- Chapter I -
Reborn, the City of Ruin
- Hey Jon, are you awake?
Jon slowly opened his eyes. The woman that called his name was standing in front of him looking really sad. Jon tried to search in his memory to remember what happened, but the headache didn't let him. When it calmed down he noticed that he actually knew the woman that was talking to him, it was Amethyst, "Ame" as everyone prefers to call her, she is the manager of the reborn league and was helping the new trainers in their trip to reborn city. Jon got up and looked around, on the right there is a big brown lake, in front of him there is a street that appearantly leads to a big city, and on the left there's a train station, or at least what is left of it.
- You are probably wondering where we are right now Jon, and what happened to this station. Well, we are at Reborn City, in the Peridot Ward to be more specific, and the train exploded right as we entered the station some minutes ago, we are the only survivors. How? Because you were close to the front door when everything happened and avoided the big impact, and I, I was supposed to be dead right now, but absol helped me during the explosion by using protect, I owe her my life. Anyways, the police officers couldn't find another survivors, and I still don't know what caused this explosion. - Ame wasn't only looking sad, but also frustrated since all the effort to bring trainers to the region went down the drain due to a possible fail in the train system that caused an explosion.
- Hihi Ame, do you really have any doubts about what caused it? - A young green haired woman with cheerleader clothes was walking in their direction with a smile.
- Julia... what have you done...? Are you the one that...
- Wha-at Ame... Nothing, I did nothing, I just came immediately to the station when I heard that glorious BOOM!!!!! sound, you know that I gotta be there to see it when stuff is booming, there isn't anything cooler than that... a-and then I saw you, that's it. - Julia responded
- Uh huh, what do you mean with "do you really have any doubts about it"?
- Ah - Julia never stopped smiling since she appeared - Obvious isn't it? Someone tried to destroy the station.
Ame couldn't believe in that.
- Julia, even though Reborn's situtation is worse than bad, I don't think we reached a point where the residents decided to explode the only way to get out of the region.
- Ha! That's where we enter, the fantastic quartet from the Onyx Trainer's School, me, Rini, Tania and Amy has done some work since you left to search for new trainers in other regions, together we have reached a conclusion, Reborn's situation is being caused by something in specific. Think about it, the azurine lake, the recent flora incident on Obsidia, and now this, why is it all happening right now? There's no way they are natural disasters Ame, whatever it is the thing that is causing the problems, it wants Reborn to stay the way they are changing it, and I'm pretty sure normal residents wouldn't try to do something so complex.
Ame thought about Julia's words for a while.
- And who do you think they are?
- Well, Rini was thinking of some pokemon with high levels of intelligence such as alakazam or malamar that would normally want to cause trouble to humans trying to prove that they are superior. But Rini said that the abra family was extinct in reborn and that the inkay family is being kept at the wasteland for eight years due to its dangerous hypnotizant power. After some research we have reached the conclusion that there's a group of intelligent people out there.
- Intelligent people huh? So that means...
- That the culprit is still somewhere close, the station exploded some minutes ago and he's probably still around, if you find him you find out who's doing all this problems.
- All right, thanks for all the help Julia, I'll go to the Grand Hall immediately and send new orders to the Police Officers, if the thing which destroyed the train station is a human it will be catched. - She started running, but then she remembered about Jon and turned back - Jon, I'm sorry for all this mess, Julia, send Jon to the Opal Ward, Jon, I'll put someone waiting for you in the Opal Ward who will send you to the Grand Hall, I'll be waiting there. - And then she ran away.
- Oh, so your name is Jon, and you're a TRAINER?? That's really cool, also you are the only survivor aren't you? Anyways, I should send you to the Opal Ward, all you have to do is keep going straight ahead, when the rocky road changes colors you'll know that you're in the Opal Ward. As Ame said, there will be someone waiting for you, got it? Now I need to go back to the power plant, if you don't know just yet I am the electric gym leader of the Reborn Region, and the first challenge for the new trainers, so if you're going to challenge the reborn league, the first place you should visit is my powerplant in the Peridot Ward, I'll be waiting for you there Jon, see you. - And now Jon is alone in the Reborn City, following Julia's instructions, he started walking towards the Grand Hall.
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The Peridot Ward is probably one of the dirtier places Jon has ever been to, combining the piles of junk in the street with the brown lake, it looks like the residents are living on a giant dump. The residents in the street were angry because they couldn't go back to the Peridot Ward, since Ame locked the perimeter to search for the culprit. Many of them lost sons and daughters in the train, and a hiker was complaining because he wanted to go back to his region. When the rocky road changed its colors Jon knew he was in the Opal Ward, he saw a big building in the center. - Probably the Grand Hall - The building is surrounded by a bridge, but the two entrances to the bridge are being guarded by trainers, appearantly they're not letting anyone in, except trainers, and since Jon doesn't have a pokemon just yet, he was rejected.
- Hey, are you Jon?? - Jon was looking at the brown lake when someone called his name, he turned back. Behind him there was a girl wearing a kimono. - My name is Victoria, Ame sent me to redirect you to the Grand Hall. I see that you are surprised with the Azurine Lake, everyone in the city is surprised to be honest, once the water was blue and crystalline, but now it's like this. Anyways, we should go to the Grand Hall, Ame said that she will register us on the league, we will also get our starter pokemon when we get there, isn't that exciting? I'm an apprentice in the Apophyll Academy in the Azurine Region, it's located across the Azurine Lake. My sensei Kiki let me challenge the Reborn League so I can test the abilities I got from years of hard training, if I beat all the gym leaders I'll be the third apprentice to do that, after Kiki and... a friend of mine, also, I didn't mention but Kiki is also the fighting gym leader of Reborn, so we will be visting her soon. For now, we should focus on getting our starter, shall we? - Then they went to the Grand Hall together.
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The entrance to the Grand Hall is a big door that opens when someone is one metre next to it, around the main building there are two small gardens with tall grass and some broken statues. Victoria and Jon entered the Grand Hall surprisingly happy, not even the death of forty new trainers can wash away the excitement of getting your first pokemon. Jon never had his own one, so this was definitely one of the best moments of his life.
- There you are, Jon, Victoria, come here. - Ame was waiting for them. - I'm waiting for one more trainer to get registered, but I'm pretty sure you two can't wait to get your first pokemon, so let's start, who picks first?
- I'd like to pick first - Jon said
- All right, Victoria you wait here, I'll go with Jon to the starters room.
- Good luck Jon, I'm sure you'll pick an amazing starter.
Ame redirected Jon to a big room with three tables. Each table has six pokeballs, the first table is green, the second one is red, and the last one is blue.
- Ok Jon, this is pretty obvious, the green table contains grass type starters, the red one contains fire types, and the blue ones has water types. You can come out everyone! A new trainer is here!! Ah, and Jon, you can only choose one pokemon, make your choice carefully, ah, and take the time you need.
A sound of eighteen pokeballs opening at the same time filled the air.
That was hard, Jon didn't know what to pick, every starter seemed to be amazing, he probably took more time than he would have wanted, but after analyzing everything carefully he reached his conclusion. When he was a baby, he traveled with his family to the Sinnoh region, where he met his aunt Gardenia in her own grass type gym. He was fascinated by all the amazing battles he saw, and as a tribute to his aunt, who he's probably not going to see anymore, he choosed a grass type. Jon's starter is Chikorita.
- Looks like now it's you and me chikorita, hm, you need a name. All right, your new name is Ethan, do you like it?
- Chiko! Chikorita!! - Chikorita seems really happy.
- Looks like you are done, great choice Jon, I'm sure chikorita and you will be great parnters, well, you'll need to, without great partners you won't be able to challenge the Reborn League. Come with me, now it's Victoria's time.
Victoria was waiting for them outside.
- So your start is chikorita? Interesting... Oh what? Nah, don't worry, I won't pick a starter with type advantage just to be better than you, that's silly, I and Kiki discussed about it before, I already know which one I want, it's actually a fire type, so I'll have type advantage anyways, but I'm sure chikorita looks strong to take everything on.
- Chiko!!
- Come with me Victoria, Jon you wait here, I'll register you and Victoria when she is done - They went together to the starters room.
Now that they're gone Jon took a time to look at the Grand Hall, something he couldn't do with patience when he came first due to the fact that he was going to choose his first pokemon. It was full of trainers, around thirty, the building looks a lot bigger inside and there is some utility for trainers in a PokeCenter and a PokeMart. Jon's mother gave him some money for the trip, he has 3000 Pokedollars, but his mother said that everytime he defeats a trainer you get more money. Jon bought some supplements for his adventure. While waiting he was talking to an old man. "If you only knew what this city once was, it was marvelous" he said. In the main door someone was trying to sell a rare and powerful pokemon for only 500 Pokedollars, Jon decided to not waste his money since he already wasted a lot in the PokeMart. "Where are Victoria and Ame? They were supposed to be done by now"
- That's a cute Chikorita you have there! - A boy "or is it a girl?" with purple hair and weird purple clothes was looking at Ethan.- Heyy, you're cute too, oh wh-what? I said nothing. Are you a new trainer too? That's really cool! My name is Cain, I'm not technically a new trainer, I had to leave everything behind under some circumstances. But anyways, was Ame just here? I need to get registrated for the league.
- She's helping someone else in the starter selection.
- Oh, kay~ I got my starter pokemon in my old home... Hey, you know what? You just got a pokemon, I just got a pokemon, how about a battle right now? Me and you? I'm sure no one here will care, we are trainers anyways, that's what we do, we battle.
- Uh, I don't have any experience.
- And do you think I have any? It will be my first battle too, let's do it!
- Fine, get ready...
- Go Ethan!
- Looks like I'll have the type advantage, go Nidoran!!
"Hm, he has the type advantage that's for sure, what can I do to win?"
- Nidoran use tackle!
- Ethan, do a counter attack with your own tackle!!
The tackles shock with each other, but looks like chikorita took more damage.
"He's faster, that's not good, and his tackle does more damage, how? Oh wait... HUSTLE!
- Now nidoran! Tackle again, go!!
"Nidoran is strong because of its hustle ability, but that strenght has a price, I know what to do"
- Ethan! Dodge it!
Nidoran hits the floor with its horn instead of chikorita.
- Now Ethan, use tackle, go!
Ethan hits the nidoran with tackle, which seems to hurt a lot more.
" I got a critical hit, perfect, looks like this battle is mine"
- Don't give up now Nidoran, use tackle with all your strenght!!
- Dodge it!
Ethan couldn't dodge this tackle, but the attack left a hole in nidoran's defense.
- Let's end this now! Ethan, tackle!!
... Nidoran can't battle anymore, chikorita wins, which means that Jon is the winner.
- Bravo!! Good job Nidoran, come back. Man, your fighting style is amazing, I learned a lot from that battle. Let's go to the Grand Hall's PokeCenter, nidoran fainted and your chikorita took a lot of damage, we need to heal them up.
Nurse Joy healed Ethan and Nidoran, for some reason this Nurse Joy looked exactly like the others, some people say that Nurse Joys are the result from a succesfull cloning experience, but no one really knows.
- Let's go back, Ame is probably done. - Jon said
- Yeah, she's done, and WHAT IN THIS WORLD are you two doing here? - Victoria was looking at Cain and Jon with a curious face.
- I and Jon had some fun.
- Had some fun? Jon! I didn't know you were like that.
- Haha, we just had a battle, no worries.
- Oh, that seems fun, what about fighting with me now Jon? You're Cain right? Ame is looking for you, she is waiting in the registration room because appearantly you already have a starter, so you don't have to pick a new one. While you registrate, Jon and I are going to battle.
- All right, I'll go tell Ame about our battle and also registrate myself, see you guys. - Then he left.
- Now it's just you and me right Jon? Onegai Shimasu!
- Go Ethan!
- Do your best Tepig!
"Uh huh, another situation where my opponent has the type advantage, but Ethan got a level by beating Cain's nidoran, this tepig is not a problem for him"
- Ethan, use Tackle!
- Tepig, use Tail whip!
"Tail whip? She's trying to weaken me to the point where tepig can possibly 2HKO me with tackle, interesting strategy, but we have already seen that Ethan is fast, so I can probably knock it out before it can do anything to me"
- Ethan, tackle again!
- Tepig, use your own tackle!
The tackles collided.
"Uh, that tackle did way too much to Ethan, but as long as she doesn't get a critical hit I should have this battle in my hands since I'm faster."
- Ethan! Tackle again!!
- Tepig use tail whip!
"She noticed that her only chance is a critical hit, so she's trying to crit me with a +2 tackle from tepig."
- Ethan use tackle again!
- Tepig, counter attack with tackle!
"She did it! She got the critical hit!! But WHAT?? Ethan survived!"
- Now Ethan, finish it off with a tackle!
Tepig faints, Jon is the winner.
- Wow, to be honest, at the start I thought you were another ordinary trainer that wants to do a challenge not being prepeared, you're not an ordinary trainer are you? Arigato Gozaimasu.
They didn't notice Ame was watching the battle from the camera since they started. Cain came out of the registration room.
- All right guys, now it's your time to get registered, I'm gonna hit the road.
- See you Cain, let's go Jon! Let's get registered already.
They went together to the registration room, where Ame was waiting for them.
- Hey guys, fantastic battle, I was watching everything on the cameras, anyways, I already registered you since your parents and your sensei sent me your personal stuff already, I called you here to give some gifts, first, a pokedex and a pokegear, with them you'll be able to see the data of every pokemon you catch, and with the pokegear you can see the region map while listening to music. And here I have a special present for you Jon, directly from Devon Corp. I present you the running shoes, they'll let you run much faster, also, nobody cares if you run inside.
- Thank you Ame, I'll report everything to Kiki, about my battle and everything, see you.
- See you Victoria, oh wait, don't you have something for Jon?
- Uh? Oh yeah, Jon, these might be helpful in your journey, they're pokeballs, this ones aren't that great, the best ones are ultra balls, level balls and dusk balls, some people say that Devon Corp. is also creating Master balls, a ball with 100% catch rate in everything, but I doubt it. Anyways, you can buy new balls in every pokemart, and there are also specific balls that they sell in a shop called Critical Capture in the Obsidia Ward. Anyways, see you.
- Jon, your adventure is about to begin, go, if you are wondering what's the first step to take, you should challenge Julia in the Peridot Gym, it's a big yellow building that looks like a power plant, I'm sure you will be able to find it, good luck! Now... I have some things to do... - She got up and left, Jon did that after, and prepared himself to leave the Grand Hall and start his adventure...
To be Continued...
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You thought I was going to abandon this as I did with my last run? Ha! I'm back here with this story, hope you guys enjoyed it, I'll probably be uptdating it on sunday or monday, so keep checking. Again, comment so I don't double post.