AN: Hi everyone! Sorry, I lied, but this is a good one! I decided that I wanted to start the Friends until the End Series early as in right now. It's sad that I'm in love with this series more than the others, but don't fret I will update the others. I'm experiencing writer's troubles that include uncertainty and blocks. Like with Unbeatable everything is planned out, but these aren't mostly written so waits will be a long toward the end. If you're not reading the Unbeatable Series: 1. you should 2. You might kind of confused, but still able to follow. This series occurs 5 years after Unbeatable is supposed to end which goes on for 4 Seasons, but I think it can be read without reading Unbeatable. Warning, there are spoilers for Unbeatable.
Disclaimer: I own nothing related to the Pokémon aspect. The characters that you aren't from the Pokémon world are mine as the three main trainers are ones my two friends and I created based upon ourselves in some sense. Anyway…on to the show.
Pokémon: Friends Until the End
Episode 1: Everything Has a Start
New Bark Town was quiet compared to the other place Alano Jason had lived as his years as a gym leader. He was happy he picked this spot after his wife passed. His father suggested it as a quiet and safe place to raise his daughter or his father's granddaughter that was still close to where he was located. He walked out in the afternoon to fetch the mail. As he looked through it he noticed his daughter had mail. As Alano comes inside from grabbing the mail he hears thundering footsteps come down the stairs.
"Has the mail come yet?" Zane Miranda Jason asked her father. Her emerald green eyes shone with hope he'd say yes as her long brown hair was casually put up in a ponytail. Her glasses only lessened the power of her eyes, but that also could magnify them.
"Yes and you've got a letter from a Professor Krystopher." Alano told his hyperactive 14 year old girl.
"Yes!" Zane shouted as she jumped off the steps toward her father.
"Geez girly, what's so important about it?" Alano asked surprised by his daughter's behavior as she ripped through the envelope and opened the letter inside.
"I'm in! Dad, I've been accepted to take part in the first Goal Influence Study. I'm the representative of Johto which means I can finally go on a journey on my own!" Zane explained.
"Before I know you'll be famous." Alano said hoping his daughter would make a better name for herself then the ones she could be given. Or at least a better name for herself than what he had which ultimately became lost.
"Not just famous, the best," Zane corrected, "Champion Zane Jason..."
"Go and get'em," Alano said making a strong fist to her and she grinned.
Elsewhere someone else was having similar reaction to an identical letter. Well, not fully identical because regional had to be from others places than just the town which the coordinating professor lives. Solaceon Town, in the Sinnoh region. Also a quiet place with history and where new paths begin.
"Mom! Dad! I got in!" Korina Dominique Carlon announced to her parents. Korina had opened the letter outside and had to push back her black hair so her purple eyes could get a better look.
"Into what?" her father, Ian, asked.
"The Goal Influence Study! Remember a professor in Johto wants to study how new trainers and their starters grow and such by the types of goals their trainers have. I was accepted as the Sinnoh representative!" Korina explained with her voice overcoming with excitement.
"That's great honey, just remember to be safe, nice, smart..." Elise, her mother, rambled.
"I got it and I will!" Korina said cutting her mom off. Elise could ramble and she was protective over her daughters.
"You'll be our top coordinator." Ian said revealing what Korina wanted to do. His daughter was barely paying attention as she stared at the acceptance letter that also had a boat ticket that left in three days.
What is better than two trainers? Three! In a project it good to have more than one set of data to compare to the original. In Celadon City in the Kanto region excitement was for those who thought they'd make it because of their dreams. Anyone could have a dream no matter what it was or how big or small. Or barely had to do with training Pokémon. Well, Professor Krystopher saw potential in any dream.
"I can't believe it..." Naomi Tonteonna Porter said as she ran her hand through her short black hair.
"What dear?" Jasmine, her mother, asked.
"What sis?" Dereck, her little brother, voiced.
"Sissy what is it?" Shay, her little sister, added afterward.
"I can't believe I was accepted to be a part of the Goal Influence Study or GIS for short. This gives me and two other new trainers a chance to live out our dreams and help out with research in not a typical way. Perhaps now the world will now see my designs. I know my companions will...Oh please let four days come!" Naomi prayed. There was a ticket in the letter for a train going to Johto that made a stop by New Bark Town. If going up the path it lead to a fork that one led to town while another to the docks.
"Good luck sis!" Dereck hoped.
"I miss you sissy!" Shay admitted.
"Watch, you two will see her in a magazine showing off what she's come up with." Jasmine said knowing her daughter would take fashion to a new level.
"Yay!" her siblings cried.
"Don't worry, you will!" Naomi reassured.
As Naomi said before four days came by fast as they were to meet at Professor Krystopher's lab.
"Good luck Zane," Alano said.
"Thanks dad." Zane replied giving her father a hug before going on her way.
The train stopped in New Bark Town and Naomi got off. New Bark was small compared to other towns so the professor did not think to send anyone to pick the two outer region girls up. However, she put detailed directions to the lab she marked out herself as she made a trip from the stations to the lab. She followed the marked path and found the fork in the road. It told her to take the one ahead and she did leading to a busy, but small town.
"Am I going the right way?" Naomi asked herself as she looked around the area and back at her map. She assumed the professor was testing them or something how they could manage traveling.
"Are you lost?" A voice said belonging to Korina asked.
"I think so, you wouldn't happen to know your way around or the way to a...Professor Krystopher's lab?" Naomi asked hoping this girl would know where the lab was.
"I did, but I forgot too and this map is kind of confusing..." Korina replied.
"Welcome aboard. Should we ask?" Naomi asked seeing another girl walk by them.
"Wouldn't hurt. Excuse me..." Korina replied asking the girl with headphones in who happened to be Zane. "EXCUSE ME!"
"Huh? Sorry, couldn't hear you over my music. Want something?" Zane asked the two lost girls.
"Yeah, can you please direct us to Professor Krystopher's lab?" Korina asked.
"Sure, I'll show you. I'm heading in that direction anyway," Zane said.
"Thank you." The two outsiders breathed finally getting somewhere.
"By the way, I'm Korina Carlon."
"Pleasure. I'm Naomi Porter."
"My name's Zane Jason. I take it you're not from around here." Zane asked seeing mostly everyone who lived in the town knew where the lab was.
"Nope." Korina simply replied.
"Not really..." Naomi said sheepishly.
"Don't worry about it, even if I wasn't coming this way you would have found the lab as it is right up there. Ah! I forgot I need to pick up something! Nice to meet you!" Zane said before she ran back the other direction.
"You too!" Korina said watching the girl leave.
"Bye!" Naomi called.
"To the lab!" Korina announced as she took off running.
"Right behind you!" Naomi replied following who she believed her new found friend.
As the two girls raced up to the lab the professor that the lab belonged to was freaking out. It was already noon and the girls were supposed to have arrived a while ago. She thought about her map she gave them and probably figured it was confusing when she looked at it again. She was never very good with directions anyway.
"I knew I should have of sent an assistant to meet them..." Professor Krystopher said as she paced back and forth in the main area of the lab.
"Professor, two girls have just arrived," said the assistant who really just came by to check on her said from the top of the steps as he looked into the lab's main area.
"Thank goodness,' she said to herself as she sees Korina and Naomi come up, "You must be Korina and you're Naomi, both here for the GIS."
"Wait! Naomi, you're one the trainers." Korina shouted realizing what the professor said.
"Yep! And apparently so are you!" Naomi answered in the same shock.
"Awesome!"
"I'll take that as a yes. Now we just my Johto," the Professor mentioned.
"Who is it?" Naomi asked wondering even though she figured she wouldn't know the person being from Johto.
"Professor?!" a voice called from downstairs. Professor Krystopher normally had a walk-in policy to about anyone in New Bark Town since pretty much everyone knew each other. Plus the professor had known the girl for a while through her father and such.
"Ah. There she is now. Up here!" Professor Krystopher shouted down and Zane came up in response to hearing her call.
"Sorry Professor that I'm late. I forgot I needed to pick up an item from my grandma, but she wasn't there..." Zane said explaining why she was late and ultimately why she left the girls in the first place.
"That's fine. Come meet the other two trainers." Professor Krystopher accepted knowing Zane's grandmother was that type of person and she wouldn't be in town much longer as liked to travel.
"Hi, I'm...Korina? Naomi?" Zane questioned seeing the two girls she showed the lab to.
"Zane?" they asked.
"You've met?" the professor asked.
"Yeah, I showed them where the lab was," Zane explained.
"Excellent," Professor Krystopher rejoiced getting pasted introductions fast to get on to the main reason they're all there. "What do you guys say about getting started?"
"Sure!" the trio replied.
Professor Krystopher took a deep breath before she explained, "As you know the GIS allows me to further my research in Pokémon goal influence studies. I want to know if Pokémon react differently to the different goals their trainers have in the beginning. I want you three to help me with that. I also want to know about if being from different regions has any effect which is why you're from different regions. Also makes this opportunity open to anyone. One to be my base study and two others to use as my experiments. First I want to give all three your Pokédex and Pokéballs. As you know it is for recording data and learning about Pokémon on your journeys. Also to catch any Pokémon you may want. Now onto what I think is the best part about starting a journey, picking your partner. Let's start with far away Sinnoh, Korina."
"Okay!" Korina excitingly said about getting to go first.
"First we have Turtwig the grass Pokémon," she announced releasing the grass type.
"Turtwig..." Turtwig yawned before looking at the possible trainer.
"Next is Piplup, a water type!"
"Piplup Pip!" said the penguin as he raised his flipper and smiled.
"And finally Chimchar, the fire type!"
"Chimchar!" the chimp said like a tough guy and punched out his fist.
"So Korina, who do you choose?" she asked the Sinnoh trainer.
Korina looked them all over not having really decided on which one, but was currently putting options in her head, "Any one of them would be a perfect partner for me and they're all so cute...I know! I pick you Piplup!"
"Piplup!" the water type cheered as he jumped into her arms.
"Okay then here is his Pokéball," Professor Krystopher said giving her his Pokéball.
"Hi Piplup, I'm Korina. I hope we'll be good friends and become a Top Coordinator Team together." Korina introduced herself.
"Piplup Pip Lup!"
Pokédex: Piplup, the Penguin Pokemon, because it is very proud, it hates accepting food from people. Its thick down guards it from cold.
"Alright Naomi, you're from Kanto so come on down!" said the lively and outgoing adult.
"Professor..." Zane warned.
"What's wrong?" asked Professor Krystopher. She liked to be eccentric toward people she met; it made them come back.
"Just don't..." Zane added from her previous warning.
"Alright, first is Bulbasaur the grass type!"
"Bulbasaur!" the Kanto grass starter cried as she smiled sweetly.
"Next is Squirtle, a water type!"
"Squirtle Squirt!" the Squirtle said being tough by crossing his arms.
"Finally is Charmander, the fire starter!
"Charmander Char!" the fire type shouted as he stood on one foot.
"So?" Professor Krystopher asked.
"I thought it over long and hard before arriving and my best choice as an inspiring PokéStylist and myself is Bulbasaur!" Naomi said choosing.
"Bulba!" she cheered.
"What do you say? Sound good to you?" Naomi asked her new Pokémon.
"Bulba!" the grass type nodded. She like the cute and sweet things anyway. She'd fight if it was commanded though.
"Here you go." Professor Krystopher said handing her a Pokéball.
Pokédex: Bulbasaur, the Seed Pokémon, for some time after its birth, it grows by gaining nourishment from the seed on its back.
"Okay Zane, home team ready?" she asked the final trainer.
"I'm ignoring the reference and saying I'm ready!" Zane grinned.
"Good. First is Chikorita, a grass type!" she introduced. The Pokémon smiled at Zane and Zane smiled back, but wasn't with the same feeling.
"Chika!" she cried out happily the girl smiled back as she galloped a little.
"And this Totodile, a water type!"
"Totodile!" Totodile chattered quickly as he ran in a circle.
"Lastly the fire type, Cyndaquil!"
"Cyndaquil!" Cyndaquil squeaked as he shook his head cutely before looking at Zane.
"I've known who I've wanted my entire life knowing about them...I choose you Cyndaquil!" Zane said confidently as she had known from the start.
"Cynda!"
"Cyndaquil, let's become the strongest team no one has ever seen." Zane challenged.
Cyndaquil lit his fire and clenches fist as he accepted with a, "Cynda!"
Pokédex: Cyndaquil, the Fire Mouse Pokemon, It has a timid nature. If it is startled, the flames on its back burn more vigorously.
"Glad you agree." Zane said giving him a small fist bump.
"Chika!" the Johto grass starter cried out in shock. She thought they had connection.
"Don't worry, you're true trainer will come and you'll be great partners. If I had to pick from these three I'd pick you." Korina said to appease the upset Pokémon.
"Chikori!" she returned smiling.
"Professor, who are these trainers in these pictures?" Naomi asked being distracted by the photos on a table. Professor Krystopher had meant to hang them up on the wall for a while and next got around to it. Every time she'd go to do hang them she'd get an idea that couldn't be let go. Last time the idea was GIS.
"I almost forgot! I take pictures of all the trainers I start out so I have the memory of their first Pokémon. Smile!" Professor Krystopher explained as she also took their photos.
"So who are they?" Korina asked.
The professor looked over the photos to sort them before she answered, "Well that one is Aiden Ballor and his Totodile, now Feraligatr, he's still figuring out what he wants to do while trying to pass up his girlfriend. The next one is Alyssa Cantu and her Chikorita now Meganium named Solar, who became a Top Coordinator. The one there is Domino Mitchell who didn't start with a Johto starter and her story is interesting as she started was a Pidgey named Aera given to her by another trainer which has evolved all the way to Pidgeot. Anyway, she's trying to be a gym leader for flying Pokémon. She has a lot to figure out left. The girl there is Dema and her Totodile who I believe is a Croconaw now she named Rally and she is still on her journey. And...Oh, hers fell down." The professor walked over and picked up a photo that features a girl and a Cyndaquil. "This is probably the trainer that I have been most honored to sponsor. This is Chasen Emerson and her Cyndaquil now Typhlosion, Blitz.
"Why does that name sound familiar?" Zane asked herself out loud hoping someone would answer.
"Should be to you Zane. Chasen is current Johto Battle Frontier Champion and final brain of the Ascendant Symbol. She currently up in the running to the title of World Champion," the proud professor explained.
"No Way!"
"Yep and Top Coordinator known as "The Unbeatable Trainer". She proud of this fact, but she's modest. She actually gave Domino her starter as she is Aera original trainer. Chasen actually is from New Bark Town and grew up right down the road from here," she explained further.
"Awesome and I never knew!" Zane said shocked.
"Most won't as she lives by the road and you live by the ocean. I am the only common point between the sides of town. Well, I've kept you all long enough and probably don't want to hear my cracked up stories. As for you guys that's all I have for you for now so go out and have fun on your journeys through Johto and see you soon. Good Luck!" she saluted to the girls as they went on their ways. She prayed they'd be alright together. She was sending three young trainers into the unknown about everything. Each other and the places they'd go. Sure, they had some knowledge, but barely any first-hand experience. They would have to work together in order to achieve their dreams and after reviewing their application she felt these were the right choice.
"Thank you!"
The girls waved to the younger than most professors as they walked toward the end of town. They all had their dreams in mind and it was not only their passion that was going to carry them. They had newly evolving friendship that was only expected to grow stronger. They'd fight, defend, help, and do it all together. Well, GIS wasn't just about the Pokémon, but they didn't need to know that.
"Chikori...chika chika!" said a voice as it peered from behind a tree.
AN: And Episode 1 ends! Hope you'll stay tuned for the rest and I'll update the others as well, but I needed to share this because I love this one! Don't forget to Review!
Preview: With meeting new people comes issues and how deep do these go? Also Pokémon tend to take after their new trainers. How will they overcome when their fighting Pokémon causes issues for wild ones? Will their petty fights break them before they begin? Next time on Pokémon: Friends Until the End: At First to Fight!