Ash Ketchum: Superman
A Pokemon/Superman
Story
Note: Superman
is the creative property of Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster, and is the copyright
of DC Comics and Warner Bros.
Pokemon is the creative property of Satoshi Tajiri,
and the copyright of Warner Bros., the Pokemon
Company and Nintendo
To Kill a
Mockingbird is the creative property Harper Lee and is copyrighted and
published by HarperCollins.
This is a
not-for-profit story.
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Ash/Kal-El/Superman: 15
Misty: 15
Brock: 19
Jessie/James:
24/25
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It was a warm
summer day on Route 34.5, near a bus stop. Our heroes, Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu and Togepi were gathered
there. Brock was leaving for
“Okay, guys, I
gotta go now!” Brock said to Ash and Misty.
“Already?” Ash said. The trio had been traveling for three days
after leaving
Brock had to
leave because of some things he had to take care of in Pewter. When he broke the news a few days earlier, before they had reached
Flashback:
“You’re
LEAVING?” Ash and Misty said in unison.
“Yeah, I gotta check up on my old gym, to see if it’s being run
properly.”
“But you
can’t leave us!” Ash replied.
“Oh, come
on, you can do just fine without me!”
“But who’s gonna read the map? And keep
Misty and me from fighting each other? You can’t expect us to survive while
you’re gone-“
“For a week!” Brock stated, cutting him off. Ash and Misty
looked at each other, and in unison, said
“Oh.”
“So you’re
not going to be leaving us forever.” Misty stated.
“Hell, no! I’ll be leaving for Pewter in a few days, so
you’ll still have time with me.”
End flashback.
“Alright,
then, I hope you have a safe trip,” said Misty. “Say hi to your brothers and
sisters for me.”
“I will.” He
said, running off to the bus stop.
“Bye!” Said Misty.
“See ya!” Cried Ash.
“Pika!” Yelled
Pikachu.
“Toge, toge prri!” Said Togepi.
“A week
without Brock,” Ash commented. “Right, let’s get going.” He and Misty departed
the bus stop, heading back to the main route. They had no idea they were
watched from afar…
Two hours
later…
“Oh, man, I’m
tired, let’s stop here.” Misty stated, stretching her arms behind her head.
“Sounds like a
good idea,” Ash said. “Let’s set up camp here.” Just then, a mechanical arm
came out of nowhere and grabbed Pikachu. “Pikachu!” Ash yelled, in shock
that his friend was being Poke-napped.
“Pika-pi!” he yelled back in horror, while a robot appeared, which the arm belonged to. A platform with three
familiar figures rose out of the robot.
“Prepare for
trouble, this one was easy!”
“And make it
double, this is just as cheesy!”
“To protect the world from devastation!”
“To unite all peoples within our nation!”
“To denounce the evils of truth and love!”
“To extend our reach to the stars above!”
“Jesse!”
“James!”
“Team Rocket,
blast off at the speed of light!”
“Surrender
now, or prepare to fight, fight, fight!”
Mee-yowth! That’s right!”
“Wo-buffet!”
“Team Rocket!” Ash and Misty cried in unison.
“Give me back
my Pikachu, now!” Ash yelled.
“Ahhahahaha! My, aren’t we being
selfish today!” Said Jesse. This just angered Ash even
more.
“Damn you!” He
said.
“What do you
three want with Pikachu this time?” Misty yelled.
“Well, if you
must know, our boss wants to kill Superman!” Jesse said. Misty and Ash cringed
at this. It made sense to them that the head of Team Rocket would want to kill
Superman, but this was still a bit extreme.
“So we’re here
to flush him out!” Meowth said. “If he comes to save youse twoips, we’re gonna snuff ‘im!” Ash looked at
him strangely. Their logic was a little strange. Of course now that he knew
they were trying to kill him, he wouldn’t give them the pleasure of doing so.
In other words, Superman was not going to show up.
“That’s the
dumbest idea I’ve ever heard!” Misty yelled. “How are you going to catch him
when you know that he can’t be harmed by anything man-made?” Jesse, James and Meowth were shocked. Obviously, they had not considered
that fact that Superman could not be harmed by anything they made.
“We didn’t
know that!” Jesse yelled. Misty and Ash looked at them confused. Apparently,
they didn’t read the newspaper, or they would have read Misty’s
initial report, where she said that the bullets that were fired at him weren’t
even effective. Jesse regained her composure. “We’re still going to make off
with Pikachu, though! Ta-ta for now, twerps!” They went back into the robot,
laughing and preparing to make their getaway.
“Oh, no, you
don’t! Bayleef, go!” Ash yelled, calling forth his Bayleef. The Sauropod-like Pokemon popped out of its Poke Ball, ready to go.
“Bay, Bay!” It
cried out. Misty reached into her bag and prepared to call on a Pokemon.
“Staryu-“ she cried, before Psyduck came out.
“Pysduck!” Misty, obviously
irritated, recalled it and called out her Staryu.
“Bayleaf, use Solarbeam, aim for
the arm!” Ash commanded his Pokemon. Bayleaf took aim and fired a shot at the robot’s arm.
“Staryu, aim for the arm, too! Water
gun!” Staryu fired at the arm to. The combined
attacks severed the robot’s arm off at the elbow, causing Pikachu
to fall out. He landed on both his feet safely, and ran into Ash’s arms. After
the little reunion, Pikachu got ready to attack.
“Pikachu, Thunder Bolt, now!” Pikachu’s
fur bristled, as it got ready to attack. The Team Rocket members began
panicking, since they had forgotten to “thunder-proof” their robot. The
electric attack struck the robot, and it exploded, sending Team Rocket flying.
“Looks like
Team Rocket’s blasting off again!” The three yelled,
propelled out of the robot so fast, that they couldn’t have any dialogue before
disappearing.
“Good
riddance!” Misty exclaimed. She and Ash recalled their Pokemon
and set up camp. After setting up their tents, Ash got the radio out and set it
on the table that they had set up, and began looking for a station while Misty
took out a book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and began reading it. Finally,
Ash found a good station. It played mainly Hard Rock from the 1960’s, 70s, 80s
and 90s. They were playing a song that Ash liked, which was “Highway Star” by
Deep Purple. Ash lounged in his chair, while listening, softly singing the
song’s lyrics so that Misty could not hear them. The song’s lyrics began as
singer Ian Gillian began singing about a guy who loved to race and wouldn't
give it up. Ash tapped his feet to the song and sang along with it.
Misty
looked up from her book and looked at Ash. He looked at her as though she
thought he did something wrong. “What?” He said.
“Nothing.” She replied, going back to her book, while Togepi slept in her lap. Ash tried to relax again.
Suddenly, he heard a ringing with his super-hearing. His eyes perked up. Misty
looked at him puzzled, and asked,
“Ash, what’s
wrong?” Ash looked at her, and said,
“Nothing. I just have to piss.” He got up from his chair and
tripped. Misty sighed, irritated.
“God, Ash,
you’re so clumsy sometimes.” Ash looked at her and smiled a goofy smile at her.
He got up and went into the forest, trying to find a spot where she couldn’t
see him. When he found that spot, he changed into Superman, and then took off
for wherever the ringing was. His best hunch was that it was a heist in
“Come on, get this gold onto the helicopters!” Yelled
the Rocket sergeant. The grunts were loading gold onto several
helicopters that were parked on the roof of the bank. These were not ordinary
helicopters, mind you, as they were helicopters that could withstand a high
amount of weight. The Rockets were almost done when they heard a voice call,
“Excuse me!
Does that gold belong to you? Because I think it belongs to the bank, there.”
Superman said to the Rockets. The Rockets, who were obviously underestimating
hi, laughed. Superman rolled his eyes.
“No, it
doesn’t but we’re taking it anyways! What are you, some big blue Boy Scout?”
The Rocket sergeant replied. He signaled to the other Rockets, who aimed their
guns at him. Superman was a little offended by the “boy scout” comment.
“Looks like we
are going to have to do this the hard way,” he said to himself. He refused to
move, and the Rocket sergeant yelled,
“Open fire!”
At that instant, all the Rockets began shooting him-to no avail. Superman just
stood there with his arms crossed as the bullets bounced off him like they were
nothing. He began walking towards them. The Rocket sergeant panicked and threw
a Poke Ball. Out came a new Pokemon, a Seviper.
“Seviper!” It yelled. The
sergeant commanded it to use Poison Bite (An attack I made up. I thought that
it would be useful for a venomous snake to use.). The giant snake lunged at
Superman and tried to bite his arm. This was completely ineffective as its
teeth broke as soon as they tried to bite on Superman’s ultra-dense skin. The
snake screamed in pain.
“I guess I
taste bad,” Superman said. “Now surrender or I’ll have to get serious.”
“Never!” The Rocket Sergant yelled.. The other Rockets threw their Poke Balls at him,
releasing other Pokemon. A grunt commanded his Charmeleon to use Flamethrower. It shot its flames at him.
The flames engulfed Superman, but again, he was unfazed. A Hitmonchan
tried to punch him with one of its attacks, but it not only broke its knuckles,
but its whole arm, as well. One even tired to use Hyper Beam, but that failed,
too. Superman went up to the sergeant, grabbed him by the collarand
lifted him up in the air.
“Alright,
listen up. I know Giovanni wants to kill me. Tell him that if he wants to do
so, he’ll have to send someone effective, not some bumbling idiots like Jesse
and James, got that?” He threw the sergeant to the ground after saying this.
Then, he looked at the helicopters. The gold was already on the helicopters
though, so that wasn’t going to help. He flew to the helicopters and snapped
the rotors off like they were twigs. He then wrapped the rotors around the
Rockets so the police could take care of them. After he did this action, the
police showed up. He noticed them and saluted Officer Jenny, who saluted back.
“Good work,
Superman.” She said to him.
“No problem,”
he replied, and flew off, back to his and Misty’s
campsite.
When he got
back and changed back into Ash, he found out that he had only been gone eight
minutes. Misty sarcastically said to him, “what took you?”
“Couldn’t find
a good spot,” He replied. He sat back down in his chair and relaxed again. It
was only a matter of time now that Giovanni was going to go after him with his
best agents. However, Giovanni had no idea that Ash and Superman were one in
the same. But he was still worried. He looked at Misty. He thought that he’d
have to leave her for a few seconds, but then remembered that Giovanni did not
know that Misty and Superman were acquaintances. But why did Jesse and James go
after him? But he remembered that they said they were trying to flush him out.
His secret was still safe-for now.
Meanwhile, in
an undisclosed location…
“So, he says
that I should send my best agents after him, huh? Well then he’ll get my best
agents! I know who can deal with him. Once he’s gone, I’ll be free to take
over! Ha ha ha!”
End chapter