Book 1: Kanto, Chapter 1: To Kanto
"Well thats it" sighed Seth as Gateon port sunk into the horizon.
They had spent the past year tracking down and defeating the last remnants of Cipher in the Orre region. They fought thier last peon two months ago, after that the trail fell cold. Less than a week ago Seth had thought about taking the Poke'mon League challenge to break the monotony. Apparently he had thought out loud, as the young man next to him appeared to have heard him. The boy said loudly that no poke'mon without a trainer could possibly have a chance against the League. The argument that resulted ended in a bet, abet that Seth was planning to win. Seth turned around, sat down, closed his eyes, and sighed again. When he finally opened them, his heart almost came out his mouth, and he jumped up so fast he almost fell of the boat, not to mention knocking the two Ralts that were staring into his face, to the deck.
"Owchies" squeaked Alaura as she got up and fixed her bow.
"What was that for!" yelled Radiel as he righted himself as well.
"That, was for almost giving me a heart attack." Seth said trying to regain his composure
"I'm sorry!" Alaura grovelled, she then pointed at Radiel.
"He made me do it!" she squeaked through her tears.
This put Radiel on the defensive "I did NOT!"
Just then Abel burst from the crew quarters and said "Seth, please join me belowdecks I have someting important to show you." He then looked at the two squabbling Ralts and asked "Are you...err...busy at the moment?"
"Oh yes, I was just beginning to sell tickets!" said Seth with sarcastic enthusiasm.
Abel chucled "If you'll follow me then." he said smiling broadly. As Abel led Seth through the door and down the hall he said still grinning "You think it would get boring after a while!"
"There is nothing on God's green earth that could possibly make their fights boring, annoying yes, but never boring!" replied Seth.
They both started laughing, but stopped abruptly, as a nicely varnished oak door with a brass handle whipped open, Abel wasn't fast enough and the door hit him fully in the face. He fell over with excruciating slowness and hit the floor. When he finally got up he said "Well that hurt." through a swollen lip. Then there was a screech that Seth could've swore made his ears bleed. It was Venus.
"Abel, Abel, I'm so sorry, I could've killed you!" she sobbed.
"It's okay, I'm quite alright!" Abel reassured her.
"Oh my, your lip! It's bleeding! Here wipe it off in this!" she said as she lifted up the hem of her gown.
"Please! It's really not neccessary!" said a struggling Abel, getting redder with every word.
"What is all this noise?" it was Luna, she had just walked out of the door on the opposite side of the hall. "I was just trying to get some beeeauty sssleep." she yawned.
"Oh yes, God-forbid we miss that!" said Seth sarcastically.
"Nobody asked you!" Luna hissed. Her voice changed back to motherly as she asked "Now, what happened, Venus dear?"
"Abel is refusing to get medical attention after I nearly killed him!" Venus whined
"Abel?" said Luna quizzically as she looked at him.
"I'm fine, I'm fine, really!" said Abel "And now if you'll please let me go, there is something I really must show Seth!" he continued.
"Are you sure your okay?" persisted Venus.
"I'm standing aren't I?" said Abel.
She still didn't give up. "Yes, well...what about your brain?" she said.
"Wait, what?" said a bewildered Abel.
"Well...your brain...how...does it...feel?" she asked timidly.
Seth was amazed at how far she persued the subject, and when he looked at Luna he saw she was confused as he was. Just then Abel came up with an answer
"Well since I do not have enough time to count all of my brain cells I'm just going to assume they are all there." he said.
"But Abel!" pleaded Venus.
Abel looked down at her tear soaked face and stroked her hair. "I'm fine really" he warmly reassured her. It still took at least ten more minutes to completely calm her down.
"Wow." said Seth as they walked out of Venus's room.
Outside the door they met Luna again and she asked "Well is Venus okay?"
"She cried herself to sleep on Abel's shoulder, we just covered her up." Seth replied.
"It is to be expected." sighed Luna, she then turned to Abel "She loves you very much, you know." she said.
"Yes, and I love her to death, but her flair for the dramatic is almost too much to handle." Abel sighed in reply.
"Well, keep in mind, that she may ask you to marry her one day." she said gravely.
"And I will gladly accept!" Abel replied. "Now I must show Seth something." he continued.
"All right." Luna sighed, and Seth and Abel continued down the hall, as they rounded a corner Luna called out to Abel
"Abel, remember what I said!"
"I will!" Abel called back.
They resumed their walk. When they came to the door to Abel's room Abel was so lost in thought that Seth had to shout to get his attention.
"Abel, Abel, ABEL!" Seth screamed.
He could've swore that Abel's eyes flew out of thier sockets. It took Seth every fiber of his being plus the fact that he and Abel were good friends to keep himself from laughing at Abel's performance. After they recovered(Seth swore he'd broken a few ribs from trying not to laugh), Abel spoke.
"Yes, Well, the thing I wanted to show you." He said still trying to breath normally.
They went into the room. Lying on a metal gurney was what, in Seth's opinion, looked like a metal Gardvoir. He then realized it was not a robot, but a suit of High-Tech armor. Upon closer inspection the armor was roughly in the shape of his body and was made of a reddish-silver metal. It had a full-face helmet that had a black visor. Each arm had seven round slots in it. To sum it all up it looked like a cool thing from a bad sci-fi movie. Abel picked up the right arm.
"You see after finding bits and pieces of Dr. Foxx's ingenious machines, I reconfigured and reconstructed them, this exo-suit was the result. The first bit I'll tell you about now. This arm I'm holding, it also has a cannon. Do you see the slots? Each slot holds a different elemental stone. Each stone is used like ammunition so each elemental attack you use it drains a certain amount of energy from the related stone. But, if you do not have said stone, the afore mentioned attack cannot be used. We will hopefully find elemental stones during our travels and I hear the Celadon City Department store sells them. Anyway, here are some ideas, if you have a leaf stone, you may use attacks like bullet seed or solarbeam, if you have a fire stone, you may use attacks like ember or flamethrower, with the water stone, bubblebeam or hydro pump, the thunderstone, thunderbolt or zap cannon. You are not limited to these attacks but, you can only use projectile related ones. The last three slots are for sun, moon, and everstones. The sun stone will allow you to use Purelight Cannon, the moon stone will allow you to use Shadow Cannon, the everstone will allow you to use Deevolution Beam. These moves are only for the most extreme of circumstances, and due to the potency of these attacks, the stone only has enough energy for one shot, so make it count!"
Abel put down the right arm, and picked up the left.
"This arm is much the same as the right, exept, it deals with physical-elemental attacks such as fire punch or thunder punch. The best thing about it is the energy sword, which happens to be, my favorite!"
He put down the left arm and picked up the helmet.
"The helmet, which is a beautiful piece of machinery I might add, dampens loud sounds, such as gunfire or explosions, but amplifies quiet sounds, such as footsteps or breathing. It's visor comes equipped with an aura reader, X-ray vision, Heat vision, Night vision, a rebreather, lock-on targeting, and a blast shield."
He put down the helmet and pointed to the middle.
"Now the moment you've all been waiting for, THE JETPACK! With sufficient fuel this thing will take you anywhere! The full wingspan is 7 feet when open! Anyway, about the rest of the suit, the suit has a form fitting Bioelectrical rubber underlay, that will cushion your body from a fall from space! The armor plates are made of solid Titanium A+ Ceramic carbide which would deflect a ballistic missile! To top it off the suit has a built-in shield generator and anti-grav gyros so you don't have to use telekinisis to make the suit lighter!" Abel finally finished proudly.
"Wow" said Seth completely amazed. "So this is what you were hiding for the last two months?" he asked.
"Yep." replied Abel smartly.
"Okay...but umm...when am I supposed to use this?" Seth asked.
"Well you can't use this in any gym or League-sponsored battle, so I was thinking more along the lines of life or death situation." Abel said as a matter of factly.
"When would that happen?" asked Seth
"Well I've been hearing reports that Team Rocket is starting op again." replied Abel.
"You mean the ones that were taken down by a boy and a pikachu?" Seth snorted
"That may be so but, I've also heard, that they've taken a leaf out of Cipher's book and started using shadow poke'mon." Abel replied gravely.
"I'll keep that in mind as I flatten them with this." said Seth as he looked at the machine.
"Just promise me this." said Abel "Don't get cocky."
"I won't." replied Seth.
At that moment Cain popped his head through the door.
"Seth we will arrive in Kanto in ten minu- What is that piece of crap?" He asked as he pointed to the exo-suit.
Abel mouthed angrily at having his invention called 'crap'.
"That will do Cain!" scolded Seth.
"Just thought I'd tell you" muttered Cain as he skulked out of the room.
"Can you believe...I mean utter nonsense...How do you put up wuth it!" babbled Abel angrily.
"Abel, let it be." sighed Seth
Abel flushed "Butbut,bu-
"I said let it be! I'll deal with him later! There is no need to prove yourself, he is only jealous because he has no skills, and no girlfriend! Seth yelled.
"Your right, as usual." Abel sighed "Plus, I doubt there is any Gardevoir ot there that would take to him." he chucled.
"Anyways, we have to get to the map room to discuss how we're going to do this." remembered Seth.
When they got to the map room they saw everyone there, apparently waiting for them, Luna was still yawning, Venus was still sad, Cain still angry, and Alaura and Radiel were still fighting. Cain spoke up.
"What took you so long!" he growled
Abel replied first "Well, we were contemplating whether or not to put a cherry bomb in your next coffee!" he said as he threw Cain a smoldering look.
Everyone laughed but, Cain and Abel. As the laughing continued Abel joined in. When the laughing finally stopped, Seth went to the map on the wall.
"Since we have to start at Pewter City, but we are arriving in Vermilion we will have to take a path called 'Diglett's Cave' said Seth as he pointed to the cave entrance on the map.
"Wait." said Radiel the Ralts "Why can't we just teleport to Pewter City?"
"Have you ever seen Pewter City?" Seth asked.
Radiel shook his head.
"I thought not. Since you haven't seen it, you cannot get a clear picture in your mind's eye, but, photos and postcards wouldn't help either, as smells and feelings are also important. Anyway, once we get the boulderbadge we should head back here to plan our next move." Seth finished
The P.A. popped overhead and the Captain said "I see the port! Get your things together!"
By the time they had gotten thier bags and got to the top deck, they were at the dock, and the short old man who was thier captain, was waiting for them.
"Well Sir, it was an honor to have you as our captain." said Seth
"Nonsense, the pleasure was all mine, after you saved my Peeko from those goons in the Orre region, it was the least I could do to repay you! And by the way, call me Briney there's no need for formality among friends!" Briney said. "Well Peeko we best be off!" Briney continued.
"Aye, aye" squawked Peeko as he opened his mouth.
"Ring the foghorn if'yee ever need me!" Briney cackled as he got into the Pelipper's mouth, and to make the sight stranger he yelled "Away Peeko, away!"
Peeko gargled an "Aye, aye" and took off into the horizon still gargling Aye, aye! until they finally dissappeared into the sunset.
"I'll miss him." whimpered Venus.
Seth turned around to step off of the boat, but stopped abruptly as a woman in blue yelled "Freeze! Your under arrest!"
