[Pokémon] Pokemon Horrid-White -A Nuzlocke Run of Pokemon White

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"I'm not doing it ..." an angry voice mused through gritted teeth.

"...You have to..." his friend replied, calmly fixing small glasses back onto his face.

Their third companion merely looked on, not wanting to interfere with the ensuing argument. But, then again, who would?

"I'm NOT going through that with them!" the first boy said again, this time yelling.

His friend sighed, rolling his eyes to his bright orange haired friend. "You have to, Henry ..." he continued. "What kind of person retells a story and neglects to account for one of the most important parts of it?"

To this, Henry scoffed, a vein of frustration throbbing wildly on his forehead as he reached around his person, finally emerging with one single Pokeball.

"There's nothing important about all of that!" He began wagging the red and white sphere repeatedly in the others face. "See this?" He shook the Pokeball once more. "This is the only thing they need to know so far about what's currently going on!"

"Well then how do you expect anyone to know who we ARE?! You're just going to forget all about that part?" the other asked flailing his hands around as he spoke.

"Simple!" Henry answered, as he started pointing. "I'm Henry. You're Chen, Cheren's younger brother," he moved away from Chen and towards the girl silently leaning against
a tree. "And that's Bebe, Bianca's cousin from Hoenn ... plus they already KNEW that!!"

Now it was Chen's turn to scoff. "If all of that wasn't important," he started as he tilted his head tauntingly. "The how'd you expect them to know who we are?"

Henry was taken back by the question, but he wasn't too sure why. Anybody could see that the three people in this area where newbies, who'd just started their journey not too long ago. And who would really need to be told that these three went to school together until they all turned 11 and were then sent out to explore the Pokemon world? No one needed to have that explained to them... right?

Henry sure seemed to think so, because he was the one keeping this debate going.

"Because it wouldn't have been necessary!" He snapped back. "I already pretty much introduced you two, Chen!" He placed the Pokeball back onto his black waist holder. "And besides, who cares about all that boring beginners stuff anyways?

All the long tutorials and boring lectures and the same old boring 'Are you a boy or a girl?' joke! That's all so stupid! So why don't I just cut out the ol' middleman and start explaining things from the good part?"

Chen's brow furrowed. "Because, Henry, your idea of 'the good part' is having us start all the way from Route 1!"

Henry and Chen began to butt heads.

"And what's so wrong with THAT, huh!? We still get to the start of our journey, nothing's told too fast or too slow-and if it is-everyone gets caught up in the end ... eventually!!"

"Ugh!" Chen wretched dryly. "That's so lazy! Who'd listen to a story like that if you're just gonna skip all the parts YOU don't feel like telling?!"

"You know who would, Chen? I would! Because it's clear that whoever's telling the story is an innovator. Someone who clearly looks at the bigger picture, and not all those boring details like YOU do!"

"What the heck is that supposed to--?"

"--And if whoever's telling that story has an audience, then he's clearly not just telling it to some noob who wouldn't even understand what he was talking about in the first place!"

Chen, realizing there is absolutely NO way to get through to him, removed his forehead and his shadowy gaze from Henrys.

"Forget it!" He yelled throwing his arms up. He started walking towards Bebe. "I'm done with you! If that's how you want to tell the story, fine! Just don't expect us to condone it if you do!"

Hearing this, Bebe finally, but quietly, spoke up.

"Uhm, well Chen... I actually agree with Henry ..."

Chen was baffled. "What?!" he yelled. "Bebe, are you serious? How could you agree wight that?"

"Well uhm...it's just that ... uh ... well Henry sort of has a point ... whoever he's talking to would more than likely ... uh ... have a pretty general knowledge of what he was talking about...
Otherwise ... well... there'd be no point in listening, because Henry would just be repeating something they already know..."

"...Unbelievable..." Chen gasped.

"Haha!" Henry laughed. "Well how do ya' like that?!"

You could almost feel the ground quake under Chen's audible growls and snarling, most of which was aimed at Henry.

"Quiet, you over ripened Cheri Berry!" he yelled.

However, he was defeated, no point in arguing two-on-one, right? So, he simply walked off a little further away from the two, standing a few feet from a tree, with his arms folded and an embarrassed scowl.

"Hmph! 'Overripened' he says -- I'll give you an overripened..." Henry muttered through clenched teeth. "...and what he so upset about, anyways!? Is he mad I didn't talk about his stupid battle against Bebe? ..."

His eyes trailed off from Chen and glanced over at Bebe, who walked with Chen to try and calm him down. "Whatever! I'll tell the story my way and he just better deal with it!"

He looked back down at his wrist, at the rectangular machine he'd been talking into the whole time. The woman looking back at him looked young and full of life, but was much older than Henry and his friends. They'd been talking to each other through the newer model of the XTransciever, the newest communication device of its model-and a graduation present for Henry before he set off on his journey.

With a small giggle the woman spoke. "..I take it you three are getting along well?"

"Huh?" Henry shot up, snapping back to life at the joke. "Ah, dont worry about him, Mom. He's probably still sore about our battle from earlier this morning ... uh... How's my room, by the way?"

From the screen, Henry saw his mother look off and give a heavy sigh, probably remembering the damages from inside his bedroom.

"It's fine, Henry ..." she lied. That room was a wreck and they both knew it. "Thankfully nothing was broken up but a few cracks in tables and such. But I'll have that all fixed in time..."

Henry sighed in relief, he thought it'd be worse than how she explained it since there was a whole full-scale Pokemon up there not just an hour ago. "That's great, Mom! Maybe it'll be fixed before--"

"--But that still doesn't mean I'm letting you three off the hook for wrecking it like that! You're all lucky the Professor needed to see you or I would have dealt with you all then!"

Henry flinched and looked away, trying not to show his reaction, or what he thought would have been in store hadn't the Professor called in when she did.

"Uh... yeah... Heh Heh ..." Henry laughed. "Sorry about that ..."

"Yeah sure... it's alright, I guess. You're all Trainers now, I'm sure you were just anxious. Now you all hurry on to Accumula Town, Professor Juniper is waiting on you three."

"Sure thing! Talk to you later, Mom! Bye!"

With that he hung up the XTransciever, and turned to face Chen and Bebe, who was still going off for no reason.


"Come on, you guys! We don't want to keep the Professor waiting too much longer!" Henry called.

Chen squabbled on, but listened anyway. He quieted down once he stood side-by-side with the two. They both, Henry and Chen, started to step onto Route 1, heading towards Accumula. Then, Bebe had an idea, and stopped them cold before speaking ...

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Okay so my first chapter was longer than I'd hoped, so I shortened it a tiny bit. I decided to leave it at that for now, and make chapter 2 a little longer when I post he next part.

Please Read and Review and tell me if you like my new setup so far. I'm following the story of the game, just with newer characters (because I hate the old ones -_-).

As for describing the characters, I'll do a WAY better job of that come the next part, as all of this was on purpose. So yea until next time!

The dialgue is very engaging. The character's personalities are well-defined and very different from one another. Personally, though I find the names to a bit unimaginative considering how similar they are to the original names. (Cheren>Chen/Bebe>Bianca) If I were a parent, or uncle, I doubt I would give my child the same name as their brother or cousin. And the way it's written is a little strange. They're casually breaking the 3rd wall during their argument. Amusing as it is, it does get a little confusing when reading, especially if you're following the original storyline.

silverexorcist said:

The dialgue is very engaging. The character's personalities are well-defined and very different from one another. Personally, though I find the names to a bit unimaginative considering how similar they are to the original names. (Cheren>Chen/Bebe>Bianca) If I were a parent, or uncle, I doubt I would give my child the same name as their brother or cousin. And the way it's written is a little strange. They're casually breaking the 3rd wall during their argument. Amusing as it is, it does get a little confusing when reading, especially if you're following the original storyline.

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@silverexorcist ; Yeah, I completely understand where you're coming from. The names are unimaginative yes, and it does get a little confusing at first I know. But rest assured, I've definitely put all of these factors into consideration when I was making this fic... Well, besides the name part, but the "newer" characters I've added get their own special personalities come later in the story.

All I can ask of you is to bear with these first few chapters, and thank you in advance for reading and reviewing.

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