Pokémon Iridescent: Evolving Era Arc 1: Fabled Failure

[Mr.WHAM]

[i]"Well it's nice to meet one of you at the very least. As for you Mr.Finger, I'll be owing you a good old fashioned ass-whooping. When I see you, we'll do battle."

The voice began to speak once more. "It is good that you all are getting to know one another. You will not remember-" [/i]The dream suddenly ended as Abrax and the others woke up to see each other, standing around. In truth these dreams, seemed important but they testes his impatience. The Professor looked at the other trainers having all fallen spontaneously and wondered if they were fine, but he didn't question it. Yet.
"Track," he said hugging the little kid," It's nice to see you again. Well after I'm done beating this kid & his two Pokemon, would you like to leave. We'll be fun together." His head menacingly turned to the the Mystery Man. His eyes widened and darkened as he made good on his. "You. Me. Outside. Now. Battle. Doom & Apollo, let's go."

[Ranma124]

Track got up and shook his head. "What was that all about." Suddenly Abrax came and hugged Track. Saying hi and it was nice to see him again. Track struggled to get out. "Hey come on man. It's nice to see you two but this is a little too close." After Abrax had let go and he asked Track if he would travel with him. "Of course I'll travel with you. Together were gonna be unbeatable. But first you gotta beat jerk face over there." Track looked over at the other guy. He then looked at professor Gary oak. "Can you bring my pokeballs and poketex outside for me. You know so I can watch the battle." Track looked over at Abrax. "I'm right behind you let's go."

[Shadow Zero]

So yeah, Shimon is up again, with a worried Mewtwo fretting over him. He allows himself the smallest of smiles, grateful that he at least has this little guy here looking out for him. Of course, he would never admit that to anyone. And then he got up and Abrax basically challenged him to a battle. He sighs and turns to give Gary a look that clearly says 'isn't that machine done yet?' He doesn't really want to battle anyone right now anyway, but he does want his Torchic. Well, if the Torchic wants to travel with him that is. Still, he has places to go and things to do, and although he has all of the patience, and I do mean all of it, his tolerance for waiting is practically non-existant. He folds his arms and starts tapping his foot impatiently.

And then the machine finally finished. Torchic was fully healed and jumped up, suddenly full of energy again. Shimon got what he needed from Gary and turned to leave, at which point the Torchic hopped up on his shoulder. Looks like he wants to travel huh? Well, that's perfectly fine. Once he finally evolved to Blaziken, he would become very useful. Shimon walks outside and sees Abrax waiting with his two Pokemon. Once again, Shimon gives him the one fingered salute and then starts walking away.

[Mr.WHAM]

"Doom, Shadow Ball. Apollo, Incinerate." Abrax was not playing. Disrespect among other things was something that he would not tolerate. "Let's go Kid. You owe me a fight. Because I want to beat you." Abrax readied himself as his Pokemon fired off the attacks. Doom wasn't generally one to care about such trivial things, but it was important that he did at times. Apollo on the other hand, was giving off some serious heat. After all, he was ready for another battle and geared up for it too.

Meanwhile, Professor Oak sighed and gave Track his items and the Pokemon of his choice. "Young trainer, be wary of those words you say. If your not careful you might not end accomplishing that goal of ours. But you should be fine, traveling with a good kid like Ab. If he ever does stop with the dumb & foolish things he does. Like this battle."

[Shadow Zero]

"Teleportation. One foot. To the rear of the Human." Shimon's Mewtwo glows, and next moment, Shimon and his two Pokemon are gone. Or at least that's the impression that's given from the sudden vanishing act. They reappear a foot behind Abrax, Shimon with a fist drawn back and across. Next moment, he swings it at the side of Abrax's head. Shimon is clearly not playing around either. If being among criminals taught him one thing more then any other, it was that you didn't let anyone or anything get in the way of your objective. Besides, Abrax was annoying him, and that is never a smart thing to do.

[Mr.WHAM]

Abrax quickly ducked the oncoming punch and countered the punch with a quick. "Hmmph. You'll have to do better than that. I've been training. Along with Doom here for years. So fighting me is going to do you absolutely nothing. Because no matter what you've been through it doesn't beat taking Shadow Balls to the face and falling of cliffs. Yeah I've been through it. Now do we do battle or not? Cause if your not gunna show some balls and man up behind that little finger of yours, then next time I'll break it." Abrax's whole demeanor had changed from his usually mischievous self to his more darker side. Doom hadn't seen this in a long while, but then it had been a while since someone had tried to fight him. "You know what, its not worth it anymore. Track, let's go. We'll head to Pewter & decimate some trainers along the way he said with a smile." Doom's eyes glowed as first all of their shadows and then themselves vanished into he ground. They reappeared in the middle of Route 2, underneath the shadow of some trees.

"I don't like having to do that." Doom mused.
"Yeah I know. My bad Track, Doom here wanted to leave, so he took us, and well left."

[Shadow Zero]

Like he would let anyone else get ahead of him. Shimon tells his Mewtwo to teleport them to Viridian Forest. One moment they are standing outside of the lab, next moment they are somewhere in the middle of the forest. Shimon's Mewtwo kins of floats to the ground, looking quite tired. Shimon takes off his travel pack and and opens up one of the areas of it and places the Mewtwo inside before putting it back on and walking northwards. He doesn't know it, but despite how thickly shaded the area already is, he is actually not to far from the border of the Forest, so he still has a bit of a walk ahead of him. His Torchic walks along beside him, looking around at its surroundings as it does so.

[Reaper of Shadows]

"Finally, we're here," Rai said as he and Zero walked into Prof Birch's lab. The saw Prof Birch talking to another trainer at the moment though so the pair walked instead to one of his assistants.

{Suppose there's no tine to head back home for a snack?} Zero asked as he was getting checked over. A potion later he was all better and they walked over to the pokemon restoration machine. Zero placed his new Ralts in it and walked back over to the nameless assistant.

"Hey can I have my pokedex and pokenav?" Rai asked.

"Sure no problem. We actually have this new technology, it called a poketex. Its pretty much your all in one item holder/pokedex/pokenav. If you want I could demonstrate."

{This guy is boring. Lets go} Zero yawned.

"I'll figure it out," Rai said. He got his gear, picked up Xeo, and walked out of the lab door, waving back to Prof Birch as he did. He walked toward the tall grasses, and began moving through them, not paying attention until...he tripped over another person.

"The hell?" he said a he face planted into the ground. He quickly rolled to his feet. [I] The guy I saw talking to Birch[/I]. He held out his hand. "Need a hand? Names Rai, an thats Z" he gestured back to Flygon.

[Vavel Elreigner]

Finally arriving to his destination from a long sea voyage the young purple haired blue eyed 11 year old made his way to the small town of Pallet. His blue eyes shined happily as he spoke to the small poke ball in his hand. "We finally made it Charcoal. After a long boat ride from Cinnabar it's nice to be on dry land." The boy kept quiet before smiling. "Yeah your right buddy we better get to the lab and get our gear. Finally I can become a Pokemon Trainer." The boy rushed off as his thin jacket fluttered with the breeze. Once in town he headed straight to the lab. "Excuse me... Professor Oak? I came for my Dex and stuff. Umm... Hello?" The boy knocked away on the door as he awaited someone to answer.

[Ranma124]

Track took the pokeballs and the poketex along with the pokedex. Then the proffesser offered him one of the starter pokemon. Track thought for a moment. "I guess having two pokemon before I even start my journey is good. Well I guess I'll take squirtle. Track took the pokeball off of the table and returned squirtle to its pokeball. After he went out side and watched as the two trainers started throwing punches at each other. Suddenly along with Abrax Track and Riolu ended up underneath a large tree. Track looked up at Abrax. Now that was weird. By the way I could have beaten both of you guys in a fight. Even with your training. Shadow balls and cliffs are nothing compared to press ups one finger. With a boulder on your back. And that was the easy part. In fact Riolu and I have been training in martial arts before I could even walk."

[Mr.WHAM]

"Meh. You think that.But your not the only one with great Training as I'd say we're even. But I'm glad we're traveling together. Anything else though I'll beat you." He smiled. They would obviously be meeting other trainers along the way as well as training with Pokemon. [i]I woder if this kid really thinks he can beat anyone. Such confidence is good. Noetheless, I should prank him. But that'll be fore later.[/i] The two walked in towards the Viridian Forest, home of many Pokemon, especially bug types. "This might take us a while to get through buddy. So let's make camp we can train up." Using the Poketex, he saw that it came with a few sleeping bags and some other basic necessities. "I'll be back later unless you come with us." Abrax new exactly what he had in mind for Doom as they walked into the forest.
"Doom. We need to use that Shadow Ball to its fullest potential. So let's start manipulating it."

[Ranma124]

Track listened to what Abrax had to say about both of them having hard training and that they were probably equal. He also said at anything else he would be able to defeat Track. I can assure you my training was much much harder. But that doesn't matter now and there's no way you could bear me at anything else." Abrax the started talking about using shadow ball for something. Track followed Abrax. "Of course I'm coming. I've gotta see exactly what your doing. Anyway I don't want you ditching me in the middle of a forest do I."

[Christian Exodia]

Gina was caught up by the first trainer she locked eyes with. "We must battle!" The trainer said. "Ugh. Okay... let's go." He had two pokemon. The first was a Weedle. She threw out Dratini, who immediately used Thunder Wave on it. It managed a Poison Sting, thankfully not fully hitting. She had no Antidotes left. "Trina, Wrap!" It was her only attack, and she tried doing it repeatedly. Sadly, she got poisoned. Right after Trina got credit for the battle, she fainted. "Return, Trina." She shook her head, and smiled. She pulled out her next Pokemon as the second Pokemon was readied.

She threw out Alexander. "You need some Practice, Alexander." Gina slipped a slight chuckle when his opponent would be a Ledyba. Alexander's Bowtie was straightened. She then remembered he had no flying attacks. But that was fine. He was still good. The Tackles spread around for a while. It got annoying, and he was about to be returned. But, he had a Critical hit on the Ledyba. Boom! It fell to the ground, and Gina had won her first battle. "Now, let's see you." He was scratched up. She gave him a Potion, which healed him. And the rest of his team; Latias and Lucifer, were released. The trainer did a Spittake when he saw Latias. She then quickly ran towards Cherrygrove to heal Trina.

[Lord JZ of the Enigma]

Seishin looked up at the other kid, his leg was hurting so he accepted his hand and stood up, Hana smiling that someone had decided to help him out. "Thanks...that should teach me to go ahead and get all overzealous and stuff...I'm Seishin, and this is Hana" he said as he picked up the small ralts in his hands, he then remembered the flygon, Hana was a little scared of it, remembering how the flygon had defeated and had the other ralts captured. "ah..Hana? you okay?" he asked as she just turned away and held tightly to Seishin, terrified of getting captured and being taken away from Seishin.

Deep down she seemed to have a fear of getting taken away from her home, Seishin noticed and realized he never knew where her original family was at. "Hana..." she simply went ahead and just nuzzled until she apparently went to sleep. "that's weird....she never gets like that"

[Reaper of Shadows]

"Errr..." was all Rai could say as the ralts 'Hana' hid behind its trainer. "Nice to meet you too I suppose."

{Weakling} Zero huffed. He turned and sniffed distastefully at Hana.

"Sorry about that," Rai said. "Zero can be pretty intimidating but not to worry; he's a big softie."
Zero flared his wings briefly, knocking Rai over.

{Keep telling yourself that}

"Anyway, it was nice to meet you, but I should probably be going. We'll definitely have to battle sometime. Later."

He turned around an he and Zero walked off through the tall grassea. "Its training time Z, so letfs find some pokemon. Keep your ears open."

{Way ahead of you. 20 feet to the left. Theres three of them.} They rushed off in that direction. {Three zigzagoons. Shouldn't be a problem for me.}

"I know. Lets take care of them."

[Mr.WHAM]

Abrax smiled as he lead the Dream Team deeper into the forest, looking for signs of Pokemon life. [i]Hehehehe, we'll have a lot of fun whilst we train. [/i]The young trainer recounted tales his father had supplied him with concerning his journeys particularly the times they had spent in the forest. Those usually ended up with a swarm of bugs attacking him. [i]We'll do just that. [/i] Abrax kept walking about until he bumped head first into a Kakuna. He quickly shrugged it off as the Pokemon hadn't truly even noticed. Then he looked around. They were in a nest. A nest of Weedil, Kakuna, and of course Beedrill. "PERFECT!" he exclaimed. There was some stirring. "Doom! Time to practice. Shadow Ball, 6 total 3 in each hand. You can manage that, right?" Abrax had a smug smile on his face, knowing that it would push Doom to his limit, since he'd only been known to use 2 at a time. But Doom wasn't one to back down so he created one Shadow ball in his dark hands. He then split it apart in each hand holding 3 Shadow Balls. "Good now make them regular sized!"
"Boy your gunna--"
"I know!" he said with a giant grin over his face. Doom sighed mentally preparing himself for what would happen. He expanded the Shadow balls to a Regular size, one by one. As he reached the sixth one, Abrax shouted," MWUAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!!YEAAAAAAAH. THAT'S HOW WE ROLL!" Causing the exact thing sane trainers wouldn't want to happen. Doom lost control over what he was doing and the Shadow balls exploded in his hands echoing throughout the forest, and most iportantly waking the now threatened Beedrill. Apollo's flame sparked up as he saw Abrax stand his ground firmly as the Beedrill decided to come at him. "OMINOUS WIND!!!!!!" was all the warning before the fight for their lives had begun.

[Christian Exodia]

Gina took the egg, oddly having the feeling, to Elm. Then, she had each of her Pokemon train for the upcoming Gym. Occasionally beaten, the Pokemon were elevated to levels 9(Lucifer and Latias.), 10(Alexander), and 12(Trina.) Before each but Trina fainted. "Your the crown jewel of the team, you Dratini. You will be like that the longest. Latias will always be the same, but she(She warmed to using 'she' instead of 'it') will grow bigger. But, when you do grow, you will be stronger. And when you grow again, you will be strongest. Now, let's take those fainted to the Center to heal, then to the next..." She checked the map feature. "City. With the first Gym leader!"

[Ranma124]

Track carried on following Abrax as he led them further into the forest. When they stopped Track stood back and watched as Abrax made his Darkrai hold three shadow balls instead of the ordinary two. Track thought to himself as he watched this happen. "Wow. Ive never seen someone who could make their pokemon hold three shadow balls at once." As Abrax caused a big explosion causing a swarm of beedrill to appear. Track took out one pokeball which contained Squirtle. "Okay go Squirtle lets go. Its time for some double battle practice. Squirtle use withdraw and Riolu get on his shell. Now Squirtle spin towards the Beedrill and Riolu use quick attack." As Riolu jumped off of Squirtle and struck down one of the Beedrills Squirtle jumped out of its shell and along with Riolu stood in front of Track ready for battle. "Thats what im talking about. Nice work guys. Looking good."

[Mr.WHAM]

Abrax stood there with a fire in his eyes that burned with the white hot intensity of 1000 suns. He jeered and exclaimed about as he Bee Pokemon came down about him with irate force. The tenacity in his voice spoke has he commanded Doom & Apollo. "Shadow Ball and 6 in each hand again! Apollo, use Incinerate full power,aim for the trees. Try to focus on everything but the berries." Apollo charged his attack, continuing to glow faster and faster as Doom made the Shadow Balls and fired them off at nearby Beedrill. "Release it now!" As the Shadow Balls passed by Apollo, he released the technique, the two melding and catching fire. They headed straight for the Beedrill, smashing the right into the trees and exploding. The leaves on the surrounding trees were completely reduced to nothingness as Abrax had Doom Shadow Ball one of the remaining Beedrill. The battle was good and was doing both of his Pokemon some good as when he checked their levels, they had both risen to 12. He was proud of them, especially Apollo, who was eager to battle and extremely agile. "He was no average Cyndaquil," he said aloud to himself as he back flipped into a tree. "Ahh yes! they are here!" There was a bountiful harvest of berries in each of the trees. Abrax had guesses that there would be a lot of resources in this area, but the amount was incredible. There would be more than enough berries for Track & himself, so he started to collect as many berries as he could. Then he saw what could only be described as a house with wings and stingers as a massive Beedrill woke up and began to attack the two of them.

[Ranma124]

Track watched as Abrax took down the rest of the beedrill and then back flipped into a tree. Track went over and front flipped to the tree. "Hey what do you think your doing. You could of at least saved some for me." Track jumped down off of the tree and checked his pokemon. Only to see they had only moved up to level seven. He was then about to jump back into the tree when suddenly a gigantic beedrill launched an attack. Track ran over to his two pokemon. "Okay squirtle withdraw then Riolu use force palm on it." As Riolu used force palm on the squirtle it went straight towards the breedrill which did some damage once hitting. "Alright let's try that as a barrage attack." Track using his hands the same way Riolu was using force palm. Then the squirtle shell came back and kept getting hit back everytime it came back.

[Shadow Zero]

Meanwhile, Shimon just continues walking through the forest. He's made some good headway, and he's even been able to do some training along the way, having his Torchic fight any wild Pokemon that they come across, but not catching any of them. There's none in here that he's too interested in anyway at the moment. His Mewtwo is sleeping soundly in his travelpack, a small bubble having formed out of one of its nostrils that grows and shrinks as it breaths in and out. And then Shimon turns at a fork in the path only to find that he has come upon a swarm of Beedrill. Well...this is quite the predicament.

[Mr.WHAM]

Abrax looked at Track and smiled."Nice combo! But this is going to get annoying quickly! While you drain it, I'll go for a big hit!" he called out as he nodded to Track. "Doom, go around the back of the Beedrill and take Apollo with you. We'll need to time this just right. Apollo, use Incinerate on its antennae That should throw it off considerably." Apollo used the attack and it was incredible effective, actually burning the giant Beedrill. "Shadow Ball it's eyes. Then Ominous Wind its wings! Finally a combined Shadow Ball Incinerate to finish off!!!" Doom hit the Beedrill in its eyes, completely throwing off its senses. As the Beedrill flailed about, blindly sending off attacks, which the trainers were careful to dodge, the Ominous Windhit its wings, toppling over the massive Pokemon. As the final hit was about to be launched a Scyther appeared out of nowhere, jumping over the Beedrill. The Scyther attacked actually defending the Pokemon. Abrax saw this and called out to it.
"So this is your friend eh? Well Apollo & Doom are my friends, and I'll like to have you on my side Mazer." Abrax had already named the Pokemon, so he knew he would capture it. No matter what. The Scyther nodded and lunged forward at Apollo, testing its mettle. Apollo was already tired, but he battled anyway.
"Apollo, if you don't want too, you don't have to." In response, a blast of fire hit Abrax in the face. "Of course you won't. Tackle him then, full speed." Apollo took off meeting head on with the Scyther as it went forward. The Pokemon caught Apollo from behind as it dodged the attack and used Counter much to his surprise. "Crap, another hit like that may very well be a problem," Abrax said as he saw Apollo's Blaze activate. "All right!!!!!!" he exclaimed as he ordered a super-charged Incinerate. The attack landed and Scyther's face was highly irritated. No burn damage tho, but the attack had been powerful. "Apollo another In---" The Scyther got in close, moving incredibly fast, nearly undetectable. It grabbed up Apollo and started making a strange noise as its wings vibrated. It was using Bug Buzz! Apollo was dropped down out of its grip, barely able to get up. Scyther rose up its long blade to utter one final strike, as a warning and a punishment for disturbing its forest. Abrax jumped in front of the blade catching it in his hands. The cold edge met with his palms as Scyther's face was utterly shocked as the blood trickled down Abrax's hands. He backed away slowly and kneeled down as he waited for Abrax.
"You want to come with us?" he said quietly. The Pokemon nodded. "Even after you beat Apollo?" He nodded again. "Well then since it's your decision I'll give you the final say." He took out a Pokeball and rolled it over to the Scyther as he pressed its center and was absorbed inside. The ball barely shook as Mazer joined the team.
"NICE!" he shouted to Track. "That was kinda awesome. That Beedrill looks pretty strong though. You sure you don't want it?"

[Ranma124]

Track stared at Abrax as they defeated the beedrill and a scythes suddenly appeared. Track watched the battle between the scyther who Abrax had already named Mazor and Abraxs cyndiquil which he named Apollo. After the battle was complete Track returned squirtle and ran to Abrax. "That not fair. Your not supposed to block attacks in a pokemon battle. There is a reason it's called a pokemon battle. It's for pokemon which means you can't get involved." Track then walked over and stood a good distance for catching away from the defeated beedrill. Track took out a pokeball. "Your right it does look strong. And it's pretty tired out so I better catch it now." Track chucked a pokeball and a pokemon was absorbed into it. After a few shakes it was done. Track ran over and picked up the pokeball. He then noticed something was wrong. He saw that the beedrill was still there. "Wait what. Thenwhat pokemon did I catch." Track the same pokeball into the air. The pokemon that came out was. A caterpie. "No way I didn't want a caterpie. It must've fell from a tree or something. It's not fair. Oh wait there's still time to catch the beedrill." Then suddenly the beedrill got up and quickly flew away in fright of the two trainers who had defeated it. "No wait. Come back I need to catch you." Track sighed then returned the caterpie. "Oh well at least I got caterpie."

[Jolta]

Otto walked out of her two-storey house in the volcano crater town of Sootopolis City. The Magikarp swam on the waters as the Wingull flew across the town, chirping with delight. A slender-looking black being hovered beside her. It simply looked black and slender, had claw-less arms and warm-looking eyes. There were several bands on the draconic, horned beast, one of which had his two arms. "Ruru..." It softly said.

"Don't worry Rayquaza, our journey will be a big blast! We talked about this yesterday, and I know you wanna grow faster..." Otto spoke to her little dragon as she petted it. "Good boy. Lets move."

[Mr.WHAM]

"If you didn't notice, that attack could have prematurely ended Apollo's adventure. There really could have been a problem, but then again I don't know what the attack was." He walked with Track as they headed back to the camp. "Watch that Caterpie grow into an amazing Pokemon. I wonder what it's nature is. Oh by the way, I grabbed enough berries for the both of us, three times over. Those trees were a gold mine." He asked Track about the training he had with his Riolu as the sun went down.

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"Macargo, Filame Burst." The Team Rocket grunt said as he walked up to Shimon, keeping the Beedrill at bay. "Ancientpower." The Beedrill were pummeled by the attack as they began to flee. "Hey, kid. You still interested in the Team?" His accent was thick and drawn out. Everyvowel had an emphasis on it. "We're about to make big things happen and your better with us than against us." He bit into an apple as he waited for Shimon's response.
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"Doom..."
"What?" he had a Shadow Ball in his hand, annoyed his sleep was interrupted.
"Excuse me, MR.FANATABULOUS. I just wanted to ask if you'd made any progress on the details of my dream."
The attack faded as Doom sighed. "No. I haven't." Abrax watched as he left and returned inside his Pokeball. It would slowly heal him, but Doom was still exceptionally tired.
"Hey, Track. What do you want to next?"