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Note: - Hey everyone, so this is the Pokemon fanfic with superhero theme that I had been working on. It’s not like your usual superhero story. In fact, in the beginning it starts out more like a revenge story. The real superhero twist is going to be introduced a little later. ^^
Other warnings: - Action scenes, people getting injured, some deaths in later chapters, slight romance later on, mentions of abuse in later chapters, although nothing is explicit.
Chapter 1:- A Dream Coming True
Purple Powers was walking through the busy roads of Goldenrod City, towards a restaurant she knew by heart by now, ‘Majestic Meals’. She briskly entered the restaurant and sat down at the first empty table she could spot. Honestly, she thought, today was supposed to be like any other normal day in her life. Her meeting her best friend in their usual meeting place, nothing fishy about that obviously.
Except that she knew today was going to be different. She had asked her friend to do something which still made her feel guilty. She was sure her friend would lose her job if anyone at her workplace found out that she was going to share such crucial information with Purple.
Purple. Oh, how she hated her name! Her last name Powers was kinda cool, but her first name took away all the fun from it. Purple was actually her least favorite color and it was just her luck that she happened to be named after that color. She had sworn never to wear anything of the color purple in her life ever! She knew why she was named after that color but that didn't made her dislike for that color any lesser.
Purple glanced at her red jacket and the yellow t-shirt peeping from underneath it. She usually wore bright colors these days to cheer herself up.
She looked up and saw the waiter walking in her direction. She was just about to come up with a long speech on how she is meeting a friend and will only order stuff when her friend arrives, when she saw her. Jenny opened the door of Majestic Meals and stepped inside, in her new, clean and ironed police officer’s uniform. The moment she noticed Purple, she gave her a bright smile, quite unlike what you’d expect from an Officer Jenny, and rushed towards her table. In her hurry, she almost knocked over a couple of chairs. Purple couldn’t help smiling fondly at that, she knew her best friend was a little clumsy.
Yep. That was her best friend, since childhood actually. Jenny, the daughter of the local officer Jenny, who also wanted to join the police force like, well, everyone in her family.
“Hey there! How’s your new job coming up?” Purple asked her, the moment she sat opposite her and beamed widely.
“It’s coming up excellently! Mom says I’ll become an even better officer than her! I am so excited about all of this!” Jenny exclaimed proudly.
Purple smiled, feeling a little guilty. She couldn’t imagine Jenny losing her job, especially when she was so good at it, just because she was helping her bestie at something.
“I am happy for you,” she said honestly.
“Well, thank you! But enough about me. Tell me, what you have been up to?” Jenny asked her, and Purple became a little tensed as she noticed that the smile on Jenny’s face got replaced with a nervous look, full of worry.
She leaned forward and whispered, “I have been following your tournament results Purple. And like everyone else, I am worried too. You had won the previous two leagues you had entered in, but then you entered the Kalos league and like, you got thrown out in the first round! Whatever went wrong over there, girl? I am really concerned about you, you know?”
Purple nodded and slowly said, “I know Jen. But I really don’t want to talk about it. I’ll explain it to you some other time, I hope you understand?”
Jenny nodded slowly and said, “I understand of course. I had a feeling you wouldn’t want to talk about it. But as your best friend, it’s my duty to ask you. If there’s anything you need help with, you know you can always ask me, right?”
Purple nodded again, not knowing what to say in response. Random images flashed in front of her eyes. Of an avalanche, people getting trapped, some people dying, and then finally her. It took all of her restraint not to start shaking, trembling and crying in front of her friend.
Jenny seemed to have sensed her nervousness, because she gently reached across the table and took her hand in hers, then she said in a cheery tone, “Well, let’s talk about something you would be definitely interested in talking about! I managed to get what you wanted from me!”
Purple’s ears perked up. She glanced at Jenny with wide eyes and asked, “Really? You got the information I wanted? You took so much risk for me?”
Jenny reached inside her bag and took out a stack of papers, and handed them over to Purple, whispering, “What are friends for again? Just promise me you won’t do anything dangerous with this information please. I feel worried for you.”
Purple gingerly picked up the stack of papers and went through the information in it. She couldn’t believe it! She finally had what she had always wanted. Now she could pursue her dream. Okay, her second favorite dream, considering that she had lost all of her confidence of becoming a successful Pokemon trainer after what had happened in Kalos.
“Hey Purps,” Jenny whispered gently, “You are thinking of joining them, aren’t you?”
“Yes, I mean, they aren’t exactly doing anything wrong, irrespective of what your police department might think. And they have saved innocent people and Pokemon countless number of times,” Purple pointed out.
“At what cost though? Have you ever paid a thought to the collateral damage that the police department has to clean up? Honestly, I think they should be stopped as soon as possible. But if joining them is what you want to do, then I won’t stop you,” Jenny said, playing the role of the ever-encouraging friend.
“I want to join them for a reason Jen. I mean, think about it. Ever since those super-powered monsters have started causing destruction everywhere, has a single Officer Jenny been able to capture them? I am not saying your family is incompetent, but I think working within the rules is really stopping you guys from reaching your full potential. I want to work with those vigilantes because I am sick of living under the fear that tomorrow those super-powered people will attack me or my Pokemon, and I’ll be useless and weak against them all alone. But if I am a part of a group that is actively working against them, then I’ll have a chance. A chance to survive,” Purple argued.
Jenny narrowed her eyes and stared at her friend with a look of ever-growing-concern on her face.
“Purps, what’s gotten into you? You sound positively paranoid! Why would those super-humans come after you or your Pokemon? They are only targeting legendaries for Arceus’s sake!” she exclaimed.
‘That’s not what had happened in Kalos’, Purple thought to herself. But she was in no mood to retell that one story to Jenny. Not now. So, just to distract herself, she went through those papers again and realized that the group of vigilantes were going to have another secret meeting in the evening.
“Do the other Officer Jennys know about today’s meeting?” she asked Jenny.
“Nah, I changed the information in our database a little bit. So that when you go to meet your new friends my new friends won’t spoil all the fun. Just be careful, kay?” Jenny asked of her.
At that Purple had to smile. She knew her friend was always supportive of her despite her crazy ideas. But she also knew that Jenny really cared about her, and when someone cared about you it became your responsibility not to do something stupid and reckless.
They discussed a bit more about the vigilantes and the super-powered people who were roaming about Goldenrod City and other places in the Pokemon World freely, until finally both of them felt really hungry and ordered two large sandwiches and chocolate milkshakes for themselves.
After she had eaten her fill, and paid the bill, Purple said goodbye to her friend and left Majestic Meals in a hurry. If she had to get herself admitted in the group of vigilantes by tonight, then there was a lot of work to do.
First, she made a list of all the Pokemon that she owned. She had captured a ton of Pokemon over her long journeys over several regions. Out of all these, she short-listed six Pokemon. Four of them were currently with Professor Elm, so she contacted his laboratory and got the four Pokemon transferred to her immediately.
Next she went through her outfit. She was pretty sure that the bright red and yellow would sure as hell not work for a vigilante. Especially if they were to take down those monstrous people at nighttime. So she chose a pair of black jeans, green t-shirt, black jacket and a dark blue cap. Hoping it would be a good enough camouflage.
There were still three hours left till the time for the secret meeting of the vigilantes to start. She spent these three hours training with her Pokemon. Practicing every single move that had helped them to win the Sinnoh and Hoenn leagues.
When the time for the secret meeting finally came up, she once again went through those papers. What she found really confused her. It made her feel that she really should have paid more attention to the location of the meeting mentioned in the papers. Because all it said was- Visit the Burger Shop in the Goldenrod Galleria.
“Well if that’s not cryptic and creepy at the same time,” Purple mused to herself.
But she decided to go anyways. She was not going to let this go after having come this close to her dream. Besides, if everything else failed, she could always grab a burger or two to eat!
So she made her way towards the Goldenrod Galleria, which she knew by heart, as this was the city where she had been born and brought up. Although today, she was quite nervous. Every few steps, she glanced behind herself and her hand happened to touch the Pokeballs on her belt a bit too much.
Just as she was about to enter the first Burger shop that she saw in the Galleria, a hopeless thought crossed her mind. The Goldenrod Galleria was a huge place, with over twenty burger shops in it. How was she ever going to find the right one?
Of course she wouldn’t know! The information in the papers was specifically coded in a way which only the vigilantes would understand. For all that she knew, the Galleria meant something else entirely, and the Burger shop also stood for something else.
Shaking her head, she was just about to turn around and return back home, feeling extremely dejected, when she heard a loud commotion in the distance. Now, every bit of her common sense was yelling at her to run away from the commotion as it could be something dangerous, but she still ran towards it like the curious reckless fool that she oftentimes became. Two times league winner, who said common sense and wisdom came with that huh?
She kept running for a few minutes in the direction of the noise and against all the people who were actually being sensible and running away from the commotion.
When she finally arrived near a clearing, her heart did a double-take at the scene in front of her. A group of vigilantes (she recognized them instantly, thanks to their cloaks and masks) were fighting against a group of humans, who, she realized with an increasing feeling of nausea, weren’t using Pokemon to battle, but were actually fighting themselves.
She wanted to scream as she saw one of the humans throw a fistful of fire from his hand as though he were a human form of a Charmander or a Cyndaquil. The fire hurt one of the vigilante’s Sunflora and it shouted in agony.
Another human used double-team, creating multiple copies or illusions of herself. Purple was disgusted by this. She just wanted to turn away and wipe these memories from her mind.
But she was also worried about the vigilantes, and wanted to see how they were faring against the super-humans. So far, the result wasn’t that great. They and their Pokemon were clearly losing the battle.
All of a sudden, Purple felt someone punch her hard on the face. She landed roughly on her back. Purple, who had experience training fighting-type Pokemon almost felt like she was working with a Hitmonchan or a Primeape all over again. But when she looked up, she saw a human girl, slightly younger and much thinner than her. She had no idea, from where the girl had summoned so much strength to hit her so hard? Then again, it was difficult to tell anything with these super-humans.
The girl raised her fist again to hit Purple, when Purple quickly dug into the belt on her waist and tossed a Pokeball in the air.
There was a flash of light and out came her trusted fairy-type partner, Sylveon.
The super-human girl merely sneered at her, “So, this is the weakling you are going to use against me? You do realize, don’t you, that Pokemon can’t really hurt us?”
“We’ll see that,” Purple said, “Sylveon use Moonblast!” she commanded.
Sylveon gracefully spread her feelers wide open, and a beautiful, dazzling image of the moon appeared behind her. She then created an orb of pink energy in front of her mouth and shot it at the girl.
The girl seemed to use some kind of defensive shield but it didn’t work too well. She still got hurt by the moonblast.
“Now Sylveon, use fairy wind!” Purple instructed her Pokemon.
Almost instantly, Sylveon pulled her feelers together, and the air surrounding them started to shine in a light bluish color. Then spreading her feelers wide open, Sylveon hurled a strong gust of wind towards the girl.
The girl got thrown back harshly by the sudden impact of the wind.
Before she could get up again, Purple and Sylveon ran towards the vigilantes, who were thankfully in a much better shape now, and seemed to have taken a better control of the battle.
The fire-user boy and the double-team attack-user girl were both captured and would most likely be handed over to Officer Jenny, Purple’s friend’s mother.
“Two down, one to go. That fighting-type girl was causing a lot of damage earlier-“ one of the masked vigilantes was telling his friend, when suddenly his attention went to the girl who lay crumpled on the ground.
“Okay, who did that?” he asked, sounding impressed.
“Actually sir, I guess, the credit for that goes to me,” Purple mumbled, somewhat flustered. She couldn’t believe herself. She was seeing these heroes in person for the first time in her life. She wondered whether she might faint from the excitement or something.
“I’ll go and tie her up too. Officer Jenny likes it better when we hand them over all tied up,” one of the vigilantes spoke up and rushed towards the girl. Purple guessed that she was a woman by her voice.
Then her attention went back to the man whom she had told that she was the one to defeat the fighting-type girl. She couldn’t see his face, because of the stupid Blastoise-mask that he was wearing, but his eyes made it clear that he was impressed.
He walked up to Purple and handed her a Pokeball.
“Here, one of my trusted friends is inside this Pokeball. He oftentimes enjoys going on walks with strangers. But be sure to return him to me by nine p.m. And don’t worry about the address, this one is very smart, he can teleport actually,” the vigilante laughed.
Then before Purple could say anything else, the three vigilantes disappeared in thin air as though they were made of smoke.
“That’s so sneaky, and impressive,” she muttered to herself.
“What do you say Sylvie, should we have a look at our new friend?” she asked her Sylveon, who was still out of her Pokeball.
The fairy-type nodded eagerly.
Purple pressed a button on the Pokeball and tossed it in the air. She almost let out a yelp of surprise, when out came an Abra.
“So, uh, Abra, you like to walk around Goldenrod City eh?” she asked the Pokemon nervously.
Abra nodded.
“Okay then, we’ll take a nice long walk. I know this city very well. You are gonna have a lot of fun with us!” Purple exclaimed.
Purple and Sylveon gave Abra a good tour of the city for a few hours. They also stopped by Majestic Meals yet again and grabbed a bite to eat.
Purple pushed a strand of red hair behind her ear and glanced at the large clock that hung on the opposite building, which said that it was eight-thirty p.m. She almost felt a wave of nostalgia wash over her. She remembered how she and her grandma used to make dinner together at this time. And how supportive her grandma had been of her decision to become a Pokemon trainer. She idly wondered whether her grandma would have supported her decision of joining the vigilantes or not. A part inside her suddenly sadly realized that none of it mattered now, because her grandma was no more in this world, and there was no real way for Purple to know whether she would've supported her decision or not.
“Abra!” the Pokemon exclaimed after about half an hour, pulling her out of her thoughts. Sylveon too pointed at the clock with her feelers. It was nine p.m. sharp.
“Okay then, time to go and see what the vigilantes want from me,” Purple muttered and grabbed one of Abra’s hands. Sylveon held its other hand with her feelers.
Abra at once teleported, as though this was everyday work for him.
When Purple opened her eyes, all she could see was darkness. That is until her eyes adjusted to the dim light, and she finally saw a small lamp set on a table, a few feet away from her.
Sitting behind the table were three people in high-backed chairs. There was a similar chair in front of the table as well.
All the three people still had their masks on, which reminded Purple with a jerk that they obviously didn’t trusted her yet.
“Sit down Miss. We are extremely grateful for your help today, and we want to talk to you about something important,” the man sitting in the middle spoke.
Purple sat on the empty chair in front of them a little nervously, she had to keep on reminding herself that she had a full team of well-trained Pokemon with her just in case.
“What were you doing in Goldenrod Galleria miss?” the woman in the group asked her.
“I- I was just out for a walk,” Purple stammered feeling nervous than ever.
“Then why were you carrying these with you?” the man sitting on the furthest left asked her in a cold tone. He threw a stack of papers on the table between them which Purple realized with a dawning horror were the same papers which Jenny had handed her in the morning.
“You dropped these while battling that girl,” the woman explained to her.
Purple decided on the spot that it would be best to be honest. Not that she had any other option, and it wasn’t as if she could see them believing her. But she had to try. At least for her Pokemon’s sake. A small part inside her wondered if these people made her feel so intimidated could they really be heroes? But she decided to ignore that part for now.
“I just- I just wanted to- wanted to join you. I have always been in awe of you. And I thought I had what it takes to be a vigilante. So I got that information from a friend and started searching for you lot,” Purple tried to explain.
“Your friend must have really good contacts in the police department I guess?” the man with the Blastoise-mask remarked.
“She is Officer Jenny’s daughter,” Purple almost wanted to kick herself the moment she said that aloud. She had sold out her best friend in a moment of fear. Why was she such a hopeless coward again?
“I see. And what is your name young lady?” the man asked her.
“Purple Powers,” she mumbled.
“Well Purple, your papers did gave us a good idea as to what the Jennys know about us. So thanks for that, I guess. And you certainly seem to have good battling skills based on your display with your Sylveon earlier. But… the thing is that, we are not sure whether we can trust you or not. You could be secretly working for the Police Department for all we know,” the man with the Blastoise-mask said to her.
“But I am not working for them! I just really want to join you!” Purple exclaimed.
“You are a two-time league winner, aren’t you?” the other man, who wore a Snorlax-mask asked her, “So why don’t you just continue with the league thing? You might even become a Champion someday.”
“I… did badly in the Kalos league. Lost in the first round itself. Because I was going through a trauma. The super-humans had caused a massive avalanche which had killed lots of people, including my close friend and travelling companion. That’s one of the reasons why I hate those super-humans so much,” Purple spilled out her story.
“Revenge is never a good motivator to become a vigilante. Now if it was justice you were seeking, I would’ve understood. But revenge, it never really works,” the woman wearing the Rapidash-mask spoke.
“I just want to feel like I am doing something to stop the super-humans. I am a two-time league winner, I can be useful for Arceus’s sake! Please let me join,” Purple spoke in an almost begging tone by now.
The three people before her looked at each other and exchanged glances, well as much as you can exchange glances in masks anyways.
"Sorry, but we really can't-" the man wearing the Blastoise-mask began, but Purple interrupted him.
"I am Magenta Powers' granddaughter!" Purple finally blurted out. She had wanted to keep it a secret. She didn't wanted to get this new job using her grandmother's name, but she really couldn't see any other option.
"Really? You do realize that we have our own sources and we'll know if you are lying?" the woman asked her curiously.
"I am telling the truth," Purple said firmly. She hoped they would realize what being Magenta Powers's granddaughter could possibly mean. She hoped they would realize how useful she could be.
“Well if you are that eager to join, I guess we can give you a chance. But remember, this is the only chance you’ll ever get. Use it wisely,” the man wearing Blastoise-mask spoke after a pause.
“I will! I promise!” Purple exclaimed enthusiastically. She couldn’t believe it that they were finally agreeing to let her in. Maybe using her grandmother's name had been a good idea.
“You can leave for now, but just give us your address before leaving. Abra will come to collect you in the morning for your training,” the woman wearing the Rapidash-mask spoke.
“Oh, okay,” Purple said. She hurriedly wrote her address on a piece of paper and handed it to the woman. The woman showed that address to Abra, after which, Abra teleported her and Sylveon right in front of her house. He left soon after that.
Purple almost squealed in delight the moment Abra had left.
“Can you believe this Sylvie? My dream is finally coming true! I am going to become a vigilante!” she exclaimed with joy.
Sylveon smiled, looking happy for her trainer.
After the long and happening day, Purple was tired. She recalled Sylveon in her Pokeball, sent a quick text message to Jenny and started walking towards her home. Anyone who would have bothered to notice that night, would have noted that there was a new enthusiasm in every step she took towards her home. She was tired, but her heart was already ready for all the new adventures that would come after joining the vigilantes.
Note: - So that was it. Hope you all enjoyed it! Also, this story is going to have two main characters. The next chapter would be from the point of view of the other main character.
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