264. Dynamo Badge

Ash's Mudkip had now evolved into a Marshtomp, which also means that two of his three Hoenn Region Royal Starters had completed their first stage of evolution.

But his current Torchic was still young and has not been trained under him for a some time now because of the whole Jirachi fiasco. So, Ash believes that there is still some time before he is ready to evolve into a Combusken.

As Brock sometime say, "Haste makes waste," this is the regency kind of example for it. Now that his little chicken and little dog is receiving training from his Typhlosion and Houndoom while they are receiving training from his Entei under his order, and he had heard from Slowking that he was making very rapid progress.

"Haha... It was a fun battle, don't you think. Ash, looks like you trained your Marshtomp very well!" Wattson took back his defeated Magnamite, which was very injured by Marshtomp more powerful Mud Bomb and lost its ability to fight.

"Voltorb, let's go and use Screech!"

His three Pokémon had already been showed prior to this battle, and now his Votorb rolled onto the battle field in an instant after hearing his commands, making a piercing sound.

Ash figured that Wattson would send out his Voltorb and leave his Magneton to be his ace in this battle, so he wasn't worried about this, "Marshtomp, use Mud Bomb again!"

Since he had just evolved, Ash was going to use him and his Mud Bomb to the end to see how strong he is and what changes he needed to do for his training routine.

Adding to add to all this, this is also an Electric-type Gym, so of course it would be better for him to use a Ground-type Pokémon like him who also knew few of its attacks.

"Voltorb, avoid that!" This was one of few times where Wattson had to be go so passively against a challenger. Maybe he hadn't been able to adapt to the Ground-type that Marshtomp suddenly possesses with his weaker Pokémon's. If Wattson hadn't been this overconfident, he could have used his stronger Pokémon's to fight against Ash's team.

He knew he would lose this battle the moment he played his eyes on that strong and buff looking Flygon.

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Voltorb was successfully able to avoid the mud attacks and headed towards Marshtomp with its high speed, now glowing with white light.

Ash frowned and gave out an order, "Marshtomp, get out of the way!"

However, it was already too late for the much slower Pokémon to dodge such a close range attack. The Voltorb actually activated his Self Destruct attack, dragging Marshtomp down with himself.

May and Max were already stunned because of the sudden explosion.

When the smoke cleared, Ash's Marshtomp and Wattson's Voltorb were both charred and incapable of moving, lying in the middle of the battle field while smoke was rising from them.

"Marshtomp and Voltorb have lost their ability to fight, it's a draw!" Watt held up his referee flag and announced the result of the battle with a stoic tone.

Now Wattson only had his last Pokémon left, while only Ash's newly evolved Marshtomp had lost its combat ability.

There was still his Flygon there to make sure that things don't go south.

"Hahaha... Voltorb, you did really good!" Although he was still had the major disadvantage, Wattson still laughed heartily without having any difficulty, "The next one is our the final battle!"

It was his Magneton, this is obviously Wattson's Trump Card for this battle.

"It's up to you, Aron!" Ash had now sent out his Aron and letting his Flygon sit next to him and get head pats from him and Ralts. He knew he wouldn't have a chance to battle and show of to his new Trainer.

"Very good, then Magneton, let them see some of our real electric skill, use Zap Cannon!" His Aron didn't have the same Ground-type that his Marshtomp had, so Wattson can finally use his beloved Electric-type attacks.

He looked very excited about this.

Hearing this, Ash couldn't help but also laugh a little. When it came to the real electric trick, Ash would have to say that no one in this world knew how to maximize their power better than him.

He could destroy a whole city with a single full power Gigavolt Havoc. Not to mention the stronger Castatropika, 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt of his Pikachu.

"Mud Slap!" In this battle, Ash really wanted to use these mud attacks to the very end. This Mud Slap skill was exactly the Ground-type skill that Aron can learn in its early stages.

Even though the power was much weaker than the Mud Bomb from his Marshtomp, it was still more effective against Magneton than most fo other attacks.

Moreover, the weak attack had an advantage to it. Compared with Mud Shot or Mud Bomb, it can be used at a much faster style! Mud Slap was realesed, and this directly blinded Magneton's three eyes, so its Zap Cannon also missed.

As Ash knew that if an attack wasn't 100% accurate, then it's a 50% accurate. And not to mention Zap Cannon, which had an extremely low hit chance.

"That's amazing!" Max was eye-opened again. He didn't expect that this battle would develop to this extent, as Aron's performance was really good compared to the last time he saw him.

However, Brock said, "No, the real power was Aron's trust in Ash's command. He was able to face that Zap Cannon because he believed in Ash, he was able to release his own attack without any dodge because of the last second movement or the left. Although it does help that he had gotten stronger and Zap Cannon isn't the most reliable move. That is the real amazing part!"

"Wow!" May realized this after Brock had explained, and then she realized what Ash's real power was. As for her and Torchic, let alone being able to do this, it would be nice if Torchic didn't run around all afraid of the bright attack.

"Rock Tomb!" Ash's order was becoming increasingly difficult to dodge for Magneton.

He ordered his Aron to use the Rock-type Rock Tomb on the Steel-type Magneton, which were not effective against it. Ash wasn't looking to damage it, but to make it move less.

Seeing rocks falling continuously on the field, Wattson also quickly issued an order, "Magneton, use Flash Cannon!"

Magneton used his Steel-type Special Attack and blasted straight at Aron. In terms of level, Magneton was of a much higher level, and his stats were even more amazing compared to the smaller Aron.

Countless rocks fell in front of Aron, forming a rock wall that offset most of Flash Cannon's power before hitting it.

In addition, there were many rocks falling around Magneton. Wattson suddenly secretly said, "Not good!"

Aron hit the ground sk heavily that he made a small crater on the battlefield.

"Iron Head!"

Ash's order was issued at the same moment, and Aron suddenly opened his eyes with a little something else.

His high-strength armor shone with metallic light, and it rushed toward Magneton on its short legs, in a speed that shouldn't be possible for his weight.

"I understand it now, Ash used all of those Rock Tombs to restrict Magneton's movements and launch a more powerful blow from where it couldn't see!" Brock understands it now.

That's right, since Aron's level was not as high as Magneton's right now, he can only battel it with more tactics than power!

Aron slammed into Magneton's body and immediately knocked him away.

In addition to all of this and who knows how much Mud Slaps, Magneton could no longer fight.

"Magneton loses the ability to fight, and Aron wins! Therefore, the winner is the challenger Ash Ketchum!" Watt announced the result of the battle, and then looked at Ash, thinking that this young man was very talented and strong.

However, at this time, Ash was no longer interested in his battle against the Gym Leader as his Aron was suddenly glowing when he fell on the ground.

In the white light, the small and exquisite form of Aron grew crazily, and there were sounds of metal clashing and expanding!

"Roar!"

Lairon was short in stature and walked on four legs like Aron, but its body was known to be extremely strong and durable. Coupled with the sheet-like steel armor on its back, it gives him the look of a professional predator.

Max looked at May next to him, "Sis, Big Bros Lairon is so big!"

"Yeah, Lairon is much bigger than Aron!" May still didn't understand what Max meant.

Max quickly explained, "No, a normal Lairon is about 0.9 meters tall and weighs 120 kilograms, but Big Bros Lairon is already over one meter tall, not to mention must be much more heavy. Big Brother said that his ability was Heavy Metal, which doubles its weight. In addition, he had been feeding it with high-strength steel ores for a long time. Just look at that armor on its body, it is definitely much more thicker than that of ordinary a Lairon, and its weight should reach 300 kilograms!"

300kg!

What order of magnitude is this? It is already higher than most Pokémon. An ordinary Aggron only weighed about 360 kilograms!

When it evolves into his final Aggron, what a terrifying iron beast it will be!

May was also shocked by this figure after hearing Max talk. 300 kilograms, that's a lot of weight, right?

"Haha, Ash, you are strong, stand proud. I am convinced that I lost, hahahaha!" Wattson was not at all frustrated at losing to Ash as this was part of his job, "This is the Dynamo Badge you deserve, hahahaha!"