Kanto region, Vermilion City, Sakuragi Laboratory.
With half a planet separating Kalos and Kanto, it was still daytime here.
Ash, who was training in the backyard as usual, suddenly froze. Under the puzzled gazes of Pikachu and the other Pokémon, he stood there blankly, his eyes unfocused.
Before Lucario could step forward to check on him, Ash suddenly murmured, "Big Brother Su Hao..."
It was an extremely familiar feeling—the sensation of becoming one with a Pokémon, of you within me and me within you.
At that moment, the scene before his eyes seemed to split into two layers.
One was the Sakuragi Laboratory where he currently stood.
The other was a forest, where Big Brother Su Hao wore a stunned expression.
Ash wanted to greet Su Hao, but he discovered that he could only share his vision and senses. He could not communicate with the other side.
He could only plop down on the ground, wondering in confusion why Greninja had encountered Big Brother Su Hao and somehow activated Bond Phenomenon.
Kalos region, Nameless Forest.
Pokémon: [Ash's Greninja] Type: [Water + Dark-type] Gender: [Male] Ability: [Bond Transformation] Level: [Early Champion Level] Item: [Omitted] Moves: [Golden Water Shuriken, Iaido Slash...]
Before Su Hao could make any comment about the panel he had seen, Ash's Greninja suddenly plopped down into the stream.
Su Hao: "?"
Ash's Greninja: "..."
It was not just Ash. Having entered this form again after so long, Ash's Greninja could also see the scene through Ash's eyes and was affected by Ash's actions.
Perhaps feeling a little awkward, Ash's Greninja somehow conveyed its desire to cancel Bond Phenomenon to Ash through a method it did not understand either, and received Ash's agreement.
A moment later, a flash of light flickered across Ash's Greninja's body, and it