Chapter 2: Quid Pro Quo

Cambridge, Massachusetts. November 1986

Ninetales was circling her new master and sniffing the air as they were walking because she couldn't wait to eat the Poké puffs Tony got for her. Tony was trying to keep the box of sweets in his hand as he tried not to step on any of her tails. They were heading to his apartment in MIT after finishing his invention for the MIT Robot Design Competition he bought sweets for him and Nine to celebrate although he was starting to regret it.

"If you don't stop that right now, I will give the puffs to the neighbor's Emolga you hate so much." Tony warned Nine and she got the message as she backed away. They were able to walk the rest of the way without Nine making a fuss.

Tony Stark was already completing his Junior year at MIT, a 16-year-old at one of the top schools in the nation sticks out like a sore thumb. Before he moved to Massachusetts, he insisted to his dad that Nine comes and lives with him. He and Nine were there for each other when Howard wasn't around which was often to their sadness. It didn't take much to convince his dad, he probably thought sending his son and Pokémon away was the happiest day of his life.

Tony and Nine walked into their large apartment preparing to devour their sweets. If there was one thing his dad was good for it's his money because instead of a dorm room Tony got a 2,000 sq. ft apartment with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths'. Tony set the pink box on top of the granite kitchen island to Nine's obvious joy. He set the 2 puffs on a small plate and put it in front of Nine while he held a cinnamon roll in his hand.

Nine prepared to devour the puffs, "Wait! First we make a toast." Nine saw Tony lifting the roll as if it was a glass. "A toast to our success and to getting to this apartment without painting the sidewalk with our sweets." Nine yipped happily and they both took a bite of their delicious pastries.

Suddenly a faint crash grabbed their attention, they stared at each other for a minute and then another crash came only louder. Nine immediately jumped in front of Tony ready to defend him from the intruder. "It sounds like it's coming from my workshop, what do you say to a sneak attack?" Nine nodded her head.

Tony pulled a gun from his locker under the sink and he and Nine proceeded slowly to confront their intruder. They were outside the door of the workshop, Tony and Nine gave a silent nod to each other and Tony kicked the door open.

"Freeze asshole!" suddenly the intruder dropped something, but they couldn't see him cause he was behind Tony's desk. "I'm warning you stand up and put your hands in the air, I wouldn't try anything if I were you cause I have a very protective Ninetales who'll burn you into thief kaboob." Nine growled angrily to confirm his statement. A moment passed until the intruder floated from behind the desk. Tony and Nine saw that the intruder was a Beldum. Tony lowered his weapon since a steel type doesn't stand a chance against Nine.

Tony was confused, "Huh it's a Beldum. What are your doing here?"

It said in a robotic voice, "Beldum Bel Beldum" Tony was quiet for a second.

"I didn't get any of that did you?" He turned to Nine who was confused on why her master was engaging with this intruder. While they looked at each other Beldum floated towards the bolts and screws that were on the counter.

"What are you doing?" Beldum proceeded to eat the metal objects and said happily, "Beldum"

Tony understood, "that's what you snuck in here for? Food?" Beldum nodded.

Tony smirked, "You could've just asked all of my inventions didn't exactly work the first time around. My machines failed to work the first time…and the second time…and occasionally a third. The point is I have a lot of failures just lying here in this room attracting more dust, if you were hungry you could've just asked." Nine could understand why Beldum would sneak in here for food. It's not like he could ask Tony in words he would understand.

"Of course I probably wouldn't have understood you." Beldum shook it's head and noticed a very tasty looking robot with a claw, "Nah ah ah ah ah ah! Dum-E is not on the menu! He may be a dumb piece of tech but he's my dumb piece of tech."

Beldum was disappointed but understood this robot held significance to this witty teenager. Tony sighed, "Listen why don't we make a deal?" Nine and Beldum looked at Tony confused as he grabbed a Pokéball from a drawer, "I capture you and whenever a machine fails on me I can let you eat it along with screws and bolts in between inventions." Beldum was shocked that this human would offer it a place to stay as well as food but why?

As if he could read its mind he added, "Think of it as a quid pro quo I get to throw away useless tech and you get a happy meal for free. So what do you say?" Beldum thought this through for a moment.

"Beldum! Bel!" It shook it's head happily.

"Great! Well to start things off I present the appetizers." He pulled a white sheet off that spread dust everywhere making Nine sneeze, "May I introduce Dum-E 1! It took me five tries for me to make that guy." On cue Dum-e waved at the Iron Ball Pokémon.

"Not my smartest robot but it's a work in progress. Now dig in!" Beldum's eyes sparkled at the sight of the slightly rusted thin robot and he started scarfing down the useless robot. Tony grinned in amusement while Nine sweat dropped at the greedy robot.

"I think we just made a new friend Nine!" Tony said enthusiastically, Nine simply sighed and shook her head in annoyance.


I gave Tony a Beldum cause its called the Iron ball Pokemon. Don't worry guys I'll get to the first Iron Man movie in a couple of chapters till then theres some other pokemon that I've incorporated in Tony's past. The next chapter focuses on Tony creating a pokemon, you'll find out what it is when I post it. Stay tuned for more!