He's never been seen. In fact, he's only been mentioned once within the whole entire animated series to date; even then, it was by his wife to his son - an up and coming pokemon trainer named Ash Ketchum. Who is this unknown man? What is he like?

There's only one way to find out. Come and follow the adventures of Anthony Ketchum, an eighteen-year-old pokemon trainer who sure took his sweet time in starting his own journey throughout the Kanto Region before settling down in Pallet Town. The main story is to be considered a prequel, taking place at least ten years before the first anime episode.

Latest Update: Chapter Eight, posted on 25 Aug 2008

Charizard, Seaking, Chikorita, Delia Ketchum, Ash Ketchum and so on, all belong to Pokemon.Com, Pokemon USA, The Pokemon Company, Gamefreak, Nintendo and all others who hold licencing rights for the series.

Tony belongs to me, however. Or at least the Anthony "Tony" Ketchum that I came up with to write stories for... he belongs to me. Stories, characters, and images created for this site, are to stay on this site. In other words; I would not like to see my interpretation of Tony or the characters/images within this site finding their way on any other site unless there is express permission from myself and/or anyone who has contributed something for this site. As it stands, the only other places that any part of the fanfiction is located in is on Fanfiction.net under my pen name of Merrie Khriste Masse, my deviantArt account under the name of ProfessorOak and PokeCommunity under the name of Abenti.

I make no monitary profit off of this site. The only thing I gain, is satisfaction on having wrote the fanfiction, coding the site by hand (with the exception of using a few pre-coded scripts to help the site run a bit more fluently) and coming up with a fanfiction based Pokemon Trainer that I'm happy with.