PARAGON
Hisui Incursion Arc [12]
Chapter 64 : Fear of the Unown
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“Huh…? Me…?”
Rei clapped his hands together and bowed. “Please, Sabrina! No, Miss Sabrina!”
“Master Sabrina!” Akari begged, bowing in turn. “Please help us become stronger trainers.”
Sabrina simply stared at them, speechless.
“We can’t go on like this! If we encounter another Alpha Pokémon, we’ll just be useless again!” Rei’s eyes were squeezed shut. “If the Alpha Pokémon follow the same pattern as the rest of Hisui, that means the ones here are the weakest ones! They’ll only be more dangerous from here on out!”
“And you’re actually taming one! You’re not afraid of them at all! It’s just…incredible!” Akari gushed.
Sabrina felt her cheeks heat up and she fingered her hair unconsciously. Not afraid at all…?
Rei looked up but his hands were still together. “We’ll do anything! Any time we’re on dinner, you get extra portions! And you get first dibs on any rare items we find out here! Hell, we’ll carry your bag instead of Ash!”
Akari nodded. “We just…it’s to protect the Professor, of course. But also…we want to get stronger too! Like you guys from the future!” She clenched her fist, eyes blazing with determination. “Even if we don’t have any special powers, our pokémon are strong! And they can become even stronger, I know it!”
Sabrina felt herself deflate a little. They seemed to have so much faith in her, yet she’d never trained anyone before. She opened her mouth. “I don’t really… I think A—“
His name stopped in her throat. No. No, I can’t say that. Ash is training to take on one of the two Paragons. He won’t have time for this. It…It has to be me. She swallowed, trying to down as much trepidation as she could.
“A-Alright,” she said. “I’ll do my best.”
Rei sank to the ground and prostrated himself. “Thank you!”
“You don’t have to do that!” Sabrina wailed.
Akari kicked him with the side of her foot and he bolted up, standing straight. “So,” he said resolutely. “What should we do first?”
Uhhh. “Y-You want to start now? Like right now?”
“No time like the present!” Akari said, a hand already on one of her pokéballs.
They had three pokémon each.
Sabrina’s eyes flit between them. She’d known them long enough to get an idea of their personalities, and though she hadn’t witnessed much of their battling, she believed she understood their preferred styles.
Rei was bombastic. His strongest pokémon was his Growlithe and he used it as often as he could. He took pride and pleasure in using flashy moves with lots of power. And though he didn’t send them out as often, he didn’t neglect his other two pokémon at all.
Akari was reserved. The pokémon of hers that Sabrina had seen the most of, Staravia, was not her strongest. She preferred its mobility and the distance it could create between itself and its opponents. She was the type to save her trump card for later.
“I don’t have any pokémon right now, so I can’t train you how you two are used to training…”
It was a bit intimidating the way they stared at her, seemingly clinging to her every word. Plus, if she was to go through with this, she’d have to talk about each of them in a rather intimate way. But this was the least she could do. For them and the others.
To be honest, she’d overheard their conversation earlier today. She’d always been more aware of her surroundings, especially when it came to what others around her were talking about; when she was younger, she had often been the subject. That wasn’t really the case anymore, but her heightened senses remained as an artifact of her childhood. And because of them, she’d already given some thought to what they should each do next.
“Um, I’ll just tell you how my pokémon became stronger,” Sabrina said. “Maybe Ash would disagree…but I think evolving your pokémon would be the quickest way to make them stronger.”
Her Alakazam and Gengar had been Kadabra and Haunter when she first met Ash. Though she wasn’t all that interested in pokémon in general, she recalled being quite motivated to make them stronger as a child, which led to her looking up how to evolve her two pokémon. As it turned out, Kadabra and Haunter both belonged to a special group of pokémon with nontraditional evolution methods. Pokémon in this group, such as Machamp and Golem, seemed to evolve at the discretion of the pokémon itself. There were cases where rigorous training never resulted in an evolution and cases where the pokémon evolved again immediately after their first evolution.
One day while lazing around in her gym, Kadabra had evolved right in front of her without any sort of prompting. Then he’d gone right back to lazing around with her. Haunter evolved the moment he saw Alakazam.
Aside from Abra’s evolution into Kadabra when she was young, those were the only evolutions she’d ever witnessed, and she hadn’t even had to raise a finger. Which is to say, she had no idea how to trigger evolutions in Akari or Rei’s pokémon.
Akari and Rei glanced at each other.
“How do we do that?” Rei eventually asked. “I mean, we would’ve done it already if we could.”
Of course. Sabrina closed her eyes, cringing at herself. “Well,” she said, opening her eyes. “We’ve spent a bit of time outside the walls and run into a few pokémon. I think the pokémon we’ve come across so far should be a good challenge for your pokémon. Since we left the Sanctuary, safety has been our number one priority. You two always battle together and overwhelm your opponents with superior tactics. But…” She hesitated and glanced away. “I-I feel like you might be in trouble if you ever got separated, or you encountered a pokémon that was just as strong as your own pokémon.” She looked up, praying she hadn’t offended them.
Akari had her hand on her chin. “Hmm. You’re right.”
“Back to basics, huh?” Rei nodded. “Maybe we have been playing it a bit too safe.”
Hearing them agree with her gave Sabrina the confidence to continue. “Most pokémon get closer to evolution by accumulating experience… Using the same tactics again and again won’t exactly let your pokémon keep growing if they’ve already mastered it. I think you have to put yourselves in situations where you and your pokémon are forced to react differently. Even if it’s more dangerous, even if you get hurt…” She trailed off, realizing she was starting to press her own methods a bit too far. “A-Anyway, after we set out tomorrow, I think you should try and find as many wild pokémon as you can and battle them by yourselves. I’ll…I’ll…” She blushed and pulled her hair in front of her face. “I-I’ll ask Riley to keep an eye out for you so you don’t have to worry about anything else.”
As much as she wanted to shoulder the burden of watching over them herself, she could not bring herself to say so. Even if she could get her limiter working again tomorrow, she did not want to thrust herself into using her powers so soon, if she could help it.
Akari already had a pokéball in each hand, grinning. “C’mon, Rei, let’s start now! I swear I saw a group of Scyther a bit earlier.”
“No way!” Rei scolded. “It’s pitch black out now, we’d just get ourselves killed! Right, Master?” He looked over at Sabrina.
“U-Uh, yeah!”
Akari blushed and bowed. “Right. Tomorrow.”
“Anyway, thanks Sabrina!” Rei said, leaning on Akari’s back. “Honestly, don’t think the Professor would even let us do this if it was just us out here.”
Akari shoved him off. “Yes, thank you! We’re fast learners so I’m sure we won’t cause you too much trouble!”
As they walked away, Akari shoved Rei and he pushed her back, but it seemed like they were both just bursting with energy at wanting to start their training and needed an outlet of sorts.
Sabrina couldn’t help but smile. She hoped they’d be able to sleep tonight.
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The next morning
Ash frowned as he looked across the plains, already bright with sunlight so early in the morning. Most of the others were still asleep in the shadows of their grove of trees, but that was not a luxury he could afford. Starly chittered overhead and already, a pack of Ponyta seemed to be eating a breakfast of grass quite far from where they were.
Pikachu yawned on his shoulder.
Ash walked across the grass, making sure to step on a few twigs so he didn’t scare her.
Sabrina sat cross-legged on the grass, her neck bent slightly upward. The soft wind hurled her hair into a dancing black fire on her head.
“Good morning,” Ash said.
“Good morning,” Sabrina said back, unmoving.
The sun blazed hot and white just above the spiked mountains against the horizon. Sabrina stared right at it.
“Still training even though you don’t want to use your powers, huh?”
“Yeah.”
“Or are you just doing it because it’s routine?”
“Yeah.”
“Wait, which is it?”
“Yeah.”
Even though he stood behind her, Ash could see her cheeks widen in a small smile.
“By the way, I heard you have a couple students now.”
Her cheeks immediately returned to normal. “Yeah…”
“Did any trainers ever come to your gym back in the day to ask for training?”
“No.”
“These are your first students then, huh? Good luck!”
“Thanks.”
“See Decidueye at all this morning?”
“No.”
“Hey, I was wondering. Are you gonna nickname him like Anabel? Just think, it’d be Sophia and…?”
“Probably not.”
“Why not?”
“I can’t think of a good name.”
“Oh…right. Guess that makes sense. By the way, can you just sense where he—? Ah, wait, never mind.”
Well, that seemed to be the end of the conversation. Whoops, Ash thought.
Sabrina raised her left hand, and Ash’s eyes widened.
Her left gauntlet spun, albeit slowly, around her wrist.
“You fixed it…” he breathed.
“Barely. If it gets damaged again, it’ll definitely break for good. Even though it’s supposed to be indestructible.”
As it spun, Ash could see where the outside plating had chipped off. Just beneath, emerald wiring coursed with energy, almost like they were veins.
He grinned. “That’s awesome, Sabrina!”
“T-Thank—“ She coughed. “U-Um, don’t you need to start training with Riley? I don’t want to keep you…”
Ash’s face heated up. “Oh, yeah! Sorry for bothering you. Just waiting for him to wake up.”
He spun around to find the Guardian standing a short ways away, arms crossed.
“Oh…hey.”
Sabrina whipped around, face burning a bright pink. With her eyes off the sun, it seemed her training was over.
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“Good morning,” Riley said. “I didn’t want to interrupt. But if you’re done, Ash—“
“Yup, let’s go!” he said, yanking Riley by his shoulder away from camp. He held up his hand, white electricity sparkling on his skin. “Got a lot to learn today!”
They went far enough away that they wouldn’t disturb the others’ rest, though that didn’t stop Rei and Akari from waking up soon after to go chase after wild pokémon. Ash wasn’t sure on the specifics of what Sabrina had tasked them with but they seemed extra determined this morning. Maybe they were competing or something, since they weren’t sticking together like they usually did.
As for Ash, today was yet another grueling day of trying to summon as much power as he could without releasing it. Despite the horrible tax on his body that left him feeling numb all throughout breakfast, he actually did feel like he was pushing his limits, slowly but surely. Or maybe that was just wishful thinking. But either way, the greater volume of power he believed he was getting closer to was beginning to spawn ideas in his head about potential techniques even stronger than the ones he’d developed with Sir Aaron. But for now, it was as Riley said. He needed more strength.
Immediately after breakfast, Rei and Akari bolted off again.
“Hey, wait!” Laventon hollered. “Where are you two going?”
“Training!” Rei called.
“Sorry, my fault!” Sabrina, surging between the Professor and the runaways. “They asked me to help them get stronger last night.”
Laventon looked past her, watching the two race across the plains.
“They should be fine,” Ash offered. “The Alpha Pokémon are after me. You’re probably in more danger than they are staying here with us.”
The Professor opened his mouth to retort but nothing came out. He simply sighed and sat back down. “Ah, I suppose you’re right.”
“Go after them, would you, Pikachu?” Ash said, raising his shoulder.
Pikachu snapped a salute and scampered off after them.
Ash glanced back at Sabrina and she mouthed a “thanks.”
“All three of you seem very protective of each other,” Riley chimed in. “I don’t think that’s a bad thing at all.”
Laventon nodded wearily. “They are my responsibility.”
Yura eventually rolled out of bed shortly after and while Sabrina served her breakfast, Riley and Ash went back to their training. Lightning flashed and thunder echoed across the plains and regular intervals as Ash summoned and released wave after wave of electricity, and he hoped he wasn’t scaring off all the wild pokémon and ruining Rei and Akari’s training, though with the Alpha Pokémon prowling around, maybe they’d already gotten used to powerhouses throwing their weight around on the Horseshoe Plains.
Once Sabrina and Laventon finished cleaning up breakfast and breaking down the rest of their camp (for which Ash was extra grateful), Riley cut their training off and once again commanded Ash to keep his power going throughout the day.
Since Rei and Akari had both run off in the direction they were already headed, they decided to meet back up with them on the way. Sabrina and Yura walked hand in hand and Sabrina seemed notably less tense now that her gauntlet was back on, though Ash did notice that the damaged left gauntlet spun slower than the other one.
They found Rei first on the banks of a shallow pond. At least, that’s what Ash had assumed it was when he’d seen it yesterday from afar. However, now a Gyarados towered out of the water, glowering down at its opponent. Bruises and cuts littered its bright underbelly.
“Oh, hey!” Rei bit out, crouching behind a short wall of hardened mud, but he quickly turned his attention back to the azure serpent. “Razor Leaf, again!”
A large Turtwig, nearly half Rei’s size, huddled next to him, but it ambled out into Gyarados’ blind spot.
“Oh, goodness!” Laventon wailed, covering his eyes.
Gyarados’ head jerked toward Turtwig and its maw dropped open.
“Shellos, now!” Rei shouted.
Another wall of mud sprouted up in front of Turtwig just as Gyardos wheezed and released a burning Dragon Rage. The mud wall burst apart, but its remnants splattered harmlessly atop Turtwig, who raised a cyclone of Razor Leaves and fired them forward. Gyarados howled as the leaves raked its skin and its body pitched back before falling upon the water’s surface and sending a plume of white water skyward before sinking beneath.
As the surface of the pond leveled out, Rei crept out from behind his shoddy defenses. He grinned at the results. “Alright, we did it!”
Laventon groaned and released a loud sigh.
Turtwig grunted and Shellos slithered across the ground, bored.
Ash clapped. “Nice job!”
“Pretty good!” Yura judged, nodding her approval.
“Ha, thanks! So, what do you think?” Rei’s eyes flit between Ash, Sabrina, and Riley.
Riley turned to Sabrina and Ash did the same. “Sensei?” Ash teased.
Sabrina reddened but didn’t turn away. “W-well…that was great. You commanded both your pokémon at the same time without confusion, from what I saw.” She fingered her clothes. “Just…remember that some pokémon like Gyarados may get angrier as the battle goes on and it keeps taking damage. That basically makes it stronger than it was when you first encountered it. The longer a battle goes on, the more danger you’re in, so if you can’t finish…I mean, defeat an aggressive pokémon quickly, a defensive battle may put you in more danger than actually going all out. Don't be afraid to lean into your preferences if that’s what will work best.”
Rei nodded and bowed comically. “Got it, master!” With a satisfied smile, he recalled Turtwig and Shellos
“The power of emotions…” Riley mused. “Not something I’ve necessarily factored into my thinking. I’ll have to keep that in mind as well.”
Ash rapped her on the shoulder gently and smiled. Her face was tamato-red but she smiled in embarrassment back.
“How’d I do?” she flushed once they started walking again.
“What do you mean?” Ash asked.
“Like…anything else you would’ve added?”
Ash shook his head. “Nah, you got it covered. Although…” He leaned closer to her. “That Gyarados was definitely on the smaller side,” he whispered.
Sabrina jumped and nodded furiously. “Yeah! I thought so too…” She edged away from him closer to Yura.
Laventon dragged his feet as they moved toward Akari, clearly dreading seeing whatever predicament she’d gotten herself into. It didn’t take long for them to find her.
Pikachu stood in before the ensuing battle on a short hill, watching carefully. Upon hearing their approach, he turned and clambered back up onto Ash’s shoulder.
Three Scyther, similarly beaten like Rei’s Gyarados, surrounded Akari and her Cranidos, their backs to each other defensively. But despite having two more pokémon on her belt, Akari hadn’t appeared to have released either. And like Yura’s Shieldon, Cranidos’ skin was far darker than the Cranidos Ash recognized from the modern day. It almost looked like a miniature Rampardos off its colors alone.
The Scyther sharpened their claws, releasing a menacing grinding sound as they stalked closer to Akari.
“Akari!” Rei yelled, but Akari didn’t turn.
Her eyes narrowed and her arm brushed Cranidos’ back. “Agile Take Down! Hit all three!”
The Scyther right in front of him went flying as Cranidos plowed into it. Wheeling on his stubby leg, Cranidos careened into the remaining two, flattening them beneath him. Dust and soil stormed into the air, and Akari shielded herself with her arms as Cranidos tumbled past them, before getting back to its feet.
The two Scyther hissed in anger as they tried to get off of each other, but Akari wasn’t done.
“Agile Rock Tomb!” she commanded, thrusting her arm toward them.
The ground around Cranidos rumbled and ruptured, boulders the size of Cranidos itself pulling themselves free from the earth. Without wasting a moment, Cranidos hurled them toward the Scyther with a furious roar. The one on top tried to slice at the incoming boulders but its blade wasn’t sharp enough and both were soon buried beneath the avalanche.
“Whoa!” Yura chirped.
Not wasting a step, Akari hurled one of her remaining two pokéballs toward the final Scyther, who’d just gotten up and beat its wings into the air. “Agile Metal Claw!”
A short, purple feline pokémon coalesced onto the grass already sprinting forward. Its already lengthy claws elongated even further and glowed with a metallic sheen. Before Scyther even had time to move forward, Akari’s strongest pokémon, Sneasel, raked her claws across the bug’s chest in a ruthless flurry.
Dropping to the ground, Sneasel’s claws retracted, but its murderous glare didn’t. Scyther moaned and its wings slowed, and it too dropped to the ground, but pitched over a second later, unconscious. Only then did Sneasel turn to glare at her audience.
Laventon let loose an exasperated sigh. “Goodness gracious.” He wiped his forehead with a handkerchief.
“Nice one, Akari!” Rei cheered.
“Yeah!” Yura agreed.
Akari bowed timidly as Ash and Riley offered applause. She recalled her two pokémon and approached Sabrina. “So, how was that?” She glanced up hopefully.
Sabrina closed her eyes and stroked her chin. “Hmmm. It definitely seems like you prefer the element of surprise. That’s why you rely heavily on the Agile Style and hold off on releasing your other pokémon until it’s absolutely necessary. The Agile Take Down was good…but I feel like Agile Style wasn’t necessary for the Rock Tomb or Metal Claw. It’s important to think about your individual pokémon’s strengths. Like in Cranidos’ case, it’s pretty slow but very powerful, so just keep in mind how you can bring out your pokémon’s full potential at all times.” She shrunk back. “Or something like that.”
Akari nodded in agreement. “Yeah, I guess I do lean on Agile Style a lot… I’ll try Strong Style more with Cranidos! Thanks, Sabrina!”
“O-Of course…”
Riley clapped his hands. “Now, then! As promised, I’ll be responsible for keeping watch until we reach the foothills so feel free to continue your training, you two. The Aura of your pokémon are all burning quite bright and it seems some may be ready to evolve soon. As long as we keep a steady pace, we should reach the foothills as scheduled tomorrow!”
Ash smiled, glancing back at Laventon, who looked drained despite it still being morning. Riley was always adaptable, slipping into a leadership role when he needed to be.
“So…how was that?” Sabrina asked, skirting back next to him.
Ahead, Riley distributed medicinal berries from his pack to Rei and Akari for their pokémon’s fatigue.
Ash chuckled. “You’re making me feel like a teacher now. Same as before. Nothing to add.”
“Well, you were a World Champion. That’s better than a gym leader” Nonetheless, Sabrina exhaled in relief.
Ash cocked his head. “You don’t have to be so nervous about teaching them. You’re a powerful trainer. You know what you’re talking about.”
“H-Hmmm.”
Ash swore he could see steam rising from her overheated head. That kind of made him embarrassed too. He elected to ignore noticing even Sabrina’s sluggish gauntlet spinning quite rapidly now.
“Electricity on, Ash?” Riley called.
“Huh? O-Oh, yeah!” Honestly he’d forgotten he’d had his powers on this whole time but the moment Riley mentioned it, he was once again conscious of that electrifying heaviness that surged through his veins.
“Now, onward!” Yura declared, pumping her fist into the air.
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The next day
Mount Coronet loomed in front of them, casting a shadow of the thinning grass and stony ground of the foothills ahead. Dark sentinels sprouted from the sides of the mountain, surging skyward in search of the sun, and the wind shook their leaves like rattles. With the Horseshoe Plains behind them, the ground gradually began to slope up as they approached the entrance to the foothills.
“Brrrr, it’s cold,” Yura said, rubbing her arms.
“The sun should peek out from the mountain again any second now,” Sabrina said. “It’s almost noon.”
Riley walked ahead of them flanked by Akari and Rei, who’d just recently returned from their training and were grilling him on their pokémon’s power. After training all day yesterday and today as they moved toward the foothills, they were eager to hear the Guardian’s assessment after he’d (foolishly) let slip that he could see and evaluate their pokémon’s Aura.
By Ash’s evaluation, they had grown exceptionally quickly in such a short time, likely because of the sudden shock of Sabrina’s suggested training regiment. By disrupting the status quo of them always battling together, their pokémon and the trainers themselves were being forced to develop in real time.
Bringing up the rear of the party, Laventon leaned over and swiped something off the ground, then continued walking.
“What do you keep picking up, Professor?” Ash finally asked as he walked next to him. He’d been seeing the Professor do this since they’d set off and initially assumed he was just doing his due diligence as a scientist, but curiosity finally got the better of Ash.
“Oh, this?” Laventon handed Ash what he’d just picked up.
It was a smooth, brown rock, flat with a glossy finish. In his palm, it felt far lighter than Ash expected from a rock of its size.
“That’s called a tumblestone,” Laventon explained. “Alongside apricorns, they’re one of the main components of a pokéball. Did you know about tumblestones already?”
“No…” Ash said. He wasn’t sure how modern pokéballs were made, or if this stone was still part of them. “What does it do?”
“Well, the apricorn creates the structure of the pokéball, of course, but the tumblestone is responsible for shrinking a pokémon down into the ball. We’re not really sure how it works, but there is a certain latent energy in tumblestones that reacts with the bodies of all pokémon.”
Ash turned it over in his hand. It felt just like a normal rock. From what he did know about modern pokéballs, the laser reduced a pokémon down into a mass of Aura before sucking it into the ball. Mechanisms built into the pokéball allowed the pokémon’s biological data to be digitized and processed by electronics like healing stations or transfer machines.
“I create pokéballs as a hobby. The six pokéballs carried by Rei and Akari are my creations.”
Ash raised a brow. “That’s amazing.”
Laventon smiled proudly. “Well, the craftsmen of the Supply Corps are the experts but I do a passing job! I could show you the basics if you want.”
Ash brightened. “That’d be awesome! To be honest, I’ve been wondering about how those pokéballs are made since we got here.” Every time Ash meant to ask him, something else pulled his attention and he’d never gotten around to it. But he was sure this knowledge would come in handy in the future, somehow.
“Ahh!”
Rei’s shout up ahead tore Ash from his coversation. Looking ahead at the young trainer, he couldn’t immediately tell what was wrong. They didn’t seem to be under attack.
“What’s going on?” Laventon said, jogging up to the front.
“Thing scared the hell out of me,” Rei said, stepping aside.
Floating in front of him, a curious creature with a singular eyeball within a black ring blinked emotionlessly.
Ash frowned. “That’s an Unown.” An “O” by the looks of it.
“Yeah it’s an unknown, I’ve never seen anything like it,” Rei murmured.
“No, it’s a pokémon called Unown. They’re usually only found in very specific locations…” As Ash moved closer, he felt Pikachu’s power flare to life on his shoulder as he readied himself for a possible battle.
“Unown…” Laventon murmured. “I believe I’ve seen one once before, at some ruins in the Mirelands. But it didn’t quite look like this.”
“It has twenty-eight different forms,” Ash explained. “But it’s as you said, Professor. They usually only appear in old ruins, and even then, they’re rare.”
“Guess we got pretty lucky!” Rei grinned.
“It doesn’t seem very dangerous,” Akari said, sticking her finger toward it.
In response, the Unown shuddered and released a pale wisp of energy at Akari. It hit her shoulder and dissipated.
“Ah! That was kinda cold,” she said, rubbing her shoulder.
Cold… Is that an ice-type Hidden Power? Ash thought. “They’re not all that powerful by themselves, but usually they show up in groups. They’re supposed to represent a forgotten language that many old myths and temple texts are written in.”
“Hey, look,” Yura said, pointing in another direction.
Another Unown, this one, an exclamation point, slowly fluttered down from on high like a snowflake.
“Speak of the devil,” Laventon murmured.
“There are two more,” Sabrina said, pointing in yet another direction.
“Where are they coming from?” Riley asked, Aura dancing on his fingertips.
The Unown closest to him blew an orb at him and he shrugged it away.
“More over there!” Akari said, pointing.
Four more ambled, seemingly out of thin air, toward them.
Pikachu growled on Ash’s shoulder, cheeks crackling dangerously.
“Argh, every time I look away, there’s more of them!” Rei said, punching his temple.
Multicolored orbs of light passed into them harmlessly, but all members of the party simply stared around in confusion, unbothered.
Ash’s eyes flit around. It was as Rei said. He didn’t recall seeing even a single one appear, yet somehow there appeared to be around twenty, or maybe thirty of them now after just a few seconds.
Sensing his intention, Pikachu leaped from his shoulder and hissed.
“Everyone, release your pokémon,” Ash said. “We’re under attack.”
Next — Chapter 65 : Power of a Legendary
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I thought I was going to end the last chapter with this scene. I guess not.
Rei’s Pokémon: Growlithe-Hisui, Turtwig, Shellos
Akari’s Pokémon: Sneasel-Hisui, Cranidos, Staravia
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