Chapter 38: Electrifying Battle
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Location: Ula'ula Island, Malie City, Pokemon Center, Bedroom(Alola)
The new morning rise as ash slowly woke up from his bed with bewear, decidueye, gallade and sceptile's face near his.
"What? What's wrong?" Ash asked dumbfounded.
"Do you really have to ask?" The kanto native turn to the source of voice which turns out to be lillie's
"You were knocked out when bewear carried you in two and a half days ago." Hau explained.
"Two and a half what? How long was I knocked out for?" He asked.
"Two days, eleven hours, fifty-five minutes and forty-five seconds." Gallade said accurately making ash turn to lillie.
"I'm so sorry that I didn't wake up, what happened at the contest?" He apologized as lillie laughed a little.
"There's no need to worry ash, and in fact I won!" She cheered making ash smile.
"That's a relief, although I still couldn't believe that I was asleep for that long." Ash said shocked.
"So about your trial?" Hau asked as ash immediately got up.
"I'll be right there, I really can use a bath." The kanto native said as he walked to the bathroom as the two left the room.
Ash soon got changed from his previous clothes as he placed his keystone on the necklace he received from lillie, before walking out with the rest of his pokemons.
Location: Boat to Ula'ula Island(Alola)
On a boat towards the ferry of ula'ula Island, stands gary at the railing as he turned around to face his umbreon and three of ash's pokemon.
"This is the island that his most likely on according to the kahuna, all we can do now is hope that his here." He said as the pokemons nodded.
Location: Ula'ula Island, Route 10(Alola)
The gang soon arrived at route 10 which was the foot of mount hokulani according to hau.
"So this place leads to the observatory?" Ash asked as hau nodded.
"That's right but of course you're not going to go up there by foot." He explained.
"What excatly do you use?" Lillie questioned as hau smiled while pointing to a distance.
"That?"
The couple turn to see a bus stop sign with three skull grunts in front as ash grinned.
"So we take a bus that's driven by team skull?" He joked earning himself a smack from lillie and decidueye.
"Maybe that wasn't the best joke." He said while rubbing his head.
"No, that was a terrible joke." Lillie said as ash sighed.
"But I don't think all my pokemons can fit in the bus so everyone return." He ordered while recalling all his pokemons.
Afterwards ash and hau approached team skull as lillie stayed at the back, the skull grunts soon took notice of them as the center one spoke.
"Homie look what we got here!" He yelled catching the attention of his fellow grunts.
"Not just a trial-goer but two at that, sheesh what's with people taking this darn tradition?" A female grunt asked.
"Well why we did the trial doesn't concern you, but we need to catch the bus so can you please move?" Ash answered while asking.
"Do I attract team skull everywhere I go?" Ash questioned himself inside.
"If you want us to move than make us!" The third grunt yelled while tossing a nest ball.
The ball burst open to reveal a lurantis, as ash pulled out his own pokeball.
"Mudsdale, I choose you!" Ash yelled while tossing the ball.
The ball burst open to reveal the draft horse pokemon, as she let out a battle cry.
"Solar blade!"
Lurantis soon started to charge up power on one of its sickle-like blade, as ash waved his hand.
"Let's end this quick, use heavy slam!"
Mudsdale nodded as she leaped into the air before coming own full force upon the bloom sickle pokemon, as mudsdale got up the gang could see lurantis on the ground knocked out with its move partially charged as the power dispersed.
"Yo what!" The grunt yelled as ash sighed.
"Come on homie, we gotta go before the boss gets angry again!" The first grunt yelled as they ran off to parts unknown.
"Well that was ironic." Hau said as ash chuckled.
"At least their gone." He stated while recalling mudsdale.
"Now all we have to do is wait for the bus." Lillie said as ash poked her.
"What?" She asked, as ash pointed next to her.
The blonde girl turn to see nebby silently floating away as lillie quickly grab the little starcloud as she pu it into the bag.
"You're not going anywhere mister." She said as the bus arrive with them getting on.
Location: Ula'ula Island, Mount Hokulani(Alola)
As the bus reached the peak of the mount right outside the observatory, as they got off ash and lillie could see a familiar person in sight.
"Alola! Professor kukui!" They yelled as the professor turned.
"Alola ash and lillie." He greeted as hau walked up to them.
"So I see you're hau." Kukui stated as they nodded.
"So you know this two kids kukui?" The couple turn to face a man with blond hair as he was wearing a light blue shirt covered by dark blue long sleeve jacket as well as a black long pants with a pair of shoes.
"Guys let me introduce you to my friend, ash and lillie please meet molayne." Kukui introduced as they bowed.
"Alola!" This made molayne nod his head.
"Alola, so you're the kids that kukui speak of highly?" He asked as as tilted his head.
"Say what?" Ash asked as molayne smiled at him.
"Kukui here said that you're a promising trainer and that you've already cleared the melemele island and akala island trial is that correct?" Molayne asked making ash nod.
"Do you mind if I request a short one on one battle? If you're ever going to fight the kahuna of ula'ula island, you best be prepared cause his no easy feat to get by." Molayne explained.
"There's very least people who defeated the kahuna of ula'ula island, by far only me, guzma and molayne has did it but of course we did get many tries." Kukui added.
"Wait guzma defeated the kahuna here?" Lillie asked as molayne nodded.
"Although he told me something about going easy but can't say I know if that's true." Molayne explained.
"So what do you say ash? Will you take my challenge?" Molayne asked as ash took out is pokeball.
"You're on, this might even be a warm up for my trial later!" He said confidently as molayne laughed.
"That's the spirit." Molayne said as they went to an open field.
"The practice battle between ash and molayne will now begin, each trainer is allowed one pokemons each and the battle will be over when either side is unable to continue, are both sides ready?" Kukui asked as they nodded.
"Very well present your pokemon!" On this queue as took out a pokeball.
"Salazzle, I choose you!"
The ball burst open to reveal the poison and fire type as she stood on ready, with molayne taking out his own.
"Help me out in this fight!"
From molayne's side as his pokeball burst open to reveal a metagross that looks pretty strong.
"What's that?" Hau asked as rotom flew out of ash's bag.
Metagross, the Iron Leg Pokemon a Steel and Psyhic Type, Metagross is said to have four brains which works like a super computer even in battle and are able to make complex calculation, metagross are also able to analyze its opponent while in combat and its legs can be tucked in allowing it to fly.
Hau nodded as kukui raised his hand.
"Salazzle vs metagross, begin!"
As kukui said that, ash begun to put out his hand.
"Salazzle use toxic!"
Salazzle than opened her mouth as she created a purple blob, with molayne grinning.
"Gravity." Molayne said simply.
Metagross's eye glowed sending everything to the ground as salazzle fell face first into the toxic poisoning herself in the process.
"Salazzle has been poison by her own ability!" Rotom screeched.
"Now use gyro ball." Molayne ordered.
Metagross soon started to float in the air with all four legs glowing before spinning towards salazzle at high speed.
"Quick salazzle use protect!" Ash yelled.
Salazzle soon create a green shield as the gyro ball attack clashed with metagross rebounding.
"Now use flamethrower!"
Salazzle than opened her mouth to launch a torrent of hot flames at metagross as molayne was still calm.
"Psychic than use brick break."
Metagross's eye glowed blue as did the fire type attack, metagross than formed a fire ball with the flamethrower before slamming into it with leg glowing white sending the ball back at salazzle with high speed.
"Quick dodge it!" Ash called out.
Salazzle immediately got out of the way as molayne smiled.
"Bingo, bullet punch!"
Metagross swiftly disappeared as it slammed a fist into salazzle sending her back unconscious.
"Salazzle is unable to battle! Metagross wins so the winner is molayne!" Kukui announced as ash recalled salazzle.
"There was nothing we could do." He said sadly as molayne walked up to him.
"Losing a battle isn't what that matters, is the bond and the ability of each other that matters ash." Molayne explained.
"I'm sure your pokemon understands that and I'm sure you understand that." Molayne said as ash nodded.
"Now go on inside and challenge your trial, I'll call the captain for you." Molayne offered as they nodded while entering.
Location: Ula'ula Island, Mount Hokulani, Hokulani Observatory(Alola)
As the group entered, they could see molayne pass through a door to get the captain.
"Hey soffy you have a trial-goer!" Molayne's voice rang.
"I'll be there in a minute, just need to get this thing going." A familiar voice sounded.
"Is that?" Lillie asked.
As the figure of the voice walked through.
"Sophocles!" Ash finished.
Sophocles soon turned to them with a happy expression.
"Ash! Lillie!" He exclaimed as he walked up to them.
"I got a word that ash was supposed to be here two and a half days ago, what happened?" He asked as ash scratched his head.
"Well I kind of got way too tired and overslept for that long?" He embarrassingly said as sophocles chuckled at his words.
"So I assume you're ready for your trial since you're here?" Sophocles asked as ash nodded.
"You bet! So what do I have to do?" He asked as sophocles smiled.
"Quite simple, please follow me."
Ash soon followed sophocles with lillie, hau, kukui and molayne following after them from behind.
The gang soon arrived at a hallway with three doors, as sophocles turned to ash.
"Now please pick which door you want to go through, and a reminder each door leads to a different test." He said as ash was in thought before he entered through the center door.
"May you guys please follow me through the spectator's entrance to see how it goes?" Molayne offered as they followed.
Ash soon arrived inside a room where there was a big screen with six panels and a center box with wires all over the place, as sophocles entered.
"What do I have to do?" Ash asked as sophocles cleared his throat.
"For this test, you'll have to connect the wires to each individual panel correctly that will show you a puzzle on screen and once the puzzle is complete you'll have to place your answer in the box, although if your answer is wrong I'm afraid you'll have to fight your way out." Sophocles explained as ash nodded.
"So this is a puzzle and answer game huh?" He thought.
Ash soon started to pick up each wired before pulling them to see where they end up, after a series of minutes ash finally connected the last wired to the last panel, as a huge picture appeared on screen which was shown to be a floating big beetle.
"What is that pokemon?" Ash thought as a voice rang through his head.
"That seems to be a vikavolt ash, at least that's what oricorio said." Gallade said through mind connection as ash smiled.
"Thank you gallade and oricorio." He thanked before typing in his answer.
The screen soon flashed green as the door opened leading to a huge arena, where there were a bigger screen with three panels and a huge hole on the ceiling.
"Let me guess the same as the previous?" Ash asked as sophocles nodded.
"You got it, good luck."
Ash nodded as he proceeded on with the puzzle, due to the knots on the wires ash took about fifteen minutes to finish compared to the previous room, a picture than flashed on screen showing a luxray as ash type in his answer.
The screen soon flash green as a warning sign appeared on screen as ash read it outloud.
"Warning, the totem pokemon is somewhere near you?" Ash said as he looked around.
"There's no walls or door around so the only way it can get me is." He widened his eye before facing upwards.
The hole on the ceiling spiralled open as a huge luxray jump down to face him, instantly bursting out its orange aura as ash stood back a little.
"That's a luxray!" He yelled as rotom started scanning.
Luxray, the Gleam Eyes Pokemon a Electric Type, Luxray has a vision that is so powerful that it is able to see through soli objects and wall much like an x-ray vision, the male luxray uses this ability to scout for clean homes or enemies while protecting its offsprings.
Ash soon took out his own pokeball while tossing it.
"Hydreigon, I choose you!"
The ball burst open to reveal the dark and dragon type as he let out a loud roar as ash waved his hand.
"Use tri-attack!"
Hydreigon powered up as he fired a trio colored beam at luxray's direction making the electric type leap out of the way, luxray soon let out its own roar as electricity filled up the room.
"That's electric terrain, this is not going to be too good." Ash thought.
Luxray immediately let out a deafening roar that made ash cover his ears.
"Quick hydreigon use dark pulse!"
The brutal pokemon than fired a beam of darkness towards luxray who leaped into the air before launching a volley of stars forcing hydreigon to the side.
"That was swift but what was the other move?" ash asked as rotom was searching.
"That was snarl ash." Rotom confirmed as the kanto native nodded.
"Hydreigon use dragon rush!"
Hydreigon let out a roar before diving down upon the gleam eyes pokemon with body covered in draconic energy, luxray than ducked before glowing red as it slammed hydreigon all the way to the ceiling knocking him out.
"Hydreigon!" Ash yelled as luxray growled.
"How did luxray takedown hydreigon that easily?" Hau questioned as kukui turned to him.
"Luxray has the ability rivalry, so any pokemon who is the same gender to it luxray will hate them and thus hitting them more harder." Kukui explained as hau nodded his head.
Ash soon recalled hydreigon before pulling out his second pokeball.
"Mudsdale, I choose you!"
The ball burst open to reveal the ground type horse as ash waved his hand.
"Use earthquake!"
Mudsdale raised her legs as she slammed down on the ground making everything shake, luxray's feet soon took flight with electricity as rotom let out a warning alarm.
"That was magnet rise!" Rotom yelled.
"Then use double team!"
Mudsdale soon split into multiple images as ash was looking around.
"Iron head, go!"
The real mudsdale appeared behind luxray as she slammed her head glowing in a steely light into luxray's side making the electric type slide back.
The gleam eyes pokemon than let out a battle cry as rain cloud formed with water pouring down on the field where electricity is still flowing.
"Rain dance with electric terrain, what is luxray up to?" Ash thought.
But his thoughts was answered as luxray launched a huge volt of lightning into the sky as a devastating amount of electricity came down upon mudsdale.
"Mudsdale quick get out of there!" Ash yelled.
But it was too late as the draft horse pokemon was struck by the huge volt and was unfortunately knocked out on the spot shocking the spectators who were watching.
"But mudsdale's a ground type right?" Lillie questioned making molayne nod.
"That's right, but no matter how much type immunity you have there is always a way to go around, you see by using rain dance it soaked mudsdale's body and with electric terrain in effect it power up thunder by three times the power." Molayne explained as she nodded.
"What are you going to do now ash?" Lillie thought as she watched ash recall mudsdale.
"Good job, but now let's give this a go." He said while taking a deep breath.
"Gallade, I choose you!"
The ball burst open to reveal the psychic and fighting type who has a thin chest plate with his mega stone on it.
Ash once again took a deep breath as he looked at gallade.
"Are you ready?" He asked as the blade pokemon nodded.
"Let's do it." He sounded.
Ash soon took out his necklace as he pressed against the key stone making it shine.
"May this key stone bring us strength to protect the ones we love and care about, now gallade MEGA EVOLVE!" Ash yelled.
A line from his key stone and gallade's mega stone soon connected as gallade begun to change form within a shine of bright light.
The light shattered as gallade's arm blade become twice the length with a long white cape behind him that reached all the way to his feet with his body color turning mostly white.
"That's a mega evolution?" Sophocles muttered under his breath.
Luxray soon charged at gallade with body coated in electricity as ash smiled.
"Teleport than sue close combat!"
Gallade instantly vanished from sight to reappear somewhere else making luxray miss its target, and with new speed gallade appeared in front of luxray to hit it with a barrage of kicks and punches.
"Now use night slash and leaf blade!"
Gallade's left arm blade soon took up a black glow as the right arm blade took up a green glow with the blade pokemon slashing the electric type lion across the face two times making it fall to the ground as gallade stood beside his trainer.
Luxray was shown to be unconscious as gallade reverted back to his old form making sophocles walk up to ash.
"That was incredible, so here." He said while passing ash a yellow crystal.
"The electrium z, it's all yours." Ash nodded as he took the crystal.
"We did it you, hydreigon and mudsdale put in the most effort." He thanked as gallade smiled.
"It was our bond ash, not just us." Gallade coorected as the rest entered.
"You did it!" Lillie yelled as ash nodded.
"That's right, hau I was wanting to give you this three days ago but you left like a bullet train."
Molayne put out his hand to reveal two light grey crystals.
"These are the steelium z, so please take it as prove that you've defeat soffy's trial." Molayne stated as they took it.
"Thanks." The two boys said in sync as sophocles spoke.
"Why don't you guys take a break at the pokemon center before heading to your next trial? I'll have to stay here a bit longer so i can't see you out, please big mo can you see them out for me?" Sophocles suggested before requesting as molayne nodded.
"Of course, now please follow me."
They nodded as they followed molayne outside.
Location: Ula'ula Island, Mount Hokulani(Alola)
By the time the gang reached outside of the observatory it was already noon with sunset as a voice came with a figure.
"Is that you ash?" The voice asked making ash turn his head as he widen his eyes.
"What are you doing here?" He asked.
And I'm ending it here with a cliffhanger, well please leave a questions in the review if you have any and i'll answer if possible!
This is written by me but no claim is done by me, I REPEAT I HAVE NO CLAIMS IN THE NAME OF POKMON!
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