There seems to be something wrong with these Pokémon

Ma Zhishi finally gave in and agreed to take them to the forest to find out what was going on.

Just as Xiaozhi and Pikachu were high-fiving and everyone was very excited, the man poured cold water on them.

"Follow my instructions and don't act on your own!"

Ma Zhishi took the Poké Ball from Happiny and pointed at the three tense people and said, "Leave Pikachu here, and all the Pokémon that have not reached the highest evolution form with you!"

Leave Pikachu behind...?

Xiaozhi lifted Pikachu to look at it, and Pikachu stared at him with tears in its eyes.

"Pikachu, can you stay here and wait for me to come back?" The young boy couldn't help but turned his head away, as if he could deceive himself as long as he didn't look.

"This time it's for Vermilion City, so..."

Before Xiaozhi could continue to be sentimental, he suddenly felt his hand lighten!

The next moment, Pikachu's exclamation filled his ears.

Xiaozhi turned his head and saw that Happiny, who had just handed the Poké Ball to Ma Zhishi, was holding Pikachu high. After looking at it carefully, he walked to Miss Joy staggeringly.

"Hey, this Pikachu?" Miss Joy noticed Happiny's movements out of the corner of her eye and took the Pikachu, avoiding the white bandage with a bow.

"There are signs of trauma on the body that have been treated, but the effect is poor and needs to be rebandaged."

Ma Zhishi narrowed his eyes and looked at Xiaoxia who had previously provided emergency treatment for Pikachu. The girl lowered her head guiltily, and her toes rubbed irregularly on the ground.

I already said I'm not very good at it, why are you looking at her like that? !

"And the power stored in the body is insufficient. Has anyone discharged it artificially?"

The experienced Miss Joy gently rubbed Pikachu's battery bag and found no trace of electricity, so she placed Pikachu on the bed where Raichu had just been lying, took two things that looked like wires, fixed them to Pikachu's battery bag, and adjusted the voltage.

"I'm going to charge you now. It may be a little uncomfortable, so please be patient."

"In that case, Pikachu has to stay in the Pokémon Center." Xiaoye put the Ditto, which had turned into a bracelet again, on his wrist, looked up and smiled.

"It feels like everything was planned." Misty sighed and said, "Ye's Ditto didn't participate in the gym tournament so he had some spare time. Satoshi has been using Charmander and the others recently, and Butterfree, who rarely needs to fight, just happened to run into this incident."

"This means that we need our help to solve this problem!" Xiaozhi tightly grasped Butterfree's Poké Ball and said with a firm look, "We must find the culprit of this incident no matter what. We can't let the Pokémon in the city and the forest suffer like this."

"remarkably brave."

Everyone looked in the direction of the cold snort and saw that the man who had checked Raichu's body was raising the Poké Ball to take back the Pokémon.

The man's wolf-like eyes swept over the three young trainers who were ready to go, and as they tensed their bodies and swallowed their saliva, he spoke.

"Stay close to me, and don't bring anything except the highest evolved Pokémon."

----

A slight bead of sweat ran across the tip of my nose, and the huge city was deserted.

Most residents and travelers took refuge inside buildings, trying their best to isolate themselves from the uncomfortable low-frequency noise.

Looking down from the top of the building, one could only see four small black shadows standing there motionless, and opposite them there seemed to be some Pokémon stopping, blocking their way.

"It's Parast!"

Xiao Ye leaned out from Ma Zhishi's side and looked at the big spores, whispering.

The reason why I was so impressed by this Pokémon was that when he was at the Oak Research Institute, Professor Oak had discussed whether Paraste, the evolved form of Paras, was a plant or an animal.

However, since current machines are unable to accurately measure which part of the organism's vital signs are displayed, this research was forced to be abandoned.

“It doesn’t seem very friendly…”

Xiaoxia grabbed Xiaozhi's shoulders and said in a trembling voice, "Look at its movements, does it look like it wants to attack us?"

When his name was called, Parast turned around, staring at them with only the whites of his eyes, and the big mushroom on his back trembled.

A black shadow quickly shuttled through the tall buildings, and with the power of its four legs, it leaped high into the air. After a flash of crackling lightning, the originally aggressive Parast fell to the ground unconscious in the blink of an eye.

Ma Zhishi nodded to the Pokémon standing next to Parast. The Pokémon was yellow all over, except for a circle of hair around its neck that looked like a white scarf.

The black combat boots that it had put on in the Withered Leaf Gym flashed in front of the Thunder Elf. It looked up at the backs of Ma Zhishi and the others as they left, and after a while used "One Hundred Thousand Volts" towards the empty sky.

Three minutes later, Miss Junsha, who came hurriedly on a motorcycle, took the unconscious Parast away.

Everything was so skillful, as if they were used to this kind of cooperation.

----

"Is that Mr. Mashishi's Pokémon?"

Xiaozhi's eyes lit up and he kept looking back at the departing figure of the Thunder Elf.

"What a cool Pokémon, I want one too!"

"Although it's very powerful, it's not that cool, right?"

Xiaoxia lowered her voice so that Ma Zhishi wouldn't hear, "Anyway, I don't think they're as cute as Pikachu and the water Pokémon."

"No no no no."

Xiaozhi finally took his eyes off of her and said with a grin, "You lack the ability to see beauty. You are afraid of such a cute caterpillar. How can you appreciate it?"

Xiaoxia suddenly felt her clenched fists itchy. Just when she wanted to show off her self-created boxing skills, she ran into a "wall" head-on.

The girl fell to the ground, rubbing her sore nose, wailing silently with tears in her eyes.

"Are you okay?" Xiao Ye stretched out her hand to pull Xiao Xia up, and asked Ma Zhishi, whose muscles were tense, "Why did you stop suddenly? Isn't the forest right in front of us?"

Xiaozhi walked a few quick steps to Ma Zhishi's side and leaned over to look, but he did not reply for a long time.

Just as Xiao Ye frowned and wanted to ask again, Xiao Zhi's slightly hesitant voice came.

"It seems to be... a woman?"

The woman was wearing a red dress and sitting casually on the ground.

Graceful, enchanting and charming.

She has rosy and sexy cherry lips, a small and straight nose, shoulders like a knife, a waist like a rope, and her every frown and smile is full of charm, and her every move is full of charm.

"Ma Zhishi, you're finally here." The woman in the red dress chuckled a few times, as clear as a silver bell. "It's not a gentleman's style to keep the lady waiting for so long."

"Shareya..."

Ma Zhishi, who was facing a formidable enemy, took out two Poké Balls and held them in his hands, with veins bulging on the back of his hands.

"Hmm? You can't just call out a lady's name casually."

In stark contrast to Ma Zhishi's defensive attitude, the woman yawned leisurely, bent her knees slightly and stood up.

"You electrified me last time, my little cutie. I waited for a long time but you didn't come to apologize, so I had no choice but to come here in person."

As she spoke, a gleam of light flashed in her beautiful eyes, and she stood up and threw out a Poké Ball in a very covert manner.

But to her disappointment, the tall and strong man opposite threw the Poké Ball almost at the same time as her.

"Haha, Ma Zhishi, it seems that all these years of stable life have not numbed your nerves."

The flaming horse stamped its front hooves and swung its tail quickly, its eyes full of the Raichu whose battery bag was flashing with electricity across from it.

"Relax, cutie."

Shariya gently stroked the flaming horse, sinking her whole hand into the flaming mane.

"We are not here to fight today, we are here to give gifts, remember?"

With Shariya's comfort, the flaming horse soon calmed down. Then she jumped up with her right foot and turned over to sit on the horse's back.

The movements are smooth and beautiful like a painting.

The queen, sitting on horseback, lowered her eyes slightly, looking down at her opponents who dared not even breathe.

"Ma Zhishi, do you like the little gift I gave you?"

"It's you?!"

Only then did Sha Ruiya notice the three young men following Ma Zhishi. She chuckled and covered her lips with her hands, teasing, "Is this your return gift, handsome sir?"

"Three little kids... who don't know what etiquette is."

Xiaozhi's voice choked up, and he quickly shot back, "Pretentious woman, are you the one who caused the Pokémon frenzy in the entire forest?"

Sha Ruiya's face turned cold, the muscles at the corners of Ma Zhishi's eyes twitched, and he stepped to the left to block the young and energetic boy.

The forest fell silent for a moment, and even the noise that had never stopped seemed to stop at this moment.

Shariya, who wanted to teach the child a lesson, changed her expression and looked back sideways.

The shouts of men and women echoed throughout the forest. The extremely familiar voices made the three people hiding behind Ma Zhishi stunned for a moment.

"Meow, run with Abe Snake!"

"And there are gas bombs!"

“Tsk…”

Shauriya casually played with her long hair, her tone tinged with a hint of annoyance.

"It seems that the gift I gave you was destroyed by a few little mice. How rude."

However, Ma Zhishi watched the flaming horse suddenly raise its front hooves, his muscles tensed, and he shouted, "Raichu, 100,000 volts!"

Outside the forest, the lightning released by the Thunder Hill and the flames spewed out by the Flame Horse collided violently, stirring up a cloud of dust.

The gusts of air stirred up by such a powerful energy collision made Xiaoye unable to open his eyes for a moment.

Only at this moment did he truly understand how powerful the gym leader was!

This kind of powerful "One Hundred Thousand Volts"... is more than five times more powerful than the one he had in the gym battle!

"Nine-tailed Fox, Flame Whirlpool."

The charming voice of a woman was heard again in the thick smoke.

As she gave the order, the Nine-Tailed Fox, which had been hiding in the dark for a long time, appeared.

Surrounded by flames, Xiaoye and Xiaoxia reacted quickly and released their Pokémon to protect everyone from the high temperature.

"Ditto transforms into a water elf, water cannon!"

"Jewel Starfish, water gun!"

The Gem Star floated above Xiaoye's head and caught Ditto who had transformed into a water elf. Following the trainer's orders, the two of them spun together and sprayed water to put out the fire.

Xiao Ye, who was engulfed in flames, looked at the distorted air in front of him and felt a pang of fear in his heart.

If the woman really wanted to take their lives, Ma Zhishi would probably be the only one present who could fight her, and the rest of them would hardly be able to hurt her even if they attacked together.

After a while

Thanks to the efforts of Starfish and Ditto, the vortex of fire surrounding everyone was quickly resolved.

There was still a slight warmth in the air, and the dark grass around was wailing silently.

The horseshoe prints are the last message they left behind.

"Mr. Ma Zhishi, that is...?"

"Shaurya, one of Team Rocket's officers."

Ma Zhishi recalled his several battles with Shariya, and the record of more defeats than wins made it difficult for him to talk about it.

"She is a crazy woman, and one of the few people in Team Rocket who has truly relied on her own strength to sit in this position."

"Is she very powerful?" Xiaoxia caught the flying gem starfish and held it in her arms and asked, "Is she more powerful than Uncle Wu Neng?"

"Shareya specializes in Fire-type Pokémon. Among the gym leaders in the Kanto region, probably only the three Cerulean sisters and old man Xia Bo can defeat her."