I do not own Pokémon so don't sue me
Chapter 1: Old Trainer New Journey
The sun was just beginning to peek over the trees that surround the town of Azalea. Now Azalea was set in wooded area secluded from any nearby town. Yet the town was very normal with a Pokécenter and Pokémart along with many small shops and houses. In one of the small houses on the outskirts of town a young man of 16 years awoke and began to get himself ready for the upcoming day of qualifying to become an official member of the Azalea city gym. He stood about 5 feet 10 inches with an athletic build. He had deep dark brown eyes. His hair is short in length and dark brown in color. It was spiked on the top. He quickly threw on his dark blue wind pants, black t-shirt, and dark blue vest.
He headed down the stairs to grab some breakfast. His mom had made pancakes, sausage, and orange juice. While eating his fabulous breakfast he grabs the paper and notices a note from his dada wishing him good luck at the tournament. He opened it up to the local news. He searches for anything about the tournament today. After about 5 minutes he finds a whole section devoted to the tournament. Reading the article he sees that the editors have included a bio of each contender. Off to the side he sees the newspaper's idea of how the tournament will finish. "Hey they said I wouldn't make it past the second round," he says in disgust.
With some food in his stomach he heads for the gym and on the way he tries to decide which of his Pokémon to use in the tournament. At the tournament he heads for the registration table. "Hey I see you showed up, but I don't think you stand a chance verse my collection". It was Tom.
"Can you ever stop talking about your weak collection?"
"Did you call my collection weak cause if you did I'm gonna kick your butt in the tournament if you even make it that far."
"Oh I'll make it."
"Well I expect to see you on the sidelines after the first round."
Tom heads off to his field to get ready to face his first opponent who was Danye. Now Danye was just beginning to get into the Pokémon trainer stuff. Brian walked over to the chart to see who was his first opponent. When he got there he saw the chart and noticed that the winner still had to battle Bugsy the leader of the Azalea gym. Looking at the bottom of the chart he noticed a note he then read it out load. "This tournament will be a 3 on 3 with no time limit."
Now after that Brian looked for his name and noticed that his opponent would be Freddie who was known for being a trainer who used strategy over muscle and that was something that was hard to beat. Slowly looking around he started to walk over to Tom's match.
The match had already started yet no one had lost a Pokémon. Tom was using his Kakuna and Danye was using his new Caterpie. Brian quickly took a seat by Tom's girlfriend, Jackie who was also in the tournament. Jackie uneasily looked at Brian and shifted away from him because of the hate between her boyfriend and this boy sitting next to her. Brian changed his gaze from Jackie to the battlefield where Caterpie had just tried to tackle Kakuna but Kakuna's shell was to hard for the weak Caterpie. Kakuna shot right back with a poisonpowder. The instant the powder hit Caterpie it was knocked right out. "NOOOOO," screamed Danye.
"Return Caterpie," said Danye in a sad tone.
"Cheer up Danye that was only your first Pokémon."
"Oh yea," Danye says under his breath as he grabbed his second Pokéball and threw it onto the battlefield.
Out popped a Weedle that was a pretty good size for battling. Danye had Weedle use Poison Sting. "Ha that won't do anything to Kakuna."
"Oh really," said Danye in mysterious kind of way
Suddenly Kakuna hit the ground with a resounding thud. "Wow!" said Brian with his mouth hanging open.
Tom quickly returned his Kakuna to keep any momentum that he still had and then threw out his Butterfree. "Butterfree, Agility Tackle!!"
Butterfree moved back and quickly moved from side to side towards Weedle. "Weedle roll away,"
It was to late, as soon as Danye finished the sentence Weedle was propelled 10 feet by Butterfree's tackle. Weedle slowly got up and then try to hit Butterfree with a weak tackle but Butterfree moved to the side and hit Weedle with a wing as Weedle flew by. Weedle continued in the air until it hit a tree and fell hard to the ground. "Good job Weedle you earned this rest," Danye said in a soft voice as the red beam dissipated.
Quickly Danye grabbed his last Pokéball from his belt and threw it onto the field. Upon opening a small Venonat appeared. "Return Butterfree, Now I'll fight fire with fire," Tom said as he threw out his last Pokéball and out came a larger Venonat. Now that was a surprise to everyone.
"Now why did he do that, his Butterfree wasn't even winded he could've easily wore down Venonat and used his own Venonat to finish it off," Brian stated to anyone who was listening.
"Are you questioning my boyfriends choice," Jackie said with a heavy voice.
"Yes I am."
Jackie suddenly moved closer to Brian and before he knew it Jackie's hand met Brian's face with a loud smack. Everyone at the field turned to look where the sound came from including Tom, Danye, and their Pokémon. Suddenly Tom and his Venonat erupted in laughter. Brian and Jackie blushed at seeing everyone looking at them. Jackie slid back to her spot in the bleachers while Brian rubbed the side of this face. Slowly the attention shifted back to the battle in which Danye was about to make a move. "Venonat Supersonic."
"Venonat counter its Supersonic with your Psychic," Tom said with confidence.
"Crap Danye's Venonat doesn't stand a chance against this high of a level."
After a nauseating wave of psychic power hit Danye's Venonat it collapsed and Tom was declared the winner. Danye recalled his Venonat and with his head down started to walk towards the locker rooms. Brian ran over to Danye and stopped him. "Danye, come on cheer up, you did a great job out their you just started out and you beat Tom's awesome Kakuna."
"Thanks Brian but I think I was lucky and need to train harder and longer," Danye said in a sad tone.
"Yea that would help a lot."
"Well I'd better start today," Danye, said about to cry.
"No, give your Pokémon some time off, after all you did just finish a battle."
"Well I'd better get ready for my battle. Would you like to watch?"
"Sure," Danye replied wiping a tear from his eye.
Brian ran towards the locker rooms to get his Pokémon ready. Once in the locker room he headed into the red room when he saw that Freddie had taken the blue room because of a note on the door. After he was inside he set his six Pokéballs down on the bench. Now was the time to choose his three Pokémon for the tournament. "Now I know I'll use Heracross. If I use Beedrill then I have flying, poison, and bug and with Scizor I have steel and bug." Brian thought while lying on the end of the bench. He closed his eyes and slowly drifted off to sleep.
Outside the people in the bleachers where getting restless along with Brian's competitor Freddie. Danye got up from his seat and headed for the locker rooms. He knocked on the red room and entered. He saw Brian with his eyes closed and his Pokéballs laid out on the bench. "Hey Brian!!!!!!!!"
"W-What's going on?" Brian asked groggily.
"You're supposed to be out there in a battle against Freddie, but I guess that you fell asleep," Danye replied.
Brian jumped up and grabbed his Pokéballs and ran out the door. "Thanks Danye," Brian yelled as he ran out the door.
"Glad I could help."
Outside fans started to leave when the door to the locker rooms flung open and out came Brian running. Everyone sat back down in anticipation of an outstanding match. "About time you showed up," screamed Freddie across the battlefield.
"Just shut up and get ready to battle."
The judge walked to Brian and asked for the rest of His Pokémon so he couldn't cheat. "Here ya go sir," Brian said when the judge arrived in his box.
"Thank you Brian and good luck."
The judge walked back to his post at the center on the right sideline of the field. Looking at both the trainers and getting a nod from both he raised his hands for the release of their first Pokémon. "Go Spinarak!" yelled Freddie as he threw out his Pokéball.
"It's your turn Scizor!" Brian yelled as he also released his Pokémon on to the battlefield.
"Ready… Set… GO!" yelled the judge dropping both arms to start the match.
"Spinarak String Shot,"
"Scizor reverse that String shot with Slash,"
Scizor cut the strands that where fired in his direction and they fell harmlessly to the ground.
"I see your thinking," yelled Freddie with smirk on his face.
"I always think. Scizor Quick Attack,"
"Spinarak try another String Shot,"
Spinarak wildly shots strands of web in every direction. None of the shots seem to hit Scizor. When Scizor was about 2 feet away when a strand catches Scizor in the leg and drops him flat on his face.
"Way to go Spinarak!" Freddie yelled from his box.
"Scizor cut that web off your leg and get back after that Spinarak."
"Spinarak Agility,"
"Scizor Take Down, but make sure that you can hit that Pokémon,"
Spinarak was running circles round Scizor trying to make it dizzy.
"NOW SCIZOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Scizor quickly came down and when he hit the ground a cloud of dust came billowing up. When the dust settled Spinarak was laying down trying to pick itself out of the small hole created by the attack. Spinarak had made it out and with one last try launched a tackle. "Scizor finish it off with a claw smash,"
Scizor lifted up one of his claws and brought it down with outstanding speed. Scizor's claw hit Spinarak on the top of the head and Spinarak was launched straight into the ground creating another hole. This time Spinarak didn't come back out. "Spinarak is unable to battle. Scizor is the winner."
"You got lucky that time but this time you won't be," Freddie snarled as he pulled Spinarak's Pokéball of his belt "Spinarak return."
"That wasn't luck!" screamed Danye from the bleachers.
"Shut up ya loser! HA HA."
"Cut it out, and just throw out your next one."
"Fine," Freddie said sarcastically "Go Shuckle."
Out popped a small turtle like Pokémon with a red shell. It moved slowly towards Scizor.
"Shuckle Withdraw,"
"Scizor throw that shell into a tree to shake it out,"
Scizor pick up the shell just after Shuckle pulled his head and legs in. He hoisted Shuckle over his head and threw with all his might. Shuckle hit the tree with a crack and the tree fell over at the point where Shuckle hit it. Shuckle slowly came back out of his shell with an anger look. Scizor didn't back down and returned the gaze. "Shuckle Glare."
"Scizor jump behind that Shuckle,"
"Shuckle don't let him get away,"
"Scizor now jump on Shuckle's back and start hitting it,"
"Shuckle Withdraw again,"
"Scizor Agility to get there faster,"
Scizor was running as fast as it could and it clubbed Shuckle in the side of the head at high speed propelling Shuckle about 7 feet to the side. Shuckle slowly got up and then collapsed. "Shuckle is unable to battle. Scizor is the winner."
"You battle dirty."
"You can criticize my battle style later just give me your best shot," Brian finished with a smirk.
Freddie grabbed the last Pokéball on his belt and chucked it out onto the battlefield. It opened in a white flash. When the light dimmed a Ledian appeared. "Oh so you want to use that one I figured that you would use your Beedrill."
"No this one is stronger then Beedrill and it has a fighting attitude."
Ledian flew towards Scizor at a high speed but Scizor dove out of the way. When Scizor hit the ground there was a loud thud. Ledian turned to see what had happened and it saw that Scizor was slow to get up. "Take advantage of the situation Ledian at hit him with a Gust."
Ledian started to move its wings faster and faster. Dust was kicked up around Scizor as he started to slide backwards. "Scizor lay down," yelled Brian over the noise of the attack.
Scizor laid down and stopped sliding then started to slowly crawl towards Ledian. Ledian spotted Scizor and closed its eyes and started to work its wings even harder. Scizor laid down again as not to be blown away in the gust. The attack was so strong that Brian had to lie down to keep from being blown away. When Scizor had regained confidence that he could crawl and not be blown away he slowly crawled towards Ledian. Ledian kept trying to keep Scizor away from himself. Scizor made it behind Ledian but Ledian didn't realize and never did. Scizor raised both claws above his head and brought them down hard on Ledian's back knocking him down to the ground. "Scizor Jackhammer!!!!!!!"
Scizor jumped into the air and came down on Ledian leading with a claw into Ledian's chest and followed by a volley of punches hitting Ledian in the face and chest each creating a deeper hole in the ground. After about thirty seconds of punches Scizor jumped off of Ledian and knelt to a knee. The judge ran over to Ledian with Freddie tensely leaning out of his box waiting to see how Ledian was. "Ledian is unable to battle Scizor is the winner."
Scizor lifted a claw in a sign of victory. "Brian is the winner," the judge told the fans and contestants.
"Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Danye "Way to go Brian."
"Thanks Danye."
"Scizor way to hang on there and you definitely have gotten stronger through the training that we have done," Brian praised as Scizor walked back to Brian.
The judge walked to the judge's table and picked up Brian's remaining Pokéballs and returned them to Brian.
After the battle Brian walked to the red locker room for a little rest. At entering the locker room he saw Danye beaming with pride and excitement. "Wow that was an outstanding match. I wish I could battle like you did," Danye said with a shaky voice.
"Thanks Danye it means a lot to me to have someone look up to me," Brian replied quietly.
"Hey could you give me a few pointers after the next battles?"
"I'm not staying for the next two battles. Who are the contestants in those matches anyway?"
"Well, in the first one is Rick against Kyle."
"Great idiot one versus idiot two," Brian said sarcastically "That battle will take so long just for them to choose which Pokémon to use first."
"The second battle is Jackie versus Ron," Danye said a little irritated from Brian's interruption.
"That could have potential if Ron learned how to use his Venomoth better, because he does well with his Butterfree and Beedrill."
He sat down and laid out his Pokéballs and let them out. When the light dimmed out there were six Pokémon. Danye looked around at Brian's Pokémon. "How did you get an Ariados so big, and wow that Beedrill looks awesome, and that Pinsir looks so strong, also your Scizor and Scyther look like they could take anything," Danye exclaimed with excitement "But best of all is your Heracross."
"Thanks," Brian said "I have a great place to train would you like to see it so you can use it."
"Yea, I'd love to go but I've got to eat lunch first," Danye said.
"Well so do I," Brian replied "So after lunch meet me at the Pokécenter."
"Great."
Brian stood up and grabbed his Pokéballs and recalled all his Pokémon. He headed out the door with Danye right behind him. After Brian was out the door of the locker room he saw both Tom and Jackie holding hands and walking towards the locker room for Jackie's match. "Danye, you may want to get home I'll meet you at the Pokécenter about one o'clock ok."
"Ok, see you at one," Danye answered energetically.
Danye ran towards home while Tom and Jackie were getting closer. "Brian how did it feel to be the first victim of Jackie's wrath," Tom laughed.
Brian looked at Jackie who had her head down with a tear in the corner of her eyes. "I'm sorry I didn't know what to do," she said in a soft voice.
"What do you mean Jackie he deserved it," Tom said as he turned to her.
"Apology accepted," Brian replied quietly "And good luck with your battle."
"Thanks."
"She doesn't need luck like you do."
"Just shut up," Brian said annoyed "I'm not going to stay around to watch I'm going to help Danye this afternoon."
Brian ran towards home so he could finish in time to meet Danye. He ran through the park and had to avoid a few roller bladers who didn't pay any attention to anyone else. He ran over the bridge and ran past the Pokémart. Once at home he made his way to the backyard. When he had walked out of the backdoor he threw his Pokéballs towards the small pond on the edge of the backyard. When his Pokémon materialized he yelled to them "You stay in the yard and have some fun. We are going to have a training session this after noon, and here is your lunch."
He set down six dishes with different food in each one. The Pokémon quickly ran to the porch to enjoy their lunch. With smiles on their faces Brian ran to the bathroom to wash up for lunch. When he sat down to the table his mom brought over a plate of mac and cheese. "Well, how did you do today?"
"I kicked Freddie's butt," Brian said with pride.
"Good job," Brian's mom said with enthusiasm.
"Thanks," Brian replied, "What's for lunch?"
"Its right in front of you silly," his mom laughed.
"Oh."
He grabbed his fork and scooped up some cheesy noodles and put them in his mouth. Suddenly and loud shriek came from the backyard. Brian jumped to his feet and started towards the backdoor. When he made his turn he tripped over the chair and fell on his face. He quickly got back up and ran out the backdoor. When he stopped on the porch he saw a white bag of silk hanging from one of the trees dotting the edge of their property. He ran to his Pokémon all around the hanging bag. "Are you all O.k.?"
His Pokémon all looked up at him and nodded their heads with a smile. "Who is it?"
His Pokémon all shrugged. "Well we'll find out in a second. Ariados stand guard if we have to wrap it back up."
Brian walked toward the white mass and took hold with both hands. He looked back at Ariados and saw the look of confidence on its face and turned back to his objective. With a strong pull he tore the bag in half and a man fell out with a surprised look on his face. He got up quickly and turned to run. "Go Ariados!!"
Ariados reared back and fired a mass of white web. The web caught the man on the back. The man tried to take his shirt off to escape but the web stuck to his back. Ariados it's his head to the side and the man was flung back towards Brian. Brian had to dive out of the way as the man flew just over his head and slammed into a tree. Brian stood up and slowly walked over to the man and saw a big R on his shirt. "Crap Team Rocket is back," Brian said with horror as he recalled the time they took his dad's Scizor. Brian turned to run to the house and notice his mom in the backdoor. "Mom call the police." Team Rocket is back."
To be continued…