Chapter 96: Ash: Keerni Captured!

"Mega, Lucario, Power-Up Punch!"

As Keerni reached out and touched the Key Stone, the Mega Stone on Lucario's body suddenly burst forth with light.

"Lucario, Lucario!"

Bathed in the light,

Mega Lucario strode swiftly, quickly rushing at Florges,

At the moment it reached Florges, it threw a punch, feeling that this punch had landed, Lucario's face instantly flashed with joy.

However, in Florges' eyes, this scene seemed like slow motion,

leaving it with no interest at all, feeling disdainful inside.

Although it was crushed by Ash's Pokémon, unable to even fight back, but what are you?

Mega Lucario's smile, in Florges' eyes, was even more like a clown,

Almost in an instant,

Florges suddenly lifted its leg, like a high-heeled shoe kick striking Mega Lucario's chest, directly bending Lucario's body like a shrimp, turning the charged Power-Up Punch into a joke.

This wasn't over yet,

Before Lucario could be flung away, Florges spun its body, gathered power, and kicked Lucario's chest again; this time Lucario's body bent even more severely, its face showing a pained expression.

Its body moved forward, Florges intended to add another kick after spinning its body, but unfortunately both it and Lucario were not very high level,

Although its speed base stat was high, its bodily stats could not fully exploit the speed advantage,

Ultimately causing the third kick to miss.

But even so, just relying on the first two hits of Triple Kick,

was enough to send Mega Lucario's body flying like a cannonball into the wall, smashing the wall down, and its body landed on the grass beside the house, tumbling awkwardly several times.

Too fast!

Everything happened in an instant!

Especially as Mega Lucario rushed toward Florges, blocking Keerni's line of sight,

the result was that Keerni couldn't see clearly what had happened, and saw Mega Lucario flying backward out of the villa.

There was the threat of Mewtwo.

Although Keerni's defenses were currently empty, Florges did not attack Keerni,

Ash had promised it,

if Keerni failed to defeat it, she would not earn its recognition, and Ash would need to send it back to the world behind the Ultra Hole.

Currently, Florges was undoubtedly very disappointed in Keerni,

Florges kicked up a strong gust, shooting straight past Keerni's side and rushing out through the broken opening,

It gracefully landed on the grass not far in front of the fallen Mega Lucario.

It's not a brute like Burst Muscle Mosquito! It insists on smashing the wall's gap wider, only feeling satisfied when everything is laid bare.

Mainly because its defense is trash, doing that would really require weighing the consequences.

Yet this unconscious habit of its allowed Keerni to successfully seize an opening.

Glancing at the exit only the size of a pot lid, Keerni felt more and more that something was off.

An opponent strong enough to make Mega Lucario instantly crumble would choose to go through? It should just smash the wall cleanly.

Unless……its defense is terrible!

The opportunity has come!

Having figured it all out, Keerni's eyes lit up instantly; she lay on the ruined wall and shouted downwards: "Lucario, use Aura Sphere!"

At the same time,

Mega Lucario after Mega Evolution once again entered a berserk state, but just then,

the wall Keerni was leaning on collapsed outright; caught off guard, Keerni let out a scream and fell downstairs.

Almost at that moment,

the thought of saving Keerni overcame the surging, disordered aura, causing Mega Lucario's consciousness to instantly regain clarity.

Just as it was about to go save Keerni, it saw Ash reach out and rescue Keerni, holding her in a princess carry and landing safely.

With no hesitation, Mega Lucario immediately began executing the command.

A blue Aura Sphere quickly coalesced,

A long-range attack?

You can't even hit me in close combat, let alone a long-range skill! That's just daydreaming!

Florges curled its lip in disdain, not even launching an attack, but planning to wait for the attack to appear, dodge it, and then take down the opponent directly.

It's not surprising that Florges would think that way,

After all, who among Ultra Beasts would use this thing! It truly has never seen an attack that tracks!

Thus, when it stood still in place until the Aura Sphere came before it, it suddenly moved, only to find the Aura Sphere directly following the turn, leaving it completely bewildered.

Boom!

An explosion occurred; although Bug-type resists Fighting-type moves, it still depends on the attacker's Special Attack and defender's Special Defense difference.

140 multiplied by 2.0 STAB, together with 37, the result is obvious.

Florges, only seven levels higher than Mega Lucario, was instantly KO'd by a single hit!

……

On Keerni's side,

With Latias' help, Ash arrived at the scene via Instant Teleportation, reached out with both hands, and steadily caught Keerni.

Ash and Keerni

Feeling the warmth coming from her back and bent legs, the optimistic Keerni flashed a rare hint of shyness across her face.

Mm, thank you, Ash!

She also reached out and firmly pressed down the skirt that had flipped onto her belly; even though she still had safety shorts underneath, this was still quite embarrassing.

Without much thought, Ash casually set Keerni down,

"As long as you're fine." He also put away the arriving Y God and Diancie.

Watching Ash's smooth motion, Keerni was completely dazed, utterly stunned.

Mm, what is this……

Ash laughed, "Helping you and the trial set up by Lucario, sorry! Did I scare you?"

"We were really putting effort into the performance, you know!"

"Yurie was also putting heart into the performance."

"Yeah, I, the old lady, for this play I even paid out a villa; Ash only managed, with great difficulty, to use the reason of rebuilding a new house for me, grandma, to get my cooperation, and that's a huge sum of money."

"Grandma?!"

Ash furrowed his brows, this isn't what we agreed on; how did you reveal everything?

"You're not Meipulu, you're clueless, just leaking information wildly without any plan!"

Listening to everyone chattering back and forth, Keerni's eyes already had tears welling up, she was about to cry from emotion.

Especially when thinking about Ash's companionship during this period.

Passion surged, Keerni made a bold move,

In front of Serena, she called out to Ash,

"Ash!"

Facing Ash, who turned his head in confusion, Keerni tiptoed and embraced his head.

This scene left everyone dumbfounded.

On the contrary, the mastermind Meipulu flashed a smile; she had long seen that Keerni liked Ash.

Because she had experienced too much in her youth, seen too many lovers miss each other by fate and regret for life, she therefore chose to intervene, taking the opportunity to lend them a hand.

But this way, she inevitably owed Serena.

Immediately, Meipulu looked with remorse at the unexpected Serena and sincerely apologized.

"Sorry, Serena, I, the old lady, overstepped."

Speaking, she even was about to bow to Serena to apologize.

Serena, who always values etiquette, couldn't bear to see this, and hurriedly supported the elderly Meipulu.

"No, grandma, I actually had anticipated this already."

Serena, as a careful girl, is not foolish.

These days, she had already noticed something off from Keerni's clearly bored but enthusiastic state.

Even if Meipulu doesn't speak,

As Keerni's good friend, Serena would also try to help by whispering pillow talk, but she didn't expect Meipulu to intervene.

Although she thought that way in her heart, Serena would not so easily let Keerni and Ash off the hook.

"You damn Keerni! I treated you as a friend, yet you tried to steal my boyfriend!"