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 and Mega Evolutions don't exist.
Chapter 50
The Extreme pokemon race, Phanpy
And the Loyal Ninetails
The gang were now on the way to Mahogany Town, where Ash could get his seventh gym badge. Right now they came to a town called Eggseter Town. It was a beautiful town, surrounded by mountains, valleys and hills. Just as the gang were about to head over to the town, they had an unexpected surprise. They saw Gary Oak riding on a skateboard, which was being pulled by Arcanine, around the green hills. "Hey Gary" Ash called out. Gary noticed the gang and greeted them at once. "It's been a while since we last saw each other" said Gary. "So Gary, what's with the skateboarding?" asked Ash. "Well Ash, Arcanine and I are going to enter the pokemon extreme race" answered Gary. "What's that?" asked Ash. Gary didn't answer; instead he and Arcanine took off. The gang also noticed that other trainers were skateboarding with their pokemon. "I guess they are all practicing for this pokemon extreme race" said Brock.
The gang had a meal in a restaurant in Eggseter Town. But Ash kept thinking about the extreme pokemon race. "I think I want to enter this race," he admitted to the others "but I don't know a thing about this extreme pokemon race". "Perhaps I can help" said a voice. The voice belonged to an elderly man, who was sitting near the gang in the restaurant. "I participated in the extreme pokemon race a few times in my time," said the man "so I will gladly help you practice for the race". "Really?" asked Ash "thank you sir". The man introduced himself as Mr Shellby and the gang introduced themselves.
Mr Shellby gave the gang a ride on his Tauros and cart. "So Mr Shellby, what is the pokemon extreme race about?" asked Ash. "Well Ash, the pokemon extreme race is a sport that has been a tradition here in Eggseter Town for a long time," said Mr Shellby "you see a long time ago, before cars, trains, buses and bikes were invented, people used pokemon to travel from the countryside to town, especially when there was an emergency. And even though there are now cars and all of that around, the people still love to ride with pokemon, so we came up with the sport for them to enjoy".
Just then Tomo noticed a house, with some people holding pokemon eggs. "Is that a pokemon day care center?" he asked. "It is Tomo," answered Mr Shellby "there are lots of pokemon day care centers around here. In fact my wife and I run one too". "Wow, could we visit it please?" asked Tomo. "Yeah can we?" asked Misty "it's been a while since we last visited a day care center and we love looking at pokemon eggs". "Certainly," said Mr Shellby "I will gladly take you there".
Mr Shellby brought the gang to his pokemon day care center and introduced his wife to the gang. "It's no nice to have some company here" said Mrs Shellby. Mrs Shellby was taking care of a pokemon egg. Apparently there were lots of pokemon eggs in Mr and Mrs Shellby's day care center, and some baby pokemon were walking about too. The gang could not take their eyes off the pokemon eggs and baby pokemon.
While Misty, Tomo and Brock were helping Mrs Shellby care for the pokemon, Mr Shellby helped Ash with practicing the extreme pokemon race. Mr Shellby lent Ash his old kit for the sport; a skateboard and some equipment that trainers held on to while the pokemon pulls the skateboard. Apparently Ash was good with skateboarding; he had done a lot of skateboarding and mountain boarding lots of times as a younger kid. Ash had decided to use Bayleef as she was the right size for this, and she was strong and fast. Gary had noticed that Ash was practicing for the extreme pokemon race. "I warn you Ash," said Gary "I won't be going easy on you in the race". "Neither will I, on you, Gary" replied Ash. Thanks to Mr Shellby, Ash and Bayleef got the hang of the extreme pokemon sport, and they were ready for the race tomorrow.
The next day it was time for the extreme pokemon race. Those who were not in the race were seating in seats and there was a camera and screen for the audience to see what was happening in the race. Tomo, Misty, Brock and Pikachu were in the seats. Ash and Gary, with Arcanine and Bayleef, were at the starting place with all the other participants and pokemon. The rules were the participants had to race all the way to Mr and Mrs Shellby's day care center, pick up a dummy race and to race back to the starting line, which will become the finish line, holding the dummy egg. The winner would receive a gold trophy, with a pokeball on top, and the winning pokemon would get a medal. "I'll see you at the finish line Ash" said Gary. "It will be me at the finishing line first Gary" replied Ash.
Soon the race had started. The competitors passed through the starting point and came to the mountain section of the course. At that time Ash and Gary were in the lead, and neither one of them was giving up. Arcanine and Bayleef were running as fast as they could to stay in the lead. After running through the mountain section, they ran through the valley, until they finally reached the Shellby's day care center. Mr and Mrs Shellby were happy to see Ash and Gary. "You two are doing well for your first time in extreme pokemon" said Mr Shellby, giving Ash and Gary their dummy eggs.
Ash and Gary were about to leave, when suddenly Arcanine began to bark loudly. "What's wrong Arcanine?" asked Gary. Arcanine was staring at the day care center. "Arcanine senses intruders in there" said Ash. Ash was right; two men came out of the day care center, carrying real pokemon eggs in a basket. "Hey put those eggs back!" shouted Mr Shellby "they are not yours!" "On the contrary old man!" said one of the men "they are ours now". "Yeah and they will become great pokemon for our team" said the other man. The men were just about to get away with the eggs, but Ash told Bayleef to use vine whip to grab the eggs. "You aren't taking the eggs anywhere" said Ash. Gary had Arcanine make the crooks leave with flamethrower. The two men ran away in fear. Mr and Mrs Shellby thanked Ash and Gary for saving the eggs, and then Ash and Gary continued on with the race.
Everyone in the audience had seen what had happened, on the screen, and they were relieved that everything was okay now. "Thank goodness that Ash and Gary were there" said Misty. "Yeah otherwise those two men would have gotten away with the pokemon eggs" said Brock. Right now the racers were racing through the mountain section again. Ash was having trouble with trying to over pass Gary because the road on the mountain section was a bit narrow. But then Ash had an idea; there was a slope near where they were now and it turned to the road of the race. There was no rule saying that the racers couldn't take another route of the race, so Ash had Bayleef jump the slope to catch up to Gary. The audience went wild over Ash's stunt. "All right big brother!" cheered Tomo. Gary was impressed too. "Hey Gary, last one to go over the line is a rotten egg" said Ash. "You're on Ash" said Gary.
Ash and Gary were near the finish line, and Arcanine and Bayleef were running as fast as they could to get to the finish line first. "Go Arcanine!" said Gary. "Go Bayleef!" said Ash. It was close, but Bayleef got over the finish line first by a nose. Ash and Bayleef were both surprised and happy that they had won the race. Gary congratulated Ash for his win. So Ash and Bayleef got the golden trophy and medal, and everyone clapped and cheered for them.
With the race now over, Gary got ready to leave. "I'll see you at the Johto League Ash" said Gary. "I will be there Gary" said Ash. Then Gary left. The gang was just about to get ready to leave too, but Mr and Mrs Shellby stopped them. "Before you go Ash, my wife and I would like to present you with this gift" said Mr Shellby. Mrs Shellby was holding an incubator, with a pokemon egg in it. "This is to say thank you for rescuing our eggs" she said. "Wow, thank you" said Ash, accepting the gift. He was happy to be receiving a pokemon egg. The gang said goodbye to Mr and Mrs Shellby and left Eggster Town.
Ash had been excited ever since he got his blue pokemon egg from Mr and Mrs Shellby a few days ago. Sure he has had pokemon eggs before, but it was exciting to see a baby pokemon hatch out from its egg. Right now Ash was checking his egg. "What pokemon do you think it is?" Tomo asked Ash. "I don't know," said Ash "but I don't care what pokemon will come out of this egg. I'll be happy with whatever pokemon it is". "I have to say Ash," said Brock "this is going to be the fifth time that you'll become a dad. Remember Cubone, Dratini, the two Eevess and the baby Kangaskhan?" "You're right about that" chuckled Ash.
Suddenly the egg began to glow white, which meant it was going to hatch. Ash took the egg out of the incubator and placed in onto a blanket. Everyone watched in excitement as the egg hatched; the pokemon was a small blue elephant pokemon, with red marks. "It's a Phanpy" said Brock. "Awesome" said Tomo. "Ah it's so cute" said Misty.
Ash looked at Phanpy on the pokedex: Phanpy, the long nose pokemon. The pre-evolved form of Donphan. As a sign of affection, it bumps with its snout. However, it is so strong, it may send you flying.
"Hi Phanpy," said Ash "I'm Ash, your trainer". He slowly moved his right hand towards Phanpy to stroke it; he moved it slowly so not to frighten Phanpy. Ash gently tickled Phanpy on the ears and under the chin. Phanpy liked it.
Ash took the pokeball off the top of the incubator and enlarged it. "Okay Phanpy, I'm going to catch you" he said. He tried to return Phanpy to the pokeball, but Phanpy didn't want to go into the pokeball. "Come on Phanpy," said Ash "I'll let you out of the pokeball again once I've captured you". He tried to return Phanpy again, but Phanpy just dodged the pokeball beams again. "I think Phanpy just wants to stay out and play a bit more" said Brock. "Well then we'll let it play for a bit, and then I'll try to catch it again later" said Ash.
So the gang spent the rest of the morning playing with the new born Phanpy. Apparently Phanpy was strong and very energetic for a baby pokemon, and it knew a few moves; it knew tackle, defence curl, rollout and it had the egg move ice shard. Phanpy got on well with Pikachu, Growlithe and Togepi. "Phanpy will be a great pokemon to use in battles," said Ash "being a ground type; it will be great against electric, fire and rock type pokemon". "I can't wait to see it battle either" said Tomo.
After a few hours of playing, the gang decided that it was time to keep going. Ash was just about to return Phanpy to the pokeball, but trouble occurred. Team Rocket was in the area and they were after Ash's newly hatched Phanpy; they thought Phanpy would be a great member for them. But Ash was not going to let Team Rocket take Phanpy away. He commanded Pikachu to send Team Rocket away with thunderbolt. As usual Team Rocket got blasted away again.
With Team Rocket dealt with, the gang could hit the road again. This time Phanpy did go into his pokeball. It made Ash relieved that Phanpy was being obedient now. So the gang continued on their journey, with a new friend in tow.
The gang were still continuing to Mahogany Town, but they had come to a very foggy area. "I don't like this fog," said Misty "it's creepy and it's hard to see where you're going". "We better not continue on," Brock "it's too risky like this, especially since we are on a mountain area. I mean we can fall off one of these ledges without even knowing it was there".
At that moment a beautiful woman, with a Ninetails beside her walked up to the group. "You trainers can take shelter in my mansion," she said "it's not far from here". "That will be great thank you" said Misty. Ash looked at the woman. 'Weird,' he thought 'I feel some strange energy coming from both her and her Ninetails'. The woman, named Lokoko, guided the gang out of the mist. "My home is near here" she said. Suddenly, like magic, Lokoko's home appeared; it was a huge mansion. "Wow, what a place!" gasped Brock. Ash felt that something was weird about how they suddenly ended up at a mansion, and had a bad feeling about this.
Lokoko led the gang to one of the big rooms of the mansion and served tea to them. Lokoko's Ninetails seemed to like Brock a lot and kept on nuzzling him. "Ninetails probably likes you a lot Brock, because you remind her of her owner" said Lokoko. "Is the owner here?" asked Brock. "I'm afraid not," said Lokoko "you see the owner of Ninetails and this mansion went on a journey years ago and he hasn't come home since. There were other servants, apart from me, looking after the mansion, but they all left. So now it's only me and Ninetails staying here and we keep on waiting for the master to return". The gang felt sorry for Lokoko and Ninetails.
Suddenly Misty noticed something; she was looking at a mirror, which was reflecting Ninetails. But Lokoko was standing next to Ninetails and she had no reflection. Misty started to feel creeped out. Ash notices Misty's pale face and decided that they talked privately. He asked Lokoko to excuse him, Misty and Tomo for a moment, and they went into a hallway. "You won't believe this;" said Misty, nervously, "but Lokoko didn't have a reflection in the mirror". "Really?" asked Tomo. "Yes" said Misty. "I must admit this;" said Ash "ever since we met Lokoko and first stepped into this mansion, I've been feeling a strange energy from both Lokoko and Ninetails". "What are you thinking Ash?" asked Misty. "I have a weird feeling that Lokoko and this mansion are not real," said Ash "and I think that there is something odd about that Ninetails". "What shall we do?" asked Tomo. "We need to find out about Ninetails and her owner" replied Ash. Tomo and Misty agreed with Ash.
Ash, Tomo and Misty began to search some rooms for any clues. They searched rooms away from where Lokoko, Brock and Ninetails were; that way they wouldn't realise what they were doing. So far they found nothing about Ninetails except old books and other old things. Just then Tomo opened the door of another room and he became surprised. "Hey look at this painting on the wall" he said to Ash and Misty. When Ash and Misty saw the painting, they were surprised. The painting was a portrait of Ninetails and a man, who looked exactly like Brock. "That man must be Ninetails owner" said Misty. Ash noticed two things on a desk in front of the portrait. There was a diary and a green and white sort of pokeball. "Hey this is one of the very old fashioned pokeballs, what they used hundreds of years ago," said Ash "Prof Oak once showed me what very old pokeballs looked like". Ash picked it up to examine it. "That's weird," he said "I feel a strange strong power coming from this pokeball". Misty picked up the diary to read what it said. "This diary is about Ninetails," she said "and it says about when the owner went on a journey". Suddenly she went very pale in the face. "No way, the date of this is two hundred years ago". "No way" said Tomo. "Yes way," said Misty "and if this was two hundred years ago, then that means the owner should be dead by now". "It also means that Lokoko is actually dead too," said Ash "but Ninetails wouldn't be dead though. Ninetails can live up to a thousand years old, which means Ninetails is over two hundred years old now". "What can we do?" asked Misty "I mean since Brock resembles the master, it means Ninetails thinks Brock is her owner, and it also means that he might be in trouble". "We need to get out of here," said Ash "but one thing first". He released Celebi from her pokeball and explained what was going on. "So Celebi we need you to go to the time of when the owner of Ninetails was still alive and find out what happened to him, that way we can prove to Ninetails that her owner is dead". 'Leave it to me Ash' said Celebi. Then she vanished into the past. "While Celebi is getting information, we will help Brock" said Ash. "We better be careful though," said Misty "I mean that Ninetails might be very strong since it's over two hundred years old". "True, but we have no choice" said Ash.
When Ash, Misty and Tomo went to look for Brock, they found him outside with Lokoko and Ninetails. Brock looked like that he was in a trance. Ash sent out Croconaw and told to attack Ninetails with water gun. Ninetails sensed the attack and dodged the attack. Brock somehow managed to break from his trance. "Hey, what are you doing?" asked Brock. "Brock look at Lokoko" said Misty. Brock looked at Lokoko and saw that she was disappearing. Suddenly the mansion changed from new to very disrepair. "I knew it," said Ash "everything was an illusion". Ninetails began to get angry and started to attack the gang with fire spin. Ash, Tomo and Misty led Brock and Ninetails to the room where they found the portrait, the pokeball and the diary. Brock was surprised to see the portrait of the man, who looked like him. Ash and Misty tried to reason with Ninetails by telling her that Brock was not her owner. Ninetails wouldn't listen and started to attack again. She used confusion and psychic to defeat Croconaw. Ash found that odd that Ninetails knew psychic moves because Ninetails couldn't use psychic moves like that. To stop Ninetails from attacking, Brock held up the pokeball and used it to return Ninetails, which Ninetails accepted.
Lokoko appeared and thanked Brock for returning Ninetails to her pokeball. "You are a ghost aren't you Lokoko?" asked Ash. "Yes I am," said Lokoko "the truth is I died a long time ago and I stayed with Ninetails to wait for the master to return". "What exactly happened?" asked Misty. "I shall explain" said Lokoko. Brock let out Ninetails to listen to the story too. The story was that two hundred years ago, before the owner of Ninetails went on his journey, he said to the staff and Ninetails that he would return within one month. But a month went and the owner didn't return. Months and years went by and the owner still didn't return. As the years passed the servants died of old age, and Ninetails was left all alone at the mansion. Lokoko died too, but her spirit stayed behind so that Ninetails wouldn't be alone. After a hundred years passed, Ninetails felt that her owner wouldn't be alive anymore so she tried to leave the mansion to start a new life somewhere else. But for some reason a strange power was keeping Ninetails trapped within the mansion, and she couldn't leave. So Ninetails stayed alone in the mansion for two hundred years. The gang felt sorry for Ninetails. "It must be because of that strange pokeballs power that Ninetails knows the moves confusion and psychic" said Ash.
At that moment Celebi turned up. 'I saw what happened to your owner Ninetails;' she said 'he was about to return home from his journey, but he suddenly got struck by an illness and died from it. That's why he never returned, the sudden illness prevented him from doing that'. Ninetails started to cry from hearing the news. Brock walked over to Ninetails and stroked her head. "Don't cry Ninetails," he said "I'll be your new owner". Everyone became surprised with what Brock said. "I'll never be able to replace your old owner, but I will take care of you". Ninetails humped on Brock to hug him. "It seems Ninetails accepts Brock's offer" smiled Ash. "I'm happy to hear that," said Lokoko "Ninetails has been very lonely ever since the servants died years ago, so she should have a new owner. And no one else apart from you Brock should be her new owner".
Just then Misty had a thought. "Hang on," she said "since the pokeball is keeping Ninetails trapped here, we might have trouble with leaving the mansion". Then Ash had an idea. "Why don't we break it," he said "I mean if we break it, it will lose all connection with Ninetails". "Then Ninetails will be free at last" said Tomo. So Brock smashed the pokeball onto the ground and the pokeball went into a million pieces. Then Brock caught Ninetails into a normal pokeball. As soon as Brock captured Ninetails, the Lokoko started to disappear. "I can finally rest in peace now," she said "goodbye and thank you". She disappeared into the afterlife. "The master and Lokoko won't have to worry about Ninetails anymore," said Brock "because I will take care of Ninetails till the day I die". "It makes me wonder who will look after my Ninetails when I'm gone" said Ash. "Well I'm sure it will be a nice trainer" replied Misty.
Now that the fog had cleared, it was now safe for the gang to continue on their way to Mahogany Town. And Brock was happy to have a Ninetails in tow.
Sorry for the long wait; I had things to do and I had a bit of a writer's block. I know it was Team Rocket who tried to nick Mr and Mrs Shellby's eggs, but I decided to use different thieves instead. I taught my Phanpy ice shard in my games, and thought ice shard would be the right egg move for Ash's Phanpy. They should have had Brock capture the Ninetails; I mean Brock would have been a great new owner for it. I planned to have Celebi found out the truth of the original owner, and I got the idea of why he didn't return from why Hachiko's original owner never returned. Those who keep on suggesting I do Kalos in this story and giving me ideas, I am not going to add the Kalos region. But I am thinking about dong Ash's Kalos Journey in a different story, but it won't be a continuation of Ash's pokemon journey. And I will only starting doing it after I've completed Ash's pokemon journey, because I want to finish that story first before doing any other story.