Terracotta Contest

After leaving Fennel Valley, the gang eventually made it to Terracotta Town. Here the gang had to plan what to do next. With the Battle Frontier challenge and the Kanto Grand Festival over, this meant that their journey in Kanto was over too. So May and Max had to go back to Hoenn, Brock to Pewter City and Ash and Tomo to Pallet Town.

Before they start planning, they realized a festival was going on and they also noticed a Pokemon contest was being held. This was a unofficial contest, so anyone could enter coordinator or not. Ash and May signed up for it right away. Ash decided to use Pikachu for the preliminary round and Sceptile for the battle round. May decided to use Eevee for the preliminary round and Combusken for the battle round. The rule was though only the top two trainers of the preliminary round would get to the battle round. Ash and May were determined to get to the battle round.

It wasn't long before the Terracotta Town contest began. Brock, Tomo and Max sat in the audience. Nurse Joy and a man were to be the judges and the man was also the announcer. The announcer explained the rules that only the top two trainers in the preliminary round would get to the battle round. Nurse Joy showed off a contest ribbon that the winner of the contest would get. It was a pink and white bow ribbon, a bit bigger than a normal ribbon with a bigger pin.

The preliminary round soon began. First up was May. The crowd cheered for her because they remembered her from the Kanto Grand Festival. Her Eevee first used Dig, creating a lot of holes and then fired a lot of Shadow Balls out of the holes. The Shadow Balls created a colorful firework display and everyone loved it. Next up was a man with a Magikarp, a woman with a Gloom, a boy with a Charmeleon and another boy with a Seel. It was soon Ash's turn; everyone remembered him from both the Kanto Grand Festival and the Hoenn League and he got a lot of cheers and hard claps. Pikachu started off by running around the stage with Quick Attack and then he used Thunderbolt. The pressure from the Quick Attack turned the Thunderbolt into a electric ring and Pikachu used Iron Tail to hit the ring and send it bouncing across the stage. Pikachu created two more electric rings and all three electric rings were bouncing all over the stage like balls on a pinball machine.

After the preliminary round was over the final result was Ash and May making it to the battle round. May and Ash looked forward to it. Max was worried because he didn't know who to root for, Ash or May?

"Don't worry about it?" Tomo and Brock told him.

"The best thing to do is just root for them both and wait to see what will happen in the end." Brock said.

Suddenly a commotion was heard. It seemed there was trouble.

"I wonder what's going on?" May questioned out loud.

It was Team Rocket up to their usual mischief. They had captured Pokemon in a big net.

"Why am I not surprised?" May asked.

"They cause trouble wherever they go." Max answered.

Ash had Sceptile use Leaf Blade on the net freeing the Pokemon. May was about to give her Combusken a command, but her Combusken was kneeling down on the ground like he was in pain.

"What's wrong Combusken?" May asked.

Suddenly Combusken glowed and evolved into Blaziken. May was thrilled to have a Blaziken. Blaziken jumped into the air and used Blaze Kick to send Team Rocket flying. Now that Combusken evolved into Blaziken, Sceptile had a real fight on it's hands.

Soon the battle round of the Pokemon contest was starting and Ash and May sent out their Pokemon. Sceptile started off with Bullet Seed, but Blaziken managed to dodge it.

"Use Aerial Ace." Ash said.

Sceptile tackled Blaziken. Blaziken managed to fight back with Flamethrower.

The two had a drawn out fight, being two fully evolved and very strong Pokemon. Sceptile fought hard with Iron Tail, Leaf Blade and Dragon Breath while Blaziken used Flamethrower, Blaze Kick and Sky Uppercut. They became exhausted after their hard battle. Suddenly Sceptile began to glow green and Blaziken glowed orange red; their abilities Overgrow and Blaze had kicked in. With time nearly up; Blaziken used Overheat and Sceptile used Solar Beam, causing an explosion with smoke covering the screen.

Just then time was up. When the smoke cleared Ash and May had the same amount of points. So it was judged a tie and everyone agreed that Ash and May did great. Nurse Joy presented the ribbon, but she only had one. So Ash had Sceptile cut it in half so he and May each had part of the ribbon. The announcer said that was a real sign of friendship and everyone clapped and cheered for them one last time. This had been a good day for the gang.