Chapter 3: Viridian trouble and the Forest.
Disclaimer- I do not own pokemon (At least not until they answer my calls)
A/N: This story is turning out much better than I was expecting and thank you guys for all of the questions and feedback I've received from you guys. It's been a big help with writing this story to make sure I don't have writers block. I do get some inspiration for this story from Challenger by darkfire1220 which has given me many ideas such as this chapter. The shiny pidgey that Ash caught in the last chapter was not originally planned in the story but I've always loved the pidgeot line and a shiny pidgeot is a beautiful golden bird so he has a pidgey now. So, I hope you enjoy this story and read the stories challenger, and Traveler. Really good.
To Galactic War's most recent question- He might….. shhhhhhh, you might tell them my plans.
Viridian City pokemon center
Ash was woken by the sound of bird pokemon chirping in the morning. He groaned and turned to look at the digital clock and the room and noticed it was only 6:00 in the morning. He groaned and got up and looked at his pokemon which were both still out cold. He snorted quietly and got up to get ready for the day. He showered, brushed his teeth and got dressed for the day. When he left the bathroom, he saw his pokemon starting to wake up and when they noticed him, they perked up and greeted him.
"Hey guys, how are you feeling?"
Both pokemon stretched really quick, popped a couple bones and nodded in affirmative.
"Hey, I've been thinking, do either of you guys want a name? Most pokemon don't have ones because the trainers never think about it. You don't have to but it could help if we face other pokemon of the same species to avoid confusion."
Both pokemon thought about it for a second before pidgey nodded happily and landed on his head.
"How about Zephyr, it means wind. I think it suits you because you are very fast and can it's a pretty name for you."
Pidgey took a second to contemplate the name and then chirped happily and got more comfortable on top of his head and fell asleep again. To this, Ash sweat-dropped and patted her head.
"How about you elekid, do you want a name? Elekid thought about it for a couple minutes and finally shook its head in a negative, it didn't really care and was fine with how he was now.
"Alright, are you guys ready to start training in the centers court yard?"
Both pokemon perked up immediately and ran/flew to the door and looked back at Ash to hurry up. He just shook his head laughing and walked over and opened the door and went ou to the training field.
"Elekid, you need to work on using two separate elemental punches at the same time. In the battle against Bulbasaur, I saw that you had trouble maintaining the ice punch and fire punch at the same time. Try to maintain separate energies for as long as you can and when you don't have any trouble with the two elements, increase the power so they are fully powered punches. After that, we should work on learning powerpunch, it'll increase your attack every time you hit the enemy, and it can be easily combined with other punching moves such as your favorite thunder punch. Elekid nodded and ran over to a training dummy and began to focus on his hands, one covered in a small amount of electricity and the other with a little fire on it.
"Pidgey, you should work on steel wing some more in order to get the energy to coat your wings for an attack. It will help with rock and ice types in the future and will surprise any unaware opponents.
Both pokemon started their training and Ash pulled out his pokedex and searched up the moves that both of his pokemon can learn when slightly more powerful.
He saw that elekid can learn swift and shock wave which will never miss and that is very useful for fast enemies and those that are good at evading enemies. After he masters his punching moves, he will start him off the his long ranged moves so he's never caught at a disadvantage. For pidgey, he saw that she should learn gust too. She just didn't train for it. She also could learn whirlwind and twister. Whirlwind and gust would come first and those two moves would help her create a twister. Twister will take a while to master of course because it is a twister of dragon type energy. He started to think of a combination of twister and heatwave which would be brutal against enemies.
After Ash stopped daydreaming, he saw that it had been about an hour and when le looked up, he saw a broken training dummy that had electricity and fire around it. He also saw elekid in front of it with a happy smile with one fist completely covered in fire and the other one covered in a large amount of electricity.
Zephyr on the other hand was flying from one end of the field to the other as fast as she can. She was hitting the training dummies with her wings every time she passed it to strengthen them for steel wing. The more she hit the dummies, he saw her wings glow a little and the next time, she managed to cut through the dummy with her wings completely made of steel and as she went to make one more hit on the dummy, the steel on her wings vanished and she barely managed to avoid the dummy to avoid injury.
"You alright Zephyr?"
"Pidge!"
"Alright, how about we go get some food and get you guys to Nurse Joy?"
The three of them went to the cafeteria in the center and got some food for him and Zephyr, while elekid went over to the electrical junction that electric types can feed off of. After their meals, the three went to Nurse Joy and he gave her the pokeballs and got the team restored. When Ash and the team were ready to go to the forest on the way to Pewter, they heard this loud crashing noise and saw two pokeballs fall through the ceiling.
The pokeballs opened and revealed a nidorina and a nidorino that got into an attack stance. From above two people descended to rope line with a cat-like pokemon behind them.
(Include stupid motto) (I'm not actually putting the motto in)
The rocket member that called herself Jesse yelled, "Everybody, put your pokeballs and money in the bag and no one gets hurt!"
"Hey, there's not any rare pokemon here, only sick and injured!", yelled Nurse Joy
"No matter, there's likely to be some gems in this group, NOW HAND THEM ALL OVER!" yelled the blue haired one named James and the talking meowth.
Ash then began yelling, "Hey, you can't steal pokemon, come on out elekid, Zephyr, let's take them down!"
"Hey James, look at the brave little twerp, lets finish this quickly. Nidorina, use double kick on the elekid!"
"I agree Jesse. Nidorino use Head Smash on that little bird."
Ash retaliated, "Elekid, use teleport and use Thundershock, try not to touch her if you can't avoid it. Zephyr, use heat wave to take it back down to earth and use steel win if you can!"
Both pokemon began to execute the orders of their trainer and nidorina was almost to elekid when he disappeared, appeared behind her and electrocuted her with a powerful Thundershock that appeared to be almost a thunderbolt. The nidorino jumped up to smash his rock covered head into pidgey when a powerful stream of fiery air blew it back and slammed it into the ground and Zephyr flew by him and slammed two metal covered wings into his side and slammed him further into the ground.
"Yes! Good job you two."
Right after he said that, both nidorino and nidorina got up and growled angrily at elekid and Zephyr and each of them launched a sludge bomb at the two other pokemon. Ash's pokemon didn't have any time to react and were each hit hard by the attacks and slammed into the ground covered in the purple goop. The two struggled to get up and when they did, Ash noticed they each had a purple tinge to their faces which indicated they were poisoned badly.
"Perfect, now both of you, use poison sting on the brave, little twerp. End Him!"
The two attack began to head towards ash and he had no way to dodge or run but the next thing all of them heard was, "Rhyperior Use Stone Edge!" All of sudden, a wall of spiked stones came from the ground between Ash and the Poison stings heading his way. If effortlessly blocked the stings and then they heard, "Now Rock Wrecker!". From behind Ash, two large rocks flew at the enemy pokemon and slammed into them and sent them flying into their trainers.
After the outside intervention, the two rocket members were arrested by the local Officer Jenny and Ash got a good look at who his savior was. He recognized him immediately because he was none other that Giovanni, the gym leader of Viridian City.
Ash went and got his pokemon healed from Nurse Joy and he saw that Giovanni was no longer talking to the officer and was heading straight towards him. He immediately tensed up because he has never talked to a gym leader of his strength before.
"Hello young man, that took a lot of bravery to stand up to two members of team Rocket. What's your name?"
"Ash Ketchum sir."
Giovanni's eyes lit up for a brief second and said, "Well, it's nice to meet you Ash, are you taking the league challenge this year?"
"I am, and I'm going to need to train really hard for the Pewter City gym?" Giovanni's face look confused for a second before Ash saw this and explained further. "My starter is elekid here and the only other pokemon I have caught is a pidgey on route 1. But we're training really hard to beat it."
"Ah, I see how that could be a problem. Hmmm, if you meet me inside of my gym at 10:00, I might have something to help with your situation. Will I see you there?" asked Giovanni.
"Oh, Yes Sir! I will be there at 10:00. Thank you for the help."
Ash arrived 15 minutes before 10:00 and approached the imposing building in front of him. When he first arrived at the gym, there were two guards standing outside of the gym and stopped him declaring that no one may enter without seven gym badges. He told them that Giovanni told him to meet them inside of the gym at 10 but they would not listen and went so far as to insult him for trying to get into the viridian gym as a new trainer. Right as they were about to forcefully make him leave, their phones beeped and they picked them up, saw the message, and immediately let him into the gym.
When Ash got inside the gym, he was amazed by the sheer size of the building and how advanced the battle field was compared to the center and the clearings he has been in so far. The room with the field was completely empty except for Giovanni standing at the other end of the field with a large Persian napping next to him.
When he got to where the challenger would be, Giovanni called out to him, "Hello Ash, welcome to the viridian gym.".
"Thank you for the invite, I'm grateful for the help you are willing to offer me on my journey."
"It is no problem, come here."
Ash then walked over and Giovanni pulled out a special pokeball that ash identified as a dive ball. "You know that I specialize in ground types, correct?" asked Giovanni. Ash nodded and Giovanni went on by saying, "The pokemon I am about to give you is not currently a ground type but it does evolve into a powerful ground type. It has been specially bred to be very powerful but my team is currently powerful enough and I am too busy to raise a young pokemon. So, I thought that I'd give you the pokemon instead of me. From what I've seen in you so far, you will likely recognize this pokemon." He then handed the dive ball to Ash.
Ash was naturally excited; he was getting a pokemon from the most powerful gym leader in the Kanto region for free. As soon as the ball was in his hand, he let out the pokemon that was inside of it. When he opened the ball, the red light inside came out and formed into a small blue pokemon with a large fin on top of its head, and small orange spikes on its checks. Ash immediately recognized this pokemon as the water type starter of the Hoenn region, Mudkip. Ash has never actually seen a Mudkip in person so it was a new experience or him so he was examining it.
Before he could get too far Giovanni began to speak again, "So, I was right, you do know what pokemon this is and do you know what pokemon he evolves into?" Ash gave a nod to confirm this and Giovanni went on, "This mudkip is special because unlike the basic docile nature that most have, this one seems to be more aggressive and seems to enjoy the idea of battling and wants to get more powerful."
"Wow, hey Mudkip, my name is Ash Ketchum. I want to become a pokemon master and become the strongest of them all and I can help you become the strongest swampert there is. What do you say?" The whole time that Ash was giving this speech, Mudkip was getting a shine in his eye at the prospect of getting stronger and decided that he wanted to go with Ash. By the time Ash was finished with his little speech to mukip, the small blue pokemon was so excited that he tackled Ash to ground.
Both Giovanni and Ash laughed at this and Ash asked jokingly, "Is that a yes?
The Mudkip began to nod so quickly that his head appeared to be a blur and Ash recalled him happily. He'll scan him later in the forest so he doesn't waste any more of Giovanni's time.
"Thank you so much for Mudkip, Giovanni, I'll take good care of him and you will see him when I finally battle you and during the pokemon league.
"I'm sure that I will and I look forward to both times. Now I have some business to attend to so I must take my leave. I wish you luck on your journey. Good bye Ash."
Ash then left for the infamous Viridian Forest
Same night-Viridian Forest
Ash and his pokemon were in a small clearing after Ash had made it into the forest. The clearing was surrounded by trees and had a large pond in it so he could replenish his water supplies and Mudkip seemed to enjoy it a lot. Ash set up a fire pit and got to cooking meals for him and his pokemon. Stew for him, and specialty pokemon food for each of his pokemon. It was now that he decided to scan Mudkip.
Mudkip- The Mud Fish Pokemon
In water, Mudkip breathes using the gills on its cheeks. If it is faced with a tight situation in battle, this pokemon will unleash its amazing power- it can crush rocks much bigger than itself.
Sex: Male
Ability: Torrent, Damp (hidden ability)
Known Moves: Tackle, Growl, Mud-Slap, Water Gun, Ice Beam, Ancient Power, Mirror Coat, Earth Power, Water Pulse, and Superpower, Mud Bomb, and Ancient Power
Note: This Mudkip has an unusually high amount of muscle mass and will grow to be extremely strong physically as its growth continues. Will likely need help controlling its strength when it evolves.
"You are going to be an absolute powerhouse when you evolve into Marshtomp and eventually Swampert. You will likely be able to overpower pokemon like machamp and conkeldurr who are known for their physical strength. Mudkip raised his head and pride and then yawned loudly and went over to the pond and went to sleep underwater.
"That's a good idea. Let's go to sleep everybody."
The group of human and pokemon went to sleep surrounded by the sounds of wild pokemon and the quiet breathing of each other. It makes sense to get rest, they'll need it for the upcoming gym battle in a few days.
Tell me what you guys think about the fact that Ash now has a mudkip which is going to be a physically powerful monster. The next chapter will be the gym battle against brock. Give me all reviews you can to let me know how I'm doing and what you guys think. The chapters will likely not be coming out as quickly as they have been because I have an interview tomorrow and I might be getting a job soon. Wish me luck and I will have the chapters out as quickly as I can.