Chapter 112 Lugia
Being stimulated by the two Pokémon Ash had just obtained, Gary immediately made up his mind and said, "Ash, I've decided, I'm also going to Vermilion City's port to find Lugia!"
The gap between him and Ash was already wide enough; if he didn't work harder and capture some rarer Pokémon, he might truly be completely outmatched.
"Huh? Gary, you don't have a fever, do you?"
Ash was puzzled. Just two Level 1 Mythical Pokémon made Gary so seriously declare he wanted to capture a Legendary Pokémon. How big of a blow must he have taken?
"I'm serious," Gary emphasized.
"Alright then, since that's the case, let's have a competition to see who catches Lugia first."
After the group left Indigo Plateau, Gary couldn't wait to charter a luxury car and head straight for Vermilion City with Ash and the others.
To compete with Ash, Gary also urgently contacted Professor Oak, asking him to get him some Master Balls.
"Gary, you don't need to be so anxious, do you?" Ash said, feeling a bit speechless.
"Who's anxious? I'm not like you, slow and easygoing. When it comes to a Legendary Pokémon, of course, you have to be full of action!" Gary said.
"Heh heh, I hope you don't cry when you see me catch Lugia then."
Ash didn't need to worry at all. Even without a divine position, that Lugia's strength was not something an Elite-level Pokémon could challenge, especially since Gary's Pokémon didn't have a type advantage.
"Tch, you're the one who cries."
In the evening.
The group finally arrived at the Pokémon Center in Vermilion City.
After a sleepless night, it was morning the next day in a blink of an eye.
Ash took his Pokémon and walked towards Vermilion Port with Misty and the others.
Gary naturally followed behind Ash. After all, he didn't have Ash's Aura ability, so it was almost impossible for him to find Lugia on his own.
Just like when Ash traveled through it before, Vermilion City's port was bustling with ships coming and going.
"With so many ships here, is it really possible for the Sea God Lugia to appear in a place like this?" Misty was full of doubts.
Logically speaking, if there were truly traces of Lugia in this port, the Alliance would have sent people to investigate long ago.
"Lugia is actually a Legendary Pokémon that controls the divine position of ocean currents, not truly the Sea God. The offshore area of Vermilion Port is the convergence point of two different ocean currents, and the Lugia species has a habit of moving with ocean currents, so there should be a Lugia's lair deep beneath the sea nearby."
After Ash received the information Gary got from the Sakuragi Research Institute, he briefly investigated the ocean conditions near Vermilion City.
"Ash, you really know a lot." Misty gave Ash a thumbs up.
"Ash, if Lugia is really deep underwater, how do you plan to make it surface?" Brock asked.
Gary was also very curious how Ash would make Lugia appear.
"Let's find it first. This sea area is very large. Gary, where's the boat you mentioned?"
"Over there."
Gary pointed to a small, luxurious yacht docked separately.
"Damn, as expected of a young master from a wealthy family. Chartering this boat for a day must be really expensive, right?" Ash felt a pang of resentment towards the rich at this moment.
"Charter my ass, this boat was a gift from my family for my twelfth birthday!" Gary said proudly.
"...."
Ash had a feeling Gary was showing off, but he just couldn't find any evidence.
Wicked capitalists, hateful!
Ash's anti-rich sentiment made him forget that he was also a top-tier rich person now.
Indeed, capsule technology is top-tier technology in any technological world; otherwise, Bulma's family in the Dragon Ball world wouldn't be the richest in the world.
And so, the group set sail on the yacht.
Ash sat at the bow of the yacht, his Aura fully activated, exploring the depths of the ocean.
The others were in the cabin, monitoring the navigation radar.
Exploring with both methods, it took two days. During these two days, Ash discovered three places suspected of having large Pokémon active, while the yacht's radar only detected one location.
After two days of exploration, they had only explored one-tenth of the entire sea area.
Gary asked somewhat dejectedly, "Ash, is your Psychic ability really working? It's been two days, and there's still no news."
"I had Milotic and Blastoise dive down to those three places to check. Let's wait for their news."
Ash was certain that there were Legendary Pokémon in this sea area; it just took a lot of time to find them.
"Why didn't you say so earlier? There's still that one place we haven't explored. I'll have my Blastoise help too."
"You should have your Blastoise go to the location you guys discovered yesterday."
"Alright."
Gary nodded, then walked to the stern and released his Blastoise.
An hour later, Gary's Blastoise re-emerged from the sea and returned to the boat. Ash knew at a glance that it had come up empty-handed.
Just as Ash was hoping his Pokémon would return with good news, dense dark clouds suddenly gathered in the sky less than fifty nautical miles from their location. Immediately after, the originally calm sea became turbulent, and then several water spouts appeared before Ash's eyes.
The world changed dramatically, strong winds picked up, and the small boat Ash and the others were on gradually lost control.
"The weather at sea is really outrageous. How did a storm suddenly brew?"
Gary quickly instructed the person in charge of the helm to quickly head towards the coast.
Ash said excitedly, "It's not the weather that's outrageous; it's that we're lucky. We found it."
His Aura told him that this celestial change was actually caused by Lugia. Sure enough, the next second, he saw his Blastoise carrying Milotic, quickly escaping the center of the storm and swimming rapidly towards him.
"Found it? Ash, do you mean this storm is Lugia's doing?" Gary pressed.
"See for yourself."
Ash pointed to the faint silhouette of a large bird in the center of the storm.
"Hiss!" Gary was ecstatic, then said to the helmsman, "Turn around quickly and head towards Lugia!"
Upon hearing this, the helmsman only thought Gary was crazy. He explained, "Young Master Gary, no! If we head into the center of the storm, this boat will sink!"
"It's fine, if this boat sinks, we can just buy another one. Lugia is much more valuable than a boat!"
How could a mere small boat compare to the Legendary Pokémon Lugia?
"Gary, the helmsman is right. If this boat goes there, it'll be overturned in less than three minutes." Ash, however, agreed with the helmsman's idea.
Gary's eyes were fixed on Lugia: "Then what should we do? It's fifty nautical miles away. Catching Lugia is almost impossible."
Just then, the water spouts swirling around Lugia suddenly dispersed, revealing Lugia's massive blue and white bird body.
Lugia's appearance, even though it was seventy nautical miles from the shore, was still spotted by some sharp-eyed Trainers.
In a dark corner of Vermilion Port, a shifty figure was staring intently at Lugia.
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