Unexpected Twist

The new chapter has come for my fans! Sorry if they seem rushed but Ash doesn't really have all the adventures as he did in Anime. He trains his Pokemon in the wild and then goes for the Gym battles. Nothing else needed unless I want.

Also I forgot to mention this before but the story is coming to an end. There will only be 20 chapters. The sequel will be longer but that's because I will include the rest of the regions and also a few movies.

Now rant time (or maybe not): Apparently now that Goodra is gone Ash will replace it in future chapters with a Noivat. I have to admit, that wasn't my first choice for a new Dragon Pokemon but it does work for me. Hopefully it will evolve and be more useful than Gible ever was. Really, that other Dragon Pokemon did nothing useful during the Sinnoh league. Especially against Tobias.

Now that it was mentioned let's read!


Chapter 11: Old Memories

Ash and his two out-of-Pokeball Pokemon walked towards the gigantic tower of Ecruteak City, place of his next gym battle. It had already been a full month since Ash's last Gym badge and the teenager was more than eager to obtain a new one. His Pokemon and himself had trained like mad to be prepared. Mostly the new Sylveon as she would be the top weapon on the incoming battle against the Ghost-type Pokemon Leader of Ecruteak City. After all, Fairy Pokemon had a lot of advantage over Ghost Pokemon.

The weeks of traveling had been quite interesting, as Ash had helped a young trainer called Ephraim to train his Pokemon Skiploom. There was a Grass Pokemon Tournament coming soon in his home town and Ephraim had wanted to win it so to start his dream of becoming a Grass Pokemon trainer. Ash, remembering what it felt to be that young had decided to not participate in the Tournament and instead assisted his new student during the week before it. Thanks to Ash's helpful advises with his two powerful Venasaur and Bayleef and rigorous training sessions, Skiploom had quickly evolved into a Jumpluff after learning quite a variety of powerful moves. By the time of the Tournament, non of the other competitors had been able to fight against the new Ephraim and his powerful Grass/Flying Pokemon. The experienced trainer from Kanto had left afterwards after his student had promised him to have a battle in the future.

Now Ash was walking inside the gigantic tower on Ecruteak City with Pikachu on his shoulder and Pupitar walking next to him. The problem with his Pokemon son, however, was that Ash could no longer carry him around. At least without ending with a sprinted vertebrae. But Pupitar didn't seem to care about been carried around anymore. He was happy to walk around. Going around on his own helped him gain more strength for his next and final stage of evolution.

Ash frowned as he kept walking through a lot of corridors. According to many of the people of the city the tower was the Gym. But yet the teenager had felt they weren't been honest thanks to his Aura. And as much as Ash walked through the aisles there was no gym or stadium to fight for a Badge.

But as the trainer stepped further inside the tower, a Pokeball in his waist started shaking. Ash saw it was Lugia's Pokeball. After checking around to see if there were any trainers and if the corridor was big enough to accommodate the unique Psychic Pokemon, the Aura trainer called out his Legendary Pokemon.

"Ash, do you know where we are?" The Psychic Legend asked to his trainer looking around the place like marveled by something. Ash could only see an average room with white painting. He scratched his head a bit misguided in what to say.

"The Gym" Ash stated but doubting a lot. Lugia shook his head obviously seen something his trainer couldn't. He then unleashed a mighty loud roar, forcing Ash and Pikachu to cover their ears by the high-pitch volume. Pupitar didn't as he wasn't affected by the scream. Amazingly the place around the trainer started shifting turning more into disarray. The former pristine walls were marked with burns, everything apparently eaten by an old fire. The wood cricked under Ash and his Pokemon's feet. It seemed ready to give away. But considering Lugia was standing there and the ground wasn't breaking then they were very safe. A lot of Ghost Pokemon came from the walls leaving the Legendary Pokemon and the scorched place scared away by the Guardian's Screech.

"You were under a Ghost illusion to make you think it was the Gym" Lugia explained towards the Aura Guardian. The teenager looked around in shock.

"Then what is this place, Lugia?" Ash asked to his Legendary Pokemon completely gobsmacked.

"It's the Burned Tower, Ash" The Guardian of the Sea responded looking around with his senses snared "In this very place, my ancestor and Ho-Oh gave birth to the first Three Legendary Beasts: Suicune, Raikou and Entei"

"Really? Your ancestor and Ho-Oh?" The young trainer asked in surprise, wanting to know more about the story. He certainly didn't hear that story from Professor Oak's lectures back in Pallet Town. The Legendary Pokemon checked around the place like scanning it for memories. His father had been the one, who had told him about the story of the Bell tower. But yet the memories of that day were very vivid in the young Lugia's head.

"This was one of the Two towers of Johto, where humans gathered to pray to Ho-Oh. The other tower was to pray to Lugia. But then a lightning storm set fire to the Sun tower" The Legend explained, his trainer, Pikachu and Pupitar hearing without paying attention to anything else around them. Not that there was a lot in the first place to be distracted with but the story was still quite a catchy one "During that incident, three Pokemon were trapped inside the burning debris and died. My ancestor used his powers to placate the storm and set the fire off. Ho-Oh, finding about this, resurrected the Pokemon as the three Legendary Beasts, each one representing one aspect from the storm. Raikou, the lightning that started everything. Entei, the fire that had killed the Pokemon. And Suicune representing the storm that stopped the fire. Since that moment, Ho-Oh cut all ties with humanity and hasn't appeared again" Ash scratched his head with doubts. He didn't know if he should tell Lugia about him catching glimpse of Ho-Oh after been attacked by the Spearows back in Kanto almost a year and half ago.

"Wait a second, I read that a new Entei was born every time a volcano went into eruption" Ash said towards the Psychic Legendary Pokemon for confirmation.

"That's also true, Ash" Lugia nodded affirmatively to his trainer making the teenager scratch his head in confusion "After Ho-Oh decided to lose contact with humanity, he spread the energy of fire, lightning and water that had consumed the Tower over the world to make sure to create as many Beasts as possible" Ash could say that made a lot of sense. There were stories about three Legendary Beasts, who protected a town in the region of Sinnoh. And those were shiny Beasts. If only one of each of them had been created by Ho-Oh then the rumors of seen them in other regions would be completely invalid.

"I see" Ash stated his mind processing the information looking at the historical place he was stepping on. It was better to leave the monument alone. He had seen Ho-Oh once so he knew that maybe the times were changing for good between humans and Pokemon "So if this is the Burned Tower, then the real Gym must be somewhere else" The Aura trainer recalled his Legendary Pokemon and walked away leaving the historical place behind. They were ruins to be preserved.


After leaving the monument of Johto, The Aura trainer quickly find out the real Gym tower. He made his way up escorted by his two Pokemon. He walked inside a room, a battle arena in the middle. On the other side of the room, a blonde man seemed to be lecturing a group of students. He was dressed in a light blue shirt with a blue bandanna in his forehead. Ash could guess the lecturing man was the Ghost-type Gym Leader Morty.

"Hey, how did you get here?" The leader Morty asked to the new comer, wondering how someone reached his tower without going to the fake one first "Didn't you see the other tower?"

"Yeah, I visited it. It's quite a historical place" Ash answered like commenting on the sunny weather. The obvious Gym leader seemed to be shocked that someone had escaped the Ghost illusion without help. Most of the trainers were just idiots, who needed to be saved eventually. But this one wasn't.

"I see, you come for a battle?" Morty asked and Ash nodded in response "It's three-on-three and only the challenger substitutes" Ash walked to his side as Morty did the same. His students were looking from behind him to the new fight in expectations.

"Challenger, state your place of birth" The appeared referee said towards Ash.

"I'm Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town" The Aura trainer said, already Pokeball at the ready. He had the perfect weapon against Ghost.

"This is an official three-on-three Gym battle between the Ecruteak City Gym Leader Morty and the challenger Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town. There's no time limit and the other league clauses apply. Also only the challenger is allowed to substitute. Now send out your first Pokemon!" The referee in his booth said.

"Go, Gastly!" The Gym Leader sent out his Ghost Pokemon. It was a floating black ball with two eyes and humming with purple energy around him. The challenger smiled. While Gastly and its evolutions were also part Poison type, it didn't mean that it would help them against his daughter.

"Let's go, Sylveon!" Ash sent out his new shiny Fairy Pokemon. The cute shiny Pokemon showed up basking the field in scintillating pixy dust. The Gym Leader looked with an eyebrow raised, having no idea what the Pokemon in front of him was. But he would defeat him quickly so his students could see a true trainer doing his job. His students were just as confused with the rare Pokemon of Kalos.

"Gastly vs Sylveon, begin!" The referee said.

"Use Tackle!" Ash ordered first and ready to take everyone by surprise. His Fairy Pokemon started running towards her floating enemy, who didn't move away.

"Are you fool, kid? Normal type moves can't hurt my Pokemon!" Morty responded laughing at his enemy' stupidity. That was until his Gastly was physically pushed back and hit the ground completely knocked out with swirls in his eyes. Morty and his students looked bitch-slapped not knowing what on Kyurem's Hell had just happened. Sylveon just stood there still waiting to warm up for the real battle.

Ash scratched his head innocently. He wasn't expecting his Pokemon to have such an easy win. But Ash couldn't blame his Pokemon for been way more powerful than what a Gym Leader could handle.

"Gastly is unable to battle. Sylveon wins. Gym Leader, send out your next Pokemon!" The referee said. Morty recalled his Ghost Pokemon, still pondering how he had been defeated with a Normal attack. Those moves couldn't affect Ghost Pokemon at all except with the move Foresight. And Ash hadn't ordered that move at all.

"Go, Haunter!" Morty called out his next Ghost Pokemon. The evolution of Gastly was a floating purple head with two purple hands. He grinned as always but it didn't intimidate Sylveon or her trainer at all. Ash smiled remembering the old prankster of his Ghost friend back in Kanto with Sabrina. Maybe he could bring him back after the Johto League was over.

"Haunter vs Sylveon, begin!" The referee said.

"Haunter, Dark Pulse!" The Gym Leader ordered. His Pokemon cupped his ghostly hands together and charged dark energy. Then he fired a powerful spiraling wave towards Sylveon, hitting her dead on. But Ash didn't bother in a counter, his Pokemon remaining unscathed from the Dark move to which she was very strong against.

"Use Agility to get close!" Ash ordered now. His Fairy Pokemon started sprinting becoming a pink unseen motion with her speed increasing.

"Stop it with Sludge Bomb!" Morty ordered. Haunter fired a shower of brown bullets towards his opponent. But non came close to hit her soft fur. The Aura trainer knew Sylveon was strong against Ghost types but also weak against Poison types. But only if the Poison attack hit, which would never happen if Ash had something to say about it.

"Keep running with Quick Attack and another Tackle!" Ash ordered again. Sylveon increased her speed even further and physically hit the Ghost Pokemon. The move sent Haunter flying back panting after losing a lot of his health. But he could still fight. Ash smiled. Not for long.

"Now Swift!" The Aura trainer ordered. Her Pokemon shot the famous shower of stars from her mouth. But these ones were pink and white after been turned into Fairy type thanks to one of Sylveon's ability. The powerful shower hit the tired Haunter making him screech in agony by the painful attacks. He dropped to the floor completely knocked out. Now Morty was driven over the edge. One thing was a fight but other was that someone was pranking him.

"Okay kid, what's going on?" Morty asked, demanding to know how he was been schooled by a mere brat "You knocked two of my Ghost Pokemon with Normal moves. That's just impossible!" Ash shook his head. Was he so stupid or just didn't want to admit his mistake?

"If you had bothered to at least learn about other Pokemon than just those in Johto, you would know that my Pokemon is a Sylveon. A Fairy type Pokemon, who has complete advantage against Ghost and Dark Pokemon" Ash explained arms over his chest. The challenger was teaching the Gym leader, how lame could things be? Meanwhile, all of Morty's students were listening attentively at the challenger's explanations "Her ability Pixilate turns every Normal move into Fairy type and increases their power. And with type advantage and all the training my dear Sylveon has gone through, then all of my Pokemon's attack are straight knock out against you" Morty grinded his teeth.

"Gengar, attack!" Morty sent his last Ghost/Poison Pokemon. It looked like a small purple person smirking towards the Fairy. The final evolution of Gastly floated in front of his angered trainer.

"Gengar vs Sylveon, begin!" The referee said.

"Gengar, use Shadow Punch!" Morty ordered desperately. His Ghost Pokemon shot his invisible punch and hit Sylveon, making her screech in pain. But the attack did very little damage to the Fairy Evolution. Suddenly Gengar's eyes were replaced with hearts. Morty gawked when his Pokemon fell in love without anyone ordering the attack. Ash almost laughed but kept his composure.

"What the Hell just happened?!" Morty blurted out wanting to rip his hair off.

"I think I forgot to mention that Sylveon's other ability is Cute Charm, which means any male Pokemon that touches her will fall in love" Ash explained again, obviously enjoying putting down the arrogant leader. The Aura trainer saw that Gengar wasn't shaking the hearts off so the fight was his to take "And now Sylveon, finish with your Giga impact!" Sylveon roared and started charging her body covered in a pink and red aura of magical power. She jumped and hit the hypnotized Ghost head on with her powerful move. Giga Impact was strong on its own but amplified by Sylveon's ability and Gengar's weakness then it was just straight knock out. The Ghost Pokemon hit a wall completely out cold.

"Gengar is unable to battle. Sylveon wins. The winner of the match is the challenger Ash Ketchum!" The referee said.

"You did great, Sylveon!" The Aura trainer said proud to his shiny Pokemon, who run up to him and licked her trainer's face in appreciation. She knew she had chosen right, when Ash had saved her and Chikorita all those months ago.

Morty recalled his defeated Gengar. One could still see in his face that he was seething in anger after been completely humiliated. Ash recalled Sylveon too.

"Here's the Fog Badge. Now leave!" Morty said simply offering the badge unwillingly. Ash grabbed it before the leader could get anymore pissed off. He could defend himself if he wanted but beating Morty in a hand-to-hand fight, when he had just been humiliated in a battle could be a bit too much for the Leader.

"So much for a Gym Leader" Ash stated not minding if it angered Morty even more. Which it did. The trainer left while his two Pokemon kept their sight on the leader, in case he would try a sneak attack on them. Ash placed his new purple-colored symbol inside the Badge case and left towards the Pokemon Center. The Aura trainer wanted to make sure all of his Pokemon were okay before heading towards another Gym.


Notes from Chapter 11:

Ash helped the kid Ephraim unlike the Anime.

The Burned Tower's history is from the Games. I read it on the Wiki. Though I added other changes like Lugia's father been there. I like to think that that's what happened to the Legendary Beasts. Let's face it, if only one of their kind had been created by Ho-Oh then there wouldn't be in Sinnoh during the 13th Movie.

Fairy types in this story have an advantage against Ghost. But only in this story and sequel. In others, Fairy types have their common advantage against Dark, Fighting and Dragon, and their weaknesses to Fire, Steel and Poison.

Sylveon owned the Ghost Pokemon. And without needing her new Fairy moves. Though the Normal moves she used were Fairy type because of her ability so it's a mute point.

I know Morty wasn't arrogant in the Anime. But I needed to change things up a little bit.

I thought about using Eusine in this chapter so Ash could show off one of his legends. But Eusine will appear in "Start of a Legend" so I cut him off for this story.


And so our hero has obtained another badge and a history lesson. See next chapter for more!