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I suppose I should explain how these Pokemon creatures even turned up in the first place. Some folks get confused when I talk about them, expecting Pokemon to be the only animals around. That simply isn't true. It might be in a couple of decades or so, what with the rate those suckers breed and evolve, but you can't eat a Pokemon more than you can eat a rock, or tree, or a poisonous fish. They're just not meant for consumption. There are still regular animals around. Sometimes I wonder if it would be better if we had just gone back to the old times, before any of this craziness started. But I can't imagine life, or at the very least my life without them. Oh yes, they're from around these parts, I'm telling you now. They didn't arrive on Earth by way of some meteorite as some people claim. Oh no, we made them. We the people.

Back in the year 2024, thirty odd years ago now, the influenza bug got out of control. That's as simple as I can put it. You'd hear ever year about how it had 'created a new strain', how it had 'evolved to better combat its surroundings.' Yeah, that's the best way to put it. It didn't grow to survive its surroundings, it combatted them. Fough them tooth, nail, and claw, or whatever or however the heck viruses do battle. And so every year, the 'flu' would be bad, and people would get sick, and a few very young kids or very old folk would kick the proverbial bucket. But in 2024, it manifested into something absolutely monsterous. A lot of people died, and if the world's scientists hadn't pooled their resources, time, and effort into finding a cure - an actual cure- to the flu, I don't think there'd be many of us left around today, if any. But the flu cure had some unexpected side effects. Some you had to see to believe.

When things got really bad, it was as I said, 2024 and the flu was hitting people hard. I mean, 'falling down on your knees and being unable to get back up' hard. You know the kind of flu you get better from? Well, this wasn't the kind people were getting. The world's leaders only started to take notice when people started to die by the hundreds, and only started to take action when they started to die by the thousands. The interesting thing how ferocious  this new strain of the flu was. How aggressive it was. And yet for months those faceless entities 'In Charge' decided to do nothing but wait and see. C'est la vie, for the government bodies at least. Yet I shouldn't get so down on them. It was them, or at least the goverment-employed scientists, that were few humans instrumental in creating Pokemon. Well, them and the flu vaccine.

You may remember that around the year 2012, there was a lot of activist work centered around animal rights. These people were absolutely petrified and disgusted at the idea of laboratory work being conducted on animals, and rightly so; it was pretty grim stuff. However, in the few years that followed, or so I'm told - I wasn't exactly conceived yet, let alone alive - all this focus seemed to falter away. There are a few theories as to why, but the most popular was that they were hushed by the people they were lobbying against, either with bills or bullets. That's the way the government gets things done these days. Behind the scenes, but with everybody knowing. This may sound all very '1984' to you all, perhaps a little 'Clockwork Orange', and you know I guess in a way it is. That's the way society developed. It couldn't be helped, and in a way, no one wanted to help it. People are very comfortable idling by on a day to day basis, having others think for them.

Well, there was one thing they couldn't predict, one incident they couldn't control. When the activists were silenced and the lab work on animals was given the go-ahead, guess what we tested the flu cure on? Bingo! Animals. You know that rapidly mutating, highly suceptible to evolution, enormously aggressive drug that wiped out the flu? It got to the test animals. The test animals got to the wild. The wild, well it did it's thing, and lo and behold a couple of decades later, we have rapidly evolving, highly advanced, highly aggressive animals just roaming around our world. These creatures, full of such destructive - and creative - potential, were initally locked away. Hidden and contained, out of sight, out of mind. But, to quote the old movie from the very early 2000's that I still hold dear, Jurassic Park, 'Life finds a way.' And it did. We now live with these creatures in symbiosis, them living alongside us. Them living alongside regular animals. These creatures of such wonder, grace, beauty, and terror.

Or, as I like to call them, Pokemon.

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I suppose I should explain how these Pokemon creatures even turned up in the first place. Some folks get confused when I talk about them, expecting Pokemon to be the only animals around. That simply isn't true. It might be in a couple of decades or so, what with the rate those suckers breed and evolve, but you can't eat a Pokemon more than you can eat a rock, or tree, or a poisonous fish. They're just not meant for consumption. There are still regular animals around. Sometimes I wonder if it would be better if we had just gone back to the old times, before any of this craziness started. But I can't imagine life, or at the very least my life without them. Oh yes, they're from around these parts, I'm telling you now. They didn't arrive on Earth by way of some meteorite as some people claim. Oh no, we made them. We the people.

Back in the year 2024, thirty odd years ago now, the influenza bug got out of control. That's as simple as I can put it. You'd hear ever year about how it had 'created a new strain', how it had 'evolved to better combat its surroundings.' Yeah, that's the best way to put it. It didn't grow to survive its surroundings, it combatted them. Fough them tooth, nail, and claw, or whatever or however the heck viruses do battle. And so every year, the 'flu' would be bad, and people would get sick, and a few very young kids or very old folk would kick the proverbial bucket. But in 2024, it manifested into something absolutely monsterous. A lot of people died, and if the world's scientists hadn't pooled their resources, time, and effort into finding a cure - an actual cure- to the flu, I don't think there'd be many of us left around today, if any. But the flu cure had some unexpected side effects. Some you had to see to believe.

When things got really bad, it was as I said, 2024 and the flu was hitting people hard. I mean, 'falling down on your knees and being unable to get back up' hard. You know the kind of flu you get better from? Well, this wasn't the kind people were getting. The world's leaders only started to take notice when people started to die by the hundreds, and only started to take action when they started to die by the thousands. The interesting thing how ferocious  this new strain of the flu was. How aggressive it was. And yet for months those faceless entities 'In Charge' decided to do nothing but wait and see. C'est la vie, for the government bodies at least. Yet I shouldn't get so down on them. It was them, or at least the goverment-employed scientists, that were few humans instrumental in creating Pokemon. Well, them and the flu vaccine.

You may remember that around the year 2012, there was a lot of activist work centered around animal rights. These people were absolutely petrified and disgusted at the idea of laboratory work being conducted on animals, and rightly so; it was pretty grim stuff. However, in the few years that followed, or so I'm told - I wasn't exactly conceived yet, let alone alive - all this focus seemed to falter away. There are a few theories as to why, but the most popular was that they were hushed by the people they were lobbying against, either with bills or bullets. That's the way the government gets things done these days. Behind the scenes, but with everybody knowing. This may sound all very '1984' to you all, perhaps a little 'Clockwork Orange', and you know I guess in a way it is. That's the way society developed. It couldn't be helped, and in a way, no one wanted to help it. People are very comfortable idling by on a day to day basis, having others think for them.

Well, there was one thing they couldn't predict, one incident they couldn't control. When the activists were silenced and the lab work on animals was given the go-ahead, guess what we tested the flu cure on? Bingo! Animals. You know that rapidly mutating, highly suceptible to evolution, enormously aggressive drug that wiped out the flu? It got to the test animals. The test animals got to the wild. The wild, well it did it's thing, and lo and behold a couple of decades later, we have rapidly evolving, highly advanced, highly aggressive animals just roaming around our world. These creatures, full of such destructive - and creative - potential, were initally locked away. Hidden and contained, out of sight, out of mind. But, to quote the old movie from the very early 2000's that I still hold dear, Jurassic Park, 'Life finds a way.' And it did. We now live with these creatures in symbiosis, them living alongside us. Them living alongside regular animals. These creatures of such wonder, grace, beauty, and terror.

Or, as I like to call them, Pokemon.