1 Waking up...as a Pokemon...(Prologue)

Opening my eyes I felt...different. Shorter, yet strangely stronger.

Looking around I found myself in a fairly dark cave, with the chirping of bats and the flapping of their wings right about me. Tilting my head upward, I saw something I never thought I'd ever see in real life:

Pokemon.

Specifically Zubat. Swarms of the things.

Hearing some ruffling to my side, I saw creatures breaking out of eggs next to me. Though the eggs weren't cracking open, they were just dissolving in bursts of light, revealing the, presumably, Pokemon inside.

I was surrounded by 6 other eggs and finally, after a few minutes, one of the inhabitants of the eggs, fully got out of it's egg-shell prison and I could see what it was.

A Machop.

I looked to another egg only to see another Machop.

Looking down, I saw blue-ish grey skin. I was a Machop. Well. That's pretty cool, right?

Standing up, I kept my balance with ease, my musculature and years of experience in my past life making the act of walking and keeping balance easy. My 'brethren' didn't have the same ease and continued to fall over as they tried to get up.

Though I did notice my massive size advantage over the other Machop near me. I was easily double their height and much broader than them. When I really think about it, I was broader than them as well, and my musculature was much more pronounced. Overall, I looked much more humanoid from what I could see. I also had toes instead of the toe-less feet the other Machop had.

Bringing a hand to my head, I felt that I had hair as well.

Weird.

Bringing the same hand down to my face, I felt my features and had to remark that I truly was human-like. Maybe a human and a Machamp got it on with one another and that's what made me?

Though, whichever human did that...well, they're very daring. Let's leave it at that.

As I was inspecting myself, I heard something trudging over. It sounded heavy. Looking over at it, I saw a pretty big Machamp, easily around 6 foot tall, carrying two Golem underneath it's lower arms, like two big weight balls. As it arrived, it saw that I was standing, and also my unique appearance and instantly dropped the Golems, causing the surrounding area to shake underneath the sudden impact.

The Machamp walked over to me before picking me up with one of it's hands.

"Machamp?" it scratched it's chin, looking at me with red eyes. When it saw the defined abs, however, it's eyes widened and it began poking my stomach with it's thick fingers before it moved onto my other muscle groups, with what looked like a smile growing on it's face, "Machamp!" it yelled, shaking me about like it had found a new toy.

"Oi!" I said but stopped myself when I found I could speak, "Anything but Machop?" I said in an unsure manner and when I said it, and not just Machop like I was expecting, I smiled widely, "Yes!"

I could speak! I didn't need to say the same name over and over again! I could speak and communicate with people!

Though I wonder if I'd get hunted for what I am?

Oblivious to my thoughts, the Machamp ignored my speaking and just continued to poke me before eventually putting me down. But not before dragging me off to the side and forcing me into a position that resembled the position you get into to do a push-up.

Looking weirdly at the Machamp, I just did what I thought it wanted me to do and I did a push-up.

To which it clapped maniacally.

So I did another one.

It clapped.

And I did another one.

It clapped again.

Hey, this is actually pretty fun...I'm gonna keep doing this. That's what my body wants, anyway. My mind wants it as well.

...Well, it's nice to see my obsession for working out has carried over with me. It might have even gotten worse seeing as I'm now a Machop and they love to workout. Plus, I'm making this Machamp happy, so it wouldn't hurt to continue doing exercise, would it?

Plus, this is the Pokemon world. I need to be strong if I wanna survive. Who knows if fainting actually means death in this universe. Why would it? Because things have obviously changed, duh. There weren't any Pokemon like me in the games/anime, so it's obviously an alternate universe. I can't quite remember the last parts of my life, but I probably died, right? Then I reincarnated as a Pokemon.

Was my Karma good or bad for that to happen to me?

Heh, no matter, I'm happy I wasn't reborn as a Caterpie or something.

I continued to perform push-ups, the Machamp getting more and more excited as I continued on. 10 push-ups. 20 push-ups. 40 push-ups. 60 push-ups.

The Machamp stopped me around 75 push-ups, so I stood back up and it showed me another exercise. Squats. So I did those, and continued to perform squats until it stopped me again.

This continued until I'd worked every muscle group in my body, getting a nice warm-up before the Machamp sat down in front of me before gesturing for me to do the same thing. It crossed it's legs in a sort of lotus position, so I did the same and placed my hands on my lap before looking back at the Machamp.

The other Machops were up and about by now, and some of them had came over and joined in on the exercise. Just like they did with the exercise, the newborns followed the example of the two biggest of the group (the Machamp and I) and sat down.

The Machamp placed one of it's four hands on it's diaphragm region before taking in a peculiar breath. It continued to inhale and exhale in a weird, nasally way, like it was growling. A soft, blue-ish grey aura soon enveloped it before being sucked into it with the air it inhaled.

Was this...EXP?

Following the example of the Machamp, who I assumed to be a parent or family member of mine, I started to breath in a way that mimicked it's earlier breathing.

It was hard at first, the feeling being incredibly unnatural to me but...I got used to it, and the same blue-ish grey aura as the Machamp, albeit much weaker in intensity, covered me before being sucked into my body through my breathes. The aura soaked each and every one of my cells and nourished them, healing and repairing them after the work out I'd just done.

I continued breathing until I felt like I was full of energy. Standing up, I ignored the Machamp and the Machops, and I walked over to a secluded area where I continued working out.

This whole situation reminded me slightly of Cultivation, and exercising while my body was full of EXP, must be akin to a level up, right?

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