Felix's Prologue
Underage Assignment
"Yes. Eight years old. That's right. Mmm hmm… Let me check…"
Felix Rentrut sat at the kitchen table beside his mom. Every year, he asked to become a trainer. Every year, he got turned down. Why would this year be any different?
"Yes… I think I have it here…" his mom continued. She dove into her purse.
His aunt, Sabrina, the leader of the Saffron Gym, had taught him basic psychic powers. He was currently amusing himself by spinning a marble around the table in a sort of trance. Then his mom came out of her purse and opened her wallet. She took a blank trainer card out.
"Yes. No. No ID number yet. EXCUSE ME!" Felix rolled his eyes. He saw this coming.
Spoink, the family housepet, hopped on Felix's knee and smiled. "Up for a round of Psyball?" Felix asked the psychic pokemon. Its eyes became small slits signifying that it was happy. Then it nodded.
Psyball was a game Felix invented with Spoink. You have to take an empty room, and it was dodgeball. You couldn't touch the ball. The rules were basically the same. The room is split in two and you can't cross the line with a body part. Then, each person takes a ball with their mind and tries to hit the other person. If you touch a ball in any way other than telepathically, you lose a life. You have three.
They were down to 2 each when Felix's mom called him. They ran into the kitchen. Felix's mom was off the phone now.
"Felix! Great news! Turns out they have a shortage of youngsters in Kanto, Hoenn and Johto! In other words… you're in!" Felix did not know what to say. His mouth fell to the floor.
"I'm what?"
"You're in! Felix! You're in!" She squealed. "But you need a starter… I've arranged for your father and you to drive to Pallet."
"But that'll take DAYS!"
"Take it or leave it, Felix."
"Yes, ma." Felix said sulking.
"Spoink! Poink!" The small pig was jumping around. Using telepathy, it lifted a pen and began writing in broken English on a piece of paper on the floor."
"Wat abut mi"? Felix shrugged and stared at the writing. Spoink had learnt a good bit of English, but Felix still couldn't make this out. Then his eyes grew wide. "What about me! Yes! Mom, I can take Spoink!"
"Of course… dear." Felix's mom's eyes began tearing. Now, she didn't look excited – she only looked sad. "I'll miss you, my little trainer. Be sure to visit." Her eyes were really tearing now as she leaned over and picked Felix up in a happy embrace and kissed him on the forehead.
"C'mon Spoink! Bye mom!"
Felix's mom looked more proud than anything else now. "Bye… Felix."
"He's what!"
"I told you Sabrina – he's an official trainer."
Sabrina sat in a recliner at Saffron gym. Not many trainers had come along for a while. Her phone was on loudspeaker.
"Are we talking about the same Felix?"
"The one and only."
"Oh, god Michelle, now, you know what this means… I'm the aunt of a trainer!"
"Yep, and he's out in the wild now."
"Without a pokemon!"
"No… he's got Spoink."
"Ah okay. Nice talking to you Michelle. Bye!" Sabrina used her psychic powers to end the transmission. "Felix… whoa." She took out a pokeball from a drawer, and held it up to the sun. It had a pokemon in it. She scribbled a note on it and, using her powers, maneuvered it out the window and on it's way to Felix.
"I got my boulder badge! I got my boulder badge!" Felix sung happily. It was sunset in Cerulean, the next town. He checked into a motel, and got to sleep.
A pokeball flew into the room via an open window. It was surrounded by a purple aura. It smashed into Felix, waking him up. The purple aura fainted, and it landed in Felix's hands. He removed the yellow sticky note on it and read it.
"Felix—
You've grown! You're a trainer now… I can't believe it. Maybe this small token of appreciation will show you how great I think you are. I can't wait for our match together. Bye!
-- Aunt Sabrina"
Felix opened the pokeball. An Abra appeared. "Awesome!" Felix whispered. Then, a clicking sound and the lights went out. "Abra… use flash." The room lit up and a dark silhouette appeared a mere few yards from Felix, on the other side of the room. It had dark pincers on each hand, like scissors, and a humanlike build, and took a step towards Felix.
"Aboora!" cried Felix's new pokemon. It blasted a ray of light at the creature that vanished instantly.
"What the heck was that thing!" Felix cried.
He flicked through a pokedex he received when he was yound in search of footprints to match those on the floor. He finally came to it -- Number 212 – Scizor.
"This pokemon overheats very quickly inside the steel shell on it's body. It flaps it's wings 2 times the outdoor temperature per second to keep cool.
(AE: 90o outdoors it will flap its wings 180 times per second.)"
"The Dex doesn't classify Scizor as your every-day wild pokemon though… I wonder how it got here." Felix decided to get rest, so he climbed into bed.
"I got the cascade badge! Lalalalala!" Felix danced in joy holding upa badge that looked like a drop of water, he danced in pure joy. He ran in circles singing his pathetic song when he tripped over a rock. "What…. is that?" The rock had the imprint of a hand ENGRAVED on it, and it seemed to move at some times. Felix picked it up and put it in his bag.
Once he reached Vermillion city, his pokemon were exausthed, so he checked into the pokemon center, and turned on the news in the lounge while his pokemon were getting healed.
"In other news, the investigation on the Gyarados incident in Mossdeep is still undergoing. People have not reported other strange incidents revolving around pokemon as of yet. If you do- Call the police immediately. Now to local news where a young boy sued the flower shop for selling him a bouquet that was filled with 2 Beedrill."
Felix reached for the phone. He picked it up, but there was no tone. "I'm sorry dear, but the phone's not been workin for a while now… The repairman should come in the morning." said Nurse Joy.
Felix was finally back in Saffron, ready to challenge Sabrina. He would finally battle his aunt! How he waited for this forever. He looked at his recently aqquired thunder badge. He smiled. "These leaders are really lame. I can't wait to chllenge my aunt. She's where the challenge is at." He entered the gym, and, surprisingly, Sabrina was waiting. No gym trainers. Just Sabrina.
"I knew you were coming." She said monotonously. "Let's begin." She sent out an Alakazam.
"Go! Ab-" he couldn't finish the sentence, because he felt something move in his bag. He leaned over… and saw the rock, obviously an egg, had hatched! It hatched into an Aipom.
"Um… Go, Aipom? Use Double Slap!"
"Kazam!" The pokemon stopped Aipom in it's tracks. Aipom's eyes glew green, and it hand gained an aura. It used its mind to pick up a stone in a corner of the gym and slammed it at Alakazam, who stopped it midway and crushed Aipom with it. KO
"Listen, Felix, if you wanna beat me, learn your type advantages! A half-psychic Aipom won't beat an Alakazam. Go find a dark type or something." Felix left the gym sulking.
"Next stop on the magnet train schedule-Blackthorn city. Please enjoy the ride." came the automated voice of the magnet train. Felix was going to Blackthorn because apparently, there was an overpopulation of Murkrow there. The perfect pokemon, a dark type. He looked at some ads. One was advertising the new Airport in Cerulean, making the city way more crowded.
The train skidded to a halt. Kazo stepped out, and took a look around. All the houses looked the same, black roofs, and lit windows. It was nighttime in Johto, although he only left twenty minutes ago on the train. There's some extreme speeds at work there. He looked around. He hadn't really caught a pokemon yet, so he was really looking forward to this. Then, he heard a loud cawing noise. He turned around swiftly and saw a Murkrow perched on a fence. "Aipom! Go! Use doubleslap!" The monkey used it's large hand to slam into Murkrow… once… then twice.
"KROWW!" It howled. It blasted a shadow ball at Aipom. Aipom's eyes began glowing and the aura around it's tail returned. It hit the shadow ball with it's tail as one usually does with a baseball bat. The attack went pivoting back at the Murkrow, who fell on the lawn, still. Felix pulled a pokeball from his bag and threw it at the Murkrow. After a few shakes, the pokemon was caught. Felix punched the air in triumph. He picked up the pokeball and ran back to the train station.
Felix sat back in the train. He rested his head against the back of the seat as instructed, so the speed doesn't snap your neck. Once the train was under way, a girl with brown hair approached him. She introduced herself as Selena, and the two quickly became friends.
Felix parted with Selena in Saffron. They exchanged pokegear numbers, to stay in touch.
Felix walked up to the Saffron gym, after the pokemon center. His Murkrow was healed up and ready for battle.
The doors opened on their own. Sabrina was sitting in an armchair filing her nails when Felix walked in. She raised and eyebrow, and stood up. She snapped two fingers and both the armchair and the nail file vanished.
"You're back, Felix. I knew it. Ready to rumble?" she said, grinning.
"You can bet your life on it!" Felix said. "One on one. Go! Murkrow!" Felix threw a pokeball through the air, and, upon hitting the ground, revealed the dark type pokemon he had recently caught.
"Go! Alakazam!" Howled Sabrina. A humanshape pokemon appeared out of nowhere. "Use Psybeam!"
A blast of vividly colored circles were shot directly at the crow. Although they made contact, Murkrow didn't even flinch.
"Heh heh… Murkrow! Faint attack!" The bird's eyes narrowed into slits and it spontaneously vanished.
The room was still. Suddenly, Murkrow reappeared in the sky behind Alakazam, and dove in for the killer. Alakazam turned around, but simply stared at Murkrow like a deer in headlights. Murkrow rammed into it, and shot it backwards. Alakazam got up, and growled.
"Use Double Team!" Alakazam let out a victorious cry and split into several other forms. All the Alakazam were staring at Murkrow.
"Playing at the defensive, eh, Auntie?" Felix said, partly annoying Sabrina. "Night Shade!" Suddenly, Murkrow blasted a ray of darkness at an Alakazam. It was hit… and vanished. Murkrow blasted all of them until three were left.
"Dynamicpuch!" Sabrina ordered. All three Alakazam's fists began growing a white aura, and, in single file, they began ramming into Murkrow.
Murkrow backed up against a wall. Its eyes narrowed once more. Once the first Alakazam was about to ram into Murkrow, it flew up in the air and Alakazam went into the wall. But, literally. The first two simply flew into the wall! However, the third one was much more unlucky. The original slammed into the wall and, if not shaken enough byy the slam, got blasted by Murkrow with a Night Shade attack. Alakazam mumbled something, and fell to the floor in a cloud of dust.
"How… But…" Sabrina smiled. "Felix, you're a great trainer and highly deserving of the Marsh badge. Now, you have bigger things to accomplish. Stay in touch!" Sabrina smiled, and the next thing Felix knew, he was outside the gym holding a Marsh badge in his hand.
(Many days later…)
Felix walked towards the towering Indigo Plateau. He showed off all his badges as he neared the Kanto pokemon league. This could make or break a reputation. Whatever awaited him, he was ready for it. With big steps (as big as possible, considering his size) he opened the doors, only to be greeted by a Cooltrainer behind the reception desk holding a large ruler.
"Hey kiddie! Are you here to challenge the pokemon league?" Felix nodded. The cooltrainer stepped out from behind the desk and pressed the ruler to Felix's side. It towered at least a foot above him."Hmm… Sorry, kiddie, looks like you're to short. Wanna lollipop?" asked the Cooltrainer.
Felix, thouroughly infuriated, screamed: "LOLLIPOP MY SPOINK!" Felix used psychic powers to snap the lollipop in half, and then snap the ruler in half. The cooltrainer stared, awed, and stepped back. Felix ran out the doors.
"Pretty miffed, eh?" Felix jumped and turned around. He saw Sabrina behind him, grinning. "I thought so." Felix frowned. "What's that supposed to mean!"
"Felix, I'm psychic, remember? How do you know Kanto is the place for you? One of my girlfriends, Phoebe, says Hoenn's got great new pokemon. Not to mention… The Hoenn league has no size limit."
Felix promptly teleported home (with Abra's help) and began packing.
"Are you sure the magnet train goes all the way to Hoenn?" Selena asked. Felix had called her to invite her to Hoenn, because it's always more fun to be with a friend. She agreed to come, because frankly, she was getting bored of Kanto too. They were in the Saffron magnet train station, and Felix was checking the routes. He finally turned to Selena.
"If we take the Squirtle line to Azalea, we can hitch the Cascoon line to Mt.Mortar and find the nifty hotel…
… then the Sunkern line will take us to the blue joints that separate in different ways, then we take the cruise ship to Lilycove, Hoenn." Felix finished, twenty-five minutes later.
"This'll take how long?..." Selena asked.
"Three weeks. A month, tops." Felix said. Selena just stared, shaking her head. Then, Felix felt something in his pocket.
"Of course! The Cerulean airport! The price'll average out to the same thing anyways! Come on!" Felix ran outside and hitched a taxi. Selena climbed in, and they were on their way to Cerulean.
"Thank you for flying air Hoenn. Our Destination; Rustboro Airport. Estimated time until arrival, Ten hours, Fourteen minutes, and nineteen seconds. Eighteen, Seventeen, Sixteen…"
Selena and Felix adjusted themselves in their seats. A chapter of their life was beginning to close, and it would be the beginning of a marvelous adventure. As the plane reared off the runway and into the sky, Felix looked out the window, wondering what awaited him, and fell asleep.
