DISCLAIMER: THIS IS FANfiction so, if you couldn't guess, I'm a fan of Pokémon and don't own Pokémon. Pokémon is owned by Nintendo and GameFreak

Also just wanna say, "Damn it's been a year (and a few months which shall be ignored)!" Hope I can still satisfy you all. Read this chapter that took a year to write, decide for yourself!

"Talking" = Speech

"(Pokéspeaking?)" = Pokéspeech

'Thinking' = Thoughts

'Telepathic speech' = Telepathy

Bold stuff = Pokédex entries and attacks


"That's probably nothing," Leaf said, looking slightly unsure, "I mean, I hope it is."

"C'mon Leaf, did you hear how loud it was? It was way too loud to be nothing!" Ash looked worried, "We should check it out. Riolu, stand guard until we get back."

After Riolu gave a growl showing that he would stay, Ash,Leaf and their Pokémon ran towards where they thought the scream came from heard.

Ash and Leaf kept running towards the scream, their fears about what was happening increasing over their sprint. Someone might have been attacked by poachers or there could be rogue Pokémon on the loose or another Magikarp recently evolved (which Ash noted seemed to be happening a lot recently.)"

They finally came to a clearing, where an orange-haired girl, who was wearing a blue T-shirt and short jeans, and an auburn-haired boy, who was wearing a dark green overcoat (light green sleeves that have a yellow strip at the end) and light green trousers with thick yellow strips at the sides, seemed to be arguing.

The auburn-haired boy had a Charmander next to him whilst the orange-haired girl had a Staryu that had fainted. Ash sweat-dropped when he heard them arguing.

"I guess there really was nothing wrong," he said, realising that the girl must've screamed due to losing the battle.

"How did I cheat? Just because I taught my Charmander to dodge doesn't mean that I cheated. I just told him to dodge any attacks that come to him because - I'm not sure if you get this," the Charmander's trainer emphasised the last few words, "if an attack hits a Pokémon, it damages them and makes it harder for them to continue fighting. Why should I just tell my Pokémon to get attacked, that's just a bad idea! And anyway, you should train your Pokémon to aim better and fire attacks faster. Even if Charmander didn't dodge, most of your attacks would've missed and they took way too long to fire that Charmander would've dodged anyway."

"Of course you cheated if NONE of the attacks hit, it's clear that the battle was rigged. And give me a break, I caught this Pokémon a few days ago." the Starmie's trainer said, slightly flustered.

Ash was slightly angered by the last sentence, this trainer was trying to pin the loss on her Pokémon and not on herself, "You do realise that a Pokémon trainer is meant to help a Pokémon reach its full potential. If you were unable to help the Pokémon aim its attack properly then the only person you can blame is yourself."

"Oh, who are you? Who do you think you are to interrupt?" the girl said turning around, "I'm the Gym Leader of the Cerulean Gym. You've probably just started your journey, newbie. "

"So, what if I officially started my journey. At least I've been able to train my Pokémon well enough to know that if I ever lose it's my fault and not my Pokémon's skill," the raven-haired boy said.

"And, how could your opponent have rigged the battle? Did he smear dirt on your Pokémon's face while you weren't looking or did he suddenly put a sheet over your Pokémon that we humans can't see and you never noticed when he put it on your Pokémon?" Leaf said, a confused look on her face, how could a Pokémon battle be rigged? It's just two animals trying to harm each other, the stronger or more strategic one wins.

"Yeah, the last one!" the orange-haired girl shouted, clearly expecting them to not respond once she had told them she was a gym leader, "I-I mean I don't listen to rookies. Maybe I'll listen to you three once you've beaten me in a Gym Battle. My name's Misty Waterflower and you'll never be able to beat me in our Gym Battle!" Misty laughed to herself, held Staryu's Pokéball up in her hand (which Misty used to recall Staryu when Ash had interrupted), and walked towards the edge of the clearing and disappeared into the forest.

The boy that had a Charmander started walking towards Ash and Leaf, his Charmander walking in front of him. He shook his head slightly, "Do you think she's really a Gym Leader? Aren't they supposed to be role-models for Pokémon trainers to learn from? Doesn't matter, I guess. My name's Ritchie from Frodomar City and this is my partner Zippo."

The Charmander jumped up, indicating that he was Zippo, "(I didn't even get hit. I'm so lucky to have a great trainer!)"

"Well, my name's Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town and this is my partner Pikachu!" Ash said with Pikachu waving his arm, "I also have a Bagon, who's in his Pokéball, and a Riolu who's still at my campsite"

"My name is Leaf Green and I'm from Pallet Town as well. And this is my partner," Leaf sent out Bulbasaur from his Pokéball.

"(Hey, didn't I see this guy a few days ago?)" Bulbasaur walked over to Zippo, and both Kanto starters started to talk about the things their trainers couldn't understand.

"So Ash, seeing as how Zippo didn't take any damage during that battle with Misty, do you wanna have a battle with me?"

"Yeah, alright let's go. It'll have to be quick though. Riolu's probably on edge waiting for me. Bagon," he threw Bagon's Pokéball out, "I choose you!"

"Don't worry, we'll win in no time! Zippo, let's do this!" Ritchie walked away from Ash until there was a decent distance between them.

"I'll spectate then," Leaf said, wanting to see if she could use any strategies that are used.

"Alright, Zippo use Growl!" Ritchie shouted, starting off the battle.

Zippo started growling in a cute manner which caused Bagon to be covered in a faint blue glow, which was flowing downwards, indicating that Bagon's attack was lowered.

"Alright then, Bagon use Dragon Pulse!" Ash shouted back.

A ball of draconic energy formed in front of Bagon's mouth before a purple beam hit the Charmander.

"Alright, if I guess correctly and you're a Dragon-type, Fire-type attacks won't be effective. Zippo, dodge! Then use Growl and Scratch!"

Zippo, who somersaulted to the side, growled again causing Bagon's attack to lower. After this, he charged at Bagon with his sharpened claws glowing white.

"Bagon, quickly use Rage!"

Bagon glowed red and its eyes narrowed. Bagon's red claws smashed into the Kanto starter's right shoulder whilst the Fire-type slammed his sharpened white claws into the side of Bagon's head. Bagon's eyes seemed to flare as the red glow covering Bagon deepened and started flowing upwards for a bit.

"Bagon, use Rage on Zippo's arm!"

Bagon's red claws slammed into Charmander's right arm, causing Zippo to wince at the pain. Zippo scratched Bagon before leaping back, trying to create a small distance between him and Bagon.

"Zippo use Ember to trap Bagon. Then lower Bagon's attack with Growl."

Zippo swung his tail in a sweeping motion, flames coming off of his tail and igniting the ground surrounding Bagon, trapping the Dragon-type in a circle of flames. The Kanto-starter started growling again, causing the attack buffs to lessen.

"If we can't raise our own attack, we'll lower their defence. Bagon use Leer!"

Bagon's eyes focused on Zippo's, menacingly. Like how a blue glow had appeared on Bagon, a similar blue glow appeared on Zippo although this time indicating that Zippo's defence was lowered.

"Bagon use Dragon Pulse to propel yourself over the flames. Then use a back to back Bite and Rage!"

Bagon did a front flip until his body was parallel to the ground. He then released a dark purple beam that shot him up into the sky. The Rock Head Pokémon opened his mouth as he was diving towards Charmander.

"Zippo, watch out!" Ritchie said trying to tell Charmander to dodge but it was already too late.

Charmander was hit by the first bite and was also hit repeatedly with the following Rage and Bite. Charmander tried to fight back with Scratch attacks but was overpowered quickly. Bagon stopped attacking and walked back with Charmander falling flat on his face, eyes replaced with swirls.

"Well, I guess the better trainer won," Ritchie said, spraying a potion on the Fire-type starter before pulling Zippo's Pokéball out and returning the Charmander to the Pokéball. He handed the prize money to Ash.

"That was a good battle," Ash said, also using a potion on Bagon as well, "So Ritchie, let's have a battle once we meet again."

"Sure! I'll beat you next time!" Ritchie said with a grin before heading towards the edge of the clearing and running into the darkness.

Leaf jumped off the log she was sitting on, "Well we should probably go back to our campsite. We should probably try to get to Viridian City by sunset."

Ash recalled Bagon and headed towards the campsite with Leaf behind him.


Ash and Leaf entered Viridian City an hour before sunset; once they cleared the clearing of any of their possessions, they made a beeline to Viridian City battling the group of Rattata and the trio of Pidgey they came across.

With a grin on their faces, Ash and Leaf headed towards a Pokémon Center having some idle conversations whilst they looked for the Pokémon Centre.

"So Leaf, have you received any welcome gifts since you came to Pallet Town? Well, other than the PokéNav," Ash said, looking for the Pokémon Centre.

"I got some flowers and cookies from some of my neighbours," Leaf said, also looking for the red building, "Why do you ask Ash? I mean, it's not like my best friend forgot to buy me something."

Ash blushed slightly, "Well... um, I-I didn't-"

Leaf slapped him on the back playfully, "Jeez Ash, I know you didn't know I returned. Although, if you bought me something, I wouldn't say no."

Ash laughed slightly as they kept looking for the Pokémon Centre, "I think I've found it."

Leaf turned to where Ash was looking, a building with a red roof with a battlefield next to it, "It looks like you did."

They both entered the building and gave their Pokémon to Nurse Joy who, followed by a Chansey, went behind a door for a few minutes before exiting and giving Pikachu and the Pokéballs back to the trainers.

"Would you like anything else?" Nurse Joy asked with a smile.

"Can we rent a room please?" Ash asked, pulling Poké Dollars out of his wallet.

"It's 1100 Poké Dollars," she said exchanging the key to a room with money, "Have a nice evening!"


Ash and Leaf stood on Route 22 with Leaf battling the Pokémon on the route to train her Spearow and Pikachu cheering them on. When she caught it, the Pokémon was around the same level as Bulbasaur. However, when they were coming to Viridian City, a level gap between Spearow and Bulbasaur increased so she wanted to focus on training the bird.

"Spearow use Peck," Leaf commanded as Spearow swooped towards the Mankey that she was facing off against. Once the Flying-type Pokémon had pecked the Mankey, she darted away with the monkey-like Pokémon trying to use Scratch to send her falling to the ground. It then used Low Kick once the bird hit the ground but missed.

"Spearow use Tri-attack!" Leaf said, trying to get Spearow to master it so she could hold her own if Bulbasaur fainted in the Pewter City Gym Battle. Spearow formed three orbs in front of his mouth before turning them into beams which struck the Mankey knocking it out.

Leaf congratulated her Spearow, with the Mankey they defeated getting up and leaping away. The congratulation was cut short however by a rustling bush. Leaf looked at the bush with her Pokédex in her hand. Whatever was in the bush seemed to have noticed the attention it was getting because the bush stopped rustling.

"Spearow, use Tri-attack on that bush!" Leaf ordered, hoping that whatever was in the bush would be a good addition to her team. Her Flying-type Pokémon shot beams of electricity, ice and fire into the bush. Leaf scanned the purple Pokémon that jumped out of the bush.

Nidoran , The Poison Pin Pokémon and the evolved form of Nidoking. Nidoran has developed muscles for moving its ears. Thanks to them, the ears can be freely moved in any direction. Even the slightest noise does not escape this Pokémon's notice. This Pokémon is always male like how its counterpart is always female.

The base stats for this Pokémon's current form are:

HP: 46

Attack: 57

Defence: 40

Special Attack: 40

Special Defence: 40

Speed: 50

The base stats for this Pokémon's final form are:

HP: 81

Attack: 102

Defence: 77

Special Attack: 85

Special Defence: 75

Speed: 85

Leaf looked at the Pokédex entry, a confused look on her face "If this Pokémon is always male, isn't it impossible for there to be a baby Nidoran ? Does that mean that Nidoking and a Nidoqueen always make a Nidoran ? Shouldn't this species be extinct?"

"Actually, a Nidoking and a Nidoqueen can't breed," Ash pointed out, answering one of the questions, "And, I think you might be right Leaf. If the father only contributes to the moves and the mother contributes to the species, then a baby Nidoran is impossible. Let me research this on my Pokénav."

"But if a Nidoking and Nidoqueen can't breed, why are their pre-evolved forms named Nidoran and Nidoran ? Shouldn't they be different species entirely?" Leaf pulled out her own Pokénav.

Ash looked at his Pokénav, before saying, "Actually, it appears that Nidoqueen can't breed at all and Nidoking can cause their offspring to be a Nidoran , Nidoran or the mother's species. It seems that the people that named them knew next to nothing about the Pokémon they're naming. Also, did you know that you can have a female Mr Mime?"

"Wait, where's it gone?" Leaf said, looking around for the Pokémon, "It must have left."

"Is it... sleeping on the sign?" Ash said, pointing at the small purple creature with a snot bubble leaning onto the sign.

"Alright Spearow, use Tri-attack and follow it up with Peck," Leaf ordered once she had found where Ash was looking. The Normal-flying type released a beam of electricity, a beam of fire and a beam of ice. All of which, hit the Poison-type Pokémon causing a decent amount of damage and popping the snot bubble.

"(You really want to catch me that bad. Well, I won't be captured!)" the Nidoran said, suddenly being outlined in a red aura. The Nidoran , once finishing his Focus Energy attack, charged at Spearow with his feet glowing white, ready to use Double Kick.

"Spearow, dodge! Then use Leer and Peck!" Leaf said, causing Spearow to dodge the first of the Double Kick but not the second. Spearow darted away from the Nidoran before narrowing her eyes, causing the Nidoran 's defence to lower. Spearow then jabbed her beak into the side of Nidoran 's head, causing the purple Pokémon's health to lower but also causing Spearow to be poisoned.

"So, it has Poison Point as its ability. Spearow use Tri-attack repeatedly! Maybe we can afflict Nidoran with a burn or paralysis," Leaf ordered, realising that she should start to throw Pokéballs soon. Spearow formed orbs of electricity, fire and ice and released them in the form of beams. Once the attack hit, Spearow was forming more orbs whilst Leaf noticed electricity flowing through parts of their opponent's body. She would have prefered having the Nidoran be burned (the fact that being afflicted with burn caused the Pokémon's physical attack damage to be halved outweighed the fact that paralysis caused the afflicted Pokémon's speed to be halved) but she would take what she could.

"(Damn it! Did you have to burn me?)" the Poison-type said, trying to use a Peck attack on the bird only to be stopped by the pain of being afflicted by burn

"Your health should have been lowered enough, go Pokéball!" Leaf said throwing the red and white capsule at the Nidoran . The small Pokémon was put into the Pokéball. One shake, two shakes, three shakes and... the Pokéball burst. Leaf sighed, "I was hoping you'd stay in that Pokéball. Go, Pokéball!"

"(C'mon, I could barely get out of the last one,)" the Pokémon said, not even trying to resist as he was transported yet again into the Pokéball. This time the Pokéball didn't burst but made a ping with three stars seeming to appear around the button.

"Alright! I caught a Nidoran !" Leaf said with a grin, "C'mon Ash. I need to heal Spearow and Nidoran."

"We should hurry before Spearow faints," Ash said, walking towards the town with Leaf following behind after she'd returned Spearow to her Pokéball.


"Good," Leaf said, standing still just in front of the Pokémon Centre, "Spearow barely has any Health Points left. It probably would've fainted if we waited. That would've been annoying."

"So, let's go inside the Pokémon Centre and heal her," Ash said, pulling Leaf into the Pokémon Centre before Spearow fainted from the poison.

A magenta-haired woman, a lavender-haired man and a Meowth stood in the middle of the Pokémon Centre with everyone else against the wall.

The woman seemed to notice Ash and Leaf entering because she quickly ordered the lavender-haired man (who the woman called James) to battle them.

James seemed to see something wrong with the plan, "But Jessie, we haven't even said our motto!"

Realising this, Jessie seemed to receive a large boost of energy, "Thanks for reminding me, James. Alright twerps, listen to the greatest motto you'll ever hear in your pathetic little lives, ahem: Prepare for trouble!"

"Do you think we should just go to the PokéMart?" Leaf asked, wanting to heal her Pokémon as soon as possible.

"Maybe we should just battle them. They don't seem very threatening," Ash said causing Pikachu to release small sparks from his cheeks.

"Now! Hand over your Pokémon!" Jessie ordered, with James next to her and the Meowth ready to attack.

"Use Thunder Shock," Ash whispered. Pikachu understood the command, preparing to leap to the side and shock the Team Rocket Trio.

Pikachu lept to the side and shocked Meowth from the side causing a considerable amount of health to fall. Pikachu then used Quick Attack to hit the side of the cat-like Pokémon before going between Jessie and James and using Thunder Shock to stun them for a second. Ash sent out Riolu who, seeing Pikachu attack the two humans, charged up a Force Palm in his left hand and a Sky Uppercut in the right. The short, blue and black Pokémon struck the Meowth with both attacks causing the normal-type to faint.

"Meowth! How could you let them beat you?" Jessie said, tossing another releasing an Ekans, which was a purple snake with a yellow stripe on its neck and an underbelly which is the same colour, "Use Dig, on that Pikachu!"

The purple and yellow snake dived into the ground before making a beeline to underneath Pikachu. The yellow Pokémon tried to dodge the attack by hopping back but the Poison-type snake was able to hit Pikachu's leg causing the Electric-type's HP to drop a significant amount.

"Riolu, use Blaze Kick!" Ash said, realising that Pikachu was low on health, "Pikachu, keep your distance and use rapid-fire Electro Ball!"

"Bulbasaur, grab that Ekans with Vine Whip and hold it in place!" Leaf said, sending her Bulbasaur out into the fight.

The vines that sprouted from the Grass-type's bulb wrapped around the Ekans and slammed the snake-like Pokémon into the ground. Riolu slammed his blazing foot into the side of the Ekans whilst the Electro Balls that came from Pikachu either hit the Poison-type or narrowly missed the Ekans and hit whatever was around it.

"Pikachu, slow the Electro Balls and keep your aim tight," Ash called out to Pikachu, who nodded and started slowing down the rate of Electro Balls, "Riolu, use Sky Uppercut and Force Palm."

James, who wasn't very active during the fight, sent out a Pokémon of his own, "Koffing, use Smog and Smokescreen!"

"Bulbasaur, use Vine Whip to blow the smoke away!" Leaf said, once hearing Ekans faint from a Force Palm used by Riolu.

"Jessie, we need to escape! We'll get the twerps later!" James said, recalling his Koffing.

"We'll get you, you twerps are first on the hit list for Team Rocket!" Jessie recalled her Ekans and ran towards the exit as a loud crack whipped through the air, "Ow! You twerps really are going to get it!"

Leaf and Ash returned their Pokémon to their Pokéball, with Leaf checking Spearow's health, "And... she's fainted, Nurse Joy can you heal my Pokémon? One of them has fainted."

A woman in a nurse outfit with pink hair and a Chansey rose from behind the desk, "Er...Yes, please hand us your Pokéballs and we can restore your Pokémon to their healthiest state."

After Ash and Leaf handed over their Pokémon to Nurse Joy, they sat on one of the seats and looked at the Pokémon Centre. The walls and floor had whip marks all over them due to Bulbasaur's Vine Whip. There were medium to large dents in the wall due to the missed Electro Balls from Pikachu and a duo of about half a metre wide holes which were made by the Dig from Ekans. The damage would probably be expensive and Ash didn't have much money on him but at least they had stopped those Pokémon thieves... who still escaped from the Pokémon Centre.

"Ok, maybe we should just abandon the room we bought and run," Ash whispered to Leaf, who had also realised how much damage they'd caused.

"When we collect our Pokémon from Nurse Joy, we'll judge whether to stay or run," Leaf whispered back before her Pokénav started vibrating, "Ash, I'm just going to take this call outside. If Nurse Joy comes out, judge for me."

Ash sweat dropped as he realised that he needed to call his mother. She probably expected him to be here, at the Pokémon Centre, by now. He pressed some buttons on the Pokénav and entered his mum's number into the Pokénav. He looked at the door Nurse Joy went through and assumed he had a few minutes to call his mum.

The Pokénav's screen lit up to show Ash's mother in a white shower robe and a purple towel tied around her hair, "Ash?"

"Hey mum," the raven-haired boy said, sweatdropping as he realised he hadn't gone back to his house after going to the lab, "If you're wondering, I'm at the Viridian City Pokémon Centre and am calling you with a Pokénav."

Delia sighed, before a short laugh, "So, Professor Oak gave you the Pokénav. I thought he would've given it to Leaf as a welcome present. Speaking of which, you did talk with Leaf, right?"

Ash grinned at the mention of his best friend, "Yeah, she's outside talking to her mum!"

"Talking to her mum outside? Samuel never told me that he had two Pokénavs, I assume that she's calling her mum with a Pokénav. Well then, might I assume that you're both travelling together?" Delia asked, knowing the answer.

"Yep, we decided to travel together! She's caught a Spearow and a Nidoran within the time we've left the lab!"

"Alright, I need to go on an errand! So Ash, remember I'm rooting for you!" Delia said with a smile, "And you better make sure you call me whenever you can!"

"Bye, mum!" Ash said as the screen turned off.

"Hello, can Ash Ketchum and Leaf Green collect their Pokémon, please?" Nurse Joy called.

Ash walked towards the desk and looked at Nurse Joy. Ok, she had an honest smile and didn't have a sharp glare, maybe he was okay? He took his Pokéballs and Pikachu before he called Leaf, who came and collected her Pokéballs. Ash sighed in relief as he saw no indications that Nurse Joy was annoyed.

"Since you did quite well in that battle with those Pokémon thieves, can I ask for you to do something. I'm sure you're both quite capable of the job." Nurse Joy asked, "There is a rogue Primeape on Route 2 that has been attacking trainers that cross its path. I was hoping you could catch it for me, after all, in the open outdoors there is no cost for damage!"

Ash and Leaf caught the slight annoyance in her voice at the end. Ash, deciding that they were partly guilty for the damage, asked, "Can you give us some Pokéballs?"

"Err, yes will do!" Nurse Joy said, seeming to expect them to have run, "I'll be back in a moment!"

"Ash! Why did you sign us up for the extra work? We could've just said that we would do it in the morning... and then not do it at all," Leaf said realising that she was talking quite loudly.

"We did dent the walls and, you know, leave whip marks on the floor," Ash said, not angry, just slightly irked at the fact that he would have to find a Pokémon after dark well, technically there was twilight but that would be gone soon.

"Alright, fine. I guess we kinda caused them some money... but... Well, I might as well help you," Leaf said, blushing at the fact that she had said, aloud, that she had caused some damage and didn't, at least didn't seem to, feel guilty.

"Here are the extra Pokéballs," she said handing over the Pokéballs, "I wish you good luck!"


Leaf simply sighed whilst Ash collected the spare Pokéballs and walked to the exit of the city and onto Route 2 before splitting to look for the Primape. Ash pulled his Pokédex out and scanned the area. If the beam wasn't obstructed by a wall, the Pokémon should be shown on screen. While Ash scanned the area, Leaf had sent out Spearow who was looking around from the air while she looked around on the ground.

Ash, not finding anything with the beam, looked around for anything the Primeape could be hiding behind. Ash then walked through a tight gap in between the trees before laughing, "Leaf, I think I might know where it is! And, I don't think this is going to be as easy as I thought it would be!"

Leaf quickly walked over to where she heard Ash's voice with Spearow following behind. She squeezed through the gap in the trees and sighed, she knew this was going to take longer than normal! She looked around in case the Primeape might have been there. Just trees and a Rattata on the floor who was either sleeping or dead (not common, but not rare with how large the population was.) Well, no Primeape to be seen. However, there were two paths (one to the left and one to the right) that Leaf knew they were going to have to go through in order to find this rogue Fighting-type.

"These paths aren't on the map," Ash said, a confused yet excited look on his face, "These aren't on any map I've ever seen, and trust me, I've looked at almost every map of Kanto."

"You know the path could've been made after the map was made," Leaf said, pulling out her Pokénav, "And... I think you might be right, the last time the Pokénav GPS satellite flew over here was a week ago. Do you want to keep going? I'm sure that this Primeape is here."

"We can't pay for the damage, so do we really have much of a choice?" Ash said with a wry smile before sending out his Pokémon, "Alright, guys! So we're looking for a Primeape, and we're pretty sure they're somewhere on one of these three paths. Riolu, I want you to use Agility down the Path and scout for us. Check if there is anything that's resentful with your emotion-reading powers, I'm sure that the Primeape isn't in a great mood. Bagon and Pikachu, I want you guys to be alert so we can catch this Pokémon. Alright Leaf, do you wanna split up or stay together?"

"Split up, I just want to finish this as quickly as possible so I can go to the Pokémon Centre and enjoy some online videos in bed," Leaf said, yawning before sending out Bulbasaur and Nidoran, "Spearow, can you look ahead for us? Nidoran, I want you to listen out to anything hidden in the trees! Bulbasaur, I want you to have your vines out, in case we find anything."

After exchanging numbers with each other, Ash and Leaf split up with the hopes that they would find the Pokémon sooner rather than later.

"It's only 8:45 pm," Ash said sighing, he and Leaf had split up about five minutes ago and nothing had happened - although it was unlikely that they would've found the Pokémon this soon.

"Have you found anything?" Ash asked his Pokémon, getting no interesting answers Ash muttered to himself, "I wonder how long this is going for me to find this Primeape!"

Ash heard a crack to his left and looked into the trees, "Riolu, can you read any emotions? Pikachu, charge a Thunder Shock. Bagon, I want you to charge up Flaming Dragon Pulse."

"(I don't sense anything inherently negative towards us. I'm pretty sure we're fine, we can continue,)" Riolu said via the bond, "(I'll scout another hundred metres, Ash!)"

Riolu came and went with little information that was interesting, the interesting thing that Riolu found was a tree that seemed to have been punched out of the ground. Ash sighed in relief, the Fighting-type they were looking for was close.

Pikachu leaned onto Ash's shoulder, a wave of serenity and fatigue, "(You know, I feel like this Primeape is following us and we don't know it. Well. I'm going to go to sleep, wake me up if something happens!)"

Riolu laughed before telling Ash what Pikachu said. Ash looked around in mock paranoia before laughing to himself. However, after a few seconds of laughing, he took the comment seriously. What if they really were standing behind them, ready to attack them once Riolu and Bagon weren't paying attention. But... what if they weren't following him. What if they were following Leaf? She was a good trainer, Ash wouldn't dismiss that, but...

Riolu, seeming to not notice anything behind them, decided to talk with Ash,"(You know, from the few hours I've known her, I think she would be fine with the Primeape. And, you used to tell me she was the single most lucky person, you've ever met. I'm sure she's fine.)

Ash sighed to himself for worrying and pulled out his Pokénav to browse the internet. Once the free wi-fi signals that were set up around Kanto had reached his Pokénav, he searched for any facts about the elusive path whilst Riolu and Bagon kept watch for any threats.


"Well done, Nidoran!" Leaf said, after defeating another Rattata that had crossed their path. Nidoran grunted, still harbouring some anger at Leaf, but accepting the fact that he would have to live with it.

"(Nothing is there, Leaf,)" Spearow said, having returned and knowing that Leaf would get the idea.

"Well, what did I expect? I'm starting to doubt the fact that this Primeape is here," Leaf said, groaning since she knew this would take an eternity to do, "Well then, let's start moving!"

Leaf continued on the walk, her Pokédex in her hand, "You know, a Primeape isn't a bad Pokémon. Should I consider keeping it?"

Primeape, The Pig Monkey Pokémon and the evolved form of Mankey. The blood vessels in its brain are sturdier than those of other Pokémon, so it can stay healthy despite its constant raging.

The stats of this Pokémon are:

HP: 65

Attack: 105

Defence: 60

Special Attack: 60

Special Defense: 70

Speed: 95

Leaf looked over the movepool, decent coverage with the elemental punches and it's Same Type Attack Bonus with Fighting-type attacks made sure that there were no Pokémon she'd need to use a non-effective attack on any opponents. Then there were the other attacks Primeape could learn: the multitude of Dark-type attacks, the Ground-type attacks that it could learn via levelling up and TM plus the other attacks it learns such as U-turn and Aerial made it a viable sweeper.

The trainer carried on down the path, still wondering whether or not to catch the Pokémon that they were after. But then again, if she wanted to add a Primeape to her team, she could just catch a Mankey. She thought about it a bit harder and decided that, if she were to find the Pokémon, she would catch it and it to her team.

"(Leaf, I think we've found something!) Bulbasaur said with a grin on his face, extending a vine out to point at something, "(Look over there!)"

"You've found something, haven't you!" Leaf said, looking at where the vine was pointing. The Pokédex had said that Primeape was always in a rage, that would explain the multiple fist marks on the ground. This Pokémon must be completely insane to have tried to fight the ground, it must've thought that it could've beaten the ground since the dents it left on the ground looked as if the Pokémon was putting all its power into the punches.

Nidoran looked at the dents left in the ground, "(You know, I don't think we should go further, this Pokémon seems a bit... unstable.)"

Spearow agreed with Nidoran saying "(I doubt this is a good idea. We don't really need to do this, do we?)"

"I'm pretty sure we have to do this, guys. We wouldn't have been looking for the Pokémon if we didn't need to," Leaf said, walking on the trail with some doubts, "Maybe adding this Pokémon to my team is a bad idea."

Pikachu jumped off of Ash's shoulder in fright after sleeping for about forty minutes, "(Holy... what the...!)" Pikachu started sweating bullets and his cheeks were releasing sparks, "(Ash, I don't think that this Primeape is the worst thing after us!)"

Ash, after being avoiding his feet from being burnt by the sparks, "Pikachu, it was just a dream. It's fine, calm down! If your cheeks keep releasing that much energy you'll start a forest fire."

Riolu, holding an orb of water over a few sticks, with smoke rising above the ball, "You're too late. I've already dealt with it!"

"Wait, are you using Rain Dance?" Ash said, an excited look on his face, "You were able to use it without having to make the rain pour. We could adapt that to a Water Pulse and you would have some more type coverage!"

"(Water Pulse, huh? That would give me an edge on Fire-types and it would give me a projectile to use when I can't reach my opponent,)" Riolu said, knowing that if he wanted to last longer in fights, he would need more coverage, "(Are we going to learn that once we get back or are we going to hold it until Pewter City?)"

"We should hold it, I think we should just perfect the moves we already have for the Pewter City Gym battle. We'll probably need to train for the Cerulean City Gym, even if that gym leader seems to be on the weaker side," Ash said, remembering how that orange-haired girl said she was a gym leader, "Better to just perfect what we know will be effective."

Bagon, interested in how Pikachu woke up, asked, "(What was in your dream anyway, Pikachu?)"

"(It was dark, just completely pitch-black dark. And then, out of nowhere, there is just white smoke and everything I could've ever feared appears. Everyone I know dies, I never meet Ash and you guys and worst of all,)" Pikachu sniffled, tears almost pouring out, "(A world without ketchup is revealed before my eyes. People... people eat hot dogs with the creation of the devil himself: mustard. The world doesn't have its greatest creation, just sadness and excess tomatoes.)"

"Gee Pikachu, I never knew I was second to a condiment!" Ash said in mock-annoyance, "But anyway, I'm sure it's fine."

"(Can you buy me, um... a hundred litre of ketchup, once we get back to Viridian City?)" Pikachu asked, knowing that the supply of ketchup that Ash had was enough but, after seeing that desperate world, he needed to know that he would be able to survive.

"Don't push it, Pikachu!" Ash said, that look in Pikachu's eye could only mean one thing, Pikachu wanted an abundance of ketchup.

Pikachu sighed, before quickly turning around and looking into the trees behind them, "(Didn't I say that we would have something stalking us? I'm sure I heard a whisper!)"

Ash, knowing that were they to look they would find nothing like last time, simply told the group to continue looking for the Primeape. He checked the time, only 9:10 pm. He would call it quits at 11 o'clock. That was late enough to be considered a thorough look but not late enough that they might wake up later than 7 am which was Ash's preferred time to wake up. Although, Leaf had been a person to sleep in and she doesn't seem to have changed. Maybe he should just throw some of his plans out of the window, Leaf was back and he would enjoy her company.

Whilst Ash smiled to himself, the Pokémon were looking around for the Primeape, wondering whether or not adding the Pokémon to the team would be a good idea. They were going through all this trouble to catch him, so they might as well. The problem that they saw with this Primeape was its anger issues. They knew Ash could handle it, but there was a possibility that Primeape would be untrainable.

"(Wait... Shit, something is following us!)" Riolu said, detecting a presence, "(It might not be aggressive, but it's definitely angry!)"

"(You swear, now? Weren't you the person that would chide US when we swore that one time)" Pikachu said, even if he understood that they weren't expecting something to appear.

"Is anyone there!" they heard a voice say from the trees, "If there's a Primeape there, can you, you know, make yourself be known!"

Ash quickly thought of what to do, he didn't know where this Primeape was so the extra eyes would help. But the person was an unknown, they could have malicious intentions.

'We're fine, Ash!,' Riolu said once he had looked through the thoughts of the person that was in the trees, 'they're tired and annoyed, I think that Nurse sent more than us to look for this Pokémon.

"We're here, but the Primeape isn't!" Ash called out. If Riolu had thought that the person presented no threat, he was sure there was no chance of something bad occurring.

Out of the darkness, Ritchie came out, sighing as he saw Ash, "Well Ash, we met way before I thought we would. Did the Nurse Joy in Viridian tell you to look for that Primeape as well?"

Ash nodded, "Yep, Leaf and I are only doing this because we trashed the Pokémon Centre when these Team Rocket grunts tried to rob the Pokémon Centre."

"You defended the Pokémon Centre from Team Rocket? Aren't they meant to be a big organisation? How'd you defend a Pokémon Centre from them!" Ritchie said in disbelief, from their battle earlier, he knew Ash was a good trainer, but...

"It was mostly luck that Leaf and I were able to beat a member of Team Rocket. I doubt that if the Team Rocket members were of a higher rank, we would have been able to beat them. We did pretty well and Leaf was able to get some good experience."

"Speaking of Leaf, where is she?"

"She went the opposite direction, that way we would cover more area. She gave me her number in case anything went wrong, so she should be fine."

"So, shall we keep on looking?


"This Primeape really is a lunatic," Leaf said, looking at all the bent trees and dents in the ground, "And, I think we're as close as can be."

Bulbasaur looked around and after a few glances, he found that the Pokémon that they had been looking for was punching the ground, ignorant of their presence. He noticed that the Fighting-type had a few bruises on its face that seemed rather recent, did it ram into a tree out of rage?

"Alright, Bulbasaur, I want you to constrict that Primeape with Vine Whip and smash it into the ground. Wrap the arms first and then the rest of the body. Spearow, once Bulbasaur has taken that Primeape down, I need you to rapid fire Tri-attack. Hopefully, if luck is on our side, our opponent should be either paralysed, frozen or burned - all of which have their own benefits. Nidoran, I want you to lower Primeape's health so that these Pokéballs are more effective. Alright, Bulbasaur, ready your vines! Spearow, get a good vantage point! Nidoran, stick with me!"

As her Pokémon followed her orders, she crept closer to the Primeape so she could get a good view of the area around the cream coloured monkey. Mostly trees and foliage, Bulbasaur's vines should be able to camouflage. As she saw Bulbasaur extend his vines, she did a final check of the area before signalling to Bulbasaur to start.

"(Here we go!)" Bulbasaur said, seeing that Spearow was in a good position. The vines that he sent out started to creep around Primeape, a centimetre away from the monkey's arms, before he constricted the arms, making sure that the Primeape was unable to use his hands. He then started squeezing tighter, Then continuing to wrap around the rest of Primeape's body. The process of wrapping Primeape came to a halt when Primeape used Thrash. Its arms started swinging wildly, causing the vines to almost rip.

Spearow saw this and used Tri-attack on Primeape, noticing that the attack was much more powerful than they were when she had used it earlier. The attack had been a critical hit! Leaf was right in saying that luck would be on their side! At least, Spearow thought it was until she noticed that a red glow went over Primeape's body. How would the Primeape have a stat boost if it didn't use any moves?

"So, it has the ability Anger Point," Leaf said, a bit of sarcasm in her voice as she said, "A Pokémon that needs a defence against blowing a vein from anger has an ability called Anger Point! Makes sense!"

"(My vines are about to rip!)" Bulbasaur said, grunting as he felt the vines about to snap. Just as the vine was about to snap, Bulbasaur shot a seed out of his bulb which dropped onto Primeape. The seed then started to grow and vines constricted Primeape before glowing red and started sapping some of Primeape's health. Bulbasaur retracted his vines before backing up and healing them.

Nidoran ran over to Primeape, using Peck on the Fighting-type. When the first attack landed, Primeape used Thrash again and tried to break through the vines only to be constricted yet again by Bulbasaur's vines. Nidoran, seeing how their opponent was going to break out of his vines sooner or later, started to use Leer.

"(Hey, Bulbasaur, can you use Growl on this guy? His stat boosts are guaranteeing that he can rip these vines again!)" Nidoran said, using Leer to lower the Primeape's defence so that his attacks would do some more damage.

"(Yeah, will do!)" Bulbasaur said, tightening his Vine Whip before starting using Growl to neutralise the stat boosts.

"I should've thought to neutralise the stat boosts," Leaf said, knowing that she had barely contributed to the fight, "Spearow, you use Leer as well. Also, keep using Tri-Attack. Paralysis or burn status would be really useful right now! Try swooping around whilst you do it, close-range shots would be best! Can you throw in a Peck or two while you're at it?"

Spearow nodded before narrowing her eyes and sending the three elemental beams at the Primeape. She leapt off of the branch she was on and circled around her target, closing in and throwing a Peck before backing up.

"Nidoran! I need you to use Peck!" Leaf said, noticing a hint of weariness on Primeape's face, "Bulbasaur, your Leech Seed is about to rip. Tighten your grip on him, slam him into the ground!"

As all the Pokémon carried out what Leaf told them to do, she realised that she hadn't told Ash about finding the Primeape. He was probably still looking for it, hoping that he would see some cream fur and a broken tree.

She'd call him once she was done, just in case the Primeape escaped, "Alright guys, he's about to faint! Spearow, charge up your Tri-attack for a bit longer! Nidoran, Double Kick it in the legs! Bulbasaur, keep him in place!"

Bulbasaur started tightening his grip until he knew that the Primeape would find it hard to breathe any further. Primeape struggled as he felt his arm being shoved into his ribs. Spearow had three large balls in front of her beak. She was about to shoot them out as a beam when she heard Leaf shout.

"Spearow, don't shoot! Can you mix those elements into a Peck? It should do much more than twice the damage we would've done before!" Leaf said, seeing Nidoran use a Double Kick on the back of Primeape's legs, a good shot would be easy and pack a lot of damage, "Nidoran, distance yourself from Primeape!"

As Nidoran jumped away from the Primeape, Spearow started ascending so that she could put some downwards momentum into the attack. Once she decided that she was high enough, she started nosediving with balls of fire, ice and electricity swirling around her beak. Mid-swoop and the balls had fused into her beak giving it a red, blue and yellow glow which spun at a dizzying rate. And... impact! The blow clearly had a lot of force behind it as the Primeape had been knocked back a metre or two into a bush. Spearow also felt the force, as she was blown back into a tree, swirls in her eyes.

"You did good, Spearow! You did really, really good!" Leaf praised, seeing that Primeape had also fainted, "But she can't take all the credit, can she? You two did great as well!"

"(Thanks, Leaf!)" Bulbasaur said, seeing their opponent had fainted.

"(You know, I think you might become a great trainer,)" Nidoran said. Spearow's attack had a lot of power in it. If Leaf could do something like that with him! He'd sweep through full teams with ease!

Leaf returned her Pokémon to their Pokéballs before turning to Primeape, a grin on her face, "Hah! You're a fully evolved Pokémon and I could take you down easily. The better person always wins and that makes me, Leaf Green the better person. Hell yeah!"

"(What...") The Primeape seemed to start moving, reminding Leaf to toss a pokéball at the Primeape

As the Pokéball pinged, Leaf smiled before pulling out her Pokénav and using the Match Call feature, "Hey Ash! You can quit now! I've caught it!"

"The Primeape? I knew you could do it, Leaf! And you said that I was a good trainer!" Ash said through the Pokénav, "Y'know, that Nurse Joy sent people other than use to look for that Primeape. I guess that makes you the best trainer out of us, Leaf. I'll change that soon though. I'll meet you at the Pokémon Centre. Now, tell me how you beat that Primeape!"


I hope you guys enjoyed and I just want to say that it was really fun to write this chapter. Expect the next chapter within a year!