pokemon adventure

chapter hundred -four

Chapter 104

Separation 2 and

Back to Pallet Town

Today was the gang's last time together. With the Terracotta Contest now over, it was time for everyone to start on getting back to their homes. Now they were waiting for a boat to take Max and May back to Hoenn.

Right now everyone was having a last picnic lunch together in a park and everyone had their pokemon out. Ash had Pikachu, Sceptile, two Aipoms, Donphan and Vigoroth. May had her Blaziken, Munchlax, Eevee, Squirtle and Butterfree. Brock had his Marshtomp, Bonsly, Nosepass and Forretress. Tomo had Growlithe, Pidgey, Natu, Ponyta, Poliwhirl and Teddiursa. Max had one of his Loudred, Ralts, Ditto and his newly captured Aipom, which he caught before they left Fennel Town. All the pokemon were tucking into Brock's pokemon food.

During lunch May made an announcement. "Everyone I have decided that I will go to Johto and compete in the contests there too like Drew and Solidad is," she said "but I wish to go to Johto alone". She turned to Max. "I'm sorry Max, but you can't come on a journey with me this time. If you do I will end up asking you for support and help. I want to travel on my own to learn to be more independent, catch new pokemon friends, find my own battling style and try out new tricks with my pokemon old and new. That's why I want to go on a new journey on my own". Ash, Tomo and Brock understood. But max felt upset; he wanted to go on another pokemon journey, but since he wasn't ten yet he couldn't. Max left the others to be on his own for a bit. Ash went to follow Max to cheer him up a bit.

Max was sitting on a swing when Ash caught up to Max. "Upset that you won't be going to Johto with May?" asked Ash. "Yes," said Max "and the truth is I have been jealous of you and May. You and May get to participate in battles, contests and tournaments, but I don't get to do any of those because I'm still only nine years old". "It's true it's tough to have to wait to be ten years old to be a real pokemon trainer because I hated it myself when I had to wait to be ten years old," said Ash "but you only have one more year to wait and then you'll be doing plenty of things with your pokemon. How about this? Why don't you and I have a pokemon battle together now? Think of this as a farewell gift". Max liked the idea and so did the others.

So Max and Ash had their last pokemon battle together. Max used his Loudred and Ash used his Vigoroth. Vigoroth started off with scratch and Loudred used mega punch. This was cheering Max up because he was battling with Ash, which he hadn't done for a long time. Vigoroth and Loudred put up a good fight with each other. Then suddenly Loudred glowed and evolved into an Exploud. "Cool I now have an Exploud!" cheered Max

Tomo looked at Exploud on his pokedex: Exploud, the loud noise pokemon. The evolved form of Loudred. Its howls can be heard over six miles away. It emits all sorts of noises from the ports on its body.

Loudred evolving into Exploud meant that now Max had a Whismur, Loudred and Exploud. Ash and Max decided to call their battle a draw and stopped the match. Max was happy with the battle as well as getting an Exploud. "Thank you Ash," said Max "best goodbye present ever". "So what will you be doing when you get home Max?" asked Brock. "I'll be having Dad teach me about being a gym leader," answered Max "and when I turn ten I'll work hard and go on a journey to make myself and all my pokemon strong. And once I've grown up I will become the new gym leader of Petalburg City".

At that moment May realized that the boat for Hoenn would be coming soon. Everyone picked up all their things and food and returned all their pokemon (except Pikachu and Growlithe). Brock made packed lunches for May and Max for their journey home. Soon the boat had come and now it was time for May and Max to leave Kanto. Ash, Brock and Tomo said their goodbyes to May and Max, wished May lots of luck in the contests in Johto and wished Max lots of luck on learning to take care of Norman's gym. Max and May said their goodbyes too to Ash, Brock and Tomo. While the boat was leaving the gang waved to each other until May and Max were out of their sight. That was the last time that May and Max was to ever journey with Ash, Tomo and Brock.