Chapter 6: Path to Cerulean and Mountain Problems

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A/N: Sorry for the delay. I've been really busy and got burned to hell at the pool so I was in pain and not thinking about writing. I have been thinking of ideas for this story and the stories about future regions. One idea will be revealed in the next chapter and I hope you like it. There have been a lot of support and I'm loving all of it. Give me any ideas or questions you guys have and I'll get back to you in the beginning of the next chapter. In case any of you guys are curious, Ash will likely not get the ability to mega evolve pokemon until a different region. It would be way too overpowered for his first region with him still being a beginner trainer. It would be too much power too fast. Leave a review to tell me what you guys think of this decision and what region he might be able to mega evolve pokemon in. I have an idea but you might convince me to do it earlier or later.

Thank you Armorshippingfan for the continuous support and reviews. I appreciate it and I hope you stick with the story

So, let's get on with the chapter and he'll finally be leaving Pewter City this chapter.

Pewter City-One week after fossil incident

Ash has spent the past week in Pewter City training with his pokemon and making sure that Grimlock is getting used to modern times. It had been quite an adjustment for the dinosaur pokemon. He was used to having to hunt for his meals and no longer having to do that has left the pokemon with a lot of pent up energy. Ash had no idea how to make the pokemon calm down until they all started training. Grimlock loved training and jumped into it faster and with more energy than Marshtomp did when he was a Mudkip.

The day after the incident, he asked Zephyr if she wanted to go to the ranch for a while to be with her flock for a while and she nodded yes. So, he had gone to the transfer machine and called Oak and explained the situation. He remembered the phone call because it was certainly an interesting one.

Flashback-6 days ago

"Hey professor Oak, how are you?" greeted Ash.

"I'm doing just fine Ash, how are you?"

"I'm doing really good, I'd like to send Zephyr back for a while so she can be with her small flock." Explained Ash

"Oh perfect, that flock has grown a little more and it needs a leader now. A few caught pidgeys and spearows joined along with some wild pidgeys and spearows. The flock now is around 15 birds instead of the three it started with. The three that were originally in the flock have stepped up a lot and have been the basic leadership of the group. One particular spearow has been a real trouble maker."

"That's great, how is the spearow being a problem. Is it wild or is it a trainers pokemon?"

"It is a trainers pokemon and it also happens to belong to Gary. It was caught back on Gary's first day as a trainer and he sent it back two weeks ago."

Ash nodded at this. It wasn't too surprising. Spearows are known for their bad attitudes and despite the fact that Gary is still a good guy, he does have a slight attitude problem. He and Ash are still friends and they like to tease each other but Gary did have a large ego and thought he was better than he actually was. The attitude likely rubbed off on the pokemon and he was trying to take control of the flock.

"How has Zephyr's flock been doing?" asked Ash in worry.

"They are handling themselves wonderfully. The larger male pidgey which was the second in command of the flock while Zephyr was there has been defending her position as leader and has been fighting off the spearow. With all the battle those two are having, the pidgey is nearing evolution but strangely, the spearow is not. It likely did not battle very much and Gary sent it back so it has not been getting much training." explained Oak.

"I think all of these problems will be settled when Zephyr is back to keep him in check. She can even train the rest of the flock to become more powerful and she might settle the problem with Gary's spearow." said Ash.

"I agree, now just place Zephyr's fast ball in the machine and the transfer will commence." Ash nodded and placed the ball in the machine and let the machine teleport the ball back to Oak's ranch. The machine next to Oak flashed and he pulled out the ball and let out Zephyr. He explained what was going on with the flock and she was excited to meet the new members, even the troublesome spearow. Zephyr flew from Oak and went to her growing flock of bird pokemon, Ash saw Oak turn to the left, look down, and smiled and grabbed a paper from below the line of the camera.

Oak turned and saw Ash's face full of confusion. "I seemed to gain a new assistant six days ago." He then grabbed the camera and tilted it down to reveal a shieldon smiling at Oak and the camera. It recognized Ash and shouted its name in greetings. Ash just waved at the small fossil pokemon and Oak went on. "This is the male shieldon you revived a week ago and he seems to like helping around here. He wandered in the day after you sent them here and he began to bring papers from my students and assistants to me. He loves it, he gets to meet a lot of people and loves to help. He even helps me feed all the other pokemon with my students."

"Ah, I'm glad to see that he's happy and enjoying his stay at the ranch."

"Oh yes, he's one of the more social of the fossil pokemon you sent the other day. The Amaura and other shieldon are also social too. Others are just keeping to themselves and adjusting. We've had to stop the Tyrunt from hunting other trainer pokemon a couple times but that was to be expected."

"Good to hear that. I hope the others become more social in the future." Professor Oak nodded and said he had to leave because it was time to feed all the pokemon. Ash saw the professor leave with his new pokemon assistant and the phone went dark. Ash just smiled and left the phone.

After all of that he had spent the rest of the time training with his pokemon and making sure Grimlock was getting used to modern times. It only took a couple days before he was used to most of it. He did enjoy training a lot. He enjoyed the idea of getting stronger and evolving into a fierce Tyrantrum one day. He was very strong and gave Marshtomp and Elekid a run for their money in terms of strength. Marshtomp was surprised to find out that he couldn't outright overpower the dinosaur. Because of his purer DNA, he was stronger than a regular Tyrunt so he was actually able to match Marshtomp in terms of strength.

Elekid was getting jealous because he wasn't the strongest physically right now. He was still the most powerful on the team but the others have more physical strength. When he evolves, he will gain a lot of muscle and will be able to compete with the others again. He will but be the strongest physically and he has accepted this but right now, he wanted to compete. Because of all this, he has been training as hard as he can. He has yet to show any major signs of evolving except for the basic growth that pokemon display.

It has been interesting to watch all pokemon train so intensively.

Flashback end

It was finally time to leave Pewter City and Ash was ready to get back on his journey. He left the center around noon and began to leave for mount moon which leads to Cerulean City where his next gym battle is.

He had been on Route 3 for a couple hours now and he had challenged a few other trainers that he found on the way. Most had the generic pokemon like rattatta, pidgey, and oddish. There was one bug trainer that he encountered in Viridian forest and his pokemon still had not evolved from their first form. That was by far the easiest battle he had on that route. There was one trainer who had an ekans but it fell to a well-aimed rock tomb from Grimlock who had been loving the constant battles he had been receiving. They had even been challenged by some wild pokemon, a few spearows had challenged them, one brave pidgey and a couple nidorans that Ash was tempted to catch but decided not to.

As they were getting ready to rest up for a while, Ash and Grimlock saw a small pink pokemon Ash identified as a jigglypuff. He remembered that Oak had asked him to catch any jigglypuff or clefairy if he saw any for the professor to study. The two were mysterious pokemon because for years, they had been referred to as normal type pokemon but the two species had a large influx of fairy type energy in their bodies suddenly and were reclassified as fairy type pokemon. Clefairy had more fairy type energy and it burned off the normal typing so it was now a pure fairy type while jigglypuff is only half fairy type and still has its normal typing as well.

Ash looked between the jigglypuff and Grimlock and nodded his head in the pink pokemon's direction quickly. Grimlock understood what it meant and ran over to battle the jigglypuff. It starter off by roaring to get its attention and it startled the pink creature. It turned and glared at the dinosaur for scaring it. First thing the jigglypuff did was unleash a barrage of pink sound waves at Grimlock and Ash yelled, "That's disarming voice, dodge!" ordered Ash

Grimlock was barely able to doge the sound waves but one still clipped his leg and made him yell in pain. Grimlock gave the smaller pokemon an evil glare and charged at it with its claws glowing a bright green using dragon claw. "No, dragon claw won't work, it's immune to dragon moves!" Unfortunately, Grimlock didn't hear him and the dragon energy faded two feet before he hit it. The jigglypuff laughed at this and unleashed a point blank disarming voice right into his face and chest. The dinosaur pokemon was sent flying by the super-effective move and landed in front of Ash panting and cringing in pain. "Dragon type moves won't work on it." warned Ash. Grimlock got up and nodded and waited for Ash's orders.

The jigglypuff saw him standing and made her frustrated that he wasn't down yet, so she charged up for a second and released a disarming voice twice the size of the last two to try to finish him off. The Tyrunt saw this and began to panic and Ash was thinking of what to do before it hit him. An idea suddenly popped into his head, "Try to deflect it by charging into it with Iron head and Roar at the same time!". Grimlock looked uncertain about this and Ash said, "Trust me". Grimlock gained a determined look in his eyes after hearing this and began to gather steel type energy in the top of his head. When he gathered it all in his head, he began to charge at the sound waves and let loose a loud roar to counter the move. The Roar and disarming voice clashed and began to fight for dominance with no clear winner before slammed his steel covered head into the sounds. The dinosaur pokemon broke right through the fairy type sound waves and kept charging at the jigglypuff.

The pink pokemon gained a fearful look on its face and then paled when she heard Ash yell, "Slam it into the air with iron head and catch it using poison fang!" Grimlock grinned while charging and lowered his head a little more. He slammed into the jigglypuff and threw her into the air and when she came down, his jaws turned a dangerous purple and bit the pokemon very hard and threw her away. Ash saw that the jigglypuff had a purple tinge on its cheeks and knew that it was poisoned.

Ash knew this was the perfect time to catch the poor pokemon and threw a regular pokeball at it and sucked it inside. The ball shook for a minute as the pokemon fought to escape but it clicked in a successful capture. Ash pressed a few buttons on his pokedex and the pokeball glowed white and teleported to Oak's lab. He then sent a message to Oak and put his pokedex away.

"Good job, buddy, I'm proud of you."

Suddenly, Ash heard slow clapping behind him and turned to see none other than Gary Oak, walking over to him. "Good battle, Ash, Gramps ask you to catch jigglypuff and Clefairy for him too?" asked the young Oak?

Ash smiled, "Yeah, talked to him earlier this week, he asked me then. Speaking of your Grandfather, he said that a spearow you caught it giving a couple of my pokemon problems."

Gary just shook his head and sighed, "That insufferable bird, of course he is. I caught him on route one and he's been completely disobedient and thinks he's the batter than all the other pokemon on my team. He kept attacking me and my team without reason and I got tired of it so I sent it to the ranch to see if Gramps could do anything about it."

"Ah, yeah, I caught a shiny pidgey on route one and her flock wanted to come with so I caught them too. He has been fighting the second in command of the flock for leadership while I've had the leader with me. I sent her back earlier this week to be with her flock for a while and to see if she can do something about the spearow. She evolved a while ago so she shouldn't have much trouble with solving the problem with the birds."

Gary sighed in relief, "Oh good, maybe your Pidgeotto can put that angry bird in his place and maybe he'll actually listen to me. His ego is out of control." Gary turned to Ash and saw the deadpan look on his face and defended himself, "I know my ego is pretty big but I know when I've been defeated and when I should relent."

Ash just shrugged and said, "Hey, Gary, how about a battle? Two on two because Grimlock is tired and hurt from his battle against the jigglypuff."

Gary agreed to the two on two after seeing the condition the dragon type dinosaur pokemon was in. "Alright, two on two, I hope you're ready to lose."

Gary and Ash went to opposite sides of the clearing they were in and released their first pokemon. Ash sent out Marshtomp and Gary sent out a powerful looking Nidorina. Both trainers smirked and ordered their attacks. Nidorina launched a large poison sting and jumped at Marshtomp with double kick. Marshtomp retaliated with water pulse to blow away the stings but a few of them got through and injected poison into his body. He then used ancient power so stop the double kick. He then surprised her by using Earth power where she landed and unleased the power when she landed. The super-effective move threw the nidorina into the air, and Gary ordered poison tail. The nidorina righted herself midair and gathered poison energy into her small tail and used the momentum to slam it into Marshtomp's face and knocked him over.

Marshtomp slowly got up and looked like he was going to pass out any second. Marshtomp glared at nidorina and used one last move to hurt nidorina. He took a deap breath and used ice beam. Nidorina was so surprised by the sudden move, that it slammed into her face and knocked her out cold (Hah Pun….Sorry). Marshtomp gave a victorious smirk before falling and passing out. Both trainers recalled their unconscious pokemon and each sent out their starter pokemon.

Gary sent out his wartortle and Ash sent out elekid. "So that's the pokemon Gramps gave you when he ran out of starters. You might have they type advantage but don't you dare underestimate us."

"Wouldn't dream of it, let's get this show on the road!"

"Use withdraw and rapid spin!"

"Low kick to trip him up and use shock wave!"

Both pokemon followed their commands and wartortle went into his shell and began to spin with intent to slam into elekid with his shell but elekid had other plans. When wartortle almost hit him, elekid dipped down and kicked the flying shell and made it spin uncontrollably, when the spinning stopped, wartortle came out of his shell with a small bruise and was very dizzy. When this happened, elekid sent out a wave of electricity that washed over wartortle and made it scream out in pain.

"Use dragon pulse and merge it with aura sphere so that it does not miss him." Wartortle launched the sphere of green dragon energy that had some blue in it from aura sphere. The sphere of energy began to chase elekid around and he had no idea what to do and Ash was clueless too. Eventually, the ball of energy caught up with elekid and slammed into him and exploded sending him into a large rock dealing massive damage. Elekid slowly got up from the brutal attack and glared at wartortle.

Gary smirked and said, "That's a good combo, use it again to finish this."

Wartortle smirked as well and charged up the same attack again and launched it at elekid.

"Use quick attack to run away and use our trump card to turn this battle around!"

Elekid smiled at his trainer's smart idea and began to run around avoiding the sphere and as the sphere got faster and closer, elekid changed direction. He began to run right at Wartortle. This freaked out Gary and wartortle because they didn't know what was going on. Elekid was getting closer and closer to wartortle with the sphere of energy catching up to him faster every second and right before elekid could ram into wartortle, he disappeared and then reappeared directly behind wartortle. It was at this point that Gary and wartortle realized just how fast the sphere of energy was chasing elekid and it slammed into wartortle.

Ash thought he won right there, but when the smoke cleared, it showed a heavily damaged wartortle emerging from his shell and slowly facing elekid with a furious glare. Ash and elekid had managed to turn that powerful combo move against them by teleporting right behind wartortle and using the seeking property of the move to hurt wartortle instead. It was genius but not they were both mad.

Suddenly, wartortle's eyes dilated and water began to form around him in massive quantities. Both Ash and elekid gained a scared look on their faces because they knew what this meant. "It's ability torrent activated, water moves are extremely powerful now!"

Gary smiled widely and yelled, "Now, use Water Spout!"

Ash's jaw dropped open. Water spout was one of the, if not the strongest water type move known. And with torrent activated, along with Wartortle's low health meant that if this move managed to hit, it would deal monumental damage and take elekid out of the fight. Wartortle yelled his name loudly and launched a volley of large water drops into the sky to take out elekid. Ash then yelled out in one last stand, "Elekid, try to use thunderbolt!". Elekid began to concentrate on the electricity in his body and pushed himself as hard as he possibly could. His entire body was sparking as he was spinning his arms as fast as he could to charge more and more electricity until he was glowing with electricity. Then he stopped, faced Ash, smile and unleashed all of the electricity he could at Wartortle. What flew at wartortle was easily the same size as a smaller thunderbolt. It will one day be mastered and it will be even more powerful when he evolves. Right now, elekid can't store much electricity in his body for long ranged attacks like this.

Both attacks flew at their opponents and neither pokemon could muster the energy to move out of the way. The giant water drops slammed into elekid and knocked him out with no trouble or resistance. At the same time, the thunderbolt that elekid launched hit Wartortle and instantly electrocuted him into unconsciousness.

Both trainers saw their pokemon knocked out and recalled them back to their balls. The two trainers walked up to each other's and shook hands. "Good battle, Ash, next time, there wont be a tie." said Gary.

"You're right about that. It was a good battle, I'm surprised Wartortle knows water spout. It was luck that elekid managed to use Thunderbolt."

"I was surprised to learn about water spout too, he just managed to unlock it the other day. I'm surprised that he managed to use it so well. I think he finally perfected it."

Ash smiled and nodded, "That's good, me and elekid will have to work quite a bit to perfect thunderbolt, it was surprising he managed to use it as well as he did."
"I see. Well, good luck man, I'm going to go get my pokemon healed at the center by the mountain. Good luck on your journey." Gary said. Gary then left Ash alone in the clearing and went on his way to the pokemon center. Ash decided to relax in the clearing before heading to the center himself.

Ash let out his pokemon that just battled and gave them a basic revive to wake them up. They both woke up and looked down in disappointment at the fact that they didn't win the battle. "Don't look like that guys, we tied with him, that's not bad for the third week of our journey. This means that we're going to have to train harder so we definitely beat him next time." Both pokemon perked up at this and got a fiery gleam in their eyes ready to get training. "We'll start training after we find the center and get through the mountain. It shouldn't take us more than a few hours to get through the mountain." All the pokemon nodded, and they relaxed in the clearing for about an hour.

After about an hour in the clearing, the group decided to start moving again. Ash recalled all of them into their balls and it took about 20 minutes for him to get to the pokemon center. He gave his pokemon to the Nurse Joy in charge of the center and went over the video phone to call his mother. She answered the phone after a couple rings and was ecstatic to hear that Ash had won his first gym battle. She had heard all about the fiasco with the fossil pokemon and wanted to talk about it.

"I'm glad to hear that you're the one who caught all of the fossil pokemon I've seen around the lab and occasionally exploring Pallet with a couple of Oak's students. A couple of them have taken a liking to me as well."

Ash gave her a confused look before seeing the shiny male Archen, one of the female Archen, the shiny female Tyrunt, and the female regular Amaura shoved their faces into view of the camera to see Ash. All four of them yelled their names in greeting because they recognized their trainer's face.

"Ah, I'm glad they're making friends there." Ash said happily.

"Oh, yes, they are very nice and help around at the restaurant." Delia said.

"That's nice, what do they do?" Ash asked.

"The two Archen help me deliver the orders to the cook and they love to interact with the customers and keep them company. Children especially love them, they play with the two pokemon as they and their parents wait for their food. Amaura likes to stay by the fridge and freezer and she helps keep the whole place cool on hot days. She uses an Icy Wind into the freezer every now and then to make sure everything is frozen. She also loves playing with children. Tyrunt here, is my little protector and guardian. Every now and then, a customer will get too rowdy and aggressive and Tyrunt will correct their behavior. The other day, one of those biker gang idiots was getting impatient and began to threaten me and my staff and she charged in and dragged him out by his jacket and threw him out of the restaurant. Her favorite spot is to rest outside of the restaurant and bask in the sun. She can listen inside the restaurant and is always ready to stop an incident. They've all been very nice. I appreciate everything they've been doing to help me."

"I'm glad that they've found things to do and they are enjoying themselves. Now, I have to go get my pokemon, Bye, Mom, take care, love you."

Ash and his mother said goodbye to each other and Ash left to get his pokemon from the nice Nurse. Ash then left the Center and entered the mountain using the main path that was carved long ago for trainers. Ash had encountered the occasional trainer in the cave. There was one strange bug trainer, and a few hikers around. Elekid has been volunteering for most of the battles in the cave because he wanted to get stronger and evolve. He has fought off geodudes and one large onix that thankfully did not know explosion. He had now mastered power-up punch and enjoyed combining it with his other punching moves. He had been working on mastering thunderbolt on the zubat in the cave.

It had been about 4 hours in the dark cave and Ash thought he was getting close to the edge of the cave. He was about to turn a corner when he heard someone saying something suspicious. "Archer is very happy with our progress so far, we've captured like 15 trainers and their pokemon. The last boy had a powerful wartortle and it will become a powerful rocket pokemon." Said one of the people now revealed to be members of Team Rocket.

"I know right, dibs on that Ivysaur that one girl had, it managed to defeat Ryan's Rhyhorn."

Ash managed to hide in time and said to elekid, "Use a weak Thundershock on those two to knock them out." Elekid nodded and launched a small stream of electricity and knocked the two out instantly. "I hope nobody noticed that, let's try to get the other trainers away from Team Rocket."

The two ran down the corridor and entered a large area with some tents with a large R on them and on the other side, there was a large cage filled with people Ash assumed to be the captured trainers. There was a larger tent near the exit of the cave that Ash assumed held the leader of the operation. He saw there was only 12 rocker grunts walking around the camp patrolling. Inside one of the tents, he saw there was a pile of pokeballs on a table with a man next to it writing on a clipboard. He didn't see any grunts anywhere in the camp except for the two elekid knocked out earlier.

Ash and elekid snuck over to the cage that had two grunts in front of it. He ordered eleid to use a weak brick break to knock the grunts out and Ash was barely able to stop them from falling loudly to the ground and alerting the others.

A couple of the trainers looked outside the cage they were in and saw Ash standing with elekid. One trainer in particular saw this and perked up, "Ash, get us out of here." Whispered the trainer. Ash looked and saw none other than Gary and Leaf looking at him.

"Will do, elekid, use brick break on the lock to quietly break it." The yellow pokemon nodded and broke the lock. The other trainers left the rocket cage and quietly ran to the tent with their pokemon in it. They entered the tent and the scientist saw them and was about to run out of the tent but when he turned, he saw Grimlock staring at him. Ash nodded to elekid and the pokemon shocked the poor guy unconscious.

"Everyone, grab your pokeballs and let's take out these stupid rockets. All of the trainers found the pokeballs that belonged to them. Every trainer ran out of the tent and released all of their pokemon. Gary released his wartortle and Leaf unleashed her Ivysaur. The rockets began to notice and they all unleased their pokemon which were weak pokemon like Zubat and rattattas. There was one man with a large Rhyhorn that Leaf immediately singled out and ran at him with Ivysaur right behind her.

Chaos erupted in the cave as the two groups and their pokemon collided in battle. The battle seemed to be largely in the favor of the captured trainers. Right as they last of the rocket pokemon were falling, a large fire blast flew into the crowd of pokemon and knocked out many of the trainers pokemon. A few were still standing like Ash's and Gary's pokemon but a couple were struggling.

Ash and Gary turned to see a man in a white business suit with a red R on his chest. Next to him was a large Houndoom with fire in its jaws. The man began to talk, "Oh, we have a hero her, do we? Young man, you should not interfere in the affairs of your elders."

"Are you Archer? Team Rocket is an abomination and should be stopped. They abused pokemon for their personal gain. It is sick, twisted and needs to be stopped."

The man just smirked and shook his head slowly, "I am Archer, I am an executive of Team Rocket and we will one day run the Kanto Region."

"I'm going to stop you guys right here!" yelled Ash angrily.

Archer just rolled his eyes, smirked and sadistically said, "Of course you will you stupid little hero, Houndoom, Kill!"

Ash's eyes widened as the Houndoom howled and jumped at Ash with his mouth covered in fire. Elekid tried to stop the dog with power-up punch and mega punch at the same time. The Houndoom just moved his head to the side and grabbed elekid's arm with him flaming mouth. Elekid began to scream in pain as the Houndoom's teeth sunk in. The Houndoom just bit harder and threw him at Ash and knocked him out. Elekid slammed into Ash and knocked both of them over. Ash got up and saw that elekid was unconscious and recalled him and turned to see Houndoom slowly walking at him like a hunting animal.

When the Houndoom was 6 feet away, it pounced at Ash with intent to kill. In a last ditch effort to save himself, Ash held his right arm in front of him and the Houndoom grabbed his arm with his razor sharp teeth. Ash screamed in pain as the Houndoom bit into his arm painfully. Ash knew that if he survived this, he was going to have a large scar on his arm. The Houndoom released his arm and tackled the 15-year-old to the ground and snarled in his face. When the Houndoom tackled Ash, the claws on his front legs slashed across his face from above his right eye, across his nose, and down to his chin on the left side of his face. Ash was laying under the Houndoom, bleeding, and looking into the face of death. Ash was slowly falling unconscious when he saw Houndoom lowering his mouth to Ash's throat ready to tear it out. Before the demonic hound could bite into his throat, Ash saw it look up suddenly and was slammed into by a large metal arm.

Ash was drifting into unconsciousness when he saw a man with silver hair stand next to the metal pokemon and look down at him. He saw the man reach into his suit pocket and called a number with an urgent look on his face. At this point, Ash finally passed out.

Time skip- 4 days

Ash was laying in a white bed in what looked like a hospital room and he then began to stir from his sleep. Ash slowly began to wake up and saw that he was in a bright white room with no decorations or anything else in it except for a large number of machines next to his bed. When he was fully awake, he began to panic and tried to disconnect himself from the machines. When this happened, the machines began to make a loud noise and a nurse Joy ran into the room with a Chansey by her side. Ash began to calm down when he saw her and stopped trying to disconnect himself.

The nurse started the conversation by saying, "Don't rip the machines away, we can disconnect them now that you are awake but we will do it calmly."

Ash nodded and let the Nurse disconnect the machines from himself. "Nurse Joy, where am I, how did I get here?"

"You are in the Cerulean City hospital and you were brought here by the person who rescued you."

Right after she said that, the man with the silver hair walked into the room with Ash's pokemon belt with all of his pokeballs on it still. The man saw that Ash was awake and said, "Oh, you are awake, I'm glad to hear it. It's a good thing me and Metagross got there when we did or we would have lost you." He saw Ash look at the belt and start to talk, "Before you ask, your team is perfectly fine except you elekid will have a scar on his arm from the bite."

Ash deflated in relief and looked at the man, "Who are you?"

The mystery man smiled and said, "My name is Steven Stone."

Finally done with this chapter. Sorry for the delay. Like I said in the beginning, I got pretty badly burned while at the pool and didn't really start writing the chapter til yesterday.

So tell me what you guys think about what happened this chapter and tell me if you guys have any ideas for me. What do you guys think about how I integrated the fossil pokemon into the story a little more than them just being at the Ranch. So I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I will likely have the next chapter out within two days of now.