Chapter 8: Cerulean Gym Battle
Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon
A/N: I'm Baaack. Sorry for the delay, the machine I was writing this story on was umm… damaged by a washing machine and deleted all my data on this chapter. So I had to re write the entire chapter and make it a bit shorter so I could get another chapter out for this story. The stuff for the next chapter will be coming out as soon as I can finish rewriting it and can avoid damaging another machine.
Thanks for all of the feedback on the last couple chapters. I'm glad that some of you liked Ash being a psychic in this story instead of the usual aura user that I see in many other stories I've read. I see almost no stories of Ash being a psychic so I decided to make it a little different. I hope you like the twist on the usual pokemon fiction. I did make a decision regarding the legendary pokemon dilemma I brought up in the last chapter and I hope you like my eventual decision. The past few days have been spent reading other fanfictions and I have a lot of ideas regarding pokemon he will catch and one I really like a lot.
In this chapter, Ash will be facing the Cerulean City Gym and will be traveling to Viridian City. I'm basing the layout of the land on a mix between the games and the show. For example, there is the underground tunnel from Cerulean to Viridian but there will still be things from the show. I hope you enjoy everything I put into this story and give me your opinions on everything you deem necessary.
Let's get on with this new chapter that involves the gym and the starter trio which I did decide to keep I the story with minor alterations to their character and roles in the story.
Route 25- 2 days after catching Abra
It had been an interesting couple of days since the addition of Abra to the team. When Abra revealed to Ash that he was a psychic, Ash was beyond shocked to hear it. He had only ever heard of a small amount of people possibly being psychic. The most famous of course being the gym leader Sabrina who was known for getting inside the heads of her challengers and reading their thoughts to determine their next move. She has been reprimanded by the champion himself because no one was winning the badge because she knew what they were going to do before they did it. She has limited herself to simply connecting with her pokemon to give orders telepathically which made battling fairer than reading the trainer's mind.
Ash and Abra started training Ash's latent abilities immediately. Ash of course had trouble using any of the energy that was hidden deep inside his body. He just did not have the inborn knowledge on how to use it like Abra and actual psychic type pokemon did so he had to work to bring the energy up and use it. While the rest of the team was training their moves and power, Ash and Abra were meditating. Ash had trouble at first but he caught on very quickly when he felt the smallest spark of psychic energy deep in his mind. Ash was drawn to the energy and began to try bringing it out and give it power. The energy immediately reacted to his will and began to grow from its dormant state.
Ash then opened his eyes and his team saw that his eyes were glowing brightly with an icy blue power. When Ash looked around some more, he noticed that it was much darker than when he started meditating. "What the? It's night now? It only felt like minutes have passed." He then turned to Abra. "Have I been meditating all day?"
"Yes-Power was-Deep inside yourself-Not easy- To bring forward. It was-Much faster than-expected. Should have-Taken you-At least half a year. You have—much power inside-Yourself. More than-Normal human psychic-By a large amount." Abra said telepathically.
"Wow, can you teach me how to use my new abilities? I will need a teacher and you will be the best at teaching me how to use psychic abilities." Ash asked happily.
Abra just nodded his head happily and then looked behind Ash and teleported back a couple feet. Ash was confused for a second before he was drenched from head to toe. He was shocked before he heard the rest of his team laughing from a wide spread water gun from Marshtomp. The entire team including Ash laughed a lot and decided it's time to rest up for the night considering they were training all day. Ash made food for them all and they went to their respective spots in the clearing to sleep. Ash laid his sleeping bag near a tree.
Abra went under a tree and started to meditate and was still asleep. Abra's have a strange biology and mental situation. They are asleep most of the time but even when they are asleep, they are still mentally powerful to be able to communicate and move and even battle. Though their body is unconscious, their minds are completely active and are able to react to the outside world as if they were awake. It was difficult to tell whether or not an Abra was awake or asleep because of this.
Marshtomp went to the small pond that was in the clearing and sunk to the bottom and dug slightly into the mud at the bottom. It was comforting to his species to be in water and mud. He was still close to Ash and could watch over the clearing and would jump into action immediately if the need arose.
Grimlock laid down about ten feet away from Ash and dug into the ground slightly to make himself more comfortable and curled up. He used Fire Fang and held it by the ground and rocks for a bit to heat it up so it would be more suitable to his draconic body.
Elekid laid down a couple feet away from Ash in the thick grass that was very comfortable for him. The elekid line evolved to live in areas that were prone to lightning storms and where electricity is common. Many of these areas were in plain like areas that gave the pokemon room to roam. Naturally, they enjoy grassy areas. They all fell asleep and thought of the upcoming gym battle with the Cerulean Sisters and their water type pokemon.
Outside of Cerulean Gym- Next Day
Ash and Abra were standing and levitating outside of the Cerulean City Gym the next day and they had all discussed who would be battling in this battle. Abra would be battling for sure since Ash wanted to see just how strong he was. Marshtomp would be up next because he would be able to fight better in the water than the rest of his team and can still use the large pads. Elekid would be last because he obviously had the type advantage and would be able to fight well on the pads in the pool. Grimlock really wanted to battle and let off some steam battling but Ash convinced him not to battle because he didn't want to risk the heavy dinosaur drowning or getting hurt in the water.
When he first walked into the gym, he was overwhelmed by the humidity and the smell of pool water but he quickly adjusted. The two walked over to the receptionist who didn't even look up from her phone. She just pointed behind her to the hall he guessed led to the field. Ash just shook his head and went down the hallway where they could hear splashes and cheering occasionally. When they walked into the room, they noticed a large pool the size of the battling field that was in Brock's Gym. He noticed a trio of sisters playing with what appeared to be a seel pup that recently hatched. When he got close enough, the girls noticed him and stood up.
"Hi there, are you here for a gym battle? the oldest one asked him
"Yes, you three are the gym leaders?"
"Yes, and here we do a three on three battle style. Are you ready to battle?"
Ash nodded and went over to the challenger's side of the field while Daisy went to the Gym Leaders side of the pool and pressed a button.
The sides of the pool opened up and large platforms came from the side to give other pokemon a chance to battle and not just water types. One of the other sisters went up to the referee and raised one hand to signify the start of the battle. As soon as the battle started, both trainers released their respective pokemon onto the field. Abra simply teleported onto a platform with a small flash of light and an audible crack showing it was still inexperienced with the move.
Daisy sent out a brown starfish pokemon he recognized as a Staryu. These pokemon were very strange and developed the secondary typing of psychic with the use of a water stone. They were hard to find but if you raised one properly, it would be a very formidable opponent and would give many teams problems due to their versatility and unpredictability.
Ash knew this would be a difficult battle especially considering that Abra would have trouble maintaining energy for attacks in his current form. The body of an Abra is just not meant to be able to deal out or take much damage. Their bodies were too frail and could not focus enough psychic energy to do much more than teleport or do basic attacks. The power of an Abra's attack will be lowered because of this. The problem will solve itself when the pokemon evolves and is able to channel more energy into attacks and defensive moves.
Daisy started the battle off by yelling, "Jump in the water and use camouflage!"
Staryu grunted its name and before Ash or Abra, it jumped into the water and became invisible.
"Be careful, it has the advantage in the water, look for its mind in the water to find it. When you find it, use energy ball into the water to get it out of the water."
Abra nodded and began to scan the water looking for the Staryu's mind to reveal its location. While this was happening, Ash saw Daisy smirking, "What the.." Ash muttered under his breath before he saw Abra look directly down suddenly. "Quick teleport away!"
The pad that Abra had been levitating above suddenly shot into the air because of a sneak attack to surprise Abra. Before the pad could slam into him and throw him into the water or into the air to be an easy target, Abra teleported onto another larger platform. And launched a small green orb of grass type energy at Staryu and slammed into it while it was falling back into the water.
The Staryu slammed into a platform and got back up after a second with a small grunt of pain. "Use swift, it can't dodge it." Daisy shouted slightly desperate because of Abra knowing a super effective move. The starfish released a volley of glowing stars at the psychic fox and slammed into him before he could erect a barrier to block the attack. The impact created a cloud of smoke that reached all the way to the psychic barriers surrounding the field.
The smoke cleared and it showed a slightly battered Abra waving his finger in a back and forth motion. "What is he doing…. Metronome!" When the metronome finished, Abra placed his hands in fron of him and launched a powerful blast of electricity that shot forward and slammed into Staryu and exploded in a brilliant flash.
"That was Zap Cannon!" Daisy shouted in astonishment. "I can't believe you managed to get Zap Cannon from metronome."
When Ash's eyes readjusted from the bright flash, it showed an unconscious Staryu covered in sparks of electricity. Ash looked over to Abra who was sitting on the ground holding his head in apparent pain from the sensory overload from the bright flash and the resulting boom from the move. Psychic types like Abra used their minds to use their psychic abilities so they required focus and mental clarity. The light and sound disrupted his mental clarity and made him unable to use his psychic abilities for some amount of time.
Ash recalled Abra because he was too exhausted to battle.
"Good battle, mainly luck, but you won't defeat this pokemon. Go Wartortle! Let's win this battle." Daisy said and sent out a Wartortle a little smaller than Gary's was. It smirked at Ash and raised his hands in a mocking fight gesture.
Ash just shook his head in amusement and without a word sent out Marshtomp who immediately got into a battle stance.
"Be careful, you can't use some of your attacks on this field!" Ash shouted. Marshtomp nodded and smacked a fist into his hand and released a small shockwave from the power in his body.
"Start off with Rapid Spin." Daisy said to Wartortle.
Wartortle smirked and began to spin quickly and launched himself at Marshtomp.
"Catch him and show him your new move!" When Wartortle got close enough, Marshtomp shot his hands up and grabbed the spinning shell and stopped the spinning motion. Out of reflexive action, Wartortle's head shot out of his shell looking confused. Marshtomp let go with one hand and balled it into a fist that began to glow white with power. He then slammed that glowing fist into the exposed Wartortle's head and sent it flying into the psychic barrier.
Since Marshtomp had evolved, he had been training with Elekid to learn punching moves since he was no longer walking around on two legs. He had managed to master mega punch and has made a small amount of progress into power-up punch and ice punch.
Wartortle got up dizzily and stared at Marshtomp with a small amount of awe from the power the other held within his body. He then got a determined look on his face and charged at Marshtomp with an aqua jet.
"Quick, ice beam to stop it!"
Marshtomp formed a small blue ball in front of his mouth and shot 3 arcs of icy blue energy from its mouth that struck the aqua jet but this did not have the intended effect. Instead of stopping the aqua jet, it froze it solid and it was still heading towards him. He tried to make a barrier in front of him with ancient power to stop the ice aqua jet but it only slowed it down momentarily which prevented the move from being a one hit KO. Marshtomp slowly got up with a large bruise on his chest already forming.
"Dive into the water, Wartortle." Daisy shouted.
The wartortle jumped into the water and dove down to the bottom to await further instructions from Daisy.
Daisy smiled at this point and said, "This round has been really fun but it's time to end it, Wartortle use….."
"FREEZE THE FIELD WITH ICE BEAM!" Ash shouted surprising Daisy and preventing her from completing her order.
Marshtomp gained an almost evil look on his face and aimed a larger ice beam at the pool to freeze it solid. He then released it and the water began to freeze…with Wartortle still inside of the pool. Wartortle tried to escape the freezing pool, but he was too slow to avoid it. He was about halfway up when the water around him froze solid and froze him too.
"Alright, end it with a controlled Earth Power into the ice!" Ash ordered for his finishing move. Marshtomp jumped onto the ice and slammed his right food into the ice and a golden crack began to form and head towards the frozen Wartortle. When the crack got near Wartortle, it surrounded him and released energy all around him making the ice explode upwards and doing major damage to the turtle pokemon. When the ice stopped falling, it showed an unconscious Wartortle with small portions of its body covered in minor frostbite.
Daisy recalled the Wartortle with a look of concern on her face and stared at the still battle ready Marshtomp. Marshtomp was standing on the broken ice prepared for whatever pokemon Daisy sent out…. or so he thought. Daisy pulled an ultra ball off of her belt and flashed Ash a dangerous smile that made him and Marshtomp nervous.
"Come on out Gyarados!" Daisy shouted and released the mighty water serpent onto the largest platform because the water was frozen. "Melt the ice! Flamethrower!"
Gyarados reared its head back and brought it forward and unleashed a wide spread flamethrower over the entire field. Marshtomp was running on the rapidly melting ice trying to get onto a platform before he was hit with the flamethrower. He made a desperate jump for the platform but the flamethrower enveloped him and he landed harshly onto the platform floating on water again. He was covered in small burns from the flamethrower along with the massive bruise on his chest.
"Marshtomp, are you alright?" Ash asked staring at the third pokemon he caught on his journey.
Marshtomp looked up at Ash with determined eyes and slowly pushed himself up to a standing position and turned around to face the powerful serpent who has gone into the water after it stopped boiling. Gyarados was snarling at Marshtomp waiting for more orders from Daisy. Marshtomp Raised both of his arms and they were covered in a dark brown aura and small portals opened up above Gyarados and large rocks and boulders fell out and slammed into Gyarados.
"That was Rock slide, Congratulations bud, you finally learned Rock Slide!"
Marshtomp turned around and gave Ash a thumbs up and turned back around when he hear Gyarados stop roaring in pain.
Right as he finished turning around, a large glowing tail slammed into him from above and cracked the medium sized platform in half. Ash sighed and recalled Marshtomp because he knew he couldn't keep fighting with that powerful iron tail retaliation from Gyarados. He would definitely need to get that checked out by the nurse for any more damage.
The Gyarados did take major damage from the rock slide due to it being half flying type but it could still fight. Ash sent out Elekid who was at a very large advantage with his electric type moves doing four times damage.
Before Daisy could shout an order, Ash yelled, "Teleport to its head and use mega punch with thunder punch on its forehead!"
Elekid vanished from his platform with a white flash and a crack of light and reappeared a couple feet above the Gyarados' head. He then reared his fist back and covered his arm in electricity and then began to use mega punch on the same fist and then rushed the glowing, electrified fist into the serpent's forehead.
Gyarados' head jerked back from the powerful impact and from his body being overloaded with a large amount of electricity. Its body was racked with erratic spasms as its body was flooded with the electricity and when the electricity wore off, the Gyarados seemed unable to move. Daisy just raised its pokeball and recalled the massive pokemon and walked over to Ash.
"Here you go, Ash, the Cascade Badge. You've certainly earned it, you're the first to beat Gyarados since we started using him in battles. Congratulations!" Daisy said excitedly.
"Thank you, I'm going to go get my pokemon taken care of now."
Ash left the center and quickly went to the center to check his team.
"Your pokemon are doing fine, Mr. Ketchum, your Abra is doing fine now that his mind is refocused. Your Marshtomp had a minor concussion from the Iron Tail but it will be fine in a day or two. Try to avoid battles and intensive training with him for a couple days. And your elekid is perfectly fine." The town's Nurse Joy said to Ash after treating his pokemon."
"Thank you, Nurse Joy." Ash thanked the Nurse.
Ash collected his team and went to the room he had requested earlier in the day to get some sleep. When he got into the room, he released his team and gave Abra, Marshtomp, and Grimlock the news on winning the gym battle. The pokemon were happy at the news and they all went to their respective places in the room and passed out, including Ash.
So sorry for the major delay on this chapter. Like I said earlier, the machine I had been writing on is no longer usable so I had to completely rewrite the gym battle and the road to Vermillion. I'm sorry for the crappy ending, I was running out of energy and just needed to end the chapter.
Tell me what you guys think of the battle and any ideas you have for me. Pm me or leave a comment telling me what you guys think.