Bruce Banner, wearing a blue prisoner jumpsuit, is fearfully running away from something while on a hovering rocky path, surrounded by a black/dark blue distorted sky. He pants heavily. He looks back to see…

BRUCE BANNER'S P.O.V: …an Onix slithering towards him and roaring.

Bruce, now more frightened, runs faster. He keeps running for a few moments, while gaining some distance between himself and the Rock Snake Pokémon. He then hits the brakes when he gets to the end the path. He apprehensively looks down at the edge of the path to see…

BRUCE BANNER'S P.O.V: …a rapidly swirling black and purple vortex a dozen feet down.

He looks back to see Onix rapidly approaching while at the same time, he hears buzzing. He turns to look straight…

BRUCE BANNER'S P.O.V: …and sees nothing but the weird looking sky… until a swarm of Beedril appear out of nowhere.

Bruce stands back, scared out of his wits. He is now cornered between two different Pokémon species that are not only blocking him, but want to attack him. The only way he can escape is through the portal, but it's being blocked by the swarm. Now Bruce is faced with an ultimatum: get attacked or brave it to reach the portal. Banner starts to hesitate, but puts on a brave face as he then closes his eyes and charges through the swarm. He jumps from the edge and drives into the portal, feet first, with Onix and the Beedril swarm right on his tail. Bruce holds his nose and his breath as he enters the portal.

Back in the room, Bruce's eyes pop wide open, he quickly sits up on the bed, and yells. He pants and sweats. He closes his eyes, puts his hand on his sweat-soaked forehead, and exhales to calm himself down. "Just a dream." He says to himself. "Just… a dream."

The door opens. Lucas and Brendan enter the room holding shopping bags.

Lucas: (to Banner, cheerfully) "Good morning!"

The trainers place the bags on the bed near Bruce.

Bruce Banner: (yawns) "Good morning." (He rubs his eyes) "What time is it? How long was I asleep?"

Brendan: "You've been asleep for 11 whole hours. You must've been really tired."

Bruce turns to his right and sees a digital clock on a nightstand near a lamp. He turns the clock to face his direction (It says 8:39 A.M.). He opens the drawer to get his glasses; he puts them on after he closes the drawer.

Lucas: "How do you feel?"

Bruce Banner: "Well, I, uh… I feel great – as great as I'll ever feel."

Lucas and Brendan exchange looks then stare back at Bruce.

Bruce Banner: "So where did you two go?"

Lucas: "While you were sleeping, we woke up early and did some shopping."

Brendan: "To get you some new clothes. We did know what size you were, but given that you're much bigger than Lucas and me…"

Lucas hands Bruce a bluish-gray, long sleeved buttoned down shirt; Bruce smiles at this grateful and helpful gesture. Brendan flings a pair of large, purple sweatpants at Banner as well; He holds them up and looks at them perplexedly.

Bruce Banner: "These are a little big for me, aren't they?"

Brendan: "Duh – that's the point! XXL, with an elastic strap! They are flexible, waterproof, tear-resistant, and very comfortable. Even a Nidoking can fit in these."

Bruce Banner: (Slowly, confused, failing to comprehend) "A… Nidoking?"

Brendan: "Yeah." (Chuckles) "You act as if you've never heard of one before."

The trainers start to chuckle amongst themselves. Bruce gives them a puzzled look. Lucas slowly stops laughing and gets Brendan to as well when he finds out that Banner wasn't joking.

Brendan: "So you don't know what a Nidoking is?"

Bruce Banner: "No."

Brendan: "What about a Carvanha?"

Bruce Banner: "No. Wait, were you guys trying to say 'cabana'?"

Lucas: "A Girafarig?"

Bruce Banner: "Girafa-what?"

Brendan: (groans) "What about a Geodude?"

Bruce contemplates for a second and remembers the Pokémon say that name back at the mountains; he nods.

Brendan: "Alright then. What about a Charmeleon?"

Bruce Banner: "Uh, don't you mean a 'chameleon'?"

Lucas: "An Aerodactyl?"

Bruce Banner: "You mean a pterodactyl?"

Brendan: "A Sneasel?"

Bruce Banner: "A weasel."

Lucas: "A Pineco?"

Bruce Banner: "A pinecone."

Brendan: "A Forretress?"

Bruce Banner: "If you were trying to say 'fortress', then yes, I've heard of that."

Lucas: "A Kakuna?"

Bruce Banner: "Its pronounced cocoon. 'Kuh-koon'."

Brendan: "An Exeggutor?"

Bruce Banner: "That's executor."

Lucas: "A Gastly?"

Bruce Banner: "A ghastly what?"

Brendan: "A Lombre?"

Bruce Banner: "That's pronounced hombre. Hombre – with an 'h'. A silent 'h'."

Lucas: "A Seel? A Dewgong?"

Bruce Banner: "Yes, I've heard of those."

Brendan: "What about a Lanturn? A Horsea?"

Bruce Banner: "Mmhmm."

Lucas: "A Persian? A Starly?"

Bruce Banner: "Yes, I know what a Persian is – and don't you guys mean a 'starling'?"

Brendan: "Farfetch'd? Krabby?"

Bruce Banner: "What you're telling me is farfetched. And Crabby? I'm not crabby, just edgy."

Lucas: "A Slowpoke? Gloom?"

Bruce Banner: "I'm feeling a little bit of that—well, the latter part preferably."

Brendan: "Jynx? Pinsir?"

Lucas: "Drowzee?"

Brendan: "Hypno?"

Lucas: "Aipom?"

Brendan: "Combusken?"

Lucas: "Stantler?"

Brendan: "Hitmontop?"

Bruce Banner: "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down."

Bruce is starting to get overwhelmed with the bombarding Pokémon names.

Lucas: "Igglybuff? Jigglypuff? Wigglytuff?"

Brendan: "Silcoon? Cascoon?"

Lucas: "Natu? Xatu?"

Brendan: "Tentacool? Tentacruel?"

Lucas: "Koffing? Weezing?"

Lucas/Brendan: "A Lugia?"

Bruce Banner: (repulsed) "Wait… A what?"

The trainers look at one another bewilderedly.

Brendan: "Hmm." (looks at Bruce Banner) "You've never even heard of a Cubone?"

Bruce Banner: "I've heard of a cue ball… and a Q-tip, but not a Cubone."

Lucas: "You don't even know what a Pokémon is… do you?"

Bruce Banner: (confused) "A 'Pokémon'? What's a… Pokémon?"

Lucas: "You're not from around here, are you?"

Bruce hangs his head down and says almost like he's in despair, "No. I'm not."

"Looks like we have a lot to talk about." Says Brendan.

A little while later, Lucas and Brendan are outside the door of the hotel where they stayed waiting for Banner. He comes out wearing the buttoned down shirt, brown pants, and brown shoes. They walk down the sidewalk; Banner still looking solemn. He looks at his surroundings to see various construction workers and their Pokémon cleaning up the mess and repairing the damage that he caused. They briefly stop to glare at him as he passes them by, then continue their work.

Lucas: "So, Mr. Banner, tell us a little bit about yourself."

Brendan: "And please… be honest."

Bruce Banner: "Alright. Let's see. Well, my full name is Robert Bruce Banner; I like going by my middle name because I hate my first."

Brendan: "Funny—you actually look like a 'Robert'."

Bruce glares at Brendan.

Brendan: "Uh. (chuckles sheepishly) continue."

Bruce Banner: "I never had a good childhood; my family was very dysfunctional. My father – and please take this as an understatement – treated me like crap: he bulled me, abused me, yelled, threatened, hit, and called me names."

Lucas: (sympathetically) "Oh man. We're so sorry, Mr. Banner."

Brendan: "No wonder you're so screwed up."

Lucas angrily slaps him on the back of his head for that insensitive remark.

Brendan: (rubbing the back of his head, annoyed) "Ow!"

Bruce Banner: "Anyway, it got so bad, that my mom tried to leave dad. When he found out (Bruce closes his eyes as if in shame), he killed her."

Brendan and Lucas gain shocked expressions after hearing the part of the story. They exchange glances after hearing that happening.

Bruce Banner: "After that happened and my dad got carried off to the crazy house, I stayed with my aunt until I was 18. Then, I graduated from college with a PHD in Nuclear Physics."

Brendan: "'Nuclear'?"

Bruce Banner: "Yes. Like radiation."

Lucas/Brendan: (alarmed) "'Radiation?!'"

Lucas: (apprehensive) "Uh, isn't that dangerous?"

Bruce Banner: "Don't worry – I kept my distance from it and I knew the safety precautions. Truth is, I was actually glad I got a job where I knew about this stuff."

Lucas: "What do you mean?"

Bruce Banner: "Well, when I was a teenager, I've always wanted to create my very own atomic bomb."

Brendan/Lucas: (apprehensive) "Oh boy."

Bruce Banner: "I tried to make one in the school's basement, but I got expelled because of that. After I got my degree, the military hired me. It was an uneasy compromise: they needed someone to build a bomb and I needed money. I didn't know the consequences of my actions… until that one day."

All three walk past the Pokémon Center; Bruce stops at the front door and watches from the window. He gets downcast as he sees various Pokémon that he (as the Hulk) battled before, including a Pupitar, laying on the floor beside a wall, wrapped in bandages. Their trainers are in there with them, tending to their injuries. Nurse joy is hectically running back and forth, carrying medical supplies. Back outside, Lucas places his hand on Banner's shoulder and nods to him to continue walking, not before he takes one last look at the Center.

Lucas persuades Bruce to continue the story. He says to him, "I remember that you stopped at 'until that one day.' What was that one day? What happened on that one day?"

"That one day." Said Bruce Banner "Was the day my life changed forever."

"Well. Go ahead." Said Brendan.

Bruce Banner: "I was testing a newly created bomb the military built that I designed. We were going to do it in the desert where no one was around. Me, the soldiers, and the other scientists where in a large bomb shelter so that we wouldn't be exposed to radiation from the fallout. After the bomb launched, I saw a young man – slightly older than you two – cycling through the desert testing site. Since I knew the missile already launched, I had to get him out of there as fast as I could before it reached the ground and detonated. I got out of the shelter to take the kid out of there. It was too late; the bomb went off. We both had to move fast to get to the shelter. I saved the kid, but I couldn't save myself. I was exposed to a massive amount of gamma radiation in the explosion."

Brendan/Lucas: (shocked gasps) "Whoa!"

Bruce Banner: "I know, but the strangest part was that I didn't shrivel up, burn, and die."

Lucas: "If this is radiation were talking about, then that amount of exposure should have killed you."

Bruce Banner: "I know, but it didn't. I actually thought I was lucky—lucky to be alive… until I transformed for the first time. And that was the start of my never-ending, everlasting war with the world."

Brendan: "Geez man. Dude, that is rough."

Bruce Banner: "More like devastating. Turning into the Hulk has ruined my life in more ways than one: I lost my job, my diploma, my credibility, my home, and my respect. I have to wonder through every town so I can have a place to stay, but that usually doesn't happen for very long because my name comes up on the news and the paper and I get kicked out immediately. I'm forced to sleep on the street or the alley and then I move on to the next town where it happens all over again; if not, I'll be in the forest and sleep next to a tree. But, every once in a while, there is something or someone that will make me angry and when I get angry… (Sigh) well, you just witnessed what happened to the town. For over 10 years, I've been a fugitive; on the run from the military who want to either kill me or use me as a weapon of mass destruction. For over 10 years, I've tried to cure my condition, but I don't have enough time before the militia find me and I don't have access to any equipment. Every day of my life since then has been a constant struggle. Being the Hulk has taken away everything I had…"

Bruce stops again and turns to his right to see a young happy couple, sitting on a picnic blanket in the park, teaching their toddler son how to walk.

Bruce Banner: "…and wanted."

The toddler walks wobbly to his mother. A Sentret appears and catches the baby when he stumbles backwards. They all laugh, with the mother picking up and holding her child and the dad petting the Scout Pokémon on its head. Bruce continues walking, feeling more gloomy.

Bruce Banner: "When I was captured, I was taken into solitary confinement for 3 years, give or take. After I served my sentence, I was lead to a portal that, and I was told, would take me to another world."

Brendan: "A portal?"

Lucas: "No way."

Bruce Banner: "I entered the portal and, long story short, it transferred me here."

Lucas: "That's why you don't recognize the names of even some of the most well-known Pokémon, or even the word 'Pokémon' at all – you're not only not from any town or city in this region, you're not even from this world!"

Bruce Banner: "Exactly. And now I'm stuck here with no way to go back home."

Lucas and Brendan stop walking and give Banner sincere looks of worry and sympathy. They whisper amongst themselves, nod and smile, and run to catch up to Bruce.

Brendan: "Well, if you're gonna be here for a while, you're gonna hafta learn a few things."

Bruce Banner: "I do?"

Lucas: "Yes. We can teach you; tell you everything we know."

Bruce Banner: "Well, what can you guys tell me that I already know?"

Brendan: "Well, for starters, Pokémon."

Lucas: "Yeah. We'll tell you a lot about them, Mr. Banner. Now, we're going to the next town. You're welcome to come join us."

Bruce Banner: "I don't know. Are you sure you want me to come?"

Brendan: "Well, you can't stay here."

Bruce Banner: "Good point."

The three of them walk out of the city, where they trek along the forest trail.

Lucas: "Don't you worry, Mr. Banner. With us by your side, you'll fit in in no time."

For the remainder of their journey, Lucas and Brendan show and teach Banner all there is to know about Pokémon and the Pokémon world; they watch Pokémon battles, talk about the different Pokémon types to Banner, observe and interact with wild Pokémon in their habitats (they even watch a Pokémon egg hatch), showing Banner the Pokédex and its functions, and even watch a Pokémon evolve. This experience helped peak Banner's curiosity even higher. One night, while camping, Lucas and Brendan are getting ready to go to sleep, with Bruce already fast asleep in his tent. They smile at him and laugh softly while exchanging looks as they both go into their tent and get some shuteye.