304. Weather Institute

Ash had finally caught the Breloom leader after a lasting battle against his Torkoal. The group then found a Pokémon Center in the forest and teleported him back for some training and healing their Pokémon's. As a result, Ash now had quite a few Fighting-type Pokémon in his hand.

There are currently four Pokémon slots out of the maximum six that are almost always occupied by his youngest and strongest Pokémon's.

Breloom itself was already at a very high level, so it is most efficient training other than to have endless battles is to send him back to him Venusaur or Annihilape to train to strengthen his types.

May's Combusken had also evolved during the battle with the Breloom that he had initially lost to, which must have been a really gratifying feeling.

Now they are not far from their destination of Fortree City.

"Wow, the weather here is great today!" Since get Torchic evolved into a Combusken just some time ago, May was in a very happy mood, and her steps were much lighter because of this.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she finished saying all that, the sky that had been bright and sunny just a second ago suddenly became cloudy and it began to rain heavily in team.

"Pika pi!"

"What's going on, buddy?" The group immediately raised their hands over their heads for protection against the rain, while Ash set up a quick Aura Shield in the meantime, which was able to block most of not all of the drizzling rain. After all, he had protect himself and his partners from getting sick in the middle of nowhere.

Well more for the other three with him, it would be almost impossible for him and his Pokémon's to get a fever from something as "light" as this.

But before they could walk and try to find some actual shelter and not just Ash's Aura Shield, the rain began to dissipate and it now began to snow heavily. Then it cleared up again and the ice and snows were melting at a noticeable speed. It was as if the scene infront of them just now were all from their dreams.

At this time, two researchers, what looked to be a man and a woman, rushed towards Ash and his party, both of them having a Pokémon with them.

"Everyone, are you guys okay?" The male researcher, who called himself Bart, had a Pokémon called Castform floating next to him.

There was also a Ditto standing on the shoulder of the female researchers. They then explained apologetically, "The weathers you guys had just experienced now was caused by our Laboratory whirl we were doing some experiments."

"Research? What kind of research? And what did you guys do to change the weather so quickly?" May found it incredible how they could change the weather so quickly and drastically.

Before the two of them could answer the questions May raised up, Brock had already rushed up and stood in front of the beautiful young lady, "Hello there, my name is Brock…"

Before Brock's special Spinda could jump out to stop him from speaking anymore, Brock's words had stopped abruptly and he was standing there, feeling completely stunned and confused, all at the same time.

"What's wrong, Brock?" Max was also confused about why Brock stoped this time. He had never been Brock looking so confused in what he was doing.

"I'm also confused about what to say or what to do. I just can't seem to know why it's not getting up, I don't know why it's happening…"

Brock was also very confused by feeling thsi sudden change and urge to stop what he was doing. He just wasn't feeling that kind of heartbeat that he usually feels when he sees a beautiful woman like her, even though she was looking at him with such a cute smile.

Ash also frowned and the blue Auta flashed on his eyes, "Because this so called young lady is not a young lady at all, far from it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly jumped up, stretched out his hand and pressed the "young lady's" neck against the rugged mountain wall next to them.

Brock and the three with him were all shocked by seeing Ash doing what he was doing, they had never seen Ash be like this, welll Brock did, "Ash, what are you doing!?"

"Let go of her! How can you attack people so suddenly? I said to let go of my Millie!"

Only then did Bart react. He quickly stretched out his hand to try and pull Ash's hand away from her neck, but found that Ash's hand were much strong to even try to pull away.

"Bart, it hurts so much, please save me!" Millie also kept yelling out for help, which really made someone without any context be ready to save her.

Ash just chuckled hearing "her" desperately trying to get out of his hold, "Oh?… Dude, do you still believe that you can get out of his grip? Not even your true self can do that, not to mention this more delicate body of yours."

Hearing Ash's words, Brock also immediately understood what was going on. He quickly stopped May and Max, who were about to step forward and stop what Ash was doing to Millie, "Ash, do whatever you want to do with that, just don't actually permanently disable that neck, we will definitely support you!"

"Brock?" May and Max also calmed down a little, as they naturally had 100% trust in Ash, even if what he was doing didn't quite yet make sense to them.

"Ash has the power of Aura, meaning the world he sees is completely different from us. He can easily see things that we can never even imagine or understand completely." Brock's eyes flashed with the light of a determined detective, "I also felt something was wrong about that so called women. Ash, too, must have discovered something wrong about this situation."

Ash casually took out his high level and pure gold Pokémon Investigator's Badge, which also shows that he was part of the Pokémon G-Men, and showed it to Bart, "I'll take over this case now!"

After casually pushing Bart away, Ash gripped "Millie's" neck tighter and lifted her up with his right hand, "You sick son of a Hypno, why don't you show your true colors to us. I'll be nicer fo you do!"

After hearing Ash's words, "Millie's" expression finally turned a very ferocious expression, and even the Ditto's eyes on her shoulder became much more fearsome. As soon as she opened his mouth, she said something with a man's voice, "Boy, just who… the hell… are you?" He could barely talk with Ash's hand still holding him up by his neck.

"Ehhh..." This scene was so horrifying that Brock now had complete goosebumps all over his body, he was ready to floor on the floor. Was he really going to confess to a man just now?

Ash now showed a grin, "I'm Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town. And unfortunately for you, even if you tried to pretend and hide your scent, neither me or Brocko here really believed you were a female!"

Now that he has been almost completely exposed, this "Millie" stopped pretending completely, "Ditto, transform into that Pikachu!"

The Ditto on his shoulder now showed a fierce look, transformed into a Pikachu, and used Thunderbolt on Ash and the three Pokémon's on him.

However, his wishful thinking was that, wishful, as he never expected that Ash was an expert in using electricity.

Ash and his Pikachu had the same thought process for things like this. At that moment, Pikachu had already made a slight move. It came to Ditto with a light jump, he used a very weak Volt Tackle to send it flying away to Camp Cancun.

Boom!

Ash's powerful power burst out at this moment and smashed the mysterious assailant to the ground. The man immediately caughed up a large of blood from his chest and neck area.

This was the appearance of true power, something he should have never angered.

May had already covered her eyes, not daring to look at what her boyfriend was doing to that guy. But she knew what he was doing was most definitely for the right reasons.

The disguise on this man had been beaten to pieces by Ash's smash, revealing a now beaten ugly face that could rival that of some ugly big black dude with a huge white tattoo on his chest.

"Do you wish to talk now?" Ash pulled the man to his own height by pulling in his hair and started his practiced interrogation mode, which he hasn't used much being taught by Interrogation Master Lance himself.

Ash was too decisive and didn't really pay attention to his condition and got ready to get to business mode. "You know that I can do much worse of you don't cooperate with me, right?" Ash said with a devilish smile.

Could someone who had disguise themselves and snuck into a state owned Pokémon Laboratory be a good person?

Maybe they can—just not in this case from what Ash can see.

However, before the man could say anything with his labored breath, everyone saw a helicopter flying towards their away and was flying just their heads.

Bart immediately exclaimed when he recognized the way they were flying towards, "No! That helicopter is definitely going in the direction of our Pokémon Weather Institution Laboratory!"

"Huh? That helicopter…" Ash glanced at it for a few seconds with his Aura infused eyes and said something he saw, "That's a helicopter belonging to Team Aqua." He then looked at the beaten guy that he was still pulling by the hair in his hand, "So you are also from Team Aqua?"

"Hmph… don't compare me… with those dumbass… bandits… of Team… Aqua!" He barely said with whatever oxygen he could get in his two lungs.

"Oh," Ash then gave him a "gentle" knock on his face to keep him awake, "Then please do enlighten us with the knowledge of who you are." Ash said with a natural smile, but hidden with a large amount of Aura and Psychic pressure.

The man's nose was pretty bruised up and his face was swollen, which really didn't help him look better, but his mouth was still harsh, well as harsh as one with little oxygen and wet pants can be, "I am the… Thousand-Face… of Team Lava… a master who specializes in disguise… Brodie!"

"I see, so this time both your Team Magma and Team Aqua are eyeing the Pokémon Weather Institute at the same time. I wonder why?" Ash nodded with understanding, and before he could ask why they were here, Brodie went into unconscious. Not even a slap could wake him up, so Ash had to take the unconscious Brodie in his shoulder and rushed to the Laboratory under the leadership of Bart, a researcher there.

As expected, the one dispatched by Team Aqua this time was one of their Admirals, Shelly, the same own Ash had met a few times before.

Team Aqua moved extremely quickly and quickly took control of the entire Pokémon Weather Institute, trapping all the researchers together. There were also two cheese lobsters guarding the place where they were kept imprisoned.

After taking control over everyone, the people from Team Aqua quickly checked the Laboratory's main database.

"We have to move quicker, they should be here for the information about ultra-ancient Pokémon's we have here!" Bart said with a little hesitation.

"Ultra-ancient Pokémon?" Ash and his team finally arrived in time.

When Bart heard that Shelly really came here for what he had feared the most, he immediately realized that something bad was going to happen, "Do you really want to get information about the ultra-ancient Pokémon's, Groudon and Kyogre?"

It turns out that this was exactly the reason why the Team Magma and Team Aqua were so keen on taking over this place, they had no intention to take the technology the Pokémon Weather Institute possess that controls the weather.

Ash casually threw Brodie in front of Team Aquas leader for this mission, Shelly.

Seeing Brodie's miserable appearance, Shelly was shocked. Of course she as a high ranking member of her organization knew that this man was the famed Thosand-Face Brodie.

She looked at Ash carefully, "Boy, just who are you?"

Ash then looked iver at Shelly with a smile, but his tone was the exact opposite, very gloomy, "No matter what your purpose is, since I am here, looks like you have to retreat immediately from here. I only took the liberty of beating this cross-dressing dude today, so there is no need for your lovely self to worry."

"I knew I saw you somewhere before, you're the guy that Tabitha suffered a lot from, the poor dude had to get a surgery because of what you did to him!" Shelly was much more calmer than when he faced Tabitha, "I sincerely do hope that you know the consequences of going against both the Team Magma and Team Aqua at the same time!"

"Ohh… And do you know the consequences of going against me?" He said with a cold ever present look.

Ash was not as disgusted with these two large illegal organizations of the Hoenn Region as he was with the core Team Rocket.

They do things that are illegal, but they do not do excessive things to Pokémon, most of the times.

"Alright then, since I know I can't beat you today!" Shelly took back the two Crawdaunts, "Everyone! Retreat!"

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