Here is the "mini" chapter that I promised. I do not own Pokemon.
"hi"- normal speak
"hi"- pokemon speak
Pikachu's secret origins
In the border between the Kanto and Johto regions, an underground Team Rocket base can be seen. Inside the base, numerous electric type pokemon can be seen trapped behind cages that included magnemite, magneton, voltorb, electrode, elekid, electabuzz, jolteon, chinchou, lanturn, mareep, flaaffy, ampharos, even the legendary Zapdos and Raikou. The purpose of having all these electric types was that team rocket hoped to create a pokemon that could harness the strongest electrical attacks and use it to create a new wave of biological weapons that would help them take over the world. How they were going to accomplish this mad goal was complicate yet simple, they were going to take the genes of the caged pokemon and infuse them in single unborn that they test later.
The egg in question was half yellow on top and the other half black on the bottom, in short a pichu egg. Why something as small as a pichu, you may ask? Well Team Rocket was going with the whole "Big things come in small packages" idea, and since a raichu which is a pichu's final evolutionary form can let loose over 100,000 volts of electricity, that's what they went with. They were aware that a normal pichu had terrible control of their own electrical power and would shock themselves by accident rather than their opponent, but Team Rocket was also aware that when pichus evolve, they heavily adapt to their power so they can gain better control over their power.
With these facts Team Rocket believes that they can create a powerful pichu that when trained enough, can rival a legendary pokemon when it comes to terms of power.
So far the egg had been successfully infused with the genes of electabuzz, elekid, mareep, flaaffy, ampharos, voltorb, electrode, chinchou, lanturn, and even (with a great deal of difficulty) Raikou, magnemite and magneton however had bodies that were made of metal, thus it was difficult to extract to genes while Zapdos despite being caged was giving the team rocket scientist a hard time by continuously flailing about in it's cage. As work on the egg countinued, a team rocket agent approached one of the scientists, "How goes the procedure, Dr. Necrophades*?", The scientist now identified as Dr. Adrian Necrophades, who is not only a scientist but also secretly practices alchemy, turned around to face the agent and replied with a smug look on his face, "Ah, Agent Bishop*, what a pleasure it is to grace me with your presence. As to the answer of your question, the procedure is going quite beyond our original expectations. Before long, we will possess the first genetically altered pokemon that will have the strength to rival even the most strongest of electrical legendaries". Agent Bishop, while please with results so he could report to his boss, couldn't help but be concerned about end result due to the fact that numerous test subjects did not survive the taxing procedure. "Are you sure that the egg will come out unscathed or without permanent disfiguration?" asked Bishop, while Adrian coolly replied "Well I would be lying if I said no. However the physical alteration would very minimal at best. Take for example that if the subject would hatch as female, the only difference would be that once it evolves, its tail would resemble the rectangular shape that is found on males instead of the heart shape that has been discovered on females. The only concern would be if it were to be exposed to different chemical compounds, even then the effects would be miniscule to the point where it be hardly noticeable like say it's stomach capacity would allow to it stretch to accommodate something as large as a gyarados".
"That's what you call minimal at best, something that small being able to hold something that large in its stomach?!" exclaimed Bishop, Adrian replied, "Only when exposed to certain chemical compounds, and let me tell you that it's the only distinguishing feature that we'll ever come across. Quite frankly, I find the idea humorous, but with that said we should have no further issues with the subject, trust me". Bishop just sigh at the thought of such a ridiculous side effect (and to Adrian's seemingly sick sense of humor), that he just let it be. Adrian may be strange, but his IQ and professions in genetic diversity are exactly what team rocket needs, especially with another secret project is currently underway that involves cloning**.
As the two men were talking, the egg began to shake and move unnoticed to everyone in the room except to a pikachu and raichu stuck in one of the cages. It just so happens that the pair were the eggs parents with the raichu being the father and the pikachu being the mother, who were part of this insane plot after she laid the egg and all three were nabbed by team rocket shortly afterwards despite their best efforts to fight back. As the parents looked intently at soon-to-be new born baby, the two men stopped talking as they too had noticed that the egg had started to move, and both came to the conclusion that it was about to hatch. Sure enough after ten minutes, the egg finally hatched and a tiny pichu stumbled about and soon sat down on the table.
The two men walked over to the table and picked up the newborn pichu to examine the specimen, "Mazel tov, it's a girl!***" joked Adrian while Bishop just rolled his eyes in annoyance. While the two men began to strap wires over the new born pichu, both of the baby's parent were attacking their cage in outrage trying to get out and fry the bad men that would dare touch their new born daughter and strap her up with wires like she was a power conduit. After hooking up the pichu to the wires, Adrian soon activated his computer to start measuring the baby's initial power level. The computer began to hum for a little bit before whirring to life, and soon sent electrical sparks down to the wires that were attached to the pichu's cheeks which doing nothing at first but then began shocking the poor baby as she was shocking herself badly because of the machine's influence.
As the pichu was being shocked, the excess electricity that she was emitting traveled up into the computer's voltmeter with both men looking at the results. "Well doctor, what can you tell me?" asked Bishop. Adrian looked at the data with a sadistic glee written on his face, "Astounding, truly remarkable. The subject has the potential to learn Volt Tackle and has acquired the Lightning rod ability but that's not even the best part. The voltmeter is recording that the subject's base power is already at one million volts with near high amps to boot. That's powerful enough to completely bypass a ground type's natural resistance to electrical attacks, and the subject just hatched! Agent Bishop, we are witnessing history in the making! With this power, we could fry anyone who stands in our way into a smoldering corpse or completely disintegrate them into nothing. Just think, an army of these pokemon and no one will dare question Team Rocket ever again! Now onto the real tests, because even though she's powerful as it is, there could be a chance were she could instinctively seal some her power in order to adapt to lower energies and we can't have that now can we?".
While the two men conversed about the next step, the pichu's parents were still fighting to get out of their cage in hopes of saving their young from the maniacal madmen with little success, unknown to everyone that somehow their daughter would be the one that would do the freeing.
Soon after she had hatched, two strange men picked her up and then began to tape wires on her cheeks that connected to a funny looking machine, but a little bit after it came to life she soon felt her cheeks tingling. It didn't hurt at first, just felt uncomfortable, soon the tingling started to hurt when all of a sudden she was hit with an excruciating amount of pain at full force. It was like she was being struck by lightning continuously without pause, which was more than a baby pokemon like herself could bare. She just couldn't understand it, who were these strange men, what were they doing to her, why were they doing this to her, when was this hurting going to end? Despite all these thoughts swimming in her pained mind, she knew one thing was for certain, she wanted all this pain to stop right now.
During her torturous examination, the little pichu was able to instinctively scrunch her cheeks a little harder in order to release more electricity that would travel up the wire and into the machine, hopefully giving more than what the system could handle. The two Team Rocket members were still going over what steps when Bishop noticed something strange was happening with the computer as he asked the project scientist, "Doctor, is the power voltmeter supposed to be rising?", Adrian turned towards the computer in bewilderment as he replied, "No it's not, the circuit is supposed to be closed. We shouldn't be taking in more energy than we need to, not with the fail safe online. What's going on?!". Adrian stopped what he was doing and looked over at the pichu in sudden realization, "Why you little rat, stop doing that right now!". "What's happening", asked Bishop, "The subject is somehow inputting more energy into the system than necessary and completely bypassing the fail safe. If this continues, then not only will the system go into critical overload, but all the electric equipment that we have including the electronic cages will be turned off." replied Adrian with a good amount of worry that all of his work might be for naught.
Bishop then demanded, "Well don't just stand there, shut down the machine", Adrian pointed to a fuse box that was behind Bishop and said, "If you head over to that fuse box and pull the switch, the excess electricity should be purged out of the system, hurry!". Bishop ran over to the fuse box, pulled the panel cover off to reveal the switch that Adrian mentioned and pulled the switch down in hopes of stopping a major crisis. His prayers however went out the window when the fuse box soon sparked and crackled as it began to melt under the extreme conditions. Soon the main computer began to spark and fizzle as it enter critical overload, causing small explosions to appear on every electrical equipment including the cages. The electricity absorbing devices and the electronic locks on the cages were soon rendered useless, as each of the cages soon opened up, freeing the captive pokemon including Zapdos and Raikou. The two now free legendaries began to unleashed their pent up wrath upon the facility that would dare hold them prisoner.
Realizing that the base was lost, the two men made a break for the exit, but not before Adrian grab his notes on his genetic experiments to use for the secret cloning project**. Now finally free, the pichu's parents made their way to their daughter who passed out from using too much of her energy. With wires removed and her mother carrying her by the scruff of her neck, the family of chus made their escape while the other electric pokemon continued their rampage. With the chaos still ensuing, the chu family made their way safely outside the base. Taking a breath to assess their surroundings, the father raichu finally spoke, "Well, that was a close call. I thought we would never get out that hell-hole". The mother pikachu nodded in agreement as she held their daughter protectively in her arms, she then looked down at the snuggling ball of fluff with a loving smile on her face. The raichu then looked at his daughter and asked his mate, "So, what should we name our new little girl?", the pikachu continued to smile as she replied, "Hikari-hime, that's her name".The father gave the name a deep thought for a few moments before he nodded in approval and said as he look at his baby girl with pride, "Light Princess, I like that name, it's perfect! Our little Kari.". With their child named, the proud parents hugged each other with their baby in between them and were ready to leave for home unaware that their time together would abruptly be cut short.
Back at the Team Rocket base both Zapdos and Raikou were tearing the place apart, thankfully the other pokemon manage to escape and some even assisted with the base's destruction. With the insides a complete wreck, the pokemon decided to leave one last parting gift to their torturous prison. Gathering in one spot at a safe distance from the wrecked facility and combining their electrical energies, the pokemon unleashed their strongest electrical attacks into the sky where dark clouds soon form, and in a tremendous strike of lightning, hit the the base with a force to would equivalent to a high grade bunker buster. With the deed done, the pokemon went their separate ways back to where they originally belonged.
As the chu family were in the middle of the their hug, a large explosion came from behind them where the base used to be. The initial shock wave of said explosion was so strong that it blew off their feet and into the nearby ravine. After they recovered from the shock, they all swam to the surface of the somewhat harsh rapids. As the family struggled to stay afloat, the father noticed an upcoming fork with one path continuing towards the Kanto region, while the other led to a high (but survivable) waterfall. The parent's realized that there was little time to act as they both looked around for a floatable object, when the mother spotted a hollow log. Using all of their strength, the parents were able to push the log over to their child and place her on top with the fork coming up. As they placed their daughter on the log, her parents had a few choice parting words starting with her father, "We want you to be strong and take care of yourself in the world. You're going face many challenges, but we know you'll overcome them. Take care, my little Kari.", then the mother spoke with tears in her eyes, "We know that things may not always fair for you, but you will persevere. One day you meet that special someone who you'll share your life, heart and soul with, that someone who you will call your own soulmate. You will know who they are by their loyalty, compassion for others and courage to match your own. Never forget that your father and I will always be in your heart. I love you, my Hikari-hime, goodbye". Knowing what they must do, the mother and father pair used their remaining strength to push the log over to the right, where it would safely travel into the Kanto waters, while the parent took one last look as their only child floated away, wishing her good luck with her journey in life while they were shifted to the left of the fork and soon plummeted over the waterfall(they survived, so don't worry).
The next morning on a riverside near route 1, a small yellow body of fur can be see passed out next to a beached log. A pidgey happen to be passing by at this time when it spotted the yellow fur ball and swooped down to investigate. As soon as it landed, the pidgey looked at the yellow body, wondering what it was during by the riverside alone. After a quick examination, the pidey saw the yellow ball of fur's body rise up and down shallowly but a very clear sign that the yellow being was breathing. The pidgey then decided to entice the yellow body into waking up by pecking it lightly, carefully as not to hurt the poor thing. After the first few dozen pecks the yellow body didn't show any signs of moving, but the pidgey did not deter as it continued pecking until the yellow began to stir. Opening it's eyes, the yellow ball of fur then uncurl into a now identifiable pichu. The pichu began looking around before it set it's sights on the pidgey, tilting her head to the side in curiosity before asking "Who are you? Where am I? Where mommy and daddy?", the pidgey calmly answered the frightened pichu "In order, my name is Gale the Pidgey. You're on the riverside on Route 1. Sadly, I don't know where your folks are at, I only saw you when I was flying around".
The poor pichu was distraught at the fact that her parents were nowhere to be seen that she began sobbing at her cruel fate, first those bad humans tortured her and now her mom and dad were gone. The pidgey, not wanting to see the little pichu cey her little eyes out, soon spoke again, "Hey, don't cry little one, I'm sure your parent's wanted you to be strong right? I known mine did.",the pichu calmed down a little bit and nodded in agreement but still cried a little at the thought of being all alone. The pidgey thought of some way to help the poor thing, until an idea popped into his head, "Hey I've got an an idea, there's a abandoned burrow underneath the tree where my nest is. There's also a berry patch with some wild tomatoes growing nearby. If you like, you can stay there with me, it's safe from predators including those bullying flock of spearow. So, how about it, would you like to stay with me for awhile?". The pichu gave the pidgey's proposition some thought before she vigorously nodded her head in agreement and said "Okay, let's go!". Before they left, there was one last thing the pidgey wanted to know of his new would be neighbor "Out of curiosity, what's your name", the pichu thought hard to remember and finally replied" My parents called me Hakari-hime, but you can call me Kari for short".
With that said, the duo took off into the the forested area of Route 1 where the little pichu would stay for around nine years before the fateful day where she would evolve into a pikachu with a rectangular tail instead of a heart shaped tail. She would learn to control her powers better and discover the delicious taste of tomatoes, not to mention her distrust in humans would linger since her birth. After ten years of living in the forest, she would set out to the nearest area which would happen to be Pallet Town, where she would them approach a large building with a windmill and start to chew on some of the power cables on the exterior. While she was at this, she would fail to notice a man in his mid-fifties with white hair and wearing a white lab coat coming to investigate a disturbance in his electrical system that came from outside. After finding what caused the disturbance, the man would take a spherical object from his coat pocket and chuck it at the pikachu where it would bounce off her head and transform her into red energy before being sucked into the sphere and her world going dark.
She would then be released a couple of times to be examined by the graying man, but not before she would give him a shock due to her distrust in people. The pikachu would also end up developing a claustrophobic symptoms that would come from being inside the sphere due to the fact that she felt like she would suffocate while inside. One week after her capture, a raven haired boy would arrive late to the old man's lab to pick up his starter pokemon, only to find that all the others would be taken, save hers. With little choice at the boys eagerness the old man would take the sphere with a lightning bolt sticker on it, and release its content revealing to the boy a yellow electric mouse with a lightning bolt tail. The boy would then pick up the mouse with joy, but not before the mouse would give him a shock treatment. Unknown to the pikachu the boy would not only end up protecting her from an enraged flock of spearow, but also steal her heart once she finds him to be her potential soul mate just like her parents said would happen. With her destiny set, the pikachu named Hikari-hime would travel the world with her human lover, Ash Ketchum, taking on any challenges that they would come across and emerge victorious.
Finally done with this chapter, I honestly didn't think it would be this long but I digress. This chapter gives us a little background in pikachu's past as to how her attacks would affect ground types despite the effects being non-existant in the games. The chemical factor will play a huge roll in up coming chapters. By the way, here's some easter eggs for you if you noticed them earlier.
*- These are reference to other anime characters such as Zorc Necrophades from Yu-Gi-Oh! and of course Agent Bishop from the 2003 TMNT series, which of course I do not own.
**-Obviously a reference to Mewtwo
***-This a joke quote that I used from the 2001 Evolution movie when the alien bird hatch. I am not making fun of anyone just be clear.
With all that said and done, I will be coming up with next "real" chapter soon. Hope you've enjoyed and remember to RR please. See ya!
