Issue One: Dawn of a Society
The air whisked around max's face as he road with his father on top of a Swellow Max borrowed from Professor Birch. Norman seemed very distraught as he got air sick very fast but traveling from Pettleburg to the Mossdeep area was a long distance and Max was excited to start his journey as a trainer. Professor Birch wondered why Max didn't want to start his adventure with Treeko, Mudkip, or Torchic. But Max made a promise to himself a protective Gardevoir and the Ralts he wanted to make his own that he would become it's trainer and use it to earn his eight badges and become a pokemon master.
"Son! Can't we take a small break!?" Norman said as the Swellow flew at even a faster pace. "Please!"
"Dad we are going to be there in five minutes." Max screamed in order for his father to hear him through the wind.
"Well my stomach might be a few hours late." Norman said as he clenched his stomach.
As what seemed to Norman a life time was over in an instant as Swellow dropped the father and son to the ground. Max rubbed the bird's head as his father rushed to the side of the road holding his stomach. Max giggled a bit making sure his father was out of earshot.
"I heard that!" Norman said as he got his equilibrium back. "I have ears everywhere."
"Sorry Dad. I think I'm close to where I met Ralts before!" Max said as he ran out into the fields looking around for his lost friend when in the distance he saw smoke rise in the distance. "Dad look! What do you think is going on?"
"I don't know son as much as I hate to say this I think we should use Swellow to fly over there and see what's wrong. Swellow will you fly us over there?" Norman said as the bird Pokemon picked them up and flew them over to the disaster.
As they flew down they saw Max's Ralts defend a fallen Gardevoir and Kirlia against a Tyranitar using a series of light screens to protect from what seemed to be a psychic attack. The Tyranitar seemed unique it's coloring seemed a bit lighter than usual and the psychic attack it was using was not a move normal used by a Tyranitar.
"Ralts!" Max shouted as the Ralts looked at him and with a small smile of relief Ralts and Max knew that they had found each other again.
"Ok Max this is your trial by fire! You use Swellow and lets get that Tyranitar away from them! Slaking I choose you!" Norman said as he let the sloth pokemon from it's pokeball.
"All right Swellow use steel wing now!" Max said pointing at the intruding Tyranitar.
"SWELLOW!" It cried as a mysterious metal like aura surrounded it's wings and it hit the rock type pokemon which should have caused major damage because of Tyranitar's weakness to steel type moves.
"What's wrong that should have done some serious damage!" Norman asked when Max noticed something wrong with the Tyranitar as for a split second it seemed to flicker as if a surge of energy passed through it.
"That's not a real pokemon Dad... It's called a mirage pokemon only one man has ever used them Dr. Yung!" Max said as a masked man appeared from a near by bush.
"Very acute young prodigy. But I prefer Mirage Master!" Yung said as he pushed aside his long cape. "Tyranitar use thunder!"
Tyranitar unleashed a massive shockwave on Swellow. This attack devastated the poor bird but miraculously it withstood the attack. As Norman was about to send Slaking to defend the Swellow, a Swampert jumped in and used protect as Tyranitar unleashed another beam.
"That's not very nice doctor maybe we should get your license revoked." A trainer dressed in red with a bandana said as he joined the father and son.
"Do I know you?" Norman asked the newcomer.
"Well I got a gym badge from you once the names Brendan who's the geek in the mask?"
"Foolish child you should not interfere in the way of progress!" Mirage Master said in a fit of rage. "Tyranitar use solarbeam!"
"Swampert won't be able to stand that attack we have to stop it! Wait dad doesn't your Blissey know skill swap?" Max said with a snap.
"Yes of course! It's your turn Blissey! Use skill swap with Slaking and Tyranitar!" Norman said as Blissey covered Slaking and Tyranitar in a strange light.
"Tyranitar why are you loafing about you are data! Data is not supposed to be like this!" Yung said as the electronic in nature Tyranitar fell on it's butt in laziness.
"Dad I'll have Swellow give some cover. Brendan help my dad keep Tyranitar busy."
"Ok Mr. bossy! Swampert use hammer arm."Brendan said as Swampert's arm close pinned Tyranitar.
"It looks like that skill swap gave Tyranitar it's weakness back! Swellow use steel wing again!" Max said this time with Swellow causing more damage.
"Tyranitar use Hyperbeam!" Yung said as Tyranitar unleashed a powerful beam that caused poor Swellow to faint and Swampert and Slaking not far behind it.
"Even with it still having weakness that Tyranitar is way strong, Swellow return!" Max said as the borrowed pokemon was beamed back into it's pokeball.
"Maybe you need a woman's touch!" A girl said with red pigtails as she unleashed Leafeon. "Leafeon I choose you!"
"We sure could use your help! Max I think you should ask Ralts to take you and the weakened pokemon to the nearest pokecenter via teleport." Norman said as his son Ralts and it's elder evolutions teleported out of sight.
"Leafeon use razor leaf!"
"Swampert use muddy water!"
"Slaking use focus punch!"
With the power of the three Tyranitar fuzzed even more and the data itself looked fallen. "Well at least I got the data I needed on the Gardevoir's and it's previous evolutions, good day gentlemen and you to gentle lady." And with that the Mirage Master vanished and a rocket took it's place that beamed the Tyranitar data into it and took off.
"That was cool." Brendan said as the others looked at him with disillusionment.
"Do you think they will be all right Joy." The pigtailed girl asked the pokecenter nurse.
"Gardevoir and Kirlia are in worse shape than the others but with rest they will be all right they just need some time as for all your trainer's pokemon they should be ready by night fall." the nurse said as she sprayed Gardevoir with some medicine for wounds appearing on it's arm.
"Gardevoir how are you feeling?" Max said as he brushed it's cheek in which it reacted to a small tap on max's fingers.
Then a burst of psychic energy unleashed from Gardevoir's eyes as Max saw his father chase one of his pokeballs as it buzzed through the air and as it got close to max it released Blissey. As the happiness pokemon came out the same light it had used during skill swap was now both in Ralts' and Blissey's eyes.
"I think Gardevoir just taught Ralts skill swap!" Max said as he rubbed the top of Ralts head, with that Gardevoir nodded it's head giving Max the ok to begin his pokemon journey with Ralts.
"Well I guess it's time I head back to the streets guys I'm just a rolling stone being here too long is cramping my style." Brendan said as he collected Swampert's pokeball.
"Hey aren't you even interested in learning my name!?" The pigtailed girl asked getting in Brendan's way.
"Well golly maybe we should have one of those meetings 'my name is Brendan and I'm allergic to milk!'" Brendan said feigning tears.
"Well how about instead of acting like a jerk we all stand together and face this Dr. Yung!" The girl becoming as red as her hair.
"Look, Dr. Yung, I don't think is up to full strength. When I last encountered him he had created a mirage Mewtwo that evan the strongest pokemon couldn't defeat the only thing that changed the course for me and my friends was a glitch in his system a mirage Mew." Max said as he orchestrated the past tale.
"So this mirage Mew took on Mirage Mewtwo and defeated Yung so what is he up to now?" The pigtailed girl asked.
"I think he used psychic to collect actual psychological data, the essence of the pokemon themselves and copy that data and improve it." Max continued. "But all the old data he had was lost in a fire and we all thought he was lost in it."
"Well when it comes to psychic powers I know the number one person who can help! My brother Matty! And by the way my name is Cynthia you big jerk! " Cynthia said sticking her tongue out at Brendan.
"Max I think it's time to collect Ralts and in the morning we will visit Cynthia's brother." Norman said with a yawn.
"Ok Ralts are you ready." Max said as he held the pokeball out to ralts who gracefully reached out and pressed the small mechanism on the pokeball that released a crimson glow and that glow swept ralts into it.
Gardevoir nodded it's head giving a feeling of complete approval and confidence that Max and Ralts will succeed. "Thank you Gardevoir."