Chapter One: Kanto Region
The Pokemon world is a wide and vast environment, comprised of hundreds of different kinds of trainers and Pokemon alike. This story is about a boy named Ash and his journey through that world while trying to find a balance between his trainer carrier, meeting Legendary Pokemon, foiling evil villains and convincing his friends he's not a pathological liar.
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I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them is my cause
I will travel across the land
Searching far and wide
Each Pokemon to understand
The power that's inside
Pokemon, (gotta catch them all) its you and me
I know it's my destiny Pokemon,
Oh, you're my best friend
In a world we must defend
Pokemon, (gotta catch them all) a heart so true
Our courage will pull us through
You teach me and I'll teach you
Po-ke-mon, gotta catch 'em all
Every challenge along the way
With courage I will face I will battle every day
To claim my rightful place
Come with me, the time is right
There's no better team
Arm in arm we'll win the fight
It's always been our dream
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Sometimes he wondered what kind of life his father had led before him, to go through so many great adventures and have no one believe you. Encountering the mythological Ho-oh and playing soccer with a childish Mew where but some of my favourite stories. I called him a hero, at five years old the bedtime stories where the epic of my fathers life, the greatest events in my dad's life… and the rest of the world saw them as stories of fancy and fiction.
Maybe that was why my mum drove him from our home.
It had been five years since that day, and five years later my fathers were a distant memory in the back of my mind. Out of sight, but not forgotten.
Now he was ten, eager to begin his journey, a dream and a bag strapped to his back, an infectious smile fighting at the corners of his face.
It all started that day. The day I turned ten, it was when I met Pikachu, and I embarked on my quest.
It was also the first day I gazed upon a Legendary.
Not that I told anyone about the blob overhead.
Kanto region was vast, and in it Ash made friends, Brock and Misty, Caterpie, Pidgeotto, Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Crabby, Mankey, Muk, a bunch of Tauros and the strange but friendly Haunter who now resided in the Saffron City Gym.
During the during the journey throughout the region, his Caterpie evolved in to a Butterfree, and departed for its own kind; he hatched a Togepi that regarded him as its mother, no matter how much Misty protested. One of his most pried events however, took place right before his first adventure into the kingdom of Legendary Pokemon. it was in Viridian City that it took place, where he battled Giovanni, the rumoured leader of Team Rocket, for his eighth badge.
(I'm making Ash's battle in the eighth Gym a little more realistic. I mean the guys the leader of an international crime organisation, he's going to have lots of cool and rare pokemon that are also supper strong.)
Ash new coming in that it would be a tough battle, Giovanni was supposed to have powerful ground types from other regions on his team.
And he had a smart talking turtle, a lazy Bulbasaur, a ketchup obsessed Pikachu, a lazy arse Charizard that believed it was tough as nails, a hyperactive Mankey and a Pidgeotto that liked hitting him over the head.
That doesn't mean that he didn't have a battle strategy planned.
Giovanni was going to be bringing in strong Pokemon, and no matter how dysfunctional the team they were his team.
Which meant he just had to bribe a few of them.
Squirtle was easy, his opener went up against something called a Donphan, Brock tells me it's native to Johto. Squirtle made short work of it with a nicely placed Skullbash. The next one wasn't so simple, Giovanni brought out something called a Flygon.
It was part Dragon.
So making use of my one substitution I returned my Squirtle and let out my Pidgeotto. Hey, the fly thing had wings, it buzzed, and birds eat bugs so I thought what the hell.
One evolution later and my Pidgeot ties with the Gorund/Dragon type.
Note to self, Dragon types are beast.
His third pokemon was called Persian, the evolved form of Meowth. It was supposed to be his most powerful pokemon on the team, but I had plenty of experience with Jessie and James' Meowth, and figuring that this might be the one Pokemon that my Pikachu would be useful, I sent him out.
It was a hard match, and sometimes it felt like my Pikachu was moving before I said the words, but we pulled through.
Eventually.
Ryhperior, the evolved form of Ryhorn and massively overpowered. Seriously, it took out my Pikachu with a bloody Takedown as soon as it came out and then mowed through my Bulbasaur before moving on to my Squirtle.
I was lucky they were both heavily injured, I think that if they weren't Squirtle wouldn't have had the push that it needed to evolve into Wartortle and learn Hydropump. But Wartortle was to injured to continue after that, and I returned it, sending out my disobedient Mankey against his Golem.
It was a hard battle, Golem was the perfect blend of speedy Rollout's and endurance that caused Fighting Pokemon so many problems. In the end Mankey won, making use of Brickbreak, I mean I know we practised it, but I never expected Mankey to master the move for the sole purpose of defeating Golem.
Giovanni was down to hi last Pokemon, something called Garchomp. When it came out I felt like I was staring into that Dragonite that attacked us a while back, the one at the lighthouse.
Mankey didn't stand a chance, after the Garchomp used Dragonbreath it went down and I brought out my last pokemon. Charizard, my disobedient lazy brute of a Pokemon that didn't listen to a thing I say because it thinks it can power through anything.
Garchomp was a rude awakening for it, but after Charizard realised that it couldn't win without me helping him we put up a decent fight. At the end it almost seemed like I was sending my commands straight into Charizard's head the way we worked together.
Garchomp was something of a contradiction to me, it had a unbeatable speed in the air, but on the ground it slowed right down to Chrizard's pace. We used that to our advantage, getting in close Charizard used a Fireblast to blind it, then grappled it into a Seismic Toss to end it.
But the telepathic like command over my Pikachu and my Charizards apseptance of me as its trainer wasn't the strangest thing about the match. Nor was Wartortle's or Pidgeot's evoluction.
No the strangest thing was after the end, Giovanni said that I reminded him of someone he had met a long time ago. And that if I ever rang into a spot of trouble with 'those pesky Rangers' then to call him.
Roughly a week later I experienced my first close encounter with a Legendary, Mew and Mewtwo.
It all started when he received an invite to New Island in a week's time that arrived via a Dragonite.
A week later Ash, Brock and Misty arrived in old Warf Town, a town that was under siege by a fierce and impenetrable storm that was blocking communication and Boat rides out, much less to New Island.
The storm did little to impress Ash, using making use of Wartortle, Starmi and Staru to swim across to New Island. There we met Mewtwo, the crazy, psychopathic clone of Mew, wonderful. After introductions were made we let out our pokemon, but knowing that at some point in time we were going to have to battle I kept Charizard in the Pokeball.
Besides, he was more than likely to attack the strongest Pokemon there.
We waited some more, discovered Nurse Joy was abducted, then Mewtwo decided that he was going to prove that clones were better by having the fully evolved forms of the starter three fight.
Wartortle tried to pick a fight with the clone Blastoise, but I restrained him before he could do anything.
The swimmer dude's arse got handed to him, but that's what happens when you get genetically modified clones.
Then some chick got her arse handed to her too, her Vinusaur actually getting thrown.
Next up was the Charizard, and this one looked like a beast, but then they didn't know my Charizard very well.
When it came out a Flamethrower got thrown at the strongest Pokemon in the room, just as I predicted.
But that was solved when I told my Charizard some simple words, "hey that Charizard over there says that your puny."
Ensue chaos.
Now, unlike my two predecessor's I actually went into the battle with a plan, my Charizard, who thanks to Giovanni's Garchomp listened to me battled out in a head on collision of Flamethrower's to start out. then after it became apparent that the clone had more raw power behind it I ordered Charizard to cancel the attack, dodging the stream of fire at the same time.
Knowing that power wasn't going to win, I decided to test out speed instead. So taking to the skies the two batted around Flamethrower's at each other, and it became apparent that their speeds were at least equal.
Ordering my Charizard to do a Seismic Toss, the two fully evolved Pokemon shot into the ground, ending in a cloud of dust that cleared to reveal my Charizard on the verge of consciousness and the clone roaring triumphantly above it.
That was until I said the magic words.
"Charizard are you going to let this guy beat you."
A second later my Charizard was up, his mouth swamped in flames and his body covered in an eerie red glow.
The next second a Flamethrower collided with the clone, three times as powerful as any previous.
The clone was fried, knocked out in one hit, and Mewtwo was angry, extremely angry.
He ordered our Pokemon collected, and for the next five minutes Misty, Brock and I batted away floating black Pokeball's as they tried to capture the Pokemon.
It was useless, and through a stubborn burst of anger I ended up down in the cloning room with my Pikachu.
But that didn't last. After the clones had left I released all the original's, using Pikachu's thunderbolt to blast us back to the arena.
The next half hour was a blur, I remember a lot of lights, colours and Mew crashing Mewtwo's party. But I do remember one clear thing, the black nothingness that consumed me when Mew's and Mewtwo's attacks collided with me.
The World was lucky that all it took was a selfless kid to convince Mewtwo not to destroy humanity, but afterwards I glimpsed the kind of life my father led.
No one believed me.
Not a single person, not Misty, not the Professor, my mum's face clouded in anger when I told her
Not even Brock remembered New Island.
Memory loss did that to you.
All I found out was that the strange red glow that had enveloped Charizard was called Blaze. And that was only because I bought a dozen books on Pokemon handling to find it.
At the time I wrote my memories of New Island off as a apology for killing you thing from Mew and Mewtwo.
But I did learn a lot of stuff about handling and battling Pokemon by searching through the books to find a reference to the Blaze ability.
I found out a lot, like that pokemon use something called Aura to create their energy attacks. That Charizard disobeyed me because it didn't respect me, what kind of training regeigm my Pokemon would need.
Not that training would help much now, two weeks before the Indigo League.
The Indigo league was good, during the preliminaries I alternated between Krabby, Muk and Mankey. Mankey and Krabby evolved, Kingler learning Crabhammer and Guillotine in the process. While Primeape learned focus Punch, Thrash and Rage.
During the top sixteen I versed Ritchie, some chick obsessed with ninja's and for the Gary in the semifinals.
I won the Semi's, using my one swap out to swap Charizard in for a heavily damaged Pikachu half way through. Then, why Gary brought out his Blastoise I used Charizard to test his strength and then brought Pikachu back in to finish it.
The grand final was against someone called Cynthia, I don't know much about her, just that she was touring Kanto for Pokemon before going back to her home region of Sinnoh to challenge the Elite four their.
She wasn't a rookie like me.
Unlike her all my Pokemon were known, and i only had a few surprises up my sleeve.
This called for drastic measures.
I had exactly one week to come up with something new to use.
I called Sabrina.
The next week I spent training the six I would use, Pikachu, Wartortle, Primeape, Haunter, Bulbasaur and Charizard.
I'd have to take a risk with the line up and hope that Haunter's is going to take a beating if another Ghost, Psychic or Dark type appears, the rest of them are covered by each other.
A week later and an intensive training session later I versed Cynthia in the grand finals.
The first round started, myself opening up with Bulbasaur and Cynthia releasing a Eevee.
That Eevee knew a lot of Ice attacks, which was why the battle quickly turned in her favour. Not that Bulbasaur didn't put up a good fight; nailing the opponents Eevee with Poison Powder and a Solar Beam before it went down.
I sent out Pikachu next, and her Eevee tried to use Icebeam, but my Pikachu's thunderbolt destroyed it's progress halfway between the two, over powering the Icebeam and sending it back at its opponent.
It was a strategy that me and Pikachu had developed in the week, intercepting a move and then forcing it back on the opponent. The Thunderbolt and Icebeam combined knocked the Eevee out.
She sent out a blue Jackal with a black mask on its face next. I recalled Pikachu immediately, using my one time recall in favour of not testing the unknown with my strongest Pokemon.
I sent out Primeape, and it quickly became apparent that the blue jackal was a fighting type. My Primeape lost, barely, and I sent out my Wartortle hoping to bait her into bringing out a Electrical Pokemon next.
Shortly after I sent Wartortle out her blue Jackal thing was dispatched, and brought out this plant thing could Roselia. It knew a lot of moves, and Wartortle was poisoned, Solar Beamed and Seedbombed into submission. But Roselia still took significant damage even when fighting an uphill battle.
It was the half way break after I returned my Wartortle, and I only had Pikachu, Haunter and Charizard left. But that didn't matter, after the break I brought out Haunter, and after an intense battle they knocked each other out.
Next she brought out a Togetic, the evolved form of Togepi. I brought out Pikachu, my second last Pokemon. Hindered by the natural weakness Flying has to Electric types Pikachu managed an easy victory against the Pokemon. Then it battled the strangest Pokemon he had seen, it was called Spiritomb and after an intense battle Pikachu finally went down and Ash was forced to bring out his Charizard.
Spiritomb didn't last long, but it did inflict Charizard with a Curse before it lost, which meant that he had exactly five minutes before he fainted.
She brought out a Grabite, and an intense battle followed where Charizard dominated, but after five intense minutes of aerial manoeuvres it lost to the Gabite; losing Ash the Championship.
Afterwards Ash returned Haunter to Saffron Gym, where it pledged to get as strong as possible, and Primeape went off to train with a professional boxer, no doubt with the intention of never losing again.
Ash had a brief word with Cynthia, where she revealed that she intended to challenge the Sinnoh League in her own region after this.
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Pikachu: Static
Double Team, Quick Attack, Tunderbolt, Thunderwave
Wartortle: Torrent
Skullbash, Watergun, Withdraw, Rapid Spin, Protect, Bite
Bulbasaur: Overgrow
Tackle, Leech Seed, Vinewhip, Poison Powder, Sleep Powder, Razor Leaf, Solar Beam
Pidgeot: Keen Eye
Gust, Quick Attack, Agility, Wing Attack, Feather Dance, Aerial Ace
Mankey: Vital spirit
Karate Chop, Seismic Toss, Brick Break, Aerial Ace, focus Punch, Thrash, Rage
Charizard: Blaze
Flamethrower, Seismic Toss, Scary Face, Roar
Muk: Sticky Hold
Harden, Sludge, Minimize, Mud Bomb, Sludge Bomb
Tauros: intimidate
Zen Headbutt, Horn Attack, Rage, Hyperbeam, Strength
Krabby: Shell Armour
Bubblebeam, Protect, Metal Claw, Vicegrip, Crabhammer, Guillotine
Haunter: levitate
Shadow Ball, sucker Punch, Night Shade, Confuse Ray, Lick