Hello! This volume is originally... A chapter, but since the battle was so long I just let it become a single volume, so... There is not much story here, just a battle dedicated by my knowledge. One more thing: since I want to make my fanfic unique, I added things not in the Pokémon franchise. (Hint: it has 7 letters, starts with 'f' and ends with 'mon'.
- Round 4: Learning from the past -
- Pewter City -
"There is a Gym here, right? There must be!"
"Back to the normal Orange..." Cyan sighed. He unintentionally looked at Orange's left pocket, focusing his eyesight on Orange's family picture, which was pasted somewhat badly on the cover of his wallet. "I really need to ask you, both of your parents are quite calm, but why are you that aggressive?"
Orange took out his wallet and looked at his mum and dad, remaining silent for a while. "Knowing that won't help me get the Boulderbadge, right?" He then said.
Cyan sighed. "Ugh... Fine, but healing your Pokémon first will!"
After healing their Pokémon, Orange trained Bugpie at route 3.
"Bugpie, use Tackle one last time!" Orange commanded.
The wild Kakuna fainted. "Good job, Bugpie! Oh, you level upped! It's about time..."
Cyan looked at Bugpie shaking. It's the sign that it's evolving!
"My training helped, right?" Cyan asked.
"Err... Yeah, okay, I admit..." Orange replied.
"Well you have to train much more further to beat Brock!"
Just then, Bugpie had completed its evolution into a Metapod.
"Okay, so where should we go to train now?" Orange asked.
"The outskirts of Mt. Moon. Bugpie should evolve if you use it to get to Mt. Moon and train there for like 30 minutes."
"You mean Bugpie would evolve into a Butterfree? But Brock uses Rock-type, you know."
"The thing I want to tell you is that the Pokédex can be used to cancel evolutions." Cyan informed him. 'And I could have sworn that I have said that...'
"Wow! That makes me like it even more!"
- Outskirts of Mt. Moon -
"Bugpie, use Confusion!"
The wild Geodude fainted.
"I still don't understand why Bugpie can use a Psychic-type move, although I knew it for a long time already." Orange said.
"Well, as my dad said before, he trained Pika to use a non-Electric-type move. So if your Pokémon is not a Psychic-type, it doesn't mean that it can't use a Psychic-type move!"
'Hmm… still not the answer I want…'
Orange retreated Bugpie back. "Alright, I think I'm good enough to go and fight now."
"Herba is level 14, Bugpie is level 13... I don't think so. Brock has a level 21 Onix and one Pokémon that has never been seen 30 years ago, according to dad." Cyan noted.
"Okay, I'll train a bit more then. Herba should evolve soon."
- Mt. Moon -
"Bugpie, use Stun Spore!"
The wild Onix is paralysed.
'So Orange wants to catch it, maybe he wants to train it into a Steelix to beat Brock, but...' Cyan thought. 'Never mind, I need to train Firetail too!'
"Okay, go Great Ball!" Orange hurled a Great Ball to Onix.
'Orange should be able to catch it, from the fact that the Onix is huge!' "Okay, Firetail, use…"
The ball didn't hit its body. It landed on a ledge above the Onix.
"Rats... Go Pokéball!"
'... Seriously, Orange's accuracy is...'
The ball landed on the lower-left hand side of a giant stone in front of the Onix. The Onix then tackled Bugpie once more, causing it to faint. Just then, Orange came up with a great idea.
"Go, Herba! Get onto the upper-right hand side of the giant rock, let it tackle you..."
"NO! WAIT!"
"...then dodge the attack, and run to your right! Cyan, before you 'no wait' me, you should observe what is the shape of the large stone the Pokéball is on!"
Everything went according to Orange's plan. The upper-right part is higher than the lower-left part. The stone acted like a lever which bounces the Poké Ball up to the ledge, hitting the Great Ball and causing the Great Ball to move right. Herba lured the Onix to move to the right, which leads the Onix right below the falling Great Ball. The Great Ball landed exactly on the tip of the point of Onix's forehead.
"... Yes! I caught Onix!" Orange took the Great Ball up.
"You... You're a genius!"
"Just trying to make pretend again, but this time combining the strategies of dad and Mr. Green."
"Alright, let your Onix eat this Cheri Berry..."
"Hey, where did you get that?"
"Oh, come on! You should at least know that you can plant and harvest berries on any soft soil there is in the whole Kanto region!"
- Round 5: The Rival... Again -
"By evolving this Onix I can definitely win Brock!"
"But... I don't think you can evolve it by only training it though... I just can't remember how to evolve it, maybe mum or my siblings knows how. That twin knows everything about evolving, just like mum." Cyan told Orange as he picked up a Revive which he then used on Bugpie.
"If that's the case..." Orange stood silent for a while to think what he should do during his first Gym battle.
Cyan noticed the beeping sounds from his Pokédex again. He knew that the pest was nearby. "Oh, she's not going to get away this time! I'll force her to return those things back for sure!"
"Oh, damn this Pokédex beeping sounds... Go, Wartortle!"
"Go, Bugpie!"
"Go, Firetail!"
The girl stood on a ledge high above Orange and Cyan. She sent out Sandslash secretly. It raged a Sandstorm.
"Err... What's going on?" Cyan asked.
"A Sandstorm is forming, we will all get hit, and the visibility goes right down!" 'Which is the worst possible case for me...'
"Wartortle, use Surf!"
"A Surf in a Sandstorm? That's it, Firetail, switch out, go, Roundplant!"
The pits of the battle zone were filled with muddy water. It powered up Wartortle's attack. The Surf took quite a lot of damage towards Bugpie, but less to Roundplant, Cyan's Oddish.
"Alright Roundplant, use Absorb!"
Meanwhile, Orange was thinking for a solid strategy to win.
'The girl has a Wartortle, a Pidgeotto and a Ground-type Pokémon, since such a sandstorm is impossible to form inside caves naturally during this kind of weather. I need to think a way to use the water to beat it, but... the water itself is full of sand too! So how?'
A moment later...
"I know how. Cyan, use as many times Razor Leaf as possible to chase Wartortle around. Go, Herba, use Vine Whip!" The Wartortle kept swimming to and fro in the water pits. The leaves gradually accumulated all over the battlefield.
"Cyan, summon Firetail right now!"
"Huh? But..."
"Just send it out already!" Orange shouted. "I know what I'm doing!"
"Fine, go Firetail!"
"Okay, the battle is going to heat up, Cyan. I mean, literally heat up. Use the best move Firetail has!"
"Oh, not so fast, Wartortle, use Waterfall to that Charmeleon!" Magenta pointed towards Firetail.
"Herba, use Vine Whip on Firetail's tail!"
"NO! WAIT!"
"Cyan, shut up! Let the vine burn, Herba!"
Firetail fainted in one shot due to the Waterfall.
"Haha... Pathetic, hitting one another in a team." Magenta didn't realize what the attack was for.
"Burn the leaves, Herba!" Orange said.
"Oh, I got it!" Cyan finally understood Orange's plan.
The accumulated leaves were set off into a big wildfire seconds after Herba's vine ignited the first leaf.
"Cyan, hold on, the temperature is really high!"
"I'm trying!"
Magenta laughed. "Haha! Trying to commit suicide? Your chance to attack, Sandslash! Use..."
"Ugh... It's too hot... Just kidding!"
Soon, the visibility of the battlefield plunged again; this time not because of a sandstorm though.
"Wh... What? Why is there fog here?" Magenta got confused. She was shocked once she turned back to her Sandslash, getting drastically weakened for no reason. "Oh no, what's wrong?"
"Bugpie made some sort of a fire blanket using the strings it made when I was switching in Herba. It hid away. Then, the fire evaporated the water into water vapor which rose up and condensed into water..." Orange explained.
'The distillation method...' Magenta blanked out.
"... causing your Sandslash to take damage and finally..."
Bang! Sandslash fell onto the ground and fainted.
Magenta remained silent for a while. "... Go, Pidgeotto! Use Gust to blow the leaves back to them!" She then commanded.
"As long as we have this fire blanket it's no use." Orange said. "Finally, it's time to train Geosnake! Use Rock Throw!"
Magenta smiled secretly. 'I've lured his Onix out, which I'll take care with my Wartortle. Using Pidgeotto to defeat his Bulbasaur is going to be easy as well!"
Cyan whispered to Orange about the Wartortle.
"Don't worry; I have already planned for Wartortle to extinguish the leaves for me. And I know that she will use..."
"Wartortle, use Surf!"
"I am correct! She wants to deal damage on all our Pokémon!" Orange exclaimed happily. "Geosnake, use Dig!"
The Surf dealt quite some damage on both Herba and Roundplant. Bugpie fainted after two attacks, seeing that it only had half its HP left right from the start. Then, Herba started to vibrate.
"And... Yeah it is evolving alright! Ivysaur! Use Razor Leaf!"
"Pidgeotto, Wing Attack! Wartortle, dodge it!"
"Too late." Orange said. "Geosnake stopped Wartortle."
Geosnake used Dig on Wartortle. Wartortle not only took damage, it was forced to a dead end. The Razor Leaf then hit Wartortle, causing it to faint. Geosnake climbed back up from the water pit to Orange's side.
'An Onix and an Oddish left... Wait… The Onix seems like it is receiving damage from somewhere… Oh, that's it!' Magenta thought of a good idea. "Fly, Pidgeotto!"
She rode on Pidgeotto as it flew up high.
"What should we do now, Orange? Herba fainted because of the Wing Attack, Roundplant is being aimed, and Geosnake is taking damage from the water vapor!"
"..." Orange didn't say anything.
Bang! Geosnake fell onto the ground. The Pidgeotto then used Fly on Roundplant.
'Yes, the water vapor made the Onix faint. One final shot and this match will be mine!' Magenta thought as Pidgeotto flew down towards Roundplant.
It was super effective. Roundplant fainted.
"Yes, I won!" Magenta shouted.
"Wow... Used my technique to beat me..." Orange said.
"... Well too bad you weren't careful enough! Rock Tomb!" Geosnake rose back up, used Rock Tomb on Pidgeotto, causing it to faint.
"... But...why?" Yet again, Magenta blanked out.
"Now hand in the Pokédex and the Wartortle!" Orange demanded.
"Never!" Magenta used an Escape Rope to escape from Mt. Moon.
"Argh! Couldn't catch up again!" Cyan yelled in anger.
"It isn't avoidable, Cyan... From the fact that all our Pokémon don't have any energy left..." Orange mumbled, as he retreats Geosnake which had obviously tired out.
"Fine... Now then... How did you manage to win?" Cyan asked.
"Both the girl and you thought that Geosnake would take a lot of damage due to the water vapor, right? What was the last move that the girl used before I sent out Geosnake?"
"Oh yeah, she used Gust! The water vapor was blown away!"
"Wartortle then used Surf which extinguished the fire, halting the formation of more water vapor. Plus, the water vapor produced from extinguishing the fire which was unexpectedly harming Herba and Roundplant quite a bit was much lesser compared to the water vapor formed by evaporation when I used my strategy. Therefore it isn't enough to deal significant damage on Geosnake. Second, why is Geosnake up here after it used Dig on Wartortle?"
"Because water accumulated down there?"
"That's right. Also, Geosnake didn't take damage from Surf because it used Dig. One more thing, although Rock Tomb was super effective against Pidgeotto, it might still not be enough to let it faint. What damaged Pidgeotto?"
"Err... I don't know."
"I knew that you might forget what Geosnake's first move was."
"Oh, Rock Throw!"
"And that is how Pidgeotto fainted." Orange finished the explanation.
"Wow... Your techniques are getting harder and harder to understand..." Cyan said, amazed by Orange's genius.
"Well there are no complicated techniques, at least for the second half of the match; you'll just need much more memory. Remember what you've done, use the best of it in gaining advantage and never let it turn back to haunt you." Orange said with a smile.
"Okay. Your Pokémon are all really tired!" Cyan noticed. "Let's use this Escape Rope to get out of here quickly!"
"Hey, it's the same one as the girl used. Now, where did you get that?"
"Oh, come on! You should at least know that Escape Ropes can also be bought in Poké Marts like how the potions can!"
- Outskirts of Mt. Moon -
"Ta-da-! We're out!"
"What? Just like that? I could've just used Dig..."
- Somewhere in Viridian Forest -
"I can't accept this! Train more!"
"Yes, Boss!"