A/N Thanks for reading this far in the story. Thanks again to WhiteEagle1985 again for reviewing. It really means a lot whenever I get any feedback positive or negative.

Chapter 3

Ash was lying on a bed in the professor's lab, the five of them had decided to stay in Lumiose city and the professor had offered to let them stay in the lab. Fortunately, there was a living area at the top of the building.

Ash smiled wryly to himself, he suspected that this charity was due to the professor being thrashed so profusely by someone ten years younger than himself. Trevor had not stopped asking questions, claiming to being one of Ash's biggest fans ever since Serena had told him that he existed.

According to Tierno, Trevor had originally just wanted to check up on who he was, but when he found out that his cousin, who happened to be Drake from the orange league, had been beaten for the first time since he became champion of the orange league, by none other than Ash, he had become an avid fan of his. He often asked Serena for a check-up on his progress whenever he was travelling. He even knew every one of the Pokémon that he had ever caught, something that Ash found a little creepy.

There was a rustling to the side, Ash turned over to see Tierno turning over and nearly falling off the bed.

Tierno and Trevor were planning to travel round the Kalos region simply to catch Pokémon to make teams for themselves; they already started with a Pikachu and a Corphish, respectively. Tomorrow the four kids would be given their Pokémon by the professor and then all five of them planned to head out to Santalune city, to return home before they set out on a full journey. Ash was planning to accompany them back to Vaniville; he would of course stop off at the Santalune gym.

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The next morning the entire lab woke up to the smell of cooking. When Shauna led the way into the kitchen they discovered Ash cooking breakfast while Pikachu sat in the corner with a small bottle of ketchup. Ash raised his hand in greeting as everyone entered and said, "Give me five minutes."

When everyone had been fed, Professor Sycamore led the eager and soon to be trainers to where the Pokéballs were waiting.

There were six Pokéballs at the machine waiting for them as they entered. "Serena I believe that you would like Fennekin, am I correct?" the professor asked, the five of them had talked at length the night before.

Serena nodded and picked up Fennekin's Pokéball. Shauna then walked over to pick up Chespin. She was followed by Trevor picking up Bulbasaur, while Tierno picked up Squirtle. That left one Pokémon and an empty Pokéball.

The professor gestured to Ash to take the last Pokémon. "Why me Professor, surely you could give this to someone else."

The Professor shook his head, "This was originally Callum's first choice but the Froakie refused to be his Pokémon. He has been sent back several times by other trainers for not following commands."

"Okay professor, if you're sure I can take him?" Ash said, still unsure about being given a Pokémon.

The Professor nodded and Ash walked up to the machine and grabbed Froakie. "Thank you Professor."

The Professor then led them over to another table where four Pokédexs sat. "Take one of these each." He said gesturing to the four devices "They are the newest version of the Pokédex for the Kalos region." He smiled, "While not quite on the level of the one Ash received from Professor Oak, they have every Pokémon seen In Kalos so you can identify everything."

The four friends walked up and grabbed the Pokédexs.

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The five of them headed off out of the route 4 entrance. As soon as they were on the road Ash released both Ralts and Froakie. He knelt down and started to talk to them. Ralts gave out a happy yell and jumped back into its Pokéball. Froakie however did a backflip and then he jumped up onto Ash's spare shoulder that was not being inhabited by Pikachu.

Ash turned around to the other four who were looking at the interaction in shock.

"Didn't the professor say that that Froakie had never listened to any trainer?" Tierno asked.

"Yeah," Shauna agreed, "That was amazing Ash."

Ash smiled, "I will teach you lot how to treat your Pokémon when we camp out for the night. We won't reach Santalune city today so we might as well take it slow and see if we can find a Pokémon.

After walking till lunch time Ash settled down and turned to the others. "How about you four go off and find some Pokémon. You can either catch them or just train with your new Pokémon." With that he turned back to setting up lunch.

Shauna walked off into the yellow flowers around them. She released Chespin and they both entered the flowers.

Serena, Tierno and Trevor all headed off into the red flowers.

Ash released all of his Pokémon that he had on hand. Gabite, Totodile, Sceptile, Snivy, Pidgeot, Primeape and Ralts joined Pikachu and Froakie around Ash. They were all greeted by Ash and set about meeting the new Pokémon. Almost immediately Sceptile and Primeape started to train.

As Ash waited for the others, he decided that his Pokémon had the best idea. He called over Totodile to help Froakie work on bubble and turn it into bubblebeam. He called over Snivy to teach Ralts Attract.

As the training went on a figure flew out from a nearby tree and landed next to the sandwiches. Ash smiled noticing the small bird.

"Hello there. Would you like some food?" he asked.

The little bird nodded. Ash smiled and walked over to his backpack. He pulled out a berry and tossed it to the bird, who eagerly caught it. Ash then examined the little bird with his Pokédex.

Fletchling, the Tiny Robin Pokémon. Although Fletchling's chirp is quite beautiful to hear, it is relentlessly tough with those who enter its territory.

When the bird was done eating the berry Ash walked up to it. The little bird tensed and then flew into the air. Ash got the message. He turned to see both Froakie and Ralts were training. He shrugged, "Pidgeot be nice." The huge bird immediately faced the far smaller one.

Pidgeot waited, she would let the little bird have the first move.

Meanwhile Ash had returned to overseeing his Pokémon train.

While Ash was sat there a large fist grasped his shoulder. He turned his head to see Primeape. He smiled and walked after the large fighting type.

The four returned together, eagerly talking about their experience, with Tierno, Trevor and Shauna each with one new Pokémon.

When they came to the clearing they saw all of Ash's Pokémon training with Ash himself in a duel with his Primeape. Just as they entered Primeape managed to break through Ash's defence and Ash flew back.

Ash groaned while on the floor, "As usual, you win Primeape."

As he got up he noticed the others had arrived. He smiled to them and said, "Don't just stand there, let out your Pokémon and get your lunch."

Tierno released his Corphish, Squirtle and Budew, Shauna released Chespin and a Skitty, Trevor released his Pikachu, Bulbasaur and a Flabébé, while Serena released Fennekin.

Immediately the new Pokémon felt out of place but Pidgeot who was accompanied by the newly caught Fletchling approached them and greeted them. She was quickly followed by Pikachu. After a while they started to fit in and some of them tried to follow in with the training regime around them.

"So what was that Ash?" Serena asked.

"Well, I realised that both Infernape and Primeape are incredible martial artists and I decided to help them train. I gradually started to pick up on the combat skills and now they try to get me to spar with them whenever they can." He rubbed his ribs, "They enjoy it a lot and it encourages my other Pokémon to have me with them training. It's a shame that it hurts as much as it does though."

After they ate they returned most of their Pokémon. After walking most of the way they planned to go that day, they were interrupted by a burst of fire.

"Hello, Serena, I see that you are hanging out with Tierno, Trevor and Shauna again." Callum looked at Ash, "You are still with that idiot, what's his name anyway."

Trevor cut in, "This is Ash Ketchum."

Callum froze for a moment, "Pfft, you can't be that tough, tell you what, I challenge you to a battle, and whoever wins will have Serena travel with them."

Ash turned to Serena, who shrugged, she was confident that Ash could wipe the floor with him.

"Alright Callum lets go."

"Let's do a two on two." Callum said smirking.

Ash nodded and sent forward Froakie from his shoulder.

Callum smirked, "You got that weakling from the professor then. This will be fast. Go Ferrothorn." He smirked at Trevor's shocked expression, "I got this from my dad for going on a journey."

He looked at Ash who just shook his head, "Froakie use water pulse."

Callum was caught off guard by the immediate attack, "Ferrothorn use seed bomb."

The ball of water hit the barb Pokémon doing very little damage but confusing it. The Pokémon then launched the seeds in the air for them to hit himself.

"Froakie use bubble."

As the Pokémon fired off bubbles at the barb Pokémon he kept moving, the confused Pokémon unable to work out what was happening.

"Use gyro ball." The Pokémon shot forward but missed Froakie, and so crashed into a tree. Froakie meanwhile kept slowly bringing down the Pokémon's energy with bubble.

Eventually the Ferrothorn collapsed to the ground exhausted, "Froakie finish with water pulse." Ash commanded, the ball of water crashed into the exhausted Pokémon and knocked it out.

Callum looked down at the Pokémon in shock.

Without saying a word he threw out his Charmander.

"Return Froakie, that was a great job. Go Fletchling."

Callum looked at the Pokémon in shock, "You are going to challenge my Charmander with a Pokémon that you just caught."

Ash responded by saying, "Fletchling use peck." The little bird shot forward nailing the lizard Pokémon with peck.

"Charmander use ember."

"Fletchling into the air"

The Charmander fired ember after ember into the air only for Fletchling to dodge everyone.

"Now Fletchling use razor wind." The razor wind stopped the embers and pushed them right back at Charmander.

Charmander could not dodge it and a huge cloud of smoke rose up.

"Now use peck and quick attack Fletchling."

The bird used quick attack to strengthen the peck and Charmander was thrown back knocked out.

Callum growled in anger.

"Callum you need to think rather than just attack," Ash said trying to speak sense to him.

He just shook his head and ran off.

"That was awesome Ash!" Tierno exclaimed.

"Yeah Ash you need to teach me how to battle like that." Serena said.

Ash shook his head, "No you need to work out your own battling style, I won't let you use mine."

Ash looked up at the slowly darkening sky, "I think we should settle down for the night."

A/N There you go, chapter 3 out of the way. I am really enjoying writing this at the moment, and so I am able to write it quickly. I have never done something around the Pokémon anime like this so it is a nice challenge.

I hope that you don't think I overdid Callum's character a bit. Paul was one of my favourite characters and I could not believe that there was no main rival in the x and y anime, so I made one out of Callum.

Thanks a lot also to Mangobeany for being the beta reader for this story.

I hope that you are enjoying this as much as I am.

This is HCS signing off.