Hello again, readers of fanfiction, and welcome back for the first main chapter of my novelization and novelization of land-walker's nuzlocke challenge. Please enjoy the chapter, and if you will also notice, I added page breaks. Well, actually, I had them, but Open Office isn't always so user friendly. Also, my first review pointed something out to me that I feel needs to be cleared up. The main scene (Actually, the whole scene) in the Prologue was the house that May and Red live in.
Chapter 1
Apollo
Red opened the door of the lab, allowing the light to announce his entrance to the Professor. "Ah, hello, Red! Good to see you here. My, my, you've grown a lot more since I last saw," Oak clapped Red on the shoulder, causing the teen to jump in shock of the sudden contact, "Either that, or I'm getting shorter, HAH!" The professor laughed at his self-abusive joke while Red only gave him a disinterested stare.
"Now then, I had your mother to send you here because I have something to show you. You wait here, I'll call you back in a minute," With his finger up in a 'one minute' signal, the Professor left Red to stand in the middle of the lab with nothing to do other than to listen to the various lab aides running about and fiddling with machines. Red stood at his post, waiting for the signal to find the Professor, in dead silence only for that silence to be broken by a voice that grated on his nerves and made a tick mark appear on his forehead.
"Hey, Loser!" The source of the voice was a brown haired, green eyed teen wearing an arrogant smirk upon his face. "Oh look, it's the crybaby. What's up, wuss? Finally decided to leave the house?" When no response came from Red, he began to jab Red in the head repeatedly, "Hello, anyone in there? Oh right, you stopped talking. Whatever," The teen put his hands up in a 'whatever' gesture as he was, for now, bored with tormenting Red. However, what he said next shocked Red. "So what, did Grandpa decide to give you a pokemon. Doesn't matter, mine's gonna be way more awesome-" "Red, Blue, come here, please!"
Blue stopped his rant to answer, "Be right there! Come on, nerd." The teens navigated their way, with Red nervously wringing his hands, to the back of the lab where Professor Oak was. Behind Oak was an oak table where a single pokeball rested, waiting to be plucked by a new, rookie trainer with the goal to become Champion.
Oak gestured to the table behind him, "Blue, your pokemon is here on the desk. Feel free to take it," At this, the Professor began to speak to Red, "Now, Red, I would like to have a word with you."
"I know you are still upset about Pidgey, but just recently I have received into my care a pokemon that I think will suit you splendidly. Besides, he requested a trainer with strong characteristics, so I figured you two would work well together," Red stared at the ground this whole time, listening half hardheartedly to the Professor, concentrating more on Blue's wishes that sounded like demands of his pokemon being a Dragonite and knowing Hyper Beam.
"..." "Oh, Red, loosen up a little, it's okay. Listen, this isn't a commitment, I just want you to meet him. Besides, I already told him you were coming, and he wanted to see you for himself. 'Judge you', by his words," Oak pulled a pokeball from his pocket and pressed the white button on the front, letting a red beam of light flow from the opening that began to form into a tangible being. "Red, I would like you to meet one of the most unique pokemon I've ever had," The red beam turned solid and changed into a yellow, mouse-like pokemon wearing a red scarf with a tattoo that resembled a horizontally halved cookie with a bite taken out of it., "Apollo, the Pikachu."
Apollo stood on his hind legs and crossed his arms as if to pose, "'Sup, Prof? About time you took me outta that goddamn ball, y'know I hate it in there," he then gave Oak a high five, well, a high five to him at least, "How ya doin', you crazy old motherf-." "Apollo, watch your language, the kid is here." The foul mouthed Pikachu then noticed Red standing there, looking surprised "Oh, right, already? Huh, so this is him? Let's see... humph, hold still, would ya? There! Oh, quite nice, just the right size." Apollo had climbed up Red's pants leg and back before settling down on his shoulder in content, "See, kid, I like you already."
"GRAMPS! What the hell is this thing?" The trio looked at Blue, who was kneeling and had one of his hands on the head of a small fox-like pokemon, "It's way too small, and it doesn't even know Hyper Beam." The pokemon growled in contempt of Blue's words and she decided to voice her opinion, "Watch it, kid! The name's Lily the Eevee, and your attitude needs a little rework." Blue sadly ignored Lily in favor of issuing a challenge, "I know, let's test you in battle. Hey, wuss! I challenge you to a battle!" Red locked up, fearing the possible outcome of the battle, causing Blue's smirk to grow wider, "What's the matter, afraid of me?"
The Professor quickly stepped in behind Red and calmed him with a hand on the shoulder, "You can relax, Red, you're in a safe environment. I'll make sure nothing happens to Apollo." Either way, Apollo had already jumped down to stare down Lily.
Blue challenges Red
Lily VS Apollo
Blue decided to forget common courtesy and made the first move, "Use Fire Blast!" Lily gave him a condescending glance in response, "I can't do that, idiot." "Then what can you do?" "Tackle." Blue groaned at what he believed to be unfairness, "Fine, use Tackle." Apollo caught the small wink from Lily and smirked, "Heh, this ought to be good." Lily began to attack by charging at Apollo, which Apollo dodged by jumping over her as if she was a Tauros and he a matador. Looking back as he waited for a command, Apollo began to speak to Red, "Well, what are you waiting for? I need some damn commands." Red could only stand in ashamed silence as he realized it would be impossible to battle like this until Oak handed him what looked like a red hand-held gaming system.
"Here, Red, this is a neat little gadget I've designed by myself. It should help you overcome your... problem. Go on, open it up." Red did as he was told, and was rewarded with another surprise. The instant he opened the device, the screen inside lit up and from the speakers came a computerized voice, "Welcome, Trainer, to the Pokedex Index Database Ver. .0.9." Oak chuckled at his invention, proud of his work.
"Cool, huh? It's still a prototype, but I figured you could use it. It holds complete data entries on all known pokemon, fulfill all the uses of a fully navigational GPS, but most importantly, my greatest innovation in it," The image on the Pokedex screen changed, now showing a something akin to a battle simulation with a Pikachu on the user's side and a Eevee on the opponent's , " The Pokedex, as I call it, enables complete control over your pokemon and the battlefield for the user." As if to test it, Red selected one of the options, 'Fight', and then selected one of the supplementary within 'Fight'. After the selection was made, the Pokedex spoke the commands for Red, "Thundershock!"
"Now that's more like it!" Apollo exclaimed while charging up and releasing a bolt of lighting at Lily. The bolt only glanced Lily's side when it impacted in the ground to her right, but she took her chance to get out of battling. She began a dramatized twirl of defeat and started the vocal part of her 'defeat', "Oh no, oh no, I've been hit. Gah, damn, I've fainted."
Lily fell to the ground as if she had fainted, but when Blue picked her up and cradled her in his arms, you could see that one of her eyes were open in a squint to check if she could stop the ploy. Blue did not notice and made his frustration known, "Huh? What the hell, how did he even win? It's not fair, Gramps, you gave me a bad pokemon!" Oak pinched the bridge of nose, not enjoying the oncoming migraine, "Blue, trust me, Lily is more special than what you see before. I'd suggest healing with the healing pad in my office." The teen grumbled and walked away, planning out how he would beat Red.
Oak turned to Red with a proud smile, "Bravo, Red, well done! You two seem like a really good match, just as I thought. I really think you should give this a try, as Pokemon are truly wonderful things, and you shouldn't give up on them," Red glanced away in embarrassment at the praise from the old man, "Besides, you've got serious talent, a trainer in blood! Who knows, maybe you'll even become Champion!" Oak laughed as Red smiled at the possibility of achieving his dream and at fact that Oak believed in it. A tap on his shoulder made Red look to see Apollo had climb back up and was giving him a smirk, "So kid, what do you say?"
"Partners?"
And that's Chapter 1 of this journey of recovery. I'd like to know what you think of the 'Blue challenges Red' and 'Lily VS Apollo' subtitles (segments headings?) and if I should keep doing them at the beginning of a battle. I hope you have and are enjoying the story so far, and also hope that you can come back and read the next chapter.
