Chapter 34: Segin Showdown

Ash and his students have finally reached the sighting of the first Team Star base. Ash has read that the team is divided into five groups spread all across Paldea, and Ash knows that it will be an uphill challenge to take them all down.

"Ready to kick some Star butt?" Vanny said while smashing her knuckles together "As ready as I'll ever be" Gus said with eagerness in his voice.

"Wait a minute" Carla said before looking around the area "Has anyone seen Penny?" "I think she stayed behind over at camp, for some reason she seems off about storming the base" Ash answered with a tinge of confusion in his voice himself.

"Her loss, come on let's get going!" Vanny said, running ahead of the group, only to be pounced on by a few Team Star Grunts. "You shouldn't have come here girly" One grunt said "Didn't your mommy tell you not to go poking in places you shouldn't be in?"

"On the contrary, did your Mommy tell you not to join a bunch of punks?" Vanny shot back with a smirk "Oh that does, we're gonna shoot you into the stars!" They sent out their Pokemon, which were various kind of dark types including Maschiff, the pre-evolution of Mabosstiff, and Murkrow.

"Little leaguers huh? Well then, Nacli, let's smash them!" Vanny sent out her salt Pokemon, which quickly disposed of the two Pokemon with Rock Blast. "What the?!" The grunt shouted in shock "This girl's strong" Another grunt said, whom then sent out her Sneasel and Houndour. "Let's see if you can handle this you star-shooter!" "Gladly" Vanny smirked, cracking her knuckles "Nacli, use Sand Attack" Nacli shot sand into his opponent's eyes, blinding them. "Now, use Smack Down" Nacli then chucked boulders that sent the dark types flying.

"Looks like we better fly, Hasta la vistar!" The grunt said as she and her partner ran off into the base. "Ha! Cowards!" Vanny shouted as she did her victory dance.

"No time to waste, let's get in there and stop those loons" Felia shouted as they opened the gate, and they were soon besieged by many Team Star grunts, whom also had various dark types, ready to attack our heroes.

"We'll take these guys, you get the honcho teach" Carla said as she took out her Veluza to take on some Maschiffs "We got these punks as well" Arven said, ordering his Quaxly to use Wing Attack on an incoming Murkrow.

"Bring it on!" Thomas shouted in a rare act of bravado while sending out his Shroodle and Clodsire as Nemona's Lycanroc was dashing through the crowd with Accellerock, knocking away Houndour as she does so. Carla has Dondozo use Wave Crash on various Pokemon with Gus having Shellder firing Icicle Spear at some Murkrow and Felia has her Vivillon use Struggle Bug on a few Maschiff, with Zeke sending out his Fidough, whom was ready for a scrap.

Ash ran towards the heart of the base, where he saw someone on what appears to be some sort of modified vehicle. The hood had an engine with what appears to be an engine with an eye and a mouth of razor-sharp teeth. Sitting in the car is a young man with black hair and primarily dressed in black with white details. He wears a black vest with white rims above an orangish vest emblazoned with the Team Star symbol. He has a white cap with various stylings stitched into it, along with a pair of headphones.

"You must be that new teacher from the school, Ash was it?" The boy asked "The one and only, and who mighty you be?" Ash questioned. "Oh yeah, I need to introduce myself as well, I'm Giacomo dawg, but you can call me 'DJ Vice' and leader of the Segin Squad yo" The boy now revealing himself as Giacomo said in DJ-esque slang, which made Ash and Pikachu sweat-drop.

"Is this guy for real?" Ash asked Pikachu "Pika pi" Pikachu said while shaking his head "If ya homies think you can stop me then you are trippin' nobody can stop Team Star, we go on and on forever" Giacomo bragged while a theme song played in the background. "I guess you don't know me that well then" Ash said whilst pulling out a Pokeball "Oh, a fight, then you're on homie, Pawniard, make them taste ownage" He then sent out his sharp blade Pokemon, with Ash sending out Fuecoco.

Giacomo was the first to send out a command "Pawniard, use Metal Claw" "Fuecoco, use Flame Charge" Both Pokemon clashed with blades and flames, causing dust to kick up and some smoke to obscure the area. "Now, use Feint Attack to stomp em." Through the smoke, Pawniard slammed into Fuecoco, making him stagger and fall onto his back, struggling to get back up. "Fuecoco!" "Now, use Slash dawg" Giacomo shouted with Pawniard's arms glowing white, before slashing Fuecoco multiple times before the fire croc managed to get back up.

"Fuecoco, can you still fight?" Ash asked with concern, which got a firm "Coco" as an answer. "Alright, good!" "Too late noob, use Slash!" "Not this time, use Disarming Voice!" Before Pawniard could reach Fuecoco, the croc let out a startling shout that stunned Pawniard in his tracks. "What!?" Giacomo said with shock in his voice. "Now, use Flamethrower!" Fuecoco let out an intense stream of flames that left Pawniard with various burns, but he still stands.

"No way man, we ain't gonna get pwned by this loser! Use Night Slash!" "Face it head on his Flame Charge!" Both Pokemon clashed once more, only this time, Fuecoco managed to out-muscle Pawniard, sending him flying and faint.

"Ugh, you are so cramping my style, now you're gonna get it!" Giacomo shouted while jumping out of the car. "Now get ready to feel the wicked wrath of the Segin Starmobile!"

The engine revved up and the Starmobile then rushed towards them, making Ash Pikachu and Fuecoco stumble from the rumbling the modified vehicle. Ash could see the vehicle engine brandishing its jaws as it prepared to attack "Is that a Pokemon?" He said while pulling out his Rotom Phone.

Revavroom: The Multy-Cyl Pokemon, a Poison and Steel type. They create gas from minerals from rocks, they viciously intimidate others with the sound of their exhaust

"It's, like, totally gnarly, prepare to be pwned!" Giacomo laughed as the Starmobile began firing stars at Fuecoco. "Stop that Swift with Snarl!" Ash shouted out of instinct. Fuecoco released a pulse of darkness that cancelled out the Swift attack. "Now, use Flame Charge" Fuecoco surrounded himself with flames and ran towars the Starmobile, only it didn't do much as Fuecoco merely bounced off the car.

"What the!?" "Pika pika!?" "HA! Losers! Did some modification to the car and the engine is now a dark type, how's that for a plot-twist?" Giacomo bragged "Now, use Spin Out!" Revavroom burned rubber as he slammed into Fuecoco with great force, almost knocking him out "Now, use Swift!" This time, Fuecoco couldn't defend himself, and was knocked out thanks to all of the combined damage.

"Oh no! Fuecoco return!" Ash shouted as he returned Fuecoco "You should just give up and take your little posse back to Loser School, you can't beat Team Star!" Giacomo taunted, but Ash wasn't budging. "Nobody's unbeatable, Nymble! Go!" Ash then sent out his little grasshopper, which made Giacomo laugh even more.

"You're going to beat me with that puny thing?! What a noob!" Ash, now tired of Giacomo's taunting, got to the chase. "Double Kick!" Nymble hopped and slammed into Revavroom with his hind legs. "What the?! HEY!" Giacomo shouted as he tried to regain his bearings from the surprise. "Gah! Revavroom, roll over that puny insect with Wicked Torque!" Giacomo shouted, and Revavroom starts to chase after Nymble, attempting to flatten it under the Starmobile's tires. However, Nymble was too small and too fast to be caught, as he hops while landing Lunge attacks onto Revavroom, further frustrating Giacomo. "Revavroom, use Brick Break when it gets close!" Just as Nymble leapt for another attack, Revavroom headbutted the grasshopper, making it stagger backwards. "Nowhere to run now, use Spin Out!" Revavroom now revs up and charges at Nymble.

"Nymble, jump up to dodge" Nymble took one mighty leap and the Starmobile ended up crashing into a nearby tree. "NO! That's gonna take me all day to fi!" Giacomo said in despair. Nymble then landed onto the ground, only to then start glowing a blue color.

"Woah!" "Pika!" Nymble then gained a bipedal stance, grew larger and taller, and it's hind legs then rested on his back with new legs appearing. "It can't be man..." Giacomo uttered with fear.

When the glow disappeared, a Pokemon appeared that resembled a locust, and was primarily dark gray with glossy black colorations on his head, and lower abdomen. On his waist was a light gray stripe that had a star shape on the center of his midriff, orange spikes on his legs and arms, triangular antennae, and orange eyes.

"Wow! Nymble evolved!"

Lokix: The Grasshopper Pokemon, a bug and dark type. While it can use its third pair of legs to stand on, it places great strain on them, so it only uses them when necessary

"Whatever, we'll still flatten you, Wicked Torque!" Giacomo shouted, interrupting the moment. "Lokix, use your new move, use Axe Kick!" Ash shouted. Lokix jumped into the air, raised his leg high, and slammed it down onto the damaged part of the Starmobile, the resulting force flung the Revavroom out of its place and left the Starmobile in shambles.

"Oh man, the show's over folks, there won't be any more tunes" Giacomo whimpered whilst teary-eyed, but that was when Ash approached him. "Here's what I want to know, why did you do this? What did Narauva Academy do to you?" Ash said, wanting to understand why all of this happened in the first place.

"You think those uppity bookworms are so high and enlightened, they just preach that junk while they trample all over us" Giacomo said, not even bothering to look at Ash. "I highly doubt that they would do anything that bad" Ash said, shaking his head "Bah! You keep saying that when eventually they get one of your pupils booted out" Without anymore words, Ash, Pikachu, and the newly-evolved Lokix left, to see that Ash's students have all handled themselves really well, various dark types were shown knocked out all across the base.

"Did you kick it to em Ash?" Vanny asked "Sure did, but something tells me there is more to Team Star than it appears, he says something about how the Professors of Narauva walk over their students whenever they feel like it" Everyone looked at each other, not sure what to make of what Ash said "Perhaps we'll find out sooner or later" "I'll say, your Nymble evolved, that's so cool!" Gus shouted as he ran around Lokix, whom sweat-dropped.

"Let's not keep Penny waiting any further, let's head back to camp" Nemona announced, and they all went off.

Meanwhile with Giacomo, he got a call on his phone "Hello? Yo what's up? Yeah, he beat me, I know how much we mean to you but... You're right, maybe it is time to go back, alright, peace out" Giacomo hung up and pulled out something, which was a Narauva ID Badge.

End of Chapter