I hope all of you who have followed AKPM have done the same fore this fic.
Anyways, I'll continue this fic, I've gotten new inspiration from the Naruto fanfic community, many of their fics are around 300-800 k fics and I hope I can get their as well, but usually pokemon doesn't get to that many words because of the lack of things to write about, most good fics are about 1 region, like Kanto, or Johto, or sinnoh etc. and others are about a tournament, none so far have covered the entire series adequately(and I'm not attempting to write out each and every episode).
Anyways... I'm just telling you that my goal is to hit around 500k, and since each of my chapters are around 2.5k, you can expect a nice lump of 200 or so chapters:)
Before any of you people out their start accusing me of making Ash too powerful, it's still early, wait a couple of chapters(about twenty or so) before you say anything, anyways, enjoy the chapter!
About the Harem, it's sort of later in the story, since none of these characters have been introduced yet...
I'm thinking of a small-mid sized one, not the kind where you can't even remember who's in it so about 10 throughout the entire fic/sequels 2 in each region, for the kanto region I'll have Sabrina and Giselle, I haven't decided on the Johto region but I'm leaning towards at least Jasmine, I will accept suggestions, of course.
I replaced Riolu with Bellsprout because I wanted Ash to have only Kanto Pokemon at least for the Indigo League.
Anyways, for the Kanto Region I have decided on 8 pokemon for Ash of which 3 have already been revealed and only 2 are on his team in canon.I will accept suggestions for his 7 new pokemon in the Johto region.
I may decide to add in Riolu later on just because he's so awesome.
Chapter 2
Two is better than one
summary of last chapter: Ash started his adventure, beat Pewter gym, Charmander evolved.
Ash's pokemon/ known special techniques / known regular moves
Pikachu-Sand tornado/ Thunderbolt, Tackle, Growl
Charmeleon- Fireball, Purple Fire/ Flamethrower, Metal Claw
Bellsprout - unknown
P.S. Purple Fire is made when Charmeleon mixes the Blue Fire in Inferno with a flamethrower and surrounding himself with it, then charges at the opponent sort of like a fire attributed Giga Impact with the charging time beforehand instead of after.
Charmander smirked and surrounded itself with purple flames, then charged Onix with a speed that would make a Pidgeot jealous. The resulting explosion took out Onix and handed Ash and Charmander the victory.
Suddenly, Charmander glowed white and began to grow larger, eventually it gave out a new cry, "Charmeeeeel!"
"Charmander has evolved into Charmeleon!" Ash shouted in excitement. Meanwhile, Brock smiled, happy for the young trainer and his newly evolved Charmeleon, it had been a while since he had so much fun with his own pokemon. Brock silently vowed to play with his own Geodude and Onix a bit more.
Giving Ash a couple minutes to celebrate with his Charmeleon and let Ash return the lizard pokemon, Brock walked up to Ash and presented him with a small gray badge, "You earned this Ash, both you and your Charmeleon displayed your power, ability, and bond in your gym battle, I am proud to present to you... The Boulder Badge!"
"All right!" Ash cheered and gave his Pikachu a high five before exiting the gym towards the pokemon center to rest his Charmeleon up.
As Ash walked back to the Pokemon Center, his thoughts naturally began analyzing what had happened in the gym battle and what had gone wrong, 'I shouldn't have allowed Brock time to attack me like that, I should have struck sooner and taken out his Onix as quickly as possible' Then, he began devising new strategies in case he had to fight against a trainer with similar pokemon.
But, stuck in his musings, Ash failed to notice two men following him.
"The little brat must be weakened from the Gym Battle, now is the perfect time to show him our power and convince him to join Team Rocket!" One of the men whispered to the other.
"You're right, their aren't many people around at the moment, now would be the perfect time to strike."
Ash, still unaware of his Team Rocket tail, finally reached the Pokemon Center where he handed off his Charmeleon.
'I should probably call my mother, she'll want to know where I am'
"Excuse me Nurse Joy," Ash said looking towards the pink haired nurse, "Can you show me where the video phones are?"
"Oh!" Nurse Joy said, looking up from her computer screen, "It's right behind you to the left!"
Giving his thanks, Ash turned toward the Video Phone quickly dialing in his mother's number, which was picked up after two rings.
"Hello?" Delia said, her head appearing on the screen, "Ash? Is that you?"
"Of course, mom!" Ash said brightly, the week away from home had made him miss his mother.
"ASH SATOSHI KETCHUM!" came the sudden shout from the video phone that made the other inhabitants of the pokemon center look at our ten year old hero curiously.
"Y-yes?" Ash said, suddenly wanting to end the call quickly, while his eardrums were still intact.
"YOU HAVEN"T CALLED ME IN OVER A WEEK YOUNG MAN!" Delia continued her crusade against Ash's ears.
"Uh.." Ash was still recovering from the verbal assault.
"I WAS SO WORRIED ABOUT YOU!" Delia finished, panting from yelling at the top of her lungs.
"Anyways honey, you already got to Pewter?" Delia said in a nice and quiet voice making Ash and Pikachu facefault.
"Yeah mom, and guess what? I got my Boulder Badge!" Ash said excitedly brandishing his newly won gray badge like a trophy from Charles Goodwin.
"Why is it so ugly?" Delia said, making Ash and Pikachu(though nobody understood him) go in a long tirade about the unimportance of looks and what the badge signifies for the pokemon league.
Finally, Delia managed to interrupt Ash's long rant, "Have you seen Gary? I heard from Samuel that he set off the same day as you, since you guys have the same birthday."
Ash scrunched up his face in thought, "You know, I don't believe I've actually seen him yet"
Elsewhere somewhere in the Viridian Forest, Gary Oak sneezed heavily, "What the heck?" Gary asked himself.
As Ash finished his conversation with his mother, he shut off the video phone and stopped by the front desk to collect Charmeleon's pokeball before heading outside.
As soon as he stepped outside the Pokemon Center Door, a Smoke Bomb suddenly appeared out of nowhere and exploded surrounding him with black smoke that obscured everything from vision.
~One Rocket Motto later~
"Team Rocket?" Ash asked, "I've heard of you guys from my mother, I heard that you guys are a gang of crooks that steal other people's pokemon and sell them on the global black market!"
"Thats right," The man on the left said with an evil smirk, "You interested in joining?"
"Hell no," Ash said, "now stop wasting my time!"
The other man with an identical smirk shoved him back, "I don't think so, if you're not interested in joining, maybe we'll just take your pokemon!"
"Arbok, to battle"
"Magneton, your up!"
The called pokemon appeared in a white flash onto the battlefield leering viciously at the young boy and his Pikachu.
"Charmeleon, Pikachu, I choose you guys!"
"Arbok, start things up with Acid Spray!" The first Rocket said, "Magneton, Zap Cannon!"
The two attacks were quickly fired at Charmeleon and Pikachu, who barely divided out of the way of what would have been a crippling attack.
"Charmeleon, Flamethrower at Magneton!"
"Arbok, Dig on Pikachu" as the other Rocket said, "Magneton protect!"
Arbok dug into the ground and crashed into Pikachu dealing supereffective damage while the Flamethrower was rendered useless by Magneton.
"Arbok Poison Sting on Charmeleon/Magneton Thunderbolt at Charmeleon!"
"Charmeleon, counter with Inferno!"
"Pika-" But Ash was unable to finish his command before the dual attacks from Arbok and Magneton overpowered Charmeleon's Inferno and exploded upon contact with the poor lizard.
"Pikachu, cover Charmeleon with a Thunderbolt at Arbok!"
"Arbok Dig to dodge/Magneton Flash Cannon at Pikachu!"
The thunderbolt was narrowly dodged by Arbok as the big Cobra dug underground. Magneton formed a sphere of Steel energy and quickly fired it at Pikachu, which hit the electric mouse for considerable damage.
But Ash's pokemon had been trained for stamina and they struggled back to their feet before giving a cry of anger.
"Magneton thunder wave on Charmeleon/Arbok come up on Charmeleon!"
"Charmander jump up!" The lizard pokemon quickly jumped into the air, Arbok came out of the ground to leap at Charmeleon, but was stopped by the Thunder Wave from Magneton.
"Pikachu, finish Arbok off with a Sand Tornado!"
PIkachu started spinning, creating a fairly good sized Sand Tornado, before sending it at Arbok, who was still paralyzed from Magneton's attack.
"Charmeleon, Purple Fire at Magneton!"
Charmeleon charged up the powerful attack before surrounding himself with purple flames and charging at Magneton intent on KO'ing the part steel typed pokemon.
Meanwhile, the Sand Tornado hit Arbok, making the snake pokemon cry in pain as it was flung a good 5 feet back.
"Magneton, hit Pikachu with a Flash Cannon!" Magneton, ignoring Charmeleon hit Pikachu one more time with the ball of Steel energy effectively putting Pikachu down before Charmeleon crashed into it, also KO'ing the Steel/Electric Pokemon.
"Alright," Ash said, "Only Arbok left," But as he turned around to find the Snake, he couldn't see it!
"Arbok come up and finish Charmeleon off with a Gunk Shot, full power!"
Arbok came out of the dig and crashed into Charmeleon, dealing supereffective damage and stunning the lizard before launching a ball of green poisonous slime at Charmeleon, which exploded on contact ko'ing the pokemon.
Ash, hastily reached for the pokeball containing Bellsprout, but to no avail as Arbok suddenly wrapped itself around Ash, hissing menacingly.
"Heh heh" The rocket said, "Now we'll be taking your Charmeleon and Pikachu to the warehouse down the street, if you change your mind and join Team Rocket, maybe we'll give'em back to ya!"
The scooped up Charmeleon and Pikachu before returning both pokemon and retreating, but they didn't get far.
"Graveler use Smack Down!"
A larger boulder(compared to Geodude) crashed into the ground near one of the Rocket members forcing him to drop his pokemon in shock, but as the dust cleared, the grunts had disappeared, but luckily, in their haste to get away, the Rockets failed to retrieve Charmeleon, who they had dropped.
Ash turned to see who had saved him, but his jaw dropped when he saw, "Brock?"
Alright, that's the end of the chapter, I hope you readers liked it, I finished it the hour before school starts and I will hopefully be able to update once again this afternoon. As always, please review, I will consider suggestions