Hey everyone! I finished this up as fast as I could so you guys can see the double battle and not have to hate me for giving you cliffhangars all the time before battles. ^^;

Anyways, normal disclaimers and all thats. And Enjoys!


Chapter 6

Sandstorm

The four combatants had eyed each other, waiting for who would the make first move. Being in such a high ranked class means that they clearly knew the first move is incredibly important. It was that moves which could make or break a match in an instant. One wrong move could mean instant disaster, while a well-placed preemptive strike could make the battle easily one for the win column.

After several minutes of a stare down, Pike cleared his throat in a rather loud way, so they looked over at him. "This is a battle, not a staring contest, so mind getting it started?"

They all sweat dropped at the comment and quickly apologized. Jen finally decided to start this match up. "Dai, use Flamethrower!" The Typhlosion responded to his trainer's call with flames blasting up from his back and launching fire from his mouth, towards Furret and Scream. The girls' Pokemon avoided the fire on instinct, not even needing a command. This time, they tried to take it on the offense right away.

"Furret, use Shadow Ball!" "Scream, Shadow Punch!" The two called out to their respective Pokemon. The pair immediately began to move into action, while Bri carefully watched their motions. The second that Scream was starting to move towards Dee and Furret was about to launch her ball of darkness, he shouted one of his abstract orders.

"Dee, Operation: Blind Digging!" She quickly called out her name loudly, stretching back a bit. This motion suddenly caused a powerful sandstorm to whip up, causing the other three Pokemon to stop what they were doing, in order to prevent getting sand in their eyes.

"What's with you and those operations, Bri!" Jen called out to him in a frustrated tone, putting his goggles over his eyes to stop any from getting in his eyes.

Bri shook his head and looked over at Jen. "We've been in the same battling class the entire time and you still don't get it? I call my strategies operations so my opponents won't know exactly what I'm gonna do!" Jen facepalmed in agitation. "Seriously man? We're teammates! Work together, ya'know?"

"You'll think of something." Bri said non-chalantly as the other Pokemon began to regain their composure. They couldn't see very far, but they heard a clear, piercing sound. Drilling. Dee was using Dig to try to get under them while they couldn't see.

"Furret, Protect!" Maikee called out, as her Furret shielded herself, preparing for the Excadrill's emergence. Mel, knowing Scream had Levitate, wasn't worried about that, and decided to go after Dai. "Scream, Dark Pulse!" She called, while covering her face with her arm, so she wouldn't damage her eyes with the sand. The Haunter quickly launched out a black pulse towards where the Typhlosion was before the storm brewed.

The shot hit Dai in the shoulder, not expecting anything through the sandstorm. He cringed in pain, but managed to remain standing and the flames on his back grew larger.

"Dai, Focus Blast!" Jen yelled out. He growled and held his hands nearby one another, a ball forming and launching back through the storm. Unfortunately, it bounced right off Furret, still protecting itself, going straight up into the ceiling. Jen cringed as he heard it make contact, looking over at Bri. The two weren't strangers to tag battling with each other, but he had never used any Pokemon like Dee with him before. He almost was at a point of despair, when he noticed something. The hole that Dee had initially dug.

A light bulb went on in his head, and he grinned. "Dai, jump in the hole that Dee dug!" The Typhlosion jumped into the hole and began to go into the underground tunnel.

Meanwhile, Dee had been jumping in and out of holes that she was creating, every time aiming towards Scream. Mel thought it was a weird strategy, considering that Scream wasn't affected by Ground-type attacks. Maybe Bri's a bit rusty on abilities. She pondered. But that seemed unlikely. Bri was one of the best battlers in school, there's no way that he would forget something as basic as this. The sandstorm finally began to subside and then they all saw why he was doing that.

There were holes everywhere. Dee had been jumping out of holes and kept making new ones the whole time. Even Pike seemed a bit surprised at his planning. He had never seen someone make a massive game of Whack-A-Mole under the cover of a Sandstorm.

Bri smiled. "Successful operation." He said; ready to take over the commands again for Dee. "Now Dee, use Shadow Claw!" The Excadrill jumped up in front of Scream and caught her off guard, slashing her in the face and knocking her out in one powerful attack. Mel was surprised for a moment, but smirked once she shook it off. "Well, looks like this match might get to go to us!" Bri was confused, but his eyes widened as he saw Dee fall over, fainted as well. He was surprised at how it happened, then looked back at Mel. "Of course…" He said, grinding his teeth. "Scream used Destiny Bond…" Both of them returned their Pokemon, it all coming down to Dai and Furret.

Another silence rolled in where both did nothing. However, this was a much shorter one, because Maikee had come up with a plan. "Furret, Hyper Voice inside the tunnels!" She called out. The Long Body Pokemon quickly obeyed, calling its name at an ear-shatteringly high volume. Everyone covered their ears, even for a few moments after she had stopped. Jen was nervous, unsure if Dai had made it through the voice's power. Maikee was gonna make sure he didn't though, and commanded her Furret to do it again.

Furret hopped over to another hole and jumped in. Everyone covered their ears in preparation, but it never came. They weren't sure what had happened, until a bright beam of energy blasted up through the hole. It was Jen's turn to listen to everyone gasp as Furret flew out and landed next to Maikee with a hard "thud", completely out cold. Dai climbed out of the hole after, on shaky legs, but able to fight still if it was necessary.\

Pike stood up and stuck out his hand towards Bri and Jen. "Oak and Birch are the winners!" There was some applause and high-fives all around, followed by a respectful handshake between the combatants. "That was an excellent match, you four" Pike said. "Hope that you didn't use all of your skill today. Class is dismissed!"

After their class, it was lunch time, and the four who just came from battling came into the lunch room to see their friends already waiting at the table. They quickly sat down and began to talk about how classes were going, and how Josh liked being back here for the week. It was just a perfectly normal lunch between the seven of them, enjoying their time. Almost like nothing could go wrong…

At exactly 12:30, a large flock of various flying type Pokemon flew into the lunch room. It was the carriers that brought mail, but there was quite a bit today.

"Must be because it's a new semester and there are a lot of freshmen this year." Josh said in between bites of a sandwich. The others thought it was too many even for that though.

Usually people would send their own flying Pokemon or their families to send mail back and forth. However, this time there was too many Pidgey and Pidove that were apart of it. They were the school's personal couriers. Something was happening.

And as if on cue, 4 letters were dropped by those birds in front of them. They all were the same, uniform address: just a name, the school's name and, in the top right hand corner, an insignia of a shield with P and Z in it…


Mwahahaha! Another cliffy! :3
Well not really much of a cliffhanger this time, but who did get the four letters? You're welcome to guess under one condition! You write a review with it and please dont flame me, I don't have the Flash Fire ability. ^^;

Anyways, how was the battle too? I spent a while working on thats.

Until next time! :3