Forward- The Prophecy
The Standing Stones of Johto predicted the arrival of a girl who spoke Pokemon Languages as easily as her own. This girl, they said, would arrive in the company of the Voice of the Forest. She would be guided by the Chosen One and Mew's Modern Dark Echo. They would bring peace to the world of Pokemon, ending a Great Imbalence in the land.
Mewtwo, in preparation for her arrival, for there was no doubt that "Mew's Modern Dark Echo" meant him, learned how to disguise himself as a human, and appeared to Carola, Raptor and Karana, the leaders of the Crator Gym. He trained and waited in the company of the younger gymleader, who, ironically was the daughter of Giovanni, his former captor. Mewtwo had made some quick calculations and had realized that Ash's path would eventually cross that of Carola. This was an understatement, for Carola and Ash were twins, separated by their parents shortly after their birth in a tragic fire at Crator Gym.
Then Team Rocket broke into a top secret research facility on the newly built Rainbow Plateau. The incredibly powerful, high level pokemon there had been infected with the Pokerus, a highly contagious virus that affected both pokemon and humans. Seeing only suffering around him and no hope of a cure, Professor Oak and Dr. Procter shut down the project and placed a quarantine on the entire plateau. The quarantine also confined Gym Leaders from the Johto and Indigo Leagues: The Cerulean Sisters, Lt. Surge, Sabrina, Erika, Falkner, Bugsy, Whitney, Jasmine, Clair and Morty, Lance of the Elite Four, Professor Elm, Professor Birch, Professor Oak and the Plateau's only Pokemon Nurse and Pokemon Officers, the very people who could have prevented the spread of the virus, were confined to the Plateau. Before long, at least half the Gym Leaders, Pokemon Masters, and Junior Trainers currently living at the Plateau were ill of the disease. The pokemon vectors, those that Team Rocket had stolen and those that had escaped the confines of the mountains were on the loose, potentially spreading the disease.
Meanwhile, Latios and Latias warped to Fera's world, Earth, to warn her of a danger lurking at home. Fera was a lesbian, and her father did not appreciate this. Her father, in fact, hated Fera for it. Fera's father packed up his and Fera's brother's belongings and stormed out of the house, with the intent never to return. Fera, seeing her mother so distressed and blaming herself for it, ran away to a mysterious, painted rock. Only one thought was on her mind, get away. In her distress, she accidentally called Celebi, the Voice of the Forest, to her world. Celebi then brought her to the pokemon world. And this was where Ash, Brock, Misty, and Gary found her.
Ash, Brock, Misty, and Gary had been invited to the new tournament and research facilities at the Rainbow Plateau, unwittingly built on the mountain below the butte and standing stones that Mewtwo had used as a training ground a matter of mere weeks before. Ash invited Fera to join them and the five travelers and Celebi made camp. But the next morning a Mightyena belonging to Hikaru of Team Rocket appeared. Fera, being able to understand Mightyena, heard that one of the Vector Pokemon, had escaped and attacked Hikaru. Hikaru had sent Mightyena to find help.
Fera, Celebi and Pikachu slipped out of their camp and followed Mightyena. Hikaru, a lowly element stone miner, had been given a high level water pokemon in order to ship the products of his labor down river. The pokemon had turned on them. Fera found Hikaru dying, his pokemon, except for a critically wounded Treeko, were already dead. Because Fera was the only human willing to come to his aid Hikaru willed his mine, his pokemon, and his belongings to Fera. The statement was later verified by the local Officer Jenny and her brother, Officer Jenner. Ash and company aided Fera in setting Hikaru's camp to rights and burying the dead pokemon. Treeko was rushed to the pokemon center, critically wounded. The odds in his favor were slim. Among Hikaru's belongings were berry and apricorn seeds, pokeballs of varying types, enough element stones to evolve a veritable army of pokemon, and a mysterious egg. The egg later hatched to produce an Articuno and Fera undertook it's raising with assiduous care.
Treeko died that night from a combination of shock, ichor loss, and a mysterious illness that Nurse Joy could not cure. That night, Fera saw two mysterious figures in the lobby of the pokemon center checking the Nurse's report on Treeko's body bag, which would be brought to the local pokemon morgue with all possible speed. One of the figures, obviously Morty to those who knew him, called out a Haunter and had it use hypnosis to put Fera to sleep. In her dreams Fera had a vision. The legendary pokemon appeared to her with a message, "SEEK US OUT, AND WE WILL FOLLOW!!" Meantime, Ash also had a vision. Sabrina sent him a warning about the most dangerous trails and told him to come to the Plateau at all possible speed. The travelers reached the conclusion that the pokemon center they were currently in was possibly dangerous and left in the middle of the night.
Along the road Fera and Mightyena, newly dubbed Akela after the wolves' leader in The Jungle Book, caught their first pokemon, Kadabra. Along the way Fera caught Squirtle, Carvanha, and Pikachu. She also befriended Norman, Gym Leader of Petalburg City, and his children May and Max. In a double battle with against Brock and Norman, with Ash by her side as a coach, Fera won her first pokemon battle and the Boulder and Balance badges.
Fera finally met Carola and Taka at Agatha's cottage. The retired pokemon Master was currently enjoying retirement, and since Carvanha, like Ash's Charizard, refused to listen to it's trainer, Fera left it with Agatha, who offered to take in her extra pokemon and give her a pokedex and pokeballs if Fera, Ash, Brock, and Misty would help her capture a ponyta from the herd in the valley below. That evening, Misty caught Ash and Gary making out in the bathtub. She and Fera got into a fight which culminated in Fera kissing Misty. Beginning to realize her own sexuality, Misty ran away. Fera captured the leader of the herd, a black and blue Rapidash whom she dubbed Darkstar. Agatha received her ponyta, and Ash and Brock each had their own ponyta or rapidash.
They continued to travel, and were challenged by Duel of Team Aqua. Duel was the daughter of Team Aqua's leader, Archie. When Fera could not produce adequate answers to Duel's irritable inquiries, Duel had her Blastoise, Riptide, attack Fera straight out. Fera, summoning psychic powers she had never known she had, froze Blastoise in place. In response, Agatha insisted that they return to her cabin and that Fera take basic lessons from Sabrina's Father in how to control her psychic powers.
When they took the bus to the Gym, the travelers were attacked by the very same pokemon, a brown Feraligator, that had killed Hikaru. Fera, attempting to gain vengeance for Hikaru and Akela, battled with Gary, but both lost. They were saved at the last minute by Misty, who caught the Feraligator and then ran off.
Carola and Mewtwo, in his guise of the lowly apprentice trainer Taka, led the travelers to the Crator Gym, where there was to be a gathering. Carola was intercepted by Bashou of Team Rocket and warned that Carola's father, Giovanni, was planning to kidnap Carola in order to bring her back to Viridian City and make her his heir to Team Rocket. Carola, anticipating her father's cruelty, begged Ash and company for help. That evening, Celebi and Suicune, aided by Fera and Gary, were to battle Giovanni in a double battle in defense of the Gym.
That evening, during the beginning of the Gathering, Articuno crashed, in horrible pain from an injury he'd sustained in a pokemon battle against an unknown foe. He had attempted to protect Mondo, the Team Rocket messenger in charge of supplying Jessie and James and Will, the Psychic Pokemon Master from such a fate. Will was critically injured. Fera insisted on taking Celebi back in time to save Will and Articuno. When Brock and the nearby Gym Leaders and Pokemon Masters said 'no.' Fera defied them, using Celebi's powers, two of the gym pokemon, and bringing Taka along. They traveled in time, finding that the identity of Will's attacker was one of the Vector pokemon that escaped from the lab, an Aggron. Their attacker was too strong, and the result was the very accident that Mewtwo and Fera had set out to prevent.
Meanwhile, Ash, Jessie, and James were on guard duty when Pikachu spotted a Kabutops with no trainer. The Kabutops came to them for help. With Meowth as a translator, they confirmed that the Kabutops belonged to Jessie's mother, Miyamoto. Miyamoto was long thought to be dead in a rockslide while trying to get a recording of Mew for Giovanni's mother, Lady Boss. Crippled, Miyamoto had escaped and hitchhiked her way back to Japan with the help of some of the local pokemon. But the process had taken years. Unable to continue in her travels, Miyamoto had collapsed in a nearby cave. Jessie, having not known her mother for most of her life, HAD to go. James and Meowth agreed to accompany her, and Ash, curious, agreed to help. But could they get back in time for Giovanni's attack?
Giovanni attacked at exactly ten thirty p.m. Fera, Gary, Suicune and Celebi challenged him and Domino to a double battle. Since Suicune and Celebi were temporarily in Pokeballs, and he suspected weak pokemon, Giovanni accepted. Thus, Giovanni was defeated, ironically by those he had wronged. But in desperation, Giovanni revealed that Carola and Ash were twins, and his children. This provided a huge blow to Ash's self esteem. Ash collapsed into flashbacks of when he was younger.
Gary carried Ash up to the quarters they shared to be cared for. Giovanni, defeated, ran off. Jessie and James had stayed hidden from him. Mewtwo went up to the heights to meditate and then back down to his quarters to reive, (the process of ceremonial bathing.) Brock, on the other hand, caught Mewtwo bathing and Mewtwo erased Brock's memories of the incident.
The next morning, with Articuno's blessing's, Ash, Brock, Fera, Gary and Mewtwo started into the mountains. They made it to a forested plateau guarded by the God of the Lake, an enormous Golden Gyrados of legend. The Golden Gyrados hadn't been seen in centuries. It was thought that it would never be seen again. Ash and Brock borrowed a boat so that they could see it. Suddenly, on the lake all went still. Nature itself paused as another Vector Pokemon, a white dragonite, appeared. In it's rage the creature attacked Ash's boat. Ash and Brock fell back into the water, and would have drowned. The white dragonite attempted to use hyper beam, which would have killed Ash if Misty hadn't pushed Ash aside at the last minute. Knocked unconscious, Misty began to sink into the water. Suddenly, the lake began to glow with golden light. The Golden Gyrados appeared, pushing Misty to the surface and the shore. However, not breathing, Misty looked like she would die.
Taka, deciding that enough was enough, revealed himself to the other travelers and used his powers to revive Misty. Then, with the help of the Golden Gyrados of the lake, Mewtwo defeated the white dragonite, and Fera captured the monster. Misty apologized to Ash for insulting him and Gary and rejoined the group.
Meanwhile, Dr. Procter and Sabrina of Saffron City Gym came to two startling conclusions about the Pokerus. The first was that all psychics and psychic pokemon are immune to it's ravages, and the second was that a blood serum made from the plasma of a psychic or a psychic pokemon would cure the pokerus in humans and pokemon respectively. With that, Sabrina called in her gym and the Mossdeep Gymleaders Tate and Liza, with their junior trainers and apprentices, to aid in the vaccination process of all the pokemon and humans.
Mewtwo assisted the humans as they climbed still higher into the mountains. Walking over a rocky plain, they ran into Joy, the eight year old daughter of the Nurse Joy at the Rainbow Plateau, and her pokemon, Rootbeer the bulbasaur. Joy warned them of the catastrophe at the plateau and bid them hurry, but they were attacked by a third vector pokemon, a green Armaldo. Brock captured the vector, knowing full well the risks that it could mean for him. The children hurried on to the Plateau, now visible across the plains. By the time they got there, Ash, Gary, and Misty had succumbed to Pokerus fever. Brock followed a matter of hours later.
When they had recovered, Ash, Gary, and Fera set out to capture the Vector pokemon and bring the infected pokemon to the center to be treated. Soon, everybody had recovered. Professor Oak, impressed with how Fera and Mewtwo had handled themselves during the crisis, offered to take in Fera's extra pokemon for Agatha. Agatha agreed, and now...
Chapter 1-Beginnings of GreatnessMy name is Fera. I'm fifteen years old. I have eleven pokemon. They are: Akela (Mightyena), Kadabra, Squirtle, Chuka (Pikachu,) Darkstar (Rapidash,) a white Dragonite, Carvanha, Torchic, a baby Articuno, a baby Suicune, and a baby Entei, (long story that.) The odd part about my story is that I wasn't born in the pokemon world. It's a long LOOOOOONNNNGGGGG story. I wish I had the time to tell it to you. Nope, I was born on Earth and had the misfortune to be taken to the pokemon world by mistake. There I met Ash, Brock, Gary, and Misty, for REAL. I mean, that's so cool, how many kids back home would have given their right arm to see half the things I've seen. I've met Gymleaders, prevented a disaster, fought off Team Rocket, and come to the aid of a dying Rocket too.
That's one of my greatest failures. I wasn't able to save Hikaru. I wasn't able to save his pokemon from death. So I do my best, but I WILL get Giovanni for what he did to Hikaru, for what happened to him. I will make sure that Giovanni ROTS in prison for his crimes.
Yeah, I have issues, and here's another one. I can talk to pokemon. I can speak any pokemon's language as naturally as I breathed, which was what I did when the messanger came. Fera! Akela, my first pokemon and a Mightyena, shouted as he came running in. He paused, panting slightly. Professor Oak wants to see you!
I'm coming Akela. I pulled back my hair with the silk tie that Sabrina had given me as a gift. Then I pulled my Johto League hat over top of it, turning it backwards in a mimicry of Ash's own style. I was in my trail gear, cargo pants, a black t-shirt that says; 'Unleash the Dragon,' and a blue leather vest with lots of pockets, kind of like Brock's. So, what's on our dear Professor's mind?
I don't know, all I know is that he was looking for you and when he found me he said, 'Go get Fera and meet her in my office please.' So I did. Mightyena explained.
We were walking now. Professor Oak's office is the largest suite in the pokemon center. It was here that he did some of the new research work. My room is on the same floor, but the opposite end of the quadrangle that forms Rainbow Plateau Pokemon Center. I slipped past one of the Chansey Nurses around the corner, just missed plowing into a Machamp, (probably belonging to one of the trainers staying here,) and stopped, panting outside of Professor Oak's door. I knocked.
"Come in." Professor Oak's voice sounded through the door.
I entered. He was sitting at his desk next to the Officer Jenny from Circle Mountain. I recognized her by the fact that her eyes were slightly darker than the Officer Jenny that lives here. That and the fact that the Circle Mountain Officer Jenny is psychic, her pupils are narrowed, like those of all experienced psychics.
"Officer Jenny, am I in trouble?" I asked, looking directly at her.
"No, you're not, but part of the reason why Professor Oak called you here is because I found the deed to Hikaru's mine. If you sign these papers its all yours and one in the eye for Team Rocket." Officer Jenny explained.
I pulled up a chair and pulled a pen from my pocket, reading the terms of the deed before signing where necessary. There were pictures in the file too. Pictures of the mine site, the grave where Hikaru and his pokemon were buried, the main camp, and a little cabin in the woods, all in all, it seemed like a peaceful little place. "Seems peaceful. Reminds me of home a bit."
Professor Oak blinked. "You lived in the mountains back home?"
"Yea, small town, bad memories, and the most peaceful house I've ever known." I said with an indulgent smile. But that wasn't my life anymore. My life was training, always training, heart stopping battles and pulse pounding danger, incredible feats, and, judging by the pokeblocks on Professor Oak's desk, delectable treats.Akela stood on his hind legs. Gimme a pokeblock, please pretty please!!?? He begged.
"Akela that's rude!" I protested as the pokemon made a lunge for Professor Oak's Pokeblock case.
Professor Oak, laughing, popped a block out of the case and held it up for Akela. "Sit Akela. Sit and you'll get one."
Akela sat, licking his lips. Only a blue? I wanna red one! I WANNA RED ONE!! IWANNAREDONE!!! He howled.
I swatted him. "Beggers can't be choosers! Mind your manners!"
But they're so good and spicy and good and spicy and yummy and good and spicy and... Akela was practically drooling in anticipation of the treat. He sat, and Professor Oak tossed him the pokeblock. Akela sucked on the treat for about thirty seconds, rolled it around in his mouth, and then crunched it to dust. That was alright I guess, can I have another one?
"A-ke-la!" I covered my face in embarrassment. "You can't be serious!"
But I only had that ONE, I have to have more to make sure the batch came out alright. And besides, Professor Oak let Mewtwo have three earlier when HE asked.
"I'll show you how to make some later. I have a pokeblock blender at my house actually." Professor Oak promised.
YEAY! Akela cheered.
"You'll spoil him ROTTEN Professor." I warned.
"Anyway, the reason why I invited you here is because I want you to come live with me." Professor Oak said with a smile. "Seeing as you have no family on this world, and admiring the way you handled yourself and your pokemon during the crisis, I want to adopt you as my granddaughter. That's another reason why I asked Officer Jenny to come here, to bring the adoption papers." Professor Oak said with that warm smile of his. "I think you'd be very grateful for the company. It's not good for a youngster to be alone with just their pokemon. Such times can prove insightful it is true, but it's not good to be alone all the time. I've invited Mewtwo to come along as my student and my aid and he's agreed, as long as he's not the object of my research. Much as I'd love to study him, I have to respect Mewtwo's wishes. Gary has earned his last badge for the Johto League Championships, so he will be returning along with me."
To come study pokemon, with Gary and Mewtwo and Tracy? To meet Ash's and Carola's mother, whom everybody said was such a nice person? To be adopted into the Oak family, a REAL family? Whyever would she say no? "I have to quote Menolly." I said with a smile. "'Oh gladly will I come' Professor! Or is it Grandfather now?"
"Either will do." Professor Oak said with his sunny smile.
Will we be eating lots of pokeblocks along the way? Akela asked plaintively.
Glutton. Officer Jenny's Growlithe rolled it's eyes, before nudging Jenny. Scratch me behind the ears Jenny? Pretty pretty please?
Officer Jenny pulled Growlithe into her lap with a chuckle. She scratched him behind the ears with one hand before turning over the papers for myself and Professor Oak to sign. I took a deep breath, chin raised in pride, and signed the papers to my new life with tears in my eyes.