ash and may arrive in peltaburg city where ash is ready for a gym battle but may goes somewhere. at the gym ash meets a boy named max who just watched ash battle in the johto league on tv who is too young to be a trainer and is found out to be mays younger brother and we meet mays parents her dad normans the gym leader but ash can’t battle offically as the rules are 3 on 3 but norman agrees to an unoffical match. vigaroth vs pikachu but the match is interupted by team rocket who steal mays torchic and it takes an effort to get torchic back but they do. may and ash agree that max can travel with them to be less of a burden on may and maxs parents.
next time a new pokemon.
Harrison’s world 