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Mario hobbled listlessly down the beaten path towards Prof Idaho's lab. Surely one of his assistants could take a look at his foot for him. It could be infected. Are Magikarp poisonous? Mario had no idea. He knew there was some reason he was told to bring antidote if he journeyed down to the water. It must be the Magikarp. They are the only fish in the pond, aren't they? Maybe if he ever payed attention in class he would know. If he even went straight to school in the morning he would have known that today was the day the students would recieve their first Pokemon. This was the day they would get to leave early to begin their training. As it stood, this was the day that Mario Fiehro would walk into the biggest disaster of his life.
The back door of the lab was left open. Mario opened the door slowly and walked into the low lit room.
In the shadows he could hear a voice speaking in a hushed, slightly paniced tone into a video phone. The monitor was off so Mario could only hear half the conversation.
"No... I have it. Yes... I will get it to you in three days... What do you mean? I thought I had until next week... That's impossible!"
Mario piered over the lab table. Across the room he could make out the man's lab coat and messy hair. In his free hand he gripped a yard stick that he slammed on the table as he hung up the phone, causing Mario to flinch and something else to stir in the darkness. There was something with him. He could see two large eyes looming over the man. Something very big was in the room. Possibly a Pokemon? What could it be?
So curious was Mario that he completely forgot he was supposed to be hidden. His arm slid past a beaker which crashed on the floor.
"Who's there?" The man turned around suddenly reaching into his lab coat. "I won't have my secret stolen by any..." He pulled out a Pokeball and recalled the shadowy beast. In panic Mario darted under a lab table as the man hit the lights on. From under the lab table, Mario could see the mysterious man's legs walk slowly through the lab then stop suddenly right in front of the table he was under.
He bent down slowly. Mario could feel panic rising in his heart. The brown pants, the white lab coat, the red tie on denim dress shirt. Then the face he had never seen before. It was...
"Professor Idaho's the name. How do you do?" said the Prof extending his hand to pull Mario out from under the table. " Look's like someone stayed late for some extra credit, eh?"

Mario never saw the professor in class, even when he was there. The Professor was a field researcher who left the teaching to his lab assistants. The Prof seemed a lot less intimidating in the dark. One look at his smile and Mario forgot why he even came to the lab in the first place. "What's your name, boy?"
"Mario Fiehro, sir."
"Well, Mr Fiehro, what can I do for you? My lab assistant, Aaron, not enough for you? Looking for a real challenge are we?" The professor turned around and grabbed a pokeball that was attached to his belt. His eyes gleamed under the florecent lights as he held the ball up to his nose, looking at Mario's reflection on the surface of it. "Yes, I can see it on your face."
"Um... sure." Mario shrugged not sure how to respond to that.
"Well, go on, then. One on one battle right here. You call your Pokemon, I'll call mine."
Mario was flustered by the offer. "But I don't have any Pokemon."
"Ah, then, here." Professor Idaho through Mario the Pokeball he was holding. "We're all out of the usual starters so this will have to do."
Looking at the Pokeball, Mario suddenly felt an overwelming curiousity of what could possibly be inside. He ran his thumb around the groove of the button, testing the texture of it. Then, with a tip of his top hat, he wound up his arm and flung the Pokeball into battle. "GO!"


((AND here's where I find out what I got. I guess any staff can play as Prof Idaho during the gym battle? Or should I just do it?))

Mario said nothing for a moment, then he grinned widely seeing an interesting opportunity that was presented before him. Was the old man really this gullible? "Sure! You can count on me Mr Potatohead Man! Er... PROF Potatohead man"
Professor Idaho smiled proudly at his new pupil. He set the Pokeball in the boys outstretched hands and before letting go he left the boy with one piece of advice. "It is very important that this package reached its destination on time, in tact, and most importantly unopened." Professor Idaho leered at Mario who shrank down a bit into his overalls. "Do you promise to do this?"
"Yes"
"Do you promise?"
"YES! I prom-"
Professor Idaho let go of the Pokeball. "That's three times your promised, my boy." And with a wink and a smile, he turned around and bolted out the door without another word. Mario persued the professor out the door only to catch him take to the sky, clinging to the tuckered talons of a tiny Chatot who appeared way to small to be carrying a man of that size. Mario looked down at the decorative Pokeball and smiled. "Well... this was quite unexpected."