Ch 25: The Lavaridge Gym battle (please review)
Ash and May entered the Lavaridge gym . The gym hadn't changed much since they were last there. "Flannery are you there?" Ash said. "Ok Paige that's good" Flannery said. "Did you hear that?" May said.
The two walked into the battlefield and saw Flannery with a pair of young trainers both with a slugma. "Slugma use ember!" The girl trainer said. Her slugma unleashed a descent sized ember. "Keep it up slugma" Paige said.
The slugma continued to use ember for another minute before stopping. "Good that's an improvement" Flannery said. The boy trainer saw Ash and May walking in. "Hey Flannery look I think you have a challenger" he said.
Flannery turned and saw them. "Well well well, look whose back at my gym" Flannery said. "Ash , May good to see you both again" She said. "Flannery good to see you too" Ash said. "So here for another gym battle?" She asked.
"Yup, i'm going for another try at the Hoenn league" Ash said. "Alright this will be a good learning experience for my students" Flannery said. May and Flannery's students went to the side as Ash went to one end of the battlefield and Flannery the other.
A ref had also stepped onto the field. "The battle will be a two on two tag battle. First trainer knock out both of their opponent's pokemon will be the winner" the ref said. "Alright come on out torkoal and Mag" Flannery said. Her torkoal and Magcargo came out of their pokeballs ready to fight.
"Pikachu you ready?" Ash said. "Pikachu!" Pikachu said confinently then jumped down from Ash's shoulder. "Now I chose you Lucario !" Ash said. Lucario came out of his pokeball and entered a battle stance.
"Mag use lavaplume, torkoal use fireblast" Flannery said. "Lucario use detect, Pikachu dodge" Ash said. Both his pokemon avoided the incoming attacks. "Pikachu use thunder, Lucario Aurasphere" Ash said. Pikachu unleashed a massive bolt of thunder on magcargo while Lucario gathered up aura and unleashed it on torkoal.
"Well you certainly haven't lost your touch Ash but i'm far from beaten. Torkoal, use smokescreen" Flannery said. Her torkoal covered the field in a thick smoke. "That won't work, Lucario use their aura to find them.
Lucario used Pikachu's arua to find him "Lucario" he said telling Pikachu to jump onto his shoulder. "Magcargo use Flame blast , Torkoal use flamethrower" Flannery said. Despite the smokescreen , Lucario saw both Magcargo and Torkoal through their aura and avoided their attacks with Pikachu on his shoulder.
"How did you do that?" Flannery said. "Wow that was amazing" one of Flannery's students said. When the smoke cleared Pikachu jumped down from Lucario's shoulder. Flannery smiled and said. "Magcargo climb onto torkoal's back" Flannery said.
Ash was confused on what she was doing. "Magcargo use lavaplume" Flannery said. "Quick dodge it!" Ash said. Both pikachu and Lucario narrowly avoided the attack. "Lucario use extreme speed then close combat" Ash said. Lucario sprinted at Magcargo and Torkoal preparing to unleash a furry of attacks.
"Torkoal use protect" Flannery said. "Tor Koal!" Torkoal said as he put a barrier over himself and magcargo protecting them both from the closecombat. "What!" Ash said. "Mag use lava plume" Flannery said.
"Quick Lucario detect!" Ash said. Using detect Lucario narrowly avoided the lava plume.
"Lucario get back, use extreme speed" Ash said. Lucario quickly sprinted back towards Ash. "wow that was brilliant of her" Ash said. "Come on Ash you can beat her!" May said.
Ash looked at Flannery's tactic , she was using Torkoal's protect to keep both himself and Magcargo safe. Ash the thought of a way to turn that against her. "PIkachu get onto Lucario's shoulder" Ash said. Pikachu jumped onto Lucario's shouler, "Good now Lucario use extreme speed" Ash said.
Lucario sprinted toward Flannery's pokemon. "Use flamethrower!" Flannery said. Both Magcargo and Torkoal unleashed flamethrower but Lucario evaded each one. "Prepare to use protect" Flannery said.
Lucario was extremely close to his opponents. "Pikachu jump" Ash said. Pikachu jumped over Magcargo. "What is he doing?" Flannery said. "Lucario use forcepalm" Ash said.
"Torkoal use protect" Flannery said. A barrier came over both Torkoal and magcargo shielding them from the forcepalm.
"Come on Ash you're really going to try that again" Flannery said. "Look again Flannery" Ash said. Flannery then saw in horror that Pikachu was standing ontop of Magcargo's shell inside the protect. "Wait no Torkoal end the protect!" FLannery said knowing her pokeon were trapped inside.
"Pikachu use fusionbolt!" Ash said. "Pika chu!" Pikachu shouted as he turned blue and unleashed a massive bolt of electricity that remained inside the barrior because of protect. The bolt of electricity knocked out magcargo. "That's the way Ash" May said. "Wow he used her own tactic against her" Flannery's other student said.
"Mag return, you did great . Well Ash i'm impressed" Flannery said. "Torkoal use lava plume!" Flannery said. "Dodge it!" Ash said. PIkachu and Lucario narrowly avoided the attack. "Lucario use aurasphere!" Ash said. Lucaro gathered up aura then unleashed it on Torkoal.
"Torkoal use iron defense" Flannery said. Torkoal got into his shell and shined with metal allowing him to absorb the blow. "PIkachu use iron tail on the top of his shell" Ash said. Pikachu ran at Torkoal and smashed the top of torkoal's shell knocking him onto his back.
"Torkoal no get up!" Flannery said. "Lucario use focus blast!" Ash said. "Lucario!" Lucario shouted as he sprinted over to torkoal and unleashed focus blast on Torkoals underbelly knocking him out. "Torkoal is unable to battle the winner is the challenger" the ref said.
"Yeah we did it!" Ash said. "Torkoal return, get some rest" Flannery said. "Lucario!" Lucario said proudly. "Pika!" Pikachu said. "I knew you had it" May said. Flannery walked over to Ash and his pokemon. "Well Ash you were good the last time we battled, but now I can say your an ace trainer. Here an updated Lavaridge badge" Flannery said handing a red badge shaped like a flame and a molten rock.
Before leaving Lavaridge town Ash and May wanted to go to the town hot springs behind the pokemon center. Many trainers liked to take a soothing rest in the hot water with their pokemon. Ash and May were resting against the side of the hot spring next to each other with their poke mon out.
"That was an amazing win Ash" May said. "Thanks May Lucario did great out there" Ash said. Lucario was in the very center of the spring with his eyes closed feeling the aura of those around him. Ash's croconaw and squirtle were splashing around at each other in the water.
"So May where is your next contest?" Ash said. "I think Fortree city" May said. "That's good , I can get my next Badge and you can get your next ribbon" Ash said. Ash had hi
s arm over May's should and she had her head against his shoulder.
Pikachu was in the water enjoying the soothing water. "Pika" He said. Just then he saw another pokemon directly in front of him through the steam. It took a moment before Pikachu realized it was another pikachu.
"Pika!" he said. The other Pikachu came over and looked at Pikachu closely. "Pika" The other Pikachu said. "Another Pikachu , didn't expect that" Another voice said. Pikachu looked up and saw the other pikachu's trainer.
The trainer looked about Ash's age with short brown hair and brown eyes. "Pika" pikachu said. Ash heard Pikachu and looked over to see the other Pikachu and his trainer. "May look another Pikachu" Ash said.
The other trainer saw Ash and May, "Oh is this Pikachu yours" He said. "Yeah , you've got a pikachu too, I didn't know there were any Pikachu in Hoenn" Ash said. "There aren't I'm not from Hoenn and I'm guessing neither are you" The trainer said. "No my name's Ash i'm from Kanto" He said. "I'm May I'm from Hoenn" May said.
"So am I" The trainer said. "So what brings you to Hoenn?" The trainer asked. "I'm competing in the Hoenn league I just won the badge here" Ash said. "Cool , I'm here trying to catch rare pokemon so I can go back and win the Indigo league" The trainer said. "I competed in that once a few years ago" Ash said. "Me too but I didn't win. That's why I'm training, I already have a few updated badges and this time i'm going to win the Indigo league" The trainer said.
"Ha, that's ironic that's basicly the same story for me here" Ash said. "Well Ash looks like we found your double" May said. "I should get going, it was nice meeting you both" The trainer said. His pikachu jumped onto his should like Pikachu did with Ash. "He really is your double" May said.
"Wait we never got your name" Ash said. "Oh right, you can call me Red".