Okay, several things.

If you haven't noticed, I have forsaken the whole four moves only thing. I think more moves is far more interesting.

I thought I explained briefly Dawn and Brock in the beginning, but I'll clear it up in this chapter.

Ash was backed by all his pokemon as Volkner walked up. The gym leader had his shoulders slumped and his head hanging, but there was a tiny smile on his face. Ash couldn't tell if it was fake or a genuine one.

Ash walked up and quickly said, "That was a great match. Easily the hardest gym battle I've ever had."

Volkner smiled gloomily before saying, "And you showed me many things. I am not ready to take on the Elite Four, for one, but I also have much more to learn about being a trainer. You have proven that you are the future of battling, and it was an honor to go against you. You are now the first person who I present the Beacon Badge." He then held out a hand with the Beacon badge.

Ash grabbed it and examined it. It was a circle with two spikes in the bottom, and a gray stand in between them or something. Ash felt the smile on his face and struck the pose he always did.

"Alright, I just got the Beacon Badge." Pikachu then jumped out from behind him and gave a 'pii Pikachu.' The rest of his pokemon contributed to the call also, but suddenly Ash frowned.

Volkner was chuckling at the display, but then noticed the frown and asked, "What's wrong?"

Ash looked at Pikachu and admitted, "We've been doing that since the beginning, but suddenly it felt kind of childish." Ash heard someone start laughing obnoxiously behind him. He turned to see Gary approaching with a giant smirk across his face.

Gary quickly stated, "Seems you are finally growing up. It just took you six years to stop thinking like a ten year old. Maybe you will stop being so dense now."

Ash felt the familiar anger and snapped, "What do you mean I'm dense, Gary?"

Gary just smirked and shrugged, and before Ash could question him more, Flint claimed bitterly, "He's just in a good mood. Since you won, he just won the bet we had going. Now I have to pay for dinner."

Ash raised his eyebrows and stated, "It's your own fault for gambling. Not to mention gambling against me."

Aaron now was excited and announced, "Dinner is on Flint. Let's go to the fanciest restaurant in town and stuff ourselves. We can talk about the battle. Ash needs to tell us all about how he came up with all those maneuvers."

Ash shook his head and explained, "Sorry, but my pokemon need to go to the pokemon center."

Lucian spoke up now, and Ash knew he was defeated, "Even hurt pokemon need to eat. Now they just need some rest and food. We can find a restaurant that will feed our pokemon too."

Ash sighed and claimed, "Fine, but Infernape does need to go. That Explosion attack really hurt him." Ash quickly returned Infernape, who was indeed looking close to fainting again. Ash then turned to Volkner and asked, "Where is that transporter robot you used earlier?" Ash quickly ran to it, transported Infernape to the pokemon center, and ran back to the group who was waiting.

We started walking through the streets. It was midday, and people were starting to come back onto the streets, and the group was gaining much pointing and calls. Luckily. None came forward, and they made quick progress through the city.

Scott finally spoke up, "So when and how did you get a Gible, Ash" That was an extremely impressive pokemon."

Ash nodded and answered, "I worked with Gible a lot when I was preparing for this. Gliscor decided to train temporarily with an air battle master in the mountains to learn how to control air currents in battle. Anyways, after that I had only five pokemon for a while. I don't capture random pokemon too often, but about two weeks after that, we came across Old Lady Wilma. We saw her using Draco Meteor, and talked with her for a while. Eventually a Gible came around and failed to use Draco Meteor. That is this Gible. Actually at first it didn't like me."

Cynthia questioned, "Really, what do you mean?"

Ash shrugged and explained, "More like, didn't trust humans. Whenever I came close, he bit me on the head."

Gary laughed and claimed, "You must have loved that."

Ash grimaced and said, "Yes, it was lovely. I don't want to think about it, but when Old Lady Wilma told me Gible had been trying for a while to do Draco Meteor. I then tried to help it, but then Team Rocket captured her Altaria, I helped release it. After that we left, but Gible followed. The next town we saw it again. It had eaten half the park and actually Palmer's son tried to capture it."

Palmer reacted with surprise before asking, "Barry did?" When Ash nodded again, he continued, "Must have been hoping for a future pseudo-legendary. Did he lose in the battle or something?" Palmer didn't notice the clenching of Ash's fists.

Ash shook his head and informed them, "No, he used Empoleon. If I remember correctly, he used Hydro Cannon to blast Gible off a cliff. Luckily it caught a branch and I went down to get it. After that, Gible chose to come with me. Barry was mad since he considered Gible his now, and we battled. Gible and Empoleon. That has been the only time Barry has managed to beat me in a battle. Empoleon was just too experienced."

Palmer looked devastated as he asked, "Barry has only managed to beat you once? He always said he was so much better than you."

Ash laughed with the group and admonished, "Barry is just extremely confident when it comes to battling. Now does anyone know how much farther the restaurant is?"

Lucian immediately pointed ahead at a nice looking place. There were plenty of tables outside and many of the people also had their pokemon out. Ash started to look forward to eating something good.

They all sat down at a table and waited for a waitress or waiter to come around. Despite several waitresses pointing at them excitedly, it was a waiter that came. The waiter was a kid around nineteen with something about him that made Ash not like him.

The boy was saying in a bored voice, "The manager has said that, due to the fabulous match earlier, your meals shall all be on the house."

Flint was about to jump up happily, but Gary clapped a hand on his shoulder and claimed in a calm voice, "We can't have that. See, Flint promised that he would pay for the food, and it would be a mark on his honor is he didn't follow through. Please tell the manager that that won't be necessary." When the waiter walked away, Gary leaned down and stated in a threatening voice, "You are not going to get out of this Flint. I'm sure that if Ash had lost, I still would have had to go juggle in the park wearing a dress."

These last words made Ash speak up, "What kind of bet did you have going?"

Flint looked at Ash and answered hastily, "You don't need to worry about that. How about everyone release their pokemon now."

Ash released Staraptor, Torterra, Floatzel, Gible, and Spiritomb, and then watched as everyone else released their pokemon. Cynthia released her Garchomp who was quickly joined by Gible, Flint released Infernape, Aaron released Skorupi and Vespiquen, Lucian didn't release any pokemon, Gary released Electivire, Umbreon, and Blastoise, Palmer released Dragonite, Bertha released Gliscor, Golem, Hippowdon, Whiscash, and a Rhyperior, and Volkner released all the pokemon he had just used. They all looked at Electivire nervously for a second before clustering around their old friend.

Ash quickly asked, "Why do all you not have full teams?"

Lucian quickly explained, "Well, I only have Bronzing on me, and he only needs to eat about once a day. I fed him in the morning. As for the rest, everyone either has research labs, battle stations, or Elite Four challenges to take care of. At least for Elite Four members, most of our pokemon are constantly training. When we leave, most of our pokemon stay behind at the headquarters."

"Headquarters?" Ash asked in a confused voice.

Lucian continued, "When a person becomes an Elite Four member, they gain training grounds in the region Pokemon League headquarters. They are designed so that the Elite Four member can train to the best of their ability. Like Flint's is practically a volcano inside a building. When we actually get to leave, we usually only take one or two pokemon with us. Bertha is usually the only exception."

Bertha shrugged and stated, "I'm too old to try and train all the time. So are my pokemon. We are probably going to retire in a few years, so why spend twenty-four seven training."

Gary now spoke up as he looked at Spiritomb, "This is impressive. Larger than average, and an extremely rare pokemon to see, much less capture."

Ash walked over and was amused to see Spiritomb slightly nervous under the scrutinizing eyes of Gary. He then stated, "Yeah, he actually helped a lot during training. He managed to teach Staraptor Ominous Wind in like two days. He wasn't able to battle himself, but he is getting a lot stronger. Really got me thinking about some things." Gary looked curious, but their food came and didn't allow him to question it.

Ash quickly dug into his food and let out an audible groan of pleasure as he tasted the Chicken Parmesan. He quickly dug in quicker and started eating the food faster than seemed possible. His pokemon were used to it, and were eating their own food. The same couldn't be said for anyone else. Everyone was staring as he finished the food in under two minutes. Nobody else had even touched their food yet as Ash leaned back with a contented sigh.

Finally Cynthia spoke up, "Hungry, Ash?"

Ash looked up and quickly explained, "Not really, more wanting good tasting food. Brock always cooked, and I never really learned how. When we were training I always ate packaged sandwiches from convenience stores. I mainly worked on making better pokemon food. I only experimented with using berries to make better tasting pokemon food. My pokemon have always eaten the food Brock made. Since he wanted to become a pokemon breeder, he's even better at making pokemon food then human. Just having regular store bought kind got them annoyed. The chicken parmesan just tasted so good."

Gary spoke up in a joking voice, "So you mean you are spoiled."

Ash shrugged and commented, "Maybe, but my pokemon are even more spoiled." Pikachu sent a weak shock at him, which he barely felt.

Flint finally spoke up by asking, "By the way, where are Brock and Dawn?"

Ash didn't answer for a second before replying softly, "Brock's in Pewter City and Dawn's in Hoenn."

Flint looked annoyed and asked, "Why?"

Pikachu jumped on his shoulder in support. Ash took courage from that and explained, "Dawn finished top thirty-two at the Grand Festival. She was really disappointed, and decided to head to Hoenn right away to continue competing in contests."

"She didn't even wait till after the Sinnoh League," Volkner asked curiously.

Ash shrugged and stated, "I was annoyed too. We got into a little fight over that, but it doesn't matter. Brock absolutely had to go home. His father was acting as a gym leader, but an opponents Rock Throw accidentally smashed his foot. He can't do anything for several months, and his mother was away on business. Brock went back to take care of the family, and take over the gym gain."

Gary now spoke in a sympathetic voice, "Man, that sucks. Suddenly getting left alone after the Grand Festival."

Ash shrugged and stated in a blank voice, "Not really actually. I definitely miss Brock's food, but we got a lot of training done. I doubt I could have won if it wasn't for them leaving. We always were moving around, so I never got a good time to practice with my pokemon continuously. It might be slightly more lonely, but I think it is good that I am finally on my own."

Ash got annoyed by the sympathetic looks he was getting and decided to ignore them till they got over it. Over the next ten minutes several things happened. They got their desserts and that annoying waiter started hitting on Cynthia. The guy wouldn't just go away despite the fact that Cynthia clearly wasn't interesting. The guy wouldn't even back away when her Garchomp started growling at him.

Ash immediately got pissed. The guy threatened in a high voice, "That pokemon can't touch me. If it does, I could easily sue. That could ruin your entire reputation," he then finished in a mocking tone, "Champion."

Now Ash knew why he hadn't like the guy at first. He'd met several people like him. Believe they are more important then they are, and then abuse any power they can. Ash was trying to think of a way to get the guy to leave, until suddenly the guy was lifted into the air. Spiritomb suddenly came forward as he let out a fearsome growl. He was glowing blue and the guy started to get even higher.

Lucian stepped forward and announced, "Looks like your Spiritomb, Ash, is using Psychic."

Ash looked at him and claimed, "But I haven't ever taught it Psychic."

Lucian gave a slight chuckle, and Ash knew how ridiculous this was. He was questioning a psychic type trainer about a psychic type move. Lucian smiled and stated, "I think Spiritomb picked up some of your anger on this guy, and learned Psychic so he could send it away for you. After all, the guy isn't in any pain. Nothing to sue about."

Ash looked at Spiritomb who confirmed it with a small nod of his entire body. Ash smiled and ordered, "Put him on the roof, softly. Then lets go." The guy was dropped on the roof as he was cursing.

The entire group laughed at the stuck man, and walked away after returning their pokemon. For some reason Cynthia was silent, and avoiding eye contact with him. He quickly asked, "Something wrong, Cynthia?"

She jumped and looked at him before answering immediately, "No, nothing. Anyways, what are you going to do now, Ash? The Sinnoh League is still close to three months away."

Ash smiled. She didn't fool him. He may not know what she was thinking, but he didn't want to push her. He then answered, "I've been thinking about that. I think I'm going to catch a lot more pokemon to use at the Sinnoh League."

Gary looked really shocked and commented, "That has never been your style, Ash. You preferred having fewer pokemon, and working with them extensively. What changed your thinking?"

Ash smiled and nodded before explaining, "Spiritomb. I have always preferred fewer pokemon, but when I was training I really got to thinking. I would never have thought about catching a Spiritomb, but I realized how useful he was. He was able to contribute so much to the training, and I got to thinking. I've always captured my pokemon and stuck with them, and it worked. Now I'm wondering. From all the pokemon I have captured I actually created a list. This includes all pokemon I captured for a sizable time, and who I could probably go back and capture again. I have a single electric type, five flying types if you count Charizard, and the rest are all dual flying and normal types, four grass types, four fire types, six water types, a single dragon type, a single poison type, two pure normal types, a single bug type I can still use, three ground types, two ice types if you count my old Lapras(also applied in water types), two fighting types. I did not include Spiritomb or Ponyta in this. Now if I continue to not include them then I don't have a single psychic pokemon, no rock type, no ghost type, no dark, and no steel. Now I guess I have a dark and ghost type, but I'm so limited. Spiritomb committed so much to this, and I think that catching more pokemon could really help training. Now if I caught more steel or ghost or dark, I could train so much more efficient."

Gary looked slightly confused as he stated, "No offense, Ash, but I never thought you could think logically. You always seemed an impulse kind of guy. I'm impressed."

Ash smiled and claimed, "I've realized everyone thinks that. I don't know how, but I've earned a reputation as a completely dense child that is governed by his emotions. Only Brock has realized I can think."

Gary clapped him on the shoulder and laughed as he said, "You just seem to be like that. I can't imagine you as a real thinker. I remember when you woke up late, and ended up with Pikachu."

Ash smacked him on the back of the head before announcing, "I'm going to the pokemon center to rest my pokemon. I'll be heading to Pallet Town tomorrow for a couple days. Thanks for watching our battle. Hope to see you all again soon." Ash then turned away and walked away from the group.

He only got halfway down the street before Volkner caught up to him and stated, "I'm going to the pokemon center too. We can walk together." Ash nodded and they walked to the edge of town where the pokemon center was. The pokemon center was located at the edge of town by the forest bordering Sunnyshore. It was also by a popular tourist attraction, a steep cliff overhanging the sea.

Suddenly the world turned upside down and Ash heard a deafening explosion. Ash felt himself slam into a building after being launched into the air. He heard Pikachu cry as it struck the wall too. Ash quickly stood up as Pikachu struggled to his feet. Ash looked around and saw Volkner still on the ground, and the street almost completely deserted. Right now, almost everyone was in the shopping district.

Ash looked for the cause of the explosion and what he saw made his jaw drop. He'd seen this pokemon before, but this one was different. It was almost like a rock dinosaur. A large horn was perched on its head with a smaller one above it, and plates covered multiple areas of its body. Its arms looked to be almost cannon-like. Its tail had a large ball on the end that looked like a wrecking ball. A Rhyperior, but completely different. This one was far larger than those he'd seen before. It must stand close to twelve feet tall, but that wasn't the main thing. It was a lighter gray than those he'd seen, and its plates were yellow. A shiny Rhyperior.

The Rhyperior had shot something which looks to have wrecked a house. It looked to be recharging. Ash reacted immediately. He threw a poke ball and yelled, "Floatzel, use Water Pulse." Floatzel appeared and immediately looked at his opponent. The Rhyperior caught sight of Floatzel and gave a fearsome roar. Floatzel didn't back down, and lauched the ball of water. The attack exploded, but didn't hurt Rhyperior more than a stray rock would. Ash cursed as he remembered Solid Rock. He then yelled, "Use Aqua Jet Floatzel."

Floatzel formed the water cocoon and launched himself at the Rhyperior. The attack was far slower than usual, and Rhyperior had plenty of time to swing its arms. A glowing arm smashed into the side of Floatzel. Hammer Arm. The attack sent Floatzel into the wreckage of the building it had just destroyed. Rhyperior then started to glow with electricity.

Ash returned Floatzel right before a Thunderbolt slammed into the spot. Ash looked at the Rhyperior as he thought. Torterra was too injured to battle. He quickly pulled out a poke ball andf threw it. Spiritomb came out to look at the giant opponent.

Ash quickly ordered, "Use Dark Pulse, and then follow with Will-o-Wisp." Spiritomb shot out the dark rings at Rhyperior. Rhyperior roared and launched a Rock Wrecker. Dark Pulse held it for a second before being pushed back. Right before it hit, Spiritomb let out three purple flames. The Rock Wrecker smashed into Spiritomb right as the Will-o-Wisp connected into Rhyperior. It didn't seem bothered at all despite the three burns on it. Ash gasped. No pokemon could take a burn. Something was wrong here.

Spiritomb got up despite clearly being in pain. Volkner couldn't do anything, and this Rhyperior could destroy half the city. Ash had to defeat it, and then contain it. Ash yelled at Spiritomb, "We have to capture this Rhyperior before it causes more damage. Use Hypnosis." Spiritomb immediately launched a purple ball as it barreled towards Rhyperior. Rhyperior gave another ferocious roar as circles started to form around it. The Stone Edge shot forward and destroyed the Hypnosis before continuing onto Spiritomb. Ash quickly yelled, "Protect." The rocks harmlessly smashed into the green sphere Spiritomb summoned.

Ash knew they were outclassed here. A furious pokemon could ignore pain and focus entirely on offense. A Rhyperior has some of the best defense there is. Spiritomb wasn't trained enough to take this pokemon down.

As Rhyperior prepared to attack again, help came. Ash heard orders for a double Flash Cannons and Dragon Rage. From the side the attacks came. Two silver beams and a flaming ball smashed into the side of Rhyperior. Amazingly this seemed to do nothing, and the pokemon roared before turning to his new opponents. Ash saw a glint of silver on its neck. Ash knew he had seen this before.

Rhyperior turned to see a Bronzong, Dragonite, and fellow Rhyperior. It roared and faced the challenge. Immediately it launched another Stone Edge extremely quick. Bertha's Rhyperior stepped in front and took the blow without flinching. Now it was a battle between two Rhyperior.

Bertha kicked it off by ordering, "Rock Wrecker." Her Rhyperior roared and launched the giant rock at its opponent. The furious Rhyperior just lowered its head and suddenly its horn started to rotate. The Rock Wrecker connected with the Horn Drill and literally split apart. The giant rock smashed to pieces and flew harmlessly by the Rhyperior. It wasn't over yet, and suddenly the Rhyperior smashed its two fists together and its plates flashed for a second. Then it started to run incredibly fast at Berth'a immobilized pokemon. It had used Rock Polish. It got close enough in seconds and used another Hammer Arm. It actually sent the smaller pokemon flying through the air like a rag doll. The six hundred pound pokemon was thrown over several houses till it landed in a field marking the edge of the town. The pokemon followed it as Bertha cried out in concern.

Ash ran after the two fighting pokemon with Bertha. They came across the building to see Rhyperior steadily pressing Bertha's back. There attacks were all equal, but the shiny Rhyperior's anger was allowing it to press the smaller Rhyperior back. Ash briefly saw the cliffs two hundred yards away. Ash was till figuring out the machine. A Rhyperior that was out of its mind with fury. It reminded him of a memory.

Bertha's pokemon was finally looking about to lose, and suddenly a purple missile came out of the sky and smashed into the stomach of Rhyperior. Ash had definitely seen that before. The attack pushed Rhyperior as if it was nothing. Cynthia came running out followed by the ret of the group. When Ash looked back, he saw the missile slowing down till it disappeared to show Garchomp. Rhyperior had stopped a Giga Impact from a pseudo-legendary.

Rhyperior roared again and grabbed the immobilize Garchomp and flung it away. Garchomp slammed into the ground before jumping to its feet with a growl that could make a herd of Aggron shiver.

Cynthia ran up and exclaimed, "No way any pokemon could take that without taking damage. Something is wrong."

Ash nodded as Gary brought out Blastoise and Lucian and Palmer joined the battle. Now Rhyperior was being pushed back by all them put together, but it still wasn't falling. It was fighting an alliance of the strongest pokemon in Sinnoh, yet it wasn't falling. Suddenly Ash saw the glint of silver again.

He thought back to a Charmeleon and his Pikachu battling a Houndour and Hitmontop. Suddenly both the pokemon grew impossibly angry and became unbeatable. He then saw an angry Electabuzz taking out two different Pikachus.

Ash spat, "Mamba, Team Rocket."

Cynthia was standing next to him and immediately question urgently, "What do you mean?"

Ash began to explain furiously, "When I was traveling in Johto, I found a person named Mamba who developed a machine. It made a pokemon go out of its mind with fury. They became unbeatable. That machine is on Rhyperior right now. We can't knock it out right now. We need to break the machine on its neck."

Cynthia seemed skeptic for a moment before seeing the look on his face. Clear determination and certainty. She nodded once. Ash called to Spiritomb, "Sneak behind Rhyperior and use Shock Wave on the machine." Spiritomb nodded and looked to where Rhyperior was being pushed back. It started trying to signal something to Ash.

Ash looked at the ongoing battle and realized immediately. He yelled desperately, "No, it's too close to the cliff. It's going to fall." Cynthia looked and realized immediately too. Their pokemon had pushed it back so much that it was now at the edge of the giant cliffs. Cynthia tried to call to Garchomp, but it was too late.

The entire chunk of earth Rhyperior was standing on cracked at once. The pokemon started to look around, panicked, but it couldn't run away in time. The rock was slowly starting to fall slowly. Rhyperior would own in the water below.

Ash truly is governed by his emotions. He refused to watch a pokemon that is innocent suffer. He sprinted past pokemon and futilely tried to grab Rhyperior. As soon as he got on the ground, it crumbled and he was sent tumbling into open air. He entered a free fall next to the struggling Rhyperior. He reached out and caught a claw of Rhyperior. He managed to hang on and attach himself to the terrified pokemon. Finally it wasn't furious, but fear is possible worst. As soon as it saw Ash, it started to wave its arm around harder. Ash did the insane and used the momentum to jump himself right into the head of Rhyperior. He grabbed the horn and refused to let go. Rhyperior attempted to bite him, but Ash looked straight into the panicked eyes of the pokemon and yelled as loud as he could, "Stop, Rhyperior. I'm here to help." The pokemon continued to struggle and managed to clamp its teeth onto his thigh. Ash screamed in pain, but refused to let go. His bone wasn't broken, but it hurt horribly. He looked directly into the eyes of Rhyperior and yelled, "Calm down." Finally Ash saw something leave its eyes. It looked confused now, and Ash gave him a small smile.

Ash forgot one thing during this. They were in a free fall. Right as that happened, Rhyperior's back smashed into the water, and Ash felt as if every bone got smashed in Rhyperior cushion the shot. Ash felt himself lose his grip on Rhyperior. Ash instinctively started to swim upwards, but stopped himself as he remembered Rhyperior. He looked down to see Rhyperior sinking. Ash swam down and attempted to grab Rhyperior. The pokemon reached too, and Ash used his arm to launch himself to the machine on Rhyperior's neck. As soon as he touched it, a blue light appeared from his hand and the machine exploded as Ash was launched back.

Ash recovered and saw Rhyperior still sinking. Ash grabbed a poke ball and started swimming after it. If he caught it, it would turn weightless and Ash could get out of there. The Rhyperior once again reached, but this time Ash was too far away. Rhyperior continued to sink to oblivion as Ash couldn't go any farther. He heard the underwater noise of Rhyperior's noise before he felt a tugging.

Suddenly Ash started flying through the water. Within seconds he found himself un the air with Spiritomb hovering next to him. Psychic had pulled him out, but Ash had failed to save Rhyperior. Ash felt tears spring to his eyes.

Both started to float towards the top of the cliff before a light suddenly appeared underwater. The water started to glow orange and suddenly Rhyperior rocketed out of the water with two orange beams coming out of its hands. It had used Hyper Beam to launch itself out of the water. Ash watched as it dropped and grabbed onto a rock sticking out of the water. The only problem, the rock was smaller than Rhyperior, and started to crack when Rhyperior landed. Chunks started to fall into the water and Rhyperior couldn't move now.

Ash immediately ordered, "Spiritomb, let me down and hold that rock together with Psychic." When Spiritomb hesitated Ash yelled, "Do it now. I'll survive, Rhyperior won't." Spiritomb hesitated, but reluctantly dropped Ash and floated over to Rhyperior.

Ash was wrong it seems. The current was far too strong to swim against, and Floatzel was too injured to help. Ash found himself being thrown around. Finally Ash felt himself slam into a rock and his vision start to go dark. He heard a roar as he went unconscious.

Ash felt pounding on his chest and a sensation on his lips. He coughed as he sat up. He felt water clear from his lungs and leaned back weakly. He tried to get air back into his chest. Ash hadn't felt this weak since the Pain Split incident.

He finally opened his eyes to see everyone gathered around him. He saw Cynthia on her knees above him and he joked, "Looks like my first kiss was with a champion. Thanks for the mouth to mouth Cynthia."

Cynthia visibly blushed before Gary spoke up angrily, "What the hell did you just do? Jump off a cliff hundreds of feet above the sea after an out of control Rhyperior. I take my words back. You can't think logically."

Ash stared at him intently before stating, "Rhyperior was getting controlled. It wasn't his fault, and I refuse to let a pokemon die in front of me. Now what happened?"

Lucian quickly started to say, "After you slammed into that rock, the Rhyperior jumped after you. It then used Hyper Beam to launch itself up again. It grabbed onto the cliff, but those started to break despite your Spiritomb's Psychic. The all of a sudden you slam a poke ball into Rhyperior and it gets sucked in. Then Spiritomb lifts you up here. Nothing else to tell really."

Flint then joked, "Besides Cynthia giving you mouth to mouth."

Cynthia blushed again and Ash decided to give her a break and asked, "So I captured Rhyperior. Where is it?"

Bertha laughed and pointed to his hand before informing him, "You've been clutching it the entire time. Looks like you just caught an overly large and powerful Rhyperior, that also happens to be shiny too. It managed to hold off all our pokemon at the same time. That thing was a freak of nature."

Ash shook his head before explaining softly, "It really isn't anywhere near that powerful. The machine on its neck was making it so angry that it must have been five times stronger than normal."

Bertha seemed shocked, but accepted it. Cynthia finally spoke by saying, "We should get you to a pokemon center."

A man watched everything from the nearby forest. When the people picked up Ash Ketchum, he lifted a walkie talkie. "The experiment was a failure. Complications arose. Multiple Elite Four members and other high rank trainer managed to stop the experiment. The subject was captured."

Static came for a second before saying, "Understood. Anything else?"

The man thought before saying, "The machine seems to increase power more than the supersonic waves. Ash Ketchum broke the machine before capturing the subject. It also seems he managed to calm the subject down briefly before destroying the machine. Possible error in machine prototype."

"Ask Ketchum. Twice he's interfered in our operation accidentally. Both subjects captured. You are ordered to return to headquarters and file a full report."

"Understood." The man watched the retreating possesion before releasing a Fearow and flying off on it.

Long Chapter.

Sorry is whole Rhyperior episode was too much for you. Brother thought so too. I had to give Ash a shiny Rhyperior. When I first bought Platinum, first Rhyhorn seen was shiny. Rhyperior and Garchomp are my favorite pokemon

Two other shinies coming up soon.

No more Ash/Cynthia romance for a while. Focusing on several others for a while, but Cynthia will be back.