Pokemon Fan Fiction / Pokemon Fan Fiction / Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Stranded ❯ Prologue & Chapter 1 ( Chapter 1 )
[ P - Pre-Teen ]
By: Ballistic 
Like the name says... stranded.
Anime/Manga: Pokemon Fan Fiction / Pokemon Fan Fiction / Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Martial Arts / Adventure / Action | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 05.12.2002 | Pages: 4 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 1.0K | Status: Completed
Like the name says... stranded.
Anime/Manga: Pokemon Fan Fiction / Pokemon Fan Fiction / Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Martial Arts / Adventure / Action | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 05.12.2002 | Pages: 4 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 1.0K | Status: Completed
Disclaimer: I do not own either of these large franchises. I do not own the characters, or even this idea for a fanfic. They are owned by their whatever company says they do so don't complain to me if you don't like the characters.
(This fanfic takes place during the Garlic Jr. saga [filler between the Frieza saga and the Trunks saga] in DBZ, and before that Orange Island crap in Pokemon)
Stranded
A DBZ/Pokemon Crossover Fanfic
Written by: Ballistic
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Prologue
Gohan felt relieved.
As he and Kuririn fought off Garlic Jr's henchmen, Piccolo discretely released the cure to the black water mist onto the Earth, and released both Kami and Mr. Popo from their imprisonment inside Garlic Jr's jars. Gohan also found the opportunity to destroy the Makyo Star in which Garlic Jr claimed to get his power. All that was left was to take care of a very frustrated Garlic Jr.
Garlic Jr. couldn't have been angrier. His attempted ascension to Kami (god) of the Earth was torn apart by a small child, a stumpy, bald monk, and the over grown lizard, Piccolo. He couldn't believe that all of his hard work was for nothing. 'Well,' he thought, 'if I can't become a god, I'll at least be able to exact my revenge on the one that caused my imprisonment in the dead zone in the first place!'
Gohan couldn't think of a permanent way to deal with Garlic Jr. He was immortal, thanks to the dragon balls, so he couldn't be killed. He was thinking of imprisoning him somehow, when Garlic Jr suddenly created a rift into another dimension.
"Get out of the way!" yelled Gohan. Kuririn and Piccolo were moving away from the portal, when Garlic Jr suddenly rushed up to attack Gohan.
Piccolo and Kuririn tried to intercept, but they were too late. Garlic Jr threw Gohan at the portal. Gohan attempted to struggle, but was unable to break himself of the portal's gravitational pull. For his last chance to free himself from the rift, he gathered up his ki to use an attack to push himself away.
"Ma...san...ko...HAA!" screamed Gohan as he released everything he had left into his ki beam at the gravitational anomaly.
As the attack hit the portal, it shifted. It changed colours from purple and black to green and yellow. Despite the amount of force he directed at the portal, it pulled him in as he drifted into unconsciousness from exhaustion.
"GOHAAN!" yelled an enraged Piccolo. Garlic Jr was standing still, looking as surprised as Piccolo and Kuririn felt. Piccolo rushed up and pounded his fist against Garlic Jr's head.
"Where did he go!" demanded piccolo. "Answer me!" he shouted as he threw Garlic Jr to the ground.
"That portal was supposed to be for the dead zone!" snarled Garlic Jr. "After he shot at it, the portal shifted and now he could be anywhere."
While Piccolo or Kuririn watched in stunned silence as the rift closed, Garlic Jr decided to cut his loses and get out of there.
When Piccolo went to get some more answers out of Garlic Jr, he turned around just in time to see a purple portal close after Garlic Jr exited through it.
Piccolo was furious, but was eventually able to regain control and was beginning to think of a way to help Gohan out. Kuririn was still shocked at what happened. 'What am I going to tell Chi-chi,' he thought. He groaned aloud as he contemplated as to how he was going to explain what happened.
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Chapter 1
Gohan couldn't remember the last time he'd been in so much pain. In fact, he couldn't even remember what had happened to cause him to hurt like this.
Gohan opened his eyes and realized he was lying down in the middle of a small forest. Groggily, he sat up.
As he looked around, he realized he had no idea where he was. All he could remember was playing with Icarus in a wood near home. None of this place seemed familiar.
As Gohan stood up, he felt a familiar sensation he hasn't felt for a while now. He reached back and grabbed his newly regrown tail. 'It grew back?' he thought to himself. He released his tail and wrapped it around his waist like a belt.
'That's funny, I don't see Icarus around anywhere', thought Gohan.
"ICARUS!" called Gohan. "I wonder what happened to him. I hope he's not hurt or nothin'."
Gohan flew up into the air to see if he recognized any of the surroundings. Even from above he didn't see any familiar landmarks that would tell him where he was. After seeing the nearby cities and towns, he decided to land to avoid suspicion.
He decided that his best course of action was to walk to the nearest foot trail he saw when he was in the air. He was trying to remember which direction the nearest city was, when he heard a loud cry.
"FEAROW!!" shrieked a large bird as it dove for Gohan's head. It slammed into Gohan as he turned around to see what was going on. The bird got back up and started to stab Gohan with its beak.
After dodging the bird several times, Gohan realizes that the bird wouldn't let up until he did something about it. Gohan punched the fearow to get it to stop, and it was thrown into a nearby tree. Gohan got prepared for another series of attacks from the bird, but it stopped moving.
Gohan ran up to the fearow to see if it was seriously injured. The bird appeared to be twitching, showing it was alive, but didn't look like it was going to be conscious anytime soon.
'Uh oh,' thought Gohan...
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"I guess I should feel lucky", signed a very bored Officer Jenny. She had been going over the last several investigations. They were usually about a missing boy or some other case that was solved within the hour. "I knew Viridian City was supposed to be quiet, but this wasn't what I thought they meant by that."
"Excuse Me," said a young voice.
Jenny almost jumped out of her chair. She stood up and walked over to the window the voice came from. There stood a short boy, no older than nine carrying a badly hurt fearow in his arms. The boy was rather short, had long, badly tangled black hair and wore a dark purple shirt and pants, with what looked like a white neck warmer.
"What are you doing with that pokemon?" She gasped after seeing the small boy holding such a large fearow. "Are you trying to steal it?" she asked, her voice filled with suspicion.
"What's a pokemon?" asked the boy with a confused look on his face.
Jenny was going to accuse of him trying to play dumb, but when she saw the absence of pokemon trainer equipment, she felt she should believe him. "That fearow you're holding is a pokemon." She stated.
"Oh. Well, I'm not stealing it", replied the boy. "I found it in the wild, and I was hoping you could help me find a place that could take care of his injuries."
Officer Jenny pointed down the road and said, "There's a Pokemon Center down that road about a quarter of a mile." The confused look the boy gave was evidence enough that he needed clarification. "It's the red and white spherical building. You can't miss it."
"Thank you", replied the boy as he started walking towards the direction she pointed.
"Hey, I'll need your name so I can record our conversation." Jenny called after him.
"It's Gohan", replied the boy.
**********
Gohan was hoping that the bird was going to be okay. 'I didn't mean to hit it that hard', he thought. 'I just hope that the poke-whatever center can help him.'
Gohan had been walking in the direction the officer told him for around fifteen minutes now. He'd seen lots of advertisements that involved these pokemon creatures, and yet he hadn't seen a single Capsule Corporation vehicle, outlet store, or even an advertisement.
He then noticed the round building that had the words 'pokemon center', and quickened his pace.
He ran into the door, hoping to be able to get some help for the bird that he was carrying.
When he was inside, he noticed a nurse at the front desk with a nametag that read 'Nurse Joy'. She looked at Gohan, and when she noticed the condition the fearow was in, she called an emergency on the intercom. Two odd egg-shaped creatures came out and put the bird on a stretcher. Gohan assumed that these egg-shaped things must be pokemon as well. The two pokemon then wheeled the bird into the treatment room.
The nurse looked at Gohan and gave him an angry look. "How could you let your fearow get in that bad of a condition? How can you even consider yourself a pokemon trainer?" she almost yelled at him.
Gohan gave her a puzzled look. "What's a pokemon trainer?" he asked quizzically.
Nurse Joy's look of anger was replaced with one of confusion. "A trainer is someone who trains pokemon to fight", she responded.
Gohan still didn't quite understand. "Why would someone want to do something like that?"
"Well, the do that so they can fight their pokemon against another trainers pokemon." Joy explained.
Gohan thought about it for a minute. "What a silly thing to do", he replied. With that he went and sat down in the waiting room. "Tell me when that fearow is feeling better so I can release him into the wild", he called out.
Nurse Joy still seemed uneasy. After a minute she walked into the treatment room to help out the fearow.
Gohan sat there waiting for ten minutes. He looked over and noticed a phone booth, and decided to try to call Bulma at Capsule Corp. Maybe she would know where he was.
He picked up the receiver and dialed 0 to try to get a hold of the operator. "Hello, how may I help you?" asked the woman on the other end.
"I would like you to connect me to Capsule Corp headquarters." said Gohan.
"Please hold," replied the woman. After a minute on hold, the woman answered, "Sorry, but there is no such company", followed by a dial tone.
Gohan hung up the phone and stared at it. This didn't make much sense. Capsule Corp was one of the largest companies in the world. He shook his head and sat back down in a chair in the waiting room.
Gohan saw it was getting dark out, so he decided that he would figure it out in the morning.
**********
Meanwhile...
Ash was starting to feel better. He didn't make it into the finals for the Pokemon League Tournament, but as his friend demonstrated, it is best to let those experiences motivate you instead of letting them defeat you.
Currently, he was walking from Indigo Plateau to Viridian City, and then to Pallet Town from there. The walk would do him, Misty, Brock and Pikachu some good. They've been spending some time taking it easy, and the exercise and time to think should help them become more dedicated.
It was getting late, but they should be able to make it to Viridian City before it gets too dark.
Ash looked over at Pikachu. He was resting on his shoulder from the long walk. Everyone's been rather quiet this trip. 'They were probably worried I'd become depressed', thought Ash.
Brock broke the silence by saying, "Hey, I think we're almost at Viridian City."
Ash looked up and sure enough, the buildings on the outskirts of Viridian City was right in front of them. It was already rather dark, so they decided to walk quicker. Ash looked over and saw that Misty's Togepi was already asleep.
"You know Ash, this is the first time we've made it from one place to another without fighting with each other", pointed out Misty.
Ash thought about it. "I believe your right!" he answered.
"That won't last long", Brock thought out loud. "It never does."
"What's that supposed to mean?!" shouted Ash and Misty.
"Uh... nothing?" replied a frightened Brock.
After about a half-hour of walking, they've arrived at the Pokemon Center. They ran up the stairs and through the front doors.
Inside there was the usual front desk and a Nurse Joy behind it, working on some paperwork.
Before Brock could react to seeing Joy, Misty quickly elbowed him in the stomach.
Nurse Joy saw them and smiled. "Welcome to The Viridian City Pokemon Center. How may I help you?", greeted Joy in the usual manner.
"We just need a place to rest for the night." replied Ash. "Our pokemon could also need some small healing.", he added after the three of them handed over their pokeballs.
Ash, Brock, Misty and Pikachu walked over to the visitor area to get settled for the night. As they walked over there, they saw a small boy who was also sleeping there. The boy was 8 or 9 years old, and wore dark purple clothing with a white, billowy neck of the shirt.
Ash and Misty were setting up their sleeping bags on the floor when Misty turned to Ash. "What do you suppose a boy that young is doing out here?" She asked.
Ash looked at the boy. "He's probably trying to start his pokemon training early." he figured.
Misty looked him over. "I don't think so. Where's his pokeballs and pokedex?"
"I dunno. You can ask him tomorrow", yawned Ash as he went to sleep.
Misty turned to him, and saw Ash, Brock and Pikachu already asleep. She decided she should do the same.
***********
Gohan yawned as he sat up. The light coming from one of the windows woke him. He slept surprisingly well, considering he was sleeping upright in a chair all night.
Gohan suddenly remembered the bird he brought in with him. He hopped off the chair, as was about to go to the front desk to inquire about that bird, when he tripped on something hard and fell to the floor.
"Oww!" exclaimed a boy. Gohan looked and saw he tripped over the head of a black-haired boy who was sleeping on the floor by his feet.
"Sorry", Gohan quickly apologized. "I didn't see you there."
"What's going on?" asked a sleepy red-haired girl as she got up.
"He tripped on my head", stated the boy. He was still holding his head.
"It was an accident." replied Gohan.
"Well, we're up now." said an older brown haired boy.
Gohan also noticed a yellow rabbit-like creature. "Is that another one of the pokemon things?" he asked.
"Yep", replied Ash, seemingly feeling better. "That's a Pikachu."
Gohan looked back at the boy. "I guess that would make you three of those pokemon trainers the nurse told me about."
"That's right", answered the boy. "I'm Ash, that's Brock and she's Misty".
"Hi, I'm Gohan", replied Gohan.
After the four greeted each other, Misty still seemed to have something on her mind. "Why are you staying in a pokemon center if you're not a pokemon trainer?" she asked Gohan.
"I brought in an injured bird I found. Some police officer told me I could bring it here." Answered Gohan. "I almost forgot!" he exclaimed as he ran for the desk with Joy working at it.
"How is that pokemon that I brought in?" he asked with worry evident in his voice.
"He's just fine." Joy smiled. "You can take him whenever you want to. I should warn you, he's still wild", she looked at him seriously.
Gohan gave a sigh of relief. He walked back to Ash and the others.
"So, where are you going?" asked Ash.
Gohan felt nervous. "Actually, I'm lost. I don't know where I should go."
"Well, where are you from?" inquired Misty.
"My mom and I didn't really live in a town or anything. We lived in a house near some woods. Satan City was about a mile or two away," replied Gohan.
Brock, Ash and Misty looked at one another. "We've never even heard of that city," said Brock. "This is the Kanto region."
Gohan gave him a questioning look. "I've never heard of Kanto".
Ash, Misty and Brock looked worried. Ash spoke up and said, "Maybe Professor Oak can help? We're going that way, so you could travel with us." he offered.
"Thanks!" exclaimed Gohan. "I'm going to go get the pokemon to release it," replied Gohan as he ran up to the desk one more time to get the fearow. Ash, Brock and Misty also walked up to retrieve their pokeballs.
(End of Chapter 1)
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(This fanfic takes place during the Garlic Jr. saga [filler between the Frieza saga and the Trunks saga] in DBZ, and before that Orange Island crap in Pokemon)
Stranded
A DBZ/Pokemon Crossover Fanfic
Written by: Ballistic
********
Prologue
Gohan felt relieved.
As he and Kuririn fought off Garlic Jr's henchmen, Piccolo discretely released the cure to the black water mist onto the Earth, and released both Kami and Mr. Popo from their imprisonment inside Garlic Jr's jars. Gohan also found the opportunity to destroy the Makyo Star in which Garlic Jr claimed to get his power. All that was left was to take care of a very frustrated Garlic Jr.
Garlic Jr. couldn't have been angrier. His attempted ascension to Kami (god) of the Earth was torn apart by a small child, a stumpy, bald monk, and the over grown lizard, Piccolo. He couldn't believe that all of his hard work was for nothing. 'Well,' he thought, 'if I can't become a god, I'll at least be able to exact my revenge on the one that caused my imprisonment in the dead zone in the first place!'
Gohan couldn't think of a permanent way to deal with Garlic Jr. He was immortal, thanks to the dragon balls, so he couldn't be killed. He was thinking of imprisoning him somehow, when Garlic Jr suddenly created a rift into another dimension.
"Get out of the way!" yelled Gohan. Kuririn and Piccolo were moving away from the portal, when Garlic Jr suddenly rushed up to attack Gohan.
Piccolo and Kuririn tried to intercept, but they were too late. Garlic Jr threw Gohan at the portal. Gohan attempted to struggle, but was unable to break himself of the portal's gravitational pull. For his last chance to free himself from the rift, he gathered up his ki to use an attack to push himself away.
"Ma...san...ko...HAA!" screamed Gohan as he released everything he had left into his ki beam at the gravitational anomaly.
As the attack hit the portal, it shifted. It changed colours from purple and black to green and yellow. Despite the amount of force he directed at the portal, it pulled him in as he drifted into unconsciousness from exhaustion.
"GOHAAN!" yelled an enraged Piccolo. Garlic Jr was standing still, looking as surprised as Piccolo and Kuririn felt. Piccolo rushed up and pounded his fist against Garlic Jr's head.
"Where did he go!" demanded piccolo. "Answer me!" he shouted as he threw Garlic Jr to the ground.
"That portal was supposed to be for the dead zone!" snarled Garlic Jr. "After he shot at it, the portal shifted and now he could be anywhere."
While Piccolo or Kuririn watched in stunned silence as the rift closed, Garlic Jr decided to cut his loses and get out of there.
When Piccolo went to get some more answers out of Garlic Jr, he turned around just in time to see a purple portal close after Garlic Jr exited through it.
Piccolo was furious, but was eventually able to regain control and was beginning to think of a way to help Gohan out. Kuririn was still shocked at what happened. 'What am I going to tell Chi-chi,' he thought. He groaned aloud as he contemplated as to how he was going to explain what happened.
*********
Chapter 1
Gohan couldn't remember the last time he'd been in so much pain. In fact, he couldn't even remember what had happened to cause him to hurt like this.
Gohan opened his eyes and realized he was lying down in the middle of a small forest. Groggily, he sat up.
As he looked around, he realized he had no idea where he was. All he could remember was playing with Icarus in a wood near home. None of this place seemed familiar.
As Gohan stood up, he felt a familiar sensation he hasn't felt for a while now. He reached back and grabbed his newly regrown tail. 'It grew back?' he thought to himself. He released his tail and wrapped it around his waist like a belt.
'That's funny, I don't see Icarus around anywhere', thought Gohan.
"ICARUS!" called Gohan. "I wonder what happened to him. I hope he's not hurt or nothin'."
Gohan flew up into the air to see if he recognized any of the surroundings. Even from above he didn't see any familiar landmarks that would tell him where he was. After seeing the nearby cities and towns, he decided to land to avoid suspicion.
He decided that his best course of action was to walk to the nearest foot trail he saw when he was in the air. He was trying to remember which direction the nearest city was, when he heard a loud cry.
"FEAROW!!" shrieked a large bird as it dove for Gohan's head. It slammed into Gohan as he turned around to see what was going on. The bird got back up and started to stab Gohan with its beak.
After dodging the bird several times, Gohan realizes that the bird wouldn't let up until he did something about it. Gohan punched the fearow to get it to stop, and it was thrown into a nearby tree. Gohan got prepared for another series of attacks from the bird, but it stopped moving.
Gohan ran up to the fearow to see if it was seriously injured. The bird appeared to be twitching, showing it was alive, but didn't look like it was going to be conscious anytime soon.
'Uh oh,' thought Gohan...
**********
"I guess I should feel lucky", signed a very bored Officer Jenny. She had been going over the last several investigations. They were usually about a missing boy or some other case that was solved within the hour. "I knew Viridian City was supposed to be quiet, but this wasn't what I thought they meant by that."
"Excuse Me," said a young voice.
Jenny almost jumped out of her chair. She stood up and walked over to the window the voice came from. There stood a short boy, no older than nine carrying a badly hurt fearow in his arms. The boy was rather short, had long, badly tangled black hair and wore a dark purple shirt and pants, with what looked like a white neck warmer.
"What are you doing with that pokemon?" She gasped after seeing the small boy holding such a large fearow. "Are you trying to steal it?" she asked, her voice filled with suspicion.
"What's a pokemon?" asked the boy with a confused look on his face.
Jenny was going to accuse of him trying to play dumb, but when she saw the absence of pokemon trainer equipment, she felt she should believe him. "That fearow you're holding is a pokemon." She stated.
"Oh. Well, I'm not stealing it", replied the boy. "I found it in the wild, and I was hoping you could help me find a place that could take care of his injuries."
Officer Jenny pointed down the road and said, "There's a Pokemon Center down that road about a quarter of a mile." The confused look the boy gave was evidence enough that he needed clarification. "It's the red and white spherical building. You can't miss it."
"Thank you", replied the boy as he started walking towards the direction she pointed.
"Hey, I'll need your name so I can record our conversation." Jenny called after him.
"It's Gohan", replied the boy.
**********
Gohan was hoping that the bird was going to be okay. 'I didn't mean to hit it that hard', he thought. 'I just hope that the poke-whatever center can help him.'
Gohan had been walking in the direction the officer told him for around fifteen minutes now. He'd seen lots of advertisements that involved these pokemon creatures, and yet he hadn't seen a single Capsule Corporation vehicle, outlet store, or even an advertisement.
He then noticed the round building that had the words 'pokemon center', and quickened his pace.
He ran into the door, hoping to be able to get some help for the bird that he was carrying.
When he was inside, he noticed a nurse at the front desk with a nametag that read 'Nurse Joy'. She looked at Gohan, and when she noticed the condition the fearow was in, she called an emergency on the intercom. Two odd egg-shaped creatures came out and put the bird on a stretcher. Gohan assumed that these egg-shaped things must be pokemon as well. The two pokemon then wheeled the bird into the treatment room.
The nurse looked at Gohan and gave him an angry look. "How could you let your fearow get in that bad of a condition? How can you even consider yourself a pokemon trainer?" she almost yelled at him.
Gohan gave her a puzzled look. "What's a pokemon trainer?" he asked quizzically.
Nurse Joy's look of anger was replaced with one of confusion. "A trainer is someone who trains pokemon to fight", she responded.
Gohan still didn't quite understand. "Why would someone want to do something like that?"
"Well, the do that so they can fight their pokemon against another trainers pokemon." Joy explained.
Gohan thought about it for a minute. "What a silly thing to do", he replied. With that he went and sat down in the waiting room. "Tell me when that fearow is feeling better so I can release him into the wild", he called out.
Nurse Joy still seemed uneasy. After a minute she walked into the treatment room to help out the fearow.
Gohan sat there waiting for ten minutes. He looked over and noticed a phone booth, and decided to try to call Bulma at Capsule Corp. Maybe she would know where he was.
He picked up the receiver and dialed 0 to try to get a hold of the operator. "Hello, how may I help you?" asked the woman on the other end.
"I would like you to connect me to Capsule Corp headquarters." said Gohan.
"Please hold," replied the woman. After a minute on hold, the woman answered, "Sorry, but there is no such company", followed by a dial tone.
Gohan hung up the phone and stared at it. This didn't make much sense. Capsule Corp was one of the largest companies in the world. He shook his head and sat back down in a chair in the waiting room.
Gohan saw it was getting dark out, so he decided that he would figure it out in the morning.
**********
Meanwhile...
Ash was starting to feel better. He didn't make it into the finals for the Pokemon League Tournament, but as his friend demonstrated, it is best to let those experiences motivate you instead of letting them defeat you.
Currently, he was walking from Indigo Plateau to Viridian City, and then to Pallet Town from there. The walk would do him, Misty, Brock and Pikachu some good. They've been spending some time taking it easy, and the exercise and time to think should help them become more dedicated.
It was getting late, but they should be able to make it to Viridian City before it gets too dark.
Ash looked over at Pikachu. He was resting on his shoulder from the long walk. Everyone's been rather quiet this trip. 'They were probably worried I'd become depressed', thought Ash.
Brock broke the silence by saying, "Hey, I think we're almost at Viridian City."
Ash looked up and sure enough, the buildings on the outskirts of Viridian City was right in front of them. It was already rather dark, so they decided to walk quicker. Ash looked over and saw that Misty's Togepi was already asleep.
"You know Ash, this is the first time we've made it from one place to another without fighting with each other", pointed out Misty.
Ash thought about it. "I believe your right!" he answered.
"That won't last long", Brock thought out loud. "It never does."
"What's that supposed to mean?!" shouted Ash and Misty.
"Uh... nothing?" replied a frightened Brock.
After about a half-hour of walking, they've arrived at the Pokemon Center. They ran up the stairs and through the front doors.
Inside there was the usual front desk and a Nurse Joy behind it, working on some paperwork.
Before Brock could react to seeing Joy, Misty quickly elbowed him in the stomach.
Nurse Joy saw them and smiled. "Welcome to The Viridian City Pokemon Center. How may I help you?", greeted Joy in the usual manner.
"We just need a place to rest for the night." replied Ash. "Our pokemon could also need some small healing.", he added after the three of them handed over their pokeballs.
Ash, Brock, Misty and Pikachu walked over to the visitor area to get settled for the night. As they walked over there, they saw a small boy who was also sleeping there. The boy was 8 or 9 years old, and wore dark purple clothing with a white, billowy neck of the shirt.
Ash and Misty were setting up their sleeping bags on the floor when Misty turned to Ash. "What do you suppose a boy that young is doing out here?" She asked.
Ash looked at the boy. "He's probably trying to start his pokemon training early." he figured.
Misty looked him over. "I don't think so. Where's his pokeballs and pokedex?"
"I dunno. You can ask him tomorrow", yawned Ash as he went to sleep.
Misty turned to him, and saw Ash, Brock and Pikachu already asleep. She decided she should do the same.
***********
Gohan yawned as he sat up. The light coming from one of the windows woke him. He slept surprisingly well, considering he was sleeping upright in a chair all night.
Gohan suddenly remembered the bird he brought in with him. He hopped off the chair, as was about to go to the front desk to inquire about that bird, when he tripped on something hard and fell to the floor.
"Oww!" exclaimed a boy. Gohan looked and saw he tripped over the head of a black-haired boy who was sleeping on the floor by his feet.
"Sorry", Gohan quickly apologized. "I didn't see you there."
"What's going on?" asked a sleepy red-haired girl as she got up.
"He tripped on my head", stated the boy. He was still holding his head.
"It was an accident." replied Gohan.
"Well, we're up now." said an older brown haired boy.
Gohan also noticed a yellow rabbit-like creature. "Is that another one of the pokemon things?" he asked.
"Yep", replied Ash, seemingly feeling better. "That's a Pikachu."
Gohan looked back at the boy. "I guess that would make you three of those pokemon trainers the nurse told me about."
"That's right", answered the boy. "I'm Ash, that's Brock and she's Misty".
"Hi, I'm Gohan", replied Gohan.
After the four greeted each other, Misty still seemed to have something on her mind. "Why are you staying in a pokemon center if you're not a pokemon trainer?" she asked Gohan.
"I brought in an injured bird I found. Some police officer told me I could bring it here." Answered Gohan. "I almost forgot!" he exclaimed as he ran for the desk with Joy working at it.
"How is that pokemon that I brought in?" he asked with worry evident in his voice.
"He's just fine." Joy smiled. "You can take him whenever you want to. I should warn you, he's still wild", she looked at him seriously.
Gohan gave a sigh of relief. He walked back to Ash and the others.
"So, where are you going?" asked Ash.
Gohan felt nervous. "Actually, I'm lost. I don't know where I should go."
"Well, where are you from?" inquired Misty.
"My mom and I didn't really live in a town or anything. We lived in a house near some woods. Satan City was about a mile or two away," replied Gohan.
Brock, Ash and Misty looked at one another. "We've never even heard of that city," said Brock. "This is the Kanto region."
Gohan gave him a questioning look. "I've never heard of Kanto".
Ash, Misty and Brock looked worried. Ash spoke up and said, "Maybe Professor Oak can help? We're going that way, so you could travel with us." he offered.
"Thanks!" exclaimed Gohan. "I'm going to go get the pokemon to release it," replied Gohan as he ran up to the desk one more time to get the fearow. Ash, Brock and Misty also walked up to retrieve their pokeballs.
(End of Chapter 1)
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