Hey guys, I'm back with the second chapter. I'm going to work on this one until I get it up to at least 20k words then I'll go back to my normal stuff. That way, this story can catch up and not be so short that nobody reads it. Sorry for those who read my other stories. Anyway, we have our two pokemon. I have already told those who have reviewed who they were if they had one of them that I liked. Sorry, for all of those who wanted riolu, I have a plan for him to come in later in the story.If it seems like it is unrealistic, then sorry. It's fanfiction though and I can do what I want. Plus, I'll give reasons later in the story. Remember, there is a reason for everything in this story. Have fun!
Ash and the Viridian City Nurse Joy looked at the two pokemon in bewilderment. Out of the two eggs came a gible and ralts.
"Uh Nurse Joy… aren't these pokemon from two different regions?" Ash asked.
"Uh yeah, they are Ash. Doesn't matter now though. The ralts is female and the gible is male. So… congratulations, you should pick up some food for them. They will drink pokemon milk for about three weeks then they should be good to go and eat small portions of solid food. Oh, and when you do end up getting food, get specialized food since dragon types are rather rare. Also, gible will need a supply of warmth in the morning so that it can move around easily. This should be gone in around a month though."
"Well thanks Joy. Would you mind checking on my pokemon though? I traveled a bit to get here and I want to make sure that they don't have any issues do to the travel. Especially the egg pokemon. Pikachu should be alright though," Ash said happily. Nurse Joy nodded and a chansey appeared next to her with a tray for the pokeballs. It was at that moment that Ash realized that the should probably catch them. They were awake, so he might as well ask them.
"Hey Ralts, Gible? I have a question for both of you," they both nodded, "I was wondering if you would like to come on my journey with me."
Ralts nodded happily but gible seemed to be on the fence. Gible stared at Ash for a little bit before nodding and cheering up.
"Alright!" Ash yelled and pulled out two pokeballs and both pokemon tapped them. They both shook for a moment before pinging signaling a successful capture. Gible's took slightly longer which mean that he didn't fully trust Ash yet or he was a bit scared, it either way, it didn't matter.
"Alright Joy, now-" Ash said before being cut off by a thick smog filled the room. Ash could lightly hear the sounds of something scraping of galls before a slicing noise stopped it. that meant that someone was trying to get in thought the roof. Ash unknowingly channeled a little bit of Aura into his body makings his eyes faintly glow blue.
The sound of bickering quickly pierced the air and Ash looked over to his side where it was coming from.
"Who are you?" Ash yelled out while quietly signaling for Pikachu to charge up a thunderbolt.
(Insert theme song I hate. So annoying and tedious to type)
"Team Rocket?" Ash asked.
"Yes twerp, now quiver in fear at the power of our pokemon and our organization!" a distinctly feminine voice called out.
"Actually," Ash said trailing off, "I've never heard of Team Rocket, and if this smog was created by one by your pokemon, it must be pretty weak. This thing is already dispersing in a closed room. Come one now," Ash retorted. Ash finally looked at his adversaries and was ultimately unimpressed. (You all know what they look like so I won't bother describing them.)
"Enough of this, Ekans, Koffing! Destroy the twerp!" Jessie yelled.
"Pikachu… I think we are all pretty bored, so will you do us a favor and thunderbolt these idiots into next week?" Ash asked. Pikachu looked pretty bored and lazily charged up a thunderbolt.
"Koffing, smog now," James said.
"Alright Pikachu," Ash said as the smog rolled in, "Just aim in the same spot. They were most likely to dumb to move anyway."
Pikachu finished charging up his thunderbolt and launched it. It hit its mark through the pathetic smog and sent them flying through the wall into the sky.
"We're blasting off!" came pained shouts.
"That was anticlimactic," Ash said. Pikachu nodded and hopped back onto his shoulder and looked at Ash. Pikachu noticed the slight blue glow to Ash's eyes and pointed at them.
"Pikachu, is something wrong with my eyes?" Ash asked and Pikachu nodded profusely which led him to ask Nurse Joy, "Nurse Joy. Is there something wrong with my eyes? Pikachu was pointing to them."
Nurse Joy adopted a look of shock, "Ash, your eyes are glowing blue."
"They are?" Ash said quickly before running to the nearest mirror. AS it turned out, his eyes were glowing. But from what? Ash had read all sorts of books and nothing had a thing about glowing blue eyes.
"I have no idea why this is Nurse Joy. Maybe it is because of a pokemon?" Ash said, "Well anyway, now that we are done with all of that, would it be too much trouble to heal my pokemon?"
"It's the least I can do for you since you fended off those… villains? Should I call them villains? They were too stupid to be villains. Oh well," Joy said before taking Ash's pokeballs and putting them on the tray. A few minutes later, Nurse Joy gave them back to Ash and asked if he needed a room, which he did. He handed her the money, but she refused to take it and insisted on it being free due to his actions earlier.
Ash walked into his room, put his stuff down, and walked back outside. Ash made a b-line for the video phone so he could tell the professor and his mom about what happened.
"Hey Ash!" Oak said, "So what have you called me about?"
"Nothing much, just a few questions and to talk about some stuff. I just got to Viridian City," Ash said before Joy popped up behind him and told Oak what happened," But yeah. I wanted to talk to you about two things. One, have you ever heard of a case of glowing blue eyes?"
"Can't say that I have m'boy. Can't say that I have. The only thing even relatively close to that is Aura. Thing is, most have been dead for centuries minus those in Sinnoh and Rota. Rota isn't technically in Kanto though, it is considered a completely different country. They are known to be the original Aura users and they still live there today. Anyway, what was your other question?" Oak explained thoughtfully.
"Well… I was wondering if you had happened to see my pokemon catch records yet," Ash said while whistling nonchalantly looking behind him as if the wall suddenly became very interesting.
"Can't say that I have looked. Gary has already caught three pokemon. An eevee and a scyther. He also has a magikarp. I'm not sure if he thinks it counts or not. (Those weren't the pokemon he had, but I couldn't remember what they were)"
"Well Professor, that is quite the catch," Ash said.
"Give me a sec, I'll check your right now," Oak said before typing something into the computer, "Alright… Let's see… Ash Ketchum… Says here you have a Pikachu, a-a-a."
Oak fell out of his chair in surprise upon reading his next two pokemon.
"Ash! You have a ralts and a gible?!" Oak practically yelled.
"Yeah. Got them both as an egg today and they hatched. Now they want to come on my journey with me. So, that means that they are part of my team now. That is what I wanted to ask you about. How could two eggs from two different regions be in the same place, which mind you, seemed to be devoid of pokemon. I don't understand why or how that could happen."
"I'll make a call to some of the other professors to see if anything has been happening in the other regions. The only answer I have is that they might have been poached but something went wrong," Oak said, "Well, it is getting late. I think you should call your mother now. Bye now."
Ash hung up the phone and dialed his mother. The call was picked up almost immediately. The conversation went by rather quickly as it was getting late, but Ash was still able to tell her everything. After hanging up, Ash went to his room, fed his pokemon, and went to sleep. They had a long day ahead of them. They wanted to make it to Pewter in a week. Traveling through Viridian Forest would get them there pretty fast.
The next morning, Ash woke up and did his normal routine. In an hour, he was on the road with Pikachu on his right shoulder, and his other two sitting in his coat. They were still quite small so it was the perfect fit, although Gible's skin was rather rough. Ralts seemed to be doing fine though.
"Alright guys, you ready to get into Viridian Forest and meet all sorts of pokemon and possibly new friends?" Ash asked excitedly. He was awarded by several jovial cries from all of his pokemon. Ash walked into Viridian Forest and immediately let his eyes adjust to the relative darkness. He looked around for a second and thought. He could probably catch a pidgy, pidgeotto, caterpie, maybe a beedrill (though most likely not a good idea), and a few other pokemon. Gary caught a scythe here though. Maybe he could too.
Ash took his surrounding in and heard something in a bush. It was faint, but still audible. It must have been something small, since it wasn't very loud. Ash crept over to the bush and stared at it before something in his gut told him to jump back. Ash did so in the nick of time, only to see a massive pidgeotto fly out of the bush. It was nearly twice the size of that of its species and already the size of a normal pidgeot, which were already quite large mind you. How could such a large pokemon make such little noise. Ash stared at the opposing pidgeotto wondering what it was doing. The pidgeotto in question looked at Ash and gestured one of its wings to Pikachu and cried out its name.
"So he wants a battle. Interesting. Alright, Pikachu, you know what to do!"
Pikachu leapt off of Ash's shoulder and immediately made his cheeks spark showing that he was ready. Pidgeotto flew forward quickly with his wings glowing a pale white.
"Pikachu dodge that wing attack and use try thunderbolt!" Ash yelled. Pikachu leapt out of the way and dodged the wing attack, and launched a thunderbolt at Pidgeotto. Pidgeotto dodge it by quickly diving down and hitting Pikachu with his wing attack. Pikachu flew back a bit before regaining his footing. Ash tried this combo a few more times, but seeing that since it wasn't working, decided to change it up.
"Pikachu quick attack and wait to jump until Pidgeotto is almost about to hit you," Ash said.
Pikachu did as he was told and waited until the pidgeotto was about to hit him and jumped. Pidgeotto flapped his wings and stopped himself with a gust and flew straight up after Pikachu with his beak glowing.
"Pikachu, twist your body and grab onto him!" Ash yelled.
Pikachu twisted and managed to hold on, but not before Pidgeotto scored a hit on his leg.
Ash seeing that thing were getting bad quickly decided to finish the battle, "Pikachu, thunderbolt now while on Pidgeotto!"
Pidgeotto hearing the command immediate dived and twisted his body and threw Pikachu off. Unfortunately, Pikachu was able to fire the thunderbolt and land a direct hit on his wing which sent him flying down. Ash seeing Pikachu hurtling towards the ground, dived and caught him. Ash looked up to see Pidgeotto still trying to keep himself in the air with his damaged wing plus any other damage that he had. Ash quickly pulled out a pokeball and looked at Pidgeotto. He seemed to nod at Ash before his wing gave out and he plummeted to the cold, hard floor.
Ash looked at around where he predicted that Pidgeotto would land and threw it as hard as he could. The pokeball flew straight and true, impacting Pidgeotto's head and catching it right before it hit the floor.
"Alright! Pikachu, we did it!" Ash shouted happily as he and his partner jumped up and down, "Now we have two pokemon to face the gym leader at Pewter City. Only issue is… you will both be at an enormous disadvantage. He is a rock type I think."
Pikachu looked slightly uncertain but in the end decided that it was fine. They would beat him anyway. They had to make a plan. The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. And Pikachu and Ash happened to be both sides of those. Pikachu was a mouse, and Ash was a man, therefore their plan was most certainly doomed. Ash was clearly thinking the same thing.
"Alright, we will just have to wing it," Ash said jovially, "Alter all, that is what we are best at. I don't know where our journey will end, but all we can do live it until then! Oh, I almost forgot. I need to introduce Pidgeotto to the rest of our family. Pidgeotto come one out!"
After the introductions were done, everyone had lunch. After that, they made their way to Pewter City, ending up there after most of the day. That left them to have a day to train, then a day to challenge the gym, and then leave the next day.
"Alright you guys. I'm going to go out for a bit of a walk, so I 'll leave you all in the care of Nurse Joy until I get back to make sure you are all healthy and well," Ash said before returning them all to their balls, minus Pikachu, and giving them to Nurse Joy. As soon as that was done, Ash went out and about the city. It wasn't a huge city, but there were a few things that interested him. He wanted to do some research on the moon stone and its effects on pokemon. Luckily, they would be able to do that on the way out of Pewter.
Ash looked around and located the nearest resting place. Said resting place happened to be a rock. Ash sat down and thought about this and that. He needed a strategy to beat the gym leader, but how would he do that.
"Hey Kid, your sitting on the merchandise," a voice called out. Ash looked over to locate the afore mentioned voice. He placed the voice with a man who looked quite poor, homeless even. He wore ragged clothes that looked like they hadn't been washed in weeks, but they were semi-repaired.
"Ah sorry Sir. Uh who exactly are you?" Ash asked.
"Name's Flint. Sell rocks," Flint said.
"Trainer on a journey, with this gym being my first," Ash said.
"I see. A word of advice. They gym leader uses a-" Flint tried to say before being cut off.
"Ahp ap ahp! No spoilers to what he uses. I want to go into this blind and make sure I have fun. So please, no spoilers," Ash said.
"Fair enough Kid. By the way, good luck. Oh and you want to buy a rock?" Flint asked.
"Sure. Let me look through a few," Ash said before staring at them all for about a minute. Ash was almost done and was doing a final sweep, when two glimmers caught his eye. It was faint and mostly hidden, but there were two rocks with something in them, "I'll take those two please"
"Sold, that'll be 100 pokedollars," Flint said. he knew there was something in them, but he had no use for them.
"I'll give you three hundred. There is something in both of these," Ash said.
"I know, I have no need for them. Thing is, a person a few years back handed them both to me and told me to give them to the trainer who saw what was in both of them," Flint said, "So, seeing as you are the only one so far, and I got them for free, take em for 100."
"Thanks, but would you mind helping em get out whatever it is that is in them?" Ash asked.
"Sure. Doesn't really matter to me. Plus, I've always been rather curious. Golem, cut this rock open, carefully mind you," Flint said as he released a large boulder with arms, legs, and a head. Golem smashed its fist into the rocks and both crumbled immediately revealing two small bluesish orbs. One orb had a white something in the middle and the other had a black something. There didn't seem to be anything to special about them, but Ash felt drawn to them. Ash picked them both up and slipped them into his pocket. Ash didn't notice it, but both of his eyes started to glow again and a pulse of blue energy was released. Nobody noticed it though as it was transparent. Although, the energy could be felt, but to them, it just felt like a breeze.
"Thanks Sir, but I better get going right now," Ash said waving as he walked off.
"Interesting kid. Wonder if he's who I think he is," Flint said before laughing and pulling off his disguise, "Hopefully so. If he could, then I can too."
Important! Guys, what pokemon should Ash catch. Please be reasonable though!
So guys, How'd I do. Also, if you have any ideas what those two orbs are, leave it in a review. It won't be confirmed for a while, unless your guess is spot on. Key words, spot on. There should be little to no difference between what they are. Then I will tell you, but I ask that you don't tell anyone else because it ruins the surprise.