Pokémon Red: A New Adventure!
A man of average height, with grey hair and dressed in a white lab coat over brown pants winked onto the screen. The man said:
"Hello there! Welcome to the world of Pokémon! My name is Oak! People call me the Pokémon Prof!" The professor was replaced by a strange looking creature. It was purple, with large ears and a horn above its nose. It stood on four feet, snarling. A ridge of spikes went down its back.
"This world is inhabited by creatures called Pokémon!" the professor said off-screen. For some people, Pokémon are pets. Others use them for fights. Myself…I study Pokémon as a profession." The strange creature was replaced once again, this time by a shadowy silhouette.
"First, what is your name?"
"Green!" shouted the little girl at the screen. She wore a blue-green sleeveless top over a red skirt. Her feet were bare. On her head was a white broad-brimmed hat with a red band that covered her light brown hair. She was five years old, the youngest of the three children gathered around the T.V. set. "You know that Grandpa!"
"He can't hear you, G," the boy behind her said, yawning. He was the oldest of the three, dressed in a long blue shirt and jeans. His spiky hair was the same colour as his sister's. The boy lounged on the couch, eating a bag of kenpi.
"I know that, Blue!" Green said, turning around and stomping her foot. "I was just pretending!" Blue grinned at his sister and tossed a piece of kenpi at her. Green swiped it out of the air and ate the offending item.
"Leave her alone, Blue," the third child said. He was of an age between the two siblings, and their closest friend. The child wore a red and white trucker's hat, a black tank top and blue jeans. His hair was jet black.
"Aw, c'mon Red," Blue said stretching. "If you can't pick on your sister, who can you pick on?"
"Just leave her alone," Red said. "I want to watch."
"We've seen this before!" Blue pointed out, gesturing at the screen. "Every time we come over, we see Grandpa's speech! Don't you know it off by heart by now?"
"Shut up, Blue!" Green shouted. "If Red wants to watch Grandpa, we're going to watch Grandpa!"
Blue was saved from having to answer by a voice from the kitchen:
"Kids! Lunch!"
Hanako Satou stood in the kitchen of her small Pallet Town home and washed the dishes. Hanako wore a white apron over a purple shirt and skirt. Her hair was as black as her son's. She was young for a mother, but a lot of girls her generation were. Single mothers, too, most them. The war had wiped out most of Kanto's young men, and Hanako's husband Satoshi had been no exception. It had been hard raising their young child alone, though she had the help of the Oak's next door. In many ways, she knew, she was lucky. The Oak's had lost both parents, leaving Hiroshi and Rei to be raised by the professor and their oldest sister, Daisy. Together the two families had banded together to raise their children. Something Hanako was deeply grateful for.
She turned around to see Satoshi sitting at the table, kicking his feet as he drew something. She smiled at her son, but resisted the urge to go ruffle his hair.
"What are you working on, Satoshi?" she called out instead.
"It's 'Red,' Mom," he said, scowling.
"Okay," Hanako said, smiling wider. "What are you working on, Red?"
"I'm drawing a Pokémon," Red said. "Come here and look!"
Hanako put the dish she was scrubbing down and walked over to the table. Red held up his art. It was the strangest Pokémon she had ever seen: it was white with a purple stripe on its belly that stretched out to become a tail. The creature had a cat's head with a tube coming out of it and stood on two legs. It's heavy arms ended in claws.
"Wha-what kind of Pokémon is that?" Hanako asked.
"I don't know," Red said cheerfully. "I just keep seeing it in my dreams, so I drew it. What do you think?"
END PROLOGUE
Author's Note:
Dun dun dun! Why would young Red be dreaming of the most powerful Pokémon in the world?
This is my adaptation of the Pokémon video games. With a little bit of the anime thrown in when the game canon is missing something (like Red's mom's name. Irritatingly, the anime doesn't give Red's family a surname, unless you count 'Ketchum' which I don't for the purposes of this fanfic), but not the manga. Haven't read them, don't have access to them, so don't ask. So, quick recap:
Satoshi=Red. He changed his name for reasons that will be made clear in later installments.
Hiroshi=Blue. Yes, I'm using the NA translation. I live in North America, not Japan. At any rate, Hiroshi was one of the optional names you could pick for Blue in the games and because I can't seriously imagine somebody naming their kid 'Blue', Hiroshi is Blue's real name. He picked up the nickname Blue because Red called himself Red and Blue decided he needed a cool nickname, too.
Rei=Green. Green is based heavily on Leaf, the fem. protag. from FireRed/LeafGreen, with a couple of differences. Here she's Blue's sister, not Red's stand-in, and she's not the protagonist. Also because Leaf doesn't technically exist in Pokémon, I felt justified in giving her her own name.
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