Prologue

All our lives, we live with the acknowledgement that all things change over time. Life, is about evolution. The evolution and adaptation to new things. Well, our world is changing. And with it, our way of life as we've known it.

We come from a world where whole cultures were built around the acquisition and training of animals, creatures with unique and remarkable abilities, to be used in battle with one another, for the glory of the trainers. A whole world dedicated to one cockfight after another, where you are expected to be about catching them all, and making them into your subjects, and to conquer one another in battle after battle.

But there are changes happening. All around us, the way of the world is...evolving. Just like we frequently use that term when our pets grow, we call it evolution. Well, now, the world is changing, and it will take us all by storm. Unless we evolve with it ourselves.

But there's more to it than that. It's these animals all around us; they're changing in ways we can't even begin to understand. Modern technology allows us to carry them in tiny spherical devices known simply as a container ball, and people took to calling them pocket monsters.

But who are the monsters, really?

They're sentient, these "animals" we like to catch for our own uses. They have language, cultures, even a soul. We aren't of their world, we came here, we took it from them, dominated them, as we're wont to do. But now, something is happening, and those of us gifted enough to sense it know, it's going to make us change our way of life, if we want to survive.

We have to evolve, and become better, or perish, beneath something superior...