Chapter 3 – Enter Yandara!

Crying was definitely not going to help. I was probably the only person on earth not frozen. But how much good could I do anyway? I was just a boy, and this was earth itself that was suffering. Was this a punishment for the sins of human beings? Or was it just destiny for it all to end like this?

Anyway, I wasn't doing any good. Without thinking it twice, I grabbed my bag and went outside my house. Why did I grab my bag? I don't know, but I'd be thankful that I did it in the future.

Now, for even a bigger surprise, I saw something else than the orange sky above. There was a sphere, a glowing, metallic golden sphere. It was small (well, compared to the size of the moon), but it was growing rapidly. Surrounding the sphere, very far away, where three enormous planets resembling earth. Whatever it was, it was the scariest thing I had ever seen. It felt like if three big meteorites where coming right towards where I was standing.

'Could that be… a planet?' I thought to myself.

It stopped growing. I could barely see the formation of the planet since it just stopped glowing.

"There has to be something I can do! Earth can't simply end this way! Please, let me do something!" I cried as hard as I could, crying. Immediately after, I heard a rumbling sound, and before that, I fainted. This was the end of it…

…

"Am I… dead?" I told myself. I could barely open my eyes with the strong daylight hitting them. It seemed like my body was all right, but where the hell was I? It looked nothing like earth. There was a long range of mountains on my right-hand side, the tallest mountains I had ever seen. It was like seeing a giant wall that reached the sky. The foot of the mountain range was filled with trees all along. After that, a beautiful plain covered with nothing but a very green grass and some rocks extended for some kilometers against the mountains until it reached the vast ocean on my left-hand side. It was the most beautiful scenario I had seen in my whole life. It felt so peaceful it made me forget about everything.

As I stood up, I realized what was covering the bright sun. I was lying beside a tree, an enormous tree. In fact, it was the biggest tree I had ever seen. Hence, I didn't even know if I should call it that, it was too big to be just a tree.

This was definitely not my world. What has happened to me? To my friends? To my family? I was scared, but at least more calmed. I had to find clues, I had to find answers. But where to start? I decided to see what was behind the giant tree, so I began walking around it.

The view was different this time. There was a small, concrete road, and at the end of it where some tall buildings, many of them. It had to be a city. There had to be people, someone to ask where I was. So, I began my journey to the unknown, to the beautiful and mysterious land that was waiting for me to arrive.

As I was walking through the road, I realized there where no living things. No animals, not even a bird or two. The only sounds I could hear where my footsteps and the wind itself. Sometimes, a strong wave could be heard from the ocean crashing against rock. Also, I began to see more and more trees as I was walking.

'A forest' I thought to myself as I was walking through the path. It seemed endless.

Finally, I heard a different sound, something that I definitely didn't want to hear. A howl. Not one, but three howls coming from the mountains.

'Wolves?' I told myself. 'Now I'm in trouble'

From the dark shadow of the trees I could begin to distinguish three small figures each time becoming bigger to my eyes. Faster than I thought, they finally could be clearly seen. There where creatures I had never seen before. They resembled more to a dog with large fangs. With no other choice than to hide, I went on the back of the first tree I saw. It was probably completely useless, since most animals of their kind had the ability to smell. But what else could I do, fight against them?

I peeked to see if they where still there. Of course they where, but now they stopped and where looking in another direction, where someone stood with the shape of a human accompanied by a small creature. Both of them seemed really familiar, somehow, I knew both of them.

"Thundershock, now!" the instantly recognizable male voice cried. I couldn't believe what my ears where hearing and my eyes were seeing – the little creature next to the human released a jolt of thunder from his body against one of the dog-like monsters. That was enough to scare it and the other two, and they ran back to where they came from.

"Are you all right?" he asked. I got closer to both of them. There was no doubt about it, whether or not this was a dream, in front of me was the most popular of all the Pokémon trainers, Satoshi! And next to him was his trusty starter Pokémon, Pikachu! I couldn't believe it!

"Yeah, but, huh, who, what the… is going on?" I asked him, as if he might know anything. I could barley talk from such a big surprise. Was I going mad?

Pikachu jumped on Satoshi's back. "You aren't from this world, right?" he asked.

"De-definitely not. I was in my world when everything was a whole, complete disaster, like if everything was coming to an end. So this couldn't be possibly where I came from, heck, I don't know this place at all" I told him. This wasn't Kanto, Johto or Hoenn, was it? I definitely couldn't recognize any place, and I've been seen every episode so far.

"Just as I thought. It's exactly my same story!" he said, as he gave me a bag. "This is yours, right Slash?"

It seems my bag also made it here. "Yeah it's mine, thanks" I said. I felt really strange saying that, never in my life had I even thought this might happen.

"By the way, my name is Satoshi. This little fellow is Pikachu" he said.

"Pika pi!" Pikachu said, whatever it meant. Of course, I already knew them, but I weren't telling them. It would be plain weird for them to hear that. This was like a dream come true, never had I thought that the Satoshi I saw on the anime show would be talking with me.

"Let's go" he told me "If you see any more Dingo, tell Pikachu and he'll get rid of them" Dingo? That surely sounded familiar. I was pretty sure I had heard that name in the past.

"How did you know its name?" I asked.

"It appeared on this thing" he said. It was strange, the size of a closed Nintendo DS. It had different slots; one for placing something the size of a trading card game inside a glass, and in the left side of it was something to placing something the size of a coin and on top of it was a small LCD color screen and some buttons, and probably where the name of the monster appeared. It was of yellow color, and was made of some type of material similar to aluminum, lightweight and resistant. Whatever it was, I didn't know at that time.

"So what's that anyway?" I asked curiously.

"I don't know. It was in front of me when I arrived here. I thought you might have an idea what it is, since you also had one in your bag" he told me.

In my bag? I opened my back and saw one, of an orange whitish color. I also had my laptop with me, as well as some magazines, some card decks, and some random stuff that was usually helpful, like a notebook and a towel. My laptop is quite small, with a 10.6" screen. However, there where two decks missing, the Pokémon and the Digimon ones. "Did you by any chance take anything out?" I asked. What had happened with my decks?

"No, it was like this when I found it in the road to the city. It was opened though, so I just closed it" he said "Let's just go to the city, they're waiting for us"

They? What did he mean by that? I just followed him, onto the big city of the new world.