Finally leaving another of the infinite forests in this planet, Ash and his party arrived at one of the closest cities located near Petalburg City, North Petalburg City.
Of course, the first thing they had to do was to visit the local Pokémon Center, where Ash needed to exchange some of his Pokémon's again.
He sent his recently evolved Crawdaunt back to the Lab for some adjustments to his new body and getting some training down with his other Pokémon's.
Although he had evolved into a Dark-type, it also made Ash worry a lot, not only the new "evil" type, but also that he hadn't changed his character one bit; it only changed when he was in a battle. Now the combination of his Crawdaunt and his Kingler has been officially formed, they were very in sync with the trouble making things they used to do to the Professor.
After completing his necessary exchanges, the Pokémon around Ash also changed a little, in addition to him having his ever present Pikachu, Ralts and Togetic, there are also his Dratini and Torkoal training with him.
Finally, Ash had also teleported his Absol back to him, intending to use him to challenge the Petalburg City Gym Leader Norman's main and strongest Slaking.
Ralts absolutely cannot face Slaking with her powers, and also additionally because she will have to copy Slaking's Truant ability with her Trace. If his little child really does become as lazy as that Slaking, even if she fights, the battle will all be but useless.
"Hey, are you two May and Max? The children of Mr. Norman, the Gym Leader of the Petalburg City Gym?" Unexpectedly, just after exchanging some of Ash's Pokémon, the Nurse Joy there stopped the May and Max with a random question.
Unexpectedly, just after receiving the confirmation from the two of them, everyone in the Pokémon Center lobby rushed out of the door, and an aunt who was delivering vegetables to the Pokémon Center even shouted at the top of her voice, "Yes, people: this is what we gave trained for our entire lives, spread the message that the chosen ones are back!"
Ash looked at this scene and was stunned for a moment, "Nurse Joy, what is going on here?"
Nurse Joy smiled slightly, "Don't worry about it, it will all be completely fine. Tehehe."
Now that Nurse Joy has said this, the group was ready to pack up and rush back to Petalburg City as soon as possible while there was still light in the sky.
Unexpectedly. as soon as they walked out of the door of the Pokémon Center, the siblings were surrounded by a large group of people, and a microphone was thrown in front of May, "Are you two children of Mr. Norman?"
"Yes…?" The two siblings nodded in unison with pure confusion in their tones and eyes.
"I am the News Reporter from the North Petalburg News, my name is Dee Dunstan. It is rumored that you are traveling to become the top Pokémon Trainer. How many total achievements have you gotten so far?" This guy really knew what to ask.
"As expected of Mr. Norman's child, Miss May has achieved such an achievement not long after she started traveling. It's really amazing but also expected for his children!"
Everyone around them started praising it. It was a 360-degree circle of compliments, no matter where they looked towards. How could May and Max not like such a feeling?
On the contrary, Ash and Brock had been squeezed outside by the large crowd of fans. Looking at the two siblings surrounded by the giant crowd, Ash couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Good golly, what is this D1 glazing going on here? Its gonna flood the damn city at this point."
"It seems that Mr. Norman is very admired in this northern part of Petalburg City!"
"Are you the ones claiming to be Miss May's and Sir Max's traveling companions? What are you here for?"
Just as they were about to find a place to wait for May and the others in peace, two obnoxious and ugly looking teenagers came over, looking like they were looking for trouble.
"Yes." Ash replied, "I'm going to challenge the Petalburg City Gym."
"What did you just say? Who do you thing you are?"
The two teenagers immediately exclaimed, pointed at Ash's nose and said responsibly, "You are too arrogant for your own good, our Lord and Savior, the handsome Master Norman, is not a normal Gym Leader!"
"He is the most noble person ever, only very selected Trainers can challenge his power!"
Hearing what these two teenagers said, Brock, a former Gym Leader, asked, "But as a Gym Leader, as long as you are a trainer, you are qualified to challenge any and all Gyms!"
"This is our rule here! Follow it niga!"
"Yes, there are obviously many Gyms out there. You can go around to other places to get Badges. This is the smart thing to do!"
"You are a million years too early to challenge Lord Norman! If you still insist on challenging, then defeat me first!"
The two teenagers each said something, but Ash's face darkened, he knew that he could pull some strings and put them into the "timeout zone" (jail) for disturbing of League Trainers under Code 34, Section 12.
Ash normally wouldn't mind such a dumb thing, but he was pissed just by looking at them trying to get his girlfriends attention. He would naturally be a good boyfriend and destroy their dreams.
"Damn Arkoos, you two are two of the ugliest human beings that I had to unfortunately see, I need some bleach for my poor eyes." Ash said with a murmur which Brock and the other two didn't quite catch.
Brock also said, "It seems that if we don't knock them a peg down, they won't let you challenge the Gym."
"Why do you believe that you idiots have the right to stop me and others from challenging a Gym?" Ash said solemnly, "But I will not refuse the request to defeat you two waste of space."
'Wow, Ash seems really pissed that these two dunderheads tried to hit on May. Well I won't pray for them.' Brock's thinking was very easy to understand, he just went with who his friend did.
The two teenagers took Ash and Brock to a nearby battle ground, "I won't let you weaklings to disturb the great Master Norman, I want to correct your arrogant idea!"
"Go, Golduck!"
The Pokémon sent by this ugly boy was a Golduck, which was the evolved form of Psyduck.
This Golduck was smaller in size and looked to be very poorly trained and malnourished.
"Beat the crap out of them, Ralts!"
Ash's Ralts on his shoulders teleported in front of the small Golduck, just twice her own size, much smaller than the one she saw a few days ago, and Togetic now lay on top of Ash's head cheering for her best friend.
"Golduck, use Focus Punch!" The first guys opening attack just made Ash shake his head in nothing but disappointment. It was like going full mode as soon as ot appeared on the stage, but he didn't even hit anything.
His Golduck was interrupted almost immediately, and then he was hit with a barrage of beat down.
"Shadow ball!"
Ash gave an order, his Ralts disappeared, then appeared on top of Golduck's head, holding a put h black energy ball and smashing it towards the poor Golducks head.
Boom!
Golduck lossy his ability to fight and was instantly knocked into unconscious by Ash and and Ralts.
"Don't get too proud, I will be next!"
"No, for such an arrogant guy like you, I must defeat you for Master Norman's sake!"
"Wait a minute, I should go and teach him a lesson first!"
Ags don't know how or when, but several obnoxious and fatherless looking teenagers gathered on the sports field again.
Even Ash knew who his father was, these guys probably didn't know what a father was in the first place.
Seeing them scrambling to make themselves look like a formidable enemy, Ash couldn't help but get even more annoyed, "Come on together! I'm going to beat all ten of you peeps-quick!"
He had a beautiful date planed out with May, but these morons have ruined it all.
There were now a Zigzagoon, Azumarill, Poochyena, Dustox, Spheal, Shroomish, Zangoose....
All of a sudden, ten new but weak looking Pokémon's appeared in front of Ash.
"Now you've done it, Togetic!" Ash slightly became excited, even being able to see and hear the ringing bells of all the Exchange Points going straight into his account. Such sweeping scenes were rare for him. As long as the Trainers still had some energy left, that was more than enough, he could beat them senseless and get some extra Exchange Points.
"Togetic and Ralts, stand by for a massacre!"
Togetic happily cheered up and came down to where Ralts was. The two children looked at each other and knew that they were going to fight side by side for the first time.
"Disarming Voice! Fairy Wind!"
As long as Ash fights against people of their level, even if it's a 2 vs. 10, he will still chose to use his two youngest Pokémon's. But even in such a battle, these two children were not timid at all, but already have a tacit understanding to launch their own moves after all the simulation training they had under Ash.
Ralts began to sing with a beautiful tone, and Togetic flapped her immature wings and stirred up a serene pink wind lanced with bright sparkles. These two attacks were both of the Fairy-type. For the weak Trainers in front of him, they have never even seen such attacks before.
The charming song swept through the ten
Pokémon along with the Fairy Wind, and four of them, which were of a even lower levels, lost their ability to fight as soon as they came face to face with Ash's team.
Only a few Pokémon such as Zangoose and Dustox were left barely standing on with their last bit of energy, and then launched attacks under the orders of their respective Trainers.
"Draining Kiss! Sweet Kiss!"
Two super cute children acting cute together was not a simple 1+1 thing. For a moment, the misguided glazers in front of Ash all looked worriedly.
Draining Kiss can drain the opponents energy, and Sweet Kiss can make the opponent enter a chaotic condition of Confusion.
As four more Pokemon crashed to the ground, the remaining Dustox and Zangoose were now confused at the same time, and the attacks they fired hit each other, completely extracting their last physical energy.
So far, Ash and his two Pokémon's that had hardly expended any of their energy, and they were still very energetic and ready to continue with their massacre.
Ash was no longer as angry as he was before. Seeing that these obnoxious teenagers did give him so many of the Exchange Points he had desperately needed, Ash was now even eager for them to challenge him a few more times. As long as they and their Pokémon still have a sliver of strength left in their body, he will make them accept all of his challenges.
From a gaming perspective, with so many people queuing up to give away their experience points to him, this opportunity was one that must be taken in fully.
The biggest gain for Ash, in addition to the large number of Exchange Points he had gained, was also the hard-earned Bond Value for several of his Pokémon's.
Especially his emo, but very docile, looking Absol. When Ralts and Togetic got tired of "playing" with theier new "toys", Ash had simply rotated them out of the field and changed them with Torkoal to beat the large number of Trainers.
Ash has a very high expectations for this Pokémon, especially as he was known as the "Disaster Beast".
Ash promised himself that he will train his already strong Absol to the point of making his opponents tremble and think of his nickname.
Moreover, Absols Mega Evolution was also very cool looking, and his future Bond Evolution with his Absol will definitely not disappoint him.
Like many of his other Pokémon's Mega Evolutions, his Absol will also look very similar to what it looks like in its Mega Evolution form. However, there will be some changes in there that shows his deep connection with his Pokémon's.
"Absol, use Sword Dance!" Standing in front of Absol at this moment were 25 more uninjured new Pokémon's, and their levels were much more higher than those faced by Ralts and others, as these Pokémon's actually belong to real Trainers, unlike those regular people with Pokémon's.
Ash's first command was to improve Absol's main combat power, his Physical Strength.
"Master Norman Fand, Absol is a pure Dark-type, use Fighting, Fairy and Bug-type attacks! Breloom, use your Dynamic Punch attack!" A nerdy looking boy with glasses took the lead in launching their group attack.
The moves were used correctly, and their group coordination was also a little decent, but this was nothing to Ash. He smiled faintly, and his Absol also lowered his head after hearing Ash's command via their Telepathy Bond.
'Humans, you know nothing about power!' Absol thought gleefully.
'Destroy them! Psycho Cut!' This was a powerful Physical Psychic attack, the signature attack of the final evolution of a male Ralts, if he choses and has the right Evolutionary Stine, Gallade.
It was hard to imagine that a pure Dark-type Pokémon like Absol can use such a Psychic-type attack, right?
But under Ash's hard and deliberate training, Absol had learnerd and mastered two sharp blade skills, a Special Normal-type Attack, Razor Wind, and the Physical Psychic-type Attack, Psycho Cut.
Absol's figure disappeared in a white blur, only a flash of pink sword rnetgy was seen other than that, and Breloom, along with a Pelipper, a Nuzleaf and a Medicham behind it, all lost their ability to fight.
"So strong!" This was the first time he faced Ash personally, and this was also the first time Andy felt what true despairing power was.
Their once thought out powerful group members had fallen one after another, and finally one boy couldn't hold on any longer. He turned around and ran towards the Pokémon Center.
The children of the Petalburg City Gym Leader, their Lord and Savior Norman, the youthful, beautiful genius Pokémon Coordinator and Miss May and the young and intellectual Master Max, were still there.
The first two obnoxious teenagers had already been kicked away by Ash, and now they were doubting their life. The teenagers here only heard that some unworthy Trainer was going to challenge their pride and joy, the Petalburg City Gym, they were so unwilling to let this unworthy Triner challenge their Master that they lined up to challenge him to prove him weakness.
They had no idea that Ash was the traveling companion of their master children and was one of the strongest Trainers alive.
So May and Max were quickly carried over by them to challenge Ash and defeat him to restore their pride.
Ash was stunned for a moment and took his perfectly fine Absol back from the middle of the 20 some defeated Pokémon's. "May, Max, what are you two doing here?"
"They said there was a rude Trainer who was saying bad things about us and dad!" May explained the situation to Ash.
Hearing this, Ash understood what was going on here. His girlfriend was essentially being used as a weapon by those unwilling weaklings, "The rude Trainer they told you about was me!"
"What?" Max was the first one to exclaim in disbelief. This means that those so called fans of them and their dad brought him and his sister to challenge Ash?
Of all people, why him? Why her boyfriend?
Max and May both knew that Ash would never say something like that about their dad, someone who he had great respect for and was essentially his future father-in-law.
However, no one noticed his expression, and the so-called Reporter pointed at Ash's nose and said, "We don't want people like you to challenge Master Norman at all!"
"So I see, it's so sad that Mr. Norman has fans like you supporting him!" Ash smiled bitterly and said with a evil laugh. He didn't pay any of those thing at all, but here they are, making stupid claims that hardly anyone but the dumbest of people would believe.
He looked up at May, his almost clueless girlfriend, "Babe, let's have a fight to remember this!"
He also wants to see how May has progressed during this period, in a real fight and not one of their usual training battles.
"Sure, love! But I don't think I want to remember this." Since Ash asked so, May took out her the Poké Ball to accept with a sheepish smile. Both her Beautifly and Skitty had been performing for these fans just now, and they had exhausted most of their energy.
So this time she sent out her Torchic, who had been training but had not had the time to showcase much.
"Then it's up to you, Togetic!" Ash sent out his Togetic to fight over.
After evolving, Togetic's combat effectiveness was actually very strong, and Ash can use his own strength to fully unleash Togetic's power.
"What?! How dare you scoundrel to call Lady May your girlfriend!!"
"Yeah!! We'll beat you down!!"
"Yeeahhh!!"
Those new here said their words, while those who had already been easily crushed by Ash jsut sighed, knowing they can't do jack shit to Ash.
They were simply too damn weak to fight back, and he wasn't even trying.
Ash, May, Brock and Max ultimately chose to ignore these people for the same reason.
"Okay, here I go, Torchic, use Ember!"
The Bond Value between May and her Torchic is actually wuite high, but their training intensity was far less than that of Ash or her other Pokémon's, so Torchic had not yet reached the level where he would evolve.
"Use Sweet Kiss!"
Togetic easily avoided Torchic's fast Ember attack in the air, and landed next to it. In the audiences eyes, this Ember was a very fast attack, but to Togetic, this was a small fireball that was coming towards her in very slow motion. Her friend, Growlithe, who Ash brings to his team from time to time to check on her progress, can do this attack so much faster and stronger than what she was seeing right now from Torchic.
A pink light flashed by, and Torchic was now unsteadily standing on his feet, staggering around as if he was a complete drunk.
"Torchic!" May suddenly panicked out. She doesn't have enough experience to deal with Pokémon's special conditions, as shown now on when she faced the Phantoms Dusclops. "Torchic, wake up! Please!"
"It's over, Ancient Power!" Ash had never shown mercy in a battle, even if the opponent was his girlfriend, maybe he would show mercy in their bed but not in a battle.
Togetic immediately launched the fatal attack towards Torchic. Ancient Power was a Rock-type attack, so its effect on the Fire-type Torchic was outstanding as it was super-effective.
Boom!
Torchic had only activator used one Ember skill in front of Ash and Togetic, and was beaten to the point of losing his ability to fight.
"We lost." May took back her defeated Torchic, but she didn't feel much loss because of this defeat, neither did her Torchic. It was very normal to lose to Ash; it would be strange if she actually somehow won this battle.
But for the people around them, it was like the sky had fallen, figuratively speaking of course. ,
"Oh my Master Norman, Lady May actually lost!"
"That's only natural. Big Bro Ash is the Champion of the Silver Conference. He was even able to beat my father before. That's why we had traveled with him, thanks to his care along the way, we learned a lot!" Max finally showed off and spoke about Ash's strength.
He said, "That strong Ralts was given to him by our father and mother because they deeply trusted Big Bro!"
Regardless of anything else, just the way their Young Master Max addressed Ash shocked these people.
The young genius son, Max, of Master Norman actually calls this man his older brother.
Suddenly, these people who were all against Ash and turned into his "loyal" fans. They all cheered Ash's name and recognized Ash's qualification to challenge their beloved Petalburg City Gym.
But does Ash really give a shit about this and them?
The answer is a a big NO, if you couldn't tell.
Anyway, Ash and his team went to the Pokémon Center to have some food with their Pokémon's.
May was very sad to realize that she didn't have the chance to go on a date with her boyfriend like they had planned. She was in literal tears thinking of this.
Ash had to comfort her multiple times to and promise her of another date to make her stop her crying.
After crossing another of the infinite forests in this world, they finally arrived at their destination of Petalburg City.
For the two siblings, this was their long time hometown. After being away for such a long time, they found that many places and things have quietly changed from what they remember as.
After returning to the Gym, they found that the siblings parents at home, Norman and Caroline, the ever loving couple they remembered had a conflict.
It was simply unbelievable to them. At first, Ash even suspected on why Norman did not hesitate to give an extremely rare Pokémon like Ralts to him, and also let Max and May travel with him. He really did deeply believe that he did that because he wanted to live a two-person life with his wife, Caroline, without needing to be shy or impatient.
Now the two of them actually got into a conflict?
Who can actually believe it?
"Big Bro, Brock, let me take you to see our greenhouse!" The heartless Max didn't seem to notice anything strange about his parents. He took Ash, as Brock was busy chatting with his family, to the greenhouse belonging to the Petalburg City Gym.
The Pokémon in their Gym all live here. In the future, if there are more than 6 Pokémon around May or Max, they will also all be sent to live in this lush and big place.
Although this place was big, it was still in the middle of a large city, and couldn't be nearly big as the one Professor Oak uses.
This place was at max only about 2% percent as big as the one Professor Oak and Ash uses.
A blue light flashed in Ash's eyes, and he smiled immediately, "So that's what is happening, I was wondering how could a person like Mr. Norman do such a thing. Now I know why." Ash said in a voice full of laughter.
"Big Bro, what did you find out?" Max comfortably hugged Norman's Slakoth, as they had known each other for their whole life. This Slakoth still remembered Ash beating him and waved to him lazily.
Ash laughed and took him to the warehouse in the middle of the greenhouse, the part where the large glass dome could retract back, and Max also found something extra inside do it, "Big Bro, what is this?"
"These are large custom fireworks. These large custom ones are ones that are set off the night before every Pokémon Contest, remember?" Ash smiled and said, "Max, are there any special days recently that relate to your parents?"
After Ash's careful reminder, Ash reacted and said in surprise, "Big Bro, today is the day of my mom and dads wedding anniversary!"
This was the reason.
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