The Ketchum Brothers
Chapter 1
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon
By GhostRanger17
I remembered thing being so simple back then my little brother Ash was the champion of Kalos. Finally he had accomplished his dream finally and then one day we both come home back to our mom Delia and she was dead there was blood everywhere. We broke down we tried saving her but all that was left was her cold dead body. We were gonna get help when some little boy saw us he saw Ash's hands covered in blood after that we quickly got out of there. That was the last we saw of Pallet Town our home before we became fugitives, criminals that was when the dream truly died. Ash and myself were wanted men in Kanto and so we did what we could we returned briefly to Pallet Town to retrieve some Ash's Pokemon and then we ran we didn't think we just did me, Ash, Pikachu and my partner Darkrai. We slept with our eyes open being paranoid for the first few days after we saw our wanted posters. After a while we had made our way to Orre and we began our new life as mercs guns for hire Ash specialized in catching powerful pokemon for our clients while I specialized in assassination and interrogation.
Looking back I realized nothing mattered anymore except for one thing keeping my only family left alive Ash. That was my only mission in life now my name is Donovan Ketchum and I pledge that Ash will be safe even at the risk of my own life. After about four years we stopped sleeping with our eyes open and things had turned up for the better. Ash as always had been training with Pikachu and the rest of his pokemon me on the other hand I was always cleaning guns and admiring my little brother. I knew it killed him everyday knowing that he would never be able to fight again for his dream of becoming a pokemon master since the dream was dead along with our mom.
In Orre there was no pokemon league, no official routes, hell they barely had a system of pokemon centers and pokemarts and the police nonexistent. We had grown and changed a lot in four years I was twenty four while Ash was twenty two. We both wore black trench coats with black fedoras since it was hot during the day and cold as hell at night in Orre but we managed. Ash never wore anything to cover his face except for his fedora. In four years his appearance had changed barely his raven black hair had grown but wasn't as wild as when he was trainer, his iconic smile and thumbs up died along with our mom in its place was a cold glare that came from those angry auburn eyes of his. He never lost his confidence or will to fight a good pokemon battle but even his pokemon had changed his partner Pikachu no longer was the cheerful electric mouse I had known now he was quiet and had lost a tip of his left ear he never was the same when Ash changed.
I wore a black trench coat with a balaclava covering most of my face leaving only my blue right eye and purple right eye uncovered. We both carried black backpacks the only difference being that I had an MP5 and M1014 shotgun strapped to my backpack. Ash didn't like guns but still carried an M1911 and collapsible police baton I had given to him for his twentieth birthday he only used either for self defense seeing as how most were intimidated by his looks alone. Pikachu usually rode on his shoulder when we were walking or he rode on his lap when we rode in the jeep we owned. My partner Darkrai on the other hand simply hid in my shadow day and night we had a hideout in Orre a small warehouse where we stayed it had been abandoned by the Silph Company a long time ago and after patching it up and laying a few welcome mats for any unwanted visitors we moved in and stayed there. It wasn't the life we wanted but we still managed all of Ash's friends had thought we had killed our mom and had turned their backs on him after the murder to make things worse the Kalos Pokemon league took away his title and to finally top it all off Ash lost his trainer card. Back when we were still on the run in Kanto we had faked our death in Saffron City so now it was more like we were ghosts its truly saddening to see someone like my brother someone who had a big simple dream claw and fight his way through hell and to finally achieve it only for him to lose it all four weeks later was horrible thing for me to see but nonetheless this was the cards we had been dealt and all we could do now is play the game.
It was a dark moonlit sky Ash had fallen asleep while I was awake I had taken apart apart my shotgun and was cleaning it and putting it back together when Ash woke up screaming. Ash only looked around before he started quietly crying realizing that after four years still he was haunted by mom's murder it killed me to hear all of this happen to see my little brother suffer this way when the only thing he did in this world was make it a better place and now this was how the world repaid him? I could hear him calm down after a while before I heard snoring again after that little episode I decided to head into town that night to buy some sleeping pills Ash went through those things like they were cough drops. I quickly made my way to town where I bought a pack of Mt. Dew and some sleeping pills and quickly paid up. As I was about to exit the pokemart a bright poster caught my eye. I stopped dead in my tracks and looked at it before tearing it off the wall and walking out of the little shop.
I gunned the jeep it was a small four seater black Jeep Wrangler with a winch me and Ash had bought it with the money we had gotten from a big payout. As I drove to warehouse I could hear the sound of the window blowing I could hear the sand quietly moving. I parked the jeep in the warehouse before quietly making my way to Ash's room. Needless to say it was a mess with a whiskey bottles lying all over the floor and the stunk of pain and whiskey after mom had died Ash had begun to drink so much to be honest even I was surprised. I preferred to drink Mt. Dew since it was cheaper and much more readily available than whiskey. As I walked over to the sleeping figure I could see he was only wearing a white wife beater undershirt and black boxers, his raven black hair was free to relax and as he breathed I could see my little brother had grown a six pack like me and was no longer the skinny high pitched trainer I had known him as. Pikachu was wrapped up in ball being held in Ash's arms before he woke and began to nudge Ash awake. He groggily woke up before I handed him a cup of water and sleeping pill he quickly sat up took the pill, drank the water and went back to sleep with Pikachu wrapped in his arms. I quietly left the room hanging up my tranche coat and hat next to Ash's near the jeep before taking off my shirt and going to bed myself. I slept shirtless wearing only some boxers and laid down with my back to the ceiling.
I woke up to the sun breaking through the window and smell of pancakes. I walked horribly to the kitchen where I found Ash cooking pancakes. "Morning" he said as I sat down at the table before taking out the poster I had found yesterday. "What's that?" Ash said as he brought pancakes for both me and him with Pikachu eating a small ketchup packet on the floor. I nodded before handing him the poster and holding my breath it was a poster for the Kalos World Tag Team Battle Tournament. Ash simply stared at it before as he quietly ate his pancakes and then set the poster down before taking a swig of water. "Sounds like fun and frankly my pokemon have been itching for a real fight since the trainers here are weaklings" he said before resuming his assault on his breakfast. "Alright then pack your bags I guess we are going to Kalos to show those little punks what true power looks like" I replied upon hearing this comment Pikachu stopped eating before cracking a cheerful but determined smile it had been so long since I had seen Pikachu act this way and this was definitely an improvement to what I normally saw from these guys.
After breakfast I chartered a special plane that would carry our jeep and began packing my my gear and the jeep for the trip. I packed a cooler full of Mt. Dew and whiskey for me and Ash to have something to drink when we landed. After packing a few other pieces of gear Ash appeared at the entrance of the garage with a confidant Pikachu on his shoulder. We both quickly dumped our backpacks on the jeep and got in the jeep making the long haul to the airstrip where out plane was waiting. Surprisingly even though Orre was a barely functioning region they were one of the few regions have an airport with decent planes. As I drove the jeep with Ahs on my the seat left of me with Pikachu on his lap asleep we stared at the road in front of us before we arrived at a small airfield. We showed the guards our ticket while Ash secured our seats the ground crew loaded up our jeep onto the plane. As I made my way to the terminal I stopped and stood next to Ash before taking his backpack and putting his baton and M1911 before he walked through the security checkpoint metal detector with Pikachu. I took out a pokeball and in a blue flash of light Rotom came out grinning happily as always. "Rotom I need you to get me past the metal detector the last thing we need is the airport security asking us why there are three loaded guns in our backpacks and enough ammo to take down a country" He simply laughed before disappearing into an electrical socket. I slowly walked over and place the two backpacks and taking off my balaclava temporarily. The security guard had me step through the metal detector before the metal detector tripped blaring a loud alarm I was about to run when I saw that the metal detector next to me had been tripped instead. Grabbing the two backpack and Rotom on the way we got on the plane and sat down in our seats. As the plane got ready for take off pikachu curled up in a ball on Ash's lap before Ash and I fell asleep for the duration of the flight.
A few hours later it was night as we landed in the Kalos region we quickly exited the plane and retrieved our jeep before making our way to Lumiose City we could see the city of light was abuzz with activity as this was the place where the Kalos World Tag Team Battle Tournament was being held. I parked in the front parking lot of the pokemon center and we walked out of the parking lot before stopping in front of the pokemon center's doors. "You sure you wanna do this little brother because once we start there is no going back man" I said Ash looked me in the eyes with a grim look before replying "Positive" with that we we walked in the pokemon center and registered for the tournament before securing a room as well. We quickly settled into the two bedroom room, I went and grabbed the cooler full of Mt. Dew and whiskey while Ash went to take a shower as Pikachu slept at the foot of Ash's bed I simply took off everything but my balaclava and boxers and went to bed.
Author's Notes
I plan to add more to this story making it longer than my previous story, I will try to add more characters from the pokemon anime and try to go in depth I am not really good with the other characters apart from Ash and Donovan but will try my best Remember to Read, Review, and Follow.