Poke-Odyssey 2001 chapter 26
The Final Match and Chapter
Things have gotten really interesting for young Cameron Fusterman. He and his
friends had just arrived in Vinegar Town. Home of the famous Ryooku League HQ
where he just defeated the Supreme 4. The four top Pokemon trainers in Ryooku
who were lead by Zeus, the president and founder of the Ryooku League. When
Cameron and Zeus had their battle, Team Rocket had interrupted their match. But
luckily, Cameron had defeated them. Probably for the last time for Zeus
ordered his Ampharos to seal up the rockets in cotton straitjackets and then
called security while he let Cameron face the Ryooku League champion. Cameron
became shocked when he found out it was AJ, one of Ash's old opponents who is
now the undefeated champion of Ryooku. And now the final chapter.
"You're my final opponent?!" gasped Cameron nervously while the crowd in the
stands cheered like crazy.
"Pretty shocking, huh?" scoffed AJ while twirling a Pokeball around on his
finger. "You may have defeated Team Rocket, but remember, I defeated them
before you did! So it's probably no guess who's gonna win this match. Heh heh
heh!" Cameron was a little too nervous to reply back, but before he could, a
referee got between them.
"Okay boys, here are the rules", said the ref. "This'll be a 6 vs. 6 match with
no time limit. Fusterman, you can switch any Pokemon you feel is weakening or
might be a better opponent. But AJ, being the champion, will not be allowed to
switch his. And the winner will be the one who has defeated all six of their
opponent's Pokemon. Understand?"
"As usual", smiled AJ.
"Yes I do", said Cameron.
"Very good", said the ref. "The match will start in a half-hour. Fusterman,
you can go to that dugout over there where Nurse Joy will restore all your
Pokemon's health."
"Thank you", said Cameron as he pulled his Pokemon back into their balls. Then
called Sandy over as he walked into the dugout while AJ walked over to the
other side.
"Hello Cameron, my name is Nurse Joy", smiled the nurse as Cameron approached
her. "It's such an honor to have a hero competing in the Ryooku League."
"Thank you", said Cameron who just couldn't stop blushing all day from hearing
all this praise.
"Let me take your Pokeballs and I'll make them all fighting fit", smiled Joy.
Cameron handed Sandy and all his Pokeballs to Joy. "I just hope AJ's Pokemon
won't damage them too badly afterwards", said Joy.
"Shrew?!" gasped Sandy not liking those words he just heard.
"Don't worry little Sandshrew", smiled Joy as she pushed Sandy's nose with her
finger. "Because if that happens, I would love to nurse a cutie like you back
to health again."
"Shrew!" sighed Sandy as he smiled and snuggled into Joy's bosom as she took
him to a back room. Cameron wondered if Sandy liked being in Joy's arms a
little too much.
"Getting the jitters champ?" called out a familiar voice.
"Ash?" gasped Cameron as he turned around and saw Ash and Pikachu in the dugout
with him. "I thought no one else was allowed to go in with me."
"You had to face the Supreme 4 alone", said Ash. "But they said that only
coaches are allowed to be in the dugout with their trainers. Congratulations
on getting this far."
"Pika pi!" said Pikachu congratulating him.
"Thanks guys", said Cameron nervously. "I just noticed that all my friends and
family are in the stands too."
"Yeah, I met them before I went in", said Ash. "They wanted me to tell you that
they're all so very proud of you and they'll believe that you'll win this whole
thing."
"But did you see who my opponent was?!" asked Cameron nervously. "I have this
feeling that AJ's gonna mop the floor with me and stuff poor Sandy in his mop
bucket."
"Just don't think about it", said Ash. "I'm sure you'll do fine against AJ."
"I remember you thought the same thing when you battled him", said Cameron.
"And you ended up losing. No offense guys."
"Chu Pika", said Pikachu which meant, "None taken."
"I think the reason I lost to AJ was because I let my head get too big", said
Ash humbly. "The way I kept bragging about my wins and my badges, I didn't
really concentrate too much on the actual battle and that became my downfall."
"More like nosefall", thought Cameron giggling as he remembered the episode
where Ash started to grow a long nose from all that untruthful boasting and
when AJ defeated Ash, his long nose broke off like a twig. That episode always
made Cameron laugh a little.
"What's so funny?" asked Ash.
"Oh, nothing", said Cameron getting his worried face back. "I'm just trying to
laugh during my upcoming challenge."
"Well, I can certainly tell that you're not going through a huge ego-trip like
I did", said Ash. "Just concentrate on the game, figure out which of your
Pokemon will be good against AJ's, and believe in the power of your Pokemon."
"Thanks coach", smiled Cameron feeling not so nervous as before. Just then,
the announcer started talking.
"Fans, we have a surprise treat for all of you!" said the announcer. "We just
received news from our beloved founder Zeus, that Cameron Fusterman has
defeated Team Rocket for the second time about a few minutes ago!" The crowd
cheered as they heard this news. Seymour and Jenny hugged each other for they
were happy that Cameron had defeated their enemies and that they wouldn't be
harming their boy for a while.
"And as a half-time treat, our local Jennies are wheeling in the imprisoned
Rockets so you can witness young Fusterman's latest victory." Two Officer
Jennies started wheeling in a huge cage where Jessie, James, and Meowth were
locked up in with James feeling blue, Jessie burning with red, and Meowth was
feeling both black and blue. The crowd cheered and laughed as they saw the
infamous Rockets they heard so much about locked up like savage Pokemon. Some
of them even started throwing food at the Rockets.
"AUGGH!" cried James as he got hit with an ice cream cone. "An ice cream
headache in the worst way!"
"Meowth's hate water!" whined Meowth as he got hit with a cup of soda.
"But that's soda, not water", said James as he got hit with half a hot dog.
"Who cares! It's wet ain't it?!" whined Meowth as a sticky candy apple hit his
fur.
"This is all your faults you two simpletons!" growled Jessie as she got chewed
bubble gum in her hair.
"How is this our faults?" protested James as a popcorn bucket landed on his
head.
"It's just is!" growled Jessie. "So let's just leave it at that!" Then a box of
Japanese noodles landed on her head. "WHO THREW THAT?!" growled Jessie as she
looked around the stands filled with thousands of people while a certain ninja
girl was smiling innocently while twiddling her chopsticks.
"How's that for a confidence booster champ?" smiled Ash as he patted Cameron's
shoulder.
"I think that did it!" smiled Cameron watching their enemies getting their just
desserts for Gary had just ordered a bunch of cream pies to throw at the
Rockets.
In the other dugout, AJ was watching this interesting half-time show while
lifting two dumbbells. "Maybe I shouldn't underestimate this kid after all",
he thought.
* * * * * *
Soon, it was time for the match to begin. The cage that held Team Rocket was
carted off to the side and Cameron and AJ were both standing on huge stands
looking down at the green and white lined battle field below. "Let the match
begin!" said the ref as he blew his whistle.
"With pleasure!" laughed AJ. "Well kid, let's see how good your Pokemon are
against my flying warrior! Go Noctowl!" and he released a huge owl with big
eyes and even bigger eyebrows.
"It looks like AJ's sticking with his usual strategy and has chosen Noctowl as
his first battler", said the announcer as a picture of the owl appeared on a
huge board under the name AJ.
"Noctowl?" asked Cameron as he aimed his Dex at the owl.
"NOCTOWL: the evolved form of Hoot-Hoot", replied Dextra. "Noctowl's huge
eyes are specially adapted. They concentrate even faint light and enable it to
see in the dark."
"You'd better knock that brat out if you know what's good for you you overgrown
featherduster!" shouted Jessie trying to bring Cameron down so he'd lose. But
Jessie got hit with another box of noodles while a certain ninja smiled
innocently again.
"Since Noctowl's a flying-type, I'll start with you Buzz", said Cameron as he
released his Electabuzz onto the field. "BUZZ, EL BUZZ!" said Buzz while saluting
his master.
"And it looks like Fusterman has chosen an Electabuzz for his first fighter",
said the announcer as a picture of an Electabuzz appeared on the right side of
the same board under the name Fusterman.
"Elekid's become an Electabuzz again?" gasped Ash. "I haven't really noticed
that when they entered the field."
"Pika, Pi!" said Pikachu who was glad that Buzz was grown up again, but sad
that the cute little Elekid he befriended was no more.
"Okay Buzz, start off with your thunderpunch!" said Cameron. Buzz nodded and
started creating a sparking fist.
"Noctowl! Create a reflect shield!" commanded AJ. Noctowl complied by
creating a glowing reflect dome around itself protecting it from the
thunderpunch attack. Buzz kept punching away at the dome, but with no success.
"Okay Noctowl", said AJ. "Make it even more tired with a hypnosis attack."
"HOOO!" said Noctowl as its eyes glowed causing Buzz to stop punching and yawn.
"BUZZ, YOU'VE GOTTA STAY AWAKE!" cried Cameron as he watched his Electabuzz
about to drop down on the ground.
"But your Buzz looks so tired", cackled AJ. "Why don't I have Noctowl tuck it
in? Noctowl, use a fly attack!" "HOOOO!" hooted Noctowl as it floated up high
in the air and started to swoop down at full speed getting closer and closer to
the sleepy Buzz.
"Quick Buzz, return!" cried Cameron as he quickly sucked Buzz back into his
ball and put Slowking onto the field. Noctowl flew down and bounced off
Slowie's tough Shellder crown back into AJ's stand.
"Is it raining today?" asked Slowie as he rubbed his crown wondering what hit
him as a picture of a Slowking appeared under the picture of the Electabuzz.
Noctowl got back on its feet and rubbed its sore head with its wing. "You know
what to do Noctowl?!" said AJ. "Give it another hypnosis attack."
"Slowie, push your crown down!" cried Cameron. "Okay Mamma", complied Slowie
as he pushed his crown over his eyes so Noctowl's hypno-beams couldn't harm him.
"He's got his eyes closed!" snickered AJ. "That's the advantage we need. Give
'em your psychic attack! "HOOO!" concentrated Noctowl as it released a psychic
blast at Slowie. Since Slowie had his eyes covered, all that the psychic
attack did was make him see pretty retro-colored blobs in the darkness.
"That's pretty!" said Slowie. "I give some to you too!" And Slowie released his
psychic blast at Noctowl. Since Noctowl didn't have his eyes covered and they
were extremely huge, the psychic attack did a lot of damage to poor Noctowl
causing it to get knocked out. The picture of the Noctowl faded out showing
that AJ's first Pokemon had been defeated.
"Hey, you did it Slowie!" called out Cameron. "You defeated AJ's first Pokemon!"
"I did?" asked Slowie with his eyes still covered. "I wish I could've seen it."
"You just gotten lucky punk!" scoffed AJ as he pulled Noctowl back and took out
another Pokeball. "But let's see if you can handle the cold steel and hot
lightning of Magneton!" and he released what looked like three Magnemites
bolted together.
"There's a Pokemon I remember dealing with on my Gameboy", said Cameron as he
pointed his Dex at the cluster of magnets.
"MAGNETON: the evolved form of Magnemite", replied Dextra. "Three Magnemites
are linked together by a strong magnetic force. Ear aches will occur if you
get too close."
"Sorry Slowie, but I don't want a water-type like you dealing with electrical
appliances", said Cameron as he pulled the still eye-covered Slowking back into
his ball. "Sandy, you want to handle this?"
"Shrew!" said Sandy as he eagerly jumped off the stand and ran out into the
field ready to take on Magneton.
"So the little hose stopper wants to get in the game", laughed AJ remembering
what that little Shrew did to him today. "Magneton! Zap cannon now!" commanded
AJ. Magneton suddenly used the same strategy Zeus's Ampharos used. It kept
blasting zap cannons onto the field causing Sandy to get knocked back by
powerful blasts.
"Quick Sandy!" cried Cameron. "Do what you did today and dig to escape those
zap cannons!"
"SHREW!" nodded Sandy as he started digging for his dear life.
"You can dig but you can't hide", laughed AJ. "Magneton, lock on and release a
sonicboom!" Magneton complied and locked on to Sandy's tail just as he escaped
into the ground. Then Magneton released a booming tornado into the hole Sandy
had just dug.
"OH NO!" cried Cameron realizing that digging away from a battle may not always
work.
As Sandy kept digging, he heard some booming noises coming right behind him.
"Shrew?" he asked as he turned around and saw the sonicboom chasing after him.
He started clawing up to the surface as the sonicboom tracked him down thanks
to Magneton's lock on. Then Sandy burst out of the ground right behind
Magneton. "Mag?" asked Magneton as Sandy jumped on top of it and stuffed it
into the hole he just dug plugging it up.
"Magneton! Get out of that hole now!" cried AJ. But it was too late. The
sonicboom hit Magneton blasting it out of the hole causing some of its bolts to
pop out and collapse onto the field into a pile of scrap metal. Then the
picture of Magneton on the board faded out as well.
"Great work Sandy", said a relieved Cameron.
"Shrew!" said Sandy as he gave his master a dirt covered claws up.
"I'm glad my Magnemite isn't here to see that", said Prof. Oak.
"Don't worry Magneton", said AJ as he pulled all the parts back into its ball.
"A trip to Radio Shack should get you fully buffed and recharged soon." Then AJ
took out his third Pokeball. "Let's see if my Jumpluff will make you jump!" And
he released a blue round bush with three branches each with a huge cottonball
on them. "JUMP!" it squeaked.
"Think of all the underwear I could knit Ash with all that cotton", said Mrs.
Ketchum as Cameron activated his Dex again.
"JUMPLUFF: the cottonweed Pokemon. The evolved form of Skiploom", replied
Dextra. "Jumpluff drifts on seasonal winds and spreads its cotton-like spores
all over the world to make more offspring."
"Okay Sandy, get back here!" said Cameron not wanting Sandy to battle this new
grass-type. Sandy quickly galloped back up onto the stand as Cameron released
his Crobat.
"Okay Jumpluff", said AJ. "Pound that bat with your pay day attack!"
"JUMP!" said Jumpluff as it started waving its branches around and gold coins
started flying out of its cottonballs like huge wooly purses. "BAT!" cried
Batty as she felt the currency of the coins hit her hard.
"I guess money doesn't grow on trees after all", said Brock. "Just on Jumpluffs."
"After I win this match, feel free to help yourselves to all this money!"
called out AJ as the crowd cheered while poor Batty kept getting hit with coins.
"How sadistic can this guy be?" growled Jessie as she tried to reach for those
coins but couldn't for she was still locked up along with her other two
teammates.
"Meowth", growled James. "If that dumb weed can learn pay day, why can't you?!"
"Because I'm no branch executive?" said Meowth. Jessie and James just whacked
him for that bad pun.
"Batty!" called out Cameron. "Avoid those pennies from heck with a fly attack!"
Batty complied by soaring high up in the air and swooping down at Jumpluff
dodging all the incoming coins and cutting off all three of its cotton branches.
"Pluff?" cried Jumpluff as it looked at its pruned appendages.
"It looks like that bush has gone bankrupt", said Stella.
"Just use you synthesis power Jumpluff", called out AJ. Jumpluff smiled and
concentrated. Suddenly three new cottonballs popped right out of Jumpluff's
branches as if they were never cut off. "Now give it your cotton spore!"
commanded AJ as Jumpluff sprayed some spores on Batty causing her to get
trapped in a cotton ball then plop down onto the field.
"Oh no!" thought Cameron as he saw Batty trying her best to squirm free from
her cotton prison.
"Now release a solarbeam Jumpluff!" commanded AJ. Jumpluff started
concentrating while absorbing lots of sunlight through its body.
"Quick Batty, use your hyper beam!" cried Cameron. Batty stopped struggling
and started to charge herself up as well. Soon, both Pokemon had released
their beams. But hyper beams were a lot more powerful than solarbeams and the
hyper beam Batty released blasted her free from the cotton ball, cut through
the solarbeam, and hit Jumpluff right in the face. "JUUUUMP!" cried Jumpluff
as it fainted and Jumpluff's picture faded from the screen.
"So you've defeated 3 of my Pokemon so far", said AJ. "Not impressed. Those
were just my rookies. Now I get to break out my champion fighters! Now it's
time for your Pokemon to start fading off the board! Go Magcargo!" and AJ
released a huge snail made of bubbly lava with a black cracked stone for a
shell. "MAAGG!" said the snail in a monstrous voice as Cameron activated his
Dex.
"MAGCARGO: the evolved form of Slugma", replied Dextra. "The shell on
Magcargo's back is just skin that has cooled and hardened. It breaks easily
with a slight touch."
"Okay Batty", said Cameron. "Confuse that snail with a confuse ray! Batty? Uh,
Batty?" But Batty just sat there on the field unmoving for she was still
recharging from that hyper beam attack.
"Now's your chance Magcargo", said AJ, "Flamethrower attack!" Magcargo blasted
some fire at Batty causing her to faint. Then the picture of Crobat faded out.
"Poor Batty!" cried Cameron as he pulled the defeated Crobat back into her ball
as the announcer shouted. "Fusterman's first Pokemon has been defeated!"
"GRRRRR!" growled Reiko just wanting to dump a whole mound of salt on that
snail along with that announcer for making that announcement.
"You did your best Batty", said Cameron. "But I think Slowie would do better
against this fire-type." And he released his Slowking back onto the field.
"Slow?" asked Slowie who still had his crown over his eyes. Then lifted it back
up and was looking at the boiling face of Magcargo.
"Magcargo, call on your sunny day power!" called out AJ. Magcargo concentrated
and the sun suddenly started shining really bright. Everyone in the stands
took out their sunglasses while Cameron had his cap to protect his eyes. Even
Sandy took out a pair of cute little sunglasses. Slowie quickly recovered his
eyes with his crown while Magcargo looked like it was getting hotter.
"Quick Slowie, douse that Magcargo with your surf attack!" cried Cameron.
"SLOW!" said Slowie as he released a wave right at Magcargo, but all that water
just turned into clouds of steam the minute it touched Magcargo's red boiling
skin.
"What just happened?!" gasped Cameron surprised that the surf attack didn't
work. "Slow?" said Slowie as he lifted his crown and was surprised as well.
"Thank the power of sunny day", scoffed AJ. "Magcargo now has the power of the
very sun. Show 'em with a fire blast Maggy-Baby!" "CAAAAR!" growled Magcargo
as it released a huge clump of fire right at poor Slowie charring him just like
how Batty got charred. Then Slowie's picture faded from the board for Cameron's
second Pokemon had been defeated.
"Not again!" cried Cameron as he pulled the singed Slowking back into his ball.
"I'm starting to like this AJ human", said Meowth as he and Team Rocket watched
delightfully at AJ making a fool of Cameron and his Pokemon.
"Do you want to give it a go Sandy?" asked Cameron. "Ground attacks are also
strong against fire."
"Shrew!" said Sandy with rage in his eyes as he ran back out onto the field
wanting to get revenge for Batty and Slowie.
"Give 'em another fire blast Magcargo!" called out AJ.
"Send out a sandstorm Sandy!" called out Cameron. "SHREW!" cried Sandy as he
blasted a huge sandstorm at Magcargo before it could launch its fire blast.
"It's just like when he beat my Arcanine", thought Gary remembering that time
he and Cameron were battling in the Indigo League. Soon the storm cleared and
everyone became surprised when they saw Magcargo. Its body was completely
covered with sand with no trace of red lava anywhere. "MAG!" moaned the snail
who was unable to launch any fire attacks.
"Sandy would make a great member of the Pallet firefighting squad", thought
Jenny.
"You may not have any firepower left, but you still have some other features
Magcargo", called out AJ. "Use your rollout attack!"
"MAAAGG!" growled Magcargo as it started rolling like a huge bowling ball at
Sandy. "Shrew!" cried Sandy as he jumped into the air and landed on the rolling
rock like a clown in the circus.
"Magcargo can keep rolling for hours!" laughed AJ. "Your Sandshrew will be too
pooped to fight by the time Magcargo stops!"
"I gotta think of something!" said Cameron as he saw Sandy still trying to keep
his balance on the rolling snail. Then he remembered what Dextra said about
Magcargo's shell being brittle and saw bits of ash falling off of Magcargo.
"I'm not on Magcargo Mr. Narrator", said Ash. "Sandy is. And what do you mean
by bits of me falling off?!"
"ARRRGH!" said me falling backwards.
"Okay Sandy!" said Cameron who now had an idea. "Try using a rock smash attack!"
"SHREW!" said Sandy as he made a fist with his foot and kicked right through
the rolling shell, causing Magcargo to stop and crumble into bits of ash, rock,
and sand.
"Magcargo! Are you all right?!" cried AJ. "CAAAR!" moaned Magcargo as its sand
covered head closed both its eyes and fainted while the picture of Magcargo
faded.
"No one's ever defeated my Magcargo!" gasped AJ as he pulled the damaged snail
back into its Pokeball. "Maybe I shouldn't estimate you after all Mr. Fusterman.
No matter, because nothing can defeat my master of water, Azumarill!" and he
released a huge blue rabbit with a long tail with a blue ball at the end. "AZU!"
it said in a squeaky voice while Cameron activated his Dex.
"AZUMARILL: the aquarabbit Pokemon. The evolved form of Marill", replied
Dextra. "When Azumarill plays in the water, it rolls up its elongated ears to
prevent their insides form getting wet."
"Tracey?" asked Misty with stars in her eyes. "Does this mean your Marill could
evolve into an Azumarill someday?"
"I suppose it could", said Tracey as he released his Marill. "Marill", he asked.
"How would you like to see your evolved form in battle?"
"Marill!" squealed Marill with delight as she jumped into Tracey's lap and
started clapping her hands.
"Shouldn't she be cheering for Came-chan's team instead of Azumarill?" asked
Reiko sternly.
"Okay Azumarill, start off with a rain dance", commanded AJ. "ZU!" said
Azumarill as she started doing a funky dance while dark clouds formed in the
sky. Everyone removed their sunglasses and took out their umbrellas for they
were all familiar with Azumarill's rain dance attack. Suddenly, it started to
drizzle and Sandy could feel little droplets on his sandy skin.
"SHREW!" cried Sandy as he ran back up the stand and got under Cameron's legs.
"Here Sandy", said Cameron as he took off his hat and placed it over Sandy just
as the rain got heavier. "You'll be safe under here."
"It looks like you're too busy babying your Pokemon to continue battling!"
laughed AJ as he stood there as the rain poured down on him. "Why don't you
just go home before you catch a cold?! You're not wearing your pink galoshes.
HA HA HA!"
Cameron became enraged and released his Vileplume onto the wet field. When
Reiko saw this, she released her Bellossom so she could watch her boyfriend in
action. "BELL!" called out Bellossom as she blew as kiss to VP. "VILE?" smiled
VP for he couldn't see well in the rain, but he could hear his love's cute voice.
"Okay VP!" called out Cameron. "Why don't you remove all this rain with a giga
drain?!" VP nodded and started sucking the entire rainstorm dry. Soon the
bright sun came out and everyone put down their umbrellas so they could see the
Vileplume and Azumarill getting ready to battle face to face.
"MARILL!" Marill cheered for Azumarill. "BELL!" Bellossom cheered for VP.
Then Marill and Bellossom looked at each other mean-eyed while their masters
tried to hold them back.
"Okay VP, use your sleep powder!" commanded Cameron.
"Azumarill, use your icy wind!" commanded AJ. Just as VP had released his
sleep powder, Azumarill blew a cold blue wind pushing the powder back at VP.
Suddenly icicles formed on VP's petals and it started shivering while yawning.
Then he fell right to sleep as the effects of the icy wind defeated him causing
the picture of the Vileplume to fade out.
"Oh no!" cried Cameron as he sucked his poor sleepy frozen flower back into his
ball while Bellossom felt sorry for her love while Marill cheered for
Azumarill's victory.
"It looks like I knocked out half your team!" laughed AJ. "Now you got three
more which will become zeroes when my team finishes with them!"
"Oh yeah!" grumbled Cameron. "We'll see. Buzz, I choose you again!" And he
released his Electabuzz back onto the field who was now wide awake from that
hypnosis attack. "Buzz, use your thunderpunch!" commanded Cameron.
"BUZZ, EL BUZZ!" shouted Buzz as he made his sparking fist and was about to
punch Azumarill until AJ called out. "Azumarill, use attract!"
"ZU!" smiled Azumarill as it winked its eye and sent a whole flock of hearts at
Buzz. Buzz suddenly put down his fist and started smiling goofily at the
beautiful blue bunny. "Buzz!" he said in a cool easy-going voice.
"Buzz, what are you doing?!" cried Cameron as Buzz started lying on the field
with huge hearts in his eyes.
"Your Electabuzz must be a male", laughed AJ, "Because once my female Azumarill
launches her attract attack, no man will dare hurt her. But she can still hurt
them. Azumarill, use your surf attack!"
"ZUUUU!" shouted Azumarill as she released a huge wave catching Buzz in its
watery grip causing him to drown while spitting out little heart-shaped bubbles.
Once the wave faded, Buzz's picture on the board faded as well.
"Poor Buzz!" said Cameron as he pulled his lovesick and lovestruck soldier back
into his ball. "It looks like I'll have to call out the big gal!" said Cameron
as he took out his Level Ball. "Go Scaleon!" and he released the huge dragon
while the crowd looked amazed at this rare legendary beast.
"Ladies and gentlemen!" called out the announcer. "Fusterman has just released
the rare, never-before seen in this era Pokemon, Scaleon. This is totally
amazing! And since we don't have an actual photo of a Scaleon for our board, a
drawing will be provided by Zeus's eight-year-old daugther, Maggie." And on the
board appeared a crayon drawing of Scaleon. "SCALE?" smiled Scaleon impressed
with the drawing and how the artist stayed in the lines.
"You may be legendary", shouted AJ. "But my Azumarill will make you extinct
again! Attract attack again!" Azumarill released her magic hearts again, but
they didn't affect Scaleon one bit. "What the...?" gasped AJ while Azumarill
gasped too.
"My Scaleon's a female too!" smiled Cameron. "So your female rabbit's attract
power doesn't seem so attractive. Scaleon, blow that bunny some kisses with
your dragonbreath!" "SCALE!" shouted Scaleon as she blew some blue flames at
Azumarill.
"Quick Azumarill, use icy wind again!" cried AJ. But Azumarill couldn't for
she was too paralyzed to even blow out a cold breath of air. Then she fainted
and the picture on the board faded while Tracey's Marill hung her head down in
disappointment while Reiko's Bellossom cheered.
"This is almost a miracle!" said the announcer as the crowd went wild. "Five of
our champion's Pokemon have been defeated. This has never happened before!
Now AJ has only one Pokemon left to use, and you all know who that'll be?"
"SANDSLASH!" shouted the crowd.
"You got that right!" smiled AJ as he called back Azumarill and released that
familiar feisty Sandslash onto the field. "SLASH!" shouted Sandslash as it
started swinging its huge front claws around getting ready to make some
Poke-pasta!"
"Scaleon", said Cameron. "I don't want you to underestimate this Sandslash, it
can be a really tough opponent. So let's try your most powerful dragonrage
attack!" "SCALE!" said Scaleon as she created a typhoon around Sandslash, but
the prickly mouse just stuck its claws into the ground causing it not to budge
even though the typhoon seemed really powerful.
"Neither rain, wind, nor dragonrage attacks can prevent my Sandslash from
leaving a battle", laughed AJ as the typhoon ceased. "Go ahead and call out
another attack, we dare you!"
"Uh, okay Scaleon", said Cameron hoping this would work. "Release your
waterfall attack!" Scaleon got under the unbudging Sandslash and doused it with
a huge waterfall attack. But all that water didn't drench Sandslash one bit.
It just shook the water all off while Scaleon backed away surprised.
"I told you my Sandslash is strong against water attacks!" laughed AJ. "Even
powerful ones like waterfall. It's now time to attack Sandslash. Use fissure!"
"SLASH!" shouted Sandslash as it slammed a claw into the ground causing a
powerful bolt to race through the ground heading right for Scaleon.
"Scaleon, get out of the way!" cried Cameron. But Scaleon was so big that she
couldn't escape the fissure attack. The ground exploded and Scaleon was
launched up into the air and landed onto the field unconscious. And the
drawing of the Scaleon faded out while Cameron's jaw fell open.
"No wonder why AJ's always the champion!" said the announcer. "The way he
trained that Sandslash to defeat the all powerful Scaleon is just breathtaking!
Now both he and Fusterman each got only one Pokemon left to use. Who will win?"
"It's up to you Sandy", said Cameron. "You're all that I have left. Are you
sure you want to take on Sandslash? It looks like a powerful sandcastle of
artillery."
"Sandshrew!" said Sandy as he saluted his master and ran out into the field.
Both of the mice bowed to each other in respect.
"Go get that little pipsqueak Sandslash!" shouted James.
"Yeah!" shouted Meowth, "Make him pay for putting out my eye. Slash out both
his eyes!"
"You'd better win or I'll turn you into Sand-slush!" growled Jessie.
"If a huge Scaleon couldn't defeat my Sandslash, what makes you think a puny
unevolved Sandshrew would do any better?!" laughed AJ.
"Don't you underestimate my Sandy!" called out Cameron. "I'll show you what he
can do with his most powerful attack. Sandy, use your sandstorm!" "SHREW!"
shouted Sandy as he blasted a huge storm of sand and rocks at Sandslash while
the crowd took out their visors. But the storm suddenly cleared for Sandslash
had somehow absorbed the entire sandstorm and was looking stronger than ever.
"What the...?" gasped Cameron.
"You should've known that sandstorm attack can't hurt ground Pokemon!" laughed
AJ. "It just made Sandslash even stronger and given it even more ammo!
Sandslash, use your rock slide!" "SLASH!" shouted Sandslash as it sent a huge
pile of sandy boulders at Sandy.
"Quick Sandy, use your rock smash!" cried Cameron. "Shrew!" shouted Sandy as he
punched all the incoming rocks into sand getting closer and closer to his
opponent.
"Sandslash, back it off with your slash attack!" shouted AJ. "SLASH!" shouted
the mighty slasher as it started waving its claws around backing away Sandy.
"SHREW!" cried Sandy for Sandslash had actually left a small scar on his right
cheek.
"Sandy, are you okay?" called out a worried Cameron.
"Shrew!" said Sandy in a tough voice as he rubbed his sore cheek until it
stopped bleeding.
"If only it could've reached his eye!" moaned Meowth.
"Okay Sandslash, it looks like you've got it beaten!" said AJ. "Finish it off
with your poison sting!" Sandslash turned around and started firing poison
needles from its quills right at the poor Sandshrew.
"If one of those poison darts hits Sandy's wound, he's done for!" cried Cameron.
"Quick Sandy! Escape by digging!"
"SHREW!" shouted Sandy as he started digging for his dear life just as the
needles missed him.
"Okay Sandslash", said AJ. "I believe this crowd wants to go home sometime soon.
Let's end this match with another fissure attack!"
"OH NO!" cried Cameron for he knew that a fissure attack while a Pokemon was
underground meant serious damage and defeat. "SLAAAAASSSH!" shouted Sandslash
as it slammed its claw into the ground and the center of the field exploded.
"SHREEEEWWWW!" cried Sandy as he got blasted out of the ground and up into the
sky. Cameron and the crowd raised their heads up as they saw the poor little
Sandshrew go higher and higher. Sandy looked up and found he was about to hit
a blimp. He quickly curled himself up and bounced off the blimp's bottom like
a rubber ball. Then the Sandy ball bounced back down on the field, then started
bouncing off everything from both Cameron's and AJ's stands, to a man's bald
head, to a woman's huge stomach, to a guy's huge white smile.
Cameron suddenly realized that this was all familiar. Sandy did the bouncing
ball thing before when he was battling that big stone Meowth. Then he smiled
and shouted. "Sandy, remember that attack you used to defeat Meowth?!"
"SHREW!" smiled Sandy as he waited until he got in the Sandslash's direction.
"Oh no! Not my other eye!" cried Meowth as he covered his good eye thinking
that Sandy was gonna repeat that attack on him.
When Sandy saw he was about to bounce off of Sandslash, he uncurled himself and
made a fist. "Slash?" gasped Sandslash nervously.
"Uh oh!" whispered AJ for he never really trained his Sandslash to be ready for
this kind of attack. Then it was over. Sandy had punched Sandslash in the gut
causing both of them to get knocked back. Sandy landed safely in Cameron's
arms knocking him down while most of Sandslash's quills popped off from that
powerful blow. Then a shocked AJ watched as his so-called undefeated Sandslash
collapsed to the ground unconscious. Then the picture of the Sandslash faded.
The crowd sat there silently, but then started cheering wildly at this amazing
triumph. "He's done it!" shouted the announcer in a hyper voice. "For the first
time ever, our reigning champion AJ has been defeated! And by the famous hero
Cameron Fusterman too! This is history in the making!" And the pictures of AJ's
Pokemon on the board disappeared and Cameron's Pokemon pictures aligned
themselves in a horizontal line while a picture of Cameron making a goofy smile
appeared right above them.
"We did it Sandy!" shouted Cameron in his happiest voice ever. "We won the
Ryooku League!"
"Shrew!" said Sandy in an exhausted voice as he rested happily in his favorite
human's arms.
"WAY TO GO FELLOW CHAMP!" shouted Ash from the dugout.
"YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY CAM!", squealed Misty.
"THAT'S OUR FRIEND CAMERON!" shouted Brock and Stella together.
"OUR BABY!!" cried Seymour and Jenny as they hugged each other with joy.
"MY BABY'S FRIEND!" cried Mrs. Ketchum happily.
"GOOD SHOW CAMERON!" shouted Bill.
"NOT BAD!" said Gary with a straight face.
"YOU DESERVE IT SON!" shouted Prof. Oak.
"THIS ONE'S FOR YOU!" shouted Tracey as he held up a sketch portrait of Cameron
and Sandy in their victory spotlight.
"I LOVE YOU MY CAME-CAN!" shouted Reiko with huge hearts in her eyes.
"WE HATE YOU FUSTERMAN!" shouted all three Rockets from their cage. But they
were soon silent as the two Jennies clubbed them and started dragging the cage
away off to the local jail.
AJ just stood there in shock staring at the happy winners, then looked down at
his defeated Sandslash, which looked very strange to him. "Someone has actually
beat me!" whispered AJ. "And it really doesn't feel so bad." He smiled and
pulled Sandslash back into its ball and patted it. "You did your best my old
friend", smiled AJ.
* * * * * *
That evening, there was a big victory party held at the Vinegar Town hotel
lobby. Everyone there was having a great time. Ash and Misty were sitting on
a lobby couch still in love more than ever. Brock and Stella were also sitting
on another couch also looking at each other lovingly. Brock didn't even turn
around to look at the pretty showgirls that walked past him. Mrs. Ketchum,
Seymour and Pallet Jenny were discussing how proud they were to have sons who
were both league champions. Prof. Oak was looking through Tracey's sketchbook
and became so impressed that he offered a delighted Tracey a job as his
assistant. Bill was enjoying a snack of tea and the famous stickybuns that
were imported from Honeydew. Gary was at a buffet table eating a dish called
humble pie which he had seemed to be eating a lot these past years.
All the Pokemon were let out of their Pokeballs so they could enjoy their own
party outside in the hotel garden. It was kind of hard to get food from the
buffet table since Ash's Snorlax kept eating everything he saw, but luckily
Charizard backed him away with his fire. VP poured himself and Bellossom a
couple of glasses of vintage plant food then they toasted to their blossoming
love. All the water Pokemon were swimming happily in the hotel's pool, except
for Golduck who was doing a crazy dog, I mean, duck paddle. "PSY-YAI-YAI-YAI!"
he cried as Slowie grabbed him and swam him to the shallow end. "Pika, pi!"
laughed Pikachu as he was sitting on a small raft with sunglasses and a fruit
drink in his hand.
Sandy, with a band-aid on his cheek, wasn't with the Pokemon. He was standing
right between Cameron and Reiko looking at a proud sight. It was a photo of
Cameron holding Sandy with VP, Batty, Slowie, Buzz, and Scaleon standing all
around him. And above the photo was a huge slab of cement with Cameron's hand
print on it, along with the hand, claw, wing, and petal prints of his other
Pokemon. "Just look at that Sandy", smiled Cameron. "You and your friends
earned those markings on that stone."
"Shrew!" said Sandy with pride.
"And you earned yours too Came-chan", smiled Reiko. "Like the Pidgeot that
trains her babies to fly, you've trained and cared for you Pokemon as well.
And Sandy's obedience and kindness is the proof of that."
"Shrew!" smiled Sandy as he hugged Cameron's leg while Cameron smiled at both
his champion Pokemon and true love. Reiko was happy too for protecting Cameron
every step of the way on his journey, Officer Jenny had convinced the local
judge to give her a full pardon. She was now a free girl. Free from ugly steel
bars, free from tacky prison uniforms, free from toilets next to your bed, which
might sound pretty nice if you think about it, and best of all, free from pesky
Growlithes that like ruining romantic moments.
"Hey Fusterman!" called out a voice. Cameron turned around and saw AJ
approaching him. Cameron wondered what he was going to say or do to him since
he beat him. AJ just smiled and shook Cameron's hand. "You certainly gave me
the biggest surprise of my life rookie!" laughed AJ. "Someone actually beat me
and my Sandslash."
"I'm sorry about what happened to your Sandslash", said Cameron. "Will it be all
right?"
"Oh sure", laughed AJ. "Sandslash just needs a few days in the Pokemon center
and it'll be up and slashing again soon. I tell you, it's gonna be funny
having my 929th trophy case empty, but I guess new experiences can be
interesting."
"Say, I haven't seen you get a trophy yet Came-chan", said Reiko.
"You're right Moonray", said Cameron. "After all the excitement, I haven't even
noticed that."
"Look no further my friend", smiled AJ as he stepped back to make way for the
Supreme 4 who were approaching Cameron.
"AAHHHUMMM!" said Zeus clearing his throat. "Cameron Fusterman from Pallet
Town, for your great deeds of determination, courage, ingenuity, and love for
your Pokemon. You have earned the victory and the utmost respect from all the
members of the Ryooku League. And we are happy to present you this official
Ryooku League trophy." And he handed Cameron a golden trophy that was in the
shape of an R with a golden Pokeball in the middle. Cameron looked at the
trophy with a tear in his eye while Reiko grabbed him and kissed him while
everyone he loved cheered for him.
"Thank you everyone!" said Cameron trying to come up with a speech. "I can't
believe I actually won first place in something. This is truly an honor for me.
And I wouldn't've won this beautiful trophy without the help of my friends
supporting me, my girlfriend Reiko protecting me from danger, and most
important, my best friend Sandy and his Pokemon friends who made all of my
dreams come true!" And he gave Sandy the trophy as he hugged it and made a
happy. "SHREW!"
* * * * * *
That night, Cameron was in bed in his hotel room thinking about the big day he
had. On the left was Sandy curled up beside him sleeping peacefully and on the
right was his bedside table with his Ryooku League trophy sitting on it. Cameron
smiled as he put on his glasses and got out of bed careful not to wake up Sandy.
He looked in the mirror dressed only in blue jeans and his Pokebelt. Yes,
he'll always have those ugly Sandslash scars on his chest, but Sandy now had a
permanent scar on his right cheek so it was kind of like they were scarred for
life brothers.
Cameron smiled as he stepped out into the balcony and saw the bridge they
crossed to reach Vinegar Town. Then Cameron noticed something in the water.
It looked like a huge whale spouting water from its top. Cameron quickly aimed
his Dex at the watery mammal.
"Pokemon cannot be identified", replied Dextra. "There are still some Pokemon
out there that haven't been discovered yet. It's a big world Cameron, and
you're free to explore it!"
"Thanks Dextra", smiled Cameron who was no longer surprised by his Pokedex's
witty speech. Then Cameron looked at the beautiful full moon and thought about
his Moonray Reiko. Just then, a ninja had leapt onto his balcony, grabbed his
bare shoulders, spun him around, and locked him in a strong hug.
"Like the Stantler that doesn't like living alone, I was feeling lonely tonight.
Prisoner!" cooed Reiko as she continued hugging Cameron tightly so he couldn't
escape. Cameron smiled and managed to pull his arms free and hugged Reiko as
well. Then they kissed under the moonlight while a certain whale smiled a huge
toothy smile, spouted happily, and swam off to explore the seas of the amazing
Pokemon world.
THE END!
AUTHOR'S FINAL NOTES:
Well, there you have it. The end of Cameron's Ryooku journey. I hope you all
have enjoyed reading my sequel. And once again, I want to thank all of my fans
and friends for reading and giving me ideas and encouragement throughout my
second year of Pokemon fanfic writing. And another big thanks to God, my
Heavenly Father, for giving me the strength and power to stick with this series.
I might write some more fanfics soon, but right now I want to rest up.
Hopefully, I'll see you again soon.
Sincerely,
Cullen Pittman. ^_^
The Final Match and Chapter
Things have gotten really interesting for young Cameron Fusterman. He and his
friends had just arrived in Vinegar Town. Home of the famous Ryooku League HQ
where he just defeated the Supreme 4. The four top Pokemon trainers in Ryooku
who were lead by Zeus, the president and founder of the Ryooku League. When
Cameron and Zeus had their battle, Team Rocket had interrupted their match. But
luckily, Cameron had defeated them. Probably for the last time for Zeus
ordered his Ampharos to seal up the rockets in cotton straitjackets and then
called security while he let Cameron face the Ryooku League champion. Cameron
became shocked when he found out it was AJ, one of Ash's old opponents who is
now the undefeated champion of Ryooku. And now the final chapter.
"You're my final opponent?!" gasped Cameron nervously while the crowd in the
stands cheered like crazy.
"Pretty shocking, huh?" scoffed AJ while twirling a Pokeball around on his
finger. "You may have defeated Team Rocket, but remember, I defeated them
before you did! So it's probably no guess who's gonna win this match. Heh heh
heh!" Cameron was a little too nervous to reply back, but before he could, a
referee got between them.
"Okay boys, here are the rules", said the ref. "This'll be a 6 vs. 6 match with
no time limit. Fusterman, you can switch any Pokemon you feel is weakening or
might be a better opponent. But AJ, being the champion, will not be allowed to
switch his. And the winner will be the one who has defeated all six of their
opponent's Pokemon. Understand?"
"As usual", smiled AJ.
"Yes I do", said Cameron.
"Very good", said the ref. "The match will start in a half-hour. Fusterman,
you can go to that dugout over there where Nurse Joy will restore all your
Pokemon's health."
"Thank you", said Cameron as he pulled his Pokemon back into their balls. Then
called Sandy over as he walked into the dugout while AJ walked over to the
other side.
"Hello Cameron, my name is Nurse Joy", smiled the nurse as Cameron approached
her. "It's such an honor to have a hero competing in the Ryooku League."
"Thank you", said Cameron who just couldn't stop blushing all day from hearing
all this praise.
"Let me take your Pokeballs and I'll make them all fighting fit", smiled Joy.
Cameron handed Sandy and all his Pokeballs to Joy. "I just hope AJ's Pokemon
won't damage them too badly afterwards", said Joy.
"Shrew?!" gasped Sandy not liking those words he just heard.
"Don't worry little Sandshrew", smiled Joy as she pushed Sandy's nose with her
finger. "Because if that happens, I would love to nurse a cutie like you back
to health again."
"Shrew!" sighed Sandy as he smiled and snuggled into Joy's bosom as she took
him to a back room. Cameron wondered if Sandy liked being in Joy's arms a
little too much.
"Getting the jitters champ?" called out a familiar voice.
"Ash?" gasped Cameron as he turned around and saw Ash and Pikachu in the dugout
with him. "I thought no one else was allowed to go in with me."
"You had to face the Supreme 4 alone", said Ash. "But they said that only
coaches are allowed to be in the dugout with their trainers. Congratulations
on getting this far."
"Pika pi!" said Pikachu congratulating him.
"Thanks guys", said Cameron nervously. "I just noticed that all my friends and
family are in the stands too."
"Yeah, I met them before I went in", said Ash. "They wanted me to tell you that
they're all so very proud of you and they'll believe that you'll win this whole
thing."
"But did you see who my opponent was?!" asked Cameron nervously. "I have this
feeling that AJ's gonna mop the floor with me and stuff poor Sandy in his mop
bucket."
"Just don't think about it", said Ash. "I'm sure you'll do fine against AJ."
"I remember you thought the same thing when you battled him", said Cameron.
"And you ended up losing. No offense guys."
"Chu Pika", said Pikachu which meant, "None taken."
"I think the reason I lost to AJ was because I let my head get too big", said
Ash humbly. "The way I kept bragging about my wins and my badges, I didn't
really concentrate too much on the actual battle and that became my downfall."
"More like nosefall", thought Cameron giggling as he remembered the episode
where Ash started to grow a long nose from all that untruthful boasting and
when AJ defeated Ash, his long nose broke off like a twig. That episode always
made Cameron laugh a little.
"What's so funny?" asked Ash.
"Oh, nothing", said Cameron getting his worried face back. "I'm just trying to
laugh during my upcoming challenge."
"Well, I can certainly tell that you're not going through a huge ego-trip like
I did", said Ash. "Just concentrate on the game, figure out which of your
Pokemon will be good against AJ's, and believe in the power of your Pokemon."
"Thanks coach", smiled Cameron feeling not so nervous as before. Just then,
the announcer started talking.
"Fans, we have a surprise treat for all of you!" said the announcer. "We just
received news from our beloved founder Zeus, that Cameron Fusterman has
defeated Team Rocket for the second time about a few minutes ago!" The crowd
cheered as they heard this news. Seymour and Jenny hugged each other for they
were happy that Cameron had defeated their enemies and that they wouldn't be
harming their boy for a while.
"And as a half-time treat, our local Jennies are wheeling in the imprisoned
Rockets so you can witness young Fusterman's latest victory." Two Officer
Jennies started wheeling in a huge cage where Jessie, James, and Meowth were
locked up in with James feeling blue, Jessie burning with red, and Meowth was
feeling both black and blue. The crowd cheered and laughed as they saw the
infamous Rockets they heard so much about locked up like savage Pokemon. Some
of them even started throwing food at the Rockets.
"AUGGH!" cried James as he got hit with an ice cream cone. "An ice cream
headache in the worst way!"
"Meowth's hate water!" whined Meowth as he got hit with a cup of soda.
"But that's soda, not water", said James as he got hit with half a hot dog.
"Who cares! It's wet ain't it?!" whined Meowth as a sticky candy apple hit his
fur.
"This is all your faults you two simpletons!" growled Jessie as she got chewed
bubble gum in her hair.
"How is this our faults?" protested James as a popcorn bucket landed on his
head.
"It's just is!" growled Jessie. "So let's just leave it at that!" Then a box of
Japanese noodles landed on her head. "WHO THREW THAT?!" growled Jessie as she
looked around the stands filled with thousands of people while a certain ninja
girl was smiling innocently while twiddling her chopsticks.
"How's that for a confidence booster champ?" smiled Ash as he patted Cameron's
shoulder.
"I think that did it!" smiled Cameron watching their enemies getting their just
desserts for Gary had just ordered a bunch of cream pies to throw at the
Rockets.
In the other dugout, AJ was watching this interesting half-time show while
lifting two dumbbells. "Maybe I shouldn't underestimate this kid after all",
he thought.
* * * * * *
Soon, it was time for the match to begin. The cage that held Team Rocket was
carted off to the side and Cameron and AJ were both standing on huge stands
looking down at the green and white lined battle field below. "Let the match
begin!" said the ref as he blew his whistle.
"With pleasure!" laughed AJ. "Well kid, let's see how good your Pokemon are
against my flying warrior! Go Noctowl!" and he released a huge owl with big
eyes and even bigger eyebrows.
"It looks like AJ's sticking with his usual strategy and has chosen Noctowl as
his first battler", said the announcer as a picture of the owl appeared on a
huge board under the name AJ.
"Noctowl?" asked Cameron as he aimed his Dex at the owl.
"NOCTOWL: the evolved form of Hoot-Hoot", replied Dextra. "Noctowl's huge
eyes are specially adapted. They concentrate even faint light and enable it to
see in the dark."
"You'd better knock that brat out if you know what's good for you you overgrown
featherduster!" shouted Jessie trying to bring Cameron down so he'd lose. But
Jessie got hit with another box of noodles while a certain ninja smiled
innocently again.
"Since Noctowl's a flying-type, I'll start with you Buzz", said Cameron as he
released his Electabuzz onto the field. "BUZZ, EL BUZZ!" said Buzz while saluting
his master.
"And it looks like Fusterman has chosen an Electabuzz for his first fighter",
said the announcer as a picture of an Electabuzz appeared on the right side of
the same board under the name Fusterman.
"Elekid's become an Electabuzz again?" gasped Ash. "I haven't really noticed
that when they entered the field."
"Pika, Pi!" said Pikachu who was glad that Buzz was grown up again, but sad
that the cute little Elekid he befriended was no more.
"Okay Buzz, start off with your thunderpunch!" said Cameron. Buzz nodded and
started creating a sparking fist.
"Noctowl! Create a reflect shield!" commanded AJ. Noctowl complied by
creating a glowing reflect dome around itself protecting it from the
thunderpunch attack. Buzz kept punching away at the dome, but with no success.
"Okay Noctowl", said AJ. "Make it even more tired with a hypnosis attack."
"HOOO!" said Noctowl as its eyes glowed causing Buzz to stop punching and yawn.
"BUZZ, YOU'VE GOTTA STAY AWAKE!" cried Cameron as he watched his Electabuzz
about to drop down on the ground.
"But your Buzz looks so tired", cackled AJ. "Why don't I have Noctowl tuck it
in? Noctowl, use a fly attack!" "HOOOO!" hooted Noctowl as it floated up high
in the air and started to swoop down at full speed getting closer and closer to
the sleepy Buzz.
"Quick Buzz, return!" cried Cameron as he quickly sucked Buzz back into his
ball and put Slowking onto the field. Noctowl flew down and bounced off
Slowie's tough Shellder crown back into AJ's stand.
"Is it raining today?" asked Slowie as he rubbed his crown wondering what hit
him as a picture of a Slowking appeared under the picture of the Electabuzz.
Noctowl got back on its feet and rubbed its sore head with its wing. "You know
what to do Noctowl?!" said AJ. "Give it another hypnosis attack."
"Slowie, push your crown down!" cried Cameron. "Okay Mamma", complied Slowie
as he pushed his crown over his eyes so Noctowl's hypno-beams couldn't harm him.
"He's got his eyes closed!" snickered AJ. "That's the advantage we need. Give
'em your psychic attack! "HOOO!" concentrated Noctowl as it released a psychic
blast at Slowie. Since Slowie had his eyes covered, all that the psychic
attack did was make him see pretty retro-colored blobs in the darkness.
"That's pretty!" said Slowie. "I give some to you too!" And Slowie released his
psychic blast at Noctowl. Since Noctowl didn't have his eyes covered and they
were extremely huge, the psychic attack did a lot of damage to poor Noctowl
causing it to get knocked out. The picture of the Noctowl faded out showing
that AJ's first Pokemon had been defeated.
"Hey, you did it Slowie!" called out Cameron. "You defeated AJ's first Pokemon!"
"I did?" asked Slowie with his eyes still covered. "I wish I could've seen it."
"You just gotten lucky punk!" scoffed AJ as he pulled Noctowl back and took out
another Pokeball. "But let's see if you can handle the cold steel and hot
lightning of Magneton!" and he released what looked like three Magnemites
bolted together.
"There's a Pokemon I remember dealing with on my Gameboy", said Cameron as he
pointed his Dex at the cluster of magnets.
"MAGNETON: the evolved form of Magnemite", replied Dextra. "Three Magnemites
are linked together by a strong magnetic force. Ear aches will occur if you
get too close."
"Sorry Slowie, but I don't want a water-type like you dealing with electrical
appliances", said Cameron as he pulled the still eye-covered Slowking back into
his ball. "Sandy, you want to handle this?"
"Shrew!" said Sandy as he eagerly jumped off the stand and ran out into the
field ready to take on Magneton.
"So the little hose stopper wants to get in the game", laughed AJ remembering
what that little Shrew did to him today. "Magneton! Zap cannon now!" commanded
AJ. Magneton suddenly used the same strategy Zeus's Ampharos used. It kept
blasting zap cannons onto the field causing Sandy to get knocked back by
powerful blasts.
"Quick Sandy!" cried Cameron. "Do what you did today and dig to escape those
zap cannons!"
"SHREW!" nodded Sandy as he started digging for his dear life.
"You can dig but you can't hide", laughed AJ. "Magneton, lock on and release a
sonicboom!" Magneton complied and locked on to Sandy's tail just as he escaped
into the ground. Then Magneton released a booming tornado into the hole Sandy
had just dug.
"OH NO!" cried Cameron realizing that digging away from a battle may not always
work.
As Sandy kept digging, he heard some booming noises coming right behind him.
"Shrew?" he asked as he turned around and saw the sonicboom chasing after him.
He started clawing up to the surface as the sonicboom tracked him down thanks
to Magneton's lock on. Then Sandy burst out of the ground right behind
Magneton. "Mag?" asked Magneton as Sandy jumped on top of it and stuffed it
into the hole he just dug plugging it up.
"Magneton! Get out of that hole now!" cried AJ. But it was too late. The
sonicboom hit Magneton blasting it out of the hole causing some of its bolts to
pop out and collapse onto the field into a pile of scrap metal. Then the
picture of Magneton on the board faded out as well.
"Great work Sandy", said a relieved Cameron.
"Shrew!" said Sandy as he gave his master a dirt covered claws up.
"I'm glad my Magnemite isn't here to see that", said Prof. Oak.
"Don't worry Magneton", said AJ as he pulled all the parts back into its ball.
"A trip to Radio Shack should get you fully buffed and recharged soon." Then AJ
took out his third Pokeball. "Let's see if my Jumpluff will make you jump!" And
he released a blue round bush with three branches each with a huge cottonball
on them. "JUMP!" it squeaked.
"Think of all the underwear I could knit Ash with all that cotton", said Mrs.
Ketchum as Cameron activated his Dex again.
"JUMPLUFF: the cottonweed Pokemon. The evolved form of Skiploom", replied
Dextra. "Jumpluff drifts on seasonal winds and spreads its cotton-like spores
all over the world to make more offspring."
"Okay Sandy, get back here!" said Cameron not wanting Sandy to battle this new
grass-type. Sandy quickly galloped back up onto the stand as Cameron released
his Crobat.
"Okay Jumpluff", said AJ. "Pound that bat with your pay day attack!"
"JUMP!" said Jumpluff as it started waving its branches around and gold coins
started flying out of its cottonballs like huge wooly purses. "BAT!" cried
Batty as she felt the currency of the coins hit her hard.
"I guess money doesn't grow on trees after all", said Brock. "Just on Jumpluffs."
"After I win this match, feel free to help yourselves to all this money!"
called out AJ as the crowd cheered while poor Batty kept getting hit with coins.
"How sadistic can this guy be?" growled Jessie as she tried to reach for those
coins but couldn't for she was still locked up along with her other two
teammates.
"Meowth", growled James. "If that dumb weed can learn pay day, why can't you?!"
"Because I'm no branch executive?" said Meowth. Jessie and James just whacked
him for that bad pun.
"Batty!" called out Cameron. "Avoid those pennies from heck with a fly attack!"
Batty complied by soaring high up in the air and swooping down at Jumpluff
dodging all the incoming coins and cutting off all three of its cotton branches.
"Pluff?" cried Jumpluff as it looked at its pruned appendages.
"It looks like that bush has gone bankrupt", said Stella.
"Just use you synthesis power Jumpluff", called out AJ. Jumpluff smiled and
concentrated. Suddenly three new cottonballs popped right out of Jumpluff's
branches as if they were never cut off. "Now give it your cotton spore!"
commanded AJ as Jumpluff sprayed some spores on Batty causing her to get
trapped in a cotton ball then plop down onto the field.
"Oh no!" thought Cameron as he saw Batty trying her best to squirm free from
her cotton prison.
"Now release a solarbeam Jumpluff!" commanded AJ. Jumpluff started
concentrating while absorbing lots of sunlight through its body.
"Quick Batty, use your hyper beam!" cried Cameron. Batty stopped struggling
and started to charge herself up as well. Soon, both Pokemon had released
their beams. But hyper beams were a lot more powerful than solarbeams and the
hyper beam Batty released blasted her free from the cotton ball, cut through
the solarbeam, and hit Jumpluff right in the face. "JUUUUMP!" cried Jumpluff
as it fainted and Jumpluff's picture faded from the screen.
"So you've defeated 3 of my Pokemon so far", said AJ. "Not impressed. Those
were just my rookies. Now I get to break out my champion fighters! Now it's
time for your Pokemon to start fading off the board! Go Magcargo!" and AJ
released a huge snail made of bubbly lava with a black cracked stone for a
shell. "MAAGG!" said the snail in a monstrous voice as Cameron activated his
Dex.
"MAGCARGO: the evolved form of Slugma", replied Dextra. "The shell on
Magcargo's back is just skin that has cooled and hardened. It breaks easily
with a slight touch."
"Okay Batty", said Cameron. "Confuse that snail with a confuse ray! Batty? Uh,
Batty?" But Batty just sat there on the field unmoving for she was still
recharging from that hyper beam attack.
"Now's your chance Magcargo", said AJ, "Flamethrower attack!" Magcargo blasted
some fire at Batty causing her to faint. Then the picture of Crobat faded out.
"Poor Batty!" cried Cameron as he pulled the defeated Crobat back into her ball
as the announcer shouted. "Fusterman's first Pokemon has been defeated!"
"GRRRRR!" growled Reiko just wanting to dump a whole mound of salt on that
snail along with that announcer for making that announcement.
"You did your best Batty", said Cameron. "But I think Slowie would do better
against this fire-type." And he released his Slowking back onto the field.
"Slow?" asked Slowie who still had his crown over his eyes. Then lifted it back
up and was looking at the boiling face of Magcargo.
"Magcargo, call on your sunny day power!" called out AJ. Magcargo concentrated
and the sun suddenly started shining really bright. Everyone in the stands
took out their sunglasses while Cameron had his cap to protect his eyes. Even
Sandy took out a pair of cute little sunglasses. Slowie quickly recovered his
eyes with his crown while Magcargo looked like it was getting hotter.
"Quick Slowie, douse that Magcargo with your surf attack!" cried Cameron.
"SLOW!" said Slowie as he released a wave right at Magcargo, but all that water
just turned into clouds of steam the minute it touched Magcargo's red boiling
skin.
"What just happened?!" gasped Cameron surprised that the surf attack didn't
work. "Slow?" said Slowie as he lifted his crown and was surprised as well.
"Thank the power of sunny day", scoffed AJ. "Magcargo now has the power of the
very sun. Show 'em with a fire blast Maggy-Baby!" "CAAAAR!" growled Magcargo
as it released a huge clump of fire right at poor Slowie charring him just like
how Batty got charred. Then Slowie's picture faded from the board for Cameron's
second Pokemon had been defeated.
"Not again!" cried Cameron as he pulled the singed Slowking back into his ball.
"I'm starting to like this AJ human", said Meowth as he and Team Rocket watched
delightfully at AJ making a fool of Cameron and his Pokemon.
"Do you want to give it a go Sandy?" asked Cameron. "Ground attacks are also
strong against fire."
"Shrew!" said Sandy with rage in his eyes as he ran back out onto the field
wanting to get revenge for Batty and Slowie.
"Give 'em another fire blast Magcargo!" called out AJ.
"Send out a sandstorm Sandy!" called out Cameron. "SHREW!" cried Sandy as he
blasted a huge sandstorm at Magcargo before it could launch its fire blast.
"It's just like when he beat my Arcanine", thought Gary remembering that time
he and Cameron were battling in the Indigo League. Soon the storm cleared and
everyone became surprised when they saw Magcargo. Its body was completely
covered with sand with no trace of red lava anywhere. "MAG!" moaned the snail
who was unable to launch any fire attacks.
"Sandy would make a great member of the Pallet firefighting squad", thought
Jenny.
"You may not have any firepower left, but you still have some other features
Magcargo", called out AJ. "Use your rollout attack!"
"MAAAGG!" growled Magcargo as it started rolling like a huge bowling ball at
Sandy. "Shrew!" cried Sandy as he jumped into the air and landed on the rolling
rock like a clown in the circus.
"Magcargo can keep rolling for hours!" laughed AJ. "Your Sandshrew will be too
pooped to fight by the time Magcargo stops!"
"I gotta think of something!" said Cameron as he saw Sandy still trying to keep
his balance on the rolling snail. Then he remembered what Dextra said about
Magcargo's shell being brittle and saw bits of ash falling off of Magcargo.
"I'm not on Magcargo Mr. Narrator", said Ash. "Sandy is. And what do you mean
by bits of me falling off?!"
"ARRRGH!" said me falling backwards.
"Okay Sandy!" said Cameron who now had an idea. "Try using a rock smash attack!"
"SHREW!" said Sandy as he made a fist with his foot and kicked right through
the rolling shell, causing Magcargo to stop and crumble into bits of ash, rock,
and sand.
"Magcargo! Are you all right?!" cried AJ. "CAAAR!" moaned Magcargo as its sand
covered head closed both its eyes and fainted while the picture of Magcargo
faded.
"No one's ever defeated my Magcargo!" gasped AJ as he pulled the damaged snail
back into its Pokeball. "Maybe I shouldn't estimate you after all Mr. Fusterman.
No matter, because nothing can defeat my master of water, Azumarill!" and he
released a huge blue rabbit with a long tail with a blue ball at the end. "AZU!"
it said in a squeaky voice while Cameron activated his Dex.
"AZUMARILL: the aquarabbit Pokemon. The evolved form of Marill", replied
Dextra. "When Azumarill plays in the water, it rolls up its elongated ears to
prevent their insides form getting wet."
"Tracey?" asked Misty with stars in her eyes. "Does this mean your Marill could
evolve into an Azumarill someday?"
"I suppose it could", said Tracey as he released his Marill. "Marill", he asked.
"How would you like to see your evolved form in battle?"
"Marill!" squealed Marill with delight as she jumped into Tracey's lap and
started clapping her hands.
"Shouldn't she be cheering for Came-chan's team instead of Azumarill?" asked
Reiko sternly.
"Okay Azumarill, start off with a rain dance", commanded AJ. "ZU!" said
Azumarill as she started doing a funky dance while dark clouds formed in the
sky. Everyone removed their sunglasses and took out their umbrellas for they
were all familiar with Azumarill's rain dance attack. Suddenly, it started to
drizzle and Sandy could feel little droplets on his sandy skin.
"SHREW!" cried Sandy as he ran back up the stand and got under Cameron's legs.
"Here Sandy", said Cameron as he took off his hat and placed it over Sandy just
as the rain got heavier. "You'll be safe under here."
"It looks like you're too busy babying your Pokemon to continue battling!"
laughed AJ as he stood there as the rain poured down on him. "Why don't you
just go home before you catch a cold?! You're not wearing your pink galoshes.
HA HA HA!"
Cameron became enraged and released his Vileplume onto the wet field. When
Reiko saw this, she released her Bellossom so she could watch her boyfriend in
action. "BELL!" called out Bellossom as she blew as kiss to VP. "VILE?" smiled
VP for he couldn't see well in the rain, but he could hear his love's cute voice.
"Okay VP!" called out Cameron. "Why don't you remove all this rain with a giga
drain?!" VP nodded and started sucking the entire rainstorm dry. Soon the
bright sun came out and everyone put down their umbrellas so they could see the
Vileplume and Azumarill getting ready to battle face to face.
"MARILL!" Marill cheered for Azumarill. "BELL!" Bellossom cheered for VP.
Then Marill and Bellossom looked at each other mean-eyed while their masters
tried to hold them back.
"Okay VP, use your sleep powder!" commanded Cameron.
"Azumarill, use your icy wind!" commanded AJ. Just as VP had released his
sleep powder, Azumarill blew a cold blue wind pushing the powder back at VP.
Suddenly icicles formed on VP's petals and it started shivering while yawning.
Then he fell right to sleep as the effects of the icy wind defeated him causing
the picture of the Vileplume to fade out.
"Oh no!" cried Cameron as he sucked his poor sleepy frozen flower back into his
ball while Bellossom felt sorry for her love while Marill cheered for
Azumarill's victory.
"It looks like I knocked out half your team!" laughed AJ. "Now you got three
more which will become zeroes when my team finishes with them!"
"Oh yeah!" grumbled Cameron. "We'll see. Buzz, I choose you again!" And he
released his Electabuzz back onto the field who was now wide awake from that
hypnosis attack. "Buzz, use your thunderpunch!" commanded Cameron.
"BUZZ, EL BUZZ!" shouted Buzz as he made his sparking fist and was about to
punch Azumarill until AJ called out. "Azumarill, use attract!"
"ZU!" smiled Azumarill as it winked its eye and sent a whole flock of hearts at
Buzz. Buzz suddenly put down his fist and started smiling goofily at the
beautiful blue bunny. "Buzz!" he said in a cool easy-going voice.
"Buzz, what are you doing?!" cried Cameron as Buzz started lying on the field
with huge hearts in his eyes.
"Your Electabuzz must be a male", laughed AJ, "Because once my female Azumarill
launches her attract attack, no man will dare hurt her. But she can still hurt
them. Azumarill, use your surf attack!"
"ZUUUU!" shouted Azumarill as she released a huge wave catching Buzz in its
watery grip causing him to drown while spitting out little heart-shaped bubbles.
Once the wave faded, Buzz's picture on the board faded as well.
"Poor Buzz!" said Cameron as he pulled his lovesick and lovestruck soldier back
into his ball. "It looks like I'll have to call out the big gal!" said Cameron
as he took out his Level Ball. "Go Scaleon!" and he released the huge dragon
while the crowd looked amazed at this rare legendary beast.
"Ladies and gentlemen!" called out the announcer. "Fusterman has just released
the rare, never-before seen in this era Pokemon, Scaleon. This is totally
amazing! And since we don't have an actual photo of a Scaleon for our board, a
drawing will be provided by Zeus's eight-year-old daugther, Maggie." And on the
board appeared a crayon drawing of Scaleon. "SCALE?" smiled Scaleon impressed
with the drawing and how the artist stayed in the lines.
"You may be legendary", shouted AJ. "But my Azumarill will make you extinct
again! Attract attack again!" Azumarill released her magic hearts again, but
they didn't affect Scaleon one bit. "What the...?" gasped AJ while Azumarill
gasped too.
"My Scaleon's a female too!" smiled Cameron. "So your female rabbit's attract
power doesn't seem so attractive. Scaleon, blow that bunny some kisses with
your dragonbreath!" "SCALE!" shouted Scaleon as she blew some blue flames at
Azumarill.
"Quick Azumarill, use icy wind again!" cried AJ. But Azumarill couldn't for
she was too paralyzed to even blow out a cold breath of air. Then she fainted
and the picture on the board faded while Tracey's Marill hung her head down in
disappointment while Reiko's Bellossom cheered.
"This is almost a miracle!" said the announcer as the crowd went wild. "Five of
our champion's Pokemon have been defeated. This has never happened before!
Now AJ has only one Pokemon left to use, and you all know who that'll be?"
"SANDSLASH!" shouted the crowd.
"You got that right!" smiled AJ as he called back Azumarill and released that
familiar feisty Sandslash onto the field. "SLASH!" shouted Sandslash as it
started swinging its huge front claws around getting ready to make some
Poke-pasta!"
"Scaleon", said Cameron. "I don't want you to underestimate this Sandslash, it
can be a really tough opponent. So let's try your most powerful dragonrage
attack!" "SCALE!" said Scaleon as she created a typhoon around Sandslash, but
the prickly mouse just stuck its claws into the ground causing it not to budge
even though the typhoon seemed really powerful.
"Neither rain, wind, nor dragonrage attacks can prevent my Sandslash from
leaving a battle", laughed AJ as the typhoon ceased. "Go ahead and call out
another attack, we dare you!"
"Uh, okay Scaleon", said Cameron hoping this would work. "Release your
waterfall attack!" Scaleon got under the unbudging Sandslash and doused it with
a huge waterfall attack. But all that water didn't drench Sandslash one bit.
It just shook the water all off while Scaleon backed away surprised.
"I told you my Sandslash is strong against water attacks!" laughed AJ. "Even
powerful ones like waterfall. It's now time to attack Sandslash. Use fissure!"
"SLASH!" shouted Sandslash as it slammed a claw into the ground causing a
powerful bolt to race through the ground heading right for Scaleon.
"Scaleon, get out of the way!" cried Cameron. But Scaleon was so big that she
couldn't escape the fissure attack. The ground exploded and Scaleon was
launched up into the air and landed onto the field unconscious. And the
drawing of the Scaleon faded out while Cameron's jaw fell open.
"No wonder why AJ's always the champion!" said the announcer. "The way he
trained that Sandslash to defeat the all powerful Scaleon is just breathtaking!
Now both he and Fusterman each got only one Pokemon left to use. Who will win?"
"It's up to you Sandy", said Cameron. "You're all that I have left. Are you
sure you want to take on Sandslash? It looks like a powerful sandcastle of
artillery."
"Sandshrew!" said Sandy as he saluted his master and ran out into the field.
Both of the mice bowed to each other in respect.
"Go get that little pipsqueak Sandslash!" shouted James.
"Yeah!" shouted Meowth, "Make him pay for putting out my eye. Slash out both
his eyes!"
"You'd better win or I'll turn you into Sand-slush!" growled Jessie.
"If a huge Scaleon couldn't defeat my Sandslash, what makes you think a puny
unevolved Sandshrew would do any better?!" laughed AJ.
"Don't you underestimate my Sandy!" called out Cameron. "I'll show you what he
can do with his most powerful attack. Sandy, use your sandstorm!" "SHREW!"
shouted Sandy as he blasted a huge storm of sand and rocks at Sandslash while
the crowd took out their visors. But the storm suddenly cleared for Sandslash
had somehow absorbed the entire sandstorm and was looking stronger than ever.
"What the...?" gasped Cameron.
"You should've known that sandstorm attack can't hurt ground Pokemon!" laughed
AJ. "It just made Sandslash even stronger and given it even more ammo!
Sandslash, use your rock slide!" "SLASH!" shouted Sandslash as it sent a huge
pile of sandy boulders at Sandy.
"Quick Sandy, use your rock smash!" cried Cameron. "Shrew!" shouted Sandy as he
punched all the incoming rocks into sand getting closer and closer to his
opponent.
"Sandslash, back it off with your slash attack!" shouted AJ. "SLASH!" shouted
the mighty slasher as it started waving its claws around backing away Sandy.
"SHREW!" cried Sandy for Sandslash had actually left a small scar on his right
cheek.
"Sandy, are you okay?" called out a worried Cameron.
"Shrew!" said Sandy in a tough voice as he rubbed his sore cheek until it
stopped bleeding.
"If only it could've reached his eye!" moaned Meowth.
"Okay Sandslash, it looks like you've got it beaten!" said AJ. "Finish it off
with your poison sting!" Sandslash turned around and started firing poison
needles from its quills right at the poor Sandshrew.
"If one of those poison darts hits Sandy's wound, he's done for!" cried Cameron.
"Quick Sandy! Escape by digging!"
"SHREW!" shouted Sandy as he started digging for his dear life just as the
needles missed him.
"Okay Sandslash", said AJ. "I believe this crowd wants to go home sometime soon.
Let's end this match with another fissure attack!"
"OH NO!" cried Cameron for he knew that a fissure attack while a Pokemon was
underground meant serious damage and defeat. "SLAAAAASSSH!" shouted Sandslash
as it slammed its claw into the ground and the center of the field exploded.
"SHREEEEWWWW!" cried Sandy as he got blasted out of the ground and up into the
sky. Cameron and the crowd raised their heads up as they saw the poor little
Sandshrew go higher and higher. Sandy looked up and found he was about to hit
a blimp. He quickly curled himself up and bounced off the blimp's bottom like
a rubber ball. Then the Sandy ball bounced back down on the field, then started
bouncing off everything from both Cameron's and AJ's stands, to a man's bald
head, to a woman's huge stomach, to a guy's huge white smile.
Cameron suddenly realized that this was all familiar. Sandy did the bouncing
ball thing before when he was battling that big stone Meowth. Then he smiled
and shouted. "Sandy, remember that attack you used to defeat Meowth?!"
"SHREW!" smiled Sandy as he waited until he got in the Sandslash's direction.
"Oh no! Not my other eye!" cried Meowth as he covered his good eye thinking
that Sandy was gonna repeat that attack on him.
When Sandy saw he was about to bounce off of Sandslash, he uncurled himself and
made a fist. "Slash?" gasped Sandslash nervously.
"Uh oh!" whispered AJ for he never really trained his Sandslash to be ready for
this kind of attack. Then it was over. Sandy had punched Sandslash in the gut
causing both of them to get knocked back. Sandy landed safely in Cameron's
arms knocking him down while most of Sandslash's quills popped off from that
powerful blow. Then a shocked AJ watched as his so-called undefeated Sandslash
collapsed to the ground unconscious. Then the picture of the Sandslash faded.
The crowd sat there silently, but then started cheering wildly at this amazing
triumph. "He's done it!" shouted the announcer in a hyper voice. "For the first
time ever, our reigning champion AJ has been defeated! And by the famous hero
Cameron Fusterman too! This is history in the making!" And the pictures of AJ's
Pokemon on the board disappeared and Cameron's Pokemon pictures aligned
themselves in a horizontal line while a picture of Cameron making a goofy smile
appeared right above them.
"We did it Sandy!" shouted Cameron in his happiest voice ever. "We won the
Ryooku League!"
"Shrew!" said Sandy in an exhausted voice as he rested happily in his favorite
human's arms.
"WAY TO GO FELLOW CHAMP!" shouted Ash from the dugout.
"YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY CAM!", squealed Misty.
"THAT'S OUR FRIEND CAMERON!" shouted Brock and Stella together.
"OUR BABY!!" cried Seymour and Jenny as they hugged each other with joy.
"MY BABY'S FRIEND!" cried Mrs. Ketchum happily.
"GOOD SHOW CAMERON!" shouted Bill.
"NOT BAD!" said Gary with a straight face.
"YOU DESERVE IT SON!" shouted Prof. Oak.
"THIS ONE'S FOR YOU!" shouted Tracey as he held up a sketch portrait of Cameron
and Sandy in their victory spotlight.
"I LOVE YOU MY CAME-CAN!" shouted Reiko with huge hearts in her eyes.
"WE HATE YOU FUSTERMAN!" shouted all three Rockets from their cage. But they
were soon silent as the two Jennies clubbed them and started dragging the cage
away off to the local jail.
AJ just stood there in shock staring at the happy winners, then looked down at
his defeated Sandslash, which looked very strange to him. "Someone has actually
beat me!" whispered AJ. "And it really doesn't feel so bad." He smiled and
pulled Sandslash back into its ball and patted it. "You did your best my old
friend", smiled AJ.
* * * * * *
That evening, there was a big victory party held at the Vinegar Town hotel
lobby. Everyone there was having a great time. Ash and Misty were sitting on
a lobby couch still in love more than ever. Brock and Stella were also sitting
on another couch also looking at each other lovingly. Brock didn't even turn
around to look at the pretty showgirls that walked past him. Mrs. Ketchum,
Seymour and Pallet Jenny were discussing how proud they were to have sons who
were both league champions. Prof. Oak was looking through Tracey's sketchbook
and became so impressed that he offered a delighted Tracey a job as his
assistant. Bill was enjoying a snack of tea and the famous stickybuns that
were imported from Honeydew. Gary was at a buffet table eating a dish called
humble pie which he had seemed to be eating a lot these past years.
All the Pokemon were let out of their Pokeballs so they could enjoy their own
party outside in the hotel garden. It was kind of hard to get food from the
buffet table since Ash's Snorlax kept eating everything he saw, but luckily
Charizard backed him away with his fire. VP poured himself and Bellossom a
couple of glasses of vintage plant food then they toasted to their blossoming
love. All the water Pokemon were swimming happily in the hotel's pool, except
for Golduck who was doing a crazy dog, I mean, duck paddle. "PSY-YAI-YAI-YAI!"
he cried as Slowie grabbed him and swam him to the shallow end. "Pika, pi!"
laughed Pikachu as he was sitting on a small raft with sunglasses and a fruit
drink in his hand.
Sandy, with a band-aid on his cheek, wasn't with the Pokemon. He was standing
right between Cameron and Reiko looking at a proud sight. It was a photo of
Cameron holding Sandy with VP, Batty, Slowie, Buzz, and Scaleon standing all
around him. And above the photo was a huge slab of cement with Cameron's hand
print on it, along with the hand, claw, wing, and petal prints of his other
Pokemon. "Just look at that Sandy", smiled Cameron. "You and your friends
earned those markings on that stone."
"Shrew!" said Sandy with pride.
"And you earned yours too Came-chan", smiled Reiko. "Like the Pidgeot that
trains her babies to fly, you've trained and cared for you Pokemon as well.
And Sandy's obedience and kindness is the proof of that."
"Shrew!" smiled Sandy as he hugged Cameron's leg while Cameron smiled at both
his champion Pokemon and true love. Reiko was happy too for protecting Cameron
every step of the way on his journey, Officer Jenny had convinced the local
judge to give her a full pardon. She was now a free girl. Free from ugly steel
bars, free from tacky prison uniforms, free from toilets next to your bed, which
might sound pretty nice if you think about it, and best of all, free from pesky
Growlithes that like ruining romantic moments.
"Hey Fusterman!" called out a voice. Cameron turned around and saw AJ
approaching him. Cameron wondered what he was going to say or do to him since
he beat him. AJ just smiled and shook Cameron's hand. "You certainly gave me
the biggest surprise of my life rookie!" laughed AJ. "Someone actually beat me
and my Sandslash."
"I'm sorry about what happened to your Sandslash", said Cameron. "Will it be all
right?"
"Oh sure", laughed AJ. "Sandslash just needs a few days in the Pokemon center
and it'll be up and slashing again soon. I tell you, it's gonna be funny
having my 929th trophy case empty, but I guess new experiences can be
interesting."
"Say, I haven't seen you get a trophy yet Came-chan", said Reiko.
"You're right Moonray", said Cameron. "After all the excitement, I haven't even
noticed that."
"Look no further my friend", smiled AJ as he stepped back to make way for the
Supreme 4 who were approaching Cameron.
"AAHHHUMMM!" said Zeus clearing his throat. "Cameron Fusterman from Pallet
Town, for your great deeds of determination, courage, ingenuity, and love for
your Pokemon. You have earned the victory and the utmost respect from all the
members of the Ryooku League. And we are happy to present you this official
Ryooku League trophy." And he handed Cameron a golden trophy that was in the
shape of an R with a golden Pokeball in the middle. Cameron looked at the
trophy with a tear in his eye while Reiko grabbed him and kissed him while
everyone he loved cheered for him.
"Thank you everyone!" said Cameron trying to come up with a speech. "I can't
believe I actually won first place in something. This is truly an honor for me.
And I wouldn't've won this beautiful trophy without the help of my friends
supporting me, my girlfriend Reiko protecting me from danger, and most
important, my best friend Sandy and his Pokemon friends who made all of my
dreams come true!" And he gave Sandy the trophy as he hugged it and made a
happy. "SHREW!"
* * * * * *
That night, Cameron was in bed in his hotel room thinking about the big day he
had. On the left was Sandy curled up beside him sleeping peacefully and on the
right was his bedside table with his Ryooku League trophy sitting on it. Cameron
smiled as he put on his glasses and got out of bed careful not to wake up Sandy.
He looked in the mirror dressed only in blue jeans and his Pokebelt. Yes,
he'll always have those ugly Sandslash scars on his chest, but Sandy now had a
permanent scar on his right cheek so it was kind of like they were scarred for
life brothers.
Cameron smiled as he stepped out into the balcony and saw the bridge they
crossed to reach Vinegar Town. Then Cameron noticed something in the water.
It looked like a huge whale spouting water from its top. Cameron quickly aimed
his Dex at the watery mammal.
"Pokemon cannot be identified", replied Dextra. "There are still some Pokemon
out there that haven't been discovered yet. It's a big world Cameron, and
you're free to explore it!"
"Thanks Dextra", smiled Cameron who was no longer surprised by his Pokedex's
witty speech. Then Cameron looked at the beautiful full moon and thought about
his Moonray Reiko. Just then, a ninja had leapt onto his balcony, grabbed his
bare shoulders, spun him around, and locked him in a strong hug.
"Like the Stantler that doesn't like living alone, I was feeling lonely tonight.
Prisoner!" cooed Reiko as she continued hugging Cameron tightly so he couldn't
escape. Cameron smiled and managed to pull his arms free and hugged Reiko as
well. Then they kissed under the moonlight while a certain whale smiled a huge
toothy smile, spouted happily, and swam off to explore the seas of the amazing
Pokemon world.
THE END!
AUTHOR'S FINAL NOTES:
Well, there you have it. The end of Cameron's Ryooku journey. I hope you all
have enjoyed reading my sequel. And once again, I want to thank all of my fans
and friends for reading and giving me ideas and encouragement throughout my
second year of Pokemon fanfic writing. And another big thanks to God, my
Heavenly Father, for giving me the strength and power to stick with this series.
I might write some more fanfics soon, but right now I want to rest up.
Hopefully, I'll see you again soon.
Sincerely,
Cullen Pittman. ^_^
