Lightray, if you really think electric is resisted by rock, check a chart, and don't give me all that crap about how you don't need it, actually I checked on a chart and it said that electric is neutral against rock, so don't bring your bs over here.
And note that I realize that Steelix, and the newly introduced Tyranitar in this chapter are from different regions, Ash won't be getting any other region's pokemon (except Riolu), but he will fight a number of new pokemon, such as the "boss battle" against Tyranitar.
Btw, for anybody wondering, Giselle will be introduced verrrrry sooon.
Anyways, without further ado:
Chapter 4
Summary of what has happened so far: Ash got his gym badge, Mr. Charmander is changed the last five letters of his name, our favorite electric mouse was kidnapped by the big bad rocket people, Ash got into a training regiment with Flint and the two stormed the rocket compound, Ash was captured by the rocket dude, while Flint defeated his old acquaintance (now Rocket) Derek.
Flint cursed as he realized that the other Rocket was not with Derek, either the other Rocket took Pikachu and fled as soon as he noticed Flint had arrived, or he had taken out Ash or vice versa although it was probably the former since neither Flint or Ash had predicted that only one rocket would come out.
Flint hurried towards the interior of the warehouse with Steelix, Graveler, and Kabutops in tow. He finally found the furthest room back and he looked around in the dim lighting. Flint gave a small gasp as he noticed that Ash was unconscious and wrapped up in a strange purple rope. Then the rope started moving and he realized that it was actually a giant snake pokemon: an Arbok.
"Well, well, well. It looks like Derek was no match for his old partner." A cold voice said. Flint spun towards the voice and he was rewarded by spotting a dark figure in the shadows that the dim light made.
"It seems that you have spotted me," The figure stepped out of the corner to reveal a tall man with the typical Rocket uniform, all black with a red R in the middle of the sweatshirt. "Now, let it be known that the great Flint Stone, former Kanto Staff Sergeant in the Third Pokemon War, was defeated by Haize Mccorman of Team Rocket!"
Flint looked at the tall man in the surprise, "H-how did you know that?"
The man chuckled, "Your old unit partner told me." At this Flint just shook his head, 'I should have known Derek would have told his old partner about me, especially after I attacked them when they ambushed Ash!'
"Now, it seems that you didn't bring any particularly powerful pokemon with you except for that Steelix!"
Flint gritted his teeth, the man was right, out of total arrogance on his part, he didn't think that the Rockets would be a challenge so he neglected to bring his most powerful pokemon, instead opting to give Kabutops and Graveler a little training run. But now, Derek had weakened his pokemon substantially and he had heard of Haize, who used to be an upper echelon mercenary for hire. Known for his brutality and raw power, Haize's most famour pokemon, a Tyranitar was known to defeat whole legions of Officer Jennys.
"It will have to be enough, Steelix, get ready to rumble!" Flint said, returning his other two pokemon.
"A 1v1 battle?" Haize said in surprise, "You were known for how brilliant you were at triple battles!"
'He must have really weak pokemon' Haize thought to himself, 'so he hopes that he can take out most, if not all of my pokemon with that Steelix.'
"Don't underestimate me that much, Flint" Haize said out loud, "Magmar!"
A Magmar appeared out of the pokeball in Haize's hand. Flint gritted his teath, the Magmar looked pretty powerful and his Steelix could be hit supereffectively by Magmar. But… Steelix was still a ground type, and ground type attacks received STAB and a type advantage.
"Steelix, start things up with an Earthquake!" Steelix let out a roar and slammed it's tail onto the ground shaking things badly, and damaging Magmar significantly.
"Magmar didn't even feel that," Haize said with an arrogant smirk, "Flamethrower!"
Magmar let out a stream of fire that hit Steelix before Steelix puffed out of existence.
"A substitute?" Haize said in confusion, "when did you.."
"Steelix finish with Dig!"
Steelix bursted out of the ground and slammed into Magmar, dealing supereffective damage to the Magmar, and despite what Haize boasted, was still recovering from the powerful Earthquake.
Haize cursed as he saw the now wobbling Magmar, "Magmar return!"
Flint looked at the Rocket in surprise, not expecting this.
"Gyarados, let's shake things up!" and true to his word, a Gyarados appeared out of the pokeball.
Flint gritted his teeth again, Gyarados, unlike Magmar would have total advantage over Steelix, being immune to ground attacks as well as being able to use moves like Earthquake and Aqua Tail that could prove disastrous to Steelix.
So Flint did the smart thing, he returned Steelix… and threw out Graveler.
"You must be losing your touch old man," Haize said, "to send out a Graveler against my Gyarados!"
"Graveler Smack Down!" Graveler obeyed and launched a rock at Gyarados, surprising it and doing supereffective damage.
"Gyarados Aqua Tail!" Haize said angrily.
"Explosion!" Flint said, slightly regretting having to do this.
"What!" Haize exclaimed, not expecting a suicide tactic from the former gym leader.
But Graveler knew why it's master wanted it to do it, as he could tell that Gyarados would be trouble to his trainer and so it suddenly exploded when Gyarados came near.
As the dust cleared Graveler had fainted, which wasn't a surprise to Flint, while Gyarados was swaying in the air.
"Steelix, go, end it quickly with Rock Tomb!" Steelix roared as it was let out again and immediately hurled large boulders that struck Gyarados, knocking the Ferocious Pokemon out for the count.
Haize, returned Gyarados angrily, as he realized that he had been outplayed that time.
"Let's see if you like this pokemon!" He said, as he called out a Machamp.
Flint shook his head in frustration as the four-armed pokemon appeared, it seems that Haize had prepared for him as he had prepared a multitude of pokemon that held a type advantage to all his pokemon, especially Steelix, who was his strongest pokemon.
"Machamp use Cross Chop!"
Machamp sprang forward with it's arms glowing in white energy as it swung at the Steelix, who bursted into smoke.
"Another substitute?" Haize said in frustration.
"Steelix come up and use Iron Tail!"
With another loud roar, Steelix bursted out of the ground and swung it's large tail at Machamp, coated in white energy.
But as Steelix was about to make contact with Machamp, Machamp just casually blocked the attack with one of it's four arms.
"Good job Machamp, Seismic Toss!"
Machamp, with a grunt threw the Steel Snake pokemon up into the air, crashing through the warehouse roof, then followed Steelix through the roof with a mighty leap.
Flint knew that their was very little chance that Steelix would still stay standing after the seismic toss, so he thought quickly and said, "Steelix, Hyper Beam at the ground.
Steelix roared its confirmation and shot a huge beam of destructive energy at the ground.
"What?" Haize said, confused with Flint's strategy.
"Kabutops, go!" Flint hastily called out his remaining pokemon, the dual rock/water type prehistoric Kabutops.
"Kabutops use slash attack at Arbok!" Flint ordered his newly called out Kabutops.
"Oh no you don't, Arbok, counter with Gunk Shot!" Arbok hissed at the approaching Kabutops before spitting a large ball of green foul poison at the approaching Kabutops. The ball of poison exploded upon contact with Kabutops as the shellfish pokemon groaned in pain. But the gunk shot was not enough to deter Kabutops and the brown pokemon managed to Slash at Arbok with all it's might before collapsing on the ground.
Fortunately, the one Slash was enough to break Arbok's chokehold on Ash's body as Ash groaned in relief at being released from the suffocating grip of Arbok.
Meanwhile, Steelix's Hyper Beam crashed into the Warehouse, blowing up and causing a fair amount of dust to settle obscuring the vision for everybody. Moments later, a large crash could be heard, most likely Steelix crashing into the ground from Machamp's Seismic Toss.
As soon as Ash had been released, he groggily shook off the mild concussion he had received earlier from Haize. Luckily, the blow from Arbok hadn't hit him terribly hard and it seemed that no serious damage had been done to the ten year old pokemon trainer.
"Charmeleon, Bellsprout, I need both of you to help!" Ash called out his remaining pokemon, not captured by the Rockets.
"Bellsprout, use razor leaf on Pikachu's Cage, Charmeleon, use Fireball at Arbok!" Ash shouted out.
Bellsprout immediately sprang into action and sharp leaves fired and destroyed Pikachu's cage, and Pikachu jumped out enthusiastically.
Charmeleon, meanwhile, spotted the long shadow of Arbok in the smoke and charged a Fireball and fired it at the big purple snake pokemon. Arbok's eyes widened for a second, it's eyes as large as saucers before the Fireball connected and exploded, knocking Arbok out.
"Ash, we need to retreat, I've lost all my pokemon, and Haize still has his Machamp, Magmar, and another pokemon, probably a very powerful Tyranitar!"
"Alright Flint, I got Pikachu, we can leave now!" Ash said, as the pair raced out of the warehouse into the morning rays of Pewter City.
"Machamp! Magmar! After them!" came the voice of Haize, shouting through the chaos.
"Come on Ash," Flint exclaimed, "Your pokemon aren't strong enough to take on his yet, we need to take refuge at the Pewter City pokemon center!"
Ash nodded his agreement as he raced along next to the old veteran, panting slightly due to the physical exertion of sprinting as fast as humanly possible for the last 30 seconds.
But all their running would be useless if Haize and his remaining pokemon caught up to them, so the two swiftly running pokemon trainers redoubled their efforts and put everything they had into their legs, which were rapidly burning out from the continued sprinting.
Meanwhile, Brock Stone just woke up and he took his Onix and Geodude out for a little morning exercise when he saw two figures in the distance quickly kicking up a lot of dust. Brock's eyes widened when he saw the first figure, who he identified as Ash Ketchum, one of this latest challengers and the most recent to obtain the Boulder Badge, but once he saw who the second figure was, he immediately raced after the pair.
"I could swear I saw my father…" Brock muttered to himself as the young gym leader sprinted after the still rapidly moving Ash and the person that resembled his father.
Flint and Ash finally saw the Police station down the road before a Machamp suddenly materialized out of nowhere and appeared in front of the two pokemon trainers, who were breathing very hard after the long run.
"You didn't really think that I would run all by myself, did you?" Haize chuckled as Machamp put him onto the ground from where he had been, riding on Machamps shoulders.
"Machamp, Whirlwind Chop!" Machamp jumped forward, his arms waving wildly around in a deadly whirlwind of destruction.
"Charmeleon, hold it off with Inferno!" Charmeleon let out a torrent of blue flames that engulfed Machamp, who bellowed in pain.
"Machamp, jump up to avoid the fire!" Haize said, ordering his pained pokemon to escape from the flames.
"Charmeleon, pick Machamp off with a Fireball!" Charmeleon formed a sphere of fire energy and fired it at the airborne Machamp, who had no choice but to take the hit.
Machamp landed back on its feet, barely able to stand up after two powerful direct hits.
"Machamp, Dynamic Punch!" Machamp disappeared in a blur of sudden speed and connected it's fist with Charmeleon, who was thrown backwards like a rag doll.
"Char!" Charmeleon cried in pain.
"Charmeleon you okay?" Ash asked, shocked at the speed and power that Machamp had shown.
"Give it up kid," Haize said confidently, "Your weak pokemon are no match for my awesome Machamp!"
"Fire Snake!" Ash ordered, Charmeleon looked at his trainer in surprise, while the move was powerful and would probably prove decisive in the battle, it would drain a lot of Charmeleon's power and it was rather unreliable.
But Charmeleon decided to trust his trainer and opened his mouth and a focused stream of Fire came out, but this fire was different from your typical flamethrower fire, it formed into the shape of a long snake complete with fangs and all and launched at Machamp at high speeds.
Machamp tried to avoid the snake and was partially successful, as the snake largely missed, hitting the ground in front of the Four-armed fighting pokemon. But that was all Charmeleon needed as the explosion caused by the fire snake colliding with the ground caused enough damage to KO the unfortunate Machamp.
Haize's eyes widened at the sight of the powerful attack, "That is indeed very powerful for a relatively young pokemon, but will it be enough for my Magmar?"
Ash cursed when he saw the Magmar, he had hoped to be able to weaken Haize's Tyranitar before taking it out with Bellsprout, but Magmar was leaving him no choice but to take the fire pokemon out before Bellsprout could be damaged.
"Charmeleon, Mega Punch!" Charmeleon charged forward at an impressive speed before delivering a powerful punch at Magmar.
"Retaliate with a Thunder punch!" Magmar quickly complied and launched a fist coated with electricity to land a powerful blow onto Charmeleon.
"Charmeleon!" Ash yelled out in shock, not expecting the quick counterattack from the fire pokemon.
"Charmeleon, alright, let's end this battle with a full powered, Purple Fire Attack!" Ash yelled out.
"Magmar, meet him with your Giga Impact!" Haize said, throwing all his cards in as well.
Magmar jumped into the air, before coating in golden energy and diving at Charmeleon, who surrounded himself with Purple flames and leapt at Magmar, the two powerful attacks meeting with a good sided explosion.
As the smoke cleared, both pokemon were on the ground with swirls in their eyes, signaling the battle to be a tie.
"Good job Charmeleon," Ash said, "You deserve a nice long rest!"
Meanwhile, Haize looked shocked at the defeat of his Magmar, but he wasn't worried, instead, he laughed mirthlessly, "I admit that I'm surprised, kid, not many people would be able to take out two of my pokemon with only one of theirs, and to be a 10 year old rookie trainer as well! But I'm afraid your little streak will end here!"
"Tyranitar, it's show time!" Haize then called out a powerful looking Tyranitar, who roared loudly before stomping on the ground, causing the Earth to shake a little.
"Bellsprout, do your best!" Ash called out his final pokemon, who he hoped the type advantage would give Bellsprout the victory.
"Hiding behind type advantages'll do you no good here!" Haize yelled out arrogantly, "Tyranitar, Crunch!"
Tyranitar, despite it's large size, launched itself forward with impressive speed to chomp at the tiny Bellsprout. But Bellsprout wasn't just about to let the big dinosaur pokemon take a chomp out of it's side, and the small plant pokemon swiftly moved to one side to avoid the Crunch attack.
Tyranitar was riding it's bloodlust, ready to deal damage, but suddenly, it's target disappeared, the big dinosaur looked around in confusion before spotting where it's target had escaped to.
"Don't let it get away, Fire Punch!" Tyranitar roared and charged at Bellsprout, it's paw/hand encased in fire energy.
Bellsprout shivered as she saw the fist of fire.
"Bellsprout, use Razor Leaf to trip Tyranitar up!" Ash called out, trying to prevent the supereffective attack from landing.
"I don't think so," Haize said, "Tyranitar, knock those Razor Leaf out of the way with Slash attack!"
Tyranitar swiped the Razor Leaf attack out of the way with it's other hand. "Tyranitar, Spinning Blaze Kick!"
Tyranitar canceled out the flames in it's fist in favor of igniting a new fire on it's right foot, and spun around to kick at Bellsprout, but as the foot connected with Bellsprout, Bellsprout bursted into smoke.
'A substitute, huh?' Haize thought to himself, "Tyranitar, Sandstorm: Swirling Vortex!"
Ash narrowed his eyes, it appeared as if Tyranitar had focused the Sandstorm around it's body, making visibility very low, and it seemed that the Sandstorm protected Tyranitar from any attacks, but any theory needed to be tested…
"Bellsprout, SolarBeam!" Bellsprout started absorbing the morning sun and unleashed the energy all at once at Tyranitar.
The solarbeam cut right through the sandstorm, but went right through, not hitting anything. Ash and Bellsprout both gritted their teeth/plant thing in frustration, the Sandstorm around Tyranitar, while not very large, was enough for Tyranitar to completely hide from view.
"Tyranitar, Sandstorm: vortex punch!" Tyranitar roared, as the Sandstorm started compressing and Ash and Bellsprout could see Tyranitar once again, but the Sandstorm seemed to be concentrated in a ball around Tyranitar's clenched fist.
Tyranitar charged forward and delivered the punch right at Bellsprout, who flew backwards, still surprised by the speed and strength of the Tyranitar.
"Bellsprout, Razor Dance!" Bellsprout focused and launched a Razor Leaf Barrage at Tyranitar, who attempted to dodge out of the way, but the sharp leaves quickly changed direction and followed the big green dinosaur.
"Tyranitar, burn those leaves up with Flamethrower!" Tyranitar let out a torrent of hot flames that burned the leaves to a crispy salad. But the attack was just a distraction as Bellsprout suddenly appeared behind Tyranitar.
"Close Combat, leaf style!" Ash ordered, Bellsprout encased herself with a green energy and launched a barrage of punches and kicks at Tyranitar and the Rock/Dark type pokemon grimaced under the Fighting/Grass attack, doing triple damage. Tyranitar was launched backwards, sliding on the ground.
"Tyranitar, don't let them get the upper hand, use Superpower!" Tyranitar roared in approval and surrounded itself with a white light of power and Tyranitar charged at Bellsprout and sent the small plant pokemon into the air with a powerful punch."
"Bellsprout, quickly, while your in the air, Solarbeam!" Bellsprout absorbed the energy as quickly as possible and launched the grass beam at Tyranitar.
"Bat it off course with Aqua Tail!" Tyranitar responded by encasing it's tail with water and swatting the Solarbeam off it's path into a nearby house, making the deadly beam explode against some civilian's home.
"End this fight with Hyper Beam!" Tyranitar roared one last time for good measure and launched the beam of destructive energy at the airborne Bellsprout, who was helpless as she was unable to dodge while being in the air.
The Hyper Beam connected and exploded(like all good pokemon attacks), and as the smoke cleared, Bellsprout was on the ground with swirls in her eyes.
"No!" Ash yelled as Bellsprout was hit with the Hyper Beam, "I can't believe we lost…"
Haize chuckled, "While I admit you put up a good fight, your pokemon just aren't on par with me and my Tyranitar, now you and your pokemon will be coming with me!"
"Not if I have something to say about it," came another voice behind Ash, who spun around to see the gym leader of Pewter City: Brock Stone.
"Brock?" Flint gasped as he saw the squinty eyed Gym Leader.
"Onix, Geodude, Rock throw both of you!" Brock ordered, "Flint, go alert the Jennies, Ash, run to the gym, I have gathered some of my men, they should be able to defend you until the Jennies bring in the SWAT!
"Oh no you don't," Haize said, "Tyranitar, Superpower!"
"Hurry!" Brock yelled as Tyranitar sent Geodude flying. Flint ran off as fast as his legs could carry him towards the Police station while Ash fled with his injured pokemon towards the Pewter City Gym.
"Foolish Gym Leader," Haize said, "Tyranitar, finish that Onix with Aqua Tail." Tyranitar coated it's tail with water and smacked Onix away like a rag doll.
"No normally I would punish you for getting in my way, but time is of essence," Haize said, "Tyranitar, after that brat with the Pikachu!" Tyranitar nodded in obedience and scooped up Haize and ran after the retreating form of Ash.
Ash, in the meantime had reached the gym, where several men with pokeballs in their hand were waiting for him.
"You must be Ash," The first man stated simply, "Follow me inside the gym, the others will hold the Rocket off while we fortify the inside of the gym, if all goes wrong, their is an underground escape route leading to outside the city."
Ash nodded in understanding before hurrying inside.
"Now," The man said, "I think your pokemon are in need of a healing?"
Meanwhile, Haize and his powerful Tyranitar were just outside the gym's doors, where he was met with a multitude of Rock and Ground type pokemon.
Haize growled, "I don't have time for this, Tyranitar, Earthquake!" Tyranitar jumped up to the air and slammed it's feet and tail onto the ground as hard it could, causing massive shaking, knocking out all but three of the opposing pokemon.
"Onix, use Bind!" One of the trainers, said.
"Sandstorm: vortex punch!" Tyranitar gathered a sandstorm around it's clenched fist before slamming the fist into Onix, knocking the rock snake out for the count.
"Sandslash, use Rollout!"
"Graveler, Rock Blast!"
The two attacks flew at Tyranitar, but Haize wasn't about to let Tyranitar be hit so easily.
"Sandstorm: sand armor!" Tyranitar surrounded itself with a thick sandstorm that repelled the two attacks easily.
"Sandstorm : Sand Spear!" Tyranitar took the sand armor and formed it into a spear shape and struck at Graveler, taking the large rock pokemon out.
"Sandslash, Dig!"
"Tyranitar Earthquake!"
And just like that, all the defenders in front of the Gym were taken out letting Tyranitar and Haize inside the gym.
"Fire!" Ash and company yelled to welcome Haize in the gym.
A newly revived Bellsprout launched a Solarbeam, while Charmander let out a powerful Flamethrower, even Pikachu added in his most powerful Sand Tornado.
The man with Ash also had a couple of tricks up his sleave, "Omastar, Hydro Pump!"
The attacks all hit Tyranitar in a grand explosion, Ash and the man started cheering and hi-fiving, but a huge roar from the middle of the explosion silenced the cheering, Tyranitar was still ready to fight!
"NO WAY!" Ash yelled, "HOW COULD THAT POKEMON SURVIVE THAT COMBINED ATTACK!"
"Foolish kid," Haize chuckled arrogantly, "My Tyranitar can withstand a multitude of hits, it's scales are almost impenetrable, those attacks didn't even scratch his body armor!"
"Although," Haize continued, "The same could not be said of your pokeon."
"Tyranitar, Hyper Beam!"
All the defenders of the Gym scattered before the still unnamed man yelled at Ash, "Take the underground passage, it's at the end of the Gym, I'll hold him off!"
Ash nodded before he and his pokemon dashed to the back of the Gym.
"I won't let you!" Haize yelled, "Sandstorm: Sand Spear!"
A sand spear was formed and fired at Ash and his pokemon, but suddenly, an Omastar jumped in the way receiving the hit.
"Nice job Omastar!" The man shouted as the Omastar was shown to have used protect.
"Aqua Jet!" Omastar surrounded itself with water and charged at Tyranitar, but it was to be for nought, "Tyranitar, Sandstorm: Vortex Punch!" Tyranitar slammed it's fist against Omastar, slamming the fossil pokemon into the gym wall.
Meanwhile, Ash and his pokemon had entered the dark Underground Passage, "Come on guys, we need to get away from the Tyranitar!"
Charmeleon, Pikachu, and Bellsprout looked at each other before racing after there trainer, who seemed to have unlimited stamina, if the speed of how fast Ash was running was any indication.
Haize and Tyranitar, in the meantime had also found the Underground passage, "You won't get away from me that easily!" And the chase was on...