''Speargun: the Untold Story of Cyrus'' is a fan work chronicling [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Cyrus's]] StartOfDarkness. It is written by @/SithDroideka2, otherwise known as Sith Droideka on FF.net and Bulbagarden. It can be found [[http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/showthread.php?t=60088 here]].

It has been nominated for several awards (though none have been won) in the Bulbagarden Fanfiction Awards. Despite this, it seems rather obscure.

The basic plot is the tale of how Cyrus becomes an OmnicidalManiac. Along the way, he deals with [[TheMafia Team]] [[TheEmpire Rocket's invasion]], [[FiveManBand five Rocket commanders out to get him]], [[TheChessmaster a mysterious politician]], and [[DysfunctionalFamily his family falling apart]].

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!! This Work contains examples of:

* AerithAndBob: Balthasar and Fred
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Archer
* BigBad: Commander Buran
* BlindIdiotTranslation: [[spoiler: Handsome]] speaks like this
* ChekhovsGun: The titular speargun
* TheChessmaster: the Prime Minister
* ColonelKilgore: General Titan
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Dr. Sceptile is a subversion. He seems corrupt at first glance due to his dealing with [[PresidentEvil the Prime Minister]], but in actuality he runs his company at a loss (in one area) to provide for refugees.
* CrapsackWorld: Sinnoh is not a nice place to live.
* CreepyChild: Cyrus
** As noted by the beta reader, Cyrus is about 12 but talks like an adult since he never had any friends growing up, only scientists and machines
* DarkerAndEdgier: in spades
* DarkIsNotEvil: So far Siber the Sneasel and [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar Templar the Absol]] are the only members of Cyrus' team, and both of them are Dark-type.
* DepravedKidsShowHost: [[spoiler: Buddy the Torterra, Mir's main pokémon, was once a kid's show host. He is actually a [[GentleGiant subversion]], however.]]
* DishingOutDirt: Pericles the Larvitar's specialty
* DoomedHometown: Archie and Maxie's home village on the slopes of Sootopolis Volcano
* DownerEnding: It's the story of [[OmnicidalManiac Cyrus]]! What do you expect?
* FantasyGunControl: According to [[CoolOldGuy Solari]] this used to exist in the past, up until the Great Gym War. [[PresidentEvil The Prime Minister]] also declared the Vielstone legend to no longer apply in an early chapter.
* FiveManBand: The Team Rocket commanders
** BigBad: Buran
** TheDragon: Soyuz
** TheEvilGenius: Mir
** TheBrute: Sputnik
** TheDarkChick: [[spoiler: Handsome]]
* FollowTheLeader: of [[BetterThanCanon Rival's Story, although somewhat accidentally since the author didn't actually read Rival's Story until Chapter XII had been finished.
* FreeRangeChildren: Justified and averted. Justified because law and order have broken down with [[TheMafia Team Rocket's]] invasion, but averted in that very few children or teenagers have been seen traveling.
* FreudianExcuse: Cyrus's childhood was not a happy one.
* GovernmentInExile: Supposedly, but [[PresidentEvil the Prime Minister]] seems to be running everything by himself from Sinnoh
* GreatOffscreenWar: The Great Gym War was at first, but now its story is being told in a companion story. The Rocket War outside of Sinnoh may count too, though.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Agent Dynamo makes these all the time
* InterestingSituationDuel:
** [[ThoseTwoGuys Fred and Balthasar]] battle against [[KillItWithFire Mag]][[MyMasterRightOrWrong mortar]] in an abandoned mall. They win and evolve.
** Between [[TheEvilGenius Mir]] and [[spoiler: Handsome]] against Cyrus and [[ThoseTwoGuys Balthasar and Fred]] in a study beneath the Eterna Gym, with bookcases, a [[BattleInTheRain rainstorm]], and a balcony.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Mir tries to kill Cyrus with an old katana
* KillItWithFire: Magmortar
* KillItWithIce: Siber
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: despite elemental beams, portable black-hole generators, and pokémon with more power than the average African military, guns are still seen as a viable military alternative to pokémon
* [[spoiler: LukeIAmYourFather]]: [[spoiler: [[TheDragon Soyuz]], although Cyrus doesn't know that yet...]]
* TheMafia: Team Rocket, with shades of [[TheEmpire the Empire.]]
* MilitaryBrat: Saturn Titan
* MrExposition: Carl, father of Junior the shorts kid
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: [[ThoseTwoGuys Balthasar, Fred]], and Magmortar to [[PresidentEvil the Prime Minister]]
* OneHundredAndEight: Lady Spiritomb
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: according to Archie Eternal has some ghostly powers, sort of like how there are psychic humans
* PresidentEvil: The Prime Minister
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: [[PresidentEvil The Prime Minister]] hired some Russian ones
* PungeonMaster: Agent Dynamo
* SmallNameBigEgo: the author, obviously. He, by himself, created this page and is the only one to update it.
* TheSmartGuy: Pericles the Larvitar
* StealthExpert: [[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon Dusknoir]]
* TheStoic: Cyrus is already something like this, and is increasingly finding emotions bizarre and useless
* TheStrategist: Mir is [[TheMafia Team Rocket's]] [[CrapsackWorld Sinnoh]] Branch strategist.
* ThemeNaming: Guess what [[BigBad Buran]], [[TheDragon Soyuz]], [[TheBrute Sputnik]], and [[TheEvilGenius Mir]] are [[DirtyCommies named after]]?
* ThoseTwoGuys: Balthasar and Fred
* WarIsHell
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