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 110

Meeting Nando,

Turtwig,

And Bewilder forest

On the way to Jubilife City, Dawn was showing the boys her Burmy and shiny Ariados, and she told them how she captured Ariados. "Wow Dawn," said Ash "I call that lucky because when I caught my Ariados in Johto I had to battle it. And you getting a shiny pokemon on your first day is lucky too". "Do you have any shiny pokemon Ash?" asked Dawn. "Yes my Noctowl, my Milotic, my Aggron and my Arcanine are shiny too" answered Ash. Dawn was amazed. "Are you going to use any of them in contests Ash?" asked Dawn. Ash explained that he would only use the pokemon he catches in Sinnoh, as well as Pikachu, and the pokemon he caught back in Kanto for the contests and gym battles. (Only the pokemon from the Battle Frontier arc, and he will use Glaceon and Leafeon too) "All of my older and stronger pokemon have had their turns in leagues and contests and other tournaments, so now it's my new pokemon's turn to shine". "I think I've got the message" said Dawn. Truth is she didn't understand it yet, but it was Ash's decision and not hers.

Suddenly they saw the move sunny day with gleaning sun rays in the sky. "There must be a pokemon nearby," said Ash "let's check it out". But they didn't need to because the pokemon that was using sunny day came up to them; it was a Budew. A man who was a minstrel was standing by it; he was Budew's trainer. He had a golden harp in the shape of a Mew. The man introduced himself as Nando and the gang introduced themselves to him. Nando explained that he and his Budew travel around brining joy to everyone. Just then Dawn asked Nando if she could battle him; she wanted to show the boys how strong she had gotten. "Are you on the quest to battle the Sinnoh League Dawn?" asked Nando. "No I am on the quest to win the Grand Festival" answered Dawn. Nando accepted the challenge and suggested they do a contest battle.

So Dawn and Nando got into position for their battle. Ash and Tomo wondered if Dawn will be alright since this was her first battle, but this was a good start to try battling. Dawn sent out her Piplup to battle Budew. That wasn't the best choice of course since water had a disadvantage over grass, but Dawn was more in sync with Piplup at the moment than her other two pokemon. Dawn started by telling Piplup to use peck; she knew that grass type pokemon were weak against flying type moves. But Budew dodged and used bullet seed. Knowing that grass was stronger than water, Dawn told Piplup to dodge and use bubblebeam. The bubbles directly hit Budew but it didn't do much harm to it. "Water type moves don't work much on grass type pokemon Dawn" Ash called out. Nando told Budew to do solarbeam. Dawn knew that solarbeam takes time to charge up so she told Piplup to use peck. But Budew didn't need to charge up and fired solarbeam. Piplup got hit by it and fainted.

Dawn was confused that Budew did solarbeam without having to charge. "It's because of the bright sun Dawn," explained Ash "you see if the sun on a sunny is shining very bright or if a pokemon used the move sunny day pokemon can use solarbeam without having to charge up. And it can make a fire type's move very strong as well". Dawn still had much to learn. Nando told Dawn that for her first battle she did very well; she was a kind man. Then Nando left.

For the rest of the day Dawn couldn't stop sighing; she realised that she was not good at battling at all yet. "Don't let that lost get you down Dawn," said Ash "remember this is your first time as a trainer. And nothing will always go the way you want at the beginning, especially when you first try catching a pokemon or pokemon battling. All beginning pokemon trainers go through hard times like that". "Ash is right and that lose will help you to grow stronger" said Brock. By now it was nearly getting dark. Brock had a map book of Sinnoh and it read that there was a pokemon center nearby. Dawn was happy to hear that because she would prefer sleeping in beds rather than tents. Her mother had packed a tent and sleeping back for her. Before heading to the pokemon center Brock revealed that he had brought his Bonsly and his Nosepass with him to Sinnoh; all of the others had been left back at Pewter Gym. He also explained to Brock that his family ran the Pewter Gym and Brock was an ex gym leader because his brother Forrest was running it now.

Once they got to the pokemon center the gang gave their pokemon to Nurse Joy at once. Like other newbie trainers, Dawn thought the Nurse Joy from the last pokemon center was in the center they were in now. Ash explained that all the Nurse Joys in every pokemon center looked the same and all the Officer Jennys looked the same too. Dawn was surprised.

While the pokemon heeled Dawn introduced Ash, Tomo and Brock to her mother Johanna and explained she was going to travel with them. Johanna thought it would be a great idea for Dawn to travel with them especially since they were already pokemon trainers; it would give Dawn great experience. Johanna told her daughter to be careful while on the journey and to work hard and learn from the boys. Once the call ended and the gang picked up their pokemon, Ash and Tomo registered to participate in the Sinnoh League. "Excuse me Nurse Joy, do I have to register for pokemon contests here too?" asked Dawn. "No we register for pokemon contests and get our passes at the contest halls Dawn," answered Ash "so once we get to the Jubilife contest we will register there". "Got it Ash" replied Dawn.

Just then Nando came up to Nurse Joy asking for Budew; he asked to her to check over Budew. "Are you staying here too Nando?" asked Dawn. "No I'm just here to ponder" said Nando, and then he left with Budew. Nurse Joy explained that Nando couldn't make up his mind to either battle in gyms or enter pokemon contests. "Well the answer to that is simple, Nando can just do both," said Ash "I'm doing both gyms and contests and I'm happy doing that". "That's a great idea Ash," said Dawn "let's tell Nando that". The gang went outside to look for Nando. Luckily he hadn't gone far yet. Dawn ran up to Nando and told him of Ash's idea to do both gym battles and contests. "Hmm I think that is a wonderful idea, I think I will do that" said Nando. So it was decided that Nando will do both gyms and contests.

Nando built up a fire and had a talk with the gang. "So Ash it is okay for anyone to do both contests and gyms yes?" asked Nando. "Of course it is," said Ash "besides if it wasn't allowed I wouldn't have entered the contests back in Hoenn and Kanto. You see if it wasn't allowed I would have just stuck doing gyms because I like to do pokemon battles. But it isn't against the law to do both gyms and contests". Nando understood and so did Dawn. Just then Dawn asked Ash if he could help her with Ariados; since Ash knew about Ariados and had one himself, he would be perfect to help Dawn with her Ariados. Ash agreed to help and he got out his pokedex. Brock explained to Dawn that you could use pokedex's to switch pokemon around from whatever lab has your pokemon wherever you are; in Ash's case Prof Oak's lab. As for Dawn she would be switching her future spare pokemon from Prof Rowan's lab. Brock also explained that after having more than six pokemon, Dawn's extra pokemon will go to Prof Rowan's lab like Ash's extra pokemon goes to Prof Oak's lab. Ash used his pokedex to switch his two Aipoms for Ariados and Budew; he now had Pikachu, Riolu, Budew, Ariados, Piplup and Starly.

Ash released his Ariados and Dawn released hers. Nando was astonished to see Dawn's shiny Ariados. Ash showed Dawn some tricks he learnt in Johto, Hoenn and Kanto with Ariados. First he demonstrated the trick with using the web to escape from attacks and using it to attack opponents. (Something he learned from watching Harley's Ariados) Next Ash showed Ariados's moves including his egg move sonic boom. Nando and Dawn were impressed with Ash's Ariados and so was Dawn's Ariados. "It seems you have learned quite a lot on your past journeys Ash" said Nando. "I've gone through many, many things during my journeys Nando" said Ash.

It was then Dawn started to think about something. "Ash have you ever met up with mysterious pokemon before?" she asked. She explained about the mysterious spirit of a pokemon that appeared at Lake Variety on her first day. "I believe you must have seen something Dawn" said Ash. He explained of how he and his friends Misty, Tracey, Brock, Max, May and Tomo met up with legendary pokemon before. He also explained that he owned some legendary pokemon too; Celebi, Mewtwo, Lugia, Latias and Latios. And then he explained his bond with Ho-Oh who he saw on his first day as a pokemon trainer. Nando and Dawn were amazed by this, and Dawn wondered if she saw a legendary pokemon at Lake Verity.

Just then Ash asked Nando a question. He asked him if they could battle. "Since we are rivals for both the Sinnoh League and Grand Festival I want to test myself against you". Nando agreed and they decided to battle tomorrow since it was dark now.

Next day Ash and Nando got ready to battle. Nando was using his Budew and Ash decided to use his Budew. Nando started by telling his Budew to use bullet seed, but Ash told his Budew to dodge and use razor leaf. Ash's Budew dodged the bullet seed attack and Nando's Budew got hit by the razor leaf. "I say," said Nando "is that by any chance an egg move of Budew's?" "Yes and that not all it has, Budew show it your leaf storm" said Ash. Budew glowed light green and fired a flurry of leaves from her body and Nando's Budew was hit by the leaves. "Ash's Budew is amazing" said Dawn. Brock explained to Dawn about pokemon inheriting its parents moves when they've been bred, which is why they were called egg moves; it was one of nature's mysterious things. Nando ordered his Budew to use mega drain and it tackled Ash's Budew and stole some of her health to heal. "Use extrasensory Budew" said Ash. Budew fired an extrasensory from her eyes and Nando's Budew got hit by it. As Budew was a grass and poison type it was weakened by that psychic type move. Suddenly Nando's Budew started to glow and it evolved into a Roselia. "Wow, what a beautiful pokemon" said Dawn, looking at it through her pokedex. This was the first time she ever saw a pokemon evolve.

(When it comes to Dawn looking at the pokemon on her pokedex, which Ash had already seen on his pokedex, I am not going to do the pokedex things for her then. I'll only do it with pokemon that Ash hasn't seen yet either)

Nando told his Roselia to use sunny day; this meant Roselia was going to use solar beam next. "Use extrasensory again Budew" said Ash, and Budew fired another Extrasensory at Roselia. This time Roselia couldn't take anymore after that psychic type move and fainted. So Ash was the winner of this battle.

Nando picked up Roselia and said it did well and returned it to its pokeball. He thanked Ash for the battle and hoped he would get to challenge him and Dawn at a pokemon contest. Hen he said farewell to the gang and left to go about his journey. So Ash and Dawn had a common rival.

One day the gang met up with trouble; it was Team Rocket again. They had trapped Pikachu in one of their electric proof cages again and were flying away in their balloon. But Ash and Pikachu knew what to do with these situations by now. "Pikachu rock smash on that cage" said Ash. Pikachu punched the cage and the cage broke apart. The useful thing about the move rock smash was not only could it break rocks and bricks, it could also break metal. Ash sent out his Starly to help Pikachu. Team Rocket saw that and fought back. James sent out his Carnivine to get Pikachu back.

Tomo looked at Carnivine on his pokedex: Carnivine, the bug catcher pokemon. It binds itself to trees in marshes. It attracts prey with its sweet-smelling drool and gulps them down.

Tomo told his Growlithe to use flamethrower to distract Carnivine while Starly rescued Pikachu. "Now Pikachu time to do the usual blasting them away" said Ash. Pikachu used thunderbolt and the balloon burst and Team Rocket was thrown away.

"What's the deal with these Team Rocket people Ash?" asked Dawn, after their trouble with Team Rocket was over. The three boys explained to Dawn that Team Rocket was an evil team organization who went around stealing and capturing pokemon for their own evil ways. "Their boss called Giovanni is a very evil man who wishes to control both humans and pokemon and rule the whole world with pokemon as slaves" explained Ash. Dawn was shocked by that. "They cause trouble in Kanto, the Orange Islands and Johto" said Tomo. Then the boys told Dawn about Team Magma and Team Aqua who they met in Hoenn. "They tried to take over the world by using the legendary pokemon Groudon and Kyogre," said Ash "but they found out the hard way that controlling those two pokemon was impossible. But they are in jail and they will be staying there for a long, long time". "At least the world is free from this Team Aqua and Magma" said Dawn. "We have met many bad people on our journeys Dawn;" said Brock "not just Team Rocket and Aqua and Magma, we also met pokemon poachers, hunters, thieves and other bad guys like that". Dawn was shocked by that. "That reminds me," said Ash "Riley warned me about bad people, including poachers, were here in Sinnoh too so we better watch ourselves here too". Dawn felt her journey was going to turn out to be as big as she thought, after hearing those stories.

Just then the gang saw a Turtwig sleeping by a rock. "Hey a Turtwig" said Dawn.

Ash looked at Turtwig on his pokedex: Turtwig, the tiny leaf pokemon. Made from soil, the shell on its back hardens when it drinks water. It lives along lakes.

"This is my chance" said Dawn. It was rare seeing a Sinnoh starter pokemon in the wild, so Dawn decided to catch it. She sent out her Piplup to battle it and told him to use peck. Turtwig attacked by using razor leaf, but Piplup ducked down before the leaves could hit him. But the leaves hit a nearby bush, where a wild Oddish was and the Oddish was hurt. Suddenly he started to release a sleep powder attack. Ash quickly set up an aura shield around everyone and the sleep powder didn't hit anyone. "Wow Ash," gasped Dawn "is this one of your aura powers?" "Yes this is called the aura shield" said Ash. The others were very impressed. Turtwig saw that too and it was amazed that a human had that sort of power.

Suddenly an old woman came running up to the gang and asked what was happening. Dawn explained to the woman that she was trying to capture Turtwig but an Oddish got hurt. The woman picked up the Oddish and invited the gang to come over to her place. The woman, whose name was Clara, lived in a house by herself and she healed the wild pokemon in the area if they ever got hurt. Turtwig was having some food out in Clara's garden. Dawn asked Clara if Turtwig was hers, but Clara explained that the Turtwig was wild. One day Turtwig appeared in her garden one day and it was weak, hurt and hungry. "I gave the poor thing some food, but that Turtwig is full of pride and can be very stubborn. But its empty tummy proved it was hungry and it ate the food, and accepted me to heal it. It has lived around here ever since and it has kept the peace between the wild pokemon living around here". This reminded Ash of his Venasaur back when he lived in the hidden village when he was still a Bulbasaur. "Another thing is though that Turtwig can get carried away when it comes to fighting as it's a real fighter" said Clara. "Wow that Turtwig is different than the Turtwig I met back at Prof Rowan's lab," said Dawn "that Turtwig was more relaxed". "Like people, pokemon have many different personalities Dawn," said Brock "sometimes a Primeape who usually acts really rough and tough can sometimes act like a softy, or a Chansey who acts like a softie can act all rough and tough". Dawn never knew that.

Suddenly there was a commotion coming from outside. It was Team Rocket again but this time they were after Turtwig. They found out that Turtwig was a starter pokemon and they wanted it to give to their boss. Jessie had her Weavile freeze Turtwig with blizzard. "Well done Weavile" said Jessie. "Now let's capture this Turtwig" said James. "Oh no you don't!" shouted Ash, who turned up with the others, "if you think I'm going to have you turn Turtwig into one of your slaves you are so wrong!" "Don't get in or way twerp!" shouted Jessie. She told her Weavile to get ready to fight and James sent out his Roserade to battle.

Dawn looked Weavile and Roserade on her pokedex: Weavile, the sharp claw pokemon. The evolved form of Sneasel. It sends signals to others by carving odd patterns in frost-covered trees and ice. Roserade, the bouquet pokemon. The evolved form of Roselia. Luring prey with a sweet scent, it uses poison whips on its arms to poison, bind, and finish off the prey.

Ash had his Pikachu to battle Weavile and Tomo had his Growlithe battle Roserade. Weavile got defeated by Pikachu's thunder attack and Roserade got defeated by Growlithe's fire blast attack. To finish it all off Pikachu sent Team Rocket flying with volt tackle.

Clara got to work on healing Turtwig at once. Turtwig was grateful to Ash for helping it, and then it suddenly bit down on Ash's head. Clara explained that was Turtwig's way of affection towards those it like, which meant it had done that to her too.

By then it was time for the gang to leave, but Turtwig wanted to go with Ash because it liked him. But there was a condition, Turtwig wanted to have a pokemon battle. Ash sent out his Shinx to battle. Turtwig started off with tackle and Shinx did tackle too. Next Turtwig used razor leaf, but Shinx dodged the leaves and used swift which hit Turtwig good. Just then Turtwig moved in to use bite. "Show that Turtwig your fire fang Shinx" said Ash. Shinx dodged being bitten and then bit down on Turtwig with fire fang. As fire fang was a fire type move Turtwig was in pain by the move. "Now charge yourself Shinx and then use spark". Shinx charged himself up and then he used spark on Turtwig. Thanks to charge the electric attack was stronger than usual and Turtwig was hurt from that attack. "Brock what was that move charge?" asked Dawn. "That was an electrical move with powers up Shinx and when it uses another electrical move next that move is stronger than usual" explained Brock. The move spark not only hurt Turtwig, it also paralyzed it. This was Ash's chance and he tossed an empty pokeball at it. In a couple of seconds Turtwig was caught and since Ash already had six pokemon Turtwig's pokeball was sent to Prof Oak's lab.

After capturing Turtwig, the gang said goodbye to Clara and continued on their way to Jubilife City.

Not long after Ash's new Turtwig was captured the gang were taking a break from traveling for lunch. Ash was checking on his new Turtwig with the pokedex; the pokedex said that his Turtwig was male and he knew tackle, withdraw, razor leaf, bite, absorb and synthesis. He also knew the move dig, which was unusual because Turtwig and their evolved forms don't really learn dig. But Ash was happy with his new pokemon and couldn't wait to use him in battle. Turtwig still liked to bite down on Ash's head in affection because he liked him a lot.

Suddenly Paul turned up. "You certainly appear out of nowhere don't you Paul?" said Ash. "I'm just on my way to the Oreburgh Gym" said Paul. "I'm going there too" said Ash. Just then Paul saw Ash's Turtwig, and like usual Paul spoke rudely about it. He didn't think it was anything special. That of course made Ash cross. "I take it you're going to tell me that you have a Turtwig too and yet yours is way better than mine?" said Ash. Ash had been through this before; trainers boasting about their pokemon which Ash also had. Paul just huffed. "Wouldn't you like to know?" he said. Ash gritted his teeth in anger, but didn't say anything about Paul's insult. "Since I'm sure you are here to capture more pokemon Paul we'll leave you to your business while you can leave us to our business" he said. "I don't have time to mess with you anyway" replied Paul, and he left.

"What was that about Ash?" asked Dawn "when you looked really angry at Paul, I thought you were going to pick a fight with him or something". "Listen Dawn," said Ash "when you have a rival who likes to insult you or your pokemon, it isn't best to let your anger get to you. I know because my old rival Gary used to insult me and my pokemon in the past, and one time I challenged him to a pokemon battle. But I lost my cool and concentration because of my anger. So if you let your anger get to you Dawn, you will lose concentration in the end". "Ash is right Dawn," said Brock "that can happen". "Okay" said Dawn, getting the message.

After lunch the gang had walked to an entrance of a forest. Brock took a look at his map guide. "Oh-oh," he said "it says here that this forest is called Bewilder Forest, and it also says that wild Stantler live here". "If Stantler live in there then we better be careful, otherwise they will put us in illusions" said Ash, remembering an experience with Stantler back in Johto. "What should we do?" asked Dawn worriedly. Ash told Dawn not to worry because he planned to use his aura to keep a look out for Stantler if they were close. "If we run into any Stantler I'll let you all know at once". Ash had already explained to Dawn about what he could do with his aura power, so Dawn was willing to trust Ash. The gang entered the forest.

As the gang walked through the forest, Ash had his eyes shut to use his aura. Thanks to that they managed to keep away from the wild Stantler. "This aura power certainly is very handy" said Dawn. "I take it was hard to practice this aura power of yours, right Ash?" asked Brock. "Yes, Riley had me practice using aura in my surroundings and my other aura abilities every day," said Ash "and it took four months to get everything right". "Wow" said Dawn. Thanks to Ash's aura the gang made it out of the forest without getting hypnotizes by the wild Stantler, and from running into any wild Beedrill.

Suddenly they ran into Paul again. "I'm surprised you managed to get through this forest with Stantler living in there" he said, rudely. "For your information Paul," said Ash, crossly, "Brock, Tomo and I met Stantler back in the Johto region, and we know that Stantler have the move hypnosis that can make people and humans see illusions". Paul wasn't impressed with hearing that. "Caught any new pokemon Paul?" asked Ash. "If you must know yes," said Paul "I found an Ursaring which proved its worth to be on my team. The Stantler I also caught proved to be worthless as it only knew tackle". That meant of course that Paul released Stantler after catching. Ash wasn't happy of hearing this of course, but he didn't want to bother arguing with Paul about it. "What about you?" Paul said to Ash "still clinging on to that Turtwig of yours? If you are then you are just wasting your time with it". Now Ash got really cross now; he hated it so much whenever somebody insulted his pokemon. "That does it!" he shouted "I'm not having you insult my Turtwig anymore! I will battle you with my Turtwig and I'll show you there is nothing worthless about him". Paul thought it would be a waste of his time, but he agreed to battle; only to see if Ash's Turtwig was worth it.

Ash and Paul took their places to battle. "Hey Brock," said Ash "what made Ash decide to battle Paul this time?" "Paul went too far with his insulting," said Brock "Ash really hates when people insult his pokemon too much". "Wouldn't you hate it too if somebody insulted your Piplup, Burmy and Ariados too much Dawn?" asked Tomo. "Actually I would Tomo" Dawn admitted.

Ash sent out his Turtwig and Paul sent out his Chimchar to battle. "Oh-oh, fire beats grass" said Dawn. "Don't worry," said Brock "even if your opponent has an advantage of type over you, you can still find a way to overcome it. Ash always finds a way in situations like this, so watch closely Dawn". Ash started off by telling Turtwig to use tackle, but Chimchar used dig to get away. "Use your own dig Turtwig" said Ash. Turtwig dug into the ground to go after Chimchar. Paul was slightly surprised to see that Ash's Turtwig knew dig, but he just scoffed it off. "Get out of there" he said. Chimchar got out of the ground and looked around for Turtwig. Just then Turtwig came out of the hole and got ready to use bite. But Chimchar attacked with scratch. "That Chimchar is strong," said Tomo "I'd like to get a Chimchar like that". Ash then told Turtwig to use razor leaf, but Chimchar burnt through the leaves with flame wheel and tackled Turtwig. As flame wheel was a fire type move Turtwig was hurt by that. "Turtwig you okay?" asked Ash. Turtwig was okay, but was feeling weak. "Chimchar flame wheel again" said Paul. Chimchar charged towards Turtwig with flame wheel at full speed. "Tackle it Turtwig" said Ash. Turtwig and Chimchar tackled each other, but Chimchar's fire move was stronger than Turtwig and Turtwig was thrown back and fainted. So Ash lost to Paul this time.

Ash picked up Turtwig. "You did great for your first battle Turtwig" he said. Turtwig was touched by Ash's kindness. Chimchar was happy with its victory and jumped up and down, but Paul told it to stop. "This is nothing to be proud of" he said, and returned Chimchar. Ash felt that Paul must have never said anything nice in his life. Paul turned to Ash. "As I said your Turtwig isn't much" he said, rudely. Ash frowned. "Turtwig and I may have lost to you this time Paul, but next time we meet we'll be stronger" he said. Paul took no notice and left.

Ash turned to the others. "Dawn, Brock and Tomo," he said "Paul is a rival that I am never going to become friends with ever". Brock and Tomo agreed and so did Dawn. So with his first loss against Paul, Ash knew that he had a lot of work to do with his new Turtwig.

Sorry for the wait. I'm not doing the Ash and Dawn quarrel a lot thing; too childish for me. Ash's Budew will evolve to Roselia bit later; it's too early at the moment. Ash's bad temper in the Sinnoh with Paul was too much too; I'm toning that down too. It's stupid that Ash never talks about his past experience with pokemon he had already seen before. I also called it stupid that Ash fell for Stantler's illusions in the episode Different Strokes For Different Blokes; he had already met Stantler and learned about their illusions in Johto for heaven's sake. Now as you know I already put a pokedex entry for Roselia back in chapter 67. When it comes to pokemon that Ash has already seen but Dawn hasn't, I'll just have Dawn look at her pokedex but skip the entry bit. I'll only do it when it comes to pokemon that both Ash and Dawn haven't seen yet. Tomo will get his own Chimchar a bit later. Thanks to everyone's votes Dawn's Wormadam will stay plant cloak. That poll is closed.

Now here's an important question on my poll. As you know when Zoey finds out that Ash does both gyms and contests she'll be against it. But Ash will prove to her that it's not wrong in the Jubilife Contest. For the battle rounds should I have Ash use Pikachu since he's the strongest?