185. Let The Battle Begin

After the preliminaries, the League gave the Trainers a day's worth of rest, which they could use to relax, investigate the opponents information, and prepare for the following tournament against all the other Trainers.

However, Ash knew Gary's situation well, so there was nothing to be nervous about from him. It was better to take this opportunity to take Molly for a walk for one last time. When the Silver Conference was going to be over, she would have to go home with her dad for further studies.

"Big Brother, this is so beautiful!" Molly somehow jumped to a souvenir stall, holding a golden badge and looking very fond of it.

This is a Poké Ball-style Marsh Badge, which was really exquisite in the details and design.

But when he saw the stall owners, Ash couldn't help but smile, "Didn't you three work in a restaurant before? Why change so quickly? But this small business is quite good, its suits you three!"

Seeing that Ash has actually appearing in front of them, the Rocket Trio were surprised at first, but soon relaxed when they heard him talk, "Yes, Boss Ash, take whatever you like. We will give you a large discount!"

Brock and Misty also recognized them after hearing Ash talking to them, "Team Rocket, you all are business well this time so just don't cause any issues at this tournament. Do you understand?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" The Rocket Trio said repeatedly.

These commemorative badges are indeed exquisite. In fact, the Rockets have a lot of business acumen, but they have never been willing to do it in a down-to-earth manner, so instead do the one thing they are bad at doing, that being actual villains.

Ash picked a few and gave all the money to the trio. When he stood up, Gary found him.

Seeing this, Misty and Brock smiled and said, "Ash, you two talk first, we will take Molly and Latias to go shopping!"

Ash smiled and nodded and turned to Gary, "Gary, you seem very nervous about our fight!"

Gary would sometimes appear in front of him in the past two days to talk about something, Ash could see that he was obviously restless when he was all alone.

But Gary denied it, "Ash, do you still remember this?"

What he is holding in his hand now is half a Poké Ball, which is the top red part.

"Of course I remember that, how can I forget that of all things! The other half is still in my backpack!" Ash took his group out on shopping, so his backpack was placed in the dormitory and was not taken out with him.

This is a Poké Ball taht tied these two guys, and it is also the best symbol to show off their bond!

This story goes back to the day before the two boys even picked up their Starter Pokémon from the Professor and set off for their own trips. The two fished this old Poké Ball in the river at the same time.

Under the hard pull of the two of them at the same time, the Poké Ball broke into two halves.

Since then, the two of them have embarked on the journey of becoming a Pokémon Trainer with each holding half of it!

This is Ash's amulet, on which Ash's original hope of becoming a Pokémon Master is still placed to this day!

Seeing Gary's serious expression, Ash suddenly smiled and said, "Let's go eat something, I'm hungry form all that thinking!"

Brock cooked the food himself and it was even more lively when everyone ate together. Gary, who was dragged in by Ash, quickly calmed down and sat next to Asb and began to stuff his mouth with all the food.

"Hey, Ash, I want that sandwich! Give it to me!"

"You've already eaten three, try something else! This one is mine!"

Looking at Ash's and Gary's face while eating and talking at the same time, Misty and Brock smiled and shook their heads.

They have seen Ash mature from his very immature phase to a point where ate very maturely, so now seeing him eat like this in almost a year brought them some old memories of their journey in the Kanto Region.

Now these two old friends were so similar in so many ways.

After eating and drinking with them, Gary wiped his mouth and returned to his cheerful demeanor, "Thanks for the treat, Brock!"

Even Molly was amused by this look, "Haha, Brother Gary, you look so cute!"

"Ah, have you all finished eating?" Professor Oak, Delia and Professor Hale all walked in at the same time. Professor Hale was out there to greet them just now.

"Mom?" Ash obviously didn't expect to see his mom so soon, he expected her to come a little later.

"Grandpa, why are you here?" Gary also looked confused after the appearance of his gramps.

"Dad!" Molly cheered and threw herself into Professor Hales arms like she hadn't seen him in such a long time even though she just saw him like half a hour ago.

"The final tournament is something I have been waiting for, of course I have to come and see it with my own eyes!" Delia said easily, but she was unconditionally supporting her son in his dream!

Professor Oak then told them about his purpose of his visit so soon, "I heard that you met at the first round of the tournament, so we came here to cheer! But looking at your appearance, I'm are relieved to see that you boys aren't that anxious!"

After hearing Professor Oak's words, Gary looked at Ash and said, "Ash, thank you for this!"

He knew that Ash invited him to eat together just to let him relax and not to be so tense before their important battle. Gary knew that he had pushed himself too hard in recent times, and he even wanted to use the bond between the two of them to make him think of something!

Ash smiled slightly, and there was no need to say anymore more words between the brothers.

"The Johto Region Silver Conference tournament is about to begin. What kind of battle will the 16 strongest Trainers who have entered this round through the preliminaries perform next?"

"I personally have me bet on this Ash fellow, what about you Stephen A.?"

This round of the decisive tournament involves a 6-on-6 battle between all Trainers, and the battle venue has also entered the main venue of the Silver Stadium. The audience was already excited about their favorite Trainers making it to the next round!

The battle facilities here are of course more complete than the ones that he had previously battled on. The battle venues in the finals will change every time, including the grass field, rock field, water field, ice field and some other venues.

There will be a computer random selection on who goes first before the battle starts, so this was already very exciting.

How to use different venues for tactical arrangements depends on the Trainer's own experience and on-the-spot performance.

"In the first battle of the first round, Trainer Harrison won with a beautiful fast counterattacks from his Pokémon's!" Harrison successfully entered the next round of the tournament, and now it was immediately Ash and Gary's turn to battle it out one final time.

"Next, the second battle of the decisive tournament is between Ash Ketchum, a Pokémon Trainer hailing from Pallet Town, and Gary Oak, another Pokémon Trainer that is also hailing from Pallet Town.

This is a situation where two people from the same place compete on the same stage! This battle is destined to be a wonderful battle that is highly anticipated by the people!"

Ash had left this commentator very deep impression on him, and Gary is also Professor Oak's grandson, with extraordinary abilities under him, so he started to exaggerate the battle between the two from the very beginning, even before they got on their stage.

Outside the court, Gary's cheerleading girls came back to him, making Brock stunned after seeing them in so long.

Ash's cheerleading team is composed of Molly, Jigglypuff, Politoed and Togepi.

"Okay, let's take a look at the battle site!"

Randomly select before the battle starts. If you select a water field and bring a Ground or Rock-type Pokémon, it will be a true tragedy.

This time, Ash and Gary's battle venue is the Rock venue that is known for being the most neutral battle arena!

The field in front of the two people was replaced, and the new field was covered with high and low rockery stone pillars!

"Go, Nidoqueen!" Gary was the first one that had to send their Pokémons out, and the one he sent was his trusted Nidoqueen, which he had caught and trained since his time in the Kanto Region. This was a Pokémon he had cultivated for a long time along with his Blastoise and his Arcanine!

When he was in the Kanto Region, he captured a large number of Pokémon of all types, and he trained the most excellent ones of those Pokémon's under him. He had spent a considerable amount of time and resources on this Nidoqueen.

In terms of the number of Pokémon, Ash is far inferior to him.

"Gary, looks like you really serious form the get go!" Seeing this Nidoqueen, Ash smiled and threw his Poké Ball, "Stand by for battle, Snorlax!"

Ash's 2.6 meters giant Snorlax hit the Rock field hard, the entire stadium suddenly shook as if there was an earthquake happening!