Hello fellow Pokemon Fic readers and authors, I love all he attention my Fic. is getting. I've gotten many suggestions in the reviews and I am going to respond to them.
Guest 1: Thanks for the tip. I think I'll do that.
Guest 2: Ok, a lot needs to be said here. First of all, the challenge I'm partaking in involves Ash getting no legendaries. I WILL incorporate them in some fashion but they will not battle with Ash. This is mostly because Ash is too overpowered in these fics. I'm hoping to change that.
On the subject of Pikachu romance, The summary says it's PikachuXSnivy. The reason why I'm shipping these guys is because of 3 things:
1. They look adorable together.
2. There is not enough of this shipping.
3. The author SpixPrime wrote a Fic. called 'A New Experience' that revolved around this ship, and it is in my top 3 fav. fics on this fandom.
I've already settled on the ship, which is why Buneary and Glaceon are out of the picture.
On the subject of defecting traitors, Only 3 of the traitors Pokemon will do so, all 3 of them for their own reasons. One hint though, one heavily involves Scraggy.
On the subject of consequences, there will not be legal consequences. Ash is just going to give them a beatdown, publicly humiliate them once or twice, and that is punishment enough in my opinion.
On the subject of other Ash shippings. It's not just because my challenge banned harems, I just don't like them. It has to be a REALLY good story for me to read one with a harem.
Don't worry they will suffer. Mwahahahaha.
Guest 3: There will actually be a flashback to Oak's lab where Tracey is trying to turn them. Keyword trying. See, you don't know the whole story about the Pokemon. To be honest, it's just an excuse for Ash to have less Pokemon, and to not have the story be log jammed with Pokemon. Some might not like this but, I digress. However, Most of the Pokemon Ash will have will be the ones that were used often, so that should compensate.
Mach the Cynic: You guessed correctly, however, that is a list of immediate people that will be around the whole story, more or less. Ash will gain more supporters as the story progresses. All of them are former rivals, such as Tierno and his group, Morrison, Ritchie, Zoey, Solidad, and even Tobias. I don't know, I don't want the story to be overloaded with people, so don't expect them to hang around a long time. Now, it's not to say one WILL hang around for a longtime, but don't be holding your breath, like I said, we won't see them till the later on.
Wow, that was a lot. Now, back to the story!
Oh, almost forgot
"Hi"=human speak (Meowth will qualify under this one)
'Hi'= thoughts
"()"= Pokéspeak
Somewhere 30,000 feet above Kanto
A certain raven haired trainer sits in a window seat with his faithful electric mouse on his lap. On the three seats next to him are his companions Serena, Bonnie, and Clemont.
"Please fasten your seatbelts, we are currently beginning our decent to Vermillion Marine Airport. Thank you." The announcer notified the passengers.
"Hear that Pikachu?" Ash Ketchum asked his first Pokemon.
"(Sure did Ash. We're almost home.)" Pikachu replied.
"Yep. We're almost home." Ash, unintentionally, reiterating what Pikachu said previously.
'I wonder how Bulbasaur, Charizard, and Snivy are doing back at the lab?' Pikachu thought.
Snivy and Pikachu were hanging a lot at the Lab ,when he wasn't with Ash, during their downtime between Unova and Kalos. Now, for some weird reason, every other thought he had came straight back to her. It confused him greatly. Like trainer, like Pokemon, I guess.
Nevertheless, he still wondered about the condition of the Pokemon back at the lab.
Flashback
The day after Ash lost the Kalos league
Bulbasaur loved it at the lab, sure he missed Ash, and he would come if he was ever called upon, but if Ash had to leave them somewhere, he loved that it was here.
Suddenly, an Aqua jet came flying right passed him, almost hitting him on the side of the head. Said Aqua Jet turned back around and Bulbasaur got in attack stance. Suddenly, the Aqua Jet stopped to reveal the Sea Otter Pokemon himself. Said Pokemon probably was traveling at a high speed as when he ceased Aqua Jet, he came tumbling head over heals towards Bulbasaur, when he eventually came to a stop, there was one dizzy Oshawott sitting in front of an awaiting Bulbasaur.
"(What's the situation Oshawott?)" Bulbasaur asked the Sea Otter Pokemon.
See, when Bulbasaur found out that Oshawott could use Aqua Jet, he tasked him with monitoring the Pokemon around the lab, and if anything should need his attention, he should Aqua Jet over to him, and Aqua Jet him to the location of the thing that needs his attention.
"(23-19 by the watering hole.)" Oshawott informed Bulbasaur.
"(Oh no they're not. Oshawott, use Aqua Jet, let's roll.)" Bulbasaur will never get tired of saying that.
Long story short, there was a Bulbasaur surfing on an Oshawott's Aqua Jet speeding towards the watering hole.
Watering Hole
All of Ash's Pokemon were gathered around making bets.
"(3 food pellets on Unfezant.)" Said a certain grass snake.
Sceptile wrote down each bet on a leaf, wrote the name of the better, in this case Snivy, the name of the person the better bet on, in this case Unfezant, and the bet, in this case, 3 food pellets.
If you lose, you give up the amount you bet at the next meal to the people that won, and if you win you get that amount from the people that lost. You could probably guess who the best better is.
"(A whole bowl on Staraptor.)" Snorlax told Sceptile.
Suddenly, an Aqua Jet came roaring up.
"Alright Oshawott. Stop in 5...4...3...2...," Bulbasaur couldn't finish as Oshawott had jetted straight into a tree. They were still working out the kinks with using Aqua Jet to get around.
"(1...)" A hurting Bulbasaur finished as he slid slowly down the tree with Oshawott.
As fast as he fell, Bulbasaur shot up.
"(Ok, nobody move!)" Bulbasaur shouted. All the other Pokemon froze. Except Snorlax who decided to fall asleep, literally, right onto the tree that Sceptile was using as a make-shift desk. Sceptile just put a hand to his face, annoyed at the huge Pokemon.
"(No one's doing anything...)" Bulbasaur started.
Swaelow, Staraptor, Noctowel, Unfezant, and Charizard were all standing in a line, drooping in disappointment.
"(...without me. This is going to be my race. Sceptile!") Bulbasaur called.
Sceptile looked at him in acknowledgment.
"(10 food pellets on Charizard.") Bulbasaur bet. Sceptile wrote it down and sorted it as such.
A few minutes later
All the bets were in, it's race time. Sceptile took all the bets in hand and walked up to Oshawott.
"(Mind giving me a lift to the finish line?)" Sceptile asked.
"(Why does it have to be me that transports people?)" Oshawott asked dejectedly.
Sceptile got in position. Oshawott used Aqua Jet, Sceptile hopped on, and they sped off towards the finish line built atop the lab's roof.
The flying Pokemon got into position, ready to fly.
"Let's go Swellow!" Most of the Hoenn Pokemon cheered.
"You got this Staraptor!" The Sinnoh Pokemon and Snorlax cried.
"Ride like the wind Unfezant." The Unova Pokemon cried.
"Go Noctowel." One or two Pokemon said.
Noctowl sweatdropped at his apparent lack of support.
"(Alright flyers, when Gible's Draco Meteor detonates, start flying.") Bulbasaur instructed.
All the flyers gave a thumbs up.
"(Gible, use Draco Meteor.") Bulbasaur ordered.
Gible did just that.
Mealtime
Snorlax's second bowl was filling up quick. The Pokemon was amused at how annoyed the other Pokemon were about how good he was. Hey, he would do anything for food.
Snivy was enjoying her almost full bowl, when Tracey walked out. This was before he quit being Professor Oak's assistant to become a Pokemon watcher full time.
"Hey guys." Tracey greeted them, a little sadness in his voice.
"(Hey Tracey.)" All the Pokemon chimed.
"I've got bad news." Tracey continued.
"(Go on.)" Bulbasaur urged reluctantly.
"Ash isn't coming back from Kalos, Pikachu too." Tracey said solemnly.
"(What?!") All the Pokemon yelled, and yes, I mean all of them, even the quiet ones like Sceptile and Noctowl
"Apparently, he hit it off with a childhood friend who moved there and he decided to stay and catch Kalos natives from now on. Pikachu agrees." Tracey continued.
Bulbasaur looked down in contemplation. Snivy was on the verge of tears.
"(Charizard, tell Tracey to give us a moment to process this.)" Bulbasaur asked his friend.
Charizard obeyed giving the sign with one of his fingers that said "One moment please".
"You'd like a moment?" Tracey guessed. Bulbasaur nodded in response.
"Ok. See ya later." Tracey said goodbye and went back to the lab.
"(Bayleef, Snivy, front and center.)" Bulbasaur ordered. Snivy, still almost crying, with Bayleef in similar condition, approached Bulbassur.
A minute later
It was like a rope of vines. Bayleef outside on the ground. Bulbasaur on the windowsill with vines wrapped around his hind legs, and Snivy, on one of the lab's desks with vines wrapped around her legs. She was looking for something. At last she found it. A laptop computer. Snivy grabbed it with her vines and signaled for Bulbasaur to pull her back to the windowsill and Bulbasaur to Bayleef.
A few minutes later, back at the watering hole
The laptop was open and Bulbasaur was typing away with his vines. He finally came up on the site he wanted.When Snivy ran away, still nearly in tears. Bulbasaur sighed and told Oshawott to watch the laptop.
With Snivy
Snivy couldn't believe it. Pikachu, not coming back, and not asking her to come to Kalos? It broke her heart. Did their time together at the lab before Kalos mean anything? Over the course of that time, Snivy had actually fell for the electric mouse. I know, I know, cliché but she couldn't help herself, Pikachu was nice, strong, great personality, plus he treats her like a Pokemon and not just a girl Pokemon, but a regular, equal Pokemon.
'How could he just throw it all away?' Snivy thought as more tears threatened to flow.
"(Hey Snivy.)" Bulbasaur revealed himself.
"(What is it *sob* Bulbasaur?)" Snivy replied, sobbing.
"(I've noticed you and Pikachu together. Bottom line, I know you two like eachother.)"
Bulbasaur divulged.
"(How?)" Snivy asked incredulously.
"(Please, you are so obvious, it's funny.)" Bulbasaur broke bluntly but humorously.
"(So, Pikachu likes me?)" She asked, hopeful.
"(He may not know it yet, but deep down, yes, yes he does like you.)" Bulbasaur said.
That cheered Snivy right up.
"(So, what is the laptop for?)" Snivy asked.
"(You'll have to wait and find out with the others.)" Bulbasaur said cryptically as he walked back to rejoin the others, with Snivy in tow.
A Few Minutes later
Bulbasaur was, once again, typing away at the laptop with his vines. However, this time, he addressed the others while doing so.
"(I have anticipated that this might happen.)" Bulbasaur revealed.
"(How?)" Some the Pokemon asked.
"(Through this website.)" Bulbasaur said as he turned the laptop to reveal , with 'Ash betrayed' in the search bar and a list of stories who's summaries contained those words.
"(Wait, people write fanfiction about us?)" Staraptor clarified.
"(Correct, and in some of these fanfics, most of Ash's friends and some of us betray him.) Bulbasaur said.
Many cries of outrage were heard.
"(Anyway, that's how I know Tracey was lying about Ash not coming back not long after the league.)" Bulbasaur explained.
"(So, what's our play?)" Pignite wondered.
"(Well, in some fics. they forced us to betray him. For example, in one of them they fooled me into thinking May's Bulbasaur was pregnant with my child, so they could pull something similar.)" Bulbasaur then took a breath.
"(We need to make it feel like they got what they wanted. To do that, some of us need to pretend to turn on him. Does anyone here that doesn't care as much as too battle a lot with Ash in the future.)"
Everyone but Bulbasaur, Charizard, Bayleef, Quilava, Totodile, Sceptile, Torkoal, Infernape, Buizil, Gible, Oshawatt, Pignite, Scraggy, Snivy, and
Staraptor raised their appendages.
"(Ok, that's a solid amount. Now, here's the plan.)" Bulbasaur started. Hopefully, his friends were good actors, because they were going to need it.
Tracey told Professor Oak he wanted to become a Pokemon Watcher full time the next day. Oak told him there was always a place for him at the lab and Tracey journeyed to Cerulean City to meet to meet the rest of Ash's friends.
Back to the Present
'Probably holding those races once or twice a week. I wonder if Snorlax has lost yet? I can't wait to see everyone again. Especially Snivy. Seriously, why can't I get Snivy out of my head.' Pikachu thought to himself.
Vermillion City
We see our favorite raven haired trainer running into the streets of Vermillion, to the same restarsunt Iris, Cilan, and himself had eaten at before.
"Wait up, Ash!" Clemont yelled after the 3 of them. 'Why did they have to run so much?' He thought to himself.
'Look out Kanto, Ash Ketchum has returned.' Ash thought to himself.
And scene. Man, I don't think I've ever typed this much. Anyway, sorry for all the flashbacks, they help you get every single character's story. Besides Ash and his friends that sided with him of course. To many fics. focus just on that. Anyway, my update schedule is kind of wild. I could update again Tomorow or next week, it's that unpredictable. It's mostly because if my other stories. Anyway, Hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and I answered your questions.
See ya next chapter, when the journey continues.