Ch 33: Mossdeep gym battle (please review)
Ash spent 3 days in Mossdeep city doing training with swampert before he challenged Tate and Liza. On day four he and May entered the Mossdeep city gym and saw 3 young trainers in a circle with their pokemon.
Two of them had abras, while the third had a meditate. "I already taught my abra teleport watch" one of them said. "Teleport" He said and his abra vanished then reappeared on top of his head. "See what did I tell you" he said.
"Hey look" One of the other said when he saw Ash and May. "Hey we haven't seen you two around here before are one of you here to challenge Tate and Liza?" The same trainer said. "Yeah I'm here to get a gym badge" Ash said.
"Ok follow us Tate and Liza are this way" The third one said. He took them to a room where Tate and Liza were training their solrock and lunatone. "Solrock use firespin" Tate said. "Lunatone use rockthrow" Liza said. The rockthrow hit the firespin and extinguished it.
"Solrock dodge it" Tate said. His solrock moved out of the way avoiding the rocks. "Tate Liza we're got a challanger!" The trainer said. The two turned and saw Ash and May. "Liza it's Ash and May" Tate said.
"Well it's been sometime Ash, have you returned for another go at our beloved Hoenn league?" Liza said. "Actually yes, I'm ready for an updated Mossdeep badge" Ash said. "Well we've had plenty of time to improve our skills" Liza said.
Ash stood on one end of the battlefield with Tate and Liza on the other side. May was sitting in the stands with pikachu in her arms. Tate and Liza's students sat a few feet away from her. The ref stood at the sideline center and said "This will be a two on two match up. The first trainer to knock out both of their opponent's pokemon will be the winner".
"Go solrock!" Tate said. "Lunatone I choose you!" Liza said. Tate's solrock and Liza's lunatone both came out of their pokeballs and hovered next to each other. "I choose you, Sceptile and Swampert!" Ash said throwing their pokeballs.
"Swampert!" Swampert said. "Sceptile!" Sceptile said. "Begin" The ref said. "Lunatone use stone edge" Liza said. Lunatone hurled a dozen sharp rocks at sceptile. "Sceptile dodge it" Ash said.
Sceptile jumped up avoiding the stone edge. "Quick solrock use confusion" Tate said. "Solrock" Solrock said as his eyes glowed and caught sceptile in mid air. "Quick swampert free sceptile. Use hydropump on solrock" Ash said.
"Swamp ert!" Swampert said before unleashing a massive jet of water at Solrock. "Lunatone quick protect solrock get in front of him and use harden" Liza said. Lunatone got in front of solrock and used harden to try and absorb the blow.
Swampert's hydropump impacted lunatone and broke through the harden dealing significant damage and knocked lunatone back into solrock. When solrock lost his concentration he dropped Sceptile. Sceptile landed on his feet and turned to swampert. "Sceptile" he said thanking him.
"Now that's a powerful attack" One of Tate and Liza's students said. "That's it Ash" May said. "Pika chu!" Pikachu said excitedly. "Ok lets try something else" Liza said. "Lunatone use hypnosis" Liza said. "Solrock use firespin on sceptile" Tate said.
"Guys move!" Ash said. Swampert and Sceptile tried to move but they were both hit by hypnosis and started to fall asleep. Sceptile fell to the ground and Swampert, barley awake saw the firespin coming at his partner.
"Oh no Sceptile you have to move!" Ash screamed. "Oh no this isn't good" May said. Ash tried to use an aura message to wake up sceptile but it would take to long. Using the last of his energy swampert ran over and jumped in between sceptile and the firespin taking the blow for him.
"Pika pika!" Pikachu said. "Swampert just took the blow for sceptile" May said. "Now that's a dedicated pokemon" Another one of Tate and Liza's student's said. "Swampert" Ash said. He was touched that swampert had done that. Even if it wasn't that effective against him.
"Well that was moving , but we've still got a battle going on" Tate said."Firespin solrock" Tate said. "Psywave" Liza said. Ash sent an aura message to both of his pokemon which woke them up. However, by the time they did the attacks hit them.
"Direct hit nice work brother" Liza said. "Right back at you sis" Tate said. "Sceptile use bulletseed , swampert use wategun" Ash said. "Solrock use rockthrow" Tate said. "Lunatone use psywave" Liza said. "Swampert dodge, sceptile use bulletseed" Ash said.
Swampert avoided the psywave and Sceptile's bulletseed hit the incoming rocks, breaking them apart. "Lunatone use blizzard" Liza said. "Solrock use solarbeam" Tate said. The blizzard hit both sceptile and swampert and did significant damage to sceptile. "Quick swampert use scald!" Ash said.
Swampert unleashed a very hot water above them melting the blizzard. "Sceptile use leafstorm!" Ash said. "Scep tile!" he shouted before unleashing a hurricane of leaves that swept up both solrock and lunatone.
"Great, now sceptile jump onto swampert's back" Ash said. "What's the point of that?" one of Tate and Liza's students said. Sceptile jumped onto swampert's back as Ash said to. "Good now swampert use surf" Ash said. "That's it!" May said.
Swampert raised a massive title wave and rode across it with sceptile saftly on his back. "Solrock move!" Tate shouted. "Lunatone get out of there!" Liza said. It was no use both Solrock and lunatone were swept away by the surf.
When Ash saw the water go down he knew he was ready to end the battle. "Sceptile use leafblade!" Ash shouted. Sceptile jumped from Swampert's back at his two opponents. He sliced them both with leafblade and landed beyond them on one knee.
A few moments later lunatone and solrock fell to the ground unconscious. "Lunatone and Solrock are unable to battle the winner is the challanger" The ref said. "We did it!" Ash said. "Swampert!" Swampert shouted. "Sceptile!" Sceptile said.
"Lunatone" Liza said. "Solrock" Tate said. They returned their pokemon and both sighed. "Well I guess we owe you a new badge" Liza said. Tate took out a wooden box and opened it up. Inside were several silver badges that were shaped like stars.
Liza took one out and handed it to Ash. "Congradulations Ash you've certainly earned this" She said. Ash and May left the gym and were inside the pokemon center as nurse Joy looked at Ash's sceptile and Swampert.
"You were great out there today Ash" May said. "Thanks May, I just got one more badge and then I get a second chance at the Hoenn league" Ash said. "So May where is your next contest?" Ash said. "Sootopolis City I believe" May said.
"Well that's good it means I can get my last badge and you can get your last ribbon" Ash said. "Excuse me, young Man. Your sceptile and swampert are fine" nurse Joy said. Elsewhere on the edge of Mossdeep island a helicopter landed and let 6 people out.
Each of the men wore a black trench coat with a black hat and sunglasses. One of them was carrying briefcase in his left hand. Two of the other men were both holding the end to a large black box as they walked through the island. The group eventually got into the city and tried not to draw attention to themselves.
As they passed through the market one of the shop owners spoke up. "Excuse me, good sir. You and your friends look like you've made good investments before how would you like to make another" The shop owner said.
The man in the beifcase turned and saw the shop owner. "You see a magikarp lays one thousand eggs at a time and does this four times every month do you know how much money that is?" He said.
The man in the briefcase smiled and turned to one of his men. "Vlad why don't you , Mark, and Jim go talk buisness with him" James said smiling. He nodded to Vlad who then also grinned. Vlad and two of the other rocket X operatives walked into the man's shop.
James and two of the other operatives continued on to an abandoned warehouse. Inside they set down the box on a large table and James opened up his breifcase revealing it was filled with pokeballs.
Just as James sat down he heard his communicator rinning. "Commander James this is Vlad. We have all of his money, all of his magikarp, and everything else worth monitary value" Vlad said. "Good it's about time I got even with that conman. Better late than never" James said.
Back in Mossdeep city behind the conman's shop the two rocket X operatives loaded up over a dozen magikarp into a truck. Vlad set the conman down into the corner. He was beaten severly. Not only that, but he had been bound and gagged. "It's been too long since i've had the pleasure of doing that" Vlad said.
Back at the warehouse the two rocket X operatives with James turned on the evolution machine as several people walked into the warehouse. "Alright we've got a very special deal here for all of you" James said. "We've got pokemon already to their final stage of evolution ready for sale" James said.
He took out one of the pokeballs and let out an arcanine. "Impressive" One of the buyers said. "How much am I offered?" James said. After a few minutes a man had won with one hundred thousand and was given the arcanine.
When James had gone through all of the pokeballs he went back to the machine. "Now for those already with pokemon and want them to evolve now" Jame said. For several hours James and his operatives continued to do this for the rest of the day.
Late at night James was on board one of the rocket X helicopters heading back toward the submarine. "This is James to Jessie and Meowth come in" James said. "This is meowth. James how did the sale go?" Meowth said.
"Day one and we made twenty five million in profit" James said. "Twenty five million in one day. We're on our way to becoming the richest and most powerful people on the planet" Meowth said. "Not only that but I found our old friend the magikarp salesmen" James said. "Really" Meowth said.
"Yes Vlad is on his way with the magikarp" James said. "They'll make fine gyarados nice work James" Meowth said. The rocket X helicopter continued toward the rocket X submarine as the sun set completely.
Back at the pokemon center Ash was in his and May's room staring out at the ocean. May was already in bed but awoke when Pikachu jumped onto the foot of the bed. She saw Ash was still up and was looking out at the ocean. "Ash are you coming to bed?" She asked.
"Yeah I was just thinking about Dr. Marrs. He's still rocket X's prisoner. Who knows what they could be doing to him. Or if they got him to build that machine" Ash said. "I guess it is a scary thing especially considering those guys aren't the screw ups they were before" May said.
"Ash please don't worry too much about it. Team aqua and the Hoenn government aren't going to stop until rocket X is taken down. It's their job not ours" May said ."Maybe your right. I guess we foiled them so many times it just doesn't feel right to let them go" Ash said. "
Ash took his shirt off and got into bed with May. "Goodnight" May said. "Sweet dreams" Ash said before giving her a short kiss. Ash laid his head back into the pillow as May rested her head against his chest.
