Pokémon: Master Journey

by Blandusername

Ash and his mother Delia moved to Pallet right before Ash began his Pokémon Journey. Beginning his journey with a trusty Squirtle, Ash sets out to conquer the Pokémon league and defeat the Champion Lance. Will the roaming threat of Team Rocket, Wild Legendaries and Rivals stop him from achieving his dream? AU. Smart!Ash. Serious!Ash. Realistic World. Mixture of Game and Anime.

6. Lt Surge

World of Pokémon #6

The Indigo Plateau. The home of the very first Pokémon League headquarters and of the illustrious Mew Colosseum. The massive stadium held one hundred thousand people in the stands and the top was lined with VIP viewing areas.

Over a century ago, during the first tournament hundreds of trainers flocked to the arena to test their might against one another all for the chance to catch a glimpse at the legendary trainer known only as the Master.

The blood of failure and defeat flowed into the very cobble stone around the plateau. Throughout the mass expansion of the Pokémon League under the Master's leadership many other arena's have sprouted up but never could match the majesty or legacy of the Indigo Plateau. But, as all of the League's competitors would say; "The plateau was the plateau was the plateau. How could we compete?!"

It was no coincidence that permits for the construction of Pokémon tournament arenas were vetted and approved by the president of the league at the headquarters located in the Indigo Plateau.

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"What do you mean you just got out of the hospital?!" Two voices shouted at the same time.

Ash winced and turned down the volume of his Pokégear. His mother and Professor Oak certainly had a pair of lungs on them.

"I stopped in Lavender Town—"

"They closed that town off to rookies a week ago!" Shouted Delia still frantic at the news of her son being in the hospital.

Thankfully, Oak came to his aid. "Let's hear the boy out Delia." Ash smiled at the professor, he was about to thank him when the older man continued. "Even if the boy was foolish enough to get himself into such a situation."

Sighing, Ash started his story. "I was traveling south on route ten, after Mt. Moon I wanted to avoid caves for a while."

"—What happened in Mt. Moon!?" Interrupted Delia now more worried. Again, Oak calmed her and gestured for Ash to continue.

"Well, I had Metang fly me over the mountain. Yes I know that was dangerous but I trust my Pokémon enough to know that I would be and was, fine." Ash said quickly when his mother looked like she was about to interrupt again.

"When I got to Lavender Town I noticed that no one was around, not even the Pokémon Center had trainers. I talked to the Nurse Joy who took my Pokémon for a check up and waited in the lounge to watch tv. That's when I found out about the situation in Lavender Town, also, that's where I met Agatha." Ash winced when he said the Elite four members name, as if it physically pained him to say it.

Professor Oak groaned at the information bringing attention to himself. "That women, turn down one date and become enemies for life." He whispered to himself, Ash and Delia raised their eyebrows at the older man's words then moved on not really wanting the details.

"She was, is, a mean lady." Ash finished lamely, he couldn't bring himself to say he liked the old women. Respect her, maybe, she was obviously an amazing trainer but beyond that he wanted nothing to do with her.

Delia looked like she wanted to interrupt but a snort from Oak stopped her. "She's awful! Oh, if it weren't for the fact that she's a high ranking league member I would have had her removed years ago." Ranted the regional professor.

Ash nodded, he could understand the sentiment. "Anyway," The two adults refocused on the reason for the call and let Ash continue.

"I was sleeping in my room when I felt claws scratch me, I jumped up and turned on the light and saw nothing. After all the shock from waking up like that I knew that I wouldn't be able to fall back asleep I went to the lounge to get a snack. From there I was attacked by a wild Gengar, my team and I held it off and eventually beat it. Agatha captured the Gengar before I could and I passed out from blood loss from a Shadow Claw I took to the side." Ash took a breath and waited for he rant that would no doubt follow.

Surprisingly, no words were spoken for a couple seconds. "Well," Delia started, "I don't like that you had to face that Gengar on your own and that you were in the hospital but I guess you didn't go looking for trouble. So I can't really blame you." She finished evenly, Ash wondered if she was more disappointed in what happened or that it wasn't his fault. Knowing his mother, it was a bit of both.

Professor Oak nodded next to his mother on the screen. "I will contact the league to get a full report on what happened. Ash, you should check that Pokégear for news updates, even the current model is capable of searching the web so I'm sure that your special prototype is just if not more capable."

"I will Professor." Nodded Ash, remembering something Agatha said Ash squinted at the regional professor. "Also, I have a question Professor."

Oak leaned forward patiently, "Go on my boy."

"Agatha said that you trusted me with the Pokédex. Doesn't every new trainer get one?"

Oak moved forward, stapling his hands together and leaning into them. "No, not all trainers get one. I only give them to trainers that I myself sponsor. Also, only my sponsors get a pick between Charmander, Squirtle and Bulbasaur. Did you not find it strange that there are trainers out there without one of the three 'starters'?"

Now that Ash thought about it he did, the three 'starters' were very useful and powerful Pokémon. So why would there be trainers that didn't use them? Why is there a type of trainer called 'bug catchers'? Because, they never received one of the 'starters'. It certainly made sense now that he thought about it, the three starters were quite rare in the wild so it wouldn't really make sense to hand one out to every new trainer. There were millions of trainers out in the world, Ash doubted there were more than a couple thousand of each starter at the best of times.

"So why did I get one?" Ash asked the professor finally.

It was Delia who answered, "You never wondered why I started making you study so hard? It was for that test you took before we moved to Pallet."

Ah, that test. When Ash and Delia were living in Celadon while he was attending the Pokémon Academy for his education before he could be a trainer, his mother was constantly on him to study and research Pokémon and how to raise them. He knew that none of the other students studied as hard as him, not even the top student. It always bugged him that he was pushed so hard.

Then about a week before they moved he was taken to a Pokémon League building and given a rather difficult test. He knew that no one would have passed it without all the studying that Ash did, after all, the academy didn't teach about mating patterns of Growlithe during winter or if positive reinforcement was better than a firm hand when training Fairy types.

"That was my trainers exam." Professor Samuel Oak informed him, "When I interviewed Delia for her position in my lab she boasted about her smart and talented son. So I had the league give you my exam after I hired her since you would be moving to my home town. When you passed I sponsored you and offered you one of the three 'starters'."

Ash leaned back in his chair taking in the information. So he was one of the very few who were personally sponsored by the legendary Samuel Oak. But that didn't explain about the Pokédex.

"And the Pokédex? Why wouldn't all rookies get one?"

Oak leaned back and sighed tiredly, "Once, I wanted that to be a reality. But the league wanted to charge for them. Not that I wouldn't have, but the trainer license fee and the starter Pokémon fee already add close to twenty thousand. I didn't want to charge families even more than when they could barely afford giving their children the chance to become a trainer. At cost, the Pokédex would cost close to eight thousand dollars for all the parts and manufacturing costs."

And what family could dish out nearly thirty thousand just to give their child the chance to be a trainer? After all, the Indigo Plateau's foundation was built on the shattered dreams of failed trainers. Who wanted to spend thirty thousand only to have their dreams shattered with inevitable failure? No one.

"You didn't charge me?" Ash questioned, "Well at least as far as I know." He finished while looking over to his mother who was quiet the whole time.

Oak shook his head, "Nope," He said with a smile. "That test you passed, with a ninety eight percent by the way, was hard enough to give you a full Pokémon League Scholarship. That would have waved the trainer license fee, a starter of your choice and the rookie travel pack filled with supplies. The only person I know of that did as well as you was Gary, who I personally tutored during my free time." Ash could hear the pride in his voice when he started speaking about his grandson.

Wow, he didn't expect that. From the beaming expression of pride on his mother she clearly knew. So he was some sort of prodigy? Huh, who would have thought?

"And with all that potential and brilliance." His mother said suddenly, "You still were in the hospital for three days and didn't even consider telling me!" She shouted, clearly still upset that he didn't call her when he woke up.

Again he lowered his head in defeat. "I said I was sorry mom. I just didn't think that I should call and worry you." Yup, that was a mistake. From his expression, Oak thought so too.

"Worry me!" She shouted. "I worry when I don't hear from you for over a week! Now I'm terrified about what happened to you Ash and what could happen." Anger melted away to fear and Ash's heart broke seeing his mother like this.

"I promise I won't do that again, I'll call you more often and will never keep you in the dark again." Ash said seriously, he even turned to Oak and repeated the same thing.

"I would appreciate that my boy." Replied Oak now pleased with the conversation. "Are there any updates with your Pokémon journey you want to tell us about?"

Ash thought for a second. "Actually, the Snorunt I won in the Cerulean City tournament has a strange personality. She shows no emotion and doesn't talk with my other Pokémon, she listens to everything I say and trains hard but she doesn't seem happy."

Delia and Oak thought for a moment, then the Pokémon Professor spoke up. "Hoenn Pokémon aren't my area of expertise I'll be honest. But the Snorunt line are usually pretty happy and cheerful. They're even said to bless places with good fortune."

Delia nodded, "Maybe you should send her here so we can have a look at her." Posed the Pokémon researcher, "I'll be honest and say that Umbreon is getting quite angry at being here for so long. It may be best to send her back to you, pure dark types need to be handled very carefully. We're lucky that Professor Oak's team still inhabits the ranch. It was getting to the point that Arcanine was going to have to step in."

Ash winced when the professor nodded along with his mother. "Well, I'm ready to send you Snorunt, I have her ball right here." Ash said holding up the Pokéball to his Pokégear's camera.

Oak help up a similar ball, "I've been forced to keep her in her ball for most of the time, you know the drill." Ash and Oak typed into their respective devises. The ball in Ash's hands glowed and vibrated before dematerializing. In the next instant another ball materialized in his palm.

Ash snapped it to his belt and smiled at the camera. "How is Pikachu mom?"

Delia smiled so wide she nearly glowed, "Oh he is just the cutest little helper! He trains in the morning and sits on my shoulder in the lab when I work or will spend time in the corral with the other Pokémon. He helps me whenever I ask for it."

"That's great, I'm glad one of my Pokémon is well behaved." Groaned Ash while rubbing his forehead.

Oak snorted out a laugh, "You sound like a tired parent." Delia giggled next to him while nodding.

Rolling his eyes Ash continued. "My other Pokémon are doing well, the Charmander I caught evolved and Blast - my Dratini, is about ten feet long and is showing signs of evolving. My other Pokémon are all progressing well and I will switch out Charmeleon with Pikachu in the coming days."

"Very well and remember Ash, with that Pokégear you can switch out your team very conveniently so don't neglect training your Pokémon." Oak said sternly.

Ash nodded, just as serious, "I will professor."

"Good luck Ashy and remember to keep me updated! Pikachu and I will be waiting!" His mother said one last time with a wave toward the camera.

Ash hung up the call and stuffed the compacted device into his pocket then took out his favorite girls Pokéball, he tossed it into the air releasing the dark type.

Umbreon blinked when she felt herself leave her ball, she expected the stern professor or Ash's mother. She was already annoyed with the fact that she was surrounded by the weaklings in the professors land, but now she was forced to stay in her ball most of the time. When she looked around she noticed that she wasn't at the professor farm. She looked up and saw her trainer standing next to her with a grin on his face.

"Bre!" She called as she pounced on her trainer while nuzzling his face with her own. Ash laughed happily when she attacked him and started petting her.

"I missed you too Umbreon, you're looking good." He greeted her happily and let her nuzzle him for another minute before pushing her off and standing back up.

After their reunion he decided to get down to business. Ash stared down at her sternly making the dark type look up at him nervously. "I heard you were causing mom and the professor trouble."

"Umbreeee breon." She moaned while looking at the ground pitifully.

"I won't praise such behavior, nor will I condone it. I will let you off the hook this time since I missed you." Ash said with a twitching mouth trying to suppress his smile.

Umbreon rubbed her head on his leg affectionately, Ash reached down and scratched behind her ears getting a purr from the dark type.

"Well how about we travel for a bit, I'll let you stay out of your ball for a bit." Umbreon called out happily and followed behind him when he started walking off.

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Route twelve was on the edge of the Kanto region's eastern border. Ash and Umbreon looked out at the seemingly endless ocean with awe filled stares. They were only three days out of Lavender Town and already the atmosphere was far different than the dark and foggy ghost town.

Sensing this was a good time, Ash tossed out his team so they could look out at the ocean with him and Umbreon.

All of Ash's team materialized and while Hydro and Metang greeted Umbreon happily, the rest joined Ash in staring out at the ocean.

"Come on guys," Several calls made him chuckle, "And girls, let's go down to the water." He suggested before running towards the water.

All of the Pokémon called out and began to chase him down to the shore. While Ash didn't get into the water, Hydro and Blast certainly did and while those two enjoyed the sea the rest were relaxing on the docks next to their trainer. Pidgeotto was flying around in the sky, enjoying the fresh air.

"I think we should have an easy going day today." Suggested Ash getting calls of agreement from his surrounding Pokémon. He'd been giving them drills every afternoon after making camp on the road.

After having a filling lunch Ash and his Pokémon lounged around the docks watching as water Pokémon swam around and a couple Wingull flew overhead.

The calming atmosphere of the docks was ruined by an earthquake that shook the docks and destroying parts of them in the intense vibrations. Ash and his Pokémon all shot up and looked around trying to find out what was happening.

Running down the docks Ash and his Pokémon came across a terrifying sight.

A huge eight foot tall beast was roaring and stomping its way around the ruined docks. Its thick leathery hide that covered its body was dark blue, its stomach and face was cream colored. Two large fangs protruded from its bottom lip that looked strong enough to pierce even the scales of a Gyarados. Two massive arms swung about with strength so immense that it ripped through the thick wood of the docks as if they were toothpicks.

A Snorlax was tearing through route twelve in some sort of rampage. That was the scariest sentence that Ash had ever thought.

Ash started backing away but his escape was hampered by Snorlax turning to him and his team. The rookie trainer flinched at the intense look in the large Pokémon's eye and yelped in terror when orange energy began to charge in it's mouth.

He did not want to be on the receiving end of a Hyper Beam, a natural Hyper Beam.

"Metang use Psychic to try and divert it. Hydro Protect. Charmeleon Flamethrower, Blast use Dragon Rage. Don't let this Hyper Beam hit or we're done!" Screamed Ash truly terrified, Gengar was scary but this was a literal life and death situation.

Snorlax's roar was the only warning of the incoming attack being released. Charmeleon and Blast shot their strongest natural moves at the incoming death beam trying to slow it even in the slightest. The orange energy beam ate the incoming attacks and proceeded onward with little power lost.

Metang's body glowed with pink energy, in the second that the Hyper Beam approached the space in front of Ash and his team, it became hazy and thick with psychic pressure. When the orange energy entered the space occupied by the psychic power a boom sounded out in the area and a shockwave of power blasted out from the epicenter that would have taken Ash off of his feet had it not been for Hydro standing in front of him protectively.

When the Hyper Beam smashed through the psychic barrier Hydro stepped forward. The water type shown with a thick blue energy that expanded out with interconnecting square creating a protective shield into front of Hydro and Ash.

Although the move Protect was almost completely invulnerable, it only worked like that when the Pokémon were around the same level. Hydro was strong, but a natural Hyper Beam from an enraged Snorlax was something else. When the protective shield inevitably shattered Ash and the others looked on horrified at their approaching end of the approaching Hyper Beam.

At the last moment a pulsing beam of pitch black energy slammed into the orange energy attack knocking slightly off course. While it was minuscule it gave everyone the chance to dive out of the way with minimal damage.

After the resulting explosion of the Hyper Beam Ash turned to the one responsible for saving him and his team.

"You've been training." Ash said to his Umbreon impressed. The rest of the Pokémon all repeated the sentiment to the dark type who wasn't even trying to hide how happy she was under the praise.

"We need to do this together," Ash told his Pokémon. "This Snorlax, the fact that Umbreon was able to divert the Hyper Beam even a little means that if it wasn't in a rage then it would be around our level. Pidgeotto, I want you to use Gust whenever there it is a lull. Charmeleon, Stay mid range with Flamethrower. Umbreon up front, Dark Pulse every chance you get. Blast use Thunderwave then Dragon Rage, Hydro use Water Pulse. Metang use Confusion and Psyshock liberally."

All of Ash's Pokémon roared out and rushed into combat while Snorlax was recharging from the massive Hyper Beam attack.

Psybeam and Thunderwave crossed the distance and slammed into the massive gut of the Snorlax, the thick leathery hide took the psychic attack without fail. But Snorlax clearly felt the attack as it winced after the attack landed. Ash smirked, this was going to be way different than Gengar, if it wasn't for it's hunger filled rage Ash knew that Hydro or Blast could take it. That Hyper Beam was it's only chance, now it was time to take the fat titan down.

Yellow lightning sparked around the massive Pokémon showing that the paralysis took. In the next moment, a massive golden beam of energy nailed Snorlax in the face. The concussive force behind Dragon Rage almost took the normal type off of its feet but it managed to stay upright. In the next moment a Water Pulse hit it in his huge gut further pushing the Snorlax off balance. Right as it was about to retaliate, a powerful gale force of wind surrounded Snorlax pushing it off balance making it fall onto it's back with a loud crash.

Umbreon followed up the attack barrage, the Dark Pulse ripped through the air before it smashed into Snorlax's stomach the thick hide rippled and smoldered after the attack landed.

"Metang Metal Claw, Charmeleon Dragon Claw!" Ash yelled to his two Pokémon, the Snorlax line was a literal wall of defense for all types in most cases. But the thick hide on its body was more suited for shrugging of dense energy beams and intense walls of fire rather than sharp claws or powerful powerful strikes.

Metang exploded forward with two gleaming metal arms surrounded with razor sharp steel type energy. Next to it was Charmeleon surrounding both dark red claws with a deep blue energy increasing the offensive power of the sharp claws with draconic energy.

Snorlax wasn't out of the fight yet, right when the two Pokémon got close its right arm shot out with the speed of a cannon ball glowing with fiery energy. Metang was too close and moving far to fast to avoid the deadly Fire Punch and was on the receiving end of a powerful Fire Punch.

Ash could only watch as his Metang was hit with enough force to be blasted across the docks onto the beach nearly thirty yards away. On impact with the beach an explosion of sand and water was the fallout of the steel and psychic type's high velocity crash. Ash numbly raised his Pokémon's ball and recalled his downed friend.

In that moment most of the attention was on Metang, leaving Charmeleon a free window to slash away with Dragon Claw. Blast, next to Ash, roared out and charged up a powerful Dragon Rage. The draconic energy condensed into a pulsing ball of golden power that grew to the size of the small dragon's head before it shot forward in a cone of energy that smashed into the massive Pokémon.

Snorlax roared out in pain from the dragon energy fueled attack, most Pokémon even defense orientated ones were unused to the rare dragon type attack and weren't ready fro just how hard they hit. The massive eight foot tall monster stomped angrily at Ash and his remaining team members with furious eyes.

Pidgeotto made her appearance once again and sped toward the Snorlax like a golden bullet blitzing it with a barrage of Wing Attacks. Pidgeotto's left wing slammed into the Snorlax's neck and she went for another to the skull but was smashed by a powerful Ice Punch to the chest.

Ash and his Pokémon screamed out in horror when they saw Pidgeotto crash through the dock and into the sea water below. Ash was proud to say that Hydro didn't hesitate for a single moment before diving into the water to bring her to shore so she wouldn't drown.

Thankful that Pidgeotto was going to be safe Ash grimaced a bit when he noticed that he was down three of his Pokémon for the battle since Hydro was busy carrying Pidgeotto to the beach.

Umbreon circled the large Snorlax with incredible speed that Snorlax couldn't keep up with. The moonlight Pokémon used her incredible speed to maneuver into an Iron Tail that smashed into the back of Snorlax's knee bringing it down from its massive eight foot height.

Charmeleon used that moment to charge in and deliver another Dragon Claw to Snorlax's side shredding through the thick hide drawing blood and getting a pain filled groan out of the normal type. However, the Snorlax didn't back down from the two on one battle, it shifted its incredible weight to one leg. With tremendous strength that only a Snorlax possessed it jumped and Body Slammed Charmeleon under its thousand pound body.

Ash was more prepared this time as he realized what was about to happen and tried to prevent it by recalling Charmeleon. Unfortunately he was too slow to save Charmeleon and only managed to return him after Snorlax moved off of the fire type. Ash spotted several bruises and a possibly broken arm but he stocked up on powerful miracle medicine so he wasn't too worried.

Umbreon shot another Dark Pulse to Snorlax's back that did enough damage that Snorlax turned to face her with a deep angry growl. What the Snorlax didn't see was Blast glaring at the huge Pokémon with such fury that he was shaking.

That was Snorlax's biggest mistake. He turned his back on Ash's most prideful and currently, angriest Pokémon. Blast had been the loner of the team since Ash won him, he liked to fight, train and nap. But ever since Ash asked him to take Charmander, now Charmeleon, under his metaphorical wing he gained his very first friend. Then this massive beast not only Body Slammed his only friend into what could be a coma, but then turned its back to him. As if Blast wasn't a threat!

Blast was the biggest threat!

The ten foot blue serpent sucked in a breath and roared out with all of its might. Ash turned away slightly from the volume of the roar. The rookie trainer looked up to see that the surrounding clouds started to move away from the immediate area as if the skies itself were trying to escape the dragon's wrath. Golden draconic energy erupted from Blast that cracked the docks beneath him, Ash noted that even the water below the docks were becoming rough under the pressure that Blast was emitting.

Then, Blast exploded in a blinding white light. Ash watched with no small amount of glee as the evolution took affect and Blast continued to roar as he grew from a thin ten foot serpent to a large and powerful fourteen foot in length and a full foot in circumference. When the white light died down Dratini was replaced by a larger and deep blue dragon that held its head higher with his thick and powerful tail swinging lazily behind him.

The formerly small blue scales that covered the dragon grew longer and noticeably thicker, his body still shimmered with the left over power from evolving. Eyes far more intelligent than before looked back at Ash and with a small nod he turn back to Snorlax.

Ash reached into his Pocket when he heard a ding from his Pokédex, it would seem that Blast unlocked his egg move after evolution.

Golden energy exploded out from Blast and with ease that would have been impossible before evolution the power covered every inch of the dragon.

Snorlax's instincts recognized the danger and charged its right fist with even more pale frost energy for a powerful Ice Punch. Even a wild Pokémon without any real training had the survival instincts to know that a dragon wasn't a threat that was shrugged off. Snorlax's Ice Fist was a natural defense it must have picked up in case it ran across one of the dangerous dragon types in the wild.

Ash sucked in a breath when Blast exploded out toward the massive Snorlax in a blur of motion. Distance was crossed in milliseconds and the two monsters readied themselves for the clash. Snorlax pulled its huge fist back and with a roar extended his massive arms with incredible strength.

Blast, covered with with his natural golden energy tackled Snorlax with all of his might. At the same instant a massive white glowing fist slammed into the center of the glowing Dragon Rush attack. A powerful concussive wave of power exploded out from the clash this time taking Ash off of his feet. His ears rang from the loud boom and his eye swam from his head hitting the docks hard wood.

Slowly gathering himself Ash pulled himself back to his feet and looked into the cloud of dust that swirled around the two Pokémon. Ash tried to keep calm but he was worried about how Blast would handle using his new stronger body with an attack he just learned, this could seriously injure him if he was on the losing end of that clash.

When the smoke subsided Ash's eyes widened at the fallout. The docks in the immediate area were in shambles, there were barely any planks intact it was only a miracle that Snorlax's prone body was still held up by the splintered wood. Blast looked at his opponent with a snort before rearing back and letting out the largest and loudest roar he could into the sky to proclaim his victory.

Ash walked forward to his dragon with a grin. "Well done, a little risky using that so soon after evolving but good job none the less."

Blast slithered over to his trainer with his head held high. "Draaaaa" The deeper voice of Dragonair sounded out in response to his trainers comment.

Ash's hand reached out and patted him on the snout. "That was Dragon Rush, I don't think you should use it until you have practice with it Blast." He warned the dragon seriously.

Blast looked like he wanted to argue against that but he doubled over in pain before he could. Ash caught the large dragon and quickly returned him, it would seem that using such a powerful move right after evolving sapped away all of his energy.

Now was the next issue- Snorlax, should he catch it?

Powerful? Obviously. Useful? Very. Expensive to care for? Yup and that was Ash's biggest problem with capturing the Snorlax. The Pokémon League offered a meal plan for owners of Snorlax with a monthly fee where they would teleport capsules with the required amount of nutrients to sustain the massive Pokémon. But of course it wasn't cheap and Ash and his mother weren't wealthy enough to pay for a Snorlax to eat everyday. But he was making decent money in his battles, not to mention the money he has from the tournament in Cerulean City.

Throwing cation to the wind Ash expanded a Pokéball and threw it at Snorlax. The unconscious Pokémon couldn't put up any resistance allowing the ball snapped shut with a successful capture. Ash watched as the ball was teleported away to Professor Oak's computer storage since he was at his maximum carrying capacity.

Umbreon walked over to him, she must have been on the other side of the battlefield because Ash lost sight of her in all the commotion. Reaching down he scratched her ears and started to walk on the leftover planks toward the rest of his Pokémon who were on the shoreline unconscious or in Hydro's case- standing guard.

Ash went to work, it was expensive but he bought several hyper potions at the center before he left Lavender town. Pidgeotto and Charmeleon were definitely going to need some of the top shelf healing as they suffered heavy damage from Snorlax's attacks. Metang only need a super potion and it was good to go. Super effective move or not steel types didn't stay down for long, something that Ash loved about them.

With all of his Pokémon healed up and in their Pokéballs Ash took out his Pokégear to start making calls. First was the Professor.

"Ash! How may I help you today?" The regional professor greeted him with a smile.

Ash rubbed the back of his head with a nervous smile. "Don't, uh, open the Pokéball I just caught." Seeing the professor's questioning look Ash elaborated. "I ran across an angry and hungry Snorlax. I caught it."

Samuel Oak looked at him interested in response. "Well, that is an interesting development indeed and truly fascinating if I may add. You see Gary has just caught a Snorlax himself a few days ago, it too was very angry when Gary came across it. After he healed and fed it it was much more docile and Gary hasn't sent it back to me since."

Ash nodded, "Well that was one of the reason's I called. Blast, my Dratini just evolved during the battle with Snorlax." Oak's eyes shined brightly in response but Ash continued on. "He isn't used to his new body obviously and unlike other Pokémon who's instincts took over he has gained so much power I fear it will take a while for him to get used to it that quickly. I was hoping that you would let him meet your Dragonite and maybe get some tips." Ash finished with a small hopeful voice.

It would be big for Blast if the professor agreed. Samuel Oak's Dragonite was one of the strongest recorded Dragonite's every used in competitive battling. Maybe Lance's infamous shiny Dragonite could match it but that was still a debate that many trainers argued over even to this day.

Oak's face became rigid as he looked into out of a nearby window inscrutably. "If you send your Dragonair to me I will introduce him to Dragonite. But as you no doubt know, dragon's are very particular about who they like to be around and mine is not different. He is a kind Pokémon like his line is known for, but if what you told me about yours is true he won't tolerate being disrespected."

Ash's eyebrows furrowed in worry, he didn't want his dragon ripped in half because he disrespected the older and more powerful Dragonite. Oak saw this and raised his hand to stop Ash from worrying further. "I'm just saying this as a warning, of my team I would say that Dragonite is still one of the kindest overall. Charizard is the one that doesn't like to be bothered by anyone other than me. Old age hasn't helped him become kinder either I'm afraid." Oak chuckled while thinking of his no doubt incredibly powerful starter.

Ash nodded in agreement with the professor, fire types were as one would expect- hotheaded. Mix that with a pseudo dragon like Charizard and it likely was just as temperamental as a dark type.

"Ok professor, I'll be sending Blast over after I speak to him and with him Charmeleon. Charmeleon is Blast's first real friend on the team so I don't want to separate them. In return I would like Snorlax and Pikachu."

Oak nodded and typed a message on his computer that Ash couldn't see. "I will have them both in the trainer storage system I have in place here. As long as they are in their ball and on the shelves I have they can be transferred without any need for me to do anything. Only thing is I usually have them out of their balls during the day so they can exercise in the corral. So if you ever want to have a training session with all your Pokémon tell me and I will put them on the shelf so you can switch back and forth whenever you want."

That was certainly awesome thought Ash, he wouldn't have to worry about training near a Pokémon Center now. Well he still should considering he didn't want to run through all of his potions in training when he may need them later. He'd think more on it later.

"The last thing I wanted to talk to you about was Snorunt." Ash said making Oak nodded sadly.

"Well I have good news and bad news regarding that one." Started Oak making Ash worry. "Nothing terrible heath wise she is still perfectly fine but I think I know how to fix her attitude and her mental health overall."

Ash leaned forward interested, he really wanted her to break out of her shell and join the team.

"She doesn't like to fight." Oak said dropping the bomb. "She is very kind by nature and battling frightens her, she would rather avoid conflict if she has the choice. My Alakazam has been spending time with her since you sent her to me and she has be pretty open about her feelings. Devon Corp probably had one of their experts train her in obedience non stop to get her to be like she is now."

Ash looked down at his hand upset with the news, he would have never thought that one of his Pokémon wouldn't like to battle. Although they were living things with their own dreams and wants and loves and fears, it never really occurred to him before now. Of course all Pokémon didn't want to battle, not every human in the world wanted to be a trainer after all.

"I see," Ash whispered. "I wish she didn't feel this way. But I'm not going to force her to do anything she doesn't want to." He said firmly.

Professor Oak smiled proudly at the rookie trainer. "That was a very mature decision Ash. Not many would let such an obedient and strong Pokémon decide what they were comfortable with."

"Well, tell her that she is free to stay out of her ball, and if it is ok with you she can live in the corral." Suggested Ash and Oak nodded with a smile.

"I'll have Alakazam continuing speaking with her more and if she wants to stay I'll let her stay with the others in the coral. Is there anything else you want to talk about?"

Ash shook his head. "I'll be speaking with Blast and Charmeleon before I switch them with Pikachu and Snorlax in a bit other than that no."

Oak nodded, "Give me a few minutes to get Pikachu back in his ball then you'll be set."

Ending the call Ash took out Blast's and Charmeleon's Pokéball then released the two Pokémon. Charmeleon shook his head when he was released from his ball, the last thing the fire type remembered was being smashed by the massive Snorlax and blacking out.

Blast looked around calmly, his new form making the dragon look far more regal than the thinner form he had before. When Charmeleon saw Blast he shouted out toward his friend and mentor in awe making Blast whack him on the head lightly in exasperation.

Ash snorted at the display. "Okay you two, I'm going to send you to Oak's." The two looked like they were about to protest but the trainer raised his hand to stop them. "This is to give you both some time to train in peace. The corral is huge and is filled with other Pokémon." They perked up at the mention of other Pokémon and Ash knew what he had to do next.

His face became serious as he rose higher to establish himself as the alpha. Both Pokémon acknowledged his authority and lowered their heads slightly. Ash saw this and let out an unnoticed breath, he wasn't sure how this was going to go with Blast so he was pleasantly surprised that his prideful dragon acknowledged him as his leader.

"I will not have you two attacking Pokémon and disrupting the peaceful corral to satisfy your lusts for battle. I'm already upset with Umbreon for that very thing." Blast let out a snort that Ash ignored. "You can battle each other and practice your moves but don't battle anyone that doesn't agree. The last thing you want is one of the professor's Pokémon from his team coming to confront you. Am I understood?"

Both Pokémon nodded and called out in an affirmative.

"Good. For the time you are there Charmeleon I want you to work on Flamethrower. Increase its power and intensity and most important, your control over the flames. Battle with Blast whenever both of you have time." Charmeleon nodded and Ash recalled the fire type.

Ash turned to Blast, "I spoke with the professor, he is going to introduce you to his Dragonite." Blast perked up interested, Ash decided to quell the dragon's predictable thoughts of challenging the older dragon before they started.

"Let me warn you, that Dragonite is still one of the most powerful dragon Pokémon in the world. So treat it with respect, it will help you control your new powerful form. Also while you are there, I want you to work on Dragon Dance, it will increase your offensive capabilities for a short while. But focus on mastering Twister, Dragon Rage and Dragon Rush in your stronger body first. That is the most important, also work through your other attacks to make sure you can still use them effectively."

"Goon!" Blast shouted to his trainer looking more determined than ever. Ash smiled and reached out to pat the dragon before returning him to his ball.

Taking out his Pokégear he typed into the devise and opened the Pokémon transfer app. Both of his Pokémon that were in storage had a transfer option next to their profile. Ash sent his two Pokémon over to Oak then transferred Pikachu and Snorlax back to him.

Putting Pikachu's ball on his belt for the moment, Ash took out his Pokédex and scanned Snorlax's ball to get a read of his newest Pokémon.

Snorlax, the sleeping Pokémon. Its stomach is said to be incomparably strong. Even Muk's poison is nothing more than a hint of spice on Snorlax's tongue. This Snorlax is Male.

Known Moves - Defense Curl, Yawn, Rest, Body Slam, Fire Punch, Ice Punch and Hyper Beam. Ability - Thick Fat.

"Impressive." Whispered Ash before putting Snorlax's ball on his last open belt spot before taking his Pokégear back out.

Dialing the number for the Pokémon League he waited for someone to answer.

"This is the Pokémon League Kanto Office. How may I help you?" A Women's voice came over the phone with a polite attitude.

"This is Ash Ketchum- trainer number 438297." Ash heard typing from the other end of the call, he waited for her to pull up his profile before continuing. "I would like to register for the Snorlax meal plan."

"I understand," Said the women. "That will be a monthly payment plan of two thousand five hundred dollars, will that be acceptable?" She asked with her default politeness still rapidly typing into her keyboard.

Groaning at the price Ash swallowed then responded. "Yes."

"Okay. We'll be sending you a meal case with seven slots. Every week it will refill with food, the league is not responsible for any lost food. All extra food beyond the seven given weekly will be an additional eight hundred and fifty dollars. The payments can be automatically payed from your trainer account. Would you like to select this payment plan?"

Ash nodded once again. "Yes I would."

"Then that is everything we need. Ash Ketchum- trainer id 438297, you're in the League's database for the standard Snorlax meal plan. Thank you for calling, have a pleasant day." The call was ended and Ash sighed at the constant drain to his funds.

'Well, Snorlax was one of the Pokémon I was going to look for before I left for my journey. Like with Blast, I didn't expect to get one this early. But I'm glad I won that tournament in Cerulean so that I have enough money for a while.'

Thanking Professor Oak's setup for automatically healing the Pokémon that Ash caught he released the massive Pokémon. He was going to wait for the food case before releasing the Pokémon but thankfully, the professor gave him the first meal at the corral right after they hung up their call. Ash didn't bother wondering why the professor had a Snorlax amount of food at the ready or one of the League's extremely dense meals that they would be sending him but he wasn't going to be upset about it.

Snorlax's ever squinting eyes blinked at his new surroundings before looking down and catching sight of the human that he attacked in his hungry rage earlier. Feeling terrible, Snorlax pulled the human into a warm hug.

Ash winced at the extremely tight hug but allowed it to continue. "Nice to meet you Snorlax! My name is Ash and I'm your new trainer!"

Snorlax laughed whole heartily and continued to hug the human with a large smile on his face.

"Training with me will be tough Snor." Snorlax tilted his head at the name to which the still held Ash shrugged. "Thought it'd be a good nick name, if you don't like it I'll stop."

Snorlax shook his head chuckling then finally released Ash from his hold. "Thank you." Muttered Ash. "Now, as a Pokémon in my team I expect you to work hard and train with the rest of my Pokémon. With me you will have plenty of food everyday and can relax whenever we're not battling or training. Fair?"

Snorlax slapped his massive stomach and nodded. Ash grinned, he was going to make sure that every Pokémon he caught wanted to battle so that he didn't make a Pokémon miserable by forcing them.

"Well, I'll introduce you to the team and then we can get a move on toward Vermillion."

---

Another week of training and traveling followed. Ash took to only training one or two Pokémon at a time rather than all six at once so that he could focus on them better. Did it take more time, sure, but it would help Ash spot imperfections or mistakes in his teams moves or new techniques.

Right now it was Pikachu and Umbreon.

Pikachu was working on mastering the electrical energy in his body to perfect Thunderbolt. Ash watched some battles online of Surge using his ridiculously strong Raichu against challengers. Needless to say what Ash thought was a perfect Thunderbolt was nothing more than an unstable blast of lightning. So for now Ash was having Pikachu use Thundershock with more and more power until he could use it with almost as much power as a weak Thunderbolt with perfect control. Then he would have him work on perfecting Thunderbolt.

After watching video's of Surges battle he learned two things. Surge hit hard and he hit fast. All electric types had tremendous speed and reflexes and the Lightning specialist didn't overlook that. Along with their natural high speed stat was their large special attack levels. Thundershock, Thunderbolt, Discharge, Thunder, all were powerful attacks that Surge was quite liberal with in battle.

Pikachu's lightning rod ability made all of those attack worthless but in return Pikachu couldn't really use his Electric attacks against the lightning gym so he was mostly here to train and to prepare his team for battling electric types. Pikachu was without a doubt his fastest and most agile Pokémon at the moment so he'd help getting his team ready to keep pace with the electric types.

Umbreon was one of the Pokémon that he was going to use in the gym battle. For the upcoming battle he was having her practice the move Dig. It was a strong ground type attack that would also serve as a good escape from attacks she couldn't outrun.

So far Umbreon was just digging holes as fast as she could. It wasn't a quick method but it was all Ash could figure out for a way to teach such a simple move. From what his mother and his Pokédex research said after a while Umbreon would start channeling ground type energy into her claws to increase her digging speed.

I didn't hurt that Umbreon's irritation and constant whining was fairly amusing to him and it was her punishment for annoying the professor and the Pokémon at the corral.

"Pikachu!" Shouted Ash getting his small rodent to shoot over to him and look up attentively. "In the coming days I will have you battle with Umbreon, Metang and Snorlax to get them ready for our gym battle in a few weeks."

"Pika!" Saluted Pikachu.

Ash smiled down at his little electric type. "Great, for now I'll keep you out so you can work on Thundershock. I want you to practice firing Thundershock rapid pace as accurately as possible, aim for branches."

Pikachu shot away toward his wooded area to practice. Ash grinned at the little guys spunk then walked over to his frustrated dark type.

Before speaking up he suppressed his amusement as best he could. "How's it coming Umbreon?"

A withering glare met his eyes and Ash tried not to laugh but he could tell Umbreon saw through his crumbling expression.

"Well, keep working on it." Umbreon hissed at the half assed help making Ash bark out a laugh. "From what I've been reading on Dig it is best to surround your claws before starting to dig. Ground type energy is strong and sturdy, try and think that like that when forming the energy."

Umbreon nodded and went back to digging, no new progress but she looked more focused than before.

Ash rocked in place quietly for a few moments, "Welp, not much to do now." Ash muttered to himself. At first training only two Pokémon was a good idea since he was able to focus on Pikachu's Thundershock and tutoring Umbreon but that was a few days ago. At this point, there wasn't much for Ash to do training wise now it was more repetition and practice.

Shrugging Ash tossed out Snorlax's Pokéball. The massive Pokémon landed with enough force to shake the earth beneath him. Squinting eyes stared down at Ash inquisitively, since joining the team Snor had proved to be a very reliable Pokémon. He was hardworking and attentive to his instructions.

"I think move wise you're ok for the most part. But I want to work on your endurance, you're not going to like it." Prefaced Ash to the large normal type who nodded to his trainer. "I want you to run."

Snorlax narrowed his eye brows at the request. Ash elaborated, "Just around the area for a few laps. Time doesn't matter I only want you to go non stop. Even the slowest jog is enough, I want ten laps with no stopping after that I want ten push ups."

Snorlax bounded off with earth rumbling stomps making Ash laugh a bit. 'For now this is comical, but after a few months of this routine…My Snor will be the most agile Snorlax in the world. Probably.'

Ash found himself in a similar conundrum, "Well, Snor will be at that for a while." Tapping his knees idly for a moment he rolled his eyes and tossed out the rest of his team.

Metang, Hydro and Pidgeotto materialized and stared across the clearing in alarm. They were obviously shocked that the thousand plus pound Pokémon was currently doing laps.

"Yeah, it's strange but in the long run he'll benefit from it." Ash said getting the attention back on himself. "I want everyone to get back to practicing the moves they were working on before. Metang I want to feel progress on Earthquake by the end of the day, we still have time before the gym battle but I want it mastered for Surge."

Metang flew off to work on the ground type attack. So far Ash could only feel a rumble in the ground and that was quite far off from the ground shattering Earthquake he wanted. They had time before the deadline so he wasn't worried.

"Hydro and Pidgeotto, unfortunately the both of you won't be much help in the next gym battle." Both looked down sad that they were useless for the upcoming battle. "Now it is just because both of you are weak to electric type attacks not because you're weak Pokémon. For now we can work on other things, Pidgeotto you're making progress on Brave bird I think you started taking on the golden glow for a moment the other day. Keep it up and you'll have it battle ready in a week or two."

Pidgeotto chirped and flew up to begin to working on the powerful flying type move.

"Hydro," The water type saluted making Ash smirk. "Iron defense was an easy one, but I'll admit that you finished it quicker than I expected. I think it is time to work on your power, not that you're weak but for now and until you evolve you will work on increasing your attack power. I would work on building power for moves slowly adding more and more every time. Then we can work on the speed in which you use attacks but for now we'll work on power."

Ash nodded to himself when Hydro got to work on increasing the power behind his Water Pulse attack. His team was nothing if not diligent in their training, fortunately that helped with them getting stronger. Unfortunately for him, after giving instructions and tips he didn't have much to do.

He was brought out of his thoughts when Umbreon walked up next to him and sat down in a huff. Ash sat down on the ground next to her and reached out to pat her on the head, she'd been working hard for the day may as well let her rest.

"Tomorrow you can keep working on it." Umbreon huffed again. "Oh don't be like that, this move will be very helpful in future battles." Before Umbreon could begin to pout he started scratching behind her ears getting the dark type to purr.

Their relaxing moment was interrupted by several ground shaking stomps, looking over they saw Snor was working on lap number two.

"At least he hasn't quit." Joked Ash getting a glare from the dark type.

---

Vermillion City was just as impressive as Pewter and Cerulean City, large buildings toward the northern border. The eastern and southern edges were lined with docks and a massive shipyard, it stretched on for so long that from where he was Ash could even see it all.

In the distance Ash spotted a large dome shaped building with a red roof. With the center in sight Ash set off to get his team checked on. He spent nearly a month training on the way to Vermillion with his team.

Metang had mastered Earthquake with moderate speed, his skill with the attack was ready for Surge and with a few more sessions of working on the ground type attack Ash was sure that his Hoenn Pokémon will mastered the move.

Snorlax didn't learn any new moves but managed to increase his stamina and the speed in which he built up the power of his attacks. Ice and Fire punch were attack ready in one and one quarter second, it was slow compared to Blast who could fire a Dragon Rage nearly instantly but for the massive beast that was Snorlax it was half of what he was capable of when Ash first caught him.

Of the three he planned to use for Lt. Surge, Ash thought Umbreon was the most prepared. She mastered Dig to a point that she could likely keep pace with a ground type with the move. Her speed was the best out of the three as well, so Ash was sure that she would be able to take out one of Surge's Pokémon.

Pidgeotto was able to successfully use Brave Bird now, while she couldn't snap a tree in half from the force of the attack yet she was getting close. Unfortunately the damage she received from the attack was a little too much for her to use the move too often in a battle. Ash learned that particular information after battling trainers on the road to Vermillion City. While for the most part a one hit knockout on the Pokémon she'd used it on she was noticeable pained after every use. Ash would begin working on her resistances after the gym battle until she evolved. Pidgeot was bulkier than her current form so she would be able to manage to move better, for now it would be her ace in the hole.

Hydro and Pikachu didn't learn any new moves but were getting close to completely mastering the ones that they currently knew. Pikachu was to the point that his Thunderbolt was starting to resemble the tight bolt of lightning that it was supposed to be all along. Much improvement from the fat unstable attack that it was during Misty's gym battle. Hydro was increasing his water attack's strength and the speed in which he used them, Ash was sure that he would be able to shatter boulders with a Water Gun once he evolved if he kept improving at this rate.

Blast and Charmeleon also spent some time with him during the training and travel. From what Oak told him, Blast was trying as best as he could to keep up with Dragonite's lessons but was still too weak to participate. Apparently failing to even keep up with the older dragon's warm up put a fire in the already hardworking Pokémon's belly. Ash was pleased to see that Blast was mastering the dragon type moves he already knew before evolving at impressive speeds.

Charmeleon was progressing well, battling Blast nearly everyday helped his battle instincts tremendously. From Charmeleon's battles with traveling trainers he saw that the fire type could tell when his Flamethrower needed to be at full power or a widespread distraction without Ash needing to tell him. Ash was happy with his fire types progress and would be using him to take down the grass princess Erika after Lt. Surge.

The last Pokémon he owned, Snorunt, was spending time in the corral with Oak's Alakazam and with Charmeleon from what Ash heard from his mother. While her personality hasn't changed and likely wouldn't, she was starting to watch Blast and Charmeleon battle. Ash would never push her to do something she was uncomfortable with but if she got over her fear of battling, he would be very happy to add her to the team.

Ash was brought out of his thoughts when he arrived at the Vermillion Pokémon center. Unlike the ones he had been to in the past, this one was packed. Injured Pokémon held by their trainers, several Pokémon nurses and doctors rushing around the center with two nurse joy's at the front desk doing their best to calm the frantic trainers after their devastating loses to Lt. Surge.

"We meet again."

Turning to the voice that addressed him Ash saw the purple haired trainer that he won Blast off of standing next to him.

Ash smirked at the guy, "Nice to see you again, Ash Ketchum, I don't think we introduced ourselves in the forest last time." It wasn't true, Ash had just forgotten his name.

Paul seemed to realize that and snorted at the trainer. "Paul," His voice was tight and the same serious expression came over his face. "I expect you're here to battle Surge?"

"Yup, I wanted to get my Pokémon checked on first." Nodded Ash. "Did you already battle him?"

Paul nodded while looking around the center disdainfully. "Of course, I'm here to pick up a member of my team that was badly paralyzed. The sooner I leave this place the better, all these moaning losers give me a headache."

As mean as what Paul was saying was, Ash had to agree. Looking around Ash didn't spot a single Pokémon he'd ever consider battling the lightning specialist with. Too many weak un-evolved Pokémon or those with type disadvantages. "Not everyone can be a winner." Shrugged Ash.

"You're right about that Ash." Another recognizable voice hit Ash's ears.

Paul seemed to recognize Gary on sight making him wonder how the two knew each other. Ash expected they'd have battled in the past and he was honestly curious about who won between the two of them. Both were the only trainers that gave him good battles, Ritchie was a good battle too.

"Paul." Gary greeted.

Paul eyed Gary for a moment before giving a tight nod. "Oak."

Ash nodded at the two and slid away, if he wanted his Pokémon checked on soon he'd need to do it now. The nurse Joy didn't even greet him with her normal kind attitude, these two were exhausted and clearly tired of consoling trainers.

Ash didn't want to waste their time. "My Pokémon have been training hard, I just need a quick check up." Ash handed his belt over and the Joy's eyes lit up thankfully.

"You should have seen some of the losers that came through here earlier." Snorted Gary while he was talking to Paul. Ash walked over and stood with the only people he knew in the center.

Right at that moment Gary took out his Thunder badge to show it off. "Surge was tough for sure but the only Pokémon that gave me trouble was Electrode. Little bastard used Self-destruct to take out my Ivysaur." Gary grunted to himself while Ash made a note of the tactic he was likely to see in his battle.

Paul snarled in agreement. "His Voltorb did the same to me, he only brought it out to take out my Magmar with Self-destruct."

Gary turned to Ash with a questioning look. "How was your gym battle Ashy boy?"

"He hasn't done it yet." Paul answered for him.

Ash nodded toward the Oak, "I've been training my team pretty hard so I wanted to get them checked on before I battled him. I just got to town today." Explained Ash.

"Took your time getting here huh." Gary snorted. "Well I guess I'll have to watch your battle with Surge then. I want to get a look at that team of yours before the S.S. Anne tournament."

Paul nodded next to the Oak. "I don't plan on losing to you again Ketchum. I've got a ace in the hole myself now."

While that interested Ash he heard his name being called over the PA and went to get his Pokémon.

Nurse Joy tiredly handed him his belt, "Your team is perfectly health, while tired and sore from training it was nothing our machines couldn't fix up real quick." She informed him before shooting off to help the next trainer who looked to have a Pokémon that was fried by lightning.

Ash put his belt back on and made his way out of the center to take on Surge.

Someone threw their arm around his shoulder, it was Gary. "Let's see how you take down Surge Ashy boy."

Paul was quietly walking next to him but looked no less interested. Ash couldn't stop them so he just shrugged, not like his team was a secret or anything. He used most of them in the Cerulean Tournament anyway.

---

"Here it is!" Gary announced while gesturing to the square shaped building with large Pokémon League emblems decorating the front. Not as flashy as Cerulean nor as large as Pewter but Ash could tell that it would be much harder fight to get his badge this time than the previous two.

"Thanks Gary, I couldn't have figured that out on my own." Joked Ash before walking through the large doors.

"NEXT!" A booming voice echoed out into the lounge. A girl close to the stairs flinched and scurried up them to the arena looking more like a frightened bunny than a trainer.

Like the center, there were many injured Pokémon being handled and treated by their trainers. While these trainers used potions to quickly heal them, he could spot several League officials trying to calm frantic rookies so they could make their way back to the center. A typical day in the Vermillion City Pokémon Gym.

"Looks like Surge is having a good time." Snorted Gary as he walked with Ash and Paul to the official standing by the stairs.

The man looked up tiredly at the three arrivals, when he caught sight of Gary and Paul he smirked. "You two are back huh? He was in quite a fit after he lost to you two the other day."

"No, I already have my badge." Answered Paul typical of his natural attitude. Gary nodded and pushed Ash forward.

Rebalancing himself he looked at the official, "I'm here for my battle, I have two badges. Name is Ash Ketchum."

The man nodded and thumbed through his device. "Well, Ms. Rose is the only trainer ahead of you and she just went up-"

"NEXT!"

"-Right this way Mr. Ketchum." The man gestured for the stairs and Ash climbed them without hesitation. Paul and Gary right on his heels.

"Quick tip, he always uses Thunderbolt first." Gary whispered as the battlefield came into sight. Ash nodded and walked over to his sided of the battle field while they went to the stands.

The stands weren't large only big enough to fit about a dozen people. While Gary and Paul took their seats Ash took in the field. It was covered in battle damage still smoking from the thousands of volts of electricity repeatedly crashing into the floor. The field that was untouched was tan and flat, unlike Cerulean that catered to water types or Pewter and its rocky field, Surge chose to have a flat level field likely to give his Pokémon the open space to move about.

Lt. Surge didn't seem to notice him as he was typing into his Pokégear in his trainer square. He was an incredibly intimidating figure, standing six foot nine over three hundred pounds with about four percent body fat. He wore a blond flat top hair cut and had a green camouflage shirt with black army cargo pants.

"Name?" Surge grunted still not looking up.

"Ash Ketchum." Forced out Ash, he was slowly learning that top level trainers weren't always that respectful to rookies. First Agatha and now the electric master of Vermillion, he'd push most of his anger away considering Surge has likely crushed over a hundred trainers today so he was likely bored.

Surge put his Pokégear in his pocket and looked up. "It says that you have two badges, so this will be three on three I can't switch but you can. I'll release my Pokémon first."

The first Pokémon Surge released was a floating Magneton that blinked and hovered over the field waiting for it's opponent. Ash thought for a moment, Magneton was a ranged fighter, electric and steel type so he'd go with Snorlax. Fire Punch would take care of this pretty quick.

Ash reached back and tossed out the Pokéball with his massive Pokémon who landed with a boom. Snor's squinting eyes glared at his opponent and waited for the battle to start.

Surge had the first bit of interest flash across his face. "Interesting, and I was half expecting a Horsea." He laughed actually seeming interested in the battle.

"Hit it with a Thunderbolt!" Boomed Surge with his floating Pokémon listening immediately.

"Take it and move close for Fire Punch." Ash said lowly so Surge couldn't hear.

The yellow lightning bolt formed and struck Snorlax almost instantly. The massive Pokémon grunted at the attack but continued to move forward. Everyone in attendance were shocked at the Snorlax's mobility, it was about as fast as a crawl it was far more that their species were known for.

Magneton charged up another Thunderbolt just as fast as the last one. The room filled with static as a powerful Thunderbolt slammed into Snorlax with thundering force. It was nothing that the huge Pokémon couldn't take as he entered close enough range for a Fire Punch.

Surge ordered Magneton to maneuver away from the Snorlax and the electric type lazily moved away from the massive flaming fist and began to charge up another Thunderbolt.

Ash expected the first attack would miss, and so did Snor. That was why he charged up his left fist at the same time as the other and right as Magneton was about attack his fist shot forward with unnatural speed for a Pokémon as large and slow as Snorlax.

Magneton couldn't even brace for the incredible attack as he was launched back onto the ground. The force behind the attack was enough that the electric type didn't stop after hitting the ground and bounced then smashed into the back wall of the gym. Ash winced at the damage but didn't hold back his grin when Snor came stomping over to him.

"Great job, it seems that we were smart to prepare your left arm." Snorlax rumbled out a laugh while he slapped his huge gut cheerfully.

"How about that." Surge recalled his Magneton with an amused hum. "I guess you aren't one of the many scrubs that come to my gym hoping for a free ticket for the S.S. Anne tournament. You actually have some skill." The huge Gym leader actually looked at him with a grin as he tossed out his next Pokémon.

Ash analyzed the Manectric that stood at the ready. The blue canine Pokémon had yellow spikes of hair sticking straight up on the top of his head and on its sides right before its hind legs began. It looked strong and the tight muscles coiled with every small movement it made, power and speed was the cornerstone of all of Surge Pokémon.

Instead of continuing with Snorlax Ash recalled large Pokémon and tossed out Umbreon's ball. His pitch black Pokémon shook her head as she was released from her ball then glared across at her opponent. Ash knew that of the three he planned to use Umbreon was the fastest so he was hoping that she would be able to keep up with Manectric well enough to take it down.

"Agility- Thunderwave- Heatwave- Thunder Fang!" Rapid fire orders sounded out of Surge to his Pokémon making Ash's head spin.

"Umbreon, Blitz to keep distance. Dark Pulse after the heatwave!" Ash wasn't sure how easily an agility enhanced Manectric could keep up with a quick attack and agility enhanced Umbreon but he knew it would be close.

The blue and yellow cabin blinked into motion, Ash only had Pikachu's incredible speed to thank for his ability to follow the blur of movement. Umbreon followed suit with blitz, the combination of speed techniques gave her the speed to avoid the wave of paralysis inducing static energy.

Manectric and Surge didn't seem fazed by the missed Thunderwave as Manectric continued to blur around the field. Umbreon's blitz technique ended bringing her speed down to her normal levels.

"Charge up a Dark Pulse and wait for Manectric to stop!"

The lightning canine stopped moving in the moonlight Pokémon's blindspot. Before either Ash or Umbreon could respond the space around Manectric shimmered with extreme levels of heat that shot forward in a wave burning Umbreon's skin making her hiss angrily.

The dark type spun on her heel with pitch black energy swirling around her jaw. Manectric, was unable to move in time to avoid the beam of dark energy and was hit on the side getting a yelp from the electric type. Umbreon narrowed her eyes at her opponent and snarled as she took off in another blitz attack.

Following its masters orders- Manectric's fangs crackled with yellow sparks. Umbreon's agility enhance Quick attack barreled into the electric type with enough force to send the two canine like Pokémon tumbling across the field. Manectric's neck shot out and bit Umbreon's neck with a powerful Thunder Fang that drew blood from the dark type.

Ash called out to Umbreon worried that she was too hurt to continue. Manectric continued to bite down as hard as it could trying to do as much damage as it could.

Umbreon's pain filled howl tore through the arena making Ash's fist clench. He was about to recall her from the battle but her crimson eyes glowed with psychic power, Confusion assaulted Manectric's mind allowing her to escape.

Blood dripped from Umbreon's neck from the injury. A thin purple mist started to rise off of her body as her species natural defense started to activate. In the wild an Umbreon that was attacked by a larger and stronger predator would secrete poisonous sweat to fend off attackers or kill them if they got too close.

While the brutal Thunder Fang did enough damage for Ash to consider taking her out of the battle the poison coursing through Manectric's body would soon take it out as well making the match a tie.

That was, if Umbreon didn't have a way to regain her strength. "Moonlight then Dig."

Lt. Surge wasn't a rookie nor did he not know what the move Moonlight was. "Thunder! Take that thing out!"

Ash's eyes widened at the powerful Electric attack and tried to call out for Umbreon to blitz away from the yellow beam of lightning energy. Ash's eyes burned from the bright attack that filled the room with the smell of ozone, all the hairs on Ash's body stood on end from the static that filled the room. His nerves screamed at him to run from the immediate area, as soon as his instincts screamed at him to run they stopped and an ear piercing boom followed by a blast of concussive energy that smacked into Ash and Surge. The large gym leader did seem fazed by the fallout but Ash was nearly knocked off of his feet.

When the bright light from the Thunder attack died down he saw his girl prone on the ground twitching from the residual static cousin through her body. Recalling her he stared out at Manectric who was swaying on its feet. The strain of the Thunder attack no doubt sped up the poison coursing through its body, Ash would give it a minute tops.

Surge seemed to recognize that and recalled Manectric. "Both of our Pokémon are out I'm on my last you have two left." A savage grin broke out on his face as he tossed out another Pokéball. An absolutely massive Raichu landed on Surge's side of the field with the same grin as its trainer.

"Sorry in advance, Raichu here is at a five badge level. But all my others are too tired to battle." The grin on his face made Ash think he wasn't sorry.

Trying to play it off like he wasn't worried Ash shrugged. "Good, I was a little underwhelmed by the big bad Lt. Surge."

Snor emerged from his Pokéball right in front of Raichu looking unintimidated by the large rodent that was glaring up at the massive Pokémon.

"Charge energy slowly." Ordered Ash knowing that he'd need to time Hyper Beam perfectly for it to hit the no doubt fast Raichu.

"Mega Punch- Thunderbolt- Mega Kick- Thunder!"

Unlike Manectric that needed to process the rapid orders Raichu blitzed into motion with a glowing fist poised to strike almost instantly. Snorlax didn't need an order to know what to do as his right fist lit with pale mist to ready an Ice Punch.

The two attacks met with a loud bang, dust and small shards of the shattered battlefield were picked up by the force of the attack. The Raichu was well trained and a physical anomaly among its species but it was no match for the immense natural strength of a Snorlax, and Ash has had his Snor doing push ups everyday for a month. So his Snorlax was an outlier among his species as well.

The large lightning rodent was pushed back and sparked dangerously with yellow sparks of electricity. A Thunderbolt tore through the air between Raichu and Snorlax in an instant knocking the normal type back from the sheer force of the attack.

Ash waited for Raichu to close the distance to attack with the Mega Kick, Surge was obviously hoping that the fighting type attack would take down Snorlax. But when Snor had an opening he'd release the massive orange energy beam to end Raichu.

"Zap Cannon."

That wasn't part of the list of commands! Ash screamed out for Hyper Beam, Snor's slow charge that he was building throughout the battle thus far was enough to release the dense orange energy beam.

Raichu raised both arms and gathered black energy in a condensed ball of power, at the apex of charging yellow static arced across the ball of deadly lightning. Despite being smaller than the average bowling ball, the Zap Cannon attack was charged with so much electric power that Ash could feel the static crawling over his skin.

Snorlax and Raichu shot their strongest attacks at the same time toward each other.

Silence spread across the arena the instant the attacks met. The two opposing attack molded into a combined ball of the two energies that stayed together for a single moment before exploding out releasing a powerful shockwave that blew all of the loose ruble around the field away. Ash's eye burned from the flash of the explosion and he reached back for Snorlax's ball in case the massive Pokémon didn't come out of that exchange on top.

A loud crash sounded out and when Ash's vision cleared of the bright spots he saw a triumphant Surge and Raichu still standing and an unconscious Snorlax snoring away as it used rest to recuperate his energy.

Knowing that Snor was out of the fight Ash recalled him. "To think that a natural Hyper Beam would lose out to Zap Cannon." he growled as he put his Pokémon's ball back on his belt.

"Ah ha!" Booming laughter sounded out form Surge when he heard Ash's snarl. "I told you, Raichu here is at a fifth badge level. But I will say that your Snorlax gave her a run for her money." A nod of respect came from Surge after that statement.

Ash threw out his last Pokémon's ball and Metang roared out with its metallic voice. A wave of confidence washed over Ash as he felt his steel and psychic type's emotion through their link.

Surge looked at Metang analytically clearly interested in Ash's final choice. Most who got this far usually went with a ground or rock type.

"This is it, our last Pokémon each."

Ash nodded, "Confusion- Psyshock- Metal Claw- new move!" This time it was Ash that roared out a rapid barrage of attacks and his Pokémon tearing into action.

Metang's red eyes glowed with power and before Raichu could move the large rodent stumbled in place as its mental faculties were assaulted by Metang. The steel and psychic Pokémon raised both of its massive metal arms as they glowed with pink psychic power for Psyshock.

Raichu regained its mental function fast enough to meet the psychic attack with a Thunderbolt that ripped through Psyshock with ease then continuing on toward Metang. The yellow bolt of lightning crashed into the Hoenn Pokémon causing static to spread across the blue steel type Pokémon showing the telltale signs of paralysis.

"New Move!" Shouted Ash worried that Raichu's overwhelming power was going to take out Metang before it could use their trump card.

A metallic roar tore from the throat of the steel and psychic type as it broke through paralyzation to attack its opponent. The ground of the entire arena trembled for a second before it violently shook forming deep cracks in the foundation of the battle field. Raichu wasn't able to keep its balance under the powerful ground type attack and fell on its face suffering more damage in its prone form.

Ash himself stumbled under the surprisingly strong attack but managed to steady himself to see that Raichu was wide open. "Flash Cannon!" He roared, this was it! He could see Raichu's end in his minds eye and a gleaming Thunder badge right above it.

The rookie and Metang ignored Lt. Surge's screams of warning and calls for Thunderbolt and proceeded to unleash the powerful steel type attack. Raichu tried to regain balance and force itself to its feet but was unable to in time. Metang's mouth opened and charged with silver energy that condensed into a baseball size orb that shot out in a thin but dense beam of power.

Raichu looked up in time to see the incoming attack, Ash and everyone else watched as Raichu was blasted across the battlefield right into Surges waiting arms who didn't even budge from the force.

Ash slowly came to his senses when he realized what just happened. "Great job Metang!" He shouted at his Pokémon who flew back over to him with a pleased hum.

A wave of happiness and triumph washed over Ash making him reach out and pat his team member on the head. That was an incredible battle and he was pleased to see that Metang came through in the end.

"Not bad," Surge said as he walked over to him with the yellow rodent riding on his shoulder, Raichu looked good as new as if it wasn't just nailed in the chest be a powerful steel type energy beam. "Nothing a Full Restore couldn't fix." Shrugged the gym leader.

"So you beat me, while I was using a stronger than what you were prepared for Pokémon." Lt. Surge eyed him for a minute taking in all of Ash's features memorizing every detail. "I'll be sure to root for you in the tournament! Make me some money!" Surge laughed as he smacked a huge meaty hand onto Ash's back making him stumble under the weight.

Ash winced a bit but laughed along with the gym leader. "Thanks! I doubt I would have done as well as I did had I not spent the past few weeks training on the way here to face you."

"I could tell," Surge said then eyes took on a glint as he looked at the much smaller trainer. "What kind of electric type do you have? Your Pokémon were able to follow the quick movements of mine pretty well."

Ash smirked up at Surge. "My Pikachu could give that Manectric a serious run for its money in the speed department."

Surge snorted out another laugh. "Oh I bet it could considering that Umbreon of your was keeping up with him pretty well. What technique was that? It wasn't just a quick attack was it?" Fished Surge likely trying to add such a move to his arsenal.

"Oh just this and that, she's a quick one." Ash replied mysteriously, he'd need to keep his secrets secrets unless he wanted potential opponents using them against him.

The large gym leader rolled his eyes and fished around in his pocket for an envelope. "Here we are, inside is your badge, prize money and ticket for the ship's tournament. The ticket gets you a room in the moderate level rooms, not bottom tier nor the top. It was why I had to go so hard, Silph Co didn't want chumps in their tournament."

Ash took the envelope and slip it into his backpack. "Awesome."

"Now the boat will leave in about two days. You need to be on board by noon or else you're shit out of luck. The tournament will be in the arena the second day of the voyage. Silph Co said that the winner gets some pretty awesome shit as does second and third place." Surge informed him while patting his huge Raichu on his shoulder similar to how Ash would when Pikachu didn't like his ball. "From what I hear some pretty big shots will be aboard; myself, the president of Silph Co and Lance is rumored to be there for. The league doesn't want to risk the president of Silph Co's safety."

Of course not, the biggest and most powerful company in the world wouldn't want the second biggest to fall. It would show that they weren't the invisible entities that they appeared to be which could cause a panic in people who have been noticing the rise in organized crime in the Kanto/Johto region. Naturally the champion of both regions was personally going to see to such a task.

"Well I'll be sure to let Lance know who's going to replace him." Ash boasted getting another laugh out of Surge, this time it was more kind that intimidating.

"Good luck with that, you beat this Raichu." Surge Said pointing to the one on his shoulder. "She's the daughter of my starter, you beat him and I'll give you my vote of confidence in eventually becoming a champion. Till then your a talented prospect like those two." Surge pointed over to Paul and Gary who were in an intense debate as they approached.

Before Ash or Surge could say anything Gary yelled out. "Ash! Your Snorlax's Ice Punch, is it stronger than that Fire Punch from earlier? This guy keeps saying that if you used a Fire Punch on Raichu it would have burned it enough so as to give Snorlax enough time to take it out with that Hyper Beam."

Ash shook his head toward his fellow Pallet town trainer, he noted that Surge was still standing there, interested in his answer. "While Fire Punch is stronger at the moment, Snorlax wouldn't have been able to form it in time to hit Raichu. But I doubt that Raichu would have been so hindered that Snorlax could have out sped it with Hyper Beam." That apparently didn't satisfy the two as they went back to talking about the battle and what Ash did wrong, wasn't it enough that he won?

"He's right," Surge said suddenly making all three trainers look up at him. "Raichu here would have been able to power through a burn just fine, she's been trained by myself and my strongest Pokémon. A little pain wouldn't slow her down." Raichu nodded along with her trainer from atop his shoulder.

"Whatever," Grunted Paul toward the gym leader before walking off.

Ash watched him go for a moment before shrugging. "Well, I'm going to head to the Pokémon center."

Surge walked off and Gary released a Kadabra that teleported him away without a word. Ash really needed to find out if Metang would be able to teleport him places, not that he was lazy but instantaneous travel seemed pretty awesome.

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Ash thanked the Joy as she handed him back his Pokémon and went over to the lounge to relax. Tomorrow was the day the S.S. Anne would set off and would be the end of his training before the tournament.

So far he was working with Metang on a move that only his species got naturally. Meteor Mash- a powerful steel type move that had a chance to make Metang stronger after using it.

Ash thought it would take longer to learn such a move but Metang seemed to grasp the technique as if Ash had given him a TM with the move. Ever since Ash suggested that Metang learn the attack there was a change in the air around his steel and psychic Pokémon as if it'd been wanting to learn it for a while.

Ash wanted Metand to master the move before he had to board the ship, and at this rate he was sure that Metang had it covered.

Along with Metang's training he was working with the rest of his Pokémon, especially Hydro who's skin was starting to grow patches that were lighter shades of blue. It was a sign that he was close to evolving, probably a few weeks away from the transformation.

Umbreon, now that she had matured enough for her poisonous sweat glands to become active he thought it was time to teach her some poison type moves. Toxic was the only poison type move that she could learn easily since it was so simple, she needed to build up a glob of dark purple poison then spit it at her opponent. He'd need to read about the time of food she should eat to increase her poison's potency but for now what she had was enough.

Pikachu was working on his speed and accuracy now, he'd gotten his electrical energy under a decent amount of control now it would take actual battle experience to perfect it. It would be a while before he added any stronger moves to the yellow rodents arsenal. The incredible Thunder attack would have to wait until a perfect Thunderbolt was effortless for the little guy, he'd need far more control for the powerful move.

Oak was happy to call and tell him that Blast and Charmeleon were making progress. Blast was at a level that he'd be able to battle normally. His sometimes overpowering of moves wasn't a bad thing in a battle, he'd just have to make sure that Blast didn't mess up in forming his attacks and all would be fine. Oak told him that Dragonite found Blast's persistence in getting strong enough for the older dragon's training amusing and would sometimes watch the blue dragon train.

"So I see that you took down the mighty lightning dragon Surge!" A happy voice said from next to him.

Somehow Ash didn't notice Steven Stone sitting on the other side of his couch.

"He wasn't so bad." Shrugged Ash. "Metang was actually the one to win me the battle." He said with a smile.

"Ah ha! Nothing if not reliable that Pokémon!" Nodded Steven, "You ready for the tournament?" He asked the younger trainer curiously.

"Yup, I'm getting my Pokémon ready and Metang should master Meteor Mash by the end of the day. I'm just giving it some time to recuperate, it was very eager to learn the move once I told it that I wanted it to learn it." Ash was still curious about that and he could think of no better person to ask.

Steven's eye brightened after hearing that. "It is likely becoming more and more confident in its abilities. Your Metang is still young, it only evolved a few months ago in Mt. Moon. But learning and mastering Meteor Mash is a big step in becoming strong enough to evolve."

"Cool." Ash said turning away from Steven, if Metang felt stronger then all the more reason to continue his training. After learning Meteor Mash well enough to use it in a battle he'd send it to Oak's and bring back Charmeleon. The fire type could use some one on one training. "Are you going to be on the S.S. Anne?"

Steven shook his head sadly. "No thankfully, that whole thing is going to be a political nightmare. Lance is in a fit because that boat doesn't have enough security and the League can't dish out more ACE trainers. Then Silph decided to announce the prize for first place today making more people flock to the boat. Plus it wouldn't look good if Silph Co's biggest competitor sent the son of their CEO on their crowned jewel."

Politics, Ash didn't have the stomach for it. But two of the most powerful political entities on the planet were going to be on the same boat. Even Ash was starting to get stressed just thinking about it and he didn't have any responsibilities. He felt for Lance who was likely having a meltdown. Lord knew Ash would.

"Well, I'll keep my head down and eyes open. I'm just a rookie so I doubt I'd be much help in any event anyway." Shrugged Ash still thinking about how to train his team tonight.

A hand slapped him on the shoulder. "The tournament is televised so I'll be rooting for ya Ash. And remember to call me when your Metang evolves."

Ash saluted the former Champion. "Will do Steven, so what are you doing in Vermillion anyway if your not going on the S.S. Anne?"

"Oh, I was just wandering the area." The former champion shrugged. "I may have come to ask Lance if he wanted to have a battle." He whispered scandalously.

Ash's eyes widened in shock oh he'd pay thousands to watch that battle. Something of that caliber would likely have the entire world watching on pay per view. Two years ago Champion Cynthia of Sinnoh and Champion Iris of Unova had a battle that the Pokémon League sold on pay per view to which they made billions off of. Both of those champions were relatively new to their position, Iris only got the title a few months before their battle and Cynthia was about two years into hers.

Lance and Steven, they were in a different league. Lance was the champion of two regions and Steven defended his position for ten years after claiming the title at sixteen. Both of them were titans of the trainer world.

"Tell me if you two set that up, I'd like to watch it." Joked Ash.

Steven smirked over in response. "You got it buddy." The former Champion stood from his position on the couch. "I think it's time I left, places to go and all that." Steven said airily before walking off.

As randomly as Steven showed up, he left. Ash wasn't sure when he became friends with such a guy but he sure was an interesting dude. No doubt being incredibly rich and powerful gave one interesting personality quirks.

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Author's Notes

Maybe a bit abrupt but if I kept going I would have likely wrote the entire S.S. Anne arc for the chapter.

Blast evolved and Ash picked up a Snorlax. Route 12 has one of the two Snorlax in the game the only thing is that you need the Pokéflute to wake it up. This time it was awake and angry. Fun right? Yeah it was.

Also, Snor is the nickname of Red's Snorlax in the Pokémon Adventure manga. I saw that when i was looking through the Snorlax profile on bulbapedia and thought it would be a cool thing to add to the story.

I need some OC's for the SS Anne tournament. The best three will get picked. I only need three Pokémon for their team. If I don't like the name I'll change it by the way.

Ash's team and full move list.

Hydro/Wartortle: Tail Whip, Tackle, Water Gun, Rapid Spin, Withdraw, Water Pulse, Scald, Ice Beam, Brick Break, Protect, Iron Defense.

Pidgeotto: Sand Attack, Peck, Quick Attack, Wing Attack, Gust, Steel Wing, Roost, Brave Bird.

Umbreon: Leer, Tackle, Quick Attack, Agility, Iron Tail, Shadow Ball, Moonlight, Confusion, Dark Pulse, Bite, Thunder Fang, Dig, Toxic (not mastered). Combo Moves- Blitz Tail: Combo of Agility, Quick Attack and Iron Tail.

Blast/Dragonair: Leer, Wrap, Thunderwave, Twister, Dragon Rage, Agility, Iron Tail, Aqua Tail, Ice Beam, Flamethrower, Thunderbolt, Dragon Rush.

Metang: Take Down, Confusion, Metal Claw, Psychic, Psyshock, Flash Cannon, Earthquake, Meteor Mash (not mastered).

Pikachu: Tail Whip, Thundershock, Thunderwave, Growl, Quick Attack, Agility, Iron Tail, Electro Ball, Thunderbolt. Combo Moves: Blitz Tail, Thunder Gavel: Charging a Thunderbolt into Pikachu's body at the same time as Iron Tail then releasing the electrical energy at the exact moment the steel type attack strikes for a powerful hammer strike.

Charmeleon: Scratch, Growl, Ember, Smokescreen, Dragon Rage, Flamethrower, Metal Claw, Dragon Claw.

Snor/Snorlax: Defense Curl, Yawn, Rest, Body Slam, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Hyper Beam.