Road To Master

by Nightshock5

In a new Universe: Ash has a dark past that eats him. After thinking about his past, Ash decides to begin his journey in Kalos along with a wild Pikachu he befriends. Along with a strong team, Ash will take on his strongest challenge yet! (Amourshipping) What will happen when Ash challenges the Pokemon League? Will he win? Will his father haunt his head? T for Violence

33. Chapter 33

Behind the hexagonal stadium:

Hidden in the same alley way as before, Nero was waiting on his own for someone, "Rob come on…" Nero whispered to himself until he saw the familiar face come near him.

"Nero, what's up?" Rob asked as he gave Nero a friendly handshake.

Nero smirked and Rob and said, "You know that I am going up against a strong opponent today, right?" Rob nodded at this as Nero reached into his belt and began to bob a pokeball in his hand. "You are the referee for that battle right?"

"Yea, I told the administration I would be taking over as the role of refereeing the match," Rob responded with a sinister smile. "I was wondering what your plan was."

"Simple," Nero said quietly as he turned his attention to his surroundings making sure that no one was around. "I want to crush the Eevee of that guy. Whatever happens, don't disqualify me."

Rob smirked, "Kick that Eevee's a$$ so that no one has to worry about him throughout the tournament." Rob then turned around before walking away, "And Damian would be thrilled that we made it this far."

Nero nodded as he watched Rob disappear back into the walkway that lead into the stadium. Nero looked down at his pokeball and smirked. He was going to crush Hunter whether Hunter wanted to or not.

Meanwhile with Rob, he turned out of the corner to be met by Damian. Damian smirked and gave Rob a nod as he walked towards the stadium and blended in with the people walking around it.

The plan was going to begin… And it would not be pretty.

A/N: So this little conspiracy thing is going to begin soon enough and I am thrilled to see how it plays out.

Anyways, today we have Ash against Remo. Last time the two battled, Ash really gave a large butt whooping to Remo, but will things end differently this time?

We also have Hunter against Nero. This is going to be interesting as well.

Let's also keep in mind that this round will be a surprise format which means that Ash has to adapt to the battle as it goes down.

Anyways, this may be a little bit of a shorter battling chapter, but I promise you that when we begin to focus on Ash's battles more, there will be so much detail to be displayed that will make the battles interesting.

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)

Let's get right into the story then!

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon

Chapter 33- A clash of dragons! An electrifying surprise!

At the trainer's lounge:

Ash was sitting there patiently as he looked at the monitor. He noticed that the large stadium was very packed at this point. Next to it was Malva commentating over the matchups going on. Ash already knew that Remo would be tough, but he knew he could adapt to any strategy with a quick look at whatever they put in front of him. Air battle, he was ready, speed battle, also ready. Ash knew he could get this all done with the power that his pokemon worked together with.

Ash then noticed that the announcer began to announce the beginning of the battle, so he walked out of the lounge and began to make his way down the hexagonal tunnel that lead to the arena with Pikachu on his shoulder. He had to admit that Pikachu being with him was a very pleasant feeling other than the stressed out one that was given to him last time with only bringing two pokemon up to the plate for the sake of living at the edge of defeat.

"Ash!"

Ash stepped into the light to be lead to a step that was his trainer platform. Ash and Pikachu stepped up to the plate and Pikachu jumped out of Ash's shoulder to be on the ground as the crowd cheered Ash's name. Ash then remembered how everyone wished him luck before the match. Serena specifically had a large smile on her face, but she also checked Ash's belt to make sure all six pokeballs were there and when Ash was about to leave, Serena made sure that Pikachu would follow Ash no matter where the latter went. The raven haired trainer snickered a little at this as he stared at the figure that was coming up past the large gap to the opposite trainer platform.

"Remo!"

The crowd also cheered at Remo's name as Ash noticed the teenager with the umbrella appear in front of him as well. Ash smirked as he saw the guy and pumped his fist, "So we meet again."

Remo smirked, "I guess so Ash. Garchoo and I have been awaiting this rematch."

"Pika pika…" Pikachu said from Ash's side while gathering electricity.

Ash looked down at his rodent and petted his head, "I don't think I will use you, I am saving you for the next round." Pikachu sighed a little disappointed, but accepted his trainer's decision. "I promised two of my pokemon this battle, and they will get it."

"I am hyped up Ash, I can't wait," Remo replied as the crowd roared in approval.

"And there we have it, a friendly rivalry between two trainers! Now let's look at the screen to see what our format is!"

Ash and Pikachu along with the thousands of people in the stadium looked at the scoreboard that originally had Ash and Remo's face on it. Only to be replaced by two large pokeballs next to the trainer's face.

"And it will be a double battle!"

"A fast double battle huh?" Ash said as he started down at Remo. "Perfect."

At the stands:

"A double battle?" Tierno asked as he sat next to Trevor. "That seems like an interesting way to change up the strategy of both trainers."

"I agree," Clemont replied from behind. "The different battle format really changes things up, I wonder who Ash will use."

"Go Ash!" Bonnie shouted as she got out from we seat.

"Do you see the way that Ash looks confident?" Serena pointed out. She was sitting next to Shauna and Brock. "I think Ash already has a plan."

"Of course he does," Brock smiled. "It's Ash."

"I did see Remo's team and it had a Garchomp," Calem said while crossing his arms. "And we know that Garchomp is a strong pokemon from when we first encountered one on the first day of our journey." At this Shauna nodded as she was one of the few that went after Garchomp at first.

Hau was at the other end of the stadium. He was taking notes about the battles so that he could understand his opponents better. One of them being Ash, who was able to take on a mega evolution after defeating two pokemon and not even mega evolving his pokemon. Hau sighed as he still felt the weight of his shoulders from the night before. It was really hard for him to see Mallow like that, but even worse was the way that Mallow said something that left him hanging by a thread. Hau started to scribble down more notes as he saw a grassy battlefield come up between the trainers he was watching.

At the Battle:

"And we will be battling in a grass battlefield!"

Ash heard this as the gap between him and Remo was closed by a large grassy terrain. Ash smirked at this as he unclipped two pokeballs from his belt and held one on each hand.

The referee then stepped up and said, "This will be a double battle without substitutions. Once both pokemon on either side is unable to continue, the match is over." The ref then looked at the trainers and raised his hand, "Choose your pokemon!"

"Archeops! Garchoo! Let's go!" Remo exclaimed as he swung his body around and threw two pokeballs into the air. Ash saw how one of the pokemon was a colorful dinosaur like pokemon with wings that was flying. Garchoo appeared with his mega stone shining in the light right beside the Archeops. Unlike Archeops, Garchoo landed on the grass and tensed up his posture.

"So we have an Archeops and a Garchomp, the same one that swept yesterday! Will Ash go with Sceptile?"

Ash narrowed his eyes as he saw this, but he was confident in his chosen pokemon. He based these two as promise, not strategy, and despite the risk, he would not break a promise.

"Noivern! Charizard! I choose you!" Ash shouted as he threw the pokeballs into the air. They both opened and materialized into dragon shaped pokemon. One being an orange flying type with a blue stone in the harness and the other being a black bat pokemon with large ears. Both landed on the grass and made a battle cry that shook the stadium.

"And Ash decides to switch things up with a Charizard and a Noivern! This will be a good battle folks!"

The crowd roared as the scoreboard updated to show the pokemon that would participate:

Remo: Garchomp Archeops

Ash: Noivern Charizard

In the stands:

"Ash's Charmeleon evolved?!" Trevor exclaimed with excitement as he saw the fire and flying type appear in the floor in front of him. "No way!"

"It is one of Ash's strongest too," Serena said with a smile while holding her ribbon. "Ash and Charizard trust each other very much to be able to battle with great strength alongside each other."

At the Battle:

The referee then raised his hand, "Let the battle….

BEGIN!"

Battle music begin! Ash (Noivern and Charizard) vs Remo (Archeops and Garchoo):

"Archeops use ancient power!" Remo announced with great confidence as the battle started. "Garchoo, stone edge on Charizard!" Archeops made seven rocks circle around him as he chucked them at the pair of flying types. Garchoo stomped on the ground and with that blue stones shot out of the ground in the direction of Charizard. The fire type narrowed his eyes as he saw this and waited for Ash's command.

Ash gasped as he saw that, it would be a four times effective hit. "Dodge it you two, fly into the air!" Noivern and Charizard both spread their wings and jumped into the sky around the hexagonal stadium and both attacks landed on the grass in front of Ash. Ash then sighed in relief seeing the danger over, but he knew he had to go on the offensive, "Charizard use thunder punch on Archeops! Noivern attack the Garchomp with a sky attack!"

"Noivern!"

"Gruaw!"

Both dragons roared as the began to dive in unison. Noivern began to glow gold as Charizard made fists both crackle with high voltage. The dragons dived and circled each other until they pulled up at the last second and Noivern flew to the left over Charizard and Charizard zoomed under and pulled back his fist.

"Both of you use dragon claw!" Remo ordered while pumping his fist. Garchoo and Archeops both made their claws glow green as they waited patiently for the attacks to come. Noivern dived down and collided head on with the two claws as Charizard flew up and met Archeops' green claws with crackling punches. The four pokemon struggled a little with a shockwave sending a strong wind through the stadium, but eventually the pokemon all fell back in front of their trainers.

"Both these trainers are at a stalemate right now! How will this tie break?"

"They are both well trained," Ash remarked as he scratched the side of his face and turning back to the battle. Ash then wondered and whispered to himself, "How will I win this battle?"

"I did not expect your Noivern to be just as powerful as your Charizard," Remo remarked while spinning his umbrella around. "But I am not finished, Archeops use steel wing! Garchoo use dragon rush!"

"Rawr!" Garchoo shouted as he began to glow a green glow around him that radiated a lot of light and then began to charge the two pokemon flying near Ash.

"Chee… OPS!" Archeops cried as he made his wings extend and glow white while charging next to Garchoo.

Ash did not expect Garchoo to be able to stay out of the ground like that, but he knew there was no other way to get out of the situation, "Fly up into the air and avoid them!" Charizard and Noivern flapped their wings as they went into the air. Noivern then split to the left and Charizard split to the right of the stadium both flying over the stands with great power and into a height at which one could see all of the stands with people. The silver blur split off behind Noivern while the blue one split after Charizard. The crowd roared as they witnessed this, the battlefield was the sky and they were so close to it.

"What a show for everyone, I am at the edge of my seat right now and everyone should be too!"

At the stands:

"Swoosh!" Serena and the others covered their faces as Noivern passed right above them. Serena turned around on instinct to see Noivern curve up and fly higher into the sunny sky.

"Amazing…" Serena said in awe as she watched the soundwave dragon fly higher to blend in with the sun.

"Swoosh!" Another pokemon zoomed by behind Noivern. Serena looked up to see it being the Archeops with silver glowing wings. The crowd roared at this, but then Serena looked on ahead to see Charizard being chased by a light blue blur in the distance.

"Boom!" Serena heard two separate explosions. One from above her and one from the distance. She then saw Charizard and Noivern falling. She gasped as she gripped her ribbon with intensity to then notice that Charizard straightened himself out and diverged to be flying around the stands, but her worry was on Noivern who kept falling.

"This doesn't look good," Serena heard Brock say.

"If they take too much damage like this…" Clemont said obviously not wanting to finish what he was saying. Serena did not care though, she kept looking on ahead at the battle with faith in Ash.

'Ash you better win this battle' Calem thought. 'We have a promised battle and I am getting one from you…'

At the Battle:

"Pikapi!"

Ash gritted his teeth as he witnessed his dragons get hit in mid air and begin to fall to the ground. "Ancient power!" Ash heard from ahead of him to then look up and see Noivern, who had just been hit with steel wing, about to be hit by some rocks flying around Archeops who then launched them at the black flying type. Charizard and Garchoo though, they split up as Charizard stayed flying near the stands and Garchoo landed in front of Remo with a smirk.

"Uh oh, this looks like trouble for Ash as the rocks are approaching Noivern with large speed and intensity as they fall!"

"Use supersonic to break the rocks!" Ash exclaimed while putting his hands out.

"Noi… VERNNNNN!" Noivern cried intensely as he turned on his back and extended his wings to slow down his descent. Then, Noivern made sound waves come out of his ears with amazing intensity and that caused the rocks to break apart in mid air with explosions that Archeops went through. Seeing this, Remo gritted his teeth as Archeops lost control of his wings and began to fall.

"Straighten yourself Archeops!" Remo exclaimed. Archeops opened his eyes and straightened out his wings extremely fast for the ancient pokemon to get a grip on the air again and continue flying. "Now Garchoo use dragon claw! You too Archeops!"

Ash recoiled at this since Noivern was by himself. He noticed that Charizard was behind the opponents meaning that he would not be able to make it in time, so Ash decided to rely completely on Noivern, "Noivern trust me on this one, we have to work together!".

"Vern!" The sound wave dragon replied as he watched the two pokemon from the opposing side begin to charge with green claws.

"Use Boomburst on the ground!" Ash shouted while punching the ground. Noivern made his ears glow white and aim at the ground. The soundwaves expelled caused a large dust cloud to appear on the grass and in front of the opposing pokemon thus making Ash smile when he saw Noivern flying harmlessly out of the dust cloud leaving the two others with great confusion. At this time, Ash noticed Charizard creeping up between the two pokemon and Ash put his hand in the air, "Use sky attack and flare blitz!"

Remo stood there agape as he witnessed his pokemon get squashed between a blue fiery aura and gold aura. Everyone witnessed how the two flying types charged the other pokemon and caused an explosion in the middle of the field.

"Amazing team work by Noivern and Charizard! They both showed how to get back at their opponents after they got hit with strong attacks!"

Archeops and Garchoo slowly got up though, and Remo was shocked to see the amount of damage they had taken, "Garchoo, Archeops, are you two alright?"

"Rawr!"

"Arch!"

"Good then," Remo grunted as he clenched his fists.

Ash did the same knowing that his pokemon had taken a decent amount of damage before, and a look at Charizard who had some red electric marks surrounding him indicated that Charizard was taking recoil damage from flare blitz.

At the stands:

"So Noivern can use sky attack while Charizard can use flare blitz," Hau whispered to himself as he looked at the battle. He had to admit he did not expect this much of a combination of power, but the fact was that it was extremely unpredictable. Hau just closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "It doesn't matter if I lose, I just have to reach the 200k before I do." Hau noticed that everyone around him was extremely excited for the battle. In fact, despite his seating towards the back and barely having a view of the stadium. Hau was at the edge of his seat for this battle.

Night was at the other side of the stadium looking at the battle with Leaf. He was surprised to see the amount of power shown by Ash and Remo. "Well, too bad Hunter has the next match, he is missing out."

"Yea," Leaf replied as she looked at the grassy arena under her. "I have never seen a battle where the entire stadium was involved like this."

Serena was out of her seat seeing the collision between sky attack and flare blitz on Remo's pokemon, "Yes!" She cheered with confidence and a pumped fist.

"I wouldn't be too excited just yet…" Tierno said.

Everyone looked at Tierno in confusion before Trevor spoke up, "Look at Garchomp… That's a mega stone."

Serena just face palmed at this, "You remember the last battle Ash battled in?" Trevor shook his head and so did Tierno, they had matches at later times so they missed the first battle that Ash participated in. Serena then smirked, "Ash took down a mega Absol without even mega evolving Sceptile."

"Wow really?" Tierno asked in awe.

"It was amazing, you totally missed it," Calem replied with a smile. Calem then put his hand on his chin and looked at Ash's Charizard a little closer before closing his eyes and smiling, "Besides, Ash can use mega evolution."

"Seriously?" Trevor asked as he looked at Ash's glove in the distance. Trevor noticed the shining glove, but by looking at Charizard, he did not see any form of mega stone. "Where is the mega stone though."

"Looks like someone needs an eye check," Shauna taunted Trevor. "You'll see."

At the Battle:

"Lizardon, doragon croaw! Onvern, back ompa!" Ash commanded as he closed his open hand in front of him into a closed fist that had an amazing amount of power.

"GRUAW!"

"VERN!"

Both pokemon began to fly towards their opponents and Charizard charged up his green claws as Noivern then curved up and stared down the grounded opponents and making his tornadic sounwave move expel from his ears with great power.

Remo saw this and exclaimed, "Garchoo use dragon claw and intercept Charizard!" Then Remo put down his arm and ordered, "take flight and counter Boomburst with hyper beam!" Garchoo sprung into action and charged up his green claws which ended up colliding with Charizard in a stalemate that sent sparks going all over the collision while Archeops took flight and charged up the dark and draconic beam. As the sound wave attack came, the hyper beam fired and there was a huge stalemate of power before suddenly there was a large explosion in the middle of the arena.

All four pokemon fell back in front of their trainers in pain and with damage marks all over them, it definitely was unexpected that the explosion would have been that big. But no one was backing down.

"Charizard! Noivern!"

"Garchoo! Archeops!"

"What an exchange of fierce blows! This is just as much an aerial battle of strength!"

The four pokemon got up, but barely as they struggled to move. Ash and Remo both gritted their teeth. This was extremely intense. Remo though, he decided to finally unleash his ace as he waved his umbrella around, "Garchoo!" Remo then touched the key stone on the umbrella to then make the prongs unleash and collide together while making Garchoo glow white. "MEGA EVOLVE!" Garchoo made a ear bleeding battle cry as he began to grow spikes and scythe shaped arms. Garchoo then lost coloration and looked at Charizard with amusement and power while narrowing his eyes in determination.

"And Remo mega evolved his Garchomp! Amazing!"

Ash heard the cheers of amusement from the crowd and he narrowed his eyes. There it was, mega Garchomp.

"Garchoo, Draco meteor!" Ash heard Remo command with excitement.

"RAWR!" Garchomp shouted with power when a orange orb charged up in front of his mouth and then the land shark pokemon launched it into the air with great power. The orb then split into many falling meteors and Ash knew he had to do something as he slightly recoiled.

"Charizard, Noivern, fly up and dodge it!" Ash shouted with panic. The two dragons looked up and began to fly in the direction of the falling meteors. He knew he couldn't get hit because on Noivern it would be a super effective hit, and it is overall powerful despite not mega evolving Charizard. He then saw Noivern was going to get hit. "Boomburst!" The raven haired trainer exclaimed while putting his arm out. Noivern then shrilled a battlecry and through that, the sound wave dragon shot the beam that destroyed the meteor and got him in the clear, but Ash did not focus on Charizard.

"Gruaw…" Ash heard Charizard grunt as the fire type fell on the ground.

"Charizard no!" Ash exclaimed in panic.

"This is bad for Charizard! Will Ash get out of this?!"

"Finish it with dragon rush!" Ash witnessed as Garchoo began to glow light blue and then speed off towards the fallen Charizard on the ground.

Ash gritted his teeth until he decided to wing it, "Noivern sky attack quick!"

"NOI… VERNNNNNN!" Noivern exclaimed as he glowed gold and nose dived. Ash had to protect his face at the speed of Noivern since the gist of wind that occurred shook all of his clothes up including his scarf. Noivern then intercepted the dragon rush with amazing speed as he closed the gap. The two pokemon struggle for a bit and caused a large shockwave echo throughout the stadium, but then the two dragons fell in front of their respective trainers.

"Amazing! Ash as always is not afraid to rival mega evolution power without any himself. Surely it will make more to down that Garchomp though, what will Ash do?"

Ash then unleashed his glove and looked at Charizard. The latter smiled and pumped his fist as he narrowed his eyes and looked at Garchomp. "Keystone!" Ash blurted through the cheers of the stadium as he reached at his keystone and touches it with his index and middle finger causing the mega stone around Charizard and the keystone to glow and spread out five prongs. "Listen to my heart!" Ash then swung his fist into the air with his keystone out. "Beyond evolution!" The prongs then connected and Charizard began to glow white. "MEGA EVOLVE!"

"GGGrrrrrruuuuuuaaaaawwww!" Charizard grunted as he clenched his fists and accepted the power given to him by the mega evolution. The draconic fire type grew broken wings and a large fire that surrounded his face while the shoulder blades begun to develop sharp edges and a powerful look. The glowing then stopped and a roaring black and blue dragon stood before Remo and Garchoo.

"I can't believe it! Charizard also mega evolved!"

"How do you like this?" Ash asked as he put one hand on his hip. "Are you thrilled?"

Remo then pumped his fist and smirked, "I have been waiting for this ever since we battled."

At the stands:

"No way," Trevor whispered to himself. "A mega evolving Charizard…" Trevor then smiled as he reached into his belt and touched a pokeball. He smiled as he felt the pokeball since it belonged to someone that he knew would be dying to battle the challenge before him.

"There it is," Brock said with crossed arms and a smile. "I can't wait to see how Ash battles with this."

Serena clenched her ribbon as she looked at the arena and resisted the urge to cover her ears at the now wild crowd around her and the entire stadium since it was evident the real battle was about to begin.

At the battle:

"Archeops fly and use ancient power once more!" Remo exclaimed while pointing at the sunny sky above the two trainers. Archeops did not waste time as the rock and flying type propelled himself into the sky and formed eight rocks around him that then got launched at Noivern and the now mega evolved Charizard.

"Noivern hurricane! Send them back!" Ash shouted as he pumped his fist. Noivern flew towards the rocks that were launched in his direction and then made a wind gust go around him causing the rocks to be redirected around the sound wave dragon. Suddenly, Noivern turned the wind back and the rocks got launched at Archeops. Remo was too slow to dodge though, and the rocks collided with Noivern directly. "NOW! Flare blitz and sky attack!"

"Dragon rush and steel wing!"

"Here we go again! This might be another aerial chase!"

"GRUAW!" Charizard cried with intensity while making a blue fire aura around him and going up into the sky.

"VERN!" Noivern made himself glow gold and then go up and fly in a pattern that circled Charizard. The two dragons then split up and went in the direction of the stands.

"Rawr!"

"Cheops!"

The other two pokemon charged up their moves and began to fly into the stands after the other two pokemon. It was a spectacle that made the stands hold on to whatever was close since the speed caused a shockwave that made a large gust with the people watching.

In the stands:

"Boom!" Serena looked upwards with gritted teeth to see a collision of flare blitz and dragon rush. Later, Serena heard another explosion that was due to steel wing clashing with sky attack. Serena then noticed how Charizard then began to dive down towards her with his blue fire aura still on him.

"Look out!" Serena shouted as she ducked and the others did as well. Charizard luckily saw that Garchoo went out of the way and then straightened out his wings to avoid crashing into the gang of friends.

Trevor looked at the Charizard and before Charizard could look back for Garchoo, the fire type snuck a glance at Trevor before diving down and rushing the middle of the battlefield and the light blue orb.

"Clash! Clash! Clash!"

This was all that Night and Leaf heard as hey saw the collision between Noivern and Archeops continuously happening. Night crossed his arms and looked ahead to see the two pokemon then separating…

Only to see four blurs of auras: blue fire, light blue draconic, gold, and silver… all heading towards the center above the field.

At the battle:

Ash and Remo gritted their teeth as they saw the collision between the four pokemon coming to a close and then for there to be a huge booming explosion above the grassy field. The smoke that came from it was great, but Ash knew he could take this as his opportunity to win the battle.

"A four way aerial collision! I have never seen anything like it before!"

"Charizard! Grab hold of Garchomp!" Ash commanded while putting his hand out. "Noivern use your echo location to find Archeops and throw him towards the ground!"

"Get out of there!" Remo exclaimed with a panicked voice.

Ash just smirked as he then suddenly saw Archeops fall from the large cloud of smoke at an intense velocity and then slam into the ground. "SEISMIC TOSS!"

"GRUAW!" That was all that was heard as Garchoo was seen the same way. Garchoo also slammed into the grass with a large amount of power and with a large cloud of dust that enveloped all of the grass.

The cloud of smoke then disappeared and Noivern along with Charizard landed in front of Ash. The dust then disappeared, and Remo's pokemon had obviously lost consciousness.

"Garchomp and Archeops are both unable to battle," the referee declared. "This means that Ash from Lumiose City wins!" At this the stadium got filled with cheers as the scoreboard displayed Ash's name as a winner.

"And despite the odds being against him, Ash still managed to fill in the win into the third round! Amazing!"

Remo sighed as he recalled his two pokemon and then looked at Ash across the field who was embracing his two dragons. Obviously Charizard had returned back to his normal form. "Hey Ash," Remo started from his end of the field so that Ash could hear with the microphone. Ash heard this and looked back up at Remo. "That was a fun battle."

Ash smiled as he looked at Remo and said, "I enjoyed it too, let's have a battle again sometime."

At the stands:

Serena smiled and pumped her fist as she witnessed Ash walking back into the hexagonal dugout. She would not have expected less from the raven haired trainer at this point. His batting was just amazing in her opinion.

"Yeah Ash!" Bonnie shouted with excitement as she jumped from her seat.

"Wow, two dragons…" Trevor said to himself as he looked a down at the camera on his chest and felt the round stone that was on the trigger. Trevor had not seen that much excitement on a battle and had grown hyped up.

"That is Ash for you," Clemont replied with a smirk as he looked at the battlefield. "Strong and unpredictable." At this Brock nodded.

"I agree," Calem said with crossed arms before whispering to himself: "So what would be my strategy to defeat Ash?"

Calem then felt a tap on his shoulder, the latter turned to see Shauna smiling at him. "Don't stress about it."

"Don't worry," Calem replied back. "I am enjoying it."

"Now let's give it up for our two next trainers! Hunter and Nero!"

Serena looked at the scoreboard to notice there were two new names. One she recognized from the day before, but definitely a new one with Nero. Still she was processing the fact that Ash won, until of course she heard a familiar voice snap her out of her thoughts.

"Pikapi Pikachu!"

"Alright Pikachu, you are right, Noivern and Charizard deserve a good rest, but I still wonder who I would want to use for my next battle, they could probably let my other two pokemon stay sharp," Serena turned to her right hearing the voice of the raven haired trainer headed next to her.

Serena and the other's faces lit up when they saw Ash, but Trevor was the most excited:

"Ash, why didn't you tell me that Charmeleon evolved? Better yet, could mega evolve?!" Trevor asked with excitement as he caught sight of Ash.

Ash sheepishly scratched the back of his head and simply said: "Sorry Trevor, it is just that I never had the time to tell you… Anyways, I heard some guy called Hunter and Nero are battling. I am hyped for that!" With that Ash sat down next to Brock as the crowd cheered once more. Ash then noticed the arena had come up to notice the ref looked a little familiar.

"And the battle will be a 2 on 2 single battle with substitutions allowed. This will be an interesting match as it will be played in a normal rocky field as well!"

Serena did the same thing Ash did and she gasped as she saw the ref as well. It was the same referee that had allowed Zweilous to attack Noivern viciously. Serena clenched her fists at the scene only to feel a tap on her shoulder. Serena noticed it was Bonnie who was a little nervous.

Serena sighed and forced a smile that Bonnie seemed to believe because the youngest girl looked back down at the field with excitement. Clemont, who was looking at the field also had his head down which meant that Serena could see Ash's face. Ash also had a similar reaction to Serena and he looked beyond Brock who was in the same position as Clemont to see Serena's face. The blue eyed girl and the auburn eyed trainer exchanged a nervous glance at each other before looking back down at the field.

Night and Leaf where at the other end of the stadium, but Night was focused on something out of the ordinary. He touched his belt to find that Decidueye's pokeball was shaking with intensity. Night went wide eyed as he looked at the field and then looked at his lap to exchange a glance with Jolteon. The spiky electric type seemed to sense Night's tension because he looked up at his trainer with a nervous expression.

"Night, you alright?"

Night looked to see Leaf next to him looking at him with a puzzled look. Night just relaxed and said, "Nothing…"

Back at the arena:

"Eevee let's go!" Hunter exclaimed as he put his hand up.

"Eeeeveee!" Eevee cried back as he jumped into the field with excitement. Hunter eyed his opponent carefully and noticed something looked off when he saw how Nero was exchanging a glance with the referee who Nero knew as Rob. Hunter just relaxed as he saw Nero make his first choice of pokemon.

"And like last time, Hunter leads with Eevee!"

The crowd roared at this knowing that Eevee was obviously a powerful normal type able to stand it's ground.

"Machamp let's get this over with!" Nero commanded as he threw a pokeball into the air. The pokeball broke apart and then standing before Hunter was a four armed monkey that made a large battle cry that shook the rocks around Hunter.

"This time, Nero decides to go with a Machamp! How will the course of battle flow?!"

"Let the battle…

BEGIN!"

Battle music begin! Nero (Machamp) vs Hunter (Eevee):

"Machamp, let's get this over with fast! Dynamic punch!" Nero exclaimed with a large amount of power and a pumped fist.

Hunter just facepalmed at how straightforward Nero was being. At that moment, Hunter realized that Nero, despite being the one that everyone said would win, lacked strategy and reasoning. Hunter just crossed his arms and said, "Eevee use shadow ball Machamp's face to hinder its ability to see!" Eevee charged up the dark sphere in his face as Machamp made his fist glow white. Eevee easily had enough rocky distance to safely shoot the ball and without effort, the shadow ball hit the face of the Machamp this making the muscular monkey stagger back and fall to the ground.

"It seems that Machamp can't see at thing! Will Nero even be able to battle?"

"Snap out of it Machamp!" Nero venomously spat at his pokemon. Machamp grunted in frustration at this and got back up.

"That is no way to treat pokemon!" Hunter retaliated as he heard this. The stadium went quiet at this as Hunter and Eevee saw Nero and Rob exchange a glance. "Why do you treat that Machamp like a tool?"

Nero just smirked and looked down, "I bought this Machamp, it is trainer for me, and it should be good enough to defeat you!"

"You… Bought Machamp?!" Hunter gasped. "There is no way you should even participate in the league if you buy your pokemon instead of raising them!"

"Folks! It seems that we have some tension rising down at the battlefield!"

"Eevee!"

"PSH… no rule against that, get the right gym badges and enter, simple as that," Nero said while crossing his arm and putting his head down and then smirking at Hunter, "Use dynamic punch to destroy that pest of an Eevee!"

"CHAMP!" Machamp cried as he made his fist glow white once more and then he began to run through the rocks to then slip and fall again due to being blinded.

"Finish this now!" Hunter cried while putting his fist out. "HYPER BEAM!"

"Eeeeeevvveeeeeeee!" Eevee cried as he charged up a dark ball of energy in front of him. After a little bit, the entire stadium went completely quiet as the beam was shot at the fighting type. Hunter and Nero gritted their teeth when the attack collided as it caused a large orb of energy that matched the darkness of the beam to occur over Machamp and then riddle out an explosion that sent a shockwave through the stadium.

When the smoke cleared Nero and Rob both had shocked faces to see Machamp on the ground completely unable to battle. Rob gritted his teeth as he made the declaration, almost like he was cursing himself, "Machamp… is unable… to battle… Eevee wins…"

"Amazing! And Eevee already defeats one pokemon! Just one more to go for Hunter and the match will be history!"

"So… is your next pokemon artificially trained as well?" Hunter spat at Nero.

"Eevee…"

"You guessed right…" Nero said this as he recalled his Machamp and then pulled out another pokeball. "Braviary it is up to you!"

"Brraaaaveee!" The large flying type shouted as he landed in front of his trainer with a large battle cry that made some rocks in the arena shift. Hunter just sighed seeing the flying and normal type, but it was obviously still a threat, so with that he kept his guard up, especially since the audience was already cheering the battle on due to the tension that was going on between him and Nero.

"And Nero is going to try and defeat Hunter with just his Braviary at this point. It seems that this Braviary also has been a pokemon that was sold on the market. Will this also have an impact on the battle?"

Rob had gritted teeth as he signaled for the battle to resume. Hunter just then noticed that there was something going on between the opposing trainer and the referee. It was something that was more of like a… Partnership? Hunter could not think about how it was, but it definitely left a triggering effect on him as Hunter made the first move: "Eevee use iron tail!"

"Braviary counter it with crush claw!"

Both pokemon made their limbs glow white and with that they both charged themselves. Less than a second later, the cheers grew louder as both pokemon interacted at a stalemate that sent sparks flying out of the limbs. Clearly this was exhilarating to watch, but it made it so that Hunter could keep his focus on his pokemon. After some time, Eevee jumped back and backflipped to land on all four legs in front of his trainer. Hunter then put his hand out, "Use shadow ball!"

"It is time for Hunter's counter attack, how will he do it?"

"Dodge it Braviary!" Nero exclaimed while putting his hand out. Eevee charged up and shot the ball of darkness to be headed straight for the red, white, and blue flying type, but the bird obviously saw the attack and flapped his wings to elevate himself with more power towards the sky. Nero then pumped his fists as he ordered: "Brave Bird!"

"Brraaaaaavvveee!" Braviary cried as he made himself dive towards the ground and pull up in front of Eevee's direction with a blue aura surrounding him. The attack was about to hit, when suddenly Hunter made his move.

"Protect!"

"Eeeveeee!" Eevee shouted as he put his hands out into the air and make a large turquoise shield around himself. The Blue aura connected with the shield and it made Braviary go back into the air with with great power and frustration.

"And a clash between two strong attacks! Amazing defence by Hunter!"

"Superpower!"

Hunter gasped at this command since Eevee was still recovering from using protect and unable to dodge. Braviary made a red aura around himself and went in towards Eevee with great power thus slamming into the normal type pokemon.

"Eevee!" Eevee cried as he fell to the ground in front of his trainer. Hunter gritted his teeth as he saw this.

"Eevee, you have had enough, return!" Hunter ordered with a solid voice.

At this, Nero narrowed his eyes.

"So it seems that Hunter is recalling Eevee. What will he choose to go with next?"

"Eevee… vee vee," Eevee chanted as he slowly walked back to his trainer with obvious amounts of exhaustion in his step. Despite only doing a couple of moves, the super effectiveness was causing its toll and Hunter did not want to risk that.

Eevee was about to reach his trainer… When Nero made his move:

"Now use brave bird!" Nero shouted with a large smirk and crossed arms.

"What?!" Hunter flinched as Eevee slowly turned his head to see the blue aura going around Braviary as the flying type then began to charge Eevee. Hunter urgently turned to Rob and with a panicked voice said, "I recalled my pokemon! He can't attack! Tell Nero that he has to cancel the attack!"

"What? It seems that Nero is attacking after Hunter recalled his pokemon!"

Rob just looked at Hunter and smirked as he looked back at Nero and nodded. Nero then smiled as he watch the Braviary near Eevee. The crowd went completely silent as the attack was incoming, they did not expect such a dangerous scenario.

Hunter gritted his teeth knowing that this was not good, and with that Hunter jumped from his trainer's platform and into the battlefield. Running up to Eevee was easy since the normal type had ran most of the way. Hunter then dived to put himself above Eevee as he watched the blue aura enveloped flying type near them. Hunter then put Eevee and hugged the normal type in his chest with all his might knowing the attack was inevitable.

At the stands:

Ash, Brock, Clemont, Tierno, Trevor, and Calem all gasped and stared wide eyed as they saw a streak of blue about to hit the trainer protecting his pokemon in the field. Shauna covered her eyes as Serena hugged Bonnie while covering her eyes in a protective stance hoping that the small girl would not get exposed to any terrible sight that could happen.

Hau gritted his teeth as he watched this. He was at disbelief and he could not bear to see anyone get hurt not after what happened to Lillie. It was heart wrenching for Hau to expose himself to this. With that, the green haired trainer hid his face in his notebook in which he was taking notes. Seeing the words that he had written, or even trying to focus on reading it to get his mind off of tragedy was impossible. Hau felt his stomach churning and his head feel light headed. He swore he could feel like he was going to pass out at any moment.

"Hunter no!" Leaf shouted with great agitation as she covered her eyes with her hands. She was the only voice she could hear in the stadium and obviously some people around her turned to her with great worry. Jolteon noticed this and hugged Leaf obviously knowing that the girl could not take the sight.

Night was taking deep breaths next to Leaf. He felt a lot of negative emotions swimming through him as he touched his belt to feel Decidueye's pokeball about to burst open. Night then had a flashback to his first league run in which he was having a similar experience:

Flashback:

"Jolteon return!" Night shouted as he saw that his opponent had landed a strong stone edge on his electric eeveelution. Jolteon began to run back to Night as the trainer then noticed that his opponent had ordered a hyper beam to be sent to the electric type. Night then turned to the ref, "HE CAN'T ATTACK WHAT ARE YOU DOING!"

Night could see the ref's face be completely shadowed by his hair. Night then noticed a small smirk appear on the referee's face which told him that he was on his own. "Jolteon! Look out!" Night shouted as he ran into the dirt field to then see as the hyper beam was about to interact with him and Jolteon. Night dove on top of his electric type and closed his grip on him. Jolteon looked at Night with scared eyes as the black and blue dressed trainer gritted his teeth and said: "I will keep you safe…"

"DUEYE!"

Night looked up to see a flashing light materialize from his side into his shiny Decidueye that he had trained since it was a small Rowlett. Night then noticed the hooded owl pull back one of the vines of his hoodie and pluck a feather arrow out from his body. Night watched in awe as Decidueye launched the arrow with a purple streak into the dark beam coming his way to then see the arrow go through the attack and hit the opposing pokemon thus causing an explosion at the other end of the battlefield.

Flashback end:

Night held a close grip on Decidueye's pokeball to prevent the pokeball from opening. Night then knew one thing: Hunter was on his own… Unless Hunter had a pokemon that would be special enough to prevent the attack just like Decidueye did for Night back then.

Night kept looking at the field with worry as he noticed a flashing bright light appear in front of Hunter.

At the Battlefield:

"SQUAK!"

Hunter looked up from the field to see the electric legendary pokemon appear in front of him with a determined face. The pokemon made a battle cry as he shot a crackling beam of electricity at the incoming brave bird. The explosion it left caused Braviary to fall to the ground and get up slowly in pain.

"What?! Zapdos?!" Nero shouted with wide eyes while looking at the scoreboard in disbelief:

"ZAPDOS?! Where did this come from?! I have never seen anything like this ever in my life!"

The crowd roared in approval. This was a huge surprise and it was amazing that so many people would have gotten their first encounter with a legendary pokemon right here and in person, live.

Hunter: Eevee Zapdos

Nero: Machamp Braviary

Hunter then stood up without even bothering to go back to the trainer's platform while holding Eevee on his hands, "Use thunderbolt!"

"ZAAAAPPP!" Zapdos shouted with intensity while charging up an electric aura around him and then suddenly launching it at the flying type that was on the ground barely standing this causing an explosion of dust that made the electric and flying type land next to Hunter with great power.

Rob was still in disbelief as he looked down at the field and noticed Braviary unable to battle, "Braviary… is… unable to battle… Hunter from Cherrygrove City wins!"

"UNBELIEVABLE! AND HUNTER COMPLETELY DEFEATS NERO WITH A LEGENDARY POKEMON!"

Nero just recalled Braviary in frustration and walked out of the field through the dugout as the scoreboard displayed the winner of the battle as Hunter. The crowd cheered with intensity as Hunter held his Eevee close and Zapdos rubbed his electric feathers with his trainer's skin.

"Eevee," Eevee smiled and licked his trainer in gratitude.

"Dos," Zapdos cooed while being petted by Hunter.

At the stands:

Everyone with Ash was relieved as they saw what happened, but Ash was extremely interested in seeing that there was an actual ZAPDOS on the field. Ash smiled at this as he then turned to Serena and noticed her smiling while looking down at the field, suddenly, Serena turned to Ash and the later found himself in a small trance while looking at her dangling hair waving in the slight wind and her ribbon on her chest glistening. Serena then sighed in relief and looked back down to see Hunter leaving his dugout and the field going right back down into the ground. Ash couldn't stop staring at Serena for a split second before then turning back down to see the two new trainers entering field.

Hau felt his head return back to normal and his stomach finally relaxing. Hau then took a deep breath before putting his hands behind his back and saying to himself with a nice big smile, "Well that was actually very stressful! I am glad he got out of that situation!" Hau then went wide eyed as he just witnessed his behavior before thinking of a pale blonde girl that he called his sister. Hau then frowned and sighed. "When we win Lillie's life back, I will act laid back again… But for now I have to stay serious."

"YES HUNTER!" Leaf cheered with all of her might as she hugged Jolteon in her hands.

Night turned to see Leaf enjoying herself with his electric type and found an SOS signal from Jolteon. Night just smiled at the spiky pokemon to then feel his belt and notice that there was still some tension with Decidueye's pokeball that was radiating with the slight movements of the pokeball. Night sighed, but then frowned as he looked down at the ground behind the seat in front of him.

"I am going to get to the bottom of this," Night told himself.

Little did he know, where he would start looking would end up in a larger and more problematic situation than he would have believed…

A/N: So that is the chapter! I hope you guys enjoyed the battle. Next time we will actually get to know more about what Night is doing and we will finally have a look at Ash's opponent. I can assure you that this opponent will be a good one! ;)

Anyways, about that last line… I am foreshadowing something, and it will be next chapter as well… Not that I will spoil a lot, but expect this: A clash of blue lightning against raging fire (Make your predictions in the comments).

Anyways! If you enjoyed, remember to R & R and I will see you guys next time!

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