(OOC: Note, in order to make this epic joint post between myself and Aspie more enjoyable, I encourage you to go to youtube and look up pokemon HG/SS rival battkle theme and listen to that while you read this.)
John was shoved to the ground and pummeled. He fought back, kicking, punching, biting and scratching. He knew he tasted blood, though he didn't know if it was his own or Israel's Probably both. All too soon, before John could knock him off and jump on him, Israel was gone. John stood up and was faced with a Braviary. He was angry, but he held of and sent out Aquanis, the Dewott.
"Aquanis! Ice Beam now!" John said calmly. Aquanis knew that this battle was more important than any before now and was going to do his best. He blasted the frigid blue beam at the Braviary. John's mind was working on overdrive. Something told him that this would be his hardest opponent yet. He wasn't about to lose this fight!
"Braviary use protect" Said Israel anticipating this, "I knew that it wouldn't be a good idea to show my pokemon first" Israel thought "But I needed to stop that fight before both of us were too injured to battle." "Alright lets finish this quick Victory, use Fly!!!!" Israel yelled. Victory flew up into the air high.
John had figured this would happen. A shield formed around the bird and blocked the Ice Beam. It then flew high into the sky.
"Don't move, don't flinch. Just do as I say," John muttered so the Dewott could hear him. John was scanning the skies for the bird. He spotted it. It was coming down fast.
"Take a step to the left, duck, and use Ice Beam to the right. Now," he said. Aquanis did as he was asked, and the bird flew right past him. He fired an Ice Beam at the bird as it flew by. It may or may not hit. But it would happen so fast that the bird would not have time to react. It came down to whether Aquanis could hit the bird while it was moving that fast.
Braviary's reflexes were good but it could not get out of the way of the Ice beam in time, luckily or unluckily it only hit the wing. Braviay's wing was now frozen solid. "Well I guess this put a dampener on flying attacks but I guess its good that it didn't hit a very damaging spot" Israel thought. "Hey chump you may think that a bird that can't fly is useless but you've got another thing coming " Israel said. "Victory use shadow claw!" Israel ordered. The Bird's claws became surrounded by a shadowy substance and it slashed a the Dewott.
Aquanis could not get out of the way, or block it in time. He took the hit and stood firm.
"Chump? We'll just see about that! Aquanis, get up on that ugly birds back and use Night Slash!" John said. Aquanis leapt up and landed on the back of the bird and pulled out his twin shells. They began glowing with dark energy, and he swung them at the bird's head.
"You'll have to do a lot better than that if you hope to win!" John taunted. This was a great battle! He never felt more alive than when he was battling! Even when he lost, he loved the experience. Not the loss, mind you, but the knowledge gained from it.
Victory was a tough birdie but that nightslash nailed him right in the head. Victory got up and shook it's head shaking off the pain "Huh so he isn't a complete weakling" thought Israel. But Israel always had an extremely powerful fourth attack to totally obliterate his opponent, an ace in the hole you might say, a here Israel was with a bird with extremely accute eyesight, hearing, and senses that increase accuracy. "Victory lets end this, use Hyper Beam." And extremely powerful beam of energy shot from Victory's mouth and headed straight for Dewott.
There was no time to dodge it. Aquanis dropped one shell, and grasped the other in both paws, blocking the attack. The shell took most of the hit, but some of it got through. When the smoke cleared, little Aquanis was still standing. He was huffing and puffing, but he was still up.
"Unbelievable!" John said in amazement. He had no idea where the Dewott got that toughness from.
"Ice Beam! He won't be able to move after an attack like that!" John said, proud of his pokemon. Aquanis blasted one last Ice Beam at the bird, then fell over. He had been running on vapors after that gigantic hit, but after launching a counter attack of his own, he had simply run out of steam. John returned him with a smile and a soft 'good job' before sending out Tempest. If that bloody bird somehow dodged the attack, or simply survived it, then Tempest would show him the true power of the flying type pokemon!
Victory was nailed by the ice beam and completely frozen solid, Israel looked at his pokedex to see that his pokemon had no HP left so he recalled his prized Braviary. "Wow double KO" said Israel suprised that this punk could faint his pokemon. "Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha" Israel laughed "Wow and here I thought that you were just some punk kid who ran his mouth too much." Israel threw a pokeball into the air and out of it emerged a Marshtomp. "Go ahead just for that I'll let you make the first move." Said Israel
"Hah! You'll regret that! I intend to make this quick!" John said. Hmm... A water/ground type huh? Well, that would be tough, but John had to knock it out before Cinder went out. Cinder was a fire type, and thus would be hurt even more from it. So... What to do? Flying type attacks wouldn't get the job done, so that left:
"Tempest! Steel Wing! Then get some altitude!" John yelled. Tempest made her wing glow silver and flew toward the Marshtomp, fully intending to climbe to the skie where she couldn't be touched as soon as she hit, or missed, either one would work. John had to assume that this Marshtomp knew some kind of ice attack, or his opponent would have saved it for Cinder.
Marshtomp easily avoided the attack. "Word of advice about Marshtomps, they have a vibration sensing radar on their heads, as soon as you move it will know the direction that you're headed, this move is called Detect, you'll never hit me with a physical move, so why don't you try again, oh wait I won't let you, Marshtomp use blizzard." A snowstotm came from the mouth of the Marshtomp. "This is it for your stupid pigeotto."
"Hah! You underestimate my Tempest! Fly through that thing, and use Gust to blow it back at his smug face!" John said. Tempest had no way of dodging the ice storm. So she flew right through the Blizzard, taking some damage, though not as much as she would have had she panicked like most flying types in a blizzard. She reached clear skies above, and whipped up some serious wind, and blew the ice storm right down to the Marshtomp. That would hurt!
Israel smiled "Wow this is working out better than I originally thought, thank you for hitting me with two special attacks, Marshtomp use Mirror coat!!!!" Marshtomp reflected the Blizzard Gust right back at the Pidgeotto with double the power. Israel looked at his pokedex and Marshtomp was in the red HP wise. "Too bad my pokemon still takes the full extent of the damage" Israel said irritated. "Oh well I've still got plenty of tricks left in my hat."
John knew a moron when he saw one. Tempest was a quick one. She flew out of reach, but even so, she still got hit by the Mirror Coat.
"You fool. Mirror Coat only reflects your opponents attack. You got hit with your own too," John said. That fact was probably the only reason Tempest was still up and fighting. Even so, John could see that her strength was fading. Time to end this.
"Use Gust all around that Marshtomp, but not on it! Then it won't be able to sense you again! Then close in with Steel Wing and end this charade!" John said. Tempest blasted up a fierce wind storm around the Marshtomp, but not hitting it. She didn't want to get hit with Mirror Coat again. Then she dove at him with Steel Wing. This was an all and nothing attack. No matter what happened, she would faint. She would hit the ground hard, as she didn't have the strength to bank at that point. But hopefully, she had confused the Marshtomp's senses enough so that this would work. Hopefully, she could take it down with her.
Israel had no Idea that Mirror coat couldn't deflect his own attack back at the pigeotto, but it figures. However John had made a foolish mistake when using that gust "Marshtomp jump into that gust and mirror coat that attack back at the pigeotto." It doesn't matter if the attack was meant to just immobalize him or scramble his senses, as long as it damaged him he could deflect it, however sadly this took the last of Marshtomp's HP. Israel recalled Marshtomp and put his hand on one of his pokeballs.
Tempest got hit with the second Mirror Coat. He was about to get angry when he saw that the Marshtomp had fainted as well. Good. If he had known it had that little life left, he would have just hit it with Gust and saved himself the trouble. Oh well. He called back his fainted bird. Time for his last pokemon.
"Go Cinder!" John yelled. He would probably end up facing of against the Combusken. Cinder was just too powerful to risk the fragile grass type against. So he waited for his opponent to send out his next pokemon.
"All right wow, I mean wow I love it when a plan comes together, go combusken!!!!" said Israel. "Now you look like you were expecting this and I don't know how you knew the pokemon I had but you didn't really bank on something" Israel said. "Combusken use rockslide!!!!" Israel yelled. Nobody knows how or why but pokemon when using this move seem to materialize rocks from nowhere. The rocks came from above right where charmander was standing, fire pokemon did not take rock moves very well.
"I didn't know. But I assumed you'd have all three of them. You're the type of person that can't be happy with just one pokemon. I saw your Marshtomp, and figured you'd have a Combusken and a Grovyle too. That's how you are! Now, Cinder! Dragon Claw!" John said. While he had been speaking, Cinder jumped out of the way of the falling rocks with ease. His claws began glowing purple, and he rushed at the bird, before leaping slightly to the left and raking at the things with his claws. John hoped that this bird was slower than it looked, but he doubted it. It was probably every bit as fast as Cinder.
Combusken easily dodged that attack as well. "Huh, I thought that it maybe because you knew my father the former champion used a Swampert, Sceptile, and Blaziken, and that these pokemon are their offspring but reasons are reasons, combusken use another rockslide and make sure you hit him this time." Israel knew that all he needed were a few rockslides and this would be over but could he hit the charmelion?
"I don't care who your father is! The father is no reflection of the son. Your father could be the greatest man alive, and you'd still be a wuss! Stop relying on daddy to be your crutch, and start standing on your own!" John said angrily. Cinder again dodged the Combusken, and blasted a Flamethrower at it.
Flamethower hit the combusken but didn't do much damage on account of it being a fire type attack. "No you're never your own man if your father loves you, my father raised me, fed me, and taught me everything I know about pokemon, he passed his career his values and his religion on to me, I am not my own man though I am alone, my father is always with me. You're also your fathers boy aren't you? You dad is a mean aggressive abusive moron and he's passed that on to you. Combusken Night Slash!!!!" Combusken launched the slash of darkness at the charmelion.
"Hmph! Say what you want! You know nothing. Use Dragon Claw and counter that!" John said. Cinder charged for the Combusken again, and swiped his glowing purple claws as hard as he could. He was hit by the combusken's attack, but didn't care. He was very tough, and could take a great deal of hits before he went down.
John acted as if he were calm but Israel knew that he was furious, he knew this because John fell right into Israel's trap. "Combusken use counter and then use rockslide as he's stunned." This time the rockslide would not miss. Counter was a move taught to combusken by a very old TM, the kind that breaks after you use it. Israel remembered a quote from his father, "A pokemon battle is just as much psycological as it is physical" Israel smiled upon remembering this.
John realised what was going on as soon as he heard the word Counter. Not good!
"Cinder! Call off the attack!" John shouted. Cinder stopped dead in his tracks, just before he could hit the Combusken. As soon as he looked at John, but before John could answer, Cinder was hit by the falling rocks.
"Cinder!" John said, really worried now. After a moment, Cinder stood up again. His eyes were glowing red, and his tail fire was a roaring inferno. He had entered the state known as Blaze. It made his already strong fire attacks far stronger than before. John smiled. One way or another, it was time to end this.
"Flare Blitz!" John said, Cinder's most powerful attack. Cinder set himself on fire, then rushed one last time at the combusken, far faster than before. John knew it would hit, but would it be enough to make the Combusken faint? He doubted it, but he was going out his way! Combusken would definately think twice about challenging Cinder again! John himself had no regrets. He would be angry he lost, and want to win even more the next time, but he wouldn't fault Israel for beating him. He just wasn't strong enough yet. But he would get there, and next time, it would be different. He watched as Cinder flew directly at the Combusken.
Israels counter didn't hit the first time but as soon as he heard that flare blitz was his next attack he shouted "Counter" again, Israel knew that double flare blitzes power backed by blaze would KO the Charmelion, he only hoped that the flare blitz didn't KO Combusken when it hit. Israel looked at the pokedex after the attack hit, and combusken was only at 1 HP, and he looked at Cinder and read his HP.
Cinder was out like a light. He had fought well, but it was over. John had lost. His face turned into a scowl. He returned his fainted pokemon and looked at Israel.
"Hmph. So you won. That proves nothing except that I need to train my pokemon more. Are you happy you won? Hah, don't bother to answer that! I'm outta here!" John said.
(OOC: There, that is done. For those of you who don't want to read that wall of text, here's the end result. John is out of pokemon. Isreal has Grovyle left, and Combusken is about to faint.)
