Pokémon FanFic Volume 1: Into the Real World
NOTES TO THE READER
- Thoughts are within (parentheses).
- Speech that cannot be comprehended by humans are within [brackets].
- Speech that is spoken using telepathy are italicized.
- This is my first ever fan fiction. English is usually my worst subject in my education, but surprisingly I found a little passion for writing. I apologize in advance for my lack of vocabulary as well as any discrepancies I may have in this writing. With that being said, I want readers to review my writing fairly as much as possible.
Chapter 1: A Birthday Wish Granted
Simon's Home
Las Vegas, NV, United States
Saturday, 4 January 2020 22:50
"Thank you Lord for a wonderful birthday!" I reflected out loud as I turned off my music player in my Jaguar SUV and pulled into the garage. It was hard to believe that I am already 23 years old. It seemed like it was my 21st birthday. I strongly agreed to the saying that time flies when you're having fun.
Still full from my delicious birthday dinner, I slowly climbed up the stairs and entered my bedroom. It was scattered with clothes and cardboard boxes neatly stacked in a grid-like pattern. I emptied my pockets and put my smartphone, wallet, and keys onto my table which stood in the corner opposite of the doorway. I leaned down and to the side to reach for the power button of my desktop computer which was in sleep mode. Then I turned to my left where the bed was and lied down onto it, breathing in before plunging my face into the pillow and exhaling afterward.
"Man, I am sooooo tired!" I muttered, with my entire face still on the pillow. I stayed in my current and comfortable position for quite a while until realizing that I still had to take a shower. Before that, however, I leaned over to reach for my Nintendo 3DS handheld gaming device with the Pokémon X game card already inserted. I booted up the game and began looking at the current status of my Pokémon team. I had already moved all of my Pokémon into one big storage device in the game except for four creatures. The first two in my team were the ones that have impacted my gameplay the most: Greninja and Lucario. Both have the same level of 86 (out of the maximum 100 levels) in the game.
Greninja is a Water- and Dark-type Ninja Pokémon, bipedal, and closely resembles a frog. He has dark blue body and legs with large bubbles on its legs and arms. The area from his nose to his ears (which appear to be shaped like blades) is cream-colored on the outside while the top of his head and the inside of his ears are dark blue with a light blue color accent between his ears. His physical traits include a very long pink tongue which curls around his neck like a scarf and extends away from his back, webbed feet and hands, two toes on his feet, and three fingers on his hands. He is my first Pokémon to start out with in the entire game franchise. He is pretty well-balanced in terms of his battle strengths and weaknesses. His movement speed stood out above the rest of his stats, and he can move super quick that he can simply disappear from human sight. He is always going to be my number one in my team because of his exceptional performance, not to mention that he has a hardy nature which increases my hopes during battle. His moveset is Cut, Water Shuriken (signature move), Aerial Ace, and Dark Pulse.
Lucario is a Fighting- and Steel-type Aura Pokémon, bipedal, and looks similar to a jackal. He is covered in blue fur all around his body with a cream-colored torso, has black paws, legs, and feet, and out the back of his head hung four small black appendages. He features three spikes, two of which protruded on the back of his paws and one on the chest. Lucario came into my team about midway through the game campaign and proved himself to be a real, worthy fighter. He has the ability to sense auras which indicate feelings of animals and other Pokémon; it allows him to read thoughts as well. He is slower than Greninja, but more powerful in his offenses and defenses. Although the battle performance shines bright within, one problem I have with him is that his behavior is hasty. Lucario is, however, still loyal towards me and will do whatever I want him to do in the game. I think both he and Greninja make perfect teammates for each other. His moveset is Bone Rush, Aura Sphere, Power-Up Punch, and Flash Cannon.
In the Pokémon game, I fired up the Pokémon-Amie feature. I petted both Greninja and Lucario on their favorite spots. Greninja enjoys being rubbed on its tongue around its neck, which sounds disgusting enough, and Lucario likes to be rubbed on his ears as well as the top of his head.
"Man," I sighed deeply, "I wish you two were here with me right now...like...for real. Living in this house can get pretty lonely sometimes, even though I have video games and online communities to keep me company."
It was not too long ago that my parents decided to buy their own condo to give the entire house to me. They told me that I have the freedom to do whatever to the house as long as I have the money to pay. My mother suggested that I do not throw parties, but I silently disagreed to that one. My father didn't care since he used to invite his buddies who played guitars and sang the nights away. Although I thought about throwing a party once for a friend of mine, I couldn't because, most of the time, the parties wanted to be held at gated neighborhoods for safety reasons.
I have been working ever since I graduated college with an Aerospace Engineering major in May of last year. I work as an aircraft mechanic at North Las Vegas Airport, repairing and refurbishing small piston-engine planes as well as private jets. I was always happy to see such a large amount of money in one paycheck every week. I knew that one day I will be able to fly a plane and, hopefully, buy myself one, because the possibility of flight will never be endless if I knew how to fix and fly a plane.
After feeding tasty treats to and playing with my Pokémon for a while, I got up and put the 3DS onto the table. Failing to realize that I left the game running, I gathered my sleeping clothes and proceeded to the bathroom next door to take a shower. Then, the extraordinary happens.
The 3DS began to glow in light blue on both the top and bottom screens. This gradually intensified in a matter of seconds until both screens became so bright that it lit my entire room up more than my ceiling fan's lamp could emit. A few more seconds later, two small spheres of light, two inches in diameter, exitted the device and landed onto my table where all of my junk was. The bright lights gradually dimmed from both spheres until they were red, white, and black in appearance. One half of the spheres is red on top while the other half is white on the bottom with a black line separating the two colors. Somewhere along the black line is a circle which serves a purpose: to catch and store creatures. These two spheres were Poké Balls which have made it into the real world for some mysterious reason.
After my shower and getting dressed in sleepwear, I returned to my room and noticed that my Pokémon game was still running on my 3DS, but I was still oblivious to the Poké Balls physically resting on top of my junk behind the racing wheel which was attached directly in the middle of my desk. I powered off my 3DS and returned it to the charging station next to my bed across the room. After returning to my desktop computer to start my chillstep music for sleeping, I checked my smartphone for any missed calls, new messages, and social media updates before turning off my lamp and finally crashing out in my bed for the night.
Saturday, 4 January 2020 23:50
I was now in deep sleep. However, someone else was in the room about to wake up from a good rest. Suddenly, one of the Poké Balls on my table expanded to a full six-inch diameter. After a few seconds, it opened and ejected a light blue stream of light. The light rapidly made its way onto the floor next to my bed. At that point, the stream quickly took shape from the ground up into a figure, appearing to be sitting parallel to the bed with two bent legs sticking out. His left leg had the knee facing to the side while the right was facing upward. His right arm was bent with the paw resting on top of its knee. His head was pointed towards the floor with his ears sticking up and four appendages coming out of the back. The light slowly started to dim around the figure until it appeared to be a blue jackal sleeping in a sitting position. This is Lucario, and he is the first Pokémon to ever arrive on Planet Earth in physical form.
Once the transformation was complete, Lucario immediately woke up. After opening his eyes, seeing a partially dark room, and hearing music playing from the computer which sounded absolutely foreign to him, he immediately realized that he was not where he was supposed to be.
"(What the...where in the name of Arceus am I?)" he mentally reacted. He got up on his feet and took a short moment to observe his surroundings. The harmonic sounds of the bass drum, snare drum, and piano coming from the chillstep music soothed him slightly. Then he looked to the left to find me sleeping soundly. Lucario stared at my face and tried to see if I was his trainer. He could barely see my goatee and mustache in the dark. "(There is no way that my trainer could look like this...)" he growled in a quiet matter.
Lucario really wanted to investigate me further. He was careful enough to not wake me from my beauty sleep. Being the Aura Pokémon that can sense people and their feelings, he started to glow in blue light all around himself with his red eyes turning bright yellow. The four appendages on the back of his head lifted. In his vision, my entire body became outlined in blue which indicates that I posed no threat to him. Lucario then proceeded to read my mind. "(Interesting,)" he thought. "(He really is knocked out to sleep; I cannot get much out of this guy other than himself cuddling with a creature, much bigger than he is. It looks like a Donphan, but without a thick hide.)" The creature that Lucario was referring to compares to a real-life Asian elephant. It was true that I wanted to see an elephant up close and personal one day. My life wouldn't be complete if I didn't go to Thailand to volunteer in elephant programs that take care of captive elephants which most of them lived an abusive life in the past.
"Hmph!" Lucario grunted, looking to the right. He noticed the open door and saw light coming from the master bedroom at the end of the hallway. Before moving beyond the doorway, he scanned for other living humans around my house. No other auras were detected. He walked into the hallway and noticed a spacious common room downstairs. Then he entered the master bedroom, still cautious of possible life forms. But no one was in the house except for me...and the Pokémon...so far. He looked around the room in shock and wondered, "(How can one person live in a large house like this one?)" His trainer's abode was definitely smaller than the one he is exploring.
Finding nothing in the room that intrigued Lucario, he made his way back to the stairway. Carefully, he descended halfway down the stairs to look out the windows. "(Of course, it doesn't look like I am in Anistar City.)" All he could see outside were other houses across the street as well as an illuminated streetlamp that shone on a parked car. Lucario then proceeded to the first floor of my house and walked over to the living room which also has a lamp activated in the far corner. There, he observed the area, taking a seat on the couch behind the glass table placed in the middle of the room.
Feeling a little comfortable, he attempts to sense other auras, but this time at a much bigger radius. The Aura Pokémon is capable of detecting life in a radius of one kilometer. Just as he was about to start detecting, Lucario heard a speeding motorcyclist roaring by on the main road parallel to the residential street. Immediately, he began to investigate him. "(He really likes to ride that thing)," Lucario thought, "(But judging by his actions, I think he is asking for a death wish.)" Then he sensed other motorists, finding all of them to be unimportant. To his surprise, he was unable to detect one single Pokémon lifeform in this world.
"(This area is A LOT different than where I came from,)" Lucario pondered. "(It is strange. Where are all of the Pokémon here? When the morning comes, I will try to ask the human. From what I saw in him, he seems to be friendly. But if I do find out that he kidnapped me, he will pay me with pain.)" He pushed himself up from the couch and made his way back upstairs to my bedroom.
Lucario sat down next to my bed and closed his eyes. He feels slightly anxious about how tomorrow is going to turn out, but he remained calm nonetheless. The chillstep music soothed him through the night. The clock struck midnight, and life is about to become more interesting with a Pokémon in the real world.
