Pre-chapter A/N; Since everyone is asking for one of these, here's a breakdown of the character names before we get into things

Broly - Kleavor

Quicksilver - Pidgeot (dead)

Kisame - Milotic

Igneel - Charizard

Kenpachi - Tyranitar

Ino - Gardevoir

Snorlax - Snorlax

Tsunade - Clefable

Gai - Hakomo-o

Magnezone - Magnezone

Hashirama- Trevenant

Special thanks to the folks on pa-atreon for making this possible. Now without further ado let's get into it.

I sat on a bench outside the school, already bored out of my mind. I remembered the conversation with Oak that had led me here.

"You had something to talk to me about?" I asked as I walked into the lab with a bit of a stagger. He'd sent Alakazam to drag me out of bed so this had better be very important.

"You'll be taking Gary to school, yes?" He asked and I nodded. He should already know this. I'd gone through pains to keep him involved in the enrollment process. "Good. You'll have to remain therefore the first few days to watch over him and then you can leave a pokemon after the first week" I had to be sleeping because he didn't say what he just said.

Perhaps sensing my confusion he chose to elaborate. "Gary is my grandson. He's of interest to all sorts of people with bad intentions. You'll be there to ward off their advances. Don't worry, I had to do the same thing with Alakazam when all of you went off to school." What?

"You mean Alakazam was watching me in school?"

"Yes he was."

"All the time?"

"Constantly"

"So that means you…"

"Yes, I am aware of your experience in school. Alakazam wanted to intervene but I knew that your suffering would only strengthen you and I was right, wasn't I?"

Already used to the futility of trying to argue with Oak, I just turned around and walked away.

And that explained why I sat on the bench in the playground outside the school. The principal had been called in to deal with me when a few of the teachers had noticed me loitering about. That had been one hell of an awkward conversation. When I'd risen to the rank of elite-level by defeating Claire and her team of dragons, I hadn't completely foreseen the consequences of my actions. Elite level trainers were natural disasters. Each one commanded a team of pokemon powerful enough to lay waste to a city, and people were justifiably wary of them. Since most of my time was spent either with family or with Sabrina, I hadn't quite realised how it would affect my relationship with the general public. The principal had treated me like a bomb about to explode when he asked why I was sticking around, and had been quick to offer refreshments and company while I maintained my vigil. The fear coming off him had been a bit discomforting. Considering this man had taught me as a child, I couldn't see why he would ever believe the theories circulating the internet of my supposed instability. I mean, all I did was sue the league, give up being a trainer, and then return only to defeat the league's strongest gym leader before embarking on a campaign against the Region's foremost terrorist organisation. All reasonable things to do considering the circumstances. When I declined his offers, he was quick to scurry to his office after making me assure him that I would come straight to him if anything displeased me or if I needed anything. From the movement I could notice within the school, I guessed the teachers were being briefed on things and would probably be on their best behaviour where Gary was concerned. I wonder how Oak did this without causing a stir. I mean the man was the fucking champion.

I considered calling Igneel out to practise his flame aura and endurance, but that required sending Ino back to the ranch to get him, and if a Charizard showed up on school grounds, they'd probably evacuate. I'm guessing the only reason Broly hadn't gotten a similar reaction already was because of Ino's presence softening his aura of danger. She was a fairy type, after all. Speaking of fairy type, we had to do more training on those moves. I mean she was able to get good enough to put down Claire's dragons like they were nothing but if we wanted to take on Lance when the dust settled, we'd have to make a lot more progress. He was a legendary trainer in all respects, and the fact that Oak was even stronger than that gave me the chills. Videos of Oak's battles weren't widely available and the lab restricted access to some of the truly fun ones, but the little I could find told me he wasn't one of pussyfooting around. Huh. Pussyfooting. What a strange word. I'd never really considered that. What do pussies have to do with feet and why the hell did someone come up with a word so weird? I mean the only weirder word I could think of off the top of my head was Gerrymandering. What does that even mean? I mean, I know what it means logically, but the base words. Gerry and mander had no real meaning I could think of. From there, I started playing a game of trying to find words that were suitably weird and amusing.

It took an hour for me to give up on it as a pointless exercise and start texting Sabrina. Ten minutes of that, and she was by my side in a flash of light. "Don't you have a gym to be leading?" I asked, not wanting her to leave, but still worried about her job. She was already getting some flak within the administrative arm of the league about her continued association with me. Apparently, it wasn't good PR for her to be seen frolicking- huh, frolicking- about with an insane trainer suing the league. Especially with the reputation human psychics had already begun to garner for instability. She simply flicked my nose.

"I told you, Donnell Oak. It is only a vocal minority of the league who thinks this way. You have quite a few supporters within the Indigo Plateau. They see you as the brightest trainer to rise within the league since Lance himself. They are regrettably mistaken, but I can forgive the ignorance." I flew into uproarious laughter at the jab. Sabrina wasn't quite jealous, but she did feel like she wasn't getting her due credit, a sentiment I duly agreed with. The trainers who thought the Viridian gym to be weakened by Giovanni's permanent leave of absence were cruelly enlightened. I don't think even a single trainer has managed to make it past Alakazam since she started working as the gym leader.

"Yes, no one has managed to defeat Alakazam. He has been pushed by a few trainers, but altogether has managed to hold on to a streak of victories. That is why I can afford to visit you here. Challengers have ceased attempting to beat their heads against the brick wall" I laughed again at the face she made with her statement. What would have sounded arrogant coming from anyone else only sounded charming when Sabrina was concerned. She just had that ability, well being the most beautiful woman in the world was an unfair advantage. Beautiful women just had the inbuilt ability to not sound like assholes. Some of them managed to do it in spite of that advantage but those ones were spectacular in all the wrong ways. Beauty doesn't fix stupidity, a lesson I had to learn the hard way in my first life.

"So what brings you here?" I ask, trying to sound casual like she hadn't just taken my breath away with a single smile.

"You," She said simply and my heart skipped a beat. "I could sense your boredom over the keyboard and decided to come spend time with you over here. You still owe me a third date, after all" I laughed again. Sabrina could be surprisingly funny, and months with her had gotten me to get her past some of her weirder habits. I loved her regardless, but… Fuck. I saw her face redden and my mind caught up with what thoughts just ran through my mind. Fuck. Fuck.

I looked at the school in embarrassment, and when I turned back to her, she was gone. I'd forgotten that she was in my head when I went off on a tangent, which was just incredibly stupid. Since she managed to get past my defences the first few times and confessed that she liked being in my head. The silence was calming, or so she said. Ignoring the possible slights to my brain power I'd given her full access, and it made conversations between us all the more interesting, but I was still usually careful to hide thoughts I didn't want her looking at. Full access wasn't quite full access. I mean there was no reason for her to know what thoughts ran through my head the few times I got to see her in workout clothing, or when we hung out in pyjamas when we lived together at the gym. Something about a woman in PJs just did it for me. Ok, enough of that. Horny Donnell, go back in your cage. You've caused enough problems today. So what would I be doing for the rest of the afternoon?

I couldn't text Sabrina, because I knew her well enough to know that she sought space to process things and I wouldn't want to infringe on that space. I couldn't text any of my other friends on account of them not existing and there was only so much thinking I could do without running the risk of actually going crazy and proving everyone right. Training my pokemon was already a bust. Gary wasn't supposed to know I was here watching, and getting his school evacuated would be the opposite of discreet, which is what I should be. That also ruled out exercising myself. Since I no longer lived in the wilderness, I had to do actual exercise to keep in shape. Being a trainer required an active lifestyle but I'd seen plenty of trainers who had let go of themselves after settling down to more stable lifestyles. I understood the appeal of just laying in the couch and eating chips all day, but I had a war to fight and if I was ever slow to release my pokemon because my gut got in the way, I'd shoot myself in the fucking head and be done with it.

With nearly all possible avenues of entertainment closed to me, I chose to spend time on the most productive activity of them all. Shouting at random people on the internet. Pokeweb forums always had something interesting going on, and if the notifications I saw were any indication, there was an ongoing debate about whether Ino counted as the strongest psychic type in all of Kanto. No offence to Ino, but they clearly had never seen Sabrina's Alakazam, or even Oak's. 'None taken, my lord,' She said in my head with a tone that said she was very much offended.

Ignoring my infuriated psychic, I decided to get up to some other mischief on the internet. Oh look, a chess tournament, I thought to myself as I opened one of my favourite discord servers. It had quite a few of the more powerful trainers in the region, with Bruno being the main attraction. Of course, it was invite only and I still had no idea why I'd been sent one. It's not like I contributed very much, or even that much happened on the server either way. For a man widely recognised as a sage fighting master, he was oddly active on discord. He moved in and out of different forums on the pokeweb addition, and made his opinion on all sorts of topics widely known. He was the member of the elite four most reached out to for comment by the press simply because he was the most accessible at all times. I saw that he was participating in the tournament and decided to snag one of the empty slots. I'd played quite a bit of chess in my past life, and from what I'd seen in this world, the game was nowhere near as developed.

Concepts like positional chess are still relatively unheard of and all my favourite openings didn't even exist. That gave me both an advantage and a disadvantage. After all, if no one knew the tactics, then no one could prepare for them, and on the other hand, since no one knew the openings, to talk less of the main lines, I was so much more likely to find myself in novel positions. School chess champion or not, I didn't think myself good enough to adapt to such positions on the fly but let's see how it goes. My first opponent was Karen. I could recognise her by the username; 'Dark Empress Karen' and the profile picture of an Umbreon. There was also the fact that she consistently bothered me about Kenpachi. She sought a Tyranitar of her own and seemed ready to do anything to get one, as long as it fell within the bounds of the law. She started with pawn to E4, and from there we ended up playing what looked to be the Vienna Gambit. The scariest part about playing her was that she seemed to be able to find the critical mainline moves by sheer intuition and expertise. I'd spent hours memorising this shit, and she just intuited it out from skill. This world was bullshit.

Fortunately, she made a mistake by the 31st move as the time crunch started and I was able to eke out a win. I breathed out a sigh of relief at that and turned to Ino with a bright smile on my face. She gave me a mental high five, and I moved on to the next game. I found myself against someone I could not recognise for the life of me. The fact that this was a discord server made entirely of elite trainers made that impressive. Donnell had been a massive pokemon nerd. He knew all the best trainers. He started the game simply, moving the white pieces in a strange setup I'd also never seen before. I guess he was determined to be a lot of firsts for me. He made it through the mid game and somehow managed to only be down two pawns. He resigned at the fortieth move, probably realizing that he had no way to make it back up after losing a rook for a knight and falling another two points of material down. My next opponent, was the most famous on the server. Bruno had his profile picture as himself meditating on a mountain. Fun fact; that was, apparently, the most well used profile picture on the website. His username was literally 'fight me' and he had a small blue tick next to his name to show it was the real him. I got to start with the white pieces, and justifiably cautious, I went with the opening I knew best. I could recite the main line, and every sideline of The London from memory. Twenty moves in, and I was proven right. This was my opening, but he was slowly beginning to eke out a positional advantage. I was down on king safety, but up on central control and we were dead even on material. Normally, this meant things would be equal, but the net he was weaving around my king was as obvious as it was unavoidable. Luckily, for me, he suddenly disconnected on the sixty-third move as we entered into an equal endgame. I felt happy for the win, but somehow robbed of the chance to win with my own effort. Suddenly, my phone was taken over by a text from Oak; 'Return home with Gary now!' Was all the text said, but knowing Oak, it had to be incredibly important. I stood up from the bench and made my way to the principal's office. Oak's text had included some expectation of urgency, but I didn't want to prove the tabloids right by rushing straight into the school and essentially kidnapping my nephew. It would take absolutely no time for the news to be filled with a headline that told the story with completely unsuitable levels of drama. The principal's office was much as I remembered from my years in this very institution and the secretary waved me straight in with a strained smile that I tried returning, but when her smile became even more fragile at my attempt, I gave it up as a lost cause.

"Donnell. What brings you here? I hope no one has bothered you" He said, trying to sound casual, having clearly downed some liquid courage if the smell in the office was any indication.

"Nothing of the sort. My father has asked me to return to the lab with Gary" I said simply. At least, he was no longer stammering.

"Of course. Of course. I'll have someone fetch him immediately. Would you like some tea? It's freshly brewed"

I acquiesced, before smiling at him and taking a seat on his desk. I put the cup to my mouth and took a long drag of the delicious jasmine tea. For a region modelled after Japan, good tea was surprisingly hard to find in Kanto. Of course, that's when things started to go wrong. Ino screamed in my mind that something was going on with Gary. He'd slumped into unconsciousness. As my facial expression changed, I could see a glint in the Principal's eyes. He knew. I ordered Ino to restrain him as I stood up from my chair but found myself slumping to the floor immediately. What the fuck?

When I finally regained consciousness, it was to the principal's bloody head lying on the floor a few feet away from me. He'd been cleanly decapitated. Fuck. Broly.

"Indeed, my lord." Ino said in my mind. I asked her what happened as I finally started to regain cognizance of more of my surroundings.

"The principal was an agent of an organisation that sought to kidnap young Gary to use as assurance against your father. He poisoned the tea he gave you. Once I extracted that particular fact, Broly had been unstoppable." As she spoke, my vision cleared up and I noticed Broly sulking in the corner. Ino had probably given him one hell of a dressing down. "And how did you fix the poison situation," I asked out loud, mind not yet clear enough to engage in a fully mental conversation.

"He had an antidote in his pocket" I nodded, not surprised that she'd been able to find something like that. I suspected she'd gotten even more from his mind than she'd let on. "And Gary?" I asked, moving on to the priority now that the immediate was taken care of.

"I blocked off teleportation. Your nephew and his assailants are waiting in an unused classroom for external extraction. I suspect that they do not wish to leave on foot and risk being caught by your father or any of your brothers." I nodded at her words, not even bothering to ask why she hadn't dealt with them already. We'd gone through the same tactics training with Oak. If they weren't causing any immediate harm then it would be preferable to wait for their reinforcements to secure more arrests. As it stood, I probably had the time to teleport to the lab and get help, but these fuckers had poisoned me. Pardon my french but I'm going to fucking kill all of them.

"Ino, get rid of the body and clean up the scene. Our official story is that he poisoned me and escaped via teleportation while you tended to me. Explaining his death will be much more difficult than explaining his absence." Ino nodded, understanding my thinking and made her way off with the body. I walked towards Broly then. He had his head bowed but I connected my aura with his, sending him feelings of pride and assurance. His head came up instantly, realizing that he wasn't being scolded. "If anyone had poisoned you, nothing would have stopped me from drawing the breath from their lungs. I can not criticize you for doing the same." I said, realizing that now was not the time to turn this into a teachable moment. Ino had done more than enough of that.

My job, now, was to reassure my friend and as he swept me up into a hug, I realized it was the only job I actually wanted. Ino returned and told me that she sensed multiple people with hostile intentions on their way into the school on a helicopter. Lovely. We moved straight to the classroom the three idiots had kept Gary in. We met them just as they were about to escape, and the look in their eyes as they came face to face with me was one for the records. I'd never seen such concentrated fear in my life.

I nodded at Ino, and they all slumped into unconsciousness before she teleported Gary off to the lab. Broly and I made our way outside to their escorts. Ino would join us in a few minutes. I released Kisame from her pokeball as we walked, and she drew water from all the water dispensers in the school as we made our way out. When we finally got to the school's entrance, she had barely enough to use as a platform, but it would have to be enough for a fight like this.

Of course, knowing my luck, those words just had to jinx everything. I came face to face with a man I'd honestly never expected to see in a place like this. Standing right there at the entrance, wearing a freshly pressed Rocket uniform and a smirk that made my blood boil was the poacher. We recognised each other at the same time and all the others with him were promptly disregarded. Broly swept forwards, about to cleave his head from his body, only to be intercepted by a Lucario who had moved in similar speed. His next pokemon out was that same Dragonite, and where before it had threatened my entire team with its power, now, Kisame swept right for it almost instantly. She'd grown by leaps and bounds and as he sent out a Charizard, I mentally asked Kisame to hang back. It would be two-on-one until Ino returned. Not catastrophic odds by any means, but enough to make us cautious. A single mistake would mean death, but isn't that what I missed the most about living in the wild.

Since that day at Cinnabar, I'd never met anyone on equal footing in a battle where whoever lost would be dead beneath the ground. I had no doubts that if I lost here, he'd tear my skin from my bones, and when I stomped his team into the ground, his head would soon follow.

The Charizard started things out, aggressive as any member of the species. A hydropump from Kisame forced it to veer off its planned fight and she almost clipped it with a barrage of ice beams as it dodged the first attack.

The Dragonite had moved in its compatriots shadow and was upon Kisame before she had time to do anything long range. It mattered little though, she had more than enough experience fighting fast opponents, and extreme speed or no, both Broly and Gai were faster. She used her control over he platform to bring her lower to the ground, allowing his swiping attack to pass right over her and slamming into his chest with a powerful dragon tail that didn't budge him. The Charizard came back around, and she retreated from the both of them lest they manage to encircle her. From that first exchange, I could already tell that this wouldn't be a walkover by any means.

Broly smashed Lucario through a set of swings right as I turned to that fight to make sure things were going well. Settled that my starter was more than strong enough for even the aura pokemon of Sinnoh, I focused my energy on Kisame. She was constantly switching between water and ice type attacks to keep her assailants off balance and let her exploit their individual weaknesses. Ice for the Dragonite, water for the Charizard. Months ago, that Dragonite had been enough to threaten my entire team, but now he wasn't even a match for Kisame alone. If there was anything that convinced me of my team's growth, this was it. We'd reached the higher levels of the world, and this stupid poacher just could not keep up. I smiled at him, a bright, mean thing that showed just how much rage I'd accumulated in the past few months. Ino returned, appearing behind me in a rush of displaced air. Our minds melded and I was up to date on what had happened in the lab which wasn't very much. She'd just dropped Gary off at the lab and told Alakazam what had happened. The extra time spent had been consoling the boy into letting her go after he woke up.

"Get me that Dragonite's skull" I said out loud, and Ino only nodded before moving into the battle. Kisame saw her coming and turned her full attention to the Charizard. When Dragonite tried to punish her for it, he found a resolute Gardevoir standing in his way. Just as I'd taught her to do when facing Dragons, she focused her fairy typing into her spoon and body and prepared herself to slay another dragon. It moved in with extreme speed, but she just teleported backwards to retreat and fired a moonblast at the space she'd once occupied. It was able to dodge the attack, by the skin of its teeth, but that mattered little. With the lack of knowledge about fairy types in this world, no one trained their dragons to fight their natural weaknesses to the typing. Fairy type moves tended to be One hit knockouts to weaker dragons. Even Claire's dragons had only needed a few attacks to fall before Ino's feet. Eventually, this advantage of ours would disappear. I already saw that Oak was getting closer and closer to discovering the fairy type itself. Rocket had only delayed his enquiry into Gardevoir as a species, but not ended it. The lab already had notes that hinted at what he would soon discover. On that day, this advantage would disappear, but until then? I'd fuck over every dragon I came across with no hesitation or pity. 'Dazzling Gleam' I commanded and the rainbow beam of light that shot out of Ino's body made contact with Dragonite, stunning it for a second and allowing her to move in for a closer engagement. Its claws tried to grab at her, but Ino had an easy time dodging them and wherever she moved her spoon, cuts followed. 'Psycut with an edge of fairy type energy', I recognised with a smile on my face. Ino had always been the brightest member of my little family, and moments like this showed that creativity and ingenuity. Sometimes, I wondered if she actually needed me. 'Do not be ridiculous, my lord' She said and I had to admonish her to pay attention to her opponent, no matter how unengaging she found him. When she was done delivering her half a hundred cuts, she went in to deal with the Dragon finally and it disappeared in a bolt of red light. I turned to my opponent in shock, and found him looking at me with a scowl.

"I guess Daddy's been helping a lot, hasn't he?" He said, as he returned his other teammates. It was then that I noticed that Broly had already knocked Lucario into unconsciousness but refrained from killing it for some reason, and Kisame was in the process of drowning the charizard. I winced a bit at that. Killing a fire type by drowning could actually qualify as torture.

"Psycho" He shouted, and I quickly instructed Ino to block off teleportation. It didn't matter though. His Alakazam appeared by his side and took off with a burst of psychic energy, teleporting straight through Ino's blockade. I looked at her in shock, and found her one visible eye just as wide as mine. Fuck. The rest of his accomplices had been knocked unconscious by Ino as she arrived, and I regretted not having her do the same to him. We bound them up and called the local pallet town police before leaving for the lab. After my experience with the ACE cell, I'd never be waiting at a crime scene like this one again if I could help it.

A/N; Thanks for reading, guys. How was the reunion with our poacher friend? Yes, I didn't forget about him. He still has one more key role to play before we can finally be rid of him.

We've got the next seven chapters available on pa-treon, and you can read all of them right now just by heading to the link on my profile or searching for my username up there.. I also have a new story I'm working on, so you can also check that out here.