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XXXVII : Re-match
We spent the next day training. Michael finally used my book to see we were each trained a level lower then Wattsons' fucking Manectric, and we needed to be at least equal to the damn thing. On top of that, since we don't have a ground type, or a ground type move, we had nothing particularly effective against electric-types. Finally, the cherry on the shit Sunday, since we only had three active pokemon on our roster, some one would have to go twice and win both times.
Right now, we were in the pokemon center. Flash was still to weak to sit up, much less battle. He kept drifting in and out of consciousness, occasionally woken up by the beeping machines. Most of us were concerned, but I still wasn't terribly. I know that's a horrible thing to say, but I didn't know Flash. Who knows, I probably would care a lot more some day, just not now.
After a day of training, we had each reached level 24. Titan had hoped that would be when he evolved, and I honestly hated to point out Aron traditionally evolve at level 32. I at least understood why Titan wanted to evolve, because he wanted to get stronger. I can't believe I'm agreeing with Titan on something. I hope that never happens again, it gives me the shakes.
Rush was asleep in Lisas' lap. Every so often he kipped in distress, having a new nightmare. This one Rush told me about, after the first time he had it two days ago. It was simple, him getting electrocuted. As Rush put it, he was surprised getting electrocuted hurt! Rush will never be considered genius material.
Why we were still at the pokemon center that morning I will never understand, as far as I'm concerned, we should have been at the gym the moment the sun came up. Michael wanted to stay for a while with Flash, since he hadn't spent that much time with him the day before. Michael would need to eliminate those emotional weaknesses during our rematch.
The entire freaking morning we did nothing. Michael flipped through my strategy book, analyzing it, like he was looking for some hidden meaning. Lisa was writing another one of her damn unpublished books, occasionally stroking Rush. Louis had pulled out the good weed, and after sparking a doobie, he was dancing on Pluto. L3 was still a lump, except she was a lump draped on three chairs. Virgil was asleep on Enfer, who was also asleep. They looked happy, oh how I hated that. I was at the door to the room, I kept pawing at it, trying to get Michaels' attention. Nothing.
Finally, after eleven, Michael looked up from my book, finally noticing the time.
"Oh crud, I wanted to get to the gym a half an hour ago" He said, flipping my book shut and standing up, "Oh well. Come on guys, let's go and probably get our asses kicked" He turned to Lisa "You will of course"
"Yeah, we'll stay here. Go on dude, go"
Wattsons' gym had seen better days. A gym battle from the day before had blown out all of the power, so as we walked in the front door, the irony kicked us in the crotch. An electric-type gym had a power outage. The only things working were the lights, and the cameras in the lobby (they had their own power system). But on the positive side, I was able to walk down that little hall with the bright tiles, and not get shocked.
Wattson was in his gym, if I hadn't known better, I would have thought he hadn't moved from his gym-leader mat, crazy old freak. When he saw Michael, his eyes lit up.
"I know you, you're Michael Luccelli, you challenged me a few days ago" Wattson laughed, "Have you come to challenge me again?"
"Yes, I have" Michael said, "Let's get started"
"Trainers, so pushy" Wattson mumbled, "Alright, same as before?" Michael nodded, taking his place on the trainers mat. "Well, then let's get started. You first Electrike"
"Mixing things up I see" I mumbled, "That's a good idea, keeps trainers guessing"
"You're a little edgy" Rush said.
"I hate loosing" I growled through clenched teeth. Michael looked down at us, weighing which one of us would be best.
"Okay Titan, I guess you're up first" Titan nodded, and trotted out, tin head held high. He looked ready to do anything, and about to fail at every thing.
"Challenger gets first move"
"Well, in that case, Titan use rock-tomb" Titan began tossing rocks from no where, surrounding Electrike on all sides. Electrike jumped out of the little rock wall, only to be slammed back down by a larger rock, the top of the tomb. Woozily, Electrike got back to its feet.
"Electrike, shock wave"
"Iron defense Titan" This was smart, since Titan wasn't fast and couldn't evade unless the opponent was extremely slow. Seeing as Electrikes' best advantage was its speed, the only other option was for Titan to take the attack.
A wall of electricity shot out of Electrike, and hit Titan. Titan curled up so only the metal parts of his body were exposed, and the electricity did almost nothing. Titan stood up, and shook off.
"Tackle" Titan put his head down, and ran into Electrike as fast as he could, hitting the little green dog thing head on. Electrike got thrown, hitting the ground hard with a hard crack. Michael didn't let up, and ordered a metal claw. Titan slammed his glowing white leg into Electrikes' stomach, knocking the air out of the tiny thing. It gasped once more, its eyes' bulging, before it passed out. One down, three more to go.
"Ha-ha-ha, very good" Wattson laughed. What kind of freak laughs when their pokemon gets knocked out? Wattson pulled out a second pokeball, but before he could release it, Michael did something surprising.
"Titan, come back" Michael commanded. "Rush, you go" I looked at Rush, who was ecstatic just for being selected. He kipped happily, and ran onto the field, headphone wagging. Wattson released his second pokemon, that fucking Magneton. Magneton gave me nightmares, I mean, what the fuck is it? How does it eat? How does it shit, or reproduce (I'm betting by budding).
"Rush, mud sport"
"Sonic boom" Rush began tossing magic mud in the air, anticipating an electric type attack. Instead, Magneton fired off a wave of concentrated sound (where did the sound come from?), slicing the mud in pieces, and hitting Rush head on. Sonic wave s an extremely weak attack though, and Rush barely got hurt.
Rush used mud slap next, hitting it in its upper eye. Magneton is quadruple weak to ground, so even an extremely weak attack like mud slap would cause some damage. Before Rush could do any thing else, Magneton floated back as fast as it could.
"Thunder bolt" Sparks appeared in Magnetons magnets, before a giant bolt of electricity shot off of its metal body at Rush. Rush evaded it, and it harmlessly went into the ground. As Magneton attempted to shoot again, Michael ordered a second mud sport. Pieces of mud covered Magneton, blocking its electricity. It got an annoyed look in all three of its eyes, and tried to zap again. Nothing. It would be thirty seconds before the mud fell off.
"Alright, Magneton use super sonic" A loud screeching noise shot out of this shitty piece of metal. If it didn't shut up, even I was going to end up confused. Finally, it stopped. Rush appeared okay, even happy.
"Mud slap again" Rush pitched a line of hardened mud, back at him self. He hit hard enough to be knocked on his back. "Rush!" Rush for some reason began butting his against the ground. Wattson ordered shock wave, after the mud finally dried off, and zapped Rush.
"Kiiiiip!" Rush was zapped out of confusion by the shock wave, but he looked a little fried. He kept twitching, and I feared he might have been paralyzed. Magneton flew straight at Rush using tackle, and sent him flying! Rush hit the ground back first, very hard. This time when he stood up, he wasn't twitching. I can't believe I was saying this, he looked not happy!
I would say mad, but Rush is incapable of mad. Wattson and Michael ordered two attacks at once, Michael another mud sport, and Wattson thunder shock. Michael though ordered Rush to aim at Magnetons' eyes, completely blinding it. Magneton began to spin like a top, firing electricity every where, Rush jumping to avoid it.
"This is so much fun!" Rush squealed, dodging another shock. Magneton spun into the ground, kicking up a cloud of dirt. Before it could get back up, Michael commanded water gun. Since Magneton was significantly weakened, it didn't survive this. It passed out, and Wattson recalled the hunk of metal.
"That's two for me and none for you, I'm very impressed" Wattson laughed, "You did a good amount of training in one day. Now, lets continue. Come on Voltorb" A giant pokeball appeared on the field, the second worst electric type ever. I never understood why the hell Wattson had a Voltorb, aside from the fact it was a giant rolling, red and white bomb. "Voltorb, use roll out"
"Mud slap, don't stop until it stops" The giant pokeball began to spin, until it was noting more then a circular white blur. As it spun at Rush, Rush used mud slap, over again and again. Voltorb continued to spin, but wasn't getting any closer. It was digging into the ground, and turned brown from mud, until the mud shell finally stopped its movement. "Now use water gun"
Rush shot off a water gun, pushing him in the air, and causing water to flow over the brown orb. If we had thought for five seconds, we would have realized the mud was washing off, and even though it was in the air, it didn't stop Voltorb from using shock wave. The electricity flowed down the water gun, zapping Rush in the mouth. The water gun stopped, and Rush passed out.
"Rush!" Michael sighed, and with drew Rush. He looked at his pokeball, whispered something, and clipped it around his lap. Michael looked at me and Titan, and nodded at me. "Angel, you're up"
"Angel, which Angel?" I cried. The last time I went up against this stupid pokeball, it pinned me to the ground and then exploded! It fucking exploded on me. Do you know what happens when something explodes on you? It fucking hurts. Since I had no choice though, I ran out on the field. "Angel, shadow ball"
I formed the sparking ball of black energy in my mouth, and fired right at it. Voltorb attempted to roll out of the way, but my shadow ball looped and hit Voltorb, exploding on it. When the smoke cleared, Voltorb was only a little harmed, and very pissed. It tried roll out again.
As it rushed at me, I used quick attack to jump over Voltorb. It stopped rolling as I jumped, and fired off a thunder shock at I landed. Electricity consumed my body, and I screamed. Since nerve impulses are essentially little electrical shocks, when you get electrocuted, you receive every possible feeling at once. Since pain is the strongest though, I felt it the most.
"Enough" I growled, "I am so pissed off" I thought of all of the moves I knew, and figured a quick plan. Step one, fake paralysis, which I did by not using hidden power when Michael ordered it. Not yet I thought.
"Voltorb, roll over to that Eevee and use self-destruct" The Voltorb rolled over to me. Still not yet. Voltorb began to glow white, mmm now! Michael had been ordering just about every attack, including quick attack which I used. I hit Voltorb fast, and sent it flying, moments before it exploded. Since it was no longer beside me, it exploded harmlessly in the air. I was hurt, but Voltorb was knocked out, so Wattson withdrew it.
"Wow, down to my last pokemon and you still have two. I guess it's time, Manectric you're up" At long last, the big blue wolf appeared on the field in front of me. It sniffed the air, and growled at me. Okay, it was unfriendly, but it couldn't hate me right?
"I will brake you" It snarled. Okay, it can hate me that much. Michael ordered quick attack, and I ran at it, attempting to hit it in the face. Instead, Manectric grabbed me with its mouth, biting down using thunder fang. Electricity flowed through my body, and I used hidden power to finally brake free. I was thrown on my back, as Manectric hacked.
"Angel use" I collapsed. "Uh, run away" Michael walked onto the field and scooped me up, Wattson permitting him to grab me. I was limp in his arms, and my fur smelled burnt. "Titan, you're up"
"Really, oh boy" Titan was nervous as he clanked out there. Oh, he knew Michael wouldn't release him, but he was still nervous. That wouldn't go away easily. Titan faced Manectric, who scowled at him.
"Pitiful"
"Thunder bolt Manectric"
"Titan, rock tomb" Titan tossed rocks at Manectric, who tripped on a rock and fell flat on its face. It was then hit on the head by a giant rock. Slowly, it stood up again, shaking rubble off, very pissed.
"Shock wave" Electricity fired off of the wolf thing, and Titan was unable to dodge. Electricity flowed across him, but he didn't scream. Tears rolled out of his clenched eyes, but he didn't scream. Titan got very mad.
"Titan use tackle" Titan ran straight at Manectric. It attempted to bite onto Titan like it did to me, but Titans' iron mask and weight stopped that. Instead, when Titan hit Manectric, he shattered its teeth.
Manectric was screaming, as teeth fragments fell to the ground. Michael ordered rock throw, and Titan pitched rocks at Manectric, hitting it time after time on the head. Manectric lunged at Titan, using thunder fang with out teeth. Titan ran back on his metal peg legs, and Manectric missed. Its eyes were bulging from rage.
"Thunder wave" This attack hit right on, and froze Titan in place. He struggled to move, but could only sort-of move his front legs. "Good, now thunder!"
"Iron defense" The strongest electric attack hit Titan, moments after he curled up. Titan uncurled, but he wouldn't last longer. It was okay, Michael didn't need longer. "Use rock tomb"
Manectric tried to use thunder, but Titan threw the giant top rock, and the thunder attack did nothing but smash the rock. Michael ordered it again, with the same result, and again. It took a moment, but I saw Manectric was moving slower, which reminded me that was a side effect of rock tomb. Finally, Titan used one last rock tomb faster then Manectric could use thunder. The rocks slammed into Manectric, and knocked the bastard out.
We won.
Fuckin' A.
Tagger was in a haze. Nothing made sense any more, he had been lead to this city, and he was never wrong. His enemy was here, some where, but where?! It didn't make sense, where could Taggers' enemy be, and why wasn't he being lead to them. Tagger felt burning tears of frustration, Tagger did not like this. Calm down, you just have to calm down. Tagger took a couple of deep breaths. Maybe you were wrong, maybe you
Taggers' head snapped up, grabbed by some unknown force, and was directed at a Grey cement building. On the building was a large sign reading GYM, in giant light up letters. Emerging from the gym, was a boy, maybe sixteen. He was extremely excited about something, was carrying a passed out Eevee, and was followed by an Aron, who looked slightly tarnished.
"This is the one" Tagger said, "Angela Duncan will die with him, he has to die" Taggers' head was pounding, "But I can't kill him here, I have to wait until he's out of the city. The first night he's gone, then I'll kill him, and all close to him"
Then they will be mine.