Hello everyone! It's me, the incredible King Dragun! You may know me as the writer of "Sister of Anansi." Well, that story started as a work on a character I made for my good friend Cullen Pittman, who had started a Yu-Gi-Oh fanfic. Unfortunately, that project died in the water...
(Hears a gunshot and a scream of "PSYDUCK!" Goes outside, confiscates the rifle from Misty before she shoots Psyduck againluckily, she missed, then goes back in.)
Heh heh, sorry about that folks. (Gives the gun to contraband.) Anyways, before that failed project, Cullen had written a great Pokémon fanfic called "The Incredible Poké-Odyssey." This story is a continuation of the series. Who here hasn't read that fic and its sequels?
(Sees a show of hands and slaps his forehead in disgust.)
Well, then, you'd better go read them, because you won't be able to understand much about some of the characters until you do! Go on, this fanfic isn't going anywhere!
(Sees the audience glaring angrily at him.) Okay, fine, here is a brief (and spoilerific, don't say I didn't warn you!) summary of what happens in those stories, if you are THAT lazy!
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Poké-Odyssey Neo
A fanfic by King Dragun
Main characters made by Cullen Pittman
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Prologue:
AKA A brief summary of "The Incredible Poke-Odyssey" and "Poke-Odyssey 2001", for those of you who were too lazy to go and read those stories!
From an episode summary of the Pocket Monsters anime, Episode 62 "It's Mr. Mimie Time!":
(Credit goes to the site Pokemon Dream)
Ash is speeding ahead of Misty and Brock trying to keep up with him on their way to Pallet Town. He makes a phone call home, but gets the answering machine. Ash is suddenly stopped when he slams into an invisible wall. Misty and Brock can feel it too, but not see it. Ash looks up and sees a Mr. Mime. It's climbing up the wall. Ash takes out his pokedex and it says it is a rare Pokemon with limited info. It is using it's attack panti mime which makes a clear wall. Ash is about to catch it when a female trainer runs in and says please let me catch it. Ash says why should he, but Brock holds him back and he starts to struggle. When they turn around they see Mr. Mime running away. Brock asks why The trainer wants Mr. Mime and she brings them to a Pokemon circus which is hers and shows them here Mr. Mime.
She had trained him so hard she said he just gave up yesterday. (Mr. Mime is stuffing his face with popcorn) "I want the Mr. Mime to train and make this one jealous and maybe he'll perform again." Brock then vows to give her a Mr. Mime and says to Ash if I can't catch one I'll make it. Ash asks how he'd make one and then we see inside the circus tent Ash dressed in a big Mr. Mime outfit. He protests, but Misty & Brock talk him into it. The circus owner starts to train Ash and whips him over and over again. Ash now knows how the Mr. Mime felt. After it shows the day of the circus and it is full, Ash walking in like Mr. Mime sees his mom in the stands.
Just as the show starts the lights go out and Team Rocket swings on the trapeze bars while saying their motto. the then steal Ash (Mr. Mime) in their hot air balloon and Meowth says "Good-bye you clowns," and James says, "That's a good one!" In the circus ring Ash's mom comes up to Misty and Brock and says " That was Ash wasn't it?" Misty and Brock say yes, but she isn't worried. She says once Team Rocket finds out Ash isn't a Pokemon they'll let him go and invite them home for lunch.
We know what happens next, right? Team Rocket stops at a cabin, Ash reveals that he's in costume to them and then he gets confused with a wild Mr. Mime, and when Team Rocket attacks with their tank, the Mr. Mimes trap them in a column of mystic Barriers and the crooks blow themselves out into the sky trying to escape. The wild Mr. Mime stays with Ash's mom and Ash then goes to Professor Oak to find out about the Pokemon League...
Of course you know what happens next, don't you? Anyone who's seen the Pokemon anime when that episode aired has been watching those episodes for some time now.
However, there is something called "the butterfly effect." Ray Bradbury stated that killing a butterfly in the time of the dinosaurs would cause subtle, but significant changes. In other words, a small change in the timeline could create powerful changes in the future.
A certain godling by the name of Toltiir used this effect to great entertainment in something he called "The Bet." In this divine comedy, he held a contest, using the various timelines of a young martial artist and anime character called Ranma Saotome, to see whether small changes in the timeline of that teenager would cause rifts in the future of his life. It did.
Where is this going with this whole chaos theory and divine beings messing with the life of a mortal? Well, basically, the whole idea is that each timeline has an infinite set of various manifestations, parallel timelines that might have happened if certain conditions had been met. Most of these infinite possible futures are very minor in alteration, but some are drastic.
She says once Team Rocket finds out Ash isn't a Pokemon they'll let him go and invite them home for lunch.
The world of the Pokemon anime isn't immune to this "Butterfly Effect", or if they had said it, "Butterfree Effect." The life of Ash Ketchum has many futures, each of them all different in their own ways. The dominant future is one where Ash is eliminated from the Indigo League, travels the Orange Islands and beats the Orange League Champion, travels Johto and is eliminated from the Johto League, meets a girl called May and her little brother, Max, and travels with them throughout Hoenn, then is eliminated from the Hoenn League and returns to his homeland to battle the Frontier Brains. That's his destiny.
But what if his destiny had been changed by a small alteration in the timeline? What if those three who worked for Team Rocket had not found out that Ash wasn't a Pokemon...until it was too late? Until they gave Ash to their leader, Giovanni?
Giovanni is a terrible man. Not only was he the leader of a ruthless criminal organization, but he built his organization on the blood and tears of innocents who lost their Pokemon or their families to the crooks who did Gio's dirty business. One old man in Lavender Town prays for the souls of those Pokemon lost to Team Rocket's dirty deeds.
Also, Giovanni is a very impatient man. He doesn't like it when his agents constantly make fools of themselves. Over the past year, ever since Jessie, James, and Meowth first met Ash and Pikachu in Viridian City's Pokemon center that dark moonlit night, they had been making fools of themselves because of that "twerp."
Something as humiliating as finding out that the rare and valuable Pokemon which was going to make your boss like you was a kid in a costume, right in front of your own boss, is something that would no doubt seal your job security's fate...in a black coffin.
"I knew it was only in a fantasy world that you three nincompoops would do something right! You three have failed me for the last time!"
And once you got fired, you would blame people...people like those who made your life a miserable nightmare since you first met.
"This stupid hat is a reminder of the little brat who got us into this mess! I'm gonna tear this hat to shreds as soon as I can find something sharp!"
And then, you'd get even.
"Listen up my fellow Rockets! For many years, we've served and cowered under the thumb of that miserable ingrate Giovanni. And where did it get us? Stuck in a room with stale food all over the place thinking about the future we were never gonna get even if we still worked for him! I'd say we find a way out of here, start our own Rocket empire and run it our way!"
Jessie was a woman who was a spitfire in the best of times. In the worst of times, she could be a demoness. When she and her fellow Rockets were humilated in front of their boss and then barely escaped with their lives, they decided to take over Pallet Town and makeAsh weep as revenge for all the horrible(but deserved) pain he gave them over the months.
Little did they know that Giovanni's other pet, Mewtwo, was going to make Ash "disappear" for five whole years.
This turn of events changed the timeline. Ash, now trapped in the mind of Mewtwo with no way out, couldn't stop the Team Rocket rebels from attacking Pallet Town and kidnapping Pikachu, using him and Stella's Mr. Mimeto create an electric barrier that trapped everyone in the town in the Rockets' evil clutches. Jessie and James violently oppressed all the townsfolk, including Professor Oak, Ash's mother and friends, Gary, and even Stella and her circus.
Jessie, James, and Meowth were no longer fools, they had become deadly villians, fueled by hatred and revenge against Ash. They tortured all the townsfolk for five full years.
Professor Oak, Misty, and Brock escaped into the sewers and started a rebellion to overthrow them, but they couldn't do much because they saw no way to escape their prison. The police force was powerless to stop them, and the Kanto Government had its hands tied. Professor Oak tried to find a way to bring Ash back...and inadvertantly brought a young man from our world to them, thanks to Misty's Psyduck, who was still being as annoying as ever.
The fourteen-year old boy was called Cameron Fusterman, and he was a fan of all things Pokemon. He was watching the episode "It's Mr. Mimie Time!" when his TV went off in the middle of the episode. Oak's machine dropped him right into Team Rocket's lap, but thanks to a brave Sandshrew, he escaped.
Cameron was very clever, and managed to get the majority of the rebellion's leaders out of the imprisoned town in order to find help. The group met the Pallet Town's Officer Jenny and they traveled to Mt. Moon to find some Moon Stones to power up the machine and bring Ash back.
Unfortunately, Jessie and her pals saw the escape and chased them down, with the help of a deadly ninja girl called Reiko, who was deadlier than Jessie at times and was Jessie's intern. They first clashed at Pewter City, but Cameron cleverly found a way to get the police to rescue Brock's family.
The plan to get Moon Stone failed when the heroes found that Jessie and James had stolen it all, so the gang fell back on Plan B - find reinforcements to take back Pallet by force. As they fled from Team Rocket, who hunted them like dogs, the heroes found out the whereabouts of Ash and Giovanni, trapped in Mewtwo's mind, and Reiko found a friend in Cameron, who learned that Reiko was not evil at all, but only served Jessie out of fear, for even this ruthless ninja girl feared the fate that awaited those who betrayed Team Rocket. Reiko was actually the little sister of Koga, the retiring gym leader of Fuschia City, who had run away from home out of anger against her siblings for the way they treated her and ended up getting caught by the electric wall.
Cameron gathered gym badges and, after facing Blaine in the Seafoam Islands when Cinnabar Volcano erupted, the group faced Mewtwo and were trapped in his mind by a nasty attack called "Mindjail." Ash - who had matured into a young man over the five years of imprisonment and had a team of powerful Pokemon - saved them and, through the power of Cameron's Slowking, everyone who Mewtwo had trapped in his mind was freed. Misty's Psyduck, seeking to make his trainer proud of him, evolved into Golduck and killed Mewtwo.
Sadly, Reiko's treachery towards Jessie was discovered and she was seized by Jessie and James and prepared to be executed. In a sick and twisted plot, the three villians forced Cameron to battle for her life, but he prevailed. Giovanni, who had gone mad during his imprisonment, regained his sanity in time to fuse with Mewtwo's corpse and use that evil mutant Pokemon to attack Ash, but in the end and through the work of all involved, Mewtwo's body was destroyed and Giovanni was slain, never to be heard from again. The remains turned into the legendary Mew, who thanked Cameron and Ash for saving him from a horrible fate as Mewtwo and healing the town, erasing it of Rocket influence. Jessie, James, and Meowth were arrested and sent to prison, and everyone lived happily ever after, except Reiko(who was languishing in a juvenile prison) and Team Rocket...
...or so it seemed.
When Cameron turned fifteen, he learned about a land called Ryooku, to the far east. Meowth had escaped and managed to break Jessie and James out, and Jessie was eager to destroy Cameron and Ash in revenge. The three started to hound Cameron and Ash, who traveled with him to Ryooku with his now-official girlfriend Misty, all across Ryooku. Pallet Jenny, who had married Seymour from Mt. Moon and adopted Cameron as her step-son, learned about the breakout and, after hearing about the attack on them in Soy Town, got help by sending Reiko to protect him, but made sure that her Growlithe went along to watch over the "reformed" assassin.
Cameron enjoyed his Pokemon travels, switching his sixth Pokemon a couple of times and eventually getting a rare form of Eevee, the dragon-type Scaleon. When the three teenagers arrived on Ryooku, they met Tracey Sketchit. In the dominant timeline, Tracey met Ash and Misty on the Orange Islands, but this time it was different.
Cameron's Sandshrew became like Pikachu, who had been rescued and returned safely to Ash's side. The Sandshrew, called Sandy by Cameron, was now like a sidekick and enjoyed this freedom. Cameron gathered eight badges from the Ryooku gyms, which ran like the Orange Island gyms, and in the end, Cameron faced off against the Supreme Four and AJ, one of the trainers Ash had met in his Kanto travels, and prevailed over them all.
Team Rocket escaped prison a second time and ran into a legendary Pokemon, the thunder hound Raikou. Meowth used an evil device to control this mighty creature and the three attacked Soy Town, taking control of it. When Cameron went to save the town, they found themselves outmatched, but with help from Suicune, the legendary aurora hound and sibling to Raikou, they enlisted Entei, the third of the legendary hounds, and got Soy Town back. The three hounds sent Team Rocket blasting off for what seemed like forever.
After this adventure, Ash and Cameron were recognized as heroes and given a gym deed in Pallet Town, and so the Pallet Town Gym was born. Ash and Cameron married their dream girls, and life seemed to be peaceful again.
It's been a year since Cameron married Reiko, who was now realized to be completely repentant and no longer seeking to do evil. As Cameron and Sandy visited the land of Johto, a new chapter of their lives opens, involving a native of Johto who is about to start his own Pokemon adventures.
And with new adventures will come lots of new Pokemon that Cameron has never seen before...
(There. If you didn't get it before, you'll never get it now, so be glad I wrote this whole thing for you slackers!)