Chapter Twenty-Three
The Final Countdown

Previously:
With that they boarded the ship again, and sailed towards Pallet Town.

They arrived at Pallet town and disembarked immediately. Tony walked forwards but stopped when he realized Johnny wasn't following him.

"What's up?" Tony asked, and Johnny shook his head, he had been staring into the sky, "The Last Gym, it's finally here…Lets go." He murmured, taking a step forwards, and Tony shook his own head.

"Go on without me, I wanna visit my mother. I'll catch up quickly with Pidgeot." Tony explained, and Johnny and Lloyd nodded, running up the path.

"Hmm…I hope I am able to see the match…I don't wanna miss that. I wonder who the eighth gym leader is anyways." Tony remarked with a sigh, and entered his house.

"Tony! Is that You!"

When Tony Finally managed to escape his mother's clutches, he sent Pidgeot out and hopped on, soaring quickly towards Viridian.

The Gym's lights were on, and Tony rushed over to the door wrenching it open. He heard the sounds of battle in the distance and winced, "I hope that's not the final battle."

"Oh don't worry." Said the man who stood next to a statue and informed people of the gym, "Your friend hasn't fought the leader yet, but he sure did blow past the gym trainers!"

"Great! Thanks." Tony said and the man nodded. Running through the gym's halls towards the sound of battle, Tony spotted Lloyd.

"Hey! Lloyd!" Tony called, and Lloyd jumped, looking at Tony.

"Tony! Your never guess who the Gym leader is!" Lloyd shouted as Tony ran up, "It's…"

But Lloyd didn't have to finish, as Tony turned the corner to see Johnny squaring off with none other then Giovanni. Giovanni's Rhyhorn had just crashed to the ground, at the feet of Johnny's Shellder.

"Haha! Tony you made in just in time for my victory!" Johnny laughed as he caught the badge Giovanni grudgingly flicked at him.

Giovanni Turned towards Tony and scoffed, "I was wondering where your other annoying friend was."

Suddenly a door that blended in perfectly with the walls opened up and Tiffany stepped out, followed by Valarie and Kat.

"Tony?" Tiffany asked in surprise at the same time Giovanni snapped, "Tiffany, honey, get back in your room." He said in a hard voice.

"Daddy? Do you know Tony? What's going on?" Tiffany asked, and Tony did a double take, "What! He's your Father! If I had known…what?" Tony gasped, grasping what he had just heard.

Lloyd and Johnny stood silently as Giovanni looked from Tony to Tiffany and suddenly barked, "Tiffany! NOW! Take your friends and Go!" Tiffany let out a strangled Eep and ran back into her room. Giovanni turned to look at Tony, his eye twitching, "How do you know my Daughter?" he asked softly.

"Um…"Tony started, but before he could finish Giovanni had just finished releasing his Rhyhorn. Tony, seeing no way out of this, released his own Gyarados, who roared at the challenge.

"Be careful Tony, He's Tougher then before!" Johnny called and Tony nodded.

Sure enough, the Rhyhorn started to charge, but at the last moment it rolled sideways, avoiding the ice beam Gyarados had unleashed. The Rhyhorn barreled into the Gyarados, who roared in pain. The Rhyhorn jumped back and shook itself, glaring at the Gyarados.

The Rhyhorn snorted and hopped sideways, avoiding another Ice Beam, but it landed on the icy patch created by the previous Ice Beam and slid onto its side. After that it was as simple as one Hydro pump to knock the Rhyhorn out.

Growling Giovanni released his Dugtrio, which stood facing the MUCH larger Gyarados. The Gyarados roared at the small mole pokemon, which cowered in return. The Dugtrio suddenly dug down into the earth below them. The Gyarados watched as the mole burst from the ground, attempting to smash into the dragon but to no avail. Another Hydro pump was enough to sweep the mole into unconsciousness.

Gyarados still floated over Tony's head like a large, scaly halo as Giovanni released his next pokemon, his Nidoqueen. The blue queen rushed in quickly, but the gyarados dodged overhead. The queen was quicker then Tony thought and suddenly the Nidoqueen had the Gyarados in a bear hug, and smashed it hard into the ground. Groaning, the Gyarados was about to rise, but the Nidoqueen raised a large fist and swiftly knocked the gyarados out in one punch.

Tony released his Persian, which watched the Nidoqueen warily. The Nidoqueen smirked, smashing its leg into the ground, similar to a sumo, and the ground shook, chunks of earth rising in attempt to hit the cat. One did, and the cat was flung across the room. Right before the Persian hit the wall, it flipped and landed vertically on the surface, dust rising around it. The Persian quickly pounced back across the field and launched a burst of water right as it landed on the Nidoqueen. The Nidoqueen took the pulse of water pointblank and stumbled backwards as the Persian hopped off. The Nidoqueen tried to get up, but the Persian stopped it with another Water pulse.

Grimacing, Giovanni recalled his Nidoqueen and sent out the Nidoking, who roared as loud as Gyarados had, his spikes gleaming.

Tony recalled Persian as well, and released his Blastoise. The Nidoking rushed it quickly, ramming into to Shellfish pokemon. Both of their hands were locked together as each other the pokemon tried to push the other to their back. Unfortunately, The Nidoqueen lacked the gleaming steel cannons that had just emerged from Blastoises shell. With both the hands of Nidoking currently unusable, the Blastoise freely pummeled Nidoking relentlessly with water blast after blast until the Nidoking slumped unconscious in front of Blastoise.

Roaring, Giovanni released his last pokemon, another Rhyhorn, only obviously more powerful then the last one.

Tony looked at his Blastoise, who nodded, obviously thinking the same thing as Tony was. The cannon taking careful aim at the Rhyhorn, who stood its ground, it suddenly made a loud clanking noise.

Tony suddenly noticed Giovanni himself was standing right behind his Rhyhorn, and with a sudden flash, realized what would happen to him. His heart pumping Tony threw himself down the field, past the Rhyhorn, who was staring nervously at Blastoises cannon now, and rammed himself into Giovanni.

The Hydro cannon burst from one barrel and rushed across the field and into the Rhyhorn. The Rhyhorn was knocked out instantly, and it's large frame kept the blast from penetrating the wall behind. To Tony, he was floating in what seemed like slow motion when the blast fired, before he suddenly found himself on the ground. Giovanni was stunned and Tony's shoe had been ripped away by the blast.

Blastoise slumped down as well, as Tony recalled her. Johnny rushed to Tony and pulled him up as Lloyd did the same for Giovanni.

Giovanni pushed Lloyd away and pulled a walkie-talkie out from his pocket just as Tiffany peeked her head out the door, looking scared, and tears in her eyes.

"I need a copter here…now…It's a Code Red." Giovanni growled into the Walkie-talkie as Tiffany gasped, "Honey…I'm leaving for a while…Team Rocket is henceforth disbanded…I need some time to think. And get Stronger."

Tiffany gave another sob as the sounded of a copter filled the air and feet hit the rooftops.

"Honey, get out of here, none of Team Rocket know I have a daughter. They'll probably attack anyone in here right now." He added, glaring at Tony, who glared right back.

"Quick, let's go!" Lloyd cried, and they all ran from the building.

Tony, Johnny and Lloyd fled the gym with Tiffany, Kat and Valarie right at their heels. They turned just in time to see all the gym trainers flee from the building and a helicopter began to fly away.

Tiffany was crying and Tony put his arm around her, staring at the Helicopter.

You'll wait right here, right? Until I'm done becoming champion." Johnny asked, and Valarie nodded, giving Johnny a kiss before he departed towards the Elite four, having already put the recent events behind him.
Lloyd stood next to Kat, watching the Copter fly away. He turned to Kat, "Am I the only one who's horribly confused?" He asked, and Kat looked around at everyone else briefly before turning back to Lloyd, "yeah, probably."

"Hey…are you mocking me?" Lloyd asked, and Kat laughed, pointing at their feet, where Lloyd's Marowak and Kat's Marowak were in an embrace.

"You guys better save it for the Day-care!" Lloyd laughed as he recalled his pokemon, Kat following suite.

When Tony and Lloyd detached from their respective ladies, they had to run to catch up to Johnny. They trudged up to the Guards, who looked at Johnny's badges before letting them pass.

They emerged into the clearing before a large cave, which loomed very menacingly in front of them.

"Is…Is this the elite four?" Johnny asked, as Lloyd read the sign, "Nope, says here, Victory Road, the final test for Trainers.

"WHAT!" Johnny cried, "Another cave! God damnit, Lets just go!" Johnny roared, as they stomped into the cavern.

It was Dark. Very Dark. Darker then any cave they have yet been in. It was "…Dark!" Tony shouted, turning around angrily, "Yes Lloyd, We get it, it's Dark!"

Lloyd said nothing, only muttered something like, "just saying" under his breath and they kept walking, out of breath thanks to Johnny's ridiculous traveling pace.

"Johnny!" Tony moaned, "Slow up dude! Come on!"

"No! I must get through here now!" He growled from somewhere ahead of them as they passed the trainer he had just beaten. "Honestly, I'm tired." Tony said, sitting down on a rock as he felt Lloyd pass him up.

"Too bad Tony, I will get to the elite four tonight! I will!" Johnny yelled, and Lloyd jumped.

"Just do what he says Tony, so he stops yelling." Lloyd whispered behind him, and Tony didn't answer.

Light filtered in front of them and Johnny burst free from the confines of the cave, shouting in victory. Lloyd followed shortly after.

"See, it wasn't that bad now was it Tony." Johnny laughed, turning to find only Lloyd standing, looking confused.

"Um…yeah…now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure we lost Tony way earlier." Lloyd replied, and Johnny Roared in frustration.

Tony suddenly burst from the cave covered in what looked like soot, coughing.

"Tony!"
"Tony!"
"WHAT!" Tony yelled, standing up, "Ugh…I found myself in a room that had eggshells all over and it was all sooty and scorched. Anyway, I eventually wandered out here…but not before I fell into a Arbok's Nest…" Tony said Darkly, wiping some more soot off him.

"Whatever." Johnny said briskly, staring at the shining, metallic building wedged into the mountainside, "We're here."

Tony looked up to and saw the Indigo Plateau, and quickly ran up to Johnny and Lloyd, who had already reached the doors. They slid open automatically to reveal a large Pokecenter and Pokemart combined. There was only a few trainers walking about, and the clerk at the shop quirked an eyebrow at seeing 3 more adventures come in.

They healed up and stocked up on item. Johnny stood in front of the large automatic doors leading into the elite four and laughed. He turned to Lloyd and Tony and nodded his head.

"Heh, I'm actually here. I didn't think it would be this soon…Thanks Tony, Lloyd, if it wasn't for you guys I don't think I could've made it. But here I am. Thanks." Johnny said, holding out his hand, which Tony shook. He turned to Lloyd, his arm outstretched, but Lloyd knocked the hand aside and captured Johnny in a hug.

Tony watched as Johnny pushed Lloyd off of him and scowled, "What the hell was that?"

Looking embarrassed, Lloyd shrugged, and went to sit down at the table near the center. Tony followed, and Johnny entered the large automatic door, and a small green light above them turned red.

Lloyd sat back, his arms behind his head, "Hmm…I'm surprised your not trying to take the challenge either."

"Huh?" Tony responded, and Lloyd shrugged again.

"You could easily beat them…I think…The elite four I mean…look at how easy it was to beat Giovanni." Lloyd said and Tony glanced at the red light above the doors.

"Why do you say that?" Tony asked, and Lloyd shrugged for a third time, "I'm just saying, I think you could win, too bad you only have 5 pokemon with you, and your butterfree's too low a level to fight now."

Tony stood up suddenly, and glanced at the light that had just flickered to green, meaning the first Elite Four member was now open. "What's up?" Lloyd asked leaning forwards.

"I'm going…" Tony replied, and Lloyd sat back in chair again, "Where?"

Without answering, Tony restocked his items, and walked straight through the doors to the elite four.

Tony walked down the dark hallway, with lights lining the sides, and found he was facing another set of doors. He pushed them open…

…And was immediately met with a cold chill, and he almost slipped on the ice that covered the floor. A Redhead was standing across from him, balanced on the ice as though it was grass, and beckoned him over. She was wearing a black vest and a light purple skirt and looked very businesslike.

"Are you my next challenger? You look as though you wandered in here accidentally. I warn you, if you are unprepared you will be destroyed." The woman said in a brisk tone that was as cold as the ice Tony stood on.

"What? Of course I'm the next challenger!" Tony scowled defiantly, "I'm friends with the guy who just beat you, and since he did that, so will I!"

"Hmm?" The Woman said, "Another worthy opponent you say? How thrilling."

"You better believe it!" Tony said, grabbing his pokeball, but slipping to his knee in the process.

"Boy, You look like you can barely stand!" The woman laughed, and her voice suddenly became even colder, if possible, "I am Lorelei, and I will be your opponent!"

Tony released his Gyarados at the same time that Lorelei released her Dewgong. The Dewgong clapped loudly as the Gyarados hovered overhead. With a loud crackle, the Gyarados let loose it's attack, and with a flash a lighting bolt pierced through the Dewgong, who flopped on the ground, weakened. The Dewgongs horn glowed, and suddenly a rainbow aura sprung up around it. Tony smirked; a safeguard wouldn't stop the next Thunderbolt. Sure enough, the Dewgong was shot down with another bolt, knocked out.

"Hmm…I hope all you Elite four aren't so weak, I was actually worried!" Tony called, but Lorelei didn't respond, instead sending out her next pokemon, a Cloyster.

The Cloyster shot backwards with a powerful swipe of its shell, and barely dodged the Thunderbolt. The Cloyster opened its shell and suddenly a dozen tiny spikes flew out, scattering harmlessly on the ground underneath the dragon, which launched another Thunderbolt, lancing through the Bivalve. Its weakness proved too much, and it also succumbed after a second Thunderbolt.

Lorelei sent out her third pokemon, a Slowbro, who lay on the ground lazily. Gyarados roared and sent a thunderbolt into the Slowbro, who jumped up and shook itself, wounded already. It opened its mouth and a furious blast of Ice issued forth, piercing the Dragon. It began to freeze over, and before Tony could do anything, the Gyarados lay frozen on the icy floors. Lorelei let out a mocking laugh.

Tony checked his bag and to his horror found he had nothing that could heal his gyarados from being frozen. He could only watch in horror as the Slowbro used amnesia over an over again, then riddled the Gyarados with Ice Beams, until it lay unconscious at Tony's Feet.

Tony scowled and released his Blastoise. Upon landing on the ground, Blastoises feet were pierced by the spikes that Tony had forgotten. "Damn It!" Tony growled.

But Blastoise shook off the attack and ran towards the Slowbro, Raising her fist. Before the Slowpoke could move, Blastoise landed one critical hit on the side of the Slowpokes head. The power was such that the Slowpoke even managed to lift off the ground, before sliding on the ice for a bit.

Lorelei winced at the emergence of another one of Professor Oak's Pokemon. She was defiantly going to have a talk with him. "So your Professor Oak predecessor huh? The Second one to pass through here." Lorelei said.

"You must have your facts wrong Lorelei, Johnny isn't working for Oak." Tony said, and Lorelei looked confused, "I know that! Come on, lets continue!"

Lorelei released her Jynx, which blew a kiss over to Tony, who swiftly dodged it. Blastoise charged forwards, and tried to punch, but the Jynx danced out of the way and planted a furious slap on the Blastoises face, followed be a second hit. The Blastoise shook her head angrily, and leapt up, kicking the Jynx into the ground, using Blastoises girth to slid across the ice on top of the Jynx. This time Blastoise Mega punch landed true, right on the back of the Jynx's head.

Unconscious, Lorelei withdrew the Jynx, and released her final Pokemon, Lapras. The Lapras Smashed their flipper into the ground to stop it's sliding, the Ice cracking underneath it, and opened its mouth. A beautiful trill came out, and it quickly launched a red ray, which connected directly into Blastoises forehead. The Blastoise cocked her head sideways, looking confused, and The Lapras slid forwards. When it reached Blastoise, it rose up to its full height, and slammed down upon the Turtle. When the Lapras slid off, the Blastoise was unconscious.

Tony smirked and released his Persian, which winced at the spikes, but leapt up anyways, landing on the Lapras back. With the Jolt of electricity that flared around Lapras Tony was forced to cover his eyes, and when he opened him, he saw his Persian on the unconscious Lapras's back, calmly licking her fur.

Lorelei was stunned, "I…I…I'm stunned!" She murmured, "How?"

"Um…Metronome…" Tony replied, scratching the back of his head, "I guess I got lucky."

"Well boy…it looks like you won, and now I feel like a fool. Go on, go fight the next member; he is harder then me after all."

With that, Tony departed from Lorelei and set off down an identical path lined with lights. This time though, the doors opened up to reveal a stuffy area with rocks and dirt lying around the field. An incredibly muscular man sat with his legs crossed on a rock, eyeing him.

"Another runt, eh? But…he did get by Lorelei, so he must be somewhat strong. It's been so long since we have had an opponent that wasn't crushed by Lorelei." The man said in a rough voice. At first Tony thought he was speaking to himself, but he jumped when he saw the rock the man was sitting on rise into the air. The Onix gave a low roar and the man leapt off, landing on the ground.

"I am Bruno, Master of Fighting types. You have come, and now we must begin the challenge." Bruno explained.

"Wh…wait!" Tony said, flailing his hands, and Bruno sighed, "What?"

"Isn't Onix a rock type?" Tony asked, pointing at the large pokemon. Bruno gave a low groan and rubbed his Temples. "Not another one of these skeptical types…"

"Okay okay, sorry…" Tony sighed.

"Fight!" Bruno Roared, as his Onix roared with him.

Tony, who had taken the time to revive and heal his pokemon before the match, released his Blastoise. The Onix, who had been roaring to this point, suddenly became silent, and glanced at Bruno, who was once again rubbing his temples, "I know, I Know, another of Oaks stupid elemental ass kickers…"

Blastoise, who's ear twitched at the sound of Bruno calling it stupid gave an angry roar and fired a Hydro pump at the Onix, sending it crashing to the ground, the Water crumbling the rock away. It was knocked out and Bruno merely sighed, "that's the second time in a row." He grumbled, and Tony smiled, thinking about how Venusuar must've easily defeated the Onix too.

Bruno released his second pokemon, a Hitmonchan, who leapt up and down, throwing practice punches. Before Blastoise could do as much as even aim a cannon, the Hitmonchan had dashed forwards, placing a lighting quick punch into the Turtles Stomach. Yet it didn't stop there. Another punch was placed. Then another. And another. Until the Hitmonchan was actually underneath, rapidly punching the Turtles stomach. With a final blazing uppercut, the Hitmonchan sent the Shellfish pokemon crashing to the ground, utterly defeated.

Growling, Tony sent out his Pidgeot who cawed and flew in the air, away from the punching pokemon.

"Oh what the…! You must be…! What the hell kid, did you come with an arsenal of super effective pokemon to fight me? I mean come on!" Bruno raged, but Pidgeot flew in close, nailing the Hitmonchan with a wing attack. The Punching pokemon reeled back, almost defeated, but picked up a rock and threw it at the bird, striking it in its belly. The Pidgeot cawed loudly, but stayed in the air long enough to knock out the Hitmonchan with another wing attack.

Bruno swore and released another pokemon, this time it was Hitmonlee. The kicking pokemon had no time to do anything, as the Pidgeot crashed down on the fighting Type, knocking it out in one hit.

Unfortunately the birds winning streak didn't last, as Bruno next pokemon, another Onix knocked the bird out in one hit as well.

Tony released his Gyarados, at which Bruno swore again. One Hydro pump later, and Gyarados was left facing an extremely angry looking Machamp.

The Gyarados floated in the air and rushed downwards, launching an ice beam as it went. The Machamp, which stepped back and blocked the Ice Beam with one of its hands, quickly grabbing the Gyarados, who had gotten too close to the Machamp, with its three remaining hands. Rearing back its frozen fist, the Machamp smashed the Icy fist into the gyarados's head, shattering the Ice. The gyarados stopped squirming and suddenly grew angry. It wrapped its tail around the Machamps leg and wrenched it out, swinging the Machamp around, hitting rocks and the walls as it went. With one almighty lurch, the dragon sent the Machamp soaring into the wall, where it fell and lay still. The Gyarados remained, thrashing round to release its rage.

"Can you tell it to stop? It's ruining my battlefield!" Bruno yelled over the commotion of the Dragons rage.

Tony barely ducked and avoided the rock; "You wanna try talking to him right now?"

Bruno glanced at the dragon and gulped. After a few minutes the Dragon calmed down and fell asleep on the ground.

Bruno gave Tony a pat on the back and sent him along on his way, through the next doors.

Tony, after healing his pokemon, Strode through the automatic doors into the next room.

The room was very misty and foggy, and Tony walked blindly into the room, arms outstretched. Suddenly, a voice spoke from ahead, and Tony stopped dead.

"Boy, you look like you wandered in here by accident. Are you really my next challenger?"

"I…what? No, I mean, Yes, I'm next!" Tony yelled ahead of him, and the fog in front of him suddenly lifted, leaving a path leading to a old lady wearing a dress with an apron and supporting herself with a cane.

"Hmm…I suppose your one of Oaks pupils again…" She asked warily, and Tony nodded, "That's right!"

"Hmm…Oak was such a handsome young man when I knew him…ooh the stories I could tell you." The old lady started and Tony shook his head in disgust.

"Listen, old lady, please don't, I just want to fight!"

"Old lady? Old Lady!!" The lady growled, "I am Agatha! The third member of the elite four, and you must be punished for such disrespect!" Agatha threw her pokeball out, and a Gengar came free, facing Tony's Persian, whose fur was bristling.

"Ok Persian! Lets get lucky! Metronome!" Tony called and his Persians gem glowed briefly. The Persian opened her mouth and suddenly all the mist and fog began to coagulate towards Persians mouth. The mist and fog formed a tight ball of energy, which Persian launched towards the Gengar. The Ball struck the Gengar head on, exploding in a array of fog that settled down near Tony. The Gengar was unconscious on the ground, the blow being too much for it. (1)

"Persian what was that?" Tony asked, and Persian mewed.

"It was a psychic attack. But you got lucky, and you can't wing an elite four match completely on Luck!" Agatha growled as her Golbat burst from its pokeball.

"Oh yeah?" Tony bet, and Persians gem flashed again. Persian opened its mouth again, and a horrible meow came out, ringing and echoing in the small battlefield, Golbat flinched as though struck and Tony covered his ears. (2) The Golbat was still flapping strong and it gave a wave of its wings, and the mist parted as wind struck into Persian, weakening it.

"Metronome again!" Tony yelled, and for the third time, Persians gem flashed. This time Persian leapt at the Golbat and grabbed it, dragging it to the ground, where it furiously clawed Golbat in an attempt to stretch and damage the Golbat. (3) The Golbat flapped into the air again, but it looked wounded. It gave another flap of its wings and the Air Cutter struck the Persian again. Persian looked very weak.

"Okay Persian, make this one count, you're pretty beat up!" Tony encouraged, and Persians Gem flashed yet again. This time a mental burst was launched at the Golbat, hitting it and easily knocking it out. (4)

"Pssh…another psychic attack. Your luck can't last boy." Agatha taunted, as she released an Arbok.

"We'll see about that! Metronome again! Lets go!" Tony called confidently, and Persians gem did another flash. Evidently, Tony's luck couldn't last, because the Dragon Dance Persian preformed did nothing to prevent the Arbok's bite from knocking it out.

"Go Blastoise!" Tony called and Agatha nodded, "I see, there's one of Oaks starters…lets see how well you trained it."

Arbok gave a shrill screech, and Tony covered his ears as his Blastoise winced uncontrollably, letting its defenses down. The Mega Punch Blastoise did luckily landed a critical hit and the Arbok was sent into the wall, unconscious. The Haunter Agatha sent out next managed to nail Blastoise directly with a curse. Blastoise Blasted the Haunter with a Hydro pump, and thanks to the energy it used on Curse, was also knocked unconscious.

Agatha's last pokemon, another Gengar was tougher then any of her other pokemon. It immediately defeated Blastoise by launching Shadow Balls at it, draining its life along with the Curse, knocking Blastoise out before it had a chance to attack back.

"Go Gyarados!" Tony called, bringing confidence with his strongest pokemon. But the Gengar turned invisible through the Ice Beam and clapped its hands once, sending Gyarados into a slumber. Then, as it drained Gyarados's life with a Nightmare, it finished the dragon off with another Shadow Ball.

The room itself was filled with Fog up to Tony's Waste now, from the explosions of the Shadow Balls. "Ok, I'm counting on your Pidgeot!" Tony called, and his Pidgeot wheeled into the air, circling above the fog where the Gengar was hiding.

Suddenly from behind Pidgeot a Shadow Ball burst from the fog, zooming straight towards Pidgeot.

"No!" Tony called, but he blinked as he saw the Shadow Ball pass through Pidgeot. Looking embarrassed he straightened up and muttered to himself, "Oh yeah, Ghost attacks don't hit normal types.

Thanks to Pidgeots remarkable vision, it was able to spot the Gengar in the Fog. With a fierce cry and a thrilling dive, Pidgeot plummeted into the shade. Tony couldn't see what was happening, but saw the Gengar get launched up into his vision before falling back into the fog. Tony spotted Agatha looking apprehensive as they both tried to see what was going on. Tony heard a harsh caw, then a ghostly laugh, followed by a splurging sound, a thunk, and a thud.

The Fog dispersed, and Tony realized what happened. Pidgeot was standing on the ground next to a unconscious Gengar. Feathers and green goop were scattered around them, and Pidgeot was covered in green sludge, obviously poisoned. Nevertheless, Gengar was still defeated, and Tony left with his pokemon, through the final doors.

After healing his pokemon again, Tony was horrified to find he only had a few items left. Thinking about how he should've bought more items, he didn't notice when he was facing large doors.

"This is it, the Final Battle…" Tony thought, as he stepped through the doors. The room was large, silver and long. Bigger then any of the other battlegrounds, Tony wondered what kind of pokemon the last Member used. As Tony walked down the large path he absentmindedly realized the room around him was scorched and smoky, as though a battle just took place. Walking up to where a man in black and red stood, Tony stood in front of him. He had bright red hair and was also wearing a black and red cape.

"Welcome Trainer…You had done good to reach this far, yet im surprised another young person did so." The man said, his arms crossed, examining Tony.

"Um…wait, did you lose your last battle." Tony asked, and Lance nodded, "That trainer was something else…I didn't have enough power to beat him…wait…don't tell me your another one of Professor Oaks…"

"'Fraid so, So, we gonna fight or what." Tony responded, already holding out his Pokeball.

"Heh, Rash, just like the last kid, Okay show me how you stand up to my mystic Powers! Let Lance the Dragon master give you defeat!" Lance yelled, hurling a pokeball out. Tony's following right after.

Johnny stepped into the large room, ready to be presented with championship when he stopped. A familiar trainer stood in the center of the room, smirking, but also looking surprised. "So…it IS you…I would've thought…never mind."

"Gary?" Johnny asked, "What…I'm confused."

"Well that's no surprise. I'm The Champion, obviously. So…you ready to fight?" Gary asked, grabbing his pokeball.

"What!! No one said anything about a battle with the Champion!" Johnny argued, but Gary wiggled his finger, "Too bad Superfly, you gotta get through me to be the best."

"Oh…so that's how it's going down, fine lets battle, it would be fun to kick your ass again Gary!" Johnny growled, pulling his own pokeball out.

Gary's Pidgeot emerged from its pokeball, followed by Johnny's Electrode. Smirking the Electrode begin to spin in place, as the Pidgeot wheeled overhead.

"Show them our ultimate technique!" Johnny boasted, and Electrodes spinning became more furious, sending dust everywhere, sparks flaying behind the Electrode.

"Ha!" Gary laughed, "Pidgeot Aerial Ace." The Pidgeot nodded, and wheeled around. It suddenly disappeared and crashed into the Electrode. Unfortunately the Electrode was spinning so fast it merely glanced off, sending the Electrode spinning in place, only now in every direction. Electrode amazing kept itself from moving, and an electric aura appeared around it, drawing in bits of metal like a magnet and making it look like a spinning ball of electricity.

"Now! Reverse electrical flow and Thunder!" Johnny called, and the small aura around Electrode flickered, before it reappeared, only the bits of metal shot away from it. A surge of electricity was forming above it, and Pidgeot wheeled away from being above Electrode. Johnny only smirked. Suddenly in a massive boom that sent Johnny and Gary's clothes flapping, the thunder streaked towards Electrode. However, whether it was the reflective spinning of Electrode or the reversed electric force (probably both) the Thunder hit the electrode and went flying off in every direction. Johnny's hair stood at end as electricity surged around him, rebounding around the room. Gary dropped to the ground with his hands overhead. The Pidgeot could not dodge the electricity and was hit by several bolts and fell to the ground, defeated.

The Electricity was gone, but a crackle of energy could still be seen occasionally. Gary stood flabbergasted facing Johnny, silently recalling his Pidgeot.

"That…that was something else." Gary gasped, sending out his next pokemon, an Alakazam. The mind pokemon spotted the still spinning Electrode (although at a much slower pace) and prepared a psychic. But, even the Alakazam's amazing speed wasn't fast enough to beat the Electrode, and it shot towards Alakazam, flashing dangerously. Gary tried to call out a warning, but Alakazam was caught in the dead center of the explosion, which launched it around the room like a ping-pong ball before it landed on the ground, as unconscious as Electrode.

"Damnit!" Gary cursed, sending out his Rhydon, which roared and stomped on the ground.

At the same time Johnny's Closter came forth, having evolved it a while ago with a stone he had kept. The Rhydon roared again and charged the Clam down Smashing into it with immense force. The Take Down didn't do very much damage to the Cloysters amazing defense, and it responded by charging a glowing blue beam and launching it into the Rhydons stomach. The Ice Beam hit dead on, but the Rhydon kept its hold on the Cloyster, Launching it across the room with it strength. The Cloyster Crashed into the opposite wall, and charged another Ice Beam, which lanced towards Rhydon, but missed. Rhydon stamped its foot into the ground, the Earthquake hitting the Cloyster with a critical, knocking it out.

Looking angry and surprised, Johnny sent out his next pokemon, his Snorlax. His Snorlax belched up a torrent of Water, which created a wave and shot towards Rhydon, knocking it out. Leaving them in ankle deep water, Snorlax fell with a splash, scratching its stomach lazily. Gary sent out his next pokemon, a Gyarados. The Gyarados Unfurled in the air, and Let loose a Hydro Pump, the water attack hit the Snorlax, and raised the water level of the room. The Snorlax stood up angrily and gave a sleepy roar as it charged a beam light liquid light. But the Gyarados moved from where Snorlax was aiming at the last second, causing Snorlax to lesson the power of his Beam, blasting into the opposite wall.

The Gyarados whipped towards the Snorlax, Biting it hard, when the Snorlax flinched, the gyarados bite down again. To Johnny's anger, Snorlax flinched again, and the Gyarados thrashed against the Snorlax, knocking it out.

Swearing loudly, Johnny sent his next pokemon out, his Parasect. The bug leapt out of the water and skittered up the wall. Gyarados launched at the smaller bug, attempting to swallow it whole, but it jumped up and landed on Gyarados, leaving Spores everywhere. With the spores taking effect, the Serpent fell into the water, asleep. It took only a few more minutes of Parasect furiously slashing and draining energy before the Gyarados lost consciousness in its sleep.

Gary released his Arcanine, and in one swift Blast of Flamethrower, Parasect was knocked out.

Johnny sent his Gengar out, who cackled at seeing his foe. Smirking, Johnny watched as the Extremespeed flew right through Gengar. Gengar leapt up and launched a shadow ball in midair. Arcanine didn't move, seeing as the ball was off course, hitting in front of the dog, bathing it in fog. Arcanine attempted to see through the fog, but a shadowy fist suddenly struck in Arcanine blind spot, knocking it sideways. Running away from the foggy patch where Gengar was hiding, Arcanine spun and fired a flamethrower directly into the fog. The fog vanished, and a smoking Gengar, stood glaring at the Dog.

Gengar clapped its hands, and Arcanine looked drowsy, but shrugged it off. Another Flamethrower left the Gengar wounded, and it retaliated by fire Shadow Ball after Shadow Ball into the Arcanine. Using a Extremespeed, Arcanine rocketed through Gengar, skidding behind it and knocking it out with another Flamethrower.

Johnny released his last pokemon, his Venusaur, and Gary laughed.

"That's all you have? Ha, this will be easy!" Gary laughed, as fire brewed in Arcanines mouth. The Fire spread towards Venusaur, but the Venusaur hefted its large body sideways. The Fire hit the ground harmlessly, and the Arcanine, already wounded, wasn't able to dodge the Venusaurs heavy body slam, smashing the dog into unconsciousness.

Gary Looked dumbfounded, and he sent out his last pokemon as well, his Jolteon. As Johnny's Venusaur used Sunny day, Jolteon responded with a Charge, and as the Venusaur launched a Solar Beam, the Jolteon sent a charged Thunder. The two blasts hit each other and there was nothing but white.

Tony's Persian landed as Lances Gyarados floated idly by. Persian's gem glowed again as it went for the risky move, which lance noticed and scoffed at, "You must think your really lucky to be able to pull off a finishing move with a Metronome."

Tony said nothing and his Persian gave a loud meow. Vines rose around the cat, clamping into the ground and a few roots stuck onto Persian. (5) The Gyarados looked unfazed and sent a purplish blaze of flames into the Persian, bathing it in the fire, which did a lot less damage then it looked like it would've done. The Persian shook of the attack, and the roots attached to it pulsed with energy, which flowed into the Persian.

The cat jumped back and its gem flashed again, suddenly a black portal opened up beneath the Gyarados. The black energy rose in tendrils, wrapping around the struggling Gyarados, and left nothing but a mass of black energy where the dragon was. Suddenly the black energy left and a sleeping Gyarados was left. (6)

Lance swore as Tony smirked, watching energy flow from the roots into his Persian again, "Is that luck enough for you Lance?"

The Gem flashed again as the Persian faced the sleeping Gyarados. A burst of energy flew from the gem, a thunderbolt, flamethrower and ice beam, all striking the Gyarados head on, leaving it wounded and still sleeping. (7) The Gem flashed for what Tony hoped would be a finished attack and the Persian leapt up, its gem still glowing and smashed headfirst into the Gyarados with a burst of energy and light. (8) The Gyarados skidded across the ground and lay defeated, and Lance looked Furious. He responded by sending out his next pokemon.

The Dragonair floated serenely across the field, eyeing the Persian. The cat Leapt up and left a large slash across the Dragon, which floated higher up. With a brilliant burst of energy, the Hyper Beam struck into the Persian, knocking it out and leaving huge gouges and smoking indents in the ground. Tony sent out his own Gyarados, who defeated the Dragonair with one swift Ice Beam.

Lances second Dragonair, which was defeated the same way, managed to use safeguard to protect further teammates. Lance, who sent out an Aerodactyl, the large stone bird looking very fierce, was looking very angry that Tony's Ice attacks struck his Dragons down quite easily. Another Ice Beam damaged the Aerodactyl heavily, but it pulled off a Hyper Beam as well, leaving Gyarados in critical health. Another Ice beam took Aerodactyl out and to Tony's good luck; it took one more Ice Beam to finish off Lances double weak to Ice Dragonite.

"That was just like the last guy, his Cloyster defeated my dragons easily too." Lance said, almost pouting, "I wonder if he beat the Champion." Lance muttered.

Tony, who was walking towards the final set of doors, perked up.

"So…there's another battle they didn't tell anyone about…I wonder if Johnny won…" Tony thought, healing his pokemon, and walking into an elevator.

The Elevator revealed a small hallway, which Tony stepped into. Suddenly the doors opened and Tony spotted Gary standing in the room.

"Gary?" Tony called as he rushed forwards into the room, which was filled slightly with water.

Gary, who spun at the sound of Tony, smirked slightly, but it faltered and he was frowning. "Eh? Tony."

"Does this mean I have to fight you? You're the Champion right!" Tony exclaimed and Gary looked sullen, "oh, me? I was the champion…but the current one is getting his pokemon into the hall of fa…oh, there he is." Gary explained, as the doors behind him opened, revealing the arrogant form of Johnny.

"Tony!" Johnny shouted, "What are you doing here? Wait…don't tell me." He asked grinning, as Tony nodded, "Lloyd talked me into it, you ready for this?" Tony asked, and Johnny agreed, "I've been ready."

Johnny stood opposite of Tony, and sent his Electrode out, while at the same time, Tony responded with his Muk. Muk, who wasn't needed the entire fight was very eager to attack, and slid forwards towards Electrode, which zoomed out of the way. A thunderbolt struck the Muk, but it shook it off and launched a splurge of goop at electrode, bathing it in slime. The Toxic took effect, and the Electrode slid towards the Muk, sparking along the way. The Muk lifted its own body up, and the Electrode rolled right under the Muk, who turned and launched gunk at the ball like a machine gun, splattering the walls and the electrode alike. The Ball tried to turn, but slid on some slime and into the wall where it rebounded rolling wildly. The Muk, with a loud splurt, shot some of its body slime in all directions, as it shrunk smaller. The electrode regained its momentum and rolled towards the Muk, flashing brightly. The Explosion scarred the walls and knocked the ball out, but the Muk remained safe, having shrunk itself down to avoid the blast.

Laughing despite of himself, Johnny retaliated with his Snorlax, which Took one look at all the muck laying around and sent out a surf, which hit the Muk and knocked it out, the room even more filled up with water, with poisonous goop floating among it. Tony sent his Persian out to fight the giant sleeping beast and knew he had one chance for Persian to defeat Snorlax.

"Okay…come on, Metronome!" Tony shouted and Johnny watched on as the Gem flashed like it had so many other times, The Persian vanish and leapt at the Snorlax from behind, where it had appeared, landing on its back and slashing with its claws. Tony's smile faded as he released it used Faint attack, which it already had. The Snorlax tried to reach behind and grab the Persian, but its stubby arms flailed uselessly. Persians Gem glowed again and the Persian leapt up, and glowing energy flew from the gem, hitting the Snorlax. (9) The attack wasn't enough, and the Snorlax looked unwounded. It fell with a splash and smash as Persian skillfully leapt sideways, landing with its gem glowing again. This time, with what seemed like great effort, the Persian hit the ground with its paw, and a chunk of the ceiling fell, the Persian leapt up and spun, smashing the chunk with its tail, sending it spiraling towards Snorlax who took it directly into the stomach. The Persian landed and looked winded, panting. (10) The Snorlax, who had fallen down, stood back up and waddled over to the Persian, who was too tired to dodge the Body slam. The Snorlax rolled off the cat, which was critically wounded, but still fighting.

The Gem glowed again, and Johnny rolled his eyes, "Don't you think that's getting boring Tony?"

"Not a chance Johnny, this baby got me out of a lot of tight situations." Tony yelled back and his Persian suddenly fell to the ground, apparently crying. The Snorlax watched carefully, and looked sad all of a sudden. With a victorious hiss, Persian sprung up, eyes free of tears and gave a meow that sounded vaguely like a laugh. (11)

The Snorlax roared and tried to body slam again, but the Cat was too fast dodging out of the way, its gem already glowing. The Cat barreled forwards, and leapt up over the Snorlax, it landed on the ground and as the Snorlax turned, the Cat thrust feet first into the belly of the Snorlax. (12) The Snorlax, with a great roar, fell to the ground, unconscious.

Johnny laughed and sent out his Venusaur, which used its own Body slam to knock out the Persian. Tony picked up his last pokemon and sent it out.

An Arbok came free, hissing and Johnny looked surprised, "When did you get an Arbok?" He asked, and Tony laughed, "Remember in the cave when I got lost and stumbled into an Arbok pit? Well this guy was the alpha or something. It was more powerful then the rest, so I snagged him."

"Ah…" Johnny said as he watched his Venusaur get attack from the Arbok's vicious Fangs. The Arbok was circling the plant menacingly, occasionally biting out for a damaging hit. The Arbok leapt up and clamped onto the Venusaur again, right as a Solar Beam it had been charging up blasted the Arbok off and into the all across, knocking it out. The Venusaur still looked slightly wounded, and it took one wing attack from Tony's Pidgeot to knock it out. In return, it took one Ice Beam from Cloyster to knock out Pidgeot. Tony sent his Gyarados out, which clashed with the Cloyster, but it took only two thunderbolts to knock the Cloyster out.

But, just like in the fight verses Gary' Gyarados, Johnny's Parasect sent it slumbering and knocked it out. Tony's Blastoise left the Parasect unconscious with a critical Mega Punch, and it was down to Tony's Blastoise and Johnny's Gengar.

With an immediate action, Tony's Blastoise sent its Hydro Cannon full force at the Gengar, hitting it and sending it across the room, already wounded. The Gengar responded by firing a Shadow Ball and then landing a Shadow Punch, which left the Blastoise wounded as well. Both damaged pokemon squared off against each other, and when Gengar tried to Shadow Ball, Blastoises Shell deflected it. Finally Blastoise tried another Hydro Cannon, sending it to its Straining point. The Water Blast skimmed the Gengar, leaving it heavily wounded on the ground. As the Blastoise slumped from exhaustion, the Gengar lay on the ground, trying to get up.

Suddenly the Gengar gave a clap, and Blastoise, already tired, fell asleep. Tony watched in Horror as the Gengar phased out and back in next to Blastoise and began its dream eater technique, its eyes flashing. It only took one Dream Eater to knock the Blastoise out. And the Gengar stood with a bit more energy. Sure enough when Tony checked the Gengar's HP with his Pokedex it said he was a little over 1/10 its max health.

Nevertheless, Johnny had won, and kept his championship. Still he strode over to Tony and grasped his hand again, shaking it vigorously.

"Excellent match Tony, but im just too good I guess." Johnny boasted and Tony punched him in the shoulder. The Doors suddenly opened behind them and Lloyd, Oak and Gary walked in.

"So, Tony! Congratulations on becoming champion!" Oak laughed, but Tony shook his head, pointing towards Johnny.

"Oh? Uh…Really? Well then Johnny, Excellent job, allow me to take you to where we can register your pokemon into the Hall of Fame." Oak said, but Johnny shook his head as well.

"I already did, Gary showed me how." Johnny explained, and Oak looked crestfallen.

"Oh…but…well…I expect the press has already been alerted there's a new champion, so you should go meet them! Oh, and don't expect it to be all glamour and fun, Being Champion means a lot of Paperwork, and you'll have to approve of any major decisions for Kanto of course, plus all the battling to keep your title." Oak clarified, spotting the happy look at hearing about the press on Johnny's face.

Then, almost as a side note, Oak turned to Tony and spoke to him, "Oh and Tony, im bound by indigo Plateau to offer you the chance to replace one of the Elite Four." Oak said almost sadly, but Tony shook his head, "Sorry Oak, but I'd rather stay a researcher, and learn more about pokemon, you know."

"Sorry! Don't be my boy; I would've been mad if you agreed. I don't want to lose my best Researcher, besides you Gary." Oak said, seeing the angry look on Gary's face.

Johnny pulled Lloyd and Tony away from Oak, who was now arguing with Gary, and looked at them.

"Listen guys, we may not see each other for a while, with all the stuff I gotta do, but the minute I get a chance, im gonna re-meet with you guys and we'll catch up. I'll probably have my own mansion or something by then, so it will work out.

Tony nodded as Lloyd, Oak, Gary and Johnny left the room, thinking to himself.

"Somehow…I doubt this will be my last adventure." Tony thought to himself, before he also left the room.

END OF FIRE RED/LEAF GREEN SAGA
ALL THE METRONOMES IN THE GAME WERE REAL. I USED MY SNORLAX (DUBBED FAT-ASS) TO PREFORM METRONOME.

(1). Mist Ball
(2). Uproar
(3). Wring Out
(4). Confusion
(5). Ingrain
(6). Dark Void
(7). Tri-Attack
(8). Zen Headbutt
(9). Swift
(10). Rock Wrecker
(11). Fake Tears
(12). Rolling Kick