Okay, this took quite a while to do. I've this idea for quite a while and I've got to say, it's going to interesting.

Here's the full summary:

Ashlyn Ketchum and Gary Oak have both dreamed since a very young age to be great researchers and trainers. To help achieve their shared dream, Ashlyn and Gary became Professor Oak's apprentices. At twelve years in age, the two go on their journey to finally make their dreams a reality. But dark forces are after Ashlyn, and her destiny as the "Chosen One" is tearing into her. Can they complete their dreams together, even with outside forces trying to tear them apart?

Not really a lot to say for the moment. Enjoy!

[Intro]

In the small town of Pallet of the Kanto region, two children were studying hard for their shared dreams. Five-year-old Ashlyn Ketchum and Gary Oak had been best friends since birth almost, and both had big shoes to fill. Ashlyn's father had been a well-known trainer, a legend some called him, the great Richard "Red" Ketchum. Gary, on the other hand, was the grandson of the great Professor Oak. Both had the same dream of being great trainers and researchers and felt the same urge to prepare as much as possible for their journeys. Which is what they were doing on that fine September day shortly after Ashlyn's fifth birthday.

The two were sitting in a clearing in the nearby forest that they often occupy when they want to be alone. Ashlyn's raven-black hair was shoulder-length and pulled into a low ponytail and her eyes were dark blue, like an ocean at night. She was wearing a blue knee-length simple dress, black leggings and dark blue Mara Janes with black soles and gold buckles. Gary's auburn hair was also shoulder-length- though spiked upwards- and his eyes were a dark brown that was only shades from black. He was wearing a purple shirt, brown leggings and black tennis shoes. Both were reading a book. Ashlyn was reading Myths and Legends while Gary was reading The Ultimate Trainer's Guide.

"Do you think that Professor Oak would teach us some things if we asked him?" Ashlyn suddenly asked her best friend shyly.

"Of course Gramps would," Gary replied in an obnoxious tone, but not truly meaning it. One of the things that made them friends was their ability to understand what each other truly mean. While most kids are offended by Gary's egotistical nature, Ashlyn learned to read him in a way that lets her know that he just wants to be noticed. It was the same way that he could read into her shyness to know that she was just a little socially awkward and insecure. It was just the way they were.

"You really think so?" Ashlyn asked, blue eyes widening. She once had amber eyes, but on the night her father Richard left three months previously, something happened to make her eyes change color. No one knows what caused the change, but Ashlyn wasn't complaining.

"Why don't we ask now? It's not like we'll get anywhere just wondering about it, after all," Gary suggested. Ashlyn tried to protest (weakly) about not wanting to disturb the busy professor, which Gary ignored anyway as he dragged her off to his grandfather's lab.

The ageing professor was glad that his grandson and the young girl he saw as a granddaughter had asked for his assistance with their shared dream and almost immediately took the two as his apprentices. For the next seven years, their days were busy as they repaired habitats, studied both inside and outside the lab and read every book imaginable about any subject they could get their hands on. That's not to say they didn't have any fun, in fact Ashlyn convinced some Fighting-Types to train her in martial arts and the two friends held mock battles against each other. While in school, the two friends would quiz each other on anything they learned from either Professor Oak or their teachers and they were known to never have a book or notebook far from their person's.

They went even farther, making a pact at the age of eleven (shortly after Ashlyn's birthday) that they would travel as far as Viridian City on the first day of their journeys, split for the Indigo League and be full-on rivals then join forces for the rest of the regions that they wish to travel. Professor Oak even gave them each a X-Transceiver to keep in touch for their twelfth birthdays.

Ashlyn gazed the calendar that showed that April 15, the day her journey was to begin, was tomorrow. The past seven of working with the professor had taught her a lot about the world she was about to explore, and she couldn't wait to see it all.

The last thought she had before she went to asleep was if Gary would do good on their pact.

Okay, I know it's short, it was only supposed to be an overview on what the two of them are like. I made it so the they start their journeys at the age of twelve instead of ten because that makes more sense to me.

And yes, I included some of the manga characters. Only Red, Blue and Green, though. None of the others will make an appearance, and those three are only mentioned.

Next chapter will be the beginning of the journey for those two.

Please leave a review and I'll see ya'll next chapter.

~pokedawnheart