Pokémon Ultimate, a fan fictional story. By XzeroBlaze
KARP KARP KARP KARP KARP, these sounds were coming from a Golden like fish, that was sitting on top of a desk beside a young boy in bed fast asleep.
With the noise constantly ringing, our protagonist began to slowly wake up.
"It's too early, what is that noise" he mumbled while rubbing his eyes, when he looked beside his table, he could see a toy like Shiny Magikarp flopping around.
"What the hell, hahaha who put this here, how do I shut it up" after lifting it up and seeing how it had cables and it was plugged in, he soon discovered it also had some numbers on it.
"Huh 07:02, wait are you, yep its an alarm clock" with a push of the top fin, the sounds finally came to a stop, but not before one last "Magikarpppp" played one last time in quite a pleasing manner.
"I must admit I feel a little happy after hearing that" little did he know his world was about to be flipped upside down.
"HUH, WHOS FUCKING ROOM IS THIS" beginning to freak out he started turning his head in all directions in hopes of finding something familiar, only to find that it only became more foreign to him.
Nothing looked how it was supposed to "the table the chairs the curtains the tv the bed even this carpet, wait.." He climbed out of bed and made his way toward the window, pulling the curtains to the side, blasting him with sunlight, that light made him squint briefly while using his other hand to protect his eyes. Within seconds his eyes had adjusted, looking out he could see past his foreign back yard due to him being on the second story.
It was quiet an amazing view to behold, He could see neighbouring houses, some buildings he didn't recognize, along with some bird like creatures. Further in the distance, wind turbines and even a little bit of blue that looked like an ocean, but to be sure he would have to get a better look, one where his houses wall was not blocking his line of sight.
Yet between all of the buildings and house was vast fields filled with flowers with little creatures running around, this town was way too beautiful, our main character had never seen anything like it before.
"Besides this unbelievable backdrop, everything is to colourful, why are my arms a different texture, where is a god damn mirror when you need it" unable to find a mirror in his room, he made his way outside the bedroom door, thankfully straight ahead he could see a bathroom. Looking left and right first to check if the coast were clear, he dashed towards the bathroom, last thing he needed was to run into someone before he could piece together what was happening.
With one look of his face, everything started to make sense.
"POKEMON… this makes no sense" looking at his cartoon like face and body, bright white hair and reddish eyes, he now understood why everything seemed so much more colourful.
"why can't I remember anything… who am I? I know this is meant to be a game or show…. Arghhh this makes no sense" Confused and frustrated he vented his feelings on the image looking back at him, shattering the mirror into pieces.
He didn't understand why he felt so angry, yet he knew it was overwhelming him.
This was happening while the bathroom door was still wide open, sounds of the pieces shattering spread throughout the house.
Lost in his fluster, he was unable to hear the person moving up towards him from behind.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" screaming at the top of his lungs, our Mc jumps for his life, frightened by a hand suddenly touching his shoulder, he panics cutting his hand.
"Z! calm down its me, Mom, what happened? Ah never mind about that! You're bleeding, let's go clean that up!" grabbing the boy by the wrist she leads him downstairs towards the kitchen.
"Z? Mum?" hearing the name Z felt oddly familiar to the boy.
'My name is Z and apparently, she's my mother, ahhh I'm so confused' as he was being dragged, he would walk past photos that had been either hanged up on the wall or displayed in photo frames sitting on desks, each photo not only gave him an insight into the past of his current life, it also started triggering past memories to resurface.
Z didn't know if these memories where his or not, despite the familiarity he felt, nothing made sense, on one hand he had all these memories of growing up in pallet town, then on the other hand he had all this knowledge about people and their adventures and Pokémon in other regions.
by the time he was able to organize his memories, his hand had already been bandaged up.
"All done, Mwha see all better" Surprising her son with a kiss on the forehead, she then stood up and started preparing breakfast.
Z just sat there stunned, he didn't know how to act and for some reason it was making him feel guilty.
"You have to be more careful you hear, I know today is an exciting day for you but at the moment you're not really giving me much confidence in letting you go on your adventure, I don't know how professor oak convinced me this was a good idea" she was filled with worries as any mother would be about a 11 year old child wondering around the world.
Z realized that this was a critical part to the story, he had no choice now but to reply "Mum, it will be fine, all kids my age are doing it, look at Red and Blue's Mom, aren't they fine with it! plus if I run into any trouble I'll go straight to the police"
"Still, I can't help but worry about my little boy, oh that reminds me I bought you some new shoes, I got them on sale, the clerk said its good for running in, It's in that box by the door, go clean up that mess you made, then start getting ready, I want to walk with you over to professor oaks"
"Alright thanks Mum" Just as he went to run off he felt his arm get grabbed again.
"where's my hug huh, don't tell me your too old to hug your mother"
Not wanting to seem suspicious he proceeded to give her hug
'This feeling' it didn't feel like he was hugging a stranger, Z now knew the feelings he felt for this women before him, it didn't matter if this was real or fake, right now this feeling was the realist thing he knew.
Z was now ready to head out, besides his brand new running shoes, his mother also bought him a brand new backpack and outfit, all with the colour scheme of red black and white.
Looking at himself in his mother's bedroom mirror, he couldn't help but think how cool he looked.
"Just you wait Red and Blue HAHAHAHA" Z went on for a while like this unable to stop himself from posing in front of the mirror.
Ka-chick "I was wondering why you were taking so long, that was a good one show me some more"
"Nooooooooooooooooo, delete it!" Z was so embarrassed he started chasing after his mother trying to get the camera.
"Ohohohohohohoho" like a true villain she ran taunting her son by taking more photos.
The chase proceeded downstairs, Z was starting to catch up to her. Without many options, she chose to head towards the backyard, Z believe he had her cornered.
"You have nowhere left to run, surrender"
"Ohohohohoho, you obviously aren't aware of the situation, a true villain never surrenders"
"Don't say I didn't give you a chance, prepared to be tickled to death" charging forward Z lept towards his mother.
'Way to many openings, hopefully this will teach him' She dived to the side as she yelled out "VILEPLUME USE GROWTH" a flower like Pokémon that was hiding its body in a bush, grew at tremendous speeds, sending Z flying, leaving him seeing stars. Looking up he noticed it was a beautiful sunny day.
"Chlorophyll!" Z exclaimed.
Walking over to her son, she extended her hand "are you okay? Why did you say chlorophyll?"
"I was just thinking how clever that strategy was mum, you baited me! I never stood a chance with Vileplumes speed doubled, damn sun!"
"I still do not understand, isn't it normal for Vileplume to move this quick during the day?"
"No, it's an ability some grass types have that when its sunny their speed is doubled."
"Ability? I just thought these guys needed energy, I had no idea it was to that extent, where did you learn that?"
realizing he had just casually blurted out information that even professor oak probably didn't know yet, he panicked, trying to think of an excuse he went with the first thought that came to mind.
"I saw it on Pokémon Discovery, on the tv the other day"
"I might have to start watching some more tv then my clever little boy" she said as she patted her sons head.
"Mum promise me you won't act like this in public"
"is someone embarrassed ohoho"
"MUM!"
"Vileplume?"
Walking through pallet town, Z was able to get a better look of his surroundings, compared to the games, this place seemed more like the anime, it was a lot bigger, everywhere you looked, you could see life, people and Pokémon coexisting together, it was beautiful.
After saying hello to all the locals, Z, his mother and Vileplume finally made it to professor oaks.
Walking inside Z could see it was just as big on the inside as it was on the outside, sitting at a desk was a receptionist, in the distance, Z could see a couple of men who appeared to be researchers reading some books by some shelves, but further in the distance he could a old man with grey hair black eyes and a purple shirt covered with a lab coat fiddling away with something on his desk.
The receptionist didn't even notice as Z and his mother walked past. 'talk about employee of the month' Z thought to himself.
They proceeded all the way to the old man.
hearing footsteps from behind, the old man stopped what he was doing and turned around.
"Hello, there! Glad to meet you, my name is Oak, people affectionately refer to me as the Pokémon Professor"
"Samuel it's us cut the bullshit, put on your glasses" Z mother retorted without holding back.
"Oh it's you, that's not funny you know I don't wear glasses, what's with everyone being so impatient lately first Blue now you, any way why didn't you come yesterday?"
"What happened yesterday Old Oak? Z replied
Professor Oak could not help but stare at the boy after that remark "Didn't we agree to start your adventure yesterday and you would help complete the pokedex, along with Red and Blue?"
Z could not believe what he was hearing. "WHAT, are you saying I'm a day late… AHH that means I'm already falling behind, Gramps where's my starter?" realizing every second counted, he grew impatient.
Yet rather than replying Professor Oak went silent. "I'm sorry to say this Z but we might have to delay your adventure till next year, yesterday after Red and Blue left, someone had broken in and stolen Squirtle"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" Z couldn't help but be dramatic.
"Look on the bright side, next year you'll be able to adventure with my other grandson Gary and that boy Ash Ketchum"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" Z was devastated, he didn't remember much but he knew he fucking hated that name Ash Ketchum.
"This isn't funny Samuel, do you at least have that pokedex thing for Z"
again silence "Ahh the thing is the last one was also stolen"
"Then what the hell is that red thing on your desk"
"I'm still putting that one together"
"ARE YOU SAYING THAT WE CAME HERE FOR NOTHING!"
"If you had just come yesterday…"
"AM I HEARING EXCUSES SAMUEL"
Vileplume started walking up to Oak.
"Here take it, this is all I have" Oak dug out a box, filled with Pokeballs, while Z started filling up his bag, he went over to a shelf and brought back a little egg. "take this, I found it on a Chansey when I was younger, no matter what I did, I was never able to hatch it, maybe you might have better luck"
"Stand down Vileplume"
Z couldn't help but laugh on the inside at what had just happened let alone when his eyes glanced upon the egg 'pfft who tries to hatch a lucky Egg, is this guy actually an Idiot' strangely as he thought this he could see his Mother and Oak acting strange, as if Oak had said something he shouldn't have.
"Well I guess it can't be helped, we can't have Z traveling without a way to protect himself, lets head home"
Seeing how quickly his Mother changed the subject only confirmed his suspicions but his mind froze in its tracks.
"WHAT" for a while Z continued to argue with his Mother and Professor Oak on the subject.
but both of them refused to budge on the subject, with no other choice he returned home with his mother and Vileplume.
While his Mother started preparing lunch, he sat in his room analysing his current situation.
Seeing his mother in action today he knew she wasn't some ordinary character, but he couldn't recall any information about her besides her being his mother.
"Ahhhh why is this becoming so stressful" he didn't understand, why isn't this following the usual script, shouldn't It have been just me waking up, saying bye to mum, go getting a Pokémon from Oak, then beating my rivals.
Then a thought occurred to him, what if this was the script, it's not like he was in control yesterday, he only woke up in this world today, and from what he knew about Red and Ash, didn't they both come from 2 different worlds?
Z needed to think, he needed to make sense of what he had learnt today, so once again he began to reorganize his thoughts.
When Z's mother came up the stairs to tell him that lunch was ready, he was already fast asleep.
"hehe one more year with my little baby, thankfully that sleeping powder worked yesterday"
"Vileplume Vileplume" Vileplume said.
"yes you did a good job Vileplume, we will always keep him safe."
"Vileplume!"
A mother's love can sometimes be terrifying, luckily Z was oblivious.
