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Fanfic / Chosen One's Adventure with Legendaries

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UT: you know you said you were gonna miss out on stuff once you left?
MW: Yes…?
UT: we went on a cruise, escaped from a sunken ship, and had an adventure on an island with giant robot pokémon.
UT: it’s been 48 hours.
UT: your turn!
MW:
MW:
MW: How.

Chosen One's Adventure(s) with Legendaries is a Pokémon: The Series fanfiction by Kinrah.

Summary by the author: When Ash Ketchum was to set off on his journey across Kanto, the legendary Pokémon of the world were very interested to see how it would go. Arceus set a very simple ground rule: nobody was to interfere. Ash was to have a normal journey without their shenanigans getting in the way. Of course, then they all found out that Ash had been freely chatting with the Kanto legendaries for nearly two months, some of them just couldn't leave well enough alone, and by the time Ash's journey was three weeks in he'd already indirectly saved the world. Things... kind of spiralled out of control from there.

Or: the legendary Pokémon have a chatroom and discuss disrupting canon as much as possible.

Alternatively or: the Ash Ketchum group chat that existed before any of his human friends ever joined.

The story began as a collision of two distinct projects, a rewriting of the Pokémon anime intended to rewrite the original series with later-generation concepts in mind and a Pokémon/Homestuck crossover. The published story is based primarily on the former, but retains Homestuck's epistolary style and distinctive chatlog formatting. As stated by the Author, all works in this series will attempt to maintain the COAL acronym.

The series currently consists of the following works:

A podfic for Adventure's chapters can be found here.

Chosen One's Adventure with Legendaries contains examples of:

  • Aborted Arc: Ash has made mention of wanting to catch a Scyther, and when Tracey captured his Scyther on Murcott Island, Ash was supposed to catch one for himself — a smaller, impulsive Scyther who always does the first thing that gets into her head and the epitome of Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass. However, the author couldn't fit her into the story and after a delay of character clash and no progress, Ash ended up not catching her.
  • Accidental Discovery: ultimateTrainer (Ash Ketchum), discovers twiceMulticolored's (Ho-Oh), Rainbow Wing that he dropped. This pretty much derails the Pokémon: The Original Series storyline right off the bat by combining it with the Pokémon: I Choose You! movie storyline.
  • Achievements in Ignorance:
    • The Shamouti Slowking apparently learned to talk human because no-one told him it was impossible, and he thought he was just using telepathy until Lugia told him otherwise.
    • Arceus reminds himself to have a word with Mewtwo as his genetic cloning device did something that human science could not - detect the Lugia heritage in Ash's blood and attempt to clone it. Luckily, Marshadow destroyed the machine before anyone could see the scans.
  • Actually Pretty Funny: When Kyogre says that she does appreciate Groudon's land - for providing all the salt for the ocean, Groudon gives the expected response "(Fuck you)" but admits that was actually a pretty good burn.
  • Adaptation Deviation:
    • Instead of midway through the journey, Butterfree leaves Ash's team to be with his new mate after getting Ash his last gym badge at Cinnabar Gym, making the departure more poignant.
    • The events of Pikachu's Rescue Adventure has Bulbasaur, Squirtle and Psyduck replaced with Eevee, Junior (Ash's Kangaskhan's kid) and Misty's Tirtouga (with the latter being the one to knock everyone into the hole, like Psyduck did).
    • Some of the Orange League crew have slightly different teams than in canon, in deference to the original Pokémon species available in the region. Dan uses a Orangian Nidoqueen, Luana uses an Orangian Raticate instead of a Marowak, and Drake's Venusaur, Electabuzz and Gengar are replaced respectively with Hula form Oricorio (Grass/Flying), Galvantula and Sandygast.
    • Since Ash caught a Houndour earlier, his canon Cyndaquil is instead caught by Brock.
  • Adaptation Expansion:
    • The Kanto region has Fairy, Flying and Fighting Gyms. Ash only fought the Fairy one in Amaranth Town and its leader Holly, and earned the Sparkle Badge. As seen in a chat with the Kanto Gym Leaders, the Flying Gym is in Aureolin Town and its leader is Amelia, and the Fighting Gym is in Redwood Town, led by Lex.
    • Also Regional Forms when Ash and co visit the Orange Archipelago. These forms as well as a few logical extensions appeared before Generation 2, much less before they became one of the focal points of Generation 7. In canon they were purely Palette Swaps, while in COAL, they are full variants with different typings and move pools.
  • Adaptational Distillation: The storyline sometimes skips over various episodes from the original series, though how this is done changes from episode to episode. Some are simply written out of story continuity, while others are referenced as happening, just offscreen.
  • Adaptational Early Appearance:
    • Goh appears in Chapter 86/Episode 76 of the story. That's right. Episode 2 of Pokemon Journeys is spliced right into the middle of the Original Series.
    • The Orange Islands have several Pokémon from later generations present in the ecosystem, such as Absol, Joltik and Galvantula, Luvdisc, and the Clamperl evolutionary line.
    • The author makes a point to put things from later generations into the first one, so as to lessen Early-Installment Weirdness that pops up in the early anime. Most obvious being things like Legendaries from other regions, since the Legendaries are the primary focus of the story, but it also includes things like the existence of a Fairy-type gym in Kanto that Ash visits (Fairy Type did not exist until generation 6), or alternate forms and shinies (alternate forms originated in Generation 7, while shinies debuted in generation 2).
  • Adaptational Heroism: The three Kantonian Birds of Shamouti, unlike in the Anime, care for each other and overall are at worst mischievous, compared to them being beings of destruction in canon. While they sometimes fight, it rarely goes beyond sibling bickering and they certainly never would have a Duel to the Death. In fact, they spend their combined screentime in Power of One fighting the drones as a team rather than each other, and help Lugia and Ash as they collect the artifacts to calm down the Beast of the Sea rather than trying to kill them too.
  • Adaptational Karma: After the events of Power of One, Lawrence III is forced by the Lake Guardians to sell his collection to repay for the damage he's caused, and gets his memory of it erased.
  • Adaptation Origin Connection:
    • In Chapter 59/Episode 58 (Our Five Dreams), it is mentioned that there is an implied connection between worldDistributor (Palkia) and Cynthia. The implication is that Cynthia is Palkia's daughter, much like how Ash is Lugia's.
  • Adaptation Species Change: Crossing over with Adaptational Early Appearance, Misty catches her Corsola in the Orange Islands instead of her Poliwag. She still has the same exuberant personality, but is in this fic an Orangian Corsola, which are Water/Steel-types instead of Water/Rock.
  • Adapted Out:
    • Ash's Krabby is adapted out of the story as mentioned in Chapter 14/Episode 11 which the author even apologizes for doing so in the author's notes at the end of the chapter.
    • Misty doesn't capture her Poliwag in the Orange Islands (Adrift, Chapter 52/Episode 31), instead capturing a regional Corsola.
    • Jimmy, Marina and Vincent from the Legend of Thunder special are removed in favor of their game counterparts Ethan, Kris and Lyra.
  • A Day in the Limelight: Some Legendaries that don't appear as often in the chapters get to appear in the Minisodes.
  • A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Butch and Cassidy's scheme to hypnotize other Pokémon with an amplified Drowzee takes a turn when Ash's Lampent evolves into Chandelure and gives them a taste of Hypnosis instead.
  • Age Lift: Ash in canon left his home at ten years, ten months, ten days. In this work, he does so on his Tenth Birthday.
  • Alliterative Name: Or rather Alliterative Usernames. By username abbreviation, some Legendaries usernames have them such as:
    • beastieBirb (Lugia)
    • decibelDrama (Mew)
    • galvanizedGubbins (Registeel)
    • mechaMarvel (Magearna)
    • neverNadir (Zygarde)
    • oddityOdyssey (Hoopa)
    • sevenStar (Marshadow)
    • thunderbirbTwo (Zapdos)
    • wonkyWindlass (Giratina)
    • copyCat (Mewtwo)
    • As of "Adrift" Chapter 38, binaryBouy (Ash)
  • Ambiguously Related: Ash and Lugia, all we know for certain is that Lugia has some sort of connection to Ash that he's scared of revealing and that Ash's father left at sea and never returned. Not so ambiguous as of "Adrift" Chapter 38.
    • A similar sort of ambiguity is between Palkia and Cynthia.
  • Ascended Extra:
    • Sort of even though she doesn't appear on-screen as much; Misty brings the Dewgong that evolved during the episode "The Misty Mermaid" onto her team, in exchange for leaving Horsea, Goldeen and Staryu with her sisters to be taught Aqua Ring.
    • A.J., a One-Shot Character from the episode "The Path to the Pokémon League" known for his winning streak and Training from Hell style, ends becoming a participant in the Indigo Conference and Ash's final opponent for 3rd place.
    • Ash ends up capturing the Houndour he helped during the episode Hour of the Houndour.
  • Baby's First Words: Togepi's first word is "Misty". Shame Misty won't know that.
  • Berserk Button: decibelDrama (Mew) has a fairly big one with evolution choice, which she's passed on to Ash. To them, the only person who should decide when (or if) a Pokémon evolves and what they should evolve into is the Pokémon themselves, not their trainer or anybody else.
  • Big "NO!":
    • crystallineSlush (Suicune) reply to decibelDrama's (Mew) suggestion of giving Ash a Wailmer upon realizing Ash's ability of evolving Pokémon quicker than normal.
    • Nearly the entire Legendary chat in Chapter 135 when Ash loses to Elaine in the Indigo semifinals. Varieties include Latias descending into gibberish before ending on "no", and Tapu Koko doing the long "Nooooo" probably in a mix of actual anguish and just to meme.
  • Big "WHAT?!": All over in the chat after Ash decides to not catch Ho-Oh after beating him.
  • Birthday Episode: Chapter 116/Episode 92 (A Birthday Bash).
  • A Birthday, Not a Break: Team Rocket decides to crash Ash's birthday party disguised as the entertainment. Cue the usual Team Rocket Blastoff.
  • Birthday Party Goes Wrong: Team Rocket crashes Ash's birthday party to steal his Pikachu again.
  • Bluff the Impostor: In the Orange Island episode involving the wild Golduck mistakenly replacing Misty's Psyduck, Misty's Dewgong breaks up his swaggering by asking how he changed gender during evolution. Golduck (and Horsea) fall for it completely and his act completely collapses, until Misty's actual Psyduck comes out and Golduck realises he'd been had.
  • Both Sides Have a Point: In "Antics" chapter 7, several people point out that Ash should have gone easier on Casey, an obviously rookie trainer who asked for "The strongest Pokémon he had" for a battle. Ash fires back that first, she literally asked for it, second, he was on television and got top three in the Indigo Conference, meaning he's known internationally as being exceptionally strong, and third, while her Pokémon were generally regarded as weaker types (Sentret, Hoothoot, Chikorita), he's fought people who were able to do significantly more with less (namedropping the person who stomped Pikachu with a Bellsprout) so he assumed that someone fighting strong Pokémon with "weak" ones will have a plan.
  • Brick Joke:
    • unabatedStimulus (Tapu Koko) being given the idea of getting his fellow Legendaries into Alolan shirts and many chapters later finally gets his siblings to do so in Chapter 80/Episode 71
    • Koko also gets one for Ash, which is sent in the mail so Ash doesn't have to explain where it came from... But got lost in the mail. It eventually arrives sometime before Ash leaves for the Orange Islands... But he forgot to pack it.
    • outtaTime's (Celebi) dialogue cutting off in during one chapter, involving the Togepi egg, only to finish in another chapter many days later when the egg finally hatches.
    • When Ash wonders if he'll ever get his unruly Primeape under control, Celebi from the future pops in to say that he does, but asks him to pack a lot of tissues. The implication is that Primeape will be breaking Ash's nose a lot in the future, but in the Orange Islands, where Ash finally manages to reason with Primeape like he did with Charizard in canon, he wins the battle against Luana with Primeape, during which a combination of a Hyper Beam flash and kicked up dust left everyone blinded and teary-eyed.
  • Brutal Honesty: Bulbasaur prefers this over tact; when he finally gets in a word edgewise to the singing Jigglypuff that keeps putting everyone to sleep, he mentions that he had his ears covered while listening to her song, so she slaps him unconscious and then draws on his face.
  • Bullying a Dragon: Not the dragon himself, but in Pikachu's Vacation, Raichu messing with Charizard ends with him getting Chase’s Charmeleon on his case.
  • Caps Lock: Several Legendaries have this as their chat speaking style, including wonkyWindlass (Giratina), nightmareUnleaded (Darkrai), mordantConcept (Reshiram) and chasingMendacity (Zekrom).
  • The Call Knows Where You Live: Discussed by Misty and Brock upon seeing the card with a Silver Wing in Ash's birthday present with Misty suspecting that Legendary Pokémon straight-up mailing Ash quests now. Also, asked and denied between Pikachu and Marshadow.
  • Cassandra Truth: Falkner tries to tell the other Johto Gym Leaders about how he was challenged by a trainer with an Articuno and how the challenger managed to beat him without said Articuno. Clair and Morty dismiss the claim as another Zoroark (with Clair implying this happened before), but we, the readers, know that Falkner is right (the Trainer in question is Ash, who does have an Articuno).
  • Cell Phones Are Useless: Unlike in canon, Ash is a Phoneaholic Teenager in this fic since it's what he uses to access the Legendary chat, but at the same time, like the Idiot Hero that he is, he's also prone to leaving his phone in his room or stuck in his bag at the worst possible times when it would've been really useful.
  • Chekhov's Gag:
    • Articuno’s at first declares that the Pokédex's entry of his species being able to detect people freezing to death is inaccurate. Then he gets an awful feeling while Ash is freezing in an ice cave with his Pokémon.
    • Moltres is dumbfounded when, despite his insistence that he can't learn Rock Throw, Mew shows him he can by tricking him into picking up a rock and throwing it. Later, Moltres proudly declares that he knows Rock Throw when he destroys one of Lawrence III's capture drones with a thrown boulder.
    • One of Mew's birthday presents to Ash is an Ultra Ball, with Pikachu mentally pleading that she isn't inside. Later when Mew decides to come along with Ash, Ash takes out said Ultra Ball to capture her. Unfortunately, even after being sufficiently weakened by Darkrai, the ball isn't strong enough.
  • Chekhov's Gun: The Ultra Ball Mew gives Ash for his birthday is a Zig-Zagged example: it is used a first time to capture Mew to help her protect Ash, but it proves too weak for this and is destroyed. Fortunately, Dialga restores it by reversing its timeline. Then, it's used for real, presumably to give Ash the edge he needed to capture the shiny Noctowl.
  • Chekhov's Skill: The anti-hypnosis training that Ash learns during the aforementioned Hypno chapter/episode becomes a useful skill for both him and Charizard. Charizard uses this skill during Act 2 of The Trial of the Rainbow Hero Arc while Ash uses it during Act 4 of the Mewtwo Strikes Back Arc.
  • The Chew Toy:
    • Poor, poor crystallineSlush (Suicune). Nine times out of ten, if the Pokémon attack doesn't hit the opponent, it will hit her instead. Many jokes are made about her knowing the move Follow Me.
    • Somehow, someway... No matter what she does, the universe will conspire to get Mew wet.
  • The Chosen Many: When theOne (Arceus) explains what exactly it means to be Chosen (a human and a Legendary experiencing similar events at the same time, causing them to be linked through their auras), he also explains that there have been many Chosen throughout history, connected to different Legendaries. Ash later meets one, Ritchie, who is unaware of their status as Chosen; Ash only finds out because outtaTime (Celebi) explains to him.
  • The Chosen One: However, when Ash was born, the Legendaries noticed several unusual things about him. First of all, Ash was both a Chosen and a Legendborn, which has only happened once before with Sir Aaron. Furthermore, instead of just being wonkyWindlass's (Giratina) Chosen, Ash has started synchronizing with an ever-growing amount of Legendaries, showing that he's not just "a" Chosen, but the Chosen One.
  • Climactic Battle Resurrection: The climax of both The Trial of the Rainbow Hero Arc and Mewtwo Strikes Back Arc end up as this for Ash Ketchum.
    • An inversion happens during Pokémon 2000 when Ash forces one on Lugia using their aura link, as well as the link between him and all three birds.
  • Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The text/dialogue is colour-coded to each character; Legendary, Pokémon or Human.
  • Commuting on a Bus:
    • Some of the Legendaries fade in and out of the story as it goes on. For example, at the time that grassrootsOptimism (Shaymin) entered her winter hibernation, tenaciousNova (Latias) was finally unbanned from watching the Ketchum chat. Also, when Ash and Co. head to the Orange Islands, crystallineSlush (Suicune) and blazingGlory (Entei) are left behind, while tsunamiBeluga (Kyogre) takes more of an interest in things.
    • Ash's Pidgeot is phased out of his active team during Johto due to Professor Oak requesting her help with some long-distance research.
  • Cooldown Hug: Arceus gives his son Giratina a hug to coax him into explaining how he accidentally helped Ash get into the chat in the first place.
  • Cosmic Retcon: Played for Laughs in the episode of the fic about The Kangaskhan Kid. The original events of the episode left the Legendary chat so dismayed and unsatisfied that Dialga asked Arceus for the permission (and was subsequently allowed) to erase the whole thing from existence. The episode proceeds in a different manner as a result.
  • "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot:
    • The Mewtwo Strikes Back Arc. Though not all the fault is the titular characters, Mew's fear of being replaced (which didn't happen) did not help.
    • While locked in a cage on an airship thanks to Team Rocket, Ash comments that he had suggested they fly back on Pidgeot, but Misty had vetoed it. Then he asks if he's allowed to blame Misty for their predicament.
  • Counting to Potato: Chapter 110: Mininote (What a Load of Tauros) is a research report by Professor Oak examining the herd of Tauros staying at his ranch, owned between Ash and Elaine (Misty and Brock caught some, but transferred them all to Ash), all numbered to differentiate them. However, he can't understand why his Porygon assistant numbered Elaine's Tauros from 1-7 and Ash's from 12-32. note 
  • Counting to Three: Articuno tries doing this a couple of times to count off the final KO in Ash's league battles. He messes up the timing both times.
  • Crappy Homemade Gift: Inverted by Reshiram and Lugia, who gave Ash a pair of clawmade wrist warmers using Reshiram's own fur and a Silver Wing for Ash's eleventh birthday; and discussed between Reshiram, Zekrom, and Rayquaza shortly after.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Gary’s loss in the Indigo Conference to Green; the favorite to win the conference. She beat his Nidoking, Arcanine and Graveler with only a Shinx.
    • She later smashes AJ offscreen to get into the finals.
  • Death Glare: During the events of Power of One, Lawrence III hits a big nerve for Ash, Zapdos and Moltres when he starts talking about collecting Articuno and finishing the set. All three of them go quiet and give him matching glares, not that Lawrence notices. Misty is rather unnerved by Ash looking inches away from punching someone in the face.
  • Decomposite Character: In this fic, Lugia isn't the Beast of the Sea. Instead, the Beast is an underwater current which, if disturbed, could destabilize the planet's entire weather system.
  • Description Cut: After the group leaves Brock behind on Valencia Island, Mew comments that after the first airship crash, Ash wouldn't get on another one unless he was sure it was safe. Cut to Ash and Misty in a cage after being captured by Team Rocket yet again.
  • Deteriorates Into Gibberish:
    • This happens to chasingMendacity (Zekrom) thanks to twiceMulticolored's (Ho-Oh) intervention due to Zekrom interfering with Ash's journey.
    CM: I’M NOWHERE NEAEORIJAWE[’O
    [MOD] TM: Got him.
    • It also happens to Zapdos after she decides to use the Kanto power plant as a perch, and promptly gets shorted out.
  • Deus Exit Machina:
    • Why exactly was Lugia unavailable for the beginning of the Shamouti Incident? He had received a message from Manaphy's account, which had been inactive for years, and had gone off to find them, but when he and Giratina looked again, the chat was again inactive and had been inactive for years.
    • In canon, Snorlax was unavailable for the Orange League finals against Drake because he overate and passed out. Here, he not only does that, but takes Charizard out as well by falling asleep on top of him.
  • Didn't See That Coming: wonkyWindlass's (Giratina) new voice-to-text feature will allow any words spoken by Ash's friends to be put in their own private chat. But as Shaymin finds out, if a Legendary says anything close enough, the chatbot will pick their words up and add them to the chatroom, under their usual username.
  • Disappeared Dad: Ash's father as in Canon. Here we know a bit more about the situation, he went to sea shortly after Ash was born and didn't come back, though Delia apparently has a drawer full of letters from him. Turns out he's really Lugia.
  • Discard and Draw: In the middle of the Shamouti crisis, Ash loses his phone (and thus his connection to the Legendary chat) when it is knocked out of his hand. However, he suddenly gains a mental connection to the chat by connecting to his original account - the one made for Lugia's son.
  • Distracted by the Sexy: A platonic example mixed with Animal Sweet on Object - Tracey's Venonat is allured by Ash's Chandelure like a bug to a lamp, so much so that all he can do is follow her around and Say It with Hearts. When he finally snaps out of it, he can't even remember what happened until Eevee points him back towards Chandelure and he gets allured all over again.
  • Double Take: theOne's (Arceus) reaction that he has a desk.
    [ADMIN] theOne: I don’t want him to go through his journey under the assumption that he can get help from us at any point.
    [ADMIN] theOne: I’m going to have to draft a new set of rules now…
    [MOD] decibelDrama: already drafted em they’re on your desk.
    [ADMIN] theOne: …what desk?
  • Drama-Preserving Handicap: Arceus made a decree that Legendaries are not to interfere unless things get dire enough that they can justify their presence. This does mean that, say, Dialga can't just trap Team Rocket in the past after the hundredth or so time that they try to capture Pikachu (leaving aside that Team Rocket is protected under this same trope- their helping save the world several times means that getting rid of them destroys the timeline). However, it also means that the story has to invent reasons for the Legendaries to not interfere in the plots of the movies, when, with world-ending stakes, they should be obligated to interfere.
    • In the fight against Marshadow over the Rainbow Feather, the area was time-locked by Dialga from several years in the future- no one who wasn't there can see what happened or interfere. Suicuine and Entei were watching from the nearby mountains and saw nothing out of the ordinary, despite Marshadow nearly going insane and creating massive shadow tentacles.
    • During the first movie's plotline, Giratina had to take down the chat for standard repair and upkeep during the runtime of the film, so no one could call and say "Please help bring down Mewtwo, a new legendary who plans to genocide humanity." In addition, the reason that Ho-oh, known as the Storm's End and able to dispel massive storms did nothing for Mewtwo's summoned hurricane? Raikou somehow trapped the both of them in the basement of their tower.
    • The Orange Island chat was locked down for the Shamouti Festival, so everyone was expecting silence from the participants, and there was some sort of interference such that the Legendary chat was not working, so no-one could call out when Lawrence III made his appearance. Also, because Kyogre was stubbornly fighting the Beast of the Sea that was pushing her around, she also inadvertently kept the weather changes isolated to the point that none of the other Legendaries realized what was going on.
  • Dramatic Irony: In Chapter 136/Episode 102, Part 1 (The Indigo Outcome), Lampent outrights states that it would be unfair to get Butterfee back to the team from the life he has created. But in Chapter 94/Episode 84, Part 1 (A Day in the Lab-Light), Butterfree was already debating going back to Ash.
  • The Dreaded:
    • Ash's Butterfree gets this reputation initially as a joke by Mew who nicknamed him Demon. However, Butterfree unknowingly rolls with the idea to the point that after his battle with Blaine's Magmar, said Pokémon refuses to battle any Bug Types any longer.
    • neverNadir (Zygarde) states that Ground types might have weaknesses, but they don't fear other Pokémon. Then Ash mentions he's got Pikachu. The Legendary amends his statement.
  • Easter Egg: If on PC, hover your cursor over the CS (crystalineSlush) whenever they make a post in Chapter 125. The same thing works for SW in chapter 126. Later a full feature for the majority of characters as of Antics.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: Some of this is mainly to poke fun at the Original Series, like the Pokedex not being able to identify different regional forms (like Alolan or Galaran) or pointing out that Fairy and Dark types are next to impossible to find in Kanto.note 
  • Everything Is Online: Much to Miraidon's frustration, their translation module along with several others shut down upon arriving into this timeline due to it not being able to connect to the compatible satellite feed it needed to work.
  • Everything Sensor: The chat interfaces with a Legendary's Aura, which can allow it to know if someone has stopped paying attention (fled the memo), gone unconscious (fainted), or exploded; and project the corresponding message. As the humans are interacting with their phones, it doesn't have that ability for them... yet.
    • It can even tell if a timetraveler is from the future, now, or the past, adding a letter to the start of their handle: P[ast], C[urrent], or F[uture]
    • Giratina made a text-to-speech Porybot function that can also understand Pokemon. (Which makes sense as he *is* a Pokemon.)
  • Exact Words: While the Pokémon are playing in the snow, Squirtle proposes a snow sculpture contest and and decibelDrama (Mew) joins in.
    SQUIRTLE: Is that a snow-Raikou
    MEW: it’s raikou, yes! note 
    • Gary, at the end of "Adrift," challenges Ash to a battle, fighting Gary's latest capture (an Eevee) against Ash's. This is coupled with Failed a Spot Check as Gary somehow missed Ash's newest capture, Articuno.
  • Failed a Spot Check: At the start of the story, the day before Ash's Pokémon journey, theOne (Arceus) informs his fellow Legendaries that nobody was to interfere with the chosen one's journey. However, Ash had already been freely chatting with the Kanto Legendaries for nearly two months prior.
    • Somehow, both Oak and Gary at the end of "Adrift" manage to not see Ash's latest capture, Articuno.
  • Famed In-Story: This is why Sir Aaron's Lucario has access to the chat despite not being a Legendary Pokémon. As Mew puts it much to Lugia's confusion, he's a legendary Pokémon without actually being a Legendary Pokémon.
  • Fastball Special: Bulbasaur, who finds out he knows Fling, decides to throw a withdrawn Squirtle at a hypnotized Ash. It becomes a recurring move in his repertoire.
  • Final Boss Preview: Green, three-time Indigo Conference winner, is the eventual winner of Ash's first Indigo conference, and Ash says he'll challenge her someday. When Green notices that he has Marshadow in his possession, she challenges him to a match after-hours. Though Ash and Marshadow lose due to their inexperience battling together, Green gives him some advice about expanding his horizons (like she did by going to Kalos) and gives him a Dusk Stone for Lampent.
  • Flat "What": Most of the Legendaries reaction to Ash deciding not to catch Ho-Oh after defeating him in battle.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • Partway through the Kanto region, decibelDrama (Mew) started getting booted from the chat at inopportune times, with wonkyWindlass (Giratina) puzzled at what's going on. Mewtwo had linked to the Legendary chat, with no clue to what it was, and his attempts to log in only ended up booting Mew because the chat mistook Mewtwo's aura for Mew's and thought a fake was trying to horn in.
    • While Ash is preparing for the Indigo League, he tries writing up a training schedule to fit all his Pokémon on it, including Muk and all his Tauros. However, this obviously doesn't leave him much time to actually train them, and his inexperience with said Pokémon eventually costs him the semifinal match.
    • Ash's Eevee has made mention of smelling rain before a storm. One of the Pokédex entries for Espeon mentions how it can predict weather changes.
  • Forgot About His Powers:
    • Or more accurately "Forgot About Her Powers". In Chapter 72/Pikasode 1 (Kanga Games), decibelDrama (Mew), known for being able to learn every move, forgot she knew Ice Beam when the sled she was on was headed straight for a near freezing lake. She most likely was having too much fun and got caught up in the moment.
    • There is a lot of bumbling around in a smokescreen before the group remembers that Articuno knows Defog.
  • Forgotten First Meeting: When a Pidgey got lost in a storm, she flew into a house, gets nursed back to health by a boy and his mother, and evolves soon after she leaves. Years later, she, now a member of Ash's team, goes back to Pallet Town, and she instantly recognizes the mailbox outside Ash's house.
  • For Want Of A Nail:
    • Since decibelDrama (Mew) followed Ash when he decided to participate in the Rota Kingdom tournament, she decided to pay a visit to her brother, and found an Aura leak in the Tree of Beginning that she quickly called barkNecessarily (Xerneas) to come fix.
    • Since Chase caught the Fearow near Pallet Town and volunteered to stay behind to keep an eye on things, Pidgeot doesn't need to be left behind by Ash. Also helping was Bulbasaur talking to her about not being the only one who left behind something to protect when they decided to travel with Ash.
  • Friend-or-Idol Decision: The reasoning behind Ash not catching Ho-Oh; the battle completely exhausted Pikachu, and even though he wasn’t in any danger of dying, Ash decides to take care of his partner instead of catching Ho-Oh.
  • From Bad to Worse: After theOne's (Arceus) rule to avoid direct contact with the Chosen One was broken, he amended the rule to avoid physical contact with the Chosen One. This only lasted less than three hours into Ash's journey with chasingMendacity (Zekrom) appearing to twiceMulticolored (Ho-Oh) dropping his Rainbow Wing. Things just went downhill from there...
  • Gameplay and Story Integration:
    • The story uses the game map and ties in the Team Rocket plotlines with those of the original games, such as Silph Co. and the Gambling Hall secret base.
    • The Articuno from Shamouti keeps a secondary home where you find them in the games.
  • Genuine Imposter: When Ash's traveling companions are made aware of his chat buddies, Ash introduces them as cosplayers of Legendary Pokémon that really get into character. Of course, none of his friends know that they're talking to the actual Legendary Pokémon.
  • Gilligan Cut:
    • As soon as the group reaches Murcott Island a.k.a. the bug-filled island, Misty latches on to Lapras and declares that there's no way Ash and Tracey are going to talk her onto the island. Guess what she's complaining about the very next segment.
    • The shiny Noctowl tells Mew to stick around not to miss "[Ash] making a fool of himself". Cut to a captured shiny Noctowl.
  • God Was My Copilot: While we have not seen the actual reveal yet, thanks to outtaTime (Celebi) we have seen that in roughly two years the group is going to know who the other members of the chat are and be physically interacting with them. As of Movie 2, Act 3, Misty has finally discovered that dantesNferno really is Moltres, and rapidly deduces the identity of all other members by extension.
  • Gratuitous Foreign Language: There’s a !blastoff command in the chat which says Team Rocket’s blast-off catchphrase whenever they… y’know, blast off, but sometimes it comes out in foreign languages due to Giratina not setting the translation correctly.
    ‘’Das war mal wieder ein Schuss in den Ofen!’’
  • Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress:
    • Charizard, when he finally perfects the move, uses Seismic Toss on Cross's Incineroar in the Rainbow Hero Arc.
    • Zamazenta attempts to fly, since he does not understand how gravity works, by trying to copy Ash's ability to get around the laws of physics when Ash himself doesn't seem to know how physics work. Zamazenta wasn't successful in the attempt.
  • Great Offscreen War: Sir Aaron participated in a great war that is time-locked from outtaTime (Celebi) and doctorWhom (Dialga).
  • Half-Human Hybrid: Humans can apparently breed true with Pokémon, as technically, all humans are part-Pokémon. They came into being in a similar way to humanoid Fighting-types, except without the ability to interact with the type chart or use Pokémon moves (and not even Arceus knows why). Also, with a bit of space manipulation similar to a Zoroark's Illusion, Legendaries can take on human forms to interact with humans, and those interactions can result in offspring, called legendborn.
  • Helping Would Be Killstealing: Even aside from their non-direct interference stance on Ash's journey, Ash doesn't want them to actively help him solve all his problems for him, since he won't become a Pokemon Master by using them as crutches. It's also why he doesn't catch Ho-Oh, doesn't use Marshadow in the Indigo League, and doesn't use Articuno against Drake, as he wants to beat his opponents as a team.
  • Hollywood Hacking: Played with. During Ash's gym battle where he is trying to earn the Earth Badge, the Legendaries see that the podiums are rigged to shock the trainers whenever the Pokémon takes damage, and Latias tries to hack her way through Team Rocket's systems... despite technically not owning a computer. While she gets far, Giratina beats her to the punch by shoving the power source into the Reverse World.
  • Insistent Terminology: The Legendaries constantly refer to Pokeballs as "capture balls."
  • Insult to Rocks: Misty is telling Verity about another instance of Team Rocket riling up a bunch of breeding Magikarp (the first of which was James's Magikarp post-St. Anne). Verity comments that maybe they have the memory of Magikarp as well, to which Misty replies that that isn't fair to Magikarp.
  • Interspecies Romance: Applies in instances of human-Pokémon relationships, like Ash's parents Delia and Lugia. They can even get married (Delia insisted she and Lugia did).
  • It's Personal: A couple instances during Ash's third-place battle in the Indigo League:
    • Elaine's Tauros is the one to beat Ash and keep him out of the finals. Later, one of Ash's Tauros (who is the herd leader of both trainers' Tauros) demands to be put into the match, since he doesn't want Elaine's Tauros (who has a habit of challenging him) to get a leg up on him.
    • Ash's opponent is AJ, the arrogant trainer who tried to accumulate a win-streak all the way to the Elite Four. During this battle, Pidgeotto requests to be put in against his now-Sandslash, since it beat her when it was just a Sandshrew, all the way back near the beginning of their journey. Not only does she win, she nets Ash the third-place spot and evolves into Pidgeot in the process.
  • Jaw Drop: Mass instance after Ash decides to not catch Ho-Oh after beating him.
  • Jerkass Gods: The Forces of Nature. Unlike Mew who messes with humans for fun but knows where to draw the line, Tornadus and Thundurus will mess with humans by dropping storms on them. Galarian Articuno (Yan) lives up to her epithet as the "Cruel Pokémon" by bringing the aforementioned duo to Shamouti Island in order to screw with the Legendary Bird trio there, nearly causing a climate disaster and causing them to miss Ash's third-place match.
  • Just in Time: As a Zygarde cell tells Melody after the Beast of the Sea is tamed, the approximate time left before complete nexus failure is "You Don't Want To Know!"
  • "Just So" Story: Why are so many evolutionary stones found around Evolution Mountain? An epoch ago, Mew went on a drunken bender and puked all over the place, infusing the rocks with evolutionary energy that eventually fossilized over the years.
    US: the hills are alive
    US: with the sound of mew sick
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
    • wonkyWindlass's (Giratina). As the Legendary in charge of alternate worlds, he is aware of things happening in our own world and will comment on them much to the confusion of his siblings. Sometimes he'll outright Break the Fourth Wall and talk to the author.
    • outtaTime (Celebi) also commented on the length of real world time some chapters take to complete, most blatantly in Chapter 134/Episode 101, Part 1 (Old Friends, New Tricks).
  • Loose Lips: Despite an initial close call, Ash can't help but blurt out that Lugia is his father to his friends.
  • Luke, You Are My Father: Ash is the first one to utter in-text that Lugia is his father, something he just worked out moments before, due to his song being the same one his mother sang when he was young, taught to her by his father.
  • Mass "Oh, Crap!":
  • Meaningful Echo: Ho-Oh once unironically calls Ash his hero and is incredibly embarrassed afterwards. Later on, after Ash beats Ho-Oh at the Storm's End Throne but decides not to catch him in favor of taking care of Pikachu, Ho-Oh again calls Ash his hero, without a hint of shame.
  • Merging Mistake: This is what happens to the Regis in Chapter 78: Minisode (Regimemo State of Play).
  • Moment Killer: After finding out Ash's relationship to the world's Legendaries, his human friends are invited into the chat he shares with them, and what is the first thing they see? Raikou butting in to ask his dad Ho-Oh to "check his fucking dms".
  • Mysterious Past: A great war in the past that lead to Sir Aaron's death is so mysterious that not even resident Time Gods; outtaTime (Celebi) and doctorWhom (Dialga), know what happened and can't find out as the time period is time-locked!
  • Mythology Gag:
    • The idea of a secondary Gym Challenge comes from the fanfic Ashes of the Past.
    • In Chapter 23/Episode 20 of the story, Ash is heading to Vermillion for his next gym battle and decibelDrama (Mew) recalls that her stalker Goh lives there, so she decides to go and hide under a truck. note 
    • When Ash dies during the Rainbow Hero Arc, Arceus instantly calls in Xerneas to help resurrect him, saying that if it goes wrong, it would leave Ash stuck in his 10-year-old body forever.
    • In Chapter 75/Episode 70 (The Daycare Scare), disavowedNegotiation [DN2] references Legendtrapped Alpha. Specifically, Chapter 11: Legends: You're Just Jelly.
    • Elaine's Omanyte is a follower of Lord Helix.
    • Green gets Ash's attention by throwing a Poké-ball at him.
    • Ash and his team visit the Seafoam islands, game-exclusive locations where you catch Articuno. They still encounter Articuno here, because it's basically his secret getaway.
    • Ash's parents telling him they got his golden heart and silver soul from them.
    • When Delia sings Lugia's song, she mentions that she added lyrics to it. Said lyrics come from the soundtrack song Power of One, sung by Donna Summer.
    • As a joke in all the games where you name your rival, Mew says that since they don't know the name of the red-haired trainer who just stole a Totodile from Professor Elm's lab, they get to name him.
    • Lyra's Starter is Marill, in reference to how she has one as an NPC in the games.
  • Narrative Profanity Filter: Movie 2, Act 7 has Palkia swearing so vociferously that aside from her last "prick", every other word is doubly censored behind a black bar and the words "[UNBELIEVABLY CENSORED! Trust me, you don’t want to know the sort of language she’s using here!]"
  • No Badass to His Valet: An Orangian Sharpedo takes after his traveling Nurse Joy partner very well. Kyogre finds out that he won't care who you are; if he asks you to open your mouth for a checkup, open your mouth.
  • No Sense of Direction:
    • As it turns out, most Legendary Pokémon aren't actually that good at directions. Lugia is most infamous among the Legendaries at having no sense of direction. One time, Lugia attempted to visit Hoenn and somehow wound up in a completely different time zone.
      OG: Important fact
      OG: Nine times out of ten we’re not gonna know where the hell we’re going
      UT: but you can fly!
      OG: That’s just another dimension to get lost in
    • Downplayed, Justified, and Invoked for Ash's complete lack of direction much to the chagrin of most of the Legendaries. He has only gotten genuinely lost four times and of the four, two have valid reasons to be lost.
      • He got lost in Viridian Forest, which makes sense seeing as forests can be easy to get lost in. He got lost on the Island of Giant Pokémon which was justified since the Gyarados tantrum was practically a natural disaster at sea. Getting lost on the mountain in a blizzard (though Ash says that there was no storm before he got moving) and getting on the wrong boat after Cinnabar Island were both actually cases of Ash getting lost. The rest of the times he gets lost are actually simple side trips or errands for Prof. Oak, or because the path is blocked. The Legendary Pokémon just play it up when they talk about it and seem to think he is taunting them at times with his detours.
      [MOD] TM: Welcome, Lele, to day five of ‘lost in Viridian Forest’
      MU: Wait, he’s still lost????
      MU: Is that even possible????????
      [MOD] TM: Ash’s abysmal sense of direction.
  • Noodle Incident:
    • Rayquaza apparently flew into a mountain once, an incident which the others will never let him forget about.
    • The thing with Ivy and Brock is still there, but it's given a bit more context: apparently he was trying to cover for Shaymin and their cousin, and his cover story was bad enough that he thinks Ivy will never want to speak to him again.
  • Noodle Implements: The thread for Alolan Legendaires is called "Beach Party/ That Plant on Ula'Ula We Don't Talk About."
  • No Time to Explain: What decibelDrama (Mew) says to barkNecessarily (Xerneas), right before she teleports the latter to the Tree of Beginning.
  • Not in Front of the Kid:
    • Latias tries to get into Giratina's good graces by putting in a censor filter into the chat for Ash (who is still 10 years old).
    • Mew normally has no problems with swearing, but she does try and tone it down around Togepi. It doesn't always help.
      MEW: augh, for fu— um, for fudge’s sake, celebi, what have you done this time?
      TOGEPI: fudge!
      [[yellow:PIKACHU: TOGEPI NO!]]
  • Offscreen Karma: While not shown physically. In Chapter 18/Episode 16 (A Flame in the Rain), Hoopa states that he helped trip Cross, who just abandoned his Charmander, into a mud puddle.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: While never physically shown, it's implied that, in Chapter 88/Episode 78, Ash's Butterfree frees the captured Butterfrees by setting himself on fire, thanks to Charizard, to destroy the cages using the move Facade all the while with a grin on his face.
  • Offscreen Teleportation: Regirock, as stated in that Mew's Cribsheet, has a habit of disappearing when you’re not looking at him.
  • Oh, Crap!:
    • Ho-Oh's reaction to being seen by Ash
    UT: i see you up there @twicemulticolored!
    [MOD] TM: Crap.
    • Suicuine has a similar reaction to being seen by Misty, which severely undercuts the beauty of the moment as it was seen in the original film.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When the usually positive-minded Ash gets his Berserk Button pressed, he can get so uncharacteristically angry that Misty becomes unnerved, such as during the Evolution Party at the brothers trying to pressure their younger brother into evolving his Eevee, or at Lawrence III trying to collect his Legendary Bird Trio friends to complete his set.
  • Original Character: Ash over the the course of the story has caught an Eevee, Kangaskhan, Litwick and eventually Marshadow and Articuno.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: When Mewtwo first meets Arceus, he finds himself falling to his knees and wondering how he could ever think he was the world's most powerful Pokémon.
  • Painting the Medium: Some Legendaries have a quirk to their speech like neverNadir (Zygarde) zZz sentences having zZz's between them zZz, or wonkyWindlass's (Giratina) CAPSLOCK SENTENCES.
  • Patchwork Fic: The story combines the Pokémon: The Original Series anime storyline, the Pokémon: I Choose You! movie storyline and even the games. For example, Charmander's trainer is Cross instead of Damian, and Sorrel and Verity also join Ash, Misty and Brock for some legs of their journey.
    • Chase and Elaine, the player characters of Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, are the other two Pallet Town trainers alongside Ash and Gary; Chase took the Charmander and Elaine the Bulbasaur. They cross paths with Ash every so often, though they don't join the chat. In addition, Chase is knocked out of the Indigo League by Trace, Elaine beats Ash in the Indigo League semifinals, and the overall League Champion is the three-time conference winner, Green.
    • Ash runs into the new trainer Ethan when he enters Johto, who says he battled a red-haired trainer who just stole a Totodile off of Team Rocket (Silver in the games, though the group doesn't know his name). He also makes mention of his friends Kris and Lyra, saying that Professor Elm will need to find a new starter for Lyra.
  • Power Stereotype Flip: Absol are Pokémon who predict disasters and warn others of them, always one step ahead of everything and thoughtful in their actions (and would thus know that going against Ash is a Very Bad Idea). So what is the Absol that the TRio capture like? A slow-witted, absent-minded, unobservant Ditz.
  • Precision F-Strike:
    • After the reveal that Lugia is Ash's father, the moment is abruptly ruined:
      Pikachu: What the FUCK.
    • Bulbasaur lets out a "Fuck yeah" when Ash's team clinch the Orange League champion title thanks to Lapras. Marshadow remarks that no-one will believe he swore.
  • Put Me In, Coach!: In the Orange League final against Drake's Dragonite, The Juggernaut of a pseudo-legendary has just taken out Pikachu and the majority of Ash's team, with only Lapras left. Ash is considering forfeiting rather than send in the inexperienced Pokémon who can barely remember his own moves, but Lapras releases himself and insists to battle, and manages to pull out Blizzard, KO Dragonite, and clinch the win for Ash.
  • Rapid-Fire "No!": The reaction of doctorWhom (Dialga) when he sees the GS Ball - he not only bails from the chat, he bans himself and himself from the future.
  • The Reveal: Movie 2, Act 6, the reveal of Lugia's big secret: he's Ash's father.
  • Running Gag:
    • Whenever Togepi uses Metronome to save the day, she'll regularly pull out a Legendary Signature Move, like Psystrike and Prismatic Laser (the last one is important since no-one knows about Necrozma yet).
  • Saying Too Much: twiceMulticolored (Ho-Oh) unintentionally explains to Ash and thunderbirbTwo (Zapdos) how to learn the move Whirlwind.
  • Security Cling: Charizardeux often clings to Mewtwo's tail when both are asleep, but immediately flees once she wakes up.
  • Semi-Divine: The legendborn, children of Legendaries and mortals. For the most part, they generally live perfectly ordinary lives, and interfering with them would be an invasion of privacy for both them and their parents. Unless they become Chosen as well, but there are only two instances in history where that has happened: Sir Aaron, child and Chosen of Ho-Oh, and Ash Ketchum, child of Lugia and Chosen of several Legendaries (including Lugia).
  • Sequel Hook: The fanfic includes arcs that involve the plots of the Pokemon movies, and whenever one concludes, another is teased at the tail end of the final part of these arcs. (ex: with the "Trial of the Rainbow Hero" arc's conclusion in Chapter 64/Episode 60: Friends in the End, added dialogue with Mr. Fuji and another scientist named Ishida near the end hints about another arc about Pokémon: The First Movie.)
  • Side Bet: The Legendaries hold bets on how far Ash will get in the Indigo League.
    • As of his final battle, there are only six Legendaries still in the running. Virizion who bet top four and then Victini, Darkrai, and the Lake Guardians who all bet on third place.
  • Shout-Out:
    • Dialga's username is doctorWhom
    • Moltres's username is dantesNferno
    • Hoopa says this to the legendaries in Chapter 6/Episode 4 (Challenge of the Samurai)
    OO: hoopa is not hoopaflix >:(
    • The Fairy-Type Gym Leader Holly, that Ash battles in Chapter 17/Episode 15, is named as such because the lead fairy character in the Artemis Fowl series is named Holly Short.
    • In Chapter 42 (Sparks Fly for Magnemite), Zapdos asks
    TT: can you explode twice
    • Chapter 51 of COAL is called "Porygon, the Digital Monster".
    • In Chapter 67/Episode 62 (Princess vs Princess), Latias yells at Diancie this statement.
    TN: well excuuuuuse me, princess!
    • Primeape uses a combination of Mach Punch and Arm Thrust while shouting ORAORAORAORAORA.
    • The Psychic-Type Gym Leader Sabrina's dad is named Xavier.
    • Zapdos makes a Whose Line Is It Anyway? reference since the internet points are just like what Team Rocket does. Worthless.
  • Significant Birth Date: Ash's birth happened at the exact instant that Giratina made this version of the Chat, which is what made him his Chosen. Specifically, on the day that Lugia's son was born, Giratina made him a chat account as a joke, then decided it wasn't funny, and when he realized he was Chosen, he panicked and forgot to delete it.
    • Also in COAL, he sets off on his journey on his tenth birthday exactly.
  • Simple Solution Won't Work: When Mew decides to come along with Ash but an Ultra Ball fails to catch her, it's suggested that they use a Master Ball instead. Dialga explains that it wouldn't work because Master Balls are extremely expensive and made-to-order, thus Ash wouldn't be able to afford one and it would be extremely obvious if he got a stolen one, and they can be deactivated remotely to avoid misuse by criminals.
  • Something We Forgot: Legendaries having a picnic, Azelf getting an odd feeling, Ash and Co. on the St. Anne.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: Sir Aaron's Lucario, due to Mew realizing the problem with the Tree of Beginning and getting Xerneas to sort it out.
  • Spit Take:
    • Ho-Oh when he finds out Ash's Pokedex took pictures of his first fly-by.
    [MOD] TM: CHOK E
    • This occurs again to Ho-Oh (under his username twiceMulticolored) when chatting with Brock.
    UB: I’m just imagining Ho-oh telling all of its friends about this strange human who didn’t catch it, and all of the others turning up to have a look.
    UB: Hello?
    [MOD] TM: Sorry, I… choked on my drink.
    • Ritchie does this when he hears that Ash captured 21 Tauros in the Safari Zone. Much to Sparky's displeasure.
  • Stunned Silence: What happens to dantesNferno (Moltres) when he says that not every Pokémon can learn every move, only for decibelDrama's (Mew) to show that he can use Rock Throw by… the obvious method.
  • Surprise Party: In Chapter 116/Episode 92, Ash's friends set up one for Ash.
  • Synchronization: The Chosen are humans that are aurally linked with Legendaries through concurrent events. If a human is experiencing extreme distress, "sympathetic aural shock" will cause their linked Legendary to experience headaches. It's why when Ash died during the clash between Mew and Mewtwo, the two of them, Giratina, Celebi, Latias, Keldeo, Meloetta, Solgaleo, Rayquaza, Tapu Koko and Zygarde all fainted.
  • Take That!:
    • While the story sometimes needles more questionable moments in the show caused by, say, production difficultiesnote  or by weird aspects of Early-Installment Weirdness for the franchise (like certain types or forms not existing), it outright retcons the episode about a boy who was raised by Kangaskahn because even Dialga thought it was so nonsensical, not to mention outright bonkers.note  Of course, Kangaskhan's Pokédex entry in Shield says that there are records of a lost human child being raised by a childless Kangaskhan...
    • When Ash fights Shingo, Moltres and Latias take a jab at the Gen 1 games by mentioning a Pokémon training video game that failed because of the large number of bugs, the absence of Dark, Steel and Fairy-types and the fact Psychic-types are immune to Ghost-types in that game (despite the fact Latias is a dual Dragon/Psychic Type and a hacker).
  • Team Rocket Wins: Offscreen, but the TRio *do* manage to steal Marowak, who are then taken to the Celadon Game Corner... Where Ash and Company break them out.
  • Temporal Duplication: outtaTime (Celebi). She also has to make sure that Ash and Sir Aaron are not (somehow) timeclones of each other.
  • Tempting Fate: When Charmeleon evolves during Ash's battle against Cross, scimitarGamma (Viriziron) comments about Ash bringing out the best in him. Then Charizard punctuates it with an Atomic F-Bomb, and Virizion does a supersonic Face Palm.
  • That Came Out Wrong: Ash saying that he's going on a date with Ho-Oh at Mt. Tensei.
  • Theme Naming: The Swords of Justice, apart from Keldeo, each use similar usernames related to swords; swordBravo (Cobalion), scimitarGamma (Viriziron) and sabreTango (Terrakion). Mew lampshades it in her cribsheet under the entry for Viriziron (Chapter 2).
  • Theme Twin Naming: While not all the time, some of the "handle pairs" such as chasingMendacity [CM] and mordantConcept [MC] (Zekrom and Reshiram), or moietySatellite [MS] and solarMaverick [SM] (Lunala and Solgaleo) are significant. Others such as twiceMulticolored [TM] and milestoneTwister [MT] (Ho-Oh and Tornadus) have no relation.
    • The only usernames who have the same two letters dantesNferno [DN], disavowedNegotiation [DN2]; offensiveGlacion [OG], ominousGaze [OG2]; and thunderbirbTwo [TT], turboTrample [TT2] are the Kanto Legendary Birds Moltres, Articuno, and Zapdos... And the Galarian Legendary Birds. While not actually related, none of the birds gets along with their counterpart. The Power of One movie reveals one more pair: beastieBirb [BB] (Lugia) and binaryBuoy [BB2] (his son, Ash).
  • There Are No Coincidences: When it comes to Ash specifically or the Chosen in general. Two similar events happening in different places at the exact same time between a Legendary and a human form a connection between the two.
  • This Is Gonna Suck:
    • Meowth at realizing Marshadow is Ghost/Fighting-type.
    • The starting dialog of Pikachu's Rescue Adventure involves Pikachu realizing that Misty's Tirtouga has tripped and is about to knock his group into the hole that Togepi just fell into, with no way to avoid her.
      Pikachu: Welp.
    • The Crook Pirates realizing that their ship is being boarded by an Orangian Corsola, a Pokemon known for sinking ships. And she's really friendly.
  • Translator Buddy: Defied; the author didn't want Ash to catch special/Legendary Pokémon that could speak both human and Pokémon language, such as Aaron's Lucario or Ho-Oh, too early in his journey, as they would just be relegated to this role. Ash's capture of Marshadow happened towards the end of his Indigo League journey, when he and his team are more in sync and there is less need for a translator.
  • Unconventional Formatting: When in Pesterlog Format, (either the chat itself or when the fanfic is recording dialogue only) characters words are color coded. While not every character gets a unique color, most of the time the double ups are for minor or one scene characters rather than recurring characters sharing a color.
  • Underestimating Badassery:
    • During his League match against Elaine, Ash and his team aren't too concerned about her Arbok, given how often they faced one due to Team Rocket. They soon find out that Elaine has trained her Arbok a lot better than Jessie.
    • In a case of arrogance, AJ is initially dismissive of Indigo conference favorite Green because he thinks that she only won because her reputation made all her other opponents sloppy. Cue Offscreen Curb-Stomp Battle.
  • Underground Monkey: The Palette Swapped Pokémon that show up in the Orange Islands are classified as their own Orangian regional variants, with varying typings like Bug/Psychic Butterfree, Poison/Dragon Nidoking and Nidoqueen, and the newly discovered Ice-type Crystal Onix. Other Pokémon from other regions also have their own Orangian variants here, such as the Water/Electric Sharpedo and the Water/Steel Corsola.
    • Averted with the local Absol in the Orange Islands. They're noted to not be different enough to be a regional variant, but they 'are' stronger swimmers than most.
  • Unwitting Muggle Friend: Ash's traveling companions, who are let into a minor room in the chat, are becoming this to the Legendaries. Special shout out goes to unassumingBoulder (Brock) with neverNadir (Zygarde), and tropicalWaterfall (Misty) with crystallineSlush (Suicune). As of Movie 2 Act 3, however, Misty finally discovers that dantesNferno really is Moltres, and rapidly deduces the identity of all other members. This is around the same time grassrootsOptimism (Shaymin) reveals herself to Brock in order to get him to contact one of his friends outside of the Orange Islands in hope of contacting another legendary.
  • Wham Line:
    • In Chapter 1, just after the Legendaries have agreed that they shouldn't have direct contact with Ash to avoid messing up his Pokémon journey.
      thunderbirbTwo: does talking to him count as direct contact
    • Movie 2, Act 3, when Misty catches the Fire Treasure, connects her phone to Moltres, pieces together some past events, and realizes exactly who dantesNferno (and by extension all of Ash's chat/roleplay buddies) actually is.
      dantesNferno: Hello, Misty.
    • Movie 2, Act 6, after everything on Shamouti Island is resolved:
      Lugia: Thank you. For everything. The fate of the world could not have been in better hands.
      Ash: Thanks...dad.
      Lugia: ...who told you?
      Ash: Well, I kinda just worked it out for myself?
  • What the Hell, Hero?:
    • When Ash loses his temper at his first loss at Vermillion Gym, the Rainbow Wing in his bag becomes tainted with negative emotion. Instead of purifying the feather as per his duty, Marshadow decides to punish Ash for letting it happen by dropping him into a nightmare, prompting Darkrai to chew out Marshadow and pull Ash out.
    • Due to some time shenanigans, Goh ends up in Ilex Forest at the same time as Ash and Co., and the moment he sees Mew (seeing right through her Zorua disguise), he instantly starts hurling Poké-balls at her until Ash stops him. Mew and Ash proceeds to make it clear to Goh that she doesn't want to be caught by him and especially will not become his starter, and Brock and Misty also make it clear how idiotic Goh is being by going out to Ilex Forest with no Pokémon of his own.
  • Worf Had the Flu: After conference winner Green notices that Ash has Marshadow, she challenges him to a one-on-one battle after hours. Marshadow loses because he was too used to fighting on his own and forgot to pay attention to Ash, and Ash stops the battle to avoid Marshadow getting hurt, but later in private, Green's Chesnaught (one of her oldest battlers) admits he almost lost and would have if Ash had kept Marshadow in, and Green notes that if Ash had used Marshadow in the conference, he'd have made it all the way to the finals.
  • Worthy Opponent: Drake's Dragonite, as is usual for his species, is very nice. He makes clear to Pikachu after knocking him out that it was the best battle he's had in years, and makes sure to compliment Ash's whole team afterwards.
  • You Are Grounded!: This happens to chasingMendacity (Zekrom) in Chapter 3/Episode 1 (I Choose You), Twonior by Kangaskhan in Chapter 105/Movie 1, Act 5 (Mewtwo Strikes Back) and  dantesNferno (Moltres) in Chapter 124/Episode 94 (All Fired Up).
  • You Are Not Alone: Twice in Movie 2, Act 6 (Power of One). Ash declares this through his newly-awakened mental Legendary chat connection to breathe new life into a drowning Lugia. Then, as Ash is trying to climb up to the Shamouti Shrine and insisting he has to do it himself, Kangaskhan comes out of her Poké-ball, ignores his protests, and carries him up the stairs in her pouch.
  • You Can't Fight Fate: doctorWhom (Dialga) and outtaTime (Celebi) discussing not being able to save Sorrel’s friend, Luxray, even with time travel.

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