Hello everyone, now we're on our way to Vermilion City. Hope you enjoy this chapter.

The group had exited Cerulean City to the south onto Route 5, Ash was looking around for potential new Pokemon to add to his ever-growing team when suddenly he heard a distorted cry. He jumped into action and followed the cry to a rock, the girls and Brock followed swiftly behind. A cloud's shadow was covering the rock, making it hard for Ash to work out what was making the weakened cry. But as the cloud moved away, a small lizard-like Pokemon.

Ash's eyes widened, instantly realizing what the Pokemon was. The young Charmander coughed and wheezed, as Ash reached up the rock to take a closer look at the poor thing. He could clearly see Charmander's tail flame, it was so small that it was clear that there was barely any life left in the Pokemon. He gently reached out and stroked the orange colored Pokemon's head, before whispering. "Are you okay, little one?"

"Char..." it whimpered, looking up at Ash with sad and fearful eyes. It began to speak telepathically, it's voice was feminine in tone and was as distorted as her cry had been. "Where's Damian...He said he'd be back for me...," she began to look around, intently trying to find her trainer. She tried to pull herself up, but feel over her tail, as she whimpered softly.

"Charmander...sweetie, you can't stay here. If you do, you're likely to die. Look at your tail!" Ash tried to reason with the young Pokemon, as the rest of the group looked on with fearful eyes at the sight of the fire type. "Look, we need to get you to the Pokemon Center."

The female Pokemon looked at her tail and began to sob, before reaching out and hugging Ash. She constantly shook her head rapidly, trying to understand why Damian wasn't there for her. "I believed he'd come back, he said he would...!"

"Sorry, sweetie...come on," Ash gently picked her up, trying not to harm her. He hopped off the rock and looked at the other 3, seriously. "Brock, where's the nearest Pokemon Center?"

Brock got the map out and looked at it, he eventually found one and said seriously. "There's one a little while up the route before the underground passage. We need to hurry though, Charmander looks really weak."

Ash nodded, he looked down and realized that Charmander had collapsed in his arms. The sky crackled before they began to run, Ash pulled his jacket off and covered Charmander with it to protect her from the rain that soon began to pour. The group when began to run to the Pokemon Center, which was about a 5 minute run down the route. They arrived as fast as possible and pushed the door open, surprising the people inside. Ash didn't care, however, as he called out. "Nurse Joy, we have an injured Charmander that needs to be looked at quickly!"

"Oh my," the Nurse said, as she took one look at the Pokemon that rested in Ash's arms. She gently took the fire type, motioning for the children to follow her into the back room. She gently checked on the Pokemon, before beginning to treat it. She looked at the children and asked. "How on Earth did this Charmander up in this condition, she's so weak that it couldn't have happened overnight."

Ash sighed before answering. "She belongs to a trainer known as Damian, I'm not fully sure of what happened but I found her on a rock a little while ago in this weakened state. He apparently left her there with the promise to return to her."

Nurse Joy nodded, looking at the door. "He was just here, not sure if he's still though. You should go look as causing any Pokemon to get into this state is against the law, Pokemon aren't tools for people to use," she continued to look at Charmander before saying. "I'll have her sorted for the time you come back and we'll decide what happens then."

Ash nodded, before turning to the others. "Brock, come with me. Serena, Misty, stay here and keep on eye on Charmander with Nurse Joy," the trio nodded in understanding, Brock and Ash then left into the main part of the Pokemon Center.

Ash instantly reconginzed Damian, which caused his angry to boil. The boy was showing off a collection of poke balls to his friends, joking about how his Charmander had lost to a weak 'Poliwag' so he left him under the guise of returning. This caused Ash's blood to boil as he ran over to the boy and grabbed him by the collar. "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY ABOUT CHARMANDER?!"

"I said it was weak, surely it can battle against another Pokemon," Damian said, without caring that Ash was clearly angry. "It should have won against it's opponent instead of losing, then I wouldn't have left it."

"You're a heartless monster, Damian. You realize that you left Charmander for dead, if I hadn't have found HER then she would have died on that rock. I estimate that she only had a couple of hours maximum before her flame burned no more."

Brock decided to add his own input once Ash was finished. "Plus, you should know that a fire type like Charmander is weak for water so losing to the water typed Poliwag is expected in normal circumstances. You should be aware of your type chart and not leave your Pokemon for dead."

"So what, I was planning to return. Maybe then it'll be tough enough to beat even the weakest of foes." Damian said without care in his voice, this caused Ash to become enraged even more then he already was. "I don't see what your so angry about it, Pokemon are just tools for battle without emotions."

"I wouldn't agree, Damian. I don't believe you should legally be able to have her again, you realize that treating a Pokemon like that is illegal and I could call Officer Jenny and get her to put you in jail for you actions," Ash screamed in the blue haired boy's face, trying to get him to see what he did wrong. "In fact, I think I should because you only need to look at Charmander to see that SHE's in pain!"

Damian pushed Ash, getting him to let go. He then picked up his poke balls and ran off. Ash snarled, he wasn't gonna let the blue haired boy go. He ran after him and was soon met by Jenny on a motorcycle. "Nurse Joy called me, saying that you had a Pokemon Abuser," Ash nodded and hopped on, before directing the way for the officer to go. They eventually caught up to Damian, he snarled at them. Jenny frowned. "You are under arrest, young man, for being cruel to your Pokemon. The rest of your Pokemon are gonna be confiscated and returned to the wild."

He scoffed a bit, before saying. "Pokemon don't have emotions, they're main goal to the help humans in battle with the secondary objective to show power of their trainer. Beyond that, they have no worth to me. Charmander lost all it's battles so thus it had no need to me."

"That's it, young man. You have no respect for Pokemon," Officer Jenny said as she got off her motorcycle, walked over to him and handcuffed him. "I'm sorry that I had to arrest you at your age, but you shouldn't treat Pokemon like you have," she then turned to Ash. "Go and check on Charmander, I have a feeling that she'll be needing you to recovery from now on."

"Thank you for your help, Officer," Ash said with a thankful smile. She nodded and drove off, takinf the other boy with him. Ash stayed there for a little bit before silently walking back to the Pokemon Center, he arrived to find Charmander waiting for him at the door. She stared up at him before jumping at him and crying rapidly without warning. He fell over and asked, surprised "Whoa, are you alright, sweetie?"

"I thought Damian was the one for me, my Baba...but then, he...he...just began to leave me. He beat me so many times I lost count and forced me to battle in the water gym at Cerulean..., but then you saved me...t-trainer, can I go with you. You seem like an amazing person, who cares for Pokemon...," she then blushed a little before continuing, with teary eyes. "Can you be my B-Baba...?"

"Where did this come from, Charmander? Did you just really what a Baba, is that why you stayed with him?" when she noticed at his question, he sighed. He stood up with her in his arms. "I can take you with me if that is what you desire," he then saw Misty and Serena, sighing. "When did she wake up?"

Misty answered for him. "A couple of minutes ago, she's been waiting at the door for you ever since. We tried to tempt her away with food, but she was adamant that she was staying put."

"That's not good, Charmander. You have to eat to get your strength back," Ash said sadly, looking at the Pokemon in his arms.

"Char..." muttered the Charmander, before she climbed off Ash and walked over to Serena, who was holding the bowl of food. The honey blonde smiled, placing it down for the fire type. The Lizard Pokemon began to eat and once she started, she didn't stop until the bowl as empty. She smiled and calmly telepathically said. "That was so good...it's been so long since I last ate food like that..."

Ash frowned a bit, before looking at Charmander. "Lets catch you then, so that I can sort out placing you on my team," the Pokemon nodded and as Ash threw the poke ball in the end, she jumped and basically let herself be caught. The ball bounced back into Ash's hand and clicked to say that she had been caught. He smiled, but the ball then locked down due to being over the limit.

"I'm gonna go swap out so that Charmander's ball is no longer locked down," he ran off, carrying his newly filled poke ball. The group sighed, but giggled at his antics. He ran to the trading machine and called Professor Oak. The man appeared on the screen and smiled at Ash, but the boy didn't give him a chance to speak. "Professor, I caught a new Pokemon but it's gone over the limit...again."

"Alright, Ash. Who are you sending back then?" Professor Oak smiled, knowing this was gonna become recurring occurance.

Ash looked at his poke balls, before picking up one. "Um, I'm gonna send back Nidorino. I'm not sending Pikachu and Poliwhirl ever and the rest are unevolved, so they still need to stay with the exception of Shadow, my Espeon who still needs the extra training. Tell Nidorino to train with the other 2 and that I'll be calling him back in a bit to evolve him."

Professor Oak nodded as Ash put the poke ball in the machine. "I'll look forward to speaking with you again," the transfer system instantly activated and Nidorino's ball was sucked into the machine and arrived shortly after on the other side. Oak smiled. "Well I'll see you later, Ash. I need to talk to Gary as well, he's caught 20 Pokemon now."

"Well, tell Gary that I don't care how many Pokemon I have as long as they are all powerful. Say hi to Gyarados and Beedrill for me, bye now," he switched the machine off and released Charmander. "Well, looks like your with me now, Charmander," the Pokemon nodded gleefully as she jumped into Ash's arms and snuggled him.

Hope you like, here's a voting thing for the next chapter being Serena's next Pokemon.

Cubone

Venonat

Or Abra

You have until Sunday to vote, you don't need to put the gender, that's actually fixed regardless of the one chosen.

Pokemon Teams:

Ash

Poliwhirl (Female)(Shiny)(Nature:Gentle)

Pikachu (Male)(Nature:Brave)

Dratini (Female)(Nature:Jolly)

Gloom (Female)(Nature:Modest)

Espeon (Male)(Unique shiny)(Nickname:Shadow)(Nature:Serious)

Charmander (Female)(Nature:Rash)

Oak's lab

Beedrill (Male)(Nature:Bold)

Gyarados (Male)(Shiny)(Nature:Adamant)

Nidorino (Male)(Nature:Naive)

Misty

Goldeen (Male)(Nature:Brave)

Staryu (No gender)(Nature:Timid)

Starmie (No gender)(Nature:Quiet)

Marill (Female)(Nature:Bashful)

Horsea (Male)(Nature:Naughty)

Brock

Graveler (Male)(Nature:Bold)

Onix (Male)(Nature:Lonely)

Zubat (Female)(Nature:Rash)

Sandshrew (Female)(Nature:Quirky)

Serena

Fennekin (Female)(Nature:Mild)

Pancham (Male)(Nature:Hasty)

Cleffa (Female)(Nature:Quiet)

Sylveon (Female)(Unique Shiny)(Nickname:Aurora)(Nature:Sassy)