Master Challenge

Disclaimer : I do not own anything

Special thanks to CharmedmilliE- Karry master for letting me adopt the story.

Daniel Angeles/ revolution created by Black Falcoln

Roberto Degaldo created by Red Alfa

Silver/ Tabitha created by CharmedmilliE- Karry master

Kara-the-deaf trainer created by Dragonsrule18

Rei Kurosaki created by Artemis-no-subaku

Ages:

Ash: 17

Misty: 17

Brock: 21

Gary: 17

May: 15

Max: 12

Dawn: 14

Iris: 16

Cilan: 18

Clemont: 18

Bonnie: 7

Serena: 16

Tabitha/Silver : 16

Chapter 1: The Challenge

Ash had finally done it. He had won the Kalos league. He knew all his pokemon had worked hard for it especially Pikachu and Charizard, the two pokemon who had pushed themselves far to get the win. Now usually when you won a league you won the right to challenge the elite four and if you beat them challenge the champion for his or her title, but Ash had been told they were doing something different this year that would be announced once the Indigo League in Kanto was done being the last league of the six to finish up this year, so Ash and his Kalos traveling buddies had decided to head back to Ash's home town of Pallet in Kanto to await the news.

The minute Ash walked onto the Oak Ranch he was greeted home by this pokemon and by greeted home he meant run over by a herd of Touros, nearly crushed to death by Bayleaf, bitten on the head by Gible, and a flame thrower from Charizard who decided to send it even though Ash had just sent him back to the lab the day before. Then an Eevee jumped at him. "Hi Eevee… wait I don't have an Eevee," Ash said realizing he had no idea who this little pokemon was. The brown pokemon gave him a look before head-butting him and running off to a nearby Espeon with a large group of pokemon. Ash had seen this group around the lab before but never paid it to much attention. Ash released his Kalos team who Pikachu started introducing around to the older members of his team.

"Well Ash is home," He heard the voice of the famous professor Samuel Oak say. "I always know when you walk in." Ash saw there was a big table set up with food and all his friends and his mom were also here. "Welcome home and Congratulations."

"My baby," Delia said running up and hugging Ash. "I am so proud of you."

"Thanks mom," Ash said and looked at the others at the table. "Misty it's been a while." Ash couldn't help look at his friend. Over the years Misty had grown into a women. She still wore similar clothes but her hair was longer now.

A smile came to the red heads face. "Finally won one," Misty said standing up and the two hugged. It lasted a little longer then a friendly hug between friends should and when they parted Ash had a small smile on his lips. He didn't notice the looks Serena gave him. He then greeted all his other friends and introduced his new friends to the group.

"So Max how's the training going?" Ash asked and saw a look come over Max's face. "What's wrong?"

"He can't seem to catch a break lately," May answered for her little brother. "He went to the Jotho league first and was eliminated in the final 8. Not bad except it was a six on six battle and the girl he lost to only used two pokemon and that was because she switched pokemon."

"That's too bad but everyone loses sometimes. At least you tried your best," Ash said.

"That's not all," May said. "He entered this Indigo League only to lose to the same person in the final 16."

"Who is this girl?" Ash asked wondering if he had met her.

Max pointed up to a TV Ash hadn't realized until he had pointed. It was clear the Oaks must have set it up so the group could watch outside. The TV showed the finale of the Indigo League. The last two were a girl they introduced as Silver and a boy named Kevin. "Silver?" Ash asked and Max nodded. "Are we rooting for her or do we want her to lose?"

"Rooting for her," the answer came from the senor Oak. "I gave her her first pokemon a year after you and Gary got yours. Also helped her create the stage name Silver for herself. You see that large group of pokemon over there." Oak pointed at the group of Pokemon the Eevee that greeted Ash ran up to. "Those are hers."

"Wow she has a lot," Ash said.

"She has over a hundred pokemon,' Gary told Ash.

"And even when they are not with her they train. Some of your pokemon have joined them. Especially your Gible," Samuel Oak said. "She's a nice girl. Had a hard life when she was young."

"And this is only her second major league. Besides this she has only fought in minor stuff," Brock answered. "Until she entered the Jotho league and surprised everyone with her power. She is the favorite to win this. I watched her battle Forrest for the badge. My little brother is good but he didn't stand a chance."

"I used my strongest pokemon against her," Misty added. "We did a good fight, but she won."

"Also she's the only one besides you who has defeated Tobias Darkrai. His Latios took her out though," Dawn added.

"Wow," Ash said as he watched the battle take place and it was early on Ash could see everyone was right. There was no way Silver as she called herself was losing. She lost one pokemon, a Persian, early on, but then ruled the battle completely. She used a Salamence and a Slowking for most of the battle switching Salamence out when he took a bad hit. Then surprisingly she returned her Slowking and used her starter Chairzard to take out the last pokemon. "Wow," Ash said again seeing the power of his girl. The group of Silver's pokemon cheered as she won.

"And we have our winner," the announcer said. "Now it's time for that special announcement from Mr. Goodshow and Kanto and Jotho's current champion Lance."

The group watched the screen as Mr. Goodshow and Lance appeared. "First I would like to say congratulations to our winner Silver and the other five winners from the other regions. You all worked hard and put on excellent battles," Lance said. "Now the award this year is a bit different then previous years. Normally when you win a league you get the right to challenge that regions elite four and then champion if you beat the elite four. This year we have a different special reward which will be explained by Mr. Goodshow."

"Thank you Lance. I couldn't have said it better myself," Mr. Goodshow said. "In five months time, the league has decided to hold another competition. This we are entitling the Master Challenge where the title of Pokemon Master will be rewarded to the winner. The champion of each region and the elite four of each region will be competing and as normally they are excused from preliminary rounds having already proven themselves. With them the six winners of regional leagues are also already entered and past the preliminary rounds. This means these six talented trainers like the elite four and the champion will sit and watch the preliminary and enter when the real competition begins."

Mr. Goodshow paused for a minute to let the new sink in. "Now to enter for everyone the requirements are you either have to be a gym leader, a frontier brain, or have gotten to the finale four in any of the region leagues. Good luck to every one who enters and once again congratulations to our six winners."

After the speech was over the pictures and names of each winner was shown along with what league they won. Ash looked at each name. Besides him and Silver he noticed Tobias had won the Hoenn league this year. The news that should have excited Ash made him nervous and he looked over at Silver's pokemon. There were so many and all-different types. He then looked at his pokemon. He didn't have as many and had a lot of grass, fire, and water types. Ash was growing nervous and he didn't know he was being talked to until Brock touched his arm to get his attention.

"I bet your excited," Brock said and Ash nodded not letting Brock into his inner thoughts.

"Well I'm entering," Misty said. "I'm a gym leader. I qualify so we'll be competing with each other."

"I look forward to it Mist," Ash said with a small smile truthfully thinking it would be fun to be battling Misty again even though he was still nervous about his Pokemon types and power compared to champions and Silver and Tobias.

"Big brother, you should enter to," Bonnie said to Clemont who seemed nervous at the idea.

There was more talk about the competition and then as it got later sleeping arrangements were being decided. Ash's family had two guest rooms, which Misty, May, Dawn, and Serena agreed to share. Brock and Max would sleep in Ash's room with him. Oak had offered Clemont and Bonnie a room at his lab, which they accepted and Iris and Cilan said they had to go, but told Ash they would be back to cheer him on at the Master Challenge.

-Next Day-

Ash barely slept that night. He woke up before everyone else, had a small breakfast, and was out of the house before anyone had woken up. Once he got to Oak lab he was able to sneak inside and get his pokeballs and release all of his pokemon. Most of them were still sleepily and wondering what their trainer was doing releasing them so early.

"Hey guys, sorry for the early wake up call, but couldn't sleep so was hoping you guys wouldn't mind doing some training," Ash said and his pokemon eagerly agreed. Ash set them up into groups and told them to practice while he looked around to see what they needed work on. Ash could clearly see some of his pokemon were doing a lot better then others. Pikachu who he always had on him was faster and more powerful then some of the other he had left at Oak Lab and ignored. His Kalos team who had been getting a lot more training recently then his others were in better shape but not exactly more powerful then his older pokemon. Then there were pokemon like Charizard and Spectile who were naturally really strong powerhouses. Ash could tell he had a lot of work over the next five months and his concerned about the number of pokemon he had and the typings were still bothering him. He worried he might be too predictable in battles. He wished he had caught some of the pokemon he had encountered on his journey and just didn't for whatever reason.

It wasn't long later before a large Charizard flew onto the ranch. That caught his Charizard attention who could see the powerful of his one. On the Charizard back was the girl who the day before had won the Indigo League. "Thank you," Silver said as she hopped off her starter. "Take a nice long rest."

Silver turned around and saw Ash. "Well Ash Ketchem. We finally meet," Silver said walking up. "Seems your never hear when I am."

"Hi you were really great yesterday," Ash said. "So Silver? I heard Oak saying that was a stage name. What's your real name?" Ash had been wondering about this since Oak said it yesterday.

"Maybe I'll tell you. Maybe I won't. I definitely won't right now," Silver said with a smirk. "So getting ready for the competition I see. I came back here to spend the next five months training too. This is going to be the hardest and most fun competition we've been in so far."

"Yeah, real fun," Ash said.

"You do not sound as happy as you should," Silver said. "Come on this is the biggest competition in the world and we're apart of it. You should be jumping for joy. What's wrong?"

Ash turned to look at his still practicing pokemon. Silver turned to look too. "I get it. Your worried about the number of pokemon you have," Silver said.

"Am I really that predictable?" Ash asked.

"Your face gave it away and the fact that I'm a fellow trainer helped," Silver said. "Look if you feel you need more pokemon go get more."

The thought of just going to catch more pokemon had come to Ash's mind but he always did better after he had developed a bond with his pokemon and the five months didn't give him the time to bond with new pokemon the way he had with his older pokemon. The way Silver said it made Ash pause though. "Say that again," Ash asked.

"What? Go get more?" Silver asked

"Go get more," Ash repeated. The implicated was clearly to go catch more pokemon but the way Tabitha had said it made Ash mind think. There were pokemon out there. Pokemon he had known and bonded with that were no longer here with him. He could go get them. "That's brilliant," Ash said surprising Silver by giving her a quick hug.

"It's actually kind of obvious," Silver said.

"No not what you said. What I thought of inspired by what you said," Ash told Silver confusing the girl. "Everyone continue practicing. I have phone calls to make." Ash yelled out to his pokemon and then ran into the Oak lab.

"Pika," Pikachu said running out to where Ash had been standing moments ago but not going any further since his trainer told him to continuing practicing.

Silver looked down at the small yellow mouse pokemon. "Is he always like this?" Silver asked.

"Pika," Pikachu confirmed before going back to his practice battle.