Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon or the concept for Aura Bond. Pokemon belongs to Satoshi Tajiri and Aura Bond I believe was first used by dragonwolf12 on his story 'The Chosen One's Journey'. I only own the plot.
The automatic doors of the Pokemon Center in Viridian City opened to reveal the scowling visage of Ash Ketchum. He was thoroughly soaked and judging by the expression on his face he was on a bad mood. "I didn't know that stolen Pokemon would follow who stole them in the first place without an issue," he said through the bond with annoyance as he began to make his way towards the counter. He ignored the amused looks sent his way by other trainers that were lounging on the TV area.
Riolu shook himself dry before following Ash to the counter with a mental chuckle. "Don't blame the officer Ash. She is probably very stressed over this thieves Although I admit that keeping us standing in the middle of the street was bit over top," said Riolu before sniffing and then sneezing.
Ash nodded his head in agreement. "I know. And I'm not annoyed at her. I'm annoyed at a certain yellow rodent that jinxed a storm and a flock of spearows with a fearow on us," said Ash, glaring at said rodent who was perched on his shoulder, using his backpack to be in a comfortable position.
Pikachu glared right back at him. "Hey don't put the blame on me. Besides, we got out of there unscathed and I somehow unlocked my hidden ability. Because I absorbed that lightning bolt I can use thunderbolt now instead of a week like you were planning. You should be thanking me instead," said Pikachu with huff and a turn of his head.
There was a very amused chuckle as Gyarados piped in. "I think the only one we could blame it nature itself. And she doesn't care much of what humans say about what she does," she said with a giggle.
Ash just sighed as his Pokemon began to talk about nature and how much of a bitch she was of all things. He was surrounding himself with nut jobs and he doubted that these one are going to be the only ones. He finally reached the counter and he smiled at the pretty and pleasing form of Nurse Joy as she greeted him.
"Good evening and welcome to the Viridian Pokemon Center. How may I help you, young man?" She asked him as she sent him a worried look, noticing the soaked state of him as he two pokemon.
Ash returned her smile with one of his own. "I just need a room. My pokemon and I are exhausted and we would like a warm room and a nice bed," said Ash as he petted Pikachu under his chin and patted Riolu on the head. He discreetly noticed how the amused looks became interested and confused ones when they spotted Riolu.
Nurse Joy nodded and gave him a card key. "The rooms are on the second floor. That one opens room one hundred and twenty nine. It will be on your right at the end of the second hallway." She then looked at Pikachu and Riolu when they sneezed. She took a look at them and noticed, much to her approval, that they were on a very good health. She took out a vase and took out two pills. "Here give them these so they don't get the flu or a fever because of the rain," she said as she gave the pills to the two cute Pokemon. They looked at them curiously, before shrugging and then popping them into their mouths, making Joy giggle.
Pikachu and Riolu grimaced. "Bleh!"
"This tastes horrible. I'm not having another one of this again."
Ash smirked as he heard Gyarados chuckling in amusement before he nodded at Nurse Joy. "Thanks for that Nurse Joy. Have a good night," he cocked his head at her and she waved at him, following him with her gaze until he disappeared as he went up the stairs.
Ash made it to the second floor and the room Nurse Joy gave him rather quickly. He entered and locked the door before making his way into the bathroom. He told Pikachu and Riolu that they were to get dry first if they wanted to get on the bed and then he got into the bathroom of the room. He stripped naked and put his clothes under a heat dryer before stepping into the shower and turning on the hot water.
Ash sighed in content as he enjoyed his hot shower, smiling in amusement as his pokemon continue to talk about nature and how much they wanted to kick her ass. Ash made sure to clean himself thoroughly before he stepped out of the shower. He grabbed a pair of shorts and a tank top from his backpack and put them one before stepping out of the bathroom. He deadpanned when he saw that Riolu had Pikachu on a headlock.
He shook his head as Pikachu got free and they went back to wrestling on the bed. Ash sat on the comfy chair of the room that was in the middle of the bed and a lamp before bringing the X-Transceiver up to level with his face and dialed towards his mother's office. Knowing her and Daisy, they were probably still working.
It rang only two times before the black screen became the pretty visage of his mother. She smiled and her eyes shone with happiness at the sight of him. "Hi there, honey. How are you?"
Ash returned her smile with one of his own. "Hi mom. I'm pretty good actually. I'm at the Pokemon Center in Viridian already. How is it going over there?" He asked as he noticed her disheveled hair.
Delia leaned back into her chair, getting comfortable. "We are still analyzing the cells of Ditto and Clefairy. We are getting close on a breakthrough on how Ditto can transform on any pokemon and why Clefairy and other pokemon evolve with the use of the moon stone. I can feel it we are close," said Delia with a gleam on her eyes as she smiled.
Ash nodded his head. "Congratulations. And how is Daisy?"
Delia giggled behind her hand. "She says that she wants to move in with me so she doesn't have to deal with Oak talking her into working with him instead of with me every single moment she spends at their house. I wouldn't mind really and we would have more time to study and research if that was the case," said Delia before she straightened up and gave him a smile. "But enough about home, how were the first days of your journey? Anything interesting happened?"
Ash chuckled as he rubbed the back of his head with his other hand. "Well… you call catching a Gyarados and a flock of spearows leaded by a fearow interesting?" He asked her with a tight smile on his face as he chuckled nervously.
Delia's mouth opened before it closed and then she crossed her arms over under her prominent bust, pushing it up. "Go on tell me more," she said evenly.
Ash gulped before taking a deep breath. "Well a girl and I were having a pokemon battle by the river and it apparently got loud enough to wake up a gyarados that was napping. The girl fled the moment she heard Gyarados roar but I guess I was too shocked to do the same. I managed to defeat her because she was slow on charging a hyper beam and managed to disrupt it, making it explode on her face. Then Pikachu attacked her with a thunder shock and that was enough to weaken her and I captured her easily enough," explained Ash.
Delia nodded her head slowly. "Alright. And what about that spearow flock?"
Ash rubbed the side of his head. "Well they attacked us because apparently the fight with Gyarados disturbed them. It was already raining so they were easy picking for Pikachu and his thunder shock to pick them off. It was a good accuracy practice for him," he said with another nervous chuckle. He didn't need to tell her that Pikachu brought down a freaking thunder bolt from the clouds to finish the flock in one good blow after they got tired of running away from them. "After they were all kncked out I captured them. There are twenty one spearow and a fearow."
Delia nodded again, visibly relaxing when Ash assured that he was in no immediate danger. "And what are you going to do with the flock? I'm sure you are going to keep and train the Gyarados," she said teasingly.
Ash nodded his head. "Yep. I was hoping you would want them. And let me tell you, Fearow, the leader of the flock, is absolutely terrified of Pikachu, so I made him promise that you would give him a steady income of food if he let you and your aids study their behavior without issue and also set up an aerial perimeter around the ranch. He accepted pretty quickly," said Ash, smiling amusedly as Pikachu sent a cheeky wave his way.
Delia's eyes shone in interest. "Well, I don't mind. I'll be the first human to be able to study fearow and spearow behavior without the threat of getting killed as soon as I step foo on their territory. Send them all over." Ash nodded before he began to process of sending twenty one pokeballs to his mother, which took a good five minutes to do.
As he sent the last pokeball, Ash smiled at Delia. "And that's the last one."
Delia nodded as she put the pokeballs on a table. She would release them in the morning and get them settled. "Thank you sweetie. You've given me a golden opportunity so I'm going to reward you with something pretty soon. I suppose you'll be going to Pewter next right?"
Ash leaned back and nodded his head. "Yeah. I'll spend two weeks training in the Viridian Forest starting from tomorrow and then I would go to Pewter to challenge the gym," said Ash, raising an eyebrow as noticed that Pikachu and Riolu were having a staring contest. It was pretty damn intense for being something so silly. Were those sparks?
Delia hummed in thought before smiling cheerily. "I guess that's enough time to get you your reward and getting sent over to Pewter. When you get to the Pokemon Center there, ask for a package under your name sent by me, okay?"
Ash nodded. "Got it mom," he said before yawning and smacking his lips together.
Delia giggled. "Go to sleep, honey. We can talk in the morning. Bye!" She blew him a kiss and winked at him.
Ash sighed but chuckled. "Bye mom. Love you," said Ash and his mother nodded at him with a warm smile before the connection was cut. Ash sighed before he stood up from the chair and stretched his arms over his head, yawning again. Ash took off his X-Transceiver and put it on the arm of the chair he was sitting before walking and jumping into the bed, interrupting the competition between Riolu and Pikachu.
"Hey! What's the big idea?" Pikachu snapped at him with a glare on his cherub face. "I was so going to win on this one but you interrupted. He was just about to blink."
Riolu scoffed. "As if. This was going to be like the wrestling match. Utter and complete defeat for you," said Riolu with a smirk as he crossed his arms over his chest, making Pikachu turn his glare from Ash towards the blue jackal.
Ash got comfortable on the bed, his hand clasped behind his head as he ignored the banter. He was just about to fall asleep when suddenly the lights went off and the air conditioner of the room that was keep the temperature slightly cool stopped functioning. Ash's eyes snapped open as he went abruptly into a sitting position. His eyes narrowed at the darkness. The electricity on Pokemon Centers never went off. Never.
Ash closed his eyes. "The Aura is with me," he whispered and the world bled into black and blue. He growled when he saw two human shapes on the top of the building releasing a floating ball like pokemon and a serpentine one. Ash opened his eyes and he nodded at Riolu and Pikachu as he stood up. "Let's go the lobby. Two people and two pokemon are about to infiltrate the Pokemon Center."
His two pokemon got serious and returned his nod. Ash ran towards the door and he was glad that it only needed electricity to open it from the outside. He quickly ran towards and down the stairs and he reached the lobby, which was conveniently empty by that time, just in time for the doors to be forcefully opened as black smoke filtered inside.
He turned towards the confused and scared Nurse Joy as a blue haired man and a red haired woman with a ridiculous haircut began saying nonsense. "Go and keep the pokemon safe. Lock yourself inside with them," commanded Ash and she nodded before hastily retreating.
Ash turned towards them with a glare on his face. Aura was coursing through his body and his red eyes were gleaming faintly as he regarded them and their pokemon. He spotted the big 'R' on their white uniforms and a growl came from his throat. It looked like this fools were members of Team Rocket, a well known crimical organization that was famous for robbing and making inhumane experiments on Pokemon. He was not going to show mercy.
"Meowth dat's right!"
Ash's eyes widened slightly went a meowth appeared; standing on two legs and took a position in front of the humans along the koffing and the ekans. Ash spotted the smirk otheir faces once the smoke cleared away and he was revealed to them.
The blue haired male pointed at him after flicking his hair. "Oh look Jessie. A twerp thinks that he can protect the pokemon from being stolen," he said with an amused chuckle and a smirk.
The red haired female, named Jessie also chuckled in amusement. "That's cute James. As if a twerp like him with twerp like pokemon can hope to beat the strongest duo of Team Rocket," she said before noticing Riolu standing ready in front of Ash. Her eyes gleamed in interest. "Oh look. It's a rare pokemon! Can you tell what it is Meowth?"
The meowth hummed as it looked at Riolu. "I can't really tell but it looks like a very strong and rare pokemon from anoder region," said Meowth in a high pitched, raspy male voice as he shrugged his shoulder.
Jessie laughed. "Oh goodie. Let's capture it for the boss and then we raid this center. I'm sure he would give us a raise!" She said hopefully as she daydreamed about that much money.
Ash glared at them before he looked down at his two Pokemon. Pikachu was on all fours, cheeks sparking in anger as he glared at their opponents and Riolu was on a ready position, also glaring at them. "Pikachu, take on the ekans and the koffing. Riolu, deal with the cat."
James smirked. "Koffing tackle that rat!"
Jessie had a matching expression on her face. "Ekans, get that blue pokemon and restrain it!"
Meowth brandished his claws as his expression matched that of Jessie and James. "You gonna test my fury swipes now!"
Pikachu and Riolu cloaked themselves with the enhancement of quick attack and ran towards their foes at surprising speeds. Ekans uncoiled itself and made to intercept, fangs gleaming as it aimed for his midsection but that was not to be as the jackal fighting type grabbed the ekan's head, spun around and launched it towards Pikachu, who smirked and shocked ekans with a wide arc of electricity.
Jessie's and James' eyes widened when meowth was kicked with a flaming roundhouse kick and was sent away from them, crashing into a few chairs and then a table. Riolu smirked at them before he jumped towards Meowth, who was shakily standing, with a glowing palm cocked back. Meowth managed to jump back, an avoided a strike that complete destroyed the table that stopped him from flying further. The talking cat hissed before he began to claw at Riolu who began to dance around the strikes with ease.
James turned towards Koffing and pointed towards the Riolu and Meowth. "Koffing go help Meowth!" Koffing seemed to nod and changed its path and began to float towards its new target.
Jessie's eyes were wide. "James, watch out!" She called.
James blinked at the warning but his eyes widened when a flying Ekans was hurled at Koffing by a running Pikachu that had been grabbing it by its tail and used the momentum created by quick attack and a front flip to throw the purple snake. James noticed that it was charred and it was twitching erratically as arcs of electricity ran across its long body. Ekans crashed into Koffing and they were both sent flying and crashed painfully against the wall.
Jessie glared at the rodent who she swore was smirking at her. "Ekans, use poison sting!" She watched as the snake slowly tried to raise its head, fighting against the paralysis. Surprisingly, she managed to do it and aimed her opened mouth at Pikachu, ready to blast him with a barrage of poisoned darts but Riolu had other plans.
Riolu ducked under a horizontal swipe from Meowth and got into his guard, pressing a glowing paw against his stomach. Riolu smirked as Meowth's eyes widened before he was sent back by a powerful shockwave that originated from the point of contact between Riolu's force palm and Meowth's body. He flew across the air and crashed into Ekans, preventing it from attacking Pikachu.
Ash grinned savagely when he saw all this. "Let's try out your thunderbolt," he said. Pikachu nodded and matched his grin before his cheeks sparked and he released a blast of arching electricity that hit the tangled forms of Koffing, Ekans and Meowth. The three pokemon cried out in pain and Koffing lost control of its volatile gasses and the resulting explosion knocked Team Rocket back into a wall and destroyed the one next were their pokemon were.
When the smoke cleared, it revealed three unconscious pokemon with swirl on their eyes. Ash smirked at that but scowled when he caught Jessie and James trying to make a run for it. He pointed at them. "Thunder wave." A weak stream of blue lighting later, and the Team Rocket duo were twitching on the ground helplessly.
Riolu walked calmly towards Ash and he looked around the lobby. "We sure did a number on it," commented Riolu as he inspected the destruction with an appraising eye.
Pikachu shrugged as he sat up and began to scratch his ear. ""Hey at least we stopped the bad guys," said Pikachu as if that was excuse for destroying causing major damage to a Pokemon Center.
Ash sighed as he too looked around, taking in the smoking rubles of the destroyed wall and the remains of the lounging area. "So much for a peaceful night," he mumbled as he head dropped in defeat.
Gyarados giggled in the background of the bond.
-AM: KOI-
The next day Ash sported a small smile on his face as he stood at the beginning of the immense Viridian Forest. Riolu was bay his side looking at the forest with interest and Pikachu was on his shoulder looking at the forest with some distaste. It seemed like this wasn't Pikachu's first time in there and it didn't have fond memories for him. "Don't worry Pikachu. In the two weeks we are going to spend in there I'm sure you'll get use to it," said Ash teasingly as he patted Pikachu on a cheek.
Pikachu snapped at his hand and glared at Ash. "I swear that if we get attacked by a swarm of Beedrill, I'm going to make them all eat thunder." Pikachu grinned savagely as his cheeks sparked. "I got the power now."
Riolu gave Pikachu a sideways glance before crossing his arms. "A power that you need to control if yesterday was anything to go by."
Pikachu and Ash sighed as they reminded what happened yesterday after they stopped Team Rocket. . He had gotten as much of a scolding from Officer Jenny last night and his mother this morning as thanks as he got also from Jenny and Nurse Joy. After Jessie and James were captured and their pokemon confiscated, they quickly found their headquarters in Viridian and as luck would have it, everything that had stolen was still there and was given back to their rightful owners. The League had taken them into custody and they were going to be interrogated to get as much information as they could on Team Rocket. Ash thought that it served them right for being a part of such a vile organization.
The reconstruction of the Pokemon Center would only take two days since it was only a wall and a few damaged chairs and table but it was still going to be operational. Ash blushed as he reminded Nurse Joy hugging him tight and claiming that she was going to tell her sisters about him so he got treated very well in every other Pokemon Center, even as she suggested with some amusement that he needed to learn some restrain. His mother was still happy for the spearow flock and despite that she would have to pay the damage to the League, he only got away with a light scolding.
Ash looked at Pikachu. "You are going to be working on your control until you can hit leaves without setting them on fire. As you do that you are going to also work on learning Agility and Iron Tail. And then, you get all that done, you are going to go back on using your Aura to make your reserves bigger at a steady pace so you maintain the same level of control, am I clear?"
Pikachu groaned and nodded as his ears dropped. "Crystal clear," he muttered through the bond. It was obvious that he didn't like it but he was willing to do it. Having power meant nothing if you couldn't control it and Pikachu was very well aware of this.
Ash nodded. "Good. Riolu, you will be learning how to use Double Team from Pikachu. I'm sure you are not going to take long to master that. Do you think your Force Palm can get stronger?"
Riolu shook his head. "It is stronger as it can get now. I'll need to evolve to get stronger."
Ash hummed before coughing into his fist. "Alright, if that's the case, then it is best if we teach you how to perform a few more fighting moves like Double Kick, Low Sweep and Brick Break. I'm sure you can integrate them into your fighting style."
Riolu nodded, eyes gleaming in excitement at the prospect. It was just like Arceus claimed. Ash was already making him stronger we all the knowledge he had on pokemon and Pokemon training alone. They just needed to put that knowledge to practice.
"Gyarados. I don't think you need to learn new moves. Since we are going to be in such a big forest for two weeks the only thing you would disturb are the bugs and flying types that live her so I was thinking about having you work on the speed of your Hyper Beam. Also, since you are a flying type, that means you are able to fly. I guess that it can be done with the use of Aura, which you will learn how to manipulate," said Ash to the mighty sea serpent that was his first real capture. He was still a little uneasy about that.
Gyarados chuckled. "I find that acceptable. I'm starting to think that letting you capture really was the best course of action. I won't disappoint you as a pokemon so I hope that you don't disappoint me as a trainer," she said, and for some reason, Ash felt strangely motivated to never stop getting stronger.
Ahs chuckled nervously before setting his sight into the deep forest. He had a lot to do in this two weeks and he was sure to do them all and then some.
-AM: KOI-
Ash smiled at the sleeping form of his friends as he leaned against a tree before looking back into his pokedex. It had been a week since they entered this forest and they've found out some interesting things so far. The first day was spent looking for this clearing, which had a small but deep lake in which Gyarados could be comfortably released for as long as she wanted. When they found it they had set up camp and dedicated the mornings to train and the afternoon to look for battles.
Riolu was the one that grew the most. He had learned how to do Double Team in a few hours and mastered it by the end of the day he had learned and he managed to learn the fighting moves Double Kick, Low Sweep and Brick Break and adapted them to his fighting style. He was now going to start on working on keeping the enhancement of Double Kick and Brick Break up for as long as he could. Since they were in the Viridian Forest, most fights for Riolu were against bug type Pokemon, but thanks to his egg move blaze he managed to win everyone he had been on.
Pikachu also grew a fair amount. It only took him two days to get perfect control over his electricity, since he was using during training and to fight against the bug pokemon, so it wasn't a surprise it didn't take him that much. Pikachu learned Iron Tail in four days but he was still having problems with agility. Pikachu and Riolu would spar diary so their speed and evasion skills kept up to snuff.
Gyarados simply astounded him. She was a powerhouse, plain and simple. She had certainly gotten faster in forming her Hyper Beam and had found interesting applications for her use of raw Aura. She confirmed that yes she could learn how to fly but it would take a long while and many, many hours of training but Ash assured that that was simply a secondary project of hers. What really interested him was her ability to use Aura to impose her will over water. They couldn't test her limits on this lake but she could rise all the water on it above their heads without issue. They needed to get to the ocean to test what she could do.
Gyarados couldn't really battle in the forest so she was in charge of scaring away the bugs and birds that wanted to eat their food. It was a good accuracy and control practice for her anyways and the expressions of horror the pokemon would make when they laid eyes on her were pretty amusing.
Ash smiled as he stood up and put off the fire before walking into his tent. He took off his vest and shirt, leaving himself on only a tank top before getting his sneakers off his feet too. He got comfortable and closed his eyes. Tomorrow he would introduce them to a few new things and they will go find more trainers to fight. They still had another week before they had to go to Pewter City and he was not letting it go to waste.
-AM: KOI-
"Ash! Wake up!"
Ash woke up the next morning to the sound of Pikachu's voice and feeling of him poking him on the cheek. He groaned as woke up and he noticed that Pikachu was looking at him with a strange look on his face. He blinked the sleepiness out of his eyes. He could see that it was still dark outside so that mean he had only slept for a few hours at the most.
"What's the issue, Pikachu?" Ash asked wearily with a yawn as he rose to a sitting position, rubbing his eye with his knuckles. He yawned again and smacked his lips.
Pikachu pointed outside frantically. "Come out and see it yourself," said Pikachu before he ran outside of the tent, leaving a blinking and still sleepy Ash sitting there, yawning.
Ash grunted before he grumbled incoherently about yellow rats that woke him up for no reason. He crawled outside of the tent, moth open to scold Pikachu for waking him up for nothing when he noticed the reason why Pikachu woke him and he shut his mouth close sharply with a clicking sound. The sleepiness went away and he was very much glad that Pikachu did wake him up.
By the fire place, Riolu was standing on top of a green, insectoid like creature that had a reptilian head with three spikes, narrow eyes and long and sharp white scythes for arms. It was a scyther. While very uncommon in the Viridian Forest, they were known to inhabit the forest by the hundreds, which was the reason they were so hard to find. This scyther looked to be slightly on the young side since its fur and exoskeleton wasn't as dark as fully grown species were known to have.
Ash noticed that it had arcs of electricity running across its body and its wings were twitching erratically. It was also giving Pikachu a very heated glare and it was probably because it was because of the rodent that he found itself on this predicament.
Ash sighed before walking up towards Scyther, who turned to look at him wearily. "What happened?" He asked simply. He noticed that Gyarados was soundly sleep and that was a relief. He didn't want to deal with an angry mighty sea serpent that was learning to control water with its will alone.
Pikachu rubbed the back of his head. "I smelled something funny in my sleep and I woke to see this guy eating the berries that Riolu and I had collected after we came back to camp from looking from trainers. I got mad and shot a thunder wave at him and paralyzed him. Riolu woke up because he screamed loudly when I hit him," explained Pikachu with a sheepish chuckle.
Ash glared at him before he shook his head. He walked towards Scyther and connected their minds with a tendril of Aura. "Sorry about my friend, Scyther. He is still very immature when it comes to his food. As an apology, I would like to heal you," said Ash as he knelt down in front of Scyther.
Scyther's eyes widened. "How are you speaking into my mind like this?" Scyther's voice was smooth and light, but it was definitely that of male's. He was looking at Ash with gray eyes full of wonder.
Ash smiled. "I can use Aura to connect my mind to that of a Pokemon, we allows me to understand their thoughts and project mind into them," explained Ash before he touched the top of Scyther's head and sent a Heal Pulse through his body, healing Scyther from the paralysis. "I can also use it to heal Pokemon from their injuries and status conditions."
Scyther stood up to his feet and gave Ash look filled with gratitude. "Thanks for that…" He trailed off before giving Ash a determined look. "Do you think I can learn how to use that energy? And if I can, would you teach me?"
Ash nodded his head slowly. "As a Pokemon, you can use Aura instinctively to perform the techniques you know. You are also able of harnessing the raw energy but only if you form an Aura Bond with a human. I can't teach you, because I am a student myself but Riolu here is very knowledgeable so if he could teach you." Ash smiled kindly at Scyther. "So what do you say?"
Scyther considered the proposal for a few seconds before nodding. "Deal. I only ask that you teach me how use Aura, let me fight strong opponents and getting me strong enough to evolve into a Scizor someday," said Scyther, extending a blade towards Ash.
Ash nodded and grasped it and used the connection to send the pulse of Aura that would form the Aura Bond and also unlock Scyther's ability to manipulate raw Aura. He smiled when the bond was completed and he pulled out his pokedex and pointed it at Scyther.
Scyther. The Mantis Pokemon. Scyther is blindingly fast. Its blazing speed enhances the effectiveness of the twin scythes on its forearms. This pokémon's scythes are so effective, they can slice through thick logs in one wicked stroke. This Scyther is male and has the ability Swarm. He knows the moves: Quick Attack, Agility, Double Team, Slash, Fury Cutter, Wing Attack and Pursuit.
Ash grinned and his eyes widened before releasing his hold on Scyther. "Damn you sure know some very good moves," complimented Ash as he gave Scyther calculative look. "I am already coming up with a bunch of ideas for a fighting style we can develop for you."
Scyther chuckled. "I can't wait."
Pikachu walked up to Scyther and gave him a sheepish look and handed him an Oran berry, which Scyther ran through with his blade so he could eat it. "Sorry about erlier. Here, you can have as many as you want as long as you help us collect more and give you all during training." When the mantis Pokemon nodded at him Pikachu got a shy look on his face. "Also, the pokedex said that you knew Agility, I'm trying to learn it but I'm having some troubles with it. Would you help me tomorrow?" Pikachu asked hopefully.
Scyther nodded at him, trying to smile but on his face it looked more like an smirk. "Sure thing. We are teammates know and we need to help each other to get stronger. I want to work on my weakness on electric attacks so I'm counting on you."
Pikachu returned the smirk. "You've got yourself a deal!"
Ash was looking at the mouse and mantis pokemon as they talked like they were old friends with some bemusement. "They are sure getting along well in spite of how they met on the first place," commented Ash to Riolu who stood at his side to also look at Pikachu and Scyther.
Riolu chuckled. "It's because of the bond. Once we are linked through the Aura, we get an understanding of each other's emotions. Scyther knows that Pikachu really is sorry for what he did so he is willing to have a start with the right foot."
Ash nodded his head before he yawned. The excitement at seeing and getting a Scyther wore off to give away to sleep. He stretched his arms over his head and began to walk towards his tent. "Don't stay up too long. We still have training tomorrow," said Ash before he disappeared into his tent after waving good night at them. He would officially capture Scyther first thing tomorrow.
Riolu also yawned. He was about to tell Pikachu and Scyther that they should go to sleep when he noticed Gyarados stirring. A cold sweat began to go down his back when he watched her rise and open her eyes, blinking them slowly. Riolu yipped when Gyarados reared her massive head back and…
… yawned.
She looked down at him, confused at seeing him breathing heavily in apparent relief. She then turned towards Pikachu, who was in the same state as Riolu and then looked at Scyther who was looking at her like she had wings and was colored red. She cocked her head at them.
"What did I miss?"
-AM: KOI-
Three days have passed since Scyther joined his team and Ash could already say that the mantis Pokemon was going to be a very important member of it. After he had made the official capture, Riolu had taken a few minutes to teach Scyther how to use raw Aura and when he learned, Scyther astounded them with the sheer speed he possessed. He was so fast that he could leave after images. Pikachu was looking up to Scyther as a role model of sorts and Scyther had even helped Pikachu master Agility. It only took them a morning.
Scyther was also able to deliver powerful blows with the many techniques at his disposal. Ash was sure that Scyther only needed to learn a few more techniques and grow a bit more before he was ready to become a Scizor. He had worried about Scyther losing his newfound speed but Scyther assured him that it won't be an issue since Aura apparently unlocked the hidden ability of a Pokemon once they learned how to manipulate its raw form.
Right he was with Scyther and Pikachu looking for trainers to fight. Scyther needed to grow in the style they were developing for him and there was no better way than having him fight while following ash's instructions. Riolu had stayed back with Gyarados to develop Aura control exercises for her.
Ash shook his head and focused on what was in front of him right now. He crossed his arms as he saw Scyther facing an angry looking primeape. The trainer of the pig monkey pokemon, who looked a little overweight and had hiker clothes on, was grinning, standing behind his Pokemon.
"Primeape lets smoke this bug. Get in close and use fire punch!" He shouted, his booming voice making Ash wince at how loud he was. He noticed that he was pointing at Mantis just like Gary had done the first time they fought. It looked even more ridiculous on this grown man.
Ash frowned as Primeape's right fist got cloaked in flames before it shot towards Scyther a decent speed with it fist cocked back and a glare on its face. "Don't let it hit you. Evade and tire it out. Use agility and quick attack," said Ash evenly just before Primeape was upon his newest pokemon.
Scyther ducked under the wide swing before and then jumping to the side when it was brought down to hit him on his wings. From the onwards, it began a very deadly dance in which the primeape tried to hit Scyther who was enveloped in the enhancement of quick attack as he used agility to boost up his reflexes. Ash was impressed that the primeape could maintain the fire punch, even if it was growing increasingly angrier and more frustrated as it failed to even graze the graceful and impossibly fast Scyther.
Ash's foe growled as he scowled at Scyther. "Don't lose focus. Mix it up with a thunder punch!" He barked. Ash's eyes widened as Primeape's other fist began to clack with yellow lighting as he added his other fist in attempts to hit Scyther.
Ash noticed that instead of Primeape, it was Scyther who was beginning to tire out so he needed to do something about it. "Double team! Then fast wing!" Ash shouted as he felt anxiety on his stomach. It seemed like this primeape was on a higher level than the other pokemon he had faced before… except for Gyarados of course. He was sure that he beating her and capturing her was just dumb luck. But he wasn't complaining.
Scyther stopped moving just for a millisecond and that was enough for his from to blur as three illusory images of himself appeared that scattered in different directions. Primeape followed the one that ran towards the right and took a big leap that had it on the Scyther copy in less than a second and brought its clacking and flaming fist on it. The phased cleanly through it, dispersing the illusion and kicking up dust as it fist got shoved into the earth.
"Watch out!" Primeape's trainer cried as Scyther carried out his next order. He used quick attack to gain enough momentum as he flew towards Primeape from its left flank, his wings whining white as he used wing attack. Primeape cried out in anger and pain as the supper effective attack hit him with such force that it knocked him over and made him pull out his fist from the ground in the process.
"Slash!"Ash called out with a grin. He watched as Scyther dug his clawed feet on the ground to stop flying before turning around and running towards the downed Primeape, who was slowly standing up. Scyther was still using quick attack so he reached his target in two seconds and raised his right scythe, which was glowing white.
"Brick Break!" His opponent barked with frantic eyes as he knew that a direct slash from a Scyther would spell trouble for him. Primeape reared its fist back and it began to glow just as he brought it forwards to intercept Scyther's downwards slash, creating sparks that originated from the point of contact. Primeape brought up its other fist, also glowing, and tried to hit Scyther on the head but it was swiftly evaded.
Ash watched as another stalemate was reached between the two Pokemon. Scyther was too fast for Primeape to hit and outmaneuver but Primeape's experience and honed battle instincts allowed it to be able to block Scyther's fast and precise attacks while also keeping it on its toes. He grinned. This was the best battle had so far and he was enjoying it very much.
Ash let Scyther fight for face to face for almost a minute. It seemed like his opponent believed that as a fighting type, Primeape would eventually gain the upper hand in hand to hand combat, and while that was a certain and possible outcome, Ash wasn't about to let that happen. "Into the trees! Double team and then fury cutter!"
Scyther jumped back, evading a flaming hammer strike and smirked at his opponent before he flickered away by boosting his agility and quick attack combo with Aura. Primeape began to frantically look around before four Scythers appeared, and charged at him with glowing wings from every direction. A desperate primeape could only pick up a target and turned to the one coming from the left and punched at it with fires cloaked in fire.
It fazed right through him as did the other three. "Watch out! Above you!" The warning was for naught was Scyther fell on top of the primeape feet first, knocking it down to the ground with a pained cry as the fall was hard due to gravity and Scyther's speed.
Then, Scyther's main weapons were lined with greenish, yellow energy before he began swipe repeatedly at Primeape's back, making the pig monkey pokemon cry out in pain as its fur and tough skin was slashed. Scyther only managed to do it three times before his opponent disappeared in a red flash of energy and he felt to the ground, his scythe inches away from striking the ground.
Ash blinked and looked up to see the Hiker glaring at him. "You little piece of shit!" It seemed like he was about to march towards Ash but Scyther's threatening hiss and Pikachu's sparking cheeks made him think better of it. He just settled for glaring at him more before he huffed and walked away.
Ash ignored the confirmation of the money transaction from winning the battle as he sighed. "Another sore loser," he said with a chuckle before he smiled at Scyther in congratulation. "And that's basically how I want you to fight your battles. Tire out your enemy, confuse them and then strike quick and hard with everything you've got."
Scyther nodded his head as he used he cleaned his scythes with the motion of sharpening against each other. "Yeah. I feel comfortable fighting like that. I just need to learn a few long range techniques and get even faster," said Scyther as they began to walk in the direction of their camp.
Ash nodded his head in agreement. "I was thinking about teaching you Aerial Ace to get you even faster. And for long range techniques I was thinking about Air Slash and Razor Wind. I'm sure that you can learn those quick enough and adapt then to the way you will start to fight now. Once you get fully accustomed to fight like this with what you have right now, then we are going to start working on more powerful techniques."
Scyther nodded and he kept silent so Pikachu decided to pep in. "Hey, Ash. I can already control my electric attacks and got down Agility and Iron Tail. What am I going to work on next?" Pikachu asked curiously. His ears were twitching as he listened for anything that attempted to attack them.
Ash hummed as they began to walk on a path. "Well, you only need an attack that lets you hit at medium distances but doesn't requires for you to be stationary. How does Electro Ball sounds?" He raised an eyebrow at Pikachu.
Pikachu nodded his head. "Alright. I'll begin working on it to- oh no you don't!" Pikachu changed what he was about to say abruptly when his hears twitched and he looked up to see a pidgeotto heading straight towards them with claws bared.
Ash's eyes widened when Pikachu jumped from his shoulder and shot thunder wave at the incoming flying type. It's eyes widened when it felt the current of electricity hitting it and paralyzing it. It took a forceful dive and landed roughly a few feet away from Ash and Scyther. Pikachu looked proud of himself when he landed back on Ash's back pack.
"And that is how you deal with aggressive flying types!" The rodent said with a satisfied nod and crossed arms as he closed his eyes and raised his head with a sharp 'hm'. Ash shook his head and walked towards the pidgeotto, who was glaring at him as tried to rise up its wings. He sent a tendril of Aura into it and his eyes widened when he heard her.
"-and I'm will not let myself be captured by someone that attacks wild Pokemon that are hunting!" Her voice was sharp but melodic and it was definitely the voice of a female.
Ash looked at her with wide eyes. "Weren't you going to attack us right now? That's what we though and why Pikachu paralyzed you," said Ash as he approached her and used a Heal Pulse to cure her from the paralysis.
She glared at him and used her wing to point at a tree that was behind them. The human an two pokemon turned towards where she was pointing and the saw a caterpie that quickly noticed them watching and used string shot to escape. Pidgeotto glared at them. "And know my lunch has escaped. This is just great!" She said with a sigh.
Ash glared at Pikachu, who rubbed his head and chuckled sheepishly, before he looked down apologetically at the avian. "I'm so sorry for that Pidgeotto. Would you like for me to give you some of our food? I got plenty at my camp near here."
Pidgeotto looked at him before huffing and nodding. "That's the least you could do, Lead the way."
"How much time do you think it would take for her to want to join us?" asked Pikachu through the bond at Scyther.
Scyther shrugged. "She seems like the proud type. Thirty minutes tops?"
Pikachu nodded his head sagely. "I agree on that time frame."
Ash glared at the two of them. It wasn't like he was going to catch every pokemon that he demonstrated he could talk to them and he wasn't expecting that to happen either. In fact, Pidgeotto hasn't even asked about his ability to talk to her on her mind.
"By the way, how can you and I speak like this?"
Never mind.
-AM: KOI-
Ash looked at Pewter from the edge of Viridian City. Pikachu was on his customary position at his shoulder and Riolu was standing at his side. There were three pokeballs clipped on his belt –Gyarados, Scyther and Pidgeotto, the latter being his most recent capture. Like Pikachu and Scyther predicted, it only took her half an hour to get Ash to capture her and start training her alongside his other Pokemon on the condition that he helped her evolve and provided a steady income of food. That had been agreeable for Ash.
In the past four days Scyther had adjusted pretty well to his new way of fighting by sparring with Pidgeotto, Riolu and Pikachu. Ash only needed to give him some basic direction on what he wanted him to do to win the fight and Scyther would manage to do the rest without issue. They were going to let Scyther build in more power before teaching him more techniques.
Pikachu also managed to learn Electro Ball. It took him two days to form it without it exploding on top of him, since he formed it at the tip of his tail, and another day to master it. The past day was spent getting it adjusted to how he fought.
Riolu juts sparred with everyone and got in a lot of fights. He wanted to get a lot of experience fighting all kinds of pokemon so he could let himself evolve into Lucario and he was on the right track if he kept going at it. He could maintain now the enhancement off Double Kick and Brick Break up for a full minute as he kept fighting.
Pidgeotto was coming along very well on her training. She and Ash agreed that her speed was her greater asset and they should work on a style based on momentum hits and long range attacks. At the moment she knew the moves: Quick Attack, Agility, Gust, Twister and Wing Attack. They were working on Tailwind to get her even more airborne speed and on her endurance and evasiveness with the help of Pikachu and Riolu. She also had Brave Bird as an egg move but they were not going to start working on unlocking until se evolves.
Gyarados developed pretty good control over her Aura by slowly lowering the amount of water she could rise without having it implode on itself due to the amount of water. She could lift two gallons without an issue. Her goal was to lift multiple droplets of water at the same time without even thinking about it. That was a hefty goal. Gyarados could now form her Hyper Beam in five seconds and it was certainly more powerful, as that Samurai kid that thought she was wild and he could capture her with a pinsir could attest to.
Ash smiled as the falling sun made his hat cast a shadow over his red eyes, making them glint. "Let's go."
Decided to only include the stuff that happened in Viridian and Viridian Forest on this chapter. Also if you think that Ash is overpowered then you are mistaken. While the ability to manipulate raw Aura gives an advantage to his Pokemon on the long run, that's the only thing that will make Ash's pokemon stronger and more versatile than the rest of their kind. Also, I know how much you like stories in which Ash grows strong quickly as is a badass.
For the sake of keeping a record I'm going to write the Pokemon has captured so far on each chapter along with the moves they know.
Riolu (M): Quick Attack, Foresight, Counter, Force Palm, Blaze Kick, Aura Sphere, Low Sweep, Double Kick and Brick Break.
Pikachu (M): Quick Attack, Agility, Double Team, Iron Tail, Thunderbolt, Thunder Wave and Electro Ball.
Gyarados (F): Hyper Beam, Hydro Pump, Dragon Rage, Twister and Crunch.
Scyther (M): Quick Attack, Agility, Double Team, Slash, Fury Cutter, Wing Attack and Pursuit.
Pidgeotto (F): Quick Attack, Agility, Gust, Twister and Wing Attack.
And there you have it: Ash's current team. If you think that Riolu is overpowered, then you are going to froth at the moth when he becomes a Lucario and learns steel type moves. I have lot of stuff planned for Ash's team member and a lot of original and not so original concepts that I will try my best to adapt to the story. Please tell me if I can fight scenes!
Still not sure about the incest thing but I shouldn't be a big issue.
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