Chapter 60: The League Begins

Ash, Alice, Rodney and Keira are walking towards the Victory Isle, they are passing by the gate which needs inspection of all the badges to enter. Once it is done, they see Rick on the road.

"Not him again." Rodney groans. But Rick says, "Oh, it's you guys. So you guys also made it, too. That Gym Battle sure is easy, of course he was no match for me. I thought your brother was stronger, but it seems like he is weaker than Alice it seems."

"Oh really?" Alice says, "Maybe he did hold back for you."

"Whatever, how about a battle, I am sure it will be a good training for the league."

"Sure." Ash says.

Rick uses Pinglade, Mystablet, Parabow, Dinopion, Stegasteel and Casspring while Ash uses Pikachu, Sylveon, Flaroe, Pinglade, Baablock and Kapplash to defeat him.

"Mhhh...this is the last time that luck was on your side." Rick says in anger. "I will win the Rikoto League, no matter what. Catch you later." Then he leaves, Rodney says, "At least he isn't calling us losers."

"After Alice teaching him and the news of Team Solar and Team Lunar, he can't say us about it." Keira says.

Once they past through the obstacles, they finally reach the Rikoto League Village. Just then, they see Rocco there as Ash greets him.

"Oh my, so you made it to the Pokemon League, that's great. Maybe we will get to battle each other after all." Rocco says.

"I know." Ash says. "You will be battling either one of us. That is whoever wins, right, guys?"

Keira says, "Of course."

After Rocco leaves, Alice says, "I still can't believe that he is the youngest Elite 4 member, I think he isn't much older than us."

"Yeah. But if we win, we will be the youngest champions." Keira says.

Rodney says, "Now let's go, the last one gets there is a rotten Exeggcute." As Rodney runs off, Keira sighs, "Oh my god...he is so hotheaded...but that's kinda cute, isn't it?"

"Huh?" Ash and Alice looks at her, who suddenly blushes and says, "Never mind, I will have a look at the village first. I've heard about a training area with different battlefields. So I am going to look at that."

"Sure." Ash says as they all bid farewell. Ash turns to Alice, "Now it is the two of us again."

Alice says, "Yeah...two of us..." But much to their surprise, they see some figures and Ash knows all well is that they are the traitors and Alice's bullies.

"What are they doing here?" Alice says with fear.

"I don't know, I thought that Mother has chased them off..." Ash decides to call his mother and then Delia is surprised at this news.

"What? I thought I used the mist to send them back to the Kanto Region..." Delia says.

Red says, "Maybe we did a mistake, we didn't check thoroughly about where the ship goes after creating the mist...it must have sent them to the Rikoto Island Village."

Alice panics, "What should we do? Ash has registered his name and if they find out, they will try to sabotage him..."

Delia says, "I will send my other children to him as guards. Not to mention that they won't be able to get to the lockers room only if they have the permission. Alice is a Gym Leader, so you can go in."

"Okay." Alice says. "I hope things will go smoothly."


Now that they are registered, they all go to the stadium and then Rodney, Keira are already there. Ash and Alice also have Elena, Alex, Gina, Beacon, Mark and Insey by his side. Rodney asks, "What's with the bodyguards?"

"Because they are here, those who picked on me and those who killed Ash's Pokemon..." Alice says.

"You mean that Ark and his stupid gang are here?" Rodney pales. "Oh dear, oh my..."

"How bad is it?" Keira asks.

Mark says, "We heard from Mother, they might be sabotaging us, and we can't let it happen."

"Which is why we are here, so that we can make sure that our prince can be safe." Alex says.

Once they are called to the field, Goodshow has come to the field and says, "Welcome everyone to the Rikoto Pokemon League! We have some exciting and intense battles to be had so let's get started. And now I am going to ask our very own Champion of the Rikoto Region, Delia Ketchum to state the rules."

Everyone claps, but the traitors are shocked. "No way..." Misty says, "Ms. Ketchum is the Champion here?"

"Great, I thought that if we get here, we will be safe from the police...this is bad..." Brock says.

"Don't worry, she can't do anything to us." Max says, "The league is going on and she won't have any time to notice us."

Delia takes the stage and says, "Now let me explain the rules, all of the trainers will be randomly put into one of 4 battle groups, they will compete against each other until there is one winner and second place from each group, then those four winners and four second places will be in the quarter finals, the 4 winners of that round are into the semi-finals, and the 2 winners of this round will be in the Rikoto Pokemon League final!"

"Thank you, Ms. Ketchum. Now let's get the battle started. We are now draw by lot the groups! And this is Group A!"

As they are stating the trainers, Ash is feeling nervous. Then Ash hears the announcer says, "There is group D! Keira, Plus, Raina and finally Ash!"

This causes the group to be surprised. Iris says, "We must have misheard, there is no way that weakling is here."

"But Ms. Ketchum is here, there is a slight possibility." Mallow says.

"Then we can see how humiliating he is going to be." Then they all laugh for a little.


Ash and the others are now back inside their waiting rooms, Ash says, "Only sixteen trainers will compete...there sure aren't many people this time."

"I know." Elena says. "Since Rikoto League is hard to beat."

Keira says, "Not to mention that we are in the same group, it is lucky that 2 can advance. Which means that let's hope we can be the two in the group."

"I know." Ash says with a sigh, he really hopes that it can finish soon so that he doesn't need to see those traitors again.


Here is the new chapter, and surprise, the traitors are actually in the Rikoto Region. What will they do when Ash is battling and can Ash face his fears of conquering it?