Chapter Text

01/XX/XXXX

First day oh boy oh boy oh boy.

My name's Vera, I'm a gardevoir, and I'm so excited! Today's the day school started at my new high school! I wasn't very popular back at my last school, before I moved over the summer, but this time it was going to be different.

All the anime I saw when I was preparing for this said day that all ordinary pokemon get a harem, loyal quirky friends and bitchy rivals. Why would anime lie? It has been alongside me in the roughest times of my life.

Vera had a faint memory of herself as a tween kirlia watching a high school anime, with bishie sceptile.

"Watashi wa ikanakereba naranai, watashi no wakusei wa watashi o hitsuyō to suru" Bishie sceptile says. This enrages Vera.

"You fucking asshole!" Vera throws a pillow to the screen, then cries into another pillow. "OTP ruined". She snapped out of the flashback.

Now, as we all know, you must be late on the first day of class, as that is how you get introduced to the rest of the school properly.

What time does school start again?

06:00 AM.

Good.

What was the time when I woke up?

05:50 AM.

Perfect.

"Good morning…" Vera's mom tries to greet her while she stuffs a piece of toast in her mouth.

"STFU mom I'm late" Vera barely grabs her school bag before running away like every good anime main character. Vera's mom face palms.

"I really hope she gets friends today".

Vera is running in the sidewalk, while digesting the toast.

I really hoped to get friends today. I always was a bit of a loner back at my old school. But that's ok, because it's not like nobody liked me. No, it was because I'm a solitary manectric, according to that online test. I'm wild and unpredictable. I didn't need friends back then, and I don't need them now. I just choose to have friends this time.

'Now, if my calculations are correct, I should bump into my new love interest in 3, 2, 1, 0 and a half, 0 and…' Vera thought.

Vera crashes into a gallade who's also running to school and is going the opposite direction for some reason.

After I recovered from the crash, you wouldn't believe I meet the sexiest gallade in the world! He had red crimson eyes, and he was pretty well built. His first words to me were very romantic, too:

We get a close up on gallade's face, as his face turns into Bishounen.

"Anata no tōsuto no panko wa watashi no me no naka ni aru" He says in the most anime voice ever.

"E-Excuse me?"

"YOUR TOAST'S CRUMBS ARE IN MY EYES!"

Reality hits her in the form of the Gallade wincing in pain.

"OH ARCEUS THE PAIN!"

"I- I'm sorry!" I took out a towel and gave it to him, who cleaned his eyes with it.

"Thanks". There was an awkward silence for a few seconds. "Who are you?"

"I'm V-Vera" I asked awkwardly. Oh Arceus why must I be so idiotic!

The gallade then smiled sincerely.

"Pleasure to meet you".

Me and the gallade (Who's named Gerard, BTW) were chatting in the outside of Palkia's High School (OMA he looks like a dick).

"So what are you interested in?" Gerard asked me.

"Anime"

"That's for nerds" What?!

"Excuse you!" I said while puffing my cheeks annoyed at him.

"Why are you doing that? You look like a baby"

"Huh…"

"It's because they do it in anime, right?"

"Shut up! Baka baka baka" I would have said to him if I wasn't totally ashamed.

"GER GER! LIKE, OVER HERE!" An annoying voice screamed towards him.

"HI MISSY!" He responded, in a lovesick voice. What is going on?

A mismagius sashayed over to us with the smuggest damn smile I ever saw. She scowled when she saw me. Is she going to be… My rival?

"Oh my Arceus, Gerard, who's this chick?" Missy ordered, not asked, Gerard. What Gerard said next broke my heart:

"Oh, she's Vera, my new friend. Vera, this is Missy, my girlfriend"

Girlfriend.

Girlfriend.

A thunder mentally struck Vera as she winced (In her head) in pain. Vera imagined a ship piloted by several Vera crashing and tumbling against the waves.

"Captain, we're losing the ship!" A Vera crewman said to Vera captain.

Suddenly, a giant Missy appeared and devoured the ship. Fade into reality, as Gerard is waving his arms in front of Vera.

"Vera? Are you alright?" Gerard asked me. How was I supposed to, my heart was just broken into several little pieces, then stomped repeatedly! It was a good thing the bell saved me at that moment, or else I'm pretty sure I couldn't keep it together anymore. Anyways, I ran to my class when I heard the bell.

"Like, what a weirdo" Missy sneered. Gerard just looked at Vera while frowning worriedly.

"I wonder what happened to her"

"Are you, like, thinking of cheating on me with, like, that weirdo?" Missy got in a confused (And embarrassed) Gerard's face.

"W-Why would I do that?"

"Like, to ruin my life!"

"How can I ruin your life?"

"Like, it's simple" Missy pulled a chart from out of nowhere. "First, you're, like, going to cheat on me with her" She pointed at an image of Gerard kissing Missy, then kissing Vera. "Then, you're gonna, like, dump me to be with her" She pointed at another image, this one was of Gerard and Vera laughing at a heartbroken Missy. "Then, I'll, like, become the school's laughingstock, like" This part showcased Missy getting laughed at by the entire school. "And then, I'll, like, have to drop out of, like, school" The next image showed Missy with beggar's clothes in the street. "AND then, you two are, like, going to get married and, like, have children and name them all Missy just to, like, fuck with me…"

Gerard ignored her after that part, while thinking:

'What's the deal with Vera, anyway? She's just kind of cool, even if she's a big geek. I don't understand Missy, she just thinks I'm going to cheat on her with the first girl on my egg group?"

When he stopped spacing out, Missy was pointing at a atomic explosion.

"AND THEN, like, third world war is gonna happen! Like, understood?!"

"We're late" Gerard said simply to Missy, who suddenly panicked. She grabbed him by the hand, while dragging him to the school.

"Like, quick! Why did you had to, like, hold me over?!" Gerard just sighed at this.

"Seems like the first day assembly is starting. " I said to myself as I ran in the deserted hallway. I then bumped into a mawile. Was I really going to bump into everybody? It's very annoying after a while.

"Watch there you're going, girl! You just hit Nicky, daughter of the terrifying Frostbite" I shuddered when she said who was her father.

"F-Frostbite? Y-You are the daughter of Frostbite?"

"Yeah, and you better not get in my way again or else…"

"Who is Frostbite?"

"HOW CAN YOU BE AFRAID OF MY FATHER IF YOU DON'T KNOW HIM?!" Nicky screamed so angrily. Take a chill pill, girl!

"YOU SAID IT IN A REALLY CREEPY WAY!" I answered in the same way.

"WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING?!"

"I DON'T KNOW, YOU SCREAMED FIRST!"

"STOP SCREAMING!"

"I'LL STOP IF YOU DO!"

"I WON'T!"

"THEN I WON'T TOO!"

"OK, WE'LL SCREAM FOREVER!"

"THAT'S FINE BY ME!"

"YEAH!"

"YEAH!"

"YEAH!"

"YEAH!"

"YEAH!"

"YEAH!"

"YEAH!"

"YEAH!"

"Excuse me" A calm voice called to us. We turn around, and it's vice-principal mewtwo.

"Would you please go with me to talk in my office" They said in a calm way.

I was going to the principal office in the first day? This couldn't be happening! But I got to thank arceus, as just then…

"Ugh, Mewtwo, you're SO strict" Principal Mew floated over to us. Vice-Principal Mewtwo scowled for a second.

"You, the gardevoir" Principal Mew pointed to me. "Go to class, please. The assembly just ended".

"Thank you" I said meekly as I went over to history.

"Again bullying somebody in the hallway, Nicky?" Mew sighed. "It's always specifically in the hallway. If you're going to bully somebody do it with creativity geez. You must understand that it's not ok to do this every single day. It's going to take a ma-while to teach you this" They smirked as Mewtwo and Nicky recoiled.

"I hate you" Mewtwo muttered under their breath. They then cleared their throat and spoke to Nicky. "Anyway, you won't detention, because it's the first day, but if you keep this up, you'll be facing expulsion" Mewtwo said as they and Mew walked away, probably to the office.

Nicky shuddered. Then darkly muttered:

"I will have my revenge, Gardevoir I have just met and have nothing against whatsoever outside of the fact she bumped into me…"

'Now I just gotta check out my classes and I'll be solid for the day' I thought as I went to class.

"Hello to all my students…" An old druddigon lady said slowly. "I'm Professor Diana, and I teach history. Please open your book on page 46"

"Uh, Miss Diana? We don't have books yet…" A ludicolo spoke up.

"I don't want excuses on this classroom. Now, can somebody here tell me about how Arceus created Giratina? C'mon, it's easy, It's on page 23" Diana then fell asleep in her table.

Miss Diana seems nice, if a bit… out of it.

"Hello students… My name is Chester, and I will be your science teacher…" A chandelure said in that creepy ghost voice many of you have probably heard at shitty haunted houses before you decided you wanted your money back because damnit you saw the strings on that ghost. He then scribbled his name of the blackboard while making the trademark chalk squeaking noise. "Can somebody tell me… what science is?"

Chester seems to be a creep. I don't like him at all.

"S-Science is the concerted human effort t-to understand, or to understand better…" A timid bewear said, before being interrupted by Missy (WHY DOES SHE HAVE SCIENCE WITH ME?!).

"Like, who cares? It's, like, the first day, so, like, don't give us work, ok?" Missy said to Chester. She then turned towards the bewear and glared at her. She's so mean!

"Missy… Haven't we talked about… THIS!" An unholy light was dropped on the class as Chester used Flash (Why would someone have Flash?). "Will I have… To repeat myself?"

"Nononono!" The entire class screamed at him.

"Very well…" Chester turned towards the blackboard.

As I was taking note, I saw that a lumineon passed me a note.

"Pass it to Bertha" He whispered. I looked at him in confusion. "The bewear, you idiot! How could you have signed to this school without knowing every single student?" He scream-whispered to me.

When the lumineon was back into taking notes (Check his Smartphone hidden in his papers) I decided to study the note. It said: "U fuckein nerd. Noboday, like, laiks u. Signed: Like, not Missy". I threw it on the nearest trash can, how dare she bully somebody with such a crime to the laws of reading outside of a phone!

Vera then imagined (Yes she's going to do this often) a sableye receiving a text. He briefly screams in pain before taking his eye-gems off his face. He then looks much more relaxed.

"Ah, much better. Wait, those weren't my eyes! These were just gems I found!" The Sableye screams in pain again. She stops imaginating just in time for the bell to ring.

It was lunch time, and I was alone. It's not like Gerard was sitting with Missy and her little gang and I don't have any other friends. No, I just eat better when alone. Suddenly, Bertha went up to me.

"C-Can I s-sit with you?" She said, her voice obviously shaky. I thought 'Why not?' because she seems to be a bit alone and I want to help her, not because I'm alone.

"Yeah" I said in the most cool and laidback voice ever. Bertha's eyes shimmered.

"T-Thank you…" Bertha then sat besides Vera on the table. "S-So w-what's your name?"

"Vera, and yours…"

"I-I know you know I'm B-Bertha, I overheard your conversation with Leonore, that douche friend of M-Missy. T-Thank you for not showing me t-that n-note. I-I don't know what i-it said, but it came from M-Missy, so…"

"What do you know about Missy" Vera asked her, eyes half closed.

"I hate that bitch" Bertha half-closed her eyelids too.

"Me too"

"I-I think you would want may want to s-see this" She then handed me a pamphlet from out of nowhere (Hammerspace? I don't see any hammers…). It showcased a gigantic Mawile crushing a little crying gardevoir.

"Holy crap" The girl I bumped into today wants to fight me after school? And more concerning… "She made professional posters in a few hours?"

"S-She had a template r-ready"

"Huh" Vera leaned on her chair. "Who is her father and why should I be afraid of him?". Bertha then shuddered.

"F-Frostbite? Y-You mean the F-Frostbite? T-The guy w-who's said to be the l-leader of the P-Poke-mafia? N-Nicky's his daughter. S-She threatens Pokemon she doesn't like and t-then they disappear."

Vera gulped at this.

"Why would a supposed mafia leader hunt down underage pokemon?" Vera's only idea was to picture in her head a pangoro beating up a little cleffa.

"So I heard you were doing…" The pangoro said in a gruff voice.

"It's all a lie!" The cleffa squeaked in a small voice.

"… Homework?"

"Ask anybody! I would never do that!"

"Don't lie! That was my homework, you bitch!" The pangoro started beating up the cleffa with Comet punch. Vera then felt being shaked around by Bertha.

"S-So, are you going to fight or n-not? I-I have been asking you for a w-while, and you j-just stood there…"

"Alright, you lazy bums! I'm Lee, and I will be your teacher for gym class! You better be in the best of shapes by the end of the year!" An overenthusiastic hitmonlee with the most original of names stood firm in the basketball court.

Mister Lee is very happy about his job.

"Now we will play DODGEBALL, the greatest of school sports!" He then separated the class into two teams. The leader of one was Gerard and the other was some Lucario I didn't know.

Gerard seemed to be just about to pick Vera, before Missy got in front of him with an angry face. He then sighed and choose Missy and Leonore. The lucario choose Vera and Bertha. The rest of the teams are irrelevant for now.

"ENOUGH CHOOSING BANTER! NOW IS THE TIME WE PLAY LIKE MEN! AND LADIES! AND LADIES PRETENDING TO BE MEN! AS FOR THE GAME… IT'S ON!"

I quickly tried to dodge all the balls (…), and tried to wait until there were few players. Bertha was out almost immediately. After a while, it was just Gerard, the lucario, and me. The only ball in the game was in Gerard's side. He quickly threw it towards me, but I swiftly (Read: Barely got hit) avoided it, and passed it to the lucario. He quickly struck Gerard with the ball (Again, …), and we won!

Or so I thought.

The lucario was promptly took out by an unseen ball. I looked over to see that there was one remaining player on the other team:

Nicky.

"Ha! The power of plot convenience made me temporally invisible to you so my appearance later can be shocking!"

It was all up to Vera, it seemed, so she grabbed the ball and threw it at Nicky.

Miss.

However, Nicky didn't went over to get the ball.

"What's the matter?" I said to her. "Scared?"

"Nope" She smirked, as she turned her back towards me and weird energy formed in her "Second mouth". When I realized what it was, I nearly shat a brick.

"What the…"

"Nicky! What are you doing?!" Lee asked her while trying to reach her before she did what she was going to do.

Too late.

"Shadow ball!"

It's super effective.

Vera fainted.