Chapter 1: Enter the Interloper
A/N: Hello everyone it is so good to be back here on . I thought that Sonic Fates was going to be my first and last fanfiction but I am guessing that I found myself writing yet another fanfiction this time on Pokemon. This story was actually in development for a very long time now. Ever since December, but it finally came through fruition. I hope that you all enjoy this story as I spent a long time writing the first chapter. Without further to do, let us get ahead with the story.
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20 year old Ingrid is a sophomore in college. She goes to New York University to study how to become a teacher as she always wanted to teach. Whenever she is not studying, she is busy playing video games as she even brought her Nintendo switch and her old 3DS with her to college.
Some of her favorite video game franchises include Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda. But her all time favorite video game franchise is Pokemon. She has always loved Pokemon ever since she was seven years old. Her two favorite Pokemon games were Diamond and Pearl and Heartgold and SoulSilver, she also collected many of the trading cards, she watched all the movies and she even watched almost all the episodes of the anime as a whole from season 1 all the way to the Journeys series.
It was just one normal night just like any other and Ingrid was just rewatching the Kalos League finale with Ash vs Alain. "Aw come on, you are telling me that Ash's greninja's giant golden water shuriken had absolutely no effect on Alain's charizard yet its blast burn caused Ash's greninja to faint right then and there leading to Ash losing the league to Alain!?" Ingrid angrily shouted at the monitor that she had set up in her dorm. "This is a bunch of bullshit! I mean Ash totally should have won this battle considering that his greninja, a water type. Beat a mega sceptile who is a grass type!"
"Hey! Can you please keep the noise down there? I am trying to study for my exam here" Ingrid's next door neighbor asked her. "Sorry" Ingrid replied before turning off the monitor and crawling her way into bed.
It was the day before another long boring lecture which was something that Ingrid despised the most about college. She just wanted to finish school already and get her degree in teaching so that she can become a teacher already to be done with having to do long boring exams and attending lectures that she slept through a lot.
Eventually, Ingrid fell asleep to prepare for the long and boring day ahead of her. Little did she know that she would wake up to something that she was not expecting.
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Ash is just hanging out with his old pokemon from Kanto through Sinnoh. He really wishes that his primeape and his squirtle were both here right now but they are both in training and he knows that they are both doing fine. While Ash is watching his charizard reunite with its fellow fire types, his pikachu runs up to him.
"Pikapi!" Pikachu frantically shouted. "Huh? What is it, pikachu?" Ash asked. Pikachu then begins running in the direction in which he came from and Ash begins to follow him to see what got his pikachu acting frantically to begin with. "Hey slow down there pikachu!" Ash shouted begging his pokemon to slow down which it does by his request.
Eventually, Pikachu brought Ash to what appeared to be a girl who looked way older than Ash by like ten years and she appeared to be unconscious as she was laying on the ground with Ash's oshawott and his bulbasaur standing near her. "How on earth did this happen?" Ash asked himself.
He knew that he could not just stand around and do nothing as to him, the only right thing to do in a situation like this was to get help. So Ash picked up the person who, to his surprise, was lighter than he thought and he then began running into the direction in which he came from, hoping to get help from someone like Professor Oak.
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"Why does it feel like I got hit by a bus?" Ingrid thought to herself.
She had woken up in a room that was unfamiliar to her. Her vision was blurry so she wasn't able to quite make out her surroundings but she knew for a fact that she was no longer inside her college dorm. Despite her blurry vision, she was able to make out at least two other figures in the room as both of them appeared to be conversing about something.
"Are you sure we shouldn't maybe send her to Nurse Joy at the Pokemon Center since she is unconscious after all?" One of the figures said as Ingrid swore she heard that voice somewhere before but she couldn't pinpoint where. "I am sure that the girl will wake up soon and once she does she'll probably be feeling alright. Besides we don't exactly know how she ended up like this as for all we know, she probably was taking a walk but got tired along the way and fell asleep" the other figure said as to Ingrid, that voice also sounded very familiar as if she heard somewhere before but just like with the other voice, she couldn't pinpoint where.
Eventually, Ingrid's vision went back to normal as she realised that she was resting on a couch in what appeared to be a living room.
"Is this another dumb senior prank?" Ingrid once again thought to herself.
Ingrid then turned to see the two figures as now she could get a better look at them. Once she did, the two figures both turned to face her as well with surprised expressions on their faces as if they did not expect for her to wake up. Ingrid nearly froze where she was as the disturbing realization suddenly came to her. The two people who were occupying the room with her were Ash and Professor Oak from the Pokemon anime and it did not take long for Ingrid to notice Pikachu perched atop Ash's left shoulder.
"Did my crazy fanfiction dreams come true or something?" Ingrid thought to herself as millions of questions were all beginning to flood her mind as to how this was even real to begin with and how she got here.
"I see that you are finally awake," Professor Oak said to Ingrid. "May I ask, what were you doing in that forest unconsciously?" The professor asked Ingrid.
Ingrid is now confused as to what Professor Oak is talking about as she does not recall being in any forest or even a field in that matter. Ingrid is now trying to muster up a response to Professor Oak's question as she cannot believe that she is about to talk to a character no, a person who she only thought was fictional.
"Um… I don't know what youre talking about and most especially, I don't even recall being anywhere near a forest" Ingrid replied.
"Huh? That is strange considering how my pokemon found you in a forest near the lab" Ash added in. "Hmmm…" Professor Oak thought to himself as he put a hand to his chin and began to try to come up with an explanation to Ingrid's statement.
"Do you happen to own any psychic type pokemon or pokemon that know the move teleport by any chance?" Professor Oak asked Ingrid. "Because if I had to guess, then a pokemon might've teleported you to that forest while you were asleep" the professor finished. "Um no, no I do not own any pokemon at all" Ingrid replied.
"Well can you at least tell us your name and who you are?" Ash asked.
"Should I just drop the ball right here and now in front of these guys about me being from a different planet? I mean maybe just maybe if I do that, then all this questioning could just end already. But will they both believe my statement as they will probably both think that I am insane as it is not like that I have any proof to show them?" Ingrid thought all this to herself for a moment as she was not about to go through all the troubles of inventing some stupid false coverup story to rid any suspicion.
"Wait I got it, I can just pretend that I have amnesia. I mean surely they will buy into it" Ingrid suddenly thought to herself as she felt like a lightbulb went off in her head.
"Um" she just simply said. "My name is Ingrid and I uh… actually I can't remember what I was last doing before all this happened or where I was" Ingrid said to both Ash and Professor Oak. "Are you sure that you cannot remember what you last did or where you last were? Because if you try thinking hard enough then that might jog your memory" Professor Oak suggested. "I'm trying but I just cannot remember a thing about myself. Heck I cannot even remember my family or where I live" Ingrid replied. "Hmm… what a strange case of amnesia" Professor Oak just bluntly replied looking very curious after what he just heard.
"Well then Ingrid, I almost forgot but I figure that now will be the perfect time to introduce ourselves" Professor Oak said. "I am world famous pokemon researcher, Professor Samuel Oak" the good professor introduced himself to Ingrid. "And I am Ash Ketchum and this is my buddy, Pikachu," Ash introduced himself. "Pika pikachu!" Ash's pikachu happily shouted. "Someday I hope to become the world's greatest pokemon master" Ash once again said with confidence and courage both building up in his voice.
"Well Ingrid, after hearing what you had to say I think that it will be best for you to have a pokemon by your side to help guide you through the world just beyond these walls" Professor Oak said to Ingrid. "Wait! Are you sure that you think it will be best for me to have my own pokemon?" Ingrid asked the professor. "Of course, I mean for someone like you. You could really use a pokemon partner right about now as I am not just about to let you go out there without a pokemon by your side" Professor Oak replied.
"Holy shit! I can't believe that I am about to get my very own pokemon! If I ever return to Earth then I can brag to my fellow Pokemon fans that I played the game in real life and that the closest they ever got to playing the real thing was through Pokemon Go" Ingrid thought to herself.
"Wow, isn't that exciting, you are about to get your very own pokemon!" Ash excitedly said to Ingrid. "So Ingrid, are you feeling okay to walk now?" Professor Oak asked Ingrid. "Let's see" Ingrid replied as she carefully put one leg onto the floor and then another and then finally stood up on both her legs. She could not believe that after what her body had just been through, what with traveling through space and time, that she could stand up perfectly.
"Alright let's go to the room where I give new trainers their starter pokemon" Professor Oak said as he with Ash closely trailing behind began walking out of the room as Ingrid followed the pair out.
Eventually, the trio arrived at the room in which once they got there, Professor Oak walked over to three pokeballs placed on a table in a room and then he opened all of them up revealing the pokemon that were inside of them. "This here is Charmander, a fire type" Professor Oak introduced. "Next, this here is Squirtle, a water type" Professor Oak once again said. "Finally, this here is Bulbasaur, a grass and poison type" Professor Oak finished as this pokemon really caught Ingrid's attention. "You can only choose one so choose wisely." Ingrid always liked Bulbasaur the most out of the three gen 1 starters as to her, this pokemon looked and was very adorable.
"Charmander, Squirtle and Bulbasaur. Wow" Ash just simply said as he was flooded with deja vu from the day in which he met Pikachu and started his pokemon journey. After a while of mentally debating, Ingrid eventually decided on which pokemon she would choose. "I choose Bulbasaur" Ingrid said to Professor Oak. "Are you sure you want to choose Bulbasaur?" the professor asks Ingrid. "Yes," Ingrid replied. "Alright, well then Bulbasaur is now officially your pokemon" Professor Oak said to Ingrid as she happily picked up the starter pokemon and began hugging it.
"Oh Bulbasaur, I am so glad that we are both buddies now" Ingrid happily said to Bulbasaur as the grass type pokemon's facial expression turned into something happy. "Bulbasaur!" Bulbasaur happily said as it rubbed its face with Ingrid.
"Oh, I almost forgot. Here is Bulbasaur's pokeball and here are eight pokeballs that you can use to catch wild pokemon that you may encounter" Professor Oak said to Ingrid as he handed the pokeballs over to her and she accepted them, putting six pokeballs in one pocket and putting the other three in the other pocket.
"Now normally I would give you a pokedex as well but unfortunately there has been a delay on pokedex shipments so I don't think that my order will be arriving here at the laboratory any time soon" Professor Oak disappointedly said to Ingrid. "It is alright professor" Ingrid replied. "Don't worry though because as soon as I receive my new shipment of pokedexes. Then I will notify you to come pick up your pokedex" Professor Oak said
"So professor, since Ingrid now has a pokemon. What should we do about her? I mean we could always notify the police but I doubt they will be any assistance considering how they've most likely never dealt with a case like this?" Ash asks Professor Oak. "Hmm… that is a good question Ash and like what you said, I doubt that the police will be of any assistance in a case like this" the professor replied.
"Wait! I just thought of something, maybe Ingrid can stay with me and my mother. I mean even though I plan on heading to the Kalos Region tomorrow, I sure wouldn't mind helping guide Ingrid along the way and maybe. We can figure out the solution to her strange amnesia" Ash suggested. "If that is alright with you, Ingrid that is."
"Wait! You are telling me that I get to travel with Ash Ketchum. That is so freaking awesome! I mean I could just think of all the Pokemon fans back on Earth who would wish to be in a situation like mine" Ingrid thought to herself.
"Of course I am fine with it," Ingrid replied.
"And hey, maybe along the way, I can learn a thing or two about how I arrived here in this world" Ingrid once again thought to herself.
"Alright then it is settled, Ingrid it was a pleasure meeting you and I hope that we meet again" Professor Oak said to Ingrid. "You too professor" Ingrid replied as she and Ash both began walking out of the room.
—-A/N: Well, I hope that you all enjoyed chapter one of this story. The earlier draft for this story was actually a lot different then the story you read as earlier drafts for this story had a male oc instead of a female one. I chose the protagonist to be female because I honestly felt that female ocs were kind of underrated in fanfiction. Also I was originally going to have Ingrid wake up to Nurse Joy in the Pokemon Center but then I decided against it once I found the scene too complicated to write. Oh yeah, and even though I will have this fanfiction take place during the events of the X anime. I will not be making any arcs based on the movies as my explanation for this is that die to Ingrid being in the Pokemon universe, the events of the movies have been altered in which they will not happen at all. Well then, I hope that you are all looking forward to the next chapter as that chapter will surely be exciting.
