Chapter 9: Back Scale
Hola amigos! We're coming back to Bronze and BIGJAW. Let's see where The Sheriff's adventure takes him to this time.
Bronze was sitting in a chair, waiting for his Pokemon to heal up. Hau was right next to him, telling him about his trial and how it went.
"And then we find out that a small Wishiwashi was in the center of it." Hau said. Bronze was shocked that Hau seemed to have defeated Fishzilla with such ease.
"Sheesh, that thing gave BIGJAW a run for his money." Bronze said. "I guess it helps to have a type advantage combo", Bronze said in a sarcastic manner.
Hau made a face that showed he was not amused. "Wow… can't you let me win, like once?", Hau said in a less than amused tone.
"Dale, hombre (Come on, man). Don't be like that." Bronze said as he out his arm around Hau in a big brother-like manner.
"No, let's settle this with a battle." Hau said. He started to revert to his semi competitive nature towards the cowboy.
"I accept your challenge." Bronze said. "So, BIGJAW vs Dartrix?" Bronze asked.
"Nah", Hau said. "We've seen that battle a hundred times already. How about we use some newly captured Pokemon." Hau said.
"Alright then." Bronze said. "I already caught a new one so we can get it started faster."
"Then this is gonna be interesting." Hau said.
"I gotta warn you though, my newest addition is pretty strong", Bronze said in a competitive manor.
"Win or lose, it's gonna be a blast", Hau said with a smile. The two then shot their heads up as they heard a ding. They then raced each other to the front desk. Hau wasn't about to let him win so he jumped on Bronze's back.
"Don't make me start acting like a Tauros." Bronze said as he tried to shake him off. "Because if you mess with the Tauros you get the Horn Attack." Bronze said.
Nurse joy had a dead panned expression on her face as she saw the two acting like idiots. BIGJAW was too busy cringing at the pun Bronze made to try to break it up. Rotom Dex came out of nowhere and said, "Yep… that's definitely the professor's cousin." BIGJAW couldn't have agreed more.
Hau was laughing hard at this and Bronze took the opportunity and back handed him. Hau then fell to the ground and kept laughing even though he just got decked in the face. Bronze started laughing too over the ridiculousness of the situation. However nobody else found their antics as amusing. Some hought they were immature, others thought they idiots and some thought they were immature idiots.
"Please, no more roughhousing." Nurse Joy asked nicely as to not make them perform more destructive actions.
Bronze stopped laughing and realized they just made a huge scene in front of a lot of people. "Hah… sorry everyone. We were just having a bit of fun." Bronze said awkwardly and went up to the nurse and grabbed his Pokemon. BIGJAW hopped of the desk and Rotom Dex floated towards him.
What made this whole situation even more awkward was that Hau was still laughing. Bronze then kicked him in the side to get his attention. He didn't kick him hard though. "Get your Pokemon and let's book it. People already think we're crazy over the Malasada fiasco and now we caused this." Bronze said as he quickly walked out with his Pokemon.
Outside
Hau was still in the pokemon center, trying to apologize for causing disturbance. Bronze and BIGJAW took the time to sit by the fountain in the middle of town as they enjoy the scent of sweet nectar. BIGJAW enjoyed the sweet scent so much that it was making him hungry. Bronze noticed this and pulled a berry out of his bag. "Hey, take this." Bronze said. BIGJAW snatched it out of his hands and ate it in one bite since he is the bigjaw Pokemon after all. BIGJAW seemed to enjoy the berry much more thanks to the sweet scent near the pond. Bronze started to pet BIGJAW as he enjoyed the berry. Bronze looked to him and noticed something he saw on his back scale. The number fifty-four could be made out from a very faint scarring on the scale. Bronze then looked at the water of the fountain. Bronze reached his hand in and grabbed a leaf that fell into the fountain. He sniffed it and said, "Man, mama needs to get these for her cooking. They'll go great to season a Oran Berry pie.", Bronze said. BIGJAW looked at him and happily hissed in agreement.
Bronze then felt compelled to observe BIGJAW''s unusual marking. It was weird, he's normally doesn't get too stressed. He's acting like how his mother is. She worries about everything, especially when they are including him and his sister. He was beginning to have a flashback.
"Not this again." Bronze sighed. He was shorter than he is previously. His mother had her hands on his sweaty jaw region. She was trying to feel for something.
"I'm sorry mi amor. I just need to check." his mother said as she rubbed his glands. She thinks that one side of his face is bigger than the other. Her hands tried to massage the gland.
"I'm fine, mama." Bronze sighed. "Can I go back outside. I forgot my stick in the Tauros pen."
She then took her hands off his face and said to him, "You may think I'm crazy now but when you have your own kids, then you'll know why I worry". She had a bit more of a angry parent lecturing tone this time.
"Sorry. I don't think you're crazy but I'm sick of you trying to feel my glands every fifteen minutes." Bronze retorted. His mother then kissed him on the head and walked into the kitchen to prepare dinner.
Bronze then snapped back into reality. He now understood what his mom told him about. Being a trainer is like being a parent. It takes an extreme amount of responsibility. Now he has that responsibility and he was gonna make sure to raise his partner right. "Come here for a sec." Bronze said. BIGJAW got up from where it was sitting and layed on Bronze's lap. He started to scratch BIGJAW on the head, which he enjoyed. Bronze looked at the back scale and saw the faint fifty four. He knew he wasn't crazy. Well… he is kinda crazy but not as crazy as he thought. It looked like it was machines into his scale. Bronze then touched it and ran his finger through the engraving. BIGJAW wondered why Bronze stopped scratching his head and turned his head. He then saw Bronze inspecting the odd engraving on his back scale. BIGJAW went wide eyed and jumped out do his lap, a bit shaken up.
"What's wrong?" Bronze asked, since inspecting his back scale really shook him up. BIGJAW backed up a bit and sat down. He looked down to avoid making eye contact with Bronze. Bronze scooted closer to him and said, "Que pasa (What's up)", Bronze asked. BIGJAW still wasn't budging. He didn't seem angry though. BIGJAW had more of a look distress on his face. The expression on his face looked like something was triggered. Bronze put his arm around BIGJAW and said, "Hey buddy, it's okay". Bronze was trying to be very tender and comforting to his companion. The two were about to share an extremely tender moment that work probably give them a bonding experience. Unfortunately their moment was completely ruined when they heard ALOLA being yelled at the top of somebody's lungs. Hau was standing by the fountain, just getting out of the Pokemon center.
"What's up guys", Hau said in his normal energetic tone. Bronze and BIGJAW then stared at Hau as he had just kinda broke the awkwardness of the earlier moment.
"Nothing", Bronze said, trying to act like nothing important was happening.
"Well you're about to do something", Hau said. "Let's get this battle started". He then ran off.
BIGJAW was about to move onward when Bronze blocked him with his stick. "We're gonna discuss this later", Bronze said. The two then walked into Hau's direction without making any interaction. Bronze and BIGJAW walked in sync as they followed their carefree friend to their battle site. Bronze had noticed BIGJAW was walking a bit slower than him but still moving the leg that Bronze used. Bronze was also feeling kinda down, just out of nowhere he just felt distressed. He was worried about the weird marking on BIGJAW's back scale. Bronze was then taken out of his state of thought by Hau.
"Alright, let's see what you got!" Hau said with enthusiasm as he was interested in the new Pokemon Bronze caught. The two locked eyes and we're ready to battle.
"Go Night Wing!" Bronze said as he threw out his dusk ball.
"Go Magikarp!" Hau said as he sent out the fish. Bronze heard this and wasn't exactly feeling so pumped anymore.
The Dusk ball opened and released Night Wing in a burst of purple energy. The shiny Charizard roared and had smoke exhaling from his nostrils. Magikarp materialized and flopped on the ground.
Bronze was dead panned. He was seriously about to use his fully evolved, shiny Charizard that could of also been a totem Pokemon, against a fucking Magikarp. BIGJAW had the exact same expression at this. He slapped himself just to make sure he wasn't seeing things.
Night Wing however wasn't on the same boat. He was laughing his scaley ass off over his opponent.
"Woah, a shiny Charizard!" Hau exclaimed. "Man, you it to tell me where you catch your Pokemon." Hau's mood soon changed from startstrucked to annoyed as he realized the Charizard was laughing at his Magikarp. "Come on, man. Don't laugh at him." Hau said in an angered tone. Night Wing was still laughing at the fish. Hau sneaked Magikarp was getting angry and said, "Come on, Magikarp. Let's show em what we're made off." Hau said, trying to be inspiring. The Magikarp cared very little for what Hau had to say. It just wanted to make Night Wing eat dirt.
Night Wing was still laughing out of disbelief but then was shut down by Bronze. "Alright, let's start this off with Flame Burst." Bronze said. He knew this was going to be an easy battle but he didn't want to be a jerk. Night Wing looked back at him with disbelief as he was actually gonna make him battle a Magikarp out of all things. The dragon gave in and charged up a fireball in its mouth. Night Wing let out a burst of fire that headed straight for Magikarp.
"Dodge." Hau said. The fish didn't move, it just looked at the ball of heat and glared at it. The Flame Burst hit it dead center. A cloud of smoke was all that could be seen.
Night Wing was laughing his ass off at this. Maybe this wasn't going to be boring for him after all. Bronze immediately felt worried as he just thought Night Wing had made him blackened Magikarp
Hau was dumbfounded. Bronze was a strong trainer but Hau got rekt pretty fast. Hau thought his Magikarp's life was Filet'O-ver but by the will of Arceus a miracle happened.
*Cue last minute power up cliche'
White light flashed around Magikarp and Hau went wide eyed at the current situation. Bronze was as well but for a different reason. Hau and Bronze felt the power in the air as Magikarp morphed into its most powerful form/ Night Wing was even feeling the power but he was skeptical. Magikarp's body formed into a white, snake-like form. The evolution finally completed and Magikarp had evolved into something that the polar opposite. Magikarp was a small fish that flopped around and was… useless. Now he looked pissed in the form of a giant, blue leviathan.
"Aue, look at you Magikarp or should I say, Gyarados." Hau said, admiring how powerful his Gyarados had become. Bronze was stunned, he truly underestimated Hau… like a lot. That Magikarp was pissed at Night Wing for laughing. Bronze was now a bit worried. Fire vs Water normally doesn't end well. Bronze wasn't about to chicken out of battle.
"Night Wing, be careful. Gyarados is a powerful water type, especially when it's made." Bronze said. Night Wing didn't take as a word of advice, just a second ago he knew Bronze wasn't thinking of this as a hard battle. He's now telling HIM to be cautious. Night Wing grunted and flew into air with a roar. He charged up a Flame Burst in his mouth and fired it off. Gyarados was hit right in between the eyes with the fire projectile. A cloud of smoke started but was quickly blown away by a swish of it tail. It roared at Night Wing who just roared back. "Night Wing, what are you doing! Use Thunder Punch!" Bronze said, trying to get Night Wing to use the move he had that could do alotta damage.
Night Wing fired off burst after burst of fire projectiles but nothing seem to work. Fire on Water isn't the best combo. Flame Burst just seemed to make Gyarados more and more angry. He was barley leaving scuff marks. Gyarados violently whipped his tail but Night Wing had the advantage of speed and flight. The dragon did a barrel roll and headed straight for Gyarados.
Hau was fiddling through his bag to grab his pokedex. He needed to know what moves his Gyarados knew so he could properly call out commands. Bronze was going ways he could tackle this situation. Night Wing was going Rambo but he needed to work around this predicament. BIGJAW was feeling uncomfortable before about the whole backscale thing with Bronze but now he was tense. BIGJAW looked up to his trainer and saw his expression was showing off signs of conflict in his mind. The croc could sense that Bronze was going over different scenarios but couldn't find anything that worked.
BIGJAW tugged at Bronze's pant leg to get his attention. Bronze then looked to see BIGJAW. "What do need? This really isn't time!" Bronze said in haste. BIGJAW then looked at him again. Bronze suddenly felt the stress wash away. Looking at BIGJAW just made him feel relaxed. "Thanks." Bronze said. I guess all he needed was some encouragement from his friend.
Hau finally gotten his pokedex out of his bag and stated typing quickly in it. He finally pulled up Gyarados. "Gyarados, the Atrocious Pokemon, and the evolved form of Magikarp. It fires hyper beams in all directions, burning the surrounding area to ash. There are some regions where it's called 'the deity of destruction'." Hau's pokedex started in a robotic, lifeless voice. Nothing like the Rotom Dex, who was always full of life. He then checked the moves. All his Gyarados knew was Splash, Tackle and Bite.
"Night Wing, fly straight towards it and use Air Slash!" Bronze yelled. BIGJAW wasn't as enthusiastic about Night Wing battling but liked watching Bronze and now he can figure out what to do to top Night Wing whenever he battled. Night Wing could get behind this, head first into the opponent. Now Bronze realized he was leagues above this fresh Gyarados. At Least in his head anyways. In reality, Bronze was just trying to find a way to make the dragon listen, even if it is reckless.
The dragon flew straight towards the Gyarados at rapid speeds. Night Wing felt the rush of battle in his heart as he spiraled up into the air and rained down hell in the form of Air Slash. Hau's Gyarados tanked the hits though. "Way to keep your ground, Gyarados. Now, use Bite!" Hau said. Gyarados lunged at the Charizard and opened its mouth wide.
"Night Wing, use Flame Burst!" Bronze said. Night Wing flew out of the way of the leviathan and charged up a fireball in its mouth. Gyarados was shocked at how fast it was. It then fell onto the ground but immediately got back up and lunged at the dragon. It opened it's jaws wide and roared a roar that could topple a building. The Charizard then let the attack fire out of its mouth and it went straight into the Gyarados' mouth. Gyarados' eyes went wide as and it pulled its head back in pain. He violently gagged as he coughed up smoke and felt a painful burn in the back of its throat. Like those stupid as shit ghost pepper challenges.
Night wing saw what he had pulled off and couldn't help but laugh his scaley ass off. Bronze was confused at this. "Why is he just flying there. Finish the dang battle!" Bronze thought to himself. He then looked at BIGJAW and said, "You're not gonna be like that, right?" BIGJAW gave him a nod of approval, which gave Bronze some comfort that he will have at least one strong pokemon that will listen to him. Bronze however was getting fed up with Night Wing's laughing in the middle of the battle. He was tempted to hogtie him and make him think about how arrogant he was being.
Gyarados coughed up one final puff of smoke and looked at Night wing, who was laughing as if he had too much to drink and heard someone made a fart joke. Gyarados then roared so loud Arceus could've even heard it. Gyarados then looked up at Night Wing who was still laughing and grunted. Night Wing stopped laughing and looked down at the Gyarados. He flapped his wings in the air in place and glared at the humongous water snake. Gyarados then charged up an attack but it wasn't something he knew before. Hau saw light protruding from his mouth and looked down at his pokedex. He then saw that a new move was being learned and from the amount of energy that was forming in the back of its throat, in was oblivious what it was gonna be.
Bronze went wide eyed as he saw the move coming from the Gyarados. BIGJAW looked up at Night Wing with an expression that said, "He brought this on himself."
"Dear Arceus, is that Hyper Beam!" Rotom Dex said, accompanied by a exclamation mark being displayed on the screen of his shell.
"Night Wing, you better watch yourself." Bronze said. Night Wig scoffed at the advice and had fire building up in the back of his throat. Both dragon-like Pokemon glared as they charged up their attacks. Hau was looking worried as this attack was something his Gyarados was just learning how to use. If things go south, the attack could really damage himself. Bronze was worried because of Night Wings stubbornness. In Kiawe's trial he listened well and was able to beat Salazzle with his power combined with direction. Now he is barley listening. Only attacking in reckless ways and being extremely arrogant. This arrogance could really get him hurt, severely.
Night Wing finished charging his attack and let loose a powerful Flame Burst. It was bigger and brighter than his previous. The attack traveled at high speeds and was heading right towards Gyarados. Goku would even rush him to use t already. Gyarados had alotnfonenergh protruding from its mouth. Fueled by its anger at Night Wing and in general, it finally unleashed all the built up power in the form of a beam that could make a Spirit Bomb piss itself and utterly trumped the Charizard's Flame Burst. "Night Wing, sal de ahi! (Night Wing, get out of there!)" Bronze yelled.
The dragon went wide eyed and covered itself with it's dark wings. It was with full force. Night Wing could feel the burning on his skin from the intense energy of the attack. Night Wing being knocked back by the beam and before it new it felt another wave of pain all over its body as it crashed into a wall. Bronze saw a cloud of dust form as the beam and Night Wing crashed into the mountain. "Oh shoot…" Bronze said as he booked it over to Night Wing. BIGJAW ran after him. Bronze felt his heart beating fast as he ran, worried about his Charizard and if it was gonna be okay.
Hau was just at a lost for word right now. He didn't know what he was more shocked, winning against Bronze or his Gyarados using Hyper Beam. Hau was broke out of his trance by hearing the sound of his Gyarados roaring in victory. Hau was about to congratulate him but then saw that a black figure was falling in the distance. Hau then said, "Alright, that's enough of you!" He pulled out his pokeball and the water dragon turned into transparent, red energy. The whole thing then was sucked into the pokeball. Hau looked down at the ball and felt weird. This wasn't like his other Pokemon who were all still baby faced and looked harmless. This was a pokemon powered by a never ending supply of rage, ontop of being massive and intimidating. Hau stopped contemplating his choice of pokemon and ran after Bronze.
Bronze and BIGJAW were still running to the wall that Night Wing was blasted into. Bronze then saw that Night Wing wasn't in very good shape. He saw the wall that he crashed into had a chunk of it taken out when the he hit it. Night Wing was on top of the broken wall and was covered in dust and debris. "Night Wing!" Bronze practically yelled and as he rushed to the dragon's side. He cradled his head and tried to talk to him. "Hey, hey buddy. Don't worry, everything's gonna be fine!" Bronze said a she caressed the damaged dragon's head. Bronze tried to give a smile to see if that would make him feel better. Night Wing then started to have his vision blurry. Bronze noticed and said, "How many finger am I holding up?" He then held up two fingers to see if the dragon would respond. Hau had caught up with Bronze to see what damage he did. People were scared and officer Jennies were on the scene.
"Oh by the Tapu…" Hau said. "Bronze, is you Charizard okay?" Hau asked. He then saw Night Wing's tail fame was weak and shrinking.
"What do you think!" Bronze almost yelled in anger. Hau stumbled back in fear. Most trainers rather settle things with words and smack talk. Trainers would be angry at others if they put their pokemon in critical condition but most likely would just not talk. Bronze on the other hand would of probably knocked Hau into the next Malasada Shop. Hau had only seen anger ike that once with his grandad. Man is his grandad scary when he's mad.
Bronze looked down at Night Wing and said in a tender voice, "Here, this'll make you feel a little better." Bronze then pulled an Oran Berry out of his bag and held it in front of the dragon. Night Wing picked up the scent of the fruit and chomped down on it. Night Wing felt some of his pain be relieved but was still hurting all over but h was given enough energy to stand, or well try to stand. Night Wing tried to get up but he nearly fell flat on his face. Bronze went under him and let the dragon put his weight on his body. "Come on, let's go to the pokemon center. I'll make sure you won't fall". Even though he was heavy, Bronze pushed forward. He wasn't the one who took the punishment in the battle, the least he could do was walk him to the pokemon center. BIGJAW wa right behind him, making sure Bronze didn't hurt himself getting to the pokemon center. Hau saw this and felt horrible. How could he let this happen? Sure, pokemon is about battling and such but they are still living, breathing creatures with feelings and shit. Hau booked it to the pokemon center.
The doors chimed when they were opened. Nurse Joy sighed and thought to herself, "So much for my coffee break." She put on her best smile and said, "Hello, welcome to the po-." she was about to finish.
"There's a guy with a really hurt Charizard coming here!" Hau said at the speed of sound. "Get stuff ready because it's really hurt!" Hau said, pleading the nurse.
"Don't worry, I'll have a stretcher ready for it." she said as she ran into a room to get the stretcher and Chansey. Hau sat in a chair and waited for them to come through.
BIGJAW ran up to the door and opened it. Hau jumped out of his chair and sais, "Where's Bronze?" BIGJAW then stepped to the side as Bronze walked in with Night Wing resting on him. Bronze was using all his strength to lift Night Wing up since all the dragon's weight was resting upon him. Bronze was careful though and even had the dragon's tail in his mouth to protect the flame from shrinking down anymore.
Nurse Joy and a few Chansey rushed out of the closed off room with a stretcher in hand. They then saw then saw the Pokemon that was heavily damaged was in fact the Charizard of Wela Volcano. Nurse Joy recognized Bronze and said, "Wait, your the trainer who came here because of that Charizard." "What happened?"
"We were battling a Gyarados." Bronze said.
"You CAUGHT it!" Nurse Joy said since this particular Charizard has been making trainers need ass whooping insurance and suddenly this one guy comes and catches it.
"Yes, yes but that's not important right now!" Bronze said as he made his way to the stretcher and gently tried to put down the massive dragon. Chansey then circled around him and helped him out the dragon on the stretcher. One frontage Chansey had come back with a smaller stretcher for the tail. The whole crew of Chansey and Nurse joy then started pushing them to the emergency room. Bronze ran with them but Nurse Joy had to stop him. She said something about giving them time to work on him and that having the trainer breathing down their necks wasn't going to be helpful. Bronze then have them Night Wing's Dusk ball and walked away. Bronze walked back to Hau, in defeat. He sat down next to him and looked down.
"How could I be so stupid? I should of just pulled him out of the battle when I had the chance. But no, I couldn't pull myself to get him out of there. Now he's in the emergency room." Bronze thought to himself. He was feeling pretty awful right now. He has to learn when to put his foot down and pull his Pokemon out, even by force. He has no problem of doing that so why didn't he this time. Hau was awkwardly sitting next to him. He didn't try talking to him though since Bronze looked like he going through some emotion and he hoped that one of his emotions wasn't in the form of anger towards him.
Bronze covered his face with his hands as he kept thinking that he was a horrible trainer. He felt a tug on his pants and open end his eyes. He saw BIGJAW was standing next to him, worried. The croc then jumped up and sat on his lap. He put his head against Bronze's chest and tried to comfort him. Bronze felt a little better. He smiled and patted BIGJAW. "Thanks buddy, I needed that." The two the jumped when they heard a bell ring. Nurse Joy was at the main desk. Bronze then walked up to the desk, in haste, and asked in a shaky tone, "H-how's my Charizard?"
"You're Charizard is feeling much better now. He's now ready for more action." the nurse said as she handed the dusk ball which housed the dragon.
Bronze was dumbfounded. He kinda forgot that pokemon centers work extremely fast. He went up and grabbed the ball and looked down at it. He felt a lot better knowing that he was all patched up. "Thank you." Bronze said. He walked to the doors to leave. "Come on, BIGJAW." Bronze said. The croc got up and followed him out the doors. Hau did the same thing.
The two walked and went down the path that led to the next route. Bronze looked at the dusk ball once again. Seeing one of his Pokemon like that never felt good to him. It's like if a family member got injured on your watch. BIGJAW noticed Bronze was still worried so he hissed it get his attention. Bronze the looked at him and BIGJAW gave a toothy grin. He then happily hissed at his trainer. Bronze chuckled, "I can always count on you." The two heard footsteps and turned. They saw Hau, who had just caught up to them. "Que pasa? (What's up?)" Bronze asked.
"Oh great, you're giving me the alternate language treatment." Hau sighed. "I'm really sorry for what happened. I'm sorry to your Charizard too. From the looks of it, I thought it was…" Hau said.
"It's no problem. He's all patched up but I go to take control of it. That's my bad." Bronze said. "Congrats though. You finally got me." Bronze said. "Hats off to you." Bronze said as he took his hat off. He then put it back on and walked off to the next route with BIGJAW.
The Johtonians walked up to the tunnel and both took deep breaths in sync. Bronze then looked to BIGJAW and said, "Well, that was a embarrassing display on my part." BIGJAW looked at Bronze. Bronze the got the memo and said "Well I could of directed Night Wing better." BIGJAW rolled his eyes and walked forward. Bronze followed.
BIGJAW gotten pretty far ahead of Bronze already. That croc was a fast one. "Hey, wait up!" Bronze said as he ran. "You know running's not my strong point!" Bronze finally caught up to him. He caught his breath from trying to keep up with the croc. Although he failed terribly. He noticed that BIGJAW was completely still with fear. "Hey what's wrong?" Bronze asked as he too felt a little more fearful. The two then looked at two figures who were just standing. Bronze and BIGJAW were right behind them but stayed quite.
"Woah, the aura readings here are going crazy", the shorter one exclaimed in a feminine voice. The two the turned to see Bronze and BIGJAW were just staring back.
One of them was a tall man with an average build. He looked extremely pale with a tint of light blue and had purple hair. He also wore an outfit that looked like a more efficient Stormtrooper armor. Their helmets showed the lower portion of their faces but their visors covered their eyes. They gave off a very odd Sci-Fi vibe, as if they weren't human.
The woman next to him was a lot shorter and had orange braids with a blue tint. She also had the same pale, blue tinted skin and armor that looked like it came from Star Wars. Bronze was growing more and more weary ad noticed BIGJAW was extremely tense. He almost thought that the croc was about to shit bricks at this rate.
"Greetings, human of Alola." the man said as he performed a robotic version of Alola. Bronze stood there awkwardly, just trying to see why they were dressed like that. Sure, he wears a cowboy get up and punches pokemon but these guys looked like they were on their way to a cosplay convention.
"Oh I see. He must be confused because we did not say the cultural greeting." the smaller woman said as she performed the same greeting but said Alola.
"Hola…" Bronze awkwardly said. These guys acted like they haven't seen other people before.
"Oh my, a Croconaw!" the woman said. "I believe that these are not native to Alola. Do you two come from a distant land as we do?" the woman said. She walked closer to the pokemon, trying to inspect it. She primarily tried to get a look and BIGJAW's back scale. Bronze noticed this and put his stick in front of her.
"Don't try it." Bronze said. Plain and simple. The woman didn't seem to get the memo that Bronze was going to knock her upside the head if she didn't back the fuck up.
"Please Zossie, control yourself." the man sighed.
"Come on, Dulse. You don't have to act so serious all the time." Zossie said. Dulse sighed. He then realized that his scanner had detected something.
"Odd, your aura readings are higher than most." Dulse said. Bronze was getting more and more defensive over this. He had a bad feeling about these guys. "We are aware that special pokemon on alola are more active here so most people have aura readings, but you have higher readings than most kahunas."
"Okay, what now?" Bronze asked.
"Hm, just as new to this region we are. You come from a farther place?" Dulse asked.
"That's not important right now. What I want to know is what are these aura readings?" Bronze asked.
"They are the aura to which come from special pokemon of this region. You have a much higher than normal reading.s It's like you've been contact with the detie of these islands." Dulse said.
"Ok then. You do you." Bronze said as he and BIGJAW were about to walk away. Dulse stopped him.
"That pokemon looks familiar." Dulse said as he tried to get a good look at BIGJAW. BIGJAW looked at Dulse's visor in fear. Bronze saw BIGJAW was getting scared. He then shoved Dulse away from him.
"I'm not afraid to throwdown." Bronze said as he cracked his knuckles. Zossie then took a good look at Bronze and noticed BIGJAW's pokeball hat he wore around his neck.
"Where did you get that?!" she exclaimed. She tried to reach for it but Bronze grabbed her arm and shoved it away. She and Dulse were shocked since Bronze was far more aggressive than the people they have previously encountered.
"Restrain yourself. We must find someone who is strong enough to protect the Blinding One." Dulse said as he reached for a pokeball. "Let us see if you might be the one." He then threw a pokeball that was identical to BIGJAW's. A pokemon started to materialize out of blue energy. What came out was a odd looking pokemon. It looked out of this world, kinda like that pokemon Lillie kept in her bag. "I must warn you. This pokemon does come from your world."
"Alright, Tin man. But you're asking for a world of hurt." Bronze said. "Alright, BIGJAW. You ready?" Bronze said but noticed BIGJAW was frozen. Bronze sensed that BIGJAW was similar to when he looked at his back spike. Bronze put his hand on the croc's shoulder. This startled the croc but he saw it was the hand of his trainer. "Don't worry. You know I got your back." Bronze said to encourage BIGJAW to battle. The croc looked at Bronze and felt his worries melt away. BIGJAW stepped up and bared his fangs.
"Good luck, partner." Rotom Dex said as he got out of the bag to watch the battle. He had some pixelated popcorn show up on his monitor as if this was a movie.
Dulse and Zossie were intrigued by Rotom Dex but this wasn't the time to pick apart a machine. "I shall have the first turn." Dulse said. "Poipole, use Venoshock." The alien-like creature unleashed a burst of hot poison from its mouth.
"Dodge it!" Bronze said. The croc moved out of the way, quickly. BIGJAW then blasted hot water out of its mouth to use as a makeshift jetpack. Dulse looked in awe as the croc flew in the air. He then let his claws out which turned into steel.
"Avoid the attack." Dulse said. The out of this world pokemon lunged out of thw way as BIGJAW was falling his way. BIGJAW's claws made sparks fly as he slashed at the ground. The croc pyred his claws out of the ground and ran to Poipole. "Use Venoshock." Dulse commanded. Poipole shot more hot poison at the croc. BIGJAW used his claws to block the poison. He could feel the heat building up in his claws but wasn't damaged thanks to steel having an immunity to poison. BIGJAW broke the stream in and lunged at the alien-like pokemon. He then slashed it across the face. The pokemon was knocked into the ground. Dulse looked in awe at BIGJAW's display. "Our observations were correct. He will extremely useful for our current situation." Dulse thought to himself.
"Wow, he didn't even say a word." Zossie said in amazement. She was very fired up to watch a pokemon battle in person. Dulse felt himself breaking a sweat as his pokemon got up.
"So this is what it's like. I'm sweating and yet I'm not evening lifting a finger to help." Dulse said out loud, without realizing it. Dulse then looked up to Bronze and BIGJAW to see they were breathing in sync. BIGJAW patiently waiting for Bronze to call out another command. Bronze didn't understand it either. The croc just pulled off what Bronze was gonna say before he even said it. He's noticed this from just daily activities too. The two walk in sync and sometimes blink in sync. It gets to a point where it's almost creepy but in a way, it feels natural.
"Good job, bud. Now, use Crunch!" Bronze said. The croc quickly ran to Dulse's pokemon and opened his jaws.
Dulse was trying to think about what he was gonna do next. BIGJAW had his mouth wide opened and showed his rows of sharp teeth. He then came up with an idea, "Poiple, use Charm." The pokemon then winked at BIGJAW right before he bit down. The pokemon didn't scream in pain though, as the attack power was nullified. "Now, use Venoshock." The pokemon charged up it's hot venom and spewed it at BIGJAW, point blank. The croc was knocked back and fell on it's side.
"BIGJAW, are you okay?!" Bronze asked as he was about to rush to the croc. BIGJAW struggled to get, but eventually stood on his own two feet. Bronze noticed BIGJAw had a poison effect on him. He could see a blush on the croc from feeling sick.
"Bronze, Croconaw hazzz the poizzzon statuzzzz effect and hazz hizz phyzzzical attack damaged lowered." Rotom Dex said as he pulled up a display of BIGJAW with a status effect and a 2x lowered by his attack.
"BIGJAW, use Scald!" Bronze said. BIGJAW was feeling weak but looked at Bronze. The cowboy nodded to him. BIGJAW nodded back and faced Poipole. He then charged up a burst of scalding water in the back of it's throat.
"Do the same." Dulse said. Poipole then charged up boiling venom in its mouth as well. The two released the attacks and as they made contact it started to steam. The steam was toxic though so Bronze ran to BIGJAW to shield him from the poison. Dulse and Zossie pressed buttons on their helmets and their mouth were covered. Poipole and Rotom Dex were unaffected since one of them is a Poison type and the other is a robot.
After a minute the toxic steam cleared and they saw that Bronze had shielded BIGJAW with his body. "I was not aware trainer's can be this reckless when it come to protecting their own pokemon." Dulse said.
Bronze got up and was miraculously fine. He had a slight yellow aura glow but then it immediately faded away. Dulse had just scanned Bronze and saw his aura reading were through the roof but then shrank down rapidly. No over 9000 joke here. BIGJAW, with rapid speed, stood in front of his trainer, without his poison affect.
"Interesting, you both were not affected by the toxic steam." Zossie said. "Not that it's a bad thing."
"Alright, we're ending this here!" Bronze said in anger. BIGJAW had the same expression on his face. "Use Scald!" Bronze yelled. It could be heard through the tunnel they were in. BIGJAW unleashed a burst of hot water towards Poipole. The alien-like pokemon was not prepared to doge so it got hit full force by scalding water. It screamed in pain like a Xenomorph and fainted. Steam emitted from it as it layed on the ground, unconscious. Zossie and Dulse were speechless about this. It was obvious they either hadn't ever battled before in their lives or they were expecting to win.
"I don't understand." Dulse said. "How could a normal pokemon defeat a ultra beast and still be standing?" he thought to himself.
"Happy now?" Bronze said sarcastically.
"I see… so that it a pokemon battle?" Dulse said. "We have tried to investigate what it meant to battle with pokemon, but it is quite different when you do it yourself." "At least we know that the pokeball we tried to create was worked properly to capture a pokemon in Alola."
"What do you mean. This world is filled with over 700 pokemon, maybe more. How have you not seen a battle?" Bronze said as he was extremely confused over this situation.
"It's… difficult to explain." Dulse said. "What I do know is that I've seen a how you're are, young Alolan trainer. "You should know that that one of the pokemon you've been in contact with warps away when it's feels threatened. Holes are torn whenever it warps and it gives opportunity for dangerous being to enter the world. Perhaps thing will be alright, knowing that trainer's you are in Alola."
Bronze's gears were turning as he was trying to process what he was hearing. He's was trying to think back to what Pokemon does that. He remembered on the bridge. The bridge gave out when Nebby flashed and destroyed it. Could he possibly warp? Maybe they're after him. He'd have to be sure to protect them and since Nebby is with Lillie he has to protect her too.
Zossie than had a realization. "What about that girl, though." she said
It took all of Bronze's willpower to not pin the two against a wall and threaten to knock them back to their bootleg Star Trek convention if they didn't stay away from Lillie. BIGJAW could sense Bronze was about to start a brawl but that was the least of his worries. He kept listening to these two talk and his fear coming back.
"That girl should have nothing to do with our investigation, nor the Pokemon of hers… as long as no one else is foolish enough to open a path that could lead here from Megalo Tower." Dulse said.
"Megalo what now?" Bronze asked. BIGJAW for some reason wasn't as confused. He may have overheard these words before because as he heard them he got more worried.
"Nevermind that." Dulse said. He looked at Bronze and his scanner picked up higher aura readings. It was strange that his readings were growing. The scanner then closed in on Bronze's wrist, which housed his Z-Ring. "Are you incontrol of your aura?"
"Que?" Bronze said. He was starting to think these two kept those helmets on for too long.
"I suppose not. That ring you have on envelops your ally in powerful aura., does it not" Dulse said.
"Yeah... it was given to me by Tapu Koko." Bronze said. "I have no idea why it chose me out of all people to own a Z-Ring but hey, it's pretty cool."
"Have you used a Z-Move yet." Zossie asked.
"Of course not. Zossie. He's not in control of his aura yet. But I suppose it matters to us, little." Dulse said.
"Okay… I'm gonna head out now. Thanks for the battle and good luck with your readings…" Bronze said awkwardly. He was about to walk off when he was stopped by Dulse. "Now what?" Bronze sighed. His next trial was so close he could taste it. No pun intended. The last thing he needed was to spend more time in a tunnel with two Star Trek rejects that freak BIGJAW out.
"Once… long, long ago… our world was also awash in wondrous light, like the light of those Z-Moves you can use…" Dulse said. Bronze once again had no clue what was going on. These guys have been spouting inter-dimensional nonsense for the past fifteen minutes. Going on and on about light and shit.
"Dulse? It's about time for our meeting." Zossie said.
"Oh I'm sorry. I wouldn't want to keep you from your 'special' meeting. It's not like you've been keeping me from actually completing my trials for the longest time." Bronze said sarcastically.
"Yes. We will be getting the aid of a scientist who is well educated in the ways of pokemon. We will need his help to find ways we might use technology to achieve our goals." Dulse said. "Farewell, trainer. May our paths cross again." Dulse said as he and Zossie both performed another robotic Alola.
"Adios." Bronze said hastily as he picked up BIGJAW ad booked it outta the tunnel. Rotom Dex quickly flew after him.
Zossie turned to Dule and said, "I think that trainer may have one of the pokemon that escaped the day that girl got away."
"Yes. I am aware of the resemblance. Do you make sure to check it for it's serial number." Dulse asked as he walked.
"I tried but that trainer was going to knock my head off." Zossie said.
"It's strange. You don't see those type of pokemon in the wild. You also don't see aura readings like that. We may have to find more about this fellow and keep a close eye on him." Dulse said. "We'll worry about that later. We don't want to miss our meeting."
Route 8…
"Man, that was weird." Bronze sighed. He was debating whether all that light mumbo jumbo was worse than hearing Team Skull grunts try to be intimidating.
"At least we're almost at your next trial." Rotom Dex said. "So let's hurry up. I'm not getting any younger." BIGJAW ave a reassuring grunt to show he was on board."
"Alright, let's get to the next trial." Bronze said as he walked off. He then realized he forgot one important detail. "Where is the next trial?" Bronze said awkwardly.
Rotom Dex pulled up map and had a red arrow point to the location. "Out next stop should be to Lush Jungle."
"Vamos." Bronze said. The two followed him across the route. They could see a bunch of trainer's in the grass who were itching for a battle. The route was kinda small and Bronze noticed a establishment was nearby by. A pokemon center was also close by for all his healing needs.
A trainer jumped up from the high ground and landed on the pavement with grace. As f she was trying to Obi-meme, all that was missing was a 'Hello there'. "When two trainers loc.." she was about to say when Bronze walked right past her while saying 'nope'. Bronze wasn't in the mood for random trainers. He was in the mood to finish his island challenge.
Bronze closed in on a pokemon center and said, "Let's stock up and get you patched up."
One poke'heal later…
Bronze and BIGJAW walked out of the pokemon center and saw a sign that led directly to Lush Jungle. The two bolted to the direction the sign was pointing to. They made it to the entrance of the trial sight only to see Kukui standing there. "Hey cousin." Kukui said. "How's Alola been treating ya."
"Honestly, it's been a roller coaster." Bronze sighed. "It's been fun though and I always got this guy by my side." Bronze said a she squatted down and put his arm around BIGJAW. The croc nuzzled against him.
"Good to hear you're getting along with Croconaw. I can just see it in your moves that you two are in sync." Kukui said. "Oh and your folks sent this over to ya." Kukui said as he pulled two Poke'gears out of his lab coat.
Bronze took the two devices and put them in his bag. "Gracias and all but I already got one."
"Your mother thought you could give these to Lillie and Hau. Man, she was so happy to see you made friends on your first day here." Kukui said. "Welp, time for me to make like a tree a Razor-Leaf." Kukui said as he walked off. Couldn't go one day without making BIGJAW cringe.
"Alright BIGJAW. Mallow's trial is gonna be difficult but we got this." Bronze said. "You feeling better after we left the tin cans." Bronze asked. BIGJAW nodded in response. "Are we gonna crush this trial." Bronze said. BIGJAW responded with a confident grunt. "Andale pues." Bronze said as he and BIGJAW walked into the trial site.
Well… here ya go. It's been awhile since I last posted but I finished it. The writing in this chapter wasn't as good as last. Dropped a lot of dialogue on you guys but I was NOT about to rewrite a chapter just ot plug in the Ultra Recon squad. I just put their lines together. A bit lazy? Yes. Anywho, the trial is gonna be next chapter since it meant this chapter would be posted earlier. I didn't want to put too much into this chapter. But I'm aware how many people will care about collecting ingredients for soup. Also Bronze lost his first battle, with the newly evolved Charizard so yeah. It will all make sense in time. That's all for now and I'll see ya next time. Adiso.
Review Responses (Yay):
Unknown: Sorry but no. I feel that concept only works with characters who are physically fit. I feel it's funnier to see the Wolverine with a beer belly watching TV and eating hot wings on a beach resort, then having Deadpool trying to get him off his ass and be Wolverine again. Also, I hope your name is like the pokemon, Unknown, because I want to make sure I can see who's who. How do you feel about Nefario?
Little Miss Firebrigh: I salute you for reading through my whole story with this. Very few survive that journey…
I'll respond to each review individually. *Starts up the coffee pot*
Chapter 1:
I make it extremely clear that I'm not the bet writer. Thanks for noticing.
BIGJAW has significance to me since it was my first pokemon and nickname. I write BIGJAW like this because when I was a young lad the names of pokemon were in all caps and since I was 8 or 7 at the time, I wrote it like that. Sue me…
Bronze was the only mineral that sounded that a decent guys name since every other fucking material was already taken. Glad you like it though.
Chapter 2:
Luna was obvious but it's my favorite eeveelution
Hau beating someone. *Runs to the other room to laugh* Look, Hau's a total Bro but he's not particularly good in battle.
Chapter: 3
Thanks for the grammar lesson, it proved very useful.
I don't believe in mistakes, I believe in happy accidents. Lol.
He's from Johto and Soul Silver was my first Pokemon game so swearing on Lugia adds just some more nostalgic nerdiness.
FINALLY! Someone got the reference!
I thought that one liner was pretty good myself!
Chapter 4:
Yep, that's Alola. Do a magical dance and unleashed a move that makes Goku soilhimself.
Glad you like Bigjaw (It will only be spelled like this once). How does he fit well with Bronze. I know they're both from Johto but what else makes them click?
Oh jeez, you really like the puns. Well don't worry, when ever Kukui's around things get really PUN-ny (God dammit)
I have full reason to believe that earth's core (in pokemon) is scolding hot velveeta cheese.
Chapter 5:
Woah… didn't think anyone would actually like that chapter. Thank you for the props. It helps when your dad is a cattle rancher.
Luna was obvious but then again, I really wanted a Umbreon. They just look so elegant and mysterious.
Yep, Bronze has balls of steel and rocks for brains at times. Legend has it that his hat gives him +1 courage and +5 stupidity.
Chapter 6:
Wasn't my original intention. I thought it would of been a little funny.
I'm trying to show Bronze's personality off so he doesn't feel boring. Though I think that Bronze being a professional Pokemon Puncher makes him a bit more interesting.
Hats are love, hats are life. I wearing a cowboy hat as we speak. Wait. *puts on cowboy hat* now I'm wearing it.
Bronze will lose a battle. Keep in mind, he does have more knowledge of pokemon since he's older than most starting trainers and has always had a fascination for pokemon.
I'll do more original stuff along the way. The tauros chapter was really just for fun, which I enjoyed writing.
Chapter 7:
You need a room?
I liked Rapidash but it wasn't my taste. Zebstrika was a zebra. Mudsdale was just right. I kinda like the dreadlocks he has. It gives off a tank vibe.
The chapter was rushed but also short. Didn't want to dwell too long here.
Chapter 8:
Oh how I love when dialogue like that gets noticed. Gladion's a total edgelord, Hau's a carefree lad, and main character just stand there with a blank expression as he destroys his opponents one by one.
"The Sheriff" is something I thought was humorous since he dresses like a cowboy and is always in Team skulls business. I'll be sure to keep the nickname alive.
I'm glad the pokemon seem to be alive! I was hoping to make them seem unique to each other. White fang is still a carefree, energetic o he's pretty much Hau right now.
I thought the Shiny Charizard battle scene was the best I made. I still go back read it now and then. Glad you appreciated the effort I put into Night Wing's whole backstory. I really wanted a shiny charizard and used to be my favorite pokemon (Feraligatr number 1, heh heh) I've been building up Charizard and Feraligatr for years. Fantasizing about my own pokemon and now I kinda can make it a reality. Obvious changes and shit but I think he came out well. BIGJAW's still going too! Is it OP? Yes. Will I find a BS way to nullify? Yes. Is it completely badass. Hell yeah!
Kiawe's trial disturbed me. Wish ultra Sun changed that train wreck up.
Chapter Hau:
Yeah, since I got a second go at writing Lana's trial I knew what to expect and to write about. What to add and what not to add.
I'll be doing more supporting character based chapters to keep tis fic going a little longer. We do need to see where Hau is though. It can't always be about Bronze, even though he's the one I put most effort into.
Oh yeah… Hau has a Gyrados…. That's gonna end well.
Thank you for your feedback and glad you survived reading. The responses are a bit all over the place so just bare with me.
Adios