Author's note:

Hello, Storymaker2 here. I'm sorry this chapter took so long but there was a lot I had to put in it plus I had to spend most of my time studying for a calc test. Anyway I hope you guys enjoy the chapter.

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Chapter 5: The Santalune city Gym

It was a sunny morning in the Kalos region. Serena was sitting at a table outside of a Pokémon center with her new Fennekin sitting on the other end of the table finishing up a bowl of Pokémon food. Serena sipped on a cup of tea while she exhaled with pleasure.

"it's nice to wake up without a Fletchling gnawing at your face just so you can spend hours getting hurled off a ryhorn. Did you sleep well Fennekin?".

Fennekin smiled "Fenn" She said before sneezing a small ember and falling backwards. The entire thing made Serena laugh a little. She walked over and let her Fennekin hop onto her shoulder.

"We should be able to get to Santalune city today. Hopefully we can find him there".

Ash was ahead of the others as he and Pikachu entered Santalune city. The city itself seemed similar to the design structure and building structures of Lumoise city only much smaller.

"So this is Santalune city" Ash said.

"Ash slow down you know Clemont is a slow runner" Red said as he caught up with Ash. Clemont came up breathing heavily with Bonnie next to him.

"How do you , huff, just keep running like that?".

"Ok now that we're here we should probably find the Pokémon center before we do anything" Ash said.

"Good idea, you've battled 4 trainers since we left Lumoise and I've battled 6. Our pokemon have got to be exhausted". Since Ash and Red beat Lucy and Greg, they battled as many trainers as they could before reaching Santalune city. They wanted to have plenty of experience before facing the gym leader.A pair of trainers walking down the streets were moving towards Ash and the others.

Red stopped them "Excuse me but we just got to Santalune city, do you know where the pokemon center is?". One of the trainers gave him directions to the center and Red lead the others towards it. After they arrived Ash , Red, and Clemont gave their pokemon to nurse Joy to look at. While they waited , the group sat down at a table in the lobby.

"So who is the Santalune city gym leader anyway?" Ash said.

"From what I've heard, her name is Viola" Clemont said.

"Viola, and she's a bug type trainer right?" Red said.

"That's right, though from what i've heard she hasn't been a gym leader for very long. She use to be a photographer for some of Kalo's best magazines until she turned to training pokemon" Clemont said.

"If she's good enough to be a gym leader and she has to be a good trainer" Ash said.

"She'll definitely be a step up from the other trainers we've been facing" Red said. After a few minutes Nurse Joy stepped out from behind the counter with Pikachu and the poke balls.

"Your pokemon are all better", "Thanks nurse Joy" Ash said as pikachu jumped back onto his shoulder and they picked up their pokeballs. Ash and the others walked outside to see Alexa with her Helioptile on her shoulder waiting for them with a young women with blonde hair and green eyes. She wore a white t shirt and jeans with a camera around her neck.

"Hello Ash, Red it's good to see you two again".

"Alexa hey" Red said. Ash and Red lead the others to Alexa.

"Guys This is Alexa she works with our mom in the Lumoise press. Alexa these are our new friends Clemont and Bonnie".

"Hello" Clemont said.

"Hi!" Bonnie said.

"How is our mom doing at the Lumoise press?" Ash said.

"She's doing great, she wrote 3 articles in the newest magazine and our Chief editor says her articles were very popular among the readers".

"That's great to hear" Red said.

"Oh I'm sorry, guys I forgot to introduce you to my sister Viola" Alexa said.

"Hello it's nice to meet you all" Viola said.

"Wait a minute Viola" Ash said. Moments later there was a flash. Viola had taken a picture of Ash and Pikachu.

"Sorry , I couldn't resist. I've never seen a pikachu just sit on his trainer's shoulder like that" Viola said as she lowered the camera.

"I use to be a photographer for the Lumoise press before I became the gym leader here".

"Wait a minute you're the gym leader!" Red said.

"That's right I'm the leader of the Santalune city gym".

"Wow" Clemont said.

"She's so pretty and she's the gym leader" Bonnie said with excitement. She ran over and stopped just in front of Viola then got on one knee.

"Viola will you marry my Clemont" Bonnie said.

"Bonnie!" Clemont screamed as his face turned red. The robotic arm from his backpack came out and grabbed Bonnie, pulling her back.

"I told you to stop doing that!".

"But I have to find you a proper wife brother and she's a gym leader". Ash and Red both tried to restrain themselves from breaking out into laughter. Pikachu laughed a little as Viola gave an almost freaked out expression.

"Uh thanks for the offer but uh no".

"I'm so sorry" Clemont said.

"It's alright. Ash , Red, Alexa tells me that you two have just started your journeys. I assume you came here to challenge me ".

"That's right" Red said.

"Well if you guys want to face me we can head down to the gym".

"Sounds good" Ash said. Viola and Alexa lead the others to the Santalune city gym. The gym exterior was relatively large with a green roof, and an entrance with a pokeball symbol on it. Around the entrance were 2 trees and some hedges.

"So this is your gym, cool" Ash said.

"And this is just the outside" Viola said. She lead them inside and revealed the inside of the gym was a large battlefield. Around the battlefield were at least a dozen trees and other forms of vegetation growing around them.

"Woah this is incredible" Red said.

Two trainers were using the battlefield as they walked in. One was a young man who looked about ten years old with brown hair and a blue sweatshirt. The other was a girl who looked about Ash and Red's age with blonde hair and a black jacket. The girl had a combee out and the young man a ledyba.

"Combee use tackle".

"Ledyba use string shot!". Combee flew at Ledyba only to be covered in silk string and forced tot he ground.

"Yeah Ledyba!". "David, Charlotte we have challengers" Viola said. The two trainers quickly returned their pokemon and ran over to Viola.

"These are two of my students David, and Charlotte".

"Hello, nice to meet you" They said.

"So which one of you wants to face me first". Ash was a bit nervous, he wasn't sure if he was ready to face a real gym leader yet.

"Hey Ash, do you mind if I go first" Red said.

"Oh uh, sure go ahead" .

"Thanks, Viola I'm ready if you are" Red said with confidence.

"Very well lets begin". Viola walked over to the far side of the battlefield while Red walked over to the closer end. Charlotte walked to the center of the edge of the battlefield with two flags. Ash, Alexa, and the others were on the sidelines near the trees.

"This is going to be exciting" Clemont said.

"We should watch carefully pikachu, we have to face her next" , "Pika" Pikachu said in agreement.

"Alright let the match begin" Charlotte said as she waved both flags down. Red took out his first pokeball and threw it forward.

"I choose you charmander!" Charmander came out and stood in front of Red. "Char!" he cried.

"A charmander, in Kalos!" Viola said with excitement. She quickly took a picture of him before she took out her own pokeball.

"Go Surskit" She said. A small blue spider like pokemon came out in front of Viola.

"What is that?" Red said as he opened his pokedex. "Surskit, the Pond Skater Pokémon. Surskit can walk on water as if it was skating. It attracts prey with a sweet aroma it produces." .

"A water type, oh great".

"If that thing is a water type won't Viola have the advantage" Bonnie said.

"that is true, but type matchups don't mean everything" Alexa said.

"Surskit start with bubble beam". The surskit quickly unleashed a barrage of bubbles right at Charmander.

"Charmander dodge and use ember". Charmander moved out of the bubblebeam's path but only barley. Once he was clear charmander opened his mouth and shot a few small bursts of fire at Surskit.

"Surskit dodge it". Surskit moved out of the way elegantly as the embers flew past her. Red was amazed at how fast the Surskit was.

"Charmander try growl and scratch" Red said. Charmander sprinted forward as fast as he could and growled at Surkit lowering her attack power. Red figured that since Surskit was a gym leader's pokemon she had to be very powerful and that he had to lower her attack strength if he was going to have a chance.

"Surskit use agility into quick attack ". Surkit easily avoided Charmander's scratch then knocked him back with quick attack .

"Charmander!".

"Geeze that thing is fast" Ash said.

"Surskit use sticky web" . Surskit quickly launched several small webs at Charmander.

"Charmander move!" Charmander tried to move out of the way but the webs were too fast and Charmander was entangled in a web.

"Oh no charmander!" Bonnie said.

"Surskit use bubble beam". Red knew that if bubblebeam hit Charmander was in trouble. Red saw Charmander's tail wasn't entangled and had an idea.

"Charmander ignite the webs with your tail flame". Charmander quickly moved his tail flame over the webs. After a moment the webs lit up and charmander broke free. However, despite freeing himself he couldn't avoid the bubble beam and was hit

"Sticky web".

"Charmander use ember" . When Surskit shot another web at Charmander he unleashed a small burst of fire that lit up the web , tearing it apart.

"Charmander use ember".

"Surskit use signal beam". Charmander opened up his mouth and shot fire towards surskit as she aimed the yellow point on her head at charmander. Before the ember flames could hit her Surskit unleashed signal beam and tore through the embers and hit charmander knocking him back several feet just in front of Red.

"Charmander no!".

"Geeze that's one powerful surskit" Clemont said.

"My sister has spent a lot of time raising her pokemon's attack power".

"Come on Charmander, don't give up!" ," Pika!" Ash and Pikachu shouted. Charmander struggled as he tried to get back on his feet.

"Charmander I know she's tough and I know she has an advantage, but we can do this I know we can. We may not have been partner's for long but I know we can do anything if we do it together!".

"Surskit finnish him with signal beam". Surskit lowered her head as she prepared to unleash signal beam. Charmander grit his teeth and looked back at hit trainer. He remembered everything that they had been through together in the short time they had been together.

"Char!" Charmander roared as the fire on his tail burst into a massive fire that surrounded his entire body.

"Woah what is that" Ash said as he opened his pokedex. " Blaze When a Pokémon with Blaze uses a Fire-type move, the power will increase by 1.5× if the user has less than or equal to ⅓ of its maximum HP remaining."

"He's using blaze, Awesome! We can do this now charmander". Charmander looked at the signal beam and opened his mouth. A massive jet of fire shot out from Charmander's mouth and tore through the signal beam and continued on engulfing surskit in fire.

"surskit!" Viola shouted.

"Woah I think Charmander just learned flamethrower".

"Great job Charmander now let's finish her". Charmander sprinted forward as Surskit tried to get up. Once charmander got close enough he swiped his tail around and knocked surskit onto her back. Once surskit was on her back Charmander used scratch on her underside twice and knocked her out.

"Surskit is unable to battle!" Charlotte said as she raised one of her flags.

"Alright charmander we did it!" Red said.

"Great job Red that was amazing!", "Pika!".

"Wow Charmander beat surskit, Red has the advantage" Clemont said.

"Yay, yay!" Bonnie said.

"Well that was pretty impressive, but my sister isn't beaten yet" Alexa said.

"Surskit return, you get some rest now. Well Red I'm very impressed with you. Now it's time you meet my other pokemon. Go Vivillon". A large butterfly pokemon came out with pink, red, and black colored wings.

"What is that?" Red said as he opened his pokedex. "Vivillon, the Scale Pokémon. Vivillon are skillfully able to find a source of water. It has been said that you'll find a spring if you follow a Vivillon."

"So that's a Vivillon" Ash said. Bonnie's eyes started to sparkle when she saw vivillon.

"Charmander get some rest" Red said as he returned charmander.

"Ok I choose you Fletchinder"Red said as he sent out Fletchinder. Fletchinder flew out in front of Red and squawked at Vivillon.

"Let's start this out with psybeam vivillon".

"Fletchinder dodge with quick attack". Fletchinder flew forward with great speed and avoided the psybeam.

"Vivillon dodge and use gust". Vivillon quickly moved out of Fletchinder's way and blasted him with a powerful gust of wind that forced fletchinder to the ground.

"Geeze this vivillon is even faster than Surskit" Red said.

"Nice work vivillon now use psybeam".

"Fletchinder use agility!" Fletchinder quickly increased his speed and evasiveness as he moved out of the psybeam's path.

"Good now use quick attack".

"Vivillon dodge and use gust" Once again Vivillon moved out of Fletchinder's path and forced him to the ground with gust.

"Red you have to try something else!" Ash said.

"He's right , I have to do something else".

"Vivillon use hurricane". Vivillon began flapping her wings violently creating a massive hurricane of wind that swept fletchinder back.

"Oh no" Clemont said.

"Come on Red don't give up".

"Fletchinder fight through it, we can do this!" Fletchinder struggled but managed to force his way through the hurricane's winds and out of the other side.

"Perfect now use ember!", Fletchinder opened his beak and unleashed a burst of fire that hit vivillon's wings.

"Vivillon!" Viola shouted. Vivillon struggled to stay airborne with her now blazing wings.

"Fletchinder use Arial ace!" Fletchinder flew forward and picked up momentum as he approached Vivillon.

"Vivillon move!" Vivillon tried to avoid Fletchinder but her burning wings made it too difficult and she was hit.

"Vivillon!". Vivillon fell to the ground and let out a cough before loosing consciousness.

"Vivillon is unable to battle the winner is the challenger!" Charlotte said.

"We did it, we won!" Red said. He ran over and hugged Fletchinder. "We won we won!".

"Yay he did it, he did it!" Bonnie said.

"Great Job Red, you won a gym battle " Ash said. Viola returned her Vivillon and approached Red "Congratulations Red you won. Now you have earned this" Viola said as she took out a badge. The bug badge looked like a brown ladybug ".

"Thank Viola, this is an honor" Red said as he took the badge.

"Well I guess Red is even better than I thought he was" Alexa said.

Ash was amazed how Red battled. Viola was one of the best trainers he had ever seen and he had managed to beat her. It also made him nervous. Now he had to face her.

"I'll need to have my pokemon go to the pokemon center before our match Ash" Viola said.

"Of course ".

A few miles away from Santalune city Serena and her Fennekin were walking down the road. "I think we're almost there fennekin".

Moments later fennekin heard something with her more advanced sense of hearing. Serena noticed that fennekin looked a little on edge.

"fennekin is everything alright?". Moments later a blast of pin missiles flew at Serena and fennekin. fennekin quickly tackled Serena to the ground saving her from being hit.

When Serena saw what almost hit her she was both relieved and afraid. A young woman stepped out from behind a tree with a large beedrill beside her. The woman was wearing a black uniform with a large Red R on the center.

"Well well, my first victim" She said.

"Who, who are you?".

"I'm a member of team rocket, now unless you want to get very hurt I suggest you hand over all of your pokemon". Serena got up with fennekin next to her.

"Never".

"Ok then Beedrill use pin missile" The Bedrill aimed its stingers at fennekin and fired pin missile.

"fennekin move and use ember". fennekin ran forward but was too slow and was hit with pin missile".

"Fennekin!".

"Perfect, beedrill use pin missile".

"fennekin use ember but move first" fennekin moved out of the pin missile's way and blasted the beedrill with ember in the center of the chest.

"Dumb luck, Beedrill use furry attack".

"Fennekin use ember". Fennekin shot small bursts of fire at beedrill but the beedrill moved out of the way and slashed Fennekin with his pinsers repeatedly.

"Fennekin!"

"Keep it up Beedrill". Fennekin grit her teeth and mustered up all of her strength. She opened her mouth and unleashed a more powerful ember hitting beedrill in the head knocking him out.

"What?! How could I lose" The rocket grunt returned her bedrill.

"Don't think you've seen the last of me, Team rocket is going to rule Kalos". She ran off as fast as she could.

"Wait a minute she was part of team rocket" Serena looked back down at her fennekin.

"You saved me from beedrill fennekin" She picked up fennekin in her arms.

"I'm so lucky to have you" Fennikin licked the side of Serena's cheeks.

"Well It looks like she's gone and she doesn't have any friends with her. Lets keep going" Fennekin jumped down from Serena's arms and happily ran ahead with Serena close behind him.

Back In Santalune city Ash and the others were waiting at the pokemon center with Viola and Alexa.

"So Ash how did you get a pikachu as your starter pokemon?" Viola said.

"It's kinda a long story" Ash said.

"Well we have a while why not tell us" Viola said. Ash and Red went over the garchomp incident through their point of view.

"Right Alexa told me all about the Garchomp incident, and I remember seeing you on TV. I still can't believe that you did all of that".

"Well it was pretty scary".

"Falling off of a tower does sound pretty scary".

"Excuse me, miss Viola your pokemon are completely healed" Nurse Joy said as she came out with a wigglytuff wearing a nurse's cap and holding a tray with two pokeballs on it. Viola got up and picked up her pokeballs.

"Thanks nurse Joy. Alright Ash I'm ready for a gym battle if you are".

"Oh I'm ready". After they returned Ash stood at the same end of the battlefield as Red. Red and the others were on the sidelines while David raised his flags.

"Let the battle begin".

"Pikachu lets do this" , Pikachu jumped down from Ash's shoulder and faced Viola.

"Surskit come on out" Viola said as she threw her first pokeball. Surskit came out of the pokeball and faced down Pikachu.

"Surskit start off with water sport". Surskit shot water out of the top of its head and covered the entire battlefield with puddles of water.

"Pikachu use thunderbolt". "Pika- Chu!" Pikachu shouted as he unleashed a bolt of electricity at surskit.

"Surskit use agility". Surskit moved out of the way by gliding across the water on the ground.

"Pikachu use quick attack". Pikachu sprinted forward towards Surskit.

"Surskit use agility and then sticky web" Surskit easily moved out of Pikachu's path and then unleashed a web of silk at pikachu.

"Pikachu move!" Pikachu turned around just in time to see the web as it hit him and trapped him on the ground.

"Oh no, Pikachu".

"This isn't good, now Pikachu is stuck and he can't burn the webs like charmander". Clemont said.

"Surskit use signal beam". Pikachu tried desperately to get free but the web was too strong and he was hit with signal beam.

"Pikachu!" Pikachu landed a few feet back and struggled to get back on his feet.

"Come on Ash don't give up!" Red said.

"She's too good, I have to adjust my strategy" Ash said to himself.

"Surskit use signal beam again".

"Pikachu use agility into thunderbolt".

Pikachu used agility to avoid the signal beam and then unleashed thunderbolt.

"Surskit dodge", Surskit moved across the water very quickly avoiding the thunderbolt.

"Surskit use quick attack".

"Pikachu quick attack". Pikachu began moving just as surskit did. The two pokemon moved incredibly fast trying to reach each other. Ash noticed Surskit was able to move much faster across the water than pikachu could. Luckily for him he was counting on that.

"Pikachu use agility". Just before Surskit could reach pikachu , he increased his evasiveness and moved behind Surskit.

"Quick attack Pikachu!". "Pika chu!" Pikachu sprinted forward as fast as he could and hit surskit.

"Surskit use ice beam".

"Pikachu use agility" Surskit lowered her head and unleashed several bursts of ice at pikachu. Pikachu used his speed to move out of the icebeams' paths.

"Surskit use quick attack!".

"Pikachu slid on the ground and swing your tail around". Pikachu slid across the water as Surskit glided over him. Once Pikachu was directly under Surskit he whipped his tail around , knocking surskit off balance and sending her tumbling across the ground.

"Great job pikachu now use quick attack!" Pikachu got back up and sprinted forward. Surskit slowly got back onto her legs and saw Pikachu running at her.

"Surskit dodge!" Viola cried, but she was too late. Pikachu slammed into Surskit and knocked her back a foot.

"Alright Pikachu!" Clemont said.

"Well Ash and Pikachu are doing a lot better now" Red said. Viola smiled as her Surskit got up.

"Well Ash I must admit, you've been battling very well. But it's time I end this battle, surskit use ice beam!". Surskit aimed her head at the ceiling and unleashed ice beam.

"What?" Ash said confused.

"What is she doing?" Bonnie said. Alexa smiled.

"You'll see". The ice beam hit the ceiling and burst into smaller ice beams that flew at the ground.

"Pikachu agility!". Pikachu moved quickly avoiding each of the ice beam fragments as they hit the ground around him.

Ash and Pikachu were relieved at first , that was until they saw what had happened. All of the water on the field had been frozen solid. Now the entire field was like an ice rink.

"Oh no this isn't good, how is pikachu going to move?" Ash said to himself.

"Wow that was an incredible move" Clemont said. Pikachu tried to get up but the ice was too slippery and he couldn't get any traction. Surskit moved across the ice just as easily as the water.

"Surskit use signal beam".

"Pikachu try and move!" Ash said frantically. Pikachu tried to move but he couldn't gain any traction.

"No". Surskit unleashed signal beam and hit pikachu dead in with a critical hit.

"Pikachu!" Ash shouted. Pikachu landed a few feet back and slid across the ice unconscious.

"Pikachu is unable to battle" David said raising a flag.

"Yes, great job Surskit".

"Pikachu no!" Ash sprinted forward almost slipping on the ice as he grabbed pikachu and cradled him in his arms.

"Pikachu I'm so sorry".

"Oh no Pikachu got knocked out" Bonnie said.

"I guess Viola changed up her strategy for Ash" Clemont said. Red sighed and walked over to Ash.

"Ash I'll take care of Pikachu for you. Just focus on the battle, don't let this keep you from battling at your best".

Ash nodded and handed Pikachu to Red who carefully took Pikachu in his arms as he started to wake up.

"It's ok Pikachu, i've got you". Miles away at the Santalune city pokemon center Serena approached the front desk where Nurse Joy was typing something into a computer.

"Excuse me Nurse Joy". Nurse Joy looked up and saw her.

"Oh hello can I help you?".

"Yes I was wondering if you could take a look at my Fennekin, she was in a battle earlier against a team rocket pokemon".

"Oh my, of course". Serena handed nurse Joy Fennekin's pokeball.

"I've been hearing about more and more people getting attacked by team rocket members all over Kalos. In some places they've even overran police forces and the national guard was called in to drive them off.

"Geeze things are so bad the army has to deal with them".

"Apparently". Serena knew her mom said they were a problem but she never imagined they were that bad. Moments later she remembered why she came to Santalune city.

"Nurse Joy, have you happened to see a young man about my age with Raven Black hair, brown eyes, and a Pikachu come in here.

"Oh yes I remember him. He went to the gym to battle Viola 30 minutes ago".

"Really! Thank you". Serena almost ran out when she remembered her Fennekin.

"Wait how long will you need to look at my Fennekin?".

"I'm a little backed up so it could be a while".

"Ok I'll be back later to pick her up".

"Thats completely fine, have a nice day". Serena quickly moved through the streets towards the gym not wanting to miss Ash again. Back at the gym Ash took out Fletchling's pokeball and held it up to his face.

"I know we can do this Fletchling. I choose you". Fletchling came out of his pokeball and flew in front of Ash.

" A fletchling huh, well the ice field isn't going to work. Surskit use sticky web".

"Fletchling use quick attack". Fletchling flew forward with incredible speed, avoiding the web.

"Surskit use agility". Surskit tried to move across the ice as fast as she could, but Fletchling was able to move fast in the air and hit Surskit with quick attack.

"Alright great job Fletchling".

"Surskit use ice beam".

"Fletchling use razor wind". Surskit shot another icebeam at the ceiling that burst into smaller icebeam's. Fletchling unleashed razor wind and the streaks tore through the ice beam.

Outside the gym Serena was standing in front of the door. She was more nervous than she had ever been in her entire life now that she was about to see him again. She took a deep breath and looked up at the door.

"You have to do this, you have to" She opened the door and walked inside. As soon as she stepped inside the gym she saw a young man in front of her. He was wearing a blue shirt with white stripes on it and a red hat. The young man had raven black hair and brown eyes.

"Fletchling use quick attack", Fletchling flew forward and smacked into Surskit, knocking her out.

"Surskit is unable to battle" David said.

"Alright Fletchling!" Ash said.

"Sweet he just tied it up". Red said. Serena couldn't believe it, he was right there. Right in front of her.

"Excuse me are you here to challenge the gym leader?" Charlotte said.

"HUh, oh no I", Serena started.

"It will be a while before she can face you".

"No I didn't come here to face her I was looking for someone".

"You mean the challenger?".

"Yes". It was then that Red noticed Serena.

"Hey who is she?". The others turned and saw her talking with Charlotte.

"If you want to watch you need to go the sidelines with the others".

"Others?" Serena said. She looked over and saw Red standing with the others. Serena slowly walked over to them curious who they were.

"Hello, who are you!?" Bonnie asked running up to Serena.

"My name is Serena".

"Well nice to meet you Serena, I'm Clemont and this is my sister Bonnie".

"I'm Red", "And I'm Alexa. Serena already knew who Red was. Red couldn't help but find something familiar about Serena, like he had met her before.

"So young lady have you come to challenge my sister too?".

"Actually no, I was just uh. Hoping to watch the match".

"Oh well, feel free to" Alexa said. Serena stood beside Red who was still trying to remember if he knew her or not.

Viola returned Surskit to her pokeball "You did a great job Surskit, get some rest. Well Ash that's a nice Fletchling , but I'm afraid my Vivillon still has a lot to show". Viola through her second pokeball forward and Vivillon came out above her.

"Fletchling use quick attack".

"Vivillon use whirlwind". Vivillon whipped up a powerful wind that caught Fletchling and forced him away from her.

"Dang it, try razor wind". Fletchling whipped up a powerful wind and's launch several streaks at Vivillon.

"hurricane" Vivillon violently flapped her wings creating a hurricane of wind that blew away the incoming razor wind continued forward sucking fletchling in.

"Fletchling!".

"Oh no" Red said. Serena was getting nervous as well, the last thing she wanted to see was Ash lose.

"Come on Fletchling fight through it". Fletchling squawked and gave everything he had Bursting out of the hurricane.

"Vivillon use psybeam".

"Fletchling use quick attack". Fletchling launched himself forward and to the side slightly avoiding psybeam. He was moving to fast for vivillon to dodge and slammed into her side.

"Alright follow up with peck". Before vivillon could recover Fletchling violently pecked at her sides and wings.

"Alright he's got her now!" Clemont said.

"Go Ash ! Go Fletchling" Bonnie shouted.

"Keep it up Ash" Red shouted.

"You can win this!" Serena said accidentally louder than the others. what Ash heard Serena he was confused. He looked over and saw her standing with Red and the others.

"Who is she?" Ash thought to himself. After a minute Ash realized she looked a little familiar, but from where?

Viola noticed Ash and Fletchling were distracted and quickly took advantage of it. "Vivillon use sticky web".

"Ash pay attention!" Red screamed. Ash looked back over and saw Vivillon unleashed a web.

"Fletchling look out!". Fletchling tried to move out of the way but was too late. He was stuck against the wall and tangled in the web unable to move.

"Oh no" Serena said.

"Fletchling quick usual be to cut the web!". Viola noticed it got a lot brighter in the room and looked up at the ceiling. She realized that the sun was now completely illuminating the room and thus giving them the maximum amount of sunlight.

"Vivillon use solarbeam". Fletchling frantically tried to free himself by using his peak to cut the web. Vivillon was able to take in so much sunlight at once that she was able to use solarbeam in seconds.

"Fletchling!". Fletchling violently tried to free himself from the web but it was no use he was hit and knocked out by the solarbeam.

"Fletchling no!".

"Fletchling is unable to battle, the winner is Viola".

"Hmp, well done Vivillon". Ash almost fell to his knees. He couldn't believe he had just lost his first battle , and just after seeing Red win. Ash looked back up and saw Fletchling fall from the web towards the ground. He quickly ran over and caught him before he did.

"Oh no" Red said as pikachu sighed.

"He, he lost" Bonnie said sounding sad. Serena felt very bad as well, she just witnessed Ash lose his gym battle. To make things worse she felt it was her fault that he lost, she had distracted him. Viola walked over to Ash and put her hand on his shoulder.

"Now Ash don't get discouraged by this loss. Loosing is just part of being a trainer. Once you train some more come back and I'm sure you'll be able to earn a gym badge". Ash sighed and thanked her. He walked back towards the others and took pikachu from Red.

"I'd better get you guys to the pokemon center". Without waiting for a response from the others at Ash started running towards the Pokémon center.

"Come on we better get there to" Red said. Red chased after Ash with the others close behind. once they reach the Pokémon center Ash gave nurse Joy Pikachu and Fletchling.

"Please help my Pokémon nurse joy".

"Don't worry , I'll have them feeling better in no time". Ash turned back towards the others as Red patted Ash on the back.

"It's alright Ash, you win some, you lose some. Don't let this loss loom over you".Despite Red's words Ash still felt crushed. He had failed his Pokémon and because of it they lost the battle.

"Thanks Red but I think I just need to be alone right now". Ash walked out of the gym towards the back. Red was going to follow him but Alexa stopped him.

"just give him time, I think you need some space right now". A few minutes later Clemont, Red , Bonnie, and Alexa were sitting at a table with Skitty. Bonnie handed a piece of food to Skitty who quickly ate it.

"You must have been really hungry skitty". Bonnie said. Red looked over at Ash who was sitting on a cement bench under a tree looking very depressed.

"Man I've never seen Ash this depressed before". He looked down at his charmander who was sitting next to his chair.

"Maybe when his pikachu and Fletchling are healed he'll feel better". "Char char".

Ash still couldn't believe he lost. After all the training he and his Pokémon had done over the last few days. He knew that Pikachu and Fletchling tried to hard but they still lost. What may Ash feel the worst is that it was his fault. He knew his pokemon had tried their hardest so it had to his own fault.

Serena was holding Ash's backpack that he accidentally left at the gym. She was more nervous now than when she was at the gym earlier.

"Come on Serena, you stood up to that team rocket grunt you can do this". She walked up to Ash and held the backpack in front of him.

"Uh, excuse me I think you left this at the gym". Ash looked up and saw her.

"Oh yeah, thanks" Ash took the bag and then looked back at her.

"Wait a minute weren't you at the gym during my battle?".

"Yes, yes I was".

"Wait a minute I know exactly who you are , you're Serena we went to camp together years ago!".

"Yes we did!".

"You came all the way here to find me, this mean's we were mean to be together". Ash dropped the bag and swept Serena off her feet holding her up in his arms kissing her.

"Serena" Serena woke up from her daydream. Bonnie and the others walked up behind her.

"Serena you came here to" Bonnie said. Serena saw Bonnie and the others walking towards them.

"So you're Serena, I'm Ash".

"I know , actually I was wondering if you remembered ".

"Excuse me , you're pokemon are all better" nurse joy said. Pikachu and Fletchling as well as Fennekin beside her. Seeing his Pokémon healthy again made Ash feel better. Pikachu jumped up onto Ash's shoulder as Fletchling flew onto his shoulder.

"Fennekin are you feeling better" Serena said as she picked up Fennekin.

"Pikachu, Fletchling this is Serena. She watched out battle". Serena smiled at Pikachu and Fletchling.

"Hello it's nice to meet you. This is Fennekin professor Sycamore gave her to me".

"Aww it's so cute!" Bonnie said.

"Nice to meet you Fennekin" Ash said.

"Well Ash now that you're pokemon are all better why not get some training done" Alexa said.

"You're right, I have to train more if we're going to beat Viola". They went back outside the pokemon center to the sparing field in the back. Red and the others stood on the side and watched as Ash tied a balloon around Pikachu and Fletchling while Alexa took out a pokeball.

"If you're going to beat my sister have to overcome her Vivillon's gust. Now if you can overcome my pokemon's gust then you can overcome any wind". Alexa said as she threw her pokeball forward.

A massive Back and Violet bat/dragon like pokemon came out and roared.

"Woah what is that?" Red said as he opened his pokedex "Noivern the sound wave pokemon: The ultrasonic waves it emits from its ears can reduce a large boulder to pebbles. it swoops out of the dark to attack".

"Noivern use gust!".

"Pikachu, Fletchling hold your ground". Noivern jumped up into the air and unleashed a powerful gust at Ash's pokemon. Pikachu, Fletchling struggled to hold their ground against the powerful wind.

"Come on guys you can do this!". Despite their efforts Pikachu and Fletchling were lifted off the ground and flew backwards. Ash sprinted forward dove to the ground catching his Pokémon.

"Are you guys okay?". "Pika". Pikachu noticed Ash got a little scuffed up when he dove to the ground.

"I'm alright, I'll catch you every time". Pikachu and Fletchling kept trying to withstand the gust and every time they flew backwards Ash dove forward and caught them. Serena was amazed at how caring Ash was for his pokemon .

"If Ash keeps doing this he's going to hurt himself" Red said as Ash dove forward again. He looked down at his pokemon and grit his teeth.

"This isn't working, we keep trying but we just can't do it. Plus even if we do beat the gust there's still the ice-field and webs ". Moments later Serena walked over.

"Ash would you like to use this " Serena said lowering a white and blue handkerchief to Ash.

"Oh, thank you Serena". Serena nervously asked Ash "Ash, do you remember me".

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Author's note:

I'm sorry I had to have Ash loose but I thought it would be for the best. I agree Pikachu shouldn't have lost to Surskit in the anime but keep in min,in this story Ash is just a beginning trainer who has only beaten a few trainers while Viola is an experienced gym leader.

Also I have noticed some of you think there will be a rivalry between Ash and Red over Serena. I'm sorry to say that will not be happening. As I said before Ash and Serena will end up together , but Red may find another particular girl from Kalos. I won't say who but he may get a girlfriend. Also there may be a romance between one of Ash's and Serena's pokemon

So I hope you enjoyed the chapter and please review, comment, ask questions, or make suggestions