Welcome back to another exciting episode of Pokemon: Aclean League. I hope you got your fanfic hats on, because it's about to get a lot more hectic in here.

Zippy

"Welcome to beautiful Aclean Island! Home of the Aclean League where champions are born!" The announcer said. "I'm Jimmy Allen, coming to you live from Aclean TV, and I'm here with Alexis Glade, co-announcer for the Aclean league."

"Thanks Jim," Alexis commented. "So, how many trainers and/or Gym leaders do we have this League?"

"I believe that we have over 1,000 participants now, an all-time record for the Aclean League."

"That's unbelievable! Any other important news?"

"Yes, now, you know about the region champions right?"

"Yeah, I know about them."

"Well, it turns out that there are not one, but two new champions this League."

"Are you joking?"

"I can't think of anyone that would lie on TV, that's just ridiculous, so, when will the opening ceremonies for the Aclean League take place?" Jim asked.

"I think that they'll take place at about 2 this afternoon." Alexis replied. "That'll give the trainers plenty of time to register for the League."

"Yeah Alexis, and what a league it will be!"

*Insert favorite Pokemon opening theme song here*

Ash, Pikachu and Serena stepped off of the boat and onto the island. They saw hundreds of people crammed on the dock. Ash was confident, but Serena looked at the map with a little concern.

"Ash, with this many people, are you sure that you'll be able to register?"

"Don't worry about it, if we get in line now, we can probably register." Ash said. Pikachu climbed onto Ash's shoulder.

"Pika-Pi!"

"Besides, you have until two to be ready." Another voice added. Both Ash and Serena looked at the source of the voice, it came from a blue-haired girl that Ash could recognize anywhere.

"Dawn!" Ash said surprised.

"Hey Ash, long time no see." she replied. "Who's your friend?"

"Oh, this is Serena." Ash said. "Serena, this is Dawn, she travelled with me in the Sinnoh region."

"Nice to meet you." Serena said.

"Likewise, I should've known that Ash would be here for the League."

"You bet it, are you here for the League to?" Ash asked.

"Um, no, I'm actually coordinating some of the events." Dawn replied. "My pokemon aren't that powerful."

"That's cool," Ash responded. "Hey, where's your Piplup?"

Dawn smiled. "Not a Piplup anymore," She pulled out a pokeball. "Come on out!"

A beam of light came out of the pokeball, revealing not a Piplup, but a Prinplup instead. "Prin!" it said.

"Cool, a Prinplup!" Ash stated, pulling out his pokedex.

"Prinplup, the Penguin Pokémon, and the evolved form of Piplup. One blow from its wings is strong enough to knock down trees. Because every Prinplup considers itself to be the most important, they can never form a group."

"It's really neat that you evolved Piplup." Ash commented. Pikachu cried in agreement. "Wait, I thought that your Piplup didn't want to evolve."

Dawn smiled. "You're right, it didn't for a while. However, as time went on, Piplup became more and more interested in evolving. After watching a really intense coordinator battle with an Empoleon, it finally decided it wanted to evolve. It's been happy ever since."

"Prin!" Prinplup cried in agreement.

"Wow, that's amazing! I can't wait to watch you in action. I wish you luck!"

"Pika-Pika!" Pikachu agreed.

"Thanks, but I have to go." Dawn replied, returning Prinplup. "But we should definitely catch up."

"Sure thing, see you."

"Bye," Dawn said, leaving.

Wow, Serena thought. Ash and Dawn seem really close.

"Come on Serena, let's get going."

"Right," she said, nodding in agreement.

Ash and Serena hurried over to a registration office. It had a decent line to it, but it was short enough where it didn't forever, Ash went to the counter and began to get registered.

"Serena, wait here, this shouldn't take long."

"Okay," Serena replied. She walked out of the registration office, trying to take everything in. The island seemed so small on the map. It was amazing that so many people could fit on a small piece of land. It was even more amazing that Ash made it to a master league. "One of the more reason why I love him."

When Ash left the registration office, he met up with Serena. "You ready to go to the opening ceremonies?"

"Yeah, let's go."

The duo walked towards the ceremony stadium. It was already packed with people, but there was still plenty of room. They took a seat, just as the ceremony was about to begin. Behind the podium there was a row of empty chairs.

"Who sits up there?" Ash asked.

"I think that we're about to find out." Serena answered.

A line of people began to walk into the arena and take seats. Then another figure appeared, and stood at the podium.

"Welcome, one and all to the tenth anniversary of the Aclean League, where champions are born. May I introduce to you, the champions. From Kalos, we have the lovely Diantha! From Unova, our newest champion, Iris!"

"What?" Ash exclaimed.

"Is that the same Iris you were talking about?"

Ash squinted to see the champion previously mentioned. She was dark skinned, having long, violet hair. "That's her alright," Ash agreed.

"Next," the announcer continued. "From the Sinnoh region, we have the lovely Cynthia."

Cries from the crowd in awe and admiration were heard for all the champions, but Cynthia was the loudest so far.

"From the Hoenn region, we have Wallace! From the Johto region, we have our new champion, Zach!"

Cheers still roared from the stadium as the new champion stood up, and sat down. "And finally, our Kanto Champion, and one pokemon master, Red!" Cynthia's cheer dulled in comparison to how the stadium erupted when Red was mentioned. The roar continued for a solid minute before the announcement to be silent was given by the announcer. "Now, we shall hear a few words from Red."

Red got up and walked towards the podium, a smile on his face. The cheering came to a complete stop when he arrived there. "Welcome one and all to the 10th Aclean League anniversary. I won't drone for long, but I do want to say something. You are here, because you have pushed yourself beyond the limits of what a pokemon trainer should be. You are one of the most talented individuals that we've noticed yet. So, whether you lose in the first round, or win in the finals. Please know that you deserve to be here. Therefore, we've made a small adjustment to the rules. You will not be removed from the island if you lose, you will be permitted to stay as long as you like."

The stadium erupted in applause again, but it was silenced when Red held his hand up. "I wish you all the best of luck in the Aclean League. Thank you!"

After more applause, the announcer went back up to the microphone and addressed everyone again. "Alright, the first round of the Aclean League has begun. You are to find one opponent to battle, and the rules may be made up by the trainers battling. The winner is to be told to the registration office. Good luck trainers, and may you find what you're looking for."

The stadium gave one last round of applause, and the assembly was dismissed. Ash and Serena got up and left the stadium, but were interrupted before doing so.

"Ash!" A voice from behind shouted. Ash turned around, and saw who was calling him. It was a tall, spiky haired individual, and a face that Ash could recognize anywhere.

"Brock!" He shouted. They high fived each other, smiling. "How are you, I haven't seen you since Sinnoh."

"Good to see you again Ash. I should've guessed you would be here. I'm doing well, and glad that you seem the same."

"So are you here to battle?"

"Yeah, technically, I'm still a gym leader, so I could qualify."

"Sweet, oh, Brock, this is Serena, she's been travelling with me for a while."

"Nice to meet you," Serena added.

"Good to meet you as well, say Ash, mind if I tag along?"

"No prob, follow me."

The trio left the stadium, only to find that battles were already underway. Attacks were launched by almost every pokemon that he could recognize.

"Wow, there sure are a lot of battles."

"Yeah, this is hectic. Brock, do you think that-" However, when Ash turned to talk to Brock, he wasn't there. "Hey, where'd he go?"

They both looked around, but it seemed he was nowhere to be found. "Wait, is that him?" Serena asked. She was pointing towards Brock, who was fawning over some girl. When Ash saw this, he slapped his forehead.

"Hold on, I'll deal with this." he said, walking away. Serena watched as Ash had to forcefully drag his friend away, apologizing for Brock's behavior.

"Be sure to call me!" Brock called to the victim. "Wow, she sure was pretty."

"May be, but the least you could do is just put her on your list or something instead of being creepy."

"Does he do this often?" Serena asked.

"Um, kind of, Brock is one of the most mature people I know. Just as long as there isn't a cute girl around." Ash replied. "Now Brock, where did-" However, Brock had disappeared again. "Ugh, it's worse than when I left!"

"Where is he now?"

Ash pointed in his direction. Brock was now talking to a brunette girl, who was off away from the people. Ash and Serena quickly hurried over there, but by then, Brock was kicked by the woman's combat boots, and Brock fell to the ground. When Ash got to his friend, he quickly tried to asses the situation.

"Brock, are you alright?"

"Are you a leaf?" Brock asked half-awake. "Because I'm falling for you!" He uttered before he passed out."

"Oh my!" the woman replied. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hit him that hard."

"It's okay, it's the only way to snap him out of it." Ash responded.

"Still, I apologize." she continued. Ash looked up at the woman, she wore a red crop top shirt with black pants and combat boots. Her brown colored hair covered the left side of her face. "Here," She put a small bandage on the place of impact, in the center of Brock's nose.

"Cool, hey, what's your name?"

The woman stood up. "You can call me H."

"What?" Serena asked.

"That's what everyone calls me anyway."

"Cool, I had another friend like that. Anyway, I'm Ash, and this is my partner Pikachu."

"Pika!"

"I'm Serena," Serena added. "Pleasure to meet you."

"Yeah, nice to meet you all too, but who did I kick?"

"Oh, that's Brock. Sorry, he can get a little carried away sometimes."

"It's alright, nice to meet you all though, see you." she said, walking away.

"Hey, wait!" Ash called.

H turned around. "Yeah,"

"Look, I need someone to battle for the first round. Can you help me out?"

"Oh, um, alright." H replied.

The group found a battlefield and Brock acted as referee. "Alright, the battle between Ash, and Hot, I mean, H will now begin. Each participant is allowed two pokemon individually with no substitutions or use of items. Agreed?" Both of the trainers nodded in agreement. "Alright, then battle begin!"

"Absol! Come on out!" H ordered, releasing her pokemon.

"Sol!"

Ash nodded, reaching for his pokemon, he knew exactly what to use. "Alright Heracross, I choose you!" He shouted releasing his pokemon.

"Hera!"

"We'll have the first move. Absol, Bite!"

Absol charged forward toward Heracross. It moved so quickly that it Ash didn't have time to call for the dodge and the move hit Heracross.

"Heracross are you okay?"

"Cross!"

"Alright, now, use Megahorn!" Ash ordered. Heracross's horn began to glow, and it charged at Absol.

"Dodge it Absol, and use Double team!"

The disaster pokemon dodged Heracross, and began to duplicate itself.

"Heracross, use fury attack on the clones!"

Heracross began to jump back and forth to each duplicate, hitting each one of them, and eventually hit the real one, throwing it backwards.

"She's doing a good job." Brock noted. "Usually an opponent with a double type advantage would have won at this point."

"You've done a good job avoiding my Heracross." Ash shouted.

"You're not so bad yourself, but this is where the tide turns. Absol, bring out our secret weapon." She said smiling. "Use Dark Void!"

Absol began to charge the attack and shot it toward the middle of the field, sucking Heracross downward. When the attack ended, Heracross collapsed. Brock stood there dumbfounded.

"I didn't know that any pokemon could learn that move!"

"What do you mean?" Serena asked.

"I've heard that Dark Void could only be used by Darkrai!"

"Oh no!" Serena replied. "Is Ash in trouble?"

"I don't know," But then Brock relaxed. "Actually, now that I think about it, he's fine."

"What?"

"Heracross!" Ash cried.

"Relax," H interrupted. "It's just asleep."

Then, it dawned on Ash what needed to happen.

"Now Absol, use Bite again!"

"Ab-Sol!" It cried, launching itself forward. Ash had to wait until the perfect moment to strike, he knew what to do, he just hoped Heracross did to. Seconds before impact, Ash put his plan into action.

"Now Heracross, Sleep Talk!"

Heracross immediately jumped up, and used Megahorn on Absol, who had no time to react. Heracross made perfect impact, slamming into Absol who flew across the battlefield.

"Absol!" H cried worriedly. Absol was in bad shape, it wouldn't last much longer, and everyone knew it. However, lucky for her, she had one more trick to use. "Can you still fight?"

"Ab!"

"Great," she said. She then brushed her hair aside, revealing an eyepatch across her left eye. In it a jewel. "Now, it's time!"

The jewel on her eyepatch began to glow, and Absol did as well. When it stopped, Ash saw that Absol had changed. It now had white wings, and Ash could tell it was a very different pokemon.

"Your Absol can Mega-Evolve!"

H nodded. "Yeah, this is where the fun begins."

To be continued…

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Zippy