Ash, with his invincible physical body, wants to become a Pokémon Master...

As for the bounties on Red Pine and Archie, Lance promised to personally talk to Wallace and transfer the money to Ash.

The saga between Team Magma and Team Aqua has finally come to an end.

Because of the two organizations' voluntary disbandment, Huoyan and Quanmei are no longer considered traitors; they are simply leaving the team normally.

Even none of the original members of their organization knew that these two had betrayed them.

They assumed that the girls had accidentally gotten separated from the organization during a previous mission and had been rescued by Ash and his friends beforehand.

Because of Ash's guarantee, Goose and Izumi do not need to go back to the League with Lance to go through a trial process.

They received their punishment directly from the champion: a year of community service in the Dark City of Kanto. This would settle their past issues with Team Magma and Team Aqua.

And that's exactly what Ash wanted.

"Huoyan is intelligent and has strong scientific research capabilities, and Quanmei is skilled and capable. I'll be overjoyed to have these two added to my harem of bad women."

As expected, Sundae, who was often physically and mentally exhausted, quickly sent someone to pick up the two of them after receiving Xiaozhi's message.

Our great secretary, Miss Sainte, immediately asked Huoyan and Quanmei to shine for the collective.

With everything in order, Ash could finally begin to implement what he had been waiting for and looking forward to for a very long time.

He had wanted to do this the moment he successfully caught Kyogre.

"Hey Ash, what are you doing? Lance and the others have left. Shouldn't we keep going to Mossdeep City? Max has already confirmed the location."

After everyone left, Ash recalled his Black and White and immediately ran excitedly towards the beach on Momonos Island. May asked him in confusion.

At this moment, Ash simply said without turning his head, "Wait a minute, May, I have something very, very important to do right away!"

He couldn't wait to pull out his fishing rod, release Kyogre at the seaside, and then immediately said to the bighead carp.

"You, dive down to the seabed right now, and once you see the hook, bite it and let me fish you up!"

"Huh???" Kyogre looked completely bewildered.

"Oh, please, this has always been my dream! If you help me achieve it, I'll buy you the highest grade Pokémon kibble, okay?"

The fathead fish looked speechlessly at Ash, who kept pleading. Although it had never eaten any Pokémon food, it had no choice but to comply since the trainer had said so.

then……

[Ding! Congratulations, host, for completing the epic quest "White Bar, Upturned Mouth, Big Explosion!": Please use your fishing rod to catch the legendary Pokémon Kyogre!]

【获得奖励：联盟币+50000；攻击+2；特攻+2；自由属性点+5；特性“魅力”等级+1（会钓鱼的男人最帅了……吗？）；获得称号“钓神”】

[Title "Fishing God": With this title, the success rate of catching fish with every cast increases by 50%]

[Ding! Congratulations, host, your "Charm" trait has increased from lv8 to lv9: Everyone will feel favorably towards you at first sight. (My god, you're practically a born succubus!)]

Ash excitedly shouted, and Kyogre was caught by Ash.

This is an unprecedented behemoth! Who in the entire Pokémon world can be more powerful than it?

"Xiao Zhi, you're just fooling yourself."

"Yeah, even my older sister can tell that this isn't fishing at all."

"Stop nagging, hurry up and take a picture for me!"

These two people would never understand the pain of the legendary Air Force pilot, Xiao Zhi.

Anyway, he finally managed to fulfill the bet he made with Xia in the Orange Islands.

From now on, he'll be taking our world's number one mermaid out for a walk every day.

...Three's company?

No, it has to be a group of ten!

Meanwhile, far away in Cerulean City, Xiaoxia, who had just brilliantly defeated her challenger that day, suddenly sneezed amidst the cheers and adoration of her female fans.

"Ah, strange, I suddenly have a bad feeling."

————Control of the Earth————

After successfully staging their own fishing trip and catching a giant fish, Ash and his friends traveled from Mossdeep Island to Mossdeep City. (Ash: Staging it was unnecessary!)

"Alright, let's head to the Mossdeep Gym immediately in order to get the seventh badge of the Hoenn League!"

"Wow, I really admire how much energy you can always have, Ash."

"Yes, we've been traveling for a whole day and night, shouldn't we take a rest first?"

In order to reach Mossdeep City in the fastest and cheapest way, Ash led May and Max on a forced return trip from Mossdeep Island to Ganga Island.

Then, at the port there, you can take a ferry where trainers can get a 20% discount, and that's how you arrive at your destination.

The back-and-forth trips left the siblings exhausted, but Xiao Zhi wasn't going to indulge them.

He pulled out two bottles of stamina potions and shoved them into their mouths, instantly restoring Xiaoyao and Xiaosheng to full health.

"Ah, this feeling of being both exhausted and full of energy..."

"Alright, let's go! Comfort is for the dead; we have to seize the moment!"

Under the muscular man's forceful leadership, the two had no choice but to follow.

When they arrived at the entrance of the Green Ridge Gym, which resembled a circular planetarium, they saw a blue-haired mature woman wearing glasses rushing out of it.

She kept muttering to herself, "Oh no, I'm really late now!"

Chapter 493 Maple and South

Ash initially thought the blue-haired mature woman was the Gym Leader of Mossdeep City, but unfortunately, he found out after asking that she wasn't.

"If you're looking for the Green Mine Gym Leader, I think they should be at the Space Center right now."

"should?"

"Very likely, but I'm not sure exactly where."

After finishing speaking quickly, the other person slammed the gym door shut and ran off into the distance, leaving Ash looking dejected.

"Are you kidding me? I rarely find a trainer to battle right away when I arrive at the gym. Is this some kind of curse?"

"That kind of thing won't exist."

Seeing that the gym was closed anyway, May took Ash and Max's hands and was about to lead them to the shopping street she had been longing for, and her mental fatigue was swept away.

However, Xiao Sheng suddenly stopped.

"Wait a minute, sister! The news recently mentioned that the Sunflower Monster rocket is about to launch. Shall we go over there to watch the rocket launch?"

"Didn't we already see a rocket launch in Yinyu City?" Xiaoyao didn't want to go.

"That's different. Back then, we were just sitting in the command center and couldn't see anything."

"That launch site was built hastily to deal with a meteorite crisis, and calling the surrounding facilities crude would be an understatement."

"I want to see a properly functioning rocket launch site! In the entire Hoenn region, only Lilycove City and Mossdeep City have them. If I miss it, I'll never see one again!"

Seeing Xiao Sheng rolling around on the ground and acting spoiled, Xiao Yao sighed.

"Alright, we'll go as long as Ash agrees."

Upon hearing this, Xiaosheng immediately jumped up and ran to Xiaozhi, looking at him with his big, watery eyes, even though he was nearsighted.

"Ash~"

"...Let me make this clear first, we're not going to watch the rocket launch, we're just going to find the gym leader."

"Great! Anyway, you'll definitely be interested in rocket launches, Ash, so it doesn't matter as long as you can go."

"How could that be? What do you take me for?"

Ash Ketchum is a man who has personally ridden a rocket into space, so he wouldn't be interested in an ordinary rocket launch.

Then, as soon as he arrived at the Green Ridge Space Launch Center, he was immediately attracted by the things there, just like Xiao Sheng.

Wow, so many facilities!

"Of course, this is what a proper space center should be like."

After skillfully guiding Ash and May through the Trainer Pokédex, Max swaggered inside.

Any organization affiliated with the Pokémon League can be visited for free by being a Pokémon Trainer.

Led by Xiao Sheng, the group passed smoothly through the hall and room after room until they arrived at the astronaut training room, the best spot to watch the rocket launch.

During his visit, Xiao Zhi was amazed by all the novel items in the space center.

The launch site in Inyu City was built with the primary goal of being sturdy and durable, and only the necessary facilities were retained.

After all, it's meant to be used to deal with a major meteorite crisis. If it's built too luxuriously, and the plan fails and the spaceport gets destroyed, wouldn't that result in maximum losses?

Therefore, Ash has never actually visited any of Hoenn's space centers.

No, it's more accurate to say that he has never seriously visited a space center in both of his lifetimes.

This was truly an eye-opening experience.

"It turns out that the center has more than just rockets; the astronaut training area alone has so much stuff."

Ash arrived at a zero-gravity walking trainer that simulated the surface of the moon and carefully touched the handles on it.

Then he jumped up with Pikachu and experienced it for himself, and it really was not much different from wandering in space.

"High-tech! Pikachu running in the sunset reminds me of my lost youth!"

"Pikachu, Pikachu!" (Me too!)

"It's the middle of the day! Ash, hurry up and come down with Pikachu to find the Gym Leader at Mossdeep City! I want to play too!"

"No rush."

Ah~!

Just as Ash was rudely fighting with Max for the play equipment, May suddenly noticed that there was a training field behind a few glass windows in the corner of the training room.

"Ash, Max, look! There are people battling here!"

"What, inside the space center?"

Ash and his friends immediately ran over and pressed themselves against the glass window with May to watch.