-In The Lab, With Ash and Gary-

The boys were sitting down waiting for the Rowan in their new bedrooms. The Rowan had gone to retrieve something for them. Gary was lying down on his bed, still on his phone while Ash had started unpacking his stuff. Knocked on their doors telling them to come out into the hallway. They opened their doors to see the Professor holding two brand new Pokedex.

"Here you boys go. With these, I hope that this device will answer all your questions about the Pokemon of this region." Rowan handed the boys their new devices. As they put away their Pokedex, they heard the door downstairs open, as Cynthia and Korrina entered. The professor went downstairs to go check who it was, the boys followed closely behind him. As they made it downstairs they saw the two girls waiting by the door.

"There you are, Cynthia, I was starting to wonder where you were. Oh, you must be Korrina, the Gym leader of the Shalour City Gym, I heard so much about. I also heard how you gave Paul quite a thrashing after school on Friday." As he gave a hearty chuckle.

"Yep, that was me," Korrina said as she began to explain how the battle started and how she beat him. Ash was watching the professor and the girl talk for a bit before he felt that someone was staring at him. He turned to the other girl, the one the Professor called Cynthia, she quickly realized that she was starting and looked away.

"What is she staring at?" Ash thought. "Do I have something on my face?" He wiped his face just to make sure there wasn't anything there.

"Did everyone forget that I'm here?" Gary thought to himself, he was getting annoyed that the professor seemed to forget about them as he continued to talk to Korrina, Ash kept wiping his face for no reason and Cynthia seemed to be starting at Ash. Gary being impatient as ever cleared his throat to grabbed everyone's attention.

"Well if no one is going to introduce themselves I'll go first. I'm Gary O-."

"We actually know who you guys are, you're Gary Oak, grandson of Samuel Oak." Korrina interrupted. "And you're Ash Ketchum, The Hero of Kanto."

"Hmp!" Gary pouted childlike at her interruption of his introduction.

"I'm sorry you guys know about us but I have no clue who you are," Ash said apologetically. "Ow!" Ash grabbed his hard as Gary punched him in the shoulder.

"Did you already forget about Cynthia?"

Ash pondered for a bit. 'Should I know her?' He shrugged.

"Your hopeless, you know that. We saw her on the T.V. not too long ago member, she's the Sinnoh champ. As a former champion, you should at least know who the other region champs are." Gary sighed at Ash's stupidity.

"Oh, she's the girl with that dragon Pokemon, right?"

"It's called a Garchomp and your correct Garchomp is my partner," Cynthia responded. "This is Korrina, she's a gym leader in the Kalos region."

"Nice to meet ya!"

"Introduction aside I believe it is time for the tour, right Cynthia?" Professor Rowan stated.

"You're right, follow me." Cynthia made her way out the door, the others close behind.

-Route 202-

The group was making its way to Jubilife City where the academy was. They were going at a snail's pace all because of Ash, every time he saw a Pokémon he just had to pull out his Pokédex. He would have stopped and try to catch them all of it wasn't for Gary telling him that they could come back after the tour. They were amongst out of the route when Ash had an idea.

"Hey Korrina, Rowan said you were a gym leader right?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Well, I was wondering if we could have a battle?" Ash asked excitedly.

"Sure!" Korrina pulled out a Pokeball. "Go Lucario!"

"Woah what's that?" Ash pulled out his Pokédex.

"Lucario, The Aura Pokemon, a fighting-steel type. A well-trained one can sense auras to identify and take in the feelings of creatures over half a mile away."

"Looks like it's going to be a tough battle." Ash pulled out his own Pokeball. "Go Primeape!"

A large, circular-shape pokemon appeared. Primeape has light cream fur, with a pig nose. It has short arms with armbands and also wears bands on its legs and boxing glove-shaped hands.

'I get to see The Ash Ketchum battle live.' Cynthia was so ecstatic. She seemingly pulled a pen and notepad from nowhere, she planned on taking notes and studying them.

"I guess I'll be the referee for this battle." Gary emitted a long breathy sigh, he just wanted to get the tour over with. "Let the battle begin!" He raised his hand to signal the start of the battle.

"Lucario get close and hit him with your Bone Rush." Lucario formed a bone made of blue aura and charged Primeape.

"Primeape use Earthquake!" Primeape began heavingly stomping his feet on the ground cause the ground to shake, with the ground shaking Lucario had to stop in order to keep itself from falling. Ash saw the opening. "Quick now's your chance!" Primeape rushed over, closing the distance between Lucario and itself.

'What amazing speed.' Cynthia had never seen a Primeape move so quickly.

"Lucario getaway!" Lucario jumped back narrowly avoiding a strike from Primeape. Primeape released steam from its nose, angry that he missed. "Lucario use Metal Sound." as she gave the command she covered her ears. Lucario opened his mouth and let out an ear-splitting sound, sounding like metal scraping horribly. The sound only further enraged Primage who was jumping up and down in pure anger.

"Primeape use Double Team." Ash shouted over the loud screech, suddenly clones of Primeape appeared.

"Lucario search for its aura and hit it with another Bone Rush." Lucario closed its eyes.

"Primeape hit it with a brick break." All the Primates closed in on Lucario with an overhead chop. Lucario had found the original and quickly dodged the hit before retaliating with a bone to the torso. Primeape slid a few meters back. Primeape couldn't take it anymore, he began stomping and waving its arm around in frustration. Ash noticed this.

"Guess this is Ash's win," Gary said under his breath

"Huh?" Cynthia was confused, was he not watching the same fight. Korrina was clearly with the advantage.

"Ok, now it's time to show them your true strength." Primeape's eyes were red from anger, he recklessly charged at Lucario head on.

"Lucario bone rush once more." Lucario waited till Primeape was in striking distance. "Now!" Lucario swung at Primeape. Both Cynthia and Korrina were surprised when the hit connected but to no effect. Primeape quickly swept Lucario of its feet before it could escape. Lucario fell to the ground, Primeape let loose a merciless attack.

"Lucario!" Korrina shouted in despair. Cynthia gasped at the ruthlessness of Ash's Primeape. Lucario was clearly out of the fight but the angry Primeape wasn't stopping. Ash rushed toward the angered pokemon.

"There, there buddy," Ash spoke in a smooth tone while slowly approaching him. Primeape ceased the attack. He turns to Ash the red in its eyes slowly fading out. "We won and it's all thanks to you." Primeape's eyes returned to normal, it then began shouting happily before pulling ash into a bone-crushing hug.

"Lucario is unable to battle, the winner of the match is Primeape." Gary declared.

Ash walked over to Korrina who was currently rummaging through her bag looking for a potion. Ash reached into his bag and pulled out a Full Restore.

"Here you go." He handed her the medicine.

"Thanks." She applied the medicine and called back Lucario.

"Your Primeape is still as terrifying as ever." Gary and Cynthia had made their way over them.

"Yeah, I'm just glad that I'm able to stop him."

"Wait so you're saying is that there was a point where he would disobey you?" Cynthia asked.

"Of course, we didn't become best friend immediately. I first met him when he was a Mankey, I remember that he stole my hat and wouldn't give it back, it wasn't until I was able to beat him did he give my hat back."

"Oh yeah, Brock told me about that he said that you tried to climb a tree and ended up humiliating your self." Gary teased as Cynthia and Korrina giggled at the mental image of Ash falling from a tree.

"There's no need to go into the minor details. Why don't we continue the tour."

"Yeah whatever Ashy Boy." Gary laughed, Ash gave Gary a small punch as they started walking away.

'Ashy Boy?' The girls wondered.

Quick question: Tour or skip to the first day of school?