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The sun had finally risen, with it a pair of eyes opened as the first light of day shined on his face. Following his eyes was a smile that took nearly Roland's whole face, today was the day that his dream in both lives would come to fruition. In a new world filled with adventure and wondrous new experiences that were pokemon. He proceeded to get up and go to the bathroom, on his way he passed the small bear cub that had decided to follow him in his morning ritual. Yawning at the same time, both the bear cub and human started to brush both their teeth and rinse in sync. Afterward, they both hopped in the shower, for a lab pokemon Pancham was surprisingly dirty. The duo quickly finished their shower and dried off, Roland using a towel and Pancham shaking its body on all fours.

Roland was on the couch brushing Pancham, he had already changed into what would become his new outfit for the next couple of weeks. He was wearing a black bomber jacket that was light with a white shirt with a pokeball logo underneath. For the bottom half, he was wearing durable khaki pants and black high tops with white trim. Roland wanted to match with his starter pokemon to grow their friendship even faster. Pancham definitely agreed with his choice of attire, he even tried to shove a random stick in Roland's mouth a few times to truly get the pancham appeal.

It was about time to meet the only two adults in the building and start his journey. This brought them to the front of the lab, both adults were saying their farewells and wishes to the young boy and his pokemon. One had a proud smile on his face while the other was trying not to cry while checking on the boy's clothes.

"Make sure to take care of yourself, Roland. Don't forget to rest instead of just training all day, and change your underwear. I know you only have a few spares, but you must change them!" said Aurea.

Roland was shocked that Professor Juniper would care so much. Even Professor Oak was sweat dropping at the woman's mothering. It seemed that Roland had made a strong impression during their short meeting, "Yes professor, I'll be sure to do that."

"Be careful my boy, the world has its wonders but also its share of dangers. I'm sure a smart young man will be fine. Don't ever forget the passion you have with Pokemon. When you are ready to start your coffee business, let me know. I will be the first person at the door," said Oak.

Roland was grateful for these two people for caring enough to help him, he was sure that he would have been lost if he had to fend for himself. How would he even get a starter pokemon? He didn't know whether hidden items were in the real world too or just a game mechanic. He started to walk away while waving back, Pancham was shouting at Professor Juniper while crying a little. It seemed while Pancham wanted to explore the world, it still thought of Juniper as a mother figure, even Roland was having a hard time keeping it together. He may have been a lot older mentally, but it seemed that being in this body was affecting him mentally.

Soon both human and pokemon had made it into the forest on the outskirts of Pallet Town. Roland turned to the bear and asked, "Hey Pancham, wanna go see if we can find any new teammates?"

The bear shook with excitement and hit its chest with a paw, "Pan! Pan Cham!"

"I'll take that as a yes bud," Roland said while patting the bear. He thought about what kind of pokemon he could catch. The only ones that came to mind were cannon fodder at most. Weak worm type pokemon and generic flying types. Perhaps he could try something different, catching a water pokemon was always an option. 'I don't have a fishing rod, but how hard can it really be. I just need a sturdy stick and string," Roland thought.

~oOo~

I'm in a forest, so finding a suitable stick shouldn't be too difficult. The problem is the string, where can I get some. Perhaps I could ask the local cannon fodder for some, I'm sure they are nice. I honestly would rather just catch one for later use, you never know when your balls deep in a random cave with adventures. Having a bug type would help a lot in that regard. Let's check the pokedex what kind of Pokemon are nearby! "Pokedex, what pokemon are in my location?" Soon a blue screen popped up and showed me a map of Kanto with the forest I was in highlighted. As I thought, my system unlocked the pokedex feature after receiving it from Professor Oak, I'll just use it when people are with me for appearances. Let's see, yep I just see some generic worms as I thought. Oh wait, there's spinarak here, perhaps they migrated from Johto. Now that's what I'm talking about! There's even chinchou. Time to get to work, it says that spinarak is a headbutt pokemon. I'm sure that Pancham doesn't need to use headbutt, just hit it to shake the tree.

"Hey buddy," getting Pancham's attention, "Try hitting one of these trees, if we're lucky we can find a spinarak. Ok?"

Pancham nodded and proceeded to tackle the closest tree with a mighty yell. The tree kept shaking for a few seconds before it stopped and a wurmple fell to the floor. The worm looked at us scared and tried to crawl away in a hurry. Pancham looked at me whether to fight it, but I just shook my head in disappointment. This went on for about a few hours, it seemed that worm pokemon were just as common in the real world as in the games. We finally struck gold as a small red spider fell off the tree while dangling on a string. It looked disoriented for a few moments before noticing the two strangers staring at it. I didn't know the proper battle standards, especially if I was supposed to introduce myself and explain what was going on. After waiting so long just one spider, I decided to screw it with my childish glory and ordered Pancham to attack. It seemed that Pancham was annoyed by how long this took also, he put extra force into his paw which made it glow and struck the spider. This knocked the weak bug pokemon out cold as it was unprepared.

Pancham simply smirked while looking at the downed pokemon, he seemed very pleased that his efforts of hitting trees did not go to waste. Meanwhile, I pulled out a pokeball and casually threw it. It sucked up Spinarak and clicked, signaling its capture. In the games you couldn't catch fainted pokemon, I always thought that was annoying. Once it returned to my hand I decided to set up for camp.

"Let's set up camp and start getting ready to sleep buddy, it's already pretty dark. We've already had enough excitement for the day."

Pancham just sat down and relaxed letting his tiredness known to everyone in the forest, "Pan...cham."

We pulled out some food for us and our new member from my inventory. I went ahead and let out the spider pokemon nearby with some food in front of it. I assumed that it would be hungry when it finally woke up. It seemed I was correct in my assumption as it woke up with a start and started screeching. I quickly explained that I was a trainer starting on my adventure and spent, longer than I would like to admit, some time to find one of its species. It seemed proud that it was that desirable since it was a bug pokemon and gladly partook in its food.

A new screen popped up displaying Spinarak's stats, moves, and other miscellaneous information. After finding out our new companion was a male, I went ahead and scanned Pancham to see the new move he had learned. It turned out to be Arm Thrust, which he would unlock at level seven. Punching trees and occasional worms seemed to have its benefits. After everyone had their fill, I just put everything back into my inventory and went to sleep. My bear snuggled next to me and my spider resting on a small web while keeping vigilance every few minutes.

~oOo~

As I woke up in the morning, I realized why people kept teddy bears. Waking up with a warm cuddly bear next to you is a magical, my testosterone level immediately dropped by twenty levels. This brought to question whether I even had a lot of it anyway since I was for all purposes an actual cute boy now. "Damn," was all I could say. That day Pancham woke up seeing its trainer crying manly tears while talking about the evil that is cuddly things. Cats don't like to snuggle unless they feel like it damn it!

I got over my small tantrum quick and prepared food for my party of two. We ate and soon finished, which brought me to our game plan for the day. Spinarak and I discussed if he could make strong enough webbing to lift a pokemon out of the water. It seemed that his normal webbing could not handle being submerged in the water and lift something heavy. Perhaps that could change once he evolved, but we found an alternative solution. This was to braid his webbing into several cords which increased its tensile strength. After finding this out, it was a child's play to start fishing once we found a suitable stick.

"Let's catch us a chinchou guys," I said. I tied a piece of pokemon food on the end of the rope let it float on the surface for a while. Soon I had my first bite, with a swing of my arm the pokemon on the line was brought in the air.

"Magi, carp carp!" I could only sigh at the fish I had just caught. The infamous weak pokemon that evolved into a beast once trained long enough. I was going to just release it back once I reeled it in, but something beat me to it. A small bird cried out while grabbing the small fish in its talons and flew off. "Hey you bird-," wait I wasn't even going to catch it. Oh well, no harm no foul. I do have the sense of deja vu however, strange. Why I had that feeling made itself known, as the pidgey just casually tossed the fish like it was yesterday's trash and flew back towards me.

Once it landed, it gave another cry as it was glad to see me. This brought me thinking, what pidgey knows me? The only one was the one that led Professor Oak to me! "Pidgey, are you the one I fed a berry to?"

"Pidgeoooo!" it cried.

"Oh glad to see you have you decided to join me? I would love to have a flying pokemon with me!" I said. I saw Pidgey just nod and decided to make it official. I pulled out a pokeball from my inventory and let Pidgey touch the button with its beak. It clicked right after Pidgey was sucked in as it didn't put up a fight. Once I released it again, I saw a screen with Pidgey's information. It seemed that this particular Pidgey was a female. The first girl pokemon on the team!

"Alrighty guys, let's go back to catching us a chinchou!" I said. I threw the line with new bait and waited. This process repeated itself for a couple of hours until we finally found what we were looking for. A small bipedal pokemon that was blue with yellow trim. It had large unique eyes and glowing bulbs coming off its body. It seemed this one was just lazy and wanted food.

"Hey Chinchou, I'm a new trainer and I would like you to join the team," I said.

The chinchou just kept focusing on the food and completely ignored me with a small, "Chuu…"

Two can play that way, "Wow I have so much pokemon food, I wonder if my pokemon can finish it all. I guess I will just toss it for some bug pokemon to eat."

This brought Chinchou into shock as all that food going to waste was akin to blasphemy in its eyes. With a scream of "Chuu!," it started to shake me with its small fins like I was crazy.

"I'm sure you could help me with this horrible problem right Chinchou?" I then noticed it pointing to itself and nodding as if it was a sage. "If you join my team you can eat all you want Chinchou, but you have to battle if I need your help ok?"

Chinchou just nodded like it was a simple task and said, "Chu, chu chinchou."

I repeated my actions from before with Pidgey and soon caught myself a Chinchou, it quickly took use of my promise and started shoveling as much food it could into its small body. It was amusing really, but then I soon realized that we would have to resort to eating magicarp soon if I ran out of food. Oh well, I was prepared for this ever since I saw that episode with Team Rocket and the Magicarp that James had bought. I decided to spend the rest of the day just training my pokemon till it reached night time.

Soon it was the third day of my journey and I couldn't be happier. I had my starting team of four pokemon and they had gained a few levels from the training I had planned out for them. Today however I was going to fully train them with my tactics and ideas. I had wondered ever since I saw my first pokemon information screen. It had displayed levels and even showed that Pancham learned a move from leveling up. However, would this be exactly like the games? Is the level cap one hundred? I refused to believe that, Ash's Pikachu was a good example. That pokemon is stronger than even a max level pikachu should be. Surely levels didn't mean everything and determined to cap of strength. Thus was my idea of training pokemon like Pidgey that evolved quick. I wanted my Pidgey to be the best of its species, a true king of the skies. Fuck fearows and their ugly corkscrew beaks. Pidgeots are where it's at, man! So I got Spinarak to make a small necklace out of braided webbing to hold the everstone I got from Professor Oak on Pidgey's neck like a necklace of sorts. This would stop Pidgey's evolution since I didn't know if I could stop Pidgey's evolution myself like in games.

I made specialized training for all my current pokemon to do for a couple of days. For Pidgey and Pancham it was resistance training. I asked Spinarak to make a suit for both pokemon which would restrict their movements and make them need more effort to move their limbs. In theory, this should allow them to have stronger muscles to punch or flap. For Spinarak, I made a pattern in the dirt with a stick and told him to copy it with his webbing. Now he had a ladder shape to exercise his legs to increase speed and dexterity. For Chinchou, I just told him to keep releasing electricity into the ground until he couldn't and restart. Hopefully, this would allow his natural electricity reservoir to increase in size and power. If that doesn't work, I'll just go to a windmill and copy what Ash did with Pikachu.

After a lot of training, my pokemon stopped to rest and eat their dinner. I feel we made great progress for a day. My party had gained a few levels and was steadily growing just like the games. The first levels up to twenty were always easy, even after weren't too hard if you knew what you were doing. This is supporting my theory that this world doesn't have strict caps on what a pokemon can accomplish. Sure the games had IVs and EVs but that couldn't be all that pokemon had in this world too. After we had finished eating, we had turned in for the night. This would be my first challenge in this new life. Just as we fell into Morpheus' clutches, a pair of sinister red eyes made themselves known to the denizens of the forest.

~oOo~

A blaring noise resounded in my room, I opened my eyes and turned in my bed to grab my phone. Stupid alarm clock always ruined my dreams, right when it got to the good part. I was just about to touch my first pair of boobs man! Like the words of the legendary Oppai Dragon, "I wanna squeeze some boobs!"

"Meow! Meowwww! Meow?"

I looked to my right and saw three little hellions swarming around near my bed, they demanded food from their servant. It was about time I got up anyway, I have to make it work… Wait where did I work again? Man, I am not put together in the morning. I need my coffee already, oh that's right. Coffee, I work at the coffee shop. How could I forget? The owner needs me, the teens we get always don't show up. What was his name again, Mr. Amari?

After getting out of bed, I hopped in the shower and get ready for the morning. Then I grabbed three bowls from the floor and filled them. My babies sat at attention waiting for my commands. I beckoned one over and said, "sit." Afterward, I asked for its paw and shook it. I repeated this with the other two and started on my morning beverage. Soon I headed out the door with my thermos in hand, the sky seemed to be pretty this morning. Nice and black, the sun was even clear to see. It seemed to be that the forecast was wrong about the overcast and the sky was nice and clear.

I walked the dark path I always did every morning, it was by the main street so I would pass many strangers. Greeting them as I went if they seemed friendly, there were a lot of them today. Everyone was wearing grey for some reason. Maybe it was a strange holiday. I got to my final intersection and waited for the light to change. Once it turned white, I started to walk down the street. Suddenly I heard a roar and saw a fuzzy outline in front of me. It was shaped like a hollow diamond on a canine-like head with what seemed like hair flowing behind it. It was majestic and made me go back to reality just as a truck blared its horn at me. I quickly took a step back and continued to wait for the light to change.

I had finally made it to my job and opened the heavy door, I then greeted the many grey blurs around me and made it to the staff room. I changed into my uniform and took my place behind the counter. The rush had yet to start and I just prepped the various machines and beans for the day. It was robotic almost, cleaning, prepping, and finally brewing some coffee as my first customers of the day come in. It seemed today would be the same old, I wonder what would have happened if I had a new life. Outside of this monotony, maybe I could become a pokemon trainer in my next life. Suddenly the movement in the coffee shop halted and everything became eerily quiet. I was confused and headed towards the front door to check outside. This was strange, I then opened the heavy wooden door and was only greeted by white.