Hello, and welcome to my very first endeavor into fan fiction. I wanted to focus my very first story on the Pokemon games after reading a few other fan fictions. So I decided to start with FireRed and LeafGreen since it's "plot" mostly leaves an empty canvas in terms of storytelling. Anyways, enjoy and feel free to leave me any feedback :)
"Gengar knocks out Clefairy and now Samuel is down to one Pokemon!" The announcer yells into the mic causing the crowd in the stadium to scream even louder. The Gengar's trainer speaks to her opponent on the other side of the field.
"This is where your story ends Samuel, there's no way you could defeat my Gengar," she announces in a cocky tone. Her Gengar sticks it tongue out to taunt to opposing trainer.
"Guess I'm just going to write an epilogue then," Samuel answers back as he clutches his last pokeball. "Go, Nidorino!" The purple pokemon jumps onto the field and lets out a battle cry. "And I'll make sure you're the first to read it Agatha," he can barely contain his smile as the adrenaline flows through his body.
"We'll see about that! Gengar use shadow ball and blow this bookworm away!" She commands her pokemon in confident fashion. A dark orb starts to form in Gengar's mouth.
"Quick Nidorino use sucker punch!" The beast rushes at it's opponent with rapid speed. It leaps into the air and uses the momentum the gain even more speed on it's way down. The two pokemon are but a few feet of each other when-
The TV is turned off and the screen goes black.
The man sitting down jolts his head around to spot the culprit. "What the hell! Why'd you turn it off?" The culprit sighs while placing the remote back down on the table.
"Two reasons. One, you'll wake up Daisy. Two, look at the time," the "culprit" lazily says.
"It's 8," the man blankly says. His friend looks away and counts down on fingers. "Oh shit it's 8!" The man grabs a sandwich from the refrigerator, his blazer and his car keys. "Wish me luck!" He yells while running out the door.
"Good luck Kurt," the culprit says. He walks back over to his room and throws himself back on the bed.
"C'mon hurry up already!" Kurt honks his horn at the driver in front of him. In response, the other car speeds up, barely making a yellow light. Kurt catches the red as a result. He takes the time to examine himself in the mirror. "Maybe I should've brushed again," he tells himself while baring his teeth at the rearview mirror. A car behind honks at Kurt. "Alright I'm moving!"
The drive continues for the second longest 10 minutes of his life until, "I'm finally here." He hastily parks his car and runs towards the building. His speed starts to slow down as he gets closer to the building. He combs his hair with his fingers before opening the door. A big exhale escapes his lips.
"Ah Kurt, about time you got here. I was starting to consider that other bloke for the job," a man in a black suit greets Kurt.
"And let them make a mockery of the Viridian Gym legacy? I didn't know you'd stoop that low Giovanni," he grinned while extending his arm out to his colleague. They exchanged a firm handshake and Giovanni lead Kurt to the interview room. He pushed open two big swinging doors revealing the main battlefield. It hadn't been used for weeks. Dust was already starting to form on the handrail where the audience sits. "Why is the interview taking place here?" Kurt questioned while whipping his finger across a handrail.
"Since the interview is for the position of gym leader wouldn't it make sense for the test to be a pokemon battle?" Giovanni answered. He was already walking over to the other side of the field.
"I was hoping you'd say that," Kurt responded, with a pokeball already in hand.
"As eager as always I see. Hopefully you still have that enthusiasm when my pokemon whip yours out. Go, Kangaskhan!" Giovanni threw out his pokeball revealing his first pokemon. It smirked confidently towards Kurt.
"Speak for yourself. Let's go, Ampharos!" Kurt deployed his first pokemon. The yellow beast waved at it's owner before looking back at it's adversary.
"Kangaskhan, start this off with a fake out," Giovanni ordered. His pokemon followed it's instructions and faked out Ampharos causing it to flinch. "Now get him with Crunch." The beast nailed the other pokemon right on the elbow, causing it to cry in pain.
"Amparos quick, use thunder wave while it's still close," it let out a wave electricity straight onto Kangaskhan. The mon staggered and slowed down. It had lost it's speed advantage.
"Move Kangaskhan and use dizzy punch!" Giovanni cried out. But it was too late, Kangaskhan was already paralyzed.
"Ampharos use focus blast," Kurt's voice rang throughout the building as he spoke. His pokemon let out a large wave of energy directly hitting its target. With no form of protection, the huge monster was down almost instantly.
"That's quite the pokemon you got there, but let's see if it can handle my next one. Finish him off, Nidoqueen," Giovanna smugly threw out his pokemon into the fray. "Show them how strong you are with earth power." Rock floated around the pokemon and launched towards Ampharos at break-neck speed.
"Amparos, use protect!" A barrier shielded the yellow pokemon at the last second.
"You're not getting away that easily. Nidoqueen, earthquake!" The whole stadium shook and with no means of protecting itself Ampharos was knocked out cold.
"Ampharos return. Go, Vaporeon!" A water evolved form of Eevee gracefully flew from the pokeball. "Get them back with aurora beam!" Vaporeon opened it's mouth and shot a glowing beam of ice towards Nidoqueen. The big pokemon tried to dodge but was grazed on it's left leg leaving a small coating of ice on it.
"Tch, Nidoqueen use thunderbolt before it can strike again," Giovanni cried out hastily.
"Quickly use muddy water Vaporeon!" Kurt yelled even more hastily than his opponent. The two moves collided creating a thick fog that engulfed the room. Both trainers waved their hands around trying to move the fog away from their vision. When the smoke cleared Nidoqueen was down and Vaporeon was barely standing.
"Way to go Vaporeon!" Kurt cheered on the aquatic pokemon. Giovanni returned his and looked down at his last pokeball. He tossed it and called it's name, "Go, Rhyperior!" The monstrous pokemon shock the ground as it landed and let out an ear shattering battle cry.
"I've never seen one of those before," Kurt said to himself. He looked down at his shaking Vaporeon. "Don't worry we got this, you still have the type advantage."
"Typing isn't everything my friend," Giovanni called over to Kurt and ordered his pokemon, "Blow it away with a thunderbolt."
"Another thunderbolt? Vaporeon use muddy water again!" Both pokemon unleashed their attacks at the same time and collided once more. Except this time a portion of the thunderbolt slipped through the opposing attack and critically hit Vaporeon. Rhyperior tried to cover itself from the attack by shielding it's face. But it still received a hefty amount of damage.
"Damn, how could you hide something that strong from me this whole time?" Kurt asked with a small hint of sass.
"It wouldn't be as much fun if you knew all of my tricks." Giovanna responded in a confident manner.
"Too bad you've always been able to read my plans like an open book. I just have to rewrite it a couple of times. Take care of it, Sceptile!" The tall green pokemon took on a fighting stance the moment it was released. "End it with leaf blade." Sceptile lunged forward and was in front of Rhyperior in milliseconds.
"Rhyperior parry it and use megahorn!" It swiftly used it's forearm to parry the leaf blade but still was hurt by the attack. Sceptile was left wide open from the unexpected defensive play it braced for the worst. Rhyperior ducked it's head under the green pokemon and drove it's horn into the defenseless mon.
"Sceptile grab onto it and use leaf storm," Kurt screamed over the commotion. Instantaneously Sceptile latched on Rhyperior and readied it's counter.
"Shake it off Rhyperior!" The huge pokemon desperately tried to pry Sceptile off before it could get hit. Sceptile flipped over Rhyperior and unleashed leaf storm right on top of Rhyperior. The mighty beast fell down and didn't get back up.
"Great job Sceptile!" Kurt ran over to his partner. Sceptile clenched it's stomach and held out it's fist for a fist bump. Kurt gave the pokemon what it wanted. "Get some rest now buddy I'll take you to a pokemon center." He heard clapping coming from the opposite side of the field and turned his attention to the source.
"Magnificent Kurt, you've grown even stronger than I imagined," an older man wearing a lab coat revealed himself from behind the door.
"Professor Oak, what are you doing here? I already paid my debt," Kurt jokingly said.
"Haha that's the last thing I want to think about right now. Giovanni invited me saying he found the perfect candidate to become the Viridian Gym Leader. I've gotta say, you've come a long way since you arrived from Hoenn," he spoke in a matter of fact tone while shaking Kurt's hand.
"Well I'm flattered that a former champion would come down to see little ol' me," Kurt said bashfully.
"Come on Kurt I just need you to sign some papers and the place is yours. Try not to go too hard on the challengers so we could actually have some trainers at the league." Giovanna continued the light hearted tone and lead the two to his office. "Maybe we could celebrate after with some wine I have stored back here." The three prepared for a fun night they'll soon forget the next morning.
If you made it this far, first of all, thanks for reading! For anyone wondering about Red, Blue and Leaf, they will come really soon. These first 3-4 chapters will act as more of a prequel and will setup what our main trio will face later on. I'll hopefully have the next chapter out shortly so stay tuned!