Pokémon: Dreams Come True Starting in Sinnoh

"Hey, Hikaru? Are you there?!"

"Pikachu~ Pikachu~"

After promising Brock they would go to the forest to find Dawn, they had been wandering around for four or five minutes, but they still hadn't seen her. Considering Dawn's somewhat reckless personality, Ash and Pikachu began to worry about her.

Although Dawn now has Piplup with her, giving her some ability to protect herself compared to when she first left Twinleaf Town, Piplup is still just a newly acquired Pokémon, and Dawn is just a rookie trainer. If they encounter any powerful wild Pokémon in the wild, it won't be easy for them to win.

"Honestly, where did they run off to? Should we send M'kel out to look for them? But..."

Although the forest vegetation here is not as dense as the forest near Xinqi Lake, and Mkel still has a relatively large space to move around, it is still not an open area, and even Mkel's field of vision is quite limited.

What if we end up not only failing to find Hikari and the others, but also losing sight of Mukher?

"Skin?"

Just as Ash was hesitating, Pikachu's ears suddenly twitched. It stood up, closed its eyes, and listened to every tiny sound it could detect.

"Have you found anything?"

Seeing this, Xiao Zhi asked in surprise.

"Pickup!"

Finally, as if it had reached a conclusion, Pikachu led Ash and quickly ran in a certain direction in the forest. Sure enough, Ash soon saw Dawn and Piplup fighting in a certain location.

"Finally found it..."

Ash breathed a sigh of relief, then looked in Dawn's direction and saw that she was currently battling a Brill, and it seemed that she was considering catching it.

"Bogarman, Bubble Ray!"

"Poga!"

When Ash arrived, the match had already reached its final stage. The Bumblebee must have been hit by Piplup's move in the previous battle. When faced with the surging Bubble Beam, it didn't even have the strength to dodge and was simply knocked away.

"Now! Go, Poké Ball!"

Seeing this, Xiao Guang excitedly threw out her Poké Ball. Just when she thought she was about to capture her first Pokémon with the help of Piplup, her hand slipped as it was raised high.

"Eh?"

"Huh?!"

Just as Hikari made a puzzled sound, seemingly not understanding what was happening, Ash cried out in pain from behind her.

"Ash? What are you doing here?"

"That's the question I should be asking you... Why are you throwing your Poké Balls around like that?"

Ash touched the spot where he had been hit and said this with dissatisfaction.

"I'm not just throwing them away! I'm trying to catch Brill! Ash, you're just getting in the way of me catching Pokémon!"

"Huh? Who stopped you from catching it? The problem is that you threw your Poké Ball around randomly. If you want to catch a Poké Ball, you have to carefully throw the empty Poké Ball at a wild Pokémon that has lost its battle ability. That's common sense for a trainer! Don't just throw it around randomly. Do you expect the Poké Ball to grow legs and 'bang' catch the wild Pokémon?"

"So I just accidentally threw it away! It was an accident!"

"Then just tell me properly! Why are you blaming me?"

"Who told you, Ash..."

"Poga! Poga!!"

Just as Ash and Dawn were arguing, Piplup started to sound anxious. When the two turned their attention to Piplup, they saw that the previously unconscious Bumblebee had woken up at some point and was now hopping around, ready to escape.

"Oops!"

Only then did Hikaru realize that this was not the time to argue, so he quickly took another empty Poké Ball out of his pocket and threw it straight at...

In the bushes on one side.

“Mi~”

Curly-eared let out a mocking sound and then disappeared from their sight. Ash, seeing this, simply sighed regretfully and said, "So, you can't blame the road for being uneven when you're bad at it. Who throws their Poké Ball like that?"

Xiao Guang: "......"

Dawn glared angrily at Ash. If it were just now, she would have had a reason to refute Ash's words, but now that she had done such a stupid thing, Dawn couldn't continue to shift the blame. She could only snort and say, "It's a small problem! Every new trainer makes these kinds of mistakes. Anyway, this problem will naturally be solved in the future!"

"Don't blame everything on the new trainer. It's just throwing a Poké Ball. It should be the simplest thing. Even a normal person wouldn't throw it so crookedly."

"Huh? Are you deliberately picking a fight?"

"Isn't that right? Pikachu, you be my witness."

"Skin......"

Pikachu never expected that it wouldn't even do anything like just watching the drama unfold. It kept its face turned away the whole time, afraid of getting caught in the crossfire. But it never imagined that even with all its efforts, it would still get dragged into this mess.

Pikachu looked at Ash with pitiful eyes, as if begging him to spare it, but Ash and Dawn, who were clearly caught up in the moment, seemed to really intend to take Pikachu's opinion as the key to the final victory, and neither of them paid attention to Pikachu's eyes at this moment.

Bogaman retreated silently behind a large tree as cover to avoid getting caught in the crossfire.

"Pikachu...Pikachu..."

Pikachu looked at Dawn and then at Ash, its ears drooping as it hesitated for a long time before finally raising its hand with difficulty and pointing at Dawn.

"what?!"

"Hmm~! I'll tell you I'm right!"

Xiao Guang looked smug, seemingly surprised to have received Pikachu's support, but now that she had won, she naturally wanted to show off a little.

"That's strange~ Why would Pikachu choose to support me? Logically speaking, isn't Pikachu your starter Pokémon? That means a new trainer couldn't have achieved that level of success in its experience, right? In that case, I'm curious~ Ash, you weren't just chased by Spearow back then, were you? You must have done something even more embarrassing that you haven't told me about. Tell me already~ Hehe~"

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