Pokemon: Where the Dream Begins, Pallet Town

[Pokemon Fan Fiction] [No System + No Aptitude Ranks + No Four-Move Limit + Slow-Building Plot] Reader's note: The story's setting is based on the Pokemon video game series and Pokémon Adventures manga. [Synopsis:] More than a decade ago, Team Rocket was driven to disband on the spot by the legendary Champion, Red. Yet the obsessive researchers on Cinnabar Island continued conducting secret experiments involving Pokemon modifications. In the end, Arceus brought divine punishment: Cinnabar Volcano erupted, and the entire island was utterly destroyed. More than a decade later, Cang Feng, an orphan who survived the destruction of Cinnabar Island, graduates from the Sinnoh Pokémon League Academy and returns. With his sights set on reaching the summit of Mt. Silver, he heads back to Kanto with his first partner, Riolu. But strange incidents keep cropping up along the way... “I just want to enjoy a peaceful trip. Why do I keep running into trouble everywhere I go?”