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 76
Fortree Gym
Another training day
And Lilycove Contest
Today the gang had arrived at Fortree City, where Ash could earn his next gym badge. Fortree City was different from other cities because everyone lived in tree houses instead of buildings. Apparently this city was one of those quiet forest settlements where humans and nature coexist. To Ash, Tomo and Brock this reminded them of Arborville in Johto because it was nearly the same as Fortree City. Ash and the gang headed for the Fortree Gym, which was a temple with a lot of steps. But the gym assistant, Zachary, explained that the gym leader Winona was helping out at the feather carnival. The feather carnival was an annual festival where the people of the city celebrated flying type pokemon. Apparently flying pokemon were the favorite pokemon type of Fortree City. Ash didn't mind waiting for tomorrow to battle Winona; he had a fun time at the carnival and it gave him enough time to figure out what pokemon he would use for the gym battle. Ash also found out that Winona used flying type pokemon and she owned a Skarmory which was bigger than its normal size; it was big enough for people to ride on it. Winona was a woman, with lavender air, and the pale blue and white clothes she wore made her look like a pilot.
The next day the whole carnival was over with and Ash and Winona were at the gym for their battle. The battle field was located at the top of the gym; it was outside instead of inside. Ash and Winona stood on elevated balconies about the battlefield. Zachary explained that the gym rules were that it was a three on three pokemon battle. Winona did a prayer to the sky to guide her in this battle; Winona actually worshiped the sky as well as loving it. Then she called out her first pokemon, an Altaria. "Oh wow it's an Altaria, a dragon and flying type move" said Max.
May looked at Altaria on her pokedex: Altaria the humming pokemon. The evolved form of Swablu. It flies gracefully through the sky. Its melodic humming makes you feel like you're in a dream.
"So my Swablu evolves into that huh?" said May. She sent out her Swablu and told it to watch the battle carefully. "I'll be using you in battles soon Swablu, so pay attention to this". Swablu chirped as if to say 'okay'. Ash sent out his Milotic to battle. "So it's a battle between two beautiful pokemon" said May. "Water types aren't usually strong against dragon, but there's no doubt that Ash knows what he's doing" said Max.
Ash ordered Milotic to start it off with dragon pulse, but Altaria dodged it. Apparently Altaria was one of those speedy pokemon. Then Winona ordered her Altaria to use dragon breath. "Use your special move Milotic" said Ash. The move was of course mirror coat and as soon as the dragon breath attack hit Milotic it bounced off and struck Altaria. "That mirror coat move always makes me say wow," said May "I hope that I will earn a pokemon in the future that can learn that". "Yeah me too" said Max. Winona was also surprised by that attack, but she kept on going. She ordered Altaria to use peck. Altaria, being so fast, was able to peck at Milotic lots of times. "Use safeguard Milotic" said Ash. Milotic glowed green and it stopped Altaria from pecking it any more. "Now use blizzard". Milotic blew a strong blizzard attack and Altaria got hit by it. Being a dragon and flying type pokemon, Altaria took a lot of damage from that ice move. "Altaria use your sky attack" said Winona. Altaria powered up, while a white aura surrounded its body, and then it flew straight into Milotic with a direct hit. Milotic got hurt by that attack, but she was still willing to fight. "Wow that sky attack move was incredible" said May. "Sky attack is one of the strongest flying type moves" said Max. Winona ordered her Altaria to use dragon breath again and Ash ordered Milotic to use hydro pump. Milotic and Altaria struck each other with their attacks. The two pokemon panted for a moment, but then they all fell to the ground in defeat. So this match was a draw.
Winona was impressed with Ash's skill as a trainer and returned her Altaria. Her next pokemon was a Pelipper. Ash returned his defeated Milotic and sent out his Manectric. As Pelipper was water and flying type, an electric type would be stronger. Ash ordered his Manectric to use thunderbolt. "Use your steel wing Pelipper" said Winona. Pelipper's wings glowed white and then touched the battle ground. At that moment it got hit by Manectric's thunderbolt. But it didn't cause a lot of damage. Because Pelipper was using steel wing, the wings were attacking as lightning rods, which is why the thunderbolt did less damage than normal to Pelipper. Ash decided to do something else; he ordered Manectric to use swift. The stars struck Pelipper and Pelipper ended up stopping of using steel wing and let go of the ground. "Use hydro pump Pelipper" said Winona. Pelipper fired hydro pump at Manectric and he got it by it. "Use your thunder bolt again Manectric" said Ash. While still being hit by the hydro pump, Manectric fired a thunder bolt attack. The electric attack struck Pelipper very hard this time as it wasn't using steel wing anymore, and it fainted. So Ash only had to defeat one more of Winona's pokemon and then he would win the badge.
Winona's last pokemon was a Swellow, but this Swellow was shiny. Instead of being the normal navy blue and red, this Swellow was green and orange, but the white feathers were still the same. "You okay to fight again?" Ash asked Manectric. Manectric nodded to say yes. Winona ordered her Swellow to use aerial ace, and Manectric got hit fast and hard. "Try to hit Swellow with your ice fang Manectric" said Ash. Manectric's fangs glowed icy blue and it tried to bite down on Swellow, but it was too fast. "Manectric knows ice fang?" asked Max. "Oh yes, Manectric knows a lot of moves;" said Tomo "he knows leer, howl, thunder wave, spark, thunderbolt, quick attack, headbutt, swift, bite and the egg moves crunch, ice fang, thunder fang and fire fang. My Electrike knows the same moves too". May, Max and Brock were impressed with that. Winona ordered her Swellow to use hyper beam. Ash tried to tell Manectric to dodge the attack, but it was too late. Manectric got hit by the hyper beam attack and fainted. "Wow I didn't expect that; that Swellow knowing hyper beam" said Max. "I wonder what Ash will do now" said May. Ash only had one more pokemon to use now.
Ash decided to use Swellow now, so this was a Swellow vs Swellow battle. "Why is Ash using Swellow and not Pikachu?" asked May. "As this is a flying type gym Ash wanted to use Swellow for this gym battle," explained Brock "he likes battling in battles which are a pokemon versing the same pokemon and type". "I look forward to this battle Ash" said Winona. Apparently she liked to fight against other opponents who also had flying type pokemon. The elevated balconies rose high above the battlefield; as this was a flying vs flying pokemon battle, Winona wanted to have this battle higher in the sky. Ash noticed how windy it was and he told his Swellow to be careful.
Ash ordered his Swellow to use aerial ace and Winona told hers to do the same. The two Swellows were tackling each other like crazy. "Okay Swellow use your hyper beam" said Winona. Her Swellow was about to use hyper beam, but Ash ordered his Swellow to dodge it with quick attack. Thankfully Swellow was able to dodge it before the hyper beam attack could hit him. "Ash was lucky this time," said Brock "but that Swellow has better battling experience in the sky than Ash's". May and Max feared that Ash may ending up losing this battle. Even Brock and Tomo decided that this was a difficult battle for Ash. Ash discovered right away that Winona was a strong trainer and that her Swellow was pretty tough. He had to think of something or he would lose. Suddenly he noticed something; he realized that the wind was picking up the dust on the battle field. This gave him a bit of an idea. "Swellow dive towards the ground" he said. Ash's Swellow dived towards the battlefield at full speed and Winona's Swellow did the same to go after Ash's Swellow. It was like two biplanes heading towards the ground at full speed. "They're going to crash!" cried Max. The gang had no idea what Ash was thinking. As soon as the two Swellows headed towards the ground, Winona ordered her Swellow to use aerial ace. Then Ash ordered his Swellow to hit the ground with wing attack. As soon as Swellow hit the ground with wing attack, he made a lot of dust fly everywhere, making it look like a sand attack. Because of the dust, Winona's Swellow lost its concentration of its aerial ace attack. "Okay Swellow use your egg move; brave bird" said Ash. A blue flame colored aura surrounded Swellow and then he tackled Winona's Swellow hard. Winona's Swellow got hit hard by that attack and it fell to the ground, defeated. Zachary proclaimed Ash the winner of the gym match.
May and Max were surprised by the brave bird attack; they had never seen it before. Brock explained to them that brave bird was the second strongest flying type move, next to sky attack. He also explained to them that trainers and pokemon had to be careful with the move brave bird; pokemon who knows and uses brave bird receives damage after using it, so this move was a little bit dangerous. It was same with the moves double-edge, volt tackle, flare blitz and wood hammer because the users of these moves would receive damage after using them. Tomo was happy to see Swellow using brave bird. He explained to the others that Swellow tried to use it when he was still a Taillow, but was never able to do it right. "It was probably because Taillow was a small bird pokemon and could only master it when it evolved to Swellow, because it's a bigger bird" said Brock.
Winona returned her Swellow and thought that this was the best gym battle she ever had. She congratulated Ash and thanked him. "I enjoyed the battle as much as you Winona" said Ash. Winona presented Ash the Fortree Gym badge. This badge was called the Feather Badge and it was white-green colored and it was the shape of a bird's wing. So Ash had six gym badges now.
Sometime after the Fortree City gym battle, Ash had decided to spend a day with training his pokemon. May thought of that too because a pokemon contest was coming up and she wanted to practice for it. So the gang agreed that they would stop traveling for the day.
May decided to train with her Swablu, Combusken and her Bulbasaur. Her Swablu was female and she knew sing, peck, fury attack, safeguard, mist and the egg move feather dance. As May didn't do well with Bulbasaur at the Rubello Contest, she intended to work hard with Bulbasaur this time. Combusken had certainly grown up ever since it was a Torchic and it started to become a strong pokemon for May. Apart from knowing peck, ember, fire spin, quick attack and scratch, Combusken knew double kick, sky uppercut and slash.
With Ash, he was training his Breloom and Nuzleaf. Breloom and Nuzleaf had become quite strong ever since they evolved from Shroomish and Seedot. Apart from knowing tackle, stun spore, poison powder leech seed, bullet seed, sludge bomb, spore, headbutt, sunny day, bullet seed and the egg move wake-up slap, Breloom now knew synthesis, mach punch, counter, sky uppercut and energy ball. For Nuzleaf, it knew bide, sunny day, nature power, sunny day, solar beam, explosion, synthesis, bullet seed, energy ball, razor leaf, brick break, dark pulse and the egg move quick attack. As for Brock, Max and Tomo, they were also spending the day with their pokemon.
But they weren't the only ones that were taking the day off training their pokemon; Jessie and James had also decided to train their pokemon. Meowth was complaining that they should be working on planning of stealing pokemon for the boss. Jessie explained that stealing pokemon was the reason why they needed to train to get stronger. "The reason we get beaten by people is because their pokemon are stronger than ours" she said. "Yeah and sure you Meowth, a pokemon, would know the only way for our pokemon to get stronger is to train" said James. "And you Meowth should train too," said Jessie "you may act like a human, but you are still a pokemon". Meowth couldn't think of another way to argue anymore so he went off to train himself, and Jessie and James got to work on their pokemon. James had a new pokemon on his team; a Chimecho. Chimecho was a light blue psychic pokemon with red markings, a yellow globular growth and it looked like a wind chime. He caught it the other day.
Meowth walked into some part of a wood. "I'll show them," he said "if I train myself then I will show them that I can be tough like the other pokemon". He was just thinking on what to do, when suddenly he heard a thumping noise. "Sounds like somebody is whacking a tree very hard" he said. He went to see what the noise and then he saw what was making the noise. It was a Zigzagoon and it seemed to be using headbutt on the tree. "What are you doing?" Meowth asked the Zigzagoon. The Zigzagoon explained to Meowth, in its pokelanguage, that a Linoone was teaching the Zigzagoons hoy to use headbutt and swift. "I see so you are practicing now before you learn those attacks from Linoone right?" said Meowth. Zigzagoon nodded yes. Just then Meowth had a thought. 'This is it,' he thought 'I could ask the Linoone to teach me headbutt and swift too. My kind can learn those two moves and then I can show them off to Jessie and James'. He asked the Zigzagoon if he could go with him to see the Linoone because he wished to learn headbutt and swift too, and Zigzagoon agreed.
Zigzagoon brought Meowth to a location of the forest where there were many Zigzagoon and Linoones. Zigzagoon introduced Meowth to the Linoone, who was teaching swift and headbutt, and the Linoone agreed to help him learn headbutt and swift. Meowth was warned that the training would be tough but he was willing to go through it.
Meanwhile, the gang were enjoying some lunch. But then something strange started to happen. May noticed a rice ball was moving about all by itself along the grass. "We've got ghosts!" she cried. "No we haven't," said Ash, calmly, "that is a Kecleon". He pointed to a red stripe that was moving along the grass. "Kecleon can't hide their stripe when they are invisible". Pikachu did a light thundershock to startle the invisible Kecleon, and then Kecleon revealed itself. "See what I mean May?" asked Ash. "Yes I do" answered May.
She took out her pokedex: Kecleon, the colour swap pokemon. It can freely change its body's colour. The zigzag pattern on its belly doesn't change, however.
Max started to grin like a clown and told his Loudred to get ready to fight. "What are you doing Max?" asked May. "What do you think I'm doing May?" said Max "I am going to catch this Kecleon. Kecleon are hard to find, so this is my chance of catching one". "He's got a point about that" said Brock. So Max and Loudred got ready to catch the Kecleon.
At that time Jessie and James were taking a break with their pokemon. "I don't know about you James, but this is tough" said Jessie. "Yeah but some good things come out of this;" said James "our pokemon end up learning some new moves and they get stronger this way". "That's true," said Jessie "my Wingull here has learned new moves; it's learned air cutter, aerial ace, and steel wing. And so has my dear Loudred; she's learned ice, fire and thunder punch". "Exactly, and my Chimecho has learned some psychic moves; confusion, psywave and psychic. And thanks to some of my grass pokemon it knows energy ball now. I'm telling you Jess, at this rate we may end up stronger than Butch and Cassidy". "I hope you're right because I would love to beat Cassidy in a pokemon battle" said Jessie. "Speaking off pokemon, I wonder where Meowth went?" said James. "I don't know, maybe he went off to train himself" said Jessie. "That will make a change" replied James.
All the while Meowth was training hard with the Zigzagoons and Linoones to learn headbutt and swift. He kept on getting bumps on the head because of hitting the tree so much with his head and he got cramp in his tail because he had to swing his tail around so much to learn swift. Apparently the way that a Meowth and its evolution Persian could do swift was by the tail. Meowth wasn't willing to give up on learning swift and headbutt; he wanted to learn those two moves even if it cost him his head and tail. 'It feels strange this trying to learn a new move thing,' he thought 'I mean ever since I learnt to talk and walk, I never tried to learn a new move ever again. Especially since I'm not like other Meowth anymore. But truthfully I feel pretty good doing this. In fact I feel stronger than I ever felt before and I feel that a power is waking up within me'. It was at that moment when the brown turf on Meowth's tail started to glow and then stars came out of his tail; he had learnt swift at last. "I don't believe it, I did it!" cried Meowth, happily. He swung his tail and performed swift again. The Zigzagoon and Linoone saw that and congratulated Meowth on his success. Meowth then practiced on headbutt and slash some more and he learnt them too. "I can't believe that I really learnt swift, headbutt and slash" he said. He turned to the Zigzagoon and Linoone. "Thank you for helping me learn three new moves". He had never been so grateful in his life. Zigzagoon and Linoone were happy to have helped Meowth. Soon Meowth decided it was time for him to get back to Jessie and James, so he bid farewell to the Zigzagoons and Linoones and left the area.
By now Jessie and James had finished their training with the pokemon. "I think we did brilliantly with our training Jessie," said James, who was smiling like a happy child, "all of our pokemon has learned many new moves and my dear Shroomish evolved into Breloom". James' Breloom was happy that it evolved from Shroomish too. "I agree with you on that James" said Jessie. She and James returned all of their pokemon for a rest. Just then Meowth turned up. "Where had you been Meowth?" asked James. "Learning some new moves" answered Meowth. He demonstrated his new swift, headbutt and slash attacks. Jessie and James were amazed by that. "Wow Meowth, I never thought I'd see the day that you would learn some new moves" said Jessie. "It wasn't easy, but I did it after a lot of training" said Meowth. "I take you got my point when I said that training helps a pokemon become stronger" said James. "Yeah I get it, but we still having decided on our next move yet" said Meowth. "Say no more" said James.
James got out his laptop and typed in something. "I figured this pokemon should be our next target" he said. He showed a picture of a Kecleon on the lap top. "This creepy lizard thing?" said Jessie. "That Jessie is a Kecleon, and it has the ability to become invisible by camouflaging around objects" said Meowth. "That's right and Team Rocket can use that ability to steal things" said James. Jessie saw the point, and the trio agreed to go and gather Kecleons.
At that time, the gang were getting ready to leave and continue on their journey. "I feel ready now for the contest after that training" said May. "I feel happy because I have a Kecleon for myself" said Max, He and Loudred succeeded on catching the Kecleon. "Yeah but now it's time to go" said Ash. So the gang left the area.
Today the gang had arrived at a city called Lilycove City; there the next pokemon contest was being held tomorrow. There Ash and May met another pokemon coordinator named Kelly and her pokemon Grumpig. Grumpig was a purple, black and pink pig like psychic pokemon and its pink tail looked like a big spring. Kelly and her mother also owned a shop where they made and sold pokeblocks. The gang remembered about making pokeblocks and using the berry blender from Mr Big, back at Slateport City. Since they had come to a pokeblock shop, they decided to make some pokeblocks for their pokemon today. Even May was confident of making pokeblocks now. Kelly and her mother were happy to hear that the gang knew how to make pokeblocks. Kelly also told Ash and May that she was going to enter the pokemon contest tomorrow. So Ash and May had another rival to deal with tomorrow.
Next day it was time for the contest. Ash was going to use Corphish and May was going to use Combusken. Brock, Tomo and Max sat in the audience seat and Ash, May and Kelly was in the waiting room. Vivian did the normal opening speech and introductions, and then she showed off the Lilycove Ribbon. The Lilycove Ribbon was purple, with light purple spots and a light green outline.
May was first in the appeal rounds and she called out Combusken. "Start things off with fire spin Combusken". Combusken spun round and created a fiery tornado. "Cut that with slash Combusken". Combusken slash through the tornado, making it rain of balls of fire. "Now use sky uppercut". Combusken slashed through the balls of fire with sky uppercut and then it rained little bits of flames. Combusken kneeled to the ground for a finish. The audience thought it was incredible with how Combusken dealt with a fiery performance. Nurse Joy and Mr Suziko liked the performance too. As for Mr Contesta, he did like the performance but he saw that Combusken was showing off a bit during the performance. This was true really; Combusken acted like he was the lord of fire during that performance especially since this was his first contest. Mr Contesta was one of those judges who could see any faults and anything else like that. So May got a point of 23.6. This made May hope that this score was high enough for her to get into the second round.
Soon it was Kelly's turn with her Grumpig. First Grumpig did a springy entrance with its springy tail. Then Kelly threw out some pokeblocks from her pokeblock case and Grumpig used psychic to juggle them and then ate them to finish. The audience and judges liked the performance and Kelly got a score of 27.7. Then it was Ash's turn and he called out his Corphish. "Let's start with harden Corphish". Corphish's body glowed white and then it shined a bit. "Now show them your bubblebeam". Corphish opened his pincers and fired blue bubbles from them. "Now use night slash Corphish". Corphish's pincers glowed dark purple and then he slashed all the bubbles, making them pop. A shower of blue and purple sparkles flew everywhere, and the audience and judges liked it. Ash got a full total of 30.0.
After all the preliminary rounds were over it was soon times for the second rounds. This time, eight pokemon coordinators made it past the preliminaries and Ash, Kelly and May were three of them. May was relieved that she got into the second round, considering her low score. Ash, May and Kelly easily defeated their opponents in the top 8 rounds, and when it came to the top 4 rounds May had to face a male opponent named Sid and Ash had to face Kelly.
Fighting against Kelly and her Grumpig wasn't easy for Ash and Corphish. Kelly's Grumpig's psychic move made it hard for Corphish to do anything because Grumpig kept Corphish high and still in the air. Corphish tried to fight back with bubble beam, but the psychic move kept on preventing him from doing anything. In the end Ash and Corphish lost, and Kelly and Grumpig went to the last round. May won against Sid too, so May and Kelly had to fight each other now for the ribbon.
When it was now Combusken vs Grumpig, Grumpig used the same psychic move it used on Corphish. So Combusken was held high and still in the air. But May got an idea; she ordered her Combusken to use fire spin at the ceiling. When Combusken did that, the flames got thrown back by the ceiling and a rain of flames fell everywhere. Grumpig got hit by the rain of flames and became distracted a bot from using psychic. "May turned this match around like a chess game," said Brock "she figured that Kelly was going to use her Grumpig's move psychic, like she did when she battled Ash, so she found a way to fight back at it with that rain of flames. And Grumpig can't do anything about it because it's too busy using psychic". "This was a great strategy" said Tomo. "Yeah, I can't believe that my sister really came up with that" said Max. Ash and Pikachu, who were still in the waiting room, saw May's strategy. "May has grown up now with pokemon battling Pikachu," said Ash "before she was the nervous type who had no idea of what to do in a battle. But now she really has gotten better at battling". Pikachu agreed. At that moment Grumpig stopped using psychic and then both Grumpig and Combusken fell towards the ground. May quickly told Combusken to grab Grumpig and use flamethrower on the ground. The flamethrower acted like a rocket to help both Combusken and Grumpig get onto the ground safely. After that the time was up and May was the winner of the match and pokemon contest.
The judges were happy with May's kindness and they happily presented her the Lilycove Ribbon. Kelly and the gang congratulated May for her win and Kelly hoped to go against May in a pokemon contest again one day. May was happy to have earned a third ribbon and happy to have gained a new friend and rival.
Sorry for the wait. I know in chapter 62 I said that Taillow's egg move was sky attack, but I decided to switch it to brave bird, because I think that egg move suits Taillow and Swellow better. I also changed it on chapter 62. Now I don't know about you readers, but Meowth didn't even try to learn some new moves in the anime. So I've made him less wimpy to get stronger and learn new moves. I've put up a poll asking if Meowth should relearn pay day and screech from a pokemon move relearner and find some TM's for more new moves. So please leave votes for that.