Note: Me and EGKangroo should never partner again, reason being the beast we created down below... the size, the horror... anyway enjoy aha
// CHAPTER TWO : PART FOUR //
Sid Norm : Glyn Schaffer
"Huuuaaahoa... ah man... that was a good sleep.."
Stretching out his arms while letting out another yawn, Sid climbed out of the single bed, scratching his eyes. The mattress sure was comfortable; it had made Sid sleep even longer than he normally did. Lazily he searched through his bag and tried to find a toothbrush... unfortunately however, there seeemed to be none. "Aish, what bother! Gonna have to buy one from that vending machine I saw right outside..." After having a quick shower and wearing fresh clothes, Sid packed his bag and left his room, heading off towards the vending machine. Before he reached there however, he noticed a clock fixed above the machine. The time was 9:40.
9:40.
They had agreed to have a battle early, didn't they? Around at 9:15?
Sid realised he was nearly thirty minutes late. "Well, sh*t, I better get my arse moving then!" Putting his dental healthcare problem aside for the moment, Sid rushed downstairs and towards the counter of the Pokemon Centre, where some trainers were starting to leave themselves. "Nurse Joy, do you have my Pokemon?!" exclaimed Sid, not caring for what his breath smelt like. The lady just smiled and swayed at a tray with two Pokeballs. "Sid, isn't it? These little darlings have been waiting for about an hour now, but it's fine, no ones claimed them." Sid picked up Rocky and Alter with a grin before heading off to another vending machine to quench some thirst with some coffee. Not caring for his burnt taste buds, Sid threw his cup towards a nearby bin, missed and narrowly espaced the grasp of a furious janitor. At least the mocha had rejuvenated some energy into him.
Sid noticed Glyn standing right outside the PokeCentre, already waiting for him. Damn that guy woke up early to battle; Sid had barely woken up. With tactics planned and a confident look, Sid marched towards Glyn, a cheeky grin on his face. "I hope your ready mate, 'cause I ain't going easy on ya. Two-on-two battle in Route 1 - how does that sound?" he finished off his speech by slapping Glyn's back before awaiting a reply. He hadn't used Alter in battle yet, but it seemed pretty decent out there in the little brawl, and so was hoping to start off with it.
Glyn simpered. He knew Sid would come. Well. Knew. He was almost wondering whether Sid overslept, or whether maybe his night cycle had always been discombobulated. He did wake up early by routine to jog every morning, to stay fit for JV. Still, there the kid was, looking confident enough for the upcoming battle. "That's a good idea," Glyn said. He was twiddling with Tympole's pokéball, cross hatching the peasized container through the splays of his fingers. "We can fight the battle somewhere near water right? I mean, Tympole's aquatic. There's a brook not too far from here, kind of running along the edge of route 1." He drew a line in the air with his finger, visualising roughly how it ran respectively to Dew Town.
Near water. Urgh. Rocky would be useless, being part Rock. Sid was unsure if he should accept the request. "Err, I guess we can... not so much that we are fighting in a water field, but somewhere around the border I guess would be fine." Sid then threw Alter's Pokeball up in the air without warning, and let the Swablu out, "We could use my Swablu to scout the area for places like that if you like." "Oh, yeah, nothing like that. It's a stream that's about knee-deep and like a step and a half wide. I know exactly where it is," Glyn assured Sid. He had a rock type, didn't he? "It's just that it's not healthy for an aquatic to stay on dry land, probably, yeah," he scratched the back of his head. He couldn't wait for Kilohertz to evolve into a Palpitoad, so he wouldn't be bound to only letting him out when there was water near. He pointed in the direction whence the trainers entered Dew. "It's just this way," he beckoned and walked ahead.
Sid sighed, recalling Alter to it's Pokeball, and started following Glyn. His confident mood was still up but after finding out that Glyn had a water type Sid wasn't as sure of victory now. He just hoped that Rocky could just tank it out or something, or that Alter could beast the whole battle. Either way, Sid was looking forward to the battle. He turned his temporary frown into a smile and continued to walk behind Glyn.
The two trailed along, Glyn was sure to retrace his footsteps to the place where he caught the Spearow, Mathilda. In the back of his mind, he was quite worried whether she'd be so cooperative if he called her out. He hadn't bonded with her, so it was a gamble. Still, he was excited about his first trainer battle. he figured out what way he needed to go when he saw the rolling inclines. Those were near the brook, and he could visually imagine it to be somewhere behind. His accuracy wasn't that far off. In fact, he found the outcrop where he sat near by the bank of the meandering stream when he called Kilohertz out for the first time, fed him and encountered the wild Spearow, about 20 feet to his left. "See, it's not that deep."
Sid was still unsure but tried to clear unnecessary thoughts away; there was more important things in hand to deal with it. "Aish, it's a nice spot to battle I guess, good find!" With that, both trainers took their places opposite each other, Glyn obviously the one closer to the stream. Sid pulled out his Pokemons' Pokeballs and enlarged both of them, before playfully throwing them up and down on his hands, sort of like juggling them. "You ready then, Glyn? I ain't gonna be easy!"
Glyn took both of the peasized pokéballs out of his pocket, and tossed one of them into his left hand, clicking them to their larger baseball forms with the buttons in their centres. "I am as ready as I can get," Glyn said, "Now, Kilohertz, Mathilda, let's go!" He threw Kilohertz for the brook and tossed the left one, containing Mathilda, high up in the air. Their energies were projected from the containers and glowed until their natural colours rayed through and the whiteness faded, revealing the blue tadpole within the water and the austere-looking bird flapping her wings in the air. Mathilda's first reaction, free from her pokéball the first time, was to release a loud screech and fly directly towards Glyn. Clearly, she was still mad about her capture. "Wow, ease it!" Glyn dove away, "Look, if you wanna battle. If you listen, you're gonna get to blow off some steam in the fight," he retaliated. Still the bird kept her grim visage, a fierce glimmering glare at her trainer.
Clearly seeing the ruckus between trainer and Pokemon, Sid laughed out loud before sending out his two Pokemon into the air, "Rocky, Alter, prepare for battle!" Aron stumped his little four metal legs into the patch of grass while Swablu took to the air. Sid peeked over at the other side, wondering if the Spearow was ready to face his Pokemon yet. It still seemed mad at it's trainer for some reason, but the problem seemed to have been resolved temporarily. "I'll start the battle off then; Alter, Growl! Rocky, Mud Slap towards that Tympole!" Alter squeaked out a loud, piercing cry which distorted the air, making both Kilohertz and Mathilda forcefully drop their attack a little. Rocky's Mud Slap smacked Kilohertz in it's face, but the attack didn't do much damage at all; Sid was more hoping that it would at least distort the accuracy in the Tympole's future attacks.
"Blimey, Mathilda. We've already started!" Glyn stumbled up and he glared back just as bad at the bird. Like hell was he going to be defied by his pokémon. In fact, Sid commanded his pokémon to commence the attacks. The Swablu screeched out a deafening growl, that caused the air to waver like when a warm room has a window open and it freezes outside. The Aron kicked grits of dirt, earth, plucks of grass torn from the soil and sullied the Kilohertz's eyes. "Mathilda, use peck on Swablu! Kilohertz, try to use rain dance!" Glyn thought he could use Mathilda as a distraction while Kilohertz made his move. Granted, the Aron was still going to pose a problem, to the Tympole, but Glyn had a type advantage against him. And if he got this right then... Mathilda launched herself beak-first towards the Swablu, though the growl had diminished her fighting lust, for sure. Kilohertz tried to shake off the dirt and he flapped his tailfin around, swimming in circles, summoning his powers to make the clouds in the sky thicken and become dark grey.
"Good," Glyn thought to himself. Tympole'd be faster in the rain.
Sid couldn't help but have a fat grin on his face. So this was how battling felt like; the many experiences that his dad had tried to tell Sid was no where near the real experience he was having right now. Alter bounced off Spearow's Peck attack, taking in damage. "Hey, that hurt ya know!" shouted Sid, seeing his Pokemon get attacked for the first time. The battlefield was now covered with rain fall too, which worried Sid a lot; not for Alter because he would be fine, but rather for Rocky, who was already weak to water. Then he noticed something. "Rocky, use the sludgier mud to do Mud Slap and aim for that Spearow's face! Alter, hit the Spearow right after Rocky finishes!" Both Pokemon nodded at their trainer and proceeded to attack; Rocky dug in deeper to the wetter mud and was able to fling it higher towards the flying Spearow, who cried loudly before stumbling backwards in the air after being struck hard by mud. After clearing it's eyes a little with it's wing, he couldn't prepare to dodge Alter's Peck attack and so took in a direct hit right into the stomach.
Sid fist-pumped on coming up with a mini tactic right at the moment, but was nervous about leaving Tympole right in the open to do anything it wanted. "Please don't have a water attack..." muttered Sid.
Glyn looked on as the attack landed on the Swablu. Really, the bird looked like her fluff could catch up even the strongest attack, but that didn't mean anything to the Spearow's peck, that knocked the foe back quite a bit. "Y-Yeah, I am sure it must," Glyn said. The force of the attacks was not a joke for sure. The rush of the battle was a great feeling for him too. The same competetiveness everytime he went to one of the meets, captaining JV, then swimming for varsity next year, that exciting moment when everything was game and every stroke had to be rightly timed for you to touch the wall just right. Harder, better, faster, stronger. The droplets fell from the sky. Tympole's rain dance must have succeeded. Still, the factor made Aron's mudslap that much more potent, and in fact, with the mudpools forming, Aron tossed the brown sludge to hit Mathilda's eyes, the distraction opening up the opportunity for the Swablu to fly in and give the Spearow a reciprocal peck, full force, into her abdomen.
Kilohertz had ducked underneath the water, trying to shake the mud off of himself, while Mathilda got back onto her talons and had more trouble brushing the mud out of her eyes. "Mathilda, leer! Kilohertz, Bubblebeam!" Glyn commanded. The Spearow, using his feathers to wipe away some of the excess mud, mustered a horrifying glare, directed towards the Aron that had been pestering both Kilohertz and Aron with those mudslaps. He needed to get them to stop, before they'd completely ruin his chances at striking accurate hits. Kilohertz made the best of the intimidating act the Spearow put up by bobbing his head above the surface and puffing his cheeks, blasting a flurry of blue spheres. "Lower left! Lower left!" Glyn said with a shock when he saw where the orbs were heading. The Tympole needed to alter his course. Surely with half of his momentum wasted, Kilohertz adjusted his aim to fire the remainder at the rock type. "Come on, guys! We're gonna do it!"
The menacing glare from Spearow sure had took an effect on Rocky, who seemed to have been shook by it. "Knock it off, Rocky! It's nothing!" cried Sid, hoping that his Aron wasn't affected too much by Leer. A burst of bubbles had been put into play by Glyn's Tympole, but it was hopelessly off-target; exactly what Sid had wanted. As Glyn desperately tried to tell his Kilohertz where to aim it's Bubblebeam, Sid quickly responded, "Alter, use this time to use Roost! Rocky, run away from the stream of bubbles and try using Mud Slap while your at it!" Alter took off the ground and covered himself with his own wings while closing his eyes; a ball of energy suddenly surrounded Alter, and when it was over Alter raised himself up again, this time with a lot more energy. Meanwhile Rocky took off on it's little stumps towards the left and attempted to do Mud Slap correspondly. Although most the time it failed to hit any of Glyn's Pokemon, it did manage to smack the Tympole once.
Kilohertz's bubblebeam tried to follow Aron's movements. The iron armor pokémon moved surprisingly fast and as it tried to stay ahead of the approaching blue spheres, it kicked sludges of mud towards the Tympole. Dodging, dunking under water, and still beaming those spheres out of its puffed cheeks, he tried to aim for the Aron. "Mathilda! Use peck on the Swablu!" Glyn said. The energy emanating from the cloud-like bird glared into his eyes and it couldn't be a good sign to him. The Spearow fluddered up and rushed forward towards the Swablu. "Kilohertz! Keep the bubblebeam up!" Kilohertz jumped from the water, following along with the path of the Aron, as the spheres flew in their erratic patterns across the battlefield, a lot definitely hitting the rock-type, but a lot more falling short of their target, especially as the mud slaps made hitting the target more difficult.
"Urgh, keep going Rocky!" screamed Sid. The Aron was starting to slow down after a very suprising blistering start, and some of the Bubblebeam attack had started to hit him. Sid looked up; Tympole had been going on for a bit of time now, and so was looking more tired of constant Bubblebeams at directions it's trainer was pointing at. The Spearow had also looked a little tired after a Peck sweep on Alter, who still seemed strong after getting hit. It must have been that Roost then. Stretching his arms, Sid focused onto the battle and prepared for the grand finale; he knew he could win the battle in the next move. Rain was still heavily striking the ground underneath. What could Sid do to wrap the battle up?
"Bingo!"
"Aight, fly in and finish off Tympole with a Peck attack Alter! Rocky, stop and use Mud-Slap on that Spearow!" Alter swooped into Kilohertz's direction and struck it with Peck, making the Pokemon unable to use Bubblebeam anymore; this gave Rocky the chance to stop and target Mathilda, and so splattered the bird Pokemon with a huge amount of mud, more than Rocky anticipated - it was a critical hit. Mathilda fell down hugely from it's flight but it was still up, completely soaked in wet mud. "Rocky, finish the battle - TACKLE!" shouted Sid, fist pumping towards the falling Spearow, who then crashed into a body charge by Rocky, taking a full impact of the attack. Both Tympole and Spearow lied on the ground, face to face; both had been knocked out.
If you really did read this all, then a massive congrats from me, for I certainly couldn't if it wasn't my own post xD