What if one day you woke up and saw a pidgey fly by your window, or your dog chasing a meowth out of the yard? Somehow, Pokémon have gotten mixed up in present day America. Gamers, card collectors, movie watchers, and fanfic writers are excited, but they're also all wondering why this has happened. A group of self-appointed trainers each befriend a pokémon as their temporary partner. After running into the other "trainers" they band together to help get the Pokémon back to Kanto and Johto. Several questions are said all over the country: Why have the pocket monsters ended up here? Where is their rightful home? And most importantly, how are they going to get back there?
Rules: No legendaries unless asked to play one, only unevolved pokemon from Kanto or Johto (Red/Blue/Yellow and Gold/Silver/Crystal) are allowed as partners, and yes you only get one.
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Artemis was woken up by loud barking outside her window. Stupid dog, barking its head off at 8 o'clock on a Saturday morning... Wait a minute, they didn't have a dog, and neither did the neighbours. Artemis leaped out of bed, realizing that something sounded weird about the barking, afraid it was in distress. Not wanting to wander around like a sleepless zombie in her pajamas, she quickly threw on black jeans, a dark green t-shirt, and a light jacket before running barefoot out the back door. She was shocked to see what looked like a small red fox barking at a scared pair of robins. It took a step forward and the little birds flew off. Losing interest in the, the fox sniffed and turned to stare at her, its soft brown eyes unusually large. She didn't even have to see its tails to recognize that it was no ordinary fox.
"A vulpix?!" she exclaimed, stunned. It growled out a "Vvvvul" at her, just as surprised by her outburst as she was by seeing it. She blinked, then stared when it didn't fade away into a dream. Unsure what to do, she ran in the house and shoved on some socks and sneakers. Ignoring her mom's irritated questions, Artemis ran back outside to see if the Vulpix was still there.
"No way..." Then she heard the hedges rustling and saw a spinarak crawling on the leaves. What was going on here? Was she seeing things? "Um, stay!" she yelled at the fox pokémon before dashing inside again to turn on the news. Surely if this was really happening one of the stations would be covering it. Just had to find the right station... as soon as she wrestled the remote away from her sister. Argh! She was wasting time!
