Pokémon Soul Generations – Kanto Saga
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Prologue: The Birth Of The Human Pokémon
Hello and welcome to the world of Pokémon!
In this world, we humans live together with creatures called Pokémon, where we play and work together with them. Humans that catch and train Pokémon are called Pokémon Trainers. For most Pokémon Trainers, the goal is to either catch and see every known Pokémon across the entire world, or battle against other trainers and become the greatest Trainer in the world. However, before this journey begins, let's meet the hero of our story.
? - "Ah what a beautiful day."
This is Michael Masi. Despite only being 9 years old, the Pokémon Professors of every region pretty much considered him to be a natural prodigy, especially when it came to battle smarts and type matchups. Michael then looked at the calendar hung-up in his room.
Michael - "One more week."
That's right. Michael's 10th birthday, the day he officially becomes a trainer, is in one week's time. After taking a quick shower and getting dressed, Michael made his way down to the kitchen, where his parents, John and Tracie were having breakfast.
Michael - "Morning Mom, Dad.
These are Michael's parents, his dad John, who's a police officer, and mom Tracie, who works as an assistant under Nurse Joy.
Tracie - "Good morning sweetheart. To think that you'll be a trainer in just a week."
John - "Have you decided on which starters you're gonna get?"
Michael - "Well obviously I'm gonna get Mudkip, Piplup, Froakie, Popplio, and Sobble. That's 5 starters already. As for the other 3, it's a bit tough to decide."
? - "Don't worry big bro. I'm sure you'll make a good decision on the last 3 starters."
In walked a young girl that looked like a female version of Michael. This is Akira, Michael's younger twin, and 1 of his 7 sisters.
Michael - "Thanks Akira. I'm so thankful that you and the rest of our sisters are so supportive of me in this."
Akira - "Of course Michael. What kind of sisters would we be if we weren't supportive of our dear brother?"
Michael hugged his twin, happy and thankful for her love and support. Soon the rest of his sisters joined them in the kitchen. There were Michael's 2 other younger sisters, Mordred and Jeanne, as well as 2 of his older sisters in Hilda and Alice.
Mordred - "Man it sucks that Artoria and Azura may miss Michael's 10th birthday."
Jeanne - "Don't say that Mordred. There's a chance those 2 can still make it."
Alice - "Jeanne's right. They still have a week to show up."
Hilda - "Guess we'll just have to wait till then."
Akira - "So have you made a decision for your Kanto, Johto, and Unova starters Michael?
Michael - "Well the easiest of the 3 is Johto with Totodile. Compared to Chikorita and Cyndaquil, Totodile's type coverage when it fully evolves in Feraligatr makes it the best selection. As for Kanto and Unova, I'll take Charmander and Snivy just so I don't have all water starters."
John - "Good idea."
Soon Michael and his sisters had their breakfast, then went about doing chores around the house while their parents went to work. For those of you wondering what region Michael and his family live in, well that's just it. The 10 of them don't live in any of the named regions at all. They instead live on this giant bizarre island called Pokémon Island, which was surprisingly as big as any of the regions itself. The enormous island also had each of its corners dedicated to a single season (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter). In the middle of the island was a body of water big enough that it could be considered its own ocean, with a giant bridge crossing the only connection point to the rest of the world by sea. You can also reach the island by air through seaplane, or the airport at Spring Island's Bloom City. Summer Island's Sunnyburg was a very big vacation spot. Alongside its vast beaches, people could also find other ways to keep them entertained. Autumn Island's Leaf Village is most widely known for its trees with red and orange leaves. And finally, Winter Island is known for its vast snowy landscapes, with the village of Arctic Tundra being smack in the middle of it. People can mostly travel between the islands by walking, but find it faster to do it by car or train. Spring and Summer islands also have their own harbors for the numerous cruise and freighter ships that travel to the island, as well as any seaplanes that make it to Pokémon Island as well. When John and Tracie first came to the island to live here, they had decided to build a modern looking home on a good stretch of land between the Spring and Summer Islands. They were very surprised when many people from all four islands stopped by and offered to help build their home, especially when Tracie was pregnant with her eldest daughter Artoria. After a year of working on the house, it was finished and Artoria was born, and Tracie was also pregnant with her second daughter Azura. A few months later Azura was born. 3 years later Tracie gave birth to her third daughter Hilda, then the rest of the kids followed, with Tracie surprisingly giving birth to Michael and his 3 younger sisters in the span of 2 years. This also caused the house to be majorly expanded to house a family of 10. Soon the expanded modern home became a giant mansion, with not just rooms for the family, but also numerous guest rooms as well. Soon the day's numerous chores were nearly done. While his sisters were done with their chores, all Michael had to do was bring out some Pokémon food to the Pokémon in the surrounding forest that he had come to befriend.
Michael - "Dinner time guys!"
Michael watched as the Pokémon quickly came out of the forest and rushed over to him.
Michael - "Yes it's good to see you guys too. Now then. Bug-Type food for Caterpie and Wrumple. Bug-Type & Poison-Type food for Weedle. Grass-Type food for Shroomish, Grass-Type & Poison-Type food for Oddish and Foongus. Normal-Type food for Zigzagoon, Bidoof, and Rattata. And finally, Normal-Type & Flying-Type food for Pidgey, Tallow, and Starly."
Michael then backed off once he made sure everyone had enough food to keep them full till morning. He then noticed something to his left. What he saw were numerous men and women in strange outfits pushing 2 giant crates that were covered in a giant tarp.
Michael - "Teams Galactic and Plasma? What are they doing here?"
The Pokémon Michael was feeding noticed where he was glancing.
Michael - "Pidgey. Can you, Tallow, and Starly inform my parents about the current situation when they get home?"
The 3 Flying-Types shook their heads, telling Michael that they would do as he asked.
Michael – Thanks guys. See you in a bit."
Michael quickly moved the trolley carrying the Pokémon food so that it was out of the way of the road, then rushed off after the Galactic and Plasma grunts. The 3 regional birds shared a glance with each other.
Pidgey - "Think he'll be ok?"
Tallow/Starly - "Pretty much."
Meanwhile, Michael had been following the Galactic and Plasma grunts for a good distance now.
Michael - "Just where are these team grunts going? And I have a feeling there's a legendary locked in those cages."
Michael then saw the grunts push the cages into a clearing. He quickly hid behind a tree that was just on the clearing's edge. Then the tarps were taken off to reveal the Pokémon inside the cages, shocking Michael.
Michael - "Lady Reshiram and Lady Xerneas?! Just what do these guys want with them?"
Michael then watched as what seemed to be the bosses of each evil team walk up to the cages.
? - "Well Cyrus. We're this close to obtaining the power to conquer the entire world."
Cyrus - "Agreed Ghetsis. Our new device will let take the powers of these 2 legendary Pokémon, they put that power into our own. With this, we'll be unstoppable!"
Ghetsis - "I couldn't agree with a truer statement. Ready the machine to drain Reshiram and Xerneas of their powers!"
Grunts - "Yes sir!"
The grunts then started prepping the machine. Michael watched as Reshiram and Xerneas thrashed around in their cages. He already knew this machine was bad news.
Galactic Grunt - "Machine's primed and ready to fire sirs!"
Cyrus - "On our mark then."
The machine continued whirling as it powered up. Reshiram and Xerneas bowed their heads, ready to accept their fates.
Ghetsis - "Ready..."
Cyrus - "Aim..."
Cyrus/Ghetsis - "Fire!"
Michael - "No!"
Just as the machine fired its beam, Michael rushed out from behind the tree and jumped in front of the 2 legendries, blocking the beam with his arms. The beam then exploded as it sent Michael into the wall of the cage, turning everything black as he was knocked out.
