Brock, Misty all had trouble digesting the information when Ash had explained not only his devil fruit powers but Giovanni's and his own family. They could scarcely believe that there was a devil fruit with the power of a human. Though upon seeing a picture of Ash's biological mom that put away any doubts that they had. It was surprising that Ash was part dark type and did have some umberon dna in him due to his mom. This was all due to the Hito Hito no mi which made Ash's pokemon wonder if they would ever go through with eating a devil fruit if they found one. But Ash made sure to warn them if the threat that they would be in though. Team Roket would never allow people like them to ever get their hands on a devil fruit and if they some how got one. Team Rocket would then just kill them and considering just how powerful some of these devil fruits were it definitely scared Brock, Misty and Ash's pokemon.

Initially they wanted to brush it off as pure fantasy but upon seeing the Gomu Gomu no mi in action they just couldn't. Thus they came to accept the reality of the situation and that was that the existence of devil fruits were real. But what really shook them was the revelation of a war between Kanto and Abend. One that Kanto started but lost and the fact that the other regions just sat back and let it happen.

From what Ash had told them, all the members of Team Rocket were people who had to watch their loved ones die either from the pokemon under the command of Kanto soldiers or the soldiers themselves. Thus in the eyes of Team Rocket both humans and pokemon needed to pay. Thus they dedicated themselves to absolutely destroy Kanto and kill as many humans and pokemon alike as revenge for all the death they caused in Abend. They wanted to scoff at that idea but Ash glared at them. Saying something along the lines of if you dare say that it didn't happen then we are going to have problems. From this reaction the subject was extremely touchy and if what Ash had told them was true then they could see why.

But one things was bugging Brock and that was why Ash was so friendly with them. Ash said that it was the leadership that needed to pay. But the he felt that it was going too far to get the civilians involved. From Ash's point of view this would only cause the violence to escalate and thus true peace would be impossibel to achieve. For him the most important thing would be peace.

"But our memories were wiped" Brock pointed out.

"True but it's a lot harder to suppress the knowledge of devil fruits forever, especially when Team Rocket has them and we even have a few unaccounted for. Some of my people were explorers so they probably brought some devil fruits with them." Ash responded.

"I suppose that is true" Brock mumbled. It was true that sooner or later devil fruits will be found out by the Kanto region and the other regions did swear to not say anything and spent the time repressing the knowledge until it started to fade from the public conscious. However keeping it hidden forever was going to be difficult and sooner or later someone will find out and blab it to others.

Pewter City

"Ah we finally made it" Misty said in glee.

"I'm ready for some sleep" Ash said.

"Sleep sounds good" Brock added in. The trio then walked to the closest Pokemon Center.

Team Rocket local Pewter City HQ

"Sir it seems like they have arrived at Pewter City" A Team Rocket grunt said.

"I see well its time to begin" The local Team Rovket leader had a sidious smile.

After spending some time in the Pokemon center the trio left and Ash decided to train his group before the gym battle. Thus he decided that he had to train so that his Caterpie would evolve into Butterfree and Pikachu could learn iron tail. Ash would of liked to teach Pikachu dig but that was a technical machine and due to him not having a badge yet this was a no go. So this left iron tail and nuzzle and hopefully quick attack. Meanwhile Ash was going to use Butterfree for the status effects and maybe geting some in damage while the opposing pokemon is paralyzed. After some intensive training that lasted a couple days coupled with battling other trainers Caterpie managed to evolve Butterfree while Pikachu had mastered iron tail and nuzzle so now it was time to challenge the gym.

"You guys ready?" Ash asked his team. After getting some enthusiastic responses he concluded that they were. Walking up to the gym Ash saw Ritchie and Gary leaving the gym.

"Gary, Ritchie did you two challenge the Pewter Gym?" Ash asked as he approached them.

"Yep I won but Ritchie got his butt whooped" Gary said pointing to Ritchie with his thumb.

"Yeah I stunk" Ritchie said a bit depressed.

"Well you can't win them all" Ash shrugged.

"You going to challenge the gym?" Gary asked.

"Yep and I have a plan" Ash smiled. Gary and Ritchie decided to watch the match. Ash then opened the door and voice rang out, echoing in the building.

"My name is Ash and I'm here to challenge you to a battle" He declared.

"Very well my name is Flint and I'll be your opponent" A soon as he said that the lights turned on and revealed someone that looked basically like an older Brock. A younger kid walked into the refs spot.

"My name is Forrest and I'm certified ref. Now we will begin the battle between the challenger Ash and Gym Leader Flint. This will be a two on two match and only the challenger will be allowed to substitute pokemon. The battle will be over when both pokemon on either side are unable to battle. Any questions?" Forrest explained but no one said anything.

"Let the battle begin" Forrest declared.

"Graveler go" Flint threw his pokeball.

"Pikachu I choose you" Pikachu jumped off of Ash's shoulder and onto the battle field. This caused Flint to raise and eyebrow and Gary to call Ash a moron.

"Graveler begin with rollout" Graveler starting rolling towards Pikachu.

"Pikachu dodge" Piakchu jumped away.

"Now iron tail" Pikachu's tail turned to iron and it slammed into Graveler.

"Graveler defense curl and then use tackle" Flint ordered. Graveler began charging Pikachu.

"Piakchu counter with nuzzle" Pikachu began charging some electricity into his cheeks. He made contact with Graveler and got hit with paralysis.

"Now Pikachu use iron tail" Pikachu slammed iron tail into Graveler.

"Ok Pikachu use quick attack then transition into iron tail" Pikachu ran away before activating quick attack before slamming into Graveler with a full on iron tail while throwing his body into it.

"Clever the purpose of nuzzle wasn't for the damage it was for the paralysis" Flint anaylized the situation. The damage from the iron tails were significant and got to the point where it became too much for Graveler.

"Still Gravler is tanking these hits and paralysis won't last forever" Ash gritted his teeth.

"Now let's finish this off, combine agility with quick attack" Ash commanded. Pikachu's speed increased before reaching his max. Then he began changing direction and launched himself at Graveler.

"Now Pikachu use iron tail" Ash yelled. Pikachu used his velocity and body weight to slam his tail into Graveler, the accumulated damage was enough for Graveler to roll over unconscious.

"I did it I defeated a rock type" Pikachu yelled in victory with his paws raised.

"Graveler is unable to battle Pikachu is the winner" Forrest declared.

"You did well Graveler now lets go Onix" A giant rock snake appeared.

"Pikachu return go Butterfree" Ash sent out Butterfry as Pikachu ran back to Ash's shoulder.

"Onix use smack down" Onix then smacked Butterfree with its tail with full force sending the Butterfree to the ground.

"Now Onix use rock throw" Onix then sent rocks flying to Butterfree who just barely managed to get out of the way but also got took some glancing damage.

"Butterfree use supersonic" Ash commanded. Butterfree complied making Onix confused.

"Now Butterfree use poison powder" Butterfree then unleashed some purple powder on to the rock snake.

"Onix use dragon breath" The Onix still confused still managed to launch an attack despite being confused.

"Butterfree dodge" The dragon breathe managed to clip Butterfree.

"Crap now Butterfree use Bug Bite" Butterfree then proceeded to dive bomb to Onix as some of the damage from dragon breath slowed him down a bit. As he got closer Butterfree then bit down on the top of Onix's head.

"Onix use smack down" Onix tried to attack Butterfree but in the confusion Onix hurt himself.

"Damn the kid definitely knows what he's doing" Flint mussed to himself. However the confusion didn't last very long.

"Now Onix time to use Rock Slide" Flint ordered. Onix then proceeded to slam his tail on the ground causing rocks to fail on the ground not only smacking Butterfree around but also causing him to flinch.

"Now Onix let's use this opportunity to launch another attack, use Bind" Onix then wrapped his tail around Butterfree and then squeezed him.

"Crap Butterfree sleep powder" Butter tried to get sleep powder out but instead only got a mere fraction out before bind caused him to go out like a light.

"Butterfree is unable to battle Onix wins" Forrest declared.

"You ready Pikachu?" Ash asked.

"I'm ready I defeated one rock type, I can defeat another" Pikachu smirked before jumping off.

"All right Onix use screech" Onix emitted a ear piercing scream that caused everyone to cover their ears in pain.

"Now Onix use Dragon's Breath" Onix then emitted a blue hue from his mouth straight at Pikachu.

"Pikachu dodge with agility" Pikachu was able to dodge the attack with his increased speed.

"Now Pikachu use charm" Onix's attack stat was lowered by two stages.

"Trying to lower my attack huh. Well then let's try this Onix use sand tomb" Flint yelled.

"Well crap" Ash gritted his teeth. Pikachu got caught up in the attack was losing ⅛ of his hp over a period of time.

"Let's end this Onix use Rock slide" Onix caused a whole bunch of rocks to come barreling towards Pikachu before making contact. Pikachu got hit hard but wasn't out just yet.

"Tough bugger Onix Dragon Breath" Onix then emitted the same blue hue from his mouth and this one also hit home.

"Then finish this off with tackle but with your tail" Onix then swung his tail and hit Pikachu's gut sending him flying into a wall and got knocked out.

"Pikachu is unable to battle Onix wins and the victory goes to Flint" Forrest declared. Ash and Flint shook hands and congratulated each other for good match. Then Ash picked up Pikachu and started going towards the Pokemon center.

"Well you did pretty good for having a type disadvantage" Misty explained.

"Yeah but I revealed my trick to early, as soon as Flint saw nuzzle he immediately countered he with Sand Tomb and since Pikachu has the type disadvantge took full advantage of that" Ash anaylized the situation.

"So you not too upset then" Brock asked.

"No failure is the best teacher and besides you have been studying this stuff far longer than I have. Plus I only had a couple of months to cram in knowledge for pokemon battles" Ash pointed out.

"True" Brock pointed out.

"Hey Ritchie learn from this" Gary poked Ritchie.

"He lost too? Ritchie pointed out.

"He had an actual strategy, granted he used pokemon that are weak to rock types but you didn't have a strategy. Plus he taught his pokemon moves that are effective against Rock Types" Gary poked holes in Ritchie's battling method.

"Plus I didn't have the luxury of getting a grass type yet so I had to train around that" Ash interrupted.

"While it's nice having pokemon that are effective against your opponent's there will be times where you have a type disadvantage. You need to be prepared ahead of time when that eventually arises" Misty put in her two cents.

"Well I'll just have to train harder and find a grass or water type" Ash declared.

"You would have more luck finding a grass type" Misty said.

"Well then let's go to the pokemon center first then" Ash then left for the pokemon center.