The Batman
By: Zombiehippie
Author's Notes: A new story. After seeing The Dark Knight four times in theaters (that's right, four times, it's an awesome movie) I was inspired to make this. This is an Advanceshipping story. However, this will be a trilogy, and the next two installments will be Pokeshipping. Well, here we go!
Disclaimer: Pokemon belongs to Satoshi Tajiri and Nintendo. Batman belongs to Bob Kane, DC Comics, and Warner Bros. pictures.
Chapter 1: The Origin.
Five-year old Ash Ketchum climbed into his bed, cuddling his stuffed Pikachu, Sparky, at his grandmother's house.
"Tell me a bedtime story, Grandma!" Ash said excitedly.
"All right, Ash. I'm going to tell you a story about a bat." His Grandma Jane said.
"What's a bat?" Ash asked.
"It's a creature that's not a Pokemon, but it is closely related to the Zubat, Golbat, and Crobat." His grandma said, opening up a book and showing him a picture of the bat.
"Cool!" Ash exclaimed.
"Allright, Ash, once upon a time…" His Grandma began.
After the story…,
Ash woke up in a panic. He had had a nightmare about the bat creature that his Grandma had told him a story about. He quickly cuddled his stuffed Pikachu a little bit closely, and went back to sleep. He had developed a fear of this bat creature.
Eight years later…,
Thirteen year old Ash Ketchum sat with May, his new friend in the Hoenn region. May looked at Ash, and quickly blushed. She had feelings for Ash, and she just wanted to tell him. Little did she know, Ash felt the same way.
"Ash, there's something that I need to tell you." May said.
"There's something I need to tell you too, May." Ash said.
Both blushed, and then looked into each other's eyes. They were sitting on a well that was boarded up at the Petalburg Gym. Suddenly, Ash and May began to lean in close to each other, getting ready to kiss, when all of a sudden, there was a snap, and Ash fell down to the bottom of the dried up well.
"ASH!" May called.
Ash landed with a thud, and heard a loud CRACK! A sharp pain shot through his leg. It was official. He had broken his leg.
"MOM! DAD! MAX! BROCK!" May yelled, running to get help.
Ash groaned, and looked over. He saw a hole in the stone wall, and heard a fluttering of wings. Ash froze. Fear flooded him. He knew what it was. The creature he had been afraid of ever since he was five.
All of a sudden, a whole bunch of bats flew at Ash, menacing him. Ash covered his face, screaming in fear. Tears ran down his face. He was scared.
He heard a zipping sound, and all the bats flew away. Ash looked up to see Norman, May's father, who was rappelling down into the well to help Ash.
"Ash." He said gently. He held out his hand. "It's okay. I've got you."
Ash took Norman's hand, and Norman began to climb back up the side of the well, to get Ash to a doctor.
At the hospital…,
The doctor had just set Ash's broken bone, and put his leg in a cast. Ash thanked the doctor, and Ash was told that he was to stay in bed for the rest of the day.
Ash laid down, and May came in to visit. She was relieved that Ash was all right. She had noticed that Ash had been scared when he came out of the well.
"Ash." She said. "Why were you so scared?"
"Well May," Ash began. "I've been afraid of bats ever since I was a little boy. I've never had a problem with Zubats, Golbats, or Crobats, because they are Pokemon, but bats aren't Pokemon. They are an entirely different creature."
"You know why the attacked you, right?" a voice said.
Ash looked up to see Norman. "They were afraid of you." Norman explained. "All creatures, Pokemon or not, feel fear. Even the scary ones."
He looked at his daughter, and her new friend. He knew of his daughter's feelings for the young Pokemon trainer, and Norman approved. Ash was a lot like he was when he was a teenager.
"I'll leave you two alone now." Norman said.
Ash and May were left alone in the hospital room. May blushed deeply. "Ash, when you fell down the well, I was scared. I heard the crack, and I was afraid that you had broken your neck. I thought you were going to die."
Ash reached over and squeezed May's hand. May went on. "There's something I need to tell you. I'm in love with you, Ash Ketchum." She said.
Ash smiled. "I'm in love with you too, May." May looked up, and beamed.
Ash and May leaned in closer to each other, just like before, and their lips met, and all the love they had for each other flooded through one another.
Six years later…,
Nineteen year old Ash Ketchum had finally become Pokemon Master. He had just proposed to May, his girlfriend of six years, and she accepted. They were officially engaged. He went out to dinner to celebrate with his friends.
Ash had just inherited a bunch of money from his late grandmother, and combined with the money that he had received for becoming a celebrity Pokemon Master, he was now a billionaire. He had also discovered that his late father had built Ketchum Enterprises, a company that his mother had been hiding from him ever since he was a baby.
Delia, Ash's mom, asked Ash to come outside the restaurant to talk to her in private. Ash complied, and followed his mother outside.
"Ash," his mother began. "I have some advice for you."
Ash leaned in closely, when he noticed a strange man come up to them.
"Can I help you?" Ash asked.
"Yeah!" the man said. He pulled out a gun. "You both can start by giving me all your money and jewelry!"
Ash put his hands up slowly, and reached into his pocket. He pulled out his wallet, and gave it to the thief. Mrs. Ketchum gave up her old wedding ring and her pearls.
The man smiled widely. "Let me ask you something, young man. Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"
He then turned to Ash's mother, and shot her in the chest. His mother fell down. The man ran away, chuckling.
"MOM!" Ash yelled. He leaned down.
"Ash…" Delia said weakly, before she died.
"MOM! MOM!" Ash yelled again, before breaking down and crying.
At the Viridian City Police Station…,
Ash was crying. May was sitting next to him, trying her best to comfort him.
The door to the office they were both sitting in opened up. Officer Jenny walked in. This officer Jenny had a slightly swollen belly. She had been raped a month before she graduated from the police academy, but decided that she would have the baby anyway.
"I'm sorry Ash." She said. "You mother's murderer got away."
Ash looked at her, and just couldn't believe the evil in the world. The man who killed his mother, the man who raped Officer Jenny and got her pregnant because of it. He stopped crying on the outside, but continued to cry on the inside. He then decided that there was something that he had to do about it.
Delia Ketchum's funeral…,
Mrs. Ketchum's casket had been lowered into the ground. Ash dropped a single red rose onto her casket.
He turned to May. "I need to talk to you in private." He said.
Ash took May to a secluded part of the cemetery. "May, there's something that I need to do. I'm sorry, but I'm ending our engagement. Take care of Pikachu for me." He said.
Before May could say anything, Ash ran off, tears in his eyes. He ran by a nearby harbor, where he saw a merchant ship. He called his butler, Alfred, and told him the situation. Alfred told him that he would take care of everything. He then stowed away on the ship, where he was to sail around the world.
Hong Kong, China…,
"I have to learn the criminal mind in order to learn how to fight them better." Ash thought.
Ash was sitting in the passenger seat of a car, getting ready to pull a heist on a delivery truck. He got out of the car with his partners. He walked up to a security guard, and punched the lights out of him, and took his pistol.
He got into the back of the truck, and his partners jacked it. They drove to a safe house that they had. They pulled in. Ash got out of the back and congratulated his partners on a job well done.
All of a sudden, the door bust open, and the Hong Kong police burst in, guns out, telling them to get down.
Ash was handcuffed. The cops found out that he spoke mostly English, and got out a Mandarin-Chinese-English dictionary in order to talk to him.
"Fool." The sergeant said. "What the hell do I care what your name is. You're a criminal."
"I'm not a criminal!" Ash yelled in perfect Mandarin.
"Tell that to the guy who owned these." The sergeant said, pointing to the truck's cargo. Thousands of cardboard boxes were piled up, with the name Ketchum Enterprises stamped on them.
In a Chinese prison…,
Ash had a nightmare about that day, many years ago, when he fell down the well, and encountered the bats.
He woke with a start.
"Did you have dream?" an inmate said.
"Nightmare." Ash said.
He sat up and looked around. He had grown a beard. He wasn't allowed to shave.
"Worse than this place?" the inmate asked.
Ash looked over at a neighboring cell. There was a huge muscle bound inmate, who always wanted to fight Ash.
Ash and his fellow inmate were ushered out to breakfast by a guard with an assault rifle. He walked out and went to the table where the cooks were serving breakfast.
He saw the huge inmate again.
"They are going to fight you." His inmate said.
"Again?" Ash asked.
"Until they kill you." The inmate replied.
Ash held out his bowl, where the cook dumped a bunch of disgusting gruel into it.
"Can they kill me before breakfast?" Ash asked, in disgust.
He turned to the muscle bound inmate, who had knocked Ash's bowl out of his hands.
"You are in hell, little man." The inmate said. He punched Ash in the face, and then grabbed his hair and held his head up, so that Ash was facing him.
"And I am the devil." The inmate said, before punching Ash again.
Ash quickly recovered from his little beating, and stared at the inmate, a look of annoyance on his face.
"You're not the devil." Ash said.
The inmate spat on the ground.
"You're practice." Ash said.
The inmate threw a punch that Ash dodged, and Ash retaliated with a quick jab and then threw the inmate into the table, knocking him out. All the inmate's friends jumped on Ash. Ash used his legs to spring off the table and made himself and his attackers fall back through a wooden fence, and slid down into a huge mud pit. Ash then beat off his six attackers, one by one, seriously hurting them.
Warning shots from the soldier's AK-47s rang out. They grabbed Ash and dragged him off.
"SOLITARY!" the soldier yelled.
"Why?" Ash asked.
"FOR PROTECTION!" the soldier yelled.
"I don't need protection!" Ash protested.
"PROTECTION FOR THEM!" The soldier yelled, pointing at the inmates Ash had beat up.
In the solitary confinement cell…,
Ash was in the cell alone, bored out of his mind. He looked up at the window. There was no glass, but there were bars, so he couldn't escape.
All of a sudden, a pair of legs appeared. A slip of paper fell down through the window.
Ash took the paper and unfolded it.
You will be released from prison tomorrow morning. Come to the Himalayans, and pick the rare blue flower from the bottom of the Northern Slopes. Carry it to the top of the mountain, the home of Ra's Al Ghul and the League of Shadows.
Sincerely,
Henri Ducard,
Second-in-Command of the League of Shadows.
End of Chapter One.
Author's Notes: Yeah, I stole some parts from Batman Begins. Go ahead and sue me. Read and review!