A/N: We are now on the road! Ash has gotten his first two pokemon and is now traveling to Santalune City!
So… I know you guys are asking yourself if Ash will be having his Kalos Team. Well I can only answer is that he will have half of his Kalos team. In fact, he already has two of the three, Pikachu and Froakie. The last one of the three, you can guess. Also one of Ash's pokemon is hinted here, pay close attention to the foreshadow.
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon
Chapter 5- Santalune City and Crazy Night (no this will not be crazy crazy)
Route going towards Santalune City:
Ash and Pikachu were walking onwards towards the city, they would hit it in no time if they kept up the pace. "Pikachu, what do you think about battling?" Ash asked curiously to his partner on his shoulder. Ash was interested in battling, but he never knew if Pikachu was on board with the idea.
"Pika!" Pikachu exclaimed excitedly. Pikachu loved to battle unlike most small pokemon. After training with Ash before even becoming a trainer, Pikachu had learned to be incredibly strong… Also, this gave Ash a good amount of experience without even knowing much about battles in the first place, he just is that creative.
Suddenly, a young boy that looked like he was twelve and had a green shirt along with a net stepped in front of Ash and Pikachu. With that. The boy looked at Ash and smirked, "Hey, I'm John, i see you are a trainer… Battle me then!"
"Ok…"
"Come on out Weedle!" John exclaimed while throwing a pokeball from his belt. The pokeball opened and from it came the small brown caterpillar pokemon. Ash could not believe it, he was getting into his first official battle.
"Froakie I choose you!" Ash shouted throwing out a pokeball from his belt. The pokeball materialized into the small blue frog that Ash had just captured.
"Fro!" Froakie shouted ready to battle and standing in the ground with determination in his eyes as he looked at his opponent.
Battle Music Begin! Ash (Froakie) vs John (Weedle):
"Froakie start things off with bubble!" Ash commanded as he put his arm out on instinct as he wanted to feel like he was part of the action. Frankie retracted his head and from it came a barrage of blue bubbles that headed towards the Weedle. John saw the attack coming and had to be careful as the attack looked very powerful and he wanted to prevent getting hit with a terribly powerful attack.
"Weedle quick use string shot!" John shouted with a fist pump. Weedle got his mouth out and aimed at the bubble while secreting a string that was very sticky. String shot then was able to overpower bubble and the string shot headed right for Froakie who had wide eyes in confusion as to what to do.
"Dodge it quick!" Ash exclaimed as he saw the incoming string shot. From experience out in forests, Ash knows that string shot can be used numerous different ways to render an opponent unable to respond to the battle correctly and thus not able to win.
"Fro!" Froakie exclaimed as he regained his composure by Ash's words and jumped out of the way as the string shot missed and fell in front of Ash and Pikachu at a harmless difference.
"Great, let's use the same strategy use your frubbles!" Ash exclaimed as he raised his hand and then formed a fist which he pumped with all of power. Froakie then reached into his mane and pulled out some frubbles while throwing them at Weedle. The frubbles did not miss and actually immobilized Weedle like if string shot would have worked. "Now use bubble!" Ash exclaimed as he put his hand out and pumping his other fist. Froakie unleashed the bubbles and then made them collide with Needle's body which terminated in a small explosion.
When the smoke cleared, Weedle was on the ground completely unable to battle. John was at a loss for words as he saw Weedle completely unconscious and defeated.
"Weedle return," John replied recalling Weedle. "You are a strong dude." John then came up to Ash and handed him some Kaleuros. With that, John walked away in a different direction than Ash. The Raven haired trainer just stood there speechless.
Ash just recalled Froakie before turning to Pikachu.
"Pikachu… this is how we could have sustained our selves," Ash said while looking at Pikachu with complete regret to what he had done in the past.
"Pi pikapi," Pikachu replied with the same reaction.
Ash then decided to lighten up the subject with Pikachu a bit so he called out something both he and Pikachu had loved to do. "Well, let's get something to eat! A pokemon center can't be far!" Ash exclaimed as he left towards the path with Pikachu on his shoulder. It was a amazing how Ash is really getting into this mentality that he was changing for the better. Through that, he is showing that he can focus on other things. In fact, Ash's suicidal thoughts were very much not even existent at this point.
A little bit later, the path turned towards what looked like a Pokemon Center, a building with a red roof. It was the first time Ash had seen one outside of Lumiose, but he did know what Pokemon Centers held. He needed to go in there and heal up his pokemon, the thing is that Ash was still kind of unsure about how everything worked, but he knew he could trust nurse Joy with a close pokemon like Pikachu, so he knew he was in good hands.
"Hello there, I am nurse joy, would you like me to heal your pokemon?" Joy asked Ash as he walked up to the counter of the nicely lit pokemon center. The atmosphere of the interior was very calm and it had the pokemon Center jingle playing in calmly around the lobby.
"Yes please," Ash replied handing over Froakie's pokeball and Pikachu who got inside the stretcher. Nurse Joy gave Ash a polite bow and took the two pokemon inside the clinic to be healed. Ash then turned to sit in one of the benches in the pokemon center before he heard a familiar voice call out his name.
"Yo Ash, over here!" Calem waved over to Ash, Ash had not noticed Calem when he walked in. Ash decided to go over and greet the trainer.
"Hey Calem, what's up?" Ash asked with a smile as he sat down next to him. Calem was probably bored playing games with his Holo Caster as he was sitting in the bench with a bored expression in his face until he saw Ash walk in the door.
"Nothing, great to see you back to your old self again," Calem replied with a warm smile. Ash really did not understand what "old self" meant. Maybe it was something to do with his behavior because if he did recall, he was not the most amazing person to ever live in Kalos.
"Old self? But I had not known you before," Ash replied confused to the topic.
"Hehe, Serena told me how you act when you are normal," Calem replied as he shrugged his shoulders. "It seems that when you both met, you were a very cheerful person full of life… And I kind of see what she means by that." Calem winked at Ash showing that Calem probably knows something that Ash doesn't.
"Oh, yea I guess you are right," Ash replied sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his head. Ash then remembered something. "Wait where is Tierno and Trevor?" Ash asked remembering the other two guys that were with him at the time.
"They went over to catch some pokemon over near Santalune City, I just had a battle so I am healing up my pokemon," Calem replied while signaling to his belt. The belt showed that there was only one pokeball meaning that Calem was probably healing a pokemon.
"I guess they must have gone ahead then," Ash replied putting two on two together. "Look's like there might be some cool pokemon to catch over there. By the way, have you caught any new pokemon?"
"Yea check it out!" Calem replied as he threw out the pokeball that was in his belt. A flashing light consumed the two as a small tiny robin pokemon appeared and looked at the two while flying in place.
"Fletching!" The small pokemon called out as he went to up Calem and sat on his shoulder. Calem smiled at the small bird as Ash grew curious as to what it was.
"Awesome, he looks so cool," Ash replied as he scanned it with his pokedex. "A fletchling, that seems like it will grow to be a strong one!"
"Fletchling!" Fletchling replied as Calem recalled it back to his pokeball. Calem then put the pokeball back on his belt and Calem returned his gaze at Ash to answer the remark Ash just made..
"Fletchling can evolve into a Talonflame, I am going to raise it well so that I can have an awesome flying type," Calem said with pride and a smirk.
"Hehe, I am going to need a flying type soon, but I am also hoping for a fire type, so let's see how things go," Ash replied hoping that he would find the right pokemon to help him with his flying issues and that could spark up a little bit of fire at times.
Suddenly the pokemon center bell rang. Ash and Calem poked their heads over to the counter to see that Nurse Joy had finished healing the Froakie and Pikachu and even another pokeball that must have belonged to Calem. Ash and Calem then walked up to the counter and looked at their pokeballs and in Ash's case, Pikachu who was in the stretcher.
"Mr. Ketchum your Froakie and Pikachu are healthy! Mr. Xavier, your Chespin is doing just fine!" Joy called to Ash and to Calem who shared a smile between the two as Calem reached out and grabbed Chespin's pokeball.
"Thanks!" Ash replied as he recollected Pikachu and his pokeball that contained Froakie. "Hey Pikachu!" Ash said as he turned to his electric mouse who was in the stretches looking at Ash.
"Pikapi!" Pikachu called out as he got on top of Ash's shoulder making the pokemon and trainer share a small smile between the two.
"Ash, want to head over to Santalune? I heard everyone was going to pass through there," Calem asked.
"Sure Calem, let's see if we can find some other trainers to battle, we should not be far from the city by now," Ash replied while pumping a fist because they both wanted to get into some more action.
"Ok, let's go!" Both trainers exclaimed as they left the Pokemon center with excitement and back into the adventures of the route.
They started walking while encountering a lot of wild pokemon along the way. Some interested Ash, but Ash wanted to have the pokemon choose to go along with Ash. Calem on the other hand, was eager to catch pokemon as he caught a couple of Pokemon on the way including a Ralts that Calem was extremely excited about for some apparent reason.
It was getting dark, but Ash and Calem had Santalune in sight now, they both started running as they were going to go there and challenge the gym the next day until suddenly they were stopped by two men in orange suits...
"Well, if it isn't two trainers, we would like to steal your pokemon," One of them said with a dark tone.
"No way!" Calem and Ash shouted in unison.
"Yes way," the other grunt responded while bobbing a pokeball in his hand. Both grunts then threw their pokeballs out into the air. Both pokeballs opened to materialize some Houndour. "I think Xerocic would like some strong pokemon like that Pikachu of yours to help out in his experimentation."
"Pikachu, I choose you!" Ash yelled barely dazed by the declaration while pointing into the sky.
"Pika!"Pikachu shouted in a strong tone as he jumped above Ash and landed in front of him while collecting electricity on his cheeks.
"I believe in you Chespin!" Calem shouted as he threw out a pokeball which opened up to the same little green pokemon that Calem had chosen as a partner, Chespin.
Team Flare Music! Ash and Calem (Pikachu and Chespin) vs Grunt 1 and 2 (Houndour and Houndour):
"Houndour use flamethrower!" both grunts shouted in unison while mirroring their movements by putting their hands out palm down.
"Pikachu use iron tail on the ground and make a dust cloud!" Ash called out on instinct trying to give himself and Calem the advantage. Pikachu made his tail glow white and stiffen and then Pikachu jumped into the air and slammed the tail into the bare dirt of the pathway. This created some dust to be picked up into the air and collide with the flamethrowers. Because the jets of fire were restricted of their oxygen, it was impossible for the flamethrowers to pass through and it created a small shield that left Pikachu and Chespin unharmed.
'Hmmm, I see, Ash is unpredictable when it comes to battles' Calem thought now understanding Ash's battle style. Calem then decided that they had the advantage and put out his fist while shouting: "Chespin use vine whip!"
"Chesss pin!" Chespin called out as he summoned vines from his sides and then shooting them to tie up the two Houndour. The vines went around the Hourndour's snouts and torsos as they were completely immobile in front of the grunts that were staring in disbelief and recoiling in shock at the same time. Both houndour struggled to break free, but it was nearly impossible to get out of Chespin's vine whip with that tight of a grip and specially since both Houndours were very small in size.
"Pikachu use electroball!" Ash called out while putting his hand out and then changing that hand into a fist and putting his other hand out. Pikachu then charged himself up in electricity and formed an electric sphere on his tail as he called out his usual Pikachu cry. Then, Pikachu launched the sphere he developed at the two Houndour and the two fire and dark pokemon got enveloped in an explosion of electricity.
Both grunts stared in shock as the dust cleared revealing that the Houndour cannot battle. With sour expressions in their faces, the grunts recalled their pokemon to their pokeballs and then left into thin air.
Ash and Calem stared at the path in front of them in shock as Calem silently recalled Chespin. Ash then turned to Calem and simply said, "Well, that was easy…"
"Yea, they were not expecting that destruction," Calem responded with a slight giggle and then turned his gaze to the city that the two trainers were overlooking. "Let's run to Santalune City, we need to meet up with everyone else!"
"Yea let's go!" Ash exclaimed as they ran in the direction of the city while trying to beat the setting sun in the horizon.
Inside Santalune City:
Not long into Santalune City, Tierno and Trevor were both spotted sitting inside the Pokemon center. Our duo and the electric mouse ran straight up to the Charmander and Squirtle trainer as they saw them. When Ash and Calem got near the two, the two recognized the duo and greeted them.
"Hey Calem! Ash I didn't expect to see you here!" Tierno exclaimed as he waved at the duo with Trevor who was putting away his camera into his pocket.
"Hey there, we met up and beat a couple of crooks over in route 4, they thought they could mess with us," Ash replied with laughter as he recalled what had just happened at route 4.
"Pikachu..." Pikachu sweatdropped at that comment.
Behind the talking boys, the girls were walking into the pokemon center when they noticed all the boys. Serena was the first to notice and whispered to Shauna who was playing around with some settings in her pokedex to customize the device. "Hey, they boys are here… wait, is that Ash with them?" Serena asked as she tensed up.
Shauna instantly looked up at seeing Serena's reaction and smirked as she literally shoved Serena towards the boys, "Why don't you talk to him? Look he seems like a really nice guy now, you were right about him!" Serena tensed up even more trying not to die from the stress.
"Ok…" Serena took a deep breath and relaxed as she resigned that once that Shauna had made up her mind about something, there was no turning back… Especially if she could continue teasing Serena. With that, Shauna dragged Serena towards the other boys who were talking.
"Hey boys!" Shauna shouted as the duo walked to the boys. "Didn't expect to see you here Ash," Shauna added while pointing her eyes at Serena thus making the latter recoil.
"Hehe, just Calem and I running into some bad guys in the route," Ash explained as Pikachu kept sweat dropping in Ash's shoulder.
"I see," Shauna responded still not convinced about the honey blonde next to her.
"So, any new pokemon caught?" Tierno asked out of the blue. Tierno then took out a pokeball from his belt and threw it to reveal a flashing light that revealed a small pokemon that looked like a lily pad.
"Lotad!" The small pokemon cried as Pikachu got down from Ash's shoulders to greet it.
"Pika pika?"
"Lo lotad!"
Ash and the others used their pokedexes on Lotad amazed at the pokemon. It was so nice to be exposed to a pokemon they had never seen before.
"Check mine out," Trevor starts, he send out a Flabebe. Same result with the pokedexes and the excitement.
"Are you guys ready to challenge the gym yet?" Serena asked looking at the three pokemon interacting on the ground.
Tierno and Trevor pulled out Lotad and Flabebe's pokeball as they recalled their pokemon back.
"I think we are! Let's go there first thing when we wake up," Ash exclaimed throwing a fist in the air. This made Shauna nudge Serena in the shoulder. Serena just lightly blushed, but hid her face.
"Well it is getting late, why don't we go to sleep?" Calem asked the others with a slight yawn.
"Sure, we can all go to bed here in the pokemon center," Trevor replied. "Anyways, I doubt the gym leader would take any challengers at this time anyways.
The group made it up to Nurse Joy. "Can we have a room?" Trevor asked with a smile which Nurse Joy returned to the orange haired trainer and the people behind him.
"They are three people bedrooms so you will have to split yourselves up," Joy replied while handing out two keys to the rooms the others will be staying at to Trevor.
The gang made it upstairs of the pokemon center, this is when things went crazy...
"Calem and Trevor, come with me, we gotta talk strategy," Tierno replied as he dragged the other two away into one of the rooms that Trevor had the keys to. Just in time though, Trevor tossed the keys at Shauna who caught then in time for the other room that they would stay at…
But…
Leaving Ash and Pikachu alone with two girls to spend the night with.
"Ummmm, so that means I am crashing with y'all?" Ash asked trying not to sound all creepy because he knew girls probably would like their privacy.
Shauna took the opportunity for Serena, "As long as you follow our rules: you have to keep your hands to yourself at all times, no peeking when Serena and me change, and we get to peek on you." Pikachu started to laugh instantly at Shayna's rude humor which made Ash look blankly at the brunette possibly not understanding… But Serena did understand.
"SHAUNA!" Serena exclaimed in terror with a red face.
"Uhhhh…" Ash said completely oblivious to what the meaning of everything was. "Wait… What would happen if you two break one of the rules?" Ash asked while pointing at the girls.
"Then you can break the rules with us!" Shauna exclaimed with a wink as Shauna turned the key and went into the room with the others. Pikachu was bawling at this point because of the dirty minded mouse that he was.
"Shauna…" Serena muttered to herself with clenched fists around her body.
"Serena relax, we will have fun tonight!" Ash replied with a smile towards the honey blonde haired girl.
"Pikapi pikachu!" Pikachu agreed.
Shauna looked at Ash with a shocked look on her face face. Serena hid her steaming eyes and blushing face as she heard this.
Ash instantly noticed the error in what he said since he knew that by fun he meant something that did not involve physical contact, "In an appropriate way."
"Wow Ash, and here I thought you were dense as hell," Shauna said out of the blue while looking at Ash with a smirk. Obviously the former was attempting to be suggestive, but she ended up causing some pain to Ash.
Ash then looked down hiding his eyes on his cap. Serena and Shauna both tensed up. Serena spoke up, "Ash, are you ok? You can tell me anything." Serena at this point was in front of Ash while grabbing his shoulders. Shauna figured out how touching Serena was being.
"Sorry," Ash said as he looked up at Serena's blue eyes. "It took time, but I made myself learn about that stuff eventually, it's just that it brings a bad memory of my parents."
Serena and Shauna shared a quick glance and turned back to Ash…
"It's ok Ash," Shauna said with a reassuring smile at the raven haired trainer.
"Besides you have us!" Serena exclaimed. "In an appropriate way," Serena corrected as she covered her blush. Shauna giggled since Serena was very hesitant to say the last part.
"Pikapi, pikachu!" Pikachu called out to his trainer while getting on Ash's shoulder and then jumping down from Ash's shoulder to jump on a bed.
"Yea, let's go to sleep Pikachu, but first I have to change," Ash replied as he went to the closet and got undressed. The girls had dressed up into their PJs while Ash was changing. They did not notice Pikachu staring from the side though… so lucky him.
Ash walked back into the room… completely shirtless. The girls stared at him and Serena violently blushed figuring out that Ash was in very, very good shape. "Forgot my shirt," Ash said as he got his shirt out of his backpack and put it on to later lie down in bed. The girls also laid down in bed.
"Good night!" all three said as Ash shut off the light of the room leaving everyone in darkness.
"Pikachu!" Pikachu shouted more excited than ever bringing a thought to everyone's mind.
'Did Pikachu watch us this entire time… I don't remember him coming out of the closet with Ash…' the girls asked themselves.
"Pikachu, did you go into the closet with me when I changed?" Ash asked out of the blue towards the electric mouse sleeping next to him.
"Pika…" Pikachu said with guilt.
The girls tried to maintain their cool, but inside they were screaming, "Pikachu, what were you doing?"
"Pikachu…?" Ash asked. The girls then lost it they got up. Pikachu saw two shadows in the darkness approach the bed he and Ash were in causing him to instantly jump out of the bed. The girls saw this as they approached the rodent and chased the electric mouse to make it pay for its deeds around the room. Chaos and havoc being caused as Ash watched and sweatdropped.
"Pika pikapi!" Pikachu shouted with a sweatdrop as the girls chased down the electric mouse. Shauna then got ahold of Pikachu, but Pikachu was already too startled. "Pika… CHUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Pikachu began to shock everyone in the room causing everyone to get electrocuted.
"AHHH!" the three screamed, but Ash's scream blended in well with the girls.
In the other room with the boys:
The boys were getting ready for bed, they had just finished talking strategy for the gym when suddenly, "AHHHHHH!"
"Did you guys hear that?" Calem asked as he looked towards where the sound came from.
"It sounded like the girls… wait… DID WE LEAVE ASH TO SLEEP WITH THE GIRLS?!" Tierno asked while putting both his hands over his head in shock.
"WE TOTALLY FORGOT!" Trevor replied. "Should we go check on them?"
"Nah, I think Ash just got lucky and got to see something he shouldn't have… dang it I should have stayed with the girls," Calem replied while facepalming.
"NO, I SHOULD HAVE!" Tierno replied while pointing at himself.
"NO! ME!" Trevor retaliated while crossing his arms.
"Guys shut up!" Calem replied and rolled his eyes. "We can just ask Ash for a detailed description tomorrow."
"You're right," Tierno replied while sighing and looking down.
"Still should have been me," Trevor replied as he went to sleep with a pout on his face.
A/N: And this is why I wanted to make this one rated T. This type of misleading humor will stay at times, but the plot will keep moving well.
Remember to R & R and I will see you guys next time!
Responding to some reviews:
Thor94:
Darkrai is a strong legendary, but who said that legendaries have to be stronger than normal pokemon necessarily? Don't worry about Ash's team, the six he will have will be extremely powerful!
TheLegendaryGuy:
It was a bit of drama with the bed scene, but yea, other than that, Ash begins his journey. Also, he will travel to Santalune with someone, don't worry about Serena, who said she won't travel with Ash? In fact, I never planned in keeping them too separated ;)
Cutesaralisa:
#Amourshippingforthewin! ;)
Guest 1:
Thanks! I Will keep it up! Glad you are enjoying it!
Guest 2:
I think I should put this out there: I do not think I am going to have Ash do this in the present because then that would mean that he is not developing like I want to. The main thing is, I want Ash to be emotional and aggressive, but not suicidal anymore. Other than that, be patient, because the scene is probably on its way, but to a certain extent.