Pokemon: Bond Evolutions of Pokémon

Ash defeated the Phantom, aka Timmy, and got his second official Pokémon Contest Ribbon.

May's Skitty has also gotten a better handle at using her Blizzard attack, and Timmy had also been recognized by his mother, allowing him to continue his dream of participating in future Pokémon Contests.

Not only that, the day after leaving they left Verdanturf Town, Brock's Lotad also finally evolved into a Lombre, but now he was looking even more slow.

Brock was not usually one training his newer Pokémon's, but they still evolved relatively early compared to most people's Pokemon's. This is the power a good Pokémon Breeder can being to a Pokémon without them needing to do things other than their most basic training.

"Ash, it looks like there was a fire happening here!"

Plunging into the deep forests again, May found that the scene here was very different from the forests they had encountered before, even compared to more weirder ones.

There were large amounts of water on the ground, which should have been left by the thunderstorm that happened just a day ago. A large number of trees have collapsed, and many of them had deep scorch marks on their trunks.

"They must have been hit pretty hard by those lightnings to do this much damage; the wood is still quite hard." Ash casually broke off a thick branch from the fallen tree, "I'll keep this thing for Grovyle to deal with.'

That guy always looks like he's going through a phase, with that bitter branch in his mouth, but he's very reliable in battle, and his Bond Value and compatibility with Ash was astonishingly high.

The last time he personally trained his Grovyle, which was just a few days ago, Ash saw how much progress he had made under his Scizor. He can now cut things with a more fluid motion along with making his leaves harder to cut things with.

"Pika!"

"Lal!"

"Toge!"

Pikachu, who was on Ash's shoulder, just chilling, suddenly got alerted about something and jumped down from his shoulders. Ralts and Togetic, who had just snatched the branch from Ash's hand and were now playing with it, also stopped and looked anxiously in a certain direction.

"Everyone, come on!" Ash's body suddenly flashed with a bright blue light as he too noticed what was going on, and he quickly led his group to follow after where his Pikachu was running of to.

The group could clearly tell that the fallen trees here were all burned to their current satee by those bolts of lightning, but there was also a little Swablu stuck underneath one of these such trees, which seemed to be very injured.

This blue and white little bird, aka Swablu, was quite common around many parts of the Hoenn Region, and its evolved form was the famous "Dragon Traitor" Altaria. Ash also wanted to catch and train one of these Pokémon's as they were both good in Pokémon battles and good in Pokémon Contests, but he could never find one that was a good enough match for him and his ways.

This one was a special one, although he could tell it had a good enough talent, it was also one that had a decently low match with him.

"Come on, don't be afraid." May was now very familiar with such Pokémon's. She gently stepped forward to picked it up and applied some medicine that Brock gave her for it.

Ash and Brock both looked at her with a smile, she has made a lot of progress in her ways of being a Pokémon Trainer.

Back then, this girl couldn't even figure out what her Starter Pokémon was and what he could do. Even when she began her journey to go to Littleroot Town, she had used her bicycle to avoid the Pokémon as much as possible by using the local roads.

"Big Bro, was this one of the Pokémon's that got injured by the thunderstorm last night. Maybe it was hit by this falling tree when it was trying to fly away, its wings were most likely also injured here, and just maybe it was separated from its companion?" Max expressed his judgment, As and Brock both nodded to what Max said, it seemed that this was most likely the case for this poor Swablu.

Seeing that May has become such good friends with this Swablu, Ash smiled and said, "In this case, May, you can take her with you first. We will go out soon to find the rest of her companions."

"Really? That's great!" May immediately hugged the bandaged Swablu and laughed, "Don't worry, we will definitely find the rest of your companions."

The little guy looked very happy to be in May's arms.

This forest here was very big, which wasn't that surprising since they were all rather big, so Ash and his party also want to explore the forest and look for the rest of the companion of this injured Swablu.

But even when the light was getting darker and darker in the sky, they we were about to leave the forest but still they didn't see any traces of any other Swablus or Altarias. During the thunderstorm last night, they might have left the forest and flown elsewhere for their own safety.

At this time, they came to the side of a lake, which should have been the favorite habitat of Pokémon like these Swablus and Altarias. It was also a good camping spot for them, but it was still the same empty scene they saw before.

"Why is this happening!" May was very anxious to say the least, "Has everyone already left here?"

At this time, the Swablu had also recovered to some extent from its injuries and was now flying next to May. May looked at it and said, "Swablu, how are you doing? Do you want to come with me?"

She suddenly understood Ash's way of subduing some of his Pokémon's. They had become good friends along the way, even if it's for a very short time. If she really had to break away with her little new friend, May would really not want to part with her.

She really wanted to catch this Swablu and welcome her to become her new partner.

But just when the Swablu was about to agree to May's question, several new figures suddenly appeared on the lake.

They were the Swablu and Altaria tribe she belonged to. They actually flew back to look for their missing companion.

Seeing this, the Sawblu immediately flew to the side of its companions, turned to look at May and was ready to goodbye to her.

"Swablu!" May stretched out her hand, then put it down and said with a smile, "You have to take care of yourself, you got it!"

"Sis, are you okay?" Max ran up to Mays side and asked her carefully, "It took a lot of effort for you to become good friends with that!"

However, May nodded, "This is for the good of Swablu!"

Ash quickly pulled Max back over and scolded him not to interfere here, "You will understand in the future, some Pokémon Trainer definitely will not catch Pokémon's just based on their likeness for them."

Everything was based on the love of that specific Pokémon and their bond.

May said goodbye to Swablu, her eyes were full of tears, but they didn't fall down. She was still happy for Swablu.

Ash patted her shoulder and said, "Love, traveling is about constant encounters and constant separations. Isn't it great to just meet new things and experience them while they last?"

"Yes, it's great to be friends!" May looked at Ash and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, "I'm truly grateful to have meet you, Ash! I'm so grateful to my bicycle, it allowed me to meet you!"

May looked at his taller figure and kissed him under the sun while it was still gazing out into the horizon.

Ash smiled and hugged her waist to make sure they both remembered this moment well.

He then looked in the direction where all those Swablus and Altarias were leaving towards.

It was at a sunset like this one where he released his old Butterfree. He doesn't know if his Butterfree was doing well or not right now. He must have had many new Catterpie babies to take care of with his wife, that Pink Butterfree.

The encounter and separation with the Swablu made May feel a little more aware of the Pokémon's in her heart.

As the group of friends spent the night camping in this forest, they all thought about the life they have lived so far.

They were able to get out of this forest the very next day and were not too far from Petalburg City.

"Ash, have you decided which Pokémon to use to challenge my dad?" May seemed to see Ash more in a new light now, if that was even possible.

"Ralu Lalu!" The Ralts in Ash's arms held her own Pokémon food and ate it happily.

Ash gently patted the red horn on its head, "I promised Mr. Norman that I would take this little guy back to challenge his gym!"

"But brother, my dad is very strong, wouldn't it be too bad to use your Ralts?" Max looked at the "weak and innocence" in Ralts and worried, he really liked Ralts the most out of all of the Pokémon's he saw Ash use.

Unexpectedly, as soon as these words came out of his lips, the little girl suddenly became unhappy and waved her fist towrsa Max, showing that she was very powerful.

"Cor! Cor!" Corphish also waved his big pliers from the side, looking eager to have a battle.

Ash has been carrying the troublemaker with him all the time recently, and it seemed that he was about to evolve very soon, looking very restless.

His Bond Value has also reached 180/190, but it hasn't been improved since then. Ash's didn't know if he can complete their Bond Evolutions after he evolves. Of course, he will not insist on this too much. There will always be people who cannot get the full value of compatibility, even if they have a very very deep bond.

His Kingler was one of the best examples of this.