A Prelude to Hoenn
Hello and welcome to the first oneshot! I'm your host Digi and if you are reading this then thank you for hitting the next button! This is the second chapter and this is the plot that the oneshot it based off of:
-Pokemon Crossover-
Percy, Thalia and Nico wake up in the Sealed Chamber in Hoenn. They notice that they have odd tattoos that look like the symbols of the Weather Trio as they find out later. Now they're off to find out how they got here, why they're here and how to get back. Whether they want to go back is another matter entirely. One of the best ways to get information is to become a trainer, they can freely move around with protection and other trainers are a valuable source of information that could point them int eh right direction either to their destiny in Hoenn of the way home.
Note: for extended stories you can then have off to Sinnoh after the Creation Trio.
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"I just don't know what to do anymore. Something like this has never happened before! They refuse to accept anyone as their trainers." Professor Birch exclaimed over the videophone to Digna, she was the only one who he thought could do something. He was in quite the bind, a set of starters he was supposed to hand out to new trainers just refused to go, they rejected every trainer that tried to take them. While not too unusual he'd never had it happen with all three at the same time, especially for so long.
It had been months and even the most stubborn of starters usually either found someone worthy or he sent them back to their breeders. However the last time Digna had been at the lab she'd advised against it, said they were waiting and they wouldn't go a moment sooner. He'd be the first to admit she was an odd one, related to the champion, a powerful trainer in her own right and a well respected researcher. Right now she was camped east of Slateport at his request. He could never get over the fact that she could take everything and anything in stride and seem to just know exactly what to do but he trusted her word and so the starters stayed.
He'd just expected them to to have arrived by now. Apparently he thought wrong if the amused expression on her face was anything to go by. Her Natu sat easily on her shoulder and stared into space just above the camera so he didn't feel the need to fidget. Just as he was about to continue, probably to beg that she visit to keep them settled because they only really listened to her, her eyes cut off screen to look at something. She looked perplexed for a moment before the expression cleared and she smiled widely. Her Natu was still on her shoulder but was now facing the same direction she'd looked, staring eerily.
"Excuse me Professor but I'm about to have some company, just hold onto them a little bit longer and it'll work out fine. I have a feeling their trainers aren't far." She assured him before the screen went black. He was left staring blankly at the black screen before giving a helpless sigh. He turned to go back to his research and put it out of his mind, she did this often and he would be left with no idea what she meant until it happened. The only reassuring thing was that if she said they were close then they were close. He couldn't contain his cringe however when he heard an all to familiar crash and cry from behind him as the pokemon once again got into trouble.
~I wanna be a hero, Pokemon!~
Thalia Grace groaned as she awoke in a dimly lit chamber, the only light seemed to come from a doorway that was soon filled with the shadow of a figure. "So you're finally awake." A familiar male voice spoke and it took her a minute to place it.
"Nico? What happened? Where are we?" She asked as she climbed to her feet, mentally taking stock and finding nothing out of place. Her bow and quiver were no where to be seen but she could still feel the weight of her tiara on her forehead. Aegis was still on her wrist but her mace-canister-slash-spear was also gone. Turning to the dark haired boy for answers he just gestured for her to come into the next room.
"Your guess is as good as mine but Percy is checking it out since he's the only one who can leave." She wondered what he meant until she stepped comletely into the new chamber. In was large and she could see no doors or windows, only a large pool of water at one end past several stones with odd carvings. The pool gave off a blue glow that lit the chamber dimly, like a high school pool room but she couldn't see any other lights.
"So Percy's here too?" That was both surprising yet not, their laid-back cousin never seemed to catch a break in the weird experiences department. "Yeah, he woke up first and then me after but we couldn't get you up so we let you wake up on your own. There's only these two chambers and no other exits except this pool and I didn't want to chance shadow-traveling out when I have no idea where we are. Especially since Percy said the whole place is underwater."
A few years ago that would have been the end of it but in the three years after the Second Titan War the big three children had become thick as thieves. Fr to many Thanatos-defying stunts and barely averted doomsdays would do that to you but such was the life of a demigod.
She was frowning at the water now, Percy was out there alone and they had no idea if there were monsters of some kind around but if they really were underwater then Percy had the best chance of coming out alright especially since this was his home turf. They weren't just underwater but underwater in the sea, the smell of salt in the air was obvious. Turning back to the first chamber she saw that the doorway was a roughly carved out arch. It'd been cut through some writing on the wall, the symbols that were still intact were familiar but she couldn't read it. She ran her fingers over it trying to puzzle out what exactly it was. After voicing her question Nico answered "Percy said it was Braille oddly enough but neither of us can read it."
"Alright then where the hell are my weapons, I've only got Aegis. Second, do you even remember how we got here and third….does this place feel odd to you?" Something about the atmosphere was different and she didn't think it was just because they were underwater. She also felt eerily calm, it was one thing to keep your head in an unknown situation but she didn't feel panicked or worried at all about being here, actually she felt like she needed to be here.
"We don't know, I have my ring and Percy still had Riptide but his watch was gone, that was it other then our clothes. And Thalia I don't know if you've noticed but we're all sorta…deaged." For a moment she didn't understand until she actually looked at him. He was right, he did look younger, about twelve instead of sixteen. A quick check in water and she could tell she was the same. She expected to panic at this pint but if anything she felt exasperated, it always had to happen to them. Nico said 'all' so Percy was twelve again too. She sat at the edge of the pool and Nico moved next to her.
He was playing with his ring absent mindedly. "We don't remember anything except what sounded like a bunch of kids singing and a burst of light. You're right though, this place…something is different. The rock and the shadows all feel different and Percy says the water is different too. Not bad, just different."
They sat quietly in companionable silence for a while before the light from the water flickered and their cousin surfaced, unhurt, completely dry and definitely twelve. He lifted himself out slightly on his elbows but didn't come completely out of the water. "Sweet, you're finally up Pinecone Face, you slept like a log."
She rolled her eyes at the terrible joke but just as she was about to make a comeback his face went serious. The kind of serious that meant nothing good, when Percy looked like that you shut up and paid attention. "Well, either way, we're not in Kansas anymore." AS if on cue something surfaced next to Percy and she had to blink in shock. Now being a demigod she'd seen a lot of weird and disgusting things but never anything like this, she just knew this thing was nothing like anything she'd faced before. It was blue with an oval body and two antenna coming out of its back that drooped with large yellow bulds on the end. It had tiny white fins and big eyes with pupils shapped like a plus sign. It gave a light churr that sounded like a greeting.
"Meet Chinchou, he's a pokemon." For a moent she thought her cousin had lost it cause he sounded like this was the most normal thing int eh world, that or he'd finally stopped being surprised by anything. The latter idea actually upset her more, then again they knew this place wasn't normal. "A what!?" Nico asked as he looked over the creature critically.
"I'm not quite sure but he says that they're all over this world and that there's tons of different species of pokemon, like Chinchou, he doesn't actually have a name but that's what he says his kind are called."
"So you can underst-" she was about to ask but stopped as what he said registered. "This world?"
"This is Earth, that's what the humans here call it but it's not our Earth…the gods don't exist here, that's what's different, if there are gods then they wont be the ones we know." Damn, she hated her cousin's moments of clarity, he said what he thought without a care and was usually right, more often then not they tended to be hard truths that people didn't want to acknowledge which lead him into trouble.
"So there are other humans." Nico stated, he seemed to be relieved that at least they weren't the only ones in this new world even if they weren't from their own world. Another world, the idea was mind-blowing and more then a little frightening but she still felt calm. She also knew that for now the only thing they could do was move forward, there wasn't anyway back they could find and they couldn't just stay here forever.
"Yep and yeah I can understand him but its less clear then normal, I get what he's saying but it's coming across in simple terms but not because that's that how he thinks, does that make any sense?" He rambled and she was a bit surprised and relieved he could understand them at all despite it obviously being a sea creature. She also decided she had been spending way to much time with him cause she did understand what he meant.
"I'm just wondering if you can get us out of here." Now that was something she could agree with. Demigods were not meant for small enclosed spaces, especially underwater and no other way out. "Yeah we can. I had to check there was a way out through here and could navigate it easily. Chinchou here is gonna show us to shore and he says there's a pokemon trainer nearby that we can trust and will help us."
"Pokemon trainer?"
"Yeah, apparently the humans are all normal mortals and this world has its own dangers, pokemon and humans coexist peacefully for the most part and can be great friends. Some end up training them for competitions in battle and things like that, they're called trainers, they use some special device to capture a pokemon to fight with."
"They make them fight?" She asked incredulously. Demigods fought monsters all the time, even enjoyed it but it was mostly a pleasure born out of necessity.
"Sort of, most pokemon want to get stronger and they know they know the best way to do that is battle other pokemon, a trainers' pokemon are even better opponents so they don't usually get to upset if they get caught. But some are kept more out of necessity or as companions rather then fighters. Come on though, we should get going now if we want to get topside before dark."
"What's your gut telling you about this trainer?" Nico asked, if Percy felt like this was a bad idea, he was usually right, out of the three of them he had the best instincts even if he sometimes ignored them. He stared at them with a thoughtful frown for a moment before giving an easy smile. "We'll be fine. We can trust them." They relaxed at the reassurance and slipped into the water, he formed a bubble around them so they could breath and they set out into this new world, wondering what awaiting them ahead.
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Thank you for reading! I might write the more for this plot one day but for now I'm happy with this. If you would like to use this plot then please do so, you don't need to credit me or tell me that you are going to use the plot though I would be grateful if you did. If you have any questions then you can PM me or put them in the review. I still have so much to post so I hope to get those done and posted soon. Until then, Digi out!