This Isn't Kanto Anymore
By K4P
Chapter Two: The Last Battle, Part Two
Violet was preparing to send out her next Pokemon. It was a tough decision, since some of her Pokemon had disadvantages to flying types, and she didn't want to send out her secret weapon just yet.
Rowan was preparing his next strategy. He decided to keep his pidgeot in the battle, since his opponent seemed to use mostly grass types. This gave him the advantage, since he had a flying type out.
Violet threw another pokeball onto the field, and a scyther appeared. The Pokemon slashed the air with its bladed arms and leered at pidgeot. This was a fatal move to make in a battle against a flying type, Rowan had realized, so Violet must have had a strategy for this choice in Pokemon.
Scyther used its double-team, and several other scythers appeared on either side of the original. They spun in a circle around the confused pidgeot until the latter seemed to grow dizzy. Pidgeot struck at three of them with a wing attack, but to no avail. They vanished, as they were not the original, but copies created by double-team.
Next, Scyther used swords dance. Its attack power skyrocketed! Pidgeot looked at the three remaining scyther copies and concentrated. Pidgeot closed its eyes and listened carefully to the scyther copies. One of them had ragged breathing. It was the original! Pidgeot struck at the scyther with wing attack—it was a direct hit! The scyther fell to the ground as its copies vanished.
However, scyther was still determined to keep its strategy up. It used double team once more, creating more copies of itself. It focused on Pidgeot and slashed it with its blades. The attack was powerful. Fury cutter had great accuracy.
Pidgeot was beginning to get tired, but it wouldn't give in just yet. It used aerial ace and struck scyther hard. Scyther reeled back from the force of the attack and roared angrily.
That scyther just wouldn't quit! It used fury cutter again and again. Rowan gritted his teeth. How could he be losing against a bug-type Pokemon? It pained him to see his partner suffer. But the rules were no withdrawal until after one of the Pokemon had fainted.
By this time, the two combatants were both breathing hard, almost to the point of fainting. It was all down to the last move. Whoever moved first would surely win. Rowan knew that scyther was more likely to be faster than pidgeot. He would lose this round.
It was at that moment, that scyther struck with a slash attack and won the match.
The referee entered the battlefield and called out the winner and held up a green flag as pidgeot's light on the screen went out. Rowans supporters were on their feet, booing and cursing at the referee, as if it were his fault.
Violet recalled her Pokemon, as it was too tired to fight in the next round. The score was even. Two losses and two wins each, and Violet was not about to give up her title. She threw another dive ball into the air. As it flew, the rocky filed changed from boulders and gravel to a smaller likeness of the ocean and the shore.
A seadra appeared from inside the diveball and flipped three times in the air before landing in a shower of sparkling water droplets in the miniature ocean.
Rowan threw another pokeball onto the field, and out of the pokeball came a vileplume. Vileplume landed on the shore and a bit awkwardly made a little squeaking noise as it landed on its rear-end. The audience laughed at it as its clumsiness, which was rather cute, as vileplume blushed.
Vileplume began the match with sweet scent. The sweet fragrance of a wonderful smelling flower surrounded the stadium, soothing even the people in the very top parts of the stadium's bleachers. The entire crowd fell silent in the haziness of the scent. It was very enticing and lowered the evasiveness of Violet's seadra.
Seadra was sleepily staring at the crowd, eye scanning all of the people's faces in its distraction. Violet called to her Pokemon, but it ignored her and lost its turn.
Next vileplume sprayed seadra with an acid attack. It was poisonous bile that smelled awful and disrupted the aroma of the previous attack. The audience awoke from the magical spell that had seemed to have settled over them and began cheering once more.
Seadra, though afflicted by the poison, remained uncaring of its trainer. Violet could not control its behavior. Instead of the hydro pump attack that was requested by its trainer, seadra used bubblebeam. Then it was hurt by the poison.
The attack did almost no damage to vileplume who shook off the bubbles like a dog that had just taken a bath. Then it used giga drain and sucked most of the life out of seadra. Seadra, once again, ignored its trainer and began loafing around. It was hurt by poison once again.
Vileplume finished seadra off with a small absorb, since that was all it needed to make seadra faint. That it did and the round was over.
The light with seadra's picture went out on the screen and the crowd began to stomp their feet and yell and cheer because Violet was on her last Pokemon. A new champion would claim his title if all went well.
Violet sent out her final Pokemon, her strongest one. It was a charizard! Charizard stomped the ground and roared at the crowd. The crowd was amazed because all Rowan had to do now was send out blastoise and it would be a done deal. The match would be over.
Rowan knew he would win. He knew it was all over for Violet. But still, he didn't let his guard down. He had seen many battles fall apart because of overconfidence. He recalled vileplume and sent out blastoise.
The crowd was ecstatic! A battle like this had not been seen for a long time.
The two Pokemon stared each other down, contemplating their weaknesses and strengths. It was clear that blastoise would win. Then the first move was made.
Blastoise used rapid spin to warm itself up, but charizard sidestepped the attack and put its foot out in blastoise's path. Blastoise tripped and landed flat on its back in the center of the field.
Next charizard prepared to use a fighting type move, seismic toss. It flew up into the air and circled blastoise twice. Then it dove at blastoise and picked it up in its arms. Blastoise struggled to free itself, but charizard just wouldn't let go.
Charizard began to climb higher above the stadium, beating its wings furiously against the air. As soon as charizard reached the zenith of its flight, it plunged downward and slammed blastoise down onto the edge of the mini ocean's shore.
Blastoise recovered, but charizard wasn't so lucky. It was splashed and it was weakened by the water, though only a little bit.
Blastoise seized its chance and bombarded charizard with a hydro pump attack. Charizard went down in a cascade of water droplets. It was a marvelous sight to behold!
The battle was over.
"Ladies and gentleman, we have a brand new Indigo League Champion!" bellowed the announcer.
The platforms lowered the trainers to the field where they shook hands and congratulated each other.
Before Rowan left, Violet said, "I hope we meet again. I'd like a rematch with you someday."
"I'd like that too." Rowan said, grinning. "I have to go now. My mom is probably being attacked by the pres!"
The trainers laughed together.
"Bye!" Violet called, "And keep up your training!"
"You too!" Rowan yelled. He was glad that she wasn't angry at him for beating her. He had had a good, clean fight. No regrets.
End of Chapter Two