Fanfic / This Is the Pokémon Way

This Is The Pokémon Way is a Fan Fic by SuperHeroTimeFan, which is a crossover with The Mandalorian and Pokémon: The Series, specifically around the time of Pokémon the Series: XY.

On their way to Tython, Mandalorian Din Djarin and the Child, Grogu travel to a planet in the Unknown Regions to resupply, a world filled with new creatures. With the help of some young trainers, Mando and the Child form a new bond, but when the Empire gets involved, will this new world fall? Do they really expect to take battling to a new level? This Is The Way, The Pokémon Way.

The story is meant to tie in with the canon, being stated in the first chapter to take place before "The Tragedy" and ''Championing a Research Battle!". Currently at ten chapters.

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This story provides examples of:

• Bait-and-Switch: The ninth chapter has Cad Bane after the Kalos Champion to settle a score, using female pronouns and making it seem that he is referring to Diantha. It is later revealed that he was after the Champion before her, the mysterious Fennekin Champion.
• Berserk Button: The transmission of Dr. Pershing to Moff Gideon about the blood tests with Grogu and his blood become this for the main cast, and give them the drive to help protect Grogu.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • Brock, May, Dawn, Iris and Cynthia all rejoin Ash and the Kalos companions by the second chapter, having come as part of an event that Cynthia was invited to, and brought along the former companions of Ash. Zoey returns in the sixth chapter and joins as well.
• Canon Welding: Earth in this story is stated to be part of the Unknown Regions, identified as the E-97 System. As a result, many of the people on the planet are immigrants from other planets, such as the Nurse Joy from the 6th chapter coming from Lothal, and an Officer Jenny in the next chapter as from Kijimi.
  • In addition, Chapter 7 and 8 involve the use of the R Substance and Ryme City, referencing the events yet to take place in the movie adaptation of Pokémon Detective Pikachu.
• Composite Character: The Jedi whose lightsaber Ash uses and modifies is Calem Xavier, the male protagonist of the game Pokémon X and Y, but is re-imagined here as a Jedi Survivor of Order 66.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Team Rocket is disgusted at how the Empire was trying to take Grogu's blood, and even Giovanni shares the same disgust when informed of the situation.
  • Later Played for Laughs when Ash utters Dank Farrik in the fourth chapter, surprised at such language.
  • Downplayed in Ursula's case, saying using Grogu as a way to win favor in Pokémon Contests would be better for him instead of being carried around in a bag.
• Everyone Has Standards: Ash and his friends are very taken aback at how Din handles things, and despite talking him down from trying to kill Team Rocket in the third chapter, still are unnerved by his other ways, shown when he carbon-freezes Ursula's Gabite to teach her a lesson for trying to take Grogu for herself.
  • Cynthia tolerates the use of "Dang Farrik", but hearing the phrase "Son of a Mudscuffer" is where she draws the line, which Din actually concedes to.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Several to the Fennekin Champion:
    • Chapter 7 has her revealed as a trainer who used only a Fennekin given to her by Professor Sycamore. When he's contacted about her, he is ordered by the Fennekin Champion to burn everything about her.
    • Further shown in the ninth chapter, where her identity is said to have been a bounty hunter active from the start of the Empire's rise, who got in the way of a job Cad Bane was pulling. When explained more by Diantha, she was there when she won the Kalos League, but left because of the danger of the galaxy.
  • In the eighth chapter concerning the Pokémon Center that the group stops at:
    • They note that no one else is there, save for four doctors. When inspecting the area, they find a hidden staircase and hallway, which leads to an underground cavern holding weapons from every known era of the Star Wars timeline.
    • The Nurse Joy there is also one, due to Brock not being smitten by her like all Nurse Joys, and later during the investigation, May steers the group away from a room as if in a trance. This is because she is not a real Nurse Joy, but Jedi Healer Rig Nema using a shadow disguise matrix to disguise herself as Nurse Joy.