Authors Corner: and now the moment you've all been waiting for! Nearly half of Kanto in one chapter because of the amount of episodes we've got 31 to go through and barely any of them are important... lets goooooooo
The usual situation we find ourselves in as Ash and friends are on the way to the site of the next gym, which in this case is Cinnabar Island, but for now they are on tthe way to the docks of Fuchsia City, which is a surprisingly long way away from the gym of the town
"Honestly" Misty sighed "Why would you put the gym 20 miles away from the town! that's just confusing"
Brock shrugged "I guess it fits in with the ninja aesthetic, making people have to find it"
"But why bother with aesthetic's! its just annoying to the people who challenge gyms" Misty yelled
"You're gym had a swimming pool challengers had to ride rafts over" Brock pointed out
Misty shook her head in annoyance "Still, putting it out in the wild is just overdoing it"
Brock was about to point out how they both knew it was there being gym leaders themselves when a Jigglypuff ran infront of them on the road
"Excuse me? can you help?" it asked
Ash walked infront of the humans and knelt down next to it "Sure, what do you need?"
Jigglypuff looked taken aback "you can understand me?" Ash nodded "wow, but I need help, whenever I sing people fall asleep. It's really annoying!"
Ash nodded "got it, let me talk to my friends"
Ash pulled out his book and flipped pages and landed on one that said "Jigglepuff's got a problem, everytime they sing everyone falls asleep"
Misty looked at him confused "Ash, do you know nothing about pokemon?"
"I know what it is" Brock clarified "Jigglypuff's singing is unique, in a sense it's singing makes everyone fall asleep, regardless of who the Jigglypuff is"
"oh" Jigglypuff looked shock "that... makes a surprising amount of sense, thank you!" and with that Jigglypuff left... to secretly follow the group from that point onwards
and so the group set off towards the next gym, stopping soon along the way at a pokemon center at a town with a dig site for fossils
"Want to go to the canyon Brock?" Ash asked, via book
Brock hesitated for a second "Sure, I've heard of a third fossil being found recently in Kanto, apparently a rock type, would be nice to get on my team" and so the group set off towards the canyon, the group arrived and were briefed on the proper etiquette for digging, which mainly involved not using explosives, and if you do find anything to report it then you will be allowed to keep it
"and the mute from Palette is here!" a voice cried from behind Ash as the group started digging
"oh god this asshole" Ash sighed, turning around to see Gary, his old friend from Pallette
Misty turned around and looked at Gary "Who's this Ash? a friend of yours?"
Gary scoffed "friend? no I am his superior! I am the pride of Pallette Gary Oak! grandson of the great Proffesor Oak"
Brock looked at him thoughtfully "Were you the person who challenged my gym with that squirtle, and lost?"
Gary looked taken aback "No! you must be confusing me with another worthless sap with a squirtle, mine is a healthy Wartortle that could beat you anytime!" he looked over at Ash's team who had taken to sitting by and watching "What Ash, this your team? are you so weak they don't stay in pokeballs?" he scoffed "you must be weaker then I thought then, because they look weaker then your friends!"
Charmeleon's fire flared "I'LL KILL HIM!"
Wartortle pulled him back "Woah now, If I learned anything in my gang, its that you always kill a hit while they're sleeping"
Charmeleon looked back at him angrily "He called us weak! and Ash, plus Brock and Misty are some of the only nice humans and he's insulting them"
Wartortle nodded "and thats why we get him in the night"
Ash looked over at them "no killing!" he paused "or at least wait a week so it isn't easy to trace"
"What Ash, talking to your weakling friends? I bet you can't even dig up fossils properly look!" he pulled out a small heart shaped scale "A genuine fossil!"
Brock looked at it "that's a heart scale, they're everywhere"
Gary looked down at it, then up at Brock "lies!" he cried and went back to his spot digging
as our group of heroes was about to start digging a explosion rocked the canyon "did you hear that?" Brock asked looking around, then the floor collapsed underneath them
Team Rocket meanwhile watched in shock, intending to only cause minor destruction and grab some fossils they had accidentally caused the twerps to fall into the ground
The cave was dark, pitch black. And then Ash opened his eyes, he looked around the cave for Brock, Misty and his pokemon they were all around him
"Just to make sure I understand what just happened" Misty said "the ground just collapsed and we are in a cave?"
"I think so" Brock clarified "Ash? You have Pidgeotto with you right?" Pidgeotto in response let out a caw from on top of Ash's hat "good, I couldn't see in the dark, Pidgeotto can you help me up to the surface, then come back down for Misty and finally Ash?" Pidgeotto nodded and flew over to Brock, picking him up and taking him to the surface
Before Pidgeotto could return however a noise rang through the cave from one of the tunnels out of the main room. And then an Aerodactyl was there
Pidgeotto landed a second later looking at the ancient pokemon "oh... oh that's bad" with that she flew over and grabbed Misty with her talons "Sorry gotta go fast now"
And so Ash was left with his pokemon staring down the Aerodactyl "uhm, hello"
"Hello, you food?" it asked looking down at Ash
Ash shook his head still staring at it "no no... we taste horrible"
Aerodactyl laughed "then you weak, weak must be killed" and with that it grabbed Ash and flew out the cave
"okay I'm drawing the line there I. am. not. weak." and with that a light enveloped Charmeleon and soon revealed a newly evolved, Charizard "IMA KILL AN ANCIENT POKEMON" and with that he took off, to fight a ancient pokemon
Charizard grabbed from above and started dragging them to the ground "Pidgeotto catch me!" Ash screamed as he was dropped from the sky, and soon catched via the deus ex bird
Charizard meanwhile slammed the aerodactyl into the ground nearly knocking it out "Who's weak now?" he hissed, the group rejoined and got the rest of the pokemon out of the cave, soon leaving the canyon
"I just realised something" Brock rubbed the back of his head sheepishly "I forgot to give the fossil I found to the people there, I guess seeing a dragon fight takes your mind off things" he laughed
Misty seemed to go into shock as she heard Brock's words "oh... I also forgot to give them this" she put the egg she was carrying down and produced another one from her bag "oops"
the group laughed and continued on the road to Cinnabar Island
a few days later and the group had sat down for the night when Misty's egg she had won on the S.S. Anne started glowing, Brock seeing this hurriedly pushed Ash to the side and got out of sight himself. Ash looked at Brock annoyed "Sorry for pushing you" he whispered as Misty looked at the egg taking it out the incubator "but the trainer must be the first thing a newborn pokemon sees"
Ash nodded and looked back to the egg as Ash's pokemon retreated from sight hearing Brock. Soon the egg broke and a newborn Squirtle was seen "wow" Misty breathed
The squirtle looked at Misty and smiled before falling asleep Ash and Brock walked back into the clearing ready to talk, when Misty's over egg started glowing Brock and Ash hurriedly dived behind a bush in haste looking at Misty again to see the second egg hatch, revealing a Togepi who once again looked at Misty then fell asleep
Brock and Ash slowly crept into the clearing waiting for a third egg to hatch, one didn't and they sat down next to Misty
"Wow Misty" Brock said stunned "two egg hatches in one night, that's... interesting to say the least"
the group slept peacefully that night and set off again for Cinnabar Island... again
the group was nearing the docks of Fuschia City, and by extension the city itself when a boy with a camera around his neck approached them on a road
"excuse me? are you Ash Ketchum?" he asked Ash nodded hesitantly "Finally! you are the one with Ho-Oh correct"
"Wait how did anyone hear about that?" Brock interrupted
the boy looked at him "oh, don't worry I am the only one that knows, I am a travelling photographer see? one day I was looking in a forest for pokemon to take pictures of when I saw through the tree's you, your friend Ash and that girl" he gestured to Misty "along with Ho-Oh, so I asked my boss Professor Oak who you were and he pointed me in your direction"
Ash put his egg down and pulled out his book "so why did you want to find us? and you haven't given us your name"
the boy nodded "ah yes, sorry I am Todd Snap! and the reason I wanted to find you was I wanted to get a few pictures if you don't mind, or maybe travel with you for a while since you are on a pokemon journey right?"
Ash flipped pages "yeah we're on the way to Cinnabar now, you can travel with us if you want but sorry to dissapoint Ho-Oh only really shows up if its dangerous so we probably wont see him for a while"
Todd dismissed the problem "don't worry, I got one good shot of Ho-Oh already. It's the only one Oak has now so it's being used for the pokedex, other than that if you're heading to Cinnabar then when we're done I can loop back around to Pallette and meet with Oak"
Ash shrugged "Sure then, you can come with" and so, With Todd in tow the group set off towards Cinnabar finally reaching the docks and setting off to the island
MEANWHILE WITH... Mewtwo?
The glass around Mewtwo broke, he was finally out of that cloning process "I swear to Arceus when I see him I am going to kill that llama" he looked around disinterested at the humans "well... bye" and with that he flew out the window preparing for the test on the chosen was to soon come
"Your back!" Mew shouted as they flew past Mewtwo coming to a skidding halt "finally! that was like 6 months of waiting"
Mewtwo sighed "it got so boring I started writing a novel, happy side I have ideas for the test the chosen shall do" he commented
"Good! because I have no idea what we are going to do!" Mew said happily
"if you weren't so much fun I would throw a rock at you"
MEANWHILE WITH OUR HEROES
our heroes were finally on the boat to Cinnabar Island after many weeks of travel, and like 2000 words they were nearly at the site of Ash's 7th gym battle
"oh if it isn't the punk of Pallette" and Gary was there sadly, Ash turned around to see Gary a smirk on his face, Gary looked to Todd "you picked up another loser friend have w-" he saw Charizard staring him down from behind Ash "oh that weak Charmeleon evolved?"
Charizard growled "I'm going to throw him overboard in the night"
"Please don't" a voice from behind them spoke, Ash turned around to see Yellow smiling, carrying the egg she won "Howdy again Ash"
"Hey Yellow! good to see you again" Ash turned back to Charizard "please no murder, atleast where it can be traced to us"
Yellow rolled her eyes and looked at Gary "and you're insulting Ash because?"
Brock and Misty returned from below deck at this point "oh Arceus this guy again" Misty sighed
Gary laughed at Yellow "Why? Because he is weak unlike me! The pride of Pallette Gary Oak!"
Todd looked between Ash and Gary "is this a friend of your Ash?" Ash shook his head "okay, good"
"Oak? as in Blue and Samuel Oak?" Yellow asked "because if so Blue is way nicer than you"
"Blue?" Gary scoffed "that weakling couldn't even win in the pokemon league before they changed it! I can't stand to be around you weaklings anymore" and with that Gary walked off
"So Ash, Brock, Misty how have you been?" she looked to Todd "and whos this?"
"Todd Snap, I'm a pokemon photographer" Todd clarified
"And we've been doing good Yellow, I'm on the way to Cinnabar for my 7th badge" Ash said
Yellow nodded "nice, the gym leader on Cinnabar is nice, how about you Misty where's the egg you won?"
Misty looked at her confused about the first part, before nodding remembering her understanding Ash "it hatched! turns out it was a Squirtle egg, only hatched yesterday so they're sleeping in a pokeball for now"
"And I got some tips from a professional breeder so my career is looking good" Brock smiled
"That's great Brock, you'll be a great breeder" Yellow replied "When we get to Cinnabar I'll show you to the gym, he wants people to 'prove' themselves to fight him by finding his gym, only issue is less people want to come to the island because less people know of it and he's dying for a battle"
Todd laughed "that seems like a flaw in his logic, you want battles but you tell no one"
and soon the boat docked at Cinnabar and Yellow lead the group to a small hotel, however when they arrived there was two people in the hotel
"Yellow!" one of them, female, turned around to see her "its great to see you again"
Yellow smiled at the person "Green! its great to see you" she turned to the other person in the room, a man "you too Blaine"
Blaine sighed "Yellow! there are people other than you and Green here if you didn't notice, I'm trying to keep my gym a secret"
Yellow nodded "I know, I've taken them here to challenge you, at least the one in a hat" Ash raised his hand "yeah him!"
Blaine shook his head "Yellow, next time please don't do that"
Ash stepped in front of everyone with book in hand "so can I challenge you?"
Green looked him up and down "you don't look like much kid, no offense but if thats all your pokemon out do you have a fully evolved one? Blaine is pretty strong" Ash pointed outside, where Charizard was waiting not being able to fit in the door "alright, good luck kid"
Blaine looked at him "you may challenge me, follow me" with that he lead the group to the side of the volcano on the island, then he pushed a concealed button in the wall and it lowered to reveal a passage
Misty looked at him shocked "You built your gym into a volcano? I mean thought I was pushing it with the swimming pool in Cerulean"
Blaine smiled "theming is everything Misty" he turned to Ash "you will need to pick your pokemon now, the pokemon not fighting will have to watch in the heat proof rooms. Choose wisely"
Ash pulled out his book "what will the rules be?"
Blaine looked thoughtfully at Ash's team "two on two" he looked to Yellow who was looking at him suspiciously "and no, I'm not that mean to have him fight"
Ash looked at his team "Pikachu you haven't had a fight since Surge" he scanned the rest of them "Wartortle, you're the smart choice you're in" Ash flipped pages on his book "I enter Wartortle and Pikachu"
Blaine nodded "alright. good luck" and with that he lead them into the volcano. The spectators took a side passage leading to the spectating area, Todd nearly shaking from the excitement of taking pictures of a gym battle
then it turned out the arena was above lava "HOLY ARCEUS ITS HOT" Ash cried as they walked into the arena
Blaine looked at him as he took position "for this arena you must keep calm. Don't let the heat get to you, stay focused. I shall start" and with that he sent out his first pokemon, a Rhydon
"oh come on thats not even a fire type" Ash sighed "Alright Wartortle it would be dumb to not send you out here" Wartortle nodded and took position on the battlefield
"Battle begin!" Blaine called
"Wartortle your biggest advantage is speed and type so start with a quick bubble!" Wartortle nodded and dived forwards sliding on his shell firing a bubble as he went. Meanwhile in the stands Misty had released Togepi and Squirtle to watch the fight
"Rhydon use your power, shake up the arena with a stone edge! Throw him off balance" Rhydon's hand glowed in power as he struck the ground causing it to shake in a improvised earthquake throwing Wartortle off balance causing him to fall down "now hit with a drill run!" Blaine called, Rhydon's horn elongated and he charged Wartortle
"Duck and roll right!" Ash yelled not wanting a big attack to hit, Wartortle shook off his confusion at falling and rolled as instructed "now Aqua tail! then hit him in the back of the head with a Water Pulse" Wartortle jumped into the air flipping as he went, striking Rhydon in the head with his tail that exploded into water narrowly avoiding his horn, then turning in mid air falling he hit him in the neck with a ball of water, that exploded into a shower of water
Rhydon was visibly injured by this and Blaine saw it "Quickly end it with a thunder!" Rhydon's hands charged with electricity crackling with power
"Protect!" Ash yelled seeing the attack, Wartortle glowed green as a shield appeared in front of him barely blocking the Thunder "End it!" Ash yelled, Wartortles hands glowed and soon released a beam of pure ice which struck Rhydon knocking it out
"Well done Ash-" Blaine yelled before cutting himself off as a white glow encompassed Wartortle, he was evolving
Soon the glow faded and a blastoise was standing in the arena "well look at that, I'm stronger than the dragon again" Blastoise said sarcastically
"Amazingly don-" Blaine began before being cut off by another glowing light, this time from the spectators box which everyone except Yellow hurriedly ran out of as the egg she holding hatched, neither Ash nor Blaine could see the result however and when the rest of the spectators filled back into the room Brock and Yellow exchanged words before they both ran out the gym
"is that it? no more white lights?" Blaine asked looking around "good,well done Ash, but you still have to fight my second pokemon"
Ash nodded and called for Blastoise to come back, then a spurt of lava rose from the volcano, splitting to reveal a magmar ready to fight "Holy Arceus that's badass"
Blaine grinned "be prepared Ash, Magmar is my second strongest pokemon"
Ash nodded and gestured to Pikachu to get to the arena, who used a quick attack to arrive in a battle stance
"ready?" Blaine asked, Ash nodded "then let the battle begin!" Blaine laughed happily
"Alright Pikachu you've got to use speed to your advantage, if this is Blaine's second strongest we need speed, so an agility would probably help" the mouse nodded and quickly moved left and right, generating electricity to boost its speed
"Fire punch Magmar, full power" Blaine yelled his eyes focused on the battle, Magmar in the same stance eyes scanning every move as his arm lit on fire, Magmar charged forward trying to hit the mouse
"Over!" Pikachu nodded and jumped at the last moment with a burst of aerial speed "Thunder wave!" Pikachu's cheeks sparked before they let out a small jolt of electricity, not hurting but stunning the fire type
Blaine grimaced "Smoke screen give yourself cover!" Magmar shakily started releasing smoke over the arena, sometimes shaking due to the paralysis but before Ash or Pikachu could move neither could see anything "now fire blast!"
Ash smiled, they had trained for this "Remember our training to hit something you can't see, Discharge!" the mouse let out all his electricity in a jolt, dissipating the smoke and revealing Magmar standing there Paralyzed "Now!" Pikachu nodded seeing his target, before releasing a powerful Thunderbolt sending the fire type back, but not out
Blaine frowned "Paralysis damn them, now fire blast!" Magmar smiled an evil smile sending a blast of intense heat towards the mouse, who was next to the edge of the arena
"Agility! Move towards it and duck under!" Ash desperately called not wanting his friend to be hit with the fire blast's power, the mouse eye'd the fire carefully before at the last moment with a burst of speed and in a split second he was next to Magmar "now finish it Thunderbolt full power" The mouse looked at the fire giant smiling, before releasing the intense burst of lightning. Sending the fire type on his back, knocking it out
Blaine laughed happily "Amazingly done Ash! You have earned the seventh badge of Kanto, the Volcano Badge" he walked across the arena and gave Ash a badge in the shape of fire "May I recommend you head to the Viridian Gym next, its the hardest in Kanto and you deserve a challenge" Ash nodded considering his request "Good, now lets get out of this heat"
Ash and Blaine left the gym to see Yellow and Brock outside, looking panicked around a small, white, Vulpix. Soon they were followed by the spectators in the gym looking equally panicked
"Yellow what happened?" Ash asked seeing the Vulpix asleep
"the egg!" She cried distressed "It was an ice type Vulpix, being hatched in the heat may have given it an illness so we're checking, we don't know if its okay or not!"
Ash's face turned to one of worry "what can we do to help?"
Yellow relayed the question to Brock who looked around at Ash and his friends "Ash you and your pokemon need to go get water from the ocean, make sure its cold, Blastoise ice beam should help" Ash nodded and ran for the ocean "Misty Todd can you go get a Nurse Joy from the centre on the island, tell her its an emergency" they nodded and ran themselves "Blaine, Green, can you help me cool it down with some wet towels?" the two nodded and started doing there job
Soon everyone returned, Todd and Misty with a Nurse Joy, Ash with lots of cold water in buckets and Blaine helping the Nurse checking Vulpix
"good news" the Nurse grinned "Vulpix is okay, it's a good thing you got it out of that heat or we would have a different matter on our hands good job"
"Thank you Nurse Joy! Now if you would be so kind to tak-" Brock was cut off as Misty tripped him as he attempted to flirt with the Nurse "take.. me to the hospital" he sighed defeated, Ash picked Brock up as the Nurse left "Blaine!" Brock said as he remembered something "you still have the machine to revive fossils right?"
Blaine nodded "I do, why so Brock, another fossil for your gym?"
Brock shrugged "Something like that" he pulled out a small yellow rock of clear amber, with a mosquito in the middle "I found this whilst in a dig site two weeks ago, I was wondering if you could revive it for me"
Blaine's eyes shined "I haven't seen one of these since Red was here, this my friend is an old amber. You know the Aerodactyl Red and the champion have?" Brock nodded "This, this turns into an Aerodactyl"
Green nearly choked on the air "you mean, Brock can own an Aerodactyl?"
Blaine nodded as Brock stared at the amber "wow, thats amazing!" Brock laughed "can you revive it?"
"Easily Brock, easily" and so Brock and Blaine went back into the volcano, coming back out ten minutes later with Brock clutching a new pokeball, and so with the days events over, Brock with a new pokemon and Yellow and Green staying on Cinnabar for a while the group of four and many pokemon set out. for Ash's last Kanto badge
Seven down. only one more until the main event... but before that we need one last badge. anywhozits next chapter gonna be short. as in I'm going to have to do a few episodes that happen after Ash gets the badge just so it hits a thousand words short, but for now please review follow whatever you want. Hell if you wanna insult me go ahead, I'm sure it will help somehow
