Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon.
a/n: Felt bad about taking this down so I decided to repost it.
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Welcome to the "Catch'Em" House, Get it?
Relaxing on his bed Ash looked up from the Kamen Rider manga he was reading to address the readers.
"Hello Ash Ketchum here, you know me I want to be the world's greatest Pokémon Master, but in this particular world things are a little different in the old Ketchum household-" He was cut off by a bang followed by some shouting and a scuffle. Before another voice ordered them to knock it off and pipe down while people were still sleeping.
"-in this world I'm not an only child.' Ash continued as if he hadn't been interrupted, "Let me introduce you to my ten sisters."
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Saber (Age 16), a tall blue-eyed blonde girl, with a whistle around her neck marched like a drill sergeant in front of her "troops". Standing in a row six Pokémon stood at attention. Charizard (her starter), Flygon, Haxorus, Tyrantrum, Dragalge (to deal with those pesky fairy types and keep Faye in line), and Kommo-o.
"Today's training will be target practice some of you seem to be slacking on your aim and today we're going to fix that." She told them sternly. Stepping to the side she pointed over to a group of poles that each had a can on them.
"Ready. Aim. Fire!"
Those poor cans never stood a chance.
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Coral (Age 15) was another tall blue-eyed blonde girl, though with longer hair and wearing a pair of shades. She was sunning herself outside by a lake Slowpoke and Milotic sprawled out beside her.
"Ah what a nice sunny day."
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She enjoys the simple things in life.
"Hello Ketchum House are you ready to ROCK!" shouted Harper (Age 14) as she and her band including an Exploud, Wigglytuff, Chatot, and Audino. After playing through the song the brunette set down her guitar and said, "Great job guys wait here and I'll get you all something to eat." The band cheered at this.
She heads into the kitchen and opens the fridge only for an apple pie to hit her in the face; the sound of laughter then filled her ears which then filled her with exasperation and annoyance.
"How do you like them apples? Hope you got an eyeful!"
Harper brushed the pie off her face and gave her younger sister a look.
"Dude, Mom is going to be mad if this was one of the apple pies she spent all yesterday baking."
"Oh don't worry I made that treat all by myself." Harley (Age 13) brown hair tied into a ponytail. Next to her were her Mime Jr., Wobbuffet, and Exeggcute.
"Then you can have some!" Harper threw the remains of the pie at her sister striking her in the face.
"Yummy! Thanks!" Harley laughed even Harper tackled her to the ground their Pokémon watching on the sidelines. It was kind of fun to watch the humans battle instead of them for a change.
They're both Coordinators by the way.
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"11, 12, 13, 14, …" Zelda (Age 12) said as she counted the number of pushups she and her Hitmontop were doing. Once they were done here they'd head outside and get some serious training done. No surprise, but her half of the room was filled with training equipment as for the other half of the room it looked like Halloween had come early.
"Oh my ghostly master how may I serve you?" Raven (Age 7) intoned while sitting cross-legged on the ground in front of a mirror.
Silence then the mirror rippled and a small paper fluttered out. The black haired girl picked it up and read the contents aloud (somehow despite the fact her bangs was blocking her eyes).
"Please, send me one of your Mother's apple pies. Thanks, Giratina." She looked back up at the mirror.
"As you wish it so shall it be!"
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"Enjoying the tea party Mrs. Clefairy?" said Faye (Age 5), the little blonde haired girl in a pink dress was sitting at a table surrounded by dolls of various Fairy Pokémon. Her entire half of the room was covered in pink apparel. While it was all very neat and organized it was enough bright pink to hurt the eyes if you stared at it too long.
It contrast the other side of the room was messy and had more earthy colors like brown or gray. Kneeling in the mess was Sandy (Age 5) an identical blonde dressed in overalls and hat who was currently digging through her stuff trying to find something.
"No, no, not it, nope." Sandy said throwing the items aside not paying attention to where they landed. One such item made its way all the way to Faye's side of the room and right into the middle of her tea party knocking cups and dolls over.
"Sandy…" Faye growled.
"Yes?" Sandy looked over before paling at the look her sister was giving her. A short 'oh crud' was all she managed before her sister tackled her and a brawl ensued.
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"Yes soon my portal to Ultra Space shall be complete! Those fools at the Aether Foundation who rejected my designs will be sorry once I'm the one publishing reports about the life forms there before they do!" Gina (Age 3) declared before breaking out into a fit of maniacal laughter as her Magnemite, Beldum, and Klink buzzed around her as various machines hummed with power. Yes she 'owns' her own pokémon despite being three (technically they were caught by Mom and Dad for her), however she's not allowed to go travelling till she was ten like the rest of them.
"Mistress Gina the system is overloading! Explosion imminent!" Her Porygon beeped appearing next to her. The three steel types bolted from the room.
"Poo-poo!" said Lily (several months old) holding her Oddish doll as she watched all this from her crib.
"My sentiments exactly Lily." Gina said before ducking for cover.
The subsequent explosion would rock the house.
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"Speaking of the number ten, I will be ten-years-old tomorrow so I'll be getting my first pokémon from Professor Oak!" Ash said before giving a victory sign to the readers. "And there is no way I'm going to be late for that!"
Never heard of tempting fate have you Ash?
"I'M LATE!"
"Wait you idiot don't run outside in you pajamas! Change first!" Saber grabbed Ash before he was out the door and got him into his day clothes. She had just enough time to hand him his backpack before he was out the door.
"Remember to pick Charmander! He's the best one!" Saber called after him as Ash disappeared down the road.
"Technically speaking Bulbasaur is the best one." Gina corrected.
"Hey Harley why didn't you teleport him?" Harper asked. The rest of the siblings had watched the scene with a mix of mild amusement and concern.
"Watching him freak out was funnier." The others all sighed.
"Dang it Harley…"
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When Ash called home from the Pokemon Center he hoped Mom would be the one to pick up and not one of his sisters, but sadly the odds were not in his favor.
"Hello?"
"Uh… hi Sandy."
Okay he could handle Sandy, hopefully she wouldn't holler for the others.
"Ash? Where are you?"
"Viridian, say could I talk to Mom-"
"HEY GUYS ASH IS CALLING FROM VIRIDIAN!"
No suck luck.
"Ash, are you okay? Do you need anything?"
"Wow you got there in less then in a day! That has got to be a record!"
"Especially considering our family's horrible sense of direction…"
"Yeah it took Dad like four days to get there."
"When do you think he'll be back from his latest trip?"
"Based on my calculations: three months, five days, twenty minutes, and thirty-two seconds."
"Did you catch any new Pokémon yet?"
"Bet you he didn't even catch one."
"How's Pikachu doing?"
Being reminded of the Pokémon that for all he knew was hanging onto death's door made the guilt in his stomach rise up with a vengeance. He should of known this would be a bad idea. Not wanting them to see him upset Ash decided to end the call.
"I'm going to hang up now." Ash hung up the phone and turned around only to come face to face with all ten of his sisters (and Harley's Mime Jr. that teleported them there).
"Dang it."
"…and then I took him to the Pokémon Center." Ash finished telling his sisters how his first day as a trainer went. Ash was prepared to hear a lot of things. Like how impulsive he was, how terribly he handled the situation, the usual ribbings his sisters gave him when he screwed up. So count him surprised when he was pulled into a mass group hug instead. Surprise turn to gratitude and he return the hug as best he could. They stayed that way for a minute before pulling a part.
"I'm just glad you're okay brother. I don't want to give any of you a funeral service anytime soon." Raven said.
"What are spearow doing on route 1? This isn't their usual habitat according to what I read." Gina said.
"You seriously need to get out more. You can't learn everything in books." Zelda told her.
"And you could stand to read a few more considering how you barely passed the paper portion of your trainer license exam." Gina shot back.
Zelda open her mouth but then closed it unable to think of a retort.
"Going to need a burn heal for that one." Harley said with a laugh while the family groaned.
"We'll wait here with you. By the way what happen to that girl you borrowed that bike from?"
"THERE YOU ARE!"
The family turned to see a red headed girl holding a very fried bike.
"What happen to your bike?" Zelda asked.
"He is what happen to by bike after he took it to save his Pokemon!" Misty said nodding her head at Ash.
"From a flock of wild spearow that were trying to kill him. What would you have done?" Gina pointed out logically.
"THAT'S NOT THE POINT! The point is who is going to buy me a new one?" Misty said her nostrils flaring you'd think she was a fire type and not a water type specialist (not that the Ketchum siblings knew that).
"I could fix it." Sandy offered.
"You could?" Misty asked calming down slightly.
"Yeah it might take me a bit, but I could do it." Sandy walked over and started looking at the scorched bike. "This isn't any worse then what happen to Zelda's bike that one time Ash borrowed it and rode it into that voltorb field."
"Come to think of it what is it with you, electric types, and bikes?" Zelda asked.
"Bad luck?" Ash said weakly.
"There is no such thing as luck." Gina said dismissively.
"How do you know there isn't a legendary pokémon of luck and fortune? They find new pokémon everyday!" Raven said.
"It would then be the legendary of causality and manipulate cause and effect." Gina explained.
"Sure if you want to science the fun of the lore out of it." Raven sulked.
"Misty is that you?" Coral moved to the front of the group. "Like it is! How you been?"
"c-Coral?" Misty stuttered. "What are you doing here?"
"Checking in on my baby brother with the rest of my family of course!" Coral pulled Ash into a hug smashing his face against her chest (get your minds out of the gutter). "When he called us we thought something was wrong so we teleported over and found out he and Pikachu were attacked by some meanie birds." She said while oblivious to the fact Ash was trying to pull out of her hug to get air.
"Pikachu is currently in the emergency room." Faye said to MIsty.
"I have prepared for a funeral." Raven said holding up a coffin.
"RAVEN!" The other sisters shouted while Ash choked back his tears suddenly not feeling like trying to escape Coral's grip.
"Sorry." Raven said putting the coffin away. She was only trying to help the only way she knew how.
"How long have you been waiting?" Misty asked.
"Too long and Bro has been waiting even longer." Harper said.
"Poo-poo." Lily said waving a bulbasaur doll.
"What she said." Harley agreed.
"So how do you two know each other?' Saber asks coral deciding to change the subject.
"Oh I'm friends with her sisters you see they're-" Coral started to explain but was cut off by the beep from the emergency room signaling that the operation was over. The group hurried over to the door as Nurse Joy and Chansey came out rolling Pikachu out on a stretcher.
"Is Pikachu okay?" Ash asked afraid to hear the answer.
"He'll be fine he just needs rest." Joy told him pleasantly.
"Thank goodness." Coral said giving her brother another hug.
"Guess I don't need this anymore." Raven tosses the coffin she had made into a trashcan and gives a forlorn sigh.
Then the alarm went off and everyone heard Officer Jenny's voice reporting that an aircraft belonging to pokémon thieves was approaching.
"Well that just tops off my first day as a pokemon trainer doesn't? What did I do to deserve this?" Ash groaned.
"Well if you want to know…" Faye took out a list.
"Your first day isn't over yet. We aren't some helpless victims they can prey on." Saber said taking charge of the situation.
"Yeah these crooks have no idea who they're dealing with!" Zelda cheered. The rest of the Ketchum siblings joined in.
"…yeah?" Misty awkwardly joined in.
When Team Rocket busted in the Pokémon Center they expected those inside to flee and cower before them, to stare in awe at their amazing presence and outfits, to try and make up lame excuses that they had no pokémon worth any value, they expected some to try and fight them only to be defeated by their superior skill.
Jessie was then hit the face with a baby diaper, a used baby diaper, a number two used baby diaper from the smell of it.
Things proceeded to go down hill from there.
They heard someone cry out "ATTACK!" and were charged by a group of blonde and brunette girls and one boy in a hat who released a horde of pokémon including dragon, water, normal, psychic, and fighting types that swiftly dealt with Koffing and Ekans throwing their defeated forms at their trainers' feet.
It suddenly occurred to Jessie and James that maybe they needed more Pokémon.
"Well clearly errors have been made." James gulped taking a step back.
"I don't like the looks of this!" Meowth said having wisely retreated behind Jessie and James.
"Hello."
The trio screamed as Raven appeared behind them. Before they could regain their bearings the trio was then bum rushed by the trainers and five youngsters being tackled to the ground and got pounded from all sides before being toss unceremoniously out the center's front door.
"And STAY OUT!" Saber shouted after them.
Lying sprawled out on the street the defeated thieves groaned from their injuries. James was clutching the area between his legs, Jessie could still feel the poo on her face, and Meowth's tail ached all over. They hadn't expected that at all.
"And today had been going so well…" Meowth moaned.
"Well that was fun." Faye wiped her hands.
"We certainly kicked them to the curb!" Harley fist bumped with Sandy.
"Reminds me of the time we had to chase off poachers from the rez." Harper agreed.
"Seriously, who tries to rob a Pokémon Center with only three Pokémon?" Zelda asked.
"Idiots duh." Coral said the irony of her statement lost on her.
"I just want this night to be over already." Ash said with a sigh.
"Ash Pikachu is waking up!" Misty shouted.
The eleven siblings didn't even share a glance before they were suddenly next to the stretcher. Misty hadn't even seen them run they were just there.
"Pikachu how are you feeling?" Ash asked.
"Pikapi" said the yellow rodent looking up at him with a smile before jumping into his arms. Ash return the smile and hugged Pikachu back that something went right today.
"Awwww."The Ketchum sisters all gushed even Misty couldn't help but join in.
"I told you they'd work it out. They just needed time to get their rhythms in sync." Harper told Zelda.
"So you did." Zelda said with a slight smile happy to be wrong this time while hoping Harper had forgotten their deal.
"So dude where's my money?"
"Dang it." Zelda muttered before handing over the cash.
Looking up from Pikachu Ash spotted the picture of the legendary pokémon on the wall and remembered about what he saw earlier.
"Oh yeah you guys aren't going to believe this, but I saw Ho-Oh after the storm ended! He flew right over the rainbow!"
"What? You've got to be making that up! He's got to be making that up right?" Misty said her reaction one of disbelief.
"Really cool!" Sandy and Faye said together.
"What?" Misty said.
"Well Ho-Oh is the rainbow pokémon its what he does." Harley said.
"He must have seen you and Pikachu defend yourselves against the spearow flock and found you worthy to see him." Raven suggested.
"What?"Misty said again.
"So that's what made my Legendary Pokémon Detector go off." Gina said rubbing her chin in thought.
"What?" Misty said a third time.
"Do you have any proof?" Zelda asked.
"Well I have this rainbow feather." Ash said holding up a beautiful multicolored feather that glistened in the light.
"That's proof all right." Saber nodded.
There was a thump of something hitting the ground and they all looked to see Misty lying on the ground.
"Someone wake me when things are normal again…" Misty groaned.
"What is this thing you call 'normal' and why does it offend me?" Raven asked.
Ash looked at her with a smile that was somewhere between sympathetic and amused.
"Welcome to my world."
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EXTRA: Stop Bugging Me
Despite his sisters telling him they were heading home Ash still had the distinct impression he was being followed and no he was not talking about Misty as they headed into Viridian Forest. Along the way he managed to catch a Caterpie and a Pidgeotto. With a bit of practice sparring with Pikachu and a confidence boost Caterpie evolved into Metapod.
He just about to catch a weedle when some guy in samurai armor challenged him to battle and shoved a sword in his face
His hunch from earlier was confirmed when the sword Samurai had shoved into his face was pulled out of his hands by the tell-tell sign of Mime Jr.'s psychic powers and pointed back in the face of the startled "warrior". His helmet was then pulled away before he had the chance to grab it.
"HIGH JUMP KICK!" Zelda shouts before drop kicking the bug trainer in the head.
"You know I should be mad you guys followed me, but I'll let it slide this time." Ash told his two sisters, "Anyone else here?"
"No just us." Harley said. "We thought we should jump in when that guy shoved a sword in your face."
"We figured we'd make sure you'd get to Pewter okay." Zelda explained.
"Who dares interrupt a warrior's challenge?" Samurai demanded. They all turn to see he had gotten back to his feet and this time was holding one of his pokeballs.
"Who dares put a sword in the face my little brother?" Zelda returned his question with her own but with greater vehemence in her voice. The kind only an older sibling could have upon witnessing their younger sibling being threatened.
"…Touché." Samurai conceded. Family was important after all. Even he could understand that.
"Well the weedle got away so I guess we can battle now." Ash said.
So everyone else stepped back and let the boys have their fun.
"Pinsir I choose you!" Samurai called except instead of a giant beetle a metapod came out instead. "…It would appear I've been struck in the head harder then I thought."
"Do you want to do this another time?" Ash offered.
"No a true warrior never lets an injury hinder him from joining the battle!" Samurai said despite the fact that he was swaying.
"Okay, I'll see your Metapod with my own." Ash sends out Metapod.
"Metapod, use harden!"
"Metrapod, harden even more then his!"
"…This could take a while." Harley told the others.
~three hours later~
"Harden again!"
"Maximum hardness Metapod!"
"I feel jealous for some reason." Zelda admitted to her own confusion.
"Gina was right everything really is Freudian." Harley groaned with a double face palm (For when one face palm isn't enough).
It was then they all heard a large buzzing noise fill the forest. What that was clearly getting closer. Seconds later they saw the first members of the approaching swarm appear.
"Oh crap beedrill!"
"That weedle you failed to catch must have alerted the rest of his kind …good day." Samurai grabbed his sword and ran.
"Wow he was a real warrior alright." Misty said before taking off herself.
"We can take them!" Zelda said before noticing the sheer numbers of what were essentially large flying three-pronged spears coming their way, "Never mind!"
"EVERYBODY RUN!"
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EXTRA: Oldest, Middle, Youngest, and Only
"So let me see if I got this right." Brock started to say as he, Ash, and Misty walked down the path towards Mt. Moon.
"I'm the oldest of ten siblings with five younger brothers and four younger sisters, Ash is the middle child of eleven siblings five older sisters and five younger sisters, and you Misty are the youngest of four sisters." Brock finished.
"Yeah sorry my family isn't as massive as either of yours. Wait, no I'm not." Misty said.
"It has its ups and downs." Ash said and Brock nodded in agreement.
"So Misty if we're traveling together I guess that makes Brock the oldest child, me the middle child, and you the youngest child right?" Ash asked with a straight face.
"Yeah I guess-Wait NO! I'm two-years older then you!" Misty snapped grabbing his cheeks.
"Brock Misty's picking on me!" Ash whined.
"I'll do more then pick on you-you cheeky brat!" Misty said.
"I'm reminded of home already." Brock said smiling fondly before pulling the two a part
"Now, now, you two behave yourselves." Brock scolded.
For a moment the three just stared at one another before bursting out laughing.
Standing to the side having jumped off when Misty grabbed Ash a second ago Pikachu stared as the humans laughed at each other confused. Then again he had been an only child so maybe there was a joke here he just wasn't getting or it was just humans being weird. Yeah, it was probably just humans being weird.