Everyone stoppedat a nearby field to rest. Serena was training her pokemons for the next showcase and Ash and Katie trained their pokemons for the battles ahead. Ash was about to have Hawlucha do a spinning X scissor when he heard Katie rush over to the others with Violet. She says in an excited voice," It finally happened! It took so much training and jumping but Violet finally learned dragon rush"! Ash and Serena were both impressed as Serena then asks," How did you teach it"? Katie then has Violet go on top of the big rock. She then commands her to use dragon rush as Violet jumps down and glides. She glows and forms light into a dragon and hits another boulder that was far away. Everyone cheered and Serena's Braixen smiled proudly since her "little sister" learned a new move. However, when the dust cleared, Violet was knocked out. Katie rushes over with Rocky as they help her wake up from the crash. Once that happened, Katie says," Although she learned the move, we are still trying to do something about the recoil." Braixen then had an idea as she tells Rocky to use rock throw at her. Although confused, he does it and Braixen jumps onto one of the rocks and then jumps back while spinning and soon, landing on both feet. Katie then saw that she had the right idea with recoiling. If Violet jumped back and spun after hitting something with dragon rush, she wouldn't get knocked out from the recoil. After explaining this to Violet, they tried it out and it worked. Soon, they stopped and had lunch. All the pokemon finished quite quickly before the trainers did. While waiting, they decided to branch out and relax. Rocky was just stretching when he heard something from behind the bushes. He looked but nothing was there. He then heard it again and jumped to where the sound was from but saw nothing. The sound was heard again as Rocky pounced to it. However, he accidentally pounces into Ash, knocking him down. He apologies and then hears the sound again. He jumps again, this time, bouncing onto the tent and then got flinged back and knocked into Braixen, having them both land hard in a mud puddle. Serena got startled as everyone else returned their pokemons and rushed to see if anyone was hurt. Luckily, no harm was done with the exception of the twosome now head to foot in mud. As they got up, a net surrounded them as a man says," Gotcha you runaway varmint"!!! He then sees who he really caught and becomes frustrated. Katie then says," Who are you and let go of my friends"!! The man chuckled in an evil tone and says," First off, the name is Marc. Second off, I'm not returning nothing. Since these two got in the way of my search, I'll keep them anyway and sell them." Everyone gasped as Serena then yells," The Braixen is not yours. Neither is the Lycanroc. Let them go now or you'll wish you did"! The man then uses a mechanical arm and grabs her. He says," You little weasel. Let's see you talk your way out of this. Or how about you talk on the way down," he then uses the arm and throws Serena down, having her land hard and injuring her. Katie then goes to help Serena, but the man uses the arm and pushes her off the edge. She soon starts falling before something catches her (and no, it's not Greninja's tounge unfortunately.) She was caught by a pokemon. It was red and white with a triangle on its chest. It looked like it had wings as it flew back up with Katie. Ash smiles when he saw Katie being carried by the legendary pokemon Latias. The man then says," There you are. Now return the ball and come back or I'll make ya"!! Latias glared at him and then uses hyperbeam to knock him down and to free Braixen and Rocky. As soon as they were out, Katie jumped off and rushed to Serena to see if she was ok. Luckily, she wasn't hurt too much aside from a sprained wrist and a badly bruised back. Braixen and Rocky both used flamethrower and rock throw to stop the man from getting up. Then, Latias used psychic and brought some rope and tied Marc up tight. Officer Jenny arrived a moment later and arrested him. Latias gave Katie the ultra ball it has held onto. Katie then asks," You want me to catch you"? Latias nodded as she touches the ultra ball and gets caught. She then releases Latias from the ball and then says," Welcome to the team, Lilac." Soon after, they made it to the pokemon center and everyone was healed up. Serena would be wearing a back brace for two days but was otherwise ok. Rocky and Braixen both got cleaned up by Katie so no more mud was left. As the sun started to set, Rocky walked over to Katie and jumped onto her lap. He says," That was scary. I wouldn't want something like that ever to happen again." Katie smiled and petted Rocky to help calm him down. She then let Lilac out again to talk to her. Lilac looked curiously at Rocky as Katie says," It's nice to meet you Lilac. My name is Katie and this is my pal Rocky. I was wondering... why was that man after you.. aside from you being a legendary of course"? Latias then explained that he was after her because she could mega evolve without a mega stone. Plus, with her being a legendary and stuff. Serena soon walks in and Lilac goes behind Katie. With a look of confusion on her face, Katie says," I think it's a bit shy. It has been on the run for a while, so, it might not be ready to trust all humans yet." Serena smiled and then Braixen walked in looking good as new as Lilac sinks further behind Katie. Katie says," Well, I guess it's also shy around some pokemon too. Don't worry, I know she'll get over it." Katie smiles at Lilac, leting her know that it was ok to trust them. Lilac comes out and greets hello. Serena and Braixen say hello back as Lilac then flies around them, showing a friendly smile. Katie then says," We should remain here for the next two days, at least until your back is healed Serena." Serena agrees as she then releases her pokemon to introduce to Lilac. Lilac first hid behind Katie and then slowly went up to them and greeted them with a friendly hello. Now, at least Latias was fine with Katie, Serena and all their pokemon. Soon, everyone went to sleep and in the morning, they got ready, ate breakfast and went out to train. Katie said that today, she was gonna do a combo training session with Sensei and then regular training with everyone else. Before she could get started, Sensei the Lucario felt something with its aura that was around them. He soon stops at a place near a tree as Rocky digs up the area. He soon uncovers a staff that looked like it came from a kingdom long ago. Katie grabs it to examine it. Rocky says," You know? With those things on both sides, it kinda resembles Sensei a bit." Then, Lucario and Katie both touch it at the same time as a white light soon shone in front of them. When it disappeared, Katie was then in a whole new outfit. That wasn't even the weirdest part. When Sensei got up, he says," Well, that was just odd." Katie and Rocky both scream in schock to hear Lucario talking, but without moving his mouth. Rocky says," What is going on here? He suddenly can do ventriloquism for whatever reason I don't know about, she looks like an ancient Robin Hood, I can't think straight. What do we do," he then howls in frustration. Katie then says," The furst thing we do is talk to soneone with a whole lot more experience than us." She then yells out Ash's name,"ASH"!!!
That's all for today. So, what happened? BTW- Lucario isn't doing ventriloquism, he gained the ability of telepathy, but the others don't know it. Yet. The next chapter, I'll tell you what happens and where I got the idea from. Till the next time I type my friends.
