Zanoz here for the next chapter, sorry it took a while with my social life and a busy weekend, hope you guys like the battle scene.
It was a busy day at the Oak ranch in pallet town with a certain trainer well...training hard with his Pokemon. "Come on guys time for your next few exercises so gather round" Ash had been going at it hard along with his pokemon for the last few hours, most of his Pokemon were able to keep moving, some of Ash's pokemon like charizard hadn't even broken a sweat yet. But nonetheless they were willing to keep going, "Okay for the next bit I want sceptile and greninja to team up and practice speed in the forest over there, leaf blade vs water shuriken GO!" With that the 2 starter evolutions were gone in a blink of an eye. " I want all the flying types to pick up glalie and a water type and have a water air battle, with the water types aiming at the flying types and flying types at the water types. Last team standing wins" with that glalie was picked up by swellow while noctowl(totodile), staraptor(buizel), unfezant(oshawott), and talonflame(palpitoad) flew up and the battle commenced. " lastly kingler, corphish, clauncher I want you guys to practice crabhammer on iron defense torkoal, and defense curl donphan, alright? " "coo-king" "corphish" "cla" and with that the claws began to glow and the defenses went up.
"The rest of you can take a break for a while, I know I need one" and with that Ash fell back into the grass, laid down and relaxed for a while. "Ashy boy lazing around, you know for a wannabe Pokemon master you sure don't look like your trying hard". Ash sat up to see his childhood friend and former rival " hey Gary, or should I say future professor Oak Jr?" Ash said with a smirk as Gary sat next to him. "Ask me in a week. So what are you up to out here? Training I assume?" Just as Gary finishes his sentence a flying water gator flew and hit ash causing him to fall on his back "Tototo" said totodile with swirls in his eyes.
"Well trying to relax is one thing I'm up to", Noctowl came over to see if his partner was ok, " ughh looks like you guys are out" Ash said as he patted his owl Pokemon. "Training hard I see as usual, seems harder than usual though" Gary said curiously. "Ya your induction ceremony isn't just your big day you know" the trainer said, "its also my shot at the multi-region tournament" with a fist in the air. Gary flashed a cocky smirk " well I think I know who you're trying to impress ashy boy" ash looked at gary with his head tilted. " the only one who could make get you a spot is a gym leader and there are only 2 gym leaders I know going to the ceremony who could do that: The viridian city gym leader and Norman Maple" Ash's intentions were revealed in an instant. "Ya and knowing him I'm gonna need to prove myself in battle" ash stated with defeat in his voice.
Gary looked at ash and smile as he stood up " well how about a quick battle to see some training results?" Ash just smiled back and got on his fit faster than a munchlax in a buffet restaurant. " alright a one on One then, I'm using Pikachu" Pikachu ran over to Ash battle ready "pika!" Gary reached to his belt for a pokeball " alright then how about a rematch from years ago? Go Umbreon!" The dark type emerged ready for a fight. "Wait we need a ref " Tracy came conveniently walking over, " hey guys we got a visitor fo-" "TRACY, REFEREE NOW! " said both pallet town boys. Taken back by surprise Tracy responded, "umm...okay" Tracy set up beside the battle area, " this match will be a 1v1 between ash and Gary of pallet town. Are the trainers ready?" "Ya " "its an easy win of course" the combatants stated, " then let the battle begin!"
" alright umbreon start with quick attack" in split seconds umbreon charged at Pikachu "pikachu jump to dodge it" pikachu leaped into the air immediately, dodging the attack. Gary flashed a smirk, " too predictable ashy-boy, umbreon double team and then shadow ball Pikachu in mid-air." Just like that umbreon multiplied and fired multiple shadow balls into the air at a defenseless Pikachu. " you should think again, use iron tail instead of thunderbolt to counter shield" pikachu's tail turned to a strong iron and began spinning faster and faster, knocking back the shadow balls at their launchers. " Nice! now slam your tail into the ground!" And just like that the electric rodents iron tail made a makeshift earthquake that caused umbreon to take damage. Gary had a plan of course "use assurance" umbreon was glowing purple as he shot a purple hand from his body at Pikachu which hit directly. "Pikaaaa!" Pikachu went flying back from the attack, barely landing on his feet. " what was that move?" Ash asked in surprise, Gary answered confidently of course " assurance, a move that does double damage if the Pokemon already took damage prior to the move. Its also a dark type move so it does more damage since it's umbreons type"
Ash had to end this battle soon with the amount of damage Pikachu had taken 'assurance is a deadly move, if it hits pikachu again he might not get up again, I have to end this here.' Ash thought a plan for gary "use quick attack and don't stop buddy" Pikachu charged at umbreon as quick as a ninjask, "you too umbreon, quick attack" umbreon charging at Pikachu as quick as his legs would move. "now charge up an electro ball on your tail" Pikachu then began to charge a electrical sphere as big as his whole tail. 'What's Ketchum thinking?, better try that too with shadow ball' "umbreon charge a shadow ball as well" now the dark type was charging a sphere as well but in its mouth. "Perfect" ash said, He was ready to end the battle "now merge with the electro ball" and that's when Pikachu was now the center of the electrical force around him as he charged forward.
Before Gary could react the 2 collided and a huge explosion covered the area, kicking up dust and dirt. Tracy, Gary and Ash all had their faces covered as they waited for the dust to settle, After several seconds the dust started to die down and revealed the winner. "The winner is...Pikachu and Ash" said tracy as he raised his arm on Ash's side of the field. The dust was gone and showed Pikachu barely standing over umbreon exhausted. " return umbreon, you did great" Ash walked over to Pikachu and held him in his arms, "you were awesome buddy, you won the rematch too" "pika" Pikachu said with a smile at his trainer. " I'm impressed ash, that was a crazy strategy you used there, making a makeshift volt tackle, how you'd win the collision thou?" Asked Gary curious to how he lost.
Before ash could even speak Tracy interrupted, "I'd hate to break up the conversation but you guys have a visitor" The trainer and researcher looked confused at the statement made by the assistant. " he wanted to see you and say a few things now before you see him I should say that-" before Tracy could say what he intended to, the two saw the man they assumed he was talking about, as they both got a concerned and angry look on there face. A man who caused them much trouble was before them along with another who had done the same deeds. "Hey twerps" "hello twer- I mean Ash and Mr. Oak" "James and Meowth" Ash said with anger in his voice as he clutched his fist. 'Great, just great'
Awww snap, bet you didn't see that one coming did ya? I thought James would be a good addition to the story along with Meowth. But where's Jessie? And what is it that james and Meowth want to say to Ash and Gary? I gave ash clauncher because he has all the other crab hammer capable Pokemon so why not complete the set? talonflame and greninja are just what I hope ash evolves froakie and fetchling into in the anime, but who doesn't hope for that? See you in the next chapter in "a flipping coin".