History Awesome / AshesOfThePast

[[folder: Mastermind of Mirage Pokemon (213-215)]]

* Just seeing Ash going mano-a-mano against Pokemon on his own is one.

** In the same chapter, J has her Drapion use Toxic on Ash to try and kill him. [[TakingTheBullet Riolu shields him]]... And, for added humiliation to J, ''becomes a Lucario'', thus {{No Sell}}ing [[ElementalRockPaperScissors the Poison-type attack thanks to becoming a part-Steel type Pokemon]].

** [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome While all this was happening, Lucario has defeated J's Pokemon and captured her]]. Next we see him, he wrecks the controls for Lawrence's capture rings, finally neutralizing the idiot for good.

* Brock's Stantler vs Blade, Shingo's Scizor. Blade is a powerful Pokemon, one that in canon gave Ash's Heracross a desperate run for his money, and Stantler is still a fawn. Stantler ''[[CurbStompBattle curbstomped]]'' Blade.

* Team Rocket's attack on Vicious, the Iron-Masked Marauder. Vicious is more formidable than in the original timeline, thanks to a failed attempt at stopping him executed by some Team Rocket Grunts ending up giving him more Pokemon... So Jessie, James and Meowth showed up with all their considerable firepower ''and'' the Pokemon world equivalent of a [[CoolPlane V-22]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey Osprey]], starting a truly ''formidable'' battle.

** Just the rules imposed by gym leader Chuck are awesome: five one-on-one matches, who wins the most wins the battle, he'll use five Fighting types, and Ash will use his four and a Pokemon of his choice. Done ''fully knowing that [[OlympusMons Keldeo]] is a Fighting type'' ([[NoodleIncident he once fought a guy with a Moltres]]. [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome It was a blast of a battle]]).

* In chapter 83, the gang and Ritchie have to deal with Cipher in addition to dr. Namba's group of Team Rocket. Cipher, of course, is using Shadow Pokemon, much stronger than normal Pokemon... And ''still'' [[CurbStompBattle gets trounced]]. In one case ''while having a Type advantage'' (a Shadow Tropius vs. Misty's Gyarados. [[OneHitKO One Ice Beam and Tropius was out]]). Then we have Lucario using the Hiryu Shotenha... And Ash ''punching out Nascour''.

** Jasmine being CrazyPrepared enough to: make her gym out of face-hardened rolled steel plates (that is, ''battleship armour'') for trainers of high-powered Pokemon (like Ash); having platforms for the trainers in case someone floods the field (as Kingler does); having ''powerful'' fans to pump out poison gas (this in spite of Jasmine using Steel-type Pokemon, [[ElementalRockPaperScissors immune to Poison-type moves]]. Then again, a surprisingly high number of challengers uses Poison-type moves against her...) and drain the water when the field is flooded (turns out useful when having Magnezone around in the flooded gym turns out being too dangerous), among other things;

** Kingler vs. Magnezone. It's rare seeing one of Ash's Pokemon at the ''receiving'' side of a CurbStompBattle...;

** During the Pokemon Extreme race, Entei decides to race against Ash. Ash is being pulled by Donphan. Entei, to give himself an handicap, decides to pull a ''railway push cart with Suicune and Meganium on it''... ''And still outruns Donphan'' (the only reason he doesn't win outright is that he had not registered). Oh, and he has started running late, so he had to catch up too...
** Casey takes part to the race with her Pidgeotto... And, thanks to her Pokemon evolving, it takes the photo finish to verify who won. She came up second, but had her Pidgeotto evolved ''one second'' earlier she would have won.

** Aurorus showing Entei exactly ''how'' you overpower Kyurem's Ice-type attacks (not that it helps her win in the end). Oh, and that's not even the worst a Pokemon with Refrigerate can do...

*** Giving a good battle to [[OlympusMons Keldeo]] with an ''[[LethalJokeCharacter Exeggcute]]''. The fact Exeggcute is actually six small Pokemon with a hive mind and the ability to regenerate damage helped.

** Charizard fighting Casey's Pidgeot, Meganium and Raticate-that is, the very Pokemon he faced (''and lost against'') when Ash first fought Casey in this timeline, now fully evolved and trained to take him on: Pidgeot gives Charizard a good workout before the fire Pokemon starts using an incomplete Blast Burn as a ''proximity weapon''; Meganium manages to give Charizard a thrashing, thanks to a quick Constrict blocking his ability to move or spit fire, a constant barrage of Ancientpower and a Frenzy Plant, before Charizard manages to score with a Fire Blast; and Raticate, formerly the FEAR Rattata, ''wins again''.

* Chapter 148: After years and years of hunting, over six hundred attempts to ambush Ash, thousands of schemes, ''time travel'', and the collection of a Legendary Pokemon, Team Rocket... has finally received a Pikachu. Granted, it's not Ash's, but even ''they'' are shocked.

* The gang stopping the Phantom Pirates' second attempt to grab Manaphy, including Zorua taking Manaphy's place and turning into a Tyrantrum to scare the last grunt, and Blaziken's CurbStompBattle against the Pokemon they sent out against him.

** Ash, along with the Pokémon out at the time the Poké-Balls were disabled, going head to head with the Pokemon the Pirates brought. Including Ash vs. a Rhydon.

* The gang puts up a good fight against the MirrorMatch Mirage Pokemon attack, even if they end up losing due to sheer longevity on the enemy's part, and several of the team's Pokémon manage to evade capture.

* Iris and her Pokemon working together to climb a cliff.

** First, BattleCouple Ninetails and Growlie tag-team a powered up Houndoom.

--> '''Ash:''' He's a better person than you. How does that make you feel, that – if he hadn't been willing to forgive you abandoning him to die – you’d be a smear of soot?

** Charizard vs. Noivern, and her signature [[MakeMeWannaShout Boomblast attack]], which actually manages to ''neutralize'' his [[NukeEm Blast Burn]].

*** Ninjask is equally as fast and even more agile, able to keep up the pressure with [[LaserBlade Fury Cutter]] and [[MakeMeWannaShout Bug Buzz]] HitAndRunTactics, leaving Latios with no room to retaliate and no space to escape. It takes some advice from Ash for Latios to finally lose him, by ''blowing up the lake's surface'' with Luster Purge and creating a water screen large enough for Ninjask to finally lose track of him - whereupon Latios retaliates with a Dragon Pulse to the face.

** And at the very end, the timer runs out with both teams exactly equal in points. The tiebreaker is a first-to-hit SuddenDeath overtime round... and Zoey's Sylveon takes the point.

** Torterra's double-charged Energy Ball catching Tyranitar mid-jump and blowing her clean through a wall.

** The battle between the two trainers' Torterra is pretty evenly matched... until Ash gets Torterra to climb a Frenzy Plant tree for extra height... [[BellyFlopCrushing and then Heavy Slam right onto Paul's Torterra]] and giving the Continent Pokémon his first non Team Rocket victory.

** And Sparky gets in on the action by using his own developing psychic skill to [[ShapingYourAttacks shape his electricity]] into [[WhipItGood electro-whips]].

* Meganium gives a reminder to Pikachu and Corona that even as a female, a healer, and a mother, she can battle with the best of them: by using [[WhipItGood Power Whip]] and [[PetalPower Petal Blizzard]] to flatten an entire herd of rampaging Rampardos.

** The battle between the two trainers' Torterra is pretty evenly matched... until Ash gets Torterra to climb a Frenzy Plant tree for extra height... [[BellyFlopCrushing and then Heavy Slam right onto Paul's Torterra]].

*** Cubone reveals her [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Reality Marble]] and ''curb-stomps Koga's entire team''.

*** Tapping into a spark of power left in his soul when they first arrived in Unova, Pikachu blows up all of J's stasis cages with ''Bolt Strike'', ''Zekrom's'' signature move, undoing a year of J's efforts. Riolu then prevents J and her crew from recapturing them with help from Maurice's Altaria.

--> (Damian has no idea what Ash was going on about)

--> '''Damian:'''So? Oh, is this about that Charmander? ''(Shrugs)'' Yeah, that wasn't my Pokémon any more. So, what do you care?

--> The scene then cuts to an hour later, where Ash remarks how proud he is of Charizard for what he did - which included blowing Damien over with a snort before handing him in to the local police station.

** Ash delivers an ''epic'' HumiliationConga to [[{{Jerkass}} Damian]].