Pokémon Ruby And Sapphire(Alternate from Canon)

Wheel of Frontier

(< > Is the translation of pokemon's speech , [ ] is the pokedex and bold are thoughts)

After an eventful night and a new friend and Ash's cousin, Molly Hale joining the gang, our heroes get to the Frontier Brain, Greta, helping her building get finished being fixed.

After a while, Greta goes to Ash.
"Well Ash, ready for our match?"
Ash nods, but May's and Max's stomachs growl.

They blush, clearly embarrassed.
Brock and Greta chuckles at that, Ash then says "How about I make lunch for everyone?"

Everyone didnt object and Ash starts making lunch, fruit sandwiches, fresh veggie salad, and for dessert, Magikarp shaped Taiyaki, half of the batch filled with milk chocolate, the other half filled with red bean paste.

A Meditite and Makuhita, both with an armband watches him prepare everyone's lunch, including the pokemon food.

Ash notices the fighting type pokemon and waves to them politely. The Meditite and Makuhita look at each other and approaches.

Ash smiles, hands them some pokemon food and says "I need some taste testers for my fighting type pokemon food. Do you two wanna try some?"

The two pokemon look at the pokemon food and both pick up a piece and chews it.

Their eyes widen and a big smile grows on their faces.
"Is it good? I'd be more than happy to fix you two a bowl of it at lunch time." Ash said kindly, to which Makuhita and Meditite nods excitedly.

At lunch, everyone eats the food happily, Greta scarfing down fruit sandwich after fruit sandwich.

"These are amazing Ash! I'm glad you can cook!" Greta complimented and Ash blushes modestly.

"Thank you Greta" Ash thanks and Max says " Your Meditite and Makuhita seem to like Ash's cooking too."

Greta tilted her head "My Meditite and Makuhit- ohh! Nono, they arent mine! They're actually wild pokemon. They seemed interested in our training, so I decided it wouldnt hurt to have more students." She explained.

Max nods and Molly asks "How come you didnt catch them Ms Greta?"

Greta's smile faltered, looking at the two pokemon and sighed.

"A former student of mine abandoned them...When I found the two, I recognized the bands on their arms. I have no clue why she would just give up on her pokemon.."

The gang were clearly sympathetic, Molly gasps. "The poor things!"
Ash sighed softly and says "It's not uncommon for us to find pokemon who had bad trainers."

May, Max, and Brock all nodded.
"They mostly like Ash more. Who could blame them? With Ash being able to understand them, it can make him a pokemon magnet." Brock said.

May nods and says "He's a very good trainer, a very good person, and a very good cook!"

Ash was super embarrassed, blushing a bit. "You guys.."

After lunch, Greta tightened her belt and says "Alright! You ready for our battle Ash?" Ash nods, but a man runs in.

"Greta! It's terrible! All the pokemon are gone!"
Everyone looked shocked and agreed to look for the pokemon first, even Meditite and Makuhita.

"Anyone else can guess the culprits" Ash asked, to which Brock chimes in with "No prizes this could be Team Rocket."

Molly looked puzzled. "Team Rocket? Those weird people with the talking Meowth that you told me about Ash?"

Ash nods, and luckily, they were able to find Team Rocket easily, having a lot of fighting type pokemon in super strong cages.

"Hehehe! Of course we splurged on titanium bars! Cant have fighting type pokemon break out!" Meowth gloated, but got hit with an Iron Tail from Pikachu.