HGSS: Johto Saga
Season 6, Opening: Battle Cry! (Stand Up)
Chapter 32
The Wallace Cup Part 1
"Yes!" May and Lyra clasped their hands together sharply. They stand in front of the large dome that will hold the Wallace Cup the next day.
"Well, here it is. Let's check out setup!" Ethan declares.
As the trio enters, a figure bumps into them on his way out. He staggers back.
"Oh, sorry. I should look at where I'm going more often," A boy apologized. Getting a clearer view, the trio saw he had brown eyes, was wearing a black jacket over a white hoodie, brown pants and had tan hair that spiked all around. "Hello, I'm Blue...What are your names?" He spoke in a clear voice.
"I'm Ethan. This is Lyra and May," Ethan follows up.
"Nice to meet you. Well, I must be going. Good luck, if you are competing in the Wallace Cup!" He then walks away toward the port city.
The trio enters the building and sees people bustling around, getting their early enrollment in. At the desk, Lyra and May walked up, followed by Ethan. They presented their passes.
"All right," the woman cheered, "you, Lyra and May, are entered as numbers 33 and 34, respectively!"
"Thank you!" They said in unison.
Ethan told the lady he did not have a pass, but was instead a Pokemon Trainer. She asked for his pokedex.
"All right, you're entered as number 35." She handed him his pokedex.
"Thank you."
As Lyra turned around, she spotted Natalie walking out the door. May tapped her on the back.
"There's your rival!" She whispered. Lyra nodded and headed out the door, leaving May and Ethan looking around the room. They headed towards a doorway that led to where the competition would be held: A large room, with no roof, a large pool in the middle with a floor in the dead center of it, a bridge leading out to the outsides where walkways were stood, and above those were the seats where the crowd would sit, all the way around towards the doorway and cutting off at a flight of stairs.
May stepped down the stairs and hurried to the other side of the pool, walking out onto the bridge. She stopped at the center and twirled around. Ethan checked out the seats, walking up and down the stands.
Outside the building, Lyra met up with Natalie around a fountain.
"Natalie! Hey, what's up!" Lyra asked as she caught up with her. Natalie stopped and turned.
"Hey, Lyra, I thought you weren't going to show. I believed you'd be here the same time I was registering. Nothing at all, just about to train a little bit. Hey, you wanna be my partner?"
"Huh? Really?" Lyra asked.
"Yeah, besides, the second round is a Team-Appeal round. Two people are paired up, or eight teams of two, and they have to pull of a beautiful appeal with each other to proceed. So, how about it?" She explained, waving her hand.
"Sounds great!"
In a minute...
"Okay, come on out, Flaaffy!" A small pink pokemon with white fluff on its body came out.
"Let's go, Bayleef!" Lyra's grass pokemon clomped out.
"How about a move that blends our moves together?" Natalie proposed.
"Great. Bayleef, use Petal Dance!" Bayleef twirled and released a flurry of petals, swirling throughout the air.
"Flaaffy, use Discharge!" Flaaffy released a large blast of blue energy and sparked all of the petals, causing them to spark continuously.
"Nice, trying to practice for the Wallace Cup!" Jim declared as he walked up to them.
"Hey, Jim," Lyra started. "Yeah, that's the jist of what we're doing. You're doing the Wallace Cup too, right?"
"Yep, of course. I've been training my butt off to win. I need my second ribbon. Well, so do you, so I guess the rivalry is also between us this time!" Jim claps as he heads off towards the dome.
Lyra smiles and nods. "I guess so!" She calls out.
Natalie beams. "I'm gonna head to the dome too, Lyra. I'll see you tomorrow!" Natalie then heads off.
That night, in the room the trio bunk in...
Lyra sits up, gazing down.
"I'm so nervous about tomorrow...anxiety is killing me..." She then spots her dress, properly folded at the foot of her bed. She smiles weakly. "I guess I just need to get some sleep so I don't mess up..." Her head then falls back into her pillow.
The next day, in the Wallace Cup Dome...
"Hello!" Jillian announced to the audience. They roared. "Today is the Johto Wallace Cup! Here, we can smell the salty sea air and just feels the ocean breezes riding on us. Now, without further ado, I introduce to you, our lovely panel of judges!" She waved her hand to Mr. Contesta, Mr. Sukizo and Nurse Joy. "And now..." She pointed to a large cube that hung from the now closed ceiling. It had four monitors, all showing the same thing so all of the crowd could see everything. From the crowd, Blue looked and saw Wallace projected on it.
A water spout appeared in the water next to Jillian. Suddenly, something erupted from it and a long, tan snake appeared from it. Different colors shimmered from its scales as the water bounced off it. Wallace appeared in its head and stood up.
"Hello, my good people!" He announced over a microphone on his ear. "I hope everyone's ready for some amazing performances, because I sure am!" He hopped off of the pokemon and landed on the little island. "Me and Milotic definitely are!" Milotic threw a spray of water over him and in a moment, he was gone and sitting at another judge table, right next to Nurse Joy.
"Now, let's get down to business!" Jillian announced. "Our first competitor..."
A few minutes later, after some dazzling performances...
"Okay, and our next competitor is Jimmy!"
Dashing out towards the island was Jim, holding the pokeball that contained his pokemon. As he centered the island, he threw it out.
"Come on out, my Staryu!" A star pokemon exploded from a shroud of smoke, its red center glowing brightly. As it span through the air, Jim shouted a command. "Staryu, use Swift!" Staryu shot stars toward the water it was coming down rapidly at. The stars exploded on the water. Staryu collided with the water and sunk under it. "Staryu, now use Whirlpool!" From underwater, the water started churning horridly and spinning upwards. As it did, the Swift stars started coming up with it. Suddenly, they erupted out the top of a large spout, along with Staryu, spinning and throwing water everywhere, even on the front row of the crowd. Staryu finished by landing on one of Jim's outstretched hands.
The crowd cheered and roared for him.
"You are amazingly talented, boy!" Mr. Contesta applauded.
"Marvelous!" Mr. Sukizo said.
"Wonderful, I loved your performance!" Nurse Joy stated.
"That was awe inspiring, and dazzling to say the least. I think you have a good chance of making it, boy," Wallace cheered.
"Well, it's gonna be hard to top that one, folks!" Jillian shouted. "Our next entry..."
After two more, Natalie was announced and she pounced out. After reaching the center, she tossed her ball out. A pink and white pokemon with branch-like horns appeared in the water from a cloud of bubbles.
"Corsola, use Waterfall!" Corsola rose sharply out of the water as the water erupted behind it. As it reached the ceiling, it stopped. "Use Spike Cannon!" Corsola jumped out of the water and shot thousands of white spikes at the water, causing sparkles and the water to recede. "Finally, use Mirror Coat!" As they water churned up and down below, Corsola dove hard into it, a pink barrier around it, causing the water to shimmer as it swam.
The judges gave her a positive review as she walked away.
Lyra was next, and she walked slowly to the center, breathing slowly and calmly.
"Let's go, Marill!" She called, sending out her mouse. Marill landed in the water. "Marill, spin around and whip your tail!" Marill turned upside down and started spinning in the water, all around the field, wagging its tail. Lyra started to smile as the crowd "ahhed" at it. "Marill, now use Brine!" Marill spit a large funnel of water, lifting it up as it kept swimming around. "Now, finish it up with..." Marill suddenly jumps out of the water and freezes it with a beam of ice. It then slides down the water that whipped out and landed next to Lyra.
The crowd cheered at this. Lyra was stunned, her mouth dropped.
"Simplicity...that was so wonderful, Lyra," Wallace called to her. Lyra beamed and Marill threw itself into her arms.
May performed, and received a good review.
Later, in the restaurant branch of the building, the screen over the quads table came on. Ethan, Lyra and May all held their breath. Suddenly, right before the program started, Brandon burst inside.
"What...I MISSED IT?" Brandon shouted. Every table around the room shushed him. He slid into the table next to May and looked at the tv.
"We have our 16 finalists that will perform tomorrow on the Aqua Stage in double performances. After we announce our finalists, we will pair your groups! And the finalists are..." The screen switches to 16 pictures on a watery background. May beamed as she saw her face there, as well as Ethan. Lyra waited until the fourteenth picture was shown, and her name was shown. She noted that Natalie and Jim's were as well. She threw herself out of her seat.
"Woo hoo!" She yelped. Some other tables had people that also launched themselves from their seats.
"Okay, and now we have randomly paired everyone with a person. And here are the teams..."
The pictures were slid together to show eight teams of two. Ethan was paired with a boy named Ivan, Jim was paired with a girl named Tori, May was paired with a girl named Lynn, and Lyra...
Natalie shot over to their table as her face was shown with Lyra's.
"Well, partner, I guess we're together on this tomorrow!" Natalie said as she beamed brightly.
Lyra smiled. Suddenly, her bag on the seat started to glow. She hurried and pulled out the glass case, taking the lid off. The pillow with the egg sitting atop it shimmered and finally hatched into a small white pokemon within another egg with the same patterns as the former egg on it.
"Whoa! A Togepi!" Natalie cheered. "Wow."
"Lyra, that's cool!" May gasped.
Lyra patted it on the head. She took off the pokeball from the lid. The Togepi started tearing at the eye as she was about to call it back. Lyra sighed.
"I'm guessing you don't want to go in a ball?" Lyra laughed. The Togepi smiled.
