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CHAP. 1: Professor Lucas?, Noelle, Tristan, and Brayden choose their pokemon!
Noelle is watching the news on the T.V. in her bedroom as she's lying on her bed. The breaking news is on the great professor Rowan's retirement. Her dad is going to take over his studies at the lab. Little did Noelle know that her dad was going to embarrass her on the world wide television show. By simply acknowledging that she was watching at home...
"Ugh! Mom!" She shouted as she ran down the stairs her lime green hair floating behind her. "Why does dad always have to embarrass me?"
"He's just your dad, Noelle. Nora, the girl's mother replied to her child. "Lucas, Lucas, Lucas... What ever will I do with you?" She muttered to herself. Nora eyed her daughter, who was about to begin her journey as a pokemon trainer. "Noelle, honey! Come over and sit down with me." She told her daughter, who came over to the bar and plopped in a stool. Noelle was certain she knew exactly where this conversation was going, you could see it in how attentatively she looked at her mom.
"What is it?" She asked sweetly, as if she didn't already know.
"Tristan stopped by, he wanted to see you." Nora began to tease her daughter.
"Is that it?" Noelle exclaimed. "I thought it was important!"
"It seemed like it was, he really wanted to meet you at the Sandgem beach." She replied, putting her hand in her Apron pocket, she'd pick on Noelle to make her wait longer. Noelle begins to slouch out the door when her mother calls out. "Honey! He wanted to make sure you didn't forget!"
"Forget what?" Noelle had a slightly pouty tone in her voice. Her mom fishes out her Postcard.
"This!" She smiled as her daughter's eyes lit up like a field of Volbeat and Illumise. Noelle ran upto her latched onto her mom in a big hug, grabbed the postcard and bolted to the door. "Noelle-!"
"Got it mom, stay out of the grass!" Noelle cut her off as she slammed the door behind her. She stopped outside to take in the fresh, warm smell of her hometown... Sandgem. "So beautiful!" She exclaimed to the morning air, before heading down to the beach. Noelle couldn't wait to go on her journey, get her pokemon, get the badges... or ribbons... Those were nice too. She- (Crash!) was knocked over by an opposing force.
"Watch where you're going... I could fine you for- Noelle..." Tristan turns away, blushing in embarassment. He quickly lends a hand to help her up. "Did you get it, Did you get a postcard?"
"What postcard?" She teased him.
"Arrgh! You know I don't like to be teased!" He exclaims.
"Alright..." She produces it. "Here it is." He beams at the sight of it, he fishes for his in his pockets... And produces a wad of paper, Noelle just laughs at him. "Wow Tristan! In a hurry much?"
"Oh... Heheh." He puts it away. "So have you thought about your pokemon yet?"
"Oh my! I was so excited I couldn't decide! Rasing a Piplup would be neat! Chimchar would make a great contest pokemon, but oh! Turtwig is so cute, too!" Noelle chirped happily.
"Ugh... I was gonna pick Turtwig... Are you sure it's C-U-T-E?" He spelled it out for her.
"What is it to you if I find Turtwig is cute!" Noelle flamed.
"I don't want to have people say my pokemon is C-U-T-E..." Tristan trailed off.
"Whatever... Hey, Dad has kept me out of the lab long enough," She said, grabbing his collar, "Let's go!" She runs, dragging Tristan along.
"Aahhhh...! Noelle, slow down, we don't have to get there that fast!" Tristan wails, as he is being dragged.
"Come on, hurry up!" Noelle said to Tristan eagerly.
"You always say that I'm in a rush!" He replied.
"Shutup, Tristan!" Noelle shouted, stopping but still clutching Tristan's shirt collar.
"Noelle..." Tristan gasps. "We're here... can you let go...now?"
"Oh!" Noelle blushes and quickly releases Tristan's collar. "Sorry, Tristan...Wow, our very own Pokemon are waiting for us on the other side of this door."
"Yeah." Tristan replies making Noelle jump because she had forgotten he was there."Let's go in, anticipation is killing me!" With that, they go into the lab, where Professor Lucas is waiting for them. The Pokemon Research Lab is filled with tons of cool machines and pokemon and researchers that are doing experiments on their power and abilities. The reseachers take a moment to acknowledge the new trainers, it had only seemed like yesterday they were knee-high and running around the research lab. Professor Rowan didn't seem to mind having them around they kept the pokemon company by playing with them, which kept the lonely lab pokemon happy. But those days have far past all of them as the two of them are starting their journeys under the new professor, Lucas.
"Hey kiddos! I saw you through the window and was wondering when you'd be coming in!" The Pokemon Professor greeted them. "So you're here for your starters I take it?" Noelle and Tristan nod in sync. "All right! Did you happen to bring your postcards?" Lucas asked, seeing the face of Tristan change from happy to nervous.
"Yes!" Noelle replied as Tristan: "Well... I... um..." Tristan stuttered, reaching into his pockets.
Both of them took out their cards and held them out. Noelle's was clean and fresh... Tristan dug deeply into his pockets until he found it, the crumpled wad... which used to be the postcard. Noelle held hers out proudly, Tristan retreated at the sight of his postcard. Lucas chuckles at the boy's face.
"Oh... I see." Lucas comments. "Well, Tristan, That means you won't be able to start your journey this year!"
"But... But I..." Tristan stutters. "Awe man..."
Lucas begins to laugh. "I'm just kidding! Do you think you are the only kid to ever present a crumpled postcard?"
"Well-" Tristan is cut off by Lucas.
"My goodness, no!" Lucas belts out loud, he gets a serious look on his face. "Noelle, honey, you can go back now. Tristan and I need to have a small talk before the two of you pick out your Pokemon and-" Lucus is cut off by-
Brayden bursts into the Pokemon Lab in just his Pajamas and in one breath- "Hi, sorry I'm late! I over-slept, I can't believe that I would oversleep on today of all days! Was too excited to sleep, are all the Pokemon gone yet?..." He notices his PJs. "Oh! Im in my Pajamas... Gosh." Everyone stares, blinking at the boy.
"I'm just gonna go on back..." Noelle breaks the akaward silence to make her exit.
"Well, nice to meet you-" Brayden eagerly pulls out his postcard and shoves it in Lucas's hand nervously. "... Ah, Brayden! Well you are late, and a little underdressed, no?" Brayden chuckles nervously. "The two of you are just a little irresponsible. Quite frankly I'm concerned for your Pokemon. I want to let both of you know that I will let this slide because I know that it means a lot to both of you. It meant a lot to me when I was your age and starting my own journey. Professor Rowan gave me this opprotunity to journey out on my own. You can't just get it from thin air, someone has to write an approval letter allowing you to embark on a journey through our research lab. I have them here." Lucas holds up his folder and pulls out three letters. " One from Nurse Joy, one from Top Coordinator Dawn, one from your parents." indicates Tristan as the last letter in the file. "You won't be able to read these, however, until I have deemed you as an alumni trainer and you gain recognition from the Pokemon League Association, Pokemon Coordinator Association, or any one of the clubs posted on that poster." Indicates the door that Noelle went into. "Then you'll recieve a membership booklet as well... But I won't go into it all right now, you're much too young to understand. Just gain their approval and stop by the office with the official recognition letter, and I'll walk you through the rest. Got it?"
"Well, yes... but doesn't Noelle need to know this too?" Tristan asked.
"Ah, Noelle!" Lucas replied. "Noelle has been in and out of this office for her whole life, I'm afraid that if I tell her, she'll just finish all my sentences. She knows the speech forwards, backwards, and any direction possible..." Lucas chuckles. "I'm sure you've had enough of me at this point! Let's go check out the Pokemon you have to pick from!" He ushers the kids through the door and down the hallway, where they can hear the muffled laughter of Noelle at the end of the corridor.
"Oh... my... Arceus..." Tristan stands in the doorway looking in horrified.
Turtwig dashes around her feet, energetically, Chimchar plays with Noelle's long hair from her shoulder, and Piplup sleeps cradled in her arms.
"Oh... my... Arceus..." Tristan repeats from the doorway still looking horrified. "Look at them! They're all tainted!"
"Oh! Hi, Dad! It's so hard for me to choose, they are all so cute!" Noelle says and gets Tristan to be annoyed with her calling them c-u-t-e again.
"I can see that, dear!" Lucas laughs at Tristan and Brayden's expressions of "c-u-t-e... ugh..."
"Ok, I get it... I get it. Look here, Tristan!" Noelle smiles. "Turtwig is so energetic, He'd be the perfect match for you!"
"Hey! What about me!" Brayden whines.
"Oh... Um, which one...?" Noelle asks him, being polite because she upset him. "I'm pretty indifferent to these two."
Brayden scans the two from the door. Piplup's sleeping and Chimchar seems calm, but playful... It was tough because they both looked attached to Noelle and that made them tainted, just a little...
"Hmm..." He finally made a sound after a couple of minutes. "You didn't make it easy that's for sure... I'm thinking I like that Chimchar. Piplup hasn't budged, so I can easily tell it'd make a good partner for you."
"Alrighty then! Chimchar, it was great to meet you, but Piplup is my pokemon. You belong to... to..." She looks up to wait for his answer.
"It's Brayden." He replies flatly. "I plan to become the world's best Top Coordinator!"
"Is that so?" Noelle smirks, scanning the cockiness of the boy, then glancing at her friend.
"Alrighty then! Chimchar, it was great to meet you, but Piplup is my pokemon. You belong to... to..." She looks up to wait for his answer.
"It's Brayden." He replies flatly. "I plan to become the world's best Top Coordinator!"
"Is that so?" Noelle smirks, scanning the cockiness of the boy, then glancing at her friend.
I hope you enjoyed chapter one of the remake and re-release of my O.C. adventure. Please Review! 3