A long silence was felt in Lake Acuity. The spectators, the referee, and Paul were looking in awe at the Pokémon coated with intense lightning. It was nothing short of amazing, Ash and his Pikachu was in the verge of losing, but all of the sudden something spectacular happened. In all there years of watching, officiating, and competing in Pokémon Battles, they have never see a small Pokémon, a Pikachu, to perform those unique and Ash, the naive and clueless Ash, having a psychopathic grin on his face and his voice matching a maniac, is enough for them to be surprise and to have nightmares for a week, at most.
"What now Paul? Are you going to keep staring at my Pikachu or are you going to battle, I have more and way better things to do than look at your face." Ash said with a smirk.
Paul sneered at Ash before throwing a Poke ball towards the field. A gigantic tortoise like Pokémon, with a tree growing out of its back appeared in the field, looking at the lightning shape Panther with interest.
"So you choose a ground type to combat my Pikachu. I could say it's a surprise but that would also mean I have to say that you're a nice guy and that would mean that hell would have frozen over." Ash sarcastically stated.
Paul was gritting his teeth. He didn't know which side of Ash was more aggravating, the naive and clueless side of him or this new side of him which was very sarcastic and very battle-hungry.
"Come on Pauli where was that 'I don't care if my Pokémons die just as long as I win' attitude of yours. Did it disappear when you saw Pikachu electrocute your Ursaring into a crisp?" Ash asked continuing taunt him.
"Torterra, Leaf Storm on that rodent now." Paul shouted. Torterra then unleashed a storm of spiralling leaves towards the Pikachu.
"You could make my life so easy Pauli." Ash said before playing his flute, once again releasing a magnificent and intoxicating melody around the battlefield. Pikachu then charged towards the Leaf Storm with amazing speed, burning the leaves as they touched the panther-shape-lightning-armour. Pikachu then rammed at Torterra, engulfing it with lightning, but after a second Pikachu appeared behind Torterra whom was unharmed.
Ash then stops playing his flute and returned it to his pocket. "I see that the Divine Armour of Thunder would not work against that turtle." Ash said, his grin no disappearing from his face.
Paul looked at Ash and smirk. "Looks like that trick would not work against my Torterra, it seems that your luck has run out." Paul said with a confident smirk and was about to ordered an attack but was interrupted by Ash.
"Pikachu, Detonation." An explosion of electricity and light had flooded the field. Everyone who was watching the battle, with the exception of Ash, Elena, and Koyuki, had covered their eyes from the intense light.
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"(So 'mother', how long do you think he would last)." Koyuki asked her mother.
"Five, six minutes at most." Elena said with a smile. "Ash using Detonation means his going to use more accurate moves." Elena added.
"(And that means 'father' is going to aim at Torterra's weak spot, am I right)?" Koyuki asked already knowing the answer.
"Yeah, this would be the battle that will show them a glimpse of who really is, Ashura Satoshi Ketchum." Elena said with enthusiasm in her voice.
"It has been a long time since I last saw Ash battle seriously, I can't wait." Elena said rather excitedly.