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Sequoia:
So about half a year ago I heard about the Nuzlocke challenge, and I thought it was interesting enough to go ahead and jump on the bandwagon. The idea behind this story started when I decided to name all the Pokemon I catch after Transformers. Then I thought it would be a fun idea to name the player Sari (from Transformers: Animated). And then suddenly the challenge somehow came to life and dumped a three-game cross-over plot and a very confused Shockwave on my head.  :-\

For this challenge, I will be using these rules:
1. You may only catch the first pokemon you encounter in a new area (Shinies are exempt)
2. Once a pokemon is registered in the pokedex, it is rendered uncatchable (eg no duplicates)(again, Shinies are exempt)
3. If a pokemon faints, it is considered dead and must be released
4. All caught pokemon must be named after canon Transformers

I welcome any critique you guys may have that will help me improve. Pointless flames, on the other hand, will be used to make s'mores.  :P

Also, some chapters may end up too long for one post, which will force me to split the chapter. If you're going to comment on the latest chapter, look at the bottom of the post. If there are a line of asteriks/stars, like this:     *     *     *     *     and so on across the post, that is the end of the chapter. If the stars aren't there, the chapter isn't finished yet.
In other words: No stars, no comments.

Sequoia:
You can say this takes place in a slight AU where Shockwave somehow ended up on Earth during Season 2 (I honestly am not worried about those details because I don't think they're important to the story). Sari is also still unaware that she is a technorganic.

Prologue

     It was interesting, just how little time it takes for an orderly operation to dissolve into complete and utter chaos.

     Battle cries and clashes of metal on metal rend the air, drowning out the once soothing background noise that was the quiet hum of machinery. Stray shots peppered the walls, leaving smoking pot holes the size of a human. Chunks of rock were still falling from the hole in the ceiling where Starscream and his clones had busted in, leaving the Decepticons' space bridge open to the elements.

     Shockwave flinched slightly as a stalactite tumbled to the ground just a few meters from the computer terminal he was standing in front of. He still wasn't quite sure how he had gotten to Earth; he was supposed to be on Cybertron, prepping the space bridges for his lord's triumphant return. A shot from one of the Starscream clones suddenly zinged between his antennae, leaving them tingling from the energy and bringing his focus back to reality and his task. Now was not a good time to get distracted with unimportant questions. As long as he had the coordinates and his Head of Intel override codes, it didn't matter from where he was connecting the space bridges. And once that was done, the Autobots were as good as finished.

     A tiny flash of yellow out of the corner of his optic grabbed his attention from the screen to see a small human youngling running on the terminal towards him, a look of determination on its face. He couldn't help but chuckle. "Come to stop me, Human?" He asked in an amused tone. "And how exactly are you going to do that?"

     Its face broke into a devious smile. "Like this," it replied before leaping onto the keyboard he was working at and stomping on random keys. The little deviant was trying to sabotage the coordinates!

     "Stop that at once!" He cried angrily, bringing down his servo to squash the impudent fleshy. It leaped out of the way at the last second, and his servo merely mashed keys, inputting even more gibberish into the computer. "Ack! No no no!" Slaggit, he didn't have much time left! He hastily typed in another code to delete the bad data--and found more growing on the screen. He turned to growl at the human, who had resumed stomping while he was distracted. "Why, you little...."

     And thus started what could certainly be the strangest dance either one of them had seen or done. The human and Shockwave's servos flitted around the keyboard, the human's pattern random and dizzying, Shockwave's pattern frantic and purposeful. He occasionally tried to flick the annoying organic off the keyboard, but it merely leaped out of way and continued dancing.

     After a few of his irritated flicks it looked up at him with a cheeky grin, only for that grin to melt into a face of horror before it ran screaming off the keyboard. Shockwave glanced up, wondering what caused it to run off like that, and managed to pull his arms away before they were crushed by a particularly large boulder that had dislodged from the ceiling. It crashed right through the terminal, destroying the keyboard and circuitry underneath and causing the coordinates to be locked in, bad data and all.

     The screens of the other terminals all changed to a baleful pulsing red as warnings flooded their screens. A wave of electricity flowed up the space bridge and pounce on the orb of energy situated between the prongs. As the electricity was absorbed, the orb started fluctuating in size.

     Shockwave felt a slight tugging sensation that seemed to be growing stronger. When he saw pebbles and small pieces of scrap metal slide along the floor he realized he wasn't alone. He grabbed the railing as the tug became even stronger. As he looked around, he saw the former combatants hastily reaching for any secure thing in sight as they started getting pulled towards the bridge.

     A shrill scream pierced the air and he turned his head in time to get a face full of the human from earlier. He shook his head to get rid of the obstruction to his vision, and the human, slightly dazed from the impact, rolled off to the side, where it grabbed and wrapped itself around his antenna.

     He was about to flick the antenna to get it off when gravity suddenly shifted and he found himself dangling at an angle from the floor with debris flying past them at an increasing rate. A moving object got his attention. A large rock, smaller than the one that had destroyed the terminal but still larger than the human, was rapidly gaining momentum as it rolled right at them, being lifted into the air by the pull of the malfunctioning bridge.

     ...Oh slag.

     He turned his head at the last second to protect his optic, and the rock smashed into his temple, causing static to flood his HUD. For a split second, his death grip on the railing slacked as his CPU rebooted. That split second was all that was needed to rip his claws off and send both him and the shrieking human plummeting towards the bridge.

     There were cries of dismay and horror, most likely from the Autobots. Shockwave felt himself being flipped until he was looking at the bridge head on. The human, who had gotten jarred off his antenna when the rock hit his head, had an expression of pure terror on her face as she was swallowed by the orb. Astroseconds before he reached the same fate Shockwave could have sworn that he saw the color of the energy change by just the slightest shade...

     And then the energy engulfed him, an excruciating wave of electricity raging through his circuits and forcing him into stasis.

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Jerry:
I can't see how this is related to FireRed in any way, nor to Pokemon or Nuzlocke, but nice piece of writing.

Sequoia:

--- Quote from: Jerry on October 03, 2011, 02:09:08 PM ---I can't see how this is related to FireRed in any way, nor to Pokemon or Nuzlocke, but nice piece of writing.

--- End quote ---

This is just the prologue. The Pokemon will be coming in the next chapter.

Jerry:
Ah, okay.

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