Power of Pseudo-Legendary

"..."

Aisha stood on top of Vermilion Gym's trial grounds, staring expressionlessly at the garbage cans in front of her that covered almost an entire field.

Under a rough estimation, there were at least two hundred trash cans placed on top of this so-called trial ground.

Within the first generation game and the replica version of Fire Red Leaf Green, the puzzle level of Vermilion Gym was to require the player to find two consecutive switches to unlock the electric current from the power grid within nearly twenty trash cans by sheer luck, if not two consecutive switches were found, the power grid would be reset immediately and would need to be searched for again.

However, even so, the game's test possesses some hints.

For example, the two switches cannot be too far apart, and the number of trash cans is limited.

So even though the grid can be reset, it's not a problem to solve the puzzle if you spend a little time.

The reality of the Vermilion Gym is quite different.

This Gym's power grid gate has no reset setting, however, the number of trash cans has increased by leaps and bounds...

Of course, for the sake of the Gym's environment, these trash cans certainly didn't have any contents.

They were fixed on top of the floor of the trial venue, with a mechanism to turn off the grid current delivery hidden at the bottom.

In other words, trainers who have participated in the Gym Challenge need to find two effective switches between at least two hundred trash cans...

With enough luck, it might not take long.

If there wasn't enough luck, this trial could indeed be torturous to a degree.

"..."

Aisha fell into a long silence.

He recalled again that before he had left Cerulean City, when Misty had known that his next challenge target was the Vermilion Gym, this famous Basculin of Cerulean City had once revealed a somewhat gloating expression.

This fellow must have known about the Vermilion Gym's trials early on.

Too bad!

"Instructor Ai, what should we do?"

Rotom phone was also confused.

It floated to Aisha's side and tentatively asked this cheap master what it thought.

Hmm.

Rotom phone was mainly afraid that Aisha would ask it to help rummage through the trash can.

It was very confident that Aisha could do such a thing...

"I don't have much faith in my luck."

Aisha finished his sentence with a sigh.

After that, his deep eyes looked towards Rotom phone.

"...Instructor Ai, what's wrong?"

Rotom phone's heart stuttered.

Bad.

Why did I idly ask such a question?

This is not giving myself a hard time...

Simply, Aisha's eyes did not stay on Rotom's body for long. Instead, he turned to the outside of the trial venue to look after his staff.

"This guy has probably already introduced at least a couple hundred trainers to go through the trash can over here." Aisha also let out a spit with an expressionless face, saying, "These guys call this type of small level of the Gym trial beautifully, so that they can exercise the endurance, willpower, and observation of some new trainers, but in the end, it's still a bad temperament that intentionally set up such a scary level."

Rotom phone also sighed.

"It can't be helped, Instructor Ai, it's something that conforms to the rules, can't complain about it."

"Doesn't matter."

Aisha's words were colored with a smirk between them.

"Huh?"

Before Rotom phone could react, Aisha walked straight towards that direction of the power grid gate.

"Instructor Ai, what are you doing?"

"Just watch, let me give them some Dayan shocks today!"

...

Lt. Surge was in a good mood today.

On the one hand, because the profits from going to sea some time ago were very rich, although it was a bit tiring and troublesome, the captain was a serious and wealthy man, and he gave him enough money to support the operation of the Vermilion Gym and continue his Pokémon training. Pay for a long period of time.

On the other hand, because Giovanni did not know when he came back, the Rockets, which had been dormant for a long time, actually restarted operations. Lt. Surge, as one of the three high-ranking members of the Rockets a long time ago, naturally received renewed attention. The invitation from the Rockets, however, Lt. Surge has now successfully cleaned himself up and no longer has such grand ambitions. Now he is naturally unwilling to rejoin the Rockets to wade through the muddy waters, so he let it go and squirted wildly. Archer, one of the four generals who specially found the Vermilion Gym and invited him to join the team.

When Lt. Surge was a third cadre, he looked at the four admins whose authority was no less than theirs and was very unhappy.

Now he finally waited for the opportunity to spew, naturally, any unpleasant words also soared out.

Archer went away with a foul face.

There is a say, Archer's treatment is considered good - Ariana from beginning to end could not enter the door of the Saffron Gym, Petrel almost fell due to Koga's poison.

After that, the jovial Lt. Surge received the information that Carr had been arrested and crippled by a Dayan trainer.

So fun!

Lt. Surge slapped his thighs and opened a bottle of champagne on the spot, and Vermilion Gym declared a day of vacation for the entire staff.

A universal celebration!

If there is someone who Lt. Surge hates the most within Team Rocket... The answer was also undoubtedly Carr.

Sabrina and Koga were much the same.

The three of them even chatted for three hours on video the night Carr fell.

Lt. Surge and Sabrina had also learned through Koga's inside information that the Dayan trainer who had arrested Carr was none other than Aisha, the Instructor of Aisha, who was live-streaming the Kanto region Gym Challenge, mentioned by Blue some time ago.

Good!

If this Aisha arrives at my Vermilion Gym, I will definitely entertain this young talent properly...

"Gym Leader, the Gym challengers have already started their trials."

At this time, the staff's words interrupted Lt. Surge's memories.

"Good."

Lt. Surge responded to his words stoically.

The trials of the Vermilion Gym were a barrier he had set up under his bad taste, the reason for exercising the new trainers were all pretty words to cope with the above, and Lt. Surge was just simply a bad hearted person.

There are too many people who don't think they like to challenge the Gym.

There's no shortage of new trainers who challenge the Gym with Sparrows and Rattata, it's just uninformed...

The Gym was not a place where even cats and dogs could challenge.

However, it was also natural for Lt. Surge, as the Leader of the Gym, not to attack the challenger's Pokémon with a heavy hand.

So that's why he came up with the test of rummaging through trash cans.

It had to be said that after this trial level was set up, there were suddenly a lot less annoying new trainers.

The effect was remarkable.

Most of the trainers who could pass the level of rummaging through garbage cans to open the gate to the power grid also had sufficient strength and a calm mindset.

Even if they couldn't beat themselves, Lt. Surge was still able to give those of them the Vermilion Gym badge at his discretion.

"Let's see if the trainer who challenged the Gym this time is a boy or a girl..."

Lt. Surge walked towards the direction of the grid gate.

Usually, he also likes to watch the trainers participating in the gym challenge from behind the power grid gate as they frantically search for the switch at the bottom of the trash can in the front hall.

Belongs to a great evil person.

Then...

"Huh?"

Lt. Surge saw a head suddenly poking out from the place of the gate that was energized with electric current, the intensity of which could be felt as hot as it was even if he got a little closer.

"Inside is the venue for the Vermilion Gym's Gym Challenge?

That head seemed to look around, ignoring the raging electricity that was splitting at the place of his neck, and mumbled something inside his mouth, before seeing Lt. Surge.

"..."

"..."

Lt. Surge were dumbfounded.

The burly blonde man in a white tank top and camouflage pants was stumped for a moment, not knowing what to do.

"Yo, hello, Gym Leader Lt. Surge."

This handsome head flashed a smile towards Lt. Surge and said, "I'm the challenger, my name is Aisha, the current of this gate of yours is a bit impressive, we'll start the Gym challenge match after I get inside later!"

His smile was wide.

After that, Aisha forcefully broke through the gate that was energized with high voltage electricity under Lt. Surge's barely focused eyes.

"Whew..."

Aisha stood after the gate, and didn't seem to have felt the slightest bit of pain from the high voltage electricity that Lt. Surge had specifically linked to the gate.

On the contrary, Aisha was quite refreshed and relaxed as he revitalized his muscles and straightened his waist, and the sound of crisp bone collisions was emitted above his torso.

"It's not bad to experience the taste of an electric current massage once in a while."

Aisha revealed a comfortable expression.

Looking towards Lt. Surge, he also politely said a thank you, saying, "Thank you so much, Lt. Surge!"

"Oh... uh, huh?"

Lt. Surge had a demented look on his face.

Shocked Lt. Surge for a hundred years.

Only after a minute did Lt. Surge wake up as if from a dream.

With wide eyes, this Vermilion Gym Leader gazed at Aisha with shock and disbelief as if he had seen a ghost.

After living for so many years, he had also seen quite a few trainers with exceptionally bizarre physical strength.

The problem was that even when Red and his Pikachu had fought at Shilouf, he had instantly released Pikachu, who was inside a Pokémon ball and had accumulated 100,000 volts of power, and he had only done so by wearing insulated gloves that blocked out electrical damage.

The problem is that even when Red and his Pikachu were fighting at Silph Co., he instantly released Pikachu who was in the Poké Ball and accumulated Thunderbolt power to attack. He only completed this while wearing insulating gloves that blocked electrical damage.

Today, this kid...

"Hiss!"

Examining Aisha's body, Lt. Surge sucked in a breath of cool air.

Aisha's clothes were all normal style clothes, completely devoid of any ability to insulate against electrical damage, and even after this guy had forcibly broken through the gate of the power grid he had set up, his clothes had torn quite a bit.

The problem was that despite this, underneath the clothes Aisha's skin was still intact and white, and seemed to be as completely unharmed as he himself had shown...

"Hey!"

Lt. Surge suddenly doubted his grid gate a little.

The trainers nowadays are really monsters...

Too scary.

"Wait a moment." Lt. Surge suddenly remembered something and said, "You said your name was Aisha, the friend who arrested one of Team Rocket's Three Beasts, Blue's Friend... Aisha?"

"Right."

Aisha was a bit puzzled, wondering why Lt. Surge reacted so much.

Still, he did respond honestly to the Gym Leader's question.

"I'm Aisha."

"Oh, not surprising."

Lt. Surge showed a relieved expression.

Since it's someone from the group Red, Blue, and their gang, it's not surprising that it's so outrageous.

Aisha: "?"

Lt. Surge wasn't going to delve into why Aisha's physical strength was so outrageous.

Because he also knew that there was always a lack of weird trainers above this world, and he himself couldn't even compare to them guys.

So it was fine to say ignore.

"Gym Leader Lt. Surge, I'm going to live stream our Gym Challenge, is there any inconvenience."

Aisha took out the live broadcast drone and asked Lt. Surge about it.

"There's nothing wrong with it."

Lt. Surge, on the other hand, waved his hand very bashfully.

"Good."

Aisha linked the live-streaming drone to her own cell phone, and after the title of the live-stream was changed to [Instructor Ai teaches you how to physically pass the Vermilion Gym's Gym Trial], he then released the drone.

The water friends who had been waiting for a long time flooded into the live broadcast room in one breath.

"Eh, Instructor Ai's finished rummaging through the trash?"

"Laughing to death, once I also challenged the Vermilion Gym, rummaging through that trash can for an hour was too torturous, today Instructor Ai and I were tortured together, I instantly balanced a lot in my heart."

"Is that what happened to Instructor Ai's clothes?"

"Hiss... this waist, this skin, Instructor Ai is fantastic!"

"The power grid gate at the back was not lifted, but Instructor Ai came in, and his body also turned into this, is it hard to be because Instructor Ai and Lt. Surge... Hey!"

The barrage sent by the water users were as counter-intuitive as ever.

At this time, a staff member wearing a referee's costume also walked to the side of the opposing field, and Aisha and Lt. Surge each stood on one side of the field.

The referee raised a small flag.

"The rules for the Vermilion Gym Challenge are three-on-three matchups, Gym Leader cannot freely switch Pokémon, and the challenger can freely switch Pokémon!"

The rules of each Gym were vastly different.

Aisha was sort of tired of hearing them.

What was the point of a sparring match where you couldn't rotate?

However, Aisha investigated some of Lt. Surge's information in his spare time, and found out that this Electric type Gym Leader's fighting style belonged to the category of utilizing the Electric type's overly strong penetrating power to engage in a completely violent and savage hard frontal battle, without any frills at all, and a perfect representation of a powerful brick flying

This rule is also suitable for this guy's character.

Rough and crisp.

After all...

Aisha looked over at Lt. Surge, a shiny of skepticism flashing inside his eyes.

This big man was also a Team Rocket cadre at one time, although it was said that the surface looked like it belonged to a reckless type of character, and the paper strength wasn't how top notch.

However, Aisha also knew that Lt. Surge was a ruthless man who had suppressed the young Red at the time of the wild fight.

Although it was said that he had quit Team Rocket now.

Often, he also provided some help to Red and the others.

However, Aisha didn't know what Lt. Surge thought about himself who had arrested his former colleague...

Must be a bit careful.

Lt. Surge: "?"

Lt. Surge was a bit confused.

He was going to treat Aisha to a meal as the host after he finished this Gym Challenge.

However, Lt. Surge always felt that Aisha was looking at him a bit strangely.

"Match, begin!"

The referee waved down the small flag.

Aisha, who was harboring something on her mind, flung out the Pokémon ball together with a confused Lt. Surge.

"Rai!"

"Me-ta-!!!"

A Raichu, a very stocky Raichu landed on top of the field, and opposite it was shiny Metang that floated with the help of psychic waves.

"Oh?"

Seeing the shiny Metang, a look of surprise inevitably appeared above Lt. Surge's face.

It was rumored that this kid was close to Steven Stone, so it really wasn't a rumor.

"Raichu, Fake Out!"

Even as his mind was in turmoil, Lt. Surge still issued the order quickly.

"Metang, Protect."

Aisha very calmly commanded the shiny Metang to defend against Raichu's Fake Out, the first round right as if nothing happened...?

"Bullet Punch!"

"Me-ta-!!!"

After the guarding shield dissipated, the shiny Metang's thick and hard arm greeted Raichu's face without mercy as if it were a loaded missile.

"Chu..."

Lt. Surge's Raichu, however, revealed a grim smile, bracing its body just a few steps back.

"Raichu, Thunder Punch!"

"Chu!"

Raichu's smile was very nasty, and its fist that flashed with lightning light slammed into the shiny Metang's head at once.

"Meteor Mash!"

The fist of flesh collided with the fist of iron, the energies of lightning and steel eroding each other.

"Chu!"

"Me-ta-!!!"

Raichu and the shiny Metang took varying degrees of damage under the explosion of energy, and both sides pulled away.

Aisha seized this opportunity.

"Metang, Earthquake!"

"Me-ta-!!!"

Shiny Metang also knew that using Earthquake in the present was the perfect opportunity, so it said that it immediately raised its metal arm, wrapped in the energy of the ground attribute, and smashed above the ground in one breath.

"Raichu, hurry up and stop that guy, full power Volt Tackle!"

As expected of Lt. Surge, after realizing Aisha's intentions, he immediately commanded Raichu to use its strongest move with full fire.

"Chu, chu-!!!"

Raichu displayed a swift speed that was different from his stocky figure, and the entire mouse was wrapped in surging and intense lightning all over his body even as he ran, as if it was a thunder dragon roaring and rushing towards the shiny Metang that was brewing earthquakes, before slamming headlong on top of the ground type energies that were pulling out of the ground.

After a loud boom.

Raichu flew out of the smoke of the explosion - the counter-damage of the Volt Tackle and the attribute-restricted output of Earthquake hit its body together, and even though it had been specifically trained in body and resistance, the brittle Raichu class Pokémon still couldn't resist such horrific damage, and lost its ability to fight.

"Me-ta-!!!"

Having eaten Raichu's life-fighting Volt Tackle, shiny Metang wasn't in a good condition.

However, it was good enough to maintain its fighting ability at least.

"Raichu has lost the ability to fight!"

The referee raised the small flag.

"The Gym Leader replaces the outgoing Pokémon!"

Aisha revealed an expression of satisfaction - with a big difference in rank, the output and durability of Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon was already starting to show.