A/N - This is my first story, inspired by the Pokemon game franchise and the idea of full virtual reality gaming. Constructive criticism welcome. The characters in this story are Pokemon Gijinkas in-game (basically humanoid pokemon).

DISCLAMER - I do not own the rights to ANY of the Pokemon franchise, and I am not making any money from this story.


"It's gotta be fun being in the world of Pokemon", Yuki would always say, with great hope that, someday, there would be some incredible technology, which emulated the world of Pokemon. Whether it be playing as a Pokemon, or maybe the trainer, it would be insanely fun to play that kind of game. Or so he thought. That was until the day this technology came about, and some unofficial online game called 'Pokexplorers Online' was released. Oh, what a day that was. A few hundred thousand people fell into a deep sleep during that day, never to wake up… Ever…

When Yuki got home from school that fateful day, he went straight to his computer in the corner of his bedroom. He noticed that a certain email from a random person, had just come through. He clicked on it immediately, noticing the subject of the email, 'Pokexplorers Online'. At first he thought, "Nah, just another load of crap...". But then, seeing the body of the email, he realised, "Mother of god, someone actually managed to do it!". The body of the email read: 'You do want a full Pokemon-based virtual environment, don't you?'. Not realising what he was about to get into, he clicked the attachment on the email called 'Pokexplorers '

He thought to himself, "Hm, that's strange, I never remember having any file with a .tele extension before. Let alone a program that lets you open them." He saved the file to his Desktop, then he looked at the file and looked at the extension description. It simply said, 'Telepathics'. WIthout giving it a second thought he opened the file, and there he was. Sat there, on his desk chair, paralyzed, thinking, "What the hell did I just do?". He sat there, for about half an hour, until suddenly, his computer got the 'Blue Screen of Death'. And he must have been pretty sure it meant death, not just to his computer, but to him as well. His head started stinging, vision started blurring. His mother was shouting from downstairs, telling him his dinner was ready. He became almost deaf, finding it impossible to hear his computer fans spinning, his mother shouting, his dog barking or anything. He fell against the floor. Dead. Or so it seemed… He was about to unfold the legend of Pokexplorers Online. And so, his adventure, begins…

"Ugh, w-where am I?", Yuki thought as he opened his eyes.

"That's the ninth person!", shouted a voice that sounded like a girls. It was loud, but soft at the same time and sounded caring and worried. When he finally managed to open his eyes, he saw a tall girl, kneeled down next to him. She was wearing a pale brown t-shirt and a pale green skirt, with brown socks and boots. That all seemed perfectly normal enough, but when you notice the pale green long hair with leaf-like ears and a leaf-like tail that were pale brown at the bottom that started to turn a more intense green as it went further up, it gets a bit unbelievable. "You okay? Whats your name?", she asked Yuki, in a soothing voice that sounded almost too good to be true. "Uh, yeah, I'm okay, I suppose.", he said, thinking the exact opposite. "Yuki's the name. But I can't remember my last name though..."

"It's alright, Yuki. I'm Tsubaki. But I can't remember my last name either. You must be a pretty die-hard Pokemon fan then."

"Yeah, I suppose you could say that. But, how did you know?"

"All of us here have been trapped in this world, never to get back to the real one. in order to take the risk of opening a Telepathics file, like this one, you must be a pretty big fan of whatever franchise it comes from, even if it's unofficial."

"Oh, okay. Wait, you said what?"

"We're all trapped here for now, until we figure out a way of leaving this place. Anyway, we might aswell make the most of it. Take a look at yourself. You must be a Jolteon. From what I can tell, I'm a Leafeon." Yuki looked at himself. He wore a yellow hoodie, yellow leggings and yellow trainers. He felt for his ears, and noticed he had none. Well, not in the right place anyway. He had some long, yellow ears as well as yellow hair, but no tail.

Then, Tsubaki said, "I'm presuming a Telepathics file allows the user to imagine things. Then, the imagined things happen in-game. But seriously though, this is just taking it too-"

Yuki interrupted her to say, "So, basically, what you're saying, is that we imagined the forms we took in this world. And we move in this game just like we would with our real bodies. Hell yeah! Life just got interesting!"

"Don't get too hasty… We are trapped here after all."

"Oh yeah… Just remembered that."

"So, what do you suggest we do? I'm open to any suggestions.", Tsubaki said to Yuki, seeming rather worried. "Well, does this game have a guild system?", Yuki said. Tsubaki seemed a bit shocked. Yuki waited in anticipation for an answer, and then heard a mysterious boy say: "Yes, as a matter of fact it does.". He looked a lot like a Flareon, with a bushy cream coloured tail, a cream coloured neck scarf, long red ears, black glasses and red trainers with red socks underneath. He was wearing a deep red hoodie with deep red leggings. "Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, didn't I? My name is Shiro. And this is my sister, Nyx." He pointed to a little girl who looked around the age of nine. "Uh, brother, what am I supposed to say?", she said, quietly. Unlike her brother, she seemed to be an Umbreon. She had a long black tail with a ring of yellow on it. She had long black ears with ring of yellow on them, a ring of yellow on each arm and leg, and on her head. Her eyes were a deep red colour, and deep black hair. She was wearing a black t-shirt with a black skirt, along with black socks and boots. "So sis, introduce yourself.", said Shiro. "Oh, yeah, sorry brother.", she said to him, seeming like she was going to make a confident introduction. "I-I-I'm Nyx, but I can't remember my last name, and neither can brother. It looks like I'm an Umbreon. Dark types are my favourite, so that's probably why.".

"So, about guilds… Should we form one?", said Yuki. Everyone seemed a bit shocked at his words. Yuki continued on to say: "I, personally want to stick together with people in the same situation as me. You know the Telepathics file could have some stronger power, like maybe an IRL death penalty for dying in here.". Nyx started crying, and said to Shiro, "Brother, I'm scared!". Shiro replied with: "Don't worry sis, everythings gonna be just fine… I hope...". "So, fellow victims of Pokexplorers Online, what do you suggest we do?", asked Yuki. Then, just as Tsubaki started to voice her opinion, they heard a scream that sounded like a girls. "Everyone! Over there!". She pointed towards a forest in the distance. "Quickly! We've gotta go save whoever it is!", she shouted.