by Martial Arts Master
The original concept of Pokemon and all related characters copyrighted by Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures Inc., 4Kids, TV Tokyo, Satoshi Tajiri, and Wizards of the Coast. All characters I use as Pokewomen are copyrighted by their original creators and owners. I made up Rick, though. See the first chapter for the rules by which the Pokewomen world operates by. Now, on with the story.
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Rick was humiliated. He'd lost to Lt. Surge, and quickly, too.
There had to be some way to compensate for Leelim's incredible defense. But what?
Pixie only knew how to throw lightning, and to throw energy balls.
That was it! All Rick had to do was teach Pixie some new techniques, and she might be able to win.
Rick looked up Pixie's information in his Pokedex.
The Pokedex said, "Pixie is also capable of learning a sonic blast technique that uses a shockwave as an attack."
Rick already knew that, so he looked up another attack.
The Pokedex said, "Pixie can learn a technique that creates a wall of fire, which can protect from attacks if she can make the wall of fire strong enough."
Well that sounded good.
Teaching her both the sonic blast technique and the wall of fire technique should make her better.
So Rick went back into the forest outside the city and called out Pixie.
"All right, Pixie, you wanna beat Leelim, don't you?" he asked.
"Yeah, Leelim gives us Pixies a bad name!" Pixie said. "What a superficial little b---"
"I'll teach you some new techniques," Rick interrupted.
"Good, teach away," Pixie replied.
"First, you need to know that sonic blast technique," Rick said. "It's pretty powerful, and we'll need all the power we can get against Leelim's endurance."
"Here's how to do it," Rick continued, briefly looking something up in his Pokedex. "I happen to know that sonic booms are created when the sound barrier is broken. The sound barrier can only be broken if something moves at a speed that is past the speed of sound. So, you need to do something so fast that you break the speed of sound doing it."
"But what can I do?" Pixie asked. "I didn't even see what Leelim did to cause the sonic blast. It looked like she just concentrated and it happened."
"Yeah, I wasn't paying attention to that either," Rick said. "But that's not important. We'll try clapping your hands together really fast, and see what happens."
"Ok," Pixie said uncertainly. She clapped her hands together, but no sonic blast happened.
She kept doing it, and Rick kept urging her to do it faster.
Finally, after a while, just when Rick was ready to give up, Pixie clapped her hands together so fast that there was a sonic boom, and then a shockwave that knocked Rick off his feet.
Rick got up and then cheered.
"You did it!" Rick shouted. "You've just learned how to do the sonic blast!"
Pixie nodded and said, "Yeah, but that's nothing Leelim can't do."
That's when Rick got to training her to do the wall of fire.
He kept having her try to form the heat in her body into a wall of fire, but Pixie didn't succeed for a long time.
Finally Pixie succeeded, creating a wall of fire.
"Good, I have a plan," Rick said. "Ever notice that Leelim got hit by every single attack that you threw at her? She's obviously too slow to dodge, and relies on defense and power."
"Yeah, so how does that help me?" Pixie asked.
"Well, she also relies on the fact that she can hit you with her attacks," Rick said, "but what if you made it so that she couldn't? What if, every time she attacked, you made a wall of fire strong enough to protect against the attack?"
"Go on, I'm listening," Pixie said, interested.
"You see, if she can't hit you with her attacks, but you can land every single one of yours, then all you have to do is keep attacking, and eventually Leelim has to fall," Rick said. "After all, even someone with excellent defense isn't invincible."
"Good plan," Pixie said.
Then Rick recalled her, heading back to the Vermillion City gym.
Rick threw open the doors of the Vermillion City gym.
"I'm here for a rematch!" Rick shouted.
The lights clicked on, and Lt. Surge was standing there, smiling.
"So, the baby's come back to lose again, eh?" Lt. Surge asked rhetorically. "Well, as a gym leader, under Indigo League rules, I have no choice but to accept your challenge, but you don't stand a chance."
"We'll see about that. Go, Pixie!" Rick said, sending out Pixie.
"And you're even using the same Pokewoman!" Lt. Surge. "I'll beat you again just like last time."
Lt. Surge sent out Leelim.
Pixie threw an energy ball at Leelim, and of course, since Leelim was slow, the energy ball hit her.
But, of course, thanks to Leelim's incredible defense, Leelim barely felt it.
"Leelim, try a sonic blast," Lt. Surge said. "That beat her last time and it should do the trick this time, too."
"Wall of fire!" Rick said.
Pixie created a wall of fire, and this time Rick paid close attention to what Leelim was about to do.
Leelim appeared to be concentrating, but then lashed her tail like a whip. And like a whip, it broke the sound barrier.
Just as the shockwave happened, Leelim thrust her arms out, sending the shockwave at Pixie.
But the wall of fire did its job, blocking the sonic blast.
"Hey, what?" Lt. Surge asked, surprised.
"All right, time for our strategy!" Rick said.
"So now you've been planning a new way to lose," Lt. Surge said. "Lightning!"
Leelim threw lightning at Pixie, but Pixie's wall of fire blocked that, too.
"Throw some lightning of your own!" Rick said.
Pixie dissipated her wall of fire and shocked Leelim with lightning.
Leelim barely felt it.
This went on for quite a while, with all of Leelim's attacks being blocked by Pixie, while all of Pixie's attacks hit Leelim.
Eventually Leelim began to show signs of wearing down. Rick had been right; not even Leelim could take an infinite amount of hits.
Then, when Leelim threw an energy ball at Pixie, Rick shouted, "Now try your own sonic blast!"
Pixie clapped her hands together just like in the forest, and the shockwave hit Leelim, throwing her into a wall.
Rick's strategy worked. Leelim had been slowly worn down, and now Leelim was unconscious.
"UNBELIEVABLE!!!" Lt. Surge shouted.
"I won fair and square, so now I'd like my badge, please," Rick said to him.
Lt. Surge recalled Leelim.
He then threw a badge to Rick.
"Here you go, kid," Lt. Surge said. "I take back that 'baby' comment. You're no baby if you managed to beat me. I gotta teach Leelim that wall of fire technique sometime."
Rick looked at his badge.
It looked like the sun.
"That's the Thunder Badge," Lt. Surge said.
"Thunder Badge? This thing looks like a sun!" Rick said. "Why is it called the Thunder Badge?"
"Don't ask me, kid, I didn't name it," Lt. Surge said. "Whoever was the very first Vermillion City gym leader must have named it."
"Thanks," Rick said, walking out of the gym in triumph.
He then walked out of Vermillion City, heading on the path he hoped would take him to the next city, and his next adventure...
To be continued...
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You're probably thinking, "Oh no, not another new trainer fic that the author won't bother to finish!" Well, let me tell you, I hate those kinds of fics too, and let me tell you in advance that I DO plan on finishing this fic. I never start a fic that I don't intend to finish. In fact, if I'm lying about planning to finish the fic, may I get pounded by a madman. E-mail all questions and comments to bleifer@msn.com.