Here's this. I felt the need to do this because I like Red's story but it felt incomplete. I initially cut some things out for time anyway so I decided to do this. It could also be considered a consolation if I don't get Sapphire's story out by tomorrow. Lot of other stuff going on. Not so much school, I go to school 3 days a week for 3 hours right now, with a total 9 hour school week, so I can't complain. It's more that we have a lot of animals. In particular I need to babysit my sister's puppy. I have something really good planned for Sapphire though, so I hope you'll stick around. Anyway, whether you like it or not, here's this.

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The Gift of Battle deleted scene

"Golduck Hydro Pump!" Green yelled.

Golduck released a powerful blast of water that would make the world's most powerful geysers jealous. It hit its target, Red's Snorlax, but the large Pokémon held firm. Red and Green were both down to their last two Pokémon, Red to Snorlax and Aerodactyl, or Lax and Aero as he preferred to call them, and Green to his Charizard and Golduck. Funny how the last Pokémon they would come down to were their flying Pokémon. Having a flying Pokémon presented interesting and unique approach and escape options, a good trainer needs to devise strategies to utilize those options and know when to apply them.

Red was in trouble, his Aerodactyl was confused, as in the status ailment that caused disorientation in Pokémon, while in the air and holding Red in its talons by the shoulders as he did to transport him through the air. At any moment Areo could spiral into the ceiling, wall or ground. Green was riding on Charizard's back, in an ever so slightly show-offy manner while he was at it. If Red had a leg in this fight left it was that Green was letting his upper hand get to his head. Though much more reserved and cool headed than he had been previously, there were situations where he couldn't hold back his cocky smile. Red was going to need more than that though, he wasn't going to win based on Green's confidence, he needed another angle, fast.

"Aero let go." It held on and continued to fly in the abnormal patterns of a drunkard, "Seriously, I'll be fine Aero." Aero crashed into the ceiling in confusion, "Okay, let's try something else." Red said pulling out Aero's Poké Ball.

Putting his hands on Aero's ankles Red pulled and guided the recovering Aero towards Charizard, "A game of chicken huh?" Green said quietly as Charizard and Aero neared each other, "He thinks I won't do it, I'll do it. He knows the consequences I'll do it, I'll, Charizard, Flamethrower!" He commanded.

Charizard breathed an almost magical seeming stream of fire, Red and Aero didn't swerve or slow like Green expected, in fact nothing had changed what Red was going to do, "Supersonic!"

Soundwaves came from Aero's mouth that were on a frequency that Pokémon were particularly sensitive to, causing confusion. Now Red's Aero and Green's Charizard were both affected by this disorientation while carrying their trainers. Red and Aero were able to avoid the flames at the last second and approach at another angle, coming down from above with Aero's Take Down. The attempt missed, it didn't help that Aero was confused and they were speeding through the air at a moving target. Golduck used an attack simply known as Confusion, using psychic energy to attack Aero mentally, which is how it was inflicted with the status ailment "Confusion" in the fist place.

Aero had more than it could take, Red used the Poké Ball he'd been holding to recall it from the air and used the momentum from the flight path to land into his Snorlax's soft but sturdy body, breaking his fall. Snorlax was slow, but he wasn't so slow that Red wouldn't be able to play a defensive strategy no matter how Green positioned himself, this combined with the fact that he was now riding a confused Pokémon forced Green to land. He would have a better chance of success getting Charizard to focus on one task.

And he knew just what task he wanted performed, "Blast Burn!"

"Blast Burn?" Not that she'd been disinterested until this point but this caught Blue's attention more than any prior event in the battle, "Green, I think you're going a bit overboard!" She tried to yell.

But to no avail as the attack was unleashed before Green could've even have realistically considered that statement, what was described as the "Ultimate Fire-type Attack" had been launched. Blue knew of the capabilities of this move and was worried about it specifically because of that, having the "Ultimate Water-type Attack" at her disposal and Red the "Ultimate Grass-type Attack". Red barely had time to initiate a counter attack, which he relayed to Lax much more discreetly. It had just enough time to charge up it's counter attack as the flames narrowed the space between them and their target. Before the final blow was struck, Lax shot a beam of energy, Hyper Beam, one of and for a long time considered the most powerful Pokémon attack, capable of leveling entire cities if used by a powerful enough Pokémon. The beam cut through the flames as they approached, the beam and flames both being non-physical passed through each other, both sure to do unprecedented amounts of damage.

"Crazy sonuva-" Green cut himself off as he dived behind his Charizard with his Golduck.

Collision, dust, smoke, loud noises, all of these things filled the air. Lax and Charizard stumbled in place and fell backwards, forcing their trainers to recall them. There was low visibility but still many possibilities and not much time to decide on one, the next move would require fast action. Blue still had Golduck, who could detect and attack opponents mentally, despite how difficult it was to see, but there was still the general chaos to contend with. Once again it would seem Green had the upper hand but Red had the perfect counter for that.

"Vui!" He called.

His psychic Pokémon left its spot by the bench Blue and Yellow were sitting at and ran after it's trainer, fresh and ready to oppose another psychic opponent, "Confusion!" Red and Green both commanded.

But just as they had a loud and demanding voice shouted "NO!" Red, Green, Vui and Golduck turned to look at who had yelled, it was Blue, she picked her hat up off the floor after it'd been blown off her head, "You're done! Both of you!" She said, dusting off her hat while she did.

Green was aloof to the girl and her attitude but respected her wishes, "Fair enough, I won anyway, Red cheated."

"What? It was a no holds barred battle, it's impossible to cheat by definition." Red retorted.

"You had to call a Pokémon from the sidelines to defend you after I took out your main team." Green boasted.

"You used seven Pokémon, if anybody cheated it was you." Red shot back.

"You never established a number limit."

"In that case why not use your other five?"

"I could but it doesn't mean much if I beat you on numerical advantage alone."

"And yet you used seven under the assumption that I would use six."

"My cheating does not excuse your cheating." Green said jokingly.

Red lightly punched his friend in the arm and then continued, "Me and Vui could take your Gym Leader team by ourselves anyway."

Yellow joined in, "So, you guys, that got pretty crazy, do you think I should heal your Pokémon?"

"I'd rather you not, there's a healing machine in the back and it seems like a waste to have you do it and then sleep the rest of the day away in exhaustion." Green explained.

"Oh, okay." Yellow said with some relief.

"Our Pokémon are fine and they'll be good as new in no time, but it's really cool of you to care so much." Red said.

"Well, ya know, I get that from you. Ever since you first caught Rat-chan for me, I've strived to be like you, I'm not one much for battles but I care about Pokémon. 'Treat them with a kind and gentle heart and they'll always be your friends' isn't that what you said? You're my hero Red, I wouldn't be me without you. That's why your birthday is important to me." Yellow said, getting a big weight off of her chest.

"Aw, thanks. I'm actually really proud of myself right now, you really couldn't have turned out better."

"Heh." The ever outgoing but bashful Yellow blushed lightly, "Sorry I got all serious on you guys just now."

"Oh shut up, I think it was cute." Blue said reassuringly.

Everyone had a smile on their face, today was a good day.

There was a second or two of silence and Green decided to take advantage of it to say what he wanted to say before he was interrupted, "Just so we're clear, you and your Espeon could not take my other six Pokémon."

"Sure we could, Rhydon and Pidgeot are already out, so the only real threat left is Golduck. The other five don't have high enough levels to beat us." Red debated.

"So I would hold you off with Golduck and bombard you with multiple attacks from my other Pokémon." Green replied.

"But Golduck is already battle-weary, my Espeon is fresh to the fight."

"Then I'll have all of them swarm you at once like I trained them to. You can't honestly expect to win against that."

"I do actually. Plus, my bringing in Vui was done at the last minute on a whim. If I had known you were going to use seven earlier I'd have used him sooner, and then I'd have even more Pokémon. I know that because if you hadn't have used seven and stuck to six like I did, you would've been down to one Pokémon when I was down to two, or even one when I was down to three."

Green was unimpressed with Red's slightly longer ramblings, "So you admit to cheating by bringing in an outside Pokémon at the last minute?"

"So you admit to cheating by using seven Pokémon when the de facto number is six?" Red refuted.

"Boys boys," Blue started, putting her hands on their shoulders, "it doesn't matter." She assured them, "Afterall, I would beat you both."

"Oh really?" Green said skeptically.

"You wish." Red replied at about the same time Green did.

The grinning Kanto trio engaged in friendly trash talk while Yellow just smiled at them acceptingly, thinking to herself about how glad she was that she wasn't really a battler.

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Red's Snorlax has never used Hyper Beam but Snorlax can use it so it works okay. I always thought it was interesting how the six Pokémon limit was more of a strongly encouraged suggestion than an actual rule in Special, but it makes the rules and skills of certain trainers in relation to each other debatable. On the other hand how many trainers in game have six Pokémon on them anyway? By that logic most players are cheats. I don't blame them either, taking care of six animals is hard. The scene with Yellow is something I cut from the "hang out" scene of the initial story I wish I didn't. It might seem a little SpecialShippy, (I just thought isn't the name "SpecialShipping" kind of pretentious? Oh well, still more creatively named than MangaQuest) but this is how I view Red and Yellow's relationship, hero and idolizer. And I've been trying to use the Japanese nicknames just because. I'll never use the Japanese names for the Pokémon, because it's not a Zenigame, it's a Squirtle, that's just how I am, I was introduced to them to young and I've been with Pokémon too long to change my habits now, not even with the slightly more dignified term "Pocket Monsters". So I don't know why I've been wanting to lean to the Japanese nicknames but I don't know if I ever want to call Yellow's Raticate "Rat-chan" again, when the rest of it is in English, it just feels too out of place weeaboo-ish for my taste. Me using the Viz translation names is even less likely since I don't read Viz's version, I have a contact in Singapore, so I read Chuang Yi.

So, in this situation or overall, after listening to their argument who's right, Red or Green? Also I know Blue and Red battled in the Dex Holder tournament at the end of Emerald, since Crystal revealed she lost to Blue and the winner of their match was set to fight Red, and the winner of that likely had to fight Green since I doubt Ruby would win in their battle. Not that Ruby is a slouch by any means, he'd give as good as he got but I don't think he could overtake Green. However since we only know the outcome of Crystal vs Blue it can't really be discussed so I didn't have them bring it up in their trash talk. I would think Red would win against Blue and Green. Probably Emerald too, excluding things like a fluke or Red throwing the match so Emerald can be the champion, Emerald is generally believed to have won the tournament based on the fact that he had the final Frontier Symbol, but we only saw them all lumped together so maybe not. It's too bad, the other half of the roster seems pretty interesting to me, Sapphire vs Gold and Sapphire vs Silver would be interesting. A rematch between Gold and Silver seems appropriate, though I think Silver might have a slight advantage since he was winning the fight he had with Gold before he got called away. On the other hand Gold has Togetaro. Ash's Pikachu aint got nothin' on Togetaro. Too bad he didn't have it in the tournament, it'd probably leave him behind and win the whole thing on it's own. And anyone of them would be a good match for Emerald. I think he would beat Yellow since she's probably not serious about getting to the end anyway. He beat Ruby but Ruby was battling more to help Sceptile remember who it was. Would he have won if Ruby was going all out, and he and Sapphire both lost to Tucker but Sapphire had a psychological disadvantage against Tucker's Salamance so how well does Emerald really stack up?

I would like to see any combination of battles between the Johto and Hoenn Dex Holders really, they're about the same in team levels(50's) and experience minus Emerald. The Johto trainers probably have a slight advantage but it would be cool to see. The Kanto trio is too much though. Yellow is an odd case but I point FRLG and say this; if they stakes are low, she'd probably(with varying degrees of difficulty but probably not with total domination) lose but if the stakes are high you would need to be one of the Kanto trio to stand a chance. ANYWAY sorry to have bored you all with my ramblings being the only Special fan who gives a crap about battles.