The end of the week
Today is the day I leave the 'clan'. Anyways Pikachu wasn't that attached but he did get stronger so I consider this a win. My pikachu was second only to the leader of the clan. He did learn a few more tricks and a few new moves but the most important thing was that Pikachu had regained his motivation to improve and he learned one of his strongest moves. Thunder.
After saying out good byes, we walked out to a town where we would be staying the night and presumably the next day. It took about 3 hours of solid walking with Pikachu on my shoulder. Now Pikachu weighed at around 10-at KGs. Normal trainers would barely be able to lift him in the air(ten year olds) and most adults wouldn't be able to keep Pikachu on their shoulders but thanks to my increasing physical strength, I can do this easily.
Riolu has been coming along well and ari was getting mad at me for not getting to Blaine sooner. Anyway the reason I mentioned Pikachu weight was" mister can I hold your Pikachu". It was a brown haired kid with an evee in his hand. Ahh wasn't this the one kid who was being forced by his brothers to evolve his evee? Yeah it's that one isn't it. There is only one reason I shall help you. His brothers hair. I mean I look at their animated faces, I laughed the first time I saw them. I wonder how weird they look in real life.
"Kid is that an evee?"" Yeah, why are you asking?"" Well I just wanted to let you know that you don't need to evolve your pokemon to let it become stronger"" really" man this kid needs a good role model. Well practically all of the characters from pokemon are in dire need of a better role model.
"Haha as if, fire is the best"." No just look at vaporean he is the best."" As if jolteon is the best." I looked at them. And fell down laughing "hahaahahhaahahhaahhahahahahahahaahhaahhahahahahahaahahahahahhah You guys look like a commercial. Water boy. Your hairline is receding so far back that it is running from your forehead. Fire boy you have the exceptional gift of eyebrows that divide your head into a top and bottom half. Tiny thunder boy Amazon asked for a refund on their Wig hwhaahahhaahahahah"
Their faces were so priceless that I couldn't help but compare them to the shitty sisters just not so bad and not so weak. Rage may cause irrationality but also unity. As such they banded together against me" What did you say?"" I'll say it again' MR. even my hair wants to run away from me'"" we challenge you to a fight"" 1vs 3. Since you are morons you three can fight my pikachu at the same time"
The fact that Pikachu was evolved through evolutionary stones And wasn't evolved and was challenging their ideology was noticed and noted. "Go flareon"" go vaporeon""go jolteon"" go Pikachu"
It was an impromptu battle field. Ahh they are very similar to and dare I say inspiration for the three brothers in unova. Anyway" battle begins"." Pikachu dodge and only retaliate. Show them the chasm of power Thou shall have cultivated within 2 months,"" ember" water gun"" thunder wave"
An embarrassment to all type specialists. Pikachu barely moves enough and dodged the attacks by a few inches. It just stood there like a statue. Unmoving in an almost taunting manner."again""yeah""charge"They are pre-gym trainers and pretty weak ones at that. I guess I will wrap this up" Pikachu if you don't knock them out in 20 seconds, no ketchup for you"
The moment I said this an intense battle thirsty aura came over the battle field and a few seconds later the only thing that remained was a crater and three unconscious pokemon." Evolving isn't eveything. If you don't train then even a dragonite can lose to a Pikachu." Saying that I mysteriously disappeared never to be seen again by the 4 brothers.
Man their haircuts were worth the few hours of setbacks I had to take. I had one goal in mind for today. Defeat snorlax. I didn't want to catch it but to defeat it. I will be using ari.
It took only a few hours of walking before oak conveniently mentioned a town with water problems and just like that I was on official league business. It took another few hours to reach the power plant and find the snorlax. When I saw a sleeping 10 feet tall monster of a pokemon, I knew that ari was in for a fight." Go ari. You may evolve today. Snorlax is our problem and you are the solution""pi". It was at that moment that it woke up. There was no extra gravity on that moment.
"Snorlax SNOR" hyper beam." Brave steel slam"brave birdsteel wingbody slam. The combination did a decent chunk of damage. It would take only 15 more." SNOR" it was charging at ari." Dodge and use agility followed by quick steel wing at the feet. Get him unbalanced," it worked perfectly and it fell but it took only a few moments to get back on its feet.
Thankfully a moment was all that was needed to set up aris strongest move. Brave bird, steel wing, Wing attack, body slam, tackle, quick attack, agility, peck and air slash. It pushed aris body to the very limit and would leave it in a very weakened state after it but it was powerful.
Imagine a bird with glowing steel wing and beak coming at you with blades of air and speeding up along side the blades from 100 feet in the air onto you. Yeah the snorlax fainted But I moved it's body into an uninhabited cave . But ari slowly bathed in a white light. It went from an impressive 1.75 meters to 2 meters. It finally became an pidgeot after 2 months, yay! After going through any injuries and running by nurse joy, we celebrated a lot.
Even pokemon had hopes and dreams and ari had completed one of his major goals. Become a pidgeot. Now ari was imposing and graceful. He cut through the air like there was no resistance. His moments were laced with precision and there wasn't a single wasted movement in the sky. It had gone from 3rd to 2nd in raw power and 1st in combat. Gabite was getting a bit anxious but other than that it was fine.
2 days later
I was just waking up in my tent at 6 A.M. when professor oak called me." Ash, how are you doing?"
" I am fine professor, why did you call me at this hour. You don't even wake up at this time"
" I just wanted to let you know that daisy will be competing in her finals for the coordinators competition in Hoenn within 3 weeks. I wanted to know if you can be there."
mm if I fly on ari at optimal speed and distance I can cover around 100 KMs in around 1 day including rests and a few breaks. It will take around 4 days of continuous travel. If there are 21 days left then I need to leave in 17 days. If I round to 14 as a extra time to reach the competition in hoenn. I have two weeks. Can I beat Blaine within 2 weeks. Yes. Easily." I will be there for her"
"Thanks you were always there for her and your presence may help her morale.". Yay!
That above conversation means one thing. Speed. I am speed. I have to speed up and beat Blaine and if stop by viridian I can beat Giovanni then I can directly start a new journey in hoenn. There are lots of unimportant events I will ignore. I increased my walking speed by using the aura I regenerate and removing the extra gravity. I changed the training schedule to fit in better with the changes and rode over ari for a few times.
It was the very next day that I walked into a town with 2 unofficial gyms competing to be the only gym in the town. I simply challenged both of them to a fight by insulting both of them. Scyther and electabuzz vs gabite. Needless to say dragon rush destroyed them.
After bruising their ego and leaving I ran into a circus. A circus with a weird fire playing magician who was failing miserably." You're doing it wrong. If you instead try it like this along with this it will be much more showy." I taught him how to truly use fire as a trick. He kept on calling me sensei and master for some reason and cried when I left. Weirdo.
I found a jigglypuff who had a very sore throat. I instantly knew who this jigglypuff was. I gave it a berry to heal and 'guided' The jigglypuff into the town oth two gyms as they wasted my precious time.
I passed an area where an expedition was going to begin in almost a month. I guess I am a month ahead of both o.g. ash and Gary. Anyway I kept on going for a while until I decided to take a breather and rest for one full day. It was in. That one day vacation in which my pokemon rested and recooperated.
I passed by a sign saying that James parents are missing which was completely false. It was just a ploy to get him to the family. I was walking when I felt someone trying to steal my pokeballs. It was a farfetch. "Charmeleon flame wheel and dragon claw" fargfetch stood no chance.
I was barked at by a weird growlithe but I used aura to calm him down. It was a pretty nice technique that makes you more approachable. Officer Jenny came to see it barking at me so she apologized and asked if she could do anything for me. I asked for a few directions to make sure I was on route and happily I wasn't off by god.
I started remembering my old days as a child when I saw a bunch of 7 year olds running around me. The townsfolk were rarely visited by any trainers as this town falls on a shortcut nobody takes as it only saves a few days of travel. Including my break it had been 1 week and I haven't even seen a hair of Blaine.
I stopped by a kids school when I saw a bunch of children. The pure nostalgia must have shown on my face or something cause the teacher came up to me and said that it was mostly the older people who came here with such nostalgia. The children of course noted my pokeballs and were very excited to see a strong pokemon.
Ari basked in attention. Leviathan was offended when the children ran away from him. Charmeleon and gabite were non cooperative and pikachu was bribed by the kids with ketchup. Riolu didnt mind as kids have pure souls or something. After spending a few hours I left and neared the city finally. The games don't do justice to the sheer size of a region. It would take a few months of on foot travel if you went in a straight line.
After a week of dilly dally I finally reached cinnabar. The gym was closed die to tourists but I simply walked up to a disguised Blaine and ripped his disguise of and challenged him." How did you know it was me?"" Oi old man, I ain't blind like you. I know what kind of person you are. Now can you hurry up I need to beat you and go back to mom" a few tick marks grew on his head before a nostalgic smile formed at his face. It must have been cause I am similar to red.
The battlefield
Blaine walked me over to the battlefield suspended over a volcano. It was pretty unique but who am I to judge. The amount of heat negates most water types and a few other types, the fact that falling off the battlefield is a serious threat and the fact that fire types are enhanced here shows that Blaine doesn't play fair.
"4 on 4."" Fine with me, old man". While his face didn't change a bit the twitching of his eyebrows gave me all the signs I needed." Go rapidash" hmm not bad, not bad at all. Very nicely trained, taken care of and well fed." Go ari""pidgeot! Pi"
Rapidash's flames flared up and The atmosphere started heating up. Ari was completely unaffected by the heat as I had them withstand much higher temperatures in training." Wing attack and agility"" tank it and body slam." Ari's wing started glowing and she immediately flew towards rapidash and hit it with the wing. Rapidash had minor scratches but nothing else.
It jumped into the air and came down on ari with a grey amount of force."dodge and brave bird" and dodge it did, ari managed to scrape by the body slam before flying into the air and coming down like a missile and hitting the rapidash to oblivion. When the dust settled ari was standing without a scratch but a bit tired and rapidash was down for the count.
"Nine tails use inferno". A great inferno of fire swept towards ari, increasing in heat along the way." Cut through it with steel wing" ari aimediatly hardened herself and flew into the tsunami of fire and came out the other side before hitting nine tails off the platform and into the side of the volcano.
"Not bad Blaine, you are very experienced"" thanks kid but I didn't just sit around and gain experience. I battled. Go arcanine use flamethrower"" ari steel wing and brave bird". Ari dodged the flamethrower by flying out of the top of the volcano and coming down like a bullet. It hit arcanine with the force of a truck. Arcanine stood true to its power and after a few moments, it got up again.
"Arcanine extremespeed"" ari Use steel wing as a defense". Aris feathers turned into iron and ari retreated into her wings like a cloyster. Arcanine tried but the wings kept up with the assault leveled onto it. For one moment arcanine guard went down and in that moment ari hit the arcanine with a giga impact and threw arcanine out.
"Not bad ari but that's enough for today. Go gabite." Gabite had reached its peak in this state and learned all the moves it could." Well kid, you mangee to make me bring out my ace. Go magmortar." A magmortar jumped out from the lava and into the field. Gabite looked the magmorotar dead in the eye with one thing. The intent to destroy.
I had taught my pokemon how to express emotions through their energy and this was a prime was a bit unnerving to see a Gyarados sue the intention to love something. Though Levi using the pure intention to destroy and terminate was also pretty unnerving. Well whatever, back to the fight.
"Magmortar use fire spin and fire bust." Trap and attack huh." Gabite dragon rush and Dragon dance whenever you can". Magmortar threw a tiny flame which expanded into a circle of fire around Gabite after which magmortar charged up an attack in its mouth. At the same time Gabite had finished 3 dragon dances.
Magmortar released the burst of flew in front of it. The moment it was released a claw cut through the fire and onto Magmortar. The claw was followed by an entire body slamming into Magmortar. It was forced to slide a food few meters back, enraged Magmortar burned the ground and everything near it with lava plume.
"Keep on dragon dancing and use close combat". The heat given off by lava plume was dismissed by Gabite as Charmander's flames was on the same level. It took 3 dragon dances more to reach the limit of its current body after which Gabite charged towards Magmortar with a dragon rush and hit it with a dragon claw.
Magmortar took the beating pretty well and stood up before using overheat. The heat damaged Gabite but Gabite pressed on and used take down on Magmortar followed by a close combat.
After nearly a minute of fighting, Magmortar had fallen and Gabite was victorious. Gabite was bathed in a white light and changed its shape. Gabite had evolved into a garchomp. A nearly 2.3 meter tall garchomp with an very intimidating stature." GARCHOMP!" I believe that was a cry of victory.
"That was a good match. You deserve this badge more than most trainers." He gave me the badge. I stayed only for a day before flying back to viridian. Tommorow I am gonna beat Giovanni.