Ritchie Raylight

**Ritchie Raylight** returns in the Resetverse as a Pokémon Trainer from Frodomar City. He started his journey with his Charmander, Zippo, and his Pikachu, Sparky, at his side.

Ritchie gives all of his Pokémon nicknames because he thinks it gives them more personality.

## History

### The New Timeline (Past)

Growing up, Ritchie struggled with the fact that he had no father figure in his life. So at ten years old, when he got a new dad in the form of Silver Raylight, Ritchie was ecstatic. Silver took Ritchie under his wing and raised him as one of his own. The two are now as close as can be and think the world of each other.

Ritchie was supposed to attend Oak’s summer camp in order to try to qualify for a starter Pokémon but he got sick, resulting in his Bloodliner abilities acting up. Fearing that he would be discovered as a Bloodliner, his parents would not let him attend. This was the same summer camp that Ash and Serena went to.

Two months before it was time for Ritchie to leave on his journey, Ritchie selects a Charmander to raise for a week as part of his test to get his trainer license. As part of this and at the prompting of Silver, he decides to train Charmander on learning how to use Dragon Rage.

On the last day of training before his test evaluation, a Pikachu appears at their training grounds running away from Joshua. After learning that Joshua was trying to force an evolution on the rodent, Ritchie proposes a battle between Joshua and himself, and if Joshua is to lose he leaves the Pikachu alone. Joshua agrees and a battle between Joshua's Spearow and the Charmander begins. When it appears that Ritchie is beginning to win, Joshua has his Spearow target Pikachu instead of his opponent. Surprised, Ritchie has Charmander use Dragon Rage on the Flying-type and is able to cement his victory. Upset, Joshua storms off and leaves the Pikachu with Ritchie. Ritchie asks the mouse if he would like to join him and he agrees. Afterwards he talks with the Pokémon and decides upon the nicknames Zippo for the Charmander and Sparky for Pikachu.

### Fuchsia Arc

Ritchie makes it to Vermilion City and challenges Lt. Surge for a gym battle.

### Stuff In Between Arc

Ritchie enters a Bug Catching Contest but is put to sleep by a Paras' spore so is unable to capture anything before time runs out. He later gets a message from Silver commiserating his loss and tells him about a friend of his that has an egg layed by a Tyranitar that he would be willing to give to Ritchie. Ritchie excitedly leaves to go meet this friend.

### Sabrina Arc

The egg that Ritchie had gotten from his father's friend hatches into a Larvitar that he nicknames Cruise.

### Indigo Training Arc

After earning his seventh badge, Ritchie and Sparky have a training match against Duplica and her Ditto at a Battle Club. They manage to win thanks to their training on guaranteeing the power-up that can come from Charge Beam.

### Indigo Arc

After earning his eighth badge, Ritchie makes his way to Indigo Plateau to compete in the Indigo League Conference. During his first round match, he is against a Haunter that defeated his Eevee. Ritchie chooses to bring out Rose, his Tailow, and thanks to her ability, Scrappy, she is able to defeat the Ghost-type with a powerful Boomburst. Rose is then able to finish the battle with a win for Ritchie. He continues to battle his way through the tournament defeating trainers such as Luna in his Top 64 match and Fergus in the one to make it past the Top 32.

After a round of training for his Top 16 match, Ritchie is making his way out of a building when the power goes out. He then finds a group trying to open an elevator shaft that has some occupants panicking inside. Ritchie has Sparky provide enough power to open the doors and they are then able to do so. Ritchie then goes out for lunch with the two who were stuck in the elevator, who introduce themselves as Assunta and Melissa. While eating Ritchie gets a message from his dad and after reading it sees the matchups for the next round are announced. To his surprise it is Assunta who will be his opponent.

The next day the battle to make it past the Top 16 commences and Ritchie is able to get Assunta down to her last Pokémon, a Venusaur, with him still having Cruise, Zippo and Sparky remaining. Venusaur is able to defeat both Cruise and Zippo, as well as take Sparky down to the wire but collapses after losing a final Beam clash, which brings Ritchie and Sparky the win.

That night, Ritchie gets a message from Joshua which is a lot more positive than expected, before his parents surprise him by arriving in person to see his next match. Ritchie's following match would be against Koga, who emerged victorious and knocked Ritchie out of the tournament in the Quarterfinals with a Top 8 seating.

## Pokémon

* Charge Beam
* Double Team
* Slam

* Swords Dance
* Dragon Rage
* Smokescreen
* Flamethrower
 **As Charmander:** | **Known as of Evolution:** | * Ember
* Scratch
* Smokescreen

* Dig
 **As Pupitar:** | **Known as of Evolution:** | * Rock Polish
* Headbutt
* Hidden Power

* Quick Attack
* Work Up

* Double Edge
* Double Team

* Psychic

* Bubble Beam
* Rapid Spin

## Bloodline(s)

### Technique (Charge Beam)

Ritchie can shoot Charge Beams from his palms as traditional hand blasts, fingertips as focused as a thin laser like beam, or from his eyes. When using shooting a focused blast he can use the attack like a laser cutter.

After a lot of training Ritchie mastered the ability to guarantee he gets the power boost that Charge Beam can produce.

When Ritchie is upset or feeling unwell sparks try to escape through his eyes.

### Dominion

Ritchie's Dominion Bloodline is unknown at this time.

## Achievements

 ??? Badge

\*The number of badges Ritchie had before this badge is not confirmed but it was at least three.

 Indigo League Conference | Top 8

## Trivia

* Both Ritchie and Ash have unfavorable experiences with Joshua.

## Links

1. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP078
2. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP078
3. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP078
4. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP220
5. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/HS08
6. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP078
7. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP080