Pokémon: The Fall of Masters
Chapter 1
Long have trainers and their Pokémon fought side by side to gain honor and find their place in the world together. To become the best, they have depended upon teamwork and power. As power grew among the top trainers, so did the desire to keep it.
The strongest trainers drove their Pokémon to be stronger still; to win always. These teams surpassed the abilities of all gym leaders and even the Elite. Any who challenged them and their training techniques were soon defeated, and the only hope of overcoming such opponents was to become more dangerous, more adamant, and more corrupt.
Ages passed by, and cruelty grew. Friendly competitions were replaced with vicious battles often resulting in death. Governments were overthrown by hostile trainers and their Pokémon. Compassionate people were killed or imprisoned. Even the friendship bond between Pokémon and their masters was severed. A Pokémon captured was doomed to obey its trainer's commands, no matter the consequences. To battle, until the day it died.
"Spearow! Spearow!" called the flock of wild Spearows as they scattered from the tall grass. A great Venusaur's ears perked, and she looked in the direction of the tiny birds. Only one thing scared Pokémon in that way: humans.
The Venusaur shuffled further into the tall grass. She soon located two little Bulbasaurs. "Nus…" she called to them.
"Bulba, Bulba!" the Bulbasaurs replied and approached the Venusaur they recognized as their mother.
"Venu, Venusaur," Venusaur warned her children. "Saurrr…" she groaned in despair.
"Saur?" the Bulbasaurs asked. They both trembled and stepped closer to their mother.
"SAAAAUUUURRRRR!" She bellowed and shoved them away with her muzzle.
The Bulbasaurs obeyed and ran toward the forest. Tears fell from Venusaur's eyes, and she ran in the opposite direction of her children. "SAAAAUUUURRRR!" she called again as she kept running.
Suddenly, two humans covered in dark clothing leapt into view. "Scyther! Attack!" one human summoned its Pokémon from a ball.
"Scy-ther!" called the mantis Pokémon as it emerged from its prison. It slashed through Venusaur's dorsal flower.
"Ve!" Venusaur grunted and ensnared the Scyther in several vines. The Scyther began viciously cutting to free itself.
"Go Skarmory!" the second human commanded. A great armored bird pokemon appeared and sliced Venusaur in the back of the neck with its wings.
"Nusaur!" Venusaur roared. She shoved and struggled to escape the attacks of her enemies. After several minutes, one of the humans threw a terrible red and white orb at Venusaur. The world around her began to grow dim. The last she heard before falling into a void was. "Look! Over there!"
Venusaur's son and daughter heard her attacking the humans. They dared not follow her to help. They couldn't. She had given them this chance to escape, and it was all they could do. They entered the forest and found themselves on a small cliff. Male Bulbasaur began searching for a way down safely. He stepped onto the ledge, and the ground broke beneath him.
"Ba!" Female Bulbasaur called to her brother.
"Sau! Bulbasaur!" Male Bulbasaur called to let his sister know he was unhurt.
Female Bulbasaur got ready to follow her brother's example down the cliff. She jerked her head up at a sudden sound. She turned and saw the humans!
"There!" one of them barked.
Male Bulbasaur hid in some nearby bushes and looked up to make sure his sister followed. Upon the cliff, he saw the humans surround his sister. He began to return, but his sister saw him and shook her head. "SAAAAUUUURRRR!" she called like a miniature version of their mother. Then she was struck with a red and white orb and began fading from sight. A click sounded from the orb signaling that Bulbasaur's sister was a prisoner. One of the human's picked up the orb and tossed it before attaching it to a belt. Then the two humans left the forest, not realizing there was a second Bulbasaur hiding.
Bulbasaur waited until the humans could not be seen or heard, then he ran from the bushes and further into the forest. When he was tired from running, and was sure that he was alone, he sat down and lifted his head to the sky. "SAU!" he grieved for his dear sister. His family was as good as dead now. They were gone, and there was nothing he could do to save them.