Chapter 19

"A Fight For Freedom"

"Mightyena, bite now!"  Maxie said eager to get this battle started.

"Golbat, use your wing attack!"  Archie called.

"Double Team, now!"  Maxie said calmly.

Now there were about 8 identical Mightyena's on the field.

"Arg…..  Golbat, use Leech Life!"  Archie said.

"Mightyena, Crunch it now!"  Maxie called.

Mightyena broke out of its Double Team and bit down hard on Golbat causing it to faint.

"This can't be happening!  Return, Golbat!"  Archie said rather disappointed.

"Next up will be Sharpedo!  GO!"  Archie called and yelled.

"Oh, boy this is going to get interesting."  Maxie thought as he looked at the rough skinned Pokemon.  Since Maxie knew that should his were to go down to this one Pokemon, that there would be no way for him to save Rosella.

In her mind, Rosella was silently cheering for Maxie. 

When Golbat fainted, she thought, "One down, two more to go."

Now Maxie was trying to come up with a strategy to beat Archie's Sharpedo.  He finally decided that he should try to use long range attacks, rather than by attacking close up.

"Are you going to attack or what?"  Archie asked sounding rather annoyed from the other side of the field.

"Yes, I'm going to!  I just needed to think for a minute!"  Maxie replied hastily.

"Whatever.  Let's get back to the battle."  Archie said.

"Sharpedo, Water Pulse attack!"  Archie commanded.

"Mightyena, dodge it and use Take Down!"  Maxie said.

Mightyena hit Sharpedo and was hurt a little from its rough skin, but Sharpedo had been greatly weakened.

"Use Water Sport!"  Archie said, clearly getting annoyed at the way this battle was going.

Maxie smirked because he had a plan to take down Sharpedo.

"Mightyena, use your Thunderbolt!"  Maxie yelled.

"Mightyena's don't learn electric moves."  Archie said shocked.

"This one did."  Maxie replied.

"How is that possible?"  Archie asked.

"It learned the move from a TM."  Maxie replied.

Mightyena charged up its Thunderbolt and fired it at Sharpedo.  When the attack hit Sharpedo, it promptly fainted from exhaustion.

Now Rosella was thinking to herself, "Two down, one more to go until I'll be free again."

"Sharpedo, return!"  Archie said angrily.

"Last up will be my own Mightyena!"  Archie said.

"In that case I choose to change Pokemon."  Maxie said.

With that Maxie recalled his Mightyena. 

Then Maxie said, "Go, Torkoal!"

Torkoal appeared from its poke ball and the final round began.

"Torkoal use flamethrower!"  Maxie yelled.

"Mightyena, use Odor Sleuth!"  Archie called.

Flamethrower hit Mightyena and hurt it pretty badly and inflicted a burn on it in the process.

"Arg….  Mightyena!"  Archie exclaimed.

Now Maxie turned back to Torkoal and said, "Finish it, use Overheat!"

Overheat hit Mightyena and it caused Mightyena to faint, meaning that Maxie had won and that Rosella was now free.

"No!…..  I can't believe I lost!"  Archie said, still holding onto Rosella tightly.

"It's time for you to live up to your part of the bargain, let Rosella go this instant!"

"Alright!  If you want her that badly, take her."  Archie said, pushing Rosella roughly toward Maxie causing her to fall and land in a heap.

"It wasn't necessary to be so rough with her."  Maxie said after Archie had let her go.

"Who cares, she's no longer any of my concern.  We will meet again, and when we do I shall have my revenge."  Archie said before he ran off.

Now that Archie was gone, Maxie and the grunt rushed over to where Rosella had fallen and helped her up.  Maxie was rather anxious to find out more about this girl besides what he had learned from Archie regarding her parents, and her life story.  But for now that would have to wait for awhile since they needed to make sure Rosella was okay.