A Journey

Summary: Ash's daughter has NO interest in Pokemon training. So, Ash, being the enterprising young Master that he is, puts her into the middle of the woods in the night while she's asleep with a pack, no map, a Pokedex, and a VERY angry Pichu.

A/N: I am proud of the battle scene, which was meticulously researched, so if you can find any errors within it, by all means, please point them out to me.

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"Infernape, Bulk Up!" Peter called as he had done before. Infernape began to stretch his muscles out, as he had done earlier. It was somewhat interesting to watch the giant, furred muscles contract like coiled rope, but I had thought that Pokemon battles were somewhat quicker than this.

"Ambipom, use Agility!" The girl called, and the strange monkey with hands tipping its tails began to run around in a circle extremely quickly, the centripetal force helping it gain a frenzied speed. Pokemon battles were 'quicker than this', I realized in response to my thoughts of a few seconds ago.

Peter's face shone with determination; his face didn't even fall a bit.

"Ambipom, use Screech!" Ambipom opened its mouth wide and began to unleash an unholy, painful sound.

The boy sighed. "Great, it's a stat lowerer. You know, the kind of Pokemon trainer who has their Pokemon use attacks that make the opponent Pokemon weaker without attacking them? They can lay low even legendaries with enough time. You know what I mean, right?"

I blushed slightly. What an idiot upstart. "Of course I know that," I said icily, and completely falsely.

Meanwhile, Infernape was just continuing to Bulk Up, until finally its muscles were much more noticeable than before.

"Alright, enough Infernape! Will-O-Wisp!" Infernape grinned and hooted a laugh which sounded extremely sinister considering that it came from a monkey.

Infernape breathed in slowly, and deeply exhaled a tiny glowing spark. The glowing spark instantly flew towards the Ambipom, which tried to dodge, but the fast spark kept up, and singed Ambipom right on one of its sensitive tail hands.

Peter allowed himself a grin now. The small spark had done its work, but continued to flit around, harassing the Ambipom, getting in the monkey's way.

"Ambipom! Use Agility again!" The Ambipom, which was extremely fast, somehow got a lot faster as it ran in more circles, almost a blur.

"Fury Swipes!" Before the Infernape, or Peter, could react, Ambipom had slashed Infernape three times with its vestigial but sharp nails, twice on the arm, and as Infernape turned to look and see what the source of its pain was, once on the cheek.

Peter grimaced slightly, and even though the Will-O-Wisp was trying to bother Ambipom as much as it could, it was rather ineffective.

The boy next to me looked far unhappier about the imminent defeat than Peter did. "I'll lose so much money!" He moaned.

The girl grinned evilly, making her look like some dominatrix porn star. I rolled my eyes.

"Bounce!" She called, and Ambipom somehow managed to jump to the high ceiling of the battle room. It must have been a hard attack to learn, because that the Ambipom appeared to defy gravity. When, however, it did begin to come back down, it grabbed on to a ceiling support beam, and grinned dangerously, clapping its tails together.

"Oh, great." The boy said, smacking his head loudly against his hands. "Now what? Ambipom can use…"

"Ambipom, Swift!" Ambipom let out a spray of stars, which changed direction as Infernape tried to dodge. They hit him and exploded like firecrackers.

"Swift can't miss, and Infernape won't be able to hit Ambipom very easily. This battle's over."

"Rock Smash, Infernape!" Two large stones which I hadn't noticed before were in each corner, and Infernape smashed them together, and the floor became strewn with sharp-edged pebbles. I saw what Peter was having Infernape do; if the Ambipom tried to come down, it couldn't use Agility and go fast; it would hurt itself on the rocks.

Ambipom released another Swift, which hit. Clearly, that girl trainer had used this strategy several times before with Ambipom: weaken the opponent, get out of the way so that few attacks can hit it, and then pummel the opponent with Swift until they crashed.

"Fighting types are resistant to a normal type, but eventually Infernape will faint. He's gotta try a long-range attack! It's hopeless." The boy said, barely looking at the scene before him.

"Infernape, uh…" even Peter was stalling.

Lavender just squealed, trying to look out through her fingers.

I yelled. "Flame Wheel, you idiot!" I just couldn't help it. It's not like Peter could hear me anyways, far away as he was. Infernape, though, turned towards me, its ears pricked in my direction, and it shot a Flame Wheel at the floor, which sent heat waves rising upwards. The Ambipom eventually began to feel them, and wiped a sweating tail hand to its brow. Heat rises upwards, so the heat was all going straight up towards the Ambipom. Just like putting your hand above a candle will burn it, so did the Ambipom feel the heat, and slowed down. Infernape, being a fire Pokemon, barely noticed the sweltering temperature.

Peter grinned. "Great job, Infernape!" He called, pleasantly surprised that his Pokemon had apparently attacked without his order. He wasn't extremely offended, so I assumed he didn't realize that I was the one who had commanded Infernape on that.

"Up the wall, if you can!" He added, his battler's block receding in the wake of renewed determination. Infernape rubbed its hands together, and quickly ran up the walls. While Ambipom was significantly faster, Infernape's form was more graceful. Infernape swung on his tail, and deftly arrived at the same ceiling beam as Ambipom. Ambipom swung its tails in front of it; Infernape still had to keep back.

"Infernape, why didn't I think of this before?! MACH PUNCH!"

With an astounding speed that Ambipom couldn't counter, Infernape dexterously leaped forward, and buried its fist into Ambipom's stomach.

"Ha! I forgot!" The boy said, grinning easily now. "Mach punch! It's a fighting attack always goes first, and now that Ambipom has nowhere to run, this will be an easy match!"

Ambipom made a valiant last attempt, trying to slap Infernape with its two tail-hands, but Infernape, with its superior balance, easily stayed aloft, and merely, in a lightning-fast movement, snatched the tails out of the air, and dropped the monkey down into the flame and rock-filled abyss. The girl returned Ambipom before it fell.