217. Worlds Strongest Pokémon

BOYs and girls, thsi is the extra chapter because we hit our goal of 300 Power Stones.

Enjoy!

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Reunited with his favorite Shroomish, Alex finally understood what he should do there.

He thanked Ash profusely and decided to not demolish the house and plant more trees to return the forest to the Shroomish's family.

This is the happy ending Ash wanted for them.

After bidding farewell to Alex and Shroomish, they continuing on the road.

Max kept his head down and was deeply thinking about something.

Suddenly, he stopped Ash who was training his Treecko along the way on how to better use his Absorb, "Big Bro, thank you, please teach me more about Pokémon in the future!"

Seeing his appearance, Brock smiled happily.

Ash hit him on the head, "Don't cause trouble to me, I don't have the patience to teach you anything!"

Max, who was covering his head because of Ash's Fist of Love, had no tears this time. Instead, he laughed like it was nothing. He had roughly figured out Ash's character towards him. When he raised his head, he saw a sign.

"Big Bro, what do you think this is?"

The sign said, "The Gym where the strongest Pokémon in the world is located." Brock checked the map in the board, "It's not far away from us!"

"The Gym of the strongest Pokémon in the world?" Ash frowned, wondering if there is such a thing.

Was it Meetwo? Rayquaza? Kyurem? Or was it that Eternatus?

"I don't know what kind of Pokémon it will be." May looked very excited after reading it.

Obviously the four of them were very curious and immediately decided to go and have a look at it themselves.

This is a unofficial Gym, just like the Water-types Gym Ash and Brock have encountered before in the Johto Region.

Before they even entered the door, they saw a Trainer running out in panic holding a Poké Ball.

"Excuse me, what's wrong with you?"

"It's to bullsh!t. That Pokémon is so annoying and fake, it's impossible to win!" From the looks of it, this Trainer must have challenged the "World's Mightiest Strongest Pokémon" and lost.

"Is it a Legendary Pokémon? Ash, let's go challenge it and see if you can beat it!" Max doesn't seem to be so afraid of Ash now.

Ash was also very curious, "Then let's go in and have a look."

After entering the door, the battlefield was quite formal but normal. Walking out of the door was a young man looking old wearing a gold medal belt and followed by a Pelipper.

"Hello, my name is Anthony. Are you one of the challengers who comes to challenge my Pelipper?"

His look really shocked Ash and Brock, 'Why does this guy look like the other Anthony?!'

"Is that Pelipper the World's Strongest Pokémon?" Of course, this is what Ash is most concerned about.

He knew very well that Pelipper was not the kind of Pokémon that was very good at fighting, mostly only good for being a Drizzle user that spams Hurricane, Tailwind, and Protect like nothing.

"Of course, I am continuing to fight to prove that my Pelipper is the Strongest Pokémon of all time! I will only use my strongest Pelipper, and you can use any number of Pokémon you want!"

After Anthony introduced them, this is indeed not one of the Official Gyms, so there was no Gym Badge on the line. It is not even one of those Private Gyms. It is more like Anthony's permanent practice ground.

It seems that Anthony has an absurd amount of confidence in his Pelipper, and Ash also wants to battle and see what is so special about it.

The battle started, Ash threw out one of his Pokémon's, "Let us see how strong you are. Treecko, stand by for battle!"

Now Ash only has three Pokémon except Pikachu that are on the 'weaker' side. Ash wanted Phanpy to continue his Rollout training under his Tyranitar and his Rhyperior, so he is not currently thinking of using Phanpy as one of his main Pokémon for his Hoenn Team.

It is not that difficult to train them at all. After training along the way against each other, wild Pokémon's or Trainers, their strength has improved very quickly from when they were first caught.

"Pelipper, use Wing Attack!" Anthony took the lead in launching the attack, but this Wing Attack was only average at best in terms of strength and slow in speed, and was far from the World's Strongest. Ash knew even his newly caught Taillow could have done better than this Pelliper, even before he was caught. After all, his Taillow was the Leader of his Clan.

"Dodge it, then use Absorb!"

Treecko was easily able to dodge Pelipper's attack, and then there was a green light that was coming from Pelipper's body. The green light floated from Pelipper's body and finally entered on Treecko's body!

"That Pelipper doesn't look that strong, dads Slakoth could beat it without any problems!" Max watched a lot of battle videos and had an accurate judgment on the level of this Pelipper.

"I haven't even really started to fight yet!" But Anthony still looked confident very confident on his power, he just gave his order, "Pelipper, use Vine Whip!!

"Vine Whip?" Max was shocked, "There's no way a Pelipper can use this kind of skills!"

However, Pelipper actually stretched out a pair of Vine Whip from his big mouth and hit Treecko.

This scene is simply unbelievable to everyones view of the worlds laws!

"Quick Attack to avoid it!"

Treecko transformed into a flash and easily avoided Vine Whip's range. Ash's body flashed with blue light and he became very angry!

"Anthony you son of a £!¥(#, you've gone too far! I'm going to end your whole career!"

Ash's tone suddenly became gloomy, and Brock and the other two also felt the change in Ash's whole momentum. During this period of their travel, they had never seen Ash so angry!

"Ash, what's wrong?" May realized that Ash know knew the secret of Pelipper's ability to use Vine Whip.

'He is really worthy of being one of the strongest Trainers in the world!' This was May's thinking .

"You?" Anthony was very startled by Ash's momentum, "In that case, Pelipper, use Flamethrower!"

This scene shocked Brock and the others even more. The Pelipper was clearly a Water-type and Flying-type Pokémon, and now it can even use attacks like Vine Whip and Flamethrower!

This pillar of small fire hit Treecko, but its power was pitifully weak, so Treecko easily avoided it again.

If someone didn't know what the attack was, they would probably think it's an Ember attack.

"Treecko, come back!" Ash took Treecko back on the sideline, "Beat the crap out of them, Dratini!"

This time, Ash sent out the future Pseudo-Legendary, Dratini. "Ash, did you detect Pelipper's secret before the battle even began?"

Ignoring Max's excited starry eyes, Ash looked at Antony, "Dratini, Extrreme Speed! Then Dragon Tail!"

Dratini disappeared in an instant. Before Anthony and his Pelipper could react, the long tail shining with cyan dragon energy hit Pelipper hard on the head!

This is a one-on-one battle, so naturally Dragon Tail's forced replacement effect will not be triggered.

"Pelipper!" Antony exclaimed and watched Pelipper being smashed to the ground.

However, Ash's attack was still far from over, "Blizzard!"

Pelipper, who had just stabilized his body and was about to fly up again, was instantly frozen. Even the so called strongest Pokémon, in the face of absolute power, is absolutely nothing but pathetic!

"Pelipper!" Anthony finally encountered a tough challenge, and Ash's strength far exceeded his imagination.

Pelipper lost its ability to fight. After thawing, it lay down and several Poké Balls rolled out of its big mouth.

Then the Poké Balls all opened, and inside were the three Pokémon: Bellsprout, Magby, and Magnemite.

"I knew it!" Seeing these Pokémon, Max immediately understood, "It was all a scam. You just hid the Poké Balls in Pelipper's mouth, so the other Pokémon's could use their attacks out from Pellipers mouth!"

"You're cheating!" May shouted righteously to Anthony.

Seeing that his little trick was exposed and faced with the questioning, Antony couldn't help but knelt down, "I'm sorry, I wanted Pelipper to become the strongest Pokémon, and I just acted on a whim without knowing it..."

Ash stood in front of him and said sternly, "Pokémon and their Trainer train day and night and make progress together. The bonds accumulated are displayed on the battle stage. Any cheating cannot be forgiven! I can inform the Hoenn Alliance to cancel your qualification as a Trainer as said in Regulation 6, Article 9!"

"Yes, I understand, I'm truly sorry for my actions!" Anthony knelt down. This was the first time he realized how wrong what he did was. He had no doubt about Ash's ability. This mistake even threatened his trainer career.

But Ash's face relaxed, "Seeing that you have understood what you did was wrong, I'm willing to give you another chance!"

Anthony's bond with these Pokémon is pretty good, especially his Pelliper, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to fight in this way so smoothly for so many weeks. Ash spared him once, so he believes he won't do it again in the near future.

When turning to leave, May came to Ash's side, "Ash, you were so cool out there!"