Let's Go Together

by Rivael

I was just a normal guy trying to play a normal game, how did this even happen? Do I even care? Not really. This is the story of a dork who somehow ended up inside his character's body in Pokémon Let's Go. Too bad he picked the female character. Or is it a good thing?

1. Escape from Reality!

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon™. Pokémon™ was created by Satoshi Tajiri and is owned by Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures.

Narration

Thoughts

"Dialogue"

"Telepathy"

To those who read the first version of the story, be advised that I changed some stuff in this chapter and I put an Author's Note at the end explaining what's going on.

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Chapter 1: Escape from Reality

Pokémon. It's been a while since I've played one of these; I haven't even finished Moon yet. I got bored, actually; they added way too much unnecessary features in the last few generations. Mega-Evolutions, as cool as they are sometimes, didn't really do anything for me and Alolan forms? I'll admit I love Alolan Vulpix and Ninetales but that's it; all the others I find ugly and unnecessary.

But this... I clutched my new copy of Pokemon Let's Go Eevee tightly in my hands, excited to play it. This one is gonna be fun. I've seen how much the fans have been complaining about all the changes they're making in this one but I don't much care for them; if they want to skip this one and wait for Gen 8 than they can wait. Meanwhile, I'll be enjoying the Yellow remake.

I love this game. I haven't even played it yet and it's already my new favorite. We can finally have our pokémons follow us again! I wish I could have a real pokémon but I have to admit that if I had either of my favorites people would immediately know I'm a pervert; Lopunny and Gardevoir are pretty much the sex symbols of the franchise at this point so there'd be no denying it. Moving on. Though I've heard customization is less extensive than in the previous games, it's still there and I love it; you might not be able to change your appearance but you can change your clothes and I really like that! I can even dress up Eevee! We can ride pokémons. And I definitely won't complain about the new capture mechanic; we finally have a legitimate reason to catch the all! I mean... besides the shinier (It's not.), newer (You know, it's probably older, now that I think about it, since it adds the older generations to it...) pokédex they give you once you do.

My mom drives the car into the garage and as soon as she turn off the engine I stumble down the stairs to my basement with a shout of "Thanks mom!". I pick up my Switch and insert the cartridge inside. Finally I can have some fun with it; sure, I've had fun with Mario Kart and Mario Party but this game (and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, even if I'm terrible at fighting games) is why I bought the Switch in the first place!

Here we go. I press Start, pick a controller and am greeted by a cinematic. Eevee magically jumping out of the TV screen. It's pretty cute, running around the living room, but the sounds...

Oh boy, that's a tone setter. I love you Eevee but if you're gonna sound like a retarded two year old the whole time we're gonna have a problem. The Eevee jumps back into the TV screen as inexplicably as it came out of it in the first place and the screen goes black. I wish I could have followed it...

"Hello there! Glad to meet you!" Yeah, yeah. It's the same speech every time; sorry Oak but I have stuff to do! I skip through his dialogue, as always.

"What do you look like?" Aww... no are you a boy, or are you a girl? Alright. Well, both models look nice but that's expected at this point; I'm pretty sure I've liked every character models they've made since Unova. Lyra, Lucas and Brandon where the worst, in my opinion. The boy model looks cool but, as always, I'm picking the girl. Why? Because if I'm gonna spend hours looking at a character's back (read: butt), it might as well be a girl's.

I feel like black hair would fit the name I've picked out better but I like pale skin better and the only black hair is on the black model... does that make me racist? Alright, I see why people where complaining about that feature. I mean, that's such an easy fix! Whatever. I select the grey haired girl model. "And how about a name, hmm?" I already have one picked out; I kinda like it.

"Right. So your name is Cinder?" Yes. The screen turns to reveal the rival for this game. Ok, rival. God, he's ugly. I think I'll call him 'your ugly neighbor' since I don't talk I don't have to call him MY ugly neighbor but everyone else, including him, will refer to him as my ugly neighbor. God, I've missed this! Oh... only twelve character. I sigh. Well... I don't want to just call you Ugly... so I guess... your name is... I'll just name you Ash and pretend. Why are these rivals so boring?! I wish I could actually have Ash!

"Mm-hmm, I see! His name is Ash!" Sure, after all that's why I picked Cinder, to be a kind of counterpart to Ash. Kind of... God, he looks weird. Why couldn't the rival be the second model? Oh... it'll probably be used as the second player... Never mind me, I'll just go ask stupid questions somewhere else. Anyway, it's not like it's a new problem; it's always been like that, they always fuck something up. You know what? It doesn't matter. Sure, I can't get most of my favorite pokémons in this game, the character can't be customized and the rival is ugly. But, BUT! I can finally have my pokémons following me around again! In case you haven't caught on yet, I'm really excited about that.

Eevee reappears on screen to drag the camera to another inexplicable trippy magic screen. You're not leaving without me this time, Eevee! I reach and touch the screen. So I.m a weirdo, sue me. Wow, my luminosity must be turned way up, that actually lights up my room. I'll have to fix that. Something strange is going on, I reached out to the TV but I can't feel the screen yet, I should have touched it by now... You remember that feeling when you went to school and you had recess during winter, everything was so bright because of the snow that when you got back inside you couldn't see anything? You saw spots in your vision and everything was grey? That's pretty much what's happening. I try to look at my hands in front of my face but they look smaller than they should be. Looking around the room doesn't help me make sense of anything. I'm still in front of a TV and I still have a Switch in front of me... but neither of them are mine. In fact, I'm not in my room at all. This room is totally unfamiliar to me. I finally look down at myself and realize my mistake.

I should have went with the male character.

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Read if you want more details on the story.

Alright, so, I was gonna post Author's Notes at the beginning of chapter 2 and 3 to explain all of this but it make more sense to post this on chapter one and it'll be less obtrusive here since this, being the prologue, is the shortest chapter.

At first this was only going to cover the Let's Go game and I had another story I wanted to write covering all seven generations but... let's face it, I wouldn't have been able to do it. No one ever does. So instead I reworked the story, recycled some concepts and all that and instead of one short story and an incredibly long one, I'm gonna write one which is somewhere between the two.

The old plan was to have Cinder go through Pokémon Let's Go while having fun with Ash and... that's pretty much it, it would have been a pretty boring story, in my opinion. I had plans for strange things to happen like swapped evolutions from Gen 1 being fixed (Like Venomoth evolving from a Metapod and Butterfree evolving from Venonat as they where clearly intended to I mean, come on, have you ever take the time to look at them? Also Dragonite being the final evolution of Magicarp rather than Dratini. This one is less obvious than Venomoth and Butterfree but if you think about it it makes more sense.), Cinder learning Psychic moves like Sabrina pretty easily and stuff like that. The reason for that was that I intended for the ending to reveal that in this first chapter the guy who becomes Cinder actually fell down the stairs and he's been in a coma all this time, this whole story happens in his head which is why things happen as he think they should. (I hope I don't have to explain why I chose this as the ending but here goes: There's a theory saying that Ash is actually in a coma and that's why he never ages, it's all a dream. I chose that because: 1. It's a reference to that theory and 2. It had to end at the end of the game.)

Instead, this story will now have four arcs. I have decided Cinder will not go to every regions. She will go to Kanto, Hoenn, Sinnoh and Kalos. The other generations will still be a part of the story as I will also be covering some of the movies; one for every generations except Gen 7 which doesn't really have a movie I could adapt.

You see, I kept trying to think about how to make a good story. I'm sure you've seen those critics videos on YouTube that are like: "People don't like OCs and Self-Inserts" and "A story need foreshadowing and good character development, you mustn't neglect a character's struggles or they won't be relatable" and all that king of stuff.

But I like OCs and SIs when their done correctly, I love stories when a normal guy end up in one of his favorite fantasy worlds, I love overpowered heroes, especially when it's a character who struggle in the actual story; it's just so satisfying to me. I've loved isekai since before we started calling them that, and if you're familiar with MLP fanfictions I like Displaced stories (Though I hate when a character from another story is summoned into a Discplaced story I'm reading with those Token thingies because unless I read the other story, I have no idea what's going on and it's cringy as fuck.)

(On that note, if you don't hate MLP you should check out Bucking Nonsense and his stories 'Who is this Lord Tyrek you speak of?' and 'ALL GLORY TO THE OVERGOAT!' though the last one is likely abandoned, actually, I think they stopped writing since their most recent chapter they released was in April 2018. but the Tyrek one is complete and really fun.)

Anyway, I've decided that I've been putting too much effort into making this story 'serious' when I should have been silly from the beginning! When I do something that doesn't fit with what I've learned is 'needed' to make I good story I justify it by saying 'Well, I'm doing this for fun so it's alright' but I haven't been treating the story like that! I keep thinking of people saying how fanfiction if full of shitty stories and trying to make mine one of the good ones (and likely failing) but I like some of those shitty stories (and so do you if you're here) and that a good thing, some of the stories on fanfiction don't take themselves seriously and that's not a bad thing, the ones who try to take themselves seriously are the ones who end up bad because we end up throwing what could be fun ideas out the window because 'it doesn't fit the narrative or the world' but this is fanfiction, you can do whatever you want!

So, I've decided to go wild. I've been having writers block for like two months trying to write the story but that's no fun, from now on I'll be having fun with this!

And I hope you'll enjoy it.