conscientiously. But why did you look at me so strangely earlier? It looked like you envied me for something. Is that right?" said Max and in his words there was a question and a statement at the same time.
Max looked Nils in the eye and there was that strange expression on his face again, but this time he showed not only envy, but something else as well.
"Well, that's the way it is. You have something that I don't have and that I wish for." Nils pushed around.
The color of his face changed from the usual pale color that was usually on his face to a shade of red.
Max now looked at his friend even more confused.
"What do I have that he doesn't have?" he asked himself in his mind and couldn't think of an answer to it.
His question seemed to have shown in his face, because Nils was now pointing with his index finger at Max's bare upper body.Max looked down at his body. He was thin, slightly muscular, and had a light six pack.
"What about me?" asked Max.
"You have something I would like to have too!" said Nils and pointed again to Max's upper body.
Now Max's penny dropped.
"Ah, now I know what you mean. You mean my six pack, right?" asked Max, now looking relieved that it was so simple.
Nils nodded, but didn't look at him. He seemed a little embarrassed. Max got dressed again and then sat down next to Nils.
"So that's what you mean. I'll tell you something. I used to be a bit chubby just like you. My father bought me a few hours of training with his private fitness trainer and I learned a few easy exercises from him, through which, if you do them every day, you lose a lot of weight. The six pack that I have now is just because of these exercises. If we both do these exercises morning and evening every day of the week, you will become one too Have six pack. "Said Max and smiled.
Nils nodded and let Max explain the exercises to him. They did those exercises, and their Pokémon had a lot of fun emulating them.
It took several hours and by the time they were done it was pitch dark. They washed off the sweat by the stream and got ready for the night. Nils padded a little awkwardly into the tent. His muscles were sore as hell and quickly fell asleep.
For the next seven days they hiked through the forest, doing the exercises Max demonstrated in the morning and in the evening. On the morning of the eighth day, the trail they used widened and the trees let more light fall on them.
Suddenly they heard two voices.
Give it back to me! Give it back to me! "Pleaded a voice.
Max and Nils rushed into a bush and listened to the voices.
"Haha, so this is the package you are supposed to bring to Devon!" said a voice and it sounded confident of victory.
The two boys, who were still crouching in the bushes, crept closer to the voices and now they saw two men. One man was wearing a white coat and pleading with another man in a blue sailor's uniform.
The man in the sailor's uniform looked at the researcher and laughed and shook his head.
Nils turned to Max.
"We should sneak behind these scoundrels. I recognized him, the man in the sailor's uniform belongs to Team Aqua." Nils whispered.
Max nodded and so they crawled carefully past the two men so that the two men didn't notice them.
They got up behind the bully and released Geckarbor and Hydropi from their balls.
"Hey you pea brain. The music is playing behind you," Max said loudly.
The bully turned around and now the other man in the white coat noticed her too. He ran past the bully and hid behind Nils' back."Please help me. This villain stole the Devon goods from me. I really need them back, or I'll get huge trouble from my boss." Whimpered the man behind Nils.
"Don't worry! We'll get your goods back. Hey you, piggy babe! If you want this this way, you have to get past us first."
The bully made a face.
"I destroy small flies like you in the morning before breakfast!" said the Team Aqua member and released two Fiffyen from their balls to fight.
The Fiffyen both pounced on Geckarbor. Since they ignored Hydropi, it was able to attack its opponents on Nils' orders with a mud attack called the clay clamp. The mud hit one of the Fiffyen's face and covered his eyes. Gesckarbor struck the Fiffyen down with a combination of tackle and absorber.
Hydropi attacked the remaining Fiffyen with his aqua gun and it collapsed. The bully pulled his Pokemon back into their balls with a grumble and disappeared cursing.
Hydropi jumped joyfully in the air and when he landed again it shone a brilliant white.
It grew and when the white faded it was bigger than before.
Nils pulled out his Pokedex, which announced to them that the Pokemon was Morrabbel, the further development of Hydropi. Moorabbel had a blue comb on his head, orange cheek pockets and a round orange area on his stomach. Delighted, the swamp jumped up to Nils and tore him off his feet.
"Congratulation!" said Max and grinned.
He had picked up Geckarbor.
Now the researcher spoke.
"Thank you for your help. Here is a small thank you from me. Have a look at the Devon Cooperation. My boss will definitely want to thank you for your help too." Said the researcher and gave both boys a superball, an improved one Version of the pokeball.
The researcher took the goods that the bully had dropped and took his legs in hand to bring the goods to his boss.
The two boys grinned at each other and talked a little more about the fight and the development. They set off again and two hours later they reached the edge of the forest.
"Looks like we're going to the next town now," said Max.
"Metarost City is coming now!" said Nils and stepped out of the forest.
So she made her way to Metarost City.


End of the 3rd chapter