Some things you may need to know.
"What are you thinking of?" People talking.
Things. People thoughts.
G'day. Legendary Pokémon or Celestial beings talking.
"Morning." Pokémon talking being understood when near people.
"Fire!" Attack or Pokémon's moves names.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon or any other things that I may reference to.Now to the story.
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*Yesterday*
Professor Oak paced around his laboratory, the three pokéhumans had left his lab earlier and he had already tried contacting the Elite Four, a few hours ago but they were, unfortunately, too busy.
Oak sighed, gazing into the scenery of his backyard. A fierce storm had passed by earlier, and he was worried whether Gary and the others were alright or not.
The rays of the setting sun had left its beautiful mark in the sky aa beautiful lines of pinkish-red clouds littered the majestic twilight.
*Brring!* *Brring!*
Who could that be? Oak thought as he walked towards his computer.
A call from Viridian City? Wonder what do they need? He pressed the 'Enter' key on his keyboard before the face of a familiar kid showed up.
"Hi, Professor Oak," Ash said, his face looking a bit roughed up as dirt could be seen on him.
"Oh my, Ash. What happened to you?" He said, eyes widening in shock.
"I had an encounter with some Spearows."
Oak winced, remembering his first encounter with them. "I'm assuming that you're in Viridian City's Pokécenter."
"Yeah, Pikachu got pretty banged up." Ash glanced over his shoulder, worried etched his face. "Nurse Joy said he would be okay, but I just can't help but feel worried."
"It's alright, Ash. If Nurse Joy says he'll be fine then he'll be fine, there's no use fussing over the past if you can look towards the future."
"Thanks, Professor Oak. You really are the best." A smile crept onto Ash's face before he blinked. "Oh right, I almost forgot something."
He scratched the back of his head. "Do you, by any chance, know a golden bird Pokémon?"
"Golden bird? I'm not sure what you're talking about, Ash."
"It was yellow and orange. And I think there were sparkles flowing off its tail. Oh! And it made this huge rainbow," Ash said, distancing both of his arms as to emphasise it.
"Yellow and orange... Hmm..." Oak posed with a finger under his chin. He can't possibly be saying that he saw Ho-Oh?
"Ash, are you sure that's what you saw?"
Ash nodded.
"Hmm... That's very peculiar, indeed," Oak mumbled. "Ash, what I think you saw was the-"
A loud and harsh ringing noise interrupted them. Oak grumbled some incoherent words before checking what it was.
The noise was another call, this time from Victory Road. A red exclamation mark flashing on the corner.
"Ash, I'm sorry to cut this short but it seems like I have another upcoming call," he said, apologetically. "I'll see you soon, Ash. Good luck, and tell Pikachu I said 'Get well soon'. Bye. " And with that, he ended the call.
He then opened another window for the next call and was greeted by the mumbling of four people.
A shirtless blue-haired man sat, cross legged, in front of the other three. He wore baggy pants and had black bands around his wrists and ankles. His muscles, black belt and fierce look did not let him down as he held a presence of combat.
The one on his left was a crimson-haired woman that looked to be in her twenties, she wore a black suit that reached to her knees. She lifted her glasses a bit as a cold and calculated look appeared on her face.
A man with dark-red and spiky hair stood on the right, he wore a red coat with a black undershirt. He crossed his arms as his cape flew in an invisible breeze.
An old lady stood beside the red-haired man, a cane supporting her. She wore a purple dress and had a green scarf around her neck.
"What's up, Oak," the shirtless man, Bruno, said.
"Good evening," the crimson-haired woman, Lorelei, said
"Good eve," the caped man, Lance, said.
"Hello." The old lady, Agatha, waved.
"Yes, good evening, everyone," Oak said.
"Is there a reason you called us for?" Lorelei said.
"Have any of you gotten a report of a dimensional rift recently?" Oak asked, getting straight into business.
They all looked at each other for a moment before Bruno responded, "No. Not really."
"As I thought," Oak muttered.
"Why? Do you suspect something has breached through Hoenn's Multiverse Seer?" Lance asked.
"Maybe," Oak said. "You see, earlier this day. Three pokéhumans had arrived at my lab."
"Pokéhumans? You mean someone has morphed into a Pokémon again?" Lance asked.
"Yes and they'd informed me about their situation," he said. "Apparently, they came from a world where Pokémon do not exist."
"How... interesting," Lorelei murmured.
"Do you think these three could be dangerous?" Lance said.
"Not likely." Oak shook his head. "Their characters lead me to believe they're just simple teens and the youngest one is only ten years old. Plus, while they are a bit informed about Pokémon, their information are just as high as the average Pokémon trainer."
"So where are they now?" Lance enquired.
"I'm not sure, they should be in Viridian City by now. Let me check." He grabbed a nearby red device, he pressed some buttons on it and spun some knobs.
His eyes widened slightly in surprise. "This is... peculiar. Where could they be?"
"What's wrong, Oak?" Agatha asked.
"It seems like we have a problem," he said, chuckling nervously.
"What?" Bruno asked.
"I've placed a GPS locator on the prototype pokédex that I've given them and it seemed like they're... gone."
"Gone?"
"It was working earlier, I wonder where they could've gone to?" Oak pondered before proceeding to look back at the Elite Four. "I'm gonna see if there's some bugs or issues with the protodex. In the mean time, try and see if you can notice anything weird happening and report back to me, got it?"
"Sure, Oak." Agatha nodded
"No problem." Bruno grinned
"Got nothing better to do." Lance shrugged.
"You can count on us," Lorelei said.
The screen went black as Oak sighed. "Better go see what's wrong with this."
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*Now*
Rays of light beamed through the openings between the trees as June breathed in a deep breath.
"Y'know I've never noticed how fresh the air is," June said.
"The forest does have more trees than cities." Evie stated. "Though I never did notice how this forest's air smells more pure than Route 1."
"I'm... not gonna question how you know that," June said, slowly darting his eyes away from the fox. "It's strange how peaceful everything is; 'cause after what happened earlier I thought something crazy was gonna happen."
"Maybe peace is the new crazy?" Evie suggested.
June shuddered. "Ugh, that would be freaking terrible," he said. "Just imagine having to go through that again." He flinched slightly when the memories of a slimy and toothy mouth came to him.
"Are we there yet?" Quil asked.
"Almost," Evie responded. "Just need to pass this boulder and we'll be out."
"Boulder?" Ane asked. "I don't see no boulder anywhere."
Evie shrugged. "Maybe Onicia crushed it on her way here."
"Onicia?" June asked.
"She's a relatively nice Onix that likes to taunt the flying-types here," Evie said, nonchalantly. "She usually sleeps in caves most of the time."
"All~ right? Then," June said, glancing towards Ane who shrugged in response.
"Oh man, I'm so excited!" Zeal said, her small form bouncing energetically. "This is my first time leaving this place. I can't wait to see what kind of things could be lying ahead!"
"Well, it's also our first time being in another universe. There's still tons of thing we may or may not know," June stated. Plus, we still need to see how game logic applies to this universe.
"All right, guys. Beyond these trees is Route 1," Evie said. "Be careful and don't get separated, the Pokémon here are more... feral than the forest's."
"Ehh, they're not so bad," Ane said. "That Ratata doesn't look as threatening as before when I killed that giant octopus."
June raised an eyebrow at that.
*Beep!* *Beep!* *Beep!*
June jumped, his heart beating furiously as his claws sharpened slightly.
"Oh God!" Ane exclaimed. "That scared the living crap out of me."
"Is-is that another weird human analogy?" Zeal said, giving Ane a strange look.
"What the heck is that?" Quil asked.
The beeping sound was coming from June's breast pocket.
June took a look at his clothes. "Honestly forgot that I was wearing these," he said, chuckling as he took out the pokédex. "Now let's see what's going on, Ferb?"
"A incoming call from Professor Oak, would you like to accept or decline?"
"Professor Oak? Why is he calling us?" Ane asked.
"Your guess is as good as mine," June said. "Accept, Ferb."
Ferb's screen glowed a bright blue before a transparent and blue image of Professor Oak appeared in front of them.
"Greetings, everyone," Oak said.
"HI, Oak," June greeted back.
"Wassup." Ane said.
"Hello," Quil replied.
"So this is where you three have been," Oak said. "What were you doing in that empty forest?"
The holographic Oak blinked. "Is that an Eevee and a Zorua? How-how did you find them here?"
"In the forest," Ane said, shrugging.
"Tha-that shouldn't be possible! None of our scientists, biologists or geologists were able to find any source of life other than trees and grass in that forest," Oak said, his voice croaking in shock.
"Oak, remember that time when I said that I was expecting a Celestial being to appear and give you the answers?" June said. "Well... it seems like there was a fight between two of those beings and the results of the fight created over fifty different pocket dimensions all over the world, and it seems like this forest is one of them."
"Th-thi-this is incredible!" Oak exclaimed, his eyes sparkled with interest. "Pocket dimensions - hah! - in our universe! No wonder we couldn't detect anything in certain parts of the Earth. This changes everything!"
"Yeah... about that, Oak. Only Aura users and Pokémon are able to access the dimensions, so..."
Oak visibly deflated. "Oh," he said, looking down at his feet for a moment.
"That's it!" he exclaimed, a small blue light bulb appeared above his head. "You three could do what we can't, you can help us research these dimensions; think of all the things you could do to advance our understanding of Pokémon!"
"Uhh... sorry to break it to you, Oak. But I'm only fifteen, nearly sixteen in a few more months, and I do not know how to fight, I do not know anything other than the basics of physics and chemistry. Plus, we do not know where these dimensions are, they could literally be anywhere, Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and the rest." June then shrugged. "But I guess we can help you a bit."
"Deal," Oak said.
"Talk to you later, Oak." June winked as the hologram faded away.
Ane whistled. "So... what do we do now?"
"I... have no idea," June said as a drop of sweat rolled off his head.
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A/N: Sorry if this chapter's a little short. Try to think of it as a filler chapter for the later arcs. Thanks for reading and I really appreciate you taking the time to actually read these. I'll see you later on the next chapter. Ciao for now.