Doing Things Differently
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon. I own only the characters that show up when Ash is wondering certain regions and gets certain Pokemon. I own the characters there.
Summary: Ash is given Pikachu in the beginning. What if Pikachu ditches him in his time of need. What is another pokemon takes place of his starter. He takes to the world differently and is colder. He wants to be the best of trainers. Watch out world.
Answers:
Alright people Ash is gonna get more pokemon in the future. Right now though, he is gonna train them and look into some breeding. Also, I might not be updating for a while. I'll keep updating. I'll just be busy helping with an art project.
Pokemon Ash has so far:
Fearow:Talon (male)
Gyarados: Mystic (female)
Cloyster: Gem (female)
Arbok: Naga (female)
Primeape: Champ (male)
Pinsir: Spike (male)
Beedrill: Videl (female) mothers pokemon
Sandslash: Quake (male)
Clefable: Tinker (female)
Persian: Bastet (female)
Espeon: Evlon (female)
Nidoran: Queen (female) mothers pokemon
Steelix: Diamond (female)
Poliwrath: Wav (male)
Bulbasaur: Alpha (male)
Charmander: Torch (male)
Squirtle: Shades (male)
Squirtle: Munch (male) mothers pokemon\
Krabby: Crush (male)
Magby: Volcan (male)
Gyarados: Triton (male)
Slowpoke: Oni (male)
Seadra: Spirit (male)
Tangrowth: Fern (female)
Ralts: Rune (male)
Cubone: Rattle (male)
Gengar: Sly (male)
Golduck: Einstein (male)
Muk: Grim (male)
Magnemite: Sparks (male)
Rapidash:Dash (female)
Tauros: Rodeo (male)
Rhyhorn: Pazder (male)
Parasect: Spura (female) mothers pokemon
Doduo: Trio (male)
Venonat: Rura (female)
Goldeen: Koi (female) mothers pokemon
Dratini: Marine (female)
Pikachu: Small One (female)
Egg: Eevee
Ash is a ladies man... Has more girls then Brock will ever get. ;)
Listed is what I think could work in the next chapter:
Aerodactyl
Kabutops
Omastar
What do you think? Name any others you would think will work with him and this story.
Chapter 21
Exeggutor, Paras, Jigglypuff
Pokemon!
Last Time on Starting Things Differently:
When everyone got back with the pokemon. The guests were squealing in joy that they had their pokemon back. Ash smiled at this action. He sighs and notices Sparky walking towards him with Evlon beside him. Ash ran towards her and she runs to him. He notices Sparky watching them. "Did they do it?" Ash questioned. Sparky smirked, "Here you go Ash." Sparky said handing him a brown egg. Ash took it gently and smiled at Sparky. "Thanks. I promise to take good care of it." Sparky laughed, "Just remember to tell others who want to look at the Eevee or it's evolution in the future. Tell them that my Jolteon is the sire." Ash nodded at this, "Will do Sparky." They did a handshake.
As everyone does cheers with drinking glasses. Everyone starts to congratulate Mikey on his first battle victory. Mikey thanks them all. He turns to Misty and thanks her for helping him. He blushes as he gives her a flower. Misty smiles at this action. They shake pinky fingers and promise to be friends forever. Misty takes the flower and says that it is beautiful. She tells Mikey that she is sure that he will become a great Eevee Trainer.
As the brothers toss Mikey in the air and catch him a few times. Mikey is laughing at this action the whole time. Misty says that it must be great having three older brothers. Ash smiles and ruffles Tomo's hair at this action. Tomo grins up at him and looks to see the older brothers tossing Mikey. He is glad to have Ash as his big brother. He was also excited to evolve his pokemon later. He definably knew that Ash was looking forward to it.
Everyone was all lined up for a picture. Ash's Gengar clicks a button to take a picture and quickly zooms into it's spot before the camera takes a picture of all of the Trainers and their Pokémon. It got beside Ash at the right amount of time. Everyone smiled and laughed when the photo was done.
Present:
Ash and the gang were now at a town which currently had a carnival going on. They were happy to relax and have fun. They had ran into a Snorlax and two wannabe gym leaders. Ash was happy at this event. He currently kept changing his teams like crazy during those events. He was glad to get his Horsea to become Seadra in the times of training. Ash smiled at that. He evolved his Poliwhirl in that time too. He was content to have a Poliwrath. He mentally patted himself on the back for that. He was also glad to have trained his Krabby. He had a feeling with just a bit more training it'll become a Kingler. So far he was content with how his other training was going. Ash also looked down at his new egg. He couldn't believe he breeded his Espeon. He smiled and rubbed her egg. "Well, I can't wait to meet you little one. If your anything like your mommy then you'll be a great pokemon." Ash said to the egg gently.
The gang was now splitting up for their own time for the carnival. Ash and Tomo were laughing as they ran to go play some games and get on some rides. Brock went over to the food court and check out the sights. Misty was sighing and went to go see some shows playing. She was having a blast when she heard something.
Misty looked over to notice a woman shouting at a man with an Exeggcute beside him. "What's going on?" She questioned. She watched the as woman was shouting something about a payment the man owes her. He kept tell her that he would in the future when his show becomes good. The women grunts at this. The man crawls up to her and tells her that he needs her. She growls at this then she shoves him back into a box. She snorts at this and walks away. "Some magician!"
Misty frowns at this seeing his crestfallen face. She walks up to check on him, "Excuse me? Are you alright?" She said in concern. He gets up, "Your a kind person. Aren't you?" He asks. Misty sweat-drops, "I like to think, I am." She said with a nervous smile. He gets up and asks her if she'll be his assistant for his magic show. He told her that since his previous assistant just quit. He then introduced himself as Melvin . Misty looked at him weird till he brought a hand to her face. She watched in awe as he conjured some flowers and flags. He told her his dream to be a Master Magician. Seeing his hopeful face, Misty agrees to help him with his act. She then looked him straight in the eye saying that she would help for just today. Melvin thanked you for her kindness.
It was the start of his magic show. Misty is forced to wear a leotard adorned with Goldeen fins. She was heavily embarrassed by this action. She was happy to know that only 4 people showed up to the show. She smiled to herself at this. Unfortunately to her great sadness, Ash, Tomo and Brock arrive at the show then. They took one look at her and laughed. "That's a real cute outfit Misty!" Ash said with a smirk. Misty blushed, "Ketchum!" She growled out. Ash waved her off then went to sit down as he noticed the crowd acting up. He and the guys sat down to watch the show. Ash hugged his Eevee egg to himself. Melvin starts the show by showing his egg pokemon. Ash smiled and pulled out his pokedex at this.
Pokedex Exeggcute: An Egg Pokémon. Although it resembles an egg, it is known to be more closely related to the seed of a plant.
Melvin then starts to juggle his Exeggcute for his first act. Ash sweat-drops, "This is magic?" He said in boredom. Brock grunted, "Boring!" Tomo yawned at this and hugged the stuffed Kangaskhan he won. During this time everyone, even Misty is thinking this act is boring. Melvin noticed his crowd getting annoyed. He saw them getting ready to leave. He then pulls out a wand and a tiny flame comes out. The crowd falls back at this lame act. "What the hell was that?!" Ash exclaimed. Then more exclamations like "That was pathetic!" started to be heard.
Melvin then tries again with his fire act. Everyone watched as a huge jet of flame comes out. Melvin is entranced at this. Misty tells him to be careful of the fire act. Melvin ignores her response as he's so thrilled the trick actually worked. Seeing this action the fire sprinkler system in the building activates. It then drenches the audience. The audience gets pissed at this. Ash growled, "I kinda want my money back... This is lame..." Ash stated. Brock and Tomo nodded getting up soaked. They ringed out their shirts leaving the stands.
Outside of the tent. Melvin gets fired because of the stunt. He drops down to his knees and wants to give up all his dreams. Ash snorts at this, "Wow... He needs to think of back ups." Misty frowned at him, "Ash go help him. You have a dream too." She said to him. Ash glanced at her and sighs, "Alright. I'll see what, I can do." Tomo smiled at this knowing his big brother was good at problem solving. Ash walks over and talks to Melvin. He sees the pathetic mess, "Get up and be a man!" Ash shouted with his hands on his hips. Melvin looks up at him, "I'm a hopeless magician." Ash snorts, "Then learn some new tricks. You just can't quit." He then promises to give him some tips to become better. "Alright, I'll give it a try!" Melvin says with a smile. He shows them a new trick. It was a flower appearing trick. It seemed to work making the gang smile. Then they frowned soon after words as Melvin's flowers died. "The flowers are dead." Brock said in surprise. "So is his act." Misty commented. Ash frowned, "Alright! I'll show you some magic of my own!" Melvin and the gang blink at him. Ash then smirks at Melvin.
Ash was standing on a stand in front of Melvin who was sitting in a chair. Ash smirks at him making Melvin nervous. "I'll show you a magic trick... It's not really something easy. But it'll work as one." Ash commented to him. Melvin nods to Ash as his egg pokemon look at him curiously. Ash nods and stares intently at Melvin's chair. His hair starts to stand up and his eyes started to glow blue. Melvin freezes at this. Ash started to stare more intently into the chair Melvin is sitting in and to the amazement of everyone watching starts to levitate it. Tomo couldn't believe his big brother could do that. Ash was growling keeping it afloat. Melvin yelped when he noticed his chair was floating. He looked over to Ash in great surprise. "How are you doing that?!" He exclaimed. Ash then spoke sounding like a echo was with him, "Psychic powers. I've been training with my Ralts and my other psychic pokemon to learn this stuff. People can become psychic's too." Ash commented as he levitate Melvin's chair down. When it was safely to the ground Melvin ran over to Ash and hugged him. "That was amazing! You could become a famous magician with that act!" He said in delight. Ash shook his head having a head ache, "I don't want to be. I want to be a famous pokemon trainer."
Ash was now drinking a water bottle after his little show. He was polishing his Eevee egg at the same time. He couldn't believe he had another thing to hold once more. He was smiling at this since Rune got to big for him. He was glad to have him in a poke ball now. He heard a noise beside him and looked to see Melvin's Exeggcute. Ash smiled at the pokemon and placed his egg on a blanket. He looked to Melvin and commented that his Exeggcute was cool. He asked if they knew any cool attacks. As he said that the Exeggcute chants at him. Ash blinks at this and stares at it. It stares back at Ash and uses it's Hypnosis on him. Ash's world then became dark. His eyes become hollow as he was now under control from the Exeggcute.
His friends notice him all still and quiet. "Stop staring at the Exeggcute Ash! A staring contest isn't gonna get you anywhere." Misty shouted. Melvin agrees, "I'd like all of you to stop right now." He said to his Exeggcute. Ash perks up at this, "Ok..." He said in monotone. Melvin looks at Ash weirdly, "Hmm?" He looked to his Exeggcute and the silent Ash. He then looks at Ash, "Run around 3 times acting like a Growlithe." Ash then did so yelping like the puppy pokemon. His friends are speechless at this event. Tomo frowns, "What is big brother doing?" His friends shrug wondering what was wrong with their friend. Melvin then realizes that he had Ash under his control. He smirked at this realizing the power he had at his command. He and Ash sneak away from Ash's friends.
Melvin then commands Ash to pull him into the Leaf Forest. Ash doesn't fight this action at all since he hated weak people. Which showed that he was under deep hypnosis. Team Rocket sees Melvin and Ash. They laugh to themselves seeing that the magician had the twerp under a spell. Team Rocket starts to follow them.
Brock, Misty and Tomo are on the look out for Melvin and Ash. Misty was hugging Ash's Eevee egg knowing that he would never leave it. They wondered why Ash would go with Melvin. They knew Ash didn't stand people like him. Misty then realizes that Ash was hypnotized under the effects of Hypnosis. "The Exeggcute has Ash under their control" Misty said in shock. Brock frowns, " They belong to Melvin. So they're doing whatever Melvin is making him do." Brock said in anger for his best friend. Tomo gets on the ground and starts to sniff. Much to Brock and Misty's embarrassment. Tomo's eyes widened at this, "He went that way! His scent is leading that way!" Tomo said getting up. Brock frowned, "Scent? You can smell us?" Tomo sheepishly smiled, "Yeah. All of you have different scents." Brock frowns at this. Misty blushes, "What's our smells?!" Tomo blushed and found the ground interesting, "Misty has a water lily smell. Brock smells of basil herbs and big bro smells like cinnamon spice." He said rushed. The group blinks at this. They shook that thought away knowing they needed to find Ash. They shouted at Tomo to follow the trail.
Inside the forest with Ash and Melvin. He orders Ash to stop the wagon he was pulling. They stop at a Leaf Forest that is full of Exeggutor. "I want you to use your pokedex and tell me what's those pokemon." He said with greed. Ash nods and pulls out his pokedex.
Pokedex Exeggutor: A Coconut Pokémon. Also known as the walking tropical rain forest. Each coconut has a distinct face and its own character. Its special attack is Hypnosis.
Melvin smirks at this, "I would now like you to battle all the Exeggutor for me." Ash nods at him seeing that he was under deep hypnosis. "Alright. Volcan, Torch, Rattle. Attack." Ash said in monotone. His pokemon come out and attack the tree pokemon. While each Exeggutor that Ash's pokemon had weaken. Melvin would then catch them. Soon they had the entire mob of pokemon. Ash returned his tired pokemon. Melvin was currently looking at his whole army of Exeggutor in glee. Melvin starts talking about becoming a great magician with the Exeggutor hypnoising his audience into coming to his show. He said this would be his start to stardom. Team Rocket show's up at this time. "In your dreams." Jessie stated. Melvin looks to see Team Rocket doing their motto.
Jessie: Prepare for trouble!
James: Make it double!
Jessie: To protect the world from devastation!
James: To unite all people within our nation!
Jessie: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
James: To extend our reach to the stars above!
Jessie: Jessie!
James: James!
Meowth: Meowth! That's right!
Team Rocket did their own magic entrance. "That was great!" Melvin said liking their entrance. Team Rocket made fun of him which makes him feel sad. They told Melvin that he sucked at as a magician and then tie him up.
His Exeggcute growled at them. It glared at them when it's trainer was tied up. It chanted at them. They started to call it a uselesss pokemon. They watched in horror as it evolves into an Exeggutor without warning. It stared at them and then started to use it's Hypnosis on Team Rocket. The other Exeggutor around them copy this and end up hypnotizing each other. Melvin thanks them and notices all the coconut pokemon are in a deep trance. He goes to asks are the fine when he yelps being trampled on. The Exeggutor start running. The hypnosis causes them to go on a rampage toward the town. Jessie, James, and Meowth are hypnotized into believing they are Exeggutor. They soon follow the herd.
Brock, Tomo, and Misty show up. They stopped when they spotted Ash and Melvin. Brock runs over to check on Melvin. Tomo and Misty run to check up on Ash. They wanted to see if they were fine after being trampled by the marching Exeggutor. Tomo starts to slap his big brother awake. Ash awakens at this response with a yelp, "OW! What the hell man!" Ash shouted in rage. Tomo smiles and hugs his big bro. Ash blinks at this action and wondered what happened. He doesn't remember a thing. Everyone is happy to know that, Ash is no longer hypnotized.
The five of them head for town where they see that the carnival has been almost entirely destroyed. They discover the Exeggutor mob is turning around and coming back their way. The carnival owner tells them he's planted a time bomb so that when the Exeggutor come back they'll be blown up. Ash and the crew are horrified by this. They decide to try to stop the Exeggutor before they reach the bomb. Ash glares at this, "We need help! I choose you! Volcan! Torch! Evlon! Marine!" Ash was his attempt to stop the herd. Ash commands them all to attack. He orders his Magby and Charmander to use their Flame attacks. He orders his Espeon to Psybeam them. He ordered his Dratini to use it's Flame thrower attack that he taught it. He saw Torch was getting stronger the more he attacked.
Ash noticed right away that each of his pokemon's fire attacks successfully stopped some of the Exeggutor. He ordered them to kept it up. Soon they are quickly becoming exhausted at this. Everyone noticed the Exeggutor keep charging forward. Ash gripped his Eevee egg in panic. He wanted to desperately help the Exeggutor, but it was becoming clear that it was to much to handle.
Misty tries to convince Melvin to use his fire trick to stop the Exeggutor. She tells him that this trick is the way to make himself a better magician. He's still positive he'll fail. Melvin still tries anyway. The trick ends up working to everyone's amazement and happiness. They all watched that together with Ash's pokemon they stop the Exeggutor. Ash ruffles Tomo's hair as the small boy hugged Ash's leg in panic from earlier.
Melvin's Exeggutor returns to him in happiness. This resulted in Melvin running up to it and giving it a hug. The gang laughed at this action.
The time bomb then goes off just a distance away destroying the carnival. They all found to their relief that no one gets hurt from the blast. "Thank god everyone was evacuated from the carnival." Brock said to them all.
Ash was happy to know that everyone was fine and safe. He ran to his pokemon and checked for their safety. He noticed his Charmander was acting funny. He widened his eyes seeing it glow. Everyone was in shock. They all watched as it evolved into a Charmeleon. Ash smiled at the sight of Torch. "Congratulations Torch! You look amazing. I can't wait to see how you'll be in fights!" Ash said in glee as he went to hug his fire lizard. To the horror of everyone watching, Torch shoot a flame thrower to Ash's face. Ash yelped at this action in shock as he tries to sooth his burnt hair. Ash stares at Torch with uncertainty at this . He then started to question its loyalty to him now.
Mean while Team Rocket is getting carried away by the Exeggutor much to their dismay. The gang was now getting ready to continue on their journey. Ash was walking along the road lost in his thoughts. He starts to think of his Charmeleon and wonders what will be the answer for it's behavior. Ash didn't want to distrust it as he was getting better at trusting pokemon more. He'd guess that he would have to see what the answer will be. His friends are quiet at this knowing that Ash was thinking hard on the incident. They hoped that Torch was just goofing around. They didn't want to deal with a distrustful pokemon when Ash already had an issue with that.
Ash and his friends arrive in a town called Mossgreen Village. They noticed it was a village so small it doesn't have its own pokemon Gym. Ash smiled seeing that it was still a town so there was bound to be food. He smirked hearing Tomo's stomach growling. He was also happy that on the way here he trained his pokemon like crazy. He was displeased with Torch at the moment. So to the shock of his current pokemon team. He hasn't let the his Charmeleon out since then. It didn't surprise his friends or his closest pokemon knowing his history.
Ash was currently now smiling at the egg in his arms and bought it to his cheek. He was happy to keep his mind from going angry at his one disobedient pokemon. He smiled to himself while looking at his egg.. He was happy to know that he would be getting another sweet Eevee. He nuzzled it thinking of this action and wondered how great of a pokemon it will be in the future.
Just as everyone was about to head to the village and anyone that wanted to go anywhere. Brock reveals that their bag of Potions and Antidotes is empty. He said that they should stock up on supplies in town. Everyone agrees with this knowing that this was very important.
Watching the team of twerps from the bushes is Team Rocket that was hot on their trail. They were about to make their move on them to get Ash's pokemon. Just before they get far they discover that Meowth has fallen ill. They decided that the loss of Meowth is worth the capture of Ash's pokemon. Jessie and James begin to leave him behind knowing that Ash's pokemon were more important in their eyes to capture.
Just as they leave Meowth. They are immediately scolded by a strange girl. The girl glares at them and lashes out at them for abandoning their pokemon. Jessie and James get away from the girl. The strange girl then starts to nurse Meowth back to health. Meowth is touched during this process. Meowth slowly starts to fall in love with the girl.
Back with Ash and friends. They were in town checking the scenery. The group arrives at a herbal shop to purchase their medicine. Upon entering the shop they noticed it was dark. "Hello? Anyone here?" Ash questioned. "We'd like to buy some of your potions?" Misty asked. Tomo walked beside Ash looking at the strange jars. Tomo's eyes widened at the sight of the strange things inside them. The then finds an old woman grinding herbs. They walk up to the old lady at this action. They request to buy some Potions and Antidotes. The old lady stops grinding at this. She stares at them then offers them snake root that will cure insomnia and grow hair on their nose and tongue. Tomo yelped at this, "What?!" Ash sweat-dropped at this, "Umm... No thank you maim..." He said with a nervous smile wondering if they were in the right place.
The old woman is then scolded by the same girl who helped Meowth in the forest earlier. She identifies herself as the old lady's granddaughter. She tells them all that her name is Cassandra. Brock immediately falls for her then he tries to make small talk about how he intends to be the best breeder. Before anything else happens, Tomo smacks him in the head with a boomerang, "Tomo got it..." Tomo said dragging the dazed Brock away. Ash and Misty sweat-drops at this.
Cassandra then notices that they are pokemon trainers. She looks at Ash and asks for a pokemon battle. Ash blinks at her and smirks, "Sure! I'm fine with that." Ash said showing that he accepts.
Cassandra leads them to behind the store. She and Ash are on far sides of the field ready for a battle. She sends out her Paras at this. Ash blinked at the cute crab mushroom pokemon. He knew Brock had one and he caught it's evolved form Parasect. Ash calls out Volcan to start off the battle. Before the battle starts, Volcan gives Paras a friendly wave for the battle, but this action causes Paras to cower in fear. Ash sweat-drops at this, "Ok... What is the deal with this Paras?" Ash stated quirking an eyebrow at the cowardly pokemon.
Meanwhile during this,Team Rocket is spying on the battle intent on stealing any pokemon they could. Meowth is distracted by Cassandra seeing that he intends to repay her for healing him.
Back with the group, Cassandra admits her ulterior motive in battling. She tells them that she wants to make this Paras evolve so that she could use Parasect's mushroom to help develop a miracle pokemon medicine. She says that her Paras really needs help to evolve. Ash clicks his tongue at this answer, "I don't like losing at all... It's not fair to make a pokemon pretend it's the best with fake winning... But just this once, I will..." Ash stated scratching his head while staring at the pathetic Paras.
The battle starts and Ash sweat-drops at this seeing that the Paras is acting cowardly and fearful of battling. He remembers that he agreed to "throw the battle" by going easy on Paras. He sighed and looked at his Magby. "Alright Volcan! Give it the smallest Ember attack you can..." Ash calmly said. He watched the battle go off to a rocky start when Volcan fires a small ember at Paras. He immediately face-palms soon after watching the Paras get knocked out at once. While Cassandra tries to get Paras back into shape, Misty suggests Ash try a different Pokémon. Ash stared at her like she was nuts, "Are you kidding? That thing is so weak it took the smallest ember Volcan could muster..." Tomo nods agreeing with Ash. Misty sighs, "Just do it." Ash twitched an eyebrow, but got Volcan to stand beside him.
Ash starts to think of who should go next. He realizes that Paras is both a Bug-type and a Grass-type. He then decides to send out his Cubone. "Alright Rattle! I choose you!" Ash shouted. His Cubone comes out. Ash tells his pokemon the issue. Rattle looks at the Paras and sweat-drops like his trainer. Rattle agrees to go easy on the Paras though. However that does not go too well either. They watched as Rattle's weak Bone Club meant to just tap it also manages to knock it out. Ash face-palms again, "God what a weak Paras!" Ash shouted out in frustration. He tries most of his team and it gets even worse as he tries to think of possible outcomes.
Ash becomes really desperate to help Paras evolve he sends out his Charmeleon. He then realized that it was a bad idea to do so with it being the disobedient thing it was right now. The minute Torch came out it was to late to recall it. "Well since your out. I think you can help us with a problem Torch." Ash commented. He tells him the issue and states to Torch to go easy on Paras. Torch snorts at him much to the groups shock. They watched as it refuses to obey Ash and then starts to get too violent. They watched in terror that instead of doing an easy attack, it launched a full-power Flamethrower at Paras before sending it flying by smacking it with its tail. This causes Paras to run away. "Paras come back!" Cassandra said in panic.
Ash glares at Torch with anger in his eyes. "What the hell was that about Torch?!" Ash shouted walking up to his Charmeleon. He goes to talk more to his pokemon when he is blasted in the face with a flame thrower. Everyone watched this action in horror. "Oh shit... That did not just happen..." Brock commented. Misty bit her lip, "Torch... I can't believe it just did that..." Tomo watched with widened eyes at this as he tightened his grip on Ash's egg. Ash got up with hatred in his eyes as he stared at his Charmeleon. "So this is your true colors... I should have seen it coming with a trainer you had originally. Maybe you guys were meant for each other... Being abusers of acts of kindness and loyalty." Ash said pushing himself off the ground. He turned his back on his shocked Charmeleon who's eyes started to water at that response.
Ash goes over and sits back against the back of the store. Volcan and Rattle jump over to keep him company. They glare over at Torch who was still standing in it's spot. Torch looked over at the pokemon he considered brothers, but watched in shock and sadness that they looked at him in hate. "Meeeellleon..." Torch said sadly. It looked over at his trainers friends and watched with wide eyes as they ignored him. Torch's head drooped at this and sat on the ground feeling depressed at this. Ash took out his Gengar's poke ball and ordered it to look for Paras. He got up with Volcan and Rattle at his heels. He had Tomo carry his Eevee egg. He heard Torch walking behind him, but gave it the cold shoulder much to it's great depression. The gang didn't say so much as a word to the saddened Charmeleon.
As Paras is running away from the scary fight with Charmeleon. It bumps into Meowth who wants to help Cassandra. Meowth then tries to get Jessie and James to help Paras. However at this action, they want to know what's in it for them. Meowth then explains that if Paras evolves into Parasect. Cassandra will be able to make her miracle potion which would be worth millions. Meowth then explains that once they help Cassandra, she'll make Meowth their company mascot. Jessie and James don't see where this would benefit them, but then Meowth explains that he would make them his business managers. He said that he'll most likely have a lot of money to manage. Thinking of the money, Jessie and James agree to this asking Meowth how they'll make their millions. Meowth then explains that he needs Arbok and Weezing.
He said that he needed Paras to get leveling points if the pokemon lose to it. The first to go is Arbok. As it goes off against Paras, but before Arbok can go full-power on it, Meowth intercepts the attack knocking Arbok down. Paras who believes that it had defeated Arbok is shocked. It is then cheered by Jessie and James as if it had scored the knockout. This repeats itself with Weezing and with Meowth, causing Paras to get fired up.
Cassandra along with Ash and company in tow manage to find Paras up a tree. They were grateful with the help of Ash's Gengar that found it. "Thanks Sly. We can manage it from here. Return." Ash commented as he returned his ghost pokemon. The group start to notice Paras had a visibly different mood. It kept pointing at both of Ash's fire pokemon showing that it was showing that it's raring to go. Ash blinked at this action then smirked, "Well Cassandra it looks like we got another battle at hand." He said with a grin. Cassandra smiled, "Oh Paras! Let's win this!" Paras chattered and nods showing it wants to battle.
While Team Rocket is watching from a nearby bush hoping for Ash to actually help them with their plan. They wanted Ash to get the Paras to evolve.
Ash sends out Rattle to battle again. Paras gloats to the Cubone to come closer and manages to prod it in the tail. Rattle screeches at this action with tears as it pets his tail. As Rattle prepares to retaliate from the cheap shot, it is reminded by Ash to throw the fight. It sighs at this action wanting to pelt the Paras, but instead Rattle falls over. He groans pretending to be unconsciousness.
Ash glares at the cheating Paras and growls, "I don't like that use of sportsmanship. Alright Volcan. Show that thing your battle style. Go easy on it just not to easy. I don't like it's cheating wins..." Ash commented. Misty was about to say something, but stopped at Ash's glare. Volcan nods and steps into the fight. Torch was about to do so, but is stopped by Rattle much to it's surprise. "Cuuubone..." Rattle growled out shaking a fist at it. Torch growls back at it wanting to fight the Paras instead. Torch then started saying that he was the strongest here. Rattle gets angry at that remark and states that it was the most hated pokemon here. Rattle also stated it wasn't the strongest and that Ash's other pokemon team will kill him after finding out what he was saying. Torch looked at Rattle with shock at this realizing to it's horror that this was true.
Ash get's his Volcan to start battling the Paras like crazy. Volcan who is pumped at this action is happy to get his father to be happy again. Volcan growled at the thought of Torch at the moment. The Magby didn't like that the Charmeleon was once his nice older brother. Volcan didn't want anything to do with him if it kept hurting his father. Just the thought got Volcan angry. At this action, Volcan froze feeling all sorts of emotion. Ash watched his Magby freeze wondering what was wrong. Then his eyes widened as he watched Volcan evolve. He prayed in his mind that his first egg pokemon doesn't disobey him like Torch. Once the light cleared away their was a Magmar standing in his Magby's place. "Maaagggmar..." It stated. Ash bit his lip, "Volcan?" Ash said softly worried for his pokemon to be like Torch. To his amazement and happiness, Volcan turned to Ash was a smile. Volcan gave Ash the thumbs up and went back to battling. Ash smiled at this and a small tear fell unnoticed to all, but Torch. The Charmeleon looked down at this action in sadness realizing his trainer will most likely never trust him again.
Soon after to the little battle with Ash's new Magmar, Paras begins to evolve into Parasect. Ash smiles, "Wow. 2 evolutions today. Nice..." Everyone hails Parasect's success, including Team Rocket who feel they're about to board the money train.
Ash was now standing in front of his new Magmar. "Volcan." Ash said softly and then to Volcan's surprise hugged him. Volcan's eyes softened at this action and hugged Ash back just as tightly. Volcan knew right then and there that his father-figure was worried that he would be just like Torch. Volcan's eyes narrowed at this. Ash pulled away and brought his arm up to wipe his face. "I'm proud of you Volcan. So very proud of you. Congratulations boy you earned it." Ash commented to his Magmar. Volcan smiled at this action, "Magmar!" Ash's friends watched with smiles on their faces happy for their friend and brother to get a good outcome. Torch who was watching felt happy at this and wished Volcan a congrats. Ash returns all his pokemon with a smile. When he stops at Torch his good mood is done. He tries to ignore his now obeying Charmeleon, but then sighs as he reluctantly returned it remembering the good times he had with it.
As Ash and his friends leave for the next destination. They are thanked by Cassandra for their help. She wishes him luck in the future to be a good pokemon trainer. Cassandra's grandmother tells Ash that he has the skill for his Charmeleon. He just has one with a lot of pride and arrogance. Ash's eyes darken at that and the old women wondered if that was the right response to say.
After the group leaves. Team Rocket is left feeling like zeros again as Cassandra wants a Persian to be her Mascot. So all that work they did for Paras to evolve was all for nothing.
Ash and his friends are now walking through a desert. They were looking for a place to sleep for the night. By the time they arrive at a town that was called Neon Town, it's already dark. Tomo was yawning at this and Ash had to keep shaking him to stay awake. They are interested in the city and the lights. "Neon Town is a city that is open 24 hours!" Brock said as they passed Casinos. The group is in awe at this.
While in the city and checking the place out. A mean looking guy bumps into Ash and gets mad at the boy. Ash glares at the man who flinches at his dead eye, "Hey you bumped into me asshole! Say your sorry!" Ash shouted. The man growls at Ash, "You little punk! I'll show you!" Ash smirks, "Go ahead bring it old man!" Ash snarls out. The 2 of them go at it. Ash punching the guy in the face and the man punching Ash in the gut. Ash claws the man in the face. Tomo watches wide eyed, "Big bro sure knows how to fight..." Misty sighs, "Wow what a role model." Brock frowns, "I don't think this is such a good idea." Brock remembered how violent Ash could get in these things as he remembered Damein. The guy who Ash was fighting was starting to get the hint that this boy was a wild card.
As the situation gets more heated and a crowd starts forming. Officer Jenny steps in and stops them. "Alright you two! There's no fighting here!" She pulls them apart, but not before Ash kicks the man in the nuts. The men in the crowd wince at this, "Damn..." Ash smirks with a bloody lip at the downed man, "I won asshole..." Officer Jenny talks to the group that they should go get a hotel and not get into anymore fights. She also starts saying that they should leave town if they don't want to deal with issues like this. The Officer leaves soon after to break up another fight. Misty notices that this Jenny is a bit cranky.
Ash wipes his bloody lip and gets his Eevee egg from Tomo. He sees his little brother yawning once more and gets them to go to a hotel.
Team Rocket shows up in town where James bumps into the same guy Ash had encountered earlier. He gets mad at the guy, but unlike Ash. James ends up getting punched repeatedly over the head. Meanwhile Jessie is getting spanked by a large woman for bumping into her. They don't defeat themselves with this action.
The next morning as Ash and the gang come out of a hotel. They start to notice several people arguing with one another. Ash sighs, "I don't know about you guys... But, I don't want to get into another fight again..." The group decides to leave the town agreeing with Ash. They wanted to be somewhere quiet and away from all of the chaos.
They head to a forest outside the city. They all sighed in relief as they heard nothing but silence. Soon while walking deeper into the forest they spot a Jigglypuff. Misty expresses her desire to catch one. She calls out her Staryu. She sends out Staryu and it uses Double-Edge on Jigglypuff. The little pink round pokemon gets upset and cries. Ash lifts a brow at this, "That Jigglypuff didn't do a thing to stop the attack coming. Wonder what it's problem is?" Ash commented. Tomo nodded agreeing with his bro. Ash pulls out his pokedex.
Pokedex Jigglypuff: A Balloon Pokémon. It has large friendly eyes and it sings a pleasant song.
Brock finds this Jigglypuff strange saying that they weren't usually like this. Misty squeals at it and asks for it to sing for them. They ask and notice the Jigglypuff get saddened. The gang then find out that this Jigglypuff has a problem with singing. Misty apologizes for attacking it earlier and hugs the Pokémon. "So that's why it didn't attack. That sucks..." Ash said with a blink. Misty decides that they should teach it to sing. Ash and the gang nodded agreeing to help. The Jigglypuff is grateful for this.
Hiding and spying on the gang Team Rocket decides they want to use the Jigglypuff to put the people of Neon Town to sleep. They reveal themselves to the gang wearing costumes and proceed to sing their motto.
Jessie: Prepare for trouble!
James: Make it double!
Jessie: To protect the world from devastation!
James: To unite all people within our nation!
Jessie: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
James: To extend our reach to the stars above!
Jessie: Jessie!
James: James!
Meowth: Meowth! That's right!
After they finish, Ash glares and sends out his Dratini to battle. James sends out his Weezing. Marine, using Twister, which spins Weezing around in circles, resulting in Weezing's Poison Gas attack to backfire on Team Rocket. Misty calls her Staryu and orders it to blast Team Rocket away using Water Gun. After dealing with Team Rocket the group go back to helping Jigglypuff.
Misty gives Jigglypuff some lessons on breath control when singing. Ash compliments her for having a good singing voice. Marine sings along as well. When Ash compliments to his tiny dragon pokemon. Jigglypuff gets annoyed and secretly kicks his Dratini. Marine gets annoyed at this and body slams her."Draaaa..." Marine growled out glaring at the downed balloon pokemon. Marine huffed and slithered back under Ash's legs. Ash sweat-drops at this, "Cat fight..."
Misty inflates a balloon and puts it in Jigglypuff's mouth. The air inside inflates inside and Jigglypuff goes flying. "That didn't help at all..." Tomo questioned watching the Jigglypuff flying about. Brock helps Jigglypuff by giving it a fruit that can help make its throat feel better. Jigglypuff takes a bite out of the fruit and starts singing. Marine cooes then starts celebrating, but Jigglypuff kicks her again. This time out of joy. Marine twitches an eyebrow at this, "Drrraaaaa..." She huffed.
Misty requests for Jigglypuff to sing. "Please sing for us?" She questioned. Jigglypuff obliges and starts singing beautifully. The group sit down to listen. Ash's Dratini is curled up around him thinking that Jigglypuff might decide to kick him.
Team Rocket who is hiding behind some bushes. Starts to set up the recorder to capture Jigglypuff's voice. As Jigglypuff sings everyone starts to fall asleep. When Jigglypuff notices everyone sleeping, it gets upset. It goes through Ash's backpack and pulls out a black marker. Jigglypuff then starts to scribble markings all over their faces. It also finds Team Rocket sleeping and tries waking them up with DoubleSlap. Unable to wake them up, Jigglypuff scribbles on their faces as well.
Ash and the gang wake up only to find their faces covered with markings. "What the hell?!" Ash shouted in alarm and sees his egg also has markings. He twitches an eyebrow and goes to rub it off. Marine growls and glares at the angered Jigglypuff. Tomo whines and starts to rub his face clean. Soon everyone rubs their face to get the markings off it. They turn to see that Jigglypuff is mad at them.
Misty realizes that they must have fallen asleep during the performance and apologizes to Jigglypuff. Brock and Ash frown at this. "Why would it be mad like that?" Brock stated. Ash snorted, "I don't think it knows that it's species are suppose to put things to sleep. That's why they sing..." Ash commented. The Jigglypuff hears this and gets frustrated. "Ash! Try to see it's reason." Misty said. Ash snorts, "Alright. I will, but it should remember not to get annoyed if people fall asleep. That's why they sing. It's a freaking attack!" Ash shouted to her.
Soon everyone tries to cheer it up by letting their Pokémon listen to its singing. However to everyone's surprise, other then Ash's. All of their Pokémon also fall asleep. Misty asks if Ash's Gengar can work. Ash snorts and points to his sleeping ghost pokemon. Misty sweat-drops, "Oh..."
Team Rocket finally wakes up and see their faces are covered with markings as well. They rub it off and proceed to check the recording. Unfortunately, the recorder did not capture Jigglypuff's singing. What it instead recorded was their loud snoring instead.
Brock suggests an idea of letting Jigglypuff perform for the people in Neon Town, which Team Rocket is happy to hear. When they get into town, the gang looks for a place for Jigglypuff to sing. Every place they went to people laughed either in their faces, doors slamming, or was just ignored. A stage truck then pulls over; Jessie and James who are disguised as rock stars offers them their stage.
With the stage is set, Jigglypuff starts singing. The voice is so strong that everyone in the town starts falling asleep. Team Rocket whose ears were not closed properly soon fall asleep as well. Ash and the gang sleep beside the stage. Tomo is sleeping curled up beside his big brother. Ash was sleeping with his egg tightly clenched in his arms. Misty and Brock sleep bundled beside them. Soon after Jigglypuff ends it's song. It noticed everyone was alseep. Jigglypuff gets really upset with all of them and goes to scribble markings on everyone's faces within the town.
When the townspeople wake up. The group noticed that they seem friendlier to one another. The guy who bumped into Ash earlier even apologizes to him. Ash gave the guy a sheepish grin, "I'm sorry to man. I hope the fight didn't mess you up to badly." Ash said scratching his head for his bad temper. The guy waves him off saying it was fine. He even told Ash that was some great fighting back there. Ash laughed at that.
Misty looks for Jigglypuff and realizes it was gone. Team Rocket awakens and leaves the city looking very happy. They are seen to be in a good mood.
As Ash and the gang leave the city relaxed and happy. They are unaware of Jigglypuff following them close behind.
End Chapter 21
Ash now has a Charmeleon and Magmar. I wonder what he's gonna capture or have evolve next. I wonder what pokemon the gang will capture next. Review and tell me what you think should be on his pokemon journey in Kanto and other regions. Or what pokemon should he evolve. Also tell me if there should be a love interest or not. Also if there should be fanart would be a cool idea. I have some already. If anyone wants some that'll be cool for the story. Also if anyone wants to make any the more the merrier. I love that stuff.
I am not a writer. I'm an animator/illustrator. So this story is a fun creation on my time. For viewers who wanted to know why there are some writing mistakes.