Chapter 21: Illusionary Encounter

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Inside the Pokémon Center after the festival from the day before, Ash walked into the lobby before going to Nurse Joy who was behind the counter with a tray of four Poke Ball as she looked at the young Trainer who appeared in front of her.

"Your Pokémon has now been fully healed, please have a safe journey ahead." Nurse Joy told Ash, as he picked up the four Poke Ball.

"Thank you, Nurse Joy, and I'll be careful." Ash thanked, before clipping the Poke Ball to his belt.

After keeping away his four Poke Ball, Ash turned around to see Lillie enter the Pokémon Center which made him smile as he went towards the blonde girl, who was clenching onto her bag tightly not letting Nebby run off again.

"Alola, Lillie." Ash greeted, catching her attention.

"Alola, Ash. How's your Pokémon doing?" Lillie responded, which made Ash nod his head.

"Their fine, though I'm pretty sure Charizard took a huge hit after losing to Guzma's Golisopod." Ash answered, feeling bad for the Flame Pokémon's huge lost against Guzma's Golisopod.

After their morning greeting and conversation, a few Trainers came running into the Pokémon Center with injured Pokémon in their arms, as they frantically ran towards Nurse Joy, causing curiosity to fly into Ash and Lillie of what is going on.

"Nurse Joy, please help my Linoone." A trainer pleaded.

"Please take a look at my Nuzleaf as well, please!" The second too pleaded the pink hair nurse.

Nurse Joy quickly took a look at the two injured Pokemon as she gasped at the injury of the victim Pokemon's, and on further inspection, Linoone had a deep bruise on its belly while Nuzleaf had a terrible burn mark on its back.

"Of course, Audino, hurry and take Linoone and Nuzleaf to the treatment room." Nurse Joy ordered.

An Audino quickly ran out of the treatment room as she quickly brought the two injured Pokémon back into the treatment room, as Nurse Joy soon followed from behind her assistant Pokémon, leaving the two Trainers outside to wait for news of their Pokémon's recovery.

"I wonder what happened to their Pokémon." Ash voice with wonder.

Lillie took the initiative to walk up to the two Trainers as Ash quietly followed her from behind, after reaching their location, the blonde girl inhaled a bit of air before attempting to catch their attention in order to know the subject.

"What happened to your Linoone and Nuzleaf?" She asked, getting their attention successfully.

"We were actually going to the Ruins of Life to challenge Kahuna Olivia, but we were suddenly jumped by a Pokémon we've never seen before." Nuzleaf's Trainer answered.

"Of course, we tried to fight it off, but that Pokémon was simply too strong, and as you can guess, this is the result of our fight." Linoone's Trainer added.

Ash and Lillie looked at each other in confusion, though trying to break the confusion for them both, Ash looked at the two Trainers before trying to get more clues of the mysterious Pokemon they have fought in the road towards the Ruins of Life.

"How does the Pokémon look like? Any distinctive feature or something?" Ash asked, which got the two Trainers thinking.

"Well... it was brown that's for sure but with the fog, I'm afraid we didn't get to see much." Linoone's Trainer answered.

The Kanto Trainer sighed because he wasn't going to any more clues for how the mysterious Pokémon looked like, as he decided on another idea for finding out who was this mysterious Pokémon.

"If I can ask another question again, where did you encounter this mysterious Pokémon?" Ash asked with voice of wonder, shocking Lillie about what he just asked.

"Erm, are you actually planning to find this Pokémon?" Nuzleaf's Trainer asked, causing Ash to nod his head.

"If that's the case, we met that Pokémon in Memorial Hill just west from here. Anyways good luck and be careful." Linoone's Trainer answered.

After ending the conversation, Ash and Lillie went back to their initial spot right as Lillie hit Ash in the arm making him jump in pain at her hit, causing him to turn around to face his lover.

"What was that for, Lillie?" Ash voice with wonder, about her hit earlier.

"That was for why you would want to find that Pokémon." She answered sternly, while looking serious.

"I was wondering who that Pokémon was, and what was its purpose for being there. It can't be that the mysterious Pokémon is going around battling Trainers for no apparent reasons, right?" Ash responded, causing Lillie to sigh.

"I'm just worried that you'd might get hurt, do you know how much it pains me to see you get hurt yesterday?" Lillie voice with worry, causing Ash to lean his forehead to hers before pulling back.

"I promise you, Lillie. I'm not going to get hurt this time, so what do you say?" Ash told her, causing Lillie to nod her head.

The two of them soon spend the next few hours preparing for the trip towards Memorial Hill, as they met each other outside the Pokémon Center after preparing what they need, just as Mallow ran towards them from a distance.

"Hey guys, where are you off to? Have you heard the recent rumor?" Mallow asked, with Ash looking at her.

"We're planning to go to the Memorial Hill." Ash answered, causing Mallow to jump in shock.

"Why? Haven't you heard of the recent rumor since yesterday night? They said that there's a mysterious Pokémon, beating every Trainer and their team to a plump!" Mallow exclaimed loudly.

"And that's the reason why we're going there, Mallow. I want to know just who this mysterious Pokémon is, and why its doing this." Ash responded with pure confidence.

Mallow was taken aback by what Ash had responded her with, as she turn her head to her best friend, Lillie with eyes of worry and disbelief.

"And you're planning to follow him, Lillie?!" She asked in a loud voice.

"I'm afraid so, Mallow, but you don't have to worry really. Ash has already promised me that if things gets too rough, we'll get out of there immediately." Lillie answered, trying to calm her friend down.

"If you guys have already set your mind into it, I guess I can't stop you." Mallow sighed, before turning her attention to Ash.

"Take care of Lillie, Ash." This made Ash nod his head.

The two of them soon bid Mallow farewell before walking towards Memorial Hill, where the mysterious Pokémon is said to be roaming around. It didn't really take Ash and Lillie too long to reach their destination, but as they did, the road in front of them became very foggy.

"I can guess why those two Trainer lost now, it's too foggy to even see the road in front." Ash voiced out his opinion.

"How are we going to find this Pokémon? I mean, we can barely see ahead." Lillie asked.

"Decidueye, use Defog!" Ash ordered, while throwing his Poke Ball.

His first Alolan Pokémon soon emerged from his Poke Ball, as he flapped his wing blowing off a strong gust of light wind, but the effect of the move proved to be ineffective as the fog simply got thicker instead of getting thinner.

"Didn't work, huh?" Ash mumbled.

"Pika, pi, pikachu!" Pikachu yelled, catching Ash's attention.

"What's wrong, buddy?" Ash asked his partner.

Pikachu pointed at a distance beside him, making Ash turn his head to see what Pikachu was pointing at. Though much to his shock, Ash could no longer see the silhouette of Lillie anywhere and the only silhouette he could see was Decidueye's who was the closest to him.

"Lillie! Where did you go!" Ash yelled.

While yelling out for Lillie's name, Ash got no answers as the only thing he could hear was the fog flowing by his ear, making him turn to his Pokémon.

"Guys, let's go deeper and try to find Lillie." He ordered.

Decidueye and Pikachu nodded as they followed Ash deeper into the fog, hoping to find his friend. Meanwhile with Lillie, the blonde girl was standing all alone next to a rock, with Ash being nowhere in sight at all, making her worry.

"Ash! Where did you go!" She yelled.

"If you can hear me, answer me!" She added.

After shouting hoping to catch Ash's attention, Lillie got absolutely no replies as she slowly walked deeper into the fog, being scared that something might jump at her from within the thick fog that was covering her sight.

The blonde girl soon reached for her Poke Ball before throwing it slightly, calling out her Alolan Ninetales as the Fox Pokémon looked at her scared Trainer.

"Ninetales, do you think you can find Ash?" Lillie asked.

The Ice and Fairy type then started to sniff for Ash's scent, but after a while of sniffing, she turned back to Lillie before shaking her head, indicating that she could smell the Kanto native at all, which increased Lillie's worry for Ash's wellbeing.

"Let's go, we have to find Ash!" Lillie ordered, gaining a bit of courage.

Ninetales immediately followed her Trainer through the fog, as they ran deep into the cloud in hopes of finding their friend.

At Ash's side, the Kanto native was still wondering aimlessly trying to find his lost friend, as he looked behind a huge rock to see if there was any new road he could take, while his Pokémon searched the foggy road and sky.

"Found anything or any road we could take?" Ash's statement made Decidueye and Pikachu shake their head, as Ash scratched his head.

"I can't believe I lost sight of Lillie, if anything happens to her, I'm afraid I can't face Mallow or Gladion." Ash mumbled, getting frustrated at himself.

His thoughts were suddenly broken when a sound of something came from behind him above the cliff, making Ash turn around, but when he did, Ash could see a silhouette of a four legged Pokémon standing on the cliff above him, as the unknown Pokémon leaped down to attack, causing Ash to leap out of the way, with the unknown Pokémon landing on his feet.

Ash quickly recomposed himself as he faced the front in order to see his attacker, but when he did, the attacking Pokémon was indeed brown as Linoone's Trainer had described it to be, but it also had spikes coming out of its back with a smoke-like fur on its back making it resemble some sort of a volcano, making Ash widen his eyes.

"That's an Entei, why would an Entei be here?!" Ash exclaimed loudly, catching Rotom's attention.

Entei, The Volcano Pokémon a Fire Type. It is said in ancient times that Entei is born from a volcano, it is also said in many ancient scriptures, that if an Entei was to roar, a volcano is sure to erupt somewhere around the world.

After Rotom's description, Entei immediately fired a ball of shadow energy at the duo, causing Ahs to quickly turn to Pikachu who was the closest to him.

"Quick, deflect that with Iron Tail!" Ash ordered.

Pikachu's tail hastily turned into steel as he swing it at Entei's Shadow Ball attack, hitting it towards the other direction, as it exploded upon hitting a tree. After its first failed attempt, Entei fired a torrent of hot flame at the group, only for Decidueye to slice it up with his hand glowing green, without Ash giving him any orders.

"Thanks, Decidueye. Now, use Brave Bird!" Ash yelled.

Decidueye leaped high into the sky as he dove down upon Entei, but much to everyone's shock, Decidueye went through the Volcano Pokémon, causing Decidueye to collide into a tree, as Entei suddenly appeared from Decidueye's right, making Ash look at that direction.

"Double Team, this is going to be troublesome." Ash mumbled to himself.

Meanwhile with Lillie, the blonde girl continued to walk aimlessly through the fog hoping to find Ash, but before she could continue walking, Ninetales leaped in front of her Trainer, before growling at an unknown entity which stood just a few distance away from her.

"Who's there!" Lillie yelled in demand.

The silhouette turned around for a brief moment before running off at high speed, as Lillie started running.

"Hey, wait!" She yelled, chasing after the silhouette.

"Tales!" Ninetales yelled as she too give chase after Lillie.

After having chase the silhouette for awhile, the unknown entity stopped before turning around to face Lillie, who looked back at the silhouette, as the unknown being took a few steps forward towards her, as Lillie stood still in bravery.

"Finally…" The silhouette mumbled, causing Lillie to tilt her head.

"Finally? Finally, what?" Lillie questioned.

"I've finally found you…" The silhouette answered.

Lillie was getting more and more confused by the minute at the fact that something that she didn't recognize or know, would actually know her, as she looked at the silhouette who stood just few distance away from her.

"How do you know me? Do I know you from somewhere?" She questioned.

"Have you forgotten me? After 8 years?" The silhouette asked, making Lillie shake her head.

"I'm afraid not, I can't remember. What is it that you know, that I don't? Lillie answered.

The silhouette then turned around before running off at high speed again, causing Lillie to give chase as she ran after the silhouette deeper into the fog.

"Wait! I'm not done asking question!" She yelled, while chasing after the unknown entity.

Back with Ash, Pikachu was send flying through the sky by Entei who's hand was glowing black, as the Mouse Pokémon land next to an injured Decidueye, with Ash running towards them.

"Pikachu, Decidueye. You guys alright?!" He asked in concern.

The two Pokémon slowly stood up as Ash took out Decidueye's Poke Ball, picking Pikachu up with his other hand.

"Decidueye, return, Pikachu, you take a rest. You two have done a great job." Ash recalled the Arrow Quill Pokémon back into his Poke Ball, while putting Pikachu on his shoulder.

He then kept Decidueye's Poke Ball away, before looking at Entei who didn't really seem to be too injured. Ash then took out another Poke Ball, before throwing it into the air, calling out his Araquanid into combat.

"Since Entei is a fire type, use Liquidation!" Ash yelled.

Araquanid nodded as he leaped into he air while created a blade of water from his front legs, but as he swung his legs down upon Entei, the Volcano Pokémon created a blue rectangular shield, completely blocking off Araquanid's attack, as it hit the Water Bubble Pokémon back with a headbutt, forcing Araquanid to go back to Ash.

"Signal Beam, go!" Ash ordered.

The Water and Bug type soon fired off a rainbow colored beam from his mouth at Entei, and with high mobility, Entei swiftly avoided the attack, making Araquanid miss his target as Entei unleashed a huge ring of purple energy with a loud roar at Araquanid, who got pushed back by the sudden attack from the Volcano Pokemon.

"Araquanid, stand strong and use Leech Life!" Ash ordered.

Araquanid nodded as he leaped at Entei with a fanged jaw appearing in front of himself, but as the jaws clamped down on Entei, a purple beam shot forth from the cloud made by Araquanid's attack, as it crashed into the Water Bubble Pokémon, sending Araquanid to a tree where he laid unconscious for the duration of the battle.

"Araquanid, good work out there, return." Ash praised.

After keeping Araquanid back into his Poke Ball, Ash turned his attention back to Entei who was staring at him with aa stoic expression, while being in a stance ready for more battles to come its way, with Ash pulling out another Poke Ball.

"We're not going down without a fight. Rockruff, I choose you!" Ash called out.

Ash's fourth Pokémon appeared with a bright light, as Rockruff glared at the stoic Entei, while growling in anger, eager to have his first official wild encounter battle with Ash ever since his capture by the latter.

"Rockruff, use Rock Throw!" Ash instructed.

The Puppy Pokémon swiftly created a ring of rocks around his tail, before firing it at Entei who simply crush the attack with its front paws, as Rockruff got into an attacking stance, prepared to throw more attacks at Entei.

"Use Bite!" Ash ordered once again.

The Rock type dog immediately opened his mouth, creating a pair of white jaw before closing it shut on Entei, and after the attack had ended, Rockruff's Bite attack did not lay even a single bit of damage on the Volcano Pokémon, as Entei charged forward with its front paws glowing black.

Meanwhile Ash was continuing his battle against Entei, Lillie had finally caught up with the unknown entity once again, as she stop to catch her breath, before looking at the silhouette again before standing up straight after catching her breath.

"Who are you, really? How did you even know my name?" Lillie questioned again, as the silhouette continued to presumably stare at her direction.

"I've known you since the beginning, Lillie. Did you really forget about me?" The silhouette answered, as Lillie shook her head.

"I'm afraid I really don't know you, but is this your doing?" Lillie responded, hoping to at least get an answer.

The silhouette before her kept silent not giving her any answers, which made Lillie more and more confused because she wasn't getting any answers or clues that might help her know who this being was, until the silhouette spoke.

"This fog is my doing, Lillie. No one can navigate through this fog, not your friend, Pokémon, no one but me." The silhouette answered, finally giving her a proper answer ever since her questions.

"Why are you doing this to other Trainers? They haven't done anything to you!" Lillie yelled, as the silhouette shook its head.

"That doesn't matter to me, Lillie." The silhouette answered.

Lillie soon narrowed her eyes down on the silhouette in anger, but before she could yell or say anything to the entity in front of her, a large pink ball flew towards the silhouette causing it to waver, as the silhouette ran off deeper into the fog, with Ninetales appearing in front of Lillie.

"Ninetales!" Lillie yelled, before hugging onto her Pokémon.

"We have to find that thing fast, come on, this way!" Lillie told the Fox Pokémon, who followed her from behind.

Back at Ash's side, Charizard was holding down Entei who was trying to push him back with body clad in a devastating aura, as the Flame Pokémon held his ground against the Volcano Pokémon while gritting his teeth in pain from the attack, while Ash was giving him morale support.

"Charizard, don't give up! Hang in there just a little more!" Ash encouraged, as Charizard gave a loud roar.

As Charizard's determination grew stronger, Entei's attack ended in failure as the aura around its body dispersed having its Giga Impact attack ending its effect, with Charizard grinning at the Volcano Pokémon who couldn't move for a while right after using Giga Impact, as Ash chuckled at his assumed victory.

"Dragon Claw, send Entei home!" Ash ordered.

Charizard immediately created a claw of green energy with his right hand, before clashing the claw to Entei's underbelly hard, causing the Volcano Pokémon to wheeze in pain as the Fire and Flying type send the Volcano Pokémon flying across the field as it crashed onto the ground, before slowly getting up as it glared at Charizard with pure anger.

After injuring Entei, the fog around Ash slowly dispersed bit by bit, confusing the Kanto native, as the fog around the area soon disappeared leaving Memorial Hill's surrounding area visible to the naked eye with full view.

"Ash!" Lillie's voice yelled, catching Ash's attention.

Ash quickly turn his head to the source of Lillie's voice to see that she was above a cliff with Ninetales by her side, and turning his attention back to the injured Entei, the Volcano Pokémon started to glow in a shady purple light, as it changed the form of the four-legged Entei to a two legged being, as it kneeled on the ground holding its abdomen where Charizard struck.

The newly arrived entity was a black colored Fox-like Pokémon with crimson red claws and talon, as well as a pair of red eyes, as it continued to hold onto its abdomen before rising from the ground to face Charizard who started to growl in anger.

"That's a Zoroark!" Ash and James yelled in sync.

Zoroark, the Illusion Fox Pokémon a Dark Type. Zoroark is capable of creating an illusion which is indistinguishable from reality, it can also alter the landscape to fool people and trap people in its illusion, though indistinguishable from reality, a Zoroark's illusion can easily be broken when struck physically hard.

Zoroark soon got up as it glared at Charizard with pure anger in its eyes, as it begins to gather a huge amount of darkness energy in its body, shocking Ash about what attack was to come next.

"Charizard, brace yourself! Zoroark, is about to use Night Daze!" Ash yelled.

"RAAA!" Zoroark yelled loudly, before blasting the Night Daze attack in pure anger.

Despite bracing himself to endure the attack, Charizard was still blast away by Zoroark's attack, as he hit the tree hard shocking Ash at Zoroark's power despite being heavily injured, as the Dark type Pokémon glared at the Trainer in front of it hard.

"Y-You!" Zoroark roared, shocking the humans around it, as Lillie started to process its voice.

"Telepathy!" Rotom yelled in shock.

"You! How dare you ruin my plan!" Zoroark roared in anger, before blasting off another Night Daze attack.

This time, the Night Daze send the surrounding terrain flying, with Ash flying away as well, as Ninetales blocked Lillie from the strong impact of Zoroark's attack, before looking at the damaged field by Zoroark's power.

"That's some power..." Ash mumbled in pain.

"Zoroark! If you want me, I'm right here, leave him alone!" Lillie yelled, making Ash turn his head to her direction.

Zoroark immediately turned its head to Lillie's direction as it ran towards the blonde girl, but before it could touch her, Ninetales got in front of Lillie defensively, causing Zoroark to growl in anger as it glared at the obstacle in front of it from getting to Lillie.

"Get out of my way!" Zoroark roared while creating a claw of darkness from its red claw.

Though, before it could strike Ninetales, Lillie got in front of the Illusion Fox Pokémon as it stopped its attack before looking at the blonde girl in front of it, as it slowly lowered its hand which had created the attack as Lillie glared at it.

"Don't harm my friends, and how did you know me!" Lillie demanded, as Zoroark took a step back.

"Lillie... No, you were too young back then to remember me..." Zoroark mumbled to itself, as Lillie lighten her look at the Dark type Pokémon.

Ash watched from where he was at the scene as Lillie looked at the Zoroark in front of her before reaching her hand to touch its face, causing it to lighten its anger as it gazed at Lillie with eyes of wonder and hope as she looked at the Illusion Fox Pokémon.

"This feeling... Are you, the Zoroark that I knew when I was lonely?" Lillie asked, as Zoroark widen its eyes.

"You finally remember me... I've been waiting for so long, for you to finally meet me." Zoroark answered, as it kneeled down.

Ash soon got up as Lillie decided to help Zoroark up as it looked at the girl before it, the blonde girl simply smiled as she hugged onto Zoroark, as the Illusion Fox Pokémon patted her on the while smiling brightly.

"I wonder who that Zoroark is to Lillie." Ash voice with wonder, as Pikachu nodded.

"But, why did you do all this? Why did you harm other people?" Lillie asked, while pulling away, as Zoroark looked to the side.

"I was waiting for you to appear, I knew that if I defeat other Trainers that comes by, I'll be able to drag your friend in and you would certainly follow." Zoroark answered, while looking at Ash who was sitting by the tree.

Lillie soon ran towards the currently injured Ash, before helping him up as Zoroark and Ninetales followed her from behind, as Lillie begin to check on his injuries making Ash take a defensive stance.

"I'm fine, Lillie, it's just a couple of scratches." Ash told her, waving off his condition.

"I don't care, an injury is still an injury, and it'd be bad if it got worse." Lillie retorted.

Zoroark was confused about Ash's relationship to Lillie, as it watch her tend to Ash's wound, with Ash sighing in defeat since he couldn't stop her even if he tried to, but as Lillie was tending to Ash's wound, Zoroark walked closer before staring at Ash, with Pikachu getting defensive over his Trainer.

"Wait, buddy." Ash told his partner, as Pikachu eased up.

"Who are you to Lillie, boy?" Zoroark questioned, as Lillie looked at the Illusion Fox Pokémon.

"Ash is my boyfriend, Zoroark. We've been dating for a while now." Lillie answered, as she kept her medical supplies.

Zoroark was visibly shocked at what Lillie had just told it, the girl it once knew from the past grew up so fast, to the point where she even found herself a lover who cares for her, as he watch Lillie and Ash's affectionate interaction.

"Ash, was it? Let me apologies for what I did." Zoroark started, while walking towards Ash.

"It's fine, I can get your reason for doing this. All because you wanted to look after Lillie, right?" He responded, as Zoroark merely shifted its eyes.

"Thank you for looking after her, in my stead. However, I'm still going to look after her myself, that is his wish and final command to me." Zoroark retorted, before eyeing at Lillie.

The blonde girl wasn't sure who was the 'He' Zoroark was talking about, but both Ash and herself could guess was Zoroark's Trainer, and might be someone important or related to Lillie, as she look at Zoroark in the eyes.

"Who told you to do this, for you to look after me for 12 years?" She asked, as Zoroark sighed.

"My Trainer, and the man who ordered me to look after you, was your father, Lillie." Zoroark answered, as Lillie looked shocked.

"My... Father?" The Dark type fox merely nodded at her words.

"Ever since your mother changed for the worse, I've been trying to make you happy on a daily basis, to make sure both you and your brother grow up well." Zoroark told the daughter of its Trainer.

Ash was visibly surprised at the fact that a single Pokémon was able to manage the diet and health of two children, and was also wondering what kind of growing environment was Lillie and Gladion in to make the two of them have fear of going back, especially back to their mother.

"But you said you didn't see me for 8 years, what do you mean?" Lillie questioned, remembering Zoroark saying something about her forgetting it after 8 years.

"Actually is you who didn't come and see me, I've been worried when you didn't appear for 8 years and went out to find you." Zoroark answered, as Lillie looked at the Illusion Fox Pokémon.

"For the last 8 years, I've been desperately trying to search for you. When I finally did, I noticed that Ash was with you, and I thought you would really forget me, so I started this charade to bring you in." It continued, as the two Trainer remained quite silent.

Lillie didn't knew she brought so much worry to Zoroark for not appearing for 8 years, as she hugged onto its hand, making Zoroark pat her head in affection.

"Would you like to come with us, Zoroark? That way, we wouldn't need to he separated again." Lillie suggested.

"Of course, I'd come with you, Lillie. I still have my job to uphold, and until your father returns, I'll keep obeying his orders no matter what." Zoroark told her.

Lillie smiled brightly as she tossed a Poke Ball towards Zoroark, however as inexperienced as she was, the ball ended slipping out of her hand as it flew towards Ash instead, but before it could hit him in the face, Pikachu smacked the ball towards Zoroark with his tail, as the Illusion Fox Pokémon closed its eyes, allowing Lillie to capture it without resistance.

"Thank you for looking out for me, Zoroark." Lillie mumbled as she picked up the ball.

With the situation now cleared up, Ash turn to face the road towards the Ruin of Life, but before they could continue moving, Lillie pulled his hand, making him turn around to meet her eyes.

"What's wrong, Lillie?" He asked.

"I'm planning to go back to Konikoni City, to get Zoroark treated. So, I guess we'll be separated for awhile, sorry." Lillie answered apologetically.

"It's fine, you go ahead and get Zoroark treated. When we meet again, I'll be sure to present you news about my victory." Ash responded, making Lillie smiled as she kissed him on the lips.

This made Ash blush as the blonde girl ran off towards the opposite direction with her Ninetales after a short wave of goodbye, as he smiled before turning to face the road ahead, with Pikachu following by his side, as he recalled Charizard back to his Pokémon, with both Trainer and Pokémon continuing their road down Memorial Hill.

Meanwhile on a tropical island, a woman with long blonde hair similar to Lillie's dressed in a white dress sat on a desk, as a man wearing the same suit as the one who helped Ash entered the room, making the woman lift her head up to meet him in the eyes.

"Madame president, please take a look at this." The man told her, before showing her a piece of the recent news.

"We have reasons to believe that a giant monster, that resembles a bundle of wire, is responsible for the power outage in Kanto." The video processed, as the woman watched on.

"How long was this news?" She asked, as the man started to push a few buttons.

"Just a few weeks ago, maybe a week and a half to two, Madame president." He answered.

The woman looked at the video before grinning as she look at the man in front of her, before leaning back to talk.

"Tell Faba to hurry and return once he is done in Akala Island, and if there's nothing else, you may go." She told him.

"Yes, Madame President." The man responded, as he walked out of the room, before pulling out his phone to calm someone named 'Faba'.

The woman looked at the small picture frame beside her as she turn it face down, before getting up from her sit as she walked to her window to look at the sky covering the entire world.

"I was so close to finding him, if it wasn't for my children's, I would have already succeeded." She growled, before shaking her head.

"They'll still eventually have to come to me, I can feel it." She smirked to herself.

After talking to herself, the woman walked out of her room to check on things outside.

A new Chapter! I hope you guys are still enjoying the story.

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