The Champion of Arceus Chapter 3
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon
Viridian City, The Egg and Evolution.
Ash ran to the Pokémon center to make sure both Pikachu and his Spearow were ok, on his way to the Pokémon center he heard an announcement that spread throughout the entire city.
"Attention citizens of Viridian City, we have reports of possible Pokemon thieves in the area. Be on the lookout for any suspicious looking people." The announcement boomed.
'Thieves? What would thieves have to do in Viridian' he thought keeping his senses on alert if he spotted anyone suspicious looking. He continued his way to the Center but made sure all his Pokeballs were secured this way he could make sure they weren't taken from him. If he lost any of his Pokemon he would be devastated.
"Hey you, hold it right there!" Turning around Ash saw a young woman with turquoise colored hair and a police uniform on. "I haven't seen you around here before. Since some thieves have been spotted in the area I'm afraid I'll need to see your id," she demanded.
In a hurry he quickly pulled out his Pokedex and showed it to her.
I'm Dexter. A Pokedex programmed by Professor Oak for trainer Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town. My function is to provide trainer Ash with advice on Pokémon and their training. If lost I cannot be replaced. It finished as it showed a picture of Ash on the screen.
"Well your id is confirmed. Sorry about that. We've just been a little on edge because of these thieves." She spoke apologetically. "No problem I was just heading to the Pokémon center because my Pokemon were hurt by a flock of Spearow." At this she perked up.
"I'm Officer Jenny and as an apology I can give you a ride to the center if you'd like" she asked. Quickly making up his mind he responded. "That would be great thank you." Little did he know he would regret that decision.
A few minutes later another young woman with light red hair wearing a nurse outfit heard the distant sound of an engine growing louder and louder, followed by a person's screams.
All of a sudden a motorcycle comes sliding into the center stopping at the front desk.
"Officer Jenny what have I told you about storming in the center on your motorcycle. We have a drive way you know." The young nurse scolded.
"Sorry about that, sometimes I get carried away." Jenny said sheepishly.
"I was just dropping of a trainer who wanted to get there Pokémon checked in." she finished pointing at Ash and Pikachu who seemed to be about to throw up and die.
"Speed demon," Ash murmured while Pikachu gave a sick cha of agreement.
"That Pikachu doesn't look so good. Why don't you hand me your Pokémon, I'll make sure there up to full health in no time," she spoke sincerely. Ash handed her his Pokémon before thanking Officer Jenny as she left the center.
The Nurse placed Pikachu on stretcher brought in by her second Chansey and carting Ash's Pokémon into the back room. Ash then looked around the lobby before spotting the video phones nearby.
"Guess I can call home to tell Mom I got here alright and tell Professor Oak about seeing Ho-Oh."
A few minutes later Ash finished talking to his mother, who was very proud of him for getting to Viridian City so quickly, and was about to call the Professor Oak when the phone rang.
"Ring! Ring! Ring!Ring! Ring! Ring! Phone Call! Phone Call!"
He ran over to the receiver and pressed the button to accept the phone call.
"Um Hello? This is Ash Ketchum speaking. May I ask whose calling?"
"Here, I'm over here! Ash it's Professor Oak. Don't you recognize me?"
Ash turned to see a panel open up on the wall with the carvings depicting the legendary Pokémon of Kanto to reveal a large screen showing the back of Professor Oaks head. Ash chuckled at the Professor's mistake.
"Sorry Professor, but it's kind hard to recognize someone from the back of their head."
Oak turned toward the camera and was surprised when he noticed Ash's face staring through the other monitor as well.
"Eh? Oops wrong camera!"
He typed a few commands into his keyboard before the screen changed over to reveal a close up of Professor Oak's face.
"Hello Ash, i just got off the phone with your mother and she tells me that you've made it to the Pokémon Center in Viridian City is that correct?"
Ash raised an eyebrow at the old professor.
"Professor If I wasn't here, then how could I be talking to you?"
The old professor blinked for a moment before having the decency to look sheepish.
"Oh uh right. I guess you have a point there. Well anyway, Gary and the others managed to get there without a problem. Truthfully, I'm surprised you got there so quickly since it took your father at least four days to get there. Not that I had any doubts that you would of course. After all, I bet my grandson a million dollars that you would catch at least one new Pokémon by the time you reached Viridian City."
Ash grinned when he heard that. Looks like Gary was still underestimating him.
"Well it looks like your one million dollars richer Professor, I was able to catch a Spearow on my way to Viridian City."
"That's great news Ash it looks like Gary owes me one million dollars."
Ash then remembered What he wanted to talk to the professor about.
"Professor, I know this is going to sound unbelievable, but I was actually about to call you about something."
Oak blinked a little before responding.
"Oh? So what is it you wish to speak to me about."
Ash grinned as told the Professor about his first day as a trainer. Then, he reached the part of the story that he had been working towards and his face became serious.
"...Then, when we reached the outskirts of Viridian we saw a rainbow left over from the storm. At first we thought nothing of it until we saw something amazing...Professor, when we looked up we saw a large phoenix-looking Pokémon flying over the rainbow."
He pulled out the rainbow wing from his pocket and presented it toward the monitor. Prof. Oak looked puzzled for a moment before he recognized what Ash was holding. The old man gasped as Ash finished his story.
"The Pokemon was the Legendary Rainbow Pokémon, Ho-Oh."
Oak just stood looking at the screen in utter shock. He had just been told that one of his favorite trainers had seen a Pokémon that hadn't been sighted in over 300 years! And what's more was that the trainer had proof of the encounter!
"Ash I must say that was an amazing story. You are extremely lucky my boy! Ho-oh has not been seen by a human in over 3 centuries! Oh this is so exciting, You must send me the data from your Pokédex!"
Ash chuckled as he used his other hand to fish out Dexter.
"Sure Professor, I'll send you the data now."
Oak nodded before pointing toward the thin slot near the monitor.
"Okay Ash, just slip Dexter into that slot there and I'll do the rest."
Ash did as he was told. A few minutes later, Oak finished downloading Ash's Pokédex data and was impressed. The Pokédex slid out of the slot as the download completed.
There! All done! I must say you've caught some impressive Pokémon. Not many can catch a Pikachu on their first day since there so rare. Now take good care of that Rainbow Wing! It is extremely valuable and people would do almost anything to possess it."
Ash nodded to the old Professor.
"I will Professor."
Oak gave Ash a smile.
"I just know you'll be a great Pokémon Master someday Ash, seeing Ho-Oh is usually a very good sign for your future if the legends are anything to go by. Well I must get going. You've just given me a lot of material to keep me busy for a while."
There was a ring on the Professor's side of the line. Oak turned toward the door and suddenly seem to remember something.
"Oh that must be my pizza! I'm Coming!"
He turned back to the phone and waved goodbye to the raven-haired trainer.
"Well, got to be going! Good Luck Ash!"
The screen went black signaling the calls completion. Ash chuckled.
"Okay! well now that that's done. Guess I'll just have to wait for Nurse Joy to get done."
It was at this moment that Ash's stomach decided to make itself known as it gave a loud growl. He chuckled a little to himself.
"Um on second thought, maybe I should eat."
After getting his Pokémon back from Nurse Joy, Ash spent the rest of the day touring Viridian City. The first thing he did was feed himself and his Pokémon at a local restaurant that catered to both humans and Pokémon. After that Ash spent the next few hours stocking up on several things he would need before heading out to Pewter City.
Before returning to the Pokémon Center to spend the night he went out and confronted the Spearow he caught it was very stubborn and wasn't going to listen till Ash promised it if it travelled with him he would make Spearow the strongest of his kind and get him to evolve after he said that the Pokemon agreed to travel with Ash. When Ash let him greet his teammates they all welcomed him into the group like family. Ash observed Spearow to be quiet and acting like one of the more mature ones of the group the others being Pikachu and Ekans while the younger ones were Abra and Poliwag.
Before going to bed Ash was called to the front office. When he arrived there he was greeted with Nurse joy and two of her Chansey's.
"Oh hello Mr. Ketchum I'm sorry to keep you from sleeping it's just that your Pokemon egg is showing the close signs of hatching so it might hatch tonight would you and your Pokemon like to come and see."
"Yes please" replied Ash in an excited voice
"Ok well then follow me please."
Ash was lead down a few hallways and then they reached a room that was decorated to look like a nursery and on one of the beds was Ash's egg and it was glowing.
"Ash please wait to bring your Pokemon out till the egg is done hatching"
"Of course Nurse joy"
When Ash approached the egg he didn't notice the two Chansey's and joy quietly walk out. He softly sat next to the egg noticing it glowing really bright, he put his hand on the egg then it seemed to glow even brighter and he had to look away. It only lasted a few moments but when he looked back at the egg he didn't see an egg but a Pokemon.
The Pokemon was small with green hair that looked like a helmet. Two red horns stuck out, and the top half of its face seemed to be hidden by its hair. Aside from its green hair and red horns, the rest of its body was pure white.
" Ral Ra Ralts" it looked confused till it saw Ash then very cafefully walked to him and then it did something that shocked Ash.
"Are you my daddy"
Ash was shocked not only was his Pokemon a rare Pokemon from the Hoenn Region but it was speaking using Telepathy.
He then regained his composure "yes little one I'm your dad"
It squealed cutely "daddy, daddy, daddy" and jumped in his arms.
Ash laughed at it and caught it with his arms.
"Would you like to meet the rest of your family little one"
"yes"
"ok here they are" he threw his Pokeballs and out came his Pokemon.
They all came out and they were confused why they were in a nursery till they heard the sound of another Pokemon and froze they all looked and saw their dad/friend with a baby Pokemon in his arms. They all realized the egg hatched and they all went to Ash to get a good look at their new family member. When Ralts saw his new family he squealed and ran over to them and started to talk to them the rest of the team happily talked to the new baby.
Ash took out his Pokedex and scanned Ralts.
Ralts, The Feeling Pokemon, RALTS has the ability to sense the emotions of people. If its TRAINER is in a cheerful mood, this POKéMON grows cheerful and joyous in the same way.
This Ralts has the Ability Synchronize and the Hidden Ability Trace.
This Ralts knows the moves Growl, Confusion and Shadow Sneak. Shadow Sneak is an egg move.
Note this Pokemon should not battle for 2 weeks.
Ash was about to tell his Pokemon they were going to bed when there was an explosion and smoke filled the room Ash and his Pokemon quickly sprung into action and went to investigate but not before Ash held Ralts closely to his chest.
When he and his Pokemon got to the front desk, he found Nurse Joy just as a crash of breaking glass echoed through the room. He looked up just in time to see two Pokeballs falling through the skylight before landing on the floor and releasing the two Pokémon inside.
The first one that came out was an Ekans that hissed at anyone it saw, Ekans saw another Ekans and hissed at the weaker one. The other was a round, limbless purple Pokémon with several crater-like protrusions its body that gave it a resemblance to a naval mine or a meteorite. It also had a skull and crossbones below a blissfully smiling face.
"Ekans!"
"Koffing!"
Shortly after being released from its Pokéball, the Poison Gas Pokémon used a Smokescreen attack to cover the entire room in black smoke that obscured Ash, Joy, and The other Pokemon's vision. Ash then noticed three shadows jump down into the Smokescreen from the broken skylight. The young trainer narrowed his eyes.
"Alright, who are you and what are you doing here."
Ash scowled as a noticeably as two voices answered when the smoke began clearing.
"Don't be frightened little boy."
"Allow us to introduce ourselves."
The smoke finally cleared revealing two people and the scratch cat Pokémon Meowth, the humans were wearing identical white uniforms with black gloves and boots and a large letter "R" emblazoned on the front. Ash raised an eyebrow at this and before he could do anything they started...singing?
"To protect the world from devastation!"
"To unite all Peoples within our nation!"
"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"
"To extend our reach to the stars above!"
"Jessie!"
"James!"
"Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now or prepare to fight!"
"Meowth! That's right!"
(AN: Just so you know this is the only time I'm writing the motto, because it's just that bad)
Ash, Joy, and the others just stared as they beheld the trio. Neither of them knew whether they should laugh or feel sorry for these obviously out of work circus performers. Ash and his Pokemon thought about it for a moment before bursting into laughter. This reaction apparently wasn't what Team Rocket had been going for as they scowled. The red-head woman yelled over at Ash and Co. who were still laughing thinking about the trio's entrance.
"Hey! What's so funny you little twerp!"
Ash looked up as he finally managed to regain his composure even though he still had a smile on his face.
"Your what's funny! Are you suppose to be Pokémon thieves or wannabe circus clowns, Cause after that little performance, the circus clown theory looks pretty good right about now!"
The trio gritted their teeth when they heard Ash insulting their motto. The redhead pointed a shaking finger in Ash direction, her eyes blazing with, in her mind at least, righteous fury. Her partners weren't far behind her as they made their displeasure known.
"You little brat! Nobody insults us and gets away with it!"
"Meowth! that's right! nobody insults Team Rocket!"
"It's not our fault they couldn't recognize talent!"
The last comment caused Jessie and Meowth to face fault as Ash and Co. looked on incredulously at the blue-haired man. He hadn't really been serious when he made that insult. Now he wasn't sure whether he should laugh or feel sorry for the three stogies.
"James! Don't tell him stuff like that!"
"Yeah! "
James looked sheepish as his partners berated him. Ash shook his head as he beheld the three and decided he had enough of these idiots.
Then Meowth saw Ralts being Protected by the other Pokemon.
"Hey look at tat little Pokemon"
Jesse and James saw Ralts and looked at Ash and said "Ok kid well give you a chance to be forgiven give us that Pokemon there and well leave."
Ash was pissed off not only were they stupid they dared think he will give them he new son.
"Alright I've seen enough of you three morons! It's time to show your Ekans and Koffing what a real poison type can do!"
Ash told his Pokemon to Protect Ralts and called out to Ekans.
"Ekans! I choose you!"
Moments later, Team Rocket balked as Ash's Ekans materialized before them. Normally, Ekans were pretty small Pokémon, being able to stand at least slightly taller than Jessie in height. But Ash's Ekans being twice the size of a normal member of its species, since it was close to evolving was able to simply tower over Team Rocket and their Pokémon.
Team Rocket leaped backwards in fear of the Snake Pokémon.
"What is tat thing!"
Ash' smirked as Ekans beheld Team Rocket. The Snake Pokémon took one look and snorted before sticking her nose up at them as if they weren't worth her time which they probably weren't.
Team Rocket noticed this and came to their senses as their anger overcame their fear. Jessie was the first to start off the battle with James not far behind her.
"Arrrrrrgh! Enough of this, Ekans go!"
"Koffing Attack!"
Koffing and Ekans quickly obeyed their trainers. Koffing started off with a smog attack as Ekans surged forward with what looked like a Bite attack. Ekans and Ash looked on with an almost bored expressions, unimpressed with Team Rocket's tactics. Just as Ekans lunged out of the Smog Ash and Ekans struck back.
"Ekans, Stop it with your ability! Then hit it Poison Tail!"
Ekans's normally light yellow eyes glowed bright red as it looked at Ekans. The smaller Snake Pokémon froze in the middle of its attack as it was suddenly hesitated by the effect of Ekan's gaze.
"Ekans!"
After successfully makeing its opponent stop, Ekans's yellow rattle-like tail glowed purple before the Snake Pokémon swung it and hit Ekans hard, sending flying through the smoke before it collided with Jessie and James and tossing the thieves to the ground. The pair looked at Ekans from the position and was shocked to find that the Snake Pokémon was knocked out cold.
Jessie growled as she saw her defeated Pokémon before returning it to its Pokéball. She turned to James who quailed under her furious gaze.
"Well what are you standing there for, Get them!"
James quickly sprung into action, not wanting to face the wrath of his partner.
"Koffing! Tackle attack!"
"Koffing!"
The Poison Gas Pokémon emerged from smog heading straight toward Ekans. Both Ash and Ekans saw this and looked upon James and Koffing with contempt at the foolish move. Unless Koffing was especially powerful, which Ash seriously doubted, the attack would do nothing more than piss Ekans off.
...And he was right.
When Koffing tried to use it's tackle attack on Ekans, the Snake Pokémon didn't even budge. Koffing's ball like body bounced off Ekans like it had hit a wall and was sent backward a few feet before floating back up to try again. However, Ash wasn't about to give it the chance.
"Ekans, Send Koffing back toward Team Rocket! Use Poison Tail!"
Ekans hissed as it's rattle-like tail glowed purple once more before slamming it into the Poison Gas Pokémon.
"Ekans!"
Upon impact with Ekans's powerful Poison Tail, Koffing was sent speeding toward its trainer's head where it smashed into James's face. The impact lifted James off his feet before he and Koffing were sent flying out the entrance's automatic doors. Jessie and Meowth gasped before running out the door after their comrade.
"James!"
Ash, the others, and Ekans followed them out. When they got outside the door they saw Jessie and Meowth trying to peel the unconscious Koffing off of James's face. Ash and his Pokémon snickered when Jessie and Meowth finally managed to get Koffing off to reveal that James's face was completely red from the impact with his Pokémon. All three of the Team Rocket members looked up at Ash glared before jumping to their feet. James who was normally quite even-tempered, was steaming as he recalled his Koffing.
"You'll pay for that you little punk!"
Ash and his Pokémon stopped snickering and gave Team Rocket a look of amusement.
"And how exactly are you going to do that? All you're battling Pokémon are out for the count and from what I've seen of your skills you probably don't have any others aside from that Meowth and he doesn't look like he could battle his way out of a wet paper bag..."
Meowth growled at that comment but didn't say anything since it there was no denying the truth behind it.
"...And even if he could, from what I've seen, you're out of your league."
He turned to Ekans completely ignoring Team Rocket for a moment as he pulled out Ekans's ball.
"I think I'll let Pikachu wrap this up my friend."
Ekans nodded before it returned to its ball. This move surprised Team Rocket as they were expecting him to continue to use Ekans. Ash turned his head toward Pikachu.
"So buddy you mind ending this so we can go back to sleep?"
Pikachu gave Ash a smirk as it's cheeks sparked menacingly. Team Rocket suddenly got a sinking feeling in their stomach's that they were about to experience a lot of pain and humiliation. However, they ignored their feelings as Jessie pointed at Pikachu while laughing.
"A Pikachu? Hahahahahahaha! You think that little electric rat is going to stop us?"
Ash scowled as Pikachu growled with its cheeks sparking even more in anticipation.
"You just made a big mistake Jessie. Now Pikachu is going to show you just big of a mistake it was! Pikachu send these clowns packing, Hit'em with Thunder Bolt!"
Pikachu roared as it unleashed a massive beam of electricity toward Team Rocket, who screamed in agony as they were forced to endure the electricity following through their bodies before the attack triggered an explosion. The shockwave sent the Team Rocket Trio soaring into their balloon. The Meowth shaped balloon then popped when Meowth himself involuntarily unsheathed his sharp claws. This caused the trio to scream in fright as they held on the balloon as it quickly flew off into the distance.
"Team Rocket's blasting off!"
Ash, Pikachu and the others sighed as they watched Team Rocket were sent soaring off into the distance until they were no more than a speck. Pikachu leaped onto Ash's shoulder before letting out a yawn. Ash yawned to as he turned to return his Pokemon and pick up Ralts walk back toward the center.
"Alright let's get back to sleep, That battle was too easy for us. Those three really needed to quit while there behind."
"Ya daddy they were silly"
Just as he reached the doors he heard a voice growling behind him.
"And just where do you think your going! I have a bone to pick with you!"
He turned to see a redheaded girl a year or two older than him glaring at him. Then, he noticed she was that girl who let him use her bike. He also noticed her burnt Bike in her hands. Ash groaned.
"This really isn't our night, is it Pikachu?"
"Chu."
After telling the girl he wanted to go to sleep and her yelling at the top of her lungs finally he got fed up and asked Poliwag to use Hypnosis, once she was asleep he went up to his room and went to bed.
After the things happening at Viridian, Ash sent Ekans Abra and Poliwag back to the lab then proceeded into the Viridian Forest and on his way to Pewter City. While in there Ash also proceeded to search for more Pokémon. He had captured a Caterpie in the beginning, then used Pikachu to capture a Pidgeotto and used both Spearow and Pigeotto to capture a pair of Nidoran which were sent back to the lab. The next day Ash found a Weedle and sent out Caterpie to battle it and it was tough for a while, but Caterpie did it and Ash caught a Weedle and after that battle Caterpie evolved into Metapod.
Then for the next six days Ash just spent time in the forest training his Pokémon to be as powerful as they could. "Okay good now Pikachu use quick attack on Metapod and Metapod counter with harden." Pikachu charged at Metapod with quick speeds as Metapod glowed bright green. Once it died down did Pikachu smash into it and bounce off from the strength of the harden. "Alright looks like Metapod's harden is a strong as ever" Ash said.
"Okay Spearow and Pidgeotto time for a battle in the sky" Ash called as both flying Pokémon zoomed into the air. "The first one to knock the other one out of the sky wins" Both Pidgeotto and Spearow squawked loudly and began their battle. "Okay Weedle time to level you up" Ash said. Weedle nodded "Alright use poison sting on Pikachu. Pikachu just keep dodging as best as you can." Pikachu dodged the attacks as Weedle launched wave after wave of poison stings at Pikachu.
While they were training Ralts was slowly working his way to fighting speed he trained as much as Ash let him he would use Confusion to lift up rocks different sizes and see how long he can hold it once he can hold it for an hour he would get a bigger rock and he would work on using shadow sneak to be quieter and make it more powerful.
Ash was still working out instead of the little 10 year old kid that left Pallet town you can see his body was becoming leaner and more agile, someone of Ash's size wouldn't be buff and strong but be more of a fast and agile kind of guy.
Ash just finished training when he saw a bright glow coming from the area. Ash got up and moved over and saw Weedle and Metapod glowing brightly. Weedle began to morph and Metapod got a crack going through its back. Weedle morphed into a cocoon shape thing with dark eyes while a butterfly shaped Pokémon emerged out of the remains of Metapod.
"Kakuna… Butterfree" Ash said shocked. Butterfree flew from the remains until it landed on Ash's shoulder and Ash scanned it with his Pokedex.
"Butterfree: One week after Caterpie evolved into Metapod it again evolved into Butterfree" Dexter's mechanical voice said. Then Ash turned it to Kakuna
"Kakuna: the pre form between Weedle and Beedril. Kakuna remain inactive until they awaken and evolve into deadly Beedril and hatch."
"Congratulations you two" Ash grinned. Up in the sky Pidgeotto and Spearow were still fighting it out, but a powerful gust and peck attack from Pidgeotto knocked it out of the sky until it fell to the ground. Spearow struggled to get up and glared up at Pidgeotto. Ash quickly went over to Spearow "Well Spearow it looks like Pidgeotto won this round." Spearow squawked angrily at Ash, "I know that you're upset at losing, but that's just more motivation to train more so you'll win next time." Spearow stood up proudly and squawked again, though this time not angrily.
"Alright everyone return" Ash said recalling Kakuna, Pidgeotto and Spearow. He then went to bed for the night.
Ash was almost out of Viridian Forrest, He was ecstatic with his Pokémon's Progress.
Pigeotto and Spearow both learned Steel Wing and were much faster and Ash thought Spearow was very close to evolving.
Ralts was able to learn Teleport while trying to use Shadow Sneak in a different way and learned Double team from Pikachu.
Pikachu managed to learn both Agility and Iron tail, while becoming stronger in his electric attacks.
Butterfree was able to learn the three Powder attacks and Gust along with Confusion. While being able to up his evasion skills thanks to Pikachu.
Kakuna evolved into Beedril and learned the moves Fury attack, Focus energy and Twineedle and mastered those.
Overall he was happy with this and continued on his journey, it was only till he was a couple minutes away from Pewter when he was Challenged by a Samurai and easily beaten him with his Butterfree and Beedril. Then he saw Pewter, the first City he would Conquer and just another step to becoming a Pokemon master.