The Kalos League Stadium:
The sky was bright and sunny, the hexagonal stadium was packed. The many rows and rows of seats in the giant stadium were filled with people aligning throughout the Pokemon stadium. The people all cheered as they watched the colorful stadium give out its hexagonal lights and flashing colors with the symbol of the Kalos League.
"Swwooooshh!" Jets flew over everyone causing their attention to look upwards at the sky as the amazing air show caused the wind to brush through the stadium as Ash's scarf lightly waved. There was also reporter helicopters flying overhead causing some humming sounds, but in the end, the sound was inundated by the power of the cheers by the full stadium.
"This is it Pikachu," Ash said as he turned to his right shoulder to see Pikachu there cooing to Ash's petting. Ash looked over at the scoreboard which had a hexagonal shape in the slots that displayed the trainer's name and the pokemon. Ash then turned to the right to see the hexagonal screen flashing the matchups:
Hunter vs Treck
Satoshi vs Harvey
Ash vs Astrid
Ash smiled as he saw his name next to Astrid. He remembered her from the masterclass, but also from a battle he had in the past. Before then, Ash's Grovyle got completely obliterated by her mega Absol. Ash smiled as he reached down at his belt and felt Sceptile's pokeball. 'Sceptile, you are my go-to in this battle!' Ash thought as he smirked down at the field.
Ash then looked to his left to see that Calem was next to him smiling down as well. Ash and Calem had met up to watch together as the battles happened and Ash was extremely hyped up.
"I can't believe the stadium I designed is a reality, I can't believe I am sitting on my own creation!" Clemont exclaimed as he was shaking with excitement in his seat.
"Yea yea," Bonnie joked as he patted Clemont's back. Brock did the same trying to calm down the inventor. They did not expect him to be this hyped.
Ash looked to his right to see the honey blonde looking down at the stadium with a smile. Serena's hair gently waved around with her fedora and Ash was mesmerized a little by this. Ash could see the excitement and strength radiating from her as he was sitting next to her. It was a pleasant feeling for Ash. Serena then turned to Ash and brown eyes met blue eyes. "Ash… I am so excited," Serena said with a shaking attitude similar to Clemonts.
Ash smiled and put a hand over hers, "You better be!" Serena blushed at this as she turned to see Ash as he pumped his other hand to a fist. "I am going to be knocking everyone's socks off, just wait!"
Serena blushed and looked back down at the field with more relaxation than before as Ash retreated his hand from her. Ash then looked down at the field as well and smiled as he saw the center of the field be completely filled with a laser light show that portrayed pokemon and humans. At the same time, Ash could not help but also shake himself as he saw the lasers battle, he couldn't wait to battle himself!
The crowd roared at this and Ash could feel as if his ears were on fire because of how loud the public was. Ash looked around and noticed that there was so many people, hundreds of thousands to be exact. While looking to his right and upward he saw that there was a small exit from the stands. They led out to the dug outs. Ash figured that whoever that Hunter or Treck guy was, they were probably already at the dug outs ready to begin.
The hype was real as Ash looked onto the platform up ahead and noticed that Diantha was coming up towards the platform in front of everyone. She then stepped up to the microphone as she looked onto the stadium with excitement in her eyes. She then opened up her mouth and began to speak:
"Welcome, everyone from Kalos and from all over the world if you are watching this on television!" Diantha said with a smile in her face as the crowd roared once more in her respect. Diantha then turned to her left to be met with Professor Sycamore carrying something that radiated to the entire stadium. Everyone cheered at this as Diantha was handed the torch. "This," Diantha started as she raised the flame into the sky. "This is the sacred flame of the legendary pokemon Ho-oh!"
Ash smiled as he witnessed a large torch like figure appear behind Diantha and tower around her size, but for the entire crowd, it was visible. Diantha then raised the torch and said, "With my power granted to me by the pokemon league, I declare that the league begins!" Diantha then threw the torch with Ho-oh's flame into the larger light and with that, the entire top of the candle lit into flames making everyone cheer and clap at the sight.
Serena looked to her left to see Ash clapping with a genuine smile in his face. Serena saw how Ash's scarf slightly waved, and how his Z marks in his cheeks gave a slight intimidating look. Serena blushed and looked back at the flame with a hand over her ribbon…
"Ash… your biggest challenge begins here, but I will make sure you make it," Serena whispered to herself.
A/N: Kalos League is now in session as everyone is getting ready to begin the actual battles.
I do want to warn that the battles in this chapter may be a little fast, but trust me, they will get better in the next couple of chapters. Anyways, this time we get introduced to how the system will work out for the league and you guys will see some of the stuff that I have been working on to make this league amazing!
I also want to reflect on as to why I made Ash go against Astrid like in the anime… Well, I wanted to add a female to be Ash's opponent. Thing is that as I planned out the league, I forgot to give Ash a female opponent, and since I didn't know who to put in the first round, I decided to put Astrid since she is known to be a powerful trainer.
Also, this will be a mysterious chapter for Ash as he gets to see two other people battle before him… Let's just say that one of them is obviously someone that Ash would have dreaded to go up against (his father obviously).
Anyways, let's begin the battles! I have a feeling that things will kick off very well, and I am so excited to be writing this for you guys!
Before I forget! I will be copy and pasting the same key before every Kalos League battle chapter so you guys can understand some of the stuff that I have developed. I feel like these things may submerge you more into the battle sequence!
So here it is:
Key of Kalos League:
The announcer won't be referenced as the announcer. Any text in italics that is in quotations is the announcer and assume that it can be heard by everyone in the stadium.
League Scoreboard System:
Bold: In use pokemon/trainer name
Italics: Fainted pokemon
Underline: Resting pokemon
(Pokeball): Unrevealed pokemon
Trainer A: Poke1 Poke2 Poke3 Poke4 Poke5 Poke6 (Active one)
Trainer B: Poke1 Poke2 (Pokeball) Poke4 Poke5 Poke6 (Active one)
Excited?
Thought so…
So let's get right into it shall we?
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon
Chapter 31- A Powerful Start to a Long Journey!
At the stands:
Ash was psyched from the lighting of the torch. After all, he had always dreamed of being here to experience every second of it. Obviously, as Ash looked at his friends, he had always wondered how he would perform in front of them. Despite them seeing Ash lose at times, they all knew that Ash was very capable of his battling style, and it took a good opponent to be able to put up a challenge. Ash smiled as he looked down at the field as the instructions were announced:
"Welcome to the Lumiose Conference! We will now begin our first matches!"
The crowd roared at this and Ash could not believe this was happening as he clenched his fists in excitement.
"The first match will be a 3 on 3 battle on the same battlefield! The second will be a surprise battle format with a random field. Rounds three and four will be a 3 on 3 in a random battlefield with the exception that anyone that makes it past the fourth round will be awarded 200k in Kaleuros!"
The crowd roared at this as Ash looked at the dugouts. There were two trainers coming, one from the left and one from the right. One was a boy with jet black hair and a green vest with emerald jacket, notably, there was an Eevee on his shoulder with a large smirk on his face. The other was a boy that had an amazingly giant cape coming around his back and a dragon master-like suit. He looked like a little boy to Ash and he could not help, but sigh as he saw this.
"To make the battles more interesting, we have included built in microphones to the trainer's platform so that anyone can hear the attacks that anyone calls out… and specially the interactions between the trainers."
"So, it seems that I will begin here, I won't lose that's for sure!" the boy with the green attire said as he stepped up to the trainer platform and his Eevee jumped down from his shoulder and stood next to him.
"And that everyone! Is trainer Hunter!"
The crowd roared as everyone watched the second trainer walk up to his platform.
"Oh my goodness!" The small boy replied as he looked around. He then began to wave around the stadium. "I'm on TV! Hi mom! Hi dad! Hey Lori!" The boy then stepped into his trainer platform and tripped on his scarf causing him to fall on the ground on his face.
"And that is Treck! Let's get this battle started!"
The crowd roared as the opening match would start. Obviously, the crowd did have a little bit of amusement with how Treck acted, but in the end, Ash noticed the crowd treated him like a normal human.
Serena looked at Treck and smiled, "Well, at least he is a very adorable kid to be starting out his journey."
Ash looked at Serena and sighed, "Yea, he looks like he really has a positive attitude, I really am liking this matchup already."
At the Battle:
"So, what are you bringing to the trainer, Treck?" Hunter asked with a smirk as he looked at his opponent ahead of him through the dark abyss that separated the trainers.
"Only the strongest I got," Treck replied with a smile as both trainers looked at the large gap awaiting for an arena to come up. Suddenly, a very smooth transition brought up an arena shaped like an oval that included rocks in the middle, but very minimal obstacles for the two trainers.
"So this battle will be played out in a flat rock field!"
The referee then extended his hand and looked at the two trainers while explaining, "This will be a 3 on 3 pokemon battle. Substitutions are allowed and the battle will be over as soon as all of the pokemon on either side are unable to continue." The referee then put his arm into the sky and exclaimed, "Choose your first pokemon!"
Hunter put his hand out palm down and exclaimed, "Eevee, you are up first!"
"Eevee!" Eevee exclaimed as he hopped from the trainer's platform and into the ricky field. Eevee smirked and eyed his opponent as he burrowed his paws into the ground preparing for anything.
"So Hunter leads with Eevee, who will Treck lead with?"
Treck reached into his belt and shouted, "Golem you will be my first pokemon!" Treck then threw a pokeball which opened to make a Golem land on the field in front of him with a bang.
"GOLEM!" The large ground and rock type exclaimed as he stared down his little opponent.
"So Treck leads with a powerful Golem! Amazing!"
The scoreboard then updated so that both pokemon were displayed and their trainers:
Hunter: (pokeball) (pokeball) Eevee
Treck: (pokeball) (pokeball) Golem
The referee then put his arm out and shouted, "Let the battle!...
BEGIN!"
Battle music begin! Hunter (Eevee) vs Treck (Golem):
"Let's start this off Golem! Use hyper beam!" Treck commanded while putting out his arm. Golem obeyed as he summoned a dark and draconic beam in front of him. Suddenly, Golem let the beam go in the direction of the observing Eevee as Hunter maintained his composure at the battle.
"Dodge it Eevee!" Hunter exclaimed as he put his fist out. Eevee nodded and quickly followed orders given to him. Eevee dodged to the left and then landed on his feet with a smile. Hunter then went for a counterattack, "Use shadow ball!" Eevee suddenly made himself grow a dark shadowy ball in front of him as he then reeled back his head and shot the ball at Golem. Golem was so big that Treck was unable to call for it to dodge and Golem got struck right in the head without a problem.
"Grrr…" Treck grunted as he clenched his teeth. "Golem are you alright?" Golem shook off the pain and got back up to be at a fighting stance towards Eevee. "Good, now use rock blast!"
"Gol… EM!" shoots a rock at Eevee.
"Eevee…" Dodges the rock by jumping over it. The rock then smashes in front of Hunter.
"Em!" shoots another rock at Eevee.
"Vee…" Dodges the rock again and it slams into the ground in front of the rock.
"EM EM EM!" shoots three consecutive rocks at Eevee.
"Dodge them all!" Hunter exclaims as he pumps his fist. Eevee began to jump around as he dodged the attacks until the last one of the rocks was in the way. Hunter saw this and exclaimed, "Use iron tail in order to swing the rock away!" Eevee made his tail glow white and then swung it around at the right moment to make the rock get smashed against the tail. The rock then got launched back towards Golem and Treck saw this as a moment to defend.
"Rock blast to destroy it!"
"Gol… EM!" Golem exclaimed as he shot the rock in the direction of the incoming rock. Both rocks closed the gap and in the end there was an explosion in the middle of the field.
"Not bad," Hunter said as he smirked.
"What an amazing exchange of attacks! Who knew our opening match would be this intense?!"
At the stands:
Night was sitting with Jolteon next to Leaf. "Hunter is in a good spot," Night said as he looked at the battle.
"Huh?" Leaf asked as she looked at Night. "How can you be so sure? I am stressing out like crazy right here." Leaf then clenched her fists and said, "I want him to win so badly… But Golem is strong."
Night just crossed his arms and said, "Relax, look at how Hunter is battling." Night then pointed to Hunter as he got Eevee to land another Shadow Ball on Golem. "He is avoiding the attacks to get ahead of his competition… he is in the advantage here."
Leaf relaxed a little, but still had a worried expression, "Come on Hunter."
Back at the battle:
"Use rock blast once more!" Treck exclaimed as he put his hands out. Hunter was patient as he saw how Golem formed a rock between his hands and attempted to launch it at Eevee.
Hunter then saw the opening he needed, "Eevee use Shadow Ball to counter the rock blast!"
"Eeeee….VEEEEE!" Eevee exclaimed as he formed a black and purple ball of energy in front of his mouth to then expel towards the Golem. The gap closed between both moves, and when that happened, there was an explosion in the middle of the field. Suddenly, the shards from the rocks flew outward and hit the Golem since the rocks were closest to Golem at the time of the collision.
"What an amazing way to still damage Golem! What can Treck even do?!"
"Use iron tail!" Hunter exclaimed as he put his hand out. Eevee charged up his white glowing tail and then jumped into the air with great speed. Suddenly, as Eevee got closer to Golem, Eevee swung his tail around and from that was able to create a strong slam on top of Golem that made a small explosion of dust pick up. When the dust cleared, Golem was shown near Treck on the ground.
"Are you alright Golem?" Treck asked with huge worry on his face. Golem stood up slowly, but was barely able to move. Treck then made a move knowing that it was now or never. "Use!" Treck then put his arms out in a violent manner. "EXPLOSION!"
Hunter and Eevee flinched as they saw this move knowing that things might not go their way with it.
"Go…" Golem began to glow orange and yellow as streaks of light appeared from Golem. "LEMMMM!" The rock and ground type screeched as he made the explosion begin to consume most of the arena.
"Eevee!" Hunter exclaimed through gritted teeth. "Use protect!"
"Eeeeeeee… VEEEEEEEEE!" Eevee exclaimed as he formed the turquoise shield in front of himself as the large shock wave was approaching. Eevee strained as the shockwave caused a large amount of dust to fly through the entire arena completely over Eevee and his shield. When the smoke cleared, Eevee was still shown on his shield and slowly, Eevee made it disappear into thin air as Eevee looked at his opponent. Eevee then smiled along with Hunter at what happened.
The ref raised his hand as he said, "Golem is unable to battle, Eevee wins!"
"And Golem takes itself out, but due to quick thinking, it was ineffective for Treck!"
The crowd roared as Treck recalled Golem back into his pokeball and the scoreboard portrayed that Golem was unable to battle. Nobody had expected such a risky battle style to come out with that risk.
At the stands:
"Told ya!" Night replied.
"Jol Jolteon!" Jolteon exclaimed in his trainer's lap. He enjoyed watching his Eevee friend perform well in battles and this was no exception.
"Well done Hunter," Leaf said as she looked down at the battle.
A few rows to the right, Ash stared with a smile, "That was very unpredictable, right Pikachu?"
"Pika pika!"
"I did not expect him to use protect at the last second," Calem shrugged. "Genius move from his part if you ask me."
"I agree," Clemont said as he looked ahead at the battle. "It was not the best idea to use explosion right off the bat like that, not smart indeed…"
"We will have to see what the other pokemon that Treck has can bring," Brock said as he crossed his arms. "It is still too early to tell."
"Oh man, boys talking everything about the battles," Shauna sighed as she looked over at Serena.
"Yeah, I guess it's funny," Serena replied with a smile.
"What about when Ash battles, aren't you just like them?" Shauna taunted at a voice Ash couldn't here.
"Shauna…" Serena grunted in frustration.
Back at the battle:
"Eevee that was awesome!" Hunter exclaimed as Eevee came back to his trainer. "You want to keep going Eevee?"
"Eevee!" Eevee nodded as he turned back to the rocky field and stood in front of Treck ready to battle.
"So who will Treck go with next?"
Treck smiled as he looked back into his belt and said, "I guess I will go with you!" Treck then unclipped a pokeball from his belt and shouted. "Go Galvantula!" As he threw the pokeball, a bright flash of light occurred which materialized into a yellow arachnid like pokemon that stood in front of Eevee. Treck then made the first move as he decided to try and trap Eevee, "Use electroweb!" Galvantula then shot out a crackling wave of silk that went outwards towards Eevee. It then surrounded Eevee and before Hunter knew it, Eevee was being shocked just by touching the string.
"Eevee…" Hunter grunted as he saw his friend struggling. "That's it!" Hunter then put his hand out palm up and exclaimed, "Use iron tail to conduct the electricity. Eevee made his tail glow white and then Eevee made it touch the silk. The web then began to stop crackling as the electricity slowly disappeared and the iron tail absorbed the electricity. "Now Eevee, use the iron tail to cut through the web!"
"Eee…. Vee vee vee!" Eevee exclaimed as he swung around and around to get himself unstuck from the web. The iron tail then made the web useless and Eevee was back out in front of his trainer unharmed.
"And Hunter uses a creative method to free Eevee… What a fascinating battler!"
"Grrr…" Treck grunter as he looked at the field. "Use bug buzz, make sure that the sound is strong!"
Hunter flinched as he witnessed Galvantula make screeching sound waves that were hurting Eevee and immobilizing the latter from moving. Hunter then did the best move he could go with in this situation, "Use protect!" Eevee strained a little through the bug buzz, but then put out a turquoise shield that made Eevee be able to relax inside the protect. Treck smiled at this as he saw how Eevee was being a very strong challenge.
"What a persistent Eevee! I have never seen anything like it!"
"Eevee, finish this with hyper beam!" Hunter exclaimed while throwing his fist.
"WHAT?!" Treck exclaimed in shock as he heard the attack being commanded.
"Eeeeeeee….. VEEEEEEEEE!" Eevee exclaimed as he made a ball of dark purple and black energy appear in front of him and then launching it at all speed at Galvantula. Galvantula was still in a moment of shock as the attack collided and caused a large explosion at the other side of the field. Galvantula then tried to get back up, but instead the spider pokemon smiled at Eevee before collapsing on its legs and losing consciousness.
"Galvantula no!" Treck exclaimed as he saw his electric spider collapse.
"Galvantula is unable to battle! Eevee wins!" The ref declared with an extended arm.
"Amazing! How can an Eevee learn such an attack?"
"Galvantula return!" Treck shouted as he recalled Galvantula back into his pokeball. Treck then pulled out his last pokeball and exclaimed. "This is it! Go Poliwrath!"
"Poli poliwrath!" the water fighting type exclaimed as he came out of his pokeball and looked at Eevee with a smirk.
"So Treck with attempt to win with a Poliwrath! How will things go?!"
"A Poliwrath, huh?" Hunter asked himself. Hunter then turned to his panting pokemon "Eevee, why don't you take a break? You battled really well."
Eevee ran up to Hunter and Hunter gave him a little pet in the fur before turning to his opponent and reaching into his belt, "Electivire let's go!" Hunter then chucked the pokeball to materialize into the electric type that had two large tails that crackled with electricity behind him. He made a large battle cry as he looked at Poliwrath.
"And Hunter makes a small change! How will this go now that he gained the type advantage?!"
Hunter looked at the scoreboard to then notice that it was updated with the current events of the battle:
Hunter: (pokeball) Eevee Electivire
Treck: Golem Galvantula Poliwrath
At the stands:
Night smiled down at the battle, "Yup, this is as good as finished."
"Why are you so confident?" Leaf teased as she slumped down on her chair. "Last time you said that was when you tried to impress a girl and you thought you could round up the trick before you fell flat on the ground."
"What? Hey come on!" Night replied with an obvious blush. "It was Infernape that was using flare blitz nearby and the treadmill I was running on was at the edge of catching fire until I actually performed the trick and Infernape looked at me to make the treadmill catch ablaze…" Night then crossed his arms and said, "Don't worry, I got plenty of fish in the sea… maybe a Kalosian girl will think I am cute." Night remarked this last part with glistening eyes.
"What is so special about Kalosian girls?" Leaf asked.
"Hehe, I don't know, what about you falling for the Johto trainers despite being from Kanto?" Night asked Leaf with a smirk. Leaf quirked an eyebrow until Night signaled his head in the direction of Hunter. At this Leaf blushed and Night raised his eyebrows in a smirk. "Gotcha Leaf."
"Don't tell him Night!" Leaf exclaimed with a furious blush.
"Why should I?" Night replied with a smile. "It wouldn't be fun for you that way."
Ash's group was amazed at Hunter's battling.
"Hyper beam on an Eevee, how is that possible?" Clemont asked.
"Breeding…" Brock replied. "Sometimes breeding gives you the craziest combinations… like a flamethrower Serperior…"
"So he got lucky with the draw huh?" Ash asked.
"I think he did," Brock replied. "From my experience as a pokemon breeder, I know that breeding can make pokemon more competitively viable, that is probably what Hunter has, as well trained and bred Eevee… No doubt that Electivire will probably be as powerful!"
Back at the Battle:
"Electivire use thunderpunch!" Hunter exclaimed with a pumped fist.
"Electivire… VIRE!" Electivire shouted as he made his fist crackle in electricity and then lunged at the Poliwrath.
"Focus punch!"
"Poli… WRATH!" Poliwrath exclaimed as he formed a white fist and charged Electivire.
The gap between the attacks closed and the two pokemon were left in a stalemate as the two attacks struggled to go through. Suddenly, Poliwrath got consumed in yellow electric sparks meaning that it had been paralyzed by the thunderpunch and then the sparks caused Poliwrath to get hit hard with the thunderpunch as the focus punch could not over power. Treck gritted his teeth as he saw this. It was definitely not good. "Hydro pump!" Treck exclaimed.
"Thunder!" Hunter shouted back with intensity.
The two pokemon charged up their attack and then launched them at each other. Both attacks collided in the middle of the rocky arena and both trainers gritted their teeth. Suddenly, the beam of yellow electricity bolted through the jet of water and struck the Poliwrath straight in the chest.
"Poliwrath no!" Treck shouted as he witnessed Poliwrath fall in front of him completely unable to battle.
"Poliwrath is unable to battle! This means that the win goes to Hunter from Cherrygrove City!" The referee exclaimed.
"What a way to finish the battle! Hunter emerged victorious and will be going onto the next round."
The crowd cheered as they saw as Hunter's face came up above the world "winner" in the scoreboard.
Both trainers recalled their pokemon as Treck suddenly spoke up, "Hunter, you are really good, best of luck."
"Thanks Treck, I will be looking forward to battling you again sometime," Hunter replied with a smile as both trainers then retreated through their dugouts out of the arena. The arena stayed though as it would be used for all of the battles of the first round.
At the stands:
"Well done Hunter!" Night and Leaf exclaimed in unison as they saw Hunter walk out of the arena.
Ash was smiling down, "That Hunter guy is really strong, maybe I will get to battle him later on. What do you think Pikachu?"
"Pika pika!" Pikachu exclaimed in an excited tone.
"Alright, so the next battle includes Satoshi and Harvey, I can't wait for this!" Calem exclaimed.
Ash then felt as the crowd roared when they saw as the two dugouts now had two more trainers coming down them. On the left was a trainer with brown hair and a light tan. He seemed like a decent trainer as he also had some clothes that made him seem intimidating. Looking to the right, Ash flinched as he saw the hooded man from before walking down the hallway and into the trainer box.
Ash then heard the dialogue: "I came here to win, so prepare to lose!"
"And we have a declaration from Harvey! What will be Satoshi's reaction?"
Ash looked as the trainer called Satoshi just smirked under hood and said, "Stubborn as most trainers…"
The crowd roared as they heard this trash talking. This was obviously the start of probably the largest form of amusement for the crowd.
Ash though, he worriedly stared down the cloaked man. Something seemed odd about him.
At the battle:
The field that separated the two trainers was very rocky and through this, Harvey smirked. "You know I am an expert of ground type pokemon, you are in so much trouble right now."
"..." Ashura said nothing as his cloaked eyes stared down his opponent. 'He seems to have strength, but he has no character or passion… he is just as solid as his ground types…' Ashura thought as he saw this.
The referee then put his arms out and said the same instruction as always. Ashura just slightly yawned since he did not want to hear it at all, but Harvey treated it like a serious battle after all, so he decided to act like if he was serious. "Now choose your first pokemon!"
"Aegislash let's go!" Ashura shouted without problem as he tossed a pokeball and exposed a little bit of he his attire during the swing, but it was still impossible to make out Ashura's identity. The pokeball opened and it showed the Aegislash that was in blade form instead of shield form.
"So it seems that Satoshi leads with an Aegislash!"
"Go!" Harvey shouted as he threw a pokeball. The pokeball opened to reveal a Rhyperior. Ashura smirked as he saw the giant pokemon land in front of his "Aegislash" with a large battle cry.
"Rhyperior against Aegislash, this is exciting!"
The crowd roared as they were getting ready to witness the next battle.
At the Stands:
Hunter was sitting next to Leaf and he was staring down Ashura with extreme interest.
"What is up Hunter?" Leaf asked.
"It's him…" Hunter just stated. Leaf gave him a confused look and Hunter replied with: "He is that guy that I had to face at the Indigo League. The guy that swept me…"
Ash was gritting his teeth in confusion as he saw the matchup. Serena noticed this and turned to Ash and gave him a shy smile, "Ash are you alright?"
Ash was snapped out of his thoughts as he looked at Serena's blue eyes with a confused expression and said, "Nothing… Just my imagination." Serena then forced a smile and nodded as she looked back down. Ash then felt a tap on his shoulder and turned around to see Calem with the same confused expression.
"You see it too, right?" Calem asked.
"Yeah…" Ash said as he sighed in disbelief and turned back down to the battle, "Please tell me that I am not looking at an Aegislash that acts like shield form does not exist."
Calem nodded and looked back down at the field with a confused expression on his face.
Back at the battle:
"Let the battle…
BEGIN!"
Battle music begin! Harvey (Rhyperior) vs Ashura (Aegislash):
"Flamethrower…" Ashura just said in a bored tone of voice as he crossed his arms. Aegislash just fired off a barrage of flames that interacted elegantly with the air before smashing into the Rhyperior causing the rhynosaucerous pokemon to put its hands in front of himself in an attempt to prevent too much damage.
"Flamethrower?" Harvey asked in disbelief. "How?!"
"A flamethrower Aegislash, amazing!"
The crowd roared as they saw this happen and then Ashura just smirked. "Had enough?"
"No! Use stone edge!" Rhyperior then began to punch the rocky battlefield in order for a barrage of rocks to shoot out of the ground in an attempt to smash into the Aegislash.
"Too slow…" Ashura taunted as he then said, "Dodge by jumping and then go into night slash!"
"Zora…" Aegislash shouted as the blade pokemon then flew into the sky as if gravity had effect on him and then made his blade glow all purple. "ROARK!" Aegislash exclaimed as he slammed his purple blade into the Rhyperior and made the larger and towering pokemon fall back and get slammed into the ground in pain to not get up.
"Rhyperior is unable to battle," the ref exclaimed. "Aegislash wins."
In the stands:
"That is not an Aegislash… it has to be something else…" Ash then took out his Pokedex and started scanning through all of the pokemon he had seen before. He scanned the Aegislash, but what came up was not Aegislash at all, but a fox like pokemon named Zoroark. "So it was something else after all…"
"Ash?" Ash turned his gaze to see some shining blue eyes looking at him with fire in them. "You should get going! Your match is next!" Serena exclaimed as she pumped both of her fists.
Ash's eyes widened as he smirked and looked back at Serena while saying, "Yea!" Ash then stood up as Pikachu tried to hop on Ash's shoulder to be stopped. Ash gently put Pikachu on Serena's lap and the honey blonde looked perplexed by this.
"Pika?" Pikachu asked in confusion.
"Don't worry Pikachu," Ash said with a smile. "You helped Serena and me out for the Victory Road, so take a good rest… and Serena." Ash said as he turned his gaze to Serena's eyes. "Take good care of Pikachu as I battle."
Serena smiled and said, "Just leave it to me!"
Ash smiled and then made his way towards the exit of the stands. "Good luck Ash, win it for us!" Serena exclaimed.
"Remember our promise Ash," Calem replied.
"Go get them Ash!" Shauna said.
"Win! That is all…" Clemont and Brock replied with smirks.
"And make sure that you can give it your all," Bonnie replied with a smile. "Remember how to do physics."
"Pikapi Pikachu!"
Ash smiled at everyone and said: "I will!"
Just as Ash was going up the stairs, he looked back to look at the battle's progress:
Harvey: Rhyperior Stunfisk Whiscash
Satoshi: (pokeball) (pokeball) Aegislash
Ash took a serious look at the cloaked man and then turned back up the stairs and into the exit of the stands… Feeling only two pokeballs on his belt.
Ash POV:
I am walking through the hexagonal hallways. I swear everything in this entire stadium is shaped like a hexagon. I don't even know why. Anyways, I see that I am supposed to enter through the same dug out that Satoshi entered through since my name is displayed in some monitors to go that direction.
I followed the signs until I found an opening that looked like a tunnel. I looked forward and I see that there is light at the end of the tunnel.
From here I could hear the crowd cheering and a large explosion. I could barely see by the difference in lighting, but I heard the announcer say something as I edged nearer towards the tunnel. No doubt it was the dugout that lead to the field I was battling in. I could not wait to face Astrid again and show her how strong you are.
"I would be surprised if you even made it past the first round," I spin around to see Damian next to me. He is looking out the same way I was and he then told me, "Don't get too excited, if no one takes you out, then I will… Or that guy that is battling right now." Damian smirked that at me as he walked past me and bumped shoulders with me and walks away.
I take a deep breath as I take the advice that Bonnie gave me about knowing physics. "Thanks for the angular momentum Damian…" I whisper to myself as I hear footsteps come my way and I see the cloaked man come down from the tunnel towards me.
I flinched as he came next to me. I stare in intimidation as he walked by me and stopped in front of me, "Kid, know what pokemon I was just using?" I hear the man's voice. I could have sworn I have heard that voice a million times in my life.
I went wide eyed at the question and stood up straight while responding with: "You were using a Zoroark…"
I saw how the man smirked in the shadow that covered his face and said, "You better not lose… you might actually stand a chance." With that the man began to walk away leaving me with a confused expression.
I shake it off as I look at the tunnel and begin walking towards the direction of the cheers. I near the light and as I step closer, I grab the glove with my keystone and tightened it around my hand. With that, I stepped into the light to have a breeze make my scarf wave and my vision went completely white.
"Ash!"
I hear my name get announced as my vision materializes itself. I see the very details of the stadium from the cheering people to the torch with the flame top my right and I even see the many hexagons lighting up the stadium's dark spots. I look to my right and see my face in the scoreboard as I smile:
Ash: (pokeball) (pokeball) (pokeball)
Astrid: (pokeball) (pokeball) (pokeball)
I can barely hold my excitement as I throw my fist into the air and announce to everyone, "I'm Ash Ketchum from Lumiose City! I come to become champion… and become a POKEMON MASTER!"
"And there we have it! A declaration of victory! Keep in mind that it is rumored that Ash is the guy with the Sceptile that defeated the Darkrai at an unknown location… We may have a star trainer right here."
At this the crowd cheered in approval.
At the stands:
Ashura leaned in from the stadium and looked at Ash with a smirk at hearing the "Darkrai" part get announced.
Hunter was just looking at the field with confusion, "That guy just claimed he won the whole thing before he even did anything…"
"Oh man, this Ash guy really looks like a younger version of myself as I took on the Tunod league. I swear I declared victory before even battling," Night said with a sheepish laugh.
"How did that go?" Leaf asked with a pout.
"Well… I actually won!"
"Jolteon teon!"
"Wow, I now wish I did that," Hunter said with anime tears.
Hau was looking down at the battle with a serious face, and specifically Ash. "Sorry Ash, but if you get in my way before the 200k, I will have to defeat you…"
The gang was laughing with great amounts of fun at hearing Ash's declaration, but one person in particular had a different reaction:
Serena gripped her ribbon and blushed as she looked down at Ash, "And you will Ash… I know so!"
Back at the battle:
"Ash!" Ash's attention is brought to the girl that was staring across from him. "I did not expect to battle against you first of all people!" The girl had a purple attire and blonde hair, but most notably Ash noticed the keystone earring that Astrid had.
"Astrid, I have been looking forward to this rematch with you!" Ash exclaimed as he pumped his fist. "This time I won't lose!"
"Good, because I am looking for a challenge," Astrid exclaimed as she then smirked. "I am guessing you brought your Sceptile, I want to see how much he has grown since he was a Grovyle."
"Of course Astrid," Ash replied as he smirked and looked at the battlefield studying all of the tactics that he could use to win this battle. Ash then bobbed Sceptile's pokeball on his hand. "A certain someone has been waiting for a rematch this whole time."
"I am ready Ash," Astrid smiled as the referee out his hand out.
"This will be a 3 on 3 pokemon battle. Substitutions are allowed and the battle will be over as soon as all of the pokemon on either side are unable to continue." The referee then put his arm into the sky and exclaimed, "Choose your first pokemon!"
"Sceptile I choose you!" Ash shouts as he throws the pokeball into the air. The pokeball then opens and materialized a lot of energy into the green bipedal frog that appeared with a branch as a tooth pick.
"SCEPTILE!" Sceptile shouted as he looked at Astrid and smirked as knew he would finally get the rematch he had been waiting for since he last battled Astrid and her mega Absol.
"And Ash leads with his powerful Sceptile! So the rumor was true!"
The crowd roared at this and Ash smiled as he looked at Sceptile and said, "This is it Sceptile, our debut, let's make a memorable one!"
"Tile!" Sceptile exclaimed as he looked onward to the field.
"To get to Absol, you will need to battle against some of my other pokemon as well," Astrid exclaimed as she took out a pokeball and threw it. "Go Meowstic!"
"Meeeoooowww!" The feline pokemon exclaimed as she came out of her pokeball and stood in front of Sceptile.
"So it is grass against psychic this will be interesting!"
The ref then raised his hand and exclaimed, "Battle!..."
Ash POV:
Let's do this!
"Begin!"
Battle music start! Ash (Sceptile) vs Astrid (Meowstic):
"Start things off with thunder wave Meowstic!" I hear Astrid exclaim. I look over to her feline pokemon and I notice that I have to avoid getting hit with that move, it does not matter what happens.
"Sceptile, heads up, jump up into the sky!" I shout as I throw my fist out. I gaze at Sceptile as I see my bipedal grass type gain the advantage of the air and completely avoid the hoop like electric move that then dissipated before hitting me. "Now Sceptile use leaf Storm!"
"Thunderbolt!" I hear from Astrid and I knew that I had the edge since thunderbolt was a slightly weaker move than leaf Storm.
"Scep… TILE!" I hear Sceptile shout as he exposed his tree like back and began to launch a barrage of razor sharp leaves inside of a gust of tornadic wind. I see Meowstic get enveloped in electricity and then launch the attack Sceptile. I watch with a smirk as the two attacks collide and cause a dust cloud to pick up in the middle of the field.
"What a strong collision of ranged attacks!"
"Use frenzy plant and grab Meowstic" I shout as I pump my fists. Sceptile obeyed and puts his hands into the ground which caused Sceptile to spark out some plants out of the ground and go into the dust cloud. Because of the dust. I could be sure that the attack would not fail as Astrid would not see it coming. When the dust cleared I see how the green plants have taken Meowstic and have her stuck in the air. "Yes!" I exclaim as I see the effect of my strategy.
"Wow! Meowstic is now in a tough situation!"
Astrid though, I look across to her and noticed her smiling. I put a confused look until I heard her say: "Psychic, make those plants yours!" My eyes widened as I saw how Meowstic raised her ears and then made the plants have a light blue outline and push onwards to unravel the feline and then make the plants go in the direction of Sceptile menacing the tree frog.
I grit my teeth at this, but I decide to use the best tool I have for my advantage, "Leaf blade!"
"Scep… TILE!" Sceptile exclaimed as he made the lateral part of his limbs glow into a green blade and then I saw as Sceptile sliced through his own created plants. As Sceptile broke the plants apart, I noticed the blue glow vanish, so I knew that I was fine from being in trouble from that.
"Meowstic, use psychic on the rocks to make them hit Sceptile!" I hear. I look as Meowstic makes rocks glow blue and then begin to swarm around the cat pokemon. Sceptile broke through the last plant only to see that there are shards of rocks from the battlefield headed right for Sceptile. I grit my teeth as I see this. I need to find a way to be a able to counter the attack, but maybe even be able to inflict some damage… I can't dodge so what will be my way?
"This looks like a tricky situation for Ash, what can he do to get out of it?"
That's it!
I then abduct my arms and extend the palms of my hands in order to make it look like if I am showing off claws and exclaim a move that has everything to do with claws, "Use dragon claw on the rocks and break them apart while charging Meowstic!"
"Scep…"
"Tile!" Hits one of the rocks and breaks it as he runs.
"Meow!" Launched rock.
"Tile!" Breaks rock. "SCEP…. TILE!" I see as Sceptile slashes Meowstic to the ground in front of Astrid and I smirk as I command my last attack.
"Sceptile, finish this off with leaf Storm!"
"ScepTILE!" I hear as I see the razor leaves rushing the Meowstic in a swirl-like wind. I watch as the attack causes an small explosion that made dust rush out of the ground and around the Meowstic because of the collision.
When the dust clears, Meowstic is on the ground unable to battle. "Meowstic is unable to battle!" I hear as the referee puts his hand out to Sceptile. "Sceptile wins!"
"What an amazing turn of events and a lead for the one and only Ash Ketchum!"
The crowd inundates the stadium with cheers and I slightly blush at all of the praise, but I look at my tree frog in front of me and smile. He smiled back and hands me a thumbs up…
Sceptile is right:
If I work together with my pokemon I can win just about any battle. My smirk becomes bigger as I look at the scoreboard and notice that Meowstic was blackened out on Astrid's roster. At this point I look back at Astrid who had recalled her cat back to her pokeball. "What what is Sceptile's next test?" I ask.
"This pokemon!" Astrid retaliated as she pulled out a pokeball from her belt and threw it. "Go Pyroar!"
"PY ROOOOAAAARRRR!" The male lion pokemon exclaimed and landed in front of Astrid in a rock. It cried regally and showed off his mane with pride. I obviously knew this would be a challenge because of the fire typing, but I knew that if I worked well with Sceptile, I could do anything.
"And Astrid decides to go with a Pyroar, she wants the type advantage!"
I smirk as I look at Astrid and say, "Type advantages aren't everything that matters."
Astrid looks at me very amused, "We'll see about that!"
"Sceptile, are you ready to keep going?" I ask. Sceptile looks at me and raises his fist with a lot of excitement. I look at Pyroar and decide that it would be best to check out the moves that he could have… I suspect a flamethrower. "Alright, start this off with using leaf Storm!" Sceptile quickly made his attack launch towards Pyroar with intensity. I knew that if a threat were to show up, I would be making sure it was there.
"Flamethrower!" I hear this and I smirk…
Gotcha!
The two attacks closed their gap and I see as he middle of the field gets enveloped in a small explosion. I knew that flamethrower was a powerful super effective move, but I had the perfect counter for it with Sceptile. I also know that Pyroar being a normal type means that he is weak to fighting. I know Sceptile only really knows a dragon type move out of his grass type range, but I decide that I can try something else. "Close in on Pyroar, I want to try and have you at close proximity!" Sceptile nods at me and the the tree frog leaps into the air and lands in front of Pyroar with extreme agility.
"So Ash's strategy to avoid the type disadvantage is to attack from close range! How interesting!"
"No way! Fire fang!" I hear from Astrid who I see pumping her fist.
"ROAR!" Pyroar exclaimed as he made blazing mandibles appear in front of him and are about to smash down on Sceptile.
I grit my teeth at this, but I decide to be quick, "Sceptile use leaf blade!" Sceptile makes a blade with his arm and then thrusts it out. The leaf blade then gets bitten down on by the fire fang and I knew that I had to act quick. "Now kick Pyroar in the abdomen!"
"Tile!" I hear Sceptile exclaim as he used his leg to thrust it into Pyroar's belly. I then notice that the connection of fire fang and leaf blade was released so I went for the next move:
"Punch Pyroar back down towards the battlefield and then follow up with using dragon claw!" I exclaim as I put my fist out. Pyroar had been soaring because of the last kick, but then Sceptile in a blink of an eye made it to be eye level with the lion pokemon. Sceptile then pulled back his fist and punched Pyroar right on the figure back towards the rocky battlefield. I see as Pyroar falls with extreme power and then as Sceptile summons his green claws. I smirk as I see Sceptile then fall down towards the Pyroar that was struggling to get back up.
"This does not look so good to Pyroar, will Sceptile finish this off?"
"Fire fang straight up!" I hear from Astrid. I could hear how her voice was very desperate. She definitely had not been expecting this. Pyroar tried to make his fire mandibles, but it was too late and Sceptile came in and smashed his scaly claws into the lion pokemon. An explosion ricocheted throughout the stadium and Sceptile then appeared in front of me with a hand on his branch toothpick.
"This truly is an intense battle!"
At the stands:
"What a Sceptile," Hau remarked as he looked at the bipedal grass type. "No doubt this trainer is definitely strong…" Hau then smirked, "But I know that if I believe in my pokemon, the 200k is as good as mine and I will be able to save Lillie!"
Serena was a couple rows back with Ash's friends and in her lap was the electric rodent, "Pikachu, what do you think about Sceptile's battling?" Serena asked.
"Pika pika!" Pikachu exclaimed in excitement as he looked back down at the field and gathered some electricity on his cheeks that made Serena smile.
Calem had his arms crossed, "No doubt that Ash is very powerful with Sceptile." Calem then turned to the others and said, "Sceptile is probably the one pokemon that I have seen Ash has found a secret ability too."
"Haha, I have seen everything Ash has been capable of," Serena smiled at the jet black haired trainer. Serena then looked back at Ash and said, "Ash has so much in store for his battles."
Shauna then turned to Serena and asked, "Wait, what is Ash capable of?"
"Special things, let's put it at that," Clemont replied as he leaned back on his chair. "Ash has the ability to be so close to his pokemon, that it makes it so that he can unlock their full potential. After all, Ash has been training hard for this, specially after it took him two tries to defeat Wulfric, it helped him master this."
"It took two tries for Ash to defeat Wulfric?" Calem asked with some shock.
Brock then spoke up, "Yea, his first battle proved that he wasn't trusting his pokemon and he got absolutely slaughtered." Brock then looked at Ash and said, "The moment Ash rematched Wulfric, he had become so mature and powerful, it was like if he could defeat anyone… and frankly, I can see it happening with Ash if he keeps this up."
"Go Ash! Go Sceptile!" Bonnie exclaimed with a smile as she stood up from her chair.
"Pikapi pika!" Pikachu exclaimed as the rodent began to cheer on Ash as well.
At the battle normal POV:
"Pyroar keep this up, use flamethrower!" Astrid exclaimed with a strong voice.
Ash gritted his teeth as he saw this, "leaf blade let's go!" A slightly dazed Sceptile that just got hit with a fire fang to then get surprised with a wild charge stood up and made the lateral part of his limbs glow into green blades. Sceptile saw as the jet of fire got closer and with fast reflexes intercepted and caused the flamethrower to be sliced at the point in which Sceptile could easily retreat his blades and be unharmed from the fire type attack. "Now use frenzy plant and trap the Pyroar!"
"Scep… TILE!" Sceptile exclaimed as he put his arms into the ground for then some plants to shoot out of the ground with great intensity in the direction of Pyroar.
"Dodge it Pyroar!" Astrid exclaimed as she saw the incoming plants. Pyroar attempted to dodge, but the attacks from before have down their toll and Pyroar got consumed in the plants to then be crushed and thrown violently into the ground. "Pyroar no!" Astrid exclaimed with a lot of worry.
As the referee looked at the look on the ground, he noticed that Pyroar had lost consciousness. "Pyroar is unable to battle! Sceptile wins!" The crowd then erupted to cheers once more and Ash smiled at his tree frog. At the same time, Astrid recalled her Pyroar and the scoreboard updated:
Ash: (pokeball) (pokeball) Sceptile
Astrid: Meowstic Pyroar (pokeball)
At the stands:
Serena was at the edge of her seat, "Go Ash! Only one more pokemon!" Serena then grabbed her ribbon and smiled.
"I wouldn't be too sure about that," Clemont said with a serious tone. "I checked out some of Astrid's pokemon… and her partner is mega evolving Absol."
"Good luck Sceptile!" Bonnie shouted from her seat through the roaring crowd. It was obvious that Ash might not hear, but support definitely meant a lot to him.
"Mega evolving Absol? Oh dear," Shauna said with a serious face. "Ash may be in trouble for this one."
"Pika pika," Pikachu shouted with pumped fists at his trainer that was on the battlefield. "PIKACHU PIKAPI!"
"Pikachu is right…" Everyone turned from their seats to look at the honey blonde grabbing her ribbon with a smile. "Sceptile will get this sweep because he believes in Ash." Serena then clenched her fists, "Sceptile's will is what will overgrow Absol's mega evolution. That is what drives Ash with Sceptile in this battle."
Everyone looked at the honey blonde with blue eyes with shocked expressions except the electric rodent in her lap. Pikachu smiled and gathered electricity in his cheeks to portray that he agreed with Serena. Serena smirked at this and stood up from her seat while shouting, "Go Ash! Go Sceptile!"
Back at the Battle:
"What will be Astrid's last pokemon?"
Astrid looked at Ash and met his gaze with a smile, "I had a feeling it would get down to these two!" Astrid then reeled back her hand as she threw a pokeball, "Go Absol!" The pokeball was watched by thousands as it soared through the sky until it opened with a large flashing light that materialized into the sinister four legged pokemon with a horn on the side of his face. At the same time the scoreboard put Absol on Astrid's line up.
"SOL!" The pokemon cried as he looked down at Sceptile and narrowed his eyes. It was now the time for the main rematch and it was obvious that it would be intense. Astrid looked closer and saw the mega stone around Absol's neck. This was it.
"There it is! Astrid's powerful Absol!"
"So here comes our battle with Absol!" Ash smiled as he narrowed his eyes. "Sceptile let's give it everything we have!"
Sceptile gave a thumbs up to his trainer, "Tile!" Then Sceptile turned to Absol and narrowed his eyes with determination.
"The tension between both pokemon is growing… Who will win?"
The crowd roared at this. The entire stadium was pumped to see the outcome of the battle of this point because it was evident that there would be a strong collision of power.
"Absol, start this off with psycho cut!" Astrid exclaimed with determination as she put her arm out. Absol reeled his horn back and made it glow purple before he swung his head around and made a purple blade shoot right at Sceptile.
Ash narrowed his eyes as he looked at the attack coming. Suddenly, he raised his hand and commanded: "Jump up!" Sceptile responded with great speed as he crouched his legs and jumped into the air with a large amount of power. Ash noticed as the psycho cut went under Sceptile and exploded in the ground below him. Ash then extended his arm and shouted, "Use leaf blade!"
"Scep… TILE!" Sceptile exclaimed as he made his right hand glow a blade and then began to fall in the direction of Absol while aiming down the blade.
"Mega horn!" Astrid shouted as she put her fist out. Absol made his horn glow green and then he jumped up in the direction of Sceptile with great power. The two attacks collided and they stood at a stalemate with sparks coming out. Ash and Astrid gritted their teeth at this until a shockwave echoed through the stadium making Astrid's hair blow as Ash's scarf went wide behind him. Both pokemon retreated to be in front of their trainers until Astrid pumped her fist, "Use dark pulse!"
Ash went wide eyed at this and shouted, "Dragon claw!" Sceptile put his green claws out and then intercepted the dark pulse with them. Suddenly, an explosion caused Sceptile to recoil to be in front of his trainer. Sceptile smirked at this as Astrid grew confident.
"Neither pokemon is backing down! I have never seen a battle like this one!"
"We will be finishing this off here!" Astrid then touched her earring and made it glow white. "Absol!" Prongs flew out of the keystone and mega stone and then collided with each other this causing Absol to glow white. "MEGA EVOLVE!"
"AB…. SOL!" Absol shouted as he began to grow a pair of wings and a much larger horn. When the light died down, the DNA symbol appeared in front of Absol with great power.
"Amazing! Third battle and we already have a mega evolution! This is going to be so exhilarating for a league!"
"There it is…" Ash whispered to himself. "Now let's do this Sceptile!" Ash commanded as he looked at his bipedal tree frog.
"Tile!" Sceptile replied with a smile. "Scep…" Sceptile grunted as he looked over at the mega evolved Absol.
"Absol use Blizzard!" Astrid commanded as she put her arms out. Absol made himself glow a light blue, but then he made a large amount of snow appear and begin to head towards Sceptile.
"Tile!" Sceptile groaned as he got hit with the entire barrage of snow. Ash gritted his teeth at this. He did not expect such a super effective move to come from Absol and it could prove fatal. Sceptile fell in the ground in front of Ash on the ground in pain and hardly able to get back up.
"What an attack! Is this it for Sceptile?"
"Sceptile…" Ash said in a normal voice that then turned into a confident voice, "Get up… we are not finished here!"
"Scep…" Sceptile cried as he began to put his palms down on the rocky ground and push himself up to his knees. "SCEP TILEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Sceptile exclaimed as he made himself glow green and with green eyes. Sceptile stood in a broken pose, but he still harbored so much power that his ability was able to activate and give out the power it needed. At this, the ref flinched while the entire crowd cheered.
"And with that, Absol's special ability triggers! Amazing!"
"Yes!" Ash shouted as he smirked and pumped his fists. "Now we're even Astrid."
Astrid flinched at seeing Sceptile. It was one thing to see Sceptile use overgrow on tape, it was another to see it happen live in front of her in person. The crowd roared in approval at this and Ash knew he could finish this.
At the stands:
"So that is what Ash was going for all along," Brock said with crossed arms and a smile. "But I am worried that Sceptile is running out of steam."
"Sceptile will win… I know so!" Serena interjected causing Brock to flinch and look at her with shock.
Back at the battle:
"Sceptile use leaf blade!" Ash exclaimed with a confident tone. Sceptile made his blades glow to a size that no one had ever seen before.
"Quick use megahorn!"
Both pokemon closed the gap and then the greenhorn collided with the green blade.
Left
Right
Left
Right
Those were all of the sides through which Sceptile attacked, but Absol completely blocked them all. Ash gritted his teeth as he brought out his hand and exclaimed, "Use leaf Storm!"
"Blizzard!" Astrid commanded with a fist out.
Absol charged up a barrage of snow while Sceptile made a tornadic barrage of leafs. The attacks then closed the gap and then there was a large explosion that consumed the entire stadium. "Tile!" Sceptile grunted as he got pushed back by the explosion to be in front of his trainer.
"What a collision of attacks! This surely is no ordinary match!"
"SOL…" Absol grunted the same as he ended up like Sceptile.
"Mega horn!" Astrid exclaimed. Absol slowly got up and made his horn glow large and green.
Ash gritted his teeth as he put his arm out, "Grab it with dragon claw!"
"Scep… TILE!" Sceptile exclaimed as he made the green pairs of claws and clamped down on the green horn.
"Uh oh, Absol is completely trapped!"
"Absol get out of there!" Astrid exclaimed with worry. Absol tried to get out, but he could not get away from Sceptile's monstrous grip. Astrid then witnessed as Sceptile spun around and launched Absol into the air.
"Sceptile!" Ash exclaimed as he began to crouch down. Ash then formed two fists with his hands. "FRENZY!" Ash then slammed both fists into the ground. "PLANT!"
"Scep…. TILE!" Sceptile shouted as he fist bumped his fists and then punched the ground. The plant roared from the ground and headed to the mega evolved pokemon that was soaring helplessly. The plants then constricted themselves around Absol and slammed Absol into the rocky ground causing a large shockwave that caused Ash's scarf to quickly shake. Ash smirked at this knowing he probably just inflicted a lot of damage… Ash though, he underestimated his own power.
"What a devastating frenzy plant! Is this it for Absol?"
Sceptile then pumped his fist as he saw this and turned around to Ash while his green glow vanished. "Tile Sceptile!" Sceptile cheered and danced around to Ash's confusion.
"Huh?" Ash asked watching Sceptile dance around.
The plants and smoke then cleared and Ash saw that Absol was on the ground without his mega evolution. "Absol!" Astrid shouted seeing as Absol was fainted.
"Absol is unable to battle," the ref then raised his arm. "Sceptile is the winner! Which means the win goes to Ash from Lumiose City!" Ash stood a little dumbfounded until he heard the cheers from the stands and the scoreboard display his name as the winner. At this, Ash's face lit up.
"Sceptile did it! He swept! No doubt this is going to be one of our favorites to go all the way!"
"Yea!" Ash exclaimed as he jumped into the rocky field to embrace Sceptile. Sceptile saw this and spread his arms out and Ash was able to deliver a large hug to the tree frog.
At the stands:
"YES Ash!" Serena shouted as she grabbed her ribbon and stood up from her seat. Calem and Shauna clapped as Clemont and Brock smiled to themselves.
"Ash you go boy!" Bonnie exclaimed as she high fived Serena. The two girls obviously had so much excitement from the battle.
Hunter looked at the battle and smiled as he felt one of the pokeballs on his belt, "A collision of leaf blade and blaze kick…" Hunter then smirked and looked down on the field.
Hau was amazed, "I can't believe it…" Hau then sighed, "Doesn't matter… I will get to the 200k if I play this right."
Back at the rocky arena:
"Absol, you were great, take a good rest," Astrid said as she recalled Absol and then looked at Ash and Sceptile and smiled. Astrid then walked up to Ash and when the raven haired trainer noticed this he turned to the blonde and smiled. "Ash, I enjoyed that battle… Thank you."
Ash smiled as he and Sceptile exchanged a glance and then Ash turned to Astrid, "Thank you for this battle… It was one of the most exhilarating battles I had, just so you knew, I was actually on the edge of defeat the whole time."
"Huh?" Astrid went a little wide eyed at this and cocker her head. "What do you mean?"
Ash rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, "When I found out I was going to battle against you, I actually decided to only bring Sceptile and Noivern with me." Ash then smiled. "It was actually a two on three the whole time and Absol could have one hitted Noivern because of the four times weakness to ice."
"Whatever, great battle Ash," Astrid said as she shook Ash's hand.
As Ash shook Astrid's battle, he knew this was only the beginning. He would have to battle hard to reach the top… In the end, this would hopefully be the first of many exciting battles.
A/N: GG over 10k words. First time I reached this, but I am happy I did. Anyways I would like to thank you guys for reading and actually tell me what you think of the league format with the scoreboard and announcer.
I think it is pretty neat ;)
One more thing: Ash will be referenced to be from Lumiose City and not Pallet Town. This is in order to make it seem like Pallet Town is a part that Ash wants to move on from. Ash would prefer be known as the boy from Lumiose City, than the boy from Pallet Town that got betrayed.
Anyways, Ash's next battle may include a pseudo legendary so be hyped up for that. Also, who knows who else will battle to amaze Ash.
Remember to R & R and I will see you guys next time!
Responding to some reviews:
ArmorshippingFan: Surprising huh? Well I hope you enjoyed the battles! Thanks for reviewing!
Guest 1: Haha, IMPOSTER!
Guest 2: I know right! I will keep it up alright!
TrainerKSlord: Mega Charizard X is a dragon :3. Thanks for reviewing and enjoying bro, and yes, his team can be seen as OP XD!