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Chapter 4: A.I
"Where were you? I thought you said you'd be online!" Said a cross voice on the other side of the line.
"Look, sorry, I've been a bit busy as of late." Sighed Dan, swapping the phone from his right to his left hand and typing his password and username.
"Oh yeah, with coursework and stuff?"
"Something like that..." Smiled Dan. "Anyway, how is America, you're there for another week, aren't you?"
"Yup! It's good, I've bought you a christmas pressie!"
"Sssh! You're not supposed to tell me!!"
"Oops... ah well. Are you logged on?"
"Yes, I am." Our hero said, clicking Log in.
He felt comfortable inside the game. As he walked, he pulled out his poke-nav and looked at the screen. He had 5 unread messages.
One was from Jessica: "Hi, how r u, and how is the pokemon i traded u?"
Two were from his friend, Jessieff7. One was from 'Prof. Oak', reading "Welcome to the world of pokemon" etc etc...
The final one was from the Administrators. It read: "All Players: It's almost Christmas, so we're hosting a special event in Cerulian city. People will be giving out items, and trading, there are special prizes to be won and The 1st prize is an avatar upgrade!! See you there."
He sent a quick message to Jessieff7, telling her to meet him in Pewter, then set off through the final part of the woods.
At one point he came across another trainer, username 'KirbyandJordan'. The guy wore long baggy Jeans, a camo painted vest and a ripped denim Jacket, he had a long chain with a poke-ball on the end of it, swinging from his neck, and a large Kirby painted on his wide-brimmed safari hat. He immediately chalanged Wedge to a battle, and Wedge accepted.
The Player sent out a Charmeleon, and Wedge selected Ryhorn. The Charmelion was quickly defeated and the player surrendered.
"I would fight on, but my other five pokemon are really weak, and I need to get to Veridian city, quickly." Explained The guy, recalling the fainted pokemon.
"You shouldn't take the full number of pokemon with you, I usually take just three or four with me, so I can train them up."
"Thanks for the advice, but I have to get going, see yer!" He said, taking off into the woods behind Wedge.
At that moment, his Pokenav bleeped, signaling that his Ryhorn had leveled up.
"I need to defeat the first gym leader quickly, before Ryhorn starts disobeying me." Thought Dan.
As he went, he saw something ahead. It appeared to be a small Eevee. It was also injured. He thought for a moment, then tossed a poke-ball at it. The poke-ball just passed straight through it and landed harmlessly on the floor behind it.
"Err...Okay..." Muttered Wedge.
"Why are you here? Are you coming to hurt me too?!" A voice cried, inside ths head. He looked around, but saw no-one.
"Where are you?" Wedge asked.
"Here!" growled the Eevee, Flicking it's tail. Wedge was astounded, for a moment. Then he approached the pokemon and knelt down.
"Well, well, well." Muttered Wedge to himself. "I wonder what you are. An NPC?"
"I do not know. Where is the promised land?" Replied the pokemon.
"Oh, a quest?" Said Wedge. "Ah well, stupid NPCs... I wonder what the prize is."
"I can understand you, you know! And I'm not an NPC!" The Eevee growled, then it fell sideways.
"What did this to you? And If you are not an NPC, what are you?"
"I don't know. All I know is that I must find the promised land."
"Well, here, drink this..." Wedge rummaged in his bag, then used a potion on the injured pokemon.
"I thank you, human. I think you have a good heart, I shall stay with you, and you can help me find the Promised Land."
"Well I don't know about a promised land, it's not on my map, but you can stay with me. But what are you?"
"I do not know." Said Eevee. The little creature trotted over to Wedge and leapt up into his arms.
Dan felt the fur tail brush his face. It was really wierd.
"Errm, the rules say that all pokemon should be in a ball as much as possible, but I don't mind." Smiled Wedge. He tossed his two poke-balls into the air, releasing his Ryhorn and Metapod. "These are my other pokemon, Spike and Bugsy. Do you have a name?"
"Yes... I think my name was...Fixi..."
"Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnn!!!!!!" Called a voice the minute he stepped into town. A girl of about 14 approached him. She had brown hair and a purple sweatband, a pair of red shorts, an blue tank top with an armoured vest over it, and a pair of black running shoes.
"Heya Jessie, how are you?" Dan smiled under the helmet.
"I'm fine. How are you doing?"
"Well, fine. Only, I found this Eevee in the woods... It won't go in a poke-ball, but it talks as though it is a person."
"Really!? No-way! Well, it sounds like an A.I..."
"But I didn't think they existed! Not in real life!"
"I do exist!!!" Growled Fixi.
"I know, but it just seems...unreal!" Wedge said, scratching between the pokemon's ears.
"An A.I...In Pokemon online? We should really report this..." Sighed Jessie. Suddenly, her pokenav bleeped. She looked at the screen, then put it away.
"Seffer has logged on." She said. "My Brother is really annoying sometimes."
There was a buzz, and Wedge realised that he had recieved a message:
"Hey Dan, how are things? I'm just flying down to meet you. Stay in Pewter city!"
"It was Seffer, He's coming to meet us." Said Wedge happily.
"Well, let's go to the pokefan club near the edge of town. We can let our pokemon out there."
The club was packed with people and pokemon. They went up a couple of floors, to a room that was almost empty. The only occupants were two players called 'Mr.Ninjaguy' and 'Jess readin' They were engaged in a battle.
Mr.Ninjaguy had a Raticate out, and Jess Readin had a Squirtle. As Wedge entered, Squirtle used a powerful water attack and several chairs went flying. Raticate used quick attack, but Squirtle his in her shell, and the shell was knocked into a wall, causing cracks to spread across it's surface. Before they could do any more damage, another player came running up the stairs. The newcomer was a Moderator.
"Oi! There are rules you know! No fighting in here! Out." He yelled. The two dissapointed players left the room.
"And you two! This room has to be reset. So out unless you want me to reset you too." Wedge and Jessie went up a floor, onto the roof of the building. They both released their pokemon. Wedge's Spike and Bugsey acted a couple of mock battles with Jessie's Voltorb, Koffing, Pikachu and Wortortle.
Only Fixi remained, sitting, dignified, on Wedge's lap as he sat down on one of the many armchairs around.
"So this Eevee is a Vaigrant AI and she wants to go to some 'Promised land'?" Began Jessie. Wedge was about to reply, when they saw a Skarmory decend from the sky, with a player clinging to it's back.
"Hi guys!" Said Seffer, landing on the roof.
Seffer looked at Wedge.
"I see you have a new character. Nice one."
"Well, Yeah, how are your pokemon doing? Last time I saw you online was..."
The three adventurers walked through the cave.
"Damn, you are sooo lucky! How come you get a Bagon, but not me?" Asked TheBigBadHero3
"Because, I'm a more skilled player than you!" Laughed Seffer.
"No you're not, my Weezing can beat your Ivesaur any-day!"
Suddenly, they saw another player. He was dressed in a black track-suit, and wore a balaclava.
"Yo, What are you doing down here?" Called Seffer. The player didn't answer. The two guys saw that he seemed to be guarding a steel door. That was wierd on it's own, because Dan had been down here, like, fourty times, and there had never been a door. Suddenly, it opened and they looked in and saw a large room, like the Poke-fan club. It was full of people, and strange pokemon that they had never seen before, in any pokemon game, then the Balaclava-man entered and the door closed, then vanished in a stream of code that trailed off into the air and then was gone.
Wedge and Jessie finished
telling Seffer about Fixi, and she regarded him grumpily. As they
began to chat some more, a voice shouted:
"Hey, You!!
Hacker!!!"
