Ch 11: The greatest in the world
It was nighttime in Zahara and Ash was back in his room at the resort with Serena.
Jason and their pokemon were already fast asleep.
Ash and Serena were in bed with their cloths and underwear on the floor beside the bed. Serena's face was directly over Ash's with her hands pressed against his chest, while his were around her rear end.
"I still can't believe you're actually battling Daniel tomorrow."
"It came as a pretty big surprise to me too." Ash said sweat dropping.
"Are you more excited or scared?"
"Well I'm not even sure myself. I mean the chance to actually battle Daniel in an official match, that's something Red and I always had fantasies about. But then again it's Daniel, I saw how scared the other elite 4 members were when they thought of the idea of having to battle him."
"I can see why, he's the greatest trainer in the world. Every time he battles, it's like his pokemon don't even get hurt by their opponents attacks. Then there's his Charizard." Serena said in a slightly frightened tone.
"In his mega form , Daniel's Charizard would probably be the strongest pokemon in the world. But even so, I can't let that scare me. All we can do is our best, and nothing more." Ash said.
Serena smiled again before she moved her arms around his head and kissed him.
Elsewhere inside Battle city, Daniel stood in the center of the battlefield with 6 pokemon around him. A Torterra a dark red shell, a black underside, and a head that was red and black.
A massive Aggron, a Massive Tyranitar, A very muscular looking Lucario, a massive Feraligatr, and a Charizard that was bigger than any of the others.
"Tomorrow we face Lance again. But we're also facing Ash." Daniel said as his pokemon gave interested looks.
"We can't go easy on him. Not one bit, it wouldn't be fair to him."
"Grouu."
"Groaa"
"Grouh"
"Grouuu"
"Gatr"
"Grauu". His pokemon al growled nodding.
Daniel smiled as he looked up at the stars.
"I know Altair must be proud of Ash at this point. I hope Malik is proud of me."
Ash and Lance stood on one side of the battlefield while Daniel stood on the other.
Lance gave a very serious and determined look, while Ash and Pikachu had more confident and excited expressions.
Daniel had a similar expression to Ash as he looked back at them.
"The battle between Kanto Champion Lance Wataru and Ash Ketchum against World Champion Daniel Rian is about to begin. Trainers choose your pokemon" The ref said as the audience watched closely for who would be brought out first.
Lance took out his first pokeball and hurled it forward.
"Go Altaria!" Lance shouted.
"Ahhh!" Altaria shouted as she came out and flew over Lance.
"I choose you Pidgeot!" Ash shouted as he hurled his first pokeball forward and Pidgeot flew out.
"Ott!" Pidgeot shouted.
Daniel reached down to his belt and took out his first pokeball.
Ash noticed that all of Daniel's pokemon had been customized. The first one was black and red with thick black lines over it.
"I choose you, Torterra!" Daniel should.
"Grouuu!" The massive Torterra roared as he came out and slammed into the ground. It was the same black and red Torterra from when Daniel battled Diantha in Kalos.
Serena remembered that Torterra, and just how powerful he was. Now he looked even bigger and fiercer than he did then.
"I'm not holding anything back Daniel! This is the time that I defeat you!" Lance shouted as he revealed his bracelet with his mega evolution stone on it. After touching it, Altaria transformed into Mega Altaria. She had a more extensive cloud like plumage, with a large, fluffy mass extending from its back. The feathers had grown as a self protective measure, and they glimmered with an iridescent sheen. Her cottony wings are more distract than her base form, and her blue stomach was now exposed. Additional fluff surrounded her neck like a collar and her head was addicted with a hat like crest. A single small feather curls out from her forehead. Her tail feathers had grown into a long, wavy streamer, with three long central plumes.
"Ria!" Mega Altaria shouted.
Ash touched his own mega evolution stone as Pidgeot transformed into Mega Pidgeot.
"Ott!" Mega Pidgeot squawked.
Daniel smiled.
"You want this battle to be interesting already? Ok , we don't mind." Daniel said as he revealed his own mega evolution stone on his right hidden blade bracer bottom.
The massive Torterra began to transform with a colorful sphere around him as soon as Daniel touched his stone.
When the sphere vanished, Torterra was twice the size of a normal torterra, had three trees with vines, as well as four bushes with a small pond near them. Lastly several large black pointed rocks were now coming out of the sides of his shell , on top of the center of the shell, and 2 more on his head, one on his forehead, the other on his chin.
"Grouuu!" Mega Torterra roared.
Lance gave a somewhat worried look while Ash gave an excited one.
"Altaria use Mist." Mega Altaria opened her mouth and let out a thick mist around herself and Mega Pidgeot that completely masked them.
Mega Torterra stared at the mist and made no movements.
"Pidgeot use Hurricane." Mega Pidgeot flew forward and out of the mist before unleashing a massive hurricane of wind.
The super effective attack hit Mega Torterra enhanced by Pidgeot's Mega evolution. Despite naturally being weak against such an attack, Mega Torterra only looked mildly annoyed by the Hurricane.
"Woah." Ash said.
"Sky attack!" Lance shouted.
Mega Altaria flew out of the mist like a bullet, moving even faster from the hurricane.
She flew at him, Mega Torterra changed his stance slightly.
When Mega Altaria hit him, Mega Torterra moved back his body as he absorbed the blow, then thrusted his head forward, hurling Mega Altaria back and into Mega Pidgeot, knocking them both back into the mist.
"He's like a tank." Ash said.
"A tank we're going to destroy. Altaria use Ice beam."
"Pidgeot use Heat wave."
Mega Pidgeot flew down fast right at Mega Torterra trying to unleash a wave of fiery heat as Altaria tried to blast him with ice at his side.
"Frenzy plant."
Mega Torterra glowed red and green as his roared.
The ground began to shake before a dozen massive glowing black spiked roots shot out of the ground and quickly snatched up Mega Altaria and Mega Pidgeot.
"Pidgeot!"
"Altaria!"
Both squirmed and tried to break free, before they were hurled back into the air.
Mega Torterra looked up at them as the two pokemon tried to regain themselves in the air.
"Leaf storm."
Mega Torterra's trees' leaves began to glow as he roared and unleashed a hurricane of leaves into the air.
Mega Pidgeot and Mega Altaria did their best to avoid each blast of leaves as they came at them, but there were simply too many leaves.
"Ice beam!"
"Heat wave!"
"Ott!"
"Ahh!" The two shouted as they unleashed their attacks that tore through the leaves in front of them and cleared a path down to Mega Torterra.
"Iron tail." Daniel said.
Mega Pidgeot and Altaria both flew at Mega Torterra from different directions as they prepared to unleash their attacks. Despite Mega Altaria's immense size , he turned his tail metal and hurled it around him, crashing it into both pokemon and hurling them back.
The two slammed into the ground before reverting back to their normal forms.
"Altaria and Pidgeot are unable to battle." The ref said.
"Nice work Torterra." Daniel said.
"Geez that Torterra's like a legendary pokemon." May said.
"I think we can expect all of Daniel's pokemon to be like that." Brendan said as Serena just kept her determined expression.
"Pidgeot return, you battled your hardest." Ash said.
He looked up at Mega Torterra and Daniel. He used his aura vision for a moment and saw something different about his Mega Torterra. Different than other mega evolution. In Mega evolution as he knew it, there was always a connection between the trainer and pokemon. But something was different about Daniel's Torterra.
It was as if Daniel's aura was around Torterra far more than it should have been, it made him different than a normal mega pokemon.
"Altaria return. This isn't over." Lance said as he took out his next pokeball.
"Go Aerodactyl!" He shouted as Ash took out his next pokeball.
"I choose you Feraligatr!" Ash shouted.
"Gatr!" Feraligatr roared as he came out.
The two touched their mega evolution stones again as Feraligatr twice the size of a normal Feraligatr with teeth that stuck out of the mouth even when it was closed. He also appeared to have a more muscular and robust body type. With several large and armored spots on his scales.
"Gatr!" Mega Feraligatr roared.
"Oh so he's got a stone now too. About time." Daniel said.
"Aerodactyl use Supersonic!"
"Ice Punch!"
"Aroooo!" Mega Aerodactyl screeched as he hit Mega Torterra with the attack.
Mega Torterra closed his eyes and grit his teeth as he endured the attack.
At the same time Mega Feraligatr covered his right fist in ice and charged forward at Mega Torterra before smashing his fist into Mega Torterra's underside.
When the supersonic ended, Mega Torterra opened his eyes.
"What?" Lance said when he saw Mega Torterra wasn't confused.
"Agility with Fire blast!" Lance shouted as his Mega Aerodactyl made several quick movements around Mega Torterra while preparing a fire blast.
"Blizzard!" Ash shouted.
"Iron tail." Daniel said.
A Mega Torterra's tail turned metal.
Despite his immense size, Mega Torterra charged forward at the two with great precision, then hurled himself and his metal tail around, smashing it across Mega Aerodactyl and Feraligatr's faces.
Mega Feraligatr and Aerodactyl were hurled back as Mega Feraligatr landed in a pool of water and Mega Aerodactyl quickly tried to catch himself with his wings.
"Feraligatr use Icebeam!"
"Aerodactyl keep your distance and use Fire blast."
"Torterra use Leaf storm." Mega Torterra unleashed a massive hurricane of leaves that absorbed the incoming attacks as Mega Torterra moved harmlessly through his leaves as Mega Aerodactyl tried to find him.
"Hyper beam."
Mega Torterra opened his mouth and unleashed a massive beam of orange energy that tore through the leaves and crashed into Mega Aerodactyl's stomach.
"Aeroooo!" Mega Aerodactyl shouted as he was blasted.
When Mega Feraligatr froze the last of the leaves, he saw Mega Torterra standing under falling Mega Aerodactyl.
"Ice beam!" Ash shouted.
"Hyper beam!"
As Mega Feraligatr leapt out of the water again and unleashed a massive beam of ice, Mega Torterra turned and opened his own mouth as he unleashed a massive beam of energy that smashed through the ice and crashed into Mega Feraligatr.
"Gatr!" Feraligatr cried before he landed outside the pool of water.
The two were hurled back and slammed into the ground before reverting back to their normal forms and laying on the ground unconscious.
"Aerodactyl and Feraligatr are unable to battle." The ref said.
Lance grit his teeth as he saw his unconscious Aerodactyl laying in front of him.
"Amazing." Ash said upon seeing how much punishment Torterra could take and still do moments like that.
"That's the way Torterra." Daniel said.
"Grouu!" Torterra roared.
"Aerodactyl return. I won't loose again!" Lance shouted as he hurled his next pokeball forward.
Kingdra came out and landed in one of the pools of water.
"I choose you Tyrantrum!" Ash said.
"Groaah!" Tyrantrum roared as he came out and landed in front of Ash.
"Kingdra use ice beam!" Kingdra leapt out of the water and unleashed a massive beam of ice at Mega Torterra.
"Hyper beam!"
Mega Torterra turned and opened his mouth as he unleashed a beam of energy that easily tore through the ice and flew at Kingdra.
"Dive!" Kingdra quickly got underwater before the hyper beam could reach him.
Mega Torterra then turned to Tyrantrum who held his aggressive stance.
"Ice beam!"
"Iron tail!"
As Kingdra came up, he unleashed another beam of ice beam only to have Mega Torterra leap around and smash it apart with his metal tail.
"Ice Fang!"
Tyrantrum came forward and snapped his icy jaws around Mega Torterra's head.
Despite all the damage, Mega Torterra continued to push Tyrantrum back as he prepared to attack.
"Ice beam!"
Kingdra leapt up out of the water and blasted Mega Torterra in the back with more ice.
"Grouahh!" Mega Torterra roared before he finally fell to his knees and closed his eyes before reverting to his normal form.
"Torterra is unable to continue."
"We actually knocked one out!" Ash said sounding extremely excited.
"Pika!"
"Grouu!"
"We're down two pokemon, stay focused!" Lance shouted.
Ash didn't like how serious Lance was taking this. He had to get over this obsession with Daniel.
"Great work out there Torterra, return. Not bad you to, I trained Torterra to take a lot of punishment. He's not easy to knock out." Daniel said as he re-clipped Torterra's pokeball to his belt. He then took out another that was green and blue with claw like areas on it.
"I choose you Tyranitar!"
A massive Tyranitar came out and roared.
The crowd cheered even louder as Tyranitar came out. Ash and Pikachu noticed Tyranitar smile as he heard the applause and looked around at them.
He then turned back to his opponents.
"Kingdra use Hydro pump!"
"Tyrantrum use Earthquake."
"Dragon claw."
Tyrantrum sprinted forward through the Earthquake without even flinching. His claws glowed violet as he leapt up and slashed through the Hydro pump like it was nothing.
"Kingdra dive."
Kingdra dove underwater as Tyranitar reached the water.
"Bulldoze!" Tyranitar smashed the ground in front of the water so hard that it shook the entire pool and filled it with massive waves.
"Superpower!" Ash shouted as Tyrantrum sprinted at Tyranitar.
The waves hurled Kingdra out of the water.
"Dragon claw!"
"Hydro pump!"
Once again Kingdra unleashed a blast of water at Tyranitar, only to have the ground dragon slash through the water as he leapt up and crashed his claws into the sea dragon.
Kingdra was hurled into the water.
Just as Tyrantrum reached him, Tyranitar came around with full force and crashed his glowing violet claws into Tyrantrum's glowing head, hurling the dinosaur onto the ground, despite all his momentum.
Tyranitar roared as more applause and cheering came his way.
Tyrantrum slowly got up and shook his head as he faced Tyranitar again.
"Kingdra use Hydro pump, but stay over the water." Lance said.
Kingdra leapt up and over the water far from the edge of the pool as he blasted at Tyranitar with Hydro pump.
"Dragon claw!" Daniel shouted.
Tyranitar's claws glowed violet as he slashed through the Hydro pump while it came at him.
"Bulldoze!" Ash shouted.
"Grouu!" Tyrantrum roared as he sprinted at Tyranitar from behind.
Tyranitar saw him out of his peripheral vision and Daniel smiled.
"Give yourself a boost." Daniel said.
Tyranitar waited until Tyrantrum was close, then leapt onto his head with unbelievable agility for a pokemon that large. Using Tyrantrum's own momentum, he propelled himself forward and into the air, continuing to cut through the Hydro pump until he reached Kingdra in mid air.
"Grauuoo!" Tyranitar roared as he slashed across his opponent's face and hurling him into the water.
Tyranitar landed on the other side of the pool before turning to face Tyrantrum.
"Hyper beam."
"Tyrantrum dodge it!" Ash shouted.
Tyrantrum tried to move, but Tyranitar moved to fast and blasted the massive dinosaur with a beam of pure power and hurled him into the ground. At the same time Kingdra came belly up in the water with swirly eyes.
"Tyrantrum and Kingdra are unable to battle." The ref said.
As the crowd gave more applause and excited shouts, Tyranitar smiled again as he looked around at them.
He raised his arms up in a threatening manner while roaring.
"Tyrantrum return, rest up Tyranitar." Ash said.
"Kingdra return…..Gahh! I make less progress every time!" Lance shouted clearly getting more frustrated.
Ash turned to Lance with Pikachu.
"Lance you need to calm down, this is just a battle." Ash said.
"No Ash, this is personal! I have to beat him!" Lance shouted as he hurled his next pokeball forward.
His Gyarados flew out and roared as he landed in the pool.
"I choose you Lucario!" Ash shouted.
"Grouuu!" Lucario roared as he did 3 front flips before landing in front of Ash in an aggressive stance.
"We will win!" Lance shouted as he touched his Mega evolution stone.
Ash, Pikachu, and Lucario sweat dropped as Ash slowly did the same.
Lucario and Gyarados both Mega evolved as Tyranitar smiled.
"Alright then." Daniel said as he touched his own stone again.
Tyranitar Mega evolved only something was off. When the transformation was complete, the scales on his stomach were still blue, the spikes that should have been straight were curved back like massive claws. There also along his arms and back. His eyes were pitch black with blue pupils and very long fangs and claws.
Ash reached out with his aura again and saw the same thing he saw in Torterra's aura, once again Daniel's aura was much more prominent in the Mega Tyanitar's aura.
Mega Tyranitar roared again as he looked down at his opponents.
Mega Lucario sprinted over so he was just in front of Mega Gyarados.
"Swords dance." Ash said as Mega Lucario sharply raised his attack power as he glowed blue.
"Surf." Lance said as Mega Gyarados roared and unleashed a massive title wave.
"Give him boost." Lance said as Mega Lucario leapt up onto Mega Gyarados's head before he flung the fighting type into the air over the wave.
"Swords dance." Ash said as Mega Lucario rose his attack while in mid air.
"Dragon claw!" Mega Tyranitar sliced clean through the wave.
Mega Lucario did a front flip as he landed behind Mega Tyranitar.
"Close combat!" Just before he could strike, Mega Tyranitar raised his arm up and blocked the strikes before pushing forward and knocking Mega Lucario off his feet.
"Focus Punch!"
"Hydro Pump!" Mega Tyranitar turned just in time to slash the incoming Hydro pump apart with his Dragon claw.
Using his incredible speed, Mega Lucario's fist glowed red as he slammed it into Mega Tyranitar's back.
Mega Tyranitar grunted before turning to Mega Lucario and ramming his head into his stomach, hurling Mega Lucario back.
"Gyarados use Rain dance."
Gyarados performed several movements in the water as rain started to form over the battlefield where the pokemon were.
"Hydro pump!"
Mega Gyarados opened his mouth and unleashed an Hydro pump that was enhanced by the rain dance.
"Dragon claw!"
"Grauuu!" Mega Tyranitar roared as he sprinted forward with his glowing claws and slashed through the enhanced Hydro pump as Lance's eyes widened.
Mega Gyarados tried to go underwater but Mega Tyranitar was moving like a Rapidash despite his size.
He slashed Mega Gyarados across the face and the massive serpent crashed into the water.
"High jump kick!"
Mega Lucario sprinted over and leapt up at Mega Tyranitar's head.
"Super power."
Mega Tyranitar smiled as he turned with amazing reflexes and smashed Mega Lucario across his face and body with his massive claws, hurling Mega Lucario onto the ground.
Mega Lucario slowly got up a onto his feet as Mega Gyarados slowly rose up.
"That didn't work." Ash said.
"Those claws can't handle this! Hydro cannon!" Mega Gyarados opened his mouth and unleashed a jet of water with the strength of 10 Hydro pumps.
"Now we're talking, use Dragon claw."
"Lucario focus Punch!"
Mega Lucario focused before sprinting forward at Mega Tyranitar's back.
Mega Tyranitar held his claws up and relentlessly slashed at the incoming Hydro cannon, not letting the water hit him.
"How?!" Lance asked.
"Hyper beam, your favor move!" Daniel shouted as Mega Tyranitar smiled and opened his mouth before unleashing massive blast that tore through the water and crashed into Mega Gyarados.
Once again after Mega Gyarados crashed into the water, Mega Tyranitar quickly turned around and smashed his dragon claws into Mega Lucario's face, hurling him onto his back.
Mega Gyarados floated up in his normal form as Lucario also reverted back.
"Lucario and Gyarados are unable to battle."
The crowd uproared in applause as one again Tyranitar held his arms up and roared with a confident expression.
Daniel smiled and shook his head.
"Show off."
"Lucario return. You did your best." Ash said.
Lance gave a furious expression as he returned Gyarados.
"I WILL NOT LOSE AGAIN!" He screamed.
Daniel gave a slightly concerned look as he saw Lance freak out.
"Lance, you need to calm down. Why are you taking this so seriously?" Ash asked.
Lance's head shot to Ash's.
"Because that should be me! I worked my entire life to get where I am! I trained harder than anyone, I battled harder, I became the champion of Kanto! Better than any other champion! I was going to be the first champion to challenge the other champions one by one, beat them all and be recognized for what I knew I was, the best! Then some 16 year old comes along and beats me with only 3 pokemon, like I was some starting trainer! Every time I think I can come back to him, he just beats me in a more humiliating manner. Now I'm loosing to him again even with an elite 4 member battling with me!"
Lance said before he shot his head back to Daniel.
"Why! How! It doesn't make sense! How can he be so good!?"
"Lance, you have to let it go." Ash said.
"What?"
"You have to move on an accept that there is someone better than you. No matter how hard we train, we can only do our best. Sometimes there are obstacles we can't overcome, but that doesn't make us poor. We're only poor when we refuse to acknowledge that we aren't perfect." Ash said.
"Let it go." Lance heard in his head.
His head shot around as he tried to find out where the voice came from.
"You have to move on. For you and your pokemon" The voice said.
"He's he's in my head" Lance said holding his temples.
"You know it too Lance. I beat you because of the bond I had with my pokemon. That bond has only gotten stronger. Your bond is strong too. But this obsession is weakening it. You know it's the truth." Daniel said as Lance let go of his head.
"Let it go."
Lance raised his head and gave a slight smile.
"We're not going down without a fight!" He shouted as he hurled his next pokeball forward.
A massive Salamence came out and roared.
"That's it." Ash said smiling.
"I choose you Pikachu!" Ash shouted as Pikachu leapt from his shoulder and sprinted forward.
"Pika!"
"We're not out of this yet!" Lance shouted as he touched his mega evolution stone and Salamence mega evolved.
"Salamence use Dragon pulse!"
Mega Salamence opened his mouth and unleashed a massive pulse of dragon energy at Mega Tyranitar.
"Dragon claw!"
"Thunder!"
"Pika chu!" Pikachu shouted as he sparked his cheeks and unleashed a massive bolt of electricity at Mega Tyranitar.
Mega Tyranitar held his claws up on each side as he used them to absorb both attacks.
"Brick break!"
"Iron tail!"
Mega Salamence flew forward and crashed into Mega Tyranitar's stomach with Brick break.
Just as he held himself up and prepared to counter attack, Pikachu leapt up and smashed his Metal tail across Mega Tyranitar's face.
"Grouuh!" Mega Tyranitar grunted before he fell to one knee and began breathing deeply.
"Grouhh!" He shouted as he fell onto his side and reverted back to his normal form.
"Tyranitar is unable to battle." The ref said.
"Alright great work Pikachu!" Ash shouted.
"Pika!"
"Another one down." Lance said.
Daniel smiled again as the crowd continued to cheer.
"Tyranitar return, you fought well. Ok guys, you're in it to win it, so are we. Time to bring this battle to a close." Daniel said as he clipped Tyranitar's pokeball back to his belt and took out one final customized pokeball.
This one looked far more fierce than the others, onyx black and dark blue with fire marks on it and dragon markings as well.
Daniel held this pokeball close to his face before throwing it forward.
"I choose you Charizard!" Daniel shouted.
Many in the audience began cheering for real when they saw Daniel's first and most powerful pokemon take the field and land in front of him, no roar or special show. Just a confident smile on his face.
Lance noticed Charizard was even bigger than he was the last time he faced him. With more spikes on his body including his elbows and back.
Ash noticed that Daniel's Charizard looked just like one from Altair's age.
Lance and Ash also noticed Daniel wasn't mega evolving him , despite the fact that Salamence was in mega form.
"Pikachu use Agility with Thunder!" Ash shouted.
"Salamence use Thunder Fang!"
"Use Steel wing."
Daniel's Charizard made one leap into the air and flew like no pokemon they had ever seen before, he whipped his metal wings around , not absorbing, but knocking the electricity back at Pikachu somehow.
"Pika!" Pikachu shouted as he used his agility to avoid the redirected attacks.
When Charizard reached Mega Salamence he made one lighting quick strike across his face with his wings that hurled Mega Salamence into the ground like a rocket.
He then turned to Pikachu and flew down at him.
"He wants to play chicken, alright. Pikachu use volt tackle!"
"Pika chu!" Pikachu shouted as he covered himself in blue electricity and sprinted forward right at Daniel's Charizard.
Charizard spun himself around as just before he made contact with Pikachu. After being hit, Pikachu was hurled back while Charizard looked unaffected even by the electricity.
Lance saw Charizard was still going after Pikachu.
"We need to get the pressure off him, use Dragon Pulse!"
Mega Salamence opened his mouth and blasted a massive beam of dragon energy right at Charizard's back.
"Dragon rush." Charizard covered himself in dragon energy before making a sharp turn and flying straight through the dragon pulse like it was nothing.
Before Lance of Mega Salamence could even react, Charizard slammed into him with Dragon rushed and hurled him into the ground.
"Blast Burn."
Daniel's Charizard made no pause as he flew down at Pikachu with his tail flame exploding around him as he unleashed the hurricane of fire at Pikachu.
Ash couldn't even think the words before the attack hit Pikachu and exploded, leaving a massive charred hole in the ground with Pikachu laying on the ground there covered in soot and swirly eyes.
"Pikachu!" Ash shouted.
"Pika." He said as he lay there.
"Pikachu and Salamence are unable to battle." The ref said.
"Well done." Daniel said as his Charizard landed in front of him again with the same expression.
Ash went out onto the field and picked up Pikachu in his arms as Lance returned Salamence.
"Geeze how are they going to beat that Charizard?" Brendan asked.
"I don't think they can, that's the strongest pokemon in the world." May said.
Moments later Charla, who had been sitting behind them, growled at the two , as she knew who Ash would choose next.
"Never give up until the end." Serena said with Jason in her arms.
"This is it." Lance said.
"Our last chance." Ash said smiling as he and Lance took out their final pokeballs.
They smiled and nodded as they hurled them forward together.
"Go Dragonite!"
"I choose you Charizard!"
Dragonite and Charizard came out , roaring together as they landed in front of their trainers and stared down the much larger Charizard across the battlefield.
"Finally, the one's we've been waiting for." Daniel said as his Charizard nodded.
Ash and Lance both touched their mega evolution stones as they mega evolved their pokemon into Mega Dragonite and Charizard Y.
"Grauu!" The two dragons roared.
Charla lifted her son up to see his father in mega form
Daniel smiled.
"I think it's finally time." He said as he touched his Mega evolution stone.
A colorful sphere formed around Daniel's Charizard. When the sphere vanished a Mega Charizard X stood there, however, like his Tyranitar this one looked different. Hist stomach was blackish red. His eyes were red with yellow irises and black pupils. The flames coming out of the sides of his mouth were red as well. His skin had red lines like circle symbols across his legs, arms and lines across his tail with spikes along it. His wings were also glowing red that added into blue at the ends.
"Grauuu!" Daniel's Charizard X roared so loud that several glass items in the stadium broke.
Charizard X and Mega Dragonite were freaked out by the sight of this Charizard X.
"How?" Ash asked. He felt out to the Charizard's aura and saw Daniel's presence was overwhelmingly in it, stronger than Tyranitar and Torterra combined.
"Are you ready?" Daniel asked.
"We're always ready." Ash said.
"Dragon rush!" Lance shouted.
"Dragon Pulse!" Ash shouted.
Mega Charizard Y flew up and roared as he blasted at Charizard X with a massive beam of Dragon energy as Mega Dragonite covered himself in dragon energy and flew right at him.
"Dragon claw."
Charizard X's claws glowed violet as he flew forward and used his wings to smash Charizard Y to the side before crashing his claws into Mega Dragonite's face, plowing him into the ground.
Mega Dragonite reverted back to normal form as his eyes turned swirly.
Charizard Y got up and roared at Charizard X again, refusing to give in no matter how powerful he was.
Still Ash and Charizard were almost overwhelmed by the sheer power they felt inside Daniel's Charizard X. It was more overwhelming than even Mewtwo X's power.
Baby Charmander was amazed at how his father wasn't backing down to the titan that stood before him.
"We're not giving up until the end! Charizard Blast burn, give it everything you've got!" Charizard Y flew into the air as he activated blaze and covered himself in fire.
"Grauu!" He roared as he opened his mouth and unleashed the explosive force down at Charizard X.
"Dragon rush."
Charizard X covered himself in dragon energy then flew up through the explosion without flinching.
"Seismic toss." Ash said.
Charizard Y tried to fly down and snatch his opponent. But the much larger Charizard X reached him first and grabbed him, holding Charizard Y in place.
Charizard X gave Charizard Y a look of being impressed before flying into the ground and smashing Charizard Y into the battlefield.
When the smoke cleared, Charizard X was standing over Ash's unconscious Charizard.
"Grauuu!" Charizard X roared in victory.
"Charizard and Dragonite are unable to battle. The winner is World Champion Daniel Rian."
The crowd applauded like they had never before.
Daniel smiled as his Charizard X looked back at him.
Ash returned Charizard as Lance returned Dragonite.
"Well, I guess that's that." Lance said.
Daniel and his Charizard X approached them.
"You and your pokemon fought well. I'm impressed."
"We did all we could." Lance said as he shook Daniel's hand.
Daniel turned to Ash.
"How?"
Daniel smiled.
"How is Charizard X different than say, your brother's. "
"Yes."
"It's partly the secret of our success. You see we discovered something, something that not even Altair knew. When a pokemon Mega evolves it requires a strong bond between the trainer and pokemon. But there is something else, a way to bond your aura with your pokemon's so strongly that when they mega evolve it merges your aura together and it's like you become one being. Which allows your pokemon's appearance to take on a different form based on who you really are. It also allows them to grow at a much stronger rate than even the strongest normal aura bond." Daniel said.
Ash and Pikachu were amazed at the idea of this.
"Any chance you could teach this to us?"
Daniel and his Charizard smiled.
"I'd love to, but it's not really something that can be taught. Only learned."
Later that night the Kanto elite 4 stood with Lance, Daniel, and Madela in the center of the battlefield.
Around them were the other elite 4s fireworks were going over them.
Madela held a microphone as he looked out at the crowd around them.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we have had a tournament here like never before. The best trainers in the world battled here over the last week, and we had a special treat, a battle with the greatest in the world." He said as the crowd continued to applaud.
"Now the Zahara cup comes to a close, we thank every one who came here for this. For supporting the reconstruction of our great nation." Madela said.
Ash and Pikachu looked up at the crowd around them. He also looked at the elite elite 4 members, as well as Daniel. He didn't beat him today, but perhaps, maybe some day.
Later that night, Ash and Serena were sitting beside each other on a plane flying back to Kanto. Jason was asleep in Ash's lap while Serena held his hand and Pikachu asleep on his other shoulder.
"Sahara was nice, but I can't wait to get home." Serena said.
"It will be nice to be back." Ash said as Serena rested her head against his shoulder.
"Serena, battling with Lance made me think. If I made it this far at 24, how far do you think I'll make it when I'm Lance's age?"
Serena smiled.
"You might be somewhere else." She said as the plane flew further across the vast ocean towards the Seafoam islands.
Author's note
And thus ends book 2.5, it's been fun, but now I finally move on to book 3.
Yes what you saw with Daniel's pokemon is my version of the Ash-greninja they did in the anime.
And let's just say it's not the last you'll see of it :)
I loved finally being able to show Daniel in a full on battle like I did here, I hope you enjoyed finally getting to see it.
If you are wondering about the characters I have chosen, I will not reveal them until you see them in book 3, which will come soon, however, next monday I return to college and ROTC so I will be busy again.
So until next time, please review, comment, suggest, or ask (via PM)
And watch for Pokemon Advanced: Ash's legacy