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.
Note: I am not doing the Kalos Region. So fairy pokemon don't exist.
Chapter 41
The Naughty Murkrow, the Dunsparce
Swarm and Brock's sick day
Today the gang were taking a nice break near a stream. They were now heading for a city called Olivine City, where Ash could get his next badge. Brock was setting up lunch, Misty was helping him, Tomo was playing with Pikachu, Growlithe and Togepi and Ash was polishing his gym badges. Ash was becoming excited about his badges; he already had four and just needed another four to get into the Johto league. "You certainly look happy when you're polishing your badges Ash" said Misty, who had been watching him. "Of course I am Misty," said Ash "after all I only do need four more badges to get into the league". Misty couldn't argue with Ash there.
Just then Tomo saw something sticking out from a bush. It was some black feathers. "Hey, what's that?" Tomo asked Ash. Before Tomo's question could be answered, a black bird pokemon popped out from the bush. "That's a Murkrow" said Brock.
Ash took out his pokedex: Murkrow, the darkness pokemon. It appears near travellers to lure them into deep forests. It is said to carry misfortune.
Ash gathered up his four badges. "What are you doing Ash?" asked Misty. "I've heard of Murkrow, they love shiny things and they steal them from people," Ash explained "so I suggest you guys hide your shiny things, otherwise they'll get nicked by that Murkrow".
After hearing Ash's explanation, Misty and Brock started to gather up all the shiny things so that they wouldn't get stolen. Except, one shiny was still lying about on the ground; it was one of Brock's little spoons. The Murkrow saw it, picked it up in its beak and flew off with it. "Hey give that back!" shouted Brock, and he ran after it. Ash, Misty and Tomo packed up all the rest of the stuff, before any more of them got lost. "Brock sure is upset over a loss of a spoon" said Misty. "Well don't forget Misty, Brock hates it when someone or something takes his things," said Ash "besides you don't like it either when your stuff is taken". "You're actually Ash, I don't" said Misty.
After picking up all the stuff, Ash, Tomo and Misty caught up with Brock. Brock was now by a cliff and the Murkrow was standing at the top of it, with a big nest beside it. The gang noticed a lot of sparkles coming from the top of the cliff. "That Murkrow must have taken things from other people as well" said Misty. "Well I did say that Murkrow were the thieving type of flying pokemon" said Ash. Brock took out a pokeball from his pocket. "I'm getting my spoon back" he said, and sent out Golbat to retrieve the spoon from Murkrow.
Once Golbat flew to where Murkrow's nest was, Murkrow saw Golbat and started to pick a fight with him. "Use air cutter Golbat" said Brock. Golbat opened his mouth and then light blue S shaped energy disks flew out and headed towards Murkrow. Murkrow flew up to dodge the attack and then flapped its wings, and a cold wind blew out of them. "That Murkrow knows icy wind" said Ash. The icy wind hit Golbat; being an ice type move, Golbat couldn't stand the attack. Then Murkrow's beak turned white and began to spin. "Oh no," said Ash "that Murkrow knows drill peck". Murkrow charged into Golbat, Golbat got really hurt and then Golbat fell to ground over the cliff. "Golbat return" said Brock, returning Golbat to his pokeball. "What should we do now?" asked Misty "that Murkrow seems pretty tricky and with that icy wind move, it will be tough to defeat with a flying pokemon". "Which is why we fight it with non-flying type pokemon" said Ash. He released Sentret from her pokeball. Ash explained to Sentret about the thieving Murkrow and that he need her to fight it. Sentret climbed up the cliff towards Murkrow's nest. "Will Sentret be okay?" asked Misty. "No need to worry Misty," said Ash "I've had Sentret deal with flying types before".
When Murkrow saw Sentret, as soon as she reached the top of the cliff, it picked a fight with her at once. "Use double team Sentret" said Ash. Sentret multiplied herself to confuse Murkrow. Murkrow started to peck at the copies. "Use swift Sentret" said Ash. Sentret fired stars, from her tail, which hit Murkrow at once. Ash then sent out Chikorita and told her to hold her vines onto the top of the cliff. "Sentret may be in trouble," he said "so I'm going to help her". He started to climb up Chikorita's vines. "Be careful of that Murkrow Ash" said Brock.
When Ash reached the top of the cliff, he saw Sentret was okay and still fighting Murkrow. Murkrow began to use icy wind again. "Quick use flamethrower Sentret" said Ash. Sentret blew a flamethrower at the icy wind, which melted at once. Suddenly Sentret began to glow and grew into a pokemon, with a long body and tail. "Furret" gasped Ash
He looked at Furret on the pokedex: Furret, the long body pokemon. The evolved form of Sentret. It makes a nest to suit its long and skinny body. The nest is impossible for other Pokémon to enter.
Murkrow began to fly over to Furret, to peck her, but then Ash took out his fast ball and caught Murkrow with it. "Now this Murkrow won't be stealing anymore things from travellers" he said, and returned Furret to her pokeball.
Ash looked at Murkrow's nest; there was little metal bells, knifes, spoons and forks, pennies and a pair of earrings. "Wow this Murkrow sure was busy" he said. He grabbed Brock's spoon and the other shiny things and climbed back down Chikorita's vines. Then he told Tomo, Misty and Brock about Sentret evolving to Furret and his capture of Murkrow. He also showed them the things that were in Murkrow's nest. "We better give these things to Officer Jenny," said Brock, getting his spoon, "I'm pretty sure that someone may be missing these". And they did.
After doing that, they continued on their journey.
The gang came towards a small town, while on their way to Olivine City. Suddenly they noticed a boy looking through some long grass. "Hey kid, have you lost something?" asked Ash. "No I haven't lost anything," said the boy "I'm looking for a wild Dunsparce to catch".
Ash looked at Dunsparce on the pokedex: Dunsparce the land snake pokemon. It digs into the ground with its tail and makes a maze-like nest. It can fly just a little.
"That's a cute pokemon" said Misty. "Funny thing about Dunsparce is that they are always mistaken for a bug pokemon," said Ash "but they aren't bug pokemon; they are really normal type pokemon".
The boy, named Bucky, explained that a few weeks ago his grandfather, who lived in another town, got sick. So he and his parents went to visit him and care for him. After he got better, they all came back. But once they did they found out that lots of Dunsparce came out of nowhere, while they were gone, and everyone caught one. "This town must have had one of those pokemon swarms" said Ash. "What's a pokemon swarm?" asked Tomo. Ash explained that a pokemon swarm is when a large number of pokemon visit an area like forests, or woods, or lakes, or ponds once a week. Bucky explained that he's been trying to catch one of his own as well. All his friends had one, except him. The gang felt sorry for Bucky and offered to help him find a Dunsparce for his own. Bucky felt grateful and accepted their help.
But trouble was at work. Team Rocket was in a park, where a lot of kids with their Dunsparce were. Their eyes were on all of the Dunsparce. "I never thought I would see so many Dunsparce in one place," said James "they can be hard to find you know". "It would be great to give them all to the boss," said Meowth "but how will we get them all from their trainers?" "Leave that to me" smiled James. He took out a pokeball and out came a Gloom. "Wow James," said Jessie "did your Oddish evolve?" "Yep," said James "and I am extremely proud of her. Okay Gloom, it's time for work now". Gloom nodded in reply.
Meanwhile the gang were still looking for wild Dunsparce in the long grass. Ash had his Pikachu, Noctowl and Cyndaquil helping. Tomo had Growlithe, Houndour and Snubbull helping. Brock had Golbat to help. Misty had one of her Marill to help; Misty got her Marill from Cerulean Gym a while ago. Trying to find a wild Dunsparce turned out to be difficult thought. "I don't think I am ever going to find one" Bucky sighed. "Yes you will," said Ash "we will keep on looking until we find one.
Suddenly a little girl ran up to Bucky and the gang. "You've got to help us please!" she cried. "What's wrong?" asked Bucky. "The other kids and I were playing with our Dunsparce in the park," said the little girl "but then this Gloom came out of nowhere and sprayed sleep powder over everyone. Then I saw these two people grabbing all of the sleeping Dunsparce. They didn't get mine, because we ran away before the Gloom's sleep powder could get us". "What did those two people look like?" asked Misty. "One was a woman with long hair, and the other was a man with short hair," replied the girl "and they had a Meowth with them". "It's Team Rocket," said Ash "those crooks are not getting away with this. Let's go after them". Ash released his Noctowl to locate Team Rocket from up in the air. As soon as Noctowl left, the gang raced to the kids to wake them up. When the kids woke up the girl told them what had happened. The kids started to get upset, because of their kidnapped pokemon, but Brock reassures them that the Dunsparce will be found.
Meanwhile Team Rocket was in a wood, with all the Dunsparce they nabbed. "We did pretty good gathering up all these Dunsparce" said Meowth. "Thanks to my Gloom and her sleep powder attack of course" said James. "All right, enough chit chat," said Jessie "we need to concentrate of taking all these Dunsparce back to the boss". "Oh no you don't!" shouted Misty. Noctowl had found them and had led the gang and the kids to Team Rocket. "Give us back our Dunsparce!" shouted the kids. "No chance brats!" shouted Jessie, and released her Arbok. James released his Gloom to battle. Ash sent Pikachu to attack Arbok and Tomo had his Growlithe attack Gloom. The kids helped too and told their Dunsparce to use take down on Arbok and Gloom. Team Rocket and their pokemon were sent flying from that attack.
The kids were happy to have their Dunsparce back and thanked Ash, Tomo, Misty and Brock. "Glad to have helped" said Brock. Suddenly two Dunsparce came out of the ground. "Hey look those two Dunsparce are wild" said Misty. "Now I can catch a Dunsparce for my own" said Bucky, excitedly. "And me," said Ash "I wish to have one too". Ash had Pikachu battle it. Bucky sent out a Caterpie to battle the other Dunsparce. Of course Misty started to freak out from seeing Caterpie, but it didn't stop her from watching to see how the battle ends. Ash had Pikachu use quick attack on the first Dunsparce and Bucky had his Caterpie use tackle on the other one. The Dunsparce that Pikachu was battling started to wriggle to Pikachu and opened its mouth to bite on Pikachu. "That Dunsparce knows bite," said Ash "quick Pikachu use thunderbolt". Pikachu released a bolt of electricity and Dunsparce got shocked and weakened by it. The Dunsparce that Caterpie was battling used headbutt on Caterpie. "Use string shot Caterpie" said Bucky. Caterpie released its silk and the silk tied up Dunsparce good. "Now tackle it Caterpie". Caterpie tackled Dunsparce and it got weakened. "Okay time to capture them Bucky" said Ash. Bucky agreed. He and Ash threw empty pokeballs at the two Dunsparce and soon they were captured. "All right, we did it," said Ash and Bucky together "we caught our own Dunsparce". Tomo, Misty, Brock and the kids congratulated them for their capture.
So Bucky was now very happy; he finally had his own Dunsparce, and he didn't feel left out anymore. He and the other kids thanked Ash, Tomo, Misty and Brock again for everything, and the gang left to continue their journey.
One morning the gang were up and about and were ready to have breakfast. All of their pokemon were out of their pokeballs too. They were relaxing at a lakeside camp out and the pokemon were enjoying it. Brock had just finished making oatmeal for breakfast and was about to serve it. Ash and Tomo were getting bored of oatmeal, but they didn't say anything otherwise it would upset Brock. Misty looked at Brock and realised that he didn't look well. "Is something wrong Brock?" asked Misty. Suddenly Brock fell over onto the grass. "Brock what's wrong?" asked Misty. Ash and Tomo ran over to see what was wrong. Ash touched Brock's forehead. "He's burning up with fever," he said "we better get him to bed, in the cabin". Ash, Misty and Tomo helped Brock to bed, leaving all the pokemon worried.
Brock was tucked up in bed and Misty got a basin of cold water and cloth and placed the damp cloth onto Brock's forehead. "What's wrong with Brock?" asked Tomo. "I know what's wrong," said Ash "Brock had just collapsed from exhaustion. Prof Oak has collapsed from exhaustion before actually. All Brock needs to do is sleep through the whole day and not do anything". "I agree," said Misty "Brock has been working too hard lately, so he should rest". Just then Brock started to sit up. "I can't rest," he said, weakly, "I have some work to do". "Oh no you don't," said Misty, making Brock lie down again, "you're too sick and weak to work. You lie down and sleep and Ash, Tomo and I will do the work today". "Misty's right, we can take care of the chores today" said Ash. Brock smiled, knowing that he had good friends. "There is a notebook in my buck pack, and it will tell you what chores need to be done today," he said "and it has the recipes of what I was going to cook today". Misty got the notebook out. "Don't you worry about a thing and get some rest" she said.
Ash, Tomo and Misty left Brock to rest in the cabin and explained to the pokemon that Brock wasn't well. Brock's pokemon; Steelix, Graveller, Golbat, Pineco, Stantler and Chansey got worried about their trainer. "Don't worry you six," said Ash "Brock just needs a good day sleep and then he will be back on his feet in no time". "Ash is right" said Misty. Chansey offered to go into the cabin and stay with Brock. "Having Chansey stay with Brock is a good idea," said Ash "after all Chansey are the nursing pokemon". Misty and Tomo agreed and they let Chansey into the cabin to stay with Brock. They also told Chansey that if Brock ever woke up or tried to get up, she must use sing attack to get him back to sleep. Chansey understood.
Ash, Misty and Tomo started to get to work with the chores at once, after they had their breakfast. Misty looked through the notebook. "I can't believe that Brock does these so many things in one day" said Misty. "It's probably because you know he's the eldest sibling of ten children in his family," said Ash "and that he started learning to cook and clean at a young age". "Yes that's true," said Misty "and he did tell us once that he had to take a lot of responsibilities for his sick mum. We better get started now". The first chore that needed doing was polishing Steelix and Graveller; Brock liked to polish them to make them look smart. "I'll polish Steelix," said Ash "Brock taught me how to do that with my Steelix". "And I'll polish Graveller" said Tomo. "Okay boys," said Misty "you two do that, and I will was the dishes". She filled up a big bucket with water from the lake, found some washing up liquid in the cabin, and started to wash the dishes in the bucket. Ash asked Brock's Stantler to use a very gentle sand attack on Steelix and Graveller. Using a little bit of sand was used to give rock, ground and steel type pokemon a good polishing. Then Ash and Tomo started to polish Steelix and Graveller.
Meanwhile Brock was still sleeping in the cabin and Chansey was still watching over him. Brock's Golbat and Pineco were with her too; they had been worried about Brock. At the moment Brock was dreaming; he was dreaming that he was in a beautiful field, with flowers and Bellossoms. When suddenly the field burst into flames and Brock woke up from his dream at once. "Phew what a dream" sighed Brock. He noticed that Chansey, Golbat and Pineco were with him and was grateful to that. "I should go see how Ash, Tomo and Brock are doing" he said. He was about to get out of bed, but Chansey used sing to get him back to sleep. She knew fully well that Brock was not recovered yet. Golbat and Pineco ended up asleep from Chansey's sing, but Chansey used the move wake-up slap to get them to wake up. The move wake- up slap had the ability to wake up sleeping pokemon and humans.
At that time, Ash, Tomo and Misty had finished the polishing and dishes and started on the next line of chores. Ash cut up some firewood with Pikachu, Misty started doing the laundry and Tomo went to find some apples for Brock. Tomo had his six pokemon; Growlithe, Snubbull, Elekid, Smoochum, Farfetch'd and Magby with him. Misty's pokemon; Marill, Staryu, two Poliwhirls, Seaking and Totodile, were swimming in the lake with Ash's Totodile. Ash's other four pokemon; Togetic, Chikorita, Cyndaquil and Noctowl, were dozing in the sun with Brock's Steelix, Graveller and Stantler. Soon Tomo was back with eight juicy ripe apples, and then Misty washed, peeled and cut them for Brock to eat.
In the meantime, Brock had drifted off into another dream. This time he was dreaming that he was standing on some clouds in the sky, with some butterfly. Then suddenly he started to fall out of the sky. When he woke up from the dream he realized that he just fell out of bed. Ash, Tomo and Misty had just entered the cabin and asked him if he was okay. "Oh just a bad dream that's all" Brock replied. Misty handed him a plate of sliced up apples, and Brock ate the apple slices at once because he was hungry. Misty placed a hand on Brock's forehead. "Hmm, it seems you are getting better," she said "but you still need to stay in bed and sleep". Brock was happy that he had Ash, Tomo and Misty as his friends. Ash, Tomo and Misty left to let Brock sleep some more.
Now it was time for the coking chore to be done. Ash offered to do it. "Can you cook though Ash?" asked Misty. "Don't worry Misty," said Ash "I've followed Brock's cooking lots of times". The recipe for today's lunch was in Brock's notebook and Ash followed it carefully. Soon the stew that Ash made was ready. Misty tried it first, and when she did she found it delicious and so did Tomo. "Wow Ash," he said "your cooking is good, although it's not the same as Brocks". "Thanks Misty," said Ash, helping himself to the stew, "Brock's taught me to cook loads of times, and Nurse Joy and my mum have given me cooking lessons as well". "Well those cooking lessons have paid off well" said Misty. "Your stew is great big brother" said Tomo. Ash smiled with pride. Ash also made pokemon food for all the pokemon as well and they liked it as well. "It's all thanks to Brock's Nurse Joy's and my mum's cooking lessons" said Ash.
That night, after today's chores were all done, it was time for bed. Ash, Tomo and Misty decided to sleep in their sleeping bags outside the cabin. They thought that Brock would have a better sleep without them in there. All the pokemon were asleep outside too, except Chansey, Pineco and Golbat; they wanted to stay with Brock. Ash, Tomo and Misty were exhausted after doing today's chores. "Phew I'm tired" sighed Tomo. "So am I," said Ash "it's no wonder Brock has become so exhausted today". "I don't know how he does it," said Misty "I know he has done this for a very long time, but still". "Never mind," said Ash "we all got through it, and Brock has gotten plenty of sleep now. So let's go to sleep now". Misty and Tomo agreed and soon they were all asleep too.
Next morning Ash, Tomo and Misty and their pokemon; Pikachu, Growlithe and Togepi, woke up to see Brock making oatmeal for breakfast. "Hey Brock, how are you feeling?" asked Brock. "I feel a lot better thank you," said Brock "especially after all of that sleep I had yesterday". Misty suggested that Brock rested some more today, just in case he may collapse from exhaustion again. Ash and Tomo agreed with Misty on that. "Okay I'll have a nap after breakfast" said Brock. Brock then said to Ash that he had some of the stew that he made. "You have done well in cooking Ash". Ash smiled with glee.
Next day, after Brock fully recovered from his fever, the gang set off for Olivine City once more.
I taught my Murkrow the egg move drill peck in the game. They didn't give Brock's Golbat enough moves in the anime. The swarm of Dunsparce is based off the pokemon swarms in the games. I find it a pity that Ash failed to catch a Dunsparce in the anime. I find it typical that they never had Ash actually learning to cook for himself in the anime. I mean it showed him growing up as a trainer, but never cooking or anything else she should know, especially since he had been a trainer for a long time so he should have learned how to cook.