Chapter 1: Introduction

Age:
Ash: 13
Cynthia: 13
May:10
Brock: 17

AN: Well….. this is my first Pokémon fan fiction and after reading some of the CynthiaXAsh pairing I thought why don't I do something along those lines. It will be a bit more adventure based than *Bam!* Romance. If anyone wants to know the timeline, I imagine Ash was supposed to go to Hoenn. It will pretty much follow the anime. Ash will have only one Legendary but I still haven't decided it be it might come from any generation (I'm tempted to give him a gen 5 one though.)

It was evening at the Indigo Plateau, two Pokémon trainers and their Pokémon are fighting it out, the crowd was cheering at the two combatants as they were ordering attacks; "Tyranitar use HYPER BEAM!" the armor liked Pokémon quickly started to charge its creamy colored beam and also was taking aim at a yellow little mouse Pokémon but the trainer on the other end of the field didn't want his Pokémon getting hit, "Pikachu! Quick attack to Iron tail under his jaw" the little mouse didn't second guess its trainers commands and it quickly took off, but the speed of the little mouse was going 30 times if not 40 times faster than a normal Quick attack.

The mouse appeared under Tyranitar in a split second at the base of the green Pokémon; it had already had its Iron tail ready when launched at Tyranitar, Pikachu done a back flip when it launched into the air and slammed his tail into his head which forced his head to angle directly into the air; the force of the Iron tail made Tyranitar start falling but its tail kept it from toppling backwards, "Pikachu sweep the tail with Iron Tail", "Get on your feet quick" yelled the other trainer but it was too late as the yellow mouse swept his tail and made Tyranitar fall on his back.

The referee had a quick glance at the fallen green Pokémon , after a few seconds Tyranitar shot his eyes open and slow got up and staggered a little bit, "it seemed that Tyranitar was still recovering from the Hyper beam it shot out" said the loud mouthed commentator. The trainer on the other end of the field done his next order, "Pikachu finish this with Thunderbolt!" the trainer with the Tyranitar had a bad feeling that something was going to happen and he was right.

The electricity that was sparking were massive; giant torrents of yellow electricity, the Pikachu sent a giant blast just as big- if not bigger than the size and height of Tyranitar, it just stood there wide eyed and also to tired to move from exhaustion; the torrent of electricity washed Tyranitar away and made him go fly past his trainer and slammed into the wall with the rest of the left over torrent of electricity.

After the dust cleared the Tyranitar was knocked out in the crater the wall, "Tyranitar is unable to battle, Pikachu is the winner!" the referee hold up a green flag and points it in the direction of the Pikachu and his trainer. "Well there we have it the first match go's to Champion Ash Ketchum!" the crown erupted with cheering after hearing from the commentator. "Challenger Charry Lockwind, loses his first Pokémon, what will he do now?"

"Your Tyranitar is well trained I have to give you credit but you didn't think straight and you thought that since Pikachu is little you thought he was weak….- let me tell you this, raw power can be useless unless you can think on how to combine attacks, utilize it to the right situation and trust in your Pokémon …."

Charry Lockwind was in deep thought then he readied his self, "CHARGE CHARIZARD!" he threw the Pokeball into the air and summoned his red reptilian Pokémon; he knew that he was against the odd with this right. Ash looked at Charry thinking what he was up too? Better play this one safe, "Return Pikachu" the Yellow mouse Pokémon returned to his trainer and friend and sat down next.

"Charizard, I choose you!" "And Champion Ash chooses his next Pokémon Charizard" the challenger was shocked; Ash threw his Pokeball into the air- it unleashed his Charizard, as soon as Ash's Charizard entered the battle field the temperature in the stadium started to heat up he also let out one of the most intimidating roar that could easily surpass a Gyarados.

The challengers Charizard looked scared at the massively intimidating Charizard, Charry easily tell that the Champion's Charizard is insanely strong, he was sweating bullets; It didn't help that Ash's Charizard was literally turning the temperature up.

"Charizard, flamethrower!" ordered Charry, Ash gave a small smirk when he heard his opponent yell out his attack, "Eat the fire!". Ash's Charizard knew what he wanted to do and didn't second is trainers order; when the challenger Charizard sent off its torrent of flames at his enemy.

**Sinnoh Region- Celestric Town**

With the Sinnoh League over and done with for the year and there were no potential trainers to challenge the Elite Four and the Champion. A young girl no younger than 13 years old was at her home town watching the TV screen of a live broadcast of the champion of Johto & Kanto match. The young girl had long blonde hair that had various slip offs, she seemed is wearing a dark blue pajamas with little Garchomp pictures blotted all over the clothing. Her name was Cynthia Shirona, the Champion of Sinnoh Region.

Cynthia was watching the TV with love heart that seemed to replace her eye (That was showing, since the other is always covered by her hair) her hands were clasp together, this seemed out of character for a girl that is calm, cool and collective but then yet again the Sinnoh Champion has a massive crush on the raven haired champion from Kanto. "He is so wonderful! The way he is completely out plays the challenger is remarkable and the strength of his Pikachu is beyond belief.

"Cynthia! Time for bed!" called Cynthia's grandmother, "But grandmother I want to watch Ash Ketchum beat his challenger" Cynthia's grandmother gave a small smile, "You, go to bed after his match is over" Cynthia was overjoyed, "I will!" she turns her full attention back to the screen. 'I have a gut feeling that Ash and Cynthia will meet someday, if what they say about the Ketchum boy is current he would make a good future husband for my granddaughter ' Cynthia's Grandmother smirked and went back to doing her various researches and left the blonde haired girl to watch the rest of the match.

"Now we have seen it all, seeing the champions Charizard eating Charrys Charizards flamethrower to power him up and literally KO'ing the challengers Charizard attack with its overpowered flamethrower!" The commentator said.

Cynthia was cheering like she was part of the crowd, "WWHOO!" the blonde haired girl going bonkers, Garchomp came out of Cynthia's bedroom and laid down next to her trainer, "Did I wake you Garchomp?" asked Cynthia while patting the dragons head, "Garchomp…" shaking her head to indicate that she was already awake. "I guess you wanted to come out here and watch the rest of the match with me didn't you?" Garchomp nodded his head to say yes.

Garchomp was watching the match on the Tv with some interest as Ash's Charizard effortlessly gives a beat down of Charry's Faraligator and Gengar. "Don't you think that Champion Ash would make a good opponent, Garchomp" The dragon Pokémon nodded in agreement.

**Kanto Region -Indigo Plateau**

The last half of the match was simply one sided, Champion Ash Ketchum effortlessly destroyed the last two Pokémon that Charry Lockwind with his Charizard; Ash was a bit disappointed at the older trainer since he had what it takes to topple him over from the champions thrown.

He shook hands with the trainer and wished him the best of luck for future regional tournaments which Charry gladly accepted; the raven haired boy made his was to his changing room with his best friend Pikachu. The mouse Pokémon noticed the sad look in his eyes, "You alright?" asked the mouse, Ash turned to his friend and said, "We are only here as champion of Johto and Kanto after that freak accident that happened half a year ago"

"That was life changing for us wasn't it?" replied Pikachu,

"Yes it was." Mused Ash "Traveling fulltime seems to be what I want to do at the moment…."

"You know you can't do that right… geeshh and here I thought Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town wanted to be a Pokémon master" said the mouse Pokémon, trying to cheer up his trainer.

"Short term traveling is all I can do, really but if I wanted to do some long term traveling I would need some way of getting back to Silver Town or the Indigo Plateau to verse challengers….." Ash entered into a really deep thought so he couldn't hear Pikachu suggesting an answer.

"Ash…. Ash…. ASH!" he decided to give his partner a very weak thunderbolt (AKA, one that you would normally see in the anime to wake him up from his sleep) "Yes!" snapping out of his thoughts, "how about we have a psychic Pokémon teleport us back here every time we need to challenge someone?"

"Do we have a psychic Pokémon?" Ash asked sarcastically,

"err…. No but you should get one then that might solve your problem" he replied, Ash just sighed and got his stuff together and slowly made his way out via the back entrance.
"You know what Pikachu, how about we just borrow Gary's Alakazam, he is not a trainer anymore so he won't need it!"

"You know that's not going to happen right….." Pikachu deadpanned, "It was worth the thought" as they exited the rear door Ash grabbed a Pokeball off his belt, "I Choose You, Charizard!" he summoned his dragon-like Pokémon, the temperature around Charizard started to heat up, "We are not in a battle Charizard so you can cool it down a bit" Charizard turned around to Ash, "Sorry…" the fire lizard apologized sheepishly. "Where you want to go Ash?" Charizard followed up, "Just back to Pallet Town please" Ash and Pikachu hopped on the lizard and they were on there way.

**Sinnoh Region- Celestric Town**

Cynthia finished watching the post match between the challenger and the champion; the two commentators tried to review Ash Ketchums battle style but in the end all they could end up with were that he used brute force to obliterate his challenger. Cynthia got annoyed that they were only summing up the fight as a brute force tactic but Cynthia's fan girl attitude side other wise.

-5 minutes ago - During the Post match Analysis-

"WHAT! ARE YOU BLIND THAT YOU CAN NOT SEE THAT HE USED HIS OPPONENTS POWER AGAINST HIM!" Cynthia was almost in a blind rage, Garchomp was too embarrassed so she kept her fin over her eyes and tried to block out her trainers ranting, this continued until the show ended.

-Present-

The next match that was going to be played on the Tv was a rerun of Cynthia verse Bertha so the blonde haired girl didn't need to watch anymore so she turned off the Tv, "No use watching a match when I know I'm going to win hehe…. I made a promise that I'll go to bed to I might as well, come on Garchomp lets go to bed… Garchomp?" Cynthia looked down at her Garchomp and noticed that she had her fins over her eyes still.

Cynthia knelt down next to her "Garchomp are you okay?" but still didn't get a reply so resorted to hugging the poor dragon to death which seemed to work, "about time I got your attention, lets go to bed" Garchomp sighed it relief that the rant was over, she got off the floor and made her way to Cynthia's room.

AN: The incident that Ash and Pikachu mentioned in the story was a major tuning point which led them to become face rollers as a Pokémon trainer at some point of time I will reveal more about what that has to do with Ash…. How was the battle scene? Was it too descriptive/not enough fill me in on how you liked it.

Revision: 9/9/2012- spelling errors and Fixed Garchomps Gender