Pokémon, The story of Surge

By someone who's seriously still stuck for names

List of Things I must find Original Names for (you guys can help too!): Arcanine, Ponyta, Rapidash, Charmeleon, Growlithe, Numel, Camerupt, Torkoal, Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken

When Lilandra woke up, she half-thought that maybe her entire ordeal with Team Rocket had been nothing but a bad dream. She was human again. But when she opened her eyes, she knew it had happened.

She was lying in the middle of a massive crater that was about three metres deep and as wide as the Old Yamabuki (Saffron) Labs had been. Lilandra knew this was because the crater had been caused by her explosion of the labs, but it had only just occurred to her that Team Rocket's experiments had taken place in a secret underground bunker, which would be a good reason why the police had never been able to find anything when the area was searched.

The only thing left intact was Lilandra's bag, She spied it semi-covered by rubble near her hand. Aching from head to foot, she pulled it clear and opened it up. It was almost exactly as she'd left it. It had a small sleeping bag in a compression sack, a small, waterproof mat, a supply of food, various monster balls and a change of clothes. The difference was that her pack also contained the clothing and shoes she'd been wearing before being abducted by Team Rocket. Now, she realised, she was wearing a pale blue, shapeless robe which swept down to the ground and had sleeves slightly too long for her arms.

She took all of the monster balls out of her bag and threw them onto the ground. She would not enslave a pokémon. She was one of them now and through her dealings with the Rocket clan she had gained a brief insight into how some humans misused and abused them.

She took her belt out of her bag and put it on over her robe to keep it from flapped around everywhere in the wind. Finally, she pulled shoes and socks onto her bare feet, picked up her bag and, unsteady on her feet, walked away. She wanted nothing more than to go home. As she walked off in the direction of Kuchiba, she only vaguely wondered about where exactly the blue robe had come from...

Walking down Route 6 was slow going for Lilandra. She was aching all over and had severe trouble keeping herself upright. She could hardly concentrate on her next step, so it was no surprise that when a Koratta (Rattata) leapt out of the long grass to greet her, she tripped over it.

Koratta: ~Waa! Gomenasai! Daijoubu desuka?~ (Oh! I'm sorry! You okay?)

Lilandra let out a small groan. She didn't want to get up and keep walking. It just seemed so much easier to lie there on the ground.

Koratta: ~Oh no! I've hurt her! Oh, I only wanted to let her know how nice it was for her to stick up for us Koratta yesterday, and to show her she was so right!~

Lilandra: ~(Koratta)Iie, daijobu.~ (no, I'm fine)

Koratta: ~Oh good... Wait! You just said...! You just spoke...!~

Lilandra smiled at the Koratta, and hoisted herself back onto her feet. She started off again towards Kuchiba as the stunned Koratta looked on in astonishment.

Koratta: ~E..e...e... What's going on! Hey, wait! You can't just say that and run off!!~

The little rodent pokémon ran after Lilandra.

Koratta: ~Who are you?! What are you?! How do you know this language?!~

Lilandra: ~(Koratta)I am Lilandra Surge, a human. I wanted to be the greatest trainer in the world.~

Lilandra tried to continue walking, but the Koratta knocked her to the ground with a tackle to her back. It walked around her to sit beside her head.

Koratta: ~I am Kippo, and I will be the strongest Koratta this world has ever seen!~

When Lilandra did not get up and instead closed her eyes in fatigue, Kippo got very worried.

Kippo: ~What happened to you anyway? You said you were fine, but now you have almost fainted. And you still haven't told me how you speak Koratta! How could a human speak Koratta?!~

Lilandra: ~(Koratta)Could you leave me alone? I'm so very tired.....~

Lilandra started glowing and Kippo ran back a few paces, startled.

Kippo: ~Waa!! What's going on?!~

Lilandra: Iie! Why now...?

With a brilliant flash of light, Lilandra transformed into Flareth. Mysteriously her blue robe had vanished, though her belt was still around her.

Lilandra: ~Why did this happen?~

Kippo: ~E? Sugoi desu!~ (Eh? Wow!)

Lilandra slowly rose to her feet once more, and Kippo hurried over. Curious, Kippo sniffed Lilandra over carefully.

Kippo: ~You could've just said you were a pokémon! I would've understood! I've never seen a pokémon like you before though. You remind me of something...~

Lilandra stumbled away from the inquisitive Kippo, and her belt fell away to the ground.

Lilandra: ~What do you mean; I remind you of something?~

Kippo: ~Eto... eto... (um... um...) A! You remind me of a Rokon (Vulpix)!~

Lilandra looked very confused.

Kippo: ~Demo... (but...)~

Kippo put her head to one side.

Kippo: ~You also remind me of a Kyuukon... (Ninetales) and a Hitokage... (Charmander) and a Rijaadon (Charizard)! Maybe even a bit of Deruberu (Houndour) or Herugaa (Houndoom).~

This only confused Lilandra further, which made Kippo realise a possibility he hadn't considered.

Kippo: ~Could it be that you haven't seen your reflection before?~

Lilandra shook her head.

Kippo: ~He-e-e... Follow me!~

Kippo leapt agilely through the long grass at the side of the road, while Lilandra staggered after. When Kippo remembered Lilandra was injured, he slowed down, although was still obviously excited as he took her to a still pond surrounded by long grass.

Near the water were two Koratta and a Madatsubomi (Bellsprout), who all looked at Lilandra the Flareth in surprise.

Koratta #1: ~What's this you've brought, Kippo?~

Kippo: ~This is Lilandra! She was in a fight somewhere and disguised herself as a human to get here! I think she's a Flareth, is that right?~

Lilandra: ~A, hai.~ (Ah, right)

Koratta #2: ~How strange... I've never even heard of them.~

Madatsubomi: ~Yes, well she's obviously a fire pokémon. Makes me think of one of them Buubaa (Magma), although I can't think why...~

Koratta #1: ~I think she looks like a Buusutaa (Flareon)!~

Koratta #2: ~I don't know about what she looks like, but she reminds me of Faiyaa (Moltres).~

Koratta #1: ~'Sif you've even seen a Faiyaa. I think she's reminiscent of Houou (Ho-oh)!~

Koratta #2: ~Well 'sif you've ever seen a Houou!~

Madatsubomi: ~She does seem to be something like one of the legendary fire pokémon, but the one I'd choose is Entei.~

Koratta #1 & #2: ~No way!~

Kippo: ~I dunno about them legendaries, but she so bad looks like a Magukarugo (Magcargo)!~

Madatsubomi: ~Where'd you get that from?~

Kippo: ~That little bit under her mouth is like their flame sacs! And that little bit of flame over her eyes is Magumaggu (Slugma)! But it's strange, I always thought Metamon (Ditto) were the only pokémon that could change shape.~

Koratta #1: ~Yes, that IS strange...~

Madatsubomi: ~Of course, Myuu (Mew) can transform at will as well.~

Koratta #2: ~Oh! That's right! But then again, they can use any attack.~

Kippo: ~My ma always says that Myuu were such troublemakers. She calls them "The Third One"~

Koratta #2: ~Your ma's an odd one though.~

Lilandra was very surprised, and a little uncomfortable at their talk. After all, she was yet to see what she looked like. Gathering up her courage, she approached the pool and looked at herself in the tranquil water.

The pokémon she'd just met were right, she was most obviously a fire pokémon. Indeed, she even bore slight resemblance to all those identified and more. She looked like all fire pokémon.

She had a body shape similar to Rokon (Vulpix) and she had body markings like Uindi (Arcanine). her stomach was yellow like Hitokage (Charmander). She had spikes along her back like Buubaa (Magma).

She had two dragonish wings like Rijaadon (Charizard), which had near-white flames on the underside much like the fires of Faiyaa (Moltres).

On each of her stubby little legs like Garidi (Growlithe) sprung flames like a Ponyta. Her front legs had the large claws of a Torkoal attached to the large, purple-blue paws of the legendary Entei. From their ankles fire like the wrists of a Blaziken burned, but on her rear legs were talons like a Combusken with strange cuffs near the ankles like Deruberu (Houndour), but emblazoned with a small symbol of fire.

She had a tail was of Herugaa (Houndoom), and the end of it burned with a flame the same as Charmeleon.

She had two ruffs of fire around her neck; one of Buusutaa (Flareon) origin, and the other of Bakufuun (Typhlosion), with a small black ring like Bubii (Magby). Under her chin was a feathery tuft like Torchic. She also had a creat of flames like Magumarashi (Quilava), face markings similar to Hinoarashi (Cyndaquil) but which ended with small points between her eyes like Camerupt. Her eyes were framed by the same markings as Houou (Ho-oh), she had a horn like Rapidash and a her ears were rounded into a cute shape like Numel's. Her eyes were the same as Kyuukon (Ninetales), and so they glowed softly with a gentle red.

****I apologise greatly for the amount of description. It is incredibly hard to see the Flareth in your head without first seeing a picture, so a simplified thing would be just to consider a Vulpix with markings like an Arcanine, wings like Charizard, tail like Houndoom.****

Once she had taken in her reflection, Lilandra drank deeply from the pond. She thought that things were already too strange to bother thinking about and decided merely to accept it all. This she would do at least until she got home, which at the rate she was going would not be for a while.

Koratta #1: ~So Lilandra, where are you going?~

Lilandra: ~Kuchiba.~ (Vermillion)

Madatsubomi: ~Kuchiba?~

Koratta #2: ~That's what the humans call their colony near the sea.~

Madatsubomi: ~Why would you go there?~

All of the pokémon looked around at each other, then back at Lilandra.

Kippo: ~You can't really be a trainer's pokémon!!~

Lilandra was taken aback.

Lilandra: ~Me? A trainer's pokémon?~

Koratta #2: ~Hmm, one would indeed have to spend a lot of time with humans to transform into one, don't you think?~

Kippo: ~Was that why you were carrying that bag?~

Madatsubomi: ~Bag?~

Lilandra gasped.

Lilandra: ~Bag! I left it behind!~

Forgetting her aches, Lilandra leapt up and dashed away to her bag. Kippo ran after her.

Lilandra reached her bag, but not before two travelling trainers had. Not really understanding her predicament, Lilandra went into the open to reclaim her bag. Those two trainers were Lan and Chaud (why are humans so much harder to name than pokémon anyway?!).