Doing Things Differently

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon. I own only the characters that show up when Ash is wondering certain regions and gets certain Pokemon. I own the characters there.

Summary: Ash is given Pikachu in the beginning. What if Pikachu ditches him in his time of need. What is another pokemon takes place of his starter. He takes to the world differently and is colder. He wants to be the best of trainers. Watch out world.

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Ash is gonna get a lot of different pokemon in this story. I am having Ash go through kanto and all the other regions.

Pokemon Ash has so far:

Fearow: Talon (male)

Gyarados: Mystic (female)

Cloyster: Gem (female)

Arbok: Naga (female)

Primeape: Champ (male)

Pinsir: Spike (male)

Beedrill: Videl (female) mothers pokemon

Sandshrew: Quake (male)

Clefable: Tinker (female)

Persian: Bastet (female)

Espeon: Evlon (female)

Nidoran: Queen (female) mothers pokemon

Graveler: Grav (male)

Poliwhirl: Wav (male)

Bulbasaur: Alpha (male)

Charmander: Torch (male)

Squirtle: Shades (male)

Squirtle: Munch (male) mothers pokemon

Ash is a ladies man... Has more girls then Brock will ever get. ;)

Listed is what I think could work in the next chapter:

None

What do you think? Name any others you would think will work with him and this story.

Chapter 11

The Lighthouse

Pokemon!

Last Time on Starting Things Differently:

He and the gang got to the front of Police Station. Ash smiled and walked through the doors. "Officer Jenny?" He looked around curiously at the workers, "Can we help you young man?" Ash looked at them and looked at them. "I need to talk to Officer Jenny. Is she here?" Ash questioned. The other officers blinked and looked at him. A female held up a finger, "One minute." She dialed Officer Jenny to see if she was in her office and after a few minutes the lady smiled. "She can see you now." Ash gave a grin, "Thanks!" With that he made his way to her office. He knocked a few times and heard come in.

Ash walked in to see Officer Jenny looking over papers at her desk. She looked focused on her task of documents. She looked up and saw Ash, "Oh! Hey Ash. What can, I do for you?" Jenny said placing her document down. Ash gave a grin and answered proudly, "I fixed it Officer Jenny." The police officer looked at Ash weird. "Fixed what Ash?" Jenny said curiously. "The Squirtle Squad. Me and the gang caught them." Ash stated. Officer Jenny's eyes widened, "What?! How!?" Ash smirked, "With a battle of course. I caught the leader and his buddy. Brock got one and Misty as well." Jenny looked at the kid amazed then remembered something, "Wait. There were 5 members of the Squirtle Squad. Where's the 5th one?" She questioned. Ash gave a soft smile and took off his bag. He reached in and ruffled through it, "It's right here." Ash said pulling out the storage pokeball. "I thought you could use it here." Ash said with a smile handing the officer the pokeball. She looked at Ash with wide eyes. "Really? You want to give him to me?" She said looking speechless. Ash gave her a gentle smile, "With what, I've heard of all the problems you've been dealing with here. I think you can at least know you have one under your watch." Ash stated. The officer blinked and gave a smirk hearing the statement, "That's very sneaky of you. Thank you Ash." Ash smiled and gave a nod, "Your welcome Officer Jenny." With that Ash gave her a salute and turned to the door, "Bye Officer Jenny. It's time for us to head out." The officer smiled, "I can see that, I wish you a fun journey Ash. May it lead to wonderful things." The gang nodded and walked out.

They headed on the dirt road. They turned back at the town and saw Officer Jenny waving to them goodbye. They smiled and waved to her back and started to walk. Ash felt Bastet rubbing against his leg and gave a smile. 'Yes. I wonder what type of journey will be for us. I guess we will see.' Ash thought to himself with a grin heading out.

Present:

Ash was walking down the pathway with Evlon at his side. He had noticed earlier that Bastet was getting tired and knew Evlon wouldn't be happy if she wasn't out with him. Right now he was currently getting annoyed that he couldn't find the road. "The road's gotta be somewhere!" Ash shouted looking around aggravated. "Everything's somewhere." Brock stated with sarcasm. "Ash. Have you gotten us lost again?!" Misty said annoyed. Ash sighed at this, "It's not my fault, I'm horrible with directions. Anyway why do you guys always make me lead if, I always get us lost. Hmmm?" Ash stated and turned to look them in the eye. His 2 traveling companions found themselves being quiet at that response. "Didn't think you would answer." Ash said with a grin. Evlon snorted at this. She wondered to herself why her trainers friends would make him lead if he got them lost.

"So Ash... How many pokemon do you have now?" Brock asked looking at Ash calmly. Ash blinked at this and smiled, "I have 18 so far. Some are with Mom though. I want them to kinda be her's for protection. So, I hope to get some more later. I also can't wait for more of them to evolve!" Ash said with a smile. He looked to his Espeon who yipped at him in delight. She supported her trainer and was proud of how many pokemon he had. Brock and Misty nodded agreeing that was a good amount of pokemon he had.

"I wonder how many pokemon your rival Gary has?" Brock questioned to himself. Ash froze at that, "Ah." Evlon blinked at this then remembered Talon saying that Ash had a horrible rivalry with some named Gary. From what she heard from Talon, Gary didn't sound nice at all. She really didn't want to meet him if, he got her trainer that upset in seconds. Misty frowned at Brock who had the decency to look sheepish. "Shutting up." Brock said nervously.

Ash frowned and glared, "I'm going on ahead." He went forward along with Evlon making sure to watch her trainer in concern. She cared for her trainer a lot. Misty nodded and turned to Brock, "You just had to go there didn't you." She stated to Brock and he looked down, "Look, I forgot about that ok." Misty shook her head, "No. You really need to remember that Brock. You know what happens if Ash hears about him. From what Ash says Gary seems like an ass. Do you remember his temper with Charmander? What if you end up like Damian? That's gonna happen to you if you can't keep your mouth shut. You know how bad he gets when his rival is mentioned." Misty lectured. Brock sighed at this, "Yeah."

Ash was currently walking ahead and finally got to a beach area. He smiled on happily looking at the beautiful sunset and blue waves crashing into the sand. He breathed in deeply smelling the salty air. He felt a lot calmer after this action. He wind blew his hair gently and he smiled softly with his eyes soft letting it caress his face. Evlon saw her master look much better and sighed in relief. Ash was interrupted by something chattering. He blinked and looked down. There walking under his legs was a Krabby. He lifted a leg and turned around. Ash slowly walked beside it and peered down at it. As it was crab walking it looked at him curiously. "Well hello there little guy." Ash said smiling walking along side it. The Krabby chattered to him while still crab-walking and Ash smiled at that. He pulled out his pokedex.

Pokedex Krabby: Lives near the shore. Its average height is about 16 inches.

He nodded to himself at the pokedex. "Well that's cool. I bet you can pack a lot of fight in that height." Ash said with a smile. The Krabby stopped and looked at Ash with surprise. "What? With the size of those pincer claws you must have a strong grip." Ash stated. The Krabby gave a blush at that. "I mean it." Ash said with a smile. The crab pokemon looked at Ash and crab-walked to him and onto his foot. It stared at him and Ash bend down to pat his head. It blinked cutely at him and Ash laughed. Misty and Brock walked towards him and were now there watching him interact with the Krabby. "Aw! It's so cute!" Misty shouted looking at the crab pokemon. Ash smiled at that, "He is cute." Ash said with a grin. The Krabby chattered happily at his response. Ash laughed and got up to dust off his pants. The Krabby watched him get up and looked upset. "Sorry Krabby, I have to go." Ash said look apologetic. The crab pokemon was silent then perked up a second later. It crab-walked to Ash and pointed to his belt. Ash blinked at this and to his pokemon belt. "Are you saying you want to go with me?" Ash blinked in shock. The Krabby nodded. Ash smiled, "Alright then. Can't beat that." Ash grabbed a pokeball and walked over to Krabby. He bend down and patted him on the head. "Well let me name you before you go. Hmmm... Crush. I think. Your claws will be be to crush things easily when you evolve." Ash said with a grin. The newly named Krabby pinched it's claws loudly at that. Ash gently hit him with the pokeball and heard the ding. Crush then teleported away. Ash smiled getting a new pokemon. He got up and turned to the others.

"Sorry guys. My temper got the best of me again." Ash said sadly. Misty smiled softly at this and walked over to Ash. She placed her hand on his shoulder looking him in the eye, "It's alright Ash. You have every right to get upset. Ok?" Misty said softly. Ash blinked and he gave Misty a faint grin, "Yeah." Brock looked sheepish, "Look Ash. I'm really sorry. I wasn't thinking." He looked down at this. Ash saw Brock's expression and shook his head, "It's alright Brock. I should really get over it sometime. It's just he makes me so mad." Ash said looking pissed at the mention of his rival. They smiled at him, "It's alright Ash." Brock said sincerely. Ash nodded to them. "I wonder where, I can contact Professor Oak?" Ash said wondering about his pokemon and how they were doing. Brock blinked at that, "Well it might be a while. This beach looks like it goes far." Brock said thinking they won't find a phone. Ash looked down at that. Misty looked sad hoping for a hotel. Then they heard Evlon. "Espe!"

Ash turned to see what made his Espeon really happy and what he saw to his surprise was a lighthouse. Everyone looked on surprised at the spinning light on the top of the lighthouse. Misty and Brock, "It's a lighthouse." Ash gave a happy grin, "Sweet a lighthouse! Every lighthouse has a keeper. Which means they will have a phone!" Misty then gave a happy grin, "It'll also have a bed. I don't want to sleep in a sleeping bag again. I need my beauty sleep." Brock also nodded, "It also means that somebody can tell us where we are." Evlon barked and went up to Ash nuzzling his leg. Ash smiled, "Good girl Ev." He pointed to the lighthouse, "Let's go!" With that the gang ran towards the building.

It was then dark by the time they got there. Ash and the gang where breathing pants at all the running they did to get there. "Whew... That was further then it looked." Brock frowned at that, "This lighthouse looks weird." Everyone then noticed the pokemon cravings on the lighthouse doors. Ash thought they looked interesting with all the different species of pokemon on it. Misty blinked, "I guess we better ring the bell." Ash nodded, "I got it." He walked forward seeing the caller box near the door and pressed the button. It ringed loudly and he felt his Espeon glued to his leg. He petted her nervously. Everyone huddled together feeling anxious.

"Who's there?" Answered a young male with british accent on the bell caller. Brock was the first to answer, "Excuse us sir. But we're travelers and we're lost." Ash butted in, "I'm sorry for bothering you tonight. I just wanted to use your phone to call someone for an emergency." Misty then pushed Ash aside, "We have been camping out for a while and I sure would appreciate a nice comfy bed." Misty ended with a grin."And, I wonder if I could use your kitchen to make some bacon double cheeseburgers for our group and, I would be more then happy to make something for you." Brock said with smile.

The voice was quick to answer, "That sounds great. Can you cook without using tofu?" Brock then nodded, "Oh sure. I can cook a lot of things without using tofu." The voice then answered sounding happy, "That's good. I've been eating nothing but tofu sense my cook went on vacation. Come on in." With that the voice went silent. The group looked to see the double doors open. They peered in to see a large room with traveling staircase. Big windows and large hallway. They wondered in looking at the inside of the lighthouse in wonder. "Do you mind if, I use your phone?" Ash questioned. "There's a phone right near you." Answered the man's voice. Ash blinked at that as he looked over to see a video phone and a transporter near by.

Ash then walked over and started to dial Professor Oak's number. "I'm sure he won't mind that, I calling him at this time." He heard the ringing and it instantly popped up the video feed of the Professor. It showed him cooking dinner and Ash froze. "Well. Hi Ash. You caught me cooking dinner. My cook is on vacation and I got to fend for myself till she returns." Ash smiled, "That's cool Professor Oak. I just wanted to call and see how my pokemon are doing." The Professor blinked and saw Ash's worry. "Don't you worry about a thing Ash. Everyone is fine. Well just about everyone. I am having a difficult time with Charmander." Ash blinked, "What's wrong with Torch? Is he alright?" Ash questioned in worry. Professor Oak sighed, "He is being hard to handle here. He doesn't seen to be doing well here. I was wondering if you mind having him with you?" Ash blinked at that, "I don't mind at all Professor. I'll trade Champ over to get him." The Professor smiled, "Very good. I'll go get him now."

He was gone for a few minutes and came back with Charmander's pokeball. Ash then did the transfer and got his flaming lizard. "Thanks Professor. Torch is nice and safe here. Also, I wanted to know how the others are doing?" The Professor smiled, "Very good. I must say. That Bulbasaur of yours is very calm. Actually all your pokemon are well mannered. We had a few problems with the Squirtles, but your Cloyster and Clefable gave them a good stern talking to." The Professor said with a laugh. Ash grinned, "Speaking of which the Squirtle with the circle shades, I want my mom to have." The Professor blinked, "Are you sure Ash?" Ash nodded, "I think it'll be great for her." "If that's what you wish Ash. I can do that." Ash nodded, "Alright Professor, I was just worried about my pokemon. Oh. How is Crush?" The Professor blinked, "Crush? You mean Krabby?" Ash nodded, "It's fine Ash. I was just concerned about how small it was." Ash frowned at that, "I didn't think he was that small." The Professor shrugged, "I guess, I was stuck on the size of Gary's Krabby." Ash frowned, "Gary caught one too?" The Professor slurped his dinner and nodded, "Yeah it is. It's really a catch. Take a look yourself."

He turned the camera to see a large bowl with a huge Krabby inside. Ash saw his small Krabby, Crush beside it looking at it nervously. The others behind Ash froze at the sight of it. "Awesome." Brock stated. Professor Oak's face zoomed into the camera, "I just want you to know that Gary has already caught 45 pokemon." Ash looked at the Professor with wide eyes. "45 pokemon! What the hell?!" Ash shouted in anger. He felt his Evlon nuzzle his leg showing she cared, "Thank you lovely." Ash said with a smile. "What pokemon is that Ash?" Professor Oak noticed seeing the tip of Evlon's ears. "Oh my Evlon my Espeon." "Espeon! Where did you get that! I haven't seen one in the kanto region before!" Ash blinked, "Oh. Sorry Professor. She evolved a little while ago. I can let you look at her later." The Professor nodded looking happy at the discovery of a Espeon, "Anyway, I was wondering where you were calling me from." Ash blinked, "We're at a old lighthouse way up on top of a cliff." Ash stated. "Oh that must be Bill's lighthouse. He's a young pokemon researcher you know's even more then me. See what you can learn from him. He could teach you just about everything there needs to know about pokemon and then some."

Just then a voice answers, "This is Bill Professor. It's good to hear from you." The Professor looked happy at this, "Oh hello Bill! Please give my friends a crash corse of pokemon." Oak stated and then noticed his food boiling over, "Oh! Tofu's done." He pulled his food out and blew it to eat. The chat then ended. "Well there's now way, I can ignore a request from the great Professor Oak." The lights started to turn on. "I am Bill of the lighthouse." Stated a young coming from the top of the stairs. They eyes looked to see a Kabuto.

Team Rocket was watching from outside to see the lighthouse. Everyone looked with they're binoculars, "There's the lighthouse. It says it's the home of the famous pokemon researcher." Jessie stated in happiness. James smirked, "Then, I guess we came to the right place. Huh." Jessie turned to James with a smug grin, "There must be zillions of pokemon stored inside that lighthouse." Meowth smirked, "Then there is only one thing left for us to do!" "Right sneak in and take everything we can grab." James answered. Jessie looked through her binoculars to see a trail they could take. "We could take the road or risk our lives by climbing up the cliffs." Jessie said looking nervously. "Well we certainly can't take the road." James retorted. "We have to climb up those cliffs." Jessie stated. Meowth jumped on Jessie's head, "Cause we're the bad guys. And the bad guys always got to sneak in."

Jessie: Prepare for trouble!

James: Make it double!

Jessie: To protect the world from devastation!

James: To unite all people within our nation!

Jessie: To denounce the evils of truth and love!

James: To extend our reach to the stars above!

Jessie: Jessie!

James: James!

"We must be able to climb those cliffs in great delight." Jessie stated. "Or we will risk flight." James retorted. "Because we're afraid of heights!" The both cried out and hugged in terror. Meowth sweat-dropped.

The gang looked on staring at the pokemon wide eyed. "It can't be! That's a Kabuto! It's a extinct pokemon! I wonder what it's doing here?" Brock said in alarm. The Kabuto looked nervously and flailed it's arms. "No! I'm not a Kabuto! I'm Bill the Pokemon Researcher." Ash frowned thinking of Team Rockets talking Meowth, "Wait are you a human being or a pokemon?" 'Can't take any chances.' "This is a costume. I'm stuck inside it." The voice retorted sounding resigned. Ash heard the sadness in the voice and looked at him, "Do you need help getting out?" Bill the Kabuto looked at Ash with happiness, "Yes! Step up here!" Bill pointed in front of him. Ash ran up the steps, "Tell me what to do." He stopped in front of Bill peering at him. "Push that button." Bill stated pointing his is claw to the small green button on his right side. "This one here?" Ash said seeing the small button. "Yes. These arms are to short. I tried to get out but, I couldn't reach the button." Bill stated. Ash nodded and pushed the button and backed away, "There you go."

They watched the costume fall away to see a young man standing there. He got up to stretch and looked to them with a smile. "Thanks for helping me to get out. I've been stuck in that costume for hours." Bill said in earnest. The gang ran up behind Ash and Misty retorted, "Did you come from a costume party?" "No it's not for a party. It's a special costume, I use for my research." The gang looked surprised. "Getting inside it's skin helps me get inside it's head." Ash blinked, "What do you mean?" Bill looked to the wall to show many cravings, "There are many types of extinct pokemon and I want to understand how they lived. Putting on that costume is one kind like what they were like." Ash nodded at this logic. "So you can figure out what a pokemon was like wearing a costume?" Ash questioned. "Yes indeed. Or I'm beginning to." "I figured there are 150 known species of pokemon." Bill retorted. "I don't think so." Ash stated looking at his Espeon. Bill noticed and looked wide eyed, "Oh my good heavens! I never seen this type before!" Bill stated looking at Evlon with goggly eyes. He looked to Ash, "Oh can, I study her please!?" Ash blinked and saw the hopeful look on the researcher's face. "Umm... If Evlon's ok with that." He looked to his Espeon. She looked to her trainer and the young researcher then nodded. The researcher jumped and looked her over everywhere. She yipped nervously seeing the young researcher looking at her in wonderment. "Astounding. I never knew about this evolution before." Bill stated looking on in amazement. Ash looked him over, 'Professor Oak said he knew more about pokemon then him. This guy didn't know about Espeon. Then again, I didn't either, but he's a researcher.' Ash thought.

"This is a amazing Ash. I wonder if that means that the egg, I recently got might be one of the other species of pokemon not registered here in kanto." Bill stated. He eagerly grabbed Ash's hand and pulled him to follow him down his hallway. The group followed hurriedly to catch up with their pal. Bill lead them to a lab with a paper documents everywhere. The pokemon cravings where all around the room. Ash looked on in wonder seeing the different documents showing pokemon food diet to breeding. Ash was amazed. "I see you like my lab Ash. That's great. This is what, I wanted to show you!" Bill stated and went to grab something on a pillow nearby. Ash turned to see Bill holding a egg the size of a basketball. It had flame markings on it. Ash looked at it with wide eyes, "What is it?" He questioned. Bill looked at the egg, "I don't know really. I got it sometime ago. I thought it was a Charizard egg, but found to my wonder it wasn't. I looked into other possibles too, but nothing leads to them. I just know it's a fire pokemon though." Bill retorted.

Ash looked at the egg in amazement. "Can, I see it?" Ash asked pointing to the egg. Bill blinked and looked at the egg and then at Ash, "Sure. I don't mind that at all." Bill handed Ash the egg and watched it carefully. Ash held the egg in his arms staring at it in wonder. He smiled and petted the egg softly. He felt it shift a little and Ash froze. Bill went wide eyed. "That's amazing. Keep holding it Ash it's responding to you." Ash looked to him surprised, "What!? But how?" Bill was writing notes like crazy, "I'm amazed Ash. I've had this egg for some time and it hasn't been very responsive to me. I'm giddy to know that it's taking to you well Ash." The boy in question couldn't believe his eyes at this. 'Wonderful.' Ash thought then smiled feeling the egg shift again.

"This is a wonderful discovery. You guys should be proud to be pokemon trainers. Your jobs are to try and catch all the pokemon in the world. I originally thought there was 150. But Ash you proved me wrong." Ash looked at Bill surprised, "But, I didn't do anything honest." Bill shock his head, "You introduced me to a new evolution for the Eevee line not seen in the kanto region. It shows me, I have of lot of research to do." Ash went wide eyed to that, "Really? That's cool. I was more interested in getting my pokemon strong and didn't really cared when they evolved." Bill looked interested in that, "Not to be nosy or anything. But how many pokemon do you have?" Ash looked down knowing that, Gary had more then him, "I have 19 so far. I haven't really been catching them like crazy." Bill gave a smile, "That's a great amount. You must have a bunch of different varieties." Bill stated. Ash thought about it and realized that was true that he had many different types. "We all have different meanings. Us being humans and the pokemon being what they are. We all have a different way of thinking and living. It shows that we have different meanings in the world." Bill said sagely.

You see large cliffs with a heavy fog in the sticking to them. The ocean waves are pounding on the cliff bottom. Team Rocket was slowly climbing the cliffs to make their way to the lighthouse. "Ah. Sometimes, I wonder what the meaning of it all is. Why do, I go all to this trouble just to be bad?" Jessie huffed climbing like crazy. "It's so we can get other people's pokemon." James retorted. "I'm all in it as long as there is something for me Meowth." Meowth stated with a smirk.

Ash and the gang looked to Bill hearing his guidance for them. "Keep looking for more pokemon to catch. It's something very vital as it is to me as it is for you. Right now there is 1 pokemon, I'm searching for." Bill said looking to them. Ash looked at him with wide eyes, "What type of pokemon are you looking for?" He questioned tightly clenching the egg in his arms.

Bill looked at them and signaled that he wanted them to follow him. He made his way up the stairs leading to the top of the lighthouse. They walked up the spinning stairs and got to the look out point. Ash and the gang looked amazed at the ocean scenery. Ash still holding the egg with Evlon watching him from his waist. Bill smiled and looked to the waves, "It's probably the biggest pokemon ever. Bigger then all of them and no one has ever seen it." Bill said with giddiness. Ash looked to him, "I don't know about that Bill. You said there are some pokemon you haven't ever seen or discovered before. What makes you think this is the biggest pokemon there is?" Ash stated looking at Bill with question.

Bill looked to Ash realizing that was a good question, "I know it's a strange and wonderful pokemon. It's been wondering the world for years and years. Looking for friends." Bill said. Misty blinked, "But. Doesn't that pokemon have any friends or family?" She asked with sadness.

Bill shook his head, "The pokemon wonders around because it's alone. It's the only one of the it's species. It's one of a kind." Bill said with conviction. Ash shook his head, "I don't believe that. I think it's just one undiscovered or to big for it's species." Bill looked surprised by that as did the others, "Are you sure about that Ash?" Brock stated. 'Ash seems to be learning more and more about the world of pokemon. I think at times he even surprises Professor Oak more.' Brock thought. Bill was thinking the same thing.

"I know it's a different pokemon of it's kind. One night, I heard a strange sound coming across the ocean." Bill said then pulled out a device for the lighthouse lights. He pressed it and released a powerful roar melody. The gang heard this with fascination. "I want. I want to be your friend. I want to meet you. That's what it said to me." Bill said looking at the ocean waves below. "Some time ago, I recorded a similar sound and played it back from the lighthouse towards the ocean." The lighthouse roared spinning the lights in a sea of different colors. "Let's be friends. I want to meet you." Bill said in happiness. Ash was amazed by hearing this and wanted to know what kind of pokemon made those kind of roars. Bill continued to look to the foggy ocean, "One day, I heard the same voice calling back to me from over the ocean. I want to meet you too. I want to be friends. It was answering me back." Bill said with content. Ash and the gang looked astounded from this. Ash looked to the egg in his arms and Evlon at his waist, 'Maybe there are more types not seen here in this part of the world.'

"Some foggy night that pokemon might come here to be seeking a friend for a very long time. I would be so happy to meet that pokemon!" Bill said with a smile. Ash then looked to Bill, "Would you try to capture the pokemon?" Ash questioned still holding the egg. Bill turned towards him, "Why would, I want to capture it? Just meeting it would be enough for me. Just the chance to study it would make my long wait be worth my while." Bill stated. Ash nodded believing that to be good logic. Then they heard a roar coming from the ocean.

They ran to the ocean view port to look towards the water to see a large figure coming from the fog. Everyone was transfixed at the scene. It walked to them with it's body in the water looking gigantic compared to everything else they've encountered. It roared to them from the lighthouse. "It's here! The signal!" Bill shouted in earnest pushing the button on his lighthouse lights. The lighthouse started to change the colors again and released the powerful words, Bill was trying to say to the pokemon. The pokemon heard the roar and responded back by playing it's own powerful melody. The others closed their eyes calming my the haunting melody.

"It sounds like it's singing." Misty said with a smile. Brock smirked, "Would you care to dance?" Misty blinked and laughed, "Oh. Thank you!" With that they started to do a clumsy ballroom dance. Evlon cooed in happiness hearing the wonderful melody beside, Ash. She nuzzled him and Ash scratched her while looking at the giant pokemon in amazement. He tightened his grip on the egg still in the arms never seeing something that big in his entire life. He felt the egg shift in his right arm and looked down to see it shaking. Ash thought it heard the melody and brought the egg towards his chest to make it hear the sound of his heart more to make it settle down. It seemed to do the trick and stopped it's shifting at once. Unnoticed to him, Bill saw the whole thing and was thinking of what to do with the egg.

Team Rocket was still climbing the rocky cliffs when they heard the melody roar. They all had happy looks on their faces hearing that wonderful sound. "What beautiful music." Jessie said with a smile. "It's so haunting but so very sweet." James retorted. Meowth looked over to see what was making the sound and saw the giant pokemon in the fog. "Look it's coming from that thing!" He pointed his paw horrified at it. They looked over and saw the huge pokemon. "That's a gigantic pokemon." Jessie stated. "So it is true what they say that size does matter." James said with a blink.

Jessie smirked, "Something so rare and unusual. You know what that means! Let's grab it for ourselves!" Jessie shouted pointing to the huge pokemon. James nodded, "Quiet right. I will attack at once." He brought out his bazooka and had it pointed at said pokemon. "But it seems a shame to aim at such a sweet creature." James said in counter thought. "Of course it is a shame. We built are fame on shame." Jessie stated. Meowth nodded pointed to the pokemon, "Go on fire! It's all the shame we need!" James nodded and fired.

Ash and the gang watched the pokemon get hit with a powerful blast. It roared in pain and anger. In it's anger of getting hit it saw Bill's lights and roared. It smashed the light and sounds. The building top exploded at once. Ash pushed, Bill to safety and tightened his hold on the egg so it didn't break from the blast. He saw his friends running to safety and saw, Evlon with them to keep an eye on them. Ash saw, Bill looking at the proceedings in sadness. He ran to the bottom of the lighthouse towards the cliff and looked to the giant pokemon.

"Please don't go giant pokemon! Stay here with us! I've waited so long for a chance to see you here!" Bill shouted with honesty and great sadness. The great pokemon shook it's head in negative not happy with the pain it's been given. Bill looked angst at that, "Pokemon wait!" Ash bit his lip to see, Bill's crestfallen face seeing the pokemon turn it's back to them. Ash frowned and went to see belt to grab Mystic's pokeball.

Down below at the cliffs, Team Rocket was still firing at the great pokemon. James looked angered, "Do we always have to mess up everyone's plans? Even, I think this is rotton!" James said in annoyance. Jessie shrugged, "Quit complaining. We'll score big with this pokemon!" Jessie said with greed. Team Rocket thought that was true. They then noticed the waves making a big sound and saw to their horror a giant tail coming towards them. It smacked them with great force and they screamed, "Look's like Team Rocket is blasting off again!"

"Pokemon!" Bill shouted seeing the pokemon wondering away from them. It's back was turned and roaring in pain and sadness that it was treated this way. Bill looked crestfallen at this and the gang watched in sadness. Ash narrowed his eyes, "No. I won't let this happen. You've waited to long for this!" Ash said looking to Bill sternly. Bill looked at, Ash taken back seeing the blazing eyes staring at him. Even if the one eye looked hollow it still gave the power of leadership. Ash shoved the egg in Bill's arms and looked to the others, "You guys stay here. I'm gonna try and see if, I can get that pokemon to come back!" Ash shouted tightening his bandanna on his head. He buttoned up his vest and shoes. The others looked to him in confusion.

"Mystic, I choose you!" Ash shouted throwing his Gyarados pokeball. It came out in seconds when hitting the water. She roared to the heavens and looked up to see her master on the top of the cliff. He nodded to her and turned to the others, "I'll be back." He then turned to the cliff and ran off with a jump. The other's shouted in shock, "Ash!" They looked down the ledge to see, Ash free falling towards his Gyarados. She caught him just in time and got him on top of her head. Ash gripped the top of her head, "Straight ahead girl! We need to catch up with that pokemon!" Ash shouted pointing towards the fog. Mystic nodded and gave a roar. They swam towards the fog and the gang from the cliffs as they couldn't believe their eyes. "Why would he do that?!" Bill shouted in alarm. "Because he's Ash. He saw what you looked like and thought this wasn't fair. So he wanted to get that pokemon back for you." Misty said knowing how, Ash was. Bill looked at her in amazement and looked to the ocean.

Ash was looking intently into the fog searching for the giant pokemon. To his great surprise he saw it walking in the water roaring silently to itself. Ash whispered to Mystic to get closer. "Hey! Please stop!" Ash shouted to the great beast. It roared as it turned to Ash in question. Ash froze at the great pokemon. It peered down to him even if, Ash was on his Gyarados. It was a shrimp compared to this thing. Ash was amazed and swallowed his nervousness in seconds. It got it's face inches from Ash's and start intently at him.

"Please you must go back to that lighthouse. There's a person who desperately wants to be your friend. What ever happened you mustn't think it was Bill's fault." Ash shouted in honesty to the great pokemon. It roared and shook it's head negatively. "Please. You must consider this. You've been wanting a friend forever. Bill wants to be your friend. I want to be your friend! Please come back with us!" Ash said looking at the beast. The giant pokemon looked to Ash with great consideration. It looked to Mystic and it nodded showing to agreed with it's trainer. All was silent for a while till the great beast roared. It then walked towards the lighthouse. Ash gave a huge grin, "Thanks! I'll be right at your side." The great pokemon looked to, Ash and gave a faint nod agreeing with his answer. Ash had Mystic stay by his side the whole time.

Bill and the others watched in worry for their friend in the foggy ocean. "Oh. I hope Ash is alright." Misty said looking scared hoping nothing bad happened to her friend. "I'm sure he's fine Misty." Brock answered reassuringly. Bill looked to the friends and hoped nothing happened to the young trainer. Evlon yipped silently in worry. They then heard the slow melody roar.

They looked to the ocean and saw to their amazement the great pokemon coming out of the fog again. It was roaring it's haunting melody. They saw Ash by it's side keeping a steady pace matching the great pokemon. Ash saw them and gave a wave. The beast looked to Ash and it saw his companions from the cliff. It gave a faint wave and roared a long melody. Bill looked transfixed at this and a tear went down his side, "This is the best thing that has ever happened to me." The others smiled at his great happiness and couldn't wait to see the great beast.

Ash got the cliff and looked to the top, "Oh man. That's gonna be a hell of a climb." Ash whispered till he felt something grab him. He looked up to see the great pokemon picking him up and he quickly returned Mystic to her pokeball. He looked at the ocean below became higher and higher up. When he got to the top and smiled at his friends you looked at the beast and him in wonder. Ash smirked, "Told you, I would get it." The great pokemon let Ash go and he walked forward to get jumped by his worried Espeon.

Bill walked to the great pokemon with great wonderment in his eyes, "I'm so glad to finally meet you. Let's be friends." Bill said holding out a hand. The beast looked down at Bill and leaned it's head down and butted it with great gentleness. The others watched the great interaction like it was from a movie. Ash then frowned, "I think, I want to see what type of pokemon it is. I wonder if the pokedex knows what it is?" Ash pulled out his device and pointed it to the creature with everyone else watching the proceedings.

Pokedex Dragonite: Dragonite, the Dragon Pokémon. This extremely rare and highly intelligent type is able to fly faster than any known Pokémon.

Ash and everyone looked to the know great pokemon to be a giant Dragonite. Bill smiled, "I see. So your a Dragonite. Let's be great friends." The dragon pokemon roared in happiness to finally have a friend. The other's laughed at this gesture.

It soon turned morning and everyone was looking forward to the knew day. Ash turned to Bill with a sad smile, "I guess it's time for us to part ways." Dragonite looked crestfallen at this, "Sorry big guy. I need to continue my journey to be a great trainer. I know we'll meet again someday." It perked up at this and roared it's melody at Ash.

"I know. I wish you a great journey Ash. Even if your a pokemon trainer and I'm a pokemon researcher our goals are still the same. We want to know what's more with pokemon." Bill said looking to Ash. The scar-ed boy blinked and gave a small smile, "Yes. I see that's very true." Bill smiled, "I can't thank you enough for helping me become friends with Dragonite. If there's anything, I can do to repay you for your kindness." Bill asked looking saddened. Ash shook his head, "I want nothing Bill. I was glad to help you get your great pokemon. I hope you and Dragonite are friends forever." Bill smiled at that then felt the shifting in his hands. He looked down remembering he was still holding the egg. A thought came to him.

"Ash. Before you go. Take this as my gift to you." Bill said holding out the pokemon egg. Ash blinked and widened his eyes in shock. "You want me to have the egg? Why? I thought this was part of your research?" Ash questioned. Bill shook his head, "I have more then enough research here with Dragonite. I also know it's responding to you a lot Ash. I want you to have it. It seems to rather like you." Bill stated. Ash blinked and then a gentle smile appeared, "I see. I'll take great care of it Bill." Ash said with a smile. Bill gave a grin, "Here's some else for you. Sense it'll be your first infant pokemon. I think this can work for you." Bill handed him a necklace with a pokeball attached to it. Ash was shocked and took it which great tenderness, "Thank you Bill."

"I wish you a great journey my friends." Bill said looking to his new friends. Ash and the gang gave smiles and started to walk off. They were walking ahead of them when they heard the roar of melody and turned to see Dragonite roaring to them with a wave. They all smiled and waved goodbye to Bill and Dragonite.

"I wonder what other pokemon we will see?" Misty asked. "I don't know. For all we know there could be thousands of pokemon." Brock answered. Ash was silent and staring at his new egg, 'I wonder what type of pokemon your gonna be. I guess, I'll have to wait to find out.' He felt Evlon nuzzling his leg and smiled, "I wonder what this little egg is gonna be?" Ash said with a smile. Evlon yipped in giddiness happy for a new traveling companion.

End Chapter 11

Ash now has a Krabby and an egg. I wonder what he's gonna capture or have evolve next. I wonder what pokemon they will capture next. Review and tell me what you think should be on his pokemon journey in Kanto and other regions. Or what pokemon should he evolve. Also tell me if there should be a love interest or not. Also if there should be fanart would be a cool idea. I have some already. If anyone wants some that'll be cool for the story. Also if anyone wants to make any the more the merrier. I love that stuff. I just added 2 new photos to the fanart.

I am not a writer. I'm an animator/illustrator. So this story is a fun creation on my time. For viewers who wanted to know why there are some writing mistakes.