Unofficial Pokemon Contest

*One day...*

Ash was going to train with his two Aipom. His Hitmonchan was with him too.

"Okay Aipom." He said. "You two are going to learn Thunder Punch, Fire Punch and Ice Punch from Hitmonchan today."

Hitmonchan demonstrated the three punches and the Aipom were eager to learn them. Riolu, who could learn Thunder and Ice Punch, wanted to learn the punches and Ash agreed.

"Can Croagunk take part in this as well?" Brock asked.

Hitmonchan had a lot of students to teach.

While Hitmonchan was teaching, Dawn noticed a mini poster talking about an unofficial Pokemon contest at a Pokemon festival in a village not far from where they were. Instead of getting a ribbon, the winner of this contest got a year's supply of fruit. Dawn decided to enter with Pachirisu because it hadn't had the chance to shine yet. She showed it to Ash.

"Want to take part too Ash?" She asked.

Ash took a look at it. His female Aipom jumped onto his shoulder.

"What's up Aipom? Do you want to participate in this?" He asked.

Aipom nodded yes.

"You really like contests, don't you Aipom?" Dawn asked.

Aipom jumped onto her shoulder.

"That's a yes." Brock said.

Ash stared at Dawn and Aipom.

*'Those two look great together.'* He thought.

Soon the gang came to the village where the festival was with lots of stalls set up. Ash and Dawn quickly signed up for the contest. Since there was time before it started, the gang had some quick fun with the game stalls. Then it was time for the contest. Nurse Joy and the village chief were to be the judges. The chief showed off lots of bunches of bananas that were the prize for the winner. Then Nurse Joy announced the start of the contest.

Dawn, who was wearing her contest dress, was up first. She sent out Pachirisu with a heart seal. Unfortunately since this was the first contest for Pachirisu, it was nervous.

"Calm down Pachirisu, and you will be fine." Dawn said. "Now use Sweet Kiss."

Pachirisu blew a kiss and the villagers fell in love with it. Then Pachirisu used Spark, which created flower shaped sparks. To finish it off Pachirisu tried to use Discharge, but it ended up shocking the audience by accident. Pachirisu had a lot of electrical training to do.

Other coordinators were up after Dawn, but they were real amateurs and the Pokemon didn't shine at all during their performances. Last up was Ash; he was wearing his normal clothes. He sent Aipom out with a party seal. They started off with Swift and then Aipom used Focus Punch to break the stars into particles. Then Ash told Aipom to use Double Team and Swift. The Aipom copies joined together in a circle and when she used Swift it created a big circle of stars. The audience loved it.

After the appeal round, only two people could make it to the battle round and Ash and Dawn were the two. Dawn sent Pachirisu out with a heart seal and Ash sent Aipom out with a party seal.

"Okay Pachirisu, use Spark." Dawn said.

"Dodge that with Bounce, Aipom." Ash said.

Aipom jumped to dodge Pachirisu's Spark attack and then hit it with her legs.

"Double Team Aipom." Ash said.

Aipom formed a line with copies of herself, while Pachirisu looked on helpless.

"Use Discharge on all the Aipom Pachirisu." Dawn said.

Pachirisu fired a Discharge attack, but the Aipom used Swift to counter the attack. The Swift attack turned into a shower of stars and Dawn was losing more and more points while Ash still had all of his.

"Now Focus Punch, Aipom." Ash said.

Aipom punched Pachirisu really hard and then it fainted.

So Ash was declared the winner of the Pokemon contest and received the fruit as a prize. As there was way too much fruit for the gang to carry, they decided to share it with everyone. So everyone at the festival bit into the fruit and the Pokemon had some too and they thanked Ash for sharing the fruit. Today had been a fun day for the gang and thanks to Hitmonchan; Ash's two Aipom learned Fire, Ice and Thunder Punch and Riolu and Croagunk learned Ice and Thunder Punch.