"Red" Normal Speech

'Green' People's thoughts

"Charizard" Other being's speech

'Mewtwo' Other being's thoughts

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon. It belongs to The Pokemon Company, Nintendo, Game Freak and Satoshi Tajiri

AN: This chapter had yet to be beta-read

Warning: This fanfic contains spoilers of the Pokemon Adventure manga. You can easily read this fic without having read the manga though, and this is just for those that want to avoid spoilers from it

Prologue

A Stranded Champion

Kanto, Pallet Town

With a sudden jolt he woke up, cold sweat going down his brow. His right hand quickly met his face in an attempt at calming down, his heavy breathing causing his chest to rise and fall as quick as it could.

His mind was a mess, confusion showing on his eyes as he inspected where he was. He was sitting in a bed, in a room that he didn't recognize at all. A pale blue color plastered the walls, with a TV and a full body mirror being on the side of the medium-size room. He could also see a lot of Pokemon related stuff that honestly didn't surprise him as much.

Then came a headache so strong that he raised both hands to his head in a vain attempt at stopping it. His mind became even more of a mess, to the point that he couldn't even remember the simpler stuff.

He couldn't even remember his freacking name. How did one forget about that?! A little moment of calm appeared for him, a word suddenly resounding so much on his mind that he couldn't stop it from escaping his lips.

"Red…" That's right that was his name. He remembered it now. He had no idea of anything else or where he was, but that was a start, right? Positive thinking Red, positive thinking.

He tried to leave the bed, his legs wobbling a little bit as soon as hit feet met the cold floor. He managed to stand up slowly, and just as slowly he walked away from the bed, his breathing still hard as his eyes roamed the room he was in, trying to make a sense of what was happening.

Then another headache struck him, strong enough to actually send him to the floor on his knees. A bunch of memories suddenly appeared on his head. He easily remember some of them, but there were others that he just knew were wrong, like they didn't belong to him at all.

His eyes finally landed on the big full-body mirror, and what he saw made his eyes go as wide as they could. He knew how he looked like of course, even with his normal attire missing, but the person that greeted him on the mirror was definitely not him!

Instead of the black hair and red eyes that he was supposed to have he was greeted with brown eyes and a slightly less dark hair. However that wasn't the biggest shock, no. The greatest one was when, instead of seeing his nineteen year old self, he only saw what he guessed was a thirteen year old teenager with slightly tanned skin and some rare marks on his cheeks.

Red simply sat there, watching the reflection of the mirror with a dazzled look, not knowing what to think or believe. His head was a mess but the pain had lessened a lot, although that didn't fix his utter shock at all.

He wasn't one to curse at all, however when his lips finally moved only one sentence escaped them, one that basically summed up how he felt right now.

"Crap basket"

And then he did the only sensitive to do in this situation and fainted right there on the post, completely missing the object under his bed that, just like him, didn't belong to this world either.

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Next day

Red was a mess. He had never felt so utterly lost in his life, not even when Deoxys had practically demolished his Pokemon team by itself had he felt so lost, even though that had been one of the lowest moments on his life.

He shook his head. Now was not the time for depressing thoughts like that. He needed to get the hell out of here as soon as he could, which was the reason he was practically running to the outskirt of what apparently was Pallet Town. It certainly looked like the Pallet Town he remembered, but at the same time it was so different that he couldn't help but to look at everything with suspicious eyes.

Ash Ketchum. Oh how he had come to hate that name. He had only heard it yesterday and yet it was probably one of the things he hated the most right now. At everywhere he went people called him like that, as if that was his name! No! His name was Red damn it, plain and simple!

But no. The few people he had talked to yesterday had acted as if he was this Ash Ketchum kid. The fact that he looked completely different from how he was supposed to look probably didn't help either.

Honestly yesterday he almost had a nervous breakdown. He felt a little bit better now though, since he managed to calm his head yesterday as soon as he got some time alone, which wasn't as easy as it sound with his mom thinking he was sick and hovering over him as if he was going to break at any second.

Oh yes, he had a mother now. Well more like Ash Ketchum has one, and he just happened to now be in that boy's body. Not the best hypothesis but damn that was the only logical thing that he managed to come about.

Yesterday has still been a bad day though. From his head hurting so much to everything that was happening yesterday had really sucked. There had been a few good moments though, one of them being meeting a rather familiar face.

Professor Oak had decided to visit him and his mo-Delia yesterday. The young Champion practically jumped out of joy as soon as he saw the old professor, but that happiness had quickly turned into sorrow as soon as it became obvious that this wasn't his Professor Oak.

The fact that the man had never heard of anyone named Red pretty much told him that.

However the second high point of his day truly promised to be great. It actually was one of the reasons of his sudden journey to the outside of Pallet Town. He couldn't let anyone see this or else he would have to answer far too many questions, which will probably make people think he was a nut job.

Hey! I'm a nineteen year old trapped in the body of a thirteen year old boy! I belong to another world in which I'm the Champion of Kanto! Pretty sweet right?!

Maybe he was a nutjob.

'Positive thinking Red, positive thinking' the trainer thought as if it was a mantra. He had been doing that a lot lately, but for an obvious good reason.

He finally reached a secluded enough area, to the side of the main road that, if this place was really like he remembered, connected Pallet Town with Viridian City. Surrounded by some trees this was the perfect place but what he had planned.

He knew he didn't have much time before Delia came looking for him, so the young boy took a small spherical object from the pockets on his pants. Almost everyone in the world would easily recognize this item was a Pokeball, however this Pokeball was definitely differencing from the ones in this world because of a simple fact.

Red could clearly see the Pokemon inside of the ball. A miniature size of the Pokemon sure, but he could clearly see it, which allowed to see how said Pokemon was looking straight back at him with such a pair of sharp eyes that Red wasn't able to stop picturing the Pokemon's original trainer also looking t him with the same kind of eyes.

That thought alone made him smile a little bit. Oh how he wished for Blue to be here. He probably would know what to do right now.

"Get out Charizard!" Red said, opening the Pokeball, allowing said Pokemon to fully appear in front of him.

The mighty Fire/Flying Pokemon roared to the sky as soon as he appeared, his wings expanding as much as they could, and his flame-covered tail moving slowly behind him. The Pokemon's eyes were quick to find Red's in a look that the trainer could admit would scare him if he didn't trust this Pokemon already.

The black-haired teen gulped, admiring just how powerful Charizard looked. He was definitely the tallest Charizard he had ever met, an obvious result of his Trainer's regular hard training, something that he himself was never able to match. He guessed that's why he held the title of Fighter while Blue owned the one of Trainer, at least according to his Professor Oak.

"You… you know who I am, right?" Red asked with both trepidation and hope. As far as he knew Charizard was his only link to his world right now, but if the Pokemon didn't know who he was then his hope would crumble once again.

Charizard looked down at the trainer for a few seconds, which just made Red even more nervous than before. However that nervousness banished as soon as the Kanto starter nodded at him, making the young trainer have his first real smile ever since he got here.

Then he gave Charizard a bear hug, catching the Fire/Flying Pokemon unprepared. Not knowing what else to do since he had never dealt with such a blatant show of emotion the Pokemon just patted the boy in the back, waiting for him to break the hug.

But when the hug continued for a whole minute the Charizard simply growled in warning, making the black-haired teen to release him with a sheepish smile while scratching the back of his head, remembering how Blue's Pokemon weren't ones to do this kind of thing, even though this Charizard had become a lot more friendlier towards him after years of knowing him.

"Alright then this means that I'm not crazy and that I didn't dream all of, well, my life" Red said, a weight finally leaving his shoulders. He hadn't actually believed that, but the doubt had starter forming on his head after seeing Professor Oak yesterday.

"Then that means we were really sent to another…whatever this place is?" the young Champion questioned himself, deciding that was probably the best conclusion that there was. Honestly it didn't sound that weird when you remembered that there were Pokemon out there that could bend time, space and reality itself.

Heck he had one witnessed Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres fusing into one Pokemon. He dealt with crazy stuff on daily basis

"You remember what we were doing before getting here?" this time Red asked Charizard, to which the Pokemon simply shook his head, his eyes still glued to Red's form. The Pokemon honestly hoped that the boy was able to figure something out soon, since he really wanted to go back to his trainer.

For his part Red couldn't help but to close his eyes at this. Yesterday he hadn't been able to remember much, but today his mind had been a lot kinder to him. Not only he didn't felt like his head was being bitted by a Sharpedo, but now he remembered everything clearly.

Well, mostly everything.

The last he remembered was being tasked by Professor Oak, alongside Blue, to go to the Kalos region to learn more about something called Mega Evolution, but after that? Nothing. His mind went completely blank. It frustrated him a lot, but he could only wonder what had happened in Kalos.

He knew the answer as to how they got here was in those memories, and just maybe a way to go back.

That was the main focus for Red now, to find a way to go back to his world. If something sent him here alongside Charizard then something must be able to send him back, right? At least that was the logic he was using, and he hoped so much for it to be right.

But what should he do now? He needed a way back, that much was obvious, but how will he find that? Going to Kalos looked like his best choice, since that has the last place he remembered, and he was sure that with Charizard he could get there in no time.

But it wasn't that easy. He wasn't the same kid that did things without thinking. Sure he might still charge recklessly sometimes, something that his friends like to point out a lot, but he was more mature now, and he knew that he couldn't just go to Kalos in search for answers.

He wasn't even in his body. In this world he wasn't Red, but Ash Ketchum. He wasn't even a trainer here! He didn't have his Pokemon either, something that worried him a lot too. Why was Blue's Charizard here with him instead of his own Pokemon? He just hoped they were alright wherever they were.

The black-haired youth ended up releasing a frustrated sigh. He would have to play it cool for now, which basically meant going back and act as Ash Ketchum as much as he could. He would have to hide Charizard too. He wasn't a really good liar but he would try, even though he felt really bad for Ash's mom

The woman was really kind. He had been able to figure that one out in just a day, and acting like her son just felt wrong to him. Like he was taking advantage of her, but he didn't have a choice now did he? Besides the fastest he got out of here the fastest she would get her son back.

Red looked at Charizard with a determinate stare. The Fire/Flying type Pokemon didn't need words and just nodded, trusting the former Champion easily. His trainer had trusted the boy with his life, so he would do the same, and he knew that if someone could get them back that person was Red.

Red returned Charizard to his Pokeball and put it on his pocket, deciding to go back already before someone went looking for him. He would play it slowly now, get some information and make a plan. Not his favorite tactic outside of pokemon fights but he will adapt if he had to.

What was the worst that could happen anyway?

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1 month later

Red hated himself.

He felt like scum. He was scum, he was sure of that. He was the worst, lowest dirt that existed. He was sure that Giovanni was a better person than himself at this point.

After all only the absolute worst could take advantage of someone like Delia Ketchum

The woman was a saint! A scary one yes, but a saint none the less! Ash Ketchum had been a lucky kid for having a mother like that, and here he was, pretending to be her son.

Yep. Scum. Thrash He was sure hell was already waiting for him.

Well at least there was someone he hated more than himself, and Charizard shared that sentiment with him completely.

Gary motherfucking Oak.

When he had first see the boy he couldn't help but to think of his rival/best friend, Blue. The boy was practically a clone of him! The only physical difference had been the clothes, so he had tried to talk with him as soon as he could.

Who knows? Maybe Blue was stuck here too and he was now in the body of Gary like he was in Ash's.

That idea was shot down as soon as Gary opened his mouth.

Boy was he a pain in the ass. He didn't thought he had ever met a more arrogant person in his life. While Blue was calm and confident to the point of being cold Gary was arrogant and obnoxious. The fact that he called him Ashy-boy all the time didn't help either.

Heck he could feel the anger coming from Charizard's Pokeball. The Kanto Pokemon probably felt that Gary's very own existence was an insult to his trainer, and Red guessed that the only reason Charizard didn't get out of the ball to attack Gary himself was because of how disciplined the Pokemon was.

Gary wasn't the only clone he had met though. Besides him and Professor Oak he had also met a girl that could easily be Green's twin sister. Even her clothes were the exact same! She looked just how Green looked during the Deoxys incident.

The again just like with Gary and Blue her personality was completely different from her look-alike.

Where Green was devious, confident and cunning, this girl, whose name was Leaf, was short-tempered, cold and a little bit aggressive. She honestly reminded him of Misty in personality a little bit.

Apparently those two were his childhood friend, and if that was true then he pitied Ash a little bit. Having this two as childhood friend must not have been easy, with Gary openly belittling him at any chance he had with the help of his enormous ego, and Leaf snapping at him if he even looked at her for more than five seconds. Yep, not easy at all.

Honestly his favorite moments were when they started fighting each other. Leaf is not above physical abuse, something that Gary was apparently really familiar. It was funny though, seeing Gary down after Leaf simply kicked him under the belt.

After meeting those two he had wondered if this world was filled with clones of people that he knew. It certainly looked like that, considering that even Pallet Town looked the same.

He didn't meet any one else though, but that hadn't been the focus in his mind. No, he had been thinking of what to do next. He had been able to form plenty of ideas but none of them convinced him. From simply leaving with Charizard, which he scrapped quickly, to reveal everything to Delia and Professor Oak, but he thought they wouldn't believe him so he scrapped that too.

In the end the answer came from Delia herself.

She owed that woman way too much already.

Apparently he, alongside Gary and Leaf, were already at the age in which they could start their Pokemon journey and become real Pokemon trainers by accepting one of three Pokemon from Professor Oak: Charmander, Bulbasaur or Squirtle. He had been confused at this at the beginning, since back in his world there weren't rules like those. His first Pokemon had been Poli, a Poliwag he had caught by himself when he was ten.

Heck he had only gotten his own Bulbasaur, which he had then called Saur, by accident after helping his own Professor Oak.

But that just proved that while this world looked the same as his it was definitely different. He had also watched some Pokemon fights in TV and they were different too. Here the battles looked a lot less extreme. Back in his world it wasn't that rare for Pokemon to truly get injured, or even die during fights. The trainer was also in danger in those fights, unlike here.

He still remembered how Deoxys had pierced his Aerodactyl's wings, harming them to the point in which he couldn't fly, and how he himself had ended up being frozen completely by Lorelei after his first fight against Bruno, both members of the Elite 4 of his Kanto.

But he would adapt. He had no other choice anyway, and this journey might be what he needed. He would be able to travel around freely, and while he would only be able to travel through Kanto it was a start. His objective was Kalos after all, but there was something he needed first.

Pokemon. He needed a team! Right now he only had Charizard and even then he wasn't considered his Pokemon in this world. He didn't know what brought him to this world but it was probably something powerful, after all what kind of thing could send people through dimensions?

With his luck it was probably a legendary Pokemon.

So this journey would help him get the Pokemon he need, and after they were strong enough he would go to Kalos, look for clues and go back to his world.

Easy right?

At least it wouldn't be hard to catch as much Pokemon as he felt like it. This Kanto, while apparently looking the same as the one from his world, also had one striking difference.

It had way more Pokemon.

During his journey he had only found Kanto Pokemon since, well, he lived in Kanto, but here apparently you could find Pokemon from all the other regions!

He didn't understand how that was possible, but he wasn't going to complain. If there was something he enjoyed was catching and training Pokemon.

Of course he always had specific Pokemon that he took with himself everywhere, but he also liked to try catching and training different Pokemon.

He only had to wait one more week. Then Professor Oak would allow him and his two friends to go out in their journey. One more week of doing nothing. He couldn't even let Charizard roam free much for fear of someone finding him.

So with that thought in mind Red closed his eyes. He had been resting in his room, the moon already up in the sky. If he kept thinking about so much stuff he wouldn't be able to sleep. He had a plan already so he just had to follow it.

So with that the former Champion of Kanto felt asleep, dreams of being back to his world consuming him slowly.

He would go back.

That was a promise.

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This idea just wouldn't leave my head, so I had to write it. This chapter isn't much, just a bunch of setup for the future, but I feel like I have to explain some things first

The Red in this fanfic is not the Red from Red/Blue/FR/LG games or the Origins Special. No, this Red is the one from the Pokemon Adventures manga, which has to be my favorite Pokemon related thing besides the main games

You don't need to read the manga to follow this fanfic. Yes I will sometimes write about something that happened in the manga but still, you don't need to know what happened in the manga to follow what will happen in this story

I will point out a few things for those that have not read the manga just though:

1) The Charizard that Red has in this fic is not his own. In the manga he doesn't have a Charizard, he has a Venusaur, while his rival (Blue) has Charizard, and Green has a Blastoise

2) Whenever I refer to Blue I'm talking about Red's rival (boy), while Green is the third trainer with Squirtle (girl). I know that originally the roles are reversed, with Blue being the girl and Green the boy, but in this fic I will go with the American names to make it easier for the reader, so unless plenty of you readers ask me to change it Blue will be the boy and Green the girl

3) Pokemon in this fanfic will have a maximum of 6 attacks. I feel like that should give me enough freedom to make good fights

This is basically me trying to fuse together the anime, the games and the manga and see if the result is good enough. Let's hope the result ends up being good