(Young adult male pred.)
You quickly scurry across the desktop, making it past the computer's keyboard and taking shelter right beside its mouse. You breathe in and out heavily, winded by your life-or-death dash away from the predatory plant, wondering if your efforts will all be for nothing . Will the Bellsprout be able to get you from here? Time passes and nothing happens. You hesitantly poke your head up over the mouse to see the Bellsprout looking out through the open window, slumped over and defeated. You feel only a twinge of sympathy. It was just trying to get a meal, but the Bellsprout should have realized you weren't something to eat!
Not wanting to risk getting seen by the plant again, you duck back down and instead turn your attention towards the rest of your surroundings. A trio of kids, two boys and a girl, are eagerly chatting it up with a pair of 20-something young adults, one of whom happens to be none other than Blue Oak himself. You can hear sounds coming from the southern end of the lab, past a bookcase, so you can infer that at least one other individual is here, only out of your field of vision. Your heart pounds at the prospect of being seen by these five. Logically speaking you should try to get found, but you're not sure if you can trust a trio of gradeschoolers and the notoriously impish former champion.You don't have any objections to the other adult in the room, a female who could well be Blue's sibling, but one out of five isn't the best of odds. You'll consider getting their attention later, after a bit of thought.
You don't really have a good angle of the enormous movie-theater sized monitor, so you instead bolt towards a nearby coffee cup, which gives you a bit more cover to work with. Sitting beside the coffee cup, you manage to get a look at the screen. A full-screen window of an email app is pulled up on the computer. Looking at the screen, you find an interesting email draft on display.
.,
"Heya. . I haven't heard from you in a long while. It's been two years now I think? I guess you aren't going to respond, but if you get this....I hope you're doing ok. I'm looking to take on the league again some time soon. Maybe I'll see you then.
Smell ya later, buddy, Ok?"
You can see a picture attached to the email depicting a younger Blue striking a pose with a boy about his age, the former champion, Red. Odd. Has he gone missing? Looking to the side of the email draft, you catch a glimpse of the account's inbox. Among others, you see an order confirmation from the Sonezaki-Silph Corporation, as well an add for "exciting new flavors of tin...." the title is cut off.
As you think look at the screen , you feel a force suddenly seize around your chest. Bellsprout? No, what's gripping around you is softer than one of those coiling vines. "Well what have we here?" A hushed but clearly smug voice booms down. You're suddenly lifted up and brought before the enormous face of the former champion, Blue.
Blue appears to have aged at least a decade since he took on the league. Fundamentally, he doesn't look too different from his younger self. His hair is just as sharp and his expression just as cocky. At the same time, though, he's clearly older. With his lithe but not at all fragile build, you could easily see him as some sort of hotshot pro gamer. He's probably pretty fit given his reputation for traveling the world.
Questions fill your mind. What's he doing here. Where is Professor Oak? What could have happened to Red? Actually, why are you thinking about his own personal intrigues when the far more important question of 'what the hell is he going to do with me' is still unaddressed. Blue grins a devious, toothy grin at you before closing his lips and making a 'shush'ing gesture with his spare hand. Before you can respond, he stuffs you into one of his pants' front pockets and buttons it tight, leaving you in the dark confines of his pants pocket. Thankfully it's relatively spacious in here, but you can't help but feel afraid. What is he planning on doing to you? What if he crushes you by mistake?
At least he didn't put you in the back.
In the minutes to come, Blue introduces the three kids to their new starting Pokemon and oversees them each getting a round against the other two, each child coming out with one one victory among the two battles they fight, a perfect triangle of wins and losses. Blue seem satisfied with the result , congratulating each of the kids on their hard efforts. He hands them all a Pokedex and a set of ten Pokeballs and sends them off on their way. Once the kids are gone, his sister tries to have a brief conversation with him about 'finding someone to fill his shoes' now that their grandfather has retired....Professor Oak has retired? This is news to you!
Blue quickly shakes off the discussion. "I've been giving it some thought sis but...sorry, I'm a bit tired. I need to take a nap." "Are you ok brother? " "Yeah. Nothing I bit of rest and relaxation won't fix." It's very clear that he's just inventing an excuse to leave so he can be alone with the tiny person he discovered. You can only imagine his sister is onto him that something is 'off,' but you doubt she'd ever imagine her brother has a tiny person in his pocket right now!
Soon enough you hear the THUDs of Blue's feet stomping against the ground as he heads out of the lab, perhaps towards his home. There's no fleeing now....all you can do is hope that Blue will be gentle and considerate with you.
==============
Which of the following games is the first Pokemon game where blue has a team that does not have both a Grass Type, a Fire Type, and a Water Type?
==============
View Portfolio
Visit Notebook
Send Gift Points
Awards
Badges
Send Email
Community Newsfeed
General Discussion
Sponsored Items
Book of Trinkets
Static Items
Books
Groups
Interactive Stories
Audio
Campfire Creatives
Community Notes
Crossword Puzzles
Documents
Folders
Images
In & Outs
Madlibs
Photo Albums
Polls
Product Reviews
Quizzes
Survey Forms
Web Pages
Word Searches
More by this author