Previously: "Trainers, jump in with your pokemon", the referee announced. Misty entered the water with a perfect dive, while Ash simply jumped in.
"Are the trainers ready?" Both Ash and Misty nodded.
"Begin!"
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"Buizel, use sonic boom!" Buizel's tail glowed silver, and a powerful sonic boom hurtled toward Kingdra and Misty. Knowing she had to act fast, Misty jumped onto Kingdra's back, right above its fin, and called out, "Surf!"
Both trainer and pokemon alike evaded the sonic boom and were quickly approaching their opponents on a huge wave of water.
"Water pulse at the base of the wave, Buizel!" Buizel did its trainer told it to do, and sent a water pulse at the bottom of the wave, destroying it. This left Misty and Kingdra in the air, and falling.
Misty then called, "Dragon pulse into hydro pump!" With that, she dived off her pokemon's back, allowing it to move freely.
As a dragon pulse was sent towards Buizel, Kingdra followed up with a hydro pump. Tendrils of water surrounded the sphere of energy, and the combination led to the dragon pulse increasing in size and hurtling even faster towards Buizel.
Ash panicked a bit, but had to act quickly. "Sonic boom!" The attack hit the dragon pulse- hydro pump combination, weakened it, but not enough for it to disappear. "Keep up with the sonic boom, Buizel. Hurry, before it hits!"
Both Ash and Buizel were occupied or distracted, leaving a perfect opening for Misty. She swam easily and stealthily, with her toned arms pushing her along. Swimming along the bottom of the pool, she was directly under Ash. Misty pushed her legs off the bottom, and swam to where said boy was. Ash, not knowing a thing, yelped when a felt a hand on his ankle. He had no time to retaliate before he was pulled under by Misty.
Buizel had successfully destroyed the powerful combination of Kingdra's, and swam underwater to help its trainer, as did Kingdra. Both trainers mounted their respective pokemon, and both went up for air. Then, both went back under.
Seeing as they couldn't speak underwater, both trainers had to use hand motions to signify which attack they wanted their pokemon to use. Ash pointed to Buizel's whole frame, then pointed at Misty and Kingdra. Seeing that his pokemon understood, Ash got off Buizel and swam back towards the surface.
Per his trainer's orders, Buizel used aqua jet. He shot towards Misty and Kindra, growing closer and closer with each passing moment. Misty, still underwater, made a little twirling motion with her finger. Kindra easily understood what Misty wanted it to do. It sent out a cyclone of water towards Buizel, effectively trapping it. The water was constantly spinning, and Buizel had no way out of it. This was twister.
Misty swam back up for air, and saw Ash debating whether or not to join Buizel in the twister to somehow help it. Not wanting him to get seriously injured, Misty decided it was time to end the battle. She knew she wasn't supposed to show off, but could she help that she was a water pokemon expert?
She quickly dove back under towards Kingdra, and motion for it to go up. Kindra did indeed swim up towards the surface, bringing the twister, and Buizel, with it.
"Dragon pulse."
Kingdra sent the aqua sphere of energy into the twister, making both attacks all the more powerful.
Buizel cried out, "Bui!"
Ash, not wanting to see his pokemon hurt, swam towards the attack, but it was too late. Misty signaled to Kingdra to stop, and the twister ended. Buizel was floating on its back, unconscious.
"The winner of this battle is Misty. It last 4 minutes and 28 seconds. Congratulations Misty on being the first to defeat Ash Ketchum." The audience cried when Ash didn't win, but had to gaze in wonder towards Misty. They all suddenly wanted to get to know her better. They cheered wildly for Misty, screaming her name.
As Misty padded over towards her sisters, May, Leaf, and Dawn immediately congratulated her.
"That was amazing Mist!" said Dawn.
"Thanks, but do you think that I looked too powerful?" asked Misty, worried.
Leaf shook her head. "Nah. Ash isn't the strongest of those four. Besides, these boys were bound to lose sometime. Why not now?"
Misty laughed. "I guess you're right."
May gazed towards the audience with a surprised look on her face. "These boys weren't joking when they said these battles determine your popularity. Look at everyone cheering for you, Mist!"
Despite knowing that it was true, Misty refused to let it get to her head. "They'll get over it soon enough."
The boys, on the other hand, weren't of the same mood as the girls.
"How did that girl manage to beat you?" asked Drew incredulously.
"Maybe it's because he doesn't like hurting girls, so he didn't give it his all", Gary suggested.
Ash knew this wasn't true, but he had to save face. "Yeah, like Gary said. It wouldn't have been cool to beat up a girl."
Paul snorted. "I would have."
"We know you would", Drew answered for all of them.
"Let's go you guys. They're already at the table", said Drew.
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Leaf already had the dice in her hand when the guys joined them. She rolled 4 on the red die and a 2 on the blue.
"Single battle, only pokemon", concluded Drew. "Who do you choose?"
Leaf was going along her sisters' plans and decided on "Gary."
Said boy smirked and asked, "Field or pool?"
"Field", she responded.
They walked on over, then went to their respective end.
"This will be a one-on-one battle. There is no time limit. The battle ends when either side's pokemon is unable to battle. Begin!"
"Go, Electivire!" The final form of Elekid appeared from Gary's pokeball.
"Come on out, Tropius!" Leaf threw her pokeball up in the air, and out came Tropius, the Fruit pokemon. It used its leaf-like wings to fly into the air.
Gary quickly got started. "Thunderbolt!" Elective shot a bolt of lightning towards Tropius from the top of its head.
"Tropius, counter with razor leaf", cried Leaf.
The two attacks met and cancelled each other out. However, this thunderbolt was merely a distraction, for once the smoke from the two attacks disappeared, Electivire was running at full speed towards Tropius.
"Electivire, use your tails to launch yourself up into the air!" Its twin tails launched the pokemon from the ground, sending itself soaring right to where Tropius was flying. "Iron tail!" Leaf, pretending to be shocked from the move, allowed Electivire to land a direct hit. Tropius took a lot of damage, but recovered quickly.
"Tropius, quickly! Use energy ball into gust while Electivire is falling!" Tropius did just that. It shot an energy ball, and quickly followed with a gust, which intensified the energy ball's speed and power.
Gary, however, was quick to retaliate. "Protect!" This move allowed Electivire to land safely on the ground.
Leaf was not to be deterred, though. "Fly high and charge up your solar beam!" With a cry, Tropius shot into the air towards the sun.
Gary knew that solar beam was a powerful attack, and wanted to stop Tropius before it could charge up completely. "Electivire, launch yourself back into the air!" Electivire tried, but Tropius had flown too high up into the air for Electivire to reach. Gary silently cursed to himself. "There isn't really anything we can do but wait. So prepare yourself, and when Tropius comes back down, use protect."
"Vire!", said Electivire, saying that it understood.
"Go, Tropius! Solar-Leaf combination!" cried Leaf.
"Solar-Leaf combination? Never heard of that before…" said Gary.
As Tropius flew down, Electivire couldn't look at it because the sun was directly behind the pokemon, blinding anyone who gazed up on it. Tropius released its solar beam, and quickly shot a razor leaf towards it. The leaves wrapped around the beam, and the fused together into a light-green, twister-like attack. This combination hurtled towards Electivire, who had used protect. It braced itself for the impact, hoping that it'd be strong enough to hold out. However, the combination was just too powerful. It hit the dome of protect, immediately shattered it, and hit Electivire with full-on force.
"Vire!" cried the pokemon. It was pummeled backwards, into a rock, clearly sustaining much damage. Gary gaped, clearly not expecting an attack of that magnitude of power. He refused to show weakness, however, and quickly issued another attack.
"Hurry Electivire! Retaliate with an iron tail and thunder punch!"
Leaf decided she was done showing off, so she allowed both attacks to hit her Tropius, which left it unconscious.
"Gary Oak is the victor. This battle lasted 3 minutes, 52 seconds, meaning that this challenger has lasted the longest against Gary Oak. Congratulations to the both of you."
Both trainers returned their pokemon.
"Thank you Tropius. I'm sorry that you had to lose, but you understand that this is for the mission." Leaf then walked back towards her sisters.
"You certainly gave that Gary a run for his money. You would've won if it weren't for the mission", Misty said. "There's no doubt about that."
"You seriously should have seen his face when you pulled that Solar-Leaf combo! It was hilarious!" laughed Dawn. "He looked like a fish out of water!"
"But you proved your worth Leaf. This battle put you right where you need to be", May finished.
Leaf smiled. "Thanks you guys. Now, it's May's turn. Whatever happens May, do not pummel your opponent into the ground. I know you want to," May grinned at that," but you can't."
May sighed. "Fine…" With that, the girls walked back over to the table.
Back on the boys' side, Drew was clapping Gary on the back. "That's how you do it. That girl had nothing on you."
Ash then included, "That combo she had wasn't even all that great. An easy win, right Paul?" Paul just nodded.
"What's with the silence Paul? Jealous that you haven't battled yet?", Gary taunted.
"He's just being Paul", said Ash.
Drew interjected, "Let's go on over. There's one girl left. By the looks of it, she'll be out in a minute. Maybe less. Weakling."
Oh Drew…could you be more wrong?
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Another chapter finished. Hope you guys liked it! And I hope you guys love the next one! I've spent so much time planning out May's battle, it's not even funny. R&R!