I was literally stuck in my tracks as I looked up to the gargantuan beast. The Aggron eyed me and looked ready to smash me into the asphalt. I though for a second I was practically looking at death.

"Oh, shit.." I muttered. It was all I could get out before it attempted to pound me with what I thought was a Rock Smash. Both piplup and I leapt out of the way before we became a flattened pulp.

"Aw, crap. Is this thing trying to kill me! Well, looks like I don't have any options left." I looked at my partner, who then looked at me. It seemed like we both understood what we had to do. "Alright, let's get him partner!"

And with that, piplup went into position and was ready to fight.

It felt great, the feeling of a real pokemon battle, yet, I didn't embrace it. I had to win this battle. My life was on the line here.

And with that, I fired my first command " Alright, piplup, bubblebeam!" Piplup fired a stream of bubbles at the aggron. Though it should have been effective, it recovered from its stagger as if it hadn't been hit.

"The hell!" I exclaimed. For some reason, the attack had no effect. I figured if that was the case, repeated bubblebeams were the only things that were likely capable of doing anything.

"Alright piplup, same attack! Bubblebeam until it falls!" With that a stream of bubbles were fired, but unfourtanatley, had no effect. "Dammit! Still!" The aggron knocked piplup away against a tree and slowly advanced towards me.

"Dammit... no, no I'm not gonna die here. I won't!"

The Aggron raised a fist, readying a rock smash

"DAMN IT!"

I then expected to feel my skull smash into many pieces, instead, I felt nothing.

"Huh?"

It appeared to have staggered again, but, piplup was still recovering from it's impact, so why did it fall back?

"You hurt?"

"Huh?"

I looked up and there was a blue haired boy with a drape of it covering an eye.

"Hey, I ain't gonna pay for your hospital bill you know." Said the boy.

"Who the hell are you?" I asked.

"Now's not the time for that, go get your pokemon, Now!"

I dashed for the tree and helped piplup recover. I then saw what blocked it's attack seconds before. The boy had a turtwig and was using razor leaf on it.

I took the opportunity and was about to run. I looked back however and saw he was having a hard time, with the same effect on the brute as I did.

"Alright piplup! Bubblebeam!"

The attack staggered it before it could hit the Turtwig.

"What are you doing!"

"Trying to help you so your arse doesn't get buried!"

"Fine! Stay, just don't overdo it!"

"Nice to know he cares at least."

I commanded a Bubblebeam at the aggron's face and told piplup to use all it's force.

It finally couldn't take it anymore. It finally toppled and was knocked out.

"Whew, god that was a close one. I-"

-stopped in mid-sentence, as I watched the just beserk pokemon all of a sudden begin the vanish in red light. Other than the destruction it caused, no trace of it was left.

"It disappeared? Is that even supposed to happen?" I asked out of bewilderment. I then looked over to my savior, standing a distance away from me.

"Thanks for the help, I owe my life to you." I said to him. "Hey, I never got your name. What's it anyway?"

"If it'll make you shut up, it's Shou. Now if you excuse me, I have somewhere to be."

"Wait, what? Hey!"

At that moment, a tree fell infront of me, the trunk wide enough to block my view. I quickly ran around to find that he'd already left. Not a trace of him or his pokemon there.


I woke up the next day, luckily being a Saturday, horribly groggy. Blocky morning memory nearly made me forget about what happened last night. It was almost like a dream. Going down, I greeted my mom and just poured cereal. She noticed how I looked and said "what in the name of god happened to you?". After eating breakfast, I quickly went back to my room to watch something. I got bored quickly and turned to the news for the hell of it.

"More destruction was discovered in the middle of town where the road near the park looks torn up by a machine. The cause is unknown, but there's been a recent discovery of a strange metal near the site."

"Metal? Wait, that's..."

The camera panned to a piece of metal in the anchorwoman's hands. It looked a lot like something from the aggron we fought last night.

"According to reasearchers, the material is unknown, they say it could even be a new element undiscovered to the periodic table. There is also speculation that this carnage is related to the incident that have been happening recently. As a last piece of information, mysterious people in space suits have also begun to be spotted. It is also speculated that it's a cosplay group, but nonetheless mysterious, wait, why the hell did I say that? That was for later segment, oh well, anyway, back to you Josh."

"Huh.." I wondered out loud, "I'm not in the mood to say something cliché, but I'm getting this feeling we're about to dive headfirst into a dark story-thing which will involve a lot of character development and some other things which miiiight change my life forever."

I had no idea how damn right I was, and would probably not be in such a happy mood about my position had I know the coming events.

AN: Sorry I was late with this. And if it got shoddy near the end, procrastination will do that to you. On another note, PF75 now attempts to present his chapters LONGER. Also, Shou's name is pronounced similar "Shoe" or "Shu"(not like sho, BTW), due to my habit of doing that to names. It's your call.