The Poacher chuckled as he went for his ace in the hole. He pulled out a remote and pressed a button. A power burst of electricity surged through the cage. The Charizard roared in agony.
***
Meanwhile, Looker and the Rockets took advantage of the distraction to sneak over to the poacher's stash of stolen Pokémon. The four that were taken from the Rockets smiled at the sight of them. Looker disengaged those cages first. The four happilly hugged their respective Rocket. They than ran outside to join the fray.
***

Shiranui realised Titania was in the cage as well when the electricity went off. "Mega Ring activate!" He activated his Mega Ring and an electric pink glow issued from the cage as Titania achieved her Mega form.
"Have you ever seen The Matrix? Spoiler alert!" Titania rebutted, quoting a certain wisecracking mercenary, as she used Thunder Wave to disable the remote with an electromagnetic pulse.

The poacher reached into his coat pocket and pulled out what at first looked to be a marble of some kind. Liam than noticed that there was an anklet on the Venasur's front right leg with a glistening gem in it. "But, thats.." Liam started.
"Yes, this is Mega Evolution. I took these off some smart mouthed Kalosian punk who tried to stop me, the last time I saw them, they were going to have a sleep with the fishes. "Now Venasaur, Mega Evolve!" The poacher explained how this Venasaur was his first Pokémon, and how it had always stood by him. Once the Mega Evolution was finished, The Venasaur pulled out as many vinces as it could and lashed them all toward Smaug. The Charizard smashed the cage with Dragon Claw and lunged to protect Smaug, being pelted with all of the vines. The sight of this made Smaug's rage build and build until his mother collapsed. That was the breaking point as Smaug scream and began to glow white.

"That's it, Smaug!" Titania cheered, "Burn that Venusaur until it's nothing but ashes!" Shiranui had never seen Titania in such a state of joyful anger.

Smaug took form as a Charizard and let out a fierce roar. He immedeately launched a Fire Blast and roasted the Mega Venasaur, as well as the Tyrannitar, who happened to be standing to close. The scorching flames narrowly missed the Rockets, who gave up on the prospect of stealing any Pokémon from the scene and tried to flee. However, they were caught in the crossfire of Smaug's blind rage and sent flying with an Iron Tail. The poacher surrendered, but Smaug kept moving closer to him with a look of hatred in his eyes. The poacher was backing away, trying to get away, but Smaug used Flamethrower to block his path.
"Smaug! Cool it!" Liam yelled, but Smaug acted as though Liam wasn't there. Sherlock sensed what was about to happen and teleported in to try and stop Smaug, who just smacked Sherlock aside with Iron Tail
"He's gone beserk! Not even our psychic powers can get through!" Sherlock telepathicly told Liam and Shiranui. Liam was starting to panic. "Blissey! Tend to the mama Charizard!" Liam than began trying to calm Smaug down. Liam realized that if Sherlock couldn't get through, than Titania likely wouldn't. There was only two possible Pokémon whose could get through to him. Liam also thought that it would not be a good idea if either of them appeared infrnt of a poacher, even if he could call them in himself. In Smaug's blind rage, he sent the Rockets flying. Although, to be fair; they did get right in his way. The poacher was backed up against a tree with Smaug comming in closer. He sniveled for him to be called off, but Smaug wasn't listening. It wasn't until Liam was close to Smaug, and he turned around and used Dragon Claw that Smaug snapped out of his rage at the sight of what he did. Smaug's rage was replaced with guilt as he stood there in shock of what he did. The poacher tried to take advantage of the situation to run away, only to instantly run into Looker, who cuffed him. Seeing her trainer fall, Blissey freaked and ran over to Liam's side. One use of Softboiled healed up the minor damages Liam suffered, although his shirt was still hacked to pieces. Liam woke up to see Smaug's guilt ridden face. Smaug turned away, unable to look at Liam out of shame.
Smaug was now looking over his injured mother. Blissey had used everything in the first aid kit, and she still wasn't better. Heal Pulse and Softboiled didn't help much either.

"It's no use, Blissey," said Titania after trying to use Heal Pulse for the umpteenth time, "She needs professional medical attention or she'll be taken by a Dusknoir! Liam, have Sherlock take Smaug's mother to the Fuchsia City Pokémon Centre; Master, Smaug needs some counselling from You-Know-Who now that the Rockets and that Arceus-awful poacher are gone."

Sherlock nodded. He came over to Liam and the shiny Charizard. Liam turned to Shiranui. He handed him Smaug's Luxury Ball. "Once he's calmed down, meet us the Fuchsia City Pokémon Center." With that Sherlock teleported away with Liam, Blissey, and the inhured Charizard.
***
Joy was shocked to turn the corner and suddenly see them. She asked what happened and Liam replied that they do not have time for him to explain, shes going to die if they don't do something quickly. A pair of Chansey from the center pushed out a gurnie that could support the Lizard Pokémon abd pushed her into the OR. Joy insisted that they go to the waiting room. She could tell that they were both exhausted from trying to save the Charizard.

"I'm on it," Shiranui acknowledged after receiving Smaug's Luxury Ball, "Saisei, come on out!" The legendary Mewtwo made an appearance and almost immediately spotted the guilt-ridden Charizard. Saisei read Smaug's memories of the battle and was sympathetic towards the Charizard.
"I know exactly how you feel, Smaug" stated Saisei, "I too was a berserker that wanted to eradicate those I wanted revenge against."

Sashia who had been thrown to the sidelines during this entire event got her Milotic and Ice Fox to put out the last of the forest ensuring it would not burst into flames before she stared at Smaug and Mewtwo before simply pointing at the Charizard showing not even an inch of fear to the large dragon saying "You almost cause a forest fire right in the middle of one of the most populated forest of Kanto. Your lucky I was busy keeping the inhabitants safe while this was happening"
Steel mech offer his own robotic gurgle to the talk as he help a wild Butterfree and her children return to their tree.
Sashia sighed and looked at the charred Forest before she pulled out her phone. "Guess I'm going to have to call in my mums nature squad to restore this area of the forest"

Smaug thought about how he messed up, and he struck his trainer. "He had done nothing but be sympathetic toward me, and help me get over my troubles and I nearly slashed him to ribbons. I don't deserve to have a trainer."
***
Joy's examination found that judging by the physical scars on the Charizard, she was likely whipped everyday for a long time, she estimated three months at the very least. Other things she noticed were brusies on her wings, as if they were bound down against her body, and her x-rays seemed to imply that the Charizard was forced into a cage that was just slightly too small for a time. Joy had many of her Chanseys and Bliseys helping her.
***

"Nonsense," Saisei rebutted, "You were not sound of mind and what you've done was the best way to snap yourself back into a lucid state of mind. Had you continued on your berserker rage, the outcome would have been much worse—something I know all too well."

"I'm a monster. Beserk rage or not, I attacked an innocent person." Smaug replied.

"Liam may have been innocent, but he took the risk to snap you out of your rage and prevent another human from dying a gruesome death," Saisei explained, "The only way to alleviate your guilt is to apologise to him. He still cares for you and is showing that by helping your own mother recover from that poacher's brutality as we communicate."

Sashia looked at the two Pokemon after she had finished on the phone to her mother. Sashia sighed and watched the two converse before offering her two cent to Smuag.
"You need to speak to your trainer when we get to Fuisha" she said before looking up to the sky as a Tropius flew overhead, followed by a few more flying types which were carrying Grass and Ground type Pokemon.

"Even Sashia here agrees with my suggestion," Saisei continued, giving Sashia the mental equivalent of a thumbs up.

"Very well, let's go to him." Smaug repled in his head. "But we need to free all of the impriosoned Pokémon first." This is a detail that unknown to Smaug had already been accomplished.
***
Liam was getting antsy just sitting around. He knew it would be best to stay out of the way. Liam was able to help a few trainers who had come in needing help. His knowledge of Pokémon first aid and help from Blissey allowed him to take care of all of the problems that came in the door.

"That task has already been completed by Looker and the other two," Saisei updated, feeling disgusted at the mere mention of the Rocket duo. The Mewtwo addressed Sashia and Shiranui. "We can make our way to Fuchsia City and rendezvous with Liam now."

Snaug stretched out his wings to fly and offered to carry them.

"Saisei, Titania, return!" Shiranui recalled his Pokémon and got on Smaug's back. "Smaug's offering to take us there," he stated.

Smaug took off toward Fuschia City. He landed at the easily identifable Pokémon Center.