Brock- 27

Misty- 27 Ever since I began watching pokemon when I was a kid, I always thought

Misty was as old as Brock.

Tracey- 27 The same goes for Tracey.

Dawn- 12

May- 14

Ash- 17

Max- 12 He did say, I think, by the end of the Battle Frontier series, he was going back

to Hoenn to get his starter pokemon. So he may be as old as Dawn.

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The Scorched Earth


Ash wandered into the town, looking for the park.

" That is strange. Looks like the town is almost empty. " He noted this as he began entering the park gate.

" The quietness is kind of creepy. " He passed by the empty playground he used to play in with a childhood friend and current rival, Gary.

" Huh, this is new. " Ash remarked as he stepped onto a wooden platform.

" Well, I'm here. I wonder why Tracey brought me here. " He said to himself quietly.

" Why else other than to congratulate you, of course. " An aging man appeared behind Ash in a business attire answered with a microphone.

" Aaaah, huh? " The surprised Ash looked around him and saw the residents popping out of their hiding spots almost all at the same time; from behind trees to coming out of the playground. He looked down and realized that the wooden platform he is standing on is actually a stage.

Cheers erupted as the dumbfounded Ash sheepishly grinned. Ash saw his mother, the professor, and all his friends except for one joining in the cheer before the mayor gave a hand signal and silencing the crowd when he saw that Ash was about to speak.

" Mayor, what is it that you want to congratulate me on? "

The mayor gave a hearty laugh before answering. " Ash, take a guess. "

" Hmm, because I won the Sinnoh league? "

" Of course, not many people who came from this town had the chance to win a pokemon league. "

" Wow, thanks a lot, mayor. "- The excited Ash responded.

" Wait, hold on, Ash…" The mayor then continued with a speech on a podium with Ash on stage with the audience listening quietly from below the stage.


In professor Oak's corral, Ash's pokemon saw other pokemon, which belongs to Ash's friend, May, emerge out of the bushes and trees.

A small, pink kitten pokemon, known as skitty, chased its tail, ignoring the Ash's new pokemon. Next, a dark green fat pokemon with two pointy ears, known as munchlax, quickly ran to the berry trees to try and reach for the succulent fruits. A brilliantly colored butterfly pokemon, called beautifly, fluttered out of the bushes to greet the pokemon that Ash just recently left. A playful fox like pokemon leaped out of the bushes, happy to see the newcomers. A furret quickly emerged, not surprisingly a ferret pokemon, curious of the newcomers. Unlike the other pokemon, blaziken, a red humanoid bird pokemon with yellow hair cascading down her back, calmly walked out of the bushes.

The new pokemon, Ash's old pokemon, and May's pokemon all came together to meet and greet. All except for two pokemon, infernape and blaziken, who found each other to be rather attractive opponents. Not a word was spoken as the two pokemon silently acknowledged each other of the challenge. The rest of the pokemon noticed this challenge and they too became silent as they backed away from the challengers and curious to witness the match between two powerful pokemon.

" (He looks very easy to defeat. This will be a quick match). "

" (She has no idea what I have been through in the past. I will be the winner). "

Two bulbasaurs silently signaled the match to begin. Ash's bulbasaur whipped the ground using its vine to signal the start of the match. The ape surrounded itself in fire and somersaulted high into the air to smash the blaziken. Blaziken, in return, set its own leg on fire and kicked infernape's back, but the monkey was prepared; he arched his back and grabbed blaziken's leg and attempted to swing the pokemon into the tree. Blaziken countered it by quickly flipped over, doing a handstand, and twirled her legs to shake the persistent monkey off.

The twirling sent infernape flying towards the trees, fortunately, being an ape, gives it high dexterity and infernape uses it to his advantage to catch himself on a branch and avoid colliding with the tree. Using the remaining momentum, he swung upside down the branch and sent himself high in the air towards blaziken fist first.

Infernape covered his fists in flames as he is closing in on blaziken. Blaziken, in the last second before impact, sidestepped to avoid the ape, however infernape managed to grab her hair before landing by somersaulting. Blaziken was sent down to the ground by her hair while infernape stood by her, preparing to make the final blow. She immediately flipped backwards, blaze kicking infernape, with a leg glowing with fire, square in the face.

Infernape stumbled a bit, but quickly recovered. The two then exchanged a seemingly endless number of blows by fists, but neither seriously damaged one another.

" (For a girl, she is not bad) ", thought infernape as he dealt another blow.

" (Amazing how he survived and continued to fight after I blaze kicked him in the face) ", jokingly thought blaziken as she blocked another punch.

The punching stalemate continued to the small patch of forest. Both pokemon used the surrounding foliage to combat each other, carefully, to not set the forest on fire. The pokemon observing the battle watched carefully by the edge of the forest; they had a good view from there. Blaziken decided to change tactics; instead of punching, she now grabbed infernape's tail. Intending to swing infernape off the tree and out of the forest, she pulled on the tail but failed to move infernape because he is holding on tightly to a branch. The branch eventually snapped and blaziken hurled infernape clear out of the forest and towards the pond.

High in the air, infernape knew that the pond would cause him to lose the match thought quickly. He expelled flames from his mouth to propel himself away from the pond and landed safely on the ground. He heard a strange whistling sound and looked upwards; he saw a fireball in the sky. Moving quickly, infernape evaded the impact of the fireball.

After the flames cleared from the impact, blaziken charged from the impact zone to deliver a sky uppercut to infernape. Infernape countered it with a fire punch. Both of the contestants took the blows but it did not seem to do much damage.

" (We can keep this up forever) "- uttered the panting infernape.

" ( So, you're giving up?) "

" ( No, I enjoy this fight) "

" ( I'm enjoying this fight too because I get to spend time with him and because he is cute too when he fights ) " – thought blaziken as she furtively eyed infernape while fighting.

Infernape suddenly glow red as his blaze ability took effect. " (Pefect timing) "

Infernape, once again, shot flames out of his mouth and propelled himself into the air. While in the air, he charged a white hot fireball in his mouth.

" ( Oh no you don't ) ". Blaziken's eyes widened when she saw what infernape is attempting.

She made a mad dash to knock out infernape when he landed and to stop the blast burn from being released. Although within close proximity from infernape, blaziken knew she would not be able to knock him out so she used overheat. The red hot stream of fire from blaziken's mouth collided with the blast burn that infernape just released. The close proximity of the two combatants caused them to be blown away by the massive explosion.

Tracey, who is in the lab, quickly rushed outside to the source of the noise.


"…and now we present the trophy. " After almost a two hour speech, the honorable rewards are now being presented.

" Look at my Ash, my little champion, well he is not little anymore. Its about time ."-thought Delia Ketchum.

" The special guest who presents the trophy is the recent champion of the Johto grand festival, May Maple. "- The mayor boomed.

A girl in red and dark blue shorts with a bandanna tightly wrapped around her head entered the stage holding a trophy. The brunette girl had light sapphire blue eyes and a smile that could brighten up anyone's day.


Anyone else noticed that there seems to be an onslaught of contestshipping stories lately? It looks like there are more contestshipping stories than pokeshipping stories. They have new stories every single day.

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