Professor Oak's Laboratory, Pallet Town, Kanto
"Good afternoon David, how are you? I hope the recent promotion to Professor isn't too stressful."
"Not to worry Samuel. Sure, it may be a bit stressful, but that's just from the shock of learning about your boss was the world's worst criminal."
"I guess that would be true. I-" Professor Samuel Oak was on the videophone with the newly promoted Rorian Professor David, who was the former assistant to the previous Professor, Professor Cypress, before he was interrupted by the knocking of a door and his own assistant, Tracey Sketchit, poked his head in. "Professor, I'm sorry to interrupt your call, but Ms. Ketchum has arrived at the door along with a guest."
"It's all right Samuel, better to greet an old student than to waste time with a new one. I'll just call later, the league still needs my advice." David replied.
"Well, I hope it will be soon. I'll see you later then." Oak then switched off his videophone, while on the other side, David was about to do the same when an notification popped up. "Uh?" he wondered out loud.
"Ah Serena, it has been a long time! You certainly have grown since the last time I saw you." Upon entering the living room, Oak had recognized Serena immediately and was showering her with compliments, which greatly embarrassed her.
"Now Samuel, I didn't bring Serena here just so she faints from awkwardness." Delia sternly spoke up. Oak immediately was embarrassed, before quickly retreating back to the door. "Now let's try it again shall we? Hello there Serena. What brings you to-" and before he could finish, a massive explosion occurred outside the lab.
"Not again." Was the only thing Serena could say before Tracey rushed in in a panic. "Professor! The Pokemon from the desert area are fighting, and they have knocked out Bulbasaur! I've sent Scizor to handle them while I ran back here, and I don't know how much longer can it last!"
"Oh my, that is serious. We should probably take a look." Delia said worriedly. Oak nodded, before rushing out though the door with Tracey on his heels, Delia and Serena following close by.
"Sci...Scizor Zor!" Tracey's Scizor was blocking a Bone Club from a Marowak, which he forced the bone away before hitting the Bone Keeper Pokemon with Razor Wind. As the Marowak fell back, two Trapinch came toward and used Earth Power, which Scizor barely dodged. As soon as it landed, a Hippowdon and a Gliscor ambushed him from behind and began brutally attacking him with Fire Fang and Sky Uppercut.
As the fight continued, the humans arrived to see the mess: several ground type Pokemon were either fighting with each other, or with Scizor.
'Tracey didn't you say Bulbasaur was also here?' Oak asked, the concern growing on his face.
'Yes, professor. I-wait, over there!' Tracey pointed to a lone tree within the desert: Bulbsaur was there fending off some Nincada and Gligar, but the Seed Pokemon was clearly on its last legs: It clearly had sustained a lot of damage and was about to collapse.
'We need to get Bulbasaur out of there!' Delia yelled worryingly.
"Dragonite, help us out!" Oak said as he threw a Pokeball, and a massive yellow dragon with small wings came out.
"Braxien, come out too!" Serena called before throwing her own. A bipedal cream colored fox with a stick in its tail emerged.
"Get Bulbasaur back here in one piece!' Both Pokemon nodded, before Braxien climbed onto Dragonite's back as it took off.
"Pancham, Sylveon, you too!" Serena cried as she send out her remaining Pokemon. A small panda with a leaf in its mouth wearing a pair of sunglasses as well as a pink Pokemon with flowing ribbon-like feelers emerged.
"Mimey, I choose you!" Delia called as she tossed a Heal Ball. Mimey appeared and flinched at the sight of the battle.
"Pancham, use Stone Edge on the Hippowdon, Sylveon use Swift on Gliscor!" Serena called. "Mimey use Psychic on the remaining Pokemon and split them apart!" Delia commanded.
Pancham struck his fist on the ground as multiple glowing blue pillars of rock emerged from the ground and struck Hippowdon. At the same time, Sylveon glowed white and unleashed several white stars to the Gliscor, who fell back. But before anyone could do anything else, Mimey's eyes glowed blue as he unleashed a wave of blue Psychic energy and levitated the rest who were hit off the ground.
Meanwhile, Dragonite was flying towards Bulbsaur as some of the Gligar noticed this and rushed towards the two with Aerial Ace. Dragonite swiftly dodged them as Braxien unleashed Flamethrower towards the Gligar, who fell back on the ground. Dragonite then used Dragon Claw on the ground as Braxien jumped off when he crash landed on his back before getting up and blasting them all with Hyper Beam. Braxien rushed towards Bulbasaur, who by that time finally fainted. She carefully picked him up before running back towards Dragonite, who was throwing one of the Nincada away.
As they took off, a burst of light distracted them as Braxien saw a swarm of Vibrava approaching. She fearfully warned Dragonite, who responded with another Hyper Beam that knocked out all but one Vibrava with unusual coloring. Braxien attempted to seize the chance to use Fire Blast, but the Shiny Vibrava responded with Rock Slide, the hurled rocks forcing Dragonite to abandon the fight and flee.
"Well, we have Marowak, Trapinch, Hippowdon, Gliscor, all ground types." Tracey observed.
"I wonder why they suddenly started fighting..." Oak wondered. He began to come up with several theories when a roar of panic entered his mind.
"Grarr!" Dragonite was dodging the Vibrava's Rock Slide and Boomburst, while Braxien desperately clung onto his back with Bulbasaur under her arm.
"BRAXIEN!" Serena shouted, before turning to the Pancham and Sylveon.
"Stone Edge and Swift!" she cried as the Pokemon redid their attacks. While they did manage to hit the Vibrava, the blast also knocked Dragonite off balance. He fell to the ground as Braxien and Bulbasaur rolled off.
"Samuel, perhaps that Vibrava is the source of our problems. Maybe they were training a bit too harsh and Bulbasaur wanted to cut it." Delia suggested while the hippowdon and Gliscor nodded, confirming her suspicions.
'Well if a battle is what you want, you have one-' Serena didn't even finish when the Vibrava unleashed another Rock Slide, directly at the group.
"NO!" Oak and Delia rushed towards Serena and covered her while the remaining Pokemon took a defensive stance...
"KROOKA!" A massive, bipedal crimson crocodile with black spikes on its back and tail suddenly burst out from the ground, which it unleashed a powerful Stone Edge that intercepted the Rock Slide. As the dust cleared, Serena could see a pair of dark sunglasses resting on its eyes.
"Dile." The Krookodile calmly said, taunting the Vibration Pokemon. The Vibrava, seeing a new challenger, was pumped. It burst into a blue light as it grew larger, developed a pair of wings, and also a pair of red covers over it's eyes.
"Professor, it couldn't-" Tracey began, but Oak simply put a hand up.
"We just need Ash's Krookodile to do his work. Even if it is a Flygon, I'm positive he can handle it."
The Flygon now rushed towards Krookodile while immersing its fist with fire. Krookodile jumped as he dodged the incoming Fire Punch and used Dragon Claw. The attack hit Flygon directly in the chest as it tried to recover and use Rock Slide. Krookodile responded with a quicker Stone Edge followed by a Dragon Claw. The Mystic Pokemon gave a shriek before dropping into the sand as Krookodile left with a Dig. The humans then slowly approached Flygon, before it roared and took off.
"Well that's taken care off, let's go to somewhere less...violent-" Serena began, before Pancham suddenly gave out a cry and hopped into the same hole Krookodile had made.
"Pancham!" Serena yelled. She rushed to the hole only to see nothing.
"Why did he leave like that?" Serena wondered out loud before Oak put a reassuring hand on her shoulder.
"Not to worry Serena, I am confident that we can find Pancham if we look for his role model." "Role model? Do you mean, that Krookodile?" Serena asked.
"Indeed. Krookodile was one of Ash's strongest Pokemon during his journey in the Unova region."
Delia added.
Krookodile couldn't believe what was happening. Moments ago he was just relaxing in his sand pit when he was awoken by a series of explosions. Deciding to take matters into his own hands, he dug towards the source, which he then sensed the Vibrava attacking. But after defeating it and burrowing back, he was followed by a Pancham who was now begging him to train him.
"Krooka." he asked, wishing to know why this little youngster wanted to be trained by him.
"Pancham Pan Pan Chum. Pancham!" It happily repiled, telling him how he was awstruck by his own raw power and wanted to be as strong as he was.
"Krookodile. Dile." Krookodile responded, telling him his power was from many months of training and battling different opponents and was not something he could easily teach.
"Pancham Pancham. Pan Pan Cham!" the Playful pokemon cried. The situation was getting really awkward as Krookodile didn't want the responsibility as a mentor. Just then, Pancham felt itself being lifted as it turned and noticed Serena behind him.
"Pancham, you really scared me back there. You shouldn't run off like that again okay?" Hearing this, Pancham gave a sigh of regret as Krookodile chuckled.
"Perhaps you two should have a battle instead." A voice came from behind. Serena turned to see Oak come up.
"Battle him?" Serena asked while Pancham's eyes sparkled before fighting to get out of her arms.
"Krookodile." Krookodile remarked as the Pancham reminded him of his past days. The determination he had to battle against, and for Ash.