HGSS: Sinnoh Saga

Season 1

Chapter XIII: Troubles in Doubles, Part 3

"Ponyta!"

"Kirlia!" Two Pokemon were tossed out onto the simple soil battlefield. Kirlia danced and finally teetered over in front of Ponyta.

"I swear, that belongs in a contest, not on the battlefield..." Dento murmured to himself. He drew a ball and released it into the air. It sent out Kricketune in a bright light onto the battlefield, sawing its two blades together in anticipation.

"His strategy for battling is using a different Pokemon every time...and going full throttle defensive..." Nimh whispered to Jude. Jude nodded.

Dento drew a Pokeball, yawning and tying his apron around his waist. "Looks like I'll finally get a tough battle."

Ethan grimaced. "You mean we?" He thought to himself sheepishly.

"Gligar!" Dento's Pokeball wasn't released from his hand as Gligar was summoned from it and stepped onto the loamy soil.

Ethan tossed his ball into the air, and it released Piplup to the ground. Piplup shook and stood proudly, ready for battle.

"Begin!"

"Ponyta, use Fire Spin!" Ponyta reared back and flaming rings spiraled out of its gaped mouth.

"Gligar, X-Scissor!" Gligar barreled forward, claws glowing with static energy. They hacked at the rings of fire, and two blades of energy in the shape of an X pierce through them, exploding mid way.

Ponyta growled, but as it did, its body was enveloped in a shining bright light. Its silhouette grew larger, its mane flame growing longer and blazing, its entire form just growing in size. Soon, a large horse, known as Rapidash, stood in its place.

"Oooh! This just got interesting!" Nimh cheered. "Rapidash, use Fire Blast!" Rapidash reared back on its haunches and released a smoking ball of fire. The fire formed a chinese kanji symbol, and erupted towards Piplup and Gligar.

"Gligar, use Sandstorm!" Gligar stood on its tail and started to spin, creating a funnel similar to Gible's. It slashed around and twisted towards the oncoming attack. They clashed, and the fire split the sandstorm and incinerated Gligar. Gligar fell to the ground, burned.

"Gligar!" Dento stared in awe, as if his Pokemon had never been hurt before. Ethan frowned at this.

"Piplup, Bubblebeam!" Piplup released a tornado of spinning bubbles towards the enemies while jumping in front of the injured bat Pokemon.

"Rapidash, Horn Attack!" Rapidash galloped across the ground quickly towards the attack, horn glowing dimly. The bubbles slammed into it, throwing Rapidash back.

"Kirlia, use Psychic!" Kirlia danced and an energy formed around Rapidash, picking it up. "Magical Leaf!" Kirlia formed tiny black leaves around it, then expanded them and tossed them at the enemy.

"Gligar...ugh, use Metal Claw!" Gligar zipped off the ground, healed a bit and darted towards the leaves with a sharp claw. It smacked them away with passion and flew towards Kirlia. Rapidash growled fiercely.

"Rapidash...Take Down!" Rapidash dashed forward at a high speed, and slammed into Gligar ferociously, throwing it sharply across the ground, landing in front of Piplup. Piplup grunted in dismay at its 'partner' taking a fall, and he stomped a foot.

"Piplup, Pound!" Piplup hopped over Gligar and bounded across the ground, fist starting to swing.

"Kirlia, Teleport and Magical Leaf combo!" Kirlia disappeared and reappeared a foot in front of Piplup, firing leaves at it. They sliced across Piplup's bod and sent it flying, then landing in a heap on the ground.

Piplup tried to muster the strength to stand up, and suddenly, a blue aura surged around it and Piplup's eyes turned a light blue color. It roared and a ball of water formed on the tip of its open beak. It deformed and fired a stream of packed water at Rapidash. It connected and sent the Pokemon toppling over on top of Kirlia.

"Torrent..." Ethan thought, shocked.

"Rapidash!" Rapidash whinnied, but fainted in the next second.

"Kirlia..." A Psychic power had protected Kirlia from being crushed by the large horse, and Nimh recalled her Pokemon in quick haste.

"Wow. I can't believe we lost that easily..." Nimh sighed disappointingly. Jude scoffed.

"Doesn't matter. I'll take them both; quickly! Kirlia, use Magical Leaf!" Kirlia did, once again, a twirl as spinning leaves appeared around here.

"Gligar, use Metal Claw!"

"...was that Brine...?" Ethan was still thinking to himself. Reality then slapped him in the face. "Oh yeah, Piplup use Brine!" Piplup's eyes glowed like before, the aura glowing around him, and pumped out another jet of water.

Kirlia flipped backwards without lifting off the ground and the leaves fired towards both oncoming attacks. Gligar smacked some away like yesterday's trash, and the water pump was barely moved by the surging leaves. Kirlia twirled, psychic energy flowing around her in a Safeguard.

"Pulsate!" The Safeguard started releasing telekinetic energy from its perimeter. Gligar reached it, but was tossed back simply by the enegry emerging from it. Brine slammed against Gligar, and he was pressed between the Safeguard and the attack. Soon, Safeguard shattered and Kirlia was consumed.

Piplup's jet of water settled, and the Pokemon fell forward on its knees, panting. Gligar was fainted next to Kirlia farther up ahead on the battlefield.

"Yes! We won!" Ethan cheered. Dento was frowning heavily at Ethan.

"You took out my Pokemon!" He snapped. Ethan grimaced.

"Maybe that's what you deserved, Dento," Ethan declared back. Dento grumbled and recalled his Gligar. Jude hung his head in shame as his Kirlia retracted to its Pokeball. Nimh sighed and stepped off the battlefield, where her cousin Noah hugged her in disdain. Jude passed by them.

"Congratulations! Ethan and Dento, you two are this month's Double Tag-Team Competition Winners!" The MC announced with please. Ethan grinned from ear-to-ear. Dento closed his eyes and was still frowning with weights attached. The MC extended his hands to the two boys who had approached him. In both hands lay a Dusk Stone.

Ethan took his proudly and smiled. "Thank you, sir."

Dento took his quickly. "Great. Bye." Dento then proceeded to walk away in a northern direction.

"Wait. Where're you going?" Ethan asked without hesitation.

Dento barely stopped in his steps. "Floaroma. There's a contest there." He then kept on his pace of walking away.

"He participates in contests?" Ethan thought timidly. He turned his attention to Jim, who was grimacing at this information.

"I have to go against him in contests...?"

Ethan spoke out at last to Cody and Jim, who had migrated to the sides of him. "So...Eterna City is the next place with a Gym. I guess we should go through Floaroma Town to get there?" He suggested.

Jim nodded. "Yeah. While we're there, I wanna enter that contest and show Dento up. It'll be my pleasure!" Jim replied, fired up.

Cody nodded in agreement.

"Floaroma Town; here we come!" Ethan cheered, setting the Dusk Stone in one of his bag pockets, smiling.

...

Next Time: Flowers with Gusto!

Now, a Special Preview to Season 2: Galactic Enemies! (The word 'figure' is used so that the character's identities are not revealed.)

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Flowers swayed in the brisk wind, rubbing against each others stems, as if to give a gentle caress. The tension in the air shattered when three figures bounded through the thick meadow of hot pink, blue violet and goldenrod flowers.

"Woo hoo! There's a Honey Tree!"

"I know! I see it...There's another one!" Another figure pointed toward an autumn colored tree. They broke away to the trees, two to one and one to another. Jars contained in their hands were filled with a goopy golden colored substance. As they landed in front of the trees, they took knives and slathered the goo onto the dark brown bark of the trees.

"Gross. It's all sticky and stuff!" A third figure said.

"I know right...but, we'll get a good heap of Pokemon out of this, right?"

"Right...We should get back to Floaroma Town for now though..." As he stepped forward between two daisies, two men approached, backing another man up through the meadow.

"Who're they...THOSE GUYS HAVE THE SAME OUTFITS AS THAT OTHER LOSER!" She screamed.

"...other loser?"

One man had overheard the screaming, and he was now staring through them menacingly.

"...do you know how to keep your mouth shut...?"

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Buckle up for a new season, because it's gonna be a rough drive. XD