Chapter One: Captured

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Picture above: Conor & Tepig
"Plain Vanilla: Company that created QuizUp"
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I woke up in a black room. It was empty, all except for a chair in the corner of the room. No windows, only a chair and a door.
"Ugh, where am I?" I groaned as I rubbed his eyes.
I was lying on the floor. I was wearing some strange black top with a blue jacked, black trousers and a cap. The cap had the Pokemon symbol on it.
I got up and looked at the door. I had no idea what was out there, but I was going to find out.
I slowly walked towards the door. I put my ear up against it. Nothing.
I hesitated, before reaching hand for the knob. I felt a click and the door opened.
It went into a huge room, exactly like the one he was just in, but with what appeared to be a stage, and much, much bigger.
Doors led out all around the side of the room, just like mine.
One by one, people started emerging from the doors. The first person just happened to be a girl with long frizzy black hair and a look of confusion. Nova.
This has to be a dream, I thought. What the fudge is going on here?
Nova ran over to me, wearing what seemed to a female version of a Pokemon Trainer.
What in the world?
I pinched myself on the arm, multiple times, but it was having no effect.
"Conor? Conor from QuizUp? What are you doing here?" she asked.
"I should ask the same of you, but honestly, I don't know what happened. I just woke up in that room, from that door," I answered.
"I know I shouldn't say this, but you are surprisingly different from what I imagined. You sound different, you look different..." she finished off blankly.
"Yeah, I would imagine most people would say that. You're the same though. And you're taller than I thought too..."
Nova was a good 9 inches taller than me. It was almost funny.
"Anyway, what is this place-"
Nova was cut off by the sound of a door squeaking open.
We looked around and saw a familiar head poked through one of the doors. Yet again, another person from QuizUp. Rashaun.
His eyes grew wide. He nearly went back inside, but when he saw who it was, he went out to greet them.
"Uh... Guys? Are you real? Because last time I checked, Conor lived in Ireland. And I don't live in a big black box. Whoah. Okay. Hold up. This is a dream. I'm going to wake up-" Rashaun was cut off.
"This isn't a dream. Trust me, I have pinched, slapped, and punched myself. Here, watch," I said as he pinched Rashaun's arm.
"Ow! That hurt!" he exclaimed.
Two more people walked out of doors. One was someone he recognised, who was in fact the one, the only, Ender. But the other was someone he had never seen before. It was a girl, with emerald green eyes, and a ponytail at the back of her head. She looked strangely like Hilda from Pokemon B/W.
"Ender? And who is this? And what is going on?" Rashaun yelled.
Ender blinked several times. Then he fell over, unconscious.
"Well, that happened," said the unidentified person.
"Wait, who are you?" Nova asked.
"Duh, I'm Rai," she answered. "Jeez, your own wife doesn't even know what you look like..."
"Wow..." I muttered. "Well, you never do face reveals after all,"
Time after time, people kept coming out. Amos, Fireblaze, Clove, Haroff, Infinity, T&I, Lizzy, Monolith, Doctor S, Mystery, Spooky and Steel just to name a few. There was about one hundred people in the room when it started.
While everyone was looking around, a man appeared out of nowhere. He tapped into a microphone, grabbing everyone's attention.
He was on the stage, and the stage was a good ten foot high. I didn't see any ladders or stairs leading up to it.
"S-Sorry, sorry, could I grab everyone's attention?" the man stuttered into the microphone. He emitted a nervous energy around him, stuttering, tapping his foot, scanning the crowd.
"Oh, um, sorry to keep you waiting. Well, my name is Doctor James Perkins. We are very exited about the new project we are ab-bout to launch a-at PlainVanilla,"
PlainVanilla? Isn't that the company that created QuizUp?
"W-we are launching project Pokemon Trapped. See, we want to study human behaviour in different ways, for many different purposes. One of the ways was this."
"We get a bunch of people to, uh, buy Pokemon Sun and Moon. Then we hack into someone's account and post saying we should all meet up on the Live a Chat of the Pokemon topic at a certain time. Using that information, we hacked into all of your accounts, a-and see here, this is where the magic comes in... We transported you to the Pokemon World- another dimension."
I heard a couple of people laughing.
"Ha ha, very funny. Now, what are we really doing here?" I heard someone call out.
Perkins just stood there, silent. After a while, we knew he was serious.
This isn't real. This CANNOT be real.
The room broke out in a collective array of sounds, including gasps, muttering, and people fainting. There was also a lot of laughs, as if this was a joke, or a dream.
But I knew it wasn't a dream, and if this was a joke, it was sick. Trapping children as young as eleven in another dimension... And how could they have done that?  It wasn't real, because that was impossible. But all the signs were pointing to...
"You shall all be "playing" in the Hoenn region. This particular dimension has all regions, you will only be able to play in Hoenn."
"The only way to escape here, is to beat the game."
"So, beat all the Gym Leaders, Elite Four and Pokemon Champion, and you shall escape here. But alas, there is a-another catch."
"If all of your Pokemon faint, you will die."

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