It had been three hours since Jason had left pallet town. He had just stopped for lunch when a trainer ran up to him.
"Hey you! Do you have a Pokémon?" The trainer asked.
Jason rolled his eyes internally. "Yes. Why? Do you have a Pokémon?"
"Of course, I do you dolt! Why would I be asking you if I didn't?"
"I don't know."
"Well it doesn't matter. I challenge you to a Pokémon battle."
"Do you really want to do this?"
"Of course, I do. I challenge you to a Pokémon battle, and I will put out 100 Poké."
Jason looked at Elekid. "Do you want to fight?"
"I want to get stronger, and to become stronger I have to fight."
Jason nodded and Elekid walked in front of him. "What's your name?"
"My name is Carlos. I'm camping a little way away and wanted to challenge someone to toughen up my Pokémon." Carlos threw a Pokéball and a Wooper hopped onto the battlefield.
"Okay. We can't use your fire or electric attacks. So, we have the two fighting and the ice attacks. Do you want to end this quickly or work for it?"
"Let's play it by ear."
"You got it. Elekid use karate chop."
"Wooper! Use Muddy Water."
Wooper shot Muddy Water towards Elekid pushing them apart.
"Elekid. Use Ice Punch on the water and use Hammer Arm to get out."
Elekid froze the water in front of him and used Hammer Arm to get up on the ice.
"Now. Use Hammer Arm to throw yourself at Wooper. Use double Ice Punch."
Elekid hit the front of the ice float and launched himself at Wooper.
"Wooper. Use Water Gun."
Wooper spit a stream of water at Elekid.
Elekid hit the stream of water with both Ice Punches and punched the ice into Wooper before following it up with freezing Wooper.
"And Wooper can't fight anymore." Carlos said.
"Sorry if that seemed a bit unorthodox."
"Don't be. That was an amazing battle. I'm sorry if I came off a little harsh before, but it's so hard to find a trainer who will battle Wooper."
"Why's that?"
"Wooper is a duel type Pokémon. So, when I fight a trainer they won't want to battle because they can't use electric attacks."
"Why won't they use ice or grass attacks?"
"Because electric attacks are super effective against water types." Carlos mocked.
"Well the next time we meet. I'll battle you again."
"Really! Thanks!"
"No problem."
"Hey. If you want to fight more trainers there is a group of them up that way. They are adults, so they may not fight you."
"I'll check it out. Thanks."
With that Jason got on his bike and drove off in the direction Carlos pointed.
After riding for an hour, Jason got to the spot where Carlos said some trainers were. They weren't trainers. They were trafficking in Kreon and Pokémon.
"Hey boss." A trainer with a beedrill said. "We have a feisty one on our hands from the last raid. You're going to have to break her in."
"Okay. I'll be there in a minute." A man with a Hypno said.
Jason grit his teeth. "Okay Elekid. You're going to have to go into your Pokéball. It's too dangerous."
"Be careful."
"I will be." Jason said returning Elekid. Jason snuck around the encampment, and into the tent the guy had come out of. He saw a girl sitting in the corner with defiance on her face.
"Who are you!" she demanded.
"SSHHH!" Jason hissed. "I'm not here to hurt you in any way. I need to get you out of here. There is a guy coming in with a Hypno, and I don't think his intentions are good."
"Why should I believe you? You guys killed my family and dragged me here for who knows what reason."
"I don't know what they did to you, but I'm not one of them."
"Hypno! Use Hypnosis."
Jason turned around to see the guy who had the Hypno. Jason closed his eyes and got into a fighting stance.
"Very noble kid, but you can't beat me with your eyes closed. You're going to have to open them eventually, and when you do. Hypno will put you to sleep."
"I don't know. I can keep my eyes closed for a while."
Jason heard a knife leave its sheath.
"let's see you keep them closed when I slice you to ribbons." The guy brought his knife down to cut Jason.
Jason was ready for him. He pushed his hands up catching the guys arm, spun around, and pulled the knife backstabbing the guy in the stomach. "Using a knife against me? That was stupid." Jason pushed up gutting the guy.
Jason took the knife and put it on his belt.
"Ghastly! Kill Hypno." The girl said.
Ghastly surrounded Hypno's face smothering it to death.
Jason took the knife and cut a hole in the tent allowing them to escape.
When they were back at Jason's bike, he told her to get on.
"Ghastly. Kill him."
Ghastly surrounded Jason's face, cutting off his air.
"Wh-what are you do-doing?"
"I can't let you live. You might make a deal with them to get me back."
Jason handed her the knife.
"What's this for?"
"C-ca-can't br-breath."
"Ghastly stop."
Ghastly stopped his assault on Jason.
"Now. Tell me why you gave me this knife or else I'll have Ghastly kill you."
Jason coughed and gulped in large lungsful of air. After he caught his breath he said. "You can keep the knife. If you think that I'm going to hurt, you in any way..." he nodded at the knife.
"Why?"
"I didn't rescue you with evil intentions. I'm not going to sell you off to the highest bidder, or keep you locked in a place to live out some creepy fantasy every night or kill you. I helped you because that's what those guys were going to do. You needed help, and I helped you. I don't have an ulterior motive. If you want to leave then leave, if you want to travel with me then you can."
"How old are you?"
"Me? I'm ten. How old are you?"
"I'm fourteen. How is it that a ten-year-old was not only able to surprise that guy, but also overpower, and kill him?"
"Let's get out of here, and when we are safe, I'll tell you."
They got on Jason's bike and kept going to Mt. hideaway.
Outside Mt. Hideaway
Jason stopped at a rest stop before heading the rest of the way.
"Okay." The girl said. "You tell me your story, and I'll tell you mine."
"My name is Jason Todd. You probably won't believe this, but I'm not from around here."
"So, you're not from Kanto or Hoenn?"
"No. I'm not from Pokerra."
"Soooo. You're an alien?"
"Not in the little green men sort of way. You're going to think I'm crazy, but I can't go back now. Yesterday. I was beaten within an inch of my life and blown up in a warehouse. The last thing I remember was my Adoptive dad saying my name. I woke up in blackness, and a voice that was somehow harsh and gentle rolled into one voice was talking to me."
"What did it say?"
"It said that I had a unique set of skills that could help save this world. I'm just a kid who was picked up off the streets and taught how to fight crime. I don't know how to save an entire planet!"
The girl looked like she wanted to laugh, but also believed him at the same time.
"Why aren't you laughing? If I told that story to anyone else, they would think I'd gone crazy."
"I think that the deity of this world has a plan for you?"
"I really don't want to sound offensive, but my belief in Deity's is nonexistent."
"Why?"
"Tell me. What kind of Deity do you think would allow a six-year-old to be put out on the street? What kind of Deity would allow a kid to be abused in every way imaginable for three years? What kind of Deity would allow a kid to go to a reform school just so they can learn how to steal anything and everything, and become a criminal? And finally. What kind of Deity would allow a kid to train to fight for three years, just so he can be brutally murdered at the hands of a madman?"
"I don't have the answers, but I'm sure that if Arceus brought you to this world, that he had a good reason for it."
"Why me? If not for my adoptive dads' guidance, then I would have become a criminal."
"Maybe you can use your skills to help Kreon and Pokémon alike?"
"How?"
"You saved me from those guys who were going to sell me for money. You have skills that would make the Jenny's jealous."
"Okay. Say that I do. What do I do? Criminals won't stop because of me."
"Maybe not you alone, but if you create a team that is unbeatable." She paused.
"What kind of team is unbeatable?"
"The kind of team that you build through respect."
"What?"
"If you battle all your Pokémon, and use brute force to beat them, then you will never have their respect, but if you earn their respect, and then catch them. They will be a force to be reckoned with."
Jason pondered this for a bit. Then he looked at the girl and realized that he knew nothing about her. At first glance she looked like she was a normal girl. It wasn't until he looked closer that he saw the cracks in her armor. This was no normal girl, she had suffered, and had, had a difficult life. Maybe as difficult as his. If not worse than his. "You never told me your name."
The girl became quiet, and her armor shattered. She cried till she had no more tears to cry.
Jason allowed her the space she needed. He had a moment like this in his previous life when he realized that the street was his home, after that night he never cried again. He wondered if the same would be true for her.
Once the girl got ahold of herself, she sat up. "My name is Sarah. Sarah Korosu, and my family was murdered in front of me before I was dragged away from my home in Hoenn."
Jason clenched his hands into fists. Another orphan like him. The only difference is that she had no one else to take care of her.
"What am I going to do? My family is gone. I have no one except Ghastly."
"You have me now." Jason said.
Sarah fell to her knees and began crying again.
Jason sat down next to her and handed her some fresh water from his bag.
"How did you overcome your past?" She asked as she drank.
"I decided that I wouldn't let it control me. I took ahold of my own path, grit my teeth, and pushed through it."
"You make it sound so easy."
"It wasn't. I had to push myself past my limits and overcome my weaknesses."
"Your ten. How were you able to do that?"
"I was between six and nine when I had to do this. From the ages of six to nine I lived on the streets. I had to fight for everything to survive. From nine to twelve I was sent to a reform school where I was trained to steal for the headmistress. From twelve to fifteen I was trained to fight crime, and I did so with the anger built up over the years, and years of abuse. When I was fifteen, I was murdered by a madman, and blown to hell. Then I woke up here with all the memories of a life in this world."
Sarah looked at Jason and wanted to keep him hidden from the rest of the world. What she went through was terrible, but before she was taken, her parents loved her. Jason's Parents just threw him onto the street because they didn't want him.
Jason looked over at her. "What?" He asked when he saw the look on her face.
"I think I need a hug is all." She said.
Jason remembered hugs from this world. He didn't remember them from the other one. They were meant as a sign of comfort or greeting. Jason stood up, held his arms out, and let Sarah come into his embrace.
Sarah was shocked. Jason was only ten years old, but she could feel his strength. His smaller body had so much hidden power, strength, and potential.
After the hug they got up and went into the rest stop.
"Hello." Jason said when they got inside.
"Just a minute." an older woman said from the back. A few minutes later an old grandmotherly woman came out of the back. "How can I help you?"
"We are on our way to Mt. Hideaway."
"Oh good. You can visit the giant Pokémon."
"Giant... Pokémon?" Sarah gulped.
"Oh. Don't worry dear. The giant Onix and the giant Sandshrew won't hurt you. They may be big, but they are as gentle as an Eevee."
"Can we go and see them?" Jason asked.
"Of course, you can. Just be careful. Their bulk makes them dangerous."
"Okay how long will it take to get there"
"Maybe an hour."
"Okay. Could we stay here for the night?"
"Of course. Stay if you like. I'm Lidia by the way."
"Forgive us for not introducing ourselves." Sarah said. "I am Sarah, and this is Jason."
"It's very nice to meet young people such as yourselves."
With that, Jason and Sarah got on Jason's bike, and headed towards Mt. Hideaway.
One hour later.
Jason pulled into Mt. Hideaway, and saw two groups of trainers. One group was attacking a giant Onix, and the other was fighting a giant Sandshrew.
"HEY!" Jason yelled. "Get away from them!"
"Go get your own." One of the trainers said.
"NO! Get away from them!"
"Make us." Another trainer said.
"Sarah. Go help Sandshrew."
"Right."
"There are ten of us, and two of you. What are you going to be able to do?"
Jason.
Jason stood in front of the group of trainers. "I'll take you on! I'll take you all on!"
"You can't take on all of us at the same time." One of the trainers said.
Jason ran at the group and punched one trainer in the face. "I can take you on that way."
"That's not a trainer battle."
"What! You get an opponent who can fight back, and you turn tail and run. You're Pathetic."
"Don't call us pathetic."
"Why? You are. You choose to use sheer numbers rather than skill to try and take on an opponent."
"We will take you out, and then we will finish off that Onix." The lead trainer said.
"Fine, but I get to team up with Onix." Jason looked at Onix. "Is it okay if I team up with you to beat these guys? Then I'll take you to a Pokémon center to get healed."
"I'm fine with that."
A strong deep voice said.
Jason scanned Onix and saw his attacks. This was an unusual Onix. Not just because of its size, but also because of its moves. It knew two moves that Onix shouldn't normally know. "Onix. Use seed bomb. Focus on those Pokémon." Jason said pointing at a Meinfoo and a Mankey. "Elekid. I want you to focus on those three." Jason pointed at a Poliwrath, Slobro, and Krabby."
"Jason. I don't want to sound Petty or anything, but why are you making me fight three of them?"
"I know it's a lot to ask. Especially with you being so young, but please. I'll help you out."
"How can you help us?" Onix asked. "You are a Kreon."
Jason ran towards one of the trainers and punched them in the stomach before grabbing their head and Kneeing them in the face. "I can fight too."
Sarah
Sarah ran over to where the giant Sandshrew was trying to fight off five trainers.
"Ghastly. I want you to stop these trainers from attacking Sandshrew."
Ghastly went to each trainer and licked them before moving to their Pokémon.
Sarah walked up to the quivering Sandshrew. "It's okay. I'm not like them. I won't attack you."
Sandshrew looked up at her with questioning eyes.
Sarah held her hand out. "Do you want a trainer?"
Sandshrew put its clawed paw into Sarah's open hand.
"Can you help me, help Jason?"
Sandshrew nodded.
Jason
Jason kicked a third trainer out of the way. "Onix. Use Tail whip."
Onix swung his tail into three of the Pokémon sending them flying.
"Elekid. Use Thunder punch three times on the Poliwrath."
Elekid punched poliwrath three times in the knee causing him to fall to his knee.
"You tried to hurt my trainer. I can't forgive you for that." Elekid pulled both his arms back and punched Poliwrath with them.
"Onix. Use tail whip again. send them flying." Jason pointed at the last two trainers and their Pokémon.
Onix hit one of the trainers and the Pokémon. The second trainer ducked, and Jason ran up to him, jumped, grabbed his head, and pulled it into his knee before kicking the Trainer away.
Sarah
Sarah went over to help Jason, but when she got to him, he had already taken care of the trainers. "Jason. Are you all right?"
Jason nodded. "I'm fine."
"That's good. Where did you learn to do that?"
"Do what?"
"You just battled four Pokémon trainers while using two Pokémon, one of which isn't even yours."
"I just did."
"WOW."
"Let's get back to the rest stop before these guys come to."
Jason tossed a Pokéball at Onix. The ball wobbled three times before clicking shut. He returned Elekid and hopped on his bike.
Sarah got on the back of his bike, and they made their way back to the rest stop.
The rest stops
Lidia was sitting outside the rest stop when Jason and Sarah came driving up. "How did it go?" She asked.
"It was interesting." Sarah said. "There were two groups of people who were attacking a giant Onix and Sandshrew."
"Dang it." Lidia said. "They aren't meant to be caught. They are a subspecies who needs to be protected."
"Sue me later." Jason said with a cough. He took a Pokéball from his belt, and tossed it to the side, revealing the giant Onix he caught. "I need you to heal him."
"What have you done?" Lidia said exasperatedly.
"I caught him so I could heal him. I am planning to release him once he is fully healed."
Sarah released her giant Sandshrew. "I caught him because I didn't want to leave him all alone."
Lidia looked at them.
"I wish to travel with you Jason." Onix said. "Never in my life have I seen a Kreon fight quite like you."
"I think I know what he said." Lidia said. "He wants to travel with you."
"His words, not mine." Jason coughed.
"I would like to travel with Sarah." Sandshrew said. "I do not know why, but I feel safe with her." Sandshrew's voice was shy and timid.
"And I got the jist of that." Lidia said.
"Are you a Pokémon whisperer?" Jason asked.
"Not really. I can't talk to them, but I have a general understanding of what they say."
"Will you heal them?" Sarah asked.
"I can, but the first Pokémon center you get to, make sure you get them looked at."
"We will." Jason took a step forward and fell to one knee.
"Jason!" Sarah yelled.
"Move! Move!" Lidia shouted. She laid Jason on his back and said. "You foolish boy. Why didn't you say you were hurt?" She applied pressure to his ribs, and he sucked in air. "You stupid boy! You cracked some of your ribs."
"How did you do that?" Sarah asked.
"Never mind that!" Lidia scolded. "How were you able to make it back here without killing yourself." She threw out two Pokéball's releasing a Chansey and Audino. "Use Heal Pulse."
The two Pokémon saw Jason who looked a little pale and was beginning to sweat. Audino went to Jason's head, and Chansey went to Jason's feet. They both used Heal Pulse sending.
Chansey used sing sending Jason into Hypnos embrace.
"Let's get him inside." Lidia told Sarah before releasing her Mr. Mime. "Can you use Psychic to get him into the house?"
The Mr. Mime nodded, and levitated Jason into Lidia's house to the side of the rest stop.
Lidia directed Chansey and Audino to use Heal Pulse on Onix and Sandshrew.
The next morning.
Jason woke up the next morning in a bed he didn't recognize. He jumped out of the bed and saw that he had woken up Elekid and Sarah.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah. I just woke up in a strange place, and sort of freaked out."
"Don't worry Jason. We are here. We won't let anything bad happen to you."
"Thanks." Jason said.
The door opened, and Lidia walked in. "Good morning. Are you doing better this morning?"
"Yes. Thank you."
"Good. Because I would like to know one thing."
"What's that?"
"HOW! In Arceus name did you break your ribs?"
"I was fighting the trainers who were attacking Onix, and a Mankey punched me in the side."
"How long did you know that your ribs were broken?"
"I thought they were cracked until I started coughing. Then I knew they were broken because it hurt every time I took in a breath."
"How were you able to hide the pain."
"I have a very high pain tolerance, and I can force my pain behind mental walls."
"Final question."
"Go for it."
"Would you two likes to stay for breakfast?"
"Yes." Sarah said. "We would love to stay for breakfast."
After breakfast.
"Let Chansey and Audino use Heal Pulse one more time." Lidia said. "Just to be safe."
Jason nodded, and the two used a Heal Pulse which made him feel rejuvenated. "Thank you."
"You're most welcome. Please take care of yourselves, and the giant Pokémon."
"We will." Sarah said. "And thank you again for your hospitality."
The two trainers left the house.
When they got to Jason's motorbike Onix hopped out of his Pokéball. "I don't want to sound ungrateful, but when do we get nicknames?"
"Nicknames?" Jason asked.
"Yes. I would like a nickname. Some of the Pokémon back at Mt. Hideaway had nicknames, I would like one."
"Me too." Elekid said.
Jason thought long and hard. "How about Zeus for you." Jason nodded at Elekid.
"Zeus? As in the Pokerran God of lightning, and the King of the old Pokerran Gods?"
"Yeah."
"I like it."
"I'm glad, and for you." He pointed at Onix. "How about Hephaestus? After the old Pokerran God of Fire, metalwork, stone masonry, and the Forge?"
"I like it. It's a strong name."
"Then welcome to the team. Zeus and Hephaestus."
"What about me?" Sandshrew asked.
"You want a nickname?"
"Yeah."
"How about Gaia?"
"After the Titan who helped Pokerra grow into the world that it is?"
"Yeah."
"Okay."
"How about you Ghastly?" Sarah asked.
"No. I don't need a nickname, but I will become your blade."
Jason translated.
"Okay. If you don't want a nickname."
The two trainers returned their Pokémon and headed back the way to pallet town. When they got to the field where Jason had met Sarah, they saw that the bandits had moved on.
"Jason. They might be going to other places, kidnapping kids to sell for money. What are we going to do?"
"It looks like I need to forget what my mom said and do what Arceus said. I'll have to build a team to save this world."
AN: so, as you can see. This fic will be different from my other fic. In this fic Jason and his traveling companions will be fighting this new threat instead of team Rocket. This fic will have darker themes and will be more of a hardcore T rating. I will have him team up with Ash on occasion, but for the most part this will be Jason and his companions doing their own thing.
I hope you enjoy. Any questions, comments, concerns?