"The final match between Giovanni and Red will be Kangaskan vs. Ivysaur. BEGIN!"
"Comet punch!"
The pokemon launched forward again, glowing energy forming by her fists.
"Sleep Powder!"
A wall of green powder sent the massive pokemon crumbling to the floor in a deep slumber.
"GET UP, KANGASKAN!"
Now's our chance!
"Leech Seed!"
A swarm of seeds covered the sleeping pokemon, to her trainer's chagrin.
"GET UP!"
Almost on cue, the pokemon rose from its unexpected slumber, towering over the seed pokemon.
"BITE!"
The pokemon's powerful jaws bit down on Ivysaur's scaly hide, causing it to yelp in pain.
"Vine whip!"
The seed pokemon flailed with its vine, smacking at Kangaskan's head and legs to her sheer screams.
"That's it! Rage!"
A look in Kangaskan's eyes sent a chill down Red's spine. The pokemon screamed and hurled Ivysaur across the room. It banged against the wall of the arena and clumsily landed on all four feet.
"Keep raging, my beloved pokemon! Red, your so-called plan is coming undone! The HP drawn from the leech seed will make it angrier!"
Red swore as the parent Pokemon lumbered towards Ivysaur in a fit of rage.
He knew just what to do.
"Ivysaur! Suck it in!"
Only he and Ivysaur knew what he meant. The bud on its back began to glow. Giovanni couldn't help but watch his own Pokemon march towards her next victim. Then he noticed the Ivysaur's flower begin to glow.
"Hey, Giovanni!"
He didn't listen.
"Kangaskan, get out of there. The pokemon's building up a-"
"HEY DINGUS!"
Giovanni snapped at Red in alarm.
"How dare you-"
"YOU WANT TO SEE A MOVE I TAUGHT IVYSAUR?!"
Giovanni stared in disbelief as his own pokemon, deep in its own rage, drained by the leeching seeds, stumbled right into the point-blank range of a solar beam.
"IVYSAUR, SOLAR BEAM THAT SUCKER!"
A blast of green energy sent the world into a blinding ball of light. The arena lit up. Giovanni screamed. Red covered his eyes with his hat. After being knocked off of her feet, Kangaskan flew across the arena and landed near where Red stood. After the light died down, Kangaskan couldn't even feel its legs.
"Kangaskan is unable to battle. Ivysaur wins, which means Red wins. Red, where are you going?"
He sped through the debris, the cracked rocks, the fissures in the ground to the source of the bright line, where a solar beam cracked the ground.
He hugged his Ivysaur as the plant Pokemon growled in joy. Red felt exhausted, then Giovanni spoke.
"I guess, you have some talent-"
Before he finished, Red shot up and marched towards Giovanni's podium.
"Say that I beat you. Say my name too."
"What are you talking about, boy-"
Red interrupted again. "Nope, you cannot call me boy, either. Say who beat you. Tell them (he pointed to the inaudible audience far in the stands) who beat you."
Giovanni stood in utter disbelief, then anger, then acceptance.
"I was beaten by Satoshi-"
"Say 'Red'."
"Fine. I was beaten by Red today."
Red wasn't finished. He walked up to the opponent's podium, his Ivysaur in tow.
He leaned up towards the towering man in front of him, looked into his eyes, and with all of the courage he could muster, said:
"AND DON'T YOU EVER FORGET IT."
By the time Red found his way amongst the trees, into freedom, with his two loyal pokemon by his side, people spoke about that battle. Even before he could become a trainer, he now had a name to clear. He'd have to prove to the world what he already did to Giovanni. Even before reaching the next level, Red's fighting had already begun.
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