PMD: Explorers of Dimensions Chap. 1

Chapter 1: So I discovered that I am now an Oshawott

Everything was black, nothing but a void of endless darkness. Eric’s head felt like it had gone through a washing machine, thoughts swirling in an endless spiral that didn’t seem to end. Sounds of a stream flowing along with the soft blowing of the wind were the only sounds that could be heard. Slowly but surely Eric began to regain his senses and began to wake up.

The bright sun was beaming in the sky with barely a cloud in sight. Gaining the sense of his surroundings he noticed that he was lying down by a small river that was flowing westward given the position of the sun. He noticed a few trees and plants nearby as well but was too sparse to make up a small forest. It appeared to Eric that he was in a plain very far away from any kind of civilization. He wasn’t even sure how he managed to get all the way out here.

“Where am I?” thought Eric.

Slowly getting up, Eric felt a bit weird and odd as he almost stumbled over himself. He brought himself to the river where he saw his reflection.  But it was not the reflection that he was used to seeing in the mirror. As he began to look closely at his reflection he noticed that he looked entirely like an Oshawott and upon further reflection of this he noticed that he really was an Oshawott!

“Huh!? I’m a pokemon! How did this happen?” screamed Eric.

Eric further examined his body. His face was covered in white fur with little tufts of hair sticking out of the tip of his head and cheeks. Small dark blue ears stuck out of the top of his head. He also had a large brown nose and two brown eyes that glimmered in his reflection in the water. He discovered that he now has white flippers for hands now which felt a bit weird when he moved them. The rest of his body was covered in thin light blue fur that felt very smooth to the touch. His tail was a bit long and flat kind of like a platypus that was dark blue like his paws for feet. He also noticed that he had a shell that seemed to be attached to his stomach.

“Ugh, this feels really weird” thought Eric. “I’m not sure how I became like this really. Maybe I should try to remember what I was doing last.”

Eric began to try to remember the very last thing he did but all that he could really recall was sitting in front of his computer while eating peanuts.

“Yes, this is perfect!” shouted Eric. “I obviously became a pokemon from eating those peanuts! They must have been imbued with magical properties!”

Eric picked up a small stone in his right flipper.

“Yeah right brain! You really think I would fall for that!” shouted Eric as he threw the stone hard into the river.

“Seriously I know my memory is bad but this just takes the cake. Literally the only thing I can remember from last night was being on the computer, doing something, and eating peanuts…lovely” said Eric out loud.  “Well no use thinking about it now especially since I will probably be discovered by scientists who will then proceed to conduct questionably experiments since I probably look like something from another world to them. Well at least it gives me something to look forward to in the next couple of days.”

In the distance Eric heard a scream for help. The scream seemed to be coming further down the river. As Eric looked down the river he noticed a bunch of zubats attacking a lone snivy. The zubats looked like any ordinary bats but were slightly purble and did not possess eyes. The snivy looked like a snake that had grown hands and legs. Its green body fitted well for its type that Eric remembered well.  The tail seemed to be growing leaves on its end and there were also skinny yellow line markings under the eye sockets of the snivy that were a characteristic of the pokemon.

“Ok, maybe I’m not in my world anymore” thought Eric.

The zubats continued their assault on the snivy who was now lying on the ground beaten and bruised.

“That poor snivy can’t defend itself in that state. I won’t stand for this!” thought Eric as he rushed towards the zubats.

“Hehehe, what’s wrong? I thought you said that you were going to beat me up” laughed the largest zubat.

“You stole my jewel from me…and then you ambushed me with your friends. You coward!” shouted the snivy.

“Shut up!” shouted the largest zubat as he bit the snivy.

“Ahhhhhh! Someone, please help!” pleaded the snivy.

“No one is around for miles here. So fall into despair as we take what is most important to you! It should fetch a good price in the black market” laughed the largest zubat.

“No…” said the snivy softly, unable to move from all the attacks she took.

“Let’s go boys we had our fun!” said the largest zubat.

“Yeah!” said one of the underlings.

“Hehe, I bet we can buy so much food with what that jewel will fetch us!” laughed the other underling.

All of a sudden, Eric came and tackled the very same zubat knocking it out with a single blow.

“Huh, I guess I am a lot stronger than I thought” said Eric as he rubbed his head in astonishment.

“What was that!?” shouted the large zubat. “Why you little….how dare you do that to my underling! Only I am allowed to do that to my underlings!”

“Wow, you seem very stereotypical for the way villains go” said Eric. In Eric’s mind though he was wondering why he wants to taunt the two other zubats especially since he mostly got a lucky hit off the first one.

“Grrr, you’ll pay for that remark!” said the large zubat.

“Uh oh” thought Eric as both zubats bit him. Eric cringed from the pain but he seemed able to take it. Eric tackled the other underling who was able to take the hit. The zubat underling followed up with a counterattack which made Eric fall to the ground. Eric knew he wouldn’t be able to fight both pokemon at the same time given that he still wasn’t completely used to his new body yet.

“Heh, I guess you were just lucky with that first punch of yours” laughed the large zubat.

Eric slowly got up and thought of plan to stop the other two without actually battling them. Although his plan would require that his opponents were dumb enough to fall for that….well no worries there.

“I’m just getting started! I can take both of you on in my sleep” taunted Eric as he ran for some of the trees on the side of the river that he was on.  The zubats chased after him just as he planned. Eric quickly looked for a bendable branch of a considerable length to use. Luckily, he found one only a few feet into the trees that seemed to be a part of a plant that was imbedded between two rocks. Eric quickly bent the branch down with all his strength and waited for the zubats to come near him. The zubats rushed in without even thinking and as soon as they got into range of the branch Eric released it sending the zubats flying while also dropping the jewel they stole.

“AHHHHHHHH!” screamed the zubats as they flew off into the distance uncontrollably.
“Phew, that was close” said Eric while letting out a sigh. “I’m not really battle ready with the shape that I’m in now. Hopefully, after being in the body a bit longer I can get better at fighting. Well at least it went better than expected for my first brawl!” Eric laughed but felt pain from where he took a beating. “I should refrain from laughing for a little while. I probably should get that jewel they dropped back to that pokemon they were attacking.”

Eric picked up the jewel and upon closer inspection it was a shining golden leaf that felt like it was made out of crystal. After deeply admiring the beauty of the jewel Eric quickly walked back to where he left the snivy. Upon returning he discovered that the snivy was already up and about. She quickly ran over to where Eric was upon seeing him.
“You actually beat them!?” said the snivy in astonishment.

“Ye-yeah, kind of” said Eric.

“From the looks of your fighting skills you barely took any damage before you were even on the ground so I was a bit worried that you may have gotten into a bit of trouble thanks to me” said the snivy.

“Ha ha…yeah I would have probably gotten beaten up myself. Fighting is not really my thing” said Eric.

“Ha ha ha! How did you beat them then?” asked the snivy. Eric told her how he defeated the zubats. “Wow, you really got lucky!” The snivy began to laugh.

“Yeah, I don’t really want to think about what would happen if there wasn’t a decent object to use among the trees” said Eric. “But anyway here is your crystal leaf back.”

“Oh thank you so much!” exclaimed the snivy. “I don’t know what I would do if I lost this. It’s something very precious to me. Thank you so much for getting it back for me. My name is Vera by the way what’s yours.”

“Oh mine is Eric” said Eric.

“Eric? That’s kind of a weird name for a pokemon” said Vera.

“Well, about that…” Eric began to explain that he used to be human and that he had no idea where he was.

“Ha ha ha!” Vera laughed.

“I thought it would be hard to believe” thought Eric.

“Well even though it sounds impossible I’ll believe you” said Vera.

“Really!?” responded Eric surprised.

“Yeah, you didn’t really fight like other pokemon. I mean you didn’t even use water gun which you could have used at a distance!” exclaimed Vera.

“I really have no idea if I even know that move” said Eric looking depressed.

“I think you do but you just don’t know it” said Vera. “Of course I could be lying to myself.”

“Ugh” said Eric.

“But even excluding that I will still believe you since you helped me out when I needed someone. Not that many pokemon would do that” said Vera. Eric smiled happily. “Well since you don’t have anywhere to go right now do you want to create an exploration team with me?”  Eric thought about it and eventually agreed. “That’s great! I’m so excited! I can finally start exploring the land and discovering things no one else has seen!”
Seeing Vera excited made Eric happy and help him relax more to the new situation that he found himself in. Also having a friend to travel with would be more fun than traveling by himself.

“Anyway I was heading to town before those goons swiped my treasure. So shall we start heading there?”

“Sure!” exclaimed Eric.

Eric and Vera traveled a few miles. The trip was beginning to become quite exhausting. The two pokemon eventually reached a crevice. There appeared to be a bridge for travelers to go across to reach the other side. Vera looked slightly scared or disappointed, Eric couldn’t really tell. Either way, there only appeared to be one way across. If Vera was afraid of heights maybe if Eric went across the bridge first it would give Vera courage to go across as well. Eric began to walk towards the bridge. Vera looked at Eric surprised, right before Eric was about to take the first step on to the bridge Vera screamed.

“STOP! ERIC WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?”

Stunned by Vera’s voice Eric came to a halt right before the bridge and looked towards Vera.

“I was going to cross the bridge right before you screamed. You really scared me you know” said Eric.

“I scared you!? You scared me! That bridge is completely broken and you were about to walk right into the pit!” exclaimed Vera. Eric confused looked back at the bridge he was about to cross only to find it in shambles. Eric quickly fell towards solid ground away from the pit shaking in fright.

“But just moments ago….that bridge….was perfectly fine” said Eric.

“I don’t know what is going on but you really said there was a bridge there?” asked Vera.
“Yeah, it’s what I saw. If I saw that pit I probably wouldn’t have gone anywhere near it” said Eric. Vera walked up to Eric and looked at him comfortingly while offering him a hand back up.

“Well at least you were not hurt” said Vera. “But could you please try to make sure that you won’t try to cross anymore magical bridges.”

“I will” said Eric.

“Well now that really horrible experience is done with let’s find a detour to the town” said Vera. Eric began to follow Vera back and took one last look back at the spot where the bridge was. When he did he noticed a very faint outline of the bridge that seemed to appear on top of the broken bridge. Eric didn’t really fully understand it but he believed that there was something more to do with that bridge or maybe something with himself and why he was here in this world.