Unova Part 4
During a lunch break on their way to Nacrene City, Ash and his friends catch a pair of Darumaka sneaking off with their food. They eventually learn that these two Darumaka have always gotten along with the people of the nearby town, at least until they recently started stealing food. The group decides to go after them to find out what's going on.
They follow the two Darumaka to an old clock tower, which is slated to be torn down soon. They climb the tower and discover an exhausted Darmanitan, who's using its psychic powers to keep the clock tower's gigantic bell from falling and destroying the entire building. It becomes clear that the two Darumaka have been stealing food to help Darmanitan keep its strength up, but the big Pokémon is running out of energy. With everyone pitching in, the bent hook that once held the bell is quickly repaired, and Darmanitan manages to lift the heavy bell back into place, securing it safely.
After learning how Darmanitan and its Darumaka friends saved the clock tower, the townspeople decide to restore and maintain the old building, and allow the three Pokémon to live there. But one of the Darumaka is fond of Ash and the group, so he decides to join in their team.
Unova Dex Entry No.61 Darumaka: The Zen Charm Pokemon: Fire Type. When it sleeps, it pulls its limbs into its body and its internal fire goes down to 1,100°F.
Then they decide to help out Iris with the Axew training, and they keep showing Axew how to use Dragon Rage several times, but it keeps getting out of control. When Iris asks Ash about how he has a Haxorus, he also reveals that they got it as an Axew in the Dragon Village, and much to Iris' surprise since she didn't know that the two of them have been to the Dragon Village and meet the Elder before.
And then, the four Pokemon wander off into the woods and they run into an angry Scolipede, Iris calls out Excadrill, but it stills not listen to Iris. Causing her Pokemon to sweat drop. Archeops kicks him and tells him to battle Scolipede, he reluctantly agrees and defeat the Pokemon then goes back in his shell.
They arrive at Luxuria Town, Lillie says, "I am going to participate at the contest this time."
"Wow, good for you, Lillie." Ash replies. Golly adds, "You can do it as well."
Cilan says, "Contests, I can see a pretty flavor in those dazzling performances."
Ash, Iris, Golly and Lillie sweat drops at this. When they enter the contest hall, Ash hears someone calling out to him.
"Hey Ash!" They turn around and they are surprised to see Reisa there.
"Reisa? What are you doing here?" Ash asks in shock.
"What, I am here for the Unova Grand Festival of course. I guess you too, right?" Reisa asks.
"Yeah, but Lillie is participating this one." Ash says with a sigh.
"Ash, what takes you… Reisa!" Lillie sees her and hugs her.
"Hi, Lillie. Have you two dating yet?" Reisa decides to tease, and Ash and Lillie blush. "I mean, we did confess..."
Golly says, "Well, enough of the teasing, Reisa."
After greeting Golly, Ash introduces Resia to Iris and Cilan, they are surprised to learn that she is the one that travels with Ash throughout the Johto and Hoenn Region.
At the appeal round, Lillie shows her debut with Snivy, Lillipup and Pidove. Snivy uses Leaf Tornado to accompany Pidove's Whirlwind, then Lillipup Takes Down inside the spiral like move, causing the judges to give a high score.
Cilan says, "She is really good… by the way, Ash. You are a Top Coordinator, right?"
"Yeah. I win 4 Grand Festivals in a row, and I have one ribbon from Accumulate Town." Ash replies.
"Good for you." Cilan says.
Reisa also shows her new Pokemon, an Alomomola, a Frillish and a Lumineon. The three Pokemon shows their water attacks and helps her in the second round. The battle rounds are moving as the final round is Lillie versus Reisa.
"So Lillie, are you ready to show off?" Reisa asks.
"With Ash as my teacher, I won't lose!" Lillie replies.
And much to her words, Lillie has been battling well, and she wins against Reisa in the end and gets her first ribbon.
Back outside, Reisa says, "Ash, Lillie, I also hear that you are Champions of Sinnoh League, congratulations."
"Thanks, Reisa. So how many ribbons do you have?" Ash asks.
"1 only, I guess you two are also one." Reisa says.
"Yeah." Lillie replies, then they bid farewell and Ash's group goes to the Battle Club.
When they are inside, they meet Trip, who still taunts him about Pikachu can't use Electric moves. So Ash challenges him to a 3 on 3 battle.
Trip sends out Tranquil, which is the evolve form of Pidove. Ash sends out Pikachu and starts the Thunderbolt, however Tranquill is able to dodge.
"So it really can use Electric attacks…"
Trip has Tranquill use Work Up. The Flying Pokémon glows red and attacks Pikachu from the front and then the back with its Aerial Ace. Pikachu lies on the ground, but he picks himself up. Triip commands Tranquill to once again, use Aerial Ace. Ash, spotting his attack pattern, asks Pikachu to grab hold of Tranquill's feet. Pikachu takes the hit, but grabs onto Tranquill's feet as it flies by and sends it crashing into the ground. Ash then tells Pikachu to toss Tranquill, and Pikachu responds and swings Tranquill into the air and out of control. Ash then commands a Volt Tackle, and Pikachu immediately powers up and heads straight to Tranquill. Trip screams for Tranquill to dodge, but it's too late and Pikachu scores a direct hit. Both land, and Tranquill is left knocked out and unable to battle allowing Pikachu to win the round.
Trip recalls Tranquill and sends out Servine, the evolution of Snivy. Ash tells Pikachu to use Iron Tail against Servine, and Pikachu powers Iron Tail up. Trip tells Servine to counter with Cut, and Servine speeds along the ground and successfully blocks Iron Tail using the attack. Trip then tells Servine to use Leaf Tornado. The Grass Snake Pokémon whips up a tornado of leaves and grass and hurls it at Pikachu, drawing him into the vortex. As the tornado lands, it smashes Pikachu onto the ground and causes him to lie flat on his belly. Dazed, Pikachu gets up, and Ash tells him to use Volt Tackle. Responding to his Trainer, he gets up, charges himself with electricity and attempts to tackle Servine. However, just as Pikachu was about to hit, Servine side-steps and scores a direct-hit against Pikachu with Cut, taking him out of the battle.
"So now it is a one on one." Iris says.
Ash sends out Infernape next, Trip says, "So you have a fully evolved Pokemon…"
"He has been with me when I travel through Sinnoh." Ash replies.
Servine starts off with Vine Whip, but Infernape blocks the attack and grabs the vine. Then he smashes it into the wall. Then he uses Fire Punch to end Servine.
"I have underestimated you. Frillish!" Trip sends out his last Pokemon. Frillish uses Water Pulse, which has hurt Infernape. Infernape uses Dig, which hits Frillish, but its ability is Curse Body, so Infernape can't Dig anymore.
He uses Water Pulse again, making Infernape confused. Then he uses Hex, causing Infernape to fall onto the ground.
"Poor Infernape…" Iris says.
"No, this is what Ash wants." Lillie says.
Infernape slowly gets up and activates his Blaze ability, causing Trip to get shocked.
"This is what I am waiting for, use Foresight and then Mach Punch!"
Infernape nods and hits Frillish with punches, knocking him out.
Don George, who is the referee, declares that Ash is the winner. Trip recalls his Pokemon and says, "I lose this time." And then he leaves.
Lillie hugs him for his winning, and both Iris and Cilan compliments him. Then they leave the town and keep on going.
Ash and the gang stop to take a lunch break on their way to the Nacrene City Gym. While eating, they notice a Dwebble, but it doesn't have a stone on its back to protect itself from its enemies. They watch as it finds a rock it likes and carefully carves it into the perfect shape. But as soon as the work is finished, three other Dwebble appear and steal the stone away!
Our heroes offer to help Dwebble get its home back from the thieving trio. Dwebble is quite independent and wants to take care of things by itself, but Ash convinces it to let him and his friends even the odds a bit by splitting up the three bullies. Cilan's delicious Pokémon food is the perfect distraction, and Dwebble uses its wits and strength to defeat the villains one by one and reclaim its rock home! Ash also decides to capture one of the Dwebble after seeing how strong it is.
Unova Dex Entry No.64 Dwebble: The Rock Inn Pokemon: Bug and Rock Type. When it finds a stone of a suitable size, it secretes a liquid from its mouth to open up a hole to crawl into.
After celebrating with the happy Dwebble, our heroes are ready to say farewell and move on…but soon discover that Dwebble is following them. It seems Dwebble bonded with Cilan and his Pansage during their adventure and now wants to join the team—and Cilan is delighted to have such a clever Pokémon on his side!
Then they arrive at the Kindergarten, which is near the Breeding House. They met a teacher who has trouble with the kids, since the kids wants Trubbish to be in the kindergarten and the teacher disagrees. Ash and Lillie decide to talk to the children and they learn about how lonely Trubbish is and how they want to keep it so badly, so Ash asks them to try battling with Trubbish as he uses Sandile to battle. In the end, Ash and Lillie see their motivation and they side with them.
Eventually, the teacher finally agree to let Trubbish stay. As for the thank you gift, Ash and Lillie receive 3 eggs from the Day Care which is nearby the kindergarten.
They meet up with Nate and Rosa again, they are shocked to see Cilan and Iris traveling with them, after that, they also introduce themselves to them. But before they can continue with their chatting, a girl named Bianca comes to them, she says that she is Professor Juniper's assistant and she is here to send the badge cases to them. After that, she leaves them and went back to the Professor's lab.
"Wow, this Badge Case is dirty..." Ash mutters.
"I wonder what did she put this with." Nate says, and much to their surprise, the badge case was stolen by a Minccino, and they go chase the Pokemon, with Pikachu in the lead, but in the end, both the Minccino and the Pikachu are out of their sight.
"Wow, that sure is a fast Minccino." Ash says. "I think I want to capture it."
"Me too." Lillie says.
They find the Pokémon with its tail out. The Pokémon is seen rubbing the Badge case. Pikachu tries to attack it to get the badge case back, but it just swiftly dodges. Not only that, it keeps using Tail Slap at Pikachu, and it always hits.
"I see that Pokemon has Skill Link as its ability." Rosa says.
"That is a strong ability if you ask me." Ash says.
After Pikachu was being hit back to the ground, Minccino also takes the badge case and leaves.
"Now what should we do?" Golly asks, and Ash comes up with an idea, as he asks Cilan to give him a spoon, and he makes it dirty, much to Cilan's dismay.
"So Minccino will be lured because it can't resist to clean dirty things." Iris says. "Good plan."
Using a stick, a rope and a pan, she puts the dirty spoon under it. Minccino takes the bait and she pulls the rope, which drops the pan on Minccino. Minccino then leaves with the pan over its head.
"Oh man, we still need to defeat it." Ash says as this time he tries to use Snivy, but Minccino uses Attract and it hits Sylveon, causing her to have hearts on her eyes.
"What the...that is a male one?" Ash asks in shock, "Pikachu, go calm down Zorua, I am not going to let it go."
Pikachu nods as he sweat drops at how Sylveon is acting, and Ash has Zorua to use some tricks, in the end, Minccino was defeated, but it was about to run away again until Ash accidentally drops the Pokeball into the mud, causing it to be dirty. Minccino rushes towards the Pokeball and tries to clean it, only to be captured.
"What just happened..." Nate asks as everyone was baffled by the scene. "I think we caught a Minccino?" Lillie says.
Unova Dex Entry No.79 Minccino: The Chinchilla Pokemon: Normal Type. Minccino greet each other by grooming one another thoroughly with their tails.
Ash also gets the Badge case back, and then Rosa asks, "So Ash, how many badges do you have?"
"I only got one Badge, but I also got one Ribbon as well." Ash says. "What about you?"
"I got two of them already." Rosa says. "By the way, I heard that Reisa is also here challenging the Contests as well. Guess that you two are going to be rivals again?"
"We already met her back in Luxuria Town." Ash says, after that, they decide to bid farewell as they continue their journey.
As the story will be the plot of Black 2 White 2, Bianca won't participate in the league, instead, she will be helping the Professor. And Rosa will be her replacement. Nate won't be in the league either, he just wants to travel with his sister since they want to stop their evil father from taking over Unova. And Reisa is back for being Ash and Lillie's Unova Contest rival, how would she do this time against the two of them?
Ash and Lillie's Pokemon:
Butterfree x2, Pikachu, Lapras x2, Mewtwo, Mew, Meganium, Espeon, Steelix, Ho-Oh, Celebi, Sceptile, Gardevoir, Milotic, Latias, Latios, Infernape, Lucario x2, Glaceon, Manaphy, Shaymin, Tepig, Oshawott, Patrat, Lillipup, Musharna, Pidove, Sandile, Darumaka, Dwebble, Zorua, Zoroark, Minccino, Deerling, Alomomola, Haxorus, Zekrom, Sylveon
In Home:
Venusaur, Blastoise, Beedrill, Pidgeot, Raticate, Fearow, Arbok, Raichu, Sandslash, Nidoqueen, Nidoking, Clefable, Wigglytuff, Vileplume, Venomoth, Dugtrio, Persian, Golduck, Primeape, Arcanine, Poliwrath, Alakazam, Machamp, Victreebel, Tentacruel, Golem, Rapidash, Slowbro, Farfetch'd, Dodrio, Dewgong, 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, Crobat, Lanturn, Xatu, Ampharos, Bellossom, Azumarill, Sudowoodo, Politoed, Jumpluff, Sunflora, Umbreon, Slowking, Unown x28, Wobbuffet, Girafarig, Forretress, Granbull, Qwilfish, Scizor, Shuckle, Heracross, Ursaring, Magcargo, Corsola, Octillery, Delibird, Mantine, Skarmory, Houndoom, Kingdra, Donphan, Stantler, Smeargle, Hitmontop, Miltank, Blissey, Raikou, Entei, Suicune, Larvitar, Tyranitar, Lugia, Blaziken, Swampert, Mightyena, Linoone, Beautifly, Dustox, Ludicolo, Shiftry, Swellow, Pelipper, Masquerain, Breloom, Slaking, Ninjask, Shedinja, Exploud, Hariyama, 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, Tropius, Chimecho, Absol, Glalie, Walrein, Huntail, Gorebyss, Relicanth, Luvdisc, Salamence, Metagross, Regirock, Regice, Registeel, Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, Jirachi, Deoxys, Torterra, Empoleon, Staraptor, Bibarel, Kricketune, Luxray, Roserade, Rampardos, Bastiodon, Wormadam, Mothim, Combee, Vespiquen, Pachirisu, Floatzel, Cherrim, Gastrodon x2, Drifblim, Lopunny, Mismagius, Honchkrow, Purugly, Skuntank, Bronzong, Chatot, Spiritomb, Garchomp, Hippowdon, Drapion, Toxicroak, Carnivine, Lumineon, Abomasnow, Weavile, Magnezone, Lickilicky, Rhyperior, Tangrowth, Electivire, Magmortar, Togekiss, Yanmega, Leafeon, Gliscor, Mamoswine, Porygon-Z, Gallade, Probopass, Dusknoir, Froslass x2, Rotom, Uxie, Mesprit, Azelf, Dialga, Palkia, Heatran, Regigigas, Giratina, Cresselia, Phione, Darkrai
In training: Charizard, Charla, Ambipom
Golly's Pokemon:
Haunter, Dusclops
Iris' Pokemon:
Axew, Haxorus, Hydreigon, Druddigon, Archeops, Excadrill
Cilan's Pokemon:
Pansage, Dwebble