On their way to Cinnabar Island, the gang had quite some adventures so far.
The first adventure they had was when they visited Matcha City's Pokémon Center where the PokéBall transfer machine had been causing problems, as the transferred Pokémon never end up at the other side. They met Professor Akihabara, who created the created the PokéBall transfer system. He told them that Team Rocket stole his prototype Porygon, a digital Pokémon that can exist in cyberspace, and was using it to steal trainers' Pokémon from inside the computer system.
Akihabara sent the gang and his second Porygon into the cyberspace system, using his Dimension Transporter, to stop Team Rocket, whom they've learned had set up a blockade that stopped Pokéballs from traveling the network. Porygon was able to defeat Team Rocket's Porygon; unfortunately, Nurse Joy, monitoring the situation and unaware that Ashlyn and the others were inside, had sent an antivirus program into the system to combat the computer virus Team Rocket had set up.
Luckily they got out of their before the antivirus got to them. However Akihabara's house got destroyed in the process, much to his dismay, as his Dimension Transporter was now broken. The group and Team Rocket successfully escaped the computer, and with Team Rocket's blockade removed, the PokéBall transmitting device returned to normal.
As a token of thanks, Akihabara gave Ashlyn his Porygon. He believed that Porygon shouldn't be stuck in the lab forever and that Porygon took a shine to her as well.
While she was still at the center, she decided to send her Porygon, Azure, Dratini, Searius, Primeape, and to the lab and brought her Mani (Shiny Umbreon), Espeon, Glaceon, Leafeon, and Parisa (Shiny Sylveon) to her team. Soon afterwards, the gang headed out once more.
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The second adventure they had was when the gang was in the forest and had stumbled upon a clan of wild Pikachu living together. Tesla wanted to greet them, but the wild Pikachu became scared of her and ran off. Tesla was disheartened, but a small Pikachu came over and shook tails to greet her. Tesla copied the greeting. Ashlyn watched the interaction from the bushes and decided to just observe. It was then that Ashlyn remembered that Team Rocket would show up and try to steal the Pikachu. As if on cue, they did. The trio had captured all of the Pikachu in an electric-proof net. Before James could ensnare the gang, Lucario and Boltund used Iron Tail on both nets, freeing the Pikachu. Then all of the Pikachu including Tesla used Thunderbolt, sending Team Rocket blasting off. Somehow that incident gained the trust of the clan of Pikachu.
The next day, the gang had to leave. At first Ashlyn thought that Tesla was going to stay with the wild Pikachu, but Tesla wanted to stay with her. Someone else also joined them. It was the little Pikachu that was with Tesla. Brock believed that the little Pikachu looked up to Tesla as a mother. So the little Pikachu joined them. Ashlyn decided to give the little Pikachu a name which was Levina.
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At the moment, Ashlyn and her friends were now walking along the path. They had been walking for a good distance they stopped when they heard a cry of a Pokémon.
"You hear that?" Flint questioned.
"That sounds like a Pokémon." Ashlyn looked around holding Levina.
Levina jumped out of her grasp and headed towards the cry and found a familiar brown Pokémon inside the base of a tree tied to a tree post. It was an Eevee with a sad face.
"An Eevee!" Ashlyn came over and untied the little one observing its collar, "Looks like it belongs to someone. It has a name tag and it looks like an address too."
Misty bent down, "Looks like its owner is from Stone Town."
"Hmmm, that's on the foot on Evolution Mountain. It holds evolution stones that allow certain Pokémon to evolve." Brock explained.
"Really? I didn't know that." Flint stated.
"Arf arf arf (We better head there and return this little guy)." Boltund said.
"You think its trainer is looking for it?" Misty wondered, picked up Eevee into her arms.
"Well I think so. I'm sure there's a reason why it was left here." Ashlyn replied.
"Let's get going then." Volkner said.
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They arrived at Stone Town and found the address leads to a giant mansion.
"Wow." Misty awed.
"It's gigantic." Flint commented.
They head towards the backyard and noticed a garden party is being held.
"It's a garden party." Brock said.
"Looks like fun." Ashlyn smiled.
"Hey, guys. Look there." Misty pointed in a certain direction.
Everyone looked to where she was pointing and saw a trainer with a Poliwhirl and a teen with spiky yellow haired teen placed a water stone on it. Then Poliwhirl evolved in Poliwrath.
"Congratulations. Poliwhirl evolved into Poliwrath." The Spiky yellow haired teen congratulated the trainer.
"Thank you so much." The trainer thanked the Spiky yellow haired teen.
Ashlyn recognized that spiky yellow haired teen as Sparky along with his other brothers; Pyro the red haired teen, Rainer the blue haired teen, and the younger one, Mikey. Ashlyn also remembered what happens later in this episode. Whenever it came to evolution, she always asked her Pokémon if they wanted to evolve or not and she always respected their decisions.
"Wow. That's so amazing." Misty said.
The gang gazed at all of the Pokémon around the garden.
"I get it. They've all been evolved using those stones." Ashlyn stated.
"Maybe I can find a fire stone for my Vulpix while I'm here." Flint suggested.
Suddenly the three Eevee brothers appeared in front of the gang.
"Where did you go to? We were worried about you, Eevee." Sparky said.
"Yeah," Rainer took Eevee from Misty's arms, "Thank you for finding Eevee for us."
"This is great. We've got our star, now we can go on with the show." Pyro said with excitement.
"Eevee's a star?" Misty asked.
"If that's true, then why was it tied up?" Flint asked.
"I'm sure there's a reason." Ashlyn replied.
"Who are you guys anyway?" Volkner asked.
"I'm Pyro." Pyro introduced.
"Rainer." Rainer introduced next.
"And I'm Sparky." Sparky introduced last.
"(Unique names.)" Lucario deadpanned.
"Sure." Volkner deadpanned.
"Mikey. Hey, Mikey! Eevee's come back." Sparky called out.
The gang saw a boy with brown hair and eyes, wearing a green shirt and blue shorts, approached them. Ashlyn knew that that was Mikey, Eevee's trainer.
"Oh." Mikey said, sad or disappointed.
Eevee jumped out of Rainer's arms and into Mikey's.
"How could you lose him? You've got to be careful." Pyro said.
"You'll lose your trainer qualification." Rainer warned.
"Did Eevee really escape? But it was tied to a tree, right?" Misty questioned Mikey.
"Why did you bring him back?" Mikey snapped at the gang.
"Huh?" The gang blinked.
"Hey, you don't need to snap at us." Ashlyn retorted, "Besides, it would be wrong to just leave him there. Even if there was food and water."
"Listen, Mikey. One day you'll be a Pokémon trainer just like us." Sparky started.
"Do you really think you can win your first battle with an unevolved Eevee?" Rainer asked.
"All of us won our first battles because we've evolved our Eevees. There's no other way to win. The key to a first victory is evolution." Pyro explained.
"But I don't care about battles." Mikey admitted.
"DON'T CARE?!" The three brothers shouted along with their Pokémon.
Misty shuddered, "They're scary."
Flint sweat dropped, "Y-Yeah."
"Geez, what a strict family." Ashlyn commented.
"Yeah, they're putting a lot of pressure on the kid." Volkner agreed.
"Raichu (Poor kid indeed)." Tesla said.
"Pikachu (They're scary)." Levina commented.
"Raichu (Don't worry)." Raichu assured her.
"Everyone is waiting to see what you make Eevee evolve into, Mikey." Rainer started.
"You've got three choices," Sparky gestured to their Pokémon, "Which do you think is the strongest of all the evolved Eevees?"
"Three? I thought there were more." Misty said.
"I believe they're talking about the most common ones in Kanto which are Jolteon, Flareon, and Vaporeon." Ashlyn explained.
Brock nodded, "That makes sense. I didn't even know about Espeon, Umbreon, Glaceon, Leafeon, or Sylveon."
"I guess you're right." Misty agreed.
"We want to know what you think of our Pokémon. Mikey, which Pokémon do you want Eevee to become?" Pyro started.
"A thunder stone will make it a Jolteon. When a Jolteon gets mad, the hairs on its body turn to needles. Then it fires at its opponent." Sparky explained about his Jolteon.
"I experienced that first hand before." Flint whined, remembering an unpleasant memory with Volkner's Jolteon.
"A water stone will make it a Vaporeon. It can melt into water and make itself disappear." Rainer explained about his Vaporeon.
"A fire stone will make it a Flareon. With a blazing flame attack released from its internal fire sack, Flareon is the strongest evolutionary choice of all." Pyro explained about his Flareon proudly.
Sparky butted in, "What, are you crazy? My Jolteon is the strongest of all." He retorted.
"Too bad you're the only one who thinks so." Pyro disagreed with a smirk.
Rainer smiled in front of Mikey, "Heh, Mikey, I'm sure you'll make the right choice and make it a Vaporeon."
The gang gazed at Mikey with pity.
"This family sure is competitive." Volkner stated.
Raichu nodded, "Rai Rai Raichu Rai (That's a lot of pressure to put on the little guy)."
"Yeah." Ashlyn agreed and then sweat dropped as the brothers were still arguing, "And they're still at it."
Brock, Misty, Volkner, and Flint sweat dropped.
"I'm not getting involved in this. Let's get some food." Ashlyn suggested.
"Good idea." Volkner agreed.
Then the group went over to the food table and picked out some food.
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Ashlyn had finished her food and went to look at the stones. Flint was also looking at them with his Vulpix.
"Chu." Levina pointed to the water fountain, "Pika pika."
"Okay, let's go." Ashlyn walked over to the fountain.
Suddenly Sparky appeared in front of her, "You do know that you could use a Thunder Stone to evolve your Pikachu into Raichu, right?"
"Levina is fine just the way she is. I see no reason to make her evolve, and besides it's the Pokémon's choice whether it wants to evolve or not." Ashlyn stated calmly, "And you can't force me to evolve her."
Ashlyn moved around Sparky and walked over to the fountain and let her electric Pokémon play with the others. She and Lucario went over to Misty and Mikey.
"You know, there's actually more forms of Eevee besides Jolteon, Flareon, and Vaporeon." Ashlyn said.
"Really?" Mikey asked, curious and surprised.
"Here, have a look." Ashlyn took out her phone to show him the other Eeveelutions.
"Wow, I never realized there were more." Mikey and Eevee awed at the five Eeveelutions.
"But you don't want Eevee to evolve, right?" Ashlyn asked.
Mikey frowned, "My brothers don't care about anything but battling Pokémon," He explained, "I was trying to hide Eevee from them, just for today. Then nobody could force me to make him evolve at the party."
"But Eevee looked very, very lonely out there." Misty said with a sad smile.
"(That's right. Eevee didn't want to be left alone.)" Lucario nodded.
"I was going to go get him later," Mikey stated and Eevee nuzzled against him. "I don't care if Eevee evolves or not. I just want him to be my best friend."
"That's great." Misty smiled.
"Huh? You think that's great?" Mikey questioned, confused.
"There's only one thing wrong." Misty said.
"What's that?" Mikey asked.
"You shouldn't have hidden Eevee." Misty replied.
"You were just running away from your problems," Ashlyn added, "If you don't want Eevee to evolve, tell your brothers how you feel. That's your responsibility as a trainer."
Mikey gazed at Ashlyn.
"You should tell them that you don't want to evolve Eevee and you like him just the way he is." Ashlyn suggested.
Mikey looked down in thought. Then Eevee nuzzled his cheek against his. He nodded and picked up Eevee, "You're right!" he stood up just as his brother's approached.
"Mikey! Have you decided on Eevee's evolution yet?" Sparky questioned.
Mikey looked over at Ashlyn and Misty who nodded with encouragement giving him the courage to do this,
"I-" he was cut off by poppers all around everyone and their Pokémon which caused everyone to panic.
"It's show time, everybody." Jessie announced as the Meowth hot hair balloon was lowering down.
"Who invited you?" Pyro demanded.
Jessie and James jumped out of the balloon and stood on a table.
"Prepare for trouble." Jessie announced.
"And make it double." James added.
"Come on out, Espeon!" Ashlyn released Espeon, "Use Confusion!"
Espeon's eyes glowed blue. Team Rocket were lifted into the air.
"I don't like being in the air!" James panicked.
"Put us down, twerp!" Jessie demanded.
"Forget it, you old hag." Ashlyn said.
"HAG?!" Jessie growled.
"Who are these guys?" Rainer asked.
"They're Team Rocket. A organization of criminals who steal other people's Pokémon." Volkner replied.
"They were after all of the Pokémon and the stones." Brock stated.
"Mikey, would help me send them blasting them off?" Ashlyn requested.
Mikey nodded, "Yeah!"
Eevee stood in front of Mikey, "Okay Eevee, use Take Down attack!"
Eevee ran towards Jessie and James.
"What's this, a stuffed animal?" Jessie taunted, unafraid of Eevee.
"Rage tackle attack!" Mikey added.
Eevee ran even faster and with more force, which made Team Rocket rethink about Eevee. Eevee tackled Team Rocket and sent them back into their balloon.
"Lucario, Aura Sphere! Tesla, Levina, Boltund, Thunder Shock! Espeon, Swift!" Ashlyn ordered.
"Raichu, Thunder Shock!" Volkner added.
"Vulpix, Flamethrower!" Flint added.
"Eevee, use Swift!" Mikey added.
All the attacks hit the balloon and sent Team Rocket into the sky.
"TEAM ROCKET'S BLASTING OFF AGAIN!" Team Rocket shouted before they disappeared into the sky.
All the Pokémon cheered.
Mikey pumped his fist in the air, "We did it!" Mikey cheered as he caught Eevee, "Wow! You're the greatest, Eevee!"
"Eevui!" Eevee smiled and licked its trainer's cheek happily.
"You did it, Mikey." Ashlyn smiled.
"That was really cool." Misty praised.
"Mikey! That was incredible." Sparky complimented.
"And you won that battle without making Eevee evolve. I was wrong." Rainer added.
"You always said you didn't want to battle, but you did great." Pyro praised.
"I-I just wanted to help everybody out." Mikey said. Then he looked at Ashlyn and Misty who nodded, "Also, I've decided to become an Eevee trainer."
"Hmm?" The three brothers said.
"An Eevee trainer?" Sparky asked.
Mikey nodded with determination.
"Well, Mikey, if that's what you want to do, then do it." Sparky smiled.
"If you felt that way about it, you should have told us sooner." Rainer said.
'Weren't you always arguing and putting pressure on him when he was trying to make his own decisions?' Ashlyn sweat dropped.
"Now we really are the four Eevee brothers." Pyro declared.
Mikey smiled, "My brothers are the best."
"Eevuii!" Eevee agreed.
"Congratulations, Mikey." Ashlyn congratulated Mikey.
Mikey smiled, "Thanks."
"Hey, guys, let's make this party a celebration of Eevee's first victory." Sparky announced.
Rainer and Pyro nodded in agreement.
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"Congratulations, Mikey." Flint congratulated Mikey.
"Yeah." Mikey turned to Ashlyn and Misty, "Uh, Miss Ashlyn? Miss Misty?"
"What is it?" Misty asked.
"I wanted to thank you two for helping me." Mikey replied.
"Oh, I really didn't do much." Ashlyn rubbed the back of her head sheepishly.
Mikey shook his head, "That's not true at all. I heard what you said to my brother earlier about not wanting to evolve your Pikachu. It's your Pokémon's decision if they want to evolve or not and you accepted it. So thank you."
Ashlyn smiled. "You're welcome, Mikey."
The Pokémon cheered happily.
Mikey handed the two girls a blue flower, "For you."
"Oh, it's beautiful, Mikey." Ashlyn praised.
"I'm sure you'll become a great Eevee trainer." Misty complimented.
Mikey smiled.
"Seems like you got a little competition, huh Volkner?" Flint grinned.
Volkner groaned with a blush on his cheeks.
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Everyone was getting in position for a group photo. Psyduck was setting up the camera and when the red light was blinking, he ran over to get into position, only to trip on own his feet and as the photo was snapped.
To Ashlyn, it was a great photo. It reminded her of lesson she had somehow taught to Mikey and all of his brothers: All of us must have the courage to follow our own true path.
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Pokémon on hand: Raichu (Tesla)(F), Lucario (M), Pidgeot (F), Bulbasaur (M), Shiny Charmander (Natsu)(M), Squirtle (M), Shiny Gyarados (Rory)(M), Boltund (M), Shiny Rapidash (Comet)(M), Shiny Raikou (Thor)(M), Shiny Umbreon (Mani)(M), Espeon (F), Glaceon (F), Leafeon (F), Shiny Sylveon (Parisa)(F), Pikachu (Levina)(F)
Prof. Oak's Lab:
Mienfoo (F), Jolteon (F), Flareon (M), Vaporeon (F), Clefable (F), Sandslash (M), Butterfree (M), Pink Butterfree (Momo)(F), Gengar (M), Rockruff (M), Raboot (M), Braixen (F), Kingler (M), Magnemite (Genderless), Muk (M), Nidorina (M), Nidorino (F), Marowak (F), Cubone (M), Dewgong (M), Persian (F), Horsea (F), Vulpix (F), Eevee (F), Abra (M), Kangaskhan (F), Growlithe (F), Tauros (9), Porygon (Genderless), Shiny Suicune (Azure)(F), Dratini (F), Shiny Entei (Searius)(M), Primeape (M), Scyther (F)