Why Can't I

By: esmtz

'I was originally gonna start off with Skitty, but with her calling me out like this I'm going to use my strongest Pokemon' May thought to herself as she grabbed her pokeball.

"Ready May because you are about to get beaten!" Dawn yelled as she too had her pokeball out.

"Oh yeah we'll see about that!" May cried back.

"Blaziken take the stage!"

"Buneary let's go!"

Two bursts of light came forth and out came both their Pokemon.

"Blaze!"

"Buneary!"

The Pokemon said.

"I'll let you make the first move Dawn" May said.

"Buneary use ice beam!"

"Counter with flamethrower!" May replied as both attacks were launched.

Both Paul and Drew sat near Ash, Brock, and Zoey as they watched the battle in front of them.

"Go May!" Both Paul and Drew yelled.

"Grr I have had just about enough of this! Buneary use bounce!" Dawn yelled as Buneary jumped up high and was above Blaziken's head "good now do as we practiced ice beam!"

Buneary started spinning around as it aimed its attack down at Blaziken.

"Blaziken!" May cried as her Pokemon was starting to get surrounded by and frozen by the ice attack "use overheat!"

"Blaziken!" it responded with raising its head and attacking Buneary.

Dawn gasped.

"Buneary no!" Buneary was hit hard with the attack as it fell to the ground "are you ok?" Dawn asked worried.

"Buneary…." It said as it struggled to get up.

"I warned you Dawn that I would get serious" May said as she looked at her.

Dawn growled.

"If Dawn can't keep her cool she doesn't have a chance" Zoey said as she looked at her friend.

"I think you're right Zoey and I have a feeling that this is going to be her downfall just like it was Drew's" Brock replied.

"By the way…" Zoey looked at Brock "where did your friend go?"

Brock looked on the other side of him and saw that Ash was gone and he sighed.

"He probably went to go yell at that Ian guy"

"See what did I tell ya?" Zoey said giggling a little.

For the next few minutes all that was happening was Blaziken easily dodging attacks and quickly responding with counter attacks.

"Dawn if I were you I'd quit. Buneary doesn't look so good" May told her.

"Not a chance! Buneary use your strongest double slap!"

"Buneary!" it used its ears to try and hit Blaziken but it kept missing.

May sighed as she looked at Blaziken.

"Ok let's finish it with sky uppercut!"

Blaziken's attack was direct making Buneary faint.

"Buneary cannot continue. May and her Blaziken are the winners!" The announcer said.

"Alright she did it!" again both boys yelled making them both glare at each other.

"Well looks like they have themselves a new rival" Brock said as he looked from Drew to Paul sweat dropping.

"Well looks like it's between us girls and Paul I wonder who is going to win" Zoey said as she got up "I got to go get ready see ya" Zoey said as she went back to where the contestants were at.

"Alright Blaziken we did it!" May said excitedly.

Dawn recalled her Pokemon and left the area looking like she was close to tears. May also left the area a few minutes later to go and wait to see who was up against who. As soon as she was with Misty and Zoey she saw that Ash was there and was glaring angrily at a boy.

"What's going on here?" May asked.

"Oh nothing just Misty's boyfriend giving Ian there a hard time" Zoey replied making Misty turn bright red.

"I told you he's not my…."

"Yeah sure whatever you say Misty" Zoey laughed.

"I think they're about to say who's up next!" Misty suddenly said making the girls turn to see the pairings.

"Well…look what we have here…." Paul said as he showed up.

"It looks like you and me are gonna battle it out huh Paul?" Zoey said as she looked at him.

Paul just shrugged.

"Whatever"

"That leaves you and me May good luck" Misty said smiling at her.

"Yeah you too" May smiled back.