Pokemon

The Donamite tournament continues to heat up as Trip and Bianca continue their battle. It's a battle of the titans as Trip's newly evolved Conkeldurr goes up against Bianca's newly evolved Emboar. Surprising to everyone, Bianca defeats Trip and advances to the next round, where she must now face Georgia in battle. Meanwhile, Ash and Cilan begin their next round battles.

The Donamite tournament continues to rage on with Iris and Burgundy being the next battle. Although Burgundy's Dewott has an advantage over Iris's Excadrill, Iris and Excadrill, are able to successful get past that and pull off a win. The next battle sees Georgia battling with her newly evolved Bisharp. As the round is set to conclude, the final battle is Trip vs. Bianca. Who will come out victorious.

Ash, Iris, Cilan, and Stephan arrive in a town where a new tournament called the Donamite is to be held. They are all excited to enter the tournament and soon reunite with Bianca, Trip, Burgundy, and Georgia who are all also entering. As the tournament gets underway, who will make it past the first round?

After winning his sixth badge, Ash and friends bump into Stephan. He is in town to compete in the Bell of Wishes Festival that is being held that day. Ash, Iris, and Cilan, after finding out that the winner gets to ring the bell atop Mistralton Tower and get a wish granted, decide to compete in the festival.

On their way to Mistralton City, Ash and friends are confronted the Krokorok that they have encounter numerous times. Ash begins a battle with it, but during the battle Pikachu and Krokorok become separated from Ash, Iris, and Cilan. They three find them in a nearby town. In town there are three friends who love to battle together, but they are not very good. Ash then decides to help them learn how to battle.

Ash and friends run into Professor Juniper's father who is exploring some nearby ruins. They go exploring with him where they see the ruins are part of the legends about the Unova region. While exploring they disturb the Pokmon of the ruins and must know solve the puzzle of the ruins while also avoiding the angered Pokmon.

While on the way to the next city, Ash and friends run into Professor Juniper who is studying Chargestone Cave. While talking to Juniper it is revealed that she has a Karrablast, and after seeing Bianca has a Shelmet, Juniper and Bianca trade their pokmon in order to make them evolve. However, problems arise after the trade when Bianca can't control her new pokmon.

After winning his fifth badge, Ash and friends begin heading for the next city. They run into Bianca who decides to join the group briefly. While on their journey they run into a group of Galvantula and a Joltik. Upon this encounter everyone notices their Electric-type Pokmon are suddenly weak and not feeling good.

Ash tries to challenge Clay to a gym battle again but Clay refuses because he has to find some Revival Herbs for Driftviel City. He says if Ash can find some, he will battle him. Ash, Iris, and Cilan learn that they grow on Milos Island and head there to find some. Upon arriving on the island they find out that the herbs have all dried up for some reason. They meet Lewis who decides to pray to Landorus in order to save the island. However, things go unexpectedly wrong when the Legendary Weather pokmon Tornadus and Thundurus show up and begin rampaging.

While in Driftveil City, Ash and friends run into Cilan's brother Chili. Chili wants to battle his brother to determine who is the strongest. Cilan agrees and defeats his brother. Chili becomes upset and blames Pansear for the loss and then goes off to find and try to defeat Cress. Ash and friends follow him to calm him down.

Ash and friends arrive in Driftveil City and immediately head to the gym. The gym is closed and so they decide to tour the city. They run into a motorcyclist Charles who acts like their tour guide. Soon they witness a crime taking place and the town's hero save them. Ash becomes a fan of the hero and wants to meet him.

Continuing their journey to Driftveil City, Ash and Cilan are about to have a practice battle. However, two Deino run into the area and start wrecking all their stuff and running out of control. Ash and Iris decide to capture them, but it fails. Soon a man named Bobby comes by and reveals that he is watching these Deino for other trainers at his Daycare Center. They follow him back to his Daycare Center and see all the Pokmon he is taking care of. They also see that there is a third Deino at the center, but it is very shy. As Ash and Cilan help Bobby take care of the other pokmon, Iris makes it her personal mission to help the shy Deino come out of its shell.

Continuing their way to Driftveil City, Ash and Iris have a practice battle with Scraggy and Axew. After the battle, a Gothita appears and takes a liking to Scraggy. Gothita's trainer Katharine appears soon after. After seeing how much Gothita likes Scraggy, she offers Ash a trade. Ash refuses to trade Scraggy, and so Katharine demands a battle, and if she wins he must trade Scraggy. Midway through the battle it starts to rain and everyone runs to a nearby cottage to take shelter. During the middle of the night Gothita wakes up and takes off with Scraggy. Axew and Snivy give chase but will they be able to stop Gothita?

On the way to Driftveil City, Ash and friends stop at a Pokmon Center where they meet a Pokmon Photographer named Robert. Robert shows them his photographs and everyone is impressed. Robert then shows them his grandfather's photobook. Iris and Cilan are shocked at one of the pictures. The pictures shows all four seasonal forms of Sawsbuck together in one place. Believing this to be impossible, they question Robert and he says he wants to try and find the place the picture was taken and prove that the picture is real. Ash, Iris, and Cilan, wanting to see the Sawsbuck as well, join Robert on his journey.

Continuing to Driftveil City, Ash and friends come across a trainer named Toby who is training his three Maractus for a Pokmon musical. However, one of his Maractus keeps messing up at a certain part of the routine, messing the whole routine up. When Toby starts to give up hope on his routine, Ash, Iris, and Cilan decide to help him and his Maractus learn the routine.

Ash and friends begin their journey towards Driftveil City. On their way they run into Trip. Their reunion is short lived as everyone is surprised when the Champion of Unova, Alder appears! Trip, having met Alder when he was younger, wants to show Alder his progress as a trainer. However, Ash challenges him to a battle. During the battle Alder gives no commands to his Bouffalant, and falls asleep. This causes Trip to loose interest in Alder as a champion, though when a wild Gigalith begins rampaging, his view of him might change.

Following Ash's victory at the Nimbasa Gym, Ash, Iris, and Cilan decide to do some sight seeing in Nimbasa City. However, Cilan quickly becomes distracted by a stamp rally. If one can collect all the stamps, they will get a chance to battle the Subway Bosses, Ingo and Emmet. While collecting the stamps, Cilan meets Erina who has lost her Axew. Cilan decides to help her find it. Meanwhile, Ash and Iris find Erina's Axew and try to find her owner.

Ash finally gets his chance to battle Elesa for his fourth Unova Gym badge. Ash is confident in his line-up and believes the battle will be no problem. As expected, Elesa's Zebstrika takes center stage first. Using his trusted Palpitoad, Ash manages to take down the Pokmon that single-handedly took out all of Bianca's Pokmon. However, when Elesa defeats Palpitoad Ash is left rethinking his entire battle strategy.

Back in Nimbasa City following the subway disaster, Ash and friends encounter Bianca again. She is also there to battle Elesa at the gym. However, the battle is put on hold temporarily while Elesa is modeling. After seeing Bianca and Ash, Elesa returns to the gym. Bianca's match is stopped briefly by the appearance of her father. He father wants her to return home, saying she is not ready to be a trainer. However, Elesa manages to convince him to let her battle. Bianca's dad agrees to let her continue traveling if she can defeat Elesa.