AN: This is an important message about a couple of changes that have been made to Naruto.
I have gotten a review that claims Shadowshock is a cheesy name, and to tell the truth I completely agree with them. I created the first version of this story when I was young and thought that putting to words together was the coolest thing in the world. I also thought that the taller you were the cooler you were. So I have changed, not only Naruto's last name, but also a few of the his other traits. You could go back to the first two chapters to read them for yourself, but I will state the most major changes here.
First, Naruto's last name is now Touketsu, which I believe translates into frozen. If anyone finds a flaw in my translation please tell me and I will be sure to change it.
Second, Naruto lost a few inches and is now only five feet tall.
Third, Naruto is thirteen now.
Also, I strongly recommend listening to either listening to the pokemon movie soundtracks while you read this story, or if you don't have access to that then listen to techno. My reasons? One, I write this story while listening to them so I think if you read while listening to them it will make the whole experience better. And two, because its cool.
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Last time on The Rise of Chaos: Naruto and Pikachu departed from Pewter City and began to make their way towards Cerulean City, for their next gym battle. On their way, they encountered a Growlithe near the Mount Moon Trail, which was easily defeated by Pikachu and captured. Only a few seconds after the Growlithe was caught, a Rhyhorn charged Pikachu in blind rage. The Rhyhorn was dispatched in a matter of seconds by the combined efforts of Scyther and Pikachu. After identifying the Rhyhorn as the one that Pikachu fought long ago, Naruto captured the Rhyhorn and continued his journey. Only a few miles away from their destination, Naruto and Pikachu took a detour into a small cliff side clearing, to watch a Staryu and a Krabby battle. The battle ended with both pokemon being knocked unconscious, and, after capturing them, Naruto and Pikachu moved on towards Cerulean City. They arrived at the city only minutes after the battle, and after a quick stop at the Pokemon Center Naruto and Pikachu headed for the gym. At the gym they scheduled a battle with the gym leader with a blonde girl, and after that they headed to the park for training. After having Pikachu, Scyther, and Pidgey attack Rhyhorn, Naruto started to train Staryu and Krabby for the gym battle. Ten o'clock the next day, Naruto and Pikachu arrived at the gym and were lead to the stadium, in which they were reacquainted with Ash, Misty, and Brock. After a very brief greeting, Misty stated the rules and the battle began.
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"Goldeen I choose you!" Misty yelled as she threw her pokeball.
"Krabby, your assistance is required." Naruto said as he mimicked Misty's action.
Red energy shot out of the pokeball as the two pokemon materialized on the battlefield, and once the red energy fully receded, the battle truly began.
"Krabby, use Bubblebeam." Naruto ordered.
A stream of bubbles launched out of Krabby's claw
"Goldeen, dodge and use horn attack." Misty ordered.
A stream of bubbles launched out of Krabby's claw, heading straight for Goldeen.
Goldeen swam to the right, a few inches, to dodge the attack and then proceeded to swim towards Krabby, parallel with the trail of bubbles.
In response, Krabby simply lowered its claw so that the bubbles hit the water just in front of Goldeen. This caused the bubbles to explode against the surface of the water, and Goldeen to swim right into the explosion.
The force of the explosion shot Goldeen right back in the direction it came from, and straight into the wall of the pool, right below Misty.
Slightly unnerved by how easily her attack was countered, Misty hesitated a moment before she called out her next attack.
"Goldeen, use Water Gun." Misty ordered.
Goldeen swam a foot away from the pool wall before it shot a thick surge of water out of its mouth.
"Krabby, counter with your own Water Gun." Naruto ordered.
Without even moving from its floating platform, Krabby launched a powerful jet of water out of its right claw.
The two attacks collided in the middle of the battlefield and promptly exploded into a continuous shower of water droplets.
The explosion caused nearby platforms to be pushed toward the walls of the pool and a deep dent to appear in the center of the pool. The extreme displacement of water caused a single, circular wave to travel through the pool.
As the wave hit the vertical edges of the pool, a large amount of water splashed over the walls and onto the tiled floor.
The wave hit Krabby and Goldeen at the same time, making them bob up and down in perfect sync, never stopping their attacks. This in turn, caused the dent in the center of the pool to bob up and down with them, creating another wave.
"Krabby, use Bubblebeam." Naruto ordered.
Just as the second wave passed under Krabby, it raised its left claw and shot a long trail of bubbles towards Goldeen at thirty degree, downward, angle.
The third wave formed as soon as the bubbles began leaving Krabby's claw. And by the time the leading bubbles made it to the center of the pool, the wave was three quarters of the way to Goldeen.
Right before the wave could pass under Goldeen, the leading bubbles made contact with the back of the wave, creating a explosion that, not only caused Goldeen to flinch and cancel its attack, but to also forge a clear path for the rest of the bubbles that followed.
Time slowed down for Goldeen as it forced its eyes open again. Once it did all the sound that once filled the stadium became mute as Goldeen stared in awe at a sight that was beautiful even under the current circumstances.
Small droplets of water surrounding the stream of bubbles simmered in the light as they fell back into the pool, while the bubbles themselves each sported a full rainbow of colors on their surface, that swirled and blended together in a smooth dance. Just to the right of the bubbles, the jet of water that Goldeen was previously holding back, plowed through the remnants of its attack, launching water droplets high enough in the air to hit the ceiling and light the stadium in a pattern of golden circles that fluctuated with turbulent surface of the pool.
This whole scene was interrupted, however, when the bubbles and the water surge simultaneously impacted with Goldeen's face.
The combined power of the two attacks launched Goldeen past Misty, coming mere inches from her face.
By the time one second had transpired Goldeen had flew from its pace in the pool, to a two foot deep crater in the wall, where it flailed on there ground slowly beginning to suffocate.
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For the first time in his life, Ash was speechless. He simply stared in awe at Naruto longing to learn his secretes.
Brock fared little better, but he did have the presents of mind to give a sympathetic look to Misty.
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Misty stared at Goldeen's pokeball in devastation. She had just been beaten with little to no effort, and the worst part about it was that she was beaten in her own element. The element that she had devoted her whole life to mastering. The element of water.
"That's it." Naruto said, breaking the silence that had consumed the stadium.
"What?" Misty asked in a broken tone as she looked up from her pokeball.
"That is all you have to offer." Naruto continued. "If this is the best that you can do then you should give up now because it won't be nearly enough to beat me."
Misty was astonished, and her immediate response was a blank stare. Naruto had just insulted her skills as a trainer, but that wasn't the most degrading thing. The most degrading thing was that he did it without a hint of anger, scorn, sadness, or superiority. He did it all with a emotionless face and a perfectly calm voice.
Gradually, Misty's precious depression was replaced by an overwhelming sense of rage, and her blank stare became one full of passion and animosity.
"No." Misty growled.
"Excuse me?" Naruto asked in the same unwavering voice.
"That was not the best I can do." Misty spat. "I have more than enough potential to beat someone like you."
"Well if that is the case, then you better translate that potential into skill fast, or else this battle won't last much longer." Naruto said as he called Krabby back into its pokeball.
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"What a jerk." Ash said as he leaned back in his seat and folded his arms. "I can't believe he said that. I actually thought he was cool.""I wouldn't give up on him so quickly." Brock commented with a smile tugging at the corners of his mouth. "I have a feeling his words where not said out of hate."
"What do you mean?" Ash asked.
"Did you notice that Misty started the battle with virtually no confidence?" Brock questioned.
"Now that you mention it, she did seem to be action weird." Ash had a hard time resisting the urge to slap his face.
"Do you think that she was doing her best during the battle?" Brock asked.
"No." Ash answered, still not catching on.
"Do you think she will battle better now that she is angry at Naruto?" Brock asked slowly.
"Yyyyeees." Ash answered unsure of himself.
Brock simply stared at Ash as he waited for him to put the pieces together.
"Oooohhh!" Ash said in revelation. "I see. So your saying that Naruto taunted Misty so she gained more confidence, which would make her fight better."
"Yep." Brock said.
"Amazing! Naruto is a genius!" Ash said, causing Brock to succumb to his urges and slap himself in the face.
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"Staryu, your assistance is required." Naruto said as he threw his pokeball onto the battlefield.
"Seel, I choose you!" Misty yelled as she mirrored Naruto's action.
Once the two pokemon formed and the red energy retracted, Misty made her move.
"Seel, use Water Gun." Misty ordered.
"Counter with Rapid Spin." Naruto ordered.
As soon as the water surge left Seel's mouth, Staryu jumped a few inches above its platform and began to spin horizantally.
Just like in its fight with Krabby, Staryu charged the water surge head on.
Staryu's body sliced through the middle of the water surge with frightening efficiency as it continued on its path towards Seel, seemingly unhindered by the rushing water.
"Seel, use Aurora Beam." Misty ordered.
Seel closed its mouth for a second to cut the flow of water leaving its mouth, and almost immediately afterwards it opened its mouth up once again. This time, instead of releasing more water, a multicolored beam shot out of Seel's mouth.
As the beam made its way toward Staryu, small water droplets to formed around it just to freeze a second later, once they made contact with the beam.
"Staryu, use Hydro Cycle." Naruto ordered.
As Staryu broke through the last remains of Seel's Water Gun, it shot water out of all of its points, while it continued to spin.
The water formed around Staryu's body in a, slightly spherical, disc shape that had a tail in the back, not unlike that of a meteor when it burns in a planet's atmosphere.
Staryu's attack met Seel's Aurora Beam, in a full head on collision.
The confrontation instantly froze the water surrounding Staryu into a solid comet of ice that released a thin trail of frost behind it. But, the flash freeze didn't cause Staryu to lose any of its forward momentum.
The new ice covering allowed just enough light to pass through it that it became semi transparent. This new trait allowed Staryu's entire body to viewed through the glass, distorted in such a way that it looked as if Staryu's entire body was a flawless gem.
"Dodge it Seel." Misty ordered.
As Staryu's frozen form rapidly closed the gap between it and Seel, Seel dove underwater in hopes of dodging, the seemingly deadly attack. Luckily for Seel, its reflexes proved adequate enough to get out of the way of Staryu's attack.
Seel resurface mere seconds after words right behind Staryu, but Staryu couldn't change the course of its attack and it soon found itself colliding with the pool wall under Misty.
Staryu's ice shell immediately shattered upon impact with the wall, causing small crystals of ice to fly through the air, glinting as they reflected the serene pool in a amazing way.
"Staryu, use Water Gun."
Staryu emerged from its dive right behind Seel, with a minimal amount of scratches along its body. Under the cover of the blinding ice shards from its previous attack, Staryu launched its attack at Seel.
The surging water engulfed all of the ice shards in its path, causing the water itself to sparkle and shine an array of colors as it closed in on Seel.
During mid-turn, Seel met the full force of Staryu's ice-enforced attack and was plowed into the dent in the pool wall that Staryu made with its previous attack.
"Staryu, use Rapid Spin." Naruto ordered.
Staryu's attack came to an abrupt stop as it began to spin its body on a horizontal axis. As soon as it was able to sustain its flight, Staryu launched itself right behind the remnants of its Water Gun.
"Seel dive under the water!" Misty ordered franticly, unable to think of anything else to say.
Seel tried to get itself out from behind the remains of the water surge, but the fact that Staryu was no longer sustaining it didn't seem to have any effect on the pressure it was able to place on Seel.
Realizing that struggling was pointless, Seel reserved its energy for the small margin of space between the end of the Water Gun and Staryu itself.
As soon as the last droplets of water finished splashing against it, Seel slammed its tail into the wall and launched itself towards the safety of the pool.
But there was one thing Seel didn't take into account.
Staryu can move.
Shifting its body slightly Staryu easily corrected its direction, and less than a second it slammed into Seel's side, propelling them both into the water that Seel so desired.
The Seel's back carved through the water with frightening efficiency and only the concrete pool bottom served to stop Seel after a full two feet of material.
Once Staryu realized that it wouldn't be able to push Seel any deeper it jumped out of the pool and onto the platform in front of Naruto, awaiting new orders.
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"Hey, Brock." Ash addressed him without even taking his eyes away from the battlefield.
"Yeah?"
"Getting Misty angry didn't seem to help much."
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Misty was experiencing a mix of awe, shock, sadness, and anger. And, unable to properly expresses the mixture with face expressions or words, Misty simply stood there looking at the calm water of the pool.
Only the sight of Seel's head braking the surface of the pool brought Misty back to the conscious world once again.
As Misty watched Seel swim awkwardly though the water with multiple scratches, a large bruise on its back, and exhaustion obvious in its form, all her previous emotions disappeared in a deep sea of red.
"Seel, you did great." Misty said sincerely as she recalled it back into its pokeball.
"What happened?" Naruto asked capitalizing on Misty's state barely contained of rage. "You were speaking so highly of you skills before. Could you not live up to your own expectations?"
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Brock and Ash shivered in their seats, it was as if the air dropped fifty degrees in an instant. Ash could have sworn he saw a some of the stray water droplets on the ground freeze.
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Misty settled her best glare at Naruto, but it seem to have no effect. Never the less Misty held it on Naruto as she spoke in a deathly calm voice.
"You will see soon enough that I very well can live up to those expectations." Misty said evenly.
'Well that won't do.' Naruto thought to himself.
"Really, because even a blind man would be see that lie." Naruto commented without even changing his tone of voice.
Misty's mind completely shut down at this point and her vision that was once tinted with red, became a transparent black.
"Staryu, I choose you!" Misty said as she threw her pokeball onto the field, anxious to release her frustrations.
"Staryu, you did well." Naruto said as he recalled Staryu and threw a different pokeball onto the field. "Krabby, you assistance is required."
"Staryu, start this off with Rapid Spin." Misty ordered.
Wasting no time, Staryu began spinning its body on a horizontal axis and took off towards Krabby.
"Krabby, use Bubblebeam." Naruto ordered.
In one slow, slightly dramatic movement , Krabby raised its right claw and aimed it at Staryu's swirling form and fired a continuous trail of bubbles.
Staryu was able to maneuver its body around the stream of bubbles without having to slow down its charge, so Krabby adjusted its aim, but a similar type of evasion happed.
Getting slightly frustrated, Krabby aimed its left claw and included it in the attack, twisting each claw in an attempt to trap Staryu's body between the two streams.
Eventually, when Staryu was only ten feet away from Krabby, the two streams were able to close in on Staryu and hit it from two different angles. This naturally resulted in an explosion that produced a black cloud of smoke, obscuring vision of the battlefield and turning on the sprinkler system.
"Krabby, jump and use Crabhammer." Naruto ordered.
Trusting its trainer, Krabby jumped from its platform and immediately brought its closed claw down, which was now glowing white.
As soon as it did, the claw slammed into the center of Staryu's body, right on the precious gem.
The hit immediately halted Staryu's spin and sent it careening towards the bottom of the pool.
Silence overtook the stadium and the only sound that could be heard was the soft sound of the water from the sprinklers splashing against the tiled flooring.
The smoke eventually cleared and the stadium was once again visible, but Staryu was nowhere to be seen.
Naruto looked at the pool, but the sprinklers were making it impossible to distinguish anything in the water's reflection, let alone its depths.
'This could be bad.'
"Krabby, get onto a platform." Naruto ordered.
Before Krabby could even begin to move towards a platform, Misty made her move.
"Staryu, use Water Gun." Misty ordered.
Immediately a huge surge of water engulfed Krabby's entire body, carrying it towards the ceiling.
"Krabby, turn around and put you arms in front of you." Naruto ordered.
With a great deal of effort, Krabby spun around in the inside of the water surge and crossed its arms in front of its body. As soon as that was complete Krabby slammed into one of the four lights illuminating the stadium.
Once the light broke a electric current traveled through the water surge, shocking Krabby with a unhealthy amount of electricity.
As for Staryu, when it saw that its attack had been invaded by electricity it stopped its attack for a second before it continued once again, leaving a gap of about a foot between the two water jets.
The lengthy electrocution was beginning to do a number on Krabby, and until the water surge ended the pain wouldn't cease.
When there was only about five feet of water left between Krabby and the one foot gap, Naruto gave his order.
"Krabby, push off the wall and use Water Gun." Naruto ordered.
Right when the last drop of water splashed against Krabby's back, it spread its arms out of their crossed position, serving to push itself back six inches from the wall before the water surge hit , that was all the space Krabby needed.
Krabby opened both its claws and shot two jets of water against the ceiling, being extra careful not to hit the broken light.
Pushing as much water though its claws as it could, Krabby slowly began to push its body back against Staryu's attack.
Krabby's progress was slow at first, but it got even slower as it went further and further away from the ceiling, until eventually Krabby's progress came to a complete halt only halfway through Staryu's attack.
"Krabby, turn around." Naruto ordered.
In one smooth motion, Krabby turned its two arms at a diagonal angle, allowing them to push one side of its body more than the other. This caused Krabby to roll against the top of Staryu's water surge and shot its attack directly against Staryu's.
Krabby's attack quickly began to overpower Staryu's, rapidly closing the distance between Krabby, Staryu, the platform, and the water.
"Staryu, use Swift." Misty ordered.
Staryu quickly changed tactics and, in place of water, shimmering gold stars began to shot out of its center gem.
The stars were able to easily slice through Krabby's attack, but there was one problem.
They didn't stop the attack.
Krabby's water surge plowed straight into Staryu, causing it to crash through the platform it was on and any new stars it was producing to blow up in front of its gem.
"Krabby, aim you attack at the wall." Naruto ordered.
Krabby did just that and that provided just enough power to push its body a few inches to the side, just out of the way of Staryu's remaining Swift.
Krabby finished its free fall towards the pool, and hit the surface of the water hard enough to cause a splash one foot high.
Krabby resurfaced seconds later and quickly began to swim towards the nearest platform, not wanting a repeat of last time.
However, Krabby never seemed to get what it wanted.
"Staryu, use Rapid Spin." Misty ordered.
"Krabby, use Crabhammer" Naruto ordered.
Seconds before Staryu broke the surface of the water, right under Krabby, Krabby slammed its glowing white claw onto the surface of the pool. Krabby's attack sent a massive shockwave into the water and caused huge waves to form along the surface of the water.
The shockwave forced Staryu to stop spinning and reorient itself. And while it was doing that Krabby used the waves to its advantage by riding along the top of them to get to a floating platform.
As soon as Staryu reoriented itself it took off, once more, towards Krabby.
Krabby desperately swam toward the platform as if its life depended on it.
But of course it didn't... only the battle did.
Two more feet to go and Staryu's body continued to carve though the water as if it were air.
One for foot and Krabby could the pull created by Staryu's spinning motion.
Six inches to go and Staryu had started to scrape the back of Krabby's leg.
Three... two... one... a solid surface.
Krabby only got to relish in the felling for only about a millisecond though, because the moment Krabby landed on the platform, Staryu barreled straight into it.
The plastic platform shattered as if it were glass and launched, both Krabby and Staryu, five feet above the surface of the water.
Unable to maintain control of its body Staryu began to spiral out of control in the air with Krabby flailing not to far away.
"Krabby, use an aura burst to stabilize yourself and follow up with Cannon Grip." Naruto ordered.
All the sound that previously littered the stadium began to disappear from the edges of the stadium. And, in only a matter of milliseconds, all the sound had converged into one single point... Krabby.
Staryu relished the strange feeling of time lag as it had the surreal experience of enhancing its senses to a degree never before imagined.
Staryu looked around itself and saw the water, that it had once been flying alongside, suspended in midair, each confined to the space of slightly misshapen spheres. The spheres refracted the already broken light produced by the three remaining lights in the stadium, and inside each sphere, Staryu was able to see a full rainbow.
As soon as Staryu made the discovery a shockwave blew through the stadium, returning the sound it had taken just a second before.
With its new found stability Krabby reached toward Staryu with its right claw. The claw stopped just a fraction of an inch away from Staryu's body and Krabby made a sound that was probably as close as a pokemon would ever come to cursing.
Thinking quickly Krabby used its left claw to shoot a blast of water out behind it. The thrust provided was just enough for Krabby to close the distance between it and Staryu, and clamp its claw down one the center of Staryu's body.
Once this was accomplished Krabby launched a continuous surge of water out of its right claw. The water surge hit Staryu's gem at point blank range and, because Staryu's body was being held by Krabby's claw, Staryu was forced to weather the entirety of Krabby's attack.
Finally noticing the approaching ground, Krabby shot another jet of water out of its left claw against the ceiling, turning its body so that Staryu was in between it and the ground.
Right after Krabby completed its placement, Staryu's body slammed into a platform, shattering it upon contact and slamming into the water immediately afterwards.
The sudden rush of water tore Krabby's claw off of Staryu's body and pushed Krabby's body towards the surface, causing it to slam its back against a floating platform.
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Misty knew that the battle was over, but that didn't stop her from hoping. She had seen the way Staryu had hit the water, she knew that she had lost, but something inside her couldn't accept it. Though seeing Krabby's unconscious body did dull the pain of defeat, to an extent.
At least she hadn't gone down without a fight.
When Staryu's body floated to the surface it wasn't a total surprise to Misty.
But the fact that it was still conscious defiantly was.
Tears found their way into Misty's eyes as she watched Staryu struggle onto one of the few remaining platforms in the pool.
Staryu wasn't as conscious as Misty first thought.
Its gem was incredibly dim and Misty saw hairline cracks riddling its surface. There was even two huge gashes in between its points, in the places where Krabby's claw had held Staryu in its final conscious moments.
Misty tried hard, but a few tears slid past her defenses and rolled down her cheek.
"Staryu you were amazing... thank you." Misty mumbled as more tears escaped. "You deserve a nice long rest."
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"That was amazing Misty!" Ash exclaimed as he and Brock made their way off the bleachers and toward the battlefield.
"Thanks." Misty managed a small smile as she wiped a few stray tears from her eyes.
"That was quite the comeback." Brock commented. "I never knew you were that good with water pokemon."
"Thanks Brock."
"You were amazing out there!" Ash said. "I bet if you had actually fought seriously during my match I don't know if I would have even won."
"Even after you had lost your first two pokemon to Naruto, you still essentially won the last battle and that alone is an amazing feat." Brock said.
"Thanks you guys." Misty said letting a few more tears fall.
"They're right you know." Naruto said, causing everyone to nearly snap their necks to look at him. "You proved me wrong and showed me that you were a worthy trainer, so I must take this time to apologize for underestimating you."
"Oh please." Misty said with a bit of happiness in her voice. "I know what you were trying to do when you insulted me, so it should be me thanking you."
"Saw through my plan so easily." Naruto said with a light chuckle.
"Its not like you tried to conceal it." Ash said with crossed arms. "Even I was able to figure it out."
"After I told you." Brock mumbled causing Misty to giggle.
"I suppose your right Ash." Naruto said. "I will try to do better next time."
"I hope so." Ash said seriously, causing Naruto to come very close to laughing.
"Well enough of that." Misty said as she walked towards Naruto. " I would like to present you with the Cerulean City Gym Badge."
Opening her previously clenched fists Misty held out a small stone in the shape of a water droplet, which Naruto graciously took.
"Thank you." Naruto said as he turned to leave with Pikachu now perched on his shoulder.. "It was nice meeting you all again."
Misty watched them leave when a sudden idea popped into her mind along with a sudden swell of courage.
"Wait!" Misty yelled after him.
Naruto stopped and looked back at her without turning, but to Misty that was enough.
"Can you come with us on our journey." Misty asked surprising everyone in the room.
"Your a pokemon trainer just like Ash so we will be going to the same places anyway, and we could help make us better trainers." Misty continued.
Realization suddenly dawned on Ash and a burst of energy rushed through his body.
"She is right." Ash said as he jumped into the conversation. "I've been dieing to learn some of the moves you used and I'm sure that I would be able to help you in some way or another."
"A journey is a lot more fun when you have people to share it with." Brock commented.
Naruto stayed silent for one tense minute before he finally answered them.
"I don't see why not."
He had no idea what he had gotten himself into.
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Staryu
Hydro Cycle: A combination of Water Gun and Rapid Spin. While spinning, the user uses Water Gun. The circular movement of the users body causes the water to form a disc like shape that surrounds the users body.
Krabby
Cannon Grip: A combination of Water Gun and Vicegrip. The pokemon grabs the opponent with a Vicegrip and then fires a Water Gun through the same claw.
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AN: There's Chapter 9. Hope you liked it. Sorry it took so long, I had to get readjusted to school life.
Also before anyone comments on how a certain pokemon shouldn't be able to use a move because they can't use it in the actual pokemon series; in this story I've made some moves universal for all pokemon. For instance, tackle. I've also made some attacks universal for types of pokemon. For example Water Gun is a universal move for water type pokemon and Flamethrower is universal for fire types.
Reviews are appreciated, along with any new, original attacks or combos that can be added to my arsenal.
Until next time...