ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 14 - The monster of Alola.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon :/
It was early in the morning, roughly around 6:20AM. The sun was just rising over across the Alola region.
Ash, Lillie and Lana were still fast asleep at the Pokémon centre, gaining their energy for the day ahead.
Hau however…
"Alright Eevee! Use shadow ball on that rock!" he called out.
The brown little fluff ball released the attack on the rock, shattering it.
The duo had been up since 5:00 AM, training and bonding as well.
"Nice one." Hau said to his Pokémon.
"Vee!" Eevee said rather snobbishly, thinking high and mighty of himself.
"I say we do a few more laps, maybe target practise then grab something to eat. Ever had a malasada before?" Hau explained.
"Ve. Ee?" Eevee said. Even he had to admit, Hau was determined and believed in him. Before being captured, nobody had treated him like this.
"Ha-ha! Yo! This Riolu is going to sell hella crazy!" somebody said rather loud.
This caught the duo's attention.
Hau and Eevee snuck into a bush and saw two Skull grunts, corning a young Riolu.
"Lu…" Riolu moaned in fear.
"Team Skull." Hau spat.
Eevee looked at him with a confused look.
"They are really bad guys that steal and hurt Pokémon." Hau explained.
Eevee growled at them and jumped out of the bush.
Hau's eyes just widened.
"EEVEE NO!" Hau yelled, with Team skull turning to him.
A powerful swift was sent there way before an Abra that was with them used protect.
Eevee grunted and walked back a little as Hau stared at them heavily.
"Well, well, well. Whats do wes have here huh?" a Skull grunt said out loud while placing a cigarette in his mouth.
"I uh… Was just passing through…"
Hau back a way a little.
Stupidly, he left Brionne and Pichu at the Pokémon centre to sleep as he feared that Eevee would get distracted and would end up fighting with them.
"Eevee! Time to put our training to the test! Use shadow ball!"
The ball of purple ghastly energy was fired as another protect was forced up.
"Confuse ray." The second grunt commanded his Haunter.
Eevee was hit by the confuse ray and wobbled around, tripping over his own feet.
"Eevee listen to me!" Hau yelled as the Kanto native Pokémon feel over, still conscious but the confusion had gotten the better of him.
"Nows thens. Hand us over everythings." One of the grunts demanded.
"Ice shard."
The grunts turned around as there Pokémon was belted with a wave of ice shards. Abra was knocked out and Haunter was injured badly.
A Weavile descended from the trees as a boy walked calmly out of the bush with an unimpressed look on his face.
"Tsk. Pathetic. I thought big bad Guzma would toughen more of you lot up." The boy taunted as Hau scooped up Eevee.
"Y-you…!" one grunt stuttered.
"You're the kid with that monster!" the other screamed in fear.
The boy smiled.
"Maybe. You going to stick around and come and find out?" he asked as the grunts returned there Pokémon and proceeded to run off. "Hmph, didn't think so."
Hau looked up at him.
"Listen kid. Next time you see Team skull, don't play hero and go run off somewhere else." Hau's saviour spat as he walked over to the hurt Riolu with Weavile by his side.
Hau got a better look.
His skin colour was pale. VERY pale. He had light blonde hair that was styled into an emo cut with his hair covering the left side of his face including his bright green eye on that side. He had three scars over his face, two cutting through the side of his mouth and one through his eyebrow. His tore up jumper and jeans were both black.
"I've dealt with them before." Hau said.
"Well. NO offence, but you did a pretty shit job then." The unknown laughed.
He grabbed a Pokeballs and threw it down at the Riolu, capturing it.
"Boom." He said as Weavile smiled happily.
"That Pokémon was just being harassed and attacked, and you're just going to catch it?" Hau asked.
"Vee…" Eevee muttered, saying that is close to what happened with his capture.
The boy crossed his arms and flicked his hair back over his eye.
"Listen. I don't have time for your games. If your complaining about what I do, then stand up and do something about it."
Hau frowned.
"You mean a battle? But I don't have my other Pokémon with me…" Hau moaned as he had come out with only Eevee.
The boy sighed.
"Pathetic. Never thought the relative of a Kahuna could be so disappointing." He spat.
Hau froze.
"You know who I am?" he stuttered.
"How couldn't I? The grandson of the legendary Hala of Melemele Island! Oh well!"
"Wait! Wait! I might not be able to battle you!" Hau yelled. "But I might know someone that could!"
The boy smirked.
"I'm listening…"
Ash was fast asleep, snoring a little.
However, his sleep was disturbed by a loud ringing sound as he groaned, slapping himself on the face, cursing because he had been woken up.
"Shut…. Up!" he moaned as he grabbed the phone as looked at the caller ID.
Hau.
Ash picked up and ripped into the Melemele island native.
"Jesus Hau, where you are? Do you know what time it is right now!?" Ash hissed.
"Sorry. I wanted to do some training with Eevee but we ran into some, well small complications. Anywho, I met this guy who is hella strong! I recommended you too him for a battle!" Hau explained and gave out his location to him.
Ash groaned more and decided to meet up with the boy and who ever this stranger was. For all Ash, could know, it could be a trap and Hau was forced to say that.
He got changed and grabbed his Pokeballs and departed.
About 15 minutes later, Ash found Hau healing up Eevee and a boy a little older than them, standing across from them.
"So, you the one this disappointment tells me about?" the boy sneered at Ash who yawned.
"Yeah I guess. God, it's too early in the morning." Ash yawned. He then noticed the powerful looking Weavile next to him.
The boy smirked.
"Say. I know you…"
Ash stopped yawning and froze solid. Hau looked at him and gulped.
"Yeah… You're the kid that saved Kalos and that was announced dead a week later… Ash, was it?"
Ash and Hau looked at each other.
"Uh… No. Me a saving a region, nope!" Ash lied.
"Hmm. You have enough sense to be wary around those that you don't know. I can grow to respect that."
"Uh Thanks I guess?" Ash muttered.
"Names Gladion. Clearly, the world doesn't know you still exist. The runner up and one of the heroes of Kalos kidnapped by a monster. What the media will do for views." Gladion explained.
Ash frowned at him.
"You know nothing about me."
"Oh, I know more than you think, trust me. Looking at the pokeballs you have on your belt, you have three Pokémon." Gladion asked.
Ash knew where this was leading too.
"I have four Pokémon but one of them is currently unavailable to battle leaving me with three."
"Good job, you can do basic math." Ash shouted out sarcastically, clapping slowly.
"Tsk. You have three Pokémon. I have three Pokémon. Battle me. I won't take no for an answer." Gladion said calmly as he grabbed a pokeball.
Hau moved to the side as he and Eevee sat down and watched.
"Go Torracat!"
"Golbat."
The Kanto bat appeared and flew in front of Ash and his fire type.
"Torracat ember!" Ash commanded as Torracat spat out the ember bits.
"Dodge it and then use toxic."
The Golbat flew out of the way and got above Torracat as he spewed the toxic substance on top of Torracat as the effects took effect instantly.
Ash grunted as this was an extremely strong Golbat, questioning way it wasn't an Crobat.
"Use ember on to the ground."
Torracat created a wall of fire as smoke consumed the air.
"Blow the smoke into him. Then use air slash!"
Golbat used its powerful wings to blow the smoke into Torracat.
Ash grunted as his plan was backfiring.
Hau watched in shock as he had never seen Ash this flustered.
Golbat zoomed down through the smoke and used the flying type attack on Torracat, flinging him back as he fell unconscious.
Ash returned Torracat as Golbat flew down next to Gladion.
"You did your best." Ash said. He looked back at Gladion and saw how easily a Golbat defeated his starter.
Gladion returned Golbat as well.
"Stufful, go!" Ash shouted as the little bear appeared.
"Weavile, you're up." Gladion said unimpressed as his ice/dark type jumped into the battlefield.
"Nasty plot."
Weavile boosted his special attack up as Stufful looked fiercely at him.
"Brick break Stufful!"
Stufful charged forward with his front arms glowing brown, flailing his arms at the Sinnoh native Pokémon.
"Ice shard to slow him down." Gladion demanded.
Weavile released the ice shards at Stufful with the brick break breaking them apart but the attack eventually wore off.
"Ice beam!"
Weavile fired the long-range ice attack, hurting Stufful seriously and freezing him in place.
Ash looked at how badly he was losing to this guy despite having the type advantage with Stufful.
"Use brick break yourself!" Gladion said with a smirk.
Weavile charged at him with his claws glowing the same brown glow as Stuffuls did as he slammed his claws into where Stufful was frozen in place.
A small explosion occurred as ice was flung everywhere and Stufful shot at a rapid pace into a tree with swirly eyes.
Ash like before with Torracat, returned his Pokémon first with Weavile returning to Gladions side.
"You tried your best Stufful!" Ash said to the bears pokeball.
His last option was Dartrix as he let loose his grass flying type.
Gladion folded his arms and closed his eyes.
"You know what? I will bless you with witnessing my strongest Pokémon." Gladion said with a confident smile.
He threw his last Pokémon as Ash's and Hau's mouths dropped at the sight.
Rotom appeared and even looked in shock at the sight of this Pokémon.
"No… Data… available… Pokémon unknown." Rotom stuttered.
The Pokémon had a body that looked like a Houndoom but its front legs were different from back legs as they appeared to belong to some bug type that were cut off another Pokémon and stitched right on to it. They were a dark green with three spikes on the back of the legs with two talons at the front and one at the back. Like the front legs, a tail of a water type was stitched on to the back. It looked like a Gyarados. It had a grey mane that was ripped apart and roughened up. The mane finished at where a helmet started. At the bottom of the helmet was a ring that looked awfully familiar. Two squares were in the front was a pair of eyes emotionally stared out of them. On top of the helmet was a rock like battle-axe that reminded him of an ancient Kalos helmet.
It growled fiercely at Dartrix as Ash looked at something that he had never seen before.
"Type: Null! Use X-scissor!" Gladion commanded unlike before with passion into the command.
The creature known as Type: Null dashed forward at Dartrix with its bug like talons glowing a bright green.
"Dodge it now!" Ash panicked as dodging was the only thing he could do to this thing.
He had no idea what type it was, what moves it had, what it could possibly do.
Dartrix flew up as Type: Null slammed its talons into the ground, looking up it with the determination to kill.
"Leafage!"
Dartrix flung its sharp feathers into Type: Null.
"Null, counter the attack with aerial ace!" Gladion shouted.
Type: Null used aerial ace to slice up the dart like feathers with very little effort.
"Metal sound!" Gladion yelled.
The dog made metal like sounds as Dartrixs special defence was lowered.
Ash realised long ranged attack were no use as this Pokémon could easily counter it and if he got to close who knows what it could do.
It left him to one last option.
He pressed his Z-ring and did the dance specialised to the normalium-Z as the energy filled into Dartrix.
Gladion smirked as Type: Null watched.
"Use Breakneck Blitz!" Ash commanded as Dartrix flew at a rapid pace with a giant dust cloud being left behind.
Gladion smiled.
"Time to show our true power Null! GIGA IMPACT!" Gladion yelled as Type: Null charged at the income Dartrix.
The two collided as they pushed each other back and forward.
Type: Null stood his ground as he was proving the stronger of the two despite Dartrix using a Z-move.
The bird was tiring as he could continue as the force of giga impact proved to be superior as Dartrix lost composure and felt the full force of the attack and landed in front of Ash out cold.
Type: Null stood over Dartrix, with mere scratches from the Z-move. Just looking at its eyes, it had the look to rip apart the poor bird.
"NULL! Here now." Gladion shouted as the Pokémon followed the command.
Ash returned Dartrix and just looked at Gladion.
This was his worse defeat in a very long time.
"Tsk. How annoying, its over already?" Gladion sneered.
Ash growled at him.
"Listen. I heard about your guy's heroics in Heahea city. You hate Team Skull. I hate Team Skull. Naturally we should be allies. But I'm going to offer you both this advice: Stay out of my way." Gladion threatened. "I've worked with those pathetic excuses of human beings before and I'll tell you this, I hate and regret every moment. Most kids around this age aim their goals to beat the Island challenge or take on gyms. Me? My goal is to destroy Team Skull. The reject that eliminated the rejects."
Eevee hissed at Gladion but stopped as Type: Null looked at him.
Gladion turned to Hau this time.
"Hmph. With your happy go attitude towards literally everything, you'll never get even close to defeating Hala. Too always remain in the shadow of the great Kahuna."
"Null. Weavile. Let's go." Gladion ordered as they walked off, leaving the dejected Ash and Hau.
"Well didn't he turn out to be an absolute ray of sunshine." Hau said casual as he looked over to Ash.
"Hahaha!" Ash laughed.
Hau blinked at him.
"You ok? He did kind of beat you pretty bad…" Hau said to the trainer.
"Its fine. A reality check if you ask me. I was kind of cocky in some occasions seeming this is my first official lose!" Ash said to Hau.
"Wait, I bet you the other day?" Hau questioned.
"Ok, first serious lose." Ash countered as Hau looked down dejected.
He turned to where Gladion and his monster like Pokémon walked off too,
"This isn't over buddy." Ash spat.
"It's strange and saddening at the same time…" Hau said to Ash.
"What is?"
"He had a Golbat and we both saw how strong it was against Torracat, yet it wasn't a Crobat…" Hau started. "Golbat evolved via happiness."
Ash looked down.
"Your right… It does." He said feeling bad for the bat. "We should head back and get healed up before Lillie and Lana wake up." Ash suggested.
"And what keep this a secret?" Hau asked confused.
Ash nodded.
Hau sighed and followed Ash back to the Pokemon center where they both got there hurt Pokemon all healed up.
They decided to get something to eat before continuing with the rest of the day.
Hau saw Ash's Pokémon and they all looked rather dejected after the serious lose.
Ash noticed as well.
He got down to their level and looked at the three of them.
"Listen. Guys. Losing is natural, you've probably experienced a lose once before. Maybe not as bad as this but we can't let it bring us down. Once Lana and Lillie are ready, we have to focus on the upcoming trial. Then we will train. We will train to become stronger and to beat Gladion." Ash said rallying up his Pokemon.
"Torra!"
"Trixxx!"
"Fful!"
Ash nodded at them all.
"That's it!"
He returned to the table were Hau was munching away.
"That was (munch) easy (munch)." Hau said.
Ash shrugged his shoulders.
"I guess."
The kanto native frowned.
"What's up?" Hau asked.
"Our goal is to beat the island challenge. While Gladions is to destroy Team Skull. I wonder what ever drove him down that path." Ash pondered.
Hau looked out the window.
Elsewhere, Gladion was walking with his Pokemon beside him as he looked down at a picture of him. a younger girl and an older man in his early 20's as he growled at the picture.
Hau looked back Ash.
"Who knows…" Hau replied.
Authors Note: AND Gladion is here. His character here and from the games are very diferent. Instead of being a member from the start, he is an "Ex" member and now aims to destroy Team Skull. And a bit more blunt and harsh as well lol.
And Type: Null! I love him (Seeming it genderless but I'll call it a boy) and its evolution. Probably my third or fourth favorite Alolan Pokemon.
SO NEXT CHAPTER is the 2nd trial at last.
so until then, review, suggest or PM me. Spectre out!