"Reality"
Jon sighed as he hauled himself up the fourth flight of stairs, his head down and
his MP3 player blasting loudly in his ears.
You could have taken the lift, you know. But no... You "needed the exercise"... He thought to himself. Rolling his eyes at the voice in his head, he pushed open the toilet door, not noticing the fact that it lead straight into some shimmering portal.
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He alighted on the other side with a bump.
OK, that's kind of oversimplifying it. The portal appeared a few inches off the ground, so he tipped forward stepping out, and faceplanted.
"Ow. What the hell just happened?"
Slowly, he shifted into a sitting position, and looked around. Somehow, he'd been teleported from the university campus to some sort of forest. However, before he could get his bearings,
some sort of device fell out of the sky and clocked him on the head. He picked it up.
"OK, so I'm in a weird forest, and someone's throwing Kamen Rider belts at me."
Suddenly, through the trees, he spotted some bright flashes and the sound of battle. He pushed himself back onto his feet, and started to run.
So is there where finally hitting the gym starts to pay off?
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What he saw as he broke through the treeline was... strange. First, the Pokémon. Secondly, what looked like characters he thought were fictional fighting them. And something telling him he should be helping them do it. With a sigh, he took out the belt that had hit him in the head, and slapped it to his waist, causing the strap to appear.
"Well, here goes nothing." He sighed,
flipping the four red switches on the front down. As the countdown finished, he pushed the handle on the right forward, thrusting his arm into the air. At once, some sort of ring rose out of nowhere, forming a white and orange suit. Jon looked down at his new outfit.
"OK, I've got no idea what just happened, but you know what?
IT'S SPACE TIME!" He shouted, punching the air with both fists.