It was dark, and very windy. Leaves were being ripped off the trees helplessly as the wind gusted and lightning flashed. In the distance, an orange glow could be seen as the plains, now dry as fall was almost complete, became the fuel for a fire started from a lightning strike. It was a terrible storm, yet the rain had not begun to fall.

In the midst of all this, an orange flying type pokemon could be seen chasing after something, with its trainer riding along on its back. The fire from its tail burned brightly in the deepening darkness as it sped along, trying to catch up to a blue dragon type pokemon with red wings, which also bore its trainer on its back.

A boy about eighteen years old, who wore a black tee shirt, camouflage cargo pants, and black, military-style boots, shouted above the gale, "Don't let him get away, Char-kun!"

Charizard roared in acknowledgment as he increased his speed to maximum, closing the gap between himself and the trainer riding the Salamence. Looking back, the trainer saw that Charizard was coming up fast. "Alright, Salvatorie," the trainer clad in a black long sleeve shirt with a big, red 'R' on it, who also wore black pants and white boots, "they've taken the bait. We just need to speed up a bit, the trap is not too far away now."

Salvatorie grunted, affirming that it received the orders, and boosted his speed a bit, "that's the way, Salvatorie. Now, when I tell you, I need you to execute as steep of a climb as you can." Salvatorie roared as it allowed the charizard to come in closer. Just as charizard was about to engage it in aerial combat, the trainer clad in black yelled, "Now, Salvatorie!"

The Salamence roared as it angled it's wings upward, throwing his body into a steep climb. Charizard roared in annoyance as it looked at the salamence rise quickly. "Char-kun! Barrel roll," yelled his trainer as Charizard looked and saw a bunch of missle pods let loose their payload into the sky. He did as he was told and did a quick barrel roll, followed by a dive-and-climb maneuver. Charizard managed to shake most of the missles.

"Now, Salvatorie! Maximum hyper beam!" roared the trainer from team rocket. The Salamence roared in response as it charged up and, after a couple seconds, fired off a massive hyper beam. The beam connected with Charizard right as he came to the crest of his climb.

Charizard roared in pain as he took the full brunt of the hyper beam. His trainer was clinging to charizard for dear life as they fell due to charizard being hurt badly by the hyper beam. "Char-kun, snap out of it, man!" it's trainer yelled, "come on, buddy, you've taken worse hits than this."

Charizard opened his eyes and his wings just in time for him to land roughly on the ground, causing his trainer to fall off onto the ground. As this happened, a loud series of bangs was heard as a series of nets flew into charizard from all directions. Charizard roared in pain as he was electrocuted by the metal net that had hit him first.

"No! Charizard!" his trainer yelled as he reached for his pokeball, thrusting it towards charizard, "Return!" The red beam shot out of the pokeball but was blocked by the amount of nets that there were, making it impossible for the trainer to reclaim his pokemon. Just as he was about to try to get inside of the nets to reach his pokemon, who had fallen to the ground unconscious, a swift kick had connected to the side of his head, rendering the trainer unconscious and causing the pokeball to fly out of his hand and roll down the nearby hill.

Laughing softly as he crouched down near the fallen trainer, the team rocket operative said softly, "Well, James, looks like this is the end of the line for you. Don't worry, though, I'll take good care of Char-kun."

Moaning, James woke up to find himself tied to a tree. Taking a quick look around, James saw nobody nearby. "Char-kun?" he called out hopelessly as James searched for his friend. When he only reaffirmed his initial inspection of his surroundings, and received the same results, James cried out, "CHAR-KUN!"

Well, now that I have your attention (or at least I hope that I do), I'm the author (duh). Welcome aboard this crazy idea that I have for a story. It was inspired by a dream that I had of a charizard that I won't share the details to because it will be manifest later in the story. At this moment, I don't really have any pairings. This is all because I have no idea where this story is going to go to get to those moments I saw in my dream. I'm sure that I will cause my OC's to run across characters from the series at some point.

Now, in regards to that, there are a few things that i'm going to change pertaining to the "Canon" of the pokemon world. First off, the characters from the show are going to be the age that they would have been had they grown at the same rate as we did when we first started watching the show. Secondly, I am most likely going to change the limit of how many pokemon a person can carry with them from six to eight. I don't think this is too outrageous of a change due to the fact that they just realeased a new game so there are now over 700 pokemon. I have a hard time choosing six from all of that, much less eight.

Also, i'm probably going to combine some ideas from other anime into this fanfic. This is not a for certain thing, and if I do, you'll know because of the disclaimer that i'll have to post. I would like to formally declare right now: I DO NOT OWN POKEMON! This is the disclaimer that I will be referring to when you see the "disclaimer:see end of chapter one".

Now, i'm curious to see what you thought of this first scene. Please tell me if I am making any grammatical mistakes as well as any writers mistakes (like things that i'm not doing, could I do better on description, etc...) that I may make. If your comment looks like a flame, i'm going to ignore it. So anyway, thanks for checking this story out and I hope that y'all will stay along for the ride. It'll help motivate me to keep going. Ja ne!