Peaceful skies and serene seas. An expanse that has no end in sight. Soaring up in the heavens, a plane makes its way to a new destination. A region that puzzles many. Aboard this plane, we have a familiar hero with a familiar friend on his shoulder. . .

"Hmm. . ." The black haired teen looks at the guide in his hands. A furry yellow mouse pokes its head around.

"Pika?"

The boy snapped from his thoughts. "Oh, sorry bout that. I'm just wondering about this place." He re-reads the information for about the thousandth time. "The Vesryn region. The only region that, in some form or another, has all pokemon located there." He recites the information. "Having only recently been founded in the last three years, many towns have been established along with its own league. The current champion is. . ."

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"ARIA!" A explosion went off, bringing down falling rocks from the cave ceiling. Several families rushed down the wide caverns.

A voice called out. "This way! All evacuees move this way to Zarivar Town!" The brown haired man called out a second time. "ARIA! Where are you?!" another explosion sounded.

He looked into the crowd as his intern came in. "Professor! What's going on?"

The brown haired boy addressed his supposed intern. "Shouldn't you be assisting those that arrived at Zarivar? Oh, what's it matter now. . . Where's Aria?"

The intern, who looked like a spitting image of Gary Oak, if only younger and dressed in a black jacket, white shirt underneath and gray pants. The intern answered. "I haven't seen her." He then saw someone else. "Is that?"

The professor looked over. He found the son of the current champion. This boy rushed in, black hat with a white poke ball symbol on it, eye length red hair, blue eyes, he wore a white zipped jacket with short black sleeves and jeans. He was accompanied by a Riolu. The professor addressed him. "Ven? Where have you been? Where's your mother?"

The boy skids to a halt, catching his breath. "She. . . I got separated. I made sure that I was the last evacuee though." The boy shot the professor an angry look. "Where the hell are the police? Or anyone capable of helping?"

The professor shook his head. "I need to head to Zarivar to see about this, but we need to know where Aria is first-"

Another explosion sent up plenty of debris as several identical thugs come in, wearing purple jump suits, black gloves, boots, and belt, and branding an 'O' on their chest. They snickered.

The two younger boys, no older than ten, stepped back as the professor pulled a pokeball out, preparing for a fight. "Team Olympus."

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The plane moves over thick forests, getting ever closer to its destination.

Black tipped ears twitch. "Ka?" The yellow mouse looked out the window.

The black haired teen looked at his companion. "What is it?"

Pikachu immediate shrieked. "PIKAPI!"

The boy looked out the window, seeing a Hyper Beam smash a hole through the left wing of the plane. The passengers all shook violently as the boy jolted. "Who's attacking?!" He looked out the window at the damaged wing.

A voice called over the intercom. "Attention passenger! We are descending for an emergency landing. Stay calm!"

The boy jolted as the plane was his again. He looked out, seeing several flying pokemon assaulting the plane. He looked to his companion. "Come on Pikachu."

The mouse nodded seriously. "KA!"

The mouse mounts onto his shoulder as a hole blows through the side of the plane. The passengers quickly brace themselves, however the boy gathers himself before letting the air pull him out. "HERE WE GO!"

He's launched out of the plane, quickly falling through the sky. He looks at the assaulting pokemon. Four total: Tropius, Flygon, Beedrill, and Fearow. He falls past them as he rapidly approaches the ground. He pulls out a pokeball and throws it ahead of him. "Go, CHARIZARD!"

With a whiplash, he lands on the back of a large orange dragon, Charizard. The fire lizard halts their descent and soars up to the unsuspecting pokemon still attacking the plane. "HEY!"

The Tropius turns, just for the trainer to yell out. "Flamethrower!" Charizard's attack smacks Tropius out of the sky as the large flying grass type falls to the ground. "Wing Attack!" Charizard speeds through as his wing crashes into Beedrill, swatting the bug out of the sky.

The two pokemon go down without any fuss. The trainer smirks. "Two down." Charizard dodges to the side as a beam misses. He flies upward, only to wind up between Flygon and Fearow. The trainer clenches his teeth as Pikachu holds to his shoulder. "Charizard use Fire Blast. Pikachu use Thunderbolt!"

Flygon counters Charizard with Hyper Beam as Fearow dodges the lightning. The trainer rethinks his tactic. "Use Seismic Toss on Pikachu. Pikachu use Bolt Tackle." Pikachu rolls into Charizard's grip and charges electricity as Charizard soars into the air and whips around, throwing the lightning charged mouse down. This time, the attack is too fast as Pikachu's attack smashes Fearow into the landscape below.

Charizard flies toward the ground as Flygon chases. The trainer smirks. "Pikachu use Iron Tail on the ground. Charizard fly through it." Pikachu, sitting over Fearow, channels the power as its tail glows white. The mouse smashes the attack into the ground, making a large plume of dust debris. Charizard flies through. Flygon flies through as well. . . right into Pikachu. "THUNDER!"

"Piiii KACHU!" The shock blasts Flygon back, imprinting it into a large tree.

The trainer lands with his fire pokemon. "Charizard return!" The retracts the champion lizard as Pikachu jumps onto his shoulder. Suddenly, two stunned thugs appear. The boy demands. "Who are you?!"

The thugs snicker. "This kid seems tough, but he doesn't even know who he's messing with."

The other follows. "We're Team Olympus, punk. This air space is off limits."

The trainer seethed. "What?! You have no right." The boy simmers. "Great, another Team Rocket rip off."

They take offense, but one smiles. "Our goals are much higher than that organization. Now, leave or lose all your pokemon, brat."

The boy pulls out another ball. "You know who I am?"

"Who cares?"

"Wait," The other thug says. "He's a league level trainer!"

The boy smirked. "I'm Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town!"

The thugs instantly took a step back, but didn't look like they gave up. They each threw out another pokeball. Ash threw his. "Go, Snorlax!"

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The thugs were blown back after an explosion. A girl in a red skirt, black tank top, black hat with orange pokeball symbol ran had long blonde hair under her hat. She held her yellow bag close as she jumped over a fallen rock column. She catches her breath as more fighting is heard. A giant pokeball looking ball rolls in front of her. She sweats as she looks at the Voltorb in front of her.

It lights up, preparing to self destruct before she finds herself far from the explosion in the hands of a Lucario. Her eyes light up as she hugs it. "THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!" The Lucario dropped her unceremoniously. "OW!" She looks up to find the trainer, a woman in her mid thirties. "Wait. . . you're?"

"ARIA!" The black haired woman turns to see three individuals, four counting the Riolu, approach. The professor from before noticed the girl, turning to Ven. "I thought you said you were the last one!"

Ven sweat dropped. "So I screwed up. This is a VERY high stress situation!"

The intern snickered. "And you call yourself a trainer."

"Not the time, Jake!" Ven spat. He turns to Aria, his mother and current champion of the Vesryn region. "Mom?"

Aria sighed. She turned to the professor. "I need you to take these three to the reserve storage."

The professor nodded. He looked to the girl still on the ground confused. "Name?" She dumbly points to herself as he nods.

She responds shakily. "M-Maya."

He nods. "Ven, Jake, Maya, come with me-"

Another explosion cuts them off. Ten thugs come in with various pokemon. A Typhlosion descends on Ven, using Fire Fang. Just before the attack hits, Riolu takes the hit, getting downed by the fully evolved pokemon.

Ven cries out for his Riolu. "CHURCH!"

The Typhlosion is smacked in the jaw by Aria's Lucario, sending it crashes off the walls off the cavern. However, a Staravia soars through, snatching the young blue pokemon. Ven tries to chase, but Aria holds him back.

"Stay back!" She orders. She glares at the coming thugs. "You four fall back." She looks to her son. "Get to the reserve pokemon. Don't worry, I'll do everything to get Church back."

Ven is pulled back by Jake and the professor before they take off down the cave, Maya in tow.

Aria turns to glare a stone cold stare at the attackers as she pulls out all her pokemon. Lucario, Feraligatr, Pyroar, Luxray, Venasaur, and Salamence. She calmly, and threateningly calls out. "Shadow Ball, Hydro Pump, Fire Blast, Thunder, Solar Beam, Hyper Beam."

All ten thugs and the dozen or so pokemon they called are engulfed by the massive combination of the six attacks.

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Ash burst through the woods into the town. Several civilians were recovering, some injured as he looked around. He looked to an older man. "Sir, what town is this?"

"Zarivar Town. Why?"

Ash looks to a nearby cave as he sees another family rush out. "Where does that come from?"

"Look kid, I'm sure you and your Pikachu are tough-"

Ash demands. "I'm Ash Ketchum. Finalist in every League I've come across and winner of the Orange Islands. Tell me who's attacking."

The man straightens. "Team Olympus." He points to the cave. "That cave leads to Nyasa Town. Olympus attack the town and forced all its residents to leave."

That was all Ash needed. He took off into a sprint to the cave.

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The professor led them through a secret entrance, the three following. "Come on. This way!"

The fighting was now too far to hear, but they were still tense. The professor turned to them as they reached a small container. He unlocked it. "Alright, this is how it works." He stared at the three. "There are three reserve pokemon. Ordinarily, you all would be allowed to pick from standard starter pokemon, but the situation doesn't allow you time. You three will start your pokemon journey today. Any questions?"

Maya raised her hand. "Um. . . While that's great and all, why don't you just use all the pokemon against Team Olympus?"

The professor shook his head. "I'm needed elsewhere. Like it or not, we are not going to fight any further for Nyasa town. It's too overrun, and we need to recover first. You three are each trainers?"

Ven half responded. "My mother is the champion and Team Olympus just took one of my best friends." He then stared angrily. "I'll do whatever you need."

Jake snickers. "I'm your man, boss. How can I help?"

Maya sighs. "I just wanted an easier start."

The professor smiled. "Well, choose from these three. Unfortunately, I'm needed elsewhere. Take these and start your journey. Train your pokemon and be ready for coming battles in the future. Understood?"
The three nodded. The professor ran down the cavern before calling out. "Umbreon, I choose you!" The fox comes forth as calls out. "Use Dark Pulse!" The dark power breaks apart the cavern as rocks fall and seal off the direction leading to Nyasa Town.

Ven stared at the sealed cave, then looked to the pokeballs. He slowly stepped forward.

Jake scoffed. "who said you could have first pick?"

Ven simply replied. "hn." He grasped a ball. Somehow, he got the feeling. He noticed three labels. "Grass. Water. Fire, huh?" He clenched around the Water type. He smirked, despite the events of the past few hours. He'll take any good news. "I choose the Water type. A reserve pokemon is no doubt going to be a highly trained, powered pokemon. Which means.. ." He turns and throws it. "I name you. . . Leviathan!"

The pokemon comes forth as the white light takes its form. . . it gets smaller. . . it gets smaller. . . Then a little blue pokemon with a snout. Ven's voice shoots up an octave in disappointment. "Le. . . Leviathen?"

The pokemon looks up at him with adorable eyes and chimes happily. "Horsea!"

"HAHAHAHA!" Jake was literally ROFL'ing. He slowly got to his feet. "Well, then. I guess you got the runt of the litter!" He wiped a tear from his eye.

Ven's eye twitched in irritation. Jake was too loud for his own good. "Let's see you get something better."

Jake snickers as he marches up and grabs the Grass type. "Since I plan on being great, I should go ahead and be a step ahead of you with a type advantage." He tosses the ball. "And I won't spend my time on dumb nicknames." The pokemon comes forth. Slightly taller. . . a lot skinnier.

"Bellsprout! So cute!" Maya chimes.

Jake's jaw drops a little. Ven looks with a small smirk. "So mine's the runt?"

Jake stubbornly stuck his nose up. "Hmph. The greatest trainers work with what they get."

Ven smirk gets bigger. "The worst ones make excuses."

Maya steps forward curiously. "So this last one is mine." She picks it up and tosses it up. . . It appears as Ven and Jake both look weirdly at it.

"Magby!" The pokemon calls.

Maya's face lights up. "So cute!"

Jake tilts his head. "You and I have very different interpretations of 'cute'."

The ceiling of the cave crashes down as two thugs come down. One smirks. "Yo, Jimmy! You were right. There was something this way."

'Jimmy' snickered. "Three more pokemon. Let's take em."

The two tossed out an Arbok and a Machoke.

Jake looked at Bellsprout. "Um. . . use Vine Whip!" The pokemon tilted its head. "Solar Beam?" another head tilt. "Razor Leaf?" It finally understood and sent a wave of shape leaves, only for Arbok to dodge around easily and end up in front of it. Jake was taken off guard by its speed.

Luckily, a black ploom of smoke hits Arbok, pausing it. Jake turns to see Ven smirking with Horsea/Leviathan, who used smokescreen.

Ven looked at Horsea. He thought to himself. These three pokemon were specifically held back for situations like these. . . they have to have SOME high level attacks or something. "Leviathan use Bubblebeam!" The Horsea triumphantly roared. . . releasing weak bubbles that sting Arbok and Machoke in the smoke, but do little damage. That was only Bubble. Guess Bubblebeam is asking too much! "Use Water Gun!" Nothing. "Water Pulse?" Nothing. He looked to Maya. "Use Ember!"

Maya jolted to attention. "Right. Um, Magby, you know Ember, right?" Magby used the attack as it hit Machoke in the smoke. "YES! We did it!"

Machoke and Arbok burst out from the smoke. Maya's cheers stopped immediately. Bellsprout, Magby, and Horsea all cringe as the two enemies home in.

"PIKACHU, USE THUNDER!" A massive blast smacks the attackers back into their trainers and out of the roof of the cave. The three trainers turn, surprised to find a newcomer only a few years older than them. "This way! Come on!" Ash orders the three.

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The four rush out from the cave, stopping to catch their breath. Ash turned to them. "You guys alright."

Jake grimaced. "Well, my first battle didn't go over well." He looked at his pokeball holding Bellsprout. "I feel cheated."

Maya sweat dropped. "I think we did fine." She eye'd her pokeball. "Good job Magby!"

Ven looked at the one containing Horsea. "We have a long way to go to make these three a force to be reckoned with." He looks at Ash. "So, who are you?"

Ash smiles. "New Trainers? I have a habit of meeting those in every region. I'm Ash Ketchum. This is Pikachu."

"Pi chu Pikapi!" He chirps.

Jake bursts forth. "ASH KETCHUM?! You're famous! Can I ask a question?" Ash nods dumbly. "What is your opinion on Swag?"

Before Ash can respond, more than likely saying he didn't understand, Ven interrupts. "Jake, I swear to Arceus and Mew, not the time." He looks at Ash, obviously in a down mood, but trying not to think about recent events. "What brings a league level trainer around here?"

Ash looked down. "My plane was attacked. I was hoping to enter the Vesryn League and defeat the champion."

Ven pursed his lips. "So. . . you're here to beat my mom."

Ash snapped to attention. "Wow! You're Aria's son! Where is she?"

Ven looked away. "Don't know. She's fighting Team Olympus."

Maya brought up another concern. "You think Professor Oak got back to his lab okay?"

That got Ash's attention. "Oak? He's here? You guys know Oak?"

Jake smirks. "His lab is just up the hill. He sealed the tunnel to keep Olypus away from us but I guess that didn't work. He should be up there by now."

Ash was already running up the hill. The other two boys ran after him as Maya whined. "We just got done running. . ."

Ash got to the lab moments later. "I mean, I don't know why Oak would be here. He's the Kanto professor, so why be here?"

Jake stopped. "Oh. . . maybe I should clarify on the Oak part."

Ash barely got a 'hm?' out before the professor from earlier walks out into Ash, the two stumbling over each other.

"What the heck are you doing?" The professor and Ash said simultaneously. They locked eyes. . . .

"Ash?"
"Gary?"