82. The Mysterious Mask

I'm back.

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Leaving the vicinity of Rikishii Town, Ash played with the Kings Rock that was awarded to him in this competition after winning.

This is a much more precious item than any regular evolution stone, but Ash doesn't like it.

He can use Exchange Points to exchange for various items, and the props produced by the system are much better than the ones in this reality. The Kings Rock used by Slowking is redeemed from the System Mall.

This thing is just not worth comparing at all.

The Kings Rock redeemed by the System has a unique texture, just like a real gold crown. And now this one can only be said to be a piece of that perfect crown. The crown that was left after the fall of the kingdom.

It's best to keep it for now it for now!

"Big Brother, it's time to eat!" Molly ran over hurriedly, and then came to his side.

Now the group of friends are enjoying their lunch by a clear river. As long as there are some suitable conditions, Ash will summon Lapras and let him enjoy the feeling of a water body.

Now, Lapras has an extra playmate, Wartortle.

After such a long journey, Snorlax finally completed his Bond Evolutions.

Ash temporarily teleported him to Professor Oaks Lab, followed Slowking's suggestion, and replaced him with Wartortle.

As one of the oldest members of the team and having traveled with Lapras a before, Wartortle can take good care of the younger Lapras.

"It's done, Golbat, it's time to eat!" Brock prepared all the food for Pokémon, and asked Molly to send Lapras and Wartortle's portion of the food to their side in the water.

Misty looked at the Golbat and said, "You are truly someone worth learning from, Brock, how did you do all this?! Your Golbat is developing so well!"

This Golbat has been following Brock and the group for a long time.

It was caught by Brock when he was at Mt. Moon. It was just a Zubat at that time. On that windy rainy night, when Ash met up with Suicune again, Brock's Zubat evolved.

Unlike the diminutive Zubat, Golbat is 1.6 meters tall. It would be very scary if there were such a big bat with such a big mouth in real life.

Just as he was about to eat, Golbat, who was enjoying his meal, suddenly flew away, as if he sensed something wrong.

Ash, Brock, Misty and Molly quickly packed their bags, took back all their Pokémon's, and chased after the flying Golbat.

When they caught up with him and took a look at their surroundings, they discovered that Golbat had found a pretty girl with short red hair. Judging from her clothes, she must be a researcher doing Pokémon research. After the introduction, the group learned that her name was Tierra.

Brock was helping her repair the broken ultrasonic scanner. Golbat was probably attracted by the ultrasonic waves of this machine, now he is being used by Brock to replace the broken ultrasonic machine.

Tierra is using ultrasound to explore the sleeping temple beneath the nearby ruins.

It turns out that an ancient text tablet was dug up nearby not long ago, which recorded that in the nearby ruins, there was a queen wearing a gold mask and holding a powerful staff who could control Pokémon at will.

Tierra believes that the temple under this ruins is the place where that mysterious queen was worshiped long ago.

She wants to uncover the secret of this ability to freely control Pokémon.

Ash couldn't help but said, "Don't you think this is a bad thing? Moreover, this so-called manipulation of Pokémon without any bonds should be completely useless. They need a bond of some sort to work together."

"Ash is right! This is not something a Pokémon Trainer should think about!" Misty nodded in complete approval.

"That's right!" Even Molly understood this truth!

However, Tierra is not a Trainer, but a researcher. For her, exploring the truth is what she needs to do.

Ash and his party understood this, but some people couldn't stand his words.

Team Rocket, who had been following them, again, overheard these words and immediately made teh wrong idea.

"The golden mask and that staff! Then we can definitely control that Pikachu! And that Raikou! And all the rare Pokémon in teh world!"

Jessie was dreaming about all this, and suddenly the three of them were enveloped in blue light, and they couldn't help but rise into the air, and then appeared in front of Ash and his bunch.

"Young Master? Why is it you again?" Meowth was the first to jump up and rage on.

Ash was also happy, "I have sensed your presence a long time ago. Miss Tierra's excavation machine is broken. Come help us with this and find it with us later."

Ash really admired Team Rocket's mechanical invention ability. It had brought the group a lot of troubles before, but now he looked down on those toys.

Under the influence of Ash, the Rockets team quickly came up with the Dig-a-Tron based on Tierra's excavation machine, and took the team and Tierra underground.

Facts have proved that Ash's decision to ask Team Rocket for help was correct.

The ground here is very soft, and after digging out the cave, the road behind it quickly collapsed.

Without this Dig-a-Tron from Team Rocket, people in the past would probably have been trapped underground after they came down.

"Team Rocket, you can be quite reliable sometimes you know! You should leave that low paying job of being a grunt and get a job worth your talent/skill price. You guys are way too talented in these kind of things to be chasing us all the time!" Misty stood next to Ash holding Togepi in her arms. Looking at the Team Rocket trio who were busy controlling the machine, Misty couldn't help but praise them.

"Wobb~~~" Wobbuffet thought she was praising him, and suddenly jumped out and got carried away.

Then he looked up and saw Ash, jumping away from him.

When Ash rescued him before, it seemed to have left a shadow on it.

The Team Rocket trio on the other hand was really thinking of what Misty just said right now.

Ash ignored him. According to the supersonic detection of Brock's Golbat, the temple was right ahead!

Sure enough, when the rock wall was opened, and everyone saw something in front of them!

A golden mask and a staff with a red orb on top of it appeared in front of everyone.

Jessie reacted the fastest and suddenly jumped out, put the golden mask on her face, and then grabbed the tin staff.

"Noo!" Misty couldn't help but exclaimed.

"Power, I feel POWER!" Jessie's voice was trembling, and she waved her magical staff and looked at Ash and his party, "Why don't you come and pay homage to me, the Queen?"

As she spoke, she first pointed the tin stick at Meowth who ran to her side, "Meowth, do a dance!"

They saw a red light flashing from Meowth's body, and it couldn't help but start to circle three times to the left and three times to the right.

Seeing that the golden mask was really useful, Jessie pointed the tin stick at Pikachu.

"Pikachu, use Thunderbolt on that brat!"

However, although Pikachu's body flashed red, but he just shook his head, and nothing serious happened!

Ash chuckled, "Do you think such low-level mental control can cut off our bond?"

"What?" Jessie was confused.

"Pikachu!" Ash simply shook his head, "Thunderbolt!"

The galloping thunder once again swept across the Rocket Trio, but this was deep underground, how could they fly out?

Ash snatched the gold mask and staff, "Such things have long since disappeared from the modern era!"

"Noo!"

Tierra had no time to stop her, and watched helplessly as Ash crushed these two ancient items to pieces!