Day Three- 1:45 P.M.
"Dammit..." Nan muttered. He was running through the streets of Shalour City. "Why do I keep losing like this?! Alicia beat me... Flash beat me... Dang it! I can't get a break!" He stopped short. "Why do I keep losing?!"
"Maybe you aren't training properly." Korrina skated in front of him, her two Lucarios giving chase.
"I've been trying..." Nan muttered. "I'm sure you couldn't do better!"
"I'm the fighting type gym leader. I know EVERYTHING about training." Korrina hummed. "Let me help you, and I'm sure you'll do better."
"I guess I'll give it a shot." Nan sighed.
"Great! Follow me!" Korrina's skated off.
Day Three- 6:00 P.M. Location: Tower of Mastery.
"No way... This is incredible..." Nan panted. He was on his knees in the tower of mastery, his four pokeballs on the ground before him. "In so little time... I got this much stronger..."
"Told you!" Korrina giggled, her Lucario sitting next to her. "Now bring your friends here, and we can see who's stronger!"
Day Three- 6:15 P.M. Location: Shalour City.
Foxfire had been wandering aimlessly in the city for a while waiting for the others to show up.
"Fox!" Foxfire blinked to see Nan running up to him.
"Oh. Hey." Foxfire greeted.
"Where are the others?" Nan stopped, blinking.
"Alicia dragged them off somewhere. I think to buy more tea." Foxfire said.
"...what's with her and tea recently? C'mon, let's go find them!" Nan dragged him off. They very quickly found them sitting at a table in a small shop, Alicia holding Fennekin, Flash holding Peanut, Toxic holding Shadow, and Alicia holding a Torchic.
"...wait... Why are there two Alicias?! Are you multiplying?!" Nan gasped.
"That wasn't funny!" The two Alicias said in unison, smacking Nan. "It's obvious that one of us is Alexis! We don't even look that alike, fool!"
"Yet you still speak in unison..." Peanut pointed out.
"Don't disrupt them!" Shadow smacked Peanut with a newspaper, making him whimper.
"Oh, right." Nan nodded. "...wait, why is Alexis here?!"
"I followed you guys." Alexis explained, hugging her Torchic.
"Alright... C'mon guys, follow me!" Nan grinned.
"Bruh. Why?" Alicia asked.
"We're gonna get a mega ring!"
Day Three- 6:30 P.M. Location: Tower of Mastery.
"And that is how mega evolution is used." Korrina finished. She and her grandfather, the mega evolution guru, had given a brief explanation on mega evolution. Now that they were finished, Korrina was ready to tell them why they had gathered them. "We're here to give you the power of mega evolution!"
"Bruh." The twins said in unison.
"Awesome!" Nan grinned.
"Mega Loppunny would be possible..." Foxfire grinned, while Flash and Peanut stared at him in horror.
"However." Korrina cut them off. "We only have one mega ring." Everyone was silent after that, staring at each other. "You will all be fighting each other for the right to use mega evolution." The group turned to stare at each other.
"We've chosen fights for you. It'll be more or less a tournament." Korrina told them. "The first match is Nan against Toxic. Next will be Flash against Alexis. Finally, Alicia against Fox." The pairs that were matched up slowly nodded. Nan and Toxic stood up and walked to opposite sides of the room.
"Go!" Korrina sounded off the match.
"Gogoat!" Nan sent him in.
"Cool, evolution!" Toxic grinned. "Weavile!"
"...Weavile?!" Nan sweatdropped.
"What, you thought I came here only with Shadow?" Toxic grinned. Weavile took Gogoat down with a powerful icy wind.
"Did NOT count on that..." Nan sent in Charmeleon. Charmeleon instantly used dragon claw, but Weavile countered with shadow claw. Weavile was able to quickly overpower Charmeleon, throwing him to the ground and slashing him repeatedly with fast, consecutive attacks. However, just as Weavile was about to jump away, Charmeleon grabbed her leg and bit down hard with a fire fang. Toxic cringed.
"Not too good..." Weavile limped away, but Charmeleon was able to finish her with a flamethrower.
"Shadow!" Toxic ordered the Eevee in.
"Defeat it!" Nan ordered, worried about Charmeleon's damaged state. Charmeleon charged in with a fire fang, but Shadow jumped over it. He then delivered a few light slaps to Charmeleon's face with his tail before sticking his tongue out. Angered, Charmeleon charged at him again. Shadow continued to dodge and provoke him until Charmeleon was very tired. The fire lizard was then promptly finished with a tackle.
"Gr..." Nan was down to his last Pokemon. He had Goldeen, too, but... She was useless. Nan sent out Frogadier. Shadow smirked.
"Ne, come and get me!" The Eevee snickered, using quick attack. However, Frogadier quickly caught up with his own quick attack. Shadow stared.
"...lucky! I'll go faster!" He sped up, but each time Frogadier sped up as well. He finished Shadow with a blow to the back. He made quick work of Toxic's under leveled Dedenne, claiming victory for Nan.
"I don't have any mega Pokemon anyway." Toxic chuckled goodnaturedly, not upset by the loss.
Flash and Alexis faced off next.
"I hate to do this to you, Alexis." Flash said.
"Whatever." Alexis replied.
"Go!" Korrina shouted.
"Inkay!"
"Bellosom!"
The Pokemon faced off, glaring.
"Where'd you get a Bellosom?" Flash wondered.
"Just fight me, Flash!" Alexis said as Bellosom used sunny day.
"Inkay! Peck!" Flash immediately said urgently, knowing full well what that meant. Inkay did so, but it was unable to take out Bellosom in time. Inkay was struck down by solar beam.
"Gotta train him later..." Flash muttered before sending out Fletchling. Fletchling darted in and began pummeling Bellosom with wing attacks, but was shortly taken down by another solar beam.
"Damn it!" Flash glared. "That's it! Snorlax!"
"Hell!" Alexis gasped as the large Pokemon landed on the field. "Erm... Solar beam..." She ordered nervously. Snorlax countered with a hyper beam and one hit Bellosom with an ice punch. Alexis shuffled through her remaining four pokeballs, considering what to do next. "Damn..."
"Out of moves already?" Flash taunted teasingly.
"Hell no! Staryu!" Alexis sent out the Pokemon, who darted around buffeting Snorlax with attacks. Snorlax eventually locked onto the target and defeated her with one hyper beam. "Uh... Pichu!" Snorlax quickly took down the Pokemon after getting shocked a little. "Torchic!" Torchic was defeated by one ice punch, despite being a fire type. "Damn..." Alexis sulked while sending out a Bellosom.
"Why do you even HAVE two Bellosoms?!" Shadow deadpanned as Snorlax finished Alexis's fifth and last Pokemon off.
"The final match is up! Let's go!" Korrina grinned as the last two competitors stepped up.
"I'm getting that mega ring." Foxfire declared.
"Bruh. I ain't losin'." Alicia said menacingly.
"Go!"
"Fennekin!"
"Boba Fett!"
Alicia stared at Boba Fett the Wobbuffet... Before having Fennekin take it down in one hit.
"My Wobbuffet!" Foxfire wailed over its defeated body.
"I called it!" Peanut said to Flash. "Star Wars name!"
"Shut up, stupid Eevee!" Foxfire growled.
"Bruh, that was some weak ass shit." Alicia sweatdropped.
"Shut up! I'm serious now! Porygon2!" Foxfire sent the Pokemon out.
"Bruh. The fuck is that shit?" Alicia pulled out her pokedex.
Pokedex Data- Porygon2: With planetary development software installed, it became capable of working in space.
"Cool as fuck." Alicia whistled. "But I'm gonna fuck that shit up. Flame wheel!" Fennekin landed a solid hit, making Porygon2 wince.
"Conversion 2!" Foxfire ordered. Porygon2 glowed red for a moment before returning to normal.
"Bruh. That was fucking useless. Flame wheel!" Fennekin hit again, but Porygon2 shook the attack off this time and struck Fennekin back. "Wha...?"
"Conversion 2 is an attack that changes the user's type to a type resistant to the last attack the opponent used. In this situation, Porygon2 became a fire type." Peanut explained.
"Don't tell her!" Foxfire exclaimed.
"Damn stupid is what it is... I'll fuck you up!" Alicia switched in Staryu quickly, who used bubblebeam.
"Conversion 2!" Foxfire ordered. Since the last move that had hit it was flame wheel, a blue light flashed for a moment as Porygon2 turned into a water type. It was hardly damaged and took out Staryu with a shock wave.
"God fucking dammit!" Alicia screamed, sending out Pikachu to zap Porygon2.
"Conversion!" Foxfire ordered. Porygon2 turned into an electric type, the attack not doing much damage at all. He struck Pikachu quickly with a tackle. Alicia returned her Pokemon, her face beet red with anger. She stared at the two Pokeballs she had yet to open.
"Fuck... What am I supposed to do..." Alicia muttered. Pikachu, Staryu, and Fennekin had all been made useless by one Pokemon. She wasn't sure what she could do... Suddenly, she remembered something Peanut had told her earlier. She sent out Spewpa.
"Given up already?" Foxfire snickered mockingly.
"Shut the fuck up. Any one of my Pokemon can beat your shitty Pokemon." Alicia hissed, barely stopping herself from going up to Foxfire and smacking the fuck out of him. "Now let's go!"
"Get ready, Porygon2!" Foxfire ordered.
"Now, string shot!" Alicia ordered. Porygon2 was hit and bound up, even around his mouth.
"Conversion 2!" Foxfire ordered, but Porygon2 stared at him blankly. "Huh? Why didn't anything happen?"
"Bruh. String shot can't always be countered that way. Peanut told me this shit earlier." Alicia said.
"Anime logic..." Peanut shrugged. "It was a contest episode in the battle frontier, I think..."
"And also, Spewpa hella tied up that piece of shit's mouth." Alicia said, referring to Porygon2. "So it can't use any more moves, which means conversion only turns it into an electric type. And since the last move I hit you with was an electric type move, you can only turn into grass, electric, ground, or dragon type, all of which can be hurt by one of my Pokemon no matter what." Alicia grinned evilly, switching in Swirlix. "Dazzling gleam!"
"Porygon2! Conversion 2!" Foxfire gasped in his panic. Unfortunately, this turned him into a dragon type, leading to him being easily defeated by the attack. Foxfire grumbled before sending in his last Pokemon, Scizor. Alicia grinned, but in actuality, most of her team had been defeated or taken critical damage. She switched in Fennekin.
"Fuck no! Your weakened Fennekin won't do shit!" Foxfire glared. Scizor took her down with a metal claw, Porygon2 having done a lot of damage to her. Alicia gulped, unsure of who to send in. She finally decided on Spewpa, whose attacks proved quite ineffective. She was taken down easily. Alicia glared and sent in Pikachu. Pikachu hit with an iron tail that it had learned in a training session before dealing a Thundershock. Scizor wiped the blows off and began barraging him with quick attacks. Alicia looked worried as Pikachu's health dwindled.
"Kill that shit! Pikachu!" Alicia yelled. Pikachu suddenly unleashed a Thunderbolt. This did a good deal of damage, but wasn't enough. Scizor took Pikachu down with a metal claw. Alicia sighed as her Swirlix was taken down by Scizor. "I'll get revenge later."
"Alright, now Nan and Flash will fight. Fox will fight the winner." Korrina explained. Flash walked over to face off against Nan.
"Actually, can I fight Fox right now? I wanna beat him first and Flash second." Nan smirked.
"I have no complaint." Flash shrugged, walking back to where he was sitting. Foxfire stood up and walked to face off.
"Don't be so sure you'll win." Foxfire smirked.
"Go!"
"Boba Fett!"
"Frogadier!"
"Seriously?" Nan deadpanned as Frogadier took down Boba Fett in one hit.
"Hey! He's really awesome!" Foxfire protested as he sent in Porygon2.
"Hmph! This trick won't beat me!" Nan declared. "Water pulse!" The attack hit, hurting Porygon2.
"Conversion 2!" Foxfire smirked as the move was used.
"U-turn!" Nan ordered. Foxfire gasped in surprise as the attack did serious damage due to Porygon2 now being a bug type. Charmeleon was switched in and quickly dealt the final blow with a fire fang.
"Unreal..." Foxfire murmured as he switched in Scizor, who Charmeleon promptly dealt with, making Nan the winner.
"Final fight! Flash vs. Nan!" Korrina cheered. Nan and Flash faced off.
"I don't really care that much about the mega ring, I just want to fight." Flash admitted. "So let's just play fair, alright?"
"Yeah." Nan grinned and nodded.
"Go!" The two promptly sent out Kirlia and Charmeleon.
"Nostalgic." Flash commented with a grin.
"I won't lose this time!" Nan grinned. "Charmeleon! Fire fang!"
"Dodge!" Flash ordered. Kirlia elegantly dodged the attack. She continued to do so every time Charmeleon attacked.
"That Kirlia is FAST!" Korrina noted.
"Dammit! Flamethrower!" Nan shouted, Charmeleon following the order. Kirlia countered with a psybeam, the attacks colliding. As the collision dragged out, the two Pokemon suddenly simultaneously evolved!
Extra data- Charizard: When expelling a blast of superhot fire, the red flame at the tip of its tail burns more intensely.
Extra data- Gardevoir: To protect its Trainer, it will expend all its psychic power to create a small black hole.
"Psychic!" Flash cheered, happy about the evolution. He flipped on his shades. "I'll be winning." Gardevoir used psychic to slam Charizard into the ground.
"Like that'll be enough to beat me!" Nan grinned. "Wing attack!" Charizard slammed Gardevoir over with wing attack before she knocked him back with another psychic. He managed to knock her out with another flamethrower.
"Dang it..." Flash shook his head, grinning. He could feel adrenaline rush through his body. He loved Pokemon battles, and this was a great one. "Good one! Now my turn!" He sent in Snorlax, who slammed Charizard with an ice punch, freezing his wings. Charizard let out a pained whimper, so Nan switched him out with Gogoat.
"You did great, buddy." Nan grinned. Unfortunately for Nan, Snorlax took out Gogoat with one ice punch. Nan decided to send in Frogadier. Frogadier began to expertly flip around Snorlax at high speed and land attacks. However, as he was about to land an attack on Snorlax's face, the normal type suddenly unleashed a hyper beam. Frogadier quickly retaliated with hydro pump, but the resulting explosion led to them both being knocked out. Nan was down to his badly wounded Charizard and his weak Goldeen, while Flash had four fresh Pokemon left. Nan smirked.
"With just these two... I'll take down all four of your Pokemon!" Nan declared.
"Bring it!" Flash replied. Inkay went out against Charizard. Inkay used topsy-turvy and then peck, but Charizard took it down with one flamethrower. Flash was unflinching and brought out Fletchling.
"Flamethrower again!" Nan ordered, confident. However, Fletchling darted around the attack and headed to hit with a wing attack. Nan's eyes widened. "Uh... Try and wing attack!" Nan shouted in panic. Charizard managed to shatter the ice on one wing and counter, defeating Fletchling. However, he howled in pain as his wing went limp.
"So speed is the needed quality..." Flash grinned, ready to go on the offensive. "Go, Peanut!"
"Aye!" Peanut easily darted around Charizard's special attacks and smashed him with a tackle, taking him down to very low health. Nan's eyes widened.
"Return! Goldeen, get him!" Nan ordered, switching his Pokemon. Peanut instantly went aggressive as the two Pokemon began exchanging attacks. However, it was soon apparent that Peanut was stronger, and he quickly knocked Goldeen back. He tried to knock her out with a quick attack, but as he closed in, Goldeen suddenly hit him with a mega horn. As he was thrown into the air, Goldeen pierced his leg with her sharp horn. Peanut still managed to defeat her with a quick attack, leaving Nan with only Charizard. Peanut tried to finish off Charizard with a tackle, but was tripped up by his leg injury and defeated by a flamethrower. Charizard quickly defeated Chespin.
"Yes!" Nan grinned. Flash frowned, then grinned as well.
"Good job, you earned that mega ring." The two friends shook hands.
"Bae should've torched Nan..." Alicia grumbled, hugging Fennekin tightly in anger.
"You're just angry that you lost." Shadow pointed out.
"Damn right!" Alicia hugged Fennekin tighter.
"Before I give Nan his mega ring... How about gym battles?" Korrina grinned.
"What?!" Nan shouted, but was drowned out by a chorus of 'yes's from the rest of the group. They headed to the gym.
Day Three- 8:00 P.M. Location: Shalour Gym.
After a trip to the Pokemon center, the group were in the gym, ready to receive their third gym badges.
"I'm up first." Flash said, no one contesting him. He easily took out all the fighting types on Korrina's team with Gardevoir, easily winning the badge. Nan went up next.
"Let's go! I'm ready for my mega ring!" Nan sent out Frogadier to fight Korrina's Mienfoo. Mienfoo immediately went in for a power-up punch, but Frogadier caught it and smashed her back. He then darted around and slammed her back with a quick attack. Suddenly, Frogadier glowed and evolved!
Extra data- Greninja: It creates throwing stars out of compressed water. When it spins them and throws them at high speed, these stars can split metal in two.
"Hell yeah! Kill it now, Nan!" Alicia cheered.
"Actually, that evolution doesn't bode well for him." Flash told her.
"Bae. Explain." Alicia looked at him.
"Greninja becomes half dark type. Dark type is weak against fighting." Flash explained.
"Hell..." Alicia looked back at the battle as Mienfoo took Greninja down with one fighting type attack. Nan still had three Pokemon left, but Gogoat was at a disadvantage and Goldeen was too weak.
"I'm counting on you..." Nan muttered, sending in Charizard. Mienfoo didn't stand much of a chance and was soon taken down by a wing attack. The same happened to Machoke. Then Hawlucha was sent out. The two flying types locked eyes before engaging in an air battle. However strong he was, Hawlucha was quickly outmatched and defeated, earning Nan the badge.
"Me next! Me next!" Foxfire cheered childishly.
"It's hard to believe you're the oldest one here." Shadow snickered underhandedly.
"Don't be mean..." Toxic frowned at her Pokemon.
"Boba Fett!" Foxfire quickly sent out his Pokemon against Mienfoo, who quickly took it down. "Fucking dammit! Stop losing!" He returned his defeated Pokemon and sent in Porygon2. Porygon2 used psybeam to knock her back as she used power-up punch, then used conversion to turn himself into a psychic type. Porygon2 then made quick work of Machoke and Mienfoo, and took Hawlucha down with shock wave.
"Bruh. Ya'll ain't seen shit." Alicia stepped up, sending out Swirlix. Swirlix was able to squeeze in a victory with its fairy type moves before being defeated by Hawlucha. Alicia easily defeated him with Pikachu.
"You can go, I don't mind." Toxic told Alexis.
"I won't take long." Alexis sent in Bellosom. She used it to take down Machoke and Mienfoo with her sunny day/solar beam combo, but it was quickly defeated by Hawlucha's flying type moves. Alexis easily beat him with Pichu.
Toxic used Dedenne's fairy type moves to take out Machoke and Mienfoo, and defeated Hawlucha with an electric type attack.
"Alright, I'll give you your mega ring, Nan." Korrina relented. "Follow me."
"The rest of us will get rooms at the hotel." Flash said. "Meet us there afterwards.
"Yeah." Nan nodded before following Korrina.
Day Three- 9:00 P.M. Location: top of the tower of master.
Korrina turned around, sending out her Lucarios.
"Alright, here!" She tossed Nan his mega ring, which he put on. "There's just one more test."
"huh?!" Nan blinked.
"You've got to beat a mega Lucario." Korrina explained, sending in her second one. Her first one darted in front of Nan, glaring. "It seems one of mine wishes to join you, though. You know, the one who likes your aura? Let's make it a one on one, Lucario against Lucario!"
"Yeah!" Nan grinned. The two raised their mega rings in unison.
"mega evolve! Lucario!" In a flash of light, the Lucario's evolved and charged at each other. They both used close combat and began slamming each other with blows, glaring all the while. Nan's Lucario broke away first.
"Aura sphere!"
"Bone rush!" Nan's Lucario shot an aura sphere, and managed to get past the bone rush and smash into the other Lucario. Nan's Lucario then used bone rush and finished her off.
"Good job." Korrina grinned. "Make good use of that mega ring!"
Day Three- 10:00 P.M. Location: Flash, Nan, and Alicia's hotel room.
"So... Why are we sharing a room again?" Nan asked.
"Peanut made the room arrangements, and now he's hiding in Fox's room." Flash grumbled. Nan blinked. His friend seemed strangely grumpy... In fact, Nan couldn't think of a time when he was like this before...
"Whatever. Let's sleep." Flash got in bed. They all were soon asleep.
Day Three- 11:00 P.M. Location: balcony outside Toxic and Shadow's room.
"These are good rooms! I've never had balcony in a hotel room before!" Toxic gasped as she exited her room onto the balcony, where Shadow had been sitting for a while. "And the stars are out, too!"
"This world is pretty beautiful, huh?" Shadow grinned a little.
"Yus! And you're so cuuuuuuuuute! Eeveeh fluffeh!" Toxic said, grabbing Shadow and hugging him. "Fluffeeeeeeeeh! I almost like you better like this! Just kidding of course, you ish my awesome friend either way." She placed the Eevee down. "Though it is different, with you being the fluffeh and me being the human this time around."
"Would you rather we switch roles?" Shadow's eyes gleamed evilly.
"Nuuuuuuu! No exceed thingie! I done want it!" Toxic hid behind a chair. "I'm meant to hug fluffehs, not to be a fluffeh! Never again!"
"Yeah, it works better this way. If they knew who I was, we wouldn't be able to proceed with the plan." Shadow pointed out. "They'd be too suspicious, Flash especially."
"Oooooooh, so that's why you stopped me from revealing your true identity back there?" Toxic sat on the ledge next to Shadow. "If I had known I was making up a name for you in advance, I would've named you Mephiles." She grinned.
"Wouldn't he be mad?" Shadow wondered.
"He isn't here." Toxic grinned evilly.
"He can dimension travel." Shadow reminded her.
"...oh yeah. BEACHBALLS!" Toxic hid behind Shadow. "Save meh, fluffeh!"
"Whatever... It's a disappointment you didn't get the mega ring, but it doesn't interfere with the plan." Shadow said.
"It didn't hurt anything." Toxic sat up.
"Yeah. Just make sure everything in our plans goes right at the Pokemon league." Shadow stared up at the stars.
"That's the really important part, right?" Toxic grinned.
"Yeah. That's when my identity will be revealed... And true hell will be unleashed in the group." Shadow's eyes gleamed as a comet passed overhead...
Day: Three
Badges won: Three.
Competition stats:
Flash- 2 wins, 1 loss. (1 loss against Foxfire.)
Nan- 2 wins, 2 losses. (1 win against Foxfire.)
Alicia- 1 win, 0 losses. (1 loss against Foxfire.)
Alexis- 0 wins, 1 loss.
Toxic- 0 wins, 1 loss.
A/N: Alexis and Toxic are tied, so expect them to have fights soon ;)