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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It was the day after Rick's fourth match, and Rick had already pseudo-randomly selected an opponent for the fifth round of the Indigo League.
It turned out he would be fighting in the Indigo Stadium, and he'd be fighting against someone named Richie.
In fact, he was standing on the red platform in the Indigo Stadium right now. Rick had been chosen to be the Red trainer again.
Richie was the Green trainer. He had a blue-green hat, some blue-green clothes with yellow on them, and brown hair. (Author's note: Yes, this IS the same Richie that Ash befriended in the Pokemon League in the Pokemon show)
"And now, a fifth round Indigo League match is about to begin!" the announcer said.
"Nice to meet you!" Richie said politely.
"Nice to meet you too, yada yada, can we just get on with the match, please?" Rick asked impatiently.
"Suit yourself. Go, Pink Suezo!" Richie said, throwing a Poke Ball.
A strange creature came out.
She basically consisted of a large eyeball, pink skin, a mouth, a tail, and little winglets attached to her head.
That was basically it. Besides her tail, she had no limbs.
Rick pointed his Pokedex at her.
The Pokedex said, "Pink Suezo. This is a character from an Earth video game called Monster Rancher 2. She is a monster, and is actually a crossbreed between a Suezo and a Pixie, with Suezo as the main breed and Pixie as the sub-breed."
Rick winced. He knew Pixie would probably not like being a sub-breed to anything.
The Pokedex continued, "Pink Suezo looks harmless, but looks can be decieving. She is capable of telepathy, teleportation, and telekinesis. She can also attack by spitting, biting, licking, or whacking opponents with her tail. Therefore, she is a dangerous opponent."
Looks can be deceiving, huh? Rick thought. Ok, let's put that to the test.
"Go, Cassie!" Rick said, sending out Cassie.
The announcer began to laugh.
And laugh. And laugh.
"Can you believe this, ladies and gentlemen? Rick has sent out a character from a little kids' show!" the announcer said, bursting with mirth. Apparently he knew who Cassie was.
The audience began to laugh as well.
"Hey, tell that little pink dragon from Dragon Tales that we want a serious fight!" some wiseacre called.
"Yeah, that wimp couldn't beat a dog in battle!" some other joker said.
"Hey Cassie, go back to Dragon Land, girlie!" yet another yuckster said.
Apparently the audience knew who Cassie was as well.
Soon the whole stadium was collapsing with laughter, except of course for Rick and Cassie, and Richie and Pink Suezo.
Cassie looked sad and disappointed, to say the least.
She hid her face in embarassment.
"SHUT UP!!!" Rick screamed at them all.
How dare they judge Cassie by what show she was from! Well, Rick would show them all that any Pokewoman can become great if well-trained.
And Rick had trained his Pokewomen for months before entering the Indigo League.
Eventually the announcer and the audience stopped laughing, but only because they were beginning to get tired.
"Now, let the battle begin!" the announcer said.
"Cassie, ram into Pink Suezo!" Rick said.
Cassie flew into the air and charged at Pink Suezo.
"Pink Suezo, teleport!" Richie called.
Pink Suezo disappeared in a flash of orange light.
Then she reappeared behind Cassie, whacking her with her tail.
Cassie was knocked backwards, but recovered from the blow.
"Cassie, try breathing fire at it!" Rick said.
Cassie breathed fire at Pink Suezo, but Pink Suezo merely teleported again.
Then, again, Pink Suezo reappeared behind Cassie, whacking her with her tail.
"This isn't working," Rick said.
"You got that right," Richie said.
Then, Pink Suezo teleported behind Cassie yet again, whacking her with her tail.
That's when Rick noticed that Pink Suezo always teleported behind Cassie instead of any other direction.
That gave Rick an idea. Obviously Richie had forgotton to train Pink Suezo to attack from different directions.
"Cassie, just keep flying," Rick said.
"Do another teleport attack!" Richie said.
Pink Suezo teleported.
Before Pink Suezo reappeared, Rick said, "Cassie, turn around and breathe fire behind you!"
Cassie turned around behind her, and as Pink Suezo reappeared, ready to whack her with her tail, Cassie breathed fire right into her eye.
"AAAAAH! My eye!" Pink Suezo said, hopping around in pain.
"My eye is burning! Help, help!" Pink Suezo said.
Eventually the pain became too much for Pink Suezo, and she fell unconscious.
"Pink Suezo is unable to continue the battle!" the referee said, raising the red flag.
On the scoreboard, one of Richie's lights went out.
"Unbelievable!" the announcer shouted. "Cassie has...somehow...actually defeated one of Richie's opponents!"
Rick smirked. He knew that because of Cassie's shy and loving nature, as she had been when Rick had first gotten her she could never have beaten anybody.
But thanks to the training that Rick had given her, Cassie was now actually a good fighter.
Richie recalled Pink Suezo.
"Gee, I hope I damage the poor thing too badly," Cassie said.
"Don't worry about it; that's what Poke Centers are for, remember?" Rick asked.
Richie interrupted by throwing a Poke Ball and saying, "Go, Hsien-Ko!"
A blue-skinned woman in a Chinese outfit with claws appeared.
Rick pointed his Pokedex at her.
The Pokedex said, "Hsien-Ko. She is a character from an Earth video game series called Darkstalkers. She is a Chinese ghost. She has the ability to summon objects to throw at her opponents, toss a large bomb that can be kicked around, reflect projectles by ringing a gong, and make spikes come up from the ground. She is also adept with her claws."
"Hsien-Ko, makes spikes come up from the ground!" Richie said.
Hsien Ko made a motion towards the floor.
Suddenly, spikes began to come up from the ground.
And the spikes were huge!
"Cassie, fly high!" Rick said.
Cassie flew high into the air, above the spikes.
Hsien-Ko began to toss things at Cassie.
They were things like knives, daggers, and even a miniature statue.
But Rick's training paid off once again, and Cassie was able to avoid them.
"Cassie, breathe fire at Hsien-Ko!" Rick shouted.
Cassie breathed fire at Hsien-Ko, but Hsien-Ko pulled out a gong and rung it.
Sound waves came out from the gong, and the sound waves deflected the fire back at Cassie.
Cassie was blasted by her own fire, knocked backwards.
"Now finish her off with a bomb!" Richie said.
Hsien-Ko pulled out a bomb and tossed it to the floor.
The bomb had a timer counting down.
"Uh-oh, this could be trouble for either Pokewoman!" the announcer said. "When that bomb explodes, there's going to be trouble."
Hsien-Ko kicked the bomb at Cassie.
Cassie kicked it back at Hsien-Ko.
Soon they were playing "hot potato" of sorts.
Rick got lucky.
The bomb exploded shortly after one of the times Cassie kicked it at Hsien-Ko.
Hsien-Ko, therefore, was caught in the resulting explosion.
When the smoke cleared...Hsien-Ko was unconscious.
"Hsien-Ko is unable to continue the battle!" the referee said, raising the red flag.
"Oh my goodness! This is totally unbelievable!" the announcer shouted. "Somehow Cassie has actually managed to defeat another opponent."
Rick was really mad now. Why couldn't the announcer realize that characters from little kids' shows could be trained to fight just like any other Pokewomen?
Well, if Cassie could defeat Richie's third Pokewoman, that would show that stupid announcer and the audience never to make fun of Cassie again.
As if on cue, one audience member says, "What, has Dragon Land been teaching fight lessons now? I thought you couldn't hit anyone in Dragon Land!"
"Go, Dark Queen!" Richie said, throwing a Poke Ball.
A woman with black hair who looked like a stereotypical "biker chick" appeared.
Rick pointed his Pokedex at her.
The Pokedex said, "Dark Queen. This is a character from a series of Earth video games called Battletoads. She has the ability to turn into a green tornado, is an expert at knee attacks, and can transform into a small flame. She is a villain."
"And Richie has chosen Dark Queen!" The announcer said. "This is an obscure Pokewoman, to say the least, but oh well. She couldn't be any more obscure than Cassie is."
"Shut up!" Rick shouted at him.
Dark Queen leaped at Cassie and slammed a knee into her.
Then she did another knee attack, knocking Cassie into the ground.
"Now transform into the flame!" Richie said.
Dark Queen sunk into the ground, reappearing as a very small flame.
She went under Cassie, burning her.
Cassie flew into the air to escape the flame.
"Now turn into a green tornado!" Richie said.
Dark Queen transformed back into human form.
She then began to spin rapidly.
Faster and faster she spun, until eventually she spun so fast she turned into a tornado.
Granted, it was a human sized tornado. And granted, it didn't have any actual wind.
But it did have a lot of attack power.
As the green tornado, Dark Queen slammed into Cassie, knocking her backwards.
Then the green tornado that was Dark Queen jumped into the air, landing on top of her.
"Ooh, this doesn't look good for Cassie!" the announcer said. "Dark Queen is relentless! She's obviously earned the right to be called a 'villain'. At least to my trained eye."
Rick smirked. The announcer was gonna wish he hadn't mentioned the word 'eye'.
Because now Rick was reminded that every tornado had an 'eye of the storm' where everything was calm.
If Rick could get Cassie to attack the center of the tornado without hitting the sides, he could win.
"Cassie, you need to fly higher! Try flying high enough that Dark Queen can't reach you!" Rick said.
"Ok..." Cassie said uncertainly.
She flew straight up.
And she kept going.
Eventually she flew high enough that she could barely even be seen.
As Rick predicted, the green tornado that Dark Queen had become couldn't jump high enough to reach Cassie.
"Now charge straight down! Head into the 'eye of the storm' and ram into her!" Rick said. "As high as you are, you should be able to fly fast enough to pack a punch!"
Cassie charged downwards, reminding Rick of a meteorite falling to Earth.
Cassie picked up speed, and there was a screeching noise as she dived downward like a falcon, proving again that Rick's pre-League training had paid off.
Eventually Cassie flew smack down the middle of the tornado, and her speed was such that when she crashed into Dark Queen, there was a loud crack.
The tornado stopped, revealing Dark Queen to be standing still, her body in shock from the impact.
Then Dark Queen collapsed, unconscious.
"Dark Queen is unable to continue the battle! The winner of the match is the Red trainer, Rick from Pallet Town!" the referee said, raising the red flag and pointing it to Rick.
The audience cheered, and Cassie looked as happy as Rick had ever seen her.
Rick noticed that her Dragon Badge was glowing.
Rick remembered how, when he had first met Cassie, the Pokedex had said that Cassie's Dragon Badge glowed whenever she was feeling confident.
And Cassie had just beaten three Pokewoman and helped her trainer win the match.
That had to be a confidence booster.
"Great job, Cassie!" Rick said, recalling Cassie.
"Well, folks, I may have been a little...hasty...in my comments," the announcer admitted.
"Hasty?! You said Cassie had no chance of winning!" Rick said angrily, as Richie walked off. Richie didn't storm off, so he seemed to be a better loser than the other opponents Rick had beaten. "You discriminated against Cassie just because she was from a little kids' show! You embarassed her, and you owe her an apology!"
"Ok, ok, I'm sorry. Yeesh," the announcer said.
Five down, two to go, Rick thought...
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.