Although it is only the the first Pokémon Contest Ribbon for May, it was still one of the most important milestones on the way to realizing her dream.
After getting out of the Fallabor Town Pokémon Center, she kept holding onto her Ribbon collection box, looking at the ribbon medal as if they were her everything, dancing and jumping up and down in multiple occasions.
"Don't worry about her." Ash and Brock both laughed at seeing Max being a little concerned about his older sister, "She just got her very first Ribbon after participating in her second Pokémon Contest. Thsi shows just how much great potential she has in this, so let her be happy while she is still in her early stages of development."
May's progress was obvious to all, establishing to her boyfriend, Ash. She is becoming more and more proficient and has even caught her third Pokémon with her own efforts. That little Skitty she recently caught is also very cute and perfect for May and her Pokémon Contests.
Hearing Ash's words, May rushed over and gave him a kiss on the lips, "Ash, thank you, it's all your credit!"
Brock couldn't handle it anymore and began to weep. Max had to comfort him again and again.
She really learned a lot from Ash's experience, and Ash has been taking great care of her.
Hearing this, Ash smiled and kissed her back. "This is all because of your own efforts, May. There are still 4 more Ribbons left before you could participate in the Grand Festival, so work hard. And also don't forget about me, even though I'm your boyfriend, I'm not going to go easy on you."
After leaving Fallarbor Town, as planned, the group was now heading to Lavaridge Town for Ash's third Gym Badge.
The two towns were in fact very close to each other, with only Mt. Chimney being there to block their east road. Now the group was about to cross the Fiery Path at the bottom of Mt. Chimney.
"It's up to you, Torchic!" There are many fire Pokémon living on Fiery Path, which made great sense, this is also a very good place to train Torchic and his Fire-type energy.
Ash's Torchic's growth rate was much faster than May's, almost anyone could see it with their naked eye. After all, their training is completely incomparable.
Although Ash does help May to train her Pokémon's, he doesn't do too match as they are her Pokémon's, not his. This is also for May's future growth as a Pokémon Coordinator. She had to learn to train her Pokémon's properly at some point, Ash is just helping her get there because he cares for her deeply.
As soon as his energetic Torchic came out again, he ran deep into the Fiery Path, opened his mouth and spat out his Embers and accurately hit a Slugma.
"That accuracy is good enough." Ash couldn't help but praise him when he saw its movements, "Now, Flame Charge!"
Torchic turned into a small fireball and rushed towards Slugma, easily avoiding the latter's own Ember and hitting it hard. Although there was no clear damage shown because of Slugma's own Fire-type and its magma body, it was still a well enough effective training method for his Torchic in his early stages.
Watching the battle between Ash's Torchic and Torchic, May behind him couldn't help but worry, "Babe, are you sure that there won't be any problem?" She said while looking very concerned, "that Slugma seems to be of a very high level."
"This is the only way to achieve the maximum training effect. You need to battle and defeat those stronger than you to truly make a breakthrough." As he said, Ash suddenly interrupted the training and took Torchic back, "Ho, looks like we have guests here!"
The group saw a dozen or so Slugma suddenly coming out of the depths of one of the nearby caves, surrounding their group with some resentments in their eyes.
May and Max obviously panicked by seeing all of this, "Big Bro, what should we do?"
"There's not much Torchic can do against all of them at once. Torchic isn't that strong yet, but this one is!" Ash smiled and threw another one of his Poké Balls, "Dratini, stand by for battle!"
The summoned Dratini suddenly disappeared in front of everyone's eyes, and then saw a flashes of green light, and all of the Slugmas disappeared one by one in front of everyone's eyes like they were not even there at the first place!
When fighting against wild Pokémon's like these Slugmas, Dratini's Dragon Tail attack can force them to go back to where they belong.
Hell!
"Thats amazing!" The crisis was solved by Ash before they could even think of anything else, leaving May and Max with nothing but admiration.
Brock had long been used to such things but he still can't believe that this is the same Ash he knew.
Since Ash was training his Torchic along the way, May also summoned her own Starter Torchic and decided to train him like how Ash is training his.
When it was almost dark, the group happened to pass through a hole in the Fiery Path and prepared to find a suitable place to camp out in the night.
Walking out of the cave was a grassland, and they soon found a Berry Tree. Not only that, but there was also a Numel lying under the tree, which was the form of the Camerupt that Ash had fought before before it evolved.
Compared with the Camerupt he had previously fought against, this Numel was much more smaller and its response looked to be even slower than one would expect.
Suddenly, a Furrret appeared next to the Numel, and then heard a voice.
"So you are here, I have been looking for you for such a long time!"
A young lady, who was followed out by several Numel, appeared next to Ash and his crew. Although she was dressed in a simple farm dress, this could not hide her good looks at all. Brock was already ready to go all out for her!
After confirming that the Numel was fine, the young lady noticed Ash and the others,
"You don't seem to look like locals. My name is Julie, and I live in a ranch nearby, with all of these Numel!"
She seemed very open and introduced herself to everyone, very friendly and open.
Ash and his group introduced themselves, and of course, Brock had already rushed over.
"Hello there, my name is Brock! Miss Julie, in order to show my love, would you like to have some fun with my little warm thin—"
His words were getting more and more outrageous as the days went by. Ash and the others didn't even need to take up any action this time around. One of Julie's Numel came to him and immediately burned him so much that he screamed in pain.
It was a good sight to see.
Julie looked at the Numel who burned Brock, smiled and said, "Numel, when we get home, I will give you some extra delicious Berries to enjoy!"
Since they met, Julie invited Ash and his group to visit her ranch. After all, it was already getting very dark.
In return, of course Brock, who wanted to be loved by her, prepared a sumptuous dinner for everyone to devour.
The next day, Brock and Max helped Julie take care of the ranch.
May found Ash for some help, "Babe, my Skitty seems to like fighting, so I want to give her a chance."
Ash would not refuse a request for a battle, no matter who they came from.
Unexpectedly, Julie left most of the chores to Brock and Max, and happened to come across them talking about May's Skitty, "Why don't you consider battling against me? There has been no chance for me battle recently, how about it, May?"
Being able to battle different Pokémon is a valuable experience that new Trainers like May need very much.
"Then let me be the referee!" Ash smiled and took on the responsibility of being the referee after who knows how long.
May uses her Skitty like she promised, and Julie's Pokémon was the Furrret they saw before.
This is the Regional Rodent from the Johto Region, but there are also many place in the Hoenn Region where they can be easily found. This Furret was like tge sheepdog to Julie's ranch, helping her manage all of her Numels.
Their bond also looked to be very high.
"Listen up Skitty, first we need to carefully observe our opponents movements, and then..." Before Misty could even finish speaking, her little Skitty rushed out on its own, exactly like what her Torchic did before.
Seeing Skitty attacking so quickly, Julie also immediately launched a counterattack, "Furrret, use Tackle!"
Unexpectedly, just when Furrret rushed in front of Skitty, she suddenly turned around. The habit of cats is to catch up with all the thing they see moving away or close to them.
Especially when Furrets tail was like a cat's favorite thing, their cat-stick.
Skittys are sometimes seen to chase their own tail until they becomes dizzy and faints.
"Okay, stop!"
Furrret suddenly braked and knocked the chasing Skitty away with her tail.
May also launched a counterattack at this time, but Furrret easily dodged the Tcakle and Double Slap she knew would come during the combo.
She looked at Ash who was pointing at her pants, she suddenly realized something. She quickly took out the Pokédex she hadn't used in a while, and just like when she used it on her Torchic to see all of the moves he knew, this can confirm what move it can currently use. She had just discovered that herb Skitty can use a move called Assist.
"Okay, Skitty, use your Assist!" They saw a white light on Skitty's little paw, and then a small cluster of Ember hit Furrret.
But Ember was still not enough to deal with this Furrret.
"Try it again!" Ash suddenly said, breaking his role of being the referee.
May did as Ash told her, and this time the move used by Assist turned out to be the Silver Wind that her Beautifly knew.
However, Furrret still avoided this Silver Wind and knocked Skitty away with one more of her own move.
"Okay, let's stop here!" Ash stopped the battle before it could escalate.
Seeing Skitty chasing her tail again, May quickly asked Ash for his advice, "Ash, what is the use of Assist?"
"Assist is a move that can be use a random move from the moves your other Pokémon's can use." Ash explained slowly from what he had learned, "May, how to use such a skill depends on you as her Trainer."
For Ash, such a move is simply not that good in a real battle. It was all just based on luck.
He would much rather use Metronome as that skill was all luck, and the only one who knew this move was his Togeti. And he knows for a fact that his Togetic is much more luckier than he was.
If it were him, if he had Charizard on him, he would simply use his powerful attacks to defeat the opponent by force. There was no need for his luck to come into play.
Mt. Chimney
This was a very well known volcano in the northern part of the Hoenn Region. It has not erupted for many years. But because of the still floating volcanic ash's floating out it, they can tell that this was a dormant volcano.
For now, at least!
The scenery here was magnificent to say the least. Now that they are here, it would be a very as thing if they were to miss taking the cable car to the top of this dormant volcano.
"Wow, Big Bro, what a beautiful scenery that is!" Max, who was lying on the window, was very happy to say the least. It was great to be able to travel with his sister, Brock and Ash.
He had been learning and experiencing so many things that he would not have experienced if he were still at his home.
"It's really refreshing to see this!" May also liked sceneries like the ones she was seeing now. It made her feel relaxed and well, it almost seemed like she didn't have any worries at all.
The two non-human children of their group, Ralts and Togetic, were playing around Ash and May, who had her head resting in his shoulder in a blissful manner.
However, jay then, they suddenly looked out the window and saw something.
"Pika!"
Pikachu, too, called out to Ash and the others to him.
At this time, a red helicopter flew past their eyes.
Ash frowned when he saw this. It seemed that another incident was about to happen to them, and this time on the Mt. Chimney!
This was not something he wanted to see.
At this moment, near the volcano cave entrance on top of Mt. Chimney, a man was looking for something with what seemed to be a scanner of some sort, "This is it, this can't be wrong! This must be the Meteorite that fell the hera a few days ago! I did it!"
It turns out that there was a piece of Meteorite fell on Mt. Chimney a few days ago, and this man came here to look for it almost immediately after he dedicated it with his machine.
However, as soon as he picked up the Meteorite from the ground, a red helicopter landed behind him, "What? Why is there a helicopter like this in such an area?"
The helicopter door opened with a simple slide, and it was Tabitha and his other Grunts from Team Magma who came out of it. The damages from the previous beating he received from Ash seemed to have disappeared. Now he was back to his usual decisive Admin Tabitha mode again.
"Those under Magma 3 are on their way!"
With an order, a dozen members of Team Lava jumped out of the hatch and surrounded the man with the Meteorite.
"Who are you? What do you want from me?"
Professor Cozmo asked when these strange man with their obvious unkind eyes looking at him so weirdly.
Admin Tabitha of Team Magam walked forward with a very arrogant posture, "What we are looking for is not you, but the Meteorite in your hand! Now, hand it over like a good boy!"
"What are you talking about? This Meteorite is a very important research material for me, how can I hand it over to you?!" Professor Cozmo held the Meteorite tightly in his arms and refused to hand it over no matter what they said to him.
"That Meteorite must be in our hands to be of in any actual real value!" Tabitha is very familiar with the technology Team Magma's currently had in their arsenal as one of their Admirals, so he had also brought the corresponding machines today to complete the experiments he needed to do with this Meteorite.
But he could not have imagined that just when he was about to take action against this man, a very familiar helicopter that he knew belonged to his archenemy would land near him so untimely.
If was the helicopter of Team Aqua!
Team Aqua Admin Shelly was much more ready and had more plans than him this time. She landed the helicopter behind a hillside not far away from where his group was, "Aqua A, go to the control station! Aqua B, you follow me!"
The Grunts immediately divided into two groups. One group came to the control room of the cable car station, held the staff hostage, and stopped all the cable cars.
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"Why did it stop here so suddenly? It's so scary!" The cable car stopped right in the middle, in a slope, and May and Max immediately panicked. Brock was also panicked but he was able to hide it with his stoic face.
Ash stood up immediately. Since the other party had caused them so much unnecessary trouble, it seemed that it would be best to cause them some trouble too.
If other cause you trouble, you cause them trouble.
This is the philosophy that he will live by.
"I'll go to the control room to take a look, you guys wait for me here! And also do try to be careful!" Ash left with his final word, and in
the horrified eyes of the three people in the cable car with him, he just smashed the door of the cable car with one punch and jumped off like it was nothing to him.
He, his Pikachu and her Ralts were both instantly wrapped in a pink light, and that powerful bonds between them allowed their Psychic powers to cooperate with each other, resulting in this brief perfect flight ability.
He quickly reached the control room of thsi area, and saw two Team Aqua Grunts and two of their Crawdaunts holding the staff here hostage.
"Pikachu, Electrike!" Ash decided itvwa she best time to respond and threw Electrike's Poké Ball, letting it gain some experience from his Pikachu, an extremely professional Explosion-style user, "Thunderbolt on them! Lets show them what true ART really is!" In that instant, he bacame a long haired blonde guy.
The double Thunderbolt turn the two Crawdaunts into perfectly boiled lobsters, and now the air was filled with the smell of seafood, making even the hostages feel very hungry.
Only then did Ash remember that he hadn't eaten breakfast today.!
After rescuing the staff members, Ash asked them to bring May and others up to where they were, and then led his group of Pokémon's to the top of the volcano for a welcoming battle.
At this moment, Team Magma and the Team Aqua were once again facing each other like always. As their respective processes continued to advance forward, the friction between the two teams became more and
more intense. This time the meeting between the two high Admiral's were even more explosive than the last time.
"Admin Shelly, the fact that you show up in a place like this means..." Tabitha certainly knows Shelly intentions after fighting her so many times. This Meteorite was equally valuable to both teams for their future success. Such collisions have happened too many times recently, even more than a few year earlier when they were at each other's neck for more recruitment.
"You're still the same intuitive and keen as ever, aren't you. But of course yes, we are also here to fight for that Meteorite!" Shelly admitted openly, after all, it wasn't even a secret.
The conversation between the two people was like fighting over a something in the market, which made Professor Cozmo, who was still holding the Meteorite, grit his teeth harshly.
Taking advantage of the confrontation between the two opposing parties, he actually tried to ran away.
The members of Team Magma kept surrounding him, and when they saw that he was about to run, they hit him hard in the stomach.
And this incident also became the trigger for the battle between the two teams!
"Mightyena! Golbat!" Tabitha struck first and threw his two Poke Balls first. The rest of his team members behind him also followed suit soon enough. In one moment, there were 5 Mightyena and Golbat on their side, ready for battle.
Of course Shelly's Team Aqua was not to be outdone by these "geeks" as they called them, but this was the top of a dormant volcano after all, and it was very difficult for her proud Carvanhas to show off their powers, so this time she summoned her other Pokémon's, "Crawdaunt, Walrein! Go!"
Walrein was a thiccc dual Water and Ice-type Pokémon.
Although its movement on the ground was also limited, it was still much better than the Carvanha who couldn't even move here.
These two mysterious organizations always start to fight whenever they disagreed on something. Ash almost laughed while he was hiding in one of the dark corners. Isn't this the best outcome for him?
However, he noticed that the people from the Team Magma soon took the advantage of the chaos and snatched something from that Professors arms. Then a small team of people disappeared from Team Magma, and a small team of people from the opposite Team Aqua also separated to chase after that group.
"That must be good thing, let's go and get that thing first before anything else." Ash glanced at his Pikachu and Ralts who were beside him.
Ash saw that his Pikachu nod and then looked at his cute little girl nodding her head cutely, and his figure disappeared in a pink light.
No matter what the two organizations are fighting for, if he manages to hold that thing in his hands first, the incident will be more than half solved. Now Ash was no longer like before, like before, he rushed into the base and fought them all alone until they couldn't do anything else.
Being brave and resourceful is what made him truly such an outstanding Evil Destroyer of Plans or the EDP for short.
He used his synced Teleport and caught up with Team Magma at the mouth of the dormant volcano. Someone had already set up a strange device here and the Meteorite was immediately put in that device as soon as it was delivered.
They all saw a red ray hitting the interior of the volcano, and the dormant magma began to churn inside.
This once dormant volcano was actually showing signs of erupting!
Which was not a good thing, if you already couldn't tell.
Ash frowned at seeing this. He knew this was a very urgent. If this volcano does erupt, the nearby Lavaridge Town and Fallarbor Town below would be in huge amounts of danger.
They could even be completely destroyed under the hit magma.
He made a prompt decision and appeared in front of the device like a bolt of lightning. His fist was now wrapped in a beautiful blue light and he slammed into the machine.
The once metal device was now very vulnerable to Ash's few violent blows, he managed to punch out a huge a hole in the middle!
Ash moved quickly, took off the Meteorite from the device, gave it to his pocket for safekeeping, and then kicked the device deep into the hot magma!
All in a single days work.
After doing all this, Ash looked at the dumbfounded Team Magam goons around him and said with a smile, "Oh, my apologies, I broke this thing by accident, don't you want me to pay for it now?"
"Fuk your compensation and you, goodbye!"
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