HeartGold and SoulSilver

Chpt. 2: Awakening

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May 23, 2005 - Ever Grande, Hoenn

?'s POV

Where am I?

Who am I?

Wait, I remember!

... Oh!

Why do I remember two separate lives?

I feel a pleasant breeze...

3rd POV

Slowly, a man woke up. Well, I wouldn't use the word 'man', but still.

"Sceptile?" he asked, looking around for somebody. "Where are you?"

He kept on looking about, he lost his balance on the tree he was on and fell down. Hard.

"Uggh," he moaned, then saw a river. He looked at his reflection, and had to surpress a scream.

Sure, he was wearing his hiking clothes, which mysteriously turned green instead of blue.

Sure, he was wearing his signature red-and-black hat.

Sure, he had his pants (which has a big hole at the back) on.

He was surprised because...

"I'M A SCEPTILE!"

"SCEPTILE!"

"What was dat?" Meowth asked his two companions.

"Maybe we should go see," James suggested. They all agreed, and went in the direction of the scream.

"What happened to me?" Ash muttered after a while in a combination of his voice and Sceptile's, chewing on his favorite twig. "Wait, I don't eat twigs! And this is Sceptile's twig!"

He tried to stand up again, but stumbled and tripped on his new tail.

Just as he was about to move, a net surrounded and caught him. He then had to roll his eyes because of the annoying motto that followed. The bulbs on his back also slightly glowed.

"Is that a twerpy voice I hear?"

"It's speaking to me loud and clear!"

"On the wind!"

"Past the stars!"

"In your ear!"

"Now how do you like the preview of our new motto?" James asked.

"What a bad new motto... Worse than last time," Ash sighed.

"Hey!" Jessie screamed, then gasped. "You can TALK!"

"Wow, I neva knew dere was anoder pokémon like me," Meowth burst into tears.

"Stop being so emotional!" Jessie scolded

"Yeah, yeah," Ash sighed retortingly. "Now if you excuse me, I have to release this Solar Beam I've been charging since you started the motto... so bye-bye."

Then the bulbs of Ash's back glowed at their peak and he unleashed an uber-strong Solar Beam at the three, which made them crash and blast off to the sky.

"Wow, dat twoip is powerful!" Meowth exclaimed. "Let's give it to da boss!"

"You said it," Jessie retorted. "But first..."

"WE'RE BLASTING OFF AGAIN!"

"If only I was human. Too bad," Ash remarked. "Hmmm... What if..."

He concentrated hard, and his heartbeat lowered 'til normal human rate. A light then enveloped him and instead of one, two figues emerged.

"Scep... Sceptile? (Whoa... What happened?)" Sceptile moaned dizzily.

"Well, we somehow merged, I think..." Ash explained after recovering from his dizziness.

"Sceptile! Sceptile Scep Sceptile Tile! Sceptile Tile! (Oh yeah! I do remember suddenly remembering several stuff in your lifetime! Including the underwear!)" Sceptile remarked. "Sceptile! (Hey, your clothes!)"

"Shut up," Ash muttered. "What about my clothes?" he asked, looking at his clothes. Then he widened his eyes. Except for his red hat and backpack, his entire clothing were green. There were even a pair of appendages on each of his hoodie's sleeves and six yellow spikes at the back. And strangely, he still had a tail.

"Wow..." was all Ash could say. "Speaking of which, we have to fetch a ferry to Sandgem."

"Sceptile Scep Sceptile Tile Sceptile Scep Tile? (And you suggest that without drawing attention how?)" Sceptile deadpanned, motioning to Ash's giant tail.

"I can always hide it," Ash answered matter-of-factly, hiding his tail with his hoodie and backpack. "Oh, and we should think of a good name to call you. Can't always call you Sceptile."

"Scep... (Right...)" Sceptile shrugged, thinking how amusing it would be for Ash to call him that after what happened.

The two pondered over it, then Ash got an idea. "Reptiminreo?"

"Sceptile Sceptile? (Reptiminreo?)" Sceptile asked.

"Repti- for reptile while Minreo is Yapponian for green," Ash explained.

"Scep... Sceptile! (Hmmm... I like it!)" Reptiminreo smiled. "Sceptile Scep Sceptile Sceptile! (It really really suits me!)

"Wow, never knew you were redundant," Ash joked. They both laughed, then Ash tucked his tail in his shirt and they both headed for the Ever Grande docks as the sun set.

Twinleaf, Sinnoh

A young blue-haired girl giddily tucked herself in bed. Tomorrow, May 23, was the day that she would get her first Pokémon from Professor Rowan.

"I'm gonna get a Piplup... or a Turtwig... or a Chimchar..." she snored.

If only she checked her alarm clock...

Dokdo, Josun

A young brown-haired man sat down with his differently-colored Treecko that had a small everstone in his makeshift belt. They were currently in a boat headed for Sandgem Port.

"This is gonna be so Daebak!" the man exclaimed.

"Treecko!" his Treecko added.

Vermillion, Kanto

We see a teenage red-haired girl waiting for a ferry, which will bring her to her destination, Ransei.

"I can't wait to visit Ransei!" she murmured happily.

But she never knew what adventures she would have with 3 other people...

A/N: Chapter 2! So eventually Ash will find his three other travelling buddies, starting with Misty. Please review, and non-constructive flames will... Oh no. I ran out of ideas again.

TBC