A/N: Well, it's another Ash does better fic's. Only I'm going to be following more of the game, Platimun, more than the anime itself, though elements of the anime will be used to keep things fresh. Also, Pokémon trainers will be starting their adventures at 17 rather than 10 because honestly, good job to some of the game protagonists, but a 10 year old doing all that stuff is awesome, though highly unrealistic and impractical. Even being a prodigy can only get you so far compared to crime lords and cult leaders with decades of experience. Ash is also wearing the clothes that Lucas wears since it's more heat conservative. You'll know why. Anyway, let's begin, shall we? Pokémon is created and owned by Satoshi Tajiri.
"Welcome, to the world of Pokémon. My name is Professor Rowan." An elderly, serious looking man appeared with snow white hair. He wore a white shirt and a blue vest along with dark blue pants and brown shoes. "This world is widely inhabitated by Pokemon. Here, look for yourself." He grabbed a Pokeball from behind him and threw it out, producing a brown bipedal bunny that was brown that had yellow cream colored fluffs on the tips of it's ears, lower midsection, feet and cute round tail. It was a Buneary.
"Buneary!" It said with glee.
"We live alongside Pokémon as friends. We either play together or we work together. Some people use Pokémon to battle and develop closer bonds with them. As for me, I study them so that we learn more about them. So far there's four of us highly acclaimed professors in the four regions, but I believe there's more in places we don't know yet. Now, as we go into further detail..." Ash turned off his tv. He was just watching that part to motivate himself. He couldn't believe it. It was his 17th birthday! September 13th, now being 2008. It was a few minutes past 10 AM, signaling the beginning of his journey.
"All right! Let's get to it!" He got off his chair and was about to take a step when his childhood friend, Barry burst into his room. He wore his signature lateral stripped orange and white long sleeved shirt, and his blonde hair was wild.
"THERE YOU ARE!" He shouted as loud as he could.
"Barry?!" He yelled back in surprise.
"You just saw the TV, did you?! That Prof. Rowan is a really important guy studying Pokémon! That means he must have lots and lots of Pokémon! If we ask him, I'm sure he'll give us some Pokémon!" He then gasped and ran to one corner of the room looking at his new laptop he unwrapped this morning. "Oh my god! Is that a new Apple MacBook?! A 13 inch screen with 2.4 GHz processing speed, 1280x800 resolution and 250 GB of memory! Your mom must've spent a pretty- no, a drop dead gorgeous penny to get this!" He then pointed at Ash making him put his hands up defensively. "Do. Not. BREAK IT!" Barry then cooled down. "Now, where was I? Oh yeah! As I was saying, we need to go to see Prof. Rowan and get us some Pokémon! I'll be waiting! If you're late, I'm fining you $10 million dollars!" He then dashed off before Ash could get a word in. He sighed.
"Classic Barry. If he's speaking, you might as well be mute." He then proceeded to put his laptop into his backpack before going downstairs to see his mother, Delia.
"Good morning, Ash. Barry's already gone. I have no idea what he was talking about but he seemed to be in more of a hurry more than usual."
"Yeah, he wants to meet the prof. so he can get a Pokémon. Another one of his hair brained schemes." Ash admitted sweating a little but chuckling in good fun.
"Oh, well. Just as long as you stay out of the tall grass, I'm okay with it." Delia started to hiccup and tears appeared in her eyes. "My baby boy. Going out into the world to become a Pokémon Champion. I'm going to miss you so much." She cried as she hugged her only son.
"I'll miss you too. I love you mom." Ash said, his closed eyes glistening with tears.
"I love you too, Sweetie." She let Ash go and placed her hand on his face. "Okay. Go and make your dreams come true."
"I will mom." Ash assured as he moved the bill of his hat down and moved past his mom and stepped out into the cool Autumn air. He took in the smell of the earthly elements and the leaves falling from the trees, creating a musky-sweet scent in the air. He walked around his house and went to one only four houses in this tiny town. Is it technically a town when only 8 people live there with no businesses? Anyway, Ash passed by that guy who's always rambling about new technologies and went straight to Barry's house. He was just about to open the door when it opened for him and the two teenage boys clonked heads and fell down on their butts.
"Owww! What was that all about, huh!?" He looked up to see Ash rubbing his own head in pain "Oh, Ash! Let me pick you up there!" Barry said as he heaved Ash right up to his feet. "I was just on my way to see Prof. Rowan. You should come too and quickly!" Barry was just about to run off when he thought of something. "Oh Jeez, I almost forgot something! He went back into the house only for a minute before he came back out with a bag. "Okay, now I'm ready! $10 million dollars!" He yelled before running to Route 201. Ash sighed in exasperation as he walked after Barry, not really concerned about that fake fine. When he finally caught up to his friend, Barry yelled, "Too slow! Let's get moving to Prof. Rowan's!"
"Barry, we can't go into the tall grass!" Ash called him out in worry.
"What? No worries, problems or complications! It doesn't matter if we don't have Pokémon! You just have to run really fast! After all, you're looking at the number 1 gold medalist in the junior running marathon in all of Sinnoh, seven years running! Literally!" Barry laughed really loudly and slapped his knee.
"We'll I can't argue there but I'm not an orange lightning bolt like you are." Ash countered.
"Whiner! Just watch me!" He ran back about 20 feet, sprinting in place. "3, 2, 1... GO!" He gave it his all, running as fast as he can when a stern voice called out to them,
"HOLD YOUR HORSES!" Barry tried to stop but his momentum was too much so he faceplanted into the dirt. Just as surprised as his planted friend, Ash looked to see none other than Prof. Rowan himself!
"I overheard this sensible lad say you didn't have Pokémon. So what is the meaning of just dashing into the grass with reckless abandon?" Neither Ash or Barry responded in fear of what the stern prof. would say. Eventually Barry spoke, quietly. Quite a rare occurrence.
"You're... Prof. Rowan. What are you doing here?" Instead of answering Barry, he turned around mumbling to himself. Barry looked at Ash and he shrugged. The Prof. eventually turned back to them and asked them both,
"You two, do you truly love Pokémon?" Ash nodded. Barry exclaimed,
"I love Pokémon too!"
"I'll ask you again; do you truly love Pokémon?" Ash nodded again.
"What? You can ask an infinite amount of times, we love Pokémon!" Barry responded a bit annoyed. Rowan breathed quite strongly to that.
"A pair of reckless hooligans who foolishly try to run off thinkin' their cooking with gas by sprinting flat out. It worries me what sort of things these odd balls will do."
"...Well, I don't know what kind of lingo you're using there, but if you're unsure about me, then just give my friend a Pokémon! I'll admit, I'm very excitable and energetic! I leap into action before thinking things through! But Ash Ketchum here..." He grabbed his friend by the shoulder and pointed to him. "He's a reliable person. He's basically the opposite of me. He never steps out of line and always considers what the best course of action is, and he loves Pokémon just as I do!" Barry's speech left quite an impression on the prof.
"Hmph, I must say. From your willingness to sacrifice your adventure for someone who's cooler than you certainly proves your valor. I do believe you've given me an eureka. Very well then! I shall entrust you two with Pokémon. I apologize for putting you through that exercise. However! You must promise me you'll never endanger yourselves again like that, and wind up in the cooler!"
"I'm not sure what a refrigerator has to do with this but okay." Barry agreed confused.
"I think he meant something else." Ash pointed out.
"Proffessor!" A girl's voice called out. They all looked to see a teenage girl and boy run up to the professor panting. "Prof. Rowan, you left your briefcase by the lake." The girl said.
"Seriously Prof. You need to remember your things." The boy puffed.
"Ah, you two are right on time. I was just about to entrust these two with their first Pokémon." The prof. explained.
"What?! Those Pokémon are crucial. You're just giving them away?" The boy complained.
"Yeah, those Pokémon are hard to replace. Are you sure about giving them away?" The girl added. Their cries did not deter the professor.
"We exist side by side with Pokémon. There comes a time when people should meet them. A world that needs to be explored. For these two, that's right here, right now." He turned to Barry and Ash. "Sorry about my well meaning protégés. This fine young lad is Lucas Paulson, and this exceptional young lady is Dawn Berlitz. They've been helping me in my old age recently for a few years now. They live in Sandgem town which was where we were heading before I bumped into you. Now Dawn, please open the briefcase so they can choose their Pokémon." He ordered.
"Ugh, fine. Here you go." She sighed as she opened the case to show three shiny Pokeballs.
"Really Professor?! Oh thank you so much!" Barry shouted as he danced around. "I can't believe it! I'm so happy I can't keep a straight face!" While Barry was off in his own world, Ash looked at the Pokeballs.
"To the left is the Tiny Leaf Pokémon, Turtwig. In the middle is the Chimp Pokémon, Chimchar. And on the right is Penguin Pokémon, Piplup. Which one do you want?" Dawn asked of Ash.
"It's obvious what I want." Ash said as he grabbed a Pokeball. "I choose Turtwig."
"Heh, nice choice, Ash, but I'm going for the winner of the group; Chimchar!" Barry exclaimed like a knight as he held up the Pokeball as if he were holding a sword. Everybody sweated seeing him act so odd. Dawn happily closed the case and lined up with Lucas, who still looked hesitant about this.
"Very well, you two have chosen some good Pokémon. Now listen well! The Pokémon you have been entrusted with are unfamiliar to the world. They're just like you. As fellow newcomers to the world, I hope you do well together. If you have any trouble, come see me in Sandgem Town. With that said, we'll be on our way." Rowan concluded as he passed the two boys by followed by Lucas.
"Professor! Wait for me please! I'm sorry, let me pass." She excused the boys as Dawn chased after her associates.
"Well how do you like that? Prof. Rowan's really nice. On TV he seems so stern and scary, but the scary part isn't true at all." Within seconds, he got hyper again and nearly shoved his face into Ash's. "Can you believe it?! We got Pokémon! There's only one thing to do! Are you up for it?!"
"Oh you know I am." Ash responded getting his own energy spiking up.
"I've always wanted to say this! The time has finally come! Ash Ketchum, I challenge you to a battle!"
A/N: I've gotten started on doing Pokémon stuff. So, I can imagine what some of you will be thinking. Why Sinnoh first? Why not any of the three previous regions? Well, Kanto is overdone, Johto isn't really popular comparatively, and Hoenn is broken in terms of legendary Pokémon being caught before the Elite Four and Champion. I mean, you can catch all three Regi's and Rayquaza before the ultimate challenge. That's too easy. Sinnoh is a comparatively popular, and non broken region. Plus, Pearlshipping is the shipping I personally grew up with in middle school. I was too young to acknowledge earlier shippings during their time and I was too old during and past Negaishipping to give much care until I started paying attention. I like all the female companions(up to Serena, I lost interest in Pokémon once Sun and Moon came out) But personally, I find Dawn and Serena as my favorites. Also, while this fanfic will portray Ash as smarter than canon, that's not going to be a main focus point. I'm just going to write about what if he started in Sinnoh and it was more like the game than the anime. Finally, imagine Lucas dressed as Paul in this. What do you think? Leave reviews please. Sayonara.