Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon.
It had been quite a few fillers, I mean days since we last saw our hero and his team of Pokemon. Much had happened, Ash had captured a Tailow and Treecko respectively in which he Oaked Heracross and his female Ralts for while Jessie and James had gotten a Cacnea and Seviper as well. (Weezing and Koffing weren't released) But now...
"Hey, that looks like Rustboro Hall," said Mewtwo who was carrying a map.
"That must mean we're already in Rustboro City," said Ash excitedly.
"Actually, we're about a day's walk from it according to the map, if I'm correct," said Mewtwo.
"Darn," said Ash.
As they continued on, they noticed that there were a lot of trainer's nearby who were grooming their Pokemon or training them in some odd matter.
"They don't look like they're training for a battle, but I wonder what they're doing," said Ash.
"I think it has something to do with that," said Mewtwo pointing at a sign that said "Pokemon Competition".
"Hey, I wonder if that's some sort of battling competition," said Ash.
"Hope it is, it would be the perfect spot for me to gain a lot of experience to level up," said Charmeleon who seemed to be turning into a walker Pokemon.
Suddenly a Beautifly came out of nowhere and slammed itself into Charmeleon's face! He fell down from suprise and said,"Oi! My face is not a sitting post! Get off!"
He threw the Beautifly off him and Ash took out his Pokedex which told him about the Pokemon.
Beautifly then came on top of Charmeleon's head again which caused Pikachu to chuckle and say,"Looks like you've got a bit of a admirer there."
"Not funny, Pikachu, I only go for my own kind!" yelled Charmeleon trying to shake Beautifly off.
"Oh, I'm so sorry," said a voice. They looked up to see two teenaged boy and girl running towards them. Charmeleon pulled Beautifly off his head again and gave the two a look that said,"I believe this is yours?"
"So were you training your Beautifly or something?" Ash asked.
"As a matter of fact I was, but unfortunetly some of the attacks went a little bit wrong," said the girl.
"That's probably my fault, Venomoth's Whirlwind attack was far too strong, it was a hopeless failure," said the boy.
"My name's Janet, by the way," said the girl.
"And I'm Chazz, how's it going," said the boy.
"I'm Ash, but there's something I don't get about what you said Chazz, what did you mean that a powerful attack can be a failure?"
"That's because it's for a contest battle, which is a lot different than a Pokemon battle," said Chazz.
"It's about the beauty of the attack, it's not about the raw power," explained Janet.
"The beauty of the attack?" asked Ash.
"Sounds weird to me," said Charmeleon. Mewtwo on the other hand looked a bit interested.
"Yes, we're coordinators and we train Pokemon to be graceful," said Janet.
"Coordine what? I've never heard of that before," said Ash.
"Well, I'm guessing your not from Hoenn then," asked Chazz.
"Yeah, I'm from Pallet Town in Kanto," said Ash.
"That explains it, contests aren't as well known to non coordinating trainer's there in the past few years from what I've heard," said Chazz.
"You think maybe I could enter it?" asked Ash.
"I don't know, the entry's limited, it might be too late at this point," said Janet.
"Nah, but you should probably hurry, Ash," said Chazz.
Meanwhile...
"Here," said Jessie shoving a contest pass into a receptionists face. "Enter me in the contest."
"Uhh," the receptionist loomed at it and said,"I'm sorry but this pass is expired so you don't qualify for contest entry."
Jessie wasn't having it and said,"I'm sorry, I don't think I heard you correctly."
"Then let me rephrase it for you, It means you ain't competing in the contest," said someone from behind.
Team Rocket turned around and saw Ultraman Nexus in jeans, sneakers, red shirt, and a dark blue jacket drinking a can of Pepsi.
"Come with me," said the author and the Rocket's obeyed, for they dared not risk his wrath.
"All right, so what do you want with us?" asked Meowth wanting to get to the point.
"I need you guys out of the chapter and out of Ash's hair so he can compete in the contest," said Ultraman.
"What no way!" yelled Jessie. "You barely give us enough screen time as it is!"
"I'll put you back eventually. But for now..." Ultraman snapped his fingers and Team Rocket was suddenly dressed as Naruto. He then shoves into a catapault that reads "Ed or Dare-verse Catapaulter". Have fun with Edfan for a while!" He then sends blasting of towards Edfan's fic.
"All right, our next dares our coming from-" started Edfan when Team Rocket crash landed onto the scene. "Huh? What's Team Rocket doing-" Edfan's noticed what they were wearing and was outraged. "NARUTO COSPLAYERS! DIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!!!" 'Pulls out Mr. Bang Bang and owns the Rockets'
Back with Ash...
"All right, I'm in the contest!" said Ash after registering himself and getting a contest pass.
"So what kind of Pokemon are you going to use in the contest? You'll have to pick carefully you know," said Janet.
"Hmm, I'm not sure," said Ash. "Charmeleon, do you think you want to try?"
Charmeleon balked and shook his head rapidly. "No way, I'm a fighter, besides I'm not even sure how I could pull it off."
"I could do it," volunteered Mewtwo.
"Yeah, I'm sure you can pull of something cool with your Psychic, Shadow Ball, and Psybeam attacks," said Ash.
"Those sound like pretty good attacks to use," said Chazz. He was feeding his Venomoth some sort of food that got Ash's attention.
"Hey, what is that?" he asked.
"It's Poke Block," said Chazz. "It helps raise a Pokemon's condition up and makes it look a lot better the more you feed them Poke Blocks. Wanna give some to your Mewtwo?"
"Sure." He took some and gave it to Mewtwo who ate the three Poke Blocks with different expressions. The white one tasted all right to him, but the pink one that was sweet made him gag slightly. However the blue one which was dry he ended up liking quite a lot.
"How do you make these things?" asked Ash.
Chazz explained it to him in which Ash kept a reminder on himself to keep an eye out for berries.
"All right then, once we're finished we can head over to Rustboro City for my next badge," said Ash.
"I get to battle there, right?" asked Charmeleon.
"Sure you can battle there," said Ash. "Pika!" And I guess that narrows it down to two."
Chazz blinked and said,"Your using a fire type and a electric type?"
What's wrong with that?" asked Ash.
"Ash, the Rustboro Gym is a Rock Pokemon."
"A Rock Gym? Uh oh, that might be pretty hard for you two guys. Maybe I should just switch in Bulbasaur or Squirtle..."
Charmeleon shook his head and said,"No way, I need a strong opponent to fight, and the low leveled Pokemon I've been battling against for the last few days aren't cutting it!"
"Hey, Ash does your Charmeleon know any attacks that would be strong against a Rock Type?" asked Chazz.
"No, I don't think so and I don't think Pikachu knows one either," said Ash.
"What if I told you there was a way to learn that attack, do you think you'd be interested?"
"Yeah, I'd love to know it!" said Ash.
"I always welcome a new as well, yah never know when you might need it," said Charmeleon.
"Count me in too!" said Pikachu.
Chazz took the four to another part of the forest close by and then called out his Sentret. "Now, we're going to teach you the Iron Tail attack."
"Iron Tail attack?"
"Let me show you how it works. Sentret, use Iron Tail on this rock!" commanded Chazz.
Sentret jumped, spun around with it's tail glowing and slammed it on the rock, shattering into dozen of pieces!
"No way!" said Ash amazed.
"Now that was pretty kickass!" said Charmeleon.
'Perhaps I should learn this attack as well,' thought Mewtwo.
"So you see how this Iron Tail attack can be effective against a Rock Pokemon," said Chazz.
"But only a Pokemon with a fully developed tail can learn this technique," he added.
"Right," said Ash understanding as did his Pokemon.
Ash couldn't stay very long to personally train Pikachu and Charmeleon, but he had tied up heavy rocks to they're tails for each of them lift up and down with. This was to build up the strength in them.
Charmeleon grunted as he did his exercise with enthusiasim as did Pikachu. "All right, just gotta build up strength in my tail, perfect this technique, take down that Gym Leader's Pokemon, and then I'll evolve, ugh."
"You really are obsessed with evolving huh?" said Pikachu.
"Hey, I'm not like you Pikachu, you might like the way you are but for me, I was the epitome of kickassery when I was a Charizard," said Charmeleon.
As the two trained, Ash and Mewtwo were getting ready for their turn to come. As they did so, Janet gave them some advice on what to do. Both Ash and Mewtwo were amazed by the appeals and got new ideas for their part. Eventually it was they're turn.
"All right, now I've learned Iron-OW!"
Charmeleon and built up plenty of strength in his already powerful tail and had slammed it into a large rock. Unfortunately he still hadn't fully gotten the attack yet so he ended up brusing his tail.
"You might want try using it on softer things before you start hitting any rocks with it," said Pikachu with a sweatdrop.
Charmeleon rubbed his tail and said,"Maybe so." He then noticed Ash on a tv screen. "Hey, Ash's up!"
"And now for the last entry in the primary judging. This is entry number 30, Ash Ketchum! Let's see if Ash can finish things up with a bang."
"All right, let's do this, Mewtwo I choose you!" yelled Ash throwing the Poke Ball that Mewtwo was in releasing the psychic cat in a flash of light. Mewtwo took on a pose from Melee as he got ready for Ash's orders.
"Mewtwo, use Psybeam!" commanded Ash.
Mewtwo's eyes glowed as he fired two Psybeams from his eyes which he shot into the air and spun around, making it look like a DNA helix.
"Whoa, that actually looks pretty cool!" said Charmeleon.
"I'll say," said Pikachu.
"Now, use Shadow Ball!"
Mewtwo fired four Shadow Balls that all went around the spinning Psybeams in four different directions around making it look a sphere. Now this got the audience cheering loudly and Mewtwo's score soon came up. 10, 9.5, and 10.
Mewtwo actually smiled a bit as he heard audience cheering his great performance. 'This feeling, it feels...quite good.' Was this one of the reasons Pokemon followed and obeyed their trainers? "All right, that was great Mewtwo," said Ash rubbing Mewtwo's head much like you would to a cat.
Minutes later...
"Hey, it looks you guys are in the finals!" said Pikachu. He and Charmeleon had joined them and were in the preparation room looking at the screen that displayed the finalists.
"Well done, that's pretty good for your first try," said Janet.
"Yeah, and I plan on going all the way," said Ash determinadly.
Soon the final round began with Ash against Chazz and Janet against another trainer. Ash easily won against Chazz with a fancy looking Psybeam and Swift from Mewtwo and Janet won against her opponent too.
Now it a battle against the two of them for the contest ribbon. They both pulled of pretty amazing attacks but Mewtwo ended up winning by firing a barrage of Shadow Balls that were arranged in a pattern that resembled his face.
"What a spectacular finish! And with that, Ash Ketchum is the winner!" the announcer called.
"All right, you did Mewtwo, that was great work out there!" said Ash.
"Thank you Ash," said Mewtwo with something of a smile on his face.
"Well I'll be, he won," said Charmeleon.
"Hey, you didn't actually think he would lose would you?" asked Pikachu with a frown.
"Oi, it ain't a real battle as far as I'm concerned, so Ash was a bit out of his element," countered Charmeleon.
"That was amazing, Ash," Janet complimented. "You might have what it takes to enter the grand festival."
"Ah, thanks but I think I'll stick to battling," said Ash modestly.
Ash was rewarded with a ribbon which he decided to give to Mewtwo who was suprised but insisted that Ash keep it, for Mewtwo didn't exactly have any pockets or any place else to put it.
The next day they continued traveling towards Rustboro City, along with Pikachu and Charmeleon trying to perfect Iron Tail. Eventually though...
"Finally, we're here!" said Charmeleon in joy.
After what seemed like several episodes of filler, Ash and his team finally made it Rustboro City.
"All right then, let's just for directions and then-gah!" said Charmeleon as he was suddenly pulled back by Mewtwo.
"What was that for?" he asked angrily.
"You've been training your body nonstop for a while," said Mewtwo. "You need to take a break otherwise you'll collapse if you actually battle."
Charmeleon huffed while Ash nodded and said,"Mewtwo's right, I think we should all just take a day off for today."
They all agreed, though begrudgingly on Charmeleon's behalf.
After a quick snack break at the local Pokemon center they went to the top of a observatory tower where everyone got a really great view of the city.
"My word, it's quite a sight to behold!" said Ralts(M)
"Heh," said Treecko not really interested.
"Hey guys, look at my new outfit," said Ash from behind his Pokemon.
They turned and let out a strangled cry of shock. Ash was wearing extremelly tacky souvenirs all over himself that screamed "Tourist".
"What do you think?" he asked with a smile. "Pretty cool, huh?"
"Good grief," muttered Ralts.
"To think I was once thought you were cool," said Charmeleon to himself.
"I don't know this kid," said Treecko.
"Ash, what's the best way I can say this without hurting your feelings," started Pikachu nervously.
"Finally, my masterpiece is complete!" said Mewtwo's voice triumphantly.
Mewtwo burst onto the scene wearing a black shirt that was covered by a kick ass brown coat. He also wore baggy jeans and on his head he had a brown fedora and wore stylish black sunglasses.
To top this all of, he wore a shit eating grin on his face.
"Badass, huh?"
"..............................................Where did you get those sunglasses?" asked Pikachu.
"SOMEONE'S SWIPED MY SHADES!" roared Squirtle.
Omake:Charizard as cool as Blaziken.
"Grr, Harrison's Blaziken thinks he so cool!" yelled Charizard.
"You know what, I can be just as cool as Blaziken is, watch!" he yelled taking a pose.
Mewtwo who was buried up to his head in the ground for some reason said in a horrified quiet voice knowing what was about happen,"No, Charizard...Please don't..."
Charizard started dancing around in a ridiculously weird manner while clutching his stomach like he diaharea. As he did so a song was suddenly heard.
Things that bother you, never bother me I feel happy and fine! AHA!
Ash blinked, not believing that this was actually happening.
Living in the sunlight, loving in the moonlight...
Charla went pale with mortification.
Having a wonderful time!
Gardevoir stared, mesmerized with a wft look all over her face.
The rest of Ash's Pokemon stared in disbelief as Charizard started shaking his hips around.
Haven't got a lot, I don't need a lot, coffe's only a dime.
Bulbasaur, Pidgeot, Butterfree, and Pikachu grew anime eyes that were huge and white as Charizard continued to make an dork out of himself.
Living in the sunlight...
Primeape gagged as he covered his face to hide from this great horror.
Loving in the moonlight...
Squirtle grinned and gave a thumbs up to Charizard.
Having a wonderful time!
And with Charizard gave an ass shove right into the camera.
With a smirk of pure superiority he said,"Heh, see? I am cooler."