Ch 1: Introduction

Sometimes we don't get what's going on around us and most of the time for the unfortunate people out there we don't like what's happening around us. But we rarely have the chance to decide what's going on in our life

After all, there is a reason why every realistic story blatantly hits you with the 'world isn't fair' truth, why we learn to roll with punches much more than throwing a counter for a chance at pyrrhic victory because we all know fate is not a kind mistress

Personally, I'm not too fond of change which I cannot see coming and thus when I woke up one day to find myself in a completely new place it was utterly normal (for me) that I would retreat into my shell and for my personality to go take a long sleep especially when I wasn't even in my body, which was not normal!!

Apparently, they found me when I was having an out-of-body experience and brought me to the nearest hospital as quickly as they could which was quite fast

Though their 'help' in the way they got me to the hospital was something that added to my stress at that moment because apparently, I hadn't just woke up in a new place but in an all-new reality

It's okay, take your time in accepting that fact

' God knows I took days to accept it '

At that point as any person who actively read stories and novels could realize I too realized that I had been isekai'd. Which was completely out of context because

1. I had not met the truck, I should know because I was sleeping in my bed in my home which was boxed between houses and the only vehicle that could reach my home was two-wheelers so unless someone dropped a truck above my room I didn't come here the regular way ' What was it having some traffic block somewhere and send something else in its place, perhaps fan-dono or was it wall-chan? '

2. ROB or the feared BROB was also not encountered when I came here or began living here ' So far, I mean it's not out of the scope to imagine they might be in radio silence to further screw with me'

3. I don't think I died or at least I don't have any memory of me dying ' I mean I'm not the healthiest but I sure wasn't sick or in perilous circumstances '

4. I didn't wish for this ' Just throwing it out here '

Yet here I was in a new world and thus a new society in a new body and here is the kicker, as an orphan ' The one stereotype that I didn't want was the one I had which was typical ' and I realize that I come off as an asshole but I wasn't even a rich orphan

' I mean come on!! I don't have a family the only thing that could offset that lack of foundation even minutely was money but no.... that would take too much effort for whatever brought me here because I sure as hell don't expect the laws of the universe to slip and me to fall through it to land in a new one '

I guess I should thank that at least I was given a chance because the world I'm in now is not unfamiliar to me neither is it the ones that I dread because the ones that found me didn't discriminate against me on species or colour or location they found me in

' Which I think is amazing, god knows we had issues back home much less in a new world '

I didn't wake up to see a colossal titan breaking walls or to see a three-headed dragon fighting a nuclear dinosaur/lizard or even to kaiju or any dangerous situation. I woke up with a sore back and dirt on my body to the sound of nature, I wasn't even hungry or pained just having an out-of-body experience and it was even in a location where people found me and were kind enough to help me

So I am thankful for the fact that out of all that places in all those worlds I woke at that particular place in this particular world because honestly, the world of pokemon wasn't that scary to me even when I knew things are completely different in reality, after all compared to the others I can name this is not that bad

I will take this world over others any time, I mean it's not the greatest one I prefer ' Which is my first one ' but it'll do just fine after all aside from the show and a few of the games there was still a mystery of this world to me

And I knew just enough to survive or if I work hard enough to thrive in

Let's be honest not all of us were studying for what we wanted to be doing or doing what we wanted to be doing but we had things to do and responsibilities we were tied to or cages we chose

So the wonder of a world that I could travel? Where my responsibility would be what I wanted it to be? No... that didn't seem that terrible to me

Sure I miss my family and friends but I can't lament about them all the time ' I've read that's not healthy '

I pray every day for them to be happy and content but I have to continue living because I don't see any other way and I believe just like me they would wish the best for me so I started dropping my walls and by that, I mean that I started to look towards tomorrows

And besides while it was not optimal, I wasn't that screwed over actually, you remember how in some novels they say how you have to be born in the alliance to get a trainers license or you have to be born with parents in the alliance

There isn't that much rigidness here, oh the rules are strict and all that but orphans can apply for a trainers license by taking exams like everyone else and the region in which they pass enters the individual into the alliance but that is for actual battling trainers

For people who just want to own pokemon you don't have to go through that much hassle and they have much simple list of requirements and tests which makes sense because the government certainly can't be everywhere and trying to limit pokemon to only active trainers is just basically inviting trouble

And the trainers can get sponsorship as well if you score well on your tests or if you meet certain criteria. Of course, these criteria can be anything from connections to their skills so the criteria thing may not be for everyone

But mainly everyone goes for the active trainer license because it offers free healing in pokemon centers and discounts in most categories of the industry like clothes, accessories etc. Mostly everyone is up for a battle sometimes and an active trainer license allows that without any problem whereas the regular trainer isn't that free except in the case of self-defence

And well for me I was slightly above average in social stature which is so much more than below average in the aspect that even in the case the rules changed to be like the ones in the novels I'll be safe because I am the son of two active trainers hell both of them were battlers too, with dear mom being a gym trainer under Erika

' Which is amazing even though I don't particularly like Erika and I pray to god that she wasn't like the ones that harassed Ash in the show '

And dear Dad worked as a police officer in Celadon which is where I'm living now and that's how they met

Would have been amazing if I had the opportunity to know them of course but death takes what it wants so..... anyway mother's name was Diane Clara surprisingly she didn't take her husband's name as her last or she didn't get to ' I have to ask that later ' and father was named Blake Walker and get this both sides no grandparents for me

But mother died giving birth to me which I have to admit is depressing and father died on a raid gone wrong, I asked about their pokemons because I know that if they were like what I am being told then they would have wanted me to at least know them

Both of them had full teams but when mom died two of her pokemon choose to go to the gym as mother took great pride in her job and the rest of them stuck with pops and when dad died aside from just one pokemon everyone else was killed by the opposing

Mother had a Vileplume, Nidoqueen, Victreebel, Tangrowth, Fearow and a Parasect while Father on the other hand had a Graveller, Rapidash, Vileplume, Starmie, Electabuzz and Pidgeot

Aside from Nidoqueen and Tangrowth who is at the Celadon City's Gym the only pokemon of those two teams that is alive is Starmie who just chills in the house pool

Yep and because of said parents especially as my father was a police officer who was fairly up in the ladder and starmie is an intelligent pokemon and I had my parent's friends to look after me I didn't have to go to an orphanage and I was also sponsored by the police department and had an option of actually choosing to try and join Erika's gym as mother did, Of course since dad died before I was 6-year old I lived with a social worker for a while but as I proved smart enough and with my insistence their office turned it into weekly visits when I was 10

The standard trainer age limit was from 13 years old around here the exceptions being the youngster license which limited them to three pokemon only and a greater test once you reach 13 years of age

' But anything is better than 10 years of age being standard I guess '

So it was just me and a Starmie named Psy ' I have a feeling that dad wasn't that good at naming but considering Ritchie named Pikachu sparky and Charmeleon zippo I'm guessing it's a thing here ' at home and needless to say some of my independence was struck when I had to be rushed to the hospital and had to be told this over again but lady luck swing her gaze on me for that occasion as a Hypno was seen in the area and it's psychic gifts and eating people's dream thing was 'the source' of my memory loss

As it was convenient I swung with it especially as I had gained a higher 'shielding of mind' as Psy called it after that encounter which is what I believe made him not suspicious of me after I emerged

So now that you know the basics let me formally introduce myself

My name is Eric Walker, son of Diana Claire and Blake Walker

I live in celadon city and am 10 years old

I want to travel this world and see its nature at its finest, its people at their best and I want to live my way whether that be boring or exciting and I am going to be a pokemon trainer