If anyone wants to check out the character's information and what not, Ethan, Lyra, Natalie and Silver's profile are up on pokemonfanon . wikia . com (have to space those out or ff will not let it be on here). If you go there, look them up as: Ethan Goldman, Lyra Soulstice, Silver Cryster and Natalie Perch. Jim's profile will be done...whenever I feel like it...
Ah, here is another chapter, and this one's a cool one, lol! I crack myself up! Uh...it's an inside joke...:3
~Season 7 Rocket Battles~
Opening: We Will Be Heroes
Chapter 43: Shade o' Ice
Ethan burst out of the Pokemon Center, his arms stretched over his head.
"I'm ready for that gym battle. I'll get myself back up from losing to Silver!"
Lyra caught up to him as he stopped dead in front of the gym.
Ethan pulled out a necklace with a gem embedded at the end from his sweatshirt. He grasped it and placed it back inside his shirt. He smiled and headed forward.
Ethan stepped into the gym. A large ice arena sat in front of him and Lyra.
"Wow. This place is totally kicked up from the last gym!" Ethan said brightly. Icicles hung from the ceilings and ice spears stuck up from the ground, Stalagmites, and the entire surface of the field was ice, with two ponds in the center of the field, one on each side. Pryce sat in the bleaches, very bottom row, and his face perked up as Ethan stepped down the stairs and next to the field.
Pryce stood up and smiled. He walked around to where Ethan stand.
"Ready to go, Ethan?" He asked in a promising voice.
"Definitely."
"Good. Because don't expect to win easily, just because I'm an old man..." Pryce started.
"Heh, I know!" Ethan said, smiling.
The two readied themselves at the separate ends of the field.
"The Gym Battle between Gym Leader Pryce and challenger Ethan will now commence. Each battler will use four pokemon, and the first side to knock out all of the other's pokemon will be declared the winner. Ready?" The referee announced.
"Ready."
"Ready."
"Okay, battle...Begin!" He waved his flags.
"Noctowl, let's go!" Ethan sent out his Flying-type.
"Hm, that's not a very good choice you know!" Pryce shouted out. "Jynx, your my first choice." Pryce sent out a medium-sized pokemon with dirty-blonde hair and a pink dress, with purple skin and arms.
"That's a very...interesting pokemon..." Lyra said uncertainly.
"Noctowl, AerialAce!" Noctowl zipped towards Jynx.
"Jynx, use Lovely Kiss!" Jynx kissed the air and a purple arrow flung towards Noctowl. It struck it and Noctowl went down, asleep. It skid across the ice and hit its head against an icicle.
"Return, quick!" Ethan withdrew Noctowl before much damage was done to it. "Typhlosion, let's go!" Ethan sent out Typhlosion, and it let out a fierce cry. "Use Eruption!"
Typhlosion erupted and sent fireballs spewing down at Jynx.
"Jynx, Double Team!" Jynx split up, but the fireballs penetrated the ice and melted much of it, revealing a pool under the ice. One finally struck Jynx and sent it sinking down in the water. "Nice impact...Jynx, come back up and use Ice Punch!" Jynx erupted from the surface and threw an icy fist at Typhlosion.
"Typhlosion, Flamethrower!" Typhlosion released the powerful funnel that enveloped the fist. It blasts towards Jynx and douses it in fire, throwing it across the ice field to Pryce's feet, fainted.
"Ah, thank you Jynx. Return. You are very skilled, Ethan. Let's see how you can stand up to Dewgong!" Pryce sends out a large seel-like pokemon into the pond on the left side of the field. "Dewgong, let's change the field, shall we? Surf!" Dewgong dove down, then rose back up in a giant tidal wave that crashed down upon the icy field. Large fiberglass walls quickly rose up around the outsides of the fields, causing Ethan and Pryce to step back. The walls only rose halfway to the trainers, so they could recall their pokemon. The water quickly made a miniature battlefield.
"Typhlosion, jump onto that ice crystal!" Typhlosion sprung off the ground before the water waved over it. It landed on a sturdy piece of ice, but the ice below was beginning to just turn into water, making the pool very deep. "Gah, Typhlosion, return! We have to use...Eh?"
"Now it changes more!" Stone tablets started to float in certain places in the water. Dewgong rose in the area of the water where there were none, right in front of Pryce. "This battlefield is specifically for water-type!"
"Well, that's good! Pichu, come on out!" Ethan sent his pokeball over the glass and sent it out on top of the middlemost stone. The pokeball came flying back to Ethan. "Okay!" Ethan snapped and the same energetic expression was slapped onto Pichu's and his own face. "Use Discharge!"
Pichu jumped into the air and released the shockwaves of energy.
"Dewgong, use Horn Attack!" Dewgong shot out of the water, its horn glowing, and jabbed hard into Pichu's frail stomach. It toppled down over a stone and fell into the water. Dewgong fell into the water again, slick and silver like a bullet. "Dewgong, Sheer Cold!"
"Pichu, quick! Use Discharge!" As Dewgong formed a ball of freezing ice at its horn, Pichu released a powerful Discharge, shocking Dewgong incredibly hard. It shot out of the water, paralyzed. "Come out of the water with Volt Tackle!" Pichu zipped out of the water, coated in sharp electricity. It plowed into Dewgong, electrifying it harder and sending it down into the water. "That's it for him!"
"Hmm..." Dewgong took the electricity, but then just leaned upwards and smirked. "Not quite yet, Ethan! Dewgong, use Aurora Beam!" Dewgong created a colorful stream of light that fired at Pichu.
"Pichu, Light Screen!" Pichu landed. It created a wall of light, instead of the cube that Bayleef makes, in front of it. The beam collided and ricocheted off of it into the water. "Now, Discharge!" Pichu dismissed the wall and fired a straight beam of blue electricity at Dewgong.
"Dewgong, slap it with Iron Tail!" Dewgong's tail glowed and it whipped around, sucking the energy onto its tail. "Now, hit it with your tail!"
Dewgong shot out of the water and threw its electrified tail at Pichu.
"Pichu, Volt Tackle!" Pichu charged itself and jumped towards Dewgong. They collided and exploded. Pichu was thrown back at Ethan. He leaned over the glass and caught it. Dewgong fell into the water, fainted as well.
"Ah, double knock out. Dewgong, return friend."
"You too, Pichu!"
"Tell me, Ethan, how is your Pichu able to learn Discharge and take two Volt Tackle's rebuttal damage?" Pryce inquired. "Also, what did you learn about its notch?"
"Well, Nurse Joy said that it was a special defect that actually affected its strength. It's able to take two Volt Tackle because of that. Discharge must be something that came with the spiky ear..."
"I see...Well, let's continue!" The stones started to drift towards his side. "Cloyster, come out!" Pryce sent out the shelled pokemon from before.
"That one again...Eevee, let's go!" Ethan sent out his small fox. "Eevee, use Shadow Ball!"
"Closyter, Withdraw!" Cloyster closed up the front of its shell, concealing the small black head. The ball slammed against it, not harming Cloyster.
"Well, its Special Defense is higher. So, if we can find a way to penetrate it, maybe..." Ethan thought to himself. "Eevee, use Iron Tail!" Eevee flipped into the air, tail glowing, and started to spin quickly lengthwise. The move thwacked against Cloyster, sending it plummeting through the water. Cloyster's head poked out of the shell as it opened.
Eevee dove into the water, a Shadow Ball charging at its mouth.
"Cloyster, use Icicle Spear!" Underwater, Cloyster closed and opened its shell, releasing multiple tiny cicles of ice that hammered away at Eevee. This left it open, so Eevee fire the ball that exploded on contact with Cloyster.
It floated to the surface, fainted.
"Strong Eevee there. Maybe I will be defeated quickly...Hmm...Anyway, return, Cloyster." Pryce recalled his high-defense pokemon. "The only pokemon left...Piloswine!" Pryce sent out his mammoth that sat on two stones at the same time. "Piloswine, use Mud Bomb!" Piloswine spit large balls of mud at Eevee.
"Eevee, use Shadow Ball!" Eevee formed the usual ball and fired it in the air. The bombs hacked though it and exploded on Eevee, destroying the stone it was on. Eevee fainted, floating on a piece of the stone.
"Eevee, return. I'm going with Slowbro!" Ethan sent out his Water/Psychic type.
"Ah, you predicted Piloswine! Piloswine, let's show them how we can do things! Mud Bomb!" Piloswine spit more piles of mud.
"Slowbro, use Psychic!" Slowbro took control of the mud and formed it all together, throwing a large bomb back at Piloswine.
"Piloswine, jumped to another stone!" Piloswine stone-hopped and avoided the explosion of the mud. Some of the mud flew under where Piloswine landed.
"Slowbro, quick, use Ice Punch!"
"Eh?"
Slowbro quickly hopped off of the stone and flew down at Piloswine, its fist covered in ice. It threw it and deliberately missed Piloswine, freezing the mud under its feet. Slowbro reeled back and landed in the water.
"Yeah! Slowbro, use Hydro Pump!"
"Piloswine, Blizzard!" Piloswine blew a large mist of snow at the pump of water. The water shot through it and dissipated the snow. It whacked Piloswine and did maximum damage. "Piloswine, that hurt didn't it? Just sit this out."
"What? Then that means..."
"You win!" Pryce declared.
Ethan smiled and jumped up and down.
"The winner, due to a count of forfeit, is the challenger, Ethan!" The referee announced.
Lyra beamed and got up from her seat. The walls slid down as the water was released into holes in the ground. As Lyra, Ethan and Pryce left the building, the water filled in the hole in the ground, and a layer of ice froze over it, except for two ponds on either side of the field.
Outside, Piloswine sat behind Pryce as he held up a blue badge that had a snowflake pattern.
"This...is yours now!" Pryce handed the small badge to Ethan.
"Yes...we got...the Glacier Badge!" Ethan held it up proud as Slowbro cheered.
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Preview time, and this is the last preview of the season (not the season finale, though)
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"What kind of attack?"
"You just need to head to Goldenrod immediately. Turn on your radio on your way there, you'll learn more! I've sent a Fearow over to pick you both up." Professor Elm finished and hung up.
Lyra stood up. "What is it?"
Ethan clicked off his PokeGear.
"We're needed in Goldenrod City, ASAP!"
Ethan and Lyra headed outside and saw the silhouette of a large winged pokemon against the sunlight. It landed and waved its wings frantically.
"The Fearow! Professor Elm sent it for us to ride. Come on, Lyra!" The duo hopped on its back and it took off through the skies. Ethan turned on his PokeGear and switches to the Radio feature.
"Team...Rocket...has officially taken over the radio waves! We will bring Giovanni back...if he can hear us...Giovanni...if you're out there...please respond! We have rebuilt Team Rocket and we're waiting for you return...Please...Hello? We need you! We are Team Rocket, distributing this message across Johto! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Lyra and Ethan threw a glance at each other. "This can't be good..." Is what flashed through both of their heads, and what was sent through their eyes to each other.
