AN2: Updated the Chapter because there were a couple of problems I missed yesterday.

AN: Well here I am trying to write my first full length fanfic. What a rush. I just had the idea for this story this morning and already published the prologue. Alright as a warning, this Charizard has lived for months in an Ice World and thus is OOC in his behavior towards Ash. Charizard has been loosing people for months, and thus is going to be extremely protective towards his friends. This chapter I hope will get us through to Charizard meeting Ash, but you never know. Also I'm looking for a beta.

One thing which I was originally not sure of is how to decide when Charizard would meet Ash. I've decided to solve this by saying that Charizard was originally captured as Damien's starter pokemon at 4 months old. This means that Charizard was with Damien for some time before abandonment happened since apparently kids get pokemon once per year as I understand it and Ash was a trainer for a few months. So Charizard would have been 1 ½ years old when he met Ash the first time.

Another thing, I will introduce some OC's but they probably won't reappear after this chapter and are just being used to tell the story.

The end of the world has come, not by fire but by ice. Charizard returns to the past to prevent this from ever happening. This time he will protect Ash. Time travel, Anime, OOC, the rule of cool.

If the World Must End

Growing up Charizard

Astarael Darkrah Black

Summary so far:

Articuno had destroyed the world. Arceus authorized Dailga to send a champion back in time and he picked Charzard. Just as Articuno attacked Dailga activated his time powers and everything went black.

Continuing the story:

Charizard woke up and tried to stretch out in his too cramped surroundings only to find himself unable to move.

'Did something go wrong?' He heard things moving around outside of his prison and tried to uncurl from the ball like shape his prison had pressed him into. There was a noise like a gunshot and light streamed into Charizard's prison. Charizard looked out of the crack he made and his mind stopped. He saw several giant Charmanders climbing out of eggs and then realized what must have happened to him.

"Oh! I'm in an egg. What the hell happened to my voice!" Charizard spoke for the first time since arriving in the past and his head hit the top of the egg in shock. The eggshell began cracking, outward from the point of impact in almost a spiderweb pattern. As if sensing that Charizard was now free his body began to glow.

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Charizard's parents were a pair of Charmander who were very much in love when they had their first clutch together. Mother Charmander was by the nest watching her children hatch when one of the eggs cracked violently and seemed to explode in white light. Mother Charmander was on her feet and ready to attack whatever was threatening her children when the light cut off suddenly. Standing there in midst of her children was a Charizard, almost half Mother Charmander's size. He looked up at her and she realized that one of her children had evolved right out of the egg.

"My babies, so strong!" Mother Charmander hugged all of her children and wondered what to say to her mate.

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Charizard was happy to see all of his siblings again but was beginning to worry about how he could end up meeting Ash.

'How can I get to Ash? That ass Damien wouldn't try and kill a Charizard but no one would ever give him a Charizard for a starter either.' Charizard was watching his siblings play catch the tail, a game similar to the game tag, while trying to make a plan. 'I could always run away from whoever the Professors give me to, or maybe try and replace Ash's Pikachu.' Charizard's only female sibling tripped over Charizard and fell head over heels landing upside down.

"Hey Charizard! What you doing?" She tries her best to look cute. Charizard had not seen her since they were both captured by the Professional Capture Group in the previous time line. His Sister had probably been sent to be a part of the captive breeding program for starters. Charizard had learned many things during the last months in Pallet Town from Professor Oak.

"I was thinking Sister, just thinking. And it is, what are you doing, skipping part of the sentence is not proper grammar." One of Charizard's Brothers tagged his Sister and dashed off.

"Lighten up Charizard! The world's not that bad. … Tag! You're it!" Charizard's sister yanked on his tail and rushes off after her brother.

'Not that bad, if only you knew.' Charizard stood up and looked after her. 'It doesn't matter, this is the only time I have with them. I can't waste it.'

"Ready or not here I COME!" Charizard took to the air and chased after his siblings.

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"Its not natural! For a baby to come out of the egg as a Charizard instead of as a Charmander. What if there's something wrong with him, he's always so quiet." Charizard's Father was talking to his mate Mother Charmander. Mother Charmander scratched him across the nose.

"I know its hard to raise a child who is so much stronger than you and can fly! But he's our son! Its our job to love all of our children. Even if one of them evolved out of the shell." Mother and Father Charmander were looking for food for their children who were finally old enough to be left alone in the nest.

"Ow! I know I deserved that. It's just that I don't know how to deal with him. I keep thinking that things will get better but he still acts completely differently from the others two months later. I can't even teach him how to stalk properly because he won't be a ground based ambush predator! This is despite him trying to learn!" By now Father Charmander was shouting. Mother Charmander took him by the hand.

"Hush or you'll scare the prey away. It's going to be okay though. We are the only group of Charmander, any pokemon even, in the entire Viridian Forest to have a third stage evolution in our group. He loves us though, and that's all that matters really... Now let's go get something to at." Mother and Father Charmander smiled at each other.

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"CHARIZARD! RUN!" Charizard was by now almost fully grown. He was watching in horror as a Professional Capture Group goes after his family.

"I can't leave you!" The leader of the Capture Group noticed Charizard who was standing in the forest holding a dead Pidgey.

"Please Charizard! Don't let them get you!" Sister Charmander shouted from where she was trying to fight off a Warturtle.

"GET IT!" The capture leader threw a pokeball with a Blastoise inside at Charizard. Charizard stepped back, once, twice clutching the Pidgey closer to himself.

"I'm sorry!" Charizard turns and flew away.

There was a flash of red light as Sister Charmander was caught.

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Charizard only stopped flying nearly an hour later. He landed heavily in a grove of trees beside route one. As he did so the dead Pidgey's head lolled against his wrist. Charizard jumped back throwing whatever had touched him away in shock roaring out a gout of fire. When Charizard saw what he had thrown away, he went and picked the corpse back up.

"They weren't supposed to show up until next week at the earliest. And even then I got them to move the nest to somewhere humans couldn't get to. … Not for another week."

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"There it is! That's the Dragon of Route One" Professor Samuel Oak was standing on Route One and pointed at a large shadowy figure in the trees. Professor Cassandra Persimmon, pokemon behaviorist, looked in the direction Oak had pointed. A pokemon, much larger than any of the first levels that should exist on route one was sitting beneath a tree.

"So that's the "Uncatchable Dragon" people have been complaining about. Looks an awful lot like a Charizard." Professor Persimmon had her hand on her hip, and her hip cocked.

"It showed up here about three months ago and since then its just been watching people as they pass by." Professor Oak replied.

"Why do they call it "Uncatchable" then if it just watches people?" Professor Persimmon said incredulously.

"I'm not sure how its reputation got started but at least one strong trainer came to disprove tha and was knocked out by it and dropped off in front of the Viridian Pokecenter. They were all left, with the broken pokeballs that they had tried to catch the Charizard with on their heads." Professor Oak looked embarrassed when he said this.

"That's why you called me then. Pokemon will either eat or ignore unconscious trainers. That kind of behavior either requires a trainer, and so a wild pokemon doing that kind of thing is almost unheard of. … Unless" Professor Persimmon said.

"Unless what?" Professor Oak prompted.

"Unless you're dealing with a psychic type, and then this happens with alarming frequency." Professor Persimmon was making notes in a notebook. Professor Oak nodded at this statement and then said.

"Do you think its a threat to anyone?" Professor Persimmon looked up at the Charizard from her notebook and pointed at it.

"Has it done anything odd other than that?"

"Unless you count defeating every pokemon that's challenged it and never attacking people, no." Professor Persimmon nodded as if making a decision and tapped her lips with the eraser of her pencil.

"As long as we keep an eye on it everything should be fine. … But when its time for the beginning trainers to go through here in a few months we should probably try to have it lead away to, prevent accidents." Professor Oak nods at this.

"Then that's what we'll do. Do you want me to find someone to watch it?" Professor Persimmon shakes her head and says.

"No I'll do it myself."

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Today was the day, the day when new trainers got their first pokemon in Pallet Town, and Professor Persimmon was searching desperately for the strange Charizard.

"Where is it! I have to get that Charizard out of here before one of the newbies attacks it!" She felt warm air blow over the top of her head. She turned around slowly and looked up at the Charizard, before grabbing her notebook.

"Charizard approached m...

Everything went black.

"Professor Persimmon! Professor Persimmon!" Professor Persimmon opened her eyes and saw Viridian's Nurse Joy kneeling above to her worriedly.

"Where am … My notebook! Where's my notebook?" Professor Persimmon shot up and then sagged back into Nurse Joy's arms.

"The nice Charizard left it on top of your head. Its here everything's okay, let's get you inside where its warm." Professor Persimmon realized then that the Charizard's patience with her had run out.

"When a large predator tells you to get out, you get out. … At least I have some observations."

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Charizard grumbled as he flew back to Route One annoyed at the Persimmon human for delaying him.

'Let's see. Where did Pikachu say they were about now. I can't let them get past me.' Looking down on the world Charizard felt a new sense of hope. Spotting Ash and Pikachu, Charizard dove blinking tears from his eyes. '…And this time Ash, I'll keep you safe.'