The First Pokeman.
Author's Note - Pokemen are Pokemon turned into men, not the other way around.
A Caterpie hatched from an egg in a forest.
But it didn't even know what forest it lived in.
It lived in constant fear of the Spearows and Pidgeys attacking.
It had seen multiple times how its brethren was mercilessly torn apart for breakfast, lunch and supper.
If the Caterpie had ever heard of the food chain, it would have known that this was a natural process.
But alas, the simple but clever Caterpie never heard of something like the food chain.
So it continued to live on, hiding in the dark shade of the leaves and munching on berries.
One day, it became so skillful at hiding from the predators that it stopped worrying about being eaten.
Until...One day, a mysterious (not really) bird showed up in the forest. It was nothing like the Caterpie had ever seen before.
"Talon! Talon! FlamE! FlamE!" The bird shouted. The Caterpie used String Shots to cover itself with green leaves, disguising itself on a high branch according to the environment.
The Caterpie was a simple Bug Pokemon so it couldn't really "battle". It didn't have much of bravery, this particular one. It had already been used to living by instincts, not by brute force. If only the Caterpie were strongerr!
Because the new bird was not weak, oh no. It immediately detected the Caterpie. Well, the bird thought that it detected its breakfast, but that's just the details.
"TA! TA! LON! FL-" A huge beam of fire was projected onto the Caterpie.
"CA-CA-CA-CA-CA-CATTTTTTEEERRP-" The burning Caterpie squealed and rolled over until it painfully fell from the branch right onto the ground, still feeling how the fire went under its chitinous carapace.
"TA! TA! TA!" The bird shouted as it swooped in and pecked the half-burnt Caterpie with a powerful Peck.
"CACACACACACACACA" The Caterpie let out its last squeals as the bird penetrated its carapace with its sharp beak, biting out the Caterpie's bleeding flesh until it lost consciousness in agony.
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"Doctor Siemens, we're losing her!"
"Hand over the defibrillator, FAST!"
"Got it! Here it is!"
"OK...CHARGE!OK...CHARGE!"
"...Doctor...There's no response...The pulse is gone."
"... ... ... We've done everything we could. T-turn of the m-machine-"
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Beep...Beep...Beep...
"DOC! The pulse is back...It must be some miracle!"
"I-I can't believe it, Johnson! I-it's as if...She's alive!"
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"?" Was the first thing it thought...
...When it opened his eyes, it saw...A white ceiling? A...what? A ceiling? How did it even know that thing's called a ceiling? And why was it lying in such a strange position with its eyes directed upwards?
Was that...just a bad dream? The last thing it remembered...was being eaten by a Pokemon...
"Cater." It said. It tried to crawl...But it couldn't move its limbs. In fact, it couldn't move it's head either...Its body was still agonizing in pain...As if all its bones were broken...Wait a sec, Caterpies don't have bones! It felt however, how its body became much much heavier...And its eyesight was...much worse, instead of hundreds of images composing one mosaic of vision, now it had only two points of view. Ouch! The eyes were hurtful to look through. Also...It felt something... boiling hot liquid running through its body...It felt how it was about to melt...This was living hell to it. At the same time, the chitinous carapace was gone, and it's new skin...was a skin? It felt awfully unstable and fragile. Why was it covered in dirty water? Why was the water coming OUT of the Caterpie's body? Why was it breathing so...heavily?
The Caterie observed its surroundings...When it adjusted to its new eyes. A...? with a lot of ? and ?. There were a lot of things that seemed familiar but it didn't know the right word-images for them..."Words?" The Caterpie thought. "?"
The Caterpie looked with its eyes - its only movable body parts at the moment - at the mirror...it saw a human body with all of its limbs - hands, arms, legs and neck in bloody bandages...Not to mention weird machines and liquids connected to the body...
This was a clever Caterpie so after 10 hours of staring at the mirror, then sleeping, then staring at the mirror, then sleeping, then staring at the mirror it realized that now it was a human. A very heavily wounded human.