After all, the Team Rocket Trio are backed by a big guy, so it is relatively easy to get some useful information from them.
They reported their encounter with the mysterious organization, and their superiors shared the information they had learned with them and the likes.
Now they reported it back to Ash, which coincided with the scattered memories remaining in his mind.
There are two large opposing mysterious organizations present in the Hoenn Region as of right now. They are Team Magma, which aims to expand the land area, and Team Aqua, which believes that the ocean is the source of life and attempts to expand the ocean area for the better!
It was indeed consistent with what he still vaguely remembered, and Ash was relieved that he knew some future plans. There were things in this real world that he was familiar with and understood and others that made no sense with what he remembers, so he still had some basic advantages as a traveler.
"Okay, you can blow away now!" Ash waved his hand, "Pikachu, Thunderbolt!"
Of course, Team Rocket's sneak attack on the Petalburg City Gym required some sort of punishment, so Ash blew them again, like the good old times.
Regarding the disposal of the Rockets, May's family did not say anything about it. After all, Ash must have his own ideas, and since they got Torchic back, everything is perfectly okay.
"Torchic, I'm sorry for causing you to encounter something so scary!" After this incident, the bond between May and Torchic has increased a lot.
It was finally that time to set off again. Norman looked at Ash and said, "Ash, the Pokémon you brought this time are all the weaker ones, right? I think any of your other Pokémon can easily defeat me and Slaking!"
Norman knew that feeling of a more stronger Trainer. Ash's strength is unfathomable, and although there are only Pikachu and Dratini around him now, they are both especially Pikachu that are extremely strong. Additionally, there are also his other stronger Pokémon behind him that are improving their strength at all times!
Ash smiled and nodded, admitting openly, "You still need to give young blood more opportunities, right? Otherwise, why would you train new ones? And what will be the true meaning of traveling?"
The meaning of travel is to meet new friends and partners, to catch and train new Pokémon to surpass their limits!
"It's amazing that you can think like this!" Norman was full of praise for Ash's awareness and strength.
"We're finally leaving, May. Did you forget to bring anything with you?" Caroline was a little worried about her little baby going away.
"I'm fine, mom!" May seemed very confident in herself. She decided to follow Ash's suggestion and start traveling first, and then slowly but ultimately decide on her future path.
"Ash, I'm sorry, but I hope you can take our May on your trip!" As parents, Norman and Caroline asked Ash helplessly.
Ash simply accepted this as there wasn't anything working with this, "That's okay, no problem with me!"
"Please give me more advice, Ash!" May has little crush on Ash because of him helping her so many times. With him around her, she knew that she will be safe most of the time.
Unexpectedly, Max jumped out at this time, "Sis, I know many things about Pokémon, I want to go with you too!"
"I reject!"
Ash refused without any second thought!
"Brother Ash, don't be like this, let me go with you! I promise to behave!" Max was actually trying to act like he won't be a troublemaker again!
Ash showed no mercy and hit him on the head, "If you try to act cute again, I will let you taste the power of my Iron Fist of Love. Do you seriously think you could survive it?"
Max covered his head and said unconvinced, "But why? I heard that when you were traveling in the Johto Region, you brought a little girl with you!"
"You also know of Molly? Even Molly is much stronger than you and she is younger than you. She will burst into tears after punching you! Although she is young, she is already a qualified Trainer, most of the times.
As for you, you can't even control the mood of a Pokémon. You just act arbitrarily based on your own ideas, so just study hard at home to get ready for your own journey!"
Ash was willing to take Molly with him because she had already shown excellent qualities as a Trainer from a young age and helped Ash during his trip, even if it was minor. Not to mention that it was his own mother that told him to bring Molly with him.
Ash said that she is the "Daughter of Entei" not only because she calls Entei her father, but also because of her outstanding talents in getting along with others.
She even has a special charm about her and can play well with many ferocious Pokémon.
Of course, the main reason why Ash rejected Max was that he wanted to enjoy traveling with less people this time, so how could he let a freeloader go with him?
May on the other hand was different because, well, she was May.
There is nothing else behind it, nothing else.
"Ash!" Norman walked up, not blaming Ash for hitting his son at all, "Can you take care of Max too. In return, I am willing to give this to you!"
Caroline turned around and took out a white Pokémon Egg from the house, with green patterns on it, which looked very cute!
"Ah!" Max suddenly exclaimed, "Mom, dad, didn't you agree to that this was going to be my Pokémon for me when I get ten years old?"
May hit him this time, "There are still several years until you are ten years old. This Pokémon Egg will hatch soon, and additionally, you are not allowed to own a Pokémon at your age!"
With Max's current ways, Norman and Caroline would definitely not agree to leave this rare Pokémon in his care, which is why Max was so envious of May's ability to become a Trainer and embark on her journey.
Ignoring Max who was holding his head and crying again, Ash took the Pokémon Egg.
Unexpectedly, the first Pokémon he got in the Hoenn Region turned out to be a Pokémon Egg.
"I will bring this little one back when I challenge your Gym!"
There was no way Ash was going to refuse taking Max with him after he realized what Pokémon was inside of this Egg.
In addition to the Pokémon Egg, Norman also took two Gym Badge collection boxes and handed them to Ash and May. This thing was no different from the one given to him by his System, it is just a box anyway.
May also took it, but she was not sure yet whether she will ever use it.
"Also, take this with you!" Norman also took out a small device, and Max let go of his head and took it, obviously knowing what this was.
"This is a device for searching for Pokémon, called the PokéNav! With this thing, you can also know your current location and many more things with more updates!" Norman introduced it to them.
It was indeed a good thing. When they were traveling in the Kanto Region and Johto Region, Ash and his group relied heavily on Brock to read the travel manuals and Ash to use his Aura Sense to find the way. Now it is much more convenient to have this thing than to expand unnecessary energy.
"Fine, I'll take this!" The Pokémon Egg he wanted was given away to someone else, so Max just accepted his fate, but he could finally travel like he always wanted to.
After all, he is still a child, so his mood immediately became happy when he thought about going out.
After taking someone else's Pokémon Egg, Ash could no longer refuse to take Max with him, and so he highly suspected that these two couple just wanted to send their two children away so that they could enjoy their time together.
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