Pokémon Indigo League (Alternate from canon)

The Path to the Pokemon League

(< > Is the translation of pokemon's speech , [ ] is the pokedex and bold are thoughts)

With two badges, Ash and his buddies are headed to Vermillion City. Ash battles some other trainers to level up Pikachu, Cleffa and his other pokemon.

"You're really good!" A kid said and continues with "I bet you can beat A.J., he lives over there."
They arrive to a wooden gate and a large sign that says ninety eight wins and zero losses and a note saying it's not an authorized gym for badges, but you get a very special privilege as a prize.
Being able to carry any amount of pokemon instead of six or less.

"Wow, that's some prize." Ash breathed, imagining the fun he'd have with all of his pokemon with him, then he heard that snobbish voice he's all to familiar with.
"Ashy boy? What're you doing here?" Gary said.
Ash replied with "I heard there was a powerful trainer here named A.J. and I wanted to battle him." This caused Gary to laugh hysterically.

"You? Beat A.J.?! Yeah right. If anyone can beat him, it's so gonna be me!"
"You wanna test that theory ,chump?" Another voice said, the group turned to see a trainer with a Sandshrew and a backpack in tow.
"So you're the wild pokemon trainer A.J.?" Gary asked in a confident manner.
"That's me. So who wants to battle me?" He replied.
"I'll go first, to show Ashy Boy here how it's done." Gary said.
"He's always had a big head, but I can't say the same for his brain." Ash said, making A.J. laugh.

"You got moxie kid! I like you! What's your name?" A.J. said while Gary was stunned at the comment.
"My name is Ash . Ash Ketchum."
A.J. looked stunned at the name.
"So you're the junior professor that Oak has?"
Ash nods at this.

"Well, I definitely want a battle with you after this chump! So where did you get your badges? Maybe some loser gyms. Failure City? Or maybe Wimpsville."
This made Brock and Misty ticked.
"Loser gyms?!"
"Ash, when Gary is done, pulverize this guy!" Brock said, Ash simply shocked, he never had seen Brock that mad.

"Well, relax. It was a joke. I know even if it was some loser gym or something like mine, Ash would put up a good fight. As for this guy, maybe five minutes if he's lucky." A.J. said, now that made Gary mad.
"Let's battle now!" He demanded
Well, it didn't take long for A.J. and his Sandshrew to cream Gary's Wartortle.

"What?! But Wartortle should've beaten a mere Sandshrew!"
"And that's number ninety nine!" A.J. cheered.
Gary was demanding a rematch.
"Hey, let the kid over there battle me now. You lost chump." Ash steps on the battle field and asks A.J.

"Can we do a triple battle?"
A.J. thinks about this and replies "Sure, this'll be fun! Butterfree, Beedrill! Get out here! Triple battle time!" A Butterfree and Beedrill fly out of the tent and goes to the battle field with a crack of A.J.'s whip. Ash sends out his Pikachu, Eevee and Cleffa.

"Strange choices, but no matter!"
Ash then said "Triple battle combo number twelve!"
Pikachu uses Rain Dance, next, Eevee takes Cleffa underground with Dig she learned during training, then to everyone's except Ash's surprise, Pikachu uses the move Surf.
Gary's and A.J.'s jaws were dropped.
Thanks to Rain Dance, Surf is stronger
and it hits all three of A.J.'s pokemon.

Eevee gets out of the ground with Cleffa and Eevee uses Swift on Beedrill, Cleffa then evolves into Clefairy and uses Moonblast on Butterfree and thanks to the rain, even with the training Sandshrew went through, it was still wet and dunce water conducts electricity, Thunderbolt is effective against Sandshrew, so that's exactly what Pikachu did.
The three pokemon of A.J.'s faints.

"I can't...believe it.." A.J. was shocked, Ash was hugging Pikachu, Eevee and his newly evolved Clefairy.
Ninety nine wins and one loss. A.J. heals his pokemon with potions.