PR Pokeball in Tawog: The Mistake Prologue

Prologue


It’s a warm and sunny day in Elmore.  It seems to be just an ordinary day, which is rare for the Watterson family.  A day where they can relax and have fun.  Gumball, Darwin, and Anais play all kinds of games in the backyard, Richard sets up for a long day of channel flipping and Devin, the honorary member of this magnificent family, assists Nicole in making some ice cold lemonade for a warm day like this one.

“Ok, Devin,” says Nicole as she scoops a cup of sugar, “Just a little more sugar and it should be good to go.”

“That’s great, Mom,” says Devin, he reaches for the freezer handle, “I’ll get the ice.”

“Thank you, Devin, that’s very nice of---uh, uh, thank you but I don’t want to trouble you, or, or have you freeze your fingers.”

“Freeze my fingers?” asks Devin.  “Mom, freezers freeze things from the inside, and the handle is on the outside.  My fingers will be fine.”

Nicole gets very nervous as Devin’s hand gets closer and closer to the handle.  “NO DON’T!!!.....uh I mean, you just go sit with Dad and relax.  I’ll bring you some nice, cold, refreshing lemonade in just a moment,” she says with a nervous laugh.

Devin thinks of how strange the situation is.  Nicole has never turned down his offer to help before, and she obviously doesn’t want him to get in the freezer.  At that moment, Devin assumes Nicole is hiding something.  “Mom, what’s going on?” he says.

“What do you mean, honey?” asks Nicole.

“Whenever I offer to help you with something, you always accept,” says Devin.  “But not only are you refusing my offer to get the ice, but you’re acting really jumpy about it.”

“Oh, sweetie, you’re imagining things,” says Nicole.

“…..Really?” Devin comments.  He decides to test Nicole’s statement.  He slowly reaches for the handle.  Nicole lets out a small yelp.  Devin backs off and Nicole relaxes.  “Let’s try that again,” he says to himself.  Once again he reaches for the freezer handle.  This time a small yell escapes Nicole’s lips.  Devin backs off and Nicole begins to breathe.  Devin reaches.  Nicole squeals.  Devin reaches.  Nicole shouts.  Devin reaches.  Nicole screams!  “Ok, what is going on?!  You’re hiding something from me, aren’t you?”

“What?  No, of course not,” says Nicole.  “Why would I be hiding something from you?”

“I don’t know,” says Devin, “but I know it’s not because my Birthday’s coming, that’s not for another seven months.  Look, Mom, this family knows of my true species, my alter ego and the Dark Lord.  How can I protect you from his evil and just about everything else if you keep secrets from me?!”

“Devin,” says Nicole, “Even though you’re a human and the rest of us aren’t, and you were only made honorary, you’re still family and secrets are not meant to be kept from families.”

“Ok, fair point,” says Devin.  “But that doesn’t explain why you won’t let me-”

“Hey Devin,” Richard calls out, “how do you run the TV again?”

“Oh come on Dad,” says Devin as he steps out of the kitchen, “We’ve been over this a million times!”

“Literally?” asks Richard.

“Just about,” says Devin.

“Whew, that was close,” says Nicole as she gets the ice out of the freezer.  “Fortunately, by the time Devin gets done teaching Richard, he’ll have forgotten what just happened.”

All the way from his dark fortress in the human world, the evil Lord Dark-R has been spying on the Watterson family.  “How intriguing,” he says.  “What could be in that freezer that she doesn’t want the Red Ranger to see?”

“If I may, Master,” says Professor Houndoom, “it is most likely a personal secret she’s keeping from her family, probably an embarrassing secret.”

“No,” says Dark-R, “she knows how loyal the Red Ranger is, she can trust him with anything like that.  No, this is something the entire family is keeping from him.  If the very family the Red Ranger swore to protect is hiding something from him, then it must be crucial.”

“Perhaps it will give us the upper hand, ensuring the destruction of Tawog,” says General Salamence.

“My thoughts exactly,” says Dark-R.

“Not to worry, my Lord,” says Professor Houndoom, “I will have a new Shadow Pokémon created to infiltrate the Watterson household and retrieve what they’re hiding.  Now I just need a pure Pokémon with enough stealth to-”

“No,” Dark-R interrupts, “this is something I must find out for myself.”

“Wh-wh-wh-what?!” says Professor Houndoom, surprisingly.  “Master, you’re not actually thinking of setting foot into Tawog, inside the home of the wretched family yourself!”  Dark-R continues to look at Houndoom with no change in expression.  “You are, you are thinking of doing that.”

“Lord Dark-R,” says General Salamence, “Your obedient servants have dispatched to that world you despise so you don’t have to.  We have no issues with keeping up with that routine.”

“Your loyalty is appreciated, Salamence,” says Dark-R, “But if the Wattersons’ freezer really holds the key to eradicating all of Tawog, I must perform this task myself.”

Devin returned to the human world for the night and the rest of the Watterson’s sleep peacefully, dreaming wonderful dreams.  But suddenly, all their dreams quickly turn into nightmares.  They stir in their beds while Darwin ends up making his bowl wobble.  Their nightmares feel so real; they don’t even hear the sound of the very intruder responsible for them enter their home.  The Dark Lord sets foot in the Watterson household for the first time.

“While those pathetic Tawogian mortals stir in the horrors of their nightmares,” says Dark-R “I will discover their secret without them ever knowing I’ve entered this wretched place.”  He wastes no time as he heads into the kitchen.  “Secrets hold great opportunities to those who discover them, especially dark secrets.”  He takes a firm grip on the freezer handle.  “And now I will discover what the Red Ranger does not know.”  Slowly he opens the door and is shocked to see what he thought was long gone.  “It cannot be.”  He reaches in the freezer and pulls out a jar containing a small, frozen, slimy creature.  “Kenneth?  No, Kentyth.”  Dark-R removes the lid and slowly touches the frozen creature and gasps at the discovery of an even deeper secret.  “He…is…alive.  How is this possible?  His life was taken by the Firerage Ranger at the end of the War for Tawog.  Wait! Kentyth, frozen in the Wattersons’ freezer, still alive.  That’s the secret they’re keeping from the Red Ranger.”  With an evil laugh, the Dark Lord returns Kentyth to his cold abode.  “This is the Wattersons’ deepest, darkest secret, and it has provided me with a foolproof plan to end this world.  It will soon become their greatest mistake.   Putting my plan into action without the Power Rangers’ knowledge of my involvement will be difficult.  Looks like I will need some assistance, from the Inorbit Empire.”