Author's note
Storymaker 2 here, I hope you guys are having a good Christmas and are still enjoying my story. On another note please leave a review or comment so I can get some feedback or suggestions on where I should go with my story.
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CH 11: Championship match
Two weeks passed since Ash had trained with Daniel in the leaf forest. Over the days since Ash did 3 training sessions with May and planned Brock's bachelor party. It was 4:40 in the afternoon and Ash was inside a small house for rent in Pewter city with Brock, Brock's dad, Felix, some of Brock's friends from med school, and Forest.
The group was sitting at a table playing a game of BS. "One three" Felix said as he put a card down. "Training with Daniel Rain kid how lucky can you get" Brandon, one of Brock's friends from medical school, said.
"Two threes" Brandon said as he put down two cards. "BS" Ash said. "Dam it" Brandon said as he picked up the entire stack. "So Brock where do you think you and Suzy are going after the wedding?" Ash said. "Well we've both been offered jobs by new Clinic Mr. Sall's company is setting up in Vermilion city" Brock said.
"congratulations, Sall enterprises has always worked towards the benefit of pokemon" Felix said. "Ash didn't you say you met Mr. Sall and his top scientist Dr. Marrs" Tyler, Brock's other friend from medical school, said. "Yeah I've met them both" Ash said. "Dr. Marrs is a genius in pokemon evolution. The best I've ever seen " Brock said. "Three fours" Brock said.
"BS" Flint said. Brock smiled as his dad picked up the cards and saw three fours. "Oh come on" Flint said as he picked up all of the cards. "Two fives" Tyler said. "BS" Felix said. "How!" Tyler said as he picked his cards back up. "How do you two keep doing that?!" Tyler said looking at Ash and Felix.
Both snuck a smile as Pikachu giggled a little knowing Ash's and Felix's aura tricks. After the game ended Flint took out a case of beer. In Kanto the drinking age was 18 so Brock could drink. Felix and Flint passed them out to everyone but Ash.
Ash was drinking a bottle of water while the rest sipped on beer. "Oh I almost forgot to tell you guys, I called in a favor with Daniel. You know how the championship match at the pokemon league is on tonight" Ash said. "Yeah" Brock said. "Well We've all got seats in the Indigo stadium" Ash said.
"What are you serious!" Flint said. "What man the Indigo stadium that's miles away how do we get there by 6:30 when the match starts?" Tyler said. "Ash and I already talked about this we can get there" Felix said.
"It's up to you Brock, want to see who wins this years pokemon league at the Indigo plateua" Ash said. "Are you kidding let's go!" Brock said. "Follow us" Ash said. Ash and Felix led them outside where they saw 4 pokemon waiting for them. Ash's charizard and Pidgeot , Felix's Charizard , and none other than Charizon.
"Is, is that!?" Flint said. Ash went over and patted Charizon on the back and said "Daniel's Charizon" Ash said. "Incredible" Brock said as he looked at the massive black dragon. "Alright time to go" Ash said.
Ash and Brock got onto Charizon while the rest of the group got on the other pokemon. "Hold on they'll be going fast" Ash said. Charizon launched himself into the air with the other pokemon behind him.
It only took them an hour to reach the Indigo plateau and the Indigo stadium. They saw thousands of spectators already starting to gather inside the stadium. Charizon landed followed by the others just outside the entrance. When they landed dozens of people swarmed around to see charizon.
"Woah is that!" Some people said. "I don't believe it" Others said. Ash and Felix returned their pokemon and walked towards the entrance with Charizon. Two security guards with growlithes were standing at the entrance. When they saw Charizon with Ash and the others they let them through. Charizon didn't enter the stadium, he simply flew up into the air and over the stadium.
A security guard led them through the VIP entrance towards a private box. "I don't know how you guys know Daniel and Serena Rain but congratulations" The security guard said. He opened the door to the private box. Daniel and Serena were sitting with an older man. When they came in they saw it was professor Oak.
Daniel noticed them come in "Ash you made it" Daniel said. "Mr. Rain it's an honor the meet you" Flint said extending his hand out. Daniel shook his hand and turned to Brock. "Brock I presume, Ash has told me a lot about you" Daniel said. "Really" Brock said. "He's told me about all the journeys you've had together" Daniel said.
"So professor what are you doing here?" Ash said. "Well Gary has made it into the finals and Daniel invited me here to see them" Oak said. "I thought it would be a good time to catch up with the professor" Daniel said. Ash noticed Serena had an eevee in her lap.
The group sat down next to Daniel and Serena. "So you're getting married" Serena said as she petted her eevee. "In a few weeks yes, Suzy and I are getting married in Pewter city" Brock said. "You wouldn't mind if Daniel and I attended would you?" Serena said. "Of course not that would be great" Brock said.
"Say Serena that's a health looking eevee how long have you had him?" Tyler said. "He's almost 14 years old. I got him just about the time Daniel became champion" Serena said. Ash and Felix looked at the eevee "eevee" It said as it smiled at Ash.
Ash couldn't put his finger on it but there was something strange about the eevee. Its aura seemed different from the average eevee. "The match is about to start" Flint said. As the night sky began to turn dark , lights lit up the stadium. "Ladies and gentlemen I am proud to bring you the final match of the Indigo pokemon league" The announcer said.
The spotlight shined on on the other end of the stadium as Gary walked in. "Presenting finalist Gary Oak of Pallet town"The announcer said. "I guess Gary finally made it to the championship match-up" Ash said. "All he has to do now is win" Ash said. Serena smiled and said "I know who is opponent is and I don't think that's going to happen" Serena said.
"Why do you say that?" Tyler said. "Look" Felix said as the spotlight shined at the entrance just beneath them. "Now for our other finalist, Red!" The announcer said. "Red!" Ash said. Red slowly walked towards his end of the battlefield with his raichu beside him.
Daniel looked at Serena and said "If you've been training him like I've been training Ash then he's got no chance of loosing". "Don't worry I've been training him better than you've been training Ash" Serena said. "This battle will be a 6 on 6 matchup. The first trainer to have all of their pokemon knocked out is the winner" The announcer said.
"You know Red there's another trainer I was always hoping I'd beat here, but you really remind me of him so you'll do" Gary said. "Gary Oak, Ash told me about you" Red said. "Wait a minute you know Ash?!" Gary said. "Yeah, and if you're as good as he says then this will be a great match" Red said.
"Let the match begin!" The announcer said. "Acanine come on out" Gary said as his massive arcanine came out and roared. Red took a deep breath and then took out his first pokeball. "I choose you Tauros" Red said as his tauros came out.
"Well look at that he had a tauros like you Ash" Brock said. "Well he has one, Ash has 30" Oak said. "True" Brock said. "Alright Arcanine let's start off with a double team" Gary said. Arcanine made a dozen copies of himself in a circle around Tauros. "Now use flamethrower" Gary said. All of the copies shot out a jet of fire from their mouths.
Red took a deep breath and looked at Tauros. Ash noticed something strange in tauro's eyes. Strange, but familiar. "Tauros use stone edge" Red said. Tauros jumped to the side avoiding the flamethrower then stomped the ground to crack up some sharp rocks. He rubbed his horns across the rocks making them stick to his horns and parts of his head. Once he had enough he sprinted forward at the real Arcanine.
"What? Arcanine move!" Gary said. Arcanine tried to move but Tauros was too fast and he hit arcanine with stone edge. "Woah how did he knew which arcanine was the real one?" Brandon said. "There are ways a trainer and his pokemon can do that" Felix said. "Alright Arcanine use flame charge" Gary said.
"Tauros use horn attack" Red said. The two pokemon charged at eachother and hit each other. Tauros felt the heat from arcanine's flamebody. "Perfect just where we wanted you arcanine use flamethrower" Gary said.
Arcanine opened his mouth and engulfed tauros in fire. "That's gotta hurt" Tyler said. "Tauros, we can do this use giga impact!" Red said. Tauros forced himself forward into arcanine but didn't stop. "Arcanine!" Gary said as Tauros forced arcanine across the ground with giga impact.
When he stopped arcanine was on the ground unconscious. "Arcanine is unable to battle" The ref said. "That's one tough tauros" Ash said. "Arcanine return, alright we can still do this" Gary said as he took out another pokeball. "Go Magmortar" Gary said. His magmortar came out and let a puff of smoke out of his mouth.
"Let's start with a smokescreen into lavaplume" Gary said. Magmortar opened his mouth and shot out a ball of smoke that covered the entire field in smoke. "Good now use lavaplume" Gary said. Ash looked down and saw Red take another deep breath and a small flash of blue light where tauro's eyes were. "Is he?" Ash said. "Pika" Pikachu said.
"Tauros use giga impact" Red said. Tauros ran through the smoke avoiding the lavaplume and hit magmortar sending him flying out of the smoke. " What how did he do that?" Gary said. "He's good" Flint said. "He is" Felix said. Tauros began to breath deeply as he tried to recharge from the giga impact.
"Quick while he's recovering use overheat!" Gary said. Magmortar got up and unleashed a massive burst of fire at Tauros. "Wild charge!" Red said. Tauros covered himself in electricity and then charged through the overheat and into magmortar. "Magmortar!" Gary said. Magmortar hit the ground with swirly eyes. "Mortar" He said. "Magmortar is unable to battle" The ref said.
"What!?" Gary said. "Great job Tauros" Red said. Tauros's legs wobbled and he fell to the ground unconscious. "Tauros is also unable to battle" The ref said. "Tauros return, you did great tauros" Red said.
"Ok I'm counting on you to turn this match around. Go Blastoise!" Gary said. "I know we can do this, I choose you charizard" Red said. Red's charizard came out in front of him and roared. "Why would he choose a fire type against a blastoise" Flint said. "Type doesn't mean everything, my charizard beat Gary's blastoise once" Ash said.
Ash noticed Red's charizard was massive, just as big as his own. "Blastoise start off with a hydropump" Gary said. "Charizard dodge and use steelwing" Red said. Charizard kicked off the ground and flew at Blastoise with metal wings. "Blastoise use iron defense" Gary said.
Blastoise got into his shell and shined as his defenses rose. Charizard hit blastoises shell and knocked him back. "Perfect use hydro pump" Gary said. Blastoise came out of his shell and caught himself on the ground just in time to launch hydro pump and hit Charizard.
"Charizard!" Red said. "That was a direct hit" Brock said. "Great now follow-up with aqua tail" Gary said. Blastoise charged in with water circling around his tail. "Charizard use steelwing to stop them" Red said. Charizard dug his feet into the ground and brought his wings in front of him as they turned to steel.
Blastoise hit Charizard's wings but Charizard absorbed the blow. "Charizard use dragon rage!" Red said. Charizard gathered up dragon energy and then opened his wings to unleash it on blastoise. "Blastoise iron defense!" Gary said. Blastoise tried to get into his shell but he was too late.
Blastoise was hurled back by the dragon rage as Charizard got his feet out of the ground. "Alright blastoise use flash cannon" Gary said. Blastoise flashed a blinding light into charizard's eyes. Charizard stumbled backwards, he could see nothing but white light. " Hydro pump" Gary said.
"Charizard move!" Red said. Charizard tried to move but he couldn't see where the hydro pump was coming from and was hit. "Charizard!" Red said. "That's another direct hit" Tyler said. "Gary's Blastoise is doing well" Oak said.
Ash looked over at Daniel and said "Uh Daniel who are you rooting for in this match if anyone?" Ash said. "Well Serena is defiantly rooting for Red, as for me I think I am too" Daniel said. "You know Red?" Ash said. "I certainly do Ash, he is my wife's student" Daniel said.
"Wait a minute Red has been training with Serena?!" Ash said. "Pika!" Pikachu said also astounded. "After I took you in as a student Serena decided to take in a student as well" Daniel said. "I chose Red for the same reason Daniel chose you" Serena said.
"Blastoise he's still disoriented from the flash cannon, let's finnish this off with a skull bash" Gary said. Red knew Gary was right when he realized what he had to do. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. Suddenly charizard's eyes started to glow blue. "Charizard dragon tail" Red said. Just before blastoise could hit him , charizard smashed blastoise out-of-the-way with his tail.
"Blastoise!" Gary said. "How did he do that?" Brock said. Felix smiled and said "Aura". "Charizard finnish him of with seismic toss" Red said. "No blastoise quick use hydro pump" Gary said.
Blastoise tried to get up and use hydro pump but Charizard was too fast. He sprinted over and grabbed blastoise. Once he had him in his arms he lifted him up into the air. Charizard circled around in the air and then flew straight at the ground. "No no not again" Gary said remembering the last time a charizard used seismic toss on his blastoise.
Charizard hit the ground and a cloud of dust formed around the two pokemon. Everyone in the stadium watched closely as the dust cleared showing Charizard breathing deeply as he stood over unconscious blastoise. "No" Gary said. "Blastoise is unable to battle" The ref said.
"We did it charizard!" Red said. Charizard roared in victory as many in the audience were speechless. "Did a fire type just beat a watertype?!" Tyler said. "Well Tyler 6 years ago Ash's charizard beat that same Blastoise" Brock said.
"You did?" Tyler said. "My charizard is really tough" Ash said. "Blastoise return, this is crazy he's knocked out 3 of my pokemon and I've only knocked out one of his" Gary said. "Charizard you've done enough for this battle return" Red said. Red turned to his Raichu and said "You ready". "Raichu!" Raichu sais confidently.
Raichu ran from beside Red to the battlefield. "Gary's in trouble now, that Raichu was Red's first pokemon" Serena said. Pikachu looked at Serena's eevee for a moment and said "Pika". "Eevee" Eevee said back. Pikachu too noticed there was something strange about Serena's eevee.
"A Raichu huh, alright go golem" Gary said as he threw his next pokeball. Gary's golem came out and roared at Raichu. "Earthquake" Gary said. "Raichu quick attack into focus blast" Red said. raichu sprinted forward with incredible speed and then jumped off the ground as Golem unleashed earthquake.
Once he was close enough Raichu unleashed focus blast right into Golem. "What the!" Gary said. Moments later Golem fell to the ground unconscious. "Golem is unable to battle" The ref said. "Woah" Brandon said. "What did I tell you" Serena said.
"Nice work Raichu" Red said. "Golem return, ok go nidoking" Gary said. Nidoking came out and smashed the ground with his arms as he roared. "Nidoking use stone edge" Gary said. Nidoking took up some of the broken rocks onto his arms and his horn and ran straight at Raichu. "Raichu use giga impact" Red said. Raichu sprinted straight at nidoking as he began to glow green.
Nidoking lunged for Raichu but the smaller pokemon dove forward to fast and hit nidoking in the dead center of his stomach. Nidoking was knocked back onto the ground unconscious with Raichu standing on his stomach. "What!?" Gary said. "Nidoking is unable to battle" The ref said. "Another one hit KO, incredible" Ash said.
"He's doing great" Daniel said. "Would you exepect anything less from a student of mine" Serena said. "Alright Nidoking return, last chance to win the pokemon league" Gary said as he took out his last pokeball.
"Come on out umbreon" Gary said. Umbreon came out and landed in front of Gary. "You're our last chance umbreon we have to make this count. Use shadow ball" Gary said. "Raichu dodge and use thunder" Red said.
Raichu dodged the shadow ball flawlessly and unleashed thunder. "Umbreon dodge it" Gary said. Umbreon quickly moved out of the way avoiding the thunder. "Umbreon use dig" Gary said. Umbreon dup himself under the battlefield toward raichu. "Raichu get ready to move" Red said.
Red took a deep breath and raichu's eyes turned blue. "Dig!" Gary said. Umbreon came up but Raichu jumped out-of-the-way just before he did. "What!?" Gary said. "Thunder!" Red said. Raichu unleashed a massive bolt of electricity into his opponent. "Umbreon!" Gary said.
Umbreon was knocked unconscious and the ref waved the red flag. "Umbreon is unable to battle. The winner is trainer Red" The ref said. "We did it , we really did it!" Red said. He ran over to Raichu as Raichu ran to him.
Red lifted Raichu up into his arms. "Well that's are que" Daniel said. Daniel and Serena got up and left the box. Oak sighed and said "Gary's going to be very disappointed". "Red was incredible" Ash said. "He really is an amazing trainer" Felix said.
Red walked over to Gary who was on he knees with umbreon in his arms. "I'm sorry Umbreon, I failed us again" Gary said. Red extended his hand down to Gary, "Gary you fought well" Red said. Gary sighed and took Red's hand to get up. Later that night A stage was set up in the center of the stadium with Red standing on the 1st place spot. Beside him was Gary and the trainer who placed 3rd.
Daniel, Serena, and Lance were all on the pavilion with Red as Lance handed Red the first place trophy. "congratulations young man" Lance said. "Thank you" Red said. Serena came over to Red and said "You did amazing Red, I couldn't be more proud of you". "Thanks Serena, for everything" Red said. "Red for winning this years Indigo league you have won a special honor" Lance said.
"Do I get to face a member of the elite four?" Red said. "No you get to face me" Lance said. "What I get to challenge a regional champion!?" Red said. "Rai!" Raichu said. "Yes in 5 days we will face each other here" Lance said. "Woah Red get's to face Lance" Ash said. "I almost wish we could stay and watch it" Tyler said.
Ash and the others walked down from the private box to a room where Daniel, Serena, and Red were waiting. "Ash" Red said when he saw him. "Red congratulations on your win" Ash said. "Thanks all that training with Serena is really paying off" Red said. "So Red how do you and Ash know each other?" Brock said.
"Well back when I was traveling in Hoenn for a second time Red was there training Max" Ash said. "You were Max's teacher?" Brock said. "I did teach him the basics of being a trainer" Red said. "So you must be Brock, Ash has told me a lot about you" Red said. "Really?" Brock said
"So Red I guess you and Raichu have been doing well since he evolved" Ash said. "Well I know Raichu evolving wasn't planned but I know he's still my closest friend" Red said. "Raichu" Raichu said rubbing his head against Red.
"Pika" Pikachu said to raichu. "Raichu" Raichu said. "So Ash how is May doing?" Red said. "She's doing great, she wants to be a regular trainer like us so I've been training her" Ash said. "Hey where's proffesor Oak?" Daniel said. "He went to talk to Gary" Felix said.
"So Red you get to take on Lance, good luck man that's awesome" Ash said. "Thanks, but it's definitely going to be the toughest battle I've ever had" Red said. "You can do it Red, you just need to remember everything I taught you" Serena said. "She's right Red you can do this" Ash said. Red looked down at Raichu who said "Raichu" Confidently. "You're right, we're going to win!" Red said.
