Chapter 58

After the costume contest ended, there was still a battle match.

The rules remained the same, and Pikachu requested to battle.

Along the way, Pikachu and Bulbasaur swept through many contestants' Pokémon, and in the end they still faced off against Wuzang.

However, Pikachu was unstoppable and successfully helped Xiaoxia win the championship!

After playing for a day, they set off on their journey the next day.

Ash and his friends were in the forest when they happened to encounter a Farfetch'd.

Upon seeing three Trainers, the Farfetch'd immediately fled, not even looking back.

Everyone watched in puzzlement as the panicked Farfetch'd fled; Ash felt that this Farfetch'd was strange, but couldn't put his finger on it.

After taking care of the Pokémon Egg daily, Ash sensed that the Egg was about to hatch.

Arriving by the roadside, they learned from Miss Junsha what the Farfetch'd had been up to, and Ash also realized that the Farfetch'd wanted to trick their Pokémon, possibly because they were numerous and feared being exposed, so it fled.

Not long after, Team Rocket arrived, they caught the boy who stole Poké Balls and the big green onion duck, and threw them in front of Miss Jenny.

"This brat doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth, deceiving things and even deceiving us Team Rocket; this time we'll give him a lesson, next time won't be so lucky."

Looking at the bruised-faced boy and the big green onion duck in front of him, Ash thought Team Rocket did a good job.

After retrieving the Poké Balls that had been tricked from Team Rocket, Pikachu did a good deed to repay Team Rocket, this time treating them to a Thunderbolt!

This time the commotion was even bigger!

The good-guy Team Rocket flew away again!

【Xiba: Team Rocket still says you're not good people? Join us, the Team Rocket of the Black World is gradually becoming good!】

【Brock: The Team Rocket of the White World isn't as formidable as the Black World's; they were even tricked by that boy!】

【Musashi: You say that, but we were just careless back then.】

【Ash: Yeah, careless! And you still dare to call yourselves bad guys, but ended up being tricked by that guy and the big green onion duck; even passersby are worse than you!】

The Team Rocket Trio's anger surged up, that little brat is really annoying.

During the journey, the Pokémon Egg was about to hatch; Team Rocket took a liking to that egg, spent a fortune building a machine to seize it. Their plan was to turn on the machine to attract Ash and his friends' attention, then send the agile Meowth sneaking around to steal the egg from behind.

Ash saw through Team Rocket's plot; he and Brock took charge of driving them off, while Xiaoxia watched the Pokémon Egg. At that moment, the egg cracked open, hatching into Celebi, and the first thing Celebi saw was Xiaoxia.

Celebi then regarded Xiaoxia as its trainer, and Ash had no objection to that.

Just like before.

After the interruption caused by Team Rocket's meddling, Ash and his party delightedly looked at the new member Celebi, which now became the team's pet, with big brother Pikachu taking meticulous care of it.

Bulbasaur also used Vine Whip to tie up Celebi and tease it, while Squirtle was in charge of making funny faces.

As for Charizard, it took Celebi up into the sky for a flyaround; if Celebi cried, Charizard would give Bulbasaur a ride.

Primeape looked at the tiny creature in front of it; usually rough and tumble, it became cautious, afraid to accidentally hurt Celebi.

But the most exhausted was still Pikachu, like a nanny, staying beside Celebi, never leaving its side, vigilantly watching the surroundings, fearing that Team Rocket might suddenly swoop in and snatch Celebi away!

Everyone watched the heartwarming scene, and every Pokémon was extremely concerned about the new member Celebi.

"I suddenly think it's a good thing that Celebi wasn't snatched by us, meow!"

Meowth looked at the warm scene behind the Black Light Screen, and inwardly felt relieved that Celebi hadn't been snatched by their Team Rocket.

Musashi and Kojiro also had the same thought,

But they were quite surprised, never expecting to have such a thought.

Black World—

Ash and his party also happened to battle a passerby trainer; facing a Rhyhorn with quadruple weakness to Grass, Ash naturally sent out Bulbasaur.

But the Rhyhorn was knocked out in one hit by Bulbasaur's Razor Leaf.

After training along the way, the Pokémon were somewhat fatigued, so Ash brought them to the Pokémon Center.

Upon seeing Ash arrive with Bulbasaur, Miss Joy told him that the Bulbasaur here gather in a place called the Unthinkable Garden to hold a ceremony similar to celebrating Evolution.

She suggested Ash could bring Bulbasaur there to have a look; if they happened to encounter it, Bulbasaur could use the opportunity to Evolve and become much stronger!

"Thank you, Miss Joy."

Ash gazed gently at Bulbasaur: 'Bulbasaur wants to become stronger, but it wants to become stronger in its current form; it wants to prove, like Pikachu, that this form of Bulbasaur can also become stronger, so I think whether Bulbasaur Evolves or not doesn't matter, after all we can work together to become stronger.'

Saying that, he patted Bulbasaur's head.

"Dah dah!" Bulbasaur happily responded to Ash, "You still understand me!"

Miss Joy looked at Ash, whose eyes were full of Bulbasaur; she hadn't seen such an open-minded trainer regarding Pokémon Evolution in a long time, feeling that Ash was right—this form of Bulbasaur can also become stronger through training, without deliberately pursuing Evolution.

Looking at Bulbasaur like that, one's heart is surely moved by Ash's words.

While chatting with Pikachu, it seemed that more effort would be needed in the future; Bulbasaur lacks Squirtle's Wave Guiding talent and doesn't have Charizard's formidable strength, so it should put in more effort, training hard like Kingler and Primeape.

Outside the Pokémon Center, the flower vases bloomed, and waves of fragrance wafted over.

Ash and his group went out to check the situation, unexpectedly seeing Team Rocket intending to do something bad.

Coincidentally, after following Team Rocket, they arrived at the Unthinkable Garden that Miss Joy mentioned, seeing Venusaur holding a ceremony; the Bulbasaur in front of it had all Evolved into Ivysaur.

And Ash's Bulbasaur learned Solar Beam at that ceremony, and not only that.

Although Bulbasaur didn't Evolve, the fluorescence just produced by Venusaur was absorbed into the seed on its back; Bulbasaur felt its body filled with unprecedented power, far stronger than before, and it could also learn Grassy Terrain.

But Bulbasaur still faced questioning from those Venusaur: why not Evolve? Bulbasaur immediately answered them with strength.

Team Rocket are really good people; they volunteered to spar with Bulbasaur to hone its skills and stabilize Solar Beam, offering themselves!

Team Rocket is truly great!

【Shitron: Sobbing, really, Team Rocket knew Bulbasaur had mastered a new move, deliberately came over to give it practice, how nice!】