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 113
Paul's Gym Battle,
Tomo's Gym battle and
Fossils
Things happened after the gang left Jubilife City. First Ash had his Swellow train his Starly and Tomo's Natu. In the midst of that Starly evolved into Staravia and Natu evolved into Xatu. Second Brock's Bonsly evolved into Sudowoodo after it learnt the move mimic. The gang ended up learning that some pokemon evolve after learning a special move. For example; a Yanma could evolve into Yanmega after learning ancient power, a Bonsly could evolve into Sudowoodo after learning mimic, a Lickitung could evolve into Lickilicky after learning rollout and an Aipom could evolve into Ambipom after learning double hit. Last of all Brock caught a Nuzleaf that became fast friends with Sudowoodo.
Now the gang had made it to Oreburgh City where Ash and Tomo can earn their first gym badge. Oreburgh City was like a factorial town because it had a big coal mine called Oreburgh Mine, and the big chimneys were to help control the air in the mine and out. "Tomo this is where our quest of collecting gym badges begins" said Ash. "Ash is it alright if I battle the gym leader first?" asked Tomo. He wanted to go first because of his excitement with his first gym battle. Ash agreed to let Tomo battle first. "You ready for this Tomo?" asked Brock. "I'm ready as I ever will be and so are my pokemon" answered Tomo. The gang made it to the gym; the outside of the gym was like a huge stone cave. "This is impressive" said Gym. "Hmm from the look of the design of this gym I would think that this gym probably uses rock pokemon" said Ash. "I think you may be right Ash" agreed Brock.
Suddenly Paul came out from the building. "You defeated the gym leader already?" asked Ash. Paul replied he hadn't because the gym leader wasn't around at the moment. Just then a man with long green hair came out. His name was Ian and he was the gym leader's assistant. "Excuse me Ian, but does the gym leader here use rock type pokemon?" asked Ash. "Yes he does" replied Ian. This made Paul a bit surprised; he didn't have a water pokemon on his team. "I'll wait at the pokemon center until the gym leader gets back" said Paul, and he left. His plan was to capture a water pokemon before challenging the gym leader.
Ash explained to Ian that he and Tomo wished to challenge the Oreburgh Gym. Since Paul asked for a gym battle first the brothers had to wait for their turn, which they didn't mind. Ian gave both Ash and Tomo a lavender-blue coloured gym badge case that had a pokeball design on the lid, each. Ian explained that the gym leader, whose name was Roark, was working at the Oreburgh Mine. "I heard that it's famous for its coal there" said Brock. "Not only does Roark dig for coal, he also digs for treasure" said Ian. The gang were curious about this and decided to visit the Oreburgh Mine to see Roark themselves.
At the Oreburgh Mine it was very busy; lots of miners were digging and there were lots of fighting type pokemon helping out with carrying the heavy stuff. Ash asked some miners if Roark was around. They were just about to answer but then two miners came out of a mine, pushing a big cart that had a giant stone in it. A man, wearing a red helmet, came out of the mine and the miners said that was Roark the foreman of the Oreburgh Mine. Roark was smiling at the stone; this stone was really a fossil of an ancient pokemon. The gang walked up to Roark and Ash introduced himself to him. "My brother Tomo and I wish to challenge you to a gym battle, and there is another challenger who wishes to challenge you" he said. After hearing he had three challengers, Roark decided to go back to his gym at once.
Once Roark and the gang returned to the gym, Paul came back too ready to face Roark. Dawn had never seen a gym battle as well as never been inside a gym, so she asked if she could watch the battle. Roark agreed to let the gang watch, and by surprise Paul didn't mind either. To Ash this meant not only will he learn what Roark's pokemon are, he could also learn of how Paul and his pokemon fight in gym battles.
The battle field of the Oreburgh Gym had rocks on it, just like the Pewter Gym. The gang sat down on the seats to watch, and Paul and Roark took their positions on the battle field. Ian was the referee and explained this battle was a three on three pokemon battle. Dawn felt a bit excited as this was her first time of watching a pokemon gym battle. "Be sure you pay attention to this Dawn," Brock advised her "there will be a lot of things for you to learn from this gym battle, more than you think".
The battle now started and Roark sent out a Geodude to battle. Dawn looked at Geodude on her pokedex. Then Paul sent out an Azumaril and Dawn looked at that too on her pokedex. This Azumaril was what Paul captured for the gym battle. "Since it's a water type pokemon, Geodude is at a big disadvantage" said Dawn. "Yes normally," said Brock "but gym leaders train their pokemon in a way to beat their opponents which have advantages over them. Watch and you'll see what I mean Dawn". Paul started by telling his Azumarill to use hydro pump. Roark told his Geodude to use hidden power, which turned out to be grass type, and it knocked back Azumarill's hydro pump attack and then the hidden power hit Azumarill. Next Roark told his Geodude to use rollout. Paul tried to get his Azumarill to use water gun, but Geodude was too fast for Azumarill to use water gun. Azumarill got tackled twice by rollout and fainted, given Roark the first win. Paul was not happy with this and returned Azumarill. "Good for nothing" he said, angrily. Ash heard that and was not happy with it.
Dawn was surprised that Geodude defeated Azumarill. "It's as I said to you Dawn," said Brock "Roark has trained his pokemon to try and defeat opponents who can beat rock type pokemon. But I am surprised with how Geodude easily defeated Azumarill". "I know why," said Ash "that Azumarill was only just captured by Paul and it wasn't trained for this yet". He had used his psychic power to find that out in Paul's mind. Dawn, Tomo and Brock were surprised with what Ash said and didn't like where this was going.
Paul sent out his Elekid next. Roark was surprised with this since electric type pokemon are useless against rock and ground pokemon like Geodude. Paul ordered his Elekid to use brick break. Roark told his Geodude to use rollout again, but Elekid easily defeated Geodude with brick break. So Paul won this round.
Dawn was surprised by this. "You see Dawn you can overcome any disadvantages by using the right move" said Brock. "That's right Dawn," said Ash "and pokemon can learn any moves that can defeat a pokemon which has the advantage over them. Pikachu here learnt signal beam that can defeat a grass type pokemon and iron tail that can defeat rock type pokemon". Dawn found she still had much to learn.
Roark sent out an Onix next and Dawn scanned it. "This Onix is strong;" said Brock "since I raised an Onix myself, I can tell this Onix has gone through some serious tough battles". Paul ordered Elekid to use brick break again, but Onix dodge it and moved in with slam. "Protect" Paul ordered Elekid. Elekid used protect to protect itself from Onix's slam attack. But then Onix used double edge next, and since Elekid's barrier was gone, Elekid got hit by it. Roark's Onix had the ability rock head, which prevents recoil damage from moves like double edge, so Onix received no damage from using double edge. Next Roark told Onix to use stealth rock. "That is bad," said Ash "when a pokemon uses stealth rock, the next pokemon which Paul will call out to battle will receive damage because of the rocks". "You're right Ash," said Brock "Roark is making things tricky for Paul". Ash and Tomo paid close attention to this battle; this was something that they will be going through when they battle Roark. Onix used slam on Elekid, but then Onix became paralyzed. "Hey wasn't that static?" said Dawn, who remembered Pikachu doing it at the Jubilife Contest. "Correct Dawn, that Elekid has the ability static too" said Brock. Paul commanded his Elekid to use brick break and Roark commanded his Onix to use double edge. Despite being paralyzed, Onix was still able to move and the pokemon collided with each other. Elekid was getting exhausted by the minute and Paul was getting angrier. He recalled Elekid. "Hey doesn't Paul care that his next pokemon will get hurt because of stealth rock?" asked Tomo. "Paul doesn't care about anything" replied Ash.
Paul's next pokemon was Chimchar. Because of stealth rock, Chimchar received some damage. Paul ordered Chimchar to use dig and Chimchar went underground. "Try to sense Chimchar's movements Onix" said Roark. Just then Chimchar came out and tackled Onix. "Wow Chimchar tackled Onix even though its bigger than Chimchar" said Dawn. "Pokemon that use dig can tackle any pokemon no matter how heavy it is," said Ash "I've had Pikachu use dig on Onix, Rhydon and other heavy pokemon before, and dig always works". Brock also pointed out that the move dig is super effective on Onix because it's a ground type move. Roark ordered Onix to use double edge, but Chimchar dodged using dig, Then Chimchar came out of the ground and tackled Onix. Onix couldn't take anymore and fainted. So Roark now had one more pokemon while Paul still had two.
Roark sent out his final pokemon. This pokemon was a grey and blue dinosaur type pokemon, with spikes on the back of its head.
Ash looked at the pokemon on the pokedex: Cranidos, the head butt pokemon. A lifelong jungle dweller from 100 million years ago, it would snap obstructing trees with headbutts.
"Hey Brock is Cranidos a fossil pokemon?" asked Ash. "It is," said Brock "and this Cranidos looks like a real fighter".
Paul told Chimchar to use dig but Cranidos sensed Chimchar's movements, and when Chimchar came out of the ground Cranidos hit it hard with headbutt. Paul ordered Chimchar to use bullet seed, but Cranidos dodged the attack and hit Chimchar hard with zen headbutt. "Oh man that Cranidos is strong" said Tomo. The others agreed. Poor Chimchar kept on getting headbutted by Cranidos. Ash felt at this rate Chimchar was going to get defeated for sure. Suddenly Chimchar began to glow orange-red. "It's blaze" said Ash. Brock explained to Dawn that blaze was an ability that most fire type pokemon had and it powered up fire type moves when the pokemon was weakened. Paul commanded Chimchar to use flame wheel while Roark ordered Cranidos to use zen headbutt. Thanks to blaze, Chimchar's flame wheel was stronger than normal and it hit Cranidos hard on the legs. Chimchar used flame wheel again and Cranidos was hit again. Paul then ordered Chimchar to use dig and Roark ordered Cranidos to use headbutt. After coming out from the ground, Chimchar was hit by Cranidos's headbutt and fainted. So Paul only had one more pokemon to use and returned Chimchar. "I'll deal with you later" he said, angrily.
Paul sent out Elekid to battle again, who received damage from stealth rock once it came out of the pokeball. Roark ordered Cranidos to use flamethrower, but Elekid dodged it and struck Cranidos on the leg with brick break. After that hit Cranidos became paralyzed thanks to static, but Cranidos had the ability mold breaker which prevents other abilities from taking effect on Cranidos. So Cranidos was no longer paralyzed. Roark ordered Cranidos to use zen headbutt, but Cranidos had so much pain on the legs thanks to brick break and Chimchar's flame wheel, it couldn't attack properly. Elekid then struck Cranidos hard with brick break again. "I think Cranidos is going to lose this battle since its legs are preventing it from battling right" said Tomo. "This must be why Paul was relying on Chimchar to activate blaze," said Brock "it was to weaken Cranidos first before relying on Elekid to finish this off". "This means Paul relies on his pokemon's abilities too much as well as relying on their strongest moves" said Ash. Roark commanded Cranidos to use zen headbutt and Paul commanded Elekid to use brick break. The two pokemon collided with each other with their attacks and fell back. Both Elekid and Cranidos were exhausted by this time, but Cranidos was more exhausted and fainted. Paull was the winner of this gym battle.
Paul returned Elekid, not showing any emotions for his win or his pokemon. Roark presented him the gym badge called the Coal Badge. It was brown with grey outlines and it was shaped as a boulder and pokeball combined. Paul accepted the badge and started to leave. Ash started at Paul; he didn't like how Paul battled one bit.
After the gym battle between Paul and Roark, the gang came to the pokemon center so that Ash and Tomo could decide on which pokemon to use. Roark and Paul were there to getting their pokemon healed. Unfortunately Paul gave his Azumarill away to a little boy; he was not happy with the result Azumarill gave at the gym and didn't want to keep it. Ash, of course, was not happy with that but didn't say anything. Then Paul left to head for the next gym.
Tomo and Ash had a good think on what pokemon to use. "So have you two decided yet?" Dawn asked the two brothers. "Yes I'm going with Pelipper, Croconaw and Poliwrath" said Tomo. "I've decided with Piplup, Masquerain and Riolu" said Ash. Riolu wanted to battle and despite being young he was already independent.
Soon it was time for Tomo to face Roark. The rules were the same with it being a 3 on 3 pokemon battle. "Will Tomo be okay with this considering what when Roark battled Paul?" asked Dawn. "Dawn, Tomo has battled lots of different trainers during out journeys," said Ash "he is ready for this". "Ash is right" said Brock.
Roark sent out his Geodude first and then Tomo sent out his Pelipper. Brock pointed out to Dawn that even though Pelipper was a water type, it was also a flying type. So Geodude's rock type moves could do serious damage to Pelipper. Roar told Geodude to use hidden power, but Pelipper dodged it and used water gun that hit Geodude. Dawn could see that Tomo did know what he was doing. "Geodude rock throw" said Roark. Geodude started to throw rocks towards Pelipper. "Cut through that with steel wing" said Tomo. Pelipper broke the rocks with steel wing and then struck Geodude with steel wing. Geodude couldn't take any more after that and fainted, giving Tomo the first win. "You see now Dawn?" said Ash "even though this is Tomo's first gym battle, he knows what to do because of all he's learnt during our pokemon journeys". Dawn did understand now.
Roark returned Geodude and sent out Onix next. "Pelipper use water gun again" said Tomo. As Pelipper fired a water gun attack, Onix used screech. Not only did it stop the water gun attack, it also put Pelipper off because of the noise. "Now Onix double edge" said Roark. Onix tackled Pelipper hard with double edge. Pelipper was hurt but he was still able to fight on. "Pelipper use roost" said Tomo. Pelipper recovered thanks to roost. "What move did Pelipper use?" asked Dawn. "Roost is a move that recovers a pokemon's energy like the move recover" said Brock. "Okay Pelipper use hydro pump" said Tomo. Pelipper fired a hydro pump attack but Onix dodged it and slammed Pelipper with its tail. Pelipper fainted after that, so it was down 2 to 2.
Tomo returned Pelipper and sent out Poliwrath. "What a pokemon" said Dawn, looking at it on her pokedex. There was clearly a lot of pokemon that Dawn hadn't seen before. "Onix use slam" said Roark. Dodge and use hydro pump Poliwrath" said Tomo. Poliwrath avoided being hit by Onix and then fired hydro pump at Onix. Onix got hit by the water attack and fainted. "Wow out in one hit" said Dawn. Brock explained that Tomo has had Poliwrath ever since it was a Poliwag, and Tomo has trained all of his pokemon well like Ash has. "The more you train your pokemon Dawn, the stronger they become" said Ash.
Roark was now down to his last pokemon, Cranidos. "Poliwrath use submission" said Tomo. Poliwrath rolled towards Cranidos to do submission. "Zen headbutt Cranidos" said Roark. "Since zen headbutt is a psychic type move, it will be bad for Poliwrath as its part water and fighting because psychic beats fighting" said Ash. The two pokemon collided with each other and fell back. "Use zen headbutt Cranidos" said Roark. Cranidos headbutted Poliwrath very hard before Poliwrath had the chance to do anything. "Use bubblebeam Poliwrath" said Tomo. Poliwrath fired a lot of bubbles, but Cranidos dodged them and headbutted Poliwrath with zen headbutt again. This time Poliwrath couldn't take anymore after that and fainted. So Tomo was down to one final pokemon as well. "That Cranidos really is something" said Ash. He was thinking that he wanted to have a Cranidos as well.
Tomo returned his Poliwrath and sent out his Croconaw. Roark had seen now that Tomo had just been using water type pokemon this whole time. He ordered Cranidos to use zen headbutt. "Scary face Croconaw" said Tomo. Croconaw's eyes glowed red and made a really scary, angry looking face. Cranidos got scared by that and stopped using zen headbutt. Dawn got scared by it too. "I'd hate to get on Croconaw's bad side" she said. Tomo commanded Croconaw to use hydro pump and Cranidos got hit by it. "Now use aqua tail" said Tomo. Croconaw struck Cranidos with aqua tail and Cranidos fainted. So Tomo was the winner of the gym battle.
Tomo was happy with his victory. "That was good for your first gym battle Tomo, very good" said Ash. "It was fun, I must admit" said Tomo. Roark gave Tomo the Coal Badge and Tomo placed it in his badge case. Roark turned to Ash. "I know you want to challenge me too Ash," he said "but can we do it tomorrow. My pokemon need resting and I need to sort work out at the Oreburgh Museum and Oreburgh Mine". "I can wait," said Ash "could we come visit the Oreburgh Mine and Museum please?" The others wanted to visit the museum and mine too. Roark agreed, so Ash's battle with Roark was tomorrow.
Next day the gang visited the Oreburgh Museum with Roark. At the Oreburgh Museum there was an exhibition of a giant slab of coal, old tools and helmets miners used in the old days and also an exhibition of fossils. To the gang's surprise they learnt that the museum resurrects fossil pokemon from fossils with three special machines called the fossil-reviving machines, and keeps the pokemon after reviving them from the fossils. "It's been a while since we were near fossils right Brock and Tomo?" said Ash. "You're right," said Brock "we haven't seen fossils ever since out journey in the Hoenn region". "Oh you kids have seen fossils before?" asked a man. This man was the director of the museum Dr. Kenzo. "Truth is I have an Aerodactyl, Kabutops, Omastar, Armaldo and Cradily" said Ash. "I have a Kabuto, Omanyte, Anorith and Lileep" said Tomo. "And I have a Kabutops, Omastar, Anorith and Lileep" said Brock. Roark and Dr. Kenzo were surprised to hear that. Dawn already knew because the boys told her earlier. "Well you kids should come to the mine with me," said Roark "I can show you some more fossils there". Ash, Tomo and Brock accepted the offer, but Dawn wanted to go to the pokemon center. "Okay we'll see you back at the pokemon center after we've finished visiting the mine" said Brock. So the boys went with Roark to the mine, and Dawn went off to the pokemon center.
In the museum there was trouble lurking about. Six men, who were thieves, who were plotting to steal the fossils and steal one of the fossil reviving machine. "All set boys?" said one of the men, who was the leader. "We are ready boss" said a second one. "Good" said the boss. He pointed to four of the men and told them to get ready to take the fossil reviving machine. Then he told the last guy to grab the fossils, while he was going to create a distraction. "Let's go". The men went their separate ways for work.
Meanwhile Dawn just arrived at the pokemon center. The TV in the center showed a broadcast with Marian and she said there was a pokemon contest in a place called Floaroma Town. Dawn decided at once that there was where she will get her first contest ribbon.
Back with Ash, Brock and Tomo they were walking near the Oreburgh Mine. "Doesn't this remind you of Grampa Canyon?" asked Ash. "Yes but that place didn't have any coal" said Brock. "I wonder if we'll find any fossils here" said Tomo. Just then Roark walked up to the gang. "I take it you kids like fossils too?" he asked. "Yes," answered Ash "I especially like looking at Helix, dome, old amber, root and claw fossils" said Ash. Roark smiled. "Then you will like looking at the skull and armor fossils too" he said. He explained that his Cranidos came from a skull fossil and he also explained that pokemon called Shieldon came from an armor fossil.
Ash looked at Shieldon on his pokedex: Shieldon, the shield pokemon. It habitually polishes its face by rubbing it against tree trunks. It is weak to attacks from behind.
Roark then talked about on how much he loved fossils like a maniac. The three boys just looked fed up.
Back at the museum the staff were in a panic; the six thieves had succeeded on stealing a fossil-revive machine and some fossils. The thieves were laughing of their victory outside the city. What they did was use some Rhydons to take the machine from underground, while the boss had used his Persian to pretend to create mischief in the museum as a distraction. "I can't believe how easy that was," said one of the men "I mean the security there is terrible". "With this machine and these fossil pokemon it will be easier for us to steal more" said another. The boss asked the man who stole the fossils to get ready to place them in the machine. "Hey boss," said the man "the machine shows that a fossil is being revived now". The boss looked at the computer screen on the machine and saw the man was right. "It says this fossil is that of an Aerodactyl" he said, amusingly. The other men were amazed to hear that. The boss sent out a Gyarados to get ready to fight the Aerodactyl. At that moment the machine was ready and out came an Aerodactyl. The boss ordered Gyarados to use hydro pump and the Aerodactyl was hit by the attack. Then the boss threw a pokeball at the Aerodactyl and caught it. "Nice one boss!" cheered one of the men. The boss then came up with an idea; he decided to have his Aerodactyl attack Oreburgh City and blackmail the city to pay him millions of pokedollars. The other men liked that idea and so they went back to the city. They left the machine and fossils behind to pick them up later.
At the pokemon center Dawn was talking to Piplup, Buneary, Ariados and Burmy, telling them about the upcoming contest in Floaroma Town. "Okay Piplup, Buneary and Burmy I've come up with a move we can use in pokemon contests, so let's get to work on learning it". Suddenly there was a screech in the air; it was from Aerodactyl. Aerodactyl fired hyper beam everywhere. Everyone ran away in panic and headed for shelter at once.
Meanwhile Officer Jenny was at the museum when she got the message of the museum being robbed. The staff found out on their security cameras of Aerodactyl running wild in the city. "That Aerodactyl must have been the fossil we were reviving in our stolen machine," said Dr Kenzo "we must get to Oreburgh Mine and tell Roark at once". Officer Jenny spread a message to all of Oreburgh City at once about Aerodactyl. In the pokemon center Dawn heard the message and became worried about the others.
At the Oreburgh Mine Roark just got word about the Aerodactyl. Ash decided to get his Aerodactyl at once from Prof Oak's lab for help. Officer Jenny, some police, and Dr Kenzo arrived at the mine at once. "What happened?" asked Roark. Before Roark's question was answered Aerodactyl turned up and so did the thieves. "It's you six!" shouted Officer Jenny, who knew the thieves, "I should have guessed you were the cause of all this!" The boss chuckled. "I don't want to cause any trouble here," he said "all you have to do is give me and my men a lot of money and then we will be on our way with the fossil-revived machine and fossils". "Where's the machine and fossils you stole?!" demanded Dr Kenzo. "In the forest safe and sound," replied the boss "now are you going to hand me the money or not?" "You won't be getting anything!" shouted Ash, and he released his Aerodactyl. The thieves were surprised to see that and decided they could take it for themselves. "Giga impact Aerodactyl" said the boss. "You use giga impact too Aerodactyl" said Ash. The Aerodactyls tackled each other. Ash's Aerodactyl was much stronger than this newly revived Aerodactyl and was thrown back easily. "Now iron head Aerodactyl" said Ash. Aerodactyl headbutted the other Aerodactyl and the other Aerodactyl was defeated by that steel type move.
The thieves couldn't believe of their defeat and were about to release more pokemon. But Roark beat them by having his Cranidos use zen headbutt on the thieves. The thieves were knocked out and the police arrested them at once. Roark grabbed Aerodactyl's pokeball and returned it. Dr Kenzo got it and promised that Aerodactyl will be taken cared for at the museum. Officer Jenny said she will retrieve the machine and fossils from the forest and return them to the lab. Roark thanked Ash for his help. "Your Aerodactyl is something Ash" he said.
Just then Dawn turned up; she had been worried all this time. The boys told her that everything was alright now and Aerodactyl was now safe in better hands. Suddenly Cranidos glowed and evolved into a bigger version of itself. "Cranidos evolved into Rampardos" said Roark.
Ash looked at Rampardos on the pokedex: Rampardos, the head butt pokemon. The evolved form of Cranidos. Its skull is as hard as iron. It is a brute that tears down jungle trees while catching prey.
With Cranidos now an Rampardos, Ash knew that he was going to have a bigger challenge when he faces Roark.
Now with the disturbance sorted out and the thieves arrested, nothing could prevent Ash now from having his gym battle with Roark.
I don't see why Ash had Paul watch his gym battle with Roark and then lose concentration because he wanted to show off to Paul, in the anime. It's like how Ash was with Gary when he tried to show him what he could do. That's why I had Paul leave right away. Brock should've caught the Nuzleaf that befriended him and Sudowoodo. I'm not really sure but I think it was next day after the incident with Aerodactyl that Ash had his rematch with Roark in the anime, then again it didn't say. Ash, Brock and Tomo will get a Cranidos and Shieldon each in the next chapter. Dawn won't get one because in my opinion fossil pokemon don't suit her.