Hey Everyone! UCCMaster here!
I finally got around to updating this fic. I hope you enjoy it and I'm currently working on the next chapter of the Tythos. Black and White 2 is still on the drawing board.
This is our first official battle scene. I'm not too great at writing these out, seeing as this is my first time writing a full on battle. I apologize if I'm not creative enough.
Anyways Rate and Review.
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon. If I did, I'd probably bring in Yellow and Leaf into the fic. Yellow's my favorite Pokedex holder and Leaf was one of the forgotten characters in the anime. Also I'd bring back the Battle Frontier.
Calem saw a bright light. He blinked rapidly, trying to process what had just happened. Let's see, he had tried to stop the Mightyena from attacking Sapphire by jumping in the way, but he lost consciousness soon after. He glanced around. Where was he?
"Oh, good! You're awake." Calem looked over to see a familiar pink haired nurse. Nurse Joy smiled faintly, happy to see her patient awake and well.
The boy pulled himself off the bed. "How did I get here? Where am I?"
"Why you're at the Pokémon Center. Your friend Sapphire brought you here. She said you had a nasty bout with a wild Mightyena. I apologize for not giving you one of your Pokémon to protect you on your search.
"Speaking of which." She opened the center door to allow a green puppy burst into the room. Electrike rushed up to his trainer, barking with glee. Soon followed the rest of his team as they cried out their names in joy, also rushing to his side, though Aggron and Hawlucha stayed a comfortable distance back.
Grinning from ear to ear, Calem pulled all his friends into a group hug. "It's great to see you guys! You guys were worried about me, weren't you?'
His team nodded, including Staryu, causing Calem to almost shed a tear, touched by their close affection. "Thanks guys! I'm sorry for making you worry."
Obviously, he wasn't the only one touched. "Aww, that's so adorable."
The cuddle club turned to see the red haired girl learning on the side of the med room door. She grinned at the group. "Well Calem, my impression of you has definitely changed. Here I thought you were a jerk who just shrugged off everyone he met. But now I see it's just unfamiliar people that you're cautious around. You've got spunk. I admire that in people."
The Electrike ran up to the girl, gave her a quick sniff, and to their surprise, jumped back in astonishment. He began running around the room, barking loudly. The other Pokémon stared at her warily. Instantly, Calem leapt off the bed and grabbed Electrike tightly. "Whoa there boy, what's wrong? Calm down!"
The Electrike stopped barking when it felt the calm, firm hold of his trainer. Calem nodded. "That's better buddy. How about we take this slowly?"
Sapphire nodded, then kneeled down to his level and held out her hand for his to sniff. The Electrike cautiously approached her, took a good sniff of her hand, trying to figure out why he seemed to have smelled something odd about the girl. While he still sensed it, the rest of her seemed to be friendly, so he backed off, gave a happy yip and nuzzled the girl.
Calem smiled. "That's better boy." He looked back towards the girl, his cheeks turning a slight red in embarrassment. "I'm sorry about that. I don't know what had gotten into him at that moment."
Come to think of it, Electrike had never acted this aggressive before. Calem had known Electrike long enough to recognize the hound had sensed something dangerous. Had Electrike been with him, he would have acted the same way before the Mightyena attacked. It was like a warning that he gave when he detected danger.
Sapphire sighed. "It's alright. This isn't the first time I've had that happen to me. They say people from Altomare have a particular scent that throws off hound like Pokémon."
"Altomare huh? Never heard of it."
The girl glanced up. "You've never heard of Altomare?"
"Nope." He shook his head, "What's so special about it?"
The girl smirked. "Well, if you want to know about it…you'll have to best me in a battle."
Calem gasped in surprise and then he grinned. "Alright then, I accept your challenge. What's the wager?"
Sapphire held out her hand. "If you win, I'll tell you everything about Altomare you wish to know. But if I win, you'll travel with me to Rustburo City."
Calem froze for a second. If anything, he didn't want to travel with the girl. She seemed way too peppy and passionate. Calem personally was the more calculating sort and thus preferred to travel alone with just his team. But then he remembered a crucial fact. He was a Pokémon trainer. He had battle his way into the Renaissance Conference. Sapphire said she was a Pokémon Coordinator. While he saw that Coordinators knew their way around basic training, their battle skills were nowhere near the level most Trainers were at. They were about beauty and appeal, Trainers were about strength and efficiency.
"I accept your terms." He took the girl's hand and shook hard.
Sapphire grinned. "I was hoping you'd say that." There was something in her eye that made Calem shudder slightly. He suddenly had a feeling there was more to this girl than meets the eye.
A few minutes later, the two teens were standing across each other on the field, Nurse Joy standing in the center. They had asked her to referee for them and since it was late morning already, most trainers had already left the center, most likely to return later in the afternoon.
"The battle between Calem of Santalune City and Sapphire of Altomare shall now commence. This will be a two on two match with no substitutions. The battle will be over when both of one trainer's Pokémon are unable to battle." The Nurse Joy whipped around in a somersaulting backflip (is that really possible?) as she smashed her hand down hard. "Battle Begin!
Sapphire sweat dropped at the overzealous nurse, but quickly whipped out her first pokeball. "Cindy, take the stage!" she cried.
Out popped out a small Cyndaquil. The small fire type yawned slightly, but quickly realized it had been summoned for a battle. Looking towards Calem, it seemed to glare right into his eyes. Calem gulped slightly. He had seen Cyndaquils before, but this one seemed to be glaring right into his inner soul. The Pokémon definitely meant business.
"Well aren't you going to throw out your Pokémon? I'm waiting?" Calem snapped out of his thoughts and readied his pokeball. "Staryu let's go!"
The sea star Pokémon quickly took control of the situation and prepared itself. Sapphire smiled. "Doing a basic counter huh? Well that's not going to save you! Cindy use Ember!"
Said Pokémon spat out a volley of small flames towards her target. Calem sighed, such straightforward attacks were hopeless against a trainer of his caliber. "Staryu dodge it then follow up with Water Gun."
The starfish Pokémon leaped out of the way and retaliated with a high pressure water gun. The water beam struck the fire Pokémon head on. Sapphire gasped. "Cindy you alright?"
The fire type nodded. Sapphire smiled. "Good. Now use Flame Charge." The fire type rushed towards the water type, its yellow and red body covered in flames.
"Spin and counter with water gun!" Calem commanded.
The star spun quickly on one point, allowing the fire type to run right past it at full speed. Once the Cyndaquil had rushed by, the Staryu retaliated with a powerful Water Gun. The stream of water slammed head on into fire type, promptly knocking it out.
Nurse Joy front flipped and raised her hand up high. "Cyndaquil is unable to battle."
Sapphire gasped. "Cindy!" she cried as she rushed towards the knocked out fire type, "Are you alright?" Said Pokémon nodded slightly. Sapphire smiled as she pulled out a pokeball, "That's great girl. You take a good long rest."
She glared at Calem. "You got some nerve attacking her like that."
He shrugged. "You were asking for it. But you're a Coordinator…no match for a trainer of my caliber."
"You're so going to regret those words Trainer, you hear me?" the girl picked up a different pokeball, "Okay, Flare, you're up!"
When the Flareon came out, Calem almost face palmed. She really was sticking another fire type against his water type. "Again?" he asked, "Another fire type?"
The girl shrugged. "What can I say? Red is my favorite color. But you're in for a treat. Flare here is my starter Pokémon and she's one tough cookie."
Calem raised his brow slightly. The girl had a Cyndaquil, one of the starter Pokémon of the Johto region, yet she referred to her Flareon as her starter. Which region allowed Eevee to be a starter Pokémon? Maybe it had something to do with Altomare. Another good reason for Calem to win. He made eye contact with Staryu…well, he made eye contact with what he assumed was its eyes. "Can you keep going?"
Staryu merely nodded then resumed facing the Flareon. Calem decided to start things off. "Ok, another fire type—you know what to do Staryu! Start with Water Gun!"
Another powerful water gun streaked towards the fire type, but Sapphire seemed unfazed. "Alright Flare, let's do that move Dawn taught us! Spin and use Flame Charge!"
To the boy's surprise, Flare dove towards the water gun, executing a roll at the last moment which allowed her to just barely avoid the attack while still charging towards the Staryu. Before Calem could react, the Staryu was flung back from the direct hit. Calem mentally thanked the girl for using a non-effective move against his pokemon. "Staryu, retaliate with Rapid Spin."
Staryu quickly spun towards the fox, spinning its five points at a deadly speed. But before the spinning boomerang made contact, Sapphire yelled out a second attack. "Now Double Team!"
But Calem had faced plenty of opponents who used Double Team. "Staryu, you know what to do!"
Said pokemon merely adjusted its vector and slammed through each copy without losing speed. Sapphire grunted. "Quick, when it get's close, leap and use Iron Tail!"
When Staryu reached the final Flareon, the fire type leaped over the spinning boomerang and slammed its hardened tail into the already moving water type. While the actual attack did very little damage, the quick moving star lost control of its spinning and slammed headlong into a tree. The tree held firm and dropped several leaves from the impact. And everyone knows that grass type attacks are super effective against water types. The makeshift Razor Leaf caused the Staryu to faint instantly.
Nurse Joy gleefully threw her hand up into the air. "Staryu is unable to battle!"
Calem couldn't believe what just happened. "Hold on, that's not fair! The tree knocked out Staryu, not Flareon! Wouldn't that be a foul?"
Sapphire shrugged. "Does it matter what knocked out your Staryu? He's still knocked out from Flare's Iron Tail. Besides, none of Flare's attacks would have been super effective against your Staryu, so I had to improvise. It's basic knowledge for Coordinators. I guess it's a major weakness for Trainers, they got no creativity, all that 'fight this' and 'fight that' in their head."
Calem clenched his fist. For some reason, this girl knew exactly how to press all of his buttons. He found himself starting to resent this Coordinator, not only was she haughty, she cheated to win. "Why don't we let Nurse Joy decide?"
To their surprise, said Nurse had pulled out a huge book labeled: Pokemon Battle Rule Book for Joys. She put down her glasses (which they hadn't even seen before) and found the rules. "Ah here we go, a Pokemon battler is free to use the environment to their advantage, the exception being another Pokemon. Seeing as the tree is not a Sudowoodo, the Staryu was knocked out fair and square."
The raven haired boy glared at the girl who was smirking at her victory. "You're really obnoxious, you know that?"
Sapphire shrugged, "Yeah, my brother tells me that all the time after I beat him, which is funny because his starter is a Vaporeon, a water type."
Calem remained silent, fuming at the girl's cocky attitude. "Let's go Hawlucha!"
Leaping onto the field, the Wrestling Pokemon struck a pose. "Lucha!"
Sapphire giggled. "Aww, he's so cute!"
"Lucha?" Hawlucha glanced at the girl in confusion. He had never considered himself to be cute. He was amazing yes, but not cute. Then again, who had ever heard of a cute fighting type?
The boy raised an eyebrow of confusion. "Cute?"
The girl smiled. "You two share almost identical thoughts and have an unbreakable bond! I can tell just by his stance and battle cry. He was like, 'I'm going to prove my power!' Just like you! When I called him cute, both of you said the same thing and raised identical eyebrows!"
The boy and bird looked at each other, noticing she was right, both of them had raised their left brow when they were confused. Calem shrugged. "Well what would you do if you were confused?"
The girl shrugged. "I would tilt my head slightly. I'm not good at raising eyebrows. Whenever I try, I raise both instead of one."
The Flareon face palmed (can you do that with paws?), "Flareon!"
"Oh right! Let's battle! Flareon, start with Quick Attack!"
The Flareon jumped into high gear, rushing towards the fighting flying type. But before it made contact, the bird leaped into the air, successfully dodging the Quick Attack. Calem smiled slightly. "Hawlucha use Hone Claws!"
Hawlucha, while in the air, allowed its claws to gleam brightly. Sapphire smiled. "You're going to regret not attacking while you had the chance. Now you follow him with Flame Charge!"
The fire type leaped upwards towards the flying wrestler with increased speed. Calem smiled: the girl had fallen right into his trap. "Alright Hawlucha, use Aerial Ace!"
"Not so fast, Flareon, spin and use Iron Tail!"
It was really confusing what happened next. Flareon spun around, dodging the powerful Aerial Ace and slammed her tail into the Hawlucha's head. But Aerial Ace is a move that cannot be dodged, thus, the bird used the momentum of the attack to somersault in midair and still kick the fire type in her rear.
Hawlucha was dropped back first into the ground from the powerful momentum of the Iron Tail while the Flareon was sent rolling backwards until she too slammed into the ground on the opposite side of the battlefield. Sapphire gasped. "Flare, are you ok?"
The fire type slowly got up, panting hard. "Flare!"
Sapphire smiled. "That's great!" She then turned towards Hawlucha, her face red with rage. "You should be ashamed of yourself, kicking a girl in her rear end! You are so going to pay for violating my poor Flare!"
Hawlucha paled at the sight of a furious Flareon and her trainer. The flying fighting type cautiously took a step back. Calem facepaled. "Relax Hawlucha, it's not like they're using mean look or anything like that. Just get ready."
The bird took some comfort in his trainer's words, but still felt uneasy fighting a pissed off fire type and her trainer. Sapphire gritted her teeth. "Ok Flare, let's show this perv what happens to perverts who get in our way. Use Quick Attack!"
The Flareon charged towards the Hawlucha at full speed. However Calem remained unfazed. He had been watching enough of the girl's battle style to predict what was coming next. Sapphire was a deceptive trainer, using an obvious attack to conceal a surprise. "Wait for it..."
Just as the Flareon reached the Bird, Sapphire called her trump card (not the move). "Now use Double Team!"
Almost instantly, the bird was surrounded by Flareon copies. Calem smiled. It was going just as he had predicted. "Don't worry Hawlucha, just wait for my command."
This was a huge gambit, but if he had read her right, he knew exactly was what going to happen next. Sapphire frowned, but resumed attacking. "Now use Flame Charge back to back!"
This was the moment he was waiting for. "Detect!"
Dozens of Flareon images charged forward, their bodies on fire. But Hawlucha's Detect allowed him to dance. Hop up, drop down, veer left, spin right. Hawlucha managed to dodge the continuous swarm of Flame Charges, but Calem began to worry. Sapphire hadn't let up the Flame Charges, and with each repetition of Flame Charge, Flare was getting faster and faster. But he knew better than to react, Sapphire was still hiding her trump card.
Just at the last moment, Calem took action. "Hawlucha, time to go on offense, use Aerial Ace!" Calem cried, having faith in its perfect accuracy.
Sapphire smiled. "Iron Tail!"
Unlike the previous encounter, Hawlucha's foot slammed right into the true Flareon's Tail...only for it to vanish. Calem gasped. "What? How?"
Sapphire grinned. "Now!"
Hawlucha glanced around. Where was the Flareon? Then it noticed the shadow falling upon it. Calem didn't have anytime to respond before Flareon's speed enhanced Iron Tail knocked the bird out cold. Nurse Joy leaped into the air. "Hawlucha is unable to battle, Sapphire is the victor!"
Calem couldn't believe it. He had been defeated by a Coordinator. Both of his team had been defeated by one Flareon. Worst of all, he still couldn't figure out how he had lost. He stared at the girl. "How did you avoid my Aerial Ace? I need to know."
The girl thought for a moment, then grinned. "Well I guess if you want to know, you'll have to come with me to Rustboro."
This battle was so hard to write. I'm not so sure in my ability to write awesome battles. But I'll challenge you: How did Sapphire win? Leave your guess in the reviews and if you're right, I'll give you a shout out.
Now I know some people get picky on whether or not Pokemon have just 4 moves or not. I'll put it like this. For me, I'm giving an unlimited amount of moves, but I'm putting a counter measure that their attacks are there for a reason, basically I'm giving more attacks just to offer a Pokemon a more rounded moveset.
Staryu knew Water Gun and Rapid Spin so far, he'll probably know some sort of psychic move and a defensive move as well
Cyndaquil knew Ember and Flame Charge, two basic fire type moves that most Physical Attack Fire Types know
Hawlucha knew Hone Claws, Detect, Aerial Ace, and most likely will know Flying Press (It's his signature move anyways)
Flareon knew Flame Charge, Iron Tail, Double Team, Quick Attack...plus the move that allowed her to win
I'll add moves when I feel it's appropriate. Starters and more powerful members of the teams will know more moves as well as more powerful moves as the story goes on. I was debating giving Flareon Shadow Ball to battle Staryu but then found out only Starmie gets the Psychic typing, so she probably knows it, but I won't bring it in unless it's the right time to. That's going to be my style of battling for this and other fics for Pokemon.
Ash's Pikachu is a good example. He knows: Thunderbolt (and sometimes Thunder), Quick Attack, Iron Tail, Volt Tackle, and Electro Ball as of Unova and Kalos. Agility and Thundershock seemed to disappear by the Johto region. But if you notice, each attack was given for a reason.
Thunder/bolt/shock was Pikachu's signature move for entire tv series.
Quick Attack was Pikachu's primary physical attack until Hoenn.
Agility was originally just to fight Lt. Surge's Raichu, but Pikachu's speed and agility was only emphasized again in the Sinnoh arc.
Iron Tail was Pikachu's counter move, a move to keep him well rounded against types that were defensively tough against electric attacks.
Volt Tackle was a recognition of how powerful Pikachu had become. As mentioned in the games, it's one of the rarest moves next to Aura Sphere and Flying Press.
Electro Ball was a newer move given to Pikachu in Unova to be an excuse (sort of) for Pikachu's unexplained weakening between Sinnoh and Unova.
I think that explains Pikachu's attacks and moveset. Whenever I reveal a certain Pokemon's full moveset, I'll explain them in the end.
Hope you enjoy this chapter and feel free to critique and review this fic. I'd love to see your comments and what you'd hope to see in this fic.
May the Force of the Lord God Almighty be with you always!
UCCMaster
