Anti-Rocket Prologue: Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon, and probably never will Story Note: The story takes place a while after the amine and the games, so the gymleaders will be different. Chapter Note: The prologue is rated PG because of slight gore ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richie had been a normal 9-year-old; he couldn’t wait until he was ten and could get his pokemon training license. He has brown hair, and hazel eyes. He lives in Pallet Town. His father was a gym leader in Violet City, but not a very good one. His father had brown hair like his son, along with blue eyes. For most of the year, Richie lived with his mother, who has blond hair along with hazel eyes. He lives next door to his best friend, and sort of rival Otto, who has green eyes and red hair. Richie wanted to be one of the greatest pokemon trainers. He woke up at about 12:00 the night before he turned ten, and couldn’t get back to sleep, so he went downstairs to get a drink of water. He hoped his father had come home by now for his annual gym-leader break since he would like to have a chat with him. Just before he went into the kitchen, he saw that his father was home, talking to two Team Rocket grunts, and an Executive that seemed to be mad about something. Richie quickly but quietly went beside the door and once every while peered in for about a minute. He heard the Executive say, “Since this gymleader refused to help us take over Kanto and Johto, we will have to kill him to keep him from speaking about our plan. Kimmy you tie him up, and Ian you go get the knife we brought and cut his head off.” One of the two grunts, obviously name Kimmy, followed orders and bounded Richie dad’s arms and legs, while the other, obviously named fetched a knife that they had brought along in the case they would have to kill Richie’s dad. The grunt with the knife then swung the knife towards Richie’s Dad’s head and Richie, who by chance was watching turned his head away before the knife hit his dad’s head. Richie waited until a while after he heard the footsteps leave, then he peered back into the kitchen, everything was the same as what it had been the day before, except there was a body was bounded, and its head was cut off and there was blood all over the floor. Richie decided to get water, and try to go back to bed, there was nothing he could do. When he tried to go back to sleep, he still couldn’t. He was too mad at the Rockets. Richie said quietly but angrily to himself “One day, I will shut down the operation for good to make them pay for murdering my father.” Richie was so angry never got back to sleep, and about 7:00 AM he headed towards Maple’s lab to get his first pokemon. When he got to the lab, he found it open and entered it. When he saw Maple, he said, “I’m here for my first pokemon.” Maple then led him to a room with three normal poke balls and said “The one on the right is Charmander” Before Maple could finish his sentence, Richie immediate walked up to the table and took the one on the right. Just then, Otto came in, saw the two poke balls, and asked, “Which one of the pokeballs is Squirtle?” Maple answered, “The one on the middle.” Otto took the one in the middle then Maple gave the two starting trainers their pokedexes and the two trainers went outside. Otto asked Richie, “Where is you father?” Richie answered sadly, “He was beheaded soon after coming home by two Team Rocket grunts and an executive.” Otto asked, “How do you know?” To which Richie answered, “I heard all of it, and saw some of it. I didn’t see the actual beheading, but I saw the grunt begin to swing the knife, and I saw the headless body afterward.” Otto asked, “Why did they kill your father?” Richie answered, “From what I heard, he wanted his help, since he’s a gymleader to conquer Kanto and Johto, but he refused.” Otto shuddered, then decided to change the subject. He asked, “Do you want to have a competition to see who can beat all the gym leaders in all three known leagues first?” Richie grinned and answered, “You’re on!” Otto and Richie shook hands and said together “May the best trainer be first.” Then, they parted ways. Richie went to his home, and he went up to his room, and grabbed the wallet with the money he had saved up for the journey and left a note on the kitchen counter that he had left for his journey. Then Richie went outside and started walking towards Route 1. While he was walking, he decided to let Charmander out for exercise. He lightly threw the pokeball up, it fell onto the ground, and his Charmander popped out with a “Charmander!” The Charmander stretched up, its first time out for a while, then looked at its surroundings it realized it had a trainer, around for it. When she (it was a female) saw Richie she realized it was his trainer. Richie said, “Let’s walk along the route and see what we find.” Trainer and pokemon walked a short distance when Charmander stopped and looked at something. Richie followed its gaze until he saw a wild Pidgey, like the ones he had seen other trainers battle. When he saw it, he ordered, “Charmander, Scratch!” Charmander obeyed and scratched the Pidgey along the chest with its claws. The Pidgey cried out then tackled Charmander to the ground. Charmander looked hurt from the attack, but it was fine, so Richie ordered, “Another Scratch!” Charmander scratched it again, this time it hit one of the Pidgey’s legs, and the Pidgey winced in pain, then tackled Charmander. Richie saw that Pidgey looked weak so he ordered, “Charmander, finish it!” Charmander gave it another scratch, on the other leg, and the Pidgey went down. Richie called out to his pokemon “You did a great job out there Charmander!”