Chapter 32
Last time; Weiss, Yang and Ruby entered the Pokemon Contest in Brazil City despite everything that just happened. They move on in order to continue their journey and see what this world has to offer. Ruby was up first and, despite being nervous, managed to get a high score with Florence. Weiss remained calm and shows off Cutsie's cuteness and gave the judges some specially tasty pollen puffs. Yang dazzled the audience with her Blazerina's fire techniques. Ariel, who is also a Pokemon Performer, was there with her Starmie. After the Performance Round, the Battle Rounds are up next and much to their surprise, Ruby and Weiss are up against each other first. Who will win in this contest?
Song: Butter-Fly (English Fan Dub Ver.)
Artist: LeeandLie (Original Japanese Artist: Koji Wada)
My broken wings dream of the sky,
And they'll never be able to fly.
Only if we never try,
On my loo-o-o-ove!
If I could become just one thing,
I'd be a butterfly-free soaring.
I really miss you...
So finally I'm on my way.
Let's focus on the people we trust
And leave out all the doubt behind us.
So if you're ready...
Can we go? 'Cause there's no time to wa-aste.
I wanna kno-o-ow oh...
If the sky above is only for show.
I wanna kno-o-ow oh...
What tomorrow will bring so let's spread our wi-i-ings!
Maybe this world's an infinite dream,
And there is only hope living in me!
May it not fail me now!
We'll turn this thing around and bring back the lovin' somehow!
My broken wings dream of the sky,
and they'll never be able to fly!
Only if we never try,
On my lo-o-ove!
On my lo-o-o-ove!
Weiss and Ruby are shocked that they are the first to fight and have to fight each other.
I knew we have to fight but not that soon." Weiss states her surprise.
Ruby and Weiss look at each other while still in disbelief.
Ruby chuckles a little as she rubs the back of her head with her right hand, "Umm...this is a bit of a surprise." Ruby extends her left hand, "Let's do our best."
Weiss smiles and does a nod, "Likewise." and shakes Ruby's hand.
At the arena, the crowd cheers as they are excited for the match coming up. Blake is being a little nervous because Weiss and Ruby have to fight first and don't know who to cheer.
'Who should I cheer?' Blake contemplate to herself. 'Should I root for Ruby or Weiss?'
Vivian appears on stage, "Thank you for waiting! Now let's move on to the battle portion of our contest! The rules state that the battle last for only five minutes. However, the true object of the battle is to decrease the opponent's points. Coordinators lose points when their Pokémon are hit by an attack, when their Pokémon's attack fails, when the opponent's Pokémon performs a particularly appealing move, or when the opponent's Pokémon uses their Pokémon's attack to its own advantage. When the score reaches zero, that coordinator lose and the winner moves on. But if the Pokemon faints in battle, that is an automatic disqualification and the Pokemon still standing gets to move on with their coordinator. Now give it up for our two lovely girls from parts unknown, Weiss and Ruby!"
Ruby and Weiss are on opposite ends of the arena as they walk down to their positions.
"These two lovely ladies get to fight each other in the first round! Will it be Weiss with her Ribombee? Or Ruby with her Swadloon?"
Both of them are in position with their Pokeballs out with Weiss having a cherry blossom seal and Ruby has a bubble seal on hers.
Weiss throws, "Go Cutsie!"
Cutsie comes out as he does a cute pose among the cherry blossoms, which the crowd adores.
Ruby throws, "Let's go, Florence!"
Florence comes out as he does a more masculine pose and smacks some bubbles, which awes the crowd.
"Begin!"
The countdown timer starts and the fight begins. On the screen, below Weiss and Ruby's pictures, there are two yellow circles that keep track of the scores with an orange circle in the middle.
"Cutsie, use silver wind!"
Cutsie does some dance moves as a wind with silver crescents start blowing around for every dance move he makes in the air. Ruby's score is now at 97%.
"Use those to your advantage! Use protect!"
Florence is surrounded by a green forcefield as he jumps to catch the silver crescents with protect. The crescents now float around the forcefield as their silver coloring turns into a metallic green coloring.
"Now how do you like that!? Instead of repelling the silver wind, Swadloon has it float around its shield and turned it into a different color!"
Weiss' score is now at 94%.
"Use string shot and charge right at Cutsie!"
Florence fires a string shot through his shield and hits the screen above the center of the arena and swings right at Cutsie. Cutsie manages to dodge the attack yet gets hit by a gust of wind as Florence swings pass. Weiss' score dropped to 89% and Florence's protect stops which the glitters and sparkles faded away.
"Use pollen puff with stun spore!"
Cutsie makes a poison pollen puff and adds some stun spore on it before tossing it at Florence.
"Use string shot to shoot it back!"
Florence shoot string shot at the dark orange pollen puff right into Cutsie's mouth.
"Oh no!" Weiss panics as Cutsie ate the tainted pollen puff.
Because of the stun spore, Cutsie is now suffering from paralysis as yellow electricity surged throughout his body...and then explodes. Cutsie falls down to the ground as Cutsie faints with smoke coming out of his mouth. Weiss runs up and catches Cutsie into her hands. After catching him, Cutsie is returned to his Pokeball. The sound of a buzzer is heard with the judges have red X's on their panels.
"Ribombee is unable to battle!" Vivian announces, "The winner is...Ruby and her Swadloon!"
The crowd cheers for Ruby's victory as she waves at the audience.
Back in the prep room, Weiss gives Cutsie a cheri berry to cure him of his paralysis. A bit spicy for his taste but is cured from his status effect. Weiss smiles and gives him an oran berry she got from Ruby.
"Feeling better, Cutsie?" she asks in baby talk to her Pokemon.
Cutsie flies around, being all cheery and in good health.
"That's good." Then Weiss uses a potion, "Now hold still. This might sting a bit, but it should help."
She sprays some on Cutsie, which Cutsie freaks out but feels better.
Ruby approaches, "How are you and Cutsie doing?"
Weiss looks at Ruby with Cutsie sitting on her head, "He's doing a lot better now." she speaks normally.
"That's good. But you know, you could get him healed up at the healing machine Nurse Joy brought over."
Weiss' smile faded and her eyes wide open as she realizes, "Oh. Whoops." But Cutsie snuggles her right cheek which Weiss smiles again, "But I wouldn't mind doing first aid myself. Thank you for the oran berry."
"No problem."
On screen, the battle between Ariel and another coordinator is finished as the crowd cheers for Ariel's victory. The victory condition: her opponent's score reached zero.
"Ariel won the second round of the Battle Stage! She moves on to the semi-finals!"
Ariel waves to the audience along with her Starmie.
"Looks like Ariel is a tough cookie." Ruby points out.
"And you're gonna have to face her."
At the arena, Vivian announces the next match-up, "And now, give it up for our fiery coordinator; Yang Xiao Long!"
The crowd cheers with the males giving a more louder cheer with whistling as she walks down to the arena.
"And give it up for her other fiery opponent; Daniel!"
The crowd cheers but not as much as they did with Yang. Daniel is a boy wearing a red tuxedo with a crimson vest, has orange eyes and spiky red hair with some yellow streaks to make it look like his head is on fire, and fair skin.
"Now coordinators! Get your Pokemon ready!"
Yang has her Pokeball with a blue flame seal, "Go for it, Blazerina!"
Blazerina pops out with blue flames for wings and pounds her chest as she is ready for battle.
Daniel throws his Pokeball with a fiery seal on it, "Let's hit it, Arcanine!"
His Arcanine pops out as its shaggy beige fur looks like its on fire as it howls for battle.
"Now those are some impressive entrances! I'm all fired up for this match! But enough said, let's begin!"
The countdown timer starts and the battle begins!
"Arcanine, use flamethrower with extreme speed!"
Arcanine speeds up while also using flamethrower to make it look like it is a flaming comet.
"Look at Arcanine go! It almost look like a blazing meteor!" Or that.
Yang lost five percent of her points yet Daniel lose three points because they can't really see Arcanine in all that flash. Yet the more Arcanine moves, the ground it ran on starts to catch fire until it turns into a flaming Pokeball with Blazerina caught in the middle with Yang losing five percent more.
"Now that's style with heat! Arcanine made a flaming Pokeball and Monferno is trap!"
Yang orders, "Use fury swipes on those flames!"
Blazerina's fingers glow and use it on the fire around her. She gathers them as she swipes to make her fingers catch fire. Blazerina jumps in the air twirling with jets of flames behind her.
"Holy smoke! Monferno is using the flames to its advantage and make a graceful escape!"
Daniel lost three points there.
"I've been waiting for that." Daniel says with a smirk. "Use crunch as you gather the flames!"
Arcanine opens its mouth as it creates a yellow aura shaped like a set of teeth. Arcanine use the flames on the ground to have the aura teeth turn into a fiery orange with flames on top and on the sides.
"Yikes!" Vivian is freaked out. "Now those are some vicious chompers! Makes me want to go to the dentist."
Yang lose seven points and down to 83%.
Arcanine charges as Blazerina is about to land on the ground.
"Use those flames on your mach punch!"
Blazerina claps her hands together as they are set on fire. She spins twice before she delivers a left hook with a flaming mach punch. The two forces collide to produce a flaming burst while both Arcanine and Blazerina are in deadlock with Blazerina's left fist fighting against the lower jaw aura of Arcanine's crunch. Burst of flames are scattered around the arena with Vivian taking cover behind the judges podium along with the judges. But after five seconds, Blazerina shatters the teeth-like aura and punches Arcanine's jaw. Arcanine is sent flying right into the audience...and lands on top of Blake. As the heat dissipates, the judges come out of hiding along with Vivian.
Daniel looks at Arcanine, "Arcanine, no!" and Arcanine returns to its Pokeball.
Blake looks angry with some Arcanine hair on her.
"Whew!" Vivian wipes her forehead, "That was super-heated and intense there. But it looks like..."
The buzzers sound with red X's on the judge's podium screens.
"Yes! Yang wins by knockout!"
Despite the danger they nearly experienced, they cheered for Yang's victory. Yang waves at the crowd with Blazerina dancing for victory. Blake does cheer, but in a more monotone way because she's still upset about being hit by Arcanine. But it turns out to be Blake's shadow that somehow gain some sentience as the real Blake appears behind it and, with a touch of her right index finger, disappears. Blake scratches her head on how did that happen.
"Now that was a fantastic performance! We'll take a short break and get back at the action."
Back in the prep room, Weiss and Ruby congratulate Yang on her victory.
"Way to go, Yang!" Ruby claps for Yang's success.
"That was...actually an amazing performance." Weiss actually admits, Yang's performance with Blazerina was pretty good.
"Thanks girls." Yang thanks Weiss and Ruby praising her.
Yet Ruby and Weiss are hoping, 'Please no puns. Don't ruin this moment with puns.'
"I'm on fire!"
Then they both give her disapproval looks, 'She ruined it.'
Yang notices, "Tough crowd."
The three take a break at a table in the lounge with Ruby drinking orange juice through a bendy straw, Weiss drinks lemonade, Blake is there and drinks some ice tea and Yang just gulps down a large glass of soda. The four are enjoying their drinks with Yang taking a satisfying breath and place her glass on the table.
"I really needed that." Yang slouches back a little while looking at the ceiling.
"I agree." Weiss agrees, "Who knew that Pokemon Contest being a lot harder than just battles."
Ruby stops drinking, "I know, right? But it is a lot of fun."
"I have to agree with that as well. With Pokemon Showcases though, all you have to do is do some theme performance and a freestyle performance. No battle at all."
Yang looks at Weiss with a smirk, "And you decided to do all three."
Weiss puts her lemonade down while keep on smiling, "Because this is a new world. Why not take advantage of this rare opportunity and try everything?"
Yang thinks about it for a moment before answering, "Good point."
Blake has a concern, "But do you think that this world can do something weird with your semblance?"
"Hmm?" All three girls look at Blake.
"When that Arcanine was about to land on me, I used my semblance on accident to get out of the way. Yet what happened next was that my shadow...came alive."
"Huh?" the three girls are confused on that.
"Yeah. I don't know how, but it just did."
Yang looks down as she says to herself, "May I should check to see if something weird has happen to my semblance."
"I think we all should." Weiss suggests as she looks a little worried.
"We should check after the contest." Ruby says as she is worried as well.
"Agree." the rest of Team RWBY agrees.
Whether or not this world is effecting their semblances is something that they'll have to investigate somewhere away from prying eyes.
Back at the arena, the next round of battle performances are on the way as the crowd cheers as Vivian takes center stage.
"And we're back for another fantastic round of the Pokemon Contest! Is everyone excited for the next battle performance?!"
The crowd cheer loudly in anticipation for the next exciting and fantastical performance.
"Then lets give it up for our two coordinators that are gonna face each other. These two are actually half-sisters that are now gonna have to face each other for the first time ever on stage. Give it up to our red rose that is a bit shy yet manages to pull through, Ruby Rose!"
The crowd cheers once more as Ruby walks up to the arena as she just waves at the crowd from the right side despite still having some knots in her stomach.
"And give it up for her fiery and smokin' hot older sister, quite literally because she uses a fire-type, Yang Xiao Long!"
The crowd also cheers yet the males are going wild as Yang walks down to the arena from the left side as she winks at the crowd.
Blake is in the crowd as she waves the little red RWBY flag in her left hand, "Go Yang! Go Ruby!"
Will Yang rise up to the top? Or will her little sister, Ruby? Tune in next time for another action pack chapter!
AN: Hey everyone. Hope you all are doing well. I know we just switched to yellow, but I'm not gonna take any chances because our government, and local government, are run by idiots. Just stay safe, wear a mask, wear rubber gloves, and have a small bottle of hand sanitizer at the ready. And just to let you guys know, this summer, I'm gonna spend one week at the beginning of each summer month camping. Mostly for helping out some relatives that work at campgrounds. But for those that like my Food Wars and Shield Hero fanfictions, don't worry, you'll still get them.
And for anyone legal to vote, can we please vote for someone you know that isn't an idiot when the election comes? Later!