Pokemon: Bond Evolutions of Pokémon

'…Ciel. Yes, Ciel. That's a perfect name for you, my partner.' Ash said with a look of nostalgia as he then felt Winona squirming under their shared bed sheets.

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Ash had finally earned his sixth official Gym Badge from the Fortree City Gym, and now he only needed to get two more to get the right to participate in the prestigious Hoenn Regions Ever Grande Conference.

Not only that, he had also already won himself three of his five needed Ribbons, meaning he only needed to win two more to participate in the Hoenn Region Grand Festival.

Originally planning to continue on the road to the location of Ash's next Gym and the nearest Pokémon Contest location, the group followed Winona's recommendation and set off from Fortree City to the high-tech city of LaRousse City not far away from where they were.

Winona was very reluctant to part away with Ash, but she knew that she still had to stay here for now to do her job at the city's Gym Leader.

However, she told herself that she could have more fun with Ash when the Ever Grande Conference ends.

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There was also the world famous Battle Tower there, well one of the Battle Towers, where you can compete with Trainers from all over the world.

And as an extremely high-tech city, the local customs and traditions here are very different and cannot be missed. It would be a waste to miss all of it.

It was also worth mentioning that the group also passed through a small place on the way called Nevaexist Town, and happened to encounter a Pokémon Contest on the smaller wthat was about to be held in a few days.

May had successfully cooperated with her young Bulbasaur to successfully win the Ribbon, and obtained her second official Ribbon, this was also considered to be Bulbasaur's debut battle in the true sense.

As Torchic evolved into a Combusken, May's strength had becomes more and more noticeable.

She was making rapid progress, and Ash believed that she will soon become a Pokémon Coordinator that can stand alone and be ready to explore her career alone.

When they came out of the station, a robot that looked like bunch of building blocks greeted them, "Welcome to LaRousse City!"

This place was indeed a high-tech city. Even the greeters here were such advanced looking robots.

However, Brock was more than a little disappointed by seeing their greeters, "Why couldn't it be a beautiful girl who came out to greet me? I don't deserve this…"

This robot stretched out a camera lens from the inner part of its block shaped body, "Look here and show a smile!"

May, who was the first to take the photo, couldn't react in time and was photographed looking very confused. The other three had a more natural look to them, "This is the passport you need to visit/live in our city. Please do remember to keep it with you during your stay in this city at all times. You can also use this passport to shop around and visit the various places we have for visitors!" The robot explained in a steady and calm manner.

In short, this thing was a very convenient thing for the people here. While taking pictures, the birthplaces and such other information of May and the three were also submitted to their central computer for filing and processing.

This was a true high-tech city where the authorities can monitor the status of everyone in the city at any given time.

Only May looked at her passport with an embarrassed blush on her adorable face. "I hate this. Can I please retake the picture? You didn't even give me enough time to react!"

May was very pissed with the robot after they stopped paying attention to her.

But this passport was really useful. There were automatic vending robots everywhere on the street. They sold things like various kinds of sandwiches/burgers, candies, ice cream, etc., they can all be purchased directly by scanning their passport, but only after putting some money into it.

Ash casually bought four portions of ice cream and distributed them to his Pikachu, Ralts, and Togetic. These are the three Pokémon's that he always carries with him outside of their Poké Balls, and he exchanged the remaining three Pokémon's that he had with him again in order to meet the hopefully strong challenges inside of the world famous Battle Tower.

"So… where the hell is this Battle Tower?" Max drank the lemon drink he bought with his card and walked at the front looking around, trying to look around for any directions to the Battle Tower.

But he didn't expect that the moment he stepped on the road, the road under his feet started to move, immediately causing him to fall to the ground, and the drink that he himself had brought with his own money splashed on his face.

But now he couldn't care less about his embarrassment. He then realized that he was moving away from his sister and the others, "Is this really one of those automatic walking trail?"

This high-tech city was amazing for someone like Max. They don't even need to walk on their own when trying to go to other places. There are moving walkways installed between several important locations and next to most roads. They can even use this to go to the Battle Tower directly without needing to stop somewhere else.

"Damn, Big Bri!" The moment he realized that he was getting farther and farther away from his own group, he even forgot to stop and go backwards, so he had instinctly and quickly called out to Ash for his help.

May put her passport away and said with a wry smile, "Babe, can you go and help Max out?"

"Sure thing, May." Ash nodded as this was just what he was about to do, "Combusken, do your thing!"

Ash immediately threw out his Poké Ball, and what jumped out was his Combusken. After training at the Professor Oak Laboratory with the rest of his Fire-types and Fighting-types, his physique improved very rapidly. He was now a noticeably more taller than May's recently evolved Combusken.

This was not only because he evolved earlier, but because he was much more focused on training. And it definitely did help to receive training from the likes of Ash and all of his extremely strong and experienced Pokémon's.

Combusken glanced at Max, shook his head in slight disdain, and some sparks of flames suddenly appeared under his feet, he caught up with Max in just a few small jumps on the side, then grabbed his clothes and jumped to the side walk on the opposite direction.

There, there were already two boys and two girls looking at them.

The four people's eyes lit up when they saw Combusken's performance, especially the boy on the middle, "What a extraordinary Combusken, this Combusken has been trained so well. Even my Blazeiken would feel jealous seeing this guy."

The two girls next to him was about the same age as him, maybe a year or two younger than him, and they were also twin sisters. "It's a lot bigger than your Blaziken when he was still a Combusken, right, Big Brother?"

The three people talking to each other were brothers and sisters, and the other, a somewhat sturdy looking young man, also nodded and said, "Rafe, do you really want to have a fight with the Trainer of that Combusken?"

Rafe nodded immediately, "From the direction of which that Combusken came from, its Trainer should be right in front of that."

As they said this, they saw Ash coming towards their directions, "Hello, is that Combusken yours?"

"Yes, he's mine." Ash patted his Combusken on its head, who looked delighted to hear Ash's praise for him, "I am Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town."

After introducing themselves, the young man in front of the others was called Rafe, and his twin sisters were Kathryn and Audrey.

The last and sturdy looking guy was called Sid, and now that their whole group found out that the items was going to the Battle Tower, so they just thought it would be for the best to go their together.

"Ash, after arriving at the Battle Tower, let's have a fight!" Rafe challenged Ash very quickly.

"Big Brother Rafe is very strong!" The twin sisters seemed to admire their brother very much.

The two were just supporting their brother, nothing much. Besides, Ash will almost never refuse an invitation to a battle. This time, he specifically came to this place to have some great battles; and also add to his needed Exchange Points.

"Rafe, I will defeat you today!" At this time, a bespectacled girl holding a computer passed by the group of people. The trail she was on was definitely faster.

Brock was immediately elated to see something he liked, "What a beautiful girl wearing beautiful glasses!"

"That's Rebecca, someone who values computer data and makes full use of it alongside her Metagross!" Sid introduced to everyone, "She's very strong, stronger than me."

Hearing this, May also smiled and said with pride, "Ash is also very strong!"

So this girl with glasses, Rebecca's, Trump Card was a Metagross.

Metagross was also the Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon of the Hoenn Region like Salamence, Ash has already obtained six Gym Badges of his needed eight Gym Badges, but let alone a Metagross—he hasn't even seen a Beldum in the wild.

Ash had originally thought that the gift that Steven would give him was a Beldum, but unexpectedly it was the Hidden Ability Aron, which Ash also loved very much. But Metagross was also one of the Pokémon that Ash was determined to catch no matter what.

One of Ash's personal goals was to catch all of the Pseudo-Legendarys from all of the regions he visits.

Now that the Pseudo-Legendary of the Johto Region has become one of his strongest Pokémon's like the members of his strongest Kanto Team version, and the Dratini of the Kanto Region has been exchanged by him for some more molting. Ash believed that after this molting, his evolution was not far away.

But the two Pseudo-Legendary of the Hoenn Region are a complete mystery. He hasn't even seen one in the wild after so long.

"Ash?" Upon hearing the name Ash, Rebacca immediately jumped onto the trail on their side, "Are you the winner of the last Silver Conference, THE Ash Ketchum—the Trainer of Latios and those Mysteriously Evolved Pokémon's?"

"Latios? Mysteriously Evolved Pokémon?" Rafe and Did immediately exclaimed, and the twin sisters were even more starry-eyed than the boys.

Ash and the others all just smiled with a cold sweat, thinking that not only Latios, but all the other Legendary and the so called Mysteriously Evolved Pokémon's owned by Ash.

He could form a full team from just the Legendary Pokémon's, not to mention the even higher number of Bonds Evolutions Pokémon's.

After a simple conversation, everyone became more familiar with each other. They were mostly all Pokémon Trainers , so it was easy to get close to each other.

"Look, that's the Battle Tower!" The twin sisters said to the group, pointing to the tall building in front of them.

The Battle Tower here was indeed a truly magnificent sight. Just standing here makes people excited and makes them want to quickly enter it and have a good battle.