Twilight stared longingly at the little sliver of pure heaven in her hands. It was perfect, an electronic encyclopaedia, a repository of otherworldly knowledge about otherworldly creatures.
"Uh, Twilight? Are you there?" Elaine waved her hand in front of Twilight's face, snapping her from her trance. "Ah, good, I thought you were having a stroke or something."
"What? No, I'm just…" Twilight held the Pokédex up with a grin. "How could I not be excited by this?"
Elaine raised an eyebrow. "It's just a Pokédex? I'll message Professor Oak and see if he can send you one if you'd like?"
"Yes please! I'd like! I'd very much like!" Twilight cried ecstatically.
Taken aback by the sudden outburst, Elaine took a deliberate step back. "O...kay… I'll message him now. In the meantime, why don't you just have a read through that one while we walk?"
"I can? Yay!" Twilight immediately set to flicking through the entries on the Pokédex, beginning with one for Pidgeys.
"Hey, it's you guys!" Twilight dragged her eyes from the Pokédex and looked up to see a young man, roughly Elaine's age, coming towards them, smiling and waving.
"Hi, Trace, what are you doing here?" Elaine called.
Trace sighed and shuffled over to them, looking dejected. "I tried to go and get a look at Victory Road, but there's some sort of construction going on, you can't get anywhere near."
Elaine slumped her shoulders at that. "Awww, that's not cool. I wanted to get a look at the place before we set off to Pewter City."
"Yeah, not happening," Trace said. He shoved his hands in his pockets and tilted his head as he shifted his gaze to Twilight. "So you're the owner of the little Shimmy. I heard that you climbed out of the sea in the middle of the night, what the heck happened to you?"
Twilight shrugged. "I have no idea. One minute we were on a research expedition, the next I was waking up in Sakura's house."
"Eesh, that's rough," Trace said with a grimace. "I meant ending up in the ocean is one thing, but waking up in Sakura's home?" He shivered. "That's just horrible."
"Don't be ridiculous, Sakura is lovely," Elaine said firmly.
Twilight and Sunset shared a curious look. "What's wrong with Sakura?"
"There's nothing wrong with her," Elaine huffed. "Trace is just being weird."
"Hey, I'm not the one who's weird!" Trace retorted. "I told you, I saw her eyes go funny that one time!"
Elaine rolled her eyes and glanced at Twilight. "Trace found her going for a walk one evening a little while ago. He saw some stupid trick of the light, and now he swears that she's possessed by a ghost Pokémon or something."
"She must be!" Trace insisted.
"Whatever." Elaine shrugged and turned away. "Well, if Victory Road is closed off, we may as well head back into town. If we don't take too long getting food, we might even be able to reach Pewter City before dark."
"Hey, before we go..." Trace grinned and pulled a Pokéball out of his pocket. "Look's like we've both got some new Pokémon, how about a match?"
Elaine perked up immediately. "A match? That's a great idea!"
"Pika!" Pikachu added.
Grinning widely, Elaine turned to Bellsprout. "What about you, are you in?"
Bellsprout nodded once. "Sprout."
"What about you?" Trace asked Twilight. "Fancy a round?"
Twilight shook her head vehemently. "No, thank you!"
"Twilight isn't really into the whole battling thing," Elaine explained in response to Trace's curious look. "Why don't we show her how it's done, first?"
Trace shrugged. "Fine by me, let's see how you've grown!"
As the two Trainers squared off, Twilight felt something nudging her leg. Looking down, she noticed that Sunset had written a short message in the dirt.
MUST GET STRONGER.
"What?" Confused by Sunset's sudden desire to fight, Twilight was distracted as Trace released a Pokémon from it's ball.
"Go, Eevee!" There was a flash of light, and all of a sudden the cutest little dog that Twilight had ever seen was standing proudly on the ground. It had a big bushy tail, and an incredibly fluffy girdle of hair around its chest.
Elaine pointed at the Eevee and grinned. "Okay, Pikachu, let's show them what we've got!"
"Pika!" Pikachu dove off Elaine's shoulder and stood ready on all fours, sparks flying from the dots on her cheeks.
A little uncomfortable being so close to the action, Twilight backed away several paces, just in case. She had no idea what to expect as the two Pokémon squared off against each other.
Trace struck first, thrusting an arm forward as he called out, "Get her, Eevee! Use Quick Attack!"
"Pikachu, Thundershock!"
Electricity sparked and crackled from the red dots on Pikachu's cheeks.
Eevee was faster.
The little Pokémon disappeared in a flash, only to reappear just in time to slam into Pikachu from the side, walloping the poor creature clean off her feet.
Twilight gasped and reached out, shocked at how aggressive and sudden the attack had been, but Pikachu bounced and twisted, landing on all fours with a determined look on her face.
"Hit her with another Quick Attack!" Trace called.
"Jump, Pikachu!" Elaine shouted.
Pikachu leapt up into the air just as Eevee disappeared again. The little dog reappeared just a second too late, looking up as sparks flew from its opponents cheeks. "Pika!"
Eevee yelped in pain as a bolt of crackling electricity arced from Pikachu and grounded itself through the little Pokemon's body.
Shock and horror paralyzed Twilight. She felt certain that the fight was over, and that they were about to have to make a mad dash to the nearest Pokémon centre to get Eevee some emergency medical care. As such, she felt a surge of fear and outrage as Elaine called out, "Now, finish this with Tackle!"
"Dodge it, Eevee!" Trace shouted.
Somehow, incredibly, the Eevee skipped aside as Pikachu charged, as if a powerful electric shock had been merely painful rather than severely life-threatening.
The two Pokémon stared each other down, neither willing to back down, until Trace smirked and crossed his arms. "That's enough, Eevee." He raised an eyebrow at Elaine. "Not bad, you and Pikachu work well together."
"Same with you guys," Elaine said brightly.
Twilight's jaw dropped open. The two were acting as if what had just happened was something completely normal. Even the Pokémon were quite happily chatting with each other, as if they hadn't just been viciously attacking each other.
"So, what do you think?" Trace asked. "Do you want to try a match?"
"Uh…" Twilight looked down at Sunset. Her eyes were bulging out of their sockets, and her bravado from earlier had apparently evaporated as she jerkily shook her head. "You know what, I think we'll just leave that to you guys."
Trace shrugged. "Eh, suit yourself. Battling isn't for everyone. Come on, let's hit the Pokémon Center then go and get some food!"
awesome chapter mate cant wait for the next chapter
Call it their own form of innate magic.
Pokedex: 😃
Battle: 😧
You know, it just occurred to me, since twilight and Sunset were basically kidnapped into fighting some powerful foe, will that foe give them time to train and get stronger? If not, will Sunset need to find some way to artificially compensate? I know giving Pokemon stuff like guns or stimulant drugs goes against the whole aesthetic of what this franchise is trying to be, but Sunset and Twilight don't know that.
When you think about just how much destructive power a single Pokemon has, its a wonder that humans even survive in that world.
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Plus we find out in a later episode that Meowth can no longer learn any other moves because he spent all of his energy on learning to speak human.
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No more a wonder than any other anime. You have normal humans, and you have beings who command outrageous powers somehow living in the same world. This is true in a lot of anime.
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Sure, that's what Meowth said in the show, but if you stop and think about what he said, it doesn't actually make any sense.
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And then you have the Hercule Satans of the world, who would be total badasses by our world's standards but are several seasons late to being able to accomplish anything with that. (Hercule himself manages through a combination of legitimate friendliness and being the luckiest bastard who ever lived)
Shimmy shim shim shimmy
It's probably already been mentioned, but twilight could become a coordinator and mostly avoid having to battle with sunset. You just have to look cooler than the opponent and dodge well in the battle stage of a pokemon contest in order to win.
How soon will twilight and sunset be forced into a battle? With a rare Pokémon it is only a matter of time. How soon will they learn that they have no choice but to battle to stay safe
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Well, most "mons" anime. But compared to something like WeissKreuiz, Sukeban Deka, Yu Yu Hakusho, any of the Gundam series, etc. and the power disparity between the main characters and the world around them drops dramatically, or in the case of the former two, you've got just normal humans of exceptional skill. Or, in something like Bio-Booster Armor Guyver, Tokyo Majin, Beyond the Boundary and Devilman, the monsters are hidden from the rest of the world, rather than being front and center.
My head-canon to explain the whole thing is that humans are not native to the pokemon world, and that the mons have learned they have devices that can contain and control them, meaning they don't approach populated areas because they know that the humans can and will abduct them if they try.
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Actually, it is more likely that the humans of the Pokemon world are simply far more durable than real world humans (remember, Ash can survive his pikachu's thunderbolts easily). There is an often overlooked bit of lore from gen. 4 that states that humans and Pokemon had a common ancestor. The same source basically said that ancient humans could and would even interbreed with their Pokemon. That's also a reason that Pokemon will partner with humans, with or without pokeballs. Remember it is a canon fact that Pokemon training predates pokeballs by centuries.
Just saying, if she doesn't with Sunset, it'd be the Wings 'N Things incident all over again. Yes, she knows how to control her unicorn magic, but in THIS world, she's a Pokemon! If she doesn't learn to control those abilities, they'll control her!
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Team Rocket has survived stuff that would kill Raditz-era DBZ characters, if we assume that they're not entirely outliers we can hypothesize that co-evolution with pokemon has causes that world's humans to gain physical capabilities far outside our own.
Also Ash moving the 999kb cosmoem (I say moving rather than lifting since it does hover).
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I think I read somewhere it's called Infinity Energy or something like that. It supposed to explain why hitting a pokemon with a rock will hurt it more than hitting it with rock throw
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Huh. I was unaware of that possible common ancestry bit between mons and humans. Neat.
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X Attack, Defense, etc. exist without issue in the Pokemon world. It's more nasty stuff like forcing a Pokemon into Shadow or other inhumane forms of modifications/chemistry that strip Pokemon of sanity or free will that hit "illegal".
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So they might need to stock up on those then. Also, considering it's effects, I would think that methamphetamine would be the ideal combat drug, since it suppresses the sense of pain, and removes the brains natural limiters on the muscles. Now we know that cocaine exists in the Pokemon universe, so it's not a stretch to imagine that meth exists too.
I know Pokemon has made an effort to distance itself from guns, and we never see Pokemon themselves using them, but depending on their time table, their enemies might not leave them with much of a choice.
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Gigantamax Blastoise laughs at standards and practices.
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...on humans. We have no idea how it'd work on a species you can literally spray on a substance capable of fully restoring it's health, much less ones made of toxic chemical soup or more exotic things.
Guns exist in Pokemon. Being that commonly found intelligent bioweapons easily exceed them, they're just not as common. (One of the censored early cartoon episodes had them.)
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Well sure, most pokemon attacks would surpass the capabilities of some firearms, but that's after they've grown and trained a bit. My thoughts were contingent on the available time table. If there is time to train, then they won't need any extra offensive weaponry.
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Consider that your average human with a Pokemon doesn't pull out a gun to even the odds even if losing- they generally flee or surrender... indicating the Pokemon is generally more than durable enough to ensure someone shooting stops in a hurry.
Let's even consider how likely they are to live after shooting the trainer. Even mundane animals like dogs will often savage someone attacking their owner.
Now give that dog a flamethrower.
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Also consider that your average pokemon trainers are children. Why are they able to get live fire arms?
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More important, living in a society said kids often have walking tanks for friends.
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At this point, we're clearly just talking past each other. I know it's painful to think about combat in pokemon in any way that isn't poke-related, but this is a crossover. Neither of us know wtf is going to happen. It's up to the author.
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To add to this, it's been explained in canon that Pokémon who approach humans do so because they want to get stronger, and it's a stated fact that a Pokémon with a trainer will grow stronger than one on it's own will. Those not interested will just avoid humans. Wild Pokémon you meet attack you because they're "testing" your worthiness as a trainer.
Nintendo has gone through a lot of effort to make clear the relationship is voluntary and mutually beneficial, with some exceptions (ie, villain Teams)
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Let me perhaps lay a few things to rest. I can promise that there won't be any guns appearing in this fic whatsoever, but the query of whether or not they'll have enough time to train is a valid one.
We'll be getting our first glimpse of villainy in the chapter after next, I guarantee that it will raise a lot more questions than it answers, and there's going to be plenty of twists in the story to keep people guessing.
Having said that, who said that there was only one villain...
You never really think about this part of the world too much in the games.
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WalMart, duhWell, Sunset probably does still want to become more powerful, but after that display, I can understand her hesitating. Twilight delving into research is understandable, but owning such a rare and mysterious Pokémon will put a target on her back, and she can't always rely on friendly trainers being nearby. They'll likely need to adapt to this world. Hopefully their transformations mean that they can handle the intensity of local combat.
(And let's face it, humans in this world are Pokémon in their own right. They just prioritize really weird utility moves like Tool Use and Cultural Exchange.)
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Consider Lillie moving the evolved Nebby in the games. Poor thing's comatose; she's definitely hauling half a ton... which also implies some truly impressive thing about her bag's materials.
I used to think Pokémon fights were like dog fighting, but thinking about it there is a difference. If Pokémon are intelligent enough to know the risk/reward and are willing to do so as well as some precautions to ensure safety, then it's really no different from a boxer or MMA fighter going at it.
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I read a fanfic that actualy explored how deadly a Pokemon world would be if the destructive potential of Pokemon was fully unleashed.
Called Poke Wars, it was WAY too dark for my tastes.
EEVEE ARE OUR OVERLORDS!