Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon. If i did Ash would win everything and he would bloody age.

Saffron City

Ash looked down at the Marsh badge now in his badge case. Only four more badges before he could enter the indigo Plateau league contest. He knew the match had been rather one-sided, especially with him using Mew. He looked to his left to see Sabrina holding his hands and pointed at various landmark in her town. They had just passed a Do-jo, when they saw the doors fly open and a man dressed all in white with a black belt around his waist launched onto the nearby street. "Help! Someone Help! That Primeape gone mad."

Ash looked to the do-jo, he could now see inside it and watched as a rogue Primeape was battling a Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan, although out numbered the Primeape seemed to be dishing out a beating causing both fighting Pokemon to go on the defensive. Ash helped the Black belt up. "Whats wrong with that Primeape?

The black belt slowly shook his head. "We don't know. It just suddenly appeared and started challenging all our Pokemon. So far not one of our Pokemon has been able to take it down."

Ash looked up then saw the Primeape use Seismic Toss on Hitmonlee. Sending the Pokemon to crash down onto the battle field fainted. Ash was surprised at how powerful the Primeape was. He knew that it would make a great addition to his growing Pokemon family. He turned to look at Sabrina who gave him the look of 'If you must.'

Ash walked towards the Do-jo, he wondered who would be the best Pokemon to deal with the fighting type. He could use Mew, but he wanted to earn this Pokemons respect and knew he would have to fight fair. "Knuckles end this."

Knuckle appeared from his Poke ball and landed in front of his father. His eyes slowly opened revealing a soft blue glow. He locked eyes with the Primeape, who in turn locked eyes with him. Knuckles noticed the various Pokemon fainted all around the Primeape. Clearly this foe was going to be a challenge.

"Knuckles, be careful, this Primeape is really strong. Lets start thinks of with Bulk up!"

Knuckle flexed his arms and legs raising his attack and defence. However before he could complete the move he was hit by a very quick punch, which stopped him completing the move.

Ash growled. "So it knows Mach Punch. Knuckle use Iron defence, then Blaze Kick!"

Knuckle covered itself in a steel sheen and felt the Primape try to hit him again with Mach punch, however this time the Primeape came off worse, as it's fist met the strong defence move. Knuckle then flipped creating a arc of fire from his feet hitting Primeape and sending it flying backwards.

Ash noticed that only seemed to anger the Primeape more, as he noticed puffs of smoke was coming from it's ears, and nose. It then charged forward and began to scratch Knuckles all over his body. It then finished with a firm mega punch forcing Knuckles to stumble a little. Ash wondered how he was going to deal with this Primeape. It's attack pattern was to unpredictable. "Knuckles use Agility!"

Knuckles raced towards the Primeape, dodging the various attacks Primeape was trying to land. It seems his father was attempting to tire out the Primeape. Soon he was upon the pig Pokemon, he could see that Primeape was trying to get his stamina back. He waited for his father to shout his next move. "Knuckles, use Aura sphere followed up by Blaze kick!"

Knuckles formed a blue orb between his paws before launching it towards Primeape, just as he had realised the sphere he flipped again landing a scorching fire kick right into Primeape's face. That and the impact of the aura sphere sent the Primeape skywards, giving Knuckles the chance to use his newest move. Knuckles jumped up and shot his fist forward landing a punch right under the chin of the Primeape.

Ash looked on with awe. Knuckle had just learnt Sky uppercut. The move had devestated Primeape and sent him crashing into the battle field with swirls for eyes. Ash quickly removed a spare ball from his belt and loped it at the now fainted Pokemon. The ball hit dead centre and sucked the now fainted Primeape inside. Ash then noticed the ball shook for a few seconds before he heard the ding, meaning the capture had been a success.

There were huge cheers around him from all the various black belts now attending to their injured Pokemon. Ash walked onto the field and picked the ball up. He noticed it glowed before transporting away. Ash then helped theblack belts to clear up the do-jo a little and in thanks the master gave him the Macho Brace. Which would come in handy when training Pokemon. Ash and Sabrina then left the do-jo and headed back to the Pokemon centre. They had decided that they would travel to Vermillion City next, and then take a boat to Fuchsia City. However that was tomorrow, unknown to Ash a certain purple haired girl was going to attempt to move their relationship on further tonight.

Pokemon Centre Ash and Sabrina Room

Ash was sitting on the bed, watching some TV. They had met Brock and Misty back at the centre earlier and had agreed that they would be travelling to Vermillion next. Knuckle was sat on the window once again and Pikachu was curled up at the foot of their bed.

"Ash could you come here for minute."

Ash looked towards the bathroom, Sabrina had told him that she had a surprise for him tonight. Now Ash wasn't stupid, he could tell what type of surprise it would be. He walked into the bathroom and blinked there was Sabrina just wrapped in a towel, looking at the mirror. Ash like always tried to look else where then Sabrina, but he suddenly found himself getting rather aroused by seeing Sabrina in nothing but a towel, was this what Sabrina meant when she said the bond was trying to speed things up? Ash had no clue what drove him to do it, by he wrapped his arms around Sabrina and kissed her. Both teens then found themselves wrestling out of the bathroom and both falling onto the bed where they carried on their make out session. unfortunately a certain little Pokemon was not happy about being disturbed and showed his displeasure by shocking both teens, bringing their little heated moment to an abrupt end.

"That will teach you for disturbing me." Pikachu then curled back up leaving both teens still stunned.

Sabrina growled, she wanted to toss the little fur ball out the window. Ash was finally beginning to accept the bond and Pikachu had to go spoil it, by doing that. She knew the mood was lost now, Ash was still recovering from being shocked. "Maybe Pikachu is right Sabrina. Lets wait till it's just you and me. I am sure we can leave our Pokemon in a day care centre somewhere, that way we can spend the whole day together just you and me."

Sabrina huffed, then crawled into bed, and turned her head against the wall. Leaving Ash to look at Pikachu with a look of betrayal. Ash knew how much Sabrina wanted to move their relationship forward, and Pikachu had to go and spoil the mood by throwing a hissy fit. Still Ash couldn't blame his starter. If he had the same powers and he was disturbed while sleeping, then he most likely would have done the same thing. Ash knew there was no chance of cheering up Sabrina now so he just crawled into the covers next to his girlfriend. He wrapped his arm around her waist and smiled as he slowly drifted off to sleep.

Vermillion City

Ash and the gang looked around the big city. He never knew that Vermillion was so close to Saffron City. It had taken them less then half a day walk to get here. Ash was already itching for to get his fifth badge. They quickly found a Pokemon centre and checked in. Just has they were sitting down for something to eat, they saw a distraught trainer running in with his Pokemon fainted. The Pokemon was covered in scorch marks.

"Nurse Joy help please. My Pokemon has fainted."

Ash watched nurse Joy walk around the counter with a hospital bed. She place the Pokemon onto it, before shaking her head. "Oh dare. Not another one. Surge is really keeping me busy this month." She then wheeled the Pokemon through some double doors with Blissey hot on her heels. Ash wondered who this Surge was? He decided to investigate.

"Excuse me, but what happened to your Pokemon?"

The trainer looked up. "I tried to battle Surge for the thunder badge, but his Raichu completely fried my Pokemon. I have never seen a Raichu that strong. According to reports no one in the last two months have beaten Surge. Rumours was that a few months ago he had a Pikachu but he felt it wasn't strong enough and forced it to evolve into Raichu using a thunderstone. Since that day Surge has been unstoppable."

Ash thought about everything he had heard. So Surge was the gym leader and he used a Raichu. Ash wondered what Pokemon he should use. He then looked down at Pikachu. His starter was yet to fight and maybe this would be a perfect match up. Although Pikachu had not battled any gyms, he had battled various trainers they had met. Ash was certain he could beat this Raichu. With his mind made up he decided to head to the training field to get Pikachu ready for his first gym battle. Again Sabrina had come with him.

Training field

"Okay Pikachu. This is your big debut. So let's get you battle ready. I want you to use agility around the field don't stop till I tell you to, okay."

Pikachu nodded his head. "Sure thing boss." Pikachu then began to lap around the training field, he was going so fast that all that could be seen was a yellow blur.

Ash grinned. "Good Pikachu now switch things up with Double team."

Pikachu carried on lapping the training field however this time he added double team to his agility so he looked now like a dozen or so Pikachu were running around the field. Ash was pleased with his starters effort. He was hoping that Surge was so impatient about evolving his Pikachu that his Raichu never got to learn the speed attacks he could do in his pre-evolved from. "Good Pikachu, now all use iron tail on the battle field."

All the Pikachu tails began to glow silver before they all jumped up and slammed their tails into the ground causing the battle field to shake from the impact. Ash grinned again. Pikachu might not be able to learn earthquake, but with all his double using iron tail then he would have a ground move just as powerful. "Okay Pikachu that's enough. Take a break."

Pikachu stopped all it's attacks and started to pant. Pikachu was pleased to see a nice bowl of water waiting for him. He quickly lapped it up and smiled. Ash was busy checking his Pokedex and finding out what attacks Raichu could learn. Due to its huge size it could use a lot of physical moves like body slam, mega kick, take down, volt tackle. Ash was curious about volt tackle. He brought up the detail on the move.

"Volt tackle. Volt tackle requires the Pokemon using it to surround itself in electricity, before heading head first into its opponent. When this move hits its has devastating effects, however caution should be followed when teaching a Pokemon this move, as the user will suffer recoil damage."

Ash blinked. To him Volt tackle seemed a desperate move, but still would be good for Pikachu to have in his arsenal. However Ash was going to wait a year or so before he thought him that move. Ash carried on reading down Raichu attacks. Hyper beam was another dangerous move. However it did have its draw back, maybe if he could get Raichu to use it, then he could have Pikachu use double team leaving Raichu wide open for an attack. Once the training was over they headed back to the Pokemon centre so that he could get his Pokemon healed up, ready for the gym battle. Again while they were waiting they spotted another Pokemon covered in scorch marks fainted. Ash frowned that wouldn't happen to Pikachu. He would make damn sure it didn't.

Vermillion City Gym

Ash pushed open the doors to the gym with Sabrina, Brock and Misty following him. He looked to the battle field to see Surge was in the middle of a battle. If Ash had to be honest Surge intimidated him a little. He was at least 6ft heavily built and by the looks of his attire he had military experience. Ash then looked on the field and noticed it was Gary who was battling. Gary had his Gyarados on the field. Ash wondered what Gary was thinking. Although Gyarados looked like a dragon Pokemon it was classed as a flying/water duel type electric attacks would do a real number on it. Ash closed his eyes as he watched Gyarados lit up like a christmas tree has it was hit with a power Thunder attack. Ash already knew the match was over and turned his back as he watched Gyarados faint on the spot. Ash looked over to Surge to see him laughing.

"Nice try kid, but next time try to prove more of a challenge. Okay who's next?"

Ash stepped forward. "That would be me. My name is Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town, and I am here to challenge you surge for the Thunder badge."

Surge removed his shades. "You must be joking. Another one from Pallet. I have already destroyed several of you. Do you really just want to be another number?"

Ash ignored the insult and looked Surge straight in the eye. "I will let my battling do the talking if you don't mind. Prepare to lose Surge." Ash then walked over to the trainer box before giving Gary a thumbs up for his effort. "Okay Pikachu lets teach this guy power is not everything."

Pikachu leapt off Ash's shoulder and landed on the battle field. It growled as it saw Surge mocking it. "Really Kid, a Pikachu. I suppose it fits a baby Pokemon for a baby trainer."

Ash growled. This guy was going down. He was getting so into the battle that he forgot all about the referee who appeared on the field.

"This is an official Pokemon gym match. The rules. 1 on 1, no time limits. Trainer ready your Pokemon."

Surge smiled. "Okay Raichu looks like another easy win. Lets end this and send this shrimp packing. Thunderbolt!"

Ash grinned. "Really is that the best you can do. Pikachu stand on your tail and absorb the attack. Obviously this guy has no clue how to battle other electric types."

Pikachu stood on his tail and took the bolt full on. However the attack was immediately grounded thanks to his tail."

Ash smirked. "Tell me Surge did you evolve your Pikachu straightway?"

Surge was confused with the question. "Of course squirt. I'm all about power, what did I need a baby Pokemon for. When I could use a stone and have my Pikachu evolve straight away."

Ash looked up. "So your Pikachu never got learn this. Pikachu Agility around the battle field let's go!"

Pikachu took off at speed and began to circle the battle field causing Raichu to try follow him. Surge looked on confused. "Running won't do you any good. Raichu use Body slam!"

Raichu began to throw itself at the blur however he always ended up missing and hurting itself in the process. It gritted it's teeth as the Pikachu just carried on looping around him. Soon Raichu eyes began to spin and he started to sway on the spot.

Ash knew this match was his. "Now Pikachu Double team!"

Pikachu carried on using agility but then made copies of himself so now the whole field was surrounded by small Pikachu's. Surge was getting really pissed off with this kid. "Raichu Thunder the whole field!"

Raichu began to charge electricity in it's cheek before unleashing bolts of lightning all over the field. A few hitting copies but not the real Pikachu.

Ash could see it was time to end this. "Okay Pikachu you know what to do. Iron tail into the ground now!"

Like on the training field all the Pikachu's jumped up and then slammed their tail on the ground causing a small earthquake that hit Raichu sending it flying into the air. All the Pikachu then flipped again so they were higher. They then slammed all their tails on the head of Raichu sending the electric type crashing to the ground. It slowly got up before fainting.

The referee raised his flag. "Raichu is unable to battle. The winner of this match is Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town."

Surge fell to his knees. "But how? My Raichu is stronger then your Pikachu. How could you beat it?"

Ash couldn't believe this guy was a gym leader. "Simple. You were so impatient that you never allowed your Raichu to learn all the speed attacks he could only learn in Pikachu form. Knowing this I decided to use my Pikachu speed against your power, and as we all know I won the match so please hand over the Thunder badge."

Surge reached into his pocket before pulling the badge out. "Two whole months I have been unbeaten and you come along and ruin that record. Get out of my Gym!"

Ash snatched the badge from Surge hand. "Gladly. I also plan to report you to the Pokemon league, a gym leader should help the challenger not make fun of them."

Ash and the gang then walked out of the gym, wondering what would happen next on their journey.

A/N: There you go. Next gym will be Fuchsia City. Hope you enjoyed the chapter.