Pokémon: The Prism League Chapter 5 : Teaching a Student Teacher
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon.
15 months until the Prism League
After the first month of training Ash's friends had decided to return to their homes to prepare for their extended stay. Brock and misty returned to Pewter City and Cerulean City respectively. Dawn had gone home to Twinleaf Town in Sinnoh. Cilan and Iris returned to Unova. Max had wanted to stay to meet Professor Hale resulting in May having drag her brother back to the Petalburge City leaving only Tracy, Bianca and Gary to assist Ash in his training. Before they had left Professor Oak gave each of them an Xtransceiver a wrist watch that allow up to four people to communicate at the same time so that the group could stay in touch with one another. At the moment Ash was currently training with Bianca Latias and Latios.
"Gabite use Dragon Pulse!" Ash ordered then watch as the dragon and ground type fire it's attack at a boulder smashing it to rubble. "Now Latios use Dragon Pulse!" Ash watched as the legendary Pokémon fired the same attack but this time when the attack met a boulder it was completely destroyed leaving no trace of it at all. "Wow."
"Latios's strength is in his special attacks, they're a lot more powerful then an ordinary dragon type's would be." Bianca explained.
"No kidding." Ash said in aw of Latios's power. "Is Latias's attack that powerful?"
"No but she has a much stronger special defense then Latios." Bianca explained.
"Then Latias could be a better chose to battle Tobias's Latios." Ash though aloud when his Xtransceiver began to beep. Ash answered to find Tracy was the one calling. "Tracy, what's up?"
"Professor Hale just arrived at the lab and Professor Oak's talking to him know." The Pokémon watcher informed.
"Great I'll be right over." Ash answered before ending the call.
"Ash how do you know Professor Hale, from what Max said he's a really important guy." Bianca asked as Ash returned his Pokémon to their Pokeballs.
"He's been friends with my Mom for a long time and he use to be one of Professor Oak's students, I met him a few times when I little and just a few years ago."
"So you really think that he can help you find a way to beat Tobias's Pokémon?"
"Yep, if I learn more about legendary Pokémon I'll be able to figure out the best way to battle them."
"Ash you really don't let anything stop you, do you?" Bianca laughed.
"Sure don't." Ash replied proudly before he took headed back to the lab with Bianca trailing behind him.
Once back at the ranch Pikachu's ears perked up suddenly taking notice of something then jumped down from Ash's shoulder before rushing off finding Ash's Unova Pokemon playing with Professor Hale's daughter Molly.
"Pika!" (Molly!)
"Pikachu!" Molly said happily picking up the little electric type and hugging him tight causing Pikachu to let out a cry of delight at the show of affection.
"Molly." Ash said surprised to see the little girl.
"High Ash." the young girl turned to Pikachu's trainer with a smile.
"High Molly how have you been?" Ash asked as he kneeled down to give Molly a hug.
"I've been good, I've been so excited to come to Pallet Town."
"I didn't know you were coming with your dad."
"Papa said that his project with Professor oak was going to take a long time so we're staying here in Pallet Town." Molly explained.
"That's cool, did you come out here to see all the Pokémon?"
"Yeah, I didn't know you had so many and they all look super strong!" Molly said with wonder.
"That's because we've been training really hard for a big competition coming up." Ash said.
"Really?" Molly asked excitedly.
"Yep." Ash replied just as Bianca came running up to them.
"Ash you need to slow down a bit, not everyone can run as fast as you." Bianca panted.
"Sorry Bianca, oh I want you to meet someone this is Molly, Professor Hale's daughter." Ash gestured towards the little girl beside him. "And Molly this is my friend Bianca."
"Nice to meet you Molly." Bianca smiled shaking the younger girl's hand.
"You to Bianca." Molly agreed.
"Ash weren't you going to talk to Professor Hale." Bianca reminded the young trainer.
"Oh your right I'll be back in a minute." Ash said rushing into the lab.
Once in the lab ash rushed to Professor Oak's study finding him talking with Spencer Hale. "Professors."
"Ash good to see you again." Professor Hale greeted the young trainer.
"We been waiting for you." Professor Oak informed.
"Sorry I took so long." Ash said joining the Professors.
"No trouble at Ash, now Professor Oak tells me you need my help with something." Spencer began.
"That's right, I have a competition coming up and there's going to be a trainer there that uses legendary Pokémon his name is Tobias."
"I've heard of him he's a very powerful trainer."
"Yeah and that's why I need to learn as much as I can about legendary Pokémon so I can battle him."
"Well ash if Legendary Pokémon are the topic then I'll be happy to help you."
"Great, thanks Professor!"
"I'm glad to help Ash, but I will need some time to organize my research before we can begin."
"Ah man."
"Just give me a few hours and we can start today."
"Ok thanks Professor."
After talking with the Professor Ash left the lab and went outside to find Bianca and Molly and Pikachu playing with his Pokémon.
"So Ash is Professor Hale going to help you?" Bianca asked right away.
"Yeah he is, but he said he needs some time to get ready." Ash said as Pikachu returned to his shoulder.
"Oh that's to bad, guess we'll just have to train for a while then." Bianca suggested.
"Yeah guess so." Ash agreed.
"Hey Ash can me and my Pokémon train with you guys?" Molly asked excitedly.
"Sure Molly." Ash told the little girl.
"Great, come on out everyone!" Molly said throwing five Pokeballs into the air releasing her Teddiursa, Phanpy, Magby, Evee and Pichu.
"Wow Molly these are some great Pokémon you've got here." Ash said looking over the released Pokémon.
"And they're all so cute." Said Bianca.
"Thanks, Teddiursa was my first Pokémon, after that we met Pichu then Phanpy and Magby, and I just caught Evee a few weeks ago." Molly said proudly.
"Cool are you going to have Evee evolve?" Ash asked
"Yep, Evee wants to evolve into Espeon." Molly replied.
"That's a good choice." Ash encouraged.
"Thanks Ash."
"So what kind of training should we do Ash?" Bianca asked.
"Hmm, well Tracy and Gary are busy helping Professor Oak which mean I can't battle so I guess we'll practice attacks." Ash stated.
"Alright then Cilan told me some of the attacks you should work on."
"Ok then let's get to work." Ash said leading Bianca and Molly into the fields.
"The first thing Cilan said was that Swellow and Staraptor should learn some long range attacks so they don't have to get in close with their physical attacks so you should teach them Hidden Power and the Hyper Beam." Bianca relayed Cilan's advice.
"That makes sense, ok Swellow, Staraptor come on out." Ash said releasing his Hoenn and Sinnoh native flying types. "You two ready to learn some new moves?" Ash asked and received to cries of agreement.
"It's to bad Iris isn't here she could of had Emolga help teach them Hidden Power." Bianca suggested.
"I've got a Pokémon that can teach them both moves." Ash said removing another Pokeball from his belt. "Lets go Donphan."
"Donphaa!" The armor Pokémon bellowed stomping it's foot. Molly's Phanpy became excited seeing it's evolved form appear and ran up to Donphan greeting the much larger Pokémon happily. Donphan's playful nature took over dropping it's tougher look and began chatting with the tiny Pokémon.
"Looks like Phanpy wants in on training to." Ash said watching the two ground types talk.
"Yeah Phanpy has been wanting to learn a new attack." Molly confirmed.
"Ok Donphan we need you to teach the others how to use Hidden Power." Ash told the armored Pokémon who nodded then readied itself for an attack. "Great, now use Hidden Power!" A white aura outlined Donphan's body then two rings of white orbs circled Donphan in an X formation then disappeared as Donphan fired a beam of white energy. "You see that guys, first Donphan gathers the energy in it's body then focuses it into the rings and finally releases it all at once." Swellow, Staraptor and Phanpy each nodded to Ash explanation. "Now it's your turn." Both of Ash's flying types took their queue and flew into the air.
"You try to Phanpy." Molly told her own Pokémon. The long-nosed Pokémon stepped in front of it's trainer ready to try the attack.
All three Pokémon did as they saw Donphan do and began to gather energy in their bodies and each of them glowed with a white aura. Staraptor and Phanpy struggle to maintain the energy and stopped glowing but Swellow formed the rings around its body but could not fire the attack.
"The was good first try you guys lets keep up." Ash encouraged the Pokémon.
After an hour of practice Both Swellow and Staraptor had Hidden Power perfected with Donphan's help. Phanpy however had only managed to reach the point of forming the ring around itself.
Phanpy hung its head down after another failed attempt. "It's ok Phanpy you'll get it." Molly said to comfort her Pokémon.
"I think I know what the problem is." Ash stepped in.
"You do?" Molly asked as Ash knelt down next to Phanpy.
"Phanpy when you form the rings you put all your energy into them at once and it's to hard for you to maintain so try slowly putting a little bit of energy into your attack as you power up."
Phanpy perked up hearing Ash's advice. "Thanks Ash I think that's just what Phanpy needed to hear." Molly told the older trainer.
"No problem Molly, now lets see if it helps."
"Right, Phanpy use Hidden Power." Molly ordered. Phanpy then began gathering its energy then did as Ash had suggested and gradually formed the rings around it's body this time completely then fired a powerful blast of energy. "You did it Phanpy!" Molly cried with excitement as she hugged the tiny ground type.
"That was great." Ash congratulated.
"Thanks Ash but your advice is was did it." Molly said very grateful.
"It was nothing Molly I just helped a little."
After learn Hidden Power Ash moved on to having Donphan teach the Pokémon Hyper Beam which their training to use Hidden Power had given the a foothold to learning the attack allowing all three of them to learn the attack easily.
"Ok Bianca what's next?" Ash asked eager to continue.
"The next thing is having Pikachu practice Light Screen."
"Right, you ready buddy?" Ash asked his partner on his shoulder.
"Chu pi" (Sure am!)
"Ash can Pichu help, if Light Screen doesn't work then Pichu's attacks won't hurt Pikachu much since their both electric types." Molly suggested.
"Sure thing, now lets get started."
Pikachu took his position while Pichu to the opposite position. "Alright Pichu use Thunderbolt!" Molly commanded then Pichu unleashed a strong but uncontrolled bolt of lightning.
"Now Pikachu use Light Screen!" Pikachu held his hands out to his sides then a clear yellow box surrounded Pikachu blocking Pichu's attack the disappeared. "Great job buddy."
"Oh no, Pichu!" Ash looked to see Molly holding a very disoriented Pichu in her arms.
"What happened?"
"Pichu still doesn't know how to control it electric attacks." Molly explained.
"That's right, I forgot Pichu hurt themselves when they use their electricity."
Another moment passed and Pichu had returned to normal. "Pichu, your feeling better." Molly relived.
"Molly I think it's best we have someone else be Pikachu's partner." Ash said gently.
"Yeah your right." Molly said disappointed.
"Pika pi chu pika pi pi chu." (Ash lets forget Light Screen for now I want to help Pichu.)
"You do buddy?"
"Pi." (Yep.)
"What are you talking about Ash?" Molly asked curiously.
"Pikachu is going to help Pichu learn how to control it's electric attacks."
"Really, thanks Pikachu!" Molly cheered while Pichu hugged it's evolutionary counterpart.
Pikachu began teaching Pichu everything about controlling it's powers from storing up electricity and releasing it in controlled bursts, to increasing the power level in the middle of its attack all the while Ash and Molly sat watching the two practice. "Ash it was so nice of Pikachu to help Pichu like."
"It's nothing, Pikachu is always happy to help out a friend." Ash replied with a grin.
"Well I really appreciate everything, first you help Phanpy learn two new move and now Pikachu is helping Pichu."
"I'm happy to Help Molly, I remember things aren't always easy when your just start out."
"What do you mean?"
"You see when I started on my journey I messed up a ton of times and I was always worried if I was doing a good job."
"But Ash I've seen your battles in the Pokémon league, your great!"
"I wasn't always, but I keep getting better and I keep getting stronger."
"But how?"
"I had my friends to help me, no matter how tough things looked my friends were always there to help me through it just like how they're helping me train fro the Prism League."
"Wow, I didn't know you could stronger that way."
"Trust me Molly, when your friends are there for you, you can do anything."
Bianca stood in the field working on her latest drawing showing the mountains of Pallet Town when Gary and Tracy joined her. "Hey there Bianca." Tracy said to his fellow artist.
"Hey you two what's up?" Bianca asked setting her pencil down on her easel.
"We came to tell Ash that Professor Hale is ready to begin."
"Oh he's over with Molly."
"I thought Ash was the one who suppose to be training." Gary said noticing that Molly's Pokémon was the one practicing its attacks.
"It started out that way but Ash and Pikachu decided to help Molly and Pichu instead."
Gary watched as Ash and Molly carrying on a conversation with Molly hanging on Ash's every word. "Looks like Ashy-boy finally got his wish." Gary smirked.
"What do you mean?" Bianca asked the young researcher.
"When we were little, Ash use to say that when he became a great Pokémon Master he wanted to have someone to teach everything he learned about being a great trainer to."
"Ash wanted his own protégé, like a little brother or sister?"
"Yeah and it looks like he might have one." Gary said watching Ash and Molly. "Hey Ash get over here." Gary called out to his friend.
Ash, Molly and their respective electric types rushed over meeting Gary and the others. "Hey what's going on?" Ash asked.
"Professor Hale is ready for you now." Tracy informed.
"Alright time to get to work then."
"Pika." (Yeah.) Pikachu said climbing on to Ash's shoulder.
"Actully buddy why don't you stay here and help Molly and Pichu." Ash suggested.
"Pi Pika chu." (You got it.) Pikachu saluted his trainer before rejoining Pichu.
"Thanks Ash Pichu is going to be an expert at electric attack when you get back." Molly said proudly.
"That the sprite." Ash encouraged before heading to the lab.
Ash meet Professor Hale in Professor Oak's main laboratory where he was waiting with dozens of books and at the main computer counsel the Professor had inserted a disk bringing up numerous files of his research.
"Alright Ash where should we begin?" Spencer asked the young trainer.
"I'd like to start with the Pokémon Darkrai."
"Very well, I have a number of files focusing on Darkrai and we can take references from history books and even books on Pokémon folklore."
Ash jumped right into reading with as much determination as he would training. Spencer and ash searched through countless entries about Darkrai, it's abilities, attacks, hoping to find any way to go about beating it.
For hours Ash searched through books, stories, data for any information that may help in beating Darkrai but found that doing research for battles was not as fun as actually battling. "Oh man, why didn't anybody tell me that reading about Pokémon is so different then seeing them out on the battlefield." Ash groaned with a dazed looked in his slowly drooping eyes as he leaned back in his chair yawning. "I guess it won't hurt if I shut my eyes for a bit." Ash allowed his eyes to shut resting them after hours of no stopped reading.
"Are you the one I seek?"
Ash shot up from his light sleep letting out a yelp of surprise as his chair fell back. "That voice again, what is it?" Ash asked himself as he sat up rubbing the bump on his head.
"What's what?" Ash turned to see Bianca and Tracy enter the lab.
"Oh nothing, what are you guys doing here?" Ash asked trying to change the subject.
"We came to find you." Bianca answered.
"Professor Hale told us you could use a break so we came to get you." Tracy elaborated.
"Yeah I could use a break from books and get back battling." Ash perked up.
"Is it really a break if you just go back to training." Both Tracy and Bianca sweat-dropped.
Back outside Gary rejoined the others. "So Ashy-boy did you learn anything that might help?"
"I learned tons of stuff, but one thing that was really interesting is Darkrai's ability Nightmare."
"Nightmare?" The other three teens said confused.
"When Darkri is in battle and it's opponent is asleep it can create such terrible nightmares that it causes damage."
"With an ability like that it's no wonder Darkrai is so tough to beat." Tracy said surprised.
"Yeah, when I battle Tobias it seemed like my Pokémon were taking more damage then normal, I thought it just that Darkrai was stronger then most Pokémon but now I know it was Nightmare doing more damage."
"Now just have to find a way to beat Nightmare." Said Bianca.
"That's the thing it's not something that can be beaten." Ash said surprising everyone.
"Ash you don't think you can win against Darkrai." Tracy said not believing what he had heard.
"No, what I mean is I can't beat nightmare, once Darkrai put a Pokémon to sleep it gains control of the battle even against Pokémon that can use moves like Sleep Talk." Ash explained. "The way to beat Darkrai isn't finding a way to battle with my Pokémon asleep but stopping it from putting them to sleep altogether."
"Wow that's pretty impressive Ash." Gary praised smugly.
"You really have done your research." Said Bianca.
"Yeah now you just need a plan for facing Darkrai." Said Tracy.
"That's right and I'm gonna start right now."
"Ash, Ash!" ash and his friends turned to see Molly running up to them with Pikachu and Pichu on her heels. "Ash Pichu can use Thunderbolt now!"
"That's great Molly." Ash said with a feeling of pride in both Molly and Pichu. "How about now I help you teach Magby to use Flamethower."
"Really, Yeah!" Molly cheered with excitement.
Tracy, Bianca and Gary watched as Ash and Molly walked off to start more training. "Did Ash already forget about Darkrai?" Bianca asked as she and the boys sweat-dropped.
"I think so." Gary answered
"It seem like Ash prefers being a teacher more then a student." Said Tracy.
"You can say that again." Gary sais watching Ash and Molly being training.
I know there wasn't much action this chapter but the next few chapters will have more, but they will be on the shorter side to move things along a little faster. As for Ash and Molly I always thought that Ash could use a little sibling and I decided to have Molly fill that role.
SpecialGuy9000 I can't say Fearow will be on Ash's team but you gave me a idea for having that Fearow in the story.
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