Being inspired by CartoonHooligans' videos where they reimagine DC and Marvel Superheroes as Pokémon Trainers that use Pokémon designed after their superhero personas, I thought I would give the concept a try and flesh it out to its full potential with this fanfic. Now while most of the characters and events will be primarily based on the MCU, I will be including some elements from the X-Men movies and Marvel comics too. As for the Pokémon side of things, I'm not basing the setting off of any particular region and including a mishmash of different elements from the games and anime series to suit my particular story. So with that said, I hope you enjoy this tribute I've made to the MCU and Pokémon which I both like though not as much as other people do.
Episode 1: Marémon Wake-Up Call!
"Peter."
In response, a young boy with short brown hair and hazel eyes looked up from a plastic card he was holding at a middle-aged woman who stood in the doorway to his bedroom.
"Aunt May," the boy said, looking mildly surprised as he sat on his blue futon bed.
"Still looking at your Marémon License?" The woman smiled and walked over to Peter.
The card showed Peter's face next to some personal information while an emblem shaped like a downward triangle inside a circle stood in the upper-left corner.
"Yeah," Peter admitted. "I still can't believe I've got this now, after spending seven years at the Marémon Academy. Then tomorrow, I'll be seeing Professor Banner to get my first Marémon."
"That's right," May remarked as she rubbed Peter's shoulder. "Your Uncle Ben would be so proud if he were here."
"If it wasn't for his encouragement, I wouldn't have decided to become a Marémon Wielder," Peter responded after some hesitation.
May sighed and then got up. "Just remember what Ben said, 'With great power comes great responsibility.'"
Then May walked out of Peter's room and closed the door leaving him alone once more. It was then that his eyes drifted to the poster above his bed, which depicted a young man with a chin beard wearing shades a dark shirt with a blue downward triangle design on the front dark jeans and shoes. While he held a round metallic ball in one hand, a creature stood next to him resembling a red mantis standing on its back legs with a metallic exoskeleton a yellow mask-like face and glowing blue eyes. Below both the man and the creature were the names 'Tony Stark & Ironfly' written in neon-blue letters.
"If I become as good of a Marémon Hero as you, no one will have to die the way Uncle Ben did," Peter said to himself before changing into his pajamas and going to bed.
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The next morning, Peter was woken up by Aunt May because he forgot to set his alarm. Embarrassed, he quickly changed wearing a red t-shirt under a blue jean jacket with rolled up sleeves matching jeans and white sneakers. Peter then took his skateboard and rode it through the busy streets of Yortown that he called home before reaching a silicon building with a bunch of people standing in front of it. Among the crowd was a teenage girl about Peter's age wearing an artichoke-green jacket over a black top with matching black skinny jeans and boots.
"Hey, MJ," Peter said, getting the girl's attention. "What's going on?"
"Apparently, Professor Banner is preoccupied with something in the lab," the girl called MJ answered with a straight face. "So the Marémon giveaway is being delayed."
"For how long?" Peter asked, trying to hide his disappointment.
"No idea," MJ shrugged.
"I see." Peter's eyes then scanned the crowd till he saw a boy with chestnut-brown hair wearing a burgundy jacket over a gray t-shirt sneak away and walk along the edge of the building till he vanished behind a corner.
"What is it?" MJ said, causing Peter to break his concentration.
"Nothing," Peter claimed. "I just thought I saw Peter Quill."
"It's kind of unfortunate that you guys have the same first name, yet you're totally different people," MJ noted. "Where did you see him?"
"He went that way," Peter said, pointing towards the corner where Quill disappeared.
Frowning, MJ responded, "Let's go follow him."
"What? But why?" Peter exclaimed as MJ walked towards the corner forcing him to go after her.
"You know that whenever Quill sneaks off, it means he's planning something," MJ replied as she glanced past the corner. "See for yourself if you don't believe me."
Reluctantly, Peter looked past the corner of the building and saw Quill using a pocketknife to open a glass window that was level with the ground. Then Quill leaped in through the opened window, causing MJ and Peter to follow.
"What do you think he's doing?" Peter wondered.
"Probably trying to steal the best Marémon this lab has, because I heard he didn't pass the License Exam after trying to cheat it," MJ claimed and went in through the window.
"But we don't even know if that's what he's doing," Peter pointed out, following MJ.
"And that's what we're going to find out," replied MJ.
Standing inside an empty room, the two noticed a partially open door and went through it. From there, they went down an empty hallway until they heard strange noises further up. Behind a pair of double doors that were slightly ajar, Peter and MJ beheld a large laboratory that had a glass container with a black liquid-like substance moving around and a table with two eggs wrapped in silk webs. But what drew their attention was a large green bear-like creature that had a tuft of black fur on its head and blue fur on its back legs that was sniffing a table which Quill was crouched behind holding a ball that looked like the one Tony Stark had on Peter's poster.
To be continued…