Finally! I have ideas for this Fanfiction but I'm not entirely sure about how long it should be but I know that this one is also close to its finish as well. I'm sad about it but that's life for you. I hope you guys like and keep pointing out my mistakes.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Pokémon in anyway shape or form because if I did, I wouldn't be writing Fanfiction now would I?
Chapter 21
Ali and Eevee came to Pokémon Square during the evening and saw a bunch Pokémon setting the stage for what promised to be a good festival.
"What's going on here?" Eevee asked one of the Machoke.
"We're setting up for a huge celebration," he replied.
"What's the occasion?" Ali asked, his hands behind his head.
"You're victory over Groudon, everyone was feared the worst had happened when Gallade's team didn't come back for days," he explained and the duo nodded.
"It's nice to get some recognition," Ali smiled, as he looked around at all the exuberant decorations being set up.
"Yeah but too much attention tends to get a bit annoying," said Eevee wisely and Ali quickly nodded.
A few minutes later, the festival was in full swing and it couldn't be more obvious was enjoying themselves with all that it had to offer.
"What should we do?" Ali asked, looking at all the booths, some have fortune-telling readings, games, and some new shops that neither of them had seen before.
"I don't know, this is the first time that Pokémon Square has done something this big before," Eevee replied, also looking around with a look of awe on her face.
"Why don't we explore the festival on our own and we'll meet up again in half an hour," Ali suggested and Eevee agreed before they bid farewell to each other and went off in opposite directions to explore this festival.
"Hey, little dude," a voice called out and Ali looked around suspiciously and he saw a Duskull with a pair of shades on his head.
"Me?" Ali asked, pointing at himself, wondering what this guy wanted from him of all Pokémon.
"Yeah, you, do you want to play won of the best carnival games ever?" he asked and Ali nodded vigorously before asking what that was.
"It's called Command Board," said Duskull.
"Okay, how do you play?" Ali asked.
"It's actually pretty simple, I send you to a game board and you along with three other competitors will move using this die once it is your turn, the goal is to get as much BP and spaces on the board as possible in a given time limit," said Duskull.
"Okay and how do I get the spaces?" Ali asked.
"You have to buy it with BP, basically the same thing as poke, but regular poke won't work here and BP won't work in the real world, everyone will start off with 1000 BP and every time you land on someone's space, you had to pay them a tax from you BP, and if you refuse you can always battle them for dominance over the square," said Duskull while Ali's mind was reeling with all the information that Duskull was giving him.
"Is there anything else?" Ali asked.
"Yes, it is also a race to the center of the board, the one to get there and have the most spaces will win, plus there are special spaces or checkpoints that give out free BP because you managed to land on them so keep an eye open for those," said Duskull.
"Okay, I'll give a go," Ali shrugged and Duskull smiled as he teleported the fire type to a floating game board.
"Whoa, this is so weird," said Ali as he looked around.
"You will each have twenty turns to gather up as much BP as you can and make it to the finishing space," said a Misdreavus and everyone nodded.
"We will now decide who will go first," said Duskull, appearing before a Pikachu, Chikorita, Mudkip, and Ali.
Pikachu rolled a five, Chikorita a three, Mudkip and Ali both rolled six so they had to roll again and Mudkip won so he would be going first then Ali, Pikachu, and Chikorita.
"Mudkip, go," said Duskull and Mudkip hit the die and a rolled across the board and it landed on a three and Mudkip moved forward and bought the space.
Ali rolled the dice and landed on a five and he moved ahead and landed on the checkpoint and got 300 BP.
Pikachu rolled and got a four and bought that space and Chikorita landed on the same space and she lost 200 BP.
Ali had managed to get a fair few spaces but also landed on some of the spaces that weren't his and he managed to land on a square that he had no knowledge about.
"What does this mean?" Ali asked, examining the picture.
"It allows you to move to any part of the board that you want to go to," Duskull explained, popping out of nowhere.
"Oh," Ali said as he told Duskull where he wanted to go and ended up in a BP rich part of the game board and Ali started collecting BP BIG TIME!"
Ali was the last one to make it to the game board but he just barely made inside the time limit.
"Okay, let's see who won," said Duskull appearing before them.
"The results are as follows," said Duskull, pointing to a display board.
Mudkip: BP: 5600 No. Of Space: 15
Ali: BP: 5900 No. Of Space: 14
Pikachu: BP: 5100 No. Of Space: 12
Chikorita: BP: 5400 No. Of Space: 13
"Ali is the winner!" Duskull shouted Ali smiled and did a cool victory pose while his competitors smiled and they high-fived as sign of good sportsmanship and became fast friends through the game.
"That was fun," said Ali happily as Duskull teleported him back to the board and gave the fire type some rare and very useful items.
"We hope you play again," said Duskull as he disappeared and Ali looked at what he had: Sitrus Berries, a gold-cream necklace, some gold objects and other rare and exotic berries.
"I'll just store this away for later," said Ali, putting the stuff in Kangaskhan storage and went to check out some of the other games. There were a few that looked interesting but Ali wanted to try them with Eevee and decided just to admire the scenery.
"Wow, all these lights look really pretty," said Ali, looking at all the lights around the square.
"Yeah, it isn't every day that we get to see something like this, huh," a voice behind the fire-type replied happily and Ali turned around to see Eevee walking towards him, a small smile graced her features and Ali smiled back.
"So what did you do?" Ali asked, sitting down at the side of the cliff at the Pelipper Post Office, watching the last rays of sun recede while Eevee fidgeted a little.
"I found a few games but they were either a little boring or they'd tell me that the game would be more fun if you play it with friends, and I couldn't do that because you are the only friend I have and you were off doing something else," said Eevee, "What about you? What did you do?" Eevee asked.
"I found a really fun game that you get to play in a set of four, I'm not sure if we can do teams or if we have to play against each other but it was still a lot of fun and there are probably a lot of different boards that you can choose from," Ali explained as he remembered how much he enjoyed playing and made a note to try it again.
"That really does sound like fun," said Eevee, wishing that she hadn't separated from Ali.
"We can play if you want, but I want to see what games you found," Ali said as he dragged her back to the festival.
Eevee pointed out some of the more interesting games and the duo gave them a go, some of them involved a two on two sort of volleyball tournament or playing music, Eevee particularly enjoyed this one as she always did enjoy listening to the songs that they played and now she got to try it and she actually did very well.
"I want to see this game that you found, Ali," Eevee pouted and Ali laughed as he led the way to the same Duskull from before and asked, "Is possible to do teams?"
"Sadly, no it's not possible because the boards aren't big enough to accommodate eight players," said Duskull and they both sighed in disappointment but still decided to go head to head. They chose a different board from the last time as it would be unfair to Eevee who had never done this before.
It was Eevee, Ali, Gallade, and Shiftry playing this time and Eevee got to go first and she was immediately dominating but Gallade came from behind and pulled out a victory.
"Oh well, at least we tried and had fun," Eevee laughed as she remembered when Ali and Shiftry had to fight over a space because Ali had refused to pay the tax amount and ended up setting Shiftry on fire and Duskull hastily dowsed him with some water while Team Valor snickered.
"It was fun and you get all these cool prizes for winning," said Ali happily and instantly remembered something.
"Eevee, I want you to have this," he said, putting the necklace around Eevee's neck and when she saw it, she burst into tears and cried on Ali's chest.
"Thank you, Ali," she said, her voice shaking and Ali nodded before leading her back to the festival where they ate some berries made into a kind of candy that was odd but tasted good all the same and the festival kept going all night and the duo decided to call it quits and go home at three in the morning and were asleep the whole morning the next day.
"What should we do now?" Ali asked, getting out of bed the next day and Eevee quickly imitated him.
"Maybe we should go on a mission," Eevee suggested, getting her bearings.
"Let's go," said Ali as the duo strolled through Pokémon Square, where the clean up from the festival was taking place.
"Ali, which job should try today?" Eevee asked, examining some of the jobs that were on the board until one caught both of their attention and it said: I don't want to grow up and it told them where the client was hiding and they were both completely bewildered but decided to go and help the guy.
"This is the place," Ali said, looking up at Howling Forest.
"I have some bad feelings about this place," said Eevee nervously.
"Well, at least we have each other," said Ali encouragingly as they nodded and proceeded inside.
It became immediately obvious that Eevee's fears about the forest were baseless as the Pokémon there were fairly simple to defeat, even without teamwork it was very easy so they just kept going until they reached the end of the path.
"Is anyone here?" Ali called and Eevee looked around.
"Are you here to rescue me?" Smeargle asked, coming out from behind a tree.
"Um…I guess so but what that about you not wanting to grow up?" Ali asked, cautiously approaching the artistic Pokémon.
"Well, when we come of a certain age, there is a ritual where we are marked to show that we have matured in the eyes of the elders of my clan so I fled when I heard that I was going to get marked," he explained and Eevee glanced at Ali who shrugged and looked back.
"Smeargle, stop running, you have to be marked in order to become a man!" one of the elders called.
"No! I'm going to join their team," Smeargle declared, pointing towards Ali and Eevee and the elders conceded and left them be, wishing him good luck as a rescuer.
"That's one way of joining our team," Eevee chuckled.
"I guess so, now let's go home," Ali suggested and they followed him out of the forest and led them back to the base where Smeargle said bye and offered to remodel their flag if the lose favor for it.
"Thanks, we'll be sure to tell you," Ali smiled as Smeargle left and Eevee pulled Ali into the base.
"What's up?" Ali asked, looking concerned.
"Ali, have you been having any strange dreams lately?" Eevee asked worriedly as she watched him think.
"No, not really, the last time I had one of those strange dreams was the night before we left for Magma Cavern, why do you ask?" Ali asked.
"I don't know, it's just this feeling I have that your dreams may be one of the keys that could save us one day," Eevee explained and Ali did some more thinking.
"I guess that makes some sense," Ali replied but was still confused at what Eevee was trying to get at.
"Are you saying that I should try to have those dreams, maybe get some insight into what could potentially happen?" Ali asked.
"Yeah, because those dreams usually were a warning about something that was about to happen and they've helped us rather a lot," said Eevee and Ali nodded in agreement.
"Okay but I can't just get those dreams whenever I want, it's usually random but I have a feeling that we might get one tonight," Ali mused.
"Okay, so until then, what do you want to do?" Eevee asked.
"Why don't we just go for a walk?" Ali suggested and they saw a flyer for another tournament and they immediately jumped at the chance to compete because it has been a long time since they got to do something like this.
They still remembered the drill when it came to registration and they waited in the arena until their opponents came: It was the same Chikorita and Mudkip from the festival's Command Board game that Ali had beaten and neither of were happy that Ali had beaten them.
"BEGIN!" Machop shouted as Mudkip used Mud slap on Ali but it missed, hitting Eevee instead who scowled in anger and retaliated with a Hidden Power but Chikorita blocked it with a Reflect before countering with a Razor Leaf that hit Eevee on the side and forced her back.
Ali quickly fought back with flamethrower galore and burned Chikorita on the back, only to have to dodge a massive hydro pump, also healing the burn.
Eevee quickly used Iron Tail to sweep them off their feet and Ali followed with an aerial Flamethrower, burning them both and knocking Chikorita out. Mudkip used Hydro Pump in retaliation, hitting Eevee and slamming her into the wall, knocked out.
Ali knew that he shouldn't mess with this Mudkip because he was stronger than he looked and Mudkip used Hydro Pump once more and Ali took this chance to finish off the mudfish Pokémon with a mix of Dragon Rush and Hydro Pump. That win was one of the most epic ones that Ali had earned and he hastily revived his fallen partner and she smiled at him before they proceeded to the next round and won that with relative ease.
They went through the rounds and with a combination of strategy and a fair bit of luck, win the battle and eventually, the duo made it to the finals and their opponents were none other than Team BDG.
"Gallade, Dragonite, Blaziken, what are you doing here?" Ali asked, looking shocked.
"After that battle with Groudon, we knew that we'd need more training and this is the best place to do it, though I surprised that you two made it this far," Dragonite said and Ali sighed.
"BEGIN!" Machop roared and everyone sprang into action and Team Valor was immediately surrounded and had little to no chance of dodging the attacks that were aimed at the duo so Ali rolled away while Eevee used a special dash to get away.
Ali attempted to use Iron Tail to sweep Blaziken off her feet, his tail just wasn't strong enough but he merely slammed it on the side of her leg and she grabbed him and threw him at Eevee who managed to catch him and he mumbled a word of thanks before Eevee dodged a Hyper Beam and Ali came up with an idea.
Dragonite fired a Hyper Beam once more and Ali sent it back with a spinning Iron Tail and it did some big damage and knocked him out of the sky but he was still conscious and Ali met him with a Dragon Rush before Dragonite could get an attack in.
Eevee used Quick Attack on Blaziken who retaliated with a Blaze Kick that missed because Ali saved her at the last second at the both managed to evade the fiery kick that was aimed at the spot that were at a few second ago.
The trio managed to surrounded Team Valor and Blaziken fired her Flamethrower while Dragonite used Hyper Beam and Gallade used a Psycho Cut…
What do you guys think will happen to Team Valor now? How about this, you guys take a guess at what'll happen and tell me via a review and that'll help me decide what way the battle should go. I won't post the next chapter until I have seventy reviews. So how about it? Please?