[4] The Daughter of Nurse Joy: Hoenn Adventure

Weather Institute

After the Pokéringer Contest was over, the gang had a few surprises while on their way to Fortree City. First while Cora was training, Cadmus the Bagon evolved into a Shelgon. Cora was happy that her dragon had evolved to his second stages and asked him to not cause trouble at Prof. Oak's lab again.

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The next surprise was that one day the gang (meeting up with Ash and his friends) was attacked by an angry swarm of Shroomish and Breloom. But then Alain's Combusken evolved into Blaziken, May's Torchic evolved int Combusken, and Max's Shroomish evolved into Breloom and they were able to frighten the Shroomish swarm away. And now the gang was continuing their way for Fortree City.

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On the way though something peculiar happened, the weather kept on nice weather to rain, snow and then back to nice weather again.

"What's going on here?" May asked.

"I know what's going on," Cora replied, "This is the work of a Pokémon who's using the moves Rain Dance, Sunny Day and Hail. I've seen something like this before."

"Cora's right." Alain confirmed.

"Question is, what Pokémon is doing this?" Brock pondered.

Brock's question was soon answered. A grey sort of cloud shaped Pokémon appeared in front of the gang.

"No way, it's a Castform!" Max shouted excitedly.

Cora looked at Castform on her Rotom phone:

[Castform, the weather Pokémon. Its appearance changes with the weather. It uses the power of nature to transform in order to protect its small body.]

"Are you the one responsible for this crazy weather?" May asked.

"No actually it wasn't." said a voice.

The voice belonged to a male scientist, who was running up to the gang.

"I do apologize the crazy weather was caused by our research." The scientist apologized.

"So this Castform is helping you with the weather?" Alain asked.

"That's right." The woman next to the male scientist said.

Cora recognized the male scientist as Bart. Beside him was a female scientist, who had a Ditto on her shoulder. Cora recognized her as Millie.

"So who are you two?" Ash asked.

"Oh, I'm Bart. I'm the manager of the Weather Institute in this town." Bart introduced himself.

"And I'm Millie. This Ditto here is my partner." Millie introduced herself.

Brock blushed and was instantly right in front of Millie while clasping his hands together, "Amazing! Your genius is only equal by your incredible beauty!"

Millie blinked in confusion, "What?"

The rest of the gang sweat-dropped at this.

"Sorry about that." Mairin apologized.

"Max, this is your que." May reminded him.

Max sighed, "Okay. Here we go again." He walked towards Brock, only to stop when he and the others noticed that Brock was no longer flirting with Millie, "What's this?"

"Brock, are you okay?" Mairin asked.

"Is he sick or something?" May questioned.

Brock frowned as he crossed his arms in front of his chest, "I'm not sure what's happening. Something seems to have thrown my charisma out of whack." He pouted.