Pokémon Chapter 4

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon, else the characters in the game wouldn't get friendzoned all the time -.-

Red was standing in front of Blue. Red's Pokémon was a Charizard and Blue had his Blastoise out. They had been standing silently, just staring at each other, for about six minutes. Finally, Blue began: "Blastoise, Hydro Pump."

"Charizard, dodge and use Air Slash. Fly after the attack and go in for a Thunder Punch," Red commanded and Charizard dodged the Hydro Pump in the last second, quickly using Air Slash and following the attack with a fist which was crackling with electricity.

"Blastoise, use Retreat and then use Surf." Blastoise went back into its shell and the attacks harmlessly bounced off of his shell before a wave of water was summoned which threatened to drown Charizard.

But instead of panicking, Red smirked: "Charizard, use Heat Wave to evaporate the water and then use Sunny Day."

The wave of water evaporated in front of everyone's eyes because of Red's Charizard's powerful Heat Wave and an artificial Sun shone in the middle of the event hall. Blue stopped for a second before saying: "I forfeit."

Not one of the staff knew why, with the exception of the champions. If a Surf could have been evaporated by a Heat Wave, Blue wasn't willing to find out what else could be countered although it was type disadvantageous. Next was Ethan's turn, but that one had been boring. Lance hadn't actually tried to beat Ethan at all and so Ethan had won with ease. Steven had actually given Brendan quite the challenge. But that was only the former's Metagross because Brendan's Pokémon made quick work of the rest. Lucas and Cynthia's battle was quite a spectacle though, considering that Cynthia had the grit of not losing and almost won, had it not been for Lucas' Lucario that quickly beat down a lot of Cynthia's Pokémon. Hilbert dealt with Alder in a unique way, fighting off most of the Pokémon with his Emboar and switching out to his Haxorus midway through and dealing with the rest.

But now, it was the new champs turn, and slowly but surely Calem walked onto the stage. Calem stood in front of Diantha who gave him a reassuring smile which Calem returned. He grabbed a pokéball and threw it forward, saying: "Engage the enemy, Greninja."

A black frog ninja with a red scarf like tongue covering mouth and neck appeared. The frog Pokémon stood up and symbolized a simple message: You're going down.

"That one always was rude," Diantha smiled and threw out her own pokéball. A Hawlucha appeared and was standing battle ready. The wrestling bird stared at Calem's Greninja and was waiting for orders.

Diantha gave one first: "Hawlucha, Flying Press!"

"Greninja, engage," Calem simply commanded, but that command unleashed a fury of attacks. First there was a simple Extrasensory, nothing special about that. That quickly changed though after an Ice beam was unleashed just a second after the Extrasensory, followed up by a huge shuriken made out of water and froze it with another Ice Beam. In other words, a frozen shuriken was flying towards Hawlucha. Hawlucha used Brick Break to shatter it on command of Diantha, but there stood Greninja, using Shadow sneak and hitting Hawlucha into the air. Hawlucha retaliated with a Flying Press from mid-air, but Greninja waited at the bottom only to hit him with a close range Ice Beam and freeze him before he hit the ninja Pokémon. Greninja was about to deliver the final blow, when suddenly Diantha said out loud: "I forfeit."

A few Professors thought were confused. Complete domination in that form was hard to swallow, but she had the possibility of stretching the match up to six Pokémon. One of them voiced his question, but Red laughed at it.

"Didn't you notice? Calem never gave his Pokémon a command after 'engage'. That Pokémon acted on its own. Imagine how it would be if Calem were to actually give him commands," Red explained. The other champions and former champions nodded. Diantha had been utterly destroyed but she still forfeited with grace. Everyone who understood her situation respected her for that forfeit, keeping her cool although many would have taken personal offense in that and so, would have probably kept on fighting, overlooking their Pokémon's state and the probable outcome of the situation. But Diantha quickly made the right decision and nobody thought that Calem had tried to offend Diantha. Because Diantha and Calem knew each other very well so he would never actually try to embarrass her. Red knew why Calem had fought without commanding his Pokémon once though, it had been the simple fact that Calem had fought too many weak trainers. He had created the habit of fighting less seriously and letting his Pokémon do their own thing. That was enabled by the strength his Pokémon possessed. That habit may be considered as a bad one over time, but the fact that he had also taught his Pokémon enough to react accordingly to any attack and correctly determine it. It made Red smirk and remember the fight they had with verbal commands. And Calem saw that smirk when he was walking off the stage, the same smirk Red had in the match he barely won, a smirk that made his blood boil. Abandoning his first route he walked towards Red and asked: "Shall we break the tie?"

"Bring it on," Red replied before walking onto the stage. Their Pokémon had hardly fought and so were very healthy, which meant they could just fight at that exact moment. As the two walked onto the stage they saw the confusion on the faces of Professor Oak and their friends sitting in front of them, off of the stage. Calem and Red stood in front of each other ready for battle, and Calem held up his hands, showing three fingers. Red grabbed a pokéball along with Calem when one finger went down. At two fingers down they smiled and with the last finger they threw their pokéballs. The pokéballs opened in the air and let out their two red beams, revealing two Pokémon, along with the smirks on Red's and Calem's face.

A.N: Thank you for reading. I always try to upload 2 chapters at once so I will answer to reviews every two chapters. By the way... I AM STILL ACCEPTING OCS