Disclaimer: Well sadly I don't own these tv shows. too bad too cause I probably could've done a lot better, specially with the writers strike going now...
Authors notes: To keep from having people trying to 'look into' which team might win in a battle based merely by the order i say their names, example, Monster rancher vs Pokemon, implying that possibly maybe Monster rancher is going to win because i typed it in first, I will put all the Vs names in alphabetical order. And since M comes before P, thats why I chose it to be first, and it has absolutely nothing to do with who might 'win' in any battle they may or may not fight. Cheers. :) (no i'm not british.)
Chapter Nine
Monster Rancher Vs Pokemon
By some random freak happenstance, Holly had found what appeared to be an announcers box in position to overlook the battle area somewhat. It looked rather flimsy, and was painted a rather dull red color. However it came equipped with a sort of microphone that Holly wasn't too familiar with but learned how to use anyway. Neither side bothered to question where this odd structure that no-one noticed a moment ago came to be there, for they were all too adrenaline pumped for the fight to come.
"I Choose you, Bulbasaur!" Ash screamed, Stretching out his arm to order his Pokemon to charge.
"Uh.. I choose.. you? Tiger? " Genki said, unsure and nervous of the etiquette of this sort of battle.
"Bulbasaur! Use Razor Leaf!!" Ash shot at his battle-ready fighter.
"Torpedo Attack!" Tiger announced, blasting electricity from his horns.
Bulbasaur, well trained as he was, fired off his attack as ordered, with speed enough to match Tiger's. Their attacked smashed together, meeting at the same place. Both attacks however, rather then one defeating the other, seemed to cancel each other out for they both seemed to release, and explode on impact, neither one getting past the other.
Tiger, confident of his own abilities, stood in a state of miniature shock that his attack had been thwarted.
"And as the smoke clears..." Holly announced expectantly. The explosion from the blast had left a considerable amount of dust that could easily be confused with smoke, and as it cleared the truth of the situation began to unfold. "What's this?" Holly shouted with undue enthusiasm. "There seems to be something on the scene, smoldering there! What could it be?" Holly asked, taking her job of announcer very seriously.
"What is that...? A person?!" Ash wondered, trying to lean into the scene to see what the small black, seemingly charred figure was laying on the floor directly in the middle of the battlefield where the attacks had clashed.
Tiger, however, was much more interested in winning then general curiosity. Sensing their weakness from their distracted attention, Tiger moved so that the blackened figure wasn't in the way, and fired another torpedo attack at the unsuspecting Bulbasaur. The great noise from the building and crackling of electricity though was more then enough warning for just about everybody there that somethin' was going on.
Ash, however, used to responding to surprise attacks from Team Rocket, was not caught off guard. Seeing no reason to change tactics, as the original attack had apparently been absorbed by the object, Ash ordered with excess excitement to Bulbasaur, "Again Bulbasaur!!"
"Look out, they're firing again!" Holly yelled, a little late since it was obvious to pretty much everyone already what was happening.
Tiger, not willing to see another failure for any reason, made sure he pumped out his torpedo attack on high. Bulbasaur, however, not sure about the severity of the battle, fired its normal razor leaf with out any unnecessary strain.
Torpedo Attack sliced through Razor Leaf like it wasn't there. Hitting the leaves with such force that they dispersed and the power dissipated in different directions. The Torpedo Attack shot all the way down to Bulbasaur, and delivered a punishing blow.
"What!? No, Bulbasaur!!" Ash shouted in shock.
"Bulbasaur has been knocked out!" Holly shouted with a hint of glee, more from knowing her own team was winning then from sheer entertainment.
"Yeah!" Genki cheered.
"Heh, weakling..." Tiger smiled.
Gritting his teeth, Ash became frustrated at his first loss of the battle. "Hey, It's called fainting!!" He yelled up at the announcers both, trying to take out his frustration. Ash didn't want to think long on his choice because he didn't want everyone waiting on him, but still ended up taking a while anyway. "Ehh... Squirtle! I choose you!" He pointed dramatically and Squirtle walked into the battle zone and flourished his arms to try and show strength and grace.
Tiger began to circle his prey, confident this pipsqueak wouldn't put up much of a fight either. Genki gestured to Ash's team as well as his own, and they all backed up to give the fighters considerably more room, since Tiger was making such a wide circle around Squirtle. Brock however, becoming a bit bored with the fight, decided to wander around the two teams groups and see if he could spot any hot females.
The battlefield opened up a little, giving them some more room. Tiger got a little closer to Squirtle at that point so no-one else could hear him, and decided to mess with Squirtle's head a little bit.
"So, gonna get revenge for your little friend's defeat are ya? Ya really think you can beat..Me?" Tiger said, his raspy voice psyching out innocent Squirtle even more.
"Squirtle!" Squirtle said fiercely, narrowing his eyes as he watched Tiger spin around him.
Ash, nervous because of his bad move choice in the last round with Bulbasaur, left Squirtle to make his own move against the enemy 'Pokemon' Tiger, hoping this way he wouldn't screw it up.
Tiger laughed imposingly, and Squirtle's eyes darted towards Ash and his friends. Picking up on the sign of weakness, Tiger taunted him, "Your friends cant help you now. It's just you, and me. So, pal, what are you gonna try?"
"The Monsters are staring each other down... You can almost feel the tension in the air!!" Holly said, trying to sound interesting.
Tiger found taunting Squirtle wasn't nearly as fun as it had sounded in theory, so decided to see if he could speed it up at all. He feinted a few times, making it appear as if he were going to suddenly rush him with his fangs drawn, and then he turned to face Squirtle and stopped cold, bracing himself and arching his back. "Whatever your gonna do you better do it now! I ain't gonna wait any longer!" He snarled at Squirtle, just waiting to stomp whatever puny attack Squirtle had in store.
Now sufficiently heckled, Squirtle blasted at Tiger with a full strength water cannon, almost forcing it. Tiger, waiting for this, fired back with a full-force wind, increasing it with the intention of forcing the water cannon back on itself. Squirtle, not expecting such an attack, had put massive power behind his attack but not that much speed, and with a directional blast of wind Tiger sent it flying like a horseshoe back into Squirtle.
"Amazing!" Holly shouted, impressed with Tiger even another time. "He put the monster's attack right back on him!"
Ash, growling, cheered his Pokemon on, "C'mon Squirtle you can do it! Get up and do a skull bash!"
Squirtle, hit with own blast, was sent reeling and sliding across the dirt floor. Battered, Squirtle staggered to his feet and mustered his strength for a risky yet powerful skull bash.
Tiger waited for Squirtle to regain his feet before attacking, and shook his head as he heard Ash's screams. 'As if this isn't easy enough..' Tiger thought to himself. ' They have to go and make extremely descriptive names for their attacks, and then go and shout it out everytime before they use it! I'll just let his own force hit my Torpedo Attack, this guy had more endurance then I thought, but he will go down for sure from my blast.' "Torpedo Attack!" Tiger shouted, convinced Squirtle wouldn't be able to dodge at this point. Still he wondered, ' Maybe he doesn't have that much endurance, but his own attacks are just really weak? So weak they can't even knock himself out with it...'
"Look out Squirtle!!" Ash yelled, worried he had chosen the wrong move again.
Squirtle, fully concentrating on releasing his physical energy and momentum directly through his skull into his opponent, didn't think, and didn't hear Ash. Blasting along at high speed, he just barely heard the crackling seconds before it hit him. Squirtle had just enough time to lift his face up, as the torpedo attack smashed into his shocked stare.
Possibly more then just fainted, Squirtle lay there unmoving.
"Squirtle's Down!!" Holly yelled, her enjoyment passing as it became clear to her this wasn't going to be much of a fight.
Ash, shaken but not even close to beaten, chose his next Pokemon with care. Knowing the great strength of this frightfully rare wolf Pokemon named 'Tiger', (The concept of what kind of whacked out trainer would name a 'wolf' Pokemon 'Tiger' was an area he didn't even want to think about,) Ash knew he had to pull out a big gun. Somebody fast, somebody strong. He knew who he had to pick.
"Charizard, I Choose you!! You have to do this!!" Charizard, quick on his feet ran onto the battlefield charging towards Tiger. Tiger, no fool either, immediately fired back.
"Blizzard!" Tiger yelled, firing mass amounts of ice at what appeared to be some sort of fire dragon. To Tiger, it made sense.
"Charizard! Fly!!" Ash ordered quickly.
"Charizard has flew high into the air! Oh no! Tiger's attack missed!" Holly announced, sounding surprisingly like a Pokemon tournament announcer.
"Good job Charizard!" Ash cheered, finally relieved for the first time in the battle.
' Hmm...' Tiger thought to himself as he eyed Charizard in the air watchfully. ' This one isn't as weak as the others.. I better watch my footing, I don't think my wind will slow him down much or knock him out of the air...For now i better evade him until he gets tired." Tiger thought, trying to find the best time to strike.
"Arrrrrrhh!" Charizard cried out, as he flew towards Tiger.
AN: whew, that took a long time to write, i had to look up the spellings and facts on more then a few things, and I kept adding and adding and adding so much that wasn't in the original story... I'm all like writed out! lol. Hopefully the quality of the last half of the chapter was as good as the first half. No I won't tell you where the announcer box came from. No I won't "rewrite it cause squirtle/bulba is so totally much stronger then that". This is basically set with ash around the first season, so thats why he's got pretty much first season Pokemon. It was really the only one Ash was any good in too i think. lol. And, for those who would say "ash wouldn't send squirtle against someone who uses electricity", Ash screws up element match-ups all the time. Hello, Onyx vs Pikachu? Also i'm aware squirtle's water cannon is less effective against himself because he is water element, but that would be one of the main reasons squirtle didn't knock himself out with it.
Also, Ash and crew did not over hear Tiger talking at any point during the battle, although they may have thought there was some small conversation by the likes of "tiger tiger tig-er er er tig," and "squirt, squirt squirtlEE!". Tiger doesnt actually talk that way obviously, but the crew from Pokemon think pokemon can only say their names.
Until next time, don't forget to review, you don't even have to have an account to review!
If ya dont i wont write anymore cuz i wont know anybody's even reading it!
