Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon. However, I do own the characters I create. Also, submitted OCs belong to their respective owners.

All right, first off, I'd like to apologize for the two/three month wait…That was just ridiculous… I'm now a freshman trying to find their way in high school, so I don't have lots of time now, but I'm going to get these out as much as I can… Well, go and read. Oh, and I'm not accepting anymore OCs. Sorry.

Chapter 11:

Ash's Battle

Saturn heaved a sigh as he walked through the halls of the NOCTURNE headquarters. He narrowed his eyes as he thought about what had just happened less than ten minutes ago…

"Haha, are you serious, Saturn?" The previous Magma Admin flipped her short black hair. "Well, I'm not taking those two devil children anywhere." That previous Magma Admin, Courtney, raised an eyebrow at Saturn.

"I agree with Courtney! I'm totally not doing it either!" Lovrina shook her head furiously and put her arms up in an x. "Those two little kids are crazy! They're so annoying, and they like to pull on my hair! And taking them alone to see the boss? NO WAY!"

Saturn sighed and his eyes darted to the other previous Commanders of Team Galactic. Jupiter and Mars put their hands up along with faces of disgust. Saturn groaned. Not even them. Women…

Saturn swiftly turned his head to the other previous Magma Admin. Go to a guy, yeah…He'll help me out on this. Tabitha's eyes then opened wide when he noticed Saturn looked at him expectantly and pleadingly. "Dude, you're alone on this one. Sorry." Saturn clenched his fists. The door to the lounge room burst wide open and then…

"Saaaaaaaaaaaaaturn!" Two children spoke in unison as they latched on to his arms. "You're spacing out! You might go the wrong way and get lost!" Saturn held his tongue as they made his arms sway. Why the hell did he have to do this…?

He then finally came to the place they where going. Well, the backdoor to the room. He took a deep breath and–

"Geeeeeeez!" The female twin, Kimi, looked up and groaned.

"Open the door already!" The other twin, Ken, spoke up. Saturn gave them both glares but they stuck their tongues out at him. They let go of his arms so he could open the door. He slowly peeked inside and saw the boss. He turned around and put a finger to his lips indicating for the twins to stay quiet. Surprisingly, they obeyed as they slipped in, waiting by the bookcase that was to the far right of their Boss's desk. Their boss didn't turn their way, but he and they knew that he noticed.

And now they played the waiting game…

x--x

Amaya yawned as she stretched out her arms and headed towards the last match of the second round. She saw many others going to the same stadium, as it was Ash Ketchum's match against some random rookie that just barely got in to the tournament. Amaya could tell that Ash would win, but she figured why not and go watch? So, that was what she was doing. Amaya then rushed inside once she heard the match starting.

"I choose you, Gliscor!" Ash shouted as he sent out his Fang Scorpion Pokemon. "Let's do this and get into the next round, okay?" Gliscor nodded, determined.

The rookie trainer thought for a little bit before taking a Pokeball out of his pocket. "Go, Gyarados!" Amaya's eyes widened up in surprise as she found an empty seat and sat in it. Type advantage isn't everything, but his Gyarados looked pretty well trained. Maybe he wasn't too much of a rookie… Interesting. Amaya folded her arms over her chest.

"Use Aqua Tail, Gyarados!" The maybe-not rookie directed his large Pokemon, who roared in response as its tail was surrounded in a spiral of water, getting ready to hit Gliscor with it.

"Quick, Gliscor, dodge!" Ash said and Gliscor managed to dodge right before it could hit. "Use Quick Attack!" Gliscor flew at top speed towards its opponent, but the rookie told his Gyarados to dodge. "Hurry and use Poison Jab!" Ash directed before Gyarados could get farther away. Gliscor's right pincer glowed a bright purple as it punched Gyarados in the side.

"No!" The rookie trainer shouted as he Gyarados groaned. His Gyarados seemed to be poisoned. "Hydro Pump!"

"Dodge it—" Ash was cut off by Gliscor getting hit from the strong jet of water and fall to the ground. "No, Gliscor, get up!" Ash pleaded as his Gliscor struggled to get up from the super effective attack.

"Ice Fang, Gyarados!"

"Dodge it!" Ash yelled out as Gyarados came closer. "Quick, use Thunder Fang!" Gliscor bit down on Gyarados' tail and it roared in pain from the super effective attack. Electricity went throughout its body and then…

"Gyarados is unable to battle!" The referee shouted. Amaya cracked a half smile. That Ice Fang would've been fatal, but Ash had some quick thinking with that Thunder Fang. She now had an itching to battle him. Maybe she'd be able to in the next rounds?

The rookie returned his Gyarados and heaved a sigh. "Good job, Gyarados." He looked up at Ash while taking out another Pokeball. "Go, Abomasnow!" The large Frost Tree Pokemon came out and Amaya was surprised again. That Abomasnow looked extremely large for its species. But surely he knew that Abomasnow had many weakness, one of them Gliscor's type? She guessed he was trying to still exploit Gliscor's weakness, but still…

"Ice Shard, Abomasnow!" Abomasnow directed several ice shards towards Gliscor, who quickly looked at his trainer, waiting for an order.

"Wait for it!" Ash said as the shards neared. "Use Night Slash on them!" Gliscor's pincers glowed pitch black and sent dark energy towards the shards, making them disappear. The crowd "ooo"-ed in amazement while nodding in approval

"Nice." Amaya unfolded her arms and also nodded in approval.

The rookie trainer narrowed his eyes. "Seed Bomb, Abomasnow!" He shouted and immediately after a barrage of hard-shelled seeds began to come from the sky straight for Ash's Gliscor.

"Harden, Gliscor!" Ash commanded, in which Gliscor responded by glowing a bright pale blue color while the shower of seeds hit it and simply bounced off its body. Amaya thought he made a good move, since Gliscor already has good defense. However, this made the rookie trainer very annoyed.

"Ice Punch, Abomasnow!" The other trainer shouted out, the annoyance clearly showing in his voice. His Abomasnow ran towards Ash's Gliscor with an iced fist and Ash again waited for it to get close enough.

"Cancel it out with Iron Tail!" Ash said, and at once, Gliscor's iron hard tail slammed into Abomasnow's iced fist, surprising it and its trainer.

But it didn't stop him. "Ice Punch again, Abomasnow!"

"Block it with X-Scissor, Gliscor!"

BOOM!

The two attacks hit each other and exploded; it also caused everything on the field to be in smoke. Amaya groaned, squinting her eyes to try to see what was going on. The crowd went silent to try to hear if anything was going on, but there was nothing. Then the smoke slowly started to disappear and…

"Both Pokemon are unable to battle!" The referee shouted, and the crowd was shocked. Both Abomasnow and Gliscor were indeed down and out.

"Wow," Amaya commented quietly while she watched the two trainers return their Pokemon.

"Hey!" Amaya turned to her left to see Reggie panting hard.

"Reggie!" Amaya's eyes widened slightly. "Er, you all right there?" He looked as if he had run in a marathon. Before replying back, Reggie wiped the sweat off his forehead.

"Yeah, I'm all right. No worries." He took a deep breath and straightened himself up. "I had forgotten the last match of the second round was Ash's. I rushed over, but it was extremely crowded over here! And, as you can see, there aren't any seats."

"Yeah." Amaya said as she glanced to her right. "Seems like Ash is a popular guy, right?"

"That and the fact it's the last match of the second round." He rubbed the back of his head and looked down on the field to see the rookie trainer using a Milotic against Ash's Torterra. "I heard right after this they're announcing the next rounds in this exact stadium. There weren't many tie off matches that needed to be taken care of, and some are even being taken care of right now."

"Well," Amaya said. "Didn't know that. Glad I got here in time then—" Amaya was interrupted by a large explosion cause by a Wood Hammer attack colliding with a Dragon Pulse attack.

"Woah!" Reggie commented as he saw the attacks continue to fly. "Has it been like this?"

"Yup," Amaya kept her eyes on the match. "You've missed some good stuff, sadly." Amaya said right as Ash's Torterra knocked the rookie trainer's Milotic out with Leaf Storm.

"Milotic is unable to battle!" The referee announced. "The winner goes to Ash Ketchum and his Torterra!" The crowd, including Reggie and Amaya, erupted into cheers for the two. Ash along with his gigantic Torterra celebrated getting into the Top 32.

"And in the next thirty minutes," The same referee shouted over the crowd, "We'll be announcing the match-ups for the next round! First off, let's congratulate our Top 32 trainers that got into this round!..."

x--x

Saturn gulped and broke out in a sweat. He could just feel the growing annoyance from his boss, and it even made the twins scared. Good god, his boss now was ten times worse than Cyrus. He kinda regretted joining NOCTURNE, but he couldn't get out, since well—

"You are no longer of use to me," Their boss spoke up, interrupting Saturn's thoughts. The boss turned around in their chair to face the person they were talking to.

"What!? You just used me?" Pokemon Hunter J yelled at the person, slamming her fist on the boss's desk table. Saturn took a deep breath. That wasn't a good move, not a good move. "Fine, I'll just take back all the stone Pokemon then-"

Then person heaved a long sigh. "Kimi, Ken, take care of this irritating woman over here please." Saturn looked to his side, and surprisingly the two children had disappeared without him even noticing.

"What the..." J turned around to see the two eight year-old children grinning eerily back at her. J backed up slowly from the children, a bit weary. "Ha...ha, children? Are you serious?" She nervously laughed and looked back at her now previous boss.

"I am very much serious, J." The boss spoke. "Go on. Don't have too much fun now, you two. Come along, Saturn."

J's previous boss chuckled softly and left the room with Saturn, leaving J to fend for herself. J turned back around to the scary children in front of her, who started to slowly come towards her. The two opened their mouths, ready to speak...

"Let's play..."

"A game!"

x--x

Sorry that this was on the short side… I'm just saying this again, I'm not accepting anymore OCs. Sorry if you wanted to, but yeah, I think I have enough now.

Anyways, I'd like to ask for some help here…Should I just have the next rounds single elimination style (1 vs. 1 battles) or something like the Silver Conference and other Pokemon Tournament stories where there are groups and to get to the next round, you have to have the most points in your group? I kind of favor the second choice, since trainers could battle against more trainers, but I'm still unsure. Feedback on this?

I'm fervently working on the next part, so stay tuned. I'm not giving up on this story, so I hope you don't either.