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(a/n: Before we get started on this fanfic, we want everyone to know that we HATE 'No Such Luck' just as much as the next person.)
Prologue
In a neighborhood in the city of Royal Woods, Michigan, Lincoln Loud is walking down a sidewalk, wearing nothing but his orange pajamas, with a sad look on his face.
"Oh, hi everyone." said Lincoln in a sad tone. "You're probably asking 'Lincoln. Why are you walking around outside in your pajamas and with no shoes on?'. Well, to answer your question, I was kicked out my own home by my own family. Why you may ask. They think I'm bad luck! You see, with ten sisters, I never have some time to myself since I usually have to attend my sisters' activities from Lori's golf tournaments to Lola's pageants. So one day, my sister, Lynn, wanted me to come to her softball game with the rest of the family to support her. I didn't want to because I wanted to stay home and read comic books, but Lynn convinced me to come, and by 'convince' I mean threaten me with a baseball bat, so I ended up going. Lynn's team actually ended up losing that game and instead of being a good sport about it, guess what Lynn does. She blames me! You see, I didn't attend her other softball games and her team won, and the one game I did attend, her team lost, so he accuses me of being bad luck and banned me from all her future games. Because of that, I came up with the idea to convince my entire family that I was bad luck so I wouldn't have to go with to their activities. I was enjoying it at first, having the me time I really wanted, but then they refused to let me go with them to things I would have wanted to come with to, like going to the movies, they also wouldn't let me eat with them at the dinner table, they boarded up my bedroom door and sold all my furniture and possessions and made me sleep outside! I tried to spend the night in Charles' doghouse, but he growled at me because even he was convinced I was bad luck. I tried to come clean and admitted to making up that bad luck garbage so I wouldn't have to go to their activities, but they didn't believe me because they thought I was lying so they'll let me back inside, so now, here I am." Lincoln kept walking until he reached the house of his best friend, Clyde McBride. He rang the doorbell. He waited for a minute and no one answered. "Oh, that's right, Clyde and his dads are out of town, visiting relatives." said Lincoln, facepalming himself. He scoffs. "Of all the days he had to be out of town, it had to be around the time my family decided to stop listening to their common sense!" He walked away from the McBride house and continued walking with his head down. After walking for almost an hour, he looks up to see he was near the Royal Woods Mall. He looks over to see a small crowd of people gathered in front of it. Curious, Lincoln decides to walk over to see what was going on. As he walks across the parking lot, he sees a twenty dollar bill on the ground and stops to pick it up. He continues walking until he reaches the crowd, he walks through it until he reaches the front of it. He sees a man with black hair and a beard, wearing a white sweatshirt with a picture of what appears to be a ball that's half white and half red with a black line across the middle with a white button in the middle of the line, blue jeans and white shoes with red shoelaces and soles, standing behind a table with a ticket tumbler, a small stack of pamphlets, and a money box on it while holding a roll of white, double raffle tickets on it. "Excuse me, but what's going on here?" Lincoln asked the man.
"A chance to win the opportunity of a lifetime, young man." replied the man. "Buy one raffle ticket for one dollar for the chance to win a scholarship for the Naranja Academy at the Paldea Region to become a Pokemon trainer."
"What's a Pokemon?" asked Lincoln. The man picks up a pamphlet from the stack of them from the table and holds it out towards Lincoln.
"Here, kid. This pamphlet should explain everything to you." said the man. Lincoln takes it and looks at it. The cover has the image of a boy with black hair, wearing a violet t-shirt, black cargo shorts, black sneakers with violet stripes, and a blue baseball cap worn backwards, holding a red and white ball like the one on the man's sweatshirt forward. Near the boy was a small, orange, rodent-like creature. Below them in bold, red letters reads 'WHAT ARE POKEMON?' Lincoln opens it to read what's inside. He learns that Pokemon are mysterious creatures that are capable of many things that normal animals cannot. He also learns that Pokemon trainers travel the entire region, capturing Pokemon by throwing devices called pokeballs at them and train them to battle against other trainers' Pokemon for sport. He learns that they travel the region to collect eight badges from different gyms to compete in a yearly competition where trainers compete against each other until only one is left and that trainer earns the right to battle against the champion for his or her title. The pamphlet also showed three pictures, each of a different Pokemon. One was of a pale green, cat-like Pokemon. Below it was the word "Sprigatito". The second was of a red, crocodilian Pokemon. Below it was the word "Fuecoco". The third was of a white, duckling-like Pokemon. Below it was the word "Quaxly." After reading the pamphlet, Lincoln saw that being a Pokemon trainer sounded very interesting.
"Whoa. Being a Pokemon trainer sounds so cool." said Lincoln.
"It is. So, would you like to buy a raffle ticket? Only one dollar and hurry up, the deadline is in less than ten minutes." said the man, looking at his watch.
"Sure. What have I got to lose?" said Lincoln. He gives the man the twenty dollar bill he found and he gives Lincoln one half of a double raffle ticket and nineteen dollars and he drops the other half of the raffle ticket into the ticket tumbler. A few more people showed up and bought raffle tickets. Minutes later, the man picks up a megaphone and holds it close to his mouth.
"Okay ladies and gentlemen, the deadline is up. Are you ready?" asked the man. Lincoln and the rest of the crowd cheers in response. "Okay. Let's get started." The man starts spinning the ticket tumbler. Seconds later, the man stops spinning the tumbler and opens the little door on it. He reaches into the tumbler and pulls a ticket stub out of it. "Okay, everyone. The winning ticket is zero, three, one, three, one and seven." Everyone in the crowd moaned in disappointment except for Lincoln, who looked at his ticket stub with a big smile on his face. He had the winning ticket stub.
"I WON! I WON!" Lincoln cheered loudly, waving his ticket stub in the air. He gives the man his ticket stub and he reads the numbers off both stubs to see if they match and he sees that they did. The man looks at Lincoln and smiles.
"Congratulations, kid. Once we get to your home and you get packed up, we'll head down to the airport, and we'll be on our way to the Paldea Region." said the man. Lincoln looked down with a sad look on his face, scratching the back of his head.
"Actually, sir. This nineteen dollars and the pajamas I'm wearing are pretty much all I have. I...really don't have a home anymore." replied Lincoln. Everyone in the crowd gasped and they and the man looked at Lincoln with pity.
"Wow. I'm sorry to hear that, kid." said the man. "Fortunately, the scholarship pays for your dorm room, cafeteria food, and uniforms, so boarding, food, and clothing shouldn't be a problem for you. So it's a good thing you won, huh. I guess once I pack up everything here, we'll go down to the airport where a plane there will be ready to us to the Paldea Region." Several minutes later after the man returned the table to the mall which he borrowed it from and put the ticket tumbler, ticket roll, money box, and megaphone into the back of an airport shuttle van, he climbed into the front passenger seat while Lincoln climbed into a middle passenger seat while a driver is in the driver seat. Soon they left the mall parking lot and half an hour later, they arrived at the airport. Lincoln and the man got out of the shuttle and after the man unloaded it and the shuttle drove off, he turned towards Lincoln. "Okay, kid..." said the man.
"Please. Call me Lincoln." said Lincoln.
"Sure thing, Lincoln." replied the man. "My name's Travis. If you need to use the restroom, do it now because we're traveling to the Paldea Region in a small plane that doesn't have a bathroom in it." They go into the airport. Lincoln looks around for a restroom until he saw one nearby and walks to it and enters it. Two minutes later, Lincoln exits the restroom and returns to Travis. "You ready?" asked Travis. Lincoln nods and they exit the airport. Minutes later, they were aboard a small white plane with a red pokeball design on the side with a pilot at the controls and were miles up in the air. Travis gives Lincoln a brochure. "Here, Lincoln. Everything you need to know about the Naranja Academy is in this brochure. Figure reading it will give you something to do to pass the time until we get to Paldea." said Travis.
"Thanks." said Lincoln, taking the brochure. He immediately begins reading it. "Well, I'm on my way to a new land to start a new life. I'm sure going to miss my friends Clyde, Liam, Zach, Rusty, and Ronnie Anne. I'm also going to miss Pop Pop and my baby sister, Lily. I don't hold anything against her. She's only a baby, she's too young to know right from wrong, probably didn't even have a say in the whole kicking me out of the house thing. I don't know what it will be like in the Paldea Region or at this academy, but I won't know until I get there. Until then, I might as well read about what this academy is like." Lincoln continues reading the brochure as the plane flew farther away from Lincoln's hometown.
End of Chapter One
