It all started the night that the new Pokémon games were coming out. I had decided to go to Wal-Mart and get a copy of Pokémon Shield despite the criticism it had been receiving. It had all gone well, I had bought my copy and talked to a couple other people who had bought their own copies and decided to head home to play.

Nothing was out of the normal but as I was going on a green light, there was a flash of light, an ear-deafening hit and then I knew no more.

The next time I was aware all I could feel was a serene warmth as if I was being bundled up and protected and as my mind once again went blank, I felt the warmth start to leave me.

The next time I woke up was to a bone-chilling cold, and I realized I couldn't move, this continued, and I prayed for it to end. After what seemed like an eternity, I heard a woman's' voice say, "Oh you poor child who would leave you in such conditions, lets get you inside."

I felt myself being picked up and taken into warmth once again and what I heard next blew my mind more than anything had previously done so in my life

"Jigglypuff would you mind using sing so this child can rest?"

"Jigglypuff what the hell is this person talking about….. Pokémon aren't real." I finally forced my eyes to open and what I saw put those thoughts to rest.

It was a Jigglypuff in the flesh and I saw it open its mouth and a hauntingly beautiful melody came out and once again I knew no more.

That was my introduction to my new life in the Pokémon world. I had read and seen isekai but who would have thought it would happen to me.

Apparently in this world I had been given up to an orphanage in Goldenrod City as a newborn on a cold winter night. I had not been given a name, so the caretakers had given me the name Sirius as I had been a very quiet and serious baby for obvious reasons, and I couldn't complain about the name given that I had been a huge Harry Potter fan in my previous life.

Eight years had passed and life at the orphanage was boring other than playing with the head caretaker's Jigglypuff or watching matches and contests on television. All the orphans were forced to attend school, but it wasn't to learn about Pokémon it was just regular school.

I hadn't been adopted so far and it was very rare that kids in this orphanage were adopted as the kids also had a choice on whether they wanted to be adopted and they loved our caretakers so much that they usually chose not to be adopted.

I had been chosen to be adopted once by a young couple but they kind of gave off a bad vibe plus I had no plans to have parents since in my mind I already had them even if I would never see them again.

That turned out to be a good decision as a couple months later they were shown being arrested for trying to sell off the kid they adopted from some other orphanage to some organization that hadn't been discovered, though in my mind there was no doubt that it was Team Rocket.

As far as I could tell this world is a mixture of the games, anime, and manga. Pokémon fights were more brutal than the anime but not as vicious as the manga and there were no move limits like in the game. The Pokedex was available to the top trainer prospects once they got their starters. They had been invented by Professor Oak around twenty years ago. Team Rocket was a thing though they were just starting out and so far, they were only exclusive to Kanto.

Another thing that I found out was that the newer generations of Pokémon were present but typically only found in their own region at this point but there had been talks about starting an inter-regional Pokémon exchange so that regions with less native species had more of a wide variety.

The only exceptions to this were Unova and Alola who were against introducing new species because they were further away from the rest of the regions and had a more isolationist stance. The proximity of Kanto and Johto also meant that many Kanto Pokémon could be found here as they typically migrated during the different seasons.

From interviews on television I had gathered that Lance was still champion for both the Johto and Kanto regions and I also learned that Gary was Professor Oak's grandson not Green and that he was five years old at this point so he and Ash wouldn't start their journeys for another five years.

Once I had realized I was in the Pokémon world I had decided that I would become a Pokémon trainer because, come on its pretty much every Pokémon fans' dream and what else was I going to do be Miltank farmer. However, I quickly realized how similar this world was to my old one since it ran by the same idea that you could be anything you wanted if you had money.

You see in order to become a trainer you had to take a basic trainer license exam but that cost twenty-five thousand poke dollars which was difficult to scrounge up when you're an orphan that gets around 20 poke dollars a month as allowance. Not to mention that if you literally knew nothing about Pokémon kind of like Ash did at the beginning of the series then you would basically be paying an absurd amount just to fail.

So, in order to gain knowledge of Pokémon needed to pass, you had to pay an exorbitant amount in order to go to a Pokémon school and learn. Even after that if you somehow were good enough to pass the basic trainer test you wouldn't receive a Pokedex or one of the regions premier starter Pokémon as those were reserved for people that passed the advanced exam which cost one hundred thousand poke dollars.

There were rumors that if you were wealthy enough or knew the right people you could easily get your child to pass the exams. Which kind of explained how Ash got his license since his mother used to be Professor Oak's lab assistant.

Needless to say, I could easily pass the advanced exam, but the fact of the matter was that I am an orphan with no way of paying to take either of the exams. I took it very hard and became very distant from the rest of the orphans and caretakers.

What reason could there be for me to be in the Pokémon world if I couldn't become a trainer. After several weeks of this I decided that if I didn't do something myself no one would be willing to do it for me so I asked the caretakers if I could take a part time job at some store to try and save money for the exam and they agreed on the condition that I was not to overwork myself.

So, I went job hunting and eventually I got a part-time job on the weekends at a Pokémon food store. I figured that if I had to work, I might as well learn something from it and once I became a trainer it would really help to know what kind of food my Pokémon would enjoy.

Another thing I started doing was going to the Game Corner and looking for money before getting kicked out. I knew that in the game you could find money on the ground from time to time.

I forgot to mention just how different Goldenrod City was from the games. It's a big bustling city that had six Pokémon Centers and eight Poke Marts, it had a population of twenty thousand which may seem small but apparently the total population in the Pokémon world was just five million.

I had no idea why the population was so low but maybe the danger of Pokémon had trimmed down the human population throughout history.

Time Skip

Over the next five years I was able to save up and eventually earned twenty-three thousand poke dollars from my job and seven thousand poke dollars from finding money at the Game Corner and betting with random people because those who were underage were banned from the skill-based games and only the slot machines were open. I knew how much of a scam these were compared to the ones in the game, so I never tried them.

I had thought about saving up and buying a Dratini but when I asked about the prizes, I found out how much more valuable they were than in the games…. they cost ten million poke dollars with the lower end prizes cost a hundred thousand poke dollars, so that was out of the question.

I had turned thirteen and started the thing I had dreaded the most…. puberty. The new Pokémon League season was due to start in a week and while I had thought about taking the basic exam last year I realized that I only had enough money for the exam itself and no other supplies such as Pokéballs, medicine, food, or shelter.

Not to mention that I wanted to start my journey at the same time as Ash and Gary so that when they came to Johto I would go to Kanto and we would eventually be able to meet in Hoenn.

The day of the exam finally arrived so I went in to take the basic exam and once there I noticed how much more well-dressed and younger the other kids were than me as I seemed to be one of the older people there. They seemed to notice this too and didn't even bother sparing me another glance "Figures that they're so conceited they won't even spare someone who looks poor a second glance."

There were thirty people testing for the basic license and seven testing for the advanced license. The examiners told the advanced exam group that if they didn't pass the exam, they would still be granted a basic license if they had still scored well enough.

"Great so they have basically no consequences if they fail but if I fail, I would have wasted the last five years of saving up."

We were eventually separated into the basic and advanced exam groups and led into separate rooms. We had an hour to complete our exams and had to come back tomorrow for our results.

Once I got my exam, I realized just how overqualified I was for it. The first question was literally asking who the three premier Johto starters were? I mean come on how easy was that, suffice to say that I blew through the questions like nothing and twenty minutes later I handed in my exam.

Everyone including the test instructor were giving me incredulous looks since they thought I had finished so early because I had guessed on everything.

I left knowing I had aced the exam and went back to the orphanage. The next day when I went back to receive my results, I found my name being announced as the top score and again I received disbelieving looks from the other examinees and congratulations from the instructors. Of the seven advanced exam trainers only two had passed, four had gotten their basic license, and one had completely failed.

We were told to meet at the end of the week to receive our starters and with that we were let go. I immediately ran home to tell everyone, and they were ecstatic even other kids who I had not gotten along with growing up were jumping with joy that someone they knew was going to become a Pokémon trainer. I told them that I needed to go shopping for supplies and left with a promise of a feast in my honor upon arriving back home.

I went to a thrift store and bought a hoodie, some basic shirts, a couple pairs of pants, some shorts, a hat, and some basic running shoes.

Then I went and bought the cheapest storage backpack which basically worked like a Pokéball does in that it could store more than should be possible and put it into stasis which answered my childhood question of how so much stuff fit in the trainer bags.

I went by my job and told them that I had passed my exam and was going to become a Pokémon trainer so I would have to quit, and while they were happy that I had passed they were sad to see me go. They gave me a couple of bags of basic Pokemon food and wished me luck on my journey.

Afterwards I went to the Poke Mart and got some camping gear, potions, burn heals, and a couple antidotes. Finally, I went to a general store and bought some pots and pans as well as some food for myself. After shopping I was left with only five hundred poke dollars hopefully, I would get some money from battling otherwise I might start getting into money problems.

The week seemed to crawl by extremely slowly and that left me with plenty of time to speculate about what starter Pokémon were likely to be offered. From what I knew the typical starting Pokémon that were provided for basic trainers were common Pokemon like Pidgey, Rattata, Sentret, Hoothoot, Nidoran, Wooper, Bellsprout, and occasionally in bigger cities some less uncommon Pokemon like Pikachu, Poliwag, and Mareep were also given away as starters.

This explained why the random trainers you fight in the games typically don't have very rare Pokémon or premier starters.

Eventually the day arrived, and I arrived at the testing center. We were told that we would be given a chance to choose our starter and that the people with the highest scores would choose first. However, first the advanced trainers would be choosing their starters and I was confused weren't they supposed to go to Professor Elm to get them.

Apparently, this wasn't the case except for the people with the top three scores in the region. Professor Elm sends some of his aides to each of the testing centers that had people who passed the advanced exam and they were the ones who gave the starters away.

So, all the basic trainers stood by and watched as the only two advanced trainers who had passed the exam chose Cyndaquil and Chikorita. The Tododile remained and instead of maybe giving it to a basic trainer who could have used it, it was returned, and the aides left the building.

It was finally the basic trainer's chance to pick and I had the highest score out of the eighteen people who had passed. All the Pokémon were being released from their Pokéballs and it was mostly commons such as Nidoran, Poliwag, Pidgey, oh was that a Magby, Mareep, Pikachu…hmmm maybe, Rattata…nope even if it was top percentage, and just as I had decided that there probably be nothing better than the Magby from the corner of my eye I saw a light shine and when I turned to look at the Pokémon that produced it my jaw almost dropped.

" Holy shit there is no way they are offering a shiny Elekid!"

It was just my mind playing a trick on me right there's no way this could be possible…. unless they didn't know it was a shiny. I mean until Gen 2 there had been no shiny Pokémon shown and that wasn't until Ash had caught his Noctowl or when the Red Gyrados had appeared. Even if they did know there were shinies it was incredibly hard to tell Elekid's shiny form from his regular one as the only difference was that its shiny form was just a tad bit darker than its regular one.

I knew that there was no other choice than for me to choose the Elekid. Once I had chosen Elekid I was given its Pokéball, three empty Pokéballs and my I.D. badge which was given to all basic trainers. I was told to enter my ID number onto the Pokeballs so that they would be registered to me. After I signed all the paperwork necessary, I left the testing center.

I was so ecstatic that I had received such a great Pokémon and not to mention that it was a shiny, that I didn't notice someone had been following me until they yelled out.

"Hey, you do know that you gave up the best Pokémon of the lot right how dumb are you?"

I immediately turned around and saw some guy with orange hair and brown eyes who looked a year or two younger than me. Who was this? Wait I remembered him he was one of the advanced exam takers who had failed.

He had called me dumb but I didn't want to start any beef by rebutting that he was the one that had failed his exam so instead I responded back to him, "What do you mean Elekid was the best Pokémon available!"

He seemed amused at my response "You should know that Magby is by far superior to that spark plug you chose."

So, he had chosen the Magby, that must mean he most likely had the second highest score because it was obviously the best remaining Pokémon of the bunch.

Wait don't tell me I'm going to have this guy as a rival I really did not want to go through the type of shit Ash went through with both Gary and Paul…. but mostly Paul.

I took a deep breath to calm myself before I did anything Ash-centric "They're both great Pokémon I just had a preference for Elekid."

He seemed to take offense to that "Tch…if your Elekid's as good as my Magby why not settle it with a match."

I gave it some thought but, in the end, I decided it wasn't worth the risk as I had no experience battling and I had not even to talked to my Elekid yet, not to mention I was low on money and needed every poke dollar I had.

"Look maybe some other time I kind of just want to get to know my Pokémon before I do any sort of battling with it."

He gave me a smug look "Figures you're too scared that your inferior Pokémon will lose, of course what else would I expect from some poor loser.

As he walked off, he stopped and turned around "By the way the name's Liam Sidro remember it so that when I win the Silver Conference you can at least say that you met me." He proceeded to walk away.

That piece of Tauros crap did not just say that to me did he, who did he think he was saying that to me when he couldn't even pass his exam and had to settle for a basic license.

Well whatever I was not about to chase after him. I had more important things to worry about. Now that I had left the more populated areas of the town, I decided it was good time for me to talk to Elekid.

After I released Elekid and it finally hit me that I was a Pokémon trainer. It had always been a dream of mine even when I gotten to the age where it should be a bit embarrassing to be thinking about it.

As I was lost in my thoughts Elekid just stared at me and once I snapped out of it, I realized it was waiting for me to make the first move. "Hey there Elekid, my names Sirius I'm your new trainer but I wanted to ask you if you'd like to be my partner."

This was a first for Elekid since he had been captured, he had not been given any choice and this human seemed to be sincere, so he decided to give him a chance and reserved the right the right to change his mind if the human was not up to his standards.

Elekid raised his arm and seemed to give me a sort of fist bump motion so I gave him one and I knew we would get along well. I also realized I needed to go say goodbye to the people at the orphanage so that I could start on my journey.

"Ok Elekid I need to go say goodbye to some people so do you want to stay inside your ball or walk with me." Elekid gave it some quick thought and pointed at the ground to indicate it wanted to walk. So, we walked and eventually arrived back at the orphanage.

As we arrived, I saw everyone outside waiting for me and once we got to the entrance all the other kids immediately started trying to pet Elekid which seemed to bother him a bit, so I told them not to bug him too much since he wasn't used to it. Everyone once again congratulated me, and we went to eat the food they had prepared. Once we finished, I told them that I had to get going so that I wouldn't start my journey too late.

They asked me to wait and some of the younger kids left and a few moments later they came back with an envelope which they asked me to open and once I did, I was astounded it was ten thousand poke dollars along with a picture of everyone with me.

The head caretaker who had found me that night so many years ago told me "We want you to know how proud of you we are and hope this can help you on your journey."

It made me cry because I had lost my family when I had been brought to this world and even though I had never treated them as such, these people were my family.

"I promise you all I'll come back and return the favor some day and I hope you'll continue to support me."

We finally said our goodbyes and I was on my way. I decided to go to the Poke Mart and buy a couple more Pokéballs and potions with the money they had given me. Then we were on our way to route 35. As we went along the route, we encountered a couple of Pidgey and Sentret, and even a Growlithe we fought a couple of them and I learned that Elekid knew Thundershock, Quick Attack, and Leer.

I knew that I was going to have to train him thoroughly since he was going to be my only Pokémon for a while. The reason for this was that as a basic trainer you were only allowed to capture up to eight Pokémon and the Pokémon that went over the six Pokémon limit would stay with you and you needed to feed and take care of them which was very difficult both because of the labor and financially. Which is why most basic trainers never caught many Pokémon.

Advanced trainers' Pokémon had a capture limit of sixteen unless they were sponsored by someone in which case, they would have that limit increased depending who their sponsor was. The top three advanced trainers were automatically sponsored by the regional Professor and their Pokémon were sent to the regional Professor's ranch and were taken care of and they had a capture limit of two hundred.

This was just another advantage that advanced trainers had in a long list of them. Hopefully once I earned enough money from battling, I would be able to take the advanced exam and get a Pokédex as well as have Professor Elm care for my Pokémon.

So, until I found Pokémon that I absolutely wanted or needed, I would not be "catching 'em all". Not that I wanted to since I feel like I would most likely start to neglect my Pokémon if I caught too many.

With all that said I had decided on my first destination. My first destination was the National Park to catch a Scyther so off we went to Route 35.

The longer we went on the route the more Pokémon we battled, and we had even battled three other trainers and it was much different than fighting a wild Pokémon. We won all our battles and had even earned eight hundred poke dollars.

Elekid had learned Low Kick and I decided to try and teach him light screen but so far, he could only get a sheen of light. I knew Elekid typically didn't learn light screen until later but if Ash's Pokémon could learn moves way earlier than they should, then why couldn't mine do the same.

I still couldn't believe how I had lucked out with a shiny Elekid as my starter even if some legendary had somehow made it happen, I wouldn't have cared since I was so happy with my Elekid. I could only wonder what tomorrow would bring, but the day was finally done so I prepared my tent and got in my sleeping bag and felt myself fall asleep.

The Team

Elekid

Gender: M

Ability: ?

Known Moves: Thundershock, Leer, Quick Attack, Low Kick

Thanks for reading I hope you enjoyed and please leave some constructive criticism.

Edit: I kind of rushed to write this in a couple hours so I made a couple mistakes. I went through and tried to fix most of them please message me if you find any that I didn't catch.