Pokémon: Simultaneous time travel, this Ash is too versatile!

Chapter 187 The Call of Mewtwo: What Attracts Mewtwo to Ash!
A muffled thud rang out. Xiao Mao waited a moment and found that he seemed to be unharmed, but the sound was still ringing in front of him...

Xiao Mao slowly opened his eyes and saw a figure with Pikachu on its shoulder blocking his way.

"Hey, Gary, what happened? You look so disheveled." Ash turned his head slightly, a smile playing on his lips.

"Ash!! What brings you here?!" Upon seeing Ash, Gary's face lit up with joy. He never imagined that Ash would be the one to save him this time.

After all, only one group of people can enter the Viridian Gym at a time, and no one knows what he encountered inside. So when Mewtwo unleashed its Psychic Shock, he thought he was completely finished.

As a result, Xiao Zhi appeared in front of him like a divine soldier descending from the sky and saved him directly. If it had been a woman, he would have immediately offered himself to her!
"Don't look at me like that, it's disgusting!" Ash's cool pose couldn't withstand Gary's sly gaze. After rolling his eyes and saying this, he turned his head to look at the Pokémon in front of him and the person standing in the trainer's seat.

Is that Pokémon covered in strange machines Mewtwo? And the guy behind it directing Mewtwo must be Giovanni.

This was Ash's first meeting with Giovanni. The moment Ash saw him, he felt immense pressure. Although Giovanni looked like a kind old man, the aura he exuded made it clear that he was no ordinary person. It gave the impression that if anyone disobeyed him, he would crush them to dust.

"Ash!!" Misty and Brock arrived late. They glanced around and their faces turned grim when they saw Blastoise and other Pokémon lying on the ground.

If they still held a sliver of hope before entering, this scene clearly told them that Giovanni was indeed the leader of Team Rocket, and this was not Kona's mistaken information.

"How are you, Xiao Mao? Are you alright?" After surveying the surroundings, Xiao Gang asked Xiao Mao with concern. They were old acquaintances of Xiao Mao, and they had even been spectators together at the volcano not long ago.

As a result, in just a few days, Xiao Mao became so miserable. Judging from the scattered Pokémon around him, Xiao Mao must have used a gang attack tactic, but he was instantly defeated by the opponent. He didn't even have time to put the Pokémon into their Poké Balls.

It's easy to imagine that before Ash arrived, Gary must have been in a huge crisis.

"Thankfully, Ash arrived in time and wasn't hurt. But how did you guys get in? The Viridian Gym shouldn't allow a second group of people to come in, right?" Gary stood up, supporting himself on the ground, and took out his Poké Balls to recall Blastoise and the other Pokémon.

"Ash said he sensed you were in the gym and in danger, so we rushed over immediately," Misty replied, her gaze never leaving Giovanni.

"Mr. Giovanni, why... why are you the leader of Team Rocket? You are the pride of our Kanto Gym Leader!" Misty looked at Giovanni and said, word by word, with a pain that was hard to hide in her voice.

As one of the dojo masters, Giovanni was someone she admired back then, and even recently.

She wants to become a superwoman like Kona, and also someone like Giovanni who has developed a dojo to its pinnacle.

If one day Cerulean Gym could achieve the same fame as Viridian Gym, she would probably wake up laughing in her sleep.

However, today, one of her dreams quietly shattered. Sakaki's identity and his actions dealt a tremendous blow to Xiaoxia!

After hearing Xiaoxia's question, Giovanni casually shrugged: "It seems that Lorelei has told you a lot of things. But little girl, there's one thing you need to understand: I am first and foremost the leader of Team Rocket, and only secondly the Gym Leader of Viridian City."

"It's because of my position as the leader of Team Rocket that I have such a prestigious status and strength on the surface. If I had become a gym leader first, do you think I could have reached this level?"

Sakaki's dismissive statement silenced everyone present. Putting aside the moral implications, what Sakaki said was indeed correct.

If he had become the Tokiwa Gym Leader first, he might not have reached this level at this age. The biggest difference between the Rockets and the league is that the former can use all sorts of tricks and deceptions.

As the founder of Team Rocket, Giovanni was supported by an entire organization, which eventually made him a powerful figure. How could the Viridian Gym alone possibly provide him with the resources he needed?

Moreover, if he weren't the leader of Team Rocket, he might not even have become the Gym Leader of Viridian City.

Therefore, Xiaoxia's accusation is unreasonable. He is first and foremost the leader of Team Rocket, and only then the gym leader of Viridian City Gym. If we're talking about betrayal, he should be the one who betrayed Team Rocket and ran to the League.

He's simply back in his original position.

Everyone present was speechless after what Giovanni said. Misty and the others couldn't think of any reason to refute him, while Ash was carefully observing Mewtwo in the arena.

Without a doubt, this is the artificial gene-generated spirit that Blaine mentioned. The Mewtwo before us is clearly not its true form; its power is completely bound by those machines.

[Type: Mewtwo]

[Gender: Female] (Referring to Mewtwo's voice in the Genesis the Movie: Godspeed, but normally Mewtwo should be genderless~)

[Attribute: Super Power]

[Level: Elite Peak (Champion Peak)]

[Characteristics: sense of oppression]

[Skills: A whole bunch]

[Six Dimensions: Physical Attack S (S), Special Attack S (S), Defense S (S), Special Defense S (S), HP S (S), Speed ​​S (S)]

The panel is incredibly luxurious, with all six stats not only having an upper limit of S-rank, but also having been trained to S-rank. However, this is nothing special for a Pokémon like Mewtwo.

After all, even Ralts, the second product created by Blaine, has all S-rank stats, while Mewtwo is a brand new Pokémon created by fusing and incorporating various powerful genes, with the Mew gene as the main focus. It can only be said that it is only natural that it has this level of stats.

What Ash is most concerned about is Mewtwo's level. There are two levels: Elite Peak and Champion Peak. The latter should be Mewtwo's current true level, while the former is its current strength.

He could sense that the machine on Mewtwo was greatly suppressing Mewtwo's power, preventing it from unleashing its full strength.

Although Ash doesn't know why Giovanni did this, he feels that a machine of this level shouldn't be able to forcibly suppress Mewtwo. The reason Mewtwo's strength is suppressed is more likely due to her own will.

Putting aside the machines on Mewtwo's body, Mewtwo's strength, as Blaine said, is suppressed to the Champion level. If it weren't for the lack of spiritual essence, with her talent, she might have already reached the God Realm level.

"Who are you...?" A cool, mature female voice rang in Ash's mind. For a moment, Ash almost mistook it for Gardevoir's voice, but he quickly realized that Gardevoir's voice was different in tone from this one.

Among the people and elves present, besides the elf in front of him, there shouldn't be any other being who could use telepathy on him...

"My name is Ash, and I'm going to become a Pokémon Master!" Ash didn't know why Mewtwo would take the initiative to talk to him, but he still told Mewtwo the slogan he had been shouting all along.

'Ash... there's something about you that's drawing me in... what is it...?'

Ash: !!!
Gardevoir has been exposed?!
Ash's first thought upon hearing what Mewtwo said was this, but he quickly dismissed the idea.

If Gardevoir were exposed, Mewtwo's emotions would definitely not be so calm. That is her spiritual source. She may not recognize anything else, but she would never fail to recognize her spiritual source.

Therefore, the item that Mewtwo sensed must not be Gardevoir, so what could it be?

Ash thought for a moment, then his expression changed drastically—Mega Stone!
Besides Gardevoir, the only thing that attracts Mewtwo to him is the Mega Stone.

The MEGA Stone is in his inventory.

Both are spatial items, but Mewtwo can sense the Mega Stone in the spatial backpack but cannot sense Gardevoir in the Poké Ball. This is not because Mewtwo is more sensitive to the Mega Stone, but because its spiritual essence is hidden inside Gardevoir's body.

This means that Mewtwo needs a Poké Ball and Gardevoir to sense the spiritual source, so of course she couldn't detect it.

"Why...don't you answer?" Mewtwo's voice revealed a hint of doubt. Ash had clearly answered her telepathically just now, but there was no response to the second conversation.

'Because I don't know how to put it, perhaps what I have does belong to you, but you can't use it right now. As long as you're still in Sakaki's hands, you won't have the chance to use what I have.'

Upon hearing this, Mewtwo tilted its head slightly, seemingly unable to understand the meaning behind Ash's words.

What does it mean to say something belongs to him but cannot be handed over to him? Is human speech always so convoluted?

"You must be Ash?" After a long silence, Giovanni finally spoke up. He felt he had achieved his goal: to make the atmosphere among Ash and the others extremely somber.

This way, whether he has to battle Ash or capture Ash later, it will be relatively easy for him.

But what Giovanni didn't know was that Ash hadn't paid any attention to the atmosphere that had just affected him...

"I am Ash. I have long admired your name, Mr. Giovanni. When I learned that you were the leader of Team Rocket, I was a little incredulous. I was wondering why the League would make you, the leader of Team Rocket, the strongest Gym Leader in Kanto."

"Hehe, this is a deal between me and the league. The league isn't as good as you think."

"Enough talk. Since we are enemies now, I will not listen to your instigation. I just want to ask, are you going to battle me as the Gym Leader of Viridian City or as the leader of Team Rocket?" Ash's eyes sharpened, and his voice gradually turned cold.

Ash remained unmoved by Giovanni's slander. What the League was like was the League's business. Among the League members he had met, Professor Oak, Blaine, Nurse Joy, Lorelei, and the various Gym Leaders were all very good people.

So no matter what Giovanni says, he will only use his own experience as the standard, even if what Giovanni says is true.

"Tsk tsk, no wonder you've achieved so much at such a young age. You have a mind that many people don't possess... If I said I would battle you as the leader of Team Rocket, what would you do?" Giovanni threw the question back at Ash.

"Then I will do everything in my power to defeat you and send you to prison."

"Oh? You mean if I were to fight you as the Tokiwa Gym Leader, you wouldn't use your full strength? I'm really curious, what exactly is your 'full strength'?" Sakaki raised an eyebrow and said with interest.

To put it bluntly, based on Ash's apparent combat strength, he couldn't even get past the first level of his main Pokémon. The only one that seemed relatively strong was Bulbasaur, which defeated Kikyo's Crobat.

However, it remains to be seen why that Bulbasaur was able to unleash such power, and whether it can be replicated. Giovanni absolutely does not believe that there was no price to pay for such a weak level of power that could be comparable to that of a champion.

Aside from Bulbasaur, Giovanni didn't take Ash's other Pokémon, including Pikachu, seriously at all.

"Why don't you try it and you'll see?" Ash didn't directly answer Giovanni's question.

"Alright, then I'll battle you as half Gym Leader and half Team Rocket Leader. What do you say?" Giovanni wasn't annoyed; instead, he went along with Ash's words and proposed his terms.

"Half Gym Leader and half Team Rocket Leader?" Not only Ash, but even Lorelei, who was watching the monitor, was completely baffled. What kind of operation is this?
"That Giovanni guy is really interested in that boy. He can even say things like that. It seems he's still thinking about recruiting that boy into Team Rocket." Beside Kona was an old woman with a wrinkled face and a slightly hunched back.

If anyone from Kanto were here, they would immediately recognize that this woman, who looks somewhat old and frail, is actually Kikuko, one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Kanto, and is known as the Ghost King!

(End of this chapter)