A HERO'S RETURN
CHAPTER 9
"This is a full battle between Max from Hoenn and Paul from Sinnoh. Begin!"
"Mightyena I choose you!" Max said as his Dark type dog appeared.
"Torterra, stand by for battle!" Paul said as he called out his faithful turtle.
Paul wasn't going to torture Max like he planned. He wanted this to end soon so he could help Ash incase Team Omni attacked him. Everyone but Ash was in the stands watching him but Ash was by the lake training his pokemon for anything. Hell, if it was Paul team Omni was after, he would too.
"Mightyena crunch!" Then with glowing teeth the dog charged the turtle.
"Torterra, stone edge to slam it down and use earthquake." Then stones were shot at Mightyena and they forced him to crash into the floor, right before the violent shaking started.
The dog-like Pokemon couldn't handle the combined force of both full power attacks and fainted.
"Mightyena is unable to battle, Torterra is the winner. Send out you're next pokemon!" The ref announced.
"Gallade I choose you!" Then Max's swords-men appeared in another flash.
"Gallade, Psycho Cut and then leaf blade!" Max called as the blast of psychic energy was shot at Torterra who took it without flinching.
Then with a green glowing arm Gallade rushed Torterra.
"Closer. Closer. Now! Use Crunch!" Paul said to Torterra.
Just like Mightyena, Torterra's jaw glowed white and bit on Gallade's glowing arm.
"Gallade break free and use brick break!" Max called but it was no use, Torterra wouldn't let go.
"Torterra, throw it up and hit it with a razor leaf." Paul ordered. Then Torterra threw Gallade into the air, and launched sharp leaves at it. After that Gallade crashed into the ground, unmoving.
"Gallade is unable to battle, Torterra is the winner. Send out your next pokemon!" the ref said as Max recalled his fallen Gallade.
"Magcargo, I choose you!" Max said as his fire snail came out.
Torterra, deciding to have a little fun, roared loudly and successfully scared Magcargo shitless.
"Magcargo, flamethrower!" Magcargo recovered and shot flames at Torterra.
"Torterra, energy ball shield and use rockslide!"
Then Torterra gathered an energy ball but didn't fire it. Or swallow it. Instead it gathered energy until the ball was about half the size of Torterra and just like Paul said it served as a shield against the flames. Then rocks began to fall onto Magcargo.
"Magcargo, rollout!" Then it took off rolling at Torterra.
Paul just laughed and taunted, "Don't you know to stay away from Torterra yet? Send it a leaf storm and razor leaf mixed together."
Then Torterra's mixed attack succeeded in stopping and knocking out Magcargo.
"Magcargo is unable to battle, Torterra wins again. Send out your next Pokemon."
"Crawdaunt, I choose you." Max said as his water crab came out.
"Torterra, return. Thank You. Electivire, stand by for battle!" Paul said switching from his starter to his Electivire.
"Crawdaunt, bubble beam!" Then even more bubbles came and attacked Electivire, but it didn't do much.
"Thunder!"
"Oh no! Get outta there!" Max called but it was too late, as Crawdaunt was struck with electricity.
"Crawdaunt, Crabhammer!" Crawdaunt's claw became white as it lunged at Electivire, who used its 'tail' to wrap it up.
"Electivire, brick break and thunder punch!" Then with its glowing white arm, it sent Crawdaunt upwards, and with the one crackling with electricity, put it back on the floor.
"Crawdaunt is unable to battle, Electivire wins. Send out your next pokemon."
"Masquerain, I choose you!" Then Max's bug pokemon came out. Paul chuckled to himself at how easy this would be.
"Masquerain, aerial ace!" Then, Masquerain took off in the blink of an eye.
"End this quick Electivire, we need to check on Ash, thunder punch and fire punch." Paul said to his electric type.
Right before Masquerain slammed into Electivire, Electivire slammed his thundering and flaming fist together catching Masquerain in the middle. As Electivire opened his arms, an unconscious Masquerain came out.
"Masquerain is unable to battle, Electivire wins again. Send out your next pokemon."
"Sceptile, I choose you!" Max said sending out his last pokemon.
"Electivire, return. Thank you. Magmortar, stand by for battle!" Paul said sending out his towering fire type.
"Sceptile bullet seed!" Then little seeds proceeded to strike and bounce off Magmortar.
"Sceptile, try leaf blade!" Then with glowing green leaves, it charged and rammed into Magmortar, who winced a little but was ok other wise.
Then as Max was about to order another attack, Sceptile was surrounded in a random burst of flames and Max realized Magmortar had the ability flame body.
"Magmortar, put it out of its misery, fire blast!" Then a large burst of fire shaped like a star came out and hit Sceptile.
"Sceptile is unable to battle, Magmortar wins and the victor is Paul from Sinnoh!" the ref yelled as Paul called Magmortar back before meeting up with his friends in the stands and hurrying to the lake.
"Pikachu and Aipom use iron tail!" Ash yelled as his 2 pokemon used iron tail against a tem Omni member's Glalie and Onix.
"Glalie, ice beam and Onix double edge!" But before either pokemon could attack Ash's pokemon countered.
"Pikachu, brick break on Glalie and Aipom focus punch on Onix!" Then with his glowing tail Pikachu knocked out Glalie and with a swing of its glowing fist Aipom knocked Onix out too.
With that the Omni member fled and Ash turned to see his friends come from the trees.
"Anybody bother you?" Joey asked.
"Yea one guy just left but he wasn't too bad, Pikachu and Aipom beat him easy." Ash told them.
They nodded and were relieved. Ash's battle was still an hour away so they all sat in their respective spots in the clearing and took it easy, because they all knew that it was coming soon.
The hour went by pretty quick, with Ash and Paul sparring, The Trio arguing over playing cards, Domino, Sarah and Cynthia talking and Joey playing with his Nano-Dex.
So before they knew it they were in the stadium for Ash's battle. This time everyone, including Paul and Cynthia sat in the box behind Ash.
"This is a full battle between Lance and Ash from Kanto! Begin!"
"Gyrados, battle time!" Lance said calling out his shiny red Gyrados.
"Pikachu, will you lend me your aura?" Ash asked the yellow mouse on his right shoulder.
"Without question. Im gonna win this for us!" Pikachu said leaping onto the field with sparking cheeks.
"Gyrados, hydro pump!"
"Volttackle!"
Pikachu leapt into the air and was covered by a golden aura. He easily ran up the torrent of water and was about to ram Gyrados when,
"Gyrados, dodge it!" Then Gyrados stopped the water attack to move away from Pikachu.
"Pikachu, switch to ThunderBolt!" Then the golden aura vanished. It didn't just disappear; it was sucked into Pikachu's cheeks and used as a power-up.
Pikachu released a bolt of lightening that made a direct hit with Gyrados. Lance growled.
"Gyrados, surf!" Then a wave of blue water came, picked up Gyrados and carried him at Pikachu.
"Pikachu, you too." Ash said smirking, remembering Pikachu's request to Arceus.
Pikachu's eyes glowed blue and just like Gyrados a blue wave appeared and picked up Pikachu and took him towards Gyrados's wave.
Right before the waves collided Ash called,
"Pikachu, add in a Thunder!" At Ash's command, Pikachu released a thunder into his wave.
After the collision both Gyrados and Pikachu were standing, panting but standing.
"Gyrados, dragon rage!" Then a blue orb was shot at Pikachu.
"Quick Attack to get away, follow up with Electro Ball!" Pikachu zipped out of the way, did a flip and send a ball of electricity at Gyrados.
"Gyrados, water pulse!" The circles of water and electric, instead of colliding, they passed by each other, and hit the other Pokemon.
"Pikachu, give it another ThunderBolt!" Ash told his Pokemon as Pikachu flipped forward and hit Gyrados with another ThunderBolt attack.
That was too much for Gyrados, despite his trainer's pleas, he couldn't muster anything up to get up again.
"Gyrados is unable to battle, Pikachu is the winner. Send out you're next pokemon!" The ref told the crowd.
"Flygon, battle time!" Then yet another green dragon appeared.
"Pi, good work, return for now. Glalie, lend me your aura!" Pikachu hopped off the field and back onto Ash's shoulder letting Glalie take his place.
"Flygon, fire blast!" Another star shaped fire attack was shot, this time at Glalie.
"Glalie, hail and then spin with ice beam!"
As Ash said, Glalie maid it hail, witch actually slowed down the fire blast, then spun into an ice beam, that made a glacier like structure around Glalie with Glalie in the middle.
The fire blast only hit the glacier and was dispersed.
"Flygon, break through with flamethrower!" Flygon started flying around trying to melt the ice but nothing happened.
"Glalie, icy wind and double team. Follow up with Blizzard."
Glalie's icy wind bounced off the inside of glacier making it impossible to see Glalie. Using double team let Glalie disappear from the inside of the ice reappear outside and hit Flygon with a surprise blizzard before going back into the ice again.
Gasps and murmurs were heard about what Ash was doing. Even Lance was impressed.
"Do it again." Glalie repeated this tactic once more and hit Flygon twice.
"Ok Glalie that's enough, Gyro Ball from the inside." Ash said as Glalie then spun around like a top and broke the glacier into almost nothing.
"Ok lets try thing again, steel wing Flygon!" With glowing wings Flygon hit Glalie twice and went for a third until,
"Glalie, ice beam!" The ice beam struck Flygon and made it fall, but it stood up again anyway.
"Flygon, dragon breath!"
"Glalie finish it with an icy wind attack!"
Before Flygon could attack a cold wind slammed into Flygon and knocked it out.
"Flygon is unable to battle Glalie is the winner. Send out your next Pokemon!" the ref yelled.
"Salamance, fight for me!" Lance said calling out his own blue dragon.
"Glalie, ice beam!"
"Dragon Breath!"
The attacks met in front of the middle and drew even.
"Salamance, steel wing!" Salamance flew at Glalie with glowing wings.
"Glalie, meet it with gyro ball!" Glalie started spinning with a top and the steel type attacks met in the middle, and were even until,
"Fire Blast!"
"Blizzard!"
After the smoke cleared it was a stunning result.
"Glalie is unable to battle, Salamance wins. Send out your next pokemon!" the ref informed the crowd.
"Glalie return. Thanks, you did great. Salamance lend my your aura!" Ash said as his own blue flying lizard appeared
"Salamance, flamethrower!" Lance called.
"Salamance, Dragon Breath!" Ash said to his friend.
The Dragon and Fire attack's collided and the dragon attack pushed the fire back until it hit Salamance.
"Salamance, continue with a dragon pulse!" And with that Ash's Salamance hit Drake's Salamance
"Drake's Salamance is unable to battle, Ash's Salamence wins. Send out your next pokemon." The referee said again.
"Salamance return. Altaria battle time!" Drake said as yet another dragon type.
"Dragon Pulse!" They said together.
After the collided they called together again
"Steel Wing!"
Just before their wings met Ash yelled,
"Dragon Breath!"
After taking the combined attacks Altaria was struggling.
"Altaria, aerial ace!" Then Altaria rocketed towards Salamance.
"Dragon Tail to deflect it."
Like Ash said, the glowing tail swatted away Altaria and knocked it out cold.
"Altaria is unable to battle, Salamance wins. Send out your next pokemon."
"Altaria return. Hydreigon battle time!" Lance said as his 3-headed dragon appeared.
"Dragon Pulse!" they said together again.
After the smoke cleared Hydreigon struck Salamance with a tri-attack.
"Hydreigon, hyper beam!"
"Salamance, flamethrower!"
Try as he might, Salamance's fire attack couldn't hold off the orange beam, witch lead to Salamance being struck.
"Salamance, please get up and use your Hyper Beam!"
Salamance, striving to help its master, used the most power Hyper Beam it could, it hit Hydreigon but Salamance couldn't hold on any longer and fainted.
"Salamance is unable- What's this?" The referee started but was interrupted by Salamance getting to his feet, refusing to fail his master after what he had done for him.
FLASHBACK
Ash, Pikachu and Aipom were flying on Charizard when they heard an explosion, followed by seeing a Salamance fall from the sky, and a Reshiram and Zekrom diving down on it.
"Charizard, Dragon's Shield on Salamence!" Ash called, as his fire dragon obeyed.
Charizard formed a blue ball and shot it at Salamence. Instead of causing damage it shielded Salamence from a fusion bolt and fusion flare.
"Reshiram and Zekrom, why are you hurting Salamence?" Ash asked jumping off Charizard and tending to Salamence.
"Chosen, this Pokemon has invaded our space." Zekrom said
"Yes, and refused to leave. We had no choice." Reshiram added.
"Salamance is this true?" Ash said after finishing healing the Salamence.
"Yes but I had no choice, my mate left me because I was weak. So I went on a journey to be stronger so I wanted to travel and be stronger, to prove her wrong. I did try and reason but after that last thunder, I just lost it and fell." Salamence explained.
"Ok, well everything's ok now. These 2 won't bother you anymore right?" Ash asked the black and white pokemon, who were a little on edge, seeing the glares Charizard was sending them.
They nodded in agreement and flew off.
"Hey Salamance, that's what happened to me. My friends and family left me and befriended someone stronger because they said I was weak. Look's like we have something in common." Ash told him.
"Yes, I suppose you and I are alike." Salamence said with a chuckle.
"So Salamence, do you want to get stronger together? That way both of us can prove someone wrong." Ash said to Salamence while holding a pokeball.
And the rest was history.
FLASHBACK END
"Salamence stop, its ok it you can't fight. I don't want you to get hurt." Ash said with Pikachu and Aipom nodding.
As an answer, Salamence flew to the skies and attacked with a dragon rush, and a last ditch effort, a giga impact.
The combined force was enough to beat Hydreigon, but Salamence fainted for real this time.
"Both Pokemon are unable to continue. Send out your next pokemon."
"Dragonite, battle time." Lance said calling out his best and strongest Pokemon.
"Pikachu, wanna try again?" After giving a nod Pikachu jumped onto the field.
"Dragonite, hurricane!" With a flap of its little wings a strong windstorm came up and at
Pikachu.
"Ride it into a Volttackle." Then Pikachu jumped into the winds and after picking up speed he flung himself at Dragonite, covered in the golden glow.
"Dragonite, dodge it!"
Dragonite swiftly moved out of the way only for Pikachu to attack again.
"Thunder!"
"Dragon Pulse!"
The elements of electric and dragon collided and exploded.
"Take advantage and use wing attack!"
Then Dragonite's glowing wing slammed into Pikachu.
"Quick Pikachu, use ThunderBolt!"
"Don't let it attack! Use Slam!"
Before Pikachu could gather energy, Dragonite slammed its tail into him and send him into the ground, beaten.
"Pikachu is unable to battle, Dragonite wins send out your next pokemon!"
After putting Pikachu by his feet, he silently cursed that the only other elite member he had on him was Charizard, and he couldn't take down Dragonite alone, he was still a little hurt from training with Sceptile.
"Meganium, lend me your aura!"
Then Ash's over affectionate grass starter came out. Before she could tackle Ash he said,
"Meganium, champion battle, focus."
Meganium's eyes narrowed and she took a battle stance, ready to help.
"Dragonite, ice beam!"
"Meganium, block with razor leaf!"
The sharp leaves in front of the grass pokemon blocked the beam of ice from Dragonite.
"Solar Beam!"
"Ice beam on the floor!"
Right as she gathered enough light and was ready to shoot Dragonite, she slipped on the ice and misfired the solar attack and lied on the floor, struggling to get up.
"Dragonite, fire blast!"
The star-shaped fire attack hit Meganium right after she got up. After the smoke was gone everybody could clearly see an unconscious Meganium.
"Meganium is unable to battle, Dragonite wins again! Send out your next pokemon!" The ref told the people.
Ash recalled Meganium and wondered if he should finish Dragonite with Charizard of weaken it more. Ash then made his decision. The big guy would like revenge anyway.
"Charizard, lend me your aura!"
And with a roar even stronger and louder than before, the fire dragon materialized on the field.
As the roar stopped, Dragonite decided to try and roar, but after Charizard's it might as well of been a squeaky toy.
"Dragonite, fire blast!"
"Take it and use Fire Bullet."
Charizard rushed into the fire, used it to surround himself in and sped at Dragonite.
"Ice beam to stop it!"
"Stop the fire, and take the ice with slash!"
The fire stopped and what was left was a Charizard with glowing claws.
The ice energy was transferred into Charizard's claws when they made contact and the ice beam fell apart and slash became an ice type move.
"Dragonite, move out of the way!"
Before Dragonite could move Charizard struck its icy claws into it.
"Charizard don't give it a chance, use dragon tail!"
"Use your dragon tail!"
The glowing tail collided and Charizard's pushed Dragonite's back after a long struggle.
"Dragonite, Draco meteor!"
"Charizard, Dragon's shield!"
As the colorful meteors fell from the sky, most of them missed Charizard's blue ball and the ones that didn't just bounced off.
Just as the meteors stopped, the last one bounced off Charizard's shield and headed towards Dragonite.
When the smoke from that cleared, both Charizard and Dragonite were standing, Charizard was ready to fire his dragon rage in case Dragonite attacked again. After an intense, five minute stare down Dragonite fell.
"Dragonite is unable to battle, Charizard wins, Ash from Kanto wins the match!" The audience broke into cheers as Charizard took Ash and Pikachu to the skies for victory laps, before landing again and letting Ash put him back in his ball.
After getting smothered in everybody except Paul, who just shook his hand, they went to the lake in the forest where their elite Pokemon refuse to leave until they were stronger.
After a long day off training with Pikachu, Lucario, Charizard, Sceptile, Feraligatr and Garchomp and apparently Aipom who wanted to work with them, everyone went back to the pokemon center to go to sleep but not before looking at the match ups for tomorrows semi-final match.
Ash and Paul looked at each other, smirked and said
"See you in the finals."
With that everybody went to their rooms and went to sleep excited about the battles tomorrow.
ASH VS. ALDER PAUL VS. CYNTHIA
OK SO WHAT DID YOU THINK? MAYBE ASH SEEMS A TAD OVERPOWERED BUT OH WELL.
I HAD TO DO SOMETHING THAT MAKES HIM LOOK AS STRONG AS PAUL BECAUSE PAUL AND ASH BOTH SAILED THROUGH THE TOURNAMENT, ASH SWITCHED HIS POKEMON AFTER THEY WON ONCE, PAUL DIDN'T.
ANYWAY, BY THE TIME MOST OF YOU READ THIS, ILL ALREADY BE WRITING THE BATTLES IN THE NEXT CHAPTER.
DO YOU WANT ME TO WRITE IN DETAIL ABOUT PAUL AND CYNTHIA'S MATCH TOO?
TEAM OMNI AND SHADOWS WILL COME BACK, WEATHER AFTER PAUL OR ASH'S I DON'T KNOW BUT I DO KNOW THEY'LL BE BACK.
AS MOST OF YOU GUESSED THIS STORY IS WRAPPING UP QUITE FAST. MAYBE UPDATING ABOUT TWICE A DAY WAS A LOT, BUT IM BEGINNING TO THINK OF AN IDEA FOR ANOTHER STORY, TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK,
ASH AND PIKACHU GO THROUGH UNOVA, NOT WITH IRIS, NOT WITH HILDA (ALTHOUGH I DO LOVE THAT PAIRING) BUT WITH GEORGIA INSTEAD.
OUTSIDE OF ASH/CYNTHIA, ASH/ANABEL AND ASH/HILDA, I LIKE THE ASH/GEORGIA AND ASH/URSULA PAIRING. DON'T KNOW WHY.
SO THIS WILL BE ONE OF THE FEW STORIES I HAVE THAT ASH WONT BE OFF ON HIS OWN BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE HIS FRIENDS IN THE SHOW KIND OF HOLD HIM BACK SO IN MANY OF THE STORIES I WRITE, ASH WILL BE BETRAYED AND MOST LIKELY WITH JESSIE, JAMES AND MEOWTH, I ALWAYS LOVED THOSE 3.