Ash's Pokemon Journey

Summary: This story is about how I think that ash's journey should have gone through, Kanto, Orange Islands, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh and Unova. Smart, a psychic and an Aura user (He'll find out about being a psyphic and Aura user later). I do not own pokemon.

Chapter 4

Pewter City and Mt Moon

Travelling through the forest was quite a time for Ash and Misty. Apart from Misty being afraid from bugs, Viridian Forest was so big so getting lost was easily, but they finally made it to Pewter City. Some good things happened though; Ash caught a caterpie and weedle, they made a new friend, Samurai, and when Ash trained his pokemon some more caterpie evolved to metapod, then to butterfree, weedle evolved to kakuna, then to beedrill and pidgey evolved to pidgeotto.

When they reached Pewter City they were tired and exhausted. "Phew," Ash sighed "I thought that we were never going to get out of that forest". "Me too, I'm just glad we're away from those bugs at last" said Misty. They headed straight for the pokemon center to get some rest.

Ash gave his pokemon to Nurse Joy right away, to make sure that his pokemon were in tip top shape for the gym battle. "Thank you Nurse Joy" he said. "Think nothing of it Ash" said Nurse Joy. "Huh, how do you know my name?" asked Ash "this isn't Viridian City". "My sister told me about you," replied Nurse Joy "she even told me about the encounter with Team Rocket. Oh and there's a poster on the wall beside me you should see". The poster said that the Indigo league was going to be held this year. "Wow I am so entering this tournament" said Ash.

While's Ash's pokemon were recovering, he and Misty were having a meal at a nearby café. "So you're going to enter pokemon indigo league?" asked Misty. "Of course," answered Ash "I've always wanted to enter that, so now's my chance". "Will you be all right?" asked Misty "I mean you will need to earn eight gym badges and the gym leaders can be very strong you know". "Don't worry Misty," said Ash "I know how this entire thing works. Besides I looked up about the gym leaders before I left home. So I know the Pewter Gym uses rock type and don't forget I have been training my pokemon for this". Misty was impressed with Ash; she thought he would be one of those typical little kids, but Ash wasn't at all. "So what are you going to do about this gym?" she asked. "You will have to wait and see" replied Ash, with a smile. He didn't want to reveal his battle strategy to Misty until they got to the gym.

After finishing their meal at the restaurant, Ash and Misty headed right for the Pewter Gym. The Pewter Gym was a building made out of stone. "Well here I go" said Ash, he opened the gym door. "Who goes there?" said a voice from inside the gym. "My name is Ash," Ash spoke up "and I'm here for a gym battle to win your badge". "Very well," said the voice "I'm the gym leader Brock and I accepted your challenge". Brock led Ash to the battlefield; the battlefield was a sandy floor with big pointy rocks on it. Misty walked to the side lines to watch.

"This battle is between Brock the Pewter Gym leader and Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town," said the referee, which Brock introduced was his brother Forrest, "both challengers will use two pokemon each. And who defeats both two pokemon first wins. Let the battle begin!" "All right, pidgeotto I choose you!" shouted Ash. 'A pidgeotto?' thought Brock 'that's a really big mistake. Surely this kid knows that rock beat flying'. "Okay go Geodude!" he shouted.

Ash looked up geodude on his pokedex: Geodude, the rock pokemon. Geodude is often found on mountain roads with half of its body buried in the ground so it can observe mountain travelers.

Brock ordered his geodude to do a rock throw, but Ash told his pidgeotto to use aerial ace to dodge the rocks. Ash told pidgeotto to use sand attack to slow down geodude. Then he told pidgeotto to use steel wing continuously on geodude. After being hit by pidgeotto's steel wing six times, geodude fainted. "Geodude is unable to battle," said Forrest "this battle goes to pidgeotto". Brock was amazed with Ash. 'He taught his pokemon a move that beats rock types,' he thought 'this kid is good'. "Okay geodude return," said Brock "go onix!"

Ash also checked about onix: Onix, the rock snake pokemon. By twisting its large and powerful body, Onix can quickly bore through the ground at fifty miles per hour.

"Pidgeotto return," said Ash, he wanted to give Pikachu a turn, "Pikachu I choose you!" Brock knew that electric types don't work on rock, but after battling pidgeotto, he knew that he mustn't underestimate Ash. Brock ordered onix to use tackle on Pikachu, but Ash told Pikachu to use agility to dodge. Brock then told onix to use bind to grab Pikachu. But thanks to agility Pikachu managed to dodge onix's tail and ran up onix's body. "Pikachu use iron tail really hard!" shouted Ash. Pikachu's iron tail attack hit onix so hard; it was like hitting a boulder with a sledge hammer. Onix became in great pain because of that. "Pikachu iron tail one more time!" shouted Ash. Pikachu did and that knocked out onix at once. "Onix is unable to battle," said Forrest "Pikachu is the winner. Therefore the winner of this gym battle is Ash." "All right we did it" cheered Ash. "Pipikacku!" cheered Pikachu.

When the gym battle was over Brock shook hands with Ash. "Ash you gave me a great battle," said Brock "usually people use water and grass pokemon to defeat me. But you used an electric and flying type to defeat me". "Well I have learnt that steel type moves defeat rock types," said Ash "so I decided to teach Pikachu and spearow steel type moves". "You have studied well," said Brock therefore I give you the boulder badge". The boulder was a grey badge, in the shape of an octagon. "Thank you Brock," said Ash, claiming the badge, "all right I got the boulder badge!" "Pipikachu" cheered Pikachu.

After having Pikachu and pidgeotto checked up at the pokemon center, Ash and Misty decided to leave Pewter City now to head for Ash's next gym battle. "I was amazed by that battle Ash," said Misty "I mean I thought that you would have trouble with that gym match. I mean I know you do have a water type, but magikarp wouldn't have been able to do anything. But having taught Pikachu iron tail and pidgeotto steel wing was really smart". "Well Misty," said Ash "I did say that I was prepared for that, besides being prepared is important when travelling on a journey". "Absolutely" said Misty, with a smile. Ash seemed smarter than Misty thought he would be.

Ash and Misty were about to leave when they heard a voice. "Hey Ash, Misty wait up!" It was Brock. "Brock what are you doing here?" asked Ash. "I'm coming with you two on your journey" answered Brock. "But what about the gym?" asked Misty. "Don't worry," said Brock "my dad, who is the real gym leader of Pewter Gym, just got out of hospital and is fit enough to take control of the gym again. And my mum and nine little brothers and sisters going to help him. So is it all right if I come with you guys?" Ash and Misty looked at each other, then with a smile they said "of course" and "welcome aboard" to Brock together.

So now the journey continued with Ash, Misty and Brock together.

With the boulder in his possession Ash was excited to get his second badge. Right now he was looking at the map that he brought with him. "It says on this map that with have to pass through Mt. Moon to get to the next city" he said. "Mt. Moon?" said Misty "that sounds romantic". "I've heard of that," said Brock "people say that a very long time ago a meteor crashed into that mountain". "Really?" said Misty "is that true?" "I'm not sure," Brock answered "but the meteor is called the moonstone". "Ah I've heard of the moonstone," said Ash "it makes clefairy evolve into clefable and jigglypuff evolve into wigglytuff". "So the moonstone is an evolutionairy stone?" asked Misty. "If it makes some pokemon evolve, than it must be" said Ash.

Just then a scream was heard in the distance. "What was that?" gasped Ash. "Sounds like someone is in trouble," said Brock "we better check it out". They ran to the source of the screaming. A man was being attacked by, what looked like, a bunch of bats. Ash looked at his pokedex: Zubat, the bat pokemon. It checks its surroundings and location using reflections of the ultrasonic waves from its mouth. "That guy is in trouble," said Ash "quick Pikachu use thunderbolt". Pikachu's thunderbolt made the zubat leave in a real hurry. "Oh thank you so much," said the man "those zubat were crazy. I'm Seimour a scientist and researcher" "I'm Ash" said Ash. "I'm Brock" said Brock. "I'm Misty," said Misty "so what happened? And why did those zubat attack you?" "Well it's because of this" said Seimour, pointing at the cave. Inside the cave there were lots of lights hanging on the walls. "These lights are the reason why" Seimour explained. "It doesn't surprise me really," said Brock "zubat don't like the light very much". "And it's not just zubat that is lights are causing trouble for," said Seimour "it's making trouble for all the pokemon. Paras are planting their mushrooms everywhere and are drying up the sandshrew".

Ash took a good look at the sandshrew. One of the sandshrew was so thirsty; it was panting like crazy. Ash felt sorry for it and took out his water canteen. "Here little guy drink this" he said, holding his canteen to the sandshrew. Sandshrew looked at Ash for a few seconds then accepted the water. Misty and Brock smiled at their friend's kindness. "You're a nice boy," said Seimour, with a smile, "the reason why I'm here is because to protect Mt. Moon from trouble makers". "What are troublemakers doing here?" asked Misty. "Because of the moonstone," explained Seimour "since the meteor is millions of years old and is said to process special powers, they want to take it for themselves". "That is horrible" said Ash. "I agree with that" said Misty.

Suddenly Brock saw a pink pokemon hopping around. "Hey look it's a clefairy" said Brock. "Ah it's so cute," said Misty. Ash noticed the clefairy was holding something. "Hey that's a moonstone it's holding" he said. "You're right," said Seimour "I know if we follow that clefairy it might lead us to the meteorite". Ash, Misty and Brock thought that was a great idea and they all went to follow the clefairy. The sandshrew decided to follow too; it didn't want Ash to leave.

While following clefairy; they noticed more and more lights. "These lights must be all over Mt. Moon" said Ash. "Who's ever doing this is causing a lot of trouble" said Misty. "Did I hear the word trouble?" asked a woman's voice. "If you want trouble we'll give it to you" said a man's voice.

"Prepare for trouble," said the woman.

"Make it double", said the man.

"To protect the world from devastation,"

"To unite all people within our nation,"

"To denounce the evils of truth and love,"

"To extend our reach to the stars above,"

"Jessie,"

"James,"

"Team Rocket blasting off at the speed of light,"

"Surrender now and prepare to fight,"

"Meowth that's right" said meowth.

Clefairy hid behind Ash in fright. "I remember you three," said Ash "you are who we met back at Viridian City". "We haven't forgotten about you twerp," said Jessie "but we have no time for you". "That's right" said meowth "we are here for the moonstone". "So you three are the ones who put up all these lights?" said Brock. "Of course," said James "we need the lights to find the moonstone". "You crooks!" shouted Seimour "the lights are confusing all the pokemon". "What a shame," said Jessie, with a smirk "that's too bad". "You won't get away with this!" shouted Brock "if it's a rock you want, just take one and get lost!" "Get lost? How rude!" shouted Jessie "you twerps need to be taught some manners". Jessie and James released ekans and koffing from their pokeballs.

As Ash didn't have the chance to scan ekans and koffing last time, he decided to do it now: Ekans, the snake pokemon. It sneaks through grass without making a sound and strikes unsuspecting prey from behind. Koffing, the poison gas pokemon. It hovers in the air, thanks to the poisonous gases it contains, which have a foul odor and can explode.

"If it's a battle you want we'll give you one," said Ash "butterfree I choose you". "Go zubat" said Brock. Ash was surprised that Brock had a zubat. "I caught it before we entered the cave" he explained. Ash told Seimour and Misty to escape and protect the clefairy. He also told sandshrew to do the same. Misty and Seimour nodded and ran off with clefairy and sandshrew. "All right koffing use smog attack!" shouted James. Koffing started to blow gas out of its mouth. "Quick zubat use double team and wing attack to blow the smog away" said Brock. The double team and wing attack worked and the gas spray floated to team rocket. "Ekans use bite on those pokemon" said Jessie. "Butterfree use psybeam" said Ash. As psychic type moves beat poison type, ekans was in a lot of pain. "Zubat use supersonic" said Brock. Ekans and koffing became cofused because of zubat's attack and began fighting each other. Team Rocket was not happy with that. "Now butterfree use gust to blow them away," said Ash. The gust blew away Team Rocket and their pokemon in an instant. "Team Rocket's blasting off again!" shouted Jessie and James. Brock and Ash was just about to celebrate their victory; when they noticed something. "Wait I didn't notice meowth with them" said Ash. "Neither did I," said Brock "we better find Misty and Seimour right away".

Meanwhile Misty and Seimour were chasing clefairy, who was jumping like mental. "Please slow down," said Misty "we can't keep up with you". Just then meowth popped out in front of clefairy. "There you are" it said "now be a nice clefairy and give me the moonstone". Clefairy quivered in fear. "Leave that clefairy alone!" shouted Seimour. "No chance" said meowth. It took out its claws. "Face my scratch attack". "Not so fast meowth!" shouted Misty. She sent out her staryu. "Staryu use swift attack". Staryu's swift attack made meowth yelp in pain and stop it in its tracks. "Now use your water gun". The water gun made meowth blast off. "Is everyone okay" said Ash, who just arrived with Brock at the scene. "Yep everything is okay" said Misty. Sandshrew was happy to see Ash and ran up to him. "I'm glad to see you're okay sandshrew" said Ash, kneeling down to it and rubbing its head. Clefairy watched sandshrew bond with Ash in interest.

Sunset came and everyone was sitting by a camp fire and having something to eat. Ash saw Brock feed zubat something. "Hey Brock what are you feeding zubat?" he asked. "This is pokemon food I made from my own recipe" explained Brock. Ash gave some of Brock's food to butterfree and Pikachu. "Do you mind teaching me how to make pokemon food?" Ash asked Brock. "Of course," said Brock "I'll start teaching you when we reach the next city".

Sandshrew and clefairy were speaking to each other in pokelanguage. Sandshrew said to clefairy that it decided to go with Ash. Clefairy stared at Ash and decided it wanted to go with him too. Ash, who had been watching sandshrew and clefairy, checked out his pokedex: Sandshrew, the mouse pokemon. Disliking water, it lives in deep burrows in arid areas. It can roll itself instantly into a ball. Clefairy, the fairy pokemon. On nights with a full moon, Clefairy gather from all over and dance. Bathing in moonlight makes them float. Just then clefairy got up, called out to everyone and begun hopping into the cave. "I think that clefairy wants us to follow it" said Seimour. So Ash, Misty, Brock and Seimour did.

Clefairy led them to a crater of the cave. Sunset had become night time and a full moon was out. In the middle of the crater was a giant rock with lots of clefairy round it. "It's the moonstone," said Seimour "and all the clefairy have gathered around". Just then the clefairy put its moon stone with the other small moonstones. Once that piece was with the others, both the big and small moonstones began to glow and the clefairy began dancing around the moonstone. "Wow what a sight," said Misty "I wonder what they are doing". Sandshrew spoke to Ash to tell him what clefairy told him. "I see," said Ash "sandshrew just said that clefairy pray to the moonstone, so that some of them will evolve to Clefable." "So the moonstone is an giant evolutionary stone," said Seimour "what a wonderful sight. I have always wanted to see this".

Just then an explosion came out from under the ground. "What just happened?" shouted Seimour. Laughter was then heard. "Oh no not them again" said Ash. "Thank you for helping us find the moonstone" chuckled Jessie "now we will take for ourselves". "You can't do that!" shouted Seimour. "We can and we will" smirked James. More explosions set off and when the smoke was clear the moonstone was gone. "Oh no," said Seimour "we must get the moonstone back". "Maybe that big hole will lead us to them," said Brock "let's go onix". Brock told onix to lead the hole tunnel Team Rocket left behind, then the group followed onix, as well as clefairy and sandshrew.

Team Rocket was sliding down the mountain on a sledge, with the moonstone. They believed they had succeeded, when suddenly onix came out of the ground and stopped them. "Hold it right there Team Rocket!" shouted Ash "you're not taking the moonstone anywhere!" Team Rocket was angry and was just about to call out their pokemon when clefairy turned up. Clefairy was not happy that Team Rocket and began to wave their arms about. "That's the attack called the metronome," explained Seimour "it makes clefairy do an attack, but you can never tell what attack they will do". The metronome became a hyper beam attack and sent Team Rocket blasting off again.

Everyone was happy that the moonstone was safe at last. Just then chips from the giant moonstone, which broke off during the attack, came falling out of the sky and landed on some of the clefairy. The clefairy, who the moonstone touched, began glowing and turned into clefable. "See," said Ash "I told you that the moonstone turns clefairy into clefable". Misty, Brock and Seimour agreed to that. Ash looked at his pokedex: Clefable, the fairy pokemon. The evolved form of clefairy. These unique creatures are among the rarest Pokémon in the world.

When next morning came Ash, Brock and Misty decided it was now time to leave. Seimour had decided to stay at Mt. Moon to study the moonstone a bit more. "After last night," he said "I feel like there is more I need to know". Ash, Brock and Misty understood that and bid farewell to him and the clefairy and clefable. Just as they were about to leave sandshrew and a clefable walked up to Ash. "What's wrong you two?" he asked. They nuzzled his legs. "I think these two want to go with you Ash" said Brock. "Really?" asked Ash "you two want to come with me?" Sandshrew and clefable nodded. Ash took out two pokeballs and tapped them on sandshrew and clefable. Three seconds later they were caught. "Wow I have two new pokemon" Ash said, with a smile.

Ash, Brock and Misty were now walking along a path, when they saw a sign. It read: Cerulean City. "I can get my second badge there" said Ash. Then he noticed that something else was on the sign: Gary was here, Ash is a loser. "Oh really," said Ash "well we'll see who the loser is at the Indigo League". Then he just walked calmly on, with Misty and Brock beside him.

I didn't like Flint's and Lola's attitude in the anime, so I changed them. And I didn't like Seimour's attitude either.