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

48. Chapter 48

In case you missed last chapter:

"And Noivern has gone down, what will Ash do now?"

"Noivern, return," Ash said as he recalled his fallen dragon type to see that the scoreboard had updated to show that Noivern was also out of the battle. "Take a good rest." Noivern was sucked back into red energy and went into his pokeball as the raven haired trainer then looked at the battlefield and the bubbles coming out from it. "I don't like this battlefield, let's win this next battle to change it…" Ash then reached into his belt and pulled out another pokeball. "Charizard, I choose you!"

"Gruaw!" The blazing shouted as he appeared on top of the field and right in front of Salamence with his mega pendant shining brightly in the sun rays. The fire and flying type looked back at Ash and smiled. 'There is only one pokemon that I have that would enjoy a challenge like this one, Charizard can take on this Salamence!' Ash thought as he then smiled brightly.

"And Charizard will take this battle on, a battle of dragons if I do say so myself!"

"Get ready for this Calem!" Ash exclaimed as he smiled and pumped his fist in front of himself. The bright sun from above making his eyes sparkle as he then propelled his arms to his sides: "Charizard use your best thunderpunch!"

Calem smirked as he saw this and pumped his fist as well, "I like your electricity Ash, this battle has already got my motor driving!" The jet black haired trainer then pointed forward and with a giant smile shouted: "Thunder fang!"

The scene slows to slow motion as Charizard and Salamence are about to collide, the fire and flying type swinging a fist while the other pokemon having large mandibles right in front of him. Both moves were crackling with electricity as they were about to collide.

Ash and Calem are then seen with their hands out next to their respective pokemon, this battle was just starting to get electric.

A/N: So, we are starting to get to the climax of this battle, which will resolve itself in this chapter.

So much battling is about to happen, in fact, I am going to have to cut the author's note kind of short!

I have been planning this chapter for a good while, I have constantly replayed it in my mind, so it is special that I can put what I have in my head into this document.

So, I hope you guys either enjoy (or not) depending on the outcome!

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)

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon or Nothing Helps

Chapter 48- The promised rematch of two closest allies!

At the battlefield:

"GRUAW!"

"RAWR!"

In slow motion, both pokemon are closing the gap as they both have their electric moves about to make contact. The light becomes darker as the two pokemon come closer which only exposes the lightning that is between the impact. Suddenly, the scene shifts out back to full coloration with an explosion in the middle of the field which then has Charizard and Salamence flying out of where they came from with electricity surging through their bodies. Calem though, he instantly put his hand out as he gritted his teeth, "Dragon rush!"

Ash noticed the action and threw his right hand to his side with a very violent manner as his eyes beamed in the sunlight, "Go in with dragon claw!" Both pokemon charged up their respective attacks and began to close the gap again over the poisoned battlefield that was constantly bringing bubbles up to where the two pokemon were battling and the stands constantly cheered knowing that this battle of dragons was not going end until both pokemon had given it all they had.

The two dragons collided with a fast motion, "RAAAAWWWWWRRR!" Salamence shouted as he pushed harder and made Charizard fall back a little. The fire type back flipped to then get hit with the same blue aura from the behind. Ash saw this and gasped as he noticed that the orange lizard's green scaly claws were gone.

"Charizard had seemed to take the stronger part of the blow, how will Ash respond?"

"Alright then," Ash said as he narrowed his eyes. Looking towards his target, the raven haired trainer redirected his vision towards the trees and remembered that there were berries on the canopy of those trees. "Charizard, I have an idea, how about we give it a try?" Ash asked as he pumped his fist at the infernal dragon in front of him.

"Gruaw!"

"Alright then Charizard," Ash smirked as he bent his leg in and pumped his fist with a bright smile on his face.

'There is that smile that tells me that I have to be careful,' Calem thought to himself as he returned the smile. 'I will just have to play the same game he is if I want to take down Charizard'. "Ash," The jet black haired trainer suddenly wiped a strand of hair away from his face. "I want to see what you have, come at me!"

"You bet!" Ash shouted as he pumped a fist in front of him before then pointing at the trees. "Charizard, fly into any of the trees and eat as many berries as you can!"

Calem smirked as he heard this and then craned his hand in front of himself before then spreading them out: "Salamence, you do the same thing!"

"Gruaw!"

"Rawr!"

"Pikapi?" Pikachu asked as he looked at his trainer. The Kanto native noticed this and kneeled down in front of the small electric rodent before then petting his head: "Don't worry, this is where Charizard and I come through."

Calem watched this motion and smiled as he looked down. 'He has such a strong bond with his pokemon, it is so amazing to battle someone with this power.' Calem thought as he looked at his watch with the keystone. 'I have never had a feeling like this in a long time when it cames to battling someone like this,' the jet black haired trainer then looked at the trees and a zoom into his eye showed that he was focused on the tree Salamence had just flown through. 'But I know that this battle is just about wrapped up, so I will not back down from this chance.'

"RAWR!" Salamence cried as he appeared in front of Charizard, who was looking at the former with a bright smirk.

"Gruaw," The two dragons smiled at each other before they both became enveloped in a colorful aura that surrounded them both. It was color red and it had an upward motion in the way that it traveled before then causing the two trainers themselves to smile.

"Amazing, so it seems that both pokemon have increased their power by eating many berries at the same time! This was not expected!"

"Fly!" Both trainers called out at the same time. Salamence and Charizard both flapped their wings as they then zoomed into the air with blinding speed. The stands cheered continuously as they witnessed Charizard and Salamence begin to speed at each other with flare blitz and dragon rush, both dragons causing a large explosion above the field before then zooming out over their trainers, which caused Ash and Calem to cover themselves with their hands as they gave commands to their pokemon:

"Steel wing!" Calem shouted as he looked up towards his blue and red dragon. The pokemon did not even blink as he instantly made his wings glow larger and brighter with a silver lust which caused Ash to put his hand out.

"Grab it!"

"Grauw!" Charizard shouted as he landed on the poisonous water below, which caused a blue aura to appear on the fire lizard that prevented him from feeling the effects of the poison as the other pokemon came in flying with a blinding speed towards the fire type. "GRUAW!" Charizard grunted as he put his two claws on the silver wings as he strained, legs digging into the water.

"Rawr!" Salamence could not keep going so he retreated and made his wings return back to its normal color as Ash took this time to strike again:

"Hit him towards the poison with dragon claw!"

"Gruaw!" Charizard shouted as he blinked behind and above Salamence. "GrrrruuuuuuAAAWWW!" The infernal dragon could not resist striking from behind with his green scaly claws which caused Salamence to tumble to the water and splash up the purple liquid. Charizard then flew into the air as Salamence shook himself out of the water.

"Rawr…" Salamence staggered, he had been overcome by a purple aura with bubbles coming from his mouth.

"Poison, NO!" Calem shouted as he looked at his dragon and flying type. "Get a lum berry from the trees!"

"It seems that of all the berries Salamence ate, he did not have any to prevent poisoning! This is bad for Calem!"

Salamence shot towards the trees with occasional purple bubbles coming from his mouth, but Ash knew better as he put his hand forward, "So Salamence did not get anti-toxication berry? Don't let him get to the trees, use flare blitz and fry them all!" Charizard smirked as he appeared next to Salamence, who was flying as well and then shot forward towards the trees and ignited himself into flames.

"No way!" Calem said in shock as he flinched seeing the trees get set on fire with the berries vaporizing into black soot and blowing into this air. Calem then gritted his teeth as he pointed forward and shouted: "Use hyper voice!"

"RRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWRRRRRRRR!" Salamence shouted as he made his voice screech in a way that made Charizard stop on his tracks and try to cover his ears. This made Ash grit his teeth as he put an arm to his side before then pumping that arm and directing his other hand towards the ground:

"Don't you dare give up Charizard, dragon claw, straight through!"

"And Ash seems to command a dragon claw against the hyper voice, will he even reach Salamence?"

"Gruaw," Charizard muttered as he made the claws that he was using to cover his ears spike up the three pointed pair of green claws that were brighter shade of green than the dark grass of the swamp that surrounded the purple water. The infernal dragon then pushed forward with his wings and attempted to get through the powerful sound waves that were attempting to disorient him.

Calem then was shown having an agape face as he watched waiting for what was about to happen.

"Rawr…" Salamence suddenly stopped his attack as he felt the poison strike again and made him stagger with purple sparks appearing.

"GRUAW!" Charizard charged forward and delivered the powerful hit that left a green trail behind the pseudo legendary from Hoenn.

"What a hit! Super Effective as well!"

"Splash!" Everyone's attention turned to the Salamence that hit the water hard with a large splash. Calem gasped as he looked at the field with a very shocked look on his face to find that Salamence was on the ground completely immobile.

"Salamence is unable to battle," The referee declared as he raised hand and the cheers from the audience began to become more audible. "Charizard wins!"

"And there you have it folks! Charizard has just come through with an amazing victory over Salamence!"

"GRUAW!" Charizard roared as he landed behind Ash on the trainer's platform. "Alright Charizard! That was awesome!" The raven haired trainer praised as he petted the orange fire and flying lizard.

"Pika!"

'So strong,' Calem thought to himself as he smiled and recalled his fallen pokemon. 'I am having so much fun, I wonder how long it has been since I have lost the sense of time.' Calem then looked forward as he noticed that the battlefield that he had completely made a mess of with Toxicroak began to go down towards the dark pit below.

"There will now be a field change because Calem is down to two pokemon!"

At the stands:

"Charizard was amazing!" Mairin called out as she looked at Chespie. "Did you see that?"

"I never expected the use of berries like that by Ash and Calem," Clemont said as he analyzed the two trainers, one seemingly reflecting to himself while the other one was talking to his two other pokemon with an amused face. "This battle has Ash at an advantage, but one must keep in mind that Calem still has a mega on his side."

Tierno and Trevor both looked at the field with smiles as the former spoke up, "Charizard has really proven himself to be Ash's elite when dealing with strong opponents!" Trevor then smirked. "I can't wait for Mega Charizard against Mega Gallade!"

"I agree, that would be so cool!" Tierno chimed in with a pumping of his fist.

Serena though, she looked at the two and then back at the field with a shake of her head and smiled, "It is going to be better, Mega Gallade has something stronger coming his way."

"What are you talking about?" Shauna asked her friend.

Serena shook her head as she petted Kapi's soft furry head, "Ash doesn't spoil surprises, that is all I am going to say."

At the battlefield:

The new field then came up and stopped in front of both trainers. Analyzing the battlefield, the raven haired trainer saw that it was a large battle space, but the side closest to the scoreboard had a large cliff side that made the raven haired trainer analyze the consistency of the field: rock. 'Alright, the rest of this battle will just be straightforward, my strategy will have to be to keep the battle going with full blast.' Ash smiled as he pumped his fist with the bright sun light interacting with his fist, "Calem, let's give it all we got!"

Calem smiled as he saw this and looked down with his eyes closed. 'This… This is why I have been so hyped about battling you.' The jet black haired trainer then put his hand in his belt as he bobbed a pokeball in his hand. "You bet Ash," Calem replied.

"The rest of the battle will be in a rock field with a mountain on it! This will surely be intense!"

"Charizard, I am going to stick with you!" Ash exclaimed as he put his hand forward.

"Gruaw!" Charizard shouted as he flew into the air and then landed in front of the raven haired trainer with a large excited growl that made Calem smirk.

"Go! MANECTRIC!" Calem commanded as he threw a pokeball into the field. The red and white sphere spun in the air before it then opened into a flashing light that materialized into a blue and yellow dog that growled in front of Charizard.

"Mane…" Manectric growled as he stepped to the side and eyed the fire and flying type with the bright pendant with blue stone on his neck.

"And Calem's fourth pokemon will be a Manectric!"

At the stands:

"So Calem has himself a Manectric," Brock said as he looked at the battlefield seeing the smaller electric dog-like pokemon facing off against the larger fire type that had his claws outstretched. "Calem has the advantage with this pokemon given that Charizard is a flying type."

Clemont and Serena nodded as Bonnie got out of her seat, "Go Ash! Go Calem! Battle with everything you guys have!"

"I wonder…" Tierno said as he looked over at the dog electric type as he noticed that none of the pokemon or trainers on the field were moving. "How will Calem plan to defeat Charizard if not even a Blastoise can take him out? I think Calem has something up his sleeve."

Professor Sycamore and Diantha both looked at the battle with excitement as the former looked at Charizard and then shifted his eyes to the Manectric. "Manectric is another pokemon that Calem has not revealed yet, I wonder what Ash will do to take it out?"

"That Manectric does seem powerful too," Diantha said as he narrowed her eyes. "Look at it's legs, they resemble the ones of a Jolteon." Looking closer, Professor Sycamore did notice the stature of the legs, almost like if they had been trained to be for a fast pokemon.

At one of the higher areas of the stadium, Night was overlooking the battle. He slumped his body against the wall behind him and smirked as he looked at the battle. "Look Jolteon, his Manectric seems to have taken on the same training we told him to take."

"Jolteon!" The electric spiky pokemon cried as he looked onto the field with an eager look on his face.

"You are right," Night replied as he narrowed his eyes. "This battle is not going to be over just yet, I can't wait to see what happens."

At the battlefield:

The view circled around the rocky field as a view of the referee portrays that he resumed the battle. Ash looked at Charizard and noticed that he seemed slightly tired although he still had the red aura around him. 'Looks like Charizard is losing steam, I am going to have to make sure that I know what Manectric's strategy is before I try anything,' This was the main thought in the raven haired trainer's head as he looked towards the other trainer sporting a black jacket.

Calem threw his fist into the air in front of him and made the first command: "Thunder Wave!" manectric made a wave of electricity go forward before then surrounding Charizard with a wave of electricity that then made the large fire type fall back on the ground with electric sparks around him.

"Charizard, are you ok?"

"Gruaw…" Charizard replied as he slowly stood back up and back to his feet.

"And a quick thunder wave now paralyzes Charizard, this can be bad for Ash and a great way for Calem to get the advantage!"

"Go in with wild charge!" Calem ordered as he pumped his fist. Manectric made a large roar pierce the sky and the cheering crowd's volume as he made an electric aura that made a crackling sound before he then began to run in a zigzag pattern before going towards Charizard at blinding speed.

Ash went wide eyed as he saw this and put his hand out with the brightness of the sun making a brilliant shine from the raven haired trainer's clothes: "Counter it with flare blitz!" Charizard also made a blue fiery aura as he began to run forward and towards the electric pokemon that was coming at a faster pace. The gap sealed in Ash's side of the field and then caused an explosion as the two pokemon crossed each other which caused both Manectric and Charizard to stumble and roll along the ground. The raven haired trainer saw this as his turn to attack so he put his hand to the side, "Use dragon claw!"

Charizard jumped into the air and made his green claws glow before then using his wings to go down towards the ground. "GRUAW!" The fire type cried as he was about to engrave his claws into the electric dog that had just gotten back on his feet.

"Here comes Charizard using his powerful dragon type attack!"

"Dodge it!" Calem shouted out as the sun made a large reflection in his brown eyes.

"Mane!" Manectric shouted as he disappeared instantly with blinding speed which made Ash flinch.

"Gruaw?" Charizard asked himself as he then felt the pain from the ground he collided with: "Gruaw!" Charizard exclaimed in searing pain as he then felt the electricity around his body come back and cause terrible damage to him.

Manectric came back around and looked towards Charizard with an amused face as Calem then pumped his fist, "Take this hit Ash, thunderbolt!" Manectric shot the bolt of electricity forward and towards the fire type as it arced and crackled.

The Kanto native knew he had to avoid taking too much damage from the attack, so he came up with the best way he could in order to avoid the attack by closing his eyes and imagining something in his head: "Bunnelby, strike the ground with double slap and make a dust cloud!". Ash then shot open his eyes and grabbed his cap as he pointed forward: "Charizard make a dust cloud by using thunderpunch on the battlefield!" Charizard did not even hesitate as he made his crackling fist go into the ground and deliver a substantial power to cause a cloud of dust to surround the fire lizard. Suddenly, the electric beam that was shot got completely dispersed and out of Ash's way, which made him smirk: "Take him on with seismic toss!"

"Mane?" Manectric asked in confusion as he watched Charizard emerge from the cloud of dust to then grab ahold of the electric type.

"What?" Calem asked in shock as he watched Charizard and clenched his fists seeing the fire type swing around the electric type. "Manectric!" The Electric type tumbled to the ground and landed with a large thud that made a cloud of dust go around him. "Manectric are you alright?" The jet black haired trainer asked as the dust settled.

"What a counter attack from Ash, truly an impressive battle!"

"Manectric!"

"Good," Calem responded as he looked ahead of the field towards Charizard and Ash while cutting out the cheers from the arena. The scene darkened as it showed Ash and his Charizard, the former being on his trainer's platform with a serious look on his face. 'They are so powerful together, even I can see that, but I know I can take down Charizard, despite it being Ash's ace throughout most of the league,' Calem thought to himself as he put his fist forward and the sunlight returned. "Manectric, go in with wild charge!"

"Manec…" Manectric cried as he made his electric aura come around him. "TTRRRRIIIICCC!" He shot out at immense power and speed, something that everyone was shocked to see as well.

The raven haired trainer knew there was no time to dodge, and this super effective attack could be devastating if it hit: "Charizard, block it with dragon claw!"

"Gruaw!" Charizard made his claws go green and larger as he then put them in front of his face.

"MANECTRIC!" Manectric collided with the dragon claw and pushed on with his electric aura, something that made him more determined than ever as he kept pushing.

Suddenly, electric sparks surrounded and hurt Charizard enough to make him stagger, which then caused the electric dog to push through and slam hard into Charizard. Ash gasped as he saw this and called out for his pokemon, "Charizard, get up!"

"Uh oh, Charizard has taken a lot of damage, is this it?"

"Now that he can't move, use thunderbolt!" Calem shouted with his shining brown eyes as he pointed forward. Manectric rebounded from Charizard's belly and made himself glow in electricity before then striking the ground with an electric beam as it zigzagged towards the fire type. Charizard's eyes gleamed yellow to the sight of the beam, but the fire type fell deeper into his knees as the electric sparks came back around him to immobilize further. "ZAAAPP!" The electricity billowed through the stadium as Manectric then fell in front of his trainer with a very defensive look on his face.

When the smoke cleared, Charizard was found in the ground unconscious, which made the ref raise his hand: "Charizard is unable to battle, Manectric wins!"

"What power! And Charizard has gone down, this is truly going to be a challenge for Ash's lack of a mega evolution now that Charizard is down!"

"Alright!" Calem shouted as he pumped his fists.

Ash sighed as he pulled out a pokeball with a smile, "Return, Charizard." The fire type who was on the ground then glowed red as he returned back to the pokeball of the raven haired trainer. "You were great Charizard, now take a good rest." Ash then turned to Calem and smiled, "Not bad, I was not expecting such a powerful strategy to get me there."

"Well it was all due to Manectric's speed," Calem replied as he crossed his arms and looked down with his eyes closed. "The way I trained Manectric was meant to rival even the fastest pokemon, what are you going to do in response?"

"This!" Ash shouted as he looked at the pokeball he was about to send out before then throwing it out into the field with a frisbee motion. "Come on out Goodra!"

The flashing light then materialized into a pokemon that had his head down with ears looking down, but then the large purple and white dragon type opened his eyes and looked forward with bright green eyes that held an amused expression: "Goodra!" The dragon type that came out of his pokeball shouted as he put on a defensive stance with his arms.

"And Goodra comes out, probably a great time for him to redeem himself after that defeat against Hydreigon in the last battle, let's hope that Goodra can get back his momentum from his magnificent battle against Hunter!"

"Goodra against my fast pokemon?" Calem asked himself as he shook his head, "Doesn't matter, fire blast!" Manectric pulled back his head and made a large fire type attack shoot forward with a five pronged technique, something that made Ash smirk.

"You know, being creative can sometimes make things beautiful," Ash sarcastically said as he rubbed hand under his nose clearly thinking about a certain honey blonde performer. "Use thunder and redirect that fireblast into the air!"

"DRA!" Goodra shouted as he shot forward the electric beam against the star shaped fire type attack. The two moves interacted, but instead of exploding, the two beams shot higher and higher into the sky before then shattering into a bright fiery flower with the filaments coming from the electricity. The whole stadium seemed to make sounds of watching in awe as Ash looked forward and noticed that someone had his attention particularly away from the battle.

"What a beautiful display! Who knew that things would take this turn?"

"Made you look! Use draco meteor!" Ash exclaimed as he threw a fist into the sky.

At the stands:

"What a combination of moves," Serena muttered to herself as she watched in awe the beautiful flower disappear to then be replaced with an orb that shattered into many falling meteors. Serena took her focus out of the battle for a second and looked at her trusty electric type right in front of her and thought about Braixen. "What if Kapi and Braixen could pull that off?"

"BOOM!" Serena's attention returned to the battle, where she saw that Manectric was zigzagging through the falling meteors before then striking into Goodra with a powerful wild charge attack, something that Ash was expecting as he made Goodra grab ahold of Manectric with his ears.

"Now throw it up!" That echoed through the battlefield as Serena watched Goodra launch Manectric towards a falling meteor. The result: Manectric crumbled towards the ground with a lot of power.

"That hit," Brock said. "The two are trading evenly, I don't know how this battle will end, but I know that it will probably be very powerful."

Trevor sat up on his seat and looked towards the battlefield, "But if Charizard could not defeat Manectric, then how will Ash be able to stand a chance against him, or even worse, now that he doesn't have a mega evolution, how will Ash deal with Gallade?" Trevor then put a hand to his chin. "Is this battle already over?"

"No it isn't," Serena said, which attracted the attention from the other. "Ash may have lost Charizard, but keep in mind he has some other pokemon that are strong in his team as well. Goodra is one of them, maybe he could find a way to make Goodra defeat Manectric, but I know that this battle is still not over."

"I don't know who I am cheering for…" Tierno started. "But this battle better have an epic ending."

At the battlefield:

"This battle is still not over," Calem declared as he put his hand out. "Manectric, give it everything you have and go around him with wild charge!" Manectric began to glow with electricity as he then shot forward and began to surround the dragon type. The purple and white pokemon looked around, his green eyes slowly following the surrounding electric type.

"What are you planning Calem?" Ash muttered to himself as he followed the movements of Manectric. His eyes then went to the dragon type he was commanding, something about his hands dripping a gooey slime then made him remember how sticky it was. 'That's it!' Ash then put his hand out and pumped his fist with the other with a bright smile. "Goodra, spin around and around like a top!"

"Goo…" Goodra's green eyes glowed brightly as he began to twirl around in circles trying to match the Manectric. Although not being able to catch up with the latter, Ash noticed that Goodra's arms were launching the goo go in many directions, which then began to slow down the electric type.

"What?" Calem asked himself as Manectric stopped performing his attack and stood in front of him. "What did you do?"

"The slime," Ash said with a smile. "You see," The raven haired trainer then put his hand palm up as if he was teaching something, "The slime that Goodra has is sticky, so all I did was make it get caught in the legs of Manectric."

"What?" Calem asked in disbelief as he looked at his electric type's legs. Sure enough, there were strings of slime around them and a bright shine in the legs. "No way!"

"Amazing! And Ash's trump card ends up being Goodra's slime!"

Ash smirked, "Be careful Calem, because now it is our turn again."

"Come at me then," Calem shouted as he put his hand forward. "Thunderbolt!"

"Goodra, we will finish this with one more hit, BIDE!" Ash shouted as he put his left arm to the side from a low angle view. His eyes gleaming with determination as the view shifted to Goodra, who nodded and clenched his fists ready for the oncoming electric attack.

"MANECTRIC!" The electric dog shouted as he shot the bolt forward and made it cross through the rocks before finally slamming onto the large white and purple squishy dragon. Goodra felt the electricity begin to interact with him and clenched his fists harder as he gritted his teeth, something that the large dragon had prepared for. Calem noticed that Goodra seemed to be taking damage, so he then ordered for Manectric to attempt to land a fire blast. "MANE!" The beam shot forward and then opened into five prongs that threatened to consume Goodra, who stayed still and braced himself.

"Come on… Endure it," Ash muttered as he clenched his fists at his sides.

"Goo.." Goodra squealed in pain as he fell back a little by an explosion that occurred in the middle of the field that involved an unguarded fire blast. "Goodra!" Goodra cried out as he looked back out into the field with a very serious look on his face and a blood red aura beginning to form around him.

"Manectric, wild charge!"

Manectric circled around Goodra (at a slower pace this time) and then made himself glow in electricity. "Mane!"

"Goodra!" The purple dragon staggered at getting hit from his left by the crackling tackle.

"Manectric!" Manectric ended up circling from behind and hitting Goodra again, this time making the larger dragon fall down to the ground with his hands touching the rocky surface, with a straining face and a very defeated stature. At the same time, Goodra had a very red aura around his body, it was filled with inner rage that made the entire stands go silent as to know what was about to happen.

"Manectric!" Calem called out to see his electric type beginning to pant harder and harder while slowing down in front of him. "Give him one more thunderbolt! Take him down with this!" Manectric hesitated a little, but then jumped into the air while charging up the electric beam that then shot out and began to zigzag across the ground before then hitting Goodra straight on.

"Is Ash relying on pure luck to get him past this? This could end very devastatingly for Ash!"

"Come on Goodra," Ash muttered as a view of the purple dragon's hands portrayed that he dug them into the rocks to prevent falling from the excruciating attack. Manectric, now more exhausted than ever, landed in front of Calem with a very slowed down and beat up posture. Something that made the raven haired trainer a little more relieved as he then noticed that Goodra was standing back up, but with his aura being extremely blood red, almost black.

"Goodra is still holding on, but Manectric is starting to get tired from repeatedly attacking with wild charge, a move with recoil damage!"

Calem narrowed his eyes and pointed forward, "Once again, circle him and use wild charge!"

Ash watched closely as Manectric made his glowing electric aura before running to be circling Goodra, something that the purple dragon watched as he clenched his fists trying to not let got go of the bide. The green eyes followed the blue and yellow dog like pokemon as he circled and ran around… Then Ash found the proper positioning as he noticed that Manectric was about to be in front of Goodra where the large cliff side was. As soon as the electric type was in position, Ash raised his hand: "Let's GO!"

"Gooo!" Goodra had his eyes gleaming as the white beam appeared in front of him. "DRRRRRRAAAAAAAA!" The entire stadium went quiet was they saw the white beam, larger than anyone has ever seen it before, consume the electric dog in front of him into a white abyss that made its way towards the façade of the cliff in an instant. "BOOM!" The explosion that rang out completely caused a large shockwave that made Calem cover his face with his hands while Ash did the same with his scarf waving tremendously. When the dust and smoke settled, everyone's eyes went to the purple dragon, who was standing proud, but now the question was:

"Where is Manectric?"

Everyone sweat dropped as they looked around for the electric pokemon, but then Calem and Ash were the first to spot the large hole in the cliff that was at least a meter deep. It could be seen in there that Manectric was not moving, except his chest rising and falling from breathing, and that made the referee call out the battle without much hesitation, "Manectric is unable to battle, Goodra wins!"

"And there it is! There is no way any pokemon would have been able to take that hit straight on, might I add that it completely debilitated an entire section of the mountain!"

The crowd once again erupted into cheers as Calem slowly recalled his fallen pokemon back into his pokeball. Looking at the scoreboard, Ash looked at how the battle was going, mostly in his favor:

Ash: Charizard Noivern Sceptile (pokeball) Pikachu Goodra

Calem: Manectric Salamence Toxicroak Talonflame (pokeball) (pokeball)

Looking at Goodra, Ash noticed that he was not doing so hot because of his large scratch marks still around his body from the previous battle, but he still called out to his pokemon: "Goodra, are you sure you can continue?"

Goodra looked back at Ash and smiled, "Goodra!"

"Alright then, Goodra, I am sticking with you!" Ash declared as he looked at the jet black haired trainer in front of him that had a black jacket on. It was clear of one thing: His last two pokemon were his strongest. 'Chesnaught and Gallade, how will I deal with this?' Ash asked himself as he looked forward.

"Ash will stick with Goodra after quite an intense match with Manectric!"

At the stands:

"This seems like it will be a close battle," Tierno said as he looked forward. "Calem has the advantage in having a pokemon that can mega evolve, this means that if Chesnaught is strong enough, which he probably is, he can bring this entire battle to a close."

"I would not doubt Ash though," Clemont replied as he adjusted his glasses to make a glare appear. "Ash still has Goodra, a slightly hurt Pikachu, and Greninja still able to battle completely fresh, I would not count him out of this battle at all."

Mairin looked forward and sighed, "I hope that Ash still has something that can defeat that Gallade then, it will be hard without a mega evolved pokemon."

"Chespin…" Chespin replied as he looked forward with a slightly depressed expression.

At the battlefield:

"Alright then," Calem said as he looked at the pokeball he had in his hand. "This will be our battle to win! Chesnaught, you are in charge!" the pokeball shot through the air and then opened up to reveal the large spiky Kalos starter that Calem had chosen. It landed across from Goodra and made a very large cry that made everyone at the stadium cheer.

"And there is the valiant Chesnaught that represents Kalos' own Calem! This pokemon is one of Calem's main contenders and definitely his most trusted pokemon!"

"So, you decided to go with Chesnaught, right?"

"Yup, and he is definitely going to be a powerful pokemon for you to deal with!" Calem replied as he looked forward. "Let me show you just how powerful we have become! Chesnaught!" The black jacket trainer called out as he pumped his fist, "Show him your wood hammer!"

"CHES!" Chesnaught shouted as he jumped into the air and made a green log for in his hands. "Chesnaught!" The grass and fighting type called out as he fell down with a swift motion and landed the large attack in Goodra's belly.

"What? He's so agile," Ash said as he looked forward.

"Impressive mobility from Chesnaught, who would expect such a large pokemon to pack quite a speedy blow?"

"Now take this rollout!"

"Naught!"

"Gooo!" Goodra squealed in pain as he felt the large rolling pokemon staggering him back. This made Ash grit his teeth as he noticed that Goodra was completely hurt as Chesnaught rolled back to be in front of Calem.

Ash smiled as he close his eyes and pointed forward, "Try this on for size! Use draco meteor!" Goodra charged up the large orange and golden sphere in his mouth that then shot upwards and towards the sky before it shattered into many meteors that began to fall around the battlefield. Ash smirked, but then flinched at what Calem then ordered.

"Nice going Ash, but we can deal with this," Calem said as he looked up and noticed that falling orbs of power that had a whistle sound as they fell. The jet black haired trainer pumped his fist as he called out his next move: "Chesnaught, use rollout and spiky shield at the same time!" The move combination began with the large juggernaut pokemon to curl into a ball and begin to roll, but then a green shield with spikes appeared that when touched by the meteors, protected Chesnaught from any damage. The green streak navigated throughout the rocky battlefield and was on its way towards Goodra, but knowing that the spiky shield was consistant made the raven haired trainer grit his teeth when he noticed that Goodra got hit hard and fell in front of him with a lot of dragging motion.

"What an unexpected strategy! I have never seen such a combination of moves to get past a draco meteor!"

"Goodra no!"

"Pin missile!"

"CHESNAUGHT!" the large pokemon cried as he made the needles fly out of his shell and penetrate through the air with whistling sounds as well. Ash went wide eyed as they hit Goodra and the next thing he knew, the large purple dragon slumped to the ground silently.

"Goodra is unable to battle," the referee declared as he raised his hand. "Chesnaught wins!" At that time, Chesnaught and Calem were both shown to be pumping their fist seeing the way things went for them as Ash recalled Goodra.

"And Chesnaught has cleared past Goodra and evened out the score with ease, impressively without taking damage too, this is going to be a hard pokemon for Ash to defeat!"

"Goodra, you were awesome," Ash said as he put the pokeball into his belt. "Take a good rest."

At the stands:

"Two against two," Trevor sighed. "It is completely even again."

"I am so nervous," Shauna muttered as she looked at the battlefield to see Ash and Calem in a staredown.

"Chesnaught is Calem's starter, no doubt one of his most trusted pokemon," Tierno said as he then recalled the first day that they had set out on their journey. "Calem and Chesnaught had worked so hard on the first day, in fact they even were one of the main reasons as to why we were able to be successful during that pseudo legendary incident."

"If Ash wants to bright this back, he is going to need to be careful," Clemont then said. Bonnie and the others looked at him as they then turned their attention to the field. "Chesnaught took no damage, which means that Calem still has two fresh pokemon to battle with, while Ash only has one."

"Maybe… What if Pikachu holds up?" Serena asked herself as Kapi grew wide eyed and looked at the electric mouse that was next to the raven haired trainer. She grew even more excited to then see that Pikachu was tugging on Ash's pant leg.

At the battlefield:

"Pikapi!" Ash turned around and noticed that Pikachu was tugging on his pant leg, which made him turn to him and kneel down in front of the electric mouse. "Pika Pikachu!" Pikachu cried with a prideful pose as he pumped his fist in front of Ash. The raven haired trainer smiled as he closed his eyes and stood back up to then open them with fire burning inside.

"Alright then Calem, this will be a battle between our starters," Ash declared as the jet black haired trainer smiled. The Kanto native knew it was time to say what Pikachu had been waiting to hear, so he put his hand forward and shouted his favorite words: "Pikachu! I choose you!"

"PIKA!" Pikachu shouted as he jumped over Ash and landed in the rock in front of him while collecting electricity on his cheeks. "Pika Pikachu!"

"And Pikachu has come out to battle for Ash's side! This will truly be a battle of big against small, but we are definitely excited to see how this will turn out!"

"We are going to start this with my favorite move!" Ash declared as Pikachu nodded with a determined smirk. "Pikachu use thunderbolt!"

"Pika…" Pikachu muttered as he began to charge up his cheeks to make an electric aura crackle around him as he jumped into the air. Calem and Chesnaught watched with smiles themselves, obviously amusement radiating more from the trainers than just the cheering crowd. "CHUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Pikachu exclaimed with his trademark cry as he launched the beam of electricity forward and towards the larger grass type.

"Pin missile, hit him directly!"

"Naught!" The five missiles shot out and went around the crackling bolt of electricity and the two attacks crossed each other without touching, but with dead accuracy towards their targets. Ash and Calem gritted their teeth as they watched their two pokemon get enveloped in a dust cloud after taking the attack head on. "Naught…" Chesnaught cried as he fell in front of Calem.

"Pika…" Pikachu grunted as he fell in front of Ash with a cloud of dust settling around him.

The two pokemon slowly got up with scratch marks around each other, and without taking his time, Ash went for the first move once again noticing that Pikachu began to walk forward. "Pikachu, slam him down with iron tail!" Pikachu ran a little faster as he jumped into the air and then made his bolt shaped tail glow white and stiffen as he then swung it around and was about to slam tail on against Chesnaught, who just as the iron tail came widened his eyes.

"Spiky shield!"

"Pika!" Pikachu got enveloped in a cloud of smoke as he soared in the air. The raven haired trainer went wide eyed as he saw his electric rodent fall in front of him in all four paws with green sparks surrounding him. "Pikachu, pika!" Pikachu exclaimed as he looked back at Ash.

From a side view of the Kanto native's face, he put a hand to his chin knowing that he was in trouble, "Spiky shield makes Pikachu take damage if it is a direct attack, what can I do?"

"And Pikachu as just taken the damage from spiky shield, which causes any opponent that uses a head on attack take damage!"

Ash's opponent looked at the electric rodent and then up at his trainer, "You will have to do so much more to defeat me and Chesnaught." Calem then pumped his fists and pointed forward with a smile, "Chesnaught go in with wood hammer!"

"Dodge it!" Ash shouted as he put a hand at his side.

"Naught!" Chesnaught shouted as he attempted to hit Pikachu with his glowing log.

"Pika…" Pikachu cried as he dodged left.

"Ches!" Hits left.

"Chu!" Dodges right.

"Ches… NAUGHT!" Slams his green log into Pikachu's abdomen which sends the smaller electric rodent flying.

"PIKA!" Pikachu squealed in pain as he flew through the air and landed in front of Ash with all four legs.

"Wow what a hit! Chesnaught is really putting some work in for Calem!"

The raven haired trainer pumped both of his fists at his sides as his eyes glowed with a reflection of the sun as he shouted his next command: "Thunderbolt!"

"Spiky shield!"

"Pika!" Pikachu shouted as he made his electricity trail behind him and then jumped into the air. Chesnaught put his hands in front of himself and began to make his shield appear, which glowed with bright green spikes that pointed forward. Ash watched as the larger pokemon had an opening from above, which made him go wide eyed and gasp. "CHUUUUUUUUU!" Pikachu launched his electric bolt forward towards Chesnaught, but as soon as the electricity interacted with the shield, it dispersed to nothing.

"Once again Ash's attack is blocked, this is a very powerful strategy that Calem is pulling off to hopefully get a two on one lead!"

At the stands:

"PICHU!" Kapi shouted from Serena's lap completely frustrated by how the battle was playing out. Serena could do nothing except hold Kapi with a little more grip knowing that she could go mad if Pikachu took such a devastating hit.

"This looks bad for Ash," Brock said as he crossed his arms. "He can't attack Chesnaught and he is at a huge disadvantage if Pikachu goes down."

"He's right," Clemont said with a very alarmed tone. "Ash can't get ahold of Chesnaught's strategy and in the end it is causing him to take more damage than usual."

"Chespin?" Chespie asked as he looked up at his redheaded trainer that was now gripping her harder than ever.

Mairin stayed silent as he muttered something under her breath, but it was clear that she was worried about Pikachu's state in the battle. Bonnie smiled at Mairin, "Mairin, cheer on for Ash, don't worry he has this under control." Mairin went a little wide eyed as she smiled back and looked back at the field while releasing a little bit of her grip on Chespie.

"This is going to be a close one," Trevor said. "But only if Ash finds anything out."

Tierno crossed his arms, "But by the looks of it, Calem has the upper hand."

At the battlefield:

"Pikachu, we are going to do something crazy," Ash said as he pumped his fist to which Pikachu gave an unsure nod back. "Use quick attack and begin to run around the field!" Pikachu did not even blink as he began to run around the rocky ground and then made circles around the field, which were not really understood by Calem.

The jet black haired trainer smirked a little as he looked around and then put his hand forward, "Rollout!" Chesnaught got to work quickly as he contracted into a ball and began to roll around with a green glow to him and then started to follow around the electric mouse, who had a white trail behind him. The electric mouse looked very unsure and then called out to his trainer as he then took a turn and began to run with the giant cliff side behind him forward, but opposite to him, Chesnaught appeared and rolled towards him.

"Here it comes, they are running towards each other!"

Ash craned his hand and smiled as he then put his palm out in front of him, "Use iron tail and made a groove in the rocky surface!"

"Pika!" Pikachu shouted as he slammed his tail into the battlefield which caused a crack to appear on the ground which then propelled the electric mouse over and the large grass and fighting type to get launched into the air due to the groove acting like a ramp. Calem gritted his teeth as he then saw Chesnaught collide with the cliff side and start to take damage from trying to use a connecting move like that on a mountain side. "Pikachu!" Pikachu cheered as he looked back at the slowing down Chesnaught.

"Naught!" Chesnaught cried as he landed with his hand on the ground with smoke radiating from his body.

The raven haired trainer looked extremely amused as he pointed upwards. "Pikachu jump on top of Chesnaught!"

"Pika!"

"Spiky shield!" Calem exclaimed as he then had the blood drain from his face to notice that the juggernaut pokemon began to set up the shield only for it to not stop the electric mouse from jumping on Chesnaught from above. Seeing this, made the jet black haired trainer shout his next command with a lot of fear in his face: "Shake him off!"

Chesnaught began to shake, but Pikachu persistently held onto the spikes on the back of the grass type's spikes as Ash had the view enter his eyes as he exclaimed: "THUNDERBOLT!"

"Pika… CHUUUUUUUU!" The arcing sound happened as the electric current made Chesnaught go wide eyed and begin to struggle unable to get the parasitic electric mouse out of his back.

"AMAZING This is really going to do damage! How can Calem get out of this one?"

At the stands:

"Will Pikachu be shaken off first, or will Chesnaught give in?" Trevor asked himself as he looked forward to see Chesnaught rolling around the battlefield clearly feeling the strength of the attack.

Serena held her ribbon as she clenched the fist that was around Kapi. Speaking of Kapi, the female Pichu was sweating hard as she watched the electric mouse struggle to hold onto the larger grass type.

At the battlefield:

"Pin missile!" Chesnaught opened his eyes with concentration as the spikes on his back that Pikachu held onto began to glow white...

"Pika!" Pikachu cried in pain as Ash went wide eyed seeing the electric mouse get shot into the air, but looking down, The raven haired trainer saw his opportunity to strike with a powerful attack that could finish off Chesnaught.

"Chesnaught seems to be too weak to move anymore! Is this really it?"

"Pikachu use iron tail!" The silence of the stadium was then replaced with cheers as the electric mouse slammed his steel type move onto the head of the large juggernaut pokemon. The end result was Chesnaught with his head down completely unconscious and not moving.

"Chesnaught is unable to battle, which means that Pikachu wins!" The referee declared as the raven haired trainer pumped his fist. Looking at the scoreboard, Ash knew he had the advantage as he then noticed he had gotten Calem into a two on one situation:

Ash: Goodra Charizard Noivern Sceptile (pokeball) Pikachu

Calem: Chesnaught Manectric Salamence Toxicroak Talonflame (pokeball)

"What a comeback! Who knew that this would have been such an amazing way for Ash to unexpectedly take the lead!"

Calem pulled out a pokeball and made Chesnaught return to red energy and get sucked back into the red and white device before then putting that pokeball back into his belt. A closeup of the jet black haired trainer's belt showed how he then put the pokeball in his hand back into a slot before then going to the one that was the farthest back from all the other pokeballs. Calem then made the device enlarge and smirked as he threw it into the air in front of him. "We will never give up, Gallade, let's win this battle together!"

The pokeball shattered open before then emerging the bladed pokemon that then appeared in front of Pikachu with a flashing light. His blades crossed and his position very formal as he then uncrossed his arms and put on a defensive pose. "Gallade!" Gallade cried as he looked towards his opponents, his mega stone glowing in his dangling necklace.

"And there it is, the Gallade that is still undefeated up to date!"

At the stands:

Many people looked excited as they saw Gallade appear in front of him with cheers that went through the entire crowd.

The group seemed excited, Serena, Kapi and Mairin were excited for Pikachu knocking out Chesnaught, but the others seemed very excited about Gallade finally being out and a potential mega evolution.

"So Gallade is next," Professor Sycamore remarked as he leaned forward in his seat. "No doubt, this match will decide everything, all Ash has to do is defeat Gallade."

Diantha looked at the professor and scrunched her shoulders, "With what? Ash has no mega evolution at all to battle him with."

"Don't underestimate Ash," Professor Sycamore replied with an amused smile. "If you do, it is a big mistake."

At the battlefield:

Ash smirked as he looked forward and put his hand out: "Pikachu let's focus all of our power!"

"Pika!"

"Alright!" Ash shouted as he was shaking with excitement as the light that reflected from his eyes showed as he punched the air in front of him. "Pikachu use quick attack!" Pikachu began to run with a large amount of speed as he then had a trail of white coming out of him. Calem smirked as he saw the attack coming and did not order anything as Gallade got hit right in the chest.

"Ade!" Gallade staggered as he then fell in front of his trainer while enduring the attack well.

"Electric overdrive!"

Pikachu jumped into the air and made his electricity glow which caused the dark rain clouds to randomly appear above the stadium and make it begin to rain. Calem smirked as he then saw the water begin to drip around him that then got more aggressive and stronger. "CHUUUUU!" Calem looked up to see that the lightning bolts had encased Gallade.

"And here comes that amazing move by Ash and his Pikachu!"

'Here is comes,' Calem thought as he then saw his fighting and psychic type take the attack before then seeing that Pikachu was beginning to slam his fist against the ground. "Dodge it!" Gallade jumped into the air with his necklace dangling to the side over the large electric earth that caused dust to be picked up in front of the trainer with a black jacket. Ash went wide eyed as he saw the psychic type avoid the electric attack, but then became more frightened when he heard the attack Calem had ordered, "Use stone edge!"

"ADE!" Gallade shouted as he then hit the ground and made his blades fall into the ground. Ash expected the stones to go in a straight line, but he was shocked to see that the rocks went out in two directions that then made a pinsir about to close in Pikachu.

"Dodge it!"

"Pika!" Pikachu cried in pain not being able to avoid the attack and landing in front of Ash with a thud without moving, his body constantly getting wet from the rain.

"Pikachu no!"

The referee raised his hand, making the entire crowd go into cheers. "Pikachu is unable to battle, Gallade wins!"

"And Pikachu is down! This is now a one on one battle!"

At the stands:

"One against one, Ash is in a huge disadvantage now," Tierno said as he crossed his arms. Shauna and Trevor both nodded agreeing with the statement. Mairin kept Chespie closed as Serena did the same to a depressed looking Kapi.

"Kapi," Serena said as she petted her electric mouse and watched Ash pick up Pikachu and begin to return with him towards his trainer box. "Ash can do this, don't worry." Serena then sighed as she whispered under her breath, "Ash, good luck…"

"Pichu…" Kapi sighed as she looked at the field.

Brock, Bonnie and Clemont knew that Greninja was coming, something that was going to bring them a flashback to what had happened in the battle against Wulfric, which truly meant that things were about to take an interesting turn. On the other hand, Mairin was stressed out about the battle, she clenched her fists because she was wanting Ash to win so badly, almost like if she and Serena did not want the raven haired trainer to fall into an endless loop of losing at the most vital moments.

At the battlefield:

"Pikachu, rest here, ok?" Ash said as he set down his electric mouse in a safe place near the tunnel behind him completely ignoring the cheers and the celebrating duo in front of him. Pikachu looked up at the raven haired trainer, whose hair was wet from the rain, and smiled as he slumped against the tunnel wall. Ash then walked away leaving Pikachu from where he was looking towards his trainer, staring at his back as he walked towards the trainer platform and stood there taking the water from above.

"Pikachu, pikapi," Pikachu muttered as a sign of good luck as he looked at Ash reach into his belt and pull out a pokeball.

"So… I knew it would come down to this," Ash muttered as he then pulled out the pokeball. He did not care that his entire body was wet, but he knew that his true power would come from this pokemon. "Greninja… I CHOOSE YOU!" The raven haired trainer then pulled back his hand as he flinged the pokeball into the rocks for it to flash brightly.

The frog ninja pokemon emerged in the rain with his arms crossed with a hidden smirk under his large pink scarf tongue that resembled his trainer's blue scarf. "NINJA!" Greninja cried as he looked forward with a serious look on his face while his pink eyes glared with the raindrops that reflected the lights from the hexagonal stadium that kept the entire stadium lit up.

"Ash is planning to win this with Greninja, only really having won against a weakened Incineroar and a weakened Darmanitan with the type advantage, and up to date, his worst performing pokemon in this entire conference. It would take a miracle for Ash to get out of this battle without the type advantage!"

The crowd whispered amongst themselves as Ash just smirked and looked at Greninja, "Don't worry about them, they don't know anything about us!"

"Ninja!" The sinister water and dark type called out as he pumped his fist and looked forward at the opponent.

"I wouldn't underestimate your Greninja ever Ash, but I know I can win this," Calem declared as he then noticed that the referee ordered for the battle to resume, which made the jet black haired trainer throw a fist forward while causing water to be splashed forward as well: "Leaf blade!" Gallade made his blades glow green as he then charged forward towards the water type.

The raven haired trainer narrowed his eyes as he then adjusted his view to be through Greninja's eyes. "DODGE IT!" Ash called out to the water type as he arched his back.

"Ninja!" Greninja cried as he mimicked his trainer's action. The scene slowed down as the frog ninja was shown to look upwards to see the bladed pokemon go above him with green blades that splashed the rain drops. Greninja then began to end his limbo after Gallade has passed as the scene returned back to its normal speed and the rain began to fall at a fast pace once more.

"What a dodge! I have never seen anything like it!"

Ash then reached towards his legs and crossed his arms to then uncross them as if throwing something as he shouted: "water shuriken!" Greninja did the same and unleashed ninja stars that then shot forward and towards the bladed pokemon. Calem also ordered for his fighting type to dodge, which caused Greninja's attack to then miss and fall in front of the raven haired trainer because Greninja and Gallade switched sides.

"Psycho cut!"

"Water shuriken once more!"

Wanting to get back to their trainers, the two pokemon jumped into the air and crossed next to each other for the scene to go in slow motion once again and show the two pokemon staring at each other for their small time together before the scene turned back to normal speed and both pokemon turned their bodies to see each other head on. As soon as that happened, Gallade made his blades glow pink before shooting forward a couple of blades. Greninja reached for his shuriken markings and once again shot them out, only for the pink blades and the watery ninja stars to collide and cause smoke to appear in the rainy air above the rocky field.

"Aqua blade!" Ash shouted while extending his arm.

"Leaf blade!" Calem retaliated with his fist out.

"GreNINJA!"

"GallADE!"

The green blade and the dark blue kunai interacted in the middle of the field with sparks glowing from the collision of the attack which sent a shockwave out towards both trainers who were gritting their teeth. Calem had his clothes shake as Ash scarf and jacket were the main things that got affected.

"What a battle Greninja can actually match Gallade's power! This seems like two rivals in pokemon and trainers alike!"

At the stands:

"This is so intense," Brock said as he looked forward. "How are they both so strong?"

Serena smirked, "It is their rivalry, and if Ash uses that to his advantage, he can win."

"This is going to be an intense battle, I can already tell," Clemont said as he noticed that both trainers stopped attacking as they noticed the rain begin to clear. "But the rain is over, so if Greninja did have an advantage, then not anymore…"

At the battlefield:

"And the rain has cleared, how will this affect the battle?"

The battlefield around Calem and Ash then began to glow blue as it had both of the trainers in a staredown. The jet black haired trainer pumped his fist as he looked forward and smiled. 'Ash, this battle, it is so intense. I have never had so much fun battling someone in such a while… However, if I ever am going to prove that I am the best rival I could be, I am going to have to defeat you right now,' Calem then narrowed his eyes as the battlefield returned to normal. 'So, I must go with all of my strength!' The Kalos native did not even hesitate to reach for his watch as he touched the stone within. "Gallade, let's go with all of our power!" The keystone and the mega stone both began to glow as the bladed pokemon also glew white as the prongs began to interact. "MEGA EVOLVE!"

"GALLADE!" The psychic and fighting type cried as he began to grow in shape, his legs becoming larger and the cape glowing around him. The glowing then stopped and the mega evolution symbol appeared in front of Gallade as he made one more battle cry that made Ash smirk.

One OK Rock- Nothing Helps (Nightcore)

The drums kick in. The same blue effect appeared, but this time, it showed the side of Ash's face. The raven haired trainer narrowed his eyes which caused the edges to blacken out. 'Calem, this battle has been loads of fun… Although I want to say a lot more, I can only do it through a battle.' No nothing helps. We won't stop now we did it on our own. Nobody else, it's because of you i'm standing here with you…

The view returns to normal and features Calem pumping his fist as he makes the first attack: "Stone edge!" AAAAAHHHH YOW! Guitar kicks in. Gallade waved his cape around as he punched the ground and then caused the entire area of the field nearest to him to spawn an undodgeable nightmare of rocks that began to charge towards Greninja, who was standing in front of Ash with a powerful stance.

Gimme some more…

Gimme some more…

Vocals are replaced with a guitar solo to which Ash and Greninja are in synch with: Ash and Greninja both pump their fists as the view switches between the two to then portray both pokemon and trainer alike making a battle cry as they pump their fists at their sides. Guitar solo begins to end. A torrent of water shoots up around Greninja and the entire scene gets enveloped in a white light…

Oh yeah OK i've got bad days Shows a Frogadier being defeated by a Gallade

So caught up in my mind and i'm Shows a Frogadier being defeated by a Gardevoir

Not really sure of who I am Shows a Frogadier being defeated by an Abomasnow

And nothing seems to go my way at all Shows a raven haired boy getting pelted with snowballs and a honey blonde girl slapping his cheek

Scene returned to normal as it portrayed Greninja dodging the stone edge with a torrent of water streaking through his body before he jumped into the air with a lot of power, cheers from the crowd and the announcer going bonkers over the transformation is happening as the torrent then turned into a pair of butterfly wings. Then I hit the stage and remember, why i'm here. Wings then solidified into a large shuriken as Greninja is now shown with red lightning bolt symbols on the side of his face along with spiky black tufts and a blue tongue. The chest resembled the jacket that Ash was wearing. I'll be the voice of those who don't have words, and never forget… Greninja then opens his bright red eyes which showed a crimson flash to then have Ash's face appear as a mirage image. The road… BACK!

No nothing helps!

"MIZU SHURIKEN!" Ash exclaimed as he reached back to grab the shuriken on his back. The view repeats three times from different angles as it portrays the giant shuriken flying at blinding speed through the entire battlefield.

We won't stop now we did it on our own!

Calem had a slightly shocked face as he put his hand out: "Psycho cut!"

"GallADE!" Gallade shouted as he made his blades glow purple before then shooting a slightly bigger purple blade right at the giant water shuriken, which caused an explosion to ring out mid field, Gallade's signature move barely able to stop the ninja star from advancing any more.

Nobody else, it's because of you, we finally came this far! (came this far!)

Ash then retracted his fist as he narrowed his eyes. "Aerial ace!" Greninja rushed through the smoke and through it made his right fist glow light blue. Ash mimicked the hitting motion as the water type uppercutted Gallade's jawline and then slammed his glowing leg into the caped pokemon's chest.

On and on another song to write are wrongs that I!

"Gallade, are you alright?" Calem asked as he watched his pokemon stand up in front of him. "Alright then, go in for a leaf blade!"

"Gallade!" Gallade cried as he crossed his legs in front of his body before making them stretch out into green swords. "Ade, ade ade!" Gallade exclaimed as he tried to hit Greninja with the grass type attack. The water type avoided the first two swipes, but the third one hit Greninja right on the chest which made the water type skid across the rocky ground making the Kanto native wince in pain.

Tell me who else?

Calem's eyes glew with the sunlight as he pushed through the view of the screen with his fist out, "Now use stone edge!" Ash regained his composure as he then went wide eyed seeing the incoming attack that was headed his way. Gallade's rocks barraged through the solid surface and went towards the water type threatening to consume him.

"Double team!"

It is thanks to all of you that I could find my own way! "Gren! Gren! Gren!" The copies split off in all directions that caused the stones to begin to follow around the copies. This made the raven haired trainer grit his teeth before then deciding to make his best move:

"Greninja!" Ash shouted as he formed fists in front of his face as if he was grabbing something. "Use aqua blade and slice through incoming rocks!" Greninja and Ash both began to swing the dark blue kunai blades with similar patterns as the copies began to get destroyed by the stones that were shooting out of the ground. The real frog ninja though, leaped up over the rocks and then began to swing his sword wildly which caught the attention of the jet black haired trainer.

Any longer and i'll know, each and every day every show...

Calem put his hand out as he made his next command: "Use leaf blade!"

Gotta give my best with innocence, it could all be taken away in any minute...

"ADE!"

"NINJA!"

Guitar kicks back in. There are things I always remember… Forever...

Both pokemon met in the middle of the field with their respective blades and engaged in a stalemate, but then Greninja tried to land a right side swipe, that was blocked by Gallade. The bladed pokemon then extended his green sword forward trying to get a good hit on the ninja's chest, but Greninja stepped back to then put his blade in the way of another incoming swipe from the left this time. The crowd then cheered at a strong volume when both pokemon engaged in a complete dominance for power, Gallade and Greninja were both shown to have blue and green glows radiating towards their faces due to the colors of the moves being used. Oh no how can I walk this rocky road? Gallade then kicks Greninja in the abdomen which pushes the water type back to be in front of his trainer, who grabbed his stomach in pain. And never regret… And never know…

I JUST HAVE TO GO!

No nothing helps! Ash orders for Greninja to run around the rocky ground. The frog ninja pokemon agrees and is shown increasing his speed as he goes and goes before then becoming hard to see. We won't stop now we did it on our own! Calem then catches sight of Greninja right in front of the cliff and points forward: "Right there! Close combat!" Gallade made all of his limbs glow white before he shot out like a bullet towards the frog. Ash and Greninja though, they shared a small glance as the psychic and fighting type began to slam extremely fast punches and kicks into the water type and drilling him into the side of the cliff, it was as if the bladed pokemon was punching at least 500 times a second, it was so fast. Nobody else, it's because of you we finally came this far! As soon as the drilling ended, a startled Gallade looks around to see that he was hitting nothing but air. Calem gasped as he saw that and went wide eyed, "Was that just an after image of Greninja?" His answer was proven right when the frog ninja pokemon appeared in front of Ash completely unharmed as he skidded to a stop. On and on another song, to write the wrongs that I tell me who else. "How clever, LEAF BLADE!"

"Gall… ADE!" Greninja did not even have time to dodge as the bladed pokemon made a cross with his grass sword and uncrossed his arms to then make a large cross that slammed into the synchro evolved pokemon. Ash flinched as he grabbed his arms in pain.

It's thanks to all of you...

"Ninja!" Greninja cried in pain as he mimicked his trainer's pose and fell to his knees.

That I could find my own way in this MMMAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZEEEEEEE! The screen echoes as it is shown from Greninja's point of view a black and white colored blurry view of Gallade standing in front of him with another leaf blade prepared. Suddenly, Ash's voice echoed through the Greninja's ears: "AQUA BLADE!"

I GET WHAT YOU GET WHAT YOU WANT!

The point of view switches back to color and completely focuses as a blue webbed limb appears holding a dark blue kunai to shoot forward towards Gallade. Guitar solo plays! View zooms out to show Greninja and Gallade approaching each other, the frog ninja pokemon being more aggressive this time with attempting to slash the bladed fighting and psychic type. Every single strum of the guitar is a collision between Greninja's aqua blade against a blocking leaf blade. "GRENINJA!" shouted as he engaged his two blades on Gallade's two green ones.

"GAAALLLLLAAADDDEEE!"

Both pokemon cause a large shockwave as they fall in front of their trainers with their backs on the ground. Ash-Greninja and Mega Gallade both got up, to their feet just about instantly as they then began to walk towards each other slowly: I'm by myself, stuck inside my throat the words they won't come out, oh what the hell, why don't I just leave, give up and, let it all go away…

But then I see your face and remember, why i'm here…

Both pokemon begin to rush at each other, both trainers gritting their teeth ready to call out their next commands: "Use double team and follow up with water shuriken!" No nothing helps, we won't stop right now, we did it on our own! Greninja split off into his many copies of himself as Calem pumped his fist:

"Psycho cut on all of them!"

Nobody else, it's because of you we finally came this far! (Came this far!) Greninja grabbed his shuriken and in slow motion launched in forward towards Gallade who was now running with a command to counter the attack.

"Gallade!" Gallade shouted as he made his blade glow pink and begin to shoot pink blades that began to destroy all of the copies swiftly while countering the water shurikens coming his way, leaving a cloud of smoke in the middle of the battlefield.

Tell me who else?

Calem then had his eyes reflecting the sunlight as he extended his arm: "Gallade use leaf blade!"

"Water shuriken!" Ash retaliated as he pretended to grab the shuriken on his back. Greninja did the same and he and Gallade began trading blows, the gladed pokemon used two green swords against the one four pointed shuriken. Will someday come and take my place and the story goes on! Ash-Greninja and Mega Gallade interlock each other's weapons which caused a shockwave that caused Ash's scarf to wave while causing Calem's black jacket to get blown as well.

All what I can do for you!

"Calem!" Ash shouted which got his opponent's attention. The raven haired trainer pointed upwards to then reveal that Greninja was in the air. Ash then smiled as he touched his hat and smiled while looking down with his eyes closed. He then looked up and a glare from his eyes shined brightly as he pumped both of his fists. "Get ready, because I am coming at you with all of our power!" The raven haired trainer then went for his back with both of his hands. "WATER SHURIKEN!"

All what you will want me to!

Calem smirked as he pumped both of his fists and then threw both of his hands at his sides. "Let's go with everything we have Gallade, COUNTER IT WITH SUPER PSYCHO CUT!"

All what you can see me through!

"Gren…" Greninja shouted as he grabbed his shuriken from his back and made his fins on his head begin to glow more red than ever. "NINJA!" Greninja shouted as he made his water shuriken glow to a blue color, but to be at least eight times larger than any shuriken he had ever launched. The cheering crowd could barely handle the excitement as they witnessed Greninja pull the shuriken back with his right hand and fire it straight at Gallade. "GRENINJA!"

Will someday come!

"Gall... " Gallade made his pink glowing blades form a psycho cut to charge up in front of him. The size constantly getting bigger and bigger until it was the same size that could rival the water shuriken. "Gall… ADE!" Gallade cried as he then fired off the pink blade through the air to counter the just as large shuriken.

THE STORY GOES!

The two attacks collide in a stalemate in the middle of the field which caused a large shock wave to radiate to both sides as Calem looked up in awe not knowing what will happen.

NO!

"IIIICCCCKKKEEEEEEEEEE!" Ash shouted as he screamed with a terrifyingly powerful white aura that radiated from behind.

WAY!

NO ONE MAKES YOU DAY!

"KKKKKOOOUUUUGGGGGAAAAAA!" Greninja exclaimed as he also had the same aura as Ash.

NO WAY!

The water shuriken in the stalemate then grew twice as large and began to glow red which made everyone gasp in shock, stands and Calem himself who now had the blood rush out of his face.

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Everyone saw the psycho cut break apart as then the large blood red shuriken pierced through the air…

The last strum of the guitar of the song plays the explosion that radiated from the arena as a giant blue hemisphere that then shattered with a large boom.

The scene then cut out with static like sounds…

A/N: …

I actually did it… Sorry if it took more than expected to come out, I was so busy!

Alright guys, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, the result is hidden for now, but what happens next will have to be uncovered in the next chapter because this chapter is already on its way to 14k words!

Just a quick tip, some things in bold during the last song were supposed to tell you how you should perceive the battle and the music. Some things such as the first limbo dodge by Greninja and the Gallade after image close combat are inspired by Saitama vs Genos in One Punch Man. If you want to see what I was seeing, then go check it out for yourself! The song and structure of the battle was also based on Intrepid, a Minecraft PVP montage by Huahwi.

Remember to R & R and I will see you guys next time!

P.S.: Anyone that wants some inspiration for an Ash-Greninja AMV, there you go...