Brock was sitting down with his face on a table, there was a sundae in front of him that he wasn't eating, meanwhile, everyone was at the same table with some sort of ice cream.
Brock was sad he did so bad, he only got in the top 3 due to a technicality, comparatively he had no chance to even qualify to participate in the Great race, much less get in the top 3 of that.
Lara looked at everyone who all seemed completely unfazed at Brock's actions and just kept eating their Ice Cream, Pikachu even walked over and stole Brock's sundae.
"How am I ever going to become a professional Breeder like this," Brock whimpered with his face on the table.
Lara pointed at Brock with her good arm and asked, "Is this normal?"
"Yeah, every now and then he gets a breakdown wondering if he should have left his Gym leader position to try and become a Breeder," Ash said as he took a sip from his milkshake.
Lara looked over at Brock's pitiful state, "You know, I'm not going to be able to practice like this for a while, how about I teach you a thing or two?"
Immediately Brock got up and almost jumped over the table as he grabbed Lara's hand and shook it profusely, "Really, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you."
A drop of sweat fell off Lara's face as she cleared her throat, "Very well, but I must warn you, my training will be hard and rigorous, and you won't be allowed to stop once we start,"
"Of Course, I'm ready for anything!" Brock said, not knowing how much of a mistake that was.
{a few moments later}
Brock and Rhyhorn were both running down the hill trying not to be crushed by a rolling rock behind them, this was somehow training.
"Common show some confidence!" Lara Yelled at the two, "You asked me to train you so I will show you everything there is to know, even if it kills you!"
"Don't you mean even if it Kills me!" Brock yelled as he barely dodged the boulder
Lara walked over to Brock's slumped-over body, "Yes that's what I said, now get back up your 5-minute break isn't until another 5 hours!"
Meanwhile Ash, Yellow, and Misty were sitting by with their Pokemon enjoying the show.
Yellow nervously looked at her friends, "Brock's going to be fine…right?"
Ash and Misty both looked at her and said the same thing, "Probably."
Unsurprisingly, that didn't quell Yellow's anxiety.
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(With Ashtwo)
Things have been weird with Ashtwo, when Ash and Yellow time traveled, Ashtwo was fully conscious and it felt weird like sleep paralysis but much more disorienting.
But ignoring all that, he was currently getting some rest time where he wouldn't need to, let's call it generate income for Team Rocket. Over the course, he was focused on healing Drowzee and tending to his egg as he prepared for his own heist.
But currently, he needed to get to the next stage of his plan, which involved him getting to Matcha City, and finding Dr. Akihabara.
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{Matcha City}
Dr. Akihabara was a very smart man, he was part of the original 3-man team that created the transfer system, Professor Oak was in charge of the PC space, while he and Bill worked on perfecting the teleportation technology.
But unlike his colleagues he asked to not be included in the final papers giving him credit for working on the project, that seems like a stupid decision, but don't worry it was.
But Dr. Akihabara had another goal, to create an artificial Pokemon, that was met with some distance from other colleagues but thankfully Oak and Bill believed in his goal.
With the money from his previous project, he started the development of the first artificial Pokemon, although he had to do everything by himself due to the criticism, he didn't care that only made his passion grow.
And eventually after countless long nights, and more fast food than one person should eat in their lives, he did it, he created the first Prototype, the Porygon.
Professor Oak even validated it himself by adding it to the Pokedex, bringing the Kanto Pokedex from 148 to 149. As for what happened to it, well he gave it to the legendary Red, the first person to complete the Kanto Pokedex, and to this day it is being held by Professor Oak.
However, that was not the end of the Porygon project, after all that Porygon was a Prototype. And after he was successful there was no shortage of People wanting to capitalize. But that is a story you will learn in a bit.
Currently, Dr. Akihabara was walking home after a repair job, he needed something to bring some income and since he knew more about the PC system than even Bill he got a decent job with that, and with the royalties he received from his big project he had a nice stable income.
As for home, he had a large two-story house, though unclean since he didn't have anyone to keep it nice for, but he did have some robotic companions roaming the house, it was sad and he knew it.
As Akihabara unlocked his house and saw his robots standing there he sighed under his breath, "I need a girlfriend."
One of the robots came up to him and took his coat as another gave him his lab coat, as he walked to the main room of his house, his laboratory.
But as he entered he saw something that truly made his heart sink, someone was in his room sitting on one of the desks reading one of his research papers.
The person appeared to be a Boy, he couldn't tell the age since his face was also covered but from his height, he looked to be 13-16, and a Meowth was resting on his legs, but what was most surprising was the unmistakable red 'R' on his coat.
"Who are You and what are you doing in my house?" Dr. Akihabara demanded, although he didn't actually have a way to defend himself on him, he didn't have any real Pokemon.
The boy who was actually Ash looked at Dr. Akihabara, "Relax, if I were here to hurt you or take something I would have already done it."
That made Dr. Akihabara less tense but still not comfortable, "So what are you here for?"
"Well, I think we can help each other, you want to continue with the Porygon project, and I want a Porygon," Ash said.
Dr. Akihabara frowned, "You think I would willingly hand over something like that to Team Rocket."
"I can see why you'd think that, but I can assure you, I'm only in Team Rocket to help take it down,"
"Ok, let's assume I believed you for a moment, what could you be looking for that needs a Porygon." Dr. Akihabara asked, looking at the stranger.
Ash smiled under his scarf, "Simple really, I only recently infiltrated Team Rocket and I need a way to gather information, so what better way than to hack them, I'm sure their Finances wouldn't miss a few million Pokedollers."
Dr. Akihabara thought to himself for a moment before shaking his head, "Although tempting I can help you, unfortunately, there are only 5 Porygon in the world at the moment."
"The first was the original and Professor Oak has it, I do have the second, the next 3 are in different regions being studied by the scientists over there, and unfortunately I can't give you the one I have."
"Why not, can't you make another one?"
Dr. Akihabara shook his head, "No, the plans for the Porygon were stolen and I'm currently trying to remake them using the one I have."
Ash rubbed his chin, "What if I helped you get them back."
Dr. Akihabara looked at Ash with a look of concern, "Imposible, It was Team Rocket who stole it, discussed as someone who wanted to work on it with me."
"So what's the problem? Tell me who did it and I can get them back for you."
Dr. Akihabara shook his head, "It's not that simple, tell me have you ever wondered why there is a Team Rocket base under Celadon City, and more specifically, right under Celadon gym."
Ash's eyebrows raised, "How do you know about that?"
"It's not public knowledge, not even the police are aware, but I know that at least the Champion knows about it. Unfortunately, they can't just barge into the place and raid the Team Rocket base, it's far more complicated, I don't even know the reason, but it has to do with him."
"Who is this guy, and how can he do all of that?"
"The one who stole my research is Team Rocket Admin Aster," Dr. Akihabara said as he went over to a computer and pulled up a file with a handsome man with Black hair and information about him.
"He is currently a candidate for Executive, and more importantly, he is Gym leader Erika's father."
That news shocked Ash, but he also went back to the problem at hand, "Then trust in me, I can't promise you it will be soon but I will get those blueprints and take down this Aster for you."
Dr. Akihabara looked at Ash for a bit then seemed to study him before walking over to a computer and typing something in, "I don't completely trust you, but I don't really have any better options,"
Then on the computer, a Pokeball appeared, and he held it out to Ash, "I'll trust this to you, but be warned I installed failsafe so if you do try anything the Porygon will delete itself."
Ash smiled under his mask and he could sense that Dr. Akihabara was genuine in what he was saying, "Alright Dr. Akihabara, I promise you I'll take down Aster, and you'll get a nice bribe every now and then if you get what I'm saying."
Dr. Akihabara looked at him and laughed back as the ball was given to Ash, "Figures I have to put my faith in someone just as crazy. Just call me Aki, and what can I call you."
"Alright then, just call me D." Ash said as he held the Pokeball in his hand.
"Alright, I'll look forward to that bribe, I've been meaning to start some new projects and I'll need a good bit of money." Dr. Akihabara chuckled.
Ash smiled back, "Well then, I guess we're business partners then."
–
Ash was back at the Team Rocket base, specifically the one over in Saffron, he was currently looking over the Porygon. He took out his dex and had Porygon enter it so he could start updating it.
The Porygon itself was weird, for something meant to be a Pokemon it acted more like a robot, but that didn't matter as long as it could follow orders.
As Porygon went into the dex immediately the Upgrade chip he got started doing its work and Porygon's data was opened like a tab.
With all the options presented, he could do pretty much anything, he even managed to take out the fail-safe Dr. Akihabara put in, not that he was actually going to do something bad with it, so he gave it a few updates to improve it.
But the main thing he did was he split its consciousness into two parts so that it could enter computers without the risk of getting caught, but the second thing was that he gave it an actual personality.
As it was updating Drowzee was sitting next to him with a bowl of what looked to be a porridge-like substance.
Drowzee looked over at Ash, [How long do I need to keep eating this stuff?]
Ash looked over, "Just bear with it, until you're fully healed you need something easy to digest with proper nutrition, it should only be a few more days and you'll be able to eat regular food again."
Drowzee nodded and looked sadly at the bowl in his hands with the same food he'd been eating since he joined Ash, bland and flavorless.
As Drowzee was crying for his taste buds, the update was complete and his Pokedex made an audible ding.
"Porygon reporting for-zzzz duty!"
"Well that's neat, I wasn't expecting you to be like this," Ash said.
"Of course-zzz, after the update you gave me-zzz, I have more knowledge than I could have ever dreamed of sir!"
Ash shrugged and pulled out a watch he bought from Silph, it was one of those smartwatches that functioned like a second phone, "Alright, hop in, we need to start as soon as we can."
"Roger-Roger!" Porygon said as it left the dex and entered the watch, causing it to get a pinkish tint with blue accents.
Ash looked at it and nodded as he got up and returned Drowzee before leaving the room he was in, and he went over to a library where he knew there were some computers he could access.
Walking in he greeted the People inside and went over to one of the computers, he made it seem like he was doing some research as part of Porygon jumped into the computer.
As soon as it did, it accessed the wifi of the base and went through the signals to get to the main computer and start gathering information.
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Made some artwork of Ashtwo