A/N Anything you recognise I don't own, the four main characters I do.

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"Talking" Person or Pokemon speaking.

"Talking" Pokedex or other machine speaking


Chapter 1: A Journey Begins

It was early morning and Pallet Town was being awoken by the loud call of a three-headed Dodrio owned by the local Pokémon researcher and expert Professor Samuel Oak. However around the town in four separate rooms in four separate houses four 15 year olds were already wide awake and doing final checks on their packs as today was April first and it was the day the four were starting their Pokémon journey and would be receiving their first Pokémon from Professor Oak.

The first was Arthur Stevens an average size boy with short, brown hair and blue eyes, second was Peter Andrews a boy of similar size as Arthur but with black hair and brown eyes and a darker complexion, third was Diana Knight, she was slightly smaller than the two boys with shoulder length, brown hair and hazel eyes. The last was Brett Risson, the tallest of the group at above average height with dark blonde hair that was grown long and piercing blue eyes.

The four had all been friends since they started school and were closer to siblings than friends. Despite being the youngest Brett was the undisputed leader of the group of friends and the others looked to him when dealing with situations. The group had previously been five members strong but their fifth member Mitchell Davies had turned 15 the previous year and thus set out one year ago today to begin his Pokémon journey. All four teens were looking forward to catching up to him and having a battle.


"Ready to go," Brett said as he closed his backpack before having one last look around his room wondering how long it would be before he saw it again.

Picking up his bag Brett headed downstairs to find his mother finishing laying breakfast onto the table.

"Morning honey, eat up can't start a journey on an empty stomach," his mother said as she sat down and began to eat her own breakfast. "Oh dear your father sends his apologies but an urgent matter came up and he can't make it to see you off."

"That's alright I always knew there was a chance he wouldn't be able to make it," Brett replied as he ate.

Brett's father was Morty the Ecruteak City Gym leader in the neighbouring Johto region and a Ghost type expert and alternated his time between his responsibilities to the Gym and his family. Brett knew if something had come up it had to be important, as the leader of Ecruteak's gym he was also the first line of defence should the city be attacked just like all other Gym leaders.

"So are the four of you going to travel together once you've seen Oak?" Brett's mother asked.

"No we're going to make our way to Pewter City separately and meet up there. Once we've met up we'll decide whether to continue together or not," Brett replied.

When they finished eating Brett looked up at the time and stood up and picked up his bag. "I'd better go," he said. "We're supposed to meet at the lab in 30."

"Alright Brett, good luck and take care. I know you'll be a great and powerful trainer," his mother said as she hugged him goodbye.

"Thanks mum," Brett replied before kneeling down to the Eevee that had just run up to him. "Now you be good buddy, I'll call the Prof and get him to send you over to me when I think the rest of my team are a match for you okay?"

The Eevee replied with a bark and licked Brett's face. This Eevee was Brett's pet and true first Pokémon having been found injured as a very young pup by a five year old Brett and nursed back to full health by him. When the time came for Eevee to return to the wild he had refused and remained at Brett's side. Seeing the Evolution Pokémon's determination to stay with his son and having been expecting it since meeting the little Pokémon Morty simply placed a Pokeball down on the ground in front of Eevee allowing the Pokémon to touch the button on the front and capture itself before handing the Pokeball to his son and telling him to be careful and look after it. Eevee and Brett had rarely been apart since that day and the two had spent a lot of time deciding how to handle the start of Brett's journey until they came to a decision.

With a final goodbye to his mother and faithful companion Brett shouldered his backpack and walked out the door heading up the road to Professor Oaks Lab.


As Brett approached Oaks Lab 20 minutes later he saw three people that could only be his friends waiting for him at the gates.

"Hey guys," Brett greeted his friends. "Ready to do this."

"Oh yeah, I've been wanting to do this since Mitch left last year," Pete replied.

"Let's go inside so we can start this," Diana added.

Together the four soon to be trainers walked up the hillside drive to the lab greeting any of the Pokémon they passed on the way. The entire group had visited the lab on numerous occasions and many of the Pokémon that lived at the lab got on well with the teens, some more so than their own trainers.

"I figured you four would be here soon," a voice said.

The four looked up and saw Professor Oak standing in the doorway of his lab a happy smile on his face.

"Come on in and we'll get you on your way. I'm sure all of you are chomping at the bit to get out there and start catching Pokémon," the Professor continued.

"Got that right Professor," Arthur replied with a laugh. "Though I feel sorry for anyone Brett comes up against. I think you're the only one in the whole town that knows more about Pokémon than Brett."

"Too true Arthur too true," Oak replied with a laugh.

"Oh shut up," Brett replied good-naturedly.

The five entered the lab and headed towards the main office. In the middle of the room was a round podium on top of which sat four red and white Pokeballs.

"Within these four Pokeballs wait your starting Pokémon," Oak explained as they walked in. "As always when I have four trainers starting along with the three standard starters; Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle, I have one of my secondary starter Pokémon ready, in this case a Pikachu."

The four teens each took a place around the podium. Now that they were closer they could see each of the Pokeballs had a small symbol on the top half to indicate the Pokémon inside; a leaf, a flame, a water drop and a lightning bolt respectively. Arthur, Peter and Diana all turned to Brett silently telling him to go ahead and choose his Pokémon.

"No contest for me, my choice was made years ago," Brett said with determination reaching for a Pokeball. "I choose Charmander."

Diana went next choosing Bulbasaur as her starter followed by Arthur choosing Squirtle and Peter choosing Pikachu.

"These are your extra Pokeballs and your Kanto Pokedexes," Professor Oak said holding out a tray with twenty shrunken Pokeballs and five Pokedexes. "These Pokedexes only contain data on Pokémon found in the Kanto region. Good luck all of you on your journey and I know all of you will be great trainers."

When the four teens reached the gate of the lab they each shook hands and wished each other good luck before going their separate ways to make their own way to Pewter City to the far north of Pallet town.


As Brett walked down route 1 between Pallet town and Viridian City he stopped to sit down beside a large tree. He then took a Pokeball off his belt and pressed the button on the front twice, enlarging the Pokeball and releasing the Pokémon within.

"Char Char Charmader," the small red lizard greeted its new trainer the flame on the end of its tail burning strong.

"It's nice to meet you too Charmander. I think I'll call you Flame is that alright?" Brett asked.

"Charman," Charmander replied with a nod of its head.

"Cool now let's see what the Pokedex has to say about you," Brett said pulling his Pokedex out of his pocket.

"Charmander the Lizard Pokémon, a fire type Pokémon with the ability Blaze. The flame on this Pokémon's tail indicates its life force. When it dies the flame goes out. The Blaze ability raises the strength of Fire type moves when the Pokemon is low on health."

"Nice and let's see you know Scratch and Growl attacks," Brett said reading the rest of the listed data before turning to his new friend. "Ready to work hard and become the strongest there is?"

Charmander gave a determined nod and an affirmative response and Brett stood up and side by side the two set off towards Viridian city.