Pokemon: Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald

By: Daronta

Chapter 19: VS Torkoal

[Peak of Mount Chimney]

"Well," Flannery sighs. "I guess he didn't make it."

Flannery stood at the foot of Jagged Cave's exit in her Magma uniform; she stood with many other Magma grunts, who wore eager faces except the few with disappointment written all over their.

"Too bad, Team Aqua has a new grunt around his age and he would've been a good opponent for her." One of the grunts commented.

"Who is this new grunt of theirs?" Flannery asked.

"It's a powerful little girl," One of the grunt informed.

"Yea and most of the time she sticks with status moves." Another grunt added.

"Really?" Flannery's interest peaked about the topic.

"I hope you all aren't talking about little ol' me, are you?"

Flannery and the grunts looked up to see May and a group of Aqua grunts standing along the cliff of the Volcano's edge.

"Grunts get ready!" Flannery ordered.

"Angie said I can take charge of this operation!" May exclaimed.

What? Flannery stared at the happy-go-lucky child. No one even asked, but if that's true this could be a problem.

"Alright grunts," May yelled. "Surf into battle!"

The crowd of grunts summoned their water type pokemon, most were either Carvanha or Wailmers. May summoned Marshtomp and got on its back. At the same time all the Aqua grunts took off on a huge wave that combined together creating a Tsunami that covered the air over the Magna grunts.

"They're trying to finish us in one shot!" Flannery stood astonished. "Take cover!"

The Magna grunts throw up all their pokeballs.

"Too late!" May implies in confidence.

The waves crash the entire summit of the volcano. The flood crash along the summit, some of the water brushed off the rim of the Volcano and down towards Fallarbor Town. The torrent continued for a while until the water turned into hot black land.

May glanced at the ground confused, noticing the trenches along the border of the volcano pointing towards the volcano. "What is this?"

Mightyenas dug out from underneath the ground with the Magna grunts.

"Like our formation?" Flannery rose from the ground grinning. "We dug our way towards the volcano creating trenches for the lava to come through and do its thing.

May grunted. "Wow that's disappointing."

"Aqua charge!" May directed pointing forward.

"Magma attack!" Flannery pointed forward from the opposite direction.

The two groups charged into battle, the Aqua's switched out their water pokemon out with Mightyenas. The summit turned into a war zone, Flannery returned her Mightyena; May switched out her Marshtomp for Skitty.

Flannery ran through the crowds trying to get to the center of the volcano. May jumped around the field of battle with Skitty hitting random Magma grunts and their pokemon with Attract.

None of the destructive battles phased May, she continued to smile and giggle with Skitty rendering most of the pokemon useless.

"Where are you going?" May said finally catching up with Flannery.

Flannery stopped running and glanced back to see May in the mist of the warzone. "Are you looking for this?" May said raising a meteorite in the air.

Roxanne said they destroyed it.Flannery reached for her back pocket. "Where'd you get the meteorite?"

"Oh, I saved some of it for this moment." May teased, the instant May finished her sentence Flannery threw out her pokeball.

"Torkoal go!"

"Kitty. Use Attract!" May ordered.

Flannery smirked, "Torkoal Rapid Spin!"

Skitty chased its tail shooting off a stream of hearts towards the spinning turtle shell. Skitty's attack showing no effect on the tortoise while it collided into the kitten. Skitty was forced backward.

"Hey, what's the deal?"

Flannery smiled and replied to her question, "My Torkoal is a girl and from what I noticed so is your Skitty."

"What?"

"Torkoal, let's finish this Overheat." The turtle's nostrils flared up and shot streams of smoke before releasing a forceful blast of fire at the kitten pokemon.

"Kitty!" Skitty was unable to dodge with the shock of the last attack, and took a direct hit from the attack.

"Return," May's expression changed from overjoyed to a slightly disappointed toddler, and then changed again to a vengeful confident grin when she changed pokemon.

"Go Kippy!"

What's with these horrible names? Flannery thought getting irritated at the emotionally unstable girl. Marshtomp came out of the pokeball.

"Surf," Marshtomp rised its arms, May stood directly behind the pokemon as the wave raised both of them in the air.

So we're fighting like that now? "Rapid Spin, Torkoal!" Flannery ordered jumping on Torkoal's back and evading the wave's frontal assault by curving towards the left, out of the mud fish's direction.

May grinned, "Now Kippy."

Flannery glanced in shock looking back at the tide. "But how, how is it following us?"

Sure enough the tide turned in her direction in hot pursuit with Marshtomp and May riding the top wave.

"Torkoal turn!" Flannery panicked.

"Kippy Whirlpool formation," The wave curved again in a circular motion crashing on top of the Magma Lieutenant instantly and spinning continuously.

The whirlpool raged on for a bit longer but seemed to decrease in size with every whirl.

May and Marshtomp's feet finally hit the muddy ground but Flannery was missing. Torkoal laid on the ground fainted before May.

"Where'd she?" Before May could finish, water burst from the ground behind her like a geyser and on top stood a Mightyena trying to keep it's balance and a boy whose face was blinded in the sun's light holding Flannery in his arms.

"I'm not late am I?" He asked the Lieutenant.

May's eyes widen with hope at the sound of his voice. Flannery stared at him slightly weakened from the battle. Both girls called out to him in unison.

"Brendan?"

-To Be Continued-