A New Method Here's my third chapter. This is my favorite chapter out of the few I've made since one of our main charactairs gets very cool powers. Read the chapter and see who it is.

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The gang woke up early in the morning and packed up all their sleeping bags.

"So...Why do we have to wake up so early again?" Rony yawned groggily.

"Because the early bird catches the worm." Ari answered.

"What does that mean?" Rony asked irritabley.

"It means that the earlier you wake up, the more pokemon to catch, and train." Alakazam said.

"Ivy vy" Ivyasaur grunted.

"Ivyasaur agrees." Alakazam translated.

"Great, I'm the only one that's not a deep thinker." Rony said sarcastically.

They set out and continued walking in the forest to Pewter City. It wasn't long until they saw another trainer walking towards them.

"Hey, you guys are up early." The person said. He didn't have an ounce of tiredness on his face.

"So are you." Rony answered back.

"I challenge you to a pokemon battle." The trainer said.

"I'll challenge you." Ari said. "What's your name?"

"It's Phil." Phil answered. "Now let's start." He threw a pokeball and an ekans materialized out of it.

"An ekans, huh." Ari exclaimed. "I'm going to try something new." He threw one of his pokeballs, and his weedle materialized out of it. It looked around, and then at its new trainer.

"A bug won't stop us." Phil said. "Wrapp attack." Ekans slithered forward weedle to wrap around it.

"Weedle, give it a round of poison shots." Ari commanded. Weedled pointed its horn at ekans and continuously fired them at it. Ekans slithered out of the way and dodged them all.

"Let's give him a poison sting." Phil said. Ekans opened its mouth and shot many small points at weedle.

"Weedle, jump high into the air." Ari ordered. Weedle jumped high into the air and dodged all of ekans's attack. Weedle jumped in between ekans and the sun, which blinded it. "Now, use your poison sting." Weedle used his momentum to plummet on ekans, horn first. The his knocked ekans to the ground and fainted it.

"Ekans!" Phil said in disbelief. He returned ekans to its pokeball. "That was good, but try this one on for size." He tossed another pokeball, and a ghastly materialized out of it. "Ghastly, night shade."

"Weedle, jump into the trees." Ari said. Weedle jumped into the tree and dodged ghastly's beam.

"Ghastly, use super sonic in weedle's direction." Phil said. Ghastly pointed in what he guessed was weedle's direction and emmited a pitched scream. The tree bent backwards as if a stong wind was pushing it.

"Weedle, use your sleep horn." Ari said. From a tree behind ghastly, weedle popped out of the tree and fired his horn at ghastly.

"Ghastly, look out!?" Phil said. Ghastly turned around and just bairly dodged the horn. The horn exploded and a thick mist spread out of it. One sniff and ghastly fell asleep. His body started to drift apart since he wasn't awoke to control his body anymore. "Ghastly, return." Phil returned ghastly to his pokeball. "Okay, no more mister nice guy, time to fight tough." He tossed a pokeball, and a flareon materialized out of it.

"Weedle return." Ari said emediatly, returning weedle to his pokeball. He knew bug type had a horrible weakness against fire, so it would be a waste of time to even have weedle fight it. "Alright alakazam, your up."

"Flareon, let's beat it with a flamethrower." Phil said.

"Alakazam, use psychic." Ari said. As the flame flew at alakazam, he turned it around with his mind and had it slam into flareon. The flame hit him, but didn't cause too much damage.

"We'll have to use physical attacks flareon." Phil said. "Use your skull bash." Flareon ran at alakazam with his head down.

"Alakazam, teleport and use psybeam." Ari ordered. Alakazam teleported out of the way of flareon and appeared infront of him. He then brought his hands to one side and charged up. (Just like Goku does from Dragon Ball Z when he does the kha-me-ha-me-ha.)

"Flareon, stop him before fully charges. Use your fire blast." Phil said. Flareon shot out a large flame that turned into a flaming star symbol.

"Alakazam, fire the beam." Ari said. Alakazam fired the blast and it slammed into flareon's fire blast. Since alakazam was a constant beam, whil the fire blast had nothing backing it up, his beam destroyed the fire blast and rammed into flareon.

"Flareon!" Phil said as his pokemon sailed into the air and fell to the ground unconcious. "You did your best." Phil returned flareon to his pokeball. "Now you'll have to fight my strongest pokemon." He threw a pokeball and a wartortle materialized out of it.

"Is that your starting pokemon?" Ari asked.

"Yup, he's my strongest and most powerful pokemon." Phil bragged. "Wartortle, use your hydro pump." Wartorle jumped into the air and withdrew into his shell.

"Alakazam, use your reflect before he fires." Ari said.

Wartortle let loose a stong blast of water from all of the holes in his shell. They each rammed into alakazam's reflected barrier. He was able to last for a few moments until his protection broke, and he was rammed into a tree.

"Alakazam, are you okay?" Ari asked worridly.

"Y-Yes." Alakazam said as he struggled to his feet.

"He can talk!?" Phil said in awe.

"He can do more, too." Ari said. "Alakazam, use your recover." Alakazam used recover, and all of his scars dissapeared from his body, and he stood up straight again.

"Wartortle, we'll have to faint it in one hit." Phil said. "Use your shell shock attack." Wartortle withdrew into its shell again and rammed towards alakazam.

"Alakazam, use teleport again." Phil commanded. Alakazam teleported out of the way of the spinning shell, causing wartortle to ram straight through a tree. Wartortle spun around, withdrew from his shell, and landed on the ground completely unharmed.

"Wow!" Ari said amazed. "Your wartortle rammed straight through a tree, and it isn't even hurt."

"I've trained him very hard." Phil said. "Use shell shock one more time." Wartortle withdrew into his shell and rammed towards alakazam again.

"Use your confusion." Ari commanded. Alakazam pointed his arm foward, and wartortle from in midair. He then thrust his arm down and wartortle plummeted into the ground upside down.

"Wartortle, can you break free?" Phil asked. Wartortles legs stuck out of his shell and shook wildly into the air. "I guess I have no choice." Phil returned wartotle to his pokeball.

"Do you have any other pokemon?" Ari asked.

"Unfortunetly, no" Phil said. "That was a nice battle, I hope we can do it again sometime."

"Oh yeah sure, you bet." Ari said. With that, Phil went his way, and Ari's group went in the other direction.

"That was a great match." Rony commented.

"Thanks." Alakazam said.

"Yes, the system really works well." Ari said. "The pokemon battles, while the trainer tells the pokemon what to do without any distractions around them."

"Easy for you to say." Alakazam said. "You don't have to do the battling."

They continued walking through the forest. At this point they were just about two hours away from the other side of the forest. After about an hour they saw someone else in the forest.

"Who are you?" The man asked. He wore and old fashioned hat, and a large trench coat that covered his entire body.

"We're pokemon trainers." Rony said. "Who are you?"

"You can call me Trent." Trent said. "You could say I'm a recruter for a very....powerful company." Traint said with a not too friendly smile.

"He doesn't seem very nice." Alakazam whispered to Ari.

"Th that pokemon talked?!" Trent said amazed. "I must have a match with him to test his strength, and the strength of his trainer."

Ari didn't like the sound of the last part. "I am his trainer, and you're welcome to have a match with him." Ari said.

"Excellent, let's use three pokemon." Trent said. "We switch only if our pokemon faints, or if you surrender."

"Alright..." Ari said, confused why he would give up. "Alakazam, I'll let you start this one."

"Well then, let's start." Trent said. He tossed a pokeball, and a venusaur came out of it. "Use solar beam on that trainer." Without question, his venusaur started charging up for a solar beam attack.

"WHAAAT!!!?????" Ari screeched. "Why are you having it attack me?"

"Don't you know the new method for fighting psychic type pokemon?" Trent asked inocently. "Check it in your pokedex."

Ari did just that, as quickly as possible before venusaur fired the solar beam. "What is this new method for fighting psychic type pokemon?"

"The new method is to attack the trainer instead." Ari's pokedex said. "It has been said that attacking and defeating the pokemon is nearly impossible because it can use recovery attacks. Although, the trainer has a psychic link with their pokemon. So if the trainer is hurt or surrenders, the pokemon won't be able to heal, or will lose emediatly. The psychic trainer may not attack the enemy pokemon out right, but he may dodge the attacks or send them back to the pokemon. Those are all the recorded details about this subject."

"Alright venusaur, fire the solar beam!" Trent commanded. Venusaur fired the beam.

"What?!" Ari said in a daze. "I forfeit the match, teleport us out of here alakazam!" Alakazam teleported them out of there, and the solar beam hit a tree causing little damage.

Trent and venusaur stood there for a moment. "He couldn't teleport himself?" Trent said disgusted. "He's not worthy for our corporation." Venusaur nodded in agreement.

A mile away, alakazam and the others appeared.

"That was realy embarrasing." Ari said sheepishly

"At least we got out of there alright." Alakazam said.

"Well I can't do that forever." Ari said. "I can't become a pokemon master if I run from every match. Can you teach me some psychic moves so I can defend myself then next time?" He asked alakazam.

"I can try." Alakazam said. "As you can guess, I've never been a teacher before. It might take a lot of time."

"You guys do that." Rony said. "Ivyasaur and I are going to search for more pokemon to catch."

"Alright," Ari said. "Meet back here in no more than two hours."

"Don't worry." Rony said. With that Rony and Ivyasaur left the others to their training.

It wasn't too long until they found a pokemon crawling out of the bushes.

"Hey look, it's a caterpie." Rony said. "I've got to catch it. Ivyasaur, use vine whip." Ivyasaur whacked the insect with two of his vines, and sent it flying into a tree.

Rony was about to throw a pokeball when it got up and sprayed itself with silk. The silk hardened, and the new pokemon seemed completely unharmed.

"Cool, it evolved." Rony commented. "Let's weaken it some more with a razor leaf." Ivyasaur sent out many sharp leaves at metapod, which bounced off of him harmlessly. "That's a strong harden, let's use vine whip again." Ivyasaur rapped metapod in its vines and sent it flying into a tree.

Rony was about to throw a pokeball when he saw metapod start to glow.

"It's evolving again!?" Rony said in disbelief. The metapod floated in the air, and when it stopped glowing, it was a butterfree. "Alright, no more mister nice guy. Use leech seed." Ivyasaur sent out a small seed out of its tree, and tossed it onto butterfree's head. The seed split open and numerous vines wrapped around butterfree. It fell to the ground helplessly.

Rony tossed a pokeball, and this time, nothing wierd happened. Butterfree disappeared into the ball, and shook about five times before stopping.

"Yes! I caught the butterfree!" Rony cheered.

"Ivy ivy" Ivyasaur grumbled.

"Sorry, I mean we caught butterfree." Rony corrected. "Do you think we should head back to see how the others are doing?"

They were about to head back when there was a brief flash, and Ari and alakazam were right infront of them.

"How'd you get there?" Rony asked.

"Easy. I teleported us here." Ari said smuggly.

"How did you learn so fast?" Rony asked.

"He's a fast learner." Alakazam commented.

"Yeah. It's actually easy to do." Ari said. "You just need to know how to do it."

"So right now all you know is how to teleport?" Rony asked.

"Nope." Ari said. "Watch this." Ari closed his eyes, and he started to levitate in the air.

"Wow, that's cool." Rony commented.

"Thanks" Ari said, opening his eyes. "Want to join me?" He pointed a finger at Rony, and he started to float into the air.

"Hey hey hey!" Rony said. "Be carefull."

"Don't worry, it's only telekenisis." Ari said. Ari lowered his hand and Rony slowly lowered to the ground.

"Thanks." Rony said. "So you use it with your hands?"

"Not really." Ari said. "I just use my hands to show others what I'm doing, plus it looks cooler that way."

"Whatever you say." Rony commented sarcastically.

"Now that I can defend myself, let's find that guy from before and show him how powerful we really are." With that, Ari teleported them all near Trent's location. "I want a rematch." He said to Trent.

"Well if it isn't the loser from before." Trent sneered. "Sure I'll defeat you again. In fact, if I lose I'll give you a big cash prize. You'll never beat me, so it doesn't matter anyhow." He threw his pokeball, and venusaur came out again. "Use solar beam on that trainer." Venusaur charged up and fired the large beam at Ari.

Ari stood his ground, and as the solar beam flew towards him, he stuck out his left arm. The beam arched upwards and dissapeared into the sky. "Alakazam, use psybeam." Alakazam charged up and sent a beam of psychic energy at venusaur. The beam was strong enough to faint venusaur on the spot.

"I see you've learned some new trick." Trent said. "But you still won't be able to defeat me." He retearned venusaur to his pokeball and threw another pokeball. A blastoise came out. "Use hydro pump on that trainer." Blastoise's shell guns came out and blasted a large burst of water at Ari.

Ari easily dodged the water by teleporting out of its way. "Alakazam, use psychic." Ari ordered. Alakazam pointed a hand foward, and the water turned direction and rammed into blastoise. It pushed blastoise back a few feet, but caused no damage.

"This method isn't working." Trent said frustarated. "Blastoise, use shell shock on that alakazam." Blastoise withdrew into his shell and lifted off of the ground. He started spinning, and rammed towards alakazam.

"Teleport, and use a psybeam." Ari said. Alakazam teleported out of blastoise's way, and blasted a beam straight into it.

The blast caused a huge dust cloud. When it cleared, blastoise's shell wasn't even scratched.

"Ha! That was pathetic!" Trent laughed. "Blastoise, use another shell shock." Blastoise withdrew again and flew towards alakazam.

[Alakazam, I have a plan.] Ari said telepathically. "Use teleport." He said out loud. Alakazam looked at him with a smile, and teleported away. Blastoise turned around and rammed towards alakazam's new location.

[Great, now teleport on his back.] He said telepathically. Alakazam teleported again, and this time appeared on blastoise's back.

"What the-?" Trent said confused.

"Fire in the hole." Ari said. Alakazam charged a small psybeam in one hand while holding on to blastoise's shell with the other. He then shot the blast straight into the hole that blastoise's head withdrew into.

"Blastoise, no!" Trent yelled. Alakazam teleported away, and blastoise wabbled in the air and fell to the ground. He withdrew from his shell with a blackened head. He was defently unconciuos. "Blast, he never lost before." Trent returned him to his pokeball. "Last pokemon, time to turn up the heat!" Trent threw a pokeball, and a charizard materialized out of it. "Burn that alakazam to a crisp." Charizard blew a large ball of flame at alakazam.

"Reflect it back." Ari said. Alakazam set up slightly orange see through barrier. The flames bounced off of it and flew into charizard. It didn't cause much damage.

"How do I defeat you!" Trent screamed frustarated. "Charizard, fly between that pokemon and the sun." Charizard flew up high until alakazam and Ari couldn't see his anymore.

"Smash it!" Trent said. Charizard plummeted down, and alakazam saw him when it was too late. Charizard crashed into alakazam, and they both crashed into the ground, causing a small crater. Charizard flew out of the hole, and alakazam was at the bottom.

"Alakazam, are you alright?" Ari asked.

"I can still fight." Alakazam said as he got to his feet.

"Then use recover." Ari said. Alakazam used the attack, and all signs of pain washed away.

"No! Why won't you lose?!" Trent said. "Use the same attack again." Charizard once again flew up infront of the sun.

[Be ready alakazam, we know what's going to happen now.] Ari told alakazam telepathically.

Charizard plummeted to the ground again.

"Psychic attack." Ari ordered. Charizard stopped in midair, and was then flung into a tree.

"Argh, I'm not having fun here." Trent grumbled. "Use fire blast." Charizard blew out a large fire ball at alakazam.

"Use psybeam." Ari said. Alakazam blasted a large beam through the fire ball, and hit charizard square in the stomach. charizard slamed through the tree it rammed into and stayed down unconscious.

"I.....lost." Trent said. Not believing what happened.

"You mean you never lost before?" Rony asked.

"Of course not!" Trent yelled. "My pokemon were tech..." Trent stopped in mid sentance. "Well anyway, you will meet one of my asociates soon. Until then, have this." Trent tossed an envelope at Ari, and ran in the other direction.

"What's inside of it?" Rony asked curiously.

Ari looked inside and got a huge smile on his face. "It's a load of money, just like Trent said." Ari took out a load of bills, and stuffed them into his pocket.

"We won't have to worry about money for a while." Alakazam said.

They kept walking farther through the forest. They would finally reach the end of it in about a hour.

Unseen to anyone else, Trent took out a cell phone and called someone on the phone.

"I've found someone masters." Trent spoke into the phone with an evil smile. The persons said something back into the phone. "Yes, the trainer has power, and the pokemon is strong as well. His one pokemon defeated all three of my pokemon. His face turned pale at what the persons said. "No no! He just got lucky, I'm still useful to the team. Anyway, send the best people over, I didn't have enough time to find out if he's interested or not." The persons said something else, and Trent hung up the phone. He walked out on the path with a smug smile on his face.

Ari and the others had just about reached the end of the forest.

"Look, the end of the road." Rony said happily.

"Yeah, I'll-" Ari said when he heard some rustling in a tree.

"HALT!" A voice said from atop a tree.

"Who's there?" Rony asked.

"That's not important." A second voice said. "We're here for that alakazam."

"I don't think so." Ari said.

"Then we'll force you." A third voice said. With that, three beings jumped out of the tree, and landed on the ground, prepared for a fight.

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Well there's my third chapter. Who are those three people? Find out next time on Shadow's Destiny!