Pokemon; Freshman Ash

Looking at the Elite Four in the entire Region, Bertha is the only Ground Type Elite. Like Aaron's bug Elite, they are relatively unpopular Attributes.

Good at using Ground-type Pokémon, and the level has reached the Elite level. Apart from Bertha in front of him, the only person Ash knows is Giovanni, and Giovanni in the comics definitely exceeds the Elite level. I don't know about it in the animation, but Ash thinks it's not weak.

Because the level of Pokémon in his hand is not enough to fight against Bertha, Ash temporarily sent Gabite back and exchanged Sceptile.

On the battle field outside the Pokémon Center, Ash and Bertha stood on both sides of the field. After Xiaogang, the referee, temporarily announced the rules, the battle officially began.

Bertha threw a Poké Ball, and a level 68 Hippowdon appeared on the battle field. Because of the sand blowing ability, a huge sandstorm blew up the entire battle field.

Ash also opened the Poké Ball and sent out his own level 67 Lizard Master. From the Attribute, the grass-type Sceptile has an advantage over the Ground-type Hippo Lu.

However, Anabel is a little worried. The strength of the Elite Four is often not won by relying on Attribute.

"Ash, come on!"

Ash, who heard Dawn cheering, gave her a no-problem gesture~.

Anabel turned his head and found that Dawn was smiling and looking at Ash on the field, there was no worry on his face.

"Dawn, aren't you worried?" Anabel couldn't help asking

"Of course don't worry, Ash will definitely win." He said very confidently, but Anabel was a little puzzled.

Although I heard from Brandon that Ash subdued the Holy Pillar King Regigigas, but Brandon didn't go into details that time, so Anabel wondered if the Holy Pillar King had just awakened and hadn't fully grasped the power, so he was subdued by Ash.

But even so, being able to subdue the Holy Pillar King Ash is very powerful. It's just that the Pokémon Ash used to fight against was not Regigigas but Sceptile, so Anabel was still a little worried.

"Sceptile, Leaf Blade" Ash shouted first.

Immediately, an emerald green light blade appeared in Sceptile's hand, and rushed towards Hippowdon. In this ferocious Sandstorm, Sceptile could barely see where Hippowdon was, "Sceptile Ren confidently hit him with his speed before Hippowdon could dodge it.

The emerald green sharp blade slammed heavily on Hippowdon's body, and Hippowdon immediately showed a painful expression on his face. But judging from the injuries on his body, they were only minor injuries.

"Very high defensive power" Ash thought to himself that he was worthy of Hippowdon, and the physical defense was really high enough.

And Bertha was also very shocked at this time, knowing that Common's Leaf Blade slash was just tickling Hippowdon Tickle, and this time it actually made him feel the pain.

Bertha yelled immediately after "Fire Fang" was surprised. Hippowdon opened his big mouth full of flames and bit Sceptile, but Sceptile easily dodged it.

"Using Sand Tombs"

Hippowdon roared, and the ground beneath Sceptile's feet immediately began to sink. Seeing this, Ash immediately let Sceptile jump into the air to avoid falling into the quicksand.

"Using Rock Slide"

Several boulders appeared on Sceptile's head, and under the control of Hippowdon, they smashed towards Sceptile in mid-air.

"Leaf Blade slash it"

The light blade appeared on Sceptile's hands again, cutting the huge boulders on his head into broken stones.

"I have a hand." Bertha laughed as she watched the Sceptile falling in mid-air, "Rock is closed". I saw the gravel that fell naturally from the sky flew towards Sceptile again under Bertha's control.

"Sceptile, use Protect" Ash shouted, a pale green mask appeared in front of Sceptile, blocking the flying gravel.

At this time, the Sceptile also fell on the Ground, but the flat Ground under Sceptile's feet turned into a normal subsidence like quicksand.

"What?" Ash was startled.

"Do you know why I'm called a Ground Elite?" Bertha's smiling face suddenly changed, her eyes were as sharp as a blade Normal. "It's not just because I'm only good at using Ground Pokémon, but more importantly, I can control Ground."

As Bertha's voice fell, the ground of the entire battle field began to become soft like quicksand, and at this time Sceptile had also fallen into the quicksand.

"This is the real Sand Tomb, Hippowdon, Iron Head".

The Hippo King's entire body was wrapped in the silvery white metal light, and he quickly rushed towards the Sceptile who was trapped in the quicksand.

Ash found that the Hippo King could control the quicksand to prevent him from appearing on the Ground under his feet while rushing towards Sceptile, so he could have such a speed.

"I was careless" Ash's head was covered with sweat, and he shouted "Sceptile hardened the whole field with plants".

Sceptile's body glowed green, and he pressed his hands on the Ground. Suddenly, countless huge vines appeared in the quicksand-like battle field, knocking Hippowdon rushing to the ground, and Sceptile was brought to Soaring because of the vines. in the sky.

Looking at Sceptile who was able to escape from the quicksand, and Hippowdon who was injured by hardened plants, Bertha nodded, "Sure enough, there are two hits, but it's not enough, Rock Slide".

The huge Rock fell on Sceptile's body, because of the hardening plant side effect, Sceptile couldn't dodge at all, and could only be smashed from these vines.

Fortunately, this move is not fatal enough, but Bertha can't Hold Back, and immediately shouted "Continue to attack with Rock Slide".

It was the same huge Rock again, Ash shouted "Sceptile, use the shadow clone to jump on the vine!".

The falling Sceptile immediately split into many shadows after hearing Ash's voice, dodged Rock Slide's attack, and jumped onto the vine. Sceptile also knew that he must never fall on the Ground again.

"Sceptile, energy planet!"

Together with the shadows on several vines, countless emerald green light balls flew towards Hippowdon. Seeing this, Bertha immediately shouted "use protection"

A mask appeared on Hippowdon's body, blocking these light spheres.

"Get close to him now and chop him with a knife!"

The lizard's shadow disappeared immediately, and rushed towards Hippowdon with its emerald green blade. Bertha smiled slightly when she saw Sceptile pounced on her, "Stop talking."

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Hippowdon opened his mouth and spat out the purple Black light, hitting Sceptile completely, Dawn and Anabel stood up from their seats immediately seeing this scene. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that Sceptile would definitely fall after being hit by this destructive death ray.

But what is surprising is that there is no Sceptile's miserable Growl, and at this time Ash smiled confidently. Sceptile suddenly fell from the sky and landed on Hippowdon's back.

"What?!" Bertha was startled and immediately responded "Is that a shadow?".

At this moment, she suddenly understood why Sceptile had deliberately dispersed the shadow before. It turned out that she deliberately made herself think that the one that was jumping at Hippowdon was the main body.

"Sceptile, Giga Drain" Sceptile pressed Hippowdon's back with his hand, and Hippowdon's physical strength immediately turned into a green light and was sucked into Sceptile's body.

And Hippowdon couldn't move because of the side effect of the dead light, so he could only watch his physical strength disappear.

When the round time expired, Bertha immediately yelled "Hippowdon, use Dig".

"It's too late, the sun is burning!"

At this time, the sandstorm had already dissipated, and under the fierce sunlight, the fiery beam fell on Hippowdon. After a scream, Hippowdon fell to the ground and passed out.

"Hippowdon is out of combat, Sceptile wins! The winner is Ash"

After hearing Xiaogang announce the result of the match, Ash finally breathed a sigh of relief. To be honest, this time was much more difficult than the match against Aaron.

(Sorry everyone, I owe another chapter (crying loudly). Let’s see if I can make up for it tomorrow. There will be fewer classes tomorrow. I plan to finish writing Dawn’s Contest celebration tomorrow. Everyone thinks that Dawn should be the same as the original plot Is it better to be the runner-up or let Dawn beat Zoey to win the championship? I want to hear everyone's opinions).