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Ralph pulled a few branches out of his way. The trees here grew low to the ground and broad leaves obscured almost everything from view. The mud at his feet that sucked his boots into the ground so that he had to pull them out at every step was no help either.
Ralph pulled another branch out of his way, this time the forest of trees seemed to have ended, giving him a welcomed scene of a dirt path with no mud and only a few dying leaves littered the ground. He stepped out into the road and started walking down it, hoping for some buildings to be at the end of it.
"Hey, you!" a voice called out behind him.
As Ralph turned, he found a large teenager in front of him, who had to have been several years older.
"I want to battle," the burly teen said.
"Battle? What do you mean?" Ralph was bewildered by the stranger, who gave him a scowl.
"What, you haven't got any pokes?"
"Huh?" was Ralph's smart reply.
"Pokes, pokemon, whatever. You've got a backpack on, come on; you have to be a trainer!"
The teenager advanced toward him and Ralph backed away. The teen sighed.
"Check your backpack!" he barked, tired of Ralph's ignorance.
Ralph immediately swung his pack off his shoulders and opened it with shaking fingers, "I-I don't know what to look for."
"Let me see it," the teen sneered and grabbed the backpack from him.
It took a few moments of scavenging through Ralph's clothes, snacks, and other things before the teen finally brought out four balls.
"Are those-" Ralph started.
"Yeah, that's right, they're pokes. Now hurry up and let's battle," the teen threw Ralph's backpack and the four balls back at him. Ralph barely caught the balls and his backpack him the road, causing a cloud of dust to come up and make his eyes water.
The teen took one of his own pokeballs from his belt and maximized it before throwing it into the air. With a flash of light a large tauros appeared and started pawing the ground.
Ralph looked at his own pokeballs. They all luckily had labels engraved on them so that he wouldn't be choosing randomly. He read each label carefully and tried to remember what the names referred to. There was Waterfront, a goldeen he had gotten from his girlfriend, but she was still being trained and there was no water in sight for her to go in. He moved on to the next pokeball, it was Cheeze, one of his first rattata and now a high level raticate. He threw the ball into the air.
The flash of light appeared just as it had with the tauros and the ball bounced back to Ralph where it was caught in his hand.
Ralph got his first look at Cheeze. He was small, extremely small, even for a raticate. The small being chattered loudly in front of the tauros towering over it. Ralph was sure that the other pokemon, or poke, as the teen called them, could easily kill Cheeze with one of his large hooves. Ralph was at a loss for words, the teen wasn't.
The teen laughed loudly, "Mustang'll destroy that pipsqueak you've got there."
Mustang snorted and pawed the ground heavily in response.
Cheeze didn't look in the least bit frightened. He continued chattering and glared at Mustang instead.
"Mustang, horn attack!" the teen screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Uh, um," Ralph stuttered, "Cheeze, super fang."
The pokemon both attacked at once, unfortunately for Mustang, Cheeze was faster. He raced up the tauros's leg and swiftly jumped onto its head and bit down on the large hump of its back. The tauros screamed in pain and fury, tossing and turning in an attempt to get the raticate off. Cheeze seemed to be enjoying the bull ride thoroughly, even going as far as putting his hands up and squealing as though he were on a roller coaster.
The teen didn't look too happy, "Stop! Stop, roll over, Mustang, roll over!"
The tauros did as he was told and rolled on the dirt path, causing dust clouds to fill the air. Cheeze was already off the tauros's back and was squealing in laughter at Mustang.
"He's off, Mustang! Go and get him, do whatever it takes!" the teen screeched.
Mustang was already up, panting and heaving. Cheeze chattered loudly, daring the tauros to come closer. Mustang didn't have enough strength to, and collapsed on the ground, still panting.
The teen scoffed as he returned Mustang to his ball, "I'll beat you some day, you'll see."
Cheeze blew a raspberry at him and scurried back to Ralph where he returned to his ball himself.
The teen threw something on the ground before leaving. Ralph pushed his pokeballs into his backpack and shouldered the large load before he went to investigate. The teen seemed to have thrown a few bills on the ground that were each marked with an insignia of a pokeball. Ralph picked up the small wad and fingered them with interest.
Mitsuko lazily walked on the packed dirt paths of the town. She had had to haul herself out of bed that day, only to find that it wasn't her bed she was sleeping in, and it wasn't quite her house, which after finding that the room wasn't her room didn't surprise her. The large furry face of an eevee hovering over her didn't help much either.
Mitsuko rubbed at her eyes and she secretively took a glance of the creature on her shoulder. The eevee was looking the other way and was occupied watching a hypnotic barber shop decoration, spinning its red and white stripes behind them. Mitsuko was fairly sure this eevee was Syl, the action replay created pokemon she had spent days agonizing over what attacks to give.
"Oi, Syl, does Ralph live here?" Mitsuko asked, shaking Syl out of her daze.
The eevee blinked a few times and stared at Mitsuko for a second before wildly nodding her head.
That was another problem; Syl didn't seem able to speak. All she could do was nod or shake her head or, in some cases, she could try using something similar to sign language, though with Syl's paws she wasn't very adept at it.
The eevee nudged Mitsuko's face, this time breaking her out of a reverie. The eevee brought up her paw and pointed it toward a lone figure walking down the path with its back facing them. Mitsuko recognized the untidy hair on its head at once.
"Ralph! Ralph!" Mitsuko yelled.
Ralph turned around slowly with his face brightening as Mitsuko came flying toward him. He opened his arms welcomingly and braced himself. Mitsuko jumped into his arms and even though Ralph had been prepared, they both tumbled to the ground.
"Aiiiiii!" Mitsuko squealed, "I didn't think you would be here, it's so strange, I think we're in the pokemon world."
"Me too," Ralph replied.
"That's so weird! We were both thinking the same thing! We make such a good couple," Mitsuko hugged her boyfriend's head happily.
Ralph stood up, giving Mitsuko his hand as he did so. She pulled herself up too, and picked up Syl, who seemed to have missed the entire conversation and was, once again, staring at what she could see of the barber shop decorum.
"Sooooo, what do we do now?" Mitsuko asked.
"Find others?" Ralph suggested.
"Sure," Mitsuko grabbed his hand and started walking down the path.
"Wait, we don't even know where that leads to!"
"It doesn't matter," Mitsuko said, "we were both traveling in the same direction, odds are that other people are going to do the same thing and walk down this road."
Ralph shrugged, letting Mitsuko bring him to whatever would lie on the road ahead.
"I think we're lost," Scarlet said.
"Probably are," Tekka agreed, leaning off of Scarlet's shoulder and moving her face closer to the map in Scarlet's hands.
"Here, you know this town better than I do," Scarlet moved the map closer to Tekka.
"Yeah, but everything's changed overnight. It never had this many buildings in it before," Tekka waved her short arm around, pointing at all the identical looking two story houses.
Scarlet nodded, "Yeah, there's something fishy going on here."
Scarlet let out a long sigh and folded the map neatly. She started walking in a random direction.
"Have you figured it out yet?" Tekka asked.
"No, I'm just going to walk around and maybe we'll find the lab by accident," Scarlet replied.
"Or we could just ask Mitsuko," Tekka said.
"How are we going to do that? We can't even find a big lab in this place; I don't think we'll be able to find a person!"
"Over there," Tekka pointed to two people in front of them.
"Oh," Scarlet said.
She started running and shouting at them, "Mitsuko! Ralph!"
They turned around.
"Hi, Scarlet, we were just looking for you!" Mitsuko said, a large smile on her face.
"You were?" Scarlet asked, she was a bit surprised that Mitsuko had been looking for her, especially since they didn't get along as well as people thought.
"Yeah, we're looking for anyone we can recognize," Mitsuko replied. She took Scarlet's hand much in the same way she had taken Ralph's and proceeded in dragging both of them through the streets.
"I guess we're going off again," Tekka said.
"Is that a pichu? It's so cute," Mitsuko said without stopping her rapid pace or even glancing at Tekka.
"Yeah, how could you tell, you didn't even look at her?" Scarlet asked.
"Well, anyone can tell with the way that pokemon talk. They do repeat the syllables of their names, you know."
Scarlet considered it for a moment. Mitsuko must not have understood Tekka if she had heard the pichu only saying parts of 'pichu'. She silently wondered if she would be able to understand any other pokemon.
"-and you know, my Syl, here, is just sooooo cute. She doesn't say a word, but you can sorta understand her if you try hard enough," Mitsuko had been talking the whole time.
"Uh, yeah," a response came from the other side of Mitsuko. "I've got Cheeze, but he hasn't said anything to me either," Ralph added.
"See, I told you, they all seem to be the silent type," Mitsuko chattered on, Ralph's eyes glazed over as he thought of the resemblance between his girlfriend and Cheeze.
Scarlet was a bit more daring and took a stab at trying to change the subject into something more informative, "How did you get here?"
Mitsuko looked shaken for a moment and she stopped in her tracks, forcing the two glued to her hands to halt also. She regained herself and started walking again before answering with a long winded reply, "I have no idea. You know, I just woke up in a weird place. It was kinda creepy because it reminded me of home, but it was completely different, then there were the people too. And, you know, Syl (at this point Mitsuko used her head to make a gesture towards the eevee on her shoulder), was right there in my face when I woke up, she nearly scared me to death. I went downstairs, and I found this weird lady that thought she was my mom telling me to pack or I would be late. I just did what she told me to and she pushed me right out the door."
"The same thing happened to me too," Scarlet said then she turned to what she could see of Ralph on Mitsuko's right side, "Was it the same with you?"
"Uh, no," Ralph said, "I got stuck in the woods. I went out camping the day before with a few friends and when I woke up today I found myself in the middle of nowhere with my backpack. Everyone else was gone; I searched the whole place for them, before I found a road."
Scarlet tapped her chin in thought with her free hand.
"Maybe we were abducted by aliens," Mitsuko suggested.
Both her companions sighed.
"That building looks different," Tekka said, pointing to the top of what must have been a large building that towered over the tops of the houses.
Mitsuko and Ralph had a harder time understanding, and had to follow Tekka's arm. By the time they realized what Tekka had been telling them, Scarlet was already dragging both of them through the streets.
Scarlet turned a corner into what had looked like the place the building was situated only to run into a large crowd of people that blocked off the whole road in front of the building.
"What do we do now?" Mitsuko asked looking at Ralph then Scarlet for answers.
"Just wait," Scarlet said watching the crowd of bustling people that were trying to find the same answers they were.
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