The Great Pokemon Conspiracies:
~The Old Chateau~
Chapter Eleven: Electric Insanity
ROTOM
- Sinnoh Pokédex No. 152 -
- National Pokédex No. 479 -
Electric-Ghost
If Silversong had read my last sentence of the previous chapter, she would have corrected me in her signature drawling voice that the Pokémon who came out of the TV wasn't just an Electric-type Pokémon. It was a dual Electric-Ghost-type called Rotom.
As usual, I don't really care. I only have my eyes and ears for Dusk's and Fantina's conversation with Charon.
"Galactic, what are you doing here?" Fantina demanded.
Charon stiffly turned around. Rotom hovered above his shoulder. Charon flashed a weird, awkward smile at the Gym Leader.
"Please excuse me," he said in a croaky voice. "I was only going to reunite myself with an old friend."
"I thought you didn't have any friends," Ultramarine said.
Charon frowned at him. "I did when I was small," he said. "Let me introduce my oldest friend. This is Rotom."
"Sinnoh Pokédex No. 152 and National Pokédex No. 479," Dusk chimed in to Charon's annoyance while looking down at her Pokédex. "Yup. Got him."
"What are you doing, trespassing into my old house?" Fantina snapped, getting back to the topic. Then she seemed to remember the downside of using the word "trespass" and added quickly, "It's OK for Dusk since she's an exploring Trainer and all, not a Galactic."
"Like I said earlier, I was only trying to find Rotom," Charon said without hesitation. "I know he's been here all the time since it happened. I haven't been able to come here ever since due to some Galactic schemes we're working on."
Dusk was interested in Galactic schemes, but Fantina was drawn to another word altogether.
It.
"What do you mean by it?" Fantina demanded.
"It? Oh, that," Charon said dismissively. "I meant the big Old Chateau fire, of course. Funny you should ask... You're the former owner after all."
Fantina froze.
"Tell me what you know about it."
And so Charon began his tale.
The Boy Named Charon and the Mysterious Rotom
A story about the Galactic Charon's past
Once upon a time there lived a small boy named Charon. Even as a boy, he was different from the other tykes. When the others marveled when seeing their toy robots move, little Charon was more interested in wondering how it was able to move when it wasn't a living thing.
One important day, Charon was playing with his toy robot as always, when he saw that his robot was making moves he never knew it could make. It was only supposed to be able to walk and move its mechanical arms, not shoot weak electric bolts at him!
After a closer inspection, suddenly a small Pokémon merged out of the robot. Charon named this new Pokémon simply "Rotom".
Charon and Rotom became fast friends. It didn't take long for Charon to disover that Rotom's power was that he could merge with electrical appliances and become one with it.
One day, Charon and Rotom were playing in the woods somewhere between Floaroma Town and Eterna City when they found themselves wandering into the yard of a big house. Curiously peering in through one of the windows, Charon saw a little girl, an old man, and a Clefable in the kitchen. They seemed to be fixing a sandwich snack.
That was when he saw the microwave.
"I wonder if you can get into that microwave and fix me a grilled sandwich," he joked dryly to Rotom.
But he hadn't counted on Rotom's thinking that what he'd said was an order.
Rotom sneaked in through the open window and merged into the microwave.
Charon didn't know what Rotom did next, but the microwave exploded.
The rest, they say, is history.