Chapter 2: Charmander and the Floating Rock
"Char! Char!" the starter cried with joy as it ran toward Gordon and hugged his leg. "Hi, Charmander, Gordon said as he picked up Charmander. "Dad, look, isn't it awesome!" "Yeah, he already seems to like you!" Gordon's father responded with a huge smile. "Hey Gordon, I want you to have this." Gordon's father bent down on one knee and gave Gordon a Kalos-Edition Pokédex. "I got this for you while visiting Kalos. I thought it might come in handy." "Wow, thanks dad! I love it!" Gordon spun around and pointed it at Charmander.
"Charmander, the Lizard Pokémon. From the time it is born, a flame burns at the tip of its tail. Its life would end if the flame were to go out."
"I also want you to have these." Gordon's Father dug his hand into his bag and pulled out two stones. One was a rainbow colored rock with a pattern in the core. It seemed to glow in Gordon's hand. The other stone was an orange color, with a yellow and red streak in them Gordon was speechless. "Is thi-this a… a?" "Yes it is." His father replied. "It is one of Charizard's two mega stones, and that is your key stone." Gordon, mouth hanging open, looked from the stones to his father's face, and hugged his dad harder than he had ever hugged anyone before. "ThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYou!" He shouted as Charmander seemed excited by all of the commotion going on.
Suddenly, Charmander heard something. He turned his head and saw something, or was it two things, on the edge of the sea, a couple of yards out. Whatever it was, it was alive, and it was in trouble. "Char, Charmander!" Charmander cried as it started wobbling over to the creature. "Charmander, where are you going?" Gordon asked, but then he looked up and saw what Charmander saw, the same thing he had seen floating in Route 21 earlier. "Oh yeah, Dad, come and see this, there's something floating in the water!" They ran over to the shoreline, "Gary, stay here, I'll take Gordon with me on Lapras" Ash said. He threw a dive ball into the sea and Ash's Lapras appeared, very happy to see Ash and Gordon. "C'mon Charmander," Gordon said, lifting Charmander up onto Lapras then climbing onto the Transport Pokémon. Ash climbed on, and then Lapras started swimming toward the object. Suddenly, a Magikarp appeared! But this was a different Magikarp. It only had one eye. "Dad, what do we do?" Gordon said frantically, as he had never been a Pokémon battle before. "It's easy, watch." His father responded. "Lapras, use hyper beam." Lapras opened its mouth and a beam of blinding white energy shot from it, sending the one-eyed Magikarp flying into the distance, and it only stopped when it hit the sand of Cinnabar Island, where it just flopped around until a scientist picked it up, examined it's one eye, and captured it with a net ball.
"Dad, look, there's the thing! What is it?" As they swam closer, they saw a Lanturn carrying a Pokémon Gordon had never seen before. "Dad, what's that Pokémon on top of Lanturn?" It looked like a tiny statue about the size of Gordon, made out of dark blue stone. Gordon held his Pokédex out toward the Pokémon.
"Golett, the Automation Pokémon. Ancient science fashioned this Pokémon from clay. It's been active for thousands of years."
"Huh, I wonder what a Pokémon from Unova is doing in Kanto," Ash said to Gordon. "Anyway, it looks extremely sick. Let's take it to the Pokémon lab. Lanturn, do you want to come with us, too?" "Turn-Lanturn!" It said, shaking its head yes with a worried look on its face. "Then let's go!" Gordon said. "Char!" Charmander agreed.