Hoenn Is Where The Start Is!
Chapter 8
Battle For The Badge!
The duo had entered Rustboro City, and headed for the town square.
"I have two pokemon, im ready for a gym battle!" Ash yells excitedly, wanting to get his first ever badge.
Ash had also needed to enter for the Hoenn league and May who will be aiming for the grand festival needs to register for the contest circuit.
"Lets go to the pokemon centre, I need to make a call" Ash says.
May agree's and heads to the building with the red roof and the signature sign on the front of the structure with read 'Pokemon Centre'.
They walked in and were greeted by Nurse Joy.
The pokemon centre layout is the same over all locations, to allow the trainers to feel comfortable knowing where everything is. It had the ussual desk at which Nurse Joy sat with chansey, and the trainers lounge elsewhere, along with the phones and the rooms for travellers.
Ash makes his way over to a green phone booth and sits down, then pressing buttons on the machine, entering a phone number. After waiting a few moments, the Kanto native took the phone on the holder and placed it to his ear, then facing a screen which was embed into the green booth.
A figure appeared on the screen. One which May didn't recognise.
"Ah, hello Ash" The man greeted. "How are you and pikachu?"
Ashs face lights up.
"Hey proffessor!" Ash replied cheerfully. " Pikachu and I are getting on really well, we are getting our first gym badge today."
"Good luck Ash" Pr. Oak responds. "Gary has just won his second, and is heading to Cerulean City as we speak to get his third."
Ashs face went from happy to concern.
'Almost three badges? He must be working really hard.' Ash thought.
Would Ash be able to catch up? Would he be able to over-take his current rival? Time will tell.
"Oh, then I gotta go!" Ash says quickly. "Say hi to my mother for me professor, bye!"
Ash hung up the phone.
The pair start to walk up to the main desk.
"Who was that Ash?" May asks curiously.
"Professor Oak, he is the one who gives the starter pokemon in Kanto." Ash explains.
They reach the desk and see Nurse Joy smiling brightly as usual.
"How can I help today?" She asks politely.
"I'd like to register for the grand festival." May asks.
"Ah, good luck, just pass me your pokedex, and ill give you the admission card to the contests." Joy explains.
It took a few minutes. But after recieving May's information from the pokedex, she was ready to compete in the Rustboro contest. Joy also gave her a ribbon case.
The same principle happened again for Ash, he recieved his badge case and was given access to compete in the Hoenn league after he recieves 8 badges.
"You ready?" Ash asks his partner.
"Pika!" Pikachu replied with a nod, showing it's eagerness.
But would enthusiasm beat a gym leader?
"Lets go May!" Ash calls to his friend. "I've got a badge to win!"
"Sure" May replies quickly, suprised at Ashs quick outburst.
Ash runs out of the pokemon centre, and runs towards a building which looks like a pokemon gym, the building where Ash would get his first badge.
May follows the trainer, and heads towards the gym to support her friend.
The gym stood tall, with a rock type theme and two main, steel doors at the front with large handle's and a sign on the main wall next to the door, showing some information about the leader.
"Im here for a battle!" Ash yells to the building, waiting for a response.
"I accept." The voice replied calmly.
The doors opened, and a man was standing by the door, who had probably been the one who opened it.
"Hello" The man says. "Are you ready for the gym challenge"
"I am" Ash says, nodding confidently towards the man.
"I shall lead you the way towards the arena" He states.
He walks inside, heading towards the battle arena.
May looks to Ash, and the boy turns around.
"Good luck" She says.
"Right, lets go." Ash states.
The two exchange smiles, and then they follow the man inside.
After a short walk, they see an arena, with a few rocks randomly scatered around. There were two rectangle paint marks opositve, connected on a larger rectangle. These are the markings of the arena. The referee also had his own marked place to observe the battle.
The man heads to the referee part of the arena, while Ash heads to an adjacent side, staring across, waiting for the gym leader to make their appearance.
"So" The voice asks. "Whats your name?"
"Im Ash Ketchum" Ash replies. "From Pallet Town"
"Im Roxanne, the gym leader!" The leader responds, in a louder voice.
A door opens the other side of the building.
The gym leader, Roxanne, enters.
"Welcome to the gym, Ash" She says.
"Thanks." He replies quickly.
The referee looks at both participants.
"This battle will be a 2 vs 2 pokemon battle." The referee informs. "The winner will be victorious when the other has no pokemon that can continue. In addition, only the challenger can switch pokemon during the battle."
"Geodude!" Roxanne calls, throwing a pokeball into the air.
"Tailow, I choose you." Ash exclaims, launching the red and white sphere into the air.
Both pokemon materialised onto the field, and took a battle position.
"The challenger has the first move." The referee instructs. "Let the battle begin!"
The referee put both flags in the air, indicating the begining of the battle.
'Just like Max did...' Ash thought sadly. 'He wanted to be here so much'.
Ash grit his teeth.
"Tailow" Ash commands. "Use quick attack."
The bird pokemon bursts into life and heads towards the rock pokemon at a blinding speed.
"Defence curl" Roxanne counters.
Geodude protects himself with his arms, and tailow connects, but not a lot of damage seemed to be taken by the gym leaders pokemon.
"Our turn!" Roxanne exclaims. "Geodude, rollout."
Geodude starts spinning on the ground, before quickly rolling along the gym floor, heading for tailow.
"Tailow, fly high!" Ash quickly says, trying to evade the move.
"Fly aswell geodude!" Roxanne instructs.
"It can fly!?" May says, shocked at the skill the rock type pokemon may have.
Geodude understood its trainers comands. It continued to roll, but turned slightly, and hit a bump in the terrain.
However, this wasn't bad, for Roxanne anyway. Geodude had been launched into the air after hitting the rock floor.
It was heading straight for tailow.
Ashs eyes widened at the oponents move.
Geodude was technically flying, which caught Ash and tailow off-guard.
The hit was hard, and tailow went spiraling towards the ground, wincing in pain from the super effective attack.
However, it was still able to battle, and Roxanne realised this.
"Rollout, once more" She Commanded, and as soon as her pokemon landed, it repeated the same move.
'Tailow is down, it hasn't got enough time to get up..' Ash clenched his fists, waiting for the impact.
"Hang in there" Ash yells desperately. "Tailow!"
But, what Ash didn't know, is that rollouts power increases when it is used consecutively.
The rollout hit again. And tailow hit the wall behind Ash, with spirals in its eyes.
"Tailow is unable to battle." The referee says, informing the battlers of the outcome. "The winner is geodude."
"Tailow" Ash says quietly, whilst recalling his pokemon to its ball. "You did well, take a long rest.
However, Ashs words were comforting, but not true, tailow had done next to no damage towards geodude, and then it was unable to battle.
Ash only had one pokemon left.
Pikachu.
"Pikachu" Ash called. "I choose you."
Ash pointed to the battlefield. Pikachu ran on, preparing itself for the battle.
"Begin!" Shouted the referee.
"Pikachu, use tackle" Ash commands.
The mouse pokemon makes contact with the rock type, but again, not a lot of damage seemed to be taken.
"Geodude, rollout." Roxanne states calmly.
'Just another newbie, he needs to train a larger variety of attacks, and needs different pokemon.'
The rock pokemon hits hard, sending pikachu across the arena.
Pikachu hits the ground heavily, and had sustained major damage, after all, that was the third consecutive rollout.
Luckily, pikachu's determination was admirable, it stood back up with its cheeks sparking.
"Alright" Ash says. "Use thunderbolt!"
Electricity is emmited from pikachu, and is aimed towards the rock pokemon.
"Rock throw." The gym leader commands.
Geodude punched the ground, and rocks protected it from being hit by the electricity. It them picks up the rock and hurls it towards pikachu, was this the end?
"Pikachu, hit the rock head on with your tackle attack." Ash calls quickly, trying to gain the upperhand in the battle.
Pikachu picks up speed and destroys the rock, still heading for geodude.
Pikachu hits geodude with some damage, as well as dome extra damage from the small rocks the mouse pokemon seperated previously in the charge.
"Thunderbolt!" Ash yells. "Max power!"
Pikachu hits with the electric attack at point-blank range. And even a rock type would feel the damage.
Geodude was exhausted, even thought it had the upper hand, fighting two pokemon uses a lot of energy, and the combination from pikachu seemed a lot stronger than it expected.
Pikachu was breathing heavy, it had used a lot of energy in the combination. Breaking through the rocks had some recoil, and had been hit by a strong rollout.
All four members in the room were staring at the battlefield, seeing who would drop first.
"Geodude, stay strong." Roxanne says, hoping that geodude will be able to continue, and win the match.
"Pikachu, keep fighting!" May cheers from the sidelines.
"You can do it!" Ash yells. "Pikachu!"
After that, there was silence. But then..
Geodude fell.
"Geodude is unable to battl-" The referee states, before being interupted.
"No!" The voice echoes around the arena.
Ash had fallen to his knees...
Pikachu had also fallen.
"Both pokemon are unable to continue." The referee concludes
"Roxanne is the winner!"
A/N: Well thats the end. Like it? Hate it? Let me know ^^. Sorry for taking ages to upload- loads of exams and revision and stuff... if anything changes, its probably on my profile or something. Next chapter should be uploaded soon. Thanks for reading!
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