Disclaimer: I do not in any way, shape, or form own Pokémon. Well, unless owning any of the Pokémon games count, but that would be stupid. Anyways onto my first ever story.

"Spoken words"

{Poké Speech}

'Thoughts'

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Pokémon, short for pocket monsters, are strange creatures that inhabit this world. They can control fire, ice, water, electricity, the earth, and many other elements and powers. We live in harmony with them, and they are there no matter what. Currently our story takes us to Ash Ketchum in Pallet Town, Kanto.

Ash Ketchum is a 15-year old Pokémon trainer. Currently, his outfit consists of a red jacket that reached half way down his upper body, a black t-shirt with an image of a blue lightning bolt striking down, a red bandana to hold back his hair rather than one of his trademarked Pokémon League caps, black jeans supported by a black belt, and a pair of red and black running shoes. In this outfit he could easily be confused with a Pokémon Ranger, but it was a gift from the Rangers in the first place for all the times he helped save the world.

"Ash honey, Professor Oak is here to pick us up," a voice said from downstairs. That voice was his mother, Delia Ketchum.

"'Kay mom, be down in a second," Ash hollered back. He grabbed his red and black backpack with a Pokémon League symbol on it off of a chair and put it on. He also grabbed five Pokéballs off of his desk and clipped them to his belt. Just as he finished a yellow mouse with black eyes, red cheeks, and a lightning shaped tail jumped on his shoulder.

{Isn't this exciting Ash?} Said his ever faithful friend Pikachu.

"Yeah, it's been so long since we last went on vacation with mom," Ash replied as they walked down the stairs and out of the house.

Just as they did so, a yellow convertible with the top down pulled up. Driving it was a man maybe in his late 50s wearing an orange visor, a tacky light green vacation shirt with pineapples all over it and a pair of sunglasses. "Now we'll set off!" said the man.

"What's with that outfit Professor Oak?" Ash exasperated to the now identified Professor.

"You mean this?" he responded as he pointed to his shirt, "I wanted to have the vacation feeling. After all, I haven't been in the Unova region for a long time."

"But aren't you going there for work, Professor?" Delia asked.

"Nah, when I'm not attending a congress, I have free time!" the professor answered back relaxed. "Come on, get in, get in."

"All right. Let's go Pikachu!" Ash excitedly said.

{This is gonna be great!} The mouse answered.

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"All right, we've finally arrived!" Ash exclaimed as he stepped off of the plane and onto the dock.

As the group of Professor Oak, Delia, Ash, and Pikachu started to walk into the airport, Pikachu suddenly turned back around with a worried expression. When Ash noticed Pikachu was gone, he turned back around to see Pikachu with his tail raised before what looked like an evolution of Luvdisc popped out of the water.

"Whoa. That's a Pokémon I haven't seen before," Ash said while running towards them. Pikachu ran with his trainer still worried. Both of them failed to notice the lone swirling storm cloud heading towards them. "Aren't there more," Ash said when the Pokémon disappeared.

{Ash, look at that.} Pikachu said while finally seeing the storm cloud.

"What is that?" Ash asked aloud when he turned around and saw the cloud.

Before Pikachu could answer, a square piece of metal fell around him before transforming into a cage. The cage suddenly snapped back to three people standing on the plane's wing. Before it could make it back, Ash was able to grab the cage.

"Please don't tell me it's Team Rocket," Ash said to himself.

(Cue Rocket motto which I will never type as long as I live)

"Annnd, it's Team Rocket," Ash sighed at the sight of the trio of stalkers. "Pikachu, use Thunderbolt."

{Got it Ash.} Pikachu replied before releasing a corona of light that traveled up the wire connecting the cage to Meowth. Before it could hit though, a metal shield appeared and took the blast resulting in no damage for the Rockets.

"What a useless thing to do-"James began before Ash interrupted him.

"Pidgeot use Wing Attack to break the wire!" Ash yelled before throwing a Pokéball. The red and white capsule opened up and let out a shining mass of white energy that took flight and transformed into a huge bird that had pink and gold hair on its head.

{Not these three again.} Groaned Pidgeot as she broke the wire connected to the cage.

"Thanks Pidgeot, now blow them away with a-"Ash began before he was cut off by the storm cloud as it blasted lightning down upon them. Team Rocket was blasted into the water while Pidgeot was knocked out and Ash and Pikachu were simply knocked to the ground.

When Ash got back up he saw Pikachu giving off blue electricity and the ground around him was blue too. "What's going on here?" Ash muttered.

{Thunderbolt!} Pikachu cried before releasing an enormous bolt of lightning into the storm cloud. The Thunderbolt was able to disperse the clouds, and what looked like a black dragon could be seen.

"Something big is up there…" Ash muttered with awe showing on his face before taking out Pidgeot's Pokéball. "Pidgeot return."

The two were once again blasted down before the thing flew off. When Ash got back up again he saw Pikachu unconscious and looking bad.

"Pikachu! Pikachu are you okay?" Ash asked after cradling is best friend.

{I'm okay.} Pikachu weakly uttered.

"ASH!" yelled Professor Oak and Delia as they ran towards the duo.

"Are you all right?" his mother asked.

"Yeah."

"Are you sure nothing bad happened?" this time Professor asked the question.

"Yes," Ash answered before Pikachu's cheeks started to randomly spark.

"Are you sure nothing happened?" Professor Oak asked once again incredulously.

"Well there was this gigantic black thing in the clouds. It looked kind of like a dragon type Pokémon though," Ash said.

"Hm. From our point of view only the cloud was visible to us," Professor Oak replied back while pondering what it could've possibly been. "Ah, anyway, when did you get your Pidgeot back? I knew you were going to take some of your other Pokémon with you here, but I didn't know one was Pidgeot."

"Oh, I recaptured her maybe a few weeks after getting back from Sinnoh."

"Oh my, Professor Oak, are you okay?" said someone from behind them. When they turned around, it was revealed to be a rather attractive brunette woman in a lab coat.

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(Skip to the battle between Ash and Trip, everything between the time skip is the same)

"Alright, this will be a one-on-one fight between Trip of Nuvema Town and Ash of Pallet Town. Begin!" said one of Professor Juniper's assistants.

"Go, Snivy!" Trip said as he threw out a Pokéball. What emerged was a green grass snake with arms and legs, a teardrop like head, and a tail with a leaf on it.

"Alright. GO PIKACHU!" Ash shouted as Pikachu jumped onto the battle field.

Before Ash could say a command, a camera click was heard. Trip was taking pictures of the battle.

"Why are you constantly taking pictures?" Ash questioned.

"I'm documenting my journey, this is also my Snivy's first battle," Trip answered.

"Alright then I'll go first. Pikachu use Thunderbolt!" Ash ordered.

"{Have a taste of my Thunderbolt!} Pikachu yelled out. Two strands of electricity came out before dying. {Huh? What happened?}

"Pikachu, what's wrong?"

"Are you taking this seriously?"

"Of course I am!"

"Pikachu use Volt Tackle!"

Pikachu began to run, but like last time he tried an electric type move, nothing happened.

"Is that some kind of strategy? Ordering moves it can't use? Snivy, Tackle."

"Pikachu dodge it!" Ash yelled before he went back to thinking why Pikachu couldn't use any electric attacks. 'He was fine and could use all his attacks until that storm hit. Of course, the storm must've short circuited the storm.'

"Tch, what a noob. Snivy end this with a Leaf Tornado!" Trip ordered. Nothing happened.

"Um, you realize that all Starter Pokémon are level 5 and don't know any moves besides Tackle, Scratch, Pound, Leer, Growl, and Tail Whip, right? Did you even scan you're Snivy for what moves it knows." Ash questioned.

"Shut up!" Trip yelled back with his cheeks enflamed due to embarrassment. "You're not any better, ordering attacks your Pikachu doesn't know. Snivy, Tackle!"

"That lightning storm at the docks must've short-circuited your electric attacks Pikachu! Use Iron Tail instead," Ash said while explaining what happened.

"That's just an excuse. You're Pikachu probably doesn't even know Iron Tail either," Trip sneered. He was promptly proven wrong when Pikachu hit Snivy and sent it hurtling through the air and deep into the forest.

"Um, S-snivy is unable to battle, the winner is Pikachu. Therefore Ash wins!" exclaimed the aid.

"Alright Pikachu, we won!" Ash beamed. He promptly left to go back inside to get Pikachu checked out. He left a stunned and scarred and Trip to search the forest for his Pokémon.

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"Well, it looks like Pikachu took in too much electric energy from the thundercloud and the lightning," Professor Juniper explained to Ash.

"Yes," agreed Professor Oak, "that's why Pikachu didn't feel so well and couldn't use electric attacks."

"I thought so," said Ash. "Does that mean Pikachu can never use any electric attacks again?"

Before anyone could answer, the storm cloud from earlier came back and struck the lab. Pikachu was suddenly overcome by electricity and started to randomly spark.

"It couldn't be…" muttered Juniper, "is that Zekrom?"

To be continued

AN: Well that's the first chapter of my first ever fanfic. Leave a review and tell me what you think. Also, flames are not tolerated if there is no point to them and they do not in any way tell me how to improve. I also need a beta so anyone willing please pm me.