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Chapter 292: 292. Fireworks

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.


Chapter 293: 293. 5th Gym Badge

Now that they have got the just of the matter, Ash and others in his group certainly would not dare to disturb Norman and Caroline's happy anniversary moment.

As Norman said, he would rather be misunderstood by Caroline than be unable to keep his hard worked anniversary surprise a secret. Ash knew too well that no one would reveal it unto it actually happened.

Standing side by side, they watched the fireworks that Norman had carefully prepared for Caroline.

Unexpectedly, they were in the shapes of Beautifly, a little different than the ones used in official Pokémon Contests.

They were really beautiful to say the least.

It turns out that Norman had actually proposed to his girlfriend at that time, Caroline, in the middle of a beautiful flower garden. There were many Beautifly flying in the middle of where they were, so Beautifly had a special meaning to them and was a true testimony of their love for each other.

From this viewer perspective, this was also the fateful relationship between May and her very own Beautifly.

Ash had also took the chance to finally talk to them about him being in a serious relationship with their daughter, May.

Like they had previously talked about, they were fine with it as they knew that Ash would be able to give their daughter the perfect life, like the ones she always dreamed of.

So they both happily gave Ash and May their blessings.

Under the beautiful fireworks and in front of family and friends alike, Ash and May gave each other a deep loving kiss.

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Then the very next day was the day that Norman and Ash will have their official Gym Battle.

Because they had already fought before at the start of Ash's Hoenn Journey, Norman originally planned to only use his strongest Slaking to fight against Ash, but he had also agreed-upon that Ralts and with her Trace ability will be unable to fight against Slaking or Slakoth, so Norman decided to add one more Pokémon to his team and use his stronger Vigoroth and Slaking to fight against Ash's team.

"Ash, I have been looking forward to this battle since when we had our first fight!" Norman's fighting spirit has also been burning brightly today, and he couldn't wait to start the battle with Ash.

After the official Gym Referee announced the start of their battle, Norman was the first to throw out his Poké Ball, "Well then, let's go Vigoroth!"

The Vigoroth that fought against his Hitmonlee before appeared again in the stage, and this time, it has to face Ash's carefully trained little cutie, Ralts.

The little girl has teleported off Ash's shoulder in a being pink light filled with sparkles. It had just copied Vigoroth's Vital Spirit ability and will not fall into the sleep conditions in this battle.

"Okay, here we go, use Slash!"

Norman was the first to launch his offensive attack. It was already pretty well known that Norman had repeatedly used three Pokémon with three different fighting styles to give the challenger a test to see weather or not they deserve his Badge or not.

So what Vigoroth was an expert at was with quick and accurate attacks. All of his attacks very faster than a usual Pokémon's. In the blink of an eye, he was in front of Ralts, and his sharp claws struck hard at the little child.

However, Ralts didn't seem to react to its attack, and neither did Ash give any direct instructions for her to follow.

But just when Vigoroth's claws were about to strike Ralts' smaller body, her figure suddenly swayed, as if teleporting but not actually teleporting, and came to the other side of the field to easily avoid the first attack.

"What a flexible and fast speed!" Norman couldn't help but praise Ralts' speed powers, this was the kind of movement that is not something that just any Psychic-type Pokémon can do. They must have a solid physical body to move at such speeds, which is something that is definitely not common amongst long ranged attackers such as the Psychic-types.

"Psybeam!"

Ash also launched his first attack at this moment, which was the moment when Norman was stunned and had his guard not at complete control.

"Vigoroth, use Flamethrower!"

As expected of a Gym Leader m with the strength that is close to that of an Elite 4 member, Norman's reaction was so fast that he almost subconsciously understood the ongoing situation and issued his counterattack order.

The flames collided with the light pink beam, and an explosion occurred. Vigoroth and Ralts were both immediately blown away because of the strong winds made by the close range explosion.

Seeing that her friend was injured, Togetic immediately wanted to fly down to help her out, but she was immediately pulled down by Ash and held in his arms before she could do anything about this situation, "Togetic, many times before, like you saw, Pikachu and the others were also very injured, why didn't I see you looking anxious?"

The old Togepi was very heartless to say the least, even Ash, Brock and Misty were all anxious in those situations, but this child was still the ever cheerful one.

"Draining Kiss!"

Ralts stood up and blew a pink kiss, and then a pink ball of light flew out from Vigoroth and landed on Ralts' head, it was healing Ralts.

Almost all of the injuries she had received from the close range explosion recovered immediately.

"Vigoroth, stand up and use your Hidden Power!" Norman's skill was also powerful enough that he knew what to do. Just like that, six new light balls jumped out from Vigoroths body and surrounded Ralts from all sides.

Ash didn't expect or know that Hidden Power can be used like this. Now he knew that Hidden Power can both control the field and attack at the same time.

"Use Teleport to move from there!" However, such a slow trick will have no lasting effect on Ash and his Ralts. Wouldn't it be better to just attack them directly instead of waiting for a better chance that could never happen? Surrounding Ralts was equivalent to giving her more time to Teleport away, unless there is some sort of high level technology or powers stopping her from using her Psychic powers.

"Psybeam!"

The figure of Ralts suddenly appeared behind Vigoroth, and another colorful light hit it hard, knocking it away towards the wall.

Ralts then used several Confusions and Psychics to repeatedly smack Vigoroth against the wall and the ground until he lost his ability to fight or even move.

"Vigoroth loses its ability to fight, meaning Ralts wins this battle!"

Norman looked at Ralts' delicate and small figure, "Is this really the Pokémon hatched from that Egg that I gave you? Ash, you raised her really well, even more stronger than the Pokémon's I have trained for so much longer!"

The original promise of bringing this Ralts to the challenge him was now fulfilled.

Next was the main highlight of this Gym Battle, defeating the Slaking who had battled and tied with his Dratini back at the beginning of their Hoenn Journey.

"Go ahead, Slaking!"

"Stand by for battle, Absol!" This was one of Ash's biggest and strongest gains since he began to travel around the vast Hoenn Region.

"An Absol? Ash, you must have been brave enough to earn the loyalty of an Absol!" Norman praised him, then his face darkened again, "Slaking, destroy them with a Hyper Beam!"

Unexpectedly, Norman used one of the strongest Normal-type moves as soon as the their second battle started. This was also pretty much Slaking's ultimate attack, as this also had the same type attack bonus along with it being such a powerful move.

Only Pokémon like Slaking, Gyarados, Ursaring, and other Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon can use a powerful move like Hyper Beam as if they were very normal attacks.

"Avoid it!" Absol's speed was amazing to say the least as he easily avoided the attack range of the destructive Hyper Beam.

"Now! Psycho Cut!"

Taking advantage of Slaking being unable to move because of both its ability and the little drawback Hyper Beam brings with it, Ash has decided to decisively launched a powerful attack.

"Slaking, grab it!" At this time, Norman suddenly issued an order. Slaking actually raised his palm and used his bare hand to catch Absol's attack, only leaving some injuries in it's body.

"Sure enough, only by having such a strong bond can even a Pokémon like Slaking do this!" Ash suddenly laughed outloud.

Slaking was a notorious Pokémon that was known for their laziness, even more than their extremely high power levels. Even Ash didn't know just how strong their bond had to be to be able to do such a thing with practiced ease.

Norman is indeed a really admirable Pokémon Trainer.

"Use Dark Pulse!"

Before Slaking could make any move, he was hit by the sharp corner of Absol's face blade and raised himself into the air. Ash had already taken the opportunity to launch the perfect attack from here.

No mercy will be shown at all.

"Slaking, punch it out of the sky!"

Norman's reaction was also very fast, but Absol, who was now in the air, used his agility to forcefully adjust his posture in mid-air, and used a Dark Pulse to hit Slaking hard.

"Slaking, use Focus Punch!"

Taking Ash's move head-on, Norman finally gave out his next order, his strong arms shining with the light of the extremely purified Fighting-type energy.

"Use Razor Wind!"

Absol landed smoothly in the ground, the big blade of his forehead lit up with a dazzling white light, and he swung out a huge wind blade, "This was a skill developed even more with my Scizor!"

This attack was the combination of all the hard work Absol had put in for Ash!

This blade power was very terrifying to say the least. It became bigger and bigger and some parts of it hit the ground, leaving a huge cut mark on the field, showing just how terrifyingly sharp the attack was.

"KING!"

Slaking's momentum had also reached its limit, and he punched the wind blade hard with everything he had.

The punch was so powerful that everyone felt that as if their hearts were about to jump out of their chests. They gritted their teeth and did not dare to make a sound, as if they were afraid of it. Just now, Asha and his Absol had used their advantages to that Slaking being unable to move much to its limit and attacked continuously without mercy.

Fight when you advance! Fight when you retreat!

This was Absols motto for all of his battles.

It was simply too dizzying, but also extremely exciting.

The explosion happened at that moment.

After the smoke cleared, Slaking was still barely standing straight on the ground. He really had a strong will to never give up.

"Alright then, Abs-!" Ash his teeth and was immediately ready to give out another order to swing out again.

But before Absol could make a move under hik, Slaking had already fallen down.

"Slaking lost its ability to fight, meaning Absol won this battle! The winner of this battle is teh Challenger Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town!" It took a few seconds for the referee to barely follow the scene in front of him and make a decisive decision.

Ash had won his fifth official Gym Badge.


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