Disclaimer: I own nothing in this story. I don't even own the songs, which are "Shakedown" by Bob Seger, and "Sweet Victory" from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Band Geeks".
The sun beat its
bright rays down on Ash's face as it rose. His eyes blinked open
and he turned to see Misty sleeping with her arms embracing him.
Ash knew that he wanted to spend the whole day with Misty's arms
around him, but he knew that he couldn't do that. He had a battle
to win. And he wanted his friends to be there to see him win it,
too. He had been training for that battle, and now the day of
that battle was there.
He gently kissed Misty on the lips, and as
their lips parted, her eyelids fluttered open. She focused her
aquamarine eyes on her beloved Pokémon trainer.
"Oh," she said, waking up, "good
morning, Ashy-washy..." She got up out of the bed. "I
take it today's the day of the big battle?"
"You bet," Ash said, rubbing Pikachu
awake. "Today will be a day that will go down in history.
The day when I achieve the dream I've hoped for. The dream I set
out to achieve the same day that you fished me out of that river
on Route 1."
"I'll be there to watch you obtain that
dream," Misty said with a wink as she went to go take a
shower. "I wish you good luck."
"I don't need luck, I have skill,"
Ash said as he and Pikachu went up to the door. "And I'll be
looking forward to my victory kiss!" He gave his lovely and
cute girlfriend a thumbs-up and a wink.
Misty's cheeks blushed beet red for a moment
from her boyfriend's compliment. "Hey, where are you
going?" she asked as she saw him heading out the door.
"To visit some friends of mine in the next
room," Ash answered. "Wake up Brock and Tracey for me,
will you?"
Ash and Pikachu walked out of their room and
over to the room next to theirs. They were in for a very big
surprise. To their astonishment, all six former members of Team
Rocket seemed to be missing. Ash called for them. "Meowth?
Jessie? James? Anybody in here?"
He then noticed a note. It said, "Prepare
for our support, and make it double, at the stadium. Signed, Team
Ex-Rocket."
"Well," Ash said to Pikachu,
"there's a pleasant thought for the day. I gotta tell you,
they always have to find some excuse to say 'prepare' and 'make
it double'."
Just then, Misty, Brock, and Tracey came into
the room. "Hey Ash!" Brock called. "What are you
doing in this room?"
Ash turned around. "Oh, hey guys." He
noticed that Misty looked rather pretty today, even though she
was wearing the same clothes that she always wore every day. What
obviously made her seem so pretty today was probably the necklace
that she was wearing. This necklace was made with the Diamond
Badge that Ash had given to Misty as her late birthday present a
month back. Ash stared at his sweetheart, taken in by her beauty.
Their relationship had jumped by leaps and bounds ever since Ash
won the Diamond Badge, and that's how it was going to go from
then on.
As Ash had his hearts set on Misty, Brock
looked at the note that the ex-Rockets had left.
"'Prepare for our support, and make it
double, at the stadium'," Brock read the note. "Ash,
what's up with Jessie and James? Ever since you won that Diamond
Badge and told Misty that you loved her last month, those two and
their cat have been acting like they never meant us any harm. I
haven't even heard them call us 'twerps' since then!"
"I guess the guy who wrote 'Everything
Changes' wasn't kidding," Tracey added.
Ash stopped looking at Misty and answered
question that Brock had been asking. "I've got some news for
you guys. Not only has Team Ex-Rocket been sleeping here, but
they had Team Rocket 2 with them!"
"Team Rocket 2?" Tracey asked.
"You mean the two superior Rocket Elites
with the Raticate?" Misty asked.
"I don't understand that," Brock
said.
"Well, I'll explain on the way to the
stadium," Ash said, opening the door for Misty to leave the
room.
"The leader
of Team Rocket was here last night?" Tracey exclaimed as the
four of them were entering the stadium.
"But I thought he was dead!" Brock
exclaimed, even more surprised by Ash's explanation on his
encounter with Giovanni the previous night.
"Don't worry," Ash assured his three
traveling companions. "Pikachu and I called the police, so
we don't have to worry about him anymore. The Boss Rocket is now
the Convict Rocket. Giovanni won't be able to cause any problems
from his prison cell. I guess we can say that Team Rocket is now
officially disbanded."
But what Ash didn't know was that even with the
arrest of The Boss, Team Rocket wasn't quite dead just yet. The
Executives at the Team Rocket Hideout in Mahogany City had heard
that their Boss had been apprehended. But the Rocket Executives
weren't going to let Team Rocket die like that. The Rocket
Executives took their place behind Giovanni's desk, in order to
keep the evil organization alive. I could probably go on to
explain more about the Executives taking control of their Boss's
company, but I'd be digressing away from Ash's final battle, so
let's just get back to the story.
Ash watched as the big metal doors standing
between his group and the battlefield opened automatically. As he
and his pals walked through the platinum battlefield, the crowd
cheered immensely, and the announcer shouted out his monologue.
"Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaadieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesss
and gentlemen, here he is - the challenger from Pallet Town, the
newest braver for the title of Pokémon League Champion... AAAAAAAAAASSHH
KETCHUMMMMMM!!!!!"
"YAAAAAY!!!" The crowd cheered
really, really, really loud, and applauded really, really,
really, really, really hard. The six former Team Rocket members,
Meowth, Jessie, James, Mondo, Butch, and Cassidy, were among
them.
"Well, this is a warm
welcome," Ash said to himself. He had fought through the
Indigo League Championships before, and although he hadn't made
it past the semifinals the last time, he had learned a valuable
lesson from that defeat. And because of that, he had now made it
to the finals of the new competition.
"And now, here's our current
champion..." As the announcer continued, the champion came
out from a long corridor on the other side of the arena. Ash and
his friends had a feeling that they had seen this nappy-haired
teenager before, but they'd soon know who he was, because the
announcer was going on with his announcing. "...the present
Pokémon Master... GARRRRRRYYYYYYY OOOOAKK!!!"
"GARY?!!" Ash, Misty, Brock, and
Tracey all said, in unison.
"Gary's the current Pokémon
Master?!" Ash said after all four of them said the name.
"Boo!" Nearly the whole
audience hissed.
"Hooray!" a single person in the
stands cheered. Everyone else in the bleachers threw whatever
they could throw at him.
Ash's selfish and egotistical rival, Gary Oak,
came out from the other side of the stadium, accompanied by his
six ugly cheerleaders.
"Gary, Gary, he's our man! He can do it,
no one can!" The six girls chanted, swishing their pom-poms.
"Who are those girls?" Tracey pointed
his pencil at the cheerleaders. "I don't believe I've met
them before."
"You'd be sorry for not having met
them," Brock said, going nuts for the six unattractive
girls, which just went to show how dumb he could be. "Where
have you been, you six lovelies? I haven't seen you since Gary's
last attempt here."
"Hey! I was looking forward to seeing you,
Ash!" Gary taunted Ash, not paying attention to what was
going on with his girls. "My rival should be strong to keep
me sharp! While working on my Pokédex, I looked all over for
powerful Pokémon! Not only that, I assembled teams that would
beat any Pokémon type! And now, I'm the Pokémon League
champion! Do you know what that means?" He was about to say
what it meant when he happened to take notice of the accessory on
Misty's neck. "Hey! What is that thing on your girlfriend's
neck?!"
"It's a necklace, Gary," an annoyed
Ash answered. "I can't believe you don't even know the name
of the thing that you happen to wear on your own
neck!" He was of course referring to Gary's necklace with
the hippie medallion.
"Don't play games with me!" Gary
shouted, walking up to the four friends. "I know that she's
wearing a necklace! What I meant is, what is that accessory on
your girlfriend's necklace?? I feel as though as I've seen it
somewhere before..."
"Oh, that." Ash pointed to the most
beautiful part of Misty's necklace. "It's the Diamond
Badge."
Gary put his right hand on the spikes of his
hair. "The Diamond Badge?! You won the Diamond Badge?! You
have got to be kidding me! That mysterious Gym Leader's MechaMew2
cleaned the Poke-clocks of all of its challengers! Even I
couldn't win that badge! Losing at the Gym felt exactly like when
I lost to the Gym Leader and his Super-Pokemon at the
Viridian City Gym! It was almost as if the Viridian Gym Leader
and the mysterious Gym Leader with the MechaMew2 were one and the
same! And you're the loser here, and you come in and tell me that
you won something that I couldn't win!?" He clenched
his head and took deep breaths. "Well, no matter. You may
have won the Diamond Badge, but that doesn't affect my League
status whatsoever. I'm the Pokémon League champion! You
know what that means? I'll tell you! I am the most powerful
Pokémon trainer in the world!!!"
Gary was putting up a good performance on his
speech, but Ash wasn't fazed either. "The last time we
fought, you had improved your relationships with your Pokémon,
ditched your cheerleaders and your convertible, dropped your
snobby personality, and were acting more like the friend I used
to have. Whatever happened to your cheerleaders, and why
have you gone back to the nasty personality you had during the
Road to Indigo?"
"Heh heh heh hah hah!" Gary cackled.
"I've always been the snob I was in the Indigo League. I
never improved my relationships! I never ditched my girls or my
car! I never really acted like your old friend! And I never in a
million years dropped my snobbyness! And all those rumors about
me telling my girls to go separate ways become good trainers was
fake, not to mention out of my character! I'm still the same
nasty Gary who pushed and put you down the day both of our
separate journeys began! The old Gary Oak who was once your
friend is no more!"
In the audience, Ex-Team Rocket heard all of
Gary's speech.
"Geez, he's even worse than us,"
Butch said.
"Gary, think of all the fun we had as
childhood friends!" Ash reasoned. "Surely, there's a
little bit of your old not-so-mean personality still in
you!"
"Maybe so," Gary contradicted the
same-aged, same-heighted, black-haired boy with the Z squiggles
on his cheeks, "but I haven't found it yet! What do you say
to that, girls?"
But Gary's cheerleaders hadn't heard him say
that. Brock was trying to get ways to contact them. And not doing
a very good job, I might add.
"Get out of here, you seeing-nothing
bum!" one of the cheerleaders shouted as she smacked her
pom-pom on Brock's vest.
Gary turned to face his competitor. "I
don't know how you guys can put up with Mr. Eyeless Womanizer
there."
"Me neither," Ash said.
Misty and Tracey nodded in agreement.
"But anyway, I challenge you for the title
of Pokémon League champion!" Ash challenged.
"Fine then," Gary agreed. "And
to raise the stakes a little, if I win, which I'm sure I will, I
get something of yours."
"What?"
Gary pointed his finger at Misty.
The tomboyish redhead gasped in horror.
Then Ash got mad. He growled and pointed his
right index finger on the nose of his rival. "YOU
CREEP!" he roared. "IF YOU WANT MISTY, YOU'LL HAVE TO
GO THROUGH ME FIRST!"
"I wasn't indicating her, loser
breath," Gary specified. "I was indicating the Diamond
Badge."
Misty breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh," Ash calmed down. "That's
good."
"But since you were so nice as to suggest
it," Gary continued, "I think I'll include your girl as
my prize as well! Ash! If I win, your woman becomes one of my
cheerleaders and my own personal pleasure, not to mention I get
the Diamond Badge."
"No way, Gary!" Ash shouted back.
Misty gasped in horror again. She took out her
mallet and tried to smash Gary with it. "I refuse to go with
being a cheerleader for you, Mr. Stuck-Up! It's a terrible
idea! I've heard stories about what you do with them."
Gary turned toward his cheerleaders, but kept
his eyes on Misty. "I guess I'm just too sexy my own
good." He turned to Ash again. "But anyway, you lose, I
get your Badge and your girl. I lose, she stays with you, and you
keep the Badge."
"No more fooling around!" Ash
shouted. "Let the battle begin!"
Tracey stood there. "Uh... did I have
anything to do with that last conversation?"
Misty plucked the dateless Brock up by the ear
and dragged him to their seats in the bleachers, and Tracey
followed them.
Gary's girls went to their seats, which were
not too far away from Misty, Brock, and Tracey's seats.
Ash and Gary went to their sides of the arena.
They each stood on platforms that raised themselves up. Ash's
platform was red as a ruby, and Gary's was sapphire blue. In
front of them, the video screen flashed the score of the two
rivals.
The announcer cleared his throat.
"Laaaaaaaadieeeeeeess and gentlemen, the big battle for the
title of World's Greatest Pokémon Master between the two
lifelong rivals, the challenger, Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town, and
the current champion, Gary Oak, will now begin!!"
In the bleachers, Gary's lasses let out another
one of their corny cheers. "Gary, Gary, he's the best! He's
better than all the rest!"
Tracey was really annoyed with the six women.
"Don't they ever shut up about Gary?"
"I'd agree with you on that," Brock
said to the artist. "I'd prefer to see them, rather than
hear them! Know what I mean, nudge nudge, say no more?"
Misty blew a butterfly kiss to Ash. "Don't
lose this one, or we'll lose each other!"
"Togi!" Togepi added.
Ash, standing on the red left platform with
Pikachu, knew that he couldn't let Gary win the battle. If that
happened, not only would Ash have a lot of shame upon him, but he
would also be losing the girl he loved. Fortunately, Ash had been
through a match like this before, in the Orange Islands, at the
Trovita Gym, against the Gym Leader Rudy, whos younger sister
Mahri wanted Misty for her big sister. And that was just for one
of the Orange League Badges!
The two competitors were being allowed to use
up to six Pokémon, as opposed to just using three the last time
Ash competed in the Championships at the Indigo Plateau.
Gary took out the first of his six PokéBalls.
"I'm gonna take things down a little with my starter
Pokémon." He gave a kiss to the Ball and threw it. Out
popped Blastoise, the final evolved form for Squirtle, the
Pokémon that Gary started with.
"Blas-toise," the giant turtle
grunted.
Ash picked up one of his PokéBalls, twisted
his Pokémon League Trainer's Cap, and threw the PokéBall.
"Charizard, I choose you!"
Charizard appeared on the battlefield. He
roared rather loudly.
Gary laughed wickedly. "Ha ha ha ha ha! I
win this match already! You've chosen a Fire Pokémon! He's no
match against my Water Pokémon!"
But Gary was soon contradicted. Charizard, the
most stubborn of Ash's Pokémon, got angry at Gary's badmouthing
him. Very angry, indeed. And if you made Ash's Charizard angry,
you wouldn't want to be anywhere near him. He fired a mighty
Dragon Rage at Blastoise, depleting forty of its two hundred and
ninety HP.
"Aah!" Ash said from his pedestal.
"That was a great hit, Charizard! And I didn't even say
anything yet."
Now it was Blastoise's turn to attack.
"Blastoise, Water Gun!" Gary called.
The now-at-250-HP Water Pokémon tried to
attack the 280-HP Fire/Flying Pokémon with a Water Gun, but
Charizard dodged to the left just seconds before the sheer Super
Scope-like volume of water could hit him. Then, by Ash's command,
Charizard Slashed at his opponent.
It was a critical hit.
A hit so criticial that two hundred of
Blastoise's HP went down. The mighty Water Pokémon was now at
only fifty HP.
"Amazing, folks!" the announcer
shouted. "Charizard has performed an ultra-critical Slash on
Blastoise that has taken away one-fifth on its HP! And this is
only a one-day event!"
Blastoise still wasn't going to give up, even
though he now had only half a hundred HP.
"Skull Bash him, Blastoise!" Gary
yelled.
The blue turtle ran up and Skull Bashed into
Charizard's chest. It hurt Charizard a lot, but it didn't hurt
him enough to take away more than 75 of his HP.
"We gotta end this round now!" Ash
shouted. "Charizard, release a Dragon Rage on him!"
Charizard prepared for his final attack on
Blastoise. He grabbed his mighty opponent, flew up really high,
and dove back down to the ground, dealing heavy damage on the
enemy. That was a Dragon Rage attack.
The remaining fifty of Blastoise's HP fell
down, and he fainted.
"Folks, this has been an amazing
battle," the announcer said as one of the blue spots on
Gary's spot on the scoreboard went black. "And that was just
Round 1!"
"Blastoise, return!" Gary recalled
the unconscious turtle. Hmmmmmm... the snooty champion
thought to himself. This battle may be a little bit tougher
than I thought.
Round 1 was over, and Ash was already in the
lead. He recalled Charizard and prepared to switch his Pokémon
for Round 2.
"You just got lucky, you loseristic
twerpbrain!" Gary said. "Even with six Pokémon, I bet
you won't survive the rest of the battle." He kissed another
PokéBall and threw it. "Nidoqueen, I choose you!"
The Ball opened, and there stood the mighty
Nidoqueen.
Ash knew that it would be a dilemma against
Nidoqueen. He couldn't release Charizard again, and he certainly
couldn't send Pikachu to battle it. Nidoqueen was good against
Fire and Electric-type Pokémon, and she would kick their butts.
Fortunately, Ash knew that Nidoqueens were bad against Ground and
Ghost Pokémon. Unfortunately, he didn't have any Ground
Pokémon, and his only Ghost Pokémon, Haunter, was staying at
the Saffron Gym to entertain Sabrina. But after seeing how
Charizard was able to defeat a water Pokémon, a type he was
usually lousy against, Ash had another idea.
"Chikorita, I choose you!" he
shouted, and out came Chikorita, ready to kick butt on Nidoqueen.
No matter what you think you've
pulled
you'll find it's not enough
No matter who you think you know
you won't get through
It's a given all day long
Someone's faster on the draw
No matter where you hide
I'm comin' after you
No matter how the race is run
It always ends the same
Another room without a view
awaits downtown
You can shake me for a while
Live it up in style
No matter what you do
I'm going to take you down
Shakedown, breakdown, takedown
Everybody wants into the crowded line
Breakdown, takedown
You're busted
Let down, you're gone, honey
Just about the time you think that it's all right
Breakdown, takedown
You're busted
This is the time when everyone
is
reaching for the top
This is the place where second-best
will never do
It's okay to want to shine
But when you step across that line
No matter where you hide,
I'm comin' after you
Shakedown, breakdown, takedown
Everybody wants into the crowded line
Breakdown, takedown
You're busted
Shakedown, breakdown, honey
Just about the time you think that it's all right
Breakdown, takedown
You're busted
Shakedown, breakdown, takedown
Everybody wants into the crowded line
Breakdown, takedown
You're busted
Shakedown, breakdown, honey
Just about the time you think that it's all right
Breakdown, takedown
You're busted
Shakedown, breakdown, takedown
Everybody wants into the crowded line
Breakdown, takedown
You're busted
Shakedown, breakdown, honey
Just about the time you think that it's all right
Breakdown, takedown
You're busted
Shakedown, breakdown, takedown
Everybody wants into the crowded line
Breakdown, takedown
You're busted
Shakedown, breakdown, honey
Just about the time you think that it's all right
Breakdown, takedown
You're busted
Shakedown, breakdown, takedown
Everybody wants into the crowded line
It was two hours
into the match. Three of Ash's Pokémon had fainted by this time,
but Ash was still in first place. Tension was mounting everywhere
as Gary's second-to-last Pokémon, Dodrio, fainted. Misty's heart
was beating a little faster. Tracey was shaking so much he
couldn't draw accurately. Gary's cheerleaders were loosening
their grip on their pom-poms. The announcer's hands were getting
sweaty.
"You are a far more worthy adversary than
I thought," Gary smirked, recalling Dodrio. "But it
doesn't really matter! I started this battle, and I'm going to
finish it! And I'm going to finish it with my special
Pokémon!" He took out his last remaining PokéBall, gave it
a few kisses, and tossed it into the arena.
The PokéBall opened up and revealed Gary's
favorite Pokémon. Umbreon. The Dark evolved form of Eevee.
"That brat has just sent out an
Umbreon!" James stated the obvious from the bleachers.
"Dat's da form Eevee can evolve into if
tamed during night!" Meowth explained.
"Seems rather fitting for that kid if you
ask me!" Jessie commented.
"WAAAAAB! Wobba!" Wobbuffet
added, popping out of his PokéBall. Jessie immediately recalled
him.
"I don't think I want to know how you got
that," Cassidy butt in, "nor do I think I care."
"What I want to know is how you and
Bust were able to catch a Drowzee, a Primeape, a Hitmontop, and a
Houndour when you spent most of your time in jail," Mondo
requested to her.
"Urrr!" Butch glowered. "Even
when we're good guys you get my name wrong! It's Butch! Not
Botch, Buzz, or Bust!"
Ash wasn't the least bit worried about losing
to Gary's Umbreon. But then...
"Don't forget, twerp," Gary taunted,
"this is the same Eevee that whooped butt on Wimpychu last
time I battled you!"
"'Wimpychu'?" Ash repeated.
"'Wimpychu'?" Meowth got mad.
"Hey! Dat Pikachu was woithy of bein' captured by Team
Rocket! Don't eva call it a wimp, ya wimpy brat! And don't eva
call Ashy-boy a twoip! It's bad enough you ignore our motto, but
now you steal our insults?! I oughta moida youse!" The
catlike Pokémon wanted to get out of his seat, go down into the
arena, and perform a thousand Fury Swipes on Gary. He shook
uncontrollably while Mondo restrained him.
"Wimpychu!" Gary shouted again.
"Pikacreampuff! Pikaloser! You'll think twice before messing
with the great Gary Oak!"
Then Pikachu got angry. He had let insults from
Gary bounce off of him before. Now, it was personal.
"Pika-cha!" Pikachu raised his arms
and swung them in a determined fashion.
"You want to fight?" Ash asked his
prized rodent. "All right. Pikachu, GO!"
Pikachu jumped down from the red pedestal and
onto the stadium grounds. He was determined to defeat Umbreon,
even though it had 10 more points of Attack Power, 130 more Hit
Points, and three times more Defense than him.
"Well well well," Gary said
mockingly. "Even after the butt-kicking it got before, the
little yellow Pika-puff wants to take him down! Umbreon, Tackle
him!"
Umbreon tried to tackle the yellow mouse but
missed.
"Pikachu, Tail Whip!" Ash shouted.
Pikachu whipped its tail on Umbreon. The fox's
Defense fell down greatly. In fact, the fox's Defense broke in
half. Now it only had a hundred and twenty points of defense.
Gary scowled in an angry fashion, then
restrained himself. "So what if my Pokemon's Defense has
been cut in half? It's still three times the Defense power of
your Pokemon's defense... cut in half! Umbreon, confuse
him!"
Pikachu was hit by a Confuse Ray sent by
Umbreon. Senseless, he began attacking himself.
"Aah! Oh no!" Ash shouted.
When Pikachu regained his senses, he had now
reduced his HP by 20.
But then, when he had done that, Umbreon
unleashed another Confuse Ray on him! Again, Pikachu began to
attack himself and drain his HP.
"Hey!" Ash shouted at Gary.
"That's cheating! You can't use the same attack multiple
times in one turn!"
"Don't tell me what to do!" Gary
argued. "I'm the Pokémon League Champion here!"
Soon, Pikachu now only had eighty-five HP -
half of what he had started with!
"Looks like this match is in the
bag!" Gary snickered. "Just a few more attacks like
this, and the Diamond Badge and your scrawny girlfriend will be
mine!"
Gary's sentence echoed in Ash's mind. Ash
turned his head and focused his eyes on Misty. She was sitting
there in the bleachers, right between Brock and Tracey, with
Togepi on her lap, waving a flag. A flag with Ash's picture on
it. Everything about Misty mattered to Ash. Her aquamarine eyes.
Her glowing fiery orange hair. Her heart-shaped mouth. Her
slender arms. Her forever-growing legs. Her thin stomach. Her
soft smooth skin. And especially her lips, red as the fur of a
Flareon.
Ash turned his head around and looked at
Pikachu. Then at Gary. Ash was now more angry than Gary had ever
made him in their previous encounters.
This victory is for you, Misty... Ash
said to himself. He shouted a command to Pikachu. "Pikachu,
defend yourself!"
Heeding his trainer's command, Pikachu summoned
a Reflect sheild. Instantly, the next blast of Umbreon's Confuse
Ray failed to attack!
"Oh my god!" Gary shouted. "I
don't believe it! The loser's Pikachu is actually fighting
back!"
Ash screamed out a classic line. "PIKACHU,
THUNDERSHOCK! NOW!!"
Pikachu got in front of Umbreon, and prepared.
"PIIIIIIIII..."
"Oops, I'm in trouble," Gary
murmured.
"...KAA..."
Umbreon tried to back away, but failed.
"...CHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!"
A mighty jolt of a Thunder Shock shot out from
Pikachu's rosy cheeks and hit Umbreon dead on. Now it was
paralyzed and couldn't attack.
"Well, this doesn't look so bad,"
Gary sighed of relief.
But it wasn't over just yet. With Umbreon
paralyzed and three-fourths of its HP gone, Gary had no choice
but to skip his turn.
"We've almost got 'im, Pikachu!" Ash
shouted. "Now let's finish him! THUNDERBOLT!!!!"
"PIKA!" As Pikachu
squealed, he got up on top of Umbreon. A cloud of thunder
appeared in the sky above him. In a matter of milliseconds, a
Thunderbolt rained down from the sky above, hitting Pikachu...
and taking Umbreon with him!
When the smoke of the battle cleared, everyone
looked over their shoulders and saw exactly what they thought
they were seeing. The mighty Umbreon had fainted, and Pikachu
stood there, licking his fur.
"Pika!" he chirped.
The announcer cleared his throat. "And so,
ladies and gentlemen, the winner, and new Pokémon Master, is the
challenger, Ash Ketchum from the town of Pallet! Congratulations,
Ash!"
The whole audience cheered and applauded so
hard the whole stadium rocked.
"HOORAY!" Misty cheered, stretching
her arms up.
Togepi did a little dance of joy. Yay for
daddy! it thought.
But of course, not everyone was overjoyed with
the outcome of the battle. "I can't believe... that Gary
lost... AGAIN!!" one of the cheerleaders burst into
tears, and the other cheerleaders cried along with her.
Gary got down on his knees. "NO! This
can't be! You beat my best! After all that work to become League
champ, my reign is over already?! It's not fair! Why?" he
moaned, his platform elevating down. "Why did I lose? I
never made any mistakes raising my Pokémon!"
The platforms finished their descent, and the
loser walked up to the winner.
"Darn it!" Gary swore. "You're
the new Pokémon League champ... although I don't like to admit
it."
Just then, a familiar voice came from the left
corridor of the arena. It called out for Ash.
"Professor?" Ash responded.
"Grandpa?" Gary responded, in unison.
Professor Samuel Oak ran into the room.
"So, you won!" he said to Ash. "Congratulations!
You're the new Pokémon League Champion! You've grown up so much
since you first left with Pikachu on your tenth birthday! Ash,
you have come of age!"
"Thanks, Professor," Ash shook his
hand.
The Professor then turned to look at Gary.
"Gary! I'm disappointed!" he admonished his ashamed
grandson. "I came when I heard that you had beaten the Elite
Four! But when I got here, you had already lost! Do you
understand why you lost? You have forgotten to treat your
Pokémon with trust and love. Without them, you will never become
a champ again!" He then faced Ash once more and continued,
"Ash, you understand that your victory wasn't just your own
doing. The bond you share with your Pokemon is marvelous! Come
with me!"
Ash followed the Professor into a room behind
the blue platform.
Gary watched jealously as they walked inside.
He took deep angry breaths, then stopped. "I suppose this
battle has taught me something," he said to himself, taking
off his hippie necklace. "All these years, I thought I was
the superior trainer, and that he was a loser. But now I learn
that Ash wasn't the loser; I was."
Professor Oak
cleared his throat for this important moment. "Er-hem! This
floor is the Pokémon Hall of Fame! Pokémon League champions are
honored for their exhibits here! Their Pokémon are recorded,
too! You and Pikachu have endeavored hard to become the new
League champion! Congratulations, Ash! You, Pikachu, and all your
Pokemon are Hall of Famers!"
As the Professor was examining Ash's Pokemon
(he was especially impressed with Pikachu), Ash's friends all
came into the room.
"Oh Ash! My sweet Ash!" Misty
swooned. She threw her arms around her boyfriend, the new Pokemon
Master, and began kissing his face many, many times, leaving
stains of her light pink lipstick everywhere her lips went.
"When Gary's Umbreon started confusing Pikachu, I was afraid
I'd have to spend the rest of my life cheering for that stuck-up
chia pet!" she said between kisses. "But our love has
deeply strengthened and created a permanent bond for the rest of
our lives, my hero!"
"Thanks, Misty," Ash said, the prints
of Misty's lips on his face more visible than his flesh. "I
couldn't have done it without you."
The winner takes all..
It's the thrill of one more kill...
The last one to fall...
Will never sacrifice their will...
Don't ever look back...
On the wind closing in...
The only attack...
Were their wings on the wind...
Oh the daydream begins...
And it's sweet, sweet, sweet
victory, yeah...
And it's ours for the taking...
It's ours for the fight...
And it's sweet, sweet, sweet
victory..YEAH!!...
And the world is ours to follooooooooooooooowah!!...
Sweet, sweet, sweet victory...
Later that day,
the six ex-members of Team Rocket were walking off into the
sunset, following the parade that was on their way to Pallet
Town. A party was being held in Ash's honor back at his house in
Pallet Town. They were commentating on the match they had just
watched.
"I can now see what was so special about
Pikachu that Giovanni was dying to have it before he even created
the MechaMew2," said James.
Jessie nodded in agreement. "Yes, any
Pokémon that can beat one far more powerful than itself..."
"...definitely exceeds its evolutionary
level!" Meowth finished the sentence.
"If you ask me," Cassidy interrupted,
"if the Boss's MechaMew2 was only lacking Thundershock and
Thunderbolt, why did he have to send you after that kid's
Pikachu? A Jolteon possesses a Thundershock, and an Elekid can
execute a Thunderbolt."
"Yeah, but Pikachu is da only known
Pokémon dat has both of dose attacks!" Meowth replied.
"What about its evolved form,
Raichu?" Butch asked. "Raichu has Thundershock and
Thunderbolt, too! You know, you could've stolen the Raichu from
that Gym Leader in Vermillion City."
"Well, we could've done that too,"
James considered. "Oh man! Why didn't we think of that
before?"
"Ah!" Butch smirked. "You two
never could think of an obvious solution!"
"But Raichus are far too powerful to be
captured!" Meowth answered. "If we tried to steal a
Raichu, we woulda had a blast-off more painful dan da ones we got
from Pikachu!"
"Will you guys cut that out?" Mondo
asked. "There's a big buffet in the Pallet Party, so let's
go!"
Wobbuffet's PokéBall opened up and released
him again. "Waaaaab!" he shouted.
"He didn't call for you, you blue
twit!" Jessie recalled him again.
"Hold on!" James stopped them.
"We just spent this last month cheering the good guys!"
"Yeah," Meowth said, "but we
shouldn't feel bad about it. After all, Giovanni fired us all,
and he's in jail now. We can all get back t'leadin' normal lives
now!"
Jessie, James, Butch, Cassidy, and Mondo all
nodded in agreement.
"Now let's go grab dat buffet dat we never
could get unda Giovanni's rule!"
As the six of them started running after the
crowd of people in front of them, Wobbuffet's PokéBall released
him again. Looking ahead, the little blue idiotic Pokémon saw
his trainer running off with her friends, and immediately
followed, yelling in his own language. What he obviously meant to
say was "Wait for me! I wanna party too!"
Epilogue
It had been ten years ever since Ash and
Pikachu first set out on their journey. A lot of things had
happened in the years that followed Ash's victory over Gary in
the Pokemon League.
Giovanni was still in prison, but the Rocket
Executives rose to power and taken control of Team Rocket. Hold
on, I already mentioned that. Well, there was still Team Aqua and
Team Magma to worry about. But Team Rocket was able to shut down
the operations by those two amateur teams.
Gary, having lost at the Pokémon League once
again, took over the job of the Gym Leader of Viridian City.
Despite having been such a jerk, he became friends with Ash
again. He also found love with a trainer named Mileena Yellow.
Brock married Suzie, the Pokemon Breeder who
had lent him her Vulpix. After all, she was the only girl who
didn't trash him like the other girls did.
Tracey, still without a wife, stayed Professor
Oak's lab assistant. I don't know if he found his own girl or
not.
Gary's older sister, May Oak, became a Pokémon
groomer. She worked every day from 3:00 to 4:00 PM.
Jessie and James got married and had a
daughter, whom they named Miya, after Jessie's mother. Meowth had
stayed with them the whole time. Mondo had also been there to
help them with their parenthood, although he was rather jealous
that Jessie, his secret crush, was already married.
Butch and Cassidy realized that there was more
to love power than loving power. They were last seen heading off
towards Purity Canyon. No one knows what happened to them. They
probably eloped.
Ash and Misty spent their adolescent years
dating and got married when they were old enough. Needless to
say, almost everyone mentioned above was invited. (Except
Giovanni, of course.) They had two kids who are currently unnamed
at the moment.
And I, the narrator, was finally able to retire
in peace after spending five years of my life narrating this
whole goddang series!!!! So long, Pokémon characters!! The next
time you hear me, I'm going to be on the vacation I've been
waiting 300 episodes for!
So there you have it! This story's finally done! Now I can get to work on my other fanfics!
