"For our 4th battle, we have Bianca Schroeder vs Stephen Merriweather!"
"Gah! Even the officials can't say my name right!" The stout teenager bemoaned sadly.
"Come on out, Servine!" Summoned to the field was her grass starter whom took a pose, having learned that since the gym battle yesterday, she's become very popular, which helped her confidence overcome her timidity, at least until they leave.
"You're up Sawk, let's go!" Steven yelled as he released his fighting type, whom was resting on his knees. He's a bipedal humanoid Pokémon with blue rocky skin and wore a karate gi outfit with a V neck going down to his black belt. Getting up, he took an offensive pose.
"Servine, use Vine Whip!" Producing vines, she extended them towards the stoic blue fighting type.
"Use Close Combat!" With lightning fast reflexes, he was able to punch and chop away at any vines that tried to get near, to Servine's pained chagrin since they were part of her. "Yeah, now use Bulk Up!" Tightening his black belt, Sawn started emitting a red aura while his muscles grew larger and more pronounced. Bianca started to sweat already, since the Karate Pokémon are among the top three hardest hitting fighting types she knew about. She needed to focus on hit and run tactics to win this one.
"Use Leaf Tornado!" Jumping and spinning on her nose, the Grass Snake produced her best move, trying to be too much for Sawk to handle.
"Double Kick!" Steph ordered, and the blue fighting leapt forward and literally kicked the tornado in half, exposing the startled Servine. With a twist of his body, the second kick landed hard against her slim battle, sending her flying and tumbling to near her owner's feet.
"No! Are you okay Servine?!" The girl asked with great concern.
"A Pokémon with superior strength and durability. She'll have to come up with something quick." Ash said to himself. "Hang in there Servine! I believe in you and Bianca!" He then shouted loud enough for them to hear. The grass starter got up with considerable struggle and looked fearful, he confidence high now gone.
"No way! Without any flying or psychic moves, she's toast! Sawk, win this with Close Combat!" Stefan ordered. Running up to the Grass Snake, he prepared to strike.
"Quick, dodge his attacks!" Bianca pleaded. Even though his punches were swift and sharp, Servine twisted her body around almost literally rolling with the punches, evading by mere millimeters each. "Trip him up with Vine Whip!" Taking hold of his ankles, her vines uprooted his feet and he was suspended in the air for a precious second, before Servine went and slammed into his back, inflicting damage. "Alright, you learned Slam! Good job!"
"That won't be enough to stop us! Double Kick!"
"Same tactic, but even harder!" Bianca instructed. Ducking below his first kick, the Grass Snake Pokémon barely stopped his second with her vines, before slamming onto his chest, knocking the wind out of him. As if that weren't enough, Servine didn't let him go, her vines growing taut as she swung the Karate Pokémon around in a couple of good circles and threw him up into the air. "Servine, jump up after him and use Leaf Tornado!" Doing as she was told, she spun round and around until she was surrounded by a flurry of leaves heading straight for Sawk.
"Counter with Close Combat!" Sten ordered. With his enhanced strength and typical lightning speed, he was able to defend against the grassy attack for a short while, but without the ground to use under his feet, his punches barely had the strength to utilize and thus he was overpowered by the Leaf Tornado. After the attack subsided, both fell down, but Servine remained standing.
"Sawk is unable to battle! The winner is Servine, so that means Bianca wins the match!"
"Alright, we won Servine!" Bianca celebrated as she hugged her grass starter.
"Amazing." Ash commented, tipping his hat with a smile. On the big screen, the four remaining contestants' faces appeared, before being shuffled. To the couple's relief, they didn't have to battle each other. Ash vs Dion and Bianca vs Luke.
Of course, Ash won easily against the enemy's darkumaka, so now it was just Bianca's turn now.
"And so begins the second half of the semi finals! Luke Thompson vs Bianca Schroeder!"
"Time for my star! And that's Golett!" On the field is a Pokémon that appears to be made of blue clay of various shades. It's quite bulky with two pairs of crisscrossing brown bands extend around its spherical body meeting at a blue square with a yellow swirl in the center. Two large stone-like blocks act as its feet and two more such blocks adorn its "forearms"; each arm ends in a dark blue-colored, crude three-fingered hand.
"Come on out, Panpour!" Of the Pokémon she kept, one was her blue water monkey, Panpour, whom looked afraid being out in a populated area like this, and was creeped out by the Automaton Pokémon. "Don't worry Panpour, I believe in you! Use Fury Swipes!" Shaking her head, she ran towards the enemy Pokémon and tried to land swipes, but they just passed through it. It scratched its head in confusion. "No effect?!"
"Don't you know? Normal type moves have no effect on ghosts! Now use Mega Punch!" Cocking its fist back, the ghost/ground type nailed a powerful blow against the monkey's face, sending her back skidding across the ground.
"Don't give up! Use Scald!" Rearing her head back, the Spray Pokémon spouted a steaming torrent of water.
"Golett, Doubel Team!" Golette split off into several after images, the water blast phasing through one of them. "Now use Shadow Punch!" Once they disappeared, the Automaton Pokémon's right hand glowed as it reared another punch, and sent a black energy fist at the frightened monkey.
"Use Scald again!" Bianca ordered. Creating another steaming stream of water, it halted the Shadow Punch. But Luke wasn't done yet.
"Now use Shadow Ball!" Jumping up, it formed an orb of black energy and threw it at Panpour, whom couldn't dodge.
"Point Scald downward!" The blonde pleaded. Aiming her head down, her own attack propelled her up and back, so both of the attacks reached where she was and exploded against the ground. "Alright, way to go!"
"If ranged attacks won't work, we'll just pummel you up close! Mega Punch!" Golett started to run towards the water monkey.
"That's what you think! Dodge and use Bite!" Easily maneuvering around the incoming fist, she bit down at an exposed area that wasn't shielded, causing it to wail in pain.
"Golett, no!" Luke cried out.
"Now use Scald!" With point black range, the ghost/ground type had no chance to evade as it was drenched by the scalding hot attack, pushing it out of bounds and into a wall. It slumped down, defeated.
"Golett is unable to battle! The winner is Panpour, so that means Bianca wins the match!"
"Amazing Panpour, you're amazing!" The girl prasied her little monkey. She turned to her master and nodded with a tired expression.
"And with that, our finals matchup is Bianca Schroeder vs Ash Ketchum!"
"Well it's about time." Ash sighed a breathe of relief. Gazing at his girlfriend, his spirit has never felt so high. "Get ready Bianca. Unlike our previous battles and sparring matches, this is the real deal." Later on when it was knight time, the couple were having a nice dinner.
"Cheers, to the two finalists! Us!" Bianca exclaimed with joy, her and Ash clinking their glasses of water together.
"This is certainly going to be a good match tomorrow. You were awesome today."
"Thanks so much for your lovely words, Ash. You were quite handsomely bold yourself." The two laughed with their lovey dovey talk, acting like such sweethearts. "Just you wait Ash, I'm going to pull out all the stops and finally beat you!" She declared.
"Don't expect an easy win. We know each other's usual strategies and even some new gimmicks. So bring it on." He accepted her challenge with a smile. After staring into each other's eyes intensely, both laughed it off. Once their dinner has been served, hamburgers, fries and coca cola for Ash and pizza with pepperoni pizza with extra cheese for Bianca, enjoying a root beer float as well.
After a good nights sleep, the time has finally come.
"The final round of the Nimbasa City tournament is finally here! And these two gifted and hard working trainers will be battling for the win! Let's get this battle on the road! To my left: Ash Ketchum! And to my right is Bianca Schroeder! Both teenagers come from Nuvema Town! Is everyone ready?!" Everyone went into an uproar while the two trainers nodded. "Then let the battle begin!"
"Yamask, I choose you!" Ash yelled as he let out the ghostly Spirit Pokémon.
"Come on out, Drilbur!" Bianca summoned her Mole Pokémon. "Use Dig!" Leaping forward the ground type burrowed underground.
"Brace yourself!" Ash ordered. Bringing his mask inward while hugging himself, the ghost type was properly defending himself and waited until Drilbur burst from the ground and tackled Yamask, sending him flying back. His loud wails of agony told that it hurt a lot. "Will-O-Wisp!" Uncurling all of his limbs, Yamask sent out a blue ghostly flame that enveloped the ground type, screaming from getting burned.
"No! We can do this! Use Hone Claws!" His claws extending and glowing orange, Drilbur clashed them together before letting the power increase his strength before the burn took its toll, the ground type growling.
"Use Hex!" Forming an orb above its head that looked like an ominous purple eye before lobbing it at the Mole Pokémon, pushing him back with an explosion. He yelled in agony as he tumbled back across the ground, but he wasn't down and out yet.
"That's the spirit! Use Dig once more!" With his sharpened claws, he dug back underground.
"Use Hex down that hole!" Ash commanded. Forming another orb, Yamask plunged it deep into the earth, following the ground type. A few seconds later, an explosion was heard, and it seemed like he won, but Bianca shouted,
"Metal Claw!" Bursting from behind the ghost type, it was able to take a couple of good slashes, inflicting major damage. Drilbur even glowed a certain aura again as his physical capabilities improved even more so, yelling his name with power, until it was cut short by the burn again.
"Get it away with Ominous Wind!" Crossing his arms before unfolding them, Yamask released a gust of purple wind that pushed back the Mole Pokémon, but he dug his claws in, panting heavily from the damage he was taking.
"Hex!/Metal Claw!" Both trainers screamed, with both Pokémon going on the attack. Drilbur charged as fast as he could while Yamask formed another black orb. Just as the ground type jumped and prepared to strike, the ghost type brought Hex down in between them. The clash of the two attacks caused a powerful explosion between them, causing the two trainers to brace for the shockwave. As the smoke cleared, both Mole and Spirit fainted.
"I can't believe it folks! It's a tie! We've seen some hot action before, but this is the first time we've had a finals tie in Nimbasa's 107 year history!" The announcer remarked, sending everyone into an uproar. Ash and Bianca each returned their Pokémon, and walked up to each other.
"Man, I was really sure I'd win this time." Bianca pouted, disappointed in herself.
"Hey, look at it like this. This is the first time you haven't lost to me either. And I'm so proud of you. If I'm being honest, you're the best since you did such a great job keeping up."
"Awww, thank you Ash! I had lots of fun!" She cooed as she hugged him and gave her boyfriend a kiss.
"Ain't that cute folks? A heartwarming moment for our finalists. But now, let's hear it from our middle-weight champion!"
"Champion?" Ash asked, confused enough to break the kiss. "Nobody said anything about a champion."
"Yeah, I don't remember something like that." Bianca also stated. From a middle wall, it opened up revealing bright light and a long shadow coming from a feminine silhouette, who strutted towards them.
"Wow, you were awesome, you two!" The girl praised, her hair hanging from double buns drifting from the gentle breeze, along with her culottes. "You actually managed to win even though this is your first time participating!" Now that the girl wasn't surrounded by blinding light, she wore a long sleeve white t-shirt with blue sleeves, along with a stretched pokeball insignia over her chest, along with black leggings.
"Who are you, and why does that sound so impressive to you?" Ash questioned.
"My name is Rosa Mills! Nice to meet ya, and unlike the regular Pokémon League, Nimbasa City's own tournaments is all about feeding Pokémon vitamins, using tournament allowed items during battle, and having Pokémon from all over Unova instead of just the first six or twelve you come across. Of course, you can't use items in the light and middle weight categories since the Pokémon aren't fully evolved, but once you get into the heavy weight and super-heavy weight class, that's when it gets really fun!"
"So why are you here then? If we both lost, doesn't that mean neither of us get the chance to fight you?"
"Even though this is the first time we've had a tie, it's stated in the rules that if it's a tie, the champion chooses who they'll fight, based on their performance through out. And I already know who I'll face!" She pointed her finger at Bianca. "I choose to battle you!"
"Oh yeah!" Bianca cheered while clapping her hands.
"Huh, why her?" Ash complained.
"You're a really good trainer, but Bianca does just as good even though her Pokémon have been up against Pokémon considerably stronger than them normally, whether in type advantage or skill, while you normally steamrolled through your section of the competition."
"Thank you!" The blonde girl said, blushing from the explained compliment while clapping.
"Well, I guess I can't argue with that. Well, do your best Bianca."
"I will Ash! I'll become Nimbasa's champion!" Rosa giggled.
"We'll see."
"And now, here we have the championship battle between middle weight champ Rosa Mills vs Bianca Schroeder! Let the battle begin!"
"Cryognal, get ready!" Rosa summoned what looked like a living snowflake with a perpetually angry face.
"Come on out, Darumaka!" Bianca set out her newest fire type Pokémon.
"Cryognal, use Mist!" From its frowning mouth, it let out a cool and fine mist that covered the field.
"You think that will stop us?" Bianca challenged, not intimidated whatsoever. "Darumaka, use Work Up!" The Zen Charm Pokémon tensed and tried to emit a red glow to power up, but nothing was happening, except for the Pokémon accidently farting from the effort. "What?"
"This is a special mist! Pokémon can't enhance their skills while it's on the field!" Rosa explained.
"In that case, we'll just have to attack head on then! Use Head-butt!" Bianca instructed. As it ran, Rosa chuckled with a grin.
"Counter with Reflect!" Forming a blue barrier around itself, it was able to soften the blow against the fire type. "Now use Aurora Beam!" From it's mouth came a blast that looked like the aurora borealis, and it froze Darumaka in place. Gasping, it tried to wiggle it's way out of the frozen ground.
"Darumaka, get out of there!" Bianca pleaded.
"Rapid spin!" Spinning like a frisbee, it flew through the air around the fire type before it went right for him and bashed the Zen Charm Pokémon out of his confinement, landing a critical hit along the way. While hurt, Darumaka simply rolled right back onto its feet.
"Way to go! Now, try to get close!" Nodding, he was on the move again.
"Aurora Beam, again!" Another blast of icy colors were aimed at him, but they were ready.
"Tuck yourself in!" Retracting his arms and legs into his body, he rolled around the field eluding the ice type move. When it was getting uncomfortably close, Rosa commanded,
"Retreat than attack with Rapid Spin!" Stopping its own attack, the Crystallizing Pokémon spun around again and flew through the air until it headed straight for the fire type, still rolling around.
"Jump and use Fire Punch!"
"Counter with Aurora Beam!" While Darumaka leapt up and tried to punch the snowflake with a fiery punch, Cryognal was able to blast it away, sending him high into the sky. "Finish it with Rapid Spin!" Still spinning at fast speeds, it tried again to slam into the Zen Charm Pokémon.
"Fire Punch!" Regaining his senses, his right fist burst into flame and swung right at the ice type, landing a direct blow, much to the shock of Rosa. Darumaka fell onto the ground with a couple of pained bounces before landing on its feet, panting while Cryognal crashed into the ground, defeated.
"Cryognal is unable to battle! The winner is Darumaka, meaning that Bianca Schroeder is our new champion!" The audience went into another uproar for their newest champion. Bianca jumped up and down screaming in outright jubilation as she ran to her Pokémon, hugging him close.
"Oh my gosh Darumaka, you were awesome!" She complimented her Pokémon, whom was chuckling with her. Rosa sighed with a smile as she returned her Pokémon.
"Good job Cryognal. You did your best." Walking up to her victorious challenge, her face wasn't that of disappointment in herself, but awe for Bianca, the girl's eyes sparkling in wonder. "That was really impressive Bianca! I knew it was a risk to send such a risky Pokémon, but I thought its speed and range would cover that. You're way better than I expected!"
"Thank you so much! This has been so great." Bianca was literally crying in excess joy. This was her first tournament and she won with half her team being considerably or even completely new.
"Now then, here's your reward." Several people presented the girl with several prizes. "Your first is the middle weight champion belt. It's not for everyday wear, but you've earned it today." Getting all giddy, Bianca took the belt and clipped it on, resting on her hips. "The second is a decorative set of feathers. Bianca was handed a display case that showed seven different colored feathers like a rainbow. "They represent health, power, resistance, genius, cleverness, swiftness and beauty. And you've definitely got all those marks down. And finally..." Since Bianca could hold it, she was just shown one of those comically oversized checks that requires two hands. "A check of $50,000 dollars."
"Oh my gosh! This is too much! I'm so happy!" Bianca kept crying. A camera crew approached her then.
"Bianca, is there anything you'd like to say?" Rosa prompted. Even though her face was a bit of a mess from the tears, her shining eyes and radiant smile made up for it.
"Hi everyone! Mom, Dad, I won my first tournament, see?! Even though I have autism, I still made it to the top of a city tournament, so that means I'm really strong and skilled! I'll be sending this home via Pidove shipping service! I love you both and my town, but my biggest thanks goes to my boyfriend Ash Ketchum!" She then turned to him by the side. "Say hi Ash!" The camera turned to him, whom looked startled from being put in the spotlight, before nervously waving and laughing. Rosa then stepped next to her to speak.
"Such beautiful words from our newest champion, Bianca! How about a big hand?!" Everybody applauded for her, making this officially the second best day of her life.
"Huh?! You want to join with us?" Ash gasped, not expecting that Rosa came up to them at the front of the stadium and suggested what he just said.
"That's right! It's been so long since I've travelled around, and since you two are so strong, it'd be fun if I went along if you'll have me."
"Did we hear right?"
"You want to travel with them?" Two voices asked in sequence. They turned to the sliding doors to see two older teenagers. One guy and and girl. The guy wore a black and red cap, a light blue jacket over a black shirt, black jeans and red and black sneakers. The girl wore a white cap with her wild hair cascading down in an unruly ponytail going down to her shoulder blades. She wore a white tank-top under a black vest and short shorts so short even the pockets were visible. She also wore brown boots. He was taller than Rosa while she was just slightly shorter reaching Rosa's eyes.
"Oh hey! Guys, meet my twin siblings Hilbert and Hilda!" Rosa introduced as she went to them and slung her arms over their shoulders. "We all come from the cozy town of Aspertia Town!"
"Which we planned on going back home to." Hibert pointed out. "What's mom going to think that you just up and left us without any kind of advance?"
"Yeah, she's going to be worried if we arrive home without you." Hilda agreed, looking concerned.
"Don't worry, I was going to tell her. And if they let me join, I'll have friends with me. So what do you say?" Rosa asked the couple.
"Oh I'd love to have you come with us! It'd be so nice to have a girl to talk to. It's only been Ash, Cheren and I until he left, and we're trying to find him. But it'll be so fun if you come with us!" Bianca approved.
"I don't want to get on your family's bad side, so I'm good either way." Ash shrugged as he raised his arms up to place his hands behind his head.
"Okay! Let me talk to mom and we'll see!" Rosa agreed as she dragged her siblings into the building, leaving Bianca and Ash alone.
"Wow, you're Nimbasa's champion. You are just awesome right now!" Ash complimented his girlfriend.
"Oh, thank you." She squealed as she hugged and kissed him. "So what do you think if Rosa does join us?"
"I think it'd be fun. A new friend and training partner, this will be really interesting. That sounds great." He admitted.
"I'm glad you think so." And then she went right back to kissing him. About 15 minutes later Rosa and her siblings came back out.
"Guess what?! I'm allowed to go with you! This is so exciting! Thank you so much for letting me join! I promise I'll give it my all!"
"The more the merrier!" Bianca remarked.
"Now you two take care of our kid sister, alright? We know she can fend for herself, but these are becoming dangerous times." Hilbert mentioned.
"Yes, keep her safe as we know she'll do the same." Hilda added.
"Leave it to us!" The blonde girl accepted. And so from then on, they went back to a group of three with their new companion, Rosa Mills.
A/N: Well, you've gotten what you wanted, Rosa is part of the journey. This is going to be interesting. Also, that is weird why you're reviews aren't entering Blue Manta, but I've contacted the help people so it should work out in the future. As for your idea...I think you need to ask someone else to do that 'naked Kanto run' you're suggesting. It's not a bad idea, it sounds humorous, but I have no clue how I could make that work. Despite my creativity, I'm not one of those 'crack fic' writers, and realistically Officer Jenny would put an end to that by the time he reached Viridian City. And I can't seem to PM you for some reason. I think your story can be done, I'm just not the correct guy to do it. So, what do you all think of the chapter? Leave your reviews down below.
