POKEMON MYSTERYChapter 1
This is an AU.
It all started at the age of 10 when Ash found out he was going to be a Pokémon trainer. As soon as he heard, he went down stairs to see his mum.
"Professor oak wants to see you in his lab," she told him, smiling. She knew it was his dream to be a trainer, and now it was a reality.
"I'll go over there right now!" Ash yelled, rushing out of the front door. Off he went to go see Professor Oak in his lab along the way he bumped into a small round man, wearing plain, ordinary clothes, whom he didn't recognize. This man however, seemed to know him, and gave him a strange box, red and rectangular, with a symbol of the pokeball on the front.
"What's this for?" asked Ash baffled
"That my son is a pokedex," the man smiled. "It will record any Pokémon you come across"
"But why are you giving this to me?" Ash asked, befuddled.
"You're going to become a trainer aren't you?" the man questioned.
"Yeah, course I am!" Ash smiled excitedly – he still couldn't believe his luck.
"Well here you are then." And without further ado off the strange man trotted.
"I wonder what that was all about" Ash thought to himself. "What a weird man. Ah well…"
He soon forgot about his encounter with old man and the pokedex, and went on to Professor Oaks' lab and found himself stuck with a major situation. Professor Oak was an eccentric old man, dressed in his scientist's lab coat, and a waistcoat. Hung up on his door was a tweed jacket, and his trousers had that distinctly eccentric checked pattern.
"There are three Pokémon here," Oak told him. "And you'll have to choose one. Turtwig, Chimchar, and last but not least Piplup."
"Which one should I go for?" Ash asked.
"That my boy," Oak smiled, "is up to you."
Find out in chapter 2.