Date: June 7th 1998

Location: Celestic Town

Percy's POV:

I was leaning against the car window. Staring out into the town full of life yet one of the oldest town in the different regions I had learnt. Learnt from where? From the Celestic Town Historical Research Centre - let's just call it a museum for short.

Mom and I went there to meet Cynthia's grandmother who brought her up after Cynthia's parents died in a car crash. I still couldn't believe Cynthia left me like that, I wanted to tell her so many things and celebrate her birthday but she left before I could. But what did I expect? Everyone leaves you sooner or later? By death or by will. They'll disappear into the wind as if they were never there and you have to go on.

Anyway, we went there to meet her grandmother, Professor Carolina, in hopes to learn about the history of Pokémon and have a nice time together. I will say I had an incredible time there, like holy Arceus, the stone tablets and orbs were so cool and shiny. But obviously I had to do something stupid, I swear that carried over from my previous life, and I almost broke various stone tablets and did break one. But it was only one. Okay, it was an important one but anyway, that's what happened there. I really didn't mind going there with my mom since I learned some cool things about Pokémon and interesting things about Cynthia's family but I didn't care much.

She left me and didn't wait for me. A real friend would have waited for me when I became 10. And she fucking did not. One part wanted to hate her and the others missed her so I had settled it by just ignoring her. You see, mom didn't get the problem, nor did Professor Carolina, or Carolina, as she wants me to call her. Cynthia wasn't leaving to venture into only Sinnoh, I found out there are different regions and places across the world, she had explained she was going to other regions. Sinnoh, Johto and Unova are some she wanted to explore and while there, battle the gyms. That's what I wanted to do too (hence the reason for the National Pokédex I was going to give her), but alas, she left.

'Why don't you just find her or her you? Or call her on a Pokénav?' My mom had said to me as an idea. I replied back instantly with the reasons. The regions are huge, there are caves she could be in, mountains she could be on or cities she could be exploring. By the time I check one of these places, she would have moved - it would be literally impossible. And a Pokénav? How was I going to get her number on it without actually battling and meeting her for the exchange of information. See, that's the problem; she didn't think this shit through, and it hurts and annoys me so much.

School finished a few months earlier as most people had already left to become Pokémon trainers; I hated my birthday in August, that was months away and I couldn't wait that long. The weeks went by so slowly. I couldn't find anything to do and I was kind of being a dick to my mom but it's what happens when I'm betrayed like that. I may not have a fatal flaw here but I thought of loyalty as an important trait, you would want family and friends who would go with you tough thick and thin, wait to catch up if one's too slow. Is no one absolutely loyal in this world?

Life just sucked. I pondered some more, my line of thoughts swirling around and expanding. The only thing worse than this slight betrayal was something happening to mom. If anything happened, I would hunt the person who hurt her suffer. Suffer terribly. And that's why I had needed to train, so I could become the strongest.

"How you doing back Percy?" My mom asked, eyes darting to the left at me, in the passenger's seat, nervously for some reason. Oh yeah, I was acting strangely and she didn't like it and already had enough problems.

"Mom, I'm fine, I can tell you're nervous. I know I've been acting like a nuisance and depressed person. And I'm sorry but Cynthia just left, just like that. We were best friends for 5 years. Doesn't that create a bond unbreakable? Like I even spend so time saving for her National Pokédex." I ranted a bit. "It's just-" I stopped myself before I could ramble more. I sighed deeply. "I'll act better, I promise mom. Just can you get me my favourite ice cream, please?" I saw a smile light up her face because I was being my usual self.

"You cheeky boy with your fancy vocabulary. But fine, I'll get your favourite ice cream. You're lucky I'm getting it, I have to go a different way to get there then I have to head back in the opposite direction past the museum again to get home." She emphasised favourite dramatically.

"Thanks mom. You're the best, I love you." Stretching my arms around from being in a car for so long, I relied back happily. I loved ice cream and I tried to convince my mom get me it as much as she could.

"Thanks Percy. It means a lot to me. And I love you too." Eyes now staring ahead at the road where there was a traffic jam. She frowned a bit at the traffic but grinned again. "That's bad. There's too much traffic. We'll probably get to the ice cream parlour in 25 minutes."

I groaned in boredom. "Seriously? Why is there traffic on the road mom? There's hardly ever any traffic in our town, it's great for tourists but there's never been any busy roads. Right mom?" My ADHD mind was overthinking it and working out was going on. Could it be that team Galactic? As if, what would they be doing there? It was probably a car crash or something like that.

She hummed in thought, closing her eyes, the car now still. Horns were beeping wildly outside. I saw some plumes of smoke but dismissed if. "Actually yes son. You're right. In my life of living here, I've never seen busy roads but it's probably just a car crash." She reasoned, thinking hard.

"Well I think it's your fault and so you owe me another extra ice cream for every minute it takes to get there." I childishly explained, crossing my arms smugly.

She then turned to me with a grin on her face. "Now listen here young man. Stop being a cheeky boy and accept this one ice cream." She scolded me, but it was just for fun. One hand was still on the steering wheel, the other pointing at me. She then paused abruptly and looked up. "Actually, you know what? I'll get you two ice creams for promising to be a good boy now."

I fist pumped the air, accident hitting the roof and silently cursing. My mom however laughed in response. That roof hurt a lot. I rubbed my knuckles, and blowing against it, trying to numb the pain as it throbbed in my hand. After a few seconds, I managed to speak out. "Heck yeah! Look at me! The guy who can make people do whatever they want instantly!" I boasted arrogantly.

My mom in response chuckled and threatened jokingly. "Don't make me have to knock down your ego." And that was the beginning of our 20 minute conversation about random things. I was happy and starting to get over the fact that Cynthia left. And I achieved making my mom joyful again, by being my normal self.

But little did I know that it wouldn't last.

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"Mom, how much looonger? We left that queue to the ice cream parlour and, I love this too, but no where just before the historical centre in another queue. Ugh!" I complained childishly as I finished last of my vanilla and blueberry ice cream. I looked out the window at the old museum packed with artefacts, where I broke one, and I saw… fire and plumes of billowing smoke?

"Percy, I know it's busy and I trying to figure… out… what the problem is and I think I found what it is. Can you see that?" My mom was pointing at the side of the museum doors, where there was a pile of bricks and flames snaking around it.

"Yeah, I saw it a minute ago but it's getting worse. I wonder what it is? It's probably an accident…" I assumed but my gut wasn't agreeing with me.

"I don't think so honey. There are some boys and girls in weird black and white jumpsuits with a small 'G' letter in it. They mostly have bluish green hair but there are two girls with purple and red hair and one solid blue haired boy. What is going on?" She questioned herself.

But I knew who they were, they were probably one of the villainous teams across the world. I had learnt of Team Magma and Aqua was in the Hoenn region, north of the Sinnoh region and other evil people. But what were the doing here in Celestic Town in a museum? Unless…

"I know who they are, but not exactly." I perked up which peaked my mom's interest. "They're probably one of those teams that are across the different regions and they have a certain view of how the world should be and try to make it a reality. They're are probably trying to steal an important item from there and those dudes with the different hair are probably the leaders." I informed her with my eyes glued to the scene. Lots of police cars and firefighter trucks were appearing to probably fix and stop what was going on. And it looked cool, no, not the destination (maybe a bit), but the unique Pokémon that were being called forth from the officers. I saw the widely used Machop, some Machokes and one or two Machamps. I saw an owl type bird, which I think is called Hoothoot? Then some evolved versions of them, I guess. Chaos was written all over what was happening.

"And how do you know that? Even I didn't know that?" She questioned suspiciously and when I was about to response, she dropped it with a sigh. "Actually, it doesn't matter. But what does matter is what is going on, they're probably stealing something important if there are so many police officers arriving here and lots of fire there. I just hope everyone's safe."

Now some different Pokémon were entering the scene, a Meditite appeared along with some strange evolution of it. However, most of them had entered the building to battle the team and arrest them. People were exiting their cars to see what was going on but I stayed inside, my door facing the museum. I pulled the window down to get a clearer view and the first thing I heard was the blaring of the sirens. Then an explosion happened.

BOOM!

A pillar collapsed near the front entrance and the officers exited the building for some reason, waving their hands wildly and with their Pokémon. They made a semicircle around the front door 50 metres away from the mess of debris. A few policemen left to a guarded area with a box, with probably the important dominated the whole area with only the sound of flames resonating through the air.

"Ha!" A voice shouted out through the smoke. "You think you can stop us? We are Team Galactic and we shall not be stopped." Then someone appeared from the mess, the guy with the blue hair flanked by the other two female leaders and their group following behind. "We believe in a perfect world. And look at what we've done to our lovely planet. We've destroyed it with pollution and other problems. In this new world, there will be peace and no wars. That is the true image of a perfect world. Where humanity lives alongside Pokémon and in a happy world. Wouldn't you agree?" He laughed maniacally and I couldn't shake off the feeling that he there was a deeper and darker meaning behind his words. He gestured to the people around him. "Look at you. Give us the Timespace Orbs and this ordeal will be over!"

The policeman in his blue outfit and Celestic Town badge, with a baton in his right hand and flashlight on his waist belt pointed his baton at their leader. I guessed he was the police forces highest ranking officer here with the Machamps and all. "No! We won't, we won't allow you to awaken any of the Creation Trio. I think you should put your hands behind your head and get on the ground! Or we will attack and apprehend you!" He yelled at them clearly. His Machamp roared loudly to try and scare them but Team Galactic stood tall.

"You think you can stop us? Let us show you how powerful we truly are!" He arrogantly stated. "Let them out!" And in the next few seconds, many Pokémon were released, ready for a Pokémon battle. I saw Croagunks, Zubats and Houndours appearing, which weed some of them but what stood out was the Toxicroak, Purugly and Skuntank. It was going to a huge Pokémon battle and I knew the Police would win but at what cost? If there is something I had learnt, it's that nothing is free and whatever happens to you gets balanced out. If they win, there will be a sacrifice - I had a powerful gut feeling right then and that's what it was saying. My gut was almost always right and I trusted it before, and I was going to now.

I stared in fascination out the window alongside my worried mom. "Mom, can I go outside? I want to see the battle? Please?" I pulled the puppy dog eyes on her.

She hesitated, trying to resist my pleading face but she relented. "Okay, fine, just don't go near because I don't want you hurt. Okay?" She said to me with a overprotective and caring tone but I could see in her eyes, afraidness.

To reassure her, I leaned across the seat and hugged her. "Mom, I'll be fine. I'm not even going close, it's just this is the first Pokémon battle I'll witness and I want to see it close. I promise I'll be back as long as you are okay." She melted into the hug and nodded her head.

"Go on then but if it becomes dangerous, come back here, okay Percy." She stated with finality to me.

"Yes mom. Now see ya, gotta watch some heated Pokémon action!" I turned away, opened the door and leaped out the car, the door closing in the process. I fist pumped the air in excitement as I sneaked away from the car, about 35 meters away from mom, and stood near a yellow 4 seater car. He looked over at the battlefield and heard various moves being shouted out by the two opposing sides from: poison jab, bite and physic and sucked in the knowledge on the physics of Pokémon fighting worked. Which type of move was which, and which was more effective or less effective against another type and what they did. It was the best and most incredible battle I had seen. It looked fun but I knew that a huge tension weighed on the police officers soldiers, fighting over who held the orb to end the world if wanted - just like me in the Great Prophecy.

I zoned out slightly from the huge fight and looked into space unfocused and reminiscing. I hated the Great Prophecy. I was born and The Fates labelled my life with hardships, problems and bloodshed at the age of 12. I was a pawn of the mythological world and what was even worse was that I was leader. I was who everyone looked up to, the morale of the Olympian Army, the shoulder to cry on and the person who led everyone to battle proudly. I had to wear a stone cold mask hiding my true emotions - guilt eating me from the inside out for the deaths of many and sadness and pain. If I cried, everyone would lose their fighting power and morale when they saw their leader breaking down - someone who shouldn't. No one asked me if I was okay. No one asked me how I felt. Nobody, not even my girlfriend - only my mortal family.

And then, just like that, they flick me out of their world to the Underworld for being a fucking traitor. That was bullshit. I hope they found Hazel and Jason alive and regret killing me only to find my soul missing. They didn't even give a second thought about throwing me away as a used up tool. Obviously, I didn't matter to them and they didn't want my help. They could burn in hell for all I cared except the few gods that were by my side. Shaking my head to clear my hateful thoughts, I looked back at the battle to stop myself getting sidetracked.

But I was too late.

"Golbat, dodge the Dynamic Punch and use Sludge Bomb with extra range to hit the stupid Machoke far away!" A random Team Galactic grunt yelled, smirking in triumph at his finishing move. The Golbat twisted itself and spun upwards and back when the Machoke attempted a Dynamic Punch which sunk into the ground. While its fist was stuck in the concrete, the Golbat shot a Sludge Bomb rapidly towards the Machoke. But the unexpected happened. It punched its right hand, which wasn't actually too deeply embedded in the ground, with its left hand using its high speed and fighting reflexes. In that second, the sludge sailed almost instantaneously through the air towards the Machoke who spiralled its large body out of the way dodging the shot and performed a Cross Chop while the Golbat was frozen in shock and was hit with a lot of strength.

The move, which was called by the Machoke's policeman, successfully knocked out the enemy Golbat from midair onto the hard floor as it fainted. But that's not what people were looking at. I craned my head to the right, finally locating the Sludge Bomb which was flying across the field and over towards a car. Losing its speed, it lowered mid air and struck a car. Not any car. The blue car my mom was in.

I was frozen in shock as the sludge bomb landed on the car and seeped through the metal, the corrosive poison doing its job. I ran towards the car, which turned into a full blown sprint but I was too slow. "Mom! The poisons on you car! Get out mom! Quickly!" A few tears leaked out of my eyes, I didn't want to lose my mom again. I furiously wiped them away and ran faster. She looked around the car after she stopped changing the radio, and saw the purple, sludgy liquid. As quick as she could, she unlocked the door but she had spent too much time in the car with the poison. Outside of the car now, my mum took a step but the poison completed its work and caused the engine to explode. I called forth my fire powers from Hestia to transfer my fireproof ability to her, I was hoping so much to Arceus and Chaos it'd work and make her fireproof, even if it was slightly. "Moooom!" I screamed in sadness when I noticed she was launched tens of metres in the opposite direction of the historical centre. 'Please. Please protect her Arceus, Chaos, anyone out there! Please!' I thought with frustration.

I closed my eyes in annoyance and pure hatred for the Golbats owner and Team Galactic altogether. A willow of smoke and flames swivelled into the sky endlessly and around the car wreckage. The stench of fire invaded my nostrils but I carried on my sprint towards her. I waved my hands about to move the smoke until I remembered I was fireproof and could probably see through the fire and smoke easily. I looked left, right and centre around the carnage but I couldn't spot her anywhere. She must've survived; she wouldn't die like that. On my search, I potted a few Team Galactic escape with their leaders through teleportation or flying but many were caught although I didn't care.

Then I caught the smallest of glimpses of her head in a hospital bed being moved into an ambulance with flashing red lights. I turned towards that direction and was about to take off until a firefighter pulled me to the side. "Hey kid, where do you think you're going? You're too young to be running through fire like that, you don't even have any safety equipment. I don't know how you're not burnt but I want to know why you're running there?" He questioned me like I was a stupid child. Heck, I was a child, yes, but not stupid.

I shrugged his bulky arms, with a red coat and large gloves on it, off and said in exasperation. "That woman that got blown from her car, that's my mom! I need to go with her to the hos…" The ambulance then revved its engine and drove off down the highway. "...pital. Wow, thanks a lot sir, my mom went and I don't even know if she's okay." I sarcastically continued.

"Hang on kid. She is probably okay and survived but first you need to go home to your family. Is your father here?" He asked me, looking around at the destruction of the battle.

"Nope." I replied miserably and worried about my mom. "He left us when I was 4."

"Ah, I'm sorry." He spoke to me with a pitiful glance. "What about uncle or aunt?"

"Never met them."

"Any family? Cousins? Brothers? Sisters? There has to be somebody?" He was asking in bewilderment, confused how someone could have such a small family.

"No sir. I do know someone who would look after me, my moms friend also known as my friends granny. Her name is Professor Carolina and she owns this historical centre." I politely responded, even though that was hard doing because I didn't like complying to orders.

"Professor Carolina's daughter, what was her name? Carly? Cyndia? Oh yeah, Cynthia." He remembered while I awkwardly stood here, not knowing what to do. He placed his hand on my shoulder. "Okay kid, she is probably around here somewhere because I've got a job to do and can't do much, sorry. Just find her, and find her only and then head home. After that, you can do what you want. Alright?"

I nodded my head absentmindedly but my mind was thinking about what happened to my mom and if she was okay. "Okay sir, I'll be going to look for her. Bye." I waved and walked away, hunting for my 'aunt'.

On the way, I found out that Team Galactic was defeated with renewed vigour from the police force for hurting a civilian - which you never should do. They made them flee (all the leaders) but they caught some of the pawns of their organisation. I swore to Arceus, I would get rid of Team Galactic for good when I became a Pokémon trainer, under my breath. They had hurt my only family and I just hoped she was okay.

I then carried on looking for Carolina through the crowds of panicking people while the various forces took control over the situation.

'I hope she's okay.'

[End of Chapter]

A/N: Hey guys! How the hell are you guys doing? Hopefully great but me myself, I've been so bored. Haven't done much other than laze around in my house like a piece of shit. I should do some exercise or some shit.

Anyway, sorry for the late chapter, it's been like 4 days. I was originally going to post one big chapter but decided to split it in two over a week. And so since I shoved that job to midnight, I just didn't have any energy to write at all so I'm doing it now. By the way, I take longer because I just write a long document of paragraphs of this story and I just split it on the way. As they say, go with the flow. And so I do these A/Ns after I technically made the chapter.

I'm bored so I'm going to reply to some of your reviews and I did change just a bit of the first chapter and second, just another dialogue line and some typos.

The Ritzerizer - Thanks man. Appreciate the compliment and gesture. I thought my chapters were a bit slow and got worried but you said they weren't. Enjoyed your review.

StormatronXLIV - Hahaha. Why wouldn't I read your comment? I don't get many reviews but I'm going to respond to the people who enjoy the story. And yep, you're unlucky, how has your school started alfuckingready? Did you get like a huge holiday where you live for starting in August, like damn. And thanks to you too, you are the fucking best, nice review.

And about your PS, LOL. I'll admit we do say bloody, hell and the two together often but it's not super common like 'fucking' but still used a lot from where I am. And yeah, thing about a us British people is that, we use swear words so fucking casually, like literally, and it's pretty much a joke. If I called a friend, a fucking cunt, he would know it's a joke, just how we're brought up unless I said I was serious. We can pretty much make anything a swear, but it would be funny or casual or a way to vent frustration or emotion. But there is a time and place for everything, not like we swear in front of fucking teachers. And no offense taken, if you want to know more shit about this then - Why-do-British-people-swear-so-much - these guys know what they're talking about. I'll try and swear less, just to be more 'professional' but that's so fucki- I mean boring.

zen-aku the spirit of the wolf - Hopefully yeah man. I'd enjoy reading PJO/Pokémon crossover, it'd be pretty fucking enjoyable. Only reason I even remembered Pokémon was because of Pokémon Go, the new trend taking over the fucking world. Literally. I played a lot of it until my 3DS broke and decided to move on to a PS3. I had a fucking level 100 Feraligatr in Soulsilver and he was the shit. I only remember three of its moves I think, which were Thrash, Aqua Tail and Hydro Pump. Not sure about its last one (maybe Crunch or Superpower?) but I put everything I had into this Pokémon and it pretty much was a god.

ultima-owner - I know, which sucks but the truth about reality hurts which is anything can happen and well, Percy just has some pretty shit luck. Maybe he'll get a better life, maybe.

Guest - Whoever you were bro, thanks for the rating. And uh I know I didn't do a 5k chapter a week but I'm going to just go with the 3k chapter every few day instead. It would stay updated regularly and be high in crossover searches.

Silver - Hey, I know I said be honest, and yeah did be truthful which helps me find the flaws in my sorry. But, no offense, are you fucking stupid? I'll explain why after but yeah Percy was always a mama's boy so I don't understand what's wrong. He would always side with her and protect her, and not go against her wishes - what's the difference here than in the series? Not much huh, that's what I thought. Okay, first of all, she isn't coming back to congratulate him because it would be a waste of time and she wants to be the best. Percy's chances of ever seeing Cynthia again are like 1 in a trillion, they'll always be moving between different towns and cities, heck even regions. And they can't talk through Pokénav without actually meeting each other and registering the number or whatever. Just wanted to say that.

And yes, he will probably go back to his universe after his Pokémon adventure because how is he going to get there now anyway, and I don't know if you realised, Chaos doesn't control this universe so his Chaos oath doesn't even work. He doesn't have to go back.

Matt - He already did bro. Did you even read the text or just skip to the speech? To be fair, I do that so I guess it's not your fault but at least read the chapter properly, then review that, would be great.

The Roman - Don't know what to say. Glad you enjoyed the story idea, it should get more interesting in the chapters after the next few and thanks.

Well yeah. I ramble too much, like what the fuck. And don't take any offense if swore in reviews, it's just to put the point across bluntly and put more emphasis, and partially because it's funny.

This was a 4K chapter and I already of most of the next chapter done which will definitely be posted on August 17, I'll post it on the 16th if I get 10 different reviews but I doubt it will happen. I can hope.

Thanks for the support and reviews about what's wrong. Review, ple- (ha, fuck you, I'm going to plead? I think not), and give feedback, anyone who reads this story, I don't mind what you ask or say, but it would make my day.

Peace out.