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Pokeball Technical and Historical Outline By Michael O'Hare recognizable FILE START POKEBALL TECHNICAL AND HISTORICAL OUTLINE -HISTORY -PROFESSOR REDWOOD -SPECIFICS -ENVIRONMENT WITHIN POKEBALL -OTHER INFORMATION HISTORY Before Pokeballs were invented, the transport and capturing of Pokemon was one of the largest challenges facing trainers and potential masters. Pokemon would have to travel at their master's side, causing undue strain and weariness to both the Pokemon and the trainer, and made the capture and training of some Pokemon, particularly water Pokemon, next to impossible for some. Most attempts at finding a way to transport these creatures ranged from the disastrous to the laughable. Among other problems facing a trainer was a wounded Pokemon. After a battle, an exhausted or wounded Pokemon in remote areas had little in the way of medical or recuperative help, and such skills were considered a required for a Pokemon trainer for a long time. Many Pokemon even died because proper care could not be given to them. This all changed in ways people at the time would never have dreamt possible. In 1959, the scientist Nicholas Redwood created the device that would eventually come to be known as the Pokeball. Professor Redwood was, originally, trying to find a way to instantly transport living creatures through time and space, allowing them to travel miles literally in no time at all. Rumors are that every plant and animal he attempted this with met with a messy demise. Eventually, he began his experiments on Pokemon, where he stumbled across the circumstances that would lead to the Pokeball. In every Pokemon he tested, the subject would revert to an energy form, but not move from the device in which it was at when changed. When released from their energy state, the Pokemon seemed unharmed. The scientific community, upon hearing of Redwood's results, was extremely skeptical, but he quickly put such notions to rest. Once his findings were verified, the world was thrown into an uproar of amazement, and people immediately searched for a way to put this discovery to use. Thus, the process that would eventually lead to the Pokeball had begun. It took several years of continuous testing and experimentation before a final design and form was decided upon. After repeated trials, the Pokeball was perfected, and Pokemon training was revolutionized. The Pokeball has been credited as the single greatest technological achievement of human history. PROFESSOR REDWOOD For a man who created the greatest and most commonly used device in the world, very little is actually known about Professor Nicholas Redwood. It is known that he was born in Lavender Town. His mother was a professional Grass-Type Pokemon raiser, but it is not exactly known who is father is. There is evidence that his father may have been a high ranking member of Team Rocket in its founding days, although this controversial theory is scoffed at by many. However, it is not known even to this day where Redwood got his funding before his breakthrough, and the theory of his father being a member of Team Rocket explains his revenue to many. Throughout his entire life, Redwood was blessed with an incredible genius, while cursed with a disturbing dementia. Both of these aspects showed up frequently in his experiments and other works. Also, unlike other scientists, Redwood did not seem to have any ethical limits to what he would do. Even even the most jaded person would consider many of his experiments disturbing and frightening. It was because of these things, and also because of his reclusive nature, that others generally saw him in less than a respectful way in the scientific community. It was only after the creation of the Pokeball that he was given the respect that many today feel he deserved all his life. Even after the creation of the Pokeball, and the fame it garnered, Redwood was a complete and total recluse, speaking to very few people, and refusing countless requests for interviews and apprenticeships that were thrown his way. This gave him a mysterious look to many people, which only served to increase his fame and admiration even more. Professor Redwood himself pursued many other experiments afterwards, many which were rumored tamper with the very laws of physics. He disappeared mysteriously during a private testing of a device he had named `Chronosphere.' Because of his stellar contribution to Pokemon training and raising, and due to his other, more shady experiments, many see Professor Redwood with a fearful admiration. SPECIFICS The Pokeball utilizes the MTE (Matter to Energy) system that Redwood had perfected. Upon making contact with the Pokemon, the cells of its body are rearranged and reconstructed into pure energy, where it is stored within the Pokeball by a series of magnets and mirrors, which help keep the Pokemon in its energy state. The change from solid form to energy form seems to be a very thrilling and enjoyable process to Pokemon in general. Many Pokemon, however, have shown displeasure for this process, and have refused to be confined in a Pokeball because of it. It should be noted that there has never been a single reported case of a Pokemon ever coming to harm in the process of entering or exiting a Pokeball. The release mechanism for the Pokeball is voice - activated. The most common voice commands used are the Pokemon's name, often followed by the ever-popular phrase "I choose you!" Most Pokemon trainers prefer to throw the Pokeball whiling giving this voice command to add to the dramatic impact. Once deploying (or attaining) its payload, the Pokeball hones in on its owners energy signal, and returns to them with the help of a set of small, Gravity Manipulation (GM) generators located within the Pokeball. One of the more recent advancements is the Pokeball's ability to `shrink' itself into a compact size. By using the GM generators to pull the molecules that make the Pokeball up closer together, the device can actually decrease in size without losing any of its mass or even effecting the Pokemon within it. The substance a Pokeball is made out of is a fiberglass - tempered steel combination, which is incredibly durable, although not indestructible. Should the Pokeball actually suffer a fracture or breach, it will automatically release the Pokemon inside of it immediately. Tests and real - life accounts have given this emergency system a %100 percent success ratio. Pokeballs will only work on Pokemon. Any other animal or plant will be completely unaffected by it, at least any further than the effects of having a ball thrown at it would have. Humans are also unaffected by Pokeballs, something which nobody is in any hurry to change. ENVIRONMENT WITHIN POKEBALL As mentioned earlier, many were fearful of the effects MTE system would have on the Pokemon. However, repeated research, as well as the Pokemon's attitude towards the devices, has shown that the process is comfortable to the Pokemon and, at times, even beneficial. While a Pokemon is in the Pokeball, its body is in stasis, even though its mind is still perfectly lucid. This is the best thing a trainer with a hurt or exhausted Pokemon can ask for, as it allows them all the time they need to get the proper assistance they need with little or no worries. Transferring a critically wounded Pokemon into a Pokeball has saved countless Pokemons' lives. Although nowhere near a substitute for a stay at a Pokemon center, a prolonged stay in a Pokeball can help a tired Pokemon rest up and regain its energy. This is mainly useful when the trainer is in a remote, unpopulated region, and has no Pokemon center to turn to. OTHER INFORMATION --With Professor Redwood's disappearance, the patent for the Pokeball was turned over to the newly formed Pokemon League, according to Redwood's instructions. The Pokemon League also chose the colors of the Pokeball. Rumors that these were the two favorite colors of Professor Redwood are, in fact, untrue. --The Pokeball is truly a marvel of modern technology. However, to date, none of the technology used in the Pokeball can be effectively and practically used outside of it. This is mainly because the technology used is extremely fragile when made any larger than the size used for the Pokeball. Although tireless research is being conducted in attempts to incorporate this amazing technology into everyday life, it is a slow process. --There have been extremely rare cases of Pokemon actually managing to release themselves from the Pokeball. Studies have shown that this in not due to any known fault within the Pokeball itself, and, as of yet, no explanation has been found. END OF FILE DISCLAMER(S) Nintendo owns Pokemon and all related characters. This fic is owned by the writer, which would be me. The rights to the Beatles' songs are owned by, can you believe it, Michael Jackson! ... I'm not kidding! AUTHOR'S NOTES: See, this is the fic you get when you flip between the History Channel and the an anime tape while waiting for your dinner to finish cooking. Great, isn't it? Still, while writing this, I could not help but think that Nintendo had actually, somewhere at some time, released actual technical and historical outlines for a Pokeball. If that's the case, I haven't seen the bleeding thing, and this is my version of such things. If they haven't, then I just wasted five seconds of your life... or ten, if you are a slow reader. Sorry. Oh, yeah, and sorry about throwing in the Chronosphere into this. I couldn't resist. As for Professor Redwood having such a tangible `Dr. Mengela' aspect to him, well, I refer you once again to the `History Channel' thing I was talking about. ... And, once again, let us all be thankful I do not write children's stories.
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