Pokémon Iridescent: Evolving Era Arc 1: Fabled Failure

[Mr.WHAM]

[i][size=4][u]The Story As It Is Written Thus Far...[/u][/size][/i]

[i]Throughout th[/i]e [i]Pokémon World, everything a trainer knew had been set in stone. Get your first Pokémon and catch others. Raise them up, having wondrous and incredulous adventures. Their ultimate goals, whatever they may be, is to create the perfect bond between themselves and their Pokémon. This was the way Pokémon trainers, coordinaters and masters lived. These are the stories of how the world has come to what it is now.[/i]

[i]Across all the regions and the Orange Islands, select trainers had a dreams sent to them. The events in the dreams are still a mystery, but now the destines of the dreamers are intertwined. Once they meet, they will become rivals, lovers, friends, travelers and more. However, they are scattered across the world. Some of them will be connoisseurs, others Gym leaders but all will a true [/i][i]Pokémon Master. But first their adventures must begin...[/i]

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The light was irritating as all hell so, Abrax didn't even bother to look at what was happening. Then he heard a voice, one that commanded respect and resonated with power. "[i]From wandering through your realm, I have summoned you...[/i]" "WHERE THE HELL AM I!!!!!!"

"[i]Behold, for in this Game of Life, you are the EndEra.[/i] Era...eraa, eraaaaa" His alarm was blaring as he got up, his mind trying to comprehend what was going on. His nose filled with the scent of Mahogany as he looked wide-eyed around his redwood room. He leaned forward and his equilibrium was completely out of synch. Pummeling to the floor Abrax,yelled out "Doom! Come here, I need you."

After about five minutes of getting his senses together, he got his clothes on. "Doom," he said putting on the elegant cloak and pants, "I need you to look into my mind and help me figure out what the dream I just had was. You up for it?" Doom nodded, disappearing from sight. As he did, Abrax, went forward, grabbing Doom's Pokeball. It was purple ad would change to have a red glow about the middle. The trainer set off, wishing a good-bye to his mother and heading straight to the Pallet Town Pokemon lab. "Doom. You find anything?" The Darkrai shook his head.
"No, but in all seriousness, there has not been a dream that I couldn't see. Someone must have blocked it. Someone more powerful than ME." That last statement worried Abrax. 'Nothing has been able to stop Doom from entering into dreams. This is serious.'


"Welcome to the la---"
"HEY OAK. WASSUP BROHAM?!"
"Abrax, its...you. Here to begin you journey I suppose. Well here is the first our remaining two starters. Bulbasaur. He is a Grass Type and---"

"Professor, I want a Fire Type." His face was lit up with happiness as he looked at the other Pokeball. "Its this one is isn't it?" He reached for the Pokeball and released the Pokemon to reveal a Squritle. "What the hell!!! Where's Charmander?"

"He's gone Abrax. Someone who wasn't late beat you to him. Hmmm, reminds me of Ash." Abrax winced at the name of his father. His mom Cynthia had told him about the numerous times she and his father battle and well, what happened after that was too much to get into. Shaking off the thoughts, he looked to the TV. The news was on and normally he'd look away, but it was talking about a rare Pokemon.
"...A Cyndaquil has been spotted in Pallet Town. However this is no ordinary Cyndaquil. With the footage that we have we will show you that this Cyndaquil has pure red with a black epicenter." The news report continued an Abrax was already out of the lab. "C'Mon Gary!!!! We need to catch that Cyndaquil!" Grabbing a Pokeball, Abrax ran out of the Lab and Gary Oak talked to his assistant.
"Max, watch the Lab! I need to help him catch this Pokemon!"
"Are you sure that's okay Professor? Its not a traditional starter"
"For this region it's not, but it is in Johto. It'll be fine. Make sure you ell anyone that comes we will be by Route 1."
"Will do . Keep Him calm!" With that Gary rushed out the door, following Abrax to the fields, in search of Cyndaquil.

[Christian Exodia]

A mother helped her daughter pack. "You won't need much, just some essentials. Pokemon Food, a small pack of clothing. Maybe something rubber in case you catch an Electic type or Trina decides to use Thunder Wave on you. Well, after you get some Pokeballs from the Professor, you'll be on your way." She started to sob, but overcame it. She waved her daughter out of the City. "Explore the world, Gina! That Dratini will take you places!" The girl named Gina ran away from the home, then to the lab. She waved at the Professor, and smiled. "Professor, could I get some Pokeballs so I can begin my journey?"

[Reaper of Shadows]

Rai sprang out of bed, his heart racing. He mind was a blur as he tried to make sense of what he'd saw. He closed his eyes, thinking hard, trying to remember the dream he'd just had. [i]Behold, for in this Game of Life, you are the EndEra...[/i] He couldn't remember anything more though. [i]Weird[/i] He yawned and stretched briefly before hopping out of bed...and landing on Flygon. He pinwheeled his arm, but could not maintain his balance and collapsed, waking up Flygon. Further hilarity ensued as they both attempted to rise.

"That was your fault," Rai grumbled. A quick flick of Flygon's tail sent Rai sprawling face down onto the bed. He turned over, glaring at Flygon who looked at his paws innocently.

{I had nothing to do with that. You leapt on me, remember?} Flygon replied, a hint of amusement in its voice.

Since it had been born, Flygon had always been able to communicate with Rai through his thoughts. It wasn't so much speach, rather it was more feelings, images, temperature fluctuations etc, but after all this time Rai had no problem understanding. It was his and Flygon's own language. {You leapt onto me little one} Flygon replied.

"Maybe," Rai replied, "But you were the one sprawled across the floor like a Growlithe."

Flygon growled. {I eat Growlith for breakfast!}

"I can't believe it," Rai laughed. "You're still mad that Growlithe beat you."

{Only because I wasn't full size}

"Sure sure," Rai said. He got ready quickly and headed downstairs for breakfast. He wasn't at his house in Slateport; he was at his grandmothers house in Littleroot. Today was the day he would get his starter and become a pokemon trainer. [i] I'll make you proud Dad[/i]

{We both will} Flygon said, standing at his side. Flygon was roughly the size of Rai, he had a ways to go before he would be fully grown. Together they said goodbye to his grandmother and left the house, heading in the direction of the Lab. The entire time, they argued about which starter to chose. Flygon wanted him to get torchic while Rai himself was more partial to Mudkip. Flygon adamently refused to let a pokemon that could potentially learn Ice Beam on the team.

"You're being difficult Z," Rai said. Z, the Flygon, rolled his eyes, but before he could respond they saw something dart part them and head into the grasses to their left.

{Ummm was that a pokemon?} Flygon asked?

"I believe so," Rai though. His hand went to his pouch, moving past the modded Ultra Ball that had been his fathers and that was now Z's pokeball(when he used it). Beside it lay a Great Ball, his fathers last pokeball."Yep," he replied and together they rushed after the pokemon.

[Shadow Zero]

Shimon was sleeping peacefully enough. And then he had some weird dream. He was standing in a dark space, with no discernible floor or boundaries of any sort. He could hear a voice speaking to him, although it was saying a bunch of stuff that he couldn't understand. "Who are you?!"
Even though Shimon yelled as loudly as he could, his voice was the only thing that he could hear. There was no response. Instead of simply standing there, he began turning on the spot, his head turning from one side to another as he searched for the source of that voice that spoke from out of the darkness. However, despite his efforts, he could see nothing. The darkness was ever present, pressing in on his eyeballs almost as strongly as though it were a physical force.
"Show yourself!" Again, no response. In irritation, Shimon turned around to see if there was anything behind him, and found himself face to face with a fully grown Mewtwo. This caught him by surprise, and caused him to back up several feet. The Mewtwo said nothing. It simply raised its three fingered hand in his direction before expanding its fingers to their fullest extent. There was a flash of light, and next moment Shimon's eyes snapped open.
Hovering inches from his face was the face of a Mewtwo, except this one was still just a kid. Scowling a bit, Shimon grabbed the Mewtwo's tailand held it at arms length. The Mewtwo started thrashing around in surprise as Shimon sat up, still holding it at arms length. "You were poking around in my head again, weren't you?"
The Mewtwo stopped thrashing and gave Shimon a half sheepish, half pleasing look before looking away, communicating the feeling of worry that it had been feeling at the time it was apparently poking around in Shimon's head. Shimon sighed and let go of the Mewtwo's tail as he got up and out of bed, starting to get dressed. Today was a big day, after all. Today he was starting his journey. He couldn't really afford dwell on dreams and the like if he wanted to be able to focus on the task at hand.

[Master of The Dark]

Leo shot out of his bed hitting his head on the floor. [color=#ff0000]"What the hell was tht all about? [i]From wandering through your realm, I have summoned you... Behold, for in this Game of Life, you are the EndEra. What the hell was that all about and whats an end Era anyway?" [/i][/color][i]Leo spoke to his Snivy who laied in the corner of his room just waking up. "Sin... Sinvy." The small grass pokemon replied while shruging it's shoulders.[/i]


[i]"Amber What pokemon do you choise to start your journey with?" Proffesor Elm asked as he hit a button on the counter moving a large white tube from the floor to the ceiling revealing nothing but a blinding light and a voice from nowhere. "[i]From wandering through your realm, I have summoned you..." [/i][/i][color=#4b0082][i][i]"Whats going on Grandfather where are you?"[/i][/i][/color][i][color=#4b0082] [/color][i]"Behold, for in this Game of Life, you are the EndEra."[/i][/i]

[Mr.WHAM]

It'd been an hour since Abrax, Gary & Doom, had been searching for this Cyndaquil all over Route 1. "Damn Gary, this thing is ridiculous." He tapped on the Professor's head, planting some Oran berries there he had found as the sat down in the grass. "This will prove to be rather irritating won't it? I mean. We have been going around for a few days man. What can you possibly expect from us! We're only so young!"
Gary sighed. He's been highly annoyed but he'd suspected such a thing. "Ninetails. Use Extrasensory to help us search for this Cyndaquil faster!!!" The pokeball glowed and released the attack, their senses being heightened. It was now that Gary felt the berries on his head. He laughed at the prank before he smelled the smell of something burning. "Abrax! MOVE!!!!" Gary said as the flames instantly burnt the berries & were headed straight for Abrax. He took a good portion of the attack before Darkrai came in and blocked it. "Move!" Doom said, pushing them out of the way. "We fight now, you know what I can do, so let's go ahead! Doom, Ominous Wind!!!!"
The Pitch Black Pokemon nodded as the Pokemon generated a gust of wind but the Cyndaquil dodged the attack and headed in with a tackle. Darkrai took the attack head on appeared unfazed. 'Two attacks and this little bugger has taken nothing.' "Doom, Shadow Ball, close up!" The little fire pokemon, got in close as it was unnaturally fast and once again tackled Doom. The Shadow ball exploded in Doom's as it was knocked back.
"Ab, I can help you if you--"
"No! This is my battle. You ready Darkrai?" He nodded. "Back away & use shadow ball rapid fire!" Darkrai followed the commands perfectly as the Cyndaquil seemed to be using Agility to boost its speed. 'What the HELL?' The Fire Mouse was charging another Incinerate in its mouth. "Doom, Use Ominous on the ground near Cyndaquil." The little pokemon got caught in the path of the attack as it was propelled i the air. "Doom, fly in Close and use Shadow Ball Twice Full Power!!!!" The Pitch Black Pokemon landed the first attack successfully, pushing it away. Doom charged the second attack as it was met with a Blaze empowered Incinerate and the attacks collided. Both pokemon were knocked back down weakened. Doom was breathing heavily and Cyndaquil could barely look up. Abrax saw his opportunity and took out a pokeball. He pressed the button in the center as it expanded in his hand. "Pokeball, GO!" he said as he slung the pokeball at the little mouse. The ball hit on the fallen pokemon's head as it was absorbed into the sphere and it shook, violently. The pokeball cracked from all the shaking and almost shorted out, but Cyndaquil was caught. A look of pure ecstacy was wriite all over Abrax's face as he released the pokemon. Then he remembered what just happened. "He burnt the berries. Professor, you can heal Doom & Apollo at the lab?"
"Apollo? You name him already & sure let's head back." Gary said as he and the trainer moved back into the lab, Abrax at full sprint. He would not stop until he got his Pokemon to safety.
"You guys are my friends now & I'll be taking care of you!" he said to them, with Doom attached to his shadow and Apollo cradled in his arms.

[Christian Exodia]

After recieving her Pokeballs, she left for Cherrygrove. About half-way through, she tripped over something. She found it was an egg! "Lucky, lucky, lucky me!" She tucked in within her clothing in the Backpack. She smiled, and continued through the Route, catching a Pidgey along the way. "I'll name you... Alexander." She put a Bowtie on him, and pulled him into his Pokeball. She walked into Cherrygrove, and recieved Running Shoes from a nice man. She walked into a Pokemon Center and healed each of her Pokemon, carefully holding the Egg. She then rested at the Center for the day, caring for the egg, trying to get it to quickly hatch.

[Lord JZ of the Enigma]

Riding through the forest on a bike like usual, Ralts (nicknamed Hana) riding in the basket in front of him was just enjoying the breeze as they rode. passing trees through the park on their way to a routine delivery stop, Hana loved this path, she would normally look upon the flowers and especially the one broken tree path, named as such because of a boy who one day crashed there, while some would see it as a misfortune that path brought her favorite memory back to her mind, the day she met Seishin, it always put a smile to her face, the day she had met her best friend.

Seishin looked out at the end of the path when he realized, he was passing the same scenery over and over, as if he wasn't moving at all, but he still felt the wind pass by him and the bike was definitely moving. "Hana?.....are you doing this?" he asked his lil Ralts, but she turned to him and managed to speak. [color=#0000FF]"It's not me Seishin.....huh?"[/color] Hana quit speaking, this meant that they were in a dream, she normally ventured into them to speak with him, but neither of them had noticed they were asleep.

"We're asleep?" Seishin looked around and stopped petalig, he no longer had control over his bike as it kept moving forward without his consent. "what is this?"

[color=#0000FF]"I'm not sure......I don't remember any of your dreams being like this before....."[/color] Hana said as she tried to stop the dream and wake them both up, to no avail as they heard a deep voice coming from the woods.

[b]"Soon enough the time will come, train well and prove yourself, Behold, for in this game of life you are the EndEra"[/b] The voice left as soon as it came as a sudden jolt caused the dream to end. Seishin and Hana awoke next to each other, as usual she had sleptwalked into his bed and snuggled him. It was always an awkward feeling for Seishin, and even more so today as his mother had entered the room earlier and was staring at them.

"I didn't want to interrupt, and I know you're not getting a starter, but Professor Birch can only hold on to the Pokeballs and Dex as long as he can before other trainers will get them, so stop snuggling your girlfriend and get going!" she ordered with a joking tone at the end, Seishin gave her a quick response in the form of a facepalm as he hurried along, jumping out of bed as Hana looked and saw him run out to get his bike ready....blushing when she noticed he forgot something.

As Seishin had a lunch ready, his map for professor Birch's house and other supplies, he saw Hana coming down tugging on something. "What is it Hana? what you holding?" he asked as she gave one good tug with her tiny little arms to revealed he had run downstairs and was now preparing his stuff outside....all while not wearing pants.....

[Christian Exodia]

Alexander and Trina were being fed. This was in the morning. Gina's hair was frizzled and the goggles weren't yet in it. She smiled. The egg was nestled in the warmth of the circle of friends. She had her Pokedex open, studying the egg. She saw it was closer to hatching than most eggs at that point. She gaped. But thought of something. "Alexander, perch on my arm. Trina, wrap around my neck." She decided to try and give it as much concentrated warmth as possible. She grabbed the egg, and hugged it tightly. She didn't know what, but it started glowing. She ran outside, and gave it as much room as possible. The features grew out of the light, and things came into view. "Latias!" She clenched her hands tight, and did a Fangirl "Squee!!!" And hugged it. It tried to zip away, dragging her with it. She pulled out a Pokeball, and poked it to it's nose. She left a uprooted patch of grass into the next route, and into a Caterpie. She had an extra Pokeball in her hands, and it hit it. She got two Pokemon in one fell swoop, both somehow by accident.

[Shadow Zero]

Shimon finishes getting ready and grabs his backpack before heading out. He had packed it the night before. He heads straight for the front door, only to find that he has come face to face with his parents. He stops and stands still, waiting to see what would happen. They had hardly spoken since the funeral. In truth, Shimon felt that they would be better off without him, seeing as all he seems to have done is brought trouble into the house. This in part is what prompted him to start his journey. His parents move forward and each give him something.
From his dad, a flute that he had owned since he was around Shimon's age. And from his mom, a few of the necessities for survival, such as medicine packets and dried herbs. He accepted both of these quietly and without a word and placed them into his pack. As he slung it back onto his shoulders, his parents both draw him into a silent hug, taking him completely by surprise and causing a sudden swell of conflicting emotions. He barely manages to conceal it all underneath a neutral expression. His parents said nothing, simply stepped aside so as to allow him and his Pokemon to leave.
If nothing else, at least they were as perceptive as they always were...and at least they still seemed to care. Shimon swallows his emotions as deep down as he possibly can and leaves the house, his Mewtwo flying along behind him and landing on top of his travel pack.Shimon doesn't even stop at a place to get something to eat. He can do that on the train while he's headed to Pallet Town. That said, getting on the train is exactly what he does, after purchasing his ticket and waiting for however long. And now he is on his way to Pallet Town, although the train doesn't go all the way there for some reason, so He'll have to travel the last few miles on his own.

[Lord JZ of the Enigma]

Traveling backwards from the normal path was always a bit difficult, having to watch all of the pokemon trainers walk the other way was worse, he knew they were headed to his town for the first pokemon gym nearby which was in his hometown, but he also knew that if they saw Hana they would challenge them to a battle they weren't ready for, she had never been in battle and they had ordered a TM to be at Prof. Birch's house for them to keep themselves protected while Hana learned stronger moves, as such the two were traveling discreetly as Hana was in her basket covered by a blanket, while Seishin just made himself look like a delivery boy on his way to Littleroot.
"We'll be there soon Hana, just hold on a little longer." he said as he rushed through the woods, feeling nostalgic as he passed by the broken tree route. "brings memories, don't it?:" he said with a laugh

[Reaper of Shadows]

"Darn where is it?" Rai questioned as he and Z searched through the grass. "Did you get a scent?"

{Unfortunately not} Z responded. {It happened too fast. However from what I know of this area, I am fairly sure that it was one of two things. A Zigzagoon or a Ralts. I think. Look both up}

"I can't, I didn't get my pokénav yet," Rai said grumpily. "Should've just gone to the lab."

A menacing grown arose from Z's throat. {It will be a sad day before some puny creature escapes me. Get on!}

"Z, that's not gonna happen. You're not big nor strong enough to carry my weight. You know that. Flight's not gonna happen yet-" Rai stopped talking as Z hot breath washe over the back of his neck.

{I wasn't asking Rai. I'm not some dumb beast, I know I can't fly you yet. Get on!}

Shaking his head, Rai clambered onto his Flygon's back. They had tried this before, with the same result everytime. Z was too small to unfurl his wings around Rai when Rai was on his back.

{Hold on, I'm only going to do this once} Z tensed, then leapt into the air. As his jump carried him 15 feet into the air, he screeched loudly, scaring the pokemon in the grass out of hiding.

"There it is!" Rai shouted, pointing at the Ralts that had emerged. They landed and Rai scrambled off of Z before they both raced ahead to confront the Ralts.

{There it is} Z said as the burst into a clearing. The Ralt's leaned lazily against a tree root, eating a berry.

"A Ralts, and it looks to be male. That's perfect," Rai exclaimed. You ready Z?"

{Ughh you humans and you're shortening of names. You know I prefer 'Zero'. And yes I am}

"Excellent. First things first, lets gage this Ralt's level. Start off with Fly. I know its not idea fpr this enviornment but I want to see how this Ralts reacts.

{Gotcha} Zero said before it leapt up into the air. He flew higher and higher, before stopping and beginning its decent. It picked up speed, going faster and fast until it was almost on Ralts and it lowered its shoulder to slam it. The Rlats in question lazily popped the rest of the berry into its mouth, before it blurred and ten copies of it sprang into existence.

"Halt," Rai commanded and Zero quickly flared its wings to kill speed and stop its decent. "Ralts is using double team, so its at least LV10. Watch out."

Zero glanced back and forth, attempting to figure out which Ralts was real. {Hmmmm, interesting manuever. However...} Zero whirled around.

"Relax Z," Rai said. "Lets keep it basic. These are all copies. What would the orginal have thay the copies don't."

{Everythings the same, even the smell! Double Team is the perfect evasive move.}

"You're forgetting about one thing friend. What did Ralts have before we got here?"

Zero's eyes widened in realization, and he whirled to the left in time to see Ralts use confusion. The waves of psychic energy raced toward Zero.

"Battle strategy number #1" Rai called, and Zero smirked (if a pokemon could smirk). He dodged to the left, and began hopping back, the Ralts following. Suddenly, Zero stopped, allowing Ralts to get in close and hit him with a full power Confusion. Zero staggered back, falling to one knee and grasping his head.

"Faint attack!" Rai shouted and Zero hopped back up as a dark aura surrounded it. A light black film covered Ralts' eyes and to it, it seemed as though Flygon had vanished.

WHAM!! Zero rammed its shoulder hard into Ralts' chest, sending it flying into a tree. "Go Great Ball!!" Rai shouted, sending the soaring. It hit Ralts, coverting it to pure energy before it was absorbed by the ball. The ball fell to the ground, twitched once, then twice, before it stilled. Rai walked over and picked up the Great Ball, smirking as he stared at it. "Excellent," he said. "Welcome to the team X."

{You and you're shortening. Leta go with Xeo} Zero grumbled as it fell onto its back.

"Good job Zero. Sorry about that. Strategy number 1; this is the first time we really got to test it in combat. I was banking on you not getting confused so we could hit Ralts with a super effective attack. Its crude but..." he shrugged.

{I know. Its no problem. Thats for the berry tip}

"Yes well, thank you. Couldn't have done it without you." They sat there, enjoying their success before Rai spoke up again. "Come on. We still gotta grab our pokénav, and I think a little healing wouldn't hurt either." Together they hopped up, and began their journey back to Littleroot town.

[Lord JZ of the Enigma]

While walking down the pathway a battle was heard, a worrying one too, they could hear some intense battling from what sounded like a Flygon and a Ralts and that made Hana very nervous. "It's okay....we won't go near a trainer with a fully evolved pokemon....." he said nervously as he kept riding his bike forward, hearing the battle end with the trainer capturing the Ralts, this put him to worry as well, officially he never caught Hana, and as such she could still be caught by any other trainer, but he grit his teeth and kept pedaling as he was on his way to Littleroot town to get his supplies as quickly as possible.

While riding he passed the small clearing where he saw the trainer and a small flygon holding a blue pokeball, he recognized it as a great ball, but he had no time to observe as he just kept on going down the route, avoiding any and all trainers.

[Christian Exodia]

She walked back, half of her hair combed down in an odd way. She held her two Pokeballs, one of her Latias, another of her Caterpie. "What luck... that's what I was going for. I'll name you... wow, another male... Lucifer. You will probably raise all heck once you are a Butterfree. I think this is a good team for a while. But I heard there were two magnificent Pokemon up ahead. Gastly, and Growlithe. I plan on catching both. This will fill up my team, granted I catch it. And, I think the team with that up ahead would be perfect. But you guys are perfect." She smiled, and had each of her Pokemon on the ready.

[Mr.WHAM]

Abrax looked around the Pallet Town Pokemon Lab. He really hadn't take it in before as he had been focused solely on obtaining his starter Pokemon, which he was especially happy to have now. A spunky Cyndaquil and powerful to boot, a wonderfully noxious combination along Doom. The Lab though, was spectacular and impressive. All around him he saw Pokemon cawing and hollering out, interacting with each other. He pressed his face up against a glass wall to wave at a herd of Tauros next to a field full of Miltank grazing. He was tackled by a little Rattata and Pichu who were playing together and had walked in the midst of their path. The two babies liked him, all Pokemon he met generally did. He befriended them easily & understood their pain & joys, their thrill for battle & other emotions. It was for that reason why he was worried about Cyndaquil. He'd known Cyndaquil was near when he put the berries on Gary's head. He just didn't expect Incinerate. As he got finished playing with the Pokemon, he walked over to Max. "So you're the one whose going to give me my stuff?"

"Yes. Here's your PokeDex, PokeNav, & the newest piece in Pokemon Travel and storage, the PokeTex. It can take care of all your Pokemon needs during your travels. It can hold your badges, ribbons trophies and various other collectibles. It holds your pokemon ID card & can let you view other trainers with this device or whom you've met. When you meet another trainer with one of these, which, I will do now." Max grabbed up 5 boxes while Abrax helped. He found a list of instructions and sent out a box to the 4 other regions & Professor Ivy in Valencia Island. "There. The Tex also will synch with your Pokedex & PokeNav, this can scan pokemon and pull up there data in a hologram. The Map is voice activated, covers every Region and the Archipelago. It can be navigated by touch and voice so be ready to use it. Finally," Max put the device on Abrax's wrist as he showed him how to access the menu. A small 2x4 Inch screen was pulled up and a menu was revealed. "I'll show you how to gain access to your items." Max scrolled through screen as a virtual image of a Pokeball was pulled up. He typed in 1 on the screen as a laser beam came from out of the device. The beam formed the digital image of a Pokeball in Abrax's hand as it transferred the data and the Pokeball appeared. Abrax's face was purely shocked. "It'll scan other devices, miniaturize, and vacuum the items into a limited null space. I invented it using the move Miniturize & data on Palkia's Space controlling abilities as well as-"

"Your Pokemon are healed now Abrax." Gary walked in with Doom & Apollo following him. He let Apollo rest on his head. "You should be ready to start your journey & that device that you have has all the money your mother left you which is 15,000 Zenny. Have fun on your journey, and the first Gym you should battle is the..." Gary Looked up. Abrax was in a corner putting on a pair of black Jordans and out the door, Apollo hanging on his head for dear life & Doom speedily behind him. "That kid...he's something else."

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"Are you ready to implement the first plan?"
"Of course, we'll obviously be stealing trainers pokemon along the way."
"So where should we make our first appearance?"
"TROOPS! HEAD OUT! We strike at Azalea and Celadon in the hour!"
"YES SIR. ALL HAIL GIOVANNI, JESSE AND JAMES!!! WE ARE TEAM ROCKET!" A vast army of grunts with various department heads and other leaders were scatter below the Team Rocket Leaders. Giovanni, sat silently in the back, not having aged a day on over 20 years. Jesse and James were in the front of the Leader, garbed in all Black with the Rocket Emblem on their backs with a J for the both of them in the front of it. Within minutes the Rocket came out of the skies and various deploys set course for all over the world. Giovanni looked on at the horizon as he looked upon the World of Pokemon.
[size=5][i][color=#008080]"Carpe Diem."[/color][/i][/size]
[size=5][i][color=#800080]"Carpe Mundi."[/color][/i][/size]
[size=5][color=#b22222][i]"[/i][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][i]Orbis mundus est nostri."[/i][/font][/color][/size]

[Christian Exodia]

Gina left Cherrygrove in a haste, after combing her hair and packing her bags. She held up her communicator, a Poke Gear. He packs training into her Pokemon, trying to train her four up. She has Lucifer evolve into a Metapod, smiling. She finds a house in the middle of the Route. She notices something is growing on a tree. She picks it, and puts it in her pocket for asking someone, possibly who is in the house. She notices a sign outside - "Mr. Pokemon's House." "Mr. Pokemon, huh? He sure sounds like an interesting person." She shrugs. She walks to the door, and puts her hand on the lock. She turns it, and walks in.

(Wham, do you do the NPC's or do I?)

[Shadow Zero]

Yeah, so we'll assume that Shimon has arrived at the stop nearest Pallet Town by now. He gets off of the train and immediately starts a brisk run towards Pallet Town and the Pokemon Lab. About a mile or so in, he and his Mewtwo, who has been flying along behind him, see a Torchic stumble out from the bushes and fall down. It's covered with various bruises, and is even bleeding a bit. Shimon runs over to the Torchic and quickly looks it over. It looks like it's mainly just exhausted, although those bruises had to hurt too. He picks his Mewtwo up and gives it a single look. Immediately understanding his intent, his Mewtwo teleports them the rest of the way to the Pokemon Lab. Shimon storms in, the injured Torchic in his arms and loudly demands where the healing unit is.

[Mr.WHAM]

"Yes, yes come straight here." [i]I just got rid of one of these annoying little ones and another one pops on in. Just as loud and preoccupied.[/i] "Max, come on in and set up the newest trainer! The faster the better." There was a slight hint, but only the slightest, of condescension in his voice. He remember his days starting off and remember that what he lacked in enthusiasm, he made up for in cockiness. Gary took the Pokemon that the trainer came in with and placed it in the healing chamber. "That Torchic should be just fine. It looks like it took some burn damage, possibly from an attempted capture. It was also very worn out. It probably had been traveling for an extensive period of time." [i]First a Cyndaquil, now a Torchic. What's next? [/i]Then he notices it. Mewtwo. In his lab. Needless to say, his face is dumbfounded.

Meanwhile Abrax is full sprint when he notices a figure in the sky. Its obviously a Pokemon. One that he hasn't seen around here before. "Well let's see if we can get it Doom!" He turned around and headed back to the lab before he saw a quick flash and the Pokemon was gone and apparently it was with a person. "Damn. Well, since I've backtracked all this way, let's go say bye to Ma. She'll probably be waiting for Dad to come home. I'll see him later though. I'd better." Abrax headed back to his house. "MOOOOM!"
Cythia walked down the steps to see her son with a Pokemon on his head. Doom was nowhere insight. "Oh Abrax. I see you've gotten a new friend. But where's Doom?" Her shadow formed up as the Pitch Black Pokemon appeared behind her tapping her on the shoulder. She would never get used to that, though he didn't give them nightmares. Actually, Doom seemed to repel them and even give them good dreams, which was unheard of for a Darkrai. It might have been the Pokeball. It was made specifically for Doom to make him stronger. Even so, he was exceptional. "What's your new friend's name honey?"

"He's not just my friend. He's my new Partner! Meet Apollo!" The Cyndaquil went forward and greeted the mother as the sunlight shone in from the open door, hitting him. He began glowing as she bent down to cuddle the Pokemon.
"Oh my. Full of surprises aren't we? Well it seems like this Cyda, I mean Apollo will be a strong Pokemon one day. It's a shame your father isn't here to see you off, but he just left from Sinnoh and he'll be here in a few. I'll tell him you dropped by and started your journey. You'd better meet the both of us later on young man! We expect great things from you. After all you are OUR son."
"Yes Mom! Love ya! I gotta go to Professors Lab. I saw something I need to tell him about."
"I love you very much Abrax. Now go out and be a Pokemon master." The boy left out of his home, ready to build his team and his strength up, willingly to do what he must to get strong. "Your father. Should I have told him...? No. It'll be both our choice."

As Abrax walked into the lab, he saw first Mewtwo and scanned the Pokemon to recieve its data. Then he saw Gary as he said, "Here's your Torchic. That wouldn't happen to be BLAINE'S Mewtwo would it? I thought they both passed away..."

"So it's a Mewtwo huh?" Abrax said as he walked in.

[Shadow Zero]

Gary is standing there with a stupid look on his face. Why is he standing there with a stupid look on his face? "What's your problem, never seen a Mewtwo before?"
And then he here's something about Blaine and he just turns and gives a look, but says nothing in response. Looks like there's some other trainers here as well, but they are no concern of his. He has other things that he has to worry about anyway. Then he looks over towards the Torchic. He might as well Keep him, unless he had somewhere that he needed to be. Mewtwo hovers over Torchic, a concerned look on his face. He looks over at Shimon, The emotions concern, expectation, and confusion aimed at him directly in that exact order. Interpreting the feelings correctly he simply nods once and says "Yeah, but only if it wants to. Otherwise no."

[Ranma124]

Track was sleeping in his bed when he was suddenly in an empty room. Out of nowhere there was a strange voice. It said. "From wandering through your realm I have summoned you. Behold for in this game of life you are the end era." Track looked around and shouted back. "The end what. Hey come back." Track woke up and shook his head. "That was weird dream. Oh well." After a while Track had a shower got dressed and prepared himself. Track had just been kicked out of his house by his dad. His dad began to shout at him in a cheerful voice. "Okay now go to pallet town to get your equipment for your journey from the proffesser. Oh and dont come back until you've become the strongest trainer ever." Track got up and shouted back at his father. "Maybe I will become the strongest trainer and still not come back." They both laughed. Then Riolu came out of the house and ran to stand next to Track. They began to run using his martial arts training to leap from tree to tree. Eventually they jumped off of a tree and landed in pallet town. Track and Riolu ran into the place which looked most like the lab and began shouting. "Alright the greatest trainer of all time is here. That's right I came for my pokeballs and my poketex." Track stared around the room looking at everyone.

[Lord JZ of the Enigma]

At Prof. Birch's lab Seishin had finally managed to park his bike outside in a bush and Hana was now in his arms as he carried her off from the bike, usually she wouldn't let go for a while but she hopped down when she looked around in the lab. soon enough the professor came out, covered in some dirt and placing his backpack to the side as he had just come back from a little trip, he looked out to the group of trainers starting to arrive but was at first impressed with Seishin having actually arrived in the first place. "Ah Seishin, seem you actually made it, and just in time, you're package arrived, now, you know how to use it right?" he asked as he pulled out the small box containing the TM "Psyshock" Seishin and Ralts both smiled as they were about to leave but Birch stopped him "wait! don't forget the pokedex and nav...you're forgetful aren't you....." he said with a laugh as he gave him his items and a belt to place his pokeballs on.

"Thanks alot mister birch....wish me luck!" he said excitedly as he picked up Hana and ran out with her, holding her tight as he jumped on his bike and landed in the bushes, Hana was unhurt, but seishin sprained his leg. "owwww" Hana looked at him like he was an idiot and in response he gave a cheesy smile. "sorry.....got excited...."

[Mr.WHAM]

Abrax saw the utter chaos that had erupted when he entered i to the lab and reveled in it!!! He laughed as he looked at the two trainers that walked in. He walked over to the first trainer he saw with the Mewtwo and introduced himself. "Hey! COMPETITION! I'm Abrax, the one who will beat you!" As he turned to look at each of their faces as he saw them, he blacked out falling to the ground.Doom speedily caught the boy in his hands as he passed out to the floor. He thought he caught a glimpse of the same happening to the other trainers. His mind drifted back to the dream he'd woken up to earlier from this morning.

[i]"Your fates, all of yours, will be directly tied into how the world is going to be run. Because of the choices and actions of generations before yours and eve in yours, there will come a time where you all will have to use your strengths and gifts to defeat many enemies and obstacles to come. You will all join together to hopefully help this world prosper." Abrax looked around trying to determine what the Hell was going on, where he saw the other two kids. The rest of the people there could not have their faces seen.
"So I guess we're the best players in this game eh? I'm Abrax, and hopefully I'll get to battle the two of you someday. As friends and rivals."[/i]

[Shadow Zero]

So apparently the same thing that had happened to Abrax had happened to the other trainers present as well. In Shimon's case, his Mewtwo had used some sort of Telekinesis to slow his fall so that he wouldn't be hurt. And then he was in some sort of whatever the f*** this place is with only the faces of the other two trainers able to be seen and surrounded by a bunch of other faceless people. Shimon then hears what Abrax has to say and simply responds by giving him the one fingered salute. Shimon is clearly not keen on the idea presented by Abrax about being friends and rivals, and would rather simply obliterate him and anyone else that gets in his way. Then again, that's part of the reason why he rose so quickly through the ranks of that one criminal organization he was once a part of at such a young age.

[Christian Exodia]

In Gina's Case, she is caught by Latias and in a strange case, Alexander. What Abrax said to her, and others, she had mixed feelings. Happy she would meet people, shocked at its words either way. She actually only saw her face lit, which meant none of the other trainers were in Johto, most likely. She shook her head, and looked up to Mr. Pokemon. He was wide-eyed. "So, where were we?" He shook his head, and smiled. "Oh yes. Somebody wanted me to give you this egg." Gina's eyes glowed. "WANT." She took it without explanation and sprinted from the house, Mr. Pokemon following her. "WAIT, THERE'S MORE!" She yells, "CAN IT, GRAMPS!"

[Ranma124]

As Track was falling Riolu sofened the fall and rested Track on the ground. Track looked at the other two trainers who were the only people who's faces he could see. All everyone else was just faceless. Track looked at the guy who started speaking about battling Track and the other trainers both as friends and rivals. Track smiled and looked at the guy who's name was Abrax. "Well Abrax I'm Track. The greatest pokemon trainer to ever live. And of course youve got the friendship of the almighty Track."