Pokemon AU

"Hello there! Welcome to the Fenix Region. My name is Professor Wight, and this is a Pokémon! I've spent my days studying the mysterious powers of Pokémon, but I'm afraid I'm getting ahead of myself. For some people, Pokémon are pets. Others use them for fights. To me? It doesn't matter what people are using Pokémon for, so long as they're worthy uses. What would that be, you ask? That all depends on you. Will you go forth and challenge the League? Will you take what you've been given and rest at home with your new lifelong partner? Or will you go on to do even greater things? No matter what you do, I'm sure it will be phenomenal. Now go ahead, and enter our world!"

—The starting dialogue of Professor Lyon Wight.

Summary
The Pokémon AU is, as is evident, an alternate universe in which the crew of the Phœnix are the Gym Leaders of a region called the Fenix Region. New Trainer Miriam and her rivals, Katya and Mina, are setting out to catch every Pokémon, bring down an evil organization, become the new Regional Champion, and save the world—whichever comes first.

Starter Pokémon
The Fenix Region only has three new evolution lines and one new "Eeveelution" in the way of new Pokémon, just enough to differentiate it from previous Regions. This is primarily owing to the fact that Winter isn't willing to invent a full regional PokéDex for the sake of an AU. The starters of the Fenix Region are Pisken, Pawlen and Spelk (the Water, Grass, and Fire starters respectively). Pisken evolves into Seasprey, and then into Pandionaut; Pawlen evolves into Purrminate and then Guardelion; and Spelk into Cervismoke and finally Deetonate.

Miriam selects Pawlen to be her starter Pokémon, while Mina chooses Pisken and Katya chooses Spelk. The Regional Professor, Lyon Wight, gives them these starters and directs them towards the Pokemon League.

Gym Leaders
The first Gym Leader that new Trainers usually encounter on their Gym Challenge is the Fighting-type Gym Leader Jack, whose team is yet to be decided.

The second is Gym Leader Gall, who deals in Normal-type Pokémon. His team consists of a Loudred, a Porygon2, and a Ditto, the Ditto acting as his "ace". His Gym puzzle is a series of hallways full of Gym Trainers disguised as Leader Gall, and incoming challengers must fight each Trainer to discover which one is really Gall.

The third is the Fire-type Gym Leader Henrique.

The fourth is Joshua, the Grass-type Gym Leader.

The fifth is the Bug-type Gym Leader, Cook.

The sixth Gym's Leader is Poe, who trains Water-types.

The seventh Gym Leader is the Fairy-type specialist Eli.

The eighth and final Gym is Flying-type, and led by Micah.

Elite Four
Upon entering the Elite Four's rooms, all four of them (and the Champion) must be battled in a fixed order, ending with the Champion should the Trainer be able to get through the previous four without whiting out. The fixed order is the following:

Elite Four Augustin, who deals in Psychic-type Pokémon;

Elite Four Clancy, who works with Dark-types;

Elite Four Hezekiah, with Poison-types;

and Elite Four Clarence, who (like traditional final Elite Four members) trains Dragon-types. Clarence's ace Pokémon is the unnamed and undesigned Dragon-type pseudo-legendary of the region.

Champion
Kailani Amara is the current Champion of the Fenix Region, and does not have a type specialty, but admits to loving Ghost-type Pokemon, as well as having Dragapult as her ace.

Team Nova
The villainous team in the Fenix Region is referred to as Team Nova, the leader of which is initially unknown. As the three young rivals progress through their journey, however, they come to the gradual realization that Professor Wight is the head of the organization, which aims to create a new race of humans who are able to use Pokemon moves as their own. In order to run tests, he has extracted so much organic material from his arm that he has had it amputated entirely. Later on, Lyon appears for a rematch, with a new prosthetic arm imbued with the results of the testings giving him superhuman abilities. Winter recognizes that this is pretty darn dark for a Pokemon plot, but at this point they're just typing things out on this little wiki with their little pizza hands and nobody can stop them, so they might as well.