Rock Chapter

Episode 2: Rodney vs Kali

A crowd outside the fields of Viridian City had began to form a circle around Kali and I, the wide and flat grasslands behind the Pokemon Center was our battle stage and I could hear the old gamblers behind me placing their bets already on Kali Nayyar. She seemed more like the monk type but I could tell she was a real bitch, she treated me like I was some kind of loser despite only having known me acouple of minutes.

I couldn't wait to shut her mouth up for good.

"So we're both at an accord? We'll only use two pokemon, one per round." Kali laid out the rules and I shook my head.

"Yeah, whatever."

"Battle Start!" We both said at the same time and both threw pokeballs into the battle circle at the same time.

"Fearow!"

"Pikachu!"

Fear appeared from the Ultra Ball in a flash of golden light spreading it's newly healed wings apart from it's torso. Bursting from a golden light all the same from a Golden Pokeball was a Pikachu with a golden hoop earring around it's right ear. It looked stronger than that puny Pikachu that lost to the Bug Catcher's Beedrill way back when.

"Already at a disadvantage!" Kali smirked crossing her arms. "Your Hitmonlee is as good as mine."

T.T-Me "The hell are you talking about?" I asked.

XD-Kali "Duh...your Fearow against my Pikachu..."

T.T-Me "Oooookay...why am I at a disadvantage?"

With that not only did call Kali fall over but everyone watching the battle fell over holding their stomachs and rolling around on the grass laughing. "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? IS THIS GUY AN IDIOT?"

"THERE'S NO WAY HE'S A TRAINER!"

"FLYING TYPES ARE WEAK AGAINST LIGHTNING TYPES MORON!"

Even Kali's Pikachu began laughing and rolling around on the ground. While they were all laughing I nodded to Fearow, only he and I weren't laughing. I scanned Fearow for attacks, the first four attacks in it's arsenal were: Peck, Fury Attack, Wing Attack and Aerial Ace.

"Fearow: Fury Attack!" I pointed at the Pikachu, Fearow cocked then soared towards the small rat like pokemon. Pikachu and Kali both steeled themselves quicker than I thought from laughing.

"Pikachu: Thunder!" With that Pikachu shot a blue lightning bolt into the air and the azure bolt blasted into the sky then curved and came back down forming into a much larger bolt somehow. I narrowed my eyes and quickly snapped my finger getting an idea, the bolt came down fast and right just afew feet above Fearow I screamed out. "Use Aerial Ace to dodge it!"

At that moment Fearow's eyes narrowed and it's body glen with a light blue aura zooming forward leaving behind an after image which even the lightning couldn't catch. The bolt of blue thunder came down and crashed the earth causing the ground to tremor and dust to immediately fume up.

I could see into the clouds of dust, to think a tiny Pikachu did that!

When the dust settled there was a huge pothole in the arena circle, Kali looked fairly intrigued by our maneuver for once she had her mouth hanging open. "Heh...using an attack to dodge another. Interesting, I've never seen that before." She closed her mouth and gained her cocky look again. "How did you know to use Aerial Ace's speed?"

"Dunno...sounded like an attack that would increase his speed so..." I shrugged.

XD-Kali "Amazing, right when I take you for a genius you say something that knocks my opinion of you back down. Truly an imbecile."

I looked into the air past Kali's insults and up at Fearow whom was simply flapping it's wings glaring down at the Pikachu whom was fuming with bolts of electricity. "Now enough with these jokes. I have a Hitmonlee to Breed!" Kali steeled herself again. "Pikachu: Electro Ball!" She commanded and with that her Pikachu raised it's zigzaggy tail and at it's tip, began forming a ball of blue lightning which glen like a beacon of light.

"Oh shit." I looked up at Fearow.

"PIKAAAACHUUU!" The pikachu released the ball by flipping forward and it's tail tossed it overhead towards my Fearow. The ball fast but not too fast, it was slow enough to dodge. But I didn't want Fearow to dodge it, I had an idea.

"Fearow: Use Wing Attack on the Electro Ball to slap it back!" I shouted pointing at my giant bird. Fearow cocked and without fear swung it's right wing down at the approaching electric ball. WHAM! BAZZZIIIING! Blue lightning exploded from Fearow as the bird dropped like it was dead to the ground. But the Electroball was thrown back, despite Fearow receiving all of the recoil. The ball of Lightning flew back towards the Pikachu whose little beady eyes shot open.

"Pikachu: Dodge it now!" Kali ordered but the ball crashed down just infront of her sending her flying away and rolling along the grass alittle. Her Pikachu quickly dashed to her side crying. "Pika pikaaaa!"

O.o-Spectators "Did you see that?"

o.O-Spectators "That was awesome!"

"I thought Kali would just wipe the floor with that kid, but he seems to be sticking in there."

"A crazy attack but he actually pulled it off."

"Too bad it missed though, he sacrificed his Fearow for that move it would have been a DKO."

I noticed abunch of Kali Nayyar fans turning to my side and it sort of pumped me up alittle. Despite having lost the first round. Kali stood up and boy did she look pissed, she was covered in afew bruises and her sleeveless dress thing seemed to be covered in alittle dirt."ARE YOU MAD? WHO DOES SUCH A THING IN A POKEMON BATTLE? HOW DARE YOU FOOLISHLY SACRIFICE YOUR COMPANION!" I held up my Ultra Ball and a crimson red beam shot from it, biding Fearow to return. The bruised brown bird returned to the crimson red ball and I put him away in my pocket to grab my Raffle Winner, Hitmonlee.

"In battle, some knights have to sacrifice themselves for the good of the Kingdom." I grinned holding up my pokeball. "I got one left!"

"And I've got two." Kali retorted.

"Heh...not for long. Alright Hitmonlee, let's kick some ass!" I said throwing the Pokeball up and with that it exploded with a golden light and appearing flipping in the air like an acrobat was Hitmonlee. He dropped down on his two coiled feet then held up one knee and two arms in a kickboxing/muay thai stance.

"HITMON!"

"PIKA!"

Immediately Hitmonlee sized up Pikachu as it's opponent. "Pikachu: Quick Attack!"

Pikachu immediately burst into a yellow blur at Hitmonlee whose eyes seemed to follow it. Pikachu moved in a series of zigzags, I couldn't keep my eye on it. Pikachu moved back and forth swiping Hitmonlee along his back and chest drawing blood and even biting where it could while moving fast. "Taste the speed of a Pokemon whose agility has been honed since it's days an infant!"

Hitmonlee stood completely enduring the damage and waiting for a command, damn that little bugger is fast. I snapped my finger getting an idea. "Hitmonlee: Mega Kick the GROUND!" I said with a grin.

"Hitmon!" Hitmonlee nodded then raised his heel as Pikachu approached, he dropped his heel down crashing it into the ground causing a massive earth elemental wave to disperse from the ground beneath it. The earth wave sent Pikachu flying into the air.

"WHAT!" Kali screamed.

"Hitmonlee: Hi Jump Kick to Low Kick combo!"

Hitmonlee stomped the ground and flew up at Pikachu whom was still flipping and could get a grip in the air, my fighting pokemon spun around with a powerful high kick striking Pikachu in it's little torso. POW! Kali's Pikachu winced and threw up blood as it went soaring down to the ground. Hitmonlee phased out in mid air and appeared on the ground spinning around with a low sweep kick in slow motion I saw him strike the Pikachu by the back of the head with the heel of his foot just inches before the Pikachu could touch the ground. WHAM!

Pikachu flew like a yellow bullet crashing into the side of the Pokemon Center, the hole in the side of the wall was so big I could see the Chansey dancing around in protest of the battle, Kali's Pikachu was immediately taken by the nurse staff onto a white stretcher where he was carried away.

"C-C-Combo?" Kali said with wide eyes and a jaw dropped.

T.T-Me "Yeah, you guys don't use combos? Or try to link attacks together?"

Kali shook her head 'no'. The rest of the spectators were baffled by my approach to battling, there was no laughing and humiliating me. There was only just silence. Slowly but surely it was looking like I was the expert and Kali was the beginner. "A-A-At any rate, my Pikachu is being taken care of thanks to you...I'll mend that little fluke of yours with this next victory. Come out...Alakazam!"

Suddenly a yellow mustached Pokemon with tall pointy ears holding two spoons stood before Hitmonlee as his next opponent. Hitmonlee still having afew bloody wounds from Pikachu still stood strong. "Just one more Hitmonlee."

"Hitmon!" He nodded.

"Careful! Fighting Types are weak against Psychic Types...Alakazam is a Psychic Pokemon dude!" The crowd now on my side cheered me on, they still cheered Kali on as well. I guess they just wanted to see a show.

"Let's end this quick...Alakazam: Psychic"!

Alakazam placed both of it's spoons up and huge wave of multi-colored beams appeared flowing from the round ends of Alakazam's spoons. The Psychic waves were zigzagging colorful beams. "Hitmonlee: Dodge it! Jump!" With that Hitmonlee leaped high into the air and the beams of psychic energy hit the ground infront of me shooting up rocks and debris, the rocks and debris flew into the air and Alakazam possessed them with his glowing white eyes.

He pointed his spoons up at Hitmonlee whom was airborne and the rocks flew straight at Hitmonlee." If you think Psychic can be a direct and indirect attack on it's opponent." Seeing the rocks fly towards Hitmonlee I thought fast.

"Hitmonlee: Use Blaze Kick then start spinning!" Hitmonlee's right foot burst into flame and he began spinning like a flaming tornado, the rocks and debris that Alakazam possessed melted before they could reach him. The fighting Pokemon stopped spinning once the projectiles were all gone then burst towards Alakazam which seemed to shock both the trainer and the psy-pokemon. "Hitmonlee: Use Blaze Kick again and this time DIVE!"

Hitmonlee spun around with a Blaze Kick strike, it's right foot again set ablaze with flame and flying down at Alakazam. "Alakazam: Psy Wave!" With that Alakazam lowered it's arms and shot two beams of psy energy from it's eyes and the beam collided with Hitmonlee creating a flaming/psychic energy explosion of white light.

When the explosion passed and the area was cleared of white light, debris and dust. Alakazam stood victorious, Hitmonlee was resting on the ground stomach up and unconscious. "Hitmonlee is unable to battle, Alakazam and Kali are the winners." The gamblers who switched to my side dropped their moner to the winners and the crowd dispersed quickly.

I was silent, staring at Hitmonlee who was laying knocked out infront of me.

I lost...which means...I have to give him up.

I dropped to my knees and used my pokeball to withdraw my unconscious Hitmonlee. "Shit..." I said looking to the sky. Kali withdrew her Alakazam and she walked up to me, staring down at me with a straight face on.

Author's Note: The battle is over and Rodney has to give up Hitmonlee, despite having him for only afew days. Damn!