Wildstar93: Hey there, everyone, and welcome back to Journey Of An Autistic Trainer! There's no action in this chapter (just wait for the next one), but it'll be worth the wait. By the way, this will be a mix of the anime and games. I have not read the manga yet, so until I do, any Pokémon FanFic of mine will not have much of the manga in here.

Okay, I've had people asking me if Ash will get a special Pokémon. And I gotta say, I agree. I already gave Misty and Brock the fossils of Omanyte and Kabuto, and I gave Daisy a shiny Magikarp. So why not give Ash something like a Riolu or a shiny Pokémon of his own? I know it's been done oh so many times in FanFiction, but now I see the potential of Ash owning a Riolu.

Uploading Date: September 27, 2015

Enjoy!

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Cerulean City's Sensational Sisters

By the time Ash and his friends made it to Cerulean City, night had already fallen, and they had finished battling a trainer or two along the way. Ash saw Misty breathe a sigh of relief and guessed why. He guessed she did not have to confront her sisters right away and felt himself agreeing with her.

As soon as they arrived at the Pokémon center, Ash decided to call his mother, as he usually did. He had given his Pokémon to Brock to heal them, and he headed over to the phone and dialed her phone number.

"Hey, Mom," Ash said as soon as Delia showed up on the screen. "We made it to Cerulean City."

"That's great!" Delia said with a smile. "Were you good during Mount Moon?"

Ash nodded. "We're fine," he said. "And we came across Team Rocket!"

But as soon as he said that, Delia's smile faded quickly into a worried frown. Ash found himself believing that this was a bad idea.

"Team Rocket?!" Delia asked, her voice cracking with shock. "Don't you know how dangerous they can be? What were you doing around them?!"

"They were doing something in Mount Moon," Ash said. "And we stopped them."

Delia rested a hand on her chest and took a deep breath before talking. "I'm happy you're safe, Ash," she said. "But don't ever worry me like that ever again!"

Ash lowered his eyes, murmuring, "Okay, Mom. I'm sorry I made you worry."

"It's okay," his mother said, recovering her smile. "You're alive and well, and that's all that matters. Now how've you been doing in your training?"

"Great!" Ash said, feeling happy that his mother was happy again. "And Pidgey evolved into Pidgeotto! And now we're going to the gym so I can get my second badge."

Delia leaned towards the screen and said, "That's awesome! And I hope you do your best tomorrow in your gym battle tomorrow!" Then she said, "It's getting kind of late, so make sure you sleep good tonight. Love you, Ash."

Ash smiled back. "Love you too, Mom. Good-night."

So they both hung up, and Ash went up to the upper floor to prepare for the night. They had dinner and were happy eating food like hot dogs and fries again, not just berries or nuts from the mountains. After that, they went to train a little bit before the Pokémon got tired from the training. Once that was done, they had gone to bed for the night.

I'll get the second badge tomorrow, Ash thought when he got into bed, absentmindedly stroking Pikachu's fur. I can't wait!

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Morning had arrived, and Ash and his friends were ready to start the day. They had never slept easier than back at Viridian City, for when they were at the center at Pewter City, they were kept up at night by drilling noises. But today was a new day, away from anything rocky and more towards water. And Ash was excited to get his second badge. He couldn't help but shake his arms impatiently while Daisy and Brock got ready, which got him a few questioning looks from nearby trainers.

But Misty had decided not to go with them. "I'll see you later," she said before they left. "Ash, you better get prepared for that gym battle. I won't be holding back."

So they were heading down one of the streets. They had seen some restaurants and stopped to get breakfast to one of the less fancy ones, and Ash was thankful for that; there was no use battling on an empty stomach. Daisy and Brock got stuff Ash had never seen before, and he got peanut butter pancakes with extra butter. He didn't like syrup on his pancakes, so Pikachu was more than welcome to the sticky stuff.

"Looks like Misty wasn't really happy coming to Cerulean City," Brock remarked as they left the restaurant a half-hour later.

"Must be because of those sisters of hers," Daisy said. "I never really knew that before we went into Mount Moon. Anyway, at least we won't have to run into these burglars anytime soon."

"What do you know about burglars?" an angry woman's voice snapped behind them. An Officer Jenny had arrived, glaring around at them suspiciously as she added, "It's odd how you say that at the scene of the crime. You were at the Poké Mart last night, weren't you?"

"No! We're not burglars," Daisy said. "We were just talking about burglars."

Brock nodded. "She's right. We got into town last night, and we weren't anywhere near a mart."

Officer Jenny looked back at the store. "Oh. Sorry about that," she said. "There was a break-in at around midnight last night. A few medicine items and TMs were stolen, and why those were stolen is beyond us. We haven't found the robber yet, but we're still searching around. In the meantime, the citizens here are not allowed to step inside except the shopkeeper. Now go off and do something while we work on it."

"Okay," Ash said. "Let's go."

"In a moment," Brock said. He started sidling up to Officer Jenny and said with a smile, "Would you like to go out to lunch with me? I heard of this good restaurant around here-"

But Officer Jenny interrupted with an unimpressed tone, "Well, I'm not off duty till after your bedtime. And I might have to work around the clock to get these criminals. So...I'm really busy."

Brock sagged his shoulders in defeat, and Ash and Daisy couldn't help but laugh/roll their eyes at what he was doing. As if noticing them, he spluttered, "Um...we got a gym battle to catch!"

So he dragged Ash and Daisy from Officer Jenny and went down the road.

"Hey Brock?" Ash asked as the three headed down an alley. "You got any advice on how to battle Misty?"

Brock pulled on a mystical tone as he said, "Know yourself, know your adversary, and you hold the key to victory."

Daisy rolled her eyes. "You say that to many newcomers," she muttered.

Ash agreed with her, "She's right. I don't think that might help much. But thanks anyway."

"Okay," Brock said. "You know that Misty has Water-type Pokémon, and their weaknesses are Electric and Grass-type moves. Pikachu would be good, but just in case, why don't you try finding a Grass-type Pokémon?"

"That sounds good," Ash said as Pikachu jumped down from his shoulder. "Can you lend me Zubat? I heard it knows Mega Drain."

Brock shook his head. "Sorry, Ash, I can't help you with that," he said. "Another trainer's Pokémon is fine, but not a gym leader's Pokémon. Depending on the type of badge you have, it could either disobey you from lack of skill or obey you."

Ash nodded and shared a look with Pikachu, who shrugged. At least he was able to ask.

"Well, I'm gonna go check some stuff out quick," Brock said, stepping away from them. "You have fun looking for the gym. We'll all be back at the Pokémon center at sunset today."

"Got it," Daisy said. "That way, we can all get dinner."

"We'll be good," Ash promised.

Brock nodded and headed down the road opposite of them. As for Ash and Daisy, they walked down the street some more, heading over to the shops to browse around some more. At a bicycle shop, where the price of a bicycle was ridiculous (at around a million Poké), they heard the manager say where the gym was at. So they went in that direction until they arrived at the northeastern part of the city.

When they arrived, they thought they had arrived at the wrong place. It looked like the entrance to a fun-house instead of a gym. Its color was a bright blue, just like a clean sea, and there was a statue of a seal-like Pokémon on top of the domed roof. Ash and Daisy shared a look before heading over to the entrance, where they were greeted by blue-suited bodyguards. They both paid to get inside, and they saw that the inside of the gym was unlike any building they had seen so far.

A large swimming pool laid before them, a high diving board near the deep end. Ash wondered if they could swim in there; he did like swimming, but he hated swimming in the deep end. The bleachers on the sides could seat many people, and of course, today seemed to be a full house. As Ash, Daisy, and Pikachu looked on from one of the aisles, a voice was ringing out, "Presenting the stars of Cerulean City, the Cerulean City Sensational Sisters! Violet, Daisy, and Lily!"

Daisy? Ash looked around at his own friend. Now I know two people named Daisy!

The three of them looked up to the diving board, where three people stood on top. Waving to the crowd were three attractive young women, one blonde-haired and wearing a red dress, one blue-haired and wearing a green dress, and the last pink-haired and wearing an orange dress. They took off the dresses to reveal the same-colored two-piece swimsuits and jumped off the diving board, diving into the pool and going swimming.

"I thought this was a gym?" Ash asked curiously.

"So did I," Daisy told him. "We better go see the manager and ask where the gym is."

Ash nodded and followed her out until they reached a hallway, the entrance of there having oriental paintings of normal-colored Magikarp. On either side of them were tanks of water filled with Water-type Pokémon like Magikarp, Goldeen, and more. While they went down the hall, Ash asked, "What were those girls doing?"

"Synchronized swimming," Daisy replied. "Water-type Pokémon tend to do it when they're migrating or in danger. But it can be kinda boring."

"Hey! What're you two doing in here?"

Ash and Daisy spun around. The three young women in the pool were there, wrapping towels around their bodies and staring sternly at them.

"Well?" asked one of them. "Say something or we'll call the bodyguard."

"Can you tell us where the Cerulean City gym is?" Ash asked.

That was when the sisters' faces relaxed. "Oh, that," another sister said. "This is it. The Cerulean City gym. And you'e looking for the gym leader, right?"

Ash nodded, feeling hopeful. "Yeah."

"Well, you're looking at them," the head sister said as she and the others struck some poses.

I thought Misty was the gym leader? Ash thought. He had heard that Misty headed the gym, but did these sisters overthrow her? In the meantime, Daisy asked, "Well, what about the swimming?"

"It's our hobby," said one sister.

"And our fans love to watch us perform," said another.

"We pool our talents to make a big splash!" added the third, and they started giggling.

Ash couldn't help but like the little joke, even if Daisy showed no signs of laughing. But as he finished laughing, Ash saw the sisters having already walked off while he was distracted. Scolding himself for this, he led the way back to the pool, where the people had

"I wanna challenge one of you to a gym battle," Ash replied.

Suddenly, the three of them did not look happy or smug now. Instead, they looked exasperated as one of them said, "We don't feel like battling anymore."

That stunned Ash and Daisy. "Why not?" the latter asked.

"We got defeated three times in a row," sighed one sister, and even Pikachu rolled his eyes. "By kids from this nowhere place called Pallet Town."

Nowhere place? Ash thought indignantly. He loved the town he called his home, where he could hang out with his mother, read by himself, and hang out with Daisy as well. But then, after hearing about trainers beating the sisters, he realized that Gary was still many steps ahead of him.

"It was one trainer after the other," one sister said. "It was like going around a roller coaster of failing!"

"We had to take our Pokémon to the Pokémon center and get them healed up," the blonde-haired sister said. "Well...except one."

She took out a PokéBall and released a Pokémon from there. It was a familiar orange-and-white fish Pokémon flopping around on the side of the pool.

"Only Goldeen?" Daisy asked. She looked very suspicious from what the sisters were saying.

"Yeah," said the blue-haired sister. "If it evolved into a Seaking, we'd be better off."

"So there's no point in battling anymore," the pink-haired sister added. Then her voice grew rather snobby as she added, "Now instead of battling, we can focus on making ourselves even more beautiful than ever!"

Ash looked around at his friend Daisy, who slapped a hand to her face. "I knew it!" she groaned.

"And since we don't battle anymore," said the blonde-haired sister, "you can have this. Seel!"

Out of the water came a white seal-like Pokémon similiar to the one outside the gym, a horn jutting out of its head and a long tongue jutting from its mouth. Ash took out his Pokédex, and it read, "Seel is the sea lion Pokémon. Seel is a Pokémon that lives on icebergs. It swims in cold seas, using its head to break ice." The Water-type swam over to shore and brought out a small box, which it opened.

And there it was. It was the second badge Ash had to get.

"Just like that, huh?" Ash asked. "Is it that easy?"

"Yeah. Just take it," the blonde-haired girl said with a smile. "A badge is a badge, right?"

Ash looked down at the badge. Its gleaming blue color was inviting to take, and it was just within his reach. Though he wanted to battle for his badge, he could not refuse something that he could grab so easily. So he gave in to temptation and started to reach his hand out towards it, and...

"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!"

Just then, the doors behind them opened with a loud bang. Ash and the others looked around at the figure coming into the gym, the former taking his arm away in time. There were a Staryu and a Starmie next to her, staying by her side as she made her entrance.

"I've come back!" the familiar person yelled. "Misty the Tomboyish Mermaid is back!"

To be continued...

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Wildstar93: Here we go! I hope you all like this chapter, for I was going to upload two chapters in one day. But I still gotta figure out the battle. Anyway, if there's anything wrong with this chapter, let me know, and I'll fix it. I appreciate constructive criticism as long as you're polite about it.

So I've been writing a new book, and here's a brief summary of it: "A loyal and pampered German shepherd and an abused yet friendly pit bull get dog-napped and then get stranded in the desert. They team up with an old loner coyote to get back to their city, but they encounter many obstacles along the way. The obstacles include mountain lions, hot weather, a freak thunderstorm, and most of all, each other. Can they work together to get back to the city?"

So what do you think? I hope it's good.

Ash: Pikachu (Thundershock, Quick Attack, Double Team, Electro Ball), Pidgeotto (Wing Attack, Gust, Sand Attack, Wing Attack), Butterfree (String Shot, Confusion, Tackle, Gust)
At Professor Oak's: Nidoran (Peck, Double Kick, Focus Energy, Poison Sting)

Daisy: Eevee (Tackle, Iron Tail, Helping Hand, Tail Whip), Beedrill (Poison Sting, Agility, String Shot, Pin Missile), Magikarp (Splash)

Misty: Staryu (Rapid Spin, Water Gun, Harden), Starmie (Swift, Water Pulse, Recover, Rapid Spin), Goldeen (Splash, Water Gun, Horn Attack, Tail Whip)

Brock: Geodude (Rock Throw, Rock Polish, Tackle, Defense Curl), Onix (Rock Tomb, Rock Polish, Tackle, Bind)

See ya next time!