Chapter 4 - A Tournament?

Ash stepped down the walkway in Viridian City and looked around the airport. The flight he arrived on had just landed and now he was eager to contact his friends back in Unova for a quick chat before heading home. He spotted an open video phone booth to his left and ran over to it. Ash called the pokemon center in Nuvema Town and asked Nurse Joy if he could speak to Cilan and Iris, after a moment of waiting the two of them popped up onscreen.

"Hi Ash!" Cilan said, "You're in Viridian now?"

"Yup," he responded, "I just arrived. "Hang on, is that Bianca behind you?"

Bianca noticed Iris and Cilan and rushed over. "Wow! It's you guys again!" she exclaimed, "Hey, is that Ash onscreen?"

"Hi Bianca!" Ash said, "You're in Nuvema too?"

Before anyone could respond, Ash and Pikachu heard a familiar voice getting louder and louder as it yelled, "Move it, move it, move it! Outta the way! Get out of the way!"

Barry crashed into Ash and Pikachu, knocking them both to the white-tiled floor of the airport. Iris and Cilan stared in bewilderment at the familiar yet different scene on the screen of the video phone. They were used to Bianca being the one to knock Ash over, not this other blond-haired, energetic person. For a second Iris thought, Yikes! There's two of them!

Barry somehow recovered from being flat on the ground to standing and irritated in less than a second and shouted,"I'm going to fine you for that! You better pay up in ten, nine, eight, seven, six five four three two- Hey, it's Ash!"

Pikachu clambered back onto Ash's shoulder as the black-haired trainer stood up.

"Hey Barry," the disheveled trainer said, "what brings you here to Kanto?"

Then before Barry could reply, Bianca shoved Iris and Cilan out of the way as her face filled the video screen. "No way! Is that you Barry?!"

Barry turned to look at the screen, and then walked over to the phone and said, "Hey! If it isn't my favorite cousin!"

"WHAT?!" everyone else shouted.


Meanwhile in the Viridian forest...

Mew, Mewtwo, and Latias were in a small clearing, far away from anyone who coud bother them.

"We're going to pose as anonymous humans who want to set up a battle tournament at the newly built Cameran Stadium." Mewtwo said, "Because I am human-sized, I will put on a mask and cloak to disguise myself as a foreigner. Mew will pose as a Zorua, this way she can transform without arousing too much suspicion." he then turned to Latias and told her, "You can take human form, but you'll have to come up with your own instead of using your friend's. That means-"

'MAKEOVER!' Mew squealed. She grabbed Latias' hand and then teleported the two away to the Tree of Beginning since that was closer than Altomare.

Mewtwo sweatdropped and thought, I was going to say a new disguise and more talking lessons but that works too, I guess...


At Mew's home...

'All right,' Mew said, 'First things first. You'll be posing as a lady who wanted to set up a battle tournament with... we'll call Mewtwo's disguise Matthew. It's what I wrote him down on the posters as, but he doesn't know that yet. Now, let's try basing your human appearance off of your actual appearance.'

'Okay,' Latias replied, 'I'll just change how I look as you describe it I guess.'

'Yay! I was hoping you'd say that!' Mew happily started listing off different attributes of her planned human form for Latias, 'Let's make you around 30 years old, shoulder-length white hair with the ends dyed red, amber-colored eyes, a white long-sleeved shirt and white leggings, red, short-sleeved, knee-length dress on top of that, red sneakers, silver necklace with a triangular blue jewel hanging from it, triangular blue earrings too, and three thin silver bracelets on your left wrist! You can fill in the gaps yourself! And your name is... Lita! I put that on the posters too!'

As Latias struggled to keep up with Mew's description of her disguise, she thought, Mew's really excited for this tournament. I guess I am too, I mean we've set up an international pokemon tournament! It's kind of weird that she planned out the names for our disguises though, probably just more Mew Logic that nicknames come first. She finished transforming and stood up, better get used to this form now...

After she got used to using a human form besides Bianca's, (the one from the Pokemon: Heroes movie, not Unova) she walked around Mew's toy pile, thinking about the tournament. We've already set up posters in every city in Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, and Unova. The fact that they came up overnight got the tournament on the news. Everything's going great, but somehow I wish we could compete in the first round or two. It'd be exciting.

'Hey, Mew...' Latias said.

'Ah, shush-shush.' the pink, cat-like pokemon said, 'In human language.' Mew was trying to get Latias used to not talking in Pokemon so that she could act as communicator between them and the rest of the world about the tournament

"Mew... do... you... um... sink?... no, think... that we... could... um, enter... the tournament in... disguise?" she struggled to form the sounds with her mouth. Speaking was something she had only just learned to do in human form.

'Ooooooh! That's a great idea!' an even more ecstatic Mew replied, 'You could just try making a ten-year-old version of your 'Lita' form and say that you're related. I could pose as your Zorua! We'd have to get knocked out early though, so no one finds out you don't have any more pokemon, but it'd be great! I'll make the plans!' Mew then teleported away to who knows where and left Latias at the top of the tree.

"Hey! Um, wait up!" Latias shouted as Lita. She sighed and transformed back into herself. Great, she thought, now I've got to fly back to Viridian forest. Why did I agree to this again?


Back at the airport...

"Okay," Iris said onscreen, "So, you and Barry are cousins. You know, that actually makes sense."

"That's right! We're cousins, but we live in different regions." Bianca replied, "Oh, wait! I've got to catch a plane to Viridian too! Gotta go! Best Wishes you guys!" She ran off of the screen at the speed only she and Barry could pull off and Ash could no longer see where she went.

"Ahhhhh!" Barry screamed, "I just remembered! I've got to get to registration for the Legends Tournament too! Bye Ash! I'll beat you in a battle some other time!"

While watching Barry rush away, Ash and Pikachu were very confused, why were both Barry and Bianca headed here? What was the Legends Tournament? He turned back to the screen decided to ask Iris and Cilan if they knew.

"Hey guys," he said, "What's this Legends Tournament thing?"

"We just found out about it." Cilan replied, "Apparently it's a tournament an anonymous man who went by the name 'Matthew' on the posters and a woman named Lita set up. It's international and takes place in the brand new Cameran Stadium just north of Mount Silver. The requirements are at least four gym badges or two official contest ribbons, but gym leaders can enter without them, and so can frontier brains. If you don't meet the requirements you can take a battle test there to see if you can get in too. It sure sounds interesting to say the least."

"Cameran, Cameran. Where have I heard that before?" Ash wondered, then he remembered, "Hey, is it near Cameran Palace?"

"Yeah, it is." Iris said, "It's actually been built on the edge of Rota, where Cameran Palace is."

"Great!" Ash exclaimed, "I know how to get there then, I'm going to enter, what about you two?"

"You didn't think we'd miss out on this, did you?" Cilan chuckled, "Of course we're entering, we've booked a flight to Viridian three days from now."

"Awesome, I'll see you there!" Ash said right before ending the call. He turned towards his very first pokemon and said, "Hey, Pikachu. Why don't we turn this upcoming tournament into a little reunion?"

"Pika!" Pikachu replied, nodding his head.

"In that case," his trainer said, turning back towards the video phone, "I've got a few more calls to make."


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