Battle Frontier Part 11

Ash and his friends continue on to May's next Contest. Ash says, "So May, now you have only one ribbon left."

"I know." May says. "And I can't wait to get it."

They reach a cliff edge and look out to the mountain range. They notice the Swablu and Altaria flying off as an aurora suddenly appears, Lillie says, "This wasn't supposed to happen..."

Pikachu starts emitting electricity, not feeling well. Sylveon, Absol and Persian also not feeling well as well. Ash tries to send out Butterfree, but its Pokeball fails to deploy. None of May's or Lillies Balls work. Max pulls out the PokéNav, which is also down.

"Ash, Lillie. What a surprise." They then see Solana nearby as she is trying to help the Pokemon. Ash says, "Solana, what is going on here?"

Solana uses her Capture Styler to capture an Altaria. It uses Refresh to help the other Swablu and Altaria, getting them to safety. She says, "I am not sure, but the geomagnetic irregularities have been present.."

"But how did your Capture Styler work?" May asks.

Lillie takes hers and says, "It is sealed against electromagnetism."

Pikachu notices something as they spot a Deoxys emerging from a portal. Ash says, "Deoxys? What are you doing here?"

Deoxys just looks at them and retreats into the portal, much to their confusion.

Solana leads the group to a nearby Pokémon Center and Max asks, "Ash, that was your Deoxys, right?"

"Yeah, maybe it is the reason why all this happened?" Ash asks.

Then Solana mentions it happened before at Larousse City in Hoenn where Professor Lund mentioned that it appeared via a Meteorite. Ash agrees as he also says that it is his Pokemon and they caught it inside the meteorite in space with the help of Rayquaza.

"Maybe those are the pieces that fall down due to the destruction of Meteorite..." Lillie says as they decide to go find out the pieces in the mountains. As they find it, Deoxys is also there as Ash asks, "Deoxys, what's wrong?"

"My Meteorite..." Deoxys touches it and then it changes its form. Then he targets Solana, May and Max with the Psycho Boost, causing them to dodge it.

"Deoxys, calm down, they are not enemies!" Ash yells, Pikachu also uses Thunderbolt, but it switches into Defense Forme. Solana asks, "Ash, do you have the Pokeball?"

"I left it with Father, so I can't recall him." Ash says, he tries to use Aura and finds that it is in pain, but from an unknown reason. So they use Heal Pulse on Deoxys, causing the geomagnetic disturbance level goes down.

"Deoxys, please tell us what's wrong, we are your trainers, we can help you." Ash says.

Then eventually, Deoxys suddenly transports Ash and Lillie into the portal, much to the others surprise. Then Deoxys says, "I am sacred..."

"What are you scared?" Ash asks as he shows his vision in the meteorite before Ash, Lillie and Rayquaza destroy the meteorite. And he says that Ash and Lillie's Pokemon can't understand him as he is lonely.

"I see. Don't worry, they aren't meant to hurt you." Ash says. "It is natural since you are a Pokemon not from here. I am sure that they are willing to be friends with you."

Then suddenly, Deoxys writhes in pain and opens a hole back to the real world as the Pokémon and May's group return to the meteorite, noticing Ash and Lillie in the alternate dimension. Deoxys comes out as another solar wind increases the disturbance. The meteorite begins to sparkle with energy as the geomagnetic reader shorts out. The meteorite is the source of the disturbance and is teeming with energy. The meteorite explodes with energy as everyone runs, getting caught in the explosion.

Everyone winds up outside as the Pokémon wake up the humans. They notice the meteorite energy from outside as the cave. "The Meteroite has so much energy and the solar wind energy combined is causing Deoxys pain."

"So that is why you are in this place." Ash says, "You want to hide from the pain?"

Static discharge clouds appear as the meteorite's energy is lowering the atmospheric pressure and destroying the geomagnetic balance. And the meteorite creates more energy as more atmospheric pressure drops. The meteorite explodes with energy as it begins a chain reaction, harming the wild Pokémon. Deoxys flies around in a rage as Ash and Lillie are stuck. Deoxys continually changes formes, but Deoxys gets hurts from the energy.

"Ash! Lillie!" May, Max, Pikachu, Sylveon, Absol and Persian all help them get out of the portal. Then Ash says, "I think I have to do this now." He uses Teleport back home to get the Pokeball and then recalls Deoxys. But then the meteorite explodes with more energy, consuming the valley. Deoxys suddenly breaks out of his Pokeball and then steps in front of the blast wave and uses Safeguard to stop the wave. The clouds and wind subside as air pressure returns to normal, the disturbance gone.

"Thank you for helping me." Deoxys says. "I want to explore the planet more, so I am going away." Ash nods and they bid farewell to him. The aurora returns as everyone watches. Solana reports in and mentions her mission is complete.


Another beautiful day is upon the Kanto region while our heroes are inside of a Pokémon Center with May preparing herself for the upcoming Mulberry City Pokémon Contest.

"Looks like this is the last contest before the Grand Festival…" Ash sees the poster and says.

"No way… May has to win this or she can't attend…" Lillie says in a worry tone, causing May to be depressed. To make matters worse, Harley comes and says, "So you haven't had 5 ribbons, how sad…"

May then jumps out her seat and says, "You…"

"It is a shame, but it makes me one less rival." Harley deliberately drops his Ribbon case, and as May open it she is stunned to learn that he already has five Ribbons.

"You got 5 ribbons?" Ash asks in surprise.

"Of course. And I will payback for what you did in the last contest." Harley says as he walks away.

"That is it. I am going to win no matter what!" May says as her eyes are burning.

"That is the spirit." Ash says.

The contest starts with the appeal rounds, Jessie also attends this one, so Harley lends her his Pokemon and wants her to not let May win. She makes her appearance with Cacturne. Jessie rotates a carrot into the air as Cacturne extends its needles and dices the vegetable to exact precision as the pieces fall to the ground forming a small structure. The crowd explodes with Jessie and Cacturne's display of skill. Cacturne follows up by releasing an array of small cylindrical objects and ignites the objects with a Bullet Seed attack creating a magnificent shower of sparkle and shine. All three judges show their approval as Harley claps for Jessie cheering her on.

May makes her Contest appearance as she begins to rotate to unleash her Poké Ball, but manages to slip and fall to the ground.

"What?" Ash notices that Meowth and James are using Harley's sticky fluid to make them lose balance.

As Blaziken is unleashed from its Poké Ball, Ariados manages to catch Blaziken causing it to lose its balance and crash to the ground. May runs towards Blaziken but is tripped once again. As Ariados's web grasps onto Blaziken once more.

"That is it. Lillie, I am going to stop the troublemakers." He says as he leaves.

"Troublemakers?" Lillie asks, then he notices Team Rocket.

Pikachu, Absol and Ash begin heading towards the ceiling as May continues her routine. May rotates a circular object into the air as Blaziken blasts into the air to strike but manages to miss its target.

"Pikachu, use Iron Tail, Absol, use Swift!" Ash tries to stop them, but Ariados is tricky enough to cover them with webs.

Blaziken begins rotating at a high speed spewing a Fire Spin attack as the fire begins engulfing Ariados's web and begins climbing towards the ceiling. As James and Meowth continue bickering, the flames finally reach the stadium ceiling and engulf Ariados while James and Meowth move to attempt to put the fire out. The flames spark and dissolve the web around Pikachu and Sylveon's body. Meowth extends his claws and dashes forward while Pikachu counterattacks with a devastating Iron Tail blasting James, Meowth, and Ariados through the stadium ceiling. Blaziken explodes into the air as May throws the Frisbee into the air and Blaziken returns it back to her with a brilliant Sky Uppercut. Blaziken lands elegantly to the ground as the three judges give approval of her first round.

After her performance, May is sitting alone at the resting room.

"I wonder if I can win…" May mutters.

Ash comes to her and says, "I am sorry about what happened, but Harley asks Team Rocket to make you fail by using Ariados."

May then rises her anger. "That guy…"

Ash says, "If you didn't pass, I will give the evidence and asks the judges to give you another chance."

"You can do that?" May asks. Then they notices the screen, May has advances into the contest battles.

"I guess I don't need to." Ash says as May jumps in joy.

In the finals, May face off Jessie, James and Meowth tries to not let the twerps stop their plan, they try to get them locked in a room.

"Hey, let us out of here!" Max says.

"No need. Ash says as he and Lillie teleport them outside.

Then they meet Drew on the way, who tells them that they are going to sabotage May's performance. The gang nods and they go to where they are. Ash sends James and Meowth flying, but Harley runs away pretty fast.

"We can worry him later. Let's go see May's performance." Ash says.

The final round begins commencement as May calls upon her Wartortle and Jessie releases Banette. Banette swiftly goes on the attack with a Thunder hitting Wartortle for direct damage. A small portion of May's points are deducted. Wartortle recovers from the attack and retaliates with an Ice Beam freezing Banette in place. After a few seconds, Banette breaks from the icy prison and responds with a Will-O-Wisp attack. Banette launches another Thunder attack as Wartortle counterattacks with a Bubble Beam attack easily overcoming the Electric-type attack and hits Banette for direct damage. Banette goes on the attack striking Wartortle with Frustration as Wartortle withdraws into its shell to protect itself from further damage. After a few moments, Wartortle goes into a Rapid Spin attack also managing to rotate Banette releasing its grasp on Wartortle. Banette goes on the attack while Wartortle begins rotating throughout the stadium leaving Banette in a confused state. The timer expires with both Jessie and May left with equal point levels.

The battle now moves advances into an extra stage. Banette strikes forward with a Thunder as Wartortle attacks with an Ice Beam. Both Pokémon evade the attacks while Wartortle begins rotating at a high speed while also unleashing a Bubble Beam attack which collides with Banette's Will-O-Wisp attack. Wartortle launches a final Ice Beam managing to freeze Banette into place. As Banette manages to break from the ice, Wartortle begins rotating towards Banette. Just as Banette manages to break from the icy prison, Wartortle clashes with Banette thrusting it towards the ground. Banette collides with the ground and is unable to battle, depleting Jessie's remaining points. The crowd explodes as the Contest concludes and May announced as the winner. She is then awarded the fifth ribbon and Jessie storms off.

"Nice battle, May." Lillie says.

"Thanks, I couldn't have done it without Wartortle." She says as Wartortle starts to evolve into Blastoise.

"A Blastoise!" Max says. "So cool!"

Lillie says, "Yeah. By the way, you have another Pokemon which can mega evolve!"

"Yeah." May nods in agreement.

She notices Drew in the distance and runs to catch him wishing him luck in the Grand Festival. Drew then gives her another Rose as he walks away. Causing May to blush once more.

With an overjoyed May as part of the group, Ash and the others leave Mulberry City as their journey continues.


Then on the way to the Battle Pyramid, Lillie fishes out a Qwilfish at the nearby lake, noticing that both Ash and herself hasn't capture the Pokemon yet, so they capture it in the end.

Johto Dex Entry No.60 Qwilfish: The Balloon Pokemon: Water and Poison Type. When faced with a larger opponent, it swallows as much water as it can to match the opponent's size.

Then they arrive at Pewter City, Ash says, "How about we go meet Brock? We can see how he is doing."

"That is a good idea." Lillie says.

They go to the gym and only find Forest, Brock's brother there.

Forest notices Ash and Lillie and says, "Oh, Ash, Lillie. It is good to see you again, what brings you here?"

Ash says, "Is Brock at home? Since we decide to visit him."

Forrest says, "Oh. I am sorry about that, he has left to the medical school."

Ash is sad that his friend isn't there, but they still get inside and talk to one another. They learns that Nurse Joy came to inspect the gym, which was a crisis to them, but Forrest becomes the gym leader and save the gym.

Ash and his friends are impressed at this, before they leave, they wish him good luck.


"We are here, the Battle Pyramid!" Ash says as they see the said facility.

However, they fall into a hole and plummet into an ancient ruin whose walls are covered in ancient hieroglyphs and pictures of people and Pokémon.

"Where are we?" May asks.

"Look! There is a light source." They then run towards the source.

Ash finds a Pikachu statue and grabs it, even though Max tries to convince him not to, causing the pillar it was resting on the rise and the statue's eyes to glow blue. A nearby wall with an identical depiction of a Pikachu flashes its eyes as well and begins to rise. A giant, spherical boulder begins to pursue the group.

"Ash? Lillie? What are they doing here?" The explorer sighs as he yells, "You guys stay back. Regirock!" The man takes out his legendary and destroy the boulder with a Focus Punch.

Ash and Lillie recognize the man as Brandon, the famous archaeologist that is also Mohn and Adam's friend. He says, "Thank you, Brandon. You saved our lives."

"Noooo!" He says as the gang winces.

"Though it is nice to see you two again, but this ruins are forbidden." Brandon says. "This is the Pokelantis, an ancient kingdom whose king tried to control Ho-Oh as a part of his plan to rule the world. Ho-Oh destroyed the entire kingdom of Pokélantis for the King's wicked attempt. In revenge the King sealed Ho-Oh inside a stone Poké Ball, constructing the very tomb they are currently standing in to seal the Legendary away from the world forever. So what are you doing here?"

Ash says, "We are just trying to get to the Battle Pyramid, but the floor collapses and we fell in here, and that is when some giant ball is chasing us and we found you."

Brandon says, "Then follow me, I'll lead you outside."

They run into the door leading into the King's chamber, which quickly opens, letting them inside, They finds the King's throne under an enormous monument of the King himself and a stone orb shaped like a Poké Ball resting on the seat.

"Hey, what is that?" Ash walks towards the orb.

"No, don't touch it!" Brandon yells, but it is too late. The mysterious object suddenly activates, it levitates in the air as a dark voice chants a spell, enveloping Ash in dark energy. He falls to his knees, still surrounded by a blue and black aura.

"Ash!" Everyone calls out to him.

He slowly gets up and laughs with a deep, sinister voice.

"Finally, I am free. Now hand over all you Pokemon!"

He tries to get his, but Lillie immediately took them away.

"I am the King of Pokelantis, you all should obey me!" He says as he emits another aura.

"That foolish kid, he is being possessed." Brandon curses.

"What should we do?" Minami asks.

Brandon looks at the orb, then he says to the king.

"Your highness. I will challenge you to a battle. If you win, I will let you take my Pokemon."

The king nods as they all go to the Battle Pyramid.

Scott arrives and see Ash looks different, he asks May what happened, May tells him that he is being possessed.

"Go, Regirock." Brandon sends out the legendary Pokemon.

"So I possess a Pokemon. Very well, I should battle myself." The king, possessed Ash's body, walk towards the field.

"Ash is battling himself?" Scott asks.

"Normally Ash won't do it…" Lillie says. "This is really awful..."

Ash uses Blaze Kick, Regirock uses Iron Defense to nullify the attack. The King then uses Bullet Seed, but Iron Defense also nullifies it. With a snide grin, the King fires a Hyper Beam on the ceiling. The attack causes rubble to crash on top of and bury Regirock.

"Hey, Ash won't battle like that!" Max says.

"So you are using the cowardly tactic?" Brandon says.

"I am not a coward!" He yells.

Max thinks Regirock is down and out, but the Rock Peak Pokémon breaks out of its tomb and immediately uses Hyper Beam.

"I will see how you try." The king jumps behind Samuel, the referee, forcing Brandon to stop the attack.

"This is madness… How can we stop him?" Scott asks.

Then Lillie hears something.

"Lillie…"

"Ash, is that you?"

"Tell Pikachu to Thunderbolt me. I don't have Earth Plate, so it will get rid of the king."

"Okay." Lillie nods as the voice faints. He turns to Pikachu and says, "Pikachu, use Thunderbolt on Ash!"

"What?" Pikachu says in shock. But Lillie says, "Trust me and do it."

Pikachu shoots the Attack and make the king flies out of his body.

"You fool…" The King roars as he tries to possess Brandon, but Brandon uses a counter of the spell to banish the King's spirit back to the orb. Ash returns to normal, much to his friends' relief. Brandon admits to Scott that Ash's friends freed him from the spell.

As the sun sets, Brandon faces Ash and his friends.

"Your carelessness and arrogant causes the king to possess you, you are vulnerable." He scolds him.

"I know. But I still wants to battle you fair and square." Ash says.

"We shall be, but not for now. I have plenty more ruins to visit. I will call you once I am finished. You better train hard."

Brandon and Samuel enter the Battle Pyramid, and Scott advises the group to stand back. The Pyramid's corners slide outward and dust begins to be kicked up. The massive structure lifts into the sky on rotors that keep it aloft, allowing Brandon to move to the his next ruins site.

"So you miss the chance…" Lillie says.

"Yeah. But I will face him and win. Right now let's focus on the Grand Festival." He says as they walks in the sunset.


They arrive at a mountain as Ash's hat and May's ribbons are stolen from Aipoms. They chase them and find Team Rocket with a huge Slaking. They first get away since it is too big for them to handle, but then they meet the Aipom who stole his hat. With the help of his Vigoroth, he tells the Aipom that Team Rocket can't be trusted. Then both monkey Pokemon all warn the others.

They go back to the giant Slaking and attack it, it turns out to be a mecha. The Pokemon thinks that they are tricked as they all work together to send Team Rocket flying. May also gets her five ribbons back and Vigoroth also evolves into a Slaking.

"Now I got a Slaking, this is awesome." Ash says as he hugs the Pokemon.

Hoenn Dex Entry No.38 Slaking: The Lazy Pokemon: Normal Type. Evolved from Vigoroth at LV:36. Hordes of Slaking gather around trees when fruits come into season. They wait around patiently for ripened fruits to fall out of the trees.

The monkeys ask Slaking to be their new leader of the team, but Slaking declines as he is Ash's Pokemon, then they bid farewell.

After they hit the road, Ash says, "I think I am missing something."

Then they see his hat, a pink flower and an apple on a rock.

"Wow, looks like Aipom is a cool Pokemon after all." Mark says.

"Yeah." Ash says, they set off again on the road. In a nearby tree, Aipom spies on Ash and smiles.


The next chapter will be the Grand Festival. I hope you enjoy the remake of Ash and Brandon's first battle.

Ash and Lillie's Current Pokemon:

Butterfree x2, Beedrill, Pikachu, Wigglytuff, Persian, Arcanine, Lapras x2, Mewtwo, Mew, Meganium, Crobat, Espeon, Steelix, Qwilfish, Donphan, Ho-Oh, Celebi, Sceptile, Gardevoir, Slaking, Milotic, Tropius, Absol, Metagross, Regirock, Regice, Registeel, Latias, Latios, Lucario, Electivire, Magmortar, Mamoswine, Gallade, Sylveon

In Home:

Venusaur, Blastoise, Pidgeot, Raticate, Fearow, Arbok, Raichu, Sandslash, Nidoqueen, Nidoking, Clefable, Vileplume, Venomoth, Dugtrio, Golduck, Primeape, Poliwrath, Alakazam, Machamp, Victreebel, Tentacruel, Golem, Rapidash, Slowbro, Magneton, Farfetch'd, Dodrio, Muk, Cloyster, Gengar, Hypno, Kingler, Electrode, Exeggutor, Marowak, Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Weezing, Kangaskhan, Seaking, Starmie, Mr. Mime, Jynx, Pinsir, Tauros, Gyarados, Ditto, Omastar, Kabutops, Aerodactyl, Snorlax, Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Dragonite, Typhlosion, Feraligatr, Furret, Noctowl, Ledian, Ariados, Lanturn, Xatu, Ampharos, Bellossom, Azumarill, Sudowoodo, Politoed, Jumpluff, Sunflora, Umbreon, Slowking, Unown x28, Wobbuffet, Girafarig, Forretress, Granbull, Scizor, Shuckle, Heracross, Ursaring, Magcargo, Corsola, Octillery, Delibird, Mantine, Skarmory, Houndoom, Kingdra, Stantler, Smeargle, Hitmontop, Miltank, Raikou, Entei, Suicune, Larvitar, Tyranitar, Lugia, Blaziken, Swampert, Mightyena, Linoone, Beautifly, Dustox, Ludicolo, Shiftry, Swellow, Pelipper, Masquerain, Breloom, Ninjask, Shedinja, Exploud, Hariyama, Nosepass, Delcatty, Sableye, Mawile, Aggron, Medicham, Manectric, Plusle, Minun, Volbeat, Illumise, Swalot, Shapedo, Wailord, Camerrput, Torkoal, Spinda, Flygon, Cacturne, Altaria, Zangoose, Seviper, Lunatone, Solrock, Whiscash, Crawdaunt, Claydol, Cradily, Armaldo, Castform, Banette, Chimecho, Glalie, Walrein, Huntail, Gorebyss, Relicanth, Luvdisc, Salamence, Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, Jirachi, Deoxys, Honchkrow, Weavile, Lickilicky, Rhyperior, Yanmega, Porygon-Z,

In training: Charizard, Charla

May's Current Pokemon:

Blaziken, Beautifly, Delcatty, Venusaur, Munchlax, Blastoise, Eevee