LegendCallerL
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Hi PokéGym! This is my first fanfiction and I hope it’s enjoyable for you to read. Just a note, *[Insert number here] means that there’s a footnote at the bottom of the page. Feel free to scroll down to the bottom of the page to read the footnote, use ctrl+F, to jump to the precise note, or just skip over them altogether.
Prologue
Rising Rivals: Clash of the Pros
“You’re better than I expected.”
“And what’s that supposed to mean?”
“You know what it means. Just make your move already.”
“Alright, I draw!” With a smirk, Tia drew. This was going to be good. “I’ll start off by playing my Item, Vitamins*1. That allows me to attach a basic Energy card from my deck to one of my benched Basic Pokémon, and I choose Mime Jr.” With a flourish, she flicked the Energy card toward her Bench, where it attached to Mime Jr. easily. “Articuno looks tired, I’m going to retreat it for Mime Jr. Next, I’ll go with Seeker. That forces both of us to pick up one of our Benched Pokémon and put it into our hand. I think I’ll choose Articuno. What’s your choice?”
With a gulp, Aaron returned his benched Mewtwo to his hand. This was not going to be good. As their TeCh pulled back Mewtwo and Articuno, their respective holograms*2 on the field vanished.
“Using Mime Jr.’s Grow Up ability, I’m able to evolve it to Mr. Mime. I’ll attach an Energy card to him and use his ability, Juggling, which moves my TM 13 Ice Beam to Mr. Mime, who now uses Fling. By discarding that TM, I get to up the power of Fling to 40 and treat Mr. Mime as a water type. Thanks to weakness, that 40 damage becomes 80, enough to knock out your last Pokémon. That’s game!” And with that, the field cleared of holograms signaling the crowd to cheer. Or boo. Depends on whom they were rooting for.
Within an hour, the field changed completely. Sort of. A stadium is a very different place without a crowd, without a show. People are like them in that regard.
“That was a good match. Congratulations on the win,” said Aaron, voice free of all conceit from before. “How much were you paid for that performance?”
“The usual stuff. Food, board, a little cash for souvenirs. Want a rematch just for fun?” Aaron’s deck was already out.
“Any time, any time at all.”
Chapter 1
Base Set: Journey’s Start
What went wrong? He studied, dreamed, built the best deck he could with the cards he had. Well, actually just two of them, but two out of three isn’t that bad is it? And who’s to say what the best deck you could make? Maybe that 1-1-1 line of Kingdra Prime wasn’t such a good idea to stick in, but come on! It was a Prime! Super rare! And it wasn’t his fault he didn’t have many Horsea or Seadra. He studied though, staying on the computer for hours on end. He learned about the new TeCh out there and of course, he knew what a TeCh was. An, as the commercials said, “armband that allows for a greater depth to battles by adding holograms and materializing the battle right in front of your eyes, while adding a line of energy that allows you to easily manipulate your cards from a distance!”*3 Although not all of that was studying... but who wouldn’t expect him to check in on some of his favorite websi-
“Hey! Wake up and play already, Neil!” Wha? Oh, heh, back to reality*4. Where was he? Oh, yeah Pokémon Reversal.
“I play Pokémon Reversal! That allows to flip a coin and if heads,”
“I know what it does, we already handled that in class remember?” said his opponent and classmate, Allie. Oh. He didn’t remember they covered that. Anyway, time to get on with the game. Confidently, Neil flipped a coin. This just had to work.
Tails. Crap.
Okay. That’s survivable. After all, Neil did have a Junk Arm, right?
“I’ll discard two cards from my hand to activate Junk Arm! And that means Reversal is making a return appearance,” said Neil, while activating his TeCh. This couldn’t be that hard, could it? Just point at the discard pile and let the TeCh do the rest.
“Why are you drawing a card?” Whoops. Let’s try that again. After another try or two, Neil finally grabbed his Reversal, and played it. Flip. Heads! Yes! Now to finally bring up that benched Emboar!
“I’ll pull up Emboar and use my Golduck's Powerful Splash for 70 times 2 damage, meaning Emboar is going down!”
“What?” expressed his opponent in confusion. “Emboar has 150 HP.”
“I forgot to Spray Splash, right?” Allie just nodded and started her turn.
“I’m going to use my supporter, Fisherman. That allows me the opportunity to grab four fire energy cards from my discard, all of which I attach to Emboar, using Emboar’s ability, so don’t say I can’t do that. Then I’ll use PlusPower and use Heat Crash for 90 damage, a KO, and game.”
Sigh. Maybe next time. Neil grabbed his deck and prepared to head home. Time to study.
Footnotes:
*1 This fanfiction piece contains multiple created cards from the set VG: Hazard Leaders, started by Thunder and worked on by the previously mentioned user and myself. To see their text, click here and look through the thread. Only in the prologue though. The rest will have real cards in HGSS-on.
*2 I’ve been watching too much Yu-Gi-Oh. I’ll explain more later.
*3 This is some of that explanation that I said I would give in the line above.
*4 The story’s “reality”. Not real life reality.
More to come later.
Critique and comments are welcome, though if you are going to criticize, please make it the sort that is actually helpful, like "You could use some more description add so-and-so, and that will make it better."
instead of "OMG! This fanfic stinks etc." so that I can improve and be a better author.
Oh, and does anyone know how to easily indent on this?
Prologue
Rising Rivals: Clash of the Pros
“You’re better than I expected.”
“And what’s that supposed to mean?”
“You know what it means. Just make your move already.”
“Alright, I draw!” With a smirk, Tia drew. This was going to be good. “I’ll start off by playing my Item, Vitamins*1. That allows me to attach a basic Energy card from my deck to one of my benched Basic Pokémon, and I choose Mime Jr.” With a flourish, she flicked the Energy card toward her Bench, where it attached to Mime Jr. easily. “Articuno looks tired, I’m going to retreat it for Mime Jr. Next, I’ll go with Seeker. That forces both of us to pick up one of our Benched Pokémon and put it into our hand. I think I’ll choose Articuno. What’s your choice?”
With a gulp, Aaron returned his benched Mewtwo to his hand. This was not going to be good. As their TeCh pulled back Mewtwo and Articuno, their respective holograms*2 on the field vanished.
“Using Mime Jr.’s Grow Up ability, I’m able to evolve it to Mr. Mime. I’ll attach an Energy card to him and use his ability, Juggling, which moves my TM 13 Ice Beam to Mr. Mime, who now uses Fling. By discarding that TM, I get to up the power of Fling to 40 and treat Mr. Mime as a water type. Thanks to weakness, that 40 damage becomes 80, enough to knock out your last Pokémon. That’s game!” And with that, the field cleared of holograms signaling the crowd to cheer. Or boo. Depends on whom they were rooting for.
Within an hour, the field changed completely. Sort of. A stadium is a very different place without a crowd, without a show. People are like them in that regard.
“That was a good match. Congratulations on the win,” said Aaron, voice free of all conceit from before. “How much were you paid for that performance?”
“The usual stuff. Food, board, a little cash for souvenirs. Want a rematch just for fun?” Aaron’s deck was already out.
“Any time, any time at all.”
Chapter 1
Base Set: Journey’s Start
What went wrong? He studied, dreamed, built the best deck he could with the cards he had. Well, actually just two of them, but two out of three isn’t that bad is it? And who’s to say what the best deck you could make? Maybe that 1-1-1 line of Kingdra Prime wasn’t such a good idea to stick in, but come on! It was a Prime! Super rare! And it wasn’t his fault he didn’t have many Horsea or Seadra. He studied though, staying on the computer for hours on end. He learned about the new TeCh out there and of course, he knew what a TeCh was. An, as the commercials said, “armband that allows for a greater depth to battles by adding holograms and materializing the battle right in front of your eyes, while adding a line of energy that allows you to easily manipulate your cards from a distance!”*3 Although not all of that was studying... but who wouldn’t expect him to check in on some of his favorite websi-
“Hey! Wake up and play already, Neil!” Wha? Oh, heh, back to reality*4. Where was he? Oh, yeah Pokémon Reversal.
“I play Pokémon Reversal! That allows to flip a coin and if heads,”
“I know what it does, we already handled that in class remember?” said his opponent and classmate, Allie. Oh. He didn’t remember they covered that. Anyway, time to get on with the game. Confidently, Neil flipped a coin. This just had to work.
Tails. Crap.
Okay. That’s survivable. After all, Neil did have a Junk Arm, right?
“I’ll discard two cards from my hand to activate Junk Arm! And that means Reversal is making a return appearance,” said Neil, while activating his TeCh. This couldn’t be that hard, could it? Just point at the discard pile and let the TeCh do the rest.
“Why are you drawing a card?” Whoops. Let’s try that again. After another try or two, Neil finally grabbed his Reversal, and played it. Flip. Heads! Yes! Now to finally bring up that benched Emboar!
“I’ll pull up Emboar and use my Golduck's Powerful Splash for 70 times 2 damage, meaning Emboar is going down!”
“What?” expressed his opponent in confusion. “Emboar has 150 HP.”
“I forgot to Spray Splash, right?” Allie just nodded and started her turn.
“I’m going to use my supporter, Fisherman. That allows me the opportunity to grab four fire energy cards from my discard, all of which I attach to Emboar, using Emboar’s ability, so don’t say I can’t do that. Then I’ll use PlusPower and use Heat Crash for 90 damage, a KO, and game.”
Sigh. Maybe next time. Neil grabbed his deck and prepared to head home. Time to study.
Footnotes:
*1 This fanfiction piece contains multiple created cards from the set VG: Hazard Leaders, started by Thunder and worked on by the previously mentioned user and myself. To see their text, click here and look through the thread. Only in the prologue though. The rest will have real cards in HGSS-on.
*2 I’ve been watching too much Yu-Gi-Oh. I’ll explain more later.
*3 This is some of that explanation that I said I would give in the line above.
*4 The story’s “reality”. Not real life reality.
More to come later.
Critique and comments are welcome, though if you are going to criticize, please make it the sort that is actually helpful, like "You could use some more description add so-and-so, and that will make it better."
instead of "OMG! This fanfic stinks etc." so that I can improve and be a better author.
Oh, and does anyone know how to easily indent on this?
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