Hey everyone!
I'm back with the next chapter and I have to say that the storyline is finally sorted out. (I had no idea what I was doing before, I was just improvising.) As far as I have read, I am the only one that has this kind of plot so look forward to something that hopefully is new on Fanfiction. I also want to say that I am planning a new story. It will be a dystopian realistic Pokémon story. I can't say more than that because I don't know if it's going to work but like I said with this one, I haven't seen the kind of plot that I'm planning on Fanfiction. I hope that I will revolutionize Fanfiction with never-seen-before-plots!
As you see, I am a pretty slow writer so it might take a while until I finish this story but I have planned to finish the first chapter of my other story soon. I am however going to try to update more often now when I got the storyline sorted out. I had some problem with writers block but now when I got that sorted out; I hope it's never coming back.
I had some questions from someone called N.J. last chapter so I'm going to answer them here:
"Here are my 5 questions. 1. There must be more to the fanfic's plot, besides the summary, right? 2. What locations are being used in the fanfic? 3. When does it take place? Be specific. It may change. 4. How old is everyone that's in the fanfic? 5. What Pokémon are owned by anyone in the fanfic? Be sure to answer these questions."
1. Of course there is more to it than the summary is stating. As I said in this chapter, I used to improvise so what I mean with that is also that I didn't know what the story would be about so I wouldn't have a clue what to write in the summary at that time. I'm not changing it because I'm too sentimental too change it. This is my first Fanfiction and I want to keep it like I wrote it originally. I may do a re-write in the future but I will not change anything in the original story.
2. I was really unsure about what location to use and as such, I kept the location hidden. Good job noticing it! Anyways, this is seven years in the future so there must be new locations found in the Pokémon world. I won't say the location but you can imagine a new region that doesn't have any new Pokémon. I don't want new made up Pokémon in my story but this is not in the six regions.
3. It starts of just a little while after the Unova league is finished. That means that Ash still is ten (cause he never ages, you get it?). Then the tournament and the rest take place seven years in the future. This will not change.
4. Approximately:
Ash; 17 years
Misty; 19 years
Brock; 22 years
Gary; 17 years
May; 17 years
Max; 15 years
Drew; 17 years
Dawn; 17 years
Paul; 17 years
Iris; 15 years
Cilan; 22 years
Some of these are made up by how I think it should be. Iris is supposed to be 17 as well but she really looks more like she is in Max´s age and therefore she is the same age as Max is.
5. These are the ones that have been discovered so far. I will not reveal any Pokémon that hasn't been seen or told about.
Ash:
Pikachu (Not the original one, this is another one that joined him afterwards.)
Charizard (It is the one with the black tail)
Heracross
Noctowl
Sceptile
Torterra
Krookodile
Garchomp
Lord Magikarp
Kuchiku (Lucario)
Swampert
Tyranitar
Shuckle
Max:
Sceptile
Gallade
Swellow
Aggron
Walrein
Salamence
Iris:
Haxorus
Hydreigon
Lapras
Gary:
Blastoise
Scizor
Brock:
Steelix
Crobat
Trip:
Serperior
May:
Blaziken
Venusaur
Drew:
Flygon
Roserade
Those were the ones that have been discovered so far. We might have more coming up but this is it so far.
I hope that this answered your questions, N.J.
While I'm answering questions, I thought that I would take up previous questions that weren't answered;
Someone called phoenixgod13 asked me some question way back. So sorry for not answering at that time!
So far I find four things wrong with this story. the fuck did Misty burn Ash´s house down? Is Misty not in prison for murder? 3. Since when where Paul and Trip Ash´s friends? 4. Why is Pikachu being friendly to Ash? I thought he left him for Ash´s former friends.
(He also pointed out that Serperior can't learn Hyper beam naturally and that he can only learn by TM, but that they don't exist in the anime.)
1. Why Misty burned down his house will be explained in future chapters.
2. I didn't say anything about it in the past but no one knew about that they burned the house. They were suspects but when no one could prove it, the case was dropped and has still not been solved.
3. What it should have said was Ash´s friends AND RIVALS. They are by no means friends in this story.
4. Explained further into the story.
Also, I know that Serperior can't learn hyper beam naturally but in this story, Pokémon have moves that they shouldn't have. You will see examples in the story.
There we go. Sorry for not caring before!
If anyone else has some questions, please ask them! I might have not answered questions before, (even though I didn't have many…) but I promise that I will look at your questions and answer them, either in the following chapter or through PM.
Now, let's get on with the story!
"So now there are only 32 left right?" Max asked happily.
"Yeah, that's it. Only a few more trainers to beat before I win this." I said back with a smile.
"Stop teasing me and saying that I'm not going to win! I am sure that I can beat you and win everything!" He said back with an angry tone.
I looked back with a smirk before saying; "Then how about a battle, right here, right now."
He looked at me with a bored face; "Like that would happen."
"What happened with the 'I'm going to win everything' attitude you had there for a while?" I said with a big smirk plastered on my face.
He sighed and it became a silent moment before I started again; "So, how many from your group are left?"
"There is Paul, Trip, Misty, Drew and of course me." He replied rather simply, so I imagined he knew from before.
"What happened to the rest?"
"Brock got demolished by you, May got defeated in the double battles, Dawn lost to me in the single battle we had just yesterday and … yeah that's it."
I smiled at him before asking; "How was the battle against Dawn?"
"It was a good battle for sure but in the end, my Salamence won over her Quilava. It was kind of lucky though, if she trained a little more in battling under this tournament, she would have won."
I let time pass by before starting again; "I heard that both Iris and Cilan are out of the tournament, both lost their single battles. I also heard that Gary still is in there."
He nodded knowingly before standing up and leaving after saying goodbye. I continued to relax at the bench while petting my Pikachu. It was getting quite boring so I decided to leave but that was when I heard the siren. In front of me appeared an Officer Jenny.
"Everyone, this area is now officially down for investigation. Anyone inside the area of 500m around me and closer has to report to the official police tent that will arrive shortly. We have rumors that someone that has the rank admin or higher inside Team Aqua is inside this area. Please take precaution." She spoke with her megaphone. I saw that there was no point for me to try to take myself out of here so I positioned myself on the bench once again. I sat there for a while and just like Jenny said, the tent arrived shortly after and was positioned besides the pedestrian street. Jenny soon made the crowd line up for interrogation and I went and waited in line. I hoped that this wouldn't take long because my battle was starting in about 20 minutes, unfortunately luck wasn't on my side because the line was moving slowly and the only significant thing that was happening was an occasional "next!" before moving one step forward. After about 15 minutes of waiting, I got in.
"Sit down please; if you answer these questions quick then it will be better and quicker for all of us." Said the Jenny that was sitting in front of me. I nodded and sat down in front of her.
"What's your name, age, location of birth and reason for coming to the tournament?"
"My name is secret but you can call me Satoshi. I am 17 years old and I was born in Canalave City, Sinnoh. I am here to win everything." I told her. I was partially lying but I knew she would search for me in a towns register so I picked another town, in another region.
"And might I ask why you need to keep your real name hidden from the police?" She said while scribbling down the rest in her notebook.
"It is of utmost importance." I replied simply, and it was the truth.
"Maybe it's because you're doing something criminal?" She was now standing up and carefully eyeing me.
"No, I assure you tha…"
"I'm sorry Mr but you are suspicious and as such, I must put you under arrest!"
"Officer Jenny, my next battle starts in 3 minutes and if I'm not there than I will be disqualified!" I was now standing up and I walked to the door and ran as fast as I could to the stadium to make it there in time. I could hear something like "Get the boy that ran away, we might…." But I couldn't hear anything from them afterwards.
I ran as fast as I could, not wanting to be disqualified. I rushed for what seemed like minutes before I finally entered and entered my place on the battlefield. I could hear the commentator speaking as I entered;
"And look at that folks! Satoshi has just appeared in time and is not going to be disqualified! That was a close one though, wouldn't you agree Vance?"
"Absolutely Jerry that was the last minute. Let's get this battle started."
"The format for this battle is single battle and each trainer will use four Pokémon. When the opposite site cannot battle, the winning side will be declared winners. Begin!"
My opponent was a very big guy that reminded me of Surge. I expected something muscular, like a Machamp so I got surprised when the Grumpig appeared in front of me. He looked confidently at his Grumpig before glancing at me. I picked the Pokeball and threw it in front of me. Out of the Pokeball appeared my trusty Torterra. Torterra landed with a crash on the battlefield and Grumpig looked terrified at the sight of Torterra.
"Look at that Vance; that is one impressive Torterra!" Shouted Jerry in amazement.
"Yeah, let's get started here." Said the less enthusiastic Vance.
"Grumpig, start this off by using psychic!"
(A/N: In my imagination, there are two different psychic attacks. The first one is the one where you lift the opponent and throw him away or constantly hit the opponent in the ground. The second one is a beam which could be compared to dark pulse. The one which is currently used by Grumpig is the beam one. If psychic want to be used for lifting, it will say that specifically; for example:
"Grumpig, lift him of the ground!"
I hope this sort out any confusion.)
Grumpig lifted his hand while his eyes started to glow blue. Suddenly he shot the beam from one of his hands. The pink beam travelled fast but my Torterra's intuition was faster. Torterra´s eyes started to glow blue as well and a shield was put up around Torterra. The beam hit the shield with power but the shield did not budge by an inch.
"Now, get in there with shadow ball!"
Grumpig once again put his arms up but this time he shot a purple ball travelled at a slightly slower pace. Torterra´s eyes glowed green and suddenly green vines started to pop up from the ground. One of them hit the shadow ball and it integrated. The others slithered at amazing speed at Grumpig's direction.
"Grumpig, use Reflect!"
Just when the vines were supposed to hit, a blue shield was put up around Grumpig. The vines hit the shield instead but the moment they hit, Grumpig shrieked a painful cry. After the vines hit the target, the withered and fell on the ground.
"Grumpig, use recover!"
Grumpig got covered in a white light and when the light dissipated, Grumpig seemed pretty fine again. Torterra also got moving again, marking that his recharge time was over. He stomped his feet at the ground making the earth shatter around his foot and creating shockwaves which could be felt all the way to the other stadiums.
"Now when it is using its attack, use psychic!"
Though unstable on its feet, Grumpig charged and fired a pink beam at Torterra. I issued my first command during the battle.
"Take it."
Torterra closed its eyes and got hit by the powerful beam. He did slide back a few centimeters but appeared to be pretty unharmed. He looked up at the Grumpig which was now standing proudly at the other side; until he realized that Torterra was staring at him. His trainer grunted but realized that the situation was getting bad for his Grumpig. He picked up the Pokeball and Grumpig was transformed into white light as he was returned. He then reached for his next Pokeball with a smirk before throwing it at the battlefield.
"Go Infernape!"
From the white light materialized the fire monkey. He did a little dance with a backflip before looking at Torterra and pumped his fists together, just like Charizard usually does.
"Get in close with Mach punch!"
Infernape´s fist started to glow blue as he shot forward at an amazing speed. He was just about to hit when his trainer issued his next command;
"Now switch to fire punch!"
Then his fist got covered by a fire as he struck Torterra with it. He hit Torterra´s head forcefully and Torterra groaned inaudibly.
"Again and again, keep on using it!"
Infernape continued to punch Torterra when Torterra suddenly bit Infernape´s hand. Infernape looked surprised at Torterra before powering his second fist. Torterra´s eyes started to glow green and three vines shot up from the earth and attached themselves to Infernape.
/A/N: Giga drain here is a little like frenzy plant. The difference is that three vines come up and they don't do any damage upon impact. However, they drain energy from the opponent when they hit it. A little like leech seed but with vines instead.)
A wave of energy hit Infernape and he was slowly getting weaker with every second passing. His trainer was now looking real annoyed.
"Use flamethrower!"
Infernape opened his mouth and shot a flame blast at Torterra, in an attempt to get out of the trap. Torterra had other plans as a shield suddenly was put up around him. The flamethrower hit the shield and was deflected back at Infernape.
In a last attempt to save his Infernape for later, his trainer did the only thing he could do.
"Return!"
Infernape got hit by a white beam and disappeared from the battle. Torterra seemed disappointed but triumphant nonetheless. He cried out his name proudly before coming back and entering a defensive stance.
My opponent looked puzzled, thinking about what Pokémon that could beat my Torterra. He grabbed his next Pokeball before throwing it out at the battlefield.
Out of the next Pokeball came a large Kanto bird, also known as Pidgeot. It took off into the sky before returning to his place in front of his trainer.
"Create a hurricane!"
Pidgeot started to flap its wings forcefully creating big air currents. This soon came to be a whipped up hurricane. Pidgeot shot it forward with no hesitation at Torterra. I realized that this was a battle that Torterra couldn't quite win. Torterra was a melee fighter or maybe it hit something far away with earthquake at times but it wasn't done to be long range against quick birds. I realized this so I picked up his Pokeball and threw it on him, making him disappear into the Pokeball. My opponent looked at me confused and soon called out to his Pidgeot to stop his hurricane. I stood there for a while considering the choices I had. I picked a Pokeball and sent out my next Pokémon.
"And would you look at that, that's a fine Garchomp right there!"
"Let's say that after we've seen it battle…"
Garchomp cried out its own name before jumping down on the ground and digging itself down.
"Pidgeot, use heat wave!"
Pidgeot flapped it wings while it used the warm air currents and pushed them forward, making them fire up into what sure looked like a heat wave. Even though Garchomp was underground, the heat waves could still hit him through the hole that he did dig. Garchomp nimbly jumped out and jumped to the ground. He put his arms up to the sides of his head while he lowered his head a little. It made him really look like a jet. It didn't take long for my opponent to realize what it was doing.
"Knock him down with brave bird!"
Garchomp shot up at high speed and headed for Pidgeot while Pidgeot got covered by a blue light. Pidgeot started to fly to meet Garchomp and their distance was quickly closing in. They were just about to his each other before Garchomp nimbly rotated slightly to the right. That made Garchomp just pass by Pidgeot with a few inches to go. It turned and finally broke its jet formation and started to power up a blue beam in his mouth. Pidgeot was in a high speed and barely lifted from the ground instead of falling on top of it. Little did it know before a blue beam hit its back. The small ice shards that spread to its wings made it impossible for Pidgeot to stay airborne and it crashed to the ground. Its trainer didn't hesitate as he picked up his Pokeball and returned his Pidgeot. Garchomp flew and landed on the ground.
He picked up his Pokeball and threw it out on the battlefield. Out of it came his Grumpig once again.
"Grumpig!" It said while analyzing Garchomp. Garchomp threw his head up in the air and cried out his name.
"Grumpig, do what you want for a moment. I need to think up a plan."
Grumpig happily agreed before shooting a psychic at Garchomp´s direction. Garchomp jumped up and then down on the ground and used dig. He was just about to enter the hole as he suddenly started to levitate just above it. He looked at Grumpig that was having blue eyes and a winning smile on his face. He had no chance of dodging the psychic so he put up one of his wings in defense. Garchomp fell to the ground, clearly damaged by the beam. He did however get quickly up again before the referee could say anything and jumped underground once again. Grumpig looked at the ground before it began to lift of the ground. Garchomp jumped up from the ground to make some damage but got surprised when it just hit thin air. Grumpig was clearly levitating way above Garchomp and was now powering up a purple ball between his hands.
Garchomp did not falter as he once again took the form of a jet plane and took off into the skies. Grumpig did see exactly that coming because it used its psychic powers to try to stop Garchomp from advancing. Garchomp got slower and slower before he stopped right in front of Grumpig. Grumpig looked triumphantly at Garchomp, knowing that his charged psychic would do some serious damage at close range. It shot the psychic but as soon as he shot it, he realized that Garchomp was using protect. The powerful blast hit the green shield and exploded…, right in front of Grumpig´s face. Grumpig cried out in pain before losing grip on his psychic powers and falling to the ground. It hit the ground with a thud and smoke erupted from where it had fallen. No one had any idea what was happening because of the smoke but soon, Grumpig erupted into a white light. It walked out of the cloud, looking just like when he started to battle but he was breathing heavily and he didn't look like he would be able to battle for much longer.
"Return!" His trainer said upon returning his Grumpig. He praised his Grumpig before reaching for his next Pokeball.
"Finish this of, Infernape!" He spoke as he threw his Pokeball that was containing Infernape on the field.
Infernape pumped his fists together but he was breathing heavily and was still fatigued from the battle against Torterra.
"Close in with Mach punch!"
Infernape´s right fist glowed blue as it shot itself forward at Garchomp. Garchomp instantly shielded himself with protect and Infernape´s punch only hit the green wall.
"Get back and use bulk up!"
Infernape retreated quickly before bulking up quickly, expanding its physical strength and ability to take a hit. Garchomp followed Infernape's footstep by making his wings clash together, making them radiate a mellow blue spark. He then proceeded by shooting down to the ground disappearing down in it.
"Start using flame wheel and spin around so that it cannot hit you!"
Infernape got engulfed in a big flame as it started to roll around in random directions, hoping to shake of the land dragon.
The ground started to shake and Infernape instantly got ready for a strike.
"Here it comes, Infernape!" His trainer said with a worried face.
Garchomp striked right to the right of Infernape and Infernape turned around, expecting an attack only to realize that he wasn't there. He looked down at the hole that was created and realized that Garchomp couldn't have jumped out of it, it was too small. He turned around but Garchomp still wasn't showing up. He started to roll around again to ensure that he wouldn't be hit.
"Infernape, I think it's time," Infernape stopped and got ready for his next command. "To use earthquake!"
Infernape raised his leg just too forcefully stomp down on the ground, making the earth shake.
That's actually pretty smart… Satoshi thought. But I should expect more of these surprise moves here at the top 32.
His opponent´s Infernape kept stomping and kept the ground shaking but Garchomp was not coming out, or anything else for that matter. His Infernape and the trainer himself quickly got impatient and Infernape soon stopped his attempt at making Garchomp appear. That is also why he didn't see it coming when Garchomp suddenly dashed up from the ground and hit Infernape with incredible force.
Infernape fell to the ground but Garchomp didn't stop. Garchomp dashed forward while his hand started to glow blue. He soon approached Infernape and chopped him twice making him fall harshly to the ground.
"Infernape, NO!" His trainer screamed out before starting to run to it. He kneeled down next to his Infernape and asked him over and over if he was ok. I looked at Garchomp with a face that was telling "We´ll talk about this when we get back to camp." He looked at me with a fearful and pleading face that even made some people from the audience laugh at him. He quickly put on his brave face, embarrassed over how the audience saw his pleading face. I started to look back at the Infernape and his trainer.
"I'm so glad that you are fine! Return and take a good rest." His trainer told him, returning him. He looked back at me before speaking to me;
"You know, that Garchomp of yours is really strong! Heck your whole team is really on another level. You may have taken down my Infernape but I still got some stuff to show you. I bet even you will be surprised about my last Pokémon and that is also why it will be the last Pokémon that I will reveal."
"Well, I can say that you have peaked my interest. I hope that you will live up to my expectations."
He grabbed for his next Pokeball and threw it out, revealing his Pidgeot. His Pidgeot was still shaken from his last battle because he was flexing his wing like it hurt.
"Pidgeot, show 'em how strong you are with a mighty hurricane!"
Pidgeot started to flap its wings forcefully creating big air currents. This soon came to be a whipped up hurricane. He then continued by flapping one final time, sending it at Garchomp.
"Back it up with an aerial ace!"
The hurricane was making its way to Garchomp as Pidgeot got engulfed in a blue light and dropped to the ground. Garchomp put up the green shield called protect as the hurricane came close to him. The hurricane hit the shield and tried to push through but couldn't get through the protect. Garchomp then suddenly took off into the skies making Pidgeot halt its aerial ace and try to catch up to Garchomp.
"Pidgeot, don't follow him! Get back and use whirlwind instead!" Pidgeot´s trainer said warily.
Garchomp turned in midair while charging the ice beam in his mouth and was just about to shoot as he realized that Pidgeot was no longer following him. He stopped charging and upon hearing the opposing trainer´s command, he proceeded to fly to even higher grounds.
"Pidgeot, do not follow him! He will use ice beam if you get close."
Garchomp was now flying in a circle above them, not showing any sign of wanting to come down. I waited for about a minute for something to happen but nothing did happen.
"Garchomp, Return." I said while I returned my Garchomp into his Pokeball.
"Wow, why would you switch out your Garchomp? It even had boosted attack and everything!" My opponent said, clearly surprised over my choice.
"Because nothing was happening and I know that you wouldn't risk your Pidgeot just like that. This will get more interesting anyways." I said as I reached for my next Pokeball. I threw it out and the continental Pokémon appeared right in front of my eyes.
"I and my Torterra have been training greatly with his stamina and ability to take a hit. It surely will be interesting to see you try to take it down."
"Pidgeot, keep it long range with heat wave"
Pidgeot flapped it wings while it used the warm air currents and pushed them forward, making them fire up into a heat wave. Torterra was quick to put up his protect, completely shielding him from the fire. Pidgeot cried out in frustration before he started to flap its wings forcefully creating big air currents. This soon came to be a whipped up hurricane. He then continued by flapping one final time, sending it at Torterra. Torterra did no such thing as moving; instead it stayed and took the full brunt of the attack. My opponent looked at Torterra and was looking disappointed, Torterra barely felt the hit.
Torterra eyes started to glow green and Torterra was covered in a green glow as several vines popped up from the ground and made their way at Pidgeot. Pidgeot tried to get airborne but a vine soon caught up and caught Pidgeot´s wing. Pidgeot could not hold itself up and son came crashing down to the ground. Ten vines then crashed down at Pidgeot and a dust cloud appeared, making it impossible to see anything.
His trainer picked up his Pokeball, being ready to return it but got mildly surprised as Pidgeot walked out of the dust cloud, breathing heavily with bruises everywhere. He cried out his name and looked fiercely at Torterra. Torterra responded by grinning widely and stomping once on the ground. Pidgeot could no longer take it and finally, it fell.
His trainer thanked him before returning him to his Pokeball. He immediately reached for his next Pokeball which I knew would contain Grumpig. I was right because the psychic pig soon materialized right in front of Torterra. It looked at Torterra before beginning to levitate. He was looking very strained and was breathing heavily.
"Start of by using psychic!"
Grumpig soon charged up a pink light in between his hands. Torterra was charging a green light in his mouth. As soon as Grumpig shot his psychic, Torterra shot his energy ball. They collided in the middle and exploded, making dust cover them completely. During the time that they were in the dust cloud, I heard Grumpig cry out loudly. When the cloud dissipated, Grumpig was down on one knee, looking down on the ground and breathing heavily. He took his own initiative by covering himself in a white light which soon covered him. After a few seconds, he was looking fine but was still breathing very heavily.
"Do you want to continue Grumpig; I don't want you to get hurt?" His trainer asked.
Grumpig cried out his name weakly before slowly standing up and approaching Torterra. Torterra held his ground and didn't make any attempt at attacking Grumpig, as weak as he was looking. Grumpig stopped a few meters from Torterra and started to talk to him. They talked for a while before Grumpig nodded and returned to his trainer. His trainer asked Grumpig and Grumpig simply pressed his Pokeball and was returned to it.
"My Grumpig is too tired to battle so I forfeit."
The referee nodded and soon asked for the last Pokémon.
"Satoshi! He said. This is going to become a hard time for you now."
"And why is that so?" I asked him.
"My father was a great Pokémon trainer. He travelled around and collected all badges; he even challenged the elite four of Kanto once. When my father died, he gave me maybe the greatest gift for a Pokémon trainer; one of his Pokémon. This Pokémon, he said while holding up his last Pokeball, is one of dad´s greatest Pokémon. It is the one he started with and it is the one that almost won over the elite four.
He paused. He held up his Pokeball and threw it out.
"Go Charizard!"
The Pokeball slowly was thrown into the sky and opened. A bright white light came out of the Pokeball and fell to the ground. The light soon began to shape into a dragon like creature. The light grew and grew and finally dissipated, revealing the biggest Charizard that I ever had seen. He reached out with his wings, showing of a massive pair of wings. He eyed me carefully for a while before growling at Torterra, who was looking way more serious than he used to be.
"Didn't I tell you?" He said, breaking me out from my thought. "He really is magnificent isn't he? You are really strong but I think that you just might have a slight problem with this one."
I looked at my Torterra and decided that it would test his strength. I doubted it but maybe it was just really oversized.
"Charizard, use flamethrower!"
Charizard looked at Torterra before opening his mouth and shot a steady stream of extremely hot fire. Torterra was quick to put up his protect in order to protect itself. The flamethrower travelled really fast until it hit a green barrier which completely blocked the attack. I was worried; I could feel the flame several meters away and it wasn't something small, this was one of the strongest flamethrowers that I had felt ever. It was probably stronger than my own Charizard in terms of raw power.
"Torterra, use leech seed." I said calmly, pointing my finger at Charizard.
"Could you hear what I just heard?! Satoshi just ordered an attack! This must be really serious if he´s telling his Pokémon what to do!" Jerry said in amazement.
"You know, this really turned into an interesting battle as soon as that other kid told him about an Elite four crushing Pokémon! For once, I am actually really feeling really excited!" Vance said, surprising most of the crowd with his interested tone.
Torterra shot a leech seed forward at the Charizard. Charizard didn't move or shot a flame or anything, it stood still. The seed came close when it suddenly caught fire. It didn't even arrive to Charizard until it was just a crisp. I stood astounded when he realized and explained;
"You see, Charizard is so powerful that it is constantly covering itself with a fire aura, burning anything that comes close. Makes it pretty hard to hit it doesn't it?"
"Torterra, charge up an energy ball."
Torterra charged up an energy ball which was becoming bigger and bigger.
"Fire."
Torterra released the energy ball from his grip and shot it at Charizard. Charizard spread his wings once again but this time, he started to flap them. He just managed to avoid the energy ball by flying above it. As he got higher up, he picked up his pace.
"Charizard, do whatever you want." My opponent said confidently. He looked at me before saying; "He is better when battling independently."
Charizard flew so that he was just above Torterra and dropped.
"Use Solarbeam."
Torterra charged up the beam which he shot in less than one second, surprising Charizard and hitting it. Charizard did however continue and shot a flamethrower at Torterra. Torterra quickly put up another protect, completely shielding it. Charizard nimbly rotated and lifted off again. My opponent looked at me curiously;
"How could you use a Solarbeam directly?"
"Charizard´s fire aura made it charge up much faster." I replied simply. He looked at me with astonishment before starting to look at his Charizard again. His Charizard fell once again just above Torterra. I thought of using a more fierce approach.
"Use frenzy plant."
Torterra was surrounded in a green light and several vines shot up from the ground, all heading for Charizard. He folded in his wings and fell at an even more amazing speed. The vines tried to hit him but he was just too fast. Torterra made a quick decision by using many of his vines to put up a barrier of vines around him. Charizard kept on charging. Suddenly, Torterra´s vines slashed upwards, surprising Charizard and hitting it multiple times, making it fall to the ground. Charizard hit the ground with a crash and dust covered it. I was extremely surprised that it didn't expect such an easy attack. I was however proved wrong when a sudden flamethrower was shot out from the dust cloud. Torterra had no reaction time as it suddenly was hit by the powerful fire attack.
I looked at my Torterra that had swirls in his eyes; it was looking horrible with loads of burn marks and one of the stones on its back looked like it was melting. I looked back at the cloud of dust which was now dissipating and immediately saw Charizard. It was looking relatively unscathed and was looking very seriously at me.
The crowd was wild, I could understand why. This was the first time that one of my Stronger Pokémon had been taken out in this tournament. And even though Torterra was very weak to fire, Charizard did it in one hit. I thanked my Torterra before returning it.
"The crowd is going crazy and so am I! He surely didn't lie about that his dad challenged the elite four because that attack surely was on elite level!" Vance screamed out in excitement.
"I know exactly what you mean! I wonder how Satoshi will make it out of this situation." Jerry cried out, equally excited.
I knew that this was on another level so I knew that I should take in one of my stronger Pokémon. I did however want to give Garchomp a chance. Garchomp was great both underground and over ground after all. I grabbed his Pokeball and threw it out. He appeared and roared at Charizard, which didn't look scared at all. In fact, he was looking quite amused.
"I know that you picked your Garchomp because of the way that it's dominating both air and ground but I have something to counter its domination in at least the air." He said triumphantly.
"And what is that?" I asked him curiously. He raised his right arm and that was when I saw it; the mega ring. He threw a stone at Charizard and pressed the button. Charizard got covered in a white light and surrounded by a stone wall. The wall soon cracked and out of it came his powerful Charizard X. Charizard was now black where he was orange before and he was blue at certain places like his belly. There was also a constant blue burning fire from the corners of the mouth. He let out a roar and it was way louder than before. Just when I thought that Charizard couldn't be more powerful, Charizard X appeared in front of me.
"Garchomp, use dig and go for your instinct."
Garchomp digged down underground and awaited for something. Charizard shot down a blue flame through the tunnel but there was still no response. Charizard shot another flame and that was when Garchomp striked. Garchomp jumped up from the ground behind Charizard and was powering up a blue light in his mouth. He shot the ice beam right at Charizard but Charizard saw it coming and shot up into the sky at an incredible speed. Garchomp took up the chase after him and went into "jet-mode". He shot up into the sky with a speed that clearly was matching Charizard´s. He charged up a fire in his mouth and shot it at the rising Charizard. Charizard nimbly rotated and looked down at Garchomp before shooting a meltingly hot flamethrower at Garchomp. Garchomp did just as Charizard and rotated before folding his wings and starting to fall. Charizard weighed the risk and soon followed Garchomp down. Charizard started to use dragon rush and was covered in a dragon aura. It´s speed increased as it made its way to Garchomp. It was just a few meters away when Garchomp suddenly stopped and slammed his dragon tail at Charizard. Charizard was caught by surprise and lost control of his flying, now falling for real. Garchomp followed him by folding his wings once again and falling after him again. He charged up a dragon pulse and shot the green beam at the falling Charizard below. Charizard spinned away and finally got control of his flight, only a meter or so above the ground. Garchomp began using dragon pulse rapid fire at the now rising Charizard. Charizard was doing great so far because he was avoiding all the hits by simple spins and dives. That's when Garchomp pulled its ace move. Garchomp got covered in a blue dragon aura, just like Charizard did before, and then it disappeared. It reappeared just in front of Charizard and slammed into him with full power, making Charizard lose control over his flight again. Charizard dived and flied down to the ground, landing next to his trainer. Garchomp did the same except for that he continued and dived underground.
"How was your Garchomp so fast?" My opponent asked me. He clearly didn't see anything like it before.
"That was just a combination of dragon rush and extreme speed." I replied simply.
Charizard growled before taking a deep breath and shooting out to the sky again. It waited for another moment but Garchomp was still not getting up. It thought that it was doing the same strategy so it stayed up in the sky and prepared a fire blast. Garchomp jumped out after some time but just when Charizard was about to fire, he disappeared. He reappeared by slamming into Charizard from behind, making it quickly turn around and fire. Just as it fired, Garchomp used protect making it hit the shield and explode in its face. Garchomp quickly retreated after hitting Charizard. Charizard quickly got into action by surrounding itself in a dragon aura and heading at Garchomp. Garchomp got into a defensive position but he stayed right where he was. He then did a backflip in the air in an attempt to hit Charizard with dragon tail. He was surprised when he felt a solid wall where Charizard was. He looked up and saw that Charizard was using protect.
"Apparently, not only my Pokémon know protect." I said surprised. It was really clever to not reveal it until now. It felt like more surprises were coming up with this Charizard.
Charizard used fire blast at minimal range and Garchomp had no chance of dodging. The heavy fire blast hit it right in the face and Garchomp slowly started to fall to the ground. He hit the ground with a crash and dust covered him, making it impossible for anyone to see what was happening.
Charizard calmly dived to the ground and landed next to his trainer, which was looking cockier for every second passing. I still was looking at where Garchomp landed, hoping for the best. I couldn't quite fathom how strong that Charizard was, taking down my Torterra in one hit and then hitting Garchomp very hard. Besides all that, it had taken a lot of beating but it still didn't look to damaged, maybe a little tired because he was starting to breathe more heavily. This was one of the first times when I thought about how strong the elite four was. This was a Pokémon that was on a journey to beat the elite four and from what I heard from my opponent, he barely made it through the first three before failing at the last one. Their power must be over the top, and then we can only imagine the champion.
I soon heard a grunt from inside the dust cloud and then a smash on the ground. The cloud slowly dissipated and when it finally did, I saw that my Garchomp was…, gone? I did see a hole in the ground so I imagined that he was still in the fight. That was one of the good things about dragons, their pride made them battle with all their might even when being in a bad situation.
I saw that Charizard spread his wings again and got airborne pretty quickly. Garchomp suddenly popped up from the ground and did his combo, using dragon rush and extreme speed. He disappeared and appeared right in front of Charizard but Charizard saw it coming because it quickly raised its protect to intercept the hit. The dragon combo only hit the shield before he retreated into the ground again. This time, Charizard surprised everyone by diving after Garchomp. Just as Garchomp entered the underground, so did Charizard. Charizard used dragon rush in an attempt to speed up and was just about to hit when he suddenly got hit by the dragon combo from behind. He stopped abruptly and used flamethrower to try to hit Garchomp. Garchomp was however gone already, he was above ground. Charizard turned around and got out of the tunnel the same way as he got in. He shot out from the underground and he saw Garchomp on the ground. He was not doing anything but his eyes were glowing orange. Charizard knew this move too well so he used dragon rush at Garchomp in an attempt to stop him from doing that attack. It was already too late. I heard the meteors and I'm sure that he did too. The meteors in the sky were now approaching Charizard and quick too.
Charizard did the best he could do so he stopped midair and used protect. Several meteors were now coming at his way and he was still covered by protect. Meteors started to hit the shield but the shield wasn't one to break. He kept on keeping his protect up but he got tired of it soon and had to let go of it. Meteors were still coming and he could do nothing as a meteor hit him with incredible force. He fell to the ground and crashed down, meteor still on top of him. Garchomp fell down on one knee, clearly tired from using the powerful dragon attack. He punched the ground with his fist and got up again, still raring to go. Charizard was still unseen in the cloud of dust. Suddenly, the meteor was thrown out of the cloud and out of the cloud came Charizard. He was breathing more heavily now and he was appearing to actually take some serious damage. He saw Garchomp in front of him and smiled at him, Garchomp grinned back. Garchomp started to power up a green light in his mouth while Charizard was preparing a flamethrower. At the same time, they fired both their attacks. They travelled to the middle and hit with a loud crash. To my unhappiness, Garchomp was utterly overpowered and the flamethrower hit Garchomp in the face. Garchomp fell to the ground and stayed down. When I looked at him, I saw the swirls in his eyes. So did the referee as he picked up his flag and signaled it to the crowd.
"Wow Jerry. This is what I call a real battle between dragons!" Vance said in amazement. Jerry just nodded, too astounded to say anything.
Charizard returned to his place next to his trainer and looked at me triumphantly. I looked at him and smiled and he did the same at me. I looked at my Garchomp and returned him after thanking him. I already knew my next choice so I picked Tyranitar´s Pokeball and threw it out. The rock Pokémon appeared in front of me and cried out his name loudly. Charizard still didn't seem amused but to my surprise, he was looking very serious and it didn't look like he could battle anything anywhere anymore.
My Tyranitar immediately started off by using rock slide, making stones appear on top of Charizard and fall on him. Charizard quickly used protect. Tyranitar quickly rushed forward and powered up a yellow sparkling light in his right fist. Charizard dropped his protect and powered his fist as well, but in a darker blue. They soon met and the thunderpunch collided with the dragon claw. Several sparks flew everywhere but they didn't seem to move too much. It was a complete stalemate, or that was what most people thought. Tyranitar raised his second fist which was also powered up and shot it at Charizard. Charizard ducked and sent his second dragon claw to intercept the second punch. Once again it was a stalemate. Suddenly, Charizard swooped his tail across the floor and Tyranitar fell to the ground, not expecting such a move. Charizard powered up a flame in his mouth as he kept the Tyranitar down on the ground. Tyranitar started to power up his hyper beam. They fired at the same time and the attacks both hit in the middle. Charizard realized that he wasn't getting anywhere so he retreated and shot up into the skies. Tyranitar got up again and looked up at where Charizard was. He was way above him and he couldn't fly either so that was a big con. Tyranitar´s eyes started to glow brown before rocks started to fall at Charizard, all the way up in the clouds. Charizard didn't think that it had such a long range so it quickly used protect in order to dodge it. He then folded his wings in and started to fall at Tyranitar. He was covered in a dragon aura while his eyes started to glow red. Tyranitar got ready to intercept the dragon rush so he wasn't too focused about Charizard´s eyes, not like he could see them at that distance anyways. The ground started to shake and fire suddenly started to erupt in various places. Tyranitar realized this and was about to move when the fire erupted right beneath him. The fire covered him fully and he fell to the ground, with many burn marks and overall heavily damaged by the powerful blast burn. He couldn't do anything when Charizard then dropped at him with dragon rush. He hit Tyranitar hard and a cloud of smoke erupted. I was not completely unaware of what was happening until I saw that Charizard was thrown out from the cloud and the sharp rocks that hit him just after. I heard loud footsteps and I got happily surprised when I saw Tyranitar walk out of the cloud as well. He was heavily damaged with very many burn marks and a lot of bruises and cuts over his body as well as a big crack in his heavy armor.
The stone edge hit Charizard hard at mostly the wing because of how it was directed a little to the left of where Charizard was. Charizard did, for the first time in this battle, cry out of pain. My opponent was now looking quite worried over his Charizard but Charizard quickly got up again, ready to fight more. I knew that Charizard wasn't one to give up in the first place, much like a dragon. Fitting really because of how he now actually was a dragon. My Tyranitar powered up an orange light in his fist before rushing at Charizard again. Charizard spread out his wings but soon started to power up his fist in fire instead. I smiled when I realized that he probably couldn't be airborne anymore.
The fire punch and the drain punch collided in the middle again and another stalemate was inbound. Charizard then started to power up a flamethrower. Tyranitar started to power up his hyper beam. They both fired and a stalemate was in place once again. Charizard and Tyranitar both stopped and that's when Charizard started to smile. Tyranitar looked like it tried to get away but it couldn't move after using the hyper beam. Charizard eyes started to glow red again as the ground began to shake again. Tyranitar got panicked as he tried to move when he realized that he couldn't. The ground was now shaking and Tyranitar could feel the pressure under him. The ground erupted and it hit the shield. In the last second, Tyranitar had managed to pull off a protect. Charizard finally stopped the attack and that was also when Tyranitar dropped his protect. He immediately used stone edge. Several sharp rocks were shot at Charizard, all successfully hitting. Charizard was hit in the torso harshly and he fell to the ground. Charizard did shake for a while before he started to push himself up. Charizard finally managed to get up and pull himself together and that was when the battle of intensive looking began. They eyed each other very carefully for what seemed like minutes. Tyranitar started to, to my surprise, talk to the Charizard. They started to chat for a while before they began to stare at each other. Tyranitar cried out its own name and finally, his legs gave up. He fell to the ground and lay there for a while. I saw the swirls in his eyes. The flag of a Pokémon fainting went up and the crowd got crazy, like really crazy.
"Jerry, feast your eyes because this battle is probably going to be the best one here at this tournament this year." Vance commented.
"I know what you mean. I got to tell you, Satoshi is a really strong guy but that Charizard is almost crushing him. That's some serious overpoweredness!" Jerry commented back.
I returned back my Tyranitar quietly. And I started to reach for my next Pokeball. The whole stadium got quiet; you couldn't hear even one person talk. They were all waiting for the choice of my next Pokémon. I started to talk to my opponent;
"The last Pokémon of mine is a mega evolution." I said.
"I guessed so much." He said back.
"I got to thank you; I haven't had a battle like this in years."
"I feel the same; I didn't think anyone outside the elite four could make dad´s Charizard fall. I mean, it's not down yet but it is very close, not going to lie."
"This Pokémon is my most powerful one while in its mega form. I hope you're ready for it."
He smiled at me as I picked up my last Pokeball. The stadium was still as quiet and was waiting very much for my last Pokémon. I threw out my last Pokémon on the field. The reaction was immediate, the crowd went "ooh" and "WOW" and I could hear multiple other comments. Most were probably about Kuchiku´s coloring. Where there was supposed to be blue color, there was red. Every other place was black as the night, even the eyes. Even my opponent seemed flabbergasted. I threw his stone to him while I pressed the button on my mega ring. The effect was immediate. Just like Charizard, he got covered in a white light and surrounded by a stone wall. The wall soon cracked and out of it came Lucario in its mega. It growled at Charizard which was now looking very tired and not very good overall.
"Kuchiku, do what you want." I told him. He nodded and set out on a sprint for Charizard. Most of the crowd and even Charizard got surprised by its speed. It reached Charizard in just a few seconds and his fist glowed blue as he shot it forward at a very high speed. Charizard decided to see what he would do and quickly put up a protect. Lucario hit the protect and the attack was seemingly stopped for the moment. Lucario grinned at Charizard before its punch actually went through the protect, resulting in a hit right on. Charizard grunted and fell to the ground. Lucario slashed his arms at each other, resulting in a big power boost. Charizard got up again and looked at Lucario with a newfound respect. Lucario growled again before slashing his arms one more time, powering up even more. Charizard quickly got into action and charged up a meltingly hot flame, before shooting his flamethrower at Lucario. Lucario started to move extremely fast before disappearing into thin air. Charizard knew exactly what would happen so he quickly put up his protect. Lucario hit the protect with full power and once again failed to break the protect. He smirked quickly before expanding his draining punch into the shield. Charizard did also see that coming as it quickly put up his burning fist to match Lucario´s. Their fists clashed as the fire tried to match Lucario´s strength after using swords dance twice. Charizard dropped his protect and soon started to power up a flame in his mouth again.
"Vance, we got some crazy power levels in here! Must be over 9000!" Jerry nearly screamed of excitement. Vance nodded before taking the word.
"I do have to tell you, this is one heated battle. I expected Charizard to go down fairly quickly but it is still holding its ground. Someday, I wish to watch an elite four battle because if the battles there are just as heated as this one, then I am literately made for them. I'm not quite sure about who I am rooting for right now because it is sure a tied battle here!" Vance said back.
Charizard finally got powered up and fired his flamethrower. Lucario tried to get out but Charizard still kept a good grip to his fist that he had grabbed during the stalemate. Charizard fired the flamethrower which slowly made its way to Lucario. Lucario got hit dead center by the shot but still tried to use extreme speed to try to get out of there. Charizard still held on to Lucario, making it impossible to flee, while it started to power another flamethrower. I realized this so I had to stick my foot in for once.
"Lift him." I said calmly. Charizard soon got lifted off the ground and was thrown of Lucario in the air. He was then released from the psychic power holding him up and because of how his wing was hurt, he couldn't keep balance and crashed to the ground. My Lucario was now standing next to me again. It was not looking very well and I could understand why; Lucario was a Pokémon that would dish out some serious damage, not take heavy hits. I looked at the still Charizard and I realized that he was looking really bad. He had bruises and gashes all over his body and his blue flame was significantly weaker than at the start of the battle.
"Vance, they are both damaged here, mostly Charizard. Who do you think will win?" Jerry asked
"I can't say that I really know Jerry, this is a much tied battle as I said before and I don't think that I can say the outcome for sure. It is true that Charizard is looking very, very bad but his fighting spirit is as high as any day. Lucario on the other hand has only been hit once but it was a very mega-powerful super effective hit. I'm actually surprised that it's still standing!" Vance exclaimed.
"I know what you mean. This could be one of those 'the last attack wins' situations where we will only see one move from each trainer. I actually do hope so because they tend to get quite excited."
Charizard pushed itself up once again and I had to admire its almost everlasting stamina. Lucario was tired so I realized that we both only had one move left. It seemed that my opponent saw the same thing because he looked at me with a faint smile and nodded.
"Charizard, finish this off with Blast Burn!"
"Kuchiku, use Aura Storm."
Charizard and Lucario both got covered by a red and a blue glow respectively as they growled at each other.
Lucario covered itself in a white light before everything around it exploded. Charizard got hit by the powerful aura-based attack but smiled at Lucario as the ground erupted from under him. Smoke appeared and blocked anything from our view.
We heard something crash onto the ground and when the smoke dissipated, all the people in the crowd gasped; both were down on the floor, laying still. The referee waited for a few seconds but when nothing was happening, he walked to the field. He told both me and my opponent to hold any attack that we might have done during the moment that he went inside. He proceeded by carefully walking onto the field. The crowd was now dead quiet; I swear that they all were holding their breath. The referee walked over to the Pokémon and raised both flags. I got a little sad because it meant that it was a tie.
"This is not a tie everyone!" He spoke out loudly to everyone. I looked up expectantly at him with a very serious expression. Maybe it wasn't a tie after all? I really hoped that my Lucario would stand up.
"The winner of this match is…"
Cliffhanger!
I seriously feel like a douchebag by ending a chapter with a cliffhanger after not posting anything in 1 and ½ months. I do hope that I made up for that wait with this super long 10k word chapter.
What did you think of the battle? It really wasn't supposed to be this long but I started to write and I didn't realize how long it was until I reached 7k words! I want to point out that chapter was not given to my BETA because I wanted it out there quick. There probably are a lot of mistakes so feel free to point them out and I will fix them.
I also want to explain some battle mechanics now after the fight instead of disrupting the reading with loads of A/N´s.
Recover: Recover does recover the HP of a Pokémon and heals any physical damage that the Pokémon might have gotten. Note that you still are just as tired after using it. That is why I would write stuff like; "After a few seconds, he was looking fine but was still breathing very heavily."
Draco meteor: This works like in the game, not in the anime. The user gets covered by a dragon aura and creates meteors that randomly fall down from the sky inside of a 25m radius or something about that.
Also want to say that during Charizard´s and Garchomp´s battle, there was a point when Charizard fell but managed to avoid the ground just barely;
"Charizard spinned away and finally got control of his flight, only a meter or so above the ground."
This looks something like this: www,youtube,com/watch?v=UrnU1GrHu2E (Skip to 03:09 when Rayquaza is falling.) Warning! It is very low quality but it's the best I could find with that certain scene.
I just think that the fall and the way that Rayquaza managed not to crash were really awesome. Anyone else?
I also want to point out that the Elite four is pretty OP in this story; Proved by Charizard. I always thought that the Elite fours were insanely strong.
I really want reviews guys; I really get more motivated to write when I get them. Let's try to smash 25 reviews everyone! Any questions and critics appreciated!
I do hope that my next chapter will be up quicker than I put up this one but I can't say for sure. Anyways, I'll see you guys in the next chapter!
P.S. Happy Easter
-Nr 755