One hour later.
It has been one hour p since I beat brawly, I had just given riolu to nurse joy for a check up when I felt an presence make an appearance on my radar. I had Pikachu on my shoulder and I moved my shoulder a teeny unnoticeable bit. This was a sign of an observer with unknown motivations.
The presence was weird as in I could sense them normally but I could see that they were hiding something. It was like a hidden intention. I behaved completely normal, got riolu back and walked out of the center to the edge of the town just before the forest. I had come here spefically to tempt the attacker to release their intentions. It was completely normal but for one moment I felt their intentions leak. It was bloodlust.
I turned on the dime and pikachu electrocuted the person following me. I followed up by releasing garchomp and charizard, and running over to the mysterious attacker. It was stunningly beautiful woman in a normal clothes, there were no signs of any team from the games but she had a badge with an emblem. It looked oddly like a flame. Team magma.
I hunched over and saw that she had no weapons or pokemon at all! She must be a spy or in the espionage business. Either that or seduction. Most likely both. The only thing connecting her to team magma was this badge but I noticed something about the badge
No it wasn't faulty but it was good. Too good. I had seen the badges of team rocket and team aqua(spy from Devon), they were no where near this quality and I had fought high rankers. Team magma and aqua are practically the same with different legendaries so their badges A must be of same or at the very least similar materials but this was much more than that.
It was forged too well. Neither teams had such high quality materials for so many people. This meant that some other evil team or organization hired an expert espionage agent to masquerade as a team magma spy masquerading as a civilian. I need to interrogate her. Aura doesn't give me mind delving capabilities but I can read surface thoughts. Though I can only use this for a few minutes.
I also noticed that she lacked any suicide pill, so an outside observer or freelancer. This also tells me that she values her life over her money. Good that will make for an easier interrogation.
After making sure she was not awake, I brought out the rest of my pokemon and explained the situation to them before waking her up." Gyarados water gun, gently"
She awoke in frenzy before seeing me. I used all of my aura, pressure and every inch of anger and bloodlust I possibly could and shoved it straight onto her with all of my pokemon multiplying it and amplifying it to absurd degree.
Compared to what I did to the kid who insulted mom that may as well have been heaven. Even without my aura, a 12-13 year old with blood red eyes standing on a 10.5 meter tall blood red gyarados, with a charizard with fire on its claws, a garchomp with a frog is visible aura, a nearly 2.3 meter pidgeot with steeled wings and a Pikachu surrounded in thunder grouped around was enough o make most veterans pee.
And that was without the aura. Just the pressure of leviathan was enough to make people faint, imagine the collective pressure of 6 beasts multiplied by my own aura. Yeah she nearly peed her pants and was barely able to talk.
"Who?"
" a ammm magma"' team galactic.' I could see into her mind. This is why I preferred aura over psychic, at a certain level everything psychics can do become parlor tricks. Aura is woven into the fabric of the very universe and was created by aura. Psychic is just an evolutionary mutation allowing for basic things. Sure at the max level of psychic you can do some crazy shit but aur at the same level is even crazier.
"So what does team galactic want from me, and why frame magma?" I could see the surprise etched on her face.
'Can he read my mind?'
"I can't read your mind but I can see your face, you don't know the depths of the waters you are swimming in. The power wielded by the underground kings can destroy entire regions with a single command. To them all of your little teams are kids playing with marbles. Do you know the worst part. I am one!"
Before she could reply I punched her in the face. All Bullshit. There are no underground kings, hell I most likely read that in some crappy novel with power escalation problems. Still the shock on her face was enough to conclude that she believed it. I mean I read her mind enough to confer what I need.
"Hello 911, yeah it's me again, yes I know your policy on vigilantism. No i didn't provoke them beyond insulting their family lineage. Oh it's team magma. Yeah they send some high roller spy at me, pretty good but int he end not good enough,. Yes, again. No, I am not,lying, I know that this is the 3rd instance just do your goddamn job already. Thank you for responding to 911. What happened to the spy? Find out next time on pokeball z"
Man sinnoh why can't you do this while I am in kalos. I promised Serena I would visit next year in the letters. I guess the universe wants me to go to unova. By this point arceus will be like' here meet spicy Thai... I mean here meet Cynthia.' And slap her on to my face the day I reach unova. Why can't I just have a proper break while I am on an adventure,
Oh shit, mom. I guess I will have to bring up Serena cause I haven't called her since before they spy incident in Devon. In only a few weeks, I Have Attracted negative attention form 2 different evil teams. In just 2 weeks! Team aqua and magma and I also have rocket on my tail. It is like a holy trifecta of evil teams
The next day
Yesterday was the day of the attack and I haven't got any news from the police about the spy. The news hasn't been released yet but they are saying that it will be made public in some time. When politics is involved, some time goes from tomorrow all the way to next year. I just hope it is after I finish the hoenn circuit.
Anyway I surfed back to land and I was currently stopping in one of the major towns between dewford and mauville. It had its own pokemon chapter and pokemart. I don't usually visit pokemarts cause I make my own food for my pokemon and I use naturally occurring berries for healing. I only carry a few potions on me just in case. I don't even catch that many pokemon, I was always more f a quality of quantity.
Ava had been growing closer and closer to her evolution but she still had a bit of time till she reached her species evolution. Sauske..-I mean beldum had been trying the hardest he could but he was still crushing hard on ava. The sheer amount of potential beldum had was unbelievable. Pseudo legends have an extremely high power ceiling.
But that is minor news compared to what happened next. Charizard broke though into blue flames. Yay a! His flames had grown much stronger when he activates blaze. His flames were well beyond any of his competitors. His flames burn blue when ever he uses blaze and they become much more concentrated but they don't spread nearly as fast as normal flames but that may actually be an advantage in this world.
Garchomp not to be left behind can now use 17 dragon dances before using all of that energy into one ball of mass destruction. While I was surfing in a desolate area of water, I asked garchomp to use it. Ahah I felt like thek was an bomb going off. It was more than a mega ton of tnt's worth.
The explosion created so many waves that even Leviathan Couldn't surf straight and instead had to wait until the waves died down. No-one was injured, there weren't any other pokemon in the area,I checked beforehand.
Charizard and garchomp had increased their spars to a point so frequent that they practically sparred every single day. Of course beldum was completely transfixed when he first saw the two monsters fight. Of course they had to keep their destruction to a minimum. Garchomp had been focusing a bit more on the physical side along with dragon moves. Charizard was more towards speed and attack but he was still able to tank attacks like nothing.
Ari had been getting closer to Mach 2, while leviathan had taken a tiny break hen he went back so he was a bit behind the rest. Pikachu hadn't really Improved much outside of his physical attacks which were basically equal to getting hit by a truck.
"Wow, how strong is he? Garchomp is so cool? Can charizard fly? Why are this flames blue? Are you a pokemon master? Tell me please sense !" How did I get here? Let's rewind a few hours ago
I was at the major town in between dewford and mauville. This town acted as a pit stop for most people to stop and resupply. A few years ago the league had stationed a starter pokemon here for ten year old trainers. So if you happened to begin your journey in this town, you would get a starter from your hometown.
Apparently team magma had been trying to get its grubby hands on these starters since last year. The moment the child would be out of the towns read, they would strike and try and steal their pokemon. To counter this an escort, experienced pokemon trainer, is usually sent along with a newbie to stop any Thefts.
You probably guessed hey I am here by now, haven't you. I am the expert trainer sent to accompany some 10 year old till mauville. Why oak asked me this is beyond me but I have time to spare. I have beaten 3 gyms in 1 month, and there are still 2 full months remaining.
I walked into the pokemon center to see a girl with weirdly blue hair and a mudkip on top of her head. She looked a bit impatient the but Her excitement was shining much brighter." Where is this master trainer? Who is he? How strong will he be?" She was probably annoying to anyone in the world but nurse joy had a heart made of gold so she replied sweetly.
"He is a master trainer, I won't tell you who he is but the has a very strong pokemon."
The little girl was practically bubbling over. Sigh,why do I get the excited one? Fuck you arceus.
"HELLO I AM HERE!" I walked in a normal manner. And looked straight towards joy.
"Hmm so you are the squirt I have to babysit?"
"I am not a squirt! How old are you? 11? 12?"
"I am ten but I am nearing my birthday. I look older than I am."
"Ehh but if you are only 10 then how are you a pokemon master?"
I simply smiled at her and called our garchomp. Garchomp was an imposing 2.2 meters tall with light skin and the passive dragonic aura he has cultivated.
"Proof enough? Let's go, I don't have all day here. We should reach ,mauville within a few days of walking. I can give you a few tips on training your mudkip as well."
And that is how I got an overzealous 10 year old calling me sensei. The sheer amount of questions she asked were slowing down as she was running out of questions. Good.
The next day
It has been 1 day and the girl who named amora was out of questions. Yay! But I was really looking forward to the spar between charizard and garchomp. Not the spar itself but the reaction that amora would have towards it. Her mudkip could barely make a dent in a tree and here she was watching champion level pokemon duke it out. Hahah
"Garchomp, charizard. You have my full permission to go all out, just make sure that nobody is injured." They both had maniacal smiles when they heard me.
"Mister ash, how strong are these two? You said that they are your 2 strongest pokemon. Maybe they will make a crater or a break a few trees" ooh I can't wait to see your reactions little girl.
Garchomp and charizard faced each other with a few meters in between them. Garchomp released the draconic aura it had cultivated and charizard's flames started surrounding its body and everything around him started melting. They stared each other down before giving out a menacing roar that scared the living daylights out of amora and every pokemon in the vicinity.
"Begin"
That was when all heck broke loose. They were within a second at each other's throats, exchanging dragon claws and infernos. Garchomp swung his hand covered in draconic energy straight at charizard who caught it and gave Garchomp a solid punch in the gut. Garchomp flew straight into a tree, which was uprooted entirely.
Amora's jaw was on the ground and her eyes were nearly bulging out. What did you expect from a girl from a small town witnessing a champion level fight. But the best part is that these two were just warming up.
"Guys warm up is over. Let's begin" She looked at me like I was crazy before looking back at the fight.
The unfocused aura of Garchomp turned into a dragon outline around him while charizards flames turned blue and the ground itself started melting. The sheer amount of energy these two gave off was enough to roast a person if they too close. Good thing I had kept amora at a safe distance.
"Charrrrrr!"" Agrrrchomp!" They started rushing towards each other with dragon claws on both of their hands.
When they finally met in a contest of strength, the entire area was turned into dust and their was a radius around them in which if you entered, you would be destroyed.
There was a smokescreen of smoke which was dissipated by an extremely strong collision. Amora was nearly uprooted from her spot by the winds while I stood like they had no effect on me. The winds are blowing really strong.
Charizard countered garchomp with a close combat and was followed up by a fire punch in the face. Garchomp was sent skidding back. Garchomp was pissed and it showed in its attacks as it rushed straight towards charizard with a axle kick followed up by bite.
Both of them were minutely injured but that would stop them at all.
Charizard released a massive wall of blue flames which was promptly broken by a dragon rushing Garchomp.
They were about to start clashing again but I noticed a murmple coming out from the woods curiously. It was a newborn.
Those tow hadn't noticed him yet and their clash would easily kill the baby and I wasn't letting that happen.
I covered myself in head to toe in aura which was visible as near blood red color. I stepped on the ground ,which broke under pressure, and disappeared. I reappeared straight into the clash in between of the two dragons. I coated my arms in extra aura and braced myself for impact.
Amora was a normal girl who aspired to be a trainer and as such she had seen manya recordings of matches between high level opponents but this is something else entirely. That was when she noticed that ash wasn't next to her but in between the rampaging giants.
What happened next blew her mind. ASh was in a weird position where he was holding both of the attacks with one hand, he Had simultaneously stopped 2 champion level pokemons single handeldy.
There was a large amount of smack kicked up into the air but it dissipated quickly,
"Guys, you forgot my rules, no hurting wildlife." They were both confused until they looked where I was looking at and saw a newborn wheedle looking at their fight, they immediately lowered their heads in shame. Killing newborns was practically sacrilege for pokemon and only vile beasts did that.
"Let this be a lesson you can learn from."