Now here what im trying to point out is that there is a temporary truce in the sense that team apple , no-apple and all-apple will get apples in equal quantities for the time being and they have their own territories in which they have autonomy this has been done to fight off any opposition. i know that they cant work together but this truce would not last forever will it?. The protagonists job becomes more difficult.now untill all opposition has been eliminated they will work togther and after that their war will begin.they first want to make sure their are no good guys.backstabbing and all that stuff is the inside story i just wanted to sketch out a plot first and see if it sounds interesting.
Point is it could work if you make it clear that this is what's going on. A lot of people tend to think of Team Aqua and Team Magma as being the same as Team Rocket, so they have the three teams (or two out of three) team up without addressing the fundamental differences that make Aqua and Magma what they are (that is, their goals and how much they differ). As a result, the plot ends up feeling like it has a massive plot hole because this fact is never addressed in those other fics.
Also keep in mind that Aqua and Magma don't actually think of themselves as bad guys. (At least, not outside of Special canon.) After all, their goals are ultimately to benefit all life on the planet,
especially other land-dwellers. They have no desire to take over anything, actually. They just want to change the face of the planet so that land-dwellers have more land to expand their civilization (in Magma's case) or so that land-dwellers have more water to function (in Aqua's case). You'd therefore have to address why they'd be putting aside their differences to take over a region or why they're teaming up with a team that's blatantly an evil organization.
In other words, there are ways it could work, and yes, they could team up to get rid of opposition first. However, you'd still have to address the fact that their goals are not to take over particular regions, that they have no desire to set up dystopias, and that they don't think of themselves as evil. In other words, now that you have the issue of how they're working together out of the way, you'd have to consider with a lot of thought what they're trying to do.
what im saying is that the old man is not able to fight any battles because of his age
First off, age doesn't matter. There have been instances of people who are older and still fighting. (At least, in game canon.) Besides, it's Pokémon who do most of the work.
Moreover, this is still a Lugia, so if the boy uses it to break out of wherever they're being held, then why wouldn't Lugia act on its own to help its own trainer?
Not to mention what really doesn't make sense is why the old man just sort of gives up. I mean, he's up for execution. Wouldn't he
want to use any advantage he could to survive? It really doesn't matter whether or not he trusts the boy to defeat the teams because if he's up for being executed, that could very well happen before the boy even has a chance to go up against the team leader. He really doesn't know. Moreover, if he just met the boy, he really doesn't have much to go on when it comes to judging his character, right? So, he has no way to tell whether or not he would even succeed or whether or not the kid would be strong enough to handle Lugia.
This is actually one of the issues you'd want to address if you use the "Lugia refuses to listen to the trainer" plot. If the man gives the kid his Lugia without even bothering to think about whether or not he'd be able to tame the legendary, he's basically sticking a monster capable of blasting someone into the ground with someone who may or may not have the skill to keep it from doing that. That and he's resting the fate of the world on someone who can't handle using the key to save it, if that makes sense. I mean, this is going to be the kid's
starter, right? If Lugia refuses to listen, that means the kid will have a rough time getting other Pokémon, and considering the fact that he's trying to fight against an evil government, that means he should be learning
quickly because they'll probably know that he's, you know, blasted his way out of prison. I mean, he
is a prisoner too, right? So, it's very likely that the evil teams, who are keeping tabs on any potential opposition, would know that there's a kid with a Lugia running around, so that kid had better know how to use the Lugia if he's not going to have anything else to defend himself with. Not to mention he'd probably be preoccupied with running instead of attempting to get Lugia to obey him.
Beyond that, wouldn't Lugia draw unnecessary attention towards him? I mean, it's a legendary, and given the fact that very few other people have legendaries, the teams would know to look for a kid with a Lugia. And if they took down a grown man with a Lugia and
other powerful Pokémon, they'd probably know how to take down a rookie trainer with
no Pokémon except a Lugia that won't listen to him. Not to mention that as soon as people saw the Lugia, they'd probably make a rather big fuss about it. And considering this is a dystopia, it's possible that you might have people reporting him to the authorities/grunts/what-have-you for perks like "please leave my family alone."
But anyway.
The old man got this lugia because he had the parent lugia whose whereabouts are unknown.
So, he lost a legendary Pokémon.
One of the things you should probably keep in mind is the same process that you're considering putting your main character through. Gaining the trust of a legendary would be
hard, especially because they're powerful and potentially ancient Pokémon. In anime canon, they don't just listen to
anyone, and goodness help whoever thinks they're one of the rare ones who can tame them. So, if this old man had a Lugia for a long time, then it's rather strange that he lost a Pokémon that not only came to trust him deeply but also one that's been faithful to him for a long while. Not only that, but it's also unusual that it left behind its child. Anime canon (i.e., the only one that has shown legendaries to have children) has shown us that anyone who attempts to separate a parent from a baby legendary will likely get their face Aeroblasted off.
he lost interest in pokemon battles when he realised he was too old for that stuff.
But the Pokémon are a different story because battling is part of their instincts. Put it this way. Say you have a pet dog. You don't do dog battling or anything like that. Now, someone comes along and beats the crap out of you in front of that dog. Most likely, said dog will do something -- bark, bite you, jump on you, whatever. Pokémon are like that as well, only they wield mystical powers that make biting you even worse. So, yeah, it's unusual that several powerful Pokémon (the baby Lugia included) would just stand by and let themselves be killed while their owner gets captured, imprisoned, and sentenced to execution.
Not to mention, again, he's being sentenced to execution. If you know how to shoot a gun but have no desire to do it, you're still going to shoot a gun if you have one and if someone else is trying to kill you.
So I guess this leads me to ask, "But why doesn't the old man escape with the kid and then possibly go into hiding?" I mean, if you iron out the oddities of having a Lugia in the first place, having the old man give his Lugia to the boy because he's too old to be saving the world could work, but the main problem is he's still leaving himself to be executed.
That all said, yes, I get that you want to see whether or not this idea could be interesting. As I've tried to say, basically, the key to whether or not a story is interesting is all in the execution. The point of this thread is basically to help authors iron out kinks in their ideas and create from that a workable story. In your case, there's a lot for you to think about and sort through. It could work, yes, but there's a lot of questions that need to be answered. Moreover, once you answer those questions, there's others that pop up... and so on and so forth down the line. So, I guess this means you'll want to think a bit more about your plot and all of the things you want to do with it.