Hey there, people!

First of all, I want to thank everyone who voted last chapter, your support is greatly appreciated. But sadly, it wasn't enough.

You see, the result of the voting ended up in a tie between 7 Pokemon, and honestly I didn't wanted to postpone this, because if I did, I'd ended up procrastinating for another three months and I seriously want to stop doing that, so I decided to change the rules a little and let Makoto have 2 starters, he'll get one in this chapter and the second one will be decided by you all in future chapters between the ones who got tied. Sorry if this causes you any inconvenience.

With that topic clarified, let's go with the chapter!

After five minutes of letting the Pokemons play happily all over him, Makoto calmed them down and got up to search for the runaway Elekid. The Yard, while it covered a large space for the Pokemon to play around, didn't have a lot of places for them to hide away and considering the bright color of the electric creature, he could only be in the near the fences of the backside, where several bushes and big trees hid from sight everything that entered there.

"Elekid, please come here! I won't hurt you!" Makoto spoke as he searched through the tall trees in order to get the electric Pokemon out of wherever he was hiding. The hopeful boy started wondering if he managed to climb up the trees until he spotted a bright yellow mark among the bushes. "There you are! Man, I was really worried about you." He said as he approached where the yellow spot was, but when he got closer to him, the Pokemon went deeper into the bushes.

"Wait, don't hide! It's okay, everything will be- w-whoa!" Just when he tried to grab the Pokemon, he felt a piercing look over him and before he could even react, the boy was submitted over his stomach with his hands strongly gripped behind his back. "H-huh?! W-What is this?! What's going on?!"

"Silence. I'll be the one asking here." A cold monotonous voice sounded from behind him. "Who are you?"

The scared youngster was paralyzed of fear from the person behind him but somehow he managed to find the strength to spoke. "M-my name is N-Naegi Makoto. I'm an assistant here."

"… Are you related to the Professor Naegi Takeshi" The submitter asked once again.

Makoto thought for a few seconds if it would be a good idea to lie or not, but the pressure of the person behind him made him decide that it wasn't worth the risk. "Y-yes, I'm his son. W-why?"

"…" The mysterious attacker ignored the question of the unlucky boy and spent a few seconds silent until he asked in the same cold demeanor. "What are you doing here?!"

"I-I just came searching for an Elekid-" The boy gasped as he remembered the small Pokemon he was supposed to retrieve. "Where is he?! What did you did to him?! If you hurt him, I swear…" Makoto began struggling to break free of his attacker grip as he protested for the little creature's safety, while his attacker just stared at the futile efforts of the boy to release himself.

"… Look ahead."

After hearing those words, Makoto compiled and looked at a small Pokemon, the little Elekid he came searching for, sat down in a rock eating peacefully some Rawst berries as if there were nothing wrong in the world. The unluckster immediately relaxed as he sighed and dropped a tear of joy for its well-being.

The mysterious person stared at him, speechless at the strange behavior of the boy bellow him, who seemed more worried for the safety of a Pokemon who didn't seem to be his than for himself. After a few moments of wondering his next course of action, the attacker released the boy's hands and got up from him, setting him free.

Makoto quickly got up and ran towards the little Elekid as in to protect him, facing the mysterious man who submitted him, just to realize it was a woman the one who attacked him. She was a young girl not much older than him with black hair in a bob cut; her clear freckled face gave a cute contrast with her cold light blue eyes and her body, slender at first sight, was strong and well trained covered by a full-body camouflaged suit, giving her a menacing presence. The two of them stared at each other in an awkward silence for several minutes until the younger Naegi decided to break it.

"Uhm… Those berries, did you give them to him?" He asked, pointing at the electric type behind him.

"…" The mysterious girl stared in silence for a few seconds and nodded.

"I-I see. Well, thanks for that. Rawst berries aren't very common around here so... thank you for healing him!" The boy thanked her with a big smile.

"…" The girl kept staring him with a stoic expression which started to make him feel uneasy. He had a lot of questions for the strange black haired girl in front of him, but he couldn't find a way to ask them without upsetting her or making her attack him again. After a few minutes that seemed like hours, it was the girl who spoke pointing at her feet. "… Is this yours?"

"Huh?" Makoto then watched where her feet were, just to find a little mass of brown fur biting furiously the boot of the camouflaged girl. He recognized the fluffy creature as Eevee, one of the Pokemon that earlier was playing around him, who was trying to harm the mysterious girl to defend him and was clearly not succeeding at it. "Eevee!"

At the voice of the young boy, the little fox released the boot of the girl and went with his dear carer, placing himself in front of him and baring his small fangs at the unknown woman who seemed amused at the behavior of the cute fox.

Makoto raised the little Eevee at his chest and covered him with an arm to calm him and turned back to his attacker, just see her already going away. "Wait!" He shouted. "Who are you? What were you doing here?"

The girl stayed still for a moment and said "… That's not of your concern. You just have to know… that the whole world… is about to change."

"Huh?! What do you mean by-" But before he could finish his question, the raven haired girl ran faster than what his eyes were able to process and vanished out of his sight. "The whole world is about to change"? What does that mean? Just who in earth was that girl?

Makoto pondered in silence until a sudden movement in his arms startled. The little fox nuzzled him affectively and stared at him with curious eyes getting him out of the trance, the boy just smiled while petting him, then he reached out for the Elekid that just finished his berries and went back to the lab to tell his father about what just had happened to him.

…

"Well, that's for sure one interesting story!" His father laughed after the younger Naegi finished his tale while taking care of the last details of his research. The lack of assistants made the work in the lab even harder and because his father locked himself in his office welding and patching something, Makoto took care of cleaning and fixing the mess the older Naegi made earlier and by passing the time, he told his father what the mysterious girl did to him, only to be received with skepticism.

"I'm not making up this! That just happened now!"

"Sure, sure, in the five minutes you went away, a camouflaged girl of your age healed the Elekid you were searching for, submitted you down, the little Eevee scared her away, but not before threatening to change the whole world, wasn't it?" His father joked with a doubtful expression in his face.

Guh… When you say it like that, even I doubt that this just happened. "Then what about the Elekid? How do you explain that he's healed?"

"Simple. You healed him with a Burn Heal you took from here earlier to pull me a prank." The professor calmly explained at the now upset boy, but before the boy could refute his argument, the lab's phone rang.

"Hello? Oh hey… What did you say!? Really?! Ok, ok…" The man in lab coat answered the phone and, while the conversation was short, the face of the professor lightened up with it. After he hanged, he turned to his son with a big smile and said "Makoto, hurry! Let's close the lab for today and go back home!"

"HUH?! But it's not even half a day! What happened?!" The boy was dumbfounded at his father's strange reaction.

"It's okay, the assistants didn't came anyway and it won't happen anything if we take a day off. Now hurry up!" The older Naegi sloppily arranged everything around as he prepared to go out of the lab.

"Is that how a Professor Pokemon should be?! To begin with, what happened with what you wanted to tell me before?" The young boy was getting anxious at seeing his father bouncing happily around the lab.

"I'll tell you that later, this is way more important than that!" And with that the great Professor Naegi Takashi ran away of the lab as a little kid who eagerly wants to open his presents on Christmas.

"But what happened?!" Makoto screamed from the entrance of the lab to his father who was already halfway of their house.

"YOUR SISTER CALLED!" And with that answer, everything made sense as Makoto's chest floundered with several different emotions.

…

Seven years ago, an ambitious and cruel organization known as the Steering Committee went rampant around the whole Kibouga region, with the goal of controlling all the Pokemon and making a paradise where only the most talented and strongest trainers could have access to them. Eventually they were defeated by a powerful unknown trainer who disappeared not long after the organization was crushed, but what is important for this story is what happened during that time.

Right before the Steering Committee was defeated, they sent a whole army of wild Pokemon toward everywhere as last resource to defeat the mysterious trainer. The result of that event, known as the Parade, was hundreds of thousands of Pokemon and people dead and hurt all over the entire region, more than what the Pokemon Centers could handle on their own, so the professors, researchers and everyone who could help were required to help. Naturally, Makoto with his gentle nature offered himself to help, and during the three years that lasted the sequels of what happened that time, he restlessly helped his father and others professors to aid the Pokemon. But after the worst passed, he had already become unofficially the Professor Naegi Takashi's assistant and decided to stay in Blackroot to help him.

But Naegi Komaru, unlike her older brother, could start her Pokemon journey at the age of twelve like all the other kids with no problems since the Parade's effects were long gone thanks to the efforts of those who helped, her brother's among them. And while he didn't resent her sister for being able to do what he couldn't or regretted his choice of helping his father, Makoto did felt an itch in his heart every time her sister called them to salute.

"I'm home." Makoto absently said as he entered the house. To tell truth, he was already mentally exhausted after all the events that happened that morning, but he put a strong front to greet his family.

"Oh! Dear, welcome! Come here and say hello to your sister, we just finished talking to her!" His mother greeted him back from the living room where she and her husband were sat in front of a tablet-like device talking to their daughter.

"Big Bro is there? Hey there, Big bro! It's your dear sister Komaru!" A girly voice came from the communication device. Makoto got near it and his parents moved to make space for his son to meet the face of a young cheerful girl who was his little sister. "There you are!"

"Hello Komaru, how are you? And where are you?" Makoto asked her, noticing the rocky aspect of her background.

"Well, right now I'm in a place known as the Crystalloid Caverns, near Half-moon Town. People say here can be found precious minerals worth of lot of money so I came here to check it, but I haven't found anything and I even lost someone here." Her little sister explained.

"You lost someone?! Isn't that dangerous?!" Naegi siblings' mother asked in a worried tone, that honestly Makoto agreed to have.

"She must be exaggerating. After all, our daughter is really strong, everything must be under control. Isn't that right, Komaru?" His husband reassured her, having complete trust in his daughter.

"Uhh… Y-yeah, everything is okay." Komaru answered in a not so convincing tone. "The girl who got lost is someone I encountered here and we became friends, but she's really strong so I wouldn't worry about her… much. A-anyway, how are things going around there?"

"Not much really. The same stuff as always" The boy shortly said.

"Hmm? Say Makoto-nii, are you okay? You look a bit crestfallen." Her sister inquired, noting him not being his usual self.

"Huh? N-no, I'm okay. I just had a long morning. Hahaha…" Makoto tried to dismiss it with a laugh just like his father tended to do just to fail miserably.

"Is that so? Listen Makoto-nii, if you-" Komaru tried to say something but was interrupted by a loud scream and some shrieks on the cave. "Oh crap, I gotta go. A horde of Zubats is approaching! Iloveyoutakecarebye! HYAAA-"And with that the video call ended.

"Hey, dear do you think she will be okay?" The housewife asked her husband, worried for the sake of their daughter.

"It's okay, she handles things like that all the time." The man calmed his wife placing a hand over hers, and turned to his son. "And Makoto, I have to ask you something."

"Hmm? What is it?" Is it finally about that message from earlier?

"Why is that little boy here?" Makoto's father asked as he pointed at the Eevee at the youngster's feet.

"HUH?! Why are you here?! Did you follow me?" The young Naegi asked as he raised the little fox with him, to what the Eevee used as a chance to cuddle in his lap.

"He has taken a liking for you, doesn't he?" The young boy's mother said while gently scratched the little creature's ear. "I wonder why no one has tried to adopt him. He's really cute and Eevees aren't very common so…"

"It's because of his past." Professor Takeshi explained. "He is the breeding of a Pokemon who died during the Parade and grew in the wild in a time where rabid Pokemon attacked each other for no reason and, in that environment, this Eevee grew accustomed to attack whatever came near him. It took three whole years of constant care to make him go back to this calm comportment, and even now the only ones he seems to be at ease when he's with Makoto or me, but especially Makoto."

"That damned Parade… I wish that cursed event have never occurred." And with those words, the house became silent in a gloomy atmosphere that was interrupted by some noises growing louder by every minute "What in earth is happening outside?"

The three of them got up and went towards the windows to what happened when desperate knocks slammed the door. The housewife ran to the door and opened to see a man in his forties with a dreadful expression in his face. "Maizono-san?! What's wrong?!"

"Naegi-san! Thank god, please tell me your family is here with you!" The man asked her in a desperate demeanor.

"We're here, Maizono. What's happen?" Takeshi got near them and placed his hands on the man's shoulders to help him calm down.

Meanwhile, Makoto kept staring outside; watching the people acting frenetic as they screamed and pointed at somewhere while an unnatural light illuminated their faces and a nostril smell filled the air that started to became more and more familiar while he kept hugging the little fox that became nervous at the noise in the streets. "It's fire. Something is burning!"

"The lab… THE LAB IS ON FIRE!" As soon as those words came out of the scared man's throat in the entrance door, Makoto remembered. He remembered the fear, the anger, the frustration and the crushing feeling of hopelessness he felt during his time working to fix the Parade's consequences. The desperate sensation he thought he forgot long time ago during his childhood. The sorrowful times he spent trying to do his best healing either people or Pokemon. And the irreplaceable things he lost during that fatidic day.

He remembered… what the absolute despair was about.

Oh my god, what a fucking great cliffhanger I managed to pull here.

I'm really proud of the setting I did in this chapter. Kuddos to me!

Okay, let's go to the real business: As you have noticed by now, Eevee will be Naegi's first Pokemon but listen; I'll change the plot a little so he can receive another starter from a certain person and the starter he'll get will be decided by the votes I'll get from now on.

The possible starters will be: Turtwig, Froakie, Chespin, Charmander, Squirtle & Cyndquil.

And now I'm opening a new poll to choose for which of the Eeveelutions I should go for, and this one will not be altered by any means, so feel free to vote without restrain… well, there's one restrain: Leafeon is completely out of question. I got another grass type prepared for Naegi and I can't let him have two of the same kind, so you will have to vote for another one.

I think that's all for today, the next chapter shouldn't take long to be ready since it's the final part of the prologue, so I expect it to be here next weekend or the Monday in the worst case.

Until then, have a wonderful day and a good luck with whatever you're doing.

Next time on Pokemon: Truth Edition

"Naegi-kun! This way!"

"Please don't leave me alone…"

"Make a sound and you're dead."

"Who are you?!"

"Well then... shall we begin?"

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