Chapter 17: The Final Battle
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(Meanwhile, back at Castelia City, Ash, and Ritchie's family were in the dining room, having pancakes for Breakfast. With Delia placing Pancakes on the Scatterbrained Senior, Hala's plate. As Jeff praises his wife's magnificent cooking, telling her).
Jeff: That is beautiful. (Then his brother, Abe joined his brother in praising his sister in-law's cooking, telling her).
Uncle Abe: You made this right. (But before anyone could even make a move to eat the Pancakes, the area began to shake. Causing Delia to gasp as she and the family continued to watch the shaking happen. Then the shaking began to intensify, becoming more like an Earthquake).
Ash and Ritchie's Family: Huh? Whoa? (Everyone continues to be careful as the shaking Earthquake with Bad Vibes continues).
(Meanwhile, underneath the surface of Castelia City, below the city sewers, in the room where Ash and Ritchie found the Origin Ball, the Origin Ball began to glow as its sheer power began to affect everything in range, causing the nearby lights to burst and shatter before it explodes with its sheer power).
(Meanwhile, above ground, the space underneath one of Castelia City's Potholes began to glow for multiple seconds, before suddenly it exploded, sending the Pothole flying into the air flying away from the hole it was covering. But the Pothole was not the only thing sent flying by the explosion of Power from the Origin Ball, also sent flying was... ASH! The Origin Ball in the underground sewer ended up shooting Ash out of the sewer hole due to the Origin's Ball explosive power. It sent him flying and crash-landing onto the ground next to the pothole. After lying on the ground for a moment, he began getting up, as he took notice of the surroundings of his location).
Ash: Huh? (Ash looked around and saw a Nearby Car Wash sign with an advertisement for something called, "Balloon Fight" was nearby. Ash then realized just where he was). Castelia City? (Ash could hardly believe that he was back home. He was home after so long, he missed everything about home. Ash then realized that his Chekhov's Gun plan to cram Koraidon's Golurk into the Origin Ball to absorb the explosion thereby saving the Berry Kingdom, which while successful had a nasty side-effect of sucking the entire surrounding area into the Origin Ball. Then Ash begins to walk along, when suddenly a van coming from the side of the road suddenly stops in front of him once the driver hit the brakes, coming close to hitting him with the vehicle. Then the driver pokes his head out the window, revealing that it was Byron who came close to hitting Ash with his truck before he hit the brakes. Then he asked in shock upon seeing him).
Byron: Ash? (Byron gets out of his truck and lifts Ash by the collar of his shirt). You almost dented my-
(But before Byron could continue harassing Ash for almost denting his van, despite him never even touching it, when without warning Koraidon's Ominous Floating Castle Airship bursts out of the ground, multiple Street blocks away from the two of them, while also sending multiple pieces of debris that came directly from the Berry Kingdom flying in all directions, including towards Ash and Byron. They manage to avoid having any of said debris fall directly on them, before Byron who was scared senselessly, just runs away. Ash begins running away with Byron, as Koraidon's Castle continues to fall and crush anything in its path. Byron ends up running away even faster than Ash does, leaving him to fall victim to the energy impact of the Castle's Crash to the ground, sending him flying away, while Blue and Black smoke from the crash ends up released in every direction. Also appearing from the smoke of the Castle's Crashlanding in Castelia City was Floette, Princess Serena, Sylveon, and Rillaboom as they ended up crashing on the ground together, landing near a computer repair store named, "Diskun", with a Mascot picture on it, and has a sign underneath the store's name that says, "A Nintendo Entertainment System". Upon Landing, Rillaboom sees that a Bunch of debris was about to fall on him, Princess Serena, Sylveon, and Floette (Eternal Flower), without a second Rillaboom goes to shield them all from the falling debris, keeping them all safe, and sound. Then Ritchie crash-lands to the ground, bouncing off a Medium sized Berry, before rolling across the ground. But he has hardly a second to breath, as more debris keeps falling towards him, as he takes running towards an alley between two buildings, and then quickly and frantically jumps and takes cover inside a City Dumpster to protect himself from all the debris and chaos going on now. Ash, having recovered from the impact of having the energy from the Castle's crash sending him flying, looks up to see the Tera Orb bouncing across the ground before stopping a short distance in front of Ash, then he sees that the mouth of Koraidon's Castle is not far away from the Tera Orb. But then appearing from behind the rocks of his Castle, was a very furiously angry Koraidon who had a look of immensely huge angry fury on his face as he screamed with all his very furious and immense anger and fury directed at only one person. That person being...).
Koraidon: ASH! (Ash then realized that he had just made a MASSIVE mistake that because he did prevent the Golurk from destroying the Berry Kingdom, he only ended up bringing Koraidon's Castle right to his own Home City! Leading him to think to himself, "Nice Job Breaking It, Hero". Seeing that Draconic Humanoid, Koraidon was steaming mad, Ash races toward the Tera Orb but Koraidon leaps from his Castle, and landing in between the Tera Orb and Ash, stopping him from getting it. Then Koraidon asks Ash, proving that Dragons Are Demonic). Do you want this? (He brutally grabs Ash by the arm and lifts him up into the air, making him scream fearfully. Koraidon then snarls and gives him a massive powerful Close Combat attack, sending him flying backwards into a car's windshield. Ash feels a whole lot of pain from that attack of Koraidon's, and even got a truly nasty black eye and a couple of brutal injuries. But then he manages to open his eyes in time for him to see that Koraidon's brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown was continuing with him next using his Collision Course attack. Luckily, Ash was able to dodge Koraidon's Collision Course attack at the last second, but Koraidon then growls fuming in anger and rage at Ash. He could clearly see that for the Ax-Crazy Koraidon, "It's Personal" now, as he was going fully feral on him now and wanted to make him suffer as much as possible as part of his literal Roaring Rampage of Revenge of Misplaced Retribution. Then he would kill him with all his deep seated and venomous hatred as a Crazy Jealous Guy with Obsession being one of his four Fatal Flaws. And now, Koraidon was in an Unstoppable Rage, with his Slasher Smile, and having all his anger, rage, and fury along with his full power on full display here. While Ash managed to luckily avoid the heckishly LIVID Koraidon's Collision Course move, the Car he went flying onto was not as fortunate as it exploded from the power used by the attack). YOU RUINED MY WEDDING! (Ash feeling scared of Koraidon's Unstoppable Rage and Fury here, was crawling away as fast he could to escape from Koraidon) I WAS FINALLY GONNA BE HAPPY! (Koraidon then angrily knocks a car away with his tail, before grabbing and throwing a nearby large rock at Ash with sheer animalistic malice, like the two things were mere paperweights. Thankfully, Ash managed to duck and avoid the thrown rock at him, with it flying and hitting a nearby car instead. But Koraidon did not let up on viciously forcing Ash to bear the brunt of his wrath. Then Koraidon comes and grabs Ash before viciously tossing him like a ragdoll into another car with Ash landing on the car's windshield face first as he keeps screaming at him angrily). NOW YOU WILL SUFFER... LIKE ME! (Then Koraidon comes and grabs the Car that Ash ended up thrown onto, lifting it up causing Ash to fall off and end up leaning onto another Car nearby. But then he manages to run away before Koraidon can throw the Car at him. Koraidon then tries to hit Ash with two Dragon Claw attacks, but Ash manages to dodge them both as he keeps running for his Life. But Koraidon gives Chase and manages to hit Ash with his Collision Course attack, and the time it was Koraidon made the attack truly and excruciating painful for Ash, who felt his whole-body writhing in agony and pain. But while Koraidon's brutally painful attack had Ash flying from the impact of the attack, it got worse as pain he was feeling only intensified when Koraidon blasted him with his Hyper Beam attack sending him flying towards the Punch-Out Pizzeria while screaming in pain and agony. Ash ended up flying throwing the restaurant's glass window which only intensified the pain he was already feeling currently. Ash ended up flying and crashing into the wall of the restaurant, crashing back-first into the Hanging TV, before finally collapsing to the ground, groaning in pain as the tv collapsed to the floor behind him with a crack in the middle of the screen. With all the intense and excruciating pain and injuries Ash had received from Koraidon here, Ash was barely able to get back on his feet as he groaned in pain, feeling like multiple parts of his body ended up broken or severely damaged and was now feeling badly injured because of Koraidon).
(Back outside the Pizzeria, Koraidon stomps his way to the Restaurant).
(Inside, Ash crawls his way to hide behind one of the booths near the arcade machines to hide in case Koraidon decided to come to look for him. Then he hears Koraidon calling out to him from outside).
(Koraidon then calls out to Ash who he knew was in there).
Koraidon: You really thought you could stop me?
(Back inside, after perching himself up against the booth he was hiding behind, feeling exhausted and beaten down, Ash goes and holds his injured right shoulder, while staying quiet, hoping that Koraidon would not find him).
Koraidon: YOU WORTHLESS, WEAK LITTLE NOTHING!
(Outside, Koraidon continues screaming at Ash, wanting to come out and face him, roaring at him).
Koraidon: COME OUT AND FIGHT! Or are you too SCARED?!
(Ash would not say it, or even let Koraidon know it, but Ash was incredibly scared of him now as he continued to feel the pain of the truly vicious and brutal beatdown that Koraidon gave him).
(When Koraidon hears no response from Ash, he cackles and laughs knowing what was surely going through Ash's head right now).
Koraidon: Just what I thought.
(Princess Serena rushes over, jumps into the air in a spinning kick at Koraidon, who grunts in pain from the Surprise attack. Then her Sylveon comes by and attacks Koraidon, hitting him with her Dazzling Gleam attack. Princess Serena and Sylveon saw in pure horror how badly Koraidon attacked and beatdown Ash within an inch of his life out of sheer rage moments ago and was now trying to distract Koraidon with Rillaboom and Floette to save him from ending up killed by him. Then Rillaboom body slams into Koraidon with a Wood Hammer attack, knocking Koraidon over as Floette (Eternal Flower) joins them. Rillaboom was wanting to defend his Vitriolic Best Bud Ash from Koraidon as he could tell that he was fearful of Koraidon, and given the beatdown he got, he could not blame him. This only angers Koraidon even more, then with an enraged bellow, he turns his attention to his attackers and fights back. He knocks Princess Serena, Sylveon, Rillaboom, and Floette off with his Flare Blitz attack, then he roars at them before charging at them. For Rillaboom, he was looking forward to this Chance to fight Koraidon personally. He was going to make him pay for Koraidon coming close to destroying his dad and everyone else like he did earlier by kicking his butt in a Curb Stomp Cushion. But Koraidon was going to make them pay for attacking him by giving them their own Curb-Stomp Battle. With that the Primate Versus Reptile battle between Rillaboom (with Floette, Princess Serena, and Sylveon) and Koraidon began, as Koraidon roars at them, accepting their challenge to battle him, then he runs off to fight them. Leaving the now incapacitated Ash behind in the Pizzeria).
(Still hiding behind the Booth, Ash, now incapacitated, is on the brink of losing hope after ending up pummeled by Koraidon. He Sighs in despondence just trying to recuperate as he took a moment to review all the injuries, he sustained from Koraidon. Which included a truly nasty black eye, realistic purple bruises on his face, cheeks, nose, and one on his right eye, he was holding his right shoulder in pain as if his arm ended up fractured, (it could be from when Koraidon grabbed him before punching him into the first car) or that his shoulder could have ended up dislocated, and on top of that, he was barely able to get back on his feet at all. Ash could remember the violent beatdown that Koraidon gave him, throwing him against the windshield of two cars, falling head-first on the second car, and then landing on the glass on the second time. With these injuries, including how ended up thrown three times into glass, a nasty punch to the face and all those attacks, he would have cuts on his head and body, glass shards stuck on his skin and serious blood loss. He was still incredibly grateful for being alive and for not bleeding despite his injuries that would have torn apart any normal human. He knew that the stakes for fighting Koraidon were even higher now, because he was here in his own hometown, with how hundreds of innocent lives are now at stake from ending up hurt by Koraidon's forces, including his and Ritchie's own family who were living simply above the source of all this chaos. But Ash did not think he could defeat Koraidon, and even if he had the help of Floette, Princess Serena, Sylveon, Rillaboom, and Ritchie, he would still be putting his friends and family in danger. And he could not even think about doing that, he felt like just giving up entirely. As he continues to feel despair and the desire to give up, he hears the restaurant's TV sparking back on and then hears himself and Ritchie talking. He then realizes that the Commercial they made was playing now).
Ash and Ritchie: Mamma mia! (He then hears himself say in the Commercial as the commercial glitches on one part).
Ash: That's-a why the Sup-Super Ketchum Brothers are here. To-a save Castelia City- Save Castelia City-Castelia City- Save Castelia City- (Ash then sees himself and Ritchie hugging in the Commercial before the TV shuts off completely as Ash, having heard himself say that he and Ritchie will "Save Castelia City!" causes Ash's Spirit to end up reinvigorated as his face changes to determination, realizing that it is up to him to save Castelia City. Since he had spent his whole life standing up to bullies to protect his little brother which was why he was going to now going to stand up to Koraidon, since he was just another bully that is going after not only Ritchie but an entire kingdom of people weaker than him. And he was not going to let that happen! Ash was Not Afraid of Koraidon anymore! Now feeling determined once again, Ash gets out from hiding, stretches his right arm, and adjusts his hat saying to himself quietly, having gotten his Heroic Second Wind). Let's-a go.
(Ash then kicks the Pizzeria Door open, stepping outside. Ash did not have a plan or even know what to do in his fight against Koraidon or how to fight him. He did not know whether he would survive or not, or if he could even stop Koraidon. But he did know that he was not going to let Koraidon destroy his home, his friends, or his family! Ash was going to fight and stop Koraidon for the last time! Ash knew that he may not even have a chance to stop Koraidon, but he was determined to try no matter what happened to him! Even if that means that this next Battle will be his last!).
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Ashpoke55: Thank you. Yep, the start of the final Battle is here. The Final battle TRULY begins in the next chapter. And I have a Special Surprise in store for you. (And by "You" I specifically mean both you and the readers. (Mostly the Readers).). As for what story, I am going to be doing after "The Super Ketchum Bros" I will give you a hint, in Chapter 16, I mentioned a Sword Wielding Pokémon who said, "One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it". But even when I do finish this story, I will take me a little while to get the story (the story itself) and the first chapter ready for me to publish it. But I do work every single day to get my stories ready for everyone to read. And I did say this before, "I do have another Story I am going to be doing after finishing "The Super Ketchum Bros." before returning to work on the "Ash 150" Series". And I do very much for being terribly slow on updating, "The Ashes of Confidence" but I am remarkably close to finishing the "little project" that I have mentioned before. While I am working on getting the story that will be coming after this current story ("The Super Ketchum Bros."), I will be working on resuming the story, "The Ashes of Confidence", only this time I will be posting new chapters for that as often as I can, instead of only Publishing on the weekends. (Actually, I cannot confirm if that will be the case in hindsight). But you will still get tons of uploads of "The Ashes of Confidence" while waiting for my next Story to come out. And once again, once my next story is complete, I will truly be returning to work "Ash 150: Pokémon Force" resuming with season 2. And maybe if I can, while publishing the chapters of my next story, I will be able to prepare new chapters for Both "The Ashes of Confidence" and "Ash 150: Pokémon Force" Season 2. But either way, I will have tons of new chapters to keep you busy while waiting for me to resume working on the "Ash 150" Series, so no worries. And do not forget that I have a TON of other stories for you to read while waiting for updates.
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-To Be Continued-
Next time on...THE SUPER KETCHUM BROS.:
Ash's Last Stand
