Always thought death would be a slow fade to black. Maybe a tunnel of light. Maybe some cosmic entity judging my internet search history. Instead, I got a loading screen.
> [Initializing System... Loading Soul Core…]
[Compatibility Detected: ⚡ ELECTRIC / 🐉 DRAGON]
[Welcome, Reincarnate. Name: N/A. Species: Unregistered Pokémon Variant]
[System Synchronizing... Complete.]
I blinked—at least I thought I did. Everything felt off. My limbs, if you could even call them that, were foreign. Scaled. Power pulsed through me like I was plugged directly into the sun.
The last thing I remembered? Rain. A crosswalk. Headlights.
And then… nothing.
Now, my world was heat and static. My vision was sharper, my breath hotter. Electricity crackled at my fingertips—talons now, crackling blue with contained voltage. I wasn't in my body anymore. I wasn't even human.
I was reborn. Not as a person. Not as an animal.
As a Pokémon.
But not one from any Pokédex I'd ever seen.
My scales shimmered like black chrome, pulsing with cyan light across my chest and tail. Lightning coiled through my wings—actual wings. Dragon wings. I could feel the latent charge in the air bending to my will. A rumble echoed from my throat, half-growl, half-thunder.
And then there was that voice in my head again.
> [Daily Quests Available.]
[Title Unlocked: Stormborne Hatchling]
[Would you like to open your Starter Pack?]
Starter Pack?
Was this a joke? Did Arceus have a sense of humor?
I tried to laugh. Instead, a low electric growl rumbled from deep in my chest.Great. I'd played hundreds of games with systems like this, but I never thought I'd wake up inside one. Let alone as a literal Electric/Dragon-type Pokémon.Not even a cute one.More like... a boss monster,And somewhere out there, I could feel it: Trainers. Wild Pokémon. Gyms. Legendaries. A world not meant for humans like me anymore.
But I wasn't here to follow someone else's script. I was lightning incarnate. A storm with wings.And this time?
I make the rules.At least… that's what I told myself.
But as the wind howled through the canyon and dark clouds gathered unnaturally above me, I realized something terrifying.
I wasn't alone.
> [Warning: Proximity Alert – Tier 4 Predator Detected]
[Recommended Action: Flee. Your current level is insufficient.]
[Passive Skill: Instinctive Charge – Triggered.]
My wings snapped open before I could think. Lightning surged along my spine, muscles coiling like thunderbolts waiting to snap. Somewhere deep in the storm-torn sky above, I heard a roar—low, ancient, and impossibly loud. It didn't sound like a wild Pokémon. It sounded like something that had existed long before Poké Balls, before trainers, before order.
My heart raced.
I didn't even have a name yet. No trainer. No Pokédex entry. No tutorial, no Professor Oak with a warm cup of coffee explaining why I was suddenly covered in bioluminescent scale armor and sparking like a short-circuited power plant.All I had was the system and instinct.
> [Name Selection Unlocked. Default: ???]
[Would you like to choose a name?]
I growled to myself. No. Not yet. A name has power. And right now, all I had was questions and volts crack a bolt of lightning arced across the sky—and to my horror, it didn't strike the ground. It struck something in midair.A serpentine shape, cloaked in clouds. Glowing eyes locked on mine.
> [New Entry Detected: '???' – Legendary-Class Entity.]
[You are being hunted.]
That was the moment I understood the truth This wasn't some isekai vacation where I could slowly level up, catch friends, and evolve over tea. I had been dropped—no, hatched—into the middle of a living battlefield. The natural order here wasn't built for humans,And definitely not for newborn freaks of nature like me.But even so… I didn't flinch Because for the first time in my life, I wasn't powerless.
My breath lit up with electric fire, crackling against the wind.
I don't know why I was brought here I don't know who created this system I don't know what that thing in the sky is but I do know one thing i refuse to be prey.Let the legends come.Let the skies tear open.Let this new world learn what real thunder feels like.Because I may not know my name yet…but the storm just chose a new champion.