Soon after the battle between May and Drew, the gang were heading back to Pallet Town. Before they left, May and Max's parents had called them that their Rockruffs have been acting a bit aggressively towards the other Pokémon. Alain received the same phone call from his dad. Ashlyn and Brock told them that the three Rock types were behaving that way because they were getting ready to evolve. So May and Max switched one of their Pokémon for their Rockruffs. Then Aslyn brought Keiko (Mew) with her and teleported the gang to Akala Island of the Alola Region.
The Maple siblings along with Alain spent the day training with their Rockruffs to help them evolve. However, the next morning, both their Rockruffs had disappeared. Luckily, Ashlyn and Brock assured them that this is what Rockruff do when they're about to evolve and that they'll return once they evolve which brought relief to the Maple siblings and Alain. They waited until midafternoon when both their Rockruffs came back as Lycanrocs. May's Rockruff had evolved into a Midday Form and Max's Rockruff evolved into a Midnight Form. Alain's Rockruff evolved into a Midday Form as well. Alain and the Maple siblings were happy with their Lycanrocs'. Then Keiko teleported them back to Fennel Valley Pokémon Center and they headed back out.
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After leaving Fennel Valley, the gang made it to a town called Terracotta Town. Here was where the gang had to plan what to do next. With the Battle Frontier challenge and the Kanto Grand Festival all over, this meant their journey in Kanto was over too. So May and Max had to go back to Hoenn, Brock to Pewter City, Alain to Kalos and Ashlyn to Pallet Town.
Before they could start their planning, they realized a festival was going on and they also noticed that a Pokémon contest was being held. This contest was an unofficial one, so anyone could enter this whether they are a coordinator or not. Ashlyn and May signed up for it right away. Ashlyn decided to use Tesla for the preliminary round and Kazuki (Sceptile) for the battle round. May decided to use Eevee for the preliminary round and her Combusken for the battle round. The rule was though only the top two trainers of the preliminary round would get to the battle round. Ashlyn and May were determined they would get to get to the battle round.
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It wasn't long when the Terracotta Town Contest would begin. Alain, Brock and Max were sitting in the audience seat. Nurse Joy and a man were to be the judges and the man was also the announcer. The announcer explained the rules about only the top two trainers of the preliminary round would get to the battle round. Nurse Joy showed off a contest ribbon 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.
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The preliminary round soon began. First up was May. The crowd cheered for May 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 Ball attacks out of the holes. The Shadow Balls created a display of colorful fireworks, and everyone loved it.
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It was soon Ashlyn's turn; everyone remembered her too from both the Hoenn and Kanto Grand Festival and the Hoenn League and Ashlyn got a lot of cheers and hard claps. Tesla started off with running around the stage with Quick Attack and then she used Thunder Shock. The pressure from the Quick Attack turned the Thunder Shock into an electric ring and Tesla used Iron Tail to hit the ring and send it bouncing across the stage. Tesla created two more electric rings and all three electric rings were bouncing all over the stage like balls on a pinball machine game.
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After the preliminary round was over, the final result was Ashlyn and May making it to the battle round. May and Ashlyn looked forward to it. Max was worried because he didn't know who to route for, Ashlyn or May?
"I want both May and Ashlyn to win. So who should I cheer for?" Max asked.
"Don't worry about it." Alain assured him.
"The best thing to do is just route for them both and wait to see what will happen in the end." Brock advised.
Suddenly there was the sound of commotion in the air, and it sounded like trouble.
"I wonder what's going on?" Max pondered.
The trouble turned out to be Team Rocket. Jessie, James and Meowth had caught some trainers' Pokémon in a big net.
"Why am I not surprised they would be causing trouble here?" May asked.
"Because they cause trouble wherever they go." Max answered.
"Kazuki, use Leaf Blade on the net!" Kazuki used Leaf Blade to cut the net and the Pokémon were set free.
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, worriedly.
Suddenly Combusken glowed and evolved into Blaziken. May was thrilled to have a Blaziken. Blaziken jumped and used Blaze Kick to send Team Rocket flying.
"It's always a case of 'never enough' with you and then it's a case of us ending up with nothing!" James complained. angrily.
"Well when you have nothing, you got nothing to lose!" Jessie retorted angrily.
"We lost the Pokémon and gained a poem!" Meowth whined.
"WE'RE BLASTING OFF AGAIN!" Team Rocket before they disappeared into the sky.
DING!
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Soon the battle round of the Pokémon contest was starting and Ashlyn and May sent out their Pokémon.
"Kazuki, use Bullet Seed!" Kazuki shot seeds from his mouth.
"Blaziken, dodge!" Blaziken managed to dodge.
"Use Aerial Ace!" Kazuki used Aerial Ace and tackled Blaziken.
"Blaziken, use Flamethrower!" Blaziken shot out a stream of flames from his mouth and Kazuki got hit by it.
Kazuki and Blaziken had a real fight with each other, being two fully evolved strong Pokémon. Kazuki fought hard with Iron Tail, Leaf Blade and Dragon Breath, with Blaziken using Flamethrower, Blaze Kick and Sky Uppercut.
Soon they became exhausted from fighting so hard. Suddenly Kazuki began to glow green and Blaziken glowed orange red; their abilities Over Grow and Blaze were activated. With time nearly up for the battle, Blaziken used Overheat and Kazuki used Solar Beam, creating an explosion with smoke covering the screen. At that moment the time was up. When the smoke cleared the screen revealed that Ashlyn and May had similar points with each other.
So the result was a tie, and everyone agreed that both Ashlyn and May did great.
"A fitting end to a great Terracotta Pokémon Contest! And now Nurse Joy will present both of our winners with the Terracotta medal!" The announcer announced.
"I'm sorry. I never expected this would happen. I only have one medal here." Nurse Joy apologized as she presented the ribbon.
"I got an idea. Nurse Joy, can we just look at that medal for a second?" Ashlyn requested.
"Uh, sure." Nurse Joy blinked in confusion.
May took the medal and threw it into the air.
"Kazuki, use Leaf Blade!" Ashlyn ordered.
Kazuki cut the pin in half so both Ashlyn and May had half the ribbon each.
"Alright, we got ourselves the Terracotta Medal!" Ashlyn and May posed with their medal.
"Raichu!" Tesla cheered.
"Now that looks like a real friendship! Sharing their victory of sharing their medal as well!" The announcer announced.
Everyone clapped and cheered for them one last time. This had been a good day for the gang.
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Pokémon Caught: Shiny Arcanine (Sonia)(F), Magmar (Fuji)(M), Hisuian Zorua (Yuki)(F), Sprigatito (Fleur)(F), Aipom (Shantae)(F), Aipom (Luffy)(M)