"Hurry up, Brock! You say something to him too!"
Seeing that Yu Feng didn't agree with his idea, Ash turned his attention to Brock.
"Huh? Oh, the Pokémon here are really well cared for. They must be using the highest quality feed."
Brock didn't want to engage in the topic Ash threw his way. After all, whoever touched that kind of thing would be unlucky. He just thought the Pokémon here were well-raised.
"You can tell! I'm so happy."
Xiao Ming was very happy that Brock could see his situation.
He walked to a long cabinet, pulled it open, and revealed can after can of Pokémon food.
Xiao Ming said to Brock with some pride, "Pokémon health management is also very important, but I won't tell you the brand."
"But if Sandshrew wants to grow steel-like skin..."
Brock began to discuss the topic of Pokémon training with Xiao Ming, while Ash stared blankly at Xiao Ming's Sandshrew easily lifting two dumbbells and exercising.
His Pikachu struggled to lift even one, and finally collapsed to the ground... "Rubber gloves."
Jessie looked at James and said.
"Okay."
James pulled out a pair of rubber gloves from his pocket and responded to Jessie.
"Big ball!"
Jessie then looked at Meowth and asked.
"Okay, Meow."
Meowth pushed a large red ball over.
"We are the most glamorous thieves."
"Our target is that Pikachu!"
Jessie and James began to practice the opening lines they would use later.
"No, I can't get into character without reciting that opening speech."
James always felt that reciting this opening speech had no feeling at all, unlike the previous one which was catchy.
"Human attributes really aren't suitable. This kind of sneaky work is best for us cat-folk, Meow."
Meowth happily jumped onto the huge ball, talking about the advantages of their cat-folk.
"This isn't eye-catching enough."
Jessie tilted her head, ignoring Meowth who was passing by on the big ball.
"Too plain."
James lowered his head in thought, also subconsciously ignoring Meowth who was passing by.
"He's been so happy since the beginning, huh."
"He's a cat, after all."
Jessie really couldn't understand why Meowth was so happy, while James clearly knew the habits of cats, but was also helpless about Meowth being so happy at this moment... "Ding!"
The Sawamular-shaped alarm clock rang, indicating that the break time had arrived.
"Okay, let's rest for fifteen minutes first."
Xiao Ming looked at the time and signaled his Pokémon to rest for a while.
Ash looked at the Pokémon lying on the ground, panting heavily. Ash really couldn't accept it. He stopped Xiao Ming, who was checking things nearby.
"What is it again?"
Xiao Ming didn't have a good impression of Ash. There's an ancient Chinese saying: 'Those who walk different paths cannot make plans together.' His and Ash's views were two extremes, destined not to coexist.
"Look, everyone seems very tired."
Ash really didn't understand why Xiao Ming had to torment his Pokémon like this.
"What else is there to say? If training isn't done seriously, then it's meaningless! Someone like you, who travels with a plush toy, wouldn't understand."
Xiao Ming was also helpless. Explaining the meaning of training to someone as stubborn and single-minded as Ash was truly useless, especially since he was traveling with a Pokémon that looked completely untrained.
"Let me tell you, Pikachu is not a plush toy! Pikachu has won several battles in the past!"
Ash was so angry that Xiao Ming spoke of his Pikachu in such a way that he threw a punch at Xiao Ming.
Xiao Ming quickly dodged, but he forgot that behind him was the training pool. Both of them fell into the pool again.
Xiao Xia and Brock hurried over, only to see the two, who had resurfaced, wrestling in a tangled mess.
"You're just pampering him! You won't win on the Pokémon battle stage like that!"
"What are you talking about!"
The two, with their differing philosophies, couldn't convince each other. Even with the conflict escalating to this point, it couldn't resolve their differences.
Xiao Xia and Brock, watching from the side, were extremely anxious. Yu Feng also couldn't stop the two of them. After all, if he separated them, they might end up causing him trouble. This had happened before; he separated a Beedrill and a Combee, and the two Pokémon turned against him.
The Pokémon's interaction was different from their Trainers'. Pikachu, on the side, cautiously touched the training device that Sandshrew had taken off.
As a result, the training device immediately locked Pikachu's limbs. Even if Pikachu used all of its strength, it couldn't stop the pulling of the training device, and could only curl into a ball, becoming a sphere with a tail and ears.
Sandshrew, seeing this, laughed, then also curled into a ball and lined up next to Pikachu... "It's so cramped, Meow."
"Don't talk, hurry and find Pikachu!"
"It wouldn't be that, would it?"
The Team Rockets members rolled in, hiding inside the large ball Meowth had prepared earlier.
Through the small hole they had left, they discovered a Pikachu-like spherical object and rolled towards it, rumbling.
"What is this?"
"Which one is Pikachu?"
"Any one will do! Hurry up, I'm about to be crushed, Meow!"
The three approached the spherical forms of Sandshrew and Pikachu, discussing which one was Pikachu.
Behind them, Yu Feng had been watching them for a long time, but the few of them didn't notice Yu Feng's arrival at all.
Yu Feng looked at Pikachu with its tail held high, and then at Sandshrew with its distinct scales. For a moment, he didn't know whether to commend their eyesight or something else.
After putting Sandshrew into the sack, the few of them stood up, ready to make a getaway. Seeing this, Yu Feng simply snapped his fingers, and the few of them instantly floated into the air, completely unaware that they had been controlled.
After controlling the three Team Rockets members, Yu Feng turned his gaze to Xiao Ming and Ash. The outcome of their confrontation was still undecided.
"I didn't expect you to be so pampered, yet still so stubborn. Annoying."
Xiao Ming panted heavily, looking at Ash with a furious expression.
"I was about to say the same thing!"
Ash also glared back, showing no weakness.
"Ding ding!"
Just then, the time on the alarm clock reset to zero. An Hitmonlee doll appeared and punched the clock.
"Time's up! Everyone, continue training!"
Hearing the end of the break bell, Xiao Ming didn't bother confronting Ash any longer. He turned to urge his Pokémon to continue their training.
"Huh, where's Sandshrew? That's strange."
After all the Pokémon started training, Xiao Ming finally realized that his Sandshrew was missing. Usually, whenever he spoke, Sandshrew was always the most enthusiastic.
"What are you doing?"
Searching the last place he had seen Sandshrew, Xiao Ming found it a bit strange why this Pikachu had curled itself into a ball.
