Pokemon: Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald

By: Daronta

Chapter 14: VS Manectric

"This is the place," Brendan told himself as he stood in front of a power plant in Mauville City. "Get ready Wattson, we're taking you down."

Brendan walked though the front door, finding himself in a hollow room with nothing but a large throne at the end of the hall and two coil towers were at each side of the throne but slightly forward.

"Who enters King Wattson's Temple?" A strong and defiant voice called for an answer.

"Brendan Ruby, of Olivine City!" Brendan answers. "I'm here to stop your reign of oppression, you selfish jerk!"

"Olivine City, I didn't know I had power over that city," the voice said, before the sound of continuous footsteps came down from the throne.

Brendan started breathing harder as he reached for a pokeball, he heard the footsteps approaching and the coils lit up with lighting revealing a man with a jolly gut, white balding hair and a fat smirk across his white beard.

"So, have you come to beg for your family, or challenge me?" He said with no show of emotion but a snobbish pout.

"A battle," Brendan replied before instantaneously throwing in his pokeball. "Fang, get in there!"

Mightyena formed and Wattson simply glanced at it. "I see, is this mutt all you have?"

He snaps his finger and a round pokeball rolled in front of Wattson. "Vol-Turb!" it vibrated.

That's good Fang learned dig, so Eevee won't have to enter the battle. Brendan thought to himself, "Fang use Dig!"

Dig? Wattson enlightens himself of the opponent.

Mightyena pops out from under Voltorb then head-butts the pokeball pokemon.

Voltorb faints and Wattson retrieves his pokemon, he chuckles a bit and pulls a pokeball from the sleeve of his sweater.

"Magneton, get in there and use thunderbolt." He drops the ball and a three-headed magnet pokemon materialized.

"Fang, use Dig!"

Magneton shot a ray of lighting at the hyena but missed as it jumped into the previous hole.

"Use Thunder."

Mightyena sprang from the ground under Magneton but got countered by a blast of lighting shooting downward.

"Fang!" Brendan called for his pokemon but it fainted. "Return, I may be out of ground type attacks but I still got the fire advantage, Blaze Ember!"

Brendan threw out Combusken, who shot a ray of fireballs at Magneton. The magnet pokemon fell the ground. "Blaze, hit him again!"

"That won't work twice, Magneton use Lock on then use Zap Cannon." Blaze shot a row of fireballs at the pokemon on the ground but missed when Magneton flew up midair and lock all three eyes on Combusken.

Huh? Brendan noticed Magneton forming a ball of lighting at an extremely slow rate. "Blaze, hit 'em with Ember now!"

Combusken shot it's Ember once more with a direct hit. Smoke surrounded Magneton after the impact but a small, quick lighting ball shot at Combusken knocking it out.

"Why now?" Brendan whispers, as his eyes widen at the sight of his defeated fowl pokemon.

Wattson glances at the boy's face and chuckles, "Do you see now, how powerful I can be!?"

"But those were just the opening acts," Wattson implies lifting a pokeball into the air. "Here is the finale."

"Go, Manectric, finish this." A pokemon forms out of the ball, the lighting coil become active directing all the electricity towards the pokemon.

"MAY-NE-TRIK!"

Brendan hesitates in choosing his next pokemon. "Go Venom!"

Loudred was summoned from the pokeball. "Stereo?"

"Shockwave" Wattson said in a slow dramatic way. The lighting dog absorbs the electricity from the lighting coils storing it in its fur.

"Stereo, use Uproar!" Loudred obeyed sending a couple sound waves at the dog.

"Now, Manectric," The dog blasted a full burst of thunder at the sound wave repelling it back at Loudred sending him past Brendan's horrified eyes and through the wall of the power plant.

Brendan didn't dare look back, he heard the voices of the startled citizens outside the hole in the wall. He fell to his knees as tears went down his left eye.

Why? Why is this happening now? Why am I losing? It's never been like this. Brendan eyes still widen gazes upon Wattson's eyes. It's like fighting dad, going against this man.

Wattson laughs at Brendan's face, "That's the look that puts a smile on my face, such agony but something's missing." Wattson stops laughing "Oh, I know pain! Manectric!"

Manectric stores up its fur with electricity then aims forward for Brendan. Brendan hand shook trying to grab another pokeball. I can't let Eevee get hurt again, not after Wally. The Shock Wave hits Brendan, he lets out a painful shriek, and his clothes are randomly cut by the lighting.

Wattson laughs uncontrollably slapping his gut, "That's exactly what we're missing! Again, Manectric!"

Manectric stores more electricity, Brendan quickly falls to the ground headfirst from the last assault. Blood leeks to the floor from Brendan's head, his hand still showing effort to grab another pokeball.

"You still wanna go, now Manectric!" Manectric release the lighting again, Brendan's body reacts to the shock, causing him to rise up on his knees forcibly. This time Brendan's shriek was silent as the blood dripped from his forehead.

"Ow, that must have been some fall," Wattson flinched at the sight of Brendan's bloody face. "Oh well, Manectric finish this."

Manectric stores up more electricity from the lighting coils for the last time, he sends the attack forward.

Outside the gym a bright pink light flashes, people stood behind the doors puzzled. A person wearing a red uniform with a volcano logo on the back and chest, drops into the crowd and heads for into the gym.

The lightning was reflected back into Manectric's tail by the pink light being emitted from Eevee.

"What is that?" Wattson's joy turns to confusion. "Is that Return?"

Eevee and Combusken, who were covered in red aura stood in front of Brendan, who could no longer move.

Combusken shot a revolving flame at the lighting coils, Manectric sped up towards Eevee with Quick Attack but as soon as their noses came in contact, Eevee release another powerfully growl, pushing Manectric back with the pink aura and destroying the coils. The flames and electricity collides creating explosions and causing the walls to break.

"Return, a power that is measured by the love of a pokemon and its trainer, I've never seen it used with such power." Wattson thought in frustration. "Manectric return, this place is done for."

He retrieves his pokemon and runs for the throne and disappears through the flames.

Combusken continues to burn the building in anger as it continues to glow red, Eevee tries to nudge its trainer. Combusken suddenly disappears back into his pokeball. Eevee looks up and sees the Magna grunt. The grunt takes Eevee's ball.

"It's okay, I have Brendan now, so return." The female voice assures the pokemon. Eevee licks Brendan's headband before going back in its pokeball. The building was crumbling and started to cave in. The grunt picks up Brendan and his pokeballs.

"Go Slugma, get us out of here." A lava slug blast the door down with a Flamethrower attack and the grunt runs outside. She returns Loudred to his ball, jumps to the rooftops disappearing from the crowd's eyes.

All was silent for a while until one of the citizens wondered, "Is Wattson gone?"

Later on May and Angie was strolling through the city when they noticed the destroyed power plant.

"Hmm, what happened here?" May's asked curiously approaching the rubble; she was wearing a new Bandana with a pirate symbol on the center.

"Come on kid." Angie demand for May to keep up.

"Yes ma'am," May obediently follows Angie out of Mauville heading for Verdanturf Town.

-To Be Continue-

Brendan's Team:

Eevee Lvl 36 [Dig, Bite, Shadow Ball, Return]

Combusken (Blaze) Lvl 31 [Ember, Peck, Fire Spin, Double Kick]

Mightyena (Fang) Lvl 25 [Tackle, Howl, Bite, Dig]

Dustox Lvl (Vemon) Lvl 23 [Gust, Poison Powder, ?, ?]

Loudred (Stereo) Lvl 19 [Howl, Uproar, ?, ?]