Cody walked through the deep, green forest like route, and kept on the winding path as he walked for hours before he finally stopped for the night.
"This place seems as good as any to set up camp" Cody thought, as he pitched a tent and started to gather some firewood. A few hours later Cody was sitting next to the fire, with Skipper next to him.
"Man I wish you could talk" Cody said to Skipper as Skipper cuddled up to him.
"Mud, Mudkip" Skipper said, and he lies down on Cody’s lap and closes his eyes.
"Oh really now?" Cody asked, with one eyebrow raised, "You think I am crazy for thinking that, glad to see you have faith in me" Cody added shaking his head as Skipper laughs.
"Hey you can’t talk, but I can understand you" Cody said, finally realising that quite important detail.
"Mudkip" Skipper said, rolling his eyes
"Don’t you give me that kind of attitude mister" Cody said, giving Skipper stern look.
Skipper just ignores him and going over to a puddle and splashes water on the fire, putting it out, throws mud on it and heads into the tent.
"Yeah, yeah I get the point, time to sleep" Cody said, muttering a bit as he hops into his sleeping bag and falls sound asleep.
The next day Cody awakes and packs up his tent and sleeping bag, than him and Skipper leave after a short breakfast.
"So when do you think we will get to Oldale?" Cody asked Skipper, for no apparent reason. He just shrugs and keeps going as a wild Wurmple comes out and shoots a string shot at Skipper.
"Skipper quickly block with mud slap" Cody commanded quickly, knowing it was too late to dodge, but hoped he could stop it from hitting.
Skipper threw some mud up into the air, which stopped the string shot in its tracks.
"Now use Tackle" Cody commanded, as the Wurmple started to charge, and the Skipper just runs and rams right through the Wurmple, coming back covered on blood and guts as the Wurmple falls on the ground, or what remained of it, quite dead,
Cody just stood there, shocked at what just happened.
"I must be dreaming, that shouldn't have happened" Cody thought as he went over to see if Skipper was ok, after he was satisfied with the fact that Skipper was ok, he continued onward, but what happened to the Wurmple was still fresh in his mind.
"Ok first that Zigzagoon that I defeated died, and now the Wurmple”
“WHATS GOING ON?!?!?!??!??!?!? Mum said that pokemon that I owned would die if they were defeated, not random wild ones I battled" Cody thought furiously, as he reaches Oldale Town roughly 5 hours later and heads straight to the Pokemon Centre, to rest Skipper and to get a room.
After doing so, Cody leaves Skipper with Nurse Joy and goes to explore the town, finding a Pokemart clerk in the middle of the street.
Curious, Cody goes to investigate as the clerk turns around.
"Howdy young man, fancy a free sample potion" The clerk asks, me, holding out a weird bottle thing, the same type that Birch gave him.
"Umm what is that?" Cody asks, confused as the clerk looks at him like his an idiot.
"This is a potion, its standard for all trainers, you can buy them or a type of potion, in every Pokémart around the world" The crazy man exclaims as Cody just backs away after taking it and heads to this "Pokemart" and stocks up on supplies, but was disappointed when he was told they were out of pokéballs, so he heads to the Pokemon Centre to rest for the night.
The Next Day, Cody gets up roughly around 10:00AM, and goes to get Skipper and then leaves the Pokemon Centre.
"Come on Skipper lets train" Cody shouts, jumping into the air as Skipper shouts in agreement (Note he didn’t speak English, you could easily assume he would shout, yell, etc. in agreement).
And then they both run into Route 101, and start training in a frenzy, surprising enough no other Pokémon’s died except Skipper seemed to take hits a lot harder than the wild Pokémon’s did.....But Cody just shook the thought away as the hours passed and they head to the Pokemon Centre for dinner, and then bed, as Skipper was proud to grow stronger, and they gave May time to catch up.
Cody drops Skipper off to Nurse Joy and goes to bed, tired and satisfied from both the food and the training.
Day 3 of Journey-Roughly 7:30AM
Cody wakes up from the sound of his alarm and turns it off, yawns and stretches the sleep out of him and then goes through his morning rituals of waking up, including:
Taking a Cold Shower
Eating an Apple (proven fact that apples wake you up more in the morning then coffee, and tastes better)
Goes For a Jog
And morning exercises.
After doing that, which takes him roughly a 1 and a half, he goes to return his room key and get Skipper and heads off to Route 103, to meet May.
After walking for a minute in the grass, a wild Wingull appears.
"Go Skipper, use Tackle" I command as the Wingull tries to growl me into submission, but Skipper hits it head on, knocking it out in one hit and it falls to the ground, its neck bent at a weird angle, as Cody just looks confused.
"It happened again.....There must be a connection here…Hmm" Cody thought as Skipper goes ahead, so Cody pursues watching Skipper battle, but no more Pokémons died, after an hour worth of walking, Cody finds a nice spot next to a ledge and camps for the night.
"Ok so if May isn’t here tomorrow evening we leave" Cody says to skipper as they both go to sleep, as Skipper sleeps soundly, Cody is plagued by the current events, waking up several times from nightmares and by the time its morning, had barely sleep 2 hours that night, as he does his morning rituals, just minus the jog, and he founds a cold pond to use instead of a shower.
It wasn't until midday, when Cody heard a sound.
"May that you?" Cody shouted out, as a figure appears, clouded in Shadows.
"No I am not this "May" you speak off" Says the figure, clouded in shadows.
"Well who are you?" Cody asked, preparing to pick up a nearby tree branch.
"I wouldn’t do that if I were you, I come here to tell you something important" The figure says, indicating to the stick and it explodes, making splinters go everywhere.
"Now with that gone, I must ask you, have you seen.....Strange things occurring, such as pokemon dying when you defeat them?" The figure asks, as Cody looks confused.
"Yes, how do you know about that?" Cody asks, curious now to see what the figure knew.
"Well first to answer your earlier question, I don’t have a name anymore, so just call me.....M" The figure says, after a pause of thought.
"Now to answer your current question, I know a lot more than you think, and I have been watching you ever since you left Littleroot Town....god I sound like a stalker" M says, as he mutters the last part, which Cody barely heard.
"Now you’re probably filled to the brim with questions, I will answer one of them now. What’s happening has happened before, about 300 hundred years ago, now there hasn’t been much progress since then in technology, but there was a legend, of 3 heroes destined to save the world from this threat known as....The "Nuzlocke" Case, but there was a price..."M says, trailing off.
"What was the price?" Cody asked, knowing the answer wouldn’t be very good.
"Well there were 10 Nuzlockers at that time, 3 of them the warriors, but you see for them to succeed they had to kill the other Nuzlockers, and defeat every league......The strongest of them, Larry defeated the Sinnoh in no time at all, but was swiftly defeated by the Hoenn league champ, Steven and wasn’t seen again. The next Simon didn’t get past the Elite 4 of Johto, before his lost. Then Maxie, the third and final warrior, now he beat the Unova, Sinnoh and Hoenn leagues, but disappeared on the way to the Johto, ever since then the Nuzlocke cases have gotten worse, more.....deadly" M carries on.
"So what does this have to with me?"
"Well it seems that they have found a way to use this as a virus, it had ups and downs through"
"That doesn’t answer my question......"
"That’s because I haven’t finished yet, now where was I? Oh yes, the Nuzlocke virus, now as you see there are 2 main benefits from this:
1. It gives the user the ability to regenerate, which is why you survived that accident
And
2. It gives them extraordinary pokemon training abilities, so Skipper will became stronger quicker
So you understand so far?" M asks, as Cody looks at Skipper and he nods his head.
"Good, now where there’s advantages, disadvantages aren’t far behind, now before you go any further you must listen to what I say VERY carefully" M says, as he pulls out a book.
"What’s that?" Cody asks, pointing to the weird book in the shadowy figures hands.
"Oh this? This is a Nuzlocke volume, it tells you the story of the Nuzlocker who owns this, and this was Larry’s if I am not mistaken...." M says, looking it over and then nodding.
"Yep, it is" He adds, almost as his talking to himself.
"So what does Larry's book have to do with me?"
"Everything Cody, it holds all the secrets of the Hoenn Region, along with Larry’s experiences and memories" M says, as Cody swears he saw a little smile on M's shadowy face.
"And now it’s all yours" M says, as he pulled out several more copies.
"Really? For me? Why?" Cody asks, as he is suddenly filled with a million questions.
"Because, it belongs to the next warrior of legend of course" He says, handing him it and 3 more.
"Who owned these?" Cody asks, as he feels a familiar presence coming from 3 of the books.
"Well, the green one I handed you was Larry’s, this red one is Simon's book, the blue one is Maxies, I believe his will be most useful, and the last one is a blank one for you" M says, as he starts to fade a little.
"But why am I getting these? Why do I need one?" Cody asks, as he looks at the massive volumes in his hands.
"Simple, because a new prophecy has appeared it tells of a nuzlocker, the most powerful ever seen, and how he will finally defeat Red" M says, as he starts to fade a little more.
"Does that mean? ...."
"Yep, I have reason to believe you’re him, since Red has already used Team Aqua to try and kill you and all" M says, as he starts to go fuzzy and fades even more,
"What’s happening?!" Cody demands, as he sees M fade more.
"My time here is up, I must return, I will see you again Cody" M says, as Cody knows this time he sees a smile, smiling as he disappears in a flash of light and Cody’s vision goes Black, as the last thing he hears is Mays voice crying out his name.
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Meanwhile in an alternative dimension/world.
“M, are you sure this is him?” A red shadowy figure asks, as they watch Cody collapse from their world.
“Yes, I am certain it is him” M says, as he turns blue.
“M you know how dangerous those books could be in the wrong hands right? I mean they hold the secret to defeating Red, plus why did you lie to the boy? Maxie never disappeared he-“
“You had better shut-up about that subject L, I told him all he needed to know at the time” M says, interrupting L as he glares at him.
“You had better be right, now let’s go. S requests our audience in the main hall” L said, taking one last look at the Human world and thought he saw someone he knew, but shook his head and walked over to M.
“Of course L, now let’s go meet S” M says, as the two of them disappear in a purple light.
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Meanwhile in an unknown place on Mt Silver
“Red, the child has appeared, as planned” Team Aqua Boss Archie announces, as he and the boss of Team Magma, Maxie walk in.
“Perfect, Maxie ready Team Magma, Archie ready Team Aqua, knowing this warrior, he will make the exact same mistakes the ones before him made, and he will fall to my might,” He says, slamming his fist on the table.
“But sir, my Intel reports that he has made contact with….HIM” Maxie says, handing Red the report.
“Damnit M, always getting in my way….No matter, he wouldn’t have handed over the volumes to a child, even he isn’t that irresponsible, I mean, what if I got my hands on those books?” Red says, as a plan starts to take shape in his mind, as he starts to laugh.
“M, L, S, I crushed you’s once, I can do it again and will crush this boy as well” Red declares, as the entire room cracks up into evil, crazy laughter, except for one Magma Boss Maxie…..
