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"Talking"

"Pokedex"

'Thinking'

Chapter 4- pewter city- first gym badge-mt. Moon.

Pewter city, a city situated near the mount moon, one of the biggest mountains in the region. Pewter city was an average sized city, with it's major attractions being the museum and also, the first gym badge.

Being closely associated with rocks, it was easy to know that the pewter city gym, the first gym ash would face in the region, would be a rock type gym. Now, many people would have told ash that he was being foolish to be trying to challenge the rock type gym with only one pokemon, a Pikachu to be exact, but ash was not known as the best trainer passed out from pallet for a reason. Even though he was not the strongest, he had what it took to even make an electric type strong against ground and grass types.

However, he didn't have to do that first, since now, he had one other person to take care of instead of one.

"Whoa!" Yancy muttered in awe. It was the first time she had come to such a big city, even if she lived less than a day's walk from it. She was afraid of the more stronger pokemon that appeared near the pewter city part of viridian forest, and stayed close to viridian city, near her cabin which was now destroyed. But even she couldn't help but get swept into the wave of awe that came upon looking at such a big city. "This place is huge!"

"Pewter city is famous for it's gym badge and it's museum. That is where we are going first. I have heard that there are some rather interesting things that appear in the museum." Ash said. Was it just him or was he speaking a lot more than he used to after meeting Yancy? "But I should agree, it is a great place to live in."

Not too big, not too small, it wasn't shabby, but wasn't pallet. But hey, no village in this world could be as good as pallet. But he was going to be proven wrong when he would visit certain places in the future, finding out that yes, there were places as good as pallet outside in the world.

"So what do we have to do now? I mean, except visiting the museum and picking my pokedex, what should I do?" Yancy asked. She was still new to this travelling system, and needed to be explained and taught many things. "And what about the money I have on hand? Won't that be stolen?"

"First, we go to the pokemon center." Ash said, pointing at the red roofed building in the distance. "Then, we go to the museum. Everything you need is in the pokemon center."

"Everything, like what?" Yancy asked, running slightly to catch up to ash, who had started to walk. "Wait up!"

"Like a room to stay for a night, a perfect check-up on all the pokemon you capture, food, ground and etc." Ash explained. "However, if you go in normally, you will be charged a bomb. So, you need to get admit into the normal trainer system, in which you get an all pokemon league services pass, making you enable to use the services of the pokemon center, mart and anything related to the pokemon league for a measly fee of 500 p$ per month."

"That's it?" now that was surprisingly cheap. Had she known about that before, she would have registered herself long ago. "That is something even I can afford!"

"Yes, but for that, you need to have a trainer account and pass, and for that, you need your pokedex." Ash said. Yeah, he definitely was talking a lot since leaving viridian forest. "In fact, nowadays, most of the pokemon schools have a system in which every student gets a trainer pass and account at age 10."

"W wait, do I have to give an exam?" Yancy asked, stopping, eyes wide open. "B but I won't pass! I don't have any knowledge on pokemon except berries and herbs!"

"Nah, that is only for those who want to become official trainers, like me. You want to become an entertainer or a tele-artist, so you don't need to give an exam, but don't worry, your pass will hold the same value anywhere you go." Ash said, walking inside the pokemon center. "now, just follow me."

As expected, there was a nurse joy present in this pokemon center as well. And even before she could speak, or anything could happen, ash spoke up.

"Good morning, nurse joy. I am ash ketchum, and this is Yancy orchid." Immediately, there was a ding from the pc that was on nurse joy's side of the desk. "I want to ask if there has been any deliveries on the name of Yancy orchid."

"Yes, in fact, we have 1 parcel for her, but the name of the collector is written Ash Ketchum, can I please have an Id belonging to you?" the nurse asked. "It is necessary since this is not a normal package but a very important package."

"..." ash silently handed over his pokedex to the woman, who checked it once, then re-checked it, and then handed him over both the parcel and his pokedex with a smile.

"Here you go, all is in order." The nurse said. "Welcome to the pokemon center, how can I help you now?"

"Here, please give a check-up to my Pikachu, and her meowth as well." Ash requested, causing Pikachu to jump on the tray. Yancy was slightly scared to part with meowth, but gave her away when she was promised they would be back within 10 minutes.

"So, what is in that?" Yancy asked, curious about the parcel. "And why does it have my name on it?"

"It is yours, that is why." Ash said, handing over the parcel. "In it is your official trainer ID and also, a pokedex and a set of 6 pokeballs."

As Ash said, it had a pink coloured pokedex, the difference only being the colour with ash's, and 6 pokemon, with pink coloured 'y' attached on top of all of them. There was also a separate card, that had some of yancy's details in it.

"S so now I am an official trainer?" Yancy asked after gulping once. She couldn't believe this day was ever going to come. "A and now I can go and travel around the world? Doing all that I have to?"

"Yes." Ash nodded with a very small smile on his face. "Congratulations. But first, you need to register your starter. Chose the ball with the shining sticker on it, and catch your meowth with it, automatically it will be registered in your pokedex, that way, your details will be officially complete, and you will be fit to participate in any pokemon tournament around the world."

"So I can't keep meowth outside the ball? And how does a pokemon that big even stay inside this? Won't she be suffocating?" Yancy asked, picking the ball up and giving it a full 360 degree glance. "I mean, I don't think there is a way a ball this small can contain a pokemon that big."

"..." Ash did not answer, and only blankly stared at Yancy. That was all the answer she needed, the gaze simply said 'Do you think I have a fucking clue to the answer of that question? Just do as I say, or your loss."

"A all right." She nodded, sweat dropping. She heard a coo, and looked to see the nurse coming back with meowth and Pikachu, who jumped straight onto ash's shoulder as soon as he was in range. Meowth also jumped down, rubbing her face against Yancy's leg. "Meowth. I need to do one thing to officially make you my pokemon. Umm, it will involve you to go in this ball, for a very little while, but after that, you can come back out and stay with me, l like Ash and Pikachu. W will you agree to it?"

"Nyaa~~~" Meowth nodded, preparing herself for the constraint that was going to arrive in a couple of seconds. Yancy opened the pokeball. Immediately, a red coloured light emitted out of the pokeball, and onto Meowth and enveloped it. Like a supernatural event occurring, meowth was also converted into the red coloured light, and all of it was sucked into the pokeball. The pokeball shook once, with the tip blinking red for a few seconds before it stopped with a ding. Within seconds, another ding came from Yancy's pokedex.

"N now, go, Meowth!" Yancy exclaimed, throwing the pokeball up in the air. In a flurry of red coloured light, Meowth appeared onto the ground, stretching once. "There, all done!"

"... Check the pokedex." Ash said, pointing to the device. Yelping once, as she had completely forgotten to see it, she opened the pink pokedex, and as soon as she did that, a mechanical female voice spoke up.

"Welcome to the pokemon system, Yancy Orchid. I am dexter, the AI of this pokedex and your assistant to give you all the details of all the pokemon you record with this device. Your starter pokemon is registered as meowth. Please choose either of the following. Check pokemon stats, check main pokemon list, turn off." Yancy pressed on the check stats button, curious as to what moves her meowth knew. Perhaps they would be as cool as Ash's Pikachu's. "Meowth, the cat pokemon. It adores circular objects and moves out every night in the streets to look for dropped loose change. This meowth is a female and is 1ft 4inches in height, and has the ability pickup. Her second ability is unknown as of yet and is on level is 10. She knows the moves scratch, growl, bite fake out and the egg move iron tail, which isn't developed as of yet. Choose one of the following. Egg moves, pick up ability or turn off."

"I will look at everything else tomorrow." Yancy declared, turning off the pokedex, and looking down at her Meowth with a large smile on her face. "You are amazing Meowth! You also know some of the moves that Pikachu knows!"

"Nyaaaaan~~~" The cat purred, rubbing her face against her trainer's legs. Yancy picked her up, and hugged her tight.

"Let's go and have you registered up." ash said, pointing towards the desk. "And book 2 rooms."

"Y yes!"

"So ash!" Yancy asked her new travelling partner. "What are we going to do now? I mean, it is still not even noon. We have finished all the major stuff involving me, and are free for the entire day."

"...The museum." Ash answered, his hands in his pockets. "Then towards the gym."

"But, are you sure about that? I mean, it is a rock type gym, and you only have a Pikachu." Yancy nervously asked, not wanting to annoy or offend her partner. "I, I mean, don't you think you should catch at least 1 more pokemon?"

"No." Ash stated, coming to a stop. "I believe in Pikachu."

"Pika Pikachu!" the yellow rodent cheered from Ash's shoulder.

"W well, if you believe in your pokemon, who am I to stop you." Yancy said, taking a deep breath to ease her of her worries. "And in your defence, your Pikachu is super strong."

"Don't give him a big head." Ash said, glaring slightly at her, who yelped when those red orbs turned towards her. Goodness gracious! He was scary! "And also, don't think you are going to be debarred from the training. Your Meowth, though strong, is not strong enough to cope up to many pokemon we are going to face, even if you don't want to do battles, you need to be strong enough to protect yourself."

"Y yes!" she could not say no to that. It was her duty to at least take care of herself, he had already done so much for her. "You have a deal!"

The rest of their trip in the museum was spent in silence. What ash's thoughts about the museum were could be summarised in only one word, overrated.

There was nothing much in there, just some photos, fossils and some other stuff that you could very easily imitate, easily made by carving on any rock you find.

So now, their focus was in the gym, or rather, ash's focus was going to the gym, and winning his first gym badge.

"Who goes there?" A man, squinty eyed, wearing an orange coloured t-shirt and a green vest and brown coloured pants held by a belt with a golden buckle asked. He had dark skin, and was sitting Indian style on a rock in the rocky field of the gym. He looked to be 4 to 5 years older than ash.

"My name is Ash Ketchum from pallet town." Ash said, emotionless as ever. "And I am here for a gym battle."

"Fine." The man, also appearing emotionless, stated. "I am Brock Slate, the gym leader of the pewter city gym, and I accept your challenge."

Now, we find Ash standing on one side of the field and Brock on the other. A boy, perhaps somewhere a year below ash's age was standing in the refree's box, and Yancy was sitting in the bleachers with her Meowth on her lap, cheering for him.

"You can do it ash!" she called out to him, though not as loudly as she should have been. "You are strong enough."

"..." He looked towards yancy, red eyes meeting blue. Then, he smiled at her with a nod, and looked back towards the battlefield. The message of appreciation and gratitude was conveyed. And for some reason, Yancy felt her heart skip a beat when he smiled at her.

"Nyaa!" meowth also showed her support.

"This will be a 2 on 2 Battle between trainer Ash Ketchum of pallet town and Gym leader Brock Slate of pewter city." The boy shouted out with his hands in the air, spread out, right towards Ash and left towards Brock. "Only the challenger is allowed to switch their pokemon between rounds and he will get the first move. Trainers, please call out your pokemon."

"Let's go, Geodude!" brock exclaimed, calling out his first pokemon from his pokeball. A small brown coloured circular rock with 2 arms coming out of its side. It had slanted eyes and also a mouth below his eyes, and was made out of rock entirely.

"Geo Geodude!" the pokemon said in its language with a voice which surprisingly suited it. Ash checked the pokedex once.

"Geodude, the rock boulder pokemon. It is said to be having great defensive power and are often found on hills. Because of its appearance looking very similar to a rock, people often step on it."

"..." ash nodded towards Pikachu, who ran towards the field and stood on a rock. If Brock was surprised by his choice, he didn't show it. "Pikachu, stand by for battle."

"Pikachu!" the rodent exclaimed, flexing his arms. "Pika!"

"Round 1, Pikachu vs Geodude. Let the battle begin!" The refree waved his arms downwards in a swiping motion, starting the battle.

"Use quick attack." Ash commanded, making Pikachu vanish in a blur with a strange white coloured light trailing it. "Don't attack it, just move around."

"Geodude, use mud sport!" Brock shouted, making geodude release a lot of mud from it's mouth towards the air, it falling down all around the field. "Now use rock throw!"

The rock type pokemon picked up a rock from the ground, and threw it towards Pikachu who, with his speed from the quick attack, was able to dodge it easily.

"Get close." Ash said. "Then use iron tail from the other direction."

Pikachu sped up even more and got close to the Geodude. However, unlike brock expected, it vanished exactly when it came in front of it, and appeared behind Geodude. His zigzag tail had a metallic sheen to it.

"Pika...CHU!" Pikachu slammed the iron tail on top of geodude's head, which combined with the steel type super effective move and the speed from the quick attack did a lot of damage to Geodude.

"Geodude!" Brock shouted, worried for his pokemon. "Are you okay? Hang on in there!"

"Pikachu, brick break to finish it." ash gave his final order. Pikachu jumped up in the air again, and slammed his hand on top of Geodude, and this time, the rock type pokemon couldn't stay conscious.

"Geodude~" the pokemon was slammed into the ground, unconscious with spirals in his eyes. Pikachu jumped back on the rock, and raised one of his arms in the air with a v sign.

"Pika!" he cheered.

"Geodude cannot battle, the winner of this round is Pikachu." The refree shouted, inwardly surprised as an electric type had somehow managed to beat a rock type. "Gym leader Brock, please send out your next pokemon."

"I never thought an electric type would ever beat my Geodude, ash, but then again, pokemon can never be underestimated." Brock said, recalling his Geodude. "Rest my friend, you did great. Now Ash, I am sorry to say this, but it is the end of the battle. Let's go, onix!"

The pokemon that came out of the pokeball was a large pile of rocks attached to make a snake like formation, with the top having one singe horn. It was large, very large, towering over Pikachu.

"OOONNNIXXX!" the pokemon shouted, roaring it's name. Yancy eeped in shock, and hugged meowth as safety, who herself was shivering in Yancy's arms.

"S scary~" she muttered weakly. Ash gauged the pokemon and looked down towards Pikachu who was looking unsure of himself.

"Pikachu." Ash called out to his partner, who looked back towards ash. Ash nodded towards him, and gave a calming and cheering smile, no matter how small it was. "You can do it, I believe in you."

Pikachu's eyes widened at seeing the belief in the red eyes of his trainer. Somehow, the determination flamed up inside of him, and Pikachu looked at onix back, glaring at it.

"Round 2, Pikachu vs Onix, begin!"

"Onix, use bind!" The rocky tail of Onix came up to grab Pikachu, but ash had other ideas.

"Jump atop its tail, and climb towards its head." Ash commanded. "As soon as you reach up, use brick break!"

Pikachu got on top of onix's head, and got ready to use the attack, however, Brock was prepared for it.

"Onix, toss him up in the air!" Onix suddenly jerked his head upwards, sending Pikachu high up in the air. "Now grab it and use wrap!"

Ash growled as he saw his plan failing. He needed to improvise now.

"Pika!" Pikachu shouted in pain. The onix was too big and strong. He needed to get out now.

Ash's attention suddenly went to the roof when he saw something glinting, and he then got an idea, a very bright idea.

"Pikachu, use thunder shock on the roof!" brock, the refree and even Yancy were bamboozled by ash's move. Why on the roof? But Pikachu believed in what his trainer was saying, and shot the thunder shock up in the air and into the roof.

You see, there were auto fire extinguishers above, now, if Ash's Pikachu uses an electric type move up there, the sprinklers would sort out, and cause water to fall down. And that is what happened.

The sprinkles rained down on Onix with water, completely soaking it, and making it slippery enough for Pikachu to get out of its grip and stand back down. Brock's jaw was touching the ground. It wasn't cheating, but it wasn't a normal move either.

"Pikachu, time to finish this." Ash said, raising a hand in the air and towards onix. "Use electro ball!"

"Pika..." Electric energy started to swirl around on Pikachu's tail, forming a compressed ball of electricity on the tip. "CHU!"

Pikachu shot the electro ball on onix, which now due to it being wet, was effected heavily by the electric type attack, making it slam down onto the ground, swirls instead of eyes. Ash had won the battle, with only a Pikachu.

"... Forrest!" Brock called out to his brother, unknown to anyone but him, who couldn't respond due to the shocking turn of events. He snapped out of it when his name was called, and looked towards Brock, who nodded.

"O onix cannot battle! The winner of the round is Pikachu. Since the gym leader is out of pokemon, the victory goes to Ash Ketchum of Pallet town!" The boy, Forrest, who was acting like a refree, said.

"You did it, ash!" Yancy shouted, getting up and dashing towards the red eyed teen. Perhaps, she was even more happy than ash himself. She almost tackled him to the ground. "You won!"

"Pikachu!" Pikachu did tackle him to the ground. Ash laughed silently and hugged Pikachu back. He did a good job.

"Thank you, Yancy, your support helped a lot. Thank you, Pikachu, you did great. And you too, Meowth." Ash said, adding the last part when Meowth hissed at him for forgetting her. He heard a cough in front of him where he saw Brock, who though downtrodden, had a smile on his face.

"Ash, I have never met a trainer who not only uses their own pokemon's strength, but also the surroundings. That last move not only made me realise that I need to improvise on my gym's layouts, but also my battling style, and get some pokemon that are not only rock type, but also a type that is stronger against rock's weakness. Here, you deserve this." Brock said, holding out a badge, a gray coloured badge, the rock badge. "It's the rock badge."

"Thank you." Ash said, accepting the badge, and looking at its gleam, Pikachu sitting on Ash's shoulder, looking at it himself with sparkling eyes. It was so cool! "It was a great match."

"Y yes!" Yancy also added her thoughts. "I got to learn many things from watching such a cool battle."

"Oh, so you aren't going to battle me?" Brock asked, inwardly sad. He wanted another battle like that one. "Any reason for that?"

"I don't want to go into battles." Yancy said, looking sideways in embarrassment as all the attention was on her. She wasn't used to be getting much attention. "I want to be a TV artist in the future, so I don't want to take part in gym battles."

"Oh, it's okay then, I understand what it means to follow a dream." Brock said, rubbing the back of his head. "I myself don't want to be a gym leader. You know, how about I treat you both to lunch? I am sure we can exchange some stories over it."

Ash, Pikachu, Yancy and Meowth exchanged looks, and nodded.

"We would love to." The two humans said, one happily and the other in his usual voice.

"So you want to be a breeder." Ash asked Brock. He had to admit, Brock was an amazing cook. Hell he was sure only his mother would be able to give Brock a competition in cooking. "Then why are you a Gym leader? I am sure it is a completely different line."

"It is." Brock sighed, sadly, and looked towards a picture. "You see, my mother and father had a big fight and my mother left the house for that without saying or telling anyone. My father followed soon, leaving me to take care of my siblings and myself. My father is actually the gym leader, and I had just taken the exams when I was substituted because of my father's disappearance. My real dream is to be a great pokemon breeder."

"I am sure one day you will achieve your dream." Yancy said, knowing what it feels when a parent leaves their child. "I mean, I know what you feel. Even my parents had left me when I was 4. I was living in the viridian forest till 2 days ago when Ash found me and due to an incident, I got the chance to leave and travel with ash."

"I am sorry to hear that." Brock sympathised with the girl. At least he was old enough. "So, what are your plans now, Ash?"

"Mount Moon first, then Cerulean city." Ash said, looking towards the mountain in the distance. "I need to train my Pikachu a lot if I am not able to catch a pokemon in there that suits my battle style."

"Well, luckily for you, the Cerulean city gym is a water type gym." Brock said, a dreamy hue appearing in his eyes. "And the leaders out there are as beautiful as the water itself!~~"

"Uhh, B brock?" Yancy asked, unsure of herself. "A are you okay?"

Ash on the other hand deadpanned. He was a pervert, wasn't he? But who was he to judge, Brock was a cool guy.

"Well, forgetting that. Brock, if you ever get a chance, you can always travel with me." Ash said, giving a proposition. "I am sure we could learn a ton of things from each other."

"Y yes!" Yancy also added with a smile. "Y you are amazing to know so many skills."

"Now, don't make me feel embarrassed." Brock said, rubbing the back of his head. "B but, thank you for the proposition. I will see if I am able to come."

'So, today we leave for Mount Moon.' Ash thought, looking towards the path. 'Hmm, Pikachu is at level 18, and if what Brock said was correct, then I am going to have an easy time at the gym in Cerulean. And I need to help Yancy to train as well. Speaking of her, when is she going to come out?'

Ash was standing in front of the pokemon centre, waiting for Yancy to come out of the building. Why did all the girls take so long to dress up? His mother also took half an hour to dress up, even when they were going to see a simple movie!

"S sorry to keep you waiting, ash!" Yancy said, running out of the room. She had only one change from her previous outfit, and that was, instead of the inner dress being baby pink coloured, it was baby blue. "I needed to change my outfit, that one wasn't exactly clean."

".." ash nodded, and pointed his head towards the road, Pikachu already on his shoulder.

"Let's go!" Yancy, due to some reason, was also quite hyped up for the journey. It could be because she was for the first time going so far away from home, or also because she was going to achieve her dream. Anyways, back on track, ash and Yancy were just about to get out of the village, when a voice stopped them.

"Ash! Yancy! Stop!" Turning around, they saw Brock running towards them, due to some reason, he had a bag with him as well. "*Huff*, *Huff*, I made it."

"Oh, Brock, what are you doing here?" Yancy asked. "And why do you look as if you are going somewhere?"

"W well, you see, my father came home yesterday, and asked for forgiveness because he was listening to our conversation yesterday. So he came back to take responsibility of the gym and his duties again." Brock explained. Ash caught on immediately. "S so, as you said, I could join you guys if I had a chance. I hope you weren't bluffing."

"Of course we weren't!" Ash was the one to say that. He never bluffed, sorry, not against such serious stuff. "You can ofcourse come with us."

"It will be great!" Yancy cheered. "The more the merrier, right?"

"T thank you guys, I promise not to hold you back." And so, another friendship that could never be broken was formed. Now, the newly formed trio had to face the darker stuff that adorned this world as they made their way to Mount moon.

"So Brock, have you ever been in Mount Moon?" Yancy asked the newest and the oldest addition of their group. It had been 2 hours since they left pewter city, and now, they were nearing the pokemon centre below Mount Moon, where they would stop for some time, almost an hour before leaving. One thing new was that Yancy had faced her first battle against a bug catcher, and had won.

The bug catcher had 4 pokemon, all under level 10, but Yancy's Meowth stayed firm, and was able to defeat his team of a Caterpie, a Weedle, a Metapod and a Kakuna. Caterpie was a small green coloured caterpillar pokemon, similarly, Weedle was a small creamish yellow colour pokemon. Caterpie eveolved into Metapod, a green coloured cocoon pokemon, and Weedle into Kakuna, a yellow coloured cocoon pokemon. In the end, Yancy won her first ever pokemon battle, and that was the point.

"Yes, when I was small." Brock said, looking up at the mountain. "If I remember, I had gone quite above in the mountain to explore, and also had gotten my Geodude from there."

"Onix was your starter?" Ash asked, an eyebrow raised in interest. It wasn't something unusual for a trainer to start out with a different pokemon than the usual 3, him as an example. But starting out with that big a pokemon? Brock nodded. "Now that's something."

"My father gave him to me when I was 8, and I got Geodude when I was 10. I didn't have a chance to train them much because I had many duties in the house after my parents left, but now I think I might train, and catch some pokemon as well." Brock said, looking down on his belt to see his 2 pokeballs. "But I don't know how many rock types are there in kanto."

"Why do you want to catch only rock types?" Yancy asked, a cute face of confusion on her face. "I mean, even if you were a rock type gym leader, you can keep other pokemon now since you aren't a gym leader now."

"She's right." Ash said, red eyes trailing one at brock. "You need to get a variety of pokemon if you want to be a breeder, because a breeder is not an expert in raising pokemon of a single type, but all types, or that is what I think a breeder is."

"No, you are right in a way, but not only raising, it involves many things." Brock explained his profession. "A breeder is not only a pokemon trainer that trains his or her pokemon to be strong, but also raises it, takes care of it, makes sure it is in perfect condition and also makes sure it lives it's life to the fullest. So I don't only need to train a pokemon, I need to know it as I do my family and take care of it as if he is my family."

"That's a tough job." Yancy said after listening. "But I think you can manage it."

"...Never give up." Ash said, coming to an abrupt halt. "You hear that?"

"What?" The other two asked. Pikachu's ears twitched, and Meowth suddenly went alert, both of them growling at the bushes ahead. A man suddenly rushed out of them, wearing a lab-coat and glasses.

"HELP ME!" the man shouted, running towards the group of travellers. "Please, help me! They aren't leaving my tail!"

Behind him, there was a horde of flying pokemon, all violet in colour with purple underwings. They had no eyes, but had large mouths, and were making weird sounds.

"Zubat, the bat pokemon. This pokemon lives in caves and uses echolocation to find out its prey. Anyone who interrupts their nest will be hunted down till they are far away from it." Yancy's pokedex said. "That sounds like a tough pokemon."

"S STOP STANDING AROUND AND BATTLE THEM!" The scientist shouted from behind them. He was cowering. "P PLEASE, I BEG OF YOU!"

"Pikachu, thunder shock!"

"Geodude, use multiple rock throws!"

Ash and Brock were quick to react, using super effective moves on the horde of zubat, knocking down many of them. Not wanting to be left behind, Yancy also made up her mind.

"Meowth! Use fury swipes!" Meowth jumped up in the air, and started to slash the zubats rapidly, again and again, taking down multiple of them.

While Ash and Yancy were taking down all of them, Brock had sneakily captured one. Within minutes, all of the zubats ran back away to their homes.

"T thank you." The scientist said, sighing in relief. "I didn't know there were these many Zubats in that place."

"Zubats are real sneaky pokemon." Brock said, looking at the pokeball in hich he had caught the Zubat in. "Luckily, I was able to catch one."

"Really? When?" Yancy asked in curiousity, using her pokedex to scan the pokeball. "Well, it is on level 12, knows the moves gut, leech life, screech and bite, that's a good move set, I guess."

"..." Ash didn't speak, only continued to look up at the top of the mountain. "Can you tell me something mr..."

"Seymor." The scientist introduced himself. "I am Seymor."

"Mr Seymor, can you tell me why were you inside Mt Moon?" Ash asked, looking at the scientist straight in the eye. "If I have read properly, and heard properly, I am sure that researching in Mt Moon is strictly prohibited outside of a timeframe, which I believe is in the month of march, and I am sure that the month as of now is January as my birthday went only a couple of weeks ago."

"You are correct, it is the month of January, but I am not here for research. I am hired by the Kanto police force, and am from the laboratory of Cinnabar Island, you can call me Doctor Seymor." The doctor proudly stated. "You see, lately, there have been reports of people coming out of Mt moon with very dangerous attack marks, nearly fatal. So the Kanto police hired the Cinnabar lab, who sent me to get initial recordings of what is going on inside the inner caves of Mt moon. I don't have any pokemon with me, but I didn't need because everything is controlled by remote, I only had to send rovers. However, when I set up the first one, these Zubats came out of nowhere and started to attack me. If you don't believe me, I can show you all the documents."

"No, it's okay." Being the older person, Brock decided to talk professionally with the man. No offense to Ash, he might have more experience in that matter, but ash wasn't exactly too social, and ash appreciated the gesture, and stood back. "We just were curious because there have been a lot of dark things that have been going around."

"It's quite good of you to ask that actually." The professor said, getting up and dusting himself. "Now, how about we go to the lab that I had set up? The pokemon centre had been closed down due to the increasing attacks, and will re-open after one month."

"Sure." The three nodded. They needed rest anyway before trying to find a safe way through Mount Moon.

"A lightened tunnel inside Mt Moon?" Brock asked, clearly surprised by the news. "No way, that's not possible, why would someone install lights inside a cave? It's not possible for someone to do that, it is a crime to install anything inside Mt Moon without the permission of the police or the government."

"We know, but I have checked every single tunnel, and I found nothing in the end except one thing, a large piece of stone, a large Moonstone." The doctor said, showing the image of the stone. The camp he had set up wasn't small or big. It was one of those camps in the movies set up to research some stuff. "Also, I found that this unusual lighting has had pokemon behave unnaturally and tire out, like Zubat, who don't exactly live in the light."

"Ignoring all that," Ash, having taken a look at the map of the explored areas of the mountain, asked seymor. "Did you find a safe way through?"

"Well, all the ways aren't dangerous as per say. The only thing is, you need to be strong enough to defeat anything that comes in your way." Seymor said, trying to pack some stuff into the bag. "If you could be kind enough, can I come with you guys? I want to take a look inside personally, but I don't have any pokemon."

"Sure." Yancy, Ash and Brock said.

It wasn't as easy as it sounded. Tracking even with a map inside Mt Moon was difficult. The caves were long and tiny, and also a lot suffocating. They knew that once they reached the topmost cavern, they had to start getting down towards the east, where the Cerulean city exit was. However, they found the people causing the trouble in the way of their hiking.

"What the!" Seymor shouted. "Who are you?!"

"Intruders." The men, dressed in weird black suits with red R's on the chest said, few of them releasing some pokemon for battle. "Go Ratata/koffing/grimer!"

"Hey, isn't that team rocket's symbol?" Yancy asked, Meowth already standing by for battle. "What happened to those 3?"

"I don't know, but we have other stuff to deal with right now." Ash said, nodding towards Pikachu who stood with rapidly sparking cheeks. "Pikachu, don't back out."

"Zubat, let's have our first battle together!" Brock called out for his newest pokemon. "Let's show these people what it means to be the bad guys!"

Their opponents were a koffing, similar to the one james had, a Ratata, a small purple and white coloured rat pokemon with 2 large fangs and a Grimer, a small poison slime pokemon.

"Ratata, hyper fang/Grimer, sludge/Koffing, smog!" The 3 rocket grunts shouted out their moves. All of them were dodged.

"Pikachu, use electroball on grimer." Ash.

"Meowth, you use fury swipes on Ratata!" Yancy.

"Zubat, air cutter on koffing!" Brock.

3 moves, all it took to defeat the 3 pokemon, seemed like they weren't all that strong.

"Grr, we will remember this!" And without anything to say, they ran away. "You made your biggest mistake to make team rocket your enemies!"

"Phew, all set." Seymor said, after having checked every cave of the Mountain. "They were the only people that there were, no one else. I found the source of the problem, and with your help, we dealt with it as well. Ash, Brock, Yancy, thank you very much."

"You are welcome." They were standing on the cerulean city end of the Mt Moon, and now with the mountain safe again, the pokemon center could be re-set.

"Now, I can't just let you go without anything as a piece of my gratitude." Seymor said, removing some stuff from his pocket. "Here."

Brock had gotten a rock, but it had a sort of design on it of a claw. Ash had gotten an item finder and Yancy had gotten a pokeball, but it had a pokemon in it.

"A claw fossil?" Brock asked, amazed. "I don't believe it! Where did you find this from?"

"Inside the cave when I came here initially." Seymor said. "I am also an expert on reviving pokemon from their fossils, but I don't have the proper gear here. If you ever pass through Cinnabar, please come to the lab where I can get the pokemon inside that fossil for you."

"Sure." Brock said, looking back down to take a better look.

"For you ash, I have an item finder. It will help you find hidden items nearby. Not exactly something to be gifted, but still good." Seymor said. Ash didn't say anything, just nodded. Finally, it was Yancy's turn.

"Yancy, you have a pokemon as a gift for you, something which will suit you perfectly." Seymor said. "Go on, open it."

"W well, if you say so." Yancy took a deep breath, and called out for the pokemon inside. "Go, pokemon!"

The pokemon that came out was a small pink coloured pokemon with black tips for ears. It was shaped like a star, and was entirely pink.

"Clefairy!" The pokemon, a Clefairy called out its name, waving an arm at its new trainer.

"Nyaa!" Meowth started to chat with the pokemon, the two becoming friends quickly. Yancy checked her pokedex once.

"Clefairy, the star pokemon. Clefairy are said to be rare pokemon not found anywhere, and they bring incredibly good luck to people." The dexter said. Yancy smiled, and bent down.

"Hello clefairy, my name is Yancy." She introduced herself. "Nice to meet you, I hope we can have a fun journey around."

"Cle!" the pokemon cheered, jumping into yancy's arms, who giggled. The others smiled at the scene, all happy for her, and themselves.

But Ash knew that what the grunts had said could be true. He needed to make sure to take care now, or it would end badly for all of them, but nothing could keep that excited grin of his face.

It was the best idea he had ever had, to go on a journey.

The end.

Authour's notes- Now that was a doozy to write. Perhaps the longest I have written for this story. Yeah, almost 7000 words not counting my notes. Anyways, here is the 4th chapter of the fanfiction, hope you like it.

About the slightly different stuff, I said that I was going to mix the anime and the games, so don't complain about why it is different from the games or the anime. The next chapter is going to contain some major plot details, like ash getting 2 new pokemon and Yancy getting a goal for her journey around kanto.

Now, you can wonder about what it might be, I am sure you know what pokemon ash is going to get, I will give you a hint, they are 2 starters. Their stories will be different from the anime, of course, but it will be epic, I can say that. And about Yancy, as I said, it is an even introduced after Gen 4, so you might know what that is.

Now, let's talk about something I wanted to about the future of this story. I have played a lot of pokemon, perhaps since I was 7, I have been playing pokemon. I have a DS, an Advance Sp, a Wii and once upon a time, I also had a game cube. So I have played all games from Gen 3, including FRLG, RSE, XD, DPPT, HGSS, BW, B2W2 and also the mystery dungeon series. As a side fact, the side games are awesome. But ignoring that, let's move on to the fact about 3DS. Due to some financial troubles, and my own final examinations, I chose not to buy a 3DS so, I have never played XY or ORAS. So, when I come to kalos in this fic, if I ever get to that, it will be troublesome. But let's ignore that for now. Kalos is a long time away, I am just telling you the fact that it will be a while before I start writing kalos in this story as soon as unova is over.

Now, About Ash's strength. I am not going to lie, when I first played Fire red, the first pokemon I caught was a Pikachu inside viridian forest. After that, I went back to catch pidgey. And when I took on brock, I had a 20 level Pikachu, a 10 level pidgey and a 11 level charmander, my starter. Yes, a 20 level Pikachu. So, I can easily say that if I can do that, I can write that as well. And I said that ash is going to be OP and OOC, so, no complaints.

I should thank all of you who follow me, and also give me support and help me write better, and I hope you keep on doing that to me. Enough of my blabbering. I will get in the next update exactly 3 days after I update the dragon king, which must be coming somewhere between the 1st and the 5th of November, so, yeah, a long wait, but I can't ignore that story as well.

And because that story is much more difficult to write, I can't rush it like I am doing for this, because, I wrote chapters in half the amount of time I took for that story.

So, yeah, see you next time.

Regards...Omnipotent97.