The Life And Times of Bradley Watson
Chapter One
Wherein the setup is excessively convoluted
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I'll be taking a break from the Happy Tree Friends one, and working on this for a while. So, read and enjoy. Oh, and if you want to dare, feel free to. I'm still waiting for your dares.
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Denver, Colorado
June 8th, 2011
5:30 PM
Bradley Watson pulled his car in the driveway after a long day of his job at Modern Engineering. He was simply a tech guy, and never had any success with women, and whenever he looked into a mirror, boy, he could see why. He was way too tall for a twenty-seven year old, and his profile was practically indistinguishable from a broom handle. His hair was an ugly brownish-red color, and never stayed down. His eyes were different colors, blue and green. At this point, he really didn't even bother on dates, since he knew he'd get dumped anyway.
He unlocked the door and walked inside, further reminding him of his loneliness. He was the only person that ever came into his house, really. There was the occasional plumber or cable guy, but those were rare, and he never talked to them, anyway. There was something important in his life, however: Pokemon. He was a colossal Pokemon nerd, and had, in fact, caught them all, since he sprang for a second DSi Lite and a connector cable. Whenever an event came along, he always got online and downloaded everything he could. That, unfortunately, would have to wait. After dinner (Reheated pizza) he would start playing and finish his goal: catching the event legendary of the generation, Victini.
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Denver, Colorado
8:00 PM
After his fine gourmet dinner, along with a rewatch of Rocky Horror Picture Show, Bradley was just getting ready to hunt down, fight, and catch Victini. Since he didn't use online walkthroughs or help sites, viewing them as cheating, he had no way of predicting Victini's strength, and thus decided to play it safe, by using five other event legendaries he particularly liked: Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, Manaphy, and Shaymin. Respectively, they were named Emily, Jon, Riley, Shannon, and Amelia. He already decided that he'd name the Victini Paul, and put him in the team to test him out. After giving the Liberty Ticket to the correct person, he went into the area where Victini could be found, and started looking for the creature.
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Denver, Colorado
7:30
"Come on, this is my last ultra ball!" Said Bradley. He hadn't anticipated the fight would be this difficult, and he already had to reload several times. He threw the ball, hoping this would be the one. One shake. Two shakes. Time seemed to stop as he waited for the third. After what seemed like hours, it finally came. He jumped from the couch, enraptured with joy. "Yes! Yes! I did it!" The game prompted him for a nickname. "You are now…" he typed in the name, "Paul!" He pressed okay, and it was so. After adding Paul to the rest of the team, he heard a very loud clap of thunder. He had gotten so into his game, he hadn't noticed the thunderstorm brewing outside.
"Thunder? When did that happen?" He shrugged, and turned the game off (After saving, of course).
"I'll try you out tomorrow, Paul!" He walked out of the room, turned the lights off, and started getting ready for bed.
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Geneva, Switzerland
June 9th, 2011
Large Hadron Collider
9:00 AM
(Note: Due to the location of Geneva, there is an eight-hour difference between it and Denver. Due to the current timeframe, this would mean that it is, in fact, the next day in Geneva. 9:00 in Geneva would be about 1:00 in Denver, as such.)
In the last few weeks, the scientists at CERN had been preparing for another particle collision. They had yet to find the Higgs Boson Particle, and were trying yet again.
"Preparing collision," said one scientist.
"Magnets are go," said another.
The first scientist brought his mouse cursor over a particular button on the computer. "Accelerating particles in three…two…one…" He clicked it, sending out two streams of subatomic particles, which were immediately accelerated to high speeds by the magnets in the colossal tube, approaching the final goal, the fastest speed possible: ninety-nine point nine percent of the speed of light.
"One percent… two percent…" the computerized voice blared. This would take a while.
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Geneva, Switzerland
Large Hadron Collider
10:00 AM
"Ninety-nine percent." The computerized voice said. "Ninety-nine point nine percent. Preparing collision." By now, the streams were zooming around the tube several times a second, awaiting the final collision. The scientist brought his mouse to the button that said "Collide", clicked it, and it was so. The other scientists immediately started searching for the elusive particle. However, they didn't notice another new kind of particle zip past the collision site and through the tubing, since it was so fast. It started heading around the world at near the speed of light, converging on one destination.
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Denver, Colorado
2:00 PM
(Due to the eight-hour difference, this was happening at exactly the same time as the collision.)
As it turns out, Bradley had rather poor luck, because he just missed one of the rarest observed sights in nature. No, not Britney Spears actually singing in concert. It was ball lighting, you fool. Anyway, the sphere of high-energy plasma entered his house, burning a hole through a window, and started floating about. By extreme coincidence, the particle from earlier was heading for the house, or more specifically, the DS he left on the table. The ball lightning headed for the DS as well, and ended up colliding with the particle right on top of it. A massive, albeit silent, explosion of light occurred, and six figures emerged from it…
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Denver, Colorado
June 9th, 2011
6:45 AM
After a deep sleep, Bradley Watson was awoken by a cold nose to the face. That's odd, he thought. I don't have any pets. Did a stray get in? No, I closed the door. He opened his eyes, and saw it: A white dog-like creature, with a large green tuft of fur on it's head, more green fur on its paws, and two large, antler-like ears. It was, in fact, a Shaymin.
Bradley, unfazed, closed his eyes and tried to go back to sleep. Then he realized exactly what this thing was, and jumped out of the bed, screaming, and simultaneously flinging the poor creature to the other side of the room. Scrambling to his feet and pulling off a bunch of sheets, he immediately started bombarding the animal with questions.
"How…what the Hell? How the Hell are you here? Is this some kind of trick?" By now, he was starting to back away, trying not to provoke whatever it was that was standing in front of him right now. "Okay. Okay. This is clearly just a dream. You do not exist, and to prove it, I will run headfirst into this wall." He stepped back, and did just that. Almost immediately, pain burst through his head, sending him to the floor. Several minutes later, he got back up, holding his throbbing head.
"All right, I'm hallucinating, then." To prove this theory, he walked over to the Shaymin and picked it up. After turning it around a few times, he was convinced that it was real.
"Oh man, this is crazy." He fell on his bed, his hands over his face. "This is just…oh man."
The Shaymin jumped on the bed, and nuzzled his cheek. "Thanks. Wait a second…oh no!" He suddenly remembered his Pokemon game, and also realized that was the only place that this Shaymin could have possibly come from. He leaped from the bed, opened the door, and ran to his living room. When he got there, he stopped dead in his tracks. Someone- or rather, something- had turned on the TV and started watching his movies. Right now, the film was Terminator.
Inching his way slowly to the couch, he looked over and saw what looked like a cross between a fennec fox and a chicken; in other words, Victini. "Hey, little guy," he said in a somewhat high-pitched voice, waving his hand and trying to retain a semblance of composure. "You watching Terminator?" He slowly moved his hand to the DS, picked it up, and turned it on. Immediately, he looked at his Pokemon team. They were still there. "Whew!" he exclaimed. The Victini looked at him with an odd look on his face, vaguely disturbed by his seemingly random display of happiness.
7:00 AM
After searching through the remainder of the house, along with the backyard, he ended up finding four more. Shaymin and Victini you already know, a Celebi and a Mew were loitering in the kitchen, a Manaphy was sleeping in the basement, and a Jirachi was floating harmlessly in the backyard. After getting them all in the living room, he started asking them questions.
"Do any of you understand English?" As it turns out, all of them understood it, but only the Shaymin could speak it, by way of telepathy.
"Okay, you," He said gesturing towards the Jirachi, "Could you get them to speak English?"
A bright wave of energy erupted from the wishmaker, bathing the room in light. When Bradley opened his eyes back up, nothing seemed to have changed, but he continued asking questions.
"Do any of you have names?" They gave him the names, predictably the same ones as in his game, but to his shock, they all had British accents.
"What?" Shouted Amelia, the Shaymin. "That ain't right!" She turned to the Jirachi, Riley. "Riley, what in the bloody Hell did you just do?"
"Well, he said English…"
Almost perfectly on cue, the rest of the legendaries yelled at him, "HE MEANT AMERICAN ENGLISH, YOU BLOODY IDIOT!"
"Well, gee, I'm sorry he wasn't specific about it!"
Bradley was getting tired of this, and stepped in. "No, no, British is perfectly fine.
"Okay, I have to get ready for work, so just, uh, do whatever, and don't burn the place down.
8:30 AM
After going through his morning routine, Bradley was ready to leave for work.
"Alright, bye, guys!"
"Bye!" All of them said.
After driving away, Bradley looked in the mirror and said to himself, "Well, that was a weird morning."
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