Part 2 of the Gym Battles, also I want to issue a little challenge to you all. Try to guess where I'm getting the pokedex entries from! One more thing, since I can change the move sets of pokemon, should I create new moves for them? Should I change what moves TM's contain? Anyway, enough babbling, enjoy the chapter!
"So who is next?" Erika said with a smile, Julia, Renée, and Jack were still unsure.
"How about Renée?" Ronan stated, everyone seemed ok with her going and soon the battle began!
"Alright Renée, the battle will still be 2-on-2! Are you ready?" Erika announced.
"Ready!" She answered.
"Very well, Tangela, come out!" Erika sent out her Tangela, Ronan immediately remembered his battle with the very same Tangela.
"Hey, Ronan, didn't you say you fought Tangela before?" Diego asked.
"That's right, it's a bit tricky to take down. It tends to constrict it's opponents with Bind and play with their statuses with moves like Poison Powder and Stun Spore." Ronan explained.
"So it uses a strategy that's just like Renée's! Play with a pokemon's status to bring it down." Julia stated. Renée sent out her Growlithe.
"Tangela, use Bind!" Erika ordered, Tangela whipped out some of its vines to trap Growlithe at a quick speed! Growlithe was trapped almost instantly.
"Not so fast! Growlithe use Bite!" Renée commanded, Growlithe bit into one of the vines, causing pain to Tangela, who released Growlithe from its grip.
"Tangela, use Poison Powder!" Tangela blew out a cloud of purple spores towards Growlithe.
"Growlithe, avoid it and use Flame Wheel!" Growlithe jumped around the cloud of spores and charged towards Tangela, flames burned around Growlithe's body. Growlithe bashed Tangela into the ground, causing some serious damage and even Burning it! Erika began to look serious, she looked nervous around the burning fire as her gym almost burned down many years ago. Despite taking damage from the burn, Tangela kept fighting.
"It's time for out secret weapon! Tangela, use Ancient Power!" Erika called out, Tangela's body began to glow pinkish/purple, it created rocks out of thin air and launched them towards Growlithe. The rocks made contact with Growlithe, causing some heavy damage.
"Wait, isn't Ancient Power a Rock - Type move? How can Tangela learn it?" Julia asked.
"I'm not even sure, but it definitely is a surprise!" Jack replied.
"Come on Growlithe, we need to find is this! Use-" Renée was about to have Growlithe use Ember, but Growlithe already shot a fireball at Tangela, though it moved much faster than a normal Ember attack. When this fireball hit Tangela, it exploded into more fireballs! Tangela appeared to be severely weakened, but still strong enough to battle.
"A surprise Flame Burst! These battles are just full of surprises!" Erika said with a confident smile. "Tangela, use Sleep Powder!"
"Growlithe, Flame Burst!" Renée commanded. The Flame Burst made contact with the powder and exploded, but the smaller flames managed to hit Tangela with enough force to take it out!
"It's a good thing she took Tangela out with much difficulty! It can cause a lot of problems if you let it!" Ronan added.
"Very good! Now let's see how you fare against the next pokemon!" Erika announced, sending out her next pokemon. It was light green with a yellow flower on its head. Jack scanned the pokemon with his pokedex.
'Skiploom, the Cottonweed pokemon; It spreads it's petals to absorb sunlight. It also floats in the air to get closer to the sun.'
"So Skiploom's a Grass and Flying type, Growlithe or Flaaffy would be a good choice here." Jack noted. Renée promptly recalled her Growlithe and sent out Flaaffy.
"Skiploom, use Bullet Seed!"
"Flaaffy, Charge Beam!" The two attacks collided with each other, but they did not stop each other. Both pokemon were hit and took reasonable damage from it.
"You're Flaaffy must be well trained, no pokemon has been seen countering Skiploom's Bullet Seed!" Erika noted.
"Of course! Flaafy, use Thunder Wave!" Renée commanded, Flaaffy sent out a thin bolt of electricity at Skiploom, when it hit skiploom, it turned into electric rings that enveloped Skiploom, paralyzing it.
"Oh my! Skiploom, use Leech Seed!" Erika called out.
"Confuse Ray!" Renée called out, Flaaffy's tail began to glow purple, it sent out a small glowing orb of energy towards Skiploom, it hit just as the Leech Seed made contact. Flaaffy's energy was drained and transferred into Skiploom, although the latter was still paralyzed and confused.
'Great, now I have to deal with the Leech Seed! Unless...' Renée thought to herself.
"Flaaffy, use Volt Switch!" Flaaffy's arm began to spark with electricity, it then threw an orb made up of the electricity it collected towards Skiploom, it hit it perfectly! After the hit, Flaaffy retreated back into Renée's pokeball, Growlithe was sent out in its place!
"When did Flaaffy learn that?" Diego asked in confusion.
"I'm very impressed, I never expected such a strategical move!" Erika said in admiration. "However this battle is not over! Skiploom, use Sleep Powder! Quickly!" Skiploom snapped out of confusion and sent out its Sleep Powder towards Growlithe.
"Growlithe, use Flame Burst!" Renée commanded, Growlithe shot out its attack, avoiding Skiploom's in the process. Erika then ordered Skiploom to use Leech Seed, but the paralysis was still in effect, preventing Skiploom from attacking!
"Now Growlithe, finish it with Take Down!" Growlithe charged towards Skiploom, knocking it to the ground and securing the win for Renée!
"Yay! Way to go sis!" Julia cheered.
"That was an excellent battle Renée! You seem to good at making effective strategies!" Erika noted, handing Renée her badge.
"So that's two down..." Diego said
"And two more to go!" Jack finished.
Sorry if this battle seemed a bit short, I want to make it long enough for you to be interested in reading, but not too long so that it would be boring. Anyway, we're halfway done, just two more battles! Stick around! ^_^
