Creation began on 05-13-16
Creation ended on 05-18-16
Neon Genesis Evangelion
The strength to carry on
Thud! The Scyther fell on the platform, wasted after taking on the full force of Kensuke's Double-Edge attack, winning Shinji two out of three battles with the Badge Guardian.
"I gotta give you due credit, kid," he told the young trainer. "Not many trainers could best my Scyther after my Persian. Still, I've saved my best for last. There's no way you can beat my best fighter. Come out, King!"
He threw out a Poke Ball that was black with a yellow "H", and it unleashed a new Pokemon.
"Oh…my…gosh!" Shinji gasped, seeing a large, purplish creature that reminded him a creature that Kensuke once told him about called Baragon, but more armored and intimidating. "A Nidoking!"
"Eee!" Misato gasped and hid behind Shinji.
"Rrraurgh!" Nidoking, or just King, growled as he raised his arms up. "Rrraurgh!"
Shinji, in his basic studies before leaving Pallet Town, knew that fully-evolved Pokemon tended to be extremely powerful and almost impossible to beat with Pokemon not as strong or as experienced. And he knew, just from looking at this massive brute, that this Nidoking was very powerful. With his only other Pokemon as a third choice being a Magikarp, Larvitar, Chikorita and Pikachu, his chances of getting his second badge seemed to dwindle.
"Pidgo!" Kensuke uttered.
"Kensuke, return," Shinji ordered him. "Take a break!"
Shinji held out his Poke Ball and the Pidgeotto was recalled back into it.
So long as none of my Pokemon have fainted from their injuries, they can still fight, he thought, trying to decide on who would be the best choice for his third Pokemon. Here goes.
He took out a different Poke Ball and threw it towards the platform in front of him. From out of the ball, Sakura, looking surprised to see another combatant larger than herself, several feet away from her on a large pool.
"Ooh! Such a cutie!" One of the three Gym Leaders gasped, referring to Sakura.
-x-
"…This can't be right," Ritsuko uttered, looking at the latest, fragmented footage taken from the S.S. Rocket, seeing Shinji in the new footage, but he wasn't the same as he had been in the previous fragments of footage. "What is this?"
On her computer monitor, Shinji was facing a group of people in military-like uniforms, but he looked different, taller and a bit athletic, as if he'd been running more often than necessary. He also had a small scar on the left side of his face that hadn't healed completely. Beside him was the strange, brown, fox-like creature that looked bigger and more slender and feminine.
"You're no match for Master or Guardian!" He shouted at these people, and threw two balls, which unleashed two creatures that were unlike anything Ritsuko had seen so far.
One creature looked like some sort of cat-like creature, gray and purple, that seemed slightly humanoid with a strange, organic tube that extended from the back of its head to the back of its body. And the other creature was that of a large, white and bluish-purple dragon with large, hand-like wings.
Could time really be transpiring faster there than it is here? Ritsuko thought.
-x-
"…Chika," groaned Sakura as she tried to get back up after using a combination of Razor Leaf, Vine Whip and Sleep Powder against the Nidoking, and was thrown against the platforms. "Chik…"
She fell and lost consciousness.
On the other side of the pool field, King, slightly weakened from the Grass-Type attacks, panted from the exertion needed to deal with the Grass-Type Pokemon.
"Return, Sakura," Shinji sighed, recalling his Chikorita back into her Poke Ball. "You did well."
"Eee," Misato uttered, concerned for her trainer's chances at winning this match.
"We got this, Misato," he assured her, holding out Kensuke's Poke Ball. "That badge has got our names written allover it."
He threw the ball and re-released his Pidgeotto, who looked a little rested and ready for a new challenge ahead.
-x-
"…Wherever it is that the Third Child has wind up," Ritsuko informed Gendo and Fuyutsuki in the former's office, "he seems to be gathering up strange animals."
On the the laptop on Gendo's desk, the isolated footage taken from the naval carrier showed an older Shinji unleashing the two, strange creatures against the group in front of him.
"And he looks older," said Fuyutsuki to her. "How is this possible?"
"It's been believed that alternate dimensions are separated by the boundaries of time. While time here passes normally, the time in the dimension the Third Child is in could be passing by at a faster rate."
"Meaning that by the time we're able to find a way to reach him, he could already be reaching his twenties or thirties…or older." Fuyutsuki sighed. "That is possible, isn't it?"
"Yes."
"We need to find out what is in that carrier as soon as possible," Gendo expressed.
-x-
Even when weakened by Kensuke's Double-Edge and Wing Attack, King was still a formidable foe from the Badge Guardian, as Shinji saw how he used a Hyper Beam attack and sent Kensuke to the ground without even breaking a sweat.
"Pidgo…" Kensuke groaned as he tried to get up, but couldn't.
"It looks like we're down to our last Pokemon," the Badge Guardian expressed. "I gotta hand it to you, kid… You're willful and defiant. You don't stand down, even in the face of an adversary stronger than yourself. That's a good thing."
If this was praise, it was the weirdest type that Shinji had ever received. As he looked at the Nidoking, seeming almost exhausted, he wondered if Misato could even take on the weakened Drill Pokemon. She was a Normal-Type, so she had no advantage against the Poison/Ground-Type, but she was his remaining Pokemon in the battle.
"It's all up to you now, Misato," he told her.
"Eee," she responded, and ran out onto the platform. "Eee!"
"Graaurgh!" King growled, trying to intimidate the little Pokemon.
Since Nidoking's a stronger Pokemon, I'll have to rely on Misato's speed, Shinji thought.
"King, use Poison Sting!" The Badge Guardian commanded.
King opened his mouth…but nothing short of his breath was expelled; because he had used Hyper Beam against Kensuke, he needed to recover until he was able to use any other attacks.
"Now, Misato, use Take Down!" Shinji commanded, and his Eevee ran over the other platforms towards the Nidoking, ramming him in the gut area, knocking him backwards.
"Graaurgh!" King growled in pain.
Splash! The larger Pokemon fell into the water.
"Eee," Misato, still on the platform that King had been on, wobbled around as she regained her footing.
The pool was quiet as they waited for King to surface. When he did, however, everyone was surprised by what they saw, for King was incapacitated.
"King!" The Badge Guardian gasped, unable to believe that such a small Eevee had beaten his best Pokemon with just one attack, but had to take into consideration that the other attacks from the Pidgeotto and Chikorita were contributing factors. "Ah, no!"
"We…we did it?" Shinji questioned.
The Badge Guardian then recalled his Nidoking and put his Poke Ball away.
"You got guts and spirit, kid," he told Shinji. "You beat my best Pokemon. You've won yourself the Cascade Badge."
Misato ran back towards Shinji and jumped onto his chest, knocking him onto his bottom.
"Eee!" She cheered.
"Ah-ha-ha!" He laughed. "We did it, Misato. We won our second badge."
-x-
As he waited for Misato, Kensuke and Sakura to recover from their injuries, Shinji, in the waiting room area of the Cerulean City Pokemon Center, noticed a large picture on the wall in front of him on the wall. He focused on it and found it unusual. It was of at least four Pokemon, depicted as stone carvings, and the one on the lower right side of the picture caught his attention, for it looked like a strange sort of dinosaur with a weird, fin-like sail on its back.
It feels as if…I've seen that creature before, he thought.
Beside it was another creature that looked as though it stood on four legs, opposite of the bipedal creature Shinji was initially looking at.
A second afterward, Shinji's head started to hurt, probably from staring directly at the carving-like pictures, and he turned away, feeling a little better as he sat back down after initially getting up to examine the picture.
"What a day," he sighed, and lied back in the ball-shaped chair. "I wonder how everyone's doing back in Tokyo-3?"
As soon as he said that, he lost consciousness.
To be continued…
A/N: And with this, his time in the Kanto Region will accelerate, meaning that several events will be skipped entirely. Don't worry, you'll see another evolution in due time. Maybe even a Mega Evolution.