Welcome to the 8th chapter of The Pokemon Entertainment League Season 1. In today's chapter Roddy and Zane read a few news articles to see what's going to be happening the next few days and after that they watch the Tag Team Champions, Lara and Ryan have a battle. I hope you enjoy it.
March 8th Part 3 (Season 1 Episode 8)
Roddy and I leave the Orange Stadium after watching the match between Darren James and Greg Brown. We are both highly impressed with the battle even if we didn't agree with the training technique of one Darren James. It is noontime and we still have 2 hours to kill before we have to go to watch the match with the tag team champions.
"So what should we do to waste time?" I ask Roddy.
"If you don't mind I kind of would like to look up the latest going ons in Pokemon Entertainment League. I haven't seen much of it and it would be interesting to see who has been on the up and up." It makes sense. Now that we are here we really should see who the upcoming threats are and who might be trying to make a name for themselves.
"Ok, let's go then." We head back to Denaro Hall and enter off the main lobby in a library type room with bookshelves, a whiteboard, tables, and twelve computers that people can use. As off now only four of the computers are being used and so it's not difficult for us to grab a computer for ourselves. Roddy logs into the computer while we sit next to each other and look at the screen. He quickly finds the hottest news articles for the PEL and accesses them. Before a few seconds have passed I quickly point to a story.
"Can you click on that one?" I ask. He clicks on it and a story comes up.
4 way match for the next contender of the PokeLeague Championship
The biggest news in the PEL this week was an announcement on Sunday by Dylan Stodart, an Elite, that on March 9th, a 4 way match would be used to determine the next contender for the PokeLeague Championship. No details emerged from the initial announcement on who would be in the match except on the next day a Gavin Murdoch came forward saying that he would be in the match. No other people have stepped forward saying they would be in the match. Gavin is well known for his 1 vs 3 one on one match last month where his Magnezone successfully defeated all three of his opponents. The match on Thursday, March 9th, will be followed by an announcement by Dylan as to when the contender will get their match.
"How interesting. A nice way to shake up the game I guess." Roddy says. It is a simple, but effective way of putting everyone on their toes.
"It will be the biggest match tomorrow. I don't think we'll want to miss it." I say. Roddy nods and pulls out his PDA making a reminder in it.
"Well, I guess the other trainers are keeping their roles in it a secret to shock the crowd." He says as he puts his PDA down. It was rare but not unheard of that sometimes a match wouldn't tell those outside of it who was in the match. With that if you were in the match you never knew who your opponents were but could come forward in saying you would be in the match. This way you would be able to get your name out there beforehand and generate a bit of hype for what you would be doing.
"Well let's see what else we have to look forward to." I say. We go back to looking at the stories. After a little bit of time Roddy clicks on one and opens it up.
Petunia Lang Looking to Make Waves for Upcoming Monthly Event
Petunia Lang is a well-known figure in the Pokemon Entertainment League. For 3 years she has been a major player in keeping her name alive which has been seen at the expense of others. While we have seen a lot of her in the last few months rumors are being said that she might be anticipating a point deduction to get into the upcoming monthly event "Torrent of Change". Since Petunia has a ranking of 86.91, it's a sure fire way for her to get into the event, if she is able to keep her ranking above 80 for the next couple of weeks.
"So Petunia Lang is trying to keep her image relevant by using the event to her advantage. How like her." Roddy says. I knew what he means. If you are clever and strategic enough you could get into the monthly event by using point reduction to get a match.
In the PEL on the last day of the month, the league hosts a special themed event. Sometimes the theme can be anything from certain types of battles to certain trainers battling to it feeling like a regular day, you never knew with the event at the time. But it was the biggest day of the month and so all the trainers work hard to be able to have a battle on that day. The event name was always given on the first of the month and the details of what it meant were given sometime during the middle of the month. New trainers like me and Roddy have no hope of having a battle on that day.
"I wonder what it's going to be like this month." I say out loud. Roddy just shrugs and I let the conversation die down. I notice he is actively looking at the title of an article and he immediately clicks it open.
The Hunters to Deliver Announcement on Friday
The Hunters have said that they as a group will be making an announcement on Friday March 10th at 9 AM. What the announcement is is unknown but likely has to do with their shocking loss at The Opportunity last month. At last month's event The Opportunity the PEL group The Hunters had a tag team match against another PEL group Ladies For All. Aleks Wirth and Jaynie McInnes of The Hunters took on Rose Olesen and Nellie Tivoli of Ladies For All in a Tag Team match. The surprise of the day was when Aleks and Jaynie lost the match. No further news is known at this time about what will happen on Friday.
"Well that seem interesting. Aren't they well known for being one of the most powerful groups in the PEL?" I ask Roddy who just nods while looking at the screen. I know something is up with him but I decide not to question him currently on it.
Groups in the PEL are a rare but well known concept. At times a group of 3 or more trainers will band together against either a common enemy or for a cause they all share. The Hunters are a powerful group of 8 trainers who are dedicated together through trying to be the best, loyalty to one another and for making a name in taking down their opponents swiftly. They had started up 7 years before and had trainers come and go ever since. But if you were accepted into their group it meant they recognized you as a worthy member.
Only a half hour has passed for us but there wasn't much else I could think of to do. "Want to go explore the campus till the next match?"
"Sure why not." Roddy responds, although I'm not sure why he doesn't seem all that excited anymore.
At precisely 1:50 Roddy and I enter into Wilcox Arena and get our seats to see the Tag Team Champions Lara and Ryan in a battle. We are sitting comfortable and I notice that Roddy is in a better mood since looking at the news. I haven't broached the subject yet and I'm not to entirely sure he actually understands that he wasn't himself during our news meeting. Since I still don't know much about him I decide its best to leave things as it is. Suddenly the announcer is broadcasting to the stadium.
"This is a tag team match with one pokemon for each trainer. First introducing the challengers, Peter Grips and Robert Elks. They are The Unquiet Dead." The announcer introduced the challenging team.
The Unquiet Dead did one thing for me while they were walking out, and that is creep me out. Peter is of average height with Robert being a couple of inches shorter. But that is pretty much the only difference I can see since they both have jet black hair and are wearing purple cloaks. Roddy leans over and whispers to me.
"Apparently they are taking the whole mediumship role very seriously. Robert only uses Psychic type pokemon and Peter only uses Ghost type pokemon. It's supposed to be a take on the psychic, psychic type, talking or controlling the dead, ghost type. Don't worry about feeling weirded out because they aren't popular at all for that exact reason." Well I guess I am glad I'm not the only one who isn't the biggest fan of them.
"Now introducing the Tag Team Champions, Lara Burrows and Ryan Brooks." To a chorus of cheers, out walks the Tag Team Champions. Lara is of a shorter height with long brown hair. She wears glasses and is currently wearing a white pant suit. Ryan is much taller than Lara, with shoulder length brown hair, but isn't as spiffy in the clothing department, only wearing a plain green shirt and jeans. They both are wearing the Tag Team Championship belts around their waists.
The referee walks out onto the field at this point. "This will be a tag team match with one pokemon per trainer. If both pokemon on either side are unable to battle the battle will be decided. Now will the challenges send out their pokemon." Peter and Robert expand pokeballs in their hands and proceed to throw them out onto the field.
"Gothitelle, go." Robert says.
"Cofagrigus, go." Peter says.
They both announce their pokemon in such an emotionless way that when their pokemon do come out there feels like no energy around their side of the field.
"Now, the champions will send out their pokemon." The referee announces.
"Drapion, let's do this." Ryan says.
"Gliscor, come on out." Lara calls.
While both teams look strong and intimidating the champions have an air of energy that make it seem that they are raring and energized to go. The challengers seem devoid of any emotions which is still creepy.
"Begin!" the referee announces.
"Gothitelle, use Signal Beam on Drapion." Robert commands in his creepy and emotionless way. Gothitelle holds its hands close to its chest and a multi colored ball of light forms in its hands and them the ight becomes a beam aiming directly at Drapion.
"Gliscor, take that attack." Lara commands. Gliscor quickly jumps in front of Drapion and the beam of multi colored light hits Gliscor, with it only shielding itself behind its claws. Butwhen it looks up it looks completely fine. "Now, use Strength on Gothitelle." Gliscor's right claw glows white and its hover flies towards Gothitelle, intending to strike it.
"Cofagrigus, take that attack as well." Peter says, emotionless as well. Cofagrigus moves in front of Gothitelle. But instead of before, the attack goes through Cofagrigus harmlessly.
"Cofagrigus, Swagger." Cofagrigus glows red and the red glow also gets transferred to Gliscor who suddenly becomes confused but enraged as well. Gliscor starts storming around the battlefield in anger.
"So I think I understand their strategy a bit." Roddy quietly says to me. "It seems like Gothitelle is the more offensive of the two, while Cofagrigus is the support of the two of them. Being the ghost type member of their team Cofagrigus can jump in front of more attacks than Gothitelle can and so is better suited for a defensive role in their tag team."
I decide to jump in with my own observations "I think Lara and Ryan are taking a page out of their book as well. It looks like Ryan chose Drapion since it's a Dark type to be able to effectively counter the Psychic and Ghost types they could bring out. Since Drapion is the essential piece in this battle, Lara probably chose Gliscor to be able to take attacks and quickly attack back. But sadly it seems to have backfired on them." Gliscor is currently hitting itself in the head with both of its claws.
"Gothitelle, Confusion on Gliscor. Robert says to his pokemon. Gothitelle's eyes glow purple and that same color surrounds Gliscor and is slowly lifted into the air. It still being enraged tries to get out of the attack but only manages to struggle in midair.
"Drapion, use Dark Pulse on Gothitelle." Ryan commands. I can tell he's trying to get control back into the situation. Drapion creates a black orb between its two protrusions and then fires off a pulse right at Gothitelle.
"Take that attack Cofagrigus." Cofagrigus jumps in front of Gothitelle. The attack hits Cofagrigus hard and it seems weakened but determined.
"Now slam Gliscor into the ground." Robert says. Gothitelle raises its arms in the air, in doing that also raises Gliscor up a few more inches, who is still struggling with the confusion its suffering. It then quickly slams them downward which in turn throws Gliscor forcibly into the ground. This earns a loud gasp from the audience who is shocked at the nature of brutality that Gliscor went through.
"Cofagrigus, Hyper Beam." Peter's Cofagrigus puts two of its ghost hands together and starts charging up a ball of energy. After a few seconds the ball of energy released a beam of energy that headed straight for Drapion.
"Dodge that." Ryan yells. But it's too late and Drapion is hit by the Hyper Beam. Drapion gets launched backwards but is still able to stay upright. Gliscor is struggling to get to its feet as well. Gothitelle and Cofagrigus loom down on their opponents.
"It looks like the Tag Team Campions don't deserve their belts after all." Peter brags. It's the first real bit of emotion that the team has showed. Just to show how confident they are Robert smirks at the comment made by his teammate.
"Gliscor, jump towards Drapion." This confused me. I wasn't sure about Lara's plan but Gliscor suddenly got to its feet and jumps towards Drapion who grabs it with its claw.
"Gothitelle, Signal Beam on Drapion." Gothitelle starts charging up the attack but Ryan chimes in.
"Drapion, Use Fling with Gliscor."
"Gliscor, use Strength as well." Drapion starts spinning around. After three times around it launches Gliscor from its grasp towards its opponents with its claw glowing. Confagrigus moves in front of Gothitelle to protect it but Gliscor phases right through it and strikes Gothitelle with its claw. The result makes the multicolored energy exploded from the impact and sent an explosion on The Unquiet Dead's side of the field. Everyone in the arena, including Roddy and I are shocked by this turn of events and wait anxiously to see what happened.
Through the smoke pops out Gliscor, who is hovering about the ground, clearly injuried but still up. The smoke clears to show both Gothitelle and Cofagrigus on the ground not moving. "Confagrigus and Gothitelle are unable to battle the winners are Gliscor and Drapion. The winners of the match are Lara Burrows and Ryan Brooks." The crowd goes wild with cheers for the champions who get excited as well and hug their respected pokemon. Peter and Robert recall their own pokemon and walk off without a word.
"Well that was simple but exciting." I say. The crowd is still excited from the turnabout.
"I'm not disappointed in the least." Roddy says smiling.
Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it. Please review and hear are a few questions you can think about.
1) What did you think about the news articles and the upcomings for the next couple of days?
2) What did you think of the Tag Team Champions, Lara and Ryan?
3) Anything you are looking forward to seeing or want to see?
Incase you want to ask me a question or talk to me about my story feel free to message me and talk to me. Thank you very much.