Pallet Town, Kanto Region. Home to the greatest of Pokemon Professors and the one who almost made the best ground-breaking scientific advancement, Professor Oak. It would have been fantastic! Pokemon, talking like humans! The possibilities could have been endless! Only problem?

[i]"Hey, if I ate a pumpkin, would that be cannibalism? Because I'm not a pumpkin anymore."[/i] Oak's math was a bit off. This was the product of trusting advanced genetic mathmatics to the guy who couldn't remember his grandson's name. Instead of just talking like humans, the Pokemon he tested on - or at least, the ones who weren't snatched by Team Sinister - wound up looking awfully human-like too. Some more than others. This Pumpkaboo, for instance, could have passed off as perfectly human if she wanted to. Others, not so much. For instance, a Braviary who hadn't awakened from her slumber would have trouble claiming to be human with big-ass wings sticking out her back. This Pumpkaboo - possibly because it was a species that hadn't evolved - was among the first to wake up from a gene-altering nap. If Oak's math was right this time, the ones who hadn't yet awakened would be getting up any moment now.