Chapter 1

-The Beginning-

Winter

Jason woke to a very annoying Raticate alarm clock beeping. "Beep! Beep! Beep! Be…" the alarm clock went before Jason threw the nearest object at it.

"Jason are you up? I'm going to start making breakfast." Jason's mom called down from the kitchen.

"I am now." Jason mumbled to himself as he headed to the bathroom to get a shower.

Jason took a ten minute shower, put on a blue shirt, white jacket, jeans, black shoes then headed down stairs to the kitchen where his mom was making him a plate of pancakes. "Thanks for the pancakes." Jason said between bites as he ate the pancakes.

After Jason was done eating, he brushed his teeth then headed out the door to Professor Oak's lab to get to work. Pallet town's population had significantly increased when Ash Ketchum had become a Pokémon Master. His own old house had become a tourist spot. It was a ten minute trip to get to Professor Oak's lab from where Jason lived in Pallet.

Jason locked his bike on the bike rack outside the lab then went inside. The Professor was in the back of the lab writing a report on the theory of Celebi and time travel so Jason decided to not disturb him and started his work by first feeding the Pokémon in the Storage room. Professor Oak took care of all the Kanto trainers' pokémon that were in their PC.

Jason walked up to a computer and pressed the button that put the right amount of food into each bowl in each pokémon bowl in the Storage room. Jason then walked to the part of the lab that trainers went to, to get their starter pokémon. Jason then opened the three pokeballs on the table and gave each of the starters a bowl of pokémon food.

Jason put Squirtle and Bulbasaur back in their pokeballs and kept Charmander out. "Hey buddy how are you today." Jason said to the Charmander.

"Char Char!" Charmander replied happily.

Charmander had hatched the day Jason had started working at Professor Oak's lab and Jason watched as Charmander had hatched. They had been friends since that day.

"Good! Good! You know today is a special day Charmander. The Professor has invited some people to pick a starter and you, Bulbasaur and Squirtle are going to be picked." Jason said trying to sound happy for Charmander.

"Char Char." Charmander said sadly.

"Okay your going to need your rest for later this morning so back in your pokeball you go." Jason said as Charmander was sucked up by the red light.

"Jason!" the Professor called from somewhere in the lab. "Come here I need to talk to you before the people come for their starters and licenses."

"Coming!" Jason called back as he walked into the room the Professor was in.

"Jason, recently I was doing a study with Professor Elm about pokémon being friendlier when they are out of their pokeball instead of in their pokeball while they're trainer is walking on routes or through cities or towns." Professor Oak said.

"What does this have to do with me?" Jason asked.

"I'm getting to it. All the professors in each region sent a message to every pokedex that pokémon being out of their pokeball make them friendlier, but I don't want to just take it from some random trainer that there pokémon are friendlier being out of there pokeball. So I want to get the results from someone I trust and I thought what better person than Jason." the professor explained.

"But I don't have any pokémon." Jason said confused.

"That's why when the two soon-to-be-trainers get here I want you to pick a starter and get a license with them to get the results to this project at the end of your journey." the professor said.

"Are you serious?" Jason said.

"Do you think I would waste the past 5 minutes explaining all of that to you when I could be finishing my report on Celebi?" the professor said slapping his palm into his face.

KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!

"That must be them." The professor said going to the entrance to the Lab.

Jason followed the Professor to the door and when he opened it he saw two teens about his age. One was a boy and the other a girl. "Hello Professor we're here to receive our starters." said the boy.

"Hello Matt Kulawaski. Jamie Mendez. This is Jason Red my assistant and he too will be receiving a starter." the Professor said.

"Hey." Jason said and the other two just nodded.

"Well right this way to the table where the three starters are in their pokeballs." the professor said leading them into the room with the table.

The professor let out all three starters from their pokeballs and when Charmander saw that Jason was getting a starter he jumped straight onto Jason's shoulder. "Jason it looks like a starter chose you." the professor said chuckling.

"I choose Squirtle." Jamie said. "Then I guess I'm left with you Bulbasaur." Matt said scooping up the pokeball recalling Bulbasaur.

"Now that everyone has their starter pokémon I can give you your pokedex which has your license in it." the Professor said handing out the pokedexes.

Jason looked over at Matt and asked "Do you want to have a pokémon battle?"

"Sure, but promise you won't cry when you lose." Matt taunted.

"Okay Charmander this is our first battle and it's soon to be our first win." Jason said looking at Charmander on his shoulder.

"Char." Charmander agreed.

"Your on let's go Bulbasaur!" Matt said throwing out the pokeball.

"Bulbasaur start our first steps to becoming a Pokémon Master with a tackle attack!" Matt commanded.

"Charmander when it gets close use scratch and aim for the face." Jason called.

Bulbasaur ran at Charmander preparing to tackle him, but at the last second Charmander jumped up and scratched Bulbasaur in the face. The move did extra damage since it was a critical hit.

"Err… Bulbasaur try another tackle, but watch out for that scratch." Matt said.

"Charmander use scratch and dodge that tackle again." Jason said and Charmander nodded.

Bulbasaur ran at Charmander ready to tackle him again, only this time instead of jumping up like Bulbasaur expected, Charmander slid under Bulbasaur scratching Bulbasaur's stomach.

"I wish that thing would just slow down!" Matt shouted.

Suddenly, Bulbasaur shot out vines and held Charmander still.

"Great job Bulbasaur! Now keep tackling it!" Matt ordered.

Bulbasaur kept tackling Charmander and it couldn't get away because it was being held down with vines.

"Come on Charmander you can break out!" Jason encouraged.

Suddenly when Bulbasaur tackled Charmander, Bulbasaur hit Charmander in the stomach causing Charmander to shoot tiny embers out of its mouth. The embers burnt the vines off Charmander and harmed Bulbasaur a little.

"Okay Charmander let's finish this. Use ember with all you've got!" Jason commanded loudly.

"Bulbasaur tackle full force!" Matt yelled.

Charmander sent tons of small flames at Bulbasaur and Bulbasaur ran through them ready to tackle Charmander, but Bulbasaur was getting injured severely. Bulbasaur tackled Charmander sending him into the wall and when he hit the wall he let out a small ball of fire which hit Bulbasaur sending him into the other wall. Both pokémon were out.

"That was fun." Jason said holding out his hand to shake hands with Matt.

"Yeah well fun doesn't win a battle." grumbled Matt as he recalled his Bulbasaur and walked out of the lab.

Jason looked around the lab and realized that Jamie must have left when the battle started. Jason recalled Charmander and thanked professor Oak. "Thanks professor for letting me go on a journey. I have finally felt the thrill of being in a pokémon battle."

"Your welcome and you're the only one who thanked me today so thank you." Professor Oak said.

Jason left the lab and biked back home to tell his mom he was going on a journey. When Jason got home his mom was waiting out side with a backpack.

"Hey mom you'll never guess what happened. I…"

"The professor is letting you go on a journey. I already know he called me in advance. I'm so happy for you. What pokémon did you choose?" Jason's mom interrupted.

"Oh I choose a Charmander, but he's tired from a battle we just had." Jason replied.

"I packed your clothes, put a small sleeping bag, and a few things from when I was a trainer as well as a little money in this backpack for you." Jason's mom said reaching into the bag. "Here's even a potion." Jason's mom said giving Jason the potion.

"Thanks." Jason said spraying Charmander's pokeball with the potion and putting on the backpack. "I also decided not to bring my bike because I will miss half the things you see on a journey."

Since Charmander was feeling better it popped out of its pokeball and hopped on Jason's shoulder. "Good bye Jason." his mom said.

"Bye mom." Jason called as he was walking north to the entrance to route 1. On the way to the entrance Jason said his good byes to his neighbors and friends. Standing at the entrance to the route Jason looked at Charmander and said, "Well this is where our journey begins." and walked into the forest.

Well this is the first chapter to this story cool right. Now about the OCs, there are a lot of good ones and I will use every single one you send, but it might not be for the way you wanted it to be. And to Biganime40 I'm sorry, but I won't use any OCs that come from our regular Earth that is the only exception to where I won't use your OC.