“In the order of things that shouldn't be here, I am the sixth. But when it comes to battle, I always go out first.” The early life story of the first revivified Lileep.

Published in PokéCommunity, June 2009.

This was my first actually well-developed story for the Pokémon franchise and my first attempt at published worldbuilding for it as well. It details the early days in the life of a Lileep, the first specimen of his species to be revivified from a Root Fossil, as he tries to understand the other Pokémon around, the place he's in, and the “creature” that has apparently brought him to life, a “human” who with the evolution of the Suocéverse would later become Ravir Eisenhorth.

While the story was left incomplete at two chapters before the end, closure for it might be given either via the ending of Interim (TBA) or via a potential rewrite, still in the evaluation stage.

Debuts:

• Lileep (Ravir)
• Ravir Eisenhorth and some of his team (unnamed).
• Mew (Caledoria) (unnamed).

Nominations:

• Serebii FFA 2009: “Best Pokémon Centric”, “Best Expansion of Canon”.