Ch29 Midnight's battle for badge
Sandshrew has evolved into sandslash by now, for anyone who cares. Why? Because I know that evolved pokemon are stronger, that's why. And because this fic isn't a like Ash Ketchem's journey, where he doesn't get any evolved pokemon but charizard and pidgeot, and then gets rid of them quickly.
"Go, gengar," said Morty.
"Midnight, try wing attack!"
The gengar looked at Midnight. She was known to the ghost pokemon. They did not die naturally, and they remembered her, though few had lived when she still did. No normal ghost pokemon would attack her.
But this was a gym leader's pokemon.
"Gengar, use hypnosis!"
Midnight looked at the ghost. She had no wish to attack it.
"Geng," it said, it's eyes glowing.
Midnight Glared at the smaller pokemon. How dare it attack her!
"Gengar, shake it off and use night shade!"
"Geng…" it said, dark energy gathering in it's hands-
"Midnight, use- huh?"
Midnight's wings were shining for a moment, before she leapt forward-
-"GAR!" it screamed, releasing the devastating night shade attack.
Midnight's wings, now tinted silver, cut through the attack like it was fog, and smashed into the gengar, fainting it.
"Gengar, return. Not bad, trainer, but it might help if it actually listened to you like my pokemon do. When I get it, it won't dare disobey me for long. Go, haunter. Use shadow ball."
The haunter quickly threw out a dark ball at Midnight. She tried to dodge, but slipped on the strange floor of the gym, and was hit full force by the powerful attack. She lay still for a moment, stunned.
"What the…how could the attack do so much damage?" said Ash, greatly surprised.
"I've raised my ghost pokemon to be strong enough to take out even the legendaries. I will win! Haunter, use hypnosis."
The haunter's eyes glowed and unlike the fainted gengar it managed to put Midnight o sleep.
"Quick haunter, use dream eater!"
"Haunt!" it said, stealing the life from Midnight. She groaned and awoke.
"Strange, few pokemon have survived dream eater. Oh well, it won't last much longer. Haunter, use shadow ball again!"
"Midnight, use-"
Midnight, not trusting the floor, jumped into the air flapping her wings. The shadow ball flew by underneath her, hitting one of unseen walls of the gym. Ash couldn't tell how much damage it had done in the darkness of the ghost gym, but Midnight could, and it worried her. This was, after all, only Morty's second most powerful pokemon.
"Mid!" she yelled, unleashing a bolt of lightning on the haunter. It fainted.
"Go, gastly!"
"Mid?" she said, confused. Morty was sending out his pokemon in reverse evolutionary order.
"Gastly, use toxic!"
The part-poison pokemon spat a glob of sludge at her. Midnight became badly poisoned.
"Midnight, please! You have to listen to me!"
Midnight looked at Ash. She was upsetting him by not listening. But he didn't know much about the ghost pokemon. And this battle would be harder then usual.
"Gastly, now use-"
She opened her mouth, hitting the gastly with a quick ice beam, before leaping forward and using bite. It fainted and was recalled.
Morty smiled. He held his pokeball in his hand, as if deciding whether or not to use it, as he watched the poison begin to take effect. Midnight swayed slightly. Perfect.
"Go, misdreavus!"
A strange ghost pokemon appeared. It seemed feminine, the vapors that swirled around it's head looking like long hair, and something that looked like a beaded necklace was around it's neck, right before it's form disappeared back into vapor.
"Misdreavus, use thunder!"
The ghost pokemon threw many bolts of lightning at Midnight, causing her to stagger and nearly fall.
Shaking of the lingering effects of the electricity, Midnight used flamethrower, knocking out the weaker ghost.
"Return, misdrevous, go, gengar. Use ice punch!"
One of the gengar's hands glowed, and it raced forward, punching Midnight. Ice raced along her body and she shuddered in cold, but before the ghost could withdraw she whacked it with another steel wing. Like all the rest, this gengar fainted.
"Not bad. But there is no way your pokegod can beat this, even if it wasn't so weak and poisoned," said Morty. He was confidant he would win, but there was no harm in being careful and stalling again for a bit so the poison could hurt the legendary more. "Do you want to just forfeit now and save us both the time and effort?"
"Not a chance!"
"Very well. Pokeball, go!"
A gigantic gengar appeared. Morty didn't even stand as high as the huge creatures ankle. "Use hypnosis!"
The giant's eyes glowed. Midnight fell, asleep. The longer she was kept from attacking, the weaker she would be, as the poison hurt her again and again.
"Now, gengar, use nightmare!"
Sleeping, Midnight began to dream.
Running…others with me…winged ones above, four legged beside me…a voice, a voice in my head…which is stronger, they fight, want to prove, can't stop fighting…
She was the one who had to hold them together. They couldn't fight-they were Higher Powers…only she could stop them…they had to stop fighting…
Trapped…betrayed…she couldn't run! Her legs chained together, her wings wrapped close to her by a long length of chain…tied down…bars…she couldn't get free…she had to get OUT!
Burning…they were going to burn her…she could see the pyre they made for her…she couldn't escape-her legs were chained, her wings broken. And she couldn't tell them to stop-they had ripped her throat out. They were sealing their own doom.
…fighting…the highter's fighting…they were the chosen of all pokemon…they were tearing the pokemon apart…chaos…
*Stop it!* she screamed voicelessly. But they didn't. Because she wasn't there. Because she had failed.
Water and Sea blasted each other. Fresh and salt water grew poisoned.
Thunder and lightning warred. Black clouds blotted out the sun.
Fire fought. Forrestfires raged and land-fire roared. Volcanoes erupted.
Ice blasted land-fire. The jungles grew cold. Land-fire retaliated, and mountain peaks, where ice pokemon lived, erupted in liquid rock.
Sky-fire added it's power to ice, and land-fire stumbled and fell.
Crops froze from cold and others withered under a too-hot sun. The lessers shivered and burned. The sky was bright and dark, ignoring the natural night and day. Floods covered the land, and droughts appeared in other places. Food disappeared and did not grow again.
Then even the Skys turned on one another, and the Lands fought among themselves, until the Skys were forced into sleep and the Lands encased in stone.
All over the world, the lessers turned on each other.
And it was all because she hadn't stopped them.
It was all her fault.
So, any guesses to what will happen next? What do you think of her completed dream?
By the way, all the attacks the ghost pokemon used can be used in the game. I bought a walkthrough that has a pokedex section that included what TMs a pokemon can use.