Pokémon: Who let him leave Pallet Town?

Chapter 419 Rainbow Rocket Team

Natsume's group, Group A, was the last to compete in the finals.

As soon as he finished, Ash, Lance, and the others immediately surrounded him.

"Natsume-nii, tomorrow is the revival match, so I can have an extra day of special training!"

Ash happily dragged Gary over, while the latter looked quite displeased.

"Damn it, Ash, didn't you say that we need new partners when we arrive in a new region?"

"Why is there only one big chrysanthemum?!"

Shigeru finally couldn't hold back any longer and suddenly grabbed Ash by the collar.

He felt a little guilty for bringing a Blastoise, which he had bred since Kanto, into his Eevee team.

Unexpectedly, Ash's Pokémon were Charizard, Snorlax, Pikachu, Pidgeot, and Muk.
"But Professor Oak said we have to give it our all."

Xiao Zhi scratched his head honestly.

"Seriously, those two." Xiaoxia covered her face.

Noticing that someone was staring at him, Natsume shifted his gaze to a spot not far away.

In the preparation area, Wataru and Professor Oak stood together.

Natsume walked over.

"Oh my, Natsume, you've won a great victory! It seems you were right to be the champion of the Quartz Tournament last time."

As soon as he got close, Professor Oak touched the man with the middle-parted hair.

Natsume remained silent, glancing around before noticing Watari's meaningful glance.

The two arrived at a short distance away, and Du went straight to the point:

"Sakaki asked me to tell you that Quixes has been found."

As he spoke, Watari showed Natsume the message Sakaki had sent, which included a promise to meet at that temple the next day.

The next day.

Natsume arrived at the flower cake stall early.

Even though it's competition time, Natsume will still prioritize sending out the petal cakes and the raging sweet juice.

How did you discover this place?

Wataru followed behind Natsume, looking around in surprise before finally fixing his gaze on the fragrant stall in front of him.

Despite the significant increase in tourists these days, there are still very few people coming and going here.

After tasting the flower cake, Du felt even more confused.

It's so delicious, it should be quite famous.

Soon, Watari discovered the reason.

After handing over two large baskets of flower cakes to Natsume, the flower cake shop closed its doors and refused to serve any customers.

If he hadn't been there for a short while this morning, he might have thought the shop, like the surrounding houses, was vacant.

"Go to the temple first, I'll be right back."

Wataru remained silent as he watched Natsume fly off towards Mount Shirogane.

"Ouch!"

The giant dragon stopped at the cave entrance with practiced ease, while the snow outside remained completely still.

"Great, you're working together better and better."

Natsume patted the head of the giant dragon, and the golden power that had been wrapped around its wings was withdrawn.

As usual, the flames began to engulf the flower cakes.

After putting down the raging little sweetheart, Natsume thought for a moment and then took out the War Dragon Scale from the Inner World.

After all, he had been pondering this for several days and still couldn't figure it out.

Judging from Quixote's reaction, this thing is probably related to the divine beast in the cave.

As expected, the moment Natsume took out the dragon scale, the flames of the burning flower cake suddenly stopped.

The next second, the entire cave was bathed in golden light, majestic yet gentle.

"Thorn-"

As the golden light dissipated, when he came to his senses, the dragon scale in Natsume's hand had vanished.

"Senior, are you alright?"

Natsume stared blankly at the dragon scale in his hand, but just to be on the safe side, he still mentioned it briefly.

This thing doesn't seem to be a good thing for this divine beast of Silver Mountain.

"Tch!" In a daze, Natsume seemed to hear a sneer, low and faint.

Before him, the scales of the war dragon, which had disappeared, reappeared.

But this time, the dragon scales changed from their original murderous aura to radiating golden light, with a ball of flame burning inside.

Natsume reached out blankly, and the dragon scale fell into his hand.

To his astonishment, the auspicious cloud formations used for disguise on the dragon scales of war seemed to come alive after being forged in flames.

With telekinesis, the black-and-red base tone, under the embellishment, was completely transformed into a white-gold base covered with flame patterns.

Has it been purified?

Natsume held the dragon scale in his hand, a peaceful and serene aura flowing through his body, relaxing his mind and body.

Generally speaking, only opposing forces can purify or contaminate the other.

Unfortunately, after doing all this, there was no further movement inside the cave.

"Senior, farewell."

Natsume left a few more bottles of Rage Sweet Water, turned around, hugged the Great Dragonite, and rushed straight to the temple.

"Ouch!"

A shooting star streaked across the sky as it passed the competition venue. Natsume glanced at the day's results.

Without those few freaks, the revival competition is much more interesting, with back-and-forth battles that are quite exciting.

"Okay, let's go over there."

Natsume patted the belly of the giant dragon, using his telekinesis to guide him.

"boom!"

A strong wind blew up, and the Great Dragonite carried Natsume safely into the temple.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Beside him stood the same familiar monk, covering his mouth and coughing violently.

"You, you go inside! Go inside now!"

The monk looked around and very quickly pushed Natsume inside.

Why are you panicking?
Natsume looked strange.

The monk led him into a room where Sakaki and Watari had been waiting for a long time.

At the same time, Natsume also discovered the reason for the monk's panic.

In this room, there was a large hole, and inside the hole was Quixote, who was bound hand and foot and buried alive.

"Let me make this clear first: I rescued Mr. Quixes; the rest has nothing to do with me."

As the monk spoke, his eyes glanced at Du, who was standing to the side.

The latter nodded, and he left with a sigh of relief.

"I haven't seen you for a few days. Why are you so tired?"

Natsume leaned closer, wanting to take a commemorative photo with the other person.

“I’m just reshaping the scene.”

Quixote immediately shook off the ropes binding him and jumped out of the pit.

As soon as he emerged from the pit, Du grabbed his shoulder.

"Mr. Lance, that guy took all my Pokémon. Do you think I still have any power to fight back?"

Quixote looked at Du with a forced smile.

"Hmph, the fact that your parallel counterpart could join that kind of organization means you're definitely not a good person either!"

Du snorted coldly.

"I don't know if I'm a good person or not, but he's definitely not a good person."

As Quixote spoke, he pointed at Sakaki and said:
"When that guy was burying me, I heard him reporting to his superiors, and he referred to the other person as 'Boss Sakaki'!"

As Quixote spoke, his cold gaze fixed intently on Sakaki.
“Boss Sakaki?” Natsume discovered the blind spot.

"Yes, I absolutely didn't mishear. Sakaki is the leader of that organization!" Quixes declared confidently.
"I also heard their organization's name—Rainbow Rockets, there's no mistake!"

"A wonderful name." Sakaki took a sip of tea and couldn't help but clap his hands.

Is the leader of Team Rainbow Rocket a parallel Giovanni?
Natsume was stunned.

Impossible, Team Rainbow Rocket. In Natsume's memory, they're not that strong.
Furthermore, the mysterious Pokémon that Hoopa mentioned, which was a fusion monster and almost destroyed by it, is also related to that organization.

If it's Team Rainbow Rocket
Natsume racked his brains but still couldn't figure it out.

(End of this chapter)