I'll say this ash wont get Pikachu he'll get him when he is a egg and I don't like misty so he'll meet her at her gym but wont travel with her. In this fic they get their pokemon at nine but cant do contest or gyms til ten. Most moves will be made up. And oocness don't like get lost

The Greatest Pokémon Master

Ash Ketchum was a nine year old boy with a big dream… to become the greatest. Currently he was asleep having accidently set his alarm clock to not wake him up thirty minutes ago, but instead woke him up now. " PIKACHUUUUUUUU," sounded the alarm. Ash awoke and noticed that he was late for a special event and gave a shout of," AHH! I'm late, I'm late." before scrambling to put on his clothes. Once he got those on he then ran out the door shouting," BYE!" to his mother, Delia, and her Pokémon, Mr. Mime. He sped to an odd-looking building as fast as he could. When he did reach it he yelled," I'm here I'm here!"

An old man wearing a professor's coat same to the door and said," Ah! You must be the other trainer I'm Professor Oak, but I'm sorry to say that I have no more starter Pokémon for you."

Ash looked at him blankly before he said," You have to have some pokemon I could use as a starter."

Prof. Oak gave a thought and said," I might but it's an egg right now so when it hatches and if it likes you it'll be your starter pokemon." Ash nodded his head rapidly and Prof. Oak led him to an egg incubator room.

He pointed to an egg that was shaking vigorously and Ash walked over to it slowly. Once he was just above it the egg glowed white and broke showing a small, confused Pichu staring at Ash with big and round eyes. Seeing Prof. Oak nod at him, smiling, Ash scooped the Pichu up in his arms and asked for what things he would need to care for his new pokemon. The professor left for a short period of time before returning with pokefood and his pokevice.

He gave some advice to Ash about letting the Pichu actually get used to him first then start training until he thought the pokemon was ready. With a nod he carefully left back to his house to inform his mom of the news. It took a little while to get back home because he didn't want to make his Pichu uncomfortable. When he did get back home his mom was calmly sipping some tea with Mr. Mime right by her and they were both staring intently at Pichu.

Delia's right eyebrow rose and Ash started to explain to her what happened at the lab. She gave out a small chortle at the thought of her boy having to take care of care of a baby pokemon and it took her a few minute to get Mr. Mime to stop his own laughter. Ash soon found out that caring for the pokemon was a handful. It took a full month before the Pichu was finally ready for training. After being forced to read and cross reference up on several things, Ash found out that all pokemon had a power core of sorts and that there was a need for a big core to do the more extraneous moves.

He later found out that pokemon needed to find this core before they were able to do any specific type of move like static or thunder. He also found out that the bigger and better the control and power the better the move. So with that knowledge he had Pichu meditate when he wasn't sleeping, using the bathroom, or eating and drinking. It took a while but Pichu eventually found it and was then instructed to keep finding it until he could do it in his sleep or when he was distracted.

That took another week and Ash was starting to understand Pichu a little. Ash decided to ask Pichu if he wanted to learn an electric type move and received a no and was instead told he wanted to get his base stats up before tempting to try type moves. Ash didn't know how to do this so he had to take a couple weeks to get some money, find a blacksmith to make some specialize and unspecialized weights, a training junkie, and some other people for other things. In the end Pichu looked on in awe and hugged Ash's leg before getting started with the weights.

The weights they had were different in that they weighed down the whole body, except the head, instead of specific parts amplifying their usefulness. Ash knew they were behind other trainers and told Pichu such and they increased their training by a lot. During the training they became closer than ever and Ash started calling Pichu Rai for lightning.

It was half a year after they Pichu came out of her egg and they were finally ready to train with moves. They started off with quick attack, a move where the user had to send power from their core to their legs to get a burst of speed and then basically tackle the offending party. Ash said they needed a moving target so he volunteered, of course Delia refused to let him do it but was forced to back down later, and would move as fast as he could first with his weights on then without. It didn't take long for Ash to brace his self and set out into a sprint while Pichu pushed himself and got one good burst in before stopping.

Ash looked on confused before he realized the problem… Rai was scared he'd hurt his partner. Ash then said," Rai… don't worry about it I can take it and you know it!" It didn't help much and Rai kept stopping just before he would strike. "Rai… what is wrong with you… while your concern is nice… STOP MESSING AROUND we need to get this STOP WORRYING ABOUT ME you know I don't need it," Ash said. Rai nodded and ran completing the quick attack.

The attack missed as Ash seemed to gain speed and dodge he then said," Nice going Rai" with a big smile even though the attack missed. Watching from inside the house, Delia frowned Rai almost hit Ash full power and speed and while she was happy he wasn't hurt it shouldn't be possible for him dodge that attack. The only time things like that happens is either with psychics and people with the ability a power unnamed where the longer a person trained with a pokemon they themselves get stronger in all ways. After a couple more tries where Rai missed some more they decided on something else to hit.

Ash would throw multiple rocks in the air and Pikachu would have to hit the one that was a different color while not even being touched or touch all the other rocks. That took a week in itself and if Rai wasn't good it would have taken even longer. Ash had taken up trying to hit Rai with either a tree limb or a blunt needle, but it took a while for Ash to get used to using them. Later on Ash found out that he didn't need to sleep as much and stayed up late reading on various articles including pokemon facts and anatomy on all kinds of bodies. He found he loved it.

Later he branched out to survival, cooking, and other things. The next move they worked on was iron tail. The move was crazy easy to learn so they added their own twists to it. First they made the tail harden even more than usual and then moved in different movements like rolling the whole body or spinning the body while going straight to the ground. After that it was back to specific hit training and specific hit and dodge weapon training. That together added a whole other two weeks to be done with and then Rai decided to learn static.

The restriction of a year was almost over with and Pichu was delving deep into his core and bringing out energy and felt as it instantly converted into electricity and made it cover his skin lightly. Ash watched and lightly tapped Rai's skin felling a moderate jolt flash through his body. He gave advice by saying," Rai bring out more energy and condense it more" before he brought out some needles and aimed them at a target, on a tree around 100 feet away, hitting the ring just outside the bull's eye. Rai heard it and followed the instructions set. Once the yellow mouse finished he fainted.

Ash started and ran towards his fallen Pichu and felt for anything that would signal that his Pichu was in danger. Once he found that it was just a case of exhaustion he sighed in relief and decided to read up on how to increase your pokemon's core. He brought Rai into his small bed beside his own before he set out to Prof. Oak's lab for the information. It turns out that the way to increase a core is to have the pokemon drain it because then it'll refill itself with more energy. Ash sighed displeased with the method.

He vowed that he'd think up a way that didn't seem so… barbaric in nature and be more natural. When Rai awoke the next day he asked him to feel his core out but instead of going into it feel the surrounding area of it. Rai cocked his head to the side but complied none-the-less. It took but a minute for the Pichu to come back out babbling about trenches and how they were connected to his core but not filling. Ash said," Try to fill the trenches with your energy" the Pichu did just that and he fell out.

He found that this time Rai was just tired instead of drained like last time and frowned what made him faint. He left out to practice his trap making skills in wait of when his Pichu would awaken so he could find out why he had fainted again. Once again the yellow mouse didn't wake up until the next day. Ash didn't waste a minute and asked," Why did you faint Rai?" Rai answered back saying that he had to fight against his core to get it to fill one trench but lost the fight in the end and dropped.

The thought that the core was sentient boggled Ash into the thought that maybe the core needed to feel that it was needed before it would give itself up and comply with their wishes of gaining more energy. Rai went back to his core to try to coax it to fill in a trench but the core still refused to do such. It took until there was only a month left of the restriction before the core wavered and started to fill a trench. It did get smaller but it got bigger afterwards after filling ten trenches out of one-hundred.

Rai said that he felt stronger and did his static again and when Ash touched it he felt like he just touched lightning and quickly pulled his hand back while staring at Rai in awe, if the core filled ten what if it filled the whole hundred. With a quick smirk Rai let the defense down not even feeling drained. That brought them to the thought that Rai didn't draw power from the core directly but the trenches connected to the core. They also found that once filled the trenches refilled themselves back up not needing the core at all.

Ash then said," Let's try some new moves if they work we'll call it static pulse alright… now form static and pulse it outward and for the next one it'll be static condense for this one you bring it into one spot amplifying the effect but leaving yourself a little open." Receiving a nod the small pokemon got started on the variations. Ash himself read books on more subjects before trying to apply them. He left to test his survival skills and made a trap to capture, skin, and cook a passing rabbit.

He just finished cooking the rabbit into a stew when he heard the unmistakable sound of static and rushed back to the camp and saw a dome of electricity circle Rai by a dozen feet. Ash saw his Pichu panting and walked up to it holding up a stew he made. Ash set it in front of Pichu and poured some pokefood into the bowl and on the stew before he ate his own stew. While they were eating Ash was started thinking about static condense and that thought brought him to thunder punch a move where the user surround a fist in lightning and thought that if Pichu can move while using static condense on his body he could make a variation of thunder punch. The thought of variation brought him back to static pulse wasn't volt tackle basically that but running a more powerful?

These thoughts brought things unheard of from anywhere. When he shared these thoughts with Rai, who he always told such information to, he looked happy at what could be a base for learning different more powerful moves. They spent half that month refining their attacks after deciding not use the higher up moves until later and started on their last move until they set out… lightning.

They already started on variations of the attack but made sure not to get ahead of themselves. Rai's core did get bigger and fill another two trenches and speaking of the trenches they got deeper and longer making Rai feel much more powerful than usual. "Again," Said Ash as he watched Pichu use his thunder and char the ground that was struck with pride in his eyes. It was time for the first variation lightning storm it consisted of covering the entire area in clouds and making it rain lightning.

The attack drained a lot out of Rai so it would be used as a last defense attack until he got more energy. Delia had watched all this proceed silently but proud of her child and his creativity and making sure that he could survive on his own. Before they knew it the year was and they could head out. They did but not without saying goodbye to Delia, Mr. Mime, and Prof. Oak. They set out confident that they could beat almost anything that comes there way with hopeful ease and finesse. So they set out to become legends.

All seven pokemon have been figured out they are:

Rai

Magikarp

Bellsprout

Growlithe

Larvitar

Onix

And Dratini