Right here it is, it's come slightly earlier than expected (no pun intended) and it's slightly longer as well (no pun), but w/e. Enjoy I guess…
The boy just sat there, trying to let what just happen sink in. The sight of that big red R burning into his mind.
"No it can't be" muttered Ash. "I thought they were gone for good".
The boy was frozen still, feeling sick at the thought of his old enemies back and possibly out for revenge. The image of the R kept vibrating in his mind. Team Rocket was back and they were actually a problem this time. Ash remembered the sight of a man definitely over six foot throwing out a commander of Team Galactic as if he were some common drunk. If they were able to easily throw out a team like Team Galactic, how could Ash stop them?
"(pant) Ash (pant) don't just run off like that" panted Brock.
The young companion looked at Ash confusingly at his state. He had never seen his friend like this before, frozen with his head hanging down. Brock looked behind to see the young girl run up to Brock with pikachu in her hands. Dawn raced over to Brock and keeled over panting heavily.
"Seriously Ash (pant) gives us a warning next time" said Dawn in annoyance.
After not hearing a response or even a grunt, the girl raised her head to see what was what. She looked bemused at the usual excited boy slumped in the ground. Dawn turned to her other friend to see if he knew what was going on. Brock knowing what she was going to ask him just shrugged his shoulders.
"Pikachu do you know what is wrong" asked pikachu's carrier.
"Pi-ka-chu?" asked pikachu.
Brock feeling uncomfortable about the silence and chose to approach the silent 'corpse'.
"What's wrong Ash, restaurants all closed?" joked Brock lightly. "Er Ash" said Brock leaning forward.
Pikachu was losing the will to live and used it's initiative to thundershock Ash into responding. Unfortunley for the surrounding participants they were also hit by the shock. After the painful jolt was over there was a role reversal with Dawn and Brock lying on collapsed on the floor and Ash was shot up. Pikachu looked at the scene before it: Ash was still twinging and moving around after being jolted and Brock and Dawn were lying on the ground, black, crisp and letting off a bit of smoke. Pikachu could not help but notice the faint smell of cooked chicken in the air.
"Seriously pikachu…" puffed Brock.
"pika" apologised Pikachu.
The charred companions arose from their smoky bed and stumbled to their feet. Dawn wiped off the smoke from her clothes and turned to the static boy.
"Ash what's wrong?"
"Well let's see I was just electrocuted by my-".
"No I mean earlier, why were you so quiet?" the girl asked her friend concerningly.
Paling at this Ash said to his good friends and said more to Brock than Dawn.
"I saw this large man hurl out a member of Team Galactic"
"Wow" said Dawn "wait is that what was worrying you?"
"No then had this friend approach him with this Red R on his shirt"
Dawn leaned forward as if expecting something else. When met with silence she looked at Brock for reassurance, however she saw he was shocked. She then turned to Ash who was looking nervously at Brock. 'What is so special about a Red R' thought Dawn to herself. She then imagined the R and then remembered seeing it on the shrits of the Rocket trio that would always attack them, but she could not for the life of her think why the other two were so nervous.
"What's so bad about a guy with a Red R on his shirt?"
Brock turned to his female companion and coughed clearing his throat.
"Well you know those three who follow us trying to steal Pikachu?"
Dawn nodded.
"Well they are part of a group called Team Rocket who are basically the first Team Galactic"
Dawn made another o shape with her mouth.
"Wait" said Dawn quickly "Why were you two so nervous about this".
It was Ash's turn to explain. He sighed and turned to Dawn.
"You see Team Rocket weren't exactly light weights. They were the ones who were dominant through Kanto and even Johto. They were even the creators of the pokemon Mewtwo."
Dawn gasped at this. She then remembered something.
"But you were able to defeat before I'm guessing, twice?"
"Yes" agreed Brock slightly regaining composure "but they were never ones to hurl out someone as powerful as Team Galactic."
The grouped let a heavy sigh, they all nodded in agreement at what must be done.
The group were standing outside the Vielstone gym. Ash let out a nervous sigh and entered the gym. Ash looked around him seeing people flexing their muscles and lifting weights. Ash cringed at the thought of seeing a body builder type gym leader, tensing their bulging biceps.
"Can I help you?"
Ash turned to see a thin athletic girl with a bandage on her nose and arm. She also had on a pair of blue gloves, loose trousers and a blue tight sleeveless shirt. Her pink hair was spiked side ways that made her look as if she was flying through the air.
"Er yeah do you know where I can find the Veilstone gym leader?"
Dawn, Brock and Pikachu cringed as soon as Ash had said those fateful words, because they could guess what was about to happen. The girl glared angrily at Ash then grabbed his arm twisted it and hurled the young boy into a punching bag. After realising what happened the pain set in and Ash let out a groan.
"Why did you throw me? Oh I get it the gym leader's out and you're upset about that right?"
His friends just groaned at Ash's ignorance. The furious girl swiftly kicked Ash in the stomach knocking the wind right out of Ash. The boy clutched his gut and groaned in pain.
"Why the hell can't a girl be a gym leader? Are you saying I'm not strong enough to be a fighting gym leader?" shouted the furious girl glaring down at Ash.
"No I'm sure you are good enough, but I think you should be careful in case the gym leader comes back and gets angry" wheezed Ash.
"Seriously Ash" Brock mumbled underneath his hand which his face was buried in.
Enough was enough for this gym leader and thought that Ash had earned himself another kick however this time it was in a more sensitive and southern area. An area which made Brock wince in sympathy and for Ash to scream like a little girl.
"I'M THE GYM LEADER!"
After screaming into to Ash and quite possibly preventing him from ever having children, the gym leader turned on her heel and stomped off.
"Oh my goodness" cried Dawn who skipped over to Ash to help him.
The girl was held back by Brock who looked over at her friend.
"Trust me the best thing to do is give him time"
30 minutes later…
The boy stumbled to his feet and immediately turned to see where the gym leader had gotten to. He felt nervous at the sight of the girl fly through the air and kick a man twice her size in the head and send him to the floor. Ash gulped and limped over to her. Sensing his presence the girl turned to face him.
"What do you want?" she spat at him
"Look I'm sorry for thinking you weren't the gym leader, but I need to tell you about Team Rocket"
The girl just stared at him without bashing a muscular eyelash.
"Yeah I know. They threw out some Galactic Team and now they are going to claim the city. Or so they say."
"Well why aren't you doing something about then" said Ash worriedly.
"Oh wow thanks. I'll go do something about that" said Maylene. "Look I've sent the fighters here and even I've gone along, but we just can't budge them."
"Well maybe we can help. We're quite skilled at Pokemon fighting and I'm sure we can do something about these villains" said Brock respectfully as to not give the girl anymore reasons to neuter guys she's just met.
She stared at Brock then looked at the blue haired girl and then to the rude boy.
"Look protecting the city is my job and I don't want the Pokemon league to punish me."
"How about if I beat you in a battle? Then you'd have no reason not to let me stop them" said Ash optimistically.
"Fine. I guess that works"
"The battle will be the best out of three. Only the challenger may return their Pokemon" stated the referee.
"Alright Pikachu, it's your go"
"pika" squeaked the little mouse
"Go meditite"
The pokeball flew through the air and then cracked open revealing the pokemon sitting with its legs crossed.
"Now quickly use fake out"
Before Pikachu or Ash could do anything, the meditite hit little Pikachu right in the face. Ash winced at the sight of his best friend flinch at the pain.
"Pikachu counter with thunderbolt"
The little yellow mouse charged its cheeks and let loose a powerful bolt towards the foe. Meditite stared at the bolt and then shot across the room.
"What how did that happen?" asked Ash.
"It's called detect and I trained my pokemon to use that whenever it was under attack" Maylene boasted. "Now confusion!" she ordered.
Meditite's eye's glowed bright blue and it raised Pikachu and hurled it into a wall. Ash screamed out for his best friend as he saw the little mouse wince in pain. 'There's got to be something that I can do to stop-wait that's it'. As soon as he remembered what Brock said about defence moves like protect he knew what to do and ordered Pikachu to do another thunder bolt. The electric Pokemon charged up and let loose another bolt to the Meditite. The pokemon instinctively used detect and shot away.
"Pikachu don't stop keep going"
"Running scared already eh?"
Pikachu shot another bolt of lightning at meditate to which it avoided, but when it tried to use detect again it could not use it and was hit by the attack at full force. The painful jolt made the Meditite faint and for Pikachu be declared the winner.
"How did you…?"
"Constant use of the detect move makes it's succession fall after each use. It's even worse when you make your Pokemon use it automatically" Ash remarked smugly
"Wow Ash how did you know that?" said Dawn in awe at Ash.
"Erm well to be honest Brock told me" said a slightly red Ash rubbing the back of his head nervously.
Dawn just shook her head and sighed at this.
"If you think that was easy, just try my Machoke on for size" said Maylene smugly.
"Well I better use it now, go Staravia".
Ash smiled at his knowledge 'I know fighting types are weak against flying types so this battle will be a cinch'. He looked confusingly over to Maylene who was just smiling at him.
"Machoke use foresight to gain a lock on his Staravia".
Machoke stared at the bird Pokemon trying to analyse it perfectly.
"Quick Staravia use wing attack" ordered Ash.
The bird Pokemon flew as fast as it could and swung its wing into the Machoke's face and sent the muscular Pokemon into a wall. Machoke shook its body and got over the pain from the bird Pokemon and braced itself for the next command.
"Now you'll see how I made it to be a gym leader. Machoke rock tomb now!"
The muscular Pokemon ripped out large boulders and hurled them at the bird Pokemon. Due to the speed of the rocks and foresight lock on the attack hit and crushed the bird Pokemon. As the dust subsided Staravia was trapped under the rocks with x's in its eyes.
"Staravia is unable to battle, Machoke is the winner."
"It all comes down to this" said Maylene grinning like a jackal "And I've got just the Pokemon to win this"
And with that Maylene hurled her pokeball out to play.
Ooooo another cliff hanger. Ain't I a douche? Now as you may have noticed T.R is in the picture so that means that I'll have to introduce O.C. enemies. That's where you the reader enter the scene. Due to my laziness I need one person to be an executive and two more to be associates. So post a review of the following: character name, brief description, personality e.g. silent and strong or smug and smart, w/e (cocky git is already taken), what pokemon you would use, what rank you want and other details you may think is important. Btw this ain't on a first come first serve (no pun intended) so it is on quality not quantity. If you don't make the exec or asso then I will add you as a grunt. If you are reading this after say a few weeks after I posted it (granted the fan fic ain't over) then you might as well post for your character to be included. Right that took longer than expected (again no pun). Oh and this is early due to me wanting to see how long it takes for responses the next post will be on Monday to give people plenty of time.