ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 52 - Round 3 part 1
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon :/
It was midnight as Gladion and his Pokemon found an open area and decided to spend the night out under the stars.
He did this once as a kid with his father before he disappeared and before Lusamine went batshit insane.
The bulk of his Pokemon had fallen asleep except for Silvally and Lucario.
He gazed into the dark blanket known as the night sky, trying and failing to count every star.
It was relaxing to him.
Next to him was a box of beer, just in case if he wanted one or two.
He had so far cruised through his opponents and was yet to face a real challenge.
He knew there was only two people here that could give him a real challenge and with one of them being Hau, he knew he could easily win.
Gladion had his eyes on battling one person.
"Val?" Silvally said as Gladion smiled.
"Nothing. Just thinking about things." Gladion told his partner who closed his eyes to try and sleep.
The blonde sighed and returned to looking into the sky.
Lucario was leaning against a tree when he heard someone approaching.
"Rio?" Lucario blurted out which cause Gladion to turned around.
He groaned at the sight of who it was.
"What are you doing here?" He groaned to Mallow.
"I saw you walking this way and wanted to see what was up." Mallow explained.
She was in a loose shirt with short shorts on. He noticed her hair was let loose and not in the usual hairstyle.
"So, you're stalking me?" Gladion muttered.
"No! I mean, what are you even doing out at this time at night?" Mallow asked.
"Bored. I can ask you the same thing." Gladion countered.
"Every Friday as trial captain, I have to make sure everything in the lush jungle is in order at night. I don't get home till about these times." Mallow told him. "May I sit down with you?"
"Nothing is stopping you." Gladion explained as the green haired girl sat down night to the blonde.
"I didn't know you were into star gazing." Mallow muttered to him.
Gladion shrugged his shoulders.
"Do it to pass time." Gladion lied, not wanting to share the truth.
Mallow didn't buy it.
"I don't believe you." Mallow responded back. "You can tell me, after all, we are friends."
Gladion winced at the word friends.
Gladion won't deny he is slightly socially awkward
"The only friends I have is my Pokemon." He told her.
"Then why did you let me stay?" Mallow questioned.
"I'm not going to be a dick and tell you to leave." Gladion responded with a hiss.
Mallow smirked.
"Whatever. Isn't that the Slowbro constellation?" Mallow pointed out.
Gladion tried to locate where she was pointing and once he found it, he burst into laughter.
Mallow lift her eyebrow.
"What's so funny?" she questioned.
"That? That is the Jan's belt constellation and next to it the Mistress Aila." Gladion explained.
The names range a bell.
"The legend of XYZ?" she asked.
"Yep." Gladion muttered.
He looked down at the box of alcohol that was next to him and groaned.
"Do you want one?" He motioned towards the box.
Mallow thought about it and shook her head which surprised Gladion.
"No thanks. I don't really like to drink anymore." Mallow muttered.
"Anymore?" Gladion questioned her wording.
"I'm not normal when I am drunk."
"I don't think anyone is when they are drunk. That's the point." Gladion explained.
He noticed a look of regret and embarrassment on her face.
"What's up?"
"It's nothing… Trust me." Mallow promised.
Gladion sighed, knowing he was going to regret this if anyone else knew.
"You can tell me. We are… Friends after all." Gladion blurted out.
Mallow looked at the blonde and blushed.
She explained her past issues and her little issue as Gladion listened to every word.
"Right… So, some sort of sexual desire takes over." Gladion repeated as Mallow nodded. "Look, I don't know but at least you declined the booze."
"If I can be nosy, who are you facing in the next round?" She asked. She hadn't followed any of his matches yet but knew he was through.
Gladion shrugged his shoulders and looked at his phone. He had a received a new e-mail about 2 or so hours ago.
He opened it up to find his opponent to his surprise.
"Huh."
"What does that mean?" Mallow asked with a yawn
"I just got my match up for the round of 16." Gladion explained but the only response he got was a soft snoring sound.
He turned to find that Mallow had fallen asleep.
Gladion glared at the sleepy green haired beau-
Gladion's eyes widened as he realised what he was thinking as he slapped himself slightly to shake himself back into reality.
He knew he couldn't leave her here and had two options but decided to go with being a good human being.
Gladion woke up both Lucario and Silvally with neither looking pleased to be woken. He explained what to do as Lucario carefully picked up Mallow and placed her on Silvally's back as Gladion walked beside. He found a key number in her pocket as they took her back to her villa.
(The next day)
Ash's match wasn't till tomorrow, so he had the day off, but Lillie was very interested in going and watching Gladion's battle.
The first mission was just finding out when it was.
Plus, Hau had his match in the afternoon.
The two boys were yet to check who they were versing, and they were both in for a surprise.
Ash had been matched against Emilia while Hau has to battle Lucinda. Seeming it was now just down to 16 battlers; the full draw was in the email instead of just individuals.
And oh boy, were there some pairings.
The first name they all searched for was Gladion who was against a guy called Sean.
Zach was paired to battle Olivia of all people which they were sure was both thrilling him and shredding him apart.
Acerola was matched with someone they weren't familiar with.
As was Sophocles however, the name Ben Hickory rang a bell in Lillie's head as if she had heard it before.
Mina was in the same situation as the previous two trial captains.
And finally, the last match was between two guys they didn't know.
Gladion's match was the first in the day and then they would attend Hau's later on.
The group of three made it to Fini stadium and proceeded in. Lillie wanted to see Gladion beforehand but sadly couldn't.
And by the time they got to their seats, he was already facing down his opponent.
All they knew before hand was his name was Sean.
He was a fair bit younger than Gladion but was around the age of 15ish. He had a fair complexity with short blue hair and bright orange eyes. He wore a yellow long-sleeved shirt matched with black jeans and black shoes. Around him was bandana with a fire symbol on it.
"WELCOME ALL TO TODAY'S ROUND 2 MATCH LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! We want to hear you make some noise for our competitors, Gladion and Sean!"
The crowd cheered with Ash, Lillie and Hau getting involved in.
Ash wanted to see how Gladion battled in this. How aggressive was he.
"This round 3 battle will be consisted of using 3 Pokemon each. When one trainer can no longer use any of their Pokemon, the match will be over. Each trainer is allowed one Z-move and switch is only allowed when play is at a standstill. Trainers! Prepare your first Pokemon!" The ref announced as Sean and Gladion glared at on another.
Sean's glare was filled with determination while Gladion's was just his normal look.
"BEGIN!" The ref yelled.
"Gogoat! Come on out!" Sean yelled with the local Alolan accent.
"Weavile." Gladion muttered as his Pokemon appeared in the battle with his usual sadistic grin.
"Gogoat! Earthquake!" Sean shouted, making the first move of the game.
"Weavile, create a tower of ice then use ice beam!"
Gogoat slammed his hooves into the ground to shake the area but Weavile used ice beam to make a mountain of ice. The ice cracked thanks to the powerful ground move but Weavile jumped off and fired an ice beam at the kalos native Pokemon.
The goat slid back slightly and shook off the ice that was attached to his coat.
"Shadow claw!"
The ghost like move surrounded Weavile's claws as he slashed at Gogoat furiously.
"Block it with horn leech!" Sean commanded.
The pure grass type tried to block it with horn leech but Weavile was to powerful as he simply cut through the horn leech like butter.
Weavile stopped and stepped backwards for a second.
"Night slash!"
And with one simple movement, Weavile claw's glowed dark as he slashed at Gogoat to finish him off.
"Gogoat is unable to battle! Trainers, if you wish to make a change, do so now!" The ref called as Sean returned Gogoat as did Gladion with Weavile.
Sean was in disbelief that he couldn't even land a hit as he looked at his opponent.
He gulped as threw out his next Pokemon
Sean revealed a powerful looking Magmortar while Gladion chucked out Lucario.
"BEGIN!" The ref yelled.
"Double team!" Gladion said as Lucario split into dozen's copies of himself.
Sean grunted as he gave his first command.
"Destroy them with flamethrower!" he yelled.
Magmortar charged up and blasted the copies only to find the real Lucario was not present.
Nobody saw where Lucario went as Gladion struck an edgy pose.
"Bone rush!"
Appearing out of nowhere, Lucario slammed a powerful looking bone rush right into the of the head of the blast Pokemon. The pure fire type fell to the ground but got up again, rubbing his head madly.
"Smokescreen!" Sean yelled.
Magmortar covered the whole field in smoke as Lucario kept a calm composure.
"Fire punch!"
Despise not being the fastest Pokemon, Magmortar moved at a pace which Lucario couldn't move out of the way in time. The steel fighting type felt the fire move right away in his gut as he saw the fire type grin in front of him.
Lucario was forced back as Magmortar jumped again to try and land another fire punch.
"Aura sphere!"
Lucario charged up the aura sphere and unleashed it right at Magmortar with him going flying. He landed in front of his trainer, wincing in pain.
"Earthquake!" Gladion yelled with Lucario forming a bone and slamming it on the ground to shake the area. Gladion was hoping he fell for his trap.
Sean had to think of a way to avoid it and remembered what Gladion did before to avoid Gogoat's earthquake.
"Project yourself up with flamethrower!" Sean yelled.
Gladion smirked as he and Lucario saw the blast Pokemon fire himself into the air.
Gladion slammed his Z-ring with Lucario getting ready to use the over powered move.
"All out Pummelling!"
Lucario roared as he unleashed the wrath of the fighting Z-move right at Magmortar who couldn't avoid it due to being in the air.
Once the Z-move collided with him, Magmortar fell to the ground with swirly eyes.
"Magmortar is unable to battle! Trainers, if you wish to make a change, do so now!" The ref called as Sean returned his fainted Pokemon.
Gladion chose to recall Lucario to give another Pokemon a go in battle.
Lillie was slightly concerned Gladion was going to hard on everyone he faced.
"Sandslash!"
An Alolan Sandslash appeared with aggressive fighting stance.
Gladion smirked as he revealed a master ball.
"Oh no…" Ash muttered as both Hau and Lillie sweat dropped.
"Silvally!"
The man made Pokemon appeared and let off a roar that silenced the crowd as he had done multiple times before.
The aggressive stance the Alolan Sandslash once had faded away as Silvally towered over the ice steel type.
"B-Begin!" The ref yelled, slightly scared after seeing Silvally.
"You can have the first go." Gladion offered with a cocky smirk.
Sean gave a concerned look but changed to a look of determination as he wasn't going down without a fight.
He was wasting no time with him slamming his own Z-ring as an icy blue colour surrounded Sandslash.
"Subzero slammer!" Sean yelled.
Sandslash was fired into the air on a giant ice pillar as a large ball of frost charged in front of him as he unleashed a powerful beam of ice. The large ice-beam hit Silvally as he was encaged with ice, resulting in spikes firing out from every direction. The ice eventually exploded, sending a cold wind throughout the stadium.
The whole stadium was left speechless however.
Silvally stood there as it appeared he took no effect. His eyes were a fire like red as was the spikes on his head and his tail.
Sean couldn't believe it as Silvally cracked his neck side to side.
"Multi-attack!" Gladion yelled as fire surrounded Silvally's claw.
He pounced at Sandslash with the poor ice steel type looking on at his fate as he was knock out in one single hit.
The stadium was sent into utter silence as both Sean and Gladion returned there Pokemon with the latter walking off.
"Jeez. He didn't have to use Silvally now did he?" Hau commented as he felt extremely bad for Sean.
"Well, someone has to versus Gladion." Ash added in as he was slightly annoyed at Lillie's brother.
They waited for the afternoon as it was time for Hau to battle Lucinda.
They were battling in the Bulu stadium as the two who had only met briefly at the little news thing they did yesterday, stood opposite of one another.
"WELCOME ALL TO TODAY'S ROUND 2 MATCH LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! Give it up for the two battlers of this battle, Hau and Lucinda!"
The two waved the crowd as they cheered on back.
"This round 3 battle will be consisted of using 3 Pokemon each. When one trainer can no longer use any of their Pokemon, the match will be over. Each trainer is allowed one Z-move and switch is only allowed when play is at a standstill. Trainers! Prepare your first Pokemon!" The ref announced as the two got ready with their first pokeball in hand.
"BEGIN!"
"Delphox! Come on out!" Lucinda shouted as the fully evolved fire starter of Kalos region appeared with elegance.
"Aegislash! GO!" Hau announced as he brought out his own Kalos Pokemon with the ghost sword appearing in front of him.
"Let's start with a future sight!" Lucinda said as Delphox's eyes glowed blue with her stick like wand glowing as well.
"Change stance then use shadow sneak!"
Aegislash twirled around as it's shield landed on it's cloth like hand with the steel ghost disappeared into the shadows.
"Use psychic to find it!" Lucinda yelled.
Delphox's eyes glowed again as she scanned around the area and saw something move directly at her.
She stopped as Aegislash slashed at her but blocked it with a trail of fire.
The sword faded away and reappeared in front of Hau.
"Shadow ball!" Lucinda commanded as the witch like Pokemon charged the ball up and fired it.
"Fling your shield at it then follow with aerial ace!"
"Aegi…SLAH!" Aegislash yelled as it flung it's shield at the shadow ball with it splitting in half as the shield was still heading in Delphox's direction. Aegislash followed it's shield as Delphox deflected it but was not prepared for Aegislash as she was hit with the flying move.
"Flamethrower!"
"Change stance."
Aegislash just got its shield back in time as it was blasted with fire.
It still did a lot of damage, but it would have been battle over if he didn't get his shield back.
However, Aegislash felt an awful pain as Hau had forgotten about the future sight completely.
"Mystical fire!" Lucinda yelled.
"Dodge then use pursuit!" Hau yelled as well.
The ghost swiftly moved out of the way despite the pain and slashed at the fire psychic type with the dark move.
Delphox cried in pain as both Pokemon wee starting to feel the effects of each other's moves.
"SHADOW BALL!" Both Hau and Lucinda commanded as both Pokemon fired the ghost move with them both hitting each other.
Aegislash fell to the ground with Delphox falling shortly after.
"Both Pokemon are unable to battle! Trainer, bring in your next Pokemon!" The ref called as both Hau and Lucinda called in their mons.
"You did great bud." Hau spoke to his Aegislash as he prepared his next Pokemon.
Lucinda gave a similar message as she got ready as well with them both throwing their pokeball at the same time.
Hau brought out Primarina while Lucinda revealed a Gardevoir.
"Water fairy vs psychic fairy huh? This will be interesting…" Ash muttered.
"Come on Hau!" Lillie shouted in support.
"Begin!" The ref called.
"Magical leaf!" Lucinda shouted as Gardevoir whipped up the grass move and aimed it right at Primarina.
"Use aqua jet to move out of the way!"
Primarina wrapped herself in water and zoomed out of the way. She aimed herself right at Gardevoir but the Hoenn Pokemon just moved out of the way.
"Moonblast!" Lucinda commanded as Gardevoir readied the attack.
Hau signalled Primarina to land on the ground and did so.
"Use moonblast as well!" Hau copied.
The two moves collided resulting in an explosion in the centre.
Both the fairy's covered their faces due to the incoming smoke.
"Hydro pump!"
Primarina let her hair loose as she fired the blast of water with it successfully hitting Gardevoir.
"Thunderbolt!" Lucinda said.
Gardevoir's hands charged up as she let out a powerful electrical charge which hit Primarina dead on.
The soloist Pokemon cried in pain as Hau gritted his teeth.
"Hyperbeam!" Lucinda commanded as she was starting to take control of the match.
Gardevoir fired the beam of pure energy right at the fully evolved starter as both Ash and Lillie were growing concerned for Hau.
The Melemele native gave a determined look.
"Protect then sparkling aria!"
Primarina summoned the protect as the powerful normal move hit it. Once it was over, the water fairy used her signature move as ice cool water was dropped on Gardevoir.
"Icy wind!" Hau yelled quickly.
Primarina whipped up the wind as the already cool water froze Gardevoir in place.
"Break out with psychic!" Lucinda commanded as the ice began to shatter.
"We can help out! AQUA JET!" Hau shouted as Primarina bolted at Gardevoir with the fast water move. She smashed right through the ice she created and pinned Gardevoir to the ground.
"Thunderbolt!"
"Sparkling aria!"
Both the fairies used the retrospective commanded moves as they were both sent flying, falling unconscious and resulting in a draw yet again.
"Both Pokemon are unable to battle! Trainer, bring in your next Pokemon!" The ref called the same message as before.
Hau gave a tense sigh as this was close.
Lucinda was feeling the same pressure as one wrong move could end it all. Though she realised Hau was in the same boat.
"Raichu!"
"Absol!"
Hau winced slightly as his electric psychic type was about to face down with a pure dark.
"You've been in worse situations before Hau. You can do this!" He thought to himself.
"You ready?" Hau shouted to Raichu.
"CHUI!"
"Let's do this Absol!" Lucinda called out as Absol nodded.
"BEGIN THE FINAL BATTLE!" The ref shouted.
"Before we fight, may I show you the true taste of a Kalos trainer?" Lucinda smirked.
Hau, the ref, Lillie and the bulk of the crowd were confused what she meant by this.
Ash paled as he figured it out.
"HAU DO SOMETHING!" Ash shouted above everyone else which the Melemele native heard.
Hau turned to see a smirking Lucinda who revealed a mega stone, resulting in her Absol to mega evolve.
Hau gritted his teeth as the crowd began to chant Lucinda's name.
"That's not fair! Did the rules say anything about mega evolution?" Lillie questioned Ash who was growing more concerned for Hau.
Hau fought back to his battle with Grimsley who had a mega Absol as well.
"We've beaten one before! We can do it again! Electro ball!" Hau quickly shouted.
A ball of electricity was formed in front of Raichu as he swung it at Absol.
"Night shade to slice it in half then shadow claw!" Lucinda quickly reacted.
"SOOL!" Absol roared as the female Absol's crescent like horn glowed a dark aura as she cut the electro ball in half with the dark move.
The Hoenn Pokemon dashed right Raichu.
"Agility to dodge then iron tail!" Hau commanded as Raichu nodded.
As Absol got closer, Raichu swiftly flew out of the way as Absol attempted to follow the Alolan form but couldn't keep up.
His tail glow as steel like colour as he jumped off it and aimed it right at his opponent. Absol reacted by defending herself with the shadow claw as she was pushed back.
"Sword's dance!"
Several swords appeared above Absol as her attack was boosted.
"Play rough!"
Mega Absol jumped at Raichu and used the powerful fairy move on Hau's Pokemon.
"THUNDER!"
Raichu got a split chance to let lose the thunder as Absol was blasted out.
She was gritting her teeth as static appeared around her body.
"Blast." Lucinda muttered.
"Dark pulse!"
Mega Absol fired the dark energy which got a clean hit on Raichu who was now covered in battle marks and forced himself up.
"Use Play rough again!" Lucinda shouted. Absol tried to move but failed due to the paralyze.
Hau smiled.
"Use psychic to pull up rocks!" Hau yelled as rock like pillars were pulled out of the ground. The pillars created a maze-like situation.
Everyone was confused on Hau's plan, even Ash but he believed in Hau.
"Double team and fly around!" Hau shouted as Raichu created copies of himself and zoomed into the rocky maze.
Absol looked around but everywhere she looked, a Raichu would fly past.
Absol began to move out away from where she was but knew she was being watched from every angle.
"Thunderbolt!"
Out of an unknown location, Absol was hit with the electric move.
"Razor wind to destroy the rocks!" Lucinda called out.
Absol wiped up the wind as the rocks crumbled into small pebbles as the razor wind destroyed the clones and showed the real Raichu.
"Psychic on the pebbles!"
Raichu smirked as he caught all the pebbles with psychic and twirled them around Absol who failed to move in time. She was being pelted by them.
Hau saw the look on Lucinda's face.
"Now how about I show you the true taste of an Alolan trainer!" Hau yelled. "Double team then discharge on yourself!"
Raichu split up again but used discharge on himself as all the clones turned into balls of electricity as the Alolan form absorbed them all as he shot out lose volts.
Hau slammed his Z-ring as Raichu got prepared to move.
"Stoked Sparksurfer!"
Raichu flew up as the electric that surrounded him grew even larger due to the extra energy he had. He grinned as he flew down at Absol with loose lighting flying everywhere. He slammed into Absol who yelped in pain, returning to her normal form and falling to the ground unconscious.
"Absol can no longer battle! Lucinda no longer has any more Pokemon to battle with, declaring Hau the winner and to progress to the quarter finals!" The ref announced as the crowd.
Hau let out a sigh of relief as did Raichu with the crowd suddenly cheering his name.
Ash smirked as Lillie clapped.
At the back of the stadium, Gladion was watching with even him cracking the smallest of smiles as he walked off.
Ash, Lillie and Hau met up with Lucinda after the battle.
"Woah! I didn't know you could mega evolve?" Hau questioned Lucinda.
"It was written in the rules, but I didn't expect it anyone else to have one seeming it's not too common here in Alola. Was hoping for a tactical surprise! Oh well." Lucinda explained.
She turned to Ash.
"It appears the article written has made some smashing headlines in Kalos and some other regions picking up on it." Lucinda told Ash as that was music to his ears.
"I don't get it… You want to prove them wrong, but you want to make them think your still dead?" Hau asked.
Ash smirked.
"I am confident I'll make the final just a question against who but that doesn't matter."
He stopped and then turned to the window.
"I had to make sure those reporters didn't come here and snoop into anything hence why I got Lucinda to write the article. I want to make the grand reveal!" Ash explained.
"What?" Hau blurted as Lillie shook her head at his denseness.
"Simple. Kukui has made it that every major broadcaster will show the first ever Alolan league final and with the shock surprise of the finalist: Ash Ketchum. Alive and ready to win."
Author's note: Here we are! Round 3 part 1.
SO! It is out! USUM is here at last! Prime reason why I haven't updated Kek. But I've finished it and we will roll on again.
I'm sure many of you will want to know my full opinion of USUM but I will give that a few chapters seeming probs some still haven't played or finished yet. So the story will still stay spoilerish free.
But I will say this: I enjoyed them a lot.
Not much to say as I have split this into two parts.
Regarding Charizard, I have cleared it up and changed somethings on accident without thinking. So that's sorted.
And Yeah.
If there is questions you have asked for USUM, I will answer them in the first USUM chapter.
QUESTIONS:
Will there be more fluffiness between Ash and Lillie?
Still got the USUM half so yes :P
Btw I have a question, have you ever played any of the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games?
OH! I love the MD series with a passion. I think Gate of infinity was the only one I disliked but I don't hate it. The music is perfect, the feels are there, the stories, the characters! Reason why Sceptile is one of my favorite mons is cause of Grovyle! I remember being young and having my heart broken when he sacrificed himself (Only to find out he is alive!)
Also I wonder about that Z-Move Crystal necklace Ash has?
Have to find out :P
As for a quick question, will the GS Ball return in this story?
Hmm. Possible.
If one wishes to start a fanfic,and it is going to be like 400 chapters total in the entire series,what are the chances of one completing it within 2 years if one posts a chapter like every 2 days?Just askin cause im debating on doing it.20 chapters per story...
Comes down to hard work and sticking out with it. I guess with a long term project like that, you got to really think it out what's going to happen then and there. And just to remember to have fun writing it! I reckon that is the best way to write something. If you're not having fun and you are forcing yourself to write, the quality will come poor to a point.
ULTRA SUN AND MOON ARE OFFICIALLY RELEASED GLOBALLY
Yes it has sir :D
And that is all. So as always, review, suggest or PM me! Spectre out!