Free Web NovelChapter 222: Chapter 222: Little Lugia
Chapter 222: Little Lugia
"Opponent? What opponent?" Richie looked at Gary in confusion.
"Aren’t you looking for that mysterious Pokémon to catch it? Regardless, I came here specifically to catch it," Gary said confidently.
"That’s not it at all. I just came to investigate out of curiosity."
Richie really wasn’t here to find the mother-child pair of Lugia.
"If you don’t want to catch it, then perfect, it belongs to me!"
Seeing Gary getting carried away, Ash reminded him, "Gary, I advise you not to be too confident. That Pokémon is no ordinary creature."
"It being extraordinary is even better. By the way, Ash, I haven’t asked you yet—did you also come here for that Pokémon?" Gary had completely forgotten about his biggest rival.
"Don’t worry, I won’t compete with you this time. But you’ll have to find that Pokémon on your own. I’m just here to watch the show."
Ash’s primary goal was to watch the show, and his secondary goal was to see if he could find an opportunity to take the Team Rockets’ underwater base ’back’.
That thing was quite high-tech; it could operate underwater and then surface. If he could get his hands on it and combine it with the flying fortress he had obtained earlier in the Orange Islands, he would have both sea and air bases.
"As long as you don’t interfere, that’s fine!" Gary breathed a sigh of relief.
"This island is quite large. Gary, where do you plan to start looking?" Brock asked.
Gary glanced at the size of Okinoshima and was immediately stumped. "Hmm, well..."
"Let’s start by searching that uninhabited little island over there! There isn’t much human activity there. A mysterious Pokémon like that is very likely to stay away from human life," Richie suggested, pointing to an isolated island.
Gary agreed without a second thought. "Alright, let’s start searching from there!"
Before long, the group arrived at the deserted island Richie had pointed out.
On the other side of the deserted island.
A young boy was playing in the sea with a Lanturn, and beneath the surface of the water next to them was a shadow resembling a large bird.
When the boy saw Ash and the others landing, he shouted to the shadow, "Silver, there are strangers here! Quickly, go to the seabed on the other side!"
Hearing the boy’s words, the shadow swam toward the other side of the island.
When Gary saw the boy, he shouted loudly, "Hey, little kid over there! Hello, I have something I’d like to ask you!"
"What is it?" the boy replied.
"Are you a resident of this island? Have you heard of any legends about any special Pokémon?" Gary asked.
"I live on Okinoshima, but I often come here to play. My name is Shuichi. What special legends? There’s nothing like that around here!"
The boy named Shuichi looked around guiltily; he might as well have had the words ’I have a secret’ carved onto his forehead.
"Oh~"
From the change in Shuichi’s expression, Gary guessed that the boy definitely knew the inside story. However, since he wasn’t willing to say it outright but kept coming here, Gary could conclude that the so-called mysterious Pokémon was on this island. frёeωebɳovel.com
"Then, have you ever seen any very peculiar Pokémon?" Brock asked.
Shuichi lied through his teeth, casually brushing them off. "Absolutely not. Besides, if there really were such a Pokémon, it would have caused a commotion by now."
"Let’s go look somewhere else," Ash suggested.
The boy’s guard was very strong, but his acting skills were really mediocre. Ash could conclude that both Gary and Richie had already sensed something was wrong.
"Very well." Richie didn’t think too much about it; he already had his answer in mind anyway.
Just like that, the group made a move to turn around and search the other side of the island.
Just after they turned and left, it was as if Shuichi had been dragged into the sea by something.
When he surfaced again, a little Lugia popped up alongside him.
Behind a reef not far from Shuichi, two people dressed as Team Rockets were setting up a camera, snapping pictures of the little Lugia frantically, and reporting to the base on the seabed via headsets.
In less than ten minutes, two fully armed Team Rockets members emerged and, without a word, fired a capture net at the little Lugia.
On the other side of the island.
Ash and Misty looked as if they were on vacation, completely in the mood to watch the show.
Brock, on the other hand, showed great interest; he even released his Crobat to help with the search.
Gary released his Skarmory to search from the sky. Seeing that Skarmory was having no luck, he said with some confusion, "It’s really strange. Why can’t we find it?"
"Didn’t that kid just say it wasn’t here?" Brock said.
Richie said thoughtfully, "I feel like that kid named Shuichi seems to be hiding something!"
"He obviously knows the inside story. He said it himself—he often comes here to play. Plus, he was just talking to another Pokémon earlier," Gary said.
The next moment, they saw Shuichi riding on a Lanturn, leading the Lugia as they swam past them.
And following behind them was a black submarine.
Ash hurriedly called Misty to watch the show. "Oh, oh, here it comes! Misty, look over there."
"Is that a Lugia? It’s so small!"
Misty was excited to see the little one behind Shuichi.
"So that’s it. The mysterious Pokémon is actually a Lugia!" Gary understood everything.
"Shuichi, what happened?" Richie asked.
"These people want to catch Silver!" Shuichi looked behind him with some worry.
"Hurry up and come ashore!" Gary shouted.
Hearing this, Shuichi changed course with the little Lugia and swam toward the island.
Gary pulled out a Poké Ball and shouted, "Blastoise, I leave it to you! Use Hydro Pump."
"Blastoise~"
As soon as Blastoise appeared, it aimed its two cannons at the submarine behind Shuichi and fired a powerful blast of water.
With just that one shot, the submarine began to emit black smoke and came to a stop.
"Who on earth are you people?" Richie asked aggressively after pulling Shuichi ashore.
"Since you’ve asked with such sincerity who we are."
"It is generally not our custom to answer."
"So we will make an exception..."
"Alright, alright, I know who you are. Aren’t you just Cassidy and Butch? You should go confess your names to Officer Jenny instead."
Ash directly interrupted their opening line.
"What? My name is Cassidy!"
"And I’m not some ’Little Third-Rate’! My name is Butch. Is it that hard to remember people’s names?"
The Team Rockets duo asked indignantly.
"Remembering it isn’t hard, but there’s no point in remembering the names of people who are about to go to jail again," Ash said indifferently.
"You detestable brat! This time, I’m going to get revenge for what happened in the Orange Islands!"
Cassidy also recognized that Ash was the person who had sent them to jail twice in a row.
Gary said calmly, "Team Rockets idiots again. Blastoise, use Water Pulse!"
"Hmph, don’t get too cocky! Houndour, use Flamethrower!"
"Go, Hitmontop, use Whirlwind Kick!"
Compared to when they last met, these two had improved their strength significantly. Their two moves blocked Gary’s Blastoise’s Water Pulse.
"Alright, go, Cruz!"
At this moment, Richie released a Pupitar.
Hmm... Assessment complete. Ash confirmed that Richie was just a pirated version of the original idiot who was stronger than the original.
His version had already reached the Quasi-Legendary era. If Ash remembered correctly, at this stage in the original, idiot was still in the ’baby bus’ phase—they were completely in different leagues.
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