Pokemon Summer Academy

One day...

The gang was running, panicked.

"We are going to be late!" Ash shouted.

"This is because Dawn was messing around with her bedhead!" Tomo shouted.

"Hey don't put the blame on me!" Dawn shouted.

"We have to hurry!" Brock shouted.

The gang continued to run until they ran through a gate.

"Phew we made it at last." Ash sighed.

"But you are still late." A voice said.

It was Prof. Rowan.

"I welcome you to the ruin research facility on Mt. Coronet, or for other purposes your school." The thing is, once a year Prof. Rowan and his assistants ran a Pokemon summer school for a week at one of Prof. Rowan's research facilities at Mt. Coronet. So the gang was taking a break from traveling to participate in the Pokemon summer academy.

At this academy the students who attended it would be split into three teams; a red team, a blue team and a green team. During the week students take part in different activities and earn points for their achievements. And by the end of the week you find out which team has the most points and wins the whole competition. Prof. Rowan's assistant Yuzo told everyone to look at the black board to see which team they would be in. As it turns out Ash, Tomo, Dawn and Brock were all in the red team. That was a surprise. Conway, who they met at the Hearthome tag team tournament, was attending the Pokemon summer academy too and he was in the blue team.

"I have to say it feels a bit strange attending a school again; I haven't been at school since I was nine years old." Ash said.

"Same here." Brock said.

"This is my first time going to school." Tomo said.

Ranger Jenny taught him how to read and write and other things when he lived with her so he never went to school like other kids.

"You'll be alright Tomo." Ash said. "Just pay close attention to the lessons and if you do have trouble with something just ask a teacher; they are always here to help a student. And do not yawn when you get to a boring lesson; teachers absolutely hate that."

"Got it." Tomo said.

Prof. Rowan and his assistants welcomed all the students to the academy. Then they explained what the first activity at the academy was. The students were to have a Pokemon battle with each other, but not with their Pokemon. The activity was the students were to team up with the Pokemon they were given. One of Prof. Rowan's assistants presented a box filled with Poke Balls. No one knew what Pokemon they were getting so each student just had to pick.

Tomo made a grab for the Poke Ball, but someone else grabbed it too; it was a girl with short green hair and she looked very tomboyish.

"Excuse me, but I got to this Poke Ball first." Tomo said.

"Oh really." The girl said. "I take it you don't know the rule about it being ladies first."

"What? You're a girl." Tomo said.

The girl looked so tomboyish Tomo didn't recognize her as being one.

"The name is Angie." The girl said. "And I challenge you to a battle."

Tomo didn't like Angie's rude attitude and accepted the challenge.

"You have to bond with your Pokemon." Prof. Rowan reminded them.

Angie's Pokemon turned out to be a orange monkey with a flame on it's tail.

Tomo looked at the Pokemon on the Pokedex.

"Monferno, the Playful Pokemon and the evolved form of Chimchar. To intimidate attackers, it stretches the fire on it's tail to make itself appear bigger."

"Cool, so my Chimchar will evolve into that huh?" Tomo said.

Angie said hi to Monferno, but it looked away. It was a moody Pokemon. Tomo and Growlithe thought it was a bit funny. Tomo tossed his Poke Ball and his chosen Pokemon was a Raichu. Tomo said hello to it, but Raichu dug into the ground; it was shy. Angie thought this was funny; Tomo and Angie had a rough start with each other.

Ash released his mysterious Pokemon next and it was a Smoochum.

"Hi Smoochum." Ash said.

Smoochum looked at Ash and kissed him on the cheek and then it gave Pikachu a kiss on the cheek too.

"I guess Smoochu likes us Pikachu." Ash chuckled.

Dawn's Pokemon was a Grimer. Of course the other students didn't like Grimer because of it's scary and disgusting nature.

"I think you're cute." Dawn told it.

Grimer happily gave her a hug.

Brock's Pokemon was a Magnemite and he was happy with that.

Angie had trouble with her Monferno; it was running around like crazy and it tried to pick a fight with another student's Croconaw. Growlithe jumped in to stop Monferno from causing any more trouble, but Monferno didn't listen and hit it with Ember. Since it was a fire type, Ember hardly did anything to it but Growlithe was angry with Monferno and used Leer which made Monferno back off.

"Hey don't treat my Monferno like that!" Angie shouted.

She took out a Poke Ball and released a Shink; it was her own Pokemon.

"Hey!" Tomo shouted.

He had said everything.

"My Growlithe was only stopping your Monferno from causing any more trouble than it already is!" He and Angie glared at each other; but then Prof. Rowan came over and angrily stopped them.

Tomo told him what had happened, but Prof. Rowan stopped him again.

"Pokemon battles will take place tomorrow." He explained, hoping everyone would get along with the Pokemon.

Tomo and Angie still stared at each other, claiming it was the other's fault.

In the classroom the students were getting to know the Pokemon they had picked out. Ash was checking out Smoochu's moves and stroking her on the head. Pikachu liked playing with Smoochum. Dawn was checking out Grimer's moves, giving it some poffins and practicing some poses with it. Brock was giving Magnemite a boost of electricity from static electricity. Tomo was checking out Raichu's moves and having a chat with it to help it gain some confidence.