Cerulean City : Part 6 - Gym Battle Part 1

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Misty Waterflower's shoulder's dropped as she looked at the boy who basically told her to get the hell out of here because she was interrupting that gym match...A pang of pain in her chest welled up once again at being called 'Unimportant'...

All her life she had just been...A wallflower, so as to speak. While her sisters were famous and had a good reputation for being strong trainers, she was the...underappreciated one. She didn't get much encouragement from her mum when she told her that she wanted to become a teacher instead of the Water Type trainer that a 'Waterflower' should be.

...Yes, she had felt bad for mocking the boy like that when they first met but it was just because...because she wasn't having a good day...But that's hardly an excuse. Her day was already spoiled because her sisters were going to perform of one of the famous 'Pokemon Performances' once again...She had felt that years of getting neglected would have made her immune to the jealousy that she felt when her sisters got all the fame to themselves but apparently not.

Now she perfectly understood how her mysterious savior had felt that day. She slumped her shoulders and quietly walked inside the gym once again...

Meanwhile Lily, Daisy and Violet shook their head regretfully as they looked at the retreating back of their little sister. They had wanted to get close to her after their mum had departed from the world at the old age of 79 about 2 years ago. They knew of the obvious favoritism that their mother used to show towards them. Their sister didn't want to be a Water Type trainer or a Performance Queen like them and thus she was prone to getting ignored by their mother many a times. When Venelena Waterflower had passed away their sister had been miserable...Combine that with the fact that she didn't have any friend among her age group to comfort her because whenever anyone ever looked at her, they saw 'Misty Waterflower, the 4th sister of the Waterflower family and sister to the 4 of them' but they did not see 'Misty Waterflower, an underappreciated girl who was in desperate need for some comfort'.

Of course they had tried to get close to her but Misty had been...repulsive towards them. And they couldn't just get her to warm up to them. They had never known their father personally. He died even before the three of them were born (They were triplets...Although they will never know how in the name of Giratina did they receive such...varied hair colors)

...Their mother would not have...right?...Right?!...RIGHT?!!

But for now they could do nothing but focus on their gym battle.

Ash Ketchum noticed the dejected, sad...almost depressed aura around the orange haired girl but decided not to dwell on it...Although he made a mental note to apologize for being so rude to her later...

"Okay...So the official match between Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town and Gym Leader Lily, Daisy and Violet is about to begin. Gym leaders are allowed to use only 1 pokemon each and challenger Ash Ketchum is allowed to use 3 pokemon in total. Keep that in mind that both parties can change pokemon whenever they wish, however the Gym Leaders fighting the challenger would also change while changing pokemon. So trainers send out your first pokemon!!" Sebastian announced from his place.

Ash tossed a pokeball into the air to reveal Luxio in all his electrified glory on one of the standing platforms upon the Olympic Size swimming pool.

'Alright bitches! Prepare to get shocked, 'cause Luxio the stunning epitome of badassery is gonna haul your ass!!' Luxio announced loudly as soon as he appeared on the battlefield. Ash let out a snort of amusement at that and mentally chuckled at the horrible pun. Although the Sensational Sisters only heard an eager growl from the electric pokemon...

It was predictable of Ash to use such a pokemon. Many trainers used electric pokemon to try to defeat them only to fail miserably.

All three of them looked at each other and Lily decided to go first. She tossed a pokeball into the air and soon a Marshtomp appeared on the battlefield...

'SHIT!! I didn't take into account that they can have pokemon with more than one type!! DAMMIT! JUST DAMMIT!!' Ash mentally berated himself with a frown visible on his face. His frown deepened when he noticed the small satisfied smirk on Lily's face...She was expecting this mistake...

'Okay...Okay...Calm down. Hot-headedness will only cost me the chance to win however slim that currently may be...Luxio can get out of there, I can switch him out with Bulbasaur but that would cost me a turn and Bulbasaur is not speedy enough to take down Marshtomp before he does any big damage so I can't switch him out manually...Tch...What a pain in the ass...I may have to try out THAT move I was trying to teach Luxio...But that is only as last resort...Luxio's current moveset is Bite, Thunder Fang, Ice Fang, Thunder Bolt, Thunder Wave, Thunder Shock, Agility and Megavolt...Bite and Ice Fang should be enough to atleast hurt Marshtomp a little...Maybe Ice Fang will freeze it or Bite would make it flinch...' Ash thought with a mental snarl at his short-sightedness. He made a mistake and he was gonna pay for it...Dearly.

"...Let's start the match shall we? Marshtomp start with Mud-Shot!" Lily yelled out her first command.

'Of course she just HAD to go for ground type moves first...' Ash growled and ordered Luxio through aura, 'Dodge with agility and keep using it to boost speed. We need all the speed that we can get!'

Marshtomp stomped hard in the water and soon small pellet sized balls of compressed mud went towards Luxio at high speed.

Luxio used agility to dodge most of them and reached the platform next to his own. A few mud balls hit him as he grunted in pain...Ground type moves were strong against his electricity.

'Luxio dive into the water!!' Ash cried out desperately. He had a plan...It had high chance of failing but he had to try atleast.

'ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY?! I CAN'T FIGHT WITH A WATER POKEMON IN WATER!!' Luxio retorted.

'Just do it! I have plan!' Luxio followed Ash's command and dived straight into the water. He took a large amount of breath in and dived into water.

Lily raised an eyebrow at that. She had no idea how this boy was commanding his pokemon without vocal instructions...Their mysterious savior that day was indeed very interesting. So she ordered Marshtomp, "Follow Luxio!! Dive underwater!"

'NOW!!' Ash thought as soon the water/ground type pokemon dived inside the swimming pool. His plan may actually work. Diving into the swimming pool MAY reduce the ground type potency of Marshtomp. Dried ground will earth the electricity but WET ground MAY conduct electricity to a certain extent. Also the water in the swimming pool will act as a 'Depth Charge' and the upcoming explosion will also hurt Marshtomp, '...LUXIO USE THUNDER BOLT!!' He yelled at Luxio who grinned. His trainer was certainly cunning as a fox (Or was it a Ninetails? Vulpix? Whatever).

His fur rattled with crackling yellow electricity underneath the water and soon a shockwave of electricity went throughout the pool as Marshtomp cried out in phantom pain.

Lily's eyes widened as a massive amount of water exploded and a blur of crackling yellow electricity came out of the water with an audible 'BOOM' and landed on a platform.

Marshtomp cried out in pain and agony as both the electricity and the explosion fried his nerves.

Lily frowned as she took out her pokeball out of her pocket and pointed it towards the battlefield and called out to her pokemon, "Marshtomp use FLIP TURN!!"

Ash's eyes widened as Marshtomp was surrounded by a smooth blue light flickering around it like water. Marshtomp zoomed past the water in the swimming pool with high speeds towards Luxio and hit him like a jet. Then Marshtomp proceeded to change into that blue light and U-turned with a flash. Soon it was absorbed by Lily's Pokeball. Violet stepped forward with a smirk and released her own pokemon which was a Lanturn.

'FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC!! Now there is an electric and water type battling Luxio. As far as I know Lanturn are known to have two either one of their 2 abilities...Illuminate which increases chances for pokemon encounter and...Volt Absorb, God forbid, anything but THAT ability NOW...' Ash was getting really annoyed at this point. Judging by the smugness literally oozing out of Violet Ash was going to bet that this Lanturn definetly had ability Volt Absorb.

'Luxio! We need all the speed boost that we can! Use Agility!' Ash commanded through Aura. Luxio growled as he saw the Lanturn pokemon...He knew that his electric attacks would be useless against it...Luxio blurred from sight as he used Agility once again to boost his speed.

'Luxio...You think that we should activate your ability to reduce Lanturn's attack?' Ash asked Luxio through aura with a frown visible on his face.

'No time like now Ash! I don't know how much longer I will last. That Mud Shot and that Flip Turn really hurt!' Luxio replied.

'Fine then! Activate Intimidate!'

While Lanturn and Violet were searching for the Luxio which was merely a blur of speed now, that blur suddenly appeared in front of Lanturn with devilish red eyes with concentric circles in them.

Lanturn flinched in phantom fear as it gazed upon the now horrifying Luxio in front of it.

Luxio grinned maliciously. Now THAT was the reaction he was relishing. He had dreamed about the fear in his enemy's face as he would slowly sink his bloody jaws into their tasty flesh BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

...No wait...That was just a bloodthirsty fantasy of his...Luxio's ears drooped in disappointment. This was an official match, he couldn't just sink his teeth into them...Unless he used...Of course THAT'S IT!!

With the 'not-so-brilliant' idea in his head Luxio's didn't wait for Ash's order and shot forward like a bullet with his now 4x times speed thanks to using Agility 2 times before...Agility raises the speed stat by 2 times each remember?

'Luxio Use Ice Fan - What?' Ash was about to order Luxio to use Ice Fang now that Lanturn was intimidated but it was like Luxio had read his mind...Luxio's teeth were already shining a metallic silverish blue as he was dashing towards his opponent with a bloodthirsty grin on his face...

...At that moment he couldn't be more proud of his pokemon...

CHOMP!

"TTUUUURRRRRNNNNNN!!" The electric fish screamed out in pain as it felt Luxio's cold jaws cased in ice sink into its flesh.

Violet grit her teeth together at the annoying Luxio and decided to end the match...She couldn't afford the Luxio deal any more damage than it already had done to her and her sister's pokemon...Of course it would cost a great amount of energy and a bit of pain to Lanturn but it had to be done...

"Lanturn use Water Pulse! Full power!" She yelled out to her pokemon. The electric fish grit its teeth in pain and gathered a tightly compressed orb of water in front of its jaw and fired it point blank in Luxio's face as Luxio's teeth were still sunken in its flesh.

BOOM!

The compressed orb of water exploded point blank in Luxio's face as he was sent flying by the sheer force behind the Water Pulse...Luxio's didn't get up after he crashed into the opposite wall of the Gym.

"Luxio is eliminated from this match! Challenger send out your next pokemon!" Sebastian announced.

Ash gritted his teeth in barely veiled anger. Albeit Luxio had done a LOT of damage to enemy pokemon, he could have done a lot better if not for his short-sightedness at the start of this match.

He thanked Luxio fervently and took out his next pokeball with the golden letters 'Saur' etched on it. It was the Pokeball of the Bulbasaur Giselle had given him...

'Come out Bulbasaur!' Ash yelled out and soon Bulbasaur appeared on the battlefield with a white flash of light.

'...Ash?' Bulbasaur asked as he looked around himself to find 3 really...REALLY hot ladies and a heavily injured Lanturn.

'This will be your first Gym Battle Bulbasaur. Focus on what I say and be alert of your enemy...' Ash advised him.

Bulbasaur's lecherous expression on seeing the 3 literal goddesses vanished and a frown marred his face. Ash had drilled into his head to ALWAYS stay alert in a battle and get his mind out of the gutter for a while when in a serious battle, '...Very well...I hope I'll not disappoint you...'

'I know you won't Bulbasaur...I know you won't...NOW LET'S GO KICK SOME ASS!' Ash motivated him. A fire of determination lit up in his eyes as adrenaline coursed through Bulbasuar's veins...

Judging by the determined expression on both Ash's and Bulbasaur's faces the sensational sisters KNEW that this battle was just starting anew.

DONE! Hi Guys I am back with the new chapter.

In the last chapter I addressed my faults and I must say that I found pretty good answers on what to do.
The movesets are limited to 8. That's for sure now. As for all the pokemon Ash will be catching throughout Kanto...That's a surprise~ *Wink* Although everyone gave very excellent suggestions I must exclude some of those pokemon. I don't think that Ash should catch any more pseudo legendary pokemon...except a certain Dark Dragon I have in mind (Guess what?).

I may not be able to include tyranitar because I already have a replacement for that. Hint : It is steel rock type with one of the highest defence and special defence stats that you will ever see.

I am pretty sure that I will not be able to give Ash haunter. Because haunter only joined Ash for fun as far as I remember from the anime and it left Ash just after battling Sabrina. As for the replacement : Hint : I haven't yet decided which one of the two that i have in mind. But...Choose any combination without thinking too much and reply in comment : 1. Grass Ghost or 2. Fairy Ghost.

Now...There will be ONLY 2 pokemon to mega evolve in this story. One of them you already know and another one is the cover of the story. I am not sure about what his strongest pokemon would be though. Till now {as much as I have plotted till now} Ash will ONLY catch ONE legendary in this journey but that is WAY later on. No. Charizard and Salamence will be eventually OP and one of Ashs strongest pokemon but the legendary would still be the strongest.

The paul part? I haven't decided yet. I want more of you to comment on that before I decide on what to do...You have almost 3 chapters more before I decide on what to do.

I mean...honestly I have absolutely no freaking idea why Paul was classified as a bad guy in the anime. What's wrong with training only strong pokemon? Now paul was not a pokemon abuser was he? As far as I remember he even left Chimchar without too many bad words. He could have escorted it to a pokemon adoptive or caring unit though instead of leaving him inside a forest.

Yeah...I can't agree fully with Paul's training methods but I certainly understand his ideals. He just wanted to be strong so what's wrong with that? Yeah he could have been a little patient with Chimchar but I can understand his irritation too...After all why spend valuable resources on a pokemon which isn't upto your standards? Both trainer and pokemon would be happy that way. Your pokemon isn't upto your standard and you aren't the goody two shoes caring trainer your pokemon wants...solution? Simple. Release the pokemon into the wild...or give it to a  trainer which will appreciate the pokemon and be done with it.

Goodbye.

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