174. Acceptance

"Yeah, I've changed back to normal!"

Molly happily hugged Pikachu, who had returned to his usual regular size.

As Latias didn't turn into her human form again, she just flew over and gently rubbed Ash's face.

Misty was picked up by her beloved Togepi, and she quite enjoyed riding Togepi on the road.

Suddenly, another huge black shadow appeared in front of Ash and his group. It was different from Pikachu and the others just now. This black shadow looked very ferocious and twisted, and it was accompanied by an ear-splitting roar!

"Big Brother, what is this?" Molly is usually very courageous and will not be afraid even when facing a very violent Pokémon, but facing this mysterious BLACK monster in front of them made her feel something, Molly quickly shrank behind Ash in fear.

Suddenly, the Black monster stretched out a pair of mechanical arms and shot toward Ash and his group. Then countless black tentacles appeared on their arms, trapping all of them tightly.

Ash gently tapped these tentacles, they were as hard as fine iron!

"This seems to be the same thing as it was in Molly's Crystal Tower. So it turns out that Unown can form different scenes according to the different hearts it feels!"

Molly formed the Crystal Tower because her mother disappeared and her father didn't come back to her after his research. She felt very lonely and helpless at that time.

And Larvitar also suffered a lot of inner trauma due to his unfortunate encounters before even being born, which resulted in the formation of this black iron-like tentacles l!

The Green Lantern that Ash turned into through Unown was also wearing a crystal like armor because he initially thought that Unown's Hidden Power could form crystals.

Now he discovers that Unown's ability seems to have more possibilities than anything he had previously imagined!

"So scary... so scary..."

Suddenly, shouts of fear came from all directions in this space, which made all of them feel a little terror.

"Ash, what is this sound?" Hearing this sound, Misty walked out from behind Ash, looking a little worried.

Then, everyone saw the mechanical arm in front of them grab a Pokémon Egg and hand it into the hands of a different man.

They clearly saw the shadows of three individuals!

"Who are those people?"

"This is Larvitar's inner world. That must have been the scene when Larvitar's Egg was stolen!" Ash said solemnly, "Latias, remember the appearance of these three people, I will have some fun with them when we get back!"

However, the scenes that make Ash rage keep happening!

The scene in front of them kept changing, and the figure of a Tyranitar appeared in front of them.

A mother...

This was without a doubt Larvitar's mother!

Her child was stolen away from her, so the mother Tyranitar roared like crazy, but soon it was swallowed up by gunfire, letting out a series of wails and cries of pain!

Using lethal weapons against Pokémon is a violation of the Alliance Pokémon Protection Laws!

"That's too much!" Misty and Molly gritted their teeth, "Ash, we must do something to bring them to justice!" Brock said after seeing what was happening.

"I'll contact Officer Jenny when we get out of here. These scum can't escape from me!" Ash said sweetly.

They saw that the artillery fire actually blasted a crack in Tyranitars very heavy armor, seriously injuring her!

"Mother...."

Larvitar shouted desperately, and when he returned to Tyranitar, he could only watch helplessly as they took his Egg away!

"The reason why Larvitar cannot open his heart to people is because bit he and his mother were separated because of us humans!" Finally, Brock and Misty understood the reason why they had not been accepted by Larvitar at all.

The cage dissipated along with the Tyranitars figure, and what appeared in front of Ash and his group was a flash in the distance!

That's Larvitar!

Ash hurriedly led everyone in that direction, and sure enough they saw Larvitar just there. It had turned into the same condition in which he was just born in, his whole little body curled up into a small ball to hide from the rest of the world.

Just as everyone was about to get closer, a black metal cage rose from the ground, trapping him tightly while still rising high. In the blink of an eye, ten black towers were formed!

"LARVITAR!"

This also means that Larvitar closed himself off due to psychological shadow and trauma he faced so early in his life.

"This is much more powerful than the one Molly made!" After Misty said this, she stuck out her tongue.

But neither Ash and nor Molly cared of what came out of her tongue right now. At their call, Larvitar started to struggle, trying to get free out of the black cage!

"Larvitar, he wants to go outside, Big Brother, Larvitar wants to go outside with us, let's go and save him!" Molly shouted to Ash.

Ash nodded, "Let's go, Pikachu!"

"Pika pika!"

With Ash's current skills, such a thing was not much of a problem at all to him. However, just after taking a few steps, several black thorns suddenly poked out from the black tower!

With a flash of blue light, Ash smashed the black thorn in front of him with one punch and turning it into bits, without stopping at all!

"Molly, you stay here with Latias!" Ash, Brock and Misty then looked at each other, as if thinking of the same thing!

Ash clears the way, followed closely by Brock and Misty!

"Pikachu!"

Pikachu stepped forward quickly and smashed another black thorn with one of his hard Iron Tails!

"Yay, come on! We can do it!" Molly stayed with Latias and shouted loudly to the rest of team.

In just a few seconds, the mere black thorn was completely unable to stop Ash's footsteps and finally arrived in front of Larvitar.

However, Larvitar was still very much frozen!

"Larvitar!" Ash stood in front of unconscious Larvitar, "Don't you still have many happy memories of traveling with us in your heart?" Ash's voice was soft at the beginning and then beginning to change a little, as if he was constantly building momentum.

"There will be more happy things to come if you come with us!"

"There are still many good people among humans that you have never met!"

Misty and Brock are also constantly calling out to him, they have truly understood Larvitar's heart and what was wrong with him.

Ash finally raised his voice, "Larvitar, have you forgotten my Tyranitar? If you are like this now, I will let him teach you a lesson that you will never forget!"

"Now, come on out!"

The Power of the pure Aura was wrapped around his fist, then Ash punched the frozen stone hard!

The stone shattered, and Larvitar finally opened his eyes and fell into Ash's arms. If such a heavy little guy bumped into a regular person, no one would be able to catch him.

With a flash of white light, the big egg riddled with holes appeared again in front of everyone's eyes, and the black thorns on them finally disappeared!

Then, the giant egg emitted a dazzling light, and when everyone opened their eyes again, they finally returned to the real world!

The Lil G floated in front of Ash and Larvitar, looking very happy.

Molly also came over, "Larvitar, don't be afraid, you will always have us with you!"

"Yes, we will always be with you!" Misty and Brock walked over, but suddenly realized something was wrong, and quickly stopped and looked at Larvitar nervously, as if asking if it was ok to go near him.

However, this time Larvitar looked at them with joy, and Misty was successfully able to held his little hand.

"Haha, Larvitar finally accepted us!"

Ash let them play with Larvitar for a while longer, he then looked at the Unown floating beside him, and saw that he was the only one, but it had such an ability. This Unown was obviously very unusual compared to the rest of his species.

"Lil G, if you can't go back, why don't you come with me? I also have some of your companions there with me."

Upon hearing Ash's invitation, Lil G floated around Ash again and again, and finally nodded.

"Go ahead, Poké Ball!"

Ash now captured one of the last Unown's he didn't have, Lil G!