Chapter 11: Defeating Garchomp! Powering up Latias!

Arrived at the first-floor lobby,

Ash looked up and saw a Garchomp with a collar around its neck and red eyes, wreaking havoc.

Dark red destructive beams shot from the Garchomp's mouth, sweeping across a large area, shattering and melting all metal walls in its path, which then crashed to the ground,

"Latias!"

Ash called out,

The Latias beneath him understood instantly, releasing psychic power to catch the falling stones and molten orange-red steel dripping with heat from above,

Ash then had the chance to observe the three members of Team Rocket,

All three wore identical white lab coats and white masks, their faces completely unfamiliar,

Especially the Meowth perched on the Snorlax's head, which looked just like a middle-aged fat research director, showing no flaw at all,

If it weren't for the familiar Aura that never lies,

letting Ash realize the three strangers before him were Team Rocket, he would have otherwise been deceived,

In terms of disguise, the Team Rocket trio had truly reached perfection,

At that moment, others began to arrive one after another,

First came the professor, rushing out of the office in panic upon hearing the noise,

Clemont also poked his head out from the upstairs corner,

Se Mei, with wet hair, and Yurie followed closely behind,

Se Mei, who appeared before Ash now, was not wearing black stockings,

but this did not diminish Se Mei's charm,

Her fair, slender legs glistening with a watery sheen, combined with Se Mei's lotus-like beauty fresh from the water, actually increased her charm!

"What's happening?"

Running out from the hallway,

The professor, whose view was limited, did not see the abnormal Garchomp but first spotted the three Team Rocket members in white lab coats,

"Who are you?"

"I heard someone say you are what people!"

"We will mercifully answer you!"

"..."

"That's how it is, meow!"

"Thunder!"

"This time I wasn't interrupted! Awesome, meow!"

"Ah, those are the good big brothers and sisters who joke with their lives, as Ash said!" Yurie exclaimed in surprise.

That sentence sent the Team Rocket trio into a frenzy!

"You're the good one, meow! Meowth we are truly big villains!"

"Exactly! Your whole family are good people!"

"Don't go labeling people, you little brats!"

At that moment,

The professor was utterly shocked!

The professor stared blankly at the talking Meowth, "Can Meowth speak?"

Meowth heard this and smirked proudly,

"Well, I can speak, but from now on, the Garchomp belongs to us, meow!"

Before the words even finished,

Recovering from the stiffness after using the destructive beam,

The enraged Garchomp decisively locked onto the flamboyant three-person squad with wide-open movements,

Scorching black-red destructive beams spewed from the Garchomp's mouth!

In an instant it engulfed the trio, causing an explosion!

The trio was blown away instantly, their bodies punching a huge hole in the research institute's roof.

"What an unpleasant feeling~"

After blasting the trio away, the Garchomp was about to flee.

Ash naturally wouldn't let it escape easily,

After all, Ash knew the Team Rocket trio was coming to cause trouble, so he deliberately gave them the chance in order to complete Latias's mission,

Destroying the research institute was fine; he could afford it, the key was that no one got hurt,

If he truly let the Garchomp go loose, damaging the city would be secondary; causing a large-scale bloody incident would be absolutely unacceptable to Ash.

"Stop him, Dragon Pulse!"

Latias first used psychic power to seal and reinforce the research institute's door, leaving the Garchomp facing a closed door and unable to leave the scene,

It then spewed a large amount of dragon energy from its mouth,

The Garchomp lashed out violently, gathering even greater destructive beam energy in its mouth,

However……

Not to mention that Latias is a second-tier deity,

Just considering that Garchomp excels in physical attack while Latias excels in special attack, yet they are competing with special attack, the outcome is clear,

Dragon Pulse spewed from Latias's mouth, coalescing in the air into a violent dragon-shaped energy mass that descended upon and engulfed the Garchomp and its destructive beam,

Soon the Garchomp lost its ability to fight,

Battle ends,

【Mission complete, ability enhancement in progress… enhancement complete】

【Pokémon】: Latias

【Type】: Dragon + Psychic

【Ability】: Levitate 1 (floats off the ground, thus immune to ground‑type moves; speed increased to 1.2×, attack increased to 1.1×)

【Level】: 144 (Second‑tier deity)

【Moves】: …

【Individual】: 6v

【Base Stats】: Total 600, HP 80, Attack 80, Defense 90, Special Attack 110, Special Defense 130, Speed 110,

Gaze shifts down,

Ash looks at the new ability enhancement effect,

【Enhanceable】

【Ability】: Levitate 2 (floats off the ground, thus immune to ground attacks; speed increased to 1.5×, attack increased to 1.25×)

【Enhancement task】: defeat one of Yishu or Wusong or Gaderia or Yuan Zhi or Ming yi or Dora Serena or Qiban or Bashi;

Ming yi?

Ash first notices not the concrete effect of the second‑tier enhancement,

but rather the defeat of Ming yi on the list,

In this life Ash chose to land in United Huo Fan City, so the one he met was not Elise,

but the two female protagonists of Black & White 2, a big‑breasted girl with twin buns named Ming yi, also unofficially called Ya Yi.

The two travel together, developing feelings for each other,

Ash didn't expect that Ming yi's power would grow so quickly,

Only a few months apart, in the system ranking she already surpassed Misty by one step, attaining a Champion‑level strength,

However,

thinking about it carefully, it does make sense,

Misty, though strong, even got a Mega Evolution Stone for Gyarados from Ash, but the only usable one she has is a Gyarados,

Ming yi is different,

She already has three Dark Dragons, a Dual‑Axe Dragon, a Dragonite, a Salamence, a Togekiss, a Serperior, six in total,

It is well known that Dragon‑type Pokémon have high base stats, while Bug‑type Pokémon have low base stats,

In Ming yi's team, besides the initial partner Serperior,

there are a total of five dragons!

Even the weakest Togekiss can Mega‑evolve like Salamence!

Six high‑potential Pokémon in all,

As long as their level is sufficient, being recognized as Champion‑level is inevitable.

It seems… when I achieve fame and success,

the Kanto‑Johto Union, formed by Kanto and Johto regions, will probably need more than just replacing a Champion; even the Elite Four will have to change.

Retracting the wandering thoughts,

Ash then mentally calculated Latias's second‑tier enhancement stats,

110×1.5=165, 80×1.25=100,

Speed is even faster, surpassing the Mega Evolution Stone Pterodactyl's 150!

If he could obtain Latias's Ultra Evolution Stone, this value could expand even further!

Unfortunately, some things are hard to obtain even with money,

As a legendary Pokémon, Latias and Latios's evolution stones are among them,

It's not that Ash can't afford it, but the quantity is scarce, cannot be found,

I wonder if the Kalos region, where Ultra Evolution shines, might have them,

Otherwise Ash can only go to the origin place of Ultra Evolution, the Fongyuan Continent, to look; there, as the habitat of Latios and Latias, the probability of finding them is indeed not small,

But, speaking of Fongyuan…

Considering the future battles on that land, a massive Ultra Evolution Stone war triggered by Rayquaza, Groudon, and Kyogre!

In the future Ash really will have to go there.