203. Team Magma Incoming

This is the extra chapter I promised because we hit 150 Power Stones.

The next extra chapter is at 300 Power Stones.

Thank you guys for all the support you have been giving me.

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"What? The Hoenn Region?"

At a public phone booth outside of Oldale Town, the Rocket Trio huddled together and contacted their big boss Giovanni. Giovanni was also confused when he heard that his favorite trio actually went to the Hoenn Region out of the blue.

That's a place where he hasn't reached out his dominance just yet!

"Yes, in order to dedicate it to Boss Giovanni, we chased the rare Pikachu all the way to here!"

"We are working hard for the reputation of Team Rocket, meow!"

Giovanni didn't take the Trio's declaration of loyalty to heart, and he didn't even have any idea about the Pikachu they said because it belonged to Ash. And he wasn't trying to mess with him for now.

"So, you tried your best to get in touch with me. Do you have any good news for me?" Giovanni didn't have the patience to talk to these minions of him, even though they were the ones that entertained him the most.

The Trio also noticed this, and quickly requested with fear, "It's like this, we can hardly even raise the food expenses for today..."

"No! I won't send you any supplies!" Before they could even finish speaking their sentence, they were immediately rejected by Giovanni.

But he turned around and said, "But I can give you a great opportunity. There is no activity base for Team Rocket in the Hoenn Region. You have to work hard there and build up the reputation of the Rockets. I am waiting for your good news!"

If Ash were to hear this, he would definitely agree to this because this will help him train up his new Pokémon's.

However, the Rocket Trio became very excited and prepared to show off their skills in the brand new Hoenn Region.

After hanging up the phone, Giovanni stroked his Persian, "Through those idiots, we can get information about Hoenn's local teams. I heard those pesky Team Aqua and Team Magma are trying to increase their powers. It's a good time to put them in use!"

After hanging up the phone, Ash took the new Trainer May to introduce some of the Pokémon Center's facilities, and then took her to have dinner.

The food at the Pokémon Center is not only rich in variety, but also tastes pretty good. Although it is not as good as what Brock usually makes in the road, it is still the most powerful source of energy that the Alliance provides to the Trainers under it!

"It's delicious. The Pokémon Center is really such a great place to stay at!" May seems to have a high pursuit of food. She is a foodie, so it is natural that she is full of praise for the food found here.

Pikachu was also happily eating his favorite ketchup from a bottle.

But Ash reminded, "This is a place for us to rest occasionally after rigorous training and long travel, so it is impossible to just go to the Pokémon Center every day!"

"Yeah yeah, I understand that!" May is mentally prepared for the trip, just not physically.

Suddenly, the lights in the Pokémon Center dimmed down to a very low degree, and Pikachu immediately jumped on Ash's shoulders ready to have some fun.

"Is there a power outage?" May stood up next to Ash and saw a blue light suddenly flashing across Ash's whole body. She was scared to the point of readying herself to let out a loud scream, then she quickly covered her mouth with her hands at the last second.

Ash used his power over Aura to replace his eyes, and saw a group of people in red clothes, carrying several Houndooms, swaggering into the Pokémon Center and walking towards the back room.

"May, stay here and hide. And protect yourself if you can!"

Ash left these words and hurriedly walked over with his Pikachu.

If it were Misty, Ash would just take her with him because he knows she could handle it, but now May is just a new Trainer without any experience, so he let her stay here.

But even though Ash just said to stay and hide, May still followed after him. She wanted to be with him because he was strong and could protect her, and just maybe she could be of some help to him.

The team of red men broke into one of the many rooms of the Pokémon Center and stood in front of a man in a shirt, "Professor Alden, come with us to the Oldale Ruins!"

This Oldale Ruins should be the large ruins outside of Oldale Town. It is surrounded by several large stone pillars and looked to be very old.

"Ash?" The light of the flashlight flashed by, and Nurse Joy appeared in front of Ash.

Immediately afterwards, the three of them were discovered by the red team and gathered together. The four Houndooms bared their teeth at them, looking very intimidating.

Ash, who had cooperated with Lance on multiple occasions before, decided to wait and see what the people in this organization wanted to do before he made his move. That's the reason he didn't put up a fight even though his Pikachu and Dratini could easily beat up these grunts.

The three of them were put into a warehouse, the door was locked, and Professor Alden was taken away by then.

"Nurse Joy, who is this Professor Alden?" Ash did not seem to panic at all at their predicament, but instead asked Nurse Joy more questions to learn about their current situation.

"He set up the Laboratory in this Pokémon Center specifically to study the Oldale Ruins." Nurse Joy introduced him.

It is really a good idea to set up the Laboratory in the Pokémon Center, where food and accommodation are convenient and has a large array of machines.

"Do you know the condition of those ruins?" Ash asked again.

Nurse Joy nodded, "I heard from Professor Alden that there is a stone chamber hidden beneath the ruins. Legend has it that it may be the door connecting the ancient Pokémon world to our world!"

In fact, he has very vague memory about this part, but Ash roughly knew that the organization in front of him should be Team Magma who was trying to expand the earth with the power of Groudon, but no matter what their intention was, Ash would not sit idly by when it came to the safety of humans and Pokémon's around the globe.

"Pikachu, Iron Tail!"

"Pi pi!"

Pikachu's Iron Tail is getting sharper and sharper by the day now, and now his Pikachu has a new tendency of cutting anything he gets his tail on. It can cut open the warehouse door with one light slash.

"Nurse Joy, I'll leave this to you. I'll go to the Oldale Ruins to help Professor Alden!" Ash rushed to the Oldale Ruins with his Pikachu in tow, and May still followed after him!

At this moment in the Oldale Ruins, Team Magma is forcing Professor Alden to open the stone chamber beneath the ruins. They have collected all the four gems needed to open the stone chamber ahead of time just for this occasion.

The reason why they asked Professor Alden was that they needed to know the order and position that the four gemstones needed to be placed in.

"Professor Alden, don't you care about the safety of all the people and Pokémon's at the Pokémon Center?!" They actually used everyone at the Pokémon Center as a threat.

Seeing that Professor Alden finally giving up, May couldn't help but ask Ash, "Ash, aren't you going to take action against them yet?"

Ash shook his head, "I'm still not sure of the identity or the purpose of this organization. I need to investigate more information. I'll have a chat with Lance later about them."

"Lance?" May seemed to have heard this name somewhere before from her dad, but she didn't have any time to ask in detail right now.

Professor Alden opened the stone chamber and saw that the walls inside were depicting murals of the lives of ancient humans and Pokémon. Aerodactyl, Omastar, Kabutops and other fossil Pokémon that once lived in the same land as the ancient humans.

This is a touching scene for every archaeologists and researcher.

"Where's the information we need?" These people didn't seem to be interested in the walls at all. After confirming that there was no information that they needed, these people immediately retreated, and Professor Alden was also brought out with them.

Ash then showed up with May, and he frowned, "Who are you people?"

As he said that, he looked to the other side and said, "Team Rocket, come out and stop following me!"

As he finished speaking, the ground began to collapse, and the Rocket Trio emerged from the ground, "Ash, we are not your subordinates, meow!"

"That's right, we need to become the special executive of the Hoenn Region!" Jessie and James are excited about their new mission that they received from Giovanni.

"What executive are you going to be? You three are not going to be them even if you wanted to!" Ash didn't want to complain about them but they still annoyed him, "This organization that is wearing red just now, investigate their background and report any information to me immediately! If you don't, I'm going to get my Venusaur and whip you three!" Ash was not having all this after him not finishing his food.

"Yes sir!" These three morons agreed in the spot. They turned around and started whispering, "We can just use the power of the brat, and then he can just eradicate all these teams we can't, and then we can develop Team Rocket however the boss wishes to!"

"That's smart, meow!"