As the dark energy focused, becoming a sphere of energy not unlike that of a charging Solar Beam. Squirtle shouted, "Ash! Just throw the damn thing!"

"Where do I throw it!?"

'Who cares? just throw it!'

Ash nodded, "Alright!" As he let the orb go, launching himself throungh the trunk of a tree. "Ow..."

'Alright, how about we avoid using Metronome. Completely.'

"I... agree..." The concussed Ash muttered, "What was that Move...?"

'Lunar Cannon, me think it's called. It's basically a night time Solar Beam. A Darkrai from the Torren region used on me.'

"Huh... Have visit there someday..."

As Muk helped Pikachu pick Ash, who was understandably coming out of dazed, Squirtle ran, "Yo, guys. Imma go following that!"

"Squirtle! Wait!" Pikachu called, but to no one as Squirtle left.

'Do we follow him?'

"Yes. Because knowing Squirtle, he's more likely to cause it to blow up to see what happens. Let's go Muk, Clefairy." As he left, a small Clefairy on his head, and Muk following, Ash on his head.

Charizard stared in shock, his mind processing what he just heard, Bulbasaur stared expectantly.

Tauros directed a question to Beedrill, "You been around long enough, who the fuck is Damien?"

That was apparently what put Charizard back in reality, As he unleashed a Flamethrower at the frog, who bounced out of the way with speed surprising. Of course the same couldn't be said for the trees incinerated in the rage-filled flames. "You son of a bitch!" As he loomed higher above Bulbasaur's size.

Bulbasaur stood firm, launching a blast of green powder. Charizard dived through the Sleep Powder, Bulbasaur dodging the various Slashes surprisingly, launching Leech Seed, while Charizard avoided most of the seedling, a couple did hit him.

Charizard snapped, "Stop dodging!"

"Nope, get gud, son."

Charizard snarled, launching at Bulbasaur, trying to hit him with Submission. Frog took it head on, before whipping Charizard's chin, causing the Flamethrower to envelop the surrounding environment. Embers sprinkling through the air, as Bulbasaur charged Solar Beam quickly, thanks the sun, he fired it point blank. The blast freed the grass type, forcing distance between the two starters.

Charizard snarled, "How!? I should be stronger than you! You shouldn't be this tough!"

Bulbasaur stated, a Solar Beam charging at an accelerated rate, as he glowed faintly, regaining any lost strength, "Because bitch... I drain people."

Charizard reached deeper into his core, desperately powering up, his body glowing brightly with fiery energy. As he launched a large blast of fire, Bulbasaur launched a Solar Beam slight bigger than the prior one.

The clash lasted for moments, before Bulbasaur blitz to the side, as the flames powered through his canceled out his solar powered move. Focusing on the remaining energy, he launched a fiery orange ball of energy. The newly learned move struck the lizard hard, winding him at the sudden fire energy.

Bulbasaur tensed, ready to dodge, As Charizard heaved at the 'fire' move, picking himself, he roared, "WHY!? How are you this quick!?"

Bulbasaur stated, "You rely on moves you haven't fully utilized and you're impulsive. I've spend so much time on figuring out my strengths and weaknesses. In fact, I found a little quirk that allows me to move and react quicker when in the sun."

Charizard snarled, "I don't care anymore, I'll end you!" As he charged a large ball of flames, the move he used before through Blaze.

Bulbasaur prepared to move, before noticing something, a smirk formed, as he called, "Charizard, want to hear some advice?"

He snarled, ready to launch the blast, "What!?"

"Dodge."

Charizard blinked, confusion evident, "Dodge wha-!" as the energy from Lunar Cannon sailed right into Charizard. The second it made contact, an explosion akin to a purple and black solar beam rocked the area.

"Holy shit! That was awesome!" Squirtle yelled coming from the bushes, having seen the destruction it caused.

Beedrill called, "Private Squirtle! Was this interference your doing?"

"Hahah, fuck no! Ash used it. He was figuring Metronome out." Bulbasaur paled slightly at the mention of the move. Squirtle asked, "What was hit? Was it a tree? A Pidgey?"

"Charizard."

"Hah! Hey Charizard! You good?" Squirtle poked his head over the four-foot deep crater.

Charizard asked, obviously dazed, "Did anyone get the name of that hit...?"

Ash called, now levitating, "Lunar Cannon."

"Thank you..."

Bulbasaur smirked, "Hey Charizard. Looks like you've gotten beaten."

"... This... proves... NOTHING!" As Charizard picked himself back up, before collapsing out of the damage he received from the blast and the few seeds sapping his strength from him.

"Are you going to be fine?" Ash asked, in, spraying a hyper potion onto Charizard.

Seeing Bulbasaur staring smugly at him, he snarked, "...You win."

"Huh?"

Charizard bit his frustration, "You win, I'll train with you and them!"

"Really?" Ash perked at that, excited to have one of his friends working with him.

"But." Ash blinked, as Charizard continued, "I will only battle those I want to battle against. Got it?"

Squirtle rose his finger to comment, before Bulbasaur smacked it down. While Ash nodded, "Yeah I get it." recollecting himself, he asked, "Alright. What should we do now?"

Bulbasaur voiced, "Bettering ourselves with more for the league is the obvious..."

Ash nodded, "Yeah... how should I do that?"

Squirtle pointed out, "Don't you have multiple of those disc thingies?"

"Well, yeah, but I don't know how to use them."

Beedrill asked, "If I may General! I believe that old human may have that knowledge!"

Ash's eyes gleamed, "You're right, thanks Beedrill!"

"I aim to please, Commander!"

Ash left, followed by Pikachu, Beedrill and Squirtle.

Bulbasaur and Charizard stared at each, "What!?"

"You're out of shape."

"Fuck off!"

Brock was jotting down notes as Professor Oak stated, "Charmander's skin is of a healthy complexion." Looking over the nervous Charmander.

Brock checked off, "Thank you for letting me help you, professor."

Oak nodded, petting Charmander, "It's no problem Brock, and frankly, it gets difficult working on my own. Especially with my assistants working in the field frequently at this time of year."

Brock nodded, before Ash ran in, the door slamming open hard. Professor! I need help- Hi Brock."

Brock chuckled, happy his friend was still as lively as ever. He had noticed something was off about his friend, but it was pleasing seeing how well he was presently. "Hey Ash."

"How's helping the Professor?"

"It's been great, The professor may even give a set of Pokémon for me to care for."

"That's great!"

The Professor grabbed Ash's attention, aware of his tendency to lose focus. "Ash, What do you need, my boy?"

Ash asked, holding a TM, "How do I use these disc thing?"

Brock explained, "Using a TM is simple, you need something like a PC or a TM case to scan the data within the disc and it'll induce the knowledge into the Pokémon."

Ash tilted, "Really? Where do you get cases?"

Oak interjected, "I'll help there, hand me your Pokédex."

Ash blinked, "Oh, okay." As he hands it over, the Professor immediately took off deeper into his lab.

Brock asked, curious about his friend's change in mind set, "So, Ash. Any progress with your training?"

"Yeah, it's been very great, I've got my battling Pokémon gathered."

"That's great."

"And I think Charizard's going to listen now!"

Brock quirked a brow, "Really, how did that happen?"

"Bulbasaur beat him in a battle."

"That's-! ..."

"Brock? what's with that look?"

"HE WHAT!?"

Misty was relaxing by herself, fishing. As she sighed to herself, "Man, things are getting so slow... I loved travelling l, but something feels... wrong now..."

Togepi trilled in response, before slipping into the water. "Togepi!" She nearly launched herself into the water.

She grasped Togepi, noticing something blue under him, it was a light blue frog holding the baby up by barely, having had seemingly resting there. "Kie."

"Togepi! Are you alright?!" After a pleasant chirup from the child, she sighed before thanking, "Thank you for helping."

"Keroma." That response came from the strange frog, it's strange white handkerchief rumbling like bubbles, as he hopped out of the water. standing near Misty.

Misty blinked, Still a novice to Water types of other regions, "I've never seen a Pokémon like you before... what are you?"

Before the frog could give a reply, a voice called, "Froakie!" As a purple and yellow reptile quite literally jumped out nest to the Frog, as a girl in a uniform of some kind rushed, huffing slightly.

Misty blinked, the girl ignored her, as she scolded, "One of the few times I decide to power nap... you take off!"

Froaie rolled his eyes in a deadpanned motion, as Misty asked, "Um... is he your Pokémon?"

The girl explaned sourly, "Yes, he's mine, I traded him with this Kalosian Professor who thought I could handle him. I sent him my Quaxly in exchange, I was warned he was difficult..." She finally snarked towards the frog, "But I didn't think he was THIS bad!"

Misty laughed lightly at the exasperation of the girl, finally getting a good look of her. She was probably Ash's age, her outfit: a uniform that prioritized the color purple, or maybe, violet, she had hair just as messy as Ash's, maybe a bit more in control, and in contrast, white. she had slightly paler skin but the key feature to her face, aside from her eyes having a shade like that of rust, were a horizontal, zigzag markings on her cheekbones.

Misty asked, trying to catch the tirading girl, "Who are you? You remind me of someone I know?"

The girl glanced towards her, tilting her head, "Oh...? Well, the name's Cinder. I'm visiting my family for summer break." Before she patted the reptile, "And THIS... is my starter, Toxie: a Toxtricity." the electric type rumbled loudly in greeting.

Misty greeted, "Well, it is nice to meet you, Cinder. I'm Misty."

Cinder nodded, "Right back at ya, Misty..." After a moment she asked, "Have I seen you somewhere, like as a Gym Leader or in a performance, or something like that?" As she gave the tomboy a quizzical look.

Misty blished lightly a the comment, "Yeah, I'm one of four gym leaders that reside in the Cerulean City Gym."

"Oh, neat. Oh by the way, your rod's twitching."

"Huh?!"

AN: So, here we are.

First, before you ask, yes. That is Ash's Froakie.

For Cinder, she is being introduced to Misty first, mostly because I wasn't entirely sure how to do it, so here.

Now as for Bulbasaur vs Charizard, I had it in my mind for Charizard to have Blaze and Bulbasaur has Chlorophyll. I want it to where, Bulbasaur picked up some tactics based off what Ash's ideas. He replaced Vine Whip for Weather Ball.

Tell me how I did, if there's anything I could do better on, let me know.