A New Style Chapter 3
Full authors note at the bottom!
The Pewter Gym was a very quiet and large place, at least, it was much larger to Ash than it was last time. It still looked the same though, large rocks and boulders everywhere. It was almost as if it was a bit comforting to Ash to see a place he hasn't seen in such a long time. Ash gazed up to see something that caught his eye and made him chuckle. It was a sprinkler system. It wasn't the same sprinkler system as last time though, this one looked like it'd been changed a bit. He held in a laugh as he looked over to Serena.
Serena was in awe at the moment. She had seen her fair share of gyms, actually all of the gyms in Kalos, but this gym was unique to her. She looked at Ash to see that he'd looked over to her and was smiling.
"Weird huh," Ash said while standing in front of the doorway. "This is a simpler gym, pretty different from many others. It doesn't have any fancy flooring or decorative pieces. It just has two trainer platforms and a bunch of boulders. It's a classic!"
Serena smiled at Ash because she could see that this place was somewhere that brought a legitimate smile onto his face.
"Well, it sure is different than the gyms in Kalos." Serena said with an almost awestruck voice.
Ash and Serena walked a little further into the gym towards the battle field, when they heard and saw the back doors open and someone come out from them.
"Hey," The unknown person called out. "Who's there?"
Ash smirked and yelled back. "It's me, Ash Ketchum!"
The unknown person rubbed his head for a second until it clicked in his mind.
"Oh yeah," The person said knowingly. "My brother talks about you a lot. Let me go and see if he's around."
With that, the person then turned around and walked back through the doors. Some basic yelling could be heard in the background, but it was un-intelligible. Serena turned to see how Ash was reacting, and she saw he was almost jumping in place. She could tell he was excited to see his friend. Hopefully he was even here.
"Ash," Serena said. "Are you really this excited to see your friend?"
Ash grinned largely and looked at her.
"Oh boy you don't understand Serena." Ash said excitedly. "This is like if you would go two or three years without seeing Shauna even once, I'm so excited!"
Serena smiled, mainly because she could understand his excitement after that comparison. Shauna had become one of her, if not her best friend during the Pokemon performances. Waiting so long to be able to see her would make her excited to see her again after a long time as well, although not as much as Ash she assumed. Ash always did everything bigger than anyone she knew. Hell, that's a reason she loved him so much.
After a few minutes passed, the back doors opened again. This time a bigger man walked out. To Serena, he just looked like an older and bigger version of the boy she'd seen a few minutes ago, but to Ash, it was like this was Santa on Christmas Eve.
Ash cupped his hands over his mouth and yelled "HEY BROCKO!", garnering a laugh from both Ash and person so far known as "Brocko".
The mystery man (to Serena at least) finally reached her and Ash. Ash and the man proceeded to shake hands and share a friendly hug. Ash then turned his and the mans attention to Serena.
"Hey Serena," He said happily. "This is one of my oldest friends and someone I used to travel with a lot, Brock!"
Brock extended his hand out to Serena.
"Hey Serena," Brock said sweetly. "I'm Brock, and it's a pleasure to meet you."
A friendly blush graced Serena's face, mainly because she wasn't expecting this type of nice hospitality.
"Hey Brock," Serena greeted cheerfully. "I'm Serena, and it's also my pleasure to meet you." She shook Brock's hand lightly, not wanting him to crush hers. He seemed to have a very smooth and gentle touch, and it was kinda surprising, as he looked like more of brute type of guy.
He then turned back to Ash, which was to be expected, mainly because they were best friends and hadn't seen each other in so long.
"So Ash," He started smoothly. "I heard you tied for 1st place in the Kalos League, congrats dude. It's almost like yesterday that you were in here trying to cheat yourself a boulder badge."
Hearing this, Ash laughed, mainly because it was basically true, HE technically didn't defeat Brock, the bad sprinkler system at the time did.
"The good old days," Ash said nostalgically. "Matter of fact, that's actually a pretty big reason I came here today. Yeah I wanted to see you in all and introduce to Serena, but I feel as a rematch is in order. Lets see if I truly earned that Boulder Badge."
Brock smiled excitingly. "Well Ash, I don't know about you, but I'm ready right now," Brock looked at Ash cockily. "Unless you're not ready."
Ash grinned largely and stared at Brock.
"Brock," He said slowly. "You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this rematch. Lets go!"
Just then, the other person who was out there earlier walked back through the doors.
"What's going on big brother?" The boy said staring at Brock.
Brock nodded the boy over to him.
"Everyone," Brock said almost proudly. "This is my little brother Forester. He'll be the next gym leader one day."
"People just call me Forest, nice to meet you!" Forest said cheerfully. She could tell her was overall a very sweet person. Just like his older brother.
Brock spoke up to Forester. "Hey little brother," Brock motioned Forest kindly. "Do you mind being the official for me and Ash's rematch? I'd really appreciate it."
Forest smiled. "Sure big brother," Forest said happily. "But you owe me big time later!"
Brock fist bumped his brother happily, and he and Ash separated, going to the opposite ends of the battle field.
Serena made her way to the side of the field, next to Forest. She wanted to be out of the way of the battle and still have a great view of the battle.
Both Brock and Ash looked at each other from the other side, highly anticipating this for a long time. They both gripped a single Pokeball from there sides. This is when Serena noticed that Pikachu wasn't by Ash's side, but next to her. Pikachu was currently playing with Pichu! She hadn't even noticed the baby Pokemon had escaped his ball. She decided that he was in safe hands and went back to the match, which Forest was just about to start.
Forest took in a deep breath.
"This will be an official one on one Gym battle between challenger Ash Ketchum and Gym leader Brock. There will be no substitutions on either side, with the first to faint being declared the loser."
"BATTLE"
Brock started first. "GO STEELIX"
The large iron snake Pokemon appeared from it's ball and gave a loud roar, showing off that it's this Pokemon's gym and that it won't go down easily.
"STEEEEEEEEEL" The snake-like Pokemon roared.
Ash smiled at this, seeing Brock wasn't going to hold back.
"Alright Goodra," Ash said confidently. "Come on out and show what you're made of!"
The slime-like Pokemon entered the field and and looked around, a bit confused it seemed. It then saw it had an opponent and realized it's situation.
"Being the challenger, Ash Ketchum is to make the first move." Forest bellowed out.
Ash grinned happily at this.
"Alright Goodra," Ash yelled excitedly. "Lets start it out with dragon pulse!"
Goodra nodded it's head and let out a purple-ish flame from it's mouth. It soared directly towards Steelix and hit it directly in the middle of its body. It didn't look like it did to much damage.
"Come on Ash," Brock taunted. "You know you'll have to do more than that. Steelix, use Rock throw."
Steelix hurled 3 medium sized boulders straight at Goodra, and it looked like they would hurt.
"Goodra," Ash yelled worriedly. "Use Dragon pulse to try and destroy those boulders!" Goodra agreed with the decision and quickly launched a dragon pulse, which was successful in destroying 2 of the boulders, but the final one hurled straight into Goodra.
"Oh no," Ash breathed out. "Goodra, are you alright?"
Goodra looked over to Ash and cooed slightly with a smile. "Gooooo".
Ash smiled and got his head back into the game. "Alright Goodra," As he was talking, he suddenly had an idea. "Goodra, use dragon pulse up on the ceiling, aim for the sprinklers!"
Goodra was confused on why he would do that, but he trusted his master enough to put his faith in him. He launched a dragon pulse to the ceiling, and about 3 seconds later, the sprinkler system activated.
"What?" Brock said confused. "Wait, you're not doing this again, are you?"
Brock looked at Ash to see a smirk on his face.
"Do what you gotta do to win Brocko." Ash said with a smile. Brock got a bit angry and happy at the same time, mainly because he missed this part of Ash, but didn't want to lose again!
"Oh yeah?" Brock questioned. "Well we're not gonna let this happen so easily. Steelix, use Dig!"
The steel Pokemon quickly burrowed underground. That's when Ash understood what Brock was doing. He went somewhere where he was safe from the rain and hidden from Goodra.
"Goodra," Ash shouted with concern. "Be careful out there, Steelix could be anywhere under you!"
Goodra understood it's situation and trudged around carefully. It knew it couldn't stand still for to long, because that meant it would be pick off and probably finished quickly.
After a few minutes, Brock smiled happily. "Alright Steelix," He yelled with confidence. "Come on up and use dig!"
Before Goodra knew it, he felt the steel Pokemon emerge out from under him. He was swept off the ground and pushed in the air before being pummeled back down to the earth. Steelix retreated back to Brock's side of the field and waited for its next command.
Ash looked at Goodra with concern. That was a nasty hit he'd just taken and it didn't look to good for Goodra.
"Goodra," Ash yelled in concern. "Are you ok?"
Ash was answered by a small "Gooo", which told him Goodra was fine. He knew it couldn't take much more, so he had to do something now.
"Alright," Ash yelled with determination. "Get up and use Bide, we'll use his own power against him!"
Goodra got up swiftly and roared it's roar while starting to glow brightly.
Brock saw this and knew he had to finish this quickly.
"Steelix," He yelled hurriedly. "Try and finish this with Iron tail!"
Steelix bellowed and swung towards Goodra with its mighty tail which was glowing at this point. Both Ash, Brock, Serena, Forest, and even Pichu and Pikachu were watching intently as Steelix's tail dove towards Goodra. It soon made contact, knocking Goodra back a bit. Ash could see Goodra was in pain from that hit, but it's bide absorbed a decent amount of the attack. Ash smiled at this, while Brock was in shock that Goodra was still up.
"Alright Goodra," Ash yelled confidentially. "Let's finish this battle! Release your bind!"
Goodra released it's somewhat powerful bind attack directly at Steelix, which was hit fully force. After the dust from the attack cleared, you could see that Steelix was knocked out cold by the attack.
"Steelix is unable to battle, the winner of this match is Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town."
"YEAHHH," Ash yelled happily as he rushed out and hugged Goodra. "We did it buddy! Great job!"
After a quick celebration, Ash and Brock both returned to the side where Serena and Forest were waiting.
"Well Ash," Brock started almost proudly. "You sure have grown up a bit as a trainer. How about I take you and Serena out to dinner for the great match? My treat."
Ash looked at Brock with an excited grin, then looked over at Serena with almost a begging look on his face. Serena already knew what he wanted and was hungry as well, so she wouldn't complain.
"I don't mind honestly," Serena said cheerfully. "I'm actually kind of hungry myself!"
Ash smiled and cheered happily. Brock looked over and talked with his brother in private for a sec, and then came back to the two trainers.
"How about we leave our Pokemon here with Forest." Brock suggested. "He's also a really good Pokemon cook and can clean them up while we're out."
Ash looked at Serena to see what she wanted to do. Serena knew Ash trusted Brock and his family fully, so she should too!
"I'm fine with it." Serena said. "I think it would good for Pichu to be cleaned too, he's been a dirty rascal lately."
Ash smiled as they both handed there Pokemon over to Forest, who took them with care. After that, Brock held the door open and spoke up.
"I have the perfect place to go guys, come on!"
Authors Note: Well hi there Lol. Kind of a cut off ending there, but if I decided to go any longer from there, it would've went to far on for my liking. I'm glad to be back to writing a bit more, as I really enjoyed this chapter, mainly because it was my first ever battle! Tell me how you guys liked it! Now onto the actual chapter review.
This chapter was one I planned from the beginning and it came out just like I envisioned. The battle went nice to me, and I chose to use Goodra over Pikachu because I don't wanna over-centralize him being Ash's main Pokemon. I wanna keep it somewhat diverse. The only semi-major change is that I was originally going to do a double battle of Ash and Serena vs Forest and Brock, but I decided to keep my first battle scene sweet and simple. Otherwise, that was basically it for this chapter because I wanted to keep it nice and sweet. The next chapter should actually be about 70% filler-ish, with the ending part more towards story development, mainly because I truly don't have a major idea of what I want the main thing for this story to be. The struggle of a writer Lmao. Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, because I enjoyed writing it immensely. If you have any feedback/criticism/hate, leave a review, I'll reply to it no matter what. They really do make me happy and make me wanna right more! If you wanna get updates for this story, remember to favorite/follow to be notified when I do something to it.
Other than that, thanks for reading guys! I'll try and update at a reasonable time next time!
