Ok, I've though about it for a while and here's what I decided. I'm going to have him battle trainers along the way, and then go battle the elite four. Why? Do you people have any idea how much pointless work it would be for me to do a tournament? I would like to get all of this over with so I can get the more interesting things and finally stop writing an original trainer story. (really, I promise. Cool things will happen after the elite four. Honest)
This chapter will have multiple battles in it. Ash will battle four trainers.
Ash was alert as he walked down route 27 to the Pokemon League, totally focused on finding a pokemon trainer to battle.
However a pokemon trainer found him first.
"Hello," said the trainer. "My name is Blake. Wanna battle?"
"Sure," said Ash. "How many pokemon?"
"I've only got three pokemon, so how about three on three?"
Ash hid his shock. After all, if those three pokemon were better trained then normal, it would make sense.
"Go, magneton!"
Ash took out his pokedex. How strong was this one?
"Level 33."
This was looking bad. If all his pokemon were below L40, there was no way he could have scratched most of the gym leaders' pokemon.
"Go, Sandslash!"
Blake didn't look anywhere near as worried as he should have been. Sandslash was ground and knew ground attacks. Electric attacks couldn't normally hit ground pokemon. Plus, both of magneton's types were weak against ground. Ash noticed all of this as further proof in his theory.
"Magneton, use sonic boom!"
"Sandslash, dig under the ground!"
Before magneton could attack, sandslash dug a hole. The sonic boom missed.
"Now!" yelled Ash. "Attack!"
Sandslash erupted from the ground, slamming into magneton. The super-effective ground move fainted the electric/steel combo.
A scornful thought appeared in Ash's mind. That pokemon must have been horribly trained. It was higher level then Sandslash and shouldn't have fainted so easily, even with a type disadvantage. Of course, he didn't say or even show this thought on his face to the other trainer.
"Oh well. Magneton, return, go quagsire!"
Ash pulled out his pokedex. Strangely, this quagsire was L31
Quagsire, being part water, would have the advantage over the ground type sandslash. Ash withdrew it and sent out Tsunami. The gyarados' water type would protect him from quagsire's water attacks, and his flying type would neutralize its ground attacks. Again, Blake did not seem to realize this. Blake further proved this with the first attack.
"Quagsire, use earthquake!"
"Tsunami, use thrash!"
The earth rumbled and shook, but Tsunami's body absorbed the shock waves without damage. He slithered forward, ramming into the quagsire.
"Keep it up Tsunami!"
"Use water gun!" cried Blake.
Tsunami hit the quagsire again, nearly stunning it. But at point-blank range it fired a powerful water gun attack. However, gyarados is part water. Fire doesn't burn a creature who swims in magma, and water doesn't hurt one who creates whirl pools for fun.
"Now bite!" yelled Ash
"Use water gun again!"
The gyarados attacked quickly, chomping down on the far-slower quagsire, who flinched and was unable to attack.
"Finish it off with dragon rage!" cried Ash.
"Quagsire, use slam!"
Before the quagsire could slam into Tsunami, he unleashed a power-packed dragon rage on it. Quagsire fainted.
Groaning, Blake withdrew his pokemon. "Alright exeggcute, it's all up to you!"
The egg pokemon appeared in all it's…um…glory?
As far as Ash could tell, the pokemon had been sent out from strongest to weakest. Of course, appearances could be deceiving; such as with that famous bellsprout who nearly beat Ash in the Pokemon League Tournament, back when there was a Pokemon League Tournament. However, the pokedex told him his first guess was right.
"Level 31"
"Tsunami, return! Go, Scizor!"
Scizor was part bug, and bug attacks are strong against psychic and grass, plus grass attacks are weak against bug. Scizor was also part steel, which was strong defensively against both psychic and grass. Once again, Blake didn't seem to realize this.
"Exeggcute, use confusion!"
"Scizor, use fury cutter!"
The psychic attack did little damage against the steel pokemon, who began slashing in viciously at the grass/psychic creature.
"Exeggcute, try hypnosis!"
"Scizor, close your eyes!"
Exeggcute's eyes glowed but Scizor had already closed his own. Unfortunately, this meant that fury cutter's power went back to normal.
"Alright Scizor, start fury cutter again!"
"Sci!!!"
Once again, Scizor began slashing at exeggcute. The slow pokemon was unable to evade the attack.
"Use confusion again!"
Exeggcute mentally blasted Scizor again.
"Scizor, shake it off and keep on attacking!"
Without missing a beat Scizor continued to swipe at the egg pokemon.
"Exeggcute, try using reflect!"
"Scizor, keep it up!"
Before exeggcute could use reflect, Scizor slashed it hard and it fainted.
"Drat!" said Blake. "Oh well, good battle."
"Thanks. You did good too," replied Ash politely.
It wasn't long before he came across another trainer.
"Hi, would you like to battle?" said Ash.
"Sure. Use as many pokemon as you want," he said confidently.
"Okay."
"Go, sandslash!"
So, should I use Tsunami, who has an advantage, or one of my pokemon who hasn't battled yet, or my own sandslash, who has already battled?"
"Go, Sandslash!"
"Sandslash, use slash!" yelled Brian.
"Sandslash, counter with your own slash!" yelled Ash.
Both pokemon slashed at each other, but Ash's sandslash took more damage.
"Use slash again, sandslash!"
"Sandslash," cried Ash, "Use dig to escape the attack!"
Before Ash's sandslash could use dig, the other one managed to hit him with another powerful slash attack, fainting him.
"Sandslash, return, go, Tsunami!"
The huge water dragon roared, rearing up above the small sandslash, who looked slightly nervous.
"Slashh….." it moaned.
"Sandslash, use defense curl!"
"Tsunami, use bite!"
Sandslash curled into a ball, but that didn't save stop it from fainting after the gyarados bit it hard.
"Sandslash, return!" Brian looked miserable. "I only have one pokemon, but I thought I had trained it to beat anything…"
"Well, it did take out my own sandslash. I had to use two pokemon to beat it."
"Yeah, I guess so. Good luck at the Pokemon League!"
It wasn't long before Ash found, or was found by, still another trainer.
"My name's Gilbert, and I train psychic pokemon. I have three, so let's battle three on three!
"Go, starmie! Use thunderbolt!"
"Go, Moon, use crunch!" (a/n. No, umbreon cannot learn crunch, nor bite. Eevee learns bite, meaning espeon can get it, but umbreon does not naturally learn it. Since I think that's stupid, in this story umbreon can use both.)
Starmie's thunderbolt hit hard, but Moon lunged forward and crunched into it. The powerful and super-effective dark attack fainted the part-psychic pokemon.
"Starmie, return, go, Girafarig!"
"Moon, use crunch again!"
"Girafarig, use take down!"
Girafarig charged into Moon, but the umbreon fought back with another strong crunch attack.
"Girafarig, use agility!"(a/n. in the game girafarig can learn agility. However, the move agility in the game does not make it harder to hit that pokemon, something I don't agree with. So here I'm operating by the way the move works on the TV show)
Girafarig raced around, never staying in one place long enough for Moon to focus on it.
"Moon, use faint attack to hit it!"
Moon vanished and reappeared, hitting Girafarig.
"Now use crunch one more time and the battle's over!"
Before the girafarig could run away, Moon sank her teeth into it's side, and it fainted.
"Grr…go, exeggcute!
Another egg pokemon appeared in all it's, um, cuteness? Is there even a word for this?
"Okay Moon, crunch it!"
Once again, Moon crunched the opposing pokemon. The low-level, unevolved, part-psychic pokemon fainted.
"Return, exeggcute," he said, sighing. "I guess we need to do some more training."
Ash continued on, and was found by still another trainer.
"Hi, I'm Reena. Let's battle!"
"Great!"
"I've got three pokemon, so how about three on three?"
"No problem," said Ash, although he felt it was rather strange so many of the trainers had only three pokemon.
"Go, starmie!"
"Go, Moon!"
"Drat! You have a dark type!" said Reena. "What bad luck. Oh well, starmie, harden!"
"Moon, use bite!"
Starmie's defense increased, but Moon's super-effective bite still hurt it badly.
"Again, Moon!"
"Starmie, tackle!"
Starmie tackled Moon, but she bit it again, causing to flinch.
"Crunch!"
Moon crunched into starmie's crystal while it was still flinching from the last attack, and it fainted.
"Starmie, return, go, nidoqueen!"
The poison/ground, fully evolved pokemon appeared. Ash wisely withdrew Moon and sent out Scizor, because poison moves don't work on the steel type, plus nidoqueen mainly uses normal attacks, which can scarcely dent Scizor's metal armor.
"Scizor, use fury cutter!"
"What is this? The pokemon team best able to take on psychic pokemon? You have a bug/steel too?"
Reena's moment of disbelief cost her. Scizor began to attack while her nidoqueen waited for orders. Of course, it didn't take her long to notice and choose the attack.
"Nidoqueen, use double kick!"
Nidoqueen quickly kicked at Scizor, who shuddered under the super-effective attack but kept using fury cutter.
"Try fury swipes!"
"Scizor, keep it up! Don't stop!"
Nidoqueen swiped at Scizor, but even her sharp claws couldn't scratch through Scizor's steel coating.
"No! Nidoqueen, use body slam!"
Nidoqueen rammed into Scizor with its full body, but even that powerful normal attack failed to make much of an impression on Scizor, who continued to slash at her.
"Sci!!!" he cried as he sliced at the nidoqueen one more time. She fainted.
"No! Go starmie!"
"Scizor, do you want to take a break?"
"Izor!!!" he said angrily, shaking his head.
"Alright then, keep using fury cutter!"
"Sci!"
Scizor slashed at the second starmie, who tried to dodge but couldn't.
"Starmie, use surf!"
A huge tidal wave appeared out of nowhere, slamming into Scizor. Amazingly, he didn't stop attacking.
"Great job Scizor! You can do it!"
"Starmie, use surf again!"
A second wave hit Scizor, but it still kept slashing away at the starmie, who was now looking rather beat up.
"Don't stop using fury cutter! Just keep on attacking!"
"Starmie, use surf one more time!"
A third wave hit Scizor, who staggered back, but leapt right back and sliced at starmie again. It fainted.
"Drat! Starmie, return," said Reena, stalking off.
Scizor partially collapsed the moment that she was out of sight. "Sciiiii…"
"Scizor, are you okay?" asked Ash nervously. He didn't see any noticeable wounds. What was wrong?
"Scizor or!" insisted Scizor, standing back up.
Ash sighed, withdrawing him. "I hope I don't run into many more battles. My pokemon are going to be exhausted soon. Sandslash had fainted, Sneasel, Tsunami and Moon were weakened, and now Scizor had something really wrong with him and shouldn't be used again until I know what it is and have healed him."
There! All of those trainers are really on Route 26, in that order. And they all have those really weak pokemon. Is everyone satisfied or do you want me to write out the rest of the battles?(there are five more). Or, do you want me to just have Ash go to battle the Elite Four?