It had been 4 days travelling when Alec and sneazle reached the viridian forest. In all that 
time, they had not had one battle. So, to make up for that, Alec had Teddiursa fight with 
Sneazle every now and then, with himself only as ref and not taking sides as to offend 
either pokemon.
As soon as they entered the forest however, a pair of young girls showed up, each holding 
a pokeball. They were both wearing a dress and both heads were covered in golden curls. 
They had to be twins. 
In unison, they both shouted as loud as their seemingly small lungs could yell, “We 
challenge you to a battle”. Both pointed at Alec as well.
“Umm sure”, he replied, not really sure of himself. Alec had a few bad feelings about 
facing 2 so young, but felt he himself was probably younger then they were in battling, so 
he needed the practise more then they did.
“2 on 2, now, we choose Cleffa!”, and the baby clefairy pokemon came out of its 
pokeball. 
“Teddiursa, go”, Alec replied calmly, hiding the deep excitement of his first real trainer 
battle inside himself. The teddy bear pokemon emerged from its pokeball and 
immediately stuck its hand in its mouth.
“Ok Cleffa, use your lovely kiss attack”, the girls chanted together. The baby pokemon 
walked up towards Teddiursa, and reached up for a kiss, but was immediately slapped 
across the face by the small bear.
“Use headbutt”, Alec chanted with a huge grin on his face. Teddiursa banged his head 
against the cleffa, and fell back over. Cleffa was using defence curl.
“Pound that ugly teddy bear into soup”, the girls chanted again. Cleffa began pounding 
Teddiursa over and over. And then, Teddiursa had had enough. Without an order, its eyes 
took on an angry look, and he smashed a paw into Cleffa. Then he charged up to the 
pokemon on the ground, and kicked it, over and over until the pokemon fainted. 
“Good work Teddiursa, nice rage”, Alec complimented, and the pokemons eyes went 
back to normal again.
“You’ll pay for that”, one of the girls began. “No low level teddy bear will beat us”.
The girl with the unused pokeball threw it onto the ground, and a Butterfree appeared.
“That’s enough Teddiursa”, Alec said with a grin, “you did a good job”. The pokemon 
entered its pokeball with a seemingly happy expression on its face.
“Your turn Sneazle”, and Sneazle ran onto the battlefield. His eyes took on a evil look as 
they always seemed to in battle, they went a red colour. He crouched into a fighting 
position and awaited a command. 
“Stunspore butterfree”, the girls said in unison, with a touch of poison in both their tones.
“Dodge that attack, and climb into a tree”, Alec said as soon as the girls ended their own 
orders.
Sneazle dodged the attack with ease, and almost ran up a huge tree. He was in direct line 
of sight with the butterfree, and before Alec could order the move, Sneazle was on the 
butterfly pokemons back, breathing a icy wind onto its body. The girls began to shout 
orders, but each seemed to get muddled, and different orders came from each. Butterfree 
seemed confused, which was the perfect chance to finish the pokemon off.
“Use slash attack”, Alec commanded his first ever pokemon. The butterfree fell to the 
ground, and Sneazle jumped off, the red disappearing from its eyes. With a grin on its 
face, Sneazle ran and hugged Alecs leg.

After receiving a small reward from winning the battle, Alec left the twins to their misery 
and continued to walk through the forest. Rather then searching for wild pokemon, Alec 
marvelled at the differences in viridian forest from when one of the former pokemon 
masters, Ash Ketchum had travelled through. Caterpie and weedle were extremely scarce, 
but bulbasaur and ivysaur seemed to show up more and more often. In fact, even a few 
chikoritas seemed to live in the dark forest. Each time they spotted a pokemon, Sneazle 
looked up at Alec as if for permission to battle. Each time Alec shook his head. 
Something bothered him about all the grass types hanging around together.
After a while, the lack of battling got to Sneazle, and it shot up into a tree, and looked 
around. Then, after locking onto a pokemon, it shot ahead and attacked. When Alec 
finally caught up however, his angry face turned to one of worry. Sneazle had chosen to 
wake a sleeping venusaur, and the big monster of a pokemon looked angry. Seizing 
Sneazle with a huge vine, it began a wrap attack. Sneazle started hacking at the vines, but 
with no luck, because as soon as it began to annoy the huge pokemon it shot a poison 
sting attack. 
Alec tossed Sneazle a antidote and the agile pokemon jumped back up again. Not 
wanting to take any risks, Alec released teddiursa and commanded them both to use a 
scratch attack. Together they both charged the huge beastly pokemon, scratching away 
with their claws. Venusaur began to gather sunlight onto the huge flower on its back, and 
that was when Alec remembered solar beam. 
“Teddiursa, rage, Sneazle, use your icy wind attack on the flower, try to freeze it”. 
Teddiursa’s face appeared to get angry as it used its rage attack, and an icy wind began to 
cool down Venusaurs flower, slowing down the process of solar beam. The two fought 
like champions, Sneazles icywind from the treetops, Teddiursa’s rage from the groud, 
pouding away at venusaurs side.
But eventually, the solar beam got through, and charged straight at Sneazle, impossible to 
dodge. The poor dark type pokemon fainted. Teddiuras kept attacking though, scratch 
after scratch, each attack getting stronger then the previous.  Venusaur shot a vinewhip at 
the teddy bear pokemon, and knocked it back, But teddiursa jumped back up again and 
continued to attack. Once again, he was knocked down with a vine whip.
Then teddiursa slowly brought himself to his feet. The venusaur  stared at the bear 
pokemon, and used a growl attack. Teddiursa opened its ragged mouth, and roared. Not a 
roar attack you would expect from a little pokemon like teddiursa, but more of a ursaring 
roar. Then more roars followed, like echoes from other places in the forest. The venusaur 
looked startled, but then began to attack teddiursa again.
Teddiursa went ballistic, and with an unknown agility dodged each attack. Venusaur 
finally stopped, and stared the pokemon down, as if to say, what now. Then, from out of 
the forest a head popped out, and then another, followed by another. The head seemed to 
belong to a bear, and as soon as they saw teddiursa and the venusaur, they jumped into 
action. The first charged venusaur head on, and slashed a huge claw along the monster 
face. The other 2 jumped to either side of the grass type pokemon, and began to lift. Both 
pokemon strained, until the third joined them, which seemed to ease the load. With the 
flick of their arms, the venusaur was toppled upside down. Without waiting for a signal, 
Teddiursa’s rage flared up, and he began attacking the upside down Venusaur with all its 
might. The venusaur began to lodge itself the right way up with its vines when Teddiursa 
stopped attacking. He turned and looked at Alec. Alec brought out his pokedex, and 
pointed it at teddiursa. “Teddiursa has just learned thrash attack”. 
“Use your thrash attack”, Alec said with a grin, and immediately teddiursa complied. It 
seemed to glow, and when it had finished, it went psycho, punching and kicking, with 
almost 4 times its usual strength. Finally, the venusaur fainted and teddiursa returned to 
normal. Instead of a triumphant look on its face however,  a look of relief flooded across 
it.
“Good work teddiursa, good work”.

Away in a bush, a man in a suit with a red R on his breast pocket began swearing to 
himself as the Venusaur fell. “That kid will pay for messing with my Venusaur”.

As Alec began his long run to the nearest pokemon center, he got to thinking about all the 
bulbasaur and the ivysaur. And even a venusaur. All seemed to work together, as if they 
were a team, or a tribe. A TRIBE. 
Alec began to run. He had heard the stories about the tribal pokemon. A man had been 
attacked by a horde of kangaskhan, and mangled beyond repair. Another angered a few 
venonat and was pulled apart by a dozen or so and their psychic attacks. Alec began to 
worry, and ran as hard as he could.
As he neared the exit of the forest, about 6 bulbasaur stood in his path, behind them 
another six ivysaur, and beyond them 2 humongous venusaur, all with their vines 
whipping around. He turned around, but behind him the same picture of foes were also 
preparing to attack. Without pressing a button, Teddiursa emerged from its pokeball, and 
instantly began roaring. This time, however, their seemed to be a different tone to the 
sound. 
The bulbasaurs each threw forward a gust of razor leaves, and Alec began to prey. His 
prayers came true as a pair of huge Ursarings showed up, each as big as a venusaur. They 
both used barrier attacks to stop the barrage of Leaves. Each held a barrier  on both sides 
as other pokemon began to appear.12 teddiursa got to work, each taking on a bulbasaur. 
Heracross also made themselves known, and took on the ivysaur. Then, a pair of 
Ursaring, bigger then the 2 holding the barrier, appeared and attacked the Venusaur.
It was like a mini war, and the ursaring was winning. But then, a man in a black suit 
made himself known. On the breast pocket a red R was stamped, and hanging on a chain 
around his neck a pokeball shaped from a ruby hung. Without a word, he removed the 
pokeball and released a charizard. The only difference, this charizard was completely 
black, except for its red eyes.
All of the pokemon stopped and stared at the huge, black charizard. Without knowing 
why, Alec returned his Teddiursa and dove into a nearby pond. As he entered, he felt a 
heat wave sweep over him. He felt his feet and legs blister from the intense heat, but they 
began to soothe as they followed his body into the water.

Alec awoke on a cloud like surface, staring at 4 pokemon. He held out his pokedex, and 
examined them all. The machines answer was simple. “Mew, Mewtwo, Celibi, Not 
known at this present time”. The mewtwo began to speak.
“we have saved your life young one, because you will be an asset in the times ahead. A 
former team rocket member is planning to take over the world with pokemon, and he 
must be stopped. We will sacrifice ourselves to give the world a chance. Pokemon such 
as your sneazle and teddiursa will change, a power will be granted them. Only so much of 
every type will be granted this power”. Mewtwo seemed to finish speaking, and as Alec 
went to say something, the unknown pokemon spoke. 
“Many will not no of their power until the time of reckoning. They will level up faster, 
and their strengths will be 10 times greater, but they will believe it is their training. Each 
of these power pokemon will have a secret power as well as their tremendous strengths, 
we have organized for all pokemon with the power to no of it when you become a master, 
or when you understand the power. There will be 12 others like you to lead our army of 
humans and pokemon alike, and the strongest will lead overall. You will all receive a 
skill of your own as well, and that is all we will tell you. Prepare and Believe.
As he felt himself fade from the clouds, he heard a soft, childlike voice say, “Beware the 
dark ones”.

Alec awoke sweat soaked and breathing heavily. It must have been a dream, he thought 
to himself as he felt the two pokeballs at his waist. Then he noted the white walls, and the 
other beds. He was in a hospital. His legs were wrapped up, and both seemed to be on 
fire. 
“Ahh, Young Alec, your awake I see”.
“What happened”, Alec mumbled, wincing as he applied a little pressure to his wounds.
“You were found surrounded by ash in the Viridian forest, lad”, the doctor began. 
“Its amazing that you weren’t burned to ashes with the forest. You’ll only have a small 
scar as well. You should be able to leave soon, would you like to contact anyone. Officer 
Jenny will be here soon”.
A phone was brought in, and he rang his mother and told her he was alright. He  made a 
white lie and said he had passed through before the fire started. When he finally hung up, 
officer Jenny walked in.
“A black charizard”, he said cautiously. It attacked the bulbasaur attacked me, and the 
ursaring and heracross saved me, but then the charizard…..”.
As he finished, officer jenny looked sceptical, but rote everything down, and thanked him 
for his cooperation.
2 days later, he was finally set free from the hospital, and made his way to the pokemon 
centre. On each leg, a small burn lay, each exactly the same, looking like a pair of twin 
swords crossed. Barely noticeable, they looked like roughly done tattoos. 
A day earlier he had sent his 2 pokemon to the centre to have them healed, and wanted to 
pick them up straight away.