I, Xiao Mao, want to become a Pokémon Master!

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Although James is a member of Team Rocket, he is kind-hearted and will do anything for the good of his Pokémon without hesitation, even if it means giving his Pokémon to someone else. In this respect, even Ash can't compare to James.

The system hasn't issued any missions. Since the Challenge Frontier began, missions have only been issued before battles.

"Hey handsome, is something wrong here?" Just then, a voice came from behind Xiao Mao.

519: Hyakudai Dojo

Xiao Mao turned around and saw a young woman with short brown hair on top of him. The woman was wearing a black bodysuit, a green short cape, brown denim shorts, and showed off her sculpted abs.

The woman was none other than Cai Zhong, the head of the Baidai Dojo.

"Are you a vegetable seed?" Xiao Mao asked.

“That’s right.” Cai Zhong nodded and said, “Since you know me, you must be a trainer who’s here to challenge the gym, right?”

“Yes, my name is Shigeru, and I’m from Pallet Town,” Shigeru replied.

"Since you're here to challenge the gym, come on in. I happen to be free." After saying that, Nagisa walked into the gym alone.

What do you mean? You're not going to play against me because you're busy, right?

Watch out or I'll report you.

Xiao Mao followed Cai Zhong into the dojo.

Vegetable is a restless person. Even as the curator, he still likes to run into the Ephemeral Forest from time to time. Compared to being the curator, Shigeru thinks Vegetable is more suitable to be a forest ranger.

Just as Shigeru had guessed, Cai Zi had gone to Eternal Forest and had just returned. Seeing Shigeru at the gym entrance, she guessed that Shigeru had come to challenge the gym, so she decided to accept the challenge.

Caizhong led Xiaoshi to the gym's field, which was a grass field, perfect for Grass-type Pokémon to battle.

"How long have you been a trainer?" Naga asked.

"Three years."

Xiao Mao did not hide anything.

Because Gary knew that Gym Leaders would send out Pokémon based on the challenger's strength; if it was a rookie Trainer, they wouldn't send out a very strong Pokémon.

"Three years...it looks like today will be a fierce battle," Cai Zhong thought to himself.

"Alright, we can announce the start now." Cai Zhong nodded to Rong Zi, who was acting as the referee.

[Ding! Mission issued: 1. Obtain the Eternal Gym Badge / Rewards: 3 Intermediate Rare Candies, 1 Permanent Photosynthesis TM, 1 Superior Miracle Seed!]

[2. Obtain the Rustboro Gym Badge using Sinnoh region Pokémon / Rewards: 3 Medium Rare Candies, TM for Grass-type Pokémon of your choice (permanent), 1 random Pokémon item.]

The system has issued a mission. Just like when traveling in the Hoenn region, the mission to challenge the gym has two options. The only difference is that the reward for the second option is a random Pokémon item, which means the range of randomness is much wider, and you might even get something good.

In the referee's area, Yoko nodded and announced, "The Gym battle between challenger Gary and Gym Leader Nagato will now begin. Each player may use three Pokémon. The match ends when all of either player's Pokémon are unable to battle. Also, only the challenger has the right to substitute Pokémon. So... the match begins."

"Go for it, you're the first one I've decided on, Sakura!" Naga was the first to send out her Pokémon.

Baton!

A round, pink elf appears. Sakura looks just like a cherry, with bright, sparkling eyes, and looks incredibly delicious and juicy.

【LV24 Sakura Treasure♀/Dojo】

This cherry blossom treasure is clearly a test for challengers, to see how strong they are.

They're not even level 30 yet, so this battle is really boring.

"Glass Spirit, it's yours now." Gary threw out the Poké Ball.

Baton!

【LV58 Ice Sprite♂/Champion】

Xiao Shi didn't want to waste time, since he could just use Pokémon from the Sinnoh region, and there were no level restrictions.

Although Garchomp could be used in the battle, Gary felt it was unnecessary, since it would be noon in an hour and Gary didn't want to prolong his Pokémon's lunch break.

"Ice Sprite!!"

Cai Zhong was quite surprised to see Ice-type Pokémon, because the climate in Bai Dai City is not suitable for Ice-type Pokémon to survive. Challengers usually use Fire-type or Flying-type Pokémon, and Ice-type Pokémon are rarely seen.

Seeing that both sides had sent out their Pokémon, Yoko immediately announced, "Let the battle begin!"

"Ice Wind!" Shigeru commanded.

The ice sprite exhaled and blew out a cold wind that swept towards Sakura Treasure.

Sakura was fearless, activated its Chlorophyll ability, and accelerated its run. However, Sakura had obviously overestimated its speed. Suddenly, the freezing wind expanded and hit Sakura.

"嘤!!"

Sakura Bao let out a mournful cry, her body covered in frost, and she collapsed to the ground, unable to rise again.

"Sakura Treasure is unable to fight, Ice Sprite wins!" Rongzi said.

Although the Sakura Pokémon has the Chlorophyll ability and it's sunny today, its base speed is too slow. It's fine against some baby Pokémon, but against Glaceon, even with its speed boost, it's still slower than Glaceon.

"Sakura, come back."

Cai Zhong retrieved Sakura Treasure and stared at the Ice Sprite. She was not young anymore and knew very well that the Ice Sprite that Xiao Shigeru sent out was extraordinary and not the strength of a novice.

"Beauty, it's your turn." The vegetable seed threw out a Poké Ball.

Baton!

A beautiful flower draped in a green leafy skirt makes its appearance.

【LV32 Beautiful Flower♀/Dojo】

Seeing the level of the beautiful flower, Xiao Mao lost interest and directly ordered, "Use the snow scene!"

"Ice!"

The ice sprite cast a snow spell, and the sky was immediately covered by dark clouds, with heavy snow falling.

“Beautiful Flower, with Magic Leaves,” the vegetable seed said, frowning.

The beautiful flower swayed its grass skirt, and magical leaves of different colors fluttered out and shot towards the ice sprite.

Seeing that the vegetable seeds chose to attack, Xiao Mao was speechless.

The grass-type Pokémon cultivated from this vegetable all possess chlorophyll properties, so they are obviously meant to be part of the Sunny Day team. Unfortunately, Bellossom doesn't actually have a sunny day.

The magic leaf hit the ice sprite, but it did not cause serious damage to the ice sprite.

Ice Sprite is at the peak of the Quasi-Elite level, while Beautiful Flower is only at the Elite level; the difference in their levels is too great.

Xiao Mao snapped his fingers and commanded, "Blizzard."

The Ice Sprite unleashed a blizzard. In the snowy weather, the blizzard attacked the entire field, leaving the Bellflower with no room to hide.

"Quickly, use Falling Petals to defend!" Cai Zhong hurriedly ordered.

The beautiful flower gathered pink energy petals to fight back, but these petals were instantly frozen into ice lumps upon contact with the blizzard, blowing the beautiful flower off the field and crashing into the outer wall, unable to rise again.

"Beauty Flower is unable to fight, Ice Sprite wins!"

The Ice Sprite easily defeated the two Sprites from the Vegetable Seed.

As for the third Pokémon in the vegetable garden, it's obvious without even guessing that it's Roserade, and we can be sure that this Roserade is at the Gym level.

As for how Gary determined this, it's because Ash used Aipom to defeat Roserade, and that Aipom was roughly at the Gym Leader level.

520: New Moon Feather

"Beautiful Flower, thank you for your hard work."

Cai Zhong calmly withdrew the Beautiful Flower, but her heart was far from calm. She had just returned from the Hundred Generations Forest and suffered such a huge defeat; she must be feeling terrible.

"Go, Roseradore." The vegetarian sent out her third Pokémon.

Baton!

Roserade, wearing a mask and cape, makes her appearance.

【LV43 Roserade♂/Near Elite Four】

Roserade's level far surpasses the two Pokémon that Cai Zhong sent out before, definitely at the Gym level.

Xiao Mao even doubted whether the reward of the magical candy would have reached the intermediate level if it weren't for Roserade.

Although Roserade's level is decent, it's no match for Glaceon, especially now that Glaceon has the weather advantage.

"Blizzard!" Shigeru commanded.

"Ice!!"

The ice sprite unleashed a blizzard.

Roserade was unable to dodge the blizzard attacking the entire field, and 11 Vegetables shouted, "Roserade, use Petal Dance!"

Petal Dance is a powerful Grass-type Special Attack move with a power of 120, only 10 less than Blizzard.

"Roar!"

Roserade spun rapidly, spraying out large amounts of pink petals from two bunches of flowers, one red and one blue, in her hands. As Roserade spun, a cherry blossom tornado was formed, successfully blocking the blizzard and rushing towards the Glaceon.

This is Counter Shield. This move isn't unique to Ash; many Gym Leaders know it. Ash learned it from Peni.

However, the Petal Dance has a fatal flaw: once you start using it, you'll keep using it. At most, you can only use it three times before the user falls into a state of confusion, but usually it won't work after two uses.

"Dig a hole!" Xiao Mao commanded.

The ice sprite crashed into the ground, drawing upon the earth's power to instantly burrow into it.

"What! It can dig holes!" Cai Zhong's eyebrows twitched, unable to believe that an ice-type Pokémon could actually dig holes.

Knowing that Shigeru planned to attack from underground, the seeded plant had no way to stop it. The Petal Dance was not easy to stop, especially since Roserade was spinning. It would take several seconds to forcibly stop it.

Boom!

With a muffled thud, Roserade was knocked away, and the cherry blossom tornado dissipated.

"Blizzard!" Xiao Shigeru pressed his advantage.

"Ice!!"

The Ice Spirit unleashed a blizzard, and the icy wind blew Roserade, who had no time to react, away, crashing into the wall outside the arena before falling to the ground, covered in frost, and unconscious.