The sunlight beamed into Gary and Brock's Pokemon center room through the open blinds.
"Who…who left the blinds open?" Gary mumbled.
Brock walked out of the kitchenette with a large metal pot and a metal ladle. Then he smashed the two together right next to Gary's ear. The resulting noise was so loud that it woke up Gary and his team. His pokeballs all opened and sent them out into the air, after which they fell and landed onto their trainer's chest. Afterwards, Brock pulled two ear plugs out of his ears and put them away in his pocket.
"If you don't get ready soon, you'll be late"
"GAAH…FOR WHAT?!" Gary asked angrily.
"The competition. It's a city wide battle royal style tournament. If you don't get to the center of town soon, you'll miss the rules and be disqualified" the breeder answered. Gary returned Ashly, Dawn, May, And Serena and clipped their balls back into his belt which was on his night table.
"And what if I didn't want to attend in the first place?" He asked.
"Then you won't get any money to pay for the pokemon center May destroyed, food, water, medicines, spare clothing, laundry, hotel fees, traveling products, or for that perfume Ashly fell in love with. Have you ever seen a genuinely sad and crying Pokemon? It's one of the rarest, yet saddest things known to man. So much so that Pokemon tears can bring dead people back to life" Brock warned.
"Fine…." Gary sighed while rolling out of bed, "It's not like I'll be getting back to sleep with my ears ringing and a throbbing pain in my ribs from four mini legendary Pokemon falling on them from ceiling height..…"
A few minutes later, Gary and Brock could be seen running towards a huge crowd of people in the city center.
"Welcome, welcome everyone to the Chain Charged Contest and Combat Circuit's first citywide battle royal. This event will be broadcast through the entire region so even those who have already been disqualified from the circuit can still watch!" Yelled an male announcer who was wearing a battle referee outfit
"The rules are simple. The entire city is your battlefield and matches will happen anywhere at anytime. You can use up to six Pokemon total and when all six are beaten, you are out of the game. This doesn't mean you are out of the circuit, you just can't participate in any more matches in this particular event. Items like revives, max revives, and other anti fainting medicines are prohibited, however potions can be used outside of battle as can berries and health recovery moves are allowed. Your pokedex will record your battles and will prevent you from breaking rules by locking your pokeballs upon doing so" added a lady in similar attire.
"You all get three minutes to find a starting point before the battles start. On your marks…" Said the man.
Gary got into a running pose as did many other trainers.
"Get set…" The lady called.
Still others including Jack pulled a pokeball off of their belts and grinned eagerly or whispered taunts or challenges to the competitors nearby.
"GOOOOO!" The announcer both yelled at once.
There was a huge rush of activity as some trainers flew off on their flying Pokemon, others bolted in random directions on bikes, on foot, or on running Pokemon like doduo, turos, or rapidash, and still others warped away using their psychic Pokemon.
Gary ran down the street, slid down a banister and then ducked into a side street. Before a loud buzzer went off.
"And let the battles begin!" The lady yelled over an intercom system.
Gary heard a thud and saw another trainer had jumped off of a balcony and landed in front of him.
"I like shorts, they are comfy and easy to wear!" The trainer said, then he threw out a pokeball releasing a raticate.
Gary in turn sent out Dawn. "Use slash!" He said. She ran towards the mouse Pokemon while the claws on her right arm glowed, extended, and fused together.
"Use grass knot" yelled his opponent. The raticate stomped it's left foot causing a loop of grass to rise out of the asphalt and tie up Dawn's feet. She fell forward onto her frontside.
"Quick attack, then Super Fang!" Raticate was enveloped by a white energy as it ran at her.
Gary knew this move was dangerous. "Stop it with Ancient power!"
Multiple stones formed above dawn's head and flew towards the raticate. Most of which managed to hit it.
"Power gem" He ordered. Dawn pushed herself to her feet. Her pearls glowed brightly as several bright lights materialized in front of her, then they shot into Raticate.
It fell over backwards with swirl eyes. "Raaatttiii…caaaatttee…."
It's trainer returned it to it's pokeball and ran towards the Pokemon center.
Gary returned Dawn then went on his way. He exited the side street and found himself facing off against two more trainers. Both had a ponytail in their blonde hair, and were wearing light blue blouses with black skirts and black shoes. One was slightly taller then the other.
"Ready Mina?!" Asked the smaller one.
"You bet Rina!" The taller one replied.
"Go, ponyta/staryu!" they said together as they threw out two pokeballs.
"May, Ashly, go!" Gary yelled while sending out the two of them.
"OOOOHH! That blue one is so pretty, can I have it, sis?!" Rina asked
"Maybe he'll trade you after you battle him, won't you mister?" Mina asked.
"Fat chance! Ashly, Shadow claw the Staryu. May, earth power on ponyta." Gary said.
"Staryu, Water gun on the red lizard" Rina said.
"Ponyta, Flame wheel on the blue dinosaur" Added Mina.
Ashly ran at the staryu and leapt at it right as it shot the water gun. The water gun knocked Ashly out of the air and didn't hit may.
The ponyta's tail and mane extended and became a ring of fire around itself, then it charged towards Ashly.
"May, redirect your attack straight into the ground in front of ponyta" Gary said.
The stones which she was forming vanished and the road in front of ponyta lifted into a ramp launching the ponyta over Ashly.
Meanwhile Ashly had ran forward at the staryu, this time charging up to it and shadow clawing it's gem. Her move sent it tumbling backwards. However it got back up.
"Aim for ponyta and use Slash" Gary told may.
May ran in front of ponyta's landing point, then her right claws glowed, Extended, and fused together like Dawn's had last battle. When the ponyta was about to land on her, she pulled her right arm back before slashing straight down in front of her. The move slammed ponyta into the ground.
"Finish ponyta with ancient power"
May obliged and the rocks sent the fire pony straight into staryu.
They both landed several meters behind their trainers with swirly eyes.
"That's was a good fight, let's see if you can take us all on" laughed a voice from behind Gary.
He turned and saw there were about thirty or so strong looking trainers standing with their pokeballs in hand.
"If you don't, these two girls Pokemon are ours" said one of them.
"Alright, now this is a challenge!" Laughed another voice. Jack ran up beside Gary along with Brock.
"Well, where were you Brock?" Gary asked.
He rubbed the back of his head. "Sorry, I got caught up with a group of young trainers who wanted to team up on me so they could win my badge. I told them it had to be an official battle if they wanted it but they didn't listen. My onyx mowed through them without too much trouble. Jack found me afterwards and led me here. So do you wanna team up?"
"Ok, Let's do it!" Gary agreed.
"GOOOOO!" Everyone yelled while over ninety different pokeballs were thrown out.
(Our heroes seem to have gotten dragged into a fight they might lose in more than one way. What will happen now? The anticipation is almost too much to handle!)