I Don't Own Pokemon
It still ended up taking another two days before we arrived at Celadon. Currently I was in a small mart looking at the different brands of Pokemon food. The team and I were running low, so I decided to stock up before I battled the Gym. After a few moments I pulled off the self about ten boxes and half haphazardly tossed them all into the hand basket I had gotten by the door.
Moving out of the food section I noted that Johnathan was giving me a weird look as I made my way towards the small counter where I could buy some potions and other medical items. He was still giving me that look as I placed my order and after I watched the clerk walk into the back of the store to get the items I requested out of storage I turned my head and looked at the kid and asked.
"Something on your mind?" He just nodded after a moment before asking.
"Uh, yeah actually, I thought we were almost out of food for ourselves. Why didn't you get any previsions while we were near the food aisles?" Oh yeah, he can't eat what the rest of us eat, wait how hasn't he noticed I've been eating Pokemon food for the last few days. Maybe that's what he meant, he thinks I'm out.
"I got plenty of food, and I'm way to greedy to buy anything for you. This is all for my team, I know you have money on you so go buy somethings for yourself, if your that low on food" He just blinked at me for a moment before nodding to himself a little uncertain, probably about what he'll have to buy. If it's that bad then I'll just send him back into the food section after I see what he has.
Turning away from his retreating form, I gave a smile to the clerk as he returned with my items. Handing him over my card to scan, I took the items and opened up my bag to begin to place them all in where they were suppose to go. Getting my card back, I signed the receipt and turned and waited for my travel companion returned.
Needless to say once he emerged from one of the rows of food, I sent him right back, as I noticed basically all the stuff he grabbed would spoil in under two days with keeping it cooled. After about two more send backs, he finally figured out what the things I was accepting and got more of that while less of the easily spoil-able foods. After checking out, at the main desk we were off.
"Hey Kyu. We're going to the Gym now right? How do you think I'd fair against the leader?" I forgot every now and again that he was also a trainer, looking over to him and more importantly the sign behind him, to make sure I was going in the right direction, I answered honestly.
"You would probably be crushed without to much effort, Erika is a Grass type specialist, and from memory uses three Pokemon. If you tried and fight that with Poliwag, he would get hurt bad before you defeated the first Pokemon sent out on her side" He mutter under his breath about me being harsh or something similar, as we continued on.
After that I made my way to the Gym set on getting out of town as fast as I could. Walking threw the doors, I walked up to the lady at the desk and said.
"Sorry to be so blunt, but I'm in a bit of a hurry. Is Erika available for a Gym battle?" She looked me over for a moment before nodding, pointing down towards the hallway to her left. Walking down it I arrived into a big floral room, looking around it for a second I spotted a woman who seemed to have also spotted me.
"Oh hello, welcome to the Celadon Gym. Are you here for a battle?" I gave her a nod before getting a nod in return. She pointed over towards the middle of the room and said.
"Okay then, You'll be battling there, and your friend, sorry to say we don't have any spectator spots here in the Gym do your friend there will have to stand off to your side" I gave another nod before moving into position. After a second a referee came out and declared the normal rules and the Pokemon amount that I correctly guessed.
Reaching downwards I grabbed onto Pidgeotto's ball I tossed it into the air and caught it on the bounce back. Watching as a victreebel appeared across the field. Waiting for a couple seconds before the match began, I looked at the Grass Type. It shouldn't be to hard for Pidgeotto to win, but I wasn't going to think that meant it would be an instant win. And that's when the match was called.
"Victreebel, use Sleep Powder" The Grass type spun around a few times before a faint gleam in the air seemed to spread from it. I called to Pidgeotto.
"Pidgeotto, get high into the air and blow it all away with Whirlwind, then pelt it with Air Cutters" He reacted quickly to my words, launching himself into the air, avoiding the Sleep Powder on the way up, before blasting it all away with a few strong beats of his wings. Then he went on the counter attack, sending dozens of Air Cutters at the Grass type, Erika called out right after.
"Victreebel, surround yourself in a Leaf Tornado, then start using Stockpile" The wall of leafs blocked most of Pidgeotto's attacks, and now it was setting up, something I couldn't allow it to do. Looking at the tornado for the better part of a second I got my thoughts in line as I called out to Pidgeotto.
"You won't be able to pierce it Pidgeotto, so in that case, unravel it with a Twister going in the opposite direction" I grinned as the Twister broke through the Leaf Tornado without any problem, still going strong enough to grab Victreebel and throw it around the arena, stopping it from Stockpiling anymore.
"Now Pidgeotto! Send it sky high, and blast it with some Air Slashes" The Twister broke sending the Grass type into the air, before multiple slash marks raced threw the air going right at the Pokemon. That's when Erika called out.
"Now Victreebel. Use Spit Up" With that an attack moving much faster than I thought it would went speeding threw the air and nailed Pidgeotto in the wing, causing a cloud of dust to spread out from the impact. Just as that happened the Air Slashes hit their mark, doing damage to the Pokemon and increasing the speed it was traveling, sending it crashing into the ground, also kicking up some dust.
I watched the victreebel for a moment before deciding that it wasn't getting back up, before looking up into the air. After a second Pidgeotto flew out of the smoke, looking a little beat up, but nothing more than some slight bruises, he's gotten worse from the mock battles the team's had.
Listening to the referee call out that the victreebel was unable to battle, I refocused myself back into the fight. Erika took a second to recall her downed Pokemon before sending out her next one. Watching as the tangela appeared in front of me, I waited out the next few seconds to give Pidgeotto some time to rest before the referee suddenly called out the battle to begin.
"Tangela knock it down with a Vine Whip" It was more than one vine that shot out from it's body as dozens of them spread out and converged on Pidgeotto. Narrowing my eyes I watched the vines flight pattern before calling out.
"Pidgeotto, Agility now, then fly up before diving off to the right while doing your best to dodge" I might have seen it wrong, but the place I was directing him to was the only spot that he could get some attacks in without being in the mid of dodging dozens of vines. Thankfully he was a great flyer as he avoided most of the vines, only getting clipped twice before he was in position.
"Now, dive to get in close and hit it with a Wing Attack" The reason, I had him fly so high up was to get the reach on the vines as far away from the hosts body as I could, so when Pidgeotto sped down as fast as he was, the vines wouldn't have a chance to follow fast enough before he got his attack in, with all the extra momentum that Agility gave him.
As my bird slammed into the tangela sending it backwards before crashing into the ground, I was about to call out another fallow up attack when Erika beat me to it.
"Tangela, Ingrain, then Ancient Power" I felt my eyes widen at that. I didn't think it could us that, shouldn't it be a bloody Tangrowth then. Not to mention now it was healing itself. I watched as the rocks began to float in the air before darting at Pidgeotto, barely able to get my words to him in time I called out.
"Pidgeotto, Agility and dodge those rocks no matter what. You can't afford to get hit" He, now that he only had to dodge and not get into any specific spot dodged the rocks without to much problem, but I wasn't really worried about him being hit. He was to good at dodging for that to happen, no I was worried about the steady improving health of my opponent. It took a second but I did think of something.
"Double team, Pidgeotto, then get stealthy, don't let it keep track of you. Then once it's lost sight get in close an use Quick Attack into Wing Attack, we can't let it stay rooted any longer" Looking onward as my bird's form split into dozens of others before all of them started flying around in all directions.
It might have been because of my skill in illusions or just how well I knew my friend, but it wasn't hard to keep track of my bird as he flew around for a good ten seconds in increasingly hard to follow patterns, with copies darting all around him, before diving straight down at the tangela.
Watching him spin around a few rocks, that in my personal opinion got way to close to be comfortable, I waited for a solid three seconds before he was on equal height with the tangela. And that's when his Wing slammed into the Grass types face, ripping it out of the ground and went spiraling out onto the floor. This time I wasn't going to give it a chance to heal itself.
"Pidgeotto, use some Air Cutters" And with that the second Pokemon was defeated. Looking over at my bird once more while the Leader was recalling and switching Pokemon. This time he was much more tired. He didn't take any damage but all those quick switches into different moves, fast and fancy flying, and having to use so many moves in quick succession.
Well it wasn't a surprise that he was a little wore out, still I didn't recall him, I knew he was still a little sad about not getting the chance to sweep the Cerulean Gym, so I was giving him that chance here. After a moment Erika held out her last Pokemon, which of course was a gloom.
I had to clamp my hands over my hypersensitive nose as the smell reached me. Oh good god was it bad, I nearly gagged as I slowly dragged my hands away from my nose as the battle was called to start, a little faster than I would like, as I still hadn't adjusted to the horrible smell. Erika took advantage of that.
"Gloom, use Sweet Scent" And just like that the smell some how switched from being so horrible that it made me gag to being so sweet that it made me want to puke. I never liked sweet things, shuttering to myself I called out to Pidgeotto, who seemed to be a little woozy in the air from the scent.
"Pidgeotto, Whirlwind, get rid of the Scent, then it with some Air Cutters" I got a nod in return after a moment, and after a few beats of his wings, the air was mostly purified. After that Pidgeotto released a bunch of attacks at the gloom. Most hit, but the little thing was surprisingly spry as it jumped around out of some of the attacks.
"Razor Leaf, Gloom, don't give it a chance to attack" I frowned as Pidgeotto was forced onto the defensive again, he was already tired from all the sharp and quick flying he's been doing. Thankfully, unlike the tangela, the leafs weren't massive boulders, so he didn't have as much of a problem.
"Pidgeotto, Gust away the Leafs and try and get the gloom in it as well" I would have gone for a Twister but I didn't want him to waste so much energy on something a weaker, and much less power using, move could do, with just a little less damage. The Gust worked as intended as the leafs were thrown out of the way, and Pidgeotto even managed to get a good beat of wind to hit the gloom with as well.
"Gloom, knock it down with a Moon Blast" I withheld my natural reaction to flinch at the Fairy type move. And instead winced as it made contact with Pidgeotto. He was still in the air but he was tire and slowly losing altitude, the damage wasn't that much like I said earlier but he didn't have the stamina for such a long drawn out fight. I'll have to finish this soon then. And see if I can teach him Roost at some point in the future.
"Pidgeotto, you're going to have to get in close for this, dive down and hit it with a Wing Attack then send it further away from you with a Gust, then start hammering down on it with some Air Cutters" It was going to be risky, using so many moves in quick succession wouldn't be easy for him after doing basically only that since the battle started.
But he managed to pull it off better than I hoped as Erika called for gloom to try and hit my bird with an Acid but Pidgeotto dodged out of the way before being pelted around the arena for a solid minute as Pidgeotto refused to stop, probably because if he did, then he would fall over.
After he finally stopped his rampage, the gloom was unconscious and he had landed and was currently panting hard. Once the referee called it, I immediate made my way over to Pidgeotto. Seating myself right next to him I gave him a pat on the back, very lightly, before telling him.
"You did it Pidgeotto, you beat a Gym all by yourself, I'm proud" He, after a couple seconds chirped out.
"It...wasn't so bad" I gave him a chuckle before returning him. While I would have loved to praise him some more, I doubt he conscious enough to actually understand what I was saying. So I'll give him, his well deserved break, before telling him repeatedly how proud I was.
Looking up and away from the pokeball in my hands I saw that Erika was looking down at me with a badge in her hand. Standing up, I took it from her, before fishing out my badge case, placing the badge in it's place, I gave her a nod before making my way out of the Gym, I needed to get to a Pokemon Center after all. That's when Johnathan seemed to not be able to hold him any longer.
"That's was so incredible. I thought you were just being your normal mean self, when you said I wouldn't have stood a chance. But that was just insane, I mea-" I listened with half an ear open as the two of us made our way towards the Pokemon Center.
And with that, Kyu now had his fourth badge isn't that nice. I actually really enjoyed writing this fight, one of my favorite things about writing stories like this is all the research I can bury myself in, I don't know why but it's really fun to look up certain Pokemon move sets and make up random mock fights with my mind. Anyway See ya.
