Going on a pokemon journey is so exciting! But then Ash deals with a destructive first pokemon, jaded gym leaders, and multiple run-ins with Team Rocket, a criminal organization stealing pokemon while aiming for world domination. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Fan reboot/season 1 rewrite, multi character focus. [First Chapter: Pikachu vs. Pallet Town]

It's been a few years since Rika left her hometown to sink and be forgotten. In her new school, there's a familiar face. This brings back all kinds of feelings from the past when the managing the present had already been difficult enough. Is living as a human really possible? Rika/Satoko

Valac Clara has a lot to give.

He was finally out of Team Rocket. That life was done and in the past, didn't affect the present at all, did it? No... Even the blather of a certain eccentric talking pokemon was enough to remind of past regrets. Of course, maybe Butch hadn't really wanted to forget everything, or at least not everyone. 2019 series/Journeys based, Butch/Cassidy.

She'd been so careful. But with just one oversight, here she was... In a world without Furude Rika. And then another, and another, and another... How many had it been?

Does true love mean submitting to isolation? Rika rejects that notion. As her illusion of happily ever after falls away, Bernkastel remains. Yuri.

What's the function of a familial unit? To support each other or work to a common goal? Is there a difference? The Harmonia family tries to do both, though that becomes difficult when their intentions split. Siblings N and Iris work against each other for what they consider the true, or maybe ideal vision of Team Plasma. Canon AU of original BW games.

Iris, a champion hopeful, catches a Lapras.