Rainbow Dash woke up with a yawn, rubbing her bleary eyes with her hooves, she thought about what she was going to do today.
Oh that's right! She was going to receive her first Pokemon from the lab in her town, Pallet Town.
'Wait, what? That's today?'
Rainbow Dash shot out of bed and into the air so fast she left a streak of rainbow in the air. She flew down the stairs and out of the house with her saddlebags before she could eat her breakfast.
Rainbow hovered above the door outside the Pokemon Lab. She lowered her hoof and knocked on the door.
The door opened and an old brown unicorn stallion with a white mane and tail opened the door, his cutie mark was a pokeball over a heart. He looked around for a second, confused, before Rainbow realized he couldn't see her and dropped down to the ground, startling him.
"Hello!" Rainbow exclaimed quickly and excitedly.
"Hello Rainbow Dash," The stallion chuckled, "You're here for your first Pokemon I presume?"
"You bet Professor Oak!" She replied enthusiastically.
Professor Oak led Rainbow into the lab, then turned to a counter with some boxes on it. He levitated a strange looking object out of the box and dropped it into her hooves, it was a slim, orange rectangular box with four buttons on the top, a large blue one and three smaller ones that were red, green and yellow. A yellow arrow facing inwards was in the middle of the left edge. She pushed the side where the arrow was and the front popped open, revealing two un-powered screens, one grey and one green. There was a great number of buttons in seemingly every colour, shape and size. The sheer amount of buttons alone confused Rainbow and she worried about how she would turn it on, let alone use it.
This confusion must have been shown on her face because Professor Oak then said;
"Don't worry about using it," He then placed a small book on top of the orange device, "Here's the manual."
Rainbow Dash groaned and put the two items into her saddlebags, dreading reading the manual.
"Oh!" Oak exclaimed, "You're probably wondering what it is! That is a pokedex, a high tech piece of equipment that automatically records the data of any Pokemon you see or catch. Just aim it at the Pokemon you want to learn about."
Rainbow rolled her eyes, like she would 'learn' about the Pokemon she caught. Learning is for eggheads.
He then took her over to a tank with three pokeballs set into the middle, took out five from a box beside it and levitated them into her saddlebags.
"I trust you know what they are?" He asked.
"Pokeballs for catching Pokemon." She answered, nodding
Oak then pressed a red button on the side of the tank and the glass receded. He pressed the button in the center of each pokeball and they grew larger. Then he picked up one in each hoof and one in his golden aura and he threw them. They exploded open when they were in the air, sending out red lightning that morphed into three shapes that then became solid and colourful. Three Pokemon were standing around Rainbow's feet, a Bulbasaur, a Charmander and a Squirtle, all male.
The Bulbasaur was a light green with turquoise spots in different shapes on it's body, it had three small white claws on the end of each foot and two little pointed teeth were situated at the top of its open, smiling mouth. It bore two ears on the top of it head. A large bright green bulb was on the creatures back and its red triangular eyes were shining and full of life. It was quickly hopping from both its left legs to its right in quick succession shouting; "Bulba! Bulbasaur!"
The orange Charmander hopped on its three clawed feet and waved its arms. Its fire tipped, cream and orange tail swung from side to side and a chorus of "Char! Charmander!" came from its spikey toothed mouth. Its bluish green eyes were full of energy that it was using a lot of in its dance.
The Squirtle was a bouncy thing which wore a resilient brown backed shell with a creamy yellow coloured underside on its blue body. Three digits resided on the end of each of its four limbs.It had no teeth, but it possessed a strong sharp beak that was fully capable of cutting nearly anything clean in half, cries of;
"Squirt! Squirtle!." Flew from it.A long tail that ended in a curl made its way out of the back end of its shell.
Rainbow Dash assessed her choices carefully. This was an important decision, her partner Pokemon would become her best friend throughout her journey as a Pokemon Trainer.
The Bulbasaur looked cool, it had sharp teeth and claws and she head heard it could lift almost anything, no matter how heavy, with the vines in its bulb.
Although, the Charmander looked awesome! It too had sharp teeth and claws and it had FIRE on the end of its tail! Not to mention the fact that according to the pokedex its stage 2 evolution was a DRAGON! It was so cool! Well... It looked like one, It was Fire/Flying, not a dragon type. Then again that didn't matter, it looked full of energy! Perfect for battling!
...
However... Something kept drawing her back to the Squirtle.
There was nothing remarkable about the Squirtle, sure, it was a Water type and the nearest Gym was Rock. But that was about-
Rainbow Dash looked at her pokedex in shock. Squirtle's final evolution, Blastoise, sealed the deal. She put the pokedex away and turned to Professor Oak.
"I've decided," Rainbow Dash began, "to choose Squirtle."
Squirtle looked shocked and extremely happy. The other two looked a little disheartened, but they were happy for their friend, They said good luck and goodbye to him in their language and were put back inside their pokeballs and in the tank.
"Good choice." Oak agreed.
He gave Rainbow Squirtle's pokeball and asked her;
"Would you like to nickname him?"
"Yes" She replied. 'But what...'
'Jeff? No. Jaws? No. Mary? NO.'
She thought for awhile before she reached a conclusion.
"Tank." Rainbow responded with confidence.
Oak nodded and gave her his goodbyes as she left on her journey.
Rainbow Dash returned to her home with Tank by her side. She collected the things she would need for her adventure
'Bits, food, Daring Do books...'
When she was satisfied she went to the town pokemart and collected things for Tank and the Pokemon friends they would catch along the way.
'More pokeballs, potions, paralysis heals...'
When the trip was over Rainbow was kitted out with; a special belt to clip pokeballs containing pokemon on, twelve pokeballs, five potions, three paralysis heals, three antidotes and a large bag of Pokemon food.
Rainbow left the pokemart and proceeded to bump into a pony who was using magic to fix a dent in their bike's handle, their concentration shattered and they snapped the handle in half.
"Sorry." Rainbow Dash offered sheepishly, rubbing the back of her neck.
However when she opened her eyes she saw not a unicorn, but Princess Twilight Sparkle.
The colour drained out of her face behind her fur and her magenta eyes went wide.
She gulped.
Tank looked over her shoulder from his place between her wings confused, only to spot the wings on the purple alicorn and froze.
"Its okay," Twilight assured, "but i'm going to come with you until you get me a new bike."
"Do you have any Pokemon?" Rainbow inquired.
Twilight dug a pokeball out of her saddlebags and threw it and a Hoothoot materialised beside her.
"This is Owlicious." She told her.
Twilight paused and a silence was brought down on them.
"Oh! And this is Spike," She recalled. "My number one assistant."
"Lets get going!" Rainbow Dash declared, zooming off, making Tank hold on to her back for dear life.