AN: A little bit of something fun, I claim no ownership beyond the writing itself.

"You know those really clear days? I mean the really really clear ones, the sun is shining and everything is perfect? It's beautiful just the perfect everything. That's what it was, I was in a car with my mum just driving along when it happened."

"We'd never heard of Pokemon before, we had no clue what was coming."

"It started just after we'd passed the last of a group of these absolutely stunning houses and hit a patch of open road, parks on either side. It wasn't a very busy day and everything just felt calm. The sunlight was shining down and you could see everything, it was perfect."

"Then everything started feeling heavy, it was slow at first but you could feel it building. Everything seemed to slow down and it kind of felt like we were pushing through honey. It was freaky but I still only felt confused at that point I remember turning to my mum as she turned to me and I said 'this is weird' as she said 'what's going on'."

"And Red, 'yes Grandpa,' that was when it happened. The world lit up as it was struck, moved, and changed."

"There were colours everywhere, it was an actual rainbow hitting the ground in front of me. The best description I've ever heard was it was like the northern lights were everywhere and attacking everything. The weird thing was that they didn't actually do damage, they changed instead. That was the moment I stopped being Liam and I became Indigo."

"But Grandpa how did it change, isn't everything the same now as it was then?"

"It is and it isn't Red, see the world was made stronger, faster, if a plant was killed a new one would grow back eight times faster than it would have before. The buildings were made sturdier, materials were changed, do you know that before the world changed steel was only half the strength that it is now? Bricks were harder, everything just became better. But those were only some of the changes."

"The whole world shifted, I don't know why but the heaviness we felt was the gravity strengthening, we were stuck to the ground and unable to move, our car stopped, birds crashed and I don't know how none of them died."

"You mean bird Pokemon, right Grandpa?"

"No Red, I mean birds, this was before Pokemon. It was back in the days when animals were all we had, when they were still alive."

"It wasn't to us Red, it was all we knew, none of us ever dreamed anything like Pokemon could be real."

"Anyways I'm not up to that part yet, I'm still at the world changing. You see what we found out later was that Arceus had frozen us all to the ground so that he could move all the land masses and keep it safe for us. Thousands of people still died but I doubt hardly anyone would be left if he hadn't done that."

"After we were stuck to the ground, that was when the earth moved, all the different land masses shifted, I watched a chasm open in front of me, fill with water, and the car that had been only a few metres a way fall into the chasm, the man driving it was one of the casualties but as it was the time of creation he became a gastly so it's not really a huge loss."

"That chasm that I was standing next to turned out to be what divides us here in Kanto from the people in Kalos and since your friend Serena lives there now I know you know just how far away that is. It was a miracle that we hadn't driven just the slightest bit further and either joined that man as gastly or ended up living in Kalos. As it was my dad was at work and wound up living in Johto. Not nearly as far but in the early days we never thought we'd see him again and I didn't find him for a good twenty five years and by then he had a new family and twelve little girls with blue hair"

"The weirdest part was how much Arceus seemed to play with our world, a house that was next to mine was lifted up and moved all the way to Sinnoh and a large, very deep pond was left in its place. That pond merged with a nearby creek that led over to the ocean over the next few weeks and the creek became a lot bigger, it's now an important part of cerulean city and the Gym is fairly close by."

"The biggest change at first though, beyond what happened to the world around us, was what happened to our bodies. When I was a kid, brown, red, blond, and black, were the only natural hair colours. Eye colours only had a few shades as well. The 'northern lights of change' that Arceus brought changed all of that. My hair went from dark auburn to this bright dark indigo shade and my eyes changed to these intensely pale aqua colour you see before you. My mum sitting next to me found her hair purple and her formerly hazel eyes were now a dark green. When we got home my sister matched me while my brother's had blue hair and amber eyes, something we would find out was from our dad as all our future sisters had the same colouring as him."

"After exploring the new world a bit we also discovered that we got tired far less, that our bodies were stronger in everything, that all illnesses were healed and all disabilities corrected, everyone was on a level playing field. Or dead."

"The abilities we had we discovered much later, at first we were just scared and confused. When the world finished shifting and our cars and technology started again was when we had to start life all over. There were two cars next to us and when the world started again they both drove straight over the cliff. My mum was smart enough that she was prepared to brake the car and the moment we could we spun around and drove back home."

"Everything was so different though, it took us hours before we got home and when we did it turned out things hadn't finished changing. You see the Pokemon hadn't appeared yet, and neither had the pokeballs."

"But Grandpa! The pokeballs couldn't just appear! They're made from apricorns!"

"Not originally Red, when the Pokemon first appeared there were no apricorn trees, instead there were a few trees that sprouted up every here and there, they were the first apricorn trees and each tree had just three pokeballs as well as any apricorns that were growing. While these trees were growing, they only took about a day, the other trees around them were changing. Many of them stayed the same but nearly every tree started growing berries and some of their colours changed. It was a weird time Red. Really the only things that didn't change, over this whole period, were the animals."

"We had a pet dog and a pet cat at my house and my whole family was happy to see that the were ok during the first few days when the changes around us were so stark and still continuing, ever so slowly. In that time an apricorn tree grew in our yard and my brother sister and I each picked a pokeball thinking it was a pretty cool ornament and each of us liking the way they could shrink. I was 20 at this point, my sister was 18 and my brother 15. That was why we ruled that 15 year olds were old enough to be trainers and no others, anyone under that was just too easily killed."

"It wasn't until the end of that first week that the Pokemon appeared, each one striking the earth or sea differently. Columns of light would come down with differing force and strike the earth, disappearing and leaving behind a Pokemon. This was mainly how we discovered the typing system, each light was a different colour depending on the species of the Pokemon it released. Because so many people filmed the appearance of Pokemon we could tell that there were similarities between them and we just had to put names to it. Of course not every Pokemon was caught on camera and with the restructuring the world had to go through and the appearance of certain types of Pokemon we were unable to communicate with people from other regions or sometimes even other cities. This is the reason that so many Pokemon were mislabelled as another type, the colours were just so hard to figure out. The only reason we even knew that Pokemon could have more that one type and there weren't just an infinite number of different shades was that any Pokémon that had two types had two different colours in its birthlight that merged into one as it neared earth."

"My siblings and I weren't overly concerned with that though, I was slightly behind in rent at the time and the fact that my own house was now in the newly named saffron city instead of cerulean like my mums was just a slight weight off my mind and the eggs that were quickly hatching into Pokemon were much more exciting. My siblings and I went out to explore these new creatures and though we didn't go far we found a lot."

In those few days the Pokemon that appeared were distinct, Kanto Pokemon could only be found in Kanto Sinnoh in Sinnoh, nowadays with all the trainers catching and releasing Pokemon it's much more diverse now. The only real exception to this is a few of the water and flying types which because of the air and water currents were shuttled to different regions. Kanto wasn't affected to greatly although Pidgey were nearly all from Kanto originally. My Toxapex, back when she was still a Mareanie in an egg was an example of this. Some of the ocean currents pushed her egg all the way up the creek by our old house in cerulean and my siblings and I found her with two other eggs, one of them belonged to the gastly born from that man who'd fallen off the cliff, and the third belonging to my sister's tentacool, the only one of our Pokémon back them that couldn't leave the water."

"The real drama was when some of the Pokémon had eggs with the animals, kangaskhan are a strange mix from kangaroos, nidoran and ryhdon for example, but then, once the animals had mixed somewhat with the Pokemon, the Pokemon began eating the animals. The animals that weren't eaten just couldn't survive the changes to the planet or any of the attacks that the Pokemon used. My mareanie tried to hug my cat and her spikes just went straight through. Without the necessary extra strength my cat didn't make it. Thankfully though my dog and a growlithe, he couldn't handle the fire breath at the end but she left behind a beautiful pair of eggs that hatched into my and my sisters old hounder."

"But back to the big changes as you know we discovered that our hair colour matched the different Pokémon types that were out there in the world, the shades have evolved since then so the colours don't align quite so closely but both my and my sisters hair is Indigo and if you look at the back," Indigo turns and shows the back of his head to his great great grandson and shows him how the colour splits along a squiggly line, half of it bright purple and the other a strong blue. That told me that I was somehow connected to my mareanie, just as my sister having the same was connected to her tentacool and my brother's two shades of purple showed his connection to his gastly."

"A few years down the line and the animals are gone, if they're in the right environment Pokemon can mature very quickly so the numbers of Pokemon have increased like no tomorrow, when it became clear that the animals we ate weren't going to last long the scientists realised we would need new food and found a way to synthesise meat which is what most of us eat now, personally I tend to eat a fair bit of corsola but that's just personal preference,"

"What! But Grandpa corsola are Pokemon, how can you eat them?"

"Well you see Red, it turned out that when Arceus changed the world to make it safe to house Pokemon, he changed the people so that they would become more like the Pokemon they lived with. That's why I'm turning two-hundred-and-thirty-six next month and my sister will be two-hundred-and-thirty-four. I'm not sure how old my brother is, spending so much time around ghosts did some weird things to his age. I haven't seen him in years after he joined a few trainers in the Pokémon tower, back before there was a town around it, and I know they named Lavender town after him. I'm pretty sure he helped train Agatha of the elite four but getting any further information out of that ghostly gang is a nightmare and a half."

"I see my sister a fair bit more but after a few centuries setting up the indigo league with me and so many years with her family she moved underwater with her husband where only you, me, my husband, and a few of your cousins can visit her without a submarine. As you know breathing underwater is a skill the two of us have been gifted with thanks to working so close with water types for so many years, and it's so ingrained in who I am now it's passed on to some of my descendants, but let my tell you, teaching my husband that he could breathe underwater was not easy, he was far too convinced that he would drown to actually open his mouth and suck in the water."

"But back the the story Red, we were just getting past how my siblings and I had discovered our Pokemon, but I haven't spoken that much about what the rest of our city was going through. Like I said, there was chaos and confusion everywhere, people were able to sort out immediate issues like food fairly easily, even if they weren't that close to a farm, after the greatest planetary restructuring this world has ever known. they were able to eat the berries on the trees much to everyone's relief, and the biggest issue we were facing was "how do we organise ourselves."

"It was a few years where there was no law, the only way we got through the day was by each person doing what they could to take care of those who couldn't care for themselves and there was a hell of a lot of difficulty with those people who were so scared or confused that they just did whatever helped themselves instead."

"Not everyone was as lucky as me and my siblings, we each found a Pokemon that bonded with us well and it wasn't hard to train them, although learning about Pokemon attacks and how to control them was a mission and a half."

"But Grandpa, isn't that what Pokemon training is?"

"It is these days red, but back then training was teaching an animal where to poop, not to jump on strangers and that sort of thing."

"Do we still have to do that now?"

"Yes and no, baby Pokemon still need to be taught those things sometimes, and you do still need to teach your Pokemon to listen to and trust you but training now is more about learning what moves and actions will get the most out of your Pokemon."

"Ok, so what happened to the bad guys?"

"Well Red, that was what my siblings and I focused on the most, we were spending most of our time playing with our Pokemon and sorting out our living situation, but we quickly became known for helping out with any issues that arose, and after the first several months we were taking our Pokemon with, to help us do so. By that point anyone else who had a Pokemon egg after the shift was doing the same and we ended up solving a lot of the issues with our Pokemon companions."

"The three of us wound up in a sort of city council working together to keep things organised and we made all sorts of rules about how to go about life since the change. People weren't allowed to keep certain types of Pokemon within the city borders, there was a certain distance you could leave the city without a Pokemon trainer escort, and we had a list of everyone who had a Pokemon and kept in contact with them to try and ensure that we weren't forgetting the rest of the world and each other, as with the rearranging of the planet we had lost the ability to communicate with the internet or phones."

"It was a few years like this, building things up, travelling, mostly by foot as the new trees had completely removed our ability to travel by road, until we managed to get all of Kanto connected to each other in some manner. By the time we had my sister and I had become known as some of the most powerful trainers in all of Kanto and people had begun turning to us for answers on all sorts of things. We had begun to be called the 'Indigo duo' because of our hair, my sister, Ari, and I decided at this point that we should form an organisation to try and promote Pokemon training. We called it 'The Indigo League,' because of our nickname but we still had so much of Kanto left to cover and whilst all of our closest friends were either in it, or signing up we had a lot of work left, beating back the hecklers, although to be honest, Ari was sometimes as much of a heckler as all the rest."

"We hadn't been able to fly a plane since the shift, since, as we had discovered, jet fuel no longer combusted the same, but using a Pokemon to fly around worked surprisingly well. The only problem being that a Pokemon got tired, and if flying, a rider they would get tired very, very quickly. You should be fairly familiar with this, what with Ian, your younger brother and his flying practice."

"Yea, I remember he had to build up flying energy for ages just to be able to stay in the air for more than five minutes."

"Yes, that'd be because he has the flying type, inherited from your other Grandpa. My Jonathan's Gyarados is a bit of a powerhouse these days, but back when I was travelling around with other trainers and setting things up, and he was staying at home with Great Grandma Idina and a little Magikarp in a tank, I couldn't understand why he wouldn't just set it free and let it live. But he always said, 'there's something special about it, I just know he needs more time.' Honestly I thought it was a bit pathetic, but when he eventually came flying down and met me at my mother's house I could understand why he had taken so long."

"Apparently Gyarados had evolved after some issue with a few of Jonathans friends at a party he'd thrown, things had gotten a bit heated and Magikarp's tank was smashed, he ended up hurting himself on the glass and when Jonathan got back to the room and saw what had happened to his poor Magikarp, well, he always said that his tears were what caused the little guy to evolve. Mind you he ended up taking out half the house when he did, and not just with shock, but when all was said and done Jonathan didn't care so much about the damage, but more that his little Magikarp, that I always doubted, had finally evolved and he could come to me with concrete proof that one of his beliefs was actually right."

"Well because we couldn't a plane, and even Grandpa Jonathan's Gyarados struggled to fly for long enough to get to another country we decided that the overall aim of The Indigo League was to strengthen Pokemon and their bonds with their trainers. We had realised that Pokemon could only get stronger, as long as they kept training there was no limit to how powerful they could become and that if we could get a team of flying types strong enough we could maybe fly to the other regions and regain what we had lost. Not to mention that we could actually enforce laws and rules if we could travel around quickly enough."

"We got Jonathan's friend Lynn to write up the declaration and draft our laws after a talk in Jonathan's room, I can't really tell you what happened, but I think it was one of the biggest turning points in Kanto, and the League's history."

"After that it was just setting things to right, we had the League, our indigo team, our laws, our motto, Love Freely, and our country in order."

"We set up a competition which is what you would know from TV, of trainer battles, this was the original intention of the Indigo League and we had all the strongest trainers competing, Layton, Taylor, Selena, Stormi the list goes on but those are some of the ones you'd know."

"Wait, Stormi? Isn't that mom?"

"Yes Red, your mum and her family were big in the it's founding, of course your mum only won recently but her whole family has been a part of the league since it's inception."

"And what about the others you mentioned Grandpa?"

"Well Layton is a good friend of mine, you know him better as LeiLei, since he's your old babysitter…?"

"Wait LeiLei was in the league"

"Yes Honey, he was one of the first winners."

"And Taylor and Selena?"

"You might know them better from the pop group Z-and-the-Starlets?"

"Seriously Grandpa?" I love them, they're the best group ever!"

"I Know Honey, it's just such a shame they're all dead now, music was so much better back then."

"Wait they're dead? I thought they were playing at the music hall this week?"

"No Honey, I swear to god they died years ago, I haven't heard from them in ages."

"Grandpa you're being silly again!"

"No I'm not Red, Like For goodness sake, what do you take me for, some kind of silly old man?

"Now, to the point of my being here. I've been having a problem lately, see, I've had one friend for almost as long as I can remember. She's a Raichu, but she's a terrible mother and I have to keep rescuing her kids from her, I was hoping you'd be willing to take care of this little guy?" Liam Indigo says as he takes a small baby Pichu out of a basket and hands it to the boy, "Treat it well and it will never leave your side. But be careful of the electric shocks. And whatever you do, don't evolve it in Alola unless you're prepared for it to talk in your head constantly, they get telepathy sometimes if you raise them outside Kanto."

"Wow Grandpa, thank you so much, I'll take really good care of it."

"I know you will Red. I love you Honey."

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Love Freely.