[Yesterday]
He would say it as straight as possible.
Unova was different from Orre. Though, anyone with more than two brain cells can tell you it was Orre that was the 'stain' in this beautiful world.
He stood out like a sore thumb. He probably could say he had a magnetic personality, but having a wise cracking, sarcastic follower does rub off on you after some time.
He looked at his reflection and simply thought to himself he really was hard to miss. He was a hulking body builder and almost eight feet tall for crying out loud. Not to mention the fact his mustache was just as long and almost unreasonable compared to all the styles he was seeing so far.
The air was not dry, and the sun wasn't scorching hot. The pleasant weather felt so foreign to him.
However, there was one amazing perk he had while he was walking smack dab in the middle of the street where kids pointed at him and people were staring.
He smiled.
Unova had no idea who Team Snaggem were.
But by the end of the week, the world will know their name.
Gonzap would make sure of that. Now then... where is Wes?
[Present Time.]
The two attacks clashed with musical clatter before the two humanoid Pokémon were pushed away from the impact.
M.C. Guyver cried out as he pointed up to air. "What an amazing battle folks! The two trainers started off with fighting Pokémon! For Victor, his fierce Medicham, and for Anto, he's using his infamous one armed Sawk!"
The fighting types were really living up to their type as they would always move into close quarters of each other. Victor's Medicham punched forward, but Sawk spun to the side which turned into a set up for a reverse hook kick towards the side of his opponent's head. The dual type quickly retracted his arm to defend his head, yet it didn't stop the blow from connecting and send him hard and sliding on the ground from a heavy impact.
Victor narrowed his eyes. It looked like the Sawk was more experienced in close quarter combat than his Pokémon even if he only had one hand. The Kalos trainer commanded his Pokémon to use Psycho Cut and the dual type complied by swiping his hand in the air quickly which shot out a slash of psychic energy that slammed into Ohko and knocked him back a few feet before he back flipped mid air and landed with a slide.
That didn't stop Medicham from firing wave after wave of Psycho Cuts towards the fighting type. Ohko started running as he avoided each cut and gathered energy around his palm as he ran. The opposing dual type spun before unleashing a large horizontal wave of psionic energy towards the running fighting type. Ohko saw this and slid down to avoid the wave and as soon as it passed by, he jumped up and threw a light blue Focus Blast on the ground—freezing the floor beneath Medicham. The fighting and psychic type was surprised and made a step, which unfortunately turned into a slip because the ground quickly lost traction.
The Sawk quickly fired another Focus Blast that was colored yellow and hit the fallen Medicham dead on with a powerful shock and explosion.
Medicham flew into the air and eventually landed on his knee with electricity sparking around him.
Victor knew that Medicham was out matched in this fight. However there was one more thing he was going to try.
This was the moment he surprised everyone by making his Pokémon use Fire Punch on the frozen ground. A heat wave spread out that turned the ice into water then Victor commanded his Pokémon to use psychic together all the water and shoot it like a whip towards Ohko. The one armed fighting type was told to avoid the attack and did so at first try. However, the psychic continued on and made the water trap Ohko's leg while elongating it to the point where it looked like one giant water whip.
Medicham quickly placed his fist in the water and used Thunder Punch, making the shock travel quickly from the water into Ohko.
However, fighting through the pain, the fighting type quickly launched an ice Focus Blast and froze the whip before quickly breaking it off.
Medicham broke through his end as well and launched another Psycho Cut at the recently freed Sawk. Ohko couldn't move fast enough in time; instead he raised his hand out with another Ice Focus Blast as the attack made impact with his orb. Instead of exploding, like most were expecting, the Psycho Cut was frozen solid and caught by Ohko's one arm.
The single armed Pokémon smiled as he quickly tossed the frozen cut up in the air then kicked it right back towards the psychic type. Medicham stood his ground and broke through the frozen ice cut. However, as soon as it was shattered, the one armed Sawk was seen right in front of the Medicham before unleashing a powerful blow into his stomach, then following through and launching the fighting type into a wall on the other side of the stadium.
The crowd cheered as the first match went to Anto.
"Wow. You're Pokémon are really something." Victor admitted as he recalled his first Pokémon. "But I've faced tougher opponents before!"
He quickly took out a red Poké Ball and threw it to the sky. What came out was a Venasuar with a fancy necklace tied around its large neck.
The mighty Kanto starter roared, which made Anto recall his fighting type. Pausing for a second, Anto then reached for his Dusk Ball and threw it up into the air.
Sentinel came into the battlefield and Victor wasted no time in mega evolving the Kanto starter.
However, in the blinding light of Mega Evolution, Sentinel disappeared into thin air.
"Well will you look at that folks!? It seems that during the light show, Anto's strange ghost Pokémon has vanished! Where could he have gone?"
"What I would give to be an Aura user right about now…" Victor looked around the field quickly but saw nothing out of the ordinary except for Anto's determined smile.
The young boy pointed his hand out, and Sentinel appeared right in front of Mega Venasuar with his mouth seemingly frozen along the edges—
The Delta Pokémon unleashed the Frost Breath attack at point blank range, encasing the Mega in frozen air.
Victor then ordered Growth, showing that even frozen, Mega Venasuar was still able to move and suddenly break free of the ice prison.
"Mega Venasuar gains the ability of Thick fat which reduces fire and ice attacks," Victor told Anto. "And Growth rapidly increases Attack and Special Attack stats! Use Sludge Bomb!"
Mega Venasaur unleashed a large bubble of poison that exploded on the Torren Pokémon's area and quickly used Phantom Force to avoid the hit and jump out of the way of the explosion.
The Kalos trainer knew that in terms of mobility, he was out classed especially with the Ghost Pokémon's ability of fading away to avoid hits. So it stood to reason to take away that mobility and he knew how. He ordered his Mega to cover the area with as much sludge as possible except for the center of the field and his boosted Venasuar did as he was told, filling the arena with poisonous sludge everywhere.
Seeing the area poisoned, gave Anto an idea as well. Sentinel appeared once more but in the center of the field like Victor anticipated. But before the Kalosian could call an attack, Sentinel unleashed another empowered Frost Breath right on the liquid poison on the ground and freezing it solid.
It was then that victor called out Frenzy Plant, causing giant thorns to uproot from the ground and swarm towards the Ghost Dragon type. The tendrils followed the delta wherever he tried to run to. He tried to Phantom Force right on top of a vine coming to stab him and run on top of it, but another vine came from the side and blinded him into the attack.
The vines all swarmed towards the captured Delta Pokémon, but Anto noticed that his Synergy Gauge was finally full and quickly activated Synergy Burst. A rainbow aura cloaked over Sentinel before a powerful burst warded away the vines.
Sentinel landed on the ground and then Specter Step(ped) right in front of Mega Venasuar with a Shadow Ball attack.
Mega Venasuar acted fast and fired another Sludge Bomb at the attack, causing the two to collide in a powerful explosion. However, something cut through the attack and Sentinel appeared with his fusion move of Dragon Claw and Shadow Claw unleashed as he made a run towards the mega, nimbly circling the bulky grass type and performing powerful swipes to keep his enemy guessing.
"Use Frenzy Plant beneath you!" Victor shouted as his mega quickly made the giant roots sprout violently beneath him and Sentinel. It suddenly made the Delta lose footing as he was launched into the air. However, the weight of the stage two Pokémon and the fact that he controlled some of the vines to keep him tethered to the roots which made the grass type stay on top.
Quickly, Mega Venasuar fired a Sludge Bomb at the airborne Pokémon. Sentinel flailed in the Sky but also blasted a powerful Shadow Ball towards the attack. However, the Delta's attack missed the Sludge Bomb and nailed him in the sky, but while the attack missed his intended target, the Shadow Ball flew right into Mega Venasuar with a deafening boom.
As everyone covered themselves from the blast, the cameras picked up both Pokémon falling from the sky and both of them losing their power ups due to a double knock out.
Victor started to sweat. He never expected something like that! "Synergy Burst was it? I didn't know there was something like that in the world!"
"Tell that to Ferrum Region." Anto linked to the older young man as both of them withdrew their fallen Pokémon.
Both of them threw out their next Pokémon: a Crawdaunt for Victor and Kryx for Anto.
Victor smiled. He chose a dark type against a psychic—why was that Elgyem eyes glowing like Christmas lights? Wait. He knew that move.
Victor recognized Miracle Eye the second before Kryx promptly used Psychic on his Crawduant and swung him across the field and slammed him into the ground like a rag doll.
"Bubblebeam!"
The dark water type held strong as he slipped his limb out and fired a burst of rapid moving bubbles from his claw towards Kryx. The alien quickly moved in the air to avoid the stream of water.
"Fine then! Crawduant, use Dragon Dance!"
"Uh oh."
Kryx wasn't able to pin down her enemy in time as the evolved Pokémon finished his set up move and quickly avoided the telekinetic blast.
The dark type moved fast, avoiding Kryx's attempt to pin him down while firing his own bubble beam in unpredictable angles, making Kryx use evasive maneuvers.
It came to the point where the psychic used her telekinesis to freeze all the bubbles around her then fire them all out in a wide spread area.
Victor smiled as it meant that the psychic type was finally in one spot and quickly he ordered his Crawdaunt to use Aqua Jet and blast off from the ground with boosted speed. The water type, blasted through the spread attack and stopped his attack right in front of Kryx. Caught off guard, Kryx was shocked long enough for the speed boosted Crawdaunt to use Knock Off and slam the psychic type hard into the ground.
The small psychic ended up fainting from the super effective blow and evened up the score.
Anto recalled his fainted Pokémon and started to think. He then reached for a Poké Ball and brought out Lily into the field. The grass type was actually wearing the choice specs on her head, but she wasn't actually using it yet. Though, all she had to do was push the specs down and she'd be able to increase her long ranged attacks.
As the battle began again, Victor tried to capitalize Crawduant's boosted stats, making the dual type move faster than Lily could keep track with her eyes.
But Anto brought out the grass type for a reason.
No matter how fast someone was, you can't beat the speed of light.
When Crawdaunt closed in, he wasn't expecting his pray to shine brightly like a sun right in front of him and blinding him and many people, except Anto.
Victor rubbed his eyes after the light and slowly his vision was coming back to him. Yet for some reason, his eyes were trying to tell him it was still bright. Was that Lilligant still using Flash? But what was that sound—
Victor's eyes focused.
"Crawdaunt, get out of there!"
The Dark Type's eyes finally adjusted the minute Victor said that. However, he noticed that there was an Energy Ball charging right in front of him—oh.
Lily, wearing the Choice Specs, let loose the Energy Ball at point blank range. The blast sent the water and dark type crashing into the wall and bouncing off it. After that, the shiny Pokémon motioned her Choice Specs upward back to the top of her head.
"A bit ruthless, don't you think Lily?" Anto asked with a little sweat.
The grass type looked back at him. "I have a lot of pent up anger. Just call this stress relief."
It was at this point Anto was starting to consider if he should start searching for Pokémon therapists, considering all his Pokémon's quirks.
Meanwhile…
She stared at the screen, specifically the beautiful grass type that just defeated her friend's pokemon. "Tadashi, I want a Lilligant."
That wasn't a statement for Clarice, when she wanted something, she usually got it. Tadashi sweat dropped with how focused the beautiful girl was. She wasn't just entranced with the beauty and power of the Pokémon, but Clarice seemed especially attracted to that ruthlessness in battle just now.
He silently prayed to Arceus that not all Lilligants were like that.
Back in Unova, Victor felt intimidated by the small and supposedly cute grass type. Honestly, the Pokémon gave off an eerily familiar aura that screamed she was superior to you… wait a second…
Victor shook his head before reaching for his next Pokémon, Alakazam with another ornate necklace around him.
"He has more than one Mega?" Benga from the seats up on the stage asked out loud.
Everyone looked to Tiana. "Yeah, he has more than one Mega Pokémon. I think he has one more besides that one, but hasn't Anto battled more than three Mega's before?"
"That was only because his Pokémon had better teamwork and coordination. On a one versus one? That's a little different." Wes explained.
Quickly the match started, and Victor wasted no time in mega evolving his Alakazam once more. Anto commanded Lily to quickly use Quiver Dance.
Lily stared down the Mega Alakazam, who was now floating mid air and levitating. Then he launched a devastating telekinetic blast to his opponent who shielded herself in a dome of Magical Leaves.
The two attacks collided and the Mega was surprised that his telekinesis was not moving the pile of leaves.
"That's the first time I've seen a psychic unable to stop a non-dark type move." Jamie noticed.
"I think it's because Magical Leaf has its own unique energy, even among other types, that would be hard for a psychic to grasp or overpower." Tiana commented.
Back in the fight, Victor changed his tactics, telling his Pokémon to use Dazzling Gleam to break through the barrier.
The blinding light blasted the dome, but as it faded away, the pile of leaves scattered and formed into a dozen leaf clones of the Lilligant.
"Well I'll be a Mankey's Uncle…" Victor looked around the clones before all of them started to attack with Magical Leaves. Mega Alakazam teleported to avoid the leaves, but each time he would dodge, the leaves would form back into a clone and another would attack, disorienting everyone from trying to track where the real Lilligant was.
"It's just unfair how I'm the only guy in my friend's group without powers." The Kalosian muttered before he commanded Alakazam to teleport up high. The Mega did so and seemingly surrounded himself in a psychic shield before meditating.
Anto recognized that the Alakazam was using Calm Mind, and planning to boost up to the point he could just wipe out all the leaf clones on the battle field. To counter that, Lily started using Quiver Dance more and more.
Wes's eyes widened. "Okay that looks kinda dangerous."
Guyver also noticed the amount of energy both Pokémon were building up and this one was surely going to affect the audience with more than a heavy dust explosion. "Stay Calm folks! The stands are equipped with forcefields in case of such an emergency!" He told them as a reflective shield started covering over the stands.
Anto and Victor noticed this then they realized they were both left out in the open from the rather massive amount of power both Pokémon were planning to unleash.
"I-I think we've powered up enough." Anto looked over to Victor.
"You do realize you sound exactly like my subconscious right now? Except, smaller, and going through puberty…" He shivered. "Oh those were such dark days."
Unfortunately for the trainers, while they were having this conversation, both of their Pokémon charged up to the fullest.
Mega Alakazam charged a lot of psionic energy while Lily impressively brought the largest Energy Ball in the least amount of time possible above her. She quickly put on her Choice Specs, effectively doubling the size of the large green orb of grass energy.
Then they both fired.
"Oh snap—" "Son of a—"
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[Elsewhere]
"I never would have expected you to lose so… spectacularly. Even in Sinnoh, your defeat was at the hands of legendary Pokémon, I don't seem to know how something like this came to be."
Hunter J had only tasted defeat a few times in her life. She utterly loathed each one of them, yet the worst part about this one was that she was partially to blame for this mishap.
"Still, if you need any resources, we will give them out to you so long as they are reasonable." Her client offered from the other side of this video chat.
She supposed she should be thankful for some mercy in that her client was more leveled headed than most pig-headed black market dealers. However, it was also why she didn't quite trust him.
"Why do you want this child captured so badly?" It came out of her mouth out of confusion than a demand like she wanted.
"… The child is the key to unleashing a long forgotten power that was meant to be locked away and forgotten. If he isn't stopped soon, I pale at the destruction that will be unleashed on to the world."
[Back in the League]
With how much smoke was rising from the arena, one would think that a small nuke went off.
It was amazing how much destruction and chaos that followed Anto where ever he went. Sometimes he wondered if this was really the work of Fake, or he himself was causing this all by simply existing.
Thankfully, before Lily and Mega Alakazam managed to unleash their full power, Anto ducked for cover and threw himself to the ground, even though it shook rather hard from the shockwave the two Pokémon performed.
Anto stood up to see if victor was alright. If anything happened to him, Tiana might get upset. And if she was upset… her horrifying sister would come through the bowels of the earth's crust and torture him in the darkest pits of hell fire for harming her lover and worrying her sister!
"VICTOR, WAKE UP! I DON'T WANNA DIE AGAIN!?" That last word came out subconsciously before he realized he couldn't actually die, which was worse in that she could torture him for eternity—oh Arceus he was really starting to hate his life.
Victor clutched his head as he came back up. "W-What? Dude, that creeps me out!"
As the dust finally settled, they both noticed that their two Pokémon were both out cold on the ground.
"Well I guess this means you're still in the lead," Victor recalled in Alakazam which made Anto bring back Lily. "But that's the only thing I'm letting you have! Go, Chesnaught!"
Another Grass starter? Anto was confused as the mighty Pokémon came out. Chesnaughts were very bulky fighters, though Anto had just realized that he had already lost all three of his better long range fighters.
It was then he threw Ohko back into the field.
"I'm here to kick some hands!"
Anto face palmed.
"Gyro Ball!" To both Ohko and his trainer's surprise, the Kalos starter curled up into a ball and started rolling very fast to Ohko like a boulder. Ohko fired a Focus Blast, yet the attack bounced off the fast moving shell and exploded to the side.
"Well that's new." Anto noted as the grass type ran through Ohko, tossing him up in the air from the attack. The boy acted fast before telling Ohko to fire an ice Focus blast on to the ground again when the fighting grass type came rolling back at him for a second round.
Even though the ground was iced, the younger boy recalled that there were spikes on this Pokémon's shell like back, meaning that even with the ice it still kept its traction.
Ohko tried attacking the moving Pokémon this time. However, it worked as well as the Focus Blast did in that it didn't work at all. Ohko was knocked into the air before Chesnaught finally stopped rolling, jumped up, placed both his hands together and Wood Hammered the fighting type back into the ground with another crater to add onto the field.
As the dust died down, Ohko was seen knocked out cold.
"You're going to have trouble with this one. I started with Chesnaught first!" Victor declared as he folded his arms proudly.
Anto was in a bit of a bind. Takezo and Super Nut did not seem like good match ups against this Pokémon.
Anto threw out his Poké ball to bring out Takezo. He had another Synergy Burst recharged from the past fighting, but he wanted to save this one if the opportunity showed itself.
Again, Victor commanded his Pokémon to use Gyro Ball and run at the small normal type. However, while he figured that the Patrat was special, he was not expecting the common normal Pokémon to be easily evading his speeding Chesnaught.
That was the fastest normal type he ever saw! And he wasn't even evolve—wait. He's wearing a Choice Scarf. That makes more sense… still… Choice Scarves multiply speed. The normal type obviously had a good base speed if it was keeping a safe distance from Chesnaught without looking a bit tired.
Anto's plan was simple. Even for Super Nut, he couldn't spin forever, so he hoped as soon as the Kalos starter got tired of chasing, he could attack.
Eventually, it did work. The rolling Pokémon was slowing down and eventually came to a stop as it stood up groggily.
This was the chance Anto and Takezo took to strike at the disoriented evolved Pokémon.
"Use Spiky Shield!" Victor's voice boomed out as a spiked force field popped around the grass type that made the smaller Pokémon crash into the kinetic shield and be violently thrown back.
"You've got to be kidding me." Anto paled as he recalled Spiky Shield was a much more viable version of Protect in that physical attacks get rebounded to the attacker if they made contact with the shield.
Chesnaught followed through with that and hit Takezo with a Drain Punch to smack him like a rag doll to the side. The small Pokémon flew, but still held on even from a heavy blow. However, he fell to his knees and struggled to stay up.
The Kalos grass type wasted no time and followed up with another fighting type move on the weakened normal type.
However, Takezo's eyes snapped open with one eye glowing blue and one glowing pink. With amazing speed, Takezo avoided the fist and suddenly Chesnaught fell asleep.
"You've got to be kidding me!? What was that!?" Victor cried out.
"Why do we forget we have that move?" Takezo asked as he quickly removed his scarf at the same time as performing a Swords Dance.
"I thought we stopped using the Hypno Eyes move because it requires direct eye contact and it only works for like ten seconds at its best." Anto noted as Chesnaught started waking up. He then pressed his Battle AR to activate Synergy Burst. "Hit him hard before he can put up a shield!"
The burst of light surrounded Takezo as he quickly tied the scarf around his neck and in a blink smashed his blade into Chesnaught's stomach, dealing a heavy blow and pushing the bigger grass type back.
It was at this moment that the Grass type planted his feet into the ground to prevent himself from moving further.
Through sheer will, the grass type grabbed Takezo and basically slammed him into the ground—as if there weren't enough craters in the battle field already.
The rainbow Aura dissipated and Takezo was knocked out from that last blow.
"Oh no…" Tiana spoke up as Anto only had one Pokémon left compared to Victor's two Pokémon. "I know what Victor's last Pokémon is even if Anto does defeat Chesnaught."
"Which Pokémon is it?" Jamie asked.
"… A Mega Salamance."
Wes placed a palm on his head. "Is anyone else having Hunter J flash backs?"
"Me." "She scared me." Benga and Jamie spoke out respectively.
Anto sweat dropped as he threw Super Nut out. The smaller in height steel type boasted about he was here to save the day and it cheered up the boy a little, but none of Super Nut's current moveset, even including Fusion moves would do much to this Pokémon.
The match continued and Anto quickly ordered Super Nut to get in the air by throwing out the Stealth Rocks and some of the Leech Stones.
Victor wondered what those green rocks were, but told Chesnaught to the Gyro Ball technique once more.
Inwardly, the young black haired boy panicked. How was he going to beat that with his last Pokémon?!
Super Nut slung to the top of the floating boulders, but Chesnaught bounced up while rolling.
However, something strange happened after Super Nut saw this and easily dodged the attack. When Chesnaught hit the boulder, his rolling speed broke the boulder and he ended up bouncing back down on the ground. Then the Kalos starter quickly got back up and shook his head before looking back up at Super Nut… who still was monologuing…
Anto stared at that little thing after the attack.
Then a smile spread on his lips.
He just found something to help his battle out.
Super Nut was given his orders, but he looked somewhat confused as he heard them. None the less, he quickly went on the ground and had one of his vines clamp into the rocks above him. Then the steel type smashed the rock on his fighting type enemy right on top of him.
Despite all the hits it has taken, the Kalos Pokémon looked more annoyed than hurt from that and quickly tried to close the distance with another Gyro Ball. Super Nut jumped towards the floating platforms and once more the fighting grass type Pokémon gave chase and jump up while still in ball form.
The result was the same as the first time where Chesnaught's spinning broke the rock where Super Nut just ran away from.
After seeing his Pokémon crash again, Victor commanded his fighting Pokémon to just jump on the rock and chase after Super Nut.
However, the moment he jumped in to the air, Super Nut used a Power Whip to latch onto the boulder that Chensaught was about to jump on and yanked it away like someone playing tug of war. This made the fighting type jumping up… with nothing to land on and went back falling down at the same pace!
Chesnaught grunted after crashing back down and slowly got up.
Victor was surprised by this. He wasn't expecting someone younger than him to use the high ground to this extent of making Chesnaught unable to touch his enemy. He also had to admit this was one unique way of making use of Stealth Rocks. Unfortunately, he was not allowed to switch out right now in the middle of a battle otherwise he would have switch out right about now.
Unfortunately for the young man from Kalos, Anto's Ferrothorn was now on the offensive in that it was using boulders from the sky and continued to send them down like hammers onto his Pokémon. Individually they didn't seem to hurt, but slowly they were piling up with no way for Chesnaught to stop or counter attack.
The older teen ordered his crass type to use Spiky Shield in order to hold off the assault of rocks being pelted at his Pokémon and somehow figure out a way out of this mess.
That would have been what he did if Anto hadn't already put his plan to motion.
The boulders kept being pulled, thrown, and slung right towards the immobile Pokémon on the ground whether it was big or small, it just had to be constant because the longer the forcefield was up… the easier it was to fail.
And fail it did which Anto quickly ordered his last Pokémon to crash down on top of him like a meteor after firing himself from a self sling shot.
Out of the dust cloud, Super Nut rolled out and stood over at Anto's side of the battlefield. However, Chesnaught was seen unconscious on the ground.
The crowd cheered after this fight. Everyone was getting excited as the two trainers were both down to their last Pokémon.
Victor found himself laughing. He's had his fair share of close calls and high stakes battles. However, he found himself doing something he wasn't expecting to do in this battle: he was smiling like an utter loon.
It was actually… fun to battle with this younger teen. Watching his Pokémon do things that not even powerful trainers could pull off as easily as him and his Pokémon could was entertaining and exciting. He always wanted to push himself and his opponent; he wanted to see what other thing the boy had under his sleeves.
He hadn't felt this excited when he was five years old on Christmas morning. Victor grabbed his last Pokémon. "There's no way you're winning, Anto! Come on out Salamance!"
It was at this time, Victor brought out a powerful Salamance that roared proudly in the air after being called.
Anto's eye twitched before he shook his head. "Whoa! Totally had a flash back to Hunter J just now. Really hopping I'm not starting to have PTSD."
Much to the amnesiac's dismay he saw that the Salamance had a beautiful ornate gem around its neck.
The last match began and quickly Victor wasted no time in using his mega ring to bring out mega Salamance.
Anto quickly ordered Super Nut to head back into the air among the floating rocks for at least a better chance of coverage.
"Use Flamethrower!" Victor cried out as the newly evolved Mega Salamance nimbly avoided the boulders and went close enough to Super Nut to unleash a devastating fire attack that was meant to do damage that was four times the damage.
If it was any other Pokémon, a four times effective hit by a power boosted mega would have injured it for sure if not knock it out cold. However, Super Nut was one of Anto's most defensive Pokémon for a reason. It used Protect to nullify the fire surrounding it and the rock it was on.
The bad part was that the situation had now switched. Anto was in the defensive with a Pokémon with a forcefield and all Victor had to do was continue the pressure.
Super Nut quickly realized his shield was going to fade, but Anto gave him a plan and while the shield was still up. The super hero quickly went under the belly of the boulder he was on and let the forcefield drop. The fire hit the boulder, but it was hitting the side the steel type was not on. The boulder was heating up quickly, but Super Nut then pushed the boulder to fly right at Mega Salamance, forcing the Mega to stop breathing fire on it and get out of the way.
Victor and his Pokémon tried to look for the Steel Type, but it was much harder than they both anticipated. Super Nut was swinging around unpredictably, from one place to another before either of his opponents could get a solid half second of looking at him.
The Kalos participant knew that this was getting him nowhere and quickly knew he had to get rid off all these boulders quickly.
In under a few seconds, Mega Salamance unleashed an ear splitting roar towards the sky as a large majority of boulder started shattering.
Anto told Super Nut to bring back the Stealth Rocks, but he quickly found out that Mega Salamance was destroying them quicker than Super Nut could set it up.
One of the Hyper Voices caught the moving Pokémon and blasted him away towards a big rock. Mega Salamance saw his chance and quickly fired another Flamethrower blast at the downed Pokémon. That wasn't enough as Super Nut was still conscious to quickly launch his clamp to another clamp and swing away before the fire consumed him.
Anto's mind started racing. How could he fight against something like this?! There was no chance to attack with Salamance hovering above the boulders and destroying them as quickly as possible and he keeps having a safe distance firing Hyper Voice and Flam…ethrow…
Wait.
What exactly happens to the rocks? When flamethrower hits, the rocks heat up. But when Hyper Voice is launched, the rocks shatter and fall.
…
Anto's eyes brightened as he just recalled something that happened to him in this journey that could work.
Quickly he told Super Nut his plan and the Super hero valiantly saluted before creating as many Stealth Rocks as he could.
Victor knew something was up and he locked eyes with Anto. The younger teen looked back at him for one second… then he smiled.
"Mega Salamance, he's up to something! Hit the Ferrothron with a Hyper Voice!" Victor cried out in hurry.
Who knew what that kid was going to pull!?
The dragon mega unleashed a wide spread attack aiming to where he last saw the Unova native and roared with all of its mighty lungs could muster.
Anto's eyes lit up valiantly as he threw his hand out. "NOW!"
The command was heard and Super Nut jumped out behind a floating boulder and threw a small green rock he had tied on one of his vines before shooting it like a sling shot right at Mega Salamance.
The rock splintered into small pieces under the wind boosted attack, but at the speed it was launched, a tiny portion of the broken rock got thrown right into Mega Salamance's throat, causing the Pokémon to quickly stop his attack and cough up a lot.
"WHAT!?" Victor looked up to his choking Pokémon.
Suddenly, one of Super Nut's vines quickly coiled around the Mega Salamance and then constricted him all over, including around the mouth. Everyone looked towards Super Nut before he jumped into the air—then started spinning!
Like a fisherman reeling in a prey, Mega Salamance was pulled right into Super Nut who had his vines stretched around him like a ball of yarn.
Anto punched the air excitedly. "Steel Carousel!"
Victor looked back down at Anto before realizing that Super nut was spinning again. This time, he was spinning faster and faster with Mega Salamance slowly being stretched out by the vine. It was like a reverse Yo-Yo where the string was moving outward instead of the actual toy! Super Nut spun faster and faster making the Mega Slamance feel crushed at the increasing speed and length much like how some astronauts go through a spinning G-Force Machine in preparation to go to space.
While Super nut's vine was extending and spinning, the Ferrothorn made sure that his opponent was hitting stray boulders as it made its many round trips.
In one mighty flick— Super Nut shot Mega Slamance right towards the ground, shaking the ground once more and adding another giant crater among the battle field.
The smoke filled the arena, and Super Nut landed on a nearby Stealth Rock harmlessly floating around the arena.
All was quiet for a moment. No one knew if an attack like that was enough to take down a Mega Pokémon, even though it looked very powerful.
Out of the dust… a foot came out.
Mega Slamance slowly came out of the dust and looked up towards Ferrothron.
Anto dropped his mouth while Victor smiled with pride.
The Mega Salamance narrowed his eyes at Super Nut.
Then he collapsed into the ground.
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"WE HAVE A WINNER!" Guyver shouted out to the skies, breaking the silence. No sooner as it was broken the crowds roared into thunderous applause.
"WHOOO! GO ANTO! ATTA BOY!" Mr. Baker and his daughter were cheering out wildly for the boy as was in a different area, Benga, Jamie, and even Tiana were cheering.
"And thus the day has once again been saved! By Super Nut!" The cape wearing Pokémon dramatically monologue as he waved to the audience.
"Amazing job Super Nut!" The caped crusader looked down to see his younger trainer beneath him and jumped right towards him.
Anto, who was so ecstatic opened up his arms and caught the steel type before giving it a big hug—
"OH GOD YOU HAVE SPIKE I FORGOT!" Anto tried to let go in pain, but he realized that Super Nut was hugging him back and not recalling he was poking him with spikes. "You can let go now, Super Nut! Come on! Let go-oooH! Ow! Ow!"
"Non-sense! A heroic hug is always welcomed! No need to be shy!" The oval shaped Pokémon mis-assumed and hugged tighter, causing the boy to fall and struggled to push his Pokémon off him.
"Hahaha! I can't believe I just lost to you!" Anto looked over to see Victor chuckling at the sight.
Eventually, Anto struggled to reach for his Ultra Ball and recall the super Hero off from piercing his flesh again. Victor sighed at the sighing young teen and offered him a hand. Anto saw this and took it which allowed Victor to pull him up and properly shake his hand.
"Last time, I scored 4th place in the Kalos League. This time the 8th, but the difference is between then and now: I don't feel as frustrated as I did even though I scored lower," He smiled and placed another hand on the boy's shoulder. "Kid—no, Anto. You are one of the most fun battles I've had in a long time. Don't lose that." He winked at the end.
Anto didn't understand what he meant, but Victor then raised his hand up for the audience to cheer louder and the older teen bowed in front of them all with Anto.
"What a wonderful battle and two great sportsmen, ladies and gentlemen!" Guyver called out for the audience and the people watching all over the world to hear. "Let's give them another round of applause!"
The crowd was all too eager to comply as the two waved again.
In the audience, someone hidden in plain sight stared at the boy. "… Hmm, the host seems to be doing satisfactory. Yet, he is very unconventional to the point of being unpredictable. I've seen what I need. I'll inform Subject One of my report later…"
[Later.]
"Anto!"
The young boy turned towards his friends when Tiana screamed out his name. However, Nurse Joy quickly told him that his Pokémon were all healed up.
His friends caught up to him and congratulated him for making the top four.
"Tiana? Aren't you going to go visit Victor?" The brown eyed boy asked.
The stylish girl reassured him. "It's alright. I can tell him later. But that was amazing how you defeated Mega Salamance even though you couldn't use Synergy Burst! How did you know that rock thing would work?"
"Funny you should mention that…" The boy rubbed the back of his head.
"It happened to you, didn't it?" Wes asked, making the boy sigh.
"Well… I accidentally swallowed a Cheery Blossom leaf and it tasted nasty. Why do they even call it that if it doesn't taste like cherry!?"
"Those trees are what more western oriented people call them. They have a different name where they usually come from." The group of friends looked over to seem Candela and Misoka walking over to them.
"Oh hey guys!" Benga waved. "Are you back from your family meeting?"
The silver haired girl bowed. "My family Dojo is safe thanks to Anto, and we have just watched your most recent battle. You fought amazingly." Misoka spoke up.
Candela gave the boy a thumbs up. "Yeah! Say, how do you feel about joining Team Valor? Your Pokémon could learn how to become even stronger!" The Team Valor leader asked.
From afar, Victor sighed as he watched Anto and his friends all talk and have fun.
"Yeesh, the moment I lose, I suddenly am chopped liver."
"Hmmm I won't deny that." Victor turned his head with a nervous smile towards the girl who just said that.
"Hey Trinity! What's up Babe?" The Kalosian greeted his girlfriend.
"Oh, nothing. I beat a powerful trainer named Sebastian Wong, and unfortunately no one I knew was watching my battle." She folded her arms and slowly turned her gaze towards Anto who was suspiciously close to Tiana.
"Come on, Tri, don't go back to the dark side just because your sister seems to have a crush on the competition."
"The only crush I'll allow is when he's under my boot slowly begging for mercy." She spoke in a deadly tone.
"You do realize he's under-aged right?" Victor quipped even though he knew there was no kinkiness in that sentence, only the undying need to hurt the poor kid.
"I was hoping to battle you, but it looks I'm the only one left who isn't over 15." Trinity spoke up, catching her boyfriend's attention.
Victor turned to her. "What?"
"The battles results for the other two matches came in. For the Semi Finals there is that kid, me, a kid named Cheren, and a Kid named Black. And all of them are under 15."
"Well that's weird. I never expected some of the youngest contestants to make it up here." Victor mused.
"… Victor, you take Tiana out of here as soon as possible." Tirinty suddenly said.
Victor sighed. "Look, I know you two haven't seen eye to… eye…" He turned to her but he saw his girlfriend's eyes were dead serious.
"I recently saw a video of the Cheren kid when he battled Bianca, his child hood friend. Something was wrong with that battle, victor. The girl, Bianca was asking the entire battle what was wrong with Cheren as if she didn't recognize him. Not to mention I've been seeing some shady looking people more and more around the outskirts of the tournament these past few days. Something is going down, and I need Tiana to be safe."
"What is going on?" Victor asked.
"I don't know, but we might need some help." Trinity admitted before looking towards Anto.
She never had a good feeling whenever she looked at the boy. In fact, she couldn't help how bad her instincts were screaming how… wrong… the boy was to her. She did have some powers of Aura, being capable of seeing someone's soul.
Anto's soul… there was just something wrong about it that she couldn't explain.
Hopefully it was all in her head.
"Oh who am I bloody kidding?"
[Author notes}
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the characters, Trinity, Victor, and Tiana! All owned by my good friend MangoLimePie, who hasn't written any stories in a while, but they're still pretty fun to read.
I hope you enjoyed the battle. It's one of a few more 6 on 6 battles that are coming and soon I'm excited for the finally of this Pokémon League Arc.
Also, the next chapter is my 50th chapter! Whoo! Ooh I can't wait till you all see the next few chapters, all the formal battling can be put on hold while the adventure can continue!
See ya all real soon! Thanks for reading!