I Don't Own Pokemon
"Agility then Steel Wing!" Well I guess a count down is to much to ask for apparently, well whatever, so with that I watched as the metal bird's speed suddenly increased my a massive amount before one of their wings glowed before swooping down to attack Vaporeon, who I had chosen at the last second to fight in this battle. I spent the time in which the Flying type was using their first move to place Riolu down next to me so I didn't have to worry about her balancing on me while focusing on the battle. Thinking of which, I should do something about the attack coming at my Fox.
"Vaperoen, use Detect to dodge then slam them into the ground with Aqua Tail" She reacted like I expected and tensed her body until the last possible second before jumping up over the attack and twisted her body to bring her tail up before swinging it down as it was coated in a layer of water that almost looked to glow with energy. Watching as her tail slammed into the head of the Pokemon with enough force to slam them out of the sky onto the ground, I grinned before calling out.
"Water Pulse, straight down Vaporeon" She pushed her head back and in under a second a strong blast of water was shot out, impacting with the Flying type and exploded on contact. I listened to Falkner's shout of worry for his Pokemon before calling out to them.
"If it's still on your back then fly into the air!" I just waited to see the outcome as I wasn't in a hurry to win and watched as the skarmory launched into the air, with a clear lack of Vaporeon on their back, which is good, I don't like unnecessary damage and while I'm sure the fall wouldn't hurt to much, I didn't like knowing there was a chance of them getting too high for a drop to actually become dangerous for my Water type.
"Air Cutter Skarmory!" The Pokemon up in the air swung their wings out and from there a familiar looking move was used as a dozen of cuts in the air it self rushed forwards at my Fox. Looking at them for a second I thought about it before smiling a small bit to myself as I thought about it for a second before figuring why not, this is much more for fun than for challenge.
"Vaporeon shoot them all out of the air, Rapid-Shot Water Pulse" I could practically see the small bit of confusion in her body as I'm not usually one to do something that is highly energy intensive, but after a moment she seemed to understand what I was thinking about as she looked up, and I could swear that I'm sure she also had a grin on her face before over a dozen shots of water were shot out in under a few seconds, all impacting the attacks coming at her and bringing up a wave of smoke from the explosion of the attacks connecting.
"Air Cutter again!" Interesting, there isn't a clear lowering of accuracy, so most likely this Pokemon has Keen Eye, like Pidgeot then, though with a few noticeable differences, this Pokemon seems to be a lot more focused on psychical attacks, it's just getting in closer range of Vaporeon is clearly not a good idea from what was seen from the first attack he used, so he's trying to play this long range, to bad Vaporeon is even better in that field.
"Start dodging them with Detect, then wait for my call then use Hydro Pulse" She nodded mostly to herself before she started to dodge in and out of the attacks, none of which were closer to hitting her, I feel like I don't give Detect enough credit, it's not close to as good as Protect and more stamina using but it doesn't use nearly as much energy to use, which is a decent trade off. Still, something to think about later, right now I need to focus, speaking of which, I believe I've just caught the pattern.
"Up and to the right Vaporeon" I've spent plenty of time with Pidgeot using a similar strategy though I've yet to actually use it in this way, but the principle of this strategy is the same, so tracing back the attacks to it's source isn't hard. And Vaporeon who, trusting me enough to know where to attack, jumped out of the way of another attack which just connected harmlessly to the floor lunched out the much stronger version of Water Pulse and waited a moment until a sound of an explosion fallowed by a surprised cry rang through the clearing.
I watched as the Flying type dropped from the obscuring smoke onto the ground and didn't move. Maybe Hydro Pulse was a bit overkill for this, the Pokemon was probably already low on endurance from those two strong direct attacks at the start of the battle. Oh well, not like I can really do anything about that now, instead of thinking on it anymore, I just watched as Falkner called back his Pokemon before throwing out another pokeball onto the field, which when opened let out a pidgeot.
"Pidgeot, use Twister!" Well doesn't this almost bring back memories, my second gym battle involved Pidgeot's first real time using Twister and it also involved battling an vaporeon, though it was Vaporeon, well, Eevee at the time who had won that battle specifically. Shaking my head a bit, I watched as the twister of wind shot forwards towards Vaporeon and decided that maybe this wasn't the time to get nostalgic.
"Shoot through it at the pidgeot with Ice Beam" Vaporeon looked up and seemed to try and figure out where to aim for a moment as the Twister was quickly approaching, but I wasn't to worried about it, Dragon type moves don't have the best reaction to Ice type moves. And I was right as the attack was launched, it broke through the Twister, which dispersed into the air as the Dragon type energy that was holding it's form was destroyed by the attack, but before it could reach the Flying type the move was aimed for, Falkner called out.
"Agility Pidgeot, get out of the way, then Quick Attack!" I see, he's trying to rely on the fact that pidgeot's all have a natural affinity to speed to outpace both mine and Vaporeon's reaction times. To bad for him that I'm use to a particular Pidgeot that happens to be a lot faster than this one. Not to mention the path the Flying type seemed to be taking was a bit easy to read, more than likely even with their natural skill in high speeds this on in particular isn't use to maneuvering at those fast of speeds.
"Wait till they're close then Protect, Vaporeon, from there point blank Water Pulse" Really at some point I feel like this isn't going to work and I'm going to be really surprised, but today wasn't that day, and with that, the pidgeot slammed into the Protect stopping them in their tracks, and before they could get back into the air, Vaporeon dropped the Protect and shot out her attack which smashed into the bird and launched them backwards. Before they could recover from the hit I called out.
"Ice Slash" Vaporeon seemed to appreciate my move choice, as this particular modification move has yet to really be tested in battle, which is the reason why I picked it when Ice Beam would have been more reliable, still doesn't change the did result much. So with that Vaporeon jumped up and I watched as her tail was covered in water like with Aqua Tail before her flung it out in a blade arc through the air, at the bird Pokemon, though the most interesting part was watching at the attack froze into ice in the midair.
The attack collided and I watched as the Flying type seemed to try and struggle up onto their feet for one last round, which I have to give the Pokemon credit for, as that last attack seemed to a good bit stronger than I was expecting, Vaporeon to seemed surprised by the attack damage, which means she needs to practice the move some more to get better control over the power output. Still, I watched for a few seconds before the pidgeot finally seemed to understand that they couldn't win and slumped down and decided to take a nap.
Watching as Falkner returned the Flying type with a shake of his head, like he didn't expect it to be that short of a battle, which to be fair it wasn't that short as it could have been a lot shorter if I cared to use some of Vaporeon's more powerful moves, but a few minute battle, especially for a gym isn't all that long at all. Still, after a moment, he began walking forwards while reaching into his pocket to retrieve what I assume to be the badge.
"I got to say, I wasn't really expecting it to be that one sided, my Pidgeot is my strongest Pokemon, easily being able to go at his species max speed of mach two, it's surprising that you managed to track him so easily I wasn't expecting it and it was my folly in the end" Max speed? Pidgeot's can go much faster than that slow speed, really I think that's the about the average base speed they can reach without speed improving moves.
"I have a pidgeot of my own, it's not that hard to track high speed Pokemon anymore after training his speed to the point it's at now" He just nodded before holding out his hand, in it, was as I had assumed, the badge.
"Well either way I can definitely say you deserve this Zypher badge" I just gave a plain smile and grabbed the badge out of his, trying to make sure to not make any unwanted contact which is a bit difficult but I managed well enough. Reaching down into my pocket, I pulled out the badge case I had gotten as a side benefit for signing up for the Johto league at that Pokemon center back in Newbark town.
Placing the badge into the first slot available, I looked down at the item in question before sighing to myself as an action to snap me out of thinking about a memory being cropped up, snapped the case shut and slid it back into the pocket I had gotten it from in the first place. While I was doing that Falkner gave me one last look, like he was trying to place something before shrugging and walked back to his gym. After a moment of thinking to myself I then looked up at Vaporeon who had walked back over towards me and gave her a smile before saying.
"You did a good job. I hope you had some fun as well" She just smiled softly before nodding to me, letting me know she did have fun without having to use words. So with that, I waved her along while reaching down at the same time I began walking and grabbed Riolu, placing her back onto my shoulders as the three of us, as I'm pretty sure Mismagius is, at the moment, asleep in my shadow as I haven't heard anything from her in a awhile, made our way back to the Pokemon center.
It was about forty minutes later, Vaporeon is currently been checked over by the nurse, because I don't care if she didn't even get hit, she battled and I was near by to a Pokemon Center and that's more than enough for me. I don't think really appreciated my fully justified concerns but I still managed to convince her without to much hassle, though I also had another reason for having her busy, I wanted to talk to Riolu without being rude and returning my Water type without a reason.
"So, any reason why you've haven't come to me yet about what's been bugging you?" Her body, from her position sitting on the chair by the small desk in the room, seemed to tense up for a moment before sighing in annoyance.
"When did you find out?" I would have rolled my eyes but she wouldn't have seen it so it would just be a waste of effort, still, that didn't mean I was the nicest in my response, though I did makes sure it was more put out in tone than me actually making it should like I was accusing her of something.
"I don't have to be an empath to know how to read emotions you know, I noticed something was off some time last week, I made a guess on it a few days later and today you confirmed it to me. I would have brought this up earlier, but I figured you would do it yourself but it seems that this is just weighing on you more than you trying to find a solution for it, so I decided to push the issue" She seemed to think on it for a moment before sighing again in even more annoyance before finally saying.
"Well what could you do? The professor made sure I understood that my legs are never going to get much better than it is right now. So what is talking to you going to change about my life?" I looked at her for a moment before standing up and making my way over, sitting down on the desk, I looked down at her before looking up and sighed before saying.
"Nothing, talking is doing to do nothing psychically for you, that's just how life is. But what talking can do is let you vent about you emotions, it can people people come to an understanding and help each other about whatever the problem is, it can be nothing more than to just take one's mind away from whatever thing they've been thinking about that's been plaguing them. Take your pick, I don't really care which one you chose to use but you should at least try some of them, they help"
She looked up at me for a moment before looking away from me at the blank wall that was across the room for me, and after a few short moment she just huffed like she didn't really like my words before finally turning back to me and said.
"So why did you decided to use Vaporeon for the battle? I would have thought you would use Mismagius" I held back a small smile at the small victory I just had as I looked over at her for a moment before shrugging and replied back the basics for my reason.
Riolu isn't ever going to be a battling Pokemon, I've already stated that, but that doesn't change the fact that she use to be a battling Pokemon to another trainer before she was injured and while it hasn't come up much yet because Kyu has only recently started back to training and because of that fact she is looking at everyone training and getting stronger, something she wants to also do but just can't without being in even worse pain the entire time. So it's been getting to her, in different ways, like her being more prone to being mean, like her wanting a more cruel result from Kyu interacting with that guy who thought he scammed him. So with that in mind, Kyu has decided to make sure to do something to help Riolu understand that it isn't good to keep it bottled up and let her know in a way that he's open to talk to about anything if she needs a distraction from it. And that's a basic explaination of summary of this chapter besides the battle, so See ya.