Recommended song: Pokémon Black & White - Route 2 (Autumn)
28 February 2011
"No, I don't think I ever will."
Summer had came and went in Nuvema town without showing any signs of warm weather. What was worse, was that they had predicted extremely bitterly cold weather throughout April.
Touya, who was feeling kinda down about this news, went outside and took a stroll. Along the way, he happened to bump into his friend Bianca. They walked together and discussed the only thing they talked about those days, which was Pokémon.
"Well, you never know," Bianca told Touya "Maybe one day you'll wake up and, you'll find yourself a pokémon."
"I doubt that it will happen now, if it didn't happen to me the first 16 years of my life."
"W-"
"I mean, I know it sounds crazy," Touya continued, "but I honestly think my parents are trying to isolate me from the world of Pokémon."
Bianca thought about this. So were her parents though.
"Well, miracles do happen." She said.
"I just want to walk through Route 1. Just once. That's all. Is that so much to ask for?"
"But Touya, you know you can't travel through routes with no pokémon."
"I know, I know."
Touya sighed.
"There's something else on your mind, though, isn't it?"
Touya breathed in again.
"Yes."
"What is it?"
"Well, to be honest," Touya began, "I miss my father. Ever since my parents got divorced I've hardly seen him."
"Well, I can't tell you I know how you feel, I mean obviously I still live with both my parents."
Touya pulled a sort of annoyed face.
"But you can always talk to Professor Juniper if you're having problems, can't you?"
"Yeah." Touya said in a sort of "You're Missing The Point" tone.
They continued walking.
"Where do you need to go, anyway?" Touya asked Bianca.
"Accumula Town. I need to deliver something."
"Okay."
"What about you?" Bianca asked.
"Me? I'm not really going anywhere."
"I see."
"Is it okay if I come along?"
"I, err, don't see why not."
In about the time it takes to walk through route U1 and back a few times, they arrived in Accumula. Touya didn't walk in populated areas much, so he didn't visit this town often. Touya therefore didn't know this place very well. In fact, he only really knew about the Pokémon center, and that was it.
At least, until he found something else to remember the town by.
"Now" Bianca began "I need to find the family Park. I th-"
Touya suddenly laughed out loud.
A few seconds awkward silence.
"Ahem..." Touya said sheepishly "Sorry."
"What's so funny about the name Park?"
"No, not that." Touya pointed to a building on a low part of the ground. "That."
"So? We've seen that building before." Bianca pointed out.
"Yeah, but I didn't notice anything about it until now."
"...And what's that?"
"It's up against 3 walls."
Indeed, the way it was placed, 3 of its sides were closed off by large walls of concrete.
"That has to be the crappiest place you could live. With windows on only 1 side." Touya thought out loud.
Another moment's silence.
"Yeah." Bianca said slowly "I guess so."
They were both getting slightly annoyed at all the awkward silences.
Touya broke the silence this time. "Anyway..."
They swiftly moved on.
As the people of the Unova region (Which, by the way, is the name of the region Touya and Bianca live in) prepares for the cold Winter up ahead, Autumn fills the atmosphere. Leaves turn their traditional brown and the cold winds begin to blow. One thing was certain... It was definatly March weather.
Professor Juniper had given Touya small tasks to do since it became 2011. Most of these were extremely simple, but the more recent ones involved using Pokémon. That was, until Juniper mysteriously disappeared during late February. Nobody knew where she went. It was rumoured she went to get something for Touya, Bianca and their other friend, Cheren.
Touya had a few thoughts about this. First, he thought that something could have happened to Juniper. He quickly dismissed this, as his parents didn't look really concerned. He then came up with the thought that maybe she is getting him a Pokémon. He thought that was ridiculous though, and tried to dismiss that thought. That is, he tried. But no matter how much he tried, he couldn't get that nagging idea out of his head.
He decided, seeing as Juniper was gone, that gave him more time to try out his new computer. (Although he said it was new, he had it for more than half a year now)
One of the first things he did on this computer was he made friends with a kid called Ethan. He met him once at this website, telling him Touya was so envious that Ethan had Pokémon and Touya didn't. Especially seeing as Touya was 16 and Ethan was like, 11.
And then came the day his life changed.
"Ha! Check this out!" Touya said, slightly louder than he had originally planned, but he didn't care.
"What is it?" Bianca asked. Next to her was Cherren. The 3 of them were in Touyas room.
"They're researching this parallel universe that apparently exists in quantum thingy, or something complicated, like that."
"Right."
"Well... It has no Pokémon in it!"
"No way!"
"They have animal-like creatures, but not a single Pokémon!"
"That's weird. What would a world be like with absolutely no Pokémon, I wonder..."
"There's more" Touya continued.
He looked at his screen, and then back at his friends.
"Oh yeah. Seasons take 3 months in this universe."
"3 Months?!"
"Yep."
"But... How does that...?"
"There are 4 seasons in the year, instead of 1 every month. And they last 3 months, instead of 1."
"I can't even begin to imagine how horrifically unbearable it would be to have to live through 3 months of winter."
"It's crazy, isn't it?" Touya asked them.
"Yeah" They agreed, with their minds elsewhere.
"Anyway" Touya said, trying to fix his own mind elsewhere, "Why did you guys come?"
"We have news." They both said.
"And that is...?"
"Professor Juniper is back!"
"Great!"
"And she brought something for us!"
Touya looked at them, puzzled.
"What's that?"
The rest is history.
