When Ash walked away from Misty and Brock, he could hear Brock going on and on, but he ignored that and let Misty deal with it. Meanwhile, he went over to Yellow.
Once he got to the tree he was pointed to, he saw Yellow napping with all her Pokemon, and there in a cradle was the Pikachu Burrito, still sleeping and wrapped up.
He could only sigh as he thought about the best way to do this, part of him wanted to let Yellow finish her nap, and another kinda really needed to check on Pikachu since if Pikachu had not recovered, then he needed to have Pikachu get rid of Raikou's electricity before it causes permanent damage.
Thankfully, he didn't need to make that choice as from behind him, Dody, who he hadn't even noticed before, poked one of his heads on Ash, almost making him fall on top of Yellow before he caught himself.
He looked back, and Dody was giving a knowing smirk, which made Ash's eye twitch in annoyance at the bird, as he pushed himself back up, Dody walked around and pushed himself under Yellow's arm where he usually sleeps, which also moved Yellow enough to wake her up, but she was still groggy.
"Hmm… Dody?" Yellow said, her eyes half opened as she looked up at Ash, "Oh hey Ash…."
Ash rubbed his head and sighed, "Sorry, Yellow, I'll let you get back to your nap, but can I have Pikachu?"
Yellow yawned, "Sure…" she raised Pikachu, which Ash quickly took, "Are we going yet?" She asked with a yawn
"It's fine, you can sleep more, I'll tell you when we leave," Ash said as Yellow didn't try to argue as she just went back to sleep.
Ash walked away from Yellow so she could get her nap and put Pikachu down as he got his dex out to check on him.
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[Pikachu (M)]
[Condition - Fully integrated Raikou's electricity into his own electric core, once again able to be normal, currently faking it to keep being spoiled.]
[Solution: Wake this lazy bum up]
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Ash's eye twitched seeing the last part, so Pikachu was good to go, but he was faking still being unconscious well, there is an easy way to deal with this.
Ash put his dex away and sighed heavily, "Oh well, I guess if Pikachu is like this, I need to throw away his limited edition ketchup that is imported all the way from Alola~" Ash said, looking away from Pikachu.
Pikachu's eyes shot open, looking bloodshot. He tried to escape the burrito to go save his ketchup, but he was wrapped too tightly, and he knew that this blanket was shockproof,
He trugelsd and tryed calling out, "Pika pika! [Wait, no, I'm up, you don't need to do that!]"
But Ash didn't look at Pikachu, "It's almost like I can hear his Pikas….oh how it is a shame, I was going to go buy him a jumbo bottle, I guess there's no point now…"
Pikachu struggled, trying to free himself frantically and calling out, 'Pika! [No Ash, wait, I'm sorry, I won't do it again, just please, no!]"
Ash kept ignoring him, "I guess I'll go dump this in the river…" he said as he grabbed his bag and started walking, leaving Pikachu on the hill wrapped up, he could only do one thing.
"PIKAAAAA!!!!!"
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A few hours later, they were back on the road. Eventually, Ash let Pikachu out, and he was crying tears of joy when he found out Ash didn't actually dump his Ketchup.
Brock and Wilhomena hit it off, somehow and obviously, Brock offered to stay with her, she responded with a blush and thanked him but told him that she didn't want to break up their friend group since, in her view Ash was his best friend, I mean she wasn't wrong but still.
So before she left, they exchanged numbers, and Wilhomena asked that they meet again one day before hopping into her Limousine, which was just a surprise because it seemed like the buttler driving it came out of nowhere.
She drove off holding her Marill in her arms, waving at them. Brock stood strong, waving back, but as soon as she was out of sight, he fell and leaned against a tree, "So close…"
Ash gave him a pat on the back, "That's rough, my dude, but hey, at least you got her number,"
"Yeah, I guess you're right…" Brock mumbled
Misty gave a light elbow to his side, "And hey, this is the first number you got without Ash's help, you did it all on your own"
Brock lit up a bit more, "You know what, yeah…I guess you're right…"
Brock stood up, "Yeah, I have her number! So that means I have a chance!" Brock said as he held his phone and opened it, "I'll call her right now!"
"NO!" x2, Ash and Misty yelled as they pulled his phone out of his hands.
"Wait, no, come on guys, I just want to call her, and tell her she's beautiful, and ask about her day, and ask about how many children she wants! And-" Brock started but was stopped when Misty's shoe pressed against his face, pushing.
"This is what we talked about, Brock!" Misty said, trying to push him back to take away his phone, "If you talk to her now, you're just being desperate!"
Ash was also trying to make Brock drop his grip, but the simp strength was too strong even for him, "Brock, let go of the phone, at least just wait a day!"
"But what if she loses interest? I need to do this; it's the only way I know how!" Brock said, not even caring that Misty's foot was pushing against his face and was starting to actually pull his phone back.
"Brock, I'm sorry about this, but it's for your own good, I'll make it up to you later," Ash said as he let go and ran up, sending a punch into Brock's stomach and knocking the wind out of him and making him go unconscious.
Misty finally ripped his phone out of his hand, "I'd say that was a bit extreme, but this is Brock we're talking about I'm surprised that was enough,"
Ash went around and grabbed a Pokeball on Brock's belt, "Yeah, but it's for his own good, we don't want another Ivy situation, whatever that was,"
As he said that, even though Brock was unconscious, his eyes darkened, and he mumbled, "do…th…name…"
"Yiks…what did she do to him…" Misty asked, "This is just sad at this point. He's unconscious, and he still doesn't want to hear it."
Ash shrugged and threw out the Pokeball, which was Brock's Rhydon, he took Brock's bag, which had his egg, off Brock and put it on Rhydon, then told Rhydon to pick Brock up….again…this was not the first time, so Rhydon didn't even say anything.
As he did that, he looked over at Misty, who Copied Wilhomena's number and then deleted it from Brock's phone, "I'll give him this back after tomorrow,"
Ash took Brock's phone and put it in Brock's bag, "Alright, anyway, I got Brock secured on Rhydon, you wanna go get Yellow, or should I?"
"I'll get her, so you know where we're going next?" Misty asked
"Always,"
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{Time skip}
A few days later of traveling, Brock was up, and yes, eventually, Misty did give him back Wilhomena's number, and immediately he went out to call her, under heavy supervision from Misty.
The next stop Ash planned to go to was to go to Charicific Valley; he wanted to check how strong Charizard was since undoubtedly he was stronger than OG, and he was confident he could probably at least take down most Charizard in a 1 on 1 fight except for like the strongest of the strong.
He wasn't sure if he'd drop off Charizard for a while there since he was already strong, and the only reason Charizard was left there originally was to become strong, so it seemed redundant. So is a maybe, if Charizard wants to stay, he has no problem dropping him off, after all, he has Abra, and he can just come back anytime.
Speaking of which, Charizard, he hasn't talked about this because he still needed to analyze it himself, but that thing that happened to the battle bond they had, its strange. Ash and Charizard haven't been able to access it again.
From what he saw back when it happened, it was imperfect it only lasted about 2-3 minutes, and from what he could tell when it happened, he also saw that he was wasting unnecessary energy and movements,
The point is was that he could tell that Battle Bond was stronger than normal mega evolution, but it had its own drawbacks, including the fact that it is currently incomplete.
And sometimes at night, Ash would wake up to go do something only to find that Charizard was doing some secret training to try and unlock that form again, trying to forcibly access Battle bond, for a moment, Ash thought about checking him, but thought against it, he was probably on a power high because of how that felt.
Even what he was saying confirmed it,
"Char…Char...Char... [That feeling…I need to find it again…I need to master it…]"
So with that, Ash didn't press it, since from Charizard's point of view back then, he unlocked that form by himself, he'll try to explain it was a combination of their bond after Charicific Valley since they would get there tomorrow.
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{Ashtwo}
Ash stood in front of the grunts after the tournament was over, Sayoko was next to him, mainly because she was curious and she had nothing better to do, or more accurately, because she didn't want to do anything else.
Ash gave out their uniforms to everyone and pulled back the top 3, telling them about the secret Spy rank, getting their custom outfits and their credits before sending them off.
Well, all except one as Helena, the familiar girl from before, came running in since she lost track of time and stood in front of the two, "I'm so sorry! I got distracted and lost track of time, then took a nap and, please tell me I didn't fail!"
Sayoko was genuinely speechless; this was the first time something so….ridiculous like this had happened, "Um, sorry, but no, we gave out the uniforms, and we already told another grunt to take them away,"
Helena's face palled, "No, no, no, please tell me there has to be another way, come on, please, I need to join!"
Sayoko was annoyed, confused, somehow sympathetic a bit looking at her being so pitiful, "Um…" she was genuinely stupid here this was something that had never happened before
She looked at Ash, and she realized there was something, so she got a mischievous smile, "Alright then, in that case, you can join as Commander D.'s underling!"
Helena looked hopeful, and Ash had to take a spit take that passed through his scarf, "Wait just a minute, don't I get a say in this!"
Before Sayoko could say anything, Helena ran up and grabbed Ash's hands, shaking them, "Thank you for having me I'll be sure to be the best underling I can be, so can we be friends!"
Sayoko chuckled, "Aww, see, she likes you. Be sure to take good care of her D. I'll leave you 2 to get to know each other ~"
Before Ash could complain, Sayoko was already walking out, leaving him to have to take Helena as his underling for at least a year before he could dismiss her,
Ash sighed, knowing that this girl wasn't a random girl, she was the Hex maniac from X and Y, the one that said 'you are not the one' to the player character, which just made him ask, what is she doing here, at best she should be a random girl and at worse a ghost.
He took a breath and knew he just had to deal with this, especially her extra friend, the one in her shadow, Gengar was already getting ready to attack it as soon as it tried something.
Ash shook his head, "Fine, I guess if we're stuck together, then you might as well give me your ideas for your custom uniform, and I'll get it for you,"