Chapter 1: Pokemon…I Choose You!
Ash Ketchum. A regular kid, raised in the small village of Pallet Town. The just-turned 10 year old, usually already asleep by this time, was seen jumping up and dow his bed, with his arms raised in the air, in a wild fist pump, from the fight that was happening on screen.
"All right," exclaimed the excited boy, as he punched his hand in the air. He was in his favorite pair of purple gym shorts, that had an emblazed Hitmonchan on the front, with Hitmonlee on the back, "back to the action!" He exclaimed.
On the small black and white television set, two creatures were locked in battle. What are these creatures, you ask? These animals are called Pokemon. Ash Ketchum, along with his life long (*rolls eyes* 10 years) friend Gary Oak, have been learning about Pokemon since Professor Oak used to babysit them. The Professor, still to this day, is a Pokemon Researcher, and therefore cares for a lot of different species of pokemon, that one usually would not see on a everyday basis. He had taken both boys, (who had recently lost their fathers, due to an accident *I'm assuming, let me know if I'm wrong and I'll fix it) and offered to teach them about Pokemon, how to care for them, their abilities, and so on.
"Nice," he whispered, "Gengar and a nidorino…shit, move Nidorino, watch out for his shadow ball…YES!."
"Ash Ketchum! Do you have any idea what time it is?" A femine voice called from the doorway.
Ash looked over to the door, and saw he mother standing there, drying a plate from dinner, an angry, tense expression on her face. Tapping her foot against the floory rapidly, she stared down her son.
"Sorry mom, but this is the final of the Kanto Conference, can't I watch this last battle. PLEASE?"
"Well, if you can't sleep then at least catch up on what Pokemon you'll be able to choose from tomorrow."
"Fine, fine," the young boy grumbled, as the red headed woman grabbed the remote and changed the channel. "I've seen this stuff a hundred times, hell Mom, I've known which pokemon to start with since I was six."
"Well then, if you think you know everything, can you guess whats going to happen next?" She aked him with a raised eyebrow.
She walked into the room, snatched the remote from off the bed, and continued to turn off the tv, before walking out of the room.
"Damnit," he said, as he flew himself back on his Zapdos pillow, a perma-frown on his face.
"Now! Go to bed, Ash."
Fortunatly for the young trainer, sleep came quickly, and he woke up with his Charizard Alarm. Yawning he crawled out of bed, and slipped on his pants.
"Time to get a move on, Ashy-Boy," he said to himself.
Packing the rest of his things (pokeballs, potions, and the like) he headed downstairs for his last breakfast at home. As he walked into the kitchen, he smelled his mothers famous pancakes, sitting at his customary spot at the kitchen table.
"Hurry up Ash, were going to be leaving as soon as your finished."
Ash nodded his head, as he finished piling the stack of pancakes into his already otherwise full mouth.
AT PROFESSOR OAKS RESEARCH LAB (OUTSIDE)
'Finally,' thought Ash, 'after all the work that we've put in we can finally leave on our journey, oh Garys here already.'
"Yo! Whats up Gar," yelled Ash, as he and he Mom were finally coming up on the Lab.
"Hey, Ashy-Boy, you finally ready to leave?"
"Hell yeah I am, did you already get your starting Pokemon?"
"Yep, just picked her up. Go ahead and go see Gramps, and I'll see you down here okay?"
"Cool, be right back."
Unlike most other children, these two had spent most of their free time helping out the Professor in his research lab. Feeding and learning a little bit about strategy from the former League Master. Walking up the cement stairs that led to the lab, Ash met the Professor at the top. He was wearing his customary white coat with a friendly smile on his aged face.
"Ash, you finally made it," said the Professor, with a small grin on his face.
He handed the young trainer, (normal canon outfit) six pokeballs and a red and black pokedex.
As soon as he found the pokeball with a lightening mark on hit, he dropped it to the ground. The mechanical looking ball, colored red and white, snapped open and the familiar Pokemon formed out of red energy.
"Pikachu!" cried the small mouse like creature, a small jolt of lightening hitting Ash in the stomach.
"Ouch! Sorry about that Pikachu, but the Professor said that it's tradition for your starter to come out of a pokeball, we wouldn't want to start off the wrong way, now would we?"
"Pika Pika," said the small creature as he shook his head.
The yellow electric mouse ran over to Ash, and climbed up on his left shoulder. Thanking the Professor, and with a shake of the hand, he turned around and headed back downstairs, to meet with his friend and family.
"So are you finally ready Ash?" asked Gary.
"Yeah, almost." He said with a choke in his throat.
Turning to his mother, he grasped her in a big hug then let her go. "I won't let you down Mom." Said Ash, with tears in his eyes.
"I know baby, now go make me proud. Don't let anything or anyone hold you back."
"Okay," he said with a big breath, turning to his one time rival, "lets get going."
"Finally," said Gary, rolling his eyes.
As both boys headed out, their mothers along with their favorite Professor, stood waving, and wishing them good luck. They boys looked at each other with wide grins on their faces, broke out into a run. The hills leading out of Pallet Town quickly came upon them, and the boys ran into a shaded area. Slowing to a walk, they looked at each other and laughed.
"So," said Gary, "we're both gonna do the Kanto Gym Circuit, right?"
"Yeah," replied Ash, "that's what I was planning. Then heading up to the Kanto Conference."
"Cool... So I was thinking Ash, since were both gonna be doing the Kanto Circuit, that it might be a better idea for us not to travel together."
"I was thinking almost the same thing. Why don't we meet at the Pewter City Gym in a month from now?"
"A MONTH! Why so long? It shouldn't take that long to get there."exclaimed Gary.
"I know," said Ash, "but I want to have time to catch a couple of Pokemon and train them right instead of rushing it. You remember what the Professor said right?"
"Yeah, I remember. Okay, so one month from today at Pewter. Got it."
"Cool, so how about a quick battle, then we can start our jouneys?" asked the purple clad Gary.
"I don't know," said Ash, "we should get to know our Pokemon better before our first battle.
"That might be a good idea," said Gary,"So I guess I'll see you in a month in Pewter?"
"Yeah, guess so. Make sure to train hard, Gary."
"Yeah, you to Ashy-Boy. Loser buys dinner?"
"Sounds good to me, see ya!"."
"Peace."
The two boys separated, doing their secret handshake before walking in different directions. Looking up at the sky, Ash saw the bright blue sky with very few clouds. He looked over at Pikachu and nodded his head.
'So this is it, the begining. We're gonna be the best, I just know it.' Looking over at his Pikachu he gave one firm nod of his head and started their month long walk to Pewter City.
"So," began Ash, "are you ready for this Pikachu?"
"Pika pika." He said, while he nodded his furry little head in agreement
"We're gonna catch a whole bunch of friends, but first..." Ash said as he put his backpack on the ground, and started to dig through it., "Ah, here we go," he said standing up.
He pulled out a black collar, and tied it around Pikachu. Pikachu looked down at the device, and then back up at Ash.
"Pika Pik-uck is this thing? Whoah, that is pretty chill. What is it?"
"It's a a poke-translator. This way we can understand each other, whatcha think?"
Pikachu said nothing for a moment then looked back at his Trainer. "As long as we don't use it for training or battles, it'll be cool."
"Good, so how about we do some quick training, then continue on," said Ash, noticeing his partners nod, continued, "so the first gym that we have is the Pewter City Gym. They mainly have ground/rock type pokemon. At least thats what it says on the Pokedex," said Ash, moving his finger across the screen.
The Pokedex was different from any he had seen before. It was the newest in a line of advanced technology known as The Android. It was some kind of high-tech Tablet, that allowed access to his Pokedex, Info Guide, and all kinds of different "Apps". Ash was excited to say the least. He looked it over and pressed his finger to the eventory button. He quickly noticed a leather case for said Tablet. He clicked on the button and a female voice range out, "Transporting: Envatory: Tablet Protection Case"
A white light light up the Tablet screen and as it disappeared it left the case sitting there. The orange and blue case was light weight. He could barely feel it when he put it on. The case was on his chest with a strap going around his shoulder. He also noticed that along the strap were places for his pokeballs. Pikachus' was placed in the middle.
Ash hit the menu tab again. "Shit, this is pretty cool. Lets see...now, who is the current gym leader, "Brock, hmmm," said Ash, iIt also showed a list of pokemon that he had available for him to use, depending on how many badges the trainers had when they came to challenge. Ashs' eyebrows raised in surprise. . ."damn, now thats what I'm talkin about. So, we're mos' def, gonna either gonna have to get a water pokemon on our team, or focus on strategy rather than pure power. So what do you think?"
"Lets get some other Pokemon, first."
"No shit," asked Ash, "really, I had no idea."
He put down his pack, and sat on the ground. Looking around he saw a big grass field that was surrounded by a group of trees, blocking them from view. He turned to his Pikachu and got ready to start his training.
"Okay, so your a pikachu," Ash mumbled to himself. Turning to the Pokedex, he pointed it at Pikachu to read his stats'. A female voice was heard coming from the device.
"Pokemon: Pikachu
Level: 12
The electric mouse Pokemon. At this stage training on speed would be useful to increase their Agility and Double-Team.
Moves:
Tail-whip
Double-Team
Thunder-Shock
Agility
Special Notes: Ash, this is Professor Oak if you ever need any ideas or suggestions, I should have something you might need here. At your soonest convience it would behoove you to get training weights for yor Pokemon. I left one set for you, in your backpack. Also, Pikachu should start learning Thunderwave, it is a VERY good paralasys technique Be sure to call your mother every now and again.
He continued to look at the screen for a minutes, before noding his head. He opened the inventory and clicked on the training weight. The screen once again lite up and deposited the training weights to the awaiting trainer.
"These will help us get stronger, right?
"Yep," said Ash,"and since we're gonna be training, it's time to get that collar off of ya bud."
"Pikachu," nodded the pokemon.
"Now," said Ash "use your agility and run around the perimeter. Go as fast as you can, I'll be running with ya, if your gonna train, then I'm gonna train" said Ash, slipping on his on wrist and ankle weights.
"Ka chu."
TWO HOURS LATER
"That was a great workout, Pikachu," said an exhausted Ash. Now remember, this is going to work a whole lot better, once your double team gets stronger."
"For sure," said Pikachu.
Ash nodded his head in pride. "Alright," he said, turning his head to look at his Pokemon, I think thats enough for now, we can do some more training before we go to bed. Let's continue on."
He clipped on Pikachus translator before moving on.
"Yeah," said Pikachu, "it would it be kinda cool to have a water type on the team, for when it gets hot."
"Hmm," said Ash. "I haven't thought of that before. Well, we'll see which one comes up first. Lets pack up and continue walking."
Once their bags were packed, they left the small training area. However; they did not get very far.
"Ash, what was that?"
"What was what," said Ash, as he looked up at the Pokemon currently resting on his head.
"You didn't hear that? It came from those bushes over there."
Ash started to walk over to the bushes, when he heard a disturbing noise. Jumping over some bushe then running he followed his Pikachu.
"Come on Pikachu, slow down," called Ash, as he raised his right arm over his head to protect himself from the branches of the thickening trees.
"There's a pokemon in trouble and we need to help her, hurry Ash!"
The anger in his pokemons voice caught his attention, so he picked up his pace and jumped over the last couple of bushes, landing beside his Pikachu.
"Ash look," he cried, pointing one of his yellow toes toward a group of spearow, "they've attacked this Pidgey."
Ash looked on, as he counted 12, yes 12 angry vicious bird pokemn, as his Pokemon took off after the Spearow. A yellow cloud of electricy errupted from his body and rushed forward to the pecking Spearow. The Spearow cried in shock and pain, as they felt an angry Pikachus' thundershock.
"All right, great one Pikachu. Now go ahead and set up for double-team."
Pikachu nodded his head, but didn't say anything in response, his focus on defeating the gang of spearow.
"Row, Row, Spearow," said the bird Pokemon and they started to get up.
"Now," said Ash.
Four more Pikachu phased next to the original, two on each side. The Spearow continued to glare at the pokemon, before looking at the one in the middle. The middle spearow, looked angrily at Pikachu before looking back at his fellow birds.
"SPEAROW!" He called to them, and as one they all took to the skies, before shooting down in a swarm. Flying quickly, Ash and Pikachu held there calm.
"Agility," called Ash, in a forceful tone.
A nod of the head. " Growl!" Another nod.
As pikachus' growl was heard, the spearow stopped in there atempt to rush the electric mouse. Quickly taking advantage of this oppurtunity he ordered his attack. "Full-Power thundershock, Pikachu. There going to Professor Oak for rehab."
Another nod. . .
. . . then the angry Pokemon took off towards the swarm that was closing in on him and his trainer. When Pikachu was close enough, he slammed his front paws on the ground and flipped over, rotating in the air, landing on the Spearow, in the middle of there formation.
"PIKACHUUUUUUU!" He called out, in anger. A large electric cloud, sparking with fury surrounded the Spearow, and took each one of them out of the battle.
One by one, the birds dropped from the sky. Seeing his way was finally clear, Ash ran forward to the injured Pidgey. He fell to his knees and carefully picked up the hurt pokemon, cradling it, in his hands.
"Her," he whispered in astonishment, "its a her."
Slowly, the Pidgey opened her eyes, to reveal blue eyes, the color of the sea. She slowly sat up, and looked around. Seeing the defeated birds laying paralized all around her, and the Pikachu on this humans shoulder.
'They helped me,' she relized, after a moment, 'I would have died without their help. I owe them my life'
"Pidg, Pidge, Pidgey," chirped the small bird, hopping towards Ash.
"Hey there, you're okay," said Ash, breathing out a heavy sigh of relief.
"Pidgey," said the Bird again, this time hopping into his chest knocking him over. "Pidgey, Pidge, Pidgey gey gey pidgey." Said the pokemon.
"She's saying she wants to come with us," said Pikachu.
Looking over at at his Pokemon he cocked his head to the side. "Alright," he said. Looking back at the Pidgey he asked, "Are you saying that you want to come with me?"
The bird began to hop up and down and chirp loudly. He pulled out a pokeball and knocked it against the Pidgeys head. A ball of red energy surrounded the young Pokemon, and pulled it into the pokeball. The pokeball shook only one time, before calming in his hand.
"We caught our first Pokemon, Pikachu." He grabbed Pikachu as he stood up and did a silly childrens dance.
A red light appeared, and the Pidgey formed in front of them
"Hey!" Called Ash in surprise.
"Gey Gey Pidge Pidge Gey Gey."
A voice came from Ashs Tablet Case.
"Your Pidgey is evolving. Congradulations."
Pidgey suddenly stood up, a brief look of excitement crossing her face, and then she started to glow a blinding white.
"Alright Pidge. You're evolving already. I guess, she just needed to be accepted by a trainer."
The small pidgey was growing before his very eyes. Growing taller in height, her beak grew longer, and her feather changed to a lighter color.
"Pidgeotto! I did it. I did it!" Called the new Pokemon.
She took off into the blue sky, and circled around the area, before giving her best caw, causing a few random ratat to scurry into the bushes.
"Great job, Pidgeotto," congradulated Ash. "Do you want to go in your Pokeball now, or stay out with us?
The bird pokemon yawned, then pointed her wing at the ball.
"Alright, return," he said, pointing the pokeball at Pidgeotto.
A red beam of light shot forward, and pulled the Pokemon into it. He felt a small tug on his jeans.
"Whats up Pikachu?"
"Ash, you forgot about the Spearow. And they're waking up" Said Pikachu, before turning around to ready himself for battle.
"Spearow," started Ash, with Pikachu looking at him in confusion, "We have already beaten you once, we can do it again."
The main spearow looked at him, with a very angry look.
"Spearow, Row Row, Spearow!"
"All right Pikachu, quick, before they can get into the air. Your most powerful thundershock."
"Suck on this, bitches!," cried Pikachu.
A darked cloud formed this time, crackling and sparking as it rose into the air in a column of yellow light. Instead of jumping across towards the Spearow, like a thundershock, the column rose inthe the air, bringing with it angry black clouds. The attack traveled through the clouds (assumed Ash) and came crashing down on the Spearow. There backs arched in pain, as the few that had managed to make it into the air, came crashing back down, once again. Smoke rose from the blackened birds bodies, but as they were still moving, he didn't care.
A voice came from Ashs pocket. "Pikachu has learned Thunderbolt, Congradulations."
"Nice," whispered Ash, as he undid his backpack and pulled out his extra Pokeballs. "Now, where are they," he whispered. "Ah, here we go," said Ash, a glint in his eye. Looking over at the Spearow, he walked forward, before squating down next to the pile of defeated birds. "You may not like me right now, and you may hate me for it later, but I cannot let you roam around hurting innocent pokemon and trainer just because you can. Your mine, now."
He grabbed out the pack with the label "Sky-Balls". He began to catch all of the Spearow around the area.
"What are you doing?" Asked Pikachu.
"These Pokemon are too dangerous to just be left out here," said Ash. "So I'm catching them, and then transferring them to Professor Oak. Luckily, I have just the app for that. A wry grin appeared on his face.
"Are you sure, Ash."
"I'm not leaving them free Pikachu, they're way to dangerous."
The mouse pokemon nodded his head in agreement
TWO DAYS LATER
"Great training session, you guys. Next time Pikachu, try to do twenty more reps. We need your iron tail nice and strong."
A nod of the head
"Pidgetto. You still need to work on your double-team. We need to get it to the point where you can solidy hold ten copies, okay? Work on that and your agility, and we should be good. Your whirlwind and gust are coming along perfectly. Next time, we'll also work on your peck okay?
"Pidge."
He said all of this, as he packed away his sleeping bag. Standing up, he called for his friends.
"Come on guys," he said, waving them over, "there's a small pond over here thats out of the way. Thank god for this Tablet, it has this app that lists of things you should visit in each town. Pretty cool right?" He said, waving his Pokemon forward.
Reattaching Pikachus translator, he began to walk in the direction of the pond.
"Finally Pikachu, we can get some fresh water, and we can all...maybe at least get a bath. . .we all smell from the training.."
"And we can see about our chances of getting a water pokemon."
"True," said Ash, "that would make getting our first badge that much easier. He'll be using easy pokemon to start with. The Pokedex said he would choose between a Geodude or a Nidorino, then either an Onix, or young Graveler."
Both Pokemon nodded their heads. "Pidge Pidge Pidge gey to to"
"She says that we should get a water pokemon to help out. We can probably find one at the pond we going to.
"Thats the plan. The pokedex says that the two common water pokemon in the area are Poliwag and Staryu. I wonder which one we'll run across first."
They had been walking for a couple of hours when Ashs' phone startled him.
"RING RING RING, RING RING RING, PHONE CALL PHONE CALL. RING RING RING, RING RING RING, PHONE CALL PHONE CALL."
"What the fuck," said Ash, as he reached towards the sound, "so, the Pokedex is a phone too. Thats pretty cool."
He pressed the green button that lit up on his Pokedex, and held it out in front of him.
"Ash, finally," exclaimed the Professor on the phone, "I've been trying to get a hold of you ever since you sent me those 12 irate Spearow."
"Are you okay, Professor?" Asked Ash, noticing the bandages over his face.
"Oh this, yeah. Im fine. Nothing Ivy couldn't deal with. Next time just give me a heads up. I've had to give them there own small caged in area. Whoever abonded these Pokemon, is a monster. These birds have been tortured something fierce.
"Sorry about that. But they were terrorizing Viridian Forest, and not only humans. They were torturing this small Pidgey that I helped rescue."
"The one that you caught, right? She evolved into Pidgeotto shortly after."
"Yeah, thats right. How did you know that?"
"Ash, are you forgetting. You got your pokedex from me. So any Pokemon that you catch after number 6 will go track to your Pokemon Inbox.
"Wait, you mean on my Tablet right?"
"Yes Ash."
"Thats really cool. So I can still have my Pokemon with me all the time. Thanks so much Professor.
"Not a problem, Ash. I'm very impressed. You've gotten further than Gary has. The only new pokemon he has is a Nidorina."
"Well good for him," replied Ash.
"Where are you headed off to now Ash," asked the Professor. "Gary told me you guys weren't gonna meet up for a month."
Ash looked up, to see where they were walking. "We're about an hour or so away from this small pond, that I accidentaly found on the map."
"Ah yes," said the old man, "many begining trainers miss that pond. You are supposed to stop there and catch a pokemon, to help beat the Pewter Gym with. Anyway Ash, gotta go."
"Bye, Professor."
They had been walking for the past hour at a hurried pace. Once he was off the phone with the Professor, excitement filled the young trainer, and he rushed forward hoping to get to the pond sooner. However, as he dove deeper into the forest, the bushes thickened, and more trees blocked his way.
"Are we almost there, Ash?" Asked his small companian.
"For the last time, Pikachu, we will know when we're there."
Stepping over a small bush, he noticed that they had arrived. Smiling down at his Pokemon, they both rushed forward toward the gleaming blue of the pond.
"Finally," breathed Ash.
"Yeah," agreed Pikachu, "finally, we're here."
Pikachu, jumped from Ashs shoulder onto the ground and dashed forward to the water, Pidgeotto followed, dipping her beak in to take a drink. Ash landed beside him and cupped his hands, then dipped them into the water and drank from them.
"That tastes' so good," said Ash, wiping his hand aross his mouth, looking around they noticed a girl staring at them.
"Excuse me?" They said. The girl jumped back and screamed, before covering her mouth with her hands.
"Sorry about that," she mumbled, a blush rising on her cheeks. "You surprised me."
"Not a problem," said Ash, as he took in what she looked like.
She was a red head. A ginger.
'The first girl I meet on my journey, is a fucking giner! This sucks.'
She had a pony tail on the top of her head, and to the side. She was wearing blue short shorts, with a faded yellow top, and red suspenders. She looked around 13 years old. Ash bent down, and took off the Poke-Translator, quickly placed it in his case.
"I'm Misty, who are you guys."
""My name is Ash Ketchum, from Pallet Town, and this is Pikachu and Pidgeotto.
"Nice to meet you," she said to all three, "so are you guys here to fish too?"
"Yeah, that and relax, maybe train. We were hoping that a small campsite was near here?"
"Well, you found the spot," said Misty, as she waved her hand around the clearing.
For the first time Ash and his pokemon really looked at where they were. The pond was a bright blue, with lily pads here and there. Near the pond was a wooden table, with two benches. A fire pit, and an open sky. There was even a dirt patch, so visitores could pitch a tent, if they wanted.
"Thanks, after we set up, you wanna join us for lunch?"
Dropping his backpack and unpacking his sleeping bag and his other camp gear, he walked over to the edge of the water, and sat down, soaking his feet in the cool water of the pond.
"So, you said your name was Misty? Where did ya grow up?"
She sighed before opening her mouth...then closing it again. "I'm from Cirulean City, my name is Misty Waterflower."
"You mean the Waterflowers of the Cirulean Gym?" He asked. "I thought there were only 3 sensational sisters?
Ash saw her eyes squint in annoyance. "No, there is 4 sisters, and only 3 of them are (hands in the air) quote unquote sensational...Yeah, they're my older sisters."
"Oh," said Ash, before changing the subject,"how long are you planning on fishing for?"
"I don't know, I don't have to be anywhere, probably gonna end up staying for at least a couple of days." Replied the red head, as she sat back down, and picked up her fishing pole.
"That's cool. I'm planning on staying here for a week, maybe two, before I head out to Pewter City," he said, joining her on the grass.
"Oh what are you doing there?"
Pikachu jumped out of Misty's arms, and settled down next to Ash.
"I'm doing the Kanto Circuit with my friend Gary. We're meeting at the Poke-Center in three weeks."
"So are you just resting or what?" She asked, not unfriendly.
"No, not really. I saw on my Pokedex that the pond has some water pokemon, so I'm hoping to at least a new friend that might be able to help in my first battle."
"Alright," said Misty in excitement, "I'm going to be a Water Pokemon Master." She said, striking a pose on the grass, holding her pole up in the air.
"Great," replied Ash, "we can train together...if that's alright with you?" He said, looking over at her.
"Yeah, just one thing," she said, "you have to battle me first."
"Um, okay," said Ash, scratching his head, "why's that?"
"Because," she said, pointing at him dramatically, "you're going to have to defeat all 3 of my sisters' to get the Cascade Badge, so you might as well see what it's like to battle a water pokemon. Are you ready?
Ash looked at her. "How about we havr that lunch first," he said. as his stomach growled.
Misty looked at him about to say no when her stomach growled too. She nodded, and sat back down, another small blush rising in her cheeks.
'Attracted,' thought Ash, ' I think not, Gingers must not be allowed to have coitice. And Look! He continued in his mind, 'shes' already began to collect souls. She has three freckles on her nosie.' He turned his head, pretending that he didn't notice and began to cook lunch.
AFTER LUNCH
"Alright," said Ash, "Pikachu, I'm going to go with Pidgeotto, alright?"
"Pika Pika." He said, nodding his tiny head in agreement.
He unclipped a pokeball from his waist and tossed it high in the air screaming, "Pidgeotto, come on out."
A blast of red energy released the bird into the air. The pokeball dropped into Ashs' hands. Misty threw her pokeball in the air, and the ball released what looked like a starfish pokemon.
"StarYu," said the Pokemon. The Pokemon was a tanish, gold color, with a red jewel in the center.
"I just caught this little guy a couple of minutes before you and Pikachu showed up." She said, looking at her new Pokemon with pride in her eyes.
"Okay, well, why don't you start off." Said Ash, cofindent of his skills, as he remembered his research into water pokemon earlier that day. He gave a smirk. 'Lets see whatcha got, ginger' He thought.
Pidgeotto hovered a couple feet in front of him.
"Okay StarYu, this is your first battle, lets see what you can do." Said Misty.
"Hi-ya."
"StarYu, lets start off with a watergun," said Misty.
"Pidgeotto, dodge the watergun, and use double-team."
Pidgeotto phased into five pokemon, with herself in the middle. Misty looked on his surprise.
"StarYu, use bubble attack."
"Hi-Ya." A stream of bubbles came out the top of his head, blocking the birds view of the battlefield.
'Trying to change the playing field won't help you Ginger.'
"Pidgeotto, up in air and use gust, then quick attack." The bird, shot into the air then flapped his wings forward creating larger than normal gusts of winds, blowing the bubbles away.
"StarYu, wait for it then dodge the quick attack," Misty yelled, as the bubbles disappeared, and the bird was seen flying quickly towards her pokemon.
At the last second StarYu dodged the quick attack. Pidgeotto turned upward so he would miss the ground.
"Now StarYu, spin tackle." StarYu spun into a sloppy spin tackle attack and hit the bird in the back.
Pidgeottos' back arched as he was hit. 'Gotta work on that.' thought Ash. Se hit the ground hard by the looks of it.. "Are you okay Pidge?" Asked Ash, worry lacing his tone as he took a couple of steps forward.
"Pidge," said the bird, getting up and into the air again, not the slighest bit dazed.
"Great now fly up in the air and-," Ash stopped as he noticed movement out of the corner of his eye.
A Poliwag was walking in the distance trying not to be noticed. "Quick Pidgeotto, use double- team and a quick attack on that Poliwag."
Pidgeotto adjusted his body, and angled toward the small water tadpole. Poliwag looked up as Pidgeotto was a few feet from him, and shot forward using headbutt, into Pidgeotto. The much larger bird pokemon, hit the tadpole much harder, sending him down. The tadpole, got shakily to his feet, squinting his eye in pain.
"Ash, what are you doing? We're in the middle of a battle." She asked, recalling her StarYu and running over to him.
"I'm catching this Poliwag, hold on for a second, I need to focus," he said, not even turning to her, but giiving her the one second finger. She paused, giggled, and blushed. "Now Pidgeotto," he said, "quick double-team again, and then your strongest gust that you can manage."
Two more Pidgeotto phased beside him. One of the right and another on the left. They flew close to the poliwag, and used his wings to to slice through the air, creating blades of wind. The wind picked up the tadpole and slammed him into the tree.
"Great job, Pidge. Now, Poke-Ball go," said Ash.
He unclipped a Poke-Ball from his waist and threw it at the defeated pokemon. The ball opened and sucked the pokemon in it. The ball started to shake. Again. And three times, before it calmed. Ash walked over and picked it up.
"Nice catch Ash," said Misty, "we'll have to finish our battle some other time." Mistly went back to her fishing pole, with a renewed vigor in her eyes.
"We caught a Poliwag. Yes," he said jumping up and down, "thanks to you Pidgeotto we now have a water Pokemon. Come on out Poliwag," he said, dropping the pokeball on the ground.
The pokeball opened and out came the Tadpole Pokemon. Ash sat down on the grass and introduced his Pokemon to their new friend.
"Everyone, this is Poliwag. Poliwag this is Pikachu and Pidgeotto. Welcome to the team."
"Poliwag, wag wag Poli."
"Pika Pika Ka Chu."
"Pidge Ge Ge Pidgeotto."
"Looks like they're getting along," said a voice from behind him.
Ash turned around and looked at Misty. "Yes it does. I'll probably let them have fun and splash around for the rest of the day," said Ash, looking at his Pokemon talking, "that is if it's okay with you?"
"Yeah," said Misty, " the water does look nice today, do you want to go swimming?" she asked, as she began walking towards him, "After such a great catch wouldn't it be nice to cool off."
She rushed toward him with a huge grin on her face, tackling him into the water. The both came up from the water sputtering and laughing. Ash swam towards the shallow end of the pond, and began to unclip his on his case. 'She hugged me. She fucking hugged me. I feel so dirty, and used. belt. .' He continue to ramble wwhen two of his pokeballs came lose, and dropped in the water.
"Dang," said Ash, as he turned around and felt around in the surrounding water for his loose pokeballs.
"Here they are," said Misty, holding up two Pokeballs, as she swam over to him.
"Thanks Misty. I better clip my balls on properly before I lose them again."
The balls began to shake in his hands, before calming..
"Uh, Misty, are you sure these are mine?" He said, holding the balls out for her to take.
"No, Ash, they are definitly yours. I keep all mine in my backpack." She said, shaking her head.
"I think I accidently caught two Pokemon." He said looking down at the balls he was holding.
"Really," asked Misty in surprise, a pout appeared on her face,"why can't that ever happen to me," she said with a pout."
Ash chuckled a bit. "Well, might as well see what I caught," he said as he threw both Pokeballs in the air, above the water.
Ash watched as two forms began to take shape. One of the forms looked like a fish and the other resembled a seal.
"Goldeen, Goldeen Goldeen." The baby goldeen swam around in a circle excited, jumping into the air, and diving back into the shallow pond.
"Seal Seal," clapped the otherbright white Pokemon.
"Well, Ash. Looks like you got a few water pokemon for your team." Said Misty, with a dreamy look in her eyes.
"Looks like," replied Ash. "Pikachu, Pidgeotto, Poliwag," he called his Pokemon, "come on over here and meet some new friends."
His Pokemon came running over and started talking to the new Pokemon. As they were talking in their Poke-Speak, both Ash and Misty got out of the water and changed into more appropiate swim-wear, before joining their friends.
Later That Same Day
"That was a great swim," said Misty, as she got out of the water.
Grabbing a towl to dry off, Ash followed her out, grabbing his own towel out of his backpack. Drying off quickly, he got into his pajama's. Looking over he saw that Misty still had not changed. Calling his Pokemon over he quickly brought out food for three of them.
"What are you doing Ash?" Asked Misty.
"Getting ready for bed. Are you gonna get ready?" He asked her.
"What do you mean?" She asked with a confused look on her face.
"Don't you have any pajamas to wear?"
"Um no, I usually just sleep in my shorts." She replied.
"Here," said Ash, tossing her his extra pair, "put these on, it'll probably get pretty cold, and I haven't caught a fire Pokemon yet."
'Dodged that bullet.'
"Oh okay," said Misty, with a blush on her cheeks, "are you going to bed now?"
"Not yet," he said, "I still need to call one of my friends." He took out his tablet, and pressed the phone icon.
PROFESSOR OAKS RESEARCH LAB
RING RING RING, RING RING RING, PHONE CALL PHONE CALL. RING RING RING, RING RING RING, PHONE CALL PHONE CALL. RING RING RING, RING RING RING, PHONE CALL PHONE CALL.
A man with greying hair in a white coat, is seen eating his dinner, and spills his hot coco at the sudden noise.
"Damnit," he said, as he started to walk towards the video-phone.
'Now who in the world could be calling at this hour?" Wondered the man.
"Professor Oak's Research Lab, Professor Oak speaking."
"Hello, Professor, it's me, Ash."
"Oh hello Ash. It's a bit late to be calling, what can I do for you?" He said pressing a button on the computer that let them both see who they were talking to.
"Well," said Ash, pausing, as a blush crept up his cheeks, "I guess you could say that I accidently caught a couple of Pokemon."
"Accidently you say," he said with a chuckle, "Hold on for one second," the elderly man said, as he went to press a couple of buttons on his computer, "Ah yes, are you talking about Goldeen and Seel?" Asked the Professor as he scrolled down the screen.
"Yep," replied Ash, "I need to send them both to you."
"Why so soon, Ash?" he asked.
"Well," started the young trainer, "the Goldeen is just a baby, so she won't be able to do any training or battling for awhile. And since I'll be traveling, it won't make sense for her to be with me. I'd rather she be able to swim freely and safely."
"Okay, Ash. She can swim with the other young water Pokemon. Now, what about the Seel?"
"Oh, well he is just very hyper."
"Really Ash," interupted the Professor, "I'm surprised, you shouldn't abanded your Pokemon, just because he happens to be a little hyper."
"Oh I'm not abandoning him Professor. I just need you to keep them for me for awhile, I'm a little busy training my other Pokemon. And seel would take a lot of my time, focus, and energy. I'll be retrieving her after my battle with the gym leader."
"Oh alright," said the Professor, "by the way Ash, did you know that your Tablet can also send and retieve your Pokemon. Just press the app and follow the instructions."
"Ah, yeah," Ash chuckled. My bad," he finished with his hand scratching his head.
"That's okay Professor. So can I go ahead and send them on over?" He asked.
"Yeah, go ahead and send them through." Replied the Professor, pouring himself another cup of hot chocolate.
"Thanks, Professor. Sorry to bother so late with this."
"Not a problem my boy, not a problem."
A mechanic noise was heard in the backround, then a flash of white light.
"Okay Ash, I just recieved your Pokemon."
"Thanks again, Professor. Well, gotta go. Bye."
"Take care Ash, Bye."
BACK NEAR THE POND
"Well, got that taken care of."
He turned to look at Misty to see that she had already crawled into her sleeping bag. She was laying on her back, looking up at the night sky.
"Thats good. It's always important to take care of your Pokemon."
"Yeah thats true."
MISTYS POV
'What an interesting boy,' thought Misty, as she starred up at the stars, 'way more mature than your typical 11 year old. I wonder what kind of training he has planned for tomorrow.' She turned to look at him to see him whispering with his Pikachu. 'Look at him, talking with his Pokemon, that is sooooo sweet."
BACK TO ASH
"Hey Pikachu, so how did you enjoy just hanging out today, with Pidgeotto, Poliwag, Goldeen, and Seel?"
"They were all great," he whispered back,, 'Goldeen and Seel are pretty hyper, though."
"Yeah, don't I know it," replied Ash, "I sent them over to Professor Oak, they'll probably have more fun there, don't you think?"
"I agree, Ash. I remember when I was a Pichu. I used to have a lot of fun, playing with the other young Pokemon at the Lab."
"Great," said Ash, "so are you ready to train tomorrow?" He asked, still keeping an eye on the Water Pokemon Trainer.
"Sure am," replied Pikachu, "I can hardly wait to get stronger."
"I can hardly wait either," said Ash, "with the training that I'm planning on, we'll have no trouble with Brock." At Pikachus' questioning glance, Ash explained, "You know, the Pewter Gym Leader."
"Oh yeah, we're gonna kick his trash."
"Yeah we will, goodnight buddy," said Ash, turning to look at the stars.
"Goodnight Ash," said Pikachu, curling into a ball and slowly falling asleep.
2 DAYS LATER
"Come on out, Pidgeotto and Poliwag," called Ash, as he dropped his Pokeballs onto the ground.
Two balls of red energy came out of the Pokeballs and formed into two different Pokemon. One a bird and the other a tadpole. They both walked over to stand next to Pikachu.
"Great," said Ash, "how was your guys' rest?" asked Ash.
"Pidge Pidge Otto Otto." Cried the bird, flapping her wings happily.
"Wag Poli Poli Wag Wag." Said the Water Tadpole Pokemon.
"Good, because we're gonna continue the training from yesterday."
All of Ashs' Pokemon looked at him with determination in their eyes'.
"Ready, okay. You guys' know what to do. Double-Team, and hold it for as long as you can."
Pikachu and Pidgeotto both had made 10 copies of themselves. 5 on each side of them, while Poliwag had only made three. The former Pokemon, were able to hold their "Double-Team" for 10 minutes, while Poliwag, was only able to hold his for 3.
"Great job, you guys," said Ash, turning to Poliway, he got down on one knee, "Now, Poliwag, keep on working on "Double-Team", while I set up Pikachu and Pidgeotto, okay?" asked Ash.
"Poli," said the Pokemon.
"Good," said Ash.
He got up after seeing that Poliwag was still working on the defensive move, and made his way over to his two remaining Pokemon.
"Okay Pidgeotto, lets spend some time, perfecting your whirlwind and gust."
Ash, pointed to a couple of heavy looking rocks, and told Pidgeotto to pick them up and fly around the Pond/Camp area.
"Pidge," said the bird, as she flapped her wings as hard as she could.
"Good," said Ash, "this is gonna work out your wings so that they'll get even stronger okay?"
Pidgeottos' reply was to go even faster. Ash, walked over to Pikachu, and picked up a medium size stone, tossing it up in the air, testing its' weight. Nodding to himself he tied it to the end of Pikachus' tail.
"Okay Pikachu, you know what to do." Said Ash.
Pikachu lay flat on the ground, and lifted his tail as far as it would, before bringing it back down. For 10 minutes Ash did push-ups and sit ups.
'If my Pokemon are going to work on getting stronger, than I am going to suffer with them," thought Ash, as he got down on the ground, and began to workout, motivate in becoming a proper trainer.
Ten minutes had passed before Ash stopped. Looking over at Poliwag he noticed a determined look on his round, blue face. Ash quickly noticed four other Poliwag standing next to him, all exact copies of the one standing in the middle.
"Good job," called Ash, running over to congradulate him, "go ahead and take a break."
The blue pokemon released his defense move, and slowly sank to the ground. Ash sat down next to him looking at the hard work his other Pokemon were doing. Five minutes passed before Ash called both Pikachu and Pidgeotto, over to where he and Poliwag where resting.
END OF THE SAME DAY
"Ash," called Misty.
Ash looked around to find the voice that he recognized as his new companian. 'The giner, returns,' he thought, sighing her turned to her with a grin. He spotted her ducking a branch and coming into the campsite.
"Hey Mist," said Ash, calling a stop to his Pokemons training, "how was your training?" He asked, going over to his backpack to unpack the Pokemon food.
"It was good," she said, "StarYu learned bubblebeam, and has a more wide spread bubble attack." She bragged.
"Oh thats' good," he said, "Come on over you guys', its dinner time."
All three Pokemon, tired from a long day of training, came over to the food, and proceded to "dig in".
"So Misty," he began, "how long where you planning on staying hereagain?" He asked.
"I don't know," said said, shrugging her shoulders, and lookig at Ash hopefully.
'Damnit,' he thought, 'We'll she is kinda funny to be around, and who knows when I'll need help. Plus I could meet her sisters.' His nose bled a little.
"Well," he said, "I'm really bad with directions, would you mind terribly traveling with me," he asked, "I mean as soon as you get to wherever your going." He amended quickly, a shy grin appearing.
"I suppose, I can help you out," said Misty, a blush coming onto her face. "I do know a shortcut, that will take us directly to Pewter City. That is," she said, looking over at him, "unless you need to go to the Poke-Center?"
"No, we're fine," he stuttered. "We we're planning on leaving at the end of this week. Is that good for you?"
"Yeah, that's fine," said Misty. "As long as you promise me one thing?" Said Misty, giving Ash a hard look.
"Okay, what is it? I can't promise, until I know what I'm promising too,"he said giving her a reassuring smile.
"Oh it's nothing big," she said, "just promise me that if any bug Pokemon come along, you'll keep them away from me. Oh," she said, as an afterthought, "and please don't catch them. I really don't like bug Pokemon."
Ash looked at her for a second, before a understanding smile crosses his face.
"Okay Misty, I understand. Everyone has things that they don't like. I'll do my best. If I do catch one, I'll send them straight to the Professor, okay?
"Yeah, that works. So at the end of the week huh?" She said, "Hopefully, that'll give me enough time to catch a PsyDuck."
THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR SUGGESTIONS.
SO FOR THE NEXT POKEMON I WAS THINKING EITHER A FIRE (TORCHIC, IF I CAN WORK IT INTO THE STORY SO IT ACTUALLY WORKS ), PSYCHIC (ABRA/CLOYSTER), OR ROCK POKEMON (GEODUDE/ONIX?)
Raven1986: Thanks for the input. It really helped me to figure out which water pokemon to give them. Also, I think I might have an excellent idea of how to bring Torchic into the story...maybe. But then again, what about Charmander...hmmm. I'm still thinking about it. :)
Bard of Death: Thank you for your review. I actually just finished this chapter and was about to upload it, when I saw your review. It pushed me to add a little bit more at the end. So good on you. I've actually been looking for a story like this also, so it's pretty fun for me to write. Especially the training and the battles. Hope you continue to enjoy!
SORRY TO ALL FOR THE LONG WAIT. SO HERES A TREAT FOR YOU ALL.