Pokemon: Bond Evolutions of Pokémon

Sure enough, just as Ash had expected before, once their main mission objective was taken by him by force, the mission of these two teams was almost a complete failure.

And things developed even more smoothly than Ash had originally imagined. Originally, he thought that the two teams would attack him together or separately and try to threaten him to with everything they had to hand over the Meteorite in his hands.

He could have also taken this opportunity to get some more of the Exchange Points he needed.

Unexpectedly, his movements were too fast for these Grunts just now. The group from the Team Mamga only saw him kicking their device into the hot magma, and thought that the Meteorite was also destroyed with thier machine.

The most important thing is that when Tabitha saw Ash from a distance, he suddenly felt a pain in his face and a scar in his chest almost opened up. Since their main mission item were now destroyed, there was no point for them to stay here and get a beating from this kid again.

After all, it would be better to retreat immediately and say their main mission was canceled than give Ash another chance to beat his beautiful face.

At least, that was he was thinking.

The members from Team Aqua in this area were already at a disadvantage in numbers and were also not in their home court. Although their mission was not completed as they couldn't get their hands on the Meteorite, at least Team Magma was unable to get what they were after, so Shelly was still satisfied with the outcome.

She also retreated, walking fast enough that she didn't even glance at Ash. She just thought he was a lucky handsome kid, not one with skills.

"Hey...why are you leaving like that…" Ash thought for second put away his Dratini's Poké Ball again, 'Nevermind, it's best not fight here, I'm still glad nothing too bad happened.' Ash thought with a sigh. He still wanted some Exchange Points, but looks like that isn't happening here for now.

The man got up from the ground. He heard the conversation between the members of Team Magma and members of Team Aqua just now. He really thought that the Meteorite was destroyed like everyone else. Although he was sad, he begrudgingly accepted it, "Thank you, child. If that Meteorite was really used by those people to do harm out region and world, it's ultimately better to just destroy it than to get their hands on it."

"What you did was very decisive and bold, so I thank you again!"

At this time, Brock and the two siblings also finally rushed over to where he was.

After introducing each other, they learned that this man was a famous professor from the Hoenn Region, Professor Cozmo, and he was very engaged in the research about Meteorites.

"Wow, a real Meteorite!" Max's eyes were filled with stars when he heard that they had seen a real Meteorite, "But its such a pity that it was destroyed. I really wanted to see and hold it."

"Then take it." Ash threw the Meteorite casually iver to him.

Max quickly caught it, but the next second it was snatched away by Professor Cozmo. He was full of surprises and there were real tears in his eyes, "It's really that Meteorite. It turns out it wasn't destroyed. That's great! Thank you, Ash!"

"Wait Ash, could it be that you took out the Meteorite in time and destroyed their device before it too got destroyed?" Professor Cozmo looked at Ash with grateful eyes.

Ash nodded with a small smirk, "Yeah, I originally thought I needed to fight all the grunts from both Team Magma and Team Aqau, so I had gotten myself ready for it. But looks like I didn't need to worry about it after all. They just ran away when they thought that I really destroyed their Meteorite."

Brock and May saw that Ash's expressions were really full of regret and sadness, and they couldn't help but twitch the corner of their mouths.

They most definitely knew that all Ash wanted to do at that time was to train up his Pokémon's.

And they were completely right, it's hard to find moments like these.

After returning the complete Meteorite to Professor Cozmo because Ash found out from his System that this Meteorite didn't actually have anything special to it other than the fact that this was a Meteorite.

So Ash and his team embarked on the road again for their journey again.

Soon they left the area of Mt. Chimney and finally arrived at their next destination, Lavaridge Town. Ash finally challenge and get his next Gym Badge, which made him very happy.

As a town at the foot of a giant dormant volcano, there are many natural hot springs around here, large and small, making this place a very famous hot spring resort to all ages and all people.

What made May the most excited was of course the famous local food here, the Lava Cookie!

"Come on, this is for Pikachu, this is for Ralts, and and this is for Togetic!"

May distributed the Lava Cookies she just bought and gave them to the Pokémon's outside of their Poké Balls. She had also bought a ton more of their other Pokémon's and themselves.

The two children and one grown up looked very cute holding and nibbling on them.

As usual, after Ash and his group came out of the Pokémon Center after a good lunch with their Pokémon's, who were fighting for the last Lava Cookie, ultimately May ate it.

They then went straight to the Lavaridge Town Gym, planning to go there first with Ash and get his Gym Badge before splitting up for more exploration.

But when the group did arrive in front of the Lavaridge Town Gym, they found that no one answered the door, which wasn't all that unusual because the amount of times Ash and Brock experienced this in their journeys.

"Is anyone here?" Brock shouted, and just then, they saw a beautiful red-haired girl rushing out from the back of the yard with a fire behind her.

"It's so hot, so hot! So damn hot!"

Was this really a Gym under a Fire-type specialist?

Ash was stunned for a moment, but then threw out a Poké Ball, "Marshtomp, use Water Gun to put down the flames!"

This is the Pokémon that Ash and just exchanged from the Pokémon Center. He decided to use his dual Water and Ground-type Marshtomp to tear up this Fire-type Gym. This was very consistent with the rest of his plans. This will also check out the training results of Marshtomp, even though he consistently got reports about all of his Pokémon's training, its best to see it with his own eyes.

Marshtomp immersed used a low powered Water Gun to put out the fire on the girl with and the area around her.

This had made her soak and all wet. :)

"We're saved!" The young lady breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at Ash and the others, her eyes suddenly shone with a bright light. She ripped off her wet coat and said heroically, "Thank you for saving me!"

Brock's eyes immediately burst into multiple hearts, "You're too beautiful!"

But before he can ran over and get down to her, the young lady dodged him and came in front of Ash, "Thank you so much. My clothes accidentally caught fire while I wasn't looking. It would have been a disaster if I hadn't met you!"

This young lady looks a little too confused for her own good.

"But why did your clothes catch fire?" May asked with clear concern in her voice.

"Because I was giving special training to Mag and Meg!" With that said, two Slugma came to rest next to the girl. Judging from the names, they should be one male and one female. "In order to let them evolve, I'm helping them do special training for their growth. After training, I accidentally got burned by one of their Flamethrower!" Training Pokémon is very risky if one is not paying attention to themselves.

"By the way, what are you doing here? And who are you guys?" The young girl just realized what she was doing. She hadn't even asked Ash and his group the purpose of their visit, and they hadn't even introduced themselves yet.

"I'm Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town, and I'm here for my Gym Challenge!"

Hearing Ash's words, the young lady suddenly became even more excited than he was, "Great, finally a challenger is here to challenge me!"

"I've been looking forward to a challenger like you coming over to challenge me for so long!" The young lady very excitedly shook hands with Ash, "My name is Flannery, and I finally have a challenger to battle me. I'm so excited!"

Flannerys fighting spirit was already really burning hot. In fact, it was too obvious.

It turns out she was the Gym Leader of the Lavaridge Town Gym.

"But I remember that the Lavaridge Town Gym Leader should be an old man named Mr. Moore!" Brock came back to his senses and told the information he had learned about thsi Gym before coming here from the Pokémon Center.

It turns out that Flannery here was still a novice Gym Leader and has only been in this new position for three days.

Her grandfather Moore went on a trip and left the Gym for her to inherit and run.

When Flannery mentioned this, Ash was stunned there for a moment. This was very similar to Misty's three sisters and even Brock's father. They all used excuses to travel and then delegated their duties as Gym Leaders to their inexperienced family members.

However, it was obvious that this novice Gym Leader does not know what to do yet with her position. She was only focused on training her two Slugma before and even forgot to call someone in to repair the damaged battle field.

At this moment, the battle field at the Lavaridge Town Gym was in tatters and pitted with holes, making it impossible to fight regularly.

Not only that, she didn't even know where her grandfather had put the Gym Badges at.

She was helpless to say the least.

Just as a group of people were helping Flannery rummage through the boxes and hopefully find the missing Badge Case, an old man wearing a beach suit and an afro appeared in front of the door, "Hello, I happened to be passing by. Can I borrow the toilet here? I promise to be quick."

Flannery was stunned for a moment bug nodded, "Okay, there is a corridor there and all you have to do is make a turn."

"Then please come with me, I'm afraid if there is no toilet paper, I wouldn't know where to look for it!" The old man left this sentence and turned around and walked along the corridor.

He arrived at the toilet smoothly and opened the door. Then he pointed to a box on the shelf with a surprised look on his face and said, "Wow! There is a random box over there!"

As he said that, he took down the box and opened it in front of Flannery, "It's so beautiful. Isn't this the Gym Badge of the Lavaridge Town Gym?"

With that, he handed the box to Flannery, said

"goodbye" and wanted to leave immediately, but was blocked by Ash at the door.

Ash smiled and said, "Mr. Moore, I have wanted to meet you for a while."

Ash instantly destroyed his confidence in his disguise ability.

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