Catching The Thieves

It was now lunch time on Friday. The AM's have finished lunch and are in in the sparring room. Natsu and Naruto were doing some training to be prepared for tomorrow when B.A.D robs the museum.

The wizard and the ninja were exchanging blows as hard as they could, it was important for them to be in top condition. Ash, Pikachu, Kirito, Asuna, Luffy, and Dan, we're watching from the side lines as their 'brothers' battled it out! However, they knew that they weren't the only ones in the room!

More students were in the sparring room sitting on the benches as the two AM warriors fought it out. They was Lucy, Gray, Erza, and Elfman, from some of Natsu's classes.

Zoro, and Sanji, from Luffy's classes.

Sasuke, Hinata, Garra, and Lee, from a few of Naruto's classes.

Runo, Alice, and Marucho from a few of Dan's classes.

And Red from some of Ash's classes.

The AMs didn't mind if there was a few more people in the room, just as long as they don't say a word about their identities.

Naruto and Natsu kept quiet the whole fight, they never said a word but just took action. Natsu delivered punches as fast as he could at Naruto, but the ninja just kept on dodging and blocking. However it wasn't easy and Natsu finally hit Naruto in the face. The dragon slayer then did a roundhouse kick and sended Naruto to the ground.

Natsu aimed his fist at Naruto and punched as quickly as he could, but the blonde ninja rolled over to get out of the way.

Naruto then got up quickly and lifted his knee into Natsu's stomach. Natsu got hit and then rolled away to get some distance. He then started to run up to Naruto with his fist covered in fire. Naruto quickly did a push kick to send Natsu back a bit so that he could get some distance, he lifted his leg and kicked it out to push Natsu back a bit.

The two of them looked at each other showing that they are ready for more. But it was almost the end of lunch and was time for them to get to their next class.

"That's enough guys, the bells going to ring soon!" warned Ash.

The two were disappointed that had to end their match. They ran back to the others and quickly ran out of the gym. The classmates were very confused, they wanted to complement Natsu and Naruto on how when they did in the match, but all of the new student ran out at the same time as fast as they could!? (A/N: Not exactly as fast as they can!)

"What's eating them?" asked Gray.

"I'm just as curious as you are." replied Erza.

"We haven't been able to talk to them much, and it's Friday!" Lee pointed out.

"It's been almost a week since they started coming here!" said Zoro.

"Maybe they're shy and aren't that interested in talking to new people." guessed Lucy.

"Or maybe they're hiding something from us, and the school!" said Runo.

Everyone looked at the blue haired girl with a 'really' look on their faces.

"What, they could be hiding something!" she replied.

(2 Hours Later)

The bell rang and the meant the start of the weekend. The schoolyard was full of cheers from the students, and none of the teachers have assigned any homework, which only added to how loud the cheers got.

Ash and Pikachu were on their way to meet the others at the entrance of the school area. Ash suddenly felt like someone was following him, he guessed Gary, Paul, and Trip were planning another sneak attack on him. But he decided to use his aura powers to make sure he was right. He closed his eyes and used his powers to see a figure hiding behind a bush, Ash read the aura flowing through the figure and saw that it was girl and her aura was cheerful.

Ash opened his eyes again and turned to Pikachu, "Hey buddy, could you get off me shoulder for a moment?" he asked his best friend.

"(Sure, but why?)" asked the electric mouse Pokemon.

"You'll see!" winked Ash.

Pikachu hoped of his trainers shoulder for a moment to see what he was talking about. Ash waited for the girl to do whatever it is that she needed to do to him. The girl slowly crawled out from the bush and leaped over at Ash to cover his eyes, "Guess who!" she asked.

Ash recognized that voice and acted surprised so that she wouldn't suspect a thing or be disappointed that she didn't surprise him, "Ahh, Dawn?"

"Right! You sure are smart." she smiled as she took her hands off him.

"What gave you the need to come see me?" asked Ash.

"I was wondering if you would like to hang out this weekend with me?" blushed Dawn.

Ash thought about it for a moment, but remembered that he and the others are stopping a museum robbery this Saturday. Plus, he needs as much time as possible to train for his battles on next Friday.

"It sounds like fun, Dawn. But I can't, I'm busy with other things!"

"Oh, I see." replied a very disappointed blue haired girl.

"But thanks for the offer though." replied Ash.

Dawn smile a bit that the complement, "You're welcome. I guess I'll see you around!" she winked and left skipping happily.

However, she left behind a very confused Ash Ketchum. He was wondering what that was all about, she only knew him for a few days, but Ash hasn't gotten to know that much about her. 'Why would she wants to hangout around me?' he thought to himself.

Pikachu then returned to his trainer's shoulder so Ash come continue to walk back to the group.

(With Naruto)

"Naruto!" called a female voice, which caused the blonde ninja to turn around. He saw Hinata coming up to him.

"Oh, Hinata. Need something?" he asked.

"Uh...no. I just wanted to say, good job on you battles from Monday and today, you were really strong and you fought well." blushed the shy black haired girl.

"Thanks, I train a lot so those fights weren't really that how." he answered.

'Oh boy. If Natsu heard me say that, he'll never stop yelling at me!' he thought.

"So, that's all I wanted to say, and welcome to our school!" said Hinata.

"Thanks, I better get going. Bye!" said Naruto as he ran off.

Hinate slowly waved at her crush as he got farther and farther away.

(With Natsu)

The fire dragon slayer was making his way across the schoolyard quickly, he was swinging from tree branches, dodging incoming students, etc.

He wanted to get home as fast as he could so that he could get some more train for tomorrow. He ran for awhile, but finally made it to the spot the he and his 'siblings' have been meeting up ever since the second day.

"And I'm first again, what a surprise." said a bored Natsu. He has been the first one to arrive at that spot every since Tuesday. It was starting to get a bit old now.

"You seen to be in a hurry." said a familiar voice. Natsu turned his head to find Erza standing next to him.

"Erza? Why are you here?"

"I'm just waiting for Lucy to come out. She and I are going for a walk in Central Park, care to join us?"

"Sorry, I can't. I have to train so the I can do better in sparring!"

"But you did so well against Gray on Monday, and your battle with that ninja friend of yours...What's his name?"

"Naruto."

"Naruto! Your battle against Naruto was amazing!"

"True, but I still need to get stronger so that I can prepared for anything."

"Well then, you better train a lot, because this school needs a lot of strong fighters and battlers!"

"Thanks Erza, I'll see ya on Monday!" said Natsu as he headed to look for his friends.

(Saturday)

Tonight was the night that B.A.D was going to pull the museum heist. So the team needed to be prepared for anything.

Right now, Ash, Natsu, and Naruto are heading to a battlefield in Central Park for Ash to do some training.

"I think that you'll do great in those battles Ash, you definitely are one of the strongest Pokemon trainers I know!" encouraged Natsu.

"Um Natsu, I'm the only Pokemon trainer you know!" answered Ash.

The three of them laughed as they continued to walk to one of the battlefields in the park.

"(How ready do you think we are to take on the three best trainers in school?)" asked Pikachu.

"On a scale from 1 to 10, I say we're a 8." answered Ash.

After walking for about 10 minutes, they finally made it to the battlefields. It was big enough to fit about 3 Wailords. The three of them went down to the field to get ready.

"You ready Ash?" asked Natsu.

"You bet I'm!" replied the raven haired trainer.

"Sorry, but the field is taken!" said a voice from behind them. Ash quickly recognized that voice. The three of them turned around and saw none other than Gary, Paul, and Trip themselves!

"What do you mean it was taken? We were here first." said Natsu.

"A few like this should be used by strong trainers, not ones who get luck." said Paul as he looked over at Ash.

"Ash, do you know these jerks?" asked Naruto.

"Natsu, Naruto, meet Gary, Paul, and Trip. The trainers that I told you about, the ones I'm battling this Friday!" Ash answered.

The dragon slayer and the ninja's eyes darkened when they heard that the same jerks that tried to attack their 'brother' are standing right infront of them.

"So you guys are the ones that attacked Ash on Monday!" growled Natsu.

"Looks like your friends are trying to keep you from getting hurt again, Ash." laughed Gary.

"They're more like my brothers to me!" replied the raven haired trainer.

"Whatever, as I said the field's taken!" warned Paul.

"We got here first, so it's taken by us." said Naruto.

"I said that this field needs to be used by strong trainers who don't get lucky." repeated Paul.

"What makes me lucky?" asked Ash.

"You got lucky when you beaten me on Monday! You ended my winning strack with luck, you aren't really that good of a trainer!" said Gary.

"Or maybe your just a sore loser!" said Ash.

Gary's eyes narrowed as Ash said that. No one ever had the gust to call him that!

"The point is, we got here first, so beat it!" said Naruto.

"I'm afraid we're not going anywhere!" said Trip.

"Then here's an idea. How about one of you battles Ash in a 3 on 3 fight! The winner stills and the losers leave!" suggested Naruto.

The the three top school trainers thought about it for a second. They decided that this would give them the chance to crush Ash earlier than they expected and could help them figure out how to beat him harder on Friday.

"Fine, I'll battle him!" said Paul.

Ash a pleased, he could now see what it's like to battle one of the other top trainers in the school.

Ash got into position on his side of the field while Paul did the same on his side. Natsu sat on one of the benches besides the field while Gary and Trip sat on a different one. There was no way they ether of them wanted to sit next to each other.

Naruto decided to referee, "This will be a 3 on 3 battle, when all three Pokemon on one trainer's side goes down there will be a winner. Substitutions are allowed, now choose your Pokemon!"

"May the best trainer win." said Ash.

"I plan too." replied Paul.

"Ok. Buizel, I choose you!" called Ash.

"Magmortar, Stand by for battle!" called Paul.

On Ash's side came his sea weasel Pokemon from Sinnoh, while on Paul's side came a large fire Pokemon that has cannons for hands.

'Why is this guy using a fire type against a water type, that puts him at a disadvantage!' thought Natsu.

"Battle begin!" called Naruto.

"Magmortar, use Flamethrower." said Paul. Magmortar lifted one of his arms and shot fire from out of his cannon. The flames were fast and heading straight for Buizel, but Ash and Buizel both stayed calm.

"Buizel, dodge it." called Ash. Buizel ran as to the side to avoid the Flamethrower, his small size gave him the speed he needed to avoid taking damage.

"Use Water Gun." called Ash. Buizel blasted water from his mouth and landed a direct hit on Magmortar. But when he finished, Magmortar looked just fine. This didn't surprised Ash or Buizel too much, cause that only meant the Magmortar was both stronger and at a higher level than Buizel.

"Use Smog." ordered Paul. Magmortar opened his mouth and released smoke all over the battlefield. The smoke made it hard to see, but Ash knew what to do.

"Water Gun, but at the ground!" he said. Buizel shot water from his mouth down at the battlefield, the impact of the water was so strong that it launched Buizel into the air and out of the smoke. Buizel appeared flying out of the cloud of smoke and into the air.

"What?" said Paul in surprise. He hasn't seen a Buizel in the air before.

"Use a combination move, of Water Pulse and Aqua Jet!" called Ash. Buizel heard his trainer and began to form a ball of water from his mouth, then he covered his body with water and headed back down to the battlefield again. It was still covered in smoke but he had to hope for the best.

"Magmortar, Flamethrower." said Paul. Flames came out of the cloud of smoke and headed straight for Buizel while he was still in the air, but Buizel's Aqua Jet made it easier to dodge. Not only that, but seeing where the flames were coming from also made it easy to find where Magmortar was in the cloud of smoke, so Buizel headed in that direction.

After that, the smoke started to clear and the field was visible again. Everyone also see that Buizel was hitting Magmortar with his Water Pulse and Aqua Jet combination. Using two water type moves at the same time was a great way to deliver double the damage.

After about five seconds, Buizel stopped and backed away. Magmortar was still standing and he looked like he could still fight.

"Wow, you trained that Magmortar really well Paul, I expected it to go down by now." Ash complemented.

"I'll admit that your doing better that I excepted as well, but don't think that for a second that you can with with type advantage!" warned Paul.

"I won't, besides we have more than just water type moves. Buizel, Sonicboom." called Ash. Buizel shot a wave of white aura from his tail at his opponent.

"Magmortar knows more moves as well, like Rock Tomb." called Paul. Magmortar shot rocks out of his cannons as they landed across the battlefield. The first rock hit Buizel's Sonicboom and shattered to pieces.

"Get up close, Buizel." ordered Ash. The sea weasel Pokemon began to run up closer to his opponent, he jumped over the rock to get closer. Paul saw an opportunity to attack and wasn't going to miss it.

"Rock Tomb, again." he called. Magmortar fired another rock from his cannon, but this time it hit Buizel head on. Lucky rock type moves are weak against water type. Now Ash found the opportunity that he needed again.

"Buizel, use Water Gun as a counter shield." said Ash. Buizel got on his back and started spinning while using Water Gun. The water spun around creating a shield that not only protected Buizel from Magmortar attacking, but they began to hit Magmortar as well, which also provided attack at the same.

Magmortar was being hit by the water and couldn't back away faster enough to avoid getting hit again. Soon the big fire Pokemon could take anymore and fainted.

"What!" said Paul in complete shock. Not only did his Magmortar fainted for the first time in years, but he also lost to the new trainer in school. not to mention seeing Ash's technique for the first time.

"Magmortar is unable to battle, Buizel wins!" called Naruto.

"Alright! Good job, Ash!" cheered Natsu.

"He's trained that Buizel well." said Trip with a frown on his face cause of Paul's loss.

"I guess, but in the end he just got lucky with a type advantage." pouted Gary.

Paul returned his Magmortar and looked at his opponent, "So it seems I've underestimated you Ash. I won't make that mistake again." He said as he brought out another Pokeball.

Ash thanked Buizel for his efforts and returned him before looking at Paul, "Underestimating an opponent is a very poor approach. I'm sure that you weren't expecting to run into me today like I didn't expect to run into you, but I still can prepared incase something bad happened, but that's that same as coming prepared for a battle. However, I'm sure that this battle will become more challenging now." he said.

Paul wasn't liking the fact that Ash was still calm after he warned him that he was going to try harder. Everytime someone in the past heard his warning about how serious he was going to become, they became scared and he looked seeing other trainers fear him. But Ash didn't look a bit scared, this made his angry.

"You bet it's going to get harder, for you that is! Aggron, Stand by for battle!" replied Paul as he called out his iron armoured Pokemon.

"Sceptile, I choose you!" called Ash. He called out his fully evolved grass starter from Hoenn.

"Ready buddy?" asked Ash to first fully evolved grass starter.

"(You bet Ash. Just left it to me!)" he replied, but only Ash could understand him.

"Aggron, use Metal Claw." called Paul. Aggron lifted his arm and his claw began to glow white as he began to run towards Sceptile.

"Use Agility." called Ash. Scepitle started running up to Aggron and right at the last second dodged the incoming Metal Claw.

"Pound." said Ash. Scepitle smashed his tail into the back of Aggron's head.

"Use Leaf Blade, repeatedly." ordered Ash. Scepitle began to hit Aggron with Leaf Blade multiple times in the back.

"Use Iron Tail." ordered Paul. Aggron's tail began to glow white and he smacked Scepitle away with it.

"Agility." called Ash. Scepitle started to run again to get some more speed, but Paul had another idea.

"Metal Sound." he ordered. Aggron began to release a high pitch sound from his horns that stop Scepitle from using Agility again. Scepitle started to cover his ears from the Metal Sound, which gave Paul the opening he needed to attack.

"Double Edge." called Paul. Aggron started to run up to Scepitle to smash into him, but Ash didn't agree with at idea.

"Dodge it and use Leaf Storm." he said. Scepitle was fast enough to avoid being hit by Aggron and fired multiple leafs at Aggron, landing direct hits on him.

"Flash Cannon." ordered Paul. Aggron quickly fired a white aura from his mouth at Scepitle, it was also a direct hit, this caused to two Pokemon to get very tired.

"Leaf Blade/Metal Claw." called both trainers. Scepitle and Aggron both ran to each other and attacked with Leaf Blade and Metal Claw. Both Pokemon hit their opponent with their attack and slid past each other, after about a 5 seconds, they both couldn't take it anymore and fainted.

"What!" everyone yelled. No one expected both Pokemon to go down. They thought that ether Scepitle or Aggron would go down by themselves, but the two Pokemon when down together.

"Both Scepitle and Aggron are unable to battle, this battle is a tie!" said Naruto.

"Wow, looks like Scepitle has found an opponent that's as strong as he is!" said Natsu.

"That Scepitle was the only Pikemon that I've ever seen take down Aggron!" said Trip.

"It still loss, so it's not that impressive!" said Gary with a cocky smirk.

"Return, Scepitle. You did great out there." said Ash.

"You need to do better than that if you want to battle him again on Friday." Paul scolded Aggron as he returned him.

Ash didn't like it that Paul was talking to his Pokemon like that, he thought that Aggron did a good job at battling his Scepitle, but it likes like Paul didn't agree.

"Well Paul, it looks like your down to your last Pokemon. I may not have known you for very long, but I can tell that your last one is a really strong one and it can help you make a comeback." said Ash.

"Your right, this next one is my strongest, so you better be prepared to loss!" warned Paul.

"I'm ready for any challenge that comes near me." Ash replied.

"Electivire, Stand by for battle." said Paul. Out from the Pokeball came a tall electric type with two tail on it's back, it was both yellow and black, and it looked like it was ready for a fight.

"Well then, it's time I bring out one of my strongest. Infernape, I choose you." called Ash. Out came the fully evolved Fire starter of the Sinnoh region.

Infernape was about to say something, but then it looked at it's opponent and then at his opponent's trainer.

'(You again?!)' he thought as he looked at Paul.

Ash noticed this and asked his Pokemon what was happening, "Infernape, what's wrong?"

"Well, it looks like someone did want you after all." said Paul to Infernape.

"What are you talking about, Paul?" asked Ash.

"I'm talking to your Infernape, Ash. I use to have a Chimchar when I traveled through my home region Sinnoh. But that thing wasn't as strong as I expected it to be so I released it!" replied Paul.

"(Ash, he's my former trainer! The one that abandoned me before I met you.)" Infernape informed his current trainer/family member.

Ash was becoming very cross with what his hearing. He was now battling that same trainer that abandoned that Chimchar that he took in and raised.

(Flashback)

Ash and Pikachu were now in the waiting room of the Hearthome city Pokemon Center. They were waiting for Nurse Joy to tell how they Chimchar that they found in the wild was doing.

This morning, while training for the next gym battle that would help them earn a badge for the Sinnoh league. They found a Chimchar in the wild that was badly injured and was crying. The two wasted no time and brought it to the Pokemon Center in Hearthome city, they were luck that they decided to stop by today.

Nurse Joy came out from the back, which caught Ash and Pikachu's attention, "How's Chimchar doing?" Ash asked.

"Chimchar will be fine. But may I ask how he got so hurt in the first place?"

"Me and Pikachu found in a rock with we were training he was all beated up like that when we fine him like that."

"My guess is that this Chimchar must have belonged to a trainer and has been abandoned." said Nurse Joy.

Ash and Pikachu did not like the sound of that. Ash made his hand into a fist and gritted his teeth that what he just heard. He has seen and heard of trainers abandoning Pokemon before and he didn't like it one bit.

Pikachu also had an angry face at what he was hearing, "(If I ever find out who did this, they'll wish they never abandoned that poor little guy!)"

"Would you like to see how Chimchar is doing?" asked Nurse Joy.

"Yes, thanks!" said Ash as he ran into the back room. He and Pikachu saw that little fire starter, he was all heal and was laying on the bed.

"Hey, Chimchar. How ya doing?" asked Ash.

"Chim, Chim, char." replied the little fire Pokemon with a smile. Ash could tell that meant Chimchar was fine.

Pikachu hoped off Ash's shoulder and got up closer to the chimp Pokemon, "(What happened?)"

Chimchar was not comfortable with explaining what happened you him to these two strangers, but they did save him from getting more injured, so he started telling Pikachu everything.

Pikachu then turned over to Ash and explained the story. He said that Chimchar's former trainer did abandon him because he wasn't as strong as he expected from Chimchar. When Chimchar met his first trainer, he was battling against a bunch of Pokemon that wanted to hurt him, he managed to win and that impressed the trainer, causing him to take in Chimchar as his newest team member. But over time, Chimchar somehow didn't meet the expectations that the trainer wanted. After having enough, Chimchar's trainer released him and called him 'pathetic'.

"(That's what happened.)" said Pikachu sadly. He felt bad for Chimchar, trainers abandoning Pokemon is one of the many things that made him hate humans before he met Ash.

Ash knew just how to solve this problem, "Chimchar. Come with me, I'll be your new trainer. I'll train you properly, like how your old trainer should have!" he said as he offered his hand.

"(Yeah, come with us, we'll be a better team that the last one you were on!)" said Pikachu.

Out come Ash's Turtwig from it's Pokeball to encourage Chimchar to join the team, "(Come on, Chimchar. Ash is the greatest guy ever, him respect you.)"

Then out came Starly, "(Come on, Chimchar. We'll all be better than you old team, we'll be a family!)"

Finally, out came Ash's Aipom, "(Come on, we'll win a lot more battles tha your old team.)"

Chimchar looked at Ash and his team. They all wanted him to join them, he was still nervous, but maybe this new trainer will be better. Chimchar looked up with a smile, reached up and grabbed Ash's hand.

(Flashback ends)

"So your his former trainer." said Ash.

"I can't believe that you kept him long enough for him to fully evolve into an Infernape, he was so weak and couldn't keep up in battle for so longer." replied Paul.

"Maybe you just weren't training him long enough, you weren't patient enough to see him get strong with time, if you were more patient then you would seen the results of how strong he's gotten. You were just lazy." said Ash.

"What did you said?!" replied Paul with a lot of anger.

"You heard me loud and clear, you were lazy!" repeated Ash.

While the trainer had their conversation, Infernape and Electivire had one of their own. The two Pokemon had a strong rivalry back when they were a Chimchar and Elekid, they haven't seen other in years. Electivire was more happy because none of Paul's other Pokemon have the strength to have a rivalry with him, Chimchar was the only one that could more him want to get stronger. He was glad to see that he was alright and had a new trainer.

"(It's been ages. I'm glad that your alright, and have a another trainer!)" said Electivire to him long time rival.

"(I see that you've become a lot stronger as well by evolving, but don't think that the gap between us has widened on your side, Ash has made me who I am today. So be ready for a tough fight, cause I'm not holding back!)" Infernape replied to his old rival.

"(I would expect nothing less from you!)" smiled Electivire.

"Let's see who's really lazy after this. My Electivire hasn't loss a battle in over 3 years!" warned Paul.

"Then all the more reason to try harder." replied Ash.

"Begin!" called Naruto.

Both Pokemon got into position. Electivire stood tall with his fist blocking his face to keep Infernape from punching him in the face.

Infernape leaned forward and crouched down, his right arm was near the ground while his hand made a fist, and his left arm was up high while he stuck out two fingers. (Goku's pose when he first fought Vegeta.)

There was silen between everyone. No one said a word, not Natsu, Naruto, Gary, Trip, Ash or Paul. This was proof that this battle could be the toughest that both trainers and Pokemon have ever fought so far!

Near the battlefield, there was a tree that was ready to start dropping it's leaves for the winter. But it hasn't dropped it's first leaf yet. A gust of wind blew past the battlefield and towards the tree. The wind was about to shake the tree hard enough to cause the leaf on the first branch to snap off and fall slowly to the ground.

"(AAHHHHHHHHHHHH!)" yelled Infernape as he sprinted towards his opponent.

"Mach Punch." called Ash. Infernape started to make his fist glow white and punched Electivire in the stomach, landing the first hit!

"Grab him!" said Paul. Using one of his two tails, Electivire grabbed Infernape's arm and held on tight.

"Flamethrower." called Ash. Infernape opened his mouth and unleashed a ton of flames at Electivire. The damage caused the electric Pokemon to let go. Infernape backed away to avoid being attacked from up close.

"Thunder." ordered Paul. Electivire shot electricity at the fire monkey Pokemon as fast as he could, which hit Infernape causing some damage.

"Fire Punch." said Ash.

"Thunder Punch." said Paul.

Infernape covered his fist with fire, while Electivire covered him with electricity. The two Pokemon them started to run up at each other with with they're fist ready to hit, but Paul had another plan!

"Giga Impact."

Electivire had canceled out the Thunder Punch and started to cover his body with purple and yellow streams of energy. It was so closer that Ash could tell Infernape to dodge cause it was too late. Electivire hit Infernape head on, sending the fire Pokemon back a bit.

"Use Dig." said Ash. Infernape started to borrow under the ground of the battlefield to hit Electivire when he comes out.

"Protect."

Electivire formed a green shield around himself to protect himself from Infernape using a super effective Dig on him, but Ash had other ways to counter something like this!

"Flare Blitz while your still under ground." said Ash.

The battlefield began to glow a bit red, the temperature began to rise, and after 3 seconds, it bursted into flames like an active volcano. The fire reached a high level high in the air, which caught the attention of other people in Central Park.

Electivire's Protest couldn't last that much longer and he stopped out, only to feel flames of 69 degrees celsius!

When it stopped, Infernape came out and still used Dig by upper cutting Electivire sending the electric Pokemon a few feet off the ground before falling on its back.

"That was so powerful!" said Paul. He couldn't believe that Infernape had become so stronger, or that Ash could use him for such powerful attack!

"See, if you were just more patient you could have had an amazing fire and fighting type like him. But you only cared about pure power." replied Ash.

"Well Electivire has taken hits somewhat like this before and was still about to fight!" said Paul. He was right, Electivire started to get back up after that attack.

"Well then, we just need to keep fighting. Flamethrower!" said Ash. Infernape shot more flames from his mouth at Electivire as fast as he could.

"Protect." ordered Paul. Electivire created another green shield around himself to avoid taking damage. The Flamethrower hit the shield and bounced off.

"Thunder."

Electivire blasted electricity at Infernape, hoping to hit him head on. But Ash had a different idea.

"Flamethrower." he said. Once again, Infernape blew fire from his mouth at a rapid speed. The two attacks collided with great power which caused an explosion.

"Close Combat." shouted Ash. Infernape ran up closer to Electivire and started punching him as fast as he could. He punched him in the face, chest, stomach, and upper cut him. Then he started kicking Electivire in the stomach, chest, and hip. And with one last blow, he punched him in the stomach again.

"What!" said Paul. He was once again surprised that Infernape was able to attack so fast, when he was on his team as a Chimchar, he hadn't been about to meet his expectations when he first caught him. But now, Infernape was far stronger and faster than he expected. Paul wondered what kind of training Ash gave him!

Electivire was getting up slowly after that attack, he couldn't believe how strong Infernape had become, it was far above his expectations as well.

"Thunder Punch, back to back!" ordered Paul. Electivire kept on throwing punches at Infernape as fast as he could, but the fire monkey just continued to dodge everyone of them with his fast movements and agility.

"Mach Punch." called Ash. Infernape quickly punched Electivire in the stomach again with his glowing white fist.

"Use Thunder."

With Infernape so close, there was no way this attack could miss. Electivire released electricity from his body which shocked Infernape with about good amount of 20,000 volts of power.

"Brick Break."

Electivire raised his hand and chopped Infernape to the ground, but the fall didn't last long. Infernape got up, stuck out one of his legs, spun around to kick Electivire in the back of his knee joints which caused him the fall on his back, then Infernape got up that grabbed Electivire.

"Flare Blitz, go!" called Ash. Infernape surounded his body with fire which then turned blue as he lifted Electivire and took to the sky!

Infernape held on to Electivire as he flew into the air with Flare Blitz, he then started to circle the air which made him look like he was using Seismic Toss. He looked at his victim and smiled, "(I'm glad we got to battle again!)" he said.

"(I hope I get to battle you again on Friday!)" replied Electivire.

Infernape threw Electivire down to the battlefield and the impact created a cloud of dust. Infernape landed on his feet and stopped using Flare Blitz, but he did receive recoil damage.

Everyone was silent, no one spoke until the dust cleared, revealing a fainted Electivire!

"Electivire is unable to battle, Infernape wins! All of Paul's Pokemon have been defeated, so the winner is Ash!" said Naruto.

Paul, Gary, and Trip, were speechless, not just by the strength of Ash's Infernape, but that it was the same Chimchar that Paul abandoned because it was too weak for him. Now look at it!

"THAT WAS ASWSOME!" cheered Natsu.

Paul returned his Electivire and looked down at the ground, "No one has been me in 3 years." he said.

"I guess that means I ended another winning streak." replied Ash.

"The point is, Ash won, you lose, so the field is ours!" reminded Natsu.

"You were far better than I expected Ketchum, but you one won because of how powerful your Infernape was. It he had battled more Pokemon he would have loss soon." said Paul.

"Just remember, I have a ton of Pokemon that I'll be using in our battles on Friday, so be prepared!" warned Ash.

"You'll regret ever showing up at our school that day!" warned Trip.

"You'll regret ever attacking me in the first place!" replied Ash.

Trip, Paul, and Gary left the battlefield leaving it to Ash so that he could prepare for Friday. They weren't happy that they gotten beaten again, ever since Ash showed up, things have been going down hill for them. But they were going to train harder for Friday's battle. They still remember the strikes for the battles.

If Ash wins, they need to give up they're bullying ways. If they win, they get to target Ash and make his first year a living nightmare. However, after seeing the strength of just one of Ash's Pokemon, they realized that if they want a fighting chance against him, they need to train even harder than before!

They weren't going to loss to him again! Not infront of the whole school!

(7 Hours Later)

Everyone was now in top of the 'Museum of Modern Art' waiting for the right moment to spring into action when the B.A.D gets here to rob it!

"So you battled Infernape's former trainer?" asked Dan as he and Ash were walking back and forth on top of the roof.

"Yup, he trained his Pokemon well, but he was too power hungry to care about giving Chimchar so more time to train." replied Ash.

Meanwhile, Natsu was feeling a bit angry about what happened about an hour ago. Kirito noticed this and went up to his 'brother' to make him feel better.

"Still ticked off about about the cops?" asked he asked.

"Of course I'am." replied the dragon slayer.

(One hour ago)

Natsu and Kirito were going to meet the others at the museum in an hour, right after they are at the police station. They are about to tell the cops about what the B.A.D was planning and warn them that they'll be at the museum tonight.

But about 15 minutes later, both Kirito and Natsu exited the police station with the sound of cops laughing they're lungs out!

"Guys, I see them!" warned Luffy.

Everyone hid behind a brick chimney to avoid being spotted. They saw two B.A.D grunts ready to break in. One tied a rope around his waist, while the other held on to it to keep the other from falling.

Then, the grunt with the rope around his waist opened a window and jumped in while the other started to quietly lower the rope to make his partner go lowering into the building.

"Let's get 'em!" said Natsu. But was soon stopped by Asuna.

"Not yet, not until another minute." she said.

The grunt with the rope kept on lowering it down some more for his partner to reach their target. The grunt that was hanging from the rope got near the thing at they came here for. A Samurai Dagger!

He reached his hand out for the dagger to snatch it. But then the unexpected happened.

Back on the roof, where the others were. Naruto took out a ninja star and threw it at the rope that the grunt was holding. It cut the rope off, which surprised the grunt as he jumped back a bit. But his partner got the worst of it when he fell on the floor of the museum. Which had laser beams on it, once he hit the ground, an alarm sounded and the red was glowing red.

'Oh on!' he thought.

"Pikachu, Thunderbolt." he heard. He then saw a Pikachu from the window on the roof jump and zap him with a Thunderbolt. He screamed in pain as it started to paralize him, when it stopped he couldn't move and heard footsteps from near the hallway. It must have been the security.

His partner back on the roof wasn't having much lucky ether. He was conernd by 7 teenagers, and they all looked like they could fight.

"Alright punch, there's 7 of us and just one of you, what are going to do about it?" asked Natsu.

He's answer was the grunt throwing a smoke bomb that made it hard for the team to see him. When it cleared, he was seen run across the rooftops.

"You had to ask!" said Asuna.

"I'll go after him, you guys get to the police. Maybe now they'll listen!" said the dragon slayer. As he jump off the roof of the building to chase after the grunt!

The grunt was hoping and running as fast as he could to eascape Natsu. The two where jumping over large and small gaps between buildings. There was a lot of noise, since it was New York City, so it made sense.

The two of them just wouldn't quit, the grunt wouldn't quit on escaping and running, while Natsu wouldn't quit chasing and running. If the grunt jumped over or crawled under a build board, then Natsu would jump over or crawl under the same one to go after him.

If the grunt jumped down into an alleyway or climb up another building, then Natsu would jump down the same alleyway and climb up the same building after him.

This kept on going for about 25 minutes, but to them it felt like hours. They kept on playing cat and mouse until they came to a dead end of buildings. It was too far to jump this time, so the grunt was trapped!

"End of the line, pal!" smiled Natsu. He started to walk closer to the B.A.D grunt, thinking that they was no way he could eascape now. The would be Ture, if it wasn't for a large pick up truck the was pasting by.

"Afried not, pinky!" laughed the grunt as he hoped off the building and onto the top of the truck. Natsu was lucky that Master Pan taught him about fast reaction time, he quickly jumped after the grunt and managed to land on the truck as well. He barely made it and kept still to make sure that he didn't go anywhere while his opponent is really trapped this time!

As much as the grunt hated to admit it, he knew that there was no way out of this situation, unless he fights his way out!

The truck kept on rolling as it started to drive on the Kd Koch Queensboro Bridge. The truck diver was focused on the road, but he partner felt like something was off. He looked out the window and then he looked at the top of the cargo holder of the truck and was surprised at what he saw.

"What's the matter Hank?" asked the driver.

"Zack, you aren't going to believe this, but a teenager and one of those B.A.D grunts are fighting on top of the truck!" Hank informed his partner.

"Good one, buddy." said Zack.

"Don't believe me? You look while I take the wheel!" said Hank as he put his hands on the wheel while Zack looked out from his window. When he saw Natsu and the grunt he was just as surprised as Hank was!

"Good golly, you were right!" said Zack.

"Told you. You take the wheel, while I film the action!" suggested Hank as he got out his phone and looked out the window to film the fight.

Natsu and the grunt were going at each other like crazy, but Natsu was far stronger and was holding back just to make the fight more interesting!

The two of them were throwing punches and kicks at each other at high speed, Natsu aimed to punch the grunt in the stomach, but the grunt dodged it. The grunt aimed to kick Natsu at the side of his head, but Natsu blocked it with his fist.

The two were putting on quite a show, it destracted other drivers a little. But thankfully no one crashed...yet!

"Fire Dragon Iron Fist!" called Natsu as he punched the grunt in the jaw with a fist covered in flames. This knocked him out unconcise, which gave Natsu the opportunity he needed. He picked up the grunt, and leaped off the trunk to hang in to one of wires of the bridge and started to climb away.

This left everyone who saw in shock of what happened?

(15 Minutes Later)

The other AM Warriors were at the museum with the police, who had their cars flashing their lights. They were arresting the B.A.D grunt that got trapped in the museum, while more police forces seach for the other one.

"HEEEEY!" called a voice from the street across from the museum. Everyone turned their heads to see Natsu carrying the run away grunt on his shoulder. He then let him down so that the cops could take care of the rest.

He and his 'family' let the museum by jump up to the top of buildings roofs. But before Natsu let, he turned to the cops and said, "Told you so, Officers!" he then stuck out his tongue at them and left.

The cops just stood there with shocked expression. They didn't know if they should feel sorry for laughing at the kids when they warned them about the museum robbery, or feel sick because by the looks of it, it looked like a bunch of teenagers just took on two members of a criminal organization.

(30 Minutes Later)

The team was now back at home relaxing after that mission, it was nice to be at home after a long action packed day of fighting.

"I have to say, I'm glad that mission wasn't too hard, it's nice to have easy task once in a while." said Asuna.

"You said it, sis. It's nice to take it easy for a bit, hope no big threats come around any time soon." replied Luffy.

"In the meantime, anyone up for some 'Just Dance'?" asked Naruto.

"You bet!" said Luffy.

"I'll do it!" said Natsu.

"Count me in!" replied Dan.

"I'd like to bust a move!" said Ash.

"(I'll dance until I drop!)" declared Pikachu.

The blonde ninja smiled as he crouched down to turn on the Wii.

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