Pokemon Trades

One day...
The gang was at a Pokemon Center. They were watching the news Marian was broadcasting. She was showing a rebroadcast of Kenny winning a Pokemon contest in Sage Town a few days ago. She also said that Kenny now had two contest ribbons. Ash realized at once that it was like him now. Suddenly a surprise entered the room. Zoey had turned up. Dawn was surprised to see her again and she was happy to see the gang again. Hearing the broadcast about Kenny winning his second ribbon made Dawn feel a bit down because she only had one ribbon and Ash and Kenny were ahead of her. 
"Don't go feeling like you've lost yet Dawn." Ash said. 
He picked up on her feelings.
"Remember there are still lots of other Pokemon contests you can enter and soon you will catch up to us."
"Thank you Ash." Dawn smiled.
Just then Marian announced on the TV that the next Pokemon contest will be held in Solaceon Town.
"That's on the way to Veilstone City." Zoey explained.
So the gang's plan was to go to Solaceon Town and then Veilstone City. 
"Are you going to enter the Solaceon Contest Zoey?" Dawn asked.
"No I want to work more on new combinations, so I'm not participating in this one." Zoey answered.
"Then will you train with me tomorrow, please?" Dawn begged. "I'd love to see your Pokemon."
Zoey agreed to train with her.
So the next day Zoey and Dawn decided to practice having a contest battle. Ash and Tomo decided to practice battling for the gym in Veilstone City. Brock decided to watch Ash and Tomo.
Tomo released a blue, yellow and green Shellos and a Combee.
"Wow, you got new Pokemon Tomo?" Zoey asked.
"Yep I caught Shellos and Combee after we left the Hearthome tag battle tournament." Tomo answered.
Ash had out his Chimchar and Riolu. Zoey was seeing newer Pokemon already in one day. Zoey sent out her Glameow and Dawn sent out her Buizel.
"Okay Buizel we will practice for your debut in the Solaceon contest." Dawn said.
Buizel understood. Suddenly Ash's female Aipom popped out of her Poke Ball.
"What are you out for?" Ash asked Aipom. 
Aipom said, in her language, that she wanted to watch Zoey and Dawn's contest battle. Ash explained the situation and asked Zoey and Dawn if it was okay for Aipom to watch them.
"Of course you are welcome to watch Aipom." Dawn said. 
Aipom was happy to hear that.
The practice was soon underway. Dawn had Buizel use Water Gun but Glameow countered it with Water Gun. The Water Gun broke out into beautiful sparkles. 
"The Water Gun only made Glameow look good, not you Buizel." Dawn said, worried.
All the while Tomo was having Combee and Shellos practice battling each other. Tomo found out on his Pokedex that Shellos had the egg moves Counter and Mirror Coat, to his joy, and had Shellos practice that while Combee threw attacks at Shellos. Ash had Chimchar and Riolu practice battling each other. While the practice battles were going on Buizel was staring at them instead of paying attention to what he was supposed to be doing now. Dawn got Buizel to pay attention again.
"Aqua Jet." She told Buizel.
Buizel had the water surround him in a dome shape and went into an attack. But Glameow used Shadow Claw to counter it. 
"That's not right either Buizel." Dawn said. "You see the water thing did look pretty but it would be better that you twisted when it came to using that move. You saw how Glameow moved, so you'll have a much better impact when looking confident."
Buizel wasn't exactly amused by this and then he turned to Ash and his Pokemon while Chimchar and Riolu battled it out.
"I think Buizel's more interested in Ash's practice battle than contest practice." Zoey pointed out. 
Chimchar was using Bullet Seed on Riolu, but then Riolu glowed green and ended up using Bullet Seed next.
"Hey Ash, I think Riolu just learned a new move." Brock said. 
He was right as Riolu just learned the move Copycat. Copycat allowed the user to replicate the move the opponent used. 
"Wow Riolu, you grow more and more every day." Ash smiled.
Riolu was happy whenever he made Ash proud. 
Back with Dawn and Zoey
Before Dawn could give Buizel another command, Aipom jumped in and used a contest move by using Swift and jumping from star to star. Then she used Bounce to jump high in the air and Attract to surround herself with pink hearts while spinning. 
"Wow Aipom you looked spectacular." Dawn said, very impressed.
"I would like to use that in a contest. Hey Buizel knows Swift too, so I should have Aipom teach him a thing or two about this." Zoey was impressed by Aipom's move too.
Ash saw what had happened and heard what Dawn just said. He stopped the practice.
"Dawn, I need to talk to you about something." He said.
"What is it Ash?" Dawn asked.
"Well Dawn." Ash said. "You know every time we trained for battles and contests you have always seen my female Aipom watch you train for contests."
"Now that you mention it I have." Dawn said. "And Aipom really likes it whenever I ask you to borrow her to help some of my Pokemon for contest appeal practice."
"Exactly, so I have been thinking for some time now that I should give you my female Aipom."
Dawn was surprised Ash was willing to do that.
"I agree Ash." Zoey said. "I mean I know you're a coordinator, but you also compete in gym battles. To me Aipom likes contests more than battles."
"You're right." Ash nodded. "My male Aipom likes practicing for contests and Pokemon battles. My female Aipom on the other hand prefers performing."
"Yes." Zoey added. "And Dawn it's clear to me that Buizel doesn't really like practicing for Pokemon contests."
"That does make sense. Buizel has always been the battling Pokemon type even before you captured it Dawn." Ash said.
Dawn was able to tell they were right.
"I think you two should trade Aipom and Buizel." Zoey suggested.
Ash and Dawn started to feel they should trade Aipom and Buizel.
Inside the Pokemon Center Nurse Joy was assisting two trainers who were trading their Pokemon through a machine. They were trading a Munchlax and Rapidash. After the trade was complete, another trainer came up to her.
"Excuse me Nurse Joy." He said. "But I need help. I want to have a mock trade with somebody."
"I have a Onix and Poliwhirl that I want to evolve into Steelix and Politoed." He explained. 
He wanted to trade them back after they evolved.
Just then the gang came in and Tomo overheard what was said.
"I'll have a mock trade with you." He said. "I have a Electabuzz and Magmar that I want to evolve."
He had Electabuzz and Magmar with him.
"Really. Thank you." The trainer said.
"Oh Nurse Joy, do you have a Electrizier and Magmarizer? I don't have either." Tomo said.
The gang found out that you can evolve Electabuzz, Magmar, Rhydon and Dusclops while trading them with the items Electrizier, Magmarizer, Protector and Reaper Cloth after encountering Lucas. The good news, Nurse Joy did have them. An Electrizier was a yellow cube that resembled a plug. The Magmarizer was also a red cube that resembled a plug. Tomo released his Electabuzz and Magmar, gave them the items and then returned them again for the mock trade. The trainer's Onix and Poliwhirl were already holding a Metal Coat and King's Rock. 
First Tomo and the trainer placed their Electabuzz and Onix on the trading machine. When the trade was complete they released their Pokemon. Onix evolved into Steelix and Electabuzz evolved into Electivire. After they evolved, both returned their Pokemon and traded them back. The two repeated the process for Magmar and Poliwhirl. After they evolved into Magmortar and Politoed, they were traded back. 
"I appreciate it." The trainer thanked Tomo and left.
It was then Ash got a idea. Seeing this caused him to decide it was time for him to evolve his Rhydon into Rhyperior and evolve Tomo's Dusclops into Dusknoir. 
"Want to evolve Rhydon and Dusclops." He shared the idea with Tomo.
Tomo agreed because Dusclops and Rhydon were ready to evolve. The brothers got Dusclops and Rhydon from Prof. Oak's lab.
"Do you have any Protectors or Reaper Cloths?" Ash asked Nurse Joy.
Luckily for Ash, she did. A Protector was a brown arch-shaped object and the Reaper Cloth was a grey rag. The brothers released their Pokemon, gave them the items and returned them again. Then they went through with the trade and released them. Rhydon evolved into a Rhyperior and Dusclops evolved into a Dusknoir. Dusknoir was a big cyclops, phantom-like Pokemon with a dark grey body that had yellow markings on the stomach, a light grey head with one red eye, yellow markings around the arm and around the top of it's head, a small antenna on the top of it's head, two big light grey hands and a big tail at the bottom in the place of feet.
Dawn looked it up on the Pokedex.
"Dusknoir, the Gripper Pokemon and the evolved form of Dusclops. The antenna on it's head captures radio waves from the world of spirits that command it to take people there."
The brothers traded their Pokemon back, happy with their newly evolved Pokemon.
After that Ash turned to Dawn.
"Are you ready to trade?" He asked.
"Do you mind waiting." Dawn told him.
"Is this really okay with you Ash?" She asked. "I mean, Aipom has liked you ever since you captured her and as you know I finally got Buizel to listen to me."
Ash shared their situation with Nurse Joy.
"I understand, especially since you have worked so hard with Aipom and Buizel and have many wonderful memories with them." Nurse Joy said. "A trainer's job is to bring out the best in a Pokemon. But a trainer has to adjust to their Pokemon instead of the Pokemon adjusting to their trainer."
Listening to her advice gave Ash a idea.
"Why don't I practice having a Pokemon battle with Buizel and you practice having a contest battle with Aipom?" Ash suggested. "That way we'll find out for sure if Buizel is perfect for me and Aipom is perfect for you."
Dawn liked that idea and so did the others.
So Dawn decided to have a practice contest battle against Zoey and Ash decided to have a practice battle with Tomo. Tomo sent his Shellos out to battle Buizel and Zoey sent her Glameow out to battle Aipom.
Before their battles commenced a Bullet Seed attack put a end to it. The source was James' Carnivine. Team Rocket was once again attempting to take their Pokemon. Jessie released her Purugly and Seviper and James released his Carnivine and Skuntank. 
"How about we use this to our advantage." Ash looked at Dawn.
"Shadow Claw on Buizel." Jessie ordered.
Buizel dodged it and retaliated with Swift. 
"Carnivine, Bullet Seed." Aipom countered it with Swift.
"Purugly, Scratch." Jessie commanded.
Buizel rammed into it with Aqua Jet and knocked it out.
"Carnivine, Bite." It was infatuated thanks to Aipom's Attract.
Aipom then proceeded to knock it out with Fire Punch. 
"Create a smokescreen with Haze." Jessie ordered.
Aipom used Double Team and she and her copies blew the smoke away with Tail Whip. Together, she and Buizel sent Team Rocket flying with Swift and Water Gun.
Team Rocket's defeat proved that Buizel should be with Ash and Aipom should be with Dawn. So they traded their Pokemon and Buizel belonged to Ash while Aipom belonged to Dawn.