Chapter 159

The green meadow is located in the eastern part of Goldenrod City, with beautiful and picturesque scenery. Whitney often goes to the green meadow alone to relax.

She had never encountered such a situation before.

Clair: "Need you ask? It must be Jessie, James, and Meowth who did it!"

The green meadow has existed for so many years, and such a thing has never happened. As a result, as soon as Ash and his friends arrived, the meadow underwent a strange transformation; this is just too much of a coincidence.

In Clair's view, it must be the Team Rocket trio brewing a new conspiracy again.

Lance: "Does the Team Rocket trio have that kind of ability?"

Turning a meadow into crystals—even Lance had never heard of or seen such an ability. Does the Team Rocket trio really have such power?

Cynthia: "Clair, you are overestimating Jessie, James, and Meowth."

Cynthia also felt it wasn't the work of the Team Rocket trio. The three of them only do small-time bad deeds; this large-scale crystallization in the video is unlikely to be their doing.

Bruno: "Could it be Giovanni?"

Lorelei: "Very likely. This should be the black technology first developed by Giovanni."

Giovanni: "What would I gain by attacking the green meadow?"

Giovanni really couldn't hold back anymore.

There are no rare Pokémon on the green meadow. Even if he really had the ability to crystallize the meadow, what would be the purpose of him doing it with such fanfare?

Apollo: "Don't pin all the blame on our Team Rocket. We just want to make some money; is that wrong?"

Professor Oak: "Making money isn't wrong, but robbing people is. Stop pretending to be little lambs; you are wolves who will stop at nothing for money."

【The crystallization of the green meadow caught the attention of the television stations. With the media's fueling, this matter quickly spread throughout Kanto and Johto.】

【Delia and Professor Oak, far away in Pallet Town, also noticed this news.】

【The matter of the green meadow in the Johto region originally had nothing to do with Delia and Professor Oak, but Delia's classmate, Dr. Hale, who was also a student of Professor Oak, had his villa in the green meadow. Furthermore, the television station analyzed that the source of the crystallization was Dr. Hale's mansion. This made Delia and Professor Oak unable to sit still.】

【At the Pokémon Center in the green meadow, Ash met Professor Oak and his mother, Delia, who had rushed over from Pallet Town.】

【In the rest area of the Pokémon Center, Delia took out a photo of Dr. Hale and introduced him to Ash and his friends. Reminded by his mother, Ash recalled that, indeed, he had met Dr. Hale a few times when he was little.】

【While the group was chatting, a mysterious Pokémon burst in. Pikachu tried to stop it, but it was useless. In front of everyone, this mysterious Pokémon abducted Ash's mother, Delia.】

Blaine: "Entei? Why would Entei appear here? And why did it abduct Ash's mother?"

Kiawe: "Is there something wrong with this Entei? I have a feeling it's a bit evil."

Volkner: "Now that you mention it, I noticed it too. The Entei that the dark Ash met wasn't like this."

Professor Oak: "Did you notice? Everywhere Entei passes, it crystallizes. It is very likely that it is the culprit behind the crystallization of the green meadow."

Eusine: "An Entei that can speak human language, crystallizes the ground where it walks, and uses hypnosis—this is getting more and more interesting."

Ash: "It's not interesting at all!!! Is my mom going to be in danger?"

Misty: "Don't worry, Ash, Delia will be fine."

Serena: "We will definitely be able to rescue Delia. Ash, don't panic yet."

Under the comfort of Misty and Serena, Ash slowly calmed down.

【In order to rescue Delia, Ash, Misty, and Brock began heading toward the center of the Crystal Tower. With the help of their Pokémon, they successfully broke into the tower.】

【Inside the Crystal Tower, they met Dr. Hale's daughter, Molly.】

【Entei abducted Ash's mother, Delia, just to fulfill Molly's wish of having a mother.】

Lance: "Is that so? Molly is truly pitiful. To lose her mother at such a young age, and now even her father is gone."

Dr. Hale: "Ahem, Molly's mother didn't pass away. She and I just separated for a while."

Diantha: "Divorced? But isn't Molly's mother being a bit excessive? Dr. Hale has disappeared, and she isn't even coming to take care of Molly."

Having just lost her father, and with her mother not by her side, it's no wonder Molly would head toward the extreme.

Dr. Hale: "I should be fine, right? I was just dragged into an unknown space by the Unown. There is a high hope of survival!"

Bruno: "No, you're already dead. Now Molly's father is Entei."

Dr. Hale: "..."

【Molly is omnipotent inside the Crystal Tower. While riding Entei through the tower, her appearance also changed; in the blink of an eye, she went from a little girl to a mature young woman.】

【Molly brought Entei before Ash and his friends and challenged Ash to a Pokémon battle.】

【Ash originally wanted to go himself, but Brock stopped him.】

【"You have more important things to do, Ash."】

【After overcoming many obstacles, Ash finally arrived at the very top of the Crystal Tower. In Molly's room, he found Molly, who was fast asleep, and his mother, Delia.】

【Unable to accept that Delia was being taken away, Molly's emotions fluctuated violently in an instant.】

【At this moment, Entei returned.】

【It used crystals to block Delia, who wanted to escape, and then came before Ash, telling him to leave the Crystal Tower.】

【In order to win his mother back, Ash and Entei began a duel.】

【Although this Entei was created by the Unown, inside its home field, the Crystal Tower, its strength was no less than that of a real Entei.】

【Totodile, Cyndaquil, and in the end, even Pikachu were defeated by Entei.】

Phoebe: "The gap is a bit too large; Ash is simply no match for Entei."

Sidney: "That's nonsense. How long has Ash been a Pokémon trainer? To ask a rookie who hasn't even been a trainer for a year to fight an Entei—isn't that asking a bit too much?"

Phoebe: "But hasn't the dark Ash only been a rookie trainer for less than a year? He can fight an Entei, and not only can he fight it, he doesn't even need to borrow the power of Pokémon."

Drake: "There are differences even among Ashes. Don't say that about him; he's already very impressive."

Cynthia: "He can't win, he simply can't win. The Crystal Tower is a world of wishful thinking; as long as Molly firmly believes that Entei is invincible, then Entei's strength can increase infinitely."

Under these circumstances, let alone Ash, if it were her, she might not have a better solution either.

Diantha: "If that's the case, then battling Entei is meaningless. Should we look for Molly?"

Malva: "Hey, what are you saying? This is Ash. Even if he knew Entei's weakness was Molly, he wouldn't do that. He has his own persistence."

Caitlin: "Attacking Molly is something he can't bring himself to do, but not attacking her means he can't defeat Entei. Sigh, Ash is in a dead end."

【A destructive purple flame projectile shot rapidly toward Pikachu. Without any hesitation, Ash leaped forward, helping Pikachu narrowly dodge Entei's attack.】

【The highly destructive flame projectile blasted a large hole in the wall of the Crystal Tower, and the shockwave from the explosion even knocked Ash out of the tower. One must know that the place where Ash was currently located was dozens of meters above the ground. Falling from such a height, even Ash would likely suffer from lifelong, incurable disabilities.】

Bruno: "This Entei is playing too dirty!"

Ash plays by the rules and won't attack Molly, but this Entei plays by no rules at all; it's going for the kill, not leaving Ash any way to survive.

Jessie: "The brat and Pikachu aren't going to die, are they?"

James: "Waaaaah, it's too tragic, it's just too tragic. Brat, Pikachu, you died so miserably."

Meowth: "They won't be okay, it wasn't that high, meow."

They don't know how many times higher they've been blasted off, and aren't they still full of life now?

So there won't be any problems.

Jessie, James: "Right."

Such a small height is nothing to worry about; just relax and it'll be OK.

Kanto Town.

"Ash!"

Serena couldn't bear to watch anymore.

"Damn it, Entei is just too hateful, and Molly too, it's too much."

Misty gritted her teeth and said hatefully.

If anything happened to Ash, she would never let Molly and Entei off.

【It was simply too high; even the Super Pallet Town native Ash couldn't quite handle it. He closed his eyes, held Pikachu tightly in his arms, and began to scream loudly.】

【Only by screaming could he drive away the fear in his heart as much as possible.】

【Just when Ash thought he was doomed, a savior appeared.】

【Charizard had arrived.】

【The Charizard that should have been in Charicific Valley appeared in the green meadow, saving Ash at the most critical moment.】

【After seeing on TV that Ash's mother, Delia, had been abducted by Entei, Charizard set off from Charicific Valley without stopping, rushing and hurrying, and finally made it in time.】

【With Charizard, Ash challenged Entei once again. Head-to-head, the two sides collided fiercely.】

【The result was Charizard's total defeat. Not only was it knocked to the ground by Entei, but Ash was also nearly knocked off the top of the tower again.】

【In the end, it was Brock, Misty, Jessie, James, and Meowth—the five of them working together—who managed to pull Ash back up.】

Ash: "Team Rocket? Why did you save me?"

He had thought Team Rocket would be dying for him to perish.

Jessie: "Heh, don't misunderstand; it was just an unconscious action."