Second in command, ditto girl? That must be a lot of work to get such a high position. So sad that there won't be a team to command when I am done collecting your ashes. Garchomp, charizard. Tag team. Destroy the weaklings. Every single time, I let you guys off easy, a few broken bones at the absolute worst and just a clean knockout in most cases. I have had enough of evil teams ambushing me during my journey. You guys even went as far as too threaten my Family.
Rocket did it 4 times, Icyxhot both did it twice and this is your second time as well.. There won't be another."
The moment I said this, my eyes turned a bright blood red and my aura started its distortion until it became visibly red almost like a shroud of blood. Charizard and Garchomp emerged from their respective pokeballs in full battle mode, muscles tensed and coiled and a cool mind.
Garchomp glanced towards charizard for just a moment before they had already communicated each other which of the of pokemon they would take out. They had grown so close, grown up together, sparred with each other, trained with each other and stood up for the others. They had become practically brothers and one of them could talk to the other with just their eyes and the other would understand perfectly.
Garchomp stopped moving for a moment just before the entire top layer of the soil was brought up and it wrapped itself around the now roaring dragon. Each moment, a deeper layer was being ripped apart and was getting added to the roughly detailed earth dragon avatar. It had a massive maw and garchomp in the center. Garchomp the proceeded to wreck the 7 pokemon in its way with a massive earth dragon rush.
Meanwhile, charizard was taking on a full team of 6 with dragon dances, steel wing attack, whirlwinds, twister and a dew dragon claws thrown in.
A flattened muk appeared moved through the earth and got right behind a distracted charizard. It popped from the ground and all of its tendrils formed into a drill have before solidifying into a hard construct of poison slime heading straight towards charizard. However charizard noticed and created a dragon claw to catch all the drilling tentacles before throwing the muk onto an outraging toxicroak. He then proceed to roast both of them with a single flame thrower.
It took less than a minute for Garchomp and charizard to turn a menacing 13 pokemon team that a champion would have trouble with to a pile of knocked out pokemon. It was at that point that I stopped recording the conversation oh and I also took the liberty of throwing ditto girl onto the pile of fainted Pokémon before interrogating her. She was a tough cookie but I guess water logging from a gyarados was enough of a threat for a executive to spill a few beans.
"Garchomp, Charizard. I want every thing with an evil team logo in a 10 mile radius to be destroyed. Don't kill them yet, it isn't good for publicity. Take Lucario and gyarados with you for scouting and intimidation, bring them to me if they have any thing important to say. Ari scout out all of the bases of team galactic you can find. Take Pikachu with you for infiltration if need be."
Garchomp immediately roared and jumped into the air like the hulk while charizard caused a massive blast of wind by flapping his wings in an attempt to catch up to the speeding garchomp. Pikachu jumped back onto my shoulder as I turned around to see nothing but nature surrounding me. No hidden people for now.
I walked over towards the interrogated highest ranked admin before reaching into her pockets and removing a communicator. I called the number named boss and saw as it took less than a second for Cyrus to pick up.
I heard his unpleasant voice.
"Hello, I am assuming that Kelly failed. So how can I help you Ketchum?"
"I don't like how you do things. It's irritating and wrong, mostly irritating."
"Really? I wonder.. How far would you go to take me down"
"The only place that is truly safe from backstabs and all evil is a grave."
His voice was extremely surprised but I could hear an undertone of happiness and excitement. He reminds of pre-Disney star wars(can we at least agree that the Disney Star Wars was a dumpster fire after the first few movies and the mandolorian) palapatine
"Would you really kill me? Aren't you the hero who hates me to the bone but refuses to kill me like your dad and goivanni's predecessor? Wouldn't the world hate you for killing? What would you do then?"
"I say what I want to and do what I want to. I don't give a damn what the world thinks. It's gassed up if it thinks it can stop me."
"What if I say that I want to redeem myself? Would you take the high road to save your enemy from his past like Red successfully did?"
"People will keep on trying to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can ever Change who you are, just which side you show to the world and the side you trick yourself into believing. If you wanna redeem yourself, get of your ass and do it yourself. A quote sums it up perfectly 'I won't kill you but I won't save you either'."
"Very interesting you are. No matter how I think, I can't predict you at all. So spontaneous, yet so calculating. So calm yet ready to burst with anger. So nice but so cruel. It's like a paradox and a puzzle wrapped in a tongue twister. Tell me more."
"Nope. You already have my file from the league. Read it if you want anything. Never expect donations from me. Bye and oh, I will be erasing you from Hoenn."
I recorded the frequency used by team galactic on the Pokédex before crushing the communicator with my bare hands. My eyes turned back into a light blue as took a deep breath and sat down in a meditative trance waiting for the police to show up half an hour after the action had already ended.
I kept my mind calm as I went through the entire encounter with team galactic for any mistakes I made. But just as I was about to go in deeper, I got a call from Mom. Shit, I must pretend that I am not in a field filled with unconscious pokemon and that I didn't just talk to the head of the most evil evil team I had ever faced while not outright denying it for the sake of my sanity and any future arguments.
"Hello Mom, how ya doing?"
"Oh I am fine. I just wanted to call since Daisy will be visiting next week for your birthday, I expect you here a day before at the very least and I don't want any excuses young man. But the main reason I wanted to call is that Professor sycamore has a extremely revolutionary discovery and he has requested that you stay in kalos after you are awarded the title of professor until the hoenn league begins. But tell em what my little devil had done since my last call."
"Thanks. I turned down the really annoying book company, I have a one on one match lined up with the champion of sinnoh, a hand to hand match with Bruno, a date with Serena and now a internship with sycamore. Oh and also Steven needs me for a secret boy band. Don't ask, I can't tell you even if I wanted to, well I mean I could but it would be awkward telling him."
"I get it. You always kept your promises since.. we'll forever. I can't remember you breaking any of your promises. Even the time you snuck into the ranch when you were 4 you tricked me with wordplay. I guess my boy has the best track record of all time."
I proceeded to talk to her until I heard a few sirens in the distance.
"Sigh. I'll get back to you tomorrow, I have to deal with a few annoyances."
"Be sade and don't gut anyone. And don't be rude. I don't want you coming back just to curse on your birthday."
"Mom, I may curse in my Birthday but I will never swear on yours. Which is in 4 months 3 days and 21 hours. We will celebrate your birthday with a large cake, a family day with a group of potential daughter-in-laws for you."
"Oh, I can already imagine them. So many grandchildren..."
"We'll see ya"
"Bye. Be safe"
Extra long chapter. Yay!
I heard a few sirens in the distance and it took less than a minute for a police chief and a officer Jenny to arrive on the scene.
I could see Jenny's jaw drop open at the pile of near 20 galactic grunts piled on top of each other. These grunts had been collected by charizard and garchomp in an impromptu competition, who can catch all the humans. Basically reverse Pokémon. The police chief on the other hand didn't show a single twitch instead, he walked towards me with a sigh and an almost nostalgic smile.
"Hello Ash, how many is it this time? There were 4 in total and this is the 5th one right?"
"Yep. Though personally for you it is the 3rd time, since you weren't there for the first few clean ups with team rocket." I mean this is my 6th time but I hadn't told anyone about the weird girl who was pretending to be from team magma. Needless to say that this isn't my first rodeo.
"What. But this is vigilantism! And he is underage, how can he get off without even a slap on a hand."
Jenny was practically bursting with the amount of energy she was radiating.
"Calm down Officer, it is self defense also I would recommend less coffee, it makes you hyperactive."
"Look Jenny, the kid is right. He has recordings of his encounters, while it may seem unprofessional, Mr. Ketchum here is a magnet for trouble but he can handle it. He has captured many members from 4 different evil teams and provided large amount of important information. If anyhting we are indebted to him.
Plus Champion Steven, Champion Lance, Champion Cynthia, Ex-Champion Professor Oak and a lot of large names are backing him up. Even if we captured him, he would get off without any penalties, so we tend to skip formalities. Isn't that right Ash?"
"Sure is. Now onto business. Here is my recording of the events. I took some Liberties and rounded up the back up she called, there should still be a few in the woods or some may have run away a bit. I would recommend a perimeter sweep. Well see ya guys later. I have a badge to collect."
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot that the league champion ship is in a week. You sure you can beat a gym and get to the league in else than a week?"
"Ha. I can beat 3 gyms in a week if I was rushed. I once took on 2 gyms within a span of a week in kanto and even then I stopped everyday for training, relaxing and playing."
"Well then I should get going before any of the grunts escape. You may leave."
"Well bye."
Was the last hing I said as I walked away from the site and back into the town for the night. I would set out tomorrow after training for the rest of the day. I went into a different clearing to train my hoenn team since my kanto team was busy with Hakai'ing galactic from Hoenn.
"Combusken, Ava, Metang and Gaia. Gaia and Ava will be fighting against a few trainers because you both have reached the peak of your species and it is time for you guys to evolve into a Abomasnow and Armaldo respectively. Combusken and Metang are getting closer and closer to their evolutionary limits but they might not evolve before the league. Most likely during the league battles itself."
(Note since most people are confused with the nicknames. Here is a run both teams.
Kanto:
Pikachu. Ash's friend from before his journey. Male.
Charizard. Damiens abandoned charmander. Male.
Garchomp. Oaks Charizard's and unknown Garchomp's child. Male
Ari. Large size pidgey (now pidgeot)caught by Ash. Female.
Gyarados. Shiny Magikarp given to ash by gyarados in oaks ranch. Shiny Male.
Lucario. Aura egg located by Ash when he was meditating and collected during his journey. Male
Meowth: Caught by ash from team rocket and given to Professor oak because it could speak human language. Male
Hoenn:
Metang: Caught by Ash after his mother was killed by a tyranatrum. Crushes on Ava. Male.
Avalanche, Ava for short. Caught by Ash from a group of migrating Abomasnow. Shiny Female.
Combusken. Bred by Wallace but given to Ash as a present for all his hard work. Crushes heavily on charizard. Female.
Gaia. Anorith given to Ash by Professor Brich fro helping him out. Crushes heavily on Metang. Female.)
"Combusken will be working on blaze and blaze kick and possible elemental punches. Metang will be focusing more on its psychic abilities and physical attacks."
2 days later.
I finally reached sootopolis city after two weeks of walking but the main annoyance I had were overconfident morons blocking me and asking for a challenge since in their little minds they thought that they could beat me. Of course there were a few genuine challenges for my Hoenn pokemon and a few humble trainers that came to me for advice, some even asking for a signature on my best selling book.
I didn't encounter any fangirls or hordes cause the info that I was here and on this route wasn't public knowledge and a only a few people high up in the league knew about the galactic team bust I had. Only the young masters/mistresses or younger influential figures knew of my current location.
Anyways getting off track, I finally reached sotopolis city but the sun is about to set. My schedule was a bit packed. It went something along the lines of
Beating Wallace.
Training montage.
Hoenn league.
My brithday.
Cynthia battle
Book signing.
Bruno spar.
Daisy meet up.
Internship-partenership with sycamore plus reunion with Serena.
And this was a rough outline. These events will get shuffled around a lot. I mean I also have a confrontation with red, Giovanni, Cyrus but they weren't confirmed yet. I also had a lot of smaller tasks and objectives on my hand, like regular phone calls to mom and daisy, reports to oak, managing food and business on the side and a few others.
Main objective for now would be to fight against Wallace with Abomasnow and Armaldo or Gaia. Oh I didn't tell you how they evolved? Flashback time.
Flashback no jutsu
A boy with a blue tuxedo suit and turquoise colored undershirt was holding a half White and black with yellow stripes on it challenging a boy with black clothing with red highlights. The boy had an cocky expressssion on his face.
In front of the blue tie do wearing kid, stood a massive bipedal Rotund creature with blue fur and a white belly while the boy in red had a Snover with green stripes in from of him. The boy in red spoke out
"Your snorlax is untrained, his body is loose, it's muscles aren't trained properly and it is bordering over weight. I can see lack of activity in the joints as well. Your reflexes aren't up to par either. You don't stand a chance. Go back to your little group of friends and tell them to back off, they are very annoying."
The boy in question merely snorted as he ignored the crtiscm/advice given by his opponent and instead chose to attack the snorunt.
" Snorlax. Use hyper beam"
"Freeze the ground. Ice chains and Ice punch"
A massive ball of energy formed in the maw of the snorlax as stood in place for a second to charge up meanwhile Snover slammed its hands onto the ground and froze the entire battle field and caused a few chains of ice to from and enrapture the snorlax in a complicated web of knots. The chains had small protrusions shaped like blades on the inside and they harmed the snorlax a lot as it was slowly getting weaker and weaker.
By the time snorlax was about to shoot, it was completely restrained by ice chains and it was about to faint but it powered through and shot the massive beam from its mouth before succumbing to the chains and falling to the ground in a massive heap of dust. The hyper beam traveled straight towards snover.
As the beam flashed straight towards snover, a few key memories flew through its head. Losing the herd, joining her trainer and all the fun times she had spent with the team, the hardships she had undergone, it all flooded her mind just before the beam hit. Snover was completely covered in a white light just as hyper beam hit Snover in the face.
The hyper beam pushed Snover back ten feet until it was overpowered by a ice beam from a Massive Abomasnow standing in the place of the Snover. The Abomasnow gave off an unconscious pressure and it's presence was cold but full of life itself. Ava(abomasnow) then roared with great anger as it basically walked over to rich boy and looked down at him with its red eyes.
The boy nearly shit his pants before he fainted under the pressure. Ava proceeded to turn towards em as its eyes returned to their natural purple before giving me a massive hug.
"Calm down ava, we need to get you checked up and we need to deliver little rich boy to a Pokémon center."
It looked at me with me expression that basically said,"Really? Why?"
"You know we can just leave him here. He is an civilian plus these rich guys opposing me because I let one of their children be killed would be too much of a bother to sort though."
Ava did what was the abomasnow version of a sigh which included the turning the air in front of it into a frosty ice like structure. I took a moment to step back and look and appreciate all of Ava
Ava was massive like 3 meters or 10 feet tall, but it was a wide girl. She had blue hands and a blue face and the usual white snow covered body but it gave off an cold aura but any plants within a few feet of Ava would bloom a bit early for some reason.
Flashback no jutsu #2
I was up against a girl with a weird obsession to water types. Like I don't mean specialist, I mean full on anyhting that isn't blue or water type doesn't deserve my attention. I don't know why she had such a boner for theses types of hints but meh I don't judge. I guess that Hoenn is just a breeding ground for morons who worship the land and the sea. I heard her anime was Brie or was it Bry? Don't care
We were fighting on a lake that had a few points of elevation and rocks and lily pads floating on the surface.
"Your puny little Pokémon will be no match for the great water typ-"
"Yeah yeah, can we get on with it. Go Gaia."
As I said this, an Anorith appeared on the top of one of the jutting rocks while water girls face took on an impressively face splitting also the Karen like smiling face.
"Oh an Anorith. You are making this to easy. Go Sharpedo. Use surf."
A massive water wave formed and it was about to crash against the little fossil Pokémon.
"Earth wall"
My calm voice where red Anoriths ears as she took a deep breath and created a wall from hard stone just ahead of herself to stop herself from being swept away in the water.
"Sharpedo, use Brine and bite."
"Create surfaces to walk on, rock throw. Ancient power."
A massive stream of concentrated water was blasted straight at Gaia as she did her best to dodge the brine successfully. Before Sharpedo could get a bite off, the layer of soil from the botttom of the lake was peeled of and brought to the surface by Anorith to act as platforms. Gaia took to jumping from one plat form to the next while launching massive volleys of rocks at Sharpedo.
Gaia proceeded to jump from the earth platforms straight into the air before absorbing a bunch of energy from the earth and concentrating it into a bunch of rocks and sending them at Sharpedo.
The rocks hit Sharpedo straight in the face and it took Sharpedo out in a single stroke as it was launched into a Tree by the river. Anorith landed onto one of the naturally occurring rocks before being surrounded in a white light that ended just to show a Armaldo standing there with sharp claws and an intimidating face.
Brie the water girl threw a massive tantrum about losing and how I hated her just because she was female or for some other stupid reason. but I didn't give a fuck and walked away after making sure I did nothing illegal and that she wasn't in any actual danger as she had Pokémon left in her pokeballs.
Flashback end.
Anyways, back on track. I was resting on my bed in the pokemon center while thinking about my newly evolved Pokémon. Armaldo or Gaia as she likes to be called and Abomasnow or Ava as she likes to be called have been training like crazy. Mostly on their control since it deteriorated a lot since they evolved as they gained an influx of pure power.
I have been helping Ava with training her grass and ice special attacks. Gaia instead was focusing on her physical side with her earth special attacks as supplementary. They both are also training their stamina and endurance along with defense for the upcoming fight with Wallace.
Wallace was well known for his 6 pokemon team that was elite four level. He is rumored to be a candidate for champion but I don't pay rumors much attention because there are some weird ass rumors going round like, Steven being gay, professor oak having an affair, me having a harem, Blaine being a leader of an evil team, Daisy being an avatar of Garatina and getting powers from him and a bunch of other weird ones that I didn't bother to remember.
Wallace was also famous for having a secondary team that his gym opponents faced but it is said that he uses his main team against especially strong trainers but that is a rumor and you know my opinion on rumors.
"Pika pika pi."
I was called out from my internal debate my pikachu pointing at a food store near us that had a bottle of ketchup on display. I sighed before petting Pikachu on his head and pointing to my shoulder.
"Pikachu. This will be your last bottle of ketchup until the league ends so ration it well."
"Pika!" Pikachu almost shouted excitedly as it jumped onto my shoulder. I got of my bed and took my hat of the hook I had placed it on and grabbed my iconic red and black jacket before walking out. I though of trying cover my face but it would be pointless since my outfit was famous enough on its on and my Pikachu on my shoulder didn't really help my situation so I decided to embrace my fame with open arms and crush it with my grip.
I walked out of the pokemon and center and immediately I heard a few whispers behind me as I walked across the street and into the store. I grabbed pikachu's favorite ketchup before checking out in a flash but it was too late, by the time I had come outside, there was a horde of people waiting at the entrance.
"What is happening here. Why is everyone here crowding."
A smooth voice said, it was male But it felt feminine.
"Yes Wallace Sir."
The horde completely disappeared after giving an answer.
A man with long green hair thrust his hand out with a smile on my face.
"Hello. My name is Wallace. It is nice to meet you, you must be here for your final gym battle right? Follow me."
We started walking towards the gym that was only a minute of walking away.
"It is nice to meet you as well Wallace. I must say your Pokémon must be pretty strong if there were able to produce such an strong offspring."
"Ah, so they gave you that little feisty Torchic? She had a massive crush on your charizard. How is the little Torchic doing?"
"Well I she isn't a Torchic anymore."
"What? It hatched only a month ago. It evolved already? Man you really are a miracle worker. You do know that some people train their Pokémon for a few years before they have a final stage pokemon. The entire sinnoh region was shook when you got a garchomp in just 3 months from a gibble. Some even thought that you caught 3 different Pokémon and switched them out for attention."
"Well I do have that effect. Let's skip the rest of the pre battle talk, I am running a bit late."
"Sure, but I am warning you Steven has instructed me to use my main team and not my secondary team. So Don't be surprised when you are forced to bring your garchomp out to beat me."
"I love a good challenge and so do my pokemon. Let's start already."
By now we had already entered the gym. We proceeded to walk towards opposite sides of the battlefield. I could see every single trainer in the gym stopping everything they were doing to look towards my fight with Wallace. I could even see a few phones be pulled out. Neither me or Wallace paid them any mind.
"Go. Walrein."
"Gaia."
On opposite sides of a field stood both a waleein and an Armaldo staring off against each.
"Gaia, magnitude full power."
"Walrein Freeze the floor. Outrage."
Immediately the entire floor turned into ice and it started to shake a lot. Cracks appeared on the ice as the entire building started to shake but before it could get out of hand, walrein's eyes turned red and it smashed into Gaia with a massive head but. But walrein didn't just stop there it tried to get a punch in, but Gaia was prepared this time and it caught the little stubby arms and threw them into the air.
Gaia jumped into the air and kicked walrein back into the cracked and frozen floor. Creating a crater. Gaia proceeded to land on top of the confused walrein with a body slam. Walrein in this confused state was unable to avoid the attack and fainted under the kick from the Extremely heavy Armaldo.
Gaia didn't come out of this exchange unharmed though, she had a few scratch marks on its thick armor like skin but she could still fight a few more rounds.
"Not bad. Not bad at all. Walrein was my fourth strongest pokemon. Let's see how you do against my third strongest pokemon. Go milotic."
A extremely beautiful snake like creature appeared on the battlefield with extreme grace. It moved into a battle position with grace as it analyzed Gaia.
Just as I was about to order Gaia, I heard the door open from behind and an extremely annoying and high pitches voice from behind.
"Mr. Ketchum. You are under arrest."