3 days later
Today should be the day I reach fuschia city. The maps and average travel times are all thrown of balance when you have an aura charged 10 year old going the average jogging speed of an adult for 12 hours. I made a report to professor oak about the muk and grime situation in the town. Mom was still worried about the team rocket incident since there might be even more team rocket members coming after me. Even after I explained that I could ride ari at Mach 1, I guess she is my mom and has every right to worry.
The city was pretty cozy. It had almost Victorian era construction with a traditional Japanese house in the middle. It always surprises me that a few towns and cities so close to each other have such a different culture, be so diverse and unique and still manage to fit into one region with practically no discrimination. It almost looked like an expanded town rather than a city.
The sky was clear and the air was pretty fresh. The people weren't the most friendly but they weren't that bad. It was already night when I arrived so I went to the pokemon center. The next day I felt an almost negligible shaking of something, immediately jumped towards the egg. It was hatching, the cracks got bigger and bigger until it slowly came out. Riolu. Yay,!
My progress in aura had almost stagnated cause I didn't have an aura pokemon. But this cute tiny 80 cm pokemon would be my aura partner. But it is still a pokemon."hello little one my name is ash. I am your aura partner.""RiOld rio" it was happy that it got an aura guardian. All pokemon are born with instinctive knowledge about themselves and a few things about the world. For aura pokemon, they know about aura and it's masters.
It knew quick attack, feint and swords dance. Pretty bare bones but that swords dance is pretty unusual. Must be either egg or tm move.
"Riolu meet Pikachu, ari, gabite, charmeleon. You will meet leviathan later". The pokemon are treating riolu almost like a little brother, even charmeleon has a soft spot. And little riolu is basking in all the attention and praise it is receiving. Aww my logical and cold heart is melting at this point.
" riolu won't be training beyond basic excesses for a few days. Pikachu and gabite are gonna be used for the fight against koga. Ari and leviathan will be used against Blaine and we will see about Giovanni later. Okay guys""pi"gaaabite""char""Pikapi". They looked fired up and ready to show off their skills to their younger sibling. riolu is a dude, so brother.
Anyway when I was walking out of the pokemon center, I felt an intent to observe coming from someone in the trees and an even fainter presence observing the person observing me. This was probably koga and the little girl. I walked up to the gym and just before the entrance, I turned around and said" little girl, don't you know that following someone is rude, also, old man why are stalking such a youn one you lolicon." The girl immediately came down from the tree while koga gracefully jumped down.
"My name is Janine and daaad you promised that you wouldn't follow me"" the world isn't as safe as you think Janine. It is my duty to protect you" why the father-daughter drama man, if I wanted drama, I would have stuck around Erika, Sabrina or daisy. " but..but when I beat the trainer you asked me to, you said I was strong enough"" that.. ahhh that was a lie. Yeah a lie.."
" can you guys just be honest with each other. Hanine or whatever your name is, your dad is just worried about you and rightfully so. There are many evil people out there like team rocket. Koga if you give your word to some one, keep it. If you don't want her to go, tell her the truth. Sheesh all of this drama can only be solved with honesty"
" That doesn't matter. You are here to battle me right. Lets fight." Man koga is just unnecessarily serious. Well the badge is what I came for. Plus mom is nagging me to come back soon, and after beating Blaine I wanna meet up with Gary and then mom. Also the book publishers said that they are gonna be sending my book to me for proofreading before release.
"Fine let's fight"" not here. In the gym". The battlefeild looked plain and like it had nothing on it, but with eyes like mine, you could see a few things off. The ground was uneven by a few cm, the size was off by a few inches and the light was extremely dim. The first too was made for trainers who had gotten used to the normal field, their normally advantage had turned into almost a crutch(carnival games do the same thing). The last one was a direct advantage to koga and his pokemon. Four on four.
" go koffing"" Pikachu"." Use poison Gas"" Dodge and agility". Another advantage he had was that the gym was indoors, this would cause any sound or gas to be contained and it's effect amplified. The koffing is pretty weak and pikachu is my third strongest pokemon behind leviathan and gabite, so the poison will not affect Pikachu too much or at all. Still I can now predict that he will use underhanded tactics to win.
Pikachu successfully dodged and raised its speed." Keep on increasing your speed"" koffing use smokescreen.". This tactic would me way more effective if used on amateur trainers but I had trained the senses of all my pokemon to an extreme degree, in the higher leagues smokescreen only works for a few seconds or on the audience.
The smoke mixed with the poison to create an trapped room. By now Pikachu was fast enough to beat most of his pokemon in a few strikes." Volt tackle"" dod-" was all koga was able to say before his koffing fainted. Koga was weak to physical attacks and his koffing was pretty weak.
" go muk, use earthquake" pretty strong move" Pikachu jump into the air, thunderbolt and body slam". The earthquake was pretty weak and didn't effect me at all." Use muddy water."ahh I get it, use earthquake to weaken the trainer rather than the pokemon. Muk couldn't even start with muddy water before being electrocuted and body slammed into by a Pikachu." Pikachu agility and quick attack"
Muk was pretty tanky comparatively so it took the hit pretty well. It responded by using muddy water. Pikachu was mildly hurt but could go on." Pikachu now thunderbolt" the thunderbolt struck the muk and took it out. Pikachu was hit only one so it could fight one more." Pikachu you wanna fight more or wanna retire?"" Pi" it looked at me as if I had gone mad before returning into a battle stance.
"go venomoth"" Pikachu thunder wave". Venomoth was sent out for its rather diverse variety of spores and irritability. Let the venomoth get a bit of its own medicine." No dodge" too late. Venomoth was paralyzed. "Thunder bolt" venomoth could only helplessly watch its own demise come towards it, unable to move. It was a one hit ko.
I guess venomoth is not his ace but a setter up in this world. "You have earned the right to fight my ace, go crobat.""Pikachu set up your last agility and volt tackle" there is a limit to how much a pokemon can boost, like issei hyodou, it is the limit of the physical body. The fact that Pikachu can perform 7 agilities is mind blowing.
"Dodge and steel wing" the Crobat was a fast pokemon, not as fast as a supercharged Pikachu however it lived a bolttackle with a few major injuries." Use poison gas" shit, this is much denser and stronger than koffing." Use all you power electro ball" Pikachu concentrated all of its power to create one supercharged ball of thunder.
Crobat had no chance to dodge. So a battered Pikachu had just sweeped koga yay!" You have armed the badge take it." Yes 6/8 badges.
The next day
I passed by the safari zone when traveling, of course I didn't enter. If I wanted more pokemon, I would go to other regions. Speaking of other regions, I was wondering if I should go to kalos or to hoenn. I mean I love blaziken and the gyms there are petty unique and different plus daisy is there. I mean greninja is great and all but the real reason both of these options are valued equally are Serena. Either a region with good gyms and good Pokémon's and a good girl or a region with great gyms, bad pokemon(few excpetions) and a extremely great girl.
I mean mentally I am 10. I am was born with extra information and no memories except of fiction. So I have no libido or sexual preference even though I know the details. So there was no worry's about her being too young or younger than me. Plus 10 year old Serena looks more 14 than 10.
The major problem with kalos is clemont and his sister as too many important events are lined up with their interference in ash's journey so if I want something similar to canon I need them. I mean I can andon canon if it needs be but I wanna preserve it if I can. The bad quality of pokemon isn't a worry cause I can just catch the pokemon who are exceptions like og ash. He did surprisingly well in this region with only a few major goofs. He had pseudo legendary and a balanced team with fan favorites like greninja, hawlucha, Goodman and noivern.
That is for a later date though. Where was I? Oh yeah the draw bridge. I just surfed on leviathan, why not ari, because permission to fly above cities is only permitted for trainers with 8 badges or for emergencies.I was forced to put Pikachu in his pokeball. I mean it was a hassle getting permission from officer jenny, but after that it was smooth sailing for 10 minutes. What happened after those 10 minutes? I ran into a herd of wild wailord and by herd I mean 5. But those 5 were more than big enough to classify. I just jumped off from leviathan and asked it to battle them
It would be a great way to earn battle experience. Plus I wanted to know if it was trained enough to notice the hidden sixth wailord. If it passed I would start it's elemental training, if not then even more normal training. Of course for this approach of letting it battle alone, I had to get soaked but you win some you lose some.
Anyway after causing nearly 4 different tidal waves, leviathan floated to the top with six wailord behind him." You passed the test. We are starting elemental training from tommorow. Good job" it is always a good thing to get the opinion of your pokem- I can ask my pokemon about which region to go to next!
After reaching the shore, I called out all my pokemon including riolu." I wanted to know if you guys have any preference to travel to a certain region. Once I am a professor Or champion, I can carry 12 pokemon at a time, so don't worry about staying at the ranch. Hoenn or kalos. It is fine if you don't have any preference." Leviathan chose hoenn as it has a lot of water. Pikachu wanted to meet Serena, Ari was neutral, riolu didn't have much info but it comsidered Serena as my 'mate', so it wanted to meet her. Gabite and charmander were neutral.
Oak already said he was neutral between the choices. Daisy would want me to come to hoenn. I guess I will ask mom later.
1 week later
I passed by a weird mansion and a few pokemon centers before I reached a large forest. Normally it would be a generic forest a caper that it was famous for having a large amount of Pikachu. Now reservoirs like this are mega rare because.1. They are usually league protected 2. For such a group to form in the wild it needs an extremely strong leader or a large number of strong pokemon or both.
A reservoir like this is perfect practice for Pikachu. I mean the Pikachu there aren't that much stronger but it should provide a challenge for my current pokemon. Pikachu hasn't had much resistance beyond gym leaders and any trainers I come across are obliterated. The only reason my pokemon don't have egos is that I beat their asses every day.
Also Pikachu training has stagnated the most. Ari has reached the peak of pidgeotto and will evolve soon. Gabite is at a level it can evolve but still has more potential in this form. Same goes for charmander. Gyarados evolved a week ago and has lots of potential. Pikachu has reached a plateau in physical power and his elemental progress has slowed down considerably. Riolu is bursting with potential and my own proficiency with aura training has skyrocketed.
I have been able to use aura constructs more seemlessly and in more shapes. My gravity had increased to 4X times normal and healing worked on a few buts but not on major wounds. It also took less energy and was much easier than before.
This should be a good experience for Pikachu To learn about how both strong and weak it is. I should be at around 1 month to 1.t months ahead of o.g. Ash as he made lots of stops between the last gym.( there was 1 episode between Sabrina and Erika. And between Brock and the shitty sister. While there were 26 episode between a battle between koga and Blaine?) where was I?
Right Pikachu clan( I will be calling it a clan because reservoir is a mouthful). I had trouble at finding it for about 5 seconds, after which I asked the Pikachu on my shoulder for directions. It could easily sense the electrical discharges given of by the Pikachu. Now why doesn't everybody do this? Well because it is a high level technique that doesn't help much during battling as it can only sense it's own type.
I followed the directions till I found a clearing with a 50 Pikachu in a group. They immediately turned hostile. A few loosened their stance when they saw my Pikachu but they didn't quite relax all the way. One of the Pikachu walked to the front. It had a defining scar on its cheek. I shall christen you Scarface Pikachu. It basically looked at me then to Pikachu.
Pikachu looked at me and then went toward the group. It started mixing with the others, while I stayed where I was." Pikachu thunderbolt if you need me. I will be training with the rest of the team down near the river okay."" Pi"" I will be back at the end of the day""Pi".
I trained with my pokemon till around the sunset when we stopped and started eating. Ari was mad that it wasn't being given an chance to evolve and that it had been stuck as an pidgeot for almost one full month. It only started being cordial when I told her that I will be using her against Blaine. Charmeleon had learned inferno and body slam. Gabite was completely set on reaching its peak power after I showed her a photo of a garchomp from the Pokédex. Gyarados has been mostly expanding its moves with bind, brine, Defog, waterfall and a few other miscallenous moves.
When I came to the clan at night I saw a bunch of Pikachu playing free for all tennis with an electro ball and 50 Pikachu. They stopped when they saw me. I simply walked to my pikachu. Even though they all looked the same, I could easily differentiate." How was your day buddy" it looked almost like a teenager that had been placed with kids against its wishes and was asked by his parents now the day was.
Looks like my oil,chu is a bit mature comparatively huh," you learned anything new?"" Pii." It got stronger huh. With riolu having started aura training with me, I could pretty much Understand to pokemon. Not like understand the words but the meaning behind those words." You can stay here for an week before we leave ok."
It mostly hung out with the older Pikachu and a week passed like it was nothing.