Ash, with his invincible physical body, wants to become a Pokémon Master.

Chapter 401 Pillars of the Sky

"What exactly happened, Haruka? Tell me in more detail!"

Xiao Zhi was very surprised to hear that Miss Joy had been kidnapped.

In broad daylight, someone actually dared to abduct innocent young girls on the street. It's truly enviable, but not so despicable!

And the person they kidnapped was Nurse Joy from the Pokémon Center—they really had the guts to do that.

Ash left Max to guard the starter Pokémon and immediately pulled May along as they ran out. On the way, May quickly took the opportunity to explain the situation to Ash.

"We had just finished training when we suddenly heard an explosion coming from the beach not far away."

"When we got there, we saw an injured Wailord being hoisted up by several flying machines, and Miss Joy was also knocked unconscious and taken away by a black-haired girl."

"My hunting butterflies aren't fast enough to catch them, so I had to come back to you."

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As a kind-hearted nurse, Miss Joy is highly respected by the locals wherever she goes.

Xiaoyao was very worried that something might happen to her, and Xiaozhi understood her feelings, so he could only gently comfort her.

"I understand the general situation now."

"But the most important question now is, after so much time has passed, Miss Joey might have been taken to a very far place. Are there any clues?"

Although Ash's aura is particularly strong in finding living beings, its sensing range is still limited.

It would be really difficult for Ash to find someone like searching for a needle in a haystack.

However, Kojiro quickly ran up at that moment.

"Boss, we actually have a lead."

"Those spaceships were actually designed by me and Meow Meow."

"you?"

"Meow, this is what we handed over to offset the wages we had withheld. It also includes designs that Amazon and the others worked on."

Looking at the constipated expressions on Kojiro and Musashi's faces, Satoshi had a pretty good idea of ​​which group was responsible.

At this moment, in an unnamed sea area off the coast of Kaina City, a black spaceship hovered above a large group of trapped Wailords.

"You idiot!"

Inside the spaceship base, Yamado, dressed in a black captain's uniform, angrily roared at a girl with a friendly smile in front of him.

"Why did you think of bringing Joey from Kaina City along? Release her immediately!"

"But Captain, you said that if anyone dares to obstruct Team Rocket's operations, we must show them how powerful the world's number one evil organization is."

"—I even told you to wear your uniform, but you didn't!"

"Captain, you only gave me one piece of clothing. If I wash it, I won't have anything to wear."

"Higana! Subordinates are not allowed to kiss their superiors on the lips!!!"

"Yeah, right! Captain Amado, if you make a mistake, I should definitely point it out, it's all for the good of the organization!"

"Ugh, you annoying brat, how dare you use the organization to pressure me—"

The two continued their conversation in a manner that didn't resemble a leader and subordinate, making the other Team Rocket members in the cockpit almost burst into laughter.

This enraged Amazon, who then expelled all unrelated personnel.

Although Amado was angry, he didn't blame the girl too much in the end, and even admonished her in a teaching tone later.

"Higana, you are a very promising newcomer."

"Remember, our organization's goal is to capture as many rare Pokémon as possible, then sell them all and make a fortune!"

"Of course, our Rockets' ultimate goal is to conquer the world, but before that, we need to accumulate the funds for that!"

"So if you want to make money peacefully, you absolutely must not provoke forces like the Joey family that are easy to get into trouble with."

"Now, I order you to go and send that Joey back immediately!"

"Yes, Captain Amado."

After giving a respectful salute, the girl named Higana immediately turned around and took Joey back from the prison.

As Yamado watched her retreating figure, he sighed helplessly.

"Sigh, I really don't know if she even listened to me."

Amado actually likes Higana very much because the girl is smart, cute, and incredibly capable.

They discovered a promising talent in the Hoenn region, and he even volunteered to join Team Rocket.

She's just a bit too capable, which has led to Yamado becoming overly reliant on Higana, dumping all the work on her.

For example, the mission to capture the escaped Wailord leader was originally Yamado's job, but she dumped it all on Higanbana.

Even so, Yamado still argued vehemently.

"Koshiro and I are Team Rocket's highest commanders in the Hoenn region. For a newcomer to have the opportunity to work alongside my gentle and kind leader is a dream come true for many!"

Kosaburo has reservations about this.

"Hey, Little Three, what kind of look is that? I entrusted you with such an important task earlier to train the new recruits!"

"It's Kosaburo!"

"You're just trying to slack off. If you go somewhere on your own, you might accidentally bring back Miss Joey, this huge troublemaker!"

As longtime partners who have loved and fought each other for many years, Team Rocket may fear this tigress, but Saburo is not.

"Amadou, this time he's buying the entire Wailord clan, he's a big customer."

"Once this deal is finalized, we'll have the funds to build our branch base. Do you even realize that?!"

"We were too afraid to cause trouble for the brat and Mewtwo, which made it impossible to complete the most important mission."

"If even the plan to establish a branch base in Hoenn can't be implemented smoothly, Dr. Mambo will definitely talk bad about us to Boss Giovanni again."

After Ash took down Team Rocket's real estate company, Saburo and the others had three months' salary docked by Giovanni.

However, since Team Hoenn's ultimate goal is to retrieve Mewtwo from Ash, their resources and manpower have not been reduced.

Only Amado and Kosaburo were punished.

But actually, it would be better if everyone were punished, and it would be even more unfair if only the two of them suffered.

"I understand, I know what I'm doing."

However, at this moment, Yamato suddenly remembered something from before and quickly pulled Kosaburo away.

"By the way, has Giovanni replied to our previous report about Team Aqua, Team Magma, and that Sky Pillar and Rayquaza?"

When Amazon asked about this, Kosaburo thought about it carefully.

"Boss Giovanni told us not to disrupt Team Aqua and Team Magma's revival operations, but to wait for Groudon and Kyogre to appear and then act accordingly."

"If we can capture one of them, we'll be promoted to the highest-ranking officer in headquarters."

"Oh, I see!" Amado was overjoyed upon hearing this.

"If we work hard three times, we'll get promoted, get a raise, and become the top manager! What an amazing feeling!"

"It's Kosaburo! I just said that!"

"But that makes sense. If we could go back to headquarters, we wouldn't have to struggle to develop this organization's frontier."

He had long heard that the people at headquarters were making great strides in the Unova region, which was the most technologically and economically advanced region in all the alliances.

I'm so envious of Kosaburo and Amazon!

However, while they were envisioning a wonderful life of luxury back at headquarters, no one paid any attention to how those three intelligence reports had suddenly appeared on Amazon's desk.

Anyway, after verifying the accuracy of the information, they accepted it without hesitation.

As for how the intelligence came about, who secretly placed it there, and what their purpose was—

Who cares? Let's get Sakaki's praise first.

There's nothing we can do; that's just how the Rockets are.

However, since things have come to this point, it wouldn't be good for Yamato to really do nothing.

So she decisively decided, "Let's check the condition of the goods first."

Since the escaped Wailord leader returned, the Wailords have stopped destroying Team Rocket's Ocean Cage.

Amazon only needs to watch the monitors on the spaceship; it's a pretty easy job.

"Fine, you can be lazy to death!" Kosaburo turned to leave.

However, just as Amado was about to enjoy slacking off, she inexplicably heard several strange noises.

"Hey, did you hear something that sounded like knocking on glass?"

Kosaburo stopped in his tracks. "Knocking on the glass? How could that be? We're in the sky above the ocean right now."

Then, several louder knocking sounds came from the glass. Yamato and Kosaburo exchanged a surprised glance and then immediately looked in the direction from which the sound came.

"ah!"

It turned out to be a muscular hunk with a yellow rat perched on his shoulder, and Yamato and Kosaburo immediately felt embarrassed by his appearance.

At this moment, outside the transparent glass of the flight base's cockpit, Ash stood with one hand in his pocket and the other pointing at them impatiently.

"As expected, it's you two idiots again!" Ash punched the bulletproof glass of the spaceship and walked straight inside.

Team Rocket adopted Kojiro and his team's sturdy and durable design because they wanted to save money, but they didn't know that all of the trio's inventions had backdoors, which made them easy to reverse engineer.

Amado and Kosaburo were trembling with fear.

Because they were on their own base, they were completely unprepared and hadn't brought any of their high-tech equipment.

At this point, how could they dare to go against Ash?

Xiao Zhi didn't waste any words with them and went straight to asking about the purpose of his trip.

"Where is Miss Joey?"

"Put it back, put it back! I've already had my men put it back!"

They knew that kidnapping Joey wouldn't end well, but they never expected to attract Ash, whom they feared the most.

Amazon is now kicking himself. "I shouldn't have been lazy!"

After sensing it, the two of them were indeed telling the truth. Nurse Joy's aura had already left the flight base. Ash snorted and raised one hand.

A giant wave missile slowly condensed in his palm, which he then threw down amidst the horrified gazes of Yamato and Kosaburo.

boom!

In an instant, the entire rocket team of the spaceship turned into shooting stars in the sky.

"Damn it, what a nasty feeling!" ×2

[Ding! Congratulations on completing the side quest: Do a good deed today: Defeat Team Rocket and stop their plot (73/∞)]

[Rewards: Alliance Coins +2000; Free Attribute Points +2; Hoenn Region Affinity +5; Hoenn Region Reputation +5]

Ash slowly flew out of the smoke from the explosion, casually ripped apart the large net trapping Wailord underground, and headed to find Nurse Joy.

Just then, a powerful destructive beam suddenly attacked him from behind.

"Pikachu, Iron Tail!"

The terrifying beam of red and yellow light was instantly cleaved in two, and Ash immediately looked closely to see that the one who had ambushed him was a Salamence in the distance.

"It really worked! Pikachu is amazing."

"Who is it?"

On the flying dragon was a black-haired girl in hot pants with a playful smile on her face.

Wearing a cool outfit of short sleeves and shorts, she strangely draped a linen cape over her back, which gave her a strange sense of style, but that was about it.

"A mysterious girl." Ash keenly sensed that the spiral decoration on the beautiful girl's foot was emitting a remarkable energy fluctuation.

And lying on top of Salamence behind her was none other than Nurse Joy from Senna City, who was unconscious.

"You're the Team Rocket team that kidnapped Miss Joy, right?"

"Well, I guess so," Higana readily admitted.

"But I didn't hurt her, I just let her sleep for a while."

"Besides, you're the one I'm interested in. I've seen a lot of information about you in Team Rocket's database, Ash."

"Oh, so you like me?"

The other person blushed slightly, but then immediately resumed their usual smiling expression.

"I don't dislike strong men —"

"Really?" Ash asked, puzzled.

The girl opposite me had a harmless smile on her face the whole time, and I couldn't detect a trace of hostility from her waveguide.

"Is she really from the Rockets?"

Ash slowly turned to her, raised his hand, and another Wave Missile condensed.

He decided to test her, after all, she had just attacked him and admitted that she was from Team Rocket and that she was the one who kidnapped Miss Joy.

Both morally and logically, Xiaozhi cannot easily let the other party off the hook.

Faced with Ash's serious attack, the girl finally stopped smiling, but her eyes were still fixed on Ash with curiosity.

"Ah, are you going to knock me away? I just came to say hello."

"No normal person would greet someone with a destructive ray, would they?"

"You're special~."

By sensing the tension Salamence felt when facing Chiba's missiles, Higana could roughly guess the intensity of the upcoming attack.

"According to intelligence, he is an extremely powerful Aura user, the most dangerous level—now that I've seen him in person, he's even more terrifying than I imagined."

But Higanbana was secretly pleased. "Ash—he might come in handy when a major crisis strikes in the future!"

But now things are in trouble; the other side really wants to attack Higana.

"Without Captain Amado and the others' strong physiques, it would hurt a lot if I got knocked away."

Suddenly, Higana pushed Miss Joy off the Salamence behind her.

"What?"

Startled, Ash immediately flew towards the direction where Nurse Joy had fallen.

But the Mega Stone on Sigana's anklet immediately emitted a dazzling light, merging with the Salamence beneath her feet.

Salamence immediately evolved into Mega Salamence.

Mega Salamence is more aggressive than Salamence.

Its forelegs were completely tucked into the gaps in its shell, assuming a flight posture. Its proud wings were twisted and stuck together due to the powerful energy.

The Pokémon's aura instantly surged several times over, and another Hyper Beam, much stronger than the previous one, hurtled towards Ash.

Pikachu immediately jumped off Ash's back and used Iron Tail to intercept again, but was blasted into a violent explosion.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Higanbana sat on the back of the Super Salamence and quickly fled into the distance.

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