The next day Ash and his rivals made it to the stadiums. Iris and Cilan were sitting at the stands ready to root for Ash as hard as they could. Ash and Cheren were across on each side of the battlefield, they were ready to battle each other. The judge looked at both trainers and explained the rules to them.

"This will be a three on three battle. Both trainers are allowed to switch Pokemon. The battle will be over when all three Pokemon are unable to battle. Now begin!" The judge waved his two flag at Ash and Cheren.

"Let's go Bouffalant!" he called out his first Pokemon.

Bouffalant is a large buffalo Pokemon with a large Afro and horns on the side of it head. The horns had two golden rings on them. Its eyes had yellow irises and small black pupils. It also had a thin black stripes leading down its head.

Iris and Cilan were wondering what Pokemon that Ash would choose against Bouffalant. Since it was a Normal type, Ash could use a fighting type Pokemon like Scraggy or Pignite. Iris hoped that Ash could win this battle.

"Pignite I choose you!" He called out his fire pig Pokemon.

When Pignite came out, he snorted out flames from it snout. He was ready to battle the Bash Pokemon. Bouffalant stomped the ground with it single toe hoof. It was ready to battle and charged at the fire pig Pokemon.

Pignite I choose you!" He called out his fire pig Pokemon.

When Pignite came out, he snorted out flames from it snout. He was ready to battle the Bash Pokemon. Bouffalant stomped the ground with it single toe hoof. It was ready to battle and charged at the fire pig Pokemon.

"We'll start off with a Head Charge Bouffalant!" the bull charged at Pignite with Afro growing of a red and yellow light.

"Pignite dodge it and use Flamethrower!" Pignite jumped out the way of the charging bull then took a deep breath and released a stream of red and orange flames at Bouffalant. When it hit Bouffalant, it was pushed back a bit, but it stood its ground from the red hot flames.

"Bouffalant use Stone Edge now!" Its golden rings glowed white and two white circles of energy appeared around them and that became gray rocks. It fired the rocks at Pignite.

The stone hit the fire pig Pokemon, however it rolled over to dodge the rest of the stones. Pignite hopped on its feet and snorted out some flames.

"Pignite use Flamethrower now!" he took a deep breath and released a stream of red and orange flames at Bouffalant.

"Bouffalant jump and use Iron Head now!" the bull Pokemon leaped into the air to dodge the flames and charged down at Pignite with a white aura surrounding its body.

"Pignite dodge it now and use Flamethrower!" Ash commanded.

The fire pig spat out some flames and managed to hit the bull, but the Afro Pokemon was unfazed by the flames and ram the fire type, sending it flying a couple of meters. The pig struggled a bit to stand up.

"Iron Head once more!" ordered Cheren. The bull Pokemon charged it opponent again.

"Pignite, dodge! Ash shouted.

Pignite looked at the charging bull and felt like he couldn't move at all after seeing the Iron Head coming towards him.

"Why Pignite isn't moving?" Iris asked Cilan.

"Iron Head is a move that can sometime make the opponent Pokemon unable to move." Cilan explained to Iris.

Bouffalant crashed into Pignite and he was bouncing up then down to the ground. Pignite struggled trying to up and he looked up at Bouffalant who looked at him. Pignite stood back up and was ready to fight again.

"Alright Pignite! Lets use some of your new moves that we have been working of a while! Use your Wild Charge now!" Pignite charged at Bouffalant. His body then became surrounded by golden electricity then it slammed into Bouffalant's head sending it siding from the battlefield and leaving some of the electricity around it body.

"Bouffalant endured that move and use your Head Charge again!" Bouffalant charges at the Fire Pig Pokemon again

"Pignite counter that with Flame Charge!" Pignite leaped into the air and flames surrounded his body and collided with the Bash Pokemon. A giant explosion happened when the two attacks collided with each other. Dust clouded the whole field.

Both Pokemon were still standing and were ready to continue on battling with each other. They then charged at each other again. Bouffalant tried to use Iron Head again, but Pignite jumped away from it and used Flamethrower. The hot flames pushed the Bash Pokemon, but it kept on standing.

"Pignite use Brick Break!" Pignite jumped into the air and then raised his fist, which started fist glowing white. He went down and punched the bull on the side of its body.

Cheren called the Bash Pokemon back to his Poke Ball. He knew that if he had Bouffalant take too much damage he wouldn't be able to use him for some of Ash's other Pokemon. He grabbed his next Poke Ball and called out Simipour. A water Pokemon was the prefect choice to battle Pignite.

'So he switched Pokemon. Should I keep Pignite in to battle it or should I switch him for Pikachu or Snivy?' Ash thought and then looked at Pignite who was ready to battle any type of Pokemon. Strong against his type or not. Ash decided to keep Pignite in, but if it was too much of the Fire Pig Pokemon he will switch to Snivy or Pikachu.

"Pignite I'm counting on you!" Ash said as the Fire Pig Pokemon snorted flames from it snout.

'He's keeping Pignite in? What an idiot for thinking that he would win that way. But I do have to be careful of Pignite's Wild Charge. It may not be as strong as it fire attacks, but it could still can do some damage to Simipour.'

"Simipour use Scald now!" the water monkey Pokemon shot boiling hot water from its mouth. The water had steam surrounding it.

"Pignite counter that with your Flamethrower!" Pignite took a deep breath and shot out a flame from his snout to block the attack.

Both attacks collided and struggled to stay in place. The moves were evenly matched and exploded to make a scalding hot steam where nether Pokemon nor trainer could see each other.

When the smoke subsided both Pokemon stared at each other with determination in their eyes. Ash was ready to make his next move, but Cheren beat him to the punch.

"Simipour use Acrobatics!" Simipour glided at Pignite and tackled it several times, it was moving so fast that it left behind two afterimages of itself. Pignite was trying to keep his balance when he was being slammed by Simipour. The fire Pig Pokemon panted when the attacks were adding up damage.

Ash knew that this was bad and call Pignite back into his Poke Ball and pick a new Pokemon to battle Cheren's Simipour.

"Snivy I choose you!" He called on his grass snake Pokemon.

Snivy crossed her arms and looked at Cheren's Simipour with serious face. Cheren was confused on why Ash still has a Snivy when a trainer like Ash who won eight badges to get to the league should have Pokemon that evolve or even at their second stage form.

"Why haven't your Snivy haven't evolved yet?" He asked Ash.

Snivy didn't like what Cheren has said about her not evolving into Servine. She told Simipour to being it on so she can show this kid that she was just as strong or even stronger then her evolution.

"Simipour use Ice Punch now!" Simipour's fist was surrounded by ice when it was trying to punch Snivy, however Snivy made a gracefully leap into the air to dodge Simipour's Ice Punch attack.

Snivy use Leaf Blade Snivy spun around while her tail glowed light green aura then slashes Simipour's face.

Cheren was surprised that this Snivy was this strong even though she wasn't evolve.

Ash then decided to finish off Simipour, "Snivy use Leaf Storm!" Snivy spin around as storm of leaves floated behind her body. She then fires leaves at Simipour.

"Simipour use Dig!" Simipour dug underground to dodge a the Leaf Storm.

Simipour came out the the ground and punched her under her chin. Snivy fell down to ground then slowly gets back up.

"Simipour use Ice Punch with Acrobatics!" Semipour glides at Snivy as it punches several times. Snivy's body was getting frozen with each blow of punches.

"Snivy!" Ash shouted.

Snivy fell to the ground with small bits of ice sticking to her body. She gave the water type a power glare and started to glow a light green surrounding her body. She never felt this power before. It was like that her will of never giving up for Ash and all of the other Pokemon awaken this new power.

Iris was surprised that Snivy was glowing this way and wonder what was it. She looked Cilan to explain it to her.

"That Snivy's Overgrow ability! It's an ability that Snivy has that aloud her to strengthen all of her grass moves when she is low on health. What a daring taste of an ability!" Cilan said.

Iris turned back to the battle and noticed that Snivy's collar was glowing a dark green then light green. Did that mean Snivy learned a new attack?

Snivy then launched two beam-like vines at Simipour. When the energetic vines wrapped around Simipour's body they started to drain the water monkey's energy. Snivy's wounds from Simipour started to disappear. Simipour couldn't move at all as its strength was being drained away.

Cheren was shocked that Snivy just learned how to use Giga Drain after she was being hit by all of Simipour's attacks.

"So you learn a new move! That's awesome Snivy" he said.

After Snivy was done draining Simipour's energy, she was fully healed and was ready to finish this battle.

"Snivy use Leaf Storm now!" Ash commanded.

She once again fired her leaves at her opponent and send it crashing down to the ground and unable to fight any more.

"Simipour is unable to battle! Snivy is the winner!" the judge announced.

"That great Snivy! Good job!" Ash congratulated the grass snake Pokemon.

Snivy gave to her trainer a small smile.

Cheren called back Simipour into its Poke Ball and thanked it for all its hard work it did. He picked out another Poke Ball and called out Bouffalant again.

Ash remembered Alder's Bouffalant had an ability that absorbs grass attacks and powers itself up. And since all of Snivy's move were grass type it gave her a large disadvantage.

"Snivy return!" Ash recalled Snivy as Pikachu went up to the battlefield.

"Pikachu I'm counting on you!" Ash said to his partner.

"I can't wait to see how strong your Pikachu is!" Cheren smiled.