After loosing most of my inspiration and will to write crimson (hopefully it will return) I decided to make this. Considering I have no real plan where this will lead, have very little writing experience and loosely based the setup of this story on an manga I recently started reading this fic will likely end up catastrophic. But like some smart person probably said "if you want something you have to at least try," or something like that, you people hopefully still get the point. Now for you people who actually reads these authors notes here comes some things you should probably know about the story.

This story takes place right after the events of the Indigo league. Everything up to this point is canon except that they have actually aged. Gonna go with what game theory has stated and say that Ash is twelve at this point (go check if you want the guy makes some pretty convincing arguments). This story is rated M for gore, language and maybe sexual content. Actually haven't thought of a pairing for this story at all or even if it should be one.

Here are some spoilers that I think some people would find important to know before reading this but is not necessary to know since everything here will happen eventually. Don't read further if you truly want to have a surprise, seriously no more reading the bold text if you want to avoid spoilers. Ok you seem to understand then let the spoilers begin. Ash will have a darker personality, pikachu will be a raichu, pokemon will be killed and Ash and his new team of completely non canonical pokemon will be pretty overpowered. You have been warned.

The gang of 4 were in a dangerous situation. Ash, Misty, Brock and Gary were currently in the Cerulean caves running for their lives. Why they were there and why Gary was with them both had a good reason. After the league ended professor Oak asked the 4 of them to analyze the behavior of the geodudes in the cave. Pokemon in general were quite different in the Cerulean cave than the rest of Kanto so they were an interesting subject to study. Oak was supposed to send a professional research team but they couldn't come so Oak decided that since the geodudes were among the weaker pokémon in cerulean cave and they lived near the entrance and both Ash and Gary both had 8 badges and placed good in the league they could handle it. And he was right, the few aggressive geodudes they encountered was taken out with some degree of ease. That said they were much tougher than expected of some geodudes. It took about 2-4 of their pokemons more powerful attacks to take them down. One even managed to keep going after two water guns from Misty's starmie. The Cerulean cave pokemon truly weren't a joke, there were rumors that the pokemon in the deepest parts of the cave were as strong as the league champions pokemon. Although no one have survived more than nine floors down.

What they did not plan though was a rhydon that likes to feast on the geodudes choose to hunt the same day they were there. The four where frozen in fear and morbid fascination as they watched how the rhydon ate its prey. The drill pokemon simply grabbed the geodudes between its huge hands and ripped it in half without visible effort. The scary thing was the look on the geodudes face, the moment it was grabbed it looked like it had completely given up all hope of surviving like it was already dead. The rhydon then devoured the fleshy insides of the rock like pokemon before it noticed the new people in the cave. The rhydon had a look of curiosity on his face as he observed the young people. That was until Gary had the genius idea that the ground type would make a great addition to his team.

Gary sent out his blastoise and ordered an hydro pump. But even with the 4X efficiency and the perfect hit to the face the rhydon looked like someone had shot him with a water gun (the toy not the move). Unfortunately for blastoise the rhydon still understood that it was being attacked and decided to retaliate with a rock blast. Each of the four rocks launched was far to fast for the hulking blastoise to dodge and each hit was devastating. The first one hit his left arm and broke it, the second and third hit his shell making huge cracks in it and the fourth hit his head knocking him out completely. The water type never stood a chance.

The four of them now decided to do what they should have done the moment the rhydon appeared, run for their lives.

They ran as fast as they could, luckily rhydon weren't known for their high speed so they were slowly gaining a lead. That was until Gary tripped on a rock and fell on the floor. Because of his stress and the uneven moist floor he continued to loose balance whenever he tried getting up. If not for the life and death situation it would look hilarious.

The one who helped him up was none other than his rival, Ash Ketchum. Giving the brown haired boy a hand and helping him up they then continued to run. The two then felt relief when they saw the stone bridge that was close to the exit. The pair of trainers saw how Misty and Brock managed to run out of the exit and picked up their pace.

Halfway over the bridge the rhydon appeared and because it had to run it was now instead of slightly offended completely furious. It stomped on the ground hard making the entire bridge shake which lead Ash to loose his balance and nearly fall of the bridge.

Luckily the black haired boy managed to hold on to the edge of the bridge although the piece of bridge he held on to looked like it was about to crumble at any time. Pikachu who fell of his trainers shoulder earlier and landed safely on the bridge now tried to pull up the much larger being with little success. As Ash struggled Pikachu turned to Gary making noises that most could understand as, "don't just stand there, help him."

Gary who was at the end of the bridge looked between Ash and the exit. No matter how much they annoyed each other Gary still considered Ash a friend but he was beyond scared of the rhydon. Ever since day one his squirtle who later became a blastoise has had his back, the water type might not have won all its fights but he have always been the mvp of most if not all battles Gary have fought. To see his trusted partner and friend so easily and brutally beaten was unthinkable in the young Oaks eyes.

That was until he saw Ash's eyes. They were filled with fear but they were also determined to survive. Gary decided to help but it was already to late the rhydon was standing right above Ash ready to stomp again.

Understanding what was about to happen Ash made one last unselfish act and threw his belt with his pokeballs over to Gary. Gary who somehow caught them looked at them before looking at Ash who had a look that said, "make sure that they are safe for me, ok."

Then the rhydon stomped down on the bridge making Ash fall into the abyss and Pikachu jumped right after. Gary who saw the entire thing ran away in shame with Ash's pokemon safely in his grasp.

Unknown amount of time later. Deep within the cerulean cave.

Ash woke up drenched in water and sore all over his body. Everything was dark and his vision was blurry. Ash had no idea how he got to where he was, that was until his memories returned to him. He remembered the rhydon, the bridge and a part of the fall. But after that everything was black. He seems to be at the edge of an underground lake, he didn't even know these existed down here.

The cave was lightened up by glowing green rocks in the walls, not a perfect light but good enough to see around. The lake in the cave was about the size of an average swimming pool but it looked much deeper and if one would look closely there are tunnels underwater that lead to different lakes all around the cave. There were also a few berries in many different colors growing around the area being the final touch in making the cave look like a place from a fantasy world.

Even though it was a beautiful sight Ash didn't have the time to admire it because he saw pikachu's unconcious (he hoped) body floating on the water. And without hesitation Ash swam out to save his trusted companion.

After getting the mouse pokemon back to land he checked for breathing and luckily the pikachu was still very much alive. It was then Ash decided to take the time to look around the area. One of the first things he discovered was that the green rocks that gave out light had small thunderbolt patterns on them and were actually thunder stones. Very big thunder stones at that, the smallest one he could see was about two times the size normally found in stores. There was also a huge one on the roof of the cave, easily more than 10 times the size of a normal one. "Got to be careful no to let pikachu touch the walls," Ash said to himself.

He then realized all the berries growing there and remembered their healing properties. He picked some he thought looked useful for healing and then fed them to Pikachu. The electric type immediately looked better.

After Ash shared what he knew about the cave (which admittedly wasn't much) they decided to plan for how to get out. Their first plan was to use pikachu's sensitive nose to find their way out but they were to deep for the mouse to get any good smell of the outside. Their second plan was to walk around randomly until they discovered a way out. Without any better option that was what they had to settle for.

"Well then that settles it," Ash said with exitement before screaming out loud, "let's go cave exploring."

That was a dumb decision since the the yell woke up a magicarp sleeping in the lake, the sudden wake up scared it enough to trigger evolution and it became a very angry gyarados. The water serpent swam up to the surface to see who dared disturb it and found a pikachu and some unknown creature. Whatever it was the gyarados was to angry to care. It let out a loud roar and to it's great satisfaction it's two victims were terrified.

Pikachu didn't know how to process this situation, one moment him and his human were about to go on a new grand adventure and in the next they ever attacked by a terrifying beast. This was far from an ideal situation. Pikachu then heard Ash yell out, "use thunderbolt."

Without any better alternatives pikachu threw everything he had into the attack but to his great dismay it seemed to be more annoying than harmful. The gyarados then let out an enraged roar before doing what was nearly unheard of for a pokemon, it attacked a trainer.

Ash was barely able to dodge the bite attack that came his way by rolling to the side and hurt his shoulder on a sharp rock. The gyarados flew past him and hurt its head on the cave wall. Ash though for a moment that he was safe and took a deep breath of relief. During that time a blue tail had encircled Ash and now he was completely surrounded by the gyarados.

The gyarados recovered quickly from hitting its head and was now staring Ash in the face. Ash could barely register the electricity running along its long body and then saw that Pikachu kept on using thunderbolt after thunderbolt against gyarados, but the effect was still just barely an annoyance.

The atrocious pokemon opened its mouth to let out a roar. It still had some rocks in its mouth from accidentally biting the cave wall and they flew out with a dangerous amount of force. One of the rock cut his right cheek drawing blood and another pierced his left eye. Ash let out a shout in pain as he fell down on his but looking at the water type pokemon in fear. Ash's life flashed before his eye as he felt gyarados teeth slowly approach him.

But before it could fully bite his head of its body was once again covered in lightning. But this time instead of a few small arcs of lightning it's entire body was covered and it let out a roar of pain. It survived the attack but looked like it was badly burnt and paralyzed. The gyarados quickly fled into the lake where it swam deep down and disappeared.

Ash looked around in a daze. He was slightly unsure if he actually survived or not. He slowly looked up to see the big thunder stone missing, he looked ahead of himself slightly to the left to see the large hole left after the gyarados attack and then looked to his right where pikachu were supposed to be. But pikachu weren't there, instead standing there, covered head to toe in powerful lightning stood a raichu.

So this is my new story, like it, hate it, don't care? Let me know your opinion on this in the reviews. If you have any questions or suggestions about this story please don't hesitate to ask in the reviews and I will answer to the best of my ability.

Constructive criticism is greatly apriciated but please no flames, unless you got some really great burn because it would just be fun to read.

Anyway as I have said I don't have much of an idea of how what to do with this story. Currently my plan looks like this:

1: Ash looks for a way out of the cave.

2: Ash is becoming an owerpowered badass while trying to get out.

3: Ash builds a team while in the cave.

4: Ash gets out of the cave and show of his badassness to the world.

As you all can see my plan is not that detailed so some suggestions is more than appreciated.

Hope this was something you liked and that I will be able to get more out in the future.

-Octopie21