Last time on Pokemon EX: Amanda finally admitted to Kevin and Mike that she would like to participate in Pokemon Contests rather than Pokemon gym battles. She asks Kevin to help her train with Kakuna so he can evolve which Kevin accepts. During the training sessions, Kakuna evolves into Beedrill which then Amanda asks Kevin for a real battle, he accepts. The two battle, but Kevin's Pikachu beats Beedrill. That night Amanda asks Kevin who he's so good at battling and he admits he studied books and magazines.
Chapter Nine: A Fatal Attractor
Another dawn had finally come. Three trainers were sleeping peacefully in their respective beds in their respective rooms inside the Pewter City Pokemon Center. The sun's morning rays filtered through their windows into their rooms where it suddenly turned bright. The girl was the first to wake up, she was so egar to compete in her very first Pokemon Contest. She quickly got out of the bed and getting ready as quick as he could. Her two friends woke up and left their rooms after getting dressed. One of the boys heard rustling inside the girl's room, he knocked on the door.
"Just a minute," the girl said inside the room. There was a little more rustling and then she opened the door, ready. The boys just looked at her.
"Are you nervous?" the boy asked.
"A bit, but I'll be fine. Thanks for asking Kevin," she said with a smile.
"You're welcome Amanda," Kevin said, smiling back. They started walking down the hallway. "Come on Mike, let's go."
Mike stood their for a second, "Uh, right, coming."
They said their goodbyes for real this time to Nurse Joy and left the Pokemon Center, their destination the Pewter City Arena where the Pewter City Pokemon Contest was taking place. They passed the Pewter City Gym and headed toward the edge of town where the Arena was located. In a short trip, they reached the arena. The roof was a nice golden color while the rest of the exterior was white with a big blue stripe going across the middle.
"Wow, this place is huge," said Amanda admiring the arena.
"Yep, that's a contest arena for you," said an unfamiliar male voice. The three trainers turned around to see a male about a few inches taller than Kevin. He wore a red-collared shirt with a black strip in the middle with a white t-shirt undernieth, jeans and black and red sneakers. His hair was pulled back in a ponyail and the light-brown shade shined in the sunlight.
"I was in awe too when I saw my first Pokemon Contest arena," he continued. "You three here to compete in the Pokemon Contest?"
"No, only I am," Amanda answered back.
"Oh and what's your name?" the boy asked.
"My name's Amanda," she answered. "What's yours?"
"The name's Benjamin."
"So you have been to a contest before?" Amanda asked.
"Yeah and I won it too," Benjamin said. He took out a case from his back back revealing the blue ribbon with a gold round center in the middle of the bow of that ribbon.
"Cool," she said admiring the ribbon.
"Well got to go, peace," Benjamin said and entered the arena. Amanda sighed and walked into the arean behind him with Keivn and Mike following.
"We'll be in the stands," Kevin said. Amanda nodded and the two boys headed down the hallway to the spectator stands.
The two boys found seats close up and sat down. Meanwhile, Amanda entered the locker room where all the other Coordinator's that were going to compete where waiting.
A woman with a short blue colored sleeveless shirt and short blue jean shorts walked onto the arena stage and grabbed a microphone from a member of the even staff. "Welcome ladies and gentlement to the Pewter City Pokemon Contest! I am Lillian, announcer of all the Pokemon Contests in Kanto. Now let's meet the judges, first we have the head of the Pokemon Fan Club, Mr. Contesta!"
"Hello, great to be here!" the middle-aged man with greying hair wearing a black tuxedo said.
"And our next Judge is the head of Pokemon Contests, Mr. Sukizo!"
"Hello there," the man said. He was either wearing a white tuxedo or a lab coat.
"And last is Pewter City's own Nurse Joy!"
"Glad to be here," the nurse said.
"Now let's begin with our appeals!" Lillian announced. Trainer after trainer came up onto the stage and gave their magnificent, elegant and aweing appeals.
"Wow, all those Pokemon Coodinator's are really good," Kevin said. He was admiring all the appeals he had witnessed.
"Yeah, they were," Mike responded.
"Next up we have Benjamin from Saffron City taking the stage," Lillian said. The boy with brown hair, red-collared shirt and blue jeans approached the stage.
"You're up Venonat!" Benjamin threw his Pokeball onto the stage. It opened up and revealed a small, round purple-haired Pokemon with big red eyes that almost looked like rubies and with two antennae's sticking out of his head.
"What's that Pokemon?" Mike said as he held up his Pokedex.
"Venonat, the Insect Pokemon. Its eyes act as a radar, enabling it to be active in darkness. The eyes can also shoot powerful beams," the device said.
"Alright Venonat, use Poison Sting!" Benjamin commanded. Venonat spt out purple stingers into the air. "Now use Confusion!"
Venonat's eyes lut up with a blue-purplish light. That same light shrouded the stringers and Venonat started controlling them, turning ordinary poison stingers into an elegant dancing show. The judges were in awe.
"Now Venonat, Shadow Bal!" Benjamin yelled. A black ball started forming at the tip of his mouth. When Venonat was done forming the black ball with a purple aurora surrounding it, he launged into straight for the floating stingers. When it made contact, it exploded, raining down beautiful, sparkling pieces of the stringers falling to the stage.
"What do our judges think?" Lillian asked at the panel of judges.
"Impressive, I really liked how Venonat made the poison stingers dance in the air," said Mr. Contesta.
"Remarkable," said Sukizo.
"It was a delight to see," said Nurse Joy.
"With that said, it's time to bring out our next Coordinator. She's just starting out so give a big welcome to Amanda from Pallet Town," Lillian said as the crowd cheered and Amanda walked up on stage.
'This is it,' Amanda thought. "Squirtle, take the stage!" She said, throwing her Pokeball releasing her blue turtle Pokemon.
"Squirtle, Squirt!" she said.
"And Amanda has choosen a cute little Squirtle," said Lillian.
"Bubblebeam!" Amanda commanded. Squirtle shot out a beam of bubbles into the air.
"She's starting off with Bubblebeam," said Lillian, egar to see what the Coordinator was about to do.
"Now Rapid Spin!" ordered Amanda. Squirtle withdrew into her shell and spun towards the bubbles. Squirtle's spinning caused the bubbles to get pulled in, creating one gigantic sparkling blue bubble.
"Amazing, Spuirtle used Rapd Spin to guide in the bubbles to create on magnificent sparkling bubble," Lillian said amazed by the display.
"Now Squirtle, use Water Gun!" Amanda yelled. Squirtle began spinning and launcher her Water Gun which encircled the huge bubble and started seaping into the bubble. After a short period, the bubble was full of water and floating to the ground.
"Now Squirtle, use Skull Bash!" ordered Amanda. Squirtle leaped into the air and charged at the water-filled bubble. Squirtle went right through the bubble causing said bubble to pop and surrounded Squirtle with sparkling water. The judges were amazed.
"That was a fantastic display of Squirtle's attacks, now let's see what the judges thought about Amanda's performance," said Lillian.
"Impressive, she definately knows what she is doing," said Mr. Contesta.
"Simply remarkable," said the head of the Pokemon Contests.
"It was very elegant and well thought out," said Nurse Joy. Amanda went back to the locker room. Kevin and Mike entered as well.
"That was great Amanda," said Kevin.
"Yeah, simply remarkable," Mike joked, imitating the Mr. Sukizo, the head of Pokemon Contests. All three laughed.
"Thanks guys," Amanda said.
"Okay, the results are in and these are the Coordinators moving on to the second round," Lillian said. Picutres of about eleven other trainers came up. Amanda's picture came up last.
"Yes! I'm going to the second round!" Amanda said exictedly.
"Congradulations Amanda," Kevin said.
"Now let's see who's battling who," said Lillian. All the Coordinaters that made it to the second round were paired up. Amanda's eyes widened when she saw who she was going to face, Benjamin.
"I'm going to face Benjamin, already," said Amanda, surprised.
Benjamin laughed a little. "Well, well, we're going to battle. See you on the battlefield," he said as he walked off.
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Round two of the Pewter City Pokemon Contest began. A few Coordinator's had their battles first and those who won, moved on. Now it came to Benjamin and Amanda's battle.
"For our next battle, we have Benjamin from Saffron City facing off against Amanda from Pallet Town," Lillian said. "For this round, each Coordinator has five minutes to wind down their opponents points, whoever has the most points at the end or whoever knocks out their opponents pokemon first will be the winner, so let the battle begin!"
The clock on the scoreboard changed from all zero's to five minutes.
"Venomoth, you're up!" Benjamin called out, throwing his Pokeball revealing his huge pearl-colored moth Pokemon.
"What's that?" Mike said. He once again took out his Pokedex.
"Venomoth, the Poison Moth Pokemon. Venomoth is the evolved form of Venonat. Venomoth's wings are covered in dust-like scales. Every time it flaps its wings, it looses highly toxic dust." it explained.
"Alright Beedrill, take the stage!" Amanda yelled throwing her Pokeball which revealed her yellow and black-striped bee Pokemon.
"Venomoth, Sleep Powder!" Benjamin commanded. Venomoth flew towards Beedrill sprinkling Sleep Powder.
"Dodge it with Quick Attack!" said Amanda. Beedrill quickly vanished behind Venomoth causing Benjamin to lose some points. "Now use Horn Drill!"
Beedrill's stinger arm began spinning. The attack hit Venomoth head on causing Benjamin to lose more points.
"Venomoth, Wing Attack!" Benjamin yelled. Venomoth got back into the air and hit Beedrill with his lit up wings causing Amanda to lose some points this time around.
"Beedrill, Poison Sting!" Amanda ordered. Beedrill dived toward Venomoth with his rear stinger aiming at Venomoth.
"Pyschic!" Benjamin yelled. Venomoth's eyes lit up in an array of shades of purple, yellow, blue and red began moving toward Beedrill, shrouding him completely and stopping the bee in his tracks. Amanda's points began to drain dramatically.
"Beedrill!" Amanda yelled. She couldn't think of anything to counter the powerful Psychic attack and before she knew it, all her points were gone.
"That's all folks, Amanda has ran out of points and our winner in this battle is Benjamin from Saffron City," Lillian said as the audienced cheered.
Amanda quietly returned her Beedrill and walked off the stage with her head hanging down. Kevin left the stands to meet up with Amanda while Mike stayed with Pikachu. Kevin raced down the hallway and caught up with Amanda, who was sitting on a bench near the locker room door with her head hanging down. She was staring at the ground and Kevin finally spoke.
"Amanda?" he said, seeing if the girl was okay. All she did was spring up from the bench and clenched Kevin in a tight hug. He was quite surprised at her action but the girl began to cry on his shoulder.
"I lost," she began under her tears. "I'm a big loser."
"It's okay Amanda," Kevin said trying to comfort her. "You did really well out there for your first Pokemon Contest."
Amanda didn't respond, she just stayed there in Kevin's arms crying for a while.
"The winner of the Pewter City Contest and the Pewter Ribbon is," there was a pause. "Benjamin from Saffron City," Lillian said giving the pewter colored ribbon to Benjamin. "You did outstanding today."
After the ribbon presenting ceremony, Benjamin managed to catch Kevin, Mike and Amanda leaving the arena so he ran towards them. He finally caught up to them.
"Hey Amanda, great battle today," he said. "Hopefully we'll battle again and maybe next time you'll be me," he winked.
"You can count on it!" she said with newly found confidence.
"Great!" he said, "Guess I'll be seeing you around then, later."
"Bye," Amanda said waving. She turned back to Kevin and Mike. "So where's our next destination?" she was quite cheerful now. Mike stuck his nose into the Kanto guide book.
"Cerulean City, that's where the next gym is," he said happy to know they were on a destination to the next gym.
"Great, now let's head on over to Cerulean City!" Kevin said happily. The three trainers left Pewter City for good as the memories of their great battles here were still fresh in memory.
Amanda may have lost her very first Pokemon Contest but she's not going to let that stop her prusing her dream of becoming a great Pokemon Coodinator. Now our trainers are headed for Cerulean City for their next gym. See you next time on Pokemon EX
Title Pun: A Fatal Attraction