Chapter 1 The Beginning

My name is Ash Satoshi Ketchum, and I'm a Pokemon Trainer. A month ago, I won against Leon in the World Championships and became a World Monarch, I also work with the International Police to stop every criminal organization from capturing Legendary Pokemon or taking over the world. It sure is tiring if you ask me. And right now I'm in my own house along with my girlfriend Lillie. Lillie is like me, an aura user. The two of us have suffered a tragic accident that caused Arceus to split us into three. But after Team Rocket's disbandment, we're whole again.

What do you mean we were split into three? Well... my name, Ash, is split into myself: Ash Ketchum, and two other people: N Harmonia Gropius, and Alain. As for Lillie, she splits into Aria, Serena, and of course herself. After we're whole again, we confess our feelings and now we have been dating for a month. We also have a bunch of Pokemon, like my best buddy Pikachu, who refuses to listen to me on my first day of the journey, and now becomes the strongest Pikachu in the whole world. But enough of the introductions, this is where our own story begins:

On this usual day, Lillie and I are now at Professor Oak's Lab in Kanto, and it is also when Professor Oak introduces us to a machine known as the VR machine. He told us that it is made by his friend Professor Ray, and he wants the two of us to try out the game that he created. The two of us are willing to try out the experiment, and now we lie in our beds until Professor Ray activated the machine.

When I wake up again, I find myself standing in front of a house. The house looks just like the house I live in in Pallet Town. "So this is the Virtual Reality World?"

"It seems so." I turn to see Lillie and thank goodness she looks just the same in the real world. I hold her hand and say, "This is kinda cool, I feel like I can hold your hand."

"Me too." Lillie replies. "But I wonder what we're going to do here in this virtual world?"

"I don't know." I say while I look at the screen. "It seems that I don't have any Pokemon with me, what about you?"

"None. Since Pikachu, Snowy, and the others are in the real world, I guess it is fair that none of us have Pokemon by our side. So how do we play this game?" Lillie says.

I notice the sign and it says, 'Pallet Town, Shades of your journey await!' I say, "This is said to be Pallet Town, but all I can is two houses and a lab. I know this one to be my house, and that's Gary's house. The Lab is Professor Oak's lab, but not only the geographic location is wrong, why is it so small?"

"I don't know." Lillie shrugs. "I think this is a little shady... should we log out?"

"Yeah, it will be better." I say as we open the menu. But then we are surprised to see that there is no log-out button.

"That's weird, where is the log-out button? It should be here." Lillie says.

"You're right... there is no log-out button, what's going on here?" I ask. "Is it a bug?"

"I don't know... but if we're in here, how are we going to contact Professor Oak in the outside world?" Lillie asks, now starting to panic a little.

Just then, we turn to see a man standing in front of us. It's Professor Ray! We rush towards him and says, "Professor Ray? Is that you?"

"Ash, Lillie, listen to me. We have a serious problem." Ray says to me with a slight panic tone. Lillie asks, "What's the matter? Professor Ray?"

"This is an emergency message, I can't hear you and answer your questions right now. So listen to me: The game has been hacked. You probably have noticed that the log-out button is missing from the main menu. We don't know who has done this, but until we fix the problem, we won't be able to get you out of the game. Of course, we can't just pull you out of the machine, since it might damage your brain and make you two a vegetable, or maybe worse: Death."

Now Lillie and I are panicking, the game is attacked and we can't get out of the game? Ray continues, "Right now we have contacted the Aether Foundation and the International Police. The three of us have been working on tracking the criminal. We have a theory that if you manage to beat the game, there might be a chance for you to get out of the game safely. Also, it seems that the hacker has taunted us with another message, the message will be given to you by an NPC as a mystery gift in the Pokemon Center."

I also realize that there is no Pokemon Center in this version of Pallet Town, this is going to be awful. Ray says, "There are 100 floors in this game. Each floor has a floor boss, you can't capture it, the only choice is to defeat it. There are also events on each of the floors that you can try to accomplish. Now good luck."

After Professor Ray disappears, Lillie and I can only stare at what is going to happen.


(Pikachu's POV)

"What do you mean Ash and Lillie are trapped in the game?!" I yell at Professor Oak and Professor Ray. If you're wondering, with the help of Professor Oak, they made a device so I can talk to humans whenever I want.

"It's like I said, Pikachu. Somebody has hacked into Professor Ray's game and now the Log-out button disappeared." Professor Oak says with a slight panic. "We can't force them to pull them out because it might cause their deaths."

I widen my eyes in horror, Professor Ray says, "The culprit also sends a message to us, he says that he's been spying on us and if we try to do anything to break the code, then he'll attack the machine and kill both Ash and Lillie at the same time."

The nerve of... who the hell will do such a thing? I go outside of the lab and see nobody suspicious around. If there is nobody, how the hell did the culprit knows what we're doing?

"If I have to guess, the culprit must have hacked this computer from far away. And this computer is the only one linking to the VR Machine, so we can't switch to another computer. The only good thing is that the culprit won't know what we're talking about through this computer." Profesor Ray says.

"Pikachu, you must inform Delia and Lusamine. Tell them about the situation of their children. We're counting on you."

I groan a little, Ash's Mother will be fine for me to talk about, but Ms. Lusamine is far away in the Alola Region's Aether Paradise. Still, I manage to gather Sylveon and Snowy. Those two deserves to know the news.

"Does that mean if a mistake happens, we're going to lose Mama and Papa?" Snowy asks, she's about to cry.

"We're not losing them." I say, "That's why we should let Ms. Ketchum and Ms. Aether know the truth. We will also need to inform the International Police to find whoever's hacking the computer."

Then we worked together and now Delia, Gladion, and Lusamine are in the house. Gladion grabs Ray's lab coat and yells, "You! How could you let my sister get into something dangerous like this?"

"Calm down, Gladion! We don't want this to happen as well." Professor Oak tries to stop him, and Lusamine says, "So have you found anything about the culprit yet?"

"Still nothing. But what we can do right now is inform Ash and Lillie about the situation through a secret message code. However, since the computer is hacked, I'm afraid that the culprit might hijack the message and they will be oblivious to their situation. I was hoping that if they beat the game, then they might be saved."

"How long is the game?" Delia asks Ray with a slight glare.

"There are 100 floors in the game, each of the floors are based on the 9 regions and the Ancient Hisui since I'm from the Sinnoh Region." Ray replies. "I am not sure how long will they take to complete the game since we want Ash and Lillie to be our beta testers."

"Yeah, and you're planning to sell the game to other customers for profit! It's a good thing that there is only Ash and Lillie inside this game. What will happen if more people were trapped like them?" Professor Oak asks.

"You did help out the game, are you trying to blame all the fault on me?" Professor Ray yells back.

"Enough!" I use Thunderbolt to shock both Professors. I say, "Ash and Lillie agree to help you with this game, and now they are trapped. Instead of arguing like children, how about we think of a way to find the culprit and help Ash and Lillie beat the game as much as we can?"

Ray says, "That's a good idea. Pikachu. There is a link where we can see what Ash and Lillie are doing..."

While Ray is trying to turn on the screen, Delia turns to me and says, "Pikachu, have you told everyone of the Pokemon about the problem right now?"

"Not yet. Do I need to inform them?" Pikachu says.

"The World is big, and with the technology right now, the culprit might not even be in this region in the first place. It is like finding a needle in the ocean. So we need more people and Pokemon to help as possible."

"You're right." I say. Since I can talk to Pokemon and Humans like that Meowth, I can inform them about the current situation and help find the culprit. Delia turns to Lusamine and Gladion, "What about you two? What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to help find the culprit as well. Nobody dares to hurt my sister and my great rival like that." Gladion says, "If you don't mind, Professor, can I have access to all of Ash and Lillie's Pokemon so that we can search easier?"

"Of course, you can." Professor Oak says as he does the process. Gladion says, "Pikachu, I need you to persuade the Pokemon."

"No problem." Pikachu says.

When I have Bulbasaur gather all the Pokemon, I tell every one of them about the incident of Ash and Lillie being trapped in the virtual world and having to play a game. They are horrified and angered that their trainers have to suffer. Every one of them is willing to help Gladion to search for the culprit.

"What about you, Pikachu? Are you going to search for the culprit as well?" Sceptile asks.

"No, Sylveon, Snowy, and I are staying here to make sure Ash and Lillie are fine." I reply and they all nod. Then the search begins and I hope Ash and Lillie are safe in the virtual game.


Hello everyone, this is a Pokemon story influenced by the games and the other anime known as Sword Art Online. Ash and Lillie are trapped in the virtual reality game and will the two of them be able to get out of there? Not to mention that Pikachu and the others are also trying to search for the culprit behind all of this, will they succeed?