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The New Normal - OMAKE - April Fools
🕑 Added 2024-04-01 11:38:17 +0000 UTCThe New Normal – OMAKE – April Fools
Suddenly, I received an emergency call from Lance.
“John, I need you to hurry over here.” He said to me with obvious alarm and panic in his voice. I had never heard him so unsettled before, “I know you’re busy, but you have to come see this. It’s urgent.”
“On my way.” I nodded, dropping everything I was doing as I pushed myself to head to the Indigo Plateau as soon as possible.
And as soon as I arrived, I could already see what he was so concerned about. Hovering just over the Indigo League building was a gigantic portal that swirled ominously in the sky. I shivered, not out of fear, but because of the sense of wrongness that was radiating out of whatever this was.
I felt a large presence fly up next to me, and I turned to see Lance sitting on his Dragonite.
“Thanks for coming, John. Do you have any idea what we’re looking at here?” He asked me.
“I should be the one asking YOU that.” I replied.
He shook his head, “We’ve not a clue. Even the scientists that I’ve sent out to study whatever this is came back with nothing. All we know is that it’s a portal of some sort.”
“Has anyone tried going through the portal?” I asked.
“We have had brave volunteers offer to do so, but after some testing we found out it’s one-way only.” He answered, “Things can only come through from wherever that portal links to, and not the other way round—”
He was cut off by the simultaneous buzzing of both of our phones. Curiously, we both checked to see who had messaged us before we saw a very strange message appear on our screen.
‘Click To Roll!’
“…Are you seeing this?” I asked Lance.
“Spam message, perhaps.” Then he frowned, “But I can’t seem to delete it.”
I tried to clear the message off my screen, but I couldn’t do so. It was just stuck there, and I couldn’t access my phone unless I clicked on it.
I was about to just restart my phone before my finger moved on its own, clicking into the message before I could realise what I was doing.
A small pair of pop-ups appeared on my screen. They were small squares, with covered silhouettes of pictures appearing on each square. Each square had 6 smaller silhouettes of Pokémon, with 1 much larger silhouette that took up most of the frame.
One of the squares had the word ‘ANCIENT’ at the top, and the other had ‘FUTURE’. And the silhouettes of the Pokémon all looked different.
“…What the fuck is this?” I heard Lance muttering, but before we know it the portal above FLASHED with energy as it started to spin with incredible force.
Both Lance and I immediately braced ourselves for the worst, but after the portal spun up for a while it vomited out a single blue star that rocketed towards the ground. Surprisingly, despite the speed and force that it seemed to hit the ground with, there was no damage to the surroundings as it landed.
Lance and I quickly approached where the star had landed, only to find a single Rare Candy on the ground, with a single trainer that was standing there nervously.
“…I pressed the button.” He said to us, “I pressed it, and the blue star came landing down right next to me.”
Then the portal in the sky began spinning up again, but this time, instead of a single star being shot out – a barrage of 10 stars all came raining down at once. The light of a purple star immediately caught my eye, and the two of us immediately hurried to where it landed.
The blue stars rained down around us, next to each trainer who had apparently pressed the button, each of them transforming into a single Rare Candy as they landed. But when the purple star landed, a full Pokémon appeared instead.
It looked like a robotic Donphan, with a huge treads replacing its trunk and a body of steel. It didn’t look natural, almost as if it had been built by someone. It was the weirdest Pokémon I had ever seen.
Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to ask questions as the portal continued to spin as more and more people pressed the button out of curiosity. The sky was filled with stars of blue and purple as they rained down constantly.
“…I’m going to press it.” I heard Lance say, and before I could stop him his finger pressed down on the box that had ‘ANCIENT’ written on top of it.
I had expected another blue or purple star to land next to him, but to my utter surprise, the sky itself turned ORANGE as a single orange star shined down as it landed next to Lance, turning into a very strange variant of a Salamence. But whatever it was, it was a Dragon, and I could see Lance’s eyes shining with interest as soon as he saw it.
Without a second’s hesitation, Lance immediately threw out a Pokéball and captured the strange alternate form of Salamence. He had a very pleased grin on his face, and I could tell that he no longer questioned whatever phenomenon was happening.
It was Lance’s capture of his new Pokémon that drove me to finally bite the bullet and press down on the button myself. I chose ‘FUTURE’ just to see what I would get, and to my surprise, the portal in the sky began to glow orange once again.
Was this luck based? Did this mean I had shared Lance’s luck?
I was brimming with excitement as I waited for my own orange star to land next to me. However, instead of a cool and powerful looking Pokémon like Lance had got, I instead got this strange looking blue turtle that looked like it was made from crystals.
“Tera!” It squeaked cutely, which was all that it needed to do for me to decide that I was adding whatever this was onto my team.
Later, it was only once we returned to the labs, that the scientists had confirmed that whatever this mysterious app was – it was directly linked to the portal. A click on the app would cause the portal to spit out something. Blue got you a Rare Candy, Purple a Pokémon comprising one of the smaller silhouettes, and Orange seemed to give you the Pokémon that formed the large silhouette that was displayed on each box.
The scientists also confirmed that whatever you got came down to luck, and the app would somehow take your real life money in order to ‘generate’ a Pokémon.
They later named this strange phenomenon the Generated And CHAnce Pokémon. Or G.A.C.H.A, for short.
And it would change the very world.
A.N. Happy April Fools! This should be very familiar to anyone who’s played a gacha game before. Yes, John and Lance have the best luck in the world. Don’t question it.
Obviously, this chapter is NON-CANON. Needless to say, don’t take anything in this chapter seriously. Hope you enjoyed!
Comments
High Simp of Mephala
Honestly considering the number of random portals that show up in canon having a Gacha portal would be completely believable.
