171Waking up on a bench with a large, cold, and wet feeling fish pressed into my chest was an experience. Not a pleasant one, but a very memorable one. Looking around me I'm still on the bus stop bench. So this isn't a big joke or dream. Okay, while Jor is snuggled up to me, now seems like a good time to get some answers with trusty dusty pokedex. Pulling it out of my inventory, I fiddled with it one handed before I remembered it opened up length wise.
"Okay, Pokedex. Why does my Magikarp always feel so wet?"
User Clay Letum recognised, starting up.
Oh, I probably should've done that yesterday. Welp,hindsight and all that.
Magikarp, as well as all other pokemon, naturally coat themselves with their own elemental energies. A little known fact is that Water-types that shouldn't be able to breath out of water are actually inside their own bubble of Water-Type Energy allowing to travel out of bodies of water. This discovery was fully researched and studied by the Professor Fir of the Kaskade Region. Would you like a link to the documentation released to the public?
What. So fake regions are real? Okay, definitely going to go there eventually. Now, onto my next question.
"Pokedex. Who was the Previous Champion?"
The LXXII Champion of Kalos, Gaken Lucarioblessed was famous for being the Champion with the longest Reigning time in Kalosian History, serving a total of seventy nine years and supposedly fending off multiple Legendary Pokemon in his time. His Partner Pokemon consisted of his original partner Amphaross, and its child when his original died. Gaken was never defeated in his reign as champion. Gaken was last seen by his son Gurkin several days before his famous final battle against the Legendary Class Hydreigon, Typhon. He is lived on by his son Gurkin and his great-granddaughter Korrina. Would you Like a link to the related article of The Tower Mast-
Before it finishes, I close the Pokedex and stuff it in my inventory so I don't go on another wikipedia binge. So my two questions that are answerable in this world, time for my big one, how do dungeons work? Are there even dungeons?
[Dungeon mechanics shall be explained once a dungeon is encountered]
Well, that means dungeons at least exist. But enough of that, it's time for my second teammate. Lifting Jor up while standing up woke him up enough for him to give me a blank eyed glare. Tossing him up with [Burdening Touch] woke him up the rest of the way. If his loud Kahrp's were any indication I think he might be planning violent activities later, mostly towards me. Turning Teamspeak back on and ignoring his pleas to sleep, I head off the cobblestone path into the field across the bus station. And immediately fall into the ditch bordering the road. Fuck. Okay, second attempt. Stepping out of the ditch, I'm ready to head out.
Master, why Anger?
Because of the fact that I just chased a Skiddo for an hour for it to climb up a tree and start Tree Hopping!
This is utter bull! How the hell am I supposed to catch a pokemon if it's going to pull a Naruto! Did that count as my encounter? Did I just waste an hour on a ninja goat for nothing!? At least those trainers I passed earlier didn't stop me. To let out some anger, I go to kick a stump, only to stop myself as I see an absolutely tiny Seviper reared back on top of the stump. Hello, beautiful. I pull a pokeball from my hoodie as I cast Observe on it.
[Pygmy Seviper Lvl.3]
[Health: Yellow]
[Thoughts of you: Terrifying, Death, Last Stand]
It rears its head back, flashing two crimson fangs that look more like needles with its size. I didn't realize that Pygmism and Gigantism would've been a thing. Oh shit! What would a Albino Luxray look like? Also why is it low on health?
As it strikes at me, I move the pokeball in front of its face so it smashes into the button. The ball opens and encases the recoiling snake in red light, sucking it in. The ball gently shakes in my hand a couple times before settling. The ball suddenly Dings and a Screen pops in front of me.
[Due to the Pokedex being in your Inventory, it has been given an interface feature]
[Seviper caught pulling up dex entry . . .]
[Seviper the Fanged Snake Pokemon: This pokemon is known for the Venomous Blade-like growth at the end of its tail. It will sharpen and polish this growth to engage in combat with its natural enemy Zangoose. This particular specimen is Male and afflicted with Pygmyism and minor lacerations.]
[Would you like to name It?]
I quickly think of the wyrm in the hill, a tiny serpent growing so large it wrapped around a large hill. So I quickly type out Lyndon and confirm it.
[Name: Lyndon]
[Race: Pokemon]
[Subrace: Vipera Ferrum (Seviper)]
[Alignment: Neutral (Will do anything for his close friends and family )]
[Lvl: 3 (12/3700]
[Prestige: Uncomon]
[Hp: (835/835)]
[Ip: (400/400)]
[Hp Stat: 71 (710)]
[Str: 6 (150)]
[End: 4 (100)]
[Int: 11 (275)]
[Wis: 7 (175)]
[Dex: 10 (250)]
[Cha: 5 (125)]
[Lck: 15 (375)]
[Skill Points: 19]
[Skills]
[Swagger Lvl.4: By using InfinityEnergy to infuse your actions you can inflict the [Enraged] or [Subdued] Status effects. Targets of a higher or equal level will only have a 0.4% chance to be affected. Cost: 75 Ip. ]
[Wrap Lvl.2: By wrapping around the target and squeezing with InfinityEnergy, you create phantom binds that [Entangled] the target and Deal (Str) Crushing damage. These binds continue until the target passes a Str check 20% of your Str. Time to make cuddle buddies.]
[Flaws]
[Pygmyism: Due to a mutation while developing, you are a fraction of the normal size of your species. End and Str Gain is cut 50% and Dex Gain is boosted by 10%. D'aww it thinks its people]
[Avenger: Due to you tragic past, when facing the object of your obsessions, you are afflicted with [Enraged] and long flashback sequences. xXReaperEdgeLordXx has signed in]
[Perks]
[Shedskin: By shedding your skin and 10% of your Hp, you shed all ailments and increase in size by 1% of your current size. Can only be used twice per day.]
[Extremely Venomous: Piercing and Slashing attacks have a 70% chance to [Poison] targets.]
[Infinity Energy: You have access to the amazing Energy Generated by the Pokemon Multiverse. Combine Stamina Points and Mana Points into Infinity Energy. Regeneration is at a permanent 100% Regen per Minute when Resting, but 0% Regen per Minute when active]
[Uncomon Prestige: Due to your decent control over Infinity Energy, you receive a multiplier of 25 to your Stats]
Holy Shit, those Flaws are terrible! How has he survived at all? Also why is he missing Skill Points and why is he so hurt? Letting him back out of the ball onto the stump I see, I take in my new ally. He's only about seventeen inches long, with the blade on his tail looking like an oversized exacto-knife. As he starts to hiss at me again, I take notice of the wounds on him. They look like a bird was pecking at him. Game, please turn on teamspeak for him.
[TeamSpeak: ON]
-on't die here, you Bastard! I will kill that damned Zangoose and I'll do it after I take you down!
Well, that is a very Anime thing to say.
SO TRY ME YOU-! Wait, how are you speaking in my mind!? Are you one of those damned Mind-Fuckers? That Abra was asking for it!
One, you curse nearly as much as me. Two, I just caught you with a pokeball, creating a link between us Lyndon.
The Fuck's a pokeball? The Fuck's a Lyndon?
It means i'm your trainer. We work together now, I'll lead you into battle to make you stronger, and you'll follow my orders. And Lyndon is a name for you.
That sounds like TaurosShit. Why the fuck would i follow some weird Pokemon, who just put me into a Ball? Also I'll take the name but only cause I don't have one.
At this point the small snake turns his head to the side and up, metaphorically snubbing me.
For the first thing, I'm not a Pokemon, I'm a human. Second, Pokemon who follow trainers sometimes rival legendaries. Third, You're very articulate, seriously this guy can barely speak.
As I (Say?) that, I lift Jor up from where I've been holding him like football under my arm.
Worm, Fight, Food!
Who the fuck, are you calling food you blank-eyed, flopping corpse!
And they immediately start arguing.
Snack!
Scaly red vomit!
Noodle!
Sunburnt Whiskers!
At this point I just tune them out as I access my inventory. I don't have any healing spells or items, but I do have an idea. Food in games usually heals characters and seeing how my pokemon are seemingly connected to my Game, i'm going to use the fact that Seviper is a carnivore to my advantage. Oh, I almost forgot about that daily Gacha. Anyways, I take out what I was looking for and plop it onto the stump.
Dude, what the hell!? Do I slap dead things near you? What is this thing anyways?
The oozing Brown blob of flesh jiggles slightly as it's poked by the Tip of Lyn's tail.
That is a Liver, very high in fat. A thing about teaming up with me is that sometimes eating has bonus effects, like healing.
Okay, let's say I believe you and this heals me, what's in it for you?
"Okay, I'm gonna start talking out loud now, but what's in it for me is the fact that, by catching you with that ball, I'm your trainer. I will train you into unstoppable force, care for you when life will leave you broken and beaten, push you past what you think is possible, until nothing can mess with you. Even the name I gave you implies this. Lyndon is the name of a snake the size of a worm, who became so large and powerful that God themself had to intervene."
When you put it that way, how am I supposed to refuse? Seriously, did you practice that in front of a puddle?
"Nah, once I start rambling, I either say something profound or stupid. Seriously, I once had a rant about corruption devolve into a debate about vegetables being a social construct."
Well, now you're gonna have another pokemon to judge you for your stupid moments cause you're not gonna get rid of me until Arceus themself takes me out! I'm going to stick to you like sunkern to a stump!
At this proclamation he turns and strikes the liver before dislocating his lower jaw and beginning the process of eating as a snake. The very slow process. Once, the lump makes it a couple inches behind his head, it shrinks until it disappears and a notification pops up.
[Lyndon has consumed a Liver!]
[Heals the 100% health over the next 3 minutes]
~Ting~a~Ling~
[Achievement Man Eater Unlocked. +Skill: Devour(-)]
Wait, What? The Fuck? IS THIS!/IS THIS!
[Man Eater: For consuming a human with the power of the Game, you unlocked a Minor version of the Skill Devour]
Game what the fuck is this? Not only did Lyn just unlock the Achievement, he just got a broken as fuck skill?!
Hey, Trainer guy! Why is there some squigglies floating in the air? Oh Arceus, you did poison me! But I'm a poisoner, how did you do this?
"Calm down! I'm freaking out as well. But it's not poison, a side affect of that eating thing just gave you a skill that's completely unfair to others. But it's different from what I'm used to? Let me look on your screen."
Moving around the stump to get a better look at the screen, I see the notification of the achievement and below that-
[Devour (-): Consuming multiple instances of the same species will allow for you to steal [Racial Skill] . A total of 25 creatures of the same species must be consumed before a skill is consumed]
Come on, tell me what it is!
"I think you just got the potential to one day fly."
Giant says what?
"By eating a singular species repeatedly, you'll get something only they can do."
Giant says what, in a way I can understand
"Basically, you eat enough caterpies and you might be able to shoot silk or stick to surfaces."
I'm going to get so fat so fast with this.
"Yep, hey while we're at it, why were you injured?"
Oh Fuck the Birds!
"The wha-"
It was at this point I heard squawking and flapping. Looking up I see several Pikipeks and Fletchlings flitting back and forth in the trees around us, with a Fletchinder staring at me on a low branch. If I could put an emotion to it's unmoving face I would say it was rage. Wai- Holy Shit!
It suddenly charges me and as I move to try and swat it, the world itself spins quickly fading to black.
[WELCOME]
As I stand back up from where I fell from the Horrible experience of whatever the fuck that was. I look around to see walls of tree trunks and literal floors and ceilings of , why is the text red? Oh by the System, did I just die!? Or maybe this is a boss rush?
[This is your dungeon system. By encountering a [Horde], you have met one of the three requirements to find a dungeon.]
[To stop you from destroying ecosystems during your grinds in the Pokemon Multiverse, you shall enter a dungeon, also known as a Micro-environment, when you encounter certain events.]
[One of these Events is a [Horde] dungeon]
So every time I want to grind I have to run into the woods and kick a Combee nest? Seems counterproductive since you know, I'm Surrounded Outside! Am I going to have to clear out a Dungeon and then a horde? It's also gonna be a pain in the ass to track down these Hordes to grind.
[Apologies for not Explaining thoroughly Gamer]
[Once you Clear the first level of this dungeon, the [Horde] will disperse and you will gain the ability to enter this dungeon during certain times of the day]
[Leaving the Dungeon early will result in you having to battle the [Horde] and not unlocking this dungeon]
That's- Okay I guess. That means I can at least leave even if it means i'll need a running start. Looking down to Jor I see that he has swirls in eyes. Like literal swirls instead of his normal pupils. It's very unnerving actually.
"Hey, Jor you okay?"
Spin, Spin, Spin.
"Hey, the spinning stopped now, I think you might be a little over reacting."
Ignore that guy, where are we!?
Looking towards Lyn, I see him periscoping out of jacket pocket.
"Good question, a very reasonable question. I don't know."
Looking back to the hallway, I can see a bright light at the end. Looks like that's the way to go. Walking towards the light, in a literal sense, I notice that every tree trunk that makes up the wall is different from the next. Hell, that tree is blue and rippling! So I start [Observe]ing them. Some of them are normal trees, but then you have the Atlantean Tree over there. I try scraping some of the bark off or braking some branches but nothing gives. Except for my patience. Lyn and Jor shared their first agreement together, by laughing at me hanging from a pinky-thin branch in the ceiling bouncing up and down trying to break it. Finally at the end of the hallway, the light blinds me briefly, and when it clears, i'm in awe.
The room i'm in is egg shaped with a flat field hundreds of feet below me, what seems like ten miles to the otherside, and the top of it seemingly miles up. The walls of the Egg-room appears to be weaved branches similar to the hallway. Oh, did I forget to mention the huge as fuck tree in the middle? Or how about it's shimmering rainbow leaves or the golden bark? I quickly cast [observe] at the beautiful eyesore, and kinda wish I hadn't.
[# &id ×e Sappling Lvl.?]
[Health: ? ]
[Thoughts on you: Hi ]
Feeling a cold chill go down my spine, I nervously wave at the tree and quickly avert my eyes.
Why did you wave at the tree? Do we get some weird power for waving at it?
Looking towards my new pocket accessory to reply I catch the adorable site of both Jor and Lyn waving at the tree. Lyn with his blade and Jor with his whiskers.
"No, but it says hi."
Ah, so it's a plant legend, like the forrest pixie.
Storing that tibit for later, I just nod. It's then that I notice Fucking Chocobos running along the field, what looks like Utah Raptors sprinting after Elephant sized chicken like creatures with legs like marble colomns into tall grass, and Pidove flying overhead.
[Aviary Dungeon Lvl.1]
[Defeat 20 Chocobos. (0/20)]
[Defeat 5 Velociraptors. (0/5)]
[Defeat 12 Pidove. (0/12)]
[Defeat the level boss. (0/1)]
[Hidden objectives (0/4)]
We're gonna be here a while.
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A.N. How are you guys doing? I know its been a bit, but hey I updated. So, do you guys have any questions, cause if not i'm just gonna keep on rolling - ClayUndead