Solaceon Ruins

*After the incident with Spiritomb...*

A few things happened. First Tomo's Bidoof evolved into Bibarel. Then Ash ended up catching a Zangoose. It was injured after a fight with a wild Seviper and he caught it to take it to a Pokemon Center and Ash kept it in the end. Ash had been nervous about Zangoose and Chimchar because of Chimchar's fear of it, but Ash's Zangoose proved to Chimchar that it wasn't bad like the Zangoose back then. In the process, Chimchar overcame his fear. The last thing that happened was Brock's Nosepass evolved into a Pokemon called Probopass and Ash's Magneton evolved into a Pokemon called Magnezone. Ash and Brock learned that Magneton and Nosepass could only evolve while leveling up at Mt. Coronet so they trained their Pokemon there and evolved them. Dawn captured a Clefairy; Clefairy was so adorable Dawn didn't want to miss the chance of catching one.

Now today was another training day for Ash and Dawn; they had arrived in Solaceon Town and Ash and Dawn were training for the Pokemon contest. Dawn was practicing with Smoochum and Aipom; she wanted to use them in the contest this time. Right now she had Aipom use Swift and the stars circled around. Then Aipom used Focus Punch to hit one star that sped towards the other stars like the shooting star. All the stars broke into yellow particles.

"Wow Dawn, you have been practicing really hard with Aipom." Ash said.

"We've been practicing some other moves too." Dawn said. "I'll show you."

First Aipom used Hidden Power and broke them apart with Ice Punch. Since Hidden Power was green being grass type it broke into green particles and the Ice Punch added some white particles. Now Aipom bounced and spun around while using Water Pulse; it was like a ballet with water. Finally she had Aipom use Double Team and Fire Punch which created fiery red particles.

"Fantastic work." Brock said.

Then Dawn had Piplup use Bubble Beam and Aipom proceeded to punch the bubbles, turning them into blue particles.

"Hey, that was the move Double Hit." Ash said.

"Really?" Dawn asked.

"Yeah. My Dodrio knows it as well and my Aipom just learned it." Ash explained.

He had his Aipom on him and Aipom showed off his Double Hit attack.

"Since both Aipom know Double Hit, that means they'll evolve into Ambipom correct?" Dawn asked.

"That's correct." A voice said.

The voice came from Kenny.

"Long time no see, Dee-Dee."

"You too Kenny." Dawn said.

She wasn't going to let the nickname get to her.

"Oh, not getting puffed up over Dee-Dee?" Kenny asked.

"Tomo has a Plusle and Minun and I've gotten over my fear of them." She explained.

"That's surprising." Kenny said. "I take it you're here to enter the Pokemon contest."

"Yes, and this time I'm ready for it." Dawn answered.

Kenny then noticed Dawn's Ambipom.

"It's Ash's, but I traded it for a Buizel."

"Hey Ash, are you entering the contest too?" Kenny asked.

"Yes I am." Ash answered.

Kenny said he was too.

"Hey Kenny, want to have a battle with me?" Ash asked.

"I would like to Ash, but I'm on my way to see Dialga and Palkia." Kenny said.

"Pardon?" Ash repeated.

The gang couldn't believe what Kenny said.

Before the gang could find out what he meant, there was trouble. Three mysterious people wearing grey uniforms were standing outside some ruins. One of them had blue hair and the other two had green hair.

These three were members of the evil team active in the Sinnoh region, Team Galactic. Team Rocket was nearby and saw them.

"It's Team Galactic." James said. "Sinnoh's evil team."

"Yes, like what the boss showed us." Jessie said.

"What should we do?" Meowth asked.

"We do what we did in Hoenn." Jessie said. "We find out more about this Team Galactic and bring them down."

James and Meowth agreed.

The Team Galactic members went into the ruins and the blue-haired member released a Bronzor having it use Flash to light the way.

"Let's follow them boys." Jessie said.

"Get a Pokemon out Jess." James said. "Those three men might give us trouble."

Jessie sent out her Aipom and Vespiquen and James sent out his Roserade and Carnivine.

Meanwhile Kenny brought the gang to the ruins and showed them the statues of Dialga and Palkia.

"These are the Solaceon Ruins." Kenny said. "The ruins of a temple where people used to worship Dialga and Palkia."

Now the gang knew what Kenny was talking about.

"It still feels a bit unfair to me that there are no statues of Giratina around here." Ash said.

"Yes, but Gardenia informed us that Giratina caused trouble due to it's violent nature." Brock reminded him.

"Yeah." Ash said.

Dawn noticed Unown writing on the statues and both of them read 'Friend when every life meets another life, something will be born'."

"Hey, that's what the ruins we saw with the champion Cynthia read before." Tomo said.

"You're right." Brock agreed.

"Wait, you met the champion Cynthia?" Kenny asked, surprised.

"My journey has been more adventurous and exciting than yours Kenny." Dawn boasted.

"Hey Ash, let's have a battle now." Kenny said.

"Here?" Ash asked. "Okay, but we have to be careful to avoid hitting the statues by mistakes."

Kenny agreed.

"Who will attack first?" Kenny asked.

"We'll have my coin toss application help us with that." Ash said, getting his coin toss ready.

"What? You have a coin toss application?" Kenny asked.

"Yes and so do Dawn and Tomo." Ash answered. "Don't you?"

Kenny admitted that he didn't. Dawn felt like laughing because she had something Kenny didn't; she liked to tease him back. Ash picked heads and Kenny picked tails and Ash won so he got to make the first move.

Ash sent out his Turtwig to battle and Kenny sent out a new Pokemon, a Breloom. Ash knew Breloom was a grass/fighting type so they had to be careful.

"Turtwig, start off with Tackle." Ash said.

Turtwig tackled Breloom really hard before it can dodge. Breloom attacked next with Mach Punch and Turtwig was hit really hard.

"Okay Turtwig, let's use Energy Ball." Ash said.

"Counter with your Energy Ball, Breloom." He said.

The two grass type Pokemon fired Energy Ball and the attacks collided with each other.

"So your Turtwig knows Energy Ball?" Kenny asked.

"Yes, he has picked up some new moves thanks to my other grass type Pokemon." Ash said.

*Meanwhile...*

The Team Galactic members walked deeper and deeper into the ruins with Team Rocket on their tail. The members came to a chamber and on the floor was an ancient drawing. The blue-haired member ordered the green-haired members to place some plates on the squares of the drawing. These plates were like the same plates that Ash had been collecting. The members had plates called the Splash Plate, the Iron Plate and the Draco Plate. Once the plates were in place the drawing lit up and so did the Unown letters on the wall. Team Rocket came out of their hiding place.

"All right who are you and what's going on here?!" Jessie demanded.

"Allow me to introduce myself." The blue-haired man said. "I am Saturn, a commander of Team Galactic. And I'm here to start Team Galactic's quest."

A golden cube came out of the drawing and then the real Unown came out of the walls.

"Unown, the cube that you guard contains the power we need to change the world." Saturn said.

He took the cube in his hand, but then the Unown got ready to attack to stop Saturn.

"Bronzor, Confuse Ray." Saturn said.

Bronzor's Confuse Ray caused all the Unown to become confused and Team Galactic left the chamber. Because of her confusion the Unown became very angry and started to fire Hidden Power around. They all had different types of Hidden Power like water, fire, psychic, ghost, steel, rock, etc.

The Unown's Hidden Power attacks started to fire out of the ruins and Dawn noticed it. Suddenly the stairs she, Aipom, Smoochum and Piplup had been sitting on this whole time began to move up; the stairs were also a doorway into the ruins. The boys noticed it and rushed over to try and help. There was worse to come. Piplup and Smoochum lost their grip on the stairs and started to fall. Aipom tried to save them but she lost her grip on the stairs too and all three Pokemon fell into the ruins. Dawn jumped in to save the Pokemon. The boys saw this and they luckily got into the ruins before the door closed on them.

At that time the Unown were staring at Team Rocket; they thought they stole the cube.

"Let's run!" Jessie shouted.

Team Rocket did just that.

Team Galactic left the ruins in a helicopter; happy with their successful find.

By now the boys had entered the ruins. Inside the ruins it was all red and stairs were everywhere; the Unown had created illusions because of their confusion.

"What is this?" Tomo asked.

Ash stared at everything.

"I bet that Unown live in these ruins and we are trapped in their illusions." Ash said.

"I think you're right Ash." Brock said.

Kenny didn't like this.

"How can you not be scared in a situation like this?" He asked.

"I've crossed paths with Unown before." Ash answered. "We need to stay brave for our Pokemon's sake."

Kenny knew Ash was right, especially since he had Prinplup and Breloom with him.

"Okay everyone, let's go look for Dawn and get out of here." Ash said.

The others agreed.

By now Dawn was checking to see if her Pokemon were okay. Suddenly some Unown appeared. Dawn looked at them on the Pokedex and then the Unown started to attack. Aipom, Piplup and Smoochum quickly moved in with Bubble Beam, Swift and Powder Snow to stop them.

"Let's go." Dawn said.

She grabbed Smoochum then she and her Pokemon ran all the way up some never ending stairs. Some Unown appeared, but Piplup, Smoochum and Aipom attacked with Bubble Beam, Swift and Powder Snow again. The Unown were hit by the attacks and snapped out of their confusion. Because of that most of the illusion disappeared.

"We must keep going." Dawn told her Pokemon.

Right now the boys were being attacked by the Unown.

"The Unown are confused." Ash said. "Something must have happened to cause this."

He had Pikachu use Thunderbolt and Turtwig use Razor Leaf. Breloom and Piplup helped with Energy Ball and Bubble Beam. After the Unown were hit the illusion faded.

"If we keep hitting them with attacks, they'll return to normal and the illusion will go away." Ash explained.

The others nodded.

"We better find Dawn and fast." Kenny said.

*Meanwhile...*

Dawn ran into Team Rocket after their Pokemon struck the Unown with attacks and made some of the illusion go away.

"Is this your doing?!" Dawn angrily asked Team Rocket.

"No, it was someone else who caused this." Meowth answered.

Before Team Rocket could explain, some more Unown appeared.

"Alright Aipom, use Double Hit." Jessie said.

Dawn's Aipom used Double Hit too.

Suddenly the two Aipom started to glow and they evolved into bigger monkeys with two tails and bigger hands, bigger arms and bigger heads.

"They are Ambipom." Dawn said.

The Ambipom used Swift on the Unown and made them leave. Dawn and Jessie were happy with their new Ambipom.

Suddenly the boys showed up, but it seemed they were standing on the ceiling; this was more of the Unown's doing. It was then some more Unown appeared, but Piplup used Bubble Beam on them.

"What's going on Unown?" Ash spoke up. "I can tell that something caused you to go crazy. So what happened?"

The Unown started to speak.

"What are they saying Ash?" Kenny asked.

"They're saying that somebody stole something that the Unown were guarding in these ruins." Ash said.

"It was Team Galactic." James spoke up. "They took a golden cube thing and then they caused the Unown to become confused with Confuse Ray."

"You better not be lying." Dawn said. She found this hard to believe.

"Believe it or not twerpette, it really did happen." Meowth said.

The Unown spoke up and said that it did happen.

"We are not Team Galactic." Ash assured the Unown. "And we would never take anything from you."

The Unown stared at Ash and then they floated away.

"They believed me." Ash happily sighed.

Suddenly Dawn, Team Rocket and their Pokemon started to fall; they were the ones who were on the ceiling. James quickly released his Chimecho and she used Psychic to get them down safely.

"Well done Chimecho." James said, rubbing her head happily.

It was then the doors to the Solaceon Ruins opened and everyone quickly ran out.

"I'm glad to be out of there." Dawn said, happy it was all over.

Team Rocket immediately left.

"When I see those Team Galactic jerks again, I'll pound them." Jessie said, angrily.

"Yeah we will show no mercy next time." Meowth said.

"Like we showed Team Aqua and Team Magma no mercy." James said.

Back with the gang and Kenny they couldn't stop admiring Dawn's new Ambipom.

Ash looked at it on the Pokedex.

"Ambipom, the Long Tail Pokemon and the evolved form of Aipom. To eat, it deftly sucks nuts with it's two tails. It rarely uses it's arms now."

"Wow, I'll work on getting my Aipom to evolve too." Ash said.

"With my new Ambipom, the Solaceon Ribbon will be mine." Dawn said, confidently.

"You know, I remember Team Rocket mentioning Team Galactic in these ruins." Brock recalled.

"Then that means we'll probably run into them soon." Ash said. "And if we do, we better be prepared for them. Goodness knows how dangerous they are."

The others agreed.

So despite the bit of excitement in the Solaceon Ruins, the gang had the Solaceon Contest to look forward to.