so for everyone who may have wanted to know I started this with the concept what if Ash had been given a different starter than Pikachu. Then I used a number randomizer to pick his starter. the randomizer picked mimikyu. Then I kinda went how would i have wanted Ash to do things? And thats what this is. It follows the first round of the anime pretty closely, but i changed some things to make Ash into a more mature person. I'll give a reason for this later. As for mimikyu, if we are following the first anime, no one would have known about mimikyu, because in the first anime they didn't even know there were other regions. While its true that I kinda cheated, having ash learn what mimikyu was, he still doesn't know it's attacks (other than shadow ball, copycat and thunderbolt because those are attacks that were available to other pokemon in the first anime) or anything about the fairy typing. anyone seeing it from afar probably would just assume it was a really weird looking Pikachu. As for meowth, perhaps he hasn't noticed yet because he hasn't been close enough. We'll leave that for when we get to the S.S. Anne episode. Jessie wouldn't know anything about mimikyu here because this is still modelled after her from the first anime (indigo league) so she wouldn't know anything about it. In the first anime Team Rocket was kind of silly, but not stupid, you are right about that, but as I said, they haven't gotten close enough to notice that Mimikyu is not a Pikachu.

I hope that answered all your questions Detective Desires.

As Ash got on the road again, he couldn't help thinking how lucky he was, having not started out with any of the traditional starters and now, having caught both a charmander and a bulbasaur along the way. It was if fate was smiling down on him. All though he thought that he would have preferred to have caught them wild, rather than having caught them because they had both been abandoned by stupid trainers. But, it was still lucky. Then, out of nowhere Ash found himself falling into a deep pit, misty and Brock falling on top of him.

"When I get out of here I'm going to have a strong word with those Rockets about digging holes!" Ash shouted, glad that he had thought of keeping his new Abra with him, having it teleport them out of the hole.

Then he noticed a squirtle sporting sunglasses of all things giggling madly as they disappeared into the forest.

"I'm going to catch one." Misty said, a dangerous gleam in her eye.

"Well we can try searching for them but this forest is pretty dense and it looks like they know it pretty well. If we see them again we can both try to catch one but otherwise I don't see how we are going to see them again."

Meanwhile

"I hate forests." James whined, "Are you sure there is a town nearby?"

"The map says there is, so there is. Now quit you're bellyaching." Jessie's stomach started to rumble right as she said this

"Well since it sounds like you're hungry and I'm hungry why don't we take a little break?"

"That's the first good idea you've had all day James."

Jessie had just started unpacking the picnic from the balloon when she noticed the first squirtle watching from the tree line.

"Oh you want some?" she smiled as the squirtle nodded, "Well too bad, this meal is for us, now scram!"

Then as she opened the picnic basket top she found herself being blown back by a powerful water gun, not even having time to warn James as they were rudely tied to the tree they had been blown back into. Then the squirtle that had blown them back had his buddies tie all three of them to a tree.

"Hey wait, I'm sure we can work something out." She tried as she watched the lead squirtle start handing out their food to the other squirtle.

"Let me handle this Jess." Meowth said, "Hey you'se guys, ya know I'm da real brains, da real trainer here. Dese two are my pets. If you let us go, you could be part of Team Rocket where you goiys would be da bosses too, just like me."

"Hey were aren't..." Jessie started

"Shut it Jess, I've got dis. Think of what da boss will say when we send him a whole platoon of squirtle." he whispered, "Sorry about dat. Dis one she gots a big mouth. But what do ya say? Want to be part of Team Rocket where youse will never be abandoned again?"

The squirtle smiled and shook Meowth's hand as he undid the rope

"Well all right then, welcome to Team Rocket."

Misty had decided that the gang should stop to fish for Pokémon near where they had seen the Squirtle, and Ash, not wanting to argue, or get a mallet to the head for arguing decided that the best way for her to realize that they weren't going to find the Squirtle was for her to figure that out for herself so they camped by the waterside, with his Pokemon out just in case. it turned out to be a good idea because it wasn't long before they found themselves under attack by Team Rocket and the same Squirtle that had dug the hole. Ash was having his abra teleport around the Squirtle's attacks which was working pretty well until all of a sudden four more Squirtle came from the forest and started attacking Abra from different sides. They were being beaten back when Ash heard an all too familiar motto and watched in disbelief as the rockets started throwing bombs at them, starting a large fire.

"You might be pranksters," ash said, "But i don't think you intended for this fire to start. You need to help put it out before someone gets hurt."

"all right you guys, the kid here has a point. We aint murderers, so let's get this fire out. Blaster you take Bubbles and Sheldon over there and make a fire break. I'll take Hydro to take out those double crossing rockets."

Ash watched in shock as three Squirtle used their water guns together, blasting the rocket's off into the distance along with their balloon, and the two other squirtle efficiently corralling the fire until it was nothing but cinders. He was even more surprised when Officer Jenny came screaming up in her motorbike, and offered the Squirtle a job as the town's fire patrol. But nothing surprised him more than when the Squirtle with the sunglasses turned to the other Squirtle that had been helping him and poked him in the arm, having a quick conversation and then the one without the sunglasses walking up to misty and poking her Pokebelt until a Pokeball fell on him. The one with the sunglasses then turned to Ash as if it was asking what he was waiting for, grinning Ash lobbed the pokeball, happy to add one more to the team.

Ash's team :

Abra: Teleport

Charmander: smokescreen, ember, dragon rage (not unlocked). flamethrower (not unlocked), rage (unlocked but not available yet)

Squirtle: Water gun, defense curl, bubble, tackle

Bublbasaur: Razor leaf, leech seed, vine whip, tackle, poison powder, sleep powder

Pidgeotto: Gust, wing attack, fly, quick attack, tackle, twister (not unlocked)

Mimikyu: Thunderbolt, copycat, shadow sneak (can uses this but ash doesn't know the name of it), shadow ball, wood hammer