POKEMON AQUA
Episode 3: Battling Mahoganey
Aqua woke up in the comfy bed of his hotel room. He stretched and clumsily grabbed the remote and turned on the television.
He went about getting dressed and eating breakfast all while watching a Pokemon Contest on TV.
"THIS JUST IN!" came a news report while Aqua was brushing his teeth. "THE GYM LEADER, YUKURU, HAS RETURNED FROM SINNOH!"
"What?!" said Aqua, bounding out the door.
Aqua remembered the last words Augie had said to him. From now on you have a rival and an enemy!
What are the chances I'll ever see him again? Aqua asked himself.
Aqua reached the Gym after running for a rather long time. He almost crashed into Mahoganey as he ran into the building.
"Is your dad here yet?" asked Aqua.
"Yeah but his Pokemon were badly injured and he can't battle," answered Mahoganey. "He had a run in with some weirdoes named Team Blob or Team Blecch, I don't know."
Aqua disappointedly began to walk out of the Gym. Then he had an idea.
"Mahoganey," he said. "Will you battle me instead?"
"Yes but I can't just, you know, hand out a Gym Badge if you win."
Aqua turned around. "I know that, and I'll battle your father later, but for right now, it's just you and me."
"Alright then, go! Torgon!" Mahoganey threw a Pokeball and out came a dragon=like Pokemon with dragon heads for hands.
"Well, it's not Drator," said Aqua.
"TORGON, THE DRAGON FIST POKEMON AND THE EVOLVED FORM OF DRATOR. NO EXTRA INFO."
"Well, then my choice will be Corel!" said Aqua.
Corel blasted out of the Pokeball and landed on Torgon's head. Torgon attempted to hit Corel and missed as the little Pokemon bounced off.
"OK, Corel, quit playing games," said Aqua, giggling.
"I'll think that I'll start us out," said Mahoganey. "Torgon, start us out with Slash Attack!"
Torgon's claws extended and raked them against Corel's chest. Corel was knocked backwards.
"Corel get up!" said Aqua. Corel pushed itself upwards. "Corel, use Ice Ball!"
Corel began to grow out a ball of ice and shot it at Torgon. Torgon fell to the ground and Corel began to glow.
"Could it be?" asked Aqua.
Corel's form began to grow and the figure came into focus. The one ball of ice is now a bigger ball of ice with a smaller one that seemed to be crushed on to the top. That one held the face. The legs and arms had grown fingers and toes.
Aqua looked up the new form in the Pokedex.
"SHELDEEZE, THE ICE SHELL POKEMON, AND THE EVOLVED FORM OF COREL. CLICK FOR MORE DATA. SHELDEEZE FORGOT HOW TO USE TACKLE AND LEARNED TAKE DOWN."
"Take Down, huh? Okay, Cor—I mean Sheldeeze, let's use Take Down!"
Sheldeeze charged at Torgon at knocked it back. Sheldeeze winced and Aqua recognized it as recoil damage.
"Torgon, lash out with Ember!" Torgon shot burning coals at Sheldeeze. Its body began to smoke.
"Sheldeeze, use Icy Wind!" said Aqua as a cold blast was shot at Torgon. Torgon fainted.
"Ahh, man, how could you beat Torgon?"
"Wait a second…" said Aqua. "Where did you get that Torgon?"
"Oh, I got it as a Drator at Professor Maple's Lab."
"You got it where…?" asked Aqua.
"I got it—"
"YOU TOOK THE DRATOR THAT I SO DEARLY WANTED!?"
"I-I might've," replied Mahoganey.
"Send out your next Pokemon!" said Aqua. "So I can beat every last one of them!"
"All right then GO! Growlithe!"
The red dog Pokemon was sent out the Pokeball.
"Growlithe, use Fireball!" A ball of flames was shot at Sheldeeze and hit it directly in its core. Sheldeeze fainted. Aqua had not noticed till now that there was a core on Sheldeeze's chest. It must've been a center of power as well as a weak point.
Aqua returned Sheldeeze to its Pokeball and brought out his next Pokemon. It was Tapolt.
"I see you're going to use an Electric Type like Tapolt against my Fire Type. Looks like there are no type advantages," said Mahoganey.
"Well watch out, because this Electric Type knows Water Type moves!"
"Let's see if they can even hit!"
"Tapolt, use Water Gun!" Tapolt jumped into the air and shot down a pummel of water at Growlithe. It hit dirt. Where Growlithe was standing it no longer was. IT had escaped like a silver bullet!
"Now you know what I mean!" said Mahoganey. "I've been training Growlithe in speed so that it will be able to escape Type disadvantage and land Critical Hits on even the speediest of Pokemon! Growlithe, now use ExtremeSpeed!"
"Use your tail!" said Aqua.
Tapolt immediately knew what to do. It use its tail to bounce into the air right as Growlithe was about to hit it.
"Now use Pound!" Tapolt slammed a Pound attack onto Growlithe. It did more damage than it normally would thanks to the fact that Tapolt had done it from the air.
"It isn't over till it's over and Growlithe isn't over!" said Mahoganey. "Growlithe, take it down with Take Down!"
"Tapolt, dodge it!" It was too late. Growlithe had hit Tapolt with Take Down and knocked it out. Due to the earlier Pound Attack, the recoil damage on Growlithe was too much. The match ended in a draw. Both trainers only had one Pokemon left.
They sent them out at the same time. On Aqua's side was Cubby, and on Mahogany's side was… what was it? It looked like some kind of faced worm with a rattle. Aqua looked it up on Walter.
"WORMAKE, THE WORM SNAKE POKEMON. WORMAKE RATTLES ITS TAIL IN DIFFERENT WAYS TO TELL THE HEARD WHERE TO FIND FOOD. IT RARELY USES THE RATTLE TO WARN PREDATORS."
"Wormake, let this be quick," said Mahoganey. "Use String Shot!"
Wormake stood on its tail and shot out a web like substance. Cubby stayed stationary and the String Shot missed. Mahoganey looked dumbfounded.
"Cubby, use Tackle," said Aqua. Cubby ran over to Wormake and gave it a nudge. Wormake gave it a puzzled look.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!?" shouted Mahoganey. "JUST BECAUSE ONE OF MY ATTACKS MISSED DOESN'T MEAN MY WORMAKE IS WEAK!"
Sorry, man, just making a joke," said Aqua.
"Well, play time's over," said Mahogany. "Wormake, use Infestation!"
A flurry of bug like creatures flew out of Wormake and engulfed Cubby. They disappeared into the Pokemon.
"Infestation works just like Wrap or Poisoning," said Mahogany. "It will do damage every so often and will eventually faint your Pokemon.
Aqua saw what he meant when Cubby winced in pain. Aqua got a notification from his Pokedex. It said that Cubby had learned a new move. It was Fairy Wind.
Aqua wondered how Cubby could learn Fairy Wind. As if to answer his question, the Pokedex informed him that Cubby was a Magic Type and that Magic Types were able to use Fairy Type moves.
"Cubby, use Fairy Wind!" said Aqua. Cubby shot out a pink wave and it seemed to do massive damage to Wormake.
"No, Wormake, get up!" shouted Mahogany. Wormake managed to get up. "Wormake, wrap around Cubby!"
Wormake charged at Cubby and wrapped itself around the lion-like Pokemon.
"Wormake, use Poison Fang!" said Mahoganey. Wormake dug its fangs into Cubby. At that moment, the effects of Infestation kicked in. Cubby was taking damage from two different moves at the same time!
Aqua couldn't watch anymore. "Cubby, return!" And the Pokemon was absorbed by the red light.
Aqua came over to Mahogany and told him that it was a good game. Mahogany then pulled something out of his pack and offered it to Aqua. It was some kind of black stone.
"Here," said Mahogany. "Let your Cubby hold this in battle and you'll get a surprise."
Aqua stored away the stone. Something then caught his eye. Someone shot out of the bushes. The last thing Aqua remembered before he fell asleep was a Hypno waving its pendulum at him.
When he woke up, a girl, much older than him, said, "Morning, sunshine! Jigglypuff!" Then a Jigglypuff jumped up and hit him with a Wake-Up-Slap.
"Oww," he said. He tried to put his hand to his cheek and realized he was tied up. "Who are you?" he asked.
"Oh, I don't need to answer that," she said. "Besides, the real question is 'Who are we?'"
Aqua was confused, so he decided to—"Hey, where are my Pokeballs!?"
"What do you think?" she said. "We took them."
Aqua looked at his surroundings. He looked to be in some kind of laboratory. Then he saw that his Pokeballs were in a glass case, while Sheldeeze was in a cage. Mahogany had suffered the same fate as Aqua.
How will I ever get out of this? Aqua thought to himself.
To Be Continued…