Hey guys, I apologize if I'm late for this chapter since I had a whole week off and I've been lazy the whole time. Before I start the battle between Red and Calem though, I want to give you guys the basic planning for the next chapters, that way you're not going in blindly into each chapter. After the final battle of the House Tournament, I'll have about two chapters just about random things going on in the House, funny, sad, lovey-dovey, or just interesting. After that I'll start the female tournament, but it won't be like the male one. The female one will have days in between just so The House of Pokémon Legends doesn't become the House of Battling Legends. About one or two battles after the beginning of the female tournament, I will kick in the Krystal arc and I will put her in the tournament after a few days so the Johto duo can cope with her sudden appearance. After that it will just be about the random things going on in the House. Maybe there'll be some surprise guests like Blue or some trips like going to the beach or Lumiose. Also, I'll have an explanation for the team changes I did at the end of the chapter.
Anyways, here's their teams and I really hope you're listening to Red's battle theme now, because it is awesome.
Red's (Badass) Team:
Blastoise (Male)
Item: Leftovers
Ability: Torrent
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpA
Modest Nature
- Surf
- Iron Defense
- Flash Cannon
- Dragon Tail
Charizard (Male)
Item: None
Ability: Blaze
EVs: 176 HP / 172 SpA / 160 Spe
Modest Nature
- Flamethrower
- Acrobatics
- Thunder Punch
- Shadow Claw
Venusaur (Female)
Item: Leftovers
Ability: Overgrow
EVs: 60 HP / 160 SpA / 152 SpD / 136 Spe
Timid Nature
- Giga Drain
- Leech Seed
- Sludge Bomb
- Venoshock
Raichu (Male)
Item: Air Balloon
Ability: Static
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Thunderbolt
- Surf
- Double Team
- Quick Attack
Mewtwo (Genderless)
Item: Mewtwonite Y
Ability: Insomnia
EVs: 200 HP / 252 SpA / 56 Spe
Modest Nature
- Aura Sphere
- Ice Beam
- Recover
- Psychic
Snorlax (Female)
Item: Leftovers
Ability: Immunity
EVs: 180 Def / 180 SpA / 148 Spe
Naive Nature
- Ice Beam
- Earthquake
- Stockpile
- Rock Slide
Calem:
Greninja (Male)
Item: Toxic Orb
Ability: Protean
EVs: 236 SpA / 252 SpD / 20 Spe
Calm Nature
- Toxic Spikes
- Surf
- Ice Beam
- Fling
Talonflame (Female)
Item: Sitrus Berry
Ability: Gale Wings
EVs: 252 SpA / 196 SpD / 60 Spe
Modest Nature
- Flame Charge
- Will-O-Wisp
- Heat Wave
- Roost
Xerneas
Item: Pixie Plate
Ability: Fairy Aura
EVs: 204 SpA / 124 SpD / 180 Spe
Modest Nature
- Moonblast
- Aromatherapy
- Geomancy
- Horn Leech
Yveltal
Item: Black Glasses
Ability: Dark Aura
EVs: 208 SpA / 84 SpD / 216 Spe
Gentle Nature
- Foul Play
- Oblivion Wing
- Phantom Force
- Psychic
Zygarde
Item: Yache Berry
Ability: Aura Break
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 SpD / 4 Spe
Careful Nature
- Earthquake
- Outrage
- Sludge Wave
- Dragon Tail
Lucario (Male)
Item: Lucarionite
Ability: Inner Focus
EVs: 252 Atk / 60 Def / 196 Spe
Lax Nature
- Close Combat
- Drain Punch
- ExtremeSpeed
- Rock Slide
Chapter 12: Calem vs Red
The day started just like any other day at the House. With yells and screams coming from the kitchen, where Nate and Diamond had once again fallen into another one of their battles. The fight was quickly dealt with when Black descended from the stairs and gave them both a slap in the face and a punch in the gut.
"When will you two stop?" Black sighed as he picked up his coffee mug.
"Never, and you know that." Rosa glared at Nate, who was angry when he sat down to eat, but melted at the taste of hot bacon.
"You're ready, aren't you?" Red asked Calem, who had just finished his pancakes.
"How could I not be. I'm fighting freakin' Red, the world-wide champion. I'm going to lose, but at least I'll have the honor of fighting him." He nodded.
"At least this whole thing'll be over and things can finally go back to normal around here." Diamond leaned back on his chair.
"Right." Nate scoffed.
"That is," Leaf interrupted before another battle could commence, "If Serena doesn't want to do the tournament." They all looked expectantly at Serena, who was quietly eating her breakfast before.
"Uh, sure I'll do it. But can there be days in between? I don't want just battles for two weeks straight." They nodded.
"Alright. We start in about two days. That sounds good."
"Can we just start the battle so we can get this over with?" Red rolled his eyes.
"Yeah. Let's do it now." Calem got up and followed Red to the main door.
(After the ride)
"I always imagined Mt. Silver to be harsh and windy. This isn't exactly what I expected." Calem remarked upon landing at the peak of Mt. Silver, where Gold had faced him years before.
"This is the safe part. I like to just stand here and watch the snowflakes slowly fall and flow with the wind. It's peaceful, calm, isolated from the rest of the world. It's somewhere I can always escape to and be alone for a while." Red explained with his eyes closed, taking in the environment he had locked himself in when he was younger.
"So." He turned around with a pokéball in hand. "Come forth and face me."
Calem did not let out a single word. He just nodded and took out his own pokéball.
"Xerneas." The powerful legendary let out its cry as it landed on the ground.
Red showed a small smile but didn't say anything. He just released his Venusaur.
"I made a mistake. Xerneas get out of there!"
Red said nothing. Instead he just nodded at Venusaur.
Calem frowned. 'How am I supposed to know what his next move is if he doesn't say a thing!? What is this?' He thought.
Calem switched out Xerneas for Talonflame, who lost 57% health and got poisoned by Venusaur's Sludge Bomb. It then lost 6% health to the poisoning, leaving Talonflame at 37%.
"Heat Wave! Now!" He later whispered to Talonflame to use Roost, since he knew that Red was going to switch.
Again, Red kept his mouth shut and just pointed at Talonflame.
'Are you not going to switch? What are you doing?' Calem was starting to get annoyed.
Talonflame healed up to 87% first and then got hit by Venoshock. Since Talonflame was poisoned the attack did double damage and left the flaming bird at 6%. The poisoning took care of that, and Red beat Calem with a type disadvantage, with no health lost.
"How..." Calem was dumbfounded, but still took out Yveltal.
"Oblivion Wing! Now!"
This time, Red just stared straight at Calem. He did not say a word, he did not move an inch. Calem was starting to get a bit creeped out.
Yveltal hit first but only dealt 82% damage. Venusaur then used Leech Seed and healed 6% with her leftovers and 12% with the leech seed, making Yveltal lose 12% too.
Venusaur was at 36% and Yveltal at 88%.
"Oblivion Wing again!"
Calem could see a half-smile under Red's hat.
Before Yveltal could defeat Venusaur, Red switched her for his Raichu. Raichu only lost 34% health but his balloon popped. The Oblivion Wing healed Yveltal back to 100% but Raichu's Static paralyzed it. The Leech Seed took effect after the turn so Yveltal got back to 88% and gave 12% to Raichu.
"Foul Play then!" (102% damage for some reason)
Red nodded at Raichu, who looked smug for some reason.
Raichu was (no pun intended) lightning fast and used Thunderbolt to take Yveltal down to 30% before it could blink. (350 Speed damn!) Either way, Yveltal was paralyzed and couldn't move. The Leech Seed then took Yveltal to 18% and Raichu to 90%.
"Foul Play now! Come on!"
Red ssmiled and his Raichu actually grinned.
Raichu jumped and a strong wave of water hit Yveltal, defeating it.
"What!? How come your Raichu knows Surf!?"
Red shrugged with a smile. "A good old friend."
"Whatever. Zygarde!"
Red switched Raichu for Mewtwo, hiding his smile.
"Sludge Wave to poison him!"
Red grabbed his hat and pointed at Zygarde.
'Wait a minute.' Calem thought. 'I can see he replaced the green orb on his hat for a mega stone, but he hasn't mega-evolved any of his pokemon. If he has all starters then he has 4 mega-evolution possibilities. Probably his main starter (Charizard) or Mewtwo. But they both have two alternate mega-evolutions. Which one would he use?'
Red tapped the mega stone on his hat and mega-evolved Mewtwo to Mega Mewtwo Y. Mega Mewtwo Y then used Ice Beam but Zygarde's Yache Berry saved it and left it at 28%. Zygarde then used Sludge Wave to take it to 87%, but failed to poison it.
"Dragon Tail him out of there!"
Red simply shook his head.
Mega Mewtwo Y used Ice Beam again and this time, there was no Yache Berry to save it. Calem lost half of his team, and Red lost none.
"No..." Calem angrily took out Xerneas.
Mewtwo looked back at Red, who nodded and held up two fingers.
'What does that mean?' Calem frowned.
"Moonblast!"
Mega Mewtwo Y struck first with Psychic but lost 66%. Mega Mewtwo Y was at 21% and Xerneas at 41%.
"Again before he can!"
Once again, Mewtwo looked back, and this time saw that Red held up a single finger.
Mega Mewtwo Y was faster and defeated Xerneas before it could move.
"Dammit. Dammit." Calem released his starter, Greninja.
Red took back Mewtwo and released his Snorlax.
"Fling to poison him!"
Red smiled when his Snorlax slowly turned his head to look at him. Red just nodded and held up a fist, which made Snorlax smile too.
Obviously, Greninja was faster and threw his Poison Orb at Snorlax. Unfortunately for him, that meant knocking out Snorlax's Leftovers. Snorlax didn't seem very happy about that. Snorlax got up surprisingly fast, threw himself with full force at Greninja, and used Giga Impact. The attack instantly knocked Greninja out. Snorlax then slowly walked back to his spot and laid down to rest.
Red smiled and patted his Snorlax on the back.
Calem released his final pokemon, Mega Lucario.
"He's resting. Close Combat."
Red got close to his Snorlax and whispered something in its ear. Snorlax smiled in his sleep and Red stepped back.
Lucario attacked and defeated Snorlax in its sleep but lost -1 in both Def and SpD.
Red shrugged and released Mega Mewtwo Y again.
"I'm down to my final pokemon and you just lost one. How?" Calem panted.
Red did not respond. Instead he simply nodded at Mewtwo.
Not even Mega Lucario could outspeed Mega Mewtwo Y as it used Aura Sphere.
"You only lost one pokemon the entire match." Calem could not believe his eyes.
"That was bad." Red muttered.
(Back at the House)
"I knew I wouldn't win, but I thought I could at least defeat two of his pokemon." Calem scratched his head.
"I'm losing my touch." Red sighed.
"AND I'M LOSING MY SHIT!" Gold yelled.
"YOU LOST A SINGLE POKEMON! HOW ARE YOU LOSING YOUR TOUCH!? WHEN WE BATTLED YOU ONLY LOST TWO!"
"Shut up Gold. I didn't even evolve my Pikachu at the time."
"Now I know why you laughed when I said I was ready for any legendary." Calem realized.
"Mega Mewtwo Y is a beast. Blinding speed, impossibly strong special attack, and the rest of his stats are over normal." Red explained.
"Wait. I didn't even get the chance to use my other starters. Blastoise is a tank. Too bad I didn't use him."
"I can't imagine what Leaf's team looks like." Serena shuddered.
"At least we'll have some peace for now." Diamond laid back on his chair.
"Right." Dawn rolled her eyes.
Alrighty! Finally! For some reason I feel like that chapter took more time than any of the other chapters did. Anyways, I already started writing the next chapter so the next update should come quickly and you know the schedule now. Again, I apologize if I took too long two put this chapter out, I had a week off and I used to its full extent by laying on my couch and watching Netflix, finishing the Delta Episode on Omega Ruby, eating the whole kitchen, and sleeping way too much. I hope you liked the battle and here's the reasoning:
Blastoise: Already there, no changes except moves to make it stronger and Leftovers to make it last longer.
Charizard: Already there, no changes expect moves to make it stronger and no items for double damage with Acrobatics
Venusaur: Already there, no changes except status and turn moves and Leftovers to make it last longer.
Raichu: I just can't imagine Red with an un-evolved Pikachu on his team. I just can't. I gave it an Air Balloon because of Red's reasoning on the Calem vs Nate chapter. He explained it himself.
Mega Mewtwo Y: I can't imagine Red having two pokemon of the same type in his team and not use the legendary Mewtwo. Mewtwo has been a beast since Gen I and he has just gotten stronger with Mega-Evolution. I was going to use Mega Mewtwo X just so Red could have a wider type range, but you just can't resist that 535 SpA.
Snorlax: Already there, I freakin' love Snorlax. He's so huge, fuzzy, lazy and just plain funny at times. I always imagined the fury someone would receive if he took Snorlax's food. I gave him boosting moves 'cause he's a wall of defense HP and Giga Impact 'cause he's normal-type and unless he gets hit by a fighting-type move, he'll always survive the hit during his rest.
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