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Generation V

Academy Saga

Episode 1, The Beginning

It's been over 120 years since the passing away of the 47th Grand Pokemon Champion. His name was Ash Ketchum. The only thing that was known about him is that he was raised in Pallet City, formerly known as Pallet Town. Legend says that he was unbeatable, with the combination of Charizard, Sceptile, Swellow, Heracross, Crawduant, and Pikachu. There were many Champions after him, to the 96th champion, actually. With the legend now told, this tale begins...

"Shit! I'm gonna be late!" He cried as he put on his shirt, swallowed his breakfast, and grabbed his backpack and ran out the door. Vincent Parker was a strange boy, being that he has been lazy and carefree his entire life and never really screwed up much. Except in the Pokemon Academy that is. No matter how fast he ran or how early he left he seemed to always be late for school. It took him about a half an hour to run to school, and when he got there, he was panting heavily down on his favorite bright red shirt and dark blue jeans and the sweat running down from his face, while his spiky dirty-blond hair was slightly damp from the sweat. Somehow he managed to sneak inside before his teacher, Mr. Lived arrived.

"Okay class, let us get started, shall we?" Mr. Lived asked as soon as Vincent sat down. Mr. Lived was giving a boring lecture about how fire and rock combinations are take 8 times the normal damage from ground and water types. "Mr. Parker" he yelled, waking Vinny up. "Can you tell me a Pokemon with both fire and rock types?"

"Umm... well..." Vinny stuttered, as a paper plane smacked him in his face. On one of its wings it read 'Magcargo' on it. "Magcargo" Vinny read, slightly shocking Mr. Lived. Vinny looked over to the owner of the paper plane, Kelsey, and mouthed out 'thanks'. Kelsey was wearing blue jeans with ripped knees and a pink hooded sweatshirt that had a poorly drawn bunny on it while a message under it saying 'You make me feel all queasy inside'. She had shiny dark-brown hair that wet back into a ponytail. The kid behind him, Jaryd, saw the silent message. Being the class snitch, he raised his hand and said "Mr. Lived, Mr. Lived, Vinny read a paper plane that had the answer to your question!" Mr. Lived suddenly became furious, and putting on a poker face, he calmly spoke "Who threw the paper plane? Anyone who speaks up will only serve one detention, not three, like Mr. Parker here is getting."

Before Kelsey could speak up, Derek, Vinny's best friend who sat next to her, stood up and said, "I threw the paper plane, sir." Derek was pretty large for his age and a military style blond haircut. Knowing that Derek and Vinny were friends, he thought it was reasonable. Then again, Derek couldn't throw a paper plane to save his life, and Kelsey was another of Vinny's friends.

"Kelsey Richton, please stand up. Good. Now, all of you are going to have four detentions each, Vincent and Kelsey for cheating, and Derek for lying to the teacher. The rest of you, have a good weekend." Everyone but Vinny, Kelsey, Derek, and a guy named Thomas stayed. He wasn't all that tall, only slightly taller than the gang. He had black hair that went down to his shoulders, and was wearing a plain white t-shirt and white shorts. Thomas wasn't exactly a teachers' pet, but he wasn't a rule- breaker either. Thomas was about 17 years old, and the rest were 15. Thomas joined the academy late, in hopes of becoming the Pokemon Champion, like almost every other student in the school. He was on Detention duty, for some extra-curricular activities. Detention with Thomas usually meant extra homework.

After school Vinny, Derek, and Kelsey played at the Virtual Pokemon Arcade (VPA for short) and battled with virtual Pokemon. Vinny usually picked a fighting type and attacked head-on. Kelsey loved using the grass type because of their defensive, offensive, and their recovery abilities. Derek just picked a Pokemon with excellent defensive abilities, and tried to wear out his foe.

Vinny's POV

"Venusaur, solar beam attack!" Kelsey cried. The virtual Venusaur gathered energy from the virtual sun, preparing to use the grass type's second best attack.

"Machop, karate chop!" I yelled. Machop ran at Venusaur, and chopped it on the head. Venusaur shook off the pain, and fired its solar beam attack at Machop! Machop fainted, and disappeared, meaning Kelsey was the winner… Again.

"Well, I'm bored," She said, yawning. "I'm gonna call it a night!"

"Good, get lost!" I said, a little sore from my lost.

"Now Vinny, you really shouldn't be upset at me, it's you that's the loser!" She mocked, and left the arcade.

"You can battle me!" Derek suggested.

"Damn right!"

"Machop, Mega Punch!" I yelled. The VPA Machop's raised his fist, and ran at the enemy Kingler. Derek's Kingler used Harden Machop's mega punch just bounced off Kingler's armor-like skin. Kingler then used the crab hammer attack and smashed Machop flat with its giant claw.

"I lost again," I pouted, not understanding why he always seems to lose. A head on attack can't be that pathetic, right? I thought to myself. Derek, seeming to know what was going in my mind explained. "When you charge in like that, your VPA Machop doesn't really have much time to block, meaning if the assault fails, you're basically screwed." Suddenly, a crowd of kids gathered around the VPA machine next to us!

"No way! He beat Thomas with just one blow!" a kid yelled.

"How about a rematch?" Thomas calmly said, with slight irritation in his voice.

"As many times as you can stand losing" said the braggart. He was my height and age, and had limp black hair, with a face that said he had an attitude. He wore a Black T-shirt that said "Fuck Off" and black jeans. They prepared the holographic field and selected their Pokemon.

"This will be a one-on-one match!" the machine announced. Thomas sent out a VPA Golduck. It had blue, skin and a white duck beak, as well as webbed white claws, and webbed white toes. The braggart sent out a Flareon, a red-furred fox with a yellowish white mane, and tail. It had black eyes with white pupils.

"The match will be between Player One's Golduck, and Player Two's Flareon. Let the match begin!"

"Golduck, water gun attack!" Golduck released a spray of water from his mouth, and the attack went directly at Flareon. Flareon quickly ran to the left, and dodged the attack.

"Quick Attack!" braggart yelled. The virtual Flareon ran at Golduck with great speed, hitting Golduck in the belly. Golduck skidded back a couple of inches, and slashed at Flareon. Flareon's face was now bleeding because of Golduck's claws.

"Flareon, mud slap attack!" Flareon turned around and kicked a bit of virtual mud at the virtual Golduck, temporarily blinding it. Golduck struggled to wipe the mud from his eyes, giving Flareon the perfect chance to fight back!

"He's right in front of you, use water gun!" Golduck fired a water gun where he was facing, right up in the air.

"Moron, Golduck is a virtual Pokemon, it can only take a limited number of commands."

"Look who's the Pokemon master now," I muttered to Derek.

"Golduck, look down and use water gun!" Golduck turned his head down, and fired another stream of water from his mouth! Flareon was forced to jump back, avoiding the water type attack. The fire type Flareon doesn't take water too well.

"Flareon, use fire blast!" The braggart yelled. Flareon took a huge breath, and shot out a star-shaped flame at Golduck! Golduck was overpowered by the fire blast, and disappeared.

"The winner is Player Two and Flareon!!!" The Braggart put on a smirk that made me want to wipe the floors with him, but I wouldn't last 5 seconds against him! espite this, I opened my mouth and yelled "Hey Jackass! Ready for a real fight?"

Preview:

Vinny: I'm taking you down, you punk!

Chad(Braggart): Look who's talking, punk!

Derek: Can't you two stop bragging? Anyway, next episode; Cruisin for a Bruisin! (Look forward to it please!)

Author's notes: This is my renewed and slightly extended chapter 1, people! This story gets to a rather slow pace, but eventually turns into a runaway locomotive (By the way, the chapters will get a bit longer as the story goes on)! So farewell, I'm off to renew Chapter 2!