Ash, his friends, and Pikachu continue to do what they were doing before the robot Ekans showed up, though the black hair trainer was feeling disappointed.
Just then, skyscrapers came into view.
The group then beamed at the sight until Brock gotten out his map again and said other looked him with a bit of a perplexed faces. "We're here." Brock stated.
He and his group started beam once again, glade to find the Norrisville city at last.
As the crew walked around, Ash heard Dawn asking "Ash, what's wrong?"
"I just wanted to battle the ninja and his Ninetails." The hat wearer answered, raising his head to his female friend.
"But the ninja has other things to do, you can't force him to battle you."
"I know, but the Ninetails have so much power, it would have been great to battle it."
"I 'm sure will get the chance to battle him some day." Brock spoke up.
"Thanks Brock. I sure wish I can battle him though." Ash replied regained a bit of a sadden tone.
"Before any of that, I say we go the Pokémon center, we've been battling wild Pokémon the past few days?" Brock suggested.
Ash looked at his male friend then over at his partner to see that Brock was right. Pikachu appeared to be drained.
"Okay."
"Oh, maybe we can work on my contest battles."
The red hat wearer node before he said, "I can train for my next gym badge."
They all then head for the Pokémon center. Once there, the group head.
"There was the nurse standing there with a smile. Right on que, Brock sprinted passed them and over Infront of the Pokémon Nurse.
"Ah, Nurse Joy you're face after walking in the harsh wilderness is always sunshine in... Ugh."
Just then, Croagunk came out of its Pokeball and poison jabbed the brown hair guy straight in the gut causing him to collapse with his foot twitching.
After the poison type dragged its trainer off to who know where, Ash and Dawn gave their Pokémon to Nurse Joy to restore their health. A second later came back and gave his Pokémon to the red hair women.
They waited a bit, sitting at in near bye chairs, when Nurse Joy came out with a cart filled with their Pokémon and Ash's Pikachu sitting happily.
"Your Pokémon are all better now."
"Thanks." Ash said with a smile as he and his friends grabbed their Poke balls and his partner Pokémon climb up his arm and on to his shoulder.
Just then a loud noise sprang up. The all peered to the front windows to see the same ninja and Ninetails as earlier standing a bit away from the building, staring off to the left-hand side.
The duo soon ran off, out of sight before a laser beam hit the ground, creating an explosion.
"What was that?" Ash heard Dawn question.
"Don't know." Brock answered.
Ash dashed out of the building, ignoring his friends and Nurse Joy calling out to him until he gotten right outside. There he saw the ninja and the fire type Pokémon now standing at the other side of the street, staring down at a giant robot Houndoom that was as about half of the skyscraper with Scyther's blades on the back.
"We have to help." Ash uttered. "Ready Pikachu?"
"Pika."
He about to rush into the battle, but Nurse Joy commanded. "Stop."
The red hat wearer peered back at the Pokémon Nurse.
"Just watch."
Ash looks back at the battlers.
"Let's teach old dog how to lie down?" said the red scarf ninja.
Someone soon spoke up, commenting. "Lame."
"What? What? That was a good one, right? Anybody? Hm?"
Ash and the gang stare with a bit of monotone mixed with insecure faces.
"That joke was terrible." The trainer with the red hat gave his two cents.
"Pika Pi." He heard his Pokémon said, sounding like he was agreeing with him.
"Guess he's not best at jokes, huh?" Dawn uttered.
Back to the ninja, he was about to get sliced by the robot, when said ninja and the Ninetails ran to different sides from the other, missing the limb's strike. The scarf wearing ninja grabbed said scarf and thrown it like a grappling hook at the top part of the bot's muzzle. He then jumped up to the robot's head, pulling on the scarf, making the bot try shaking him off. As the machine turned towards the nine-tailed Pokémon, the red and black clad ninja commanded "Now Nomicon. Use Flame Thrower?"
"Nine-TAILS!" The fire type soon breathed of a big stream of fire, hitting the robot's chest. The ninja let go and hopped off just before the fire attack hit. As the red and black clad guy did that an explosion went on the machine's chest, creating a smoke cloud. the cloud quickly disappeared leaving behind a hole with wires exposed. The bot was about fall on the red scarf wearer, but said guy gotten out of the way.
Just then, Ash saw people came out from building and behind cars, clapping and cheering.
The ninja chuckled a bit before saying "Okay, Okay, it was in a day's work. Smokebomb."
A tad bit earlier, Ash watched, the ninja disappeared in a cloud of red smoke only it was shown up from the crowd.
"You see,"
Ash turned his attention back to Nurse Joy.
"The ninja is a powerful fighter. He has been for eight hundred years.
"Eight hundred years?!" The trainer with the red hat uttered at the same time as his friends.
"Yes, Norrisvile city has been around for that time. The ninja always been protecting with the help of his Ninetails."
"Eight hundred years, huh?" Ash muttered to himself.
"Nurse Joy." Someone's voice called out.