A fanfic created by Fanfiction.net user Diatomic-Rex; this Pokémon AU follows Ash and the Johto Crew before they went to the Orange Islands. In this AU, the Team Rocket blimp the group uses to take them to the Islands ends up crashing in a storm; and the group finds themselves on the titular island.
Just with one catch: Ash is transformed into a Riolu, Misty is transformed into a Buizel, and Brock is transformed into a Rockruff. Oh, and the islands inhabitants hate humans and think of them as soulless and evil oppressors.
Now the group and their teams must find a way off the islands by beating the locals own version of the gym challenge while maintaining their cover as pokemon.
Naturally, hyjinks ensue.
It can be read here
on Fanfiction.net; and also read here on Archive of Our Own.
Citrine Isles contains examples of:
- Adaptational Badass: Ash, Brock, and Misty; being humans in the past, are now pokemon, and as such are now able to fight on a relatively equal playing field to their own teams (after some training and getting used to their new bodies).
- A Dog Named "Dog": A common theme with Pokemon/Maiju on the Citrine Isles. Some have names (such as Scholar Aspen), while others like Zorua just go by Zorua.
- All-Loving Hero: Ash, just like in canon, is this. He's far more forgiving of Team Rocket compared to his friends once he realizes that the team has been transformed into pokemon just like them. He's also far more tolerant of Charizard being a Jerkass compared to the rest of his team.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Psyduck suffers from a mixture of this as well as some Cloudcuckoolander tendencies thanks to frequent migraines.
- Ash also has shades of this, his attention tending to shift from one thing to another.
- Badass Bookworm: Zorua is a subverted example in that she knows how to use her illusions to full effect and is a skilled potions maker; as well as knowing how to fight. But she doesn't like doing so and prefers to hide and let others fight as opposed to doing so herself.
