A/N: I'm writing this both to speed up my typing speed, and to get used to using various pronouns. The plot will mostly stay the same as the manga, but I might skip some filler chapters or alter various things. I might end up changing part of the plot later, but it's unlikely. At the end of each chapter I will run through any new sets of pronouns used so that you guys can understand them. I don't know how far I will go, but I have pronouns in mind for every protag up to R/S/E. This hasn't been betad, and was written on 2003 word, which is just annoying, so excuse any typos please. If I use some pronouns wrong, please tell me.

Pallet Town

A group of small children were surrounding a Nidorino, and taking it in turns to try and catch it. A small blonde haired child stepped up to take the challenge. The others crowded around her, and cheered them on, as they steadied their sight in preparation to throw their pokéball. "Just watch this!" they boasted, "I'm gonna catch this Pokémon and make it my pet!", before they threw it and watched in horror as the ball was bounced off of the Pokémon like it was nothing. "What? It bounced off again!"

"What's happening here?", the voice of another (but slightly older) child suddenly appeared, and the crowd were alerted to said child's presence.

"Red! You're back! We're trying to catch this Nidorino, but it keeps bouncing the Pokéball away!" a few of the children explained to em.

Red laughed, "That's not how you catch a Pokémon! You need to weaken it first"- ey reached into eir pocket, and pulled out a opened a small pokéball, which contained a Poliwhirl- "watch this; Poliwhirl, water gun!". Eir polIwirl did, so, stunning the nidorino slightly, giving Red enough time to throw an empty pokeball of eirs, which promptly caught the wild pokemôn without any struggle.

The younger children were enthralled by the older child's knowledge, and kept asking em various questions about eir knowledge on Pokémon, only letting em go later in the afternoon, when it was beginning to get dark.

Red decided to take a walk in the forest once ey had finally been allowed to go eir own way, in order to get some alone time. As ey walked, ey thought all about the Pokémon ey had encountered and was yet to encounter- the kids from earlier had gotten the subject into eir brain, and ey couldn't get it out.

Pokemon were strange creatures that inhabited the land, air and sea. There was estimated to be about 150 of them in Kanto, and Red wanted to catch as many of them as ey could. According to the children from earlier, Professor Oak, the old professor that lived on the edge of the town might be able to help em on eir dream; apparently their grandchild was about about Red's age, and was a genius, so surely Oak would be smart enough to help em. Red was sceptical, though. Ey was sure that ey could do it by emself; ey didn't need any old professor helping em.

Ey was so lost in thought that ey didn't notice the tall figure right in front of em, and knocked right into them. "Watch it maggot!", Red had banged into a sinister looking person, wearing a black uniform with a big red "R" on the front of the top. There were a few others in similar outfits around the area.

"S-sorry!", Red apologised nervously- who knew how tough these guys were. Ey then made to leave, but hid in the tall grass that was everywhere.

The person ey had met turned around, allowing em to notice the pokeballs on the belt of their uniform. Pokeballs… These people must be Pokémon trainers too! Ey thought.

One of the uniformed people seemed to be instructing the others, "keep searching, and don't you dare rest until we've found that phantom Pokémon! Burn the West Forest down if you have to!". Once the instructions had been given, Red took a moment to wonder what was meant by 'phantom Pokémon', but then ey grinned, and mentally thanked the person for letting em know about it, and quickly hurried off to the Western Forest to search for it emself.

Once ey reached the Western Forest, Red was happy to see that they people from earlier hadn't arrived yet, but was surprised by a small, glowing, cat-like Pokemon that was floating in the distance. Ey ran towards it, but was disappointed to see another person battling it.

The person in question looked to be about Red's age, had very spiky brown hair, and wore a purple shirt and an odd necklace. Red watched as the other person sent out a Charmander, and let it attack the glowing Pokémon without needing even to tell it the specific moves. The charmander unleashed it's flames on the glowing pokemôn, causing Red to start rooting for it, 'you can do it charmander, I believe in you!'. Suddenly, though, the trainer got the charmander to return to it's pokeball.

Red was shocked. "Hey!", ey yelled, jumping out of eir hiding spot, "what're you doing?! You almost had it!".

The trainer stayed silent.

Red was angry, "watch this!", ey said, and sent out eir Poliwhirl, "Poliwhirl, watergun!". Poliwhirl sent out a blast of water towards the strange Pokémon, but it was dodged, and the Pokémon suddenly sped off, hitting Red's Poliwhirl in the process. Red ran towards eir fallen companion, "Poliwhirl, are you ok buddy?! Can you get up?!"

The trainer that had been fighting earlier finally spoke, "Couldn't you see it when I was fighting that thing? It was clearly more powerful than me, so I decided to stop attacking it." while still speaking, the trainer started to walk off, "you'd do best to know your own limits in the future"

Red sat down on the ground, feeling crushed at eir first ever defeat. "I…lost?", ey muttered. This had never happened before. Ey was supposed to be unbeatable, invincible. After a few seconds, ey got up, and shouted to the trainer, "I'm Red, and my pronouns are ey/em/eir/emself! What about you?!"

The trainer stopped walking for a second, and replied back, just loudly enough for Red to hear, "My name is Green, and my pronouns are ze/zir/zirself. As in, 'ze is a genius', 'zir Pokemon are the strongest', 'ze is good to zirself'. Don't forget it.". Green then continued walking, as if nothing had happened.

Red decided it was time to go for em, as well, and picked up eir Poliwhirl, and started to head towards home, careful not to anger any of the wild Pokémon; eir Poliwhirl was out cold and the only defence ey had (ey had given the Nidorino from earlier to one of the children), but once again ran into the creepy uniformed people from earlier.

The one ey had knocked into earlier seemed to recognise em, "Hey, you're the maggot from earlier! What happened here?!"

A different uniformed person interrupted the yelling, "The brat doesn't matter. What matters is finding that mew- it could still be nearby, split up and search again, men!" The group of trainers all did so, leaving Red where ey was.

Later, Red stood looking at the laboratory on the edge of the town with a blank expression on eir face. Ey was really going to do this. All ey had heard of the professor before today was that they were old and cranky, and so ey had avoided going to meet them for a while. But ey wanted to be a good trainer, and decided this was the only way. Red took a deep breath, and rung the doorbell.

New sets of pronouns for this chapter:

Red: Spivak pronouns: ey/em/eir/eirs/emself

Green: Ze pronouns, set #1: ze/zir/zir/zirs/zirself