Author's Corner: Aaand were back, So I've changed the genre from Humor/Adventure to just Adventure for now since my humor skills are not that good, I still will attempt to add some level of comedy but for now its just an Adventure, This chapter will probably be shorter than last since there was only one episode between Brock's battle and Misty's battle buuut there will be a new capture! And Ash may not capture some of his pokemon from the canon the three I'm sure he wont will be Krabby, Muk, And the Tauros since they're never really used and could be replaced fairly easily, BUT THREAT NOT! Ash still will capture all the others and a few new pokemon so for now on with the show
"Hey Misty?"
"Yeah Brock?"
"How's your dream going? The catching all the water pokemon one"
Misty sighed "Not good I've only caught Starmie, Staryu and Goldeen"
Ash looked up from the map he was studying "Catch all water types hey? Thats alot of pokemon"
Pikachu nodded "Apparently there in the low hundred's" he smiled slightly "And I can electrify all of them"
Pidgeotto shook her head "Is all you think about battling"
"That and Pecha berries"
Butterfree laughed "I appreciate the finer things in life personally, like releasing spores for my foes to inhale"
Brock looked over at Ash "Ash whats your dream anyway?"
Ash hesitated then pulled out his book "Pokemon Master"
Misty laughed "Another kid obsessed with that! how do you even become a pokemon master anyway?"
Ash thought then flipped to a page that said "For me whatever allows me to keep travelling will make me a master"
Misty was slightly taken aback "Oh"
Ash flipped pages and showed it to Brock "Whats your dream then stone man?"
"Stone man?" Brock looked taken aback "Its to be a pokemon breeder though, keep pokemon happy take care of their young and help them recover if their injured"
"So Ash wheres your next Gym Battle?"
Ash showed him the map, which was real and not an illusion, and pointed to Cerulean on it
"Cerulean eh? Great place" Brock nodded his thoughts more directed at the ladies
Misty seemed to twitch at the mention of Cerulean "you don't need to go there now Ash we could go to... Vermilion for a gym battle?"
"She doesn't want to go" commented Ash
"Even Pikachu could figure that out it was kinda obvious" the mouse in question was currently distracted by some Pecha berries he had found "I wish to retract my previous statement"
Ash was about to point out no matter what they had to atleast go through Cerulean when a scream echoed through the forest, Ash immediately took off followed closely by Brock and Misty
Ash arrived on the scene first Brock right behind him to find a man being attacked by a swarm of Zubat "welcome to Mt Moon" sighed Pikachu getting into a battle stance, Brock sent out Geodude to help resulting in a very short battle of one thunderbolt and a rock tomb, Brock however managed to catch one of the Zubat
The man stood up and brushed dirt off himself revealing a man in a lab coat with glasses "aha thank you friendly friends I am Seymour a scientist of this here great mountain!" Misty arrived on the scene then "please friends would you please help me inside this great mountain someone is destroying the ecosystems of all the pokemon would you help me"
Brock nodded "I dig here for fossils I don't want it destroyed lets go" with that he walked in leaving Ash and Misty to follow the two looked at each other and followed Brock in
As the two caught up to Brock they overheated the conversation he was having with Seymour "and that's why the lights will destroy the ecosystem"
Brock nodded "but why would someone set up lights"
Seymour's face took on a grave expression "I believe they are after the moon stone not just a moon stone used by most trainers but the original one itself that fell from space"
"But who could it be?" Asked Misty
Seymour shock his head "I have no clue"
The group stopped at a crossroads one way lit the other two not "what way do we go?" Asked Brock
Seymour was about to say a way when a Clefairy holding a miniature moon stone like the ones used for common evolution walked through the crossroad going from one dark side to another, Seymour looked exited "we follow them! But please do not catch them" Ash nodded he wasn't going to catch without consent
The group followed behind the Clefairy who was chanting "Moon stone" with every step, Ash and the other pokemon being the only ones who understand sighed "one track mind you think?"
The Clefairy stopped chanting and instead started up a conversation "nope its just customary to chant for the Moon Stone!"
Ash looked taken aback and the other pokemon were just confused "you knew we were here?"
"Yup!"
Ash would've shaken his head if not for looking insane to the people behind him "and you didn't try to not be followed?"
"No since you are not the mean people!" She smiled continuing to walk along
Pidgeotto cawed "then where are we going?"
"To where the mean people are, which is here" she stopped and ran behind Ash's leg as three figures dropped from the ceiling one with red hair and female, one with blue hair and male, and a meowth
"Prepare for trouble!"
"And make it double"
"To protect the world from devastation!"
"To unite all people's within our nation!"
"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"
"To extend our reach to the stars above!"
"Jessie!"
"James!"
"Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now or prepare to fight!"
"Meowth dats right!" The group just stared in shock at the entrance which was over the top to say the least
The blue haired one, James pointed dramatically at the Clefairy "now lead us to the moon stone! Or else!"
Clefairy inched behind Ash some more "please help"
Ash nodded "Butterfree your up" Butterfree flew off of Ash's shoulder and landed on a stone jutting out of the wall
Brock wasted no time and grabbed a pokeball from his belt sending it out "GO ONIX" the white light from the pokeball condensed into the large rock snake Ash had battled before
Jessie laughed "you call those pokemon! Our team can best them let's go James!" And with that she sent out a pokemon which appeared as a purple snake "Ekans shall destroy you!"
James nodded "Go Koffing!"
Ash didn't even wait for the match to officially start these people were destroying Mt Moon they had to be stopped "Butterfree sleep powder spread it to hit both of them" Ash covered his mouth as well, being a pokemon breathing it in would knock him out aswell, the spores spread over Ekans and Koffing before they had a chance to move, the passed out immediately
"Okay now Onix use Rock Tomb!" Onix roared as rocks appeared all around the poison types before one spiked them straight up and into Jessie and James
"Alright Butterfree now use psychic and send them flying" Butterfree's eyes began to glow as team rocket was surrounded in a blue light, unlike before where the psychic power was only visible to those immune and used to it it appeared being more powerful, Jessie and James along with Meowth. Koffing and Ekans were sent out the roof with a "TEAM ROCKETS BLASTING OFF FOR THE SECOND TIMEEE" and a twinkle in the sky
Seymour looked at Ash and Brock tears in his eyes "THANK YOU SO MUCH FRIENDS!" He ran over and hugged Brock in thanks and tried to for Ash who moved out the way
Clefairy was equally happy "thank you so much! Please let me show you the Moon Stone" with that she kept hopping, Ash signalled for them to follow and followed along
Roughly ten minutes later Ash and friends were standing before a rock taller than Ash radiating power enough that even some of the rocks around it were glowing, they stood there in awe as Clefairy climbed to the top and placed the moon stone on the top, a beam of light struck straight up as Clefairy gathered in the clearing and started doing a ritualistic dance as white light engulfed some of them, the one Ash had saved not included after the light died 10 Celfable were in the clearing
The Clefairy with Ash climbed down sadly from the Moon Stone "I didn't evolve this year again" she sighed sat down as the 10 Clefable climbed to the top in her place
Ash sat down next to her and watched "how come you didn't" as Clefairy was about to respond the Meowth Balloon appeared over the horizon "Pikachu blast them off straight away" and with a bolt of lighting team Rocket was sent off a third time
"I didn't evolve since I'm not strong enough yet, only the strong evolve and I never have time to be strong"
Ash nodded "would you like to come with me, me and my friends are going all around Kanto in a attempt to beat the gyms, if you want you can come with me then I will release you after the league so you can return to Mt Moon?"
Clefairy looked up "I WOULD LOVE TO!"
Ash nodded and set a pokeball on the ground "touch it when your ready then" Clefairy happily nodded and touched the pokeball, Ash immediately sent her out "welcome to the team!"
Seymour's face went through a range of emotions anger seeing Ash take out the pokeball, confusion as he put it on the ground, and finally one of understanding as Clefairy caught herself "Well Ash I don't know what you did but Clefairy wants to come with you and I'm not one to stop them, I'm going to stay here at Mt Moon thank you for helping me"
Ash and friends said their goodbyes and continued on the road to Cerulean
A day of travelling later Ash and friends had arrived in Cerulean a town despite all its water type association was as far as you could get from the ocean in Kanto, Misty sighed "I've got to do some things I'll meet up with you later" Ash and Brock were confused and watched as Misty walked away
Brock sighed "We should head to the gym she doesn't want to be here and despite the ladies I don't want a friend in distress" Ash nodded and continued on his way to the gym
Clefairy who was following behind Ash looked confused "Whats a gym you mentioned it yesterday but I don't really know what it is"
Pidgeotto cawed what sounded like laughter "And you accepted Ash's offer anyway?" Clefairy nodded "Oh well, a Gym is a place run by a Gym leader strong trainers who we fight to get a badge so we can go to the league and win"
Clefairy looked happy "So we get stronger" Ash nodded "Can I fight in the Gym then" Ash nodded again "Thank you so much!"
Ash looked deep in thought "I guess it will be you and Pidgeotto since she didn't battle in the last gym either, So if its a water gym they will probably have a pool for their water types to have an advantage, Clefairy can you swim?" she shook her head "Okay so we're going to need a way to get them out of the water how?"
Clefairy smiled "I picked up Shock wave from some of the Clefable!"
"Good good and Pidgeotto can fly above the water" Ash seekers happy with the strategy as they arrived in the gym
"I'll go get a seat Ash" Brock walked off the find the aforementioned seat
Ash was nervous two badges in three days would be hard Clefairy had only got basic training and the 'initiation' of sorts seeing Ash as a Zorua but if he could pull this off then he would be a quarter down of Kanto in one month "lets go then"
Ash walked into the gym which was arranged in a swimming pool style small log rafts making paths across the water to the gym leader, where three women sat each with different hair "if your here for a gym battle just take the badge and get out" the blue haired one said, Ash raised an eyebrow "we got beat three times in a row just take it" she grabbed a badge from the table between the three of them and thrust it at Ash
"NO YOU DONT" a voice sounded across the arena from the sidelines, one Ash knew, Misty was standing at the side of the pool and dove in swimming to where Ash was "As one of the gym leaders Ash Ketchum I accept your challenge!"
The women laughed "Back from your 'Water Pokemon Master' journey are we?"
"No but you idiots can't run a gym so I'm doing it for this fight, Ash with me" with that she crossed the wooden walkways to an arena, Ash followed suit as the referee got prepared
"This shall be a two on two battle between the gym leader and the challenger only the challengers may switch out Leader send out your first pokemon" Misty nodded and threw a pokeball which revealed a Staryu "PREPARED FOR BATTLE"
"Alright Clefairy your up" Clefairy bounded up to her side of the field
"BEGIN" the ref shouted
"Alright Staryu dive into the water"
Ash held back a smile this was exactly what he expected, Staryu dived into the water and started swimming at a rapid pace "Alright Shockwave the water now, don't spread your energy direct all of it into one area it will spread naturally!" Clefairy did just that sending electricity throughout the water forcing Staryu onto land "now double slap!" Clefairy jumped towards Staryu and slapped it 3 times
"Staryu watergun into swift force Clefairy into the water" Ash grimaced that was not what he expected, Clefairy fell backwards into the water from the blast of water and was forced under by the stars, a few seconds later she appeared above water flailing
"Clefairy you need to get out the water immediately!" Clefairy signalled okay and managed to climb onto land "now before you get hit minimize and go for another double slap" Clefairy did just that before jumping and slapping Staryu 4 times knocking it out "great job take a rest Pidgeotto your up" Clefairy ran back to Ash as Pidgeotto took off from his perch on his head
"Go Starmie" Misty threw her next pokeball revealing the Starmie "prepared for battle!"
The referee held up his flags "Staryu is unable to battle the challenger wins round one, round two is Starmie vs Pidgeotto BEGIN"
"Okay Pidgeotto let's finish this quickly! Use quick attack to get in close and throw Starmie into a wall" Pidgeotto sped forward before Misty could even begin a command grabbing Starmie doing a flip and throwing it into a wall "now Wing attack!" Pidgeotto dived towards the falling Starmie and before it could even hit the water collided with it wing glowing
When the attack finished Starmie was face up in the pool unmoving
"STARMIE IS UNABLE TO BATTLE, THE WINNER IS PIDGEOTTO AND THE CHALLENGER"
MEANWHILE IN THE HALL OF ORIGIN
the legends were gathered around Arceus having called for another meeting, all of them whilst waiting watching the battle
As it finished Tornadus laughed "I KNEW IT, YOU OWE ME 10 SITRUS BERRIES THUNDERUS!"
Thunderus winced "you don't need to shout"
"YES I DO SHOUTING IS FOR GLORY OF WHICH I HAVE"
Before an argument could break out the god arrived "hi again, so your probably wondering why I've called this meeting since Mewtwo is still being recreated, I will cut to the chase I would like to instate a new rule for the challenges so that if one of you wishes to test one of our chosens traveling companions you may go with them aswell"
Before Groudon could ruin the table again Genesect asked a question "um Arceus why would we go with them rather than the chosen, nothing against humans but why them over your chosen?"
Groudon nodded his head "the bug speaks the the truth what's so special about these 'companions'!"
Arceus did the best shrug he could "well I have chosen the companions, whilst not as powerful or special as Ash they all have something unique, and hey I never said you needed to"
MEANWHILE BACK WITH ASH AND CO
Ash and Misty had regrouped back at the side of the pool "Congratulations Ash you beat me amazingly as Cerulean Gym Leader I award you with the Cascade Badge" Misty grabbed the badge from the table in the shape of a water droplet and gave it to Ash "now let's get back on the road I'm done with my sister's" Ash nodded and gestured to Brock in the stands to come down, the group met up said their goodbyes to Misty's sister's and set off for their next town
WOOP WOOP ANOTHER CHAPTER DOWN I got this done a lot quicker then my break between my other story's chapters and I'm happy about that! Yes Arceus has chosen Ash's companions and they all will have something special, but that comes later for now thanks for reading I'm gonna go sleep for a week BYE
