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Alexander was a quiet child for five years of age. He always kept to himself at school, his intelligence excelled that of anyone else his age. He was simply always great at drawing connections. On the first day of school, a little girl asked why her Weedle wasn't able to defeat her brother's Skarmory. The teacher said that Skarmory was a bird pokemon and Weedle was a bug pokemon, a matchup that simply favored the first. The little girl seemed content with the answer, but Alexander raised his hand. When the teacher called on him he said,

"Actually teacher, Skarmory has the attributes of both a steel type and a flying type, while Weedle has the attributes of a bug and poison pokemon. Weedle can only learn the attacks poison sting and string shot. String shot does nothing more than slow down a pokemon, and a poisonous sting from Weedle has no effect whatsoever on a steel type. Skarmory also can learn moves like peck, fly, and even dril peck sometimes. Flying type moves simply always outmatch a bug pokemon like Weedle."

The teacher dropped her chalk in astonishment, all of the children whispered and moved away from Alexander. Alexander looked around and saw the fear in everyone's eyes. He sunk in his chair and the teacher simply said "Umm...that's correct Alexander. Very good." She then moved on with her lesson and everyone kept looking at him. After school, a rather large child pushed Alexander to the ground and started hitting Alexander with punches until Alexander couldn't get up. Alexander's older sister Alexandria (everyone knew her as Alex)came to pick him up from school, but saw Alexander on the ground and smirked. She lifted him off the ground and brushed him off.

"I told you you'd get beat up, you really need to try acting normal." She simply looked down at him and saw a tear fall from his eye, he quickly wiped it away. His sister kneeled down beside him, but he ran off into Viridian forest. He curled up under a tree and cried, but then he looked up at the stars and stopped crying. A shooting star went by, Alexander closed his eyes and wished that everything would change.

He wished he'd make a friend and he'd get tougher and he'd never answer to anyone. He realized that it was getting dark...he tried to find his way through the labyrinthine forest, but he simply didn't know the way out. He yelled for his sister or his parents or anybody. He just didn't want to be alone. Just then, a police officer strolling through the woods grabbed Alexander by the collar and dragged him home. Alexander's parents yelled at him and his father dragged him to his room. His father yelled at him for getting beaten up and showing weakness. He yelled at Alexander for running away from his problems. He yelled at Alexander for not being more like his sister, popular, smart, and tough. A real member of the family.

"SHUT UP!" Alexander yelled and he hit his father in the jaw. His father wasn't harmed, but he put his hand to his jaw and walked out of the room. He closed the door behind him softly. Alexander never went to school again, he was locked in his room. He was fed three meals a day and given one book to read every week as entertainment. He didn't even see outside his room again until age 15, when he finally ran away from home.