There seems to be something wrong with these Pokémon

"Rhydon has lost his ability to fight, Ditto wins! Please ask the gym trainers to change Pokémon."

Wu Neng took out the Poké Ball and took Rhydon back, saying, "Thank you for your hard work, Rhydon."

He then took out another Poké Ball, his eyes nostalgic, "Enjoy this battle, Onix!"

Wu Neng threw the Poké Ball, and after the Poké Ball landed, a white light popped out that was enough to illuminate the gym. As the light faded, an extremely huge Pokémon stood on the field, looking at the tiny Ditto in front of it with ferocious eyes.

"Onix..." Xiaozhi unconsciously hugged Pikachu tightly, looking at Onix whose head was almost touching the ceiling, he muttered to himself "It's so big..."

"This is one of Dad's most proud Pokémon." Xiaogang never thought that he would see this familiar Pokémon again. "It is the most suitable to use it to test the ability of novice trainers. Before Dad left, it had fought against many novice trainers."

"It's even bigger than Gon's Onix." Misty's body was shaking uncontrollably even from such a distance. She couldn't imagine how terrifying this Pokémon would be to Xiaoye and Ditto standing on the field.

Xiaoye was speechless for a moment. This was the first time he saw such a huge Pokémon.

Not to mention Ditto. The moment Onix appeared on the field, it was scared back to its original form and crawled towards Xiaoye little by little.

"Challenger, please attack first." The referee standing on the left side of the field reminded.

Wu Neng did not urge him. He stretched out his hand to stop the referee's voice and said, "Defeat it, and you will get the gray badge recognized by the Nibi Gym."

Xiaoye forced himself to look away, telling himself to ignore Onix's huge size, and comforting himself that no matter how big it was, it was just a rock-type Pokémon, which did not mean it was incapable of fighting.

"Ditto, can you still hold on?" Xiao Ye didn't notice that even though he tried hard to suppress it, the last few words he uttered were still trembling slightly.

Ditto closed his eyes and screamed, transforming into a vine snake again. But he never had the courage to open his eyes again, so he kept his eyes closed and swung his vine whip around.

"Ditto?" Xiao Ye noticed Ditto's actions and quickly stopped him, "Calm down!"

Wu Neng looked at the vines waving around in the venue. He waved his hand and gave an order, "Onix, bind and attack."

Onix stretched out its tail to surround Ditto, slowly tightening its circle. Even though Xiaoye called out to Ditto to dodge, it was too scared to open its eyes and could only turn around like a trapped animal in Onix's gradually shrinking circle until its body suddenly flew into the air and was tightly bound by Onix.

Soon Onix relaxed its tail, and Ditto, which was on the verge of fainting, returned to its original form, collapsed on the ground and took a deep breath.

"Ditto has lost his ability to fight, and the winner is Onix! Please change your Pokémon, challenger."

Xiaoye raised the Poké Ball and took Ditto back. He held the Poké Ball and whispered, "I'm sorry, Ditto. You've done very well."

"Only by staying calm can you win." Wu Neng waved his hand to signal Onix to come back and said, "A trainer who is afraid will not be able to get a gray badge."

"Yes, I'm very sorry." Xiao Ye put away Ditto's Poké Ball, took a few deep breaths, and threw out Serpentine's Poké Ball.

"Ivy Snake, I leave it to you!"

After appearing on the field, Serpentine looked up at Onix, which was so large that it could not be seen from the top. However, it showed no fear at all and waited for the trainer's instructions with its hands folded.

"Vine Snake, use Vine Whip!"

Upon hearing this, the vine snake immediately stretched out its whip, and at lightning speed, it reached the side of the big rock snake, completing the attack before anyone could react.

It was not until Onix cried out in pain that everyone noticed the broken stone at Onix's tail, and Viper was still holding his hands and looking at Onix coldly.

"What a fast vine whip!" Xiaozhi exclaimed. Even Pikachu stood up from Xiaozhi's arms and looked at Onix in surprise, who had tried his best but couldn't cause much damage, and let out an angry roar.

"Not only is it fast, it's also powerful." Brock corrected Xiaozhi and added, "But it's still hard to defeat Onix at full power at this level."

"Big Rock Snake, use binding."

"Ivy Snake gets out of the way and uses the vine whip to bring yourself to the big rock snake!"

Onix stretched out its body again, using its tail to form a circle and slowly close in, trying to defeat another Vine Snake with the same move. But Vine Snake stretched out its whip and grabbed its head. At the moment when it was about to tie it up, it flew to the top of Onix's head, avoiding the skill of defeating Ditto.

Feeling something above its head, Onix became at a loss, slapping the ground with its tail wildly and shaking its whole body around, trying to shake off the little thing on its head.

"Don't panic, Onix. Use Rockfall to knock down the Viper."

Onix immediately stopped its actions, raised its head and roared.

I saw countless huge rocks appearing from the top of the gym and falling from the sky, smashing towards Onix.

"Snake, use your vine whip to smash them!" Xiaoye still wanted to use the method that Ditto used to deal with Rhydon, using the power of the vine whip to crush the boulders.

I saw the vine snake above the giant rock snake using one vine to fix itself in place, while another vine spread upwards and lashed down at the boulder.

The boulder fell on the field, stirring up a cloud of dust that obscured everyone's vision. Just as Xiaoxia said, "It should work, right?" Wu Neng gave another order, "Use earthquake attack."

The smoke and dust cleared, and the vine snake dragged its injured body back to the ground. Among the fallen boulders, only one had a slight crack, and did not shatter as Xiaoye expected.

Just as Onix raised its tail and prepared to release the earthquake, Xiaoye suddenly thought of what Xiaoxia said.

"Flexible use of the field is a reasonable means of victory!"

He looked up and saw the dense water pipes on the ceiling. He shouted, "Vine Snake, use the vines to hook the water pipes above your head to avoid the earthquake!"

As Rock Snake's tail hit the ground, Vine Snake used vines to hang itself up. The violent vibration of the ground made Xiaoye lose his balance and fall to the ground.

He was glad that the Vine Snake avoided the attack. If it had taken it, it would probably have been unable to fight.

Compared to Xiaoye's efforts to keep his balance, Wu Neng standing opposite him was as still as a mountain. After seeing Onix hanging him up, he laughed and ordered, "Good opportunity, Onix tie it up with a tie."

The Vine Snake hanging in the air had no means of escape and could only watch as the Rock Snake tied it up and its tail tightened tighter and tighter.

Vine Snake was breathing hard. Although it was using the whip to whip Onix with all its might, the pain in its body and the feeling of suffocation made it unable to use any strength at all. The whip that could originally cause great damage just brushed against Onix's body again and again like a child tickling it.

"Vine Snake!"

Seeing the painful look on Snake's face, Xiaoye remembered what happened to Ditto and Pikachu. He bit his lower lip tightly and slowly raised his hand.

"Uncle Wu Neng, I..." abstained.

Xiaoye was interrupted before he could finish his words. The Poké Ball hanging on his waist suddenly lit up with white light, and Ditto, who had almost fainted just now, ran out by itself. Looking at the huge monster in front of it, it tried hard to overcome its fear and shouted something to Snakebite.

It heard Ditto's voice, looked at Ditto who was obviously trembling with fear but still trying to cheer it on, and looked at the trainer who was lowering his head and raising his arms, ready to give up the gray badge for it.

Vine Snake was in a trance and returned to the Viridian Forest. He remembered that in order to amuse Ditto who was on a diet, he pretended to stretch out his vines on the tree to help it find fruits, but in fact he took down a bunch of leaves and pushed them in front of Ditto to annoy it.

Ditto was already miserable because he was not full, and when he saw that Snake was still bullying him, he immediately fought back, changed into the appearance of Snake, picked more leaves, and pushed his share to Snake, with an expression that said you're welcome.

Snake, who originally just wanted to tease Ditto, also got angry, and the two Pokémon started competing to see who could pick more leaves. Although Xiaoye discovered and stopped this meaningless competition, Snake still remembered the sudden flash of power in his body when he was so angry.

"Is it over?" Xiaoxia turned her head away, unable to bear to watch the struggling appearance of the Vine Snake, and asked softly.

"It's over." Wu Neng sighed as he looked at the Toteng Snake, whose struggles were getting weaker and weaker until it had completely lost its strength, "I'm sorry, this gray badge..."

"No! It's not over yet!" Xiaozhi held Pikachu who was also excited and pointed at Snake and shouted, "Snake started to fight back! What skill is that?"

I saw the vine snake gradually relax and distribute its body strength around itself.

A leaf suddenly appeared around it out of nowhere!

No! More than one!

As the vine snake released its power, more and more leaves floated beside it. Just when the entire place was about to be dyed green, it suddenly opened its eyes.

After the vine snake regained consciousness, all the leaves gathered together as if under command. The seemingly weak leaves were as sharp as blades. They scraped the parts that were wrapped around the vine snake, forcing the giant rock snake that was wrapped around it to let go.

The next moment, the Vine Snake roared, and all its leaves turned into a violent wind and flew towards the Onix, severely injuring the Onix, which had just let go of its tail.

"This is Ye Baofeng."

Xiaozhi was holding a skill that couldn't be found in the illustrated manual and was revealed by Wu Neng.

"Ye Baofeng?" Xiaoxia and Xiaogang had never heard of this skill before, and repeated what Wu Neng said.

"This is a skill unique to the Grass-type Pokémon in the Unova region." Wu Neng answered. He looked at the high-spirited Serpentine in the field with a sharp gaze and said no more.

"Use Leaf Storm again after using Vine Whip!"

As Onix's huge body fell, the referee blew the whistle and shouted, "Onix has lost its ability to fight, and Snake has won. Since both Pokémon of the gym trainer have lost their ability to fight, the winner of the gym challenge is the challenger Xiaoye!"

At the same time, Wu Neng happened to say, "I lost this duel convincingly. The 'perseverance' that the rock possessed was performed very well by Fujin Snake."

He took the gray badge handed to him by Geodude, walked up to Xiaoye and handed it to him, "This is proof that you defeated the Nibe Gym, the gray badge."

"Grey Badge..."

Xiaoye accepted the badge and carefully put it into the badge box.

After a while, when Xiaozhi and others came to celebrate his success, he still looked at the badge box and felt that everything was so unreal. At this moment, he realized that he had won. He rushed to the field, half-knelt, hugged the injured Vinevine Snake and Ditto, and shouted, "We succeeded! The first badge! The gray badge!"

The vine snake was startled at first, then it immediately came to its senses and put its hands on its hips, looking like "what's there to be happy about?", but the slightly raised corners of its lips revealed its inner joy.

Ditto pounced on Snake in Xiaoye's arms, wrapped Snake with its soft body, and used all the words of praise it had learned in its life to praise Snake for defeating the terrifying Onix.

"Congratulations, Xiaoye." Wu Neng reached out and pulled Xiaoye up, saying, "The meaning of the gray badge is 'calmness'. I hope you can keep this calmness until the end."

"Yes!" Xiao Ye stood up with the help of martial arts. "I will continue to work hard."

"Dad." Xiaogang came to stand beside Xiaozhi with his packed luggage. "I have something to say to you before I leave."

"You're leaving now." Wu Neng turned around and said guiltily, "It's my fault for leaving you guys for so long. You deserve to scold me..."

Xiaogang did not respond, but took out paper and pen and handed them to Wu Neng.

Just as Wu Neng was looking at the sudden weight in his hand in confusion, Xiao Gang took a deep breath and began to talk incessantly.

"Jiro likes red miso. Saburo likes white miso. Sister likes mixed miso, and Goro likes clear soup..."

At this moment, Wu Neng, who had just woken up from a dream, hurriedly picked up the pen and wrote on the paper, shouting, "Wait a minute! You speak too fast! Sanlang likes..."

Xiaogang ignored him and continued talking fluently.

"Liu Lang likes corn soup. It's sold at Nibi Store for 320 yuan. You need it in cans. Remember..."

Xiaoye and Tengteng She were looking at Wu Neng, who was at a loss and mumbling, with their eyes wide open in shock.

Xiaozhi said blankly, "Uncle Wu Neng has such a strong sense of oppression..."

Xiaoxia continued what Xiaozhi hadn't finished saying, and also stared at Wu Neng blankly.

“…It’s all fake.”

"Pikachu——"

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"Xiao Ye, don't you want to go with us?" Under the setting sun, Xiao Ye and Wu Neng went to the river to see Xiao Zhi and his group off. Before they left, Xiao Zhi turned back and asked.

"No, I have something to ask of Uncle Wu Neng, so I need to stay in Nibi City for one more day." Xiao Ye declined while holding the Teng Teng Snake.

"Is that so? Okay then!" Xiaozhi didn't bother to argue any further and waved goodbye to Xiaoye and Wu Neng together with Xiaoxia and Xiaogang.

"That's right!" Xiaoye suddenly remembered something and shouted to Xiaozhi's back, "Professor Oak asked you to capture more Pokémon. He said that you are the slowest in the entire Pallet Town!"

Xiaozhi's back suddenly staggered, and then he ran without looking back, with Xiaoxia and Xiaogang chasing after him. "I know, I have already captured Butterfree and Pidgeot, don't rush me anymore!"