Pokémon: Pikachu Bonds

"Sound-based skills are hard to defend against. Even Pikachu would find it difficult to resist the previous move. We have to think of a way to block this skill." Xiaozhi quickly thought of a countermeasure and at the same time took back the Donkey Kong who had fainted on the ground.

Xiaozhi quickly thought of a solution, so he lowered his head and said to Pikachu: "Pikachu, I'll leave it to you from now on!"

"Pika~" Pikachu jumped and arrived at the competition venue.

"The final of the Joint Gym Challenge begins now!!" announced the robot referee.

"Pikachu uses Lightning Flash!"

"Pika~Pika~" Pikachu curled up his limbs slightly, and shot towards the Trilling Salamander like an arrow. Because of the speed, a white light visible to the naked eye formed behind him...

"Trembling Salamander uses poison!"

"Trem~" The Tremolo aimed at the attacking Pikachu and shot out a stream of purple liquid mixed with a foul smell.

"Pikachu, get out of the way, use Shadow Clone!"

"Pika~" Pikachu quickly jumped into the air to avoid the venom. The venom lost its target and fell to the ground, instantly corroding the ground into potholes.

Then, to the stunned eyes of Trilling Salamander, Pikachu created dozens of Pikachus, which rushed towards it at an extremely fast speed.

"Thriller Salamander uses sonic blast!"

"Trem~" The Trilling Newt made a deafening explosion. Fortunately, Ash was prepared and plugged his ears with earplugs in a flash to avoid damage to his ears. At the same time, all the Pikachus on the field disappeared without a trace under the attack of the sonic boom, leaving only a medium-sized hole in everyone's sight.

"Use the shadow clone as a cover, take the opportunity to use the digging trick to sneak into the ground and be ready for a sneak attack at any time?" Denji instantly understood Xiaozhi's strategy.

"Pikachu uses Chi Punch!" Xiaozhi shouted loudly.

"Pika!" Pikachu broke out from behind Trilling Newt and swung his little fist covered in red light at the opponent's back.

"Trem~" The moment Pikachu broke out of the ground, the Trilling Newt quickly distanced itself from it, turned around and sprayed a stream of venom mixed with a foul smell towards Pikachu.

The venom shot into Pikachu's body like a sharp arrow, but Pikachu's body turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared without a trace.

"What?! It's a Stand!" Denci showed a look of surprise. He didn't expect that Xiaozhi, the sixth-best, would use tricks to confuse him one after another, and he didn't even need to give any orders.

There are only two possibilities for not needing training and issuing orders. The first possibility is that the opponent has the ability to communicate with Pokémon telepathically. The second possibility is that the opponent and Pokémon have a very good understanding of each other and have used this old six-style strategy many times before, so skilled that they can execute it without issuing orders. Denci prefers the latter.

"Pikachu uses Grass Knot!"

As soon as Xiaozhi finished his words, two vines stretched out from under the Trilling Salamander's feet and tied it up tightly, making it unable to break free.

Denji knew without thinking that this level of tacit understanding was definitely due to the frequent cooperation, and even the move of Grass Knot could be used in a variety of ways. Originally, Grass Knot was a move that made a grass knot appear on the ground, tripping the opponent and causing damage to the opponent by surprise, but under Xiaozhi's training, Pikachu's Grass Knot was actually trained to be a move similar to binding, and a good attack move was turned into a binding move.

At the same time...the trainers sitting in the audience had their eyes shining, looking as if they had learned something, and were thinking in their hearts about the feasibility of this operation.

Even Shinji looked at Satoshi thoughtfully. After all, Satoshi's development of skills was quite extensive and worth learning. Just like the counterattack shield he learned from Satoshi, it was very practical.

"Pikachu uses electric ball!"

"Pika~" Pikachu broke out of the ground and threw a ball full of lightning energy in the direction of Trilling Newt. Then Pikachu waved his little hands to dig up the ground and dived back into the ground.

BOMM!!!

"Trem~" A puff of black smoke came out of the Tremolotl's mouth, and at the same time, the vines on his body were blown to pieces by the explosion just now.

"Trembling Salamander uses Tile Break on the ground!" Denji planned to let Trilling Salamander break the ground and force Pikachu out.

"Trem~" When the Trilling Salamander raised its right paw and was about to smash it to the ground, Pikachu broke out of the ground and punched it in the chin.

The trembling newt was hit hard and its whole body flew into the air, then fell heavily to the ground, its head tilted and it fainted.

"Trembling Salamander is incapable of fighting, Pikachu wins!"

"Therefore, the winner of this Joint Gym Challenge is challenger Satoshi," the robot referee announced.

"Well done Pikachu!" Ash rushed into the competition venue excitedly.

"Pika~" Pikachu jumped into Xiaozhi's arms with excitement.

"Trem~" After waking up from his coma, the Tremolo looked at Denci with an apologetic look on his face.

"Thank you for your hard work, Trilling Salamander. You have tried very hard." Denji patted his head to comfort him, then stood up and walked in front of Xiaozhi and said, "I enjoyed this game very much. I hope you can get good results in the joint conference."

"Thank you~ I will." Xiaozhi responded with a smile.

"This is the United Lighthouse Badge. It's proof that you defeated me." Denji handed a badge to Xiaozhi.

"Thank you!" Xiaozhi excitedly took the United Lighthouse Badge from Denji, then raised the badge and shouted, "I got the fourth United Badge!"

"It's so noisy." A familiar voice sounded in Xiaozhi's ears.

Xiaozhi then turned around and looked...only to see Shinji coming in front of Xiaozhi with a blank expression.

"It seems you have made a lot of progress now, Xiaozhi." Shinji said lightly.

"Of course~ After all, I can't stay in the same place forever. How about Shinji, do you want to have a friendly match with me?" Xiaozhi invited.

"Let's save our fight for the joint conference. I hope you won't be eliminated too early." Shinji replied.

Before Xiaozhi could answer, Xiaoxia reminded him quietly, "Xiaozhi just finished the gym match, and Pikachu and the others are injured and need to rest. What's more, Shinji will challenge the gym match next, and his Pokémon needs to be in the best condition to challenge Denji."

Upon hearing this, Xiaozhi suddenly realized that he was so excited to see Shinji that he forgot for a moment that the other party came to participate in the joint challenge.

So he said apologetically, "Shinji, I'm sorry, I forgot that you were going to challenge Mr. Denji."

Shinji did not answer when he heard this, but looked at Denji.

When Denji saw Shinji looking at him, he immediately understood what he meant, so he said, "My Pokémon has just experienced a battle and is exhausted. Today is not suitable for the joint gym challenge. We need to wait until tomorrow afternoon."