A/N: A while ago I made a fanfic which featured Red, Green, and Blue traveling through the Kanto region. However, after I got bored/fed up with it, I gave up on it. But now, I've got a fanfic with an original storyline, original main characters (well, the trio, at least) and a less stretched out storyline. Enjoy!
PS: The bits in italics when a character isn't speaking is the narrator speaking.
Joe stood in the hall with his two best friends, Zoey and Marcus. "I can't believe we made it this far, guys!" Joe cheered, thrusting his right arm into the air, his two best friends doing so as well. "I just can't believe it!" Joe turned behind him, looking at the battlefield ahead of them. "There it is- the battlefield. We're gonna finally make it to this, once and for all. We're gonna finally make it..." Joe watched on in pride, as the audience cheering in awe and excitement, every last one of them not being able to wait for the big battles that were coming up. Joe took off his green cap, and ruffled through his hair.
"Well, we can't stand here all day." Marcus said, as he started walking up to the green, lucious battlefield. "Let's do our best, OK?"
"Good luck, guys." Zoey said, as he kissed Marcus on his cheek, and then Joe. "May the best man win!"
"Yeah!" Both Marcus and Joe shouted in confidence, "May the best man win!"
No, no, no. Let's not begin there, ok? Let's begin at the start of the story! Yes, the very beginning...!
Chapter 1:
Can't I Choose My Pokémon Now?
Joe, a 12 year old boy, with short black hair, a blue shirt, and grey jeans, was sitting on a leather chair in his room, sitting by his computer. Actually, today was Joe's 12 birthday. He had had a birthday party and had had his presents, but soon, he was due to leave home and go out to start his Pokémon journey. However, his starter Pokémon that he would gain from Professor Oak later that day wouldn't actually be his starter; he already had a Pokémon. The Pokémon he had was an Eevee. The cute Pokémon was curled up and in deep sleep; however, Joe had to go now. "Ricus, Ricus! It's time to go!"
Ricus, Joe's pet Eevee, got up from it's restful slumber, and stretched out its limbs like a cat often does after waking up. Ricus started washing its elegant fur with its rough tongue, and then looked up at its trainer. "Why did you wake me up, Joe? I was having this wonderful dream about meeting a beautiful Eevee... She was the prettiest thing I have ever locked my eyes on..." Ricus stated, remembering his wonderful fantasy. "And then you had to push me to the side and say 'Ricus, it's time to go!' How would you like it if I nipped your toe everytime I wanted you to wake up, hm?"
"But you already do that, Ricus." Joe said, as he selected the start button on the computer, and then turned the device off. "I think a gentle nudge is a lot better than a nip on the toe, Ric." Joe continued, switching the computer off at the plug. "I won't be needing to go on here for a while..."
"And another thing!" Ricus said, scratching his neck with one of his back legs. "Stop calling me Ric! My name is Ricus! I have been your owner for half of your life, so you should know by now what my freaking name is!" Ricus shouted angrily, turning away from Joe and starting to sulk. "Jesus. How would you like it if I called you J, J?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, Ric. I mean, Ricus. I've had a lot to think about lately, you see." He said, as he got up from his leather chair, and then stroked Ricus's soft fur. "Let's be friends again, eh, Ricus?" He said kindly, as Ricus turned round, and smiled, and then licked Joe's hand. "There we go. Now..." He said, as he took his two caps out of the wardrobe. "Now, should I wear my green one or blue one?" He said, trying to choose which cap to wear, both having a Pokéball symbol on them. "I think I'll wear the blue one for a change..." He said, as he put the cap on, and turned to Ricus. "What do you think?"
"You look great." Ricus replied sarcastically, as he watched his trainer trying to decide which jacket to wear. "Just wear the orange one. I love seeing innocent bystanders squirm due to its extremely bright, eye watering colour. Or, you could just wear the red one." He said, with a very sudden change of heart. However, Ricus still couldn't decide. "Oh, just wear the pink frilly one."
"Well, OK." He said, as he pulled a pink frilly jacket out from his wardrobe.
"No, no! I was just joking!" Ricus said, shielding his eyes with his tail. "The red one, the red one!" He said, as he peeked over his tail to check that Joe was wearing the red one. Breathing a sigh of belief, Ricus got back onto his feet, and jumped off the bed, and then sat by Joe's feet. "So, what starter are you gonna pick? Hm? Please tell me you're gonna pick an Eevee! I want to have a girlfriend similar to the one I had in my brilliant fantasy..."
"Ricus, Professor Oak doesn't even lend out Eevee. It's just Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle." He said, as he pulled the zip up on his jacket. "And I'm not quite sure which one to choose just yet. I think I'll have to meet up with Zoey and Marcus first..." He opened his bedroom door, and then started walking towards the door. He turned around, and said goodbye to his messy bedroom, complete with its blue walls and his black bed. "Goodbye, room. I'll see you again someday." He said, starting to walk again.
"Yeah, see ya, room. Have a fun time without us." Ricus said, as the Normal type Pokémon started to follow his trainer through the hall and towatds the stairs. The halls were white, and there were several doors, for the bathroom, Ricus's bedroom, and his mum's bedroom. "You know, Joe, I'll miss running around this house like some mad animal."
"Will you really, Ricus?"
"Nope. I'm freaking fed up with this place. I can't wait to go somewhere new, y'know. Somewhere... adventurous... somewhere... different." They walked down the carpeted red stairs, and went into the kitchen. "I want to see Pokémon like me..."
"Ooh, hello, Ricus!" Joe's mum said in a soft tone, hugging the Pokémon right next to her face. "I'm very, very sorry that you won't be able to see me for ages, Ricus! I promise that I'll send messages to you and your brave trainer! Yes, I will, I will!" Joe's mum was of a small build, and had black, straight hair, and wore a pink dress with orange flowers printed over it.
"Uh, I think Ricus wants you to let go of him, Mum." Joe stated, as his mum let go of Ricus, and Ricus jumped straight over to Joe, hiding behind his legs. "Well, I'll miss you, Mum. This'll be the first time I've spent days without you, Mum. I just don't know if I'm ready for it yet, though..." Joe said, as he picked up the blue backpack from the kitchen table. "Has this got all I need, Mum?"
"Oh, you'll be OK, Joe. And yes, all your stuff is in that backpack. Everything from camping stuff, to clothes, to tins of food, it's in that ever lasting backpack! Apart from bottles of water, cos that wouldn't fit." She kissed Joe on the cheek lovingly. "Goodbye, Joe. Don't get into any trouble, and above all, remember to be as good a trainer as your father was."
"Alright, Mum." He said, as Ricus took the chance to go straight through the Pokemon flap in the door. "I promise I'll come back someday, Mum! See ya!" He said, as he opened the door, walked out to the vast world. "Well, here I go."
"Finally!" A female voice said, as Joe jumped out of his skin, and turned to his right, noticing a girl standing by the front door. It was Zoey; a girl with pink pigtails and a white cap. "I've been waiting here for ages! I thought that you would never come out, Joe!" She said, as he kneeled down, and tickled Ricus's ear. "Oh, hi, Ricu! What beautiful brown fur you have!"
"Th-thank you, Z-Zoey." Ricus said, blushing at Zoey paying loads of attention to him. "You're looking w-well, Zoey." Ricus stuttered, as Zoey stood up again and faced Joe.
"So, Zoey, what are we waiting for?" Joe asked, as Zoey looked at him blankly. "Uh, hello! Our journeys? Our starter Pokémon? Are we gonna go and get them, or what?" Joe said, as Zoey nodded, and then started walking along with Joe and his Eevee. "Besides, where's Marcus? I thought he was gonna be waiting with you somewhere..."
"Oh, Marcus is at the lab already. You know, being a friend of Professor Oak's grandson and all." She stated, as she blushed. 'Ooh, I can't believe Marcus is spending time with me! We're gonna have the best journey ever!' She said, as she thrusted her arm into the air. Unfortunately for her, Joe noticed. "Uh, I was just remembering something I saw on TV. A ten year old kid was traveling with a monster! The creator of that series must have been a freak!" Zoey said sarcastically.
"Yeah! A freak, eh..." Joe replied, also sarcastically. "A freak, huh..."
~Meanwhile...~
Two strange men, with a bizzare tracking device, and wearing strange clothes, were walking through a small, lonely forest. "So the mysterious thunder storms started here...?" One of the men said, looking at the leaves where the thunder was said to strike. "The leaves seem more burnt here than the other leaves..." The man said, as he got out a blue plastic bag, and put the burnt leaves into the bag, and gave it to the other man. "Well, they were right about the thunder storms... There was a thunder strike here..."
"Lightning strike." The man holding the plastic bag corrected the other man. "It was a lightning strike, Jules. You see, the thunder is the sound that comes from a storm, but the lightning is the thing you see. So, it's actually a lightning strike. It's good that you didn't say that too a skilled scientist, otherwise you would have been laughed at and probably humiliated as well. To say a thunder strike would be incorrect and against the laws of chemistry." The man said to Jules.
"For God's sake, Leon. I don't care about your knowledge of freaking thunder and lightning. No matter what you say, it's all still rock and boom to me. Besides, it would be the laws of physics if you were talking about lightning, not chemistry." He checked the bottom of the trees' bark to see if that was burnt. "That's strange..." He said, getting Leon's attention, "The trees aren't burnt at all. Only one thing would be able to precisely hit the leaves with lightning and not the trees in the process, you know..." Jules continued.
"So?"
"It must have been a Pokémon, Leon. It wasn't strange weather... It was a Pokémon..." He said, as took the plastic bag back from his co worker, and the two ran off in the direction of their hidden base.
~In Professor Oak's Lab~
The main room in Professor Oak's lab was, well, messy. It had paperwork all over the tables, and books all around the room as well, but there was one awfully important thing on this room- the starter Pokémon. Marcus, a boy with spiky black hair, a red cap, and a purple jacket, impatiently waited at a table, which was next to a grandiose device, which had three red and white Poké Balls sitting on it, which supposedly had the three starter Pokémon inside. "Professor Oak, can't I choose my Pokémon now? Joe and Zoey are gonna take ages..."
"I'm afraid not, Marcus." Professor Oak replied, as looked through some of his paperwork and then threw back onto his desk again after a quick read through. "I want to give all three of you a fair chance at what starter Pokémon you want. If you pick a Pokémon now, then that means that Joe and Zoey might not be able to choose the Pokémon they want. Now, I know that Joe already has an Eevee, but he doesn't use that battling, so he's allowed to choose a starter Pokémon from my selection, OK?" Professor Oak explained, just as the door opened and the remaining two trainers walked in.
"Ah, there you both are." He said, as he allowed Joe and Zoey to sit at the table, next to Marcus. Ricus sat on the table next to the three Poké Balls and peacefully curled up and went to sleep. "Now, listen up, you three. I have brought in the traditional Kanto starter Pokémon, which every trainer uses if they come to me to become a trainer. All three are relatively easy to train up, and you should have no troubles battling with them."
"Wait, wait, wait. You should have no troubles battling with them? Why should? Isn't will a better word?" Joe interrupted, "I mean, saying should implies that they might not be able to be battled with..."
"Well, that's just it." Professor Oak said, as the three starting trainers gasped in surpise. "I haven't actually looked into these certain Pokémon yet. All kinds of a specific Pokémon will have a different personality, you see. Now, uh, that's enough of me talking, I think." The grey haired 50 year old man said, "You can finally choose your starter Pokémon, if you so desire." He said, as he touched all the buttons on the Poké Balls, each one opening at his will. "Now, choose."
The one on the left was Bulbasaur; it was a green Pokémon, with red eyes, and a dark green bulb on its back, with strange dark markings on its face. The one in the middle was Charmander, an orange Pokémon with a long tail with a flame on the end, with a lighter underbelly. The one on the right was Squirtle, a blue Pokémon with a brown shell, and a little tail just below the end of the shell. "Wow! I am so gonna pick Squirtle!" Zoey said, as she grabbed the Water type Pokémon, and hugged it softly. "Hello, Squirtle! How are you today, hm?"
"I'm fine, I'm fine! Just let me down, OK?" Squirtle asked, as Zoey put her Water type Pokémon back on the table, so that it could stand up again like normal. "I'm guessing I'm go towards this girl, then."
"I hope I'm going to a sophisticated trainer." Bulbasaur mumbled, as Joe went on his knees and looked at Bulbasaur at eye level. "Hey, at least I'm getting a trainer of my own gender, Squirt. Not sure if this trainer is a sensible one, though..." Joe picked up Bulbasaur, and moved Bulbasaur around 360 degrees to see what it completely looked like. "Hey! Hey! I am not a toy! I am a Pokémon! I'm a living, breathing, creature, just like yourself!"
"Yeah, I know that." Joe said, as he put Bulbasaur back on the table. "OK, I'm choosing Bulbasaur." Joe stated, as he watched Marcus picking up Charmander. "So, I guess your gonna pick Charmander, right?" Joe asked Marcus.
"What does it look like, Joe?" Marcus snapped coldly, as he looked at Charmander's blazing tail tip, and its great orange fur. "I guess this Pokémon wil do. What do you think, Charmander? Do you want me as a trainer?"
"Yeah, yeah, I'll go with anyone." Charmander replied, as Professor Oak gave Joe, Zoey, and Marcus five Poké Balls each. Charmander flinched, and then looked at Professor Oak. "Hey, gramps! You're not gonna make Marcus put me in a Poké Ball, right?"
"Hmm. Well, I know that some Pokémon don't like to be put in their Poké Ball." Professor Oak went back to his desk, and grabbed three Pokédexes; one was red, one was blue, and one was yellow. He then handed the red one to Joe, the blue one to Marcus, and the yellow one to Zoey. "Well, you three, have a good journey. You must challenge all eight gyms and then..."
"Yeah, yeah, we know the deal. C'mon, Ricus, wake up." Joe said to Ricus, nudging with his fore finger. "We've got to go on our journey now, Ric."
~Meanwhile, back in the forest~
Just as Jules and Leon were about to exit Pallet Woods, there was another lightning bolt; the strong power of the bolt, as Jules had predicted, was very precise. Just like the leaves the two found earlier, the ground was burnt, and the nearby trees were burning badly. Jules got a water bottle out from his backpack, and threw it over the burning trees to extinquish the fire. At that moment, a family of Pidgey, brown white Flying type Pokémon, flew away from the tallest of the four trees that was on fire. "Surely this isn't the first time Flying type Pokémon have flew away after a thunder strike in the first episode of a Pokémon media..."
"Lightning strike. Remember what I told you, Jules. It was a lightning strike, because the thunder is the sound, and the lightning is what you see."
"Yeah, yeah, you like lightning, I know, I know." He looked up into the sky, and saw a purple and black thunder storm, with glowing red eyes in the middle of it. "That must have been what caused the thunder storm in the first place..." He said, as Jules and Leon watched the thunder storm grow smaller and smaller, the red eyes finally disappearing after a while.
Next Time:
Chapter 2
A Dangerous Pokémon Emergency!
A/N: So, there's chapter 1. It isn't perfect, but I hope you enjoyed it.