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"The field has been repaired, and we are ready to continue. The next match will be between Nate of Pallet Town and Jake from Vermilion City." The announcer said as both trainers walked towards the field. The two trainers met in the middle and shook hands before heading to their own sides.
"Hm, I wonder who I should use?" Nate wondered out loud. "I know Ivysaur really wants to battle, but then again, so do everyone else." He then let out a little laugh. "Well, I guess whoever I pick will do fine." With that he grabbed a pokeball and was ready. "Golduck, come on out."
"So, you're using a water type? Even though you're battling against a Vermilion native you feel confident? I'll have to teach you a lesson, Jolteon fight now!" Jake called out. He was dressed in shorts and a sleeveless black tank top. His hair was rather long as it ran down to his shoulders. "Start this off with thunderbolt!" Jolteon's whole body turned yellow as lightning was released from it. The lightning shot from Jolteon and headed straight towards Golduck.
"Golduck, use light screen." Nate called out, without breaking a sweat. Golduck placed it's hands out in front as a screen appeared in front of him. The thunderbolt bounced off of the screen, causing it to disperse in many directions. Unfortunately, the screen wasn't strong enough to hold back the entire attack, as a small bolt broke through hitting Golduck. The electricity ran through Golduck's entire body causing decent damage on the water type.
"See, you should know better than to mess with an electric type." Jake cried out boldly.
"Ehh, I'm not worried about type match-ups and winning every match. If I lose so be it, but I won't stand by and let you win. Golduck, use psyshock!" Golduck placed it's hands out in front of itself and balls of energy began to form. After a few seconds, Golduck launched the attack towards Jolteon.
"Ha, you think something like that will work on us?" Jake asked his opponent. "Jolteon, counter with shock wave." Jolteon's body began to glow yellow once again as he built up electricity within himself. After a few seconds Jolteon released the attack. Multiple strands of electricity shot from Jolteon's body and collided with the psyshock attack, cancelling each other out. "Jolteon and I have trained for a while to perfect that. You see, a normal shock wave is launched as one bolt of electricity, but Jolteon can weaken the attack so he can then launch it in multiple directions. Now, let's finish this. Jolteon, use shock wave once more." This time Jolteon was taking longer to build up his attack and Nate knew that this would be it.
Would it work? If we don't try, we're done for. Nate thought to himself. "Golduck, use soak!" Golduck opened it's mouth as water shot right from it. The water continued to move across the field until it made contact with Jolteon. "Perfect, we hit it right on the mark."
"Jolteon, no more games, launch the attack!" Jolteon's body stopped glowing and now began sparking with electricity running around it's body. After a few seconds Jolteon launched the attack as a large beam of electricity was shot from Jolteon's body and headed straight for Golduck.
"Its now or never. Golduck, hydro pump!" Nate called out as Golduck opened it's mouth again. This time a stronger blast of water came rushing out and collided with the attack. The two attacks pushed against each other until the shock wave combined into the water and hit Golduck.
"Didn't you ever learn that water conducts electricity? Your attack was never going to work." Jake said mockingly
"I think you should watch more clearly then." Nate replied back. He was right, even though Jolteon's attack merged into the water, Golduck's attack was still heading towards Jolteon despite it's pain. The hydro pump landed directly on Jolteon, inflicting massive damage as the electricity within the water ran throughout Jolteon's body causing him to faint.
"But, how? Electric moves shouldn't do that much damage." Jake asked his opponent.
"Well, when you charged up your attack, I originally used soak. It's a move which changes a pokemon's type to water for a short time. I then expected your shock wave to merge with any water type attack I used, so I used it to my advantage. With a super charged attack being strengthened by myself, all I had to worry about was Golduck holding out long enough." Nate explained as he walked back to his friends, only to be greeted by three new faces.
"That was a great idea of using an opponent's move against them." Ash said to his fellow trainer. "If I win here, then that means we'll battle each other next round." He said as he walked over to the battlefield.
"Ash, you're not supposed to head over until your name is called." A young red head said to Ash.
"Misty is right, what if the field isn't ready for your match." Brock added.
Just then they overheard the announcer speaking. "The next match will be Elise of Celadon City vs Ash from Pallet Town." Both trainers reached the battlefield and met in the middle for introductions. After shaking each other's hand, the two trainers walked over to their respective sides.
"Pikachu, I'm so excited. It's finally our turn to battle." Ash said as Pikachu ran onto the battlefield.
"Grimer, I choose you." Elise called out. She was dressed in a skirt and a white sundress along with sandles. Her hair was about medium length and was a light purple. "Use sludge attack." Grimer began by launching a barrage of sludge at Pikachu.
"Pikachu, dodge by using agility." Pikachu began moving so fast he looked like a blur to everyone watching the match. Every time it seemed he was going to be hit, he managed to dodge the oncoming attack with his speed. "Alright, now use thunderbolt." Pikachu's body glowed yellow as he stored up electricity before launching it at Grimer. The bolt of electricity shot from his body and flew across the field, hitting Grimer head on.
"Grimer, now's our chance. Disable!" Grimer's eyes flashed white for a few seconds before returning to normal, but after it's eyes became normal, Pikachu glowed white for a few seconds.
"Pikachu, finish this with thunderbolt!" Ash called out only for nothing to happen. "What's going on? Why didn't thunderbolt work?" Ash asked no one in particular.
"You don't even know how disable works?" Elise asked, mocking Ash. "For a trainer from Pallet Town, you're not that good. Disable is a move that makes you unable to use the last attack you used for a short time. In this case, you're unable to use thunderbolt for the time being. Grimer use sludge once more." Grimer immediately began to launch the attack towards Pikachu once again.
"Pikachu, dodge by using agility once more." With that Pikachu was off and running, trying to dodge the attack as best he could. We can't just keep dodging. We'll grow tired way to fast, and when that happens we're done for. "Pikachu, it's our turn to go on the attack. Use thunder!" Pikachu built electricity up once again, but this time when he released it the attack was much larger than a thunderbolt would be.
"Grimer, I don't like the look of this. Use minimize." Elise called out as Grimer shrunk in size, avoiding the attack as the gigantic lightning bolt crashed down on the spot where the poison type had just been moments ago.
As the smoke cleared Ash was confused as he couldn't see Grimer at all. "Hey, where'd it run off to now?" Ash asked himself, unable to see the pokemon slowly sneaking up on the duo.
"You're close enough, use body slam." Grimer regrew in size and then crushed Pikachu with a surprise body slam from behind. "You might as well surrender. Nothing will be able to move Grimer now." Elise told Ash, enjoying the worried look on his face. She was right, no matter what Pikachu tried to do he couldn't escape from underneath Grimer. That's when Ash thought of an idea.
"Pikachu! Stop moving around." Pikachu did as he was told and stopped resisting. "Good, now use thunder." Pikachu built up the electricity and before Grimer could escape, blasted him with the attack. The bolt of electricity shot from Pikachu, and didn't travel far as it immediately collided with Grimer. The force of the attack was enough to knock Grimer out.
Pikachu ran back towards Ash and jumped up onto his shoulder as Ash walked back over to his friends.
"That was pretty close, wasn't it Ash?" Nick asked, teasing the trainer.
"Well, I actually didn't know if my idea was going to work back their. In all honesty, I didn't know what I was going to do if it didn't get Pikachu freed."
The group of now six watched the last few remaining matches in the first round, until it was Nick's turn to battle. His match was the very last one in the first round, and it was against his new friend Misty. "The last match of the first round will now begin. It will be Misty of Cerulean City vs Nick from Pallet Town." The announcer said. The duo walked towards each other, meeting in the middle of the battlefield. The two shoke each other's hand and then proceeded to their respective sides.
"Staryu, I choose you." Misty called out as a star shaped pokemon appeared before her.
"Staryu, okay I know who to use. Beedrill, I choose you." Nick called out, as his very first captured pokemon appeared. "Start off with poison sting." Beedrill raised it's stingers and launched multiple needles at the water type. The attack seemed to be on track to become a direct hit, only for Staryu to counter.
"Staryu, cancel the attack out with swift." Staryu began to launch stars from it's core. These stars collided with the poison sting attack, cancelling each other out and causing a cloud of smoke to appear. "Now Staryu, use the smoke as an advantage. Use double-edge." Staryu began to spin at a fairly fast speed as it cut through the smoke. By the time it had become visible again, it was only inches away from Beedrill.
"Beedrill, try and stop it with twinneedle!" Nick called out as Beedrill raised it's stingers to defend himself. Staryu was too fast though, hitting Beedrill and sending him backwards and into the ground. "Beedrill, are you alright?" Nick asked, worried for his pokemon's well being. Beedrill didn't respond, he only rose from the ground and prepared itself to attack.
"Staryu, that last attack damaged it pretty badly, let's finish it here. Water gun!" Misty called out as water shot out of the top of Staryu's head and raced towards Beedrill.
"Beedrill, try and counter with poison sting." Nick asked of his tired pokemon. Beedrill raised his stingers, and prepared itself to launch the attack. But, instead of poison sting being launched, Beedrill combined his two stingers together and fired a large beam of energy at the water gun attack. Beedrill's blast tore right through Staryu's attack and hit the starfish pokemon directly. The blast being strong enough to knock Staryu out. "No way. Could that really be the strength of a hyper beam attack?" Nick asked out loud as Beedrill raced over to it's trainer, embracing him in a hug.
"Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes the first round. 32 trainers entered, only 16 remain. There will not be anymore battles until tomorrow morning, that way the remaining trainers can rest before the next round." The announcer told the audience.
A/N:
Reviews:
Person32100: I've never really been good when it comes to detail in any writing. Every year in my english class my teachers tell me the same thing every time, add more detail. I've been trying to work on detail in this story, I hope it's better.
Zierre: Thanks, as the summary says, I try to update every Monday, Wednesday, Friday with the weekends used as catch up days if I miss an update.
Giorocket: I'm trying to make this as little predictable as possible. I know it's hard to do that, but I will try to shake things up if it becomes to obvious. As for the pace, it will slow down. I just had to get through Cerulean City.
Blaze Falcon: I picked Samurai as a travelling companion because like you said, you really don't see it. As for a third companion, I don't really see it happening right now, but anything can happen. I'll try to add more detail to the battles, but as I said before, I'm not very good when it comes to detail and I am working on it.
Thank you to everyone reading this so far. Round 2 of the tournament is on its way. Please leave a comment on who you think is going to win.
Team:
Nick- 3 badges:
Eevee- swift, quick attack, dig, sand-attack
Beedrill- poison sting, hyper beam, twinneedle, fury attack
Krabby- water gun, bubble, vicegrip, stomp
Charmander- flamethrower, dragon rage, ember, metal claw
Samurai:
Pinsir- x-scissor, revenge, harden, vicegrip
Metapod- harden, string shot
Paras- leech life, stun spore, fury cutter
