The First Battle
“Good job, James,” Jessie said, taking a few steps forward and putting on hand on her partner’s shoulder. “I’ll admit I’m impressed how quickly you caught that thing.”
“Yeah,” Meowth added, strolling leisurely up. “But what is it? I never saw a Pokemon like ‘dat before.”
Jessie looked down at the Poke Ball, frowning. “Some kind of weird mutant Rapidash, you think?”
“A Ditto what ate one too many Big Mushrooms?” Meowth guessed.
James shook his head. “No, I’ve seen plenty of Rapidash… and I don’t think it’s a Ditto…” His brow furrowed.
“Well whatever it is, it’s definitely very rare!” Jessie declared. “We should send it to the boss right away!”
“No,” James shook his head again.
“What?!” Jessie looked startled. “Why not?”
“Did ya forget last time we sent the boss a rare Pokemon when we wasn’t sure what it did?” Meowth berated her. “He didn’t even want dat Togepi! We were a laughin’stock!”
“He’s right, Jessie.”
“Well,” she considered. “I suppose you do both have a point. Okay, send it out and we’ll see what it can do.”
“Not yet.”
“What now?” she sounded exasperated.
“Couldn’t you tell? The poor thing was plain tuckered out. It needs a good long rest.”
Jessie sighed. “Fair enough, I suppose," she straightened out. "Let’s keep going then.”
“Right behind you.”
James replaced the now-filled Poke Ball on his waist. The two humans resumed their walk down the dirt path towards their hidden balloon with slow, sedate steps. Their Pokemon companion found it easy enough to keep up and, as he was prone to do, began to daydream.
“Just imagine,” Meowth said as they went. “What the boss’ll say when we bring him ‘dis Pokemon and Pikachu!”
“We’ll get a promotion for sure!” Jessie clenched her fist, eyes shining.
“And a raise!” added James.
“And I’ll be Giovanni’s top cat! No doubt about it!” Meowth laughed.
Jessie continued. “So today’s the day, team!”
“The day we finally beat the twerps!”
“An’ catch Pikachu!”
“Let’s go get ‘em!”
All three cheered, “Team Rocket’s rockin’!”
“Prepare for trouble, ‘cause trouble’s what you’re in!”
“And make it double, because we’re going to win!”
“To protect the world from devastation!”
“To unite all peoples within our nation!”
“To denounce the evils of truth and love!”
“To extend our reach to the stars above!”
“Jessie!”
“James!”
“This day’s gone our way at the speed of light!”
“So surrender now or be crushed in a fight!”
“Meowth, that’s right!”
“Wobbuffet!” Jessie’s blue Pokemon added, as always.
“Team Rocket!” Ash Ketchum shouted up at the rapidly-rising Meowth-shaped hot air balloon. “Not you guys again!”
“Yes!” Jessie laughed. “Us again!”
“And we’ve got your Pikachu this time, so ‘dere!” Meowth gloated from the basket’s edge, holding up a remote.
Attached to the bottom of the balloon was an extendable robotic arm ending in a powerful, thoroughly insulated three-fingered hand. In that hand writhed a small, yellow, mouselike Pokemon: Ash’s Pikachu, the trio’s obsession and primary target for years. Pikachu unleashed the same electric volts that had sent Team Rocket flying countless times, but to no avail against the arm.
“Well, I hate to steal and run, but we really must be going! Ta ta!” James taunted as they gained altitude.
“Oh no you don’t!” Ash grabbed a Poke Ball from his waist and tossed it upwards. “Go Frogadier!”
The red and white ball exploded into a brilliant flash of white light, which quickly formed itself into a blue, froglike Pokemon. Frogadier posed confidently, looking ready to leap.
“Frogadier, use Water Pulse on Team Rocket’s balloon!” Ash ordered.
“Froooo” the Pokemon began forming a blue-white ball of energy between its two forelegs. “Gadier!” It flung the orb upwards, directly at the retreating trio.
“Oh no you don’t! Wobbuffet, Mirror Coat!” Jessie countered.
“Wobbuffet!” her Pokemon jumped onto the edge of the balloon’s basket. Swiftly, it surrounded itself with a layer of shimmering, semitransparent energy. Frogadier’s attack smashed into that layer, only to immediately bounce off and back the way it had come. Ash’s Pokemon jumped to avoid the projectile, which hit the ground with a tremendous explosion.
“Go Pumpkaboo!” Jessie called, throwing a Poke Ball.
“Inkay, you too!” James added his own.
Ash’s friends weren’t idle either.
“Braixen, let’s go!” Serena called out her first and primary Pokemon.
“Luxray, you’re on!” Clemont shouted.
Four Pokemon burst onto the scene at the exact same moment. On Team Rocket’s side were a flying orange-black pumpkin and a miniature floating cuttlefish, while the “twerps” had a bipedal fiery fox and a large, blue-black feline.
“Frogadier, Water Pulse!”
“Braixen, Flamethrower!”
“Luxray, Discharge on Inkay!”
A blue-white orb, a trail of orange flame, and streams of yellow electricity hurdled skyward.
“Dodge and use Shadow Ball!” Jessie commanded.
“Inkay, Psybeam!” James directed.
Team Rocket’s Pokemon flew sideways, attempting to dodge around the incoming attacks. Pumpkaboo soared nimbly around fire and electricity alike before forming a small purple orb near its mouth. It grew rapidly into a ball almost as large as the Pokemon itself before plummeting down to explode against Braixen, slamming Serena’s Pokemon into the dirt. Inkay wasn’t quite so lucky. It managed to aigly weave between the electricity and fire, but one of its tentacles clipped the edge of Water Pulse, which exploded on it.
“Inkay, no!” James called, holding out a hand.
“Discharge, one more time!” Clemont ordered.
Luxray again formed a yellow field of energy around itself, before sending it all flying up into the air. The attack converged rapidly on the stunned Inkay, scoring a direct hit and thoroughly inundated the little Pokemon’s system with electricity. James’ Pokemon flew up and backwards, directly at Team Rocket’s balloon. Inkay crashed full on into Meowth, sending both tumbling backwards into the basket.
“Inkay!” James hurried to the downed Pokemon’s side. “Are you alright?! Speak to me!”
“Kaaaaay…” mumbled the clearly incapacitated cephalopod.
“Forget da squid!” Meowth’s voice cut it. “Da remote!”
“Huh?” Jessie and James said simultaneously, looking down. Meowth was holding up two cracked, sparking pieces of the remote that had controlled their trap. Their eyes widened.
Below the balloon, the robotic arm holding Pikachu was going haywire. Its processor receiving a dozen mixed signals at one time, it jerked this way and that without direction, giving its occupant a thorough shaking. At last, the three fingers flew open, and Ash’s Pikachu plummeted towards the earth. Frogadier was on the case, leaping dozens of feet into the air in a single bound. It caught Pikachu in its forelegs as they fell, and landed with all the effortless grace of a ninja frog.
“Pika Pika,” Pikachu voiced his thanks to its friend as it hopped back to the ground. “Chu!” he glared at Team Rocket.
“Alright, everybody!” Ash pointed. “Get Pumpkaboo!”
Jessie’s Pokemon dodged frantically through the air as attack after attack from four separate Pokemon converged on it from all angles. Nimble and small though it was, the effort was taxing it to its limit. Pumpkaboo cried out in pain as it was clipped by another Flamethrower from a vengeful Braixen.
“James!” Jessie grabbed her partner’s shirt, shaking him. “Pikachu’s getting away! Do something!”
“But Inkay’s the only Pokemon I have with me!” James protested, shrinking before her.
“What about that thing you caught this morning?!” Jessie demanded. “Use that!”
“But it hasn’t had enough chance to rest! And I don’t even know what it can-”
“USE IT!!!” Jessie shouted at the top of her lungs. As if to punctuate her sentence, Pumpkaboo shrieked as it was caught full in the face by yet another Flamethrower. The little Ghost/Grass Pokemon looked very shaky after that blow.
“Right,” James nodded weakly, reaching for his Poke Ball. He tossed it downwards at his twerpish foes. “Go!”
Ash and his friends looked on as yet another Pokemon took shape before their eyes. When the brief white flash faded away, they all gasped as one.
“What’s that?” asked Clemont’s little sister, Bonnie.
“No idea,” Ash pulled out his Pokedex and held the machine’s camera up to the strange creature.
“Pokemon unknown,” said the Pokedex in its calm monotone. “No data.”
“No way!” Serena gasped. “Since when does Team Rocket have a Pokemon like that?”
“I bet they probably stole it,” Ash growled, picturing the misery its old trainer must be going through.
The strange, white, rainbow-maned Pokemon, for its part had turned around. It was looking up at Team Rocket’s balloon with its purple eyes and speaking rapidly. “Les. Les,” it said. “Tia!”
Ash gritted his teeth. “Well, whatever it is, we’re not gonna let it take our Pokemon! Pikachu, Iron Tail!”
“Pika!”
“You brigands!” Princess Celestia was saying. “You tricked me! How dare you attack my person! How dare you lure strangers in with kindness only to steal them away! Do you not know what the penalty is for abducting Equestrian royalty in such a manner-”
So great was her indignant fury that the princess had not been paying particular attention to what was going on around her. She would not have had a proper frame of reference regardless, but at that moment her attention was focused entirely on berating her treacherous captors. Yes, she had heard something about an iron tail – what was that anyway? – but wasn’t truly listening to Ash.
At the last second, Celestia spotted out of the corner of her eye a small yellow creature leaping into the air at her, its tail glowing a bright white. As it flew through the air, it brought its tail around and smacked her in the face.
Pain like Celestia hadn’t known since her niece’s wedding exploded throughout her. Despite her vastly greater mass, the yellow creature’s attack sent her soaring through the air. The princess smacked against the dirt once, twice, three times before rolling a considerable distance through the dirt to lie in a crumpled heap.
“Super effective,” Celestia could vaguely make out a mechanical monotone reciting. “Type identified: Fairy.”
“What in all the worlds did you do that f-” she mumbled, struggling to stand.
Celestia was cut off by a shouting boy in blue clothing and a red hat. “Frogadier, hit it while it’s down! Water Pulse!”
“Taaaaake…” a blue frog said. “This!”
“GAH!” Celestia screamed as a blue-white orb slammed directly into her chest. She was flung backwards yet again, this time completely soaked in icy-cold water. That’s what her rational side thought it was, at any rate. From the way it burned on her skin, it might as well have been acid.
“Super effective,” said the same mechanical voice that the princess was rapidly growing to hate. “Type identified: Fire. Pokemon classified: Fairy/Fire type.”
“Pikachu, Thunderbolt!”
“Luxray, Discharge!”
Celestia screamed again as she was hit with thousands of volts of electricity at once. What the hay was going on here? What had she done to these creatures? Had she harmed them? Deceived them? Even been impolite to them? No! And for that she had been rewarded with abduction and then pain, and lots of it. The princess was a famously forgiving soul, but there were limits. And so despite her injury and weakness, she felt a fire seizing her insides.
“You,” she began to force her trembling legs upwards. “Little,” her eyes looked practically ablaze. “VERMIN!”
A powerful wave of force swept out from Celestia, smashing into ground, plants, and Pokemon alike. Pikachu, Braixen, Luxray, and Frogadier alike were bowled over and sent hurdling backwards across the ground, landing at their trainers’ feet.
“Whoa!” Ash marveled, having barely kept his own feet even at a considerable distance. Bonnie and Clemont hadn’t been so lucky.
“Move identified,” the Pokedex said blandly, as if nothing of note were happening. “Psychic.”
“That’s powerful,” Ash gritted his teeth, but then looked down at Pikachu and smiled. “But nothing we can’t handle, right buddy?”
“Pika!” Pikachu nodded as he picked himself up.
The attack seemed to have taken a lot out of Team Rocket’s new Pokemon. It was looking down at the grass beneath its hooves, breathing heavily. Ash could clearly make out sweat dripping down its face.
“Pikachu, use Iron Tail!”
“Braixen,” Serena shouted. “Use Flamethrower on Pumpkaboo!”
Pikachu darted forward on all fours, while Braixen waved its stick and sent another stream of fire skywards. Almost simultaneously, the attacks connected. Jessie’s Pokemon took the full fury of the fire directly to the face, while Pikachu’s tail hit the underside of the other’s chin. Both Pokemon flew upwards, crashing into Team Rocket’s balloon one after the other.
“Now Pikachu!” Ash pointed. “Thunderbolt!”
“Pikaaaaa… Chuuuu!”
An enormous bolt of electricity arced skywards, impacting directly against the Meowth head balloon. Humans and Pokemon alike screamed as the electricity coursed through the entire craft, giving ample attention to each inhabitant. And then the overstressed balloon exploded.
“Looks like Team Rocket’s blasting off again!”
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Ok. We know for a fact now that James' new 'Pokemon' is going to have a love/hate relationship with him.
I finish reading the first chapter and then it immediately updates.
I'll take it!! This looks great!
Ash was more than a little hasty attacking without warning. It's not as if the Celestia pokemon was aggressive, if anything, it was 'yelling' at the Team Rocket people...
Obviously a plot device to force-pair Celestia and the Team Rocket crew, at least for the time being.
I figured that Celestia's gonna be a Fairy type. I wonder if Celestia can give Team Rocket the magic o' friendship?
On the road! This is becoming a great hit, plenty of laughs! Not to mention the great typing you gave Celestia. Great work and keep it up man!
While I'm disappointed that Celestia cant communicate I remember that our dear Tia surly has a translation spell. or she could use her magic to speak in their minds as many legendarys do... I think.
She is legendary... Right?
Looks interesting. However, a fire/fairy pokémon wouldn't actually be weak to steel. That'd be neutral damage, so that pokédex seems to be making stuff up as it goes.
This is good. I see Horn Drill being used in the very near future, possibly followed by cake or ear scratches.
I wonder if Meowth understood what Celestia was saying?
I wonder if Meowth understood what Celestia was saying?
I love how you made it to where Celestia could only say her name, but can understand the Pokemon around her
That was genius.
Celestia is awesome. She is soo confused and during this fight she is casting one spell and everyone is like Aaarrrgghhhhhs. But I am not sure, what happened at the end.
...yes
Interesting. Though, I do hope that once she gets healed and understands what's going on she puts up a better fight. Celestia should be at least pseudo-legendary tier if not Legendary.
Also, we're assuming that the Pokemon world is a Fisher Kingdom? Given that the human mirror world appears to be one, that's fair. Or perhaps it is the mirrors themselves that act as the transformers.
Hold a grudge Celestia!
And heal up!
So that next time you see that stupid electric mouse...
SEND IT TO THE MOON!
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She had low HP and was tired, plus had no clue about what was going on...
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Ash is a trainer, the only reason he would not have attacked it was of Celestia had attacked team Rocket right away, and maybe not even them, Remember some of James Pokemon had a tendency to attack him.
Also if this had gone a more realistic way, Celestia would have incinerated the pokeball in the first chapter.
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James, yes, can't find it, but i think he did exactly this with yamask.
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Well, no, i have found it:
https://youtu.be/sX8NcF8PodE?t=13m26s
its still in the same way.
I haven't played Pokemon in a long time, so I have to ask, when did fairy become a type?
Though it does seem to suit Celestia perfectly, as long as shes legendary.
I don't think magic classified as Psychic but then again a Pokédex is calibrated to Pokémon
so it will match whatever she does with Pokemon moves I wonder if Celestia can Learn to
harness new power.
also what if Celestia is an Earth type instead of fire, water is effective on other types
that Pokédex is racist and generic!
6084994 James actually 'catches' a lot of his Pokemon through random acts of kindness. One could say it's his 'thing'. A lot of the time he outright asks Pokemon if they want to come with him (and probably actually asked Celestia herself, by all appearances, not knowing about the extra-strength language barrier). James is the nicest person in the Pokemon universe.
Possibly relevant.
I have one huge nitpick as a Pokemon fan:
IF Celly is a Fairy/Fire type, then she should NOT be weak to steel since while fairy is weak to steel, Fire resists it netting neutral damage.
Her Resistances/Weaknesses should be as such:
Immune: Dragon
1/4 Resist: Bug.
1/2 Resist: Fire, Grass, Ice, Fighting, Dark, Fairy.
Neutral: Normal, Electric, Flying, Psychic, Ghost, Steel.
2x Weakness: Water, Poison, Ground, Rock.
4x Weakness: None.
So, if the attacks that were said to be super effective actually were, then she cannot really be Fairy/Fire. Now, from what we know, she is weak to steel and water, but not electricity. She is also not immune to electricity, which rules out a ground type...
Currently the ONLY type that fully fits with the information is Fairy/Rock.
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YES! A fully accurate comment about typing!
And we still have yet to figure what her ability is, which can have an effect on the effectiveness of moves.
And of course, Team Rocket is blasting off again!
I think it's been too long since I stopped watching Pokemon. The fuck is a frogadier?
*one web search later* number 657!?!?!
How many pokemon are there now?
*reluctant search*
718!?!?!?!?!
edit: pumpkaboo?
At this point I have a tab open right next to this one to look up these new and strange Pokemon.
edit edit: Fairy, that's that new class of Pokemon I heard about.
6086320 - Agreed. Need to research your types dude. Still, a good start. I'll track it and see where it goes.
I am confused... In the first chapter Celestia couldn't understand team rocket, but now she can understand ash and the pokedex?
6086320 Maybe they're using anime physics, where Thunderbolt is super effective against the Rock/Ground Rhydon provided you hit the horn? Or maybe she has some new type of ability that increases the impact of a weakness?
Celestia is contractually obligated to use the following moves:
Charm - Most members of the Equine Egg Group get this move.
Disarming Voice - Literally does emotional damage.
Flare Blitz - In case of RAEG.
Return/Frustration - A move powered by Friendship or lack thereof.
Solar Beam - Duh
Sunny Day - See Above
Huh. Not bad.
SHe can't use her countless magic spells or what? Not seeing the thousands of years of experience in battle and spellcasting here... she's reduced to a pair of types and some lame moves.
So what types would Lulu be? Dark/?
6087608 yeah I stopped playing poke on games above the pearl/diamond gen. It gets kinda weird and they're baisically copies of pokemon in the older gens. So I had no idea what all of these pokemon were besides rapidash, pikachu and meowth.
6083595 have to agree there.
6136898 Dark/Fairy if we went by this author's precedent.
I'm 'like' number 600! woot! and to the author, I have a question. at the beginning, celestia says she's trying to find civilization and help. and the first beings she comes across, she acts aggressive toward them. why? you even said she was really tired and not trying to get into a fight.
6136898 Dark... dark... Hmm... The only typing I can think of at the moment would be Dark/Psychic or Dark/Fairy. Possibly Dark/Ice though
Who's?
That?
Pokeyman?!
It's a Celestia!
Actually, if Celestia is Fairy/Fire, Iron Tail would not be super-effective against her - sure, Fairy is weak to Steel, but Fire resists it. The resistance cancels out the weakness, meaning Celestia would take normal damage from Iron Tail.
I'm liking this story so far.
I just starting reading this, so not sure if this changes in future chapters- So just a small critique.
I would work in some more action with the dialog of the trainer commands, rockets' motto.
I get where you are coming from, and not trying to break the flow of the story, but this is a story, not a comic or animated sequence. The readers would like to know that you are putting forth the effort to paint a scene rather than just go through the motions. Sure trainers just stand around and give commands, but they are more than just spectators. It would be nice to see where they are looking at, how bored, exited, angry they are. Reading just dialogue spoken makes it a bit... the glass half full.
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Greetings from the future! There are now 802 Pokemon.
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Greetings from the future! 807 now, with the next generation soon to come.
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Greetings from the future 821 now.
Lol fairy type. Poor Celestia lost to a rat =)
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That's honestly nothing new for the pokedex
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Greeting from the even farther future...
There's now over 1000