Hello everyone to the second chapter in the Pokemon Entertainment League series. This is the first part of Zane's journey into the Pokemon Entertainment League. Its starts with his battle against Roddy, to show how good he is.
March 7th (Season 1 Episode 2)
*Beep* Beep*
That is the sound that starts a lot of people's days off. The sound of an alarm clock reminds me I have an important day ahead of me. Even though it is only 7:30 in the morning I seem to wake up instantly. But I have to think for a minute to realize where I am.
In my new apartment at the Pokemon Entertainment League.
Today is also the day that sets in stone what my life in the PEL will be like for the next couple of months.
Today is also the day that I go against the first person that I have met here.
I don't realize how much is going to happen today and how it can all dictate the flow of my life going forward. Will I be good enough compared to everyone else? Will I surprise people or will I just be a bore and be like everyone else? I certainly can't let my fears dictate what happens to me.
I jump out of bed and quickly gather up the clothes I will be wearing for the day, take a shower and do other morning activities to make sure I am ready for the day ahead. Dressed in a green polo shirt and khaki pants I am ready to start my day and leave my apartment.
The journey to the lobby is uneventful and I see a few people on my elevator ride to the lobby. But beyond the elevator becomes a whole different story. People are everywhere. Either with their pokemon, talking to someone, or rushing out the door. I don't realize that the morning would be so busy for everyone. But I guess they all have the same idea as me to get an early start even though it is only 8:15 yet matches have already started at 8 and last till 7 at night. I am filled suddenly with this excitement knowing that it is possible that some of these people might actually watch my match this morning.
I start to walk out of the building when I hear someone calling my name. I turn around to see Roddy getting up from a couch and walking towards me. I am surprised I hadn't noticed him but realize it was because of the amount of people were overwhelming to me.
"Hey what's going on?" I ask when he gets to me. I am not surprised to see him here. Last night we discovered that we both live in this same apartment building, him one floor below me.
"I just wanted to say good luck in our match today. I wasn't sure if I was going to see you before so I waited here until you came down," He stuck out his hand and I grab it, shaking it with him. "May the best trainer win."
"Well thank you for that. I am just going to get breakfast, you can join me if you want." Even though our immediate futures are controlled through this match today I didn't want to push him away thinking of him as an enemy. He is the first person I met here and I did think of him as a friend, even though we've only known about each other for less than 24 hours.
"Thank you for the offer, but I have some studying and training I want to do before our match today." Roddy smiles letting it known that he appreciates my offer.
"Well I better let you get going then. See you on the battlefield." I say waving as I leave the apartment building.
But what Roddy said stuck with me as I go over to the Centralized Dining Hall for breakfast. It is his first match and almost two hours before he goes out yet he still wants to get as much prep as he can until then. Should I be doing that? Would my performance suffer because I don't take as much time practicing and preparing as I should? No. I am here because my skills are good enough to apply and get through and I am confident that while preparing would be good it wouldn't kill me to take the time to get mentally prepared beforehand and that includes eating well and relaxing before the match.
I look around the dining hall and realize that any of these people could be my next opponent after today. It is an exciting prospect that my journey is beginning. So while I get a bagel and a small bowl of fruit and ate my breakfast I realize that while it wasn't that life altering that I do well in this battle I am going to give it my all.
It is 9:30 and I am standing outside the Scarlet Stadium looking up at the building that is going to be huge in the foundation of my career. I walk into the stadium and am surprised with all the people that are milling around. I wonder if they are all here for my match.
The stadium is designed in a circular formation with the battlefield in the center and every so often around the outer edge was an entrance to get to the seating area of the stadium. I notice a couple of hanging signs that indicate where I need to go before my match. I head towards a door that leads to a set of steps that seem to go underneath the stadium. I follow it down until I came to a board that has a list of matches for today that are in that stadium. I find my name and see that I have to go to Dressing Room B. I go down the long hallway until I find my dressing room and enter it. It is pretty normal with a computer, desk, couch and a bulletin board I assume is for strategy planning. But otherwise it is a simple room for relaxing before your battle. A lot of cheering and an explosion suddenly happens above me indicating a battle is currently happening.
I start to get a bit nervous. Knowing my moment is coming up and I have to be ready. I decide to go over my team and moves that my pokemon know, which only takes ten minutes but that is apparently all I need since there comes a knock on my dressing room door.
"Hello." I say opening it up revealing a man in a suit.
"Zane Arrington?" I nod.
"Please follow me." I follow him out into the hallway area. He brings me to an open doorway that is labeled "red entrance". He wishes me luck, tells me when they call my name to walk out and then leaves.
So this is it. This is my first match and of course I am nervous. But I know that just getting to this point is amazing in of itself. So no matter what, I would go out there and try my best. Suddenly I hear cheering and realize that the announcer's voice is talking about the next match. My match. Then I hear him announce what the match is about and before I know it I hear my name, a green light went off above a door I am at and said door opens up and I start walking out.
The sight I come out to is overwhelming. I am in a stadium that seems almost three-fourths filled with people. All these people want to watch this match with me in it. As I am walking to my spot on the battlefield I wave in general directions to people I can hear seem to be clapping for me. Even though it is only pretty much ten seconds it feels like so long for me to get to my spot on the battlefield. Then I realize that the announcers are calling out Roddy's name and before I know it Roddy is walking out to his side of the field. Soon enough, we are both on our sides of the field and a woman walks out to stand on the edge of the battlefield.
"Alright trainers, this will be a 1 on 1 full pokemon battle with substitutes. When all the pokemon on either side are unable to battle the match will be decided. So send out your first pokemon." The referee calls out to us explaining the match we already know about. We both enlarged our first pokeball and I decide to take the lead.
"Bronzor, you are up first." I throw the pokeball and out came my bronze pokemon, Bronzor. Roddy looks at me almost like he is prepared for that.
"A good defense. Well lets go Oricorio." He throws his pokeball to reveal a light purple bird that seems to be holding fans, an interesting choice for the start of a battle.
"Let the battle begin." The referee announces.
"You can go first Zane." Roddy says to me. I intend to take him up on his offer.
"Bronzor, use Psywave." Bronzor's eyes glow pink and it shoots out a wave of pink energy from its eyes, aiming right at Oricorio.
"Oricorio, out of the way." Roddy commands and with his command Oricorio dodges out of the way from my attack quite gracefully. It looks like an incredibly stylish pokemon. But does it have the battling experience? "Oricorio, Mirror Move," I'm expecting that.
Oricorio's eyes glowed the same pink coloring Bronzor's just did and the same pink energy shoots from its eyes as well, directly hitting Bronzor. He does know what he is doing.
"Bronzor, use Feint Attack." I command. Bronzor starts heading towards Oricorio quite innocently but I know Roddy has a trick up his sleeve.
"Oricorio, Revelation Dance." There it is. As soon as Bronzor is in range of Oricorio, Oricorio starts dancing around, and its dancing is actually hitting Bronzor. A flailing wing here, a kick there and even a head butt, but it looks quite graceful. Bronzor is knocked back and looks dazed from the unexpected attack. How does Roddy do it? I need to think here.
The way Oricorio looks makes it a Sensu Oricorio. That makes it a Ghost and Flying type pokemon. That means I'm instantly at a disadvantage. But this is our first battle which means he doesn't know all my tricks.
"Bronzor, try it again. Feint Attack." I can hear a slight murmuring in the crowd and a couple of "What is he doing?"
"It won't work Zane. Oricorio, again Revelation Dance." I've got him this time. Bronzor is heading towards Oricorio again and once it is close enough I could tell Oricorio was getting ready. But not prepared.
"Bonzor, Gyro Ball!" I command. The look of shock is amusing that registeres on Roddy's face as Bronzor quickly changes from a head on tackle into a spinning tackle. Oricorio isn't prepared for the quick switch in attacks and lost its dancing momentum and got directly hit by Bronzor's attack, knocking it into the ground. "Before it can get up, Psywave." Bronzor stops spinning and releases the energy from its eyes and it hits the downed Oricorio resulting in a small explosion on the ground. I hear a bit of clapping and hooting coming from the stands, must have been from people impressed with my turn around. After a few seconds, from the resulting smoke and dust that surrounds the area, Oricorio emerges flying high, yet I notice it is looking a bit wobbly in its flight. Roddy must have noticed it as well.
"Oricorio, return." Roddy brings out a pokeball and returns Oricorio to it. Not a bad choice. While he has the type advantage I have a better defense and know how to turn the tide in my favor. He brings out a new pokeball and throws it. "Muk, help me out here." From the pokeball came out a large, purple, gloppy, sludge pokemon. It has only been out for a couple of seconds but I can slightly smell it from on the other side of the battlefield. "Muk, use pound." Muk suddenly jumps into the air and situates itself right above Bronzor. Before Bronzor can react Muk curls one of its hands into a fist, which starts glowing, and starts falling straight towards Bronzor. It collides its fist with Bronzor but as well, it lands right on top of the enemy pokemon.
"Bronzor, you have to get out of there," I command. While I know Bronzor being a steel type pokemon gives it a heavy advantage against a poison type like Muk but I know being trapped could only bring about bad things.
"Muk, use Fire Blast right against Bronzor," That is what I am afraid of. Muk suddenly opens its mouth and flames start to form in its mouth. Before I can issue another command those same flames came shooting out and blast right at Bronzor instantly knocking it out. Even though it had the ability Heatproof it was no match for the Fire Blast attack Muk launched. Muk though goes right back to its place on the other side of the field.
"Bronzor is unable to battle, Muk is the winner."
"Bronzor return," As I return Bronzor back to its pokeball I can hear a few people in the crowd cheering at Roddy's comeback. He is officially ahead of me, but hopefully not for long. I expand another pokeball and throw it out on the battlefield. "Totodile you're up." Out comes the bouncy Big Jaw Pokemon that looks ready for its debut.
"Another interesting choice." Roddy mentions.
"Trust me you'll understand why I picked him. Totodile, Hydro Pump," Totodile soon shoots out a massive force of water from its mouth at Muk. It came out so fast Muk wasn't even able to dodge out of the way and got directly hit by the large scale attack. I notice it became dazed, now is my chance. "Now Ice Punch." Totodile curls up one of its hands into a fist which instantly froze. It then starts running at Muk.
"Muk use Pound to knock it away." But Roddy then notices that Muk is too dazed to use an attack or even hear the command that has been issued. Totodile then punches it in an uppercut with its frozen fist and launchs it in the air, when Muk lands it doesn't look to good.
"Muk is unable to battle, Totodile is the winner." Roddy looks shocked and even I am pleasantly surprised. Totodile seems even more surprised than the both of us. Then a massive amount of cheering comes from the stands that makes me feel better about myself.
Roddy returns his Muk back to its pokeball. "Well I wasn't expecting Muk to go down so easily. But now it's time to take this up to the next level. Wigglytuff, let's do this!" He throws another one of his pokeballs and out comes a bright pink and puffed up Wigglytuff. The one major thing I notice is it has a sinister look on its face. Yikes, now I know I am in for the fight of my life.
Thank you for reading. As you can tell there will be another part since it would be hard to showcase a whole 6v6 battle in one chapter without having it be super long. I am sorry this was so long coming but I hope to focus a lot more on this story. Please review and tell me what you thought.