Chapter 63

Boom!

The Duckbill Fire Beast was instantly struck hard, hit heavily by the Charizard's dragon claw, its whole body flying backward violently, yet it landed steadily on the ground not far away.

"Big Blast!"

Xia Bo's expression was solemn; facing Ash's Charizard, it was stronger than its old partner.

Charizard flapped its wings, flying and dodging, and in the blink of an eye arrived before the Duckbill Fire Beast.

"So fast!"

Xiaoxia saw that Charizard wore no weighted iron rings on its body; now it was at full firepower, its speed and power having risen a notch.

A scorching, fire-like breath surged forward, making the Duckbill Fire Beast instantly feel an unprecedented pressure, a flame like a fireball gushing from Charizard's mouth, instantly engulfing the Duckbill Fire Beast's entire body.

The Duckbill Fire Beast barely held on, its body covered in wounds.

"Big Blast!"

"Charizard, let's use Fire Blast!"

In a Fire-type Pokémon showdown, of course we use Fire-type moves to clash.

Boom!

With this tremendous roar, a flame in the shape of a large character collided with a flame like a great fireball, producing a huge air wave.

"Charizard, go!"

In Ash's eyes flashed a sapphire light; the air wave from the explosion of the flame collision brushed his clothes.

In the flame collision explosion, Charizard roared, a flash of crimson light passing through its eyes.

"Dragon Claw!"

Suddenly, Charizard's eyes gleamed sharp, it unfolded its claws, a light green radiance surged, covering its claws.

Swooping down, it suddenly slashed down; the Duckbill Fire Beast instantly flew backward.

The Duckbill Fire Beast lost its battle capability.

"I lost with my old partner!"

Xia Bo's complexion was mixed, both regretting the loss of his old partner and excited to battle such a formidable trainer.

Looking at Ash celebrating with his Pokémon, Xia Bo looked forward to him, wondering just how far this boy could go.

Having obtained the Crimson Badge, Ash and his group, seeing it was still early, took a good stroll around Crimson Island.

After challenging the Gym, it's time to relax a bit.

【Xia Bo: Tsk tsk, young people really are full of energy; who knows how far Black Satoshi will go in the future!】

【Da Ye: How far he'll go I don't know, but his Charizard has tremendous potential; if trained more, he'll surely become the main force in his Stone Conference in the Johto region.】

【Da Wu: Black Satoshi's Pokémon are no pushovers; moreover, behind him is Professor Oak helping him raise Pokémon—I see the Giant Pincer Crab as one bred by Professor Oak, having mastered many moves, also a formidable opponent not to be ignored.】

【Dian Ci: The Johto Stone Conference will surely be exciting; I don't know if it'll be Black Satoshi's solo show, Ash's rival—Xiaomao, I also don't know if Ash】

【Xiba: You'd better not say, you really shouldn't say, it's got me really looking forward to Black Satoshi participating in the Stone Conference.】

Black World—

Jigglypuff, though it often wanders off at times, will occasionally return to Ash's side, and has not gone to disturb Squirtle and its friends on their island.

Ash and his group just happened to return to Cerulean Gym, also because of Seadra.

However, Xiaomia's three sisters still need to put on their water ballet performance, and Xiaomia also agreed to perform.

As for Team Rocket, they were dealt with in advance by Ash.

Watching the soaring Team Rocket, Ash felt they were weird; why do those guys always follow behind causing trouble, always thinking about their Pokémon?

Although each time they get blasted away, Ash feels they are persistent; if Team Rocket were persistent in other things, Ash would think they worthy of respect, but what they do is stealing Pokémon.

So whenever Ash sees them, he knows they're up to no good, and he'll just send them packing!

【Musashi: Over the top, huh, clothes all changed, lines not even spoken, just this eager to chase us away!!!】

【Kojiro: Without us, could you still sell out your tickets?】

【Ash: This is really hard to say; although you guys coming out to get beaten is indeed attractive, but Xiaomia and co.'s Gym has held this performance for so long, there's still genuine substance in it.】

Afterward, Xiaomia and co. truly didn't need Team Rocket's help; relying on their splendid performance, plus Ash and Brock contributing their Pokémon's efforts in the performance, Ash's Squirtle just took on the role of the villain Pokémon, wearing specially styled glasses, bringing along the Primeape, the villainous aura instantly revealed in full.

This performance wore out Pikachu and co. enough to make them snort, yet successfully earned the audience's applause and attracted many new viewers.

Ash sat in the audience watching his Squirtle perform; it seemed to Squirtle, that wasn't acting—it was playing itself!

Squirtle performed happily!

The scene froze on Ash and his group walking toward Ciwidey City.

【Ash: Speaking, is Team Rocket around?】

【Xiba: The big one's coming; I want to see how Ash defeats Sakaki, that guy although he's Team Rocket's leader, his strength is truly formidable, flawless.】

【Yulongdu: Sakaki that guy now I don't know where he ran off to.

But Ash being able to get the Badge from Sakaki's hands truly surprises people!】

【Musashi: The Badge of that brat is what I gave him.】

【Kojiro: Exactly; back then we saw him pitiful, still missing one Badge to join the Stone Conference, so we gave it to him!

After all, fighting and killing this long, being so fixated on collecting Badges for that brat moved us somewhat, so we gave it to him!】

【Xiaomia: Really?】

【Brock: Really?】

【Meowth: Really truly meow!】

【Xiaomao: It's because you three are too weak, can't command at all, such powerful Pokémon could be mismanaged by you, you're also talented!】