Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon or any of its characters. I only own Lilly Revere, her mother (who will remained unnamed), and my precious laptop.
Chapter 2: Living the Impossible
She was having the nicest of dreams, one with gummy bears that talked and sang, when she felt this odd sensation on her left ankle. Why her ankle you ask? She really wasn't certain how to answer that. Slowly she cracked open her eyes, thinking it might have been one of the singing gummy bears from her dream. Instead, she was met with what looked what looked like…a Ditto?
"You're not a gummy bear!" said Lilly to the Ditto that was seemingly poking her ankle.
Ditto looked up at her with wide and frightened eyes before transforming into a Spearow and flying out of there as if hell was at its heels.
Lilly stared up at where the Ditto turned Spearow flew off and rubbed her eyes. 'I have GOT to be dreaming. Pokémon? REAL? There's just no way that's possible! I'll just lay back down on my bed and- HOLY SHIT! What happened to my bed! And where's my room?'
Lilly frantically looked around the small clearing that she was in. On three of the four sides of the clearing, she was surrounded by forest, but on the fourth side was a rocky cliff with a spring at the base of it. She looked behind her and spotted her black bag leaning up next to a stump near the edge of the forest. She moved to get up, only to trip and stumble on her pajama pants.
'Why are they so big on me?'
Lilly slowly raised her hand in front of her face and nearly screamed.
'I've shrunk! I'm an F-ING midget again!'
She growled to herself and side out of her pajama pants, for once glad that she had forgotten to take her spandex shorts off before putting on her sleeping wear. The shorts were now slightly baggy on her and went down to her knees, almost like basketball shorts. The tank top was baggy on her, but after adjusting the straps on it, it fit her for the time being. Lilly made her way over to the pack and squatted before it. She opened it up and went through a mental check list.
'Yep. Everything's still here, but the question remains, where am i?' Lilly asked herself as she stuffed her now overly large pajama pants into her bag.
Slowly, Lilly dragged her bag over to the spring and set it down a little ways from the water. Lilly continued over to the water, almost dreading what she might see. Cautiously, she glanced at the water's surface and was shocked at what she saw. A 5 year old her stared back with the same shocked expression that she herself wore. Farther down into the water was what really caught her attention though. Magicarp and Poliwag were swimming carelessly under the water and seemed to disappear and reappear from an underwater cave in the side of a cliff. The occasional Dratini could be seen swimming near the entrance of the cave before darting back into its safe cavern. Lilly sat back from the water in shock.
'O.K. I'm in the world of Pokémon. I am also, yet again, five years old. I'm going to LOATHE having to go through puberty again. But,' Lilly thought as she looked around the clearing again, 'What region am I in? I'm obviously not in either the Unova or Sinnoh Region, so that leaves Johto, Kanto, and Hoenn. Hmm…'
Lilly pulled her bag closer to her and unzipped one of the pockets and brought out her iPod. She clicked the Home button on it and the screen flashed to life, the time '9:53am' blinked back at her
'Ok, so it's still morning,' thought Lilly as she replaced her iPod and swung her bag up onto her shoulders…well, at least as much as a 16 year old turned 5 year old could. She carefully adjusted the weight of the bag, shifting from foot to foot to make sure her smallish body could hand it, 'That means I still have a good amount of time before sunset and by then I should have found some sort of civilization.'
Lilly took one more glance around the clearing before heading off into the less dense part of the woods, unaware of a set of baby blue eyes that followed her every movement.
'This child, she is so…..pure of soul. Even though she is not of this dimension, I hope she stays. It is too bad that she will most likely lose her pure soul by being here, there are too many criminals running around in this world. Maybe I will get to meet her once again…..'
The blue eyes slowly vanished into thin air. Nothing around it was disturbed and the mysterious Pokémon left without anyone or anything knowing it was there.
By the time Lilly had found a road, it was early afternoon, for the sun was directly above her and not a cloud could be seen for miles. She had been walking for a few miles when she came across a T in the road with a wooden sign in between the two. Below the arrow that pointed right were the words 'Viridian City'. Below the arrow that pointed left were the words 'Pallet Town'.
'Pallet Town...That's in the Kanto region. It's where Ash starts out and the Professor there is Professor Oak. So, guess that answers the question of what region I'm in.'
Lilly looks down both paths before going down the left one, the one towards Pallet Town.
"My best bet would be to head towards Pallet Town." She mumbled as she hurried her pace, wanting to get there soon.
A few more miles later, Lilly found herself passing the familiar white picket fences that told her she was nearing Pallet Town.
'Never thought I'd be seeing this up close. Course, didn't think I would be thrown into the world of Pokémon in the body of a five year old no less.'
Lilly walked past the final few trees of the forest and finally made her way into the small town. Just like in the Anime and the games, it was a quaint little town, only three buildings of course, two of which were houses while the other was a Pokémon Lab. She made her way over to the front steps of the lab before taking off her backpack and putting it down on the steps, finally glad to be able to take the backpack off. Leaving her backpack where it was she climbed up the rest of the few steps and was about to knock on the large doors when she heard yelling from around back, back behind the tall building. Quickly, she grabbed one of the straps of the bag and pulled it along behind her as she made her way over to where the noise was coming from. When she came from around the side of the building, she was met with the sight of a slightly singed and younger Professor Oak with swirls for eyes and an irritated Arcanine standing above him. She blinked, well this wasn't in EITHER the anime or the game series. She tilted her head to the side in a confused manor before setting her bag on the ground. By that time, Professor Oak had regained consciousness and the Arcanine was glaring at Oak, or he was, until he heard Lilly set her bag on the ground. Realizing he was no longer being glared at by his own Pokémon, Oak moved his head to the side and followed Arcanine's line of sight, only to land on a little girl that was maybe 4 years old with waist long black hair.
'I don't remember any other children living out here….Wait….Where did Arcanine go?'
Oak quickly (or as quickly as a man in his early forties can) rolled to his stomach as looked over to the girl, who was being approach (more like stalked) by Arcanine. The girl didn't look at all afraid of the large Pokémon that was approaching her and when he was about 4 feet in front of her, she calmly stuck out her hand, palm outstretched, and waited. Arcanine looked at her in almost a confused manor before slowly lowering his head and lightly sniffing her hand. Even when he was sniffing her hand, she made not one move. Until the unthinkable happened. He licked her palm. From the tip of her small fingers to her dainty wrist, it was all covered in a light coat of saliva. She giggled. This little girl, no older than four, both tamed and GIGGLED at Arcanine, his most aggressive and proud Pokémon. As Professor Oak rose to his feet, he saw as she calmly raised her hand to scratch behind one of his ears and he could have sworn he heard Arcanine purr like an Eevee. Cautiously, he made his way over to his Arcanine and the little girl. As he came closer to the girl he noticed that all she wore were grey spandex shorts that were much too big on her and a black spaghetti strap tank top that looked as if it would fall off of her any minute. Once he stood behind Arcanine, he softly cleared his throat, which in turned earned him a glare from his own Pokémon and a questioning look from the girl.
'I should just act innocent, if I tell him too much about my world, something bad could happen.' Thought Lilly when she heard Professor Oak try and discreetly get Arcanine's and her attention by coughing.
Lilly glanced between Arcanine and Professor Oak. "I'm sowrry if I interrupted something, mister; it just looked like you were having a pwroblem with him and I cwouldn't just watch."
Professor Oak chuckled nervously while rubbing the back of his head, "Yes well, Arcanine and I were having a minor disagreement over something, but it's nothing."
The Professor looked at Lilly with a thoughtful look on his face, "I was just wondering….are you from around here? You look a little lost. Where are your parents?"
Lilly shook her head, "My daddy divorced my mommy a year ago but I don't know where my mommy is. I just woke up in a field with my bag and I started walking."
Oak gained a look that was between pity and thoughtful. 'If this is anything like it sounds, then this little girl was abandoned by her parents. Why would they want to abandon such an adorable little girl? She obviously cares about Pokémon and she tamed Arcanine so easily…..I wonder…'
Oak looked up at Lilly, "What is your name little one?"
Lilly walked around Arcanine with her bag in hand and stood in front of the Professor, "I'm Lilly! But…..who are you?"
Professor Oak straightened his lab coat and dusted off his red polo shirt before answering her, "It's very nice to meet you Lilly. I am Professor Oak. I am the one who gives beginning trainers their first Pokémon before they start their Pokémon journey."
Lilly resisted the urge of rolling her eyes and shouting 'I KNOW THAT!' at the Professor and opted with looking amazed at the Professor's declamation, "Wow! Really? What do you study?"
"I study human and Pokémon relationships, like how Pokémon and their trainers get along."
Lilly gained a thoughtful look, "So, like, if a Pokémon has an agwressive nature towards their trwainer, you would want to know why?"
Oak nodded his head, "Exactly! You seem to know a lot about Pokémon, Lilly, why is that?"
Lilly's smile turned to a frown as she looked towards the ground, "I have always loved Pokémon and I wanted to know a lot about them, so I started reading more about them. Daddy didn't apprwove of that, so he started to hit me. I kept reading, 'cause I love Pokémon, but daddy didn't like me for that. When daddy left, mommy said that I could rwead all I wanted to on Pokémon….."
Oak looked down at the child in front of him with a sad expression on his face, 'She is so young yet has been through so much and still wishes to live life at its fullest. Most children would have associated being beaten with Pokémon, so they wouldn't even try to learn about them, yet all she did was try and learn more about them. But, with Gary just being born a few weeks ago, and since I have to keep an eye on him, I haven't been able to run the lab like it is supposed to be run…..I wonder…..'
"Lilly, how old are you?"
Lilly's face lit up with a smile and held up five fingers, "I'm five!"
"Well then, I was wondering if you would like to be my assistant. I know that you're only five, and I won't have you do too much, but just recently my grandson, Gary Oak, was born and I haven't had time to keep track of the lab and the Pokémon. You would be in charge of the Pokémon, feeding them, making sure they are content, and keeping them from getting sick. So what do you say, Lilly? Would you like to be my assistant?"
Lilly clasped her hands in front of her as her current grin stretched into a full blown smile as she nodded her head with an unmatched enthusiasm, 'He said that Gary Oak had just recently been born…..so that means I'm over 10 years early before either the games or anime starts. Being his assistant would not only give me a huge boost in learning even more about Pokémon, I could learn more about the people here. Maybe I could even start a journey of my own!'
"Really? Yay! I get to be an assistant!" As she said this, Lilly jumped forward and wrapped her arms around Oak's waist and gave him a hug.
Oak chuckled at her antics and patted Lilly on the back, "Well then, why don't I show you around the lab and where you will be staying?"
Lilly let Professor Oak go and nodded her head as she watched him pull out a Pokéball and aim it towards Arcanine.
"Ok, Arcanine. Return."
A red beam shot out of the small white button of the center of the Pokéball and encased Arcanine in it. Arcanine turned transparent and the beam quickly withdrew back into the ball.
'I don't think that will ever get boring,' thought Lilly as she picked up her bag and followed Oak through the back door of the lab.
Entering the building, she noticed that the back door went straight into the main lab, "Well, this is the lab. If I'm here and you need me, this is where I will most likely be."
Lilly quickly followed the Professor through a set of double doors that led into a hallway, "To the left is the building's main door and farther down this way, to the right, various rooms, such as our private Pokémon center, a library, a kitchen, bathrooms, and our Pokémon egg hatchery, are found. And this is your room."
Professor Oak opened the first door on his left after he entered the right hallway and motioned for Lilly to enter in first. She looked around the room and nodded to herself. It wasn't much, a queen sized bed covered with cream sheets, a brown side table with an alarm clock and a lamp, a desk and swivel chair, and a brown rug. The room itself was fairly large and was painted a darker cream color. On the wall opposite from the door was a window that took up over ¾ of the wall. It looked out onto the training fields in the back and she could make out the edge of the forest and the lake. She carefully set her bag down near the foot of her bed and turned back towards Professor Oak.
"I know it's not much, but next time I have to go to Viridian City, I will let you come as well and we can pick out a few items and maybe a new can of paint, does that sound good?"
Lilly ran forward and gave the Professor a bone crushing (for a five year old, that is) hug while nodding her head, "Thank you so much, Professor Oak!"
Professor Oak chuckled and squatted down to return her hug, "Of course, Lilly. Now then, I will let you settle into your room and when you're done, come meet me in the library, where we will talk about what you will do for the next couple of days. The library is three doors down on the right, don't forget now."
Lilly released Professor Oak and giggled, "Ok!"
Professor Oak nodded in response to her answer and patted her affectionately before exiting the room, shutting the door softly behind him. Lilly waited a few moments, still standing near the door when she nodded and ran back towards her bag and pulled out her laptop. Setting it on her bad, she struggled to climb up onto the overly tall queen-sized bed.
'Phew! I forgot what it was like to be a midget again, since when I was 16, I was a healthy 5'10, not a measly 3'1….Finally!'
Lilly wiped the imaginary sweat off of her brow before pulling her laptop onto her lap and clicked the power button. A few seconds later, she logged into her laptop account and waited for her home screen to pop up.
'…..Wonder if the Wi-Fi here is any good?'
With that thought stored away for later, she quickly pulled up an old file that was simply named 'Pokémon'. From there, she scrolled down the list until she spotted the one that read 'Professors'.
'Better catch up on some things before I get in over my head….Gawd I hate short jokes!'
Soon, typing could be heard from the inside of the room, and today would be the start of Lilly's new life as an assistant to one of the world's greatest Professor.
