The 100 Trainers Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love Yo
In the Kanto region, in a remote village surrounded by valleys and forests, a peaceful night was being enjoyed by both humans and Pokémon.
That was the case for all the houses, except for one that still had its light on even at night.
In this home lived two people, a 15-year-old boy named Ash Ketchum and his 35-year-old mother, Delia Ketchum. However, our story will focus on the young Ash, who was the reason why the light in his room was still on even though the humans and Pokémon of the village had gone to sleep.
This 15-year-old boy, who had just graduated from school, was ecstatic because he not only had completed his basic education required by the government, but he could also start his Pokémon journey.
A journey that, before the great war, could be undertaken at the age of 10 or 11, depending on the region. Now, it was mandatory to be at least 15 years old and have completed a 10-year course.
For young Ash, these 10 years were torture, and he barely managed to graduate last without failing any year.
Very different from Ash's rival and former best friend, Gary Oak, who graduated with honors from the academy, just like his mother, a researcher who works in Sinnoh, and his older sister, who went to study at the University of Johto instead of undertaking her Pokémon journey.
Gary, like Ash, decided to start his Pokémon journey and, at the same time, annoy Ash by showing that he not only surpassed him academically but also as a trainer.
This made Ash angry and was part of the reason why he couldn't sleep, as after the 10-day break, this would be his last Sunday as a civilian.
"Ah, damn you, Gary. You think you're so great for being the school brain... well, you'll see, my starter Pokémon will be more powerful than yours."
As Ash pondered and analyzed which of the three eligible starters in Kanto he should choose, he grumbled about Gary and his overconfidence as the school brainiac. He considered the Grass-type Bulbasaur, the Water-type Squirtle, and the Fire-type Charmander.
As he spent hours of the night thinking about which starter to choose and how to defeat Gary, Ash drifted off to sleep and had a dream. In the dream, he had chosen Charizard as his starter and was facing off against Gary, who had a tired Venasaur left.
"Give up, Gary. This is your last Pokémon, and my Charizard is still as fresh as a lettuce even after defeating your five previous Pokémon," exclaimed Ash, laughing haughtily.
"Oh no, I should not have challenged such a powerful trainer. Ash, I regret everything I said, and please impart some of your immense wisdom to this weak trainer," Gary replied as he kneeled on the ground while his Venasaur begged for mercy from Ash's powerful Charizard.
What was happening was one of Ash's typical dreams, where the young trainer humiliated his former best friend in a battle in a packed stadium.
But today was not going to be the typical dream of Ash's supremacy, as a strange energy began to affect the place and Ash's dream began to disappear.
"¿Huh?"
exclaimed Ash as he saw everything changing and a black background forming. Then without Ash being able to exclaim, a source of light began to emerge from the sky and from there a strange four-legged figure with an arch around it and completely white fur began to emerge. Then, without Ash being able to exclaim, a source of light began to emerge from the sky and from there a strange four-legged figure with an arch around it and completely white fur began to emerge.
"Hello, Ash Ketchum, my name is Arceus and I have come to speak with you," spoke the strange creature named Arceus with a powerful voice.
Ash was stunned upon hearing this, realizing that many people in the world do not know all the creatures that inhabit the Pokemon world, and their knowledge only applies to the local creatures.
Everyone knows the names of the legendaries, and especially the leader of them all, the creator of the world and therefore God...Arceus.
"Arceus...that one and only Arceus, oh my Arceus, what a strange dream I'm having," Ash exclaimed as he stepped back.
"This is not a mortal dream, I, Arceus himself, have come to talk to you about something very important that would affect your entire existence."
"Oh, in your face Gary, the Pokemon God himself appeared to bless my path to the top," Ash exclaimed joyfully, jumping up and down.
"No mortal, my presence here is not to bless your journey but it is something much more important...you were born with a very powerful aura that has not been seen since the era of the legendaries and that has linked your presence with a power that equals the most powerful legendaries."
And then Arceus closed his eyes and exclaimed with a powerful voice.
"Love!"
The words spoken by the powerful Pokemon left the young trainer stunned and in his limited brain capacity focused on a single topic, these were his first words:
"Love for Pokemon battles!" Ash shouted.
"No," replied Arceus.
"Love for Pokemon contests!"
"No."
"Love for performances!"
"No."
"Love for Pokemon?"
"Close, but no."
With all the options that his small brain capacity could comprehend being rejected, Ash fell into complete silence.
"You're a teenager and therefore I thought you would arrive at the answer more quickly, but since I'm in the mood, I'll tell you."
Arceus said as he closed his eyes again and exclaimed loudly,
"What your powerful aura attracted was love, the love between a man and a woman!"
The words spoken by Arceus hit Ash hard. Although he could be slow at times, he recognized love as many couples formed in the academy during the last year, and even Gary, the bastard, had 12 girlfriends, one for each month.
But for Ash, love didn't interest him as he didn't see any usefulness in it that could help him in gym battles or rub it in Gary's face.
"Ah, love...well, it doesn't interest me, and I don't see it as that important that a deity has appeared," Ash said with little enthusiasm.
"That's what you say now, but when this beautiful feeling comes to you, men and women can achieve many things...it's no wonder that in Johto, it's said that men conquer worlds, and women conquer the men," said Arceus with a smile.
"Well, I'm not interested, and I'm glad to have met you, but if you have nothing else to say, I could go back to my dream," Ash said with no interest.
"Damn brat, do you think if it were that simple, I would be here...do you think you're some kind of chosen one or something?" said Arceus with a vein in his forehead and raising his voice.
"Look, you know that every person in the world has a soulmate, in terms that you know, each person has their Ludvisc, with whom they form a heart."
Ash nodded, understanding as he recalled what Ludvisc looked like.
"Well, in your case, your powerful aura was not enough with just one Ludvisc, so to achieve balance, your Ludvisc must reunite with many Ludvisc throughout the world."
"Don't mess with me, I don't think there are that many," Ash said, still confused.
"100...," Arceus said flatly.
"What thing?"
"100."
"What are those 100?"
"The 100 Ludvisc that your aura attracted, which means you are destined for 100 women."
The words of Arceus left Ash completely speechless.
"100 women, is there anything I can do to avoid this?" Ash asked.
"Die," replied the powerful Pokemon.
"Oh, crap," said Ash as he started pacing, trying to understand what he had just been told.
"So, I'm destined for 100 women, and when will this happen?" Ash asked Arceus.
"When you begin your Pokemon journey tomorrow. That's why I'm here, to warn you. Your adventure with so many women will cause problems, and you need to prepare to have a huge number of companions to protect you and them," Arceus explained.
"Also, don't you dare reject one of them, as it could cause her a tragic fate."
"Okay, this is a lot of pressure, but I'll have to endure it if I want to achieve my goal. So, Arceus, how will I know which women are linked to my soul?" Ash asked.
"Oh, that will be easy. When your eyes meet, instead of starting a Pokemon battle, your hearts will feel a shock. At that moment, you will both fall in love, 'love at first sight,'" Arceus replied.
"One hundred girls, this will be quite an adventure," Ash said as he sat down on the ground and the background began to disappear.
"Well, as I've already warned you, it's time for you to wake up, and if I may give you one piece of advice, hurry up because you're running late," Arceus said.
"What's happening?" Ash tried to say before everything disappeared, and he heard the sound of an alarm clock.
With Ash gone, Arceus was completely alone.
"You were quite exaggerated..." a childish voice with a pink cat-like figure appeared next to Arceus and spoke.
"It was necessary to present the current situation that he is experiencing, Mew."
"But very melodramatic and exaggerated, you're lucky the boy is quite foolish not to realize that aura has nothing to do with love, those are the bonds of destiny that are already programmed, or so I would like to say..." the newly recognized Mew said as it flew around Arceus.
"I don't know what you're talking about..." a slightly embarrassed Arceus replied.
"Oh, come on, you know what you're talking about. That whole performance was just to not tell the boy that his situation with so many women is due to the error of a certain deity and that his soulmate was a girl he met in Kanto but will see again in Kalos."
"I didn't realize it at the time, I was too focused on creating a device for the humans of Hisui to interact with the world...and when I realized it, I couldn't do anything."
Arceus said, embarrassed by his mistake while Mew laughed.
"Well, what's done is done. It's time for that young trainer to face his situation, and this is going to be fun. So, if you don't mind, I'll observe."
With that, Mew left Arceus alone, who was still embarrassed by his mistake.
(Pallet Town)
A drowsy Ash woke up and looked at how his alarm clock had been thrown against his wall.
"Oh, what a weird dream I had..." Ash said before the door to his room was opened by an angry-looking woman.
"Ashton Ketchum, wake up already. You're late to pick up your starter..." Delia said as she looked at her son's sleepy eyes.
"Oh no, I'm running late!"
Without his mother being able to say anything else in reproach, Ash got out of bed and, without caring what he was wearing, ran at full speed to Professor Oak's laboratory.
"Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander, whoever it is, at least leave one for me!" Ash shouted as he ran at full speed to Professor Oak's laboratory.
After a short time of running, he noticed that there was a huge crowd, and as he passed through the crowd, he heard a chant...
Gary is the best! Gary, Gary, Gary is the best!
It was the chant of a group of cheerleaders.
As the girls were in his way, he didn't care and pushed his way through them. When he was about to arrive, he bumped into someone.
"Hey, watch where you're going...oh, expected surprise, Ash the loser arriving as always last," said a brown-haired boy as he looked at who he had bumped into.
"Gary!" exclaimed Ash a little annoyed for falling.
"The one and only, don't waste my name with your mouth," Gary said arrogantly.
"Oh, so you've started your journey already, what pokemon did you choose?" asked Ash, forgetting about the rivalry he has with the boy.
"It's in this pokeball, but too bad you arrived late to not see how I chose the best pokemon from the professor," Gary replied.
"My beloved hometown, I thank you for coming to see me start my pokemon adventure, and because of your support, I promise to leave this town on top."
"And for the losers who arrived late, you can see me on television to see what a good trainer looks like."
With those words, Gary and his entourage left, leaving Ash angry.
"You'll see when we face off..." Ash grumbled.
"If you manage to get a pokemon..." a voice spoke in front of Ash, and when he turned around, he saw an aged man.
"Professor Oak!" exclaimed Ash, recognizing the eminence of the Kanto region.
"Good afternoon, it seems you were too confident in coming to get your first pokemon, and you even came in your pajamas. "
"I had a very weird dream and got delayed, hahaha," Ash laughed embarrassedly, in response to Professor Oak's sigh.
"Well, come on inside..." Professor Oak said as Ash entered the laboratory.
While they were inside, they immediately went to where the new Pokémon were, and it didn't take long for Ash to realize that there were no starter Pokémon left.
"That's what you get for being late. If you had arrived on time, maybe I would have had something for you," Professor Oak said disapprovingly of Ash's tardiness.
"Oh come on, Professor, please tell me you have something... it's really important that I start my journey," Ash said, not taking into account what happened in his dream but because he didn't want to wait another year to start his journey.
"Well, I think I have something... a freshly caught one that I caught snooping around my electricity," Professor Oak said as he opened a capsule and pressed a button, from which a Pokéball emerged.
Upon seeing this, Ash took the Pokéball and opened it, revealing a yellow rat.
"It's a Pikachu!" Ash exclaimed, amazed by the appearance of the electric Pokémon, and he hugged it out of excitement.
Pikachu didn't like that movement at all and let Ash know with a powerful jolt of electricity.
"Be careful, they startle easily with sudden movements," the professor told Ash as he let out a puff of smoke from the electric shock.
"I see that now," said Ash, still dazed from the electric shock.
"Well, it looks like you had an electrifying start... well, since the law requires me to give you a Pokémon if you arrived within the established time frame, and luckily for you, you made it one minute before the deadline. So, Ash, take these..." the professor said as he handed him ten Pokéballs and a Pokédex.
"With this, you are now officially a trainer according to the Kanto region. Good luck on your journey," the professor said as the name "Ash" was called outside.
Upon leaving, Ash met his mother, who came to give him his things, and Ash took the opportunity to show her his first Pokémon. Everything was going well, but Pikachu's bad attitude became apparent, and he electrocuted everyone present, making Ash's journey start off completely electrifying.
But the problems had only just begun. First, Ash's Pikachu was not listening to him and preferred to climb a tree instead of helping him catch his first Pokémon, causing our trainer to make a fool of himself with a Pidgey and a Rattata.
The constant failures annoyed Ash a little, and he threw a stone at a group of Pidgeys. To his misfortune, that stone hit an angry Spearow, which decided to attack him.
As if things couldn't get any worse, the Spearow went after his Pikachu, and this caused his Pikachu to not only provoke the anger of the Spearow but of its entire flock, which began to pursue them.
"Come on, Pikachu, hold on," Ash said as he ran with a very injured Pikachu from the pecking attacks of the Spearow flock, which was being led by the angry Spearow.
With that and no other concerns in mind, even forgetting what Arceus told him at the beginning, Ash jumped into the nearest river to avoid the Spearow attacks.
So with the force of the current of the river, Ash was carried away. The drag force was so strong that it would have thrown him into the depths if it weren't for a collision with a certain marine creature in his pocket that gave him the impulse to propel himself upwards and collide with a certain fishing hook.
An unexpected hook wasn't far from where Ash had jumped, and it belonged to a young girl with orange hair who exclaimed with joy upon feeling the tug of her lines.
"Looks like I caught a big one..." the girl exclaimed as she pulled with all her might to see what she had caught.
With extraordinary strength, the girl managed to lift Ash out of the water and throw him straight onto the land.
"Hey, you're not a Pokemon..." the surprised girl exclaimed as Ash caught his breath after being under water.
"I'm not, but thanks for saving me...I thought I was going to drown," Ash said as he checked on Pikachu, who still appeared injured from the attack of the Spearow flock.
Upon seeing the injured Pokemon, the girl was about to claim it, but something unusual happened when she looked into Ash's eyes."
Shock
Like an electric shock, both young people felt their bodies tense up and a blush appeared on their faces as they didn't understand what was happening.
"(Why do I find her so cute...oh no, this was what Arceus predicted for me)," thought Ash surprised as he tried to calm his heart.
For better or for worse, a cawing sound was heard in the distance and he remembered he was being chased by a flock of Spearow.
With adrenaline rushing again, he stood up and ran towards the nearby bike.
The girl still stunned by the sensation she was feeling couldn't do anything when Ash got on her bike and could only protest when Ash was already starting to move.
"Hey...wait, that's my bike!" she exclaimed furiously, but when she looked at Ash's face again, she blushed again.
"I'll give it back to you, I need it now..." said Ash a little blushingly as he looked at the orange-haired girl.
"(This is not the time to act all love-struck, Pikachu needs me)," thought Ash blushing as he pedaled as fast as he could to get to the Pokemon Center and calm his young heart.
Then he felt the cawing of the Spearow getting closer and that motivated him to accelerate as he felt the flying type Pokemon approaching dangerously close.
"Spearow!"
It was the cry of all the flying type Pokemon as they approached at great speed towards the trainer and the stolen bike.
"Damn, it was just a small stone..." complained Ash as he pedaled harder while worrying about Pikachu, who was quite injured.
"Don't worry, Pikachu, we're close to the city and we can go to a Pokemon Center..." said Ash with a worried voice as he kept pedaling.
The more he pedaled, the more he felt the Spearow approaching his situation and pecking at him.
"Damn it..." groaned Ash as he tried to concentrate on the road and the terrain that had just started to rain, making it more difficult.
So, he couldn't do anything when later down the road he stumbled upon a rock and fell to the ground, hitting himself pretty hard.
Pikachu, being in the bike cart, avoided most of the damage.
Upon seeing this, Ash noticed that the impact had distracted the Spearow for a few seconds before they resumed their attack.
Ash stepped forward and stood in front of Pikachu, to the surprise of the electric Pokemon.
"It was my fault with the rock, so if anyone should be hurt, it's me...but leave Pikachu alone. And if you think I'm going to fall without a fight, you're wrong. I am destined to become the greatest Pokemon trainer that ever lived," Ash said, as a strange blue energy began to surround him.
"And above all, I am destined to have 100 girlfriends..." with that final shout, a powerful aura emerged from Ash, leaving the Spearow flock paralyzed for a few seconds.
During this brief moment, Pikachu took the opportunity to jump in front of Ash and, by a stroke of fate, was charged by a bolt of lightning, which strengthened him with Ash's aura.
With this newfound power, Pikachu unleashed a powerful thunderbolt that caused a massive explosion, taking down the entire flock, including the Spearow that had offended Ash.
The explosion also hit Ash and the nearby bike, which could have been dangerous if not for the aura that protected him and Pikachu.
But it still left the two of them unconscious for about 30 minutes.
"That was a good discharge," Ash smiled as he woke up and greeted Pikachu.
"Pika," Pikachu responded, no longer in a mocking tone but with a voice of respect.
"Well, this may be a bit late, but my name is Ash Ketchum, and I will be your partner," Ash said as he got up.
"Pika pika," Pikachu responded tiredly, allowing Ash to pick him up.
As they were doing so, the rain began to stop, and the sky started to clear, with the rays of the sun emerging. Ash looked up at the sky and noticed a beautiful rainbow.
But in the rainbow, a bird of the same colors as the rainbow was flying, captivating both the trainer and the Pokemon's hearts.
"Wow, what kind of Pokemon is that...could it be a legendary?" Ash asked, amazed by the bird's flight.
The bird continued flying towards the horizon, and Ash, in his curiosity, pulled out his Pokedex.
"No data found in Kanto," the machine said with a robotic voice.
"Wow, it must be a Pokemon from another region," Ash spoke in amazement as the bird disappeared into the horizon.
"Pika," Pikachu said weakly, but also curious in Ash's arms.
"The experiences we're going to have are going to be great, so I hope we get along, Pikachu," Ash told his Pokemon, and Pikachu responded excitedly before falling back asleep from exhaustion.
Ash smiled and looked towards the horizon, where he saw the nearest city, Viridian City, which would be the first city of his journey.
"Spearow!"
The loud sound of a Spearow was heard, and Ash turned around to see the bird Pokemon quite weakened, struggling to get up while the rest of its flock had fled due to Pikachu's attack.
"It seems you're quite injured, but you're still holding on...you gave us a lot of trouble, but I can't leave you like this," Ash said as he watched Spearow continue to struggle.
Ash then reached into his pocket and took out a Pokeball.
"Pokeball, go," Ash said softly as he threw the Pokeball towards Spearow, and upon hitting it, a red light surrounded it, causing Spearow to disappear, leaving only a Pokeball on the ground.
"That troublesome Spearow is our first partner," Ash smiled, while Pikachu said nothing as he was asleep from exhaustion. With that, Ash continued on his way to the city, forgetting once again what he had discussed with Arceus.
And so began the story of a troublesome trainer with many Pokémon and companions yet to be met.
Thus begins the tale of the trainer who acquired 100 girlfriends who love him very, very much."