Chapter 4

The next day, Black Jack was getting ready for his second round of the tournament. He walked out on the battlefield and waited for his opponent while the announcer introduced Black Jack to the audience. His opponent came out wearing sport and street clothing. He had a radio in one hand and a microphone in the other as he spoke in rhymes, introducing himself. In other words, he was rapping.

“Yo!”
“So you is the famous Black Jack!”
“I is also famous!”
“I is known as the famous Mr. Mack!”
“Now dat I is in the Hoenn League Championship!”
“I’ll go on the attack!”
“And making you go ‘what dat!’”

“Sad…” Black Jack whispered as he gave Mr. Mack a bored look.

“In the second rounds,” cried the announcer. “Only two pokemon can be used by each trainer! Are you two ready?”
“Yeah! I’m ready, fools!” Mr. Mack yelled.
“Ready to be smashed you mean,” Black Jack replied confidently.
“Well then… LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLE!”

The huge screen chose Mr. Mack to choose his pokemon first.

“Before we start, fools,” Mr. Mack said. “How about it if I play a little music!”

He placed his radio next to him and played a tape, which played rapping songs.

Ash, Pikachu, Misty, Brock, May, Max, Wally, Cassandra, her Gardevior and Lao Ping sat as part of the audience, watching the match. “Why would he want to play some music?” Ash thought. He then gasped as he remembered. “Wait! I’ve seen that strategy before!” I remember now! It was a couple of years ago while I had a pokemon battle against Rudy back in the Orange Islands!”

“Now I choose Hitmonlee, fools!” Mr. Mack yelled as he threw the pokeball. Hitmonlee popped out of his pokeball and kept on jumping in a single spot while preparing himself for battle.

“Hmph! Metagross!” Black Jack yelled. “I choose you!”

Metagross popped out of his pokeball, getting ready for battle.

“Huh? What’s that?” Ash asked as he checked on a small gadget called a pokedex, which can describe any pokemon.

“Metagross, an Iron Leg pokemon,” the pokedex described. “It has four brains in total. Combined, the four brains can breeze through difficult calculations faster than a supercomputer. This pokemon can float in the air by tucking in its four legs.”
“Hmm,” Ash murmered. “Let’s see what it can do.”

“Metagross!” Black Jack commanded. “Psybeam attack!”

Metagross aimed and shot out two powerful psybeams out his eyes. But Hitmonlee dodged them as he leapt into the air while doing a leg split. As he landed on his feet, he started dancing again.

“Never seen that before, but it’s obvious the reason why he’s dancing.” Black Jack thought as he spotted a radio next to Mr. Mack. “That must be he’s strategy.”

Black Jack took out his pokeball. “Metagross! Return!”

“It looks like he’s got some other plan in mind,” Ash thought.

“Blaziken! Go for it!” Black Jack cried as he tossed another pokeball.

Blaziken popped out of his pokeball. “Blazi…”

Lao Ping nearly got off his seat as he saw his friend on the battlefield. “Blaziken…” he said to himself.

Blaziken stood poised for battle and noticed that Hitmonlee was dancing, meaning that he must be very careful.

“That punk kid’s waiting for me to attack,” Black Jack thought. “But as soon as I do, he might be able to counter it.”

Blaziken’s eyes narrowed, trying to predict what Mr. Mack and his Hitmonlee were planning.

“You’re keeping us waiting, fools!” Mr. Mack shouted.
Black Jack and Blaziken realised Mr. Mack’s weakness. “Well, if you hate waiting,” he replied. “Why don’t you attack first?”
“Hitmonlee! Rolling Kick now!”

Hitmonlee ran forward. Blaziken stood poised, ready to counter. But to his surprise, Hitmonle flipped forward to do a handstand while both his feet grabbed Blaziken’s head.

Hitmolee flipped his body backwards while his feet held Blaziken’s head and dragged it, flipping Blaziken over, and landing on his back. Both pokemon quickly picked themselves up with Blaziken being momentarily hurt as he held his back.

“I meant seismic toss, fool!” Mr. Mack taunted. “Hehe!”

“That punk!” Black Jack thought. “He tricked us!”

“That’s what you get when you face Mr. Mack!” Mr. Mack said. “Don’t forget, He has seen you battle against Chris Jolteon and he knows you’re strategy, sucka!”
“Battles are more than just strategies, weirdo.”
“Yeah! It’s about brawn as well! But judging by your Blaziken, I’d say that he has neither!”

Black Jack’s eyes narrowed. “Brains and brawn, eh?” he thought. “He won’t know what’ll hit him…”

Blaziken looked at both Hitmonlee and his trainer. He motioned Hitmonlee to come and fight him. “I agree!” Mr. Mack shouted as he saw that. “Let’s get back to kicking their butts, Hitmonlee! Jump Kick attack!”

Hitmonlee kept on doing the cartwheels towards Blaziken. Blaziken stepped back a few steps until Hitmonlee leapt into the air.

“He’s gonna come down real fast,” Black Jack warned. “Get ready to dodge!”

Hitmonlee performed a dive kick at Blaziken, who dodged out of the way. “Big mistake!” Mr. Mack taunted. “Mega kick!”

Hitmonlee switched his jump kick attack to a Mega kick attack where he attacked Blaziken’s head with a spin kick. But to Hitmonlee’s surprise, the attack was blocked. “Blaziken!” Black Jack yelled as he saw the attack coming. “Counter attack!”

His fist of the other arm burned an angry red fire as he gave Hitmonlee a hefty punch to the gut. Hitmonlee was sent flying to the end of the field until he fell to the ground.

It took a few seconds for Hitmonlee to slowly pick himself up, who was in immense pain as he held his gut.

“Now do you see why you shouldn’t playing around with other people, let alone me?” Black Jack asked. “This is what you get for annoying us!”

Mr. Mack had a cold sweat on his head, not knowing what to do next. “Don’t feel like dancing now huh?” Black Jack taunted. “Now Blaziken! Blaze Kick attack!”

Blaziken ran like a speeding bullet and aimed his blaze kick attack at Hitmonlee’s gut. “Block that attack, Hitmonlee!” Mr. Mack ordered.

Hitmonlee held one of his hands out, ready to defend while the other held his injured body part. But Blaziken tricked Hitmonlee by jumping on his defensive hand and then both of his feet smashed and bounced off Hitmonlee’s face. Blaziken somersaulted backwards and landed on his feet while the back of the head of Hitmonlee hit the ground hard, knocking him out. “It looks like we’re even,” Black Jack said.

Hitmonlee was no longer able to battle. With frustration in his eyes, Mr. Mack called him back. “Golduck!” he shouted. “Go smash that Blaziken to bits!”

Golduck pooped out of his pokeball. He does his little dance routine because of the music that Mr. Mack’s radio was playing while Blaziken responded by folding his arms and tapping his foot, waiting for Golduck to make his move.

“Golduck!” Mr Mack cried. “Ice Punch attack!”

Golduck began moving towards Blaziken while doing flips and somersaults, trying to confuse him. Black Jack focused on Golduck’s movements, so did Blaziken.

Golduck leapt into the air. “It’s coming from above!” Black Jack warned.
“Blaze!” Blaziken replied.

Golduck went to land his icy fist on Blaziken’s face. Blaziken went to counter the attack with his fire punch attack. Both punches collided; only Goldick’s ice shattered to pieces and his fist took damage at the same time. Golduck landed on his back, holding his injured paw.

As Golduck picked himself up, Blaziken got himself ready to attack again. “Blaziken!” Black Jack yelled. “Comet Punch attack and Rolling Kick!”

Neither Mr. Mack nor Golduck could react when Blaziken leapt forward and performed a series of punches and kicks on different parts of Golduck’s entire body.

“Fury attack and Sky uppercut!” Black Jack ordered. Blaziken continued his attack when he formed his hands into a type of a bird pokemon as he kept on poking viciously at Golduck’s chest, ending the attack when he sent Golduck into the air with an uppercut. Golduck fell hard to the floor.

Having enough of seeing his Golduck getting beaten up by Blaziken, he decided to use his elemental advantages against him. “Golduck!” he cried. “Water gun attack!”

Golduck immediately got up, leapt backwards, breathed in and let out a huge foam of water out of his mouth.

“Blaziken!” Black Jack ordered. “Counter it with your Sky Uppercut and Fire Spin!”

Blaziken’s paw burned an angry red fire. He let out a huge uppercut into the air and a huge fiery whirlwind came from the ground because of his momentum to counter and evaporate Golduck’s attack. Not only that the air was hot, but there were also strong and heavy winds around everyone in the arena, threatening to drag the audience members off their seats.

Everyone held on to their seats, trying not to get sucked into the fiery whirlwind. Some of them covered their eyes so that dusts wouldn’t get into their eyes. Misty lost her grip of her seat and was being sucked in. “Misty!” Ash cried as he grabbed hold of Misty’s hand while he held on to his.

The only person and pokemon was standing confidently was Black Jack and his Blaziken.

The one that was mostly in danger was Golduck as he looked at the whirlwind with fear and took a few steps back while it was coming closer and closer. Mr. Mack was too distracted by the whirlwind’s force, trying to not get sucked in. There was nothing they could do.

Golduck tried to run away but was caught by the whirlwind. The force around him made him spun around and around. Not only that, he was also receiving damage by the heat of the fire.

It took some time for the attack to end. As the whirlwind slowly disappeared everyone looked back on the battlefield. It turned out that Golduck was lying on the floor, unconscious. Mr. Mack and his Golduck lost the battle, and Black Jack and his Blaziken won.

“No! No! No! No! No! NO! NO! NO!” Mr. Mack cried as he fell to his knees. He then got out his pokeball. “Golduck, get back in here…”

Everyone stood up and cheered after seeing an amazing victory that Black Jack and Blaziken pulled. The one that was the most enthusiastic was Lao Ping. “Blaziken! You did it!” he cried.

Black Jack walked close to the spot where Blaziken was standing. Blaziken turned to see his current trainer. “Old man Wong must be very proud of you,” Black Jack said in a caring tone.
“Blaze…” Blaziken replied as he looked up to the skies while a small teardrop ran down his face.
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