After the preliminaries, the League gave the Trainers a day's worth of rest, which they could use to relax, investigate the opponents information, and prepare for the following tournament against all the other Trainers.
However, Ash knew Gary's situation well, so there was nothing to be nervous about from him. It was better to take this opportunity to take Molly for a walk for one last time. When the Silver Conference was going to be over, she would have to go home with her dad for further studies.
"Big Brother, this is so beautiful!" Molly somehow jumped to a souvenir stall, holding a golden badge and looking very fond of it.
This is a Poké Ball-style Marsh Badge, which was really exquisite in the details and design.
But when he saw the stall owners, Ash couldn't help but smile, "Didn't you three work in a restaurant before? Why change so quickly? But this small business is quite good, its suits you three!"
Seeing that Ash has actually appearing in front of them, the Rocket Trio were surprised at first, but soon relaxed when they heard him talk, "Yes, Boss Ash, take whatever you like. We will give you a large discount!"
Brock and Misty also recognized them after hearing Ash talking to them, "Team Rocket, you all are business well this time so just don't cause any issues at this tournament. Do you understand?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" The Rocket Trio said repeatedly.
These commemorative badges are indeed exquisite. In fact, the Rockets have a lot of business acumen, but they have never been willing to do it in a down-to-earth manner, so instead do the one thing they are bad at doing, that being actual villains.
Ash picked a few and gave all the money to the trio. When he stood up, Gary found him.
Seeing this, Misty and Brock smiled and said, "Ash, you two talk first, we will take Molly and Latias to go shopping!"
Ash smiled and nodded and turned to Gary, "Gary, you seem very nervous about our fight!"
Gary would sometimes appear in front of him in the past two days to talk about something, Ash could see that he was obviously restless when he was all alone.
But Gary denied it, "Ash, do you still remember this?"
What he is holding in his hand now is half a Poké Ball, which is the top red part.
"Of course I remember that, how can I forget that of all things! The other half is still in my backpack!" Ash took his group out on shopping, so his backpack was placed in the dormitory and was not taken out with him.
This is a Poké Ball taht tied these two guys, and it is also the best symbol to show off their bond!
This story goes back to the day before the two boys even picked up their Starter Pokémon from the Professor and set off for their own trips. The two fished this old Poké Ball in the river at the same time.
Under the hard pull of the two of them at the same time, the Poké Ball broke into two halves.
Since then, the two of them have embarked on the journey of becoming a Pokémon Trainer with each holding half of it!
This is Ash's amulet, on which Ash's original hope of becoming a Pokémon Master is still placed to this day!
Seeing Gary's serious expression, Ash suddenly smiled and said, "Let's go eat something, I'm hungry form all that thinking!"
Brock cooked the food himself and it was even more lively when everyone ate together. Gary, who was dragged in by Ash, quickly calmed down and sat next to Asb and began to stuff his mouth with all the food.
"Hey, Ash, I want that sandwich! Give it to me!"
"You've already eaten three, try something else! This one is mine!"
Looking at Ash's and Gary's face while eating and talking at the same time, Misty and Brock smiled and shook their heads.
They have seen Ash mature from his very immature phase to a point where ate very maturely, so now seeing him eat like this in almost a year brought them some old memories of their journey in the Kanto Region.
Now these two old friends were so similar in so many ways.
After eating and drinking with them, Gary wiped his mouth and returned to his cheerful demeanor, "Thanks for the treat, Brock!"
Even Molly was amused by this look, "Haha, Brother Gary, you look so cute!"
"Ah, have you all finished eating?" Professor Oak, Delia and Professor Hale all walked in at the same time. Professor Hale was out there to greet them just now.
"Mom?" Ash obviously didn't expect to see his mom so soon, he expected her to come a little later.
"Grandpa, why are you here?" Gary also looked confused after the appearance of his gramps.
"Dad!" Molly cheered and threw herself into Professor Hales arms like she hadn't seen him in such a long time even though she just saw him like half a hour ago.
"The final tournament is something I have been waiting for, of course I have to come and see it with my own eyes!" Delia said easily, but she was unconditionally supporting her son in his dream!
Professor Oak then told them about his purpose of his visit so soon, "I heard that you met at the first round of the tournament, so we came here to cheer! But looking at your appearance, I'm are relieved to see that you boys aren't that anxious!"
After hearing Professor Oak's words, Gary looked at Ash and said, "Ash, thank you for this!"
He knew that Ash invited him to eat together just to let him relax and not to be so tense before their important battle. Gary knew that he had pushed himself too hard in recent times, and he even wanted to use the bond between the two of them to make him think of something!
Ash smiled slightly, and there was no need to say anymore more words between the brothers.
"The Johto Region Silver Conference tournament is about to begin. What kind of battle will the 16 strongest Trainers who have entered this round through the preliminaries perform next?"
"I personally have me bet on this Ash fellow, what about you Stephen A.?"
This round of the decisive tournament involves a 6-on-6 battle between all Trainers, and the battle venue has also entered the main venue of the Silver Stadium. The audience was already excited about their favorite Trainers making it to the next round!
The battle facilities here are of course more complete than the ones that he had previously battled on. The battle venues in the finals will change every time, including the grass field, rock field, water field, ice field and some other venues.
There will be a computer random selection on who goes first before the battle starts, so this was already very exciting.
How to use different venues for tactical arrangements depends on the Trainer's own experience and on-the-spot performance.
"In the first battle of the first round, Trainer Harrison won with a beautiful fast counterattacks from his Pokémon's!" Harrison successfully entered the next round of the tournament, and now it was immediately Ash and Gary's turn to battle it out one final time.
"Next, the second battle of the decisive tournament is between Ash Ketchum, a Pokémon Trainer hailing from Pallet Town, and Gary Oak, another Pokémon Trainer that is also hailing from Pallet Town.
This is a situation where two people from the same place compete on the same stage! This battle is destined to be a wonderful battle that is highly anticipated by the people!"
Ash had left this commentator very deep impression on him, and Gary is also Professor Oak's grandson, with extraordinary abilities under him, so he started to exaggerate the battle between the two from the very beginning, even before they got on their stage.
Outside the court, Gary's cheerleading girls came back to him, making Brock stunned after seeing them in so long.
Ash's cheerleading team is composed of Molly, Jigglypuff, Politoed and Togepi.
"Okay, let's take a look at the battle site!"
Randomly select before the battle starts. If you select a water field and bring a Ground or Rock-type Pokémon, it will be a true tragedy.
This time, Ash and Gary's battle venue is the Rock venue that is known for being the most neutral battle arena!
The field in front of the two people was replaced, and the new field was covered with high and low rockery stone pillars!
"Go, Nidoqueen!" Gary was the first one that had to send their Pokémons out, and the one he sent was his trusted Nidoqueen, which he had caught and trained since his time in the Kanto Region. This was a Pokémon he had cultivated for a long time along with his Blastoise and his Arcanine!
When he was in the Kanto Region, he captured a large number of Pokémon of all types, and he trained the most excellent ones of those Pokémon's under him. He had spent a considerable amount of time and resources on this Nidoqueen.
In terms of the number of Pokémon, Ash is far inferior to him.
"Gary, looks like you really serious form the get go!" Seeing this Nidoqueen, Ash smiled and threw his Poké Ball, "Stand by for battle, Snorlax!"
Ash's 2.6 meters giant Snorlax hit the Rock field hard, the entire stadium suddenly shook as if there was an earthquake happening!
"Snor snorlax!"
Snorlax seemed to have just been woken up by Ash and gave him a big yawn as if to say what up. The entire rock venue was still shaking, and large amounts of cracks appeared on the stone pillars surrounding the nearby area!
"Trainer Ash's Snorlax looks to very amazing like all the other Pokémon's we saw. Just one step caused such a stir!" The commentator was already shocked, and so was the audience because all of their jaws were dropped and there seemed to be flys going inside of their mouth.
Although most of them knew how powerful Snorlax was as a species, this Snorlax especially in front of them was simply beyond their comprehension, it was simply hard to understand!
Professor Oak said with a faint smile, "Ash has been training his Snorlax hard since he went to the Johto Region. It was not until he teleported Snoralx back to me for the first time did I see how huge it has become over such short time!"
Moreover, Professor Oak discovered that Ash seems to have the ability to wake up Snorlax from his sleep at any time he wants. He could tell how much of a deep feeling and bond ties were required to do this.
Facing Snorlax, Gary's Nidoqueen looked very smaller and smaller, "Ash, let's fight!"
"Nidoqueen, use Rock Smash!"
This is a Fighting-type attack that restrains the pure Normal-type Snorlax. Nidoqueens body is also very strong and its movement speed is much faster than the gigantic and heavy Snorlax. It rushed over very quickly and punched Snorlax in the stomach!
This momentum is really extraordinary, but Ash's Snorlax looked like he didn't feel anything from that powerful looking punch!
"High Horsepower!"
This is the skill that Ash once used to fight the Crystal Entei. It is a Ground-type attack that can only be used by a few very heavy Pokémon!
Snorlax's squinted eyes seemed to suddenly burst out with a fierce light, and his heavy body suddenly began to move at an astounding splendid for his size, he began rushing towards Nidoqueen who was also running towards him!
Boom!
The powerful and heavy Snorlax turned his whole body weight into the force of a brutal collision; which actually knocked Nidoqueen away!
This attack is very well suited for his Snorlax.
"Lets go with our signature Hyper Beam!"
However, Ash did not miss any opportunity to continue on his attack. Facing Nidoqueen who was flying backwards because of their collision, Snorlax had just stood still when he launched one of the strongest Normal-type attacks.
When the audience opened their eyes again, the Hyper Beam was already blasted out of Snorlax's eyes!
"Nidoqueen, hold on, we will also use Hyper Beam!"
Gary gritted his teeth. Now he must trust his Nidoqueen and must accept Ash's attack with open warms! They really couldn't do much in such a situation like this.
Nidoqueen did not disappoint Gary at all. It slammed its feet on the ground, she managed to stop abruptly from being thrown away by Ash's Snorlax, and then emitted a Hyper Beam of her own.
The two super powerful Special Attack moves exploded at close range to each other, the blast alone knocked Nidoqueen back violently until it hit one of the many stone pillar!
"I have never seen anything like this in my 14 year career! The two Hyper Beam exploded so close to each other with full blast. Gary's Nidoqueen was beaten back by Ash's enormous Snorlax. It seems like that Nidoqueen has no power to fight back anymore after getting the full brunt on the two Hyper Beams to the face!"
When the smoke cleared, Gary's Nidoqueen fell to the ground and struggled to get up from it.
"Nidoqueen, come back! You did well." Gary took his Nidoqueen back after realizing that she couldn't do much damage to Snorlax!
"Ash, I never knew a Snorlax could be so motivated. You are really are impressive!" Gary praised sincerely from the depths of his heart, "But I won't give in to just that!"
Seeing this scene, Professor Oak in the audience nodded along, "Ash's close range tactics are indeed very effective!"
Delia on the side was busy pressing the button of her camera, taking pictures of her son's heroic posture during the battle, "What do you mean by that, Professor?"
"Gary spent all day yesterday raising his fighting spirit to prepare for this battle with Ash.
But as soon as Ash came up on stage, he sent out Snorlax, which is very difficult to fight with Gary's fight tactics.
This undoubtedly depleted Gary's fighting spirit from the very beginning!"
Professor Oak nodded to what Ash was doing and thought he would of the same if he was in Ash's place.
Yes, it would take a lot of effort for Gary to defeat Snorlax, who is like a wall of pure muscle. As he sends out Pokémon one after another to defeat Snorlax, his fighting spirit will be constantly being depleting.
And even if he finally defeated this Snorlax, he would have to use a tired team of Pokémon to deal with Ash's next five Pokémon who are also extremely strong!
"I see, my little baby is really awesome!" Delia was extremely proud of her son!
"Go, Arcanine!" The second Pokémon Gary sent out was his loyal Arcanine. Obviously, he wanted to attack Snorlax's main weakness, which is its very low speed.
"Facing Ash's powerful Snorlax, Gary chose to use his speedy Arcanine to fight!"
"Arcanine, use Take Down attack!" Gary gave the attack order first this round.
Of course Ash will not to be outdone when it came to ordering, "High Horsepower again!"
Once again, he was charging with all his strength, but now it seems that Gary had found a way to deal with it, "Avoid it and Fire Spin!"
The dexterous Arcanine was easily able to avoid the slow Snorlax's attack in a flash, and then the pillar of fire swallowed up Snorlax whole, leaving him unable to move from where he was standing!
However, Ash's Snorlax has the ability Thick Fat, which greatly reduces the power of Fire and Ice-type attacks, so this is not that effective! Additionally, his Snorlax has a very high Special Defense to deal with this types of attacks. The downside to this is Fire Spin constantly chipping away at his Snorlaxs health.
Ash smiled slightly, not caring about the slight injury that he doubted that Snorlax even felt, "Blow Arcanine way with Hyper Beam!"
Another blow of Hyper Beam went directly out of the pillar of fire, hitting Arcanine who was maintaining the flame around Snorlaxs huge body!
Arcanine was immediately knocked away and lost his ability to fight from the very close range STAB Hyper Beam from Snorlax!
This is Gary's first Pokémon that has lost its combat ability! The previous Nidoqueens combat power has also been reduced to a tenth of its original!
But apparently Gary kept it for other future purposes!
"Arcanine, you did a great job!" Gary took Arcanine back, "Go, Scizor!"
This time, Gary sent out his Scizor, who was also known for its high speed, but it was obviously far worse than the one Ash has been training.
But it's clear that his speed is still enough to overwhelm his Snorlax, "Scizor, Spark!"
Sure enough, Scizor's figure disappeared in an instant, leaving only a red shadow on the field, constantly attacking Snorlax from all sides. No matter how thick Snorlax's health bar was, he could not withstand such continuous blows for such a long time!
"Snorlax, come back, you did enough damage!" Ash decisively replaced Snorlax. In fact, he had a way to defeat Scizor in front of him with his current Snorlax, but since there is a much simpler way, why bother with the extra steps?
"Get ready to melt something, let's go, Houndoom!"
The second Pokémon sent by Ash was his very loyal Houndoom, his second Pokémon to complete his Bond Evolution. It was very excited to fight side by side with Ash once again after a long time.
It has been fighting with by Entei a lot recently, so its strength has improved in a very fast pace!
Seeing that Ash has taken out his Houndoom, Misty and Brock's eyes suddenly lit up. For no other reason, the Steel-type and Bug-type Scizor was weak to the Fire-type Houndoom by a lot!
"Houndoom, Howl!"
"HOWWWL!!!"
"Traine Ash has sent out his Fire-type Houndoom to deal with Trainer Gary's Scizor. Trainer Ash now has the upper hand in this battle just like before without a change!"
Seeing Houndoom's attitude, Delia was also surprised, "It turns out that Houndoom is such a fierce beast, but he is so gentle with me and the others!"
Professor Oak laughed and said, "The terrifying Howl is the characteristic of Houndoom. In the past, people thought it was a messenger from hell and were very afraid of it! This Houndoom used be the leader of his small group, and was later caught by Ash after he rescued one of his pack members. This one is a very strong Pokémon!"
Harrison, who also had a Houndoom with him, was even more shocked, "It turns out that Ash also has a Houndoom of his own, and it's so powerful!"
He looked at Ash with burning eyes, "Ash, I am looking forward to battling with you more and more!"
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