Disclaimer: same as on Chapter 2


**three months later, Friday before classes begin**

"All right everybody, bring it in. Great practice today everyone. As you can see we've stopped a little early. And now as you know, we like to win. And winning is fun. So why don't we have a little fun, eh?" Coach Barkley said as he wrapped up practice. "Let's have a scrimmage. Sanders, split em up."

This earned cheers from the group, Tyler yelling with a raised fist, "Yes! Scrimmage to the death!"

"Alright, should we do upperclassmen versus lowerclassmen?" Sanders started, his question getting jeers from the lowerclassmen and cheers from the upperclassmen, "Ok we'll be fair. Tyler, Nyx, Harper, Eavan, Remmy, Barry, Karim, and Tommy on one team and Colin, Shane, Megan, Freddie, Char, River, and Kirk on the other with Eric as your 8th person. Heal your Pokémon and line up!"

Everyone huddled around a machine with many grooves in it for Pokéballs, putting theirs into the grooves. It was basically a portable PokéCenter. The group split up to their teams as Lesley went to the center of one of the grass practice fields. "Who's going first?" she asked as the two teams faced each other on either side of the middle line.

"I don't care who I'm facing, I'm winning, you're losing, let's go," Tyler said stepping forward, jumping up and down to pump himself up. The other team stood still and silent for a few seconds before Coach Lesley asked for somebody. Megan stepped forward confidently, "Oooh you're goin' down Megan," Tyler said as he shook her hand, giving her a wink.

"Yea, sure Tyler," she replied sarcastically before they jogged back to opposite trainer boxes as the rest of the team went on different sidelines.

"Don't you just love it? The anticipation before the first actual battle before the season starts? I'm sure their Pokémon are just raring to go," Sanders said, standing next to Barkley at the center line on a sideline.

Barkley was nodding his head with his arms crossed, "Ohhh yes, here's where all the off-season work pays off and you see who's improved."

The leaves of the nearby trees could be heard rustling in the wind as the sun shone down brightly. Tyler and Megan were holding their Pokéball for the one they were going to send out first, waiting for Lesley's signal. "Trainers ready?" Lesley called. The two of them nodding, staring across the field into each other's eyes. Tyler had a smug smile on his face, in his mind thinking an easy one-Pokémon win. "Alrighty then, let's go!"

Megan tossed her Pokéball forward, Tyler throwing his very high straight up in the air, both balls opening with a bright red glow. The red light shone brightly, stretching to the ground, growing larger as their Pokémon took shape. Megan had sent out her Nidoqueen and Tyler his Glaceon.

"Ice Beam baby!" Tyler yelled out.

"Hurry and hit it with Stone Edge!" Megan yelled at the same time. Tyler's Glaceon braced its front paws on the ground, and almost faster than the eye could see launched a powerful beam of chilling cold from in front of her mouth. Nidoqueen hit the ground with both arms, making the ground between the two Pokémon rose up, heading towards Glaceon. Nidoqueen's eyes widened seeing the brightness of the beam blasting through the rocks and coming straight at her. It hit Nidoqueen right in the chest, knocking her backwards and out for the count, making the Stone Edge hit Glaceon only lightly in the chin.

"Welcome to the gun show Megan, cause your Nidoqueen just got sniped! Uh!" Tyler proclaimed and nodded his head quickly.

"Nothing can dodge his Glaceon's Ice Beam," Marshall said smugly.

"Fastest and strongest I've ever seen it," Sanders agreed.

"It's not over yet!" Megan called, returning her Nidoqueen and sent out her Arbok. "Arbok! Use Dig!"

"Hurry and get em Glaceon!" Arbok dove up then down into the groun as Glaceon's Ice Beam blasted at it, just scraping her tail as Arbok disappeared under the ground. "Wait it out girl, use Hail and be sure to dodge." His Glaceon stood still, waiting for a disturbance from under the ground as it started to snow above the field.

"Hey Char, it's your natural habitat!" Shane teased his teammate. Charlotte turned and glared at him as Freddie, standing next to Shane, took a step back. "Hey lighten up I'm just messing!"

Glaceon leapt into the air suddenly as Arbok appeared from below, hitting the airborne Glaceon in the side. Without Tyler's command, as Glaceon was falling she opened her mouth and blasted Arbok in the back with an Ice Beam, launching the already airborne Arbok further into the air. Arbok fell slowly, stirring up slowly. Tyler yelled something inaudible due to his excitement as Glaceon blasted a Water Pulse to finish up Arbok.

"Somebody stop me!" Tyler yelled imitating The Mask. Megan's frown sunk further as she returned Arbok and sent out her young Golbat. She closed her eyes knowing her buddy's fate and returned him before the Ice Beam hit. She met Tyler in the center with a smile on her face to congratulate him on the win. "You did great girl, oooh I love you so much!"

"Thanks, I lo- WHAT!?" Megan said pulling her arm back quickly, her cheeks reddening.

"Not you, you suck... Come here girl," he said, letting his Glaceon jump into his arms giving her a hug.

Megan's head dropped, "Oh gee thanks."

"If I woulda sent out someone else I might've won a little less easy so props to me! Come on Megan don't look so down! I beat people easier than you all the time," Tyler pulled her to the portable PokéCenter as the next two walked out on the field. Nyx from Tyler's team and Colin from Megan's shook hands and walked to the boxes. Nyx sent out her Luxray and Colin sent out his Pikachu.

"Thunderbolt!" Colin yelled.

"Discharge!" Nyx called. Luxray blasted a beam of electricity from all around her body towards Pikachu, just as the Thunderbolt from Colin's Pikachu was released. The two bolts met in the center of the field and after intertwining around, went skyward, making a very loud cracking sound. "Hmph, not bad for a little mouse," Nyx teased.

"Hah! I expected more from your lion," Colin teased right back, "Electro Ball Pikachu!"

As his Pikachu surrounded himself with a ball of electricity, "Hit him with Crunch!" Nyx yelled out. Pikachu shot forward, hitting the slower Luxray hard. But not hard enough because Luxray got up quickly and hit Pikachu with a powerful Crunch. "Great! Now finish it with Spark!" Luxray's fur stood as electricity raced around her body. Luxray charged, hitting Pikachu head on, knocking him out.

"Not bad. Goooo Gengar!" Colin yelled, switching his Pokémon out. The Ghost type was nowhere to be seen. Colin whispered, "Shadow Ball." A large black blob formed from nowhere and struck Luxray from above, knocking her out.

"You want to play dirty, we'll play dirty. Absol!" Nyx said as she switched hers now, knowing Ghost was practically useless against Dark. Her Absol gave a spine-tingling cry as it stood at the ready. Nyx waited for Colin's next move.

"Sludgebomb Gengar!"

"Perfect, Sucker Punch, Absol," as the Gengar appeared from nowhere, readying a Sludgebomb, Absol disappeared and reappeared behind Gengar, hitting him hard with his scythe-horn, knocking the Gengar out in one hit.

"I see. If it's dirty you want, you'll get it Nyx, go Typhlosion!" his next Pokémon appeared, flames encircling him as Typhlosion looked toward his opponent with a scoff. Neither trainer gave a command, both waiting for the other, making their Pokémon anxious.

"Come on Colin, we're waiting!" Nyx called with a smirk.

"Two can play at this game Nyx. Use Brick Break, Typhlosion!"

"Sucker Punch!"

"Typhlosion turn around and use it!" As Absol disappeared and reappeared behind Typhlosion for Sucker Punch, he was met with a very powerful, full-force chop from Typhlosion, easily knocking Absol out.

Nyx groaned, knowing that neither of her two Pokémon could beat a Typhlosion. She had her trusty yet evil Roselia, or her recently caught, young and shy Litwick. "Roselia! Go, use Leech Seed followed up quickly with Grass Whistle!" she yelled before Roselia even showed up.

Roots from the ground began reaching up for Typhlosion. He gave a quick breath of fire down to torch them, before blasting a Flamethrower by Colin's command, hitting Roselia and knocking her out.

"You got lucky Campo," Nyx said, meeting him at the halfway line.

Before Colin could reply, Tyler was yelling from his sideline, "Great now she blew our lead, great job 'A' hole!"

"Tyler it's only 1-1, it's fine," Harper laughed.

"Alright, next up I want River against Karim!" Coach Barkley said, the two freshmen stepping out.

"The mute versus the loner, this should be interesting," Harper said, crossing his arms.

Karim and River met in the center and shook hands, neither saying a word. Karim had his usual blank, emotionless expression on his face even as he took the trainer box. River took out a hand-crafted whistle and placed it in her mouth, waiting for Lesley's signal.

At the signal, Karim sent out his Torkoal, and River sent out her Vibrava.

"Lava plume," Karim said blankly. On the other side, River blew her whistle, and her Vibrava slammed the ground, using Earth Power. As lava began making its way quickly towards Vibrava, the ground began shaking and erupting around Torkoal, too slow to get out of harms way was hit with the full blast of it. River blew her whistle quickly several times, her Vibrava avoiding the lava handily. A single loud whistle after, and Vibrava blasted a blue beam of Dragonbreath at Torkoal, who was told to use Rapid Spin. Just as Torkoal began spinning up at Vibrava, the powerful breath hit, finishing off Karim's Torkoal.

"You should've went for the sure win with another Earth Power, Torkoal easily could've held on," Karim told River somewhat condescending, now sending out his own Vibrava. "No mercy, Dragonbreath."

River blew her whistle the same as before, and the two Vibrava both shot blue beams at each other, River blowing her whistle repeatedly as hers attacked, her Vibrava swooping to the side and continuing his attack. Neither could connect their attack to the target, they were both too agile. "Supersonic," Karim said, his Vibrava sending out orange waves, coming into contact with River's. River gave the whistle to use Dragonbreath again, but her Vibrava's mind was tripping out as he crashed to the ground. "Hit it now. Dragonbreath," Karim's unleashed another beam, hitting and knocking out River's Pokémon.

She returned her Vibrava, sending out Manectric. "You send out a type disadvantage. Bad mistake," Karim jeered.

"It's kinda funny how he has absolutely no emotion behind anything he says," Eavan said.

"Mean too," Barry replied.

"Yea, and it's just kinda funny how the mute is winning," Tyler said coldly to his teammates, shaking his head.

"Uhm no, Karim just tied it, are you even watching?" Eavan replied.

"Great. Great! GREAT! You obviously don't know WHY she sent out Manectric do you? We may as well go home," Tyler said in response, watching as exactly what he was thinking happened: River blew her whistle loudly, and Manectric leaped into the air, ice forming around his fangs as he dodged Vibrava's Bulldoze attack. Manectric chomped down on Vibrava's neck. Vibrava fell out of the air, his body turning icy blue. River's whistle blew again and Manectric knocked out Vibrava with another Ice Fang.

"Oh, so that's wh-" Eavan started.

"-why I'm team captain," Tyler replied.

Out on the field, Karim scowled to himself, knowing he too had lost. His Spoink didn't stand a chance against the faster Manectric and its Crunch. He shook hands with River at the center again, staring blankly. As he returned to his side, he sat off to the side as Tyler glared at him for losing, avoiding the stares from the rest of his team.

"What was your pick on that match-up Marshall?" Coach Sanders asked.

"I thought they would've gone Pokémon for Pokémon, but then again it depends which order they send them out in.

The next battles went smoothly, Harper beat Eric the manager handily, tying the score at 2-2. After them, Charlotte went up against Remmy and won a close match. Eavan beat Shane, tying the score again at three each. And Barry beat Freddie, giving Tyler's team the lead. Tyler and Barry did a chest-bump when he got back to the sideline.

"Alright everyone, as the 'main event' we have Kirk versus Tommy. Tommy if you win, your team won't have to run at all next week. Kirk if you win, then it'll be tied and no one will run next week. But if Tommy wins, the other team is running laps right now. A little incentive on the table. Let's go! Front and center ladies!" Coach Barkley yelled, encouraging the two.

Tyler pulled Tommy off to the side, "Listen frosh, you had better win. Their team will be running. No one can tie, in anything, ok?"

"Do you even know my name, Tyler?" Tommy replied.

Tyler's voice went to a slight high-pitched whisper, "I know your name... but, saying it right now isn't what's important. What is, is scrimmage... TO THE DEATH!" He yelled the last part before laughing very hard while beaming as he pushed Tommy out there.

Tommy met Kirk in the center, Kirk waiting there with a smug look on his face. "Show time baby," he said confidently to himself as Tommy got there.

"Good luck bro," Tommy said shaking his hand.

"I don't need luck, luck needs me," Kirk said as he turned around. Tommy gave him a weird look wondering what that even meant as he readied himself back into his trainer box. The two freshmen each took out their first Pokéball.

Lesley gave the signal to start and the two of them threw their Pokéballs into the air.


AN: Oooo first cliff-hanger of the fic! Sorry for the longer update time on this one, I had a lot going on and yeah. I'm planning to update soon for the next one. Let me know how I did with the battle scenes, not enough detail, too much, I'd like to know what you think. I'd like to thank you guys for your awesome reviews, getting several a few days ago from chapter to chapter in a row was very motivating, shout out to that guy. I hope you guys liked this chapter with awesome stuff already planned for the next one :)

Your Broski~