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Reigniting a Flame by Tabuukilla
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters: Scarlet & Violet | Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Versions
15 Jun 2025
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Passion is such a fickle thing. One moment, their hearts were filled with a raging inferno as they chased their dreams; the next, mere embers of something that once was as a cold reality set in.
Nemona, an uncrowned champion that chased greater heights with zeal now finds that it is lonely at the top and her will to continue is ever-fading. Arven, a son once loved and cherished, wants to save his only remaining family but now lacks the strength or support from others to. Penny, a vigilante who united those who fought for justice must now turn the hammer of justice on her former comrades, if she can muster the will. And a young man who moves back to Paldea, drifting along aimlessly in life, who seems to have known what it was like to chase a dream with reckless abandon.
As spring begins anew in Paldea, these four small embers that once roared brightly cross paths. With a bit of luck, newly formed and to-be-tested friendship, and no shortage of effort as they walk the long road ahead of them, the passion for the things they once held dear may burn strongly yet again.
An adaptation of Violet with a focus on intertwining the otherwise three disconnected storylines and fleshing out the Paldea region.
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Ashley Ketchum’s alarm clock blared like a wild Jigglypuff concert gone wrong. She groaned and slapped at it blindly, missing twice before finally smacking it silent with a loud clunk. The sunlight was merciless, creeping in through the gap in her curtains and landing right across her face. "Ugh, Sun! Take a hint," she mumbled, yanking her blanket over her head. For a split second, she entertained the brilliant idea of using Dig to escape deeper under the covers. Her toes wiggled as if prepping for action, but her brain kicked in a moment later.
Today wasn’t just any day—it was the day.
Her eyes shot open like a Staryu’s gem, and she bolted upright in bed, her blanket flying off her like a Togekiss taking off. “Today’s my first day as a trainer!” she squealed, practically vibrating with excitement. She threw her legs over the side of her bed and stood up so fast she almost tripped on her Pikachu-patterned pajama pants.
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My life as a youngster with a top percentage Rattata was much more successful than I expected? - Pokemon SI by bor902
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
08 Jun 2025
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The top percentage Rattata was a legendary existence never before proven to work in the highest levels of professional battling, or any level of professional battling to be honest. But, Joey, a reincarnated youngster, was willing to pull all the stops into making this dream a reality and make his partner ascend into the realm of champions. A pre-canon self-insert.
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May has come home to her parents after her journey as well as seperating from Ash when her mother tells that her dad is having a match with a tough new trainer. My has heard of this and decides to watch the match but when she meets her dady's opponent, things time seems to stand still.
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Marcella Highthorn (teenager) © Maxbass
Pokémon © Satoshi TajiriSeries
- Part 20 of Pokémon Travels/One shots
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Fractured Echoes by Peepot
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters: Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire | Pokemon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Versions, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)
04 Jun 2025
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When Birch answered the knock on his door he was expecting another kid begging for a Pokemon from his lab. What he wasn't expecting was a basket with a note, a baby, and a Pokemon definitely not from this region wrapped protectively around the child.
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Radicals, Rise to the Top by CherishHope
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)
31 May 2025
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A novelization of The fan game Radical red.
In a world where the Pokémon of all regions can be found throughout Kanto, new Pokémon trainer Blair West Travels through the Kanto earning badges and making friends. But the competition is fiercer than ever and only the very best will rise to the top while the rest fall to obscurity.
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A casual walk past the gym ends in an arm-wrestling championship in the middle of the plaza.
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Un paseo casual frente a un gimnasio termina en un campeonato de pulseada en plena plaza.
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Pokémon Cosmic Quest by YuniOha
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
14 May 2025
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Ash and Pikachu set off for an adventure in the Tenno Region, a place known for its advanced space industry. There they encounter new Pokémon, new challenges, the evil Team Planetary, and a certain trio of Team Rocket members, while traveling with friends new and old. This story is styled like and true to the anime.
Based off of my game concepts and in-progress fan game, Luna, Terra, and Sol Versions, including custom Pokémon. Features images of the custom Pokémon and select characters, embedded right into the story! For more information, see the Cosmic Quest Official Website.
Originally posted to fanfiction.net, and recently cross-posted here.
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- Part 1 of The Cosmic Quest Project
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After the events in Kalos, Serena goes to Kanto with Ash to set out on her journey to compete in Pokémon Expositions. Ash, meanwhile decides to retry his original Indigo League adventure once again. But in the shadows, dark plans are being made, plans which could endanger everyone... AmourShipping, SatoSere, Ash x Serena
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Little Leavanny in the Big City by zoru22
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions, Pocket Monsters: Black 2 & White 2 | Pokemon Black 2 & White 2 Versions, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: Diamond & Pearl & Platinum | Pokemon Diamond Pearl Platinum Versions
13 May 2025
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I'd always felt like life's walls were angled at 87 degrees.
Then I'd died. Then, I woke up as a bug. A Leavanny, to be precise. Everything went sideways from there.
Life's walls were angled at 87 degrees. Still are. But they were, too.
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An awkward story about hope, progress, and learning.
Touches on and shows mental health problems - panic attacks, anxiety, depression, and more. Through the lens of a human-turned pokemon.
This is an AU/Leavanny Reincarnation (slight self-insert) with a bunch of custom worldbuilding mixed in.
This story is not intended to be edgy, "realistic", or "gritty" take on the pokemon universe. Gore, bleeding, and death may be shown, but that's not the point.
This is a Xenofiction take on pokemon, and Leah's POV can be confusing!
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Pokémon Go to the Gym! by Focaccia_Bread
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: HeartGold & SoulSilver | Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver Versions, Pocket Monsters: Gold & Silver & Crystal | Pokemon Gold Silver Crystal Versions
05 May 2025
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Domingo Delpeso is a full-time remote medical billing worker with a side hustle as a mukbang streamer.
Unfortunately, he’s just become the surprise finalist in Johto’s first-ever fitness-based Gym challenge— voted in by fans (and possibly God as a prank). Now he’s being trailed by a camera crew documenting every sweaty step of his “wellness journey” across the region. Never mind that he's more fit than the camera crew.
Also, there’s a therapy Pokémon. Specially imported from Sinnoh.
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“Alright gang,” Domingo said solemnly, face illuminated by the soft glow of the hotel’s bed reading light. “This might be the end. Tomorrow, I meet my ‘specially selected’ therapy Pokémon. My body will be dragged across the Johto region by certified sadists from Gym to Gym. My knees will scream. My dignity will sweat itself out.”
He paused for dramatic effect.
“So tonight… we feast. If I’m going to die,” he said, holding up a meat bun like a communion wafer, “I at least want my last meal to give me the meat sweats.”
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Pokémon Brown: The Adventures of Tsundere Bulbasaur by Focaccia_Bread
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: Red & Green & Blue & Yellow | Pokemon Red Green Blue Yellow Versions
01 May 2025
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Brown wants to finish the Gym Challenge using only a single Pokémon while spending as little money as possible. His emotionally-unavailable Bulbasaur makes this difficult.
(With 20% added cosmic horror Magikarp!)
Updates Tuesdays and Saturdays.
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Brown crouched down. “Hello, beautiful. I’m Brown. We’re going to be partners.”
Bulbasaur narrowed his eyes.
“You were the only one left,” Oak offered helpfully.
“Don’t listen to him,” Brown said quickly, as if the Pokémon understood social nuance. “Despite the illusion of you being the last available option—and thus my Pokémon by default—you were, in fact, my first choice.”
Bulbasaur’s left vine twitched.
“We’re going to forge a bond of trust and respect,” Brown continued, holding out a hand with slow ceremony. “You and me, from here to Indigo Plateau. A journey of strength. Of growth. Of mutual understanding—”
CRACK.
The vine whipped out and slapped him clean across the face.
Brown staggered back, eyes watering, lips still curved in delight. “Oh my god. You learned Vine Whip. I’m so happy~!”
Oak looked vaguely horrified.
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Ash & Kiawe Do Kanto by grainjew for fallingwish
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime)
29 Apr 2025
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Olivia insists Kiawe go on an adventure before tying himself to Alola forever. Ash, newly a Champion, hasn’t quite figured out what he wants to do next. The Kanto gym and contest circuits are right there.
A post-Alola pre-Journeys regionfic in the same sort of vein as the Battle Frontier arc.
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- Part 11 of Pokeani Episode Codas
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Pokémon: Legends of Sweru and the Stone of Entirety by A_KiwiBird
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters: Scarlet & Violet | Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Versions, Pocket Monsters: Sword & Shield | Pokemon Sword & Shield Versions
25 Apr 2025
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Hazel Cedar, a young girl who has never left Paldea, as well as Pokemon Professor Cedar’s runaway daughter.
When her dad went to look for the legendary region called Sweru, he went missing. Together with her partner Quax and her new friend Emily, they go searching for this legendary land, making new friends and enemies on the way.Meanwhile, young trainers around the world have been going missing lately, but no one has been able to find a pattern. Are these just normal missing people cases? Or is something more sinister going on?
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Pokémon XY: Finding Something New by PredictionPrincessMieru
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime 1997-2023), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
14 Apr 2025
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Ash has changed. Serena has chosen.
Our hero's journeys diverge, as Serena begins her quest to conquer the Pokémon League and Ash sets out beyond the lands of the Kalos Region. Yet, even apart, their hearts remain connected— For they now have the same goal, to 𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙉𝙚𝙬.
~𝒳𝒴𝒵~
Follow our heroes as they struggle, persevere, and *evolve* in the 2nd entry to the Trying Something New series.
Credit to @standreamy for the chapter illustrations
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- Part 2 of Trying Something New - A Pokémon XY AU
- Part 5 of Trying Something New - Extended Canon
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Un nuovo viaggio aspetta Ash Ketchum e Pikachu, stavolta in un'avventura intrapresa per riscoprire chi sono e i loro obbiettivi!
Nella regione di Forsia intraprenderanno un viaggio per definire loro stessi. Vagando in un labirinto di dubbi e crescita, dovranno trovare la via per un futuro molto diverso da quello per cui avevano iniziato a viaggiare.
Combatteranno per realizzare il loro sogni e ristabilire l'equilibrio tra luce e oscurità, accompagnati da nuove e vecchie conoscenze... tra cui qualcuno molto speciale.Amourshipping (AshxSerena)
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A new journey awaits Ash and Pikachu, this time on an adventure undertaken to rediscover who they are and their goals.
In the region of Forsia they will embark on a journey to define themselves. Wandering through a labyrinth of self-doubt and growth, they will have to find their way to a future very different from the one for which they had begun to travel.
They will fight to realize their dreams and restore the balance between light and dark, accompanied by new and old acquaintances including someone very special. -
Wonder of YU by Telt
Fandoms: Persona 4, Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions
12 Apr 2025
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Yu and the Investigation team are pulled into the Pokemon World. Marie has fled here for reasons unknown. Yu discovers a pair of new bonds in his search for Marie.
Inspired by Otherworld Messiah. I just had to write my own Story with the P4 cast.
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Pokémon: Radiant Red Chronicles by RockyJMoon3
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
06 Apr 2025
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Hey, I'm RockyJMoon. This is just my own little hypothetical version of the Pokémon Kanto story that I may or may not want to turn into a fangame at some point, we'll see.
This story will feature many elements from the games, anime, manga (Adventure & The Electric Tale of Pikachu), and other related media. Along with a little inspiration from fangames such as "Pokémon Chapter Red" and "Pokémon Red Rocket Edition".
~ I don't own Pokémon or it's characters (aside from a few OC's here and there), they are owned by GameFreak and Nintendo. This is merely a fan-work. Please support the official releases.
~ This story is not made for younger readers. There were be a number of mature elements here and there.
~ I don't own any pictures, gifs, or music I may place in here.