Her GBA had been missing for five months. Five long, annoying months.
Ok sure she had the 3DS with dragon quest 9, zelda, A couple harvest moon games and the pokemon mystery dungeon series but replaying pokemon platinum for the sixth time didn't have as much appeal as restarting Pokemon firered for what could be the tenth playthrough.
Kanto was her favourite region and sure she got a kick of exploring it in Soulsilver but the original kanto, the one from pokemon red and its game boy advance remake always was special to her. she knew the region almost off by heart and it was fun raising her favourite starter and working her up with her perfect team to catch her favourite legendary.
It kind of sucked that she wanted to play firered around about now so she decided to partake in one of the few hobbies she had: personaility quizzes.
After half an hour of 'Which pokemon are you' style quizzes and browsing the national pokedex on serebii for fun, a site caught her eye. It was a forum topic entitled 'what would you do in the world of pokemon'. It was one of those 'what ifs' threads where a member of the community posted a sereis of questions and asked others to fill it out, mostly to share different views on headcannon and for a bit of roleplaying fun.
She frowned as it was rather simple in comparison to some of the more complicated threads that looked at mythology or the laws of a certain world, as this one had a sereis of simple to answer questions.
Favourite region, favourite starter, dream team, favourite legendary.
She answered them in under a minite.
Kanto was her favourite region. Charmander was her preffered starter. Her dream team consisted of charizard, meowth, jolteon, lucario, grovyle and her favourite legendary pokemon, which was Mewtwo.
After posting up the entry her computer began whirring and a pop-up appeared on screen:
Congradulations New Trainer you have been accepted.
Welcome To Kanto.
the compuer screen went black, and her world followed suite soon after.
(scene shift)
When she awoke something felt...off. she sat up and after putting on her blue framed rectangular glasses she realised she was still human but she felt lighter, fitter somehow. With embarassment she realised something had altered her body so she was of normal weight for a twenty year old and grinned at the fact that she was the healthist she'd been in years.
She was sitting on a bed nearthe top left corner of the room. There was a door on the wall infront of her on the other side of the room and a bookcase to the right of the door. On her left beside the bed was a nightstand and over to the wall on the far right was a large desk with a backpack, a book, a map and a letter and beside the table was a full length mirror. Her white sneakers where on the right side of the door lazily tossed in the corner as if she'd taken them off herself.
Taking a moment to admire to the plush red carpet and cream coloured walls of the room she got up and walked over to the mirror. What stared back at her was a twenty year old girl of average hieght with fair skin and firery sunet orange hair. her hair was straight and reached just past her shoulders. Her fringe curled into an arc and was parted in the middle. her right eye was blue grey in colour and left was clouded over and half-lided.
She shrugged at the fact that she was still half blind and looked at the clothes she had on, grey cargo pants, white socks and a white t-shirt. her mood perked up when she noticed her bust size had reduced along with her weight, her body looked normal, not to skinny but she didn't have a beer gut either.
Satisfied with her new look she went over to the desk, grabbed the letter and opened it as she walked back to the bed. sitting with her legs crossed on the soft blankets she pushed her glasses back up her nose as they slid down and began to read.
Welcome to the worold of pokemon!
Sorry about the overused mode of interdimensional travel dear, the most efficient way to get from one universe to another is to hack an electrical deivce and knack the target unconscious.
As you can see you've lost fourty or so kilograms, your hair is straighter and you have your fringe just the way you like it, your welcome! In order to make it as a successful trainer here you have to be healthy and the change of hairstyle to what you like was just a bonus!
Now then right now you're on the S. on the way to pallet town to begin your journey, but first things first, there are somethings you'll need to know about this world and its inhabitants. as you know the learned moves of each species of pokemon vary from region to region, despite this any pokemon of one species can learn any of the moves that kind has ever learned.
Now on to the number of moves, pokemon have three movesets eah consisting of four moves: 'primary', 'Secondary' and 'reserve' moveset. the pokemon league states that a trainer can only use the first four moves a pokemon learns (their primary moveset) in battle. this is part of a pact with the world's wold pokemon, both sides only use the primary moveset in battle, the seconday and reserve moveset are mainly used to traverse the world or for healing purposes outside of combat.There are some exceptions, performance rounds in contests allow trainers to use all the moves their pokemon knows, the same goes for pokemon shows (much like the cat and dog shows of your world) that are attened by pokemon breeders.
Still following this? Good, now we move onto the human and pokemon diet. strange i know, but many meats that you are familiar with on earth are 'replaced' by domesticated pokemon. Chicken meat comes from a domesticated breed of pidgey that are white with small wings, duck meat is from a psyduck (farfetch'd used to fill this role but now they are endangered and thus the more common water type takes its place). Goldeen are raised and breed in the place of many tuna and other fish whereas the beef and lamb are subsituted by tauros and mareep respectively.The meat still tastes the same, just comes from pokemon instead of animals, I thought I might let you know now in advance to prevent you having a heart attack when you learn that many meat dishes are made from pokemon.
The book I've l;eft you is blank ,feel free to use it for whatever you want, the backapck, like standard issue trainer bags, are bigger on the iside and use the same comression technology as pokeballs. inside the bag you will find your wallet with your trainer card which accts as your ID and as a means to keep a record of your bank account. All pokemon trainers have an account under their name in the pokemon league bank, money won from battles are transferred to your account and to spend money you merely use your trainer card in the same way one would use a credit card.
You'll also find a dark blue poketch, a sleeping bag, a potion, five pokeballs, spare clothes and other useful items. Oh I've tanek the liberty of giving you a new last name, enjoy your time in Kanto!
Signed Eve.
She put down the rather long letter, still reeling from the new information. After collecting her thoughts she walked over to the bag and rumaged arouund until shecame across the black leather wallet and opened the flap where notes and cards would be stored. inside the clear plastic pocket where one would put a photo or a driver's liscense was a blue trainer card with a picture of her face on it with the following data-
Name: Lorraine Dragonfire
Age: 20
Gender: female
DOB: Fifth of september
She smiled at the choice of name and flipped it over to view the back.
Pokemon: N/A
Badges: N/A
Account balance: 5000 Poke
She was surprised at the amount she had in her account, most trainers only started with a few poke dollars but she shrugged it off and put her wallet, along with the region map, book and letter into the bag. Curiosity got the btter of her and she pulled out the poketch, the strap and watch was indeed dark blue, the screen was bigger than she remebered from the anime and there was a button on the side labelled 'H' along with the up and down app selection buttons below the screen and the green on/off button above the screen. She pressed the 'H' buton and was startled as a light shot out from the screen and formed an image in mid air. It reead 'hologram mode activated'.
(scene change)
After fidling with the device for a good ten minutes lorraine found out that her poketch was one desinged for those with vision impairments and came with a handy 'Night light' app that turned the watch interface into a very powerful torch as well as the standard watch app (she was happy to find the pikachu clock was replaced with a simple digital clock with large numbers), the type match-up app and what appeared to be a 'holochat app' that allowed comunication between owners of a poketch via hologram mode that was simialr in function to a web chat.
Loraine set the poketch to watch mode and put it on her left wrist as there was a knock on the door. She opened it to find a maid with a large package bundled up in her arms.
"Excuse me miss?" the staff member asked "I've just come to drop off your coat from the dry cleaners"
"Thanks" Lorraine replied and grabbed the package from the woman and closed the door.
She set it on her bed and unwrapeed it. It was a large black two tailed trench coat with a high collar and slightly baggy sleeves. She couldn't help but smile as she slipped it on, she had no douvt that this was the exact same coat she had at home. She had a feeling it would come in handy.
'Attention pasengers' the ship's intercom blared 'we are now arriving at Pallet Town harbour, please preapre to disembark'
She put the large grey backpack on, moved her fringe away from her only functioning eye and walked out of the room. And as she walked off of the boat onto the pier she felt nervious but excited as she looked around the small suburban style town with a large building off to the far right that almost towered over the houses of Pallet Town.
Thus her adventure began.