Chapter 11: A Bite to Remember

Ash and May are traveling through a forest that consists of many Pokemon. Ash was surprised to see all the various Pokemon, scaring some away. Then a group of Mightyena come around and showed them hostility. Ash's Pikachu and May's Torchic are ordered to attack them. They started to battle, but the Poochyena comes running in, followed by a girl named Katrina. She explains this was a Pokemon reserve.


After that we see Team Rocket, who have heard that the woods were full of Pokemon, but haven't seen any. Then they noticed one and suddenly the spot several more that they overlooked. Wobbuffet popped up, holding some kind of sign. Upon reading it, they see that it's a notice indicating that this is a Pokemon reserve. They immediately started to think of a way to steal the Pokemon.


We went back to Ash and May who has followed Katrina to the preserve center, when the sick and injured Pokemon are cared for. Soon after, Poochyena is sleeping and Ash turns on the Pokedex entry to hear/know about it. Then he and Katrina started talking about when Poochyena will evolve, and she reveals that Poochyena is the same age as the group of Mightyena that earlier attacked them, but it hasn't evolved yet, probably because it only can use Tackle. Katrina says that she is not worried – it's not a problem if it takes a long time to evolve or even if it never evolves.

Ash then comes in and says Mightyena are stronger than Poochyena, and starts showing how Pokemon evolve in different ways and tell them the benefits of evolving Poochyena. May started to think about her Torchic evolving, and she and Ash talk about how he would like to train Poochyena to evolve to a Mightyena and how might they get her Torchic to evolve to its next stage. Ash remembered that he can not just make a Pokemon evolve it requires much experience first, and it takes a while. Ash also says it also takes a lot of work from their Trainer to get it to evolve. Which May questions to why Pikachu didn't evolve and he told her that from before Pokemon have different type of evolutions.

For example: He showed her another chart of what she means that his Pikachu needs a Thunderstone to evolve to a Raichu.

Ash wanted to help Poochyena to evolve to a Mightyena so Katrina told him that there isn't a guarantee it will evolve soon, but she does have room if they want to stay. Ash wants to hurry on his way to challenge the next Gym, but he remembered he must help evolve Poochyena. As he said he would do it, but after that it goes to Ash getting Poochyena to battle Torchic and urging him to use Bite instead of Tackle. Torchic finally gets fed up and scorches both of them before walking away. Then Ash went to feed Pikachu a snack and he asked Pikachu would he help him evolve Poochyena, but he then remembers Pokemon was happy to not evolve.


Then he runs off with Poochyena. May got puzzled, but the Katrina comes up to show her a trap for catching Pokemon. May realized there are poachers in the forest. It goes back to Team Rocket standing beside a pile of Pokemon in a net and saying "We rock!" Then they started fantasizing about a promotion from their boss and the benefits that will result, such as Jessie getting a new house.


It goes back to Ash with Poochyena, Ash saying "This looks like a good spot to train" and discussed plans to attack any Pokemon who aren't flying-type and don't have special attacks. Team Rocket is watching and plots to steal the Poochyena from the "mini-twerp". Ash then tells Poochyena that although it is good at tackling, which was mainly effective to Pokemon its size or smaller, so he had to start using Bite. Team Rocket comments that he's trying to evolve it into a Mightyena, and decide to give him some "help". Ash then starts looking for something for Poochyena to attack, and spots a Machine.

He started to examine the machine with interest, and then decides to just walk away from it. Team Rocket, disguised as scientists, come up and explain that they're doing top secret research and don't want Ash to tell anyone about it. Ash agrees, and then asked what they're researching. James says they don't want to tell him, but "unintentionally" let it slip in the process. He gets sheepish, and Jessie says that now that he knows, why they don't demonstrate? The put Meowth into the machine, pull a lever, and open it to reveal Meowth in a Persian costume. Ash got fooled and very amazed.

Ash asked if the can do it some more, and they turn the "Persian" into a Sunflora, which really surprised Ash, who protests that it's not possible for a Persian to evolve into a Sunflora. Jessie says that's what they told Albert Einstein before he invented the light bulb, to which Ash says Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. They quickly move on and proceed to go through a series of other such changes, and then it cuts to Meowth trying to decide which costume to put on next. He delayed too long and they knock on the machine, so he hurriedly put several pieces of different costumes. This really made Ash suspicious. Jessie and James stand in front of the Machine and offer to give the Poochyena a try. Ash knew it was rigged and starts to leave with Poochyena, but Jessie and James stand in front of the machine and offer to give the Poochyena a try.

Ash saw them put Poochyena into the machine, and a moment later holding Ash back as he tries to get free. They told Meowth to go ahead and the machine appears to explode.


Next thing, Team Rocket was thanking Ash about letting them catch Poochyena and the other stolen Pokemon in their Meowth balloon. Ash insisted on asking them to give it back, and they refused. Just then, Katrina and May arrived and Katrina accuses Team Rocket of being the poachers and they proceed to unmask themselves and do the motto. Then they use a machine to grab Pikachu and start to float away.

Ash and his friends gave chase. Ash releases his Taillow. Ash urges Poochyena to bite through the net in order to free himself and all his friends. Poochyena is scared, but with enough encouragement, he does it. They all fall to the ground, Team Rocket looks dismayed, and just then Taillow's persistent pecking causes James to loosen his hold on the Pikachu-grabber, and it releases Pikachu. Then Ash orders Pikachu to use Thunderbolt, which causes Team Rocket to blast off again.

Ash congratulates Poochyena for finally using Bite and saving the day. Ash thoughts were right- Poochyena is great whether it evolves or not. Poochyena comments happily and then begins to evolve! May didn't understand why it was glowing, but Katrina explains that it was beginning to evolve. The newly evolved Mightyena lets out a triumphant howl, Ash was amazed, and the other three Mightyena come to congratulate their companion and the Ash and May continued on their way to Rustboro City, but before that happens.

May kissed the boy who she was traveling with and Ash just felt a sensation after the kiss as if he felt as if there was love in the air, which he was usually oblivious to, but for today what he was told by Brock was what made him less oblivious to it and asked what was it for and she told him "It was because I like you for some sort of reason." Ash was sure that May loved him in such a romantic way and Ash returned the kiss back to May.


She thought the same thoughts as well as Ash did as well the two hesitated to talk to each other and didn't know what to say, so Ash just gave her a hug to make her feel better about talking to him and May thanked him for the hug, but she took a guess that Ash loved her as she did to him.

So May thought the next time she gets a chance she might ask him out on a date when they arrive to Rustboro City and Ash held her hand and walked with her to Rustboro all May did was blush and followed him and her thoughts must have been true so her plan might work in the future.


Well this is the end of this chapter with this romantic ending. See you later in the next chapter! Goodbye!

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