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 115
Meeting Hunter J,
The Unofficial Pokemon Contest
And Poffins
Ash, Tomo and Brock were enjoying their new pokemon journey in the Sinnoh Region, and Dawn was enjoying her first pokemon journey. They liked seeing new pokemon, going to new places and meeting new people. There was still much to learn for Dawn, but the boys were there to help her out.
One day the gang came across a house, with a big beautiful garden full of flowers. Suddenly a Salamence flew above them towards the house and somebody was riding it. At the house was a woman named Melodi and her Gardevoir and they took care of the flowers together. Suddenly Salamence landed in front of them. Salamence's owner was a woman, with silver hair, and was dressed like an agent. The woman sent out an Ariados and trapped Melodi with its string shot attack. Melodi told her Gardevoir to get away. Gardevoir used teleport to make it-self invisible, but the woman had special goggles that could help her locate where Gardevoir was. Once the woman found Gardevoir, she fired a golden beam from a cannon thing on her left arm and the beam turned Gardevoir into a golden stone statue. Then the woman talked through a speaker and some sort of car appeared, which was driven by some men who worked for her. Out of the car came a floating case, which picked up Gardevoir, placed glass over it for protection and went back into the car. Then the woman and her pokemon began to leave.
Ash was not happy with what he saw and neither were the others. While Dawn, Brock and Tomo helped Melodi, Ash went after the car to get Gardevoir back. He ran down the hill, with Pikachu and Riolu on his shoulders, until he got to where the car was heading. "Pikachu, Riolu use thunderbolt and aura sphere to stop that car" he said. Pikachu and Riolu used their attacks and the car stopped in its tracks, undamaged. Just then the woman and her pokemon turned up. "Give back Gardevoir to its trainer!" demanded Ash. The woman took no notice and stared at Pikachu and Riolu. "That Pikachu and Riolu will fetch a nice price" she said. Ash gasped. "You're a pokemon hunter aren't you?!" he shouted "one that goes stealing pokemon and selling them for money right!" The woman smirked. "You're clever for a kid" she said. She tossed a pokeball and let out a big violet pokemon that looked like a giant scorpion.
Ash looked at the pokemon on his pokedex: Drapion, the ogre scorpion pokemon. It takes pride in its strength. Even though it can tear foes apart, it finishes them off with powerful poison.
"I'd like to see more of your pokemon's moves" said the woman. Ash knew the woman really wanted to see how strong Pikachu and Riolu were, but she seemed too dangerous to disobey. He ordered Pikachu to use swift and Riolu to use quick attack, and Drapion got hit by the attacks. The woman was impressed and decided to take them. She used her cannon to turn Pikachu and Riolu into gold statues and had her minions take them away in cases and into the car. "Give back my Pikachu and Riolu!" demanded Ash. The woman had her Ariados use string shot and Ash got tied up by the web, and then the woman and her pokemon flew away, leaving Ash very angry.
Team Rocket, who was close by, saw everything. "Did you see that?" asked James. "She reminds me of the Iron Masked Marauder" said Jessie. "Do you think she would be good for Team Rocket?" asked Meowth. "Are you kidding Meowth?" asked James "if we had her working for the boss, she would make us agents look bad with those gadgets of hers. Why, she would probably make the boss look weak". Meowth and Jessie saw the point. "So now what?" asked Jessie. "I suggest we get away from here, before she sees us, otherwise she may try to come after our pokemon" said James. Jessie and Meowth agreed and went to get back to their balloon to get away.
Meanwhile Dawn, Tomo, Brock and Melodi caught up with Ash and saw him trapped in the web. "What happened, Ash?" asked Brock. "That woman took Pikachu and Riolu, and she's a pokemon hunter who steals pokemon and sells them for money" said Ash. The others gasped when they heard that. Growlithe set Ash free from the string shot with flame wheel.
At that time, Team Rocket was about to board the balloon but then the woman came up to them. "What do you want?" said Jessie, rudely. "Just here to see if you have any good pokemon" said the woman. "Go away lady," said Meowth "we're not handing any pokemon to you". The woman was surprised that Meowth could speak. "A talking Meowth will fetch an excellent price on the market" she said, getting her cannon ready. "Oh no you don't!" shouted Jessie. She and James sent out Exploud and Ursaring and ordered them both to use hyper beam. The woman's Salamence used hyper beam too; this Salamence proved to be a very, very strong pokemon because it's hyper beam attack shot right through Exploud's and Ursaring's hyper beam attacks and defeated them at once. Then the woman tied up Jessie, James and their pokemon with Ariados's string shot and then she captured Meowth. "Hey give back Meowth!" shouted Jessie, angrily.
Melodi and the gang wanted to run after them, but the woman had an aircraft waiting for her and she left with it. Suddenly Officer Jenny arrived on her motorbike. "I missed her again" she said. She turned to the gang and asked them if the woman took any of their pokemon. "She took my Pikachu and Riolu, and Melodi's Gardevoir," said Ash "Officer Jenny who is that pokemon hunter?" Officer Jenny explained the woman's name was Hunter J, and she was the most dangerous and evil person in the whole pokemon world. She was so evil, she would hurt or even kill those that would get in her way, and she shows no emotion whatsoever when it came to stealing and selling pokemon on the black market. The police in all of Sinnoh had been after her for a very, very long time. Ash was pissed from hearing that; of all the bad people he has ever met in the past, she was the worst. "We have to get Pikachu and Riolu back," he said, angrily, "I am not letting that witch sell them or Gardevoir". "We do need to go after her to rescue the pokemon," said Officer Jenny "but her identity is a real mystery. And after she steals pokemon she disappears in that aircraft of hers". "That means we can't chase her," said Brock "if only we can predict where J's next movement is". "We can, well actually my Espeon can" said Ash. He had his Espeon with him and released her. Then he held Hunter J's wanted posted for Espeon to see. "We need to find out where this woman is heading before she steals someone else's pokemon Espeon". Espeon looked at the poster and then closed her eyes to predict where Hunter J was going. With the jewel on her forehead, Espeon found out where Hunter J was going, and revealed in a telepathic message to everyone where she was going. The vision showed a water mill and finished. "Thank you Espeon," said Ash "Officer Jenny do you know where that water mill is?" "Yes it's right at the forest edge" answered Officer Jenny. Officer Jenny quickly contacted the police and told them of Hunter J's next destination.
Meanwhile, in J's flying ship Meowth, Pikachu and Riolu were still frozen in the cases and had been placed in a chamber along with Gardevoir. It was then a minion of Hunter J's came into the chamber to photograph the pokemon. He walked to Meowth's case and pushed a switch down a bit and Meowth's face became unfrozen; apparently the cases were built to release pokemon from their frozen states by pushing the switch down, but if you pushed the switch up again, before they are fully unfrozen, they'll go back to being frozen again. "Hey where am I?" said Meowth. The minion showed a camera to Meowth. "Say cheese" he said. "No one tells me what to do punk" said Meowth. "A talking Meowth like you will certainly fetch a big price for us on the market" said the minion. Meowth snorted. "Even if your boss was paid a million pokedollars, I still won't work for the person you'll sell me to" he said. The minion then froze Meowth again and left. Meowth, Pikachu and Riolu were scared by all this and hoped someone will come and help them soon.
At that time Officer Jenny and the gang arrived at the water mill, where Hunter J was going. She was already there and she was stealing an Absol from its owner. "The police haven't arrived yet" said Officer Jenny. Ash couldn't wait and ran ahead. "Give back Pikachu and Riolu right now J!" he shouted. Officer Jenny joined Ash and told J she was under arrest. J ordered her Salamence to use hyper beam and Officer Jenny ordered her Arcanine to use flamethrower. But as Salamence was so strong, the hyper beam went through the flamethrower and threw Ash, Officer Jenny and Arcanine back. J was then able to fly away with Salamence, while one of her men drove away with Absol in a vehicle.
Ash wasn't going to let it get away this time and hitched a ride from underneath it. To his surprise Jessie and James were there; they were going to get Meowth back. Dawn, Brock and Tomo tried to get the vehicle to stop but it flew over them and went back to the ship. Brock saw Ash and Team Rocket holding onto the vehicle and he told everyone else. "We have to go after them" said Dawn. "We will," said Officer Jenny "let's go".
At that time Ash, Jessie and James were on J's ship thanks to their hitch hiking. "What a ship" said James. "Not bad compared to our boss's ship" said Jessie. "You two better get out your pokemon," said Ash "once J knows we are here she'll send our men after us". Jessie and James understood that Ash was right and they released Exploud, Weavile, Ursaring and Roserade for protection. Ash released his Espeon, Marowak and Noctowl to help him find Pikachu and Riolu. "Spilt up" said Ash. Ash went with this pokemon, James with his and Jessie with hers.
As J's ship was a big ship it was hard to guess where everything was. James came up to a door, but when he opened it a lot of J's men were behind the door. "Roserade use stun spore" said James. Roserade released a stun spore attack and all the men became paralyzed. "Close call" said James and he quickly closed the door again. At that time Jessie had run into some men too, but she had her Weavile freeze them with blizzard.
Meanwhile Ash was heading for the chamber where the pokemon were kept; Noctowl's eyes found the pokemon behind the door of the chamber and he told Ash at once. But then J's Drapion came out and grabbed Ash. Marowak quickly jumped in and hit Drapion very hard on the head with bone club. That made Drapion drop Ash. Due to being a poison and dark type pokemon, Drapion's weakness was ground type moves. J came out; she had found out about the intruders on from her security cameras. "You are very brave to have followed me here," said J "and your pokemon aren't bad either. Maybe I should add them to my catalogue". "Don't even think about that you witch!" shouted Ash. Marowak attacked Drapion with boomerang, Noctowl air slash and Espeon hidden power, which was steel type. Like Salamence and Ariados, J's Drapion was very strong too, but Ash's pokemon managed to hurt it because they were strong too. J was impressed but thought it wasn't enough to bring her down.
Suddenly a smokescreen appeared and covered the area; it was from James's Weezing. Jessie and James had turned up. "Come with me," said Ash "Noctowl found where the pokemon are". Ash and the duo ran to the chamber where the pokemon were. Ash pressed the switches on the cases down and released Pikachu, Riolu, Gardevoir and Absol. Jessie pressed the switch on Meowth's case down to get him out. Suddenly some of J's men came into the chamber and one of them sent out a Golbat to attack. "Steel wing" he said. Ash had Pikachu fight back with volt tackle, which knocked out Golbat at once. Then Ash ordered Pikachu to use thunderbolt; this was to distract the men so that Ash and the others could escape. The men dodged the thunderbolt but it hit a wall and created a big hole. Ash returned Espeon and Marowak and told Noctowl to go and get Officer Jenny. Jessie and James quickly returned their pokemon too.
In the control room of the ship, where J was now, a controller was warning J about damage at a hanger numbered 3. J was not happy with that and told the controller to separate hanger number 3 from the ship. She also decided to get a new Gardevoir and Absol. The controller did tell her about the men in hanger number 3, but she didn't care. She was the ruthless type of woman who didn't care about her own employees. When the hanger was despatched from the ship, the men realized that Hunter J was abandoning them and they were not happy with that.
By that time Noctowl had led Officer Jenny and the others to where he left Ash. Officer Jenny saw the falling hanger and everyone became worried. In the hanger Ash turned to Melodi's Gardevoir. "Quick Gardevoir use teleport to get us out of here before we crash" he said. Gardevoir did as it was told and teleported everyone out of the hanger and onto the ground safely, while the hanger crashed and exploded onto the ground. The gang were happy to see that Ash, Pikachu and Riolu were okay, and Melodi was happy to get Gardevoir back. While Team Rocket made their quick getaway, Officer Jenny arrested the men and promised to send Absol back to its owner. At that time Hunter J and the rest of the men left the area with the aircraft.
After that Team Rocket was thinking about Hunter J. "I'm going to make that witch pay for turning me into a statue" said Meowth. "Yeah and no one steals our pokemon" said James. "We have already made an enemy here in Sinnoh," said Jessie "so let's toughen ourselves and our pokemon up so we can defeat that wrench next time". James and Meowth agreed.
Meanwhile the gang couldn't stop thinking about Hunter J either. "I can't believe that people like that Hunter J exists" said Dawn. "She is worse than the boss of Team Rocket Giovanni," said Ash, angrily, "selling pokemon on the black market like that". "But Officer Jenny will catch her one of these days" said Brock. "I hope you're right Brock," said Ash "people like Hunter J have no right to roam around free in the world". The others agreed and hoped that Hunter J will be arrested soon. Despite only just started a new journey; the gang had already met the most dangerous person in all of Sinnoh.
That evening Ash contacted Mewtwo and warned him about Hunter J and told him everything about how evil she was. Mewtwo vowed to never let her find him or capture him, and to keep an eye out for her. And Ash vowed he would not let J get away with things the next time he saw her.
One day Ash was going to do some training with his two Aipoms, and he had his Hitmonchan with him too. "Okay Aipoms," he said "you two are going to learn thunder punch, fire punch and ice punch from Hitmonchan today". Hitmonchan demonstrated the three punches and the Aipoms became eager to learn them. Riolu, who could learn thunder and ice punch, wanted to learn the punches and Ash agreed. It was then Brock asked if his Croagunk to take part too because it could learn ice and thunder punch too. So Hitmonchan had a lot of students to teach.
While Hitmonchan's teaching was going on, Dawn noticed a mini poster talking about an unofficial pokemon contest at a pokemon festival in a village not far from where they were. Instead of getting a ribbon, the winner of the contest got a year supply of fruit. Dawn decided to enter with Pachirisu because it hasn't had a chance to shine yet. She showed it to Ash. "Want to take part too Ash?" she asked. Ash had a look at it. His female Aipom jumped onto Ash's shoulder. "What's up Aipom, do you want to participate in this?" asked Ash. Aipom nodded yes. "You really like contests don't you Aipom?" asked Dawn. Aipom jumped onto Dawn's shoulder. "That's a yes" said Brock. Ash started at Dawn and Aipom. 'Those two look great together' he thought.
Soon the gang came to the village where the festival was, with lots of stalls set up. Ash and Dawn signed up for the contest at once. Since there was time before the contest, the gang had some quick fun with the game stalls. Then it was time for the contest. Nurse Joy and the village chief were to be the judges. The chief showed off lots of bunches of bananas that were the prize for the winner. Then Nurse Joy pronounced the contest to begin.
Dawn, who was dressed in her contest dress, was up first. She sent out Pachirisu with a heart seal. Unfortunately since this a first contest for Pachirisu, it was nervous. "Calm down Pachirisu, and you will be fine," said Dawn "now use sweet kiss". Pachirisu blew a sweet kiss attack and the villagers fell in love with it. The Pachirisu used spark, which created flower shaped sparks. To finish it off Pachirisu tried to use discharge, but it ended up shocking the audience by accident. Pachirisu had a lot of electrical training to do.
Over coordinators were up after Dawn, but they were real amateurs and the pokemon didn't shine at all during their performances. Last up was Ash; he was wearing his normal clothes. He sent out Aipom with a party seal. They started off with swift and then Aipom used focus punch to break the stars into particles. Then Ash told Aipom to use double team and swift. The Aipom copies joined together in a circle and when she used swift it created a big circle of stars. The audience loved it.
After the appeal round, only two people could make it into the battle round and Ash and Dawn were the two. Dawn sent out Pachirisu with a heart seal and Ash sent out Aipom with a party seal. "Okay Pachirisu use spark" said Dawn. "Dodge that with bounce Aipom" said Ash. Aipom jumped to dodge Pachirisu's spark attack and then hit it with her legs. "Double team Aipom" said Ash. Aipom formed a line with copies of herself, while Pachirisu just looked helpless. "Use discharge on all the Aipoms Pachirisu" said Dawn. Pachirisu fired a discharge attack, but the Aipoms used swift to counter the attack. The swift attack turned into a shower of stars and Dawn was losing more and more points while Ash still had all his points. "Now focus punch Aipom" said Ash. Aipom punched Pachirisu very hard, and then Pachirisu fainted.
So Ash became the winner of the pokemon contest and was given the fruit as a prize. As there was way too much fruit for the gang to carry, they decided to share it with everyone. So everyone at the festival tucked into the fruit and them pokemon had some too and they thanked Ash for sharing the fruit. Today had been a fun day for the gang and thanks to Hitmonchan; Ash's Aipoms learned fire, ice and thunder punch, and Riolu and Croagunk learnt ice and thunder punch.
Today the gang had made it to Floaroma Town, where the next pokemon contest was. The town was beautiful with flowers and trees everywhere. Dawn loved it. An old woman who lived in the town told the town that many, many years ago Floaroma Town was a barren wasteland and nothing seemed to grow. It made the people very in despair. But one day a beautiful woman magically made all the flowers and trees grow and Floaroma Town became beautiful as it was today. The gang loved that story, especially Dawn.
Suddenly Dawn noticed a poster that said a poffin cooking class. "Poffin?" said Ash "is that a treat or something?" Dawn explained that poffins were bun like treats made from berries for pokemon. They kept pokemon healthy and made them look and feel great. "Oh that's like the pokeblock treats back from Hoenn" said Ash. "I've helped my mum make poffins for her pokemon, so I'm an expert" said Dawn. She asked the boys if they could go to the poffin class and they agreed to go; it would be good to learn how to make new treats for their pokemon.
The poffin cooking class was held at a house where hundreds of flowers and berries were growing. The garden was looked after by a Roserade and a Lotad. Once the gang showed up at the house, Ash noticed Roserade. Just then his Budew came out of her pokeball and went over to Roserade. Roserade started talking to Budew at once. "That was really quick of Budew making friends with that Roserade" said Dawn. "That's because Budew's final evolved form is Roserade and she wants to evolve into that in the future" said Ash.
Just then a green haired woman came out; she was the owner of Roserade and Lotad. "Welcome," she said "my name is Forsythia. If you come with me we'll start on the poffin cooking class". Forsythia led the gang to a kitchen, where the cooking class took place. There were cooking pots and poffin making molds all set out and ready for use. The first step was to place berries, all washed and cut up, in a pot of cold water. Then you turn up the heat while stirring nonstop. "Stirring gives the poffins their flavor" said Forsythia.
So the gang got to work on making their poffins. Tomo decided to watch because he wasn't good at cooking yet. Dawn placed a time on the kitchen timer on her poketch. She explained that poffin batter will burn if you keep it on the heat too long, and won't cook right if the batter isn't on long enough. Ash took great care with stirring his batter because this was his first time, while Dawn made the poffins easily like an expert. When the batter was perfectly stirred the batter went into the batter molds and left to set and cool.
Soon Ash, Brock and Dawn's poffins were made and they came out perfect. Ash released his Budew, Shinx, Piplup, Staravia and Pikachu and Riolu joined to try his poffins. Growlithe joined in too and they all liked the poffins. "You did very well there Ash" said Forsythia. Ash smiled. Brock sent out his Nosepass, Bonsly, Croagunk and Nuzleaf and his pokemon liked his poffins too. Last of all Dawn gave her Poffins to Piplup, Ariados, Burmy, Buneary and Pachirisu to try. Piplup, Burmy, Pachirisu and Buneary didn't like her Poffins but Ariados did.
"I don't get it," said Dawn, while washing dishes, "I did the recipe, mum taught me of her poffins for her pokemon, correctly. But only Ariados liked it". "Well it seems you're not an expert of making poffins yet" said Ash; he knew she was boasting earlier. "Pokemon have different tastes for different flavors they like, like Pikachu likes sweet, Riolu likes bitter and Growlithe likes spicy. You need to check with your pokemon to see what flavors they like". Dawn frowned in anger and embarrassment, not happy that Ash outsmarted her again.
After the class was over Forsythia made tea and cake for the gang. Ash's Budew continued talking to Roserade. "I'm glad to see that Roserade is making another friend," said Forsythia "it's only calm with me and Lotad". Forsythia explained that Roserade has been timid ever since it was a Budew. One day she met it that the pokemon center and asked if it wanted to come and live with her; because it was so shy it never made friends with the other pokemon. Budew accepted at once, even though it and Forsythia had just met. Budew became with Forsythia because of her flower garden and berry orchid. Soon it evolved to Roselia and soon into Roserade and it became a big help to her garden and orchid.
"I must ask Ash, will you be evolving to Budew to Roserade?" asked Forsythia. "Yes she wants to become one in the future" said Ash. "Well then you can have these" said Forsythia. She got out three evolutionary stones; one was a shiny stone, which was a very light yellow colour, a purple stone called a dusk stone and a blue-green stone called a dawn stone. "Ash this shiny stone evolves a Roselia into a Roserade, and also evolves a Togetic into a Togekiss," said Forsythia, "this dusk stone will evolve a Murkrow into Honchkrow and a Misdreavus to Mismagius, and this Dawn stone will evolve a male Kirlia into a Gallade and a female Snorunt into a Froslass".
Ash was amazed with what these new evolutionary stones could do and looked at the pokemon Forsythia just said on the pokedex; Togekiss, the jubilee pokemon. The evolved form of Togetic. It shares many blessings with people who respect one another's rights and avoid needless strife. Honchkrow, the big boss pokemon. The evolved form of Murkrow. If one utters a deep cry, many Murkrow gather quickly. For this, it is called "Summoner of Night." Mismagius, the magical pokemon. The evolved form of Misdreavus. It chants incantations. While they usually torment targets, some chants bring happiness. Gallade, the blade pokemon. The evolved form of Kirlia. When protecting someone, it extends its elbows as if they were swords and fights savagely. Froslass, the snow land pokemon. The evolved form of Snorunt. It freezes prey by blowing its -58 degree F breath. It is said to then secretly display its prey.
"Wow," said Brock, who was awestruck, "are you going to evolve Togetic, Murkrow and Misdreavus Ash?" "I will later, but I haven't asked them if they want to evolve yet" said Ash. Forsythia told Ash he could keep the stones because she had plenty of evolutionary stones. So Ash was happy to have more stones to his stone collection.
Later that day Dawn tried again with making poffins for her pokemon, and this time she made the right recipe for her pokemon because she now knew what flavours her pokemon liked. So everyone was happy because they knew how to make poffins.
Before you readers ask, yes Hunter J and the rest of her men will die when the ship crashes after they catch the lake guardian pokemon. Since it never said, and Hunter J never burst out of the lake again, I reckon she and her men did die when the ship crashed in the lake. To have you readers understand I am not going to have ash use his psychic and aura powers in front of J. I'm sure you are aware that if J ever found out if Ash had psychic and aura powers she would turn him to stone and sell him to those who would use him as a slave. So it's best not to reveal Ash's powers to J; best to keep him safe. Some more of J's men will get caught when she turns up again; it's a shame that others didn't get caught after the mutiny on the bounty episode. I know Jessie joined in the contest in the anime, but I let Ash do it since in this story Jessie doesn't do contests. That stare that Ash did when he saw Dawn and Aipom together; that's when he starts thinking that his female Aipom should be with Dawn. The trades between Aipom and Buizel will happen later will happen later. I still say it was pathetic that Ash never learnt to cook right in the anime. Ash will evolve Togetic, Murkrow and Mismagius in the next chapter.