I Choose You! Steely Determination VS Chilling Strategy
A/N - Guess who's back? Back again! So, last chapter, I left you on a cliffhanger on who Lucas' starter was; this chapter, you'll find out who he picked along with Tendou's starter choice and their first battle. Enjoy! P.S. The reason why the chapter title is in the chapter is because of the character limit.
"I choose you, Snorunt!" Lucas said while pointing at the Pokémon in the middle of the table. The Pokémon in question jumped happily into Lucas' arms cheering "Sno! Sno! Snorunt!"
"Now, then Tendou, it's your turn to choose your starter Pokémon. Have you made your decision yet?" Professor Blossom asked.
" Yes, Professor, I have!" Tendou proclaimed proudly. " I choose Klink!" he continued while pointing at the creature on the left side of the table. The Pokémon Tendou was pointing at seemed nonplussed about being chosen as Tendou's starter and floated over to its new Trainer. The Pokémon that was left seemed saddened that it wasn't chosen but got distracted when it saw its snout sway and started swinging it around playfully. "Phan! Phan! Phanpy!" it cheered happily while still swinging its long snout around.
"Now, then boys," Professor Blossom said, addressing Lucas and Tendou and withdrawing Phanpy back to its Poké Ball. "I have some things I'd like to give you before you start your journey." she continued, walking over to her desk. She picked up a tray and brought them to Lucas and Tendou; the tray was holding twenty tiny red and white balls and two coloured devices that had a thin screen in between the coloured sections. Lucas suddenly went wide-eyed and shouted "Woah, no way! A PokéDex?! Really, Professor?!" Tendou just rolled his eyes at Lucas' behaviour.
"That's right, Lucas." she said giving the boys a kind smile. "I imported these PokéDexes from the Kalos region and modified them so that they will now allow you to identify all the Pokémon that live here in the Adina region." she continued. Lucas then took his turquoise PokéDex and scanned Snorunt with it. "Snorunt, the Snow Hat Pokémon," a female voice emitting from the PokéDex said pulling up an image of a Snorunt. "It can only survive in cold areas. It bounces happily around, even in environments as cold as -101 degrees Celsius. It is also said that several Snorunt gather under giant leaves and live together in harmony." it finished.
Lucas then scanned Klink with the PokéDex. "Klink, the Gear Pokémon. Interlocking two bodies and spinning around generates the energy that it needs to live." the PokéDex said pulling up an image of Klink this time. "The two minigears that mesh together are predetermined. Each will rebound from other minigears without meshing." it continued.
"Yeah, yeah, enough of this!" Tendou piped up. "We've got our Pokémon, so let's battle already!" he shouted, drawing a sigh from Professor Blossom.
"Alright, but if you're gonna battle, do it outside so you don't destroy my lab." she said leading them and their Pokémon outside onto the streets of Enevca. "I'll be the referee for this battle between Tendou of Enevca Town and Lucas Young, also of Enevca Town!" she proclaimed after she moved to the side of the makeshift battlefield. "Trainers, choose your Pokémon!"
"Snorunt, I choose you!" Lucas said to Snorunt, prompting the Pokémon to walk forward onto the battlefield. "Sno! Sno!" it cheered, eagerly anticipating the battle.
"Klink, let's go!" Tendou said, prompting Klink to float onto the battlefield, if it was excited for the battle it didn't show.
"This battle will be between Snorunt and Klink! Let the battle begin!" the Professor shouted.
"Snorunt, use Powder Snow!" Lucas commanded. Snorunt immediately sent out a flurry of snow with icy-blue tints from its mouth towards Klink.
"Klink, use Thunder Shock!" Tendou countered. Klink then fired off a thin bolt of electricity towards the oncoming Powder Snow sending the bolt straight through the middle and towards Snorunt.
"Snorunt, dodge it!" Lucas shouted, but it was too late; the attack had hit Snorunt square in the face, doing more damage than Lucas expected. "Snorunt, no!" he cried. The Powder Snow then hit Klink with little, tinny clink sounds, hardly doing any damage.
"Snorunt, use Double Team to surround Klink and then use Leer!" Snorunt then got up and started making clones of itself and ran towards Klink along with its clones. The Snorunts then surrounded Klink and made a sinister face at it causing a deep blue ring of energy to appear around the metal Pokémon, which disappeared after a few seconds as did Snorunt's clones. Klink's defense was now low enough to do some damage.
"Klink, use Vice Grip, now!" Tendou shouted. Klink obeyed its Trainer and clamped down hard on Snorunt who had no chance of dodging the attack at such close range.
"That's it!" Lucas thought. "Snorunt, close range Powder Snow, now!" Lucas ordered. Snorunt pushed through the pain of Klink's Vice Grip and opened its mouth to send another flurry of snow from it; this time hitting Klink in the face causing it to reel back, fall on the floor and let go of Snorunt long enough for it to escape back to Lucas' side of the battlefield.
"Snorunt, can you carry on?" Lucas asked, expressing concern for his Pokémon. "Sno! Sno!" the Pokémon replied with a nod.
"One last attack should take him out, Snorunt!" Lucas told Snorunt. "Powder Snow, let's go!" Snorunt sent out another snow flurry towards Klink, who was having trouble getting back up.
"Klink, dodge it!" Tendou demanded, but when Klink had finally got up, the Powder Snow hit it directly in the face causing to fall on the floor with a loud clunk. Klink's eyes had turned into swirls and the Pokémon could no longer get up.
"And the winner is Lucas and Snorunt!" proclaimed Professor Blossom, who looked proud of the rookie Trainers for having such skill in battling already.
"We did it, we won!" cheered Lucas, picking up Snorunt and spinning around with it in his arms. He then pressed a button on its Poké Ball that sent out a red beam that withdrew it to its Poké Ball to give it some rest. Tendou walked up to Lucas after withdrawing Klink to its Poké Ball.
"You know the only reason you won is 'cause I wasn't even trying, right?" he asked smugly.
"Ugh, this guy is such a bad loser!" Lucas thought to himself before saying "Yeah, right(!) Just accept the loss, dude. It was a good battle anyway." He then offered a handshake for a well-fought battle to Tendou, who took it reluctantly.
"Yeah, well, you won't win next time. I'll make sure of it."
"Yeah, sure, I won't." Lucas replied sarcastically.
"Now, then," Professor Blossom chimed in. "Before you go rushing off to the next city, go back home, get some sleep and say goodbye to your mothers in the morning."
Lucas and Tendou walked back to their street in darkness and silence until they reached their respective houses. Lucas walked into his house to see his mum sat on a lilac armchair on the left side of a living room with lilac colour walls watching an old film on the TV.
"What took you so long, Lucas?" she asked, not looking away from the TV. Lucas sat down on the white sofa at the back of the room and put his bag down on the floor.
"Well, after Tendou and I got our starters, he challenged me to battle!" Lucas said excitedly. "So, we went outside and had our first real Pokémon battle!" he finished with an ear-to-ear grin.
"Oh? Who won?" his mother asked. Beaming with pride, Lucas proclaimed, "I did! I won my very first battle!"
"So, are you going to show me your starter Pokémon, then?" Lucas' mother asked, now looking at Lucas.
"Can you wait until the morning? That battle really took a lot out of us." Lucas replied picking his bag up off the floor.
"Yeah, okay. Good night, honey!" she agreed.
"Night, Mum!" Lucas said as walked upstairs to his bedroom. He walked into his familiar turquoise coloured room with walls decorated with posters of famous Pokémon Trainers. He then put his bag in the corner of the room and Snorunt's Poké Ball on his bedside table. He then got out of his clothes and put them in his wardrobe. Lucas then climbed into his Pokémon decorated bed and promptly passed out.
A/N - So, this chapter Lucas was revealed to have chosen Snorunt as his starter and Tendou picked Klink and the two battled. But despite facing a type disadvantage, Lucas managed to pull out the win. Next chapter will focus on Lucas meeting a new character and how they get along with each other. See ya!
P.S. Pokémon will be able to learn six moves instead of four as it allows for more exciting and unpredictable battles. Moves in the fifth and sixth slot will be marked with a +.
Lucas' Team:
Snorunt (Lv. 8) - Powder Snow, Leer, Double Team