Chapter 12 is my first attempt at making a gym battle take a whole episode (I'm trying to drag things out a bit so the juicy events of Enju City happen a little later). In it, you'll see the confirmed genders of a couple of Hiro's Pokemon. If anyone here is a fan of characters from the Raikou Crystal Special, you'll be very pleased to see the ending of this. Remember, feedback's very much appreciated.
chapter 12: AKANE'S LADY FIGHTERS
"WHAAAAAT!!!!" shouts Stelias in his bed as he looks down at a piece of paper. His heart monitor shows that he skipped a beat.
"Calm down, Stelias" says Hiro.
"I can't calm down. What the hell is this guy thinking charging me 2,000,000 en in property damage I wasn't even responsible for?!"
"Actually, you were at fault. People claim they saw you chase some kind of wild Pokemon into the area and continue pursuing and battling it to the middle of busy streets," says a man in a suit, likely a lawyer of some sort.
"That was not a wild Pokemon! That was a member of Rocket Dan!" shouts Stelias.
"Rocket Dan may be responsible for a lot of problems recently, but do not try blaming everything on them," says the lawyer. Stelias is looking really pissed at this point.
"Stelias-san is telling the truth. That was in fact a Pokemon from Rocket Dan," Hiro backs up Stelias.
"I'm sorry, but as long as there is no real evidence, all responsibility rests on you," says the lawyer.
Stelias looks like he just snapped. Cut to right outside the hospital door. We hear quite a few loud noises, and then the lawyer skitters out in a cartooney way as he holds a large bump on his head and leaks a few tears.
"Shouldn't you be going a bit easy on yourself in your condition?" asks Hiro.
"I'm fine. My burns don't bother me much, especially not compared to the situation I'm in now. Dammit, I was hoping to head back to Houen, but instead, I have to work hard to clean up the mess of some damned reptile!" Stelias is annoyed.
"I'm so sorry. You got into all of this trying to save me," regrets Hiro.
"Don't worry about it. If it wasn't for your Ibui waking up in the middle of the night, I wouldn't have known those 2 Unknown existed, and I could be leaving without them."
"Yeah, but this seems like a lot for me."
"Listen, I can handle myself. Don't freat too much about me when you could be going on your league journey."
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot about. I was meaning to battle this city's gym leader before Kiryuu showed up. You're right, I should go there right now. Goodbye, Stelias-san."
"Good luck, Hiro. Be sure to visit me in Houen sometime."
Hiro walks out of the hospital building and walks over to the Pokemon Center. Inside the center, he retrieves all his Pokemon except Ibui, who was already with Hiro and doing well. He's then seen walking and suddenly stops in front of a large department store building. It has police around it and a broken window up at the top.
"Did Kiryuu do this as well?" Hiro ponders. He suddenly noticed a TM on the ground, slightly banged up as if it fell from the very top of the building. It has the number 45 on it. He picks it up, but hears a voice shouting behind him.
"Hey, this store's suffered enough!" shouts Junsa.
"What?" asks Hiro.
"The store's been robbed by Rocket Dan earlier. During the incident, some objects like this fell on the ground. We were hoping to return them so the store can still have some items to sell."
"Sorry, sorry! Here, I'll pay for it!" says a startled Hiro as he pulls out a few paper bills, hands them to Junsa and runs off.
"Hmm.... how generous. He paid almost double the cost," says Junsa as she looks down at the bills.
He eventually comes up to a building with some kind of cow pastures around it. "Is this the right place?" Hiro wonders as he looks around the farm-like scenery.
He steps inside and is greeted by a girl. "Hello, are you here to battle our leader, Akane?" she asks.
"Uh... yeah," Hiro replies.
"Come this way, please."
"Can I ask you a question?"
"What is it?"
"Why is there a farm around here?"
"Akane has a preference for normal, non-elemental Pokemon. Her favorite type is Miltank. She likes it so much that she raises a farm full of them."
"Miltank? The Pokemon that produces milk?"
"Don't be fooled by that. It can actually be pretty powerful in battle." The girl finally stops and opens a door, which leads to a girl who's feeding a wad of hay to a Miltank.
"Excuse me, Akane-san. A trainer's here to battle you," says the girl who was leading Hiro.
"A trainer? Just show him to the battle field while I select my Pokemon," says Akane as she runs away.
"This way," the girl continues leading Hiro. She finally stops at a grassy field with white lines painted around it. Hiro goes over to one end.
"Akane-san will be here soon. Please wait a moment," says the girl as she picks up a couple of flags on the side of the ring.
"OK. Are you the judge?" Hiro asks.
"Yes. Akane's got most the girls here working on the Miltank farm, so I improvised by being the judge as well as the greeter."
"Girls?"
"Akane's got a huge preference towards her own sex. Even all of her Pokemon are female."
"Hmmm...." Hiro muses as he looks down at the TM 45.
Akane finally steps out to the battle field. "Oh, what a cute Ibui you have there. I'm so glad to see you're keeping it unevolved, unlike most trainers," she says as she pets Hiro's Ibui.
"Um, actually I do plan on evolving it. However, I don't know what yet," says Hiro.
Akane groans "So you are? Ibui are mostly boys anyway, so I don't think I should get myself interested."
"Can we battle already?"
"Fine. I'll go 3 on 3. Let's go Pukurin!" shouts Akane as she throws out her Monster Ball with Pukurin.
"Let's go, Booby!" Hiro tosses out Booby. It almost immediately uses Hinoko to shoot a few flaming sparks at Pukurin. Pukurin suffers a bit of damage, but runs up to Booby and uses Oufuku Binta to continually slap Booby a few times. Booby uses Enmaku to try blinding Pukurin with smoke, but in the smoke cloud, some singing can be heard.
"Pu, pu pu pu, pu pu pu, pu pu pu...." The Pukurin is using Utau to sing a lullabye that makes Booby drift to sleep. After Booby is sleeping, Pukurin comes out of the cloud and uses Sutemi Tackle to finish off Booby, but causes some damage to itself and collapses as well.
"Booby, you did great for a newborn," Hiro says as he recalls Booby to its ball. He then tosses out Tattsuu. Akane releases Happinurse.
"Tattsuu, use Tatsumaki!" Hiro commands as Tattsuu lets out a great whirling gale that picks up Happinurse and drops it to the ground.
Happinurse looks pretty damaged, but Akane commands "Happinurse, use your Tamago Umi technique!" The Happinurse takes the egg out of its pouch, cracks it, eats the yolk, and glows white to signify it recovered.
"Now, use Meromero!" Happinurse gets into a cute pose with hearts all around it, however, nothing happens to Tattsuu.
"Dammit, the Tattsuu is a female as well! In that case, use Solar Beam!" Happinurse is sitting there absorbing sun rays and glowing a light green.
"Now, Tattsuu, take this chance to attack it! Mizu Deppou!" Tattsuu shoots a stream of water at Happinurse. The water continually pelts Happinurse until it releases a beam of green energy that scorches Tattsuu. Hiro recalls it.
"Go Ibui! Finish it with Tosshin!" Ibui rams into Happinurse so hard that Ibui is damaged himself. Happinurse falls to the ground and Akane recalls it.
"I always save my best Pokemon for last. Finish this kid off, Miltank!" she says as she tosses out a Monster Ball that releases a Miltank.
"Use Korogaru!" Akane commands. Miltank rolls up into a ball and starts rolling at Ibui. Ibui gets out of the way. The ball rolls back again, but Ibui dodges again.
"Ibui, attack the wheel from the side!" Ibui dodges the ball again, but this time, immediately jumps back and strikes it from the side just as it passes by. This causes the ball to break back into Miltank and its side is slammed onto the ground from the impact. Miltank gets back up, only to be rammed into by Ibui yet again.
"Hurry Miltank, use Milk Nomi!" Miltank grabs its utter and squirts milk into its mouth. Hiro cringes, slightly disgusted at what it just did. Miltank, like Happinurse, glows white because it just recovered its health.
"Now, Miltank, it's time to keep this Ibui from touching you. Use Merome...."
"Meromero, Ibui!" Hiro interrupts.
"What?!" Akane is shocked as Ibui gets into a pose with hearts around it and causes Miltank to have hearts in its eyes.
"Impossible! You teach your Pokemon Meromero too?" asks Akane.
"Not until now. I happened to come across this Technique Machine," Hiro says as he shows Akane half of the empty white box with 45 on it.
"When your judge told me you use female Pokemon, I took the opportunity to teach Ibui it right then and there. I wasn't sure about what Pokemon to teach it to, because I never got confirmation on their genders. However, I heard somewhere that Ibui have a larger gender ratio of male to female, so I chose it," he continues.
"So you gambled? If you're gonna play with odds, I'll play with them too. Come on Miltank, you still have some chance of pulling off an attack! Taiatari!" Akane commands, but Miltank just sits there with hearts in its eyes.
"Korogaru! Noshikakari! Something!" Akane desperately tries to get Miltank to attack.
"Akane, you've already lost this battle. Ibui, go all out!" Hiro shouts as Ibui runs up and rams Miltank repeatedly, and Miltank falls down after a few attacks. Miltank looks unconscious, but it still has giant hearts in its eyes.
"Nooooo!!! Miltank!!!!" Akane shouts.
"Dammit....." she curses as she recalls it to its ball.
"Yattaaa! We won yet another gym battle!" Hiro announces as he dances joyishly with Ibui (Ibui's standing up with its paws being held by Hiro, who's bending).
Akane comes up to him and puts a badge in his hand. "It's the Regular Badge. This is your reward for beating me."
Hiro looks at for a moment, puts it in a box with the other 2. "Thank you!" Hiro says as he walks away with Ibui.
Hiro is now seen walking along the road just outside of the city. "Hehe, isn't this great Ibui? We're almost halfway through collecting our badges. Ibui, do you wanna hear where our next badge is?"
Ibui just looks up at him. It nods its head, not knowing the answer.
"According to the Pokegear, we're on our way back home to Enju City. We'll finally be able to have our rematch with Matsuba!" Ibui looks gleefull upon hearing this.
Hiro's smiling for a minute as well, but then he notices something out in the distance. He and Ibui run up to it, and when they're close enough, they finally see what it is. It's a group of some people and Pokemon. One person in particular is a boy being held up by the neck by a large muscular man that looks like he has an open jacket that would have Rocket Dan's R emblem on it when close.
Hiro shouts "Kenta!"
END OF CHAPTER
POKEMON NAME CHART
-Akane=Whitney
-Pukurin=Wigglytuff
-Hinoko=Ember
-Oufuku Binta=Doubleslap
-Utau=Sing
-Sutemi Tackle=Double-Edge
-Happinurse=Blissey
-Tatsumaki=Twister
-Tamago Umi=Softboiled
-Meromero=Attract
-Noshikakari=Body Slam
-Regular Badge=Plain Badge
JAPANESE CULTURAL NOTES
-yen, the currency of Japan, is actually called 'en'. Even though the term 'Pokedoru' recently showed up in Pokemon Colloseum, 'en' has always been used in all the previous Japanese Pokemon games, so I'm going to use that for what the money's called.
-one en is roughly equal to a little below the worth of an American cent. 2,000,000 en would be around $15,000 (I think, not for certain).
chapter 12: AKANE'S LADY FIGHTERS
"WHAAAAAT!!!!" shouts Stelias in his bed as he looks down at a piece of paper. His heart monitor shows that he skipped a beat.
"Calm down, Stelias" says Hiro.
"I can't calm down. What the hell is this guy thinking charging me 2,000,000 en in property damage I wasn't even responsible for?!"
"Actually, you were at fault. People claim they saw you chase some kind of wild Pokemon into the area and continue pursuing and battling it to the middle of busy streets," says a man in a suit, likely a lawyer of some sort.
"That was not a wild Pokemon! That was a member of Rocket Dan!" shouts Stelias.
"Rocket Dan may be responsible for a lot of problems recently, but do not try blaming everything on them," says the lawyer. Stelias is looking really pissed at this point.
"Stelias-san is telling the truth. That was in fact a Pokemon from Rocket Dan," Hiro backs up Stelias.
"I'm sorry, but as long as there is no real evidence, all responsibility rests on you," says the lawyer.
Stelias looks like he just snapped. Cut to right outside the hospital door. We hear quite a few loud noises, and then the lawyer skitters out in a cartooney way as he holds a large bump on his head and leaks a few tears.
"Shouldn't you be going a bit easy on yourself in your condition?" asks Hiro.
"I'm fine. My burns don't bother me much, especially not compared to the situation I'm in now. Dammit, I was hoping to head back to Houen, but instead, I have to work hard to clean up the mess of some damned reptile!" Stelias is annoyed.
"I'm so sorry. You got into all of this trying to save me," regrets Hiro.
"Don't worry about it. If it wasn't for your Ibui waking up in the middle of the night, I wouldn't have known those 2 Unknown existed, and I could be leaving without them."
"Yeah, but this seems like a lot for me."
"Listen, I can handle myself. Don't freat too much about me when you could be going on your league journey."
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot about. I was meaning to battle this city's gym leader before Kiryuu showed up. You're right, I should go there right now. Goodbye, Stelias-san."
"Good luck, Hiro. Be sure to visit me in Houen sometime."
Hiro walks out of the hospital building and walks over to the Pokemon Center. Inside the center, he retrieves all his Pokemon except Ibui, who was already with Hiro and doing well. He's then seen walking and suddenly stops in front of a large department store building. It has police around it and a broken window up at the top.
"Did Kiryuu do this as well?" Hiro ponders. He suddenly noticed a TM on the ground, slightly banged up as if it fell from the very top of the building. It has the number 45 on it. He picks it up, but hears a voice shouting behind him.
"Hey, this store's suffered enough!" shouts Junsa.
"What?" asks Hiro.
"The store's been robbed by Rocket Dan earlier. During the incident, some objects like this fell on the ground. We were hoping to return them so the store can still have some items to sell."
"Sorry, sorry! Here, I'll pay for it!" says a startled Hiro as he pulls out a few paper bills, hands them to Junsa and runs off.
"Hmm.... how generous. He paid almost double the cost," says Junsa as she looks down at the bills.
He eventually comes up to a building with some kind of cow pastures around it. "Is this the right place?" Hiro wonders as he looks around the farm-like scenery.
He steps inside and is greeted by a girl. "Hello, are you here to battle our leader, Akane?" she asks.
"Uh... yeah," Hiro replies.
"Come this way, please."
"Can I ask you a question?"
"What is it?"
"Why is there a farm around here?"
"Akane has a preference for normal, non-elemental Pokemon. Her favorite type is Miltank. She likes it so much that she raises a farm full of them."
"Miltank? The Pokemon that produces milk?"
"Don't be fooled by that. It can actually be pretty powerful in battle." The girl finally stops and opens a door, which leads to a girl who's feeding a wad of hay to a Miltank.
"Excuse me, Akane-san. A trainer's here to battle you," says the girl who was leading Hiro.
"A trainer? Just show him to the battle field while I select my Pokemon," says Akane as she runs away.
"This way," the girl continues leading Hiro. She finally stops at a grassy field with white lines painted around it. Hiro goes over to one end.
"Akane-san will be here soon. Please wait a moment," says the girl as she picks up a couple of flags on the side of the ring.
"OK. Are you the judge?" Hiro asks.
"Yes. Akane's got most the girls here working on the Miltank farm, so I improvised by being the judge as well as the greeter."
"Girls?"
"Akane's got a huge preference towards her own sex. Even all of her Pokemon are female."
"Hmmm...." Hiro muses as he looks down at the TM 45.
Akane finally steps out to the battle field. "Oh, what a cute Ibui you have there. I'm so glad to see you're keeping it unevolved, unlike most trainers," she says as she pets Hiro's Ibui.
"Um, actually I do plan on evolving it. However, I don't know what yet," says Hiro.
Akane groans "So you are? Ibui are mostly boys anyway, so I don't think I should get myself interested."
"Can we battle already?"
"Fine. I'll go 3 on 3. Let's go Pukurin!" shouts Akane as she throws out her Monster Ball with Pukurin.
"Let's go, Booby!" Hiro tosses out Booby. It almost immediately uses Hinoko to shoot a few flaming sparks at Pukurin. Pukurin suffers a bit of damage, but runs up to Booby and uses Oufuku Binta to continually slap Booby a few times. Booby uses Enmaku to try blinding Pukurin with smoke, but in the smoke cloud, some singing can be heard.
"Pu, pu pu pu, pu pu pu, pu pu pu...." The Pukurin is using Utau to sing a lullabye that makes Booby drift to sleep. After Booby is sleeping, Pukurin comes out of the cloud and uses Sutemi Tackle to finish off Booby, but causes some damage to itself and collapses as well.
"Booby, you did great for a newborn," Hiro says as he recalls Booby to its ball. He then tosses out Tattsuu. Akane releases Happinurse.
"Tattsuu, use Tatsumaki!" Hiro commands as Tattsuu lets out a great whirling gale that picks up Happinurse and drops it to the ground.
Happinurse looks pretty damaged, but Akane commands "Happinurse, use your Tamago Umi technique!" The Happinurse takes the egg out of its pouch, cracks it, eats the yolk, and glows white to signify it recovered.
"Now, use Meromero!" Happinurse gets into a cute pose with hearts all around it, however, nothing happens to Tattsuu.
"Dammit, the Tattsuu is a female as well! In that case, use Solar Beam!" Happinurse is sitting there absorbing sun rays and glowing a light green.
"Now, Tattsuu, take this chance to attack it! Mizu Deppou!" Tattsuu shoots a stream of water at Happinurse. The water continually pelts Happinurse until it releases a beam of green energy that scorches Tattsuu. Hiro recalls it.
"Go Ibui! Finish it with Tosshin!" Ibui rams into Happinurse so hard that Ibui is damaged himself. Happinurse falls to the ground and Akane recalls it.
"I always save my best Pokemon for last. Finish this kid off, Miltank!" she says as she tosses out a Monster Ball that releases a Miltank.
"Use Korogaru!" Akane commands. Miltank rolls up into a ball and starts rolling at Ibui. Ibui gets out of the way. The ball rolls back again, but Ibui dodges again.
"Ibui, attack the wheel from the side!" Ibui dodges the ball again, but this time, immediately jumps back and strikes it from the side just as it passes by. This causes the ball to break back into Miltank and its side is slammed onto the ground from the impact. Miltank gets back up, only to be rammed into by Ibui yet again.
"Hurry Miltank, use Milk Nomi!" Miltank grabs its utter and squirts milk into its mouth. Hiro cringes, slightly disgusted at what it just did. Miltank, like Happinurse, glows white because it just recovered its health.
"Now, Miltank, it's time to keep this Ibui from touching you. Use Merome...."
"Meromero, Ibui!" Hiro interrupts.
"What?!" Akane is shocked as Ibui gets into a pose with hearts around it and causes Miltank to have hearts in its eyes.
"Impossible! You teach your Pokemon Meromero too?" asks Akane.
"Not until now. I happened to come across this Technique Machine," Hiro says as he shows Akane half of the empty white box with 45 on it.
"When your judge told me you use female Pokemon, I took the opportunity to teach Ibui it right then and there. I wasn't sure about what Pokemon to teach it to, because I never got confirmation on their genders. However, I heard somewhere that Ibui have a larger gender ratio of male to female, so I chose it," he continues.
"So you gambled? If you're gonna play with odds, I'll play with them too. Come on Miltank, you still have some chance of pulling off an attack! Taiatari!" Akane commands, but Miltank just sits there with hearts in its eyes.
"Korogaru! Noshikakari! Something!" Akane desperately tries to get Miltank to attack.
"Akane, you've already lost this battle. Ibui, go all out!" Hiro shouts as Ibui runs up and rams Miltank repeatedly, and Miltank falls down after a few attacks. Miltank looks unconscious, but it still has giant hearts in its eyes.
"Nooooo!!! Miltank!!!!" Akane shouts.
"Dammit....." she curses as she recalls it to its ball.
"Yattaaa! We won yet another gym battle!" Hiro announces as he dances joyishly with Ibui (Ibui's standing up with its paws being held by Hiro, who's bending).
Akane comes up to him and puts a badge in his hand. "It's the Regular Badge. This is your reward for beating me."
Hiro looks at for a moment, puts it in a box with the other 2. "Thank you!" Hiro says as he walks away with Ibui.
Hiro is now seen walking along the road just outside of the city. "Hehe, isn't this great Ibui? We're almost halfway through collecting our badges. Ibui, do you wanna hear where our next badge is?"
Ibui just looks up at him. It nods its head, not knowing the answer.
"According to the Pokegear, we're on our way back home to Enju City. We'll finally be able to have our rematch with Matsuba!" Ibui looks gleefull upon hearing this.
Hiro's smiling for a minute as well, but then he notices something out in the distance. He and Ibui run up to it, and when they're close enough, they finally see what it is. It's a group of some people and Pokemon. One person in particular is a boy being held up by the neck by a large muscular man that looks like he has an open jacket that would have Rocket Dan's R emblem on it when close.
Hiro shouts "Kenta!"
END OF CHAPTER
POKEMON NAME CHART
-Akane=Whitney
-Pukurin=Wigglytuff
-Hinoko=Ember
-Oufuku Binta=Doubleslap
-Utau=Sing
-Sutemi Tackle=Double-Edge
-Happinurse=Blissey
-Tatsumaki=Twister
-Tamago Umi=Softboiled
-Meromero=Attract
-Noshikakari=Body Slam
-Regular Badge=Plain Badge
JAPANESE CULTURAL NOTES
-yen, the currency of Japan, is actually called 'en'. Even though the term 'Pokedoru' recently showed up in Pokemon Colloseum, 'en' has always been used in all the previous Japanese Pokemon games, so I'm going to use that for what the money's called.
-one en is roughly equal to a little below the worth of an American cent. 2,000,000 en would be around $15,000 (I think, not for certain).