"Typhlosion, Blast Burn!"
"Feraligatr, Hydro Cannon!"
After Pikachu's victory against that Furret, Ash's luck improved a lot. In the remaining two battles, the opponent was the ones that had to release their Pokémon first, so Ash just used the Pokémon he had to restrain that opponent, so he was easily able to win the victory with two of his three Royal Starter Pokémon from the Johto Region!
Additionally, all three of his opponents had lost the battle within a single move.
"Big Brother is the greatest!"
Molly hugged Ash's leg and cheered happily. He had won all three of his required battles. He is now perfectly safe since he had just passed the selection battles and will be able to participate in the preliminaries later.
On the big screen of the Pokémon Center, a TV is broadcasting the Trainers who have passed the selection and entered the main stage.
"Big Brother, you're the first one there! Great!" The little girl has the sharpest eyes and found Ash's photo at once. Although the order of the photos here does not necessarily mean the results of the competition, Ash's results were obviously extremely impressive. His picture appeared in the first row first picture.
Next, the group also saw photos of Harrison and Gary. As expected, they also successfully entered the the main tournament.
"Ash, congratulations on your victory's!" Mr. Goodshow appeared behind Ash to congratulate him on his successful wins.
"It will not be easy to reach the finals of the Silver Conference!" Mr. Goodshow said to Ash to get him ready for the rules of the upcoming competition.
"The preliminaries of the Silver Conference will be a three-person competition in a group, and the Trainer who scores the most winning points will be able to participate in the main tournament!"
"The final is a fierce competition between wil be between the 16 people who won the all their preliminaries beautifully!"
In short, Ash still has to go through a lot of battles to even reach the actual tournament. This will be a longer and more difficult battle process than the one his past self faced at the Indigo Plateau Conference.
However, a smile appeared on Ash's face.
It's been a long time since he met a a place like this to earn more of the Exchange Points he really wants. The more battles the competition has for him, the better. He has been saving his Exchange Points for a long time now. He believed that after passing the preliminaries, he can redeem another Z Crystal!
That was a real Ultimate Move. Having seen Pikachu's Gigavolt Havoc with his own eyes before, Ash was full of expectations for the power of the other Z Moves that he would finally get in the future!
The next Z Crystal that Ash wants has also been decided long ago!
The Dragon-type Z Crystal!
Devastating Drake!
Ash knows that the only true Dragin-type Pokémon he currently has is Dratini, plus his Charizard and his other Pokémon that being his Red Gyarados all have the Dragon-type after completing their individual Bond Evolutions. Additionally they can all use powerful Dragon-type attacks.
In fact, quite a few of his Pokémon can use Dragon-type attacks. For example, Blastoise has learned Dragon Pulse and can also use this Z Move!
"Thank you, Mr. Goodshow, my blood is alredy boiling form excitement!" Ash had a confident smile on his face. He was looking forward to his upcoming battles!
That night, Ash and Mr. Goodshow confirmed the details of being the last torch runner at tomorrow's opening ceremony, and then he took Pikachu for a detour to the lake for a walk, with Latias silently accompanying them in her human form.
"Pikachu, you have to get ready for the preliminaries tomorrow! This will be the first Conference Champion that we have to win, we must win it beautifully!"
"Pika pika!"
Ash and Pikachu were in high spirits. Latias patted Ash on the shoulder and pointed to a familiar figure sitting by the lake.
"Hey, Gary. What are you doing here so late at night?" Ash was very familiar with Gary's Aura after seeing him so many times.
Hearing Ash's voice, Gary also turned around and said, "It turns out to be Asv. I heard that you will be tomorrow's torch runner, so you can call me impressed! You have to be ready for that ya know."
Ash sat next to him, while Pikachu went to play with Latias, "This is a matter of honor to me, of course I will do my best."
"By the way, what's wrong with you? What are you doing here?" Ash knew Gary's mentality pretty well by now. Even if he doesn't remember much of the plot, he still remembered a lot about the future direction of important characters like Gary.
After Gary loses to Ash in a battle here, he will make up his mind to become a Pokémon Researcher instead of continuing on to be a full time Pokémon Trainer. Not to mention inheriting the legacy of his grandfather Professor Oak, this is also the path he choose to find things more about himself.
Now is the one of times where he has to make a very important decision that could change the rest of his life!
The two sat by the lake, neither speaking to each other, just looking up at the full moon high above the sky.
At this time, it feels like they were just kids again, when they used to be very close friends.
It made him feel a little nostalgic even though he had never experienced like this before!
"When I left Pallet Town, the moon was like this on the first night on the road!" Gary seemed very emotional about this. It was obvious that he had accumulated a lot of experience along the way.
Hearing this, Ash chose it just smiled. When he left Pallet Town and embarked on his journey, his past self was still a dazed young boy who knew nothing about the world. He even chose to challenge a Pidgey on his own because Pikachu at that time didn't want to listen to him at all.
He then got Pikachu all covered in bruises as soon as he left his comfort place.
He spent the first night at the Pokémon Center in Viridian City, so he really didn't have the time to look up at the moon that night.
Looking at Ash's somewhat nostalgic look, Gary also said, "It's really incredible. If I hadn't seen such a moon that night, this moment might have been a complete different thing!"
"The choice we make at this moment will already lead to infinite possibilities in our future. To be honest, we are still very immature compared to many people in the world!"
Hearing Gary's word filled with emotions, Ash nodded along and said, "Gary, we are still very young. As you said, we have an unlimited future ahead of us. Whatever we want to do, we can just go ahead and do it!"
As Ash's mother, Delia, once said, "Let your mind go on a trip to see what you really want to be!"
Hearing this, Gary stood up, his eyes seemed to be twinkling with excitement, "Ash, remember that the person who will defeat you and will win the Silver Conference Champion is going to be me!"
Ash laughed and said, "No, the one who will win the Silver Conference Championship is going to be me!"
The next day, gings and drums were banged loudly, bright fireworks were blasting in the sky, colorful flags were fluttering in the wind, and there were huge crowds of people waiting for the final torch runner to began to tournament.
The main venue of the Silver Conference, the Silver Stadium, was already completely full. Everyone was eagerly waiting for the opening ceremony of the Silver Conference and the entry of the Trainers!
"The venue of the Johto Region Silver Conference is all filled with powerful Pokémon Trainers. The battle of strength and strategy is about to begin soon!"
"Who will win the Silver Conference? Let us sincerely look forward to the fierce competition waiting ahead of us!" The commentator yelled loudly into his microphone.
"Update here, we got news that the final torch runner had entered Silver Town with the Sacred Fire belonging to Ho-Oh!"
"The Trainers are entering one after another, now let's wait for the torch runner to enter!"
"Here we go, the last torch runner is Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town!" Under the spotlight, Ash ran into the venue holding the torch high!
Delia, Professor Oak, and Professor Elm looked proudly at Ash in front of the their own TV's. Pikachu was following Ash all the way, his head held high, shining brightly. What a glorious moment it was for them!
"The Legendary Pokémon that quelled wars and restored life to the earth and forests, Ho-Oh! Now it's been brought to the our grand stadium to host the Silver Conference!"
Everyone was looking forward to it, Ash climbed onto the Sacred Fire platform and lit the sacred flame!
The Johto Region Silver Conference has officially begun!
"This is the battle schedule for the preliminaries!"
After the opening ceremony, everyone returned to the Pokémon Center in the Athlete Village. This is the home base for all the participating Pokémon Trainers. Of course, the final selection and preliminaries arrangements were also announced here.
"Found it! Found it." Molly had the sharpest eyes and was the first to find Ash's battle schedule. "Big Brother will be battling in Group H!"
The preliminaries are a battle between groups of three Trainers. Ash is in the same group with a girl who looked to be a few years younger than him and a boy who is definitely older than Ash. As long as Ash can defeat these two Trainers in Group H, he can enter the final round without anything to worry about!
"Big Brother is the strongest Pokémon Trainer, he will definitely win all of the battle!" Molly was full of confidence in her brothers strength.
Everyone walked out of the Pokémon Center with a smile and prepared to go back to their rooms. On the way, they met a girl with a Vulpix who looked very familiar to them.
"I've been waiting for a long time!" The girl seemed to be waiting for Ash, "Your name is Ash Ketchum, right?"
"Who are you?" Ash looked at her for a while, and then asked helplessly, "Who are you? You look familiar. Have we met somewhere?"
Hearing Ash's answer, the girl almost fell down, "I am your opponent in the group stage, my name is Macy! You are so lacking in your brain! From the moment you saw me, the battle has already begun. You got it!"
In this way, Ash and his party understood, "I see, you are here to inspect the other persons situation?"
"That's right, I came to see what kind of Pokémon my opponent uses!" Macy thoughts was very actually preety smart, but she did remind Ash that he could get to know more information another Trainer through the computer in their room.
Thinking of this, he smiled and said, "Nice to meet you, Macy. Let's talk again later in the preliminaries and have a battle without any regrets!"
With that said, he led his away without saying any other words to her.
While passing by the food court, Ash noticed the Team Rockets Trio working part-time in one of the many shop. Sure enough, they escaped from prison again successfully.
When they were in Blackthorn City, they caused him a big trouble. Of course, Ash wanted to punish them severely, so he ordered Officer Jenny as him being a Pokémon Investigator to be particularly 'kind' to them.
After finally having some quiet time, he didn't expect that they would come to the Silver Conference to meet him again.
Ash thought it was the best idea to ignore them so he just led his group back to their room for some rest.
"So that's it, the Pokémon Macy uses are all Fire-type!" Brock was easily able to find Macy's information on the computer in the room.
"So your opponent will use Fire-type Pokémon, so you should definitely use a Water-type Pokémon to deal with them!" As a Water-type Pokémon trainer, Misty wasn't exactly too fond of a pure Fire-type Pokémon Trainers.
However, Ash choose to shake his head, "The other party is not a Trainer who will simply use a Fire-type Pokémon!"
There are indeed Trainers like Misty who focus exclusively on one type of Pokémon because it is cheaper to focus on training one type of Pokémon than focusing on many.
Misty herself dreams to become the greatest Water-type Pokémon Master.
But obviously Macy also has a preference for a single type, the Fire-type.
Ash dragged down her information on the page and saw that among the Pokémon she had registered in her name, in addition to the multiple Fire-type Pokémon, there was also an Electabuzz that could restrain Water-type Pokémon's, and a Jynx for no reason, at least any reason that he can think of!
"Ash is right here. If a Water-type Pokémon is sent out, maybe even Ash will have to he careful!" Misty's enthusiasm finally calmed down a little.
Ash smiled and said, "It's not just the Water-type that can restrain the Fire-type! Brock, please help me register these three for my upcoming battle against her!"
"The first battle of Group H in the preliminaries will start soon. Who will be the victor in this round?"
In the preliminaries, it was still the fair roulette that decided who will take out their Pokémon forst. This time Ash still had his protagonist luck with him.
"The first to send out their Pokémon will be Macy!"
"Ash Ketchum, I won't hold back!" Macy looked very motivated, "If I'm going to go first, then I'll use you first!"
The Pokémon sent out by Macy was none other than a Slugma, the pre-evolution form of Magcargo that Ash had met many times during his travels!
"Get ready for a wicked sandstorm, Rhydon!"
That's right, the Pokémon that Ash said can not only use Water-type attacks that can restrain the Fire-type, but also the Ground and Rock-type! Ash's Rhydon is not only proficient in Rock and Ground-type skills, but can also use the quite a few Water-type skills.
It can be said that he is the perfectl restraint to all of Macy's Pokémon other than her Starmie!
"What?" Sure enough, Macy was stunned for a moment when she saw Ash send out her Rhydon.
She deliberately appeared in front of Ash just to remind him that she was good at using Fire-type Pokémon and to indirectly tell him to send out his Water-type Pokémon's, but now this random Rhydon is already giving her a headache even though the match hasn't even begun!
"Macy brought out her Slugma, and Ash had sent out his Rhydon to challenge Macy! We can see that Ash's Rhydon is much larger than the ones we have data on!"
"In my 7 year career as a professional Pokémon Battle commentator, I have never seen anything like this!"
Even the commentator was scared by the size of Ash's Rhydon. Just like Ash's Tyranitar is still continuing to grow in size, so is his Rhydon.
The special Rock-type food exchangef from the System seems to be very effective on them and their size. With the assistance of his Macho Brace, Ash's two Rock-type Pokémon have grown in terrifying size.
Now this Rhydon has grown to 2.2 meters, and it looks very impressive just standing there without even doing anything.
"Let us go first, Rhydon!" The moment the battle started, Ash's momentum completely changed from his usual calm self to a more aggressive one, and his Rhydon also followed suit and roared to the sky, getting ready to do some damage!
Rhydon grasped his claws out of thin air, and a stone the size of a large balloon appeared. He smashed the stone towards Slugma.
"Slugma, get out of the way!"
Facing the giant Rhydon that perfectly restrained herself, Macy could only grit her teeth, but Slugma was barely able to avoid the first stone by who knows other than Arcoos, but there was a second and a third!
Boom!
Slugma itself is not a very fast by any means, so he was quickly hit by one of the stones Rhydon threw!
Rock-type attacks have an outstanding effect on Slugma!
"Slugma!" Macy exclaimed, "Use Flamethrower!"
Slugma lives in the hot Volcano zone, so his Flamethrower is obviously very powerful, but neither Ash nor his Rhydon seemed to care about this Flamethrower!
After all, they have a secret attack to restrain the Fire-type!
"Surf!"
In this place without water, Rhydon couldn't summon much water, but it still set off a wave of water under his feet, which hit Slugma directly without him or Macy be able to do anything to stop it!
"Slugma loses the ability to fight, Rhydon wins thsi battle!"
"Oh my god, Ash's Rhydon can actually use the move Surf!" The commentator was extremely stunned by the scene in front of him!
"In my 8 years of commantating Pokémon Battles, I have never seen a Rhydon use Surf!"
"Come back, Slugma!" Macy took back Slugma and looked back at Ash, "Ash, you are really powerful, but I will not give up just yet!"
"You'll be next!" This time, it was a Electabuzz who was sent out by Macy!
According to her idea, Ash will definitely send out a Water-type Pokémon as they already registered what Pokémon's they will be using for thsi battle, so she took back her already fainted Slugma, and then sent out her Electabuzz.
She thought that she can maybe take out his Rhydon and then his next Pokémon with her Electabuzz but Ash's Rhydon made her feel completely powerless!
"Electabuzz, use Iron Tail!"
In order to cope with the possibility of her opponent sending out Ground-type Pokémon, her Electabuzz learned the Steel-type Iron Tail. Obviously, this attack does have a effect on the Rock-type Rhydon!
The gap in levels is inevitable! Ash smiled confidently but also a little menacingly l, "Earthquake!"
The Earthquake produced by that terrifying figure stopped the running Electabuzz in his tracks.
"Stone Edge!" Taking advantage of Electabuzz not moving at all, Ash decisively launched a very powerful Rock-type move. The very sharp stone pillars mercilessly knocked Electabuzz away!
"Electabuzz loses the ability to fight, Rhydon wins this battle!"
"Oh my god, in my 9 years of experience, I have never seen a Trainer as strong as Ash, he really is really too strong. Rhydon has already defeated two Pokémon from Trainer Macy! Now, Trainer Macy only has her last Pokémon left, and Trainer Ash still has all three of his Pokémon left!"
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