Edit: Hey guys, sorry for the long wait, you wouldn't believe what I've been through with internet issues. As a make up for that however, I have a great weekend in store for you. Triple update! So each day this weekend (starting with tonight) I'll be uploading the new chapter I had pretyped for this story during my down time. I wanted to do more than three chapters, but at the same time I wanted to give my other stories equal attention as well, so some sacrifices had to be made. Nevertheless, I hope you guys enjoy and will review each chapter :^D
Alright, I'm done with exams and winter break is under way. Let's see how many updates I manage before it's over, shall we?
Pokemon: The Distorted Trinity
Season 1: Re-Education
The First Day
"Maybe I was wrong about this place."
As the three exited the auditorium along with the rest of the student body Ken seemed to be more excited than usual. A grin managed to stretch across his face nearly ear to ear as he went on and on about something to Lila and Wyatt. "The breeder program at this place is so great. I can't wait to get my dorm and finally start classes."
The other two smiled and sweat dropped at his sudden change in personality. Lila looked to her side where a few other students were motioning for her to join them. They all seemed to be a bit older and were all wearing blue coats with a wave of water on the backs. "It was fun talking to you two, but I have to go."
Wyatt waved goodbye to her. "Guess we'll see you in the dorms or class or something?" She shook her head while passing through the crowd of people and across the hallway. "Hmm, why did she say no?"
Ken seemed to have an answer for this however. "If she's hanging out with them then I guess she's a coordinator." Wyatt's face went blank and he opened his mouth to say something, but Ken stopped him. "You only paid attention to when they talked about the trainer related things. Alright, there are three different types of students at this school. The Entei Reds, who are trainers and where red coats with flames on the back. Next are the Raikou Yellows who have lightning on the back of theirs and are the breeders and caretakers. Last is Suicune blue. They're coordinators and have the waves of water on their coat."
Once done with his explanation he looked to his new 'rival' once again who only stared at him blankly just like before. "Urge to facepalm…rising…" Deciding that this was going nowhere, Ken just continued moving towards the tables and got in line. From here he would be getting his schedule, dorm room, and class coat. Wyatt had disappeared, probably getting in another line due to the length of this one.
It may have taken him a while to finally get to the front, but once he got there Ken couldn't have been any happier. He looked to the woman behind the counter who smiled and handed him a sheet of paper with his schedule, a school map, an ID, a key, and finally…a red jacket!
His previous grin immediately sank as he looked at what was sitting in front of him: an Entei Red coat. Now that he thought about it, his ID was red with flames as well and even the key had a little fireball on it. The woman looked to his face and could tell something was wrong.
"I don't meant to cause any problems, but I think there's a mistake here. I signed up for the Yellow dorm, not this one." She nodded and turned to a computer screen and turned it his way. "This is you, correct?"
The screen had a picture of him as well as info on his current pokemon and under dorm was Entei Red. "What, this can't be. When I filled in the applications before Orientation I know for a fact I checked the box for Raikou Yellow."
The woman shook her head. "That's not what the database says. I'm sorry young man."
"Well, can't you just change the information and put me in Yellow. You don't understand, battling is nowhere close to what I want to do." She began to type at the keyboard for a while, but soon came to a stop. "Sorry, the database says that the Yellow dorm is currently full. Hm, that's odd, first time that's ever happened. Anyway, the best you can do is just go on in the Red dorms and hope you can switch next semester or even next school year."
The boy hung his head and accepted his fate. Grabbing his things he began to walk in the direction of the dorms. "Why is it always me…" He muttered.
The actual dorm room for each class was outside the main school building. In the northern area were the Suicune dorms with Raikou and Entei being to the northwest and northeast respectively. Upon unlocking the door to his own room Ken found it to b, how should he put it, "This room is crap-tastic."
It was a small room with a bunk bed off to the right, a small tv, and two doors. One door led to a closet and the other was the bathroom. There also was a ceiling fan that Ken figured would fall on him the moment he stepped under it. He wasn't sure if it was his bad luck or just the fact the thing was barely clinging on to the ceiling, but he wouldn't be taking any chances on that.
"Guess I'm the first on here. Wonder who my room mate is." He began to set his things on the bed and sat down to finally take a rest. It had been a long day and tomorrow would be the start of classes. A moment later he could hear the toilet flushing and someone calling from inside.
His body shaking uncontrollably, the pokemon caretaker clutched the pillow at his side. "That voice…there's no way. Please, please no…" The door knob slowly turned allowing the door to swing open and reveal a rather tall and lanky boy in wearing a red coat and smiling. Ken exhaled out of relief. "Oh, good, guess you must be room mate. Your voice just sounds a lot like someone else I know."
The guy rubbed the back of his head and walked to the door. "Sorry, just the toilet in my room next door is flooding for some reason. Your room mate let me use this one. In fact, her he is now." As he opened the door Ken's nightmares had somehow warped into a reality as Wyatt stepped through the door and put his things to the side.
"Guess we'll be room mates and rivals, Kid." The brown haired boy turned to the wall behind him and banged his head on it once. This seemed to be more than enough to make a small hole in the wall which was followed by a roach crawling out and climbing up to the ceiling.
After the hole had finally been patched up the two were sitting in the room and watching tv. Wyatt had claimed the top bunk of the bed and Ken just decided to let it slide in fear of causing some sort of permanent brain damage to himself. The same had pretty much happened when it came to choosing what to watch. Wyatt was enjoying a rerun of the Sinnoh League battles that had occurred earlier this year while Ken was reading a book on pokemon of other regions.
By this point a few hours had passed and it was around six. A knock came at the door as the students were getting their dinner deliveries from the cafeteria. A woman at the door pushing a cart along with a small group of pokemon including a Breloom, Poliwhirl, and Clefable delivered their food.
The two teens managed to eat their food without problem, it wasn't until pokemon were released that conflict started. Cranidos and Chimchar were going at it and Buizel seemed to be ignoring them to eat his own food until their battle sent the entirety of hi meal to the floor.
"Cranidos, calm down. Now's not the time for fighting!"
"That's right Chimchar, show that dino who's boss. Send him back to the…stone age! Get it? Cause Cranidos is a rock type and a dinosaur."
Ken hit Wyatt in the back of the head. "Don't egg on the fight! And that joke wasn't funny!" It took the two a while, but the pokemon were finally contained and things were back to normal.
As Ken dug into his food he had to ask Wyatt a question. "So, you were paying attention to the info on the red dorms during Orientation. Mind telling me how things work?" The black haired boy smiled mischievously.
"Pretty hypocritical how you get on me for not paying attention to the other dorm info when you did the same yourself." Ken formed and tried to make a comeback, but knew the boy was right. "Whatever, just tell me about it."
"Alright, like with the other dorms there are different years for the students. They're one through four and each year has a different requirement for graduation to the next year. Ours is to collect the eight badges on this island."
Ken raised an eyebrow. "They have approved gyms here for this island only?"
"Not really. It's just for the first years. This island is actually an archipelago, a series of different islands. Eight of those islands have different gym leaders for us to battle and if you have all eight at the end of year you pass and battle in the Finals Tournament. In that tournament you battle against even students from other years and get to know your rank in the Red Dorms. Of course, I'm going to be the number one!"
The pokemon caretaker nodded and took in all the information. "So what are the requirements for those who are in higher classes?"
"Pretty much the same except you take two trips into the region you're attempting to get badges from. One in the middle of this first semester and the next in the middle of next semester. You can also go there to get your badges during holiday breaks. Both trips are about a month long. Some people who want to get ahead though get their badges during the summer. That's why you'll often see people from any class here through out the year."
The next morning the two boys were sitting side by side in the first class of the day. This was their homeroom class and the teacher was a woman by the name of, Mrs. Elise. Ken figured she sounded like a sweet lady, but he couldn't have ended up being more wrong.
"You all are here because you're weak and need power. That's my job, I'm her to turn you children into mean lean battling machines! So let's start the day as I usually do. Everyone on the ground, I want to see fifty pushups!" Everyone was on the ground and began their exercises. Well, everyone but one student.
"I don't see why we should be working out. Trainers don't battle; shouldn't we be making our pokemon stronger?" A large boulder suddenly flew in the boy's direction and hit him in the head, sending him to the floor and in the pushup position. It was a Geodude.
"Wrong! And for that wrong answer you get to do your fifty pushups with one of my Geodude on your back. Sure, when it comes to competitions the pokemon are the ones who actually step out on the field and duke it out, but a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. If the trainer has a weak will then all he's doing is endangering his pokemon by sending out on the field."
Wyatt groaned as he continued his pushups. "I feel bad for whoever is married to that. She's a monster!"
At the end of class she had instructed everyone in the class to partner up with someone. Seeing as they didn't know anyone else in the class Ken and Wyatt had decided to stick together this once. After every group's names had been recorded she stepped back in front of the class and smiled. Now, don't get too close to the person next to you because this Friday you will be facing off against them in your evaluation battle four days from now, Friday. This is to help me as well as the other teachers for the first year Red students to evaluate your skills and plan curriculum for the year. The battles will be three vs three, so if you don't have that many pokemon you have a week to work on it and train." Just then the bell rang to dismiss class. "Good luck."
Wyatt and Ken looked at each other and the black haired boy suddenly jumped away. "That's why you choose me, huh? You knew this would happen and decided to face an opponent you knew. Nice try, Kid, but I won't let that happen! I'll catch two new pokemon that will completely blow you out of the water this week!"
Before the caretaker could say a word his rival was out of sight and heading towards the door. He sweat dropped and leaned against the wall. "We're even room mates now and he still can't call me by my name."
After homeroom Ken entered the cafeteria and hesitantly took a seat near two familiar faces: the odd duo of Charlie and Marty. Charlie smiled upon his arrival, "Haha, this guy. What bring you here?"
Marty looked up from his meal for a moment and replied sarcastically as usual, "I'd assume to eat." Charlie only laughed and waited for a response from the freshman.
"You guys seemed like you've been here before. So how exactly does someone go about catching new pokemon?" The two looked at each other and Marty started to speak, but immediately got cut off by Charlie.
"Well, there are different time frames you can go out depending on the day of the week. You can stay here on the main island, but can also sign up for boat trips to some of the other islands. There are different types of pokemon depending on where you go so choose wisely. If you're trying to prepare for the Evaluation battle and want to visit another island though I'd suggest you hurry. The list fills up pretty quick. I barely got a spot my freshman year."
"Well, thank you, see you around some time." He got up from his seat and left the table.
-Ken's first major battle is coming up soon. With only four days to prepare who will be his first new addition to the team?-
Alright, hope you guys enjoyed. Next chapter I'll be introducing some new fan submitted characters as well as a bit of the main plot. Stick around~
I'd also like to ask you guys a question. Would you rather have me call the Isshu Region it's Japanese name or the newly revealed English name, Unova?