Pokemon Retold: Kanto Chronicles
Here is Chapter 3 everyone. I'm glad a lot of people like this story and I wish I had more time to write so I could put out more but school and life does not allow me to do what I want. But enough with my problems here is the next chapter and I hope everyone enjoys.
Chapter 3 (Episodes 6-14)
The Path to Mt. Moon
It had been a couple of days since the group left Pewter City on their way to Cerulean. Not much had happened since they left. Ash mainly trained his pokemon and battled rather weak trainers, which, while good experience for his pokemon, did not really challenge him as a trainer. The group had finally made it to Mt. Moon where on the other side stood Ash's next gym battle.
"I can't wait to get to Mt. Moon. Maybe I'll be able to catch another pokemon before the next gym." Ash said as they approached the entrance to the mountain. There in the opening to the cave system was a man being attacked by a flock of blue bat pokemon. Dexter chimed in with his data.
Dexter: Zubat, the Bat pokemon. Zubat form colonies in perpetual dark places and use ultrasonic waves to identify and approach objects.
"Pikachu use Thunderbolt on those Zubat." Ash said as Pikachu jumped off of Ash's shoulder and shocked the flock of Zubat. Most of the flock flew back into the cave and a few fell to the ground twitching from the electric attack. The group made it to the downed man and saw that he had short brown hair and large glasses along with a white lab coat.
"Hey are you alright mister?" Misty asked as the man got back to his feet.
"Yes I am fine. My name is Seymour the Scientist. Thank you for saving me." The man said as he bowed repeatedly to the group with streams of tears coming out of his eyes, which made everyone uncomfortable at the older man crying.
"Uh it's fine. I'm Ash, this is Misty and this here is huh? Hey Misty where's Brock?" Ash asked as he looked for his third friend. He finally saw him throwing a pokeball at a Zubat that Pikachu had knocked out and caught it. "Crap why didn't I think of that?" Ash said as he saw no other Zubat were left for him to catch.
"I couldn't pass the chance and you were talking to Seymour." Brock said as he walked back to the group. "By the way Seymour, why were the Zubat attacking you?"
"Glad you asked that Brock. Most of the pokemon in Mt. Moon are nocturnal and stay in the dark. However someone has put up lights throughout the cave. This is causing the pokemon to act strangely. I think the people who put up the lights are after Clefairy's Moon Stone." Seymour said.
"Well we'll help you if we can but what's a moon stone?" Ash said as the group headed into the cave as Seymour lectured the group on the Moon Stone and how a pokemon called Clefairy was supposedly from space. As Seymour had said there were lights leading through the cave and the pokemon that Ash could see were not in the best shape. Ash recognized the Sandshrew, which were lying down from being dehydrated but didn't know the bug pokemon planting the mushrooms. He used Dexter to see what it was.
Paras, the Mushroom pokemon. Paras burrow underground to get at tree roots. The mushrooms on its back were sprinkled as spores when Paras was born.
"Huh." Ash said when he heard a loud bang behind him as if something had ran into a wall. When the group looked behind them, there laying dazed by a giant rock was a Sandshrew. However, this one was slightly different than the rest. It was a little larger than a normal Sandshrew and had a strange green color to its skin. Seeing this Ash said the only thing that came to mind after seeing a green Sandshrew. "Oh crap that thing is sick. I got to get it to a pokecenter and heal it." Ash said as he threw a pokeball at the dazed Sandshrew. After a couple of shakes the pokeball locked and Ash had captured the 'sick' Sandshrew. "Alright let's see what's wrong with you." Ash said concerned about the mole pokemon as Dexter scanned his newest pokemon.
Sandshrew: Gender: Male Ability: Sand Veil
Attacks: Scratch, Defense Curl, Poison Sting, Dig, Rollout, Metal Claw
Note: Pokemon is of Shiny variety
Difference: Green and slightly larger than normal Sandshrew
"So wait. Sandshrew isn't sick but a shiny pokemon. What does shiny mean?" Ash said talking back to Dexter.
Dexter: Shiny is the term used for pokemon that have minor genetic variances from others of its species. The term shiny is used because when this pokemon is sent into a battle from a pokeball sparkly particles appear when it is released.
"I've never seen that before." Brock said looking at Ash who was still shocked at what Dexter had said. As the group continued down the cave a small pink fairy pokemon hopped into their path carrying something.
Clefairy, the Fairy pokemon. Adored for their cute looks and playfulness, they are thought to be rare as they do not appear often. It is thought they come from the moon.
"Wow, so that's a Clefairy." Ash said as the group followed the bouncing fairy down into the cave when a familiar Meowth stopped it.
"Alright you pink puff ball hand over the moon stone." Meowth said as he cornered the Clefairy.
"Meowth? Oh no that means!" Ash started but was cut off.
"Too protect the world from devastation."
"CRAP!" Ash yelled.
"Who are those two?" asked Brock not knowing either of the two strangers with large R's on their chest.
"They're Team Rocket. They're a bunch of pokemon thieves and they always do that stupid motto before they try to steal pokemon. These two in particular have been following me since Viridian City." Ash said as he grabbed one of his pokeball's and prepared for battle. Brock seeing this did the same. "Meowth! That's Right!"
"Finally" Ash said as the motto was done with.
"What are you doing here Team Rocket?" Misty asked
"Well if you must know twerpette, we are here for the Clefairy and their moon stone." Jessie said with pride in her voice.
"You can't do that the moon stone belongs to the Clefairy!" Seymour said which got an evil laugh from the three rockets.
"To bad, finder's keepers." James said sticking his tongue out at Seymour and the group.
"And while you're here we'll take your pokemon." Jessie said as they sent Ekans and Koffing.
"We'll see about that. Go Zubat." Brock said as the bat pokemon came out of the ball.
"Go Sandshrew." Ash said as he sent out his newest pokemon. Just like Dexter had said there were shiny particles around Sandshrew.
"Oh it looks like you've added new weaklings to your party. What is that a puny grass type." Jessie laughed at Sandshrew's expense, which got a twitch from the mole pokemon and a large pressure was felt that caused everyone in the cave to become quiet.
Around Sandshrew appeared an angry aura and it released an angry cry. "SSSSHHHHHRRRREEEEWWWW!" Ash's Sandshrew yelled and attacked the two poison types and sent them right back to their trainers. Finally Sandshrew rolled into a ball and shot at the pokemon thieves and knocked them clean through the cave ceiling.
"That was a rollout attack." Brock said as they watched Sandshrew heaving from the intense beating he just gave to Team Rocket.
"Um Ash, I suggest never calling Sandshrew a grass type." Misty whispered into Ash's ear. When she said this Sandshrew gave an evil look over his shoulder at the red head. "You're not you're not! You're a mighty ground type." Misty said trying not to invoke Sandshrew's wrath. After hearing this Sandshrew calmed down and walked over to his new trainer.
"Wow you're really strong Sandshrew." Ash said kneeling down at Sandshrew's level and patting pokemon on the head. Sandshrew's got an embarrassed blush and scratched itself behind its head for the praise he had gotten from his new trainer. The group continued to follow the Clefairy till nightfall came and they had arrived into a giant chamber where there were many Clefairy dancing around a giant Moon Stone.
"This is what I've been spending years to find!" Seymour yelled as he danced around with the Clefairys.
"Why is this cavern so important Seymour?" Brock asked.
"This is where Clefairy perform the ritual where they evolve. It's so rare to see just one Clefairy evolve but all of these Clefairy have the possibility to evolve tonight." Seymour said dancing in glee. Just as the ritual was set to begin the group was disturbed by the voices behind them.
"That's very interesting. That stone will be worth more now than ever." Jessie said as Team Rocket stood in the entrance to the cave.
"Now we're ugh…" James was saying before the thieves fell asleep where they stood.
"What happened to those three?" Misty asked looking at Ash and Brock.
"I figured they would have followed us so I had Butterfree spray the entrance with sleep powder when we entered just in case." Ash said as the group continued to watch the ritual. After the group of Clefairy stopped dancing, three or four of them stepped forward and touched the giant moonstone and began to glow. Ash took this chance to get a new entry into his pokedex.
Clefable, the fairy pokemon and the evolved form of Clefairy. A timid fairy pokemon that is rarely seen they are very protective of their own.
As the night grew longer, the group slept in the cavern with Team Rocket tied up and being guarded by the Clefairy. When morning came, the Clefairy carried off Team Rocket somewhere and Ash and the group made their way outside. Seymour had decided to stay with the Clefairy and Clefable to study them more. Now, the group is at a crossroads on the way to Cerulean City.
"Alright Cerulean City is close." Ash said as he looked at the sign pointed toward his next gym battle.
"Actually it's about five miles from here." Misty said not thinking.
"Oh yeah your from Cerulean City, right, Misty? Can you tell me what the leader is like?" Ash asked.
"Uh I don't know." Misty said nervously, "Hey, what's that say?" Misty asked trying to get the conversation off of her. On the sign was written a message, which Ash read.
Gary was here!
Ash is a Loser!
Ash, seeing this message, started twitching in anger. "That, that, that arrogant bastard! You're gonna to get it when I find you Gary!" Ash yelled as he ran down the path toward Cerulean City to find his rival. Now unknown to Ash and company Gary and his cheerleaders went down the other path in the fork thus leaving Ash running down the wrong path after his rival that was only there five minutes before he was.
Cerulean City
"Finally in Cerulean City!" yelled Ash with his friends behind him. Ash looked behind him and noticed Misty was looking nervous. "Hey Misty what's wrong?" Ash said as he saw how uncomfortable she was.
"Well the thing is you know how I'm from Cerulean City right?" Misty asked Ash and Brock.
"Yeah why are you nervous? Do you not like the city?" Ash asked looking into her eyes.
"Well the reason I'm nervous is because my sisters and I are the gym leaders here."
"What!?" Ash said as he was looking at Misty in awe.
"You didn't know that Ash?" Brock asked.
"YOU KNEW!?" Ash and Misty said looking at Brock.
"Yeah I knew. I thought Ash knew because you two were traveling together before I joined, so I didn't bring it up." Brock said.
"Oh. So why did you leave Cerulean Misty?" Ash asked as they walked into the city.
"Well my sisters kept picking on me because I was the youngest and kept on saying how I was to young to be a water pokemon master. So one day I left and vowed to return a master." Misty said looking down.
"Well you are going to be one Misty. You just happen to pass through your hometown due to the handsome future pokemon master." Ash said as he turned around giving Misty his handsome look. This caused her to bust out laughing at Ash's actions.
When she calmed down she said, "You mean the future handsome pokemon master." She said as she led Ash and Brock to the Cerulean pokecenter. When they arrived at the pokecenter the group had their pokemon healed.
"So Ash what are you going to do when you challenge my sisters?" Misty asked Ash as they were walking down the path to the gym. "Well judging by you, its safe to say that it's a gym that specializes in water pokemon." Ash said.
Misty nodded,"So what's your plan?"
"Not telling." Ash said smirking at Misty.
"Why not?" Misty asked wondering what her companion was thinking.
"Because there's a chance I may have to battle you for my badge since you are a part of the gym." Ash said as the group finally arrived at the gym.
Cerulean City Gym
It was a giant blue building with a white seal like pokemon on a pink and yellow striped ball over the entrance. When the group entered they were feasted with a beautiful water show with three women performing. "So those are your sisters huh?" Ash asked Misty.
"Yep bunch of show offs," she said looking down at the giant aquarium.
"Hey Brock are you ok?" Ash asked his buddy who had went behind a column and was holding his nose trying to stave off a nosebleed.
"I'm fine." Brock said and Ash brought his attention back to the show, which just ended.
"Well let's get down there, time to win that gym badge." Ash said as he walked down to the arena followed by Misty while Brock stayed behind nursing that nosebleed.
"Well look who it is, little Misty. Left to become a water pokemon master and came back with a boyfriend." The sister with pink hair said. This caused Ash and Misty to blush but Misty also got a little angry. "I'm not coming back, the only reason I'm here is so Ash can battle for the gym badge. Oh, by the way Ash, these are my sisters, Daisy, Lily and Violet" Misty said with a little venom at the mention of the sisters.
"Heh nice to meet you. I'm Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town." Ash said waving at Misty's older sisters.
"Well not only is he cute, he's polite too Misty. I think this one is a keeper." Violet said.
"He's not my boyfriend!" Misty yelled.
"Anyway we can't have a gym battle with you." Violet said as she looked at the two. "All our pokemon are tired or beat up."
"Like the only pokemon we have is this weak Goldeen." Daisy said as she brought out the small fish.
"What about that one?" Ash asked as a white seal pokemon jumped out of the water.
"Like, sorry, Seel is just a baby and isn't ready for battle." Daisy said as she went over and petted the aquatic pokemon.
Dexter: Seel, the Sea Lion pokemon. The protruding horn on its head is very hard and is used to bash through thick ice.
"Here take this badge." Lily said holding out a blue teardrop looking badge.
"No! I will not let you three sully the name of the Cerulean Gym by giving badges away!" Misty said in a rage.
"I'll be the one to test Ash to see if he deserves the badge." Misty said as she got on her side of the platform.
"That's fine with me; I would feel bad if I took that badge anyway." Ash said as he got on his side of the field.
"Well I guess I'll ref this match." Lily said as she went to the referee match. "This is a two on two match. The battle is over when one of the competitors is out of usable pokemon. Only the challenger is able to switch pokemon. Are the rules understood?" Lily asked which both trainers acknowledged. "Alright this battle is between Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town and Misty Waterflower of the Cerulean Gym for the prestigious Cascade Badge. Leader send out your first pokemon."
"Go Staryu!" Misty says as she sent out her star shaped pokemon.
"Go Pidgeotto" Ash said as he brought his fierce flying pokemon.
"Alright first match is between the challengers Pidgeotto and the leaders Staryu. Begin!" "Pidgeotto start out with Air Cutter" Ash said as Pidgeotto sent blade of wind at Staryu with her wings.
"Staryu dodge and use water gun." Staryu obeyed and dodged the blades and shot a blast of water at the bird pokemon.
"Use quick attack to dodge and follow it with sky attack." Pidgeotto used quick attack to fly to the top part of the gym and looked down on Staryu.
"Staryu use water gun to knock it down." Staryu tried to comply but every attack missed due to Pidgeotto being out of range. Pidgeotto finally saw her opening and dove toward Staryu. In mid flight Pidgeotto had a powerful golden aura surround her and hit Staryu in the center of the jewel in the middle. This sent Staryu back and staggering.
"Now finish it with wing attack." Ash said as Pidgeotto hit Staryu with her wing and knocked it into the water. Strayu was knocked out when it resurfaced.
"Staryu is unable to battle, Pidgeotto wins the first match. Leader send out your second pokemon." Lily said looking toward Misty.
"Go Starmie" Misty said as the bigger star shaped pokemon revealed itself.
"Alright Starmie verses Pidgeotto begin!"
"Starmie use Hydro Pump." Starmie shot a huge blast of water at the flying pokemon, who did not have enough time to dodge, and sent it flying into the wall behind Ash.
"Pidgeotto is unable to battle. The winner of the match is Starmie. Challenger please send out your final pokemon."
"You want to battle Pikachu?" Ash asked his buddy on his shoulder who nodded and jumped onto the white platforms in the field.
"This is the final match between Starmie and Pikachu. Begin!"
"Pikachu use charge while jumping from one platform to the other."
"Starmie use bubblebeam on Pikachu." Misty said as Starmie shot wave after wave of bubbles at Pikachu but Pikachu kept dodging until he had fully charged.
"Now unload a thunder bolt on Starmie." Ash said as Pikachu hit Starmie with a huge amount of electricity. This caused Starmie to start twitching with slight bolts of lightning around it.
"Oh no! Starmie is paralyzed." Starmie get into the water and try to heal yourself." Starmie dove under the water.
"Pikachu use thundershock on the water." Pikachu did as commanded and sent bolts of electricity into the water. Starmie shot out of the water and hung in mid air. "Alright finish it with Iron Tail." Ash said and Pikachu hit Starmie and sent it flying into the wall behind Misty.
"Starmie is unable to battle. The winner of the match and battle is Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town."
"Alright great job Pikachu!" Ash said as Pikachu jumped into Ash's arm.
"Great job Ash." Misty said as she rejoined the group. "As gym leader of Cerulean City, I am honored to present you with the Cascade Badge." Misty said as she handed the Cascade Badge to Ash.
"Thanks Misty."
"No problem Ash, now if you excuse me I have to talk with my sisters about the gym and how pride should be taken in being a leader." Misty said with an angry smile on her face. Ash left the four sisters before he got caught in the crossfire. When he made it outside the gym, Ash found Brock standing outside waiting for them.
"Hey Brock, why didn't you watch my battle?" Ash asked.
"Well, uh, I had some shopping to do for the trip." Brock said pulling some bags from behind him like magic.
"Okay, hey how about you take my picture with Pidgeotto and Pikachu."
"Sure Ash." Brock said as Ash got his pokemon and the badge in the right spots. Pikachu was again sitting on his left shoulder and Pidgeotto was on his right forearm and Ash was holding out his Cascade Badge in front of him. "Alright I got it." Brock said as he handed Dexter back to Ash, who checked the picture and had to say he liked it. Misty finally came back and the group left the gym.
"So what did you say to your sisters" Ash asked.
"Nothing much, just how if I ever hear of them giving one of our badges away I was going to hurt them beyond any way of repair." Misty said with a sweet smile.
"Remind me not to get on Misty's bad side." Ash whispered to Brock. The group left, heading for Vermillion City for the next victory and the next badge.
Meanwhile back at the gym
"So how much you want to bet she'll come back pregnant." Lily asked her sisters who were taking care of the pokemon.
"Like, twenty bucks it'll be in three years." Daisy said.
"Thirty on she's a lesbian." Violet said as she was playing with Seel.
"No she obviously likes the kid. It's just a matter of time till he figures it out. I mean she's eleven and he's ten. They'll be traveling together for a while. Something is bound to happen." Lily said as she looked out the window watching her little sister and her friends walk toward Vermillion City.
1 Week Later
Over the next week, many things happened. First was that Ash and the group ran into a really good trainer named A.J. and his Sandshrew. Ash's Sandshrew almost won the match but lost to A.J. and his Sandshrew due to a fissure attack that knocked Ash's green Sandshrew out. That was A.J and Sandshrew's one-hundredth victory and allowed them to go on their journey. Later in the week the group came across a pokemon academy and saved a student, Joe, from being bullied. Joe tried to convince the group that it was for the best. Ash and the group then met Giselle, the top student at the school, who challenged Ash to a battle after he defeated Joe and his Weepinbell in battle with Spearow. Ash soundly defeated Giselle and her Graveler and Cubone, with Pikachu and Butterfree. This caused Giselle and Joe to see pokemon battles in a new light and Giselle vowed to really help the struggling students and Joe to start travelling. Now the group was about a week and a half from Vermillion City. The group was resting on some rocks in the middle of a forest when they hear a noise behind them. Ash saw a blue pokemon with several leaves sprouting from its head.
"What's that?" Ash asked as he scanned the pokemon
Oddish, the weed pokemon. It is a nocturnal plant pokemon that is often mistaken for weeds.
The oddish was walking towards some water and hadn't noticed the trainers. "I'm going to catch it. Go Starmie." Misty said sending her strongest pokemon.
"Why are you going after Oddish? I thought you only trained water pokemon." Ash asked as he was about to go after the Oddish.
"My team needs some diversity. Not to mention it's so cute. Starmie use Tackle." Starmie charged toward the unsuspecting plant pokemon and hit it. "Alright go pokeball." Misty said but her pokeball was hit back at her by some vines. When the group looked back at Oddish, a bluish green pokemon stood in front of it with a bulb on its back and vines coming from the side of the bulb.
"Wow a wild Bulbasaur." Ash said as he drooled at the sight of the rare plant pokemon.
Dexter: Bulbasaur, the seed pokemon. A strange seed was planted on Bulbasaur's back at birth. It is rare in the wild and is used as a choice for a starter pokemon.
"I have to catch it, Go Butterfree." Butterfree came out of its ball. When Bulbasaur saw this it sent out some sleep powder. "Butterfree use Gust to blow the powder away."
Butterfree did as he was told and blew the dust away. When this was going on, Bulbasaur grabbed Oddish with its vines and ran into the tall grass. Ash and Misty follow the two pokemon and the group came across a rickety rope bridge. Brock ended up falling into the river below and Ash and Misty ran after Brock. However they were captured in a net that was set by someone. Luckily Brock came back and cut the two down. Brock told them that a woman named Melanie that ran a pokemon sanctuary rescued him. The group arrives at the sanctuary and sees Melanie and the pokemon she takes care of. Ash and Misty discovered that the Oddish from earlier was part of the sanctuary and Misty apologizes to it. The group also fond out that the Bulbasaur from earlier was the protector of the sanctuary.
"Oh don't worry; he treats every human like that." Melanie said to Ash who had Bulbasaur pushing on his leg to get him out of the village.
"We finally caught up with you twerp." Ash heard a voice. Up in the air with a Meowth shaped balloon was Team Rocket with a giant vacuum.
"God I thought we lost you idiots in Mt. Moon." Ash said as the band of thieves smiled at him.
"Ha you think your pink friends could hold us for long. After you left, we escaped and came looking for you."
"Um who are they?" Melanie asked.
"Glad you asked beautiful lady." James said.
"Crap you just had to ask." Ash said as he looked at Melanie.
"Sorry I've just never heard of them."
"To protect the world from devastation." Jessie started.
"Alright we have about thirty seconds, get all of the pokemon in the house I'll get rid of these guys. Melanie did as she was told and all the pokemon were in the cabin except for Bulbasaur. "You're staying to help huh?" which got a head bob from Bulbasaur.
"Meowth that's right"
"Now that we have our introductions out of the way give us the pokemon." Jessie said but saw there was no one around except the twerps and a Bulbasaur.
"Go Spearow use peck on the balloon." Ash said as his bird pokemon flew up and put a hole in the balloon and sent them down to the ground. Bulbasaur grabbed them with vine whip and hit them with sleep powder. "Now Pikachu use thunder shock on those idiots." Ash said as Pikachu sent Team Rocket flying.
"Wow your really good Bulbasaur." Ash said looking down at the grass pokemon. Melanie came out of the house and saw Ash and Bulbasaur interact.
"Thank you Ash, for saving the pokemon." Melanie said.
"It was no problem. Bulbasaur was a big help. Someone would be lucky to have him in their team." Ash said as Bulbasaur jumped into Melanie's arms.
"Well I have a favor for you Ash. I want you to take Bulbasaur with you." Melanie said. "He's been fully healed for a long time and its time for him to leave."
"It's not up to me if he comes with me. It's his choice." Ash said as he looked at Bulbasaur who jumped out of Melanie's arms and ran to one side of the field in front of the cabin. "You want to battle me?" Ash asked which Bulbasaur nodded. "Alright Pidgeotto go." Ash said as his fast flyer came out and used wing attack on Bulbasaur. Bulbasaur retaliated with sleep powder. "Pidgeotto blow it back with Gust." With the power of the gust, the sleep powder was sent back to Bulbasaur and put him to sleep. "Go pokeball." Ash said as the pokeball hit Bulbasaur and locked. Ash used Dexter to see what his pokemon knew.
Bulbasaur: Gender: Male Ability: Overgrow
Attacks: Tackle, Leech Seed, Vine Whip, Poison Powder, Sleep Powder, Razor Leaf
Status: Asleep
"Welcome to the team, Bulbasaur." Ash said as he walked and picked up Bulbasaur's pokeball. Ash brought Bulbasaur out and woke him up. Ash and the group left after a little while and continued the journey toward Vermillion City.
A Couple of Days Later
We find our group heading toward Vermilion City and are currently resting. It had been a couple of days since Bulbasaur had joined the group and they were only about a couple of minutes from a pokecenter. "Hey what's that?" Ash said as he looked up on top of a rock where a pokemon was laying. On top of the rock was an orange lizard with a low burning flame coming from its tail.
Charmander, the lizard pokemon. The flame on its tail shows its life force. If it is weak then the flame burns weakly.
"That Charmander doesn't look too healthy." Brock said looking at the weak pokemon. "I'm gonna catch it and get it to a pokecenter. Go pokeball." Ash said as the pokeball was sent and hit Charmander. However Charmander burst from the ball and had a look that didn't want to be caught. It then turned its back on the trainers and lay in the sun.
"I've never seen a weak pokemon like that fight off capture. It must belong to someone else." Brock said. Ash had a look of disappointment on his face as the group walked past the rock with Charmander and into the next pokecenter.
"Here you go Nurse Joy." Ash said as he handed the nurse the pokeballs and pikachu. "I was wondering about that Charmander on the rock." Ash said as Nurse Joy sent his pokemon to the back to be healed.
"That Charmander's a sad case. Its trainer abandoned it on that rock and it stays there waiting for him to return. Many trainers have come and gone trying to catch it but it refuses to go with anybody. It only happened about a week ago." Nurse Joy said.
"Wow I can't believe someone would do that." Ash said as he got his pokemon back. He then overheard a conversation between two of the trainers in the lobby.
"Yeah that gym leader in Vermillion is brutal. He has nothing but supercharged electric pokemon." One of the trainers said.
"I had to leave there and try some other gyms. His Raichu was especially tough." The trainer said.
"You heard that, right, Ash" Brock said as he looked over at the two trainers that were talking.
"Yeah I heard it. I'm going to call Professor Oak." Ash said as he headed to the video phone by the transfer machine. Ash then made the call.
"Hello. Ah Ash, my boy, good to see you. How's your journey going?" Oak said.
"Hey Professor, its going really well. I'm just a couple of days outside of Vermillion and I've got six pokemon, which is the reason I'm calling. I need to send two of my pokemon to you." Ash said as he held two pokeballs.
"Why do you want to send those two pokemon here?" Oak asked curiously.
"Well I found out that the next gym I'm facing specializes in electric pokemon and these two are really weak against that element." Ash said looking at his pokeballs.
"I understand. Place the balls in the transport system right by the phone one at a time and I'll receive them." Oak said as Ash followed the instructions.
"Alright I got them, Ash. Now let's see what you have here." Oak said as he let the pokemon out of their ball. "Oh my, a Spearow and a Pidgeotto. Very impressive Ash both of them look strong." Oak said as both pokemon were glaring at each other.
"Oh by the way Professor, don't say anything about Pidgeotto's" That's as far as Ash got until Oak said a taboo.
"My aren't you a plump bird." Oak said poking Pidgeotto. Spearow busted out on the ground laughing. Pidgeotto had flames come out of her eyes and started attacking Professor Oak. "What I say? Bzzt." Oak said as the attacks from Pidgeotto caused the call to disconnect.
"I tried to warn him." Ash said before he looked at the time. It was late afternoon and he couldn't help but think about that Charmander. "Hey Brock and Misty, I'm going to get some air." Ash said as he headed out of the door. He walked for a little bit until he got to the rock with the Charmander on it. He walked up to it and started to talk.
"Hey there." Ash said as the Charmander opened one of its eyes to look at Ash. "Look I know you don't want a new trainer, but your not gonna be around to see him come back if you're as weak as you are." Ash said looking Charmander in its eyes. "Come with me to the pokemon center so you can get healed. After that you can come back to the rock and wait for your trainer. But I at least want you healed." Ash said in a serious voice. Charmander looked at Ash for the longest time.
"Char." Charmander said as he nodded his head. Ash then picked up the Charmander and took him to the pokecenter. Nurse Joy was shocked to see the fire pokemon brought to the center in such a bad condition. However it was a good thing that Ash brought Charmander back when he did because of a really bad storm coming through that night. Ash stayed up all night waiting for Charmander to get out of intensive care and about eight the next morning, Charmander was good as new.
"Well Charmander I guess this is goodbye. I hope your trainer comes to get you. He's fortunate to have a loyal pokemon like you." Ash said as he and the group continued toward Vermillion City. Charmander was about to head back to the rock when nature called and he headed into the bushes. While he was finishing his business he heard a group of people coming down the path. He looked out of the bushes and there stood his trainer Damian. However the conversation that Charmander heard was not good.
"Hey Damian didn't you have a Charmander at one time." One of the trainers asked.
"Yeah but he was a weakling. I left him on a rock around here. The little bastard is probably dead by now." Damian said laughing. Charmander could only see red after what he just heard. He sprung from the bushes and looked straight at the group of trainers.
"Hey Damian, ain't that your Charmander?" One of the trainers said. When Damian turned he was hit with a rage filled flamethrower. After Damian and his group were sufficiently burnt, Charmander ran down the path Ash went down.
"I hope Charmander has a good life." Ash said looking at the clouds.
"Chaaaaarrrr." The group heard behind them and turned to see Charmander running after them.
"Looks like you get to see that happen." Misty said smiling at her friend. Charmander jumped into Ash's open arms.
"I'm guessing you want to come with me, Charmander." Ash said as he hugged the lizard pokemon.
"Char!" Charmander said as he shook his head yes.
"Welcome to the team." Ash said as he brought an empty pokeball and touched Charmander's head. "Alright! Great to have you Charmander."
Charmander: Gender: Male Ability: Blaze
Attacks: Scratch, Ember, Flamethrower, Smokescreen, Metal Claw, Dragon Claw
"Wow, whoever let you go was a complete idiot." Ash said
Back at the Pokemon Center
"That was the weak Charmander you released right, Damian," said one of the trainers that didn't have bandages over their mouths.
"Mmmh" said Damian who was covered from head to foot in bandages.
"You're an idiot." The trainer said as he went back to sleep.
Few days out of Vermillion City
"Man I'm glad we stopped at the store." Ash said as the group was walking through a small town. The group had run really low on supply and had to restock the necessaties. Brock needed medicine and ingredients for the meals and pokefood and Ash was running low on pokeballs. Charmander had taken residence in his last pokeball given to him by Professor Oak and he did not want to be in a situation where he could catch a great pokemon and not have a pokeball. Just as the group left the store a group of blue turtle pokemon came flying by with paint cans in their hands and a bunch of angry towns people with paint on their faces running after them.
Squirtle, the tiny turtle pokemon. Squirtle shoots water at its prey while in the water. When in danger it withdraws into its shell.
Ash and the group ran after the mob to see that they had the Squirtles trapped.
"Now we got you trouble makers, we're gonna make you pay." One member of the mob said who had clothes that looked like they had been bleached.
"Turtle soup sounds pretty good right now." Said a man with a chef's hat and apron on whose face had a squirtle face wrote on it with permanent marker.
"Stop!" Ash said as he stood in front of the frightened Squirtles.
"Move kid those things have to pay." A townsperson said with a knife and pink shirt and pants that obviously weren't his doing.
"Are you all stupid?" Ash said. "Look at what you're about to do. You're about to kill pokemon who only played pranks on you. Did you ever think they did that for attention? Not to mention it's illegal to kill wild Squirtle since they're so rare." Ash said which calmed down the crowd. Ash looked behind him and took in the sight of the six Squirtle. Every one of them had round sunglasses on except one whose sunglasses were pointed and was staring angrily at the crowd and placing himself in front of the rest. "It's alright guys, you're safe now." Ash said giving them a thumbs up. The lead Squirtle smiled back at Ash and proceeded to blast Ash with a water gun attack in the crotch. "You little bastard! I'll get you for this." Ash said as he had to be held back by the rest of the Squirtle Squad, Misty and Brock. The lead Squirtle was still egging Ash on by sticking its tongue out and slapping its butt. The crowd couldn't help but laugh at the antics of the boy and the pokemon.
"Fire!" yelled someone in the back of the crowd. When everybody turned around they saw that the general store had lit ablaze with three beings fleeing the scene. Ash looked at the Squirtles with a serious attitude.
"You guys need to help us." Ash said as he and the rest of the crowd ran to the fire to put it out.
Misty already had Staryu and Starmie using Water Gun to put it out. Brock had got Onix and Geodude putting earth on it with Ash's Sandshrew helping. But even all this didn't help. "Squirr!" was heard behind the group and the Squirtle squad fired their water guns and quickly put out the fire. The Squirtle Squad was honored that day as heroes of the town.
"Man what a day" Ash said as the group walked down the road to Vermillion. "I know I'm exhausted." Misty said beside him. "Squirr," said a voice behind the group. There stood behind the group was the leader of the Squirtle squad with his pointed sunglasses on, staring at the group with his arms crossed. Ash walked forward and had a stare down with the Squirtle. After a while Ash threw a pokeball to it. "So are you coming or not." Ash said which lit up Squirtle's face as he ran to his new trainer and went into his pokeball.
Squirtle: Gender: Male Ability: Torrent
Attacks: Tackle, Bubble, Water Gun, Bite, Withdraw, Ice Punch
"Wow I got all three starting pokemon. Who would have thought that after waking up late and starting with Pikachu that I was the one to catch all three of them?" Ash said as he smiled as the group walked down the path.
"It isn't fair. How come you got the Squirtle? I wanted it." Misty said as they continued down the path.
"Ash has a way with pokemon. We're probably going to see some strange stuff because of it too." Brock said as the group walked into the sunset.
Path Leading to Vermillion City
"Trees, trees and more trees, I'm getting sick of seeing trees." Ash said as the group walked through a forest.
"Don't worry Ash according to the map we're a day or two out of Vermillion City. We would have been closer but somebody had to read the map wrong" Brock said as he glared at Ash then back at the map.
"I know, I told you guys I was sorry, but still with all of these trees I need a change of scenery. All of these trees look the same and we haven't seen a pokemon since I caught Squirtle." Ash said as he got his pokedex out and used the map feature. "Lets see, oh there are woods, woods and more woods. There we go there's a beach over there." Ash said as he took off from the group headed toward the beach.
"When will he grow up?" Misty asked to Brock not believing Ash's immaturity.
"Probably when you kiss him." Brock said still looking at his map while Misty stared at Brock with a bright blush on her face.
When Ash got to the beach, the sight of a beautiful sunset and the sound of the sea greeted him. While he was lost in the sunset a crab pokemon scuttled through his legs. Ash looked at the pokemon and scanned it with Dexter.
Krabby, the River Crab pokemon. Krabby's pincers are not only powerful weapons; they are used to balance when walking sideways.
Ash smiled at the crab pokemon and walked up to it. "Hey there little guy. What are you doing out of the ocean." Ash said as he pointed at Krabby. Krabby felt threatened by the strange human and did what came naturally. He pinched the finger. "Son of a Bitch! Damn damn damn let go." Ash said as he slung Krabby around until it let go and it flew up in the air. However while he was thrashing around trying to get Krabby to let go, his pokeballs fell out of his bag and Krabby landed on one of the empty ones and the ball clicked shut. "Huh that was defiantly the most painful capture I've had so far" said Ash picked up his new pokemon's pokeball and put his extra into his bag and zipped it up tight. Ash checked his new pokemon.
Krabby: Gender: Male Ability: Hyper Cutter
Attacks: Bubble, Vicegrip, Mud Shot, Stomp, Harden, Fury Cutter
Misty and Brock finally caught up to Ash who was playing rock paper scissors with Krabby and losing. "Hey guys meet Krabby" Ash said as Krabby waved at Ash's two traveling companions.
"No you got another water pokemon." Misty said as she fell to her knees in depression.
"Wait Ash, which pokemon do you has with you?" Brock asked. "Well there's Krabby, Pikachu, Charmander, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Butterfree and Sandshrew." Ash said naming his pokemon out with his fingers in the air.
"How many pokemon is that Ash?" Brock asked.
"Seven. Why?" Ash asked curiously.
"SEVEN! Ash most trainers are only allowed to have six pokemon at a time." Brock said.
"So what does this mean?" Ash asked.
"Means we need to talk to Professor Oak and see what is going on. That light house over there should have a phone." Misty chimed in as they looked at the light house on top of a cliff down the beach. By the time they had gotten to the light house night had come.
"Hello is anyone home?" Misty said as she pushed the button to the intercom. After there was no answer the group opened the door. When the group walked into the lighthouse they found a phone right by a transfer machine, which confused them as to why there was a transfer machine at a private residence. Ash called up Professor Oak.
"Hello, who's calling" Oak said as he was eating his dinner which consisted of noodles.
"Hey professor, sorry for disturbing your dinner, I have a question for you." Ash said as he was watching the Professor eat.
"Shoot, what is it?" Oak asked as he put his bowl down.
"How am I able to have seven pokemon with me?" Ash asked.
"Oh that, I was going to tell you but your pidgeotto attacked me before I could tell you. Your father got you special permission to carry seven pokemon on your travels as a birthday present. Oh by the way happy eleventh birthday." Oak said. That had surprised Brock and Misty that Ash's birthday had recently happened and he did not mention it.
"Why didn't you tell us it was your birthday Ash?" Misty asked.
"Well, I kinda forgot. I was to busy training my pokemon to realize what the date was." Ash said which got both Brock and Misty to sweat drop.
"So which pokemon made your seventh?" Oak said interested in what Ash had caught
"It's a Krabby sir. I want to send him to the lab and maybe get Pidgeotto back into the team. I don't need two water types in my team and Pidgeotto is quicker and better a dodging than Spearow." Ash said.
"Sound logic. Alright I'll switch your pokemon out. Just put Krabby's pokeball on the transfer machine and I'll switch them." Oak said.
"No problem Professor," Ash said as he placed Krabby's pokeball on the transfer machine and in a flash of light the pokemon were switched.
"Alright Professor thanks a lot. Now don't cook up my Krabby for dinner." Ash said in a joking manner.
"Don't worry, if I was going to do that I would eat Gary's Krabby. It's almost three times bigger than yours Ash. In fact his Krabby has been recorded as one of the biggest ever caught." Oak said as he showed the differences between the two Krabby's.
"It's not the size of the Growlithe in the fight but the size of the fight in the Growlithe. My Krabby may be smaller but he has a lot more fight." Ash said looking at the two Krabby. Ash's Krabby heard his words and stuck his chest out in pride at what his trainer said. "Alright professor, have a good night." Ash said as he hung up on the professor.
"Help me." The group heard someone say. The lights turned on and they saw that they were in a giant hall with a strange pokemon sitting on a throne. "Help me." The pokemon said but on closer inspection it could be seen that it was a man in a costume. After a little fight with the suit the man got out. "Thank you so much; I was stuck in that costume for a couple of hours before you came here. I'm Bill. I'm a pokemon researcher." The boy was dressed in fancy clothes and had green wavy hair
"I'm Ash, this is Misty and this is Brock. Why were you in that costume?" Ash asked Bill.
"Well I like to study rare and extinct pokemon and I was trying to get into how a Kabuto would feel." Bill explained as he looked at the wall, which had stone slabs of every pokemon up to date. "I'm also the one who developed the transfer and storage system for pokeballs. How many pokemon do you have Ash?"
"I have nine, but if you count the evolutions its twelve." Ash said.
"Hmm, I see and how long have you been a trainer?" Bill said with a focused look on his face.
"Uh almost three months. Why are you asking these questions?" Ash asked because of the how personal the questions were getting.
"Oh I'm sorry you must feel like your being interrogated. The reason I asked is to see how you were doing as a trainer. I have to say your doing pretty decent for a trainer of three months," Bill said, "but there are so many different pokemon. Your twelve is just a small amount compared to the one hundred and forty nine known today. Not to mention there are new species of pokemon being discovered everyday." Bill said. Ash looked in astonishment at the wall full of different species.
"Huh I guess I have a long way to go before I can become a master." Ash said.
"Yeah so do you all need somewhere to stay for the night?" Bill asked.
"If you don't mind the intrusion." Brock said.
"No problem at all I don't get many visitors." Bill said.
The next morning the group left the lighthouse. Bill had told them how there was a giant pokemon that he was calling to the lighthouse and that it would be a monumental discovery. Even after the story the group decided to leave. Later they would discover whatever Bill had called in completely destroyed the lighthouse but Bill survived. Apparently Bill had recorded a mating call of the beast and it had destroyed the lighthouse out of sheer rage of being misled. To this day Bill avoids the ocean as much as possible.
Vermillion City
"Alright Vermilion City, I can't wait to get that badge." Ash said as the group had finally arrived in Vermillion City.
"You should do really well, especially with the strategy you came up with." Brock said as the group neared the pokemon center.
"True but you can't rely on just one pokemon as an ace in the hole." Misty said.
"I'm not; Pikachu has a secret weapon too." Ash said looking at his pokemon on his shoulder.
Flashback
The group of trainers was at a campsite they had made for the day. Ash had left the group and headed to a clearing to train his pokemon. "Come out guys!" Ash said as he brought out his seven pokemon. This was the first time in a while all his pokemon had been out at the same time and there were some new faces that they didn't know. "Alright Pidgeotto and Butterfree these are your new teammates, Squirtle, Charmander, Bulbasaur and Sandshrew." Ash said as the pokemon met each other. "Alright, the next gym is an electric type gym and I'll probably at max need three pokemon at that time so I'm making the team to challenge the leader now." Ash said looking at his team of seven.
"Alright first off I won't use Squirtle or Pidgeotto because of the type disadvantages you two have to electric pokemon. Sandshrew and Pikachu are on the team due to having an advantage or will take low damage from electric types. That leaves me with one of you three." Ash said looking at Butterfree, Bulbasaur and Charmander. "Butterfree has been in gym battles before but I'm probably not going to use you because of your flying affinity." Butterfree nodded in understanding. "Now between you two, Charmander I still want to get your strength back since your last trainer sucked, so I'm using Bulbasaur. But don't worry when you get back to full strength, you're going to be one of my most powerful pokemon." Ash said looking at Charmander who had started tearing up at not being chosen for the gym battle but calmed down after Ash's explanation. "Alright, Pikachu and Sandshrew follow me I've got special training for you two. The rest of you wait till I come back and we'll start your training." Ash's pokemon nodded and Pikachu and Sandshrew walked behind Ash.
"So Sandshrew, I've been meaning to ask you. How come you get mad at people talking about what color you are?" Pikachu said as they were following Ash.
"Well if you must know, ever since I was born, the other sandshrew made fun of me for being green. They'd call me moldy or worse say I was a grass pokemon. One night when the group was out of the mountain to look for food, some of the higher up sandshrew in the group noticed how much bigger I was then everybody else and attacked me cause they thought their control was in danger. They yelled insults at me while the beating occurred, and I finally snapped after being talked about for so long. I ended beating them all in a blind rage and left the group. Since then if anyone talked about my color I get really angry and go ballistic." Sandshrew said as the three stopped.
"Sorry to hear that Sandshrew," Pikachu said.
"Don't worry the past is the past." Sandshrew said as Ash turned to the two.
"Alright Sandshrew your going to teach Pikachu one of your moves." Ash said with a smile on his face.
Flashback ends
The training went very well and Pikachu could perform the move at astonishing rate, almost as well as Sandshrew. When the group arrived at the pokemon they were greeted with a pink pokemon with an egg taking care of a Rattata that had scorch marks on it and was in critical condition.
Chansey, the egg pokemon. A gentle and kind hearted pokemon that works in pokemon centers to assist doctors and nurses.
"Wow after all those pokemon centers we been to that's the first time I scanned a Chansey." Ash said.
"Oh hello, how can I help you?" Nurse Joy asked the three trainers.
"We need our pokemon healed. We just got into town and I'm going to challenge the leader." Ash said.
"Well I hope your pokemon are strong because most of the pokemon here lost to the leader, Lt. Surge." Joy said looking at the door as another trainer came in with a fried Pidgey.
"Oh no not another one, Chansey can you take care of their pokemon?" Joy asked the pink pokemon.
"Chanc" the egg pokemon said as she grabbed the group's pokemon. After a while Ash's pokemon came back fully healed and they left.
"Good luck Ash, you're going to need it." Nurse Joy said as the group headed for the gym.
When they arrived at the gym they saw that the two giant doors in between two thunderbolts were standing were closed, so Ash walked up to the door and pushed them open. "Hello I'm here to challenge the gym leader." Ash said as he walked through the doorway.
"Hey Lieutenant, another victim for you" said a dark skinned man with a black leather jacket while a woman with brown hair and red tank top and dog tags were standing in front of a man who was sitting.
"He doesn't look like much sir" the woman said as the man got up from his seat. The man was huge with a green overcoat and green pants on. He had blond hair and dog tags hanging from his neck.
"Oh look at that he's got a baby pokemon." Lt. Surge said standing over the group and looking at Ash's Pikachu.
"What do you mean baby?" Ash said getting a little upset at the jab at his pokemon.
"I mean that yellow pipsqueak on your shoulder. You need to evolve it to get it stronger." Surge commented pointing at Pikachu.
"You can bad talk me all you want but I'll be damned if I let you talk about Pikachu." Ash said as he stared at Surge with anger in his eyes.
"Fine let's get this match out of the way. I'll let it be your choice of what kind of match we have, baby." Lt. Surge said with arrogance in his voice.
"Fine I choose a three on three match." Ash said as he took his spot ready for the battle.
"Fine let's get this match rolling!" Surge said as he took his spot in the leader platform and Ash took his place in the challengers.
"This is a three on three battle between the leader of the Vermillion Gym Lt. Surge and the challenger. Only the challenger can switch pokemon. The battle is over when one trainer is out of pokemon. Now that you understand the rules, send out your first pokemon." Said the woman in the judge's box.
"Go Electrode!" Surge said as a white and red ball like pokemon came out of the ball.
Electrode, the ball pokemon and evolved form of Voltorb. It stores electric energy under high pressure. It often explodes with little or no warning.
"Sounds like a dangerous pokemon." Ash said looking at the pokemon. "Ok go Bulbasaur." Ash said as his plant pokemon came out.
"Ha look the baby's got another baby pokemon!" Surge laughed.
"We'll see who's laughing after this battle." Ash said as he readied himself.
"The first battle is between the leader's Electrode and the challenger's Bulbasaur. Begin!" The ref yelled as the battle began.
"Electrode Sonicboom" Surge told his pokemon who sent out a pressurized sound wave at Bulbasaur.
"Bulbasaur use Vine Whip to jump over the attack and hit it with poison powder!" Ash said as Bulbasaur's vines shot out and pushed him off the ground and over the attack. Once over the attack, a purple powder came out of Bulbasaur's bulb and hit Electrode, who started to look ill.
"Looks like the baby has some moves, Electrode use swift." Electrode sent out multiple stars out and hit Bulbasaur, who was still air born. Luckily the attack caused Bulbasaur to back flip and was now facing Electrode.
"Great job Bulbasaur. Now use Vine Whip to wrap Electrode and slam it around." Bulbasaur shot his vines out and grabbed a hold of the ball pokemon.
'I see what he's doing. To bad I know how to conquer it.' Surge thought. "Electrode spin and bring Bulbasaur in close." Surge said as Electrode spun and Bulbasaur shot forward and hit Electrode hard and his vines came undone. "Now use Self Destruct!" Surge said as Electrode lit up and exploded sending Bulbasaur flying back and knocked him out.
"The battle is a draw. Both pokemon are unable to battle." The ref said as Ash ran up to Bulbasaur who was hurt.
"Bulbasaur are you ok?!" "Bulbasaur opened his eyes and nodded his head. "Thank god." Ash said, as he was glad his pokemon was not hurt to badly. "What the hell is your problem?!" Ash said looking at Surge with fury.
"It was a strategic measure. Electrode was going to lose the battle in the next couple of minutes due to that poison powder and since he was going to lose might as well knock you down one pokemon as well." Surge said matter of factly.
"But what about Electrode?" Ash yelled.
"What about Electrode? He loves blowing up. See for yourself." Surge said pointing behind him. Sure enough there was Electrode with a big smile on its circular face laughing as if it had the time of its life. "Kinds of scares me a little bit." Surge said smirking back at his pokemon. "Now shall we continue?"
"Sure" Ash said as he got back into his box after returning Bulbasaur.
"Trainers choose your next pokemon." The judse said.
"Go Sandshrew!" Ash tossed the pokebal as Sandshrew came out with the light particles.
"Go Electabuzz!" Both pokemon took their place in front of their trainers.
Electabuzz, the Electric pokemon. Electricity runs across its entire body, in darkness its body glows in the dark.
"Huh a ground type huh?" Surge said looking at Ash's green sandshrew, "Now you're battling with your head but Electabuzz can use other moves to."
"Wow you're the first person not to say anything about his color." Ash said honestly surprised about the fact.
"Well now that you mention it, it kinda looks like it has some sort of fungus on it." Surge and his Electabuzz laughed out at the joke. What he didn't know was that Ash was goading him to say something about Sandshrew's color. Sandshrew was a pretty easy going pokemon most of the time but when Ash used him in the multiple battles against random trainers since he caught Sandshrew, the opposing trainer would say that his color made him look like a grass type pokemon or that he had mold growing on him. The fire lit in Sandshrew once again and waited for the battle to begin.
"The match between the challenger's Sandshrew and the leader's Electabuzz. Begin!" Before Ash could give an order Sandshrew had ran up to Electabuzz and was beating the living day lights out of Electabuzz. After about five minutes of the beat down, Sandshrew finally calmed down and left the beaten up and bruised Electabuzz on the floor. Sandshrew walked back to Ash rubbing the back of his head with embarrassment.
"Shrew shrew sand shrew sand" he said to Ash, which meant 'Sorry I lost my temper again'.
"It's alright buddy, thanks to you we only have one more to win. One of these days no one will make fun of you because of your color, they will think of respect when they think of you" Ash said bending down and showing that he wasn't mad at Sandshrew.
"Shrew shrew" Sandshrew said having some tears in his eyes. "Shrew?" Sandshrew said before his body started to glow. Sandshrew's body grew in size growing from Ash's waist to a couple of inches taller than he was and his claws came out until they were long point and the scales on his back bristled up into red spines. He had lost his green color and now had a light brown complexion.
"Wow Sandshrew you evolved!" Ash said as he looked at his new pokemon.
Sandslash, the mouse pokemon and evolved form of Sandshrew. It curls up into a spiny ball when threatened. It can roll while curled up to attack or escape.
Gender: Male Ability: Sand Veil
Attacks: Slash, Defense Curl, Dig, Rollout, Metal Claw, Fury Swipes, Sandstorm, Crush Claw, Poison Sting
Shiny: Light brown in color and red spines on back. Several inches taller than average Sandslash.
Record: Category: Height and Weight Species: Sandslash Measurable: Height: Five feet three inches, Weight: 100 lbs
"Wow look at you Sandslash. You look strong as ever." Ash said as he hugged his newly evolved pokemon and Sandslash hugged back with tears coming out of his eyes. On the other side of the field Lt. Surge was frightened by the new pokemon ahead of him.
'Holy shit! I've never seen a Sandslash get that big! Look at those spines! They blood fucking red;'
"Uh Lt. Surge sir, could you send out your last pokemon?" The woman subordinate asked looking at her freaked out superior.
"Oh right." Surge said laughing in embarrassment. "Come on out Raichu!" Surge said calling out his strongest pokemon.
Raichu, the mouse pokemon and the evolved form of Pikachu. Its long tail serves as a ground to protect itself from its own high voltage power.
"Sandslash take a break. This is between Pikachu and Raichu." Ash said as Sandslash stepped off the field and Pikachu jumped off Ash's shoulder.
'Smart move Ash,' Brock said as he and Misty were watching from the sidelines, 'use Pikachu to weaken Raichu and make it easier for Sandslash to win the battle.'
"Third match between challenger's Pikachu and leader's Raichu. Begin!" The referee shouted.
'Thank god he got that monster out of the battle for now. I can come up with a strategy to beat it while I battle this baby pokemon.' Surge thought.
"You're going to hurt after this small fry." Raichu said looking toward Pikachu.
"Not likely fat ass" Pikachu said getting a rise out of Raichu.
"Pikachu hit it with quick attack." Ash said as Pikachu ran toward Raichu.
"Catch it." Surge said as Pikachu hit Raichu but didn't do much to the bigger mouse. Raichu then proceeded to throw Pikachu down on the ground. "Now use body slam on the little rat." Surge said as Raichu jumped up and belly flopped onto Pikachu covering the smaller "Oops looks like Raichu splattered the baby pokemon." Surge said.
"Oh no Pikachu!" Misty yelled from the stands. However Brock knew something was up when he didn't hear Ash cry out. He looked over at his friend who had a smile on his face. Raichu got up from his spot and looked down at the pokemon he just defeated only to see a hole and no pikachu. Just then, the ground behind Raichu burst open and Pikachu flew above Raichu.
"How/ How!" Surge and Raichu yelled seeing the smaller pokemon unharmed.
"Looks like that training paid off." Ash said.
"Hmph, show off." Sandslash said leaning against the wall of the gym.
"Time to go to sleep bitch!" Pikachu said as his tail started to glow. He then hit Raichu with Iron Tail and knocked the bigger pokemon back toward his trainer with swirls in his eyes.
"Rrrr..Raichu is unable to battle. The winner of the match and the gym battle is the challenger." The woman said unable to believe that her superior's Raichu could be beaten.
"And that's why you don't misjudge a pokemon by their size." Ash said to Lt. Surge who was walking over to the smaller boy.
"Good job kid, you really showed me." Surge said having a hand out in respect. Ash took it and the two trainers shook hand. "It is my honor to bestow the Thunder badge to uhh. Hey kid what is your name anyway?" Ash then realized that they had never really introduced each other.
"Oh sorry, I'm Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town." Ash said embarrassed that he forgot to introduce himself.
"To Ash Ketchum." Surge said handing the sun looking badge to Ash.
"Alright that's three down and five to go!" Ash said smiling and celebration with Pikachu and Sandslash.
After the Ash got his badge he took the picture in front of the gym with badge in hand. Sandslash was standing beside him with Bulbasaur in front and Pikachu sitting on his shoulder. Ash was bent down and holding the Thunder badge out in pride.
Ash's Team
Pikachu, Charmander, Butterfree, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Sandslash(shiny), Pidgeotto
At Oak's Lab
Spearow, Krabby
Misty's Team
Staryu, Starmie, Goldeen
Brock's Team
Geodude, Onix, Zubat
Pokedex Rating: Caught or owned: 13 Pokemon seen: 38 percentage seen: 26%
Amount time as trainer: 3 months
Rating: Great amount that have been seen in a short time but needs to catch more pokemon. So that pretty much means you're not the worse trainer in the world but you're a long way from being a master.
Well that's chapter 3. I don't know when I will be able to post Chapter 4 so it might not be this week or next week because with the end of the semester come the long ass research papers that have to be done and they are not as easy to write as this. Enough with sharing my problems with you all, thanks for the reviews from last chapter and I hope to get some good ones for this one. Everyone have a good day. Peace.