<sigh> I had hopes, but...

Ah well. Might as well C&C this beast.

Hey ... you don't get *that* many pokemon fics on this list. Ya gotta take
em or leave em ^_^;;

There doesn't seem to be many alternate universe pokemon stories

floating

around (one of my fave kinds of fics) so here's one from me ... and

yeah

I'm using the cliched gender bending thing. But heck I can never

get

tired of these types of stories ^_^;;

Frankly, gender-reversal fanfics get a bit tiresome after a while. I
mean, seriously, people. You switch the genders of all the major
players, and you think you have a groovy keen fanfic idea. I'm sorry
to break it to you--you don't. Genderbender fics went out of style
three years ago.

Well okay. I wasn't here 3 years ago ^_^;; But the main differences I was
thinking about in this fic, wasn't the gender bender thing. I was going to
make drastic changes after the first part. Then I'll just do whatever to
what seems the funniest. That's always been sort of my "custom" for
alternate universe parody fics.

<snip>

"I will, I will," Ashly promised as she stopped flitting around the

room

and glued her eyes to the television set. On the screen was

Professoress

*choke*

PROFESSORESS!?

I hate to break it to you, but female professors are called
professors, the same as male professors. There's no such word as
'professoress'.

Do you have a better suggestion? Hmm, Professora that Edward Becerra
mentioned has possibilities ...

Oak, Pallet Town's foremost authority on pokemon. She was lecturing

out

By the way, Pokemon *is* a proper noun. You should ALWAYS capitalize
it.

I thought "Pokemon" was just a normal type of noun? You know, like "people".
Pokemon are a species aren't they?

Of course, I can't verify the way they do it in the manga since every letter
is in capitals *sigh*

<snip>

AlTHOUGH...if you think about it, Oddish is not exactly the most
useless Pokemon. Takes it a while to be able to do anything
especially cool, but if you play it right, you can kick some serious
ass with Oddish...

Yeah, I know that. Especially when it evolves or you teach it some cool TMs.
But it was the weakest plant pokemon I could think of ... or at least
spotted on my chart of pokemon =P

In fact, she even noticed some sort of squad of boys waving pink

pom-poms

around.

Boys. Waving pink pompoms. Uh-huh. Sorry, but it'd take enough cable
to hold up three Golden Gates to suspend that disbelief.

Hey, it's meant to be ridiculous ^_^

"Garina, Garina! She's our girl!" they called out with looks of

adulation

on their faces. "If she can't do it, no one ... *quick, what rhymes

with

girl? Sirl, lirl, dirl, curl? That'll have to do* If she can't do

it, no

one curl!" they continued. "Go, go, Garina!"

*whonk*

Oh, come ON. You can surely do better than this. Use some
imagination, for cryin' out loud. Did it cross your mind that instead
of trying to make the name 'Gary' female, you could use a rhyming,
genuine female name, and actually make it funnier?

Try 'Carrie' here. Carrie Oak. Think about it.

Well, I thought it would be cuter to just "feminise" the male names (and
vice versa). Also, in that way people who don't know all that much about
pokemon (or just a little bit slow ^_^;;)will be able to instantly recognise
who that person is meant to be. After all, the main audience behind Pokemon
is around from the mid-teens to below. At least from what I scrounged around
on the various Pokemon fanfic sites.

However, I'll think on changing the names more completely to make them look
more 'normal' or fit better.

<snip>

Ashly watched them off as she straightened her clothes out and

dusted the

more dirtier parts off her jeans. "I'll show you!" she declared

hotly.

'more dirtier' is horrible grammar. You should have learned this in
grade school.

Sorry, it slipped through ^_^;;

"The early bird gets the worm," Professoress Oak said. "Or in this

case,

the pokemon."

<sigh> Forgive me, but this is another problem I have with this type
of fic. Is it really that difficult to come up with original
dialogue? There are times when it's necessary to requote word for
word certain dialogue from the original version. This is not one of
them.

Uh, okay. Guess I was a bit lazy ^_^;;

There was a sudden bright flash of light as it opened and when the

light

finally dissipated, a small yellow mouse-like pokemon with pointed

ears,

red spotted cheeks and stripes on its back, appeared. "Pikachu!" it

said

in a highly cute voice, jagged yellow tail twitching behind it as

it

stood on its small hind legs. It looked at her with adorable

looking,

shiny black eyes.

<raises an eyebrow> Well, well...I somehow expected this to be
different, too...

Well, Pikachu is my fave pokemon ^_^. That and Charmander, and poor little
Charmander was replaced by Jynx ...

But the Pikachu suddenly squealed and jumped off the table to hug

Ashly

by the neck. "Pika, pika!"

"That's weird," the woman professor said with a confused look on

her

face. "It was supposed to shock you."

Ah. A bit different, then...

Seeing as how Pikachu doesn't really have a gender, I just left it as an
'it'. And Pikachu seemed like the type to like pretty girls ...

<snip>

"J-Just set it away!" Ashly said in a frightened voice as she

scooted

backwards to the far corner of the lab, as far away from the

Pikachu as

she could get. The Pikachu looked sadly at her, eyes moistening.

Awwwwwww....poor Pikachu.... ;_;

"Of course I want it! It's still a pokemon!" Ashly bit her nails in

fear.

"E-Even if it is a mouse ... I have to have a pokemon!"

One must wonder how she's going to overcome this..

Well, actually, one could care less, but that does seem to be the
driving purpose of this fic at the present, so...

Well, I thought it would be cute that instead of Ash having to prove himself
to Pikachu, it would be the other way around in this fic ...

"Poke ball, go!" she then shouted, throwing the ball at the Pidgey

as

hard as she could. The poke ball smacked into the back of the

Pidgey's

head with a loud crack and knocked the Pidgey unconscious.

"Oh, no!" Ashly said as she ran forward and crouched by its side.

"Was it

supposed to do that? I hope I didn't kill it!" She picked up the

ball

that she threw. "Woops," she said sheepishly turning her hat back

the

right way and pulling her ponytail through the holeagain. "I forgot

to

activate it!"

*thunk*

I didn't think it was possible, but it is. She's even dumber than
Ash.

I really wasn't trying to be sexist here. Really! *Hides from all the girls
waving mallets*

This time, the ball opened up over the Pidgey and it was sucked up

in a

flash of red light. Then the ball closed with a snap and fell to

the

ground. Ashly and Pikachu watched the ball wiggle around for a few
seconds. Then it suddenly stopped and the red light on the ball lit

up

indicating that it had successfully caught the bird.

Well, that certainly went better than Ash's first capture. Of course,
that's entirely Pikachu's doing... ^_^

Exactly. This is sort of what I envisioned happening if Pikachu had actually
been co-operative that first day. He would have caught that Pidgey easily.
Unless he had one of those "stupid attacks" Ash is prone to.

What's interesting is that in the manga, Ash is certainly more competant
that he is in the anime. In the manga when they were attacked by spearows,
he managed to catch a *Fearow* out of it.


<snip>

"Oh no!" she called out, diving to the ground as one of the Pidgeys
attacked.

Spearows...

Doh! I guess I had Pidgey's on the brain ...

<snip>

Instead of a water pokemon which he expected to find, it was a

young girl

Sitting there, with black hair in a ponytail and a red and white

cap

Avoid capitalizing random words in the middle of a sentence.

I hate it when Microsoft word does that ;_:


<snip>

MISTO!? UGH! Dude, what is with you? At least *try* to use your brain
when you do these names. You coulda called him Cloud, fer pity's
sake. Or Dew, or Rain. Or *something* along those lines...

Like I disclaimed at the bottom, it wasn't my brain but someone else's ^_^.
However, it *was* my brain that decided it sounded cute =P. You can jump on
me for that.

She hoped that the boy was right and there really was a medical

centre

this way. That boy ... she felt a bit bad about taking his bike,

but this

I should hope so. Stealing a bicycle is one thing. Stealing a
motorcycle is usually closer to a felony.

Well, she did say she was going to return it ^_^;;

"Now, hang on!" She swerved and drove the bike off the ledge and

directly

at a tree below. They were air-borne and the Spearows crowed as

they

followed like a cloud, biting at her back. Then at the last second

before

the bike would hit the tree, Ashly jumped off to the side. As she

lifted

her arms and legs around to protect Pikachu as she landed in a

ball,

rolling away, the bike exploded burning more than a few of the

Spearow.

They flapped away frightened and in agony.

Ouch. That's gonna be expensive to replace...

You know someone's gonna be *pissed* ^_^;;

<snip>

So what do you think? Anyone want me to continue this on the side?

Maybe if you put it through some extensive revisions, mostly in the
area of doing better work on the names...

Names .... okay. Gottit ...

And yes, I know the term "Professoress" doesn't exist. But it was

the

only thing that I could think of to give it a more feminine sound.

And again, all you succeeded in doing is sounding retarded. Lose it.

Okay. But I'll probably just change it to Professora. Or might even just
reverse his/her gender back if I'm too lazy. Maybe if he was still a male it
would work better.

One last thing, thanx to Funkiechick from the Ash & Misty couples

board

for the suggestion of "Misto's" name ^_^;;

<shudder> Lose *that*, too. >_<

See? It wasn't all my bad taste ^_^. Anyhow, yeah, I'll think about a better
name. Whenever I got the time to revise this and/or write the next part.
Well, gotta study now! Exam later this week ;_;

Thanx for the honest C&C!

~Ace