School Time Blues
"Okay today's lesson is about pokémon native to Sinnoh. Now can anybody either show me an example or tell me about one of them." the teacher said as he wrote "Sinnoh" on the whiteboard. Many raised their hands, wanting a turn to answer. Krestner scoffed at their eagerness. The teacher heard him and called him out.
"Mister Stratos, why don't you please come up here and answer this question."
"Why? There are so many other people who want to answer this question. Why me of all people in class, Mr. Ralt?"
"Because unlike everyone else you're failing this class."
"Fine then." Krestner got up and walked up to the front of the room and stood in front of the board. He took a Pokéball of his belt and it opened up. Standing next to Krestner was Ember, his Chimchar. Ember ran up his leg and onto his shoulder. "Chimchar" "This is Chimchar, the Chimp Pokémon. While he is a Chimchar he prefers to be called Ember." Krestner made the motion to walk back to his seat when a girl walked to the front of the room and opened her Pokéball and out came a shiny Glaceon with a pink scarf wrapped around her neck.
"This is Glaceon, the Fresh Snow Pokémon. While she is a Glaceon she prefers to be called Artik." she said mockingly to Krestner. The class hushed in the background. Ember stared at Artik while Krestner stared down the girl.
"You always got to steal my fire, don't you Selena?"
"You make it so easy." Krestner turned away from her and walked back to his seat with a smile on his face. He sat down and immediately jumped back up. His seat was frozen solid.
"Krestner?"
"What Selena?"
"Your seat's frozen." Krestner ignored her while Ember defrosted his seat. Selena tried to walk back to her seat but mysteriously could not. She looked down to find that Ember had melted her sneakers to the floor.
"Selena?"
"What Krestner?"
"You're stuck to the floor." Selena raised a Pokéball as Ghost stood in front of Krestner and growled. Artik growled from behind her trainer. The class began to chant in the background.
"Battle, Battle, Battle!"
"Alright, everybody calm down." Mr. Ralt walked to the front of the room and lowered Selena's raised Pokéball. Ghost walked away and sat underneath Krestner's desk and Ember jumped into his capture device. Selena walked to her seat (her shoes stayed stuck to the floor and she was now walking in socks.) and Artik ,copying Ghost, lounged underneath her trainer's desk. "Now you both are gonna settle this in the arena later. As for everybody else, no homework and you all are dismissed." Krestner and Selena made eager attempts to leave the other's presence when Mr. Ralt stopped them." You two aren't going anywhere. And put your pokémon away please. Selena returned her Glaceon, but Krestner made no move to return his.
"I left Ghost's Pokéball at home. He stays out."
"Very well then. You both have been at each other's throats since the beginning. So now I'm going to remedy the problem. From now on you two are partners in everything. And before you complain, the first person who complains is banned from the finals and will repeat this year over. Also whoever loses this battle gets detention."
"I hate ultimatums. But you happen to be very persuasive sir. I'll agree for now." Krestner walked out of the room with Ghost following behind him. Selena reluctantly agreed to the terms too and followed behind Krestner. "Stop following me." Krestner continued to walk down the hallway while Selena stood stockstill, stuck by Ghost's Psychic attack. Krestner walked over two the closest videophone and called Harvest Moon Island.
"Terra, I need Rados and Clod and I'm sending over Regal and Blade." Quake's sister growled her approval. Krestner placed the Pokéballs on the teleporter and sent them to the island. In their place were the capture devices holding his Gyarados and Torterra. Ghost dropped his connection to Selena as his trianer walked away and he closely followed.
Thirty Minutes Later...
The students filed into the gymnasium to watch the battle. It's wasn't everyday that two of the best trainers decided to battle it out. Krestner and Ghost walked in on one side of the gym, while Selena and Artik came in through the other. Mr. Ralt stood as judge to this match.
"This is a six-on-six match between Selena Krat and Krestner Stratos. Loser has detention. There are no substitutions. Let the battle begin!"
"Clod, come out and show 'em how it's done!"
"Enter, Frost" The Froslass appeared in a flash of white light. The two pokémon stared each other down.
"Clod, Leaf Storm!" Glowing leaves flew from the tree on Clod's back and towards Frost. Frost countered with an Ice Beam that froze the leaves solid.
"Good job, Frost. Now fire another Ice Beam at that Torterra!" The attack came for Clod who jumped up high in the air, avoiding the attack and firing an enormous Energy Ball. It struck the ground in front of the Froslass, sending rocks in the air. The chunks of ground struck the Snow Land Pokémon. Frost hit the ground, seriously injured.
"Clod, Earthquake!" the Torterra hit the grond, sending a massive shockwake tthrough the ground and striking Frost again. Frost's eyes went swirly and it was done.
"Frost is unable to battle, Clod is the winner."
"Well we'll have no more of that. Enter, Flipper!" A Lapras appeared and its musical voice filled the room. "Flipper, Ice Beam."
"Clod, Hyper Beam!" The attacks collided in mid-air resulting in a huge explosion. When the smoke cleared, Clod was on the ground, fainted. Flipper was still standing, but seemed to have taken a lot of damage. It was panting.
"OK then. Rados, show 'em how it's done." The Gyarados was ready for battle. "It's time! Use Thunder!" The electricity came at Flipper, who was too tired to move...
Off To Detention
The electricity hit Flipper, the Lapras, causing it to flip back and into a wall. Rados, the Gyarados roared loudly.
"Well, that takes care of your Lapras. Got any comebacks this time." But Krestner never got an answer. He looked at Selena to see that she was staring straight at Rados, a look of fear in her eyes. "This is the part where you send out another pokémon, Selena. Hello? Are you still in this?" She just stared at Rados. Who knows what was flashing through her mind.
Selena's Thoughts
Fear, fright, too scared to move, maybe it won't attack again. Maybe it won't. I hope it won't. Please don't let it attack again! Not now, not ever!
BACK TO STORY
The audience was getting restless. What was taking so long? Many tried to get up to leave but were stopped by various teachers. Back on the field, Ghost was reading Selena's mind.
Return Rados.
"Why?"
Just do it if you want this battle to continue. Krestner, trusting his pokémon's judgement, returned Rados and sent out Ember. Immediately Selena jumped back into action, returning her Lapras and sending out her Lumineon, Grace.
"Grace, Water Gun!" Krestner had been caught off-guard by her sudden switch back into "battle mode" and forgot to tell Ember to dodge. The little monkey was pushed back by the blast of water. Ember got up slowly.
"Ember, ThunderPunch, Full Power!" Ember's fist began to glow as electricity encircled it. He jumped up onto the lights on the ceiling and began to swing forward towards Grace.
"Grace, Surf." Grace rode a huge wave trying to take out Ember in one hit. Ember expertly jumped over the large wave and slammed its electrically-charged fist into it, shocking the Lumineon in the process. Grace flew out of the wave, electricity flowing around it as it flinched.
"Ember, finish it off with Aerial Ace!" Ember flew down from the sky, its arms outstretched and white light surrounding it.
"Grace, Endure." Grace braced herself for the impact. Ember struck her hard with Aerial Ace causing an explosion (don't ask me how this happened because I have no clue). Ember jumped back from the smoke, waiting for it to clear. Suddenly, a Hydro Pump flew out of the smoke, obliterating it in the process. Ember countered with a Focus Punch. The attacks collided but the Hydro Pump was sufficient enough to blow Ember back and faint him.
"Ember is unable to battle, Grace is the win.."
"Wait" The Lumineon was swaying back and forth and finally fell over and fainted. "You were saying?"
"Tie!" Selena angrily stared at Krestner. He'd outsmarted her this time, but not again.
"Enter, Deli." Deli, the Delibird came out of its Pokéball and began to jump around. "Delibird"
"Show 'em how it's done Qua..." Krestner stopped. An Officer Jenny had walked into the room and was watching the battle.
Krestner's Thoughts
Crap, how long has she been standing there. It doesn't matter. But , if I send out Quake, then she'll connect the dots and then I'm done for. Unless...no I can't take the chance of losing this battlle. Wait that's it. I don't have to win , but neither does she. But I'm gonna have to time this just right.
BACK TO STORY
Krestner put the ball back on his belt and took of another one.
"Show 'em up Glide! Use Rock Slide!" Krestner's Gligar jumped out of its Pokéball and threw a bunch of rocks at Deli, who dodged and fired a Water Pulse. Glide expertly flew through the air and dodged the attack.
"Deli, use Present!" The Delivery Pokémon opened up its bag-like tail and threw a bomb that collided with Glide. The attack threw Glide back into a wall.
"Glide, use Stone Edge!" The Gligar attacked Deli, doing serious damage to the Delibird. Deli fell back on the ground and had swirly eyes.
"Deli is unable to battle, Glide is the winner!" The crowd was roaring now and the teachers lost control of the noise. Okay then, if that's how you wanna play it. , Selena thought to herself. Well, I didn't expect this from the slacker, but I'm just getting warmed up.
"Enter, Cross!" Selena's Heracross emerged from it's Pokéball and smiled.
"I thought you were an Ice-type trainer, Selena."
"You better learn to adapt. Cross, Megahorn!" Cross's horn began to glow and it flew and tackled Glide with it, knocking it back considerably. Glide, looked on tired and panting. That's a powerful Heracross, if it can use a Bug-type attack and hurt Glide, who isn't normally affected by Bug-types. Krestner's thoughts were on the battle and he knew another hit like that and his Glide was going down." Cross, Focus Blast!"
"Glide, block it with X-Scissor!" The ball of energy hit Glide as he crossed his glowing claws. A large explosion erupted. The smoke took a long time clearing up, and when it did Glide was still standing, lots of briuses and cuts on his body. Cross, the Heracross still didn't have a scratch on it. All it did was brush some dust of of its horn. "Glide, can you keep going?"
"Gligar!"
"Ok, then use Swagger." Glide blew air out of his mouth and Cross glowed red for a second, followed by little duckies swirling around its head. It hit itself in its face with its claw. "Now Glide, Earthquake." Gligar smashed its claws into the ground, causing a humongous tremors to rip through the ground and hit Cross. While Cross was recovering from the attack Glide took the time to use Rest and promptly went to sleep. Cross stil confused began to "suck" sap from a nearby rock. After a few minutes it snapped out of confusion and turned to the sleeping Glide.
"Cross, Brick Break!" The Heracross's arm glowed white, as it flew towards the FlyScorpion Pokémon. Krestner began to smile.
"Sleep Talk." Glide, still sleeping, was covered in a greenish orb. Cross hit the orb and was thrown back. Selena stood confused for a second and then smiled.
"Feint" Cross's horn glew white and he shattered the orb and was about to hit Glide when the Gligar woke up and dodged the oncoming attack.
"X-Scissor, followed by Cross Poison!" Gligar's claws glowed blue and he crossed them and thrown a glowing, blue "X" at the Heracross, followed by a purple one. The attacks collided with the Single Horn Pokémon throwing it into the ground and fainting it. Krestner looked up into the stands and saw the Officer Jenny talking to a teacher.
She's asking about you, in case you were wondering. Ghost telepathically said to his trainer.
"Well, then I have no choice. Return Glide." The pokémon were returned to their respective Pokéballs.
"Ente..."
"Go Rados!" Krestner's Gyarados emerged from its Pokéball and roared. Selena was once again stopped in her tracks.
What are you planning, Krestner?
"That officer will figure out who I am if I win. So I'm ending this battle." Krestner whispered to his shiny pokémon. Selena's mind was encased in fear. There was only one solution to this.
"Ghost, can you synchronize our thoughts and movements?"
Done. Selena raised her hand and at the same time as Krestner spoke.
"I forfeit." Krestner returned Rados and walked off the field, smiling. His plan had worked perfectly. He heard Mr. Ralt in the back of his mind telling Selena that they were to report to detention immediately.
You are a genius, Ri.. Krestner spun around so fast that Ghost, not reacting fast enough, walked into his leg.
"DON"T EVER CALL ME THAT!" ,Krestner roared. He returned Ghost to his Pokéball and turned to walk away.
"I thought you didn't have his Pokéball on you?" Selena walked up behind Krestner, back to normal again.
"I didn't have it on me. It was on my pants pocket. Besides, it seems we're stuck together for a while, so you're gonna have to get over your fear of Gyarados."
"How did you know?"
"You froze up fast. A little too fast for it to be a secret."
"Okay, fine then but whatever reason you forfeit the match..."
"..will not be known by you." Krestner smiled again. Selena could do nothing else but smile too.
Can we get going now? The sooner we get over with detention the better.
"Shut up Ghost!" they both said in unison.
"Why aren't you two in detention yet?" Mr. Ralt had walked into the hallway. The young trainers ran down the hallway as fast as they could, smiles across their faces. Mr. Ralt's face softened as he saw them run away. Well that takes care of that. he thought to himself. He tried walking away, but somehow could not. He looked down at his shoes to find one frozen and the other one melted to the floor.
DOWN THE HALLWAY...
"That should hold him for awhile. Wanna skip and get some ice cream or something?" Krestner looked at his new partner in crime.
"You're on. Last one there buys!" And with that they ran down the hallway and out the door.
Author's Note
Anybody who read this on JustExpressing, please note that I fused chapter 13: School Time Blues and chapter 14: Off to Detention together
Sorry if anybody was inconvenienced