Pokémon: Who let him leave Pallet Town?

Chapters 107 & 106: The Unconvinced Zapdos

After understanding the situation, the group left and began searching for the missing batch of Magnemites.

"Let's split up, that'll be more efficient," Jiaozi suggested, and hugged Natsume's arm.

"Okay, then, me and the middle parter."

Before Xiaozhi could finish speaking, the man with the middle parting jumped down from his head and ran away into the distance as if he were possessed.

"Hey, you with the middle part, what are you doing?"

The man with the middle parting moved extremely fast, seemingly intending to leave everyone behind, and disappeared in a flash.

"Natsume-nii, look at him!" Ash pointed in the direction the man with the middle parting had left.

"Let it go, it has my tracking device on it."

Natsume looked at the map on his Rotom phone; the little dot representing the middle-part hairstyle was flashing wildly, quickly getting far away from them.

"Jiaozi and I will go find their technicians to see if they can solve the Sludge problem. You guys go find the rest of the Magnemite."

Natsume immediately assigned the tasks.

He can use his telekinesis to detect which pipes contain foul sludge; the only problem is drawing the sludge out.

Coincidentally, because of Gengar, he had a lot of black sludge on his body, which even stinky mud loves to eat.

"Let's go." With that, Natsume led Takako in another direction.

Soon, Natsume contacted the management, and bucket after bucket of black sludge was transported to the ventilation ducts outside the power plant.

"Geng Ga!"

Gengar floated in the air, using its psychic powers to help transport the black sludge.

Just looking into its eyes, the more I looked, the more heartbroken I felt.

"Mr. Natsume, is this really going to work?" Many workers peered out, curiously looking at the ventilation ducts.

At this moment, almost every ventilation duct in the power plant has a bucket of black sludge placed underneath it.

Workers were also using fans to direct the smell of black sludge into the ventilation ducts.

“It will definitely work.” Natsume nodded.

The effect was even better than he had imagined. In his perception, many of the sludge individuals were moving outwards and converging towards the various ventilation openings.

"Damn it!" a voice rang out, and everyone looked toward the largest ventilation duct.

There, a Pokémon that reeked of a foul stench and was dark purple like mud slowly moved out.

Below it were three buckets of black sludge.

The stinky mud stared wide-eyed at it.

Several workers quickly ran away, just about to take out their Poké Balls to battle, when a dark shadow flashed by.

"Boom!" A dark purple light flashed on Gengar's chubby hand.

With a single Shadow Fist, Mud fainted instantly.

“Gengga Gengga”.

Just look at it, don't actually eat it.

A ghostly blue light appeared in his eyes, and Gengar used his psychic powers to move the Grimer to the back.

Next, no matter which ventilation duct the sludge crawls out of, it will be knocked unconscious by Gengar's punch.

Before long, the stinking mud was piled up like a mountain on the open ground of the factory. Dozens of buckets of black sludge were left untouched.

She's quite possessive of her food.
Natsume touched his nose, but didn't stop Gengar. He looked down at the person with the middle parting.

The other party had almost run to the other side of the power plant, and it was unclear what they were doing.

Suddenly, the man with the middle parting stopped walking, and the little red dot on the map became motionless.

What are you going to do?
Natsume activated the monitoring function of the positioning device.

Soon, he switched to the perspective of the person with the middle parting.

The sound of a heart pounding loudly coming from the phone revealed the man's excitement.

The man with the middle parting looked up, but before Natsume could see clearly, a bolt of lightning struck.

"Boom!" The man with the middle parting was sent flying. The view swirled wildly before finally freezing in mid-air.

"Pikachu!" A noisy sound rang out in the distance, and Natsume realized that his tracking device had been destroyed.

Although it wasn't clear what Pokémon attacked the guy with the middle part, it seemed the attacker also knew Electric moves.
The voice with the middle parting rang out, interspersed with another angry bird cry, and Natsume was slightly taken aback.

Zapdos?
Natsume scratched his head. Zapdos does like to appear in the power plant area, but it's also very difficult to encounter it there.

I wonder if Zapdos has any divine authority.
Natsume's heart skipped a beat; until now, he had never seen a true divine beast.

The Zapdos is most likely still near Lugia, so the chances of encountering it are very low.

But there is still some hope.

"Natsume-san!"

Not far away, Ash and his friends ran over, followed by a group of Magnemites.

"Natsume-nii, where are you going?" Ash asked curiously as he approached.

"Go find the guy with the middle parting; he might be in some trouble," Natsume said, greeting Gengar before heading towards the guy with the middle parting.

The group was halfway there when they heard a thunderous explosion.

Soon, the thunder gradually subsided and even disappeared.

"What terrifying power! I hope the guy with the middle parting won't get hurt?" Xiaoxia shrank her neck.

The crowd quickened their pace.

The fight between the guy with the middle part and that Zapdos seemed to be a one-way battle.

Natsume and the others discovered numerous signs of a battle, but they couldn't find the man with the middle parting.

Next to a severed power line, Natsume found his locator.

"These wires seem to have been violently torn off, not done by the guy with the middle part," Xiao Gang speculated, squinting his eyes.

"Oh no, oh no, what if some monster suddenly appeared and ate my middle-part hairstyle?"

Following the traces of the battle, the group arrived at an abandoned area, which appeared to be an unfinished staff dormitory area.

"There's a fire there!" Jiaozi pointed to an abandoned building not far away.

The crowd looked in that direction and saw that the building's walls were peeling and overgrown with weeds.

There are still a few scattered cement buckets outside, half of which are embedded in the soil, and you can still vaguely see how the workers used to work.

The weeds lay flat, clearing a path; judging by its shape, it was clearly not a path created by a middle-parted hairstyle.

"Oh no. Will the monster have dragged the guy with the middle parting away?" Xiaoxia exclaimed in horror.

"Huh? What's this?" Xiao Zhi bent down and picked up a yellow needle from the pile of weeds.

"It looks like a thorn, but it's so light." Ash played with the unidentified object in his hand.

“This should be a feather,” Natsume’s voice came.

"Feathers?" Ash was slightly taken aback.

What Pokémon has feathers like that?
"We'll find out when we go in."

Natsume said, walking at the very front.

This Zapdos is most likely a regular Zapdos without any special abilities, and shouldn't pose any threat to the guy with the middle part.
Moreover, the center-parted hair also has the characteristics of a lightning rod.

However, Zapdos can fly, and even without a legendary status, its base stats are close to those of a pseudo-legendary bird, and it also possesses a number of Flying-type moves.

Even with the advantage of being of a higher level, Natsume is still a little worried about the middle-part hairstyle.

"Crack!"

The fire was deep inside, and the closer people got, the stronger the smell of burning became.

"Could it be some kind of fire monster that kidnapped the guy with the middle parting?" Xiaoxia said, hiding behind Xiaozhi.

The flames drew closer, making one last turn.
"Pikachu?" The man with the middle parting opened his eyes and stiffened for a moment when he saw Natsume.

In the narrow passageway, a fire was lit, and the flames burned slowly. A bald chicken lay unconscious on the ground with a large bump on its head, and golden needle-like feathers were scattered around it!

"Hey, what are you doing lying on top of him?" Xiao Zhi asked, puzzled.

"Hey, hey, hey, how could you pluck all their hair off? That's so rude!" Xiaoxia said, hands on her hips.

Hearing the noise, the bald chicken seemed to come alive, suddenly stretching its neck, opening its long, needle-like beak, and emitting a hoarse sound towards the crowd:
"Gah-"

Help me, this Pikachu is a monster!

Natsume: "."

This is probably the worst-performing Zapdos.

(End of this chapter)