This here is part 1 of the fifth arc of a fanfiction of my own version of the Pokémon anime, called Ash's Pokémon Journey, where Ash begins his journey through the Sinnoh region with some new and old friends, I hope you'll all like this. [Note: Please don't leave any mean or dirty comments about this story, other than that, please enjoy.]

Enter Sinnoh and the new girl.
It was a nice sunny day in Twinleaf town, located in the Sinnoh region, when a young girl around Ash's age, named Dawn (voiced by Emily Jenness), was getting ready to get her starter Pokémon from Professor Rowan at Sandgem town. When she got to the lab, she picked out Piplup, and now she's set out on a journey to become a Top Coordinator like her mother, Johanna. Meanwhile, at the shores of Sinnoh, Ash, Brock and Pikachu got off of the ferry and set foot on the docks. However, trouble brewed as the Team Rocket trio captured Pikachu again, before losing the electric type when he used Thunderbolt on the balloon, causing him to fall into the forest, forcing Ash and Brock to go find him. Back with Dawn, she and Piplup were not having a lot of luck on catching new Pokémon, and it wasn't long before they found and injured Pikachu, who was really Ash's. Dawn: “Whoa… a Pikachu, but it's an electric type… not a good match for us at the moment… but I gotta catch a Pokémon sooner or later, let's go Piplup!” called out Dawn, before Piplup goes to attack Pikachu, who responded by using a powerful Thunderbolt that zaps both Piplup and Dawn's bike, much to the girl's dismay. Dawn: “Oh no!, my poor Piplup!, and my bike!” shouted Dawn, before she glared at Pikachu and tried to throw a Pokéball at Pikachu, but once the ball hits the electric type, it failed to catch him, much to the girl's confusion. Dawn: “Huh… it didn't work… I wonder why… hmm…” asked Dawn to herself, before Pikachu tried to run away, when Ash came to the scene. Ash: “Pikachu!, are you okay?” Pikachu: [I'm fine… just a little bruised… and some girl over attacked me.] Ash: “She attacked you?!” Dawn: “Wait a minute, I thought it was a wild Pikachu, I swear that I didn't know it was yours!” Ash: “Well… I guess that makes sense… and by the way, Pikachu is a he, not an it.” Dawn: “Right, I'll remember that… wait… how did you knew I attacked Pikachu?” Ash: “Uh…” Piplup: [You blasted mouse!, I'll teach you not to fry me and my trainer's bike!] Ash: “Wait… did you say Pikachu destroyed another bike?!” Pikachu: [Yeah… sorry about that… but I was only trying to defend myself.] Ash: “Oh man… not again…” Dawn: “What do you mean again?, and… did you understood what Piplup just said…?” asked Dawn, making Ash cover his mouth as he realized he was talking to a Pokémon in front of a new person. Pikachu: “You are so busted…” Ash: “Oh man… okay… yeah, I understood what your Pokémon said… for I can talk to Pokémon, as to how though… I don't know the answer myself.” that was when Brock came to the scene. Brock: “Alright, you found Pikachu.” Ash: “Yeah, and this girl here named… uh… sorry, I didn't catch your name.” Dawn: “Oh right, my name's Dawn, and this is Piplup, my starter.” Ash: “I'm Ash from the town of Pallet in the Kanto region, and this is Pikachu, my own starter.” Brock: “And I'm Brock from Pewter city of Kanto, nice to meet ya.” Ash: “Say uh… you wouldn't happen to know where we can find Professor Rowan, do ya?” Dawn: “I do, he's the one who gave me Piplup, I'll lead the way.” said Dawn, before she leads Ash and Brock to the lab of Professor Rowan (voiced by Sean Reyes), who gives the boy's Pokédex to have the data of the Pokémon native to Sinnoh and registered him to compete in the Sinnoh league. Professor Rowan: “There you go, you're Pokédex should be ready now, and here is a badge case for you to place your gym badges in.” Ash: “Thanks, this should help a lot.” Dawn: “Hey uh… aren't you gonna put your Pikachu back into his Pokéball?” Ash: “Nah, Pikachu doesn't like being in it, so I let him stay out, besides I like him riding on my shoulder better.” Dawn: “Huh… I never thought that there were Pokémon like that…” Professor Rowan: “Many Pokémon have their own like, dislikes and personalities.” Ash: “I can't wait to catch my first Sinnoh Pokémon here.” Brock: “Uh… you kinda already did.” Ash: “Huh?… oh right!, Starly!” said Ash, before a small bird Pokémon called Starly came down looking cross. Starly: [What's the idea of leaving me in the forest as soon as you found Pikachu?!] Ash: “Sorry…” said Ash, looking a little nervous and embarrassed. Pikachu: [Hold on, when did you get that Pokémon?] Ash: “I kind of caught him while I was searching, guess I forgot about him… sorry about that.” Starly: [If you want to be my trainer, try to remember your other Pokémon from now on.] Ash: “Deal.” Professor Rowan: “Hmm… if I didn't knew better… that boy was able to understand what the Pokémon are saying...” Dawn: “Oh yeah, Ash has the ability to talk to Pokémon.” Ash: “Dawn!, that's supposed to be a secret!” Dawn: “Oops!, sorry… well no need to worry, I'm sure Professor Rowan can keep it a secret, right?” Professor Rowan: “Of course, I doubt people would believe it anyway.” Brock: “Hey Ash, what does your Pokédex say about your newest catch?” Ash: “Guess we'll find out.” said Ash, before he pulls out his Pokédex to find out more about his newest catch. Pokédex: [Starly is a bird Pokémon that is good to catch for rookie trainers of Sinnoh, when it's not in a flock, it's hard to notice it, and despite the size of it's wings, they're actually very strong.] Dawn: “That sounds like a handy Pokémon.” Ash: “Yeah, and now that I got registered, I can collect the gym badges of Sinnoh.” Professor Rowan: “Then I wish you good luck.” Ash: “Thanks.” Dawn: “Hey uh… would you mind if I tag along?” Ash: “Sure, I don't see why not.” Dawn: “Thanks, I don't know how I can travel through Sinnoh by myself, especially now that my bike's destroyed.” Brock: “Ash… did Pikachu…” Ash: “Yeah… I'm afraid so… sorry about that…” Dawn: “That's okay, it was my fault for attacking the poor thing, by the way… what happened to him?” Ash: “He got stolen by Team Rocket and managed to escape.” Dawn: “Team Rocket?” Ash: “Yeah, a group of bad guys who steal Pokémon from other trainers, they've been after Pikachu for a while now.” Brock: “And it looks like they have not given up yet…” Dawn: “Oh dear…” Ash: “But no matter what they pull, I won't let them take Pikachu.” and so Ash has arrived to Sinnoh and gained a new traveling companion in a girl named Dawn, who knows what's next for our heroes as the journey continues.

The abandoned Sinnoh starter duo.
After arriving in Sinnoh and befriending a girl named Dawn, Ash begins his journey in the Sinnoh region. Right now, our heroes are in some forest, and seemed to be lost at the moment. Dawn: “I don't believe this… we're lost…” Ash: “Yeah… looks like it…” Brock: “Well, that's nothing new for us, right?” Ash: “Yeah, that's for sure.” Dawn: “You're kidding…” Ash: “Don't worry, we'll find our way out of here.” that was when a group of grass types called Oddish used sleeping powder at the group, causing them to fall asleep. While they were out cold, a small green turtle like Pokémon called Turtwig appeared and took Pikachu with him. It wasn't long before Ash and the others finally woke up, and noticed that Pikachu was nowhere to be found. Dawn: “Where's Pikachu?” Ash: “Oh no!, Team Rocket must have taken him again!” Brock: “Hold on, are you sure?” Ash: “Well yeah, it's not the first time they used something to put us to sleep and steal Pikachu.” Brock: “But normally when they knock us out, they take us along with Pikachu, and also… there's some traces of sleep powder, meaning it was some Pokémon that knocked us out.” Dawn: “But why?” Ash: “Who knows… but I know for a fact that Pikachu needs help, and I'm gonna get him back…” meanwhile, Pikachu finally woke up, and sees that he was not alone, but now with the company he knows. In front of him was Turtwig and a little fire type chimp like Pokémon called Chimchar, and it wasn't long before they noticed the electric type. Turtwig: [Good, you're awake.] Pikachu: [Uh… who are you?] Turtwig: [I'm Turtwig, and this is Chimchar, good to see you're safe now.] Pikachu: [Safe?, what are you talking about?, I was doing fine until some Oddish used Sleeping Powder on me and the others.] Turtwig: [I send those Oddish to get you from that human.] Pikachu: [What?!, why would you do that?] Chimchar: [Cause humans are bad, they only care about power and sees us nothing more than tools.] Pikachu: [That's not true!, Ash would never see me or his other Pokémon as tools!, we're his friends and family!] Turtwig: [How naive… you'll understand soon enough…] Pikachu: [No… I do understand… but Ash is not a bad human… he's my best friend!] that was when Ash came to the scene. Ash: “Pikachu!” cried Ash in joy, before Turtwig headbutts the boy on the stomach. Turtwig: [You will not harm the Pikachu!] Ash: “What are you talking about?, I would never do anything to hurt Pikachu.” Turtwig: [Huh?, what did you say?] Ash: “I said why would you think I was gonna harm Pikachu?” Turtwig: [You… you can understand me?] Chimchar: [No way… how?] Ash: “To be honest… I don't know how… now tell me… why did you sent those Oddish to kidnap Pikachu?” Chimchar: [I wouldn't say we kidnap him, we rescued him, as you're a human…] Ash: “Why would you think I'm evil just for me being human?” Turtwig: [Well… we used to have a trainer before… but he was a bad one who saw us as tools… and abandoned us here just for seeing us being weak…] Chimchar: [Yeah… Damian was a real jerk.] Ash: “Wait… did you say Damian?!” Pikachu: [I see… no wonder you think humans are bad… so he's here in Sinnoh now…] Turtwig: [You know him?] Ash: “Yeah… we had a run in with him a few times in the past…” said Ash, before Dawn and Brock came to the scene. Dawn: “Wow… A Turtwig and a Chimchar, what are they doing here?” Ash: “They used to be Damian's Pokémon…” Brock: “Damian?!” Dawn: “Who?” Brock: “Oh right, you haven't met him… but he is without a doubt the worst trainer ever…” said Brock, while still remembering his past encounters with the bad trainer. Suddenly, the Team Rocket trio appeared, and they were on some kind of robot, ready to capture Pikachu again. Jessie: “There's no escape this time, you'll be the boss's Pokémon soon enough.” James: “Yes, and we'll finally get our revenge too.” Meowth: “That's right!, and we'll have the Turtwig and Chimchar as a bonus!” Ash: “You're not getting Pikachu, nor Chimchar and Turtwig!” shouted Ash, which surprised both Chimchar and Turtwig as they were not expecting a human to defend them. Soon a battle between Team Rocket's robot and Ash began, and the boy asked Turtwig and Chimchar to help out, which they accepted as they knew it's the only way to stop the villains. Soon enough, thanks to the combinations of Pikachu's Thunderbolt attack mixing with a Razor Leaf from Turtwig, a Flamethrower from Chimchar, and a Water Gun from Dawn's Piplup, the robot got destroyed and the Team Rocket trio were sent flying out of the scene. The danger was not over yet though, as a tree that got damaged from the battle started to fall over, and Ash picked up both Turtwig and Chimchar to get them out of the way just in the nick of time. Ash: “Are you two okay?” Turtwig: [You… saved us… thanks…] Chimchar: [But why?] Ash: “Because unlike Damian… I care about the well being of a Pokémon, including my own…” Pikachu: [It's true, and this is not the first time he risked his life to help out a Pokémon, I should know…] said Pikachu, feeling proud of what a kind trainer he has. Sometime later, the group finally found a way out of the forest, with Turtwig and Chimchar following them. Ash: “Hey… why are you following us?” Turtwig: [Well… after you saved us from those people and that tree… we kinda thought about… having you, a boy that can talk to Pokémon, as our new trainer.] Chimchar: [You don't mind, right?] Ash: “Not at all, welcome to the team.” said Ash, before he catches both of the Sinnoh starters with his Pokéballs, before pulling out his Pokédex to learn more about his new catches. Pokédex: [Turtwig is the grass type starter of Sinnoh, and it's shell is made of earth and becomes harder when it absorbs water.] [Chimchar is the fire type starter of Sinnoh, and can easily climb on the sheerest of walls and it's flame goes out when sleeping.] Dawn: “Wow, you just caught not one but two of the starters of Sinnoh.” Brock: “That's nothing, Ash managed to catch all three starters of Kanto and Johto, and caught the grass starter in Hoenn.” Dawn: “Really?” Ash: “It's not that big of a deal, I was just trying to be their friend, like how any trainer would.” Dawn: “I hope I can catch some Pokémon soon…” Ash: “Don't worry, I'm sure you will.” and so Ash has caught not only a Turtwig but a Chimchar as well, who knows what could be next for our heroes as the journey continues.

The Oreburgh city's living fossils.
After catching both Turtwig and Chimchar, Ash and the gang continued their journey through the Sinnoh region. While on the way to Oreburgh city, the location of the first Sinnoh gym leader, Dawn managed to catch a female Buneary, which has a crush on Pikachu, much to the electric type's annoyance. Brock also caught a Pokémon as well, called Croagunk, which was a fighting/poison type that likes to use Poison Jab on Brock whenever he flirts with a girl. Not to mention that, Starly evolved into Staravia, and Ash pulls out his Pokédex to find out more. Pokédex: [Staravia is the evolved form of Starly, and it flies over forests and fields, and it normally travels in large flocks.] Now, they made it to Oreburgh city, where Ash finally gets to challenge the gym leader. But before they do that, they went to do a little training to help out the new teammates. Buneary: [Wow… Pikachu looks so cute and strong was he's training…] said Buneary, while having hearts for eyes as she stares at Pikachu. Ash: “Hey Buneary, shouldn't you be training with Dawn for a Pokémon contest?” Buneary: [What?, am I not allowed to admire Pikachu?] Ash: “No, I'm just saying you can't let yourself be distracted so easily.” Buneary: [What in… oh right, I forgot that you can talk to Pokémon, which I still find it strange… as humans don't normally able to pull that off.] said Buneary, before Pikachu came over to her. Pikachu: [I know what you mean, but maybe we might find out someday… right now though, let's focus on getting stronger as I heard the gym leader here uses rock types… and those are hard for me…] Buneary: [Huh?, oh right, electric types are weak against rock types… but Pikachu, don't you have Iron Tail?] Pikachu: [Yeah, but I doubt that move alone will be enough for me to take down the gym leader's rock types so easily.] Ash: “Don't worry, I'm sure we can pull it off, and we got our new teammates to help out too.” suddenly, a man with a helmet, named Roark (voiced by Craig Blair), who happens to be the Oreburgh city gym leader, came to the scene. Roark: “Excuse me, but have you seen some with a large machine?” Ash: “No, we haven't seen anyone here other than you Mr…” Roark: “Oh sorry, I'm Roark, gym leader of Oreburgh city.” Ash: “You're the gym leader?, I was just training my Pokémon to get ready to challenge you.” Roark: “So I can see, but now's not the time, I have to find the thieves and get the machine back.” Brock: “What does this stolen machine do?” Roark: “I'm glad you asked, it can revive fossil Pokémon.” Dawn: “Really?!” Ash: “Wow, that's so cool!” Roark: “Yes, but it got stolen by a trio of thieves, and there was a fossil in the process of being revived… if it gets loose… there's no telling what damage it could cause…” Dawn: “What do the thieves look like?” Roark: “Well one was a woman with purple hair, a man with icy blue hair, and a Meowth that can talk.” Ash: “Team Rocket!” Dawn: “Those guys again?” Roark: “Wait, you know them?” Ash: “Yeah, they're bad guys that cause trouble wherever they go, don't worry, we'll help you get the machine back.” Roark: “Thanks, but are you sure?, this could be dangerous.” Ash: “I went through worse.” Brock: “It's true, he did.” Roark: “Well… I guess having someone who knows the thieves would help… but just be careful.” Ash: “Sure thing.” said Ash, before he and the others went to begin their search for Team Rocket, and it wasn't long before they did, and just in time for the fossil inside the machine to be revived as an Aerodactyl. Roark sends out a Pokémon called Cranidos that was also a fossil Pokémon, and it was tough. However, the Team Rocket trio fired a really tough net that caught Cranidos, and the living fossil was unable to get out. Jessie: “Looks like we'll get two fossil Pokémon for the boss it seems.” James: “Yeah, all we have to do now is capture Aerodactyl and we'll have a big pay day.” Meowth: “That's right!” Ash: “We're not gonna let that happen!” shouted Ash, before Cranidos started to glow, and evolved into a much bigger version of itself, called Rampardos, and it was now strong enough to break through the net. Roark: “Alright Rampardos!, now use Zen Headbutt!” called out Roark, before Rampardos used Zen Headbutt to send the Team Rocket trio flying out the scene. With the trio gone, all that was left to take care of was the Aerodactyl, which was currently going on a rampage. The flying/rock type nearly got to attack the city if Rampardos and Pikachu didn't stopped it in time, and one of the Oreburgh city scientists caught the Aerodactyl with a Pokéball. As the scientists bright the machine back to their lab, Ash pulls out his Pokédex to find out more about Roark's newly evolved Pokémon fossil. Pokédex: [Rampardos is the evolved form of Cranidos and a fossil Pokémon of Sinnoh, with it's really tough dome shape skull, it can launch a powerful headbutt that can break stone.] Once the danger was over, Ash asked Roark if he could battle him, and the gym leader accepted the challenge as he liked to see more of the boy's skills as a trainer. Soon, the group went to the gym building, and Bock noticed that Dawn was in a cheerleader outfit. Brock: “Um… Dawn, may I ask why are you dressed like a cheerleader?” Dawn: “Oh I thought it would help Ash win if my Pokémon and I cheer for him.” Buneary: [And maybe Pikachu would notice me.] Piplup: [Um… you do know that Ash is the only one who can understand us… right?] Buneary: [I know that, but it can't hurt to say it anyway.] said Buneary, unaware that both Ash and Pikachu heard them, and they had sweat drops on the sides of their heads. Ash: “Looks like you have a fan girl out of Buneary now…” Pikachu: [Why was I cursed to be born so cute…?] soon, the battle between Ash and Roark began, and it was tough for Ash, but he was able to pull through, and thanks to his team, Roark was left to use Rampardos, which was his strongest Pokémon. With the help of Turtwig, Rampardos was defeated and Ash won the battle. Roark comes up to Ash, before handing over the Coal badge to him. Roark: “You've done well Ash, I'm sure you'll give the other gym leaders a battle to remember like how you did for me.” Ash: “Thanks Roark… alright!, I got the Coal badge!” Pikachu: [Awesome!] and so Ash has helped Roark get the fossil restoring machine back and earned himself the Coal badge, who knows what could be next for our heroes as the journey continues.

Attack of the Pokémon hunter.
After beating Roark and earned the Coal badge, Ash heads out to Eterna city to challenge the gym leader there. While on the way, Dawn catches a Pachirisu, who happens to be very hyper and sure gives Dawn a real workout. Now, our heroes were on their way when suddenly, they saw what looked like some sort of ship flying in the sky, and it wasn't long before it made a landing. Dawn: “Wait a minute… oh no!” Ash: “What's wrong?” Dawn: “That's Hunter J's ship!” Brock: “Hunter J?” Dawn: “Yeah, she's supposed to be the most dangerous and ruthless Pokémon hunter, I heard rumors that she has a device that can turn Pokémon to stone to catch them.” Ash: “What?!, that's awful!” Dawn: “That's right, if she sees us, she'll no doubt try to steal our Pokémon.” Ash: “Like Team Rocket?” Dawn: “Maybe… but she'll no doubt be a lot more successful at it.” that was when the Team Rocket trio showed up, and they tried to take Pikachu, only for a dragon type called Salamence, ridden by Hunter J (voiced by Sonny Dey) herself, and she has her eyes on Meowth. Hunter J: “A talking Meowth eh, I can surly sell that.” Meowth: “Wait… me?!” asked Meowth in fear, before she aims a device on her arm, which fired a beam that turned Meowth into brown stone, much to everyone's shock and horror. Then a disk flew over and went under Meowth's stone body, before a glass container appeared over it, and soon takes the stone body of Meowth away. Jessie: “Meowth!” James: “No!” Hunter J: “And I think that Pikachu would be worth something too.” Ash: “You're not taking Pikachu!” Hunter J: “Watch me.” said Hunter J, before she fired the beam from her device, and Pikachu ended up in the same state as Meowth, much to everyone's horror. Suddenly, some dark blue aura surrounded Ash, and his eyes started to glow blue while showing a face of rage. Ash: “What have you done to Pikachu?!” shouted Ash in an angry tone that echoed everywhere, which startled everyone, even the Pokémon hunter herself. Dawn: “… Ash… what's happening to you?” Brock: “I don't think he can hear you…” James: “Hey… hasn't something like this happened before?” Jessie: “Yeah… back when the twerp first arrived in Hoenn… I have a feeling that the twerp is no ordinary boy…” James: “Me neither…” that was when Ash jumped into the air, far higher than any human should, and threw what looked like a blue sphere that hits the Salamence, knocking it out cold with just one hit. Hunter J was completely shocked, never before had she had seen something like this. Left with no other choice, Hunter J used her device again in hopes to turn Ash to stone as well, and she managed to do so. Dawn: “Ash!, no!” Hunter J: “Well… normally I go after Pokémon… but I think this kid might be worth something in the slave trade or something.” Jessie: “Slave trading?!, that's awful!” James: “Yeah, we might be thieves, but we don't make slaves out of people!” Hunter J: “Not my problem.” said Hunter J, before she leaves the scene with the containers that have Meowth, Pikachu and Ash, leaving the others behind. Brock: “Ash!” Dawn: “Pikachu!” Jessie and James: “Meowth!” Dawn: “This is terrible!, Ash and Pikachu are now Hunter J's prisoners!” Jessie: “Hey!, you forgot to mention Meowth!” Dawn: “Yeah… him too.” James: “Why do you seem upset about that?!” Dawn: “After everything you put us through… it's hard to feel sorry for you.” Jessie: “I guess you have a point… but never mind that, help us get Meowth back, and we'll help you get the twerp and Pikachu back.” Brock: “How do we know you won't double cross us once we get them back?” Jessie: “Do you have a choice?” Dawn: “Well… not really… but if you pull anything, I will personally make you pay.” James: “Deal.” meanwhile in the ship of Hunter J, Ash's stone body was with the other Pokémon that was in stone form too, including Meowth and Pikachu. Suddenly, the boy's stone body started to glow blue and soon the boy was back to normal. Ash: “What the… how did I get here…?” asked Ash to himself, before see all of the Pokémon in stone form, along with his Pikachu and Team Rocket's Meowth. Seeing some sort of flip switch on the disk below Meowth's stone body, he pulled it down, and soon Meowth was back to normal. Meowth: “What the?, I felt like I was a statue for a bit… twerp?!” Ash: “Hey Meowth, any idea where we are?” Meowth: “Not too sure, but I think this might be that lady's ship.” Ash: “Hunter J… last thing I remember was that she used that device to turn Pikachu to stone… after that… nothing… guess she caught me too.” Meowth: “But why?, you're not a Pokémon.” Ash: “I don't know, but at least now I can free Pikachu and these other Pokémon, and I better do it quick.” said Ash, before he goes to the other containers, and freed all of the Pokémon, including Pikachu too. Pikachu: [Ash!, you're here!] Ash: “Yeah… I am… now let's get out of here.” that was when an orange aquatic weasel like Pokémon, called Buizel, who had his arms crossed, came to the scene. Buizel: [Hey you… the boy with the hat.] Ash: “You're talking to me?” Buizel: [Yeah, you see any other humans here?] Ash: “Uh… no I guess not…” Buizel: [Well let me tell you, if you think you and your boss, Hunter J, can capture us and make money, then you got another thing coming.] said Buizel, ready to fight. Ash: “Wait a minute!, I don't work for Hunter J, I'm trying to stop her from stealing Pikachu!” Buizel: [Wait… did you… understood… what I said…] Ash: “Yeah… I have the ability to talk to Pokémon, though I don't know why.” Meowth: “You can talk to Pokémon?!” shouted Meowth in shock, before Ash froze up a bit, realizing too late that Team Rocket's Meowth was still around. Pikachu: [Oh… you're busted…] Ash: “Tell me about it… but I guess it could be worse…” said Ash, before seeing that Hunter J, who came into the room not too long ago, heard everything. Hunter J: “So… not only can you use aura… but you can talk to Pokémon… a truly one of a kind boy… surly worth a fortune.” Ash: “I'm not something to sell!” Hunter J: “Well like it or not, you're coming with me.” Ash: “Fat chance, come on Pikachu, let's take her down!” Pikachu: [You got it!] Buizel: [Mind if I join you?] Ash: “Not at all.” said Ash, before he and the Pokémon went to battle Hunter J and her Salamence. The battle caused some damage to the ship, which made it started to fall from the sky, and down below, Brock, Dawn, along with Jessie and James followed it. Dawn: “What's happening up there?” Brock: “No idea, but I think there's a battle going in there that's damaging the ship enough to fall.” James: “I hope Meowth's okay…” Jessie: “Me too…” meanwhile, Ash continues to battle with the help of both Pikachu and Buizel, while Hunter J noticed that her Salamence was tired out. Hunter J: “You're strong alright… but no matter, next time you won't be so lucky.” said Hunter J, before she returns Salamence to it's Pokéball and retreated. As for Ash and the Pokémon, it wasn't long before they managed to make a jump for it, and Meowth followed behind them. Soon, Dawn, Brock, along with Jessie and James came to the scene, and they were happy to see Ash, Pikachu and Meowth were okay. Dawn: “Ash!, Pikachu!, are you two okay?” Ash: “Yeah, we're okay.” James and Jessie: “Meowth!, you're back!” Meowth: “Hey you guys!” said Meowth, before he went to hug his teammates, happy to be reunited with them. Jessie: “Now that Meowth's safe, we can take Pikachu freely… well for the next time we meet.” James: “Yes, us Team Rocket will be blasting off again.” Meowth: “That's right!” said Meowth, before he and his teammates retreated and left the scene. Dawn: “Hey Ash… what's on your mind?” Ash: “It's just… while I was facing Hunter J… she mentioned something about me using Aura… I wonder what she was talking about…” Dawn: “Could it be that thing you did with that energy sphere?” Ash: “Huh?, what are you talking about?” Dawn: “You mean that you don't remember?” Ash: “No… it was all a blank…” Dawn: “Hmm… well it sounds crazy… but I think you got more powers in you than just the ability to talk to Pokémon…” Ash: “Really?” Brock: “Yeah, and… this is not the first time it was shown… like back in Hoenn… it seems to happened when you get really angry enough…” Ash: “Huh…” Buizel: [Hey trainer.] Ash: “Oh Buizel, you need something?” Buizel: [Yeah… I like to have a battle with you, if you can beat me… then I'll let you catch me, sound good?] Ash: “Sure, it should be fun.” said Ash, before he went to battle Buizel with Pikachu, and it was tough, but Pikachu was able to take down Buizel, allowing Ash to catch him, and then he took out his Pokédex to find out more about his newest catch. Pokédex: [Buizel is the Sea Weasel Pokémon, and it stores air in the sacs around it's neck and uses them as floatation devices and swims by spinning it's two tails like a propeller.] some time after that, the group made it to Eterna city, where Ash finally gets to battle the second Sinnoh gym leader, who uses her grass types to battle the boy. It was tough, but Ash managed to pull through and won, meaning he earned the Forest badge. Ash: “Alright… two badges down… six more to go…” Dawn: “I hope I get better in the Pokémon contests…” Brock: “Remember Dawn, you're just starting, you'll get the hang of it.” Ash: “Yeah, May didn't give up on her dream on becoming a top Pokémon coordinator, so you can't quit either.” Dawn: “May?… wait… as in the Coordinator princess of Hoenn?!, you know her?” Ash: “Uh… I don't know about her having that title… but yeah, she uses to travel with us in the Hoenn region.” Dawn: “Wow!, that's amazing!” Ash: “Yeah, and I'm sure you'll do great too.” and so Ash faced Hunter J, caught Buizel, and earned himself the Forest badge, who knows what's next for our heroes as the journey continues.

Enter Team Galactic in Veilstone city.
After the incident with Hunter J, Ash continues his journey through Sinnoh, and soon arrived to Veilstone city, the location of the third Sinnoh gym leader. While staying at the city for a bit, the group went to visit an area where a tourist attraction was located, which in this case, a group of meteors that fell to the planet a very long time ago. Ash: “Wow… this is so cool… I've never seen a meteor up close before…” Brock: “Yeah… an interesting sight to behold indeed…” Dawn: “Yeah… I hope no one would steal them.” Ash: “Why would anyone want to steal a bunch of rocks?, even if they're from space?” Brock: “Well there are people who would sell them for a high price, but I doubt anyone can move them easily, as these are about as big as us, which would make them too heavy to budge by hand.” Pikachu: [Yeah, you would need a ship with a claw to pick these up.] Ash: “A ship with a claw?, yeah like that could happen.” Dawn: “Huh?, oh right, I keep forgetting that you can talk to Pokémon.” Ash: “Well… it's not something you can forget so easily…” Dawn: “Well, it's not common, nor what you did with that sphere thing you pulled.” Ash: “I still don't remember doing that though…” Brock: “Well let's not worry about it for now, we better get to the Pokémon center to check on our Pokémon.” Ash: “Good idea.” so with that, they went to the Pokémon center, when night fell, Ash was looking at the moon shining in the sky, when suddenly, a scorpion/bat like Pokémon, called Gligar, came to the scene and crash landed on Ash's head. Once the boy got back up, Gligar wink while sticking her tongue out. Gligar: [Sorry, it's hard to glide when the wind is not in the right direction.] Ash: “So you can't actually fly, just glide with the wind?” Gligar: [That's right… wait… did you just… understood what I just said?] Ash: “Yeah, I can talk to Pokémon, though I'm not really sure how I do it…” Gligar: [Wow!, that's so cool!, I never heard of a human that can do that before, I'm Gligar by the way.] Ash: “I'm Ash, it's nice to meet ya.” that was when Pikachu came over to his trainer. Pikachu: [I see you made a new friend.] Ash: “Yeah, Gligar, this is Pikachu, my starter, and Pikachu, this is Gligar.” Pikachu: [Nice to meet ya.] Gligar: [Same here.] suddenly, all the power in the city was gone, much to the group's surprise, and it wasn't long before Dawn and Brock came over to the scene. Dawn: “Ash, we got a big problem!” Brock: “All the power in Veilstone city is gone, including the Pokémon center!” Ash: “But if that's true… than all the other Pokémon inside are in trouble!” Gligar: [I wonder if it has something to do with those guys with the weird haircuts…] Ash: “Huh?, what are you talking about?” Gligar: [There's a group with weird haircuts on their heads and I heard them talking about stealing the meteors.] Ash: “What?!, we gotta stop them!” Dawn: “Stop who?” Ash: “No time explaining, but Gligar said someone is stealing the meteors!” Dawn: “What?!” Brock: “I'll bet whoever they must be causing this blackout so they do it without being detected.” said Brock, before he and the others went back to where the meteors are, and there was a ship that had cables with claws on the bottom, which were being used to pick up some of the meteors. The people there had green hair and wore uniforms with the letter 'G' on them, the leader of the group was a man named Saturn (voiced by Marc Thompson), who had blue hair. It wasn't long before Ash and his group made it to the area, and saw the people, who then saw the kids. Saturn: “You kids shouldn't be here, you could get crushed by one of the meteors if we drop them.” Ash: “Who are you?!, and why are you stealing the meteors?!” Saturn: “What makes you think they don't belong to us?” Dawn: “Wait… I think I know who these guys are…” Brock: “You do?” Dawn: “Yes… but if I'm right… we could be in big trouble… you're Team Galactic, aren't you?!” Saturn: “So… you know we are?” Dawn: “Yeah… I heard stories about you from the news, you're supposed to be a group of people who want to steal the greatest treasures of Sinnoh!” Saturn: “I wouldn't say that… we only take them cause they are the keys to create a new world with a new order.” Ash: “But what you're doing is harming the Pokémon in the Pokémon center, and those meteors are meant for everyone to see!” Saturn: “You're such a small minded boy, if only you knew what secrets are in those meteors… Toxicroak, get rid of them.” said Saturn, before he sends out what looked like a larger version of Croagunk, called Toxicroak, which is the evolved form of Croagunk. Saturn orders Toxicroak to attack the group, only for Brock's Croagunk to appear and begins battling it. Gligar went to help out too, as she used her pincers to cut through the cables, releasing the meteors from the ship of Team Galactic. However, Saturn and his men managed to get away in their ship, and were able to take at least one of the meteors. Gligar started to fall, but Ash was able to catch her just in the nick of time. Gligar: [Thanks… you saved me!] Ash: “Well of course I did, you're not hurt, are ya?” Gligar: [No, I'm fine.] soon, the city's power was restored, especially in the Pokémon center, much to Nurse Joy's relief. When the next day came, Ash was getting ready to face the gym leader, but before he did that, Gligar asked him if she can join the team, and he accepted. It wasn't long after catching Gligar, Ash pulls out his Pokédex to find out more about his newest catch. Pokédex: [Gligar is a Pokémon normally found in Johto but can be seen in Sinnoh too, and while it can't fly naturally like most flying types, it can however glide with the wind and uses it's stinger and pincers to catch it's prey.] soon after that, Ash finally meets the gym leader, who uses her fighting types to battle. It was tough, especially with that Lucario of hers, but Ash was able to pull through and earned himself the Cobble badge. Ash: “Alright… three down… five more to go…” Dawn: “Nice work on winning the badge.” Ash: “Thanks, but I still can't help but wished that we stopped those guys…” Dawn: “You mean Team Galactic?, don't worry, I'm sure they'll be stopped soon.” Brock: “I hope so… cause I got a feeling that we'll see them again soon…” and so Ash has caught a Gligar, met Team Galactic, and earned himself the third Sinnoh gym badge, who knows what could be next for our heroes as the journey continues.

The Celestic town heist.
After catching Gligar, meeting Team Galactic for the first time, and earning his third Sinnoh gym badge, Ash and his friends traveled to Pastoria city, the location of the forth Sinnoh gym leader, who uses water types. The battle was tough, but Ash was able to pull though thanks to the help of his Buizel and Pikachu, and managed to earn himself the Fen badge. After that, they head off to Hearthome city, and while on the way, Gligar discovered a Razor Fang and picked it during the night, which made her evolve into a Gliscor as a result. Ash pulled out his Pokédex to find out more about his latest catch's new form. Pokédex: [Gliscor is the evolved form of Gligar, it watches it's prey as it hangs from trees by it's tail and attacks from above when it sees the chance.] on the way to Hearthome city, our heroes arrived in Celestic town, which is said to be the home town of Cynthia, the Sinnoh League champion. Once they got to the Pokémon center, they met a young woman with long yellow hair, who was in fact Cynthia (voiced by Emily Jenness), the Sinnoh league champion herself. Brock tried to flirt with Cynthia, but stopped when he noticed that Croagunk was not jabbing him like he always does, in fact, Croagunk was looking outside, with a glaring look on his face. Brock: “Huh… what's with Croagunk?” Dawn: “Hey Ash, maybe you should ask him what's wrong.” Ash: “Me?” Dawn: “Yeah, don't tell me you forgot that you can talk to Pokémon, have ya?” Ash: “No I…” Cynthia: “Hold on, did you say that this young man can talk to Pokémon?” Dawn: “Uh… I meant uh…” Ash: “Yeah… I can… but don't tell anyone, it's supposed to be a secret, as it could put me and my friends in danger if the wrong people find out about it.” Cynthia: “Don't worry, I can keep a secret, but can you show me that you can talk to Pokémon please?” Ash: “Sure… here goes… [walks over to Croagunk] hey Croagunk… what's wrong?” Croagunk: [He's here… that Toxicroak we met back in Veilstone city… I can sense it…] Ash: “Really?” Dawn: “What did he say?” Ash: “He said that he senses the Toxicroak we met in Veilstone city here.” Brock: “At Veilstone city?, we didn't run into any Toxicroak there… except for the one with…” Dawn: “Team Galactic!” Ash: “That's right… I guess that means Team Galactic is here somewhere…” Cynthia: “They are?!, they must be here for the Lustrous orb!” Ash: “What's that?” Cynthia: “It's supposed to be a special orb that's in the Celestic town's historical research center, legend has it that is can summon the legendary Pokémon that controls all of space… Palkia… it's also the counterpart of the Adamant orb, which summons the Legendary Pokémon that controls all of time… Dialga…” Ash: “Then I'm guessing Team Galactic must be here for that Lustrous orb.” Cynthia: “I must warn my grandmother right away, she's in the research center as we speak.” Brock: “Then we better hurry.” said Brock, before our heroes, and Cynthia make a run for it, heading towards the Celestic town's historical research center, only to see that it was surrounded by a lot of bat Pokémon called Golbat, and there were a lot of Team Galactic grunts. Dawn: “Oh no… we're too late!” Ash: “Not if I can help it!” said Ash, before he charges into the building, while the others followed behind him. It wasn't long before the group see Saturn and grunts, along with a young woman with red hair named Mars (voiced by Liza Ortiz), and an elderly woman with a lab coat all tied up, who was Cynthia's grandmother, Carolina (voiced by Rebecca Soler), much to Cynthia's shock. Cynthia: “Grandmother!” Saturn: “So… the Sinnoh League champion is here…” Mars: “And some kids too.” Cynthia: “Release my grandmother at once!” Ash: “And don't you dare steal the Lustrous orb!” Mars: “As if we take orders from a little kid, and we already have the Adamant orb, so it's only fair we take the Lustrous orb to complete the set.” Cynthia: “I won't allow you to do that!, you're not getting any of the Sinnoh region's treasures!” Saturn: “I beg to differ.” said Saturn, as he sends out his Toxicroak to battle, while Brock's Croagunk comes out of his Pokéball, and ready to battle. Of course it wasn't long before Croagunk got defeated by Toxicroak, and Brock went over to check on him, before the Team Galactic grunts caught the kids and tied them up. Mars: “Don't think your Pokémon have what it takes to defeat us, we won't stop until we can summon both Dialga and Palkia for the new world.” Dawn: “What are you talking about?, you can't summon them.” Cynthia: “I think they can with the orbs…” Brock: “Oh yeah… just like how the blue orb and red orb controlled Kyogre and Groudon!” Ash: “Oh yeah… so there are more orbs that controls legendary Pokémon out there?” Saturn: “Well yes, but Groudon and Kyogre are nothing compared to Dialga and Palkia, as they can control the power of all of time and space.” Pikachu: [Whoa… that does sound like they're much more powerful… but I doubt they can control them…] Ash: “You got that right.” Saturn: “Got what right?” Ash: “Uh… nothing… anyway, release Cynthia's grandmother!” Cynthia: “And these kids as well!” Saturn: “Tell you what… if you hand over the Lustrous orb… we'll give her and the children back in return, sound like a deal?” Carolina: “Don't listen to them!, forget about me!, you mustn't let them get the Lustrous orb!” Ash: “Don't do it!” Cynthia: “I'm sorry grandmother… but I can't risk your safety, or these kids either…” said Cynthia, knowing that she had no choice, before guiding the Team Galactic grunts, and their commanders, to the Lustrous orb, which they took with an evil smile on their faces, before they left the scene. Soon, our heroes were free again, along with Cynthia's grandmother. Ash: “Oh man… I can't believe Team Galactic took the Lustrous orb…” Dawn: “Not to mention that they have the Adamant orb too…” Cynthia: “It's alright… I would rather lose the orbs than the lives of others… especially my grandmother here…” Carolina: “Yes… and although they have the orbs now, I doubt they can control the legendaries with ease… even if they can summon them.” Ash: “I don't know… I witness some special orbs before in Hoenn… and they were able to allow the bosses of Team Aqua and Team Magma to control both Kyogre and Groudon… if those orbs could do that… I wouldn't be surprised if the Adamant and Lustrous orbs can do the same…” Cynthia: “You mean… you're the boy that Lance told me about?” Ash: “You know Lance?” Cynthia: “Yes, and he told me a lot about you… I can't believe that I didn't realized it sooner…” Dawn: “Wait… you know Lance of the Kanto Elite 4?!” Ash: “Yeah… it's a long story.” said Ash, while rubbing the back of his head with his hand. When the next day came, Ash finally made it to Hearthome city, and while battling another trainer, Turtwig evolved into Grotle, and the boy pulls out his Pokédex to find out more about his Sinnoh grass type's new form. Pokédex: [Grotle is the evolved form of Turtwig, and it lives near water in forests and can grow berries or acorns on the small bushes on it's back.] due to it's larger size, Grotle lost most of his speed, but learn to use it's body to do attacks like body slam or something similar to it. Soon Ash made it to the Hearthome city gym, where he challenges the gym leader, who uses her ghost types, which were tough to beat, especially with their hypnosis attacks. But Ash and his Pokémon were able to pull through and beat the gym leader, and the boy earned himself the Relic badge. Pikachu: [Okay, now that we got Sinnoh gym badge number five, that means only 3 more to go before we can enter the Sinnoh league.] Ash: “Yeah, but I still worried about the Adamant and Lustrous orbs… what plans does Team Galactic have for them…” Pikachu: [Well… we can't worry about it now, I'm sure that if we get the chance, we'll stop them, just like how you beat Team Aqua and Team Magma back in Hoenn.] Ash: “But I had the help of another legendary last time… I don't know if I would be as lucky…” Pikachu: [Don't worry, I'm sure everything will be okay.] said Pikachu, trying to help Ash feel better, even though he was feeling worried too. Dawn: “No need to worry Ash, I'm sure we can stop Team Galactic next time.” Brock: “Yeah, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.” Ash: “Yeah… I guess…” and so Ash has earned his forth and fifth Sinnoh gym badges, and Team Galactic had taken both the Adamant and Lustrous orbs, who knows what could be next for our heroes as the journey continues.

An Aura guardian on Iron island.
After earning his forth and fifth Sinnoh gym badges, Ash heads out to Canalave city, the location of the sixth Sinnoh gym leader, who uses Steel types. But when our heroes got there, the gym leader was not present in the gym or in the city even, however they did heard that he's currently training on Iron island, which is not too far at sea from the city. Soon, they arrived to the island by ferry, and began their search for the gym leader. But trouble began when some steel type Pokémon appeared, and they seemed to be going crazy and their eyes were glowing blue for some reason. Dawn: “What's going on with the steel types here?” Ash: “I don't know… I wish I knew… they didn't speak like they would… they acted like savage beasts… something's messing with their minds…” that was when Pikachu's ears began to twitch, meaning he heard something close by. Pikachu: [Hey… someone's coming…] said Pikachu, alerting Ash that he and his friends were about to have company. Soon, a man with a shovel came to the scene, who was in fact Byron (voiced by Dan Green), the Canalave city gym leader himself. Byron: “Oh hey kids, what brings you here to this island?” Ash: “We came to find the Canalave city gym leader, do you know him?” Byron: “Yeah, he's me, I'm guessing you want to challenge me to a gym battle, well now might not be a good time, there's trouble brewing here.” Ash: “You mean the steel types going crazy, right?” Byron: “I'm afraid so, Riley is helping me solve the mystery.” Dawn: “Who?” asked Dawn, before a teenage man, named Riley (voiced by Marc Diraison), and his Lucario, came to the scene. Riley: “Who might you be?” Ash: “I'm Ash, and these are my friends, Dawn and Brock, we came to find Byron, but we heard the Pokémon were going crazy here as well and we wanna help.” Riley: “That's kind of you, but you should leave here.” Lucario: [You should let me and my trainer take care of this, he's an Aura guardian after all.] Ash: “Aura guardian?, what's that?” this surprised both Riley and Lucario, before both went to take a closer look at Ash, and sensed something within him. Riley: “Why… you're an Aura user too…” Ash: “Huh?, Aura user?” Riley: “Yes, they're rare now these days, but they're people who can use the power of Aura, which is like the living force of all living things… but Aura users can use it for battle… or talk to Pokémon.” Ash: “Wait… you can talk to Pokémon as well?!” Riley: “Yes, and I'm guessing you can too.” Ash: “Yeah… but I never knew how until now…” Riley: “I see… so you never trained your Aura power…” Ash: “No… I never even heard of it till I got to Sinnoh.” Dawn: “Hold on, can Aura users fire Aura Sphere like a Lucario by any chance?, cause Ash once did it one time, and I remembered the Veilstone city gym leader's Lucario using that move too.” Riley: “Well it's a common move for Lucario, and yes Aura users can use it… if they can master it's power, but they would need an Aura partner to help them on that.” Brock: “Wait a minute, all the steel types are going crazy… and Lucario is a steel type as well as a fighting type… and yet your Lucario seems fine.” Riley: “Yes, the cause of the steel types going berserk would be some type of sound waves, but it won't effect Lucario as he uses his Aura to protect himself from.” Ash: “Wow, that's amazing.” Lucario: [Yes, but still, you might be an Aura user, you're don't have a lot of experience to use it.] Ash: “Maybe not, but I can still help.” Riley: “This could be dangerous.” suddenly, Pikachu's ears perked up, hearing something or someone nearby. Pikachu: [Hey Ash… I hear voices over there.] Ash: “Lead the way.” said Ash, before Pikachu heads off with Ash following him, and the others begin to follow him too. Soon they got to a cliff, and below it was Team Galactic, with Mars leading the grunts. There was some sort of machine that was shooting a beam on some temple that had statues of both Dialga and Palkia, which seems to be emitting the sound waves that were making the steel types on the island go crazy. Dawn: “It's Team Galactic… so they're behind this…” Byron: “What are they up to?” Brock: “Not sure… but whatever they're here for… that machine and that temple must be what's causing the steel types here go nuts.” suddenly, Mars pushes a button, and a large blast of light came out of the machine and temple, and once that happened, Lucario started to have some blue static electricity on his body, before his eyes turned blue and went crazy. Dawn: “Oh no!, not Lucario too!” Riley: “That blast of light must have unleashed a sound wave much stronger than the ones before that's too much for even Lucario to protect himself from!” Byron: “Hey… where's Ash?” asked Bryon, before he and the others noticed that Ash was not with them. They looked down at the bottom of the cliff, and see that Ash was fighting the Team Galactic grunts, and winning while having blue eyes and his face filled with rage. Brock: “Ash!” Dawn: “Is the sound waves effecting him too?” Brock: “No… I think that seeing what Team Galactic did to the Pokémon here, including Lucario must have made him angry enough to activate his Aura power… just like the time when we first arrived in Hoenn… or that time with Hunter J…” Riley: “I see… what we're seeing is an Aura user triggering his Aura power through anger and the will to avenge those he cares about… we must help him destroy that machine quick.” Byron: “Well let's do it then!” shouted Byron, as he jumps down and sends out his Steelix to battle, and it wasn't long before Dawn and Brock joined in the battle. It wasn't long before Ash managed to destroy the machine, and soon all the steel types were back to normal. Mars: “You fools, you might have destroyed the machine, but no matter, managed to get at least 60% of the scanning on Mount Coronet, we're halfway there on finding the Spear Pillar…” said Mars, before Ash's eyes stopped glowing and returned to normal, and confused on his surroundings. Ash: “Huh?, how did I get down here?” Byron: “Are you kidding?, you jumped down here and destroyed that machine with your own fist, you don't remember that?” Ash: “No…” Mars: “Well it doesn't matter, you're done for, once I blow up the island.” Brock: “Hold on… you wired the whole island with bombs?!” Mars: “That's right, and even if you find them, you won't be able to stop them in time, bye bye.” said Mars, as she runs off with her grunts and went to a helicopter and make a retreat. Riley and Lucario were able to find all the bombs by using their Aura, which they also used to create a large Aura ball as a force-field to keep the bombs from destroying the island. Some time later, when evening came, Cynthia's grandmother, Carolina, came to the island to research the ruins. Riley: “This island is full of mysteries…” Carolina: “Yes, from I can gather… the machine Team Galactic used was made from the meteor they stole from Veilstone city… which it along with the ruins here send out a frequincy that let out sound waves that made the steel types go crazy… and I think they did it in hopes to find Spear Pillar… the place where Dialga and Palkia would be summoned in this world…” Ash: “Really?” Dawn: “And with the Adamant and Lustrous orbs… they might be able to summon them…” Brock: “But that girl Mars said they only got 60% of the scene… so I'm guessing that they have not found it yet…” Caroline: “No… but I have a feeling that they will soon…” Ash: “Team Galactic… those jerks…” the next day came, and Ash was ready to battle Byron at last, who gave him a real battle. Ash and his team were able to pull through, and the boy managed to earn himself the Mine badge. Byron: “You were a worthy opponent, just like Roark told me you would be.” Ash: “You mean the Oreburgh gym leader?” Byron: “Yeah, he happens to be my son.” Dawn: “You're son?” Byron: “Uh huh, a chip off the old block.” said Byron, before Riley came to the scene. Riley: “You know Ash, if you want, I can train you to control your Aura and become an Aura Guardian.” Ash: “Thanks… but I think I'll pass on being an Aura Guardian, as I want to be a Pokémon master.” Riley: “Very well… but I would advice you to learn on keeping better control on your Aura in the future, otherwise you might hurt someone in the process.” Ash: “I'll try.” and so Ash has run into Team Galactic again, learned that he's an Aura user, and earned his sixth Sinnoh gym badge, who knows what could be next for our heroes as the journey continues.

Regigigas at Snowpoint city.
After earning his sixth Sinnoh gym badge and saved Iron island from destruction, Ash heads off to Snowpoint city, which is the location of the seventh Sinnoh gym leader. While on the way, Staravia evolved into Staraptor, and Ash pulls out his Pokédex to find out more. Pokédex: [Staraptor is the evolved form of Staravia, and it's a very fierce fighter with talons that not only captures it's prey but to battle powerful opponents.] soon, our heroes arrived to Snowpoint city, where they meet the gym leader, who uses her ice types. When Ash got to battle her, she and her Pokémon proved to be really tough, but Ash was able to pull through and won the Icicle badge. Soon, Ash and his friends were getting ready to leave, but that was when Pikachu saw a familiar ship flying in the sky and glared at it. Pikachu: [This can't be good…] Ash: “What's wrong?” Pikachu: [Hunter J's here…] Ash: “What?!, Hunter J?!, are you sure?” Pikachu: [Look.” said Pikachu, pointing at the ship in the sky, and both Ash and his friends noticed it. Dawn: “It's Hunter J's ship alright…” Brock: “What's she doing here?” Ash: “No doubt after some Pokémon… we gotta stop her.” Dawn: “Hold on Ash, are you sure that's a good idea?” Ash: “We can't let her steal any more Pokémon.” Brock: “Even so, she's much more dangerous than the Team Rocket trio we normally deal with… and she plans to catch you the next time she sees you.” Dawn: “Yeah, she knows your secret ability to talk to Pokémon, and plans to sell you.” Ash: “I don't care, I won't let her get away this time.” Pikachu: [Um… I think we'll have to deal with her anyway… cause here comes some of her men!] said Pikachu, before some vehicles with some of Hunter J's men came to the scene, sending out a lot of Golbat to attack the group. Our heroes tried to fight back, but some of the men sent out spider like Pokémon called Ariados which used String Shot to capture the group. It wasn't long before the men take Ash and the others to what looked like some kind of temple, and Hunter J herself was there. Hunter J: “Well… so we meet again boy, I told you that I will have you the next time we meet.” Ash: “You're wasting your time and energy just to capture me!” Hunter J: “You were just the bonus, the real reason I'm here is because there's supposed to be a Regigigas in this temple, along with Regirock, Regice and Registeel, which are all legendary Golem Pokémon that should have a good price.” Dawn: “You can't have any of them!” Brock: “Can't you for once see that Pokémon are much more than just something to sell?!” Hunter J: “What I think about seeing what Pokémon are to me is noun of your business, now I have some legendary Pokémon to capture.” said Hunter J, before she went into the temple and ordered her Salamence to fire a Hyper Beam to attack the inside of the building. It wasn't long before Regigigas, along with the other three legendary Golems came and attacked, and they proved to be too much for Salamence. By the time Ash and the others finally free themselves, Regigigas, Regirock, Regice and Registeel came out of the temple and began to go on a rampage. Hunter J's men tried to attack, but they were easily defeated by Regigigas. Ash: “Oh man… what is that?” Dawn: “That must be Regigigas… the Pokémon Hunter J came here for…” Brock: “And it looks really angry… probably due to Hunter J attacking it.” Pikachu: [We better stop it before it before it attacks Snowpoint city… though that can be a challenge with Hunter J and her followers around.] Ash: “Well either way, we gotta do something quick…” said Ash, before Hunter J showed up again, and was ready to aim her weapon at Regigigas, only for Ash to block the blast and ended up turned to stone instead, much to the shock and horror of the boy's friends. Dawn: “Ash!” Brock: “No!” Hunter J: “Meddling boy… at least that saves me on catching him…” suddenly, the boy's stone form started to glow blue, and soon Ash broke free of his stone state, much to everyone's shock. Ash: “Whoa… what just happened?” Hunter J: “Hmm… that must be how he got freed last time… his Aura must have saved him…” said hunter J, before she hears the sound of the police coming, leaving her with no choice but to make a retreat. One the police came, they were getting ready to battle Regigigas, but Ash told them that it wasn't it's fault as it was Hunter J that attacked first. The legendary Golems, now knew that the danger was over, head back to their temple where they'll continue to rest. Dawn: “Ash, are you okay?” Ash: “Yeah… I think so… but how did I got myself freed from being stone?” Brock: “It must have been your Aura… and maybe that's how you freed yourself last time we ran into Hunter J.” Dawn: “Speaking of which… she got away again…” Ash: “Oh man… that woman… causing so much harm to others just to make a quick buck…” Pikachu: [Don't worry buddy, we'll get her next time.] and so Ash has earned his seventh Sinnoh gym badge, and faced Hunter J again, who knows what could be next for our heroes, as the journey continues.

Here is link to part 2 of story's fifth arc. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54955880/

Here is link to story's Prologue. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54928638/