CH 8: Ash vs Jimmy

It was a sunney morning in the seafoam islands. The clouds were thin and the sky bluer than the ocean. May and Serena were standing near the last of the trees at the cliff side they were at the previous day.

Ash and Jimmy were closer to the edge with Daniel. "This will be a six on six matchup. Both trainers may substitute pokemon" Daniel said. He walked to the side and stood with Serena and May. "Good luck Ash!" May said.

"Alright Ash since you've been training with Daniel you'd better give me a great match" Jimmy said. "The same goes for you" Ash said. "Alright go Fearow!" Jimmy said as he threw a pokeball. HIs fearow came out and flew directly above him. Ash noticed that the fearow was bigger than the average one.

"Alright I choose you, Pidgeot!" Ash said. Ash's pidgeot came out and flew above Ash. "Let the battle begin!" Daniel said. Ash tried to connect with pidgeot with his aura but for some reason he felt like he already was.

It was at this moment that Ash realized he had done what Daniel had described. "Alright" Ash said. "Fearow lets start this off with a tailwind" Jimmy said. Fearow whipped his wings up and down creating a powerful wind to speed up his movments and slow down pidgeot's.

"Pidgeot use whirwind" Ash said. Pidgeot quickly flapped his powerful wings and whipped up a powerful wind that equalized the wind. "So we're playing that game huh, alright Pidgeot use furry attack" Fearow flew toward pidgeot with incredible speed. "Pidgeot use whirlwind and sand attack" Ash said.

Pidgeot quicklywhipped up a powerful wind and filled it with sand. The sand flew into fearow's eyes like a watergun nearly blinding him. "Fearow use rain dance" Jimmy said. Fearow shot a ball of water into the air. The ball of water burst into rain droplets that fell down and washed the sand out of fearows eyes.

"Fearow use aerial ace" Jimmy said. "Pidgeot dodge and use aerial ace" Ash aid. The moment Pidgeot got out of Fearows flight path he flew straight at his flank. "Quick use double team!" Jimmy said. At the last moment fearow created a dozen copies of himself that pidgeot flew through.

"Fearow quick use drill peck!" Jimmy said. Fearow flew at pidgeotand Jimmy was a little concerned that Pidgeot was making no effort to dodge the attack. Ash waited until fearow was a little closer than called out the move. "Pidgeot use twister!" Ash said.

"No Fearow move!" Jimmy said. Fearow tried to stop but he was too close to pidgeot to avoid the massive tornado of dragon energy and got sucked in. "Fearow!" Jimmy said. "That was smart of him waiting until fearow was too close to evade twister" Serena said. "I know but that's something he probably came up with himself" Daniel said.

"Pidgeot use aerial ace" Ash said. Pidgeot flew through the twister and smashed fearow out through the other side. "Oh no fearow!" Jimmy said. Fearow hit the ground with swirly eyes. "Fearow is unable to battle" Daniel said. "Alright Pidgeot!" Ash said. "Woah he beat Jimmy's first pokemon" May said. "That was impressive, but Jimmy is far from beaten" Serena said.

"Fearow return, you dig great fearow. Alright Ash that was good, But I'm just getting warmed up" Jimmy said. Ash returned Pidgeot and took out his next pokeball. "Good, because this match is getting intense" Ash said. "Pika!" Pikachu said.

"Go Alakazam" Jimmy said. "I choose you Heracross" Ash said. Jimmy's Alakazam came out and held its spoons in front of him at. Heracross began to hover with his wings over the ground and lower his horn at Alazakam. "Heracross use pin missile!" Ash said. "Alakazam use confusion!" Jimmy said. As heracross launched a dozen spiky pins at alakazam, the phsycic pokemon used his telekinetic powers to catch the pins and hurl them back at Heracross.

"Heracross fly above Alakazam!" Ash said. Heracross flew up as the pins started to follow him. When Heracross was directly above Alakazam the pin missiles continued after him. "Heracross use horn attack!" Ash said. Heracross flew down at alakazam with incredible speed as the pin missiles continued to follow him.

"I see what he's doing" May said. Daniel and Serena watched closely as Heracross got closer. Jimmy smiled and then said. "Alakazam use teleport!" Jimmy said. Alakazam vanished at the last moment and curled his wings back barely keeping him from hitting the ground. The pin missiles however, did hit the ground. "That won't work on us Ash, Alakazam use Psybeam!" Jimmy said.

"Heracross dodge it!" Ash said. Heracross quickly moved out of the psybeam's path. "Alakazam teleport and use psybeam!" Jimmy said. Alakazam vanished then reappeared right in front of heracross. Before Heracross could move he was blasted with psybeam and knocked back. "Teleport!" Jimmy said.

Before heracross could get up Alakazam vanished and reappered directly behind him. "Psybeam!" Jimmy said. "Heracross move!" Ash said. Just as Heracross began to get up he was blasted with psybeam . "Heracross use dig!" Ash said. Heracross burrowed underground as Alakazam looked around.

"Alakazam use telekinesis, then confusion" Jimmy said. Alakazam used his phsycic abilities to find heracross underground. Once he did, he used confusion and ripped heracross out of the ground and into the air. "Heracross!" Ash said. "Psychic" Jimmy said. Alakazam unleashed Psychic and knocked heracross out. "Heracross is unable to battle!" Daniel said.

"Alright Alakazam that was awsome" Jimmy said. "Heracross return, you did your best" Ash said. He took out his next pokeball and looked up at Jimmy. "You are good Jimmy but I'm not done yet. I choose you Garchomp!" Ash said.

His garchomp came out in front of Ash and roared. "Garchomp I don't think Jimmy's going to win this one" May said. "Alakazam use phsybeam!" Jimmy said. "Garchomp dig in and use dragon claw!" Ash said. Garchomp dug his feet into the ground and held his claw out.

Using his dragon energy he was able to keep the phsybeam from dealing full damage. "Geeze he took that phsybeam like it was nothing" May said. "All part of the training" Daniel said. "Garchomp use dragon rage" Ash said. Garchomp opened his mouth and unleashed a massive burst of violet dragon energy at alakazam.

"Alakazam use teleport" Jimmy said. Alakazam vanished just before the dragon energy hit him. "Come on how does he beat that teleport?" May said. "He'll figure it out" Serena said. Ash started thinking of ways he could beat the alakazam's teleport. Just then he realized he was looking at the battle the wrong way.

He needed to look at the battle through Garchomp's perspective. Just like with pigeot Ash didn't even need to use aura to visualize the battle the way Garchomp was. He saw that even though alakazam teleported away he still stayed close enough to counterattack. "That's it. Garchomp use sandstorm" Ash said.

Garchomp whipped up a powerful sandstorm that enveloped the entire battlefield. When Alakazam reappeared he couldn't see a thing. "Garchomp use dragon claw" Ash said. Alakazam couldn't see. "Quick alakazam teleport!" Jimmy said.

Alakazam teleported without knowing where he was. "Perfect use dragon rush!" Ash said. Alakazam didn't realize he had teleported right where Garchomp was. Before Alakazam could even move garchomp smashed into alakazam and knocked him out.

"Alakazam!" Jimmy said. "Alakazam is unable to battle" Daniel said. "Alright he beat him" May said. "No tactic is flawless and Ash found the flaw in Jimmy's" Daniel said. "Alright alakazam return, get some rest. Time for us to strike back hard" Jimmy said as he took out another pokeball. "Come on out Dragonite!" Jimmy said.

A massive dragonite came out of the pokeball and roared at garchomp. "Two dragon types this should be interesting" Serena said. "Dragonite use twister!" Jimmy said. "Garchomp move!" Ash said. Garchomp tried to avoid the incoming twister, but it was moving to fast. Garchomp was enveloped by the swirling tornado of dragon energy .

"Garchomp stay strong!" Ash said. Despite being weak against dragon type attacks Garchomp endured. His defensive status was very high from training with Daniel. "Alright use dragon Rush" Ash said. Garchomp burst out of the twister with incredible power, and continued toward dragonite. "Dragonite dodge it!" Jimmy said.

Dragonite started to fly up but garchomp was too fast. He collided with dragonite and hurled the massive orange dragon back towards Jimmy. "Geeze Ash your garchomp's got power" Jimmy said. Dragonite got up and stood strong in front of Jimmy. "But dragonite's just getting warmed up. Dragonite use dragon claw" Jimmy said.

"Garchomp counter with dragon claw" Ash said. The two massive dragons charged at eachother. Dragonite hurled his glowing claw at garchomp who intercepted it with his right claw. The two dragons both used their other claws but ended up getting locked into a power struggle.

"Alright dragonite now use outrage!" Jimmy said. "Garchomp move!" Ash said. Garchomp was too close to dragonite to avoid the attack and was hit with the full force of the outrage as Dragonite unleashed it.

"Oh no!" May said. "That's going to do some serious damage" Serena said. "He can endure, I've trained him to" Daniel said. "We can do this garchomp. Use dragon rush!" Ash said. Garchomp got up and charged right through the outrage and collided into dragonite. The mixing of the dragon energy caused an explosion that knocked both pokemon back.

When the dust cleared Ash and Jimmy saw both pokemon were unconscious. "Both pokemon are unable to battle" Daniel said. Ash and Jimmy returned their pokemon. Jimmy took out another pokeball, but Ash didn't. "Pikachu are your ready" Ash said. "Pikachu!" Pikachu said confidently as he jumped down to the ground.

"Arcanine I choose you" Jimmy said. A massive arcanine came out and roared at pikachu. "Alright lets start things off with a sunny day!" Jimmy said. Arcanine opened his mouth and shot up a ball of light into the air that lit up the area. "Pikachu use double team and agility" Ash said. Pikachu began picking up speed as he sprinted around arcanine and made copies of himself.

"Using agility and double team an interesting combo" Serena said. "Arcanine use flame charge on those pikachu" Jimmy said. Arcanine lit himself on fire and began running through the pikachu copies until there was only one left.

"Get him!" Jimmy said. Arcanine tried to catch his opponent, but pikachu was far to fast."Pikachu use thunderbolt" Ash said. PIkachu jumped up allowing arcanine to run under him. "Arcanine stop!" Jimmy said. Arcanine stopped just in time to see pikachu unleash a massive burst of electricity.

The thunderbolt coursed through arcanine making him shutter. "Arcanine use flamethrower" Jimmy said. When pikachu landed arcanine opened his mouth and unleashed a massive jet of fire. "Pikachu move!" Ash said.

Pikachu evaded the direct flamethrower but arcanine didn't stop there. He waved his head around and set the entire battlefield on fire. "What how did he do that there's nothing for the fire to burn on?" May said. "It's the sunneyday he used" Daniel said. "Oh right" May said.

Pikachu frantically looked around as the fire began to surround him. Ash was able to see pikachu's perspective of the battle but was disappointed when he saw there was no way for pikachu to evade the fire. "Arcanine use flamecharge" Jimmy said.

Arcanine ran through the fire at pikachu who had no where to run. "Pikachu use thunderbolt!" Ash said. Pikachu unleashed thunderbolt but Arcanine evaded the attack and then hit pikachu 3 times with flamecharge. Each time he hit him he turned around and hit him again.

"Pikachu we can do this stay strong" Ash said. As Arcanine came back for another flame charge pikachu and Ash finally saw a weakness in Arcanine's form. "Pikachu dive forward now!" Ash said. As arcanine charged through the fire Pikachu dove forward under neath arcanine. "Now use fusion bolt!" Ash said.

"Fusion bolt?" Jimmy said. Pikachu turned blue as he gathered all of his electric power. Once he had enough he unleashed it on arcanine who was right above him. "Arcanine!" Jimmy said. Arcanine was knocked unconscious and started twitching from the electricity. "I still can't believe he taught pikachu fusion bolt" Serena said.

"Alright Pikachu great job" Ash said. He motioned pikachu to come back and Pikachu ran over to Ash. "Alright arcanine return. Geeze Ash I didn't even know pikachu could learn fusion bolt" Jimmy said. "Normally they can't" Ash said. "Well then that pikachu really is something" Jimmy said.

"Ash has the lead!" May said. "Keep it up Ash!" Daniel said. "I choose you pidgeot" Ash said as he sent pidgeot out again. "I got just the one for you. Go Electivire!" Jimmy said. A massive Electivire came out and held his arms up into the air. "Electivire use electric terrain" Jimmy said. Electivire unleashed a wave of electricity around the battlefield.

"Pidgeot use aerial ace" Ash said. "Electivire use thunder!" Jimmy said. Pigeot flew at Electivire with incredible speed while Electivire charged up and unleashed a massive bolt of thunder. Pidgeot saw the thunder coming at him and moved out of its path. "Dam missed, Electivire move" Jimmy said.

Electivire tried to move but it was too late and was hit with aerial ace. "Electivire use shock wave!" Jimmy said. Electivire extened his arms and black tenticles out to take in the electrical power from the electric terrain. Once he had enough he filled the air with electricity that joined the electricity on the ground and hit pidgeot. "Pidgeot!' Ash said.

Pidgeot started to fidget from the electricity. "Perfect now use thunder" Jimmy said. "Pidgeot you have to move!" Ash said. "Pika!" Pikachu said. Because his connection with Ash was so strong, Pidgeot was able to overcome the paralysis and avoid the thunder.

"That was close" Serena said. "Pidgeot use twister" Ash said. "Electivire move" Jimmy said. Electivire tried to dodge the incoming tornado of dragon energy but pidgeot unleashed the attack to quickly. When Ash saw Electivire engulfed in the twister he made his move. "Pidgeot use giga impact" Ash said.

Pidgeot quickly picked up speed as he flew toward the twister. "No you don't Electivire use thunder" Jimmy said. Electivire broke out of the twister and unleashed thunder as pidgeot impacted him. Both pokemon were hit with the full force of the other attack and were knocked out.

"Both pokemon are unable to battle" Daniel said. "Jimmy only has one pokemon left and Ash has two" May said. "That's true but if this last pokemon is who I think it is, Ash could be in trouble" Serena said. Jimmy returned Electivire and took out his last pokeball. " Alright Ash, Your about to see my first and most powerful pokemon. Go Typhlosion!" Jimmy said.

Jimmy's Typhlosion came out in front of him and roared. Jimmy's typhlosion was massive, he looked much bigger and fiercer than the most typhlosions Ash had seen. "A firestarter huh well I think I have just the pokemon for you" Ash said as he took out another pokeball and threw it. Daniel smiled as he knew who Ash was sending out.

The pokeball opened and let out Ash's charizard who roared as he hit the ground. Jimmy was amazed by how big Ash's charizard was . Like typhlosion, charizard looked much bigger and more tenacious than the average charizard.

"Woah this is going to be sweet" May said. "We can do this typhlosion let's start with smokescreen followed by rollout" Jimmy said. Typhlosion opened his mouth and shot a ball of smoke that burst into a thick screen of smoke. "Charizard use wing attack then focus blast" Ash said.

Charizard whipped his wings forward and back blowing the smoke away. Once it was clear he saw typhlosion rolling at him and unleashed focus blast, hurling typhlosion back. "Alright charizard nice work" Ash said. Despite the direct hit typhlosion got right back up.

"We're far from beaten Ash. Typhlosion use double edge" Jimmy said. "Charizard use dragon claw" Ash said. Charizard and Typhlosion sprinted at eachother preparing to unleash their attacks. Jimmy smiled and shouted "Now!". Typhlosion opened his mouth and unleashed another smokescreen, blinding charizard.

Typhlosion hit charizard across the head with double edge and charizard couldn't even hit back. "Charizard get rid of the smoke again" Ash said. "Rollout!" Jimmy said. Charizard again cleared the smoke with his wings but typhlosion was too close for him to do anything about rollout and he was hit. "Charizard!" Ash said.

Despite being hit with the rollout Charizard managed to stay on his feet. "Charizard we can do this" Ash said. "Pikachu!" Pikachu said. Charizard roared at Typlosion and smashed his left foot into the ground. "Typhlosion use smokescreen" Jimmy said. "Charizard use flamethrower" Ash said.

Typhlosion opened his mouth and unleashed another ball of smoke as Charizard unleashed a massive jet of fire. The flamethrower tore through the smoke and hit Typhlosion , forcing him back out of the smoke. "Perfect, charizard use steel wing" Ash said. Charizard flew at Typhlosion with remarkable speed and bashed him across the face with his metal wings.

"Typhlosion hit him with bulldoze" Jimmy said. "Charizard bull doze" Ash said. Both pokemon sprinted at eachother picking up momentum and then crashing into eachother. When they collided the two pokemon grabbed eachother's arms and tried to gain leverage over the other.

Ash and Jimmy were both watching closley as their pokemon struggled for control. "Come on Typhlosion" Jimmy said. "Don't give up charizard you can do it" Ash said. Charizard used every bit of energy he had and forced Typhlosion back. As Typhlosion stubbled backwards Charizard grabbed him and wrabbed his arms around typhlosion's stomach.

"Great now use seismic toss" Ash said. Charizard flew high into the air and did a few circles before flying straight towards the ground. "Typhlosion!" Jimmy said. When they hit the ground Charizard stood over typhlosion and roared. "Typhlosion is unable to battle. The winner is Ash" Daniel said. "We did it Charizar!" Ash said.

Ash and Pikachu ran out to charizard and joined him in a group hug. Jimmy went over to Typhlosion and helped him up. "It's alright Typhlosion we can't win them all" Jimmy said before returning Typhlosion. He walked over to Ash and shook his hand "I must say Ash you're defiantly a student of Daniel for how well you and your pokemon battle" Jimmy said.

"Thanks, you're a really good trainer too" Ash said. Daniel walked over to the two trainers and said "Well done both of you. Ash I'm proud to see you have been improving since we started. Jimmy you've also gotten better since the last time I saw you. Keep up the good work" Daniel said. "Thanks Daniel we will" Jimmy said.

"Alright Ash , Serena and I are going home so I'll email you when our next training session is" Daniel said. "Alright Daniel I'll see you then" Ash said. Daniel and Serena both sent out their Charizon's and rode them away from the Seafoam islands. After a trip to the pokemon center Ash and May rode Charizard back towards Pallet town. While they rode charizard May leaned forward and kissed Ash's cheek. "That was an exciting battle today Ash. Daniel was right you're getting better" May said.

"Well now that we're done with Daniel I had an idea for some training you and I could do with your charmeleon" Ash said. "Alright what do you have in mind?" May said. "Charizard how would you like a trip to the charicific valley?" Ash said. Charizard smiled and roared painting the sky with fire.