Authors Corner: Well we're past Kanto... technically, is the Orange Archipelago a part of Kanto? ahh who knows all I know is that I should be playing Breath of The Wild right now, but I'm writing this because I love you or something, anyways onto the show!

Ash, Brock, Misty and an assorted amount of pokemon were currently on the way back to Pallet Town, having left the Indigo Plateau late at night the group was currently camping around the forests surrounding Pallet

"It's still so weird to think" Ash muttered looking at the card Goodshow had given him "We genuinely won a conference"

"Well think it" Pidgeot said, pausing as an explosion rocketed the clearing the group was camping in before a small fountain of water fell on Ash from where Misty was training with her water types starting to take being a Water Type Master seriously "we won and I'm sure that we'll have lots more adventures you're not going to quit just because you won right?"

Ash shook his head "Of course I'm not going to quit, just wondering what comes next"

Butterfree yawned "next comes sleep for me, good night" Butterfree flew up to a tree and perched in it sleeping

Brock looked at Ash worried "Alright Ash what's on your mind you seem conflicted"

Ash flipped a page in his book "Don't know what to do now that I won a conference I want to keep adventuring with you and Misty but I'm not sure where to go"

Brock shrugged "Maybe you need a holiday, I've heard the Orange Archipelago is nice this time of year and you barely use your winnings money you're probably loaded"

Ash considered this and flipped a page in his book "You know that does sound nice" a flash of light erupted through the clearing, Brock and Ash looked over to the lake where Misty was training, when the light died down in the lake was a Seadra with a black spot around one eye, Misty's Horsea had evolved

Misty looked to Seadra, eyes wide and smiling "Seadra that's ama-" she was cut off by a second flash of light from her right, where Psyduck was, well fighting was a strong word more of being a punching back for Seel and when the light died down in place of Psyduck was a Golduck, who shook his head looking around confused as the eternal headache plaguing his life was removed "Wow and you too Golduck that's gre-" and for a third time she was cut off by Seel who was evolving into a Dewgong, Misty looked around for a few seconds "is that all of you done evolving? Okay great! All of you amazing work"

Brock smiled and turned back to Ash "See everyone's working hard a holiday would be nice"

Ash nodded and yawned himself flipping a page in his book "Yeah, after we get back to Pallet lets get a holiday, for now I'm going to sleep though make sure Misty doesn't drown herself training" And with that Ash put down his book and propped himself against a tree to sleep as he usual did

soon Misty retired to her tent and eventually Brock did too and the group set off in the morning, arriving at Pallete early on arriving at Professor Oak's lab Brock taking the lead and knocking on the door

"Coming!" Oak's voice said from inside the lab the door opened revealing the professor "Ah Brock! And Ash and Misty to come in come in" Ash walked in with his friends sitting down around the table in the middle of the room, after the group was in Oak shut the door and sat down around the table as well "It's good that you are here, I know you just won a Conference and would probably like to relax but Ash I have a favour"

Ash rolled his hand hesitantly for Oak to continue "I need your help collecting something from a colleague of mine, Professor Ivy who works in the Orange Archipelago I would've ask Gary but I can't find him its like he's disappeared off the earth" Oak sighed "Please Ash I've already got tickets for you to go to the Orange Archipelago and this is urgent"

Ash leaned back in his chair sighing, Brock laughed and Misty grinned, Ash leaned back forwards and flipped a page in his book "of course, we were planing on heading to the Orange Archipelago anyway for a holiday, I guess we don't need to pay now though"

Oak looked at the group surprised "Well that's just convenient isn't it? the blimp leaves from Celadon City in a few hours so you may want to make your way there soon"

"We can just teleport to the Orange Archipelago at any time" Mewtwo pointed out "why does everyone forget that?"

"Because" Clefable said "that would make the journey boring"

"She has a good point" Ash said "Half the fun of getting badges is actually walking there, even if this isn't for a badge it takes away some of the fun"

Mewtwo sighed "At least let me teleport everyone to Celadon?"

Ash shrugged "alright that would save some time I guess"

so the group relaxed for the next few hours, Ash caught up with the professor and eventually Delilah when she came to visit Oak, eventually Brock noted the time and the group had Mewtwo teleport them to Celadon and eventually the group got on a blimp headed to the Orange Archipelago or more specifically Valencia Island, unbeknownst to them Team Rocket had been following them the whole way and had somehow acquired a magikarp submarine to follow them in and even more so the jigglypuff that had been following them for ages was also somewhere on the blimp

Eventually the group arrived on Valencia and were outside Professor Ivy's house, Brock had decided to stay outside to observe the pokemon on the island and how they differed from the ones in Kanto in order to help his breeder career while Ash and Misty headed into the lab

the two trainers and their pokemon walked into the lab, which turned out to be empty with multiple machines scattered throughout the room

"Did the professor not tell this Professor Ivy we were coming?" Misty asked looking around the room baffled "there's no one here!"

A hatch opened on the floor, which somehow none of the pokemon or the human in the room had noticed and three girls with odd hair styles glasses and an alolan style shirt on looked at Ash and Misty "Are you here for Professor Ivy?" one of them asked

Ash nodded and flipped a page in her book "You know where she is?"

a different one of them nodded "Yes we are her assistants she should be down at the beach we'll take her to her" the three near identical girls climbed out the hatch they were gathered in and took off running out the room, leaving our heroes to follow eventually the group ended up down at a beach "Professor Ivy!" one of them yelled out across the ocean, then a gyarados appeared out of the ocean, then a woman wearing a swimsuit and with messy purple hair jumped off and landed on the beach

"Flashy entrance" Ash commented before flipping a page in his book "You are Professor Ivy?"

the woman nodded "yes, you must be the kid the tree told me about come on back to my lab" Ivy led the group back to the lab again "So here's the deal" she explained picking up a golden and silver pokemon from a table Misty and Ash hadn't noticed before "this thing is called the GS ball its made from the wings of the legendary birds of Johto we can't open it nor transport it I want you to take it to Oak capiche?"

Misty raised an eyebrow taking the pokeball from Ivy "Isn't this the thing Brycen used to control Celebi a few years ago?"

Ivy waved her off "same idea of the pokeball but a different one thats why I need someone to take it to Oak"

Ash shrugged looking at the ball Misty was holding and flipped a page in his book "We can, but can you tell Professor Oak we'll be a while since we're taking a holiday here in the Orange Islands"

Ivy nodded "of course, I would recommend going to Tangelo Island first its a nice place" Ash and Misty left waving as they returned to Brock who was carefully studying a Vileplume who had a different coloured flower

"How'd it go?" Brock asked seeing the two approaching him, the Vileplume ran seeing the others and Brock sighed "Did you get what we needed from Professor Ivy and can we start our vacation"

Misty nodded clutching the GS ball "Yeah, I can see why Oak needed us to take it" she sighed "brings back bad memories though"

Ash flipped a page raising an eyebrow "how so?"

Brock shook his head "bad things a few years ago, essentially someone tried to rewrite time"

Oricorio winced "that can not have been good"

MEANWHILE AFTER TWO CHAPTERS FINALLY WE ARE BACK TO THE HALL OF ORIGIN

"I cannot believe you did that last chapter" Articuno sighed "if he hadn't gone to the Orange Archipelago we would be in so much trouble"

Zapdos flew into the hall the two birds and Lugia were in "What'd I miss? I had to deal with some trainers in Kalos

"This one" Lugia gestured towards Moltres, somehow "has basically confirmed to Ash that we're next in line for his legendary encounters"

Zapdos face paled "Oh we're doomed our region is so out of the way we live in Kanto and Johto!"

"Don't worry about it!" Moltres cawed waving a wing "Ash is going to the Orange Isles now it's all good we are definitely next up no one else lives there"

Lugia groaned "tell me about it, I have to manage things in Johto just to have a job because you three became all buddy buddy"

AFTER THAT GENERALLY BORING AND USELESS INTERLUDE BACK WITH OUR HEROES

"Good thing we got this boat" Clefable said looking around the ocean "nice of Ivy to lend it to us"

"Yeah but how do we return it after we get to Tangelo" Ivysaur pointed out "this is a major flaw in this plan"

Ash's face paled "uh that's a good point how DO we return this?"

"Teleportation" Mew pointed out "fixes all your problems"

"Except for that time you managed to teleport yourself into a wall" Mewtwo pointed out "that one took ages to fix"

Pidgeot looked confused "but I thought you two didn't know each other before the incident on that island"

"it's called New Island" Mew pointed out

Pidgeot nodded slowly, trying to keep Oricorio on her head "but how do you two seem to know each other so well"

Mewtwo laughed awkwardly "well you see"

"BROCK!" Misty suddenly yelled startling Togepi and Squirtle looking out the front of the boat "Left look"

Brock, who was piloting the boat, looked where Misty had directed him to, seeing a group of three boys around a small pond with a Lapras in it, seemingly beating it with sticks, Brock steered the boat a hard left lining up to the beach

"This is taking to long!" Misty yelled putting down Togepi and Squirtle, before she dived off the boat for some reason surfacing in the water swimming to the beach to try and stop the boys

"Ash you remember how you take on the characteristics of a pokemon when you use your illusions and how we forgot about that? well now is good time to remember that go help!" Pikachu reminded Ash, the latter nodded taking off his hat before jumping into the water turning into a Buizel in the water, Charizard launched off the boat following Ash from the Sky while Blastoise jumped in the water after Ash, after a short swim Ash had caught up to Misty on the beach and had changed back to human

Misty ran towards the boys Ash in tow while Charizard flew above and Blastoise swam alongside, Brock struggling to get the boat on the island

"Hey you!" Misty yelled at the boys, the three turned revealing one of them having a pomadore haircut and sunglasses on, another with green hair and an orange shirt and the final with a white bandanna on "what do you think you're doing to that Lapras"

"Simple!" the one green hair said "we need a Lapras so we can get around the islands to fight the orange crew! so we're getting it to move"

Misty looked at the group incredulous, while Brock ran up to the group Ash's pokemon in tow carrying Togepi and Squirtle on his shoulders and a pokeball of his own in hand "You're abusing it" Misty said still looking shocked "hitting it with sticks won't get it to move making friends and catching it in a fair fight will"

The one with a pompadour raised an eyebrow "So you disagree with us you want a fight?" the boy threw out a pokeball revealing a Spearow who cried, the other two boys scurried throwing their own pokemon a Beedrill and a Hitmonchan

Charizard landed seeing the fight, Misty threw a pokeball from her belt revealing Golduck who after evolving had become a much more serious fighter and Brock threw his own pokeball revealing a Kabutops

"I didn't know you got a Kabutops Brock" Misty mused turning her attention to the battle that was about to start

Brock grinned "While I am a breeder I do need to do some work" he turned his attention to the battle as well "Now Kabutops-"

"Wait!" a tall boy looking around Brock's age ran out from a bush, wearing a green tank top and red shorts a headband keeping his hair from falling in his face clutching a notepad "you don't stand a chance" he looked to the three boys that were abusing the Lapras "look at your pokemon" he pointed at the boy with a pompadour "your Spearow is vitamin-deficient look at its wings." he was right the Spearows wings were falling by its side and looked broken You" he pointed at the boy with green hair "your Hitmonchan doesn't have nearly enough exercise its panting just standing there" he was once again right with Hitmonchan panting "and you" he pointed at the boy with a white bandana on "Beedrill's colour is poor at best it needs medicine" and the boy was once again right Beedrill's fur was a faint yellow and black "as opposed to these three" he gestured to Brock, Misty and Ash "Charizard's tail flame is burning bright and healthy! Kabutops blades are sharp as knives a sign of its health and the gem in Golduck's head is sparkling in the sun once again its healthy"

the boy with a bandana scoffed "please our pokemon are extremely strong you wuss! now get out of our battlefield"

the boy in a green shirt sighed backing out the way of the crossfire sitting down on the beach while the 'battle' started, one flamethrower one Water Pulse and one Ancient Power and the boys pokemon were knocked out, they quickly recalled them and ran away

"Here" the boy threw a bag to Ash who caught it "it's medicine for Lapras I'll go get Nurse Joy" the boy ran off assumingly to the Pokecentre of the island

Ash slowly approached the Lapras with the medicine, but when he got close Lapras slapped the medicine out of his hand looking scared, Pikachu jumped and caught the medicine while Ash quickly backed away

the three exchanged looks of worry while the boy returned with a Nurse Joy in tow, somehow Brock held back confessing his love to the Nurse with the serious air of the situation

The Nurse looked over Lapras, backing away when it seemed scared, after her examination she turned to the group "this Lapras will be okay it needs a rest but it seems to be scared of humans, if what this boy said is true three boys were abusing it to challenge the Orange Crew right?"

the boy brought a hand to chin in thought "it's only young, it must've been separated from its pod during that storm a few weeks ago" he then turned to Ash and his friends "sorry if I hurried with introductions I'm Tracey a pokemon watcher" Brock, Misty and Ash made their introductions and turned back to the Lapras

"Someone needs to keep watch of it until it trusts humans enough for us to take it to the ocean" Misty said with a sigh while the Nurse left seeing her work concluded "but if it doesn't trust humans who"

Brock looked down thoughtfully "we could get Oak's advice on this"

Tracey looked surprised at this "you know Professor Oak?"

Ash nodded flipping a page "I'm a trainer from him, we're on holiday here"

"Well while this may not be the best time, is it alright if I join you on your journey so I can meet him he's been an idol of mine" Tracey asked

Brock and Misty looked at Ash who considered this for a minute before nodding and flipping a page in his book "of course, but for now we need to help Lapras"

Brock looked up at the sky, the sun was setting "well if we want some sleep tonight someone's going to need to stay up to watch Lapras"

"I will!" Misty said a look of determination on her face "I will stay up all night if I have to I can't let a water type pokemon be traumatised by some idiots with sticks"

the group nodded, retiring to sleep, Ash sleeping propped against a tree as usual Brock and Tracey in sleeping bags on the beach deciding the tent was to warm for the atmosphere

"I'm so sorry for the others" Misty said sadly after a few hours of watching Lapras, the Lapras looked up at her still wary "for the boys I mean, it's horrible how they abused you just because you didn't want to be caught by them, and after you got seperated from your pod" the Lapras slowly started swimming closer to Misty who was sitting on the edge of the pond "I know you may not trust me but I will stay up all night if I have to to make sure those boys don't come back" Lapras swam closer to Misty their expression softening, Misty started smiling seeing Lapras approach "I hope we can get you back to your pod, if I have to I will travel around the earth to help you"

unbeknownst to Misty and Lapras Team Rocket with the Magikarp Sub they had somehow acquired was nearby, and about to surface

"Prepare for trouble!" Misty immediately had two pokeballs in hand, waiting for Team Rocket to finish their motto since she had to admit it was kinda fun

"Make it double!"

"To protect the world from devastation"

"to unite all peoples within our nation"

"To extend our reach to the stars above"

"Jessie!"

"James!"

"Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light"

"Surrender now or prepare to fight"

"Meowth thats right"

James held up a Growlithe he had in his arms "and Growlie!"

Misty rolled her eyes "look I like the motto and usually I would be up for this song and dance but I am trying to help a traumatised pokemon here" she threw the two pokeballs revealing Staryu and Starmie

"Okay then bye!" James said hurriedly climbing back into the submarine "she's angry Jessie we need to leave... please"

Jessie grabbed Meowth and jumped into the sub aswell, quickly leaving

Misty turned back to Lapras sighing and returning Staryu and Starmie "I know what you're thinking, they're pokemon thieves that have been following us they're worthless though its laughable" Lapras swam right up to Misty as she sat down and nuzzled against her cheek "I guess you're not really scared of me anymore then huh" she laughed a bit

the night went on with Misty and Lapras bonding, eventually ending when Lapras decided to come with Misty in order to find his pod

and soon enough everyone was up

Brock looked around confused being the first to wake up walking to Misty "what happened to Lapras"

Misty held up a pokeball "he decided to come with us, in order to find his pod Tracey was right"

the two talked while Tracey and Ash got up

"So what next?" Tracey asked "what was your plan I mean"

Ash flipped a page in his book "we were planning on heading around the islands for a month or two as a holiday before heading back to Pallette to give Oak a delivery" he flipped another page "though Tracey I have a question what's the Orange Crew?"

Tracey looked surprised "you don't know?" Ash shook his head "oh, well its kind of like a miniature league you take on four gyms before fighting their leader Drake"

Brock looked at Ash hearing this "you going to try this Ash?"

Ash looked at his pokemon "does anyone really want to do another gym circuit so soon?" Ash's pokemon collectively shook their heads, this was their holiday and so Ash shook his head to Brock

"But I will!" Misty said suddenly causing the group to look at her "I want to be a Water Type Master so what better way to test myself then to fight the Orange Crew with only water types I can prove to my sisters this wasn't in vain"

Brock smiled "that's a great idea Misty, so Tracey where's the first Gym Leader"

Tracey took a map out of a pocket and opened it examining it "the closest to us is on Mikan Island, but how will we get their?"

Misty grinned holding a pokeball "Ash may I borrow your pokedex briefly?" Ash raised an eyebrow but gave Misty his pokedex anyway

Misty threw the pokeball revealing Lapras in the sea who cried happily before scanning him with Ash's pokedex

"Lapras. Lapras are extremely rare pokemon being hunted nearly to extinction they are docile creatures and prefer ferrying people across water rather than fighting, even young Lapras have been seen carrying four people across the waves"

Misty handed Ash back his pokedex grinning "four people is just what we need, heck if Charizard flies and Blastoise swims he can even carry your pokemon Ash"

Brock grinned "well then lets get going!"

the group climbed on Lapras and set out, for the sight of Misty's first gym badge at Mikan Island and after several days of traveling and stopping at islands the group was nearing the island

"hey Brock I've been meaning to Ask" Tracey said currently drawing Charizard flying behind them, he had explained a few days ago to Ash's group of friends that he draws pokemon in order to remember them rather than using a pokedex "Ash's mute right? thats why he uses that book" Brock nodded "then how come he's seemingly able to talk to his pokemon, he's managed to translate Lapras for us and seems to have conversations with him"

"oh that" Brock said quickly "well Ash is got an odd way of being mute, his voice is at such a pitch humans can't hear it and so he spent lots of time around pokemon when he was young so he learned to understand them"

Tracey looked taken aback "huh that's odd to say the least" he turned back to Charizard to continue drawing

Ash elbowed Brock in the back, Brock turned to him while Ash flipped a page in his book "you're a worse liar than Yellow"

"Land ahead!" Misty yelled pointing ahead from her spot right by Lapras neck "Tracey is that it?"

Tracey put his book in his backpack and looked over at the island "that's it alright"

the group sighed a sigh of relief, they were running low on supplies the last few islands had been deserted, Misty gave Lapras directions and soon they were landed on the island Misty returning Lapras and heading to the path towards the gym which was conveniently nearby the place where the group had landed looking like a barn more than a gym

"Hey a coconut tree" Brock pointed out, towards a tree that did infact have coconuts on it and one on the ground "would be nice to get some for the journey"

"I'll get it!" Mew said happily picking the coconut up with psychic and bringing it over taking a bucket of water with it somehow "A free bucket as well great!"

Oricorio raised a wing "I don't think you can just take buckets like that"

A boy with black spikey hair looked out from around the tree "You took my bucket and stopped my joke!"

"Senta what are you doing?" A girl walked out of the nearby barn gym "are those challengers? you're making the gym look bad"

"That's Cissy" Tracey said as the girl walked over to reprimand the boy, identified as Senta, "She's probably the strongest trainer in the Orange Crew, she specializes in Water Types and her rules of the gym state her challengers must also use them"

Misty grinned "that's great for me then"

Cissy walked over to Ash's group "so which one of you is here to challenge me, and I'm sorry for my brother he thinks no one is allowed to challenge me for some reason"

Misty raised a hand and walked up to be next to Cissy "I'm here to challenge you"

Cissy walked towards the barn gym and beckoned Misty to follow, which she did the male trainers and watcher in tow

Ash groaned eyes widening in realisation "Mewtwo you took the boat back right?"

Mewtwo nodded "of course"

"And my hat was on it I didn't pick it up" he sighed looking up at his hair "it was the only piece of legitimate clothing I own"

"I can go grab it if you want, it's only one teleport away" Mew said doing flips

Ash considered this as Cissy led the group into the gym "I think I'll be good without on the Archipelago it's kinda hot out here anyway"

"Welcome to my gym!" Cissy said dramatically gesturing to the gym, which was really only a pool surrounded by dirt with one wall carved out to house plates and cans "so instead of some gyms we use different types of Gym Battles in the Orange Crew for my challenge it's a game of accuracy you need to have a pokemon that knows water gun first of so, do you have one?"

Misty threw a pokeball revealing Golduck "Yeah Golduck and I have been working on it for a while now" Golduck promptly jumped in the pool, Psychic powers helped with quickly understanding the situation

"Good!" Cissy threw her own pokeball revealing a Seadra into the pool "so as you may have noticed the cans and plates on the wall the goal is to shoot them with water gun whoever hits more wins, ready?" Misty nodded "Begin!"

the two pokemon started firing water guns left and right, Tracey struggling to keep count though it seemed like Cissy was counting each one until there was only one plate left, the two pokemon fired at it at the same time, Golducks eyes glowed blue and Seadra's attack was stopped Golduck's hitting dead on

"End!" Cissy called "you won Misty, thirty to thirty one, though I'm not much of a fan of that way of beating me it's allowed" she walked around the pool next to Misty holding something in her hand she presented it to Misty it was a badge in the shape of a small clamshell with a blue gemstone in the middle "this is the Coral Eye Badge, if you get the other three of the Orange Archipelago you can challenge our champion though I'm sure you know that, good luck with the rest"

Misty took the badge and retreated "where to next Tracey!"

Tracey took out his map "Navel Island is a decent way away but it's got a few islands I wanted to visit on the way if thats okay" he leaned over to Brock "is this how Ash was when he was getting gym badges?"

Brock laughed "you get used to it, Misty really wants to prove herself"

"You can say that again"

Authors Corner: SURPRISE! Misty is going to be taking the Orange Crew on not Ash! Also she's getting Lapras since it just seemed to work, one badge down meaning five chapters left in the Orange Islands with Power Of One and all, in other news yes Brock is staying with the group for the islands and Tracey will be sticking with Ash after the archipelago meaning all of Ash's traveling companions will be sticking around after they're ment to leave! but for now I'm going to go play BoTW and take a break from writing for... an hour