Glorio City:
"So Shauna, what are your plans?" Serena asks her friend towards the beginning of the route to Snowbelle. Serena had just asked the question since she was going to Snowbelle to see Ash's gym battle.
Shauna turned to Serena, the brunette just smiled at the honey blond, "Actually I am going to go see the others at Lumiose, they are training for the league and I want to make sure that they can be top notch for the league!" Shauna exclaimed happily while the duo walked through the route and ended in a fork in the road.
Serena looked at the sign and smiled at Shauna, "Well, Calem is in that direction." Serena giggled as she pointed to the left fork. Shauna blushed a little, bit smirked back.
"Ash is that way, better catch up to him before he does something reckless again," Shauna smiled. Serena could not help but blush a little at what was said. Serena then started walking through the left side of the fork and Serena took the right. "See you soon!" Shauna shouted.
"You too Shauna!" Serena exclaimed back as Serena walked into the right side of the fork. She was prepared to watch Ash win his last badge, all Ash had to do was win and that would be it.
"Talon...FLAMEEEE!" A large squeak was heard from above attracting attention. The majestic fire bird blended in with the clouds and sun and Serena noticed it was Calem's Talonflame. Of course it was Calem's he loves to ride that thing. Serena though, she knew that Talonflame did not compete with Ash's Charizard.
Serena smirked and kept on walking, she would expect to make it to Snowbelle soon, maybe in time to see Ash battle.
A/N: How do you guys like it if I start the story and then go to the A/N? Does it seem a little like commercials because I can stop if you want xD. Anyways I am enjoying myself with writing this fic atm. I don't know how much of you are loving it, but if you made it this far, then you probably do!
Anyways, I am trying to improve my battles so from now on you can expect more mature battles like the one that I made last time (But you will need to wait a little more until you can see the really awesome chapters!)
It took me a while and an entire tournament to get me this far in making a successful battle in a fanfiction. The good thing is that I figured it out before episode 35 of The Fallen Trainer and so you can expect an even better tournament here battle wise for the pokemon league… Heck, I have most of the battles planned out already lol!
Anyways I hope you enjoy this battle, it is another important part of the story in Ash and Frogadier! I know, I know: "Nightshock, what about Sceptile, Noivern, Charizard, we have not seen them battle in a while!? and STIKEN GOODRA?! HE HAS NEVER BEEN SHOWN BATTLING!"
My response: "Dude, chill, these guys will have their episodes dedicated to them… I just want to make Frogadier and Ash the bond that needs to happen first… Later, we will get to see Ash's entire team as a whole and develop more of each pokemon."
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon
Chapter 17- A Battle of all Champions!
Ash POV:
I walk through the route. I have forest surrounding my right as well as a nice meadow on my left… The perfect place to train! I look over at my electric mouse and he smiled at me a so I made my way over to the open area. Then, I reach to my belt and take out two pokeballs. I swing my hand around as I let go of the pokeball and out comes my soundwave dragon and my fire dragon.
"Gruaw!" Charizard roars at me.
"Vern!" Noivern looks at me.
I look at the two pokemon and smirk, "Noivern, you have gotten a lot stronger, but I want to work on your endurance, ever since you evolved you could hit hard, but not take as much, that is why in every head on collision we had, you always lose or tie."
"Vern!" Noivern nodded in understanding.
"Now, I don't know when the next time we battle Remo will be, but I am sure going to want you two to be my leaders for that battle," I declare with a smile. The two pokemon look at me confidently as I command then both to get airborne.
Charizard flies and makes its way near me and I have Noivern face him. "Alright you two, Noivern use sky attack and Charizard use flare blitz!"
"Noi...VERRRRRNNN!" Noivern enveloped himself in a gold mystical aura. Then Noivern flew for Charizard.
"ROAAARRR!" Likewise, Charizard enveloped himself in a blue fiery aura and charged Noivern.
The gap between both pokemon closed and I saw a large explosion that looked like anyone could have won. I was so confused as to who was able to take the worst of the attack, but judging from the way the explosion occurred I knew that Noivern had the worst of it. When the smoke clears I see both pokemon suspended in mid air and then Noivern fell from the sky and hit the ground with a loud thud.
I run over to check on Noivern, "Are you alright Noivern?" Charizard lands next to me and also talks with the fellow the dragon. The soundwave pokemon stands up and shakes his head as to shake off the pain. Then he let out a large battlecry that left my ears piercing and I smirked. "I guess you are, that collision sure was something."
"Gruaw."
"Noi noivern."
"Alright, Noivern you tolerated it that time decently so I am going to bump up the difficulty with tough claws. I want to try the same thing again with you two, only that this time," I touch my keystone and my Charizard mega evolves into a Mega Charizard X. Knowing that having a boosted attack and the touch claws ability will make it extremely powerful. "Ok, now try it!"
The two pokemon the headed for the skies and I watched them get prepared. Where is Pikachu? I look behind me and see that Pikachu had his ears perked up for some reason… why? He must have seen some wild pokemon or something. "BOOM". My attention is then returned to right in front of me where I see Noivern and Charizard collide once more. The explosion was larger this time, but in the end it was more blue instead of gold so I instantly worried for Noivern. When the smoke cleared I saw how Noivern fell to the ground in a large thud once more.
In reflex me, Pikachu and Charizard went to check, on Noivern. "Are you alright buddy?"
"Pika?"
"Gruaw?"
"Noi… vern…" Noivern grunted while catching his breath. I had pushed Noivern to the limit, but atleast he knows how strong attacks can come at him like. I looked into my backpack and grabbed a potion and started spraying it on Noivern
I look at the soundwave dragon reassuringly and smile, "You were awesome Noivern, you are getting a lot more durable. I am surprised you even stayed conscious after that brutal collision you just had." I look over at Charizard and he nodded at me as he went from black and blue, back to bright orange. When I was done spraying Noivern I return my dragons into their pokeballs and turn to Pikachu, "Let's keep going."
"Pika!" Pikachu agrees with me as we started walking out of the open field and back to the dirt road.
"Why hello there fellow trainer," a new voice interacts with my ears and I turn to follow it. Then I see a woman staring at me. She had a white dress that seemed like a pair of wings behind it. She had short gray hair and a pale skin. I could have sworn I knew who she was. Not only that, I notice she has a keystone as a necklace and next to her stands a majestic Gardevoir with a mega stone on her neck. "I want to battle your power, I saw you training just now and I saw you had some powerful pokemon. One being a mega evolving Charizard, I also heard you had a Sceptile…" The woman then smirked along with her Gardevoir and looked at me with determination. "Want to battle? Oh, excuse me, how rude of me, my name is Diantha! I really see a strong challenge in you!"
Diantha.
That name.
It clicks in me, no doubt that standing right in front of me is the Kalos Champion. The one who just challenged me to a battle is the best in this land and she gave me the opportunity. I smile and speak up, "My name is Ash, Ash Ketchum, nice to meet you! And I accept your challenge!"
"Then I will be battling with my one and only Gardevoir!" Diantha tells me with a smile as Gardevoir moves in front of Diantha in a relaxed and ready position. The one that indicated that she would give everything she had to me.
I instantly get pumped at the challenge and reach for my belt. I feel the pokeballs as I go through them. Charizard. Sceptile. Noivern. Goodra… Ahh! Here it is! I grab the last pokeball and smirk. "Frogadier! I choose you!"
"Froga!" Frogadier shouts in front of me. Pikachu gets off my shoulder and goes to the sides to watch the battle. Pikachu is curious as to why I would choose Frogadier of all pokemon as he seemed the least ready. Pikachu looks at me with that confused expression.
Diantha also seems surprised, "Frogadier? You are going to battle with a pre evolved form? I was expecting something… you know, more menacing?" Diantha stated her concern as I looked back at her with a smirk.
"Do you think Pikachu is menacing?" I ask her.
"You may have the first move," Diantha tells me politely as she drops the last conversation. I look over at the aquatic frog and nod. Frogadier feels pump and just like I promised him we would win, I am giving his this battle.
Battle music begin! Ash (Frogadier) vs Diantha (Gardevoir):
"Thanks," I say with a smile that instantly turns into a smirk of battle. I put my arm out and direct an attack. "Use continuous water pulses!" Frogadier nods and does exactly that. He charges two spheres of energy in his hands and blasts them towards the opposing Gardevoir.
What happened next completely surprised me. Gardevoir and Diantha looked at eachother and nodded. As the water pulses were about to make contact, Gardevoir instantly got out of the way leaving me completely speechless as the balls of water kept going and exploded out of harm's way.
"Keep going, go in with cut!" I shout watching Frogadier make white kunais out of thin air and sprinting towards Gardevoir. Again, just as Frogadier is about to hit, Gardevoir gets out of the way.
I have to think of something.
"Shadow Ball!" I hear Diantha shout with a hand extended palm down. I see Gardevoir charging up a shadow ball and I have to admit it was large. Not only that, but when the sphere was launched I saw the speed at which it moved extremely fast… too fast to dodge.
"Quick counter with water pulse!" I command. Frogadier makes two water pulses and charges them at the shadow ball. When the two blue spheres connect with the purple and electric one, there is a small explosion with enough smoke for my plan. I go for my counter attack. "Now use double team!"
"Froga… Froga… Froga…" Frogadier shouts as he splits into many forms. These many forms are concealed in the smoke and Gardevoir cannot get a glimpse of them. Diantha also looks concerned as to where the Frogadiers are coming from.
Finally, I make my command, "Aerial ace!" Frogadier and his copies jump out towards the Gardevoir who is standing there immobile. Frogadier's limbs were glowing white as all the copies went through the smoke.
Diantha smirked and simply stated, "Checkmate… Gardevoir use moonblast on all of them!"
"Gar...DEVOIR!" Gardevoir shouted as she used her psychic powers to levitate into the air. She then aimed at all the copies of Frogadier and launched a large colorful blast down at the frogadiers with a lot of power causing a large explosion. I was surprised to see such a powerful move, but I had something else planned.
I throw my fist out in the air and shout, "Now Frogadier!"
"Froga...DIER!" Frogadier appears behind Gardevoir like a ninja and when he is about to hit, I see my point of view change. In front of me, I see my fist glowing as in aerial ace as I am about to punch Gardevoir. With the surprise, the hit connects and Gardevoir gets launched to the ground. My point of view shifts back and I look at my hands in shock.
What… was… that…
I look over at Diantha who looks at me wide eyed. I am guessing it is because I just hit her Gardevoir, but I guess I could call it unpredictability.
Diantha POV:
He hit me… how? Elite four members like Winkstorm can't last two seconds with me in battle with mega evolved pokemon… Yet this young man can actually inflict damage on Gardevoir with a pre-evolution? Is this Ash Ketchum the one that can bring peace like Olympia said?
Ash POV:
"Frogadier, use cut!" I shout as I see Frogadier make his kunais and charge Diantha. Diantha again nods and her Gardevoir avoids the attack which gives me an idea. "Frogadier use double team once more!"
"Froga… Froga… Froga…"
The copies all go around Gardevoir and I smirk as I pump my fist, "Now use your frubbles on Gardevoir's legs!" Frogadier then grabs some frubbles and shoots them at the feet of Gardevoir further stressing out Diantha. "Now go for a water pulse!" Frogadier shoots a water pulse and Gardevoir seems stuck.
"Try and dodge Gardevoir!" Diantha shouts with a hint of panic in her voice. Gardevoir though, is immobile and stuck in the sticky substance (Omg… if you guys are this dirty minded about pokemon, specially Gardevoir… You know what I am not going to say anything else). The water pulse collides in a medium sized explosion that leaves Gardevoir on the ground barely able to move.
I see Frogadier ready to finish things and I shout, "Go and use cut!"
"Froga…" Frogadier charges with his white kunais. Again, I saw it, the blue glistening in the kunais… Frogadier quickly was closing the gap, but what happened next made things harder.
Diantha grabbed the keystone in her necklace and soon flashing prongs started to come out of both the keystone and megastone as they connected and caused Gardevoir to glow completely white, grow larger features (Don't you dare again) and a longer skirt. "Gardevoir, MEGA EVOLVE!" Diantha shouted with excitement. Diantha then put her hands in front of herself in an X fashion, "Gardevoir use protect!"
"Garde...voir!" Gardevoir set up a shield in front of her that stopped Frogadier. Frogadier suddenly got overwhelmed and recoiled back.
"Now Gardevoir use moonblast!" Diantha shouted.
I recoiled a little and pumped my fists, "Water Pulse!"
Gardevoir charged up the colorful beam and Frogadier at the same time his water sphere. I watched in awe at how Frogadier made his water pulse larger than I have ever seen before. At the sametime, both attacks crossed each other and caused two large explosions, one being in front of me and one in front of Diantha. The blast made my scarf wave as the smoke cleared.
When the smoke cleared I felt a searing pain course through my body as I fell to my knees along with Frogadier. Gardevoir was on her knees, but managed to stay up. The battle was over… I may have only been hit once, but I still lost.
I was still suffering in pain and I could feel the moonblast coursing through my blood vessels like fire burning through my flesh. I felt defeated and weak at the same time. I had my eyes shadowed with arms over my chest trying to endure the pain that came from the moonblast… A moonblast that oddly enough, did not touch me.
Diantha watched me in physical pain and grew surprised so she ran over to me and helped me up. "Thanks," I tell her in an appreciative tone.
"No problem, let's check on Frogadier," Diantha told me as she helped me walk to my frog. Gardevoir returned to her normal form and was helping Frogadier up. I felt good that I put up quite a battle against the champion, but I still felt horrible at the same time. Something about losing with Frogadier made me feel terrible… I need to find this answer and soon.
"Frogadier, are you ok?" I ask Frogadier as we reach him.
"Pikapi?" Pikachu asks Frogadier.
"Froga…" Frogadier looks down in frustration, I could not help but feel the same way.
"Frogadier take a good rest," I tell my pokemon as I take out a pokeball and materialize him to red energy. Then the ball closes and stays shut. I would need to use a pokemon center to help Frogadier recover.
Diantha's voice then breaks me from my thoughts, "Hey Ash?" I look at her and she has her hand stretched out. "I had fun, you actually put up a challenge!"
I shook her hand and smiled, "Thanks, but next time we battle, things will be different!"
"Pika pika!"
"Alright then," Diantha told me with a smile. She then turned to her Gardevoir and with one final goodbye both trainer and pokemon glowed white and teleported to another part of the region I don't know where.
With Diantha speaking to the elite four members at the pokemon league:
"How strong is he?" Malva asks as she reclines in her seat. The fire trainer was with her mega evolving houndoom.
"I am also very concerned about how your battle went," Winkstorm implies as Siebold nods his head at Winkstorm in accordance. The mega Scizor and mega Blastoise trainers are intrigued with Ash and curious about his power.
"I see a bright spirit in that boy," Drampa states while smiling an elderly smile in her chair.
Diantha stood up and was about to leave the room. She then looks back at the relaxing elite four members and simply stated, "He is stronger than I thought…"
"How so?" Siebold asks while cocking his head.
Diantha looks back and simply says: "He actually hit me more than I hit him. He got a good four hits off on Gardevoir while I only got one… and the only reason why I won was because his pokemon was a Frogadier and not able to take one head on moonblast from a mega Gardevoir." Diantha then left the room leaving the other elite four members with a surprised look in their face.
Not even the elite four members could put up that well of a battle against the champion Diantha.
With Ash travelling to Snowbelle City:
"Pikachu, there is a pokemon center!" Ash shouted as he ran into the pokemon center. The pokemon center was filled with people sitting around on the couches. Ash decided that he had to heal up his pokemon so he walked up to nurse joy, "Hello nurse Joy, can you heal my pokemon?"
Nurse joy smiled at Ash and got out a stretcher, "I will have them ready for you in a bit!" Nurse joy then took the pokeballs and Pikachu in the stretcher and Ash turned around to walk to a table with food when a voice broke his thoughts.
"Ash?" a tanned teenager that seemed older than Ash with an orange and green jacket asked the raven haired trainer. Ash turned around only to be surprised at who asked the question. "Ash is that you?"
"Brock… it has been a long time!" Ash shouted as he shook Brock's hand.
Brock smiled and asked Ash, "So Ash, why have you not been in Kanto for the last couple of years?" Ash heard this and his posture slumped. When Brock noticed Ash's posture he instantly corrected himself. "Don't worry about it, I am actually headed to Snowbelle right now, I was going to want to see how Wulfric uses his ice types to battle, his Abomasnow appeals to me because of its big size, so I wanted to see how he uses it to deal with smaller opponents so I can be stronger with my Steelix."
"Really, I am headed to Snowbelle city as well! Why don't we go together?!" Ash asked his friend.
Brock put a smile in his face, "Sure, but what do you need to do with Wulfric?" Brock asked with curiosity. He did not even know how Ash even ended up in Kalos to begin with.
Ash pumped his fist, "What do you think? Earn my last badge!"
"You are a pokemon trainer now? Let me guess, pokemon master?" Brock asked with a smirk. Ash nodded. "Well then you are going to need to show me your pokemon! I want to see how strong they are!"
"Sure, we can totally show each other our pokemon, I just have to wait until they are all rested up," Ash explained.
Brock then gave a knowing look and smiled, "Then in the meantime let's get something to eat!" At that exact moment, Ash's stomach growled making Brock chuckle.
"Yea… Let's get some food…" Ash said sheepishly.
A/N: Another decent, but short battle chapter. Again, this is not when most of my effort on the battles was amazing… You just gotta be a little more patient about this as I have to keep working in making the other chapters amazing. Tell me what you think! Brock being added seems like a good idea. I may have Clemont and Bonnie soon! Hint hint!
Anyways guys, if you got this far, thanks for reading! Know that the chapters will only get better from here, so stay tuned!
Remember to R & R and hope to see you guys next time!
Responding to some reviews:
AmourshippingFan: Thanks for enjoying it! Anyways, that is Diantha! Well, you know now.
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