A.N.- Sigh, all these reviews saying that being unbeatable is unrealistic, need I remind you that Seto Kaiba in Yu-Gi-Oh had only lost to Yugi in the entire series? Granted, he's an arrogant egomaniac. Pegasus doesn't count because he forced Kaiba to lose after threatening his little brother. And Yugi never loses either in the series, he defeated Noah even when Noah had 10,000 Lifepoints and he had 1000. So the argument of saying a character is too powerful is invalid because each time Yugi appears, you know he'll dominate, so what? Zane Truesdale in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX never lost until he faced Aster Phoenix, yet another duelist that never lost.
What I'm saying is that Alec needs someone who could actually take him on to appear and that hasn't happened yet so calm down! Alec's pretty much the same as Yugi, though he doesn't have the spirit of a Pharaoh residing within him, he's a freaking prodigy. I thought I explained it already LOL! Hello! Prodigy!
Also, my girlfriend provided me with another example, she use to watch an anime called Prince of Tennis or something like that and a character in it, Yukimura (might have misspelled.) was already a regular since his freshmen year in a school with extremely fierce competition. The dude was undefeated, never even losing a set and destroyed everyone he faced, gaining the nickname 'Child of God'. It wasn't until he faced Echizen Ryoma, the protagonist did he lose his first match ever. Again I stress the fact that the right person hasn't appeared thus Yukimura never came close to losing.
You might argue that such things aren't realistic and geniuses that can make anything easy don't exist. In real life, such occurrences are rare but they are real. Kim Ung-Yong was confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records as having the highest confirmed IQ in the world, with 210. He was fluent in four languages by the age of 2, auditing college courses by the age of 4. And he was invited by NASA to study in the United States when he was 8 years old. So is this man a Gary Stu then?
And to list another example so I'm not accused of being sexist, Judit Polgar became the youngest chess grand-champion when she was 15, unseating Bobby Fischer. Her IQ is 170. Is she a Mary-Sue?
Get it through your head people. Such people do exist. So why not a strong Pokémon who hasn't been defeated yet because no one seems to be capable yet; I really don't understand what the fuss is about. And no offence, Lance is pretty Mary Sue in the anime and manga if all the readers hold Ash as their standards. I re-watched the first season and it was pathetic, Ash never won his Kanto badges through battles.
Let's be honest, Ash is pretty weak and illogical, he comes across many strong Pokémon in his journeys yet opts not to capture them. Hell, he could have a team composed with only legendaries. No wait, that'll make him Gary Stu, then why the f*ck does Tobias have a Latios and Darkrai that pretty much destroyed every single match it participated in without being subistuted? Now that is poor writing and we don't even know where this Tobias is from or his origins but I don't see many people shouting that he's Gary Stu.
And as a reply to those who said Alec won leagues and became a champion to easily. He started out his trip at 14, he is now in his mid 20's, and practically trains himself and his team to the bone everyday. That's not Gary stu, because he knows what he wants in his life and does his hardest to make it a reality.
In all honest opinion, he has absolutely no social life as I have described in the second chapter. So I don't see why he can't accomplish all that. Cynthia became Champion of Sinnoh in her early twenties; as I recall, more or less younger than Alec and I suppose I assumed she's a mary sue too.
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And what if I told you that I beat the Elite Four with only one Pokémon on my good old Gameboy without cheats? Though I admit, I used my lvl 100 Milotic in Sapphire, it remains a fact. I also used a lvl 100 Dragonite and Blastoise in Fire Red and defeated the Elite Four easily.
With that, I shall turn my focus to Ash and leave Alec brooding in the background like he wished. And no worries for you all who say Alec's got 'cooler' Pokémon, calm your balls…Ash has only started his journey.
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"Pikapi, pika pika!" Pikachu rubbed his eyes and approached a head of dark messy hat hair and poked the snoring figure who was sleeping contently in his sleeping bag. Smacking his face with its paw, Pikachu then had an idea as sparks appeared on its red circle cheeks.
"Pika chuuuuuu!" Pikachu cried as he zapped his trainer with a mild thunderbolt.
"AAAHHHHHH!" Ash shot up with surprise and due to being cocooned in a snug sleeping bag, his motor balance was nonexistent as he slipped and fell face down on the floor of his tent.
"Good Morning to you too bud." Ash murmured before glancing up and shooting Pikachu a death glare.
Pikachu wasn't the slightest bit afraid as it folded its short front paws in front of its chest, closed his eyes and smirked.
"Pika pika." The electric rodent crawled out of the tent.
After a rather letting out a mouth gaping yawn that would make a Slaking proud, Ash folded his tent back into the back of his bag and stretched. Then he retrieved two bowls and placed some Pokémon food in them and called Pikachu and Gible when it was ready.
In addition, he pulled out two of his Pokéballs and with a flash, two large bird Pokémon appeared.
The first stood at an impressive four feet eleven height. The feathers on its head-crest were as long as its body and are yellow and red. Its tail feathers were also red and its underbelly is a tan color. Finally black markings were around its watchful, hawk like eyes.
The second was also a huge, covered with brown feathers with a vulturine neck and broad, powerful wings. It has a long pink colored beak and a red coxcomb on top of its head. Its small pupil and colorless irises eyes glared at its trainer. It has shaggy feathers on the base of its neck and in a vaguely cape-like pattern covering the upper portion of its wings. The cape itself is cream in color, as are the tips of its flight feathers. Its sharp-clawed talons are pink, with three toes pointing forward and one pointing backward.
Ash had captured Pidgeot as a Pidgeotto with Pikachu as he journeyed through the Viridian Forest and together. Naturally, with Pikachu being way stronger than most other of its kind due to the intense training regime he'd went through when it was still at Pallet Town and type advantage, he had easily overpowered the bird Pokémon and they had quickly gain a new member to their team.
Pidgeot was amazingly helpful as it would search for any new Pokémon from the skies so that Ash could battle them and recruit them to their team. Deciding that his new friend could use the experience, Ash had refrained Pikachu and Gible from fighting whenever they came across any wild Pokémon because they were already more than strong enough.
It had evolved after taken out a hive of Beedrills with a powerful Twister attack after Ash had unknowingly wandered into a nest of Kakunas. Though Ash did get a pretty good haul in the process, capturing a Beedrill and a Metapod.
As for the second large fear-inspiring bird of prey next to Pidgeot, Ash had captured Fearow when it was a Spearow not long after he'd set off his journey in between Pallet Town and Viridian City. Ash had saw a lone Spearow and in his excitement, told Pikachu to unleash a thunderbolt attack.
Needless to say, the attack surprised and angered the ill-tempered bird Pokémon and Ash soon found himself fighting against the pissed off Spearow and his buddies. Luckily Gible and Pikachu were more than capable in fending off the attack as Ash directed them.
The pack of Spearows mellowed out after Ash had Pikachu use a Thunder attack while Gible unleashed a Dragon Breath attack at once on the lead Spearow and promptly captured it.
After getting examined in Viridian City's Pokémon Center and receiving an apology from his new trainer for startling it, Spearow was actually quite docile. Though it did give Ash several sharp pecks to the face before acknowledging his apology.
As his Pokémon were eating, Ash unwrapped a simple yet delicious looking turkey sandwich as he unfolded a map and looked at his next destination.
"Hmm…Cerulean City…I can use Pidgeot to get me past Mt. Moon, it says here that the Cerulean City Gym specializes in water-type Pokémon. So Pikachu definitely has advantage." Ash took a huge bite out of his sandwich.
"Pika Pika!" Pikachu gave his trainer a look of confidence as its cheeks sparkled with electricity.
"Huh? Don't worry buddy, I will need your help on this one." Ash smiled as he looked up from his map.
"Oi! Ash!" A male voice called out, Pikachu, Gible, Fearow and Pidgeot all took a defensive stance, ready to attack as they looked up from their meal.
"Brock?!" Ash exclaimed and held out a open palm signal and his Pokémon relaxed as they recognized the Pewter City Gym Leader. The tall boy was panting and had his hands on his thighs as he caught his breath.
"Thought you would be in the Pokémon Center after our battle…" The older boy exclaimed with a smile as he took a seat on a log opposite of Ash.
"Well," The Pallet Town trainer shrugged, "You can't catch wild Pokémon in the Pokémon Center and these guys prefer the outdoors." He nodded at his four Pokémon.
"I see." The dark skinned boy replied.
"So what brings you here? Shouldn't you be at the gym?" Ash asked, puzzled.
"Well, my dad came back from his rehabilitation after his surgery so he's taking over the gym." Brock explained, and his face became serious, "I actually came to find you because I have a favor to ask Ash."
"Shoot." Ash replied as he finished his sandwich and opened a bottle of mineral water.
"Will you allow me to join you on your journey?" Ash was drinking his water and coughed as he heard the question.
"Pika Pika." Pikachu leapt on the stone his trainer was sitting on and patted his back and was rewarded with a gentle stroke to his head.
"Errrr…I don't mean to be rude but why and why me?" Ash scratched his head.
Brock then had a determined expression on his face, "It is my dream to be the best Pokémon Breeder in the world and I have a feeling that traveling with you will teach me a lot of things."
"Umm…a breeder huh? That's cool. Sure, welcome aboard." Ash said, offering an outstretched hand.
"Thanks Ash, I won't slow you down." Brock smiled as he shook his new friend's gloved hand.
"So you're heading to Cerulean City next? There's a gym there and the closest to get to." Brock asked as Ash jammed the empty bowls back into his bag.
"Yeah, we can get there much faster on Pidgeot and Fearow since the tunnels of Mt. Moon have been closed off by the police." Ash said and recalled all of his Pokémon save Pidgeot and Fearow, Pikachu took his usual place on Ash's shoulder. As Ash was about to mount his Fearow, he noticed the bushes nearby shuffling and out came a large hound like Pokémon with large tuffs of white fur on its head, chest and tail as the rest of its body was orange with black stripes.
"Wow, a Growlithe!" Ash exclaimed and pulled out Dexter.
"Growlithe, the Puppy Pokémon. While loyal to its master, the Growlithe will drive away enemies by barking and biting." Dexter spoke in a mechanical tone.
"Pikapi!" Pikachu jumped from Ash's shoulder, facing the wild Growlithe with a determined expression on his face.
"Okay Pikachu! You're up, use Thunderbolt." Ash called out and Pikachu's cheeks sparkled before unleashing a powerful bolt of electricity at the Growlithe.
The orange black striped dog agilely dodged it then unleashed a powerful flamethrower, which caused Pikachu to scurry with haste to avoid it.
"Use Quick Attack!"
"Pika!" Pikachu ran at the Growlithe in an unbelievably fast speed and slammed into its opponent, sending it backwards.
"Volt Tackle now!"
"Pika!" Pikachu was surrounded by golden electricity and charged towards Growlithe, hitting it dead on.
"Pokéball go!" Ash threw an empty Pokéball once he saw that the wild Growlithe was knocked out and it was quickly sucked into the capsule. After a few seconds of struggling, the Pokéball stopped with a white glow, it was sent to Professor Oak's lab since he already had six Pokémon with him.
"I caught a Growlithe!" He exclaimed and placing the Pokéball on his belt, he picked up Pikachu and the two of them did a brief victory dance.
Soon they were in the air as Ash rode on Fearow while Brock flew on Pidgeot, since Brock was a bit afraid of Fearow due to its menacing glare it was decided that he flew on Pidgeot.
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Soon they descended not far from Cerulean City in a clearing. Brock had captured a Zulbat while they found a place to set up lunch when Ash's stomach started growling. While Brock was making what seemed to be a mouth-watering stew, Ash had let out his full team in a grassy plain area nearby and had them start their usual training routine.
They had trained for five days, 12 hours a day before they challenged Brock in the forests near the edge of Pewter City so all his Pokémon were fairly familiar to their routine.
Pidgeot and Fearow took to the skies for their usual contest, whomever gets knocked down first loses and as usual the two giants of the sky were being ultra competitive.
Gible gave a enthusiastic growl as it was released from her Pokéball.
"Okay, Gible I going to have you work with Metapod," Ash said and Martha barked.
"Alright, Metapod, use harden and keep it up! Gible use Quick Attack followed with Crunch!" Gible growled in an affirmative manner as it ran towards its target in a blur and slammed into Metapod who was glowing green, which surprisingly was able to stall Gible in its tracks. It hardly flinched even when Gible snapped open her powerful gaping jaws and delivered a powerful bite and was surprised to find that it hardly left a blemish on its incredibly hard shell.
"Okay, Metapod keep harden up! Gible use Hyper Beam ¼ power! Repeat and take it slow!" Gible nodded and opening its jaws, an orb of orange was charging before she arched her neck and released a Hyper Beam that Metapod calmly withstood.
Ash then turned his attention to Pikachu and his Kakuna, who simply stared blankly at the electric rodent.
"Kakuna, I know how depressing it is to be in this form and I will do my best to help you to evolve. Just hang on a bit longer." Ash told the yellow colored cocoon Pokémon, who did nothing but stare back blankly.
"Okay, Pikachu use quick attack on Kakuna, Kakuna counter with harden!"
"Pika pikapi!" Pikachu charged towards the yellow cocoon Pokémon that responded by glowing yellow. Once the yellow glow dissipated, Pikachu smashed into Kakuna and bounced right off.
"Pika." The yellow rodent rubbed its head, feeling a bit dazed.
"You alright buddy?" Ash asked, knowing that running into a Pokémon with harden activated couldn't be pleasant. Pikachu was about to respond when a blinding white light surrounded Kakuna.
It grew larger and until the flash was gone and in Kakuna's place, a bipedal wasp was standing in its place. It had a round yellow head with large shiny red eyes and two antennas in the shape of a seven. Its legs are connected to its body by its thorax, and the first two are tipped with long, conical stingers. And finally, it had two pairs of rounded, veined wings and another stinger on its abdomen.
"Bzzz…" Beedrill buzzed with excitement as it flew towards Ash.
"Wow you evolved! Good job Beedrill!" He exclaimed, giving it a gentle pet on the head.
"Bzzz…" Beedrill buzzed happily.
"Pikapi!" Beedrill and Ash turned to see Gible growling loudly. He ran over and saw that Metapod's green shell was cracking and there was another blinding white glow that made Ash cover his eyes with his hand.
"Free…Free!" Ash gasped as he saw a large purple butterfly shaped Pokémon emerging from its cocoon and floated in the air, doing a loop before resting on Ash's shoulder.
"Wow, congratulations to you too Butterfree." Ash said and laughed as the purple Butterfly nuzzled him on the cheek.
"Hey Ash, lunch is ready!" Brock hollered and immediately, Ash dashed towards the camp with his Pokémon just as eager behind him.
As his team dug into their meal, Ash looked up and saw Pidgeot and Fearow speeding towards each other fiercely using their respective Aerial Ace attack. Ash had specifically set their routine to lean more on speed and resistance to electric attacks.
Both Pidgeot and Fearow collided and as a result both of them fell to the ground. However the two struggled to get up as they glared at each other, Ash sweat dropped, apparently there was no such thing as mercy when these two trained against each other.
"Alright Pidgeot, Fearow. That was fantastic from both of you, but its time for lunch so a draw it is." Ash hastily announced and the two large bird of prey glared at him but their growling stomachs greatly weakened the effect as Pidgeot and Fearow joined the rest of the team, found their bowls and began feasting but shot the other a glare filled with intense fire which made their dark messy haired trainer smack his own face.
"Whoa Brock, this is great." Ash dug into his bowl of stew with macho.
"Well, when you have a lot of siblings. You pick up a thing or two on the way." The former Pewter Gym Leader laughed and raised an eyebrow when he scanned Ash's team.
"Oh, my Kakuna and Metapod both evolved after our brief training session." Ash explained.
"Wow, you must be training for quite a bit then." Brock assumed.
"Something like that." Ash grinned. After lunch was finished and their temporary camp was cleaned up, Ash recalled every Pokémon on his team back into their Pokéballs except Gible and Pikachu, who took his favorite place of residence on Ash's shoulder.
As Ash and Brock were ready to leave the area, he saw something from the edge of a small pond nearby.
"You okay Ash?" Brock asked.
"Just saw something. Hold on." Ash murmured walked to the edge of the pond and suddenly saw a light blue colored face with large adorable purple eyes emerging from the calm pond water, it has a white ruff around its neck just behind its head, cream colored ears made of webbing on either side of its head and a fin on its head resembling its ears.
"A Vaporeon!" Ash flipped Dexter open and scanned the water fox Pokémon who sat in the water looking cutely towards him.
"Vaporeon, the Bubble Jet Pokémon. Vaporeon love fresh, clean water and can make their bodies melt away into water as well." Dexter recited.
Ash the noticed that it was cooing at him as it emerged from the pond entirely and sat next to him, Ash noticed the Vaporeon had a pointed pattern of dark blue on its head that encompasses the backs of its ears and head-fin. It also has blue ridges that run down the length of its spine and on to its tail fin, and the paw pads on its hind feet are dark blue like the ridges. Also Ash noticed it had a finned tail similar to a mermaid's.
"Oh I get it, you're hungry!" Ash quickly unwrapped his left over jam sandwich and to his delight, the Vaporeon accepted the food and nuzzled his gloved hand with its nose before digging in.
Ash mainly watched on with a content smile on his face and was about to turn away to leave. Before he could get very far, he felt something holding onto his pants in a vice like grip that almost made him lose his balance.
Turning around, he was surprised to see the Vaporeon who had a grip on the lower leg of his pants with its mouth. With a sigh, he knelt down and gently stroked it making it cooing softly with content.
"You don't want me to leave, do you?" He asked hesitantly. Shaking its frilly head, Vaporeon protested quite loudly, like a child who didn't want to see its parent to leave.
"Well, do you want to join my team?" Ash asked. Nodding its head, Vaporeon extended a blue three-toed front paw and tapping the Pokéball Ash held out, willingly allowed itself to be captured without putting a struggle.
"Welcome to the team." Ash smiled as the ball flashed white and disappeared, transferred to Professor Oak's lab. Then he ran back to Brock, who had an impressed look on his face.
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Arriving at Cerulean City, they noticed that a store was broken into and stole a giant vacuum and suction hose.
"Hey Ash, how bout you take on the Gym while I go and resupply our supplies?" Brock asked in front of the Pokémon Center.
"Sounds like a plan, here." Ash replied, withdrew his wallet and handed the older boy with some bills of money as well as a list.
"Hmm…ketchup?" Brock said aloud and Pikachu started to make some very excited noises on Ash's shoulder.
"Yeah, its better you don't ask." Ash replied as Brock laughed and the two went on their way.
After getting his Pokémon healed he transferred his Beedrill and Butterfree for his newly captured Growlithe and Vaporeon from Professor Oak. The Pokémon he had on him were: Pikachu, Gible, Pidgeot, Fearow, Growlithe and Vaporeon.
Entering the Cerulean City Gym, he saw nobody present and he heard cheering.
"Hmm…" He muttered went into the main area and saw a full crowd of people and heard an announcer call out "The Sensational Sisters" or something.
"You've got to be kidding me." Ash's eyes narrowed as he saw three very attractive girls dive from a high height into the water and began performing water aerobics.
"What kind of gym is this?" Ash folded his arms across his chest, he came to battle not watch girls swim around in skintight one-piece bikinis. With a scoff, he left and entered a hallway and prepared in what order should his team start, with Pikachu leading since he'd opted for Gible in the last Gym battle.
Little did he know that the three sisters show had finished and they were walking in the same hall Ash was in, talking with unrestrained excitement in the voices.
"Lily, that dive you did was great." The blonde haired girl said to the girl next to her that had pink hair, " You too, Violet."
"Thanks Daisy, the practice really paid off." Lily, the pink haired girl responded.
"Like, totally." The blue haired girl added and the three shared a giggle. Then the three sisters noticed Ash staring intently at a Pokéball in his hand.
"Who's this?" Lily whispered.
"I don't know." Daisy replied, just as curious.
"Hmm…he's kind of cute." Violet confessed as she surveyed the dark sneakers, long straight black colored jeans, and a sleeveless blue hoodie. His dark hair was messy yet it somehow fitted very well on him. Daisy sighed as her Lily agreed with Violet and the two giggled at each other.
"Hello, can we help you?" Lily and Violet greeted, and Ash immediately turned his head to face them.
"Hi," He started, thinking fast, "I saw a bit of your performance. It was quite good."
"Why thank you," Lily said smiling.
"So what are you doing down here?" Violet asked.
"Well I was hoping to challenge the leader of this Gym for a battle, do you know where he or she might be?" Ash replied.
"You're looking at them." Violet said as the she and her two sisters did a pose. Ash and Pikachu's eyes widened as they stared at the three of them with surprise.
Though the disbelief was still root deep, Ash followed the three sensational sisters back to the area where he first saw them, only the stands were empty and there were mats in the pool.
"Alright, which of you will I be facing?" Ash asked as he dropped his bag to his side.
"Uh….well you see," Daisy started, "We don't really feel like battling right now."
Ash face palmed, "Why does this always happen to me?" He thought.
"I'm almost afraid to ask, why is that so?" He asked humorously.
"We were just beaten by three trainers from Pallet." Violet replied.
"Great, Gary somehow ruins everything again." Ash inwardly raged.
"After they beat us, we had to rush all of our Pokémon to the Pokémon center." Lily sighed and pulled out a Pokéball.
"This is the only one we have left." She tossed it and out came a flopping Goldeen. Ash sweat dropped at the sight before the gold fish Pokémon was recalled back into its Pokéball.
"It's not really good at battling. All it can use is horn attack. If it evolved into Seaking, we could use it." Lily said sadly. Ash actually sympathize with the three attractive girls, clearly, they weren't trainer material.
Ash was actually planning to return to Cerulean City later and get the other badges first to keep up with his plan when Daisy's voice cut his thoughts off.
"Oh Seal." She called out. A white sea lion Pokémon hopped out of the water and scurried next to Daisy. Sticking out its tongue, it revealed a blue tear drop shaped badge sitting on it.
Daisy picked it and turned towards Ash, "This is what you want right? The Cascade badge?"
"Er….man this is awkward, I can come around another day when you have your Pokémon back. It doesn't seem right to me." Ash rubbed the back of his head. Lily and Violet giggled as they admired his honest chivalry.
"Just take it handsome." Lily winked.
"We don't mind." Violet added.
"But I do, here's my number," Ash said, scribbling his PokéNav number on a slip of paper and quickly added when he saw the expressions on the sensational sisters' faces, "So you can call me when you're ready for a battle."
"Oh…" Lily certainly looked disappointed as she took the slip.
"C'mon Pikachu. Let's go find Brock and get to Vermillion City."
"Pika…" Pikachu didn't really have much enthusiasm in his voice as it hopped onto his trainer's shoulders.
"It was fun meeting you three…I'll be going now." Ash gave the three girls a wave and lifting his backpack, he walked towards the Gym's doors a little bit depressed. That was when the glass doors swung opened and slammed right into his face, causing Ash and Pikachu to fall backwards.
"Hey, watch it! Can't you open a door without banging it in front of another person's face?!" Ash shouted as he stood up, having an already bad enough day, Pikachu agreed as its cheeks sparkled.
Looking up he saw a young girl standing in the doorway. She was as tall as Ash with orange hair tied in a sideways ponytail, wearing a yellow shirt with red overall straps and extremely short jean shorts.
"Handing out badges again Daisy?" the girl said fiercely.
"Misty?" Daisy called, "So you've come back." She sounded surprised.
"Have you become a master water Pokémon trainer yet?" Violet teased making Misty blush slightly.
"No not yet" Misty said hesitantly as her cheeks became pink. Then she turned to Ash, "And you, don't just think that because my sisters hand out badges for free doesn't mean I will."
"Calm your balls! I chose not to accept your sister's badge because I don't like things being handed to me and gaining a badge without fighting for it is exactly that!" Ash yelled back into her face, having reached breaking point in this day of despair.
Misty actually looked apologetic before she gritted her teeth in anger, "What did you say?! Calm my what?! Are you blind or just so oblivious that I'm a girl!" She shouted back.
"You heard me," Ash replied, gaining back his calmness through deep breaths, "Since you're here, I assume that I can get a battle after all?" He folded his arms and narrowed his eyes. Misty nodded, glaring back at the boy around her age who'd dare insinuate that she was a guy.
"Great, I hope you battle with as much passion as when we were arguing." Ash smirked and begins walking towards platforms in the middle of the Gym.
"The rules are simple, two Pokémon each with no time limit." Misty announced as she pulled out a Pokéball. A flash of light and a brown colored five star Pokémon with a red jewel in the center appeared.
"A Staryu huh? Interesting…well you've been waiting quite patiently for a while haven't you, you're up pal." Ash said and Pikachu jumped from on top of Ash's head.
"Staryu use Water Gun!" Misty called out and the starfish tipped its top star tip at the electric mouse and fired a water gun at it.
"Pikachu counter with Thunderbolt!" Ash called.
"Pika chuuuuuuuuuu!" Pikachu unleashed a powerful bolt of thunder that shocked the star Pokémon.
"Staryu!" Misty called out with worry.
"Now, Volt Tackle!" Ash directed and with bright electricity surrounding its tiny body, Pikachu charged and slammed into the stunned Staryu causing it crash in front of its trainer.
"Return Staryu, its not your fault." Staryu returned to its Pokéball with a flash.
"That Pikachu…it must have been training for a long time to unleash such a powerful Thunderbolt attack to knock out my Staryu that quickly." She thought.
"Pikachu you good to continue?" Ash asked.
"Pika, Pikapi!" Pikachu gave his trainer a thumbs up and turned to face whatever Misty might call on next. On the side of the pool, Daisy, Violet and Lily looked on.
"C'mon Misty you can, like, do way better than this!" Daisy encouraged. Misty looked at her oldest sister and smiled, out of the three of them, only Daisy wouldn't rip on her as much and when she did, it was done lightly.
"Okay, Starmie, you're up!" A lavender colored ten star Pokémon with a red jewel in the centered appeared with a flash.
"Use Confusion Ray!" Starmie charged up an orange ball and shot it at the startled yellow rodent.
"Try to dodge it!" Ash called and Pikachu attempted its best but was hit by the orange ball of energy.
"Alright use Rapid Spin!" Misty pressed on. Spinning its pointy ends like a saw blade, Starmie charged against Pikachu, who was shaking his head. The result was Pikachu being knocked off its platform and into the water.
"Pikachu you okay?" Ash called.
"Pikapi!" Pikachu was finally out of its confused state as it swam back and crawled onto the platform. Glaring as he did so as the rapidly spinning starfish was again spinning rapidly towards him.
"Pikachu, wait for it!" Ash called with a smirk.
"What?!" Misty exclaimed. "Does he want to lose?" She thought as Starmie was milliseconds away from hitting the electric mouse the second time.
"Now! Jump!" Ash cried. "Pika!" Pikachu did as his trainer called and jumping, he landed on top of Starmie and held on for dear life on the spinning starfish.
"Thunder!" Ash cried and immediately, Starmie was covered with sparkling electricity.
"Starmie!" Misty cried out as her Pokémon fell into the pool with a splash while Pikachu hopped back in front of his trainer.
"Starmie, return. I know you did your best." Misty smiled as she pulled her Pokéball out and recalled her knocked out Starmie. She was about to congratulate her challenger when he saw a wall to the Gym explode, creating dust everywhere nearly knocking everyone down.
"What the hell?" Ash got up with Pikachu in his arms.
"Prepare for trouble!" A female voice called out.
"Make it double!" A male voice announced.
"Not those three clowns again!" Ash face palmed, it was the same three Team Rocket members who he'd encountered in Viridian City.
"Who're you calling clowns!" The female voice, originating from a woman dressed in a white uniform with a large red letter R emblem on the chest area as a giant suction hose that they stole was place into the pool and started sucking all the water out.
"Why does bad things things happen to good people?!" Ash grumbled, Pikachu sympathized with him as he petted his trainer's head softly with his tail.
"Alright, everyone come out." Ash tossed all of his Pokéballs on his belt. Gible, Growlithe, Pidgeot, Fearow and Vaporeon all appeared with a flash. Gible, Pidgeot and Fearrow all growled as they saw who it was they were facing.
"Pikachu use Thunderbolt! Gible use Dragon Breath, Pidgeot and Fearow use Twister, Growlithe heat things up with Flamethrower and Vaporeon use Ice Beam!" Ash called out and watched on with amazement as his Pokémon attacked at once, the combination of all the attacks were beautiful.
"Looks like Team Rocket is blasting off again!" The three unprofessional thieves cried out as they fell into the pool and were sucked into the giant vacuum and sent them flying from the other end.
"Good job team!" Ash gave his Pokémon a thumbs up as he turned the vacuum off. The police then came and removed the vacuum and suction hose, leaving a destroyed wall and debris. While the Gym's water-type Pokémon and Ash's Vaporeon filled the pool back up, Misty walked up to Ash.
"Well where were we?" Ash asked.
"Your badge, which you won rightfully without doubts." Misty replied as she handed him the teardrop badge.
"Thanks Misty, you're a pretty good trainer. I'm glad I could win it off you." Ash honestly said as he took the badge and opening his badge case, placed it carefully next to the Boulder Badge before shutting the case lid, missing Misty's flushed face.
"Well then, looks like I'll be off now." Ash said as he picked up his backpack, slung it over a shoulder while Pikachu jumped onto his head and Vaporeon returned to his side after finishing filling up the pool.
"Daisy, Violet, Lily, I might catch a show if I visit again." Ash said to the three sensational sisters.
"You, like, better!" Violet smiled.
"I didn't catch your name." Misty asked out of the blue with a hand outstretched.
"It's Ash, Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town." He shook Misty's hand. At once everyone's eyes widened.
"So, like, you're the Champion's brother?" Daisy asked, intrigued.
"Well yeah. You got it." Ash replied, rubbing the back of his neck.
"Now that you've said it, you do have the same expression he does whenever he battles." Violet said dreamily as she stared intently at Ash, making him squirm.
"Well, my big brother takes after mom while I take after dad. This is the first time someone has said that we look alike in any way." He laughed.
"Well, I'll be going then. Still got six more badges to collect." Ash said as he shrugged towards the gym door.
"Hold on." Lily stopped him and kissed him on the cheek, causing to turn red with embarrassment.
"For luck." The pink haired girl whispered with a wink.
"Er…okay…um, yeah I'll see you." Ash stammered before shooting out of the door as if his pants were on fire, causing all the girls to giggle.
"You know he's like, younger than you right?" Daisy asked with a smile, she'd just gotten new blackmail material.
"Younger or not, he's still, totally cute." Lily smiled.
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"Well, you came back faster than I'd imagined." Brock smirked as he saw Ash rushing towards him, with Pikachu on his head and Vaporeon in toll.
"Yeah I guess so…" Ash, face still tomato red said.
"So judging by your excitement, you got your badge." Brock inquired.
"Nice." He added as Ash flipped the lid of his badge case open.
"So you got everything then?" Ash inquired and Brock nodded, pointing at his large backpack.
"Awesome, let's go! We're heading to Vermillion City next!" Ash exclaimed.
"Pika, pika!" Pikachu, ever enthusiastic, gave a fist pump.
"Vay! Vay!" Vaporeon agreed with its new friend as it leapt onto Ash's shoulders and tickled him with its fish-like tail, making Ash laugh.
Ok, going to end it here because I know I can't stop if I continue on. For those who were asking, yes, Ash will capture the three starters of Kanto and will play a huge role on his team. I NEED REVIEWS! And LOTS of them! Since I have a poll up for Legendary Pokémon, I already decided Latias and Latios(maybe?) will follow him, you can suggest what Pokémon Ash meets and captures. My little bro sent me a list of Pokémon he wanted Ash to capture, though I want all of your opinions as well. Pokémon in Kanto if you will.
Pokémon Ash has so far:
Pikachu
Gible
Pidgeot
Fearow
Beedrill
Butterfree
Growlithe
Vaporeon