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===Indigo League===

Ash makes his first appearance in this story when the power in his house suddenly goes out. He finds and captures the source of the electricity's failure, a wild Pikachu that was chewing on the wires, and goes to release it back into the wild. He encounters his rival, [[Gary Oak]], and finds out that he has gotten his Pokémon Trainer's license and will begin his journey in one week and brags to Ash about it. Gary's goading and some encouragement from Gary's sister, [[Daisy Oak|May]], causes Ash to decide that he will get his own license. Ash succeeds in getting his license and will begin his journey a week later. While attempting to capture a wild {{p|Pidgey}}, Pikachu goes missing and gets attacked by a herd of wild {{p|Spearow}}. Ash manages to rescue Pikachu and rushes it to the Pokémon Center so that it can be healed from its injuries; when Pikachu notices that Ash is risking his life to save it, Pikachu jumps up and defeats the leader of the Spearow herd, a {{p|Fearow}}, with a powerful Electric attack and Ash manages to capture it. Pikachu is later healed while Ash has to deal with an angry {{an|Misty}}, whose bike he had stolen and accidentally destroyed while fleeing from the Spearow herd.  

Sometime later, Ash challenges the Saffron City's Gym Leader, Sabrina, but is defeated by her powerful Psychic abilities. He decides to stay at the Gym to do some training so he battle Sabrina again when she suddenly goes missing. Sabrina resurfaces a week later but has had her soul sucked out of her body by an evil, giant {{p|Haunter}} known as the Black Fog. Ash, Brock, and a group of other people who have been fighting the Black Fog decide to avenge Sabrina by capturing the monster in giant Poké Ball specially designed to capture it called the “Enormo Poké Ball—X1”. They find the Black Fog at the Pokémon Tower where Ash battles it; in the battle the Black Fog manages to destroy the giant Poké Ball but becomes too weak to resist even a normal size Poké Ball. Ash attempts to capture the monster with a Hyper Ball but it commits suicide with {{m|SelfDestruct}} before it can even reach it. While Sabrina felt sorry for the monster’s death and cried for it, Ash cried simply for the fact that Hyper Ball he threw cost him the last of his allowance.

Ash travels to Stone Town on Dream Island along with Misty and Brock so that Misty can buy an evolutionary stone to evolve one of her Pokémon. They are approached by a young boy named Mikey who gives Misty a case holding a Fire, Water, and Thunder stone. After doing some investigating they find out that he is an inductee to a group of people who love Pokémon that are evolved with stones known as the "Knights of the E Stone". When Mikey is yelled at the group for not evolving his {{p|Eevee}}, Ash steps in to defend him and they are given a challenge to see if Mikey gets to join the group. Ash and Mikey manage to beat their challenges and Mikey is inducted into the Knights of the E Stone while Ash denies his own offer to join the group.

Later, at the league, Ash manages to win his first match with his newly evolved {{p|Kingler}} while Brock and Misty have already been defeated. As he taunts them for mocking his skills and not being anything special themselves, Pikachu goes running off. Ash finds Pikachu eating with the Pikachu of another Trainer, [[Ritchie]], and befriends him. Ash and Ritchie easily win most of their matches and end up in the fourth round, Ash vs. [[Jeanette Fisher]] and Ritchie vs. Gary. Despite having some troubles with her {{p|Bellsprout}}, Ash is eventually able to beat it with his {{p|Muk}}.  

In the fifth round Ash begins his battle with his new friend and rival, Ritchie, who has managed to beat Gary in the previous round. The battle begins with Ash sending out Squirtle and Ritchie sending out his Butterfree, Happy; the match ends in a tie when Squirtle is put to sleep and Happy is knocked out. The next battle is between Ash's Pikachu and Ritchie's Pikachu, Sparky; both knock each other out with their powerful {{m|Thunder}} moves. Their third and last battle is between Ash's Charizard and Ritchie’s Charizard, Zippo; as the battle goes on Ash's Charizard greatly damages Ritchie's Zippo; Ash throws the match in order to prevent Zippo from suffering any longer. Ritchie later manages to cheer Ash up by saying that his Zippo will be alright after being healed while Brock tells Ash that Charizard will one day see him as friend and listen to him; they then go to cheer on Ritchie as he goes through round six.

Now that he has all of his Gym Badges, Ash travels to [[Pummelo Island]] to begin his challenge against, {{oi|Drake}}, the Orange League champion. At first, Ash is nervous about the match but with some encouragement from Team Rocket, he manages to start the match with confidence. The next day, Ash and Drake greet each other and begin their match with Ash using Pikachu while Drake uses Ditto. At first, Ditto's {{m|Transform}} causes some trouble for Pikachu because it can copy its moves but Pikachu manages to win using its greater speed that Ditto can't copy to defeat it.

Sometime before, in a story that takes place before Ash traveled to the Orange Archipelago, Ash meets up with Gary again sometime after the Indigo League. Ash and Gary decide to have a competition to see who capture a recently found (and stolen) giant {{p|Slowpoke}} first. The Slowpoke’s abilities make it nearly impossible to capture, but Ash uses his quick thinking and finally manages to capture it first. Ash soon trades his newly captured Slowpoke for a picture of May gorging her self on some food.