Unova Region Part 9
Ash and his friends are currently at the Tubeline Bridge, and they are battling some Rocket members on top of the bridge.
"Fairifly! Sleep Powder!" Ash yells.
"Butterdrag! Dragon Pulse!" Lillie yells as the two Pokemon defeat the rest of the members of Team Rocket and captures them.
"So that is all of them on the bridge, huh?" Insey asks.
"Though I have never been here before because we decided to head towards Virbank after Icirrus City." Ash says. "And we got to Opelucid City the other way."
"I see." Paris says.
Now at Route 9, Ash uses Ninjasaur to battle a Bisharp, who is trying to steal suff inside of the Shopping Mart 9. Ninjasaur's speed confuses Bisharp as it is defeated and captured.
Then after quickly destroying the grunts, they arrive at both Dragon Village as well as Opelucid City. And much to their annoyance, they are also controlled.
"I bet that Iris has to be the one who done this..." Cilan says.
"Yeah, since she is from here, it will be no problem to control her friends for the greater good as they say." N shakes his head.
As the others are battling the Rocket Grunts, Ash, Lillie, N and Wyree rush into the gym and see Drayden being controlled. Ash decides to challenge him for the first time a gym battle.
It is a 3 on 3 battle, Drayden sends out Druddigon first. Ash sends out Stoutland, hoping for the Ice Fang to take hit.
"Drayden is a strong opponent. Ash can't lower his guard." N says.
Stoutland's Thunder Fang and Ice Fang hits despite Druddigon's successful Dragon Claw hit, negation of Fire Fang with Flash Cannon, and momentary Double Team defense. Ash tries to finish the match with Giga Impact, but Druddigon catches Stoutland by the neck, slams him down, and strikes with Dragon Tail, giving Drayden the win.
Ash recalls Stoutland and sends out Vanilluxe. Vanilluxe wins woth a Blizzard hits Druddigon. Drayden recalls Druddigon and sends out Flygon. Flygon and Vanilluxe exchange Uproar, causing the others to cover their ears, then Flygon uses Rock Slide, which flinches Vanilluxe. But Vanilluxe manages to hit Flygon with Ice Beam and make him faint.
Drayden's last Pokemon is Haxorus. Haxorus is powerful as he defeats Vanilluxe with Flamethrower. Ash sends out Sylveon last. Haxorus has used Metal Claw on Sylveon, but Sylveon stands up and uses Fairy Wind, causing Haxorus to fall down and finishing it off using Moonblast.
"Respond to the badges and return back to normal!" Ash says as he places the Legend Badge on him, then a glow happens and Drayden is back to normal.
"Mr. Drayden." Ash and Lillie shake him up as he slowly awakes.
"Where am I..." Drayden says while holding his head.
"We saved you from Team Rocket's control." Ash says.
Then they explain everything to Drayden, he shakes his head and says, "I am very disappointed in Iris to control us. I will be helping you out."
"Thank you." Lillie says as they head outside.
With Drayden's help, the Opelucid City is back to normal.
On the road to Humilau City, Ash and his friends continue their work. as this time they capture a Bouffalant who was a friend of Ash's three starters. To prove themselves, Ash uses Chesblade to battle and win against him so he trusts Ash.
On the Village Bridge, Ash and Lillie encounter some Braviary and Mandibuzz, who are commanded by Rocket grunts with force. The Ketchums, Aethers and the rest are disgusted by their actions, so Ash uses Depressharp to save them and Punisunch to punish the Rockets.
By passing Lacumosa Town and Undella Town, they finally arrive at Humilau City. Ash, Dawn, Lillie and Reisa rush into the Gym to save the final gym leader, Marlon.
Marlon sends out his Jellicent, and Ash sends out Sawsbuck. Sawsbuck swims well in the water, much to everyone's shock. So Jellicent dives underwater and quickly comes up to attack with Shadow Ball, Sawsbuck gets hit, but has no effect. Ash tells Sawsbuck to use Horn Leech, and Jellicent faints, but his Cursed Body Ability disables the Horn Leech.
Marlon calls out his Mantine. Ash calls for another Horn Leech, but it doesn't work because Jellicent's Cursed Body Ability has disabled the attack. Mantine uses Bullet Seed on Sawsbuck, Sawsbuck dodges, but it doesn't dodge the Bounce from the Pokemon, so Sawsbuck faints.
Ash sends out Galvantula as his last Pokemon. Ash uses Thunderbolt on the water, causing Mantine to get hit. Mantine uses Bullet Seed, but Galvantula evades the attack and uses Electro Web from behind. Dazed, Mantine is unable to dodge it. Mantine swoops down with Wing Attack, but Galvantula uses Struggle Bug to defeat it.
"Respond to the badges and return back to normal!" Ash says as he places the Wave Badge on him, then a glow happens and Marlon is back to normal.
Reisa shakes him as he also wakes up. Knowing the truth, he agrees to help out.
Once the city is back to normal, Serena asks, "So that is all the Gym Leaders."
"Yeah. Now we need to find two more Elite 4 members so we can finally get to Castelia City." Cilan says.
"Well, I have an idea where they might be." Catlin says.
"Indeed. Follow me." Grimsley says as everyone follows them.
They get to Reversal Mountain, there, Ash stops a fight between a Durant and a Heatmor with the help of Wicketree, who pranks them and help them learn to cooperate. Then they capture the two Pokemon.
"Polarbrown! Ice Beam!" Lillie yells as she defeats a Hydreigon from the Rockets.
"You..." The Rocket tries to get the Pokemon back, but an Outrage happens and Hydreigon knocks the grunt away and the Pokeball breaks.
"Oh no. Hydreigon is outraging!" Emily says.
"Leave this to me." Before Drayden can handle, Ash says, "Mr. Drayden. I'll do it."
"Okay, I trust you." Drayden says as Ash sends out Draflower. The two of them try to communicate with the rampaging Hydreigon, and they did it as Hydreigon calms down and Ash captures him.
"Well done, Ash." Mark says.
"Yeah, you could be a dragon master as well." Minami says.
"Seriously? I have not got to that level yet." Ash says.
"No, Ash." Drayden says. "I can tell your skills are as skilled as the ones in the Dragon's Village. You have my assurance."
"Thank you, Mr. Drayden." Ash says.
And eventually, with Digwolf's digging, they reach the underground and see a Volcarona. It was from the Twist Mountain until it hides there for Ash to come. Ash agrees his request and captures him.
Finally arrived at the Strange House, they find Marshal and Shauntal there. Ash decides to challenge Shauntal first.
Shauntal sends out Cofagrigus first, Ash sends out Zoroark. When Zoroark hits Cofagrigus with a Night Slash, suddenly, he is trapped in bandages.
"What…what happened…" Rosa asks.
"Mummy, the ability to transform the Pokemon into Ghost types." Terry says. "Ash is in trouble."
Zoroark is defeated by a Shadow Ball, so Ash sends out Pikachu. Pikachu also turns into mummy, but he defeats Cofagrigus with a Thunderbolt. The next Pokemon, Jellicent also being defeated by Pikachu after the Grass Knot, but the Curse Body made Pikachu unable to use it. To make matters worse, her next Pokemon, Golurk uses Mean Look to prevent Pikachu from escaping, Pikachu is defeated by Earthquake.
Ash sends out his own Golurk, they have a Shadow Punch battle, Ash's wins, but Shauntal's manage to use Curse on him. Shauntal's last Pokemon is Chandelure. Using Payback, it gives Golurk quite some damage. Not only that, the Curse made Golurk faint.
Golly says, "They are equally strong."
"I know, Shauntal's strategy is something that can't be ignored." Jane says.
Ash sends his Chandelure last. Two Chandelure uses Fire attacks and Ghost attacks to battle each other, but Ash's wins eventually after a Dark Pulse knocks it out.
Marshal and Ash has a 4 on 4 battle, Marshal sends out Throh, while Ash sends out Unfezant. Unfezant has fallen from the sky thanks to Rock Tomb, but Unfezant manages to defeat him with Brave Bird when Throh is using Storm Throw.
The next Pokemon is Sawk, which defeats Unfezant with Retaliate and Brick Break. Ash sends out Chesblade and they both have a karate fight. In the end, they both faint at the same time.
Mienshao is his third Pokemon, Ash sends out Beheeyem to battle. But the sudden U-turn makes Conkeldurr out of the field and then defeats Beheeyem with Retaliate and Stone Edge. Ash sends out Gothitelle and mega evolve. Gothitelle uses Psychic to stop the Stone Edge and sends it back to Conkeldurr, then finishes him with a Future Sight.
Marshal sends back Mienshao and it uses Bounce to make Gothitelle hard to attack, but Gothitelle uses Thunderbolt to knock him down. Gothitelle catches Mienshao with Psychic when Mienshao uses U-Turn, then she holds him as he is hit by Future Sight, defeating him.
Ash places both Ghost and Fighting Type Elite 4 Badges on them and say the same words, they are also return back to normal.
"Shauntal, Marshal, are you alright?" Being the remaining Elite 4 members, Grimsley and Catlin wake them up.
"Grimsley..." "Catlin..."
"Thank goodness you are okay." Catlin says.
Once the explanation is over, Trenor says, "That is all the Gym Leaders and the Elite 4 members."
"Yeah. Now we just need to go towards Castelia City and chase away the remaining members." Lillie says as they start going there.
In the Castelia City, Max says, "Bad news. All our forces outside the city are now gone."
"What?" Trip says. "They capture them all? Damn it..."
"We can't fail Professor Oak now. I think it is time we fight them ourselves." Iris says.
"Although I hate to admit it, but you are right." Georgia says as the 5 members of the Rockets rush outside the HQ in Unova.
Here is the new Chapter. Ash and Lillie finally get all of the Unova Pokemon. Now the last chapter is coming up next as we see how they will defeat the Rockets.