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Blue Mountain League

By Gigawolf1

Chapter 2: Deciding Victory?

May watched on as a trainer walked up behind her. Sitting in the stands, she didn't notice him trying to get through in the row above her. He had lost in the third round to Ash, in a very difficult battle for both trainers. His team, consisting of Swampert, Shiftry, and Aggron, had been unable to defeat Ash's. During that battle, Grovyle had gotten a lot of experience, Torkoal had learned Heat Wave, and Corphish had evolved. Corphish had learned Counter a while before the tournament had started, allowing it to finish Aggron off easily.

"Hi," he said to May. She turned, and saw that he was grinning at her. May was confused, as she didn't know him at all, except as one of the eight trainers who did better than her. She just blinked, so he decided to introduce himself.

"Sorry. My name's Brendan Birch, from Littleroot town," he said, bracing himself for when she would ask him about his dad. Which she did, being completely unaware that he didn't like people judging him on how his dad was.

However, she was able to soften the blow. "Are you Professor Birch's Son, then?" she asked. He nodded, and she replied, "Cool. I didn't know he had a son!" He just sat down beside her, deciding to watch the battle. He had been one of the trainers Max asked about Crawdaunt that hadn't responded well, and with good reason: As a child, his dad kept a Corphish in his lab. One day, while Brendan was playing in there, the Corphish had evolved, and had attacked him. He was afraid of Crawdaunt ever since.

Meanwhile, on the battle field with the important people, Ash was trying to think about what each person would use. 'My partner has two pokémon that have double-weakness to some of my pokémon, and one that has weakness to both Grass and Electric easily. That means she's a water trainer. My opponents have some strong pokémon: One of them has Cacturne and Arcanine, and his Chimecho and Jumpluff aren't too weak, either. That last one giving me the evil eye has used all but one of her pokémon, so maybe she'll be easier…'

Looking from her partner, to his pokémon, and back to hers, Ash's foe became worried. 'His pokémon has double-weakness to Ice, which is the twerp's first pokémon! What's he thinking?'

Meanwhile, her partner was thinking along similar lines, except he was concerned about her Dustox's weakness to Rock-type attacks. He, of course, knew of his pokémon's weaknesses, but had a plan that was almost unstoppable. His moveset of Sunny Day, Synthesis, Leech Seed, and Mega Drain would stop almost any trainer. Having always dreamed of playing fair, James laughed. Of course, his disguise fooled everyone in the pokémon world, but his laugh did concern them…

Ash's partner looked from her Corsola to Ash's Glalie to their opponent's pokémon, and wondered how stupid their foes could possibly be to use pokémon that couldn't win… Until she remembered that Corsola would take major damage from Grass attacks.

Even though nothing important has happened in Hoenn yet, in Viridian, something very bad was going down. The police force from Kanto had somehow just learned the location of Team Rocket Headquarters, and the base was being evacuated. Giovanni was getting in his private helicopter just as the Jenny's started infiltrating the gym. "Where should we go, sir?" asked the pilot.

'Hopefully those three imbeciles have managed to make a base in Hoenn like I told them to…' thought Giovanni, before saying, "To Hoenn. The only place the police wouldn't suspect me to be!"

And, of course, the battle had been started during this. Jumpluff had actually managed to use Sunny Day and Leech Seed before Ash realized an Ice Beam would almost knock Jumpluff out. Jumpluff had survived, but barely. Dustox, on the other hand, had been decimated by Ancient Power attacks from Misty's Corsola (once again, no one in the pokémon world knew it was her). By this point, Corsola had run out of Ancient Power PP, and had also been poisoned, so Misty switched it out for Seadra.

Jessie, angry that her first pokémon had lost so easily, sent out her newly-acquired Primeape (it's just like her, and since she was 2 good pokémon short…) while shouting, "James, let's beat the Twerp and get out of here!"

James, obviously angry about how Jessie had just revealed their identities (that everyone in the pokémon world was too pathetic to realize), he shouted back, "Jessie! Why did you just reveal our identities in front of everyone?" This was, of course, before he realized that no one had truly linked him to Jessie, or that no one really cared.

However, Ash got angry at being surprised by Team Rocket. "Team Rocket! You two couldn't have won enough badges to get in the league, so you must have stolen them!" Ash yelled angrily. Well, what he didn't know was that they had convinced Giovanni to give them badges through favours he had to call in from the Gym Leaders. Of course, no one in the audience cared, just as long as they got a good battle. So Misty decided to get everything going back on track by hitting them all on the head with a mallet.

"Someone has anger issues…" whispered Brendan to May, who just giggled like the girly person she is (as you can tell, I don't like her much…). Looking onto the battlefield, Max also wanted the battle to just continue. He was happy, because then Primeape tried using Thrash on Seadra, who poisoned the Pig Monkey Pokémon with its Poison Point ability, and then fainted from the Thrashing. Luckily for Misty, Primeape fainted because of its poison. Glalie and Jumpluff, however, were still in the battle.

"Nice battle, Twerp, but I'm stronger when I'm fighting fair! Never question my might again! Mwa ha ha ha!" laughed the powerful James of Team Rocket, who made a very good point to Ash: The male of Team Rocket was very good when he was playing fair. Ash just had to laugh, because Jessie hadn't figured out that fact by then. Then, James ordered a Leech Seed on Glalie, who quickly finished off Jumpluff with an Ice Beam.

This, for some odd reason, only made James happier. "By playing fairly, I've led you both into my trap!" he gleefully exclaimed. "Go, Cacturne! Sand Storm!" he shouted. As the Scarecrow pokémon emerged, Ash realized what James' plan had been: By weakening Glalie with Jumpluff, James had allowed Cacturne to have an easy shot at the pokémon that could easily be his most difficult foe. Ash barely had any time to react, because the Sand Storm and Leech Seed quickly knocked out Glalie.

On the other part of the battlefield, Jessie and Misty were battling with Gyarados and Seviper. Gyarados was using Hydro Pump and Seviper was using Poison Tail, as well as Poison Fang. Jessie and Misty were both yelling out attacks as quickly as they could when Gyarados just started using Thrash. Both Jessie and Misty groaned as Gyarados became poisoned, an almost exact reversal of their previous pokémon's fight.

Meanwhile, Ash and James were locked in their next great battle: Torkoal versus Chimecho. Cacturne, despite the Sand Storm, had fallen to a single Overheat attack. Chimecho started using Uproar, which kept everyone covering their ears in pain. Torkoal, on the other hand, just used Protect. Obviously, this battle was going to take a while.

Standings:

Ash-

Glalie (fainted)

Torkoal

Swellow

Crawdaunt

Grovyle

Pikachu

Misty-

Corsola

Seadra (fainted)

Gyarados (fainted)

Jessie-

Dustox (fainted)

Primeape (fainted)

Seviper (fainted)

Wobbuffet

Arbok

James-

Jumpluff (fainted)

Cacturne (fainted)

Chimecho

Arcanine

AN: Well, this was much longer… Thanks to those who reviewed!