Road to Becoming a Pokemon Master, With My Brother?

Hello ladies and gentlemen, I am Pika-Bones and I would like to introduce you guys to (insert Title here). This is my first work to show up on this site, but I will not use that as any means as an excuse for not writing a good story. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read my story and I hope you enjoy it.

There are a few things I need to mention. First of all this story is meant to take place when Ash comes back from Unova. Another very important detail is that this story takes into consideration that Ash DID NOT meet Paul in Sinnoh. All those battles and exchanges they had never happened at least not with Paul. They never met before. This is just so that the story makes sense.

Also just to make sure, the main characters and other characters later on will be older than they are in the anime because reasons.

Paul-16
Ash-16

Well enough rambling from me, let's move on to the story.

Chapter 1: A New Element

A streak of lightning crosses the blue sky of the small town of pallet town.
"Pika-chuu", the loud cry breaks the silence and signals a struggle taking place behind a peaceful looking house.

Behind the house two teenagers stand on opposite sides of a dirt battle field. On one side of the field stands a raven haired trainer with grounded teeth. On the other side stands a purple haired trainer standing firm and unflinching.

Between the two trainers, 2 rodent like Pokemon maneuver on the field for position. On the raven haired trainer's side stands a Pikachu, a yellow rodent like pokemon with long and black pointed ears, 2 red sac pouches, and brown fur on its back. It also has a lightning shaped tail. At the moment Pikachu has a look of determination.

On the other side of the field stands a raichu, the evolved form of Pikachu. Like Pikachu, it is rodent like, but it is more than twice its size. It has dark orange fur with a white belly. It also has a long, thin, black tail that ends in a lightning bolt shaped end. Raichu has a big arrogant smile plastered on its face.

The raven haired trainers auburn eyes lit up and he started, "Pikachu, let's start with speed, quick attack", in an instant Pikachu charged at Raichu at an incredible speed.

The purple haired trainer responded quickly, "Pathetic. Raichu cut off Pikachu and use mega punch", Raichu reacted quickly to his trainers command and with agile feet met Pikachu at mid field and prepared to throw a devastating punch.

Seeing the impending attack the Pikachu's trainer called out, "Pikachu watch out!" Pikachu stopped in its tracks at the same time Raichu launched his attack, "Rai-chu!" at this Pikachu reacted quickly and jumped back to a sliding stop, dodging the devastating attack.

"Boom!" Raichu's mega punch missed Pikachu and hit the ground throwing up dust into the air. The dust cleared revealing a small crater where Raichu's fist landed.

As the dust cleared, Raichu regained his position back on the field with his arrogant smile still plastered on his face. Both Pikachu and his trainer grounded their teeth at the sight. "Pikachu, thunderbolt!" At his trainer's command Pikachu charged up for a split second and launched a lightning strike at Raichu.

"Raichu, hold your ground" commanded the trainer simply. Raichu braced itself for the attack and took it get head on. Pikachu kept up the attack for a while until Raichu dispersed the attack. "Thunderbolt immediately", demanded the purple haired trainer.

Raichu then launched his own powerful lighting strike at the Pikachu. The raven haired trainer knew Pikachu wouldn't dodge the attack the way raichu just shrugged off Pikachu's thunderbolt so he just did the same, "Pikachu hold your ground". Pikachu braced for the attack. Pikachu held for a few seconds before he was pushed back because of the intensity of the attack.

The attack finally ceased with Pikachu still standing and determined, but with some obvious damage taken.

"We can't beat them brute power or speed, so we have have to create some momentum". "Pikachu use quick attack into iron tail and keep up the assault" yelled out the trainer. Pikachu did what exactly his trainer told him and it quickly closed the gap between the two pokemon with a hard as steel tail loaded up.

The purple haired trainer though calmly directed his pokemon, "Use your own Iron tail and keep Pikachu out of range". In an instant Pikachu closed in and both pokemon started to fence with their tails; Pikachu trying to find an opening and Raichu denying any such opening.

The struggle continued on for a couple of sequences and ended with Pikachu pushed back, without gaining any momentum, and clearly tired. Raichu on the other hand stood confidently. "Now use thunder" directed the purple haired trainer. Raichu charged up and launched a powerful lighting strike, much more powerful than Pikachu's thunderbolt. The raven haired trainer called out with a hint of nervousness, "Pikachu use thunder too" Pikachu countered with his own powerful Thunder attack.

Both attacks collided midway and there was a moment of resistance from both forces, then both attacks collapsed onto each other and created a powerful explosion. Smoke covered the field for few moments until it dissipated revealing the battle field again. Pikachu was breathing heavily while Raichu looked like it had taken little to no damage.

"I know Pikachu's tired but Raichu has to be reaching his limit too, Pikachu might break its defense with an Iron tail if he puts all of his energy to it". "Pikachu, Iron tail and put everything behind this one." "Pika!" responded the electric mouse pokemon as he charged at Raichu at full speed.

The purple haired trainer just smirked at this, "I knew he would mess up, dumbass" "Raichu, grab that". Pikachu jumped in the air and performed a summersault in midair then came down hard with his Iron Tail, looking to do some serious damage. But Raichu never flinched, and at the last second he grabbed the Pikachu's steel hard tail.

Both Pikachu and trainer were shocked, their mouths agape. The purple haired trainer wasted no time though, "Mega Kick!" "Raichu!" sneered the beige pokemon at Pikachu, and then continued to throw the helpless Pikachu in the air only to come back around and send a roundhouse kick into the Pikachu's small body. The force of the mega kick sent Pikachu skidding across the battle field, leaving a small trench behind.

When Pikachu finally stopped, he rose up slowly and all bruised up. "Pikachu are you okay!" called out the trainer worried. "Pi-pi-pika" answered the Pikachu obviously hurt but still determined to battle. "Raichu finish this with thunder puch!" called out the trainer relentlessly. Raichu reacted quickly and closed the distance between him and Pikachu with a fist covered in electricity.

"Pikachu get out of there!" yelled the raven haired trainer. It took Pikachu a moment to realize he was in trouble, and then he quickly jumped high in the air trying to avoid the attack, but the purple haired trainer and Raichu would not let them off that easy.

"Raichu, follow Pikachu and end this with thunderpunch". Raichu then stopped on a dime and jumped with Pikachu, and much to Pikachu's surprise reached a higher point than him in the air.

"Raichuuu!" cried the orange rodent like pokemon as he slammed his right fist covered in electricity square into Pikachu's body. "Pikaaa!" squealed Pikachu as he was sent crashing back down to earth and landed with a loud and gut wrenching crash.

Raichu came back down to earth soon after landing on all fours with an arrogant smirk. "Well that should do it" stated the purple haired trainer simply.

But much to the surprise of the Raichu and his trainer, Pikachu started to get up and released a large amount of electricity, trying to force itself to continue. "No! We're not done. We won't give up. Pikachu use volt tackle!" called out the trainer with force. At his trainer's command Pikachu began to charge at Raichu, then became was surrounded by a golden electricity.

But the purple haired trainer seemed to not be worried, "hmph, fine then, Raichu use volt tackle". Raichu proceeded to go into his own reckless electric tackle.

Both Pokemon collided mid field, and for a second they both struggled to take down the other until Raichu overwhelmed Pikachu and sent the small rodent like Pokemon flying thru the air. Seeing that his friend was helpless the raven haired trainer went after him and caught him in the air saving him from a hard fall.

"Pikachu, are you alright" asked the trainer caringly. "Pika" answered the Pokemon weakly. "Don't worry buddy, I'll take you to Prof. Oak and get you healed.

"That was pathetic", called out the seemingly disgruntled trainer even though he was victorious in battle. "You need to evolve that Pikachu of yours; you're wasting its potential if you allow it to stay as a Pikachu" stated the trainer looking at both the raven haired trainer and the Pikachu in his arms.

"Seriously, how was someone like you able to do anything in the Pokemon League?" Ash stared at Paul and his anger started to build up tremendously. "I wouldn't force Pikachu or any other of my Pokemon to do something they didn't want. Pikachu is my friend, like all my other Pokemon."

Ever since paul had moved to pallet town, ever since Paul had moved into the house, ash has gotten more frustrated in battles and just in general. His attitude was just so negative, and he definitely did not agree on his style as a Pokemon trainer, nor did he appreciate him insulting his him and his ability as a trainer, and Paul was just plain unpleasant.

"You keep talking about friends", started Paul, "Tell me have your friends helped reach your goal" Ash just stared at Paul, "You're not any close to your goal of becoming a Pokemon master. Making friends will only hold you back. The concept that being friends with your pokemon can help you become stronger is naïve."

"That's not true!" said ash strongly, "my friends have helped me so much they've-", "helped you what? Win the pokemon league, reach the elite four, beat the champion?"

Ash was taken aback a bit, then Paul continued "Is that what they've done, every time we have battled I have deafeted you. If what you say is true then why do you keep losing. The only Pokemon worth catching are strong ones, so that they can become stronger and I can become stronger, I want to become the strongest. That's it there is no need to become emotionally attached." Paul began turning back towards the house, "Sigh, I'm tired of this, I'm leaving."

"Wait!" Yelled Ash, "come back here I'm not done!", "Well I am" answered Paul right back.

Paul made his way back to the house with Ash trailing behind yelling and ticked off. "Why won't he just shut up already, he's so damn annoying."

Paul entered the back door of the house with Ash still trailing right behind, still not shutting up.

"Hi Paul" Paul was greeted by an older woman wearing a blue dress with a yellow top and pink sweater, "how was your training with Ash sweetie". Paul was caught off guard a bit by the greeting than quickly answered "fine" and looked the other way.

Ash then entered the house and was still obviously irritated. "Oh Ash sweetie how did your training go." "Just great" he said, barely trying to hide the sarcasm in his voice.

Delia looked at her two boys, well, they were not really boys, more like young men. Delia ketchum had lived in the small town of Pallet for most of her life. She owns Pallet's town most famous (and only) restaurant.

She loved the two young men that stood in front of her, they were her boys, blood related or not. Ash, the raven haired trainer, was wearing a red and black hat with a half pokeball design on the front. He wore a blue sweatshirt with short black sleeves, light blue jeans, black and blue shoe. His skin was tanned and his hair was messy, but maybe his most notable feature was his deep auburn eyes.

Paul was around the same age as Ash. He wore a blue and black sweater over a dark colored shirt, gray pants, and blue and black shoes. His skin was not pale but was not too dark either. He had black eyes and purple hair. Paul had an air of seriousness all the time, no matter the situation.

"Mrs. Ketchum" started Paul, "may I go outside to the town, there are some things I would like to do". "Of course Paul, just make sure you're back in time for dinner, but you don't have to be so formal about it." "Uh yeah, thank you Mrs. Ketchum."

Paul then quickly left, leaving behind Ash, still clearly upset. Delia tried to ignore Ash since she knew why he was so mad and she really did not want to talk about it again and she was busy, but a few seconds later she gave in, "what's wrong Ash sweetie". "What's wrong? Mom I can't stand him, he's so negative, he keeps insulting me and he's just unpleasant."

"Ash" Delia began, "I told you already, you have to try to get along with Paul. Were all living under the same roof and he's part of the family now, so you have to treat him as one of the family. He may be a bit tough to get along with but you know he has had it tough; you have to be aware of that. I'm sure if you make the effort he will get become more open and you'll be able to get along".

Ash looked at the door as if expecting Paul to come through the door. "I don't know, how can you be sure?" Delia sighed, "just call it a hunch," she then looked at Pikachu, "anyway it looks like you should take Pikachu to professor Oak." Ash was snapped out of his thoughts, "Oh, I'm really sorry buddy we'll get you better in no time". Ash quickly left for the door, "I gotta go mom I'll see you later". "Be back in time for Dinner" Delia called out as ash left, quickly heading for professors Oak lab with Pikachu in his arms.

Ash entered professors Oak's lab, "Oak! I need your help, Pikachu got banged up, can you heal him!?" Ash called out but got no response. He made his way throughout Oak's place but couldn't find him in any of his various rooms including the room where he first met Pikachu, Ash still clearly remembered that day. He quickly removed himself from memory lane and went back to looking for Oak. Seeing Oak was nowhere to be found he thought he might be in the ranch.

Ash stepped out of the backdoor and began to look for Oak. Ash then heard some rustling at one of the bushes at the side of the path. Ash neared the bush to figure out who or what was making the rustling when out a person jumped out of the bush and knocked Ash to the ground with Pikachu still held tightly in his arms. "Hey! What was that about" Ash grimaced a bit as he got back up. He then saw it was Tracey, a Pokemon sketcher, Oak's assistant, and one of Ash's close friends.

"Oh hey Ash, sorry about that, I might have startled a few Pokemon and they didn't appreciate it, still got a lot to learn" Tracey got up as well dusting himself off. "It's okay, I was just looking for Oak have you seen him?" "He's not at the lab?" Tracey thought for a bit, "He must be deeper in the ranch, why you need him so ba- oh, I see Pikachu looks hurt." "Yeah Pikachu has been better". "Hey I'll help you heal him." "Really!?" ash looked surprise. "Yeah" Tracey started, "Oak has been teaching me about all of this stuff, even treating Pokemon, and he allowed me to treat injured Pokemon using the equipment inside just last week, let's go".

Ash followed Tracey to the lab where the Pokemon sketcher began to treat Pikachu with the different equipment available. "Pikachu will be fine, he just took a bit too many strong hits. I'm guessing this happened in a battle between you and Paul, how has it been lately with him?" Tracey continued to work on Pikachu who was laid out on a table. "Well, I guess you could say it hasn't gone too well, it's just that I can't stand him." "Well you can't expect everything to happen overnight, I'm sure you'll guys will find a way to coexist and not be at each other's throat all the time."

Ash thought about this for a few seconds, then decided not to focus on it right now, "Ya, sure" he simply responded. "Hey isn't Oak taking a long time to come back, maybe whatever he's doing he needs some help. How about I look for him while you take care of Pikachu?" "Sure thing" Tracey responded, "sounds like a good idea". "Hey buddy" Ash kneed down to get close to Pikachu, "I'll be back soon, Tracey will take care of everything. Thanks Tracey I'll see you later."

Ash made his way deeper into the ranch. As he went down the path he began to notice how his Pokemon and Paul's Pokemon, who were barely brought here a week ago, were interacting. In the skies Ash's flying type Pokemon, which included Staraptor, Swellow, and Gliscor were speeding through the skies racing competing against Paul's flying Pokemon, which included Honchcrow, Paul's own Gliscor, and ninjask. Ash continued on the path and he came up near the lake, where he found his Infernape and Paul's Electivire sparring, though because it was very intense it looked more like a real battle.

Ash decided to go up a small hill with a single large tree on top of it. Once he reached the top he could see a large open field. In the middle of the field he saw his own torterra engaged in a competiton of strength with Paul's Torterra. Both Pokemon tried to push the other back with neither giving an inch. "Those two Pokemon are very powerful, obviously well trained" Ash heard an older sounding voice behind him and found Professor Oak behind him, sitting on the grass and leaning on the sole tree wearing his usual red shirt, light brown pants, and his lab coat. He also was wearing a brown hat which he tipped up to look at Ash. "Hello Ash, I was just relaxing a bit and admiring the area."

"Oh, well you were gone for a while so I thought I would come here and see If you needed help with anything, also I went to the lab because I needed your help to treat Pikachu." Oak became alerted, "Pikachu is hurt!?", "It's okay, Tracey took care of it." Oak seemed to relax again, "Ah well that's great, yes Tracey is an intelligent young man, I bet it won't be long till he goes on his own again and creates his own future in the world of Pokemon. He has been a huge help here though."

The sun started to set, giving off a light orange glow. "Well, I guess I have been out here a while" Oak began to get up, "I still do have things to do, let's get back to the lab". "Sure thing Oak." As they made their way back to the lab Oak began to talk, "I'm pretty sure you noticed that things have changed around here" Ash just nodded, "It was more peaceful here for the Pokemon, they were more relaxed, but since Paul's Pokemon have arrived things have gotten intense, there isn't a dull moment between them. I really think it's a good thing for your Pokemon, sure they always have trained while they stayed here but now not only do they train but they have become more determined than ever to become stronger."

"Ya I think your right, still I can't Paul, and I can't stand how he treats Pokemon." Oak looked up to the sky "Ash everybody has their own way achieving their goals. Your goals and Paul's goals are not much different, even though you may not agree how he goes about it. I've seen him train, catch pokemon, and I've seen him battle. He certainly has a cruel streak and his process may not be ideal but you must be able to accept all kinds of trainers. You must also understand a person before you judge them. I'm sure one day you two will be able to understand each other and both of you will grow stronger, not only as trainers but as people.

Ash took a glance at Oak then looked straight ahead, still deep in thought and going over what Oak said, yet he was not exactly sure what he meant and he did not believe he would ever understand Paul, though he kept that to himself.

Both Oak and Ash entered the lab where Pikachu was waiting. Ash thanked Tracey for taking care of Pikachu and proceeded to leave the lab with his buddy Pikachu. "Hey Pikachu" ash began as they walked back home in the quiet evening, "do you think me and Paul will ever be friends, I mean I hate him and he hates me, but we are living in the same place so I need to figure something out."

Pikachu just walked quietly next to his trainer. "Hey you remember when we first found out about him, it was out of the blue and mom didn't give us any warning at all, it was really a surprise. I guess in her defense we were coming back from Unova."

Flashback

"Hey mom I'm home! And I'm starving" Ash said hungrily. "Ash honey I'm in the living room." Ash made his way quickly to the living room where he found his mom, but to his surprise he also found a purple haired boy he did not recognize who was about his age.

"Oh Ash your home, I missed you so much" Delia hugged Ash leaving him with little air to breath. When she finally let go ash began, "I missed you too mom, but…" Ash paused for a second, "mom who's this".

"Oh yes, Ash this is Paul, he is going to stay with us for now", Ash had to process the information, then with a blank face "Wait, what?"

"Ash, Paul us part of the family now, you could say he is your brother now." "Whaaaaaat!?" Ash stepped back in shock and tripped, falling over and crashing to the floor hard. He then heard what he could only think was Paul's voice, "well that was pathetic" and that was the last thing he remembered happening that day.

End Flashback

"Well that was something else." Ash stopped at his mother's house and looked at it for a while. "I guess the easy way out of this would be to travel again, but I haven't thought about it yet. Well I guess I'll figure it out when the time comes." Ash entered the house and was met with the delicious smell of his mother's cooking. That evening was the same as all the other evenings recently, a quiet dinner and a simple night. Ash went to his room while Paul went to his with neither saying a word to the other. The Pallet night sky was clear and calm and the small town of Pallet went to sleep.

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