Pokemon: Bond Evolutions of Pokémon

"Big Bro, look!"

On their way to Fortree City, Max suddenly screamed out after seeing something. The PokéNav that he got from Joseph Stone, the President of Devon Corporation, in his hand suddenly failed to receive any signal, and the compass in Brock's hand also failed to show anything.

Now they were in a dark forest, without knowing where to go and where they are. It was obviously still broad daylight, but there was not even a trace of sunlight under the dense canopy of trees.

Since arriving here, Ash summoned his recently caught Duskull and started training with him in his moves. Duskull was the main representative of the Ghost-type Pokémon's present in the Hoenn Region, and thus having left many legends here and there about there mysterious ghostly powers.

The special abilities of the Duskull line are actually very similar to those of the Gastly line. They can float in the air, turn their bodies transparent and penetrate most solid objects and the likes. Especially that they both like to prank on unsuspecting humans, more Duskull than it's evolutionary forms.

There are also legends that they like the cries of children and take pleasure in making the scared humans cry. In the Hoenn Region, there are many parents will always scare their children with tales like this.

The most famous one is that children who don't obey their part will be taken away in the dark by Duskull.

Duskull was also the first true Ghost-type Pokémon that Ash had actually caught for his team.

Annihilape was more like an welcomed but accidental encounter.

Back when he was traveling in the Kanto Regions and was at Saffron City, he had a good relationship with a Haunter from Lavender Towns famous Pokémon Tower, but the past him had left him with the Gym Leader, Sabrina the Psychic, from Saffron Gym.

Of course, he also never really caught that Haunter either.

Although his new Duskull was knocked down by Ralts' single Shadow Ball when he was first seen, his level is actually not low. It was more that his Ralts was with him for longer and had more power; consequently, Duskull was also weak to Shadow Ball, so that also didn't help much.

In truth, he had learned many different skills, such as Astonish, Shadow Sneak, Confuse Ray, Night Shade and other Ghost-type skills. In addition, he and also learned how to use the powerful Will-O-Wisp move under Ash's careful training, especially when he almost completely burned down a forest when training.

Ash had to wake his Celebi up to restore the forest back to its usual state before some mining else happened.

At this moment, Ash was currently training him how to control the Will- O-Wisp flames he creates, just like the Dusclops belonging to the Phantom from before.

Seeing Ash's calm look, May was initially worried their situation, but she quickly calmed down and said, "Skitty, come on out!"

She summoned her soft Skitty and hugged the soft and cute fur of it, which made her feel more at ease.

However, Skitty actually jumped out of her arms and went into one of the bushes on the side.

"Skitty!" May called out, following Skitty towards the depths of the forest.

"Sis?"

When Max realized that May was gone, she had already reached the depths of the bushes and held her Skitty back in her arms. She suddenly noticed that the bushes in front of her were shaking a little, and then she heard a harsh growl, and a Skarmory suddenly flew out of the bushes.

'Why is a Pokémon like this is a bush??'

"No!" May subconsciously protected her Skitty under her body, but Skarmory actually took both her and her Skitty with her waistpasck as the reason and flew away with it.

"Big Bro, Sis is missing!" Max quickly found Ash for help.

Hearing this, Ash looked around, and sure enough, May's figure was missing. He was too deep into training his Pokémon's to keep an eye on her, his Pikachu was also sleeping after their special trading last night, so he also had g felt her absence.

Then a deep growl came from deep in the forest, and Ash's eyes quickly lit up with blue light.

"Don't follow me now!" Ash didn't even have time to take his Duskull back to his Poké Ball to rest up, and his figure disappeared in front of Max and Brock before they could say anything.

He was not using Psychic powers to use Teleport, he was simply too fast for their eyes, and while running, he came to a tall three-story wooden fence, and he saw that Skarmory had already flown over with May.

Such a height was certainly not a problem for Ash to keep up with.

Before the Pokémon Ranger or manager of the wooden fence arrived, Ash had already led his Pokémon's over it. Duskull had the easiest way to go directly through the wall and came to Ash's side again.

"No? A BOY had entered the Forbidden Forest! We have to go to the elder to tell it him quickly!" The two gatekeepers were frightened when they saw Ash appearing in this deadly forest, but they never believed that someone could escape from there. Well escaping from the forest with their whole body intact.

The Forbidden Forest was a forbidden area they guard under the Hoenn Pokémon Leagues orders. There were quite a few humans who broke into this area for illegal poaching, but they never returned with their full body as they were all attacked by many powerful Grass-type Pokémon's.

And sure enough, just when Ash took back his Duskull, a lot of Grass-type Pokémon's appeared in front of him.

There was the Oddish line, the Hoppip line, the Bellsprout line, and the Sunkern line.

They used combination moves like Stun Spores, Poison Powders, and Sleep Powders to attack Ash from all sides at the slightest movement from him.

"Togetic, use Safeguard!"

Ash set up a protective barrier, quickly moved out of the way, and headed towards the direction of Skarmory Flying.

"Skarmory, put down May!" Ash jumped onto a large treetop and chased Skarmory on the tree, "Pikachu, it's up to you!"

After chasing him close, Pikachu jumped into his hand. Ash used his strength and threw Pikachu towards Skarmory. Even without needing to use his Aura, he could do it pretty easily.

"It's Pikachu!"

May also saw Pikachu and knew that it was Ash who came to save her, and she immediately cheered by knowing her boyfriend was here to save her.

Then she saw a spark hitting close to where she and Skarmory were.

Although it intentionally missed, Skarmory was very frightened by this powerful light.

It dropped May on a high hillside and flew away from there.

"I'm saved!" May quickly looked at her Skitty in her arms, "Really, how could you be running around so carelessly!"

Instead of blaming her little kitten too much, May decided to wait here for Ash to come pick her up. The view here was very good, and the fresh breath from here was something she rarely felt, she knew that her boyfriend will definitely come here to save her.

"Bulb bul!"

Suddenly she heard a voice and turned around to see a cute looking Bulbasaur standing on the edge of the cliff, seemingly stretched out to reach something out there.

"It's a Bulbasaur!" May's eyes suddenly lit up with excitement. She had already seen the three Royal Starters from the Kanto Region form Professor Oak in Professor Birch's Laboratory, and she was especially impressed by the cute Bulbasaur she saw there.

Unexpectedly, the Bulbasaur slipped and was about to fall from its high place. May quickly caught her with her quick reaction and hands.

"Little one, it's too dangerous here for you." May pulled Bulbasaur down and put her on the ground. Unlike the extremely large and powerful male Venusaur that she saw Ash teleport back to him to do some training a few days ago, this one should be a girl, especially with the heart-shaped spots on her forehead, which only made her look even cuter. She was holding a beautiful looking flower on her Vine Whip.

Bulbasaur was originally very happy to be rescued by something, but when she looked up and saw that it was actually a human being that her father told her to be wary of, she immediately took two steps back with a look of horror on her adorable small face.

Seeing this, May smiled and said, "My name is May, I won't do anything bad to you, so don't worry."

Hearing this, Bulbasaur tilted her head a little, stretched out another one of her Vine Whips and rubbed May's face with it.

Perhaps sensing May's kindness, she immediately let down her guard and showed a cute smile.

However, the good times did not last for too long. The Grass-type Pokémon's patrolling these parts discovered the existence of May here and immediately gathered around to protect Bulbasaur, the daughter of their leader.

They all surrounded May. Their three types of primary powder moves were splashed out involuntarily, and they then followed up with attacks like Razor Leaf and Vine Whips.

This was the reason so many people never come out of this place, and even if they do, they come out with a body part or two massing.

May was so frightened that she quickly ran away under one of the larger boulders.

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"Pika!"

Pikachu fell from the sky and landed on Ash's shoulders. Ash had already detected May's location from her very familiar Aura and started climbing the cliff with his Pokémon's.

Togetic, who can fly, took the lead, appeared next to May, and set up a Safeguard to resist most of the attacks.

"Togetic!"

May immediately knew that Ash was close by, as Togetic never went too far from where Ash stayed at.

"May!" Ash quickly climbed to May's side, "Are you okay, babe?"

"I'm okay, Ash, thank you for coming to save me!" May stood up and kissed him in happiness.

Suddenly, all the Grass-type Pokémon's got out of the way, and the big BOSS of this famous Forbidden Forest appeared in front of Ash and May.

This was a Venusaur. Ash didn't expect to see a Venusaur in the Hoenn Region, especially a random wild one like this one. Ash was quite surprised to see it.

Next to this Venusaur was the Bulbasaur that May had just rescued. It was this child who probably called over her father, this Venusaur, here and explained it to him that they were good people and that they saved him.

Bulbasaur was no longer wary of May and handed the flowers she had just just picked to May.

Venusaur stretched out her Vine Whip and rubbed it against them, finally confirming that Ash and May were indeed good people, and the other Grass-type Pokémon also dispersed after getting the nod from their leader.

"I alredy miss my Venusaur." Ash said with a smile, looking at the Venusaur and Bulbasaur in front of him, even though the last time he physically saw and touched his Venusaur was literally just a few days ago.

"Ash, that Venusaur of yours is a giant. He's was such a gentle giant!" May was pulled away by the child Bulbasaur. When she heard Ash's voice, she turned around and smiled, with Ash by her side, she was no longer afraid of her safety.

Bulbasaur took Ash and May to visit this paradise belonging to Grass-type Pokémon's, but they had to leave here quicky, otherwise Brock and Max would worry that something really bad happened to them.

They quickly found a group of people who guard this Forbidden Forest and opened the door of this place.

"Bulbasaur, goodbye!" May was ready to say goodbye to her new friend in Bulbasaur. She understood that traveling was ultimately a process of meeting and parting ways, like the Swablu incident not long ago. Although there are some reluctances in her heart, she ultimately knew that sometimes they really were not meant to be.

But just when the gate was about to close, Bulbasaur, encouraged by her father, Venusaur, made up her mind and ran to May's side.

"Bulbasaur, do you want to come with me?"