Chapter I

The mysterious Pokémon

This story begins on a sunny midday in a small town close to Pallet Town, called Fate Town. A boy named Rick around the age of fourteen is walking through the town on his way to his best friend Mike who lives on the other side. A lot of people greet him as he his quite well-known in the town. But first he has to deliver a package for his father at the police station. His father is the assistant of the Pokémon professor named Willow. A lot of people think the professor is working for a criminal organization and Rick's father is also involved, but Rick knows it isn't true.

At the police station Rick delivers the package and continues his way towards Mike's house. On the way he sees a herd of grazing Tauros. Their farmer is closely watching them with alongside him his loyal Growlithe. Rick also wanted to have a Pokémon himself so much to take care of and to play with. Unfortunately his father thought he was too young to own a Pokémon on his own. Twelve years ago his mother had died. His father had been devastated, but he found some distraction by working at the lab. Rick hadn't known his mother very well, but by what he had heard from his father, she had been a wonderful person.

Arriving at Mike's house he discovers no one is home.

That's strange, I thought we agreed to meet here...

Rick decides to return home. Plunged in thought he's startled by a big truck with the letters "WILD" spelled out on it. Out of curiosity he decides to follow the truck to see where it is heading. A little further the sees that the truck has stopped at the edge of the forest. A few men jump out of the truck and head into the forest. Rick decides to follow them.

The men stop at an open space in the middle of the forest. Also more people have gathered here. Rick sees Mike and his parents are also among the crowd.

"What is going on here?" Rick askes.

"Some guy from the village got attacked by a strange wild pink Pokémon," replies Mike.

"Didn't the man have any Pokémon to protect himself?"

"No, he was by himself and he was looking for something, but they don't know what he was searching for. Shall we look around if we still can see the Pokémon around here?"

"Won't that be dangerous?" Rick askes.

"Of course not. We won't hurt him any way."

The two boys start searching for the mysterious Pokémon, but it didn't seem to have left behind any traces. Suddenly Rick sees something moving in the bushes and he dives towards it.

"I think I got something!"

He is holding up a pink, shining Pokémon. The creature is completely pink and it has a long tail. It's looking at Rick with big shiny eyes. Then suddenly it's trying to get loose, but Rick is holding it firmly.

"Wow, it's beautiful," says Mike. "Could I also hold it?"

"Sure."

But right at the moment Rick wants to hand over the Pokémon to Mike it shoots of in the air and starts to float up. It releases a psychic attack and Rick starts to float into the air.

"What is happening?"

Rick can't move his arms and legs any more. In agony he starts screaming, but Mike also doesn't know what to do anymore. He is shaking on his legs. Suddenly the Pokémon stops his attack whereby Rick smacks against the ground and everything becomes black...