As soon as the sun was visible in the sky, Shoten made his way to the practice field for his battle with Bruiser. Once there, he noticed that Bruiser had already arrived and was warming up for the battle.
"You that worried about me beating you that you feel the need to warm up?" Shoten quipped.
"Nah I just thought that it would be rude to waste your time in a battle you can't win, so I thought I'd warm up to end it quickly for ya." Bruiser replied
"Quickly? When have you ever done anything quickly?" Shoten shot back, making a reference to his superior speed stat.
"Do you two want to battle with your fists or your words?" Flamerunner said, suddenly appearing on the scence. "If you want to spar, you better start soon. One can't be sure when the humans will begin their strike and we'll be called to arms."
Both combatants nodded in affirmation and walked to their respective sides of the battlefield.
"OK, Battle start!"
As soon as Flamerunner gave the command, Shoten rocketed across the battlefield with an Agility. Once in striking range, he yelled. "Night Slash!"
Countering, Bruiser yelled "Chip Away!"
Both attacks were used continuously, neither side wanting to give a single inch. Although Shoten's attacks were slightly faster due to Agility, Bruiser was able to block most of his moves due to his superior reach. The Night Slashes that did make it through did very little damage due to Bruiser's high defense stat.
Unable to keep such a high paced assault going, Shoten began to slow, at which point Bruiser decided to launch an offensive of his own. "Superpower!" He yelled.
Crap! Shoten thought to himself. Bruiser really isn't wasting any time!
"Pulling the big guns out of the gate this early?" Shoten said dodging the power packed swing of Bruiser's arm.
"I'm not the type to mess around with my enemies." Bruiser replied, still swinging at his elusive foe. "If I can finish this in one blow, so be it."
Shoten was forced on the defensive due to the nature of superpower. If one of Bruiser's punches landed, since Superpower is a fighting type move powered up by his ability Sheer Force, he would be heavily damaged and essentially be admitting defeat.
I needed to create some distance between us. Shoten though before yelling "Double Team!"
Ten images of Shoten suddenly appeared on the battlefield, masking his true location from Bruiser. Each of these images are created by the user rapidly moving between each of the positions. Masters of the technique are able to use the move to 'skip' the location of the image being attacked, forcing their opponent to destroy each of them before resuming the battle.
"You think a little misdirection will fool me? Too bad. Earthquake."
Jumping in the air to avoid the powerful ground type move, Shoten was forced to abandon all of his Double Team images, leaving him no choice but to attack.
"Shadow Ball!"He yelled.
"Hey that's new. Flamethrower!"
BOOM. Although Bruiser was able to fire his flamethrower, the Shadow Ball had already gotten close enough so that the resulting explosion damaged Bruiser rather than Shoteneko.
Shoten landed just before the smoke cleared, revealing small burns all across Bruiser's body. He was breathing heavily, the toll of Superpower and the explosion coming out of his body.
Time to press the advantage. Shoten thought as he raced across the field with another Agility.
As Bruiser prepared a Dragon Claw, Shoten made his move. Rather than attacking from the front, Shoten slipped under Bruiser's attack and launched a Fury Swipes attack on his back. As Bruiser began to turn around, the attack was accented by a kick from both of Shoten's legs, launching him out of Bruiser's reach and away from harm.
"Ahh. You may be fast but your attacks lack bite." Bruiser taunted. "It's like I'm being beaten to death by papercuts."
Shoten's anger flared and he almost dashed back to being another assault before realizing what Brusier was doing. He wants me to get angry and lose my focus. Shoten thought. Although my attacks aren't that strong, he's still breathing heavily. I have the upper hand.
"I bet your thinkin' something like 'I've got the upper hand so I can't let him goad me into attacking'. Am I right?" Bruiser asked, still trying to catch his breath. "Unfortunately for you, I still have a trick or two left up my sleeve. Outrage!"
"Oh crap." Were the only words Shoten was able to say before Bruiser began to pummel him with attacks fueled by Outrage, which releases all of a dragon's power at once, allowing for massive damage to be done to the opponent.
Darn it, Darn It, DARN IT! Shoten thought as he weakly tried to block some of Bruiser's attacks. I did all of that training and learned all those moves for what? I still can't hold a candle to Bruiser's strength.
As his frustration began to rise, Shoten slowly noticed that Bruiser's moves were gradually becoming easier to dodge. When he looked to find the cause, Shoten saw yellow sparks floating between him and his opponent.
That's right! I forgot about Thunderbolt! Shoten thought. At this point in his training, Shoten was only able to produce sparks when spurred by intense emotion. Over time, the move can then be separated from the emotion and launched under the Pokemon's own power. Right now though, Shoten's intense frustration at his helplessness was enough to unconsciously launch the 'attack'.
All right! The sparks are slowing Bruiser's arms just enough so that I can dodge them.
Realizing that most of his attacks were now missing, Bruiser ended his outrage attack and created a little distance before saying "Ow. What was that move you were using for defense just now? It still smarts and my attack is over."
"Don't worry your pretty little head over it." Shoten quipped. "It's just one of the techniques I've been learning. You'll see its full power soon enough."
"Fine." Bruiser replied in a huff. "If you want to play it that way, I'll just have to force that poer out of you. Dragon Rage."
Just like that, the battle resumed with Bruiser launching an onslaught of Dragon Rages to keep Shoten at a distance.
Outrage takes up a lot of power. Shoten thought. He's using a weak attack like this to just replenish his power reserves, most likely for one final attack. I should attack now while I have the chance.
Outrage had taken its toll on Shoten as well as Bruiser's weak barrage of Dragon Rages were actually driving him back, leaving no opportunity to attack.
"Are you ready for the grand finale?" Bruiser yelled. "Here it comes: Hyper Beam!"
Dang, he really does want me to show him everything I have. Shoten thought. A Hyper Beam is too powerful for a Shadow Ball to block. My only option is to try and launch a Thunderbolt, even if the technique is imperfect.
With his mind made up and the Hyper Beam fast approaching, Shoten tried to reenter the state of mind he had while being attacked by Outrage, but soon found he couldn't.
No, NO! Shoten thought, the world going dark around him. There's no play I can make. Using brute force alone, Bruiser is going to beat me. I'm going to lose. All of that hard work and I'm still going to lose.
Resignated to his fate, Shoten simply stood there waiting for the attack to hit and end the battle. But what he didn't expect was to hear a distant voice through the darkness yell "Dark Pulse!"
Breaking out of his stupor, Shoten found that the voice yelling Dark Pulse had actually been him. His hands had moved on their own and launched the attack to meet the Hyper Beam head on.
Once the fact registered that he was using a Dark Pulse, the technique he practiced the least, to hold off a Hyper Beam, Shoten's joy rose through the roof. However, as his joy rose, the power of the Dark Pulse waned, apparently connected to his despair, and created an explosion that threw Shoten backwards.
"That's enough." Flamerunner broke in after seeing the damage his squadmate had taken. "The battle is over with Bruiser as the victor."
"Those are some serious moves you have there Shoten. I did not see that last Dark Pulse coming." Bruiser said as he took Shoten's hand and helped him to his feet
"Thanks Bruiser, though to be perfectly honest, neither did I." Shoten replied sheepishly.
"You two get healed up immediately." Flamerunner ordered. "The humans are mobilizing and all troops are being ordered to their battle stations."
AN: Hello readers. There you go, the first Pokemon battle has been written. Next chapter we will see a battle between the two sides and you can see the technology that humans are capable of in this story. Feel free to review!
Update(2/16/15): Tried to put more of Shoten being analytic and better flesh out how I wanted Thunderbolt and Dark Pulse to be used in this chapter. The entire story is now in third person POV! Feel free to comment if you think a certain chapter isn't up to par, but for now: Enjoy.