I Do Not Own Pokemon.
Chapter 3: new partner and first steps.
* Last-Time*
"thank you ash, now one by one I want each of you to come up and choose your starter. the Pokeball with the flame sticker holds Charmander, the one with the water droplet sticker holds Squirtle, and the one with the leaf holds Bulbasaur." Oak states towards the three trainers. after a minute or two they leave with their new pokemon Gary with Squirtle, Leaf with Bulbasaur and Dante with Charmander. they were each given a Pokedex and 5 Pokeballs by one of Oak's assistants as they left. oak then signaled for ash to follow him to the second floor.
"now then, let's get you a starter pokemon," he said as he began typing on the computer.
*Now*
Ash and Prof. Oak are now in front of a large screen, Prof. Oak is quickly typing on the keyboard before suddenly 5 windows popped up on the screen each holding a different person wearing a lab coat.
The first window had a tall and skinny male with short brown hair, though it has a small spiky bush of hair in the front, and had amber eyes. He was wearing a white lab coat along with a light bluish green shirt, he also had a pair of glasses.
The second window held a rather large man with dark brown hair which was connected to the beard on his chin, and has brown eyes. He is currently wearing a lab coat and a dark blue shirt underneath.
The third window held a rather older looking man, he had snow white hair and mustache as well as blue eyes. He was wearing a brown jacket with a light blue vest with a white dress shirt underneath and a black tie.
The fourth window held the only female in the group She had warm brown hair and light jade/emerald green eyes. She was wearing a different lab coat then the first two, hers was more on the blueish side than the traditional white lab coat, she is also wearing a plain white t-shirt underneath.
The fifth and final window had a tall man with black hair, grey eyes, and he had some bits of hair on his cheek. He was wearing the regular white lab coat and a blue under shirt.
"Hello everyone, sorry to disturb you all but i am in quite the pickle over here," Oak states, the female professor giggles before speaking.
"let me guess professor you forgot that there was going to be four new trainers today instead of three," Oaks reply was an awkward chuckle and a slight rub to the back of his head in embarrassment.
"well, yes how'd you know?" he ask's, and receives a sigh from the female professor.
"well for the one and only reason he is standing right behind you," she replied. This got the other professors to give out a slight laugh, after a few moments the black haired professor spoke up.
"so you're looking for a starter for... what's the kids name?" he ask's, oak then moves his hand to signals over to ash.
"he is my student, Ash Ketchum." he stated with a bit of pride in his voice, ash waved to the other professors and gave a polite hello to them. The skinny professor was the next to speak.
"it's nice to meet you Ash, my name is professor Elm, I am the pokemon professor of the johto region," he had a kind voice, the next to speak was the slightly large professor.
"my names Professor Birch and i'm the pokemon professor for the Hoenn region." the man said in a jovial tone of voice. Next was the white haired professor.
"I am professor Rowan, i am the Pokemon Professor of the Sinnoh region," he said, in a rather rough tone, the female professor went next.
"Hello there ash, my names professor Juniper and i am the Pokemon professor of the Unova region," she said in a calm but kind tone, the last person to introduce themself was the black haired professor.
"nice to meet you, the names sycamore and i am the Pokemon Professor for the Kalos region," he said in a cheery voice. Professor juniper spoke up again.
"so you're looking for a starter pokemon for ash here," Oak nodded but most of the professors gained an apologetic look.
"Sorry Oak, but I just gave my last one out a few moments ago.", "same here,", "sorry I'm all out,", "my last on just left as well,". Profs. Juniper, Elm, Birch, and Sycamore stated. Prof. Rowan though remained silent through the entire thing, something that didn't go unnoticed by ash who decided to keep quiet about it for now. It was a few moments later that he finally decided to speak up.
"Oak, how well can ash handle pokemon,"he asked. Oak then nodded before speaking.
"very much so," he then went on to give a brief explanation about how his young student handled the pokemon within his sanctuary. After about five minutes or so he stopped talking, the other professors were looking at ash with some pride in their eyes no more so than Prof. Rowan who then nodded.
"that's good, now I have two pokemon with me here that I can give out. But an I request that we continue this conversation between the three of us as some of the information that I need to tell you should stay between us. " he replied, getting some confused looks from the other professors. It was few moments later after they said their goodbyes, before the only ones left were ash, Prof. Oak and Prof. Rowan.
"alright, while it's true that have two extra pokemon with me the thing is that they are kind of a package deal," after saying this both Ash and Oak looked at hm in slight confusion. Rowan sighed slightly before continuing,
" I won't beat around the bush with this, I found these two in a rather bad way. Both of them were full of scrapes and brushes, one of them Had a broken arm. What was even more shocking was that their were pokeball shards near them, I guess you can put two and two together, " he stopped letting the inf sink n s well as to see what the young trainer would do.
Oak was more basic, whenever he saw an injured pokemon or even heard of one being in pain, he'd gain this look of shock and readiness to sprint out the door to go and help it. The young trainer though shocked Rowan the most, from a simple glance you'd think he seemed indifferent' or uncaring about this. But if you look into the boys eyes you'd noticed the look of unbridled rage, something that both shocked him and also pleased him slightly. He was shocked that the boy was able to control, let alone even have so much rage for the injured pokemon(the one that caused the injury) he was Also pleased as it seemed that the Bo-no Ash would be able to care for these pokemon. He then continued speaking.
"I am willing to give you them a a starter, only if you promise to take them both and protect them if you run into their old trainer again," Ash remained quiet for a few moments, before nodding.
"I promise sir, " he replied to the white haired professor who grunted slightly.
"good, I will have them sent over to you I just a few moments," Rowan stated, ending the video call leaving both Prof. Oak and ash alone. A few moments of silence later oak coughed, getting ash's attention back on him.
"We'll, looks like you will be able to start your journey today my boy. Let's head back downstairs, as I have something to I've give you before you head off." he said, before walking down to the ground floor as right behind him.
Once there, Oak stood in front of the table where the first three starter pokemon poke balls were held. He then opened one of the drawers on the table and pulled out five Pokeballs, a black pokedex and a licence card.
"ash I would like to personally congratulate you for becoming a trainer, you have proven to me time and time again that you are able to handle to yourself and are able to care for multiple different pokemon at once. So as a little present, I had sent a letter of recommendation to the breeder league about you. You are now a certified D-ranked breeder,"he announced happily while handing ash everything, who was slightly shocked at what the old prof. Did for him.
"Now, with a D-ranked license you are able to carry an extra 3 pokemon while on your journey, but in battles you can only use the standard six. But you can always change which ones battle if you are in another battle," He explained, and then reached into the drawer and pulls out a pamphlet from within and hands it over to ash, who then thanks him before taking it.
"That pamphlet explains everything about being a D-ranked breeder in greater detail, now i believe that Prof. Rowan has sent us your starters," and just as he said that on of his aids just walked in with a tray containing two pokeballs. Oak picked up the two pokeballs and thanked his aid for bringing them to him, he then handed ash the two pokeballs with a smile.
"Now that you have your starters and i believe that i have kept you here for long enough i think it's time for you to venture out into the world my boy, and i wish you the best of luck out there ash,"he states, Ash gives the old professor a small smile, and gave him a quick thanks before attaching his starters pokeballs to his belt and began his walk out of Oak's lab.
Just as ash had exited Oaks lab, he saw that one of the other starting trainers was still there, more specifically it was the new guy Dante. Said person currently was sitting on the fence and had his starter, charmander out of its pokeball standing right by his legs. Once he noticed that ash had exited the lab, he bounced himself off of the fence and took a few steps towards ash with a slight smirk on his face.
"I was wondering when you'd get out of there," he said about two feet away from ash, who then said.
"And why, may i ask were you waiting for me and not starting your journey like everyone else," ash asked.
"Well mainly i wanted to check the only real competition that's from this little town, and from what i saw only you seem to be that trainer as the others are arrogant with a god complex or just another sheep following the flock," Dante said with a slight snarl to his words, which seemed to prove to ash that both he and dante share the same dislike/hatred towards the arrogant and the followers. Dante shook his head slightly before putting on his smirk again.
"Anyway, i think it'd be better to introduce ourselves. The names Dante, i come from unova," He said, lifting his hand up for a shake. Ash though looked at the hand for a few moments before nodding and shaking it.
"Nice to meet you, my names Ash and i've always lived here in pallet," he replied to him. After they shook hands the both of them along with charmander walked down the steps leading away from Oak's lab, neither of them saying a word. Soon the both of them split off, though not before Dante challenged ash to a pokemon battle in the near future, to which he agreed to. Dante and his charmander soon followed the path leading to route one, but not before wishing Ash good luck.
Two minutes later ash returned to his house, and entered but just as he was about to close the door, he was tackled to the ground and the door closed.
"what the heck took you so long" S. PIkachu asked, after he moved to stand onto Ash's chest, which causes him to groan slightly.
"i'll explain, but first can you please get off of me," he groaned out. S. PIkachu just looked down at him for a few seconds before doing as asked. Ash then sat up, which then allowed him to notice the others were standing around him.
"well, we're waiting, "S. PIkachu said while tapping his foot impatiently, this caused ash to sigh before beginning his explanation on what happened over at the lab.
It was a rather quick explanation, which was finished within ten minutes. Though it seemed that his explanation had caused the entire group to go silent, the silenced reigned for a few more moments before a loud bang was heard, which caused everyone to jump a good foot or two in the air. Everyone turned to see what caused the noise, and were met with a flying frying pan and a large metal spoon, and just below them was S. Mew. once she had everyone's attention on him, he just stated that 'the silence was dragging on for to long', which caused everyone to sweatdrop. He then mad the pan and spoon fly back into the kitchen.
"Anyway, now that your back I believe that it is time for you to gather your things and head out, me and your parents will be following you for the first half of your journey, though we will mostly remain in the shadows and not interfere with anything unless we think that you are in serious danger."he states, and received a nod from Ash and his friends.
"While we are following you, the rest of the S. pokemon will be relocating our base somewhere far away, as it seems that we have been having a few to many hunters entering our area," he continued and got another set of nods from the four of them, ash, once S. Mew stopped speaking, went to his room upstairs and began double checking everything in his bag to make sure he had everything he needed.
He was using his new bag the his parents got (stole) for him, it was a rather high end bag, but not for style. It was the first version of a badge that used a pokeballs pocket dimension mechanics to carry everything. His bag had four pockets, in the front pocket he placed his spare pokeballs along with his wallet, the next pocket held 3 pairs of the same looking clothing along with an umbrella and jacket, the pocket after that held his tent, sleeping bag, and some flint and steel (until he got a fire type). The last pocket held all of his first aid supplies along with a couple of potions/super potions and a few antidotes, it also held his book of herbs, which was to help him distinguish poisonous/non-poisonous, edible/non edible, and healing plants. Once had packed everything in he went back downstairs, his bag swung onto his back and with three pokeballs in hand. He threw the balls at his friends, who didnt fight back at being captured. Ash then picked the poke balls up and exited the front door to begin his journey