Beyond the Exploration of the Skies

[Light Fang]

Prologue

It has been a year since the human boy Zack arrived in this Pokémon world as a Pikachu after a bizarre accident at a camp. When he arrived here he met another human named Ryujin who in this world had become a Riolu and the female Pokémon Eevee named Eve. Together they set out to find out what had happened to them and why they had come here… Along their adventure together time was being thrown out of balance and they worked to fix everything and met a Grovyle who had come from the future. Later it was learned that Ryujin was originally the human that was working with Grovyle to stop the world's paralysis. When the time came when they had to face Dialga, a sadness crept its way into Zack and Ryujin because they have grown used to being with Eve. Once Dialga is beaten and time is saved, Ryujin and Grovyle will cease to exist and Zack will return. They beat Dialga and both of them disappear, leaving Eve. Dialga, as thanks to them, brought them back together and things looked great for the trio… Ryujin took off alone to make a name for himself while Eve and Zack stayed together, growing ever closer in relationship. A big day is coming for them and both are feeling the stress……

End of prologue.

 

[Kazooie]

Nice prologue! Can't wait to read chapter 1!

 

[TeamGalacticMercury]

So it is like a mystery dungeon theme?

 

[Master Ken]

This....is...Awesome!!!!!!

 

[Aelia]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN CLIFFHANGER
Nice prologue. Can't wait to read more.

 

[Light Fang]

Chapter 1 The big day… Never happened it was a coma dream just a strange coma induced dream…

“Tomorrow everything between our team changes tomorrow!?

Zack is found busily training in the Marowak’s Dojo trying to lose the stress that he has built up worrying about tomorrow. All of his hard work is finally paying off...He hears a beeping sound. Slowly, he opens his eyes and notices a machine tracking his heart rate, while a mask on his face is helping him to breathe easily, and what looks like some liquid that is being put into his arm…

“…ugh…my head…where am I…this isn’t the camping grounds… and what was that strange dream…”

Zack tries to sit up, but he is feeling really dizzy, so he just barely lifts up his head. It nearly makes him pass out as a door swings open and a man in white runs in telling him to not strain himself.

“Sorry son but your still hurt,” the man says.
“Hurt…”
“You’re a lucky one all those flying rock hit you and instead of being killed from it all it did was put you into a coma.”
“A coma…rocks…lucky…,” he slowly repeats some of the words that he hears.

Suddenly three more people dash into the room. They have facial expressions that show both a mixture of fear, worry, and relief and they are all people that Zack knows.

“You’re awake!!!”
“…huh… mom…dad…Tina…ugh…”
“ZACK!?”

He passes out before them which scares his mother, father, and stepmother, Tina, but the doctor tells them that he is only sleeping because he is still recovering. A week later Zack is released from the hospital and sent home with his mother as his dad and stepmom return to Spokane. Now he is home looking at the cards sent by his friends and flowers that girls, whom in terms hated him but still felt worried about their little annoyance being hurt so badly. He sits in his room staring at everything until his mother enters his room.

“Zack, you should really go outside and maybe go for a bike ride,” his mom tells him.
“Yeah, that is a good idea…”

Normally Zack would never go out on his bike ever since the time he was hit by a car on a bike, but he sees it as a way to relieve the stress he is trying to hide from his mother. He goes out and gets onto his bike and bikes to his old elementary school, Christian Elementary.

“This place brings back old memories… Such as my old friend Viet… he was from Vietnam… we were so close until… the day he went back to Vietnam… I cried because by the time somebody told me… A week after he had left…”

Zack goes by the school with some tears in his eyes as he walks with his bike over to the hill in the field where he used to always get in trouble or chased around because he had made someone made at him.

“Memories good or bad...Be they happy or sad...Remind me of happy or mad...No matter what they make me glad… hehe…”

Zack laughs at his little poem or at least rhyme he had made. Then more sad memories fill his head making him shed some tears: bad memories that made him sad, embarrassing moments that made him tilt his hat down, good ones that made him happy, and some that reminded of how mad he ever got.

“Remember time comes bringing friends, bonds, and trust… But then time brings separation, broken faith, and change either good or bad… No matter how one may wish to relive these moments and change them I can’t… no one can change the past… Time is cruel. It separates those who were close but it brings new people together…”

Zack gets up and brushes some dirt and grass from his jeans but instead of just heading home now he rides his bike around the track like path that winds its way around the playground.

“If I could have gone this fast on my own two feet back when I still went here then I wouldn’t have spent so much time in the Nurses office because of all the beatings I had been giving… Huh?”

As he circles the playground and passes the hill on his bike on the hill something strange opens like some type of rift in dimensions…

To be continued…

 

[Light Fang]

Chapter 2 Listen you must come with me…

“What is that?”

Zack stares at the strange thing when something figuratively his size pops out then vanishes.

“WH-what was that!? OOF!”

Whatever had come out of it and disappeared had reappeared right in front of Zack knocking him off of his bike and revealing just exactly what it is when it helps him up.

“Here Zack, let me give you a hand…"
“Oh thanks mister… GR-GR-GR-GR-GROVYLE!”

Zack is shocked to see that the thing that helped him up is a Grovyle, a Pokémon that isn’t supposed to be real yet is standing right in front of him with a grip on his hand. Zack breaks the grasp and quickly gets back on his bike and takes off like a gunshot trying to escape from what shouldn’t even exist here.

“ZACK!?”
“GO AWAY--OW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Zack had sped right into a tree, which from the force of the impact bent the front tire of his bike and knocking him off of it. He landed in the grass with a big bruise.

“Guess I should have been watching where I was going…”
“Listen to me Zack…”
“WHA!?”

As Zack was slowly sitting up the Grovyle sits on his legs to keep him from taking off this time, but Zack isn’t giving up without a fight.

“Now listen… We need you to go to the Pokémon world.”
“Will you get off of me!!!”

He tries to get the Grovyle off of him, but the Grovyle uses Grass Knot to firmly keep his legs down so that Zack can definitely be unable to flee.

“You should have been sent to the Pokémon world during that camping trip.”
“WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?”

Zack struggles to get loose but the Grass Knot is too strong. Then the Grovyle grabs him by the head and brings them face to face so Grovyle stares into Zack’s brown eyes and Zack into Grovyle’s black eyes.

“Listen I need you-“
“YOU’RE SICK!”
“Not like that!!! I need you to come with me!”
“LET ME GO YOU FREAK OF NATURE! LITERALLY!”

Zack starts to thrash crazily and the grass starts to loosen up but the Grovyle uses Grass Knot again to tighten it back up.

“DO YOU WANT SOMETHING FROM ME!?”
“No, but would you want to be a hero?” Grovyle asks.

Zack’s frantic struggling stops as Grovyle calmly said that, so he takes that as a yes.

“So if I go with you I could be a...hero?” says Zack to Grovyle.
“Yes… so will you be a hero by coming with me?”
“Sure… I’ve always wanted to be a hero!”

Grovyle releases Zack from the Grass Knot and together they walk back to the time rift that brought Grovyle here in search of him…

“Is this safe?” Zack says.
“Maybe, but I’m not sure how it will affect a human like you… It might give you the Dimensional Scream…”
“What?”
“Oh nothing…”

They go through and everything seems to be both flying by super fast and also as if everything is standing still. Then disaster strikes. They hear what sounds like thunder all around them. Something is hurled at Grovyle. Zack jumps in front of Grovyle, shielding him from the strange attack. It clearly injures him deeply and Grovyle shouts.

“ARE YOU OK!?”
“I’m fine… AH!”

Zack suddenly starts to fall. Grovyle tries to catch him, but his grip is weakened from the first blow he had taken.

“HOLD ON!”
“I-I Can’t! I-I’m slipping!”
“NO!”
“WHA!!!!!!”

Zack shouts as he feels himself falling into empty nothingness. All goes black and the flashes of colors stop. The sound of thunder he had heard stops. It is as if the world itself has gone silent…

“…ugh…where am i…everything… is…fading…out…ugh…”

His eyes opened for a brief moment but soon closed as he passes out where ever he is…

To be continued…

 

[Light Fang]

Chapter 3 Theft on the beach

Off in the distance two female Pokémon, an Eevee and Vulpix, are trembling before the entrance to the great Wigglytuff’s Guild--a place where Pokémon form exploration teams to go out and help Pokémon in trouble.

“We can do this is Eve,” said the Vulpix.
“Right, Kira. This is what we have been dreaming of doing forever! We are finally going to form an exploration team!” said the Eevee.

These two girls Eve the Eevee and her best friend Kira the Vulpix walk closer to the entrance. As they step onto a grate before the entrance…

“FOOTPRINTS DETECTED! FOOTPRINTS DETECTED!!”
“WHO’S FOOTPRINTS!?”
“EEVEE AND VULPIX! EEVEE AND VULPIX!!”
“EEK!”

They both take off running down the cliff that led up to the Guild entrance and when they reach the crossroads they both sigh. Eve pulls out some strange stone and Kira breathes heavily.

“That just never seems to get any easier does it Kira. Even with our treasure we still chickened out…” said Eve.
“Come on Eve, let's go settle our nerves by going to the beach.”
“Sure Kira…”

Eve picks up their treasure and the two head for the beach. Unknown to these two girls is that two shady characters saw their treasure and are devising a plan to steal it… On the beach Krabby are blowing bubbles that seem to dance along the waves. Across the air they move so gracefully, and it’s truly a lovely sight to behold.

“Wow this is amazing…," said Eve.
“Yeah…but it would be better to watch with a boy with us.”
“Kira, you're always saying something in a flirty kind of way…”
“And you don’t Eve?” asked Kira.

They both laugh a little then continue to walk down the beach until they see something like somebody lying unconscious on the sand with the water splashing on their face. They become worried and rush over.

“Is he ok?” says Eve, worriedly.
“Eve, how do you know it’s a male Pikachu?” asked Kira.
“He has a flat tail on top, see?”

Eve grabs the stranger’s tail using her front paws and points out that the end doesn’t curve like a female does but is straight like males have their tails.

“…ugh…” the Pikachu moans.
“He’s waking up!”
“Quick help me lift him up.”

Eve and Kira help the Pikachu to sit up and his eyes open and look around clearly in some type of daze. Then Eve and Kira talk to him as he slowly speaks…

“…uh…hmmmm………?”
“You ok?”
“Are you hurt at all?”

When the Pikachu can see clearly he sees the Vulpix and Eevee and blushes. He felt like he should get up and run but for some reason he doesn’t seem to be affected by them talking to him. Then he says in a low tone of voice…

“…oh…uh…hi…”
“Hello my name is Eve and I’m an Eevee, as you can tell.”
“And I’m Kira the Vulpix...and you are…?”
“…oh… my name is Zack,” says the Pikachu.
“Zack? That’s an odd name," comments Kira.
“What do you mean?”
“Well it’s odd for a Pikachu to be named that…," Kira explains.
“What do you mean for a Pikachu?”

Zack is confused then he looks at himself in the reflection of the water. He looks closely and notices: short stubby yellow arms and feet, yellow fur covering his body with brown stripes on his back, a lightning bolt shaped tail, red cheeks, and two long slightly pointed ears.

“Wow I’ve really become a Pikachu!” Zack explains.
“Are you-"
“Oh I’m fine but you should probably know I’m really a human.”
They gasp at him and both say, “A human!? Hahaha...that’s a good one."

At first Kira and Eve gasp at what Zack had said then they start to roll around on the ground laughing at him. They both take a deep breath and look back at him.

“So if you’re really a human then maybe that’s why you are so cute,” says Kira.
“UM…UH…UM…UH…UM…UH…M-MISS VULPIX…UH…UM…KIRA WH-WHY ARE YOU GETTING SO CLOSE TO ME!?”
“Kira stop you’re scaring him. OOPH!”
“WHA!?”
“EVE!?”
“Whoa-ho-ho! Thanks for the treasure suckers!”

A pair of Pokémon slammed against Eve and made her drop her's and Kira’s treasure. They take it and run off with it. Eve and Kira don’t react fast enough to it because when they had slammed Eve she got shoved onto Zack and they ended up having an accidental kiss. It embarrasses Zack and Eve but really burns Kira, but then Kira realizes…

“OH NO! They stole our treasure! Eve we have to get it back!”

Eve gets off of Zack with a face of deep embarrassment red do to the accident, and as for Zack, Pikachus already have red cheeks but with his embarrassment his whole face turns red.

To be continued…

 

[Light Fang]

I'm going to attempt to get back to work on this.

 

[Redclaws]

lol, I name all my female eevees Eve

 

[Marik]

I like how you're the 4th person I've seen with a Riolu and an Eevee. Just like me. As for the fic, it's not bad. Not bad at all. It's pretty good read. Looking forward to the next chapter.