Hah... so it's finally ending huh? Blood slowly drips down my chest. With my back against the wall, I sat there with my head hung low, accepting death.
"T-there was no other choice!" she cries out loud.
Her voice started to get more distanced and muffled overtime.
"I trusted you!" she yelled while grabbing my shoulders, shaking it. "C-cheating on me? Especially with that nobody.. You know tha-"
Hm? ...Ah, I died. Finally some peace. Is this the afterlife? Pretty dark. Well, it's better than the real world at least. What a shithole that place was.
"What now anyway?" I said, scratching my head.
This place was a void of complete darkness. Literally nothing could be seen, heard or felt. I could move my body, but I couldn't touch it. Whenever I spoke, my voice wasn't heard. Weird feeling I'd say.
As I continued waddling forward, the back of my head was suddenly touched by what felt like a finger. I immediately turned around but was met with just pure darkness. During my confusion, before I knew it, an unknown instinct flooded my mind and my vision started to manifest into something unusual. It was as if all my memories from when I first had consciousness, even the forgotten ones, started reappearing in my visions. This only lasted for a few seconds but I had just re-experienced my whole 23 years of life. I remembered everything, even the small details like what color my first toothbrush was. It was light blue by the way.
"Well that was...strange." I grab my head, trying to process all this information. "What was that about."
After waiting for something else to happened, nothing did, so I continued my mindless walk. With all these memories suddenly thrown at me, I started remembering about the good old days and realised something. Being a kid was fun as fuck. No one told me I had to deal with all these crap as an adult. Everything past the age of 21 was just downfall for me and I couldn't do whatever I wanted anymore.
"Haah...I miss being a kid man." I sighed.
Just watching tv all day, skipping school, hanging out with friends and playing...Pokemon. Haven't heard that in a while. That game was pretty fun.. The show was good too. That Ash kid was dumb as fuck though.
"All those pokemons he released.." I chuckled, followed by a facepalm.
As I started reminiscing about my younger days, the surrounding started to change without me noticing.
"Like seriously man, he wants to be a Pokemon master but couldn't even train his Charizard himself?"
The darkness started to diminish and all sorts of colors flowed into existence.
"And how the fuck did his Pikachu lose to that Snivy??"
Various noises and smell were spread across the far distance, hinting the presence of life
"Also, he gets all the kanto starters but only evolves one of them? Like are you serious dude."
A wave of unique shapes began forming when a large beam of light suddenly fell down.
"And also- Ah wait what the fuck's going on. Shit it's so bright!"
I kept my eyes closed with my arm covering them as well. After a few seconds, I felt something on my body. It was something I haven't felt since dying. Wind. I gradually opened my eyes and started slowly adjusting to the lighting. With my vision back in tact, I started looking around. What I saw was greenery, the sky and a few birds. But as I focused my eyes to them, I realised that they wasn't just ordinary birds, they were....Pidgeys.
"Wait.. Am I going crazy." I said as I vigorously rubbed my eyes multiple time.
Just as I said that, I felt something touch my feet which then started swirling around my leg. Looking down, I noticed that it was an Ekans.
"The hell?! This's actually real. And fuck I'm gonna die again! Help!" I called out while wiggling my body to escape from it's embrace.
I struggled the best I could but the Ekan was just too strong. Glancing over my surrounding, I found out that I was standing on a small hill. It was a risky decision but there wasn't much options, so I decided to jump down the hill along with the Ekans. As we rolled down the hill, the several impact must have dazed the Ekans because it had stoped entangling my leg just enough for me to pull it back out of it's grasps.
As we crash onto the bottom of the hill, I was left with a few scratches but nothing too major. The Ekans on the other hand seemed to be a bit dizzy, seeing it lay sick on the ground. I tried to make a run for it but my right leg was still hurting a bit so I knew I wasn't gonna outrun it. So while the Ekans was still recovering from it's dizziness, I quickly looked around and found a fallen tree branch. It wasn't much but definitely a good size for me to use as a weapon.
So here it is. Man versus Pokemon. Faced off one to one. Who will win? As I was narrating a fight scene in my head, the Ekans returned to its normal state and both of us stared into each other's eyes from a small distance. It was then did I finally noticed. Above its head was a translucent floating screen.
"A..status bar?"
It was displaying the name, gender and level. That wasn't all I noticed. As I looked down, I was extremely surprised to see how my body had gotten much smaller and that I was wearing some unknown clothes. How did I not notice before? God knows.
Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.
"Fucking hell man. What's going on?" I scratched my head in frustration.
All of a sudden, I felt a chill down my spine. The Ekans looked so much more scary than usual. Wait..is it using leer on me? So this is how it feel huh. I wasn't the type to get scared easily, but at that moment, I definitely felt like running away. But I didn't. It's not like I could outrun it either. As it started sliding towards me, I positioned myself with the stick, sensing an overwhelming danger from it.
Then, just as the Ekans got in my swinging distance, I immediately swung my stick towards it multiple times. The first missed but my second swing hit it right on the side of it's head. The Ekans didn't give in though. It continued rushing towards me but I kept leaping backwards and only attempted to attack it when I saw an opening. On my fifth successful strike, the Ekans looked really annoyed. It had suddenly stopped moving and opened it's mouth, pointing it towards me. Having a bad feeling of what was about to occur, I tried getting away but to no anvil.
Multiple purple needles started shooting out of its mouth, and were injected into my body one after another. Fuck that was poison sting wasn't it? As I struggled to move away, my body began feeling numb and my vision had gotten blurry. Soon I was on my knees, and the Ekans was slowly coming towards me with an eye for murder.
"Get away..you..purple freak.."
Just like that. I became unconscious.
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A loud static was heard.
I opened my eyes from shock, pun intended.
"W-where am I?" I stuttered while looking around.
I was on top of a bed with white sheets. Wait was all that just a dream? But this isn't my room though... The floors had metal tiles and there were strange electronics all over the place.
Another loud static was heard.
My head turned towards the direction of the noise. It was close. As I got off the bed, I once again noticed looking down. My body really did get smaller. Plus the shirt I'm wearing, reminds me of what I used to wear when I was ten. What the fuck, am I ten again? Then, the realization suddenly hits me. I immediately pulled down my pants.
"NOOOOOOO!"
I got on my knees and started cursing god for what he did to me with teary eyes. While I was in that state of depression, the door got opened.
"Oh you're finally awak-"
I stopped what I was doing. For a few seconds, me and this old man stared at each other in silence while my little bro was hanging out, waving in the soft wind.
I stood up and pulled up my pants.
"I'm actually a grower you see..." I said with complete seriousness.
"-Oh uh. Glad to see you're awake. How are you?"
Ignoring it huh? Smart move. As I started looking at the old man more clearly, he reminded me of someone.
"Wait...Professor Oak?"
"Why yes! I'm glad to know you've heard of me. May I know your name?"
"Ah.. I'm...Reiner?" I thought for a while. "Yeah, I'm Reiner Steel."
That was the name I picked in all my Pokemon playthroughs. I thought it sounded cool and still do.
"Also what was that noise?"
Just as I said that, a black-haired boy with burned clothes came in with a Pikachu in his arms.
"That would be this guy haha..." he laughs awkwardly.
Woah.. it's Ash and his Pikachu. Hold up. Does this mean this is when Ash first meets Pikachu? This..is..fucking awesomeee!
"Nice to meet you I'm Ash. A Pokemon trainer!" he exclaimed cheekily.
"Yeah you too, call me Reiner."
Professor Oak then proceeded to make me wait while he instructed Ash on some stuff. Afterwards, Ash waved to me goodbye and went outside. Then, only a minute had passed when the static noise could be heard again, with multiple people screaming this time.
"So Reiner. Why were you going against that ekans without any pokemon? Don't you know you can't leave the town without a Pokemon in hand?" Professor Oak talked to me in a strict manner.
"I don't know how I got there to be honest." I replied honestly.
He looked confused by my statement.
"Where are your parents then?"
What am I supposed to say? In another universe?
"Oh..uh..I was abandoned?" I quietly said while looking away. It was the first thing that came to mind.
As I slowly turned back to see his reaction, his faced looked utterly shocked, followed by embarrassment.
"OH! I'm so sorry young man! That's terrible! You can stay here if you like..."
Heh gullible old fool. Also why would I stay in this place when I could be exploring this world right now. No sane person would stay here. I talked to him about wanting to explore and even though he was reluctant at first, he gave in after a while. However there was still a problem - I needed to get my first Pokemon.
"You know what Reiner? Since you've been through so much, I'll make you an exception and call up a good friend of mine for your very own starter."
Oh damn, maybe I got a chance after all. Telling me to wait, he went over to a some kind of phone machine and dialled in some numbers. There was a large screen attached to it and after a while someone appeared on it.
"Oh! If it isn't my old colleague, Professor Oak. What brings you to call me today?"
"Professor Rowan! Actually I have a favor to ask of you." replies Professor Oak cheerfully. "You see this young man over here needs a little bit of your help."
Professor Oak continued describing about how tragic my life was - I may or may not have made up more sad stories - and that I had a lot of determination to go explore. Professor Rowan agreed to help without hesitation. He then went ahead and brought over three Pokeballs. This was when Professor Oak brought me over and told me to stay in front of the screen for closer observation.
"Reiner, you can choose one Pokemon and these are the three available to first time trainers in the Sinnoh region."
Professor Rowan then takes out all three Pokemons onto a table. Unfortunately I couldn't see their stats through the screen.
"The fire type, Chimchar. The water type, Piplup. And the grass type, Turtwig. So do you know which one you'd like?"
I placed my fingers on my chin, doing the thinking stance. It was between Chimchar and Piplup (cause who the fuck even chooses grass types LOL). I always chose fire in all the Pokemon games I played - cause fire is dope. On the other hand, I also really like Piplup since it's final evolution is part steel type and well...my last name is Steel so I'm a bit biased. Plus the steel type just seems like a really powerful element compared to the rest. Hmm alright then, I've got my decision.
"Professor, I'll choose....Piplup!"
Professor Rowan nodded and proceeded to put Piplup back in its Pokeball. Professor Oak then place a pokeball on a round curved crater built in the phone machine and Professor Rowan did the same with the Pokeball containing Piplup. A few seconds later a lovely tune was heard.
"Reiner! Here you go. Treat him well." He said with a big smile.
Woah.. I had pokeball toys as a kid but never thought I would ever hold the real deal. Alright, I guess I'll try taking him out now. I pointed the pokeball to an empty area and pressed the button in the middle. As I try releasing my grip, the pokeball suddenly snapped open and a bright, white figure came out of it.
"Pipluuup!" the little guy shrieks happily. He looks appreciative for choosing him.
I went over to pet him on the head. It doesn't retaliate at all and instead seems very comforted. In the meanwhile, I went ahead and checked it's stats.
Piplup Moves
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LV 8 (12%)
Gender Male
Physical:
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Type Water
Ability:
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"I'll name you...Indra." I tell him.
Indra is the Hindu god of Storms, Rivers and stuff like that.. So hopefully he match up to his name some day.
"Reiner will you be leaving immediately? I can quickly pack you some essentials you need to travel."
I nodded in respond. There's a specific reason why I want to leave as soon as possible.