Journey to top them all-Kanto Arc Chapter 5, a pokémon fanfic

Chapter 5: Fossil pokemon experiences

Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon

A/N: Sorry for the delay on the gym battle and this chapter, I've been a little busy. I know that Mudkip evolved very quickly compared to other fanfictions but consider the fact that starters evolve quickly and with constant training they were doing in the forest, he's going to evolve quickly. Same reason why Zephyr evolved so soon. They trained every day on the way and naturally, they'd grow faster. This chapter, he's going to revive his fossils and he will take on Mount Moon and maybe capture some more pokemon not to join his main team.

And if you're curious, Ash will be traveling solo but there will be recurring characters. I won't leave them completely out of the story, Brock will make his appearances. So, let's get on with chapter 5.

To answer the recent question by As Your Flesh Burns, No, you're forgetting, he barely won the gym battle and he has been facing nothing but other rookie trainers. And with the training they do, its easy to beat them. When he gets to higher experience areas, thing wont be the same.

Pewter City

It was the day after their gym battle against Brock winning them the boulder badge from Brock. Ash had called his mother and professor Oak to notify them that he had earned his first gym badge. His mother was overjoyed at the prospect of Ash getting stronger and the first major step in his journey. She wished him luck on his journey through Mount Moon and his next gym battle.

He then called professor Oak who was very excited to hear about the gym battle. When Ash told him that the was going to be reviving two fossils today, Oak's eyes widened dramatically and when he calmed down, he asked where Ash had gotten two fossils considering that they are very rare and nearly nobody was able to find any. Ash explained what he bought them from a man outside of Pewter City who was selling rocks. Oak nodded in understanding because he knew who he was talking about. Oak then asked when he revived the fossils, if he could send the scans back to him so that he can study them to learn more about the pokemon. Ash agreed and hung up the phone to get to the gym.

Ash had elekid out, and they walked over to the gym and walked in. "Brock? Are you here?" asked Ash since he did not see Brock anywhere.

From a back room, Ash heard someone shout, "I'm back here, Ash, feel free to come back here!"

Ash went to the back room and saw Brock and a lot of small children who looked like Brock surrounding a table where a man was sitting there. Ash looked the man who he recognized to be the man he bought the fossils from. "Brock, you know this guy?"

"Yes, Ash, he is our father, Flint and he finally came back. Wait, how do you know him?" asked Brock.

"Oh Wow. He sold me the things I wanted you to check out today." answered Ash honestly.

"What did he sell you?"

Ash pulled out the two well preserved fossils and placed them on the table next to Flint. Brocks eyes widened from a squint to normal eyes (Hah, Brock eye joke) and immediately began to examine the fossils. "These fossils are in excellent condition, they have no damage that I can see. Do you know what pokemon are in these fossils? If not I can tell you?"

Ash replied, "I think I do but can you confirm it."
Brock nodded and pointed at the light grey fossil, "This one is a jaw fossil, and when

restored, will become a Tyrunt which is a rock/dragon type pokemon. The greenish blue fossil is a sail fossil and it'll become an Amaura, a rock/ice type pokemon. Can I come with you when you restore the two of them? I would like to see the two nearly perfect fossils to be restored."

Ash nodded and said, "Of course, I might need the backup if the scientists get greedy and try to take the fossils away from me."

"Of course, and I will make sure they don't do anything of the sort." replied Brock.

In the last couple years, there has been many reports of the scientists in Pewter City getting greedy and "confiscating" the fossils from the trainers. There have been too many reports for Brock to ignore so he decided to check them out next time someone brought a fossil to get restored. This person happened to be Ash and Brock definitely wanted to investigate the possibly greedy scientists.

Brock said goodbye to his siblings and father and the two immediately left for the museum to get the fossils restored. When they got there, they paid their 50-dollar fee for entry and Ash went up to a scientist.

"Hello sir, can I get a couple fossils restored? asked Ash politely.

The scientist looked up from his book, nodded happily and let Ash behind the counter and when he wasn't looking, Brock snuck in behind him. They went to a back room with 6 large machines in it for restoring fossils and none of them were currently active. Brock was standing around the corner listening to see if the scientist did anything he shouldn't.

"Alright, let me see the fossils and I will determine if they can be revived."

Ash placed the two fossils on the table and the scientists' eyes lit up and he began to examine the fossils with a greedy look on his face. He pulled out a small machine and scanned each fossil and his mouth dropped open in shock. Ash then asked, "Can the two fossils be revived?"

The scientist looked up at Ash, and said, "These fossils are the most well-preserved fossils that have ever been found! They have 90% of their genome intact, the average fossil only has 50% or less and we restore them. I can't let you have these fossils young man. I can't let a child have these two magnificent discoveries. Leave. These are mine now and I will finally become the famous scientist I knew I could be."

Brock then came around the corner and the scientist immediately became terrified and began to stutter over his words. "B-B-B-Brock? What are you doing here? There's no need to be here, I just caught this little miscreant trying to steal my discovery and I was telling him he needed to leave."

Brock just glared at the greedy man and pulled out a recorder he was holding and played back everything the scientist had said right until he entered the room. The scientist's eyes widened and he tried to make a run for it but when he ran past Brock, he was blocked by Tyrunt standing in the middle of the hallway glaring at him. The scientist fell to the ground and passed out because he forgot this was Brock's pokemon and he wouldn't get hurt.

Brock just sighed and shook his head disappointed. He called Officer Jenny and she showed up to arrest the unconscious scientist and took him in. When this was done, another scientist was called in to replace the one that was just arrested. The other scientist was appalled to hear what the other one did. He, Jenny, Brock and Ash went to the man's office to see a practical treasure trove of fossils that were all stolen from other trainers. There was no way to identify who the fossils originally belonged to so they had to find something to do with them. Ash suggested that they revive all of the fossils and he catch them to send the pokemon back to professor Oak's Ranch so they can live peacefully and train with him if they wanted.

Officer Jenny was reluctant to just give 28 fossils to a random trainer but with one call to the Professor, the matter was decided. The professor was happy to confirm that Ash was a very good trainer and that he would happily give the fossil pokemon a home at his ranch. Brock also affirmed that Ash was a responsible trainer and Jenny finally agreed and filed a report on what was happening to the pokemon.

They got all 30 fossils to the restoration room and they decided to restore Ash's fossils first. They placed both of them and turned the machines on. First, the machine scanned the fossils and showed the DNA quality. It glowed green and listed that the jaw fossil had a remarkable 95% of its DNA intact and would need almost no alteration to fill the genes. The sail fossil machine also glowed and showed that the sail fossil had an unbelievable 98% of its DNA intact. Brock's and Ash's jaws dropped at this. They pressed start and the machines filled in the rest of the DNA sequence that needed to be filled and started the restoration progress on both fossils. The machines gave an estimated time to clone the pokemon at one hour.

Brock walked up to Ash about halfway through the restorations and said, "I'm sorry about what happened with the original scientist. I can't believe he managed to steal so many fossils just for personal gain. At least now, the pokemon will have a good trainer and a good home at the ranch."

Ash responded, "It's no problem Brock, not your fault. Yeah, I hope they all enjoy the ranch. It'll be an adjustment to live in modern times, but Oak said he's going to convert 4 acres of the ranch to mimic the habitat of prehistoric pokemon so they'll feel more comfortable. Of course, they will have free reign to interact with the other pokemon all around the ranch. They can travel all around the ranch and interact with the modern pokemon. There will even be an acre of land converted to a tundra like area for ice types, like the Amaura fossils I saw and the one being restored now."

"That's generous of him to do. That must cost a lot of money."

"It does but the professor has a lot of money from being regional professor and teaching so many students." explained Ash.

After a couple more minutes, the two machines gave a small alarm signaling that the restoration process was complete. Ash and Brock went over to the machines and the scientist opened the doors remotely (at different times to be safe). The first door that opened immediately let out a gust of cold air that made Ash and Brock both shiver and they saw this white pokemon exit the machine and look at them curiously.

It was an Amaura but this one was white instead of light blue indicating that it was a shiny pokemon. As they examined it longer, they noticed other differences between it and a regular Amaura. For one, its neck and tail were slightly longer so it wasn't short and stubby. Another thing is that its neck and back was covered in tiny ice crystals instead of only two on its side (google saltasaurus). Another thing is at the end of its tail was a small club like chunk of ice (google shunosaurus). The Amaura seemed to be generating a cool mist from its crystals giving it a very majestic look. The Amaura saw Ash and stared at him for a minute before walking over to investigate him.

It began to look him all over before smiling happily and blowing cold air onto his face and froze his hair. Ash laughed and went, "Hello Amaura, how are you feeling?". The Amaura cheered happily. "That's good, I'd imagine being restored from a fossil would mean you're more tired." Amaura was confused at what he meant, so Ash had to explain, "You were a fossil for a very long time, and we managed to revive you from the fossil.". Amaura looked back at the machine she had walked from and gave a nod of understanding after a minute of thought.

"Hello, Amaura, my name is Brock, I'm a friend of Ash's."

Amaura smiled happily and blew cold air onto him too.

Everyone was smiling at this point too and Ash went on, my name is Ash Ketchum and I'm a pokemon trainer. Amaura didn't know what that was so she just gave him a confused look. Ash saw this and explained, "A pokemon trainer catches pokemon in things called pokeballs and helps them get stronger and they fight battles against other pokemon trainers." Amaura was fascinated by the prospect despite the fact that she isn't into battling very much. "What do you think about that, I won't care if you don't like to battle." Amaura gave a happy look at the trainer and nuzzled his face and tried to say to him that she doesn't really mind, but she likes to relax more than battling.

Ash was able to somehow get this idea, "You don't mind battling but you prefer not to?" Amaura nodded its head, and Ash asked, would you like to join me and become one of my pokemon?" Amaura didn't hesitate and nodded its head excitedly. Ash smiled at her and pulled out a friend ball and tapped her on the head with it. She was absorbed into the ball and didn't resist and was immediately captured with no resistance.

Ash let her out and decided to scan her now.

Amaura- The Tundra Pokemon

This calm pokemon lived in a cold land where there were no violent predators like Tyrantrum. This pokemon was restored from a part of its body that had been frozen in ice for over 100 million years.

Sex: Female

Type: Ice/Rock

Ability: Refrigerate, Snow Warning (Snow warning)

Known Moves: Powder Snow, Thunder Wave, Rock Throw, Icy wind, Take Down, Discharge (Not unlocked yet), Haze, Mirror Coat, Hyper Voice, Water Pulse.

Note: This Amaura has different qualities from other known Amaura that are known. It has a larger amount of ice crystals than other Amaura, likely to act as a defense and cooling method for this pokemon. There is a large mass of solid ice at the end of its tail, likely for a weapon or method to break food out of ice if frozen. The white coloring suggests that this pokemon is a shiny which means that it will have more power than the average of its species. Likely will have more power and control over its ice type moves.

"Ah, you didn't have any violent predators so your species never really developed a great want to battle like other pokemon of your time. I see now why you don't really care about battling." said Ash when he saw the pokedex entry on the calm nature of the species. "If you want, I'll send you to the ranch after we restore all of the other fossils and you can meet professor Oak and see where you'll be living when you're not traveling with me. Do you want a name?" asked Ash. Amaura thought about it for a second and then nodded.

"Hmmmmm, how about Crystal? It suits you and it'll go well with all of the ice crystals on your body. What do you think?" Amaura immediately nodded to the nickname and blew an icy wind on his face.

"Hey, Ash, I think we should let the Tyrunt out so you can meet him too." interrupted Brock.

Ash nodded and recalled Amaura so the Tyrunt wouldn't be tempted to attack her. They walked over to the machine Tyrunt was in and nodded at the scientist who pressed a button and the door opened. Instead of a breeze like Amaura, all they heard was sniffing and growling that sounded confused. When the door opened, the pokemon inside turned to the open door and tackled the first thing that came into sight which happened to be Ash. The Tyrunt tackled Ash to the ground and stared at his face curiously. The Tyrunt looked a little different from Brock's Tyrunt.

This Tyrunt had more draconic features all across its body from the more complete DNA. Its skull was slightly longer than average with a small horn on its nose (ceratosaurus) and two yellow ones next to its orange horns. Its arms were a bit longer with three fingers instead of the average two, and the fingers each had larger claws on them to improve its range with arm based attacks. It got off of Ash and they noticed other things about it. Its body wasn't as closely packed as Brock's Tyrunt so he was standing more upright and his body wasn't short and horizontal as a regular Tyrunt. He was actually around the same height as Amaura which was strange because Amaura are usually twice the height of a Tyrunt but the upright position made it 3 and a half feet tall instead of two feet seven inches it usually is. Along its neck was a row of orange plates (stegosaurus) leading to its back where they merged into a short, rocky sail (spinosaurus) and then formed the plates again and went all the way to the tip of its tail.

Aside from that, it was a regular Tyrunt. And it was staring at Ash curiously.

"Hello Tyrunt, my name is Ash Ketchum and I am a pokemon trainer. A trainer is someone who catches pokemon in devices called pokeballs and trains them to be the strongest they can possibly be and battle other trainers to win." This interested Tyrunt who had an inborne urge to get stronger so he got a happy look in his eye and smiled eagerly at the idea. Ash saw this excited look and he went on, "How would you like to join me on my journey to become a pokemon master which is a trainer stronger than the rest. Their teams are considered the strongest of their respective species. How do you like the sound of that?" asked Ash.

At this point, Tyrunt was very excited and was practically jumping in place in excitement. Tyrunt heard the question and immediately began to nod at a very fast rate. Everyone saw this and began to laugh a lot.
Ash pulled out a heavy ball which is good at catching heavier pokemon. Tyrunt would be very heavy when he evolved and the Heavy ball is perfect for him. "You're going to be absorbed into this ball to catch you. Just don't resist and I'll let you out right after the catch is confirmed." Tyrunt nodded at this and Ash tapped the Heavy Ball on the dinosaur's head and he was immediately absorbed into the ball. The ball shook a couple times because Tyrunt had to adjust to being in a pokeball and finally relaxed and was caught. Ash let out Tyrunt and scanned him with his pokedex.

Tyrunt- The Royal Heir Pokemon

This pokemon was restored from a fossil. If something happens that it doesn't like, it throws a tantrum and runs wild. Its immense jaws have enough destructive force that it can chew up an automobile. It lived 100 million years ago.

Sex: Male

Type: Dragon/ Rock

Ability: Strong Jaw, Sturdy (Hidden Ability)

Known Moves: Tackle, Roar, Stomp, Bide, Stealth Rock, Bite, Dragon Dance (Not unlocked), Fire Fang, Ice Fang, Thunder Fang, Poison Fang, Dragon Pulse (Not unlocked), Iron Defense (Not unlocked), Dragon Claw, Outrage (Not unlocked), Rock Tomb, and Iron Head

Note: This Tyrunt has more draconic features than the regular Tyrunt. It has a slightly longer skull with extra horns on its head and nose. It has longer arms than the regular Tyrunt with longer claws on the end of them. It has plate like spikes on its back and a small sail made of rock. This Tyrunt also stands more upright than others of its species which has made it 3 feet 6 inches tall instead of the regular 2 feet 7 inches taller. The sail and plates on its back likely were a way to absorb heat to keep the pokemon warm and active.

Ash nodded happily and looked at Tyrunt and said, "You have a lot of potential Tyrunt and you already have a good start with you move variety, you don't have too many long-range attacks right now but we can work on that together. Tyrunt smiled and pushed Ash down and licked his entire face. "Would you like a name?" Tyrunt thought about it for a second and nodded. "How about Grimlock? It's the name of a large dinosaur robot from a TV show and movie I watch all the time. It is very large and powerful and is feared by his enemies." Tyrunt heard this and immediately agreed.

Ash smiled and recalled Grimlock and turned to Brock and the Scientist. "Now let's restore the rest of the fossils."

The rest of the day was spent reviving the fossil pokemon with only one incident. A normal Tyrunt that was just revived saw a shieldon interacting with Ash and charged to attack. Ash thankfully had Grimlock and Crystal out to get them used to modern times and to see the revival process. Tyrunt was quickly taming his hunter instinct to hunt the other pokemon and even made friends with an excitable shiny Cranidos that also liked to battle a lot.

Grimlock saw the charging Tyrunt and ran at him with iron head and stopped his charge. When the Tyrunt tried to bite Grimlock's neck, but he slammed the Tyrunt's head to the side and grabbed the Tyrunt's neck gently but hard enough to hold him in place. The Tyrunt began to growl and shake around to get away but Grimlock stopped him by slowly forming ice energy in his mouth using ice fang. With the cold pain on its neck and the firm grip Grimlock had, he submitted and stopped trying to get away. Grimlock let ago immediately and Ash healed the Tyrunt that had charged and explained the situation and the dinosaur settled down. Grimlock walked back over to Crystal and she complimented his battling skills and power to which he blushed slightly and smiled.

Besides from that, the closest thing to an incident was confusion and panic from some of the dinosaur pokemon but they settled down rather quickly.

Ash made a quick list of the pokemon they had revived besides Grimlock and Crystal.

Two Kabuto-one male, one female.

Three Omanyte-one male, two females.

Two Aerodactyls- one male, and shiny female.

Three Lileeps- two males, one female.

Three Anorith- one male, two females.

Three Cranidos- two males (one shiny), 1 female.

Three Shieldon- one male, two females.

Three Tirtouga- two males, one female.

Three Archen- shiny male, two females

Two Tyrunt- one male, shiny female

Three Amaura- one male, two females

Ash had been catching them after he explained the situation and they have been getting sent to the ranch to avoid overcrowding in the room. Oak had messaged him on his Xtransceiver thanking him for catching all of the pokemon and sending them to the ranch. When all of the fossils were revived and sent to the ranch, Ash and Brock left the museum and noticed it was no longer daytime. The moon was high in the sky and both Ash and Brock left for their respective locations. Brock went back to the gym while Ash went back to the pokemon center.

When he got there, he sent back Crystal as he promised, and he fed all of his pokemon and they all went to the room. Ash was lying to the bed, elekid was leaning against the bed fast asleep, Zephyr was asleep on a perch in the room, Mudkip was asleep in the large aquarium for water types that could hold a wailmer and not overflow, and tyrunt was curled up on one of the large cushions they have for pokemon like him to sleep on and he was upside down with his tongue was hanging out of his mouth. Hearing his team asleep slowly lulled him to sleep.

Tell me what you guys think of this chapter and what I could have done differently. The customization of the Tyrunt and Amaura was something that I thought of while writing this chapter and I hope you guys like it.

Ash's pokemon

On hand

Elekid

Pidgeotto (Zephyr)

Marshtomp

Ancient Tyrunt (Grimlock)

At the Ranch

Three pidgey- two males, one female

Ancient Amaura (Crystal)