CH 11: Halftime brawl

As soon as halftime began Ash stood on one end of the arena while Morris stood on the other. "Now for our halftime show, one of our contestants also a trainer will take on rustboro cities gym leader , a former coordinator Morris" The announcer said.

"Alright Ash let's see what you've got" Morris said. "Ill show you, Pikahu lets go" Ash said, Pikachu jumped from Ash's shoulder and stood ready to fight. "Alright go Graveler" Morris said. "Ohh a graveler that put's Ash at a major disadvantage" The announcer said.

Back in the coordinators room Drew and Harley were watching the match from a tv screen. "Hmp good , I hope he looses" Drew said. Back in the Arena May was watching from the side. "Come on Ash you've gotten out of situations worse than this" She said. "Alright graveler use stone edge and rollout" Morris said.

Graveler shot a group of rocks at Pikachu and rolled at him. "Pikachu dodge it" Ash said, Pikachu tried to dodge but couldn't avoid them both. The crowd applauded at Morris's move, "Pikacha go at his side and use Irontail" Ash said. Pikachu went at Gravelor, "Not so fast Graveler use rock tomb and rapid spin" Morris said.

Graveler threw up several large rocks and knocked them in all directions with rapid spin. Pikachu tried to avoid them but was hit by one. "Oh no Ash" May said. "Ha you see nothing to worry about" Harley said.

Ash was not getting frustrated. It was then he realized what his problem was , since he was trying to help may in the first two rounds he was thinking too much like a coordinator not a trainer. "I got it" Ash said. " gravelerfinnish this off with Rocktomb and Rapid spin" Morris said, gravelerlaunched his attack again. "Pikachu dodge with quick attack then iron tail" Ash said, "Pika chU!" Pikachu said then used quick attack to avoid all the boulders then jumped at Graveler and used iron tail.

Pikachu nailed Graveler right in the face and the one hit ko'd the large pokemon. Graveler fell backwards unconscious. "Graveler is unable to battle, the winner is challenger Ash. The crowd cheered and Morris stepped up, "Well that was impressive Ash. Here take a stone badge" He said handing it to Ash. Back in the coordinator's room Drew was now enraged, "He won Harley , he won!" "Don't worry Drew they're not going to beat us" Harley said.