The PokéMatrix~ Starts~ No LSUs

[ChobiChibi]

PokéMatrix
200 years ago the earth was consumed by machines. Humans and Pokémon a like tried to stop the invasion but nothing could be done to bring a stop to the machine’s power. The super computers created an artificial world to keep the human and pokemon slaves happy. They used power from the humans and pokemon to create it. They removed the memories of everybody and psychic pokemon had their future sight and past sight temporarily removed. The machines were pleased with themselves and were happy as far as computer emotions go; until the humans and pokemon started realising what was going on. They created “Human Agents” (computers taking human form inside the PokéMatrix) with their computerized pokemon to kill the rebels.
The legendary pokémon from the real world were captured by the machines and are being held somewhere inside the PokéMatrix. They’re there because the machines fear their power and believe that they will be the ones who cause the collapse of their perfect world if released again.
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Ever thought that you’re being watched? Probably. Ever thought that you were being watched constantly? Maybe not… But what if you were? Being watched constantly, that is. Does the world seem just a little too perfect to be true? Like someone made it and stuck you there, made you who you were and planned your life with no flaws or mistakes. “This is how your life goes. You can’t stray from it.” What if the world was artificial? Okay, so the people and pokemon are real but everything else… just a figment of someone’s imagination? Ever wondered why someone did one thing slightly out of character for them and weren’t there the next day and no one else seems to remember them? Even their pokemon disappeared… Ever heard of the PokéMatrix?
Yes?
Ahh… I thought so. A myth? A legend? A child’s fairy tale? Who knows? Somebody does. That somebody gave up on trying to convince adults that they were in an artificial reality. Adults were too used to it; they had no imagination, no curiosity, nothing about them would even think of their world as unreal. That someone tried children; that didn’t work. Children were too unwilling and relied too much on their parent’s opinions than their own. Teenagers… Now there’s a thought…
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It’s 2004. You’re a teenager in the PokéMatrix. You’ve noticed that the world just seems too perfect to be true. You get contacted by someone who goes by the name “Mr X”. Who knows who “Mr X” is? A man? A woman? A pokemon, even? At first, you choose to ignore it but when stuff starts to appear like it said in the letter, you start to wonder if what he said was true. You get another letter from the same person telling you to meet him at a certain destination. You decide to go along…
[/PLOT]

Okay… First RPG… Just some things I need to clarify before I give you the sign up:
1) Later on you will find one of the Legendaries. So when it comes to choosing pokemon: no legendaries allowed. No exceptions.
2) Unlike the Matrix trilogy there are no guns. The characters use their pokemon instead.
3) The slow-mo stuff does happen. Yay ^^;
4) Set in Kanto, Johto and Hoenn. Doesn’t really matter where in these regions. You’ll all meet up in the same place in the real world… Basically like the movie.
5) There's limited sign-ups. Too many characters would make it too complicated...

Sign-ups:Sign-ups here
Name:
Age: (13-19)
Gender: (say both and you die…)
Personality:
Appearance:
Location: (Kanto, Johto and Hoenn cities/towns please.)
History: (optional)
Pokémon Owned: (no legendaries)
Relationships:
Other:

My sign-up:
Name: Willow Sanders
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Personality: Quite shy but she will open up and tell you things once she gets to know you. It takes her a while to fully trust someone. She's always friendly and is open to anybody's ideas or suggestions. She's more of an artist than a pokemon trainer and trains pokemon as a hobby.
Appearance: Very deep blue eyes. Layered brown hair down to her shoulders. She's 5'7'', very tanned and has the build of a strong swimmer. She wears jeans, plain coloured t-shirts, black slip on trainers and a white jacket, which is normally tied around her waist. She carries a light blue shoulder bag which has Pokéball holders down the side (bit like the belts trainers wear but on her bag strap) which contains sketch books, art tools, potions and food.
Location: Olivine City, Johto.
History: Lived in "Olivine" all her life. She’s heard a little about the PokéMatrix but doesn’t know if she believes everything. What she does believe about it, and always has done, is that the world seems a little too perfect for her liking…
Pokémon Owned: Dragonair, Flaaffy, Charmander, Mudkip, Girafarig and Bayleef.
Relationships: Childhood friend of Julian/Cereal(?)
Other: Other’s an evil machine! Kill it! Kill it!

i can't post my character's POV for arm reasons explained in the sign up thread... but there's one thing i have to say...
-Enter the PokéMatrix-

[DragonLover]

Name: Julian Davies (Cereal)
Age:17
Gender:bot...Male ^^;
Personality: Very quiet and contemplative, usually keeps to himself, unless there he thinks it necessary to speak out. He always seems to keep to himself and seems to be depressed even though of the pokematrix's "Perfect world" Situation. He's also quite shy and very kind to his pokemon.
Appearance: Attachment... (He doesnt carry a bag, his pokeballs are placed on the inside of his black over coat.
Location: Olivine City, Johto
History: Long time friend of Willow. He's the one that keeps telling her about the Pokematrix, but she wont believe him. His great state of depression was when his espeon showed him a small flash of the "real world". But since all psychic pokemon power's were reduced, he was only able to see very little. He trains pokemon as a profession, he wants to be his fathers succesor and become the leader of the Olivine Gym one day.
Pokemon:
-Cuviel (Ninetales)(F): His all time favourite, is always out of the pokeball.
-Rilmawen (Espeon)(F): Is second favourite, also out of pokeball at all times.
-Elandir (Manectric)(M)
-Aldursil (Marowak)(M)
-Eotheyl (Bulbasaur)(F)
-Gwardometh (Absol)(M)
Relationships: Has always been interested in Willow, but is too shy to tell her.
Other: "NINETALES FIREBLAST OTHER!!!!" *other is smoked...*

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Cereal
---

It was a sunny day as usual; I was seriously beginning to doubt that it even rains here in Olivine. I was beginning to doubt if it even rained at all..
I got out of bed and put some clothes on. I was really bored with summer, I hadn’t done anything exciting since the start and by looks of it, and I don’t think I will. Cuviel my Ninetales was as usual positioned right about my pants refusing to move.
“Girl! Move; come on now I need my pants”
“ niiiiiiine.”
And with that she left my room, giving me access to my pants. After I was dressed I headed down to breakfast. I had to make breakfast as usual, dad was at the gym and mom well mom’s gone. A nice bowl of cereal for me and some pokeblocks for my Pokemon, yet something still bothered me. Ever since that vision that Rilmawen (espeon) had she hasn’t been eating at all. It just worried me.

Since it was just another boring day in Olivine city I thought I’d get the mail. I let Rilmawen, Cuviel and the rest of my Pokemon out of their balls and set them to play around in the backyard. Still that same I thought. In one corner of the yard sat Rilmawen all alone, while on the other side of the yard the rest of my Pokemon played around. I was really beginning to worry about her.

I thought she could use some sympathy and I went to sit beside her while opened the male occasionally petting her.
“Hmm.. What’s this?” I was staring at the last letter from the batch. It was completely ordinary, and it had no return address, it was just blank. On the front It was addressed to “Cereal.” But that’s impossible I though, the only people that knew that that was my name we’re my dad, Willow and my mom. As I was beginning to open it, Rilmawen gave me a big smile, licked me on the cheek and ran to play with the other Pokemon.

As I read I couldn’t believe my eyes. This letter had finally confirmed my theory that we are in a machine. I read further into the letter. It had information about the machine, what type it was, how it harnesses human energy and Pokemon elemental energy. At the very end of the letter in the last paragraph was a prophecy. It said that the Olivine lighthouse would go out. I was curious to see if it was true. I’m sure it was.

In a surge of happiness I returned all my Pokemon into their balls, except for Cuviel and Rilmawen of course, I don’t think I even have pokeballs for them, and I ran out of the house to tell Willow that I was right about the Pokematrix.

Exactly 2 blocks away from my house I made a head on collision with someone. As I staggered off the ground I was trying to make out who it was. It was willow and there in her left hand she held that same letter.
“Do you think its tru…” I began, but before I could finish we we’re plunged into darkness. The whole of Olivine was…

[ChobiChibi]

okay... this probably gonna be short and full of typos. bear with me ^^;
Willow has a broken arm too, lol.
~~Willow~~
I scratched endlessly at my plaster cast. Stupid thing... no writing... no drawing...
"Char" said Charmander as she poked me.
"Letter? for me?" i took the letter from her and tried to open it (OOC: believe me, i've had a letter this week and it's bloody hard to open with one hand!). failing, i gave it to her and she opened it quickly.
"Thanks..." i said as she handed it back.
i read it. the pokématrix? it's true? woah... Cereal was right...
"Come on, Charmander..." She followed quickly.
"Willow! Where are you going?" called Mom.
"To see-"
"Julian. should of known... be careful. have-"
"Charmander out to look after me, i know!" i called, rushing out the house and a long the block.

i'll finish later...

[Arctic A]

Name: Jacen 'Arctic' Stryton
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Personality: A very outspoken and cheerful guy who likes to be in first position. He tends to be quite rash but he's a truely good person who helps those he can. Gets on well with the ladies (Well..he likes to think so at any rate..)
Appearance: About 5'8", with strangely bright blue eyes (Giving him the nickname 'Arctic'.) Quite dark skin from lots of travelling...long black hair which he usually ties back in a ponytail. He wears dark jeans and red/blue striped shirts, and usually a big unbuttoned black shirt over that which comes down to just above his knees. There's also his belt with 3 pokeball holding clips on it. He's usually got on a plain dark grey backpack as well and is often seen with big black hiking boots on...
Location: Ecruteak City, Johto
History: He left his original home in Hoenn and decided to live with his elder brother Michael in Ecruteak. He's a big fan of travelling and seeing new places, so he travelled all over Johto and Kanto. During these adventures he captured and raised his two Pokemon and competed in the Silver Convention (Coming 4th...not bad.) Afterwards, he kind of settled down in the Ecruteak/Oilvine area of Johto and generally lived well...perhaps too well. To Jacen, everything has always seemed just a tiny bit too good...rumors of a 'PokeMatrix' intrigue him.
Pokémon Owned: Salamence, Xatu
Relationships: None currently...
Other: Fan of chicken & mushroom pot noodles...yay







--# Jacen 'Arctic' Stryton #--


The sun was shining down brightly on Mt. Mortar this day. Looking down from it's peak, I could see Ecruteak city spread out below me, and Oilvine shining like a beacon in the distance. I smiled to myself as I sat down and took of my backpack. The wind was blowing lightly in my face and it felt good...everything was good. I began searching through my bag for the food i'd packed, but was greeted by something unexpected. There was a small white envelope there, with the word 'Arctic' written in neat handwriting across it. A letter adressed to me as Arctic? It'd have to be one of my friends...but why would they send me a letter? I'd just seen most of them before I hiked up here...maybe a secret love letter? Don't kid yaself...I pulled it out and looked at it with a puzzled expression on my face.
"What the..." I began, but my head jumped up when I saw the Oilvine lighthouse in the distance suddenly go out, dimming the vision of the city in the distance.
"Strange..." I whispered. Still, it wasn't that big a deal I suppose. I returned my focus to this letter. I was about to open it when I felt one of the Pokeballs on my belt rocking around. I threw back my black shirt and unclipped it. It jumped out of my hand and burst open, and Xatu's red energy shimmered into form.
"What?"
Interesting letter... Xatu's shrill voice fizzled right into my mind.
"Yah. It's adressed to me, ya nosy git." I smiled, ripping the top of the envelope and throwing the scrap paper into the wind. Xatu glanced at it, and raised a wing in it's direction. A purple glow surrounded it, and it slowly floated back into my lap.
That's not very environmentally friendly.
"Hehe..sorry." I laughed, as Xatu picked it up and placed it inside my bag. I turned my attention back to the letter, tossing Xatu's pokeball up and down in my other hand as I read it.

"Arctic, Have you ever thought that you’re being watched? Probably. Ever thought that you were being watched constantly? Maybe not… But what if you were? Being watched constantly, that is. Does the world seem just a little too perfect to be true? Like someone made it and stuck you there, made you who you were and planned your life with no flaws or mistakes. “This is how your life goes. You can’t stray from it.” What if the world was artificial? Okay, so the people and pokemon are real but everything else… just a figment of someone’s imagination? Ever wondered why someone did one thing slightly out of character for them and weren’t there the next day and no one else seems to remember them? Even their pokemon disappeared… Ever heard of the PokéMatrix?
Yes?
Then there is much I must tell you....."

My voice trailed off as I started to read it in my head, trying to understand what I was reading. At the bottom, it was signed 'X'. What the heck? Normally, i'd have dismissed this as some crazy fool's babble. But he knew my name. And this was the second letter i'd gotten from him. And, to be honest, what i was reading made sense to me. It all seemed to make sense....
Well.....? Xatu piped up after a short silence.
"I...I think we should meet this guy. You know I got that other letter before....damnit. What if he's right?"
I, too, think we should investigate...but first-
"First we check out what just happened in Oilvine, ok? The lighthouse dosn't usually do that." I said, as I picked up my bag and flung it back on.
Agreed..
I flicked out my second Pokeball, and threw it up. In another burst of red enegry, the huge form of Salamence appeared before us. He let out a huge roar that echoed down the mountain, and turned his head to look (down) at me.
"Whoa there big guy...keep it down." I said, rasing my eyebrow at him. Salamence growled something, then grinned, and lowered himself down so I could climb onto his back.
He says that you'd want to shout alot if you were cooped up in a ball. Xatu snorted, and flew onto my shoulder.
"Heheh..sorry mate. Well, ya can get a good stretch on ya wings now. We're off to Oilvine." I climbed up onto his great scaled back, and hung on tight. "Let's roll!"
I loved the sensation of flying...it begun with about four sort of jumps into the air as Salamence flapped his wings and gained some height, then the feeling of wind thundering in my face as he zoomed down the mountain with great speed...

[ChobiChibi]

~~Willow~~
Some one crashed into me as i ran along toward Cereal's house. I laughed when i realized it was him. I was about to make a comment about how he shouldn't crash into me like that when he pointed at the letter i was holding.
"Do you think it's tru-" he began.
The lighthouse went out. okay, so the light wasn't that much worse...
"Something's wrong with the ampharos up there... We sould go-" i began.
the light came back quickly and Olivine slowly started getting back to normal.
"i hate to say it, Willow-"
"don't"
"i-"
"don't"
"please?-"
"go on then..."
"i told you so!"
i glared at him, then laughed. we got up and wandered toward the beach. Charmander cringed when she saw where we were going. She hates water.
"Sooo... Are we gonna meet with this X person?" i asked.

[Samchu]

Name: Sam Omaras
Age: 19
Gender: male
Personality: Quiet mostly, likes to observe and play on what he learns but likes action, he doesn't like the idea of running away and if he doesn't know about something he can end up doing either stupid or reckless things. He has a soft side, good luck finding it though.
Appearance: He's a REALLY big guy (6'5) and he has a build to match it. His hair is cut very short to stop any 'irritation' and is a shade of blonde that surprisingly works only if his hair is messed up. He likes to wear black but prefers clothes if they have bits of red on them which is why he has a all-black outfit except for his t-shirt which has red sleeves
Location: Blackthorn
History: TBR
Pokémon Owned: Pikachu (M), Espeon (F), Umbreon (M), Eevee (F), Tyraintar (M), Charizard (F)
Relationships: none
Other: none

Sam
~~~
"Things are going on," I muttered, "things that shouldn't be. Something's no right..."
I mumbled these words as I scanned over the note in my hand. Such weird things were going on, I was sure of it. Espeon had only moments ago mentioned that strange things had been occuring in Olivine - lighthouses just don't go on and off suddenly for no reason.
I looked at my pokemon, "We're gonna take a little trip guys," I announced. I heard them all sigh. "Sorry but y'all gonna have to go back in your balls, that's the way it is."
Regretfully I returned Espeon, Umbreon, Shadow (Eevee) and Tyrainitar before hoping onto Charizard with Pikachu on my shoulder. "Okay girl, let's get going!"
With one beat of her wings we were in the air and on a direct course for Olivine.

[Toxicity]

WARNING: My username may be changing to Kikyo soon

Name: Laura Shinoda
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Personality: Assumingly calm, she's sorrowful, hopeless, and troubled deep down. She's quiet and mysterious because she's withdrawn because of something not too long ago, so now she refuses to socialize about ninety-percent of the time, causing people to accuse her of being cruel, mean, and spiteful. She opens up only to those she trusts, but it takes a while for her to gain that respect for anybody. A bit of a poetic hopeless romantic, she has no idea where she belongs in life.
Appearance: A bit lanky at 5'7", with deep forest green eyes and deep dark brown, nearly black, hair with dark blue streaks dyed in. Her complexion is close to a deathly pale, but seems to have an icy touch to it. She has a long-sleeved black shirt with dark blue sleeves that comes down to about the upper half of her belly button, and dark blue capri-like pants that seem a little tight on her waist, but long legs to where her combat boots are barely seen. On her head is a dark blue headband with an icy blue water droplet on it to hold back her bangs, and a pair of glasses with silver frames, ellipse lenses, and tipped at where it hold it onto her face(*forgets the name of it*) a see-through gray. Her ears are pierced three times each with small silver hoop earrings and around her neck is a black cord necklace with a dark blue Poke'Ball at the end. She also has a black sports bag that contains her supplies, along with a few other things.
Location: Fortree City, Hoenn
History: She was originally from Blackthorn City, until her father died at seven and her mother realized she couldn't raise her, so she was sent to live with her aunt in Fortree City. She has lead an okay life, until a boy betrayed her for another girl when she was 13. She trained Pokemon from 11, and seems to understand what she calls the "Feng Shui" of battle. She's heard about the PokeMatrix, but isn't sure to believe the rumors or not.
Pokemon Owned: Umbreon(F, Kagura), Lapras(F, Aquarius), Vulpix(F, Sango), Pikachu(M, Storm), Altaria(F, Chloe), and Victreebel(M, Mori)
Relationships: Open...
Other: Other is a game...at least that's what they say..*shoots other with arrows*

~*~Laura~*~

The sun gazed high among the trees that early morning, sunrise over the forest outside of Fortree City, Hoenn. Tailows and Pidgey called out to each, as I ignored it and watched the colors from my perch on a sakura tree, my Umbreon, Kagura, resting in my lap. But something in this serenity didn't feel right...like the prescence of darkness in the atmosphere.

Things have been awkward recently...and everybody's saying it's the 'PokeMatrix' and this 'Mr. X' I thought to myself. remembering things I heard in the crowd a month ago when looking around the Lilycove 'Mall', But it can't be...it's only a rumor... Kagura looked up at me, as if something was wrong.

"Kagura...I'm fine...." I said, petting her silky fur to try and ease this worry. Though I lied about it to my faithful Pokemon, I was right: Something is wrong with me, not only the world we live in...

[Arctic A]

#-- Jacen 'Arc' Stryton --#

It didn't take very long at all for Salamence to fly us to the city of Oilvine.

As soon as the ground was about 5 meters below us, I jumped down off his back and landed with a quick thump. Salamence and Xatu drew to a stop a few feet away. I glanced around quickly - everything seemed normal. There wasn't any sort of mass panic or anything like that.
It's probably nothing. You know how Jasmine's Ampharos acts up these days... Xatu hovered down beside me.
"I guess..." I responded, running a hand through my hair. Salamence growled softly, and looked up into the air.
"What's up big guy?" I asked, walking over to him and resting my hand on his blue scaled side. Salamence shook his head a bit, and then lowered his head to my level. I extended my hand and patted him on the head. I found myself smiling as I reached into my pocket and pulled out a berry or two that i'd found back on Mt. Mortar. I tossed them both up, and Salamene gobbled them both quickly.
"Ok. Hungry huh?"
Salamence nodded, and headbutted me playfully in the stomach. I laughed, but found my mind running back to the letter that i'd read back on the mountain...
I believe that the next move is to find this X? Xatu squarked, already knowing that I was going to say 'yes'.
"Where do we even start to look?" I wondered aloud. Xatu offered a shrug, and Salamence just looked at us both while sticking his tongue out.
"I guess you two don't know either." I replied, starting to walk off towards the beach. "Let's walk guys. We got some thinking to do."

[ChobiChibi]

~~Willow~~
"Of course we're gonna see X! Why wouldn't i want to go?" replied Cereal.
"Char!" said Charmander, tugging at my jeans.
"What?"
She pointed at another trainer with an Xatu and a Salamence. She also pointed at how close the water was getting to her. I sighed, recalled her, and sent out Mudkip. He splashed around happily.
"Hey... That trainer has the same letter..." Said Cereal, watching carefully.
"Lets go find out if he's going! Come on!" I said as i began to run over.
"Willow... It might not be-"
I turned around and stopped running, "You're too over protective of me, did you know that?"
"Yes..."
"Well come and be over protective over here!"
"Kip!"
He rolled his eyes but soon followed. Mudkip happily squirted water at nothing. We stopped walking but Mudkip carried on, noticing he had targets to practise on... Cereal's Espeon, Rilmawen, watched from a distance.
Mudkip took a deep breath and let out a strong water gun at the trainer who wasn't ready for it and fell over.
"MUDKIP!" I yelled. He looked sad but i couldn't stay angry and smiled at him. "I'm so sorry" I said, running to the trainer and helping him up. "I'm Willow, that's my Mudkip and that's Julian." I waited for a reply before doing anything else.

[Arctic A]

#-- Jacen 'Arc' Stryton --#

The spray of water didn't manage to dampen my mood as I stood up...
"Hey..nice to meet you guys. The names Jacen, Jace, or as my friends call me, Arc." I smiled, looking at these new faces. This girl Willow was quite an attractive lass - her deep blue eyes really grabbed my attention, and she had very nice brown hair. The guy Julian behind her struck me as quite a quiet but intelligent type - but I suppose there's no way I could make any true judgements until I talked a bit. They seemed like good people... perhaps they could help me with the 'X' problem?
"So...uhh...any idea about what happened with the Lighthouse just before?" I said. Xatu hovered slighty above my head in front of me, staring at the newcomers in a strange way. I gave a short embarressed laugh, and swatted him out of the way quickly.
"Eheheh...that's Xatu. He's a bit odd like that."
Odd? Odd indeed....git.... Xatu squarked, making Willow and Julien jump slightly.
"He dosn't shut his mouth either."
I'm talking telepathically actually.
"Uhm...yeah. Anyway. Sorry 'bout that you guys.." I smiled again as I heard Salamence yawn loudly behind me. His breath heated up the air around us.
"We noticed that you have a letter.." Julien said quietly, pointing at the letter than was hanging out of one of my pockets. "We were wondering if you got it from a certain...X..." He seemed to feel a bit strange saying it. I was quite suprised at first, but then it struck me that these two had probably got the letter too. After reading what it'd said, I suppose the more people the better. Xatu perched on my shoulder, giving me a nod that indicated he thought it was wise to proceed with the conversation.
"Yeah. Yeah, I did. I take it you two did as well?" I replied, dropping my voice to a whisper and pasting a more serious look onto my face. Salamence lowered his head to my level and moved alongside me, imitating my expression.