Ash's match began with Macy. She was a very confident little girl and was ready to beat Ash, or so she thought. "Now we're into the 'H' Block. On the green side we have Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town and on the Red side we have Macy from Mahogany Town" the announcer roared. "This will be a full three on three battle and the first trainer to lose all three Pokémon will lose. Now we shall decide which field these two trainers will be battling on." The computer on the screen began flashing around in a circle before it began to slow down. Soon it stopped on the rock symbol. "It looks like these two will be battling on the rock field." The normal field on the top switched out for a rock field and it rose to the top and formed in place of the normal field. "Now to determine which trainer will send out their Pokémon first." Once again the screen began flashing through colors until it slowed and stopped on the color red. "And Macy of Mahogany Town will be sending out her first Pokémon."

"I hope you're ready for a tough battle Ash" she called out to him.

Ash smirked, "I'm always ready. Give it your best shot."

"Okay I will, Vulpix I choose you" Macy called sending out the small fox Pokémon.

"And Macy's first Pokémon is her Vulpix" the announcer said. "What Pokémon will Ketchum send out to counter her Pokémon?"

Ash pulled out his own Pokeball "Totodile I choose you" Ash called. Out came the little enthusiastic blue alligator with its usual cute dance. "Totodile use your water gun attack." Totodile reared its head back and blasted a huge water gun that was heading right towards Vulpix.

"It'll take more than a little squirt gun attack like that to take Vulpix down" Macy said. "Alright Vulpix dodge and use fire spin." Vulpix jumped in the air and avoided the water gun attack and with a deep breath the little fox Pokémon launched a very large fire spin. Totodile was a little too slow to dodge it and took the full brunt of the attack.

"Totodile, you okay" Ash called. Totodile shook itself and remained standing strong. "Alright go for a tackle attack." Totodile charged forward to hit Totodile hard, but Vulpix merely jumped to the side. Totodile lost its footing and nearly fell over, but it regained itself. With a scowl Totodile turned and continued to try and hit Vulpix, but nothing worked.

"Totodile is too slow to get a proper hit on Macy's Vulpix. Ketchum may think of something quick" the announcer roared. Ash grit his teeth as e watched.

"Totodile just isn't fast enough to get my Vulpix" Macy said tauntingly. "It just won't work Ash."

Ash growled slightly, but then he smirked, "Totodile use bite." Totodile had just missed another attack when he heard Ash and turned quickly and bite down on Vulpix's tail. Vulpix cried out in pain and tried to shake Totodile off, but Totodile held on strongly with its powerful jaw.

"Vulpix try and shake it off" Macy called. Vulpix tried, but Totodile wouldn't let go.

"Totodile's too strong to be shaken off so easily" Ash said. "Now Totodile throw Vulpix into the air." Totodile planted itself firmly on the ground and lifted Vulpix off of the ground and swung it high into the air letting go when Vulpix went skyward. Vulpix flew into the air from the swing, "Now Totodile full power water gun" Ash called. Totodile took a deep breath and shot the water gun again, but this time it hit Vulpix dead on in the chest. Vulpix gave off a cry as it slammed into the ground from the hard attack. Vulpix tried to stand up, but it collapsed to the ground with swirls in its eyes.

The ref raised the green flag, "Vulpix is unable to battle. Totodile is the winner." Up on the screen Vulpix's icon darkened signifying its defeat.

"Now let's find out which Pokémon Macy will send out to fight off Ash's Totodile" the announcer said.

Macy pulled out her second Pokeball, "Go Electabuzz" she called out. The enormous fighting electric Pokémon took its spot on the field with a spark.

"And Macy's choice is Electabuzz" the announcer said. "Now we'll see what Ash will do. Will he stick with Totodile or make a switch?"

"Totodile, return" Ash said aiming the Pokeball at Totodile. Totodile disappeared back into the Pokeball with a flash. Ash pulled out another Pokeball. "Phanpy I choose you" Ash said. The small little blue elephant Pokémon came out with a small cry of its name.

"And Ketchum makes the wise choice of substituting a water type for a ground type" the announcer said. "Now we'll see what Macy's reaction will be."

"Electabuzz return" she called out and, like Totodile, Electabuzz disappeared back into the Pokeball. "Quilava, let's go" Macy called out sending out her third and final Pokémon.

"And Macy also makes the switch to try and get a slight advantage over Ash" the announcer says.

"That's fine by me, Phanpy use role out" Ash ordered. Phanpy roles itself into a ball and began rolling towards Quilava.

"Quilava, use flame wheel" Macy called out. Quilava charged up flames all around its body and charged towards the rolling Phanpy. Both of them met in a one on one collision course. Phanpy refused to give in and kept rolling in trying to get past Quilava's scorching flame attack. Likewise with Quilava also refused to give in and supercharged the flames around its body.

"Both Pokémon refuse to give in to the other's attack" the announcer shouted. "In the end it will come down to which Pokémon has more determination to win." Ash and Macy grit their teeth as they looked out. Soon both Pokémon could no longer take it and an explosion took place obscuring the view. "And it looks like both attacks took each other out. Now it's down to the question of which Pokémon will come out on top." The smoke cleared on Macy's side to show Quilava slightly bruised, but still standing. "And Macy's Quilava is still standing, but will Ash's Phanpy be standing as well or will Quilava come out on top?" the smoke cleared to show that Phanpy was on the ground covered in scrape marks and the eyes were nice and swirly.

The ref raised the red flag, "Phanpy is unable to battle. The winner is Quilava." Up on the screen Phanpy's icon turned dark signifying its defeat.

"And after that incredible fight off in power it looks like Quilava came out on top and now both trainers are down on one Pokémon" the announcer said. "Now will Ash switch back to his Totodile or will he reveal his third Pokémon."

"Totodile I choose you" Ash called sending the little blue alligator back on the field.

"And Ash sends his Totodile back out onto the field" the announcer said.

"Quilava return" Macy called. "Electabuzz come back out." Electabuzz returned back to the field with a roar. "Electabuzz use thunder shock." The antenna's on Electabuzz's head glowed and sparkled and it fired a powerful thunder shock at Totodile.

"Totodile dodge and use water gun" Ash called. Totodile jumped out of the way and from the thunder shock and launched its water gun. It sailed through the air and straight for Electabuzz.

"Light screen, let's go" Macy called. Electabuzz had a bright clear screen appear in front of it and it blocked the water gun attack and deflected it away. "Electabuzz go for a thunder punch" Macy ordered. Electabuzz charged his fist with thunder and charged at Totodile.

"Totodile dodge it" Ash called. Totodile jumped left and right to try and dodged the barrage of thunder punches that Electabuzz kept throwing at it. Ash grit his teeth trying to come up with a good way to defeat the Electabuzz.

"Electabuzz, iron tail now" Macy called out. Ash's eyes widened as Electabuzz's tail glowed a bright color and slammed its tail into Totodile making it cry out and fly through the air and smash into the wall behind Ash. Totodile slowly slid down the wall until it hit the ground and just lied there with swirls in its eyes signifying its unconscious state.

The ref raised the green flag, "Totodile is unable to battle. Electabuzz is the winner." Totodile's icon went dark showing that Ash only had one Pokémon left while Macy still had her Electabuzz and her Quilava.

"Now young Ash has only one Pokémon left, but will it be enough to defeat Macy's two remaining Pokémon" the announcer said over the crowd's roars.

Ash pulled out his final Pokémon; "I choose you Quilava" Ash called out and sent out his own fire Pokémon. Quilava appeared on the field with a growl and the flames on its back roared to life.

"And Ash's final Pokémon is Quilava" the announcer said as Quilava's icon appeared on Ash's screen.

"That won't be enough to stop me" Macy said. "Electabuzz use thunder punch." Electabuzz's fist ignited with thunder and it charged at Quilava.

"Quilava use fire spin" Ash said calmly. Quilava shot out an enormous stream of swirling fire and it hit Electabuzz so fast that it didn't even have time to dodge. The fire formed a column around Electabuzz frying it and damaging it pretty badly.

"Electabuzz no" Macy cried out.

The fire column cleared out to show Electabuzz barely able to stand on its own two feet, "Alright Quilava good job. Now finish it off with your swift attack." Quilava opened its mouth ad fires the swift stars from its mouth and they all hit Electabuzz dead on. Electabuzz gave a small cry before it fell to the ground with the swirls in its eyes.

The ref raised the green flag, "Electabuzz is unable to battle. Quilava is the winner." Electabuzz's icon went dark signifying its defeat.

"And now Macy is down to her final Pokémon and we all know what that is" the announcer said as Macy sent out her own Quilava. "Now it will come down to whose Quilava is stronger. Though Ash Ketchum may have a slight advantage due to Macy's Quilava still being slightly tired from the match with Phanpy."

"Quilava use flamethrower" Macy ordered. Macy's Quilava's flames roared to life on its back and it fired out a powerful flamethrower."

"Counter attack it with your flame wheel" Ash called. Ash's Quilava had flames around its body and it charged into the flamethrower launched by Macy's Quilava. It took some struggling, but Ash's Quilava managed to break through the Flamethrower and hit Macy's Quilava and send it flying.

"Don't give in Quilava, use your ember attack" Macy called. In mid air Macy's Quilava straightened up and launched a lot of mini fireballs down onto the field. Ash's Quilava jumped from left to right to avoid the falling ember balls, but one of them ended up scorching it on the back slightly. "Alright, hit it with a skull bash before it recovers." Macy's Quilava dive bombed Ash's Quilava and hit it with a full powered skull bash.

"Quilava, are you okay" Ash called as his Quilava flew back and landed hard. Ash's Quilava stood up and ignited its flames refusing to give up. "Alright Quilava use your ember attack." Quilava fired its own mini fireballs at Macy's Quilava.

"Quilava dodge it" Macy called. Macy's Quilava jumped, ducked and weaved in and out to avoid the attacks.

"Flame wheel attack go" Ash shouted. Macy's eyes widened as Ash's Quilava shot out from the mass of ember attacks and hit her Quilava head on with a flame wheel. Her Quilava gave a cry of pain as it was launched back and slammed into one of the giant rocks on the field. The Quilava collapsed onto the ground with swirls in its eyes.

The ref raised the green flag, "Quilava is unable to battle. The battle and the match goes to the green trainer Ash Ketchum." Up on the screen Macy's Quilava's icon darkened signifying its defeat and then Ash's face took over the screen with the word WINNER under it.

Ash smiled brightly, "Alright Quilava, good job I'm so proud of you." Ash said as he petted Quilava on the head softly. Quilava mewed happily in response. Macy smiled as she recalled her down Quilava and gave it congratulations.

She then walked up to Ash, "That was a good battle Ash" she said with obvious admiration.

Ash shook hands with her with a smile on his face as well, "Thanks Macy, you're a strong trainer" Ash complimented.

Macy blushed as she exited the stadium from Ash's compliment, 'He's so strong... and kind. What a guy... and he's really cute too.'

Oblivious to Macy's thoughts towards him Ash looked up at the sky amongst the roars of the crowds, "I'm one step closer to winning the Silver Conference. Championship matches here I come" he said with his brown eyes glinting.

A couple days passed since Ash's victory over Macy. In that time Ash watched Macy battle his other opponent in the 'H' group, Jackson. Macy fought Jackson hard and managed to defeat him with her Quilava. Jackson was an okay guy, but he acted like a complete spas when Macy battled him while wearing that long cape and tripping over it every time he called out an attack.

Right now it was Ash's turn to face Jackson. The crowd was roaring in applause at the battle that had gone on so far. "Now the final battle of the 'H' Group is about to begin" the announcer shouted. An icon on Ash's screen just went dark. "Each of the trainers have only one Pokémon left. The outcome of this match will be decided on which Pokémon these two trainers select. Who will make the winning decision?" On the screen it showed that Ash and Jackson had lost two Pokémon. Jackson had lost Azumaril to Pikachu, but Jackson's Magneton had managed to barely beat Pikachu. Ash had then sent out his Phanpy to face Magneton since Magneton was extremely weak to ground type. In the end both Magneton and Phanpy fainted because it turned out Magneton was more powerful then Ash originally thought and because Phanpy didn't have quite enough battle experience to withstand all the attacks.

"Go Meganium" Jackson called sending out the final evolved form of Chikorita.

"And Jackson decides to use his most powerful Pokémon" the announcer said. "What will trainer Ash Ketchum use to counter Jackson's choice?"

"I choose you Heracross" Ash called sending out his bug/steel beetle shaped Pokémon with the large horn on its head.

"And Ash's final Pokémon is his Heracross" the announcer called out. The ref raised both flags and signaled the trainers to begin the battle.

"Alright Heracross let's start this out with a Mega horn" Ash ordered. Heracross' massive horn glowed a bright white as it charged forward towards Meganium.

"Meganium, stop that Mega horn with your vine whip" Jackson called. Meganium shot out the vines from its leaves on the neck and wrapped them around Heracross and stopped the bug Pokémon in its tracks though Heracross was struggling fiercely to continue its attack. "Now send that Heracross sky high" Jackson ordered.

Meganium grunted loudly and lifted Heracross into the air with a loud cry and threw Heracross with its vine whip. "Heracross use your hyper beam attack" Ash shouted. Heracross recovered itself and shot the hyper beam at Meganium. The hyper beam attack didn't quite hit Meganium head on, but it did hit right in front of Meganium and sent it flying back with a cry.

"Meganium, no" Jackson called worried.

"Heracross, mega horn attack now" Ash shouted. Heracross' horn glowed brightly as it flew towards Meganium as fast as it could. The attack hit Meganium dead on. The large grass type flew back and bounced along the field a few times before coming to a stop.

"Heracross' mega horn attack was right on target and Meganium is shaking" the announcer shouted. Meganium was not moving from the ground as swirls were in its eyes.

The ref raised the green flag, "Meganium is unable to battle. The winner of the match is Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town."

"And that's it" the announcer roared. "The 'H' block battles are over. With two wins in the block Ash Ketchum has scored a total of six points and has scored the highest amount of points in his block and as such as such Ash Ketchum will be advancing to the Championship tournament."

"I did it" Ash cheered and embraced his Heracross. "We're moving onto the Championship match. Great job Heracross I'm so proud of you." Heracross smiled and buzzed happily.

Jackson smiled sadly and recalled his Meganium, "You did your best. I'm proud of you." He walked up to Ash as he stood up and put his hand out. "That was a good match and I had a lot of fun. I wish you the best of luck in the Victory Tournament."

"Thanks Jackson" Ash said and shook hands with the young trainer. The crowd was cheering loudly for Ash's victory as well for the great show of sportsmanship. Soon everyone was outside of the arena and sitting at a table having ice cream. Ash had the biggest grin on his face and everyone knew why.

'Congratulations Ash' Latios said to Ash telepathically since he and Latias were out of their Pokeballs and invisible.

'Thanks you guys' Ash thought back. He had learned that if he spoke in his mind then both Latios and Latias could hear him. He was going to try and work that into battling to see if he could think attacks and they could read his mind, but they weren't that mentally strong yet.

"So Ash the top sixteen eh" Brock mused as he watched Ash grinning like there was no tomorrow. "This should be good."

"Hopefully this time things won't go so bad" Misty said making Ash wince and lower his head; his good mood going a little sour.

Latias didn't like seeing Ash sad so she moved in and nuzzled him cooing softly. Ash smiled and lifted his head back up, 'Thanks Latias' he said in his mind. Latias cooed back softly.

'What exactly happened back then' Latios asked curiously. Ash was slightly embarrassed at that question, but he reluctantly replied and told Latios to read his mind. Latios read Ash's mind and found the memory of when Ash lost at the Indigo Plateau and Latios frowned deeply. 'That Charizard is very arrogant. It needs to be knocked down a few pegs' Latios said firmly.

Misty and Brock were assuming Ash was speaking to either Latios or Latias telepathically so they stayed quiet for a bit, 'It's true' Ash told them. 'But we came to an understanding after passing through the Charicific Valley. Charizard got beat badly by another Charizard. I partially blame myself for not training him properly, but after that battle it seems Charizard learned some humility and has since started listening to me.'

'May I' Latios asked eagerly. He had always disliked very arrogant people. They sickened him. Latias sweat dropped slightly at her brother's eagerness. Ash nodded and Latios scanned his mind for the memory and when he finished Latios laughed.

"What's Latios laughing about Ash" Misty asked hearing the laugh. They learned to tell which sound came from which. Latios had a slightly deeper voice while Latias had a slightly higher voice.

"Oh I just showed him the memory of Charizard when we were at the Charicific Valley" Ash answered.

"Ah" Misty said nodding.

"Speaking of Charizard Ash" Brock said. "Maybe you should give Liza a call and have Charizard fly over here. Your next battle is going to be a full six on six battle and you'll need your strongest Pokémon in the battle."

Ash nodded, "Right, I'll call her at the Pokémon center later and I'll swap a few Pokémon with Professor Oak."

"What about me now" said a familiar voice. The three turned around to see Professor Oak walking up with Professor Elm and Ash's mother Delia.