Normal Talking

Thoughts/Pokespeak

*Telepathy*

Some days things just seem to not go your way, I've always just shrugged it off and try to keep a clear head. Sometimes it seens life is just trying to troll me, which is what I thought as I advanced caustically through the maze of timber, why would that stress me out? C'mon, who wouldn't want to be stuck in the middle of nowhere and Arceus knows where you are?

My Scyther named Jade hacked branches which jutted out of trees to clear a safe path. My Cubone Artemis, my oldest friend and my first Pokémon, trotted beside me.

To the other side Mewtwo, the genetic psychic Pokémon demigod, who I didn't give a name to because he wanted to keep his normal species name.

Leading the way was Yami the Sableye because he has flashlight-eyes. He had an unusual crooked jaw and bent spike. If you looked close enough, you'd notice a fractured, blind eye, all a result of a cave-in.

Just behind me was my apprentice Block, a Riolu. I was trained by Pokémon to learn combat skills, so I became part of their society. Part of the gang to become a full fighter is you have to train an apprentice. I can understand Pokémon speech, which is why they let me join- or should I say most of them.

Bringing up the rear of the group was all Pokémon with kids. Some were cradled in my arms. My Altaria, Aquila, had her two Swablu, Tyl and Sora, nestled in her cotton. Sparky, my Raichu had her tail wrapped boldly around three Pichu, Vega, Vivace, and Volty, and a Cleffa named Aria. My Mightyena, Gura, carried one of her pups named Fiffy. I carried the other three, two Poochyena, Nana and Magna, and a Shinx who goes by Lixy. Bua, my Floatzel had her two tails wrapped around a Buizel each, I carried the other. Butch and Baden were with their mother, while Coro was in my arms with Nana, Magna, and Lixy. The only male carrying something was Asu, a Garchomp, his mate is a Sharpedo, and so she obviously can't carry Volans (Carvanah) through the terrain. Lastly was Vula, my Zoroark carrying her Zoroa, Zach. I was also carrying an orphaned Snivy named Ceres.

"Why can't we walk?" I heard Nana complain "Fiffy's walking".

"Because you couldn't keep up" I answered coldly "Also, Fiffy is also being carried".

Magna grunted "Then why can't we just fly on Vulcan".

Vulcan is my epic Charazard, my second Pokémon next to Artemis being the first. "We have no idea where we are and Charazard could be a rare species.

Butch retorted "But we could still do it"

Baden agreed "Yeah, who cares about people-"

"No more questions!" I growled. I swear those are the most annoying young ever.

"We should make camp for the night before you kill 'em" Artemis suggested with her usual southern accent.

I sighed "You're right, let's find a clearing to set up camp".

It took us about ten minutes to find a place good enough to set up shelter. "Go! Vulcan! The battle-scarred, bright-flamed Charazard emerged from his Pokeball giving a loud cry upon release "Kindly be our fire and don't move at all, or else".

Vulcan smirked and lied down in a relaxed position. One by one my Pokémon surrounded the fire. "Hey, what's that" Yami asked causing the hard silence to break.

I looked up; something gray was just peaking over the treetops. "Jade" I commanded"fly up and see if you can spot anything".

Jade nodded and leaped up above the treetops. Her wings beat swiftly and her gaze drifted across the trees. She flew down to a tall tree and hopped down branch by branch "There's smoke to the east" she reported.

I saw some of the queens gather their kids together. "Alright, Block, Jade, stay here and protect the queens" I ordered "The rest of you are with me". I saw Block look a little disappointed. "It's probably just a fire, nothing overly exiting" I assured him.

I jumped on Vulcan followed by Yami "Are you sure I can do this?" he asked.

I petted him "Of course, you're a skilled fighter" I assured him "And It's just a fire".

Mewtwo levitated just above me *"or so you hope"*.

I gave him a long look before commanding Vulcan to fly, that dude is creepy. The smoke wafted through the night sky, barely visible. "Vulcan, the smoke is-"

"I can see it" He grunted "I'm not blind".

He flew at a steady pace to allow Mewtwo to keep up. Charazard stopped dead at the sight of huge robot-like creature with flames coming out of its skull-like head. "Okay that is not a fire".

"What are we going to do?" Yami asked with a sliver of fear.

"Tyne" At sent out a Mantine "Get Block and bring him to me".

Tyne nodded "I'll go fastly"

I face-palmed "it's quickly", but Tyne was already flying off "Five years and still has bad grammar" I muttered under my breath.

I saw Artemis next to me looking shocked "What the hell"

"What is it?" I asked.

Artemis pointed to two flying objects, humans. "Am ah goin' insane?" She asked herself.

I looked closer; one was a young girl in a white shirt. She bared a red cape and had blonde hair. There was an insignia on her shirt I didn't recognize. The other was a man in a white bodysuit. "I think we all are going insane" I commented I looked at Artemis "Well, more than normal".

The girl flew up to the robot and said something I couldn't make out. The robot aimed a canon incorporated into its arm and charged an energy beam. The girl dodged it and the other blasts that followed. The man flew up, only then did I realize he was carrying rods. He flew up to a hole in the robot's chest and looked like he was about to shove them in, but the robot sent him hurtling to the ground in flames. The robot shot another energy beam, yet he still lived. "How do you survive that?" I asked myself. There was apparently a cut in his suite which glowed and sparked up. He flew upwards and exploded. "Never mind what I just said".

"Pretty colors" Artemis said jokingly. I gave her a whack on the skull.

Block and Tyne returned "What was that" Block gasped.

"You just missed it, there were flying humans" Yami said excitedly.

"What!" Tyne shouted is disbelief.

"See for you" I pointed at the girl who picked up one of the rods and flew towards the robot, but was knocked away.

"Fail" Block commented.

*"That's it, we can't just stand here and do nothing"* Mewtwo growled and flew face to face with the robot. His arms glowed and he shot a psycho cut directly onto the robots skull. Smoke consumed the area.

"That looked too easy" I whispered.

As soon as the smoke cleared up it revealed Mewtwo being crushed in the robot's hand. "Mewtwo!" Vulcan shouted and shot forward I jerked back and held Yami and Artemis's arm. I threw a Pokeball towards the ground and summoned Kraken, my shiny Gyarados.

I landed on Kraken with Yami and Artemis behind. I hopped on Tyne "Bounce" I commanded and Tyne shot up. As we descended at an alarming speed and I commanded, "Hydro Pump". That combination did a high amount of damage as we collided with the robot. Tyne glided down. I looked up; the robot collapsed but got up again.

The robot shot and energy blast at Tyne, I moved her up with bounce and the energy hit the trees summoning fierce flames. "Kraken, Hydro Pump" Kraken shot a blast water calming the raging fire.

"That's not going to work" Vulcan sighed "It's hopeless".

I was about to retort, but I made out a dark shape coming out of the trees, Sparky. The Raichu shot a raged Thunder directly at the robot. She jumped up and repeatedly struck it with Iron tail, then ramming into it with Volt Tackle. I just stood there with my eyes wide. "Sparky!" I called out.

She turned around "Yes" she growled.

"What's going on?" I demanded.

"The fire scared Aria, I can't find her" She hissed sadly and shot another iron tail.

That was understandable, a mother being outraged that her young was missing "Aria, oh no". I signaled Vulcan over and flung myself onto him "Let's go".

I found the rest of my Pokémon were I left them. Asu was trying to keep the embers away. "Dodge, good thing you're here", Asu said "I can't control these fires forever.

"Get the young onto Vulcan, I'll look for Aria" Asu just stayed there for a moment, before nodding and hauling the young over. Lixy jumped onto Vulcan's back on her own. I smiled, she would begin training soon, and she has a legendary jumping ability being able to jump ten feet in the air.

I ran into the inferno and tried to block the flames. The fire burned my arms "Aria" I called out. I heard a frightened shriek "I'm coming".

I found her with her small pink body on a slightly burned in a tree. "Dodge" She shouted happily.

"Jump down" I called "I'll catch you". She trembled nervously before hauling herself over the branch. She landed in my arms with a screech of pain. The burns, they must hurt I looked down at Aria held gently in my arms. She's so young, I needs to get a Rawst Berry. I ran through the only free area. Metronome! I it'll be risky. "Aria, Metronome".

"But it hurts" she wailed. "I'll try" Her finger wagged painfully as her hands glowed she used transformed and transformed into Sparky, but quickly transformed back into her old form.

"Again"

She kept trying, Pin missile, reflect, Twineedle, pound, Mega Punch, finally vine whip, which led the flames crawling up the vine. She gave more shrieks of pain as they hit her vines. One more desperate attempt to stop the Inferno ended in Ice Beam, which stopped some of the embers. Taking that chance, I darted out.

I saw Vulcan flying above me "Vulcan" I signaled to him.

He flew down and nuzzled me "You're alive"

"I braved the lava pits of Reversal Mountain, I think I can handle a simple forest fire" I scratched his chin "And also the water pits of Reversal Mountain" I added.

An Absol appeared form the shadows, Nyx, my once partner. "I'll take the little one" he took Aria from my arms.

"Nyx showed me were you were" Vulcan explained.

"What are you doing here?" I asked as we moved away from the scorched trees.

"I followed you into Viridian Forest; I sensed a disaster I failed to recognize" He explained "Now I think understand it was some kind of rip between reality. Meaning we could possibly be in an alternate dimension"

I was training in Viridian Forest, the last thing I remember before I ended up here. "So we broke the fourth wall" I fist pumped "Yes, I've dreamt of this since-"

I was interrupted by Artemis ambushing me. "Dodge, you're alive".

I shoved him away from my face "do that again and I'm sending Kraken after you" coincidentally, Kraken was right behind me. He gave an amused roar.

Jade was the next to greet me "At least you're alive" she shrugged.

"Aria" Sparky wailed and wrapped her tail around Aria who dangled from Nyx's mouth.

"Oh, right" I sent out two Pokéballs "Venus, Apollo". A Gardivor and Ralts came out of their Pokéballs. Venus was right to work on Aria. "Who else is hurt"? I asked, secretly hoping it was one of the Poochyena.

Kraken set down Tyne who was on his tail "Tyne got blasted by energy blast" he explained.

I nodded "Apollo, you handle Tyne".

"*But what if I can't*" Apollo looked down "*I'm still not very good"

"Just do it" I grabbed him "And don't fail" I shook him.

He shot me with Psybeam and walked casually over to Tyne.

Sparky was pacing back and forth "Sparky, Aria's fine, It's a minor burn".

"But she keeps moaning and she's in pain" she fretted.

"Hey, Artemis once got a third degree burn from fighting a Heatran", I said "Volcan bathes in lava and loves getting burns, and Neptune was smart enough to fall into a pit of lava"

"*Master*" I looked from Sparky and saw Mewtwo.

"Mewtwo, don't call me master or I will call you Demigod, call me Dodge" I corrected him "And what's up. Did Coro, Butch, and Baden wander off again?"

Mewtwo dipped his head "*Fine*" He grunted "*Some people want to talk to you*".

He flicked his tail towards the same girl I saw fighting, plus some guy wearing a green uniform with a bow and arrow.

"Who are you?" The male asked.

"My name's Dodge" I answered.

"What are those things" The girl asked pointing to Fiffy, Nana, and Magna play-fighting.

I replied calmly "They're Pokémon; I'm guessing you don't have them here".

They shook their heads, I sighed "Pokémon are basically creatures with special abilities" I pointed to Artemis "Artemis there can create Earthquakes" I pointed to Venus "Venus has healing techniques and psychic abilities" I pointed to Lixy who was trying to catch a slightly scorched leaf which was fluttering down. "Even Lixy can create lightning" She looked up and shocked the leaf as an example.

Apollo sweat dropped, Tyne was fully healed. Apollo's eyes widened he gave a wail and said dramatically, *"Dodge, something's happening to me"* he was engulfed in a milky white. His body shape changed, and then the white light ended, leaving a new Pokémon.

"You finally evolved" I exclaimed "Yes, after six months. You even did the dramatic act I told you to do".

*"Um… that wasn't-"*

"What just happened" the girl asked.

I explained, "Pokémon evolve once they reach a certain level. Since Apollo reached level twenty, he evolved".

"So it's basically transformation"

Apollo was doing a little dance, weird normal Kirlia behavior. "Please put him back into his Pokémon ball" Kraken pleaded.

"You know that's not going to help" I said "But whatever" I took out my Pokeball and returned Apollo. "You to, Venus" I returned her also.

"How do they fit into that?"

"The Pokeball automatically shrinks a Pokémon down; even a forty seven foot tall Wailord can fit into one" I explained "And no more questions, it's starting to get annoying".

"Well we better get going" the man said as they turned and walked away.

"Wait, can come with you" I asked. "I have no idea where I am, I don't even know what planet this is. I might not even be from this dimension. At least that's what Nyx says".

They excused themselves and discussed it. I returned the rest of my Pokémon, except Artemis, Mewtwo, and the queens and young. The sun was just peaking over the horizon; Ceres's tail glowed as it absorbed the little sunlight in synthesis to heal the small burns. I picked him up and pet him causing him to give a happy cry. I looked to a metallic skull remain of the robot; the Buizels were filling it with water. Coro ran over and grabbed Volans and placed him into the water.

"Okay, we've thought about it" The male said, I immediately prepared for the worst, a habit of mine. "You can come with us",

I smiled and followed them; we came to some kind of spaceship. "Were exactly are we going anyway" I asked at peak of curiosity.

"Watchtower, in space"

Just to clear a few things up, Dodge is a female. Since this is in first person I didn't mention it. Also before you say "Dodge has was to many Pokemon in her party" she actually technically doesn't. She has six Pokemon to Battle with the others don't really count. Venus and Apollo are only there for healing and don't battle, Block is not her Pokemon, The Queens need to be out to look after their kids, and Mewtwo is just a traveling partner, like Brock in the Anime. The only Pokemon she really has is Artemis, Vulcan, Tyne, Kraken, Yami, and Jade. Also, do not say that Dodge has a weird name, I know that already and it's going to be explained later.