ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 56 - Ash VS Gladion, the final of the Alola league.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon :/
Ash was resting on his bed as he counted down the hours that were slowly ticking by.
He just looked up at the roof and did nothing.
Lillie was in the main room, reading a book while Hau was probably doing something dumb.
He still felt for Bewear as there was no way he could battle tonight.
The Kanto born thought over things.
He knew of Silvally, Weavile, Crobat, Lucario and Lillie mentioned that he obtained an Eevee which didn't help.
The rough team he was going for was most likely was going to be Incineroar, Decidueye, Mimikyu, Gallade, Greninja and Type: Null.
He already explained to Salazzle that she was going to sit this out, but she was fine.
Ash was going to need Greninja to have any chance of taking Silvally on.
Type: Null was coming due to Ash wanting a bit of aggression in the team which she could provide.
He did wonder what Gladion was doing right now but he needed to just relax.
There was a knock at his door as Lillie walked in.
"Hey? How are you?" She asked.
Ash just shrugged his shoulders.
"Fine. Just waiting I guess." Ash explained.
Lillie sat down next to him and soon went on to her back.
"So, what after this?" Lillie questioned.
Ash hadn't thought on it too much, but he wouldn't mind living here.
"Find a place to stay I guess?" Ash told her.
Lillie smiled.
"I guess I should tell you the news." Lillie said as Ash raised an eyebrow. "Kukui as offered both me and Ilima a teacher's apprenticeship at the trainer school on Melemele."
"Wow, that's awesome." Ash said.
Lillie nodded.
"Yeah. We start training next month."
This made Ash question about his future, but he only saw one option.
"Well, by the end of the night, you'll be looking at the first champion of Alola." Ash told her.
Lillie frowned.
"Remember. This is Gladion you're battling…" Lillie muttered.
Ash just nodded and hopped up out of the bed.
"I've waited for this day to come and I'm not going to let it slip again." Ash explained as he and Lillie walked out.
Ash's Pokemon were resting along with Hau's and Lillie's.
Type: Null had something tangled around her leg which Ash noticed and it was distressing her badly.
"Hey. Calm down, calm down. I got this." Ash told his Pokemon as he carefully removed the object off her leg.
"Remember. We might have all gotten this far but this is Gladion. No showboating, no getting cocky." Ash announced to his Pokemon in the crowd.
Hau was on the couch watching TV.
He was flicking through the channels with every news station reporting about the first ever final in Alola.
"Damn, Kukui must have done some high favours to get this much coverage." Hau blurted out.
The entire world was going to be watching.
And he was ready.
More hours past as Ash and co left for the stadium. It was now very much night time.
Due to them being VIPs, Lillie and Hau were slightly more dressed up than Ash as they made there way to the box were everyone else was.
Lana wandered over to Hau's side while Lillie walked towards Mallow and Acerola.
"This is it huh?" Mallow said as she made a glass of champagne.
Lillie sighed.
"Yeah, I guess it is."
Both Ash and Gladion's Pokemon had photo's taken for the big screen plus dissolvable sensors to track their health to give it a more finale feeling.
Ash had his eight Pokemon out which included the injured Bewear and Salazzle who was sitting this out.
"This is it… This is it guys." Ash explained as each of his Pokemon listened carefully.
"I don't regret a single moment of this adventure. To meet and befriend all of you. I've enjoyed every moment of this wild journey and we are going to top it off with what the old Ash Ketchum couldn't do!" Ash announced.
"ROAR!" Incineroar roared followed by roars from Decidueye and Greninja.
"Those of my past will be watching. So, let's show them why they were wrong to turn on me!"
"Kyu!" Mimikyu cried.
"But, we also are going to show not just them but the world what we can do!"
"Sazl!" Salazzle cried.
"Beww!" Bewear followed up.
"Lade!" Gallade said calmly while nodding.
"Both as natural and man-made partners." Ash finished as he turned to Type: Null.
"Grhg…" she growled slightly as Ash stuck his hand out to her. Type: Null looked at it and soon placed her front claw in his hand. Every of his other Pokemon soon came in.
"Let's do this." Ash muttered as the places their hands/claws into the air.
(Kanto Region)
Delia was in her kitchen peeling some potatoes for a salad as she had the Professor, Misty and Brock around for dinner.
She slowly pealed them all as she thought back to that day of Serena's wedding with the mysterious Greninja.
She sighed and decided to go sit down for a bit before continuing.
The house had been renovated a bit due to the fire during the attack as the walls had to be replaced.
"Yeah. Undefeated in 14 battles now." Misty bragged.
"I've also been nominated for doctor of the year." Brock told the Professor as Delia walked in.
"Congratz to you both then!" Oak said as he flipped through the channels of the TV.
"What's up?" Delia asked.
"Tonight, is the final of the first ever Alolan league. The finalists have been kept a secret though for the outside world." Oak explained.
"Do you believe that Kalos report about Ash?" Misty asked.
"We all saw what happened Misty… We have been over this!" Oak snapped.
"Ladies and gentlemen! May I have your attention please!" Kukui said on TV.
"Oh, it's starting." Brock pointed out.
"I want to thank everyone that helped with organising this! A dream I and many others have had for a long time for our home region to have a league of its own! The Kahuna's and Tapu's both agreed and here we are now, at the dawn of our first finale!"
Elsewhere in the world, over in Hoenn, May was with Drew and Max at there house watching the final as Norman was very interested in what Alola was like battling wise. Pikachu was out playing with some of the Pokemon in the house.
Dawn has Barry and Kenny around as she was up in her room with the two-boy's downstairs watching the final.
Around Veilstone city, Gary was watching it as it was the talk around town. The flying types he rescued from his grandpa had settled in and was getting along with Pokemon.
In Unova, Cilan had organise the final to be shown at there family restaurant with him inviting Iris.
And lastly in Kalos, Serena and her husband were watching it as nothing else was on TV. She invited Clemont and Bonnie to join them with the siblings arriving any moment now.
"SO! I welcome our first finalist to the field! Give it up for Gladion Aether!" Kukui announced as the blonde walked on stage.
Everyone of Ash's old friends minus Gary were in shock as the guy that absolutely smashed them was in the final of the Alola league.
But the real surprise was about to come.
Kukui was about to start talking but stopped before smirking.
"And our second finalist for tonight's battle is… ASH KETCHUM!" Kukui announced as the Kanto born walked on to the field.
The world was left in sheer disbelief.
And none more than everyone that knew him.
Oak, Misty and Brock went pale white as Delia collapsed into a chair as if she had seen a ghost.
The three in Hoenn began to tremble as May and Max's parents looked at them in confusion. Pikachu saw his first trainer and back away before running into a different room.
Barry and Kenny were in absolute shock as Barry rushed up to grab Dawn who fainted as soon as she saw him on screen.
Commotion erupted in Cilan's family restaurant as Iris ran out of the room.
Finally, in Kalos, Bonnie cried with her older brother in shock. Serena simply vomited in stress as her worse fear came true.
Gary never cried but was in tears at the sight of his childhood friend.
Talonflame, Hawlucha and Noivern was welling up with the latter bursting into tears.
Goodra had the exact same reaction as his friend despite being so far away.
And what worried the traitors so much.
He looked stronger than ever before.
Both Gladion and Ash were handed a microphone.
"Well, you kept your promise. I am impressed." Gladion snipped.
Ash smirked.
"Like wise. Was afraid you wouldn't make at one point!" Ash responded back.
"Tsk. Why you lying? Didn't even break a sweat getting here!" Gladion snapped back.
Perfect follow in for Ash.
"We'll see. Speaking of lying, I want to make some huge shout outs to a few good old FRIENDS of mine! You know? Friends that support friend's ideas and dreams! Not the kind that tell them to give up and then lie about their death! Because news flash Mom!" Ash ranted as he turned to a camera.
Delia had a horrified face.
"I am alive!" He announced to the world.
"No way! Otherwise you wouldn't be here!" Gladion commented sarcastically
"So people that are watching this near and far, can know that everything that has revolved around the name Ash Ketchum has been ONE big lie!"
The crowd cheered the loudest they had ever in the whole competition.
"Serena what does he mean by that?" Marco questioned as Serena looked at Clemont and Bonnie for answers.
"So? Know what Oak? Gunna tell the world it was all one big misunderstanding? Yeah nah!" Ash snapped for the final time as he dropped his microphone on the ground.
Gladion smirked. Though he was keeping his image intact, he was impressed with the way Ah was going with this.
"Adorable." He commented again before throwing the microphone to the side.
"The final of the Alolan league will be contested of using 6 Pokemon each. The match will be between Gladion Aether and Ash Ketchum. 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.
The two boys showed there retrospective pokeballs.
"BEGIN!"
(Sun and Moon Champion theme)
"Crobat! Into battle!" Gladion shouted as the large bat appeared and screeched, creating winds resulting in Ash having to hold his hat.
"Mimikyu! I choose you!" Ash shouted back as the shiny Mimikyu appeared on the field.
"Why has he sent out a fairy type on a poison type?" Mallow questioned.
"I don't know but he knows." Lillie told her.
"Air cutter!" Gladion yelled, placing his arm forward for the first attack.
"CRO! BAAT!" Crobat roared as he sliced up the wind into violent air like sickles.
"Dodge it then use swords dance!"
Mimikyu swiftly dodged the flying type move and soon formed swords above herself to gain the attack boost.
"Sludge bomb!"
"Use double team to avoid it then shadow claw Mimikyu!"
Crobat formed the ball of toxic sludge and fired it at Mimikyu with it exploding on the ground into smaller bombs but still creating havoc.
However, the ghost fairy type split into multiple copies with the clones jumping into the small bombs of sludge to minimize the damage on the field.
The real Mimikyu jumped behind Crobat and before the Johto Pokemon could react, Mimikyu slashed down at his back with the boosted shadow claw.
Crobat crashed into a rock but flew back up soon.
Gladion smirked.
"It's going to take more than that to knock us down. Hurricane then spit toxic into it!" Gladion commanded.
Crobat whipped up the hurricane and spewed toxins into as he sent it at Mimikyu.
The poor disguise Pokemon had nowhere to go and was soon sucked into the powerful flying move with a touch of poison to it.
Like what happened to Crobat before, Mimikyu was blasted into a rock.
She got up but with the disguise broken and now suffering from toxic.
"Sludge bomb!" Gladion yelled.
Crobat formed the ball and blasted it right at her.
"Protect then shadow ball!" Ash yelled.
Mimikyu formed the shield as sludge bomb hit. Once it passed, Mimikyu fired a shadow ball right at Crobat.
"Slice it in half!"
Crobat's wings glowed a steel colour as he chopped through the ghost move with ease.
"Mimikyu! Curse!"
The Disguise Pokemon took the bulk of her health to place a curse on Crobat who felt the affect straight away.
Ash noticed the twinge on Gladions face from this.
But noticed due to placing the curse and fighting the toxic, Mimikyu was not in a good position.
Gladion knew he had to finish this so he can get Crobat out.
"Hurricane!"
"Thunderbolt!"
Crobat whipped up the flying move but a bolt of electricity flew through the middle and struck Crobat with the bat falling to the ground unresponsively.
Mimikyu soon collapsed as well.
"Both Pokemon are unable to battle! Trainers, bring in your next Pokemon!" The referee called as the two recalled their Pokemon.
"You did great." Gladion told Crobat.
"Super proud of you Mimikyu." Ash told his ghost fairy type.
"So that's why he brought in Mimikyu, for the curse and thunderbolt." Mallow said out loud.
"Still a long way to go." Kiawe made mention.
"Come on Ash." Lillie muttered to herself.
"Incineroar! Let's go!" Ash shouted.
"Sylveon!" Gladion yelled.
Ash was a little blown away that Gladion had a pretty, pink Pokemon like Sylveon just because it didn't fit his style of Pokemon.
But he couldn't ignore the fact that she was probably going to be a pain to beat."
Incineroar laughed at the fairy Eeveelution but soon remembered what Ash said and turned into a more attacking stance.
"Begin!"
"Moonblast!" Gladion yelled.
The fairy type gave an aggressive growl as her feelers went up and fired a blast of fairy energy right at Incineroar.
The fire dark type crossed his arms to shield himself.
He shook himself around a little and regained composure.
"Flamethrower!"
"ROAAR!" Incineroar roared into the air as he fired a massive flamethrower.
"Use agility to dodge then use iron tail!" Gladion told his Pokemon.
Sylveon dashed out of the way from the incoming fire move as her feelers glowed a steel colour. She jumped up and slammed all four into Incineroars chest, forcing the fire dark type back and hitting the wind out of him.
"Shadow ball!"
While still in the air, Sylveon charged a shadow ball up and fired it at Incineroar.
"Catch it with fire punch!" Ash shouted.
Incineroars eyes bulged open in anger as his fist was consumed with flames.
He merely caught the ghost move and threw it back harder but with a lot less control. It crashed middle of the field and created a cloud of smoke.
"Charge in and use fire fang!"
Incineroar got down on all fours and began to run into the cloud as he jumped out right in front of Sylveon, ready to gobble the fairy up in the fire fang.
"Moonblast!" Gladion shouted.
Sylveon got down low and fired a moonblast right into Incineroars groin as he lost all control of the fire fang and flipped over Sylveon.
He fell on his back behind the Kalos Pokemon and was groaning in some pain.
"Finish this!" Gladion said as his Pokemon gave an evil smirk.
She was standing over Incineroars head and was about to end this battle.
But Gladion noticed a smirk on Ash's face.
"What?" He blurted out.
"Should have done more research. IRON HEAD!" Ash laughed.
Incineroars eyes opened up wide as he smiled with him faking the whole thing. His head glowed a steel colour as he smashed it right under Sylveon's chin.
He swirled on the ground and used low sweep to sweep her on to the ground.
Incineroar got up and grabbed Sylveon by the neck as he flung her into a rock.
She fell off the rock which now had a crater and began to get up.
"Swift!" Gladion shouted.
"BLAST BURN!"
As Sylveon fired the stars, Incineroar let out a large blast with it consuming a large part of the area where Sylveon was.
After the blast was over, Sylveon was charred and with swirly eyes.
"Sylveon is unable to battle. Trainers! Please bring out your next Pokemon."
"YES! He has got the lead!" Hau celebrated.
Gladion returned his burnt Pokemon and closed his eyes.
"You did good friend." He muttered as he placed her pokeball with Crobat's
Ash recalled Incineroar back.
Gladion began to smirk.
"This is more like it!" He yelled with a genuine smile.
Weavile soon appeared as did Gallade.
They both had advantages over one another but that quad weakness to fighting wasn't helping Weavile out.
"Begin!" The referee called out.
"Weavile! Hail!" Gladion shouted as Weavile whipped up the hail storm.
Gallade was being pelted by the small ice rocks as he felt something slash away at him.
Weavile at zoomed passed and slash at Gallade's leg with X-scissor.
"Gallade brick break!"
"Counter with shadow claw!" Gladion yelled back.
The two collided with the attacks while the hail still pelted down on the field.
Weavile feel to his knee as he felt the brick break long and hard.
"Close combat!" Ash yelled, going with the tactic of sheer bulk.
Before Gladion could react, Gallade slammed his fist into Weavile's chest with the Sinnoh Pokemon being knocked out after mere minutes.
All his old friends plus some old Pokemon were watching and were stunned by the fact he now had a two Pokemon advantage over the guy that smashed them when they went to Alola.
"Weavile is unable to battle. Trainers! Please bring out your next Pokemon."
Gallade gave the signal to stay in as Gladion returned Weavile.
"That was my fault, not yours." He muttered.
He began to smirk.
"The day you got Null and everyone else got a pokemon too, remember that?" Gladion questioned.
Ash kept a stern look but nodded.
He began to throw a pokeball up and down.
"I couldn't help myself! Blastoise!" Gladion yelled as the fully evolved starter of Ash's home region appeared with him firing water into the air.
"Get ready Gallade…" Ash told his fighting psychic type.
"Lade!" Gallade grunted.
"Begin!"
"Hydro pump!" Gladion shouted.
Blastoise stamped his foot down and took aim, unleashing the blast of water at Gallade.
"Dodge it then use leaf blade!" Ash commanded.
Gallade swiftly dodged the two blasted as his arms glowed a green colouring.
"Protect!"
Blastoise retracted his head, arms, legs and cannons into his shell as a shield formed over top with Gallade crashing into it.
Ash's Pokemon jumped back towards his trainer as Blastoise reappeared.
"Hydro blizzard!"
Out of one cannon was a hydro pump while out of the other as shooting out a blizzard.
The two surrounded the field as Gallade was forced to use protect.
The blizzard froze his protect as he was forced to use brick break to get out.
He looked around at the frozen wonderland and grunted at the sight.
"Stay on guard Gallade…"
"Blastoise! Rapid spin!" Gladion told his water type as he retracted himself into his shell and slid along the ground at a rapid pace.
"Gallade, psycho cut to slow him down!" Ash yelled.
Gallade did just that but the psycho cut was broken due to the rapid pace of Blastoise, sliding along the ground.
He crashed into Gallade and slammed him through about 3 pillars of ice before colliding and grinding him into a large rock.
"Hydro pump!"
"Leaf blade!"
Due to having to retract himself out of the shell, Gallade landed the first hit as he sliced down the middle of Blastoise's chest but thanks to being to close, Blastoise got a point blank hit with the hydro pump and fired Gallade back into the same rock.
He stumbled out of the rock with a sneer, covered in cuts and bruises.
He attempted to get up, but his eyes widened as he collapsed to the ground.
"Gallade is unable to battle. Trainers! Please bring out your next Pokemon." The ref called.
Gladion opted to stay in with Blastoise.
"Back to the one pokemon advantage with Lucario and Silvally still to come…" Hau muttered.
"Yes but Ash still has Incineroar, Decidueye, Greninja and Type: Null left." Lillie added on.
"Decidueye, I choose you!"
The grass ghost type appeared and taunted Blastoise straight away.
"Begin!"
"Blastoise! Ice-beam!"
Like the previous attacks, beams of ice shot out of the cannons.
"Dodge it with shadow sneak then use leaf blade!"
Decidueye disappeared into the shadows and attacked Blastoise first from the ghost move and then landing a critical hit with the leaf blade.
"Surf!"
The Kanto starter formed a ball of water which soon crashed into the ground to create a tidal wave.
"Get out!"
Decidueye flew up and jumped from ice pillar to ice pillar. The surf managed to knock down a few unstable ones.
Decidueye jumped off one and fired a spirit shackle at Blastoise, getting a clean hit right on the back of his head.
The water type rubbed the back of his head only to be slashed at again with leaf blade.
"Hydro pump!" Gladion roared.
Blastoise again fired the powerful water move but missed badly as Decidueye got the chance to attack.
The bird kicked at Blastoise's face and fired multiple leaves which turned shortly into a leaf tornado.
Blastoise was picked up and twirled around as Decidueye took aim and fired the final spirit shackle as the shellfish pokemon was flung into the ground.
He got up shortly and fired an aggressive blizzard.
The ice move caught Decidueye and damaged his wing.
It caused him immense pain the lift it to fire an arrow.
Gladion grinned.
"Bite!" Blastoise thrusted himself forward bite down on to the already damaged wing.
"Leaf blade!"
Despite the pain, Decidueye activated overgrow as the grass burnt the inside of Blastoise's mouth. He let go and screamed in pain as Decidueye for the final time slashed at his chest with the large shelled pokemon falling over.
"Blastoise is unable to battle. Trainers! Please bring out your next Pokemon." The ref called.
Gladion recalled Blastoise and brought out his second to last pokemon being Lucario.
"Cari!" Lucario cried as he got into a defensive stance.
"Begin!"
"Shadow ball Lucario!"
Lucario formed the ghost move and fired it at Decidueye.
He tried to move but failed as it hit his already damaged wing with the starter crying in pain.
"Leafage!"
Ash knew this was going to do very little but any damage was damage.
Decidueye flung the sharp leaves at Lucario who covered himself but still picked up little nicks.
"Payback!" Gladion shouted.
Lucario sprinted forward as he slammed his fist into Decidueye's stomach with birds body almost bending in half as he was sent into the ground and sliding.
"Decidueye is unable to battle. Trainers! Please bring out your next Pokemon." The ref called.
"Thanks old pal. Get a good rest." Ash muttered.
"It's very stop and start right now. Back to only having that vital one pokemon advantage." Kiawe explained.
Lillie watched on.
"Incineroar. GO!"
The large cat appeared and roared once more as he recognised Lucario and snapped at him with a hiss.
Lucario responded back as they were both keen to try and kill each other.
"BEGIN!"
"Aura sphere!"
"Block it with flamethrower!
Lucario fired his move but ended up hitting the spewing flamethrower.
"Bone rush!"
Lucario created the bone and ran at Incineroar, smacking him with it at every possible chance.
"Grab it!" Ash yelled.
Just like against Zach's Lucario earlier today, Incineroar found a chance to grab the bone and using his over powering strength, ripped it out of the Aura Pokémon's hands.
Like a baseball bat, he smashed it into the side of Lucario's head. Lucario slid back and clutched on to the side of where he was hit.
"Bullet punch!"
"Hit him with fire punch!"
The two ran at each other and smashed there fists together, getting right up in each other's face and growling at each other.
"Low sweep!"
Incineroar kicked at Lucario's legs and brought him to the ground.
In true wrestling fashion, Incineroar leaped down and smashed his elbow right into Lucario's neck.
The Sinnoh pokemon clutched at his throat and glared at the towering fire dark type.
"Double team Lucario!"
Lucario jumped up and created multiple copies as they began to all run around.
Incineroar turned and twisted, waiting for an attack.
"Aura sphere!"
The copies ran at Incineroar to distract him as an aura sphere from the real Lucario was fired right into the flame belt of Incineroar.
The cat was hurting and had to stop himself sliding with fire punch.
Gladion slammed his Z-ring as Lucario was filled with an orange aura.
"ALL OUT PUMMELLING!"
"Shit! Protect with heat wave!"
Lucario fired the punches and kicked right the dark type who surrounded himself in fire.
A large explosion occurred as wind sweep the whole stadium.
But jumping up and out of the explosion was Incineroar who was engulfed in fire with a death glare on his face.
Blaze had been activated as a fire fang was formed. From feet to the top of its head, the fire fang's jaw was as wide as an Alolan Exeggutor.
Lucario didn't even move as the fire erupted on the field.
Once the flames were over, Incineroar and Lucario stood in front of each other. Incineroar is hurt a lot from the Z-move but he simply placed his hand on Lucario's shoulder and pushed on it as the aura Pokemon fell to his back.
"Lucario is unable to battle. Trainers, please bring out your final pokemon!" The ref called.
"ASH KETCHUM, THE BOY THAT LIVED IS ONE BATTLE AWAY FROM BECOMING THE FIRST CHAMPION OF ALOLA!" The TV commentator's cried as all his friends from the past watched in disbelief.
The crowd was chanting his name as he felt on top of the world.
Everyone in the box started to celebrate…
Except Lillie…
Gladion still had his trump card.
The blonde returned Lucario and stayed silent before laughing.
Ash knew what was next.
Gladion revealed a masterball with a claw mark on it.
"SILVALLY!" He roared as his signature pokemon appeared and roared so loud, that it made the stadiums crowd seem like mice.
"Begin!"
Gladion inserted the water memory into the driver.
"Multi attack!"
And with one swift movement, Silvally dashed at Incineroar and slashed down at him.
The fire dark type fell over straight away, unable to battle any further.
"Incineroar is unable to battle. Trainers! Please bring out your next Pokemon." The ref called.
Ash recalled his fire starter as he was now down to two.
He closed his eyes and reopened them.
"Greninja!"
The ninja pokemon appeared as Gladion smirked.
"NOW WE ARE TALKING! X-SCISSOR!" Gladion shouted, not even waiting for the ref.
"Slash!"
Greninja formed the slash and pounced at Silvally as the deflected each other's attack.
"Thunder fang!"
Silvally got the slip on Greninja and electrocuted him with the thunder fang.
Greninja slammed his fist into Silvally's side.
"IKU!" Ash yelled as a tornado of water formed around Greninja.
"GEECKO!" Greninja roared as he re-appeared as Ash-Greninja.
His first attack was to fling his water shuriken right at Silvally but noticed Gladion had changed the synthetic Pokemon to grass now.
"Ice beam!"
Greninja aimed and fired the ice move as Silvally dodged out of the way.
He whipped up some air and used aerial ace at Greninja.
When the water moves hit Greninja, he fell away into water.
He quickly reappeared behind the type changing Pokemon and got a sucker punch under the chin.
Silvally landed on his back but after landing on it once, he returned to his legs.
"Double hit!"
Silvally destroyed on of the remaining ice pillars and continuously flung them at Greninja who went on to hit everyone away himself.
Silvally dashed at him with multi attack and slashed at him with the grass move.
Both Ash and Greninja clutched on to their chests.
Gladion changed Silvally's type this time to ice.
"Water shuriken!"
He reached for the giant shuriken on his back and threw it right at him.
"Protect!"
The chimera formed the protect as the water exploded on his shield.
Greninja came in front of him and landed a low kick right in Silvally's face.
"GRENINJA!"
"GEECKO!"
Ash slammed his Z-ring as a blue aura filled Greninja.
However, he didn't notice Gladion smirking.
"HYDRO VORTEX!"
A lot of the ice around the pair and scattered along the field turned to water as a giant tornado of water zoomed around Silvally, scooping him up.
Greninja jumped into it and pulled out the night slash to hack away at Silvally.
"NOW!" Gladion shouted now that Greninja was in the water.
This caught Ash off guard.
Using Blizzard, the whole Z-move was frozen in place.
The stadium went so silent you could hear a pin drop.
But that was before Gladion called his command.
"CRUSH CLAW!"
A small sparkle tinted out of the ice as the pair shot out with Silvally's claw on Greninja's face, resulting in him landing first with the extra weight of the synthetic pokemon.
Greninja tried to break free but was failing at every go.
Gladion inserted the electric memory and laughed.
"MULTI ATTACK! He yelled as everything in the battle was turning his way.
Silvally electrocuted Greninja as he and Ash felt it.
He jumped off the frog and allowed him to get up with Greninja getting up gingerly.
"Hyperbeam!"
Silvally charged the black ball and unleashed the beam of energy as it hit Greninja.
The frog was thrown into the wall and once the dust had settled, had reverted back to his regular form.
"Greninja is unable to battle. Trainers! Please bring out your final Pokemon." The ref called.
The world was left stunned.
Professor Oak laughed as he was still the same with Misty and Brock joining in with him.
Delia felt pain at the sight of her son like this. She just wanted to best.
Pikachu sighed in relief over in Hoenn.
Dawn was in tears that Gladion had taken control.
Cilan called Iris back who was now dancing in joy.
Gary had his heart drop as Ash's flying type from Kalos gave signs of concern.
And Serena celebrated at the defeat of Greninja.
But none were more shocked than Ash.
"Trainer! Please bring out your last Pokemon!" The ref demanded.
His head was all over the show.
Lillie wanted to run down but guards prevented her.
"NO! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM!?" She screamed.
"Lillie! Calm down!" Hau yelled as he and Kiawe returned her back.
Ash returned Greninja and brought out his final pokemon, Type: Null.
Gladion raised an eyebrow at his inclusion of Silvally's previous form.
"BEGIN!"
"Null! Swords dance!" Ash shouted with little confidence.
"GRRH!" Type: Null roared as she upped her attack.
Gladion changed the memory to fighting.
"Multi attack!"
"Dodge it!"
But Type: Null was too slow as Silvally hit her in the side.
She rolled on the ground for a bit and soon got back up.
"Aerial ace!" Ash yelled.
"You too!" Gladion followed.
The two did the flying move but ultimately, Silvally's was bigger and stronger.
It hit Type: Null who was on the ground again.
"It's been fun and all but…" Gladion started. "Let's finish this! GIGA IMPACT!"
Silvally glowed blue and he ran right at Type: Null.
"Endure Type: Null!"
Silvally crashed into Type: Null as he applied all the pressure to his synthetic sibling.
Type: Null was holding on but barely as her legs began to shake with Silvally forcing her to go lower to the ground.
"Grh… GR!" Type: Null moaned in pain.
Ash looked up and saw her health depleting slowly as he had to do something.
Everyone in the stadium was about to erupt in screaming Gladions name while those in the box all were speechless as Ash was on the verge of losing.
"Hold on Type: Null!" Lillie yelled in desperation.
Sure, Gladion was her brother but if Ash was to lose now.
"Silvally finish her already!" Gladion yelled again.
"SILVA!"
"This is it folk! It's nearly over!" The commentator yelled as Oak smirked.
Type: Null closed her eyes due to the pressure and was about to give up.
"Type: Null!" A voice called out.
Everything around her disappeared and all that was there was Ash.
Her saviour.
"You can do it!" Ash called out.
Type: Null thought on his words as everything flowed back to this point.
"Type: Full has lost it Sir." An Aether scientist yelled as Faba watched.
"Contain it." Faba commanded as Lusamine watched on.
"Yes Sir."
The three Type: Full's clawed at the walls, wanting freedom to tear apart everything in sight.
Walls shot up and divided them as claws latched on to them all.
Needles were forced into their bodies, creating a grey casting around their white fur.
Not long after that, a helmet and collar were soon placed on as well.
"They are Null." Faba muttered.
Type: Null was being dragged around by multiple Machamps as she was thrown into a wall and was kicked and stomped on multiple times.
A wave of fire, electricity and toxins were poured on her as she screamed and whimpered in pain.
"Serves you for escaping." Faba muttered as he kicked the weakened hound himself.
"What about Type: Null No1?" A scientist asked.
"Kill it." Faba merely said as he nodded at the Machamps.
They grabbed Type: Null and forced her to watch her own brother get his head blasted off as blood splattered all over her.
Once more, she was thrown into a wall and just for the fun of it, one of the Machamps snapped her back leg as chains were tied around her.
"You shouldn't be too much of an issue now…" Faba muttered as everything went blank.
Then a bright light popped up.
"You are telling me, you just left her down here?!" Ash screamed at Faba.
"Hey! Hey! Hey! You are going to hurt yourself!" Ash said softly and slowing as he tried to approach Type: Null but was stopped as Null swiped at him to stay back.
"Shh! Shh! Shh! It's okay… It's okay!" Ash whispered as Type: Null didn't retaliate this time but still gave a cautious look. "I just want to help."
Ash placed the sponge in the warm water and placed it on the body of Null, who flinched slightly but stopped as she felt the warm water on her skin. Ash began to rub slowly as she looked at him with a confused look.
"Grrh?"
"Hey? You like that?" Ash said to Type: Null. This was a good start as she laid down on her front legs again with Ash cleaning away at her skin.
He spent about half an hour doing that as grabbed a few berries and began to mash them up into a paste. She had woken up upon hearing both the sound and the smell. He placed a straw into the bowl and thread the straw through a hole in the helmet. She tried to shake the straw out.
"No! No! It's fine! Look!" Ash told her as he placed his finger in the paste and eat.
She looked at him and began to suck on the straw as the paste slowly went up and into her concealed mouth. Upon the taste, she began to suck harder on the straw as she cleaned the bowl of the paste.
"What are you doing?" Gladion asked.
"Bonding. It will be good for her to get some air and spend some time with me." Ash told him as he released Type: Null.
She gave a shocked look and began to freak at the sight of Lillie and Hau. But shortly recognised Ash and Gladion.
"Grrrh!" Type: Null moaned as she shook her head around more, trying to get rid of the helmet.
"Hey! Calm down! Calm down!" Ash told the constrained beast.
Gladion released Silvally who cried happily. Type: Null stopped shaking and looked over at Silvally.
Type: Null had something tangled around her leg which Ash noticed and it was distressing her badly.
"Hey. Calm down, calm down. I got this." Ash told his Pokemon as he carefully removed the object off her leg.
"This is it… This is it guys." Ash explained as each of his Pokemon listened carefully.
"I don't regret a single moment of this adventure. To meet and befriend all of you. I've enjoyed every moment of this wild journey and we are going to top it off with what the old Ash Ketchum couldn't do!" Ash announced.
"ROAR!" Incineroar roared followed by roars from Decidueye and Greninja.
"Those of my past will be watching. So, let's show them why they were wrong to turn on me!"
"Kyu!" Mimikyu cried.
"But, we also are going to show not just them but the world what we can do!"
"Sazl!" Salazzle cried.
"Beww!" Bewear followed up.
"Lade!" Gallade said calmly while nodding.
"Both as natural and man-made partners." Ash finished as he turned to Type: Null.
"Grhg…" she growled slightly as Ash stuck his hand out to her. Type: Null looked at it and soon placed her front claw in his hand. Every of his other Pokemon soon came in.
"Let's do this." Ash muttered as the places their hands/claws into the air.
Everything went back to reality as Ash continued to call.
"TYPE: NULL!"
Her eyes opened up and gave an aggressive look as cracks came off the corners of the eye piece.
"GRRRRRRRRH!" She growled as she forced her way back up.
Suddenly, the collar around her neck snapped into four parts as Silvally realised what was happening.
The battle axe part cracked to reveal the three spikes while the whole helmet soon shattered along with the black casting.
Everything exploded off Type: Null as Silvally was shot backwards. He landed on his feet but soon looked at his new opponent.
Not only the crowd but the whole world watching was stunned to see what happened.
Type: Null had destroyed the helmet and had evolved into Silvally however, she instead had white snow fur instead of the black body Gladion's Silvally had. The fin was a gold colouring as was her front legs.
"GARRRHI!" She roared at her brother as her health went to full.
"SHE EVOLVED YES!" Lillie screamed as they were back in it.
Gladion smirked as he did what he couldn't despite being with his for 3 years.
"Type: Full. The RKS system fully installed." Gladion announced.
Ash looked confused.
"I found the key to remove the helmet but not the casting. Despite being together for such a short time, you've done what I couldn't." Gladion explained. "You have no need for the memory discs."
"What?" Ash blurted as he watched his Silvally change type all on her own.
"Because the true power of the RKS system is automatic."
His newly evolved Silvally changed between the 18 types automatically.
She ran at her brother and hit him with a Multi attack, resulting in him getting a taste of his own medicine.
"Aerial ace!"
Silvally changed to the flying type and whipped an aerial ace bigger than before.
It hit Gladion's Silvally and left him needing to pick himself up off the ground.
"Hyperbeam!" Gladion yelled.
Silvally attempted to hit his Sister but she quickly changed to ghost as it went right through her.
"Your turn!"
Before Gladion could insert the ghost memory, his Silvally was hit with the powerful normal move.
"Double team!" Ash said as his confidence returned to full force.
Silvally made 17 copies, one for each type.
"MULTI ATTACK!" Ash yelled.
The real Silvally's claw glowed as she absorbed her clones with the claw glowing a rainbow hue.
"PROTECT SILVALLY!" Gladion yelled desperately.
His partner tried to protect himself, but his sister slammed the rainbow like multi attack on the shield as a explosion filled the field.
The smoke left everyone in suspense but soon faded to find Gladion's Silvally on the ground out cold.
"GLADION'S SILVALLY CAN NO LONGER BATTLE! Which means Ash Ketchum has won the match and is the first ever champion of ALOLA!" The ref announced as reality hit Ash.
Fireworks were set off as everyone in the box celebrated.
All of Ash's injured pokemon celebrated at well as they went down to Silvally.
Ash hugged her as she licked the side of his face in delight.
Gladion walked over to his first Pokemon who had woken up and gave off a sad look.
"Heh. Don't look at me like that. We gave it our all. We'll get him next time." Gladion said to Silvally as he rubbed his head.
Ash walked over to Gladion as he stood up.
Ash stuck his hand out as Gladion shook it.
"Might this loser be the first to call you the champion of Alola?" Gladion joked.
The two hugged it out as the two Silvally's talked to each other.
Oak was in rage as he stormed out of the Ketchum household.
Pikachu gave a concerned look while May, Drew and Max left.
Dawn celebrated in delight.
Iris and Cilan snuck off without anyone noticing.
Serena was in tears as Clemont and Bonnie left.
And Gary was in shock that the guy he once told to smell yah later was now a regional champion.
Gladion was presented with his runners up medals while Ash and each of his Pokemon were give gold medals and Ash was handed a trophy from Kukui.
"Proud of you." He said.
PRESENTING THE FIRST CHAMPION OF ALOLA… ASH KETCHUM!
The Kanto born lifted the trophy into the air as he and his Pokemon celebrated the win as their goal was achieved.
Once that was all over, Ash and Gladion left to find everyone else as Ash was tackled to the ground by a certain blonde.
Lillie crashed her lips on his as they picked each other up while holding one another.
"You did it…" She whispered and gave him another kiss as everyone else arrived.
"Whoo! I get to have bragging rights saying I travelled with the first champion of Alola!" Hau announced.
Gladion smirked.
"I say we have a celebration! I've call my parents and they said they would be honoured to have the first champion of Alola dine in their restaurant! All you can eat!" Mallow explained.
Ash was overwhelmed but noticed Gladion walking off.
He wanted to run after him but felt himself being pulled into celebratory hugs left, right and centre.
"LET'S GO!" Hau yelled.
(Melemele Island)
Hala was still on life support.
He was in the blank room inside his mind as Tapu Koko appeared.
"It's time my friend. Tell my grandson that he meant the world to me." Hala told the Island guardian. "Send my regards to Ash, Kukui and young Lillie."
"That is not why you summoned me though is it?" Tapu Koko questioned.
Hala shook his head as he stood up.
"My successor as the Kahuna. One last favour?" Hala asked as the Tapu nodded.
Hala smiled.
"Thank you, old friend. We might meet each other again one day…"
The machine that Hala was hooked up to stopped beeping as Nurses looked at each other at what had happened.
Despite Ash's victory, the next dawn, the islands of Alola will learn of the passing of the great Melemele Kahuna.
Authors note: And there it is. Your Champion.
Ash's Type: Null fully evolved into Type: Full AKA Silvally. Remember when Gladion used a key? That's the difference.
So he is your champion.
One last chapter for the first half.
FINAL WARNING: My USUM review is at the end so yeah. Agree, disagree. Whatever, just my rambling thoughts.
So yeah.
QUESTIONS:
Is the UB: Fear a dark/ghost type?
Ghost Poison.
Today's my birthday.
Happy birthday for that day lol
He will update as soon as possible. Stop fucking complaining
Thank you lol
Are any OCs that didnt appear in the League gonna appear in USUM Arc?
Yes
In USUM there's an depressing cutscene for Mohn and Lusamine, will it happen?
Not exactly the same but I have something planned.
Haunted school? Lt Surge's fake gym? More post game shit?
The school quest gave me goosebumps, I'm not even going to lie lol. It would be an interesting write seeming Lillie is now going to be working there.
What about the legendary Pokémon in the wormholes?
I have plans.
So that is all for the final, I hope it was good enough and stuff. So as always, review, suggest or PM me! Spectre out!
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POKE SPECTRE ULTRA SUN AND ULTRA MOON REVIEW!111 :DDDDD
I will state this now: Black 2 white 2 will be left out of this primarily due to them being sequels and not the traditonal third versions. Along with Remakes as well due to them being Remakes.
Anything I say doesn't mean I hate any of the games.
Agree or disagree. Lemme know your thoughts.
I will start this off with my overall impressive: I think it was perfect for what it was.
We need to remember it IS a third version. I personally think that due to semi poor marketing, a lot of people were expecting another Black 2 White 2 scenarios.
Do I think it was a bit early to have USUM? A little says yes but the fan inside of me says no.
What they added just brought the game more alive to me.
It is an improvement to Sun and Moon. I loved Sun and Moon, first rating it 10 out of 10 at one point but soon started to see flaws. They fix a lot of said flaws but true, not all.
Mantine surf was a great feature. Could be a little better maybe.
Ultra-Warp Ride is one of the greatest things they have done. I've had some much fun on, spending hours doing it. I pray one day we see it again. Perfect for a switch motion control.
More interactable Pokemon like the Rockruff, Pyukumuku and Sandygast just to name a few. As if they were trying to test something… You know? Might have something to do with those causal low polygon models hidden away but who knows… Not the first time they've done this.
I think every Pokemon fans dream in what once sounded like a fanfiction came true with all the evil team leaders returning from worlds where they won. 21 years and we finally battle Giovanni with Mewtwo, Maxie with Groudon, Cyrus with Dialga or Palkia and so on.
Speaking on Giovanni. Team Rocket is my least favorite team but that fucking theme for him is the best they have done for a villain. The slowed down version of the normal theme but with an Orchestra tone and electric guitars as well. Top tier.
The totem stickers I started off slow but soon picked up as it was just little things like this. They gave a good reward in a free pokemon.
Even with trainers moving once they lost at the end of a battle. Little things like this please me.
The game is hard if you are not prepared at points (And I'll touch on THE BATTLE shortly…).
All the little side quests you can do as well. They are everywhere. Just brings it alive.
Ultra-Beasts and all the legends par a handful are shiny which I am so happy about.
Speaking of Ultra-Beasts, the fact we see how they lived is amazing! It made them feel more alive and not just there. Two I want to talk about:
Buzzwole: That music is just fucking glorious. I won't lie, I can no longer take Buzzwole serious, but I love this fucking thing.
Guzzlord: Absolutely terrifying. If you know what I am talking about, what is your thoughts on Guzzlord's world?
Hau is also a massive improvement. You can see his character build over time to the point where he steps in front of Hala to take on Blacephalon or Stakataka.
Now for some negatives…
Get the main one out of the way, No new Alolan forms. Clearly Game freak wanted Z-moves to be the star which I am fine with but if I could pick, Alolan forms easily. Possible chance of returning around regional forms in the future? Dunno. Due to this, my plan of having Custom Alolan forms will go through but I'll touch on that soon.
The Ultra Recon Squad. So much potential. The fact you don't battle Zossie or Phyco is like, why are they there then? They will be fixed in the story trust me. Already plotting…
There was still a hand holding but that doesn't bother me too much but enough to make mention here.
Festival plaza still exists
Lack of new trainer (minus a small handful) for the battle tree. Would have been nice to see a Lance or Steven or this worlds Maxie.
The reason for so much backlash was some peeps aren't use to the concept of a third version with the last being Platinum. Poor marketing, they left content to late to advertise to get more people on board.
BUT!
Looking back at Yellow, Crystal, Emerald, Platinum and now USUM, I think USUM really does top them all.
Why?
New Pokemon.
They are Ultra Beasts and a Mythical, don't get me wrong. But it's the fact they did that, your next closes comparison is new forms in Giratina and Shaymin in Platinum.
But they are completely new things WE never have seen before and that already pushed it up above.
Yes, Emerald and Platinum had the battle frontier and I won't lie, much better than the Battle tree and battle agency.
Yes, Emerald was joint between Aqua and Magma while Platinum changed at the end just like USUM. But having all these little things I listed plus the new mons. It steps it up slightly.
What does these games have that USUM doesn't?
Years of being out. Nostalgia blinded the bulk of the people when in reality, all the arguments on 'Why USUM is the worse game ever' can be used for the other third versions.
I won't lie, I've see heaps of comparisons between USUM and Platinum, with people going as far as saying 'this was a mistake.'
Then Yellow was a mistake, so was Crystal, Emerald and Platinum.
They have been out for years to allow people to get use to them.
AND NOW FOR THE GRAND DADDY HIMSELF…
Necrozma.
Was already my fav third legend before the game and it was off that the usual third legend was normally dragon (Excluding Pikachu and Suicune but they aren't directly related to the main trio).
Then when a picture in like December or January of someone pointing out Necrozma's body was like a dragon head, that sealed it for me.
AND Oh boy was I not disappointed.
That design for me personally, is among the BEST they have ever made.
And that second theme. Bold statement right here: The best theme they have ever made.
When SM came out, it took time for the UB's theme, Champion theme, Elite four themes to grow on me. But as soon as I heard that music, Goosebumps. From like 50 seconds to 1.20 minute, just god tier. Take a bow whoever made it.
And when everyone complains about 'Pokemon being too easy', I think Game freak heard and decided to make this thing hit like a meteor.
Every nuzlocker has died to this thing that I have watched. I do not think I have seen more carnage in a nuzlocke than what this monster has done in the last few weeks.
The more I played this game, the more I felt for the prism monster. We all saw it as an antagonist in the trailers. But it was just in pain after being betrayed by the people of Ultra Megalopolis years ago. It just wanted to become full again hence needing the light of Solgaleo or Lunala.
I could type forever about this form but all I will say is, Arceus step aside: There is a new god in town.
It wasn't a perfect game don't get me wrong. But none of the pokemon games are perfect.
I think that wraps up my review and thinking on it now. I feel from my personal playing and pleasure of playing, a 8 out of 10 for me.
So cya next time :P