Chapter 35: Making Pancakes
AJ and Brock stayed up longer sharing Pokemon facts and diets. Yellow stayed up playing with Clefairy, Pikachu, and her Pokemon also drawing them. Misty and Ash just went to sleep, Misty because she sleeps a lot and Ash because he wants to get up early to execute his Plan.
After way too long Yellow went to sleep on Dody, and after even longer than that AJ and Brock went to sleep.
(The next day)
Ash was the first to wake up, everyone else was still asleep, so Ash decided to pull his evil plan of Pancakes.
Not just any Pancakes, the Alolan special recipe, what made it evil you ask, that it should be illegal with how much sugar the things have. But those are problems for the latter.
Ash prepared everything and prepared the batter and pan for the Pancakes, after the first batch was done he thought to himself, 'They say the first Pancake is the sacrificial one, but in this case that goes two ways.'
He set the Pancakes on a rock outside and waited as he made more, you see the only reason Ash came up to route 24 was for one Pokemon, and that Pokemon has the tendency to teleport and be hard to capture, however after training with Aura he discovered a technique that he dubs Aura bind, that will be useful.
After another plate is finished he looks back to the rock and notes the Pancakes are gone, and there are no footprints around so that Pokemon fell for the Bait. So Ash set down a second plate and waited.
After a few seconds, a small yellow Pokemon teleported to the Plate and started eating, Ash used Aura Bind, and by the time the Pokemon realized something happened it was too late, it lifted the Plate over his head and then started glowing then nothing.
As it saw Ash standing by the tent it looked at Ash then at the Pancakes then Back at Ash, slowly put the plate down then started running, so Ash chased after it.
It did not take much to catch up with the Pokemon who was revealed to be an Abra, it tried to struggle but with the Aura technique Ash used on it most of its Psychic abilities were turned off, that's right Ash developed a technique simply to counter Psychic Abilities.
So Ash offered it more Pancakes to become his Pokemon but it refused, so Ash made it submit, how you may ask if all of his Pokemon are sleeping, well he used a forbidden technique passed down in his sect called fist.
Needless to say, the Abra got Caught, so as he started healing it with Aura he looked over in the Pokedex.
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[Abra (F)]
[Ability: Synchronize, Hidden ability: Magic Guard]
[Current moves: Teleport, Reflect, Light Screen, Confusion]
[Mutation detected….Grand Master]
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Ash went back with his new assistant Abra and made the rest of the Pancakes, after about an hour everyone woke up due to the tantalizing smell. And they made their way out to find Ash cooking a bunch of Pancakes for everyone and their Pokemon as well.
"Morning guys!" Ash said as he wasn't wearing his usual hat and Jacket instead wearing an apron that was dusty for unrelated reasons, but no one seemed to notice or care.
"What are you making?" Brock asked, still a bit groggy.
"Pancakes," Ash said, taking a sip from a mug with coffee, honestly he preferred tea but Coffee is nice, especially since he can't get his caffeine from soda like he used to.
Brock looked like he wanted to say something about Ash drinking coffee but was too tired to say anything so he just sat down on the table with everyone else.
Ash walked over with his helper handing out plates and one to Pikachu since he sat on the table, "Syrup and Honey for you guys, and Ketchup for Pikachu." There was something to be said about Pikachu but everyone was too tired to say it.
Ash passed out coffee and Nanab Berry juice to everyone, then he passed out Pancakes to any Pokemon that wanted it, which was most of them.
Fearow was also up but decided not to eat and instead train since he was mad at himself for going down yesterday, speaking of which Fearow now stood at 5 '8, 9 inches taller than his frenemy Pidgeotto of course he didn't forget to rub it in.
Anyway everyone was impressed with the Pancakes even AJ let his Pokemon break their diet for a bit.
"How did you make this?" Misty asked in amazement.
"It's the recipe I learned from Alola when I visited there," he responded as he also started to eat.
"You went to Alola, when?" Brock also asked since he knew that the recipe for the Alola Pancakes was supposedly a secret.
"Yeah I went a year for school, didn't learn much but did learn how to make these," he answered with half the truth.
That seemed to satisfy most of their questions so no one asked anymore as Pikachu was drenching his Pancakes with Ketchup.
"By the way, where did you get that little one," AJ asked pointing at Abra who was sitting on a plate eating more Pancakes, "Those are very rare and you didn't have her yesterday."
As everyone looked at the Abra, since originally they didn't notice it, "Well I was making these, then she appeared and stole the first plate so I caught her," Ash answered.
Everyone was dumbstruck as to him being so nonchalant about catching such a rare Pokemon, except Pikachu who was eating his Ketchup with a side of Pancakes.
They just let it go and ate the rest of the Pancakes, after which everyone helped pack up to leave and AJ sent every one of his Pokemon back to train.
After they all finished packing up they went to talk to AJ before they left, "Well this is Goodbye then" AJ said, "I still need 1 more win then I will start gathering badges."
As he finished talking the youngster that Ash battled yesterday appeared, "AJ I have trained and now my Rattata is in the upper-half percentage of Rattata."
They all looked towards the kid and his Rattata, "Well I guess you're getting that win now," Ash turned to tell AJ, "I better see you in this year's league then."
"I will be there and don't expect me to lose so easily next time," AJ said as they parted ways, and the group started moving towards Vermilion City.
As they were walking Ash started thinking, 'Now that we left the town I need to purposefully get us off the trail so I can get the starters, but I need to find out if Charmander is on this path, I seem to be in the I Choose You movie because of the rainbow wing but Charmander only appeared after the 3rd gym battle Ash had, but Damian got the Charmander from Oak so he may be in the path I am going.
'Well no matter, I'll just follow the path and get him when I can. I am ahead of schedule, Ash was about 2 months in when he got to my point, meanwhile, I have only started my adventure a little more than a month ago. Speaking of which, the Private school should be next, I think. I haven't watched the original series in so long. Then I should get Bulbasaur.'
They did train on the road when they could and Weedle learned electroweb after Pikachu helped her. But not much else happened.
Some time later they were getting lost in a fog that was gathering, mainly because Ash was Pushing in a different direction.
Yellow was currently riding on Dody also trying to find a path
"We are lost," Misty said as they continued walking.
"I can't control the fog," Ash said, "I could blow all the fog away if I released Scy-"
"No-nope this is fine I enjoy the adventure who needs a road anyway," Misty immediately dropped the subject.
"I think we all need a little break." Brock suggested and he pulled out a table from his bag, "Why don't I just throw a little something together?"
"Ah! There's nothing as satisfying as a cup of 100% Cerulean coffee. You, kids, are too young, you shouldn't drink this stuff." Brock said, mainly looking at Ash.
'He is five years older than us, why does he say kids?' Ash thought before shaking his head, "How about tea then?"
"Can you make herbal tea?" Misty added with a smile.
"Good thing I brought my official Pokémon tea set." Brock said pulling out some china cups, "Now, of course, the key to good tea and coffee is good water, and I just happen to have a generous supply of sparkling, delicious Mt. Moon pure spring water."
"And for the special snack, I have for you some Kalosian Crepes," Brock said in a French accent.
*gasps* "I love Kalosian things. They're so romantic, aren't they?" Misty said as she started daydreaming.
Ash let her daydream and went to Brock, "Do you want me to get firewood?" he asked.
"That would be great. I can't cook crepes or boil water without fire," Brock said.
"Sure I'll go alone, Yellow, make sure Misty doesn't lose her sense of reality," Ash told Yellow before walking off.
Ash walked looking around for the sounds of a treadmill, don't misunderstand he isn't going to save Joe because he is a knight in shining armor, but because he wants to go curb stomp some snobby Private school kids.
Soon Pikachu spots a light and called it out
"All right, what's the name of this one?" A kid with red hair and a blue uniform held up a picture.
"Is it a Zubat?" A brunette kid running on a treadmill and still wearing a similar Uniform.
"Just because it's foggy out here doesn't mean your brain has to be in a fog." A green-haired boy snapped at him.
The kid frowned as he ran, "It's a Pidgey."
"Nice guess. You just got lucky." the red-haired kid scoffed.
The green-haired kid cut in, "Okay, now tell us what its special attack is."
"Pidgey's attack is Gust at level 5, Sand Attack. At level 12–" the kid on the treadmill was interrupted
"Everybody knows that. Now can you just tell me at which level Pidgey evolves" The red-haired kid grins, "and what's the name of Pidgey's advanced stage?"
"Um…" The kid on the treadmill looked lost.
"You better come up with answers quickly or you'll have to run faster." a boy with blue hair said with a smirk.
The boy continued running until he slipped and fell off the treadmill, "I'm sorry. I forgot." causing all of the boys to sigh.
"You forgot?." The red-haired boy said in a condescending tone, "Huh, and you call yourself a Pokémon Tech student. Well, we don't want to study with the likes of you, you are just an embarrassment to the school."
At this point, Ash decided to cut in, "Wow for people that claim to be a Pokémon Tech student, you all seem to not act like it."
The kids saw Ash watching from the side, "Nothing is going on here. Mind your own business. This is a private training session." the red hair kid called out.
"There's no room in our Pokémon school for losers who don't even know Pidgey's evolve stage. We have to maintain standards." the Green haired kid added.
"So you care about Standards, I guess that didn't mean much when Daddy cashed that check to the school," Ash said mainly trying to provoke them.
"What how dare you, we are the elite of this school," a purple-haired kid said, "We know just about everything about Pokemon."
"Please I've forgotten more about Pokemon than you will ever know." Ash said, "If you're so smart then how about a question if you can answer it I will get on my knees and beg for mercy."
The kids got confident and the Green haired kid stepped forward, "Alright, I am the smartest trainer here, I know everything there's to know about battling."
Ash smiled, "Alright then, a No guard Machop with max Attack IVs uses Cross chop after using Power up punch the turn before against a Pidgeot, what percentage of health does it have left."
The Kids looked at Ash and looked embarrassed using the 3 brain cells they shared between the 5, "Whatever I be you don't even know the answer we don't have to answer, we have better things to do." The green haired said before they all started walking off.
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