↳ Import QST.Meta "PokémonLibrary_Full" $A32
New ParodyStream($A32)
New Scene(Previously_on_Trigamon) {
Benjy stares back up into the portal as Lana and Katie lower the ladder down through it.
Alexandra: Can you reach it now?
Benjy: Just ab–
The portal suddenly vanishes, cutting the ladder in two.
Benjy: Oh–
The lower part of the ladder comes crashing down, bonking Benjy in the head on the way down and knocking him out cold. Benjy’s fall is cushioned by the sand, as he crashes into the sand, unconscious.
}
<<Theme Song>>
New Scene(New Day())
A pink frisbee lands in the sand next to where Benjy is lying, unconscious. It sticks straight up.
Unidentified_Girl: Nice try, Beautifly, but we still need to work on your aim!
The aforementioned Beautifly lands on the frisbee, it’s weight causes the frisbee to fall over, and the Beautifly lifts off as it does.
Unidentified_Girl: Beautifly, come on, let’s try again.
Beautifly does a little dance around Benjy’s head, prompting the trainer who was talking to ask if something is wrong. Beautifly flaps it’s wings, then lands gently on Benjy’s shoulder. Footsteps are heard as the trainer approaches. She bends down to see what’s going on, then takes off running while QST.camera stays focused on Benjy.
Unidentified_Girl: Coal! Coal! Someone’s collapsed in the sand!
Coal: May? Is something wrong?
Unidentified_Girl → May: Someone‘s collapsed in the sand!
Defines: new Term(Ash and Company) as { Ash, May, Max, Brock, Coal }
New Scene(Fenyra: Hoenn: Slateport City)
QST.camera zooms onto a pokémon center, and then inside it. The camera moves to the back room, where (A32) : { Ash, May, Max, and Brock } stand, looking at Benjy on one of the beds from the foot of the bed. Nurse Joy and another older boy stand on opposite sides of the bed.
Brock: He was just lying there?
Nurse Joy: Yes. As far as I can tell, someone must’ve hit him on the head with the ladder we found, and then run off.
Coal: I’ll bet you anything that that’s not what happened. There were no signs of a struggle. Period.
Nurse Joy: You sure someone didn’t take him by surprise?
Coal: Fairly sure. Take a look at the end of the ladder.
QST.camera zooms onto the end of the ladder and the odd fractal-esque cut in it.
Coal: You see that? It looks like a fractal. Any idea of what could’ve done that?
Brock: Erosion from the waves?
Coal: Incorrect. Your looking at the result of magic. And although I don’t expect any of you to believe me…
Coal looks around at Ash, May, Max, and Brock expectantly.
Ash: Magic?!
Max: Are you being serious?!
Brock: I stopped believing in magic when I was five…
Coal: It’s the only thing that could cut a ladder in that way. Maybe a spacial collapse of sorts, but that’s highly unlikely…
Nurse Joy: It’s one strange mystery, Coal. I’ll give you that, but we really should file a police report.
Max: What about the starter pokémon?
Nurse Joy: This takes precedence. I’ll attend to that when I’m done.
Brock and Coal follow Nurse Joy out of the room, while Ash, May, and Max remain at Benjy’s bedside. A Chansey approaches the bed and checks Benjy for a pulse, while May examines him.
Max: Don’t start getting any ideas now, May.
May: Any ideas? What are you talking about?!
Max’s glasses reflect the sunlight, and appear to glisten.
Max: You know, the last time you found an unconscious boy?
May slowly begins to turn red.
Ash: What did she do?
Max: She hyperventilated and passed out. Right May?
May: …
The Millennium Gameboy Advance pulses ever-so-slightly with light. Ash misses this, but May and Max do not, and stare at the Millennium Gameboy Advance, such that Ash wonders what happened. As this happens, Chikorita unzips Benjy’s backpack from the inside and lets itself out onto the bed, where May and Max stare at it. May takes out her pokédex to identify Chikorita, and is surprised that the Chikorita displayed by her pokédex has red eyes, as opposed to Benjy’s blue-eyed Chikorita. Max reaches out to pet Chikorita, which Chikorita allows.
New Scene()
Nurse Joy finishes filling out the police report and places it on the counter.
Nurse Joy: There, finished. I just have to run this down to Officer Jenny at the station.
Brock: Are you sure it’s safe? There could be a–
Coal: Lunatic with the upper half of a ladder running around? Yes, I’m sure there is.
Brock: That’s why I should go!
Coal: Does no one here get sarcasm? Sheesh.
Nurse Joy ponders this.
Coal: I’ll take the report. Neither one of you would last ten seconds against a wizard.
Brock: Hey, I called it! (Whisper to Coal)
Coal: You’ll be all alone with Nurse Joy (Whisper to Brock)
Brock: Actually, on second thought, he does seem better prepared to deal with a wizard.
Nurse Joy thanks Coal, who takes the report and exits the pokémon center. Then he takes off running, leaving only a cloud of dust behind him.
Brock: He’s fast…
Nurse Joy: And with that taken care of, we need to get the starter pokémon ready. She’ll be here any minute now.
Brock calls to Ash, May, and Max. And Ash and Max come out of the back room, while May stays behind, saying that she’s not interested. Pikachu jumps down from Ash’s shoulder and lands on the floor, where it follows Ash out of the room. Beautifly lands on May’s head.
Back in the main part of the pokémon center, Ash’s Treecko, Corphish, and Taillow, and May’s Torchic watch as Ash and company (minus May, Coal) enter another back room of the pokémon center with Nurse Joy.
New Scene()
In this back room, Nurse Joy does some kind of analysis of the three starters in a blue-gray machine (similar to the machine in Professor Birch’s lab in Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald); but a bit larger about two meters tall and four feet wide. (Yes, it’s quite a bit smaller than the equivalent machine in the pokémon show.) Nurse Joy presses a button on this machine, allowing her to remove three poké balls and then hands them to Max.
Nurse Joy: You can let them out for a bit of exercise if you’d like. That way they’ll be less antsy when our new trainer gets here.
Max nods eagerly and presses the button on one of the poké balls. A semi-disgruntled Torchic pops out, and May’s Torchic runs up to greet it, taking the other Torchic by surprise. Max then lets out a crying Mudkip, who is quickly approached by Brock’s Mudkip and Pikachu. Finally, Max let’s out a Treecko (female), but Ash’s Treecko turns away from it.
Brock: Interesting…
The videophone suddenly rings, and Nurse Joy rushes to get it. Officer Jenny is on the line, with Coal in the background.
Officer Jenny: Nurse Joy, this report–
Nurse Joy: Something about it?
Officer Jenny: It looks like the work of Team Aqua!
In the background, Coal makes a gesture to indicate that Officer Jenny is crazy, but neither Officer Jenny nor Nurse Joy doesn’t notice.
Nurse Joy: Team Aqua, but why would…
Officer Jenny: I don’t know. But your friend thinks it has something to do with magic, and given the state of the ladder…
New Scene()
Inside the attic of the pokémon center, Team Rocket (Jessie, James, and Meowth) have rigged up a listening device and are listening to the conversation.
Jessie: Wait, I think I misheard something? Did they say "magic?"
James: That’s what I thought I heard, but–
Meowth: Sshh…
Officer Jenny.voice: Do you have the half of the ladder with you?
Nurse Joy.voice: Yes, we do.
Officer Jenny.voice: Describe it.
Brock comes onto the airwaves describing the ladder’s cut, that things are floating in place. Coal now interrupts, saying that it’s definitely magic involved. At this point, Team Rocket puts their headsets down, and stare at each other.
Jessie: So it’s magic?
James: I’ll bet that boy’s a wizard!
Meowth: Can you imagine what would happen if we brought someone like that back to the boss?
Jessie: I can just see it now!
Cutscene(Rocket_Boss_Fantasy) {
Jessie, James, and Meowth attempt to imagine how their boss’s life would be improved via the use of magic. (Giovanni wants something, and Team Rocket appears dressed like magical fairies and make it appear by waving wands with little stars on top)
}
Revert Scene()
The video call with Officer Jenny finishes, and Ash and Max are supervising the pokémon. Nurse Joy now has to go see to the other injured pokémon, and leaves the room. As she leaves, Beautifly flies in. Beautifly says something in Beautifly-language, which Pikachu understands, and communicates to Ash via a series of gestures. Ash then translates this to english:
Ash: He’s waking up?
The camera follows Ash, Max, Brock and Pikachu to the other room where they gather at the foot and side of Benjy’s bed. Pikachu jumps onto the bed, (barely makes the jump) and then onto Ash’s shoulder. They all watch as Benjy turns in his bed. Coal zips in behind them. Benjy turns in the bed, and May looks dreamily at him, which is noted by Max.
Max: I know what you’re thinking, May. But this is not "Negima!".
Benjy turns in the bed again, and yawns, then pulls his back into more of a "C" shape. QST.camera switches to what Benjy sees as he opens his eyes. From lying on his pillow, Benjy looks back and forth at (from right to left) Ash, May, Coal, Max, and Brock.
Benjy: I must’ve hit my head hard…
Benjy blinks a bit, then sits up.
Benjy: I must’ve hit my head *really* hard…
May: What should we name him?
Max: You’ve been thinking about this, haven’t you. (To May)
Benjy: Uh, sorry to disappoint you, but I don’t have amnesia…
Benjy: Something’s not right. I’m looking at the characters from the pokémon™ TV show.
Benjy looks towards the side of the bed opposite Ash and company.
Ash: So what’s your name?
Benjy: Benjamin Nathan. I go by Benjy.
Benjy gets up out of bed onto the side opposite Ash and company, despite Brock’s warning. Benjy states that he’s fine and asks where the restroom is. Ash gives him directions to it, and Brock offers to walk him there, but Benjy rejects his offer.
Benjy: I’m fine, Brock, really.
Benjy disappears down the hallway.
Ash: Something’s odd…
Max: Like how he knew Brock’s name?
Brock: I don’t think I’ve ever seen him before.
May: He knows Brock’s name…?
The doorbell suddenly rings, and Brock runs out to get it. The others overhear the exchange, and Ash and Max run to find the pokémon. As they rush around, Brock seats the girl and her father on one of the couches. Ash calls out that he found Mudkip, and places the Mudkip on the table in front of the girl. It immediately begins to cry, so Pikachu jumps to comfort it. Before Pikachu can however, the girl scoops it up and exclaims:
Girl: I want this one, daddy!
Girl’s Father: Now, now. Let’s wait until they’re all here.
Brock smiles, and Ash quickly returns to searching for the other starters. From the back room, Ash calls out that he and Max got them, and from the other back room, May calls out that she and Coal got them. All four emerge from their respective backrooms (May and Coal from the room that Benjy was in; Ash and Max from the room where the starters were initially).
When they emerge into the pokémon center’s main room, each group stares at each other.
Max: Wait, something’s wrong…
Girl’s Father: Whats wrong?
Coal: Our party also owns a Treecko and a Torchic.
Another door opens, and Benjy emerges from the restroom. Benjy scans the situation from the hallway. The Torchic in Ash’s arms and the Treecko in May’s arms begin to struggle, and Ash and May set them down, where they run to each other. Max and Coal now place Treecko and Torchic on the table respectively.
Girl’s Father: Now there all here, go and make your choice.
The girl looks from one starter to another, and Nurse Joy pops out of another back room.
Girl: Can I take them all?
Girl’s Father: We need to leave some for the other trainers. If you take them all, then–
The girl looks at her father with wide eyes.
Nurse Joy: Only one is free, the others are–
The doorbell to the pokémon center rings.
Nurse Joy: Excuse me, I better get that.
Nurse Joy darts across the room to the door, and opens it, stepping back in shock. At the door, three "wizards" (two tall and one very short) are standing, and QST camera split-screens to show the expressions on the faces of Ash and company.
Nurse Joy: Can I help you?
Wizard1: Yes, we’ve come to pick up our guild member.
Ash: Guild member?
Wizard1: Yes, he was trying to make a ladder disappear with magic, and he accidentally knocked himself out. Thank you for taking care of him.
Max: Why would anyone want to do that?
Wizard2: I’m sorry, but that’s as much as we can tell you without getting into trouble.
Benjy takes a couple steps forwards to get a better view of the "wizards." The girl stands up and begins to walk towards the "Wizards," but Benjy puts his arm out.
Benjy: I’m not a wizard.
Wizardshort: You must have lost your memory! You’re a prominent member of our guild!
Benjy: I’m not a wizard, and neither are you.
Wizard1: What are you talking about? Look at the hat, look at the robes. Obviously we’re wizards!
Wizardshort: And you are too, just as soon as you get your memory back–
Benjy: You fail to realize, I didn’t lose my memory.
Wizard1: Didn’t lose…
Max: So then just who are these guys anyway.
Benjy: Well, there’s one short one and two tall ones. So it must be–
Suddenly a pokéball on the first wizard’s belt activates, and a Wobbuffet pops out.
Wobbuffet: Wobbuffet!
Benjy: I just met Ash and his friends, so that means…
Benjy: They’re Jessie, James, and Meowth of Team Rocket.
Team Rocket takes a step back.
Wizard1: And just how did you know that if you aren’t a wizard?!
Wizard2: Uh, Jess, I think our cover’s blown… (Whisper)
Coal: If you’ll excuse me. Pichu…
A Pichu appears in the back of Coal’s shirt.
Coal: Thunder.
Pichu launches itself at team rocket and discharges a massive thunderbolt. Jessie has Wobbuffet use mirror coat, reflecting the thunderbolt back inside the pokémon center. Everyone watches in shock as the thunderbolt fires at Benjy. In an instant the Millennium Gameboy Advance glows brightly and creates a shield, everyone stares in disbelief. Wobbuffet falls to the ground in a faint.
Yami Benjy: Pixielite, aerial ace!
A gust of wind appears to come from nowhere, as Pixielite shoots by team rocket.
Wizardshort: It looks like your attack missed!
As soon as the short "wizard" says this, their magical robes disintegrate into tatters as if the robes were slashed.
James: Oh zark!
Jessie: We’ll go with plan b: Seviper, haze!
Haze begins to flood the pokémon center, and quickly makes seeing difficult. Yami Benjy backs up a couple steps, and then suddenly someone grabs him by the wrist.
James: I got him!
Yami Benjy: And you’ll be sorry you did.
Jessie: Into the bag!
The haze is now too thick to see what’s going on, but James howls in pain, and Jessie crashes to the floor. Someone screams and is quickly muffled as Team Rocket bags them.
In the commotion, Team Rocket races for the door with a bag full of something, leaving everyone else to cough in the smog of the haze attack. Brock tries to open a window, but trips and falls on something.
Yami Benjy: Pixielite, defog!
Pixielite begins to flap it’s wings quickly, clearing the haze from the pokémon center, and breaking a window in the process. Yami Benjy stands unharmed, and Brock is revealed to have tripped over Max. The starter pokémon are also missing. The girl’s father rubs his eyes, and looks around for his (now missing) daughter. Nurse Joy coughs, and wonders aloud what they took.
Ash: They took the starter pokémon!
Girl’s Father: And my daughter!
Everyone looks around in shock to see that the girl is indeed missing.
New Scene()
Team Rocket runs, panting to their balloon, and collapses onto the hill in front of it. Jessie expresses disappointment that they weren’t able to get the wizard, but Meowth reminds her that they got the starter pokémon, so it wasn’t all bad. From inside it’s bag, the Torchic begins heating the bag.
Team Rocket decides that they should take a look at what they stole before they hand it over to their boss. Jessie decides to open the Torchic’s bag, but burns herself on touching it. She quickly begins blowing on her hand to cool it down. Meowth now decides to open the Treecko’s bag. However, as soon as he touches it, the Treecko notices, and bites his paw through the bag. Meowth drops the bag and also begins blowing on his injured paw.
James: You guys are all wusses, let me show you how it’s done.
James groans as he picks up the Mudkip’s bag, and Jessie asks Meowth if Mudkips are normally that heavy. As James attempts to open the bag, a scissors pokes through the bag and cuts James’s hand, and he howls in pain, dropping the bag.
Meowth: Careful what you’re doing! We won’t be payed as much for damaged goods!
Jessie: Hey Meowth, are Mudkips supposed to have claws?
Meowth: Huh?
James now applies a bandage to his hand, as a snipping sound comes from the bag.
James: It’s using a scissors?
Jessie: A Mudkip with scissors?
Meowth: Impossible! They don’t have opposable thumbs!
Team Rocket watches the scissors cut through the bag, with the other bags behind them. As the scissors continue to work, the bag falls open revealing the girl with the Mudkip under her arm, her scissors in another, and a determined look on her face. Team Rocket flinch as they realize what happened. Meowth goes up to intimidate the girl, but Mudkip sprays him with a water gun, knocking him backwards. Meowth runs up to the Mudkip and attempts to punch it again, but it suddenly glows white and catches his arm. Just as he throws the punch, it evolves into Marshtomp. Marshtomp then uses water gun, knocking Meowth over backwards again. Meowth flinches.
Jessie: Something wrong?
Meowth: L-look behind you!
Jessie and James turn around to see that they are being stared down by a Grovyle, a Combusken, and a Marshtomp.
James: They evolved?!
Jessie: You guys want a fight huh?
The pokémon seem to nod.
Jessie: Then you’re going to get one.
Jessie and James send out a Seviper and Cacnea. Cacnea attempts to use pin missile on Grovyle, but it jumps out of the way allowing Combusken to fire back with a flamethrower. Seviper now lunges at Combusken, but the girl tells Marshtomp to use seismic toss. Marshtomp catches Seviper by the tail and slams it into the ground. Meowth rushes Marshtomp to use fury swipes, but Combusken knocks it aside with brick break.
Jessie calls on Dustox and James has Cacnea use needle arm on Marshtomp. Grovyle intercepts Cacnea’s attack, slamming Cacnea into the ground. Dustox attacks Grovyle with silver wind, but Combusken blocks it with a flamethrower. Seviper wraps Combusken, and Marshtomp and Grovyle rush to try to free it. However, this leaves them open to attacks from Cacnea and Dustox. They wince as they get hit with these attacks, and Combusken (still being wrapped by Seviper) fires back with a flamethrower.
Meowth now approaches the girl.
Ash: Stop, Team Rocket!
Team Rocket turns to see Ash and company, plus Yami Benjy and the girl’s father, running towards them. Brock demands that Team Rocket give the girl back to her father.
James: Come and take her, we just want the pokémon!
Max: You won’t get away with this!
Yami Benjy: Words are meaningless. Pixielite, aerial ace!
Shooting over a distance of 25 meters in the blink of an eye, Pixielite slams into Seviper, knocking Combusken free. Combusken rushes at James and punches him in the lower stomach. Knocking him back against the hill. Grovyle now attacks Jessie, but Dustox intervenes, and is sent flying instead.
Ash and company are now only about ten meters away, and rapidly approaching. Team Rocket hesitates on trying to decide on whether they should try and run, or take their loot and run even though their loot is actively resisting. Jessie instructs Seviper to use haze, but before it can begin the attack, Pixielite lands on it and delivers an electric bolt strong enough to paralyze it.
Jessie: Dustox, silver w–
Marshtomp fires a water gun at Jessie, cutting her off.
James: Pin missile!
Ash: Pikachu, thunderbolt!
With Ash and company close enough, Pikachu jumps from Ash’s shoulder and crashes a thunderbolt into Team Rocket. With a giant explosion, Team Rocket is sent hurling into the sky, their balloon still intact nearby. They scream that they’re blasting off again as they exit the screen.
Benjy: Now I’ve seen everything…
Yami Benjy: Don’t bet on it.
New Scene()
In the pokémon center, Ash and company watch as Nurse Joy explains to the girl’s father that since the starter pokémon evolved, she can’t give them out as starters anymore. Coal then intervenes, explaining that Nurse Joy can still sell them. Nurse Joy agrees, surprising the rest of Ash and company (and Benjy as well).
As the girl hugs Marshtomp, her father pulls a checkbook from his pocket, and sighing, starts to negotiate with Nurse Joy, eventually settling on purchasing Marshtomp for 2500 poké-dollars. With this the girl’s father begins writing out the check, as Marshtomp plays with her hair.
Coal: And a happy ending!
Benjy nods, and then scratches his head.
New Scene()
Benjy sits on the bed in the pokémon center, while Nurse Joy examines a medical record.
Nurse Joy: You appear to be fine, physically at least.
Nurse Joy giggles.
Nurse Joy: You’re free to go.
Benjy: Thank you.
Benjy walks out of the back room while Nurse Joy and Chansey begin to get the bed ready for the next patient. Benjy emerges back into the main room of the pokémon center. Chikorita lets itself out and walks at his heels. As he emerges into the front of the center, Benjy notices the ladder, and goes over to it. He picks it up, examining it.
Benjy: This must’ve been what happened to the ladder when the portal collapsed on it.
May: So you’re not a wizard?
Benjy looks up to see May and Max standing nearby.
Benjy: No, I’m not.
Max: Good thing May. Otherwise he might sneeze your clothes off.
Benjy: Excuse me?
The Millennium Gameboy Advance activates, and Yami Benjy projects himself.
Yami Benjy: Pardon me?
Max stumbles backwards
Max: Who is that?!
Benjy: We think it’s an artificial intelligence, built into this thing.
Benjy points to the Millennium Gameboy Advance.
Max: So it’s just a hologram?
Yami Benjy: Correct.
New Scene(@Temporal = Mid-Late Afternoon)
Ash and company (plus Benjy) are standing on Slateport beach. Yami Benjy is projecting himself holographically.
Max: Let me get this straight. There was a spacequake, and then a sinkhole opened up right underneath you and dropped you here?
Benjy: Correct.
Yami Benjy: It was approximately an eight foot drop.
Max: Then your friends tried to get you a ladder, and as they were lowering it, the portal collapsed.
Benjy: Correct.
Coal scratches his chin.
Coal: That explains the ladder. It was a spatial collapse after all… How weird…
Brock: And then the ladder’s bottom fell on your head and knocked you unconscious.
Yami Benjy: Correct.
-brief pause-
Ash: So where are you from?
Benjy: The question really should be, where am I now…
Brock: We’re on the beach outside of Slateport City.
Benjy: I don’t know where that is… Where is Hoenn?
Ash and May look at each other, surprised. Benjy stares straight ahead nervously.
Benjy: It’s a region in…
Max: Uh-Oh–
Coal: The province is Selviña. (Sell-vee-nya)
Brock: That ring a bell?
Benjy: No…
Brock: What about–
Coal: Hold that thought, Brock.
Ash: Hang on, if he’s never even heard of the names of the provinces–
Brock: Um?
Brock fidgets, and Benjy glances around nervously at the ocean, the beach, and the pokémon flying in the sky.
Benjy: What’s the name of the country?
May: Country?
Yami Benjy: What planet are we on?
Coal says something, which is muted by QST.camera, but Benjy hears this and suddenly collapses on his hands and knees in the sand, staring down at the beach.
Benjy: Planet?!
Benjy picks up some sand and looks at it, letting it slip through his fingers.
Benjy: This is not planet Earth?!?!
Benjy quickly jumps to his feet, dusting the sand from his hands and knees. Ash starts to approach Benjy, but Coal puts his hand in the way.
Benjy: Fenyra…
Benjy cuts himself off as he stares into the sky, at a something, which QST.camera has to refocus to see: a very faint ring. Benjy shivers upon seeing this, and has to take a step forwards to prevent himself from falling over.
Ash: I don’t know what answer he was expecting, but I guess that wasn’t it.
Max: What planet are you from?
Benjy gazes down at the sand, then up at the sky before turning to Ash and company and responding:
Benjy: Earth. The United States of America. California.
Brock: I can’t say I’ve heard of anywhere like–
May: The last one though.
Benjy shivers slightly.
Max: You have?
May: Remember, the song mom used to sing?
Max: I don’t think so?
Ash: So what do you know about California?
May: It’s a mythical place, full of raisins and palm trees.
Brock: Uh seriously, where are you from?
Coal: Again, hold that thought. Is California the planet?
Yami Benjy: Either they’ve hit the bottom of the barrel in terms of geography or–
Benjy: Earth is the planet.
Benjy closes his eyes to concentrate.
Benjy: Not that you’d have the same names for things, but it’s in the Milky Way galaxy. In the Virgo Supercluster.
May: What’s a supercluster?
Coal: It’s a grouping of galaxies.
Coal: But I’ve never heard of that one…
Yami Benjy: Benjy, I think I’ve figured out where the pokémon are from.
Benjy starts to reply, but is cut off by Ash’s voice.
Ash: Well it doesn’t really matter where you’re from. Welcome to Fenyra!
Ash extends his arm to shake Benjy’s hand, and after hesitating a second, Benjy accepts the handshake.
Pikachu: Pi-Pikachu!
QST.camera now zooms out silhouetting all six humans and Pikachu against the beach.
...///To Be Continued///...