Staring up at the Hearthome City Contest Hall, Ash nodded to himself, looking to his left to see an excited Maddison looking up at the building in awe - the other's had gone to explore the surrounding area's, being that they had never been to Sinnoh before, Ash didn't mind: But Maddison insisted on going with him. Chuckling softly at her excitement, Ash walked into the building - Maddison running behind him, only stopping when she crashed into Ash's body: who had stopped and was staring ahead - his body frozen in shock.

"Dawn" Maddison heard Ash whisper, making her look over his shoulder to see who he was talking about: ahead of Ash stood by the receptionist desk was a girl - Maddison guessed she was around 12 like her - with long dark blue hair covered with a white beanie. Ash noticed the different clothing she was wearing - instead of the old adventure clothes she wore through Sinnoh, she now sported a thick pink jacket with lighter shaded pink buttons, a white scarf and a slightly darker shade of pink boots. On her shuolder sat a small blue, penguin like pokemon, Piplup.

Ash and Maddison watched as the girl, Dawn, signed up for the next contest befroe disappearing round the corner: Maddison looked to Ash in concern - she remembered him mentioning a girl by the name of Dawn when he explained it all to her and the others, "Ash? Are you okay?" Ash nodded stiffly at first before a small, sly grin began to form on his face, making Maddison look confused.

"I know the perfect way to get back at Dawn, and to see if she has some of my old pokemon..." Ash said to himself quietly, walking forwards to the desk, making the receptionist look up at Ash with a smile, "How can i help you today sir?" She asked, Ash replied by - to Maddison's surprise - pulling out his pokedex and handing it to the lady, "I would like to sign up and compete in the contest please"

The woman nodded and took the pokedex, a returning a few seconds later with a contest pass and a ribbon case - handing them to Ash with a smile, "There you go sir, the contest begins at 9:00 tomorrow morning, good luck" Ash nodded in thanks as he took the items and palced them in his pockets, turning and walking out the contest hall, Maddison trailing behind him quickly with the look of confusion still on her face.

"I thought you said you weren't into Contests Ash? Why did you sign up?" Maddison asked, watching as Ash stopped and turned to her with a smile, "I may not be the biggest fan of Contests, but i have competed in a few in my travels - Dawn is like May, with a love of contests - So the best way to see if she is abusing any of my old pokemon, or her own: and to get my revenge for her betrayal, is to beat her at what she cherishes the most: A Pokemon Contest"

- With The Others On Route 212 -

"You guys see any pokemon?" Richie asked as the him, A.J, Jason and Natalie walked through the tall grass of route 212. Hearing a collection of "No" from the other's made Richie sigh in frustration, "You think there would be loads of different pokemon he- Wait! I spot one!" Richie exclaimed, pushing through the grass to come face to face with a pokemon, "Hey Natalie! Use the pokedex Maddison lent you to see what pokemon that is!"

Natalie nodded as she and the other's followed Richie through the grass: Spotting the pokemon in front of them, Natalie pulled out the pokedex and pointed it towards the pokemon:

Minun - The Cheering Pokemon

Minun is more concerned about cheering on its partners than its own safety. It shorts out the electricity in its body to create brilliant showers of sparks to cheer on its teammates.

"nun?" The blue and cream colored pokemon spoke with question, getting into a defensive position when A.J stepped forwards with a poke'ball in his hand, "I'm going to try and catch it!" He stated with excitement - the other's nodded and stepped back as A.J threw a poke'ball into the air, releasing his Hitmonchan, "Alright Hitmonchan, use Bullet Punch!" Hitmonchan shouted his name, his fist glowing a soft silver color and hitting the wild Minun at immense speed.

"Minun!" The wild pokemon shout as the attack hit him, sending him skidding through the grass, slowly standing up with electricity sparking of his cheeks - making A.J smirk, "This little one is tough, i got to catch it now, use Fire Punch!" A.J commanded, watching as Hitmonchan ran at the small electric pokemon, his fist reared back and surrounded with fire. Minun reacted faster this time, disappearing just as Hitmonchan swung his fist to hit him.

"Wow, that was one fast Quick Attack" Natalie complimented as Minun appeared behind Hitmonchan - his cheeks charging as he shouted, "Mi-Nuuuuun!" Electricity shout out from the electric types cheeks as it released its Discharge, Hitting Hitmonchan directly and making the pokemon cry out In pain, "Channn!" The Punching Pokemon cried for a second, quickly jumping out thew way and shaking the attack off with a similar smirk to A.J, who quickly commanded, "Sky Uppercut!" To which Hitmonchan ran downwards, angling his fist to hit Minun under his chin, sending the pokemon flying.

"Now's my chance! Go poke'ball!" A.J shouted, throwing an empty poke'ball at the flying pokemon, watching as it go sucked into the poke'ball - said poke'ball falling to the ground and wobbling side to side a few times before dinging: Minun was Caught! With a proud smile, A.J walked forwards and picked up the poke'ball with a smile, turning to face Hitmonchan who held a fist up in pride, "Great job Hitmonchan, we caught Minun!" A.J praised the pokemon, meeting his fist for a weird sort of high five before returning the pokemon.

Placing the newly caught pokemon on his belt, A.J turned and blinked when he sore Richie in the middle of fighting a wild pokemon and shouting, "Go Poke'ball!" throwing a poke'ball and quickly capturing the wild pokemon. A.J blinked and walked over to the other's as Richie picked up the poke'ball, placing it on his belt as Sparky jumped from the field back onto his shoulder, "What did you catch Richie? "A Meowth, she must have heard the commotion and wanted to see what was going on so i caught her"

"Good catch guys" The gorup turned to see Maddison and Ash walking towards them with a smile, "Minun is a good electric type, and Meowth can be quiet the strong pokemon if you train them right" Ash continued, watching as Natalie handed Maddison her pokedex back: "You guys finished in Hearthome already?" A.J asked in surprise - watching as Maddison shook her head and Ash pulled out his new contest pass to show the group, "Not in the slightest - I signed up to be in the contest tomorrow: that way i can beat Dawn at her own game" Ash explained to the confused looking group, who nodded as Ash put the pass away once more.

"I need to do a bit of training for the contest, I'm a little rusty at the whole *making your pokemon look pretty* thing, so would you guys watch and let me know how it looks?" Ash asked the group as they walked out from the tall grass, a poke'ball in each of his hand. When the group nodded, Ash smiled and threw the two poke'balls into the air and began to practice his performance.


Can you guys guess which pokemon Ash will use to In the contest?