Chapter 2: The Eggsiting Tournament
The group followed Professor Smith out to the backyard. They passed through a huge hallway and many different doors. The backyard is a large area with gardens surrounding the area, in the middle is a huge dirt battlefield with white paint outlining the field and an area for the trainers to command their Pokemon. At the end of the field is a large LCD screen hoisted in the air by two poles. "Okay, I have thrown together a bracket that we will follow the battle by. Now, if you look at the screen up their it will show the bracket and whose going to battle who." Everyone shifted their focus to the screen and all of their faces appeared on to the screen. "Alrighty then, battle one will be between Marie and Jaymie! Battle two is between Garrett and Joss. Battle three is between Kristal and Bruce. Battle four will be between Hope and Titan. Now on the other side battle five is against Sri and Kayla. Battle six will be Penny and Helena. Battle seven is against Gerald and Austin. And the last battle is Roland and Rosa! Oh and by random order Andrew and Sharon will sit out of this battle." the professor announced to the group. Everyone scanned each other trying to find their opponent and remember what type of Pokemon they have. "Okay let's have the first battle started! Marie and Jaymie please take your places on the field.
Marie walked toward her side of the field and Jaymie to the other.
"Alright are you ready Jaymie?" Marie asked.
"Of course! I'm gonna win that egg!" Jaymie answered.
A man walked to the center edge with two flags and announced the rules of the battle.
"Are you ready?" he pointed to Marie. Marie nodded.
"Are you ready?" he pointed to Jaymie.
"Let's go!" she answered
"Begin!" he said
"Let's go Totodile!" Jaymie yelled throwing her Pokeball into the air releasing the blue alligator.
"C'mon Snivy!" Marie said letting out her Pokemon.
Snivy and Totodile stared each other down waiting for commands.
"Totodile use Rage!" Jaymie commanded as Totodile began to glow red. After the shade of red finally set it launched itself at Snivy, biting down inflicting damage.
"Get it off! Use Vine Whip!" Marie called out. Snivy who was in a lot of pain began lashing at Totodile with vines coming out of it's neck. The attack sent Totodile flying back, skidding a little on the way. Totodile, who was obviously injured due to type disadvantage.
"Totodile use Water Gun!"
"Water Gun's not going to hurt Snivy"
"I wasn't looking for it to. Tackle!"
Totodile released a spray of water through its mouth soaking Snivy, but all of a sudden a flying Totodile came busting through the water, slamming into Snivy, sending it crashing into Marie.
"Snivy is unable to battle. Totodile wins the match!" The announcer says raising his hand toward Jaymie. The next battle was between Garrett and Joss. During the battle Garrett sent out his Cyndaquil and Joss sent out Treeko. Cyndaquil started off by using Ember and shooting sparks out at Treecko. Only a few of the sparks hit Treecko, and it jumped into the air and came down using Pound on Cyndaquil hitting it directly in the head. Treecko went back to hit Cyndaquil again but was blasted point blank with another Ember attack. The attack hit Treecko dead on and knocked him out.
The next battle took place between Kristal's Charmander and Bruce's Chikorita. The battle began with missed Vine Whip that Charmander jumped over and countered it with a Tackle attack. The hit landed directly on Chikorita and sent it skidding backwards. Chikorita recovered from the attack and followed up with it's own Tackle attack which hit Charmander in the chest, but while Chikorita was plowing into Charmander, it released a small Ember attack directly to Chikorita. The Ember attack left Chikorita dazed and in pain, and was followed by a direct Tackle attack, finishing off Chikorita in that final blow leaving Kristal and Charmander the victor of that battle.
Titan couldn't help but feel nervous because he was battling for the first time and Hope's Tepig looked pretty strong. But of course his Chimchar was going to defeat Tepig and win him that egg. Titan proceeded to take his place at the other end of the field opposite of Hope. Titan picked Chimchar off of his shoulder and held it in his hand looking in it's eye.
"Okay, Chimchar this is our first fight and no matter the outcome I will still be proud of you. Now go out there and do your best job I know we will win!" Titan finished his pep talk and placed Chimchar on the ground. Chimchar looked back up at him and let out a battle cry of sheer determination. At that point, Titan realized that he had a good partner who was going to help him become the best trainer and get them to that National Tournament.
"Are you ready Titan?"
"Ready!" he responded to the referee.
After the referee announced the start of the battle, a flood of ideas on how to begin entered his mind, and he couldn't decide how to start, but before he could announce what to do Chimchar had already taken a direct Tackle right to the chest.
"Chimchar get up! Use Scratch!"
Chimchar regained conciseness and lunged at Tepig and hit it directly in the head with claws flarred. Tepig streaked back in pain which opened up another opportunity for another strike. Chimchar made another lunge at Tepig hitting it again. Tepig was in pain and close to out. Chimchar jumped into the air and let out a flash of Ember hitting Tepig directly, knocking it out instantly.
"Yeah! Chimchar we did it!" Titan exclaimed as the announcer declared his victory. Titan went back to his original spot next to his friends to watch the remaining battles until he got to Kristal in the next round.
Sri's Torchic and Kayla's Bulbasaur kicked off the next battle in the tournament. Sri won the battle with ease by utilizing his type advantage and constant use of Ember and dodging, Bulbasaur didn't even get a chance to attack before it was knocked out. Two of Titan's good friends squared off in the next match Penny and her Froakie fought Helena and her Turtwig. Froakie started it off by using a tackle attack which managed to connect and caught Turtwig off guard. However, the type matchup proved too much for Penny and Froakie and allowed Helena and Turtwig to take that match.
Austin and his Oshawott took on Gerald and his Mudkip in the next battle. This battle was a water on water type battle which would make it hard for both. Oshawott used Tackle at the same time that Mudkip used Tackle both the Pokemon held the attack for a bit until surprisingly Mudkip fell over knocked out. The battle ended so quickly and unexpectedly that nobody understood why Mudkip got knocked out so easy. Was Gerald's Mudkip just that week that it can't stand in a battle? Nobody knew what had happened.
Roland and Rosa were the final battle's of the round. The battle was Piplup between Squirtle, it was a long and drawn out battle between the two water types which ended eventually with Piplup beating Squirtle using its Bubble attack.
The group of kids all made their way back to the center of the battlefield to see what would happen next. The professor met them in the middle with a big smile on his face. "Man, that was great! I haven't seen Pokemon battles nearly that good in a long long time! Now, its time to move on to the next round guys! Battle one will be Jaymie vs Garrett! Battle two is Krystal vs Titan! Battle three is Sri vs Helena! And finally battle four will be Austin vs Roland! Is everybody ready for the next round?" The winners cheered while the losers just wanted to leave already. "Well what are we standing around for? Lets get these battles rolling With Jaymie and Garrett!
Jaymie took her place at one end of the field while Garrett took his place at the other end. It was a Johto matchup between Totodile and Cyndaquil. Cyndaquil began the battle with Smokescreen and effectively caught Totodile off guard and left it dazed. Totodile retaliated by firing off multiple water guns, all of them missing due to not being able to see a thing. Cyndaquil launched Tackle right into the cloud and smashed into Totodile with sheer force. Totodile was sent flying backwards into a bush just outside the field. The small blue crocodile came dashing out of the bush, clearly in pain. Totodile begins glowing red smashes into Cyndaquil, repeatedly biting and slashing until Cyndaquil finally passed out. Totodile managed to be Cyndaquil without hitting it with a single Water type move.
Now it was Titan's turn to take on Krystal and her Charmander. Titan took his place at the end of the field and pulled Chimchar off his shoulder. "Chimchar, we won the last battle and I know we can win this one too! Go out there and give it your best and that egg will be ours in no time!" Chimchar gave his trainer a look of utter passion! This Pokemon seems like it will do whatever it can to make it's trainer happy. Titan got a good Pokemon that's for sure!
Titan gave the nod that he was ready for the battle and sent Chimchar into battle.
"Chimcar use Scratch!" Titan commanded as the small monkey lunged forward. Chimchar dashed into the air and came crashing down in a fury of painful scratches.
"Charmander! Use Growl!" Charmander let out a cry that stopped Chimchar in its tracks.
"What the?" Titan exclaimed.
"Ah! Growl it's a move that lowers the other Pokemon's attack power!" The Professor explained.
"Fine then! Chimchar use Taunt." Chimcher placed both it's hands on it's head, then stuck it's tongue out and made a raspberry noice. Charmander got extremely angry and let out a series of Ember attacks. Not a single one of those attacks hit Chimchar because it dodged them all. Charmander was outraged it was letting lose attack after attack. The moment Chimchar was waiting for came when Charmander had worn itself out trying to attack. Chimchar made the move and hit with a powerful scratch attack that put Charmander to sleep.
"Chimchar we did it!" Titan yelled, "We're going to the Semifinals!" Titan got on one knee with his arms spread out wide, embracing Chimchar in a tight hug when it got to him.
Sri easily took down Helena, once again utilizing his strength over Grass types by using his Torchic against her Turtwig. Austin's Oshawott came out on top over Roland and his Piplup by using a lot of clever combinations with his Oshawott's scalchop.
The next two battles were the Semifinals, with battle one being Titan vs Krystal, and then Sri vs Austin. In the first battle Titan had Chimchar keep it's distance by using Chimchar's speed. Chimchar used Leer a lot to lower Totodile's defense allowing for more powerful attacks. Totodile wasn't able to get a hit in because Chimchar was just too fast for him. Chimchar finally managed to get the win over Totodile with a well place Scratch to the back of Totodile's head.
Sri took on Austin and his Oshawott, meaning for the first time Sri was at a disadvantage. However that didn't stop Sri from putting the smack down on Austin and his Oshawott.
The time had come Titan was in the Championship and he wasn't going to let anyone get in his way of victory. "Okay Chimchar, we made it this far and I couldn't be happier in you and your fighting spirit! There is no way we are going to let Sri and Torchic defeat us! We are going to win this tournament and get that egg!"
Titan stood at one end of the field and stared down at Sri as he stared back.
"Are you ready?" The referee asked.
"Yes!" Titan exclaimed.
"Yeah, yeah let's just get this started." Sri said.
"Oh.. uh.. okay! Begin!"
"Chimchar use Scratch!" Titan yelled.
"Dodge and use Ember." Sri countered.
Chimchar lunged at Torchic but fell flat to the ground as the small chick jumped out of the way with ease. Chimchar looked around confused as to where the little bird went. All of a sudden a hot pain was in Chimchar's back which made it jump around to find Torchic using Ember on his back.
"Chimchar get out of there! Use Ember!" Titan shouted.
Chimchar jumped away and fired off multiple clouds of Ember, each one hitting it's mark. Torchic hesitated but continued it's onslaught of Ember as well. Each Pokemon kept firing off Ember after Ember trying to see who would fall first.
Titan was running out of ideas fast and he didn't know what to do next to stop the duo.
"Chimchar use Leer!"
Chimchar gave the most evil look ever and directed it straight at Torchic. Torchic then jumped back out of fear and ran backwards a little bit.
"No! What are you doing? Don't run! Attack!" Sri shouted.
Chimchar jumped high in the air and landed right on Torchic and pinned it to the ground. Chimchar unleased a mass amount of scratches and finally one more blast of Ember finished the battle.
"Yeah! Chimchar we did it! We won!" Titan yelled for all to hear. Titan met Chimchar in the middle of the field and held it by it's hands and spun it in a circle.
"Congratulations to Titan and his Chimchar for winning the tournament! That was a fantastic battle and it really brought me back to all those years ago where I too was a trainer and traveled across the world! And now I know what you really want! Here! Take this egg it is yours." The professor said as he handed over the egg to Titan. The egg was in a case with gold bindings on the top and bottom and the center was made of glass so that the egg could be seen.
"Yeah! We got the egg! Look Chimchar it's our new partner! I wonder what it is?"
Chimchar jumped up and down out of excitement and then picked up the egg and started sniffing it. Titan took the egg back from Chimchar and began to place it in his bag.