Chapter XXVII: Let's Get Ready to Rumble
(A/N: There will be a good deal of rushing, due to the fact that I need to get on to bigger and more awesome things).
The following morning was quite awkward for Brendan; having his newly washed and pressed clothes/toiletries in his arms, he walked into the dark bathroom to see Layette just open the curtains, and out of the shower. The two of them stood there for a second (Brendan still getting a nice shot of her boobies from the corner of his eyes), and then Brendan shut the door slowly.
"This never happened," said Brendan silently, as May was just in the room next door.
"Right," said Layette, agreeing just as much as him. Although Brendan did feel quite uncomfortable as she invited them to a ride in her car (just because of that skinny ass bridge, and her large ass Pick-up truck), she assured them that everything would be alright.
"I promise you guys, I'll pay each of you P20000 if something happens to us," she said while starting up her truck.
"Okay," said May and Brendan in unison, as Brendan jumped into the complete back, so that he could get some breeze, and May jumped into the front seat by Layette.
"Probably gonna talk more shit…" thought Brendan while looking at the huge mountain range once again. Layette, telling them yesterday that it was Meteor Falls, was probably their next destination after their events in town today. After leaving at about 12:15, crossing the bridge wasn't so bad after all; she merely pressed a button at a booth beside it, and the bridge all of a sudden turned to solid logs. They got by the Contest Hall/Battle Tent to sign up by 12:45, and after their thanks and things, Brendan decided to show her up before her departure.
"Hey, Layette," he called as May turned and ran for the contest hall. When she turned to look at him, Brendan made two peace signs, and held them upside down and pushed them together, to make a small "M." Layette looked absolutely furious as he walked away, laughing his ass off to the Battle Tent sign up. But for an isolated town, both of the buildings were extremely crowded, as trainers and coordinators were pushing each other back and forth. Brendan saw as one guy got punched in the face by some girl that he didn't even see at the Battle Tent sign up, and somebody fell over at the Contest Hall, as a bunch of other looked like multicolored dominos. But, at about 1:58, May finally showed her own Contest Pass and signed in, and Brendan rushed over to the arena to find a decent seat. Though sadly, he was forced to a seat that was at the extremely far top right from the stage.
"God damn, this is stupid," said Brendan. Though he couldn't complain too much; due to the fact that it was so crowded, he actually didn't have to pay the P4000 ticket fee like he did in Slateport, which was only P2000 there. When everyone was seated and resituated, the same contest host woman came out, with that poufy salmon dress, and a huge Fallarbor smile.
"Hello, and welcome to the Fallarbor Town Super Contest!!!" she shouted. The crowd cheered loudly, as Brendan was nearly deafened as a few people even screamed directly into his ear just for the hell of it. Another thing that he noticed was that although it was outdoor yesterday, the building cover was back on it. He decided to ask the loud man beside him.
"Hey…why is the cover back onto this arena, but it was off yesterday?!" shouted Brendan.
"Oh," the man shouted back. "Well, the Grand Festival arena in Ever Grande City sued this one for trying to look prettier than it back in 1999," he shouted.. "So, it can only be opened if other events, like circuses, are being held, and not Pokemon Contests!!!"
"OH!" shouted Brendan as they turned to listen to the woman talk. Backstage, all of the coordinators were preparing their Pokemon some more, as May decided to use her Combusken for the job.
"Okay, Chaka…" she said while getting on her knees and rubbing her Pokemon's head. "I'm glad we got a good amount of practice at Layette's house last night," she said as Chaka gave her a confident nod. But walking her way was the green haired, emerald eyed faggot who's been hasn't messed with Brendan for the past while.
"May," said Drew while pushing his hair back some.
"What is it, Drew," said May in an annoyed tone.
"Well, that's no way to greet your advanced competition," he said while showing her two shiny ribbons.
"What…" said May while gawking at them.
"The light green one here is actually one from Verdanturf Town," he said. "If you get it, you don't have to compete in anymore contests," he said. "But I thought just for the hell of it, I'd win it…" he said. Now looking at it, it was the biggest ribbon out of the two. "This pink one…here, I beat you for it at Slateport, and when I win this orange one here in Fallarbor, I'll be sure to boost up my résumé for the…Grand Festival." He said while turning away, but still held a smug grin on his face.
"Wait, Grand Festival…" she asked confusedly.
"Yup," answered Drew. "If you win at least three ribbons, you can compete at the Grand Festival at Ever Grande City," he said. "I don't mind competing in Lilycove's Contest, but then I'd have more practice time…" he said, still smugly and not looking at her. She was going to ask more questions, but he had walked away, as everyone's face who was competing in this contest showed up on a gigantic screen. Chaka still sat by her looking up at the board as well. It appeared that May was actually the third person for the "show how pretty your Pokemon is," part, and for this one, and after the other two had showed their stuff (the first one got an 18.2, the second a 22.1), May walked out of stage, and a big flame appeared behind her, before Combusken showed it's face to the crowd, and the fires dispersed.
"Outstanding!" shouted the woman. "May has chosen a Combusken to show Fallarbor a fiery fair," she said into the mic.
"Let's do it, Chaka!" shouted May excitedly. "Let's start things off with a Ember!" she shouted. Combusken shot out little tiny flying balls of fire. "Now kick things off with a smooth Double Kick," she said. Combusken then took a nice Karate pose, and began kicking the flames around some.
"Excellent; May chose a good pair of words, as she's using Combusken to juggle the flames around with its feet. An excellent move!" she said enthusiastically.
"Let's increase the heat!" said May. "Chaka, let's go for a Fire Spin," she said. Not only did Combusken now jump into the air to make new flames, it also took the old ember flames to help build up the new fire. Currently, Combusken looked quite to be trapped in a slightly squished sphere of circular fire.
"Now May's brought some new light into the audience, by making a spinning sphere of fire!" she shouted into the microphone.
"Take the heat to the audience!" shouted May in excitement. A few of the audience members got some nervous looks on their faces, as they clearly heard her say have a ball of fire jump where we're sitting. But, May knew this would be the response, as Combusken jumped high into the ceiling, and came falling slowly and steadily in the stairwell of the arena. A few beads of sweat dripped from people all around the arena, especially if Combusken landed beside them. She then jumped on the large wall, and continued to spin.
"Jump to me, Combusken!" shouted. May. As if there was a huge fiery meteor in the arena, Combusken jumped from the wall, and skyrocketed down to May. As the woman was reciting this in full wonder, she knew exactly how do deal with it (she did plan this all out, after all…). The little ball of fire Combusken was in was now spinning both vertically and horizontally, and everybody in the entire arena was wondering how the hell could she do that. "Double Team!!!" she shouted. Now there was about a dozen other balls of fire just speeding towards her.
"How's May gonna finish this one?" thought Brendan while on the edge of his seat.
"Give me another Double Kick!" shouted May. All of the Combusken's now did a spinning kick to reveal them out of the flame, and extremely small embers fell onto the audience, as the Double Team was pulled back, and Combusken landed smoothly, and professionally in the crowd. Everybody, including Brendan and the judges, went wild as the ending was heating, soothing, beautiful, and flat out magnificent. After clapping, the woman turned to the judges table.
"Judges, what do you think of May's performance?" she asked.
"I'll give May an 8.5," said the taller man.
"9.5," said the other man.
"Hm…" said Nurse Joy as she pressed a button. A nice 9.0 showed up on her screen.
"And with these three scores, May's total should be…" she said while looking up at the gigantic screen where May's number should show. It pulled out as a nice 27.0. "A 27.0!!!" she shouted as the crowd went crazy once more.
"Damn; I had a 29.1 with Swellow at the Slateport Contest…" thought May, though she did still keep a nice fake smile on her. Afterwards, there were only two coordinators out of 30 who beat May's score; Drew (with Roselia, again) had a 29.2, and some other girl had a 28.6 with a Zangoose. And the fourth coordinator to stay, was a young man (or woman; Brendan just could not tell) with purple hair. They held a 26.3, and their name was Harley. It was just about intermission time, and after Brendan used the restroom, he popped back in the main arena with loads of popcorn, candies, and soda. He made it as quickly as possible, and didn't want to be reminded of what happened at last time; Dr. Phil wanted him to pay him money for helping him out with that big Spanish guy, Ricardo.
"Dr. Phil's a freak; I hope I don't see him again." Thought Brendan as he took a sip of his Dr. Pepper. From backstage, May was still trying to get Drew to tell her more information about the Grand Festival.
"Listen," said Drew. "The Grand Festival isn't going to happen for a good while, but getting entrance in it is scarce," said Drew as he crossed his legs. "You've got to have at least three metals before just waltzing to Ever Grande City," he said. "And a week after it happens, the Hoenn League Tournament will begin," he said.
"Are you talking about the Ever Grande City competition?" asked a masculine-ish feminine voice from behind the two. The person with long purple hair walked up beside them. He was fully dressed like an odd, greenish scarecrow. "Oh my god, I cannot wait until that happens; I'll kill all of the competition, even if I have to cheat my way up their like a nasty bastard," he said. "You know, trick them to sign up late or something, or rig the contest for my victory. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't introduce myself," he said while holding out both of his hands to them. "Harley, and you two?" he asked.
"Drew."
"May," they said in unison.
"It's a pleasure to meet you guys," he said while shaking their hands with a cheap smile.
"Just give them each a cheap smile; they should buy it," though Harley.
"I'm not buying this guy's cheap smile," thought Drew.
"Listen," said May as the three of them let go. "That was a pretty cheap smile you had; I'm not buying it," said May dully. Before Harley could answer back, the board behind them began flashing different colors, and the three of their faces (plus the other chick) showed on screen.
"Look's like I'm going to have to face you, May," said Harley with an even cheaper smile.
"Damn, her Pokemon's fire based," he thought as he turned and walked out.
"I guess I have to face that random girl that nobody knows," said Drew as he too headed out. It was to be Drew and that random girl with the Zangoose up first, and after less than 10 minutes, Drew walked backstage victorious. It was then time for May and that (other) faggot Harley to go at it with each other, and when their Pokemon were pulled out, the crowd lost a bit of interest.
"Well, Harley certainly does have a disadvantage compared to May's Combusken," she said as the two Pokemon glared at each other. But May (and everybody else in the crowd) noticed that Harley was dressed exactly like his Pokemon. "But let's get this battle on the road! I do believe it's the term, ladies first, so May get's the first move!"
"Alright, Chaka," said May as she got into a nice battle pose for the start. "We're going to begin this one with Slash!" she shouted. Combusken flipped into the air, and positioned its claws to prepare for a strike.
"I don't think so, doll," said Harley as he pointed to Combusken dramatically. "Sandstorm!!!" he shouted. A large, dusty tornado shot up, and it then just had sand blow around like a cheap whore does on every Thursday down in Hyde Park, Chicago at midnight. Sand was blowing around the entire arena, as everybody had to squint to avoid getting any in his eyes. Brendan faintly heard Harley scream another attack, but at the same time, same with May. All of a sudden, though the sands and mists of his screaming, he saw Chaka do that Fire Spin/entrap itself routine again. She was spinning down to Cacturne!. There must have been some sort of connection, because the sandstorm chilled out by a lot, and retreated down to the show and not into the audience (but people still had to wipe their clothes off). The sand had cleared out, and the only visible changes were that Combusken had a lot of sand on her, and Cacturne had a huge scorch mark on its torso.
"Time for new measures; Attract, Cacturne!" shouted Harley. Cacturne did some strange, ritual-like dance, confusing Combusken, but then it slowly slid on over to Combusken, and then blew hot pink dust into Combusken's eyes. The next thing everybody knew, there was a heavy look of affection on the Young Fowl Pokemon's eyes. Combusken looked at Cacturne like a dog looks at steak, and when she did, May lost a nice chunk of points.
"May's Pokemon having a crush on Harley's lost May some good points," she said. Before Brendan could say something nasty about Cacturne's scorch mark, he saw that Harley already lost about ¼ of his own meter.
"Ingrain, and then Spikes," said Harley. Brendan knew about these moves; Ingrain would cause Combusken to lose HP, and Spikes would send Combusken to switch out. But the Ingrain also prevents switching!!! A bunch of roots were squirming, and entangling Combusken, but she still eyed Cacturne with heavy affection.
"What do I do…" though May in panic. "Flamethrower," shouted May. Chaka easily burned the vines off, but more developed in front of them.
"Cacturne, turn (May you stay there for me, please)," said Cacturne silently, looking directly into Combusken's eyes.
"Combusken (okay, dear)," said Chaka. She then literally allowed the vines to entrap her. May lost some more points, and there was one more minute on the scale.
"There's got to be something to stop this…" though Brendan, when all of a sudden, the glassmaker's voice rang through his head…
"The red flute snaps a Pokemon out of attraction…" his voice rang though.
"Do I have the red flute," he asked as he dug though his bag. He knew he had only two, and it was the yellow one and… "The red flute!" shouted Brendan. With all of his might, he blew into the red flute. Only one section of the audience, the one he was at, actually heard him, so Brendan knew what he had to do.
"Come on Combusken, get out of it!!!" shouted May. But as spikes were hurled at Combusken while stuck in this bad loophole, there was a loud voice from the stands.
"MMMMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!" shouted Brendan's voice. With all of his might, he chucked the flute as far as it could go. It was headed in slow motion, as the entire back of the audience saw the flute fly circularly to May in elegance.
"HEY!!!" shouted some man. The flute had smacked the back of his head violently, but it bounced off, and flew into May's hands. She then randomly blew into it, not knowing what she was doing. But then, Combusken blew fire at the spikes being shot at her! Not only that, but she also broke through the vines, and burnt the ones trying to wrap around her once again; the flute had worked.
"May impressively gets crowd help, and Combusken breaks free from Harley's paradoxical maneuver; that'll lose him some points," said the woman as his meter started going down.
"Let's end this thing," said May. "Chaka, Sky Uppercut!" Combusken seemed to have glided over to Cacturne, and before anybody could say anything, Cacturne seemed to have gotten knocked the fudge and crackers out, and flew some into the air.
"Flamethrower!" shouted May. Combusken now shot heavy flames at Cacturne, and seemed to be roasting scarecrow.
"CACTURNE!!!" shouted Harley.
"An excellent maneuver, keeping Cacturne bouncing in the flames!" shouted the woman as his meter went down even more. They were just about tied, there was 0:15 on the clock, and for the finishing touch, May had a nice plan.
"Okay Chaka," said May. "Seismic Toss 'em!" shouted May in excitement and fear; they were tied, and if she didn't get him in 10 seconds, she'd have to face the face judging again. And everyone knows she lost that one last time. Combusken stopped the flamethrower, and hopped into the air to catch Cacturne. When she did, she began flipping in the air, and falling to the ground.
"Cacturne, Needle Arm!" Harley shouted. Cacturne's arm lit up bright green, but as he swung, Combusken ducked, and threw the scarecrow Pokemon to the ground. Harley's meter fell down to about one pinchful of meter.
"May's Seismic Toss tactic works, as if one more bad move for Harley, he'll automatically lose," said the woman.
"DOUBLE EDGE, CACTURNE!!!" shouted Harley. Brendan knew this wasn't good; if the double edge hits, May'd lose badly. But as Cacturne glided over angrily to Combusken, May grinned heavily.
"Maneuver FT," shouted May. Combusken did a nice front flip over Cacturne, and when she landed, she stuck her chicken foot back, and tripped Cacturne from behind! The crowd lauged as Cacturne slid, and crashed into Harley, leaving 0:01 left, and had his meter go blank. May and Combusken's face appeared on screen, representing victory. The crowd cheered madly as May (holding Combusken) celebrated nicely. Another pleasant thing about things, Drew lost quite badly to the other girl (whose name was Jessica).
"Zangoose, Fury Cutter," she shouted during the middle of their bout. Zangoose began slashing madly towards Drew's Roselia, who was getting pummeled by this move.
"Come on Roselia," screamed Drew in some panic. "Give me a Poisonpowder!" he shouted. Roselia pointed its blue rose'd hand at Zangoose's eyes, and sprayed violet powder right in them. Before Drew could sigh in some relief, Zangoose shook it off, and began more Fury Cutting. Their meter stances, had Drew with ¾ empty, and Jessica had not even 1/3 empty.
"Zangoose can't be poisoned," said Jessica happily. "Blizzard!" she shouted. There was now a nice, chilled sensation in the arena, well, where Brendan was at. Everybody else below him looked as if they froze their asses off. As Roselia shivered as well, after Jessica shouted a faintly heard command, Zangoose charged to Roselia with a lit tail.
"Iron Tail," thought Brendan as the Blizzard wore off some. Zangoose smacked Roselia with its tail, and it flew over to Drew. It was safe to say that it got knocked the fudge and crackers out too.
"Jessica is the winner!" said the woman. Everybody cheered once again, but Brendan had an extremely small feeling that something was up with Drew's performance against Jessica; he could have ripped her apart. But id didn't matter too much, as now it was May and Jessica going at it.
"Crush Claw!" shouted Jessica in the middle of the battle. Out of three minutes it was now 1:50 left to go, and nobody lost anything in the meter. Zangoose's claws lit up, and it rushed for May's Combusken.
"Chaka, J7," she shouted. As Zangoose was about to slice Combusken's head off with another claw move, Combusken stuck out her leg, wrapped it around Zangoose's while catching it's arm, and did a nice Judo hip flip to take it down.
"May's Combusken cleverly takes Zangoose down with a Judo move. That was pretty impressive," said the woman as Jessica's meter went down for the first time.
"Your Pokemon know Judo?" asked Jessica.
"Yeah; they can't just know how to battle to get out of it," answered May. Brendan rolled his eyes with a grin.
"She got that from when I declared I wanted to teach my Pokemon boxing," though Brendan.
"Zangoose, Ice Beam!" she shouted.
"Chaka, B2!" she shouted. Combusken pointed its head to the ground, and shot a nice Flamethrower. The force of it lifted it into the air to evade the attack. It then blasted Flamethrower to Zangoose.
"Move!" shouted Jessica. Zangoose did hop do another direction, but the fire still did hit its big 'ole tail, having a huge char mark on it.
"And Jessica's Zangoose get's burned, that'll take away a couple points," she said as Jessica's meter fell.
"Zangoose, Fury Cutter!" she shouted. Zangoose rocketed over to Combusken, and began swinging wildly with its claws. There were a few bad connections, and May's meter went down to barely pass Jessica's.
"Mirror Move," shouted May. Combusken now began swinging wildly like Zangoose, and they were identically fighting each other. Both of their meters were going down now, as they each held some good hits and blocks. May had a thinking look on her face, when she had a look of she figured something out.
"T2!" she shouted. Combusken then wrapped her leg around Zangooses, and pulled back, to have Zangoose fall on it's back. Jessica now lost more points.
"May, with a little book of trips and extra drills are really into May's advantage!" said the woman excitedly as the crowd looked on into it. Jessica was now feeling angrily embarrassed, and there was about 0:20 on the clock.
"Zangoose, the next attack, you Detect, okay," she said.
"Combusken, try a Double Kick," she said. Combusken went to do a nice kick to Zangoose, who ducked on the first one, and then did a haphazard spin to avoid the other one.
"Tackle," said Jessica. Zangoose, dived onto Combusken, and after a few odd rolls, Combusken kicked Zangoose off, and as it was trying to stand up Combusken did a nice scratch.
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"This Contest is over!!!" shouted the woman as May's face appeared on the screen. "The winner of this contest is May Birch of Littleroot Town!!!" she shouted. Everybody shouted as May was presented a small, orange ribbon. With Brendan's final small claps, he walked out of the arena to get ready for his own competition.
"Welcome to the Battle Tent competition!!!" shouted an old man to the crowd of the Battle Tent. Brendan and a few other trainers were sitting down to listen to the rules of the game. "For this tent, the rules are simple; with your strongest Pokemon, you'll give only three commands. You're score will be tallied by shapes; a red triangle is 1 point, a blue circle is 2, and a black X is zero," he said while noting to the scoreboard. Brendan gripped on to Muddy's Pokeball.
"Looks like I'll have to use Marshtomp to this one…" thought Brendan as he stood up silently. Two people looked to have wanted his attention, but he had already walked out to get ready…" May, finding a good seat and admiring her new ribbon, realized that the man didn't say anything about a prize.
"So, what's Brendan gonna win if he wins," she asked out loud while taking a sip of soda. The first match Brendan faced was a guy who seemed like a geek, although he held a Grumpig.
"Grumpig, Confuse Ray!" he shouted. Grumpig shot a multicolored ball over to Marshtomp's head, and it circled around for a few times. Brendan reached into his bag, and pulled out the yellow flute. He had a specific stare onto his face, and he began playing it silently. It had a specific kind of tone that locked into Muddy's ears, and unlocked the confusion.
"Take Down," said Brendan. Running and charging, Marshtomp did what looked like a super football tackle. Grumpig fell over hardly, and Marshtomp rubbed its head some. They each made one move.
"Muddy Water," said Brendan. Marshtomp blew a water gun that had a good amount of ground and gravel in it. It connected Grumpig in its face.
"I don't think so," said the guy. "Bounce," he said. Grumpig hopped on its tail, and was ready to connect with Marshtomp.
"Tackle," said Brendan. As Grumpig was coming down, Marshtomp hoped into the air to do a softer football tackle, as Grumpig hit the ground hard.
"Psywave!" shouted the guy. Grumpig shot a nice multicolored beam down to Marshtomp. It connected quite hard on Marshtomp.
"This battle is complete!!!" said the old man as they came down. Their score's were shown, and Brendan had (from top to bottom) a circle, a circle, and a triangle. The other guy, named Craig got a triangle, an X, and a circle. "Brendan Maple of Goldenrod City is the winner!!!" he shouted. Brendan nodded as he went on into the back. After three more battles like that, it was his final bout. When Brendan stepped on stage for the finals, he couldn't help but widen his eyes as his opponent stepped on the stage. Standing with a green and yellow sweater, blue jeans, and black and white shoes, a boy with chocolate brown hair with almond eyes stepped on the stage.
"Hm…so it's you again," said Brendan as he eyed him uneasily.
"As to you," said his opponent. Standing there with his Pokeball in hand, Seth Anderson was as willing and ready for a battle as Brendan was, and each of them were gripping a Pokeball as if they were holding on for dear life…
There's another chapter for you guys! I hope you guys enjoyed. But on a few other notes, I have some words to say (or type).
I've gotten three nasty reviews recently; I got flamed by people who don't know how to flame!!! Check it out sometime if you have the chance. Two of them were talking about sex and Pokemon don't go together. Well than why the hell did I say "rated M!!" I guess I now have to put up a warning saying "don't read if you don't have a sense of humor!" lol.
Oh, and I checked into the Shinnoh region of Pokemon, and the current champion, Cynthia, she seems pretty hot. But other than that, I'll try to put another chapter up soon. Thanks!