Parallel Hearts Chapter 3

After their little race, they return to the lake. Mega and the buizel couldn't help but feel the excitement pulsing through their very veins. The pokemon watching this battle were either placing bets on whoever wins, mainly the buizel, or watching with intensity.

"Seems we're attracting attention, aren't we?" Mega asked as he looks at the audience around the lake.

"Don't mind them, they always place bets on my battles," buizel boasts about the situation.

"Seems you're quite popular around here."

"Yeah, but it doesn't matter, little pikachu." Mega then has a look of confusion on his face, "I win all my battles, no matter what kind of disadvantage I have," buizel shouts out the last part with a intense roar.

"Obviously you've never faced an opponent like me," Mega states as he does a heroic pose, "I never give up, never back down, never surrender. As long as my fighting spirit roars beyond the heavens themselves, I'll never be defeated, for I am the mighty Mega!"

True, the buizel never met an opponent like this one before, but for the fact that he's as fast as him and also has a cool name, the buizel couldn't help but feel jealous about it, "if you have a cool name, then I'll have an even cooler name," he shouts as he poses a different stance, "from now on I'll shall be referred as... Fast Star!"

Suddenly, the audience got just drop dead-silent as the buizel formed a name for himself, "really? Fast Star? Is that the best he can think of?" Buneary asks from everyone's thoughts.

"Weelll, he is fast and he is a star of the lake, so why not?" Togetic comment on her thoughts on the name.

"Him a star? That's the day when I turn into a jolteon, which is never," eevee states at togetic's comment. All three of them look at each other for a moment and nod in agreement that the name would be something they would never get used to.

However, Mega actually likes the name and replies with sparkles in his eyes, "wow! That's so cool! I love it!"

Everyone sweatdrops about the pikachu's comment, making them wonder about his tastes of names. "I'm glad you like it," the now-named Fast Star said crossing his arms, "let's get back to the battle before we get side-tracked about names."

Mega agrees about the battle situation and charge straight at him with fists charged with electricity, "Thunder Punch!"

"Ice Punch," Fast Star replies the electric fist attack with his own ice fist attack. They punch each other's charging fist, only for it be proven equally strong and pull back. Fast Star throws an uppercut in his right fist only for Mega to dodge by shifting himself backwards before the attack can reach his chin. The pikachu then throws a quick jab only it to be blocked by Fast Star's icy, left fist and shifts it to the left to expose Mega.

He then throws a right hook only for him to duck underneath and goes underneath the now exposed weasel pokemon quickly jabs him to the face. This causes Fast Star to slide back and with his right cheek shocking with electricity where he was punched before looking back to his opponent. He simply spits in response to the pain he receives from the sudden shock and growls.

He then charges at Mega with his fists ready for another attack and punches him square in the stomach, causing the wind to be knocked right out of him. He then spin-kicks right after to the face and send him flying across the battlefield.

Mega skips across the ground before he could gain enough momentum and land back on all four and slide slightly causing the dirt beneath him to surround him.

"Quick Attack!"

"Aqua Jet!"

Mega charge straight at him with great speed while Fast Star surrounds himself with water and charge at the pikachu with the same amount of speed. They collided with one another and it caused them both to cancel the others' attack again.

As soon as that happens, Mega takes this opportunity to strike, "Thunderbolt," he shouts as he channel electricity from his cheeks, through his body, and aims it towards the exposed buizel.

Fast Star, however, sees the attack coming and spins his body to gain enough momentum to narrowly dodge the electricity, and instead hits a patrat eating berries instead. When the attack ends the unlucky patrat simply collapse to the ground, burn marks formed as he twitches every second from the electricity forming around him.

The two battling pokemon saw this and shouts their appologies to the unfortunate patrat, then continue the battle as though nothing happened. Then a thought came into the audience: will they get hit in a cross-road of this battle? They know that Fast Star is fast, Mega is actually standing his ground against him. So he must be pretty strong. When the attack just hit the patrat, that looked like it hurts... a lot. These ideas struck fear to everyone else as they decide to hide behind the rocks and trees outside the area lake.

"Thunder Punch!/Ice Punch!" The two shout in unison and bulldoze each other again with electric/ice charged fists at each other once more. The two threw a barrage of punches of electricity and ice at each other, either in the face, sides, or in the gut. Each strike damaging the other, especially Fast Star since this is an attack he's weak against. Each hit makes him twitch from the elecrical fists as he delivers each punch and he forces himself to stand against it to keep going.

Mega is also getting hurt as much as Fast Star is, not because he's weak against Ice-type moves, but because he's being punched on his scars, this is another reason why he hates it so much: it's a weak spot, being hit there hurts more than it should.

Just before Mega could make contact with Fast Star once more, Fast Star jumps, spinning in midair. His tails glows with white energy and gets ready to strike, "Sonicboom," he shouts as he strikes his tails in the air to cause a massive wave of energy flying straight towards the wide-opened pikachu.

Mega, quick thinking in his part, puts out his paws in the air in attempt to block the wave attack. When it connect to his paws, Mega embraced the impact and tries his best to endure the pain, however, Fast Star wouldn't allow him. He then lands and begin to spin with his hand as he gather energy into his tails.

"Sonicboom," he shouts once more and sends another massive wave energy wave at the more exposed pikachu. It made contact with Mega's stomach and a explosion engulfed him afterwords.

"Mega!" Buneary shouts out with worry for the moment she sees the explosion, "I hope you can do it," she put her paws together and pray for his wellness and victory. It's weird though, she just met him just yesterday and yet, she has high hopes for him to win. Eevee and Togetic just looks at her for a moment, then do the same thing.

As if it was a sign, a Sonicboom comes dashing from the puff of smoke and towards the shocked buizel as he crosses his arms over his head and torso in attempt to block the unexpected attack. It made contact with him and another explosion occurs. For a moment, everyone watching this battle was surprise, because they know for a fact that a pikachu can't use Sonicboom.

The smoke from both side disappears, revealing the two brawling pokemon that were inside. Shocked about earlier counter, Fast Star asks, "How did you-"

"I just redirected the Sonicboom from the one I was holding, and endured for impact on the other to do a sneak attack." Mega explained, interrupting what Fast Star was going to ask.

The buizel couldn't believe who he's facing as of now. He heard, if done just right, a pokemon can redirect an opponent's attack with just their bare hands, but that can only be requires with a lot of energy through their hands and if you mess up, there's no telling what can happen. For the fact that Mega is one of those rare pokemon, and embraced his powerful moves, only gives the buizel more excitement in this battle.

Mega and Fast Star are breathing heavily, everyone knew that this could be the end for either one of them, "heh, Mega, you fight well and I never had this much fun in years," Fast Star says and gives him a smile, despite how much it hurts right now, "so let's make a deal."

Mega replies the compliment by smiling back, but frowns at the 'deal' he's talking about, "what kind of deal?"

"If you win, I'll leave buneary alone, but if I win, you leave the forest... and never return."

This isn't the kind of gambling Mega likes, but he respects buneary and wants her to be left alone by the buizel, but he can't leave the forest just like that... well, not yet at least.

He doesn't know what to do until he heard, "Mega, you can do this!" This made him turn around to where the voice was coming from, it was the three girls, hiding behind a rock twenty feet away from him.

"Make that jerk pay, Mega!"

"Take the dare and beat him, Mega!"

This made him smile and turn back to the battle, "alright, I accept the deal."

All Fast Star did was smile like he's a mad pokemon and shouts, "ALRIGHT, THIS IS WHERE THE REAL FUN BEGINS!" The sudden outburst made everyone frighten, except Mega, because they know what he was talking about.

"Rain Dance," Fast Star shouts as he forms a waterball from both hands and throws it to the sky and disappear. At first nothing happens, but suddenly black clouds starts to form from where it was thrown at and covers the very skies around the lake. Winds begins to pick up as well and that scares the pokemon watching, buneary's quick-thinking makes her shout to the pikachu.

"Mega, be careful!"

Mega hears this and addresses them, "why?"

"Because he has the ability Swift Swim, but it's completely different," she explains, "he'll be much tougher and dangerous to defeat now," with that, she hides back behind the rock. Mega turns his attention back to the buizel in front of him and sees what she meant by that.

As the rain continues to pour on Fast Star, he looks as though he's angrier and angrier, the wind begins to circle around him as well, "Mega, I hope you enjoyed your stay at Pokeball Forest, because you are about to pack up and leave for good," the buizel says and backs up a bit, "Water Gun." Fast Star presses forward and water begins to squirt out of his mouth like a rapid river towards Mega.

Mega easily dodges it by jumping to the left, but as soon as that happened, Fast Star swiftly appears right behind him, "too slow, Ice Punch," he shout and unleashes his ice channelled fist at the unexpected pikachu.

Mega's first reaction was to turn around and say, "Double Team," as a mirage of a pikachu took his place. Fast Star connects his fist to the pikachu, only for him to disappear and slams it into the ground, making a crater, covered in ice. This fustrates him and look at the other copy pikachus, "Water Gun," and proceeds the water stream to come out of mouth again.

One by one, the pikacu mirages begins to disappear as Fast Star rushes the water at them. Only one was left, and was about to hit by the water as well, until, "Thunderbolt," lightning begins to come from above the defensless buizel.

Surprised about the lightning at him he screams in pain and tries to endure it, when the attack stops, he looks up and sees the pikachu with a thundering fist coming down at him, "Thunder Punch!"

"Water Gun," Fast Star reacts immediately and gushes out water from his mouth at him, only for him to disappear, "What?" Stunned by the situation he looks around, only to be slammed in the chin by a thundering uppercut he wasn't expecting to come from.

"Yes, it worked," Mega said proudly while breathing heavily, he didn't think that would work: to be in the air and deliver a Thunderbolt, then make him look up and secretly make a Double Team there, and then slam him with a Thunder Punch uppercut while he wasn't looking. After all of that, Mega was exhausted and was ready to take a nap now, however, that idea has to change when he sees Fast Star rising up even angrier than before.

Never... NEVER was he this humiliated before his entire life. He turns at the tired mouse pokemon, Mega made him REALLY mad and he wasn't planning on making him leave here alive. With a teeth-baring scowl, he dashes at the defenseless pikachu and holds him by the neck him to a nearby boulder and smashes his fists endlessly at Mega, making him scream as blood escapes from his body, "you're through, RAT, because once I'm done with you, there wouldn't be anything left."

Mega could feel all the punches coming right at him and his blood dipping from his entire body. All he can try and do is lift his arms and try to block, but only for them to be knocked back on his chest.

As he looks up, everything seems to have slow down, as though time itself has gone to a slower pace for him, he could see the other pokemon all scared about what would happen to him shouting, "hey Fast Star, knock it off, you've won already!"

But they weren't the ones he was looking at, he was looking at the three girls that he's living with now. The three of them, so kind and trustworthy, he didn't know eevee and togetic very long, but they were so kind to him when they first met...and then there's buneary... a good friend, he didn't know her as well, but it feels he known her before he just couldn't put his finger on it. He shrugs it off and thinks of something else... and finally found an answer.

Suddenly, Mega stopped the fists from slamming into him with his tiny hands. Everything seems to be silent for a moment, "sorry," Mega says breaking the silence, "but I didn't train in the northern part of the forest just so I can be someone's punching bag!" Mega scowls at Fast Star with blind rage, "Thunderbolt," he screams and unleashes a massive amount of electricity from his body and onto the still contacted buizel.

Fast Star had no time to react and suffered from the shock throughout his entire body, he screams in agony and closes his eyes, only to scream louder. When the attack stops, both of the brawlers were angry at each other, not breathing heavily anymore, as though they weren't exhausted at all, but their bodies says otherwise.

The rain continues to pour and Fast Star wants to defeat him, "Thunder Punch," he hears from the pikachu raising his fist. His immediate reaction was to jump back as fast as he could, making the attacking pikachu miss him.

"Aqua Jet," Fast Star shouts as he covers himself in water and flies at Mega with massive speed and power due to the rain.

Mega jumps up out of the way wanting the buizel to hit the boulder instead, but as Fast Star was about to hit it, he flies up, straight towards him. The water attack hits Mega and made him bleed a bit more, but the attack wasn't done yet, on and on, the attack continues from all different directions. When Mega was about to attack, Fast Star vanishes and attacks from behind, Thunder Punch wasn't going to be any help, but he has one idea in his head.

"Thunderbolt," he shouts and unleashes his thunderous attack to all different directions, eventually hitting Fast Star and cancelling his Aqua Jet right there. Another scream came out of him and they end up face-planting against the ground.

The both of them gets up painfully, "I've had just about enough of you," Fast Star says in fustration, "witness my ultimate move!"

Everyone was scared about this, even Mega was suprise, an ultimate move means to combine two or more different attack moves into one devastating attack. "Then I'll just have to use my Volt Tackle," he says, making everyone else so scared they're willing to even putting up Protect, Barrier and other defensive moves onto on themselves to be safe.

Thunder from the sky begins to dance around the two, as though even heaven itself knows what's going to happen next, if they slip up or hesitate the attack, they'll lose consciousness, or even worse.

As both of them gets ready for their attack, the three girl pokemon were talking, "do you think Mega will win?" Togetic asks concern about the outcome.

"I hope so, I don't want him to leave," eevee answers equally concerned as well.

"Look, all we can do is believe in him with everything we got," buneary says to help calm her friends. The others agreed to her and all three of them closed their eyes and believe in Mega's victory.

The time has come, the two were ready to attack now, "Aqua Jet," "Volt Tackle," they shouted and charge at each other covered in their own element type of attack. In the middle of the charge, Fast Star channelled his Aqua Jet onto his left fist, "Ice Punch," and turns the head of the water trail to a sharp ice point. He runs with the water still running through his fist and was ready to swing the water and iced fist at Mega, "Ice Jet Punch."

Mega, on the other hand, was just charging at full pace and great channel from his entire body to produce large amount of electricity to perform such an attack.

Soon enough, their attack collides, just waiting for the more dominate to win, Fast Star pushes even more than he should have into his combined attack. Mega was producing the electricity he needs to keep going. At first it was evened out, but Fast Star desperation to win gave him the strength to push past his limit and musters up the remaining strength he could bring out. Mega sees the ice going through his attack and uses the last of his strength as well to make the Volt Tackle to burst, engulfing the buizel in the elecricity burst.

An explosion occurrs, being the biggest out of all that was made in this battle, everyone gasps as to who won this battle. The smoke slowly disappears revealing the two standing still there as the rain continues to pour down, but soon stops, revealing the sun itself to shine on the two in glow of orange. Mega and Fast Star look like they're going to attack again, but to everyone's surprise, Fast Star falls face-first to the ground.

Everyone looks at Mega still standing there, "and the winner of the battle is..." eevee came out of nowhere between the two pokemon stating like a referee, "Mega!"

All Mega can do is smile and fall backwards before being caught by togetic and buneary, "amazing job, Mega," "I knew you could do it," was all he could hear before he lost consciousness, knowing that he doesn't have to leave Pokeball Forest just yet... for he has someone to meet again.