273. The Battles Against the Family

As it was their home ground, it was natural that the family will be the one to go first.

"Zigzagoon, I'll leave everything to you!" Victor took the lead in sending out his Pokémon, which was a Zigzagoon, the common regional rodent of the Hoenn Region.

Brock now didn't have many Pokémon's at hand that he can use against this Zigzagoon, his Fortress is too strong for this Zigzagoon. But facing the Normal-type Zigzagoon, he would have to obviously hold back, so he threw a regular Poké Ball.

"Go, Lotad!"

He did this to give some opportunities to battle against some lower-level Pokémon's to boost its confidence in his future evolution. Ash understood that Lotad needed more opportunities to fight, but he also couldn't exactly understand why, he and Brock could both clearly see that this Zigzagoon was much stronger than Lotad.

Maybe Brock thought he could use this battle to

"Use Water Gun!"

Lotad reacted quickly this time, puffed up his cheeks and the Water Gun hit released it to where Zigzagoon was standing at.

However, this Zigzagoon's skill surprised almost everyone, as it was quickly able to dodge the power of the Water Gun. It seems that this Zigzagoon was being trained well and also very regularly.

Victor has great trust in his Zigzagoon's strength, "Zigzagoon, please use Thunderbolt!"

This attack very much surprised Brock. He didn't expect that this Zigzagoon could actually use electric skills. The attack was so fast and fierce looking that it hit Lotad before Brock could even recover.

Ash thought that Brock seemed to have lost his once touch of a Gym Leader.

Fortunately, Lotad has of the Water and Grass-type, so the effect of Electric-type attacks can only be neutral, but it still left him with some unwanted damage.

"We don't have any electricity supply all the way here, so we thought him how to use Thunderbolt so that he can provide electricity for our home." Explained the lively Vivi.

"Lotad, use Razor Leaf!" Brock quickly adjusted his attack and used an even faster attack.

However, Victor still didn't look to be panicked, "Zigzagoon, please use Quick Attack to get close and then use Thunderbolt!"

This order was once again very polite, but Zigzagoon still moved very swiftly like before and avoided the Razor Leaf's trajectory and knock Lotad away with a second Thunderbolt.

"Lotad loses its ability to fight, meaning the winners are Zigzagoon and Victor!" Grandma Vicky announced the result, and then praised her son, "Well done, your courage will be accepted by Vito the Great!"

Ash, who returned next to May to hold her waist, smiled upon hearing this, Vito would surely appreciated its

"The next battle will be Victoria against May, the battle begins!"

When May came on stage, Brock came back and reminded, "May, be careful. They are tougher than they look."

These four people are not professional Pokémon Trainers but they still have the same battle sense of one.

"Roselia, please!" The Pokémon Victoria chose was a Roselia. It's kind of an appropriate opponent for May. Drew, May's main rival in Pokémon Contests, also used Roselia as his main Pokémon.

'I will not show mercy to a Roselia!' May gritted her teeth. She was determined to defeat Roselia, more to defeat Drew than to actually defeat Roselia, so her fighting spirit naturally started to burn.

"Beautifly, get on the stage!" After all, she is a Pokémon Coordinator, so she had now slowly developed began to develop a habit of throwing her Balls the same way she threw them on stage.

As soon as Beautifly came out of May's ball, she stretched her wings vigorously, shaking off her scale powers and making them shine like stars.

"Gust!" May launched her attack first, and the Gust immediately suppressed Victoria's Roselia as she wasn't ready for the sudden move.

"Then use Silver Wind!" Beautiflys Gust was mixed with scale powder to look beautiful and also to knock Roselia further away.

Seeing that Roselia was already seriously injured before she could even react, Victoria quickly shouted "ABSTAIN!"

In this way, one wins and one loses from both sides, and then there is the current battle between the two children's.

"So Max, what Pokémon do you want to borrow?" Brock asked with his brotherly smile.

"I've been thinking a lot, Big Bro, can you lend me your Electrike for this battle?" Max ultimately did make a good choice here.

All of Ash's Pokémon have different kind of personalities.

Ralts and Togetic were too naughty for him and would only listen to Ash's orders.

Dratini, although calm and kind most of the time, still had his arrogance as a dragon, and Torchic just had a very bad temper to everyone other than Ash and his own partners (Electrike is not on this list as Torchic has a massive rivalry against him).

And let's not mention his Pikachu, like alwalys, it would be too much to let Pikachu take action against these weaklings.

Electrike was the most reliable and best for for the current Max. He was very well-behaved outside of battle, but was extremely ready for battles.

Unexpectedly, Vivi's Pokémon was the Water-type Marill.

Electrike simply used a low power Thunder Shock to electrocute it u til it was charred.

He didn't even need Max's orders, that Marill just pissed him off by its arrogant look.

With two wins and one loss, Ash and his team have already locked the battle as there was no way Ash would lose, right?

But Vicky's grandma's fighting spirit was still just as high as when it all began.

"For Vito the Grea, who is sweating and struggling in an unknown place under the hot sun, I have go in and continue our work as his biggest supporters. I must win!"

"Come out, Camerupt!" The old granny's

Pokémon was exactly that same Camerupt who they saw before.

Ash's Ralts used her Teleport from his shoulder to now stand in front of this big guy, and Togetic now sat in top of his head with Pikachu, just like before, the two were cheering for Ash's victory.

"So cute!" Ralts captured the heart of Vivi just by standing there. The size of the little guy was really a drastic change from that of the opponents Camerupt. She looked so soft and weak that it made her feel distressed about her getting hurt.

"The last match will be granny Vicky against Ash, let the battle begin!" Brock announced as he took over as the referee as Vicky was now in the middle of a battle.

"Psybeam!" There was no cuteness in Ralts's eyes this time, "No mercy,"Ralts directly launched an attack.

The magical pink light easily hit Camerupt, causing it to fall down.

Granny Vicky still had a very good momentum, but she was a little inferior to her own son in commanding her partner. "Stand up, Camerupt, under this hot sun and sky, Vito must be working hard somewhere and would be watching you fork there!"

Vito, who was hiding behind the rocks, gave a bitter smile and a nod. He was indeed watching them.

With such a emotional buff up, Camerupt really did stand up.

"Camerupt's efforts are Vito's efforts, use Sandstorm!" Vicky's fighting spirit has indeed affected Camerupt, and they could even see see that the bond between Camerupt and Vito was very strong. Even though Camerupt wasn't Vito's own Pokémon.

The sandstorm swept over, making the audience unable to open their eyes.

"Now, Camerupt, use Take Down!" Camerupt was physically very powerful and he rushed over like crazy in the sandstorm.

However, Ash and Ralts did not panic by seeing this and instead used his Telepathy, 'Teleport.'

Ralts disappeared into the Sandstorm and suddenly appeared in front of the still moving Camerupt, in its nose, with a naughty smile on her little face under the green hair.

'Hypnosis.' Ash commanded her over Psychic.

A flash of purple light flashed through the Sandstorm, and Camerupt was seen drowsily falling to the ground.

"Noo!" The Winstrate Family all exclaimed outloud as Camerupt fell into the deep sleep condition, and could no longer hear the voice of Vicky or anyone else. Now Camerupt has become a piece of meat on Ralts' and Ash's Psychic chopping board.

Ash and his Ralts' expressions were very synchronized as they grinned the same way, "Perfect!"

"Camerupt, wake up!" The four members of the Winstrate Family were shouting, but this was a one-on-one battle, and they had no other choice but to watch their Camerupt lying on the ground and get ready to lose.

However, they could only watch as Ralts' next Shadow Ball hit Camerupt's big face.

"Camerupt loses it's ability to battle..." Brock was jaut about to announce Ash's victory. But Camerupt, who was still lying on the ground, suddenly opened his eyes, but it was all red now.

Black smoke emitted from the volcano hump on its back, and hot magma was brewing from it.