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WORDS AND SHIT!

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Ash alongside his new partner Pikachu were walking towards Oldale town, which was the nearest town with a Pokémon center. Before he had left Pallet town his mother had drilled the importance of taking care of his Pokémon, so he figured he would bring Pikachu and Feebas to the Pokémon center to see if they were okay.

Along the way he saw a lot of different Pokémon, but none of them really caught his eye. Ash had decided that he wouldn't just catch Pokémon left and right, he knew that a lot of Pokémon trainers caught a large variety of Pokémon and then trained a select few. 'Quality over quantity, if I train 10 Pokémon with the same effort as a person with 50 mine receives five times more training. Not to mention I won't have to think about a lot of different training methods.'

One of the things Ash had talked with Brendan about was the different species of Pokémon in the Hoenn region, since Brendan's father was a top-class researcher he knew a lot about Pokémon.

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"A really good advice I got from an experienced trainer a while back was that it is important to catch different types of Pokémon." Said Brendan

"That makes sense, I've met a lot of people only training one specific type back in Pallet only a select few of those seem to hit it big time." Said Ash

"Yeah most of those people take the easy way out, instead of putting in the effort of learning how to train more than one type. They stick to the same type."

"But at one point it'll bite them in the ass won't it? What if a person specializing in ground types has to face a flying type?"

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He had talked a lot with Brendan and gotten a lot of tips, he had also made a small check list for himself as he decided that there were some types of Pokémon he had to have.

□- Grass type

□- Fire type

□- Dark type

□-Dragon type (Soooo cool!)

□-Ghost or Psychic type

□-Steel type

While Ash was sure he would catch Pokémon beside his checklist and probably even more of the same type he really wanted to fill these spots on his team.

'I already have Feebas to cover water and now I need a Grass and a Fire type to complete the Basic triangle. Dark types are great as the have immunity over psychic types which are one of the more powerful types. And after talking so much about dragon with Brendan I really want one myself.'

"Pika?" (Something wrong?)

"Oh no, not at all Pikachu I was just thinking about the Pokémon I wanted to add to our team." Said Ash not wanting to think more about it.

After half an hour they finally made it to Oldale town, Ash went into the Pokémon center to see if his Pokémon were healthy he gave his two Pokéballs to the nurse and walked over to the video phones to call his mother. Who picked up the call after a few seconds.

"Hello this is Delia Ketchum with whom am I speaking?"

"Hi mom it's me Ash, I'm calling from Oldale town."

"Oh hi sweetie, I hope your boat trip went well."

"Yeah it did, I even already caught my first Pokémon."

"Oh really, that's wonderful honey what kind of Pokémon did you catch?"

"I caught a Feebas." Ash heard a couple of snickers in the background as he found out people could hear him being proud of catching a Feebas

"Wow sweetie that's great, One day Feebas will evolve into a strong Milotic."

Ash talked with his mother for a more minutes before saying goodbye, he immediately picked up his Pokédex and tried to find information on Milotic.

He was really surprised when he saw how majestic Feebas's evolution was, not only that Milotic's Special attack stats were really high. 'Huh who knew little Feebas would evolve into something that strong.'

"Pika." (I know.)

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Later that evening after he had gotten some dinner Ash decided to keep on traveling through the night, It was mostly due to him having too much energy saved up. Unlike him Pikachu was sleeping, inside his backpack with as unzipping it so he could get air.

After a while he found a small lake and decided he should get in some training with Feebas, and therefor called her out.

"Now Feebas I want to check which moves you have alright so sit still okay?" asked Ash taking out his Pokédex

A unique feature to the Pokédex was that it could scan a Pokémon to see what move's it knew. All you had to do is place the scanner in front of said Pokémon's eyes and press a button and voila you knew the attacks.

This Feebas is female with the Ability s Swift swim. This Feebas knows the following moves

Splash

Tackle

Dragon Pulse

Ash was left staring at the Pokédex for what felt like hours, 'How the hell does Feebas know one of the most powerful dragon type moves?'

After a few minutes researching the move using his Pokédex, he found out that Dragon pulse was something known as an Egg move. Egg moves were Pokémon attacks that could be passed down from the father of the Pokémon. It seems that Feebas's mother had bred with a Dragon type and that's why it knew Dragon pulse.

"Well I'll be damned, how lucky am I." said Ash as he petted the small fish Pokémon.

Late into the night Ash was perfecting Dragon pulse with Feebas, in the end Feebas was able to increase its aim with it very much. But Ash decided that before it was perfect he wouldn't use it since it was an unnecessary risk and it took a lot of energy from Feebas to fire just one. Another positive thing that came out of the training session was that due to Feebas firing Dragon pulse over and over again its stamina had increased a lot.

'I should reach Petalburg in about an hour if I continue to walk in this pace. I'd like to challenge the Gym, but Brendan told me all about the different Gym's and Norman Maple is considered a normal type master. So I should return here once I've trained my Pokémon some more. Maybe when I have half of the necessary eight badges.'

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The next day Ash was walking towards Petalburg woods, he had spent a couple of hours restocking at the mart and even saw Brendan who had been roped into helping a new trainer to catch his first Pokémon. He knew that he didn't really have anything to do at Petalburg so he decided to continue towards Rustboro City. 'Rustboro Gym is a rock type gym. Feebas still doesn't know any water type moves and Pikachu still can't use Iron tail good enough for battle purposes. I can either train Pikachu and Feebas here in the woods or try and catch a grass type.' Thought Ash as he slowly walked into the small forest.

He looked around and he saw plenty of Shroomish hiding around, a couple of Oddish and even some Bellsprout, either three of these species of Pokémon would be great. However his gut told him to just keep walking.

'What is this feeling?' Ash thought as he felt like he was being watched as if he was prey.

Ash started to walk faster when he heard some noises of fighting and a cry of "Treecko!"

Ash ran towards the sound and when he peeked through some trees he saw several small lizard like green Pokémon assaulting one of their own in the middle. Ash listening to his gut feelings sprang out from the bushes and the Pokémon scattered, Ash approached the assaulted one and picked it up.

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A couple of hours later the Treecko had woken up, it tried to get up but found itself unable too.

"Hey little guy, don't try and move too much. Your injuries aren't that serious but they'll get worse if you don't let them heal." Said Ash surprising Treecko

"Treecko?" (Who are you?)

Pikachu quickly translated and Ash turned towards the Treecko, "My name is Ash and I'm from Pallet Town, while I was traveling through Petalburg woods I saw your fight with the other Treecko. After the battle I healed you up, if you don't mind could you tell me what all that was about?"

Apparently there used to be two tribes of Treecko in Petalburg woods, but there had been an accident and lot of Treecko's tribe mates had sadly passed away, because of that the other Treecko tribe had slowly taken over their territory and all but him had joined their tribe.

'So Treecko's tribe was almost destroyed due to an accident and then another tribe of Treecko wanted to take over their territory.'

Treecko continued his story telling Ash about how Treecko's tribe had a long history and several tradition and tribe secrets, and all the young Treecko's just spat on all those tradition and their history and joined the rival tribe because they were too afraid to fight.

Ash found out that Treecko's tribe was more of a warrior tribe rather than the forest dweller tribe that the other tribe was off. His tribe had trained in the forest and developed a method to use Treecko's special ability to stick on surfaces to improve their fighting.

"Well how about this Treecko, my Pokémon could use a sparring partner how about we help each other?"

And thus long into the night Ash, Pikachu, Feebas and Treecko were working hard. Treecko had told Ash of his plans to challenge the rival tribe and he wanted Ash to come with him.

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The next day Treecko led Ash to a HUGE tree where it the used Screech to call out the other tribe.

About a dozen of Treecko immediately leaped down from the tree and in front of Treecko.

The Treecko's all used Quick attack but the Treecko Ash helped leaped onto some trees and stood upside down while dodging the Quick attacks also smacking some of them with his tail.

When one of the other Treecko's tried to use a Absorb attack Treecko quickly used Quick attack and Brick break to knock it out.

Ash marveled at the battle that seemed to last for hours, the forest dweller tribe kept getting more demoralized as they saw their fighters get manhandled by this Treecko, in fact if they had fought at 100% they could easily have overpowered Treecko. The first few Treecko who attacked were the same ones that had ambushed Treecko from earlier and there for were far too cocky and easily dealt with. The rest of the Treecko lost faith in themselves after they saw that and practically gave up on the fight before they had started.

Ash was actually baffled at the scene he was seeing, from what he understood(Via Pikachu translating) the Treecko formerly from Treecko's tribe was apologizing to Treecko but Treecko had said that the tribe was dead and that he would travel the world with the human right here.

'Okay, so far Feebas caught herself and now Treecko decides he will travel with me. Will I ever get the chance of actually catching a Pokémon regularly?' thought Ash, but he wasn't really angry. Treecko was amazing and he knew he would only get stronger as he evolved.

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Ash had decided that he had had enough of this forest and asked Treecko to lead him towards the exit for Rustboro. On his way he saw a man with brown hair wearing a suit crawling on his hands and knees seemingly looking for something.

"Excuse me but do you need any help?" asked Ash

"Oh hello there I didn't see you at first. I'm looking for the Pokémon Shroomish I really like it and I want to catch one for myself. Have you seen one?" asked the man looking at Ash hopefully

But before Ash had a chance to answer him a young man wearing some type of sailor out fit with a blue bandana came out and glared at the two.

"I was supposed to ambush you and steal the 'Devon Goods' from you but all you've been doing is crawl around like a dog I've had it. I'll just knock you out and take them by force." Said the irate young man pointing at the guy in the suit.

"The 'Devon Goods'? they're back at the office." Now Ash while not the sharpest knife in the drawer knew that when a bad guy was looking for something. You don't tell him where it is.

"AAAAARRRGH!" yelled the young man as he released his Pokémon one Poochyena and one Zubat

"Attack him!"

"Quick Treecko, Pikachu both of you intercept them with Quick attack!" commanded Ash and both of his Pokémon rushed towards Zubat and Poochyena. Ash then called out Feebas in case the bad guy had another Pokémon, Dragon pulse was coming along nicely but still not effective enough. For now there was a one out of six chance of the move flying where Feebas wants it to.

'Lets see Treecko knows Quick attack pound Brick break and Bullet seed, if I have him focus on Poochyena with brick break then I can take out Zubat with Pikachu since Zubat is a flying type.'

"Pikachu use thunder shock on Zubat, Treecko use Quick attack to get close and then use Brick break!" Ash had recalled one of the older Treecko from the other tribe had used a speed move to get close to Treecko before smacking him with his tail, so why shouldn't this work.

Both Zubat and Poochyena took the super effective attacks but neither got knocked out.

"Zubat use Air cutter on Treecko Poochyena you use Bite on Treecko!"

"Treecko try to dodge, Pikachu use thunder wave!"

Treecko managed to dodge the bite attack but got nailed by the air cutter taking a lot of damage, luckily Pikachu's thunder wave attack paralyzed both Zubat and Poochyena.

"This won't be the last you see of me, now I have some goods to steal." Said the bad guy as he recalled his Pokémon and ran off.

Ash let out the breath he didn't realize he was holding as he was half listening to the suited guy's thanks, before he snapped up and yelled in panic saying goodbye and running off.

"There sure are some weird people in this world huh guys?" asked Ash and all three of his Pokémon nodded their heads before they continued their journey towards Rustboro

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Later that day Ash had finally made it to Rustboro City and went directly to the Pokémon center so that he could get Treecko and Pikachu healed up. Both of them did get minor damage from the battle with the sailor guy and he had battled a lot of forest Pokémon after that.

'I can't challenge the Gym yet, Treecko's bullet seed isn't really that strong since he rarely used it and Iron tail is still not functional for battle yet. Feebas only knows Tackle and Dragon pulse, which aim is still horrible.

"NOO STOP DONT TAKE THE GOODS!" came the yell from a voice he recognized.

The same crook he saw in the forest came running holding a pack and was chased by the suited guy from before.

Figuring that he should help he ran after him and about one minute later he caught up with the suited guy.

"Oh you're that wonderful trainer from before, please that team Aqua member stole some very important parts. I can't get them back myself. Please could you get them for me?"

"Uhm sure why not."

And thus Ash chased after the team aqua member, 'at least I know what I should call him.' Thought Ash as he asked a hiker if he had seen him.

"Yeah I saw the guy you talking about, he ran into Rustturf tunnel, the tunnel hasn't been dug completely through yet though so you can probably easily catch up."

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About five minutes later Ash was confronting the team Aqua member, the battle was short and was almost identical to the battle in the woods. And because of that five minutes later Ash walked up to the guy in the suit and gave back the package that had been stolen.

"Oh thank you so much."

"No problem the guy wasn't really that thought he stole a Wingull from an old man but it couldn't fight so it was basically the same as in the woods."

"I insist that you let us somehow repay you."

The guy in the suit had dragged Ash all the way to the Devon corporation headquarters building and took him to the CEO. As a thanks the CEO wanted to gift Ash a Pokénav, but since Ash already had one he decided that a Tm collection would be a better gift for a trainer anyways.

Ash had remembered when Professor Oak had told him about Tm's

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Professor Oak was sitting in his office playing around with some small CD's when Ash came for a visit, he got curious as to what the old man was doing so he approached him.

"Hey Professor Oak what'ya doing?"

"Oh hello Ash I'm just checking these Tm's."

"What are Tm's?"

"Tm's or Technical machines are small guides as to how to teach you're Pokémon special moves. You see while the Pokédex does have information on moves, if we included information as to how people should train and how they teach moves trainers wouldn't grow from it."

"But then why do these exist?"

"Ah you see Ash Pokémon trainers can purchase these."

"Really?"

"Yeah a lot of the funding the Pokémon association gets is from the stuff they sell. They have a lot of things like…." The Professor trailed off but Ash wasn't listening anymore. He was thinking about the Tm's

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"I wonder what kinds of attacks there are in these." Said Ash as he looked through the set that he got. In the set there was 5 Tm's

"Let's see if I scan them I can see what they are, Energy Ball, Flash Cannon, Steel wing, Earthquake and Focus Blast."

'All of these will actually be helpful for my battle with Roxanne, but the only one I can use is Energy ball for Treecko.'

Ash decided to use the one for Energy ball on Treecko right now and save the rest for another time.
later into the night Ash was training hard with Pikachu and Treecko, since he decided he would have his match tomorrow.

Years later Ash would realize every time he wanted a Gym match something would always get in the way.

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Ash was looking for the gym to no avail when he spotted a woman leading a group of kids instructing them on how to deal with Pokémon, if she was a teacher surely she could tell him where the Gym was.

"Excuse me miss, I'm Ash Ketchum from Pallet town and I am trying to find the Rustboro Gym, but I'm having a little trouble with finding it."

"Well you're in luck young man, my name is Roxanne and I am the Gym leader. However as you see I'm currently busy with my class, hey in fact would you mind if you showed your Pokémon to my students?"

"Sure no problem." Said Ash despite the fact that his Gym battle was postponed again.

"Thanks, my students have a lot of experience in interacting with the Pokémon we have here, but not really with other Pokémon."

"Oh well, come out Feebas and Treecko!" said Ash as he released Treecko and Feebas, where the latter leaped in the hair flailing her tail.

"Oh wow you have a Feebas." Said Roxanne looking at the small water type.

"Yeah she is the best." Said Ash as he petted her.

The next few hours went by with Roxanne's students playing with Ash's three Pokémon, at first Ash was a little nervous because he thought that the kids maybe would be like the kids that hurt Feebas. But the playful water type really got along well with the children.

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"Thank you for letting my students play with your Pokémon Ash they mostly only meet the same Pokémon." Said Roxanne as she came from behind Ash.

"No problem, Treecko was a little miffed about being played with but he is kind of a hard ass. Pikachu and especially Feebas however enjoyed it very much." Said Ash shrugging it off.

"Uhm miss Roxanne." Said one of the girls in her class.

"Yes Milly?" asked Roxanne

"Me and Nina wanted to ask if we could see you're Pokémon battle tomorrow with Ash?"

Apparently the rest of the class heard that and they all came to ask if they could see the match.

"Okay okay, you can come see the match of course if you have no problem with that Ash?"

Ash figured that he could battle even with the added distraction and said that they were welcome to see him win his first badge, the little cocky remark came out of nowhere and Ash kind of wished he hadn't said it when he saw the glint in Roxanne's eyes.

"Well then Ash, I hope you'll be prepared for tomorrow." Roxanne said before leading her class back into the school and as soon as they were out of sight Ash ran towards a clearing he saw earlier.

'Me and my big mouth, Pikachu can't use Iron tail in a fight yet because it takes too long to charge, Feebas's aim with Dragon pulse is way off and Treecko isn't able to put much power in his Bullet seed and I don't have the time to teach him Energy ball, oh well last minute training it is.' Thought/Panicked Ash as he hoped he could get his team ready for tomorrow. Roxanne said that the Rustboro Gym used a three on three elimination match setting for their gym battles and Ash was determined to correct all the flaws during the night.

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And Ash has his first run in with Team Aqua, I don't really know how to describe their clothing well so I just went with that description.

Ash got over excited and taunted Roxanne.

Also I decided that Ash will catch a Absol, due to the fact that a lot of you wanted to see him catch one.

Ash also caught a Treecko, I'm still holding unto the idea of Jason being Ash's replacement and there for will catch Cannon Treecko. I wanted to give Ash a hardass Pokémon so I made up a civil war thing in Petalburg Woods between a warrior tribe (A tribe that purposely finds opponents for the sake of fighting others.) and a forest dweller tribe (A territorial tribe that only fights when it's about territory.)

So review and all that shit.

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