169 Chapter no.168 Pokémon League Statistics
Author Note :
So I wanted to inform everyone of you wonderful people that I have uploaded up to the latest chapter on Royal Road and Scribblehub with the same author name and fanfic name.
While uploading, some people on royal road commented that the transition of Raticate's death was a little too sudden. I agree so I decided to add a few changes to some of the previous chapters.
Chapters 3, 32, and 47 all have extra paragraphs added in which Delia Ketchum watches TV and hears news broadcasts on tragedies. I want to make it clear that you know, the usual bullshit that happens to Ash in the anime? Like how every week or so a small town is in danger because of some stupid Pokémon-related issue? Or how a giant Tentacruel just attacks the city out of nowhere or an ancient fossil Pokémon breaks free and decides to go on a rampage?
Turns out, that bullshit does not happen because Ash is the anime protagonist.
That bullshit happens everywhere around the world.
I am also going to add more such paragraphs featuring Delia Ketchum in the future and I will update everyone.
If you don't want to read it. This is the summary of those paragraphs.
Chapter 3: Before Austin's journey, someone died in the Fearow flock which caused Rangers and Ace trainers to remove a chuck of their population because of the damage they were doing to the Caterpie population in the area.
Chapter no.32: Delia is excited about the final episode of her favorite drama and as she switches channels, a piece of news is broadcasted about Suicune's appearance and Delia rolls her eyes at it.
Chapter no.47: Delia is crying due to the spin-off of her favorite drama being canceled because the producer and director got cursed by Ninetails. So she watches a nature documentary to soothe her pain.
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
I have also changed the approach to Raticate's death.
Before it was Raticate being poisoned and then dying to save Austin's life.
I have changed it so that Austin and Arianna have a battle beneath the deck alone.
Austin tries to heal Raticate with the poison Heal only to find it doesn't work due to Qwillfish poison requiring a specialized poison heal.
Raticate powers up with guts and tries to save everyone by launching a thunderbolt that shocked Arianna and then the death scene plays out similarly to the original.
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
Some of you have commented that our loveable Trio of Team Rocket hasn't had much time in my story so I changed that and added a lot more scenes to them in :
Chapter 9,11,12,23
Chapters 9 and 11 focus on Team Rocket after they are defeated in the Double Battle.
Chapter 12: Trio report back to Arianna.
Chapter 23: Arianna reports back to Giovanni who recognizes Yellow and comments on something that is going to play a very big part in the story later on.
Out of everything I shared, I think you should read chapter 23 just because of how important it is going to be in the future.
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
I wanted to ask, if should I do something like make my Pokedex entries and post them at the end of chapters. Each Pokedex entry would be unique and interesting with a lot of thought into it. I have already made Bulbasaur's Pokedex entry :
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒆𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒖𝒍𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒂𝒖𝒓 :
𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧, 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝; 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭, 𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐲𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐚 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫'𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐛 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐛 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥, 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲.]
Should I do more of such Pokedex entries for all the pokemon?
Yes or No
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
Charmeleon smirked. One done, three to go.
That was when he heard an ear-splitting scream, one that he instantly recognized, belonged to his trainer. Sniffing the air, and finding a faint scent, he leaped in the other direction.
It was now official. Arceus must hate him.
Completely ignoring the fact that there was a bleeding injury on his chest, and that the bones on his waist were still a little painful from Charmeleon's attack, Austin due to his workouts for the last month has allowed him to run his way through the forest, never looking back as he kept on trudging, running, falling on the forest floor, and continuing all the way all over again.
The Shiftries were amused by the fact that its prey believed that it could outrun them as they chased after Austin with amusement etched across their faces.
Now and then, he would find roots coming up from the ground, as he lost his balance and fell over them, hurting his knees as he managed to keep on running, yelling out Charmeleon's name in the wild as he did. For some reason, Charmeleon was still unavailable. Austin had nearly fallen into an Ariados nest (he couldn't even imagine what would have happened then), as he managed to keep on running. Hopefully, Charmeleon would be able to find him and stop this-
The thought died midway, as a Razor leaf slashed at his left leg, as he fell on the ground, face-first, and another fresh bruise on his left cheek, as blood began to trickle its way out of it.
The trio Shiftry turned around as three Leaf tornadoes combined into a giant leaf tornado that moved towards Austin.
In the face of impending doom, Austin could only scream in horror as he outstretched hands to at least protect him.
( ~ Boom ~ )
The dust cleared revealing a crimson barrier between Austin and the territorial Pokémon.
Austin felt extremely lightheaded as the crimson barrier around him began to break but from the tree tops Charmeleon landed in front of his trainer.
Austin sighed in relief and closed his eyes as he trusted Charmeleon to protect him.
Seeing his trainer injured and knocked out, Charmeleon had a murderous glow in his eyes as he combined Metal Claw and Dragon Claw into one before charging forward towards the territorial Pokémons.
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
It is a funny thing. Just ask any random kid out there, between the ages of six and fourteen, and ask him or her, what they wanted to become when they grew up. You'd get a common answer.
A Pokémon Master.
A term that every single child knew to heart, and for most, it was a dream to pursue for the rest of their lives. The funny thing was, one never really know what being a Pokémon Master was really about. For one thing, around eighty-five percent of the population that began their dreams as aspiring Pokémon masters ended up surviving their first year as a trainer. The rest… became part of a statistical chart that everyone pretended did not exist- the harsh truth of the occupation that was becoming a Pokémon trainer.
They forgot to tell you that. Didn't they? Well, pay attention.
Let us exclude the legendaries at first. For one, most people simply consider them as myth, and if not, then a thing of the past. A mix of religious belief and mythology. For those who did, even the very thought of being able to see a Legendary was like seeing God, since a Legendary was after a fashion, a conceptualization of a particular component of Nature. For instance, Moltres, the mythical King of fire. The word King, it must be noted, was not differentiated by gender, but by position, and as far as the conceptualization of Fire was concerned, Moltres was Fire-personified.
That left the two other kinds of pokémon—the ones who were pseudo-legendaries and the ones who weren't. The latter usually, were divided into two kinds- those who were naturally powerful and those who weren't. Often, it was found that a trainer would go searching for powerful pokémon, like a Gyarados for instance, and end up getting killed in the process. In fact, according to statistics, Gyarados, Magmar, Beedril, Charizard, and Fearow were the reasons for deaths for more than seventy percent of the total deaths registered every single year, the count of which, usually ended up somewhere in the greater seventies.
Those who survived their first year as a trainer usually ended up reaching the Leagues and battling their way through, some even reaching as high as the Top-32 before a stronger trainer shattered their dreams to achieve their own. The process continued for the next year and the next until one of four things happened.
First case. The trainer would end up winning a League, and then become a part of the Ace Squad.
Second. The trainer would reach a zenith as a Top-4 level trainer, and then private organizations (or sometimes the league) would consider them for their forces, most preferably the Ranger Squad.
Third. The trainer would probably choose one of the secondary professions out there, like the pokémon contests or showcases and the like. Considering a large number of failures, it is no surprise that the showcases and contests have grown in popularity over recent years.
The fourth and the last. They would leave the profession as a trainer and settle for something else. Maybe work for other companies, or get self-employed in fields unrelated to pokémon training. Usually, the dairy-farming industry employed hundreds of such trainers.
Needless to say, with such high rates of personal threat and professional failure, the Leagues have had to up their game, and give more reasons for people to try for the League as a trainer. And the reason they chose is the best possible one.
Money. And lots of it. The Ace Teams are paid in numbers that most people can't even dream of. In fact, in recent decades, the League introduced the idea of Gym leaders paying the trainers a certain sum of money (advancement) should they manage to defeat the Gym leader. All of that was done to ensure that the greed for greater incomes should achieve victory over the general fear that came to be associated with the life of a wannabe Pokémon Master.
