Chapter 31 Ash's New Flying Types.
En route to Shalour City, our heroes happily watch three forest Pokémon help each other gather berries.
"Those Pokemon sure are friendly towards each other." Golly remarks.
"I agree. It is fascinating to see the sight of Pokemon helping out each other." Clemont says.
"Why don't we leave them alone so that we won't interrupt their friendship?" Ash says as his two Pokemon agree.
Suddenly, an Ursaring grabs their berries and scares them out of their wits. Bonnie rushes towards the Ursaring and Clemont yells, "Hey Bonnie! Wait!"
"You give those berries back to them!" Bonnie yells.
But the Ursaring ignores her. Before Ash can tell Pikachu to help out, just as suddenly, a Hawlucha appears on the tree with a mask on.
"Wow! A Hawlucha!" Mark says. "It is a cool fighting type."
Hawlucha tears the mask and shows off his appearance. Much to other's awe.
Hawlucha attacks the Ursaring, using Close Combat, Karate Chop, and High Jump Kick to make the Ursaring fall to his knee, giving the forest Pokémon time to retrieve their berries.
But Hawlucha suddenly strikes an artistic pose. East asks, "What is he doing?"
"It is his Victory pose." They turn around and see a man wearing a watcher's uniform. "You see, Hawlucha likes to do that to finish his opponent off."
Hawlucha tries to use Flying Press, but the Ursaring escape because of the time Hawlucha used.
"Every time Hawlucha does that, the opponent always dodges that. But that is his style of battling." The man says.
As Hawlucha is lying on the floor, Ursaring brings a large stone as he tries to hurt Hawlucha. Ash rushes up and blocks the rock.
"That is enough, Ursaring." Ash says as his eyes glow, Ursaring feels intimidated by the eyes and then retreats. Hawlucha also jumps away. Ash smiles, "Wow, that is so cool..."
The man says, "So it seems that you like Hawlucha a lot."
Mark asks, "Can you tell us more about him?"
"I'll be happy to." The man says as he takes them to his home.
"First off. I'm Keaton and I'm a Pokémon Watcher." He said. The gang then introduced themselves.
"So I see you all notice, was one of Hawlucha's heroics." Keaton says.
"So Hawlucha does this every day?" Ash asks.
"More actually. You see this forest is actually full of fighting types, and Hawlucha manages to beat them all, thus earning the title of Forest Champion." Keaton explains.
"So with the title, Hawlucha goes around helping those in need?" Serena asks. "That's right, and Hawlucha does it with pride." Keaton says.
"That is so cool." Mark says.
Then Keaton leads them to Hawlucha's special training ground. There they see Hawlucha training on top of a waterfall.
Ash walks up to him and says, "Hello there. My name is Ash. And this is my partner Pikachu and Sylveon."
Hawlucha looks at him curiously, he can feel something of this human. Ash says, "I am impressed with your Flying Press, so I am wondering that if I can help you strike more quickly without losing your pose. Is that okay?"
Hawlucha slowly nods. But no matter how many times Hawlucha does the move, Ash always dodges.
Golly says, "The pose sure makes the opponent easily to dodge."
Mark says, "If only we can find a way to make it faster..."
Ash smiles at Hawlucha and says, "Hawlucha, I have an idea to make you get quick to dodge your opponent."
After Ash finishes explaining, the same Ursaring and a Conkeldurr bring a Machamp here.
"Machamp?" Keaton says in shock. "It has been a while."
"You know that Machamp?" Mark asks.
"He lost to Hawlucha and trained in the mountains before...but why is he with Ursaring and Conkeldurr...since they used to terrorize the local Pokémon?"
Then they see Machamp points at Hawlucha and roars at him. Ash says, "Wait, Machamp! It is not like it!"
"Golly, what did he say?" Bonnie asks.
"Machamp challenges Hawlucha for a battle because he thinks that Hawlucha is bullying the Pokemon."
"What?" The others are shocked.
Hawlucha and Machamp are having a battle with the fighting moves, but then the Ursaring and Conkeldurr interfere in the battle and beat Hawlucha to a pulp.
"Hey! That is not fair!" East says.
Ash says, "Machamp, as I said, you are mistaken! Those two are the ones that bully Pokemon. We saw Hawlucha saved smaller Pokemon from them!"
Machamp gasps and becomes angry that he is tricked, he defeats the two Pokemon easily with a Karate Chop.
After the battle, Machamp apologizes to Hawlucha and takes them away.
"Now that is fine..." Ash says. "Hawlucha, can I ask you a favor?"
Hawlucha looks at him and Ash continues, "I want to capture you, so I want to have a battle with you. Is that okay?"
Hawlucha nods and they have a battle. Ash uses Froakie and it battles Hawlucha fiercely. In the end, Hawlucha jumps to the tree and strikes his pose. Hearing Ash's advice to spin and fall in the same time, it tries to do it again. And this time it gets much faster. But Froakie uses Water Pulse at the same time, causing both Pokemon to faint.
"They all faint at the same time..." Serena says.
"So the match is a draw..." Keaton says.
After healing them up, Ash says, "Hawlucha, that is a nice Flying Press. With that move, you can defeat anyone no problem."
Hawlucha nods as Keaton asks, "You want to go with him, right?"
Hawlucha is hesitating, until the Machamp roars and gives him a nod on top of the waterfall.
"Don't worry about the forest. Machamp and I will take care of it." Keaton says.
Hawlucha then nods and agrees to join Ash's team. "Thank you, Hawlucha." Ash says as he takes out an empty Pokeball. Hawlucha then gets inside and Ash captures it.
"Alright! I caught a Hawlucha!" Ash says.
"Way to go! Brother!" Mark says.
As the group is cheering, they didn't notice that in the river, a pair of red eyes are glowing before sinking.
Ash and his friends have arrived at a canyon, where they see a sky battle.
"Wow, a Sky Battle!" Ash says.
"Yeah, it is said that there is a center near here that we can try it." Serena says.
East says, "That is awesome. As a Flying Type Trainer, it is my dream to test out this kind of battle."
"You are excited about this. East." Mark says with a chuckle."
"Then let's go try out." Golly says.
As they head inside the center, they are greeted by the instructor, who takes them to pick their clothes.
Bonnie asks, "Is there a size for me?"
The instructor says, "I am sorry since you are not a grown-up, the clothes will be too big for you and you might fall."
Bonnie whines, "No fair! I want to try it out!"
Clemont says, "Then I'll stay with Bonnie since this kind of thing isn't my type."
"I guess so..." Ash says.
The 5 of them are now in the air room, Ash also sends out Hawlucha and Fletchling to fly as well.
"Wow, this is awesome." East says.
"It sure is." Golly says, "Though we can fly even though we don't have this suit."
Serena says, "Yeah, I am kinda jealous."
Suddenly, they see a coach comes and says, "Hey, you with the Hawlucha, care for having a sky battle?"
The instructor introduces her as Moria, he then elaborates on how Moria is one of the instructors at the canyon Sky Battle facility.
"Since my last opponent didn't give me a challenge, can I have a battle with you?"
"Sure." Ash says. "Fletchling, are you ready?"
Fletchling nods, but Moria's Talonflame then refuses to battle him, much to their shock.
"It seems like my Talonflame sees that he is small, so he refuses to battle..." Moria says apologetically.
Fletchling is in despair, Ash says, "Then how about we have a bet, if I win with Hawlucha, you has to battle Fletchling."
"Sure." Moria says as they head outside.
Talonflame and Hawlucha battle and Fletchling watches the battle carefully and observes Talonflame's movements while being comforted by Bonnie. However, since Hawlucha relied mostly on gliding rather than actual flight, it was at a disadvantage and ultimately lost the battle.
"I guess since you lost, so I won't be battling Fletchling." Moria says.
Bonnie asks, "But please? Can you battle him for this exception?"
While Moria gives a small frown, suddenly, Talomflame is being captured.
"Who does that?" Moria asks.
(Insert Team Rocket Motto)
Golly says, "You three again?"
"We will be taking this Talonflame away!" James says.
"And now we bid farewell!" Jessie says.
"No, you don't!" The 5 trainers, Moria, and the instructor fly into the air as Jessie says, 'Hey! How can you fly!"
"It is cheating!" James yell.
"We don't play fair with cheaters like you." Mark says. "We have these suits to help us!"
"Fennekin!" Serena says as the Pokemon pops out of her Pokeball and she yells, "Flamethrower!"
Fennekin shoots out the fire and blasts the net, causing Talonflame to fall. And Fletchling quickly breaks the net and frees Talonflame, much to his surprise.
"I have a bad feeling about this..." Meowth says.
"Fletchling! Air Cutter!" Ash yells as the Pokemon breaks the balloon.
"Hey! We are flying, too." James says.
"But we had help from the twerps, not ourselves..." Meowth says.
"I want those suits too!" Jessie says.
"We are blasting off again!" They yell as they disappear from their sight.
"Alright nice job everyone." Ash says.
"Good job Talonflame." Moria thanks her Pokémon.
Talonflame nudges her head and then turns to Ash's Fletchling. Talonflame then thanks to it for saving it, which Fletchling is much obliged to accept. It then flies to its trainer's shoulder and tells her something.
"What do you mean Talonflame?" Moria asks. It only points its head back to Fletchling, telling her what he means.
"You mean you want to battle Fletchling?" Moria asks. Talonflame nods and its counterpart was excited that Talonflame reconsidered. "Alright let's do this." Moria says as everyone cheers.
In the battle, Fletchling dodges Talonflame's attacks and then gives him a lot of damage, but eventually, it is trapped inside the Fire Blast.
"Oh no..." Ash says.
"Poor Fletchling..." Bonnie says.
But Fletchling starts to glow and becomes bigger. Clemont says, "It is evolving!"
After the fire is gone, a Fletchinder is in front of them. "A Fletchinder! That is awesome!" East says.
It learns a new move Flame Charge and it eventually speeds up and defeats Talonflame.
"Alright! We won!" Ash says as everyone cheers for the Pokemon.
The afternoon comes quickly and the gang was getting ready to leave.
"Well, you all are most welcome back here to participate." Moria says.
"Thanks Moria. We certainly enjoyed our time here." Ash says.
The instructor says, "Bonnie, I'll prepare a suit for you once you come back with much taller."
Bonnie says, "I'll be waiting!" Then they all bid farewell as they walk towards the Reflection Cave. But they didn't see that the window is a shadow of a Pokemon that is watching them. The Pokemon says, "Soon...we will be together again..."
Back in Yvonne's house, Grace is washing the dishes until a door knock is heard. "Coming." She says as she opens the door.
"Aurora, what are you doing here?" Grace asks.
"We need to talk." Aurora says seriously, "It is about you and Serena's Pokemon form." This causes Grace to look at her in shock, then her face also turns serious.
Here is a new chapter. Sorry for taking too long since I changed my cellphone and my documents need to transport.
I am excited about the next chapter since I have given out some hints in this chapter if you didn't notice.