Here's K for ya! This one took me a little while longer too, because again I had trouble coming up with a word! Yes, trouble with the letter K. X should be fun, guys. Stick around for the entertainment!
Knockout
"Hey! Misty!"
The young gym leader sighed and put down her book, glancing up in aggravation from where she sat behind the lobby desk. Ash was running through the front door, a foolish smile stretched across his face as he held his arm up in the air.
"What are you doing?" Misty sighed, shaking her head.
"Can't you see?" Ash asked before following it up with a chuckle. "I caught a new Pokémon!"
Misty rolled her eyes up further towards Ash's hand, where she finally realized that the boy was clutching a familiar red and white sphere.
"What kind of Pokémon?" Misty questioned.
Ash smirked and finally lowered his hand, holding the poke ball up against his chest. "Wouldn't you like to know."
"Come on, don't be a pain in the ass!" Misty whined, throwing her book down on the desktop. "I want to know what kind of Pokémon you caught!"
"It's a surprise."
"For what?" Misty demanded, Ash's calm and nonchalant tone getting to her more than it should have.
"Our battle, of course!" Ash laughed. Misty raised one incredulous eyebrow, and as soon as Ash saw it, he sighed and allowed his shoulders to drop. "Misty!"
"I didn't say anything!" Misty defended herself.
"You didn't have to, your face did all of the talking," Ash grumbled. "Why won't you battle me anymore?"
"Because ever since we started dating, people expect us to be at one another's throats all the time," Misty explained in a begrudging manner. "And when you battle, you get kind of cutthroat. Besides…"
"Besides what?" Ash pushed once his girlfriend trailed off.
"Well…it's been such a long time since you and I battled one another," Misty continued, sounding quite sheepish. "And I've gotten much better in that time. Like…much better."
"So, what are you saying?" Ash murmured. "That you'll beat me?"
"Oh, no, I won't just beat you," Misty assured with a laugh. "I'll cream you."
Ash's chocolate eyes snapped open, and that shocked expression soon melted into one of an obvious snarl. "Oh yeah?"
"That's what I'm assuming," Misty warbled softly.
"Well, there's only one way to test your little theory," Ash bit.
Misty smirked. She knew what the answer to that rhetorical statement was, but sometimes, she liked to get a little feisty and push Ash's buttons. Okay…she liked to do that a lot.
"And that would be…?" Misty trilled, her eyes twinkling as Ash's entire face flushed.
"A battle!" Ash stormed, holding his newly occupied poke ball in front of his girlfriend's face.
"Ash…" Misty began cautiously.
"Oh no, you're not going back on it now!" Ash refuted. "You challenged me, and I'm not letting you out of here without a battle!"
"Are you sure?" Misty sighed.
"Misty, I'm not afraid to battle you," Ash grumbled. "In fact, I'm starting to think you're afraid to battle me!"
Misty's eyes snapped open wide, her hand clenching into a fist atop the desk. "Excuse me?"
"All of this 'I've gotten better and I'll destroy you' stuff is beginning to sound a little fishy to me," Ash carried on. "I think the real reason you never want to battle me anymore is because you've realized that I've become a more superior trainer, and you don't want to be embarrassed!"
"That's a joke, right?" Misty spat.
"I just don't want to see your feelings get hurt when I beat you," Ash crooned softly, though teasingly. The smile in his face solidified his joking manner, but that didn't make Misty laugh. In fact, all it did was fire her up to her breaking point.
"Oh, we'll see whose feelings get hurt when they get beaten to a pulp!" Misty stormed, jumping to her feet and getting right in Ash's face. "Let's go! Into the battle area, now!"
Ash smirked and turned on his heel, marching towards the battle area. He knew that provoking Misty like that would get her off of her butt to battle! Although, deep down inside, Ash truly did believe that Misty was afraid to lose against him. After all, he was on his way to becoming Champion of the Kanto region! It was understandable that he would be viewed as a near unbeatable opponent.
Taking his place on the nearest platform, the one that all gym challengers stood on, Ash grinned across the pool at his clearly agitated girlfriend, who had just stepped onto her platform. She had already plucked a poke ball from the nearby metal rack where all of her battle partners were stored when there was no gym match going on, and was staring Ash down like he was her prey.
"Alright, this will be a one-on-one match," Ash called. "Whoever knocks out the other one's Pokémon first wins!"
"Perfect," Misty murmured, smiling sneakily at her bewildered boyfriend.
"Time to show off my new Pokémon!" Ash cheered. "Come on out!"
He tossed the red and white sphere into the air, and Misty watched as it popped open and shot out a beam of sparkling blue light that formed into a strange, very specific shape before bursting and revealing the figure of Snover.
"A primary grass, secondary ice type, hmm?" Misty hummed, looking the frost tree Pokémon up and down.
"Grass has the advantage over water," Ash supplied, knowing full well his girlfriend wouldn't use any Pokémon besides a water type. She really couldn't. "And ice is resistant to water."
"I thought that overcoming type advantage was your specialty," Misty quipped. "Now it sounds like you're relying on it!"
"I'm not relying on anything," Ash scoffed. "I was just making an observation. It's not like it's a shock that you're going to send out a water type, after all."
"You're right, it's not," Misty warbled, throwing in a wink for good measure. "It's which water type I'm going to send out that might be a surprise!"
Tossing her own poke ball up in the air, Misty tossed a smirk Ash's way before watching the sphere pop open and emit a burst of blue light, similar to what Ash's poke ball had done. The light emerging from Misty's poke ball was much more powerful, however. It was so bright, in fact, that Ash had to cover his eyes when the beam reached its climax. As soon as it died down, Ash slowly looked up, and as soon as he saw which Pokémon Misty had selected, his eyes widened and his jaw dropped.
"Oh, holy-"
"What's the matter, Ashy?" Misty called teasingly, her emerald eyes twinkling with mischief. "Scared?"
Ash gulped, feeling fortunate that Misty couldn't see or hear that action. Glaring at his girlfriend, Ash shook his head just once and strongly refuted, "No! Of course not!"
"Alright then," Misty hummed. "So…you won't mind if I take the first move?"
"Not at all," Ash shakily replied. "Be my guest!"
"Great!" Misty trilled. "Alright, Gyarados, use hyper beam!"
The atrocious Pokémon let out a vicious roar, one that nearly sent both Ash and his newly captured Snover toppling into the water. Before either one could react, the massive dual type Pokémon fired off a bright orange beam in Snover's direction. It hit the much smaller creature head on, and a loud explosion quickly followed. Ash had to look away once again, but Misty simply stood on her platform with a smirk on her face and her hands on her hips.
As soon as the smoke cleared, and Ash was able to look up once again, he saw that Snover was lying flat on his back, left unable to battle thanks to Gyarados' most powerful attack.
"I win," Misty chimed simply, pulling out Gyarados' poke ball and returning the fully evolved Pokémon before throwing Ash another smirk and stepping off of her platform, walking straight towards the battle area's doorway.
Ash, on the other hand, was still standing on his own platform, his face and body still completely frozen as he tried to process what had just happened right in front of him. A soft grunt escaping from his throat as he returned Snover to its poke ball, Ash whipped around and chased after Misty, his brow quickly furrowing as his tone transformed into nothing more than a whine.
"Miiiistyyyy! I didn't say you were allowed to use Gyarados!"
I love it when Misty kicks ass :P And I know Ash isn't typically a sore loser, but I think against Misty, then yes, he would be a little bitter. Especially when it's a one hit KO :P
