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Got this little plot bunny who wanted out of its cage, so I released it.
I don't do disclaimers,
If you want any specific pairing for this, suggest in the review, but not Elesa since I already have a Raimeishipping fic.
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Ash Ketchum was an average 10 year old boy. Like every other ten year old boy he had dreams of becoming an extraordinary Pokémon trainer. Ash was psyched because tomorrow he would get his first Pokémon from Professor Oak. He had wanted a Charizard for so long and couldn't wait to get a Charmander.
"Ash Dinner's ready!" yelled Ash's mother Delia from downstairs. Ash lived with his single mother Delia in a small 4 room house. Delia owns a restaurant which was frequently visited by Professor Oak, his aides and whoever was staying at the Oak ranch training their Pokémon.
"Alright I'm coming mom." Called out Ash as he started walking towards the kitchen.
Ash himself was a little above average height and was wearing a red striped black t-shirt and jeans. He had z-shaped birthmarks on his cheeks and wild spiky hair.
Knowing that this would be the last time Ash would have dinner with her, Delia had prepared a big dinner for her only son. "After we've finished dinner I have a surprise for you too honey." Said Delia
"Really mom what is it?"
"Ash if I told what my surprise was would it really be a surprise?" asked Delia
Ash blushed before sitting down and thanking mom the food as he started digging into his dinner. He really wished he had gotten the talent of cooking that his mother had, while he himself had learned to cook from a young age by helping his mother, he was nowhere near as good as her.
About thirty minutes later all the food had disappeared from the table and Delia had walked up the stairs to fetch something from her room. 'I wonder what she wants to show me.' Thought Ash as he flicked on the Television and switched to the Pokémon battle channel.
Currently it was showing a battle between the former champion Steven and the current champion Wallace. He had actually seen these two have many matches, they were known as the unofficial co-champions as they continuously shifted from being the champion to being the challenger.
He switched the Channel again when he realized that this was a rerun from a battle he had already seen and now he was on the Pokémon science channel witch was showing a special on the Hoenn region.
"Ash I found it would you come in here please?" called his mother from her room.
"Sure mom." Answered Ash as he flicked off the Television and walked towards his mother's room.
When he got in there Delia was holding a photo album while she was sitting on her bed. She motioned for Ash to sit beside her and he did.
"This is a Photo album me and my friends made when we were traveling through the Hoenn region a couple of years before I got you." Said Delia as she gave the album to him.
It was weird for Ash to see these pictures of his mother traveling as a 17 year old, for him Delia had always been his mother and it was kind of hard for him to picture her as anything but that. But these pictures showed how she was a traveling Pokémon trainer as she had a lot of pictures with different Pokémon.
"Wow mom you had a lot of Pokémon. Where are they all now?"
"When I decided to quit traveling and training Pokémon, I gave them to a dear friend of mine. You see while I wanted to settle down my Pokémon was very spirited and I decided it would be best for her to take care of them while traveling." Said Delia closing her eyes remembering all her old friends.
"Thanks for this mom." Said Ash sincerely. It was nice to see a different side to his mother, he had always known she had been a Pokémon trainer at some point but now he knew more of that point of her life.
"No problem honey, now go inside your room you have a big day tomorrow and I don't want you to get up late."
Years later Ash would thank his mother for jinxing him with that as this was the turning point of destiny.
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Delia had left for the restaurant early morning before Ash got up, which was too bad since Ash had sadly stayed up until 7am looking through hundreds of pictures and thinking about them. About 4pm he had finally gotten up and panicked when he saw the clock.
"OH CRAP!" yelled Ash as he quickly took on some clothes and ran towards Oak ranch. He knew that there was a chance of him sleeping too long, but come on it was four pm how had he managed that?
When he got home he would realize that he had accidentally thrown his alarm clock when he finally got to bed.
Ten minutes later he finally arrived at Oak ranch hoping he would still be able to get a Pokémon and start his journey.
'Please let there be one left, Charmander, Squirtle or Bulbasaur any one of them will be great.' Thought Ash frantically as he knocked on the door.
"Coming I'm coming!" came the answer from inside.
When professor Oak opened the door his first thought was 'Crap' he had honestly forgotten that there was four trainers starting their journeys today. While Ash was late this wasn't really a reason for him to deny him a Pokémon
Also he couldn't just say that he forgot that there was four trainers starting their journeys, he was getting teased about his age by his daughter enough without her knowing his memory had slipped. 'The only qualifying Pokémon I can give him is the Pikachu, and I haven't even tamed it yet.'
"Uhm professor can I come in?" asked Ash and Oak let him in.
"Ring Ring Ring phone call phone call ring ring rin Phone call phone call!"
"What was that?"
"Oh that's just my video phone." Oak went towards a big video phone followed by Ash
When Oak answered the call it was revealed that his grandson and Ash's rival Gary Oak had called.
"Ash is that you?" asked Gary as he saw Ash in the background
"Yeah."
"Oh my god don't tell me you're just getting your first Pokémon now? HAHAHA what a loser, I already got my first badge." Gloated Gary showing off his boulder badge
"Ehem Gary I believe you wanted to ask me something." Said Professor Oak cutting off his grandson knowing that he would tease Ash
"Oh yeah, gramps I wanted to ask if it's possible for you to sign me up for you to sign me up for next year's Johto league, between the Kanto league and the registration deadline I want to do a small training camp.
"Sure I'll contact my friend Professor Elm and we will set it up."
"Thanks gramps, Oh and Ash I just want to tell you. When you get your first badge I'll let you have my autograph as I will have become a Pokémon master by then." Gary then laughed as he ended the conversation.
Inside Ash was fuming and didn't want anything else than get his hands on Gary. But he had a point, Gary had a HUGE advantage over Ash. While Ash didn't like Gary he knew that Gary was very intelligent having gotten the smart genes from Professor Oak. It would probably take him over a year to catch up with him.
"Oh yeah and Ash I only have one Pokémon left, but as they say you snooze you lose." Said Oak trying to release the tension hanging in the air, sadly this only made Ash a little angrier with himself.
"Now I haven't gotten the time to properly tame this Pikachu yet, so I must insist that you stay in pallet town until you have some experience and some training with it." Ash was shocked when he heard this
'Is he crazy, Gary is already heaps ahead of me and he wants me to stay in Pallet for a couple of days to train with my Pikachu? Okay he said it was untamed, and that might be a little dangerous but goddammit I can't fall anymore behind!' (1)
"I know this must be annoying you but it is for the best." Said professor Oak.
Ash nodded and he released the small electric type from its Pokéball, after a quick rundown of Pikachu's specifications Ash picked it up and gave it a hug since he thought it was cute. Pikachu's answer to that was to shock him.
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Ash had finally gotten home dragging a unwilling Pikachu with him, he didn't know what Pikachu's problem was so he checked the Pokédex. It said that young Pokémon were usually distrusting towards humans.
"Sweetie is that you?" called his mother
"Yeah mom it's me" said Ash with a defeated tone that worried Delia
After telling her the entire story Ash sat down sighing, one of the things he was most excited about was finally beating Gary, they had been Rivals for as long as Ash could remember. He silently clutched his half-Pokéball necklace.
"You know sweetie it's not that bad, okay you will make it to this year's league."
"It's not about making it to the league mom; it's about facing and beating Gary. He always thinks he is so much better, I just wanted the chance to show him he isn't but now he has this HUGE advantage over me."
Pikachu perched his ears when he heard this, it seems like this human he met was a little more interesting than he gave him credit for. Pikachu could practically feel his spirit washing over him as he continued to talk about his rivalry with this Gary person.
"Sweetie I understand how you feel, but you have to understand that this isn't the end, you can always work hard as I know you will and catch up with him."
'Yeah if I work hard I can maybe catch up when he is in Johto.' this train of thought gave him an idea, didn't he himself think that it would take him over a year to catch up with Gary. Well who said that they had to clash right now.
'Gary is planning to compete in the next year's Johto league. If I train and travel another region besides Kanto and Johto then we can fight each other next year in Johto.'
Now the only question was which Region, as soon as he thought about that he mentally slapped himself. The answer had showed itself in his face all day yesterday. Hoenn, he would start his Journey in Hoenn.
Excusing himself he picked up Pikachu and went to his room
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"Pikachu, I understand that you don't like me very much." Said Ash as he sat down with Pikachu beside him on his bed.
Actually that wasn't really true; Pikachu didn't really have anything against Ash. He just didn't like the idea of belonging to someone else, but his gut feeling told him that there was something else about Ash, which was why he hadn't tried to run away yet.
Ash told him about his plans to travel around the Hoenn region to gain experience before heading towards Johto to clash with his longtime rival Gary.
Pikachu couldn't pinpoint why, but he was getting more fired up with every word Ash had said.
Years later Ash and Pikachu would find out that their fates were intervened in such a way that they always would be together as partners.
"PIKA!" (Count on me!)
"Does that mean you want to be my Pokémon?"
"Pika pikachu pika!" (I'm not your Pokémon, but I won't say no to being your friend)
Ash somehow understood Pikachu and put his hand on the small electric type's head before saying "You got it partner." (2)
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Over the course of a few days Ash had with the help of his mother trained hard with Pikachu, they both trained their bodies and he had actually managed to teach Pikachu a new move called Thunder wave. Ash had told Delia about his plans of traveling to Hoenn and she was ecstatic to hear about that since she saw it as him following in her footsteps.
She had ordered a state of the art Pokénav to help him navigate through the Hoenn region, It even has a feature called "Match Call" which was basically a portable phone. As soon as it came Delia had brought it to Professor Oak to see if he could link it to her Video phone at home, which he could. So now Delia could talk with a baby boy as much as she wanted.
Professor Oak was surprised when he heard about Ash's decision about leaving for Hoenn, it was bad enough that he had found out that Jason (3) had an accident alongside his Bulbasaur and barely made it to the Pokémon center, now Ash wanted to leave for Hoenn. Top that with all the paper work he already had to get in order thanks to Gary he was swamped, but he was too afraid of Delia to say no.
Currently both Delia and Ash are visiting Professor Oak in his lab since neither of them knew much about how to get tickets for Ash.
"Okay Ash, I arranged for your tickets. You will be leaving tomorrow from vermilion city port. I'll drive you there myself." Said Professor Oak.
"Thank you Professor Oak." Said Ash
"It's no problem my boy" said Professor Oak
Professor Oak was actually really impressed by Ash's ability as a trainer, he wanted Ash to stay in pallet for his own safety, but apparently he had underestimated Ash's ability as a trainer as he was quickly able to tame Pikachu and the two of them already had a strong bond with each other.
"Okay sweetie is there anything else you want to ask Professor Oak about? I'm heading home now, Pikachu I trust you to get my boy back home safe alright?" asked Delia as she got up and walked towards the door
"Pika" (sure) was pikachu simple answer as he was enthralled by this new discovery he had made. He found some red liquid on professor Oaks table and tasted it and oh god it was heavenly.
"Uhm Professor, I read about Pikachu's weaknesses and strong sides and his move set online, but it wasn't really one hundred percent trustworthy so I wanted to ask you some questions."
"Fire away Ash."
"Is it true that while Pikachu's only weakness is ground, which can be negated with magnet rise, electric type moves aren't really effective on a number of Pokémon types?"
"Yes, Electric type moves while effective on Flying and Water isn't effective on ground dragon and grass."
Ash nodded and asked his second question. "When I looked up Pikachu's move set I found some really weird things like bug type moves and Water moves and Flying type moves. Can pikachu really learn all that?"
"Yes actually Pikahcu's are one of the most versatile Pokémon there is as they can learn a wide variety of Moves."
For a couple of hours Professor Oak was giving tips to Ash on how to raise Pikachu with maximum efficiency and finally Ash went home excited about tomorrow.
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Ash had just boarded the ferry that would take him to the Hoenn region and he was excited, his mother had made a big scene as she said goodbye but he managed to get on board on time.
Ash spent the most of the boat ride researching different training methods and talking with the more experienced trainers on the ferry. A nice lady had even helped him with teaching Pikachu Quick attack and gave him instructions on how to teach Pikachu Iron tail.
Pikachu was able to grasp Quick attack easily as it was a normal type move, but Iron tail being a steel type move proved to be difficult for Pikachu to learn.
And before he knew it, Ash had arrived in Hoenn.
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'Okay so now I'm in Hoenn, the first thing I should do is find a Pokémon center so I can sign up for the Hoenn league' thought Ash as he was looking around for a Pokémon center, but was unable to find one.
"Where do you think it is Pikachu?" asked Ash as he was confused because he couldn't find it.
"Pika pika" (No idea, maybe we should ask someone for directions?)
"It seems like we have to." Said Ash as he walked up to a man in his 60'ies
"Excuse me sir, do you know where the Pokémon center is?"
"Sorry lad we don't have one of those her in Littleroot, the nearest one is in Oldale Town just north from here. However since your friend right there seems fine and I don't see any other Pokémon on your clip. I assume you want to register?"
"Yeah that's exactly why I'm looking for the Pokémon center actually."
"If that's the case you can also sign up at Professor Birch's laboratory, It's just past that hill." Said the old man pointing towards a really tall hill
"Thanks for the help."
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As Ash was walking towards Professor Birch's lab he came across a really big lake, and he heard some girls laugh.
"Fee Fee!"
Ash turned towards the sound and saw a group of girls poking a Fish like Pokémon with a stick while laughing.
"Eew look at how ugly it is."
"Yeah I know right."
"Do you believe that my uncle told me that this ugly thing evolves into a Milotic?"
"Wow your uncle must be stupid."
"HEY KNOCK IT OFF!" yelled Ash pissed that these little girls where hurting whatever Pokémon that was.
"Says who?" said the apparent leader of the little group
Now Ash was in a little predicament, he couldn't let them hurt the Pokémon, but they were little girls he couldn't hurt them. Luckily for him Pikachu had no such qualms
Pikachu jumped down from Ash's shoulder and started generating a lot of electricity scaring the little girls. As the topping he sent a weak Thunder shock to a tree near them scaring the five girls.
They all got scared and ran away home.
"Really Pikachu?"
"Pika?" (what?)
"Never mind." Said Ash as he approached the Pokémon.
"Hey little fella, did they hurt you?"
The fish Pokémon responded with shaking it's head and laughed as it flailed it's way to Ash and gave him the fish version of a hug.
"Hey how would you like to come with me on my journey?" asked Ash as he took out a Pokéball
Feebas's response was to leap in the air and touch the Pokéball making it suck her in. The Pokéball was shaking in Ash's hand for a few seconds before giving a soft ding sound showing that Feebas had been captured.
"I guess I caught my first Pokémon."
"Pikachu Pika?" (Can you really call that catching though?)
"It caught itself for me, if anything that's bonus points." Was Ash's simple answer as he continued his walk towards Professor Birch's lab.
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"Uhm Hello?" Called Ash out loud in the apparently empty lab.
"Two seconds." Came a voice and Professor Birch alongside a boy about his age with white hair and a green bandana came walking with him.
"Hello my name is Ash Ketchum, I'm from Pallet Town and I heard that you could register me for the Hoenn league?"
"Oh yes of course, My name is Professor Birch and this is my son Brandon. Just hand me your Pokédex and I'll handle everything."
Ash handed Birch his Pokédex and sat down with Brandon and started a conversation with the white haired boy. It turned out that Brandon like himself was just starting his Journey as a Pokémon trainer, he showed Ash his starter Pokémon Torchic alongside the Pokémon he had already caught, a Wingull and a Poochyena. In return Ash showed him Pikachu and Feebas, Apparently Feebas was a Pokémon that was hard to come across. While not really strong, it evolved into a Milotic, probably the most beautiful Water type Pokémon, and not to mention it was very powerful.
"Ash I finished registering you for the Hoenn league." Said Professor Birch as he came walking in and handed Ash his Pokédex back.
"Thank you for that, I'll take my leave now I have some catching up to do. Before I leave though here's my Pokénav number If either of you want to contact me." Said Ash as he exited the Lab and looked towards the skies.
'Look out Gary, before you know it this year will have gone and we will meet in Johto. And I promise you that I will finally show you that I going to become a Pokémon master.'
Ash started walking towards Oldale Town as he knew he could reach Petalburg city from there.
"Are you ready Pikachu?"
"Pika!" (Hell yeah!)
Ash slowly started running as he was excited about this new adventure.
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(1) Am I the only one who found it ridiculous that professor Oak AND Ash's mom would let him travel with a Pokémon that attacks him?
(2) might say that this is way too quickly for them to bond, but seriously look at some of Ash's other Pokémon. In this fic at least he has the gift to quickly bond with Pokémon. I may make that an Aura ability if I feel like incorporating that aspect of the Pokémon universe in this fic.
(3) Replacement for Ash, to cover up all the plot-holes. He will catch Charizard (I know I will get haters on this) and will basically be Cannon Ash. With Ash being AU-Ash
Bam first chapter of second fic, this fic just wanted out of my head and onto paper. Or word document.
I am sticking to the time line, which means team rocked won't be involved until Johto, May still isn't going to start traveling with Ash (Sorry Advanceshippers). Brandon is from the Gen III games and I shall use him as Ash's Hoenn Rival.
Tell me what you liked, tell me what you didn't. What Pokémon should Ash catch? Currently this is my plan
Pikachu
Feebas
Tailow
Aron
Trapinch
I'm still unsure if I should have him catch a Vulpix, so help me decide. Tell me what you want to read. Because I am way too lazy to try and figure that out my self