Ash gripped a Pokeball and Meowth readied his claws at the growling Manectric in front of them. The Manectric was staring them down, as if waiting for them to move. When Ash and Meowth showed no signs of moving, the Manectric leaped at them with an electric charged claw attack. Ash and Meowth jumped out of the way, now surrounding the Manectric.

"What was that boss? Thunder Claw?" Meowth asked. Neither have seen that attack before.

"Let's not question it Meowth," Ash tossed a Pokeball and out appeared Lucario once again. Thankfully Lucario sustained minimal damage against the Drapion and was ready to fight again. "Lucario Bone Rush! Meowth, you and I will cover him!"

"Roger!"

"Understood."

Lucario rushed towards the Manectric, materializing a long bone to attack with. Like the fight with the Drapion, Lucario did the close fighting while Ash and Meowth covered Lucario respectively with their Aura Sphere and Water Pulse.

The Manectric seemed to get what was going on and jumped back and let out a roar.

"That's howl. It's probably going to use a physical attack! Meowth, Lucario, be on your guard and ready to dodge!" Ash shouted. The Manectric then glared at the three and charged at Ash.

Ash jumped out of the way but the Manectric quickly turned around and charged at Ash again. Ash realized it was using Wild Charge. Ash's eyes widened as he felt the pain of the attack and sent flying towards the wall. Ash had endured a lot of pain but this was the worst he's felt. Ash noticed that blood was starting to stain his clothes, which had tears through them. The Manectric must have slashed at him without him realizing. Ash groaned as he got back up only to see the Manectric charge at him again.

Soon in front of him was Lucario twirling his bone at an incredible speed and it stopped the Manectric in its tracks. Meowth then jumped and took a good slash at the Manectric causing it to howl in pain. This was a first as these giant Pokémon hadn't actually expressed any signs of pain. And unlike the Dragonite who sustained severe injuries, this Manectric was actually bleeding. Ash took the opportunity to see if it had aura or not, and surprisingly it did.

"What's so different about this one?" Ash muttered but then remembered he had a fight to win. "Lucario, blast it and send it flying! We cannot beat this thing in physical strength!" Well, if Ash had Snorlax or Primeape or Garchomp, then probably. But nope. He just had to bring three Pokémon.

Lucario did as ordered and created a decently big Aura Sphere and sent it at the Manectric, making distance between the Manectric and them. "Lucario use Calm Mind! Meowth, you and I will cover Lucario while he prepares!"

Lucario jumped back immediately and started powering up his attack. Meowth and Ash focused on distracting the Manectric. Meowth would use Water Pulse and Ash would use his Aura Sphere. It seemed the Manectric was growing a bit annoyed and even more agitated. Ash looked back and saw Lucario finishing powering up.

"Lucario! Start charging up your Aura Sphere!" Ash commanded and Lucario nodded and Ash and Meowth continued to hold off the Manectric. The Manectric managed to use Thunderbolt and shocked Ash and Meowth, causing them to fall to the ground. Meowth forced himself up.

"Y'know boss, you'd think that with all the blasting off I went through I'd be immune to Thunderbolt," Meowth laughed.

Ash laughed as well. "And considering I've lived with Pikachu my whole life, I would also think I'd be immune to it."

The two laughing seemed to get the Manectric even more agitated as it roared really loud and then launched a Thunder Attack. Ash and Meowth's eyes widened as not even Zapdos or Raikou had used a Thunder of that power.

The Thunder Attack was soon countered by a huge Aura Sphere. Ash and Meowth looked back and saw Lucario. They gave him a look of gratitude as they watched the Aura Sphere fight the Thunder. Ash noticed that the Aura Sphere started to smoke and his eyes widened.

"Get back!"

And explosion and all three were launched flying and were soon on the ground. The Manectric was also on the ground but it slowly got up. Noticing the silence, it gave a small smirk before wincing. Then Manectric noticed a silhouette in the smoke. The smoke then vanished instantly and there was Ash leaning against a large orange dragon. The dragon flapped its wings causing the smoke to disappear instantly.

Manectric took a step back, preparing for another Thunder but winced at its injuries. Charizard growled before a ball of fire appeared in its mouth and Manectric immediately used Thunder but Charizard used Inferno right then and Inferno overpowered the Thunder and knocked the Manectric into a wall, leaving it unconscious.

Ash opened his eyes and found himself leaning on Charizard. Remembering what happened, he looked over to where Manectric was and noticed it was unconscious. He patted Charizard. "Thanks..." He walked over to Lucario and with his last remaining energy, he healed Lucario. Lucario opened his eyes to see Ash fall to his knees. Lucario instantly started healing Ash now that he had more energy.

Ash got up again and both he and Lucario healed Meowth. They then looked over at the Manectric.

"What do we do about him?" Meowth asked.

"I don't know. Normally when we beat a giant Pokémon they disappear," Ash said.

"Yes but the giant Pokemon we've fought had no aura. This one did."

Ash nodded and looked around. Blood. Their blood and the Manectric's blood. "Should I catch it and treat it later?"

"That would be wise. Maybe we can learn more from him."

Ash nodded and tossed a Pokeball at the Manectric. It didn't even need to shake as it was caught automatically.

"I hate to leave a Pokemon in this kind of state but we're too exhausted to heal anymore," Ash said. He then looked over at where the Manectric stone slab was and noticed it was gone and there was a passage behind it. "Let's go." Ash, Meowth and Lucario went in and Charizard stayed out to stay on watch.

Through a long hallway they soon reached a huge room. In this room were very old designs on the wall. Various trees and forest Pokémon were on the walls and Ash noticed that the one in the center was a Manectric. And oddly, in the center of the room were two coffins designed like the Pokémon Cofagrigus. Ash then remembered the words of the masked man and ran to the center and opened a coffin. His eyes widened as it was Hana and May inside the two coffins.

"Hana, Hana wake up! May! May!" Ash shouted. Soon the two started to stir and they got up. The first thing Hana did when she saw Ash was jump on him, hugging him.

"DAAADDDYY!" Hana started crying onto Ash's chest, which was visible due to the rip in his shirt. Hana didn't seem to care about the blood as she cried. "I was so worried!" Ash smiled as he rubbed her back.

"I'm alright Hana. And I'm glad you're alright too," Ash said. He picked up Hana and gave her a piggyback ride. "What about you? Are you okay May?"

May inspected herself and soon nodded. "Still in wet and sandy clothes but I'm fine."

Ash chuckled. "We need to pay a visit to the Aqua Resort."

May smiled but then noticed Ash, Lucario, and Meowth's injuries. "What about you? You're injured everywhere!"

Ash sighed and smiled. "I'm fine," he looked up and saw Hana's face looking at his. "Just fine." Ash returned Lucario and carrying Hana, May and Meowth left and got on Charizard.

Ash told Charizard to take them to the entrance where a teleporter was. When they entered the teleporter, they found themselves at the temples entrance. Ash noticed that the main door had a small crack in it. He went up to it and with the help of Charizard, pushed it open. When they all stepped outside, they saw all the villagers and Ash's Pokémon. And soon Ash disappeared into the stampede of his Pokémon.

POLL IS OVER