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Now with new knowledge of Bulbasaur's past, Ash, Misty, and Brock continued on their way towards Vermilion City, travelling down Route 5. "Hey, Brock, how close are we to Vermilion?" Ash asked.

Brock looked down to examine his map, "If we keep moving, we should be able to get in there in a couple days" he replied.

"Okay then! Let's keep goi-huh?" Ash stopped mid-sentence, as he felt the ground shift beneath him. He looked down, seeing his right foot sunken into the ground, when suddenly the ground collapsed beneath the trio, revealing a large pitfall. All three let out cries as the fell to the bottom, landing in a pile.

"Who put a hole here!" Misty cried.

"Ow! I landed on my head" complained Brock.

"Pika…"

"Is this some kinda prank" Ash questioned.

"If it is, then someone has a bad sense of humour…" Misty replied.

Suddenly, 5 round, blue heads peered down into the pit, laughing, "Squirtle squirtle squirtle!"

"Huh? Those a Squirtle!" Ash exclaimed, pulling out his Pokédex. "Squirtle, the Tiny Turtle Pokémon. It shelters itself in its shell, then strikes back with spouts of water at every opportunity."

"Let's teach them for playing such as dangerous prank, Pikachu, use Electro Ball!" Ash ordered. "Pika!" Pikachu launched himself off of Ash's shoulder, quickly forming a ball of electricity with his tail, and launched it at the group of turtle Pokémon. The water types reeled back in surprise, trying to avoid, the attack, which most of them did, though one wasn't so lucky, and was hit by the super effective move.

As the other Squirtle ran to help their comrade up, Ash, Brock, and Misty had climbed out of the hole, with the help of Bulbasaur's Vine Whip. Now that he was on the same level as the pranksters, Ash noticed that all 5 were wearing black sunglasses, with all but one Squirtle wearing round sunglasses, while the odd one out was wearing pointed ones, which Ash assumed meant it was the leader of the group. The lead Squirtle glared at Pikachu, and fired a Water Gun at him, which he dodged easily. But, before the mouse had a chance to retaliate, Squirtle had charged at him with a powerful Tackle, slamming into him hard.

"Pikachu, Thunderbolt!" Ash instructed, which Pikachu did, frying the turtle. The other Squirtle ran to their leader, surrounding it. Before they had a chance to attack Pikachu themselves, the sound of a siren filled the air, causing the water types to grab their injured leader, and run for it.

"Chu?" Pikachu said in confusion, tilting his head to the side.

"Well that was weird…" said Ash.

The sound of screeching tyres came from behind the group. They turned around to see an Officer Jenny on her motorcycle. "Are you guys okay, has anyone been hurt?" she asked in concern.

"Officer Jenny!" Ash exclaimed. It was common knowledge, that every town, had an identical looking Officer Jenny, though Ash never could understand how they all looked exactly the same as each other.


The group were now at a nearby town's police station, were Jenny was explaining what had just happened. "People around town have dubbed that gang 'The Squirtle Squad'"

"Squirtle Squad?" Ash repeated in confusion.

"I've never heard of Pokémon forming a gang" Misty added.

"All of them are Squirtle who were abandoned by their Trainers" Jenny explained.

"Deserted…" Ash muttered, Bulbasaur and the guy who released him came to mind immediately.

"Since they have no trainer, they all just run wild and play tricks on the whole town" the officer continued, "it's kind of sad, if they had someone to care about them, they wouldn't have turned out this bad…" she said sadly, "it's a real shame…"

"Yeah…" Ash muttered in response.


After leaving the police station, the trio decided to take a rest by a river near the town. Misty took the opportunity to do a bit of fishing. Misty's lure bopped and something surfaced next to it.

"Ah, I caught something!" the redhead exclaimed in surprise. Ash sat up where he was lying. The Pokémon Misty "caught" surfaced further, revealing itself to be a Squirtle with round sunglasses, and immediately fired a Water Gun at the group, soaking them.

"We're soaked…" Misty muttered. Pikachu was not very happy about being drenched by the prankster Squirtle, so he decided to launch a Thunderbolt at the Tiny Turtle Pokémon. Unfortunately, he forgot water conducted electricity, so he ended up shocking the three trainers, while the Squirtle was left unharmed. "Stop it Pikachu!" Ash cried in pain.

"Pika…" Pikachu muttered, rubbing the back of his head it in embarrassment.

The Squirtle jumped out of the water, and ran to the nearby path. Ash quickly managed to recover, as he was starting to get used to Pikachu's shocks during training, when he accidently missed and hit his trainer my accident. The boy ran up to the path as well, Pikachu following behind.

"I've had enough of your tricks Squirtle!" Ash stated, "Pikachu, use Quick Attack!"

As the electric type ran at Squirtle, the water type withdrew into it's shell, and started spinning towards the speed mouse with a Rapid Spin, slamming into him and sending him flying into the river.

"Pikachu!" Ash cried. As Pikachu got to the surface, a Seaking appeared nearby and started swimming towards Pikachu, with its horn glowing.

"Ah! A Seaking!" Misty cried, "Staryu, use Swift on that Seaking!" She ordered, as she threw the starfish's Poké Ball. The water type emerged from the ball and fired multiple glowing stars from its jewel centre, hitting the fish and turning its attention to it. "Staryu, try Thunderbolt!" Misty instructed, hopefully they had practiced enough.

Staryu's core began to glow yellow, before its body became covered in electricity, and fired the attack at the Seaking, shocking it and causing it to sink. Staryu quickly jumped into the water, and helped Pikachu out of the river.

Now that Pikachu was safe, Ash turned back to the path, but the Squirtle was gone. "Damn…" Ash muttered.


Sitting around in the cave that served as their hideout, the Squirtle Squad was laughing at the newly returned Squirtle's story about Pikachu and the Seaking. "Good one!" One of the Squirtle laughed, Yeah, nice!" another added.

The lead Squirtle suddenly perked up as he heard something outside the cave. Before he had a chance to investigate, a powerful surge of electricity filled the cave, shocking and paralysing the whole gang. The leader Squirtle forced his eyes open, and saw to figures standing at the entrance to the cave. One was a man, who dark green and grey clothes and black sunglasses, similar to the Squirtle's own, a beanie mostly covering his brown hair. A powerful looking Electabuzz stood next to the man, obviously the one who had used the Discharge attack.

"Electabuzz, use Psychic" the man ordered in a gruff voice. The electric type's eyes glowed blue, as the five Squirtle were levitated into the air, completely immobilised. "Let's go" said the man, as he turned and exited the cave, Electabuzz following, with the Squirtle floating behind them. They soon arrived at a green truck, with large cages on the back. Electabuzz floated the turtle Pokémon into the open cage, dropping them onto the metal floor. Unfortunately for the electric type, it released them a bit too early, and before the man had a chance to lock the cage, the leader Squirtle lunged out of the cage, rolling onto the ground, then making a run for it, though he quickly called back to his fellow gang members, "I'll be back, I promise!"

Squirtle knew he couldn't save his friends by himself, especially with that Electabuzz. He needed help, but where to get it…


As Ash, Misty, and Brock walked through town, Ash was thinking about the Squirtle Squad, he was starting to get annoyed about all the talk about people abandoning their Pokémon recently, first Bulbasaur, and now five Squirtle. He also thought it was kind of odd that so many Pokémon were releasing Kanto Region starter Pokémon, which were very rare in the wild, so it was surprising that people were releasing such rare Pokémon, even if they considered them weak…

Ash was snapped out of his thoughts by a distressed cry of "Squirtle!" The leader Squirtle was standing in front of the trio, panting. "Squirtle! Squirt squirt Squirtle!" it cried. Realising the humans couldn't understand him, he turned to Pikachu.

"Please! I need help!" Squirtle begged, "Some human came into our hideout and captured my friends, please help me!"

As distressed as Squirtle seemed, Pikachu wasn't entirely convinced it was for real. "How do I know you're telling the truth, and this isn't just some prank?" Pikachu questioned.

"Please! I swear I'm telling the truth!" Squirtle pleaded, "The guy has an Electabuzz, I can't deal with that by myself!"

Against his better judgement, Pikachu sighed and nodded, "Okay, but if this is a prank, you're getting another Thunderbolt"

Pikachu turned to his trainer, "Pikapi! Pika Pika!" he cried. Then turned, to Squirtle, telling him to lead the way.

"Huh? Pikachu?!" Ash exclaimed in confusion, before running after him, Brock and Misty following close behind.


Squirtle led the group to a small clearing, and hid behind a nearby bush, and pointed into the clearing. The three trainers saw the truck, with the cage holding the rest of the Squirtle Squad. On top of the cage, a Fearow was perched, sleeping.

Ash's eyes widened in realisation, "So this is what you wanted, Squirtle…" he whispered. Squirtle nodded in response. Brock carefully surveyed the clearing.

"If we want to get the Squirtle out of there, we need to be careful about that Fearow…" Brock stated.

"Right" Ash and Misty replied with a nod each. Thinking back to the caged Clefairy in Mt. Moon, Ash quietly released Charmander, and told him to sneak over and cut the cage open with Metal Claw. Charmander did as he was told, and hurried over to the cage as silently as he could. Once he reached the cage, his claws grew larger and glowed silver, and he began to slash at the metal bars. As soon as he touched the bars, the lizard was electrocuted, and sent tumbling backwards. Of course, the bars would be electrified, especially when they were holding water types.

Unfortunately, the sound of the bars frying poor Charmander alerted the Fearow, and it angrily glared at the fire type. It took flight and swooped down at Charmander with a Drill Peck, it's beak spinning. Charmander didn't have a chance to dodge, and was sent flying into a tree, knocked out.

"No, Charmander!" Ash cried, "Pikachu, Thunderbolt!"

"Piiikaa… Chuuuuu!" the mouse cried, sending a powerful bolt of electricity at the large bird. Fearow didn't see it coming, too distracted by Charmander, and was enveloped in the powerful electric attack, and collapsed to the ground, dazed.

"What's going on here!?" a loud voice boomed. The trio turned and saw a man standing near the vehicle, an Electabuzz beside him. Based on the situation, with the captured Squirtle in the cage, and the man's general look, the trio all came to the same conclusion about the man, he was a Pokémon Hunter.

"Let those Squirtle go!" Ash demanded angrily.

The hunter narrowed his eyes, "Why should I?" he questioned, "The town wants them gone don't they? I'm doing them a favour!"

"Maybe they do want them gone, but this isn't the way to do it! Pikachu, Electro Ball!" Ash yelled. Pikachu launched his attack, but the Electabuzz stood in the way, creating a Light Screen, blocking the Electro Ball. The Electric Pokémon then ran at Pikachu, it's fist glowing white, and hit him with a strong Focus Punch.

"No, Pikachu!" Ash cried. Pikachu flew backwards, right into Ash's arms. Squirtle watched in worry as Pikachu was easily defeated. He brought Pikachu and his trainer into this, he wasn't going to let them get killed.

Squirtle charged at Electabuzz, and slammed into it with a Headbutt, and then bit down hard on it's head. "Buuuu!" the electric type cried in pain, grabbing Squirtle of it's head, and throwing him down.

Squirtle withdrew into his shell before he hit the ground, reducing the damage. It turned and glared, before taking a deep breath, and firing the strongest Water Gun he had ever used. Electabuzz's eyes widened as it was blasted with the powerful jet of water, and sent flying.

"WHAT!?" The hunter cried.

While the hunter was distracted, Brock released his Onix, and ordered him to break open the cage, thankfully he wasn't electrocuted thanks to being a ground type. The Squirtle Squad cried out in happiness and jumped out of the broken cage. The four turtles ran over to their leader, and stood next to each other, glaring angrily at the hunter.

"You ready to teach him a lesson Squirtle?" Ash asked the leader. He nodded at the boy, and Ash grinned. "Alright then, all of you, use Water Gun!"

The five Squirtle grinned as well, before blasting the hunter with powerful jets of water, sending him flying into a tree, which he hit his head on, knocking him out.

"Way to go you guys!" Ash praised. The Tiny Turtle Pokémon all cheered in celebration.

"Squirtle squirt!"


By the time Officer Jenny arrived at the scene, after receiving a call from Ash's Pokégear, the Pokémon Hunter had been tied to a tree using Beedrill's String Shot, and Electabuzz and Fearow had been returned to their Poké Balls.

"Ash, Brock, Misty, you three have done a great job today" Jenny praised with a salute.

Ash shook his head, "Thanks Officer Jenny, but the ones who need praising for this are the Squirtle Squad"

"Really?" Jenny said in surprise, looking to the Squirtle Squad, who all look uncomfortable in the presence of the police officer. Jenny walked over to the Squirtle, and bent down to talk to them. "You may be trouble makers, but you did an excellent job today" she commended.

"Squirtle?" They all said in surprise, they never would have expected to receive praise from a police officer, after everything had done. Jenny seemed to think for a moment, before she looked to the gang again with a smile. "You know, you guys could be a great help to me" she stated.

"Squirt?"

"The way you helped take down this Pokémon Hunter, you could be great police Pokémon, and you would be great firefighters as well, with your water attacks!" Jenny suggested. The five Pokémon turned to each other, to discuss the offer.

"Should we do it?" one asked, "Maybe…" another said. The leader Squirtle had his own debate going on in his head. As much as he liked being with his squad, the way he had battled alongside that trainer boy, felt… well, right. Squirtle loved battling, and from what he could tell, the boy did as well… and though he didn't particularly like trainers after his had abandoned him, this kid felt… special. Finally, he gained a determined expression, and turned to his gang.

"Do it" he told them, "You deserve to not have a life of crime anymore". The rest of the squad looked at their leader in surprise, "Boss, are you sure?" one questioned. Squirtle nodded, "Yeah, but… I want something else…" he said, looking towards Ash. The 2nd in command's eyes widened, but then he smiled, "You wanna go with him, don't you" he asked, to which the leader nodded. "Yeah… will you guys be okay without me?"

"Boss, of course we will. We are the Squirtle Squad after all" the 2nd command assured with a grin. Squirtle nodded. "Of course"

The five Squirtle had a group hug, before all but the leader turned to Jenny and nodded. Jenny seemed happy with this result but looked to the leader, "What about you?" she asked him.

"Squirt" he responded, and walked over to Ash and pointed to his belt.

"Squirtle… You want to come with me?" they boy asked.

"Squirt Squirtle" he replied with a nod.

"Well, if you really want to, then welcome to the group!" Ash exclaimed, holding out an empty Poké Ball. Squirtle touched his hand to the button, allowing himself to be absorbed inside. The ball shook in Ash's hand, once, twice three times, before becoming still.

"Alright! I caught a Squirtle!" Ash cheered. "Pi Pikachu!" Pikachu added.

Suddenly, a beep came from Ash's pocket, and he pulled out his Pokédex, which showed a message on the screen. "You have a full party of six, please select a Pokémon to send to Professor Oak's Laboratory"

Of course, he had a full team now, so he had to choose something to send to Oak. A menu appeared on the Pokédex screen, showing small images of his seven Pokémon. He thought for a moment, he didn't really want to send any of his Pokémon, but he didn't want to transfer Squirtle right after he caught him, so he selected Beedrill's image and pressed confirm. Beedrill's Poké Ball glowed white on Ash's belt, before disappearing, getting sent to Professor Oak's Lab.

Ash called Squirtle out, so he could say one last goodbye to his friends.

"Squirtle" Ash's new Squirtle said with a thumbs up.

"Squirt Squirtle" the others replied with waves.

Jenny turned to the former leader, "Squirtle, I'll take good care of your team, so don't worry" she told the turtle with a salute. Squirtle nodded, he knew she would.

"Well, I guess we better get going" Ash suggested, to which his companions nodded.


As the group left the town, Ash suddenly stopped, startling his companions.

"Pikapi?"'

"What's wrong Ash?" Brock asked.

Ash shook his head, "Nothing, I just realised I now have all three of the Kanto starter Pokémon…"

"I guess you're just lucky Ash" Misty said with a laugh.

"Yeah, I guess so" the boy agreed.


Wow, I finished this chapter really fast, even though this is my longest chapter yet… Anyway, Ash finally has Squirtle, which as I've said before, was originally going to happen last time, but whatever, its happened now. The Pokémon was mainly meant to be a way to make Ash help Squirtle without needing to include Team Rocket. However, he may possibly show up again at some point, though I'm not sure yet.

Also, in case some people didn't understand last time, this will eventually have Amourshipping, so sorry people who prefer other Ash ships, but Amourshipping is the one I like, soooo, yeah.

Unless I come up with something else, next chapter should be the Vermilion Gym, so look forward to that I guess. But, until next time, good bye!

Current Teams:

Ash:

Pikachu (Male)

Charmander (Male)

Pidgeotto (Female)

Nidorino (Male)

Bulbasaur (Male)

Squirtle (Male)

At Oak's Lab:

Beedrill (Male)

Misty:

Poliwag (Male)

Staryu (Genderless)

Goldeen (Female)

Oddish (Female)

Brock:

Onix (Male)

Geodude (Male)

Zubat (Male)