Surprise! A second Black & White! A little harder than Gold & Crystal or Diamond & Platinum, but… here it is anyways.
MISC: mechanics. Hmm… how much of the game mechanics are involved in the manga? Gender, types, type effectiveness, abilities, natures, move combinations, move power, and I guess Pokédex descriptions, which aren't actually used in the games. EVs and IVs would be impossible to implement in the manga, and base stats… are basically ignored. Ruby's Skitty (along with Poochyena and Ralts) beating a Salamence? Skitty has 45 Attack, 45 Defense, and 50 Speed, compared to Salamence with 135 Attack, 80 Defense (also Intimidate) and 100 Speed. Salamence would shred that Skitty into velvety ribbons. So yes, base stats are completely ignored. Also, considering that a Magnezone has higher Special Attack than Arceus… base stats are better left ignored. They are only in the games to create balance. Slaking has higher Attack than Groudon? Yeah, right… I can't see Slaking packing enough power to crack planets, but I can see Groudon doing that easily.
So, what mechanics are in Special Events and Special Adventures? Not the 4-move limit (because that's ridiculous), but base stats will be mentioned loosely, I guess (examples below), and the other mechanics that are in Pokémon Special. Oh, did anyone notice how big Arceus is in the HGSS arc? It's supposed to be 10 feet tall, yet its FACE is as big as a human being.
Primary: Black & White.
Hidden Talent:
White watched in horror as Black continued to get beaten. She didn't know why this was happening. Some trainer, a really strong trainer, using Pokémon she never saw before, was attacking with absolutely no reason. It wasn't a Pokémon battle either. The other trainer was simply attacking.
Black tried to fight back, but his Munna and Braviary were taken out by a Dark Pulse from some fire-breathing Pokémon and everyone else was downed by a Shadow Ball from some shadow-like Pokémon. The enemy trainer laughed and ordered another Dark Pulse, aimed at Black for the 7th time. This time, the attack hit him on the head and knocked him out cold.
"Black! No!" White screamed. She turned to glare at the enemy trainer. "Why are you doing this?"
The trainer didn't reply and simply ordered a Shadow Ball at Black. White saw the attack and did the only thing she could think of. She stepped into the attack. She screamed in pain as the Shadow Ball hit her directly above the heart and knocked her down. The attack nearly knocked her out and she couldn't breathe. There were quite a few people nearby, but not one dared to intervene.
Coughing violently, White slowly sat up. She put a hand over her heart to help withstand the pain and glared at the enemy trainer.
"Crunch," the enemy trainer ordered.
The fire-breathing Pokémon leapt towards White. The president screamed as she tried to back away, but the Pokémon was too fast and ended up biting her left leg. She desperately hit the Pokémon in the face to get it away, and succeeded after a short while. The fire-breathing Pokémon, angry at being smacked in the face, delivered another Dark Pulse. The attack hit White on the right arm and knocked her back down to the ground. She clutched her injured arm and forced herself to sit up.
'I… I have no choice!' "Fine, you big jerk!" she yelled. "If you want to fight that much, then fine!" White clenched her teeth and rose to her feet, carefully balancing on her right leg. She could feel blood trickling from the leg injury.
"Oh? And I suppose you're going to fight me?" the trainer mocked. "Little Miss Coward is going to fight? Oh, I'm scared! After your boyfriend tried and failed, what chance do you have?"
White turned to look at Black's Munna. "You! Eat my dreams!" she ordered, gaining confused looks from everyone nearby. The Munna looked over at its unconscious trainer, wondering what to do. Black gave pretty strict orders to not eat anyone else's dreams. "I'm not going to ask again!" White yelled. The Munna jumped in surprise and did as told. After all, its trainer never said anything for cases where someone else wants to get rid of his/her dreams. "… Don't bite too hard," White whispered before the Munna clamped onto her head.
"… The hell?" the enemy trainer muttered.
'Ow… my head… But this is pretty cool! So this is what Black does so often?' White thought as black and white spots appeared in her vision. 'Okay… that fire-breathing thing… Considering the power of the Dark Pulse and Flamethrower compared to its other attacks, I guess it's a Fire/Dark type Pokémon. And that shadow thing… Seeing how it was partially weak to Munna's Psychic type attacks, I guess it's a Ghost/Poison type… They're both fast and strong with special attacks, but they did take quite a bit of damage from physical attacks… so…'
White lifted the Munna off of her head. With another glare, she reached into her bag and prepared to fight…
Two hours later…
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"Black, can you hear me?"
…
"I'm sorry, Black… I should've helped… I should've…"
Black opened his eyes. 'What happened? … Where am I? And where's that son of a-' He looked to his right, where he could hear someone sobbing.
White was sitting on a chair beside him, with bandages wrapped around her arm, and chest. She was crying, and because of her cap, failed to notice that Black was awake.
"I'm sorry… If I helped, then this wouldn't have happened…"
'Help? How would she help?' Black thought. A theory popped in his mind, and listened attentively to what White was saying.
"It's all my fault… I could've beaten him…"
'Say what?' "Uh… Miss President?"
White froze. '… Was he awake the whole time?' She slowly raised her cap so she could see him. Yep, he was looking at her with a confused and surprised expression. "Black, y – you're awake! I was so worried!" 'Must… change… subject!'
"Yeah, I'm fine, but… what'd you say?"
"You got hit on the head with a Dark Pulse! I was afraid that you wouldn't wake up!"
Black narrowed his eyes as White began ranting about how worried she was and how he wasn't there to protect her and on and on. He put a hand on her knee to try to get her to calm down. It had the reverse effect, since his hand touched the injury on the president's leg (he couldn't see because of the bed's elevation).
"Ow! Black! That hurt! What's wrong with you?" White yelped out. She now began ranting about hurting her when she was trying to take care of him.
Black slowly sat up. The president was acting weird…
"Miss President, what happened to that asshole trainer?" he asked.
"Um… s – someone came to my help!" White stammered as she desperately thought of an explanation. "Um… someone… with a really strong Dark type Pokémon. He… um… had red hair and… silver eyes! And…"
"Then what did you mean when you said that you could've beaten that jackass?" Black asked. As he expected, White froze and couldn't reply. "So you could battle, and battle well! You were lying to me when you said that you couldn't fight at all." To his surprise and horror, White started to cry. 'What the… … did I do something wrong?' "Uh… Miss President?"
"I'm sorry for lying, Black," the president sobbed out. "But… you don't understand!"
"What do you mean?"
"Whenever people see me battle, they all think I'm some kind of a… monster! They all stare at me… and avoid me like I'm some kind of a plague!" White took a shuddering breath. "I… I gave up on battling years ago. I only have one Pokémon, but it's enough to make people scared of me. I started BW Agency so I wouldn't have to battle anymore…"
Black raised an eyebrow. "I… see. Can I see your Pokémon then?" he asked. White sighed and gave him a Pokéball. Through the translucent red top of the ball, Black could see inside, and saw the 3 headed Brutal Pokémon. 'Yikes… no wonder people got scared.' "How about I help you catch some normal Pokémon?" he offered. "That way you can battle without people running away."
White wiped away her tears. "Thanks, Black. I'd appreciate it if you didn't tell anyone about this, though."
Black returned the Pokéball. "Sure, no problem. I guess I don't have to train you, then. I said I would, but seeing how you're already experienced and…" he looked at the 3 headed Brutal Pokémon in the ball. "… With that thing, I'm sure I can't train you."
White nodded. She carefully rose to her feet and gently kissed Black on the cheek. "I'm really glad you're okay, Black. But do be careful next time."
"I could say the same to you, Miss President," Black replied. "And thanks for saving me."
And thus ends a chapter of bullsh*t. It's merely a thought of mine, that it would be interesting if White was actually a total badass. Probably not going to happen though, seeing how she was crying when that fiery pig of hers got smacked around.
I avoided using names of 3 particular Pokémon in this chapter. Care to guess what they are? Hint: all fully evolved.
Anyways, here's another base stat hilarity: Shuckle has more defenses than Registeel. Shuckle also has more defenses than Deoxys Defense Forme. And after one move, Shuckle gets more Attack than Deoxys Attack Forme. What.
In that regard, Deoxys Attack Forme has hell of a lot more attack power than Arceus (Deoxys capping at 504, Arceus at 372). Since Deoxys loves to change back and forth between its Formes, it's base stats in the manga are basically 50 HP, 180 Attack, 160 Defense, 180 Special Attack, 160 Special Defense, and 180 Speed, compared to Arceus's 120-all. So what'll happen when these two clash? We'll find out in Special A-
Next up: don't know yet. But not Ruby & Sapphire or Black & White.