Plot

Storyline

**Prologue**

In an era before which Aedon had become a self-sufficient region with an open economy, a scientist used to work in a small start-up called the Bharat Corporation. Over years of hard work, he created a most astounding device. Elated with his success he was in the process of getting his work patented. The patent process was not even halfway through when disaster struck – the building that housed not only all his research papers but also the models he had made for display was burnt to ash.

Harrowed by the unexpected turn of events, the disillusioned man distanced himself from society. So he lived for months with his expecting wife. The great tragedy however was when the scientist was killed on the streets and the hired assassins came after his innocent wife. The pack of hyenas chased after the to-be-mother who took refuge in the small port town of ‘Port 2’, far from the cares or concerns of her previous life.

With the help of the kind citizens there, she gave birth to the player. However, the birth of the child mediated by lack of adequate medical facilities coupled with the added pressure of having to raise her/him with herself being the only breadwinner made her youthful vigor give way to a demurer and sicklier woman. In this sorrowful state, she raised her child till the age of eight when she died in an accident during a Tauros race.

The Professor living in the next town was a kind man who cared deeply for children. Whatsoever may have compelled his great

persona to do such an act, he took the responsibility of the child upon himself, giving him a proper education. The child then grew up from the age of eight in a small, one-room flat which was his mother’s property. The Professor would pay his bills and provide him with food.

**Chapter 1**

At 16 years of age, the player (let us call him **X**) has completed his education. He lives a simple life and has little ambition to be much else. During this period, one of his friends runs up to his house and calls him. X is consequently informed that a mock Pokemon tournament is being held in the park and a contestant had taken ill just before the final match. He is requested to take part in the competition because of his prodigy.

In the park, with a new Pokemon, X beats his opponent. Unknown to everybody present there that day, a shady man is busy observing the battle. Exceptionally impressed by X’s battling ability and smartness, he calls on X after everybody leaves. He asks X to meet him outside the city at midnight. Intrigued, X accepts the offer.

In the dead of the night, X sees the adjoining beach and one man in it, draped in a long overcoat and a felt hat. With him, he had a bag. Meeting up with X, the shady man offered him 3 Pokeballs but under a simple condition. He was to go and beat the first gym in the region. It was to be a test of his talent and his ability to work hard. X assures the man that he was ready to undertake such a task.

X chooses a Pokemon and sets out on his journey immediately. However, while traveling, he sees a small thicket wherein two people were piling Pokemon up into their trucks. Investigating carefully, X guesses that the Pokemon were stolen by two low-lives. Angry, he attacks the two thugs and wins a battle over them. X has the goons arrested. The shady man who observed all the events nodded his head and retires from the place on his Pavock.

X heads out on his journey through the Southern Causeway.

**Chapter 2**

On the journey through the long and winding Southern Causeway X sees a scientist and a policeman conversing with each other. When X is in their vicinity, they approach X and ask him to look into the water of the river. Dead Magikarp were floating on the river, the slow, lazy current which made the limp masses of Magikarp crash into the adjoining rocks ensconced the dead bodies in the dangerous waters. X is given a water sample and asked to have this checked by the Professor in the adjoining town.

X journeys further through the Southern Causeway and finally see a small cave but find it deserted. Inside the cave, there are a series of sewers transporting dirty water and two scientists from Bharat Corporation testing the waters. They tell you about the pathetic condition of the water of the distributary of the River Gang flowing through the Southern Causeway. They were given the task of specifically testing the water samples. They would take water samples from various parts of the city Rivercross and the Southern Causeway and prepare a report on it. X leaves them.

Further through the Southern Causeway X sees a rather large pond and comprehensive challenges and defeats the surrounding trainers. There he sees employees of Bharat Corporation discussing the quality of water but X does not interfere.

At the end of the road, he reaches the town of Rivercross. Going first to the Professor’s large laboratory he has the water sample tested. The Professor finds an excessively high amount of particulate matter and pollutants in the small sample of water and rushes to the newspapers to publish this. X is asked to return to the people at the small dock and report the same to them.

Having done that and returned to the laboratory, the Professor asks X to rest. The next morning, the Professor reads the headlines to X which talk foremost about the polluted water and the excessive gastric problems it was causing not only the Pokemon but also the humans. However, in the process of doing so, two thugs enter the laboratory and attack the Professor chiding him for his ‘petty’ action of reporting water quality to the newspapers. They attack the Professor with their Pokemon and escape.

X, angered, chases after them. He reaches the small cave in the Southern Causeway where he sees the two thugs keeping the two Bharat Corporation scientists hostage. X beats the two thugs but they come again at him. At this point, the other Bharat Corporation Employees storm into the place and reassure X that they had the situation secure. His anger far more subdued than what it was he escorts the scientists back outside and returns to the lab himself.

Outside the lab, he meets the mayor of Rivercross who identifies himself and tells him that the water of the River Gang was the purest in the world and that even the thought the questioning that or suspecting its impurity was sacrilege. X leaves him mid-sentence and retires to the lab where the Professor again asks him to rest. The next day morning, he again reads the news. The mayor of Rivercross he had met yesterday had resigned and stated the reason that he was tired of the excessive responsibility.

**Chapter 3**

The new mayor of Rivercross had been elected that very day. He was a bald man. this might be a bit too political. A multitude of people had gathered at the temple to hear his inaugural speech after the end of the daily rituals. Due to this exit and entry into Rivercross were temporarily halted. It is during this time that the PokeMart runs out of potions. Police officers closely guard the town as the champion himself arrives to receive the mayor-to-be. During this festive season, a select section of people gathers in front of the temple, surrounding the already surrounded building and barricading it. They start protesting against their new mayor who they believe is inept.

When one protester lets his Tauros free to trample over the place, X, out of his devotion to the champion, fights the protester and beats him. Pleased by his bravery, the champion thanks X and invites X to dine with him. It is also decided that X will get a medal of honor from the police. For this, he is asked to report to Orbstine.

**Side Quest I** – When X talks to a person in the Poke Centre in Rivercross he learns of how he was pushed out of his home by malpractice. Shocked at this, X goes and fights the thugs who did

so and returns to the person his rightful home. In exchange, he receives a TM.