Madison surfed through the sky on her Garchomp, Nibble while Selena and Kaitlyn did the same thing as they rode the back of her Pidgeot, Whirlwind. Krestner, for reasons unknown to them decided to walk. Something about helping him think. Madison decided to try a little small talk.
"So did any of you know that Krestner had brothers?" Selena almost fell off of the back of Whirlwind.
"He has brothers?!
"Yea, I met them after I stormed off. He gave me that Pokéball that I gave to Krestner. I wonder what pokémon was inside it. After I gave it to him, he just sent it back to wherever he lives at." Selena wasn't really paying attention. She'd been dialing Krestner's number on her cellphone. He picked up on the first ring.
"Hello?"
"You have brothers that you didn't tell me about?!"
"I have brothers? Do I have brothers? I'm not sure I know what you're talking about."
"The ones you got that Pokéball from."
"Oh those brothers. Yea I have brothers. I thought I told you about them. Oh well maybe you'll meet them sometime."
"Fine. Anyway where are you because we can't see you from here."
"Um.. I haven't exactly left the last campsite yet. But don't worry I'll meet you guys in Eterna City." He hung up on her. He hated lying to her, but he wanted to do a little training somewhere where they weren't. He was in the Eterna Forest and they couldn't see him because he'd been standing in a grove of trees. They had actually been directly over him at the time. "Flare, Metal Claw on X-Ray!" Back up in the sky, the conversation continued.
"Hey, whatever happened to Lucas?" Kaitlyn asked. "The last I saw of him, he'd tried to pick a fight with Krestner."
"Haven't seen him, though Nibble here, did hear some screaming the other night." And that's when a huge stream of fire and water shot up and knocked them out of the air. Selena was falling to earth when something big and red burst from trees. Someone jumped from its back and caught her as the giant red thing caught them. She opened her eyes to see that Krestner had caught her and was riding on the back of Flare who evolved into a Charizard! She looked to see that Whirlwind and Nibble had both caught Madison but Kaitlyn was still falling. Flare shot forward and almost caught her when another blast of water caught her and brought her steadily to the ground. Flare, Nibble, and Whirlwind brought the trainers to the ground to see who caught Kaitlyn. Kyle King stood poised as his Floatzel, Aqua and his Monferno, Kindle stood next to Kaitlyn. Krestner walked over to Kyle, picked him up by his collar and slammed him into the nearest tree.
"What the hell was that?! You don't just shoot things out of the sky!" He was pulled off by a pair of Vine Whips from Tyler's new Ivysaur. Flare burned Seed with Ember. Ghost, and Nibble jumped between the two pokémon.
"Who's Garchomp is that?" Kyle said casually as if he wasn't just slammed into a tree.
"Mine" Madison said as she stepped forward.
"Small world. Look what I got." Kyle threw a Pokéball and the pokémon flew out high into the air and came down to land. " Take a look at my new Flygon, Spirit. Now did you catch that as a Garchomp?"
"You could say that. I had an accident and then a dream and finally a fully evolved very loyal Garchomp. I also got this." She held up the fiery red Gabite scale that she now wore around her neck as a good luck charm. Kyle did the same thing with a aqua blue scale.
"Small world, I was slammed through a wall by a Drapion, had a dream and then had a fully evolved Flygon and a blue Vibrava scale. It must be a family thing." Krestner, who was still angry, threw an empty Pokéball at Kyle's head while Flare, who happened to have a Naughty nature, slapped Kindle in the back of the head. Kindle turned to retaliate when Ghost stepped in and stopped them again. Baby Pom jumped from the top of Krestner's head and caught the Pok ball before it hit Kyle. Krestner returned his pokémon to their Pokéballs and grabbed Baby Pom from the tree he'd landed in. He picked up Ghost by the scruff of his neck and was about to storm off when Aqua, the Floatzel shot Hydro Pump at Krestner. X-Ray the Shinx jumped out of his Pokéball and used Spark on the Hydro Pump, frying Aqua. Krestner dropped Ghost, stopped and in a voice so creepy it made everyone's hair stand on end, he spoke.
"So it's a battle you want?"
"Yea it's a battle I want. But let's make it interesting. A tag-team battle between you and Selena and me and Tyler."
"Deal."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. You two can't battle. You two know the rules. 'Kyle and Krestner aren't allowed to battle' Remember what happened last time?" Kaitlyn said.
"Ah come on. It was a little explosion.... that happened to destroy the entire school. But that's why Selena and Tyler are here. To make sure the battle doesn't get out of hand." Kyle said. " I'm surprised, though that my bookworm sister didn't remind us of that rule."
"School's not everything you know." Madison said proudly. "And I think I'll refer..." A person came tumbling through the bushes and stopped in front of everybody. She got up from the ground, muttering to herself.
"I always get into this forest and then can't ever get out. She looked up and stared at everybody until she laid eyes on Krestner. Sh immediately ran over and hugged him. For a second, a look of anger flared on Selena's face. A look that only Kaitlyn caught. The women let go of Krestner. "It's been awhile, Krest. How ya been?"
"Um.. good, but I'm kinda in the middle of something right now." The women moved out of his way. "Oh, by the way everybody this is Cheryl. Cheryl that's Kyle, Tyler, Ricard, Kaitlyn, Madison, and this is ..." Selena pushed Krestner over and introduced herself.
"The name is Selena. I'm Krestner's best friend." She roughly shook Cheryl's hand.
"Can we get back to the battle here? Madison gonna referee." Let's do this." Kyle said. Everybody took their places and the battle began.
"Go, X-Ray!
"Squirt!"
"Ironeye!"
"Aqua!" Krestner's Shinx, Selena's Wartortle, Tyler's Aggron, and Kyle's Floatzel all were ready to battle. Hey, Tyler when did you get an Aggron?" Krestner asked.
"I'll tell you later. Ironeye use Earthquake!
"Aqua Jet on X-Ray, now Aqua!"
"X-Ray,dodge and then use Fire Fang on Ironeye!"
"Squirt, Water Gun on Ironeye!" Ironeye stomped on the ground, and the huge tremor hit Squirt causing his Water Gun to get knocked off target and fly into the group of onlookers and happened to hit Cheryl. Kaitlyn noticed a secret smile that Squirt and Selena shared before resuming battle. X-Ray delivered a giant deal of damage to Ironeye with Fire Fang and then used its amazing speed to dodge the Aqua Jet that flew straight into Ironeye and knocked him out. Tyler sent in his Onix, Fluster.
"X-Ray use Discharge!"
"Squirt, Hydro Pump!" The attacks hit their marks and Fluster stood badly damaged and Aqua was fainted. Kyle sent out Kindle. Fluster retaliated with a Flash Cannon attack that sweeped through X-Ray and Squirt, but for some reason it had no effect on them. As a matter of fact the attack seemed to go around them. Krestner smiled.
"Havin' a little trouble over there Tyler? X-Ray lower your shield." The light around the shiny Flash Pokémon crackled. "X-Ray and I have created a move I like to call Evanescent Shield. X-Ray is able to generate an invisible shield from the electricity in the air and its x-ray vision. Thus being able to create a shield anywhere within his eyesight. Now X-Ray, use Rain Dance, followed by Thunder!" Selena jumped back into battle too.
"Squirt, use Water Pulse!" The two attacks, now stronger thanks to the heavy rain that was falling, struck Kindle and Fluster, the latter of whom was able to dodge in time. Kindle was engulfed in water and electricity. The pain was unbearable but Kindle was determined to win and even in the midst of the attack began to evolve. Not to be outdone, X-Ray and Squirt began to evolve too. Within seconds, three new pokémon stood in the battle area. A triple evolution that made everyone gasp. There stood an Infernape, ready to fight, a shiny Luxio with enough stamina to fight for three days straight and a huge Blastoise with glinting cannons. The trainers didn't seem to be phased by the miraculous event..
"X-Ray, Discharge!"
"Squirt, Hydro Pump!"
"Kindle, Sunny Day!"
"Fluster, Sand Tomb!" X-Ray's attack hit Kindle squarely in the chest throwing it backwards and fainting it, unfortunately not being able to dodge the Sand Tomb that covered him. Squirt's super-powerful Hydro Pump sped towards Fluster only to be blocked by Spirit 's Flamethrower,who had just entered the battle. "Fluster, hit Squirt with another Sand Tomb!"
"X-Ray, return! Go, Honey use Camouflage!" The Moth Pokémon emerged and glowed green for a second. "Now Energy Ball on Fluster!" The Energy Ball dealt massive damage to Fluster, who was almost taken out by it.
"Why did it do so much damage? Mothim is a Bug/Flying type!" Tyler yelled.
"Battling 101: Camouflage changes the type of the Pokémon depending on the surroundings. We just so happen to be in a forest, so Honey became a pure Grass type and STAB applied to Energy Ball."
"But, that means he's still weak against Fire-Type moves! Spirit, Fire Blast!" The attack came flying towards Honey.
"Squirt, sweep the field with Hydro Pump." The hulking Blastoise complied to Selena's command and rotated its cannons and fainted Fluster. The attack came head to head with the Fire Blast, ultimately pushing it back and hitting Spirit. The Ground/Dragon type fell to the ground."Squirt, Ice Punch on Spirit!" Spirit dodged at the last second and delivered a Flamethrower to the back of Honey. The Moth Pokémon was hit directly and went down.
"Honey, use U-Turn!" Honey began to glow and then flew straight forward and hit Spirit. The attack didn't do much damage as Honey returned to his Pokéball and Ghost was forced to battle. AN IMPORTANT THING TO NOTE: Ghost still goes by the illusion that he is weak even taking to limping when necessary. THIS HAS BEEN AN IMPORTANT THING TO NOTE BY GIGASTRIC3. Ghost walked slowly into the battle area. Cheryl, still drenched from the Water Gun, began to laugh loudly. Everybody looked at her weirdly. Nobody noticed that Ghost was slowly charging a massive Shadow Ball. By the time everybody looked back, the mass of dark energy had reached critical mass.
"Ghost, Shadow Ball, followed by Dark Pulse, Double Team and Hyper Beam!"
"Squirt, return Go. Artik, Shadow Ball, followed by Ice Beam, Double Team and Giga Impact!" Right before the attacks hit Krestner heard something that was blocked by the other noises around.
"Fortune! Hyper Beam!"
"Set off the Galactic Bomb NOW!"
The Shadow Balls mixed together and struck Fluster and Spirit followed by a combined Dark Pulse/Ice Beam attack. Both pok mon were frozen and being repeatedly hit by the Dark Pulse. Finally the two Eeveelutions moved so fast that it seemed like there were hundreds of them. Then the Artiks all were encompassed in purple-and yellow energy and the Ghosts were charging Hyper Beam and soon the attacks hit. The explosions that came after were disastrous. The force would've blown Krestner, Selena, Madison, and Kyle away if not for Ghost, Nibble, Artik, and Spirit taking the brunt of the force. The rest were blown very far away. The Eterna Forest was leveled by the blast.