Chapter 1
Red and Yellow
Falling, I'm falling. Twilight thought as she found herself dropping from hundreds of feet above the ground. Either the second floor of the library was hundreds of feet above the ground 5 years in the future, or the "space" part if the Time Gate had been changed. As she quickly plummeted towards the ground, she had a few seconds to determine what had happened, then she hit her head on a tree branch and passed out.
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"Are you okay? Wake up!" A voice said, something shaking her. Twilight guessed that somepony had found her unconscious on the ground and tried to wake her up. She slowly opened her eyes to see not a pony, but some yellow mouse thing with long, black-tipped ears and bright red cheeks.
"Oh good, you're awake!" The creature exclaimed. Twilight pushed herself up into a sitting position, examining the surrounding. She was in a lush forest, mosses and grasses covering the ground and every type of tree she could think of surrounded her.
"This isn't Ponyville, did the Everfree forest overgrow the town?" She asked to herself.
"Ponyville, Everfree? I've never heard of those places, this is Oran Forest." The mouse said. Twilight examined it to be about half her size.
"What exactly are you?" She asked the yellow creature bluntly.
"Oh, sorry. I'm Pikachu! My friend and I live over in Treasure Town not far from here!"
Twilight had never heard of Pikachu, or Treasure Town, or Oran Forest before. Cautiously, she stood on all four legs. "Well where in Equestria are we? I probably need to speak to Princess Celestia about whatever's happened."
"Equestria? Princess Celestia? What are you talking about? This is the world of Pokemon!" "Pikachu" replied.
"What?! Oh no! My spell took me to another dimension! What to do?!" Twilight paced around in a fit.
"What kind of move did you use? I've never heard of an Espeon using something that can transport you to other dimensions, Palkia maybe..." Pikachu mumbled. Startled, Twilight ran towards the nearest pond and looked in. What she saw wasn't a pony, but a creature with her fur color and cutie mark surrounding a gem on her forehead.
"Now what have you found Pikachu? Oh..." A different voice said behind her. Twilight turned around to see an orange and yellow fox-like creature walk up to Pikachu.
"And who are you?" Twilight asked the fox.
"I'm Fennekin. I believe you already met Pikachu." She replied. Twilight nodded.
"And who might you be? We told you our names, so we'd like to know yours." Pikachu asked.
"I'm Twilight Sparkle." She answered. Both Pikachu and Fennekin began to laugh at her unusual name.
"Okay Espeon, we get it. Stop kidding around." Fennekin laughed.
"I'm serious. I'm Twilight Sparkle, student of Princess Celestia, bearer of the Element of Magic." At this the two stopped laughing. No one who could describe themselves like that and so confidently could be lying.
"Well, this is awkward..." Pikachu said. "I guess we should get you a place to stay. We're going to join Wigglytuff's Guild tomorrow, the best exploration teams have graduated from there. Would you like to join us? You don't have anywhere else to go."
"Well, I guess so. I don't know anything about this place though so pardon any stupid questions about any basic Pokemon knowledge." Twilight huffed.
"Don't worry, we'll help explain as we go along," Fennekin replied. The trio walked out of the forest and towards the small town close by.
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"This is Treasure Town, all the necessities an Exploration Team could need are here. Over there's Kecleon Market, and that's Duskull Bank, and over there is Kangaskan Storage," Pikachu said, pointing out various buildings throughout the town. Twilight studied each one carefully so that she knew where to go later on. "And this is where we live," Pikachu said, gesturing to a small tent on the edge of town.
"We won't need this tent tomorrow, Wigglytuff gives you a room to stay in while at the guild. We can pack this up and store it for later," Fennekin said happily. Pikachu led the way inside the tent, and in it were two piles of straw and a crate full of apples and berries Twilight had never seen before.
"We'll just split part of our straw for you," Pikachu said, pulling off a chunk of his bed. "We shouldn't need it tomorrow." Fennekin pulled off an equally sized chunk of her bed and they together made a suitable sized bed for Twilight. Pikachu grabbed an sple out of the crate, and handed it to Twilight. "Let's eat, then we'll get a goods night sleep. We'll need it tomorrow."
The three Pokémon finished their apples quickly, then settled into the straw. "Goodnight Fennekin, Goodnight Twilight." Pikachu said sleepily.
"Goodnight Pikachu, Goodnight Twilight." Fennekin replied, equally tired.
"Goodnight Pikachu, Goodnight Fennekin," Twilight said to the two. "Goodnight Spike," she whispered into the night, no one awake to hear her.
