Whew, so I didn't get any reviews so far on chapter 2(at least at the time of writing this message). I do appreciate reviews like any author out their bar a few rare cases. Hopefully nobody was dissatisfied by the lack of content in the last chapter, but that can't be helped, I had only an hour before I had to go to school and I don't like coming back to chapters, hopefully this chapter will be longer as I have 2 hours before I gotta do some homework.
And Lightraypearlshipper, I finally have something you don't know, Rock doesn't actually resist Electric attacks, contrary to popular belief, electric attacks still hit supereffectively agains Aerodactyl and Kabutops etc.
Brief Summary of last few chapters- Ash started journey, training, got pewter city gym badge, Charmander evolved, attacked by Team Rocket, PIkachu was captured (Oh NO!) bellsprout hasn't fought a battle yet(until this chapter).
Remember, no limit to pokemon level
PIkachu lv. 19- Sand Tornado, Thunderbolt, Tackle, Growl
Charmeleon lv. 24 - Fireball, Purple Fire, Flamethrower, Metal Claw
Bellsprout - no information available
Chapter 3
Previously on: AKPM rewrite.
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?"
"No" The man, who turns out is NOT Brock said, "my name is Flint, I'm a wandering pokemon trainer."
Ash scratched the back of his head sheepishly, "Oh, sorry about that, it's just that you remind me of someone that I know."
"Brock Stone? The Gym Leader of this city?" The man asked with a knowing smile, "I get that a lot."
"Huh," Ash said, still trying to compare the strange man, now dubbed as "Flint" to the squinty eyed Gym Leader.
"Hello?" Flint waved his hand in front of Ash, annoyed, "Don't you have a kidnapped pokemon to worry about?"
"Oh yeah!" Ash said, preparing to charge towards the warehouse where the two Rockets had disappeared to. "I gotta go rescue Pikachu!"
But Flint grabbed onto Ash's arm, forcing the boy to stay where he was and listen to what he was about to say.
"I know you are frustrated and want to rescue your precious pokemon, but those Rockets that you just fought are just too strong for you to defeat them at the moment."
"But their pokemon are injured and I still have Bellsprout right here!" Ash protested.
"They no doubt have already healed their pokemon with potions and revives, and I know for a fact that Arbok and Magneton are not the only pokemon that they have."
"Then what am I supposed to do?" Ash moaned, his hopes of rescuing his kidnapped pokemon getting smaller and smaller as each new word came out of Flint's mouth.
"I will help you train your pokemon, enough that by the end of the training, your Charmeleon and Bellsprout will be able to take on the Rocket's Pokemon, and when your pokemon finish my training, I will personally come with you to ensure that you get Pikachu back."
Ash looked Flint up and down, doubt clearly in his eyes, "How can I be sure that you will be able to help me, you certainly don't look like much."
Flint's eyes twitched before he said, "I used be the Gym Leader of this city before Brock and you can be sure that through my 15 years of leading Pewter City, I have a tough training regiment!"
"Well..." Ash said, "I guess it couldn't hurt to subject my pokemon to somebody else's training now and then."
"Good choice, young man" Flint nodded, satisfied that he had gotten his point across to Ash.
Ash quickly had Nurse Joy heal up his Charmeleon.
'Man, that woman is a Miracle Worker!' Ash said shocked at how quickly Charmeleon's injuries had been healed by the miracle that was Nurse Joy.
Flint, if he was surprised at Charmeleon's quick recovery, certainly didn't show it as he led Ash through a small dirt path in the forest.
'Where is that crazy old man leading me?' Ash thought to himself at he looked around at the trees uncertainly.
"Nearly there!" Flint said, who seemed have heard Ash's doubtful thought.
After a couple more minutes of walking, out of the trees a small shack with a clearing appeared seemingly out of nowhere.
Ash glanced at the run-down cottage in surprise 'that's where he plans on training my pokemon?'
Flint saw the look in Ash's eyes and muttered reassuringly, "Now it may not look like much, but this shack is where I trained my pokemon to become top-notch fighters!"
Ash remembered the powerful Graveler that had saved Charmeleon from meeting the same fate as his PIkachu as he gave a hesitant nod towards Flint.
"Now, young man, you may let out your pokemon." Flint said, grabbing three pokemon of his own.
Ash flicked his wrist and Bellsprout and Charmeleon appeared on the clearing ground looking around uncertainly.
Then Flint also let his pokemon out. The first pokemon to appear was the Graveler that Flint has used before, afterwards came a tall steel snake pokemon that Ash recognized as the evolved form of Onix, Steelix. Then finally came the shocker, A tall man-sized pokemon appeared with scythes for hands, who Ash immediately recognized as Kabutops, a species that was thought to be extinct.
"Wow a Kabutops!" Ash said, "How'd you get one?"
Flint raised an eyebrow and asked, "Do you really think we have time for story telling, or do you want me to start training your pokemon?"
"Training sir," Ash said, saluting Flint like a military officer saluting his lieutenant.
"That's more like it," Flint nodded appreciatively at his young pupil. "First, we'll start with power training, but unlike any that your pokemon have done before!"
"Bellsprout, Charmeleon, I want both of you to wear these weights!" Flint brought out a dark object that seemed to be attachable.
Bellsprout and Charmeleon both put the weights on after a look of hesitation and both pokemon winced under the extra weight that had been put on them.
"Each of your pokemon have put on an extra 10 kilograms, but after my training is over, I hope that each of your pokemon will be able to do the training with 200 kilograms on!"
Ash, Bellsprout, and Charmeleon all looked at Flint like he was crazy, 200 kilograms was 10 times heavier than the either one of the pokemon's weight, which would be equivalent to Charmeleon and Bellsprout training in 10x gravity!
And so the crazy old man's training begun...
3 Days Later:
The past few days had been hell on Earth for Ash's pokemon, everyday the two had woken up at the crack of dawn, then went hiking up steep hills to a river with a very fast current. Ignoring Charmeleon's fear of water, Flint had made the two pokemon do evasive training in the form of Graveler and Steelix throwing their neverending supply of rocks at the two smaller pokemon, expecting them to dodge the rocks even in the fast current with their weights on. Afterwards, they were expected to carry the heavy rocks back on shore so that Graveler and Steelix could use them as target practice again.
Afterwards, the two would have a quick breakfast before taking a 10 mile sprint(literally) being chased by a giant snake and a scythe monster thingie(Kabutops and Steelix). Not giving the two poor pokemon any time to recover, Flint added more weights on them and had them spar with an opponent, Bellsprout with Steelix, Kabutops with Charmeleon. After the two had received a beating, the pokemon had worked on target training and meditation.
After Lunch things got even worse, Bellsprout and Charmeleon took turns taking supereffective hits from Kabutops to work on their stamina as well as doing other cardio exercises... need I say more?
Anyways, by the end of the 3 days both Charmeleon and Bellsprout felt like they could take on a legendary!
The morning of the fourth day, Ash and Flint both woke up earlier than usual and blew their whistles as loudly as humanly possible. Bellsprout and Charmeleon both woke up with a start, unused to waking up THAT early.
"Alright you two, your training with me is over!" Immediately Charmeleon and Bellsprout started rejoicing but...
"Don't celebrate, because I'm sure Ash will continue your training as I let him borrow my weight sets upward to 1000 kilograms.
Both Bellsprout and Charmeleon felt cold sweat going down their backs as well as the anticipation of being that strong.
"But I have halted your training due to the fact that we can't hold off rescuing Pikachu any longer, the Rockets had given Ash 5 days before they would take off with Pikachu forever and we intend to strike a day early to surprise them!"
Both Charmeleon and Bellsprout looked very determined to rescue their capture comrade and leader Pikachu, neither of them could wait to show Pikachu just how strong they had gotten.
And so the two pokemon were returned into their pokeballs while Ash and Flint began the long trek to the warehouse...
Begin: Operation Rat Retrieval
"Ash in position, over!"
Flint sweatdropped as he heard Ash through the walkie-talkie that he had given the boy, the poor guy had actually given the rescue a name and he was acting like he was a pokemon ranger or something, and even rangers didn't talk like that.
"Oooook?" Flint said, "now, here's the plan, I will create distraction while you secure(has anybody else noticed that secure is a rearrangement of rescue?) Pikachu, then you will sneak up behind the Rockets and we will hopefully be able to take them out and send them to Officer Jenny's doorstep!
"Sounds like a good plan to me!" Ash said cheerfully, "I'm ready for this!"
Flint then walked calmly up to the front of the warehouse and let out his trusty Steelix, who was known for being quite loud. "Steelix, give them your best Dragonbreath and blow a hole through the building!"
Steelix complied as a stream of Green energy shot from its mouth and exploded upon contact with the warehouse.
Inside the compound, Pikachu was stuck in an electric proof case that restricted all movement.
The taller of the two Rockets cursed when he saw what the camera was showing him, "Hey partner, apparently this dude with a Steelix is blowing up the building!"
"Me and Magneton'll teach the guy not to mess with Team Rocket!" The shorter Rocket said to this partner before grabbing his pokeballs and heading out to face Flint.
"Meanwhile the other Rocket settled into his seat taking a swig of beer from the glass in his hand.
Meanwhile, Ash crept through the back entrance, the place seemed deserted and smelled of potent alcohol, he spied Pikachu trapped in a seemingly electric proof case judging by the fact that none of PIkachu's electric attacks seemed to affect the thing.
"Pikachu!" Ash cried, alerting Pikachu of his presence, but instead of being happy to see his trainer, PIkachu pointed, seemingly panicked at Ash.
"It's ok, PIkachu," Ash said, "It's only me!"
But the words didn't seem to soothe the electric mouse pokemon as Pikachu kept on jabbing his finger at the glass case.
Then it hit him, Pikachu hadn't been pointing AT him, he had been pointing BEHIND him!
With the new revelation, Ash spun around pokeball in hand, but it was too late, Arbok, who had been behind Ash wrapped itself onto Ash knocking his pokeball containing Charmeleon away, the last thing Ash saw was Arbok baring it's fangs before sinking them into the flesh on his arm.
Meanwhile, The other Rocket had found Flint, who was currently recking havoc among the warehouse destroying objects with Steelix's Dragonbreath, knocking over stuff with Steelix's Iron tail, and in general causing general mayhem.
"Well, well, well," The shorter Rocket said, "If it isn't Flint Stone!"
"Derek?" Flint said, his eyes widened, "You're working for Team Rocket?"
The newly revealed Derek gave Flint an evil smirk, "That's right, Team Rocket gave me an offer that I was just too sweat to resist, although I didn't foresee fighting you, of all people, I am unworried, I was always the stronger of the both of us.
"We'll see about that," Flint said, gritting his teeth, "Graveler, Kabutops, get ready to rumble!"
Derek gave Flint a tight smile before letting out his own pokemon, "Magneton, Jynx, Weezing, let's have a little reunion!"
"Steelix Dragonbreath on Weezing, Graveler Rollout at Jynx, Kabutops give them some cover fire in the form of Ancient Power!"
"Magneton knock Graveler off course with Flash Cannon, Jynx repel the ancient power with Psychic, Weezing Protect!"
Magneton charged up a sphere of steel power and launched it at Graveler resulting in an explosion, Steelix's Dragonbreath was nulled by a green barrier put up by Weezing, while Kabutops Ancient Power was thrown off by Jynx's Psychic.
It seemed to be a perfect counter by Derek, but unfortunately for the Rocket, his calculations were off and he underestimated Flint's power, Magneton's flash cannon was unable to throw Graveler off course as the Rock pokemon crashed into Jynx with the supereffective Rollout.
"What?" Derek said, "impossible, flash cannon is a steel type move, it should have almost been enough to take out that stupid oversized rock!"
Flint wasted no time pressing his advantage, previous experience battling with and against Derek told him that Magneton was the powerhouse that struck the opponents with powerful attacks while Jynx redirected ranged attacks with psychic, and Weezing was the support of the team, boasting a variety of attacks that made life difficult for his opponent, and since his pokemon were pretty good at defense, Magneton wasn't the main issue, and since Jynx was already weakened, it was an easy target.
"Steelix Flash Cannon at Jynx, Kabutops Aqua Jet at Jynx, Graveler Smack Down at Weezing!"
"Magneton Zap Cannon at Kabutops, Jynx soften the damage with Blizzard, Weezing use smog to cover Jynx!"
Unfortunately for Derek, Zap Cannon missed the speedy Kabutops as the Shellfish pokemon crashed into Jynx even before the quirky psychic/ice pokemon could let out a Blizzard, and when it did, it barely softened the powerful Flash cannon that plowed through and struck Jynx for a supereffective attack. Weezing was rendered useless and was knocked out when Graveler's powerful Smack Down landed a critical hit and KO'd the Poison type. Jynx was also in the same state as a combination of two supereffective attacks and Kabutops's Aqua Jet packed enough punch to take Jynx out for the count.
Now only Magneton was left and Derek paled at the thought of fighting 1 v 3.
"Graveler Rollout, Steelix Dragonbreath, Kabutops Night Slash!"
The three powerful attacks, although resisted by Magneton, were able to take Magneton out because of it's naturally frail body, which was definitely not made to take hits.
Derek sank his head in defeat unable to process being so quickly and successfully defeated by someone who he had thought was beneath him!
Flint wasted no time having Kabutops knocking Derek unconscious and admired his handiwork. But then he realized that Ash wasn't out yet, "Shit," Flint cursed, "Weren't their two Rockets?"
And their you have it folks, chapter three of AKPM the rewrite, I hoped you liked it, Will flint get to Ash in time to save him from the evil clutches of the the Taller still to be named Team Rocket Member, find out next time on Ash Ketchum, Pokemon Master, the rewrite.