Hello again, and welcome back to another chapter of Ash's Unova Journey My version. Before we start, I wanted to say I'm surprised that not many of you are reviewing, and at times I felt like that many of my readers aren't enjoying this or reading this anymore. Yes, I have changed my writing style. Yes, I have done spelling fixes, but it's still the same story. While I always get some requests, as I said, I only have so much left. Most of the one's that I mentioned will either be separate or together in the same chapter with each other I probably have like 12 more slots open, so please, if you could cause once we reach past the 6th gym battle, the requests will end and won't be available for this story until Kalos starts which I already got a suggestion. I also wanted to apologize for not getting this chapter out last week as I've been moving for the previous few weeks to help out my grandmother, who is going through a lot of pain medically wise I won't pry or force my life stories on you all so let's get started.

Chapter 35: Sibling Rivalry

' For Pokespeak

" For Human speech

As the battle between Trip and Matt is about to begin as everyone was waiting and watching in eagerness, especially Team Rocket's Buizel, who can tell that Matt's Servine has made his decision about where his loyalties lie, and it isn't with Matt.

"It is determined that Matt will have the first move between the two trainer's when he's ready," the Referee said, as Matt nodded and looked to Trip. "Let's get started, Servine use leaf blade," Matts said as his Serivne as his grass starter powered up his tail and charged straight at Trip's Servine. "Counter with your Leaf Blade servine," Trip commanded as his Servine dodged at the last minute and slammed his tail at his brother in the chin sending him back. Trip's Servine wasn't messing around. He wanted to end this battle quickly to get to the truth. As Matt's Servine hissed at this, "That was a low blow, little brother, but you're just delaying my victory," Matt's Servine growled.

"Man, Matt's Servine sounds like he has a grudge on you and his brother there. What happened?" Ash asked Dewott, who just shook his head. 'No clue, but whatever it is, Trip's Servine is determined to beat him and find out about it,' Ash's Dewott said as his older sister was looking at the tone of his voice and how much he hated Matt's Servine. As she noticed something about Trip's Servine that caught her attention, 'Not sure if you care, but I just noticed that Trip's Servine is showing signs that he might evolve at any point.' Which made Dewott's ear twitch upon hearing this 'Well, I guess you have a keen eye for things, sis' as the tone of what he said just sounded like that was the one thing that he didn't want to hear or something of that sort which Ash also caught. 'Man Dewott isn't happy with Trip's Servine. I knew that the two have history, but it seems. Like there's more to him evolving than he's letting on,' Ash thought as he watches the battle.

As it looks like the two grass starters are even in strength. "Use aerial ace," Trip commanded his Servine to do, which caught both Matt and his Servine off guard, as Trip's Servine did as told as he charged in. "Use leaf storm quickly," Matt commands as it did its job preventing Trips servine from getting closer as Ash noticed that there was malice in that move.

"Trip. His Servine is out for blood. Better do something before it's too late," Ash yelled out to him, which caught both him and Matt off guard. "Servine, stop it now. Please, this is a battle, not a personal grudge match. It'll cost me my trainer's license," Matt tries to say to his pokemon. "Use Leaf blade, and Aerial ace stops it now Servine," Trip said, which it did as commanded, destroying the Leaf storm as Matt's Servine landed on his back hard as he struggles to get up as he had anger in his eyes not just towards his brother but his trainer. Buizel was right. His trainer is slowing him down. "End this Aerial ace" As Trip's Servine charges in, "Dodge it quickly," Matt said. "Aerial Ace is a non-miss move dodging isn't an option," Trip said as the move landed, hard-knocking Matt's Servine out. Much to Matt's dismay.

"Matt's Servine is unable to battle, and the trainer that's moving on to the next round is Trip." The Referee said that as Matt was surprised by this, he wasn't hoping that this battle wouldn't end like this as he ran over to his starter. Just as Trip's Servine started to glow but nothing after that as if he was preventing his evolution from happening, Ash's Dewott noticed this and narrowed his eyes at Trip's Servine as Trip and Servine left. As Buizel saw this and smirked at this, he went in the direction that Matt went.

"Nicely done, Servine, surprised that you didn't want to evolve during that battle or the end of it." Trip said, which made Servine nod, 'I have my reasons why I don't want to at the moment. But first I need answers, ' Trip's servine said. As he ran in the direction that Matt's Servine went.

As he arrived just in time to see Matt questioning his starter, he refused not to answer as he walked off. 'You may not want to answer, him, but you'll answer to me, brother.' Trip's servine questioned. 'Ugh, fine, but you'll get nothing much out of me,' Matt's Servine said. As Ash and Trip arrived, as did Buizel, 'What's your problem with Dewott, it's not just now, and I know it's not just because he's friends with Snivy,' Trip's Servine said, 'You seriously don't get it do you brother. I'm referring to your relationship with Dewott.' He retorted, which Trip's Servine was taken aback by this.

'Everyone at the lab was talking about only you two saying he's more of a brother than I was, and you always hung out with him never once thought that I was the only family you had at the time?' As he clenched his leafy-like hand. 'That doesn't excuse this attitude toward him nor me,' Trip's Servine said hurt. But what his brother said next puts the nail in the coffin to his relationship with his brother. 'Did you ever consider how every Pokemon at the lab found out about Dewott's little secret, or should I say his phobia?' Which had caught not only Trip's Servine off guard but also Ash and Trip. 'You didn't,' Trip's Servine said as a vine gashed Trip's Servine's eye slightly. 'You got your answer, brother. Now, if you excuse me, I should be going' As he turned around to notice that Matt was watching this. Still, he didn't care as he heads to Buizel, which Ash saw. "You have something to do with this Buizel turning brother's against each other," Ash said, which Buizel shook his head. 'No, but I was the driving force to his anger towards his brother.' Buizel retorted as he turned to Matt's Servine. 'It seems like you did the one thing that no good pokemon should do, wounding a pokemon beyond fixing. Well played. But I came here for him not to argue or fight but know this the next time you see this Servine. He won't be the same brother you know anymore,' He said as Matt's Servine tries to return him as Buizel sent a sonic boom at the Pokeball, destroying it. 'There, you are no longer bound by him anymore. Let's go,' Buizel said as he and Servine disappeared before Ash and the others can say anything.

As Matt dropped to his knees in tears as Trip's Servine was holding his left eye in pain, "Why? Why did this happen?" Matt asked in tears. "Don't know, but that Buizel means business," Trip said. "You don't know the half of it that Buizel belongs to Team Rocket," Ash said, which caught the two trainers off guard. "You mean the Pokemon thieves." Trip asked which Ash nodded. "Yeah, according to what I heard, he's the top pokemon of the team for the" Matt Interrupted. "I need to get him back." Ash nods. "I understand, but he's probably with them by now, turning him against you more. Right now, we need to figure out where?" Trip interjects, "I hate to say it, but until we find out, we can't do anything but continue the battle club." Which made the two trainers nod at this statement; as much as they wanted to get back at them, there's nothing they can do. Ash knew that he would have to ask Emolga about this before the tournament ends.

Well, this is a slight twist to the competition, as Team rocket has taken another pokemon to their collection. What else planned does Team rocket for the group, and are they after more pokemon at the competition or just this one, as the battle club continues.

Stay tuned

And done yeah, that happened, but don't worry, this is the only appearance for team rocket for the rest of the competition. As for Dewott, as I said, this is just the beginning for the two starters, and I will have more coming up. The next chapter is Misty and Brock's battle's in one chapter. See you guys next time.