A case of the Blues!

We followed the men down a side street, and heard Eevee cry out as they closed in on it.
'Charmander and Rattata are injured from our battle! They won't be able to help much!' Called Ragnarok as we hurtled after them.
'Oh yeah, I brought this'
I pulled an orange out of my pocket and threw it over my shoulder to him as I got one out for Rattata. 'Bought them earlier. Figured it would help, Oran, Orange, it's our worlds equivalent..'
'Good point'
I held out a wedge of orange and Rattata, running alongside me, leapt, grabbed it with his teeth, and munched happily away as we continued our pursuit. I could hear Charmander enjoying some behind me. Rattata looked better, and most of his grazes had faded. I fed him another bit as we rounded a corner, and saw the two men had cornered Eevee against the end of an alley.

'Right you freaky little mutt, lets finish what we started shall we?'

'Stop! Rattata! FLAME WHEEL!'

'Whoah? Aaah! What the hell is that? Ooow!'

'Charmander! Hit the other one with your tail!'

'Is that a...dinosaur? Ow!'

The first man was knocked down by a direct hit from flame wheel, and as he rolled around, desperately trying to put out his shirt, the second man was felled by a well aimed whack at an ankle by Charmander. His trouser leg caught fire as he went down, and we rushed over to the Eevee to see how bad the damage was. It was shivering, and looked pretty scuffed up. I fed it an orange wedge as Charmander brought his tail round in front of him, and held the tip out to Eevee, who after nervously accepting the fruit, huddled close to the flame, and seemed to recover a little. I turned to the men, furious. 'What the hell do you think you're doing?!'

'The mongrel can talk! It called us evil, then it threw sand in our faces, then it called us evil again as it ran off!'

'Who are you two? Why have you got monsters with you? Wait, Charmander? Isn't that a .........pokémon? My cousin kept mentioning some thing called a Charmander a few years ago...'

'Yes. Yes it is. So is my Rattata, and if you'd paid attention you'd have heard this poor little creature saying 'Eevee' not evil. That's it's name. That's how Pokémon speak, you ignorant dolts! As for the sand, sounds like a sand attack to me, you probably scared it. Guard them for a sec, Rattata.'
'Rata!'
I got out my DS and pointed at the Eevee. 'Now, let's see how you're doing..'
'Huh?' Ragnarok looked up at me from kneeling by Eevee.
'Oh right!' I was going to show you, but then this happened. I got my DS out again last night, and it sort of scanned itself, then Rattata, and now look.'
All the normal buttons were there- The D-pad, the four circles, Start and Select. But now there were two power buttons. The normal one, and one with a tiny picture of a Pokéball on it, next to the normal one, making them the doubles of Start and Select on the other side. I pressed the new one, and the console turned red. The left side curved, grew a black edge, and the top half gained a smaller semicircle, that lined up with an indent in the lower half. It had become a Sinnoh Pokédex. (Interestingly, the DS didn't have a Sinnoh game in it when it transformed, and it has the most up to date information, from Heartgold and Soulsilver. I guess this was the easiest shape for it to become? This Pokédex IS designed to resemble the DS afterall..)

It had both power buttons, and both my HeartGold and Rag's Firered in their slots, but in every other way it was a genuine Pokédex.
'That. Is cool.'
'I know! Anyway, let's see what it says. Ok, level 10, The orange is helping, back up to 3/4 health, She's a she, Bashful nature. Not doing too badly, she should be up to full strength again soon.
I turned back to the men, as I heard a squeak of fury and Rattata landed on my shoulder, grabbing tight not to fall off.

'Don't mess with my Rat! Now, if you tell ANYONE about all this-'
'Anyone? Dude, we're telling everyone! We'll be rich for turning these monsters over to scientists. Who knows what could be achieved! An army of firey Dinosaurs! Rodents that can sneak into the enemy camp and destroy them from the inside!'
One turned to run, and Rattata leapt. He shot forward with incredible speed, and tripped the man up with his tail, causing him to fall on his face with a crunching sound. As Rattata jumped up and down on the man, my DSDex beeped, still being active:

Quick Attack:
The user lunges at the foe at a speed that makes it almost invisible. It is sure to strike first.

'You learned Quick Attack. Cool!'
There was a cry of pain from the other man as Charmander decided to make sure he didn't run
either, by slashing his leg, making him fall to the ground.'
'You were great Rattata, thanks.'
'Thanks Charmander. Oh. Tempest, we have company.....'

I saw a pokémon hurrying down the alley towards us.
'Wow! A Glaceon!'
I glanced at my DSDex. 'Hmm. Level 12. Oooh, knows Ice beam though. Male. Oh, this explains things. He's the brother of this Eevee.'

Glaceon reached us, a flicked his head at Eevee.
'Glay!'
Eevee climbed on his back, and conversed with him. Glaceon looked at us, gave a a small nod, leaning forwards, acknowledging our help with her recovery.'
'Look after her Glaceon, be careful.'
Another nod, and he turned to go, only to see the two thugs.
'What! That ones even weirder! It's freakin' blue!
Glaceon turned back to me.

'Hey, we're not keen on them either. Glaceon! Ice Beam!'
Two cries of terror were cut short as they were sealed inside a huge chunk of Ice. Glaceon flicked an ear at us, and fled.

We walked up to the bluey silhouettes inside the tiny iceburg, which was sending wafts of cold air out in all directions.

'NOW who's blue!'
'Oh, Rag, too cheesy, too cheesy.'
We both laughed, and wandered off with our Pokémon. I stared up at the sky, and saw a bird fly by over head. When it was directly above us, it seemed to flicker, and for a second, looked just like a starly. The world is changing. Pokémon are here, and I'm not sure how long we can stop people from noticing.

Rattled by a battle!

There you go, cheesy title with exclamation point and point and everything. Starting to feel like a proper pokemon story, isn't it? Try living it.....

Me and Ragnarok met up the next day, we had a lot to talk about.

'So, how did taking Charmander home go?'
'I managed to keep him hidden from the family by putting him in his pokéball, but once he was in my room I had to get him out to look at, he's so cool! We had to keep quiet though- but look he knows a trick! Charmander! Go!'

He threw the pokéball and released his new friend from another dimension. Charmander looked round, his mouth slightly open in a smile, and waved at me before running up to Ragnarok.

'Charmander, what do we have to be at home?'

Charmander closed his mouth and put a tiny claw to his lips. 'chhhhhhhhh' he whispered. Then giggled, hugged Ragnarok's leg, and ran over to Rattata, who was already out, and started playing.

'The cartoon never actually advises how to deal with the fact that his tail is on FIRE.'

Patting a smouldering trouser leg, he looked over at me. 'How was Rattata?'

'Snuck in inside my bag, confined to my room, may have gone downstairs at night and eaten all our strawberries. We certainly ran out suddenly.'

'How's the egg?'

'Nothing's happening at the moment. I gave it to Jonny to look after for now.'

'Wow. You told him everything? How'd he take it?'

'Fellow Pokéfan like him? Delighted of course'

'Ha, cool. What do we do now?'

We looked at our pokémon. Charmander was spinning like a top, and Rattata was jumping over his tail as it swung round.

'Want a battle?'

'Oh yeah!'

We called our partners over and took our places on opposite sides of the room.

'Shame we don't have someone to do the whole 'Both trainers will use one pokémon each' thing'

'T, we only HAVE one each'

'Still...'

'Go! Charmander!'
'Do your best Rattata!'
'Char!'
'Ra! Rattata!
'Scratch!'
'Use Tackle Rattata!'

Rattata shot forwards, almost dodging the attack and getting a galncing blow on the cheek as he rammed into Charmander, who staggered backwards.

'Now Tail Whip!'
'Scratch again!'

Charmander's claws scored a direct hit this time, and Rattata let out a squeak as he leapt back.

'Tail whip again!'

Rattata ran around behind his friend and struck his back with the swirl of his tail. Charmander's arms pinwheeled as he lost his balance, but managed to turn to face the mouse.

'Growl!'
'FLAME WHEEL!'

Charmander gritted his teeth and let out a (Rather cute) scary, but gasped as Rattata took off, a disk of fire bursting into being around him. He streaked across the room, and hit Charmander squarely in the chest. Charmander responded with another scratch, so Rattata leapt back again.

'Rattata knows Flame Wheel? Cool. Ha, that means your normal type knows a fire move before my fire type!'

'Haha, yeah. TACKLE!'
'Scratch again!'

Rattata ducked under Charmander's arm to dodge, but his sped sent him tackling into a small dog that had scrambled in through the door from outside. Seeing us, and reeling from Rattata's blow, it let out a panicked 'Eeeeeeeee!' and ran outside again. We heard two voices yell 'There it is!'
'Get it!'

Our Pokémon stopped battling, and me and Rag stared at each other.

'Was that?'
'An Eevee?'

We rushed outside, and began to pursue the men.

This is getting long, so I'll do a new one to explain what happened next. Bye for now!

A mysterious shard, and a purple mouse.

Hey, I'm Tempest, and I've decided to start this blog to record my life because, well, something strange happened yesterday, and I have a feeling life is going get pretty noteworthy from now on, and I need a place to gather all my thoughts. Two universes have collided, and nothing will ever be the same again. So, this is what yesterday was like:

Me and a friend of mine, Ragnarok (a nickname picked up from some mythology (Norse?) meant to be some big destroyer of worlds anyway, and he liked the sound of it.) were hanging out, and having a very nerdy afternoon of Nintendo. To be precise, Pokémon. We both grew up with it, and never really grew out of it. If you hate Pokémon, I suggest you stop reading now. Anyway, I'm on a Gap Year, (Yep, a 19 year-old that still likes Pokémon, dealt with it) and he's on that bit of Study leave at the end when nobody actually has an exam, so we had plenty of free time.

There we are, me playing Heartgold, Rag redoing Firered for about the hundredth time. He'd just chosen his starter, Charmander, and was being lectured by Professor Oak. I'd finished the plot of Heartgold, and was now just training a Rattata I'd caught because I've always liked Rattata. What's not to love about a cute little purple mouse? I'd bred one with an Arcanine, and now the Rattata I'd just hatched had inherited Flame wheel. As soon as I found out it could, I had to try it! It was level 5, and I was deciding what TM's to give it. I'll admit, I DO have an Action Replay for things like having all the TM's, but I don't go in for the whole 'Raise a bunch of legendaries to level 100 and crush all who oppose me' thing. I tend to only use it for getting items, and occasionally encountering certain pokémon.

'I hate how Pokémon can only four moves in these games. I swear half the ones on the cartoon know at least five. How can it be that easy to forget a move? Like water gun, or ember. If you make a Pokémon forget one of those to learn, say, Flamethrower or Hydro pump. They are essentially larger versions of the other moves. I find it highly unlikely that if it learns how to make a huge jet of fire, it forgets how to make a small one.'

Ragnarok smiled. 'Yeah, but if a Pokémon knows Hydro Pump, does it really need Water Gun?'

'More PP and accuracy, but god point. You know what I mean though.'

'It is annoying, yeah.'

At this point his battery ran out, so I said he could use my DS in a sec. We slotted the cartridge in while I was saving my game. All I had in my party was Rattata, and an egg. I was going to do more, but Rag wanted to see how much progress he'd lost (No chargers were around).

As the save completed, the world seemed to wobble. Bands of rippling purple light shot across us, and the room seemed to spin. There was a sort of pulse in the air in front of us, and a small tear opened up, full of a dark energy, with streaks of colour darting across it. In the second or two it was open, we heard a roar, and saw a flash of a white claw before a shard of pink light shot out. As the tear closed, it seemed to emit a wave of ferocious power, which caught my DS first. As I felt a stabbing pain in my shoulder, my DS glowed, picking up a strange power. The wave of energy intensified, and exploded outwards, throwing me and Ragnarok back against the wall.

A minute or so later I groggily managed to sit up, in time to see both cartridges in my DS emit a glow, and spit out little balls of light, which grew, and faded to become two red and white balls, and a fairly large egg.
'What?!' Ragnarok had woken up too. I examined the bit of my right shoulder that was stinging. The shard had embedded itself in my skin, and become a slightly raised, rock hard, shiny bruise.
'I should probably get this looked at..'
'Eww. Wierd. Oh wow, Look!'
I returned my attention to the egg and, astonishingly, Pokéballs. The balls suddenly sprang open and released twin streams of red light. One solidified into a small purple mouse, the other into a little red dinosaur with a flaming tail. They looked around, confused, and a little scared, then saw us, seemed to recognize us, and trotted over.
'Ratta...ta?!'
'Ch-Charmander?!'
Hearing their names, they leapt on us, happy.
'Ratta! Ra! Rattata!'
'Char! Charmander!'
We embraced our pokémon, and turned to each other.
'This is..so Cool! What happened? That thing in your shoulder?'
'I don't know! But what the hell do we do now?'

I smiled down at Rattata, still in shock. This was going to be fun. Difficult, but fun.