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. I do not own pokemon.
Note: I am not doing the Kalos Region. So fairy pokemon and Mega Evolutions don't exist.
Chapter 109
Dawn's start of Sinnoh
Ash and Tomo's start of Sinnoh
And Meeting Paul
Out in the region called Sinnoh, a blue haired girl was waking up. Her name was Dawn and today she was going to start on her first pokemon journey because she was now ten years old. As soon as Dawn woke up she began to make herself look neat and tidy; she was very, very fussy of how she looked especially with her hair. And since today was a very special day for her she wanted to look perfect. She was wearing a black V-neck tank top with a white undershirt and a pink skirt, gold hair clips that hold up her hair in front. "Perfect" said Dawn.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. A blue haired woman named Johanna entered Dawn's room; it was her mother. Johanna had a grey and white cat type pokemon called a Glameow. "I'm glad to see that you are up early dear" said Johanna. "I am ten years old mum" replied Dawn. Dawn was quite a boastful girl.
Over breakfast Johanna checked to see if Dawn had everything she needed. Dawn explained that she had everything packed and she also had the postcard Prof Rowan gave her. In the Sinnoh region Prof Rowan gave out starter pokemon to beginning trainers. The three starters were a grass type called Turtwig, a fire type called Chimchar and a water type Piplup. Turtwig was a green and brown turtle type pokemon with a stick at the top of its head and Chimchar was a monkey type pokemon. Dawn hadn't decided yet which of the three she wanted but she knew it would be special to her since it would be her very first pokemon. Dawn's dream was to become a top coordinator like her mother was in the past. Johanna had many trophies and things she won from pokemon contests in the past. Johanna warned her daughter that she would have to learn to be a great pokemon trainer and breeder before she could become a top coordinator like her.
It was soon time for Dawn to leave for Prof Rowan's lab. His lab was in the next town called Sandgem Town. But Dawn wasn't exactly ready. All the things that Dawn packed were just clothes and jewelry in a big suitcase; she wasn't good of packing sensibly. Johanna packed the real things Dawn needed in a light yellow back pack and gave it to Dawn. "This is what you really need" she said. One last thing she gave Dawn was her first contest ribbon she won in life for luck; it was old and dirty now. Dawn put on a white beanie with a pink pokeball print on it and pink knee-high boots with black socks underneath and now she was ready. She got out her red bike, said goodbye to her mum and set off for Sandgem Town.
Once Dawn reached Sandgem Town, she tried to search for Prof Rowan's lab. But the problem was even though she had the map for the lab on the postcard she couldn't read the map because she was terrible at reading maps. She tried to find it but to no avail. Suddenly she bumped into an old man wearing a lab coat; he was Prof Rowan. Dawn apologized and explained that she was lost on finding his lab. Luckily for her Prof Rowan was going back to his lab so he would lead her there himself. "Lucas warned me there was a chance you might lose your way to my lab Dawn," said Prof Rowan "he told me you had terrible sense of direction". Dawn frowned at that comment. Lucas was a childhood friend of Dawn's but he always teased her about her terrible sense of direction and things like that. "How is Lucas doing?" asked Dawn "I heard he became an assistant to you". "He is but at the moment he's out traveling with his pokemon" answered Prof Rowan. Dawn hoped she would get to see him again.
When they arrived at the lab, they saw there was a broken window, papers and books all over the floor, the assistants panicking and only a Turtwig around. A Chimchar and a Piplup were missing. A man named Yuzo, who was one of Prof Rowan's assistants, explained the mess at once. What happened was after the assistants fed the three starter pokemon, the Chimchar tried to steal Piplup's food. That made Piplup angry of course and it shot bubbles at Chimchar, and a fight broke out between Chimchar and Piplup. The assistants tried to calm them down but to no avail. And then the Starly and Starpator that were in the lab too went all panicky and they blew whirlwind attacks in the lab making the mess over the floor and broke the window. Then they flew out of the window and Piplup and Chimchar got out too. Prof Rowan was not happy with what happened, but he told everyone they had to get the pokemon back. Dawn offered to help; the quicker the pokemon were found the sooner she could get her starter pokemon. Prof Rowan accepted the help and told her the pokemon would likely be in the forest and he also warned her to be careful.
So Dawn went out into the forest to look for Piplup and Chimchar. She soon found them with Chimchar swinging on the trees and Piplup blowing bubbles at it. Piplup was still cross with Chimchar. Dawn tried to get Piplup to stop fighting, but Piplup ignored her and blew bubbles at her and took off again. "Oh man this is going to be hard" whined Dawn.
Dawn soon found Piplup again but it was stuck in a big web. A Zigzagoon, Ninjask, Pidgey, Weedle, Dunsparce and Rattata were stuck in the web too. Dawn was shocked and had to think of a way to get them out. But then an Ariados turned up and started attacking Dawn with sludge bomb. Dawn got the idea of getting Ariados to attack its own web; she placed herself in front of the big web and when Ariados attacked with sludge bomb again the web broke apart from the attack and all the pokemon were set free. Dawn grabbed Piplup and ran away. "Phew we are safe now" she sighed. She checked Piplup over to see if it was okay, but it pecked her on the face. "Hey!" shouted Dawn "I just saved you from that Ariados, you should be thankful!" Piplup chirped away; it was a spoiled brat sort of pokemon.
Suddenly trouble came up; a swarm of Ariados appeared; Dawn and Piplup had stumbled into their territory. One of them was purple with blue markings, instead of red and black markings, which meant it was a shiny. The Ariados attacked by trapping Piplup and Dawn with webs and attacked with poison sting too. Things were looking bad now. Just then Dawn remembered the container of food that Prof Rowan gave her, which was to help find Piplup and Chimchar. "Piplup we'll use the pokemon food to distract the Ariados and then we'll use bubblebeam to escape" she said. Once Dawn threw the food to all the Ariados, Piplup used bubblebeam to break the web cages apart so they could escape. But then the shiny Ariados caught Dawn by the leg with string shot. "Quick Piplup get out of here now!" shouted Dawn. But Piplup wasn't going to leave Dawn, especially since she had protected it so much. The Ariados threw a poison sting towards Dawn, but Piplup jumped in and it started to glow. It was using the move bide. Piplup released a blast of energy and made the Ariados swarm leave, but the shiny Ariados was still here. Dawn wasn't sure what to do because poor Piplup was exhausted to attack again and she only had a little bit of pokemon food left. But then something came out of her back pack; it was a black pokeball with red and yellow stripes. "Hey this is a luxury ball; mum must have packed this for me". A luxury ball was a pokeball that caught pokemon and made them friendlier. "Well I guess there is no other way". She threw the ball at Ariados and Ariados got sucked in. "It may not be a full capture, so we'll use this as an opportunity to escape". But Ariados was captured in the ball; so it seemed that Dawn just captured an Ariados. "I didn't exactly plan for that to happen on my first day as a trainer" she sighed. But she picked up the luxury ball to ask Prof Rowan what to do.
After all what had happened Dawn called this a good idea to get back to the lab, but first she and Piplup came to a big lake in the middle of the forest. This lake was called Lake Verity. Dawn saw Starly and Starpator with Chimchar, so Chimchar was heading back to the lab now. Suddenly a gust of wind appeared and ripples appeared on the lake. Dawn and Piplup watched in surprise as an invisible spirit came out of the lake and vanished again. "What was that?" asked Dawn, in surprise.
Dawn and Piplup went back to the lab at once and Dawn told the professor what happened at Lake Verity. Prof Roan explained that there were stories about a mysterious legendary pokemon living in the lake, so he assumed it's what Dawn saw. Dawn also told him about catching the shiny Ariados in her luxury ball. "Well Dawn you certainly have had quite a day," said Prof Rowan "and it's not every day that someone catches a shiny pokemon. So you should keep it and consider it your first chapter". Dawn wasn't sure, but since she did plan to catch more pokemon she couldn't argue to not keep it. One of Prof Rowan's assistant passed a tray over which carried a pink pokedex just for Dawn and five empty pokeballs. "So Dawn which of the Sinnoh Starter do you wish to take?" asked Prof Rowan "Turtwig, Chimchar or Piplup?" Dawn had already decided; she wanted Piplup, considering of how well she and Piplup worked together as a team to beat the Ariados swarm.
After getting Piplup and her own Pokedex, it was time for Dawn to leave and set off on her journey at last. Prof Rowan told her that she was always welcome to phone him if she needed help, and then he and his assistants said goodbye to her with lots of luck. Dawn said goodbye too and left on her bike.
This was the start of Dawn's first pokemon journey.
By now Ash and Tomo finally made it to Sinnoh on the boat. "I feel this journey is going to be great Ash" said Tomo. "So do I Tomo," said Ash "it will be fun to see all the places here in Sinnoh and catch new pokemon. And of course participate in the Sinnoh Grand Festival and Sinnoh pokemon League". Yes the Ketchum brothers thought that this Sinnoh journey would be great just like their previous journeys.
First up they had to call Prof Oak and tell him they made it to Sinnoh. Prof Oak was happy to see the boys had made it safely and told them that Prof Rowan lived in Sandgem Town. "Thanks Professor," said Ash "we'll phone you again once we get there". "Good luck you two and oh make sure you mind your manners when you meet Prof Rowan he can be quite strict" said Prof Oak. The brothers understood and promised to behave. They finished the phone call and set off for Sandgem Town.
Now it was time for the Ketchum brothers to start their new journey. "Keep your eyes peeled Tomo in case we run into any wild pokemon to catch" said Ash. "I will" replied Tomo. Pikachu and Growlithe kept their eyes open too. "Okay Riolu since this will be your first journey, you must pay attention to your surroundings too" said Ash. 'Yes Papa' said Riolu. Riolu was out of his pokeball and was riding on Ash's shoulders.
Just then they came across a beaver looking pokemon. "What's that?" asked Tomo.
He opened his new pokedex: Bidoof, the plump mouse pokemon. It lives in groups by the water. It chews up boulders and trees around its nest with its incisors.
"Cool that's my kind of pokemon" said Tomo. He ordered Growlithe to use flame wheel and Bidoof got knocked out at once. "Oops maybe Growlithe is a bit too strong to use" said Growlithe. "It doesn't matter," said Ash "it helps catching weaker pokemon easily, and it will show Bidoof of how strong Growlithe is. Now harry and catch it before it gets away". Tomo quickly tossed a pokeball and caught Bidoof. "Well done Tomo you got your first Sinnoh region pokemon" said Ash. This was true; Ash already had six Sinnoh region pokemon (including Leafeon and Glaceon) and Tomo didn't have any at all. So this was a good start for Tomo.
After the capture of Bidoof the Ketchum brothers set off again for Sandgem Town. Suddenly an Officer Jenny on her motorbike came up to the boys. "Are you two Ash and Tomo Ketchum from Pallet Town in Kanto?" she asked. "Yes we are, is there any problem?" said Ash. Officer Jenny had been asked by Prof Rowan if she could pick up Ash and Tomo and bring them to his lab. "Prof Rowan had heard about you two from Prof Oak in Kanto, and since you two are new here he figured you may not know how to get to the lab". The brothers were grateful and accepted the ride. Ash asked Officer Jenny if all the Officer Jennies and Nurse Joys all looked in the same in the Sinnoh region, and Officer Jenny said they were. Ash did have the feeling if it was like that but he wanted to know anyway.
Thanks to Officer Jenny, Ash and Tomo made it to Prof Rowan's lab. They saw at once of how strict Prof Rowan looked. "I have heard about you two boys," Prof Rowan said to Ash and Tomo "especially you Ash, Prof Oak told me you are quite an impressive trainer". "Oh well" said Ash. Prof Rowan saw Riolu on Ash's shoulder. "I impressed with you already since you have a Riolu, which are hard to find" he said. "I received Riolu as a gift back in Kanto;" said Ash "it's a long story". "Well I would like to hear this long story and other stories to have to tell," said Prof Rowan "as the matter of fact I think Dawn may want to hear these stories too". He explained to the boys about Dawn being a beginning trainer and she could possibly learn from Ash. Ash thought for a second. "Well Tomo and I can go and meet her," he said "besides we want to go and look for new pokemon to catch". Prof Rowan understood and told them that Dawn was probably out on Route 202 to look for pokemon herself. "You boys go and find her, come back here to the lab, and you can tell me about your journeys Ash and Tomo" he said. The boys understood and went off to search for Dawn.
Meanwhile Dawn was out searching for new pokemon to catch with Piplup, who was riding in the bike basket. They soon ran into a brown and cream coloured rabbit pokemon called Buneary.
Dawn looked at Buneary on her pokedex: Buneary, the rabbit pokemon. When it senses danger, it perks up its ears. On cold nights, it sleeps with its head tucked into its fur.
Dawn found it cute and wanted to catch it, so she told Piplup to use bubblebeam. But the Buneary dodged the bubbles and attacked Piplup with dizzy punch. Poor Piplup was knocked out thanks to that attack; it was clear that he was still rather weak. The Buneary got away and Piplup hung his head in shame. "Hey no need to worry Piplup," said Dawn "we can just try again. I'm sure we'll run into another Buneary later". Piplup picked himself up like nothing had happened; he was really full of pride.
Dawn and Piplup set off again and this time they ran into a black and green pokemon that looked like a very small bush.
Dawn looked at it on the pokedex: Burmy, the bagworm pokemon. To shelter itself from cold, wintry winds, it covers itself with a cloak made of twigs and leaves.
Piplup was up for another go but Dawn released her Ariados to weaken Burmy. She told it to use string shot and Burmy got wrapped up in the string. "I think that may have been a bit much" said Dawn. She suddenly remembered her pokeballs and threw one at the trapped Burmy. Burmy was caught. Dawn was happy. "Alright I caught a pokemon!" she cheered. It was then Ariados squirted its string at Dawn; it didn't like it that Dawn just praised herself. "Okay, okay you were great too Ariados" said Dawn, who didn't like having string stuck to her face. Shew returned Ariados. Piplup wasn't happy either because he wanted to battle Burmy. "Piplup you had your turn it was Ariados's turn this time, besides you got weakened by Buneary" said Dawn. Piplup still sulked. Dawn called this a good time to get to a pokemon center before anything else happens.
By now Ash and Tomo were still looking for new pokemon to catch, but then a big truck came out and Brock came out of the truck. "Brock, hello" said Ash, who was happy to see him again. "Tomo called me to say that you had returned from your training Ash," said Brock "so now I can travel in Sinnoh with you guys too". The Ketchum brothers were happy to hear that and so were Pikachu and Growlithe. Brock thanked the truck driver for the ride and then the truck left. Brock saw Riolu and asked Ash where he got it. "I'll tell you Brock when we get back to Prof Rowan's lab" said Ash. He explained to Brock that he and Tomo were searching for a beginning trainer named Dawn and then they were to go back to Prof Rowan's lab so Ash could explain everything. Brock understood and agreed to go with them too.
Just when the group started to go and search for Dawn a Starly appeared in front of them.
Ash looked at the Starly on his pokedex: Starly, the starling pokemon. They flock in great numbers. Though small, they flap their wings with great power.
"That's my kind of pokemon" said Ash, deciding to catch it. The Starly saw the group and started to charge with tackle. "Pikachu counter with quick attack" said Ash. Pikachu tackled the Starly with quick attack; as Pikachu was stronger than Pikachu, Starly fainted. Ash tossed a pokeball and caught Starly. "A new Sinnoh pokemon for me" said Ash. Starly's pokeball got transported to Prof Oak since Ash already had six pokemon on him.
With Brock back into the gang and a new pokemon captured the group could now continue searching for Dawn.
While Ash, Tomo, Brock and Dawn had been busy, Team Rocket was starting to make their new start in Sinnoh. They had spent four months resting, planning and refreshing up at James's vacation home and now it was time for them to get back to work.
While they had been there James picked up an old pokemon friend of his. It was a grass type pokemon called Carnivine and it was like a big venus flytrap. James had Carnivine ever since he was a boy. Another thing that happened was Jessie and James had evolved some of their pokemon. James had revealed to the others that his Roselia and Jessie's Sneasel could evolve. James evolved his Roselia into a pokemon called Roserade with an evolution stone called a shiny stone. Jessie evolved her Sneasel into a pokemon called Weavile with an item called a razor claw. How a razor claw worked was Sneasel had to train, while holding the item, only at night time, so that's what Jessie did to make Sneasel evolve. James had pointed out her new pokemon Aipom could evolve into a pokemon called Ambipom but Jessie thought Aipom wasn't ready yet and decided to evolve it later.
So now with evolving pokemon and all the resting done, the trio decided to go out and search for pokemon to give to the boss.
Meanwhile Dawn was at a pokemon center talking to her mum. She introduced her Piplup to Johanna and told her about her Ariados and her Burmy. "Well Dawn you certainly have had an interesting start on your journey" said Johanna. Dawn also told Johanna about her trying attempt to catch a Buneary but it failed. Piplup still sulked about that and he and Dawn started complaining to each other. It made Johanna wonder if Dawn and Piplup will be an okay pair. After her phone with her mum, Dawn also got a phone call from Prof Rowan. Prof Rowan told her about Ash and Tomo. "Once you meet up with them I want you to come back to my lab with them, Ash has plenty of stories I'm sure you'd like to listen to". Dawn thought that sounded interesting, and decided to wait for Ash outside the pokemon center.
At that time Ash, Brock and Tomo were still on their way to meet up with Dawn. Suddenly they saw a jolt of electricity in the sky. "What was that?" asked Tomo. "Must be a trainer battling a wild pokemon" said Brock. They decided to go and check it out to see what was going on.
In the forest there was a purpled hair guy named Paul and the jolt of electricity was from his Elekid. Paul was catching three Starly's. Just then the gang turned up. "Don't get in my way" said Paul; he had a rude attitude. "We are just passing through," said Ash "you haven't seen a girl names Dawn pass here have you?" Paul said he hadn't and then he saw Riolu. "Where'd you get that Riolu? Don't tell me that's your starter pokemon". "No Riolu isn't my starter, Pikachu is," said Ash "I received Riolu as a gift a week ago". Paul looked on in disbelief. "I saw you capture that Starly of yours earlier," he said "and you didn't think about catching the strongest there is". Ash frowned at Paul. Paul sent out his three Starly and scanned them with his pokedex, which was black. "I'm sure you know that you can found out the pokemon's moves with a pokedex and that's what I do". Ash already knew that because he has done that ever since he first became a pokemon trainer. After scanning Paul kept one of the Starly and released the other two. Ash, Tomo and Brock didn't like what they just saw. "I get it," said Ash "you just like catching strong pokemon and you toss the weaker pokemon away. You can't fool me because I have seen this before". "Doing that just saves you the grief of the long road" replied Paul. Ash started to dislike Paul, even though he just met him. "Come on Brock and Tomo," he said "I've had enough of this so let's just look for Dawn". So Ash, Tomo and Brock left, leaving Paul alone with his Elekid.
Meanwhile Dawn was in trouble. When she came out onto the green she got attacked by a machine. It was Team Rocket and they wanted her Piplup. James found out that Piplup was a water starter pokemon so they wanted it. Just before the mechanical arms could grab Piplup, it was zapped by a thunderbolt. It was from Pikachu; the gang had turned up just in time to help Dawn. "Why am I not surprised that you would be here Team Rocket?!" shouted Ash. Team Rocket were not happy to see that Ash had turned up to ruin their plans again, so they started to turn their machine on him. Ash released his Piplup, Shinx and two Aipoms and told them and Pikachu to attack the machine together. The two Aipoms used swift, Piplup used bubblebeam and Shinx used spark and Pikachu used volt tackle. Together the attacks broke the machine and Team Rocket was sent flying. So much for Team Rocket's start.
Dawn was grateful, just then she gasped when she saw Ash. "Hey I remember seeing you on TV at the Hoenn and Kanto grand festivals," she said to Ash "and they call you the Prince of Kanto". Ash was embarrassed and he didn't know he had that nickname. "Tell me Ash all about your contests please" said Dawn. "Wait till we get back to Prof Rowan's lab first," said Ash "he wants to hear everything too". So the group headed for Prof Rowan's lab again. What they didn't know was Paul had watched everything.
Once the group got back to the lab, Ash told all about his journeys in the Kanto, Orange Island, Johto and Hoenn regions. His times at the pokemon leagues and grand festivals and he also showed Prof Rowan and Dawn his psychic and aura abilities. "I was told about that from Prof Oak and he was right about you Ash" said Prof Rowan. Dawn was amazed with Ash's stories and about his powers. Last of all Ash told everyone of how he got Riolu, Piplup, Shinx and his Budew in Rota. "Well Ash you are pretty lucky" said Brock. Ash smiled. "Hey Ash are you going to participate in the contests here in Sinnoh too?" asked Dawn. "Yes I am" answered Ash. "Then please let me travel with you," said Dawn "I wish to learn from you about the contests and battles". The three boys were surprised from the sudden request. Prof Rowan thought it was a great idea; since Dawn was a beginning trainer, she could learn a whole lot from Ash, Tomo and Brock. The three boys saw nothing wrong with that and agreed to let Dawn join them. So Dawn became the new travelling partner of Ash, Tomo and Brock.
Just before the gang could leave to really start the journey, Paul came up. He introduced himself to Prof Rowan and explained that he was waiting for Ash. The thing is after seeing Ash's pokemon break Team Rocket's machine he wanted to battle Ash to see how strong his pokemon were, especially Pikachu. Ash accepted; it would be good to have a battle before the new journey begins.
They moved to the back garden of the lab to have the battle. Paul said it would be a 3 on 3 pokemon battle and no substitutions. Brock became the referee. Paul sent out his new Starly to battle first and Ash sent out his Piplup to battle first. Paul let Ash go first and Ash told his Piplup to use bubble. "Dodge that and use aerial ace" said Paul. Starly dodged the bubbles and moved in with aerial ace and Piplup got hit by it. "Use growl Piplup" said Ash. Piplup let out a loud cry and Starly got put off. "Now Piplup use steel wing". Piplup struck Starly with steel wing and Starly fainted. "That Piplup is something special" said Prof Rowan, and he told Dawn that Piplups don't really learn steel wing until they evolved to Empoleon. Dawn could see that Ash's Piplup was stronger than hers.
Paul returned his Starly. "You are worthless!" he said, rudely to Starly. He sent out a Chimchar next.
Tomo looked at Chimchar on the pokedex: Chimchar, the chimp pokemon. It is very agile. Before going to sleep, it extinguishes the flame on its tail to prevent fires.
"Chimchar's a fire type pokemon, so it will have a disadvantage over Piplup" said Tomo. "I see so water pokemon beats fire type pokemon" said Dawn. Paul started this time by telling Chimchar to use ember. "Counter that with bubble Piplup" said Ash. Piplup's bubble broke the ember attack. "Use bullet seed Chimchar" said Paul. Chimchar fired a bullet seed at Piplup and Piplup got hit by the attack. Prof Rowan was surprised with that and explained to the others that Chimchar aren't supposed to know bullet seed. "That means that Chimchar is special like big brother's Piplup" said Tomo. Piplup was hurt by that grass type move. Paul then told Chimchar to use scratch and Chimchar scratched Piplup. After that attack Piplup fainted. So now it was two pokemon each.
Ash returned Piplup. "You did well Piplup" he said. Next he sent out his female Aipom. Ash started off by telling Aipom to use swift, but Chimchar countered the attack with ember. Paul then told Chimchar to use flame wheel, but Aipom used bounce to get out of the way and then kicked Chimchar and bounced off it. "Aipom show that Chimchar your water pulse attack" said Ash. Aipom fired a water pulse attack from her mouth and Chimchar got hit by the water attack. Paul didn't expect that. "Now Aipom double slap" said Ash. Aipom slapped Chimchar multiple times and Chimchar fainted.
"You're useless as ever" Paul said to Chimchar, returning it. He sent out Elekid next. Ash told Aipom to use swift, but Elekid countered it with thunderbolt. "Now thunder" said Paul. Elekid fired a thunder attack and Aipom got hit by it. The thunder attack was very powerful and Aipom fainted from the attack. "Wow that was incredible" said Dawn. "That Paul is one trainer" Tomo admitted.
Ash returned Aipom and sent out Pikachu to battle. "Let's see how powerful that Pikachu is" said Paul. "Pikachu start off with dig" said Ash. Pikachu dove into the ground, and Elekid stood still to wait for Pikachu to come out again. Pikachu came out and tackled Elekid. "Not too shabby" smirked Paul. He told Elekid to use thunderbolt. "Pikachu use protect" said Ash. Pikachu put up a shield and protected itself against the thunderbolt. "Now use iron tail". Pikachu whacked Elekid hard with iron tail. "Wow that Pikachu is sure strong" said Dawn. "That's because it and Ash have grown strong together ever since he became a pokemon trainer," explained Prof Rowan "you and Piplup will be growing strong together too Dawn". Paul ordered Elekid to use thunder punch and Ash ordered Pikachu to use volt tackle. The two electric pokemon collided with each other, but Pikachu was stronger than Elekid and Elekid was thrown back and fainted. So Ash was the winner of the battle.
Paul returned Elekid and stared at Ash. "I see you're not as shabby as you look" he said. Ash frowned; Paul was not only obnoxious, he was also a show off. "Don't underestimate me Paul," he said, crossly, "I have been a pokemon trainer for almost five years now and have grown strong with Pikachu over those years. So don't underestimate me or my pokemon". Paul just huffed stating he didn't care. Then he released his Starly; after the battle Paul condemned it no use for his pokemon team and decided to find a stronger Starly elsewhere. Ash really didn't like Paul and his attitude now; it was clear that Paul was a rival who Ash was never going to get along with in the future. Paul thanked Prof Rowan for letting him battle and then left, without saying thanks to Ash.
After that, it was now time for the gang to leave. Their first destination was a city called Jubilife City for the first Sinnoh pokemon contest, and then for a city called Oreburgh City, where Ash and Tomo could get their first gym badge. The gang said good bye to Prof Rowan and set off on their new journey again.
Of all the beginning of journey chapters I've done this is the longest. I intended to have Dawn catch the shiny Ariados when she first meets Piplup, not when before going to Hoenn; far too long. I never understand why Dawn tried to catch a Burmy again in the anime. Ash will get Paul's Chimchar at the tag battle tournament like in the anime; I don't want it done early than that. I know I mixed up some things around compared to the thirst three episodes of diamond and pearl anime, but I decided to do Team Rocket's start after Ash and Tomo met up with Brock again. Tomo will get his own Chimchar a bit later; it will be from Prof Rowan's lab because of abandonment from its trainer.
To answer your questions David; yes Paul will be the same rude, abusive person like he was in the anime, I couldn't change his attitude. About Ash's pokemon; Ash will use his Sinnoh pokemon for the gyms and contests as well as his Arcanine, Masquerain, Tropius, Vigoroth and his two Aipoms. I didn't use those pokemon in the battle frontier arc so they will be used in Sinnoh. Ash will call some of his old pokemon to help train the Sinnoh pokemon. As for the Sinnoh Battle Frontier, Ash will use his Hoenn pokemon. I used his Kanto, Orange and Johto pokemon for the Kanto Battle Frontier so his Hoenn pokemon will be used for the Sinnoh battle Frontier.