40A/N: Hey! Hello people of the fan fiction world! How ya' doin?! MidnightJD here and I am back with a brand new story, or more or less a remake of my Pokémon: Rise to a Master story. Now in the last story I didn't give much background information as to why certain things were how they were, and frankly I didn't know myself and just wanted them to be that way, but now I am back with a better story that should fill in most of the plot holes that my previous story had and it should overall be 10x better. I'm going to really enjoy writing this story and I think you guys will really enjoy reading this story as well!
Now I read a lot of fan fiction, and I mean A LOT of fan fiction, just go through my favorites folder if you want, I think I have over 150 stories in there, all of which are great and a lot of them have given me a couple ideas for my story here, I'm not meaning to offend anyone by having a similar situation happen. I ALWAYS put my own twist on things, so if you see an event that might be really similar to another story's event, just remember that fan fiction is a big site and I can't go through all 89,000+ current Pokémon stories, plus the millions more for everything else. This site is huge and I won't always know if someone did this situation or not, but I always like to put things into my own way and that's how this story will work.
Perhaps I should give a couple tid bits of information about this story revolving Ash and Leaf. I feel like I could give these pieces of information out there and no one will blame me for it. If you do, I won't care, I'll only have a good laugh about it and move on.
1. Ash will age! HOLY S***, what is this?! Ash aging? This must be heaven! Yes I will have Ash age in this story, I'm also going to be putting time stamps along with the story (e.g April 9th, 2007) so it feels like a real timeline and so you guys won't get confused on how it all works or how much time has passed in between, etc. I got you guys covered.
2. Ash and Leaf will be catching Pokémon and I mean they WILL be catching quite some Pokémon. I always hated the fact that Ash only got 5-6 Pokémon per region (excluding Unova and Kanto), I mean yeah they get better development that way, but that's way too little considering how many Pokémon they add each generation, so they'll both be getting quite a number of Pokémon, not too many to where they'll be neglected later, but enough to satisfy everyone and hopefully get some of your favorite Pokémon in there (I said too much, crap).
3. If all goes to plan and I don't lose motivation for this story, then we'll be traveling from Kanto to Alola, and whatever region is afterwards, assuming the story isn't complete by then, (which it probably won't considering how I write and how I procrastinate a lot) but I'm not having Ash travel in order like he did in the anime, (Kanto to Johto to Hoenn, etc.) no, I'm going in my own order. The first region will be Kanto, but the next I won't reveal until this arc is almost done, I think you guys will like my pick, or maybe not and you'll hate me for the rest of your lives. I sure hope its the former!
4. Ash and Leaf will Train, and I mean they WILL Train themselves and their Pokémon. I've only read a couple of stories actually think out the process of how Ash trains. I'm not sure where people get the philosophy that just a quick rundown will do readers good, those who just read to read, maybe. But for those who are looking for those rare great stories where it explains what happens, even the small details, will know a lot of stories in this site have potential, but just don't execute the idea thoughtfully and just be lazy. I'm going to try my best to explain what Ash and Leaf do, it won't be SUPER long, but enough to satisfy everyone and so people don't get lost and don't skip it.
5. Most importantly, Ash will be mature in this story. I don't care what people say when they think he has to be a complete idiot who just starts out, this is my story, I'll write it how I want it. He's going to be strong, very strong as a trainer since that is his dream, to become a Pokémon Master. He isn't going to be totally OP at first like some stories I've read, but rather grow at a good pace, he will lose some battles, but he's overall going to be a lot better than how most trainers start out.
6. I plan to go all out with OC's in this story, rival OC's, friendly OC's, not too many where you will get lost, but enough to where you guys will REALLY enjoy it whenever they appear. So far, I have three OC's planned out for future events and you guys will understand them as characters and I might have some fun getting you guys to hate one of them. I haven't actually decided if I will do it yet, if it works though, I made a good OC that did its job. Though if you guys want to send in an OC yourself, I might just use him/her/it. I'll give full credit to the OC creator and it should be good fun. So send them in if you guys want.
Before the final draft was finished, I had like three more things here that would have spoiled things for everybody and they aren't as cliché as you might think and I would have punched myself if people lost interest because I made a mistake putting random facts about my story in the very beginning, so luckily I fixed that. Don't want to get hasty now do we?
If anyone didn't read all that, they might get lost somewhere, this is good general knowledge to know about my story. Anything more and I might just spoil it for you all.
As always I love constructive criticism on my stories, about what I can do to improve on my way to completing hopefully one of the best stories out there. If you flame, I will laugh at your horrible attempt to discourage me and move onto the next review, plain and simple. Also can you guys PLEASE say more than just "Nice Chapter, I liked it." Or things along that nature, I mean yeah I guess people liked the chapter, but I didn't get a good honest opinion on what they REALLY thought. So at least make those reviews more than 15 words so I know I'm doing a good job.
But yeah after a really long A/N, I finally got all my crazy thoughts out of my brain for this beginning, I'm finally going to be starting this story, I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE LONG ROAD AHEAD.
Midnight: GO BACK UP AND READ THE BEGINNING, I KNOW YOU SKIPPED THROUGH ALL OF IT. I BET YOU THOUGHT YOU'D FIND THE STORY IN THIS SECTION! NOPE! GO BACK UP AND READ THE A/N! NOW!
JD: If you have read it, then please ignore this angry rant of my other self complaining about how nobody reads pre A/N.
Midnight: I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE DON'T READ THE A/N, THERE'S IMPORTANT INFO UP THERE!
JD: *sigh*
Chapter I: The End Is Where We Begin
May 22nd, 2002.
30,000 feet above the ground of the Kanto region, a commercial plane was flying high in the sky. This airplane was bigger than usual as it carried about five hundred and fifty passengers and about couple thousand pounds of cargo. The plane model was a Boeing 777, it consisted of a primary white and blue color on its exterior with a Salamence decal decked on the back of the plane to signal the plane belonged to Salamence Airlines. Flight number 2749 was currently on a trip from Kanto's neighbor, Johto, to the far away region of Alola, currently transporting mostly vacationers and a few upcoming trainers going there to challenge the trails, though it was about 95% vacationers.
The flight has been in the air for about an hour and everything has been running smooth so far. People who weren't chatting amongst themselves were either sleeping or...well just sleeping. Up front inside the cockpit, the two pilots were maintaining control over the plane, just like they have done for years; they were experts in this field, hence why they were able to maintain such a big plane.
"Attention folks, this is your captain speaking. Flight number 2749 has just entered your region's neighbor, the Kanto region. This flight from Goldenrod City, Johto to Hau'oli City, Alola, is still another 11 hours ahead so please make yourself comfortable and we'll be arriving in Hau'oli at 10 AM, Alolan time. That is all." The captain put down his microphone to the plane speaker and sighed as he got back to his duties and helped maintain flight number 2749.
His partner asked. "Does flying ever get old for you Dave?" 'Dave's' partner asked him.
Dave smiled as he replied. "Honestly Athelia, not really. When I was a boy, I was always one wanting to fly, fly freely through the air." He explained as he adjusted a switch on his control panel slightly. "And I think that's the reason I was just so...dedicated to pass flight school. As cliché as it sounds, my boyhood dream has come true. Hehe, I followed my dreams, now I fly planes across oceans, to other regions at least 5 times per week, maybe more depending on how long or short it is."
Dave's partner, Athelia nodded in agreement. "It was the same boat for me for many years. When I was a little girl, my childhood hero was Amelia Earhart, her story is just...so inspiring and it made me want to become just like her." She uttered her story. Her voice filled with admiration for the woman, her hero who made history. "I think most of us pilots have some background for wanting to fly, it takes a hefty amount of knowledge to acquire this job that most who don't just quit at some point. Only the true, dedicated pilots can make it."
Yes, it was true that most, if not all pilots had to have the will to fly, the need to soak up the knowledge of the plane and the drive to pursue their career. That's why all pilots love their job. That doesn't mean they don't travel around a lot however, many of the pilots go to different regions every single day, it's like the flight paths are on the back of their hand. Of course there was one downside to flying airplanes a lot though and that was being away from family.
What was sad was that some pilots chose not to have any family, no wife or kids or just didn't keep in contact with their parents and siblings. To them, being up in the air, high in the sky was the thing that mattered most. Everything else but that didn't matter to them, they had a lust for looking at the sky above them and the clouds below them and that's what they did, every single day.
He nodded, "Mmmhmm, I know what you mean. Hang on, got a bit of turbulence." He shifted the height of the airplane slightly, bringing it about a hundred feet lower. "There we go, that was a little weird, but back to what I was saying. I know what you mean, I studied for years even before I took flight school to absorb as much knowledge as I could to make it easier on myself. In the long-run it had its benefits as I graduated a little earlier than everyone else. Heck, I even-"
But his voice was interrupted by multiple loud screams in the seating area. The immediately turned on the cameras to find a sight that horrified them. Four people with what looked to be strong Pokémon were now holding people hostage and there was nothing no one out there could do since any strong attacks inside an airplane from Pokémon could harm not only the people, but the plane itself, since it's such a compacted area.
"ATHELIA!" Dave yelled to his co-pilot. "You need to get out there and stop those maniacs, they cannot get ahold of any hostages or cargo, there's Pokémon, Eggs and a whole bunch of supplies down there! If they are who I think they are, then we are in a whole lot of trouble. I'll manage this thing from up here GO!"
Athelia hesitated for a moment before she nodded and sprinted out the door. When she reached the main public area, it looked a lot worse than it did on video. Some people were what she hoped to be only unconscious, but what was worse was when she lay eyes upon the group of four who were controlling the situation had giant R's on their uniforms, this only meant one thing.
Team Rocket.
15 minutes earlier.
Five people dressed in normal clothing snuck towards the back cargo area to set up their plan. They had to knock out a person manning the area so they could get by, but that was easy with a Sleep Powder attack. They found a nice small room that had a few crates that were sealed shut. They had sick, sadistic grins in their faces as they eyed the cargo being transported.
The cargo inside the boxes was just your average stuff for a Pokémart, potions, Pokéballs, repels, you name it. These crates though were just a bonus to them, what they were really after was the Pokémon on the plane being transported back to the Alolan region. The Pokémon transport system and their Porygon inside went under malfunction a couple days ago and the engineers are working tirelessly to get that fixed, that meant that the only way to transport Pokémon was manually, either by boat, plane, or car, or just carrying the Pokéball around.
One of the grunts whistled in amazement at the cache of Pokéballs in front of him, he counted a total of 65 Pokéballs, meaning 65 more Pokémon for their boss. While he counted, another grunt set up a mini-laptop with a webcam on top of it to signify they were about to call someone. They waited for the line to be picked up for a few seconds before it was answered.
"Hmm. So I assume the mission is about to go down?" A scruffy voice called to them. The only thing the grunts could make out was a silhouette sitting in a chair behind a desk, though they all knew who this man was. This man terrified them, as he had a lot of power in their organization.
A teal-haired man in a white uniform stood up straight and replied. "Yes sir, we've infiltrated flight number 2749, as scheduled. We will be starting our clean and sweep of the main area within the next 10 minutes. Currently swiping what we've counted up to at least 65 Pokéballs into our possession as well as some other goods we've found that will help our organization."
The silhouette seemed to pleased as he nodded. "Good work Archer. Each and every mission may be small in hindsight, but the numbers we are gaining in Pokémon and members are extraordinary! In a few years time, I think we'll be ready for Team Rocket's takeover of the Kanto and Johto regions! And possibly more beyond that! Anyway, proceed as planned Archer and I'll see you back at headquarters."
The four grunts and admin stood tall and saluted. "SIR!" With that, the video feed cut off. The grunts continued to pack their duffel bags to the brim with anything they could find, they managed to pack everything except two eggs that were too big and couldn't fit. One of the asked. "Admin Archer!" The teal-haired man turned to his grunt and replied. "What is it?"
The grunt showed the two eggs to the Admin, "We've managed to pack everything we could, but there's still these two eggs here we couldn't fit anywhere. What do you want us to do with them?"
The Rocket admin smirked. "Just leave them. Team Rocket's goal is not to take care of baby Pokémon whenever they hatch, we only desire the strong and rare Pokémon that will help our takeover of world domination! Just set them down near the back, I may be a Rocket Admin, but even I don't want to destroy eggs like that intentionally. Who knows, maybe someone will catch them when they fall to the ground. Hahahaha." The other grunts laughed with the admin but got back to work getting all their equipment setup.
They had suitcases that they snuck onto the plane with all the equipment they required. Nothing was too complicated for anyone to use, they were grunts so things had to be basic. Team Rocket recently developed a machine that sucked up people's Pokéballs right from their person and today was the first day they were trying them out. The only problem here was that they never tested any of the machines out and were using this mission as a test to see the results. Absolutely crazy, but Rockets like to go big when they do their thing.
They had three suck-up machines and each grunt equipped a machine leaving one lone grunt without one. Though Admin Archer had other ideas. "You grunt!" He pointed to the lone grunt without a machine on his back. "You will stay down here and give us our escape route. I have something for you." Archer began digging into his stache and pulled out a square-like object that has lots of wiring around it and a switch on the face of it.
"This is C-4, don't ever stay go near it when it's blinking unless you want your legs blown off." The grunt gulped as he took this foreign device from the Admin and fiddled with it wondering how it works. The Admin face palmed and explained. "You idiot, did you not just hear me? I said don't fiddle around with it. Now it's really simple, even a grunt like you can figure it out. All you got to do is set it up on that wall over there." He pointed towards an empty wall. "After you plant it there, use this switch right here to activate it, it'll start blinking red. After we're done with the heist, use this as sort of a remote control. All you got to do is be far away, squeeze the trigger here and bye-bye wall. YOU GOT THAT!?" Archer screamed at him as he gave the grunt the 'remote control' to the C-4. He nodded and saluted the Admin. "Good."
One of the grunts alerted him. "Sir, everything's all set-up. Ready to begin the heist." The Admin smirked and replied. "Lovely, let's get this party started." The teal-haired Admin then grabbed a couple of white and red canisters with small lettering that he didn't care to read. He knew how these things worked.
The group of four slowly started climbing the ladder that led back up to the main area where all the passengers sat. Archer checked the door to make sure no one spotted him, luckily no one noticed the knocked out flight attendant still, as he and the remaining three grunts made their way forward. There were two doorways that led to the main area that each had a restricted area sign above the doorway on the opposite side. Clearly those worked. Each grunt took a side behind a door as the admin gave one of his canisters to the grunt who was on the inside of the doorways. "Please tell me you remember how to use this." Archer whispered. The grunt nodded in affirmation that he knew how to use it.
The Rocket Admin nodded toward his grunt. "Alright then. Flashbang out." He and the grunt pulled the pins off the now confirmed flashbangs and threw them into the room. A couple seconds later, the tactical grenades exploded leaving a bright white light to blind everyone in the room momentarily. The grunts quickly released their Pokémon and stormed the large room and started threatening everyone inside, telling everyone not to move. It didn't help the passengers either when the Rocket's Pokémon of multiple Arbok, Machoke, Gloom and Raticate were growling at them and daring them to make a move to see what happens.
One woman however did something as she screamed at the top of her lungs to hopefully alert somebody of what was happening. The scream was quick though as one of the two Gloom released their Sleep Powder on the woman and a couple others, they began to zone out before seeing darkness. The Rockets were hoping something like this wouldn't happen, but they're luck seemed to be crushed because of a single woman's action. Figures. They got to work quickly, switching on the machines and the vacuum-like hoses started sucking up people's Pokeballs one by one. The intel wasn't kidding though when they said it was mostly vacationers, they really WERE mostly vacationers and thus didn't suck up many Pokeballs, but enough to satisfy their boss.
It seemed the now knocked-out woman's scream alerted one of the flight attendants as a woman in her early 30's stormed out of the cockpit to come face to face with four individuals with big R's on their uniforms identifying them as members of the criminal organization known as Team Rocket. The woman had a look of surprise but then a look of fear on her face as she came face-to-face with the Rocket grunts and Admin.
Rocket Admin Archer laughed. "Hahaha. Well, well, what do we have here? Miss co-pilot here thinking she can save the day. Don't bother bringing out your Pokémon to battle, it'd be 8 to 1. Plus, having a Pokémon battle in an airplane 30,000 feet in the air doesn't seem like such a good idea. Does it now?"
Athelia growled at the Admin, but knew he was right. She couldn't risk battling them this high up in the air. 30,000 feet, that's a long drop if things went haywire. Plus she only had three Pokémon on her at the moment so she'd have no chance taking 2-3 each of the Rockets' Pokemon. There was no winning this fight with battles, but she could at least know what they wanted. "What is Team Rocket even doing here anyway!? Hardly anyone here has Pokémon on them, the Alola region is mostly a vacation area, not a place to battle like the other regions of the world!"
Admin Archer found her notions hilarious, but answered truthfully. "True, very true about Alola being not a battle-heavy area, but it does have its perks. And there are trainers that flock there for those...weird trials. However we mostly came for all the cargo down stairs, most of it has already been stolen."
The co-pilot was beyond angered. "But that is supposed to be transported back to the Alolan region! Some of that is to save some Pokémon's lives and that's where actual Pokémon are stored. I don't even need to guess you stole all of them, do I?" Her left eye was twitching in a mix of frustration and irritation at the Rocket members in front of her.
"Hmm, I suppose not. I would be lying if I said we didn't snatch up each and every Pokéball from that storage, they will surely make fantastic additions in the Team Rocket ranks. If anything, you should be thanking us for rounding them up, it'll be sparing their lives from future events. Not all Pokémon have that privilege you know."
"YOU'RE SICK! YOUR WHOLE CORPORATION IS ABSOLUTELY SICK!" She yelled out at the Admin. "Why do this? Why sign up for something so...wicked?" Athelia said distastefully. She hated Team Rocket with a burning passion, and for them to get involved with her job, it made her blood boil and her hatred skyrocket for the evil organization.
"Wicked is such a...strong word my dear, I prefer to use the term...nefarious. Just a synonym yes, but it sounds much less horrible than 'wicked,' and let alone 'evil.' Team Rocket isn't wicked at all, we simply just...have our own goals. We're no more wicked than the governments that withstand in each region of the world. Now what our goals exactly are, I'm afraid I cannot disclose that information to you. There's just simply not enough time to discuss it all at once. Though if you helped out in Team Rocket's goals, you can learn all of our dirty secrets and what we plan to do." Archer was having fun with this. It made his insides jump for joy watching people squirm around like Caterpie.
Athelia's face was filled with horror at the attempt for them to persuade her into joining the one thing she hated most. "NEVER!" She all but shouted. "I will NEVER join an organization who's lives are dedicated to stealing Pokémon and if it came down to it, outright MURDERING PEOPLE! Only insane people would want to kill and every member in your group are all absolutely insane!"
Archer faked a sad face. "That's too bad, and here I was hoping we could get to know each other." His voice was so calm, yet cold at the same time it sent shivers down the pilot's spine. "Though I think it's about time that we hightail it out of here. Gloom, use Stun Spore on the pilot! She can watch us as we escape with all the goods. Hehehe." Archer finished with the sickest grin you'd ever see. One of the Gloom stepped forward and began to emit yellow particles from its body on the defenseless pilot in front of them. Athelia felt her entire body go completely numb as she slid down to the ground from where she was already forced to kneel down from earlier.
Archer slowly clapped his hands in a dramatic format. "Wow, very good Gloom. You know, times like this are just when I wish we had more members with us now so we can carry more loot away from this place. Of course, you'd make a fine trophy." Archer expressed as he crouched down to the woman below him. Athelia was literally frozen in fear from that last statement, she of course knew what he meant and she sure as hell did not want any of those events to transpire. "But, we came for items, not peoples. It's not in the description to take back any humans with us as they would be utterly useless."
Archer smiled as the terrified face on the woman below him. "Aww, you would have made a fine addition to Team Rocket. Though I guess we all can't get our wishes. It's a real shame." He paused for a second. "Truly is, you would have fit in nicely back at headquarters with all the other female grunts. Your feisty attitude would actually be looked up to in our ranks, I can already tell you'd be the best Admin in a few years time. Damn, too bad every rank is filled to the brim as it is. Maybe you're lucky we're not taking you or anyone else here today, not sure how the boss would affair to all the others here, but I know he would go easy on you."
Athelia's mouth couldn't make out any words as she just wanted this man's torture to stop. The way he spoke made it seem like he was actually a little bit insane. He continued. "Welp, enough chitter-chatter." He patted her face three times before he stood up once more. "We got the goods boys, let's move out!" The other three grunts saluted the Admin as they rolled out. "SIR!"
They maneuvered their way to the back of the airplane once more, dashed into the room they came from and climbed back down the ladder to their escape room. Once they were in the room, Archer was surprised to see the C4 he gave to the grunt they left there placed onto the wall ready to blow. He would be impressed if he didn't see the grunt fiddling around with the switch that was used to actually detonate the darn thing. He had it in both of his hands trying to figure out exactly how to detonate the bomb planted on the wall.
The Admin inwardly face-palmed and groaned out loud. Seriously, could any of the grunts granted to him actually figure out even the most basic of things? Probably not. He stomped his way to the grunts and removed the detonator from his hand, "Give me that! I swear you grunts are the most useless beings at times. It's like I'm talking to a sack of potatoes here for Arceus sake!" His voice filled with frustration.
Once he grasped the detonator he immediately hit the switch and the bomb that was once planted on the wall was now gone and left a small hole in its place. No it actually left a hole that was only about 4 and half feet tall and a little over 2 feet wide. Archer had to rub his eyes as what he saw and when he confirmed he wasn't seeing an illusion, he yelled out. "DAMMIT PROTON! You have got to be kidding me! He got us the cheap-ass bombs. Figures. Last time I ask him for explosives ever again. You think I would have done that a long time ago, but NO! I had to go to him and asked for bombs once again. *sigh*"
While Archer was ranting about the smaller-than-expected hole in the wall, the other four grunts began equipping their parachutes for their escape from 30,000 feet in the air. What nobody had thought of though was how they were going to get their machines down from the plane, back to headquarters. They had no room on their back to store the Pokéball suckers and that was a problem. "Hey boss." One grunt asked.
"WHAT!?" He yelled into the face of the grunt who called him. The grunt backed away in fear, "Umm sir. There seems to be a bit of a problem. We can't equip the machines and parachutes at the same time. The machines are too heavy for them and our body weight for the parachute to handle, we'd just plummet to the ground." He did not want to get on the bad side of the Admin in front of him, but had no other choice.
The Admin was livid. Just how many more things these morons will get wrong today? "Give me the friggin' machines!" He yelled towards the grunts as they set down the machines to the nearest wall. Archer began emptying the Pokéballs from the machines into multiple different duffel bags and even threw some stuff out the hole behind him to make space. Eventually he got all the Pokéballs into the bags and threw one each to the three grunts.
"There. Arceus, I got to do everything myself! Y'all just can't have an IQ above 5 for once and think of a simple solution as just emptying the Pokéballs into our duffel bags. F me. Leave the machines, we got plenty more at headquarters and these did fine today, besides, they won't see the light of day tomorrow." He complained as he rubbed his temple, he started to feel a headache coming on, but ignored it for the time being as he took a parachute off of one of the grunt's back, preferably the one who was manning the C4 minutes earlier.
What the Admin did shocked everyone in the room they were in. He straight up pushed the grunt to the small hole and mercilessly kicked his behind out the hole, never to be seen again... and without a parachute. The grunts couldn't believe what they had just witnessed, they watched their Admin essentially murder one of their own in cold blood by viciously kicking him out of the hole for him to plummet 30,000 feet to the ground before he would get flattened like a tiny weedle under a man's boot. It was sickening and despite the three of them being in Team Rocket, they never had any agenda to kill people like that. The only female of the group almost threw up her breakfast mere seconds after the event happened and when her mind processed what actually happened.
Archer unfazed by the event that just transpired called out to the group. "Despite you all being complete idiots at times, I have to commend you for your efforts today. This may be small, but each and every mission accomplished will bring Team Rocket closer to our goals. I'll see you back at headquarters." With a nod and with his parachute now secure, he dashed towards the hole and squeezed through it and went skydiving down to the Kanto region itself.
The grunts were flabbergasted at how...normal, their Admin seemed to be when he kicked one of their own out the window for one mistake. Like he had done it a million times, though who's to say he hasn't? They each shook their head as they took their respective duffel bag filled with items and skydived back down to headquarters. They just couldn't understand why what happened, happened. They would never be the same after today. Though none of the grunts realized how close the hole was to the plane's right wing and hadn't been aware of the massive damage caused by the explosion from the C4 earlier.
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Meanwhile, back to the main area of flight 2749, Athelia was just starting to be rid of her paralysis, but had a mixture of emotions flowing through her such as anger, frustration, fear, anxiety, etc. This had to be one of the worst days of her life. As she got back to the cockpit, she noticed her partner, Dave was frantically turning switches and trying to turn the steering control they had to the left as much as possible. It was only then she realized that the plane felt like it was going sideways, but he was pulling the control to the left, but the plane felt slanted to the right.
Uh Oh.
As quick as a Ninjask, she sprang into her seat and began questioning her partner and why the plane was tilting towards the right. Dave answered. "I checked the security feeds. It appears Team Rocket used some sort of bomb to blow a hole in the side of the plane to route their escape! On top of it, the explosion did damage to the right wing. We are in deep water if we can't get this under control and we need to make an emergency stop to the Viridian City airport to get this mess sorted out! I just hope we can make it."
Could her day get any worse? Now those Rocket buffoons blew a whole in their aircraft and did damage to their wing. Great. She got out the intercom and announced to the passengers. "Attention folks, this is your co-pilot speaking. It seems the attack we just received from Team Rocket has done more damage than we thought it would, as they damaged one of our wings and is becoming harder to control the plane. Please fasten your seat-belts as we are making an immediate stop in Viridian City so no one's in danger. That is all." The after effect were almost immediate as she heard people start to gasp and start to panic. She just hoped they did what they were told.
She got back on her side of the console and began communicating with the control tower in Viridian. "Area control, this is flight 2749! Requesting immediate clearance at the Viridian Runway! Damage has been done to the right wing and we're having a hard time controlling it and need to land ASAP!"
The control that communicates with all the aircraft in Viridian responded. "Roger that 2749, we'll have the runway cleared for immediate landing, E.T.A, 5 minutes." Athelia sighed in relief as she starting taking control of her side of the console to try and get the PLANE under control. This flight was not over yet.
The pilots weren't getting much luck as they were communicating with each trying their hardest to the plane they were manning straightened out. "Pull left! PULL LEFT ATHELIA!" "I'm trying, the drag on the right side combined with the plane's weight isn't making things any easier!"
Athelia continued. "Alright, release some lift slowly, we're down to 25,000! Come on!" She shouted as she and her partner continued manning the aircraft. Things we're going their way so far, they got down about 5,000 feet and we're continuing to man their aircraft well. This was their job and they knew how to handle situations like this one.
The craft continued to slowly decline with the two pilots barely managing to keep the plane straight when they heard a beep come from their console below them. "What was that?!" Dave questioned. He was in the main pilot seat so he couldn't take his eyes off the steering mechanism below him so he ushered for Athelia to check. She checked for what made the noise and her heart dropped when she eventually went to the security feeds. She couldn't even make out a sentence as it tore her heart out.
"Well?" He questioned. Athelia finally got her act together and replied. "The wing caught fire...and it's spreading."
Dave's eyes widened at the claim and checked himself while manning the steering and saw she was indeed correct. History has shown 100% of the time when a plane catches fire on the wings, it ends in disaster. Planes may be a force to reckon with, but fire is its one weakness. Fire was the weakness to practically everything except water. And the only Pokémon they had on them were not water types, even so Pokémon weren't even aloud on board unless they were 20 pounds and under and were no more than 2 feet tall. They were at a loss, but they weren't giving up.
"We got to make this the safest landing as humanly possible! Dave, start decreasing the lift but keep it steady. We won't make to Viridian in time so we need to land just somewhere!" Dave nodded at his partner's actions and began releasing lift slowly, making sure to keep the plane steady. They were heading to the ground faster now but still at a good pace. Athelia was making sure to keep the plane turning left, but it wasn't working as well as it was before.
They were at 10,000 feet now and the aircraft was still gliding sideways with no help in sight when a red light popped on. "Oh No! Dave, we got engine failure! Pull up! PULL UP!" The controls were more out of their hands than ever before. They were trying to pull the plane up but it was still falling faster than ever before. The weight and drag were just too strong now.
Dave felt like he failed, there wasn't much more he could do. "We're not gonna make it, but this is my job and I'm not giving up. Left, left, left left! Pull Up! Help me out Athelia!
6,000 Feet.
The pilots were struggling to keep the plane up but it was still heading down to the ground nose first.
3,000 Feet.
"BRACE FOR IMPACT EVERYBODY!" Dave yelled into the intercom.
1,000 Feet.
The controls seemed to come back to life for a few seconds as the plane started to lift back up slightly, but the weight was far greater than the lift and they weren't getting much anywhere. The alarm made started to make a whoop, whoop noise and started repeating, "Pull Up, Pull Up." Over and over again.
500 feet.
This was it. The pilots were saying their final prayers as they saw the ground below them come more and more near. Dave couldn't help it and just blurted out. "OH SHI-"
Impact.
The sound of impact the aircraft created was like a tactical nuke. Weighing at over 250 tons, the weight being a little over 500,000 pounds, you can bet that the sound of impact was loud enough to hear all the way across the oceans into the different regions around the world. The plane actually skidded about 1,000 feet before coming to a complete stop on the ground. The results were catastrophic.
The front engine was on fire, the wing was on fire and Arceus knows if anybody actually survived that crash. Flight 2749 ended in utter disaster, if anyone even made it out alive, it would be a miracle in itself. The Salamence on the back wing was completely gone, replaced by a burning flame, the whole thing was a mess. More than 550 people were boarded on flight 2749. There was movement.
One of the side doors closest to the ground burst open and out came somebody! Somebody actually survived the carnage and destruction of Flight 2749. This person was none other than Athelia.
Athelia coughed and limped out from the plane and you could tell she's seen better days. Her whole body was sore to the exact cells. An excruciating pain could be felt in her left arm and her left foot as well was very hard to walk on. She coughed out some blood on the floor and wondered how she even survived this day. She limped over to a nearby tree and took a seat by it, there was nothing else she could do, her whole left side felt broken, she figured she had a broken nose since blood was pouring from it and on top of it, her career was ruined.
She brought out her walkie talkie the pilots had in case of emergencies like that contacted. "Someone...it... i-is anyone there?" There was no response for a moment before she got a reply back. "Pilot Athelia? Is that you!?" The voice on the other side asked.
Athelia nodded and replied very weakly. "Yeah...it-it's me." Her voice drained from most emotions and the only one there was sadness and exhaustion. The voice on the other side countered. "Thank Arceus, we have camera feeds over here and saw the whole incident, but they cut out once the plane made impact with the ground. Are you alright? Is anyone else alive?"
Athelia found it hard to answer, but did so anyway. "No, no one is coming out of the plane...*gulp* and the whole plane is on fire at this point. I think I'm the only survivor...whiplash from impact must've either...knocked everyone else out or...or..." She couldn't finish.
The man operating the other walkie talkie replied. "Okay, you don't seem like you're alright and need medical attention right away. GPS tracks the point of impact was just west of Saffron City so we'll send immediate medical attention to your location. Hang in there Athelia, you're gonna be alright. Stay with me on line so I know you're okay."
Athelia nodded. "O..Okay." Whatever wasn't in pain felt like it couldn't move at all, like she had just ran a marathon. The right side of her body was sore from the crash, the left side she felt was in pain she couldn't remember the last time she felt as bad as it was now and on top of it, she wasn't seeing anyone else coming from the wreckage less than 100 feet in front of her.
She started to sob a little. It was official, with Team Rocket interfering with her job, stealing Pokémon from her plane and then essentially killing everyone on board besides her, it was the worst day of her life by far.
What nobody realized though were that the two eggs Team Rocket left behind in the room with the hole actually rolled out of the plane when it shifted to the right more and more. The plane was at about 15,000 feet when they finally rolled out the hole and started to plummet towards the Earth below. Seemingly no savior in sight.
...
On the ground in a small town in the south-western part of the Kanto region, we find a small boy who's look appears to be at the age of around 5, maybe 6 years old at the most, running around in an open field. This boy had spiky hair on his head that went in all directions with the color of raven-black. He was currently wearing a pair of jean shorts that went to his knees, a red Pokémon League T-Shirt and his signature Pokémon League Expo baseball cap. This boy's name is Ash Ketchum.
He was currently racing his best and probably only friend at the moment. His friend was a couple inches taller than he was, despite him being older. She had brunette hair which went down to her shoulders, long knee-length baby-blue socks that went under her red and white shoes. She had on a pair of blue jeans that went down past her knees and was matching Ash with a Pokémon League shirt, only hers was the same shade of blue that matched her socks instead of red. The girl. Leaf Green.
They were currently in a race running laps around small field to see who was the faster of the two. So far it was neck and neck between the two youngsters. They made it a goal to see who could run 5 laps around the field first; they are 6 and 5 years old, what do you expect? Leaf started pulling ahead on the last lap thanks to her longer legs and just overall better agility and sprinted ahead of Ash and beat him by about a two second lead. By the end of it, both were exhausted from the past ten minutes and panted as they began to get their breath back.
Ash had his hands on his knees trying to taken in oxygen back to his lungs. Leaf was almost the same except she was basking in victory that she beat Ash once again in a race. "Ha. See Ash, told you I would win!" She claimed with the biggest smile on her face.
Ash stood up straight once more and replied. "I thought I had you this time Leaf. In the past like 3 years we've been racing I've only beaten you the first time, now you're ahead by like 27-1!" He made a dramatic stance on his knees. "WHEN WILL I ACHIEVE VICTORY AGAIN!?" While swinging his fists back and forth in the air.
Leaf laughed at her best friend's antics. He always knew how to make her smile. "I was thinking about letting you win today since it is your birthday, but then I thought against it, this is actually win number 29 in a row for me!" She held up a victory sign with her fingers. "Alright, alright, soak in the glory Leaf, I'll win next time!"
Leaf giggled and replied. "You say that every time...and then you don't. Maybe one day."
"But it's so NOT fair!" He complained. "You're like 2 inches taller than I am and those legs are just giving you a complete advantage. It's like you get an extra speed boost when we're playing Mario Kart at the very end and victory is all yours. I wanna win for once!" He stomped around like a child, mumbling to himself about how Leaf always beats him in these situation and that he deserved to win for once.
Of course Leaf heard the whole thing since Ash mumbles like he's having a normal conversation and just laughed at him once more. "Oh Ash. You're too funny. But enough about you deserving to win races. What do you want to do now birthday boy?"
Ash came back and thought it for a second but didn't know what exactly to do. He already did what he wanted to throughout the day already and it was barely 2 PM. He sighed as he put his hands behind his head and looked up at the sky for some sort of answer. His answer was coming down sooner than he thought, literally.
Ash raised an eyebrow as something caught his eye, he saw a couple objects falling at a diagonal pattern from the East. He focused his eyes some more to realize that those objects looked to be Pokémon eggs. His eyes widened on their own and took a sprint into the forest to try and catch the eggs. Leaf wondering what just happened started to chase after him.
Of course she caught up to him. "Ash, what are on Earth are you doing? I already proved I'm the faster runner out of the two of us, no need for me to rub it in anymore." She said with a victory smile. Ash shook his head at her and replied. "No, no we're not racing, though going as fast as we can is the best option right now. Look up there!" He pointed towards the sky. Leaf looked up and squinted her eyes as the sun was close but realized that two eggs were free-falling from the sky coming from who knows where. She then realized why Ash took off in a sprint and a quick conclusion came to her head. Those eggs would shatter into a million pieces if they didn't do something about it.
So she took off faster than even in the race leaving Ash in the dust, but he was still going, determined to catch those eggs or lives would be lost before they even began. The eggs were light, like most other eggs so they were falling at a relatively slow pace than something heavier would fall, but still would crack if they made contact with the ground, they already knew this so they had to think of something fast.
Eventually they made their way under where the eggs should fall and Leaf asked. "Ash, now's the time to use that creative brain of yours! Got any ideas? Preferably ones that won't crack the eggs!?"
Ash had to think for a moment, he needed something soft that even a flying-type Pokémon that fell from the sky wouldn't get injured in the slightest. But they didn't have anything on them and they were surrounded by trees.
Trees. Leaves. Branches. He got an idea. "Leaf, gather as much leaves and branches as you can put them in a pile here! I'll he-" Leaf already dashed off before Ash could finished his sentence. She knew exactly what to do so she climbed the trees as quick as she could and was throwing any loose branches she could find in a pile below her, Ash doing the same. The eggs were at about 400 feet in the air now and were falling pretty fast. They keep throwing soft branches into their piles in hopes it was in the correct area and the eggs would land safely.
Suddenly they heard a soft brushing noise. They both looked and found two relatively large eggs in one piece. Both sighed in relief, they had just saved two lives that day. They climbed down from their respective trees and stopped for a moment to catch their breath. Once fresh oxygen was inhaled, they went on to check on the two eggs they managed to save from utter decimation.
One of which consisted a primarily brown color to it, with some gray stripes along the top and bottom of the egg with a few gray dots scattered around the shell randomly. The other egg was primarily pink with white and green strips heading latitude ways all throughout the egg and that was it for that one. A little less complex than the former but definitely had a brighter vibe to it. They looked like eggs painted on Easter but definitely were not custom, these were real.
"Check these out!" Ash said with a smile on his face. He had seen eggs before, but nothing like these.
Leaf squealed. "Oooh! I call holding the pink one!" She rushed over and gently picked up the egg, but was surprised to find the eggs extremely cold to the touch. It had to be from the air rushing past it on its way to the ground. It was the only solution she could come up with.
She questioned. "Ash, check if your egg is cold to the touch like mine is." Ash raised an eyebrow when she said it was HER egg, but complied nonetheless and was surprised to feel that his egg was pretty cold itself. They had recently started learning about Pokémon with Professor Oak about a year prior to today and one of the first subjects they studied was Eggs so they knew cold eggs meant that Pokémon wouldn't hatch. And that they're as good as breakfast eggs.
"Yeah mine is cold as well. Remember Professor Oak's teaching where he mentioned that eggs, if cold long enough wouldn't produce life? We need to get these to him now!" Leaf nodded and started running back to Professor Oak's lab with Ash in tow, each with their respective eggs wrapped around in their arms. hoping that they would save the lives of whoever's inside a second time.
The run back wasn't easy as they took a shortcut through a forest so they had to dodge dangling branches, logs on the ground, a couple Rattata and Caterpie here and there and it took a good 5-7 minutes before they finally made it back to the ranch. They were still slightly sore from earlier so that didn't make their run back any easier.
When they ran into the ranch, they noticed Professor Oak feeding the water Pokémon their lunch. It was just past 2 PM, so they knew feeding time was now for the Pokémon, but Leaf couldn't wait and called out to him. "HEY! Professor Oak! We need your help now!"
The Professor, hearing his name called turned and saw the two youngsters approaching him. "Well, if it isn't Ash and Leaf back from having fun!" It was only now he realized they had returned with something in their arms. "Hmm, what are those?" As they got closer, he noticed they looked like eggs and immediately rushed forward to the duo and asked. "My goodness, you go out there for an hour and suddenly you return with eggs? Where did these come from and please tell me you didn't steal them from some Pokémon?"
Leaf shook her head. "No we didn't steal them. You're not gonna believe us on this, but these eggs fell out of the sky." As obnoxious and unbelievable as that sounded to him, he knew the two kids in front of him didn't lie when it came to Pokémon, they always loved playing with them in the ranch and studied extremely hard when it came to soaking up knowledge on Pokémon so them finding eggs that fell out of the sky was believable to him, but only from these two. "Alright, let me see them." He took the eggs from the duo and felt they were extremely cold, more evidence to conclude their story was true.
"Mmm hmm. Air rushing past anything will make them about as cold as this, let's head inside and get these two warmed up." Ash and Leaf nodded towards the Professor and helped him get inside the building that housed the ranch. Oak told the kids to get two incubators for him to warm them up, they already knew where they were so they returned a few seconds later with empty incubators for the eggs.
Oak gently placed them inside and set the temperature to about 75 degrees to warm up the eggs and make sure the creatures that would hatch from them would be alive and well. Oak then sat down on one of his couches and motioned for the kids to sit on the one opposite from him as he wanted to discuss what had happened.
He started out. "So now that, that's taken care of. Would you care to elaborate more on how these eggs supposedly just fell from the sky?"
Ash shook his head. "It's the truth Professor, we were trying to figure out what to do for the rest of today when we saw eggs falling from the sky so we rescued them!"
Leaf nodded in affirmation. "Ash is right. You know we would never steal Pokémon or eggs. We wouldn't dream of it, we want to be friends with all Pokémon and stealing eggs is just naughty."
Oak replied. "I know, I know, I just want to grip the situation at hand. Did you see anything that might have dropped these eggs, like maybe a bird Pokémon perhaps?"
The kids looked at each and shook they heads. "Nope, they just started coming down from the East where the sun rises. They were falling in a slanted pattern so they had to have been in the air for a while." Ash voiced his point-of-view.
"I couldn't have said it any different Professor. We couldn't risk catching the eggs ourselves so we tore off branches from nearby trees and put them in a pile and hoped for the best. Luckily our pile was big enough that it left the eggs unharmed. We picked them up, felt that they were cold and rushed here. And you know the rest."
Oak nodded at Leaf's words. He took a minute to process the information before he replied back. "Well it's a good thing you two brought these eggs here as you saved those Pokémon's lives. If they knew what happened, they would be forever grateful to you two."
Ash's face beamed. "Do you really think so Professor?!"
Oak laughed at the boy and ruffled with his hair. "I know so my boy. They definitely would be very grateful towards you two. Hmm." Oak seemed to go in thought for a few minutes, contemplating something in his mind. The duo in front of him knew that face and knew to stay quiet as the Professor was thinking about something and he normally didn't like his train of thought broken so they just sat innocently on the couch and waited patiently for the old Oak to finish.
After a couple minutes, he came to a conclusion. "Well, what would you two say if you actually got to meet the Pokémon inside of those eggs?"
Ash was confused, "What are you talking about? You mean actually watching them hatch?"
"Precisely my boy. These eggs are actually fairly new, though design-wise, none that I have ever seen. With enough asking around from the other regions' Professors, I'm sure I can find out, but I kind of want to be surprised myself. Certain signs can tell you if the eggs are ready to hatch or not. For instance, these eggs aren't very bright in colors. Of course the colors are there, but the brighter the colors on eggs, the closer they are to hatching. You also got to factor in that these eggs were extremely cold from the air accelerating past it from the fall so they'll unfortunately take even longer to hatch. Such a shame, normally eggs vary between 9-14 months from just being produced to hatch, and that's with care from the beginning; constant warmth and being looked after. Judging from just rough estimations from these two, because they were so frigid to the touch, it could take upwards of four years for them to hatch."
When the duo heard it could take so many years for the eggs they found to hatch, it felt like they just got shot. They wanted to see what was in the eggs as soon as possible, they didn't expect them right away, but four years? That was roughly when they officially started their journeys. They didn't want to wait that long to see what was inside. They knew the elder was right though, they recently studied eggs in his personal class and knew if eggs weren't looked after that they could take A LOT longer to hatch than normally expected. That's why it took knowledge and a license to breed eggs in bunches. One or two eggs were fine if the trainers had at least the basic knowledge of hatching an egg, but they couldn't take care of say 20 eggs or so at once, they would need to be taken to a personal breeder immediately or risk revocation of their Pokémon license.
The rules were harsh, but if you didn't know what you were doing, you would essentially be killing the Pokémon inside those eggs, because you would be killing those Pokémon inside those eggs. That's why there was always eggs available for adoption at Day-Cares. A lot of the time, places like these would target specific Pokémon to breed, in the most common case, starters for the region's Professor for new Pokémon trainers. These places were held in secret so thieves and poachers weren't stealing these Pokémon to sell in secret or on the Black Market, both cases in which such actions were unquestionably illegal.
Leaf couldn't put her words together, "F-f-four years? But that's when our journeys begin! You-You're telling us that we'll have to wait THAT long for us to meet the ones we saved?!" She had gotten her hopes that she would meet the little one that was currently residing inside the shell soon, but four years wasn't exactly soon. Just the thought that it could take that long brought tears to her eyes and they were threatening to fall.
Ash noticed this and comforted his best friend by wrapping his arm around her shoulder and bringing her close. She just didn't want to believe she'd have to wait so long to see the Pokémon she now wanted to meet most. She made an inward promise to be the first one it sees when it hatches, whenever that time comes. Fortunately for her, her watery eyes eventually cleared up and nothing fell. She thanked her best friend for comforting her and was now feeling somewhat better, albeit not much.
Professor Oak saw the whole thing and couldn't help but feel sympathy for the two, they were the ones who saved the lives of those two who would hatch in a few years. A light bulb appeared above his head as he thought of an idea. "Now, now, don't you be all mopey about it. I just thought of an arrangement for you two. Since you two were the ones who saved their lives, you two will be the ones who's faces will be the first two they see when they hatch in a few years time. Also since you two are so passionate about Pokémon, I might just allow the two of you to become the future trainers of said Pokémon residing inside of those eggs. What do you say?"
He didn't need to ask them twice as they ran up to his side and hugged it and thanked him over and over again, it was a quite a sight to see. He laughed at their actions. "Hahaha. Okay, okay that's enough children. That's in the future, today is now. Ash, since today is your birthday and Leaf since your Birthday is in 10 days, I have decided to grant you two a gift. If you would give me a minute to retrieve them." He walked through the door, but peered back in. "No peaking."
Ash and Leaf raised an eyebrow, they didn't expect a gift from the Professor now, at least not yet. Their young minds began to race at the possibilities of what the old man could give them. In Ash's mind, he was thinking of a variety of things like a Pokédex, some comic books or some DVD's of past Pokémon Leagues around the world. Leaf on the other hand had ideas of things like a fishing rod, maybe a brush for her hair since she needed a new one, or even a chance to meet with some kind of rare Pokémon.
Overall, their minds were in complete overdrive in those few minutes the Professor had left the room to get whatever he was getting. They were tempted to see what he was getting them, but listened to his commands nonetheless. In the other room, Professor Oak was on his computer finishing the final touches and started to upload the data on two small machines in front of him. He knew this was the right choice and that no other in Pallet Town deserved this more than those two. Once they were finished, he checked the print and confirmed everything was correct.
He sat up from his chair and walked back into the room prior to find the duo with hard looks on their faces, showing their were deep in thought. He guessed they were going over the all the candidates of what they could receive. He cleared his throat to get their attention, which worked and they both looked at him with curious eyes and waited for him to give them what he was going to give them.
He explained. "Ash, Leaf. You two have been under my teachings for just over a year now and I am impressed with all the hard work and dedication you put into your studies. You two have already learned so much and I am proud to call you my students. Now what I'm about to give you isn't just passed around to every kid under the age of 10. No, only the brightest and most dedicated of children earn this reward and you two have certainly earned it. Now I have actually already told this to you two once before, but I will explain again to refresh your memory. Each Professor around the globe is allowed to give this out to certain students of theirs who they feel are already ready to take up the task at hand.
We only ask for one thing in return and that is to actually go out into the field and study various Pokémon that we assign to you. Ash, the innovation in your brain is astounding and none that I have met your age even compare to the creative thinking you come up with. Leaf, your ingeniousness is elusive to all others, your theories and ideas are not normal for a 5, soon to be 6 year old girl. Combine the two of your personalities together I think will have a major improvement to my research. And that is why I'm granting you two your honorary Pokémon Junior Researcher Licenses!" He finished as he brought out two mini-Pokédexes and granted them to the duo in front of him.
The two had the biggest smiles on their faces you would ever see. They knew what these jobs meant and that they weren't granted to many. Oak continued. "You two should know the basic information already, but I'll explain further. Pokémon Junior Researchers are kids under the age of 12 whom which Professors personally choose to act as their assistants. They go out into the field and collect data and write it down in those fancy research-dexes I have granted to you. Now these dexes are just like the regular Pokédex, it shows the known name, height and all the other features on each Pokemon. Now since the Pokedex is relatively new, there is still a lot of unknown data about certain Pokemon that hasn't been discovered, being it their diets, their habitat, you name it. Any unknown information about a certain species will be marked with a question mark, meaning data in that category needs to be filled, that's where you two come in.
I'm may be kicking still, but I am getting old so I'm going to have you two go out and collect certain data on certain species over the next four years to gather up the data you've collected so the Pokedex can be closer to completion. On top of that, being a Junior Researcher also has its perks. Some Pokemon can be dangerous, so every certified Junior Researcher is allowed to capture up to three Pokemon until they turn 10. I think that's what most excites you two, doesn't it?" He smirked because he knew their answer.
Ash nodded eagerly. "YEAH! I never thought we would actually get to be Junior Researchers! This means we can actually capture Pokemon early!"
Leaf was pretty ecstatic herself. "To be a Junior Researcher is a dream come true. Literally, I dreamed about actually becoming one, but never would I have thought we were worthy of such privileges. I would have thought you would have given something like this to...ugh, Gary." She finished with distaste. Gary always annoyed her to no end as he would always try to take her away from Ash, but she wouldn't budge, she was loyal to her best friend.
Oak shook his head. "My grandson? Oh no, I may be his grandfather, but I am not biased towards family. Honestly, he cares more about his looks at the moment, than studying about Pokemon. It's a shame, I know he has potential, but doesn't use it. He would be granted this opportunity if he had the same drive as you two, but alas, he doesn't."
Ash thought back to previous times where he and Gary were at each other's throats. "Yeah, despite him being a complete jerk, and as much as I hate to say this, he does have potential, he just doesn't execute it. Makes me wonder if he'll even be a good trainer. He says he wants to battle, but with how he is, I'm not so sure."
Oak clapped his hands. "Now remember, you can only capture up to 3 Pokemon in the next four years before you become a trainer, so I would choose wisely. Over 700 species of Pokemon have been discovered and I hear more have just been found recently in some islands across the Pacific. 3 out of over 700 to choose from, they won't be easy choices, but I'm positive you two will be happy with whatever you capture."
He smiled at the youngsters in from of him, who were currently showing their new Research-dexes to each other. They were shaped like the classic Kanto Pokedex only a bit smaller by about an inch for the length and width. Ash's dex had an scarlet red color while Leaf's had a baby-blue hue to it. They were the duo's favorite respective colors, hence why he granted them red and blue.
Suddenly Leaf asked. "Hey Professor, I have a question."
Oak nodded. "Go ahead Leaf, ask away."
"Well, it's about the eggs, you see, I was wondering if you could... reserve them for us if we manage to capture three Pokemon? You said we would be the first one's they see and usually the first Pokemon see are usually who they most uhh...like, yeah. So is that too much to ask?" Leaf questioned with a nervous look on her face.
Oak smirked as he replied. "Because of the scenario you two are in, I'll let a 4th capture slide. But ONLY the Pokemon inside the eggs can be the 4th capture. Understood?"
The kids nodded. "That's what I like to see. Now go on outside, it's your birthday Ash, go play some more. I doubt anymore eggs will fall from the sky so go have fun and I'll see you at your house later tonight."
Once again, the duo nodded and thanked the Professor for everything they've done for them and exited the building, talking about how they couldn't believe this happened and what kind of Pokemon they might catch. By the time they exited out the building, he already heard of over 15 different Pokemon that were possibilities and laughed. Those two really had a bond that not many others had and knew they would become great Pokemon trainers in the future.
A/N: And scene! Wow, I finally finished my first chapter. I had two different openings before this one and decided this was the best. One sucked and the other felt rushed in a way. This one seems to give an unique opening that I haven't seen before and honestly, I love the first half of it, I feel I wrote the airplane scene better than I expected. Considering I'm still a very amateur writer, I think it went over well. The 2nd half, I like it, just it didn't have the suspense like the first half did, but I feel it did give a good origins type part to Ash and Leaf.
Don't think the first half was just filler either, I got a plan for it. I have a plan for a lot things my mind has come up with and they're all great. Some of which are complete batsh*t crazy, but can make for a good chapter or couple of chapters. I'm the type of person, who likes to the know the background of a story and instances like flashbacks and even pre-story chapters always gain my interest and that's made me put that here.
The next chapter will be going into which Pokemon Ash and Leaf will capture and the possibility of those mystery eggs hatching. I promise, none of you guys will guess what's in those eggs, I'm 99.99% positive no one will guess even one. But I want to see you guys try so in your review, if you like, try and guess what will be in those eggs just by judging the look and if anyone gets them, I will have a party down here in the post A/N with your name in giant lettering, well, as big as it will be.
Chapter three will be when the official journey will start for our duo. I promise, the next two chapter won't be as long as this one. Chapter I will probably be the longest in the story, maybe not, depends on the idea for that chapter and if the plot requires it to be long. We'll see. Until next time!
Peace Out!
-MidnightJD
Update 1/2/17: Fixed placeholder name of Sally four times and replaced with real name of Athelia.