Jhoto

Whee, chapter one! I have a half day today and tomorrow, so i'll be updating lots and lots. Hopefully. For your sake. And my sanity. Oh, and i restarted my Pokemon Red Mystery Dungeon. No more Team Tohya. But now we have Team Hebi. Squirtle looks really weird in that game. Oh, and as a tribute to Buwaro, I named by characters Squirt and Flame, since I had a Squirtle and a Charmander. Hah!

Disclaimer: Oculto:-Anime vien- How many times must Oculto say it? Wait.What not own Pokemon!

Haruka: Y'know, I think you should have someone else do the disclaimer from now on, Wait.What.

Wait.What: Yeah, you're probably right. Maybe I'll do Yochi's Skitty next chapter.

Haruka: but Yochi's Skitty is part of Black Death.

Wait.What: Amazing. You actually think I care. now get into the damn fic!

Haruka: Yeah, whatever.

Chapter One: Choose a Pokemon, Haruka!

Sixteen year old Haruka Leaf had finally managed to get her mom to let her be a Pokemon Trainer. And it had only taken three years of whining, too. It was currently 11:59, and Haruka eagerly awaited her mother to return from the PokeGear Repair Shop. A few seconds after it had turned to Twelve, Haruka's mother walked into the room. Like her mother, Haruka had blue hair that she always tied into two pig tails, which the ends always seemed to defy gravity, no matter how hard Haruka tried to get them to stay down. Haruka had long since given up trying to get them to go down. Haruka had also inherrited the brown eyes that the female side of family always had gotten. Haruka wore her mother's Ranger Jacket, since it was too small for her mom to fit into, a basic black t shirt, and some black shorts.

"All right, you. I'll let you go on your Pokemon adventure, if you promise to call me every week if you can, and show me any new pokemon you catch." Haruka's mother said as she handed her the newly repaired PokeGear. Haruka nodded eagerly.

"Yes, mom! Oh, I can't wait! I already know what Pokemon I'm gonna get! I'm gonna get a Squrtle!" Haruka cried enthusiastically. Haruka's mother sweatdropped.

"Sorry, sweetie, but that not a choice here." Haruka visably shrunk down, muttering angrily about how they should be able to get Squirtles in all regions by now.

"Well, bye, I suppose." Haruka said as she walked out the still open door and into the bright sunlight. She heard her mother reply to her with a 'bye, call me soon, sweetie!', and headed over to the Lab that was next to her house. Thanks to the lab, Haruka had spent many a hour listening to Pokemon rampage about being poked and proded. She turned the doornob and went inside, swollowing. It was just as they had said. The lights were almost all out, except for one that kept flickering on and off. Cages lined the right wall, and tables with things that strapped the creatures down on the left. Pokemon howled miserably in the cages.

Haruka walked up to a cage, one with a Charizard in it, and almost had her head clawed off. Haruka grimaced. How could they be so cruel?

"Hey you!" Haruka turned around to see a man in a white lab coat run up to her. "What are you doing here?"

"Uh, I'm here to get my Pokemon, sir." The scientist looked at her sadly.

"Oh. Well, you might as well come with me." The scientist said as he walked off. Haruka followed. This place was horrible. It was dark and scary, and all these Pokemon that were locked up had to be miserable. How could Haruka's nice, quiet town have a hell hole like this, pretending to be a Pokemon Lab when it was really a Pokemon Torture Center. Were all labs like this. Haruka shook her head. No, they couldn't be. The police wouldn't allow so many places like this to exsist. Or would they? They've been so caught up with the presence of Black Death and Team Rocket in the Jhoto region and the Kanto region. Maybe they didn't have the time?

As they walked through the lab, they passed rooms with windows where Haruka could see Pokemon being experimented on. In one room, Haruka spotted a pink haired humaniod creature with horns sticking out of it's head in a cage, odd hand things swaying around ominously1. As they passed by even more rooms, Haruka saw tanks. They had things floating in them, and Scientists were cursing and shouting. Thankfully, they arrived soon.

"This is where Elm should be," the Scientist said as he showed her the door. "I will wait for you out here, Miss." Haruka nodded shakily, and twisted the nob. She walked into the room, where a old man sat typing away on a computer. Haruka cleared her throat, and the old man looked at her. Haruka froze up a bit.

"Ah, so you are Haruka." Haruka nodded. The old man smirked. "You want to be a Pokemon Trainer, don't you?" Haruka nodded once again. "Well then," he pointed at three Pokeballs on a desk. "Chose one. I will not tell you what is in the Pokeballs." Haruka nodded, and walked over to the table. She thought, and held her hand over the middle one, but shifted her hand over to the left one a few seconds after, and then shifted her hand over the ball on the right. Her hand acted on it's own and picked up the ball on the right. The old man smirked. "Very well then. That is your Pokemon." He walked over and handed her a black device that looked like her Nintendo DS. "That is a Pokedex. It will record data on all Pokemon you see. It records even more data if you capture Pokemon. Now, get out. I have work to do." The old man shoved Haruka out the door. The Scientist was waiting, just as he had said he would.

"Time to go now, Miss." The Scientist said. Haruka nodded, and the Scientist escorted her to the front of the building. "Good luck, young Trainer. Oh, and take these, too." The Scientist handed her a bag that could be put on your shoulder or carried by the strap on the back. Haruka nodded, and she took the bag and ducked under the strap and made in comfortable. "That should have enough supplies for you until you reach the first Gym." Haruka nodded.

"Thank you!" She called back as she exited the building. The Scientist frowned.

"I'm not too sure you should be thanking me, Miss." He muttered.

Whee, ominous! I think I'm going to rename the series Black Death, but seeing as how this really is based on Haruka, I'll leave it as it is for now.

Haruka - Distant

1.) - Lucy from Elfen Lied, or some Diclonious that the humans had captured. Maybe it was a new Pokemon, or a clone? Who knows?

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