darkSpyro

In a world without human intervention, Kadabra would run a slave trade

Ok so imagine a world where Pokemon are real, but humans are not. Pokemon run free, likely in small herds or colonies of similar types. Pokemon would likely still evolve by level up, as they gain experience growing older, or hunting, or whatever else they would just naturally do. This makes evolved Pokemon fairly common, but excludes certain Pokemon from the list. Those that evolve by means other than level up.

Pokemon that evolve by stones could probably exist. Evolutionary stones are probably found in the world (and I'm pretty sure moon stones canonically fall from the sky in the Johto games at that one Clefairy event in Mt. Moon that nobody has ever seen). Pokemon that evolve by friendship could probably form friendships among other Pokemon and evolve that way. This leaves trade evolutions, which are not likely to happen naturally.

Enter Kadabra, who would likely exist despite Abra not learning any offensive moves, but who could not evolve due to lack of trainers to trade it. Now, here I'm going to make a few assumptions. First, the Pokedex entry for Alakazam. I know Pokedex entries are far from reliable, but one sticks out to me here. That Alakazam has an IQ of 5000. This is quite obviously an exaggeration, but by how far? I'd argue that, even if this is a tremendous exaggeration, there's a fair case to be made for Alakazam being above human intelligence. Thus, I think it's pretty fair to put Kadabra at roughly human intelligence.

As creatures of human intelligence, it isn't too much of a stretch to say that they would develop a Kadabra/Abra society, including language, economy, domestication of less intelligent creatures, etc. Included in this list, however, is slavery. In a world where powerful creatures like Machoke appear regularly, and over whom Kadabra had a serious intelligence/type advantage, Kadabra would probably enslave Machoke to do physical labor. And, if they ever gave that Machoke to another Kadabra or traded it for another Pokemon slave, Machoke would evolve into Machamp.

Kadabra, being human-like in this scenario, would realize that this is a pattern and would seek to reproduce it in other Pokemon, including Graveler and other Kadabra. This leads to Alakazam and Golem becoming prevalent in the wild. Therefore I believe that Kadabra/Alakazam would likely perfect the process over years of trial and error, and would thus create an extensive slave trade to develop Alakazam society, and introduce Golem, and Machamp into the world.

Then, one day, Alakazam Lincoln would come along and free the Machamp slaves, inspiring John Weavile Booth to assassinate him at the Pokemon Contest.