Ch 50: Round one one rumble

It was the first day of round one and each trainer was allowed only two pokemon. Morrison was facing off against a young man from Slateport city named Jack. "Lombre use bubblebeam, Linoone use fury swipes" Jack said.

"Mightyena use double team the bite, Metang use bullet punch" Morrison said. Mightyena made a dozen copies of himself around linoone. Linoone tried to find the real mightyena but was too late. Morrison's mightyena jumped forward and bit down on linoone.

Metang unleashed a furry of strikes with his right arm bursting through all the bubbles and impacting lombre. "Morrison is doing really good" Ash said. "Linoone quick use sand attack" Jack said. Linoone smashed his paws into the ground splashing sand into metang's and mightyena's eyes.

Linoone used quick attack on mightyena knocking him back. " Lombre use hydropump!" Jack said. "Metang quick move!" Morrison yelled. Metang moved but he couldn't see lombre and was hit with hydropump. "Oh no Metang!" Morrison said.

Morrison noticed that metang's eyes were clear. "The hydro pump it washed the sand out. Metang use irondefense!" Morrison said. Metang tightened his defenses and hardened his exterior. Metang got up "Alright now use meteor mash" Morrison said. Metang charged up his right arm and then unleashed meteor mash through the hydro pump.

Metang hit Lombre and knocked him out. "Alright Metang! Now quick mightyena use giga impact " Morrison said. Mightyena got the sand out of his eyes and charged at Linoone with imense power. "Linoone move!" Jack said. Linoone tried to move but mightyena was too fast. Mightyena hit linoone and sent him flying back into the wall.

When Linoone hit the ground he was uncounscious. "Linoone and Lombre are unable to battle, the winner is Morrison" The ref said. "Yeah we did it!" Morrison said. Both of Morrison's pokemon rushed back to him while Jack returned his pokemon. "I knew Morrison would win, he's gotten better since the last time we competed" Ash said.

"Ash when is your next match?" Delia asked. "In about forty minutes, I should probably head to stadium A" Ash said. Ash stood at one end of the battlefield in Arena A while his opponent Tommy from Rustboro city. "Trainers sent out your pokemon" The ref said.

"Lets go Vigoroth, Exploud" Tommy said as he threw two pokeballs. "Alright time to show them what we're made of . Go Swampert, Swellow!" Ash said. When Ash's pokeballs reached midair Swampert and Swellow came out in front of him.

"Alright let's start strong, Vigoroth use focus energy, exploud use supersonic" Tommy said. Vigoroth held his arms up as if he were flexing and he started to glow yellow. "Quick Swampert use protect, swellow get under him" Ash said. Swellow quickly flew down beneath swampert. Swampert created a large green barrier over himself and swampert.

Exploud unleashed a sound so loud it made half the audience cover there ears. Depite the powerful supersonic attack Swampert's protect kept him and swellow safe. "Using protect like that was a good idea , supersonic would have confused Ash's pokemon.

"Nice work swampert, now swellow use double team" Ash said. Swellow flew forward and surrounded his opponents with a dozen copies of himself. "Vigoroth use icebeam, exploud use hyper voice" Tommy said. Vigoroth and Exploud unleashed their attacks on the copies.

"Perfect Swellow use Fly, swampert use muddy water" Ash said. Swampert unleashed a large wave of thick muddy water at his opponents. Swellow quickly flew up high into the air avoiding the attack. "That was smart of Ash to distract Tommy with double team then send Swellow out of harms way" Red said.

The muddy water hit both of Tommy's pokemon and knocked them back seven feet. "Shake it off guys lets show them who we are. Exploud use thunder fang on swampert, vigoroth use flamethrower on swellow" Tommy said. "Swampert use hammer arm, swellow arial ace" Ash said.

Swampert waited until exploud was close and then smashed his arm into exploud's chin before he could bite him. Swellow picked up speed as he moved toward vigoroth. Vigoroth unleashed flamethrower and because he gathered focus before he was able to hit his mark.

"Swellow are you ok!?" Ash said. Engulfing swellow in flames but he endured and continued flying until he slashed vigoroth with Arial ace. "Incredible swellow endured that flamethrower long enough to unleash his attack" Norman said. "Ash has trained his pokemon hard and now it's really paying off" May said.

"Pika" Pikachu said nodding. "Enough fooling around guys we can do this. Vigoroth use blizzard, exploud use screech and then thunder fang" Tommy said. Exploud unleashed a piercing screech that made Swellow and Swampert grit their teeth, or in swellow's case his beak. Both their defenses lowered greatly because of the screech.

Vigoroth unleashed blizzard into the air causing some of swellow's feathers to freeze up. Exploud ran up at Swampert ,who was still recovering from the screech. "Quick Swampert move!" Ash said. Swampert opened his eyes just in time to see exploud in front of him. It was too late for him to do anything and Swampert was bit.

"Geeze that's gotta hurt" Max said. "And it's even worse considing Tommy just used screech" Felix said. " Now that's more like it guys" Tommy said. "We're far from beaten Tommy, swampert use foresight, Swellow use fly" Ash said.

"No no, Vigoroth use flamethrower on swellow, exploud use thunder fang on swampert" Tommy said. Vigoroth ran at swampert as fast as he could but swampert had enough time to properly target vigoroth. "Swampert use hyperbeam!" Ash said.

Swampert unleashed hyperbeam with unbelievable accuracy and the blast sent exploud flying back. He landed just in front of Tommy and was unconscious. "Oh no exploud!" Tommy said. Vigoroth unleashed flamethrower on swellow and hit his mark. Swellow felt the harsh fire burning all around him but as it did he picked up speed when the ice on his feathers melted.

"Oh no I shouldn't have use flamethrower" Tommy said. Swellow came out of the fire like a bullet and hit vigoroth so hard it knocked him out. "Vigoroth no!" Tommy said. "Exploud and vigoroth are both unable to battle. The winner is Ash Ketchum of Pallot town" The ref said.

"We did it!" Ash said. Swampert and Swellow both rushed back to Ash tackling him in the process. "Oh come on first Bayleef now you guys" Ash joked. Tommy returned his pokemon and took a deep breath, "Alright guys we did all we could. Let's just go home" Tommy said.

"He's doing so good, I'm so proud of him" Delia said. "Ash is showing everything he's learned as a trainer out there" Felix said. "Well he's not the only experienced trainer here. My match is next and I'll show you what i'm made of" Barry said.

Twenty minutes later in Stadium E Barry and his opponent were both down to one pokemon. "Quick dustox use venoshock!" Barry's opponent said. "Vigoroth use flamethrower " Barry said. Vigoroth unleashed flamethrower which burned through the venoshock and hit dustox. "Perfect now use slash" Barry said. Vigoroth ran forward and slashed dustox , knocking her out. "Dustox is unable to battle the winner is Barry" The ref said.

"Oh yeah we did it vigoroth!" Barry said. "So Barry's moving on I almost hope I get a chance to face him" Max said. "Ash you better not get knocked out before our rematch, winning this thing won't feel right unless I beat you to do it" Barry said. "You just keep yourself in this thing Morrison" Ash said.

Later that night at the hotel, Ash and May were in their room reminicing on some memories. "I still can't believe that he choose to live on the island instead of comeing back to civilization" May said. "Well I guess he just grew more accustumed to living with whalelord on the island" Ash said.

"I guess, but that still doesn't beat the time when I was abducted by a skarmory and trapped in a grass pokemon sactuary" May said. "Ok true, but that wasn't all so bad, I mean we had some alone time and you found your bulbasaur" Ash said. May put her arm around Ash's shoulder and kissed him.

"I never said it was bad" She said when she withdrew. Ash's face was still a little red when he resumed talking. "Ok if you could relive anything we ever did what would it be?" Ash said. "That's no contest, I'd want to see Manaphy again" May said.

"Yeah I miss that little guy too, I wonder where he is now?" Ash said. "Where ever the sea temple is. Someday I'll meet him again, I just know it" May said. "I know you will May, you and Manaphy have a special bond it's kinda like me and pikachu but in a more parent child way" Ash said as Pikachu moved from his shoulder to his lap.

At eleven thirty Ash and May were in bed with pikachu asleep next to Ash's head. May was still up looking out at the moon. She had an empty almost depressed expression on her face as she thought about Manaphy. She turned back to Ash and smiled. "Love doesn't go away, it is always there" She said to herself.

May gave Ash a short kiss then rested her head against his chest and drifted away into the night.