Chapter3: The Beginning of a Journey to be remembered
Pidgies
and Spearows chirped and squawked outside of Professor Oak's lab, the
sunshine slowly crept through the window of the third story of the lab,
up to a figure sleeping silently on a comfy green couch.
Adam's
heavy eyelid's slowly opened as he observed his surroundings, he was
sleeping on a green couch that was behind a table, in a room that had
white walls that reached up to the white roof, and came down on the
wooden floor. there counters with kettles and stoves, and also a fridge
in the corner, and there were four doors on the other side of the room,
each labeled with a white plastic name tag: Men's Dormitories, Woman's
Dormitories, Prof. Oak's Dormitories and W.C.
Adam slowly got
up, he rubbed his eyes and looked behind him, there was a escalator
going down. Adam looked at himself and found that he was already fully
dressed as he didn't bring any clothes apart from what he was wearing
when he came over to Prof. Oak's lab. He waalked over to the escalator
and walked on the descending stairs.
He got to level two, and
found 3 people in plain white Lab Coates hunch-backed on stools over a
counter. Adam decided to go and ask these lab assistants for the
where-about's of the Pokemon-mad Professor. Adam tapped on the shoulder
of a female assistant and she jumped and dropped a test tube that she
was holding.
"EEEEEEK! HOW DARE YOU STARTLE ME!! WHAT DO YOU WANT
YOU CREEP!" Shouted the woman, she had goose bumps all over her body.
She was wearing white long pants, a pink top underneath her lab coat,
her hair was brown and had ruby eyes.
"Er, sorry to bother you,
but, er, I was looking for Prof. Oak." Replied Adam, nervous and
wondering if this woman will choke Adam to death.
"I'm not going
answer you, you creep! you just made me spill samples of Seviper toxin,
now we have to order more from Hoenn... grrr." She growled.
"Errr,
here, I'll help you with cleaning it up." Adam said as he bent down to
pick the shattered test tube and the purple ooz trickling onto the
stone floor.
"DON'T TOUCH THAT!! its Seviper poison, its very
toxic, its corrosive on human skin, thats why were all wearing gloves
here." she waved her hand at the other two scientists, she still had a
I'm-going-to-kill-any-one-that-annoys-me kind of look.
"Ok, is there anything I can do to help?" Asked Adam, cautiouse if she would explode.
"About
the only thing you can do to help is to stand in a corner and touch
nothing!" shouted the woman, and then she stalked of to a near-by
office to the side, probably to give phone call to Hoenn for more
samples, thought Adam.
"Sorry about Amy, she is very touchy, but
she does get the job well done..." Said the assistant on the left of
Adam, he had short wavy brown hair with blue eyes, a brown shirt
underneath his lab coat with black pants.
"Ummm, so do you know
where Prof. Oak is?" Asked Adam, the stone floor where the test tube
was lying on was starting to let out fumes.
"Oh, he's just outside in the PokeBarn, he might want to see you, you know." Said the lab assistant.
"Thanks."
Replied Adam, as he walked back to the escalator to go down to ground
floor, the lab assistants started to get rubber gloves and mop up the
test tube and the Seviper toxin. Adan stepped off of the escalator as
he reached the ground floor, the room was bright compared to last
night, and Adam noticed how many windows there were, sun light shining
through innocently through the sheets of glass. Adam walked over to the
door he noticed last night saying "PokeBarn". Adam turned the door nob
and he walked in.
Inside of the Barn was simply HUGE. there were
tones of stables and shelters for various Pokemon species, but none of
them contained a Pokemon, they must have all been let out for a morning
walk thought Adam. At the end of the Barn it opened into a huge meadow;
almost 500 hectares. There were ponds, trees, patches of bare earth
that looked like a mini desert, rocky landscapes, patches of small
forests: all man-made to suite the likes and needs of elemental
Pokemon's habitats.
Adam stared at the huge place for quite some
time, but gathering himself up after he noticed why he was here. He
squinted into the distance to see a white figure the shape of a man
walking around the desert-like region. Adam guessed that it would take
him about 15-20 minutes to get down there, so he started to get into a
slight jog.
When Adam finally got there here was breathing hard,
mainly because he was going uphill and downhill all the way, and
encountered a few Rattatas and other common Pokemon. The man in white
that Adam saw from the barn was mere 10 meters away from Adam, the man
noticed that someone had come as he spun around from what ever he was
preoccupied with. His hair was greying and he wore a green woolly vest
under a white lab coat that extended to the end of his brown karky
pants. He had clip board in his hand and a Pokeball in his other. "Oh,
goodmorning Adam! how are you this morning?" Asked the Professor
merrily.
"I'm alright Professor, yourself?"Asked Adam, tired and wished he was in bed, the sun looked as if it was around 6 or 7 AM.
"I'm
fine, now what brings you here so early in the morning? oh yes, the
package, right right..." Replied the Professor as he checked in his
pockets. "Oh, I must have left it on my bedside table, we'll go back to
the lab after I finish harassing this young Pokemon here." Chuckled
Prof. Oak at his own joke as he waved a hand to a small red Pokemon
that had a huge head on a small body, it looked almost like a bug, it's
head was an oblong with a straight zig-zag going threw the middle,
teeth perhaps thought Adam.
"Trapinch, the Ant Pit Pokemon. He is a
ground type, but he looks like a bug doesnt he? well, he wont move much
and he'll wait for a prey to fall into his sand-pit like trap, then eat
it. But this one was bred in captivity so he doesn't know how to catch
his own food any more, so we have to keep him or else he won't survive
in the out-side world. Oh well, hes more agile than a wild one though."
Said Prof. Oak, he looked down onto the ant-pit Pokemon as he tossed a
PokeChow, from a bag protruding from his side pocket. A PokeChow is an
artificial food made for Pokemon, its nutritious, full of proteins and
the Pokemon love it. The Trapinch caught the PokeChow in mid-air
surprisingly fast to Adam since he was so still a minute ago. He
started munching on it with a satisfied expression on his face.
"Well,
lets go" Said Prof. Oak making Adam tear his eyes off of the Trapinch.
They started their twenty minute trek back to the lab.
The supposable twenty minute walk turned out to be forty. They got to the open doors of the PokeBarn at around 9:00 o'clock.
"I'm
getting too old for this, well, I know now that my dreams will still
continue even if I pass out somewhere in the future." Said Prof. Oak as
he looked around the ground floor of the lab sitting on a green cushy
sofa. Adam looked the old weary Professor in the eyes, wrinkles already
formed around them.
"Don't be too negative Professor, there will
be someone out there that will keep your dreams and hopes as strong as
a young child's bonds between each other, their near unbreakable, so,
err sorry to be rude, but aren't we here for a reason? I think we were
supposed to be checking out the parcel that I got from that Team
Legends grunt. And aren't I supposed to get a reward?" Asked Adam, he
sure did like things short and quick, like his nature. But he still
cared about the Professor and all the innocent people of Kanto.
"Ah
yes, sorry Adam. Almost forgot about all of that. So tell me what
happened after you got up to this Team Legend member." Asked Prof. Oak,
an at that Adam told what there was to tell to him so the Professor
knew what happened.
"... And then I got to the Pokemon Centre
and gave the parcel back to you Professor." Finished Adam. He just
finished telling Prof. Oak everything about the fight and the escape of
the Grunt. The Professor just sat there with one hand rubbing his
wrinkled chin.
"Well, thanks for that Adam. Never heard of a
Team Legends... Heard of Team Rocket though, and they were defeated by
the Pokemon Champion a decade ago. And there weren't any other huge
organisations for a full decade. But now there might be another war,
who knows? it could be bigger than a war. But it could be the opposite:
just a small team with small intentions. Why you ask? because why would
a grunt just tell a supposable trainer what the intentions of their
organisation is? the trainer will alert the police and the Pokemon
Masters of this and they would just simply get eliminated off the face
of the earth! well, that's not our problem for the moment, our problem,
or should I say desire, is that package you saved. That is though a
very restricted project so I won't let you or any of my newer
assistants near my room. Only my most trustable and the high ranking
professors will be allowed to help me, well excuse me Adam, but I will
be back after a while with your reward after I confirm with the other
high professors and check the contents of the package. Good Day!" And
then Prof. Oak walked over to the escalator going up.
"Wait up Professor!" Shouted Adam. he ran to Prof. Oak's side.
"Yes Adam? don't ask if you can come see with me because no intentions of mine will let you-"
"No,
not that, I just wanted to ask you if I could go outside and check out
the Pokemon in observation field." Cut Adam during Prof. Oaks lecture.
"Sure,
go ahead! but don't go near the evolved Pokemon and some of the more
aggressive Pokemon. Like Tauros for example. just stay near the Barn
and you'll be fine." said Prof. Oak in a hurry.
"Ok Professor, good luck!" Said Adam as Prof. Oak walked on the escalator.
Adam just took in the fresh air and lay down on hill only a few minute walk from the PokeBarn, and as he started to drift to sleep once again he rolled over to get into a comfier position when he rolled on something round underneath him. He got up and pulled the sphere-shaped object, and noticed it was Growlithe, the family pet-pokemon's pokeball.
"Oh, haven't let you out for quite a while have I Growlithe?" thought Adam aloud as he pushed the silver button on the PokeBall, it beeped and Adam through the sensitive ball, and out came Growlithe from the small micro cage that compresses living matter and holds it inside the Pokeball, with lots of mirrors and other microchips of the technology that helped so many trainers around the world to enjoy Poekmon Training in a more comfortable way.
"Ruff!!" shouted Growlithe, he was very happy to be out of his Pokeball. He looked like small puppy with thick orange fur with black strips and a white underbelly, and also set with sharp fangs and claws.
"Hiya Growltihe! you feelin' any better?"asked Adam cheerfully. Growlithe just licked all over Adam's face affectionately.
"Heh hey, stop, ow, that tickles!" shouted Adam as he tried to peel off Growlithe from his face, they played around for a bit until Adam felt really drowsy. Adam stopped playing and layed Growlithe on the grass next to him. As Adam's eyelids started to droop again he started to hear a light buzzing noise. He got up and looked around to find the source of the noise and to his great surprise, he found in the distance near the miniature forest two Pokemon fighting in the air. One of them looked lick an overly large Butterfly, and the other an overly large Wasp with stingers instead of hands.
Growlithe was already asleep next to Adam, so Adam returned the little puppy Pokemon to his Pokeball and stashing the round sphere in his pocket. Adam crawled over to the battle in an army-crawl kind of way.
The Wasp-like Pokemon, not known by Adam was called a Beedrill, and the Butterfly Pokemon was called a Butterfree. the two fought for the little territory they had. The Beedrill tried to thrust Butterfree in the stomach, but missed as the Butterfly Pokemon dodged it elegantly.
Butterfree flapped it's wings and rose high into the air and over on top of Beedrill, letting off a golden-coloured dust that slowly settled downwards to the earth, and Beedrill. The wasp-like Pokemon knew what the effects of this dust and flew out of it's way, only just missing but part of it's body, mainly it's wings were covered in the dust.
As Beedrill turned around in mid-air to look up at its foe, its wings started to slow and its movement painful. Soon enough the wings gave way to the paralysis of the dust and stopped working, and the wasp-like Pokemon dropped down to earth, but before it hit the ground he stopped and was suspended in mid-air, as if held up by invisible strings. Adam looked over to Butterfree and found it was muttering in some unknown words.
Butterfree then pointed it's tubby hand upwards as Beedrill jolted, and then flew into the sky at god-knows per hour. Then just as the Wasp was starting to turn into a tiny dot in the sky, Butterfree pointed his stubby hand down back to earth, and soon enough Beedrill came flying down destined for the earth, but just as it was to hit the ground, its wings recovered from the paralysis and hummed to life as it lost its momentum and broke free from the fall. It turned once again in mid-air at the Butterfly Pokemon when everyone and everything heard a loud explosion that shook the whole ground coming from the lab...
Professor Samual Oak was sitting in front of 7 large TV screens in the secret basement office. In the screens sat important and spoilt looking men and women in lab coats and suites. Professor Oak was giving them a speech behind a table which on top layed a glum looking brown paper parcel.
"... So if we actually find the genetic codes of Mew, and in the samples here found by Professor Atkin here," as Oak waved a hand to one of the men with a suite as the man nodded in agreement. "found us the first specimen of mew, the legendary Pokemon that has the genetic code of every Pokemon in existence therefore having the ability to know every ability and attack known and being the mother of Pokemon." concluded Professor Oak to the 7 most smartest and the 7 most greatest Researchers and Professors in the world, and him being one of them.
"Well, let us see what is inside then."said a man in a blue shirt with a light blue line going across his chest under his lab coat, with short brown hair above his big magnifying-lens looking glasses.
"No need to hurry Professor Elm, patients is the key in everything, you should know be able to know that even being the youngest here Professor?" replied Oak to Prof. Elm calmly,
"Yes, ofcource I do, its just, this is so exciting..." said Prof. Elm, too excited by the results of the DNA samples of the legendary Mew.
As Prof. Oak called over one of his most trustworthy assistant to open the parcel in front of all the Professors and Researchers. As the assistant pulled off the neatly knotted string around the parcel everyone in the room and the people of the TV screen held their breath. he pulled off the paper back to reveal a rectangular cardboard box. The assistant pulled the lid off of the box, a small click was heard, inside revealed a note, the assistant read it out loud so everyone in the room could here, it read:
"Dear Professor Oak, and possibly all the members of the PokeResearch team.
This is a message from the leader of the Team Legends apologizing dearly for stealing your precious DNA samples that Professor Atkins found for you, but we need the DNA to find and be able to capture the Mew for our selves too, and according to our lead technician the bomb that he has set in that box would go off in 3 minutes after you remove the lid off.
Have a nice day, oh and wish us luck for our superior goal.
Good bye."
The lab assistant's eyes grew wide in horror as he looked back into the box: there was a small timer watch that was quietly ticking, with wires and a switch that was out where the lid of the box was, sticking out.
The bomb was detonated.
"Oh C!! RUUUUN!!" shouted Prof. Oak as he ran to the door up to the lab, with his assistant at his heel. They got to the the door and slammed it shut. They ran up to the ground floor and told every one to evacuate. One of the lab assistants scurried over to the emergency button and broke the glass case off, then slammed his fist on the big red button before running out side with the rest of the crowd as the evacuation bell rang loudly in their ears. Soon enough the bomb blew, but "blew" is just not enough to describe what it did: it blew the whole ground floor with flames and with such power it shook the every inch of the whole lab to the last tile on the roof.
Adam ran back up to the lab, only to find dozens of scientists and lab assistants in a crowd bunched up around something in front of the magnificent lab. Some residence of Pallet were outside in the streets, curious of what was happening. Adam ran into the crowd and pushed his way into the middle of the group. What he found shocked him. Lying on the ground next to another badly injured man was Professor Oak: He had burns and deep cuts, flesh hung from him from parts of his body, and his left leg jutting out in the opposite place as it should be, though still fixable, but the image it created could only be describe with one word: gruesome.
"Adam, you'll find the Charmander and the PokeDex in my dormitory: that would have been my gift, for you to be who you want to be: A Pokemon Trainer. Take it and go to the Oracle that lives under the overwhelming shadow of Mount Moon, there you will find her in her tent, go to her, and listen well what she tells you. Come back when you are finished with her so I can get you up and well." said Prof. Oak to Adam before his eyes started to fog.
"But, but how did you know what I wanted to be?" asked Adam, his eyes starting to go moist.
"I can see it in your eyes: that determinations. Do not worry about me, I'll be fine, now you go and get your Charmander! and be off! I would never want you to see me in a state like this, no go!" was what Prof. Samuel Oak had to say before he fell into unconsciousness. One of the Scientists started to shouted out at eh crowd around Adam, the unconscious Prof. Oak and his trusty lab assistant.
"Move away people!! I need to get them to a hospital in Celadon City!! Now go!! move outa the way!!" shouted the man as he pulled Adam away by his shoulders and he released from a Pokeball a blue, elegant bird that looked like a swallow, but much bigger, his hight was just under a metre. The owner of the bird loaded on the Professor and the lab assistant on, but there was no room for himself. He grabed a piece of paper and pen from his pocket and started to scribble frantically, then put the rolled-up piece of paper in a cylindrical casing used for mail and gave it to the bird.
"Ok Swellow, you gotta get these two to Celadon City Hospital, can you do that?" asked the man, the bird nodded his head in a cocky grin, but still he knew the importance in the burden he carried.
"Ok? then GO!!" shouted the man as the crowd parted for the bird to make way. The bird spread his majestic wings and with a mighty heave, he was already in the sky getting smaller and smaller, leaving a trail of dust were he took off.
The crowd started to clean up their own wounds and started to go back to their homes or just stared dumbstruck at the lab. Adam was one of them: flames flickered from the windows of the ground floor of the lab, and how the hell was he going to be able to get the Pokedex and the PokeBall that contained his gift?
Soon enough he had no choice but to run in and get it himself. he was in such a state of shock he couldn't even hear the warning bell that rang ever-so-loudly in the lab. He stepped through the broken front door into the burning ground floor of the lab. Luckily the flames wasn't that huge, mostly around the door that led to the basement and near the front door, But the escalator, not moving though still be able to climb them, was on the other side of the room. So Adam ran to the escalator and climbed it as if it was a set of stairs.
He got to level one, the floor that was on top of the door that led to the basement had a gaping whole in it, and had flames licking the outside of the hole. Adam ignored this and ran up the second set of escalators, level two wasn't as beaten-up as level one or the ground floor, just had stools and tables knocked over by the blast.
Adam finally reached level three: resting area. Adam ran over to the door labled: "Prof. Oak's Dormitories" and turned the door knob, but it didn't move, Prof. Oak must have locked it! With no other options left he started to barge into the door, but with no luck the door wouldn't budge.
Adam looked around for something he could use, but the only thing he could find was some cups and kettles, but Adam remembered something from earlier on that day, he ran back to level 2 and found that the lab was starting to get extremely hot. Adam ignored this and kept his search for the cylindrical object he had accidentally dropped this morning. He couldn't find it near the counter he startled that lab assistant. He looked around into the rubbish bins and didn't find it, he went through the offices that was situated on the sides of the room, and finally found the test tube in carefully wrapped paper bags in a bin in one of the offices. He unwrapped the paper bag off and threw it away, he quickly ran back upstairs with the half empty test tube in his hands, delicate enough not to spill the contents.
When Adam got back in front of the door he started to carefully pour the Seviper venom down the lock, melting the metal and soon enough, the door hung ajar. Adam pulled the door knob and entered inside. There he found a messy bed, with clothes an pyjamas on on top of it. Next to the bed was a cupboard, the rolling doors being mirrors he noticed that Adam's clothes were tattered and ripped in several places of his T-shirt and Jeans. He looked around one last time to find the bedside table and the bedside lamp. On the table he found that metal red PokeDex and the red and white Pokeball containing Charmander.
Adam ran over to it and swiped both of them off of the table and ran out the door, down the escalator, onto level two, down the next set of escalators and into level one: The flames from the gaping hole in the floor was growing bigger and started to light the tables and chairs on fire. Adam quickly ran down the last set of the escalators to find himself on ground level, surrounded by menacing flames. Roaring and licking everything around it letting off a huge amount of heat. Adam wished that he got a Squirtle, a turtle Pokemon of the water type, another starter from the trio given to all bigging trainers.
He thought of the choices he had at the time: run into the fire lick an idiot and probably get killed? nah, go up to level one and jump out of the window? too risky... nothing looked good to Adam at the moment, until he heard a gurgling noise, then SHOOOM!! a huge get of water came from the other side of the burning fire, creating a huge hole in the middle of the fire. And there stood a A huge Tortoise, with two huge cannons on his armoured back. And next to the gigantic creature stood a group of men in yellow: the Pokemon Fire Squad, specialising in emergency rescues from burning houses and other obstacles that has fire in them.
"Hey Kid!! Quickly run over here! Blasty'll cover ya with her water gun while ya come over here, k?" One of the men called out to Adam.
"Easier said than done." muttered Adam as his drew his breath, and ran, ran right through the closing hole in the fire, with the big Tortoise named "Blasty" shooting jets of water from her mouth around Adam as planks of wood fell from the roof. The heat was intense! bright orange and red flames taunting Adam to come closer as he ran closer and closer to the door were the Pokemon Fire Squad was cheering him on, and as the final plank of wood fell from the roof Adam made it, the ends of his baggy Jeans singed from the heat and the sheer proximity of the flames.