Pokemon Legacy
Things had certainly taken a turn for worse now as Nathan, Dana and Jason had to face Eric in battle now. They had hoped for a more peaceful resolution, but perhaps disposing of his allies would at least get him to listen to what they had to say.
With that, Dana gulped, "Alright, I guess it's a good thing I have three Pokemon," Nathan placing a hand on her shoulder and saying, "Dana, we're not letting you do this alone. He may be a gym leader, but he's also a Team Shadow agent right now," Dana replying, "I don't know, that might make my possible victory less legit."
Jason simply let out a sigh and pointed at Eric's Pokemon. Remembering that two of them were evolved forms of Timburr, Dana nodded, realizing they had a point. After all, none of her Pokemon had evolved.
With that, Jason sent in Carmen, the water monkey doing a quick little dance before flipping into the air and performing a handstand upon landing, a serious look on her face as she pointed her tail in her direction, clearly taunting Timburr as the canine gritted his teeth, feeling offended by this."
Dana was about to send in Pyro when Queen came out of her ball, the girl blinking and asking, "Are you sure you wanna take on that guy?" Queen giving the girl an army salute before turning toward her opponent, Dana sighing, "Well, okay, but please, from now on, don't come out unless I say so," the Joltik nodding. Gurdurr simply flexed his muscles before stamping one of his feet against the ground, showing he was dead serious.
Meanwhile, Conkeldurr had his arms folded, the being waiting patiently for his opponents to do something as Hanzo immediately came from his ball, Nathan blinking and thinking, 'First he's not following orders... now he's coming out on his own accord?' The reason Hanzo had done this was because of the fact that his opponent was evolved. He felt that this was a perfect moment to prove himself 'too good for his master'. However, seeing as all three of Eric's Pokemon didn't take much damage from bug type moves, this would be difficult. But on the other hand, Venipedes took in even less damage from fighting types moves, so this could still work.
However, Eric unfazed by this all. He felt so confident in his allies that nothing really seemed to have an emotional effect on him. Nathan wasn't sure whether this could work to everyone's advantage or not.
With that, Carmen opened up by sending a fierce water gun into Timburr's face, the canine flying into one of the crates, luckily not breaking it as Timburr rose to his feet, letting out a fierce battle cry as a strange aura surrounded him. This was a technique known as Focus Energy, a move that increased the user's chance of hitting the opponent extra hard.
He then proceeded to unleash Leer upon the monkey, Jason taking full of advantage of this and having Carmen leap over to Timburr before locking one of his arms in place with her tail and sending a barrage of Fury Swipes to his face.
Meanwhile, Queen started off the battle by unleashing a loud screech. This move caused Gurdurr to lose a bit of defense as he gritted his teeth furiously, Eric looking at the canine who simply ignored the sound and charged at the Joltik. However, Queen was prepared for this as she leaped to the side, avoiding Pound, which involved Gurdurr sending both his fists downward on the opponent. After that, Queen proceeded to hit the creature with Thunder Wave, leaping at Gurdurr and spinning around, unleashing an onslaught of chops with her feet to his face, Gurdurr coughing up a tiny bit of blood, unable to move due to paralysis.
After that, Queen stopped her Fury Cutter and proceeded to latch her String Shot onto the opponent's leg, pulling on it and attempting to trip him. Unfortunately, Gurdurr fought off his paralysis as he kicked his leg back, causing Queen to fly towards him as he proceeded to deliver a move known as Low Kick to her face.
Meanwhile, as expected, Hanzo was taking matters into his own hands as he opened up by sending a purple needle into Conkeldurr's arm. However, rather than showing a reaction, the behemoth simply stood there and took it, Nathan rather impressed by this. Sure, a bug type move like Poison Sting wouldn't have that much of an effect on the thing, but that still should have hurt to some degree.
He was also surprised to see that rather than responding to this, Conkeldurr simply stood still as if waiting for something. Either this creature was too old to be fighting or he had amazing patience. Either way, Hanzo wasn't going to stand around and wait as he proceeded to charge at Conkeldurr, a black aura covering his body. This was known as Pursuit, and Nathan was rather relieved to see Hanzo use this instead of Rollout as this would have a descent effect on the beast.
While this went on, Conkeldurr proceeded to use Leer followed by Focus Energy, Hanzo hitting the creature hard in the gut. However, Conkeldurr showed very few signs of pain as as he rose his arm in the air, forming a fist and sending it hard into Hanzo's skull, the bug already down for the count as Nathan's eyes went wide, the boy returning his Venipede. Sure, Hammer Arm was a strong attack, but he hadn't expected Hanzo to lose so quickly, especially with his high defense against fighting type moves.
Carmen continued to strike Timburr in the face before the canine threw his arm back, overpowering Carmen's weight by a long show as she fell face-first into the canine's head, taking in quite a bit of pain to the face, her nose bleeding a bit. However, she still held on with her tail as Timburr used his free arm to send a hard punch to the monkey's face.
This not only got her to let go, but also put her in a daze as hit herself in the face, passing out. Jason's jaw dropped as Timburr folded his arms, grinning with pride. But how had he used that move? Timburr must have been really experienced to know Dynamic Punch.
However, now was not the time to dwell on this as he sent in Mighty, sighing and hoping for good results. After all, Mighty was all he had left.
All the while, Queen was on the ground now, feeling weak as could be. Gurdurr walked over to her and lifted his fists before ramming them hard into the spider's head, causing the Joltik to pass out as Dana returned her, hugging the ball and saying, "You did a great job, Queen. I'm proud of you."
She then looked at the situation and figured a flier might be a better choice here, sending in Electra, the flying rodent performing a bit of aerial ballet before grinning and striking a pose. She was certainly a good choice as she not only flew but also had a strong defence against fighting type attacks.
Gurdurr didn't even wait for a second as he leaped toward the rodent, Electra simply flying hard into his skull as he landed on his feet, rubbing his temple. The Emolga then proceeded to send an electric current known as Spark into the canine, Gurdurr letting out a fierce growl and attempting to strike the flying rodent more, unable to get high enough while Dana clapped her hands with joy. She might just win this after all.
Nathan thought hard about who to replace Hanzo with, eventually deciding that maybe someone with a smaller stature could avoid Conkeldurr's moves more easily. With that, he sent in his Tympole shouting, "Go get him, Tobias!" the tadpole putting on a serious expression before noticing how big his opponent was, the Tympole trembling with fear.
Seeing this, Nathan realized the Tympole was in need of a pep talk and sighed, "Come on, Toby. He may be big, but if you got more fighting spirit, you can do anything," not completely believing that himself but figuring it was a worth a shot.
This speech did work to a degree as Toby gulped and put on a more serious look, still trembling a bit but hopping a little towards his opponent. Conkeldurr just glared as Nathan whipped out the Pokedex, noticing a move that could help and said, "Toby, try using Supersonic," the tadpole letting loose a small sound wave that was guaranteed to always confuse any opponent it hit.
However, for some strange reason, the wave didn't reach Conkeldurr's face as the Tympole started to tremble, Nathan saying, "It's okay. Try using Growl," Toby growling as a red aura surrounded the beast, Nathan smiling lightly and saying, "Good work. You just lowered his strength, so he'll deal less damage now," Conkeldurr not feeling the least bit alarmed by this as he continued to stand there as if he was waiting for the Tympole to do something impressive.
Nathan then had Toby use Bubbles, the bubbles only dealing a small bit of damage to Conkeldurr's face, the creature ignoring the damage as if it meant nothing before finally losing patience and stomping toward the tadpole, Toby freaking out and leaping back just in time to avoid Hammer Arm. As Conkeldurr went in for more, Tobias continued to dodge Pound and Chip Away before he felt a strange feeling inside, his cheeks starting to puff up as Conkeldurr stared with interest, Nathan also rather interested.
At that moment, Toby proceeded to unleash a stream of bubbles moving in a circle known as Bubble Beam, the bubbles hitting Conkeldurr hard. Unfortunately, even this wasn't enough as the Conkeldurr proceeded to ram both his fists hard into the tadpole's head, knocking him out in one blow like he had Hanzo, Nathan sighing and returning him, realizing he'd need to work on Toby's skills.
Jason had sent in Mighty as the monkey and Timburr were going at it, Mighty having slightly better luck than Carmen now that Jason knew how Timburr fought. After dodging a few strikes, Mighty hit Timburr with a Scratch attack only for Timburr to counter with a fierce chop to the monkey's face.
But just as it looked like Mighty had lost his advantage, the monkey proceeded to leap back, narrowly avoiding another Chip Away as he performed a backwards somersault, landing gracefully on his feet before digging into the tuft of fur atop his head, pulling out an array of seeds and hurling them at Timburr, the seeds sprouting vines and latching themselves to the canine. This was a move known as Leech Seed. A few seconds after it hit, Timburr cringed in pain as a green aura came from him and travelled into Mighty's body, the monkey grinning with pride. This move was known as Leech Seed and it caused the user to occasionally absorb the target's health every few seconds.
Knowing that this had to potential to caused a major disadvantage, Timburr grimaced and charged at Mighty, sliding and aiming a kick toward the monkey's legs only for the Pansage to leap over his head and pull out two vines from his head, whipping the canine in the face with one before using the other to smack the back of Timburr's head.
All the while, Gurdurr was losing patience as Eric noticed this, looking around. He knew that if Gurdurr used Rock Throw, he could have the upper hand, but he couldn't risk having his partner use any of the boxes or crates. After a while, he noticed the concrete ball Sammy had hit one of the Team Shadow agents with earlier. Having not seen that event, he had no idea where it came from, but he saw this as an opportunity as he pointed at it and shouted, "Gurdurr, use Rock Throw!"
With that, Gurdurr ran toward the concrete ball only for Electra to deliver a quick attack to the back of his head, causing him to lose his balance as he fell forward. However, he dared not let this hinder his performance as he held his arms out, placing his hands firmly against the ground before tucking his body in and rolling toward the concrete, picking it up and hurling it into the Emolga's face, Electra falling to the ground, down for the count.
Dana gasped and clasped her hands over her mouth for a few seconds before removing them and letting out a sigh, returning the flying rodent as she pulled out her last Pokeball saying, "Well, Pyro, this is it," sending the pig in as he scowled at Gurdurr, both Pokemon growling at one-another.
During this time, Nathan had sent in Zelda, the snake using Leer as her first move, Conkeldurr once again acting as if this meant nothing. Nathan remembered how Conkeldurr seemed to have a great deal of patience. As such, he took his time trying to come up with the right move. After a while, he nodded and gave a command as the Snivy wrapped her vines around Conkeldurr's skinny mid-section, holding tightly.
However, despite picking a good spot to attack, Conkeldurr didn't show any signs of pain as he grabbed onto the vines, prying them off. However, Snivy took full advantage of this, sending the vines into the sides of the creature's face, the behemoth once again acting as if this did nothing, grabbing the vines again only this time pulling them inward. As Zelda went in, Nathan started to panic, trying his best not to show it and shouted, "Zelda, aim your tail toward him!" the snake flipping her body backwards as he tail rammed into Conkeldurr's skull.
However, this dealt little damage to Conkeldurr and only ended up hurting Zelda more as he rolled around in pain, her opponent taking full advantage of this as he held up his fist, ramming it hard into the snake's pelvis and knocking her out. Nathan couldn't believe what he was seeing. This thing was unstoppable! How could Sammy stand any more of a chance than the others?
However, he simply returned Zelda and gulped before sending in Sammy, saying, "Alright, Sammy, let's make this one count!" the mole grinning while clanging her claws together, giving Conkeldurr a vicious look.
All the while, Mighty had sent his vines toward Timburr in the hopes of finishing him off only for the canine to raise his hands, grabbing the vines as Mighty's eyes went wide, the monkey struggling to pull free only for Timburr to easily overpower him, pulling him inward and lowering his skull, aiming it at the monkey's pelvis. Seeing this, Jason became desperate as he spat, "AIM YOUR HEAD TOWARD HIM TOO!" the monkey grinning and flipping his body forward just in time for both skulls to collide with one-another.
Timburr's eyes started to spin as he held onto his head, the canine trying desperately to maintain balance. Unfortunately, Timburr's head was harder than Jason had anticipated as Mighty had shown the same reaction. After a few seconds, both passed out as Jason returned Mighty saying, "Well, at least we didn't lose," Eric doing the same and saying, "Good job, Timburr," a smile on his face as he stashed the Pokeball away.
Despite having taken in previous damage, Gurdurr was overpowering Pyro by a long shot, Gurdurr pulverizing the pig with Pound followed by a stream of rocks known as Stone Edge. Dana bit her collar and said, "Come on, Pyro, you can do better than this."
Unfortunately, while the pig was certainly strong, he wasn't nearly as fast as the other two before him. As such, he was having a rather difficult time as he attempted to use Ember only for Gurdurr to hit him hard with Chip Away, the pig's snout bleeding a bit.
However, just as Gurdurr was about to rush in and finish what he'd started, the pig felt a strange impulse to stand up on his two back legs, his front legs facing downward like hands. Dana, Jason, Eric and Nathan stared at this, Conkeldurr and Sammy even taking a break from their battle to look at this miracle. How could a Tepig stand on two legs so perfectly like that?
The answer soon became clear as his body started to bulk up, Gurdurr stopping his attack and showed a twinge of fear for the first time in the entire battle. Soon, Pyro's body had become more of a large egg shape, his thighs growing as well while what looked like a chestnut brown wrestler's outfit with golden medals shaped like the letter S holding the straps in place. His tail became longer, the ball replaced by a big black tuft of fur, the pig's front legs becoming actual arms, his hooves becoming more claw-like.
Dana's eyes sparkled as she squealed, "My little Pyro just evolved!" pulling out her Pokedex and realizing that this form was known as Pignite. Now Pyro was much stronger than before, and just to prove how powerful he'd become, Pyro used Arm Thrust, sending his arms forward into the spellbound Gurdurr five times, the canine passing out as Pyro flexed his muscles, Dana running over and hugging the pig saying, "I'm so proud of you!"
For the first time ever, Pyro actually felt touched hearing this, so rather than acting smug about it as usual, he instead wrapped his arms around the girl and embraced her as well, Eric sighing, "That's really touching. If you kids weren't getting in my way, I'd let this slide," before Dana grinned saying, "Well, now that Gurdurr's taken care of, I can help Nathan!"
"No," Nathan remarked, smiling lightly and saying, "Congrats on the evolution, but I can handle this myself."
Dana folded her arms and pouted as Jason patted the girl on the shoulder, Dana sighing and returning her new pig wrestler. She hoped Nathan knew what he was doing because he'd had the least luck of all so far, and this was rather surprising.
With that, Sammy glared at Conkeldurr as Nathan said, "Give him a little warning, if you know what I mean," the mole ramming her claws into the ground and picking up two more clods of concrete, the mole hurling them into Conkeldurr's face, the behemoth noticing a bit of blood trickling from his nose. Finally, he had taken in visible pain. He knew this had gotten serious now.
