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 52
The lost Piloswine and
Mahogany Gym
After the trouble at Lake of Rage had been cleared, the gang had arrived at Mahogany Town. They spent the night at the pokemon center and had all of their pokemon healed, and now Ash was looking up the Mahogany Gym in the guide book. "What does it say Ash?" asked Misty. "Well according to the book, the gym leader is a man named Pryce," said Ash "and that he uses ice type pokemon. It also says that Pryce is as cold as ice". "What does that mean?" asked Tomo. Brock explained that it was a saying to say that Pryce had a cold personality. "I hope that Pryce will be nice enough to let me battle him" said Ash. "Who will you be using?" asked Misty. "That's easy, I'll be using Quilava, Scizor and Hitmontop, because fire, steel and fighting types beat ice type pokemon" said Ash. "Knowing what to do as usual" smiled Misty.
When everything was ready, the gang headed to Mahogany Gym. The Mahogany Gym looked like one of those ice skating rink buildings. When the gang got there, they realised that the gym leader wasn't there. An elderly woman came up to the gang. "Hello there," she said "I'm Sheila, Pryce's wife. Are you here for a gym battle?" "Yes ma'am we are," said Ash "do you know where Pryce is?" "Pryce will be up at the mountains, meditating underneath a waterfall," said Sheila "he does that every morning". "Oh really?" asked Ash "do you think you can lead us to him please? I wish to challenge him for a gym badge". "Certainly" said Sheila. So Sheila showed the gang the way to where Pryce was. Apparently, Sheila was very full of energy and athletic for an elderly woman. She had no trouble at all of walking up the mountain and climbing over rocks.
They soon found an old man meditating under a waterfall; he was Pryce. "Hey Pryce, you have a challenger" said Sheila. Ash introduced himself to Pryce and asked him for a gym battle. Pryce stopped meditating and noticed Pikachu on Ash's shoulder. He also noticed Growlithe next to Tomo. "Why are those two pokemon not in their pokeballs?" Pryce asked sternly. "It's because Pikachu is my partner," said Ash "and Growlithe is Tomo's partner. And they are also our best friends". "Humph, having a battle with you will be pointless" said Pryce. "What? Why?" asked Ash, who couldn't believe what Pryce said. "Humans and pokemon being best friends is ridiculous," said Pryce, coldly, "being all emotionally with your pokemon is not going to make you a great pokemon trainer".
Ash thought that Pryce was being rude and was about to speak up. But then Tomo spoke up first. "The one who's ridiculous here is you," he said at Pryce "Growlithe and I have been friends for a few years, and we have grown strong together because of our friendship". Growlithe barked in agreement. Pryce stared at Tomo and Growlithe. "You young ones don't know the true meaning of pokemon training," he said "my son and daughter never understood the true meaning of pokemon training. It's discipline on your pokemon and showing them who's boss is what I have done for the last forty years of my life".
Pryce's words were clear to Ash that Pryce has been cold to his pokemon and trains them with very strict discipline. "Look here Pryce," said Ash "I don't know what on earth happened to you or your pokemon forty years ago, but friendship between humans and pokemon always prevails no matter what the situation is. And I know that because my pokemon and I go through everything together, because we are friends". Pikachu nodded in agreement. Pryce huffed. "I shall challenge you to a mock battle here and right now," said Pryce "and then I shall see if you are capable of battling me at the gym". "Very well, I accept" said Ash. Ash accepted it because he figured it was the only way to convince Pryce to battle him.
Ash and Pryce took their place to battle, somewhere away from the waterfall and near a cliff. Pryce sent out Dewgong to battle and Ash sent out Pikachu to battle. "Using Pikachu is a smart move, as electric types do beat water types" said Brock. "Yes but Ash will still have to watch out for Dewgong's ice attacks" said Misty. Misty knew about Dewgong pretty well for being a water type pokemon trainer. "Ice beam Dewgong" said Pryce. Dewgong fired an ice beam attack from its horn. Ash ordered Pikachu to use agility to dodge the ice beam attack, and Pikachu dodged the ice beam attack as easy as pie. "All right Pikachu let's give the Dewgong a focus punch" said Ash. Pikachu ran up to Dewgong, with his right paw glowing white, and then he punched Dewgong really hard. The focus punch hurt Dewgong well. "Sorry Pryce," smiled Ash "but I already know that ice type pokemon can't handle fighting type moves". "Humph not bad kid" snorted Pryce "let's use headbutt Dewgong". Dewgong charged at Pikachu, getting to headbutt him with its horn. But Ash stayed calm. "Pikachu show it your egg move" he said. Pikachu ran over to Dewgong, with his body becoming surrounded by electricity, and then it tackled Dewgong hard. "Wow what was that?" gasped Misty. She had never seen this move before. "That was volt tackle," said Brock "a powerful electric move. And only Pichu and its evolution line can learn it through breeding". "So that means no other electric type pokemon can learn it?" asked Tomo. "That's correct" said Brock. Misty and Tomo were amazed by this.
Dewgong fainted from the electric move, earning Ash the victory. Ash and Pikachu were happy and butted fists with each other. "That Ash is some trainer" said Sheila. "So Pryce, now will you accept my gym battle?" said Ash. Pryce returned his Dewgong in a huff. "Just because you won does not mean I accept having a gym battle with you" he said. "What?" said Ash. He was not happy with this. Sheila wasn't happy with Pryce either. "Pryce you are a gym leader, and since Ash wishes to battle your gym you should accepted his request" she said. Pryce stared at Sheila and Ash. "Walk with me Ash" said Pryce, and he started to walk through the mountain area. Ash was puzzled by Pryce's request, but he did as he was asked and followed Pryce.
Pryce led Ash to an area of the mountains, where there was entrances to some caves. "Let me tell you something Ash," said Pryce "I was like you in my younger years; loving to go on a pokemon journey and participate in pokemon battles. And of course I loved all my pokemon like they were my family. But I changed my feelings forty years ago". "Please excuse my curiosity Pryce, but what happened?" said Ash "I want to know the real reason why you don't like the fact of humans and pokemon being friends". Pryce looked at Ash. "Since you are eager to know, I will tell you" he said.
Pryce told Ash that in his youth, his favourite pokemon and best friend was a Piloswine. "We fought in many pokemon battles and tournaments together," said Pryce "and we were unstoppable together. But one day, everything changed when Piloswine and I faced an opponent with a Magmar". Pryce explained that his Piloswine got really hurt by Magmar's fire attacks, as Piloswine is an ice type pokemon. And then Magmar used fire blast to finish off Piloswine, and then Pryce ran over to protect Piloswine. In the process, both Pryce and Piloswine got really hurt and burned from the fire blast attack. "While I was recovering from my burns in a cottage, Piloswine got up and left me. And that's why I don't treat my pokemon as family anymore, only as business".
Ash and Pikachu felt sorry for Pryce for what had happened. But then Ash looked thoughtful. "Do excuse me Pryce," he said "but I have a feeling that Piloswine didn't leave you because you lost that match. I mean I know I have only been a trainer for nearly three years now, but I do know that a pokemon wouldn't leave it's trainer because from losing a match. I think that there is something else behind Piloswine's disappearance". Pryce just huffed.
At that moment, Pikachu noticed something twinkling from inside one of the caves and ran over to the cave. "Hey Pikachu what's wrong?" asked Ash. Pikachu led Ash and Pryce to a metal object on the ground; it was a leg bracelet for pokemon. When Pryce saw it, he picked it up at once. "I recognize this leg bracelet," he said "it belongs to my Piloswine". Ash was surprised by that and looked at the cave. "Pryce I think we should explore this cave," he said "since Piloswine's leg bracelet is here, I'm getting a weird feeling saying we may find clues of your lost Piloswine. Come on let's go". Pryce felt uncertain about Ash's words, but he followed Ash anyway.
Ash and Pryce walked on and on into the cave. Ash was concentrating with his psychic power to see if he could locate anything on Pryce's Piloswine. It didn't seem right to Ash that Piloswine disappeared from Pryce; he wanted to find out the real story. Soon they had reached a cave, which was covered in ice all over. "Wow what a cave" said Ash. "It's like a cave of crystals" said Pryce.
Suddenly they saw a big block of ice, with something frozen inside of it. It was a Piloswine. Pryce looked at the frozen Piloswine. "It's my Piloswine" he said. "Are you sure?" asked Ash, who was surprised by this. Then he noticed that the Piloswine was carrying some leaves. Pryce explained that the leaves were herbs that were used for healing burns on pokemon and humans. Then Ash understood what had really happened. "This means Pryce that Piloswine knew that these herbs would help you and came here to get them for you. But it got into trouble on the way back and ended up frozen in this block of ice. Piloswine didn't mean to disappear from you for all these years at all". Pryce realised that he had been wrong about Piloswine and started to cry. "I'm sorry Piloswine" he said, tearfully.
Ash was happy that Pryce now knew the real truth and that Piloswine was found again. "Okay Pryce," he said "let's get Piloswine out of that ice". He released Quilava from the pokeball and ordered him to melt the ice with flamethrower. Quilava melted the ice at once. Then Ash had Pikachu use thundershock on Piloswine to wake it up. Pikachu shocked Piloswine two times, but it still didn't wake up from its frozen state. Things looked hopeless, but then Piloswine woke up. Pryce walked over to Piloswine. "Piloswine it's me Pryce," he said "do you remember me?" Piloswine nodded to say yes. Pryce was happy that Piloswine still remembered him and hugged it, crying tears of happiness. "Real friendship between pokemon and humans does last forever" he said. "I take it you believe what I told you earlier Pryce" asked Ash. "Yes Ash I do" smiled Pryce. Ash was relieved to hear that.
But then Piloswine fainted from exhaustion; it was tired and weak from being in the ice for forty years. "Use rest Piloswine" said Pryce. Piloswine went to sleep and then started to glow blue. "I know that move," said Ash "the pokemon, using rest, goes to sleep and then while it's asleep it heals its energy". "That's correct," said Pryce "you're a clever lad Ash". Ash suggested they took Piloswine to the pokemon center at once and Pryce agreed. When Piloswine had recovered, Ash and Pryce walked out of the cave.
Meanwhile Misty, Tomo and Brock were waiting for Ash and Pryce with Sheila. Sheila had explained to them about Pryce's Piloswine and why Pryce acted cold. Misty, Tomo and Brock felt sorry for Pryce. Just then Ash and Pryce turned up. Pryce revealed his long lost Piloswine. Sheila was surprised that Piloswine had been found. "This is a miracle" she said. Misty, Tomo and Brock were happy for Pryce too. Pryce turned to Ash. "Ash I thank you for helping me find Piloswine," he said "and for making me realize that I had been wrong about humans and pokemon being friends being ridiculous". "I'm glad that you finally knew the real truth about Piloswine's disappearance" said Ash. "I now agree to challenge you to a gym match Ash," said Pryce "but we shall have the challenge tomorrow. I need to get my Piloswine healed at the pokemon center". "I understand" said Ash. "I shall also need to phone my son and daughter and explain to them about Piloswine and also apologize to them for always trying to make them to never befriend their pokemon". "I'm sure they will understand after you tell them about Piloswine" said Ash.
And so Pryce got his Piloswine to recover in the pokemon center and Ash and the gang spent the night at the pokemon center.
The next day it was now time for Ash to battle Pryce and earn his seventh gym badge. "Okay," said Ash "I'm ready now". He and the others were walking back to Mahogany Gym. "You better watch out for Piloswine Ash," said Brock "I mean I know Pryce and Piloswine were separated for forty years, but Sheila told us that he and Piloswine were really tough opponents". "I know Brock," said Ash "but you don't need to worry, because I have the perfect pokemon to fight Piloswine". "Oh" replied Brock. He, Misty and Tomo couldn't wait to see Ash's strategy.
At that time Pryce was at the gym, tending to his ice pokemon. Outside the gym were small pools of ice for his ice pokemon to roam around in. Apart from Piloswine and a Dewgong, Pryce had a couple of Seel, a Cloyster, and a couple of Shellder, a Lapras and a Jynx with a couple of Smoochum. He even had a couple of Swinub. Sheila was in the gym too, seeing how Pryce and his pokemon were doing. "Seeing you tend to Piloswine like this brings me back to our younger years" she said. "Me too," said Pryce "and I have Ash to thank for this". Sheila agreed.
At that moment Ash and the gang arrived at the gym. Pryce greeted the gang and couldn't wait to battle Ash. Misty asked about how their son and daughter reacted when Pryce told them about Piloswine. "They were happy for their dad for finding Piloswine," said Sheila "and they are coming here tomorrow, along with their children, to see Piloswine". "Glad to hear that" said Misty.
Pryce led the gang to the battlefield, inside the gym. The battlefield was an ice rink, with a little pool, and lots of blocks of ice. "Wow what a battlefield" said Ash. "Since I own an ice type gym, I like to make it icy" said Pryce. Ash couldn't wait to get the battle started and walked onto his side of the battlefield, while Pryce walked onto his side. Tomo, Misty and Brock stood behind Ash and Sheila took her place as the referee at the side.
Now the match had begun. Pryce sent out Dewgong to battle and Ash sent out Hitmontop to battle. "Be careful on the battlefield Hitmontop," said Ash "the ice will be very slippery". Hitmontop nodded to understand. Pryce ordered his Dewgong to use ice beam at Hitmontop, and Dewgong fired a beam of ice towards Hitmontop. Ash told Hitmontop to use double team to avoid being struck by the ice beam. The idea worked; the ice beam attack only hit one of the copies. "Clever Ash, but it's not enough, use blizzard Dewgong" said Pryce. Dewgong fired a blizzard attack at the copies, and the copies vanished one by one. "Quick jump into the water" said Ash. The real Hitmontop quickly jumped into the pool just in time to dodge the blizzard attack. "Using the pool was a good idea to dodge the blizzard attacks" said Brock. "I'm glad that Hitmontop knows how to swim, even though it's not a water type" said Misty. Pryce had Dewgong to dive into the pool and use headbutt on Hitmontop. Tomo, Misty and Brock feared that this could be trouble, because Dewgong's horn was something to never underestimate, especially in the water. But Ash just looked calm. "Now use close combat" he said to Hitmontop. Hitmontop punched and kicked very quick and hard, and Dewgong got punched out of the water. "No Dewgong!" shouted Pryce. "Now finish it with gyro ball" said Ash. Hitmontop began to spin really fast, with his arms and legs glowing blue, and then Hitmontop spun into Dewgong. Dewgong got pushed back onto a block of ice and then it fainted. "Dewgong is unable to battle," said Sheila "this battle goes to Hitmontop".
Ash and Hitmontop were happy with their first victory. Tomo, Misty and Brock were happy for them too. Brock explained that close combat was a fighting type move, and that gyro ball was a steel type move, which was why they had a great effect on Dewgong. "Trust Ash to use the right pokemon for the matches" said Misty. Pryce returned Dewgong. "You did well my friend" he said. Because they found Piloswine, Pryce had started treating his pokemon as friends again. "I can tell Ash that you and your pokemon have a lot of trust with each other. And that your bond is very strong". "I didn't make it up you know when I told you yesterday about my pokemon and I being best friends Pryce" said Ash. Pryce smiled in agreement, and even Sheila could see the strong bond between Ash and his pokemon.
Pryce sent out his next pokemon; Piloswine. "I had a feeling that he would use Piloswine," said Ash "be careful Hitmontop, this Piloswine may be tough to beat". Hitmontop got ready to fight. Misty wondered how well Piloswine would do because of the pool. Brock explained that Piloswine was also a ground type, so it would be weak against the water. "I wonder what will happen?" said Tomo. Pryce ordered Piloswine to use blizzard. The blizzard was thick and strong and it was hard to see what was going on. "Now Piloswine use take-down" said Pryce. Piloswine charged at Hitmontop and tackled him really hard. Hitmontop got tackled into an ice block and fainted. "Hitmontop is unable to battle," said Sheila "this battle goes to Piloswine".
Misty couldn't believe that Piloswine could do take-down, with the pool in the way. But then she and the others noticed that the pool was frozen in ice. "That blizzard attack must have done that," said Brock "and now Piloswine can move anywhere it wants to on the ice field". Ash returned Hitmontop and sent out Scizor. "Scizor's a good choice," said Brock "as it's a steel type, Piloswine's ice moves won't do much damage to it". "Yeah and steel type beats ice types" said Misty.
Ash told Scizor to fly over the battlefield, so that Scizor wouldn't have trouble on the icy field. "Sorry Pryce," he said "but I came prepared just in case I would have to deal with a slippery icy field". Pryce smiled. "I'm impressed of you being prepared Ash," he said "but Piloswine and I are not going to be thrown off by this. Piloswine use blizzard". Piloswine fired a blizzard attack at Scizor, but Ash fired Scizor counter it with flash cannon, and the flash cannon broke the blizzard apart. "Great Scizor now use steel wing" said Ash. Scizor flew towards Piloswine, with his wings glowing white, and then he struck Piloswine with the steel wing attack. "Piloswine use rest" said Pryce. Piloswine went to sleep and began to heal itself. "Quick Scizor use bullet punch" said Ash. Scizor quickly rushed over to Piloswine, with his pincers glowing white, and then he punched Piloswine hard. "No Piloswine," said Pryce. At that time Piloswine woke up. "Quick use fury attack" said Pryce. Piloswine hit Scizor hard with its fury attack. "Fight back with Iron head Scizor" said Ash. The top of Scizor's head glowed white, and then head-butted Piloswine hard.
After a lot of attacks Piloswine and Scizor were still willing to fight. "This is some battle," said Brock "both Piloswine and Scizor still have the will to fight on". "Yeah and Piloswine is putting up a real fight, even though it hasn't battled for forty years" said Misty. "This is exciting" said Tomo.
Ash and Pryce were enjoying this gym battle very much. Pryce ordered his Piloswine to use take-down and Ash ordered Scizor to use bullet punch. After the tackling and punching, Ash was about to give Scizor another command. But then Pryce threw in a towel, which meant that it was forfeiting the match. And since Pryce forfeited the battle, this meant that Ash was the winner of the gym battle. Pryce explained that the reason he quitted was because he didn't want Piloswine to be more hurt than it already was, especially since it had been in a block of ice for forty years. Ash understood at once.
Pryce and Piloswine walked over to Ash. "Ash in all my years as a trainer, I have never had a battle with a trainer like you," he said "I found your strength as a pokemon trainer really remarkable". "Thank you Pryce," said Ash "and I had a great time battling your Piloswine". Pryce took something out of his pocket. "Ash because of your victory I present to you the Glacier Badge". The Glacier badge was light blue and white, in the shape of a hexagon and with a snowflake design. Ash thanked Pryce and accepted it. "Only one more gym badge to go" he smiled.
After the gym battle was over, the gang got ready to leave Mahogany Town. "I thank you again Ash for helping me find my long lost Piloswine and for helping me lose my cold personality towards pokemon and humans" said Pryce. "Think nothing of it," said Ash "I'm glad I was able to help". "Well I wish you luck on the rest of the journey Ash" said Pryce, shaking Ash's hand. The gang said goodbye to Pryce and Sheila and left Mahogany Town.
Since Sheila was Pryce's wife in the games, I decided to mention that in the story. I don't how many children Pryce had, so I made it up. I don't why in the cartoon; they had Ash use Phanpy against Dewgong I mean that's a silly thing to do. I also don't understand why Ash used Pikachu instead of Totodile in the cartoon; electric moves wouldn't work on Piloswine, but water moves do since Piloswine is part ground type. They should have had a Jynx in the gym because Pryce uses Jynx in most of the games. I meant to show Pikachu's egg move when Ash scanned him in chapter two, but I forgot about that I do apologize for the confusion.