Chapter 2: Ash's First Vivosaur
Location: Fossil Stadium, Vivosaur Island
It didn't take long for the ambulance to arrive to recover Ash's body. Ash comply with everything that the doctors and nurses as they check his temperature, any signs of wounds, etc. and he was shown to be just fine. He was just given a towel to dry alongside his partner Pikachu. The ambulance left everything to Dr. Diggins and Beth to take care of Ash and Pikachu.
Dr. Diggins was more interested of Pikachu and was getting too close to him and was examining him, only to have a shocking result. Literally. Pikachu was getting too uncomfortable by the curious scientist when was pulling his tail, stretching his cheeks, and opening his mouth. It didn't take long to zap everyone in the room, having his personal space finally restored. This did surprise the two adults to see that a small creature could emit a lot electricity and made Dr. Diggins want to know more about this creature and possibly the world this boy lives in.
"Tell me more about where you're from." the doctor asks with his eyes sparkle with excitement.
Ash scratches the back of his head. "Well, for starters; Pikachu is a creature called a Pokémon. There are eighteen types: Normal, Fighting, Fire, Water, Grass, Electric, Flying, Ice, Ground, Rock, Dark, Psychic, Bug, Steel, Ghost, Fairy, Poison, and Dragon. There are usually one or two typing for different kinds of Pokémon. Pikachu is an Electric Type and he was my first ever Pokémon and I would never trade him for the world."
Pikachu jumps onto Ash's shoulders, rubbing his cheeks with Ash's. Ash smiles, patting the yellow mouse's head.
"Fascinating, one question: Do you have any fossilized "Pokémon" in your world?" Dr. Diggins asks
"Um, yeah. We only have a few Pokémon that use to live millions of years ago."
The aqua hair professor nods and tapping his chin. Hearing about a world that has more than five elements and sometimes they can have one or two elements is quite an extraordinary discovery. He wanted to see more of these Pokémon, mostly the fossilized ones.
"So, can you guys tell me where I am?" Ash finally asks.
Dr. Diggins snap his fingers and smiles. "Right. Well for starters, you're in a world of Vivosaurs."
Ash and Pikachu's eyes look at him in confusion.
"Vivo-what now?" Ash says with confusion.
"Vivosaurs. They are once living prehistoric creatures long ago with a technology I have created a few years ago. There are five typing: Fire, Water, Earth, Air, and Neutral. Neutral is not affected any of the four elements." Dr. Diggins explains, "This islands is covered with fossils so trainers can find, revive, and battle with it."
Ash's eyes widen in excitement when he heard the word "trainers" and "battle". He hasn't enter into another world, but world of creatures that he can battle with new creatures he has never seen or heard of before. He wanted to experience this new world and probably for the first time, try something new.
"Can I become a trainer?" Ash asks excitedly.
Dr. Diggins and Beth look at the boy's sudden excitement by surprise. They've only met this boy for twenty minutes and he wants to become a Fossil Fighter. They look at each other, then the two chuckle for a bit and look at the young raven hair boy. The aqua hair adult place his hand onto Ash's shoulder, knelt down and look at him in the eye.
"Well then, Ash Ketchum, you might be the first person in your world to become a Fossil Fighter." Dr. Diggins said.
Ash smiles and jump into the air, pumping his fist in the air with his small yellow rodent cheering as well. The two adult laugh at the boy's enthusiasm and were happy to see him happy.
"Anyways, Ms. Beth, would you kindly take Ash to the hotel while I take care of registering him to get a Fossil License." Dr. Diggins asks the receptionist.
"Of course." Beth answers and look at the young teenager "Follow me Ash. You too Pikachu."
Beth starts to walk out of the locker room as Ash and Pikachu start following her. They walk out of the stadium and saw the docks, a dome-like building, and a hotel.
"There it is, the hotel is just at the other side of Fighter Zone." the dirty blonde adult said.
Ash and Pikachu nod their heads and begin walking towards to the hotel. It was then Ash heard footsteps coming from behind him.
"GET OUT OF THE WAY! I CAN'T STOP!" a female voice screams.
Ash turn his head around and before he knew it, a figure crash into him and he fell to the ground, his eyes swirling with Pikachu jump off his shoulder. Ash could feel something or someone on him and he can't seem to get up. The weight was instantly left his body and he could finally move.
"Oh I'm so sorry!" the voice says apologetic, "I didn't mean to run into you!"
"It's okay", Ash says struggling to get up "It's not your fault."
Ash turns around to see a young girl with ginger hair, pink shirt and sun hat, maroon skirt and boots. She also have grey eyes looking at him with an apologetic look.
"Oh good. You see, I was running so hard and I couldn't stop." she explains. "Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Peggy."
Ash smiles at Peggy, "Hi Peggy, my name is Ash Ketchum and this my partner Pikachu."
Pikachu jumps onto his partner's shoulder and gave the ginger a smile. Peggy's eyes widen and sparkle to see the small adorable Electric mouse.
"Oh my gosh! I have never seen this little guy before! It looks SO ADORABLE!" Peggy squeals in joy not noticing how uncomfortably close she was.
Ash smiles nervously at the ginger girl, not trying to be rude by saying how close she was. Beth, luckily, was there to push Peggy away.
"Alright Peggy, Ash just got here. Why don't we give him some space?" Beth says kindly.
Peggy gasps and blushes lightly, "Oh sorry about that. Well, I should be off. See you later Ash!"
She turns around and begins jogging to the opposite direction. Ash and Pikachu sweatdrop at what just has happened and he doesn't know how he should react.
"Anyways, let's get you a room." Beth said.
"Huh? Oh, right." Ash says, remembering why was he was outside.
The two follow the receptionist to the tall building and enter to see a beautiful lobby with a palm sticking out in the middle. Ash and Pikachu whistle at the beauty of the hotel, seeing a man with a black suit and pants walking towards them.
"Hello Ms. Beth, how can I help you?" the man asks.
Beth smiles and says, "Hello, I'm here to make some registration for a new trainer. Is there a room vacant as of now?"
The hotel manager looks at Ash and his Pikachu, blinking behind his shades if he is seeing it right. He shook his head and still sees the small yellow mouse still on the boy's shoulder. He didn't know what it was, but he knew that pets weren't allowed. But then again, fighters have been bringing their Vivosaurs with them usually the small ones to feed them. So, he could make exceptions.
"Certainly, right this way sir." he says bowing down and lead Ash and Pikachu to the hotel.
Ash looks at the dirty blonde and she looks at him and gave him a smile.
"Don't worry, if you need anything, I'll be at the docking bay. I'll always be there." Beth said.
"Okay, thank you for everything." Ash thanked, smiling.
Pikachu smiles and squeak a "Pika!" at the young woman. Beth giggles before leaving the building. Ash waves goodbye to her before walking towards the elevator. The man pressed the button and the doors opens and the two walk into the elevator and the door close. The manager push a button and the elevator start moving. In the few seconds, the elevator stop and the door open and the two walk out. Ash follows the man to see that he has stop at one of the doors and open it.
"Your room sir." he said.
Ash and Pikachu look at the room and enter it. The room was small, but comfortable with a small bed and computer at one end of the room. There was a balcony as well and it show the view of the ocean.
"If there's anything you need, just head to the lobby and I'll be here." The manager suggested.
Ash nods his head and smiles. "Thank you."
"You're welcome." he said bowing down before closing the door behind him.
Ash looks at the balcony and opens the door and walks outside. The scent of the salt water and cool breeze filled him with ease and lean onto the railings and look onto the ongoing ocean. Pikachu walks next his partner and also look at the ocean too. For the first time in their lives, they are in a world far from their own. Different yet similar. Happy but also concern. He doesn't know how he would ever get back to his world and he's not sure how long will he be here. But for now, he has a new world to explore and whole new adventure to start.
"You ready for a new adventure Pikachu?" Ash asks looking at his yellow mouse friend.
"Pika!" The yellow mouse says happily.
Ash smiles and laughs, giving him a high five before the two walk out of their room and start heading towards to the Fossil Center.
Location: Fossil Center
Ash and Pikachu enter the large dorm building and look around to see people talking to one another, wearing clothing that an archeologist would wear. Ash's eyes widen and whistles in wonderment to see so many people were all gather in one place, almost similar to the Pokémon Center. Ash look around and saw a large desk with a receptionist talking to a familiar dirty blonde woman.
Beth turns around to see Ash and his Pikachu were inside the lobby. She wave her hand and starts calling Ash.
"Ash, over here." she called out.
Ash look and saw Beth waving at him. He wave back and start walking towards her, not knowing that people were staring at him. Some of them whisper to one another and some pointing at Ash's direction. Ash and Pikachu took notice of this and were getting uncomfortable by the unsettling stares and murmurs, but thought nothing of it.
"Hello Ash, are you ready?" Beth asks with a smile.
"Yeah, sure thing." Ash answers still looking back at the people.
"Is something the matter?" she asks raising her eyebrow.
Ash rub his neck and Pikachu glaring at the people with electricity coming from his red cheeks.
"Why are people staring at me?" he finally asks.
Beth look at the people and gave them a hardstone stare at them and they all look the other way, trying their best not to look at the ominous look from the receptionist.
"Oh it's nothing" she reply, "It's not every day to see a creature like Pikachu."
The two look at each other, the two shrug and they look at Beth. She smiles at the boy and led the boy to a door on the right.
"Dr. Diggins is waiting in there for you Ash." Beth said, "I wish you the best of luck."
Ash smiles and enter the room with door open automatically. Inside the room was very large with white walls and sky blue tiles with a strange looking device in the back and in the center was covered in dirt and broken pebbles. Ash could only guess that this how they resurrect their Vivosaurs, wondering if they did the same thing with the fossilized Pokémon. He found Dr. Diggins and walks up to him. He tap him on the shoulders. "Dr. Diggins?" Ash calls.
The dark skin doctor jumps and turns around to see Ash and Pikachu behind him. "Oh Ash, you startled me", he said taking deep breathes.
Ash sweatdrops and nervously smiles scratching his neck. "Sorry about that."
Dr. Diggins waves his hands dismissively. "Ah, that's alright. Anyways let's get you your Fossil License."
The dark skin professor led the raven hair boy and his Mouse Pokémon to the center of the large room. Dr. Diggins turn around and smiles to Ash.
"This is where all the magic happened Mr. Ketchum!" he said proudly "This is where you will receive your first Vivosaur. First things first; here are the tools to help you."
Dr. Diggins walk to one of the workers and the worker gave him a large sledge hammer and a long drill. The aqua bluenette man walk back to the center and gave the tools to Ash. "These are your tools: the hammer will help you to break the stones to get to the fossil. The drill will help to get rid of the smaller rocks once you get to the fossil.
"Now do you see that screen?" Dr. Diggins questions pointing at the large TV screen.
Ash looks up and sees it. "Yeah."
"That will show you how much process you did." He explains.
The screen turn on to show a dinosaur's head with a timer surrounding the head and a line appearing in the center of the head.
"You have to get the bottom half of the screen to go pass that line. The bottom is the blue which tells you how much you clear. The top is the red which tells you how much damage the fossil receive. You have to get the blue gauge to the line or above it before the red does or the timer came out."
Ash nods his head in understanding and look at Pikachu. Pikachu looks at his partner/best friend and gave him a nod and jump off of his shoulder.
"We're ready." Ash proclaims.
Dr. Diggins smiles and snaps his fingers and the door open to reveal two assistants pushing a cart holding a large stone, the assistants pick up the large stone and place it on the ground. Dr. Diggins shooed them away and grab a remote and press the button and the timer starts to rewind to a ninety seconds.
"Timer will start in 3… 2… 1…" Dr. Diggins said as Ash grabs the hammer and ready himself for the timer to start.
"GO!" Dr. Diggins yells.
"Pikachu use Iron Tail!" Ash yells.
Pikachu jumps into the air and his tail starts to glow before being engulf with a steel-like energy and hit the stone. It cracks and he jump off of the stone and Ash begin hitting the stone. The hammer was quite heavy and he was struggling to raise it into the air, but he was getting a few hits on the rock and was getting closer to the shallow parts of the rock. After a few hits, he spots a small white object in the rock. His eyes widen and smiles widely and begins hitting the other non-shallow areas, as the white object grew and almost taking shape of a fossil. Ash looks up at the screen and sees that the blue gauge was about halfway towards the line, but he could see that the red gauge was barely showing. And he has only thirty seconds left. He drops his hammer and whistles towards Pikachu.
"Pikachu, hand me that drill." he said.
Pikachu nods and starts running towards to the drill, trying to carry it. He starts to lose balance when begin lifting the drill, but luckily his raven hair partner quickly grabs it and begin drilling through the shallow surface. The drill spins rapidly as the now fragile rock was clearing away from the fossil. He stops the drill for a bit and blew on the dirt to get a better look, rinsing and repeating the process. He could see that there have been some cracks on the fossil but his focus gloss over it as he continues to clean off the fossil, almost rushing to the brink of exhaustion. He could hear the timer starting counting down.
"10… 9… 8… 7…"
Ash was beginning to sweat as he continues to drill and blowing away the dirt off.
"6… 5… 4… 3…"
Ash grits his teeth and his eyes fixated on the fossil.
"2… 1… TIME!"
Ash stops the drill and breathes heavily. He looks up at the screen to see his results. The blue gauge was above the line, while the red gauge was about halfway to the line. But overall; he did it. He plop down to the ground, dropping the drill, gasping for air from the exhaustion. Pikachu walks towards to his partner and sit on his lap, exhausted as well using the Iron Tail constantly, while trying his best not to destroy the fossil within.
"Congratulations Ash! You did it!" Dr. Diggins says happily clapping his hands.
"T-Thanks" Ash says between his breathes, "Arceus, that was exhausting."
Dr. Diggins laughs as he help Ash up to his feet and Pikachu climb up to Ash's shoulder. Dr. Diggins snap his fingers and a few workers lift up the remains of the rock and begin to clean up the mess. One of them pick up the fossil carefully and walk towards to the machine in the back. Ash got a good look of the fossil and it look like a Grovyle's skull with tiny rows of sharp teeth.
"Shall we get your first ever Vivosaur?" the professor asks Ash.
Ash nods his head the two walk towards to the strange machine where the worker place the skull into the machine. The machine was quite bizarre to say the least; it had a computer screen much similar to the TV Phones back at home with a cylinder glass tube that reach the ceiling and tubes connecting from the ceiling to the cylinder.
"This machine will revive your Vivosaurs." Dr. Diggins explains. "Shall we get started?"
Ash and Pikachu smiles, nods their heads and Ash clenching his fist with excitement.
"You bet!" he answers excitedly.
Pikachu squeaks in excitement, having the aqua hair scientist smile. He went to the machine and begin entering some codes in before a button starts flashing red. He step aside and gestures Ash to the button.
"After you." he said politely.
Ash walks to the button and presses it. The machine begin to spark static inside as it slowly lift the skull in the air before being engulf in light.
"Reviving Vivosaur in 3… 2… 1… Reviving Complete." The computer announces as the light fades.
Smoke was engulfing the inside before the glass cylinder begin to open as a shadow begin to emerge from the smoke to reveal a small two-legged reptile with pink and white scales, grey claws and talons, and yellow cat-like eyes. The small creature hisses as it jumps down and begin taking its first steps and look around. The creature saw the two humans and a small yellow rodent with a zig-zag tail.
"Ash, I like to introduce you to your first Vivosaur: Nychus." Dr. Diggins says.
Ash bent down to the Nychus' eye level and pet its head.
"Hi there Nychus, I'm Ash." Ash says with a smile.
Nychus begins to snarl, but then he bit Ash's hand causing him to scream in pain, trying his best to pull his hand out of the theropod's mouth.
"Yeah, Nychus are known to be aggressive to their owners in the beginning." Dr. Diggins said calmly.
"You're telling me! This is just as bad as when I first got Pikachu!" Ash yells still pulling his hand to no avail.
Pikachu's cheeks begin to spark before launching a Thunderbolt at both at Ash and Nychus. Nychus instantly let go of Ash's hand, revealing bite marks on his hand. Ash rubs his bitten hand, gritting his teeth to dull the pain.
"You okay?" Dr. Diggins asks a little bit worried.
"Y-Yeah, I'm fine." Ash said reassuringly.
"Well then, I guess its time for your license." the doctor said.
Ash got up with Pikachu and his new partner growling annoyingly at his new owner. Ash looks at his pink and white raptor, sighing as he could remember his first time getting Pikachu. It reminds him when Pikachu wasn't all too happy with his new owner and wouldn't listen to him. It had to take a flock of Spearows to attack him and protecting his injured Pikachu, in a storm mind you, and have Pikachu finish them off with a Thunderbolt to scare them away. It was de ja vu all over again. As long he doesn't have to fight any flock of Sparrows, he'll be fine.
Location: Fossil Stadium
Ash and Pikachu stare at the huge building that towers of them, to see a huge colosseum-like building with torches lining up to the entrance and golden colored, curved, spiky pillars were easy to set it off to make it look very competitive. He looks at his Vivosaur medallion, that has his Nychus, flick it into the air and catch it in his palm. This was his first ever fight since he got here and it seems to make him a little nervous.
Nervous because this was his first battle, nervous because he is going to be watch by everyone on the island and to be from another world wasn't helping at the slightest, and nervous because he worries that will lose his first battle. Doctor Diggins told him that even if he fails his first battle, he could always try again to get his license and there is no limit on how many times he could do it. His worries have been lifted by that for a bit, but he doesn't want to make a fool about himself and he was going to make sure not to do that. He doesn't know how on earth he got here or why, but his sense of adventures was tugging on him like a child would tug his mother to get something they want. That's what his instincts were: like of a child. His innocence was still there, despite maturing in Kalos, his oblivious to love and lack of strategy was still visible when he travels somewhere new. But like all the other regions he'd been to, he has learned to adapt and evolve to become stronger and one day become a Pokémon Master. But here, he must put his dreams aside and set up a new goal. To become a Fossil Fighter Champion.
"You ready Pikachu?" Ash asks his yellow rodent friend.
"Pika!" Pikachu says, pumping his fist into the air.
Ash smiles confidently and places his medallion into his pocket. "Alright, let's do this."
Ash then took his first step into the arena, preparing himself for what this world has yet to offer.
Author's Note: Hey guys, since the school year is almost over and I'm at my last days and preparing for finals, I'm getting a little antsy about the whole thing. So Ash got his first ever Vivosaur, and I have already though about the team he would get, but I would really like to know what other Vivosaurs he should get. I ask my brother on what should his first Vivosaur should be and he said that it should be one of the Raptors and so, I decided Nychus. I thought of giving him Charizard's personality for determination but also rebellious when Ash's Charmeleon evolved alongside his first ever encounter with his new master, much like how Pikachu wasn't too fond with Ash for the first time.
Well, I hope you guys like it. Next Time: Ash and Pikachu will have their first ever Fossil Fighter battle. Who would be their first rival and will they succeed? Find out next time.
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