Um, I don't own anything mentioned. Some Japanese person does. XD
This story was going to happen some time. Yeah... Please review? I'm actually having fun with this, so... yeah, I'd appreciate it.
"I have got to stop pulling all-nighters," moaned Seto Kaiba. He had spent his few sleeping hours curled up under his desk at the Kaiba Corp. building. He began to crawl out but came up too fast, banging his head on the corner. Cursing and rubbing the throbbing sore spot, he managed to get himself standing. He stretched and looked out the window before turning around and slamming into it in surprise (No, it didn't break, Kaiba's smart enough to make sure you can't fall against it and break it too).
There, on his nice oak desk, were two mouse-like creatures, each about a foot high with a base coat of yellow. One had blue markings on its coat, and the other had black markings. They were staring at him adoringly, and they seemed somehow… familiar. Kaiba glanced around the room and spotted a red fox-like creature, a little brown Teddy Bear thing, and what looked like a red-orange lizard with a fire on its tail. When they realized he was awake and standing, they turned their attention towards him. It was all so very… cute.
While frantically trying to figure out where he saw them before, they all gathered onto his desk and pushed a red rectangular object towards him. Kaiba just stared at them. After a few seconds of no movement, the black and yellow mouse pushed it a little further towards him. Finally, he decided to pick it tentatively up. It looked like a disc with a rectangle attached to it.
Suddenly, it hit him, what these creatures were. He knew the guy who created them.
"I'm pretty sure I'm not high…" Kaiba muttered, scratching his head. Why were they here, on his desk? They should only exist in some kid's Nintendo DS. "And I most definitely do not have a hangover," he added. The creatures understood this and started to laugh. Kaiba glared at them, and they stopped chuckling, but still grinned.
"I think a lack of sleep is making me hallucinate," he groaned, head still throbbing. He fingered the rectangle thing when all of a sudden, the circle popped open like an eye and started talking in a robotic voice while he had it aimed at the black and yellow mouse.
"Number 172, Pichu, the Tiny Mouse Pokémon," it said. "Electric type. It plays with others by touching tails and setting off sparks. This appears to be a test of courage."
"I was right," Kaiba said, "but I can't believe this… They can't be real…" He pointed the device at the other mouse-like creature.
"Number 312, Minun, the Cheering Pokémon. Electric type. It cheers on friends. If its friends are losing, its body lets off more and more sparks."
"Huh," Kaiba murmured. The informative device told him they were both level five and male. The Pichu and Minun touched tails and started releasing about a bazillion sparks, causing the other monsters to back away. "Hey, HEY!" Kaiba picked both of them up by the scruff of their necks and held them apart. He was surprised he could actually touch them, and that they actually felt warm and alive. Some hallucination, huh. "If you're going to stay here," he growled, "then I expect you to behave. That means no shorting electronics out, no setting things on fire, and no destruction overall."
"Pii!"
"Myy!"
Kaiba rolled his eyes set them back on the table. He looked down when the Teddy Bear started tugging on his pant leg, one paw at its mouth and looking up cutely at him.
"Stop that," he scowled with his signature annoyed/angry look (it's all the same for him!). The small brown bear-like creature stopped for a moment, then resumed. "What?" he finally snapped. The bear patted its stomach and looked pained. "You're hungry?" The bear nodded. "Great…"
A thought came to Kaiba, and he pointed the red device at the bear. He couldn't remember what it was called, but he remembered that it told you what these things were. They were… Pokémon? He wasn't sure if this was real or just a really realistic hallucination, but he's not the one who plays the game. Mokuba probably did. That meant he'd have to get all the way home, with these five creatures.
"Number 216, Teddiursa, the Little Bear Pokémon. Normal type. It lets honey soak into its paws so it can lick them all the time. Every set of paws tastes unique." The screen that showed the picture of the bear also noted that it was roughly two feet tall (though this one was on the small side), it weight almost 19.5 pounds, and it was a girl.
He pointed it at the fox next. "Number 37, Vulpix, the Fox Pokémon. Fire type. It controls balls of fire. As it grows, its six tails split from their tips to form more tails." It was about two feet high also, like a small dog, and was roughly 22 pounds, and it was also a girl.
He looked at the lizard, too, but first had to stop it from setting fire to the plant in the corner. "Number 4, Charmander, the Lizard Pokémon. Fire type. The fire on the tip of its tail is a measure of its life. If healthy, its tail burns intensely." It was two feet high, weighing in at almost 19 pounds, and it's a male.
"Okay," Kaiba said, closing the device and putting it back on the desk. "I have to get you guys back to my house, but nobody can see you. Got that?" Of course, if they're hallucinations, then no one would see them, right? Doesn't hurt to be careful, though, because they all felt ridiculously real and solid.
The Vulpix made a sound that sounded like "Vole!" and with her muzzle pushed six small spheres with a red top and white bottom and a button in the middle towards him. Intrigued, he picked one up and pressed the button. The ball inflated immediately.
"That's interesting," Kaiba admitted. The Minun took control and scampered up on him (much to his surprise) and onto his arm before bumping his head against the ball. The ball opened and sucked the Pokémon inside. He watched as the ball shook a bit with its button blinking red before going still. Then it opened again as the Minun forced his way out.
"Mi, Minun!!!" the Pokémon sounded. Somehow, Kaiba felt he was being told to do the same for the other four, and he did. They all let themselves be caught inside the spheres, then let themselves out again. And then he picked up the sixth one.
"If there's six spheres, and five, er, Pokémon here, then where's the sixth one?" he asked himself. This was answered immediately afterwards when the sun was suddenly blocked from his window. He spun on his heel to look at a massive white Pokémon outside the window. It opened its mouth and let out a loud, yet somewhat serene, wail.
"Number 249, Lugia," came the monotonic robot voice. Kaiba jumped, not expecting it. The Pichu had opened it for him. "The Diving Pokémon. Psychic and Flying type. It sleeps in a deep-sea trench. If it flaps its wings, it is said to cause a 40-day storm." Kaiba absorbed this information as the Pokémon butted its head against the window. It shattered, and it wailed again.
Kaiba looked at the ball in his hand, to the Lugia outside the building. It kept staring at him, as if waiting. There appeared to be some emotion in its eyes… adoration? Kaiba understood perfectly.
"Hell yeah."
When Kaiba got home to his mansion, the phone was ringing. He ignored it and went straight to his little brother's room. He thrust the door open, slamming it and making Mokuba jump up in his bed in shock.
"Ah, Big Brother!" he cried. "You didn't come home last night. I got – Are you okay?" Of course, Kaiba would look tired, but this was ridiculous!
"Do you notice anything strange?" he asked. "Not me… wait, no, let me start over." Mokuba looked at his flustered brother strangely, but let him continue. "Tell me, can you see this?"
Mokuba watched as Kaiba took out a red and white ball and pressed the button. A red beam of energy appeared out of it and went to the floor, forming a shape before solidifying.
"Piiii-chu!" it said happily. Mokuba laughed.
"Yeah!" he said. "It's cute! Why do you have something so adorable?"
"I don't know," Kaiba admitted. Now he was looking really tired. "They just appeared this morning…"
"Hold on, they?" Mokuba asked. "There's more?" As if on cue, four others popped out of similar capsules and all spoke their cry when they appeared. The overwhelming cuteness! The Authoress can hardly picture the scene without aww-ing! "Hold on," he repeated. "I know what these are… They're Pokémon! One of my friends bought the game a while back, and he's totally obsessed with them. But… why do you have them? Their cuteness seems so… unfitting for you," he confessed.
"I don't know!" Kaiba repeated, with more force. "I told you, they just appeared! I don't know where they came from!"
"Okay, okay, calm down…" Mokuba said hurriedly. "Um… It's almost time for school. I think you should stay home and sleep. You look really, really tired to me." Kaiba nodded absently, lost in thought. If Mokuba could see them, then these creatures really were real.
"I'm not tired," Kaiba protested eventually. "There's no need to skip school. Sleepiness is not an excuse anyway. Come on, let's go." He returned the Pokémon to their balls and carelessly put them in the pocket of his jacket when they shrunk to golf-ball size. Mokuba nodded and rushed to his bathroom.
He reached for his toothbrush when he noticed a shadow behind the shower curtain. Bewildered, he gently moved it aside to find what looked like a purple balloon with a face and a puff of white on top huddled there with a red rectangle thing. The item looked suspiciously like how his friend had described the Pokédex. Mokuba reached down to pick it up, and while the creature scooted away, he opened it and pointed it at the creature.
"Number 425," it said, "Drifloon, the Balloon Pokémon. Ghost and Flying type. A Pokémon formed by the spirits of humans and Pokémon. It loves damp, humid seasons. It tugs on the hands of children to steal them away. However, it gets pulled around instead."
"Ah!" Mokuba cried happily. "It's cute! And even better, it's mine!" He searched the room for a Pokéball and finally found one hidden in his medicine cabinet. "Come here, Drifloon," he said kindly. It floated towards him and bumped the ball on its own accord, letting itself be sucked in. From the Pokédex, Mokuba also learned that it was a female. "I'll name you later," he promised, "but I have to show Seto!" And he raced from the room, toothbrush forgotten.
Halfway down the stairs, he noticed he was still in his pajamas, so he had to run back to his room to dress. Once there and changed, he was about to leave again when a noise that sounded like "Pluhhhh!!!" came from his bed. Curious, he approached it and pulled back the sheets to find a yellow and red mouse-like monster. He picked it up, smiling, and hugged it while he opened the Pokédex again.
"Number 311, Plusle, the Cheering Pokémon. Electric type. It cheers on friends with pom-poms made of sparks. It drains power from telephone poles." It was a girl.
"You're cute!" Mokuba said to the Plusle, and she rubbed her chin on his arm lovingly.
"What's taking so long," Kaiba scowled. When he saw the Pokémon Mokuba was holding, he put his face in his hands. "Oh great, not you too…"
"What do you mean?" Mokuba asked. "I like these creatures. They're cute! There's this one that looks like a balloon too, it's a Drifloon!"
"That's enough!" Kaiba roared suddenly. Mokuba shrunk back, surprised. "This is ridiculous. These things can't exist, they don't exist!" With that, he whirled around and marched angrily out of the room. Plusle looked upset.
"It's okay," Mokuba told her. "He'll come around. Just give him time."
"Pluhhh…"