After Ash's battle with Grace, their later talk as Pokémon Coordinators become much easier.
Grace was a senior Pokemon Coordinator who was very good at developing combination skills and has already won three Pokémon Contest Ribbons for this years Grand Festival. May has also gained some valuable experience from her.
Not only that, on the last day before the Fallarbor Town Pokémon Contest, May's archrival Drew also came to the scene. And Jessie, who failed to register successfully last time, finally started her "comeback" this time around.
This is how the Pokémon Contest in Fallarbor
town begins. This time the scale was obviously much smaller than the last time since it was a much smaller compared to Slateport City, and the number of participants was less than half of that. Therefore, after the first round of review, only four Trainers will manage to enter the second round.
The finals will be much more sooner than before as there are less people to defeat.
In the first tound, Drew's Roselia scored a very high score of 29.6, Grace's Medicham also scored 29.5, barely losing out to Drew, and May had her Beautifly use the combination of String Shot and Silver Wind she recently learned, which she managed to get a score of 27.5.
The performance of most of the others was somewhat unsatisfactory. After all the people went, they only scored 24.8 points at max. Many people were close to each other but they ultimately failed to exceed the points of the other three; only a luck guy named Billy managed to get just a little higher than the rest. He was also the second to last person to go.
The last person to compete was Jessie, who came to compete under the pseudonym Jessica. Of course she used her personal Dustox.
Her performance this time was indeed unique to say the least.
She even hanged down from the top of the stage in a split second decision. The tension of the stage performance is amazing.
"My perfect Dustox, use Tackle!"
Jessie's Dustox imitated May's Beautifly almost too well, striking and spinning while spreading its scale powder on the stage.
This was indeed beautiful.
"Now, use Rainbow!" But then Jessie shouted another strange command, and the pink scales of her Dustox suddenly turned into a rainbow-like color. Although this is really beautiful, it was also very wrong and impossible to do with her current abilities.
A quick cerulean blue light flashed across Ash's eyes, and he discovered the reason why she was able to make rainbow colored scales. It turned out that there was a small machine that was installed on the body of her Dustox.
This was a clear cheating violation!
So, Ash quickly used his Psychic and used a Force Grip to destroy the little thing from the audience stand. Just after being destroyed, Dustox was suddenly shrouded in black smoke. Jessie's cheating was also quickly discovered after Ash used a little bit of his Psychic to make Nurse Joy notice the small device, she was swiftly disqualified from her Pokémon Contest career until further notice.
Only 4 people were able to enter the second review in this competition. After Jessie was kicked out by Ash, May passed successfully, and the last person who got the fourth seat was indeed Billy.
Ash thought that his Togetic would enjoy Pokémon Contests, but she was just floating there back and forth around Ash. She probably had no interest in Pokémon Contest, so Ash didn't force it on her.
May commanded Beautifly to easily defeat her own opponent, the poor Billy and his Nincada. May's recent progress was indeed not something to scoff at, she was improving at a very fast speed.
Grace also defeated the arrogant Drew who annoyed her even before their battle began. She still used her signature Ice Punch, but this time her Medicham continuously used it on the girls to freeze it and create an ice wall to not only blocked Roselia's attack but also reflected it back to her. She beautifully defeated Drew's Roselia with his own attacks.
This also means that the final of the Fallarbor Town Pokémon Contest will be between May and Grace.
"May, game is game, I won't give in even I know you!" Grace was very optimistic about May's future career as a Pokémon Coordinator, but she will not show any mercy on the battlefield.
She believed that if she didn't do her best, it would he disrespectful to her opponent.
'Beautiful, the moment has finally arrived!' May encouraged herself in her heart, she must not lose in front of her friends, especially Ash who had helped her so many times.
"The final battle begins!" Miss Vivian announced the beginning of the final battle like usual.
"Beautifly, get on the stage!" May threw out her Poké Ball very skillfully, and every move she did was just right, without any deliberateness or procrastination.
With her pink scales flying in the air, Beautifly spun around in a circle, becoming more and more skillful in her debut entrance moves.
"Please, Medicham!" Grace and her Medicham didn't do too much when they made their entrance other than the backflip he did, he just came on stage and the battle truly began.
"Beautifly, use Tackle attack!"
Pokémon Coordinators put most of their effort into the expressiveness of their skills to make it stand out more than their other peers. Beautifly, whilst spinning in the air, launched herself toward Medicham like a small meteor. When she flys, she drives the wind to form a ring-shaped wind belt around her, which looks very beautiful to the audience members.
"Beautifly strikes first!" Miss Vivian commented on the battle between the two at any time.
"Medicham, use Meditate!" Medicham did a few weird moves and successfully avoided Beautifly's Tackle.
At this point, the Trainers on both sides should have completed their opening tests, and the next step is for the battle to truly begin.
"Medicham, use Ice Punch!"
After doing a few more weird moves, Medicham jumped high and hit Beautifly. However, May ordered Beautifly to use the Flying-type Gust to force it back, which did its work by immediately forcing it back.
Seeing that her Medicham was about to fall to the ground on his back, Grace knew that this would definitely deduct a lot of points from her.
But Grace was an experienced Pokémon Coordinator after all, "We won't be defeated that easily, Medicham, use Confusion!"
Medicham used his Confusion to freeze himself in the air and ultimately did not fall to the ground. This greatly reduced the amounts of points she would have otherwise have lost.
"Medicham had just used his Confusion to minimize the points deduction! That is very impressive!" Vivian explained, indeed Grace's plan did work out very well in the end.
At this moment, just one minute had passed in the clock.
"We almost succeeded!" May lamented, and this time she took the lead in attacking again, "Beautifly, use String Shot!"
Beautifly's String Shot skill has been especially trained by May, this made it very convenient to use in most ways. It was very useful whether in battle or while traveling to tie things up.
However, just teh second before String Shot was about to hit Medicham, Grace shouted another one of her orders, "Medicham, use Confusion again to freeze the String Shot!"
Medicham's Confusion did freeze Beautifly's String Shot, and then with a strong flick, the strings went back to Beautifly's body and tied her up.
This was truly ironic and impressive at the same time.
"Beautifly, come on! You can do it!"
Even with May's loud encouragement, Beautifly struggled hard, but still couldn't break free of the silk she had made.
Of course Grace would not miss this opportunity to continue on her offense, "Medicham, use Ice Punch on her!"
The ice cold punch hit vey accurately, and Beautifly was frozen solid, shining like a large blue amber. This caused May's score to be greatly deducted again.
Seeing this, Ash couldn't help but shake his head by seeing Grace's plan. Beautifly's movement was heavily restricted, leaving it completely vulnerable. At that time, she should told her Medicham to use his High Jimp Kick to instantly knock Beautifly out.
What would the use of Ice Punch be then?
Ash knew that the String Shot must have become more brittle and lost its original toughness after being frozen like that.
Now wouldn't it be easier to break free from it?
But now May didn't know this and all she can do is shout, "Beautifly, come on!"
As Ash expected, Beautifly was quickly able broke through the ice and May quickly regrouped, "Well done, Beautifly!"
Unexpectedly, Grace still smiled and said, "We have to decide the winner in this final attack! Medicham, use High Jump Kick!"
Medicham jumped high and kicked towards Beautifly hard.
Ash was stunned there for a second. Why would she use this attack now instead of before? Now that the mostly faster Beautifly is out of trouble, this was almost a losing battle.
Ash knew that May had trained very hard under him, and she also knew the weakness of moves like High Jump Kick very well after hearing from Ash and Brock. She quickly ordered her Beautifly to avoid it, then turned around and used a Silver Wind to counterattack.
Silver Wind hit Medicham hard on the back, further accelerating its fall, and he hit the ground very harshly with his High Jump Kick, causing huge damage to itself.
Grace's score has been greatly reduced again, already less than May's current score.
At this moment, there was only one minute left before this match concluded. As long as May can hold on for this minute, she can win her first Pokémon Contest Ribbon!
Medicham was very injured by his own attack and was unable to move immediately. This was a good opportunity for May to go on the offensive, "Beautifly, use Tackle!"
Beautifly spun and rushed towards Medicham.
May had an idea and then ordered, "Beautifly, use String Shot in him!"
The worm threads also spiral towards Medicham, which not only makes it more immovable, but also provides Beautifly with a layer of protection against Medicham's next attack.
"Medicham, use Confusion!" Sure enough, Grace still had a way to fight back. Medicham squatted on the ground and used a chick Confusion to block Beautifly but couldn't block the Sting Shot in time.
However, in this stalemate, when the time expired, May's score was higher than that of Grace, so the final winner was May.
This meant that she had won the Fallarbor Town Pokémon Contest and received her first official Ribbon!