Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon, I do not have any rights to Pokémon and I do not make any money from writing these stories/poems.
Written for the Pokémon Writing Diversity Challenge, the Leap Year Calendar Challenge, the Mix and Match Challenge, the 12/30 Challenge, If You Dare Continued Challenge, the As Much As You Can Challenge.
Prompt: MewTwo, Peace, Max, Write about finding something, Write a oneshot featuring a character you haven't yet featured in a fic, External Conflict.
Researching The Past
Max stared at the large book in front of him. His eyes scanned over the words on the page as if they were the answer to everything. The library clock ticked by in the background, counting down the time Max had until his older sister, Ash and Brock would be by to pick him up after the Gym battle was over.
"How can the story that Ash told me be true?" Max said to himself as he stared at the beautifully taken photograph of the island in question. "And even Brock and Pikachu backed him up. Ash...did he really meet this MewTwo Pokémon...I wonder if it even exists."
With only a frown of concentration to show his external conflict Max allowed himself to be swept up in the peace and quiet as he looked for proof. Picture after picture, word after word, they all told Max the very same thing...yet Ash had told him the story...a story that scarily seemed to match up with everything the books littered around him said and a story that spoke of more truth then lies. His mind buzzed with new information that Max found hidden within the books, his eyes took in every possible detail he could.
Only to freeze when his eyes landed on a picture he almost ignored. Taking a second look Max stared at the photograph, it was nothing fancy, only a group of people who had come to take photographs for the book. It was not them that had caught Max's attention though, it was the silently watching Pokémon in the background, staring at the group of humans with a calculating look while hiding behind a large tree.
"W-is that a Pokémon?" Max asked himself as he adjusted his glasses and took a closer look. "Different shades of purple? Could it be, the Pokémon that Ash told me about? MewTwo...I wonder if..."
Quickly turning to his left Max grabbed the crude and quickly done pencil drawing that Ash had drawn for him. With shaking hands Max laid the pencil drawing down on top of the book so the two images where side by side and stared. Besides Ash's okay drawing skills which still left a lot to be desired the basics of the two images where the same.
"Ash...Brock...they were telling the truth!" Max shouted out excitedly with a large grin only to blush and look around, a relieved sigh came from his lips when he spotted no one and no one came running into the room. "That was close...with this Pokémon and story being so closed to being solved and all..."
Sitting down again Max turned his attention back to the book and pencil drawing. His mind ran a mile a minute as the realisation as proof of a new Pokémon that was not in the Pokedex stood in front of him, plain as day.
"I...I need to get more information from Ash!" Max cried out as he quickly began to gather up all of the books, through the drawing and the linking book stayed on the table. "With this sort of proof a new Pokémon can be added to the Pokedex! And I get to talk to the legendary Professor Oak!"
End of Prompt.
Don't know if anyone reads my little notes or is interested but I've started a giant Pokémon Gen 1 cross stitch. It's 72.24cm x 127cm. It is the reason why I'm being so slow to update for as I'm going between writing and stitching and sorting out the second half of Feline Mystery. I was wondering...if I made a simple blog of sorts and posted a photo of my Pokémon cross stitch would anyone be intreasted?
