Zach's Adventure
A/N: Um, Happy New Year?
Disclaimer: I Don't Own Pokémon
Ring, Ring, Ring
'Ark! The loud incessant ringing!' I groaned waking up. I looked over and saw my Pokegear ringing. I picked it up "Hello?" I asked; my voice didn't make me sound like I just woke up. "Ah, Zach" It was Professor Oak. "Oh professor, what is it?"I inquired. "Ash just wanted me to tell you…" Oak started. "Ash" I gasped. "…Yes, and he wanted me to tell you it was boring in Pallet Town without you" Oak explained. "Is he still there?" I asked. "Unfortunately no, you know Ash; he's home for a day or two and then he's off for the next region" Oak said with a slight laugh. "Yeah…Wait next region, does that mean new Pokémon!" I excitedly asked. "Yes, the Pokémon count has risen to 493!" He said happily "I'll send a pokedex upgrade to you when you tell me where you are". "Fuchsia City, and could you pack in 2 more? For my friends; Savannah and Connor" I asked, I would've mentioned David but something told me he already knew. "Sure thing, I'll send it over ASAP" He said then hung up. Next I called Connor and told him to come over because I had big news.
25 minutes later
"Okay, let's go" I said to my group. I had already gathered Savannah and Connor and told them the news, now we were getting ready to go. We each put on a heavy jacket; it's snowing pretty hard out there. I opened the door and we stepped out into the bitter outdoors. We strolled over to the mart in relative silence. I opened the door to the mart, the change in temperature made all of us shiver. I immediately spotted the postman in green. "Hi, we're here to pick up the pokedex upgrade from professor Oak" I said out of breath for some reason. "Ah, so you're Zach, Connor, and Savannah?" he asked. "Yeah that's us" Connor said, joining the conversation, I noticed his backpack was slightly bigger. "Here you go then" he said handing each of us a small box. We opened them and inside were a small computer chip-thing and an instruction booklet, probably to show us how to put in the part. With our items in hand we headed back to the pokecenter. After a short walk back we sat at a table and tried to put in the new part.
Elapsed time: 30 minutes
After a grueling 30 minutes of messing with our pokedexs, we finally figured out how to put in the part. "I hate machinery" I groaned. "Ditto" my partners replied. "Where?" I lamely joked. "Apparently Route 17" Savannah replied. "The Bicycle Route; of course" I said flatly. "Hey, I heard the competition is postponed because of the weather" Connor explained. "Well then, that'll give us time to train" I said trying to lighten the mood. "Good idea, we should get to work on that; let's go" Said Savannah getting up from her seat. "Right, see you…people soon" I said exiting the building. I went through the gate on the right side of town and began my walk, I didn't know where I was going; but the fresh, clean air invigorated me.
15 minutes later
"Jolt e jolt eon" Sparky said in depression. "Yup, we're lost" I said in equal depression. My peaceful walk down Route 13 has turned into a disaster. "Alright let's set up camp for the night" I say calling out Albert to help. He looked different, more pumped up. "Hey, Al are you okay?"I asked him. He turned around and jumped about. "Do you want to train?" I questioned. He nodded rapidly, I nodded as well and we walked a little away from the camp site. "Alright, Franky come on out" my ghostly pal popped out of his ball. "Franky train with Albert, and later tell me of his progress" I explained heading back to the campsite. "You got it Dude!"He yelled back. I continued setting up camp and preparing dinner, my other Pokémon helping out as much as they could. After what seemed like an hour Franky and Albert came back to the camp. "Well?" I asked, Franky opened his mouth to peak and then plummeted to the ground. "I take it that means you're strong" I said facing Albert. He nodded, we had our dinner and then we went to bed.
I lay in the grass, under the moonlight, trying to go to sleep. I couldn't though, for some reason I couldn't. I sat up and looked around; it was a real quiet night. Off in the distance I could see flashing orange lights; I got up and started walking towards it, Sparky apparently saw them too and followed behind me. We tried to stay quiet and hidden behind the trees; we got close enough to see what was going on. A Charmander was lying nearly knocked out on the forest floor, a Swampert towering over him. "Hey, Leave him alone!" I almost yelled "Sparky use Shadow Ball!" Sparky shot out the ball of darkness, it didn't knock out Swampert but it did scare him off. I went over to tend to the little lizard Pokémon.
"You okay buddy?" I asked in a concerned tone; he responded with a weak 'Char' I grabbed an Oran Berry from my back pack, and then I froze. I noticed the Charmander's voice resembled that of a baby's, possibly a boy's. I pulled out a small plastic cup and crushed the Oran berry letting the juice fall into the cup. I handed him the cup and he drank it happily. I sat there watching him, and only two things came to mind, why he was here and where his parents were. Law of the Trainer states 'any Pokémon found in the wild, not already under the supervision of another human, is free for all to catch' but does that apply here? "Char Charmander!" he said snapping me out of my thoughts, He was holding another Oran Berry and handed it to me "are you paying me back?" I asked; he nodded. I smiled and toke it "Thanks, you're alright kid" I said.
"Hey, how would you like to go on a journey with me?" I questioned. He smiled and did a victory pose, I laughed and pulled out an empty pokeball and lightly pressed against his head, it shook three times and clicked. I caught a Charmander; I replaced the fire type spot in my team left by Flare. I looked around, it was morning now; well, no better way to start off the day than with 0 hours sleep, right? (Ugh)
25 minutes later
I finally got back onto the map; I was on Route 11 now, so, I decided to head to Saffron City. After a quick nap at Vermillion City, and chased down by Surge, I set out to Saffron City.
I had a nice peaceful walk down Route 6, a good way to wrap up my earlier nap. I walked through the southern gates of Saffron City, I noticed the guard was drinking coffee but payed no attention to it. The familiar smells filled my nostrils as I walked around town. Eventually I found someone interesting, it was David, and he was sitting on a bench concentrating on a spoon. "What are you doing?" I asked. "I'm working on my Psychic abilities because I've recently learned how to" he replied. "Right, THAT'S why you're working on it" I said teasingly "So it's not for someone whose name starts with an S and ends with abrina?"He punched me in the arm and muttered "Shut it, what are you doing here?"He asked. "Dunno, felt like it" I replied. "Well, how about you try taking on the Fighting Dojo?" He said pointing to the building next to the Gym. How did I not notice that before? Anyways, I left David to concentrate and walked into the Dojo.
The lights were off so I called out "hello?" it echoed a bit before a stern voice answered "Who goes there!" The lights came on revealing a bunch of people in karate outfits as well as an Elder and… oh my Arceus, standing right there in his usual attire of only a pair of white pants, was Bruno a member of the Elite Four. "Well kid what do you want?" Bruno asked. I stood there staring at him in awe for a couple more seconds before replying "I came for a battle and training if possible" I tried to stay as calm as possible when I said that. Bruno smiled "I'll take him on, I can tell just by looking at him; he hasn't lost a battle yet!" Bruno stated; he was smarter than I thought he would be. "Okay then, let's begin" I said grabbing a pokeball of my belt. "On one condition, you have to use this Pokémon" he said tossing me a pokeball "I want to see how good you are dealing with a new Pokémon you just caught" he explained. I nodded my head "I understand" I was about to throw the pokeball, but then the doors opened "I came to challenge the Saffron City Gym!" Connor yelled. "Wrong place, this is the Fighting Dojo!" I yelled back. "Close enough!" he said marching in "I challenge whoever is in charge!" he announced. "That would be me" the elder replied "But first, Do you two know each other?" he asked. "Yup" Connor said. "Unfortunately" I jokingly replied. The Elder threw a pokeball to Connor "Than you can have the opposite of the Pokémon he got; anyways, the same rules he has apply to you to; one on one, you can only use the Pokémon I just gave you" The Elder explained. "Okay, got it; let's get it on!" he said.
Regaining my focus I threw the pokeball onto the field. A Hitmonchan came out and started punching the air. "Hey, Hitmonchan let's work together!" I say in a positive voice. He turns to me and gives me a blank look, as if saying 'YOU'RE my master!' "I mean let's smash our opponent with our iron fists!" I say, trying to level with him. He smirked, nodded, and pumped his fist into the air "well, you turned the situation around pretty quickly" Bruno commented. Then he threw his pokeball to the field, a Machoke appeared. I pulled out my pokedex "Hitmonchan knows Mach Punch, Bullet Punch, Mega Punch, and Close combat" the pokedex responded. "Okay then, Hitmonchan use Bullet Punch!" I say, his fist became silver and he struck Machoke in the gut, making it lose its breath. Without waiting for an order Hitmonchan began using Close Combat. Machoke managed to block half the attacks, when Hitmonchan stopped Machoke's fist started glowing red and punched Hitmonchan, I realized it was Revenge.
Hitmonchan flew back near my feet; I leaned down and gave him an Oran Berry and a Black Belt. He looked at me in surprise 'why are you being so nice to me?' is what I think he's saying "Because you're my friend" I said "Now, you're not going to beat him if you don't listen to me, okay, so, let's work together" I explained. He nodded and stood up "okay, Hitmonchan use Mach Punch" I called out. In an instant Hitmonchan was several feet away, his fist connected with Machoke's face. "Machoke use Brick Break" Bruno yelled. Machoke karate chopped Hitmonchan on the side of the head. Hitmonchan backed up a bit and awaited orders. "Hitmonchan use Bullet Punch, back to back" I said. Then something strange happened, Hitmonchan's fists flashed twice; the first time was because of the Black belt, but I didn't know about the second. I pulled out my pokedex again for information 'this is Iron Fist; Hitmonchan's special ability; it allows punching moves to become twice as strong' the pokedex informed. Sweet, I thought as Hitmonchan's fist sent Machoke Flying into the dojo wall.
"I think it's quite obvious who the winner is" Bruno said with a slight chuckle "By the way, you get to keep Hitmonchan" he said going over to check on his Pokémon. "So, what do say; do you want to come with me?" I said, as if I even needed to say it. He nodded and we shook hands. Fortunately, they got rid of the 'only 6 Pokémon per trainer' a while ago; but nobody told Ash. The new rule is, you can have as many Pokémon you want with you, however only 6 were allowed to battle. Anyways, I looked over and saw Connor had also finished his battle and was running off, probably to take on the Saffron gym like he wanted to. "Hey kid, what's your name?" Bruno asked walking up to me. "Zach" I said simply. "Hey Zach can you do something for me?"He asked. "I've got an errand to run, but I already scheduled a battle with a friend; so I need you to…" he started. "Let me guess; run the errand?" I asked. "No, to take on my friend; you're near as strong as me so I'm sure you'll give him a good time" Bruno continued.
"Okay, where is it?" I asked. "Vermillion City" Bruno stated. "Okay, one last question; who is it?" I questioned.
"Lance"
A/N: and Sinnoh has been introduced! But that's not the big thing; Zach has 2 more Pokémon! Be ready for the next chapter
Zach vs. Lance!
The battle to end all battles! Oh, and if I said the last chapter would be the last chapter I would make for the year; I lied. Oh and another thing, I forgot to mention this in the story: Charmander's nickname is Charles, and Hitmonchan's is Jack.
