Chapter 244: Encounter Across Time and Space (Finale)
"Jessie, do you know anything about this strange Pokémon?" the Iron-Masked Marauder looked at Jessie with a ferocious gaze.
"It's the Ash's Pokémon. Iron-Masked Marauder, you'd better surrender obediently and go back to the organization to plead guilty! Otherwise, if the Ash sends you to jail, you'll be stuck there for the rest of your life!" Jessie laughed.
"What a joke! I have already obtained the strongest Pokémon. I will not be defeated! Celebi, take out this nuisance!"
As soon as the Iron-Masked Marauder finished speaking, the treant fired a beam attack at Gengar.
"Gengar, use Dazzling Gleam!" Ash commanded using Aura.
Gengar spread its arms and fired a rainbow-colored flash, blocking the treant's attack.
"Sammy, you go and awaken Celebi's consciousness. I'll go destroy the control device for the Dusk Ball on the Iron-Masked Marauder," Ash said to Sammy beside him.
"Okay!" Sammy nodded seriously in response.
"Lucario, I'm leaving Sammy to you."
"Lucario!" (Don't worry, Ash!)
Lucario picked up Sammy and jumped onto the treant.
Celebi was completely unaware of this; it was still controlling the treant to battle Super Ancient Gengar.
"Mr. White, it's not safe here. You should take everyone and land at Life Lake," Ash reminded him before jumping off the ship.
Mr. White nodded, "Okay, Ash, you all be careful!"
"Yeah!" Ash took Pikachu and leaped down, landing on the treant's arm.
Seeing the familiar back, Jessie hurriedly shouted: "Ash? Ash, save me!"
Ash glanced at her, "We'll talk later. Now is not the time."
"Ash, I heard from Jessie that Gengar is yours?" The Iron-Masked Marauder looked at Ash with an unkind gaze.
"It is mine. What about it?" Ash admitted generously.
"Hand it over, and I can let Celebi spare your lives!"
"Heh, your strength isn't much, but your ego is huge. Do you even deserve it?"
"I heard you're a high-ranking officer of Team Rockets. You must know about Mewtwo, right?" Ash retorted.
"Mewtwo? That's just an artificial reject. Does it even deserve to be compared to Celebi?" the Iron-Masked Marauder said with disdain.
Bang! The sound of a Poké Ball opening automatically rang out, and then Mewtwo appeared in front of the Iron-Masked Marauder with a dark expression.
Seeing this scene, Ash just felt that this guy in front of him was quite brave.
A single sentence had forced out Mewtwo, who didn't want to appear.
Yeah... That's right. Before releasing Super Ancient Gengar, Ash had consulted a group of legendary Pokémon. Mewtwo had directly refused, and the others didn't want to appear either. Gengar was purely unlucky and was thrown out by Ash.
"Hmph, I thought so. So it was Mewtwo, who escaped from Team Rockets, that was in your hands. Celebi, finish it!"
Upon hearing the new order, Celebi gathered energy to blast Mewtwo, but Super Ancient Gengar wouldn't give it the chance. After forcibly prying open the treant's mouth, it locked eyes with Celebi and fired a Confuse Ray.
Under the influence of Confuse Ray, the energy Celebi had painstakingly accumulated was fired straight at Life Lake.
Just as Celebi's attack was about to hit Life Lake, Suicune arrived in time and used Mirror Coat to reflect the attack back.
Boom! After the explosion, the Iron-Masked Marauder was blown away by the air blast and fell to the ground, while Ash, having anticipated this, opened an Aura shield and flew down.
Seeing this, Jessie hurriedly shouted: "Hey! Ash, if you're leaving, at least save me before you go!"
Meanwhile, at the top of the treant, Lucario also took advantage of the attack reflected by Suicune to bring Sammy into the interior of the treant through its mouth.
Seeing Celebi at the core of a pile of vines, Sammy shouted: "Celebi, stop! You aren't the kind of Pokémon that would do something like this!"
"Celebi, wake up!"
Hearing Sammy's call, Celebi seemed to remember something, clutching its head with both hands and showing a painful expression on its face.
The treant's movements also fell into a stiff state because of Celebi's change.
Seeing Celebi stop moving, the Iron-Masked Marauder roared angrily: "Celebi, what are you doing? Hurry..."
However, his voice was cut off by the Telekinesis Mewtwo was casting, so Celebi couldn't hear him at all.
"Don't waste your energy. Surrender obediently!" Ash said.
"Hmph, you want me to surrender? Impossible! Come out, Tyranitar!"
Knowing he couldn't rely on Celebi, the Iron-Masked Marauder refused to give up and brought out Tyranitar.
Seeing that he was stubborn, Ash could only turn his head to look at Mewtwo and said: "Mewtwo, I'll leave him to you."
Mewtwo nodded.
The next second, it teleported in front of Tyranitar and punched its abdomen with all its might. Tyranitar's eyes widened in pain, and after taking one last look at Mewtwo, it fell over and went to sleep.
"Tyranitar! My Tyranitar! What are you doing?!"
The Iron-Masked Marauder panicked. He hadn't expected Mewtwo to one-shot his Tyranitar. In a fluster, he took out Scizor and Sneasel again.
But the result was not much different. These two Pokémon couldn't even withstand a single look from Mewtwo; they fell to their knees after being glared at.
With no Pokémon left to use, the Iron-Masked Marauder finally knew fear. Mewtwo raised its hand, and with a movement of Telekinesis, the Dusk Ball control vest he was wearing was stripped off.
As soon as the vest was removed, one of the Poké Balls inside emitted a white light, and in the end, it exploded with a bang.
Immediately after, the treant created by Celebi also collapsed with a bang.
Suicune jumped inside the treant to bring Sammy and Celebi out, while Lucario jumped onto Gengar.
Mewtwo turned to look at Ash and communicated telepathically: "Ash, I'll teach this guy a lesson and bring him back later."
"Okay." Ash didn't care what would happen to the Iron-Masked Marauder and directly agreed to Mewtwo's request. After all, the Iron-Masked Marauder had a foul mouth.
Suicune brought Sammy and Celebi to Ash's side.
Seeing the dejected look on Sammy's face, Ash said: "Suicune, please purify Life Lake."
After Suicune put Sammy and Celebi down, it ran off to purify the Lake.
"Ash, Celebi it..."
"Don't worry, Sammy, let me try!"
Ash mobilized Natural Power and infused it into the withering Celebi.
The reason Celebi was withering was simply because it had overdrawn its energy. To regain its vitality, with its innate Grass-type, it could recover through Synthesis, it just took some time.
With the infusion of Natural Power, Celebi's complexion improved.
Seeing this scene, Sammy's expression improved slightly.
At this moment, Life Lake had also been purified by Suicune.
Ash said: "Sammy, it's done. Go put Celebi back into the Lake."
"Okay!" After Sammy put Celebi back into the Lake.
A white light shone in the sky, and the trees in the forest turned light blue.
"Is this the voice of the forest?" Grandma Miku murmured, listening to the sound coming from the sky.
Ash said with a strange expression: "Yeah, this is what happens when Celebi activates its ability and resonates with the forest."
Feeling the almost identical Aura reaction in the sky, he finally understood that Celebi was actually saving itself.
With the intervention of Celebi from a different time and space, Celebi was fully revived in less than a minute.
In the end, the Iron-Masked Marauder was driven to the brink of a nervous breakdown by Mewtwo before being handed over to Officer Jenny by Mr. White, and Sammy also returned to his own time and space with Celebi.
As for the three Pokémon that the Iron-Masked Marauder had originally captured with Dusk Balls, they all fell into the hands of Ash and his friends. However, because Ash didn't really click with them, Tyranitar and Scizor were given to Brock, while Sneasel became Misty's Pokémon.
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