"Torchic, you will have the Fighting-type added to you in the future, so it is very important to strengthen your legs from the early stages. Don't rest when you feel tired, keep running! You want to beat Electrike, right? But see that Electrike is much faster than you! So you have to be faster too!"
On the way to their destination of Fallarbor Town, Ash and his group passed a mountainous road. Since they needed to climb the mountain to get their quicker, Ash had simply summoned his Torchic and Electrike to train their speed and durability.
Judging from their current training situation, it was just like if a real life green puppy was chasing a big orange chicken. They were ultimately just training in the mountain.
Seeing Ash's Torchic grow up so quickly from just a small and newborn Pokémon, Max quickly said to May who was beside him, "May, you have to hurry up and train Torchic like big brother is! How can you even consider yourself to be his girlfriend like this? You have to become stronger!" Max said behemothly.
Traveling with Ash, Max finally understood that Ash's existence and powerful power was definitely not something that was obtained as easily as he had hoped, as it required the accumulation of many days of hard work.
May hesitated but knew that she had to become stronger so she can stand next to Ash, "Come out, Torchic!"
Ash's Torchic noticed this "senior", snorted while looking at him, glanced at Electrike beside him, and the two Pokémon accelerated at the same time in some kind of tacit understanding.
May's Torchic was left behind and was ignored by the two on them as if he wasn't even there in the first place. May's starters speed and physical strength could not keep up with the Pokémon trained by Ash himself and also his other much stronger and experienced Pokémon's.
Torchic stepped teh ground hard in frustration, and May ran over to pick him up, then looked at Ash in a cute manner, "Ash..."
Even Ash didn't know what to do here, so he said what he thought, "May, every Trainer has their own training method, you don't have to follow my training method."
I can't help too much even if he wanted to, really.
May nodded at her boyfriend and took Torchic to train slowly away from their temporary shelter. It was true that Torchic was her Starter Pokémon, but she hadn't actually trained it much yet.
Suddenly, a stone fell from the hillside and almost hit where Ash's Torchic and Electrike were standing at. Ash and the group stopped and saw a small blue Pokémon on the hillside, ready to do something.
Ash's eyes lit up because it was a Bagon!
Like his Dratini, it is the first form of the of one of the Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon's, and after it evolves into it's final form, it becomes the Pokémon known as Salamence!
This is also one of the Pokémon's he really wished to add to his main team.
But his enthusiasm soon disappeared from his eyes. He could tell that this was not a wild Bagon by any means, so it must have a Trainer around here.
"What is it doing?" May asked curiously, looking up at it.
"That Bagon will most likely jump down from that position and hit one of the rocks here with his head. They do this to exercise their hard head." Ash explained calmly to his clueless girlfriend.
As soon as he finished speaking, Bagon jumped down from the tall cliff, dived into the air below, fluttered his little limbs wildly, and then rushed down with his head and smashed the rock down.
This scene frightened May and Max out of their wits. If they were really hit from such a high place, they couldn't even think how dead they would be within that second.
Brock hurriedly took the two siblings to get away from here, but Asb stayed where he was with a calm and collected demeanor. With Bagon's vigorous jump from another of the rocks, it was now moving in a parabola, landing not far away behind him.
Brock and the other two ran back, but Bagon landed on a big rock next to them, smashing it into pieces and making their faces turn even more pale with pure fright.
Then they looked at Ash who hadn't moved a step not far away and couldn't help but give him a look of awestruck. In fact, this was a very simple matter for him. Ash was after all a highly intelligent Pokémon Trainer, so it wasn't hard for him to be able to grasp the movements of a slower Pokémon like this Bagon.
Bagon stood up from the rubble again the second time, unharmed, and then looked at the Torchic and Electrike beside him.
"Do you want to challenge us?" Ash smiled softly, and his Ralts on his shoulders suddenly jumped down and stood in front of Torchic and Electrike, as if protecting her younger brothers.
"Ralts is about to fight that Bagon!" Max exclaimed in excitement. Out of all the Pokémon's Ash had caught, he felt he had the most connection to was Ralts.
And this scene did surprised them a little. Ralts was obviously known to be a very timid Pokémon, but this one was actually standing up to a battle willingly.
Of course, this is because of Ash's care, training and love for his little Ralts. Their Bond Value was already very high from the moment she was born. Ash believed that as long as she completes her final evolution, she can directly undergo their Bond Evolutions.
His future Psychic Queen plan was looking very promising.
It was true that Torchic and Electrike would have a harder time facing Bagon in terms of level and types, but his Ralts can easily defeat it with both of those things.
"Ralu Lalu!" Ralts called to the two Pokémon behind her a few times, and they quickly returned to Ash's side.
"Ralts, use Disarming Voice!" This was a Fairy-type attack, so it had an outstanding effect on the weaker Bagonz Bagon was already dazed, swaying as if he was drunk.
"Now, Draining Kiss!" Ash gave the order again without a second of hesitation.
Suddenly, a young lady wearing sunglasses jumped down from the hillside and stood behind her Bagon.
She clicked on the side of her sunglasses and began to murmur, "Start calculating the activation method and attack trajectory of the Draining Kiss. Bagon, hide behind the rock on the left!"
Bagon was very decisive after hearing that voice. He jumped to the left and hid behind the mentioned rock and was successfully able to avoid the Draining Kiss because of this in the last moment.
Then the young lady turned around and yelled at Ash and his group, "What on earth do you people want to do? Why did you attack my Bagon so randomly?!"
"No job I, we were just passing by and then we saw that this Bagon was suddenly jumped from the cliff there, so..." May quickly explained for them.
Hearing this, the young lady understood, "Is that so? It seems like we are the ones causing trouble... I'm sorry about the misunderstanding."
She took off her sunglasses and someone was immediately impressed by the women's appearance. And that someone immediately elated back, "No, not at all, hahah! It's actually our fault, right Ash?!"
Sure it was.
"A dramatic and impactful encounter like this is the best start to a love story! My name is Brock, may I ask what you na—"
"Um, I'm Michelle. Nice to meet you."
"What a nice name!" Brock immediately came back.
Seeing the embarrassment of the young lady, Ash had to pull Brock away for the second time, looked at Michelle and said with a smile, "This little guy probably wants to fly already."
Hearing Ash say this, Michelle suddenly seemed to have a feeling that they will be good friends, "So you understand this! My Bagon wanted to fly into the sky from the moment he was!"
"Flying in the sky?" Brock and May was stunned.
"Yes, Pokémon like my Bagon have had the yearning to soar in the sky since they were born. They will work hard at this stage, accumulate a lot of energy, and then evolve into a Shelgon. Inside the hard shell, the cells will undergo drastic changes and this will form a brand new body for them. The reason why Salamence's wings are blood red is precisely because that is all its essence! Pure Blood!"
Ash opened his mouth to explain to everyone the growth process of a Pseudo-Legendary Pokemon like Bagon in a single breath, and then said with a smile, "But I can let this little one experience it first hand!"
As he spoke, a pink light flashed in his eyes, and his Psychic activated on the Bagon to lift it up and make him fly in the air. Seeing it dancing happily made everyone smile.
To train up a Pseudo-Legendary really consumes a lot of energy from the Trainer. Now that Ash has indeed caught a lot of new Pokémon's recently, he wouldn't dare to try to go out looking for a second Pseudo-Legendary!
If he really does, it will consume a lot of his energy and time.
"That's awesome!" Max looked at Bagon in the air and murmured, "You really really know a lot."
Even Michelle got excited, "Ash, can I have a Pokémon battle with you? Originally, I wanted him to accumulate more battle experience and evolve as soon as possible. But now it seems that these kinds of matters cannot be rushed!"
"That's right!" Ash nodded, as her request for a battle could not be refused.
Michelle's pair of sunglasses was definitely filled with some sort of high-tech, which reminds Ash of that guy with a Scizor he met back in the Johto Region who used his computers to analyze data to compete in battles.
These sunglasses are obviously much more efficient than having to keep clicking and looking down.
"It's up to you, Dratini!"
The first stage of the Kanto Region Dragon-type Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon, Dratini, fighting against the Hoenn Region Dragon-type Pseudo-Legendary.
However, this battle was already over the moment it started!
"Dratini, Dragon Tail!"
Michelle's pair of sunglasses couldn't capture Dratini's figure at all. Before she could analyze it and give her command, Dratini's Dragon Tail had already thrown her Bagon away and hit the mountainside wall.
The force immediately hade a big hole!
"Bagon loses it's ability to fight,meaning Dratini and Ash is the winner of this battle!" Brock directly announced Ash's victory. He, too, knew how this battle would have ended before it even began.
Dragon-type Pokémon are very particular about their bloodlines. The Dratini that Ash worked so hard to obtain has an unimaginable strong bloodline. Coupled with the trading and resources that Ash was constantly giving him from the beginning was something that almost no one would have able to give.
His future Dragonite will definitely become one of his strongest Pokémon's with the likes of his Pikachu, Charizard, Gyarados, Tyranitar, etc.!