokeBall design on it. His shirt, Brody recognized as that of Brendan's from Pokemon Emerald, with the black being red and the orange being blue, and a green backpack being on his back, green camo shorts, and red and blue sneakers.

"Are you okay?" Brody asked the other person.

"...Yea… I'm okay," this guy replied, simply moving out of Brody's way. "Sorry for blocking your path."

Brody gave a small sigh as he quickly moved to his class, and was there on time!

"Good morning Ms. Mirai," Brody said as he got to his seat.

"There you are Brody Twilight. You managed to make it on time for once. I guess Pokemon didn't keep you busy for once, huh?"

Brody gave an annoyed sigh as he sat down, and the bell rang. "Okay class, so you know starting today, we will now be having a student teacher," Ms. Mirai said, as someone walked into the room.

And to Brody's surprise… it was the guy from earlier.

"Good day, minna. My name is Akira Yuu, and I look forward to at least this semester," the man replied.

"Everyone, let's give Mr. Yuu a warm welcome," Ms. Mirai replied, as a few people smiled.

Akira smiled back as he sat down in a desk by the teacher. As class got started, we turn our attention to one other student in the room. He had blonde hair and blue eyes, similar to Brody, but he also had red glasses, a sort of pale green outfit with a darker green vest, white sleeves, and green and white shoes.

"Good day Mr. Yuu, my name is Kai," the young student replied.

"Pleasure to meet you too, Kai… do you have a last name? Just checking," Akira replied.

"Koujima."

Then, Akira noticed something.

"You look a bit young for someone in the ninth grade," Akira replied. "How old are you?"

"Seven," he answered, surprising Akira.

"...Wow… you must be really smart and must've skipped a lot of grades to get this far at a young age," Akira gawked.

"Yea… so, what brings you to our school?" Kai asked.

"...Studying to become a teacher, hence why I'm a student teacher," Akira answered.

Kai gave a slight nod before going back to his seat. Meanwhile some kids began to work a bit, as Akira noticed Brody was there.

"Hey… you're that kid from earlier," Akira noticed, getting Brody's attention.

"Hi," Brody replied.

"You okay?"

"Yep… so what's up?" Brody asked.

"Not much."

Brody gave a small nod as he continued his work, not really interested in doing it, but doing a good job at it anyway. Since Akira had to help as a teacher, student or otherwise, he was on standby to help any student who had any problems.

"He's… something else," Ms. Mirai told Akira, pointing a pen at Brody.

"How so?" Akira asked.

"He does his work… but he's rather shy… he doesn't have a real friend. He's always said that 'he doesn't need any friends, he has friends in his Pokemon'," she replied.

"...I see… must be lonely… and I guess if one's lonely, they have to find some outlet to satisfy some needs," Akira figured.

"The counselor has asked me to try and get him some friends, and I guess you can try… if you want," Ms. Mirai offered.

"I can try. Did you have any other people in mind?"

"I've tried to find others… the only person he's ever openly talked to is Kai."

"Maybe we can try and get them to be friends as well… but do you think you could find… I don't know… maybe some female friends as well, just to balance things out?" Akira suggested.

"I'll try…" Ms. Mirai replied.

"Okay… during one of the class breaks, I'll hang out with Brody and Kai while you look for a couple girls."

Ms. Miari nodded, and then began to think.


Later outside, Brody was just sitting around looking at his three Pokemon cards when young Kai walked up.

"Hey Brody," Kai waved.

"Hi Kai," Brody waved back.

"How're you doing?"

"Good. So… what do you think of the new student teacher?"

"He's cool… I think… but… something's odd about him, and I can't quite put my finger on it…" Kai answered.

"I saw him earlier today. He's nice, I guess. So… wanna battle?" Brody asked, taking out the gamepad for the Virtual U, that had a solo disk insert, and then he put in his copy of Pokemon Advanced U.

"Sure," Kai nodded, also pulling out a Virtual U gamepad and inserted his copy of Pokemon Advanced U in it.

The virtual arena began to form around the two, and they were ready to play. "Okay… Spark, let's go!"

"PIKA!" Brody's Pikachu cried out, taking the stage.

"Rage, let's go!" Kai called, sending out a small green reptile standing on it's hind legs with red eyes and two tusk-like protrusions from it's mouth.

"Axew!" the little dragon-ish Pokemon called out.

"Okay, Spark use Thunderbolt!" Brody ordered as his Pikachu screamed before sending an electric bolt at Rage.

"Rage use Dragon Claw!" Kai shouted as his Pokemon charged as its claw glowed with a bright energy before attacking Spark, however the physical attack caused Rage to get paralyzed due to Spark's static ability.

Little did the two know, Akira was watching this battle from nearby while the other students played other games outside or messed with their phones and mobile devices.

"They're good," Akira admitted.

"Rage use Quick Attack!" Kai responded, but as the Axew was about to move, its body sparked, meaning it couldn't move with its paralysis.

"Alright Spark use Thunderbolt!" Brody shouted again, Spark using the same attack as before on Rage, damaging the dragon further.

"Rage use Dragon Rage!"

With that, Axew struggled through it's paralysis, and somehow plowed through at Spark with a bright cyan aura around it before attacking Spark. "Alrighty… Spark use Disarming Voice!"

"Oh crud," Kai gasped as Rage gulped, the former covering his ears before Spark screeched so loud and in such a high pitch, it seriously damaged the Axew to the point of knocking him out.

"Good job anyway Rage… alright Luna, let's go!" Kai shouted as he called out a small white humanoid-ish Pokemon with a green head that covered its eyes and had two red horn-like protrusions on the front and back of it's head.

"Okay… Spark use Thunderbolt!" Brody responded as Spark used the same attack he used three times in a row, but this time the attack somehow missed.

"Seriously, Brody? With all the moves you could have him use, you use the same move three times in a row?" Kai gawked.

"Oh shut it," Brody groaned.

"Okay Luna, use Psychic!" Kai responded as Luna sent a glowing wave of a psychic energy at Spark, causing a critical hit and it knocked Spark to 1 HP, and it was clear to tell.

"Crud… Spark return!" Brody responded as he held out a virtual Pokeball and Spark was called back into it. "Okay Grass, you're up!"

With that, Brody threw another PokeBall, which popped open with a sort of white energy before it took the shape of the Turtwig Brody had.

"Alrighty… use Shadow Ball Luna!" Kai responded as the little Pokemon, known as Ralts, created an orb of shadow energy in front of it before blasting the attack at Brody's Turtwig.

"Grass use Energy Ball!"

With that, the Turtwig fired a bright green energy orb from his mouth, the attack hitting Luna. "Okay Grass use Razor Leaf!"

With that, Grass summoned up some leaves before they flew at Luna, slashing at her with how sharp the leaves themselves were.

"Luna hang in there!" Kai exclaimed, as Luna was down to her last hit point. "Okay use Sunny Day!" Kai called before Luna spread her arms, and all the clouds evaporated as the sun glowed brighter than before.

"Okay, Grass use Absorb!" Brody called out as Grass focused and absorbed some of Luna's health, and this knocked Luna out. "Alright… Bud, let's go!"

With that, Kai managed to call out a small four-legged Pokemon with a ring of green studs around its neck, brown eyes, and a huge leaf poking out the top of its head.

"Okay Bud, use Solar Beam!" Kai called out as the Pokemon known as a Chikorita had a bright yellow orb of energy form in its mouth, and with the sun as bright as it was, the charge happened faster than usual, allowing Bud to fire the blast in one turn instead of waiting one turn and firing the next, despite also being the same type, this was able to knock Grass out.

"Grass, come back!" Brody called, calling back his Turtwig. "Guess I have no choice… Hydro let's go!"

And so, Brody's Froakie was called to the field. "Right… Hydro use Ice Beam!"

With that, the little Froakie blasted a freezing beam of energy at Kai's Chikorita. This was rather strong as it knocked the HP of Kai's Chikorita down to 2.


"Excuse me," Akira's voice said.

"Huh?" the two students gawked, turning to see Akira, heck, even the Chikorita and Froakie responded and looked at Akira as he approached them.

"Hi…" Brody said.

"Oh hello," Kai replied.

"I see you two like Pokemon," Akira noted as he reached into his bag and seemed to search for something, the two kids thinking he was gonna pull out a book or something like that. Instead it was Virtual U's pad, in a special design with a sticker on the back with the Torchic evolution line.

"Wow… I never expected a teacher to be into Pokemon, whenever we try to talk to them about it they're response is always 'Keep your kiddie stuff to you and your friends'. Or something like that," Brody sighed.

"Hey, first off, I'm technically a student teacher, meaning I'm still learning to be a teacher. Second, you're just stereotyping. We teachers may be strict, but you're talking the older generations; I'm still young enough to get into what you guys like," Akira chuckled before pulling out three Pokemon Virtual Cards of his own along with his copy of Pokemon Advanced U.

Then he put them in, and the Pokemon began to materialize. The first of these was a small orange chick with some yellow feathers for wings, on top it's head, and also having a tanish beak and talons. Then he summoned a green and yellow snake on legs with arms and a leaf for a tail tip, and brown eyes. The third was a cyan bipedal crocodile with a yellow V on its chest and red spines on it's back.

"Cool…" Kai admitted.

"So uh… can you let us continue our match?" Brody added.

"Yea, my Pokemon and I are just gonna watch," Akira replied as he sat on a bench with his three Pokemon jumped up on top of it to watch with him.

"Okay Bud use Razor Leaf!" Kai shouted as his Chikorita summoned up another set of razor sharp leaves that dealt super effective damage onto Brody's Froakie.

"Hydro… use Water Pulse!" Brody shouted, as Hydro did so, and it was able to knock Bud out!

"What?! HOW?! Water type moves aren't that effective against Grass types!" Kai gawked.

"Guess I got lucky," Brody smiled as Hydro jumped into his arms and they hugged, and then much to everyone elses shock… Brody began to smile.

"Is he… smiling?" Kai gawked.

"You mean he doesn't do that often?" Akira asked.

"Not really…" Kai added, as they let the virtual field disappear, and then they noticed a girl walk over.

This girl seemed to have that vibe of a tomboy with her wild black hair, showing off her green eyes. Her attire consisted of a simple white t-shirt with yellow sleeves, a red PokeBall design, red jeans, and red and white sneakers.

"Oh… hi Akiko…" Brody sighed.

"Fellow classmate of yours?" Akira asked.

"Yep…"

"How come I didn't see her in the classroom earlier?" he asked checking his schedule. "Oh… that's why… I don't have her in my class."

"Hi Akiko-chan," Kai said with a tiny blush.

"What's with you? Playing too hard?" Akiko asked.

"What do you mean?" Kai asked.

"You're all red and sweaty," she answered. Kai chuckled and then moved back a bit. "So… how do you two know each-other?" Akira asked.

"We met in a Pokemon Advanced Tourney a year ago… and I lost…" Brody sighed.

"To yours truly. You really stink at competitive gaming," Akiko responded. "I mean, you're just a casual gamer, right?"

"Pokemon means more to me than any of you will ever understand." Brody replied, getting a little angry.

"Whoa! Chill down, Brody," Akira responded.

"Whatever… Ms. Mirai sent me over here," Akiko groaned.

"She did?" Akira gawked.

"Is she on another attempt to get me friends?" Brody groaned.

"What're you talking about?" Akira asked.

"She's tried this trick more times than I can count! And well… it's never worked." Brody said annoyed before walking off, confusing Kai while Akira groaned.

"News flash Missy, if Ms. Mirai sent you, don't just flat out SAY so with Brody there!" Akira responded.

"Well… sorry!" Akiko replied.

Akira just groaned and shut his Virtual U pad off after remembering he left it on. "So… Ms. Mirai has tried this in the past?" Akira asked Kai.

"Unfortunately she has," Kai nodded.

"How many times?" Akira added.

"I was roughly the… 70th… 75th try."

"Wow… that's sad… Why won't Brody accept having any friends?" Akira asked.

"Dunno… he's never said why," Kai replied.

"...I see… Poor guy," Akira sighed.


Sometime later, Brody was by himself and hanging out with his Pokemon via his Virtual Cards, which made the Pokemon appear in a holographic form of sorts. He pet the three and giggled, as he smiled at them. As he was hanging with them, five students were walking nearby, but one of them caught his eye. It was a young girl with brown hair with a violet highlight, blue eyes, and a strange outfit for a schoolgirl. It looked like a mostly leather suit that was black with violet lines all over, and a few patches of yellow on her right shoulder and left leg, and she also wore boot with two violet lines on the sides, too.

"Wow…" Brody muttered… and almost blushing just seeing her.

"Oh hi," the girl smiled and waved.

"No, Yoko. You should know better than to talk to commoner students," one of the students she was walking with replied.

The girl who waved, Yoko, sighed and then walked off.

"Froakie?" Hydro spoke up to Brody before noticing his blush and nudged the young boy.

"Hydro!" Brody exclaimed.

Brody then sighed as he saw it was time to head for home, as he picked up his bag and the Virtual Cards he made his way back to the orphanage where he lived at.

"Well… here I am…" he sighed.

"Ms. Cinnamon, I'm back…" Brody said as he walked in.

"Welcome back, Brody. How was school?" the owner of the orphanage responded.

"It was okay… my teacher tried to push friends on me… again," he sighed.

"I know you're not comfortable with making friends, but can't you try and make friends beyond your game creatures?" she asked.

"...I guess," Brody sighed.

"Look, you can play your kiddie games all you want, but if you don't have real friends, it's not gonna amount to anything," Ms. Cinnamon sighed in response.

Brody gave an annoyed groan as he simply went into his room to think a bit.


Pikatwig: Well this was quite a start, wasn't it?

KKD: I'll say.

Pikatwig: Brody is a rather interesting character, isn't he?

KKD: Yea, but I'm confused why he's persistent on not having any human friends.

Pikatwig: We'll see. Anyway, do you think this story will be good?

KKD: Yea, I think it could be a cool story.

Pikatwig: Anything else you wanna mention?

KKD: ...Not sure… nope, I got nothing.

Pikatwig: Well then, ending time. Just Live More.

KKD: Jaa ne.