Ash And Horizons

First Matches

On the next day, Ash and Liko are on their way back to her house. After they going back to the airship, first of all they give the picture books that her dad has to Roy which he happily glad for and then both of them enters the meeting room where Molly and Orla drinking the coffee that her dad likes to drink and that reminds Ash that Liko's father use the same beans to make the coffee but sadly he ran out of it.

So on Liko's left hand, she carried the black beans coffee that she bought from the store with her.

"I hope he likes it." Liko said as she raised her hand and looked at the shopping bag.

"Don't worry, he sure will like it."

"Pika!"

Both Ash and Liko looked at Pikachu who is pointing to the right, so they followed the direction Pikachu are pointing at and saw a Taurus but what's strange is that it's black instead of brown-ish yellow.

"That's a Tauros! But wait, could that be a regional Variant?!"

Liko nodded, "Yeah, that is the Paldea version of Tauros."

Ash immediately used his rotom phone to scan the pokemon, "Paldean Tauros. Wild Bull Pokemon. Fighting type. This Pokemon has a muscular body and excels at close-quarters combat. it uses its short horns to strike the opponent's weak spots."

"Amazing! This is different than the Tauros that i have back in the lab!" Ash was beamed to see the different kind of Tauros.

"You have a Tauros, Ash?"

"Yeah!" Ash shows a photo of how many Tauros he got, "I have 30 Tauros back in Professor Oak's lab."

"30?!" Liko and Sprigatito bamboozled by the amount of Tauros, "How did you manage to get them?!"

And so Ash explain how he got those Tauros back when he visited the Safari Zone back in Kanto, and Liko with Sprigatito and Ash's Scorbunny sweatdropped to learn the reason why Ash got them.

But Liko fondly smiled at Ash, for has his kind of way to show that he cares for his pokemon the most.

They looked at Ash's Pikachu who enjoys drinking ketchup for some reason, Ash's Scorbunny who eating a red velvet cupcake and her Sprigatito who enjoy eating the last bite of the matcha cake she bought on the cake store. Earlier, Greninja and Charizard along with Glalie and Gengar ate their own cake with Greninja and Charizard had a little bit of competition on who can eat faster with both of them tied and went back to their designated pokeballs.

It sweetened her heart just seeing their pokemon enjoy their time together like this. And unaware of her if it wasn't for the pokemon on their side, she would realized that it's only just two of them together.

"Pika?!"

"Nyao??"

"Scorbun..?"

Their pathway suddenly got blocked, and in front of them a few meter is a pig pokemon.

"Huh? A Lechonk?!"

"Lechonk?" Ash pulled out his rotom phone and scanned the new pokemon.

"Lechonk. Hog Pokemon. Normal Type. It searches for food all day. it possesses a keen sense of smell but doesn't use it for anything other than foraging."

"CHOOONK!!" The Hog pokemon Pawing the ground as it ready to attack them while focusing its eyes on the bag on Liko's hand.

Liko noticed it immediately, "It's after the coffee beans!"

"I see... because it tried to find itself a food." Ash deduced just from the pokedex entry, and then he turned to Liko, "Liko, you and Sprigatito face that pokemon."