"Big Bro, can you show me that Stone Badge of yours?"
Ash had now finally got his first Badge for his Hoenn Journeys, but Max seemed even happier than himself and pestered him to show his Badge collection box.
The result was very obvious. A 'gental' hit to the head made him behave very differently. He obediently took out his PokéNav and checked it out. "Big Bro, the next closest Gym from here is the Dewford Town Gym on Dewford Island. Looks like that's going to be our next destination."
Dewford Island huh?
Ash nodded his head lightly, "But before that..."
He looked at Brock and May beside him, and saw that they were looking up the travel guide about Rustboro City with great interest.
"Rustboro City really deserves to one of the largest cities in the region. Almost everything can be found here if you look closely." Brock was of course looking up the information about where they could find their upcoming much needed supplies.
Before coming here, they had gone through several long journeys in the forest. Although they also passed through several small towns to replenish some of their supplies, after all, they could not buy all the supplies in those small towns, so they could only find some sort of substitutes or make do with what little they had.
In short, Brock has always been responsible for these things, and Ash was mostly very worry-free about these.
As for what May was looking up, naturally it was the food guide section, "Seaside restaurants, shops with delicious burgers, and many, many others! I can't wait to eat them up!"
It can be seen that she was very excited. Perhaps before she came into contact with idea of participating in Pokémon Contests, the source of all her motivation for her travels was the anticipation of the various delicacies in different places.
Ash smiled slightly, "In that case, let's move freely next. It just so happens that I also have some places that I would love to go to."
"Ash, where are you going? Can I go with you?" Although he always gets beaten, Max just really admires Ash and his skills.
But this time Ash refused directly without any buttering, "Just look for some places where there are Pokémon's in this big city. The place I want to go is not suitable for you at all."
"Why..."
Seeing Ash getting ready to raise his fist again, Max quickly didn't dare to object anymore. He sighed, holding his PokéNav in one hand and his own drink in the other to drink, "Then where should I do? "
But accidentally, his drink spilled on his new PokéNav. After that, the navigator flashed a flash of electricity. It must have been short-circuited due to water intrusion.
Such a high-tech thing is not even waterproof?
He quickly wiped it with a handkerchief, then tried to press the button to tune it on, only to find that it was completely malfunctioning, "This is too bad..."
All three of them looked at him, and May asked, "What's wrong with you, Max?"
Max suddenly became alert and thought that he could definitely not let his sister know that he had damaged their PokéNav.
The two siblings actually have a very good relationship, but their regular way of getting along is to quarrel, just like most siblings. Max always said that May was an unreliable person, but now he broke the PokéNav that technically belonged to both of them.
What can he do now?
But it can't be like this!
Max, who is still very young, immediately decided not to report it on his instinct, "It's nothing, really! We can do whatever you want next, right? Goodbye!"
He said goodbye and run away in a flash.
In fact, his little moves could not be hidden from Ash's eyes, but since he wanted to take responsibility for his own mistake and find a way to make up for it, Ash was willing to give him this opportunity.
Ash was not at ease with this boy's cleverness.
"Ash, where are you going now?" Brock asked curiously before leaving.
Ash would not hide anything from his long time trusty traveling companion and said frankly, "It's time for Dratini to shed his skin again. So I plan to go north to a place called Meteor Falls!"
Meteor Falls is a large cave formed by a huge impact of a meteorite.
There was even a natural waterfall inside of it.
The terrain inside was very complex, and the level of Pokémon in the deeper parts of it was also very high.
Moreover, the road from Rustboro City is bumpy and difficult, so it is really not suitable to take Max with him.
But Ash didn't intend to go that deep, he just wanted to find a suitable environment for his Dratini to complete his molting.
The four of them acted separately. Max met an uncle on the street who was showing off a strange new invention to bunch of children's.
A robot that automatically opens a soda can will burst the soda inside when it opens the can.
It is a completely useless invention.
After watching the funny show, the children immediately dispersed.
"Little boy, what's wrong with you? Why are you sighing so many times?" Seeing Max's troubled expression, the uncle came over to ask enthusiastically.
"My name is not little boy, my name is Max!" Max introduced himself and explained, "It's like this, my sister's PokéNav is not working!"
"I see, I see. You can just go to the Devon Corporation for this kind of problem."
Unexpectedly, the uncle who would show the wonderfully useless invention to the children on the street turned out to be the president of Devon Corporation.
Joseph Stone!
This is one of the biggest companies in the world that has grown to the point that it can rival even Silph Co., and most of the items their companies produces are for Pokémon Trainers.
Not only have they developed new types of Poké Balls, they are also working on a project to restore the fossils of ancient Pokémon back to their 'original' self.
This kind of technology has yet to be developed but they are the closet to making one.
President Stone seemed to like Max very much, so he took him back to the main headquarters of his Devon Corporation and asked one of the researchers here to repair the PokéNav for Max.
He also asked his secretary, Mr. Kennedy, to go to the Pokémon Center and invite Ash and the others here.
After that, President Stone took Max to visit the equipment that can resurrect Pokémon fossils.
However, just as they turned around and stood in front of another machine, a man dressed as one of the many researchers walked past them and took out two culture bottles from the fossil resurrection machine.
The most core and precious thing in this fossil resurrection machine is the genetic medicine found in this culture bottle, so this culture bottle cannot be lost no matter what.
When the man walked out of the door of the laboratory, President Stone noticed him with his peripheral vision and immediately realized something was wrong here.
The president remembered the appearance of everyone in the company that worked here, but he had never seen this researcher before. He decisively followed him loosely.
In order not to alert the culprit, he did not alert the company's security, but chose to follow him quietly.
At the same time, Ash and the two others have also been taken into the company by Mr. Kennedy.
Brock had already purchased all the necessary supplies, May ate herself until her stomach felt uncomfortable, Ash accompanied his Dratini to complete the molting, and they all happened to meet at the Pokémon Center.
"I see, so you are also Pokémon Trainers!" Mr. Kennedy and Ash and the others had a great conversation.
"Ash, I know you were the Champion of the last Silver Conference. Our Young Master also said that he wanted to battle against you at least once!"
"The Young Master of the Devon Corporations, should that be Mr. Steven Stone?" Ash said a name he knew very well.
"So you have heard of Master Steven's name!" Mr. Kennedy now had a better impression of Ash.
"Ash, how come you have heard of Mr. Steven's name?" May was puzzled. Ash had obviously been in the Hoenn Region for only a short amount of time, so how could he know people from the Hoenn Region?
"Of course I know of him, I'm always paying attention to the powerful Trainers that I could go against!" Ash looked at Brock, "Steven's strength is completely comparable to Lance, after all, he is the Champion of the Hoenn Region!"
I'm having family issues so I can't really post anything.
But don't worry, I'm not dropping this.
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Following Mr. Kennedy to the Devin Corporation Headquarters, Ash noticed Officer Jenny at a first sight. She was explaining something to the young lady at the front desk.
"Officer Jenny!" Ash showed his high level Investigator Badge, "I am Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town and a member of the International G-Men. What happened here?"
Officer Jenny quickly saluted to Ash, "Here's the thing, I got information that someone was targeting Devon Corporation, so I came here to inform them that I too would join the search and also ask them to strengthen their security system!"
Ash nodded understandably. Although it was not a direct Pokémon incident, after experiencing the battle in the Alto Mare and other places, Ash still kept things like this in his mind.
Sure enough, Ash and his group followed Mr. Kennedy upstairs, and the Rocket Trio sneaked in wearing some researcher clothes.
They have learned to be smart recently, knowing that no matter how they disguise themselves, they can't escape Ash's eyes, so they learned to set a time difference with Ash to take the opportunity to sneak in and see what treasures there are while he isn't directly here.
But in fact, they don't even know what kind of so called treasure is located here.
After being reminded by Ash, Officer Jenny focused her glance on the three of them with just one look. At this time, President Stone and Max had already chased the man to the rooftop.
Max was still a child after all. When he accidentally fell while climbing the stairs, he subconsciously screamed.
Hearing his voice, the strange person decisively chose to accelerate his speed and ran upstairs. President Stone looked at his back and said, "We have been discovered by him."
"It's all my fault…" Max felt that he was very useless today. Not only did he destroy his and his sisters PokéNav, they even lost track of the suspicious person because of his mistake.
However, President Stone consoled him gently, "No, you have done a good job. He was panicked and run away swiftly, which means he has proven by his actions that he is definitely a spy of some sort."
These are the wise words of a person who made a new startup company and eventually made it reached the height of the legendary Siloh Co.!
Hearing his encouragement, Max was able to calm down a little, nodded heavily, regained some go his composure and chased after that spy with Mr. Stone.
Now that the suspect had been alerted of them and the suspicious identity of the other party was also confirmed, Mr. Stone immediately called his assistant, Mr. Kennedy.
Ash and his team had also heard about the theft of the culture bottle from Mr. Kennedy when he received the call. Their current team immediately took a shortcut in the direction they had not seen under the leadership of Mr. Kennedy.
Even so, the so-called shortcut is still a long way to go up. And May, who usually shouts that she is tired and needs a rest after walking only few steps, this time was keeping up with the pace of Ash and Brock, two very experienced travelers.
Her little brother may be in danger!
However, Max, who was chasing the suspicious person, didn't look scared at all by this. Even President Stone was a little surprised, "Max, don't you feel scared?"
Max smiled and said with confidence, "My Big Bro said that a Trainer should move forward without any fear if they want to achieve great things in life!"
"Then ehat he said was very well said!" Mr. Stone immediately agreed to what Ash said to Max, "Trainers should grow up little by little in adventures like this. That Big Brother of yours that you mentioned, you are talking about is Ash Ketchum, the winner of the last Silver Conference, right? My son is also full of praise for him. He too is excited about Ash's emergence."
"Your son?" Max asked a little questionably.
"Yes, he also said that one day he wants to have have a grand battle against Ash." President Stone was very proud of his young but powerful son.
"The stairs leading to the roof are just ahead. He has no way to escape from here!"
Not only that, the suspicious person opened the door and went to the balcony. The person standing and waiting in front of him was Ash!
Boom!
Without any explanation, Ash knocked him down on the ground with a hard left hook. Half of his originally face suddenly swelled up, and now even the boss in his organization wouldn't recognize him.
"Max, are you okay?" Ash wiped his fist and looked at Max who was catching up with the suspicious person.
"Of course I'm okay, Ash, you were so awesome with that pouch of yours!" Max looked at Ash with pure admiration. That punch was so powerful that the Trainer actually almost fainted!
"This is my Big Bro Ash, and over there is my sister, May. And that there is Brock, all of our Big Brother!" Max introduced teh group to President Stone.
"Ash, I have admired your name for some time now. Thanks to you, we were able to catch this person in no time." President Stone happily greeted Ash like this.
"President Stine, there's no need to say that."
The suspicious person was almost knocked unconscious by just a single punch. After everyone had finished saying their greetings, the suspicious man woke up and threw out a Poké Ball, "Come out, Crawdaunt!"
A big red lobster with a five-pointed star on its head appeared infront of them.
This kind of giant lobster is very bellicose and likes to stir up disputes, and will throw out all the Pokémon out of its territory.
Knowing who normally uses Crawdaunts as their main Pokémon's from his G-Men database, Ash understood that he was from the evil team called Team Aqua.
Based on the intelligence collected by Team Rocket before, combined with Ash's memory and using his current status, the two opposing mysterious organizations in the Hoenn Region, Team Aqua and Team Magam.
The minions of the Team Magma mostly use the Fire-type and Dark-type Houndoom, as well as some other common Dark-types like Mightyena, etc., which he had seen them use before. There are also some members who use Numels and Camerupt.
While the grunts form Team Aqua use mostly the Water-type and Dark-type Crawdaunt and Carvanha, etc.
This should be a mission assigned by his organization.
"Interesting." Ash would never back down when faced with a Pokémon battle and when he can also train his Pokémon's on real battles with consequences, "Stand by for battle, Treecko!"
Treecko, a Grass-type Pokémon, has a big advantage over Crawdaunt, a Water and Dark-type Pokémon.
And Ash's Treecko has improved very quickly recently under his strict but careful training.
Although his true foundation was weak when Ash first caught him, he was still able to endure some battles because of his innate abilities.
After such a period of training under him, it has become more and more reliable.
If this goes on, Treecko will soon be evolve into his next form.
"Use Absorb!"
They all saw a green light coming from the Crawdaunt and being taken inside of Treeckos body, and he suddenly became more energetic than when the battle even began .
However, the man and Crawdaunt were not moved by it much at all. They just looked at Treecko and Ash with nothing but contempt, "Use Crabhammer!"
This attack is something Ash is very familiar with. It is exactly the main attack he is training his Kingler in, "Use Quick Attack to avoid the blow!"
Treecko's speed became even more faster than his initial speed, his whole body turned into a green afterimage, avoiding this powerful attack, "Use Absorb again!"
After two of Treeckos Absorb, the much stronger Crawdaunt finally lost some of his health.
Before Treecko's Grass-type skills are enriched, his Absorb skill will obviously become one of his strongest moves.
"Damn it, Crawdaunt, use Bubble Beam!"
Seeing that he couldn't catch up with Treecko's movements, the man decisively used a fast Special Attack. A large number of thick bubbles shot out from Crawdaunt's pair of giant lobster claws, but how much damage could a Water-type attack do to Treecko who could avoid most, if not all, damages.
"Quickly avoid it!"
Despite this order, Treecko was still hit after persisting for a while. This Crawdaunt has level suppression on Treecko and is quite well-trained.
"Quick Attack to move then use Absorb!"
However, Ash didn't seem to care about this at all. He saw green light flowing to Treecko again from Crawdaunts body, and he immediately recovered from most of the damage caused by the previous Bubble Beam just now.
At this moment, Crawdaunt was finally weakened to a level where Treecko can fight on a more aggressive way.
"Damn it!"
The man decisively took back his Crawdaunt.
Taking advantage of the last Bubble Beam, he had already taken out the a flying device from his box on the side and equipped it.
Obviously, he had prepared it and put it here early in the morning to make a quick escape.
The route to the rooftop had already been long planned by him and his organization.
But will Ash really let him get away with his wish?
There was a flash of pink light in his eyes and hand, and the flying device was crushed by Ash's Psychic Force. He could only fall from the air and hang just outside of the rooftop!
This is the tallest building in the entire Rustboro City!
But even so, the man still didn't look like he was panicking for help. He threw the two stolen culture bottles towards Ash. Of course, Ash had to rush to use his Psychic to catch them.
The man took this opportunity to jump off the building, landed in through the window downstairs, and quickly escaped smoothly.
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