Ash's Cubchoo

Ash's Cubchoo is a pokemon Ash mentioned to have.

## **History:**

A group of Beartic and Cubchoo are huddled together in a cave on a mountaintop,trying to wait out an intense thunderstorm. As the Beartic flee from a burning tree,a Cubchoo is blown off a Beartic's back and falls over a cliff. A few days later,Ash and his friends are continuing their trek to Nimbasa City. Iris comments on the unevenness of the path,and Meowth says it was probably due to the storm. Suddenly,the group encounters an injured and barely conscious Cubchoo,the same one that fell over the cliff in the storm. Although they try to find berries to help Cubchoo,the storm had swept most of them away as well,until Meowth finds an Oran Berry for Cubchoo to eat. However,the group is suddenly accosted by three Beartic and although Cilan tries to return Cubchoo to them,they only become more angry and use Icy Wind on Meowth when the latter attempts to negotiate with them. Just before the entire group is attacked,a Mienfoo saves them. Mienfoo's Trainer then arrives and leads them all away from the stunned Beartic. Back at their rescuer's cottage,the man introduces himself as Cliff,who is a part of the mountain patrol in the area. The group all introduce themselves and Cliff,like everyone else that encounters Meowth for the first time,marvels at meeting a Pokemon capable of human speech. Meowth then translates Cubchoo's story: the little Pokemon lives at the top of the mountain,but was separated from its friends during the storm. After hearing this,Cliff explains how there are two groups of Cubchoo and Beartic living on the mountain and the Cubchoo they found is in fact part of a different group than the three Beartic from earlier. Once they all agree to help Cubchoo find its home,Cliff tries to catch Meowth and nearly succeeds,but Meowth breaks free and yells at Cliff angrily. While traveling to the mountain's summit,the group sees more Cubchoo and Beartic from the foot of the mountain but are for some reason close to the path leading to the summit. As they muse over this,a Beartic sneaks up behind them and they find themselves surrounded by Beartic. Despite a good effort by Tepig to hold them at bay and allow them to flee,Ash and company run into yet another group of Beartic and are still surrounded by them. As they all run away from the Beartic,all three Trainers stumble at a sloping,rocky hill,and Cubchoo,Axew,Tepig,Meowth,Pikachu and Oshawott are sent rolling all the way down. As all of the Pokemon wake up at the foot of the mountain,Meowth and Oshawott quickly begin fighting but Pikachu and Tepig intervene and convince them all to work together. Although they all try calling for their Trainers,nobody responds to them. Left to their own devices,the six Pokemon collaborate in order to find food and get back to their Trainers.

As Meowth,Pikachu and Oshawott are searching for food with little to no luck,they see a pile of berries on a tree stump. Meowth and Oshawott are both delighted by their discovery,but Pikachu believes that they already belong to someone else. However,they take the berries anyway,not realizing that the food belongs to the Beartic. As the group is eating the berries,they are confronted by the angry Beartic and Cubchoo. Not accepting Meowth's feeble excuses and denials,they use Icy Wind on him again. Just before the Beartic attack the rest of the Pokemon,the Beartic group from the mountain's summit arrives to rescue Cubchoo,accompanied by Ash,Iris,Cilan and Cliff. Cliff tries to explain to the Beartic that the other group was only attempting to rescue Cubchoo and not steal their food,but the Beartic from the foot of the mountain refuse to listen and try to attack the others. As a result from the collision of two Sheer Cold attacks,several boulders break loose from the mountain and tumble down towards the group. Pikachu,Oshawott and Tepig destroy three of them,but the two Beartic groups miraculously begin working together in order to save everybody from the final boulder. With the danger having passed,the two groups reconcile with each other and live together peacefully from then on,with Cubchoo deciding to join Ash.

### **With Ash:**

Cubchoo meets and befriends Ash's Larvitar after the latter was revealed to have followed Ash to Unova. Larvitar then got introduced to Scraggy. Ash challenges Larvitar to a battle with Scraggy and Larvitar accepts. However,Scraggy runs towards Cubchoo with a menacing look as Ash points out Larvitar is his opponent. Cubchoo watch as Ash starts the battle. Scraggy uses Headbutt and Larvitar attacks back with Bite. Cubchoo cheers for Larvitar as Iris praises good friendship. Ash orders Scraggy to push Larvitar off and use High Jump Kick. Scraggy misses as Larvitar retaliates with Sandstorm. Ash orders a Focus Blast and Larvitar counters with Hidden Power. They both get hit and are too tired to fight anymore which results in a draw. After the battle,Cubchoo punches the air with a competitive look on its face indicating it is rearing to go too. Larvitar and Cubchoo throw fake punches at each other in playful way.