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Marysa, Moon Blade the Shadow demon for Chaos, Magma Wolf Haephestus for
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and Kerrigan, Darksortie (my brother) for Selene Gladius and Medigo,
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Julian May, and Hieica for Veronika Misakori. I don't own pokémon and I
never will.
A/N: I have decided to write the chapters and post them in the order of characters I have received. After the next two parts the order of the chapters will change.
To the reviewers:
Magma Wolf Haephestus: As stated above, after the next two parts the order will change.
Phoenix Feather: I haven't replaced any other chapters lately.
To everyone else, thank you for you support!
Perspective 2 Chapter 2: The battle's end and an adventure's beginning
Raynor meet D-1's charge head on. The blastoise collided with the feraligatr in a skull bash, but the water type countered immediately with a dynamic punch to the face sending the water type across the parking lot and into a parked car. The ditto turned and slashed John out of a quick attack. There was the sound of two pokéballs opening and a flash of white and Gloria's slowbro appeared along with Whitney's clefairy.
[Trader, try psychic,] Gloria ordered her eyes glowing blue. The water/psychic type attacked with a massive blast, boosted by her trainer's additional psychic input. The ground was blasted in a trench toward to the transformed normal type. But the ditto protected itself with a Protect. The powerful attack just rippled around it. It countered with a Crunch, lunging forward and biting down on the water types shoulder. The ditto bit down so hard that everyone could hear the bone snap. D-1 threw trader across the parking lot to land on the injured shoulder. Blood oozed on to the ground as both trainer and pokémon screamed in pain.
"Are you now regretting you psychic connection? Are you now starting to understand the definition of the word battle? I don't think so. but you will," Maestro said softly. "D-1, kill the bird now." The ditto was being pushed back by the combined might of an ice beam and a gust. D-1 nodded behind its arms then dodged to the left out of the way of the attacks.
"Oh no you don't! Clefairy, head-butt!" Whitney commanded. The normal type hit the charging water type. The ditto backhanded the normal type into dreamland. D-1 threw his head back, and then whipped it forward unleashing a blizzard at John from its mouth. John dodged by darting straight up.
"Good, now attack with Mirror Move!" Jean-Paul exclaimed.
"Raynor, attack with Rapid Spin!" Ryan ordered. Whitney called out her miltank as the pidgeot flapped in place with his eyes closed. A shimming field appeared in front of him, then a blast of ice, snow and wind shot out. Raynor started his charge toward D-1, timing his attack to hit right after the bird's attack.
Whitney knelt next to Gloria who had recalled her pokémon, but was still kneeling holding her shoulder.
"Hey, we could use your help," the Goldenrod Gym leader said. She looked back to see D-1 dodge the blizzard and grab Raynor as the blastoise attacked. The transformed ditto caught the water type after he entered his shell and was flying toward it like a huge oversized discus. It span around with the impact and threw Raynor at John who was still recovering. The spinning blastoise hit the surprised bird and took them both to the ground. D-1 charged them and as it did it transformed into a jolteon and leapt above them both.
"Thunder!" Maestro ordered with a laugh. A massive blast of electricity struck down and quick illuminated the other two pokémon in a column of electricity. D-1 continued to pump out the voltage into the pokémon who tried to scream in pain but couldn't.
"You're killing them!" Jean-Paul exclaimed. He tried to recall his pidgeot, but the electric energy stopped the beam. Ryan tried and failed as well. Maestro laughed at their attempts, and laughed even harder when Whitney and Gloria's miltank hit her ditto with a double rollout.
"Your attempts to defeat me amuse me so. I shiver in anticipation for the killing strike," She said. "D-1 transform again!" The transformed normal type morphed into a poliwrath. The newly transformed water/fighting type instantly used Protect to block the incoming normal types who tried to plow it down. Whitney's miltank was launched into the air by the shimmering shield of white energy and Gloria's was stopped cold. "Submission, on the other one!" she ordered. Maestro's pokémon charged Whitney's miltank in a blur of speed. As the cow got up the D-1 speared her then broke her left front leg. The shock and the power of the attack instantly knocked her out. Whitney recalled her before D-1 broke her neck.
"That's my last one," she whispered. "How could you allow your pokémon to that to another pokémon?!"
"Simply put, she's nuts," Ryan said, sending out his growlithe Flare.
"And we're going to stop her here," Jean-Paul said calling out his Charizard Paul.
"What are you two doing, she's got a water type now?" Gloria asked looking up from checking her own miltank.
"It doesn't matter, seeing how she just can have her pokémon change into any other pokémon to give her the advantage," Ryan snapped back. "Flare, Dragonbreath!"
"Paul, attack with Dragon Rage from the air," Jean-Paul told his massive red dragon. "You can dodge easier at long range."
"Bully, attack at a distance with Hyper Beam!" Gloria said. Blue fire gathered In Paul's mouth as the mighty charizard took to the air. A greenish blue aura surrounded Flare as he howled to the skies. And Gloria's miltank put both of her foe-hooves together and a ball of orange white energy formed in front of her as the area around her darkened.
"Counter them all with hydro pump! Show them your power!" Maestro screamed. As Paul fired a stream of blue fire, Flare unleashed a torrent of green flame, and Bully let the hyper beam blaze. D-1 fired a massive column of water at Flare as it rushed toward the standing pokémon. The other two pokémon attacks hit where it was a moment after it moved, creating an explosion. The water cut through the weaker dragon type attack and hit the growlithe dead on. This time before D-1 could continue to hurt his falling pokémon Ryan quickly recalled his pokémon and replaced him with his machoke. D-1 however didn't cease his attack but instead redirected the stream of water up into the air and grazed Paul who had just recovered from his attack. The three pokémon paused as the smoke cleared from the explosion of the colliding attacks.
Ryan broke the stillness by calling out the next attack. "Ronso, vital throw." His fighting type charged D-1.
"Paul, wing attack, but let Ronso go first," Jean-Paul said. (Maybe if we change the timing of our attacks.)
"It's useless!" Maestro exclaimed. Her pokémon transformed into a xatu just as the fighting type reached it. Ronso was not detoured and threw the new flying/psychic type. The transformed ditto was sent head over heals, and Paul charged in to capitalize on this fact. Gloria waited as Bully needed sometime to recover from that hyper beam. But something happened that no one could expect. The ditto recovered in mid-air and released a devastating psychic attack. The blue white pulse blasted outward, disintegrating the ground under D-1. The wave knocked out Paul and Bully, throwing both pokémon away from the ditto. As D-1 floated down over the crater it created it glared at the fighting type.
"Ronso come back, there is no way for you to win this battle," Ryan said pulling up his pokéball to recall his pokémon. A lance of energy nearly hit him and he flinched away. The energy spear Maestro fired at him hit a car a few feet behind him, blowing it up.
"There are only two ways of this battlefield. By walking over the bodies of D-1 and I, or into the embrace of death," Maestro hissed. "This is a true battle, now child."
Ryan glared at her in defiance and pulled up his pokéball from his side, when Maestro pointed her hand, palm out, toward Whitney.
"Tell me boy, do you think she can dodge my attack?" she asked softly. "Or do you think she would be the first casualty?"
Ryan growled in frustration then yelled, "Ronso, Focus Energy!" Gloria released her misdreavus, Mover.
"If that's how we have to win, Zap Cannon!" Gloria ordered. Her hyper active ghost complied and fired a blast of electric energy at the transformed pokémon, but D-1 dodged by teleporting out of the way.
"D-1 use Nightshade on that machoke next," Maestro ordered. Her pokémon complied and fired a blast of concentrated ghost energy. As Ronso was hit he rushed through the beam and struck D-1 with a karate chop. This stunned him enough for Mover to hit him with a Shadow Ball. The ghost type move knocked D-1 out of the air, but cost Ronso as he prolonged his contact with D-1's Nightshade. So he couldn't dodge the Psychic counter attack. The fighting type fainted, but D-1 was starting to show signs of fatigue.
(Just a bit longer and we may have them,) Gloria thought. "Mover attack it with another Shadow Ball!"
"Moronic brat! I'm not done. Psychic!" Maestro ordered. D-1 hovered up and an aura of blue energy surrounded it, then a blast of psychic energy was unleashed against the floating ghost. She tired to dodge the wave of mental energy, but was hit and blasted to the ground. Gloria recalled her falling pokémon, and sent out her next pokémon, her magmar Shaker. Ryan also sent out his next to last pokémon, his eevee, Auir.
"Shaker, flamethrower!" Gloria ordered.
"Auir, Body Slam, but be careful!" Ryan ordered. The fire type sent out a stream of fire, but this time D-1 took the hit head on sending it to the ground. The evolution pokémon managed to jump in the air and came down on the downed ditto, crushing it to the ground. D-1 teleported away and in to the air, but both trainers could see the last hit managed to partially paralyze it.
"Enough. D-1 transform one last time and kill them all," Maestro ordered. The ditto transformed into a rhydon, falling from the air and smashing two holes in the pavement. "Earthquake!"
D-1 complied, a bit slower but just as powerful. A shockwave of energy shot across the ground from where the transformed ditto stomped the ground. Auir managed to leap over it, but the heaver Shaker took the attack head on and was blasted away in to dream land.
"Well that was the last pokémon I had that would be of any use," Gloria mumbled to herself calling her fainted fire type back. Jean-Paul got her attention by walking up to her as she looked forlornly at the pokéball containing her last pokémon.
"Gloria, don't call that one out. If worst comes to worst, we might need our last pokémon to get away. I have one left to use excluding Penguin here," he said pointing to the pidgey hovering over his shoulder.
"Well I have a teddiursa, but that's it," Gloria whispered back.
"Good, I have a onix. We can hold out inside the gym. I think Ryan may have one more as well, so when he tosses out his last one we jump in," he said. Gloria nodded and watched Auir fight D-1.
"Sand-attack!" Ryan order as D-1 charged his pokémon in a Take Down. The smaller eevee's aim was dead on and the blinding grit hit the charging pokémon in the eyes. So it was child's play to dodge the transformed normal type. "Alright, give it an Iron Tail."
Auir complied and rushed the stumbling ditto and hit it across the back of the head with her tail, which was glowing with grey white energy. The ditto staggered toward Maestro who stood with her arms crossed.
"Horn Drill!" Maestro ordered. "It seems I am going to have to actually try in order to kill you all." The ditto's horn started to spin and Auir braced herself. But something unexpected happened. A Blizzard attack came from the roof of the gym and slammed in to D-1, bowling him over and sending the ditto rolling into his trainer. The two went rolling back and they hit a parked mini-van. D-1 started to glow white and shrink. A moment latter the ditto was back in its natural shape and quite unconscious on top of the back of Maestro's head. The masked trainer was sprawled out on the ground, face down and motionless.
The three trainers, the gym leader, and two pokémon stared at the ditto and its trainer then turned to look at the roof where the final attack was launched. On the top of it a teenage boy was standing on it. He was wearing black jeans with a matching shirt. He was wearing black sneakers and had black hair with brown eyes.
Next to him was a very large and very powerful looking nidoking with a crimson-brown stone hanging from a necklace around his neck. The nidoking fired an ice beam, creating a slide of ice up from the ground and the two slid down to ground level.
"Thanks for the help! For a moment." Whitney started to say as she was walking to the teen, but he ignored her. He walked right by her and went over toward the downed Maestro.
"I know that one little hit hasn't taken you down. Get up now!" He said. Maestro suddenly jumped to her feet and faced the teen and his pokémon who started to charge her. She recalled her ditto with her left hand and pulled up a grey sphere with her right.
"Answers are not fore-coming at this moment, Draco. Some other time perhaps," She said throwing the smoke bomb down. A cloud of smoke quickly obscured her from view. When Jean-Paul had Penguin blow the smoke away, she was gone.
"Cures, she got away again," the boy she address as Draco said.
"Nidoking," his pokémon said shrugging.
"Um.excuse me, but do you know that nutcase?" Gloria asked.
Draco nodded then said, "She was there when my home town was destroyed by a strange flying object. Gorkamorka and I have been tracking her to see if can get some answers. But it's been hard. She has six level one hundred ditto that have been trained to transform into almost any pokémon and she has those gloves that can fire explosive bolts, a mask that makes it impossible to read her mind, and she has super human strength, speed, endurance and agility. She's also blood thirsty and seems to get off on pain, hers or others."
"Sounds like quite a package. But, shouldn't we get our pokémon to the pokémon center?" Gloria asked. The others realized her point and the group headed there.
The group gave their pokémon to the resident Nurse Joy along with an explanation how some of them had gotten in to the condition they were in. She rushed Whitney's miltank, Gloria's slowking, Ryan's blastoise, and Jean- Paul's pidgeot to intensive care, and went about restoring the others. The four trainers whose pokémon received such terrible damage sat quietly. Especially Gloria, whose psychic connection allowed her to feel everything her pokémon was going through.
"Why don't you close you connection?" Whitney asked when she saw how pale the girl was.
"Can't and won't. It's so deep now, that we are a part of each other. At some level I would still know. Plus I can offer some comfort and dampen some of the pain," Gloria said shaking her head.
"Since you ladies and gentlemen will be here for awhile, I have to move on. I don't want Maestro to get to far away," Draco said.
"I understand," Ryan said. "Thanks for the assist."
"Don't thank me. That ditto was going to go down with the next strong blow anyway. I'll I did was make sure she didn't change it into a golem or something and self-destruct," the trainer in black said. His nidoking walked up to him and tapped him on the shoulder. "Well this is goodbye." With that he turned and left.
"The same goes for me. When Raynor gets healed, I have somewhere else to go." Ryan said.
"Well, I guess I'll stick with you Gloria. If what you say about psychic connections is true, then you might need some help," Jean-Paul said. Gloria nodded.
"I guess I'll wait a bit before getting my Plain Badge, then I'm heading to Ilex Forest," the psychic trainer said.
"Here," Whitney said, tossing something to Gloria. The twelve-year-old girl caught the object and looked at it. What she had in her hand was a Plain Badge.
"What's this for?" She asked.
"I was watching you out there. With my star battler out of commission, I can't hope to beat you with just clefairy. So I'm giving you the Badge," Whitney said. Gloria nodded then leaned back and dozed off. Several hours pasted, then Jean-Paul, who had Nurse Joy standing next to him, shook her awake. She looked around and noticed that she was now reclining in a cot, which was in one of the back rooms.
"Your pokémon are healed. I wouldn't have your slowking battle for the next few weeks. Also give her this medication twice a day for the next week," Nurse Joy said.
"Alright," Gloria said softly, still somewhat pale. She put on the pokéballs that the Nurse gave her and stood up. She stood up and looked at Jean-Paul. "Shouldn't we go?" "Don't you want change cloths? You have been sleeping since yesterday afternoon. Then you might want to eat, and get some supplies," Jean-Paul suggested.
Gloria glanced out of the window and noticed it was morning. "Your right. So shoo and let me get ready to go," she said pushing Jean-Paul out.
Two hours later, the two trainers and Jean-Paul's pidgey, Penguin, where headed south toward Ilex Forest. The flying type was circling above them as the headed out.
"So Jean-Paul where are you from?" Gloria asked.
"Don't know. I believe somewhere in Kanto, but I can't remember clearly. I have been traveling around with my pokémon and seeing the sights. Where are you from," he asked.
"Saffron City. Since you told me a bit about your past, let me tell you some of mine. The psychic ability has been in my family for generations, so I spent my early years learning how to use it. Then I got my slowking, Trader. Of course she was a slowpoke. Then I went on my badge challenge. With this Plain Badge I now have six, and need only two more. Soon I will catch up with my older brother, and beat my rival, Artemis into the ground!" She exclaimed.
"It's great that you have a goal. Maybe I'll travel with you. I don't have anything else to do, and it will give me some direction," he mused.
"Are you asking to come with me?" Gloria asked with a smile.
"Perhaps." Jean-Paul said nervously.
"Hey you two!" a voice called out to them. They both turned to there left to find someone approaching them. Jean-Paul whistled and Penguin landed on his shoulder. It was a teenager who looked like he was about seventeen or eighteen. He had black hair and was wearing a dark blue jacket with light blue sleeves, white sneakers, a blue backpack and basic blue jeans. When he got closer they saw he had only one eye. His left eye was scared with three slash marks, and his right eye was odd as well. The iris was red, and had a star shape in it that changed colors when the sunlight hit it. At his side a ninetales ran next to him. He stopped in front of them and took a couple of deep breaths. "You two are pokémon trainers, aren't you?" he asked.
"Yes, why?" Gloria asked cautiously.
"Well I need some help. Have you ever heard of the ghost of Ilex Forest?" Seeing their confused looks, he explained. "There have been reports of a strange creature in Ilex Forest, along with sightings of Team Rocket. I am heading to check it out, but I would feel better if I had someone to help me out. I believe it might be a new pokémon."
"A new pokémon? I'd be happy to just see something like that. Sure, I'll go!" Jean-Paul said.
"Sure why not? I'm going that way anyway. How hard could be to search the forest?" Gloria said. "And I don't like rocket members either so any chance to mess them up is good."
"Then let's get going. But before we go let me tell you my name. It's Isaac and this is Nina." Isaac said pointing himself then to his ninetales.
"I'm Gloria," she said.
"And I'm Jean-Paul, and this is Penguin," he said indicating himself then his pidgey.
"Now that we are introduced, let's go. Adventure awaits!" Gloria said rushing off.
"Is she always like that?" Isaac asked Jean-Paul.
"I have no clue. I just met her yesterday," he answered shrugging. "But we better go after her or she will find the ghost before us." Jean-Paul said jogging after her.
"Are you sure about this Isaac?" Nina asked as soon as Jean-Paul got out of hearing range.
"Positive. Just be sure they don't hear you talking in human language just yet," he responded. He then jogged after Jean-Paul and Gloria.
"Well at least I won't be bored," Nina said, and then she dashed after her trainer and friend under the blue sky.
A/N: I have decided to write the chapters and post them in the order of characters I have received. After the next two parts the order of the chapters will change.
To the reviewers:
Magma Wolf Haephestus: As stated above, after the next two parts the order will change.
Phoenix Feather: I haven't replaced any other chapters lately.
To everyone else, thank you for you support!
Perspective 2 Chapter 2: The battle's end and an adventure's beginning
Raynor meet D-1's charge head on. The blastoise collided with the feraligatr in a skull bash, but the water type countered immediately with a dynamic punch to the face sending the water type across the parking lot and into a parked car. The ditto turned and slashed John out of a quick attack. There was the sound of two pokéballs opening and a flash of white and Gloria's slowbro appeared along with Whitney's clefairy.
[Trader, try psychic,] Gloria ordered her eyes glowing blue. The water/psychic type attacked with a massive blast, boosted by her trainer's additional psychic input. The ground was blasted in a trench toward to the transformed normal type. But the ditto protected itself with a Protect. The powerful attack just rippled around it. It countered with a Crunch, lunging forward and biting down on the water types shoulder. The ditto bit down so hard that everyone could hear the bone snap. D-1 threw trader across the parking lot to land on the injured shoulder. Blood oozed on to the ground as both trainer and pokémon screamed in pain.
"Are you now regretting you psychic connection? Are you now starting to understand the definition of the word battle? I don't think so. but you will," Maestro said softly. "D-1, kill the bird now." The ditto was being pushed back by the combined might of an ice beam and a gust. D-1 nodded behind its arms then dodged to the left out of the way of the attacks.
"Oh no you don't! Clefairy, head-butt!" Whitney commanded. The normal type hit the charging water type. The ditto backhanded the normal type into dreamland. D-1 threw his head back, and then whipped it forward unleashing a blizzard at John from its mouth. John dodged by darting straight up.
"Good, now attack with Mirror Move!" Jean-Paul exclaimed.
"Raynor, attack with Rapid Spin!" Ryan ordered. Whitney called out her miltank as the pidgeot flapped in place with his eyes closed. A shimming field appeared in front of him, then a blast of ice, snow and wind shot out. Raynor started his charge toward D-1, timing his attack to hit right after the bird's attack.
Whitney knelt next to Gloria who had recalled her pokémon, but was still kneeling holding her shoulder.
"Hey, we could use your help," the Goldenrod Gym leader said. She looked back to see D-1 dodge the blizzard and grab Raynor as the blastoise attacked. The transformed ditto caught the water type after he entered his shell and was flying toward it like a huge oversized discus. It span around with the impact and threw Raynor at John who was still recovering. The spinning blastoise hit the surprised bird and took them both to the ground. D-1 charged them and as it did it transformed into a jolteon and leapt above them both.
"Thunder!" Maestro ordered with a laugh. A massive blast of electricity struck down and quick illuminated the other two pokémon in a column of electricity. D-1 continued to pump out the voltage into the pokémon who tried to scream in pain but couldn't.
"You're killing them!" Jean-Paul exclaimed. He tried to recall his pidgeot, but the electric energy stopped the beam. Ryan tried and failed as well. Maestro laughed at their attempts, and laughed even harder when Whitney and Gloria's miltank hit her ditto with a double rollout.
"Your attempts to defeat me amuse me so. I shiver in anticipation for the killing strike," She said. "D-1 transform again!" The transformed normal type morphed into a poliwrath. The newly transformed water/fighting type instantly used Protect to block the incoming normal types who tried to plow it down. Whitney's miltank was launched into the air by the shimmering shield of white energy and Gloria's was stopped cold. "Submission, on the other one!" she ordered. Maestro's pokémon charged Whitney's miltank in a blur of speed. As the cow got up the D-1 speared her then broke her left front leg. The shock and the power of the attack instantly knocked her out. Whitney recalled her before D-1 broke her neck.
"That's my last one," she whispered. "How could you allow your pokémon to that to another pokémon?!"
"Simply put, she's nuts," Ryan said, sending out his growlithe Flare.
"And we're going to stop her here," Jean-Paul said calling out his Charizard Paul.
"What are you two doing, she's got a water type now?" Gloria asked looking up from checking her own miltank.
"It doesn't matter, seeing how she just can have her pokémon change into any other pokémon to give her the advantage," Ryan snapped back. "Flare, Dragonbreath!"
"Paul, attack with Dragon Rage from the air," Jean-Paul told his massive red dragon. "You can dodge easier at long range."
"Bully, attack at a distance with Hyper Beam!" Gloria said. Blue fire gathered In Paul's mouth as the mighty charizard took to the air. A greenish blue aura surrounded Flare as he howled to the skies. And Gloria's miltank put both of her foe-hooves together and a ball of orange white energy formed in front of her as the area around her darkened.
"Counter them all with hydro pump! Show them your power!" Maestro screamed. As Paul fired a stream of blue fire, Flare unleashed a torrent of green flame, and Bully let the hyper beam blaze. D-1 fired a massive column of water at Flare as it rushed toward the standing pokémon. The other two pokémon attacks hit where it was a moment after it moved, creating an explosion. The water cut through the weaker dragon type attack and hit the growlithe dead on. This time before D-1 could continue to hurt his falling pokémon Ryan quickly recalled his pokémon and replaced him with his machoke. D-1 however didn't cease his attack but instead redirected the stream of water up into the air and grazed Paul who had just recovered from his attack. The three pokémon paused as the smoke cleared from the explosion of the colliding attacks.
Ryan broke the stillness by calling out the next attack. "Ronso, vital throw." His fighting type charged D-1.
"Paul, wing attack, but let Ronso go first," Jean-Paul said. (Maybe if we change the timing of our attacks.)
"It's useless!" Maestro exclaimed. Her pokémon transformed into a xatu just as the fighting type reached it. Ronso was not detoured and threw the new flying/psychic type. The transformed ditto was sent head over heals, and Paul charged in to capitalize on this fact. Gloria waited as Bully needed sometime to recover from that hyper beam. But something happened that no one could expect. The ditto recovered in mid-air and released a devastating psychic attack. The blue white pulse blasted outward, disintegrating the ground under D-1. The wave knocked out Paul and Bully, throwing both pokémon away from the ditto. As D-1 floated down over the crater it created it glared at the fighting type.
"Ronso come back, there is no way for you to win this battle," Ryan said pulling up his pokéball to recall his pokémon. A lance of energy nearly hit him and he flinched away. The energy spear Maestro fired at him hit a car a few feet behind him, blowing it up.
"There are only two ways of this battlefield. By walking over the bodies of D-1 and I, or into the embrace of death," Maestro hissed. "This is a true battle, now child."
Ryan glared at her in defiance and pulled up his pokéball from his side, when Maestro pointed her hand, palm out, toward Whitney.
"Tell me boy, do you think she can dodge my attack?" she asked softly. "Or do you think she would be the first casualty?"
Ryan growled in frustration then yelled, "Ronso, Focus Energy!" Gloria released her misdreavus, Mover.
"If that's how we have to win, Zap Cannon!" Gloria ordered. Her hyper active ghost complied and fired a blast of electric energy at the transformed pokémon, but D-1 dodged by teleporting out of the way.
"D-1 use Nightshade on that machoke next," Maestro ordered. Her pokémon complied and fired a blast of concentrated ghost energy. As Ronso was hit he rushed through the beam and struck D-1 with a karate chop. This stunned him enough for Mover to hit him with a Shadow Ball. The ghost type move knocked D-1 out of the air, but cost Ronso as he prolonged his contact with D-1's Nightshade. So he couldn't dodge the Psychic counter attack. The fighting type fainted, but D-1 was starting to show signs of fatigue.
(Just a bit longer and we may have them,) Gloria thought. "Mover attack it with another Shadow Ball!"
"Moronic brat! I'm not done. Psychic!" Maestro ordered. D-1 hovered up and an aura of blue energy surrounded it, then a blast of psychic energy was unleashed against the floating ghost. She tired to dodge the wave of mental energy, but was hit and blasted to the ground. Gloria recalled her falling pokémon, and sent out her next pokémon, her magmar Shaker. Ryan also sent out his next to last pokémon, his eevee, Auir.
"Shaker, flamethrower!" Gloria ordered.
"Auir, Body Slam, but be careful!" Ryan ordered. The fire type sent out a stream of fire, but this time D-1 took the hit head on sending it to the ground. The evolution pokémon managed to jump in the air and came down on the downed ditto, crushing it to the ground. D-1 teleported away and in to the air, but both trainers could see the last hit managed to partially paralyze it.
"Enough. D-1 transform one last time and kill them all," Maestro ordered. The ditto transformed into a rhydon, falling from the air and smashing two holes in the pavement. "Earthquake!"
D-1 complied, a bit slower but just as powerful. A shockwave of energy shot across the ground from where the transformed ditto stomped the ground. Auir managed to leap over it, but the heaver Shaker took the attack head on and was blasted away in to dream land.
"Well that was the last pokémon I had that would be of any use," Gloria mumbled to herself calling her fainted fire type back. Jean-Paul got her attention by walking up to her as she looked forlornly at the pokéball containing her last pokémon.
"Gloria, don't call that one out. If worst comes to worst, we might need our last pokémon to get away. I have one left to use excluding Penguin here," he said pointing to the pidgey hovering over his shoulder.
"Well I have a teddiursa, but that's it," Gloria whispered back.
"Good, I have a onix. We can hold out inside the gym. I think Ryan may have one more as well, so when he tosses out his last one we jump in," he said. Gloria nodded and watched Auir fight D-1.
"Sand-attack!" Ryan order as D-1 charged his pokémon in a Take Down. The smaller eevee's aim was dead on and the blinding grit hit the charging pokémon in the eyes. So it was child's play to dodge the transformed normal type. "Alright, give it an Iron Tail."
Auir complied and rushed the stumbling ditto and hit it across the back of the head with her tail, which was glowing with grey white energy. The ditto staggered toward Maestro who stood with her arms crossed.
"Horn Drill!" Maestro ordered. "It seems I am going to have to actually try in order to kill you all." The ditto's horn started to spin and Auir braced herself. But something unexpected happened. A Blizzard attack came from the roof of the gym and slammed in to D-1, bowling him over and sending the ditto rolling into his trainer. The two went rolling back and they hit a parked mini-van. D-1 started to glow white and shrink. A moment latter the ditto was back in its natural shape and quite unconscious on top of the back of Maestro's head. The masked trainer was sprawled out on the ground, face down and motionless.
The three trainers, the gym leader, and two pokémon stared at the ditto and its trainer then turned to look at the roof where the final attack was launched. On the top of it a teenage boy was standing on it. He was wearing black jeans with a matching shirt. He was wearing black sneakers and had black hair with brown eyes.
Next to him was a very large and very powerful looking nidoking with a crimson-brown stone hanging from a necklace around his neck. The nidoking fired an ice beam, creating a slide of ice up from the ground and the two slid down to ground level.
"Thanks for the help! For a moment." Whitney started to say as she was walking to the teen, but he ignored her. He walked right by her and went over toward the downed Maestro.
"I know that one little hit hasn't taken you down. Get up now!" He said. Maestro suddenly jumped to her feet and faced the teen and his pokémon who started to charge her. She recalled her ditto with her left hand and pulled up a grey sphere with her right.
"Answers are not fore-coming at this moment, Draco. Some other time perhaps," She said throwing the smoke bomb down. A cloud of smoke quickly obscured her from view. When Jean-Paul had Penguin blow the smoke away, she was gone.
"Cures, she got away again," the boy she address as Draco said.
"Nidoking," his pokémon said shrugging.
"Um.excuse me, but do you know that nutcase?" Gloria asked.
Draco nodded then said, "She was there when my home town was destroyed by a strange flying object. Gorkamorka and I have been tracking her to see if can get some answers. But it's been hard. She has six level one hundred ditto that have been trained to transform into almost any pokémon and she has those gloves that can fire explosive bolts, a mask that makes it impossible to read her mind, and she has super human strength, speed, endurance and agility. She's also blood thirsty and seems to get off on pain, hers or others."
"Sounds like quite a package. But, shouldn't we get our pokémon to the pokémon center?" Gloria asked. The others realized her point and the group headed there.
The group gave their pokémon to the resident Nurse Joy along with an explanation how some of them had gotten in to the condition they were in. She rushed Whitney's miltank, Gloria's slowking, Ryan's blastoise, and Jean- Paul's pidgeot to intensive care, and went about restoring the others. The four trainers whose pokémon received such terrible damage sat quietly. Especially Gloria, whose psychic connection allowed her to feel everything her pokémon was going through.
"Why don't you close you connection?" Whitney asked when she saw how pale the girl was.
"Can't and won't. It's so deep now, that we are a part of each other. At some level I would still know. Plus I can offer some comfort and dampen some of the pain," Gloria said shaking her head.
"Since you ladies and gentlemen will be here for awhile, I have to move on. I don't want Maestro to get to far away," Draco said.
"I understand," Ryan said. "Thanks for the assist."
"Don't thank me. That ditto was going to go down with the next strong blow anyway. I'll I did was make sure she didn't change it into a golem or something and self-destruct," the trainer in black said. His nidoking walked up to him and tapped him on the shoulder. "Well this is goodbye." With that he turned and left.
"The same goes for me. When Raynor gets healed, I have somewhere else to go." Ryan said.
"Well, I guess I'll stick with you Gloria. If what you say about psychic connections is true, then you might need some help," Jean-Paul said. Gloria nodded.
"I guess I'll wait a bit before getting my Plain Badge, then I'm heading to Ilex Forest," the psychic trainer said.
"Here," Whitney said, tossing something to Gloria. The twelve-year-old girl caught the object and looked at it. What she had in her hand was a Plain Badge.
"What's this for?" She asked.
"I was watching you out there. With my star battler out of commission, I can't hope to beat you with just clefairy. So I'm giving you the Badge," Whitney said. Gloria nodded then leaned back and dozed off. Several hours pasted, then Jean-Paul, who had Nurse Joy standing next to him, shook her awake. She looked around and noticed that she was now reclining in a cot, which was in one of the back rooms.
"Your pokémon are healed. I wouldn't have your slowking battle for the next few weeks. Also give her this medication twice a day for the next week," Nurse Joy said.
"Alright," Gloria said softly, still somewhat pale. She put on the pokéballs that the Nurse gave her and stood up. She stood up and looked at Jean-Paul. "Shouldn't we go?" "Don't you want change cloths? You have been sleeping since yesterday afternoon. Then you might want to eat, and get some supplies," Jean-Paul suggested.
Gloria glanced out of the window and noticed it was morning. "Your right. So shoo and let me get ready to go," she said pushing Jean-Paul out.
Two hours later, the two trainers and Jean-Paul's pidgey, Penguin, where headed south toward Ilex Forest. The flying type was circling above them as the headed out.
"So Jean-Paul where are you from?" Gloria asked.
"Don't know. I believe somewhere in Kanto, but I can't remember clearly. I have been traveling around with my pokémon and seeing the sights. Where are you from," he asked.
"Saffron City. Since you told me a bit about your past, let me tell you some of mine. The psychic ability has been in my family for generations, so I spent my early years learning how to use it. Then I got my slowking, Trader. Of course she was a slowpoke. Then I went on my badge challenge. With this Plain Badge I now have six, and need only two more. Soon I will catch up with my older brother, and beat my rival, Artemis into the ground!" She exclaimed.
"It's great that you have a goal. Maybe I'll travel with you. I don't have anything else to do, and it will give me some direction," he mused.
"Are you asking to come with me?" Gloria asked with a smile.
"Perhaps." Jean-Paul said nervously.
"Hey you two!" a voice called out to them. They both turned to there left to find someone approaching them. Jean-Paul whistled and Penguin landed on his shoulder. It was a teenager who looked like he was about seventeen or eighteen. He had black hair and was wearing a dark blue jacket with light blue sleeves, white sneakers, a blue backpack and basic blue jeans. When he got closer they saw he had only one eye. His left eye was scared with three slash marks, and his right eye was odd as well. The iris was red, and had a star shape in it that changed colors when the sunlight hit it. At his side a ninetales ran next to him. He stopped in front of them and took a couple of deep breaths. "You two are pokémon trainers, aren't you?" he asked.
"Yes, why?" Gloria asked cautiously.
"Well I need some help. Have you ever heard of the ghost of Ilex Forest?" Seeing their confused looks, he explained. "There have been reports of a strange creature in Ilex Forest, along with sightings of Team Rocket. I am heading to check it out, but I would feel better if I had someone to help me out. I believe it might be a new pokémon."
"A new pokémon? I'd be happy to just see something like that. Sure, I'll go!" Jean-Paul said.
"Sure why not? I'm going that way anyway. How hard could be to search the forest?" Gloria said. "And I don't like rocket members either so any chance to mess them up is good."
"Then let's get going. But before we go let me tell you my name. It's Isaac and this is Nina." Isaac said pointing himself then to his ninetales.
"I'm Gloria," she said.
"And I'm Jean-Paul, and this is Penguin," he said indicating himself then his pidgey.
"Now that we are introduced, let's go. Adventure awaits!" Gloria said rushing off.
"Is she always like that?" Isaac asked Jean-Paul.
"I have no clue. I just met her yesterday," he answered shrugging. "But we better go after her or she will find the ghost before us." Jean-Paul said jogging after her.
"Are you sure about this Isaac?" Nina asked as soon as Jean-Paul got out of hearing range.
"Positive. Just be sure they don't hear you talking in human language just yet," he responded. He then jogged after Jean-Paul and Gloria.
"Well at least I won't be bored," Nina said, and then she dashed after her trainer and friend under the blue sky.
