There once was a ditto named M0. M0 was like every other ditto and when they had gained enough experience and reached adulthood-- adding the customary dot in the middle of their name to become Mo0-- they split into four new dittos: N1, NI, Nl, and N|. This story is concerned with the first offspring, N1, who started out just like zir parent and every other ditto before them.
N1 was captured by a lazy Sailor. This Sailor believed that getting a ditto was the ultimate shortcut; why try to capture and train six different pokemon when you could just pick one, give them all the experience, but gain the advantages of all the hundreds of pokemon out there? This worked out great for N1 (not that zie had anything to really compare it to). N1 got all the attention. N1 got all the fresh air and leg stretching zie needed (after all, those pokeballs were cramped). N1 was the Sailor's ditto, and quite possibly the only ditto who could make such a claim. Every day the two of them froliced through a field of daisys, laughing. Metaphorically anyway. Sadly, ships tend not to have wide open areas. Or flowers. But there was N1 and Sailor, and together they would become number one.
Sailor on the other hand, quickly began to realize the flaws in his plan. I mean, on the bright side he wasn't as screwed as his shipmates when some wandering kid threw all his electric pokemon at him, and they were generally taken aback by his initial choice. So while he was never weak to their attacks, he was also never very strong against them either. And because he only had the one pokemon, N1 did get all of the experience, but it also sometimes turned into a six-on-one fight that N1 would lose. Plus, being a Sailor, he tended to be the brunt of a lot of jokes from his shipmates. Jokes too vulgar to be repeated here (they were Sailors after all).
So Sailor started to capture "decent"/water pokemon. Which N1 was ok with. Sort of. N1 felt out of place surrounded by all these water types, but zie took comfort from the fact that zie was Sailor's first and favorite pokemeon. Until Sailor hit 5 captured pokemon and "accidentally" threw N1 overboard to make room for others.
After managing to find zir way to land, N1 waited patiently for zir Sailor to return. This...did not happen. And after quite a while, N1 went to look for a new trainer only to discover that there were none. This realization caused N1 to reconsider everything zie knew (which admittedly, wasn't very much to begin with). Who was zie if not the Sailor's ditto? Through all the changing forms, that had been the one truth that had kept N1 grounded. Without it, and with so many new and usual pokemon in the area, N1 had nothing to cling to. No reason to be. And through shape after shape, this began to chip away at everything N1 thought zie knew until the only thing zie could remember was that zie needed to get stronger. To be the best. To reach adulthood and become...No1.
