This is Pokedex self-record program. Searching files... File of Ash Ketchem. Date: August 14, 3999 AP.
"This is the day I never thought I'd see. Team Rocket has finally accomplished the control they dreamed of. Team
Rocket has complete control of the world as we know it. 3 years ago, I had won the Indigo League Championship and become
master pokemon trainer. Though it was exhilerating knowing I was now considered the best trainer in the world, there was
something missing. Then it hit me, my friends! As I stood in the center of the ring, rain pouring from the sky, my clothes sticking
to my skin, with 4 beaten trainers and their dishoveled pokemon lying on their knees before me, I raised my championship trophy
and dropped it to the ground with a thud. The roar in the crowds ended abruptly and they looked down upon me as if i had just
thrown thousand-dollar food they had given me to the ground. I looked up to my friends: Misty, Brock, and Tracy. 'My friends,
come with me we can now adventure together in greater terms than ever.' I yelled to them. They looked down upon me with
depressed faces and one by one ripped my vertebrae from my back.
"Misty was the first to arise. She walked down through the stands and jumped down to the arena and walked up to me.
'I'm sorry Ash. My sisters are having financial trouble and I can't let them go.' I dropped back from her words and lowered my
head with the weight of the sorrow. Brock was the next to kill me. He came down and clapped his hand on my shoulder.
"'I'm sorry Ash I have to watch my family. I've been gone for too long. I'm sorry.' The words crippled me and I felt as
though i could no longer move my body. Then the final blow came from Tracy. When I found the strength to raise my head I saw
nothing of him. He had left me without so much as a goodbye.
"I tried all of my other friends I had met on my travels. All had an excuse to rub my face into the mud of the rain-soaked
stadium. It was too much I dropped to my knees in tearless self-mourning and only remembered awaking in a soft bed in a dark
room. There was a digital clock on a stand to my right and it read that it was 3:02 AM. I quickly gathered my pokeballs and my
slumbering pikachu and fled into the night."
"I don't know where I arrived, at the time I didn't care. And that was the time I met my replacement companion, Slythe
(*Author's Note* This is pronounced like Slith F.Y.I.). Though he could never truly replace my friends (he was almost always
out doing something else) I don't think I would have survived without him.
"And about 2 months later Team Rocket attacked us and I volunteered as a recruit for the Indefs (Indigo Defense
Forces for if I ever forget). That's how I'm here and how I'm staying I am Ash Ketchem and I will fight for what little I have left.
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