After entering the Fuchsia Gym, Ash held up Janine in his hand. "Now that I have a hostage, you better come out quickly. I'll leave as soon as this battle is over."
Boom!
As a smoke bomb exploded, a figure slowly approached Ash through the thick smoke. Recognizing the silhouette, Ash sighed and said, "Ayame? If you're here to save your niece, forget it. You can't beat me."
"Oh, you wouldn't hurt little Janine, would you? I came to ask if you're selling your poison beads... Never mind! I'll say it myself!"
Ayame couldn't stand her own sickly sweet act any longer and dropped the gentle facade. A voice then spoke slowly.
"Ayame, you're still too reckless. Your mission is to use seduction techniques to distract Ash, while I'll be the one sneaking up on him."
"So then, big bro, you got pinned down and beaten up by Meowth and Pikachu?"
Seeing his big brother lying on the ground with Meowth and Pikachu sitting on top of him, Ayame knew Koga had failed again.
"I'm telling you, Koga, why are you so fixated on me—even to the point of pushing Ayame onto me?"
"What do you mean by 'pushing'? Lots of people are chasing after me!"
Watching Ayame, Ash silently fed an orange to the Psyduck behind him, then said, "Oh, really? Name someone who's chasing you?"
"..."
"Forget about your own formidable combat skills for a moment. Koga himself is an insurmountable obstacle—who would dare marry the sister of the Poison-type Elite Four member?"
Koga quietly tugged at Ash's pant leg and said, "So we can only count on you. Look, Ayame isn't unattractive. It's just that her temper requires someone who can handle her. And you fit that perfectly. Please—"
"You can say this in front of my girlfriends, but can't you stop obsessing over my Arbok's Toxic Orb?"
"It's alright. That's the treasure every Poison-type Pokémon trainer dreams of having in their youth!"
Speechlessly staring at Koga, Ash took out a deep purple orb from his pocket. Koga's eyes nearly popped out of his head at the sight of it. Even Janine, who was being held by Ash, gazed at the orb her father had been longing for day and night.
"Is this the Toxic Orb you've been thinking about, Dad?"
"That's right, my daughter... For many Poison-type trainers, this is a rare treasure. To enhance the abilities of Poison-type Pokémon, the venom inside this Toxic Orb is the ultimate artifact."
Suzy looked at the orb Ash was casually holding with some confusion. "Is this a divine artifact?"
"Exactly. For Poison-type Pokémon, it's the most important divine artifact. So Ash, I beg you—I'll even pay for it!"
"No."
"Please, I'm begging you, just give it to me. Your Arbok can make it anytime, right? Please, Ash! This kind of potent poison that can even affect Poison, Steel, and even Ground types is exactly what I need. Otherwise, I, the Poison-type Master, am not—"
Just as Koga was speaking, a strange smell wafted through the air. Upon catching a whiff, Ash couldn't help but say in exasperation, "Oh my god, who on earth opened the extract of a Gloom?"
"Oh my god, it stinks so bad!"*3
As three figures flailed into the gym like flopping Magikarp, Ash and his companions could only look on helplessly at the trio of clowns.
"Team Rocket, I thought you guys should still be locked up..."
"Haha, kid, we broke out, meow—bleh!"
Meowth had just finished speaking when it started vomiting. James continued, "We smashed through a wall and escaped from a horde of Grimer's pursuit—bleh▯▯▯"
After Jessie finished speaking, Jessie added, "To eliminate the odor, we specifically used perfume ingredients stolen from Celadon City—but it's so foul! Bleh! Ptooey!"
Watching the vomiting Team Rocket members, Koga, who had long since stood up with composure, said with his eyes closed, "For ninjas, holding one's breath is a required skill. Intruders, your stench cannot affect me."
"So that means we don't need to give you a gas mask?"
Hearing Ash say this, Koga realized that Ash and the others had already put on gas masks, and even Ayame and Janine had too.
"Please give me one too, thanks."
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