Return of the defeated (on hold)

/Part 13/

Sandshrew immediately waved at the group in front of him and was excited to train with such string pokemon. Ralts shyly waved and nervously walked up to Gardevoir, both theirs eyes glowed as they began to speak telepathically. Ash smiled at them, seeing them open up to his older pokemon.

"Ok guys were just gonna do some light basic training today to help get Sandshrew and Ralts up to level over the next little while. Donphan and Torterra work with Sandshrew to help him learn some control over his ground type moves. Gardevoir and Meowth I want you to work with Ralts with his physic attacks and some dark type moves. Pikachu, Lucario and I will move between both groups and help out with moves."

With that they split into their groups and began their training, going slow to help the new pokemon get their bearings. Ash quickly noticed that Sandshrew had good base attack and his speed was really well for being so young. Donphan was currently helping him with Rollout while Torterra caused obstacles for the young ground type to dodge. Ash gave a few pointers on different ways to dodge at the last moment. He watched for a few more minutes before moving over to check on how Ralts was coming along.

As he watched Ralts he could see his shyness was slowly fading and it seemed as long as he focused on training he was more out going. Gardevoir was showing him ways to focus his powers to aim at a moving target, which was Meowth. The cat scratch pokemon was moving randomly while using low powered attacks that Gardevoir would block to help Ralts get experience of having incoming attacks. He noticed that the young pokemon's attacks were gaining some speed and his accuracy was very impressive for being so young. He gave a few small pointers but with what Gardevoir and Meowth had been teaching him there wasn't much to say at the moment.

Ash made his way towards May and her pokemon to check on how her training was coming along. He watched as she had Blaziken lightly sparing with Venusaur using flashy attacks against one another. Swanna, Florges, and Sewaddle were working on combo attacks and teaching Sewaddle the basics of contest battles. Meanwhile May was helping Glaceon and Wartortle train with her Ralts. The young pokemon might have seemed reluctant to come along at first but now she seemed very excited to train. The two more experienced pokemon would send weak attacks towards her while she tried to bend the attacks either away from her or into rough shapes.

He smiled watching his girlfriend trianing, how focused she was and how much she put into training. They continued training and giving pointers to each other for different techniques. Ash spent a little time showing May some workouts and maneuvers that would help her with defense and strength. It was close to noon when they decided to call it a day for training and the returned everyone but Pikachu, Lucario, Glaceon and of course Meowth. They asked Nurse Joy to give everyone a check up and let them rest up, they sat in the waiting area and made small talk until they were called for their pokemon. Pikachu jumped onto Ash's shoulder while Glaceon walked closely to May's side. Lucario and Meowth followed behind the pair as thythey went back to their room to get cleaned up.

Ash told May she could get cleaned up first, he told her that he needed to run to market real quick. He quickly made his way into the produce section and went through the mental lists of things he'd need for their picnic. After about thirty minutes he came back to the room and remembered to knock as not to catch May off guard.

"Ash what did you need to get from the store?" May asked while she lightly scratched Glaceon and Pikachu on their heads.

"Well I wanted to do something special for you, so I got some things together and I want to take you out to Cerulean Cape for a picnic."Ash said setting the basket down that he had packed. May was shocked to here that Ash had planned that, she didn't expect him to so something like that.