First of all; I do not own any characters, places, creatures, or organizations that appear in this story. Also, I do not take credit for any real life people or shows that may appear within the story. The only thing in this story that I do take credit for is the storyline. This is my second fanfic ever and I would really like as much feedback as possible. Please review.

Ash arrives at the center of town, out of breath from peddling as fast as he could. He parks his bike against a tree and starts to walk towards the area where the crowd has gathered. He walks into the crowd and stands next to the other kids that are around.

"Students, today you will receive an item that will allow give you the right to freely travel anywhere you desire. Well as long as you have the money to cover your travels." A woman speaks into a microphone. "You have all studied hard in order to make it to this day; this is the day where you receive your travel license. You have all studied the basics of Pokémon and know how to handle yourselves if you encounter Pokémon, having this knowledge gives you the ability to go around the world, unaccompanied if you wish, and make your own path." The woman turns to one of her associates and takes a card from them. "This is a trainer card. It means that you have been trained to deal with and be around Pokémon. Each card has your name, picture, and also can be activated to operate as a bank card. When we call your name, come up and receive your card." The woman's four associates step up beside her, each holding stack of trainer cards.

Ash smiles almost rushing up to the stage without waiting to hear his name. His eagerness is momentarily interrupted by what he thought was the sound of distant helicopters. However this momentary break didn't last long as Ash's name got called. Ash swiftly moves through the crowd and walks up the stairs to the stage. He receives his trainer card with a huge smile and happily bounces off the stage.

Just as he gets back to ground level, he once again hears the sound of helicopters. This time there seem to be more and they sound close. Ash turns and looks up to find a seven helicopters heading towards him. The helicopters all have a red letter "R" written on the sides. Six of them are in a circle around the seventh, which is bigger and more luxurious looking than the others.

The helicopters start to descend and ropes drop from their now open doors. Down the ropes come both men and women dressed in black outfits with red "R"s on them. The men wear loose pants and jackets with hats while the women wear skirts and long sleeve midriff with knee high boots. The six smaller copters continue to hover in the air while the seventh one lands. The doors don't open and no movement can be seen through the tinted windows.

"Attention people of Pallet Town," A voice booms from a speaker on the luxurious helicopter. "We are Team Rocket; a group that will soon rule this world using the overwhelming force of Pokémon. Bend to our will and you will be spared, defy us and you will be met with extreme force."

"Hold it right there!" Ash hears a familiar voice from behind him. He and everyone else turn to see Professor Oak and a small group of his associates walking up from a hill towards the area. "I don't know what you hope to accomplish by coming here first in you attempt at conquest, but we aren't just going to sit back and let you win!" Professor Oak speaks with boldness. His associates back him up with a resounding "Yeah!"

"Well isn't this interesting." The voice chuckles as it speaks. "You and your research are the reason we are here."

"There is no way you are taking the data that we worked so hard to collect!" One of Professor Oak's associates shouts.

"Then we have no choice but to use force." The voice says as the small army of Team Rocket members take out small red and white balls. They press a button on the balls and they open, releasing Pokémon from inside them. The Pokémon that are released are almost all the same. They are all either huge ten foot cobras or three foot conjoined twin round purple lumpy balls spewing gas. The Pokémon are all bruised and some have small scars. They all look enraged.

"What have you done to these Pokémon? They look terrible!" Professor Oak yells.

"Hm; spare the rod, spoil the child." The voice says. "Team Rocket, attack!"

Professor Oak and his assistance pull out their own red and white balls and release Pokémon of their own. All of their Pokémon are the bulls that Ash saw earlier when going to Professor Oak's lab. The bulls are let out a battle cry as they charge to engage the approaching enemies. The Professor and his assistances Pokémon do what they can to push back the enemy but they are outnumbered. Some of unattended enemy's Pokémon start attacking people.

Suddenly, streams of flames appear and create a wall between Team Rockets Pokémon and Professor Oak and his assistance's. More flames appear and light the Pokémon attacking humans on fire, sending them running for cover. Everyone turns to see a young boy, about ten or so, standing next to a dog with orange fur. The boy and the dog run over to Professor Oak and stand by his side.

"Gary? What are you doing here? I thought you were too sick to come to the ceremony." Professor Oak said.

"There was no way I was going to miss getting my trainer card gramps." Gary says with a smirk. "Looks like I showed up just in time. Good thing I brought Growlithe with me." The dog barks in response.

That's when Ash realizes that he should be using the device the professor gave him. He whips it out and starts taking data of the four types of Pokémon in the area. The first is the dog, Growlithe. The device registers it as a fire Pokémon that evolved from a dog. The next is the bull, Tauros. It is evolved from bulls whose tails have grow two extra tails that it uses to whip itself into a frenzy. After that is the cobra, Arbok. It is a purple cobra with yellow and red circular designs and black marks on its body. The last is the purple round Pokémon, Weezing. It is believed to have evolved from poisonous gas coming together and bonding. Ash lowers the device and glares at Team Rocket.

The battle resumes but this time Gary's Growlithe creates a ring of fire to keep the Pokémon in and keep the humans safe from harm. Ash rushes to Professor Oak who is trying to talk his grandson into leaving.

"I'm not going anywhere gramps. Growlithe and I are here to help then we are going to head out on our journey." Gary notices Ash out of the corner of his eye. "I'm sure even Ash here would agree."

"This isn't something two kids should be involved in." Professor Oak argues.

"They involved us when they attacked out town." Ash points out as a rustling is heard from a nearby tree.

From the tree jumps out a one foot yellow mouse with long pointy ears, a lightning bolt shape tail, and red circles on its cheeks. "Sigh I suppose you are right." Professor Oak pulls out one of the red and white balls. "Take this Pokéball and try to catch that Pikachu over there." Professor Oak points to the mouse.

Ash quickly points the device at the mouse and registers its data; Pikachu, the electric mouse Pokémon. He waits for it to look at the ring of fire, confused, before hurling the Pokéball at it. The ball makes contact, hitting the now dazed Pokémon before sucking it in. Ash runs to the ball and picks it up. Just as he turns to walk back to the professor, the ball opens and the Pikachu appears.

It makes a series of angry sounds before its body starts to spark. Ash cautiously steps back. Pikachu releases a series of electric streams from its body. Ash leaps out of the way, barely dodging a stream. The streams fly everywhere, hitting trees, the stage, the Tauros, Weezing, and Arbok, and also hitting the hovering helicopters. The helicopters explode after being hit by the streams of electricity and plummet to the ground. Team Rocket seeing the raw power of the little mouse and that the tables are turning against them, start to flee on foot. The seventh helicopter turns and flies off. Pikachu's streams don't stop. One hits the tree Pikachu came from, the tree starts to fall and a branch hits Pikachu on the head; temporarily knocking it out and allowing Ash to retrieve it and return it to the Pokéball.