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 144
Iron Island
On an island called Iron Island Barry was training his Empoleon and his newest pokemon Heracross. Everything was going well, but then something odd happened to Empoleon. First blue electric sparkles appeared over Empoleon, making it paralyzed. Then its eyes glowed blue and it started to attack Barry and Heracross. "What's going on?!" gasped Barry "what's gotten into you Empoleon?" Empoleon didn't answer and just attacked again. Something was wrong.
Meanwhile, back on Canalave City, the gang were waiting for the boat for Chocovine Town in the pokemon center. Ash was explaining to Dawn that the next gym battle will be at Snowpoint City. So the gang would head to Snowpoint city after the Chocovine contest. Just then Nurse Joy came up to the gang and she told Ash he had a phone call.
The phone call was from Barry. Ash showed him his Mine Badge and Tomo did the same. Barry was impressed and officially called Ash and Tomo his rivals. Then Barry told the gang about his problem his Empoleon and that other steel type pokemon on Iron Island were causing havoc too. "How about you, are your pokemon okay?" Barry asked the gang. "We're fine over here" replied Ash. "Then that means it's only happening over here" said Barry. Ash felt something must be wrong. "Barry stay right where you are," he said "we are coming over to help you. Right Dawn, Tomo and Brock?" "Yes of course" replied Dawn. "Definitely" said Tomo. "Yeah" said Brock. Despite the plan for heading off to Chocovine Town would be delayed, the gang wanted to know what was going on.
At the pier Team Rocket was in their submarine, waiting for the gang to come out and leave on a boat. This was their way of following them. Right now they saw the gang heading for a ferry that would take them to Iron Island. The ferry was soon on its way and of course Team Rocket followed the ferry in the submarine. Ash was feeling worried about what Barry said and so were the others.
Once the ferry arrived at Iron Island the gang headed for the pokemon center at once to meet up with Barry. But Barry wasn't there. Nurse Joy told them he went to find out what was going on with the pokemon. The gang saw lots of steel pokemon in the center and they were in a lot of pain. It was a horrible sight. "I'm glad I sent Probopass back home some time ago" said Brock. Ash and Tomo were glad they didn't have any of their steel type pokemon either. "Come on," Ash said to the others "let's go find Barry at once and figure out what's happening here". The others agreed and they left the center at once.
The gang were soon walking up the rocky terrains of Iron Island. Ash knelt down onto the ground and placed his hand onto the ground. "What are you doing Ash?" asked Dawn. "I'm going to see if I can feel anything strange about this island," answered Ash "just in case there's something about Iron Island that may be the cause of the pokemon's strange behaviours". Everyone kept quiet while Ash closed his eyes and concentrated with using his psychic power first and then used his aura power next. "You felt anything Ash?" asked Brock. "Yes and I was right, I felt something weird within the ground" said Ash. "What is it Ash?" asked Dawn.
Before Ash could answer some Digletts popped out of the ground and they were running away from something. A Lairon who had gone berserk came out of the ground and it was tackling rocks. The gang took cover at once to not get hit by the rocks. "That Lairon is in pain" said Ash. "It's like the other steel type," said Brock "Lairon must be running a rampage to block out all of its pain". Ash didn't want to sit around and just let Lairon continue its rampaging. "Come on Pikachu" he said. Ash and Pikachu ran towards Lairon. "Pikachu use hidden power" said Ash. Pikachu released a hidden power and it hit Lairon. "Now brick break". Pikachu struck Lairon hard with his hand and poor Lairon went unconscious. "I'm sorry that I did that to you Lairon," said Ash guiltily "but I had to stop you from going on a rampage like that". Unfortunately more trouble came the gang's way. A Steelix, a Metang and some Skarmory turned up and rock pokemon were running away from them. "This is bad" said Dawn. "What do we do?" asked Tomo. "We need to find Barry quick and then find out what's going on here" said Ash. It was far too dangerous for the gang to stay where they were now. And it got worse when an Aggron turned up.
Just then and man and a Lucario turned up and Lucario knocked Aggron out. To Ash's surprise it was Riley. "Riley, it's you" said Ash. "Hello Ash, it's been a while since I last saw you," said Riley "and I can feel that your aura has indeed grown stronger. How is Riolu?" "Riolu is good, but he's a Lucario now" said Ash. "I'm happy to hear that" said Riley. Ash introduced Tomo, Dawn and Brock to Riley. "Oh so he's the one who taught you about using aura huh?" asked Dawn. "Correct Dawn" said Ash. Riley and Lucario led the gang somewhere safe so they could talk some more. "I had a feeling I might see you here on Iron Island Ash" said Riley. "Oh yeah I remember you told me that you live here on Iron Island Riley" said Ash. "That's right," said Riley "and I love it here, especially as it's perfect for a steel type pokemon trainer like me. But now my home and the pokemon are in danger because of these strange circumstances". "I must ask how come Lucario is alright as it's a steel and fighting type pokemon?" asked Dawn. "That's because of its aura," answered Riley "the aura protects it from going crazy like the other steel type pokemon". Ash then told Riley about Barry and why they were on the island. "I haven't seen any one here yet, but we better look for your friend now" said Riley.
Meanwhile Barry and his Heracross were running away from some wild Magnemites who were firing off thundershock attacks. They came to a cliff and Barry had to jump to get away from Magnemite. Heracross carried Barry while flying. While the two were flying Barry noticed some cranes. "What's that?" he asked himself. Suddenly he and Heracross got tackled by a Skarmory and they crashed towards the ground. But instead of landing on the ground, they landed on Jessie, James and Meowth. Team Rocket had made it to Iron Island and were exploring the island too. Barry remembered Team Rocket and told his Heracross to get ready to fight them.
At that time Riley and the gang were on the move again. "Riley I felt some strange waves coming from within the ground" said Ash. "Those were low frequency sound waves Ash," said Riley "Lucario and I felt them too. These sound waves are covering the whole island and it only affects steel type pokemon. It also has a reverse effect on the bodies of the steel type pokemon; that's why their sensors have been altered. That's why they don't feel any pain when they bash into rocks". "But they must feel pain after all the crashing into rocks they do" said Tomo. "All the more reason to find out what's happening here," said Ash "Riley please tell me you know the source of these sound waves". "Sorry Ash, but Lucario and I are still searching for the source". Ash felt disappointed. "Ash I noticed you and Pikachu attacking that wild Lairon while it was out of control, how did you manage to do that without hesitating?" "Well the truth is I didn't really want to do that, but I knew if I didn't do that Lairon would've kept on hurting itself and somebody else," said Ash "and another truth to tell you I actually fought pokemon that were under control before including Pikachu". He and Tomo told everyone about a time when Team Rocket used a machine that had any pokemon under their control including Pikachu and Growlithe. "Of course at that time Tomo and I didn't want to attack the pokemon as it wasn't their fault," said Ash "but we had to attack them otherwise we would've never have gotten to the machine to destroy it and stop Team Rocket from controlling anymore pokemon". Brock and Dawn were surprised by this story and they asked Tomo if that story was true. Tomo explained to them it happened back in the Orange Islands, which is why Brock didn't know about it. (What Ash's story is about Cassidy and Butch's machine in the Pikachu Re-volts episode. I know I haven't done a chapter for that, but it's a good example for Ash to have Riley understand). "I understand," said Riley "Ash bring your Lucario here. You and your friends can help me with this situation". Actually Riley wanted Ash and his friends to go back to town for safety. But he could feel Ash and his friends would rather stay and help the pokemon; considering how he saw how selfless Ash was around pokemon before. Ash and the other were more than willingly to help find out what was going on with Iron Island, and Ash called for his Lucario at once.
Meanwhile Barry was accusing Team Rocket of causing the steel type pokemon to go wild. "Listen here you!" shouted Jessie, who was starting to get angry, "we just got here ourselves and so we don't know what's happening here". "I don't believe you," said Barry "that machine over there is yours isn't it?" "What machine are you on about?" asked James. Barry led Team Rocket to the area where the cranes and machines were. It was some ancient ruins all made out of steel and there were statues of Dialga and Palkia. To Team Rocket's surprise Mars was there with some Galactic grunts. Mars had the spear key on some sort of scanning machine. "It's Team Galactic" said Meowth. "Can't believe we've run into them again" said James, who wasn't happy about that. Some Skarmorys and Arons ended up charging towards Galactic, but the Golbats and Mars's Purugly easily made them leave. "Is that woman one of yours?" asked Barry. "Team Galactic is our enemy you dope" said Jessie. "Yeah they've been our enemies ever since we first met" said James.
Suddenly a Steelix turned up and it pushed Barry and Team Rocket off the cliff. Mars noticed the group at once. "Well, well, well if it isn't Team Rocket," said Mars "I'd like to chat but I'm busy. So don't get in my way". The Golbats used air cutter to attack, but Heracross took the attacks to protect Barry. Barry returned Heracross at once and sent out Staraptor and Roserade. Team Rocket sent out all of their pokemon too. Barry was surprised to see Team Rocket help him. "Don't underestimate us kid," said James "we have a score to settle with Mars so don't get in our way". "Fine with me" said Barry, who didn't want to help Team Rocket anyway.
Back with Riley and the gang, Riley's Lucario and Ash's Lucario were scanning the area with their auras and it seemed they were getting close to finding the source of the low frequency soundwaves. 'Father I feel Team Galactic' said Ash's Lucario. "Oh no," said Ash "my Lucario just said he feels Team Galactic's aura". "What, Team Galactic is here?" asked Dawn. "Who's Team Galactic?" asked Riley. "I'll explain in a minute," said Ash "but we need to find out what Team Galactic is up to now". Riley wanted to know who Team Galactic was, but what was important first was getting to where the soundwaves were coming from.
Meanwhile Team Rocket and Barry's pokemon were having trouble. Because Team Galactic had so many Golbats it wasn't easy to deal with them all. Meowth and Jessie's Purugly went against Mars's Purugly, but her Purugly proved to be stronger and Meowth and Jessie's Purugly got defeated. Suddenly Barry, Jessie and James and all of their pokemon ended up falling down a hole all together. "Grr I'm not letting that Mars lady get away with this!" shouted Jessie. Suddenly they noticed a carved wall of Dialga and Palkia. "What is this place?" asked Meowth. Just then they heard laughter from above. It was Mars. She found Team Rocket and Barry's defeat very hilarious. Then she left to get back to work. Barry returned his pokemon for rest. "We need to get out of here, but how?" said Barry.
At this time Riley and the gang arrived at the ruins. "Wow look at that" said Ash, amazed by the ruins. "Hey look Team Galactic is here alright" said Dawn, looking at Mars and her grunts. "If Team Galactic is here then this place must have something to do with the space-time legend" said Brock. "Who is Team Galactic?" Riley asked again. "They are an evil organization who are after Dialga and Palkia," said Ash "they want to use them to destroy the world and recreate it as their own". Riley and his Lucario didn't like that the sound of that. "This must be the source of the low frequency waves that are causing all the trouble," said Riley "they must be coming from these ruins. I had no idea that ruins made out of a metal substance like this ever existed on this island". "I bet Team Galactic discovered these ruins and dug them up" said Dawn. Riley and the others agreed. The two Lucarios noticed the spear key that was still being scanned by the machine and pointed at the machine. "You two feel something from that machine?" asked Ash. "Use your auras to try and find out as much as you can," said Riley "it might have something to do with the sound waves".
While the Lucarios try to find out something Mars was carrying the spear key to a strange hole on a plaque of the ruins. The hole was the same shape as the spear key. The spear key floated from Mars's hand into the hole, and then a pillar and the statues of Dialga and Palkia started to light up. "Perfect just like Cyrus said" smiled Mars. The pillar started to release a beam of blue light into the sky, and unbeknown to everyone the beam headed straight for Mt Coronet. Riley and the gang had their eyes shut because of the bright light. "What is this?" asked Ash.
Before his question could be answered both his Lucario and Riley's Lucario got thrown back. "Lucarios are you two alright?" asked Ash. The two Lucarios got back up, but they started to go crazy as well and they got ready to fire aura sphere. "Lucario!" shouted Ash and Riley together. Things were looking bad.
The two Lucarios fired aura sphere together, but Ash and Riley used their aura shields to protect the others. "Why are our Lucarios going crazy Riley?" asked Ash "I thought the aura was protecting them". "Something more powerful than out Lucarios aura is coming out from the ruins and our Lucarios are unable to protect themselves because of that" said Riley. The Lucarios began using bone rush together and started attacking the wild rock pokemon. Ash and Riley tried to return the Lucarios to their pokeballs but they dodged the beams and knocked the pokeballs out of Ash and Riley's hands. Riley's Lucario even hit Riley with bone rush. "Lucario calm down!" Ash shouted to his Lucario. Ash's Lucario managed to hear Ash. 'Father help me' said Lucario, while growling in pain. Ash ran over to help his Lucario while Brock and Tomo ran over to help Riley's Lucario.
Meanwhile, because of the beam of light reaching Mt Coronet, Prof Rowan's lab and the Celestic Town research center were picking up signals of strong energy source from Iron Island and Mt Coronet. The meteorites at Veilstone City were glowing again too. In the underground ruins Team Rocket and Barry noticed the glowing too. "This is freaky" said Meowth. "We really have to get to the bottom of this" said Barry. Team Galactic were collecting data and scanning everything. Mars contacted Saturn at headquarters and told him about the high beam energy on Iron Island reaching its highest peak. Saturn gave the Cyrus a report about the powerful energy from Mt Coronet and Iron Island. What Team Galactic were doing now was searching for a place called the Spear Pillar and they believed it was located at Mt Coronet. They started scanning Mt Coronet, where the beam of light was hitting.
At that time Ash, Tomo and Brock were still holding onto the two Lucarios. "Ash, tell Pikachu to use thunderbolt on our Lucarios," said Riley "it's the only way to help them". "I understand Riley," said Ash "Pikachu you heard Riley, use thunderbolt". Pikachu understood the situation and used thunderbolt on the two Lucarios, shocking Ash, Tomo and Brock too. The Lucarios picked themselves up and they ran towards the blue light. "Quick let's go after them" said Ash. Riley and the gang followed the Lucarios at once.
The Lucarios went straight for the machine to destroy it. Mars noticed the two Lucarios and had the Golbats and her Purugly stop them at once. The Lucarios were defeated by the Golbat's shadow ball attacks and Purugly's slash attack. "Lucario" said Ash. He, Riley and the others saw everything. 'Father that machine' said Ash's Lucario. He pointed to the machine and fainted. "Lucario wants us to destroy that machine" said Ash. "Do you think that machine is causing the steel type pokemon to go crazy?" asked Tomo. "I don't know," answered Ash "but if Lucario wants us to destroy the machine, I say we do it". The others agreed.
Everyone started to run towards the area where Team Galactic was. But then Piplup fell down the hole where Barry and Team Rocket were. Dawn noticed Barry at once and told the others. She quickly sent out a rope for Barry and Team Rocket to climb out, but a Steelix turned up and Dawn fell into the hole along with the rope. There was worse to come; the Steelix got its head in the hole ready to attack. But then an aura shield stopped Steelix in its tracks; it was Riley. "Riley?" said Ash. "I'll handle this, you three go and stop that machine" said Riley. "Leave it to us" said Ash. He released his Rampardos, Bastiodon and Staravia. Brock released his Sudowoodo, Croagunk and Nuzleaf and Tomo released his Carnivine, Magmortar and Electivire. "Okay everyone, charge!" shouted Ash.
The group charged towards Team Galactic at once. Mars saw Ash, Brock and Tomo and was not happy of seeing them again. She hadn't forgotten the gang. She commanded all of the Golbats to attack. Sudowoodo, Croagunk, Nuzleaf, Carnivine, Magmortar, Electivire and Growlithe charged in and attacked all of the Golbats. "Pikachu get on Staravia and destroy that machine" said Ash. Pikachu got onto Staravia's back and Staravia flew towards the machine. Mars noticed that at once and told headquarters about it. When Cyrus got the message it was clear to him at once that Ash and the other kids were the trouble. Mars told the Golbats and Purugly to stop Pikachu and Staravia, but Bastiodon blocked Purugly with iron defense and Rampardos attacked the Golbats with zen headbutt. This gave Pikachu the chance to destroy the machine with thunderbolt. "No!" shouted Mars. The spear key was thrown off after the machine was destroyed but a Golbat caught it. "What is that thing?" asked Ash. Brock and Tomo had no idea. Mars was glad the spear key was alright. Thanks to the machine being destroyed the ruins stopped glowing and the steel pokemon went back to normal. Ash's Lucario picked himself up and ran over to Ash. 'I'm sorry father' he said. "It's okay Lucario it wasn't your fault, that machine was the cause of your confusion," said Ash "it's all over now". He, Brock and Ash thanked their pokemon and returned them. Riley, Dawn, Barry and Team Rocket noticed that everything was okay now. "Ash, Brock and Tomo did it" smiled Dawn. "They did what, what are you talking about?" asked Barry. He still had no idea what had happened and wanted to know.
At headquarters the scanning of Mt Coronet had stopped thanks to the machine at Iron Island being destroyed. The scanning only reached 60% and Team Galactic still didn't know where Spear Pillar was. Cyrus told Saturn to tell Mars to retreat, but he even had another plan for Iron Island. And that plan was to destroy Iron Island with bombs. Mars got the orders and told her grunts to retreat at once. Ash, Tomo, Brock and Riley noticed Team Galactic was retreating. "Oh no, they are not getting away this time" said Ash. The group ran after Team Galactic. The grunts went into the underground of the ruins where lots of pillars stood and they places bombs all over the pillars. Then they boarded the helicopters with Mars. "Stop right there Team Galactic!" shouted Ash. "What are you doing here and what do you want?!" shouted Riley. Mars turned round showing off a remote control device that's used to set off bombs. "One step closer and I'll blow up the entire island" said Mars. "You what?!" shouted Ash. "You wired everything with bombs?" asked Brock, shockingly. Riley whispered to the two Lucarios to find the bombs. "I'm not bluffing because I don't bluff," said Mars "and we don't need your world so we are going to destroy it understand? In the mean time I'll just press this button when I feel like this, so I hope all of you have a nice time running". Then Team Galactic left in the helicopter and Mars planned to blow up the island after the helicopters were far away from the island.
"That witch!" growled Ash, not happy with what Mars just said. The Lucarios told Riley and Ash that they located the bombs in the underground ruins. "We need to get rid of those bombs now" said Ash. He certainly wasn't going to let Mars destroy Iron Island. "Brock, you and Tomo go help Barry and Dawn, Lucario, Pikachu and I will go and stop the bombs". "I'll come with you Ash, you may not be able to do it on your own" said Riley. Ash and Riley headed for the underground while Brock and Tomo headed for the hole. In the underground Ash and Riley were shocked to see how many bombs were there. "Mars was serious when she said she would destroy this island" said Riley. "I told you Team Galactic was evil" said Ash. He, Lucario and Pikachu ran ahead at once towards a bomb.
While Riley, Ash and their Lucarios and Pikachu were gone Brock and Tomo went to help out Dawn, Barry and Team Rocket at once. Brock and Tomo told Dawn, Barry and Team Rocket about the bombs Team Galactic put up. Barry, Dawn and Team Rocket were not happy with that. Jessie and James quickly returned all of their pokemon. "Please get us out of here quick" said Barry. "Don't worry I have the perfect pokemon to help us" said Tomo. He called his Carnivine over to him. "My Carnivine's vine whip will get you out in no time". James suddenly remembered his Carnivine knew vine whip too and he released it at once. "My Carnivine can help you with its vine whip too" said James. Tomo's Carnivine pulled up James's Carnivine first. Then together the two Carnivines started pulling up the others with vine whip.
Meanwhile Ash, Pikachu, Riley and their Lucarios just found out they couldn't get the bombs off the pillars. Even Pikachu's iron tail or thunderbolt couldn't stop the bombs. "What do we do Riley?" asked Ash, in a panic. "There's only one thing we can do," answered Riley "Ash I need you to be strong now because we will need to use our aura powers against these bombs". "Huh?" said Ash. By now Tomo's Carnivine and James's Carnivine had gotten Dawn, Barry and Team Rocket out of the underground ruin. Right now Team Galactic was miles away from the island in the helicopter. Mars evilly smiled at the island and pressed the button on her controller to set off the bombs. There was a rumbling noise and the ground was shaking. Team Rocket, Barry, Dawn, Brock and Tomo and their pokemon braced themselves for the explosions to happen. But nothing happened; no explosions or anything. "Nothing happened" said Dawn. "No booms or anything" said Jessie. "I wonder what happened?" said Brock.
What had happened was Ash, Riley and their two Lucarios were using a big aura shield together to prevent the bombs from destroying Iron Island. It was hard and the group were struggling of keeping the shield up. "Don't give up Ash and keep going Lucarios" shouted Riley. "I never give up ever!" shouted Ash. The two Lucarios weren't giving up either. Mars and her grunts noticed that no explosions were happening and Mars wanted to know why. The computer on the helicopter showed signs that bombs were going off but it didn't make sense to Team Galactic of why the bombs weren't destroying Iron Island. So of course they didn't know what Ash and Riley had been doing. Despite Mars wanted to know what was going on, she and her grunts couldn't stay and just started to make their way back to headquarters. By now all of the bombs had gone off with in the aura shield. "Quick we have to get this away from the island now!" shouted Riley. "Let's do it!" shouted Ash. Together the group pushed the aura shield out of the ruins and into the sky. The bombs and aura shield exploded together in the sky like a firework. Iron Island was saved. "Where's Ash, Riley and the Lucarios?" asked Dawn, worriedly. There was no need to worry because Ash, Riley and their Lucarios came out of the ruins safe and sound. Ash and Riley were exhausted from creating the big aura shield, but they were happy to have saved Iron Island. "You did very well Ash," said Riley "you have truly succeeded of using the power of aura". "It was all because of what you taught me Riley" said Ash.
At that moment there was a sound of screeching and roaring coming from the cliffs and sky. It was all the steel type pokemon on Iron Island. They were grateful to Riley and the gang for saving them and their home. Riley, Barry and the gang were happy at everything was back to normal at last.
By now Team Rocket was leaving in their submarine. "The nerve that Team Galactic," said Jessie, angrily, "deciding to destroy the world and recreate it as their own". "This world because to Team Rocket not Team Galactic" said Meowth. "We'll need to train our pokemon more and make ourselves stronger the next time we fight them" suggested James. Jessie and Meowth agreed.
After the trouble was all over Riley and the gang got a visit from Carolina. She wanted to see the iron ruins for herself and it wasn't long till her employees began their research on the ruins. Carolina found out the machine was created from the Veilstone Meteorites Team Galactic stole before and that the iron ruins had the same compounds as the Veilstone Meteors. So it seemed the iron ruins used to be meteors before being turned into the ruins. It was also clear that it was the machine and the iron ruins that caused all the steel pokemon to become insane. "Team Galactic must have used this machine as a radar to locate these ruins. It's also rumoured that this can also reveal the location of Spear Pillar, which is necessary to summon Dialga and Palkia to this world". "Spear Pillar?" said Ash. "A location which is somewhere hidden in the Sinnoh region" said Carolina. Ash had a bad feeling about this; with all he went through with Team Aqua and Magma before, it probably wouldn't be long till Team Galactic did succeed of summoning Dialga and Palkia and causing havoc to the whole Sinnoh Region. "Carolina can I talk to you privately please?" asked Ash. Carolina understood why Ash wanted to talk to her alone and accepted. Ash asked Riley to follow him and Carolina too because Ash knew he could trust Riley.
Carolina, Riley and Ash went into a tunnel where no one was about. "I take it you've received it right Ash?" asked Carolina. Ash took out the Griseous Orb from his backpack. "What a magnificent thing" said Carolina, in surprise. "What is this Ash?" asked Riley. Ash told Riley about his plan with Giratina on helping them go against Team Galactic. "So this orb belongs to Giratina" said Carolina. "Ash you must promise me that you and your friends will be careful when you next face Team Galactic, especially as they are very dangerous people" said Riley. "Don't worry," said Ash "we will be careful and we will defeat Team Galactic and make them pay for all the trouble they've caused".
The gang spent the night at the pokemon center and the next day they got ready to head off for Chocovine Town. By now Barry's Empoleon had recovered and Barry was happy about it. "I have to say you all sure got caught in something big yesterday" said Barry. The gang told Barry everything about what happened yesterday. "When it comes to bad people like Team Galactic it always does," admitted Ash "but that's not stopping me from getting to the Sinnoh League". "Same here" replied Barry. The gang and Barry said their good lucks to each other and goodbyes while the gang went away on the boat, while Barry stayed more on Iron Island to train.
Meanwhile at Team Galactic headquarters Mars was apologizing to Cyrus for failing to blow up Iron Island. Cyrus told Mars the failure was only a temporary setback, but he wanted to move on with his plans as quickly as possible before anyone else got in the way. He placed Saturn in charge of excavating the Spear Pillar. Team Galactic may have only gotten 60% of their scanning of Mt Coronet, but they were still in progress of locating the Spear Pillar to control Dialga and Palkia.
Sorry for the wait. They should have had Ash tell Riley about his past experiences of fighting controlled pokemon before. Not to mention Ash shouldn't have hesitated like he did in the Iron Island episodes because of his past experiences. I figured you readers would've wanted Ash to help Riley with protecting Iron Island with aura shield and personally so did I. Ash, Brock, Dawn and Tomo will have strong words for Team Galactic after they get arrested.
I've just seen the sun and moon episode about Mohn and Megearna. I hope the writers aren't going to be mean and have Mohn have permanent memory loss like he did in the games. I won;t forgive them if they do. And I hope Lillie will be able to activate Megearna and keep it as her pokemon. Oh and I also wonder with the gang will find Mohn's Zoroark.