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// Chapter 1 
// Story: A New World, Several New Ideas 
// by cyberlord4444 
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	Grey was an engineer, specifically a train engineer from Anville Town. And, as anyone from Kanto to Kalos could tell you, no true train is built anywhere else. The Anville Engineers were legendary for their skill, no matter what kind of project they set themselves, from trains to tunnels to towers to televisions. All except for the Hyperspeed Train, which had been on the drawing board for as long as anyone could remember. However, every once in a while, there are those who are a cut above the rest, Grey was one of those.

However, it was not his skill alone that granted him the respect he had earned, to be honest he was average in all aspects of engineering except for design, for an Anville Engineer anyway. The true source of his success came from his Pokemon. The head of his crew was a Raichu named Flux, who was able to use his tail to preform seamless welds. The heavy lifting was done by two Pokemon. One was a Magnezone named Brace, who could use powerful magnetic fields to lift massive metal components and hold them in place. The other was a Torterra named Dome, who carted around materials and helped Brace with lifting objects. Temper was a Torkoal that didn't usually go out into the field, but was a master of forging and heat treating metal. Shine was a Lampent, and the newest member of the group, but quite skilled in using her flames as a cutting torch. Together they made a heck of a team, and were quite skilled despite the fact that they only had about 2 years of experience.

Today they were repairing a carriage that had been on the wrong side of a Mega Gyrados's Hyper Beam. The Battle Subway's trains were specially designed to be as close to indestructible as possible, they had to be considering their intended use, but even they had limits.

"Man," Grey said as he ground down some of the sharper edges left from one of Shine's cuts, "this is the third one this week."

"Rai," replied Flux, as he started welding on a new plate.

"We should talk to Ingo and Emmet about banning Mega use from the Subway," Grey said.

"Chu" Flux replied, in agreement from the tone of his voice.

Grey glanced at a clock, "Well, it's getting late, let's finish this up and call it a day."

"Lamp," Shine replied cheerfully as she finished cutting off the last piece of bent metal. The others quickly voiced their agreement.

"Guess that's unanimous," Grey said, "so, pasta tonight?"

The gathered Pokemon cheered, Grey might be an engineer, but his cooking skills were just as good. Especially when it came to pasta, that was just glorious. After ensuring that the carriage was ready for the next day, and that no one could wander into the shed they were working in and get hurt, they headed home. After a glorious meal, they quickly hit the hay, except for Grey, who was looking at a singed schematic.

"Zone?" called Brace from behind his shoulder.

Grey grinned, "Just looking at some of dad's old blueprints, thought they might have a way to reinforce the carriages in case we have to deal with more Megas."

"Mag," Brace said remorsefully.

"Yeah," Grey replied, patting Brace, "I miss him too."

Nuzzling into the pat slightly, Brace yawned.

"Yeah yeah," Grey chuckled before yawning himself, "just let me put these away first okay?"

Brace nodded before heading to his own room. Grey rolled up the schematic and placed it in it's tube, then placed it alongside several others. Turning off the light and heading to bed, he soon drifted into a deep slumber. Dead to the world, he was unaware that his Pokemon started vanishing, with himself following suit soon after.

"Rest now my children, for when you awake a whole new world shall be your home.”



When Gray woke up, his body felt rather heavy and he had a pounding headache, both of which he attributed to not having his coffee yet. Looking around, he noticed that he was not in his room, instead he was in some sort of cave. Also, he wasn't alone. That in and of himself wasn't unusual, Flux and Brace took it upon themselves to help wake their boss up, usually with gratuitous amounts of coffee. This time however was a Pokemon he had never even heard of. At first glance it looked like a cross between a Riolu and a Lillipup, but Grey decided to worry about it when he got some coffee.

"Hello," she said, at least that's what he assumed based on her tone of voice, "who are you?"

While Grey was slightly taken aback by the fact that she could talk, he didn't find it completely outlandish. While rare, Pokemon that could speak English did exist, in fact he had seen a Meowth with the skill a few years ago. Deciding that she could tell him where he was and how he got here, he decided to be polite. "I'm Grey."

"That's a funny name," she replied, "I've never heard of anyone named 'Gross' before."

Grey groaned as he started to facepalm, having forgotten how useless he was in the morning before he got his coffee. However, as his arm came into view, he stopped. Grey might have known next to nothing about biology, but he knew his own body pretty well. Last time he checked, his arm wasn't the size of a rail, or silver. It also wasn't shiny enough to see his reflection, assuming it was, because what he saw was a massive quadrupedal goliath with a yellow X on his face. Grey did what any good engineer would do in that situation, he took in the facts, decided on a plan of action, then followed through. He completed his facepalm, freaking out could wait until after he had some coffee.