Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon. Sophia and her pokemon are owned by Fire Spirit and Ryan and his pokemon are owned by Bigfoot12310.
A/N: Just to let everyone know, this fic is based on all the pokemon games, not just one, so you don't have to have all Johto based pokemon. If anyone wants to add to their character, or change them in anyway, you can re-email me.
The crowd grew as the group of three continued to wait.
Ralph had a watch on his wrist, which both the girls had forgotten to pack, that the group watched tick softly as they waited. According to the hands of the devise, it was 7:49AM and slowly approaching eight.
Both Tekka and Syl were leaning against the groups' backpacks and were dozing peacefully, as a few others in the crowd had chosen to do, some going as far as taking out a blanket and snoring loudly. Most of the others in the crowd had chosen to sit down and wait, as Ralph, Mitsuko, and Scarlet had decided to. A few lone souls had stayed standing and stuck out among their peers.
"You know, it's really quiet," Mitsuko turned away from the clock to view her two companions.
After years of knowing Mitsuko and the habits she tended to have, Scarlet knew that the best option would be to give her the silent treatment and allow her to rant on about a subject until she got tired. Ralph didn't have as much experience or knowledge when it came to Mitsuko.
"Yeah, it is," he said.
As Mitsuko's smile grew larger and larger, Ralph didn't know whether to smile with her or be afraid.
"I know, I mean, everyone's just sitting there and, you know, the ones that are standing are more like statues than people," Mitsuko paused here and stared meaningfully at Ralph.
'Don't answer, don't answer, don't answer…' Scarlet repeated over and over again in her head.
Ralph nodded in response and Mitsuko took this as a sign he was interested in the subject. She chattered on making Scarlet groan and Ralph look between the two females bewilderedly.
"Uh, Mitsuko," Scarlet said. Mitsuko stopped jabbering and stared at her.
"Uh, um, here, Tekka," she took the half-asleep pichu and thrust it into Mitsuko's arms, "isn't she cute? Why don't you play with her?"
Tekka was giving Scarlet a look that let her know how much she would suffer later on.
Mitsuko looked at the pichu in her lap, cuddling it and flattening its fohawk, "What kind of clothes are you wearing, Scarlet? You look like you're in a gang or something."
Scarlet groaned again in despair before the question registered in her mind.
"Hey, what do you mean? Your clothes are worse than mine," Scarlet retorted.
"Yeah, but you're wearing all blue, people are going to think you're in a gang," Mitsuko patted Tekka's head.
Scarlet looked down at the outfit she was sporting. It was plain, but all blue, a forget-me-not blue sweatshirt, blue jeans, and even semi-blue and white shoes. To tell the truth, Scarlet had also had gangs in mind when she had put on the clothes, and had used a bright red ribbon to tie up her hair with in an attempt to show she was not situated with either red or blue gang.
"Your clothes are worse," Scarlet stated weakly.
"Yeah, well, they're in style here," Mitsuko waved her hand around the gathered crowd that had surrounded them at all sides as it had grown.
Scarlet could see it was true. Mitsuko had on ridiculously flared out bell bottoms that probably had some sort of wire in them to even allow them to be fluttering almost parallel to the ground after looking at the crowd Scarlet saw that every other person was wearing something as ridiculous or something worse. A small bright yellow tank top with bright blue lace streaming over it barely covered her arms, making Scarlet sigh as Scarlet knew that she would freeze to death; it was the middle of winter, it seemed that other people would freeze too, half the people Scarlet could see in the crowd had things on that didn't cover their arms and, in some cases, stomach.
"Fine, you win, can you stop criticizing me now?"
"Sure," Mitsuko said, then she went on to talk about Ralph's clothes, which were torn and muddy from scouting wild terrain.
Scarlet sighed in relief and took Tekka's place next to the pile of backpacks where Syl was still sleeping soundly. Tekka was still in Mitsuko's hands and was flashing Scarlet mean looks that would have made any other person start praying for mercy.
"-I mean, you should really change them," Mitsuko's one sided conversation went on as Scarlet closed her eyes.
"Wake up, Scarlet!" Mitsuko called out, shaking her friend awake.
"W-what?" Scarlet opened her eyes.
"Some professor-dude just came out of the building, and they're getting stuff out of a big truck," Mitsuko said.
Scarlet looked toward the building, where sure enough, there were people rushing around, trying to stave off curious people and their pokemon who had gathered closer and, at the same time, were trying to set up equipment. A large truck was parked next to the building where a few dozen people in lab coats were rushing to and fro, sometimes bringing out one of their pokemon to help carry out heavier things.
Scarlet turned back to Mitsuko to ask further questions only to find that she was busy waking Ralph up from his nap.
"They're all getting ready for a big announcement, I heard," a girl sitting beside Scarlet whispered.
"What kind of announcement?" Scarlet asked.
"Oh, I don't know, it was just a rumor," the girl replied, "name's Sophia, by the way."
"Scarlet."
"Nice to meet you. That's Espy, by the way," Sophia said, pointing to an espeon next to her that made a small mewing sound and climbed into Sophia's lap, "And him, over there," Sophia pointed to an umbreon, "is Twilight."
Twilight's eyes looked over Scarlet quickly before he looked away without a word.
"He's been in a bad mood today, don't mind him," Sophia explained.
Scarlet nodded.
"Hey, Scarlet, I think they're almost done, and, you know, your pichu is acting really weird," Mitsuko called out to her, she had some how moved further into the crowd and was holding Tekka under her arm like a book.
"I'm coming," Scarlet called back, then she said to Sophia, "Sorry, but I have to go. Bye."
"Bye," Sophia said.
Espy mewed cheerily and made an attempt to wave her paw in farewell. Twilight just sat next to Sophia silently and glared while Scarlet tiptoed around sitting people.
"Mitsuko," Scarlet scolded when she reached her companions, "what have you done with Tekka?"
"Uh," Mitsuko glanced at the fainted pichu in under her arm, "nothing much, I just gave her some soda and stuff."
Scarlet sighed, taking the pichu from Mitsuko and made a mental note not to give Tekka soda.
"Did you give her anything else?" Scarlet asked.
"Just some-," Mitsuko was cut off by a loud noise behind them.
"Ladies and gentlemen," someone said into a microphone. The voice was so loud it echoed through the streets and made a few people in their homes look out their windows.
There were scratching noises that made several pokemon with sensitive ears jump as the person did something that Scarlet couldn't see. A few more horrifyingly loud noises came from the microphone before a large screen lit up off to the side of the building.
"W-we have encountered some phenomena that seems to have affected several altering realities, all different from one another. The solution to this presented problem is being researched as I make this announcement, and the government has already taken action by creating a short film that should explain to you what precautions should be taken in this situation," a wiry young man in a lab coat walked across the stage shakily and started operating a device next to him.
Several seconds passed as people shuffled around and started to stand, a few people were still sleeping and were unaware of what was occurring. The screen flickered and was brought to life, showing a severe looking woman staring out at them.
"Hello, I am Gemini Maris, the current Head of Science and Foreign Affairs Department in the government. We have created this film to inform you all of the phenomena that has lead you all to be here. Alternate universes that have been in co-existence since the beginning of time have flowed into each other, causing the events that are occurring now. This place exists in one alternate universe as a popular game that most of you know as pokemon. The merging of several alternate universes has caused pokemon from games to be united with their trainers from another alternate universe and has brought all of you into this world," the screen's image changed into a scene of a forest where a pokecenter was nestled in between a few trees, and the woman continued, "We have estimated that the population has nearly quadrupled from pokemon and people coming here through alternate universes, which has caused us to take some precautionary measures in order to maintain a working system. The use of PCs is prohibited for all trainers until next week and several once public places will be off-limits to everyone except for those who have permission from the government. Also, pokecenter funding will be increased and ships to take trainers into other regions will be built. Trainers without licenses will be required to register at the appropriate locations. Please understand that these precautions are for your own benefit and abide to them fully."
The screen went blank and whispering in the crowd increased immediately. The man in the lab coat tapped his microphone and loud screeching noises made the whispers subside.
"The lab has been designated as an area for trainers to obtain their licenses, if you already have a license please continue your journeys, further information will be released through your radios on channel one," the man walked away from the microphone and into the lab, followed by several others in lab coats while their pokemon started putting equipment away.
"What did he say? I didn't catch any of it," Mitsuko said.
"How did you miss any of that?" Scarlet asked, "It practically echoed through the streets!"
Mitsuko smiled sheepishly, "I just sorta stopped listening after science…"
Scarlet sighed and rolled her eyes, it was typical of Mitsuko to go off daydreaming when it came to any subject related to school. Scarlet prepared herself to make a summary of the things said. Ralph beat her to it.
"They just said that our universe and a few others mixed together and brought us here, and that we can't use the PCs for a week. We might have to register too, unless we already have licenses," Ralph said.
"Licenses?" Mitsuko repeated the last word, then she swung her backpack off her shoulder and started digging through it frantically, Scarlet saw that several others in the crowd were doing the same.
"What are you-," Scarlet started to ask, but was interrupted by a cry of triumph from Mitsuko as she brought out a small laptop computer.
"I've got one of those too," Scarlet said, shifting Tekka from one arm to the other and grabbing her backpack from the ground and stuffing her hand randomly into it, "it's somewhere in here…"
"They're new technology, a combination of a pokedex, radio, map, and pretty much everything, including a trainer ID and license," Mitsuko explained.
Scarlet narrowed her eyes at Mitsuko suspiciously as she tried pulling her own laptop out of her backpack futilely, "Since when do you know so much about computers in alternate universes?"
"Since my fake mom was pushing me out the door and screaming at me at the top of her lungs about how I should take care of something so useful and expensive," Mitsuko informed Scarlet.
Mitsuko turned to Ralph, who had also started searching through his backpack, "Do you have one?"
"Yeah, I just found it," he pulled out a silver laptop that gleamed in the sun.
"Does everyone else have one too?" Scarlet asked and looked into the crowd.
"Yeah, I guess so," Mitsuko said, she was glaring at a girl with the same clothes as her that had just pulled a laptop out of a small hand knit bag.
Ralph started trying to divert his girlfriend's attention to explaining the features of the laptop again when he saw Mitsuko's cold stare.
Scarlet sighed and shifted the still fainted Tekka once again so that she could put her backpack back on. Tekka didn't look anywhere close to waking up, or talking and Scarlet wasn't too keen on being sucked into another one of Mitsuko's unending one sided conversations or sparking Mitsuko's jealousy by talking to Ralph. She decided to plague random strangers around her instead.
"Hey," Scarlet said to a boy that was busy looking through features on his laptop.
The boy looked at her expectantly and Scarlet smiled cheerily, "Do you want to try battling?"
"Oh, sure," the boy said. He opened the flap of a messenger bag and pulled out three pokeballs from it.
Scarlet shifted Tekka once more and unzipped her fanny pack, taking five pokeballs out of it, leaving Tekka's ball inside.
A few people cleared away as the boy pressed the button of one of his greatballs.
"I have to warn you," the boy smirked haughtily, "my pokemon are all powerful, and unless you've got a level one hundred, you don't have a chance beating them."
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing," Scarlet smiled.
The boy gave Scarlet's smile a confused glance before he regained himself and said, "So, what's the name of the trainer I'm beating this time?"
"Scarlet," she said, "and yours?"
"Drek, Ryan Drek," he said and threw the greatball into the air and with a small burst of light, a pidgeotto stood in front of them.
Scarlet took a regular pokeball and threw it into the air. Another burst of light followed and Ryan doubled over, laughing at Scarlet's furret. The furret was wearing a bright pink dress and had comically started twirling around like a ballerina. Scarlet herself had to fight the urge to giggle.
"W-what kind of pokemon is that!" Ryan jeered.
Scarlet pouted, "He's a level one hundred pokemon, that's what he is."
Ryan seemed to gain a bit more respect after the statement, "Are you sure? How do I know you're not lying?"
Scarlet opened her mouth to answer when two small ringing noises came, as if on cue, from Ryan and Scarlets' laptops.
Both the trainers opened their laptops at the same time to see the same information. Profiles of both trainers and the pokemon they currently had flickered on the screen. An image of Ryan's pidgeotto had a flashing 'Lv. 54' next to it and Scarlet smirked as she saw her own furret on the screen with a 'Lv. 100'.
"Is that proof enough?" Scarlet asked.
"Uh, yeah," Ryan looked like he was in shock, as though he had not really expected a level one hundred pokemon, he once again regained himself and yelled to his pidgeotto, "Wing Attack!"
The pidgeotto flapped its wings, releasing two whirlwinds and directing them towards Scarlet's furret. The furret was caught in them while he was still twirling and doing ballet exercises and was blown into a group of by standing trainers.
"Wess!" Scarlet cried out as some HP disappeared out of a bar on her laptop.
Ryan smirked once again, "Not so tough are ya?"
"Wess!" Scarlet called out, and the disheveled furret emerged from underneath a pile of trainers that had fallen on top of him.
Wess stood up and brushed himself off with his paws, paying more attention to his dress than to the pidgeotto that was waiting eagerly to finish the battle. The furret looked over his dress carefully, looking for any rips or tears while the pidgeotto looked to Ryan for further instruction.
"Pidgeotto, Hy-," Ryan was cut off by an earsplitting screech that had come from Wess.
The furret had found a rip in his dress and was sticking his paw through it; tears were welling up in his eyes as though he were mourning the pink fabric. Wess glared at the pidgeotto in hatred. He let out a long battle cry and attacked. The first swipe missed by a whole foot as the pidgeotto dodged it and flew higher. A gaping mark was left on the ground as the furret prepared for another attack.
Ryan called his pidgeotto back before Wess could try dealing the blow. The furret bared his teeth, this time at the trainer, and ran rapidly toward him. Scarlet recalled Wess and sighed in relief when she saw that Ryan was still intact.
"I'm not battling you anymore; you can't even control your pokemon!" Ryan stomped off into the crowd, and was closely followed by a large group of girls asking him to recount the event they had already witnessed themselves, and interestingly enough, a smaller group of males also followed him.
Scarlet was shocked, partly by the abrupt ending of the match, and partly by Wess. She had never though of him as vengeful when she had been training him in her pokemon game. He had seemed more of the lazy type, attacking second, and not living up to the millions of items she had wasted in an attempt to make him go faster. When he was hit, though, he would go faster and had a talent for knocking out other pokemon in less than two turns, now that Scarlet knew the reason why, she felt a slight sinking sensation in her stomach as she thought of the raging creature in the ball that she was holding that could become violent because of a dress.
"Hey, Scarlet," Mitsuko came flying at her back and hugged her from behind, nearly choking her, "We saw it! Your first battle! I have to have one too, Ralph says he already battled with someone, and I want to try too."
Scarlet pried herself loose from Mitsuko's grasp and stepped out of arm's distance, "Yeah, sure," she panted, shifting Tekka once again to put away Wess's ball and to put away some of her thoughts to the back of her mind.
"Great, let's go!" Mitsuko stepped toward Scarlet and tugged at her arm, also ensnaring an unexpecting Ralph next to her.
A/N: That's it for now! If your character isn't in this chapter, please don't be offended, I'm still trying to work some of them into the plot. Also, I want to warn people that some characters will play bigger roles than others in the fic, and that some characters will probably reappear more than once. If it irks anyone too much that their character only had a paragraph long debut, you can send me an e-mail about it, or put it in a review.