bdsm-fiction Chapter 357 Seven days later, the Laplace clan is encountered again, and Laplace makes a choice.
Chapter 357 Seven days later, the Laplace clan is encountered again, and Laplace makes a choice.
Chapter 357 Seven Days Later, Encountering the Laplace Clan Again, Laplace's Choice.
Having become the honorary trainer of the Orange Islands, Ash has completed the last thing he wanted to do on the Orange Islands.
Before parting, he made a promise with Yuji that they would fight again if they had the chance in the future. Yuji even decided to step down from his position as the chief trainer of the Orange Islands and go out to gain experience.
Since becoming the chief trainer in the Orange Islands, the reputation and overall strength of the Orange Islands have indeed increased significantly, but it is still not enough compared to trainers outside the region.
The high-end combat power of the Orange Islands is far inferior to that of the regular alliance's high-end combat power, such as the Four Heavenly Kings.
The strongest among them are the four gym leaders from Southern Cross, plus him, the chief trainer. However, there is a significant gap between him and the gym leaders from Southern Cross.
Even so, he couldn't even defeat a league tournament champion, and he suffered a crushing defeat at that.
Low emotional intelligence: Skills are inferior to others, even to children.
High emotional intelligence: There is still a lot of room for improvement.
In short, continuing as the top trainer on the Orange Islands might allow him to experience the feeling of being invincible and supreme, but that's not what Yuuji wants.
What he wants is real improvement in his strength, true invincibility, not this false reputation.
Therefore, Yuji resolutely relinquished his title as chief trainer and prepared to venture out into the world. When he returns, he will surely be stronger, and by then, Dragonite may have already become the champion.
At that time, he will also have more energy to lead the trainers of the Orange Islands to become stronger, and lead the entire Orange Islands to become a true Orange League!
After saying goodbye to Yuji, Ash, Misty, and Serena set off on their return journey aboard Lapras.
The journey from the sea to Pallet Town doesn't actually take long. If you take a cruise ship from the Orange Islands or a plane, the return trip will definitely take much less time.
However, they had already missed a lot of the scenery along the way because they were in a hurry on their way there. Now that they had nothing else to do, they were taking their time to go back, which could be considered a return trip.
Seven days passed in the blink of an eye during these leisurely days.
Ash and his friends finally arrived at an island on the edge of the Orange Islands. Once they crossed this island, they would be able to return to the Kanto region, and it wouldn't take long to get back to Pallet Town.
The three of them spent the week sightseeing and having a great time, making up for all the places they hadn't been able to do before.
The Orange Islands are a popular holiday destination; you could spend a month there and still not do the same thing twice.
While enjoying the scenery, Ash also fulfilled his duty as a mentor by guiding Serena towards becoming a more mature trainer.
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Serena's knowledge is much stronger than when Ash first appeared; at least she knows about type advantages and disadvantages, as well as the names of some famous Pokémon.
Serena currently only has one Pokémon, a Fennekin that has recently evolved. For beginners, raising a Pokémon is quite simple and easy.
After raising the long-tailed fire fox to a near-complete level, she was about to start thinking about what Pokémon to catch for her second Pokémon.
Serena doesn't have a faith like Misty; she only tames water-type spirits.
As for what kind of Pokémon she wants to catch—for now, she wants to catch cute Pokémon, with battle power being secondary, which is in line with the thoughts of many young girls who have just become trainers.
Although many girls will change their minds later on, after all, cute elves are often not very strong in battle, and even difficult to raise.
Pikachu is an example that, apart from Ash, no one else has been able to train it to its full potential. Hiro can only be considered half a trained one.
While not all cute Pokémon are like Pikachu—things like Mew, the three legendary Pokémon, and Latias are cute too, the question remains: how many people actually encounter and catch these Pokémon?
Therefore, it's better to honestly catch some Pokémon that may not look great but have pretty good combat power, such as Gyarados or Finch.
Pokémon like these are relatively easy to catch and train. Gyarados is a bit more difficult to train, but Magikarp is even more common than Pikachu. After evolving, it leaps over the dragon gate and becomes a popular battle Pokémon. Of course, this comes at a price.
If you want a starter trio that's easy to train, has some fighting power in the early game, and becomes strong in the late game, please...
For beginners, the starter Pokémon from each region are definitely the best starting Pokémon. If you don't have a starter Pokémon, you can consider using Bug-type Pokémon as a transition in the early stages. If you do have a starter Pokémon, then just focus on training it.
Serena's current situation is a good example. As long as the Fire Fox is trained and grows to its final stage, it will be much easier to deal with battles or capture some powerful Pokémon.
Generally speaking, as your Pokémon level increases, the strength of the Pokémon you catch in the wild will also increase. For example, if the strongest Pokémon you have is only at the advanced stage, then even if you encounter an elite Pokémon in the wild, you will have no way to defeat it.
However, if you have an elite-level Pokémon, you can catch one if you encounter it in the wild. Of course, this is just an example; encountering an elite-level Pokémon in the wild is not that easy.
But it's still easier than raising them yourself. In fact, many trainers do this. Ash is one of the very few who raises almost all of his Pokémon from scratch.
Those who can reach Ash's level can basically become well-known trainers, similar to the Elite Four or regional champions.
As for Serena, she should just stick to the routine for now and wait until she evolves the Longtail Fire Fox into its final stage before thinking about the next step.
In addition, during these seven days, Ash and his friends encountered some unexpected situations, one of which was that Team Rocket, who had been missing for almost a month, suddenly reappeared!
Having committed such a grave mistake, even with bail, they probably wouldn't be out for a while, let alone a month. Besides, their backer, Sakaki, has already disappeared, and the senior executives within Team Rocket should be indifferent to those three guys.
In this situation, who would bail them out? Who else could bail them out?
In the end, Ash didn't get any answers from Team Rocket. What followed was Serena, who was meeting Team Rocket for the first time, watching the three of them perform an aerial acrobatic act for him!
When Serena saw that scene for the first time, she was very worried and asked, "Won't they be hurt if they fall from the sky like that?"
It's not just Serena; anyone who sees this scene for the first time would probably think about it.
Falling from such a height, elves might be okay, but won't humans get hurt?
At that height, it must have been over a thousand meters, and the person was thrown to who knows where. According to the parabolic trajectory of physics, they would definitely have been killed instantly!
However, Ash said that the two people and the cat were harder than iron. Even if they fell from outer space as meteorites, let alone from a height of thousands of meters, they would probably only get their clothes slightly dirty. Putting aside the Team Rocket trio, they are definitely world-class in terms of invention and resilience.
Besides encountering the Rockets, the three of them also encountered an even more nasty group of people.
Although Team Rocket did a lot of bad things, that was only relative to Ash. After they met Ash, all their bad deeds were aimed at him, and none of them succeeded.
To Ash, those three guys aren't even bad anymore; they're just stupid!
The group of people he encountered after defeating those three were truly wicked beyond measure.
They are the culprits who caused Ash's Lapras to get separated from him: the Orange Islands' maritime poaching group, or pirates for short.
That group of pirates had a ship full of people, about twenty in number, all of them were extremely burly and didn't look like easy to get along with.
When Ash and his friends encountered the pirates, they happened to see them chasing Lapras's clan. Ash immediately took action and had Gardevoir stop them all.
However, the strength of that group of pirates was somewhat beyond Ash's expectations. Their leader actually had a Gym Leader-level Pokémon. It was no wonder that they had been running rampant in the Orange Islands for so long.
On the one hand, they are difficult to capture at sea, and on the other hand, the pirate leader's strength surpasses that of most trainers in the Orange Islands.
Even if some trainers saw this and wanted to help, they would be no match for these pirates.
Let alone chivalrous trainers, most Officer Jennys would probably be no match for these pirates.
Officer Jenny usually uses Growlithe or Arcanine, which are Fire-type Pokémon, making them difficult to fight at sea. The pirates, on the other hand, mostly use Water-type Pokémon, which are effective against Growlithe and Arcanine.
In this situation, even if Officer Jenny found traces of the pirates, arresting them would be extremely difficult.
And so, this group of pirates lived a carefree life in the Orange Islands, and any rare sea creatures that encountered them rarely met a good end.
When Lapras encountered pirates, they managed to escape, but one of the Lapras was lost – the one Ash caught.
Then came the present moment, when they encountered the same group of pirates again. Coincidentally, Ash was also there. With Gardevoir's help, no matter how the pirate leader ordered all members to attack together, or how they used the cannons on the pirate ship, nothing worked.
Gardevoir could stop them all with a single psychic attack.
Having reached the Elite Four level, Gardevoir is already able to control a portion of the power of heaven and earth. Beings below the Elite Four level are nothing to her. Even the most powerful attacks from humans, such as cannonballs and missiles, can no longer pose a threat to her.
Other Pokémon are fine, but Elite Four level Psychic-type Pokémon have countless ways to deal with missiles and cannonballs.
While it's difficult for Psychic-type Pokémon to fight against opponents of higher levels, they are undoubtedly the most versatile among Pokémon of the same level, bar none.
In the end, the once invincible pirate crew fell at Gardevoir's feet, and all twenty-two members of the ship were captured without exception.
Laplace was finally reunited with her family.
When Ash saw the happy smile on Lapras's face as she spent time with her family, he subconsciously thought that perhaps his first separation was about to begin.
Laplace was forcibly separated by the pirates, and the current Laplace is like a newborn baby in the context of Laplace's entire life cycle.
During this period, under Ash's guidance, Lapras's physique, combat strength, and temperament have all grown rapidly, but this still cannot change the fact that she has not yet left her infancy.
In this situation, the probability of Laplace returning to the original population is extremely high.
Ash didn't intend to stop Lapras from returning, since he always respected Pokémon's choices and wishes. If Lapras chose to return to its pack, he would definitely not bother it.
Given the choice between their biological parents and a human they'd only known for a little over a month, any normal elf would know which to choose.
However—Ash's Lapras doesn't seem to be quite normal.
After a passionate reunion with his parents and fellow tribesmen, Laplace slowly moved his body on the water's surface, gradually distancing himself from his tribe.
Amidst the shocked gazes of Ash, Lapras, her biological parents, and her entire clan, Lapras finally returned to Ash's side on the shore.
That's right, Laplace chose to stay by Ash's side. Although she only stayed with Ash for a short month, she experienced a complete transformation during that month.
Laplace was convinced that such progress might not be achieved within a single ethnic group, even after a year.
Besides her own improvement in strength, Ash's attitude towards her was the most crucial factor. The feeling of treating her as his own child allowed Lapras to feel the warmth of home even when she was not in the colony or her parents were not around.
Although Ash isn't her family, he's become like family to her throughout her life.
To repay Ash for saving his life and nurturing him, and for his own future, Lapras ultimately chose not to return to the comforts of his clan, but instead chose Ash to fight for their future together!