Holy schnizit… I wrote this story long, long ago, in a place known to few
as the Pokémon Abode. This was a continuing interactive story, with the
fellow ubb members as characters in the story. It became so popular amonst
the 'Boders that it is remembered as one of the great fan-fics written
there. The story by another Calypso, the one here at fanfiction.net,
entitled The Sky's The Limit, is also in this special category. And now,
what many of the old 'Boders feel as a legend, Aquafire. Written in '99-
'00 with two sequels, maybe it is.
This story is completed, except for the third sequel. I'll post a new installment everyday, if I'm lucky.
Disclaimer: I don't own pokémon. I only own Aquafire. Take my name and die, mortal!
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I awoke in a cold, cramped cage, which was inside a brightly lit room. Even though I was a fire pokémon, the air was extremely cold to me. The air was heavy with the smell of antiseptic and rubber, almost making me gag. I tried to move around, but the cage was too small. I looked out the bars of my cage, and saw some horrible things.
There were other cages on the other side of the room opposite of mine, and they too were crammed full of pokémon. I saw two Pichus huddling together, trying desperately to keep warm. Their ears and tails were drooped, and their fur was a pale yellow, the kind of yellow on the underside of a Pidgeot's wing. To the bottom of the cage was a Sandslash who was lying on its stomach. The many sharp quills on its back were dull and limp, looking like some loose clothing. Its eyes were partly glazed over. To the Sandslash's right was a Tangela, its normally blue-green vines a sickly brown and as limp as old spaghetti. I then looked to the left of my cage, and saw a Vaporeon. It was lying on its stomach as well, with its fish-like tail draped over its body. Its normally deep sky-blue skin was a dull shade of blue, like the blue of a Wartortle's feathery tail.
"Hi, I'm Aquafire," I said, trying to make some conversation.
"Oh, you're the newcomer, huh?" she said tiredly. I could tell that she once had an airy, spirited voice, but it was now dead. "My name's Calypso. This place is what humans call Saffron Laboratories."
"What do the humans do here?" I asked nervously.
"They perform all kinds of experiments on us in the name of science," Calypso replied.
"Yeah, and hope that you don't get to be treated to the endurance tests," said a voice to my right. "They run you until you nearly drop dead from exhaustion. I should know."
I looked over to whom the owner of the voice was. It was a wolf-like pokémon with dark colored fur.
"My name's Lunar," he said. "Nice to meet you."
"Hey, I'm Shadow," said a voice to Lunar's right. "I'm a dark Pikachu, and darn proud of it too!"
"And I'm Firestrike," said a voice below me. "I am a kind of cross between a Pikachu and a dragon."
"Nice to meet all of you," I replied nervously. All these pokémon either looked dead, or close to it
"This place is pure torture. After a week, most of us lose our will to live, like poor Groundstreak over there," said Calypso, motioning to the Sandslash that I had seen earlier.
Just then, however, a man in a white lab coat came thumping into the room. He strode past the other cages, and stopped in front of mine. I tried to curl up into a ball despite the confines of my cage. He pressed a button on the black device he was holding, and my door swung open. The man reached in and grabbed me roughly by the scruff of the neck and yanked me out of the cage. I whimpered, because it hurt being held like that.
"Awww, shaddap you dumb pokémon!" snapped the man as he gave me a hard smack across the face. He walked out of the cold room into a warm, brightly lit hallway. We passed by about three doors, before he stopped in front of a room marked "Pokémon Experiment Lab" and went in.
Inside was a medium lit room, with a blond woman holding a syringe in her left hand. She was busy squirting out a little excess liquid from the needle syring.
"Where do I put this runt, doc?" asked the man.
"Put that pokémon on the table and strap it down good, because this one will be injected with the experimental serum," she said, readying the syringe. "We don't want it to go into convulsions like the last one, you know."
The man walked over to the table, and threw me down so hard that it knocked the wind out of me. As I struggled to catch my breath, he took some thick straps, grabbed my four paws, and strapped them all down. I tried to struggle against the straps, but they were too strong. I wished half- heartedly that I was an Arcanine, and that I could rip the human's heads off. Then, the lady came over with the filled syringe.
"Don't worry, this won't hurt a bit!" she said ruthlessly with an evil sneer. She grabbed my back leg and stuck the needle in. My leg immediately felt like someone had lit it on fire from the inside. Then, the fire ebbed, and died, but I felt a throbbing in the leg.
"Roy, take this Growlithe and shove it back into its cage," said the lady. "We shall see the results of the experiment in the morning, when the serum takes full effect."
"Got it boss," said the man as he unstrapped me and picked me up by the neck like before. I would've used my favorite attack, the whole reason I got the name Aquafire, but the serum had paralyzed my entire body. I was helpless.
The man got back to the cold room, opened my cage door, and tossed me back in. The others were already asleep, or just too exhausted to talk, so I went to sleep wondering what tomorrow would hold.
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Sooo… throughly confused yet? Ya shouldn't be. I'm not the best pokémon writer, but this was written so long ago now when I re-read it, it seems weird. Oh well. Every chapter will have a breakdown of the new pokés featured, what they are, and their abilities. This was also started before Gold and Silver came out, and the story reflects that, and the japanese names later, but I'm re-editing for lots of stuff... Anyways, thanks for reading, and I like comments!
The cast as of the prologue
Aquafire-Growlithe-Silver/Black-Psychic/Dark/Fire
Calypso-Vaporeon-Yellowish/Blue-Water/Electric
Lunar-Wolf thing, no real pkmn denotation-Brownish black-Dark
Shadow-Pikachu-Inverted colors, i.e. yellow where black is-Dark/Electric
Firestrike-Dragonite/Pikachu cross-Pale yellow with wings too small to fly with-Dragon/Electric
Groundstrike-Sandslash-Brown/Black-Ground/Rock/Dark
This story is completed, except for the third sequel. I'll post a new installment everyday, if I'm lucky.
Disclaimer: I don't own pokémon. I only own Aquafire. Take my name and die, mortal!
________________________________________________________________________
I awoke in a cold, cramped cage, which was inside a brightly lit room. Even though I was a fire pokémon, the air was extremely cold to me. The air was heavy with the smell of antiseptic and rubber, almost making me gag. I tried to move around, but the cage was too small. I looked out the bars of my cage, and saw some horrible things.
There were other cages on the other side of the room opposite of mine, and they too were crammed full of pokémon. I saw two Pichus huddling together, trying desperately to keep warm. Their ears and tails were drooped, and their fur was a pale yellow, the kind of yellow on the underside of a Pidgeot's wing. To the bottom of the cage was a Sandslash who was lying on its stomach. The many sharp quills on its back were dull and limp, looking like some loose clothing. Its eyes were partly glazed over. To the Sandslash's right was a Tangela, its normally blue-green vines a sickly brown and as limp as old spaghetti. I then looked to the left of my cage, and saw a Vaporeon. It was lying on its stomach as well, with its fish-like tail draped over its body. Its normally deep sky-blue skin was a dull shade of blue, like the blue of a Wartortle's feathery tail.
"Hi, I'm Aquafire," I said, trying to make some conversation.
"Oh, you're the newcomer, huh?" she said tiredly. I could tell that she once had an airy, spirited voice, but it was now dead. "My name's Calypso. This place is what humans call Saffron Laboratories."
"What do the humans do here?" I asked nervously.
"They perform all kinds of experiments on us in the name of science," Calypso replied.
"Yeah, and hope that you don't get to be treated to the endurance tests," said a voice to my right. "They run you until you nearly drop dead from exhaustion. I should know."
I looked over to whom the owner of the voice was. It was a wolf-like pokémon with dark colored fur.
"My name's Lunar," he said. "Nice to meet you."
"Hey, I'm Shadow," said a voice to Lunar's right. "I'm a dark Pikachu, and darn proud of it too!"
"And I'm Firestrike," said a voice below me. "I am a kind of cross between a Pikachu and a dragon."
"Nice to meet all of you," I replied nervously. All these pokémon either looked dead, or close to it
"This place is pure torture. After a week, most of us lose our will to live, like poor Groundstreak over there," said Calypso, motioning to the Sandslash that I had seen earlier.
Just then, however, a man in a white lab coat came thumping into the room. He strode past the other cages, and stopped in front of mine. I tried to curl up into a ball despite the confines of my cage. He pressed a button on the black device he was holding, and my door swung open. The man reached in and grabbed me roughly by the scruff of the neck and yanked me out of the cage. I whimpered, because it hurt being held like that.
"Awww, shaddap you dumb pokémon!" snapped the man as he gave me a hard smack across the face. He walked out of the cold room into a warm, brightly lit hallway. We passed by about three doors, before he stopped in front of a room marked "Pokémon Experiment Lab" and went in.
Inside was a medium lit room, with a blond woman holding a syringe in her left hand. She was busy squirting out a little excess liquid from the needle syring.
"Where do I put this runt, doc?" asked the man.
"Put that pokémon on the table and strap it down good, because this one will be injected with the experimental serum," she said, readying the syringe. "We don't want it to go into convulsions like the last one, you know."
The man walked over to the table, and threw me down so hard that it knocked the wind out of me. As I struggled to catch my breath, he took some thick straps, grabbed my four paws, and strapped them all down. I tried to struggle against the straps, but they were too strong. I wished half- heartedly that I was an Arcanine, and that I could rip the human's heads off. Then, the lady came over with the filled syringe.
"Don't worry, this won't hurt a bit!" she said ruthlessly with an evil sneer. She grabbed my back leg and stuck the needle in. My leg immediately felt like someone had lit it on fire from the inside. Then, the fire ebbed, and died, but I felt a throbbing in the leg.
"Roy, take this Growlithe and shove it back into its cage," said the lady. "We shall see the results of the experiment in the morning, when the serum takes full effect."
"Got it boss," said the man as he unstrapped me and picked me up by the neck like before. I would've used my favorite attack, the whole reason I got the name Aquafire, but the serum had paralyzed my entire body. I was helpless.
The man got back to the cold room, opened my cage door, and tossed me back in. The others were already asleep, or just too exhausted to talk, so I went to sleep wondering what tomorrow would hold.
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Sooo… throughly confused yet? Ya shouldn't be. I'm not the best pokémon writer, but this was written so long ago now when I re-read it, it seems weird. Oh well. Every chapter will have a breakdown of the new pokés featured, what they are, and their abilities. This was also started before Gold and Silver came out, and the story reflects that, and the japanese names later, but I'm re-editing for lots of stuff... Anyways, thanks for reading, and I like comments!
The cast as of the prologue
Aquafire-Growlithe-Silver/Black-Psychic/Dark/Fire
Calypso-Vaporeon-Yellowish/Blue-Water/Electric
Lunar-Wolf thing, no real pkmn denotation-Brownish black-Dark
Shadow-Pikachu-Inverted colors, i.e. yellow where black is-Dark/Electric
Firestrike-Dragonite/Pikachu cross-Pale yellow with wings too small to fly with-Dragon/Electric
Groundstrike-Sandslash-Brown/Black-Ground/Rock/Dark