A/N: Hey guys! Welcome back to another chapter of Journey of the Chosen One! It's been what, almost a year? This chapter is coming out way later than I had planned, I am so sorry. So the scream at the end of chapter 2 was actually supposed to be Samurai, but I forgot about pidgeotto. Woops. Additionally, the chapters will be very similar to the anime. The reason is because the only difference from the anime, to this fanfiction, is Ash's ability. I have also decided to stop paying as much attention to what the characters say. In effort to keep it similar, I have been using quotes from the story. That's gets boring very fast, so the last point in which I quote the story, is Seymour's poem. So until his ability starts to get more well known, there won't be many differences. However, how Ash and Co. deal with these problems, will be different. Enough of my rambling, let's get onto questions!
stars90: So Houndour is training the Pokemon. Is that gonna continue?
For a while. The pokemon want to protect Ash, but they know Ash won't train them. And even if he did, he wouldn't work them hard enough for real improvement.
Now onto the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon.
Key:
"hi" -speech
"hi" thought
"hi"-pokemon speech(translated)
'hi' telepathy
Chapter 4: Unexplained Power
"We made it!" Ash yelled.
They were finally on the outskirts of Pewter city. The Viridian forest had taken longer than they had hoped for, but it didn't take too long. "So Ash, are you going to challenge the gym?" Misty asked.
"Gym? I'm just out here to make new friends. I think Gary once talked about the gyms. You challenge them for a badge, right? Every person needs 7?"
"Close, but 8 badges. Gyms aren't only there for battles though. They're also there to help trainers mature and get better with their pokemon. I'm sure you'd love it!" Misty said.
"Okay, but first we should probably head to the pokemon center."
"Pewter City is grey, the color of stone. This town has always been famous for stone," a voice sounded.
"Huh? Who are you?" Ash looked down.
"My name's flint. And you're standing on some of my merchandise young man," Flint said.
"So you sell rocks? I guess this place is famous for its stone after all."
"They're Pewter city souvenirs. I sure hope you don't plan on facing the gym leader. Your pokemon look far too weak."
Ash and Misty got agitated at the response, but ignored it and started to head towards the pokemon center.
-At The Pokemon Center-
The pokemon center looked like a replica from the one in Viridian city. Just a reception counter, some chairs, and a few plants. Just a simple building, for a simple purpose. The one thing that struck Ash as odd though, was the nurse. She was the same nurse from Viridian city!
"Hey!" Ash yelled, "Aren't you the nurse joy from Viridian City? What are you doing here?"
The nurse joy studied Ash for a moment before responding, "you must be talking about my little sister. I'm the older Joy. Thank you for helping her with team rocket."
"It was no problem, really. I'm just glad I could help. Could you look after my pokemon? I want to make sure they aren't hurt."
"I'll get them check right away. Why don't you wait on that bench?"
"Okay," Ash said as he walked to the bench to relax.
1/2 hour later.
*ding* "Could Ash Ketchum please come and get his pokemon?"
"Looks like my pokemon are done! Now I can go talk to the gym leader!"
Ash an Misty left the pokemon center. Houndour walking to the right of Ash, pikachu on his right shoulder, caterpie on his left shoulder, and pidgeotto flying to his left. "So what are you going to ask the gym leader Ash?" Misty inquired.
"I don't know. Stuff about pokemon."
Misty and the pokemon sweat dropped at the bland answer. "I hope he thinks of some questions soon. Gym leaders are very serious and have busy schedules," Misty thought.
As Ash and Misty approached the gym, Ash took time look at it.
It wasn't very impressive, just a door surrounded by rock and beams on the side. Likely to hold it up. The top right corner read "PEWTER GYM".
"So this is a gym?" Ash asked, "I expected it to be; I don't know; more impressive."
"Well Ash, not all gym leaders have the money to make their gym look nice. Let's go in"
The inside of the gym was already much more impressive. There were blue walls and a blue floor. A ledge with a railing towards the right. The center of the gym had a dirt platform with stalagmites on the left and right sides. At the end of this platform was the gym leader.
"Who goes there?"
Ash looked around a little before noticing the gym leader, "Are you the gym leader?"
"Yes. Is this your first gym match?"
Ash looked kind of confused, "Uh yeah, but that's not why I'm-."
"Gym matches are different from normal matches," the leader started, ignoring Ash, "This match is from pokemon league authorization. There are special rules."
"But I'm-?" Ash began to say.
"We will use two pokemon each, understood? How long have you been with your pokemon?" He asked.
"About 2 weeks, but I-."
"Your pokemon are still young, they can't win."
"But I-" Ash started before pidgeotto suddenly flew off of Ash and attacked the gym leader. "Pidgeoo" "Just let Ash speak!" Pidgeotto yelled, attacking the gym leader, completely unaware of the irony of the statement.
"Ahh!" The leader yelled, before finally throwing the bird off. "Your pokemon aren't even trained! Come back when you've trained them!" he said sternly.
Ash opened his mouth, then closed it as he walked out, head down in shame. "I guess I won't get any advice after all."
"Don't worry Ash! If we beat him, he'll have to apologize!" Pikachu yelled excitedly.
"Apologize for what? We attacked him."
"Sorry about that Ash," Pidgeotto said sadly.
-Back In The Gym-
"How dare you do that to him!" Misty shouted, walking over to him with her fists clenched. "He was just looking for some advice! you didn't even let him talk!"
"He just wanted advice? Well it doesn't matter, that doesn't excuse the fact that his pidgeotto attacked me." The leader said.
Mist face got red as steam started to come out of her ears. She turned around and stormed out of the gym to find Ash. When she finally found him, she say him doing pushups without a shirt. Blushing a little, she ask, "Are you okay Ash? He was just a jerk. Don't let him get you down."
As she looked around more, she saw all of his pokemon training. She then realized what was going on, "Do you plan on challenging him? You don't have any pokemon that are good against rock."
Ash stopped his pushups and turned around, "That's okay. If we train hard enough, we can overpower him."
"If you say so. I'm going to the pokemon center to get dinner. it's getting pretty late. Come back after your training."
-At the pokemon center-
"Wow, this is really good," Ash said, as he scarfed down his food.
"Hey Ash," Misty said sweetly, "If you ask me really nicely, I'll let you borrow one of my pokemon."
"That's okay Misty. I'd like to beat him on my own. Otherwise, what's the point?"
Although misty admired his admiration, she thought that was pretty dumb. "Ash, all of your pokemon are weak against rock types. How do you plan on beating him?"
Ash smirked a little, "I have an idea..."
-The Next Day At The Gym-
"Hey, gym leader! I'm Ash Ketchum from Pallet town and I challenge you to a battle!" Ash declared confidently.
"My name's Brock and you couldn't have trained that pidgeotto in one day. Come back in a few weeks," the gym leader said, brushing Ash off.
"No! I'm determined to beat you! I'm not using pidgeotto either!"
The gym lead sighed, "Fine. Go geodude!"
"Houndour, I choose you!"
Geodude and houndour stared each other down. Waiting patiently for their masters to give an order.
"Geodude, rollout!"
Geodude started rolling at a very fast pace towards houndour. Right as it was about to hit him, houndour jumped to the left. Geodude unrolled and stared at houndour.
Brock smirked. Ash's houndour dodged without an order. "Again!"
Geodude once again raced towards houndour. And once again, houndour jumped to the left. However this, something different happened. "Houndour metal claw!"
Right as geodude unrolled, he was hit by a claw shining of metal.
Brock looked at him quizzically. "How did his houndour know metal claw? Just who is this kid..."
"Geodude, be careful!" Brock yelled.
"Oh no. that was my trump card! What am I supposed to do now? Well maybe if I...It's worth a shot!" Ash thought.
"Use rollout again! But this time, don't unroll no matter what!"
"Bad move," Ash smirked."Houndour, jump on geodude! Use metal claw on your hind legs to keeps yourself stable and use metal claw on you forelegs to hit him!"
"No way..."Brock an Misty thought.
Geodude rolled at houndour, only for houndour to leap on him. The hind paws of houndour shined with metal and dug into geodude, making him howl in pain. His fore paws turned metal just moments after. Geodude was not able to shake him off and quickly fainted.
"Well Ash, I have to hand it to you. That was an impressive strategy. But my next pokemon is far stronger! Onix, I choose you!"
Onix released a ferocious roar. "Quick onix, tackle!"
Houndour was not able to dodge the impressive speed and was hit with the full force.
"Now, bind!"
Houndour was trapped in onix's coils. Houndour kept flailing about, but could not escape. "Forfeit now, or else I'll keep houndour in bind."
Ash was surprised. He had never expected such a move "I for-"
"Don't do it Ash!" houndour yelled, "I am not going to be the reason we lose! Just let me faint!"
"I...I...I will not forfeit! My pokemon trained hard for this and I'm not going to let them down!" Ash yelled.
After a few minutes of howling, houndour finally fainted. "I'm very disappointed in you Ash. Part of being a trainer is knowing when to give up."
"I'm doing this for my pokemon! Pikachu, I choose you!"
Pikachu ran up to the field, cheeks parking with electricity.
"Pikachu use thunder shock!"
A powerful thunder shock erupted from pikachu and hit onix. However, onix was unscathed when the electricity died down.
"Foolish trainer. Rock types are immune to electric type attacks. You have lost."
"Erg. Pikachu, again!"
Pikachu erupted with electricity once more, however this time the electricity went towards to roof. The heat of the electricity activated the sprinkler system. as the water fell, onix started to howl in pain.
"This is my chance!" "Pikachu, thunder shock! Full power!"
The electricity was did significantly more damage with the sprinkler system helping. Onix crashed down with X's for eyes.
"Well Ash, it seems you won. I underestimated you and paid the price. Here's your boulder badge."
"Boulder badge? But I was just battling to prove my pokemon weren't weak."
"Nonetheless, you beat a gym leader in a pokemon battle. You deserve it." Brock smiled.
Ash look at the badge for a moment, before placing it in his pocket. "Thank you Brock. This means a lot to me."
"Hey Ash," Brock said, "Do you mind if I walk to the pokemon center with you? You needed advice, right?"
Ash smiled a him, "Sure Brock."
-At The Pokemon Center-
"You know ash," Brock started, "I don't actually want to be a gym leader. My dream is to become the world's greatest pokemon breeder. But With all of my siblings, I can't go out to travel."
"Brock, I want you to travel and fulfill your dream," Flint said, appearing out of nowhere and taking off his fake beard and taking off his hat.
"It's Flint!" Ash said.
"My father," Brock said, sounding angry.
"Because I failed at trying to become a great pokemon trainer, I didn't return. I was too embarrassed and ashamed to go back to my family. So please, go fulfill your dream and mine."
"First," Brock started, sounding stoic, "There's something I need to tell you."
"I understand how you must feel about me after all this time. Let everything out."
Brock handed his father a sewing needle and thread, as he started telling him everything he needed to know about taking care of the children. Ash and Misty sweat dropped at his antics.
-15 Minutes Later-
"Hey Ash, are you sure it's okay for me to come with you?" Brock asked.
Ash, Brock, and Misty were all on their way to Mt. Moon. Ash's pokemon following close behind.
"Of course! I'm traveling to make more friends! Human and pokemon alike."
This confused Brock, "Why does he want to make friends with pokemon? Some sort of...strategy?"
"Pokemon too? Is that for some sort of strategy? I normally just make my pokemon fight. Does friendship make them do better?"
Ash jumped back in shock at the statement, while his pokemon made a semicircle around him protectively. "Why does everyone think that's weird?! Pokemon are living beings too! Each pokemon has a different personality, different likes and dislikes. Why does it matter if they have special abilities? There are even humanoid pokemon, but even they get abused! Pokemon have feelings too!"
Ash ran away, crying. He was starting to realize the truth: Humans look down on pokemon. Ash kept running, until he slammed into someone in a lab coat. The person grabbed onto Ash, "Please! Help me! I'm being chased by a swarm of zubat!" the man yelled.
Coming to his senses, Ash saw the zubat. "Houndour, ember! Pikachu, thunder shock!"
Houndour and Pikachu leaped into action, sending their respective attacks. As the zubat were electrocuted and burned, they flew away. "Ash! Where are you?" yelled a voice.
As Ash looked at where he came from, he saw Brock and Misty running toward him. Brock said, "Ash, I'm sorry. I didn't know you felt that way. And although I don't feel the same way about pokemon, I'll try my best to understand them more!"
"Thanks Brock," smiled Ash.
The man from earlier hugged Ash, "Thank you for saving me! They say man's best friend is a pokemon and with you two I believe it. I'm so moved! Such friendship I thought I'd never see; when the zubat began attacking me! I thought I was done for when who should arrive? Two heroes thanks to whom I'm alive! I'm aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive! Thanks you so much, thank you! Those wretched zubat would have eaten me alive, I'm sure! Since you seem like a pokemon trainer, would you mind helping me? My name's Seymour."
" Nice poem...but zubat wouldn't eat you. If anything, they would drink a small amount of blood. And those zubat weren't hungry though, they were just scared. What do you need help with?" Ash asked.
"Well you see" Seymour said as he lead the into the cave, "Someone has strung lights throughout the caves! The lights are disturbing the pokemon, especially the zubat! That's why I'm here, to stop the criminals! However, I have no way to stop them. Whenever I take the lights down, they're back up in hours!"
Just then a clefairy started walking through the cave, "Moon stone! Moon stone! Must return the moon stone!" the clefairy sang.
"Hey look, a clefairy!" Ash said excitedly as hey to chase after it.
However, he felt a hand on his should right as he was about to go after it. "Please don't catch the clefairy! It's best that you just let it stay here, I hope you understand."
Ash paused in shock, but the smiled. "Yeah Seymour, I understand." "Someone finally understands."
"If any of them got caught, I'd lose some data!" Seymour added.
"Does anyone think of pokemon as something then tools?! Why is it just me?!" Ash screamed internally.
With the clefairy out of site, Ash thought it would be a good time to look for the criminals. But his thoughts were interrupted by the sound of clefairy screaming.
"Help! I'm being attacked!"
Ash and co. ran towards the clefairy. Meowth was scaring him, trying to coerce him to give him the moon stone he was carrying.
"Prepare for trouble!"
"And make it double!"
"To protect the world from devastation."
"To unite all people within our nation."
"To denounce the evils of truth and love."
"To extend our reach to the stars above."
"Jessie!"
"James!"
"Team rocket blasting off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now, or prepare to fight"
"Meowth that's right!"
"Team rocket!" Ash and Misty shouted in unison.
"That right twerps!" Jessie said, "We've come here to steal the moon stone! The moon stone has a lot of energy that we plan on using to make our pokemon stronger. We'll be unstoppable!"
"We won't let you! Houndour, let's take them down!" Ash shouted.
"Actually Ash, I think I should sit this one out. I think caterpie should fight in my stead."
"Okay then...caterpie, do you want to fight?" Ash inquired.
"Okay Ash," caterpie responded, knowing why houndour wanted him to fight.
"Zubat, I choose you!"
"Zubat?" Ash asked.
"I caught it before we entered the cave." Brock replied.
"Ekans, go!"
"Come on, koffing!"
"Caterpie tackle attack!"
"AAHHH" Caterpie roared while it inched toward team rocket.
"..."
"..."
"Okay then use string shot on koffing!"
Everyone's thoughts were near identical, "Really Ash? Really?"
"That bug is useless when against us!" James shouted victoriously, "Koffing use smog!"
"Ekans, dig!"
Koffing starting releasing a small amount toxic gas. James didn't realize most of koffing's holes had been covered up. A sizzling sound could be heard, until an explosion of toxic gas erupted forcefully out of koffing, effectively knocking him out.
"Zubat, blow away the gas with your wings!" Brock commanded.
When the gas was cleared away, it was evident that team rocket had escaped. A hole was shone where Jessie, James, And Meowth once stood.
A faint glow, getting bright by the second, could be seen where caterpie once stood.
Houndour smirked, "The little rascal did it. Against criminals no less."
As the glow started to die down, a metapod stood where caterpie once was.
"I-I did it! I'm a metapod! Beat that, weedle!"
Ash smiled, he just witnessed his first evolution. However, this was not the time to be celebrating, and everyone knew that.
"Those stupid criminals!" Misty shouted, "They should just stop!"
Houndour noticed clefairy looking sketchy, "Clefairy, are you okay?" he asked."
"Yeah I...no, I'm not. If what they said about the moon stone was true, we could be in grave danger. The moon stone is very precious to us."
Ash, who was listening to the conversation, said, "Don't worry clefairy, we'll stop them! The bad guys never win!"
Brock looked at Ash shocked. "Did he just...? No, he couldn't have. I'll have to ask him once we deal with team rocket. Ash, just who are you?"
"Clefairy, do you know where the moon stone is?! We must stop team rocket!" Seymour shouted.
Clefairy nodded in response and lead them to the moon stone. Everyone was amazed at just how intricate the tunnels were. Twists and turn everywhere. It was a wonder how so many caves could exist in just one mountain!
A faint noise could be heard after a half an hour of walking in silence, "iary. Cl-fry. Cle-fry. Cl-fairy. Clefai-ry! Clefai-ry!"
As the noise became clearer, everyone realized it was a group of clefairy. They must have been close. However, Ash realized they were nearly as cheerful as the sounded.
"What are you doing?! You can't take the moon stone! We protect this stone! Our ancestors and our ancestors' ancestors protected this stone! We won't let you have it!" Shouted an angry clefairy.
As the group of clefairy came into view, they noticed team wrong standing next to the stone, laughing evilly.
"We did it, Jessie! We got the moon stone!" James said excitedly.
"You're right for once, James! We really did it!" Jessie responded, with just as much enthusiasm.
"Uhh, guys? It's the twerps again!" Meowth said hesitantly, hoping this wasn't then end.
"Pikachu, use thundershock!" Ash shouted.
"Koffing come on out!"
A fainted koffing came out of the pokeball, taking the attack.
Ash was shocked, "H-how could you? You would make a pokemon take an attack like that? Even when we was in critical condition? You...you will pay!"
At that moment, Ash's eyes had a blue tinge in them. His feet starting hovering off the ground, officially surprising everyone in the room.
"By the name of Arceus and all pokemon. I hereby punish you for your acts against pokemon. Killing pokemon is not acceptable. Your punishment; death!"
Ash's body started glowing dangerously blue with power. Making harsh winds appear in the cave.
"Ash, no!" Yelled everyone except for Seymour and the clefairy, while team rocket decided to run, "stop this! They don't deserve to die! Please, stop!"
There words seemed to reach Ash, as the energy died down. Ash landed on the floor, still standing, as the blue energy faded away. He promptly collapsed onto houndour's back, out cold.
A/N: Well that's a wrap! Ash is ending the chapter with yet another nap. Again, sorry for the huge delay. I absolutely hate Mt. Moon. Hopefully updates will start to come out soon. See you in the next chapter!