"Ash are we almost there" Dawn cried as they flew through the air. "I really would like to walk on the ground, please."

Ash laughed "Aw c'mon Dawn where's your sense of daring. This is fun." Both of them were currently riding on top of a massive Pokémon with a grey centipede like body with three gold-half rings circling its neck with two black ragged wings with, what looked like, red claws on them, a short tail and six short, thick legs. "Besides Giratina likes to stretch its wings instead of being trapping inside a Pokeball all day, right Giratina" Ash asked patting Giratina softly Giratina roared in agreement and in response took off faster making Dawn scream and Ash to let a whoop of enjoyment.

You see it all happened a couple months ago.

FLASHBACK

Ash and Dawn were in a secluded area where Ash was training Dialga and Palkia to see what he should improve them on. Currently he had a lot of work to do since all they knew was their signature moves. "Okay you two first we got to work on your defense. A good offense is only as good as a good defense" Ash said.

'Ok' they both said telepathically. 'So how do we do that' Palkia asked.

Ash smirked unclipping the Pokeball from around his neck and pulling another one from his belt. He threw them in the air and Latios and Darkrai appeared in a flash "Latios and Darkrai are going to keep on firing Luster Purge and Dark Pulse at both of you until you both learn how to defend yourself against it and not just dodge it."

'Oh great' Dialga groaned as Darkrai and Latios formed their attacks. While that happened Ash walked over to Dawn and sat down.

"Wow you sure are a slave driver Ash" Dawn said.

Ash chuckled, "Maybe I am, but the results of my so called 'slave driving' really work don't they?"

Dawn giggled "Yeah they do. By the way how's that other little Pokémon you got? Is it doing any better?"

"I don't know" Ash said pulling out another Pokeball. He opened it and a small hedgehog like Pokémon appeared. It had green fir on top of its body and a white body with little flowers on the side of its head.

"Shaymin" the little Pokémon said brightly.

"Hey Shaymin you feeling ok" Ash asked. Shaymin jumped into Ash's arms and snuggled into him making him laugh. Ash found Shaymin when it was being bullied by some remnants of Team Galactic as they were trying to capture a Legendary to free Cyrus and the others. Ash put an end to that quickly, got Shaymin to the Pokémon Center and in the end got his first Grass Type Legendary Pokémon.

Twenty minutes later Ash got up and went over to the others. Ash looked to see Palkia had gotten down the Safeguard move down as it clearly defended itself from Darkrai's Dark Pulse. Dialga was moving a little bit slower than Palkia as it was still dodging Latios' attack.

"Alright let's stop for now" Ash called. Immediately everyone stopped what they were doing "It's lunch time now" Ash called. However as soon as Ash said that something happened; a distortion in space and time happened and a portal opened. "What the heck" Ash shouted.

There was a loud roaring sound 'Palkia... Dialga' was heard by all the Pokémon.

'It can't be' Latios said wide eyed.

'But how... how's it possible' Darkrai said backing up slightly.

'Giratina' Dialga and Palkia said gravely. Then out of the portal came Giratina in all of its glory roaring loudly in anger.

'You two' Giratina roared 'Do you have any idea what you two have done? By your clash you have disrupted the balance of my world.'

"Latios what's' going on" Ash asked frightful of Giratina's rage. Latios repeated what Giratina just said. "That's not fair. Dialga and Palkia were under control." Ash ran in front of Dialga and Palkia as Giratina was going to attack. Giratina stopped its attack seeing Ash in front of it.

'You human' Giratina roared. 'I have no business with you. Get out of the way for I have business with Dialga and Palkia.'

"Giratina please listen to me" Ash pleaded. "I know you are angry with what has happened to your world. But it was not Dialga or Palkia's fault. They were being controlled by a madman using the power of Arceus."

'Simple excuses human' Giratina hissed. 'Now move before I take you down as well.'

"No Giratina" Ash said determined. "I saved Dialga and Palkia from being controlled so please don't take your anger out on them. Cast all your anger on me, I can take it."

"Ash no what are you doing" Dawn nearly screeched. Latios narrowed his eyes and was prepared to jump in and grab Ash at a moment's notice. Giratina stood up straight before lowering its head and looking Ash in the eye. Ash held the stare even though he felt terrified right now.

'You would shoulder all my anger by yourself human' Giratina asked Ash.

Ash nodded "Yes I would."

'Then I propose a compromise' Giratina said. 'You battle me with one Pokémon of your choosing. If you win, then as by the rules set down by Arceus, I shall join you in your quest. If I win then you will stand aside while I take Palkia and Dialga.'

"A battle" Ash asked. Giratina nodded "Very well I accept." Ash turned to Dialga "Dialga are you up for it?"

'Me' Dialga asked surprised 'Why would you choose me when I can't even use safeguard.'

"I believe in you Dialga" Ash smiled. "You may only have access to one move, but that doesn't make you useless." Dialga was silent for a few seconds before nodding and hopping in front of Ash ready for battle.

Giratina roared and began first by launching a hyper beam at Dialga "Dialga use Roar of Time" Ash shouted. Dialga formed its signature attack and fired it at Giratina. Both attacks met head on, but out of all Pokémon with special attack moves Dialga's was the strongest as it easily tore through hyper beam and went straight for Giratina.

Giratina dodged to the side and flew into the air before its eyes glowed dark and sparkled slightly before it stopped and fired night shade at Dialga. Dialga managed to dodge the attack, but Giratina launched it again. "Keep dodging Dialga" Ash shouted.

Dialga moved from side to side and continued to dodge Giratina's attack. "Ok Dialga jump into the air above Giratina and use Roar of Time" Ash called. Dialga did just that and fired Roar of Time from above at Giratina. Giratina moved to the side avoiding it. "Ok Dialga get next to Giratina" Dialga appeared next to Giratina surprising Giratina "Use Roar of Time now."

Dialga glowed blue and launched Roar of Time at Giratina and hit it dead on making Giratina cry out in pain. Giratina flew back, but recovered and then surrounded itself in purple energy and charged back nailing Dialga and sending it to the ground.

"Dialga no" Ash cried. "C'mon Dialga get up you can do it." Dialga struggled to get up from the attack as Giratina recovered from the after effects of Giga Impact. "C'mon Dialga please get up" Ash called.

Giratina recovered and now formed a hyper beam and fire it at Dialga. It came closer and closer "DIALGA" Ash shouted. Dialga glared up at Giratina just as the hyper beam hit. "No Dialga" Ash said quietly. His eyes widened when the dust cleared and it showed Dialga standing tall with a blue glow around it. "Dialga... you did it Dialga. You learned Safeguard. This battle's not over yet." Dialga roared in agreement.

Giratina eyed Dialga curiously 'Dialga despised humans, yet this boy...' Giratina thought.

"Dialga charge at Giratina" Ash called. Dialga charged at Giratina with impressive speed and smashed itself into Giratina. Giratina growled and formed a blue ball in its mouth and launched it at Dialga who used safeguard at the last second. "Alright Dialga Roar of Time, let's go" Ash called. Dialga launched another Roar of Time, but Giratina dodged it. "Send Giratina to the ground" Ash called. Dialga did just that by smashing into Giratina and Giratina was sent to the ground. "Roar of Time at full power" Ash shouted.

Dialga glowed a very dark blue and the energy ball built up in its mouth and with a loud roar Dialga launched it and it hit Giratina head on. Before the smoke could clear Ash tossed a Pokeball into the smoke as hard as he could. He couldn't see it, but there was a small flash before silence. The dust cleared and it showed a Pokeball violently shaking on the ground. Ash's breath went still as he waited for it to stay still. A few tense seconds later and the ball stopped shaking and the center went out signifying a successful capture.

Ash sighed in relief and walked over to the Pokeball. He picked it up and stared at it.

END FLASHBACK

Ever since then Ash really had his work cut out for him. He really had to work extra hard to quell Giratina's rage at Dialga and Palkia, but after a couple weeks Ash managed to quell Giratina's rage at Dialga and Palkia and the three of them were back on speaking terms. Now Ash, for the first time, had three full trio of Legendary Pokémon. First was the Legendary Golems of Hoenn, then the Lake Guardians of Sinnoh and finally the Creation Trio of Sinnoh. Ash had no idea which Legendary he would catch next.

At least until he got his answer at Mt. Stark.

ANOTHER FLASHBACK

"I'll be back a little later Dawn" Ash said to Dawn. They had stopped in a forest clearing to rest for a while. Ash was planning on taking his Pokémon up to Mt. Stark for some solitary training.

"OK I'll work with my Pokémon for the Grand Festival" Dawn said brightly.

Ash nodded and rode on top of Latios towards Mt. Stark. So far Ash had won seven badges and even had another run in with Brandon and the two greeted each other like old friends. Ash also met back up with Paul as well along with Paul's older brother Reggie. It turns out Reggie had also taken the Battle Frontier Challenge, but Brandon was the only one he couldn't beat. Paul challenged Brandon to a full six on six battle, but it ended in a humiliating defeat for Paul who couldn't defeat a single one of Brandon's Pokémon. Brandon said it had to do with Paul letting his emotions taking over so he couldn't think straight so he told Paul to come back and challenge him again when Paul learned to control his emotions.

A little time after that Ash ran into Brandon again when there was more trouble being caused by Pokémon Hunter J who managed to elude capture during the whole Team Galactic affair.

FLASHBACK WITHIN A FLASHBACK

"Latios stop J with Luster Purge" Ash called riding on Latios' back. Latios gave a yell and launched his signature attack at J.

"Salamence dragon pulse" she shouted back also riding her dragon Pokémon. Salamence launched a green orb from its mouth and it hit the Luster Purge head on and both attacks cancelled each other out. Sadly J couldn't do anything else as Latios appeared next to Salamence and launched another Luster Purge sending them to the ground.

Ash had Latios fly back to the ground "Brandon are you ok" Ash called.

"Yes I am fine" Brandon replied pulling himself out of some rubble. You see J had been called in to go into the Snow point City Temple and capture Regigigas by smashing the pillars that kept it asleep. Regigigas awakened and went on a rampage. Brandon and Ash did everything they could to try and persuade Regigigas into stopping its rampage, but nothing worked. Brandon deduced that the only way to stop Regigigas would be to capture it. Brandon tried using his Regirock, Registeel and Regice to take down Regigigas, but Regigigas had the ability to control the other Regi's even if they already belonged to another trainer.

That led them to the situation where they were now with four rampaging Legendary Pokémon and a Pokémon Hunter after them. "Brandon can you hold up J for me" Ash asked.

"Yes I can" Brandon said pulling out a Pokeball "Dusclops I need your assistance." Dusclops appeared in a flash "Go Ash I will deal with her." Ash nodded and took off on Latios to go and confront the Regigigas.

END FLASHBACK WITHIN A FLASHBACK

That was a tough battle since Regigigas' ability, Slow Start, wore off and it became much more powerful since it took both Darkrai and Latios to take down Regigigas, but in the end Ash managed to capture it. Also thanks to Brandon's vastly superior battle skills he defeated J and she was put behind bars. Leaving Brandon Ash continued his journey.

Then he remembered having a full six on six battle with Paul with his brother Reggie being the referee.

ANOTHER FLASHBACK WITHIN A FLASHBACK

Both of the trainers were in a clearing with one another with each of them giving glares to one another. Reggie had brought along an electronic board to keep score with them. it was like the ones they used in the Pokémon League Competitions.

"Torterra standby for battle" Paul called sending out his starter Pokémon. It appeared with a loud roar and took its spot as Paul's first Pokémon.

"Infernape I choose you" Ash called sending out the same Chimchar he got from Paul only this one was fully evolved.

"So you actually got Chimchar to evolve eh Ash" Paul asked.

Ash nodded "Yep and I'm about to show you just how strong Infernape is. Infernape use fire punch" Ash called. Infernape roared as its fist glowed and surrounded itself in fire and charged at Torterra.

"Torterra frenzy plant let's go" Paul called. Torterra slammed its front paws on the ground and kicked up massive frenzy plants that went for Infernape.

"Dodge it" Ash said. Infernape jumped through and around the frenzy plants surprising Paul before getting a clear shot of Torterra and punching it hard in the face. "Now use flamethrower" Ash called. Infernape's mouth glowed with fire and it got ready to fire it at Torterra. Infernape did fire it and it hit dead on making Torterra cry out and jump back wincing.

"Torterra return" Paul called recalling his Pokémon. He pulled out a new Pokeball "Weaville standby for battle." Out appeared the small Dark/Ice type Pokémon with its claws poised to strike. "Weaville agility" Paul ordered. Weaville charged forward and began circling Ash's Infernape making it look around confused.

"Infernape use dig" Ash called. Infernape started digging through the ground.

"Weaville stop it with ice beam" Paul shouted. Weaville stopped and fired and ice beam at Infernape, but Infernape escaped underground before it could happen.

"Infernape fire spin now" Ash called. The ground underneath Weaville cracked and then a massive fire spin erupted from underneath and enveloped Weaville making it cry out in pain. The massive fire spin ended and it showed Infernape jumping out of the ground and Weaville on the ground with swirls in its eyes.

"Weaville is unable to battle; Infernape wins" Reggie announced. Weaville's icon went dark signifying its defeat.

Paul returned Weaville with a sour look on his face "Magmortar standby for battle" Paul called. A massive Pokémon appeared with flames licking its body. Magmortar took its place as Paul's third Pokémon.

"Infernape return" Ash called. Infernape returned to its Pokeball. Ash then pulled out his next Pokeball "Okay Regigigas I choose you" Ash shouted. Paul and Reggie went wide eyed as the colossal Pokémon made its appearance with a deep roar.

"Regigigas... I don't believe it" Paul said silently before regaining control. Growling slightly he said "Magmortar use fire blast." Magmortar fired a Japanese kanji shaped blast of fire at Regigigas.

"Safeguard" Ash said calmly. Regigigas glowed briefly and the fire blast hit. When it cleared it showed Regigigas completely unharmed.

"What..." Paul grunted. "Magmortar fire spin now" Paul said. Magmortar fired the attack at Regigigas, but Regigigas just used safeguard again. Paul tried attacking three more times, but still nothing worked and after the fifth attack Paul lost it. "Why don't you order it to attack" Paul shouted.

"Because of Regigigas' special ability" Ash responded. "It's called Slow Start; it halves Regigigas' attack and speed for five turns when Regigigas is sent out for battle. So for now I've just had it defend against your Magmortar until Slow Start wore off."

"And I've attacked five times so that means..." Paul realized with wide eyes.

"Now Regigigas is at full power" Ash said. "Regigigas show Paul your strength with your Giga Impact." Regigigas gained a massive purple glow around its body and charged at Magmortar.

"Magmortar dodge it" Paul shouted. Magmortar was too slow and Regigigas took it down with one hit sending Magmortar to the ground with swirls in its eyes.

"Magmortar is unable to battle: Regigigas is the winner" Reggie announced as Magmortar's icon went dark signifying its defeat.

TEN MINUTES LATER

"Honchkrow is unable to battle; Floatzel is the winner" Reggie announced. Paul's fifth icon went dark leaving him with only one icon left. While Paul had five icons dark Ash only had two icons dark. Paul had lost his Honchkrow, Magmortar, Electabuzz, Weaville and Torterra and only had one left. Ash had only used four out of his six icons and lost two. He lost his Infernape, and Gabite. His Floatzel had just defeated Paul's Honchkrow while his Gabite had defeated Electabuzz before falling to Paul's Torterra with Infernape easily tasking out Torterra, but losing to Honchkrow. Ash's Gible and Buizel had evolved long ago and were as tough as they could be.

Paul glared at Ash as he recalled his Honchkrow "Ursaring standby for battle" he all, but growled. The massive Bear Pokémon made an appearance in a flash. Ash decided to stick with Floatzel for the remainder of the match. "Ursaring focus blast" Paul shouted. Ursaring launched a focus blast at Floatzel.

"Floatzel aqua jet now" Ash said calmly. Floatzel surrounded itself in water and shot at Ursaring easily plowing through the focus blast and hitting Ursaring head on.

"Focus punch" Paul called. Ursaring's fist glowed and it went to punch Floatzel, but Floatzel dodged it easily by doing a back flip and landing on its feet with a smirk "Hyper beam now" Paul called. Ursaring formed a hyper beam in its mouth and launched it at Floatzel.

"Giga Impact" Ash called. Floatzel surrounded itself in purple energy and charged into the hyper beam and began drilling through it. Soon Floatzel did and hit Ursaring hard in the head. Ursaring groaned weakly before falling on its back with a hard thud and swirls in its eyes and Floatzel landed on top with a smirk on its face.

"Ursaring is unable to battle; Floatzel is the winner. All six of Paul's Pokémon have been eliminated so the winner is Ash" Reggie announced. Paul recalled his Ursaring with a neutral face while Ash recalled Floatzel with a smile on his face.

"Good battle Ash" was all Paul said before turning and walking off.

END ANOTHER FLASHBACK WITHIN A FLASHBACK

With that last flashback over Ash noticed he had arrived at Mt. Stark. Immediately he hoped off of Latios and pulled out six Pokeballs. It revealed Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Gabite and Infernape. Ash immediately got them to work on doing some drills on their attack patterns and after that he would work them on defense.

While they were practicing Ash scoped out the mountain area for signs of Pokémon activity so he wouldn't disrupt them. Coincidently after climbing over the side of a wall Ash spotted the three stooges known as Team Rocket "What are they up to now" Ash wondered.

He got his answer shortly as he saw a Pokémon standing to the side on a wall. It was a tortoise like creature with a brownish body with orange and gray spots on it. It had metal bangles locked on its legs and the four claws on each of its feet are in a cross formation. It also had a gray underside; its face is covered by an iron mask and has red-orange eyes.

"Whoa that's a Heatran" Ash said surprised. Then he remembered Team Rocket and he looked and saw that they each had grins on their faces. Ash frowned and hopped down and raced back to the training ground. He got there quickly "Palkia can you come with me for a few minutes" Ash asked.

'What for' Palkia wondered telepathically. They got their answer when the mountain began shaking violently 'Never mind let's go' Palkia said. Ash hopped on Palkia's back and Palkia took flight with Ash giving Palkia directions where to go.

"Down there" Ash called and pointed to where Heatran was running from a giant Diglett Machine was chasing it firing off rockets. One of the rockets then hit Heatran sending it flying where it smashed into a wall. Palkia flew in for a landing and landed in front of the machine and roared loudly.

"What the- hey it's the twerp" Meowth shouted.

"Yeah it's me" Ash called since all three of them were riding on top of the giant machine. "Man why can't you three just leave, well enough alone?"

"This twerp has a pretty big mouth on him" Jessie said (Ha pot calling the kettle black.)

"You're one to talk" Ash called back smirking. "You know if I recall James is the rich one and he's the most well behaved one of all of you. You're the one who acts like a big spoilt brat who has a temper tantrum every time she doesn't get her way."

James and Meowth stole a nervous glance at Jessie before backing away slightly as flames surrounded her body "I'll kill you" she shouted before jumping down and running at Ash.

"Palkia use Spacial Rend" Ash said calmly. Palkia's arm glowed pink and launched an arc of pink energy that struck Jessie head on and she was sent flying screaming like a banshee the whole way leaving James and Meowth alone.

Both looked nervously from the sky to Ash before they sighed and excepted their fight "Make it quick" James said head bowed.

"Very well" Ash said "Spacial Rend." Palkia launched its attack a second time and hit the Diglett machine blowing it to a million pieces and sending the other two Team Rocket agents flying into the sky after their teammate.

With them out of the way Ash turned his attention to Heatran "Good job Palkia" Ash said before turning to Heatran. That blast from the missile had roughed it up quite a bit. "Don't worry Heatran I'll get you some help." Ash pulled out his last spare Master Ball and put Heatran inside of it and with that Ash caught another Legendary Pokémon from Sinnoh.

"Excuse me" a voice asked. Ash looked up to see a young boy dressed in ranger clothes come running up to him "Have you seen a Heatran around here" he asked. "I've been searching for it for a while now to take it to a safe place."

Ash chuckled sheepishly "Sorry you just missed me... capturing it" Ash held up his Pokeball for significance.

The boy's eyes widened "You captured Heatran... how?"

"Some Pokémon thieves were after it" Ash told him. "I stopped them, but Heatran got pretty roughed up. I had no choice, but to capture it so I could get it some help."

"I see" the boy said. "Well I'm Ben by the way, I was hoping to capture that Heatran and bring it to safety, but if someone else already captured it then there's really nothing I can do. Just please keep it safe is all I ask."

"No problem" Ash said "I'm Ash by the way. Alright Palkia let's get going."

"Palkia" Ben questioned with his eyebrow raised. He followed Ash around the corner and his eyes widened as he was just in time to see Ash take off on the Legendary Palkia and into the sky.

END ANOTHER FLASHBACK

Soon Dawn's screams came to an end as Ash had Giratina land on solid ground again. Dawn immediately hopped off while Ash took his time "Thank you Giratina" Ash said. Giratina roared softly "Go on and roam about for a little while. I know how much you love flying." Giratina roared and a portal opened up and Giratina flew back into its own world for a few hours of flying. "Alright Sunyshore Gym here I come" Ash said excited.

"It says here that the Sunyshore Gym Leader's name is Volkner and that he specializes in Electric Type Pokémon" Dawn told Ash. "It's also said that he's never been defeated before; do you think you can win Ash?"

"Oh yeah" Ash said. The city was amazing to be in as everything was run off by pure sunlight gathered by solar panels. Even the streets ran by themselves with Ash and Dawn only having to step on before it took them where they needed to go. They arrived at the Sunyshore Gym only to see two people in front of it arguing. One of them was wearing a yellow shirt and brown pants with a large orange afro while the other was wearing black pants and shirt with a blue jacket on top of it along having bright spiky yellow hair with long bangs framing his face. The blond had a bored look on his face while the guy with a fro looked really mad "I wonder what they're so mad about" Ash wondered.

"Volkner c'mon man" the orange haired guy said furiously. "What are you acting like this? What happened to my old friend who loved battling?"

"He got bored when no one could give him a challenge" Volkner said in a bored voice. "Face it Flint why should I continue battling when their aren't any trainers powerful enough?"

"Excuse us" Ash said walking up getting their attention. "Is there something wrong?"

"No nothing at all" Flint answered. "Can I help you two with anything?"

"I'm here to battle the Sunyshore Gym Leader for my Eight Badge" Ash said.

Volkner sighed "Another wannabe" he groaned before pressing a button on the side of the building. It opened up revealing tons of badges of the same type. "Take one and get going kid" he said.

Ash gaped slightly "What that's it? Well that's no fun. Why bother taking a badge if you don't earn it?"

"Fine if you don't want it then find another Gym to earn a badge" Volkner said closing the panel.

"Volkner" flint sighed before slapping his head "Sorry kid... hey wait a minute you look kind of familiar."

"Come to think of it so do you" Ash said taking a thinking pose before his eyes widened. "Wait a minute your Flint of the Sinnoh Elite Four."

"Yeah" Flint grinned "Now I recognize you you're Ash Ketchum. Man Cynthia talks non-stop about you. I've seen some of your battles on T.V and I was blown away by your battling style." Volkner raised an eyebrow at Flint "I see you're confused old friend."

"Obviously" Volkner said dryly.

"Ash I assume Mr. Goodshow told you what he told us about you... you know" Flint asked. Ash nodded "Okay Volkner Ash here is a very unique trainer. At his age he's already won both Johto and Hoenn at very young ages with Legendary Pokémon."

Volkner's bored eyes got wide now "What" he said.

Flint nodded "Yeah and he's so good that Mr. Goodshow himself assured Ash as Kanto's First ever Pokémon Champion by the time he reaches the age of fifteen. If that happens Ash will be the youngest Champion in all of the Five Regions." Volkner was wide eyed as he looked over at Ash.

"That's... very hard to believe" Volkner finally said.

"Well if you don't believe me then Ash what do you say we have a battle" Flint said shocking Ash and Dawn. Ash had already battle one member of the Elite Four and lost, but then he battle Cynthia's Spiritomb and barely managed to win so he thought he could take Flint.

Ash grinned widely "Sure bring it on Flint." Now they were inside Volkner's Gym with Flint and Ash on opposite sides of each other. Instead of a real referee Volkner had a little mechanical robot there to be referee.

"This is a one on one battle between Flint of the Elite Four and Ash of Pallet Town" the little robot said. "Let the battle begin."

"Infernape let's go" Flint called sending out his starter Pokémon.

Ash had to think what Pokémon to use "Alright Heatran I choose you" Ash called. In a flash the Lava Dome Pokémon appeared in a flash and landed on the field with a loud thump. Volkner was slightly wide eyed while Flint had a large grin on his face.

"Oh man the Legendary Heatran" Flint said smiling widely. "I've always wanted to own one of my own, but to face one is something else entirely. This is gonna be awesome, but Ash don't expect to beat me with a fire type of all things. Infernape use mach punch." Infernape's fist glowed and it charged at Heatran.

"Heatran iron defense let's go" Ash called. Heatran glowed a bright color and Infernape's fist hit hard doing damage to Heatran, but nearly as much damage as it could have done. "Now use Eruption" Ash called. Heatran opened its mouth and intense heat formed in it before it fired a bunch of fire at Infernape. Infernape jumped back and landed near Flint only to wince as its left arm was scorched. This battle was long from over.

FIVE MINUTES LATER

This was almost going to be the single longest battle between two Pokémon in Pokémon History since both Pokémon had been going at it for a very long time. Volkner kept an eye on the battle the whole time and an old shine was beginning to return to his eyes. Dawn sat on the sides cheering for Ash to win.

Both Heatran and Infernape jumped back after another attack from each other. Heatran was breathing heavily from the attacks from Infernape as Infernape was panting hard from Heatran's scorching attacks.

"Heatran iron head" Ash called.

"Infernape fire punch" Flint called.

Both Pokémon charged at each other with Heatran glowing bright silver while Infernape's fist wears glowing brightly. Both Pokémon met in a clash with their power exploding off of them picking up a lot of dust making Flint and Ash cover their faces. Slowly the dust cleared with Ash and Flint gritting their teeth in anxiety with Volkner clenching his fist desperately wanting to see who won while Dawn was praying in her seat.

Finally the dust cleared and it showed Heatran on the ground with its eyes cold with Infernape on top of Heatran with its eyes closed as well. The little robot raised both flag arms "Infernape and Heatran are both unable to battle. This match ends in a draw."

Immediately both trainers ran out into the field and grabbed their Pokémon. "Infernape are you okay pal" Flint asked. Infernape groaned slightly before opening its eyes and smiling at its friend making Flint smile back "I'm glad you're ok."

"I'm so proud of you Heatran" Ash said patting a now awake Heatran on the head. "The way you kept on battling out there. You never let me down do you" Heatran smiled and gave a throaty roar. Ash looked up to see Flint and Infernape walk up to him "Flint" Ash said standing up as well.

"Ash that was a great battle" Flint said smiling.

"I learned a lot from our battle so thank you" Ash said as both of them shook hands.

"So Volkner what do you say" Flint asked.

Volkner was silent for a few seconds before a smirk lit his face "I say you got your fro handed to you." flint sweat dropped and his eye began twitching making Volkner laugh. "I also think that maybe there are still some good trainers still out there."

"Does that mean..." Ash asked.

Volkner nodded "Yes I shall battle you Ash. I've got a spark inside me that I haven't felt in a long time and it would be an honour to battle you." A little while later it was time for their battle with Volkner on the field instead of Flint who was in the stands. "This will be a three on three battle ok."

"Fine by me" Ash said.

"Then my first choice will be Luxray" Volkner called sending out his a black panther like Pokémon with tuffs of blue fur along with black.

"Then my choice is Giratina" Ash announced. Immediately Volkner and Flint went wide eyed as a portal behind Ash opened and out flew the Legendary Giratina with a loud roar that shook the building slightly.

"Oh man I'm recording this" Flint said pulling out a video camera out of nowhere.

"Despite it being a Legendary I'm still gonna fight with all I've got" Volkner said "Luxray use thunderbolt." Luxray's body sparkled and it launched a large thunderbolt at Giratina.

"Giratina use aura sphere" Ash called. Giratina formed a blue ball in its mouth and launched it at the Thunderbolt. They both cancelled each other out "Giratina shadow ball now" Ash said. Giratina formed a shadow ball in its mouth hand launched it at Luxray.

"Luxray dodge and use thunder fang" Volkner said. Luxray jumped to the side and jumped towards Giratina with its fangs cackling with electricity.

"Giratina use shadow force" Ash said calmly.

"Shadow force" Volkner said confused. Then Giratina disappeared into a small distortion in space and was gone. Luxray stopped and looked around confused not knowing what to do "Keep your guard up Luxray" Volkner called.

"That won't help you" Ash said before the portal opened next to Luxray.

"Luxray look out" Volkner shouted. Too late as Giratina smashed into the much smaller Pokémon; Luxray flew back with a cry.

"Finish it off with hyper beam" Ash called. Giratina fired a hyper beam and it hit Luxray head on making it cry out again before falling to the ground in a dead faint with swirls in its eyes.

The robot raised the green flag "Luxray is unable to battle; Giratina is the winner." Volkner recalled his downed Luxray with congratulation.

"Good job my friend" Volkner said "For my next choice I choose Electavire." Out came the final evolved form of Elekid only this one was much more muscle. "Electavire thunder punch let's go." Electavire's fist cackled with thunder before it charged at Giratina.

"Giratina hypnosis" Ash said calmly. Giratina's eyes glowed and Electavire was caught in the attack and its eyes became drowsy before it fell to the ground asleep.

"Electavire no" Volkner cried "C'mon Electavire wake up."

"Dream Eater" Ash called. Giratina's eyes glowed again before it launched a spectral version of itself at Electavire. Electavire groaned in its sleep before it went still and its eyes were in swirls.

The robot raised the green flag "Electavire is unable to battle; Giratina is the winner."

"Electavire return" Volkner said "Excellent effort my friend." Volkner pulled out his final Pokeball "Come on out Raichu." The final evolution of Pichu appeared in a flash with its cheeks sparkling. Seeing a Raichu reminded Ash of his buddy Pikachu and he smiled slightly.

"Giratina use ominous wind" Ash called. Giratina took a breath and blew out a swirling vortex of purple colored wind. It hit Raichu and Raichu braced itself against the powerful wind.

"Raichu power your way through with volt tackle" Volkner called. Raichu growled before surrounding itself in electricity and charging at Giratina through the ominous winds and slamming directly into it making Giratina wince in pain.

"Giratina use Will-o-Wisp" Ash called. Giratina formed a blue fire in its mouth and launched it at Raichu. Raichu jumped out of the way "Now shadow force" Ash said. Giratina disappeared back into the portal.

"Be careful Raichu" Volkner called. Raichu looked around preparing itself for Giratina. Giratina then appeared in front of Raichu surprising it.

"Dragon breath now" Ash called. Giratina fired a chartreuse ball of energy at Raichu point blank making Raichu cry out and fly back.

"Raichu hang in there and use iron tail" Volkner called. Raichu hopped back up and charged at Giratina with its tail glowing.

"Shadow force" Ash called. Giratina disappeared again just as Raichu was about to hit it making Raichu skid a bit before looking around. Volkner grit his teeth looking around as well. Then Giratina appeared on Raichu's right and hit it with another dragon breath making Raichu fly back again.

'There's got to be a weakness to that shadow force move' Volkner thought as Raichu struggled to its feet. 'Let's see he's used it three times. Once on Luxray and twice on Raichu' Then Volkner's eyes widened 'Of course' he then smirked. "Raichu use zap canon" Volkner called.

Ash knew Giratina could only dodge ti one way "Giratina shadow force." Giratina went back to its portal and disappeared dodging the zap canon.

Volkner smirked "Alright Raichu we've got it this time." They waited a few seconds "Now Raichu thunder punch behind you." Raichu's fist cackled with electricity and it turned and punched Giratina right in the face as it came out of the portal.

"How" Ash gaped.

"Quite simple" Volkner explained. "First when you used it on Luxray Giratina appeared on the left. Then on Raichu it appeared in front of it and on the third time is when it appeared on the right did I figure it out. Giratina goes in a clockwise order so now it's easy to predict where Giratina will come out."

"Clever" Flint whispered still recording.

"Raichu thunderbolt let's go" Volkner called.

"Giratina use stone edge" Ash called. Raichu launched its electric attack as Giratina gathered stones around its body and launched them at the thunder bolt. It was a stand off until both attacks cancelled each other out.

"Iron tail now" Volkner called. Raichu's iron tail hit Giratina head on this time causing some damage.

"Giratina use night shade" Ash called. Giratina's eyes glowed and launched a shadow ray at Raichu, who managed to dodge it. "Now dragon pulse" Ash called. Giratina launched dragon pulse hitting Raichu and sending it back. "Now finish it with Giga Impact" Ash called. Giratina surrounded itself with purple energy and charged at Raichu hitting it hard sending it smashing against the wall.

"Raichu" Volkner cried. Raichu slid down the wall with swirls in its eyes.

The robot raised the green flag "Raichu is unable to battle; Giratina is winner. The match goes to the challenger Ash Ketchum."

"Alright good job Giratina" Ash cheered running out to the massive dragon.

"Raichu return" Volkner called recalling his starter "I'm very proud of you." Volker walked over to Ash as Flint and Dawn joined them on the field. "Well Ash that was the funniest battle I've ever had and it was an honour to battle you."

"Thanks Volkner" Ash said sheepishly.

"As proof of your victory here at Sunyshore City it is my honour to award you with the Beacon Badge" Volkner said giving Ash a yellow badge shaped like a lighthouse.

"Thanks Volkner" Ash said taking the badge. "Alright that makes badge number eight."

"All eight eh" Flint mused. "That means you now qualify for the Sinnoh League." Ash nodded. "It's being held on Lily of the Valley Island in exactly one month. I can't wait to see you battle out there Ash."

"Thanks Flint" Ash said. Now Dawn and Ash were leaving Sunyshore city waving goodbye to Volkner and Flint. Now Ash set his sights on Lily of the Valley Island for the Sinnoh League Tournament.

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