I Don't Own Pokemon


I was back at the match selection area, it was really unnerving to have to fish a magikarp to get my number, but that's mostly because I could here them talking in the water, so I just used my skill in tuning out voices and picked up one and got my number. My next opponent would be someone named Sinclair, and for the first time it would be full six on six battles. It would be interesting, at least I hope so, though that wasn't a certainty so all I could do is hope.

Anyway, after getting my number, and the time of my battle, which this time it would be later in day, almost getting to dusk which would be nice as that was my favorite time of day for me. Though that was still a few hours away for me, so I was in my room waiting on the time to pass with my Son out with me. That's when a knock sounded against the door. Looking over to the door for a second, I glanced over towards Luxray who nodded and looked over towards the door as well before telling me.

"It's those three that we keep running into, Dad. Though that old man is with them along with someone I haven't seen before" I nodded my thanks as I stood up and began to make my way over towards the door. I wonder how they got my room number. Shaking my head away from those thoughts, I opened the door up and looked at the five that I figured I would see. Ash and his two friends, the Professor and Ash's mother. I raised an eyebrow at them all and said.

"Hello all of you. Why are you all here?" It seemed that the two adults were also a little curious, while the two gym leaders looked over towards Ash, after a second said kid stepped forwards and said.

"I lost yesterday" Oh? I wasn't aware, To be fair I'm not aware of practically anything that involves the other competitors here. Besides some light conversation with a few of them, I haven't really bothered to keep track of all that is going on with the trainers. Still, I lowered my questioning eyebrow and said.

"Sorry to hear that. You got pretty far for a first time League" He seemed to brighten a little at that, but it soon came down again as he seemed to pout a little before telling me.

"Yeah I guess, but it's your first one too, and you don't even seem to have to try to advance" Oh it's going to be one of those conversations where I have to give a pep talk to someone. I never liked these, I'm not someone that should try and cheer someone else up, I'm just not good at it. But I have enough experience at this point to fake it, so I said.

"Don't compare yourself to others, trust me, everywhere you look there will be someone who is better at something than you. It's just how life works, instead of focusing on others focus up on yourself. You lost this time, big deal, just win the next one. As long as you improve it shouldn't matter how many times you lose as long as you better because of it" God that was cheesy, though it seemed to work as he seemed to cheer up some before telling me.

"Your right, you can win this one, because I'll just win the next one and then the one after that, until I never lose!" Huh, that's weirdly mature of him, he also thinks I'm going to win this, which is nice of him to place is confidence in me, though that might be only because I'm the only person he knows that is still competing. So I just gave him a nod as he turned and marched off with a purpose. Watching as he left with his two friends I turned to the other two still present.

"Do you two also need a pep talk? Because if so give me a warning, I'm already running low on motivational quotes and I would hate to repeat myself" The Professor seemed to hold back a small laugh, while the mother seemed to hold herself back from stepping forwards and hugging me. She seemed to have heard somethings about me from her son, I wonder how much. Still after a second, she composed herself before telling me.

"Thank you Kyu. My Ash has been so down about losing, I think he was a little jealous you actually. Still thank you for re-motivating him, I can't bare the idea that my Ash being so sad" This isn't usually how parents react to me talking to their kids. Wait, that doesn't sound right...Anyway, moving on past that I just nodded to the mother in front of me, and said to her.

"It's fine, I don't mind. While he might not be the most mature yet, he certainly has a skill in training it'd be a shame if something like this ruined the idea of it for him. One lost shouldn't put someone away from training" I got another thankful nod back to me, before she to walked away. Looking back over towards the Professor, I waited for a few second, as he seemed to be composing his thoughts before telling me.

"Your quite the trainer Kyu. Whether or not you go on and win this Conference I just want to say you remind me of a few people I use to know. Yet you're moving even faster than they were, I didn't really see it when we first met or even after watching one of your first battles. But you have this air around you. I'm ranting again aren't I? Sorry, what I'm saying is I believe you're going to go far, I wish you luck" And with that he turned and left.

I waited a second as I stood in the door before closing it as I was near lost in thought. That reminded me of what Mewtwo said, I have an air of superiority, I still have no clue as to what that means though I am very curious now about finding out. Whatever, I'll think on it after my battle, it's still a few hours away but I'd rather not get caught up in thought. Turning around I walked back over towards were I had been sitting, where it seems that Luxray decided to take a nap.


"And here we have Kyu! A trainer who has been blitzing through the competition without being batting an eye! How will he handle now that the battles are with full teams of six? Well we all are about to find out!"

I wonder how much that person gets paid to restate what everyone has already seen. Focusing myself back to the task at hand, I glanced over towards the referee who had yet to make the signal to release our first Pokemon. Moving my eyes over towards the other trainer, this time my opponent was clearly in his later years, at least compared to the age that most of the trainers here were. Probably about fifty.

He made a move over to grab a pokeball, making a glance over at the referee I noted that I almost missed the signal. Reaching upwards to the first slot on my sash, I grabbed it and pulled the ball off, and tossed it into the air about half a second later than Sinclair did. Watching as a nidoking slammed down into the stadium as Luxray also appeared, I noted that type would be annoying, but Luxray has a weird amount of experience with dealing with this specie of Pokemon.

We both looked over towards the referee, waiting for those flags to go down, as it seemed that neither of us gave a damn about whatever the announcer was talking out with our choices of Pokemon. After a little longer than I thought was necessary, the referee raised the flags up just a bit more higher before swiping them both downwards. My opponent through his hand forwards and called out.

"Nidoking, Earth Power!" The ground seemed to shake, as I already knew where this was going as I called out to Luxray.

"Quick Attack forwards to dodge then get close and Iron Tail" Just as my Son rushed forwards the ground right behind him exploded upwards, catching him a little in the blast zone but not enough to do any noticeable damage. As Luxray charged forwards towards the nidoking, just as he jumped into the air to bring his now glowing tail forwards to slam into the nidoking, the trainer across from me called out.

"Ice Punch!" The nidoking raised their fist up in time to slam into the oncoming tail attack, but all it really did was absorb some of the impact as the nidoking was still pushed backwards a good couple feet as Luxray landed on the ground once more. Seeing as this would be a good time to not be on the ground I called out to my Son once more.

"Quick Attack into Ice Fang with Night Slash" Luxray has been the one that I really stringed together attacks with, at least normally more than the others, so it was interesting to see how he pulled this one off. As he dashed forwards, and made it look like he was about to attack head on he slipped behind the nidoking before biting into the back of the Pokemon's head.

"Nidoking! Use Thrash!" The Pokemon seemed to go crazy as they started to throw his body around trying to get Luxray off. Though they weren't doing the best job at it, as Luxray just kept holding on without to much problem. After a couple more second I called out to my Son.

"Now Iron Tail" He jumped off the back of the thrashing nidoking before coming back down onto the Pokemon with his tail slamming into the head of the Ground type crashing it into the ground. As Luxray jumped off of the downed Pokemon, I waited for a moment, before the referee called that it was unable to battle. Watching as the Pokemon was returned, I looked over and made sure Luxray was fine.

As the next Pokemon was sent out, this time the Pokemon in question was an arcanine, which would be interesting, as it seemed that the dog Pokemon seemed to dislike my Son because stereotypes and stuff, if that low growling was anything to go by. I glanced over towards the referee as I waited for a few moments before the flags came down once more.

"Flare Blitz Arcanine!" Starting off very strong, as the Fire type rushed forwards, I called out as well.

"Electric Terrain, then Thunderbolt" The ground underneath Luxray seemed to vibrate for a moment before an electric charge seemed to create a layer of lightning to cover the ground as the arcanine charged forwards. As Luxray charged up the powered up Electric type attack before launching it towards the Pokemon as they got about half way to Luxray before the Thunderbolt hit. I was impressed that the dog kept on going so I just called out again as the dog got closer and closer.

"Charge the Thunderbolt once more" Two and a half times power not to mention the fact the arcanine had already taken a direct hit. Well this time the Pokemon didn't keep going, and instead was launched backwards. Deciding to end this with a bit of irony, I called out.

"Wild Charge" My Son's body was encased in lightning as he dashed forwards and slammed into the arcanine, throwing the Pokemon backwards even farther than the Thunderbolt launched them. This time the dog didn't get back up, as the lightning mostly cooled off from my Son's body, most because some of the Charge was still up for the extra special defense boost the move gave him.

I waited a few moments while Sinclair was returning his fainted Pokemon and switched out his pokeball for the next one, as the announcer made a another comment, this time it wasn't about me, doesn't mean it was not ignored though. This time the Pokemon that was sent out was a Raticate, which is probably the most common Pokemon I've gone up against so far. Though I can't say anything pidgey are one of the most if not the most common Pokemon in Kanto, tied with only caterpie.

Waiting on the battle to start back up, I wished that this could be a non stop battle like what I was use to and mostly what I did for the last couple gyms, it was more fast paced and fun then just defeating one Pokemon, then having to wait about half a minute before I can start to battle again. It made me ansty, still I held out as before long the flags were coming back down as Sinclair made the first move.

"Swords Dance then Double Edge, Raticate!" He really is a fan of recoil moves isn't he. As the Raticate started up the attack increasing move, I called out to Luxray to do something similar.

"Max out your Charge Luxray" He did just that, as his body started sparking up as I watched as both Pokemon got ready, before the raticate rushed forwards toward Luxray as the Pokemon got closer and closer, I just waited and the second the Charge was done I called out Luxray's strongest attack.

"Hyper Volt" He could use it without the Charge but with it, the move hardly put a dent in his reserves, Charge is an amazing move, which easily made Luxray the most energy conserving and energy using Pokemon on the team. Because he could just regain everything he lost in a few seconds, no matter the attack. Still as the attack launched, as the beam like attack shot off the lightning seemed to wrap around itself into a mass of lightning bolts cycling around each other as the attack connected.

Needless to say a move that damages them self against a move that does as much if not more than a Hyper Beam would, well, the raticate didn't have much chance of staying up long after that. Three down three to go, Sinclair seemed to be getting annoyed as he had already grabbed and switched out pokeballs, as he tossed the next one out, the announcer only got half way though their speech as the onix appeared on the field.

I wonder if this counts as a full circle, I mean Luxray's first official battle was against a onix, so this will be interesting to see how this will go. Still type would make this a little more annoying, I really should work on getting some more cover moves for Luxray. As the announcer made a few more comments on the newest Pokemon on the field, after a few moments the flags went down once more as I called out.

"Iron Tail" Luxray bounded forwards as his tail glowed before jumping up into the and swung it at the onix's head. That's when Sinclair called out to his Pokemon.

"Gyro Ball!" It's weird to see that move at work, still as the Steel type moves made contact the two Pokemon struggled for a moment before the power seemed to even out as both stopped their attacks, as Luxray landed back on the floor, while the onix stopped spinning around. As I was about to call out my next attack, my opponent called out before me.

"Smack Down now Onix!" This time it was the onix that swung their tail towards Luxray, it was coming at him fast, faster than I would expect from the slow moving Pokemon, I wonder if they have been using Rock Polish somehow without me with noticing. I've never seen the move at play so that could be it, though I think I would have noticed, like how I'm noticing that I should be calling out to Luxray to dodge, so I did.

"Jump over the tail Luxray, then Iron Tail the main body" Luxray managed to get out of the way of the tail, and in return his own tail glowed, as he swung it and had it slammed into the middle part of the onix, though with how heavy the Pokemon is, the onix didn't go far, but the Pokemon did go back a couple feet, which gave some nice distance for Luxray to back up some.

The onix went for another smack down, the Pokemon was faster again. Why, An ability maybe, it would have to be, right? Did onix have the ability Weak Amour, that's the only one coming to mind. But I thought they normally had Sturdy and Rock Head. Well if that's the case then that means the onix's defense is going down, which means the attacks are doing even more damage the longer this goes on. That's why he hasn't used Gyro Ball again, the speed difference is much closer the damage won't be as much.

"Luxray jump the Iron Tail again, the more physical damage you do the lower oinx's defense goes and in return their speed jumps up. So just keep attacking" From the panicked look on Sinclair's face I nailed it, I'm surprised that I recognized the ability. Wasting hours of my life playing video games sure does comes in handy when you get transported into another universe by a godlike version of yourself that is only godlike because he happens to have a computer...I'm off topic.

Though I didn't really need to be as Luxray was more than capable, now that Luxray was aware that the speed increase would continue to happen as he landed attacks, he was more than able to compensate for it. It only took a few more hits before each blow was sending the onix backwards, even if Luxray was beginning to struggle to maintain the speed at which he had to go to keep up with the onix.

After a few more second, well that was an over-exaggeration, it was almost two minutes later when the onix was blitzing around when the final blow of made. Luxray did take a couple hits but onix as a Pokemon were mostly made for defense so even if that was traded for speed, that didn't mean the power behind the attacks that landed on my Son did that much. Though Sinclair did seem to just slump a little.

As he return the rock snake, and as the announcer just kept on talking, I watched as the next Pokemon was sent out, and that's when I figured out why, it was a fearow, he has been using the Pokemon which would have the best chance of beating my Son, which means that the last two are weak to Electricity. Unfortunate, he slumped because he knows he's going to lose. I watched as he looked at me then Luxray before the referee, before his expression steeled.

He made his choice, he wasn't going to just give up, I can respect that I guess, though it does just prolong the battle. So I looked over towards the referee and waited a dew seconds before the flags went down once more before calling out my string.

"Refresh the Electric Terrain, the start up a Charge, you're going for a one shot" I got a nod as the light from the ground seemed to be dimming before it suddenly light back up to full power. As it seemed that it helped speed up the Charge as Luxray was ready in only a few seconds, as my opponent called out.

"Drill Run Fearow!" Oh? Is he hoping the Ground type attack will bypass the Electric typed moves? Because if so that's clever, I can't attack with that up without the attack acting like a lightning rod. As the Fearow hit the ground and started spinning and rushed at Luxray though, I got an idea.

"Protect, stop the bird in its tracks. Then Discharge" My Son might not be as bad as some but that Fearow had some real power behind that attack of theirs as it made the Protect barrier glow bright like it was about to collapse, but he did end up stopping the bird in their tracks. And without the momentum, the attack couldn't continue. As the attack connected pointblank I noted that it might be a little over kill, the fearow was more for straight raw power than defense.

As the Pokemon was returned I looked over towards Luxray, I haven't kept that much on an eye as I should on his current state. He was tired, not incredibly so, but enough for me to notice. While he had the most staying power in terms of energy reserves that did come at a cost, while it hadn't come to that point yet, emptying then refilling and then emptying one's tank has an impact, the body tires out faster, thankfully Luxray has more than enough stamina to compensate.

Sinclair was looking down at the last pokeball in his hand with a look of consideration. He knew that I would win, he was weighing if it was worth sending his last team member out to just get hurt when he could just give up. I knew what I would do, and it wasn't what he did as he placed the ball back into one of his pockets and pulled out a white cloth that every trainer had been given, I didn't bother to bring mine. He quickly turned and walked off after walking sure the referee saw it, as the announcer went crazy.

"And with that Kyu advances to the top four folks! At this rate he could very well break a record here! As it stands world wide the highest a trainer has ever gotten in their first year of training is the top four! If he makes it past this next round, Kyu will have set a new world record!"

The announcer said some more stuff but at that point I tuned out as I turned and made my way out of the stadium. Just two more to go.


This chapter is over one thousand words longer than the normal length, I have to say I'm glad that this Conference is almost over. I dont mind writing these battles but it's very repeative, still I've enjoyed writing this nonetheless and it's almost over. Anyway, See ya.