Chapter 6:

"Beartic start by freezing that weed with Ice Beam!"

"Bayleaf use your Vine Whip to knock Beartic's aim off!" Bayleaf used her Vine Whip to slap the Ice types face while he was still charging the Ice Beam and caused him to fire the Ice Beam to Bayleaf's left and to freeze the nearby trees and ground. Ash then smirked."Bayleaf, use Solar Beam, our way!" Bayleaf gained the same smirk that her trainer had and started charging that attack.

"Don't take that Beartic! Give that thing a taste of your Slash!" the boy said irritated. Sure the grass types attack wasn't very effective but the amount of damage it did give Beartic showed that the grass type was at a higher level of experience and needed to be taken out quickly. Beartic shuck off the dazed feeling it had and ran at Bayleaf with his claw ready to take a cut out of the pokémon that gave him a hit that he would surely feel later. Before his hit could land however Bayleaf surprised everyone(a crowd had started to form) that had not seen Ash battle before, she swallowed the Solar Beam. Bayleaf, now glowing with a green fire like energy dodged the attack and used Body Slam to send Beartic skidding back to his trainer's side.


(Quick POV Change)

"Wow, I've never seen that done before. What an amazing combination! Spicy with Ash and her Pokemon's burning passion for battle, a truly amazing battle tactic. Pansage come out, I believe we could learn a lot from this battle." Cilan said letting his Pansage out to watch the battle.

"Wow, never thought that I would see a Solar Beam used like that." Pansage said with a bit of aw. Pokémon can be somewhat aware of what is happening around their trainer even while in their pokéballs if they so choose and since Pansage was his partner's only Pokémon so far he wanted to be as aware as possible.

" Yeah cool isn't it? I don't know that move yet but Bay-sis said she would teach me later when I have some more battling experience." Pansy said causing Pansage to turn to her. When he saw her he blushed and shyly turned his attention back to the battle.

"Th-that sounds nice." Pansage said while leaving Pansy confused about why he suddenly had a personality change.


(Back to the Battle)

" Beartic Icicle Crash!"

""Bayleaf, Razor Leaf!" The two attacks clashed and the Razor Leaf broke the Ice attack and hit Beartic but chuncks of the Ice still hit Bayleaf and cause a bit of damage.

"Gigi Drain, than Slam!" Bayleaf drained the Beartic's energy and started to charge at the Ice type.

"Beartic, Icy Wind!" The Icy Wind hurt Bayleaf but she continued to charge through the attack and slammed into her foe, knocking the wind out of his lungs before quickly backing off, her breathing a bit heavy.

"Bayleaf Synthesis!"

"Icicle Crash quickly Beartic!" the ice types trainer said knowing that the Solar Beam power up, plus the sunny weather would equal a very quick and strong recovery.

The attack was heading toward Bayleaf who was concentrating on recovering lost energy.

"Bayleaf!" Ash called out in worry. Bayleaf's eye's narrowed as the ice made its way towards her, at the last second she used a quick Vine Whip to jump over the projectiles while still keeping the Synthesis going, but before she could land back on the ground a different glow covered in a different type of glow that caused many to shut their eye's for a minute. Ash on the other hand knew that glow and seen it so many times in the past that she wasn't that affected by it and knew what was happening right away. So when she saw a Meganium land on the ground she only paused for a millisecond to inwardly shout to the heavens in happiness. "Meganium: Razor Leaf, Vine Whip and Body Slam!"

Before anyone else had time to react Beartic was hit by the Razor Leaf, then wrapped in a tight Vine Whip around Beartic and pulled the ice type closer to it and gave him a powerful Body Slam. Beartic fell to the ground with swirls in his eye.

"Aw man! Return Beartic." The young man said upset at his loss.

"Way to go Meganium!" Ash said happily before she was tackled to the ground by the now bigger and heavier then before Grass Type which nuzzled her in happiness. "Ok, ok, I'm glad to see that evolving didn't change much, but please let me up. I gotta talk to Beartic's trainer." Laughed out Ash.

Her newly evolved Pokémon let her up with a smile on her face. Ash pat her Pokémon on the head and walked over to the now sulking boy. "Hey kid, why do you seem to have such a grudge against grass type Pokémon?"

"You don't need to know!" The boy said before storming off.

Ash blinked, "Well that was rude." Ash then turned and went over to Cilan and smiled at him before taking some of the bags. " Sorry for taking up more of your time then we originally planned. I just hate people doing things like that."

" What are you talking about? That battle was truly one that was a sight to see! Would you mind if we talk about it we get back to the PokeCenter?!" Cilan said excitedly.

Ash blushed a tiny bit, "Sure! Lets get going though." She said as Pikachu climbed up and on to her shoulder while Pansy was clinging onto Meganium's head as Meganium happily balanced the smaller Grass Type on her head. Pansage followed be Cilan's side while shyly sneaking a few glances at Pansy.

Later that Night

Ash sighed as she sat on the chair to the Pokémon Center's video phones. Her current team of Pokémon where siting off to the side. "Ok, listen up guys and girls," Ash said getting the attention of her Pokémon,"I plan to send a few of you to my home back at Pika-Pal Ranch along with Meganium to get some training with my more experienced Pokémon. Before I do, any volunteers?"

Pansy was the first to step forward, not wanting to leave her sis's company so soon. Next was Pidove then finily Tepig.

"Ok, so Meganium, Pansy, Pidove and Tepig will go to the Ranch and Pikachu and Oshawott will stay with me while I call up two others and keep two slots open for new friends. Remember to train well and have fun, ok?" Getting cheers and nods she returned everyone but Pikachu to there pokeballs. Turning, she dialed up her house number. After four rings she saw the icon that popped up that was for when one of the parties on the line didn't want their video on.

"Hello?" Harvey's voice came through the line.

"Hi Harvey. I'm calling to let you know that I'm sending overMganium and three other pokemon to the Ranch. I was hoping you could tell Sceptile that I need him to teach Pansy the moves Cut and help her with her egg move Bullet Seed, then ask Quilava to spar with her after Sceptile is done teaching her and she's had food. For Pidove can you ask Staraptor to teach her Aerial Ace and Swellow to teach her Pluck. For Tepig tell Infernape to teach him Rock Smash and the basic's for Overheat. Meganium, I want her to be on rest for a few days to get her used to her new form ok. Tell the more expirenced pokemon to take training slowly but don't be too lax. Thanks for doing this for me again. I'm sure your busy with training your own pokemon and running the store and yet your helping me with my ranch and training my pokemon.

"You're welcome hon, and I should be thanking you. When I'm over here your pokemon easily take my pokemon under their wings, so to speak, and help me learn how to work with my friends strangths. You also help me a lot missy so don't think I'm doing all the work here. Any news about your first flying type from old man Oak?"

"Yeah, its actually migration time for the Pidgeot evolution line so I'll have to wait a few months to find my pal again. The only reason the annoying Spearow line was there was because their flock migrates at a later date."

"Don't worry Ms. Farmer, you'll find your feathered friend again. So anyone you want me to send you?"

"Yeah can you send me-"*Thunk**Bang**Kurplunk!*" What the Buneary was that!" Ash asked in surprise as load sounds interrupted what she was saying and gave her a bit of a scare.

"Um, nothing! Nothing to worry about, now you where saying?" Harvey nervously laughed.

Ash sweat dropped as she knew that he was trying to take her attention away from the sounds and hiding something from her. Or at least trying to.

"Er, I was hoping you could send over Kirlia and I'll contact Professor Oak to send me Muk since I really should work on his training."

"That's great hun, I'll send her over right away." Harvey said hurriedly. Ash and Pikachu shared a look but just shrugged at each other before sending the four pokemon through the transfer system.


Pika-Pal Ranch

Harvey sighed as he took the four Pokémon out of the transfer system and put Kirlia's pokeball in the transfer system and sent her over. "Will that be all hun? I also promised Lunetta that I would help her with something too."

"No, I'm good. See ya!" Ash said, clearly coming of as confused

"Bye-Bye!" Harvey said before hanging up. He then let out a sigh of relief before turning to look at the other people and Pokémon in the home. "That was to close, way to close."


Ash A Short While Later

"Well that was strange, I wonder what was happening with Harvey... but then again it could just be the Pokémon causing a bit of trouble again. I wonder what the professor was doing? Seems to be a bit odd that he would leave Tracey in charge of the lab and leave again so soon after coming back to the lab in such a short amount of time. Oh well at least Tracey well help me get the phone number for the Foccey Ranch, while I try to find Lara's number. Right Pikachu?"

"Pika-Pi!

Ash saw someone sit on the same bench as her from the corner of her eye. She turned and saw Cilan sit beside her, giving her a smile.

"Hey-a Cilan, what's up?" Ash said giving Cilan a smile of her own.

Cilan's smile suddenly became a bit sheepish and an almost unseen blush(Pikachu saw it),"Um, Ash I was hoping to ask you something..."


End of Chapter

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A special thanks to Pokepika's Haunt for helping me fix the mistakes I made while typing up this chapter myself to save my cousin duckie lover 151from having to type it up like she does to most of the stories I wright out.