Title: Cosplaying To Save the World
Rating: T
Summary: Thanks to some Legendaries' screw-up and improvisation, Lillie found herself doing Trial Challenges with a Pikachu whom she didn't mean to capture. To make it even more absurd, Pikachu has seemly impossible moves that it shouldn't be able to use.
Warning: This is AU Pokemon.
Disclaimer: Pokemon is own by Nintendo and Game Freak.
Chapter 3: Pika-Impression
In bedroom…
A brown hair maid walked into a spacious bedroom with her hands folded together in front of her as she made her way to a curtain that is blocking sunlight. Reaching there, she firmly grabbed it and split it open to suddenly make entire room bright.
"...Unn..." Lillie drowsily pulled up a blanket over over her face to block sunlight.
"It is time to get up for school, miss." said a maid as she walked to one of Lillie's wardrobes to pull out one of Lillie's white dresses, white stockings, and other white articles of clothing. Which is what Lillie wear every single day like majority of people around the world wearing same clothes. With clothes in her hands, a maid walked to Lillie's bathroom and set them on white pristine counter. Off course, the bathroom is all grand and white with marble floor.
When a maid walked back into a bedroom, she shook her head as her eyes caught a sight of a book. Pokemon encyclopedia, by judging familiar looking cover. For maid, it means Lillie must've stayed up little late than she should, studying Pokemon. A common occurrence as Lillie tends to be studious and known to enjoy studying Pokemon, despite her fear of touching Pokemon.
Fortunately, Lillie has an alarm clock set to ring at three different times with 10 minutes between and it will ring right now.
BRRRRRINNNNZZ! BRRRRRINNNZZ! BRR-THCK!
Lillie's hand pounced on an alarm clock to stop it as she groggily shifted into sitting position, stretching with her back arching backward.
"Good morning, lady."
"Good..morning." Lillie's eyes still halfway open as she stared at a book she has been reading last night.
"On...On..PIKACHU!" Lillie's mind screamed and immediately, she look at her desk where she has been what Hobbes called a baby step toward helping her to get over her fear. By making physical contact with Quick Ball's blue and yellow surface under Hobbes's eyes and encouragement. So far, she barely held it for 2 seconds before quickly setting it back on desk. Again, a baby step as Hobbes said.
Now she thought about it, she has yet to officially meet Pikachu for three reasons: her fear, her uncertainty about Pikachu's reaction, and she want her friends to be with her. Not that she's doubting Hobbes's ability but just that she rather have her friends to witness her first 'official' meeting with a Pikachu. Though it doesn't stop her from feeling guilty as she couldn't imagine anything pleasant about being in a Pokeball.
"Especially when you got caught by it out of nowhere while falling down from sky." Lillie thought. Off course, once she get to scho-oh no! She has an appointment with Prof. Kukui and the principal for her Trainer's permit as the first thing in morning! With amazing burst of speed that maid thought Lillie was using Quick Attack as she watched a girl dashing straight into bathroom and popped out of it within 8 minutes. Rather short as she usually spend 20 minutes to do her routine in bathroom.
Now dressed in her trademark clothes including her shoes, Lillie ran toward her desk where her bag and hat are at and grabbed them to put them on her. When she look at a Quick Ball, she briefly hesitated with her hand being few inches away from it.
"I can do this. I'm touching a Pokeball, not Pokemon. I'm touching a Poke-"
SWOSH!
As if possessing a speed of dirty Rattata snatching a slice of cheesecake from cafe, Lillie snatched Quick Ball before hurrying out of bedroom and putting it into her bag at the same time. Leaving a slightly bewildered maid along in a bedroom. Seeing Lillie gone, a maid simply shrugged and proceed to clean the room.
Upon reaching to down stair, she could see Hobbes already prepared a breakfast for her. A stack of two delicious looking waffles with butter and maple syrup with sweet aroma comi-
Lillie was so in hurry that she unknowingly prevented a sentence from completing itself by zoom-walking to a chair and dived into a top waffle with her fork. Though she tried to eat politely.
"Ahem..Ah, young miss. You may want to slow down to reduce a risk of choking." Hobbes warned Lillie, causing her cheeks to redden before she swallow a bit of waffle. Now eating at reasonable pace, Lillie managed to finish her breakfast within reasonable amount of time and told a butler to give her appreciation to the chefs in kitchen.
With Hobbes following her, Lillie fast-walked her way out to where a limo could be seen waiting. When Hobbes opened a door for her to get in, Lillie smiled at him and said, "Thank you, Hobbes."
"Please, do have a wonderful day at school, young miss. You and your partner."
After getting into a limo and putting on seat belt with her bag being a foot away from her, she mentally repeated what Hobbes said about Pikachu being her partner.
"Partner..." Despite her fear, Lillie hoped she and Pikachu will get along.
Later...Now at Pokemon School…
"Are you ready, Lillie?" Prof. Kukui asked Lillie, who's currently panting after quickly walking up the stair. Being 20 minutes early, there was barely any student when she navigated through the hallways.
"I'm r-ready, professor." Lillie answered as she adjusted her bag strap on her shoulder, gripping it. Staring at a door that lead straight into Principal Oak, a blond hair girl took a huge breath and held it in for too long that Prof. Kukui chuckled before he reminded her.
"You can breathe out now, Lillie. Try to relax, it won't take too long."
Lillie exhaled and nervously said, "S-sorry, professor. It's just that...Yesterday happened so quickly."
"As quick as Quick Ball." Prof. Kukui thought as he nodded in understanding manner, "Understandable. C'mon on, let's get you a permit." He hovered his hand an inch from a doorknob and grasped it to open it, revealing an office with a tan skin old man in Alolan shirt staring out the window. Doing an impression of Exploud, by judging the shape of his hair.
"Oak and his habit..." Prof. Kukui shook his head. But again, he has habit of adding Pokemon attacks in his speech so this is not weird. It seems Principal Oak didn't hear his visitors' entrance as he's too busy doing Pokemon impression, leaving the visitors to stand around awkwardly and patiently.
And patience immediately disappeared into nothingness as if sensing an urgent need to progress, Prof. Kukui coughed before announcing, "Good morning principal." Causing Oak to suddenly jump.
"Ack!" Seeing Prof. Kukui smiling with amusement and Lillie nervously greeted him, "Good morning principal. Alola."
Gathering himself, Oak returned greeting as he fixed his hair and took a seat behind his desk, "Good timing, professor and young Lillie. Why don't you take a seat and we'll see where this GO-lduck." At the last word, Oak's face formed an impression of Golduck.
"Err..." Lillie sweatdropped but she complied, taking a seat with a bag on her laps while Oak opened one of his desk drawers to pull out a rather intimidating looking brownish yellow folder and placed it on the desk. Opening it, Oak began, "Alright, let's Scyther through this. I believe you have the papers, young Lillie?"
"Yes, let's me get them out." Lillie's hand used Dig into her bag, moving it around before pulling out a stack of couple paper forms with her guardian's signature and handed them to Oak who accepted and look through. Content, he set them down.
"Magmarlous!" He slid Lillie's papers inside a thick folder, feeding it and dumped it back into drawer before beckoning Lillie to turn left. Confused, Lillie turned to her left only to see a flash.
CLICK!
Rubbing her eyes, Lillie could see Prof. Kukui holding a camera that printed out a small photo of her which he handed it to Oak, who seem to pull out a large stamp out of nowhere and Machoke'd it against a small card. He slid a card into a plastic case along with Lillie's picture before handling it to Lillie.
"Here you go, all yours."
"Huh?" Lillie's eyes finally done blinking, "That's...it?"
Oak nodded, "That's it. Everything's all good, plus professor Raichu good recommendation which speed up the process pretty quickly."
"Quicker than Extremespeed if I say so myself." Prof. Kukui added, "Go ahead, Lillie. It's your now."
Still not Bayleefing that she didn't have to do paperwork (as if they'll make a 10 years old kid go through boring process, right), Lillie slowly moved her hand at pace that would put Vigoroth to sleep. Many things flashed on her mind about what's going to happen afterward, ranging from going long perilous hopeless adventure to possibly getting shock by angry Pik-
Nope, this won't do, Lillie thought, she has to stop thinking negatively. But still…
"I have a..permit now..I can't believe it." Lillie murmured.
"Oh you better believe it, Lillie. I did said it won't take long." smiled before checking a time, "Well, principal. Do you have anything you want to say?"
"Indeed...young Lillie..." Oak's voice immediately changed to serious that caught Lillie's attention. Look like principal has something important to say. And by Arceus's toot, he indeed has something serious to say as he stood up and turned around to look out his window with his hands behind his back.
"I know you are still trying to get over your fear, young Lillie. But I want to say this. As with many others in this school, the path is not linear to you. Instead, you have many paths lie before you to take and explore without having to stick to one thing. Battling, performing, recreation, doing Island Challenges, pet, companion, protection, and many different things...There is one thing that I cannot stress this enough and being smart girl you are, I know you remember the speech I gave on every first day of school year..."
"Pokemon is a big responsibility..." Lillie muttered softly, causing Oak to nodded as he continued, "Rightly so. With Pokemon, you have potential to be anything and to do anything you could dream of. But only if you raise and care your Pokemon and that Pikachu is now your responsibility. With it, you can even go further beyond your potential."
Oak sighed before going on as he continued to stare out a window, "I have no doubt you heard this from your friend and everybody else, but I am going to join them. You can do it and...Lillie…?"
"Yes, principal…?" Lillie watched an old man turned around and with professor, they spoke the same thing at same time, "Welcome to the world of Pokemon."
Later...Now in classroom…
"Whoo! You finally have permit, Lillie!" Mallow cheered loudly into Lillie's ear as she and others gathered around Lillie as if they're Sharpedo surrounding a Luvdisc, all saying their congratulation. Off course, around them is a group of Pokemon that belong to classmates, consisted of Bounsweet, Togedemaru, Poppolio, and Turtonator
Few seconds later, Lana asked Lillie, "Say...you have Pikachu with you, right?"
"Y-yes..." Lillie answered.
"Have you let him out yet?" Kiawe inquired.
"Not yet...Want to wait for you all to see..."
"Well, what are you waiting for? Let's meet him!" Sophocles excitedly clapped his hands. With everybody voicing their agreement, Lillie look at a professor, who spoke, "I too would like to meet him. Plus, we can spare some minutes for small session of introduction."
"W-well...Let's meet Pikachu..." Lillie's hand went into her bag and pulled out a Quick Ball for everyone to see-
Having no patience for a sentence to describe the anticipation of Lillie's teacher and classmates along with curiosity of Pokemon, a Quick Ball suddenly popped open with white light enveloping entire classroom, rudely blinding everybody for brief moment before they could hear the sound of loud blasting firework followed by unfamiliar sound.
"PIKA PIKA-AA!"
"Huh?" everybody rubbed their eyes before spotting a Pikachu, standing on a desk, dressed like some martial artist with-
KANG!
A red headband could be seen around Pikachu's head from bird's view.
KWANG!
Two red wristbands, one on Pikachu's left arm and other on right from right side camera view.
KANG!
A red sleeveless vest on Pikachu's body with yellow fur arms crossing with camera centering on his chest.
KWANG!
For some bizarre and non-existent reason, everybody could see Pikachu from several different angle as if in video game despite not moving from their spot which shouldn't be possible without bending reality. Seeing that humans and Pokemon are blinking, possibly in awe, Pikachu gave a smirk and flicked his nose before suddenly shifting into combat stance, fiercely yelling, "CHAAA KAAA!" with his fist pointing at them, followed by the sound of invisible gong.
Hearing warrior cry coming out of strange Pikachu's mouth and gong that is nowhere in sight, everybody jumped few feet in air with Lillie being the highest. Before anyone could comprehend what's going on, Pikachu proceed to carry out the most epic introduction (in his opinion) with the sight going around him as if in video game with scene somehow changing to waves crashing against a cliff, occupied by Pikachu.
"Piii ka pika pika kaka cha aa pii cha kaa chaa pii kaa!" Pikachu performed several quick jabs at air before doing roundkick with his face being zoomed closer. Pikachu's eyes instantly lit up fire as if being unable to hold back passion, Pikachu let out another warrior cry that caused everybody to jump again as he goes on in 'I'm serious in cool way' style.
"Bii pii cha ka chaa aa pii bii kaa! CHAA!" Pikachu raised his fist in air before mashing it against a completely visible imaginary Midnight Lycanroc with both eyes being X shape followed by impossibly realistic explosion. Pikachu punched a completely visible imaginary Bisharp that suddenly collapsed through the floor, followed by impossibly realistic explosion. Before anyone could even think, Pikachu continued to 'talk' as he punched random Pokemon left and right out of nowhere with absurd amount of Explosions that screamed action movie.
Once again, Pikachu displayed a lack of concern for what is reality by shifting a scene to giant blazing sun in vacuum space with Pikachu riding on blazing hot meteor from the sun toward Lillie and others who all are somehow floating. Within next second, Pikachu rudely let out another battle cry that a scene changed back to classroom with everybody but Pikachu suddenly fell on the floor.
But atlas, Pikachu still have more thing to say. Even though nobody, saved for Pokemon, could understand him, never mind how cool and serious he sounded.
"Bii kaa kaa chaa PII KAA KAA CHAA chaa kii pii CHUUUUU!" Pikachu screamed with the might of his lungs with both arms in air, jumping. At the same time, a massive boiling volcano showed up behind and immediately erupted with large volume of lava through the sky. A seemly epic scene didn't last enough as everybody found themselves back in classroom in plain old reality with Pikachu no longer jumping, but still have his fists in air. And thus, allowing everybody to comprehend what just happened.
"Whoa..." Mallow thought as she stared incredulously at Pikachu, "He sound so cool...except we have no idea what he was saying." Plus there's no way Pikachu did all those action movie scenes, right? Her mind must've play some realistic scenes when Pikachu came out of Quick Ball.
"How is he doing this? Was it my imagination or he somehow bended reality?" Lana wondered as she remembered hearing and even touching water in beginning of Pikachu. But there is no water in classroom and everybody including herself look dry. It must've been her mind, Lana rationed. Though it felt little too realistic.
"Just like video game character...He must be...some sort of cosplay..." Sophocles look at Pikachu with awed expression followed by bewilderment, "Wait a minute...I can't be the only one who experience all this, right?" Looking at others, his mind asked again, "...Right?" Maybe he'll conduct an experiment just to make sure.
"Such passion...such fierceness...such seriousness...I can feel it...it torched my heart...I hope my Turtonator and I can be that fierce." Kiawe was so touched by Pikachu's strong impression of ancient warrior in ancient Alola history that he didn't bother to question whether Pikachu did reality-alternating stuff or not.
"Okay...that was cool and all, but...this..this is an affront to the study about Pikachu...No way people going to believe this." Prof. Kukui thought, feeling awed, inspired, impressed, and insulted all at same time. Plus, there's no way he could see Pikachu in different angles when he has been standing in front of him for whole time.
"…..." Lillie's mind has nothing but blankness as she stared disbelieving at Pikachu, who later lowered his arms down since he is puzzled by the humans' reactions with Pokemon mirroring theirs. Looking at how a blond hair female looking at him, Pikachu scratched the side of his side and simply said, "Chu?"
THUD!
Lillie has fainted with spiraling signs replacing her eyes.
Author: Well, what do you guys think? Sorry for horrible Pokemon puns with Oak. Yup, Pikachu pulled anime-like introduction. Just so you all know, this still take place before first episode of Pokemon Sun and Moon anime in term of timeline. And that I may not do all the episodes as some may not happen since Ash Ketchum is not in this story.