Round 2 was the diving contest. There was a diving bored way up hi at the top of the gym and it was shaped like a leaf. "Send out one pokemon each to go dive" Marlin said.
"Pansage, give it another try" Cilan said. "Machamp, return. Graveler, show them your stuff" Brock said. He was gonna use Graveler for this round insted. "Gallade, you did so well last time that I think you can win this one to" Max said. "Psyther, ill let you try again" Tracy decided.
"Pikachu, you didnt do so well in the last round so I think Im gonna let you take a break, ok" Ash said? Pikachu was shocked and so angry! Ash called Pikachu into a pokeball and said "Oshawot, go!" and he sent out that cute little white and blue otter pokemon.
All the pokemon climed the ladder up to the diving bored way up hi. Gallade went first. It jumped up, bounced and shot back down into the water like a pencil.
Marlin heald up a paper that said 5. Roxy heald up a paper that said 6. Dawn heald up a paper that said 10!
Next was Psyther. It jumped and spinned in the air, making its arms like razor blades wirring around. It landed in the pool, wirring up a circular spray of water all around it that had the jujhes "oooh"ing and "aaahhh" ing.
Marlin heald up a paper that said 8. Roxy heald up a paper that said 7. Dawn heald up a paper that said 10.
Machamp was up next. He flexed his muscles and the top then bended down and made a powerful jump upwards. His tite underwear almost slipped off as he spun through the air (do pokemon even have private parts?) and he landed perfectly with his feet hitting the water and the rest of his body slided after him.
Marlin heald up a paper that said 5. Roxy heald up a paper that said 9. Dawn heald up a paper that said 10.
After that was Pansage. It jumped in the air, spun around its head, did a backflip, used Razor Leaf to create a spinning tornado of beautafull leafs around it, and landed in the water, splashing up a beautafull splash of water that looked like a sparkeling fountain.
Marlin heald up a paper that said 10! Roxy heald up a paper that said 7. Dawn heald up a paper that said 10.
Finaly last but not least was Oshawot. Right now the scores were: 21 for Gallade, 25 for Psyther, 24 for Machamp, and 27 for Pansage. Oshawot would have to get a 28, 29, or 30 from the jujhes if he wanted to win!
"You can do it, Oshawot" Ash shouted! "Just like we practiced"!
Oshawot took its shell off of its tummy. It tossed the shell up into the air, jumped up and caught it in mid-air. Then it tilted down and spun like a torpedo and a thin layer of water surrounded its body. It snapped out its arms and legs and the water around its body popped into bubbles. As Oshawot was still falling to the pool below, it waved its glowing blue shell around its body and it looked like it was making blue squiggels all around it. Then it finaly landed in the water, and the water twisted up around its body and then fell back down into the glittering pool beautafully.
Marllin was amazed! He heald up a paper that said 10! Roxy was also amazed! He heald up a paper that said 10! And Dawn heald up a paper that said... 0?!
I was SO ANGRY! Oshawots performance was definetly the best, but Dawn gave it a zero because she didnt want ash to win!
Marlin looked dissapointed at Dawn's decision to give Oshawot a 0. "Well, that means that these are the final placemennts... Oshawot 20 points, Gallade 21 points, Machamp 24 points, Psyther 25 points and Pansage 27 points. Pansage is the winner!"
Cilan was so happy! He hugged his Pansage even though it was wet. "You did a great job"!
Mean-wile, I was glaring at Dawn up in the jughing booth angry. The blue-haired girl just smiled sweetly back at me and laffed. Her and Pikachu's plan was working. The only way Ash coud possibly win the competision now was if he won Round 3 AND Round 4...