Disclaimer:I don't own Pokemon.

"Whew," said Karl wiping his brow. It took a while and some close calls, but every one the team had been raised to level 11.

"But first," he smirked.

"Hey! Karl! Your going to the Pokemon League? Forget it, you probably don't any badges! The guard won't let you through. By the way, did your Pokemon get any stronger?"

"Yes, and I caught a lot, let's battle you jerk!"

Gary sent out a Pidgey while Karl send out Zane who was commanded to use Leer. Zane gave Pigey a rather dark look which frightened it quite much. Pidgey then countered with a sand attack that got into Zane's eyes causing him to trash about and growl angrily. He tackled Pidgey who was considerably hurt by it and whipped up a Gust that sent Zane hurtling, but he was not out. Snarling he took a leap and japped Pidgey with his horn, koing the bird.

"Hmph, don't piss me of," Zane snarled. Gary then sent out Squirtle who struck in the middle of his shell by a horn attack by Zane. Squirtle then wagged his tail in a Tail Whip attack which caused Zane to sweat drop. "The hell is he playing at?

Zane charged and attempted another Horn Attack but missed and was sprayed by a Bubble attack slowing him down. Karl then called Zane back and sent out Lightning who looked ready to take a hit but Squirtle used Tail Whip which seemed to offend her. Lightning then fried Squirtle with a Thundershock knocking him out and winning the match for Karl.

Gary stormed off muttering,"He beat me twice, how did he do it? I didn't beat one of his Pokemon!"

"Well, that's putting a douche in his place," Karl said grinning. "Good job Zane, you two Lightning!"

"Whatever." "Thanks!"

A quick center heal later, Karl made his again into Viridian Forest.

"Follow me," said Lightning. "I know the area."

"Thanks," Karl said gratefully, he couldn't help but think that something evil was leering at him through the tree's.

While fighting a bug catcher with a Caterpie, a alarming thought came to Karl. 'How am I going to beat Brock without Butterfree?"

Zane didn't learn Double Kick until leave 40 something and he had already caught Lightning for this area, what would he do?

He voiced his concerns to Lightning who comforted him with a smile and said,"Don't worry, I know you'll figure something out, besides we can just grind to overpower Brock's Pokemon.

Eventually they all made it out of the forest a level stronger and healed up at the Pewter City Gym center to formulate a plan to win.

Lightning who seemed to be a whiz with computers said,"Well, from the data and my analysis we have to options. Zane here can repeated leer's to lower's Brock's Pokemon's defenses, and then heal himself with potions, and hit as hard as he can with Horn Attack."

"Hmp, sounds like a good strategy," said Zane approvingly. "What's the other?"

"Charlie can here can grind until he evolves into a Charmeleon and with a few potions he should be able to take on Geodude and Onix. Though it'll take a while to get him to level 16," said Lightning.

"Oi! What about me?" demanded Ace looking left out. "Why can't I try?"

"You could try a Sand Attack strategy plus potions to win, but that'll take too long. Ace pouted and looked disappointed.

"Don't worry, Ace, your still good," assured Karl. At this Ace grinned and Charlie asked,"So what will you do, Karl?"

Karl weighed his options and said,"Get ready to start eating egg, screaming Adrian, and training to awesome music, cause we're grinding to victory, Rocky style!"

Note this usual training involving beating up wild Pokemon has been replaced by Charlie doing physical training, enjoy!

Charlie rapidly scratched a tree ferociously while occasionally punching it, kicking it, and striking it with his tail. Eventually with a wild roar, he let out a devastating punch that knocked the tree down. Charlie breathed harshly and said,"Must do more."

With Zane on his back and Ace counting, Charlie started to do pushup's. "C'mon, don't give up me!" Ace shouted. "You can do more, your almost at 100, go for it!"

"94...95...96...97...98...99...100!" roared Charlie throwing Zane off him.

"Oof! That hurt!" Zane growled.

Trying hard now...it's so hard now... trying hard now.

Charlie started punching gigantic slabs of Miltank meat repeatedly while Karl held it back. Then Charlie starts panting as he does jump rope, doing ocassional tricks and twists to make it harder. Eventually he finishes it and then tosses it away.

Getting strong now, won't be long now...getting strong now.

As his second to last challenge, Charocky Bulbaboa, I mean Charlie chases around Lightning who was covered unhappily in grease and after a while he catches who shocks him to the ground.

Now at the final part of his training, Charlie runs up a gigantic chain of stairs that seems endless with the rest of Karl's team as well as well as Karl following him. Eventually Charlie reached the top before any of them did and when they all did, something amazing happened.

Gone was Charlie's cute orangy lizard apperance. Instead stood a red, larger, more powerful, and all around more badass being. Charlie had evolved into a Charmeleon!

As everyone awed even Zane Charlie let out punches, kicks, fired out blasts of fire from his mouth to show case his amazing new strength.

Gonna fly now...flying high now...gonna fly...fly...soar!

Now back to reality...

"Hey wait a minute," said Zane. "None of that actually happened you know. We just nearly killed the entire population of Viridian Forest."

"Hey, let the reader's enjoy the fanfic," said Ace who looked annoyed that Zane had evolved as well and became more smart mouth as well.

"Whatever," said Charlie not wanting the two to fight. "Let's just see if my training has paid off."

At the Pewter Gym...

"Right, and now then, ladies and gentlemen," said Karl pulling out a microphone to louden his voice. "The battle of the Century, Charocky Bulbaboa vs Apollix Crenix starts now!"

Brock who was in front smirked and said,"You don't really expect to win with nothing on your team that can hit any of my Pokemon for neutral damage, do you?"

"I don't think I can win, I know I can win," said Karl flipping his hat back.

START BATTLE!

Charlie opened up a with a Ember shot that took a good chunk of Geodude's health. The rock Pokemon used Defense Curl to bolster it's defense but it would do nothing to protect against our champion's mighty fire attacks.

Letting outing another Ember, Geodude tackled Charlie who shrugged it off and sneered,"And your supposed to be a tough challenge for me?" Charlie let out two more fire balls at Geodude who could no longer take the heat and collapsed, defeated.

Brock started in shock for a moment, (sort of) and recalled Geodude back saying,"Not bad, you've raised your Charmeleon well, but it's no match for the True Ultimtae Rock Pokemon, ONIX! GO!"

Onix appeared in a huge flash of light who roared at Charlie but he was unfazed and let out a battle roar of his own. Charlie fired a blast of Ember shower at Onix who was hit in the face and by it and started growling menacingly as Brock commanded it to use Bide.

Karl suddenly tensed up. Bide would return twice the damage a Pokemon received in two turns, and there was no was he could risk Charlie getting killed trying to defeat it before Onix could use Bide successfully.

"Charlie," commanded Karl. "Use Leer, then Growl!" Charlie was confused for a moment and but did what he was told, trusting Karl's judgement, giving a Onix a dangerous look, and growling ferociously at him. Onix then attempted to use Bide, but the move failed because Onix had not been damaged.

"Darn, he didn't take the bait,' thought Brock. "Let's try again, Onix use Bide!

Onix pulled the same move but Charlie pulled a double leer and after Onix failed to use his attack, Charlie attempted something different and used Scratch, but the attack did little to hurt Onix, despite the stat drop.

Brock called for Onix to use Bide again but Karl could see on the hp bar that Onix was in Ko position for a double Ember and roared,"FINISH HIM!"

Charlie roared and fired a Ember that scorched Onix's head and then fired another one that knocked Onix into a wall and caused it collapse, defeated.

"YES!" whooped Karl. "We won!" "Hell yeah!" cheered Charlie.

Brock called Onix back and said,"I took your fire Pokemon for granted. You've won so here's the Boulder Badge."

"Hehe, thanks," said Karl accepting the badge. "You also get a Tm as well," added Brock giving the one that contained Bide.

"Thanks again, but can I ask you something? How come you don't have shirt on?" asked Karl.

"It attracts the ladies," Brock said pulling of a cool guy pose.

"But I don't see any ladies around here, or in Pewter, except for Nurse Joy," said Karl stated.

Brock cried and said,"Don't remind me."

"Oh well, we're out of here," said Karl waving his bemusement as he walked out of the Gym. After healing up, Karl asked hims team,"Hey guys, do you feel like a break or something?"

"Now way, I wanna keep traveling and fighting." "I need to evolve!" "Let's keep going." "Sure, why not."

"Well, onwards then."

The team traveled to the east where Ace easily took care of the bug types and evolved into a Pidgeotto.

"Ha, I'm soaring higher than ever before!" she trilled. But her enjoyment to a bit of anger when Karl found and captured a Spearow named Feral.

She did not seem to like the new teammate and Feral did not seem to like her at all, though she got along fine with the rest of the team. After a long grinding, Karl returned to and went up to a man in a Pokemon Center who looked Mexican and asked,"Can I have the Magikarp, here's 500, bye!"

Karl decided to nickname Magikarp Wave, though he would later change it to Ryu after finding out his gender was a male. He also managed to get a Geodude he nicknamed Stone which was a girl.

Currently his team was comrpised of Feral, Charlie, Lightning, Ace, and Zane. Feral was perched on his shoulder and asked,"You know, I'm kinda surprised we can see in this cave."

"Yeah, Rock Tunnel is supposed to impossible to see without a Flash move," Karl said wondering on the physics behind that.

He climbed down a nearby ladder to explore and saw a man in black clothes and a red "R" on his chest. "Well, I had to face them eventually," Karl muttered. "Oi you, are you up to something evil or are do you just like dressing like a saturday morning cartoon lackey?"

The Rocket sneered at him and proudly stated,"Team Rocket are Pokemon gangsters!"

"You don't use drugs or guns, or more accurately, actual awesomeness minus your music," said Feral mockingly.

A easy battle later, the Rocket member yelled,"Blast it all! But we will get your Pokemon, kid!"

"No you won't," stated Karl who kicked the Rocket in the balls and walked away.

When they reached the surface, Karl asked,"Hey, there's a Rare Candy nearby, and you only need one level to evolve, feel like a quick energy rush?"

Feral huffed and said,"Naw, besides, there plenty enough trainers for me to maim."

Three trainers later...

"Finally, I don't have to beat my wings so hard, I can float in the sky, all day if I want," Feral said smugly. "I'm also better stat wise than that birdbrain Ace," she added nastily.

Ace popped out of her Pokeball and shouted,"If that's how you feel, let's fight! And your a birdbrain too, for your information!"

"Girls, don't fight, returned," said Karl quickly calling them back in. He put in Zane first and had him travel beside him when he noticed on the ground a Moon Stone. "Hey Zane, feel like evolving as well?"

Zane smirked and said,"I've been waiting for this, my whole life, which isn't very long to be honest."

The stone changed Zane from a Nidorino into a burly Nidoking who let out a booming roar and bellowed,"YEAH BABY! I'M READY TO SLAUGHTER ANYTHING!"

Karl gulped and said,"I think I created a monster."

"I did," said Karl in a blank tone as Zane savagely beat up a poor nerd's Pokemon.

"Okay okay okay okay," the nerd shrieked like a little girl. "You can have both! Don't let your Nidoking kill me!"

"Zane, enough with the blood lust, return!" said Karl returning Zane who was stomping the ground in triumph.

"Now let's see, Helix, or Dome? Well, in this generation, Omastar can hits on the physical and special side, so I'll go with Helix," Karl said picking the fossil and putting it in his backpack.

He quickly exited and made his made his into the Cerulean City Pokemon Center so everyone could rest.

After everyone was rested and recharged, Karl gathered them again to sort out they're strategy to fight Misty.

There is no strategy," said Lightning. "I can own her Pokemon."

"Yeah, but you've got glass cannon defenses and her Starmie's Bubblebeam could kill you!"

Lightning gulped and said,"Good point. We all better grind and try to catch a grass Pokemon."

They went north to train and encountered none other than...

"Ah man, Gary? All right, no small talk, let's just battle!" said Karl.

The battle was ridiculously easy. Zane defeated Gary's Pidgeotto with two Horn Attacks and knocked out his Abra with one Tackle attack. For his Ratata, he gored it with his horn and even his Squirtle with a type advantage wasn't able to make the cut.

"Grr, your a cheater!" accused Gary. "It's no fair using a fully evolved Pokemon against me!"

"Dude, it's a battle, you have to be ready to fight strong Pokemon and besides, I'll take any opportunity to make you look bad," countered Karl.

Gary sneered and said,"Whatever, smell yah later!" The douche marched away and after healing Zane, Karl battled with the trainers on the Nugget Bridge and met the final member, a Rocket.

After refusing his offer to join Team Rocket, he stated,"I'll make you an offer you can't refuse!"

"Marlon Brando, the Godfather, you or Giovanni aint', pal," said Karl glaring at him. He sent out Lightning to defeat his Ekans and Zubat who were easily defeated. Upon defeat, the Rocket said,"With you ability you could become a top leader in AUUUGHHH!"

Lightning had zapped with a Thundershock, leaving the man shaking and convulsing on the ground.

"Did you just...kill him," asked Karl in shock.

"Relax, no one dies in Pokemon," said Lightning in-a-matter-of-fact tone.

In the Pokemon Center...

"Your Ratata seems to have suffered a really brutal Horn Attack," said Nurse Joy grimly. "I would not recommend it fighting anything for a while."

"Don't worry, pal, you'll be better soon," Gary said grimacing.

Back with Karl...

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Karl he screamed in defeat as he threw down his hat and stomped on it. That Abra got away!"

"Relax, we still got Route 25," said Charlie. Grumbling, Karl went there and found...

"YES! A METAPOD!" Karl cheered who suddenly stopped and said,"Oh wait, no compound eyes so no near perfect sleep Powder, darn."

Slapping a sweat band on his head he eerily said quietly,"Time to grind."

Two hours later plus a severe wild pokemon mauling...

"Well, everyone's at level 24 now," said Charlie. "And Zane learned Thrash and is even more dangerous than ever.

"Good, now let's thrash the trainer's here!" grinned Karl. As they did so Karl picked up a Tm that contained Seismic Toss. Smirking triumphantly as did Charlie who said,"I'm getting that, right?"

"You are correct, you earned the power of Seismic Toss," stated Karl who placed the TM on Charlie's head. It glowed and seemed to fuse into Charlie and then disappeared.

Journeying east, Karl saw a house and remembered what was inside it. 'Time to get myself a free ticket.'

He and Charlie went inside and saw a Clefairy inside. Feeling like pulling a prank, he yelled,"OMG, A Clefairy! Poke Ball go!"

The ball hit the Clefairy on the head but nothing happened other than an irate expression on it's face. "OW! I'm not a Pokemon!" he cried.

"Whoops, sorry," said Karl. He helped Bill get back to his normal self and got a ticket to a party for him.

He walked back to Cerulean and healed up and went into the house where there was hole in. Not bothering to say hello to the people. He got outside through a hole in a wall and saw a nearby Rocket Member and tapped him on the shoulder and when he turned around, punched him in the face. "OW! Get out of here, this isn't your lawn!" "It isn't your lawn either, pal."

He send out Charlie who beat up the mook's Machop and Drowzee with Seismic Toss's and after the battle was over, Karl glared and said,"I believe you have something I want."

"Here's Dig," the Rocket said giving him the Tm and then running away screaming. Turning to Charllie, Karl he asked,"Ready to dig tunnels?"

"And make Onix cry? Hell yeah," said Charlie who then learned from the TM the move Dig. "Should we challenge Misty now?" "Nah," said Karl. "I want to train everyone enough until everyone can pull a curbstomb battle with Misty's Pokemon.

Suddenly something occurred to Karl who said,"I just remembered, there's a Daycare nearby." After getting Wave out of the box and putting her in daycare, he made his way into underground path and on the next route finally encountered something different.

"Finally, a good Pokemon," exclaimed Karl after catching a female Mankey who he named Scratch. After raising her level to a better level, he grinded her, Ace, and Feral in Diglett's cave until they were all level 28 and Scratch evolved into a Primeape.

Then on the east route, everyone else was grinded up into level 28, but Karl was just too exhausted to any more grinding.

"All right, everyone we're taking a break now," said Karl. "What?" exclaimed Scratch, but we can still go for more!"

"Yeah, but there's no day or night here for some reason and I've been up too long, I need to sleep," said Karl who indeed looked sleepy and lethargic.

"Yeah, we should just let him sleep," said Charlie. "Besides, we all need to showcase our personalities to the viewers." His teammates agreed, though none figured out what he mean by viewers.

They were all settled outside on Route with everyone just relaxing and talking too each other. However Zane was still being his loner self and stayed from the group looking grumpy.

Scratch did not seemed to like this and went over and him and said,"Hey, why don't you quit that tough guy act and hang out with us?"

Zane growled at her and said,"Buzz of, bitch, I don't do that friendly happy Pokemon shit." This got Scratch really mad and retaliated with a Karate Chop on Zane's head. He roared and said,"You wanna die! Let's go!"

"Hey! No fighting you two, we're supposed to be friends and the less health we have, the more likely we'll die!" said Lightning.

"You shouldn't talk, your the one most likely to faint on this team!" Zane shot back. Lightning was hurt by that, she knew even with evolving, she could barely take a strong neutral hit, much a ground type move.

"She's right," said Feral crossly. "Yes," said Ace in a rare moment agreeing with her. "From the start you've been nothing but a loner and now a blood knight.

"I know what this is about," said Charlie. "You have a dark mysterious past, don't you?"

Zane snorted and growled,"I do what I want to do."

After Karl woke up, it was time to go for a party at S.S Anne but not without party clothes. Karl and Charlie were wearing first class tuxedo's with a top hat to match. Zane was wearing a camouflage army uniform, Lightning was wearing a evening gown dress that seemed to suit her, Ace somehow put on a japanese high school uniform for her while Feral settled with wearing sunglasses. Scratch wore a Kimono and Kabuki make up.

"Now then my fellow associates," said Karl in a British tone. "We shall surely do our best and enjoy this smashingly good party."

Karl went up to the sailor who was checking in passengers and said,"Excuse me, my good man, I believe this there ticket will grant me and my old chaps entrance into the party.

"It will," said the sailor. "But the party's already over."

"I DO SAY WHAT? "We should have woken up earlier..." "Damn, I wanted to get hammered up." "I can't have gotten dressed up for nothing!" "But I wanted to talk to foreign bird Pokemon!" "Good thing I only wore sunglasses. "Oh well, at least I still look stylish."

"Sorry, my fellow beloved brother's and sisters in arms. I only wish we could have have enjoyed the party," apologized Karl. The sailor then spoke and said,"Actually, most of the passengers are battlers and are itching to battle."

Karl blinked and said,"Fine, fodder to the slaughter then..."

The team swiftly beat up the passenger's Pokemon, gaining experience and snatched several TM's along the way. But after everyone had they're fill of brawling, it was time for Karl to get the Cut HM from the captain on the ship. Unfortunately, or as usually.

"Bonjour, Karl!" saluted Gary tauntingly. "Well, I do say, it's my old rival," Karl said. "Why don't we skip the theatrics, old jove and jump right into a brawl?" Gary responded by sending out his Pidgeotto while Karl sent out Charlie.

Charlie opened up with a Ember at Pidgeooto who attempted to retaliate with a Sand Attack but missed. Wanting to finish this in a awesome manner, Charlie used Seismic Toss but was hit by Pidgeotto's quick attack but shook it off like it was nothing and airpiled the Pidgeotto to the ground, koing the bird.

Gary then sent out his Raticate which to Karl looked rather frail and weak looking. "Hey, Gary, are you sure you want to use Raticate? It looks pretty worn out to me."

Gary yelled,"Ha, are you really so weak, you have to beg me to not use one of my Pokemon? Shows how much of a loser you are! Hahaha!"

Karl frowned and said,"Return Charlie, Zane, get e'm!"

Raticate attacked Zane with a Hyper Fang on the right arm, enraging him who then used Poison Sting from his mouth to send him down, only he looked even more sick and was now poisoned as well. Not allowing his enemy to fight back, Zane let out a roar and rammed Raticate with his horn who was launched into a wall with sickening crunch.

Karl suddenly froze and thought,'No, that meme can't really be true...'

"RATICATE!" screamed Gary who picked up the barely conscious Pokemon and ran incredibly fast with away with the Pokemon.

Zane suddenly looked horrified and said slowly,"I didn't really hurt him that badly, did I?" Karl grimaced and then attempted to smile and said,"I'm sure he'll be okay, let's just go get the HM."

They did so, but Karl was still wondering the question. Did he and Zane kill Gary's Raticate?