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Fishing Detour

"Golbat, the bat pokemon, poison/flying-type, and the evolve form of Zubat. Golbat tends to suck blood until it is too fat to fly. Its supersonic waves are much stronger than Zubat's." the pokedex explains Brock's Golbat.

"Whoa, Brock I can't believe you caught a Golbat." Ash enthusiastically says.

"Yep. It isn't a rock-type, but it will help me with my dream of becoming a pokemon breeder." Brock says.

"Really? How?"

"Golbat evolves into Crobat by extreme happiness, and since breeding involves mostly proper pokemon raising, I thought a pokemon that evolves via happiness would be a good idea."

"Well it does sound pretty good."

Before heading off to Saffron, the gang decides to take a side vacation near a water coastline to rest for the long travel ahead. Misty is fishing while her pokemon, except Togepi who is sleeping next to Misty, are swimming in the water with Marshtomp. Cheryl and her pokemon are studying the forest around them, except Wobbuffet who just stands like a statue. Brock's Geodude and Onix are mingling with Ash's other pokemon. While Kyle is taking a nap and his pokemon are exploring around the forest, except Soul, who is also sleeping with Kyle.

While Misty is fishing for some water pokemon, Ash decides to try too. After borrowing a spare rod from Misty, Ash started to fish. Unfortunately, unlike Misty, Ash didn't have much patience.

"Come on! Why won't anything get caught?" Ash yelled.

"It's fishing. You have to have patience if you want a pokemon." Misty explained.

"Yeah well I want to catch a pokemon now! Huh?" Ash said at first mad until something started to pull at his line. When he pulled it up, a Slowpoke appears snagged to the hook, and lands onto the soil.

"Slowpoke, the dopey pokemon, and water/psychic-type. Although slow at thinking, it is skilled at fishing. It won't notice that something has bitten its tail for a whole day." The pokedex says.

Ash is happy that he got a bite and Misty is dumfounded that he got something before her. Ash decides to do this fast, so he has Pikachu to use Thunderbolt. Slowpoke got struck by the lightning but used Disable to prevent Pikachu from using the technique again then used Slack Off. By yawning, Slowpoke healed himself. Pikachu then uses Thunder Wave to paralyze Slowpoke. Slowpoke then starts to act over dramatic from the shock, and while moving weirdly, which causes Ash and Pikachu to drop their guard, he falls back into the lake.

Since Marshtomp is already in the lake, Ash decides to switch the battle to him. Marshtomp swims and dives where Slowpoke fell in. Marshtomp uses Muddy Water to first shoot Slowpoke up out of the lake with a stream of brown water, and then uses Take Down to deal heavy damage on the dopey pokemon. The moment Slowpoke landed on dry land, Ash threw a pokeball. He was unaware that the Slowpoke was holding something from the lake that also got sent to the pokeball with him. After a few rows, the pokeball gave off the signal that the Slowpoke had been caught, and since Ash's party is full, it teleports away.

After the capture, Ash starts to enthusiastically jump for joy with Pikachu on catching another pokemon. Since they are also happy for their master, the rest of Ash's team also joined in celebration. Cheryl and Brock are modestly proud of him, Misty is shocked by the fact that he beat her in fishing, and Kyle woke up.

"Huh, did something happen?" Kyle groggily said.

"Ash just caught a Slowpoke and is very happy." Brock explained.

"It was a very nice battle too." Cheryl says while lightly clapping for Ash.

'On his first try, in a few seconds, he snagged a pokemon, and then caught it. I wanted a Slowpoke.' Misty thought in stun.

After the capture, Brock asks Kyle to help him find some food in the forest. Kyle agrees, and he and Brock take Golbat and Absol with them, while the rest of their party is returned to their pokeballs. When they leave Ash decides to go back fishing. Misty snaps out of her trance and then goes to talk to Cheryl.

"Oh Misty you seem down." Cheryl said with sympathy.

"Cheryl can I ask you a favor?" Misty asked.

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In the forest, Kyle and Brock start looking for some edible food and other kinds of vegetation. While Kyle ask him what kinds of plants are good, Brock then gets serious and starts asking Kyle questions.

"Kyle. Why are you traveling with Ash?" Brock bluntly says.

"I could ask you that same question sense I don't know anything about you, other than that you were the former Pewter gym leader and that your father is Flint." Kyle retorted.

"Hey this isn't about me! I met Ash before you, so I am just concerned."

"Then why don't you also interrogate Cheryl too?"

"You really think a woman as beautiful as her could be evil?"

"And I thought you were respectable, but you're just stupid."

"Look will you just answer my question?"

"Ok ok. You do know who Ash's father is right?"

"Yes. After we left Pewter City, he told me that his father is Zac, the pokemon master."

"Yes. Since he is Zac's own kid, Team Rocket will be after him since he could potentially stop them. Right now, Ash isn't a threat. His team is still fresh, he has no common sense outside of pokemon battles, and he doesn't have any of the qualities to beat an Admin. However, in time, he will be a nuisance to Team Rocket and then their leader will start to focus on him."

"So you want to protect Ash from Rocket until he gets strong enough to defeat them." Brock assumed.

Kyle then laugh and explained further, "No. My reasons are more selfish than that."

"Then what are they really?"

There was a moment of silence. Golbat and Soul both start to feel the tension, and Brock notices that Kyle looks very tense and emotionless.

After the short pause, Kyle spoke. "There are 10 Admins in Team Rocket, and each one has taken an alias to match him or herself in some way. They are either Admins from the previous generation of Team Rocket or Rocket agents that have been promoted some time after this new generation started. I say about four or five of the ten are the latter. One of those people was a friend of mine. That friend started to walk down a different path than me and now I want to find and stop that person before it's too late. Misty, Ash, and Cheryl don't know this and I won't tell them until the time is right."

Then Kyle asked Brock a surprising question.

"Would you like to know the name of the Admin I am looking for?"

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"So are you sure you want to do this?" Cheryl asked Misty who is ready with Totodile to battle her Mothim.

"Yep. I left Cerulean to become stronger by traveling Ash. However, I have been doing nothing but slacking off so I am going to begin training now." Misty explained with excitement.

The two then begin their battle a bit of a distance from the lake so Ash wouldn't see. Totodile starts with Water Gun while Mothim lands on the grassy ground to use Camouflage to become a grass–type. After the attack did little damage, Mothim uses Psybeam on Totodile. Totodile takes it when he uses Rage. Then the water-type uses a Rage powered Dragon Claw, but Mothim used Protect. After the attack failed, Totodile uses Bite. This caused Mothim to flinch, and Totodile attacks with Dragon Claw again. After the attack, Mothim then uses its new attack that he and Cheryl have been practicing, Air Slash. Mothim swings one of his wings to create a large blade of wind. Totodile manage to dodge the attack and retaliate with another Bite. Mothim then struck Totodile point blank with Psybeam. Totodile then attacks with Dragon Claw but Mothim uses Protect. After the failed attack, Totodile uses Dragon Claw again. This time it did hit but Mothim is still standing. Mothim attacks Totodile with Air Slash. Totodile counters it with Dragon Claw to try and stop it, but Totodile still took some damage.

After the clash, Totodile then began to evolve into Croconaw from all the experience it gained from the long battle. Croconaw's teeth glow blue and uses Ice Fang. Mothim tries to use Protect but it failed, and it struck the moth. Cheryl decides to end the match since both pokemon are exhausted.

"Ending the match. Why are you afraid your Mothim will lose if it keeps fighting my new Croconaw?" Misty said teasingly.

"Actually yes." Cheryl said.

'Wow she actually admitted it.' Misty thought.

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"Would you like to know the name of the Admin I am looking for?" Kyle asked Brock.

"Hm. No thanks. It's something personal that I shouldn't butt in to." Brock explained.

"So you were just concerned with Ash's safety. That's respectable."

"But I do have another question out of curiosity. Is this Admin you are after Admin Hook?"

"The Admin who fought your father years ago? No, it is someone who became an Admin this generation. Guess you want to fight that guy personally."

"That's personal."

'Figures he say that.' Kyle thought.

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At least ten minutes has passed, and Ash had given up on fishing and he and his pokemon are sleeping. During his nap, Kyle and Brock came back with some food they found. Afterward, Cheryl and Misty are walking back talking about how Misty was glad to train her Gyarados and new Croconaw (A/N: She doesn't see her Goldeen, Horsea, or Togepi as fighters).

"So Ash. Couldn't handle real fishing?" Misty asked him after waking him up.

"I liked it better when I caught that Slowpoke." Ash replied.

A/N: Finally I updated my fanfic. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and the next will come much sooner.

Also on a bonus topic sense it is the right moment

Merry Christmas to all!