Pokemon Special - Gijinka Arc
Chapter 1: Vs Pikachu
Red woke up in bed, enjoying the warmth of the sun as it bathed his room in pallet town with a warm, yellow light. It's been a long time since he was last home, he thought to himself, as he placed his arm over his eyes, blocking out the sun's rays. He wriggled his fingers, and flexed his wrists, still feeling rather stiff after being petrified for that period of time after the deoxys incident in the sevii islands.
He thought about the tournament at the end of the Jirachi incident, how he faced Gold in the finals and nearly got beaten. "That boy really grew up, didn't he?" He smiled to himself as he drifted back to sleep.
"CHU!" Red suddenly heard a squeal from his bedside, before getting shocked with a few thousand volts of electricity.
"P-p-p-Pika?" Red muttered, shaking from his intense wake up call.
"What's going on, chu?"
Red heard a squeaky voice coming from beside him. He was shocked and jerked his head up, saying "Hey Pika, since when-" Red stopped mid sentence.
To his amazement, he was facing a young boy wearing a yellow T-shirt with brown stripes on the back, shorts and sporting bright yellow hair. Two Pikachu ears poked out from beneath his unkempt hair, and electricity crackled on the palms of his hands.
"P-p-Pika? Could that be you? I've gotta be dreaming." Red reached out and touched the ears of what used to be his small, yellow electric rat. He was jolted with another thundershock in return.
"PROFESSOR!" Red screamed at the top of his lungs as he ran out of his house, across the town with Pika following right behind him.
Professor Oak was in his backyard, taking care of the Magikarps in his pond, when he heard Red screaming.
"Calm down, my boy, what happ-" the Pokemon Prof started when he saw Pika catching up. "Good heavens! That's a perfect Pikachu cosplay!"
"That ain't no cosplay, prof." Red said, after catching his breath, "That's Pika, in the flesh!"
"Ha ha! Red, my boy, I think you're still tired from all that excitement back in the frontier!" The professor patted Red on his cap, "There's no way that's Pika!"
"But I am Pika!" The boy squeaked, and released a small thundershock on the Professor, who fell over backwards, "See?"
"My goodness," The Professor muttered, standing up with the help of Red, "What happened?" He asked which rubbing Pika's ears and tugging at them.
"Ouch, stop that!" Pika squealed, swatting the Professor's hands away.
"I don't know," Red placed his hands on his chin, "I was woken up by Pika that way too."
"Sorry, Red, I panicked, chu." Pika apologized, his head lowered.
Professor Oak looked around at the curious people of Pallet Town, who had gathered at the fence of his backyard.
"Come in." Professor Oak opened the door to his lab and ushered Pika and Red in.
"Now, what exactly happened?" Professor Oak asked Pika, after they all sat down in the lab.
"I'm not very sure," Pika explained, "I just woke up this way this morning. I felt that my arms were longer, and when I looked down, I saw a pair of human arms, and I panicked. That was when I shocked Red into waking up."
"Hmm..." Professor Oak scratched his chin, "I haven't seen anything like this before, and no record of Pokemon evolution has ever stated Pokemon evolving into humanoids. Red, could you leave Pika with me so I can run some tests?"
"Pika! Tests?" Pika jumped up, and ran behind Red.
"Sure, I'd like to know what's happened as well," Red said, taking Pika by the hand, "Pika, it's alright. Prof Oak won't hurt you, you should know that."
"O-ok." Pika reluctantly agreed.
Red left the lab while Professor Oak readied his equipment. Outside, he met blue, who just flew in on Charizard.
"What's all this commotion?" he asked, staring past the crowd of people gathered at Professor Oak's lab, straight at Red, "Causing trouble already, the moment we return?"
"Blue!" Red turned to look at his rival, "You wouldn't believe what's happening! Look!" He pointed towards the Professor's window.
Blue grew wide-eyed at the sight of his grandfather putting probes on the humanoid Pika.
"Since when did gramps start doing human experimentation?" he questioned, with a tinge of shock in his voice.
Red hit Blue on the back of his head with his palm. "No, you silly! That's Pika!" He scolded Blue.
Blue's eyes grew even wider. "Pinch me." he said, shaking his head with disbelief. Red gladly did, much to Blue's annoyance and irritation. "I didn't mean it literally, you twit." He scowled at Red.
The two rivals then pushed past the crowd, trying to disperse it saying, "Keep moving people, there's nothing to see here," but the curious people of Pallet would not take their eyes off the humanoid Pika, and kept mumbling amongst themselves about various out-of-this-world theories trying to explain the phenomenon.
Blue sighed as he finally broke free of the crowd. "Crazy people. Just one pokemon and they go all gaga over it."
"Heh, you can't blame them, it's not everyday that a pokemon turns human." Red replied, from behind him. He took off his cap, and wiped the sweat off his forehead. "Well that was one eventful morning." He continued, and took out five pokeballs from his backpack. "Let's go for a walk, shall we? It's been a long time since we visited Yellow in Viridian." He looked at the pokemon in their pokeballs, and they all looked back at him excitedly.
Red threw the balls into the air, and five pokemon appeared. They all rushed towards Red, and nudged him in the ribs, and Red fell over, laughing. "Haha guys! Stop that! It tickles!" Red said, pushing them all away.
Red's pokemon looked at him, with a worried look in their eyes. Red knew right away what they were worried about.
"Pika's fine," Red patted Poliwrath on its head, "Just a little complication, that's all. Come, let's take a stroll."
Red pointed towards the exit of Pallet Town, and led his pokemon off to route 1, with Blue following behind him, eyes closed and both hands in his pocket.
"So Blue, how've you been? It's been a while since we met up." Red said, swinging his hands like a pendulum.
"Didn't we just meet up at the frontier?" Blue replied, uninterested.
"Well, that's not counted," Red retorted, turnning around to face Blue, "That was under different circumstances."
"We were petrified. I was beside you all along." Blue started to get angry at Red for asking those stupid questions.
"Oh yeah..." Red put his hands behind his head, and walked off.
"Hmph, what an idiot. I wonder how he even beat me back then." Blue sighed, and followed.
As the two boys walked into Viridian city, they noticed a young girl in a straw hat running towards them.
"Red! Blue!" She yelled as she ran.
"Hey Yellow! Long time no see!" Red bent down slightly, held his arms open, ready to catch Yellow in an embrace.
She collided into Red, with a resounding thud. Red fell to the floor with an "Oomph."
"Red! There's something wrong with Viridian Forest!" Yellow started sobbing on Red, "I can hear its cries."
"There, there, Yellow, everything's going to be okay." Red patted Yellow on her head.
All of a sudden, Red's pokegear started ringing. It was Professor Oak. "Red, you may come back now. I'm done with the tests on Pika. I have something to tell you. Bring Blue with you." He said, with a matter-of-fact tone.
TBC
