A/N: First, I would like to apologize to everyone, right now I'm having some trouble with writers block. I'm creating this fic in the hope of being able to write my other fics. This story will probably be off and on, and I'm mainly going to try and focus on this, YGOGXDA, and DWO. I'm really sorry to everyone, please forgive me.

A Different Hero

My name is Rick Foster, and this is my story. The story of how I became a Pokemon Trainer...

"Rick, get the heck down here right now!" My mom yelled at me.

I rushed down the stairs to find a Spinarak, a small green spider Pokémon downstairs. "Spin, spin, arak!" It said frantically as my mother tried to hit it with a broom.

"Get out of here you dumb bug!" My mom yelled at it.

The Spinarak scrambled up the stairs and hid behind me. I'm not sure why, but every Pokémon I've ever met always seemed to instinctively trust me. "Wait mom, I'll take it outside." I told my mom as I picked the small spider up. I noticed the face on its abdomen changed from a scared look to a worried look. I went outside and set the small Pokémon down.

"Spin, arak arak!" It seemed to be asking me to follow it.

"Give me a second little buddy." I told the spider I ran inside and headed to my PC, from there I accessed my Item Storage, and got a potion, just in case. I ran back outside to see the Spinarak pacing. "I'm here, now where's the emergency?" I followed the little bug type into the woods until I saw an Ariados on the ground, barely moving.

"Spin spin!" Spinarak pointed to the Ariados.

"I get it, Ariados is hurt, and you needed a human to help you heal it." I said as I ran up to the Ariados. Ariados looked at me, but it didn't seem to care too much. I sprayed it with the potion, healing a few of its wounds. "There, you should feel better soon, but what kind of Pokémon could have caused these burns on you? We don't live near any fire type Pokémon's habitat." I thought out loud as I considered the possibilities. Suddenly I heard a rustling in the trees above.

"Char Char, Chimchar!" I heard the Pokemon's name and froze.

"What's a Chimchar doing all the way in Kanto?" I thought to myself. A moment later, the small monkey dropped down in front of me. It lost the feral look in it's eyes, and it approached me cautiously, it sniffed me a few times before deciding that I was okay.

"Char." The Chimchar said, it climbed up on my shoulder and stayed that way.

"Okay... Sure." I was a little confused but shook my head and went back to my house.

When I got there, I saw my mother in front of the house talking with two men in lab coats. One of them I recognized as Professor Oak, the leading expert in pokemon, it took me a few more seconds to place the second one; he was Professor Rowan, the resident of Sandgem Town in the Sinnoh region, and the man responsible for giving new trainers their pokemon in that region. "Are you certain you haven't noticed any of the pokemon act strangely lately?" Rowan asked my mother in his gruff voice.

"I'm fairly certain and-" My mom broke off as she saw the Chimchar on my shoulder. "The missing pokemon you're looking for wouldn't happen to be a Chimchar, would it." My mom said this as less of a question and more as a statement.

"Well yes, the pokemon that escaped was indeed a Chimchar, but how did you..." Rowan began until he turned around and saw me with the Chimchar. "Oh my, how did you manage to get that Chimchar on you? Our best breeders have been hard pressed just getting it to stay in a 50 km^2 area.

"I don't know, but he attacked an Ariados in the forest, and one of it's children came and found me, I healed it and this guy dropped out of the tree and nearly attacked me." I replied honestly. On the way back from the forest, I noticed a deep gash in it's side, so I went to a Pecha Berry tree and got some pecha berries, then I used some of my pant leg as a bandage.

"You even managed to treat that gash, he's been so stubborn about it, and no one could keep him still long enough to wrap the gash." Rowan said in awe. He turned to face his fellow pokemon researcher. "Samuel, what do you think of this boy?"

"I've known him for quite a few years, as we both live in Pallet town, and I know he loves pokemon just as much as they love him." Oak smiled warmly. "I've wanted to give him a starter, but he always denied them, saying that he didn't want to go on a journey yet."

"In that case," Rowan turned towards me again. "How would you like to go on a journey with that Chimchar, since he seems to like you enough."

"Ahem, what about me?" My mother spoke up. "Don't I get a say in this?"

"Almost every child goes on a journey, Mom, let me go please." I said, I had felt a kind of connection with the Chimchar.

"Alright." My mother relented.

A/N: I'm sorry, not sure how to do this, tell me if you like it, and please tell me ways to fix it.