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Jake's POV

It's been a year since the SAO incident. A year since that death game ended. A year since my best friends died, saving everyone from the madness of Kayaba. And a year since me or my older brother have touched a gaming console. We were both athletic, and had lean physiques. We were two of the only five players who had gotten a copy of the game. The third was a kid I knew from a vacation to California, who entered with the last two players: His little brother and bet friend. He nearly died, but instead his best friend and brother died in his place.. Due to being the only English-speakers in the game, we recovered quickly. We didn't get to know anyone, after all. But we were all traumatized. We were all there when it happened. I used to work for Nintendo, but about six months ago, the new CEO, Satoshi Manyida started to want to turn the world's biggest game franchise, Pokémon, into a VR. He had already hooked up fifty thousand beta testers to the game. We had been in the same guild during the Incident: The Knights of the Blood Oath. But where he saw opportunity, I saw Nintendo's greatest failure. If this went up in smoke, so did Nintendo. I had to make sure nothing went wrong. About one hundred million players would be going online into a potential death trap. Which was why, six months later, on the launch day, and my birthday, I was waiting.

I looked at the clock, and when it struck eleven fifty nine, I put on the visor. As the clock chimed twelve, I finished my note to my family, and called, "Link Start!" The game started, with the professors talking to me about the game. "You will start in the Kanto region. After you get all eight gym badges, you can challenge that floor's elite four. When they are beaten, all players can move on to the next floor. At the end of the sixth floor, there will be the traditional elite four. But when you beat them, a seventh floor will be unlocked. You have to fly across the different regions to find it. Once you do, you will be able to catch any Pokémon there. If you beat the final boss there, you win the game. By the way, what is your name?" Professor Oak asked. "Jake" I responded. "Well, player 'Jake', please choose your Pokémon!" The Professors showed their Pokémon, but at the end, there was an odd, 'random choice' button. I decided that rather than take my chances, I would click on Charmander."You chose, Charmander! Is that correct?" Professor Rowan asked. "Yes." I responded. "It's your birthday! You have received gifts! Pick them up at the nearest Pokemart!" He said, before they all said, "Enjoy the game!" And I got sent to the first town. Pallet Town.

"Wow. It's amazing!" I said, wandering. "Well, down to work!" I exclaimed, and went to Professor Oak's lab. I took the quest, 'Pick up items' and set off. When I reached the Pokémart, I took out Charmander. I appeared that he was Shiny, lucky me, and was level five. He knew egg moves, as all Pokémon should. He knew Bite, Smokescreen, Ember, and Return. "Hey there, buddy! How do you like the name, Blaze?" I asked. Blaze nodded excitedly. "I'll take that as a yes!" I laughed. I walked inside the Pokemart with him right behind me. A went to the delivery man, and tapped him. "Oh! You're here for the Professor! Here you go!" He said, and gave me the Pokedexes. And then, surprisingly, he talked again. "It's your birthday! You are receiving a gift! Here you go!" He said, and gave me Ultra balls X10 I was shocked. That seemed a bit OP, but it's not like I was going to complain. As I left, I thought about the game. Maybe my hunch was wrong! Hopefully... I gave the Pokédexes to Professor Oak, who said, "Thank you! Here is your reward!" And gave me 10 pokeballs and a Pokedex.

In the tall grass, I was looking for a Shinx. The other game makers had ripped apart and reorganized the Spawn points for a lot of Pokémon to make the game more interesting. I finally found one, and just as I was about to battle with it, it and all the other Pokémon ran away. I decided I was out of luck for the day, and started to log out. Only to not find the logout button. "Oh, no. No, no, no, no no no no no no NO" I started muttering. Suddenly, I got mail. I opened it, to find a cloaked man. "Greetings, players. As you have noticed, there is once again, no logout button. Consider this a remake of the SAO incident exactly one year ago. But with more victims. I am not Kayaba, however. You will wish I was Kayaba after this is over. Here's how this will work. You and your Pokémon are all sentient creatures. You both have health bars. Meaning, if either of you loses all of your health, you will die. There are no revives. There are no second lives. Already, two thousand people have died. Try your hardest that you don't end up like them. I wish you all good luck, and may the game begin!" The figure announced. My message ended, and just in time for me to hear grass crunching. "Hey, you! Hand over your stuff, and we won't kill you!" A guy said. I looked behind and around me. A bunch of goons dressed up in an odd uniform with a pentagram on them. were surrounding me with Beedrill, Rattata, and other Pokémon. "Who are you?" I asked, my hands up. "We're team Darke! And that's all you need to know." A woman said. "Surrender, now!" Another man demanded. "If I surrender, I can guarantee that you will kill me. So I will not." I said. "You-Beedrill! Twineedle!" He commanded. Beedrill buzzed and attempted to attack me.

I nodded to Blaze, and he used Smokescreen. The Beedrill missed as we moved out of the way. I nodded again to Blaze, and he used Ember on his tail, majorly increasing his energy and stats, due to the special condition of his evolution line. His tail flame brightened tremendously, revealing our location. A Rattata scampered up to me and attempted to bite my ankle, before Blaze used Return and smacked him away. The Beedrill then flew up to him and tried to sting him, but he used Bite on it. He ripped it in half, and killed it. The other grunts returned their Pokémon, worried now that the smokescreen was down and they saw what we could do.

"How dare you kill my Pokémon!" The main grunt exclaimed, outraged. I returned Blaze. "What is your name?" I asked. "Drake. Not that you're worthy of saying it." He said, spitting at me. "Well, Drake. Your problem is that you treat Pokémon as tools. Nothing more. That's why you lost today. It's why you'll always lose." I explained. His face went bright red with anger. "I'll kill you!" He screamed. He grabbed me by the neck, and lifted me up. He started strangling me. I watched my health bar go down and down. Right as I was about to die, I heard a whistling sound, and I was dropped. I fell, with his hands still around my neck, bleeding. I ripped them off, and saw that the grunts had run away. The last thing I saw before blacking out were the last two I expected. "Kirito? Asuna? But you died." I mumbled, and then everything faded to black.

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