Chapter 7 – Rockets, Moon and other Shenanigans.

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Pokémon – Book 1

Chapter 1 - History of Kanto.

"Sleep is a vital part of Training for both Pokémon and Pokémon Trainers, and it is for this reason that the League issued for Pokémon Centres across the Kanto and Johto regions to provide Trainers with comfortable rooms; another luxury amongst the many that Trainers were given as Lance became the reigning Champion.

But, is this the change that Trainers value most? The most debated question amongst Trainers – well, after which regional Champion is the strongest of course, but nonetheless a much debated topic.

Now this is a topic you must be debating amongst yourselves too right? Well, there's no need for that since the answer is no, this isn't the most advantageous change since Lance's long reign as Champion. You see, this luxury just happens to be the icing on the cake kind of thing. Not the cake itself. So yes, whilst the comfort of the rooms is a very nice thing to have, the metaphorical cake is what is valued most, and what's better than one cake? The answer is simple. Many cakes.

So if you now vision the cake as a Pokémon Centre; multiple Pokémon Centres are better than just one, no?.

This 'big' change was decreed two short years into Lance's reign as Champion, during the time now known as the 'dark era'. A name righteously given for a horrific era; an era in which the influx of Trainers and their Pokémon being found dead in the wilderness had increased dramatically.

Autopsy proved to the League that the deaths were caused by a mixture of both exhaustion and an unsurmountable amounts of Pokémon viciously attacking Trainers in hordes, leaving the lucky victims to die with their limbs still intact; the worst of cases forced some investigators to leave Training altogether. These cases were of course kept hidden away from the public eye for obvious reasons, only giving the public a retelling of the less violent deaths - things were later told to the members of the public, as a show of transparency between the League and those they are defending. Yet despite the many deaths and even the sightings and most likely involvement of some Legendaries, not much is known about what triggered the events, nor how it came to an end.

This event gave Lance the leeway to instil his second decree – which was initially rejected by the League when it was first asked to be put in place – the formation of an elite squad, made up of the epitome of Trainers. The best of the best after the Elite 4 and Champion.

The decree is more of a protocol that has been put into place for this group – now known to the general public as Ace Trainers – to be ready at all times in case of an emergency; usually to take care of an untamed Pokémon that's attacking people and Pokémon alike.

If the situation became too much for the Ace Trainers to take care of, the Elite 4 is sent in to get rid of the problem. Only once since the founding of the decree has the Elite 4 gotten involved, and that was only to rid the region of the pests known as Team Rocket. Yet the shady group has still been sighted many times since, and dealings involving them have been sighted too, just not as more openly as before – most likely to stop any involvement from the League's Elite 4."

He cursed under his breath, the rays of Sun light just wouldn't seem to stop hitting him in his face. No matter how much he moved away from the Sun rays, it seemed to still catch him, almost like it was mocking him. Did the Sun not understand he was tired and sleepy? Damn Sun.

Worse way to start a morning. And even worse, Misty had yet to make an appearance. This day was going to be great!

Yeah, no. That was sarcasm, this is most probably going to be the worse day ever.

The young Trainer laid up and looked to his left. "You meditating there Abe or you still sleeping?"

….

"Well I'm going to the bathroom to freshen up. You'll have to wait till I'm done freshening up to get your breakfast now." The Trainer said as he got up to walk to the bathroom.

It didn't take Ash long to get himself ready for another day of adventure. Now all that was left was getting that violent woman. If only they had swapped door numbers or something, it would make this whole searching for one another easier. Ah well, this meant more time to himself. Maybe he could train his Pokémon out in the front till Misty came to find him. He'd rather not have another encounter with a tired Misty.

He shuddered. A feeling of dread washing over his body as he recalled that encounter.

"Regal, keep it up. Focus your poison around your limbs."

A purple aura shrouded the four-legged beast, as it concentrated to do as it had been told. This wasn't something that could with done with any half-assed concentration, so it was for this reason the creature had to concentrate to the point it couldn't see past its goal, and the technique looked like it was going to be completed until the aura dissipated, leaving the Pokémon panting due to over exertion.

Ash sighed internally, whilst he knew Regal was close to finally learning arguably the best poison type move any poison type Pokémon could learn; the move was far out of their grasp. And only experience, better control and more training could close that distance and get them to that end point. But from this training session he was pleased to know Regal's control over its affinity had grown. Almost like it was being more in tuned with its very own nature.

"You did well Regal." Ash said, as he patted the Pokémon on it's forehead, careful enough to make sure he didn't accidently touch any of the Pokémon's many poison spikes.

Nido?

"Yes, you're close buddy, just you wait and see. We'll have that move down soon!" He smiled down at Regal before looking off into the distance, squinting due to the Sun, barely making out the silhouettes of his other two Pokémon as they went through their evasive, speed and stamina training.

The training was extremely difficult for Ash to try following due to the speed at which both Pokémon were moving, but he could see that Abe has the upper hand when it came to speed, being slightly faster than Wendy, but Wendy has far better stamina. This was beginning to become more and more apparently the more elongated their hit and run game got.

Ash whistled for the training to stop, instantly a very tired Abra teleported in front of him, followed by a Pidgeotto flying and perching itself on his shoulder just a few moments later.

"Ah, Abe. How did your evasive training with Wendy go?"

Tiring… Too tired. Ash chuckled. Speak later. Scary lady is coming.

It didn't take the 'scary lady' to appear. "Guess you learnt your lesson then, since you decided to wait for me to come find you instead of disturbing my beauty sleep." He could feel her pride leaking through words. He felt compelled to tell her that this 'beauty sleep' of hers wasn't doing its job well. But he quickly erased that thought, not exactly wanted to call upon her wrath.

"Quickly heal your Pokémon, and pack your things, it's still only afternoon. I want to get through Mt. Moon no later than tomorrow afternoon."

"Tomorrow?" he asked, stunned at the implication of the journey through the mountain taking so long.

"Yes, tomorrow. If we're lucky and I remember my around. Otherwise we'll end up being in there for a few days, maybe even a week." She told him, matter-of-factly. "So ready yourself for the worst, and make sure you bring with you enough ratios to last the week. I already have mine sorted, and being the kind Trainer I am, I've already got the food your Pokémon will be needing."

Guess even Misty could be kind. We truly do learn new things every day huh.

"Now hurry up you Slowpoke."

She just had to ruin it.

Packed and ready, the duo decided to allow their Pokémon to rest with the exception of Misty's Sapphy, whilst Misty had been clear with her statement that Sapphy wasn't close to being one of her strongest. She did state, that the Pokémon is fast becoming of her best. One she started recently raising, and already in her top ten! Of course, whilst Misty's perspective of recent meant a full 6 months, it didn't make the quick jump in power any less impressive. Especially when you witness the kind of destructive power her other Pokémon like her Blastoise named Blue has.

The reasoning behind having Sapphy around was simple. For safety. Whilst yes, having more than just Sapphy around would increase the chances of them being able to fight off a higher number of Pokémon off at once, it would also attract more Pokémon towards them. Especially if the extra Pokémon out happened to be of the heavy kind like Blue the Blastoise; namely Gravelers and Onix would come to attack. Whilst both Sapphy would certainly be able to fight these Pokémon of with ease and even come out unscathed, the risk would come when one of the Gravelers knew an area affecting moves like Magnitude, Earthquake, or Explosion. As you can imagine, the damage dealt to us fragile human would be catastrophic.

Misty seemed confident enough in Sapphy's ability to keep the two of us safe, so Ash felt he could trust Misty's better judgement since she was clearly a Trainer with good understanding and knowledge about Pokémon.

Due to Misty insistence, the two rested a bit to eat and of course allow Ash's worn muscles to rest, Misty even offered to show him a massaging technique before a red-faced Ash quickly declined the offer, stating how his "legs weren't that tired" of course Misty shrugged it off and the two continued on with their journey.

It finally seemed like they were making headway with their journey as the came to see two cave-like doors before Misty raised her balled her hand into a fist before slowly raising it. "This is weird. Mt. Moon is usually alive with Pokémon activity. Never has such quietness and serenity been acquainted with Mt. Moon." Misty whispered. "We've already hit the hallway point, and we've still not encountered much. Even if we were to take into consideration that some Pokémon are sleeping, the place should still be crawling with those that are not, and let's say for some absurd reason they have been sleeping, the Geodude line sleeps wherever they feel tired, so we should see them laying around here somewhere."

Only now did Ash understand that the quietness wasn't much of a blessing. Something was clearly amiss, since such a thing was extraordinary in the fact Pokémon sighting was a norm in such environments like this. They had yet to even see a single fricking Zubat! Now clearly something was wrong. No Zubats sighted in around three and a half hours in a cave? What kind of sorcery was this?

"Release your Abra and explore in that direction." Misty pointed to the right cave. "I'll be going into the left. Make sure you allow your Abra to gain familiarity with this area so he can teleport you back to this position in two hours' time." It was at times like these where Ash could feel the leadership qualities in Misty's aura. Misty whispered some words to her Golduck, which it was quick to nod to, before she recalled her Pokémon, passing Ash the Pokéball. "Should you need his help Sapphy will fight on your behalf, otherwise use your Abra. Sapphy has been told his commands, he will follow your instructions. Look out for anything suspicious." With that Misty left.

Not use to the loneliness Ash was quick to release his Abra allowing it some time to get a feel for its surrounding before setting off into the into the right cave in wonder of what would be ahead of him, setting a timer on his Pokédex before entering the cave-like door.

Yep, you guessed right. At first there was nothing, but then as he got deeper into the room thing, he found more nothing. Later on though Ash found himself swamped with a whole lot of nothingness.

Boredom just knew how to get to him.

Bzzt.

Ash turned to the direction of the noise and started walking, being careful to not disturb whatever it was.

BZZT.

The noise got louder and louder the closer he got.

BZZZZZZT.

As he neared Ash could make out some machines, some scientists with an R symbol emblazed on their white lab coats. He couldn't clearly see what they were experimenting, but before he could check, his alarm set off, interrupting whatever was going on. Ash fumbled around before finally switching the alarm off, but despite this, he knew he had alerted potential enemies of his whereabouts, so Ash reacted quickly, commanding Abe to teleport them to safety.

Unbeknown to them, a silent command had been triggered, tasking several dozen grunts to find the mysterious intruder(s).

Ash finally let out the breath he didn't even know he was holding. How could things have taking such a big turn for the worst? It went from there being nothing but endless amounts of nothingness to all of a sudden him finding a secret lab of some kind, the experiment being something he didn't get to see. That wasn't good, and it wasn't like he could go back either. Not alone anyway, or without consulting Misty, because chances were that whatever experimentation was going on, wasn't anything good, besides, even if he was to end up getting himself in a bad scenario, being alive to face Misty's wrath after the whole fiasco just wasn't worth the risk.

Something about the way he was standing stood out, it was almost like he was alert, keeping a watch over his surrounding to be sure nothing jumped out at him. The way he was acting could almost be compared to the way a wild Abra would act.

Seeing her, he relaxed. The tension leaving his body, as he walked towards her.

Misty was many things but patient was one of them things, so she walked towards him in tandem to make break away the distance between them; Observant was one of them many things.

She took Sapphy's ball back before questioning him. Ash was very thorough, telling Misty about his 'adventure'. So colour her surprised when she was told about a damn lab being in the middle of a damn mountain.

Even if she's seen a great many things that most could only dream about, this was just something that fell under the 'don't believe this till I have seen it with my very own eyes' category. Then again could you blame her? Yeah I didn't think so.

But one thing from the story stood out. And if Ash had truly seen that symbol, then things were far worse off than she initially thought.

There was only one organisation that had the letter 'R' emblazoned on their clothes, and that very organisation happened to be the most notorious one of them all. Team Rocket.

She felt three years of anger well up from within her. But she quelled her built up anger, she wasn't the only one at risk here. She had to go about this the right way, her revenge would have to wait.

First she would have to contact the League and have them deploy some teams to help with the situation. One could only assume what kind of situation was at play here, but where there were members of Team Rocket, there was a stench of foul play. And patience wasn't her strong point.

After contacting the League, Misty decided both her, and Ash needed sleep if they were to be of use against Team Rocket the next day. So she ordered him to sleep of his fatigue for even the best could fall when tired. This had been a lesson every Trainer knew about, because the teacher was none other than History itself.

Misty released Ruby, her Starmie, since it could sense movements with its mental prowess. She also released Blue for extra battle power.

If Team Rocket were around, she had to make sure her and Ash's safety were guaranteed.

She felt all sense of fear leave with the appearance of Blue. And with that she fell asleep.

Ash released Abe for his own sense of safety before his mind drifted allowing him the comfort of sleep, Ash could vaguely remember reading an article somewhere speaking of Misty and regarding her as a prodigy in the making. Articles never made to call many Trainers were named as prodigies or geniuses to stop the words from losing its value, otherwise every Trainer who could beat 8 Gyms would be called as such.

The same Magazine wrote an article about another rising star in the form of Gary Oak. So maybe their opinion wasn't credible, but the only other Trainers before Misty to be named as such in this Magazine were Karen and Lucien – both of whom are now Elite 4 trainees. Their names were mentioned close to a decade ago of course, in a time before he, himself was even born! Ash only seen the article due to the internet coming in handy and because he wanted to know the background of Trainers who he may have to face up against in the future. Hopefully, bearing in mind his team had the power to fight in such challenges.

No, he would make sure he faced such challenges, because only after beating such prestigious characters could he truly become the very best!

Ash understood the hidden message. Tomorrow was going to be a long day. If they were lucky nothing would go wrong, how could it, he had yet to become Champion. Things couldn't possibly go wrong before he became Champion, right? And with that Ash finally lost consciousness, allowing sleep to overtake his body.

Pokémon and Typing's.

Chapter 1 – Affinity.

"A Pokémon's natural affinity strengthens as it learned more variety and more powerful moves, of course this would only hold true when the said move was of the same type as the Pokémon's affinity – and in some cases affinities.

Think of it like this, humans don't just get up and start sprinting as babies. No, we crawl, and then we walk, and then finally we run. The last two are usually related in the sense, when one gets bettered, so does the other and vice versa, but the same doesn't hold true for crawling. This is where the line is drawn when it comes to correlation between this method of explanation to Pokémon affinity.

You see Pokémon adapt. Pokémon become more efficient. It has even been said that some Pokémon have almost limitless strength, to the point that event their weakest of attacks can be deadly; let's say for example a Water Gun, a move that isn't usually that strong, can be used by a Pokémon with great affinity with water to beat a Hydro Pump!

Of course, certain requirements would have to be meant in order for this to stand true, but still shows us just how important Pokémon affinity truly is.

If that didn't reel you in, did you know that a Pokémon with strengthened affinity can learn stab moves more quickly than their none trained counterpart would.

How do Trainers strengthen their Pokémon's natural affinity?

Simple, have your Pokémon learn to better control their element. This is usually done by using their natural typing moves over and over, e.g. Squirtle continuously using Water Gun.

Another way would be to allow for your Pokémon to learn stronger more, whether they learn these moves through natural growth or by TM's and HM's doesn't really matter, but research has concluded naturally learnt moves slightly decrease the time it takes for Pokémon to gain more mastery over their affinity."

AN:- I am extremely busy with university and all the extra curriculum I have decided to take part in. I hope you all like the newest instalment to my story. I am not going to lie, I started the chapter some months ago, but I lowered its priority due to becoming swamped with other things. The reason why I decided to finally finish the chapter and upload was because of the growing following and favourites despite the fact I hadn't even uploaded in some time. So thank you everyone for the favourites and following the story, and an even bigger thank you to those of you who took the time to actually write a review. So please everyone FAVOURITE, FOLLOW AND REVIEW!

Before I answer to some of the reviews, I want even to know that at times the narrator is Ash himself and at other time it is a narrator. You'll easily be able to tell when it is Ash and when it isn't, due to me writing words like 'I' when it is Ash. Also another thing to note is, I am taking every Pokémon into consideration, but please understand that I can't take any Pokémon that are of the same kind as the ones I already have atm although when Ash is a Trainer on the level of the Elite 4 or maybe slightly lower, he will definitely be gaining more of each type – so no fairy types, or psychic till later, since I already Abra and he is the starter for this story. But I will have your favourite Pokémon in the story at some stage. Hopefully with rivals within the story. So send me trainer names (or your own name to stop there being more than one character with the name 'Gold' lol) and teams you had during your run on Pokémon RBY/GSC/RSE/HG/SS/DPP. NO LEGENDARIES! Also Ash isn't scared of Misty, it's just fear for the sake of making an otherwise humourless situation full of humour. Also Misty isn't anywhere near as bad with Ash as Sakura is with Naruto, yet people still seem to like the NarutoxSakura shipping.

Also guys, if you like manga, read one called 'Kingdom' and another called 'Dokgo' theyre both AMAZING. Dokgo has two more manga's after it too. The first is 'Dokgo Rewind' and the second is 'Blood Rain'.

Reviews –

Lord Geovanni – My bad about the mistakes, I have gone back to reread my story and I too noticed quite a lot of mistakes, this is mainly due to the fact I need a fresh pair of eyes to go over my work. I tried sorting the Omanyte/Kabuto thing out but it seems I left some. It was supposed to Kabuto fighting but I had originally set to write Omanyte, hence the confusion. As for the Dratini thing, I'm more of a fully evolved team, it was the main thing I hate about canon Ash, leaving Pokémon unevolved. But don't fret, I will be sure to include Dratini within the story, and I'll try to keep at least a Dragonair on someone's team (Evolving gives extra power and well everyone wants to win, I hope this is good enough?). if you still feel underwhelmed, just send me a team and a Trainer name, and I'll be sure to include the character.

Poke Collector and Pokemon Guest– I will see what I can do. Rest assured, your choices have been noticed and I will consider them for Ash's team.

Mark Andrew – Ngl, I'm not too sure about shippings. I'm not that good at writing but I can assure you I am that much worse are writing romance. Lol.

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