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Chapter 2

Two Steps Forward

Route 1 wasn't anything special.

It was by all accounts, a simple path with some trees thrown in for good measure. Barely anything actually lived there, save for a couple flocks of pidove. Even then, they couldn't be caught, due to their use as 'actors' in many live action features.

"Wonderful." Aaron remarked and took a deep breath. "I'm eight years too late."
His buneary didn't add anything to the conversation, possibly trying to decide whether or not she would attempt to escape from the bike basket. The ripped-up stuffing sucked as a cushion, but was better than having to ride in just the bare basket.

"How are you doing, bud?" Aaron whispered, quickly finding the knife pointed towards him. "I'll take that as 'good'."

Buneary still did not answer. Instead, she chose to continue taking the scenery in along with freak out a bunch of the pidove.

"Bune, bune!" the rabbit pokemon announced and threw her knife up into the air, somehow managing to catch the weapon. Of course, that freaked Aaron out and sent the two and their bike into a small pond. "Bune…"

"Did you have to do that?" Aaron remarked and stood up, pulling his bike out in the process. "I realize you're trying to be a full-on yandere and all, but can you cut it out a tiny bit?"
He took a deep breath and sighed, only for an idea to come to him.

"You could really use a name." the trainer suggested as the two go back on the path.

"Ary?" Buneary inquired, actually curious what sort of 'title' that master could give her.

"How about Heart?"

Aaron watched his partner perk up, following it up with a smile himself.

"Char zard? Char ar…"

The duo turned around, finding a large white 'dragon' creature towering over them. A blackish purple kimono hugged its body, with some sort of floral arrangement decorated on it. A pair of kimono sandals covered its feet, complimenting the black wig on its head.

Scanning…

Charizard

Ability: Blaze

Fire/Flying, Female

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Dexter: It is common knowledge that charizard's eat spe-

Before the analyzer entry could be completed, Aaron threw it into the pond. Afterwards, he grabbed it back and redid the scanning process.

Scanning…

Charizard

Ability: Blaze

Fire/Flying, Female

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Dexrette: Charizard are super dooper scary beasts that no girl should ever have to face or even have for some reason.

Aaron: So it's stuck on cute little girl. Better special ed hating guy.

Heart: Bune, Bune...

Charizard: …

Scan Complete.

"I'm not really sure if that's any better…" Aaron whispered and turned his attention to the charizard in front of them. "Hey, I don't mean you any tro-"

But before the trainer could finish his sentence, a claw slammed into his face as the world slowly went dark…

…

Aaron opened his eyes.

Gone was the general forest scene of Route 1, getting replaced with an endless void that came with weird floating landmasses. If you squint, you could make out a guy with spiky blue hair riding on a stuffed ponyta along with the secret to world peace and a box of plastic spoons. Truly a shame that these things couldn't be cherished by a normal human being.

"You're awake." a voice announced, only to be followed up by the landing of a large serpentine creature. "I am Giratina, ruler of the Distortion World."

Aaron gave the pokemon a confused look, possibly wondering what the fuck was even going on. Afterwards, he examined the enviroment that he found himself in.

"Oh right, here's someone who can explain it far better than I could." Giratina added and Professor Sakura appeared. "Virizion, I'll let you do the honors."

"Sure, Gira…" the professor explained and shifted into some green deer gazelle creature. "I guess you probably want some answers to this mess."

"Indeed." Aaron remarked and focused back on Virizion. "Can you at least why I've been brought here?"

"You died." Virizion remarked, getting a confused look in return. She was fairly certain that her answer had presented in such a way that a common idiot such as this could comprehend

"So if I'm dead, is this the afterlife?" the trainer responded, only to let out a painful scream. He then turned around, finding Heart and the charizard from before just standing there. "Uh… hi guys?"

"Bune, bune…" Heart responded as she pulled her knife out of Aaron's back.

"Char…" the charizard added, seeming quite unhappy to be in such a place. Strangely, the pokemon's gaze was focused on Giratina, who was laughing for some reason.

"Isn't the widdle charizard so cute in her kimono and body paint?" The serpent legendary taunted and got a growl from her possible opponent. "Be glad that your race does not fall under Kyruem's or its childr-"

Giratina did not get to finish her sentence, for a claw pierced through the serpent's body and split the legendary in two. Adding insult to injury, was Heart deciding to just stab her knife into the pokemon's head. Heck, even Aaron got splattered with the gushing blood of the creature.

"Do you think you can give me the cliff note version of what is even going on?" the trainer asked, only to watch Virizion to scream and charge at him. For some reason, his last action before reaching was to throw a pokeball towards the charizard.

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Aaron opened his eyes.

The distortion world was long gone now, with his room having taken the place of it.

"Okay…" he whispered, only for Heart to jump on his bed.

"Master, you're awake!" the buneary shouted and began jumping up and down on her master.

"Heart?" Aaron whispered as he pulled himself up, focusing his gaze out on his window.

Somehow he was back in Toku Village, having been cared back by someone or something. "Wait… Why are you talking English?"

The buneary gave him a confused glance, as if a cat was now dancing on his head.

"What's a cat?" Heart added and looked towards her 'master'. "If I bring you one, will you love me master?"

Aaron gave his pokemon a confused glance and got up out of bed. He then began digging through his pockets, finding a lone pokeball within and flung it against the wall. The two watched as the ball opened up, bringing forth the charizard from before.

"Oh, it's you." the charizard greeted and walked towards her supposed 'trainer'. There was a sense of grace with each step, bringing with a "You can call me Blossom."

"Sounds good, Blossom." Aaron whispered, only to just freeze. "Why are you two speaking english?"

The two pokemon looked towards their trainer and then back at each other, following it up with a scream…

Notes:

This took far too long to write due to stress and work on other projects.