Hey guys, shield here. This is a little something my brother wanted me to write. You should have seen him, he had this ten page outline of how the story would go. I made him condense it down for me. So here is the first chapter. I personally not to sure about this, but if it goes well I will be sure to post more. I will admit that I like the idea behind the story, and I think that this will go great with OMAA. This will go along with OMAA, and it will be sort of a back story for two new characters that will also appear in OMAA in the next chapter.
Chapter 1
The Last Will be First
Third person POV
Texas is a big place, home to almost thirty million people. It is the largest state in population in the Untied States. It is also home to probably the largest Pokémon freak in the entire U.S. Austin Lee, was no stranger to the franchise. He had been watching it since he was five years old. He practically worshiped the fictional creatures. Because of this he was often bullied by kids who had finally gotten over the series, but it didn't stop him from playing the games on his DS, or drawing the characters in his sketch book. Today was no exception. Austin ran up to his house and slammed the door open. He had just gotten Pokémon Alpha Sapphire for his fifteenth birthday, and it was taking all of his effort not to run up the stairs to his room. As he neared his door, he walked by his two older brothers. They were playing Call of Duty Zombies on their Xbox.
"Looks like the Pokéman is back from school already. I figured that he would." Devin, Austin's oldest brother yelled as he shot some zombies with Mustang and Sally.
"You know that Mom told you to stop calling him that." Jonah, the second oldest, replied as he chucked a couple of grenades on the ground. Devin payed no heed as he continued his banter.
"Hey Pokénerd, did you catch anymore electric rats or did you just cry when you found out that they don't exist.
"Devin stop before you make us lose. This is the highest round I have ever been on." Jonah repeated.
"Fine. Don't get too comfortable Dad wants us to visit him at the lab. Mom said she would be driving us over there in about ten minutes." Devin said as he returned to his game. Austin walked to his room. He thought about all of the people that had ever picked on him. Many of the bullies at his school had said things that had hurt his feelings, but the biggest bully of them all was his nineteen-year-old brother, Devin. He ragged on Austin ever chance he got about his hobby. Despite this, Austin couldn't help but still love his older brother.
Austin's POV
"Time to play some games." I said as I tried to find my DS. It didn't take long for me to find the black device. I popped my new game into the system and turned it on.
"Austin! Time to go! Devin and Jonah are already in the car!" My Mom called from down the stairs.
"Of course, just when I start to play." I muttered under my breath. "I'm coming!" I turned the DS off and ran down to the car.
"How many times have I told you not to run down the stairs like that?" Mom asked me as I reached the bottom step.
"Sorry. I'll try not to do it next time." I apologized. We then headed outside to the car.
Devin's POV
"Do I have to go to another one of Dad's stupid functions?" I asked as we pulled out of the driveway. "I'm nineteen-years-old. I can stay home by myself." I complained.
"You still live under my roof. You will do as I say." Mom replied.
"Fine, whatever. Please tell me that this won't be very long." I replied.
Pretty soon, we were on I-35 heading to the labs at the Space-Tec aerospace plant near Dallas. Since we were family, we had special privileges when visiting the plant. It really is a cool place to visit since they build planes for all sorts of things. My dad is a scientist in their research department. He never really showed us what he worked on for security reasons, but he did show us where he worked and how the planes were built. Apparently, today was the exception. Dad went out of his way to get us to see his new project. We silently pulled up to the security, and waited for him to pass us through. Since we were the family of one of the workers, we were quickly passed through. The one thing about Space-Tec, is that they take everything very seriously. They practically have their own military. Not to mention that there is a naval base not ten miles away. The fact is, there was a zero percent chance of this place ever being attacked or broken into. We pulled into the visitor's parking and got out. We had to be escorted to the labs which were built underneath the factory. We were led to an elevator. The doors opened and we all stepped in. One of the men in our escort placed a key into a lock and twisted it. The elevator doors closed and we descended into the research labs. When the doors finally opened, we were taken to our father's Lab. There were about fifteen people in the lab. I quickly picked out two of the scientist in the room. One was my father and the other was a close family friend, and father of my girlfriend. When my dad saw us, he smiled then began to walk towards. When he moved, my eyes widened.
"Emily! What are you doing here?" I shouted. Every set of eyes in the room turned towards me. I faltered slightly then slowly made my way over to her. She was a year younger then me with dark brown hair. It was a deep contrast to my red hair, but that was the only thing that was different aside from gender and height. She was a little over five foot nine and had lightly tanned skin whereas, I was six foot four with pale skin.
"My dad wanted me to see the trial run for some reason. He gave me that whole 'history in the making' and 'greatest advancement in the world' speech." she said, her voice as sweet as honeysuckle.
"Yeah, apparently my dad did the same thing to my mom. So, here I am now." I replied. Both of our dads stared at us in disbelief.
"Leonard, you didn't tell me that your daughter was dating my son." I overheard my dad whisper.
"Carl, I honestly didn't know about it." Leonard whispered back. Then Leonard cleared his throat.
"If everyone will follow me. We will show you this extraordinary device."
"Well, it's time for the boredom parade." Emily sighed.
"No kidding." I agreed.
Austin's POV
"This machine is what we are calling a trans-flux drive. It is very hard to explain how this works but it is supposed cause the user to travel faster than light. We have been working on this for NASA and today will be its first test. We will be trying to send this device into a room in our other lab fifty miles away." My dad said. As he showed us the weird looking device. Getting fairly bored, I pulled out my 3DS and began to play. I had just gotten my starter when my dad grabbed my DS.
"Son, this is a very important device. Your video game can wait until after you all see the test." he said sternly. Dad handed the DS to one of the guards. The guard looked at it in confusion.
"If you will all follow us, we will begin the test." Dr. Leonard said. As we left, I noticed that the guard which had my DS, was no longer carrying it. I looked back at the room we had just come from and saw it lying on the machine my dad had been working on. When nobody was looking, I ran back to the room. I quickly picked up the game system, when I felt a hand on my shoulder.
"Austin, you knit whit. We aren't supposed to be in here!" Devin exclaimed.
"If either of our parents find us in here they will kill us for not sticking with the group!" Emily added.
"I got my game, let's go." I said as I made my way to the door. Suddenly the room was engulfed in deep red lights, and the door we entered was sealed with a large blast door.
"This can't be good." I muttered. Devin and Emily both ran up to the window that looked into the room and began to bang on the glass.
Jonah's POV
Everyone had begun talking as we went back into the control room. Dad and Leonard, were over at a control panel pressing buttons. That was when the countdown started. I looked up to watch the test, but to my horror Devin, Emily, and Austin were on the other side banging on the window. There faces covered in pure terror.
"Dad! Devin, Emily, and Austin are in the room still!" I yelled. Dad looked up in pure shock then ran over to the glass.
"Leonard, shut the machine off!" he yelled. By now, everyone in the room was crowded around the window staring at the coming disaster.
"Carl! The device is already past its critical mass! I can't shut her down!" Leonard shouted back. The computer began to countdown. The room was frantic now.
"Ten," Devin and Emily began to bang even harder.
"Nine," Austin ran up and began to join both Emily and Devin.
"Eight," Mom shoved herself to the front and began to cry.
"Seven," Devin grabbed a fire extinguisher from a rack a began to try and break the glass.
"Six," Dad ran over to the control panel and began to press a few buttons.
"Five," The room was filled with Devin, Emily, and Austins pleas to stop the device.
"Four,"
"Devin, I can't open the door." dad said as he began to cry.
"Three," Devin nodded his acceptance.
"Two,"
"God, please let them live, I beg you don't let them die for my mistake!" Dad shouted
"One," Devin, Austin, and Emily held hands.
"Dad, we love..." that was all they could say before they disappeared. Dad raced to the phone on the control panel.
"Get me the LZ! Now! Yes this is Carl Lee...The machine made it? Good, did you see any kids at the LZ. A fifteen-year-old, an eighteen-year-old and a nineteen-year-old? You didn't? Are you sure they didn't land anywhere else? You found what? How is that possible? I-I s-see. G-goodbye." Dad hung up the phone and began to cry. "It should have been me! If I was with them, this wouldn't have happened!" He cried.
"Sir, I think it was my fault." one of the guards spoke up. I left your boy's game in there by accident." the guard said solemnly.
"I shouldn't have taken it away!" Dad shouted.
"Mom, Dad. Everything will be ok." I cried. Mom ran over to dad and began to cry into his shoulder. I ran to them and we all cried together.
Third Person POV
Darkness, that was the only way for Austin, Devin, and Emily to describe it. They were floating in darkness, nothingness. Complete emptiness.
"Are we dead?" Austin asked.
"I don't know. I can still feel my heart beat. If we were dead, we wouldn't feel that would we?" Emily asked.
"I don't think so, but then again I have never been dead before." Devin replied shakily.
"I still have my DS." Austin said in an almost cheerful sort of way.
"It's because of that piece of crap, that we are in this mess to begin with." Devin growled.
"You are an idiot. I can turn it on and it can give us some light!" Austin said. Austin turned on the device and it came to life. The light showed absolutely nothing.
"You are smarter then I thought Austin. I am glad that I made the right choice." A voice in the darkness praised.
"Who's there! Show yourself." Devin demanded.
"My my, impatient aren't we. Very well then, here I am." out of the darkness appeared a light green alien fairy thing. It had large blue eyes that seemed almost unnatural. There were two antenna sticking from the creature's forehead. The head looked somewhat like a tear drop. It had two stubby arms and feet. Finally there was a set of gossamer wings on its back. Everyone's eyes grew wide, but Austin's were wide for a different reason. He recognized this creature.
"Celebi." he whispered.
"That's me kid. Where is Jonah? He is supposed to be here as well. Oh well, cause and effect is a hard thing to predict. This should work out just fine." the legendary said. "Ok, on to business. I need you kids for a mission. I have watched nearly all of the possibilities and have decided that the three of you would be the best choice for the assignment."
"Hey, you stupid green freakazoid, we aren't going to do anything for you. For all we know, we are in a coma in the hospital." Devin said angrily.
"If you interrupt me again, I will have to do something I really don't want to do." Celebi warned. The irritation was becoming very evident.
"You are just figment of my imagination, you are only here because of my brother's stupid obsession with that Pokémon crap!" Devin yelled.
"This is your last warning! I will not tell you again!" Celebi yelled.
"Get out of my head, you green mutated freak!" Devin yelled.
"I warned you. I probably should get out of this dimension first." Celebi snapped its fingers and the darkness disappeared. It was replaced with large trees and bushes. Celebi floated over to Devin and he took a swing at the fairy-like creature. Celebi easily dodged the jab and stuck its hand into the young adult's chest. Devin began to glow as Celebi withdrew its hands. The legendary held a large pocket watch. It opened the watch and pulled the stick out. "This is a life watch. Every human, animal, and Pokémon has one. I am the only one aside from a select few that can reset one of these clocks. After I reset one, I am forever barred from tampering with it again. I really wish you didn't make me do this. It will drop your success rate down to ninety-six percent." Celebi explained. Celebi closed its eyes, then opened them again. A second later, a blue bubble appeared and a blue Mew appeared. "Jeffric, you know why I called you here." Celebi said.
"Yes, I realize what you want me to do. I am not as good at this as my wife is, so don't blame me if something goes wrong." the Mew said. The Mew closed his eyes and began to glow. He touched Devin and it seemed like Devin's soul was launched out of his body.
"What are you doing to him!" Emily screamed as she watched Celebi begin to turn the stick on Devin's life clock.
"You will see." Celebi answered. Devin's actual body began to shrink. The body collapsed on the ground as it began to disappear under the clothes. A few seconds later, the glowing stopped, and Celebi placed the clock back inside the pile of clothes. "Jeffric, you can put his spirit back in now."
"Yeah, yeah, I know." the Mew began to glow and my brothers soul was shoved into the pile of clothes.
"Because of your brother's choice, we have to adjust the both of you also. It won't be as drastic as your brother but you both will need to get used to it."
"Stay away from me! I already died once! I don't want to die again!" Emily screeched. Austin just stared straight ahead in confusion.
"I'm not going to kill you. You are going to just notice a few changes, that's all." Celebi reassured. Before there were any more protest. Celebi quickly started the process. Emily was so shocked that she only held her mouth open. Austin was too terrified to move. A few minutes later, both Emily and Austin were on the forest floor, panting.
"Don't blame me for this. If Devin hadn't of forced me to do this, neither of y'all would be like this. In fact, there was only a point two three five percent chance that this wouldn't happen. As a final apology present, here are a few things you will need for this journey. This bag is filled with supplies for your journey. The second bag has clothing for you three, and the last bag will have, well, you will see. Be sure to look at those papers in your bag. You will need them for your journey. I also wrote out everything you will need to do in a notebook in the first bag. I am sorry that we had to do things this way but it is for the best. If you complete this mission, I can have Palkia return you to your own world, but you will be going as is. For that, I am sorry." Celebi said as it teleported away.
Austin's POV
I don't know what shocked me more, the fact that I just saw something that shouldn't exist or the fact that I had just become a pre-teen again.
"Austin, how old do I look?" Emily asked, her voice was a lot more childish then it was just five minutes before.
"About eight or nine. What about me?" I said.
"Eleven, maybe twelve. Wait where is Devin?" Emily asked as she struggled to her feet.
"My guess is that he is over there." I pointed. I got up and quickly scrambled over to my brother's clothes. I began to move them around until found something. I didn't want to believe what I found but there was no way my sight and touch could deceive me.
"Emily? What is in that third bag?" I asked the terror stricken girl. She slowly peeked inside the bag.
"These are kid clothes? What do we need these... you have got to be kidding me." Emily staggered to her feet and stumbled towards me. She looked in the pile of clothes where Devin once stood. She looked at in complete surprise. "Devin? This can not be happening. That can't be Devin. Can it? How did that stupid bug fairy thing come up with the conclusion that a little kid would only decrease our chances by a little?" She asked incredulously. I could only shrug as I looked at my older brother.
"Check the bag for those papers, and um bring some of those kid things over here." Emily handed me the clothing bag and the bag with the papers in it. I opened the first bag and instantly found several papers. The first three papers I found were birth certificates. Each one had our names on it. There were three problems with the certificates. For one it said that me, Emily, and Devin all shared the last name Lee. The second problem was the birth years. Mine said I was born in 2004, while Emily was born in 2007. Devin's said that he was born in 2010! the last problem was that it was stamped 'approved by Kanto Census Bureau. We weren't in our world anymore. We were in the Pokémon version of Earth. "Emily, you are eight according to this. I am eleven, and Devin is five." I said calmly.
"You are telling me that my boyfriend is barely older then a toddler? How could this day get any worse?" Emily cried. Her crying must have startled something because the ground began to shake like an earthquake.
"Emily, we need to move right now. There is something big coming and we probably don't want to wait to find out what it is." I began to grab the three heavy knapsacks and Emily barely managed to pick up the sleeping Devin. Before any of us could decide which way to go, a large snake-like rock monster broke through the trees.
"What is that thing!" Emily screeched in pure terror.
"It's an Onix! The rock snake Pokémon. Run!" I yelled.
Celebi's POV
"Don't you think you went a little over board with that oldest kid?" Jeffric asked as we met up in the Hall of Origins. "I mean seriously. A five year old?"
"I was aiming for ten but...my...hand...slipped a little." I admitted.
"Did you check the endings of these time-lines?" Jeffric asked.
"Um, no, I didn't. I knew I was forgetting something." I said with a face palm. I jumped back into the present time line then floated to the ones that branched from my decision. "Oh, no, no, no! That's not good. Out of the first ten lines, only one allows them to succeed! This isn't good at all!" I yelled. "I need to go back and repack their gear. That improves their chances by ten percent. Darn I need to change everything for that twerp. How did I screw this up?"
Emily's POV
"Are we safe?" I huffed. While running, we found a trail that lead us out of the forest and into an open road. The weird snake creature that was chasing us, decided not to continue the chase.
"I guess, it knew that it was heading into human territory." Austin said as he collapsed onto the concrete. "How is Devin?" I looked down at the bundle I was holding. Devin was somehow still asleep, despite all of the noise and running.
"He is fine, considering. Do...do you think he is normal in the head? I mean that weird bug thing did the exact same thing to us as he did to him."
"I don't know. I hope so, then again, I don't want him to be."
"What do you mean?" I asked in confusion.
"Hello, he is a freaking five-year-old! If he is himself on the inside, what do you think he is going to think?" Austin yelled.
"I guess you have a point. Uh-oh."
"What?"
"I think, he is waking up." I said.
"This isn't good." Austin muttered.
Devin's POV
I could feel myself waking from that terrible dream. The idea that anything I saw was really, was completely preposterous. 'That was a good nap. Hey, why can't I move? What's going on here?' I thought as I struggled to move.
"Devin? Are you ok? How do you feel?" a voice said. It was close to Austin's except that it was to high pitched. I opened my eyes, but the light was to bright so I instantly closed them again.
"Austin! What's going on? Why can't I move?" I tried to say, but all that came out were few recognizable words.
"Devin, you might want to slow down with the talking and breath." Austin's strange sounding voice said. I tried opening my eyes again. This time the light wasn't as overwhelming and I was able to see. I found myself staring up at two faces. Two very large faces. "Devin, you aren't going to believe this, but you aren't exactly normal anymore. You kind of um...un-aged. You are about five years old." Austin said. I instantly rejected this notion without even thinking it through.
"No, that isn't possible. Why would you even come up with something like that?" I asked angrily. My voice became slightly more understandable. Somehow, I knew that something was wrong. Everything was just to disproportional for there not to be something wrong.
"I know that you think that sounds crazy, but it's true." Austin said. "We will explain some more once, we find a place to stay," he continued. 'This can't be real. There is no way that this is happening.' I thought to myself. I tried to get Austin's attention, but I couldn't even form a complete sentence at the moment. Despite just waking up, I had expended all of my energy. I quickly fell asleep.
Austin's POV
"Do you think he was really there?" Emily asked as we hiked down the road.
"He's definitely in there. He said to many words to not be in there. Besides, he was saying my name. He butchered it but he still said it.
"Austin, we need to stop. Every step I take, something is about to fall off of me. Holding your brother isn't helping either."
"Ok, we will try to find a place to stop." he looked around for a bit before he found something that looked semi-liveable. "Hey, there is an old house over there we can stay in. It looks abandon." Austin said. He pointed to an overgrown section of the woods. There was an old, two-story house that still seemed somewhat stable.
"Do we seriously have to stay in that? It's probably abandon for a reason." I pointed out.
"We have no idea where we are. We all have been um...changed. And there are Pokémon that would love nothing more than to have us for dinner." Austin reasoned.
"I guess you have a point, but do you think it will be safe for your brother? He really can't defend himself." I said as I looked down at Devin. He was still sleeping as I held him.
"It will be fine. I will check it out then you can come in." I nodded and Austin disappeared into the house. A few minutes later, Austin reappeared and signaled for me to come in.
I bet most of you thought that this would be a standard TF fic. Nope, my brother didn't like it that way. He said that I should write a fic where the oldest is, well, like Devin. I am still not sure if I am going to beat my brother senseless over this or not. I am leaving his fate in your hands lol. Even if you guys didn't like this I will be keeping these characters in OMAA. Be sure to review or favorite/follow, if you guys think this is a good idea. This shieldliger001 nervously signing off.
