A New Trainer

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This story is no longer being updated. The new version can be found here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/128794/a-new-trainers-journey

Marco suddenly wakes up in a forest, not in his home, where he was focused on schoolwork. When he finds out he's in the world of Pokémon, he goes on an adventure to learn more about the world he is now in. Starting in Kalos, Marcos plans to visit each region and train himself up to handle himself properly in this new world.

However, unknown forces seem to threaten the Pokémon World. Was Marco brought to this world by Arceus, who has been known to transport people and beings, in order to help with this threat? Or is his presence a key factor for these entities? Find out next time on Dra- *cough* *cough* find out as I write these chapters.

This is a Self-Insert (SI) that will only use game information/canon as a basis. So, it should be no surprise that this is also an AU fanfic. This story will incorporate the main series games for a bulk of the content, though the side games will find their own way into it.

*Warning: realistic setting. Such a world should naturally be more dangerous than is presented in games.*

I do not own any characters, locations, or anything else from the franchise of Pokémon except for my original characters (OC). Any resemblance to real people, locations, or events is not intended unless specifically stated. Whatever else that'll stop me from getting sued.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: WaldoBro21

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 3.8/ 5.0
Followers: 256
Views: 155,792

Chapters(63 total)

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Community Reviews(4)

BoypanadaRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
It's a pokemon ff with my favorite mon's on the team and an mc that doesn't think with his lower half.
*some spoilers ahead so continue at your own risk*
The only thing that bothers me is that the main problem/antagonist and the danger it can cause is downplayed, I'm not saying it's conveyed poorly, it's just that if you have a global threat and only show it's effect on important characters then it gives me the vibes of an coordinated criminal attack rather than an interdemensional horror that disregards life of lesser beings.
I just think if we could have short interludes that shows how the regular people and mons are being affected it would give us, the readers, a scale of how big this problem really is.
But that's just me, regardless of what I think, its a good pokemon ff and it's not a mtl so i'll continue reading.
Mad_FaeRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
So the MC is a character, the Pokémon are wonderful bastards, and there is some arceus blasphemy so this story is overall pretty great.
Grammatically and the other coherent parts of a story are solid, I didn't feel like clawing my eyes out at a butchering of the English language as I am accustomed in some scripts, in fact it was lovely and not pain inducing at all, so my praises.
It's funny and great.
Tangerine53Royal Road
★★★ 3.0
Read about 25 chapters and really enjoyed the first 10 where he stayed in Santalune and the surrounding area, and the Author did a good job with World Building, despite me being cautious about using all the protagonists of the games as champions, and explaining things about pokemon.
However, after this point feel like the plot starts to move way too quickly and his pokemon gain strength way to quickly and easily imo.
His inkay was stated to be 2 months old when he caught it and it was starving and malnourished and yet in a time frame between 1-3 months it has reached a point to be ready to evolve. Just seems a bit forced that’s all.
I am looking forward to the rewrite and hope it can address some of these issues
Tread CarefullyRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
This is very clearly the work of a new writer, just as green as can be.
Rather than feeling like an organic story that we're sitting in on, much of it almost reads like a clinical report on a series of events, with some details on characters' motivations thrown in for explanation. And that about sums it up for the Style, too.
Characters:
Everything is just kinda boom-boom-boom; there's zero time to just let things breathe.
For example, when other characters find out the MC is not of this - or any - Pokemon world, you'd think they'd react with some measure of disbelief, right?
Nope!
They take it in stride, not questioning it for even a moment, and plow right ahead to the business at hand.
– To be fair, that info was obtained through telepathy, but zero time is given for doubt, nor for suspicion that the MC might simply be delusional. The plot point is touched, then immediately left behind.
Story
Likewise, when the MC blows into town and tells the police he heard someone admit to a murder and witnessed one of the criminals die to a wild pokemon, what do the police do?
Do they search him to see if the person talking about dead people is telling the truth, or if he's actually dangerous himself? Does he get held in their custody while they send people to investigate the scene, looking for evidence that might either implicate him, or clear him of any suspicion?
Nope!
The whole thing gets a couple of lines saying the MC's report "made quite a commotion," and that they sent out a bunch of Officer Jennys, and that's that.
They do "interrogate" him later, but by that time, he's been left to his own devices for most of the day. The story tries to pass it off as the secretary letting him go, but I can only assume the author was just too focused on laying out the plot as quick as he could. Perhaps out of excitement for getting to the "good part?"
– Besides, the "interrogation" is really just Jenny telling him some things, so it doesn't even count.
(There's also some rather odd c