Disclaimers:
I do not own Pokémon. Nintendo and Game Freak own it. If I did own Pokémon, the Pokémon games will have 10 Pokémon in your party instead of 6. Isn't that what I said in the last chapter?
Mario Alvarado's Notes:
Okay, if you read the first part, Ash, Brock, Misty and Pikachu arrived at Rockstar City for the Pokémon Battle Rockstar Tournament. The winner gets a one-way ticket to the Indigo Pokémon League Championships. While Ash checks out Rockstar City's constant rock concerts, he reads a love letter from a secret admirer that was given to him by Nurse Joy. Even though Ash has this and the tournament to worry about, Misty has been gathering up her courage to make Ash hers if he wins or loses this tournament. And I plan to debut Ash's secret admirer in this part. I'll give you 10 bucks if you guess who it is. Only I know.
Oh, I should put the ages in here also for the hell of it. Just for you people wondering how old Ash, Misty and the others are. Ash is 14, Misty is 16, Brock is 19 and Ash's secret admirer is 14.
The Secret Admirer Mess Up
Part 2
The morning arrived and Ash and Pikachu were ready to fight. The rules of the Tournament are as follows. Each trainer must compete a minimum of 30 battles over a 3-day period, with each day starting at Noontime and ending at 6 P.M. local time. Also, a trainer can use only two Pokémon out of the six during each battle. The reason for using two Pokémon is so the battles will be much faster. The 32 trainers with the best winning averages or win/loss records will move onto the actual Tournament. The trainer who makes it through the 4 single elimination battles, will be crowned the Pokémon Battle Rockstar Tournament Champion and will get a one-way ticket into the Pokémon League at Indigo Plateau. Just 30 minutes before Rockstar City belongs to all trainers and all hell broke loose, Ash was giving his Pokémon line-up a final pep talk. Pikachu, Totodile, Bayleef, Cyndaquil, Noctowl and Phanpy were all ears.
"Okay, guys. This is the moment we have been waiting for!! In less than a half hour, Rockstar City will be swarming with other Pokémon trainers just waiting to take us out. We must win all the matches we can before the 3-day deadline. Are you ready?!!" Ash asked, trying to get his Pokémon psyched up for the battle ahead of them. All of his Pokémon were eager to battle and they showed it. After recalling all of the Pokémon back into their Poké Balls, Ash and Pikachu exited the Pokémon Center and met up with Misty and Brock near the center of the city.
"About time you showed up, Ash. This thing was going to start without you." Misty said teasingly,
"I was giving my Pokémon a last minute speech. I'm ready to go crazy in this town!!" Ash said as he punched his right fist into his left palm, just waiting to kick ass.
"Are you sure you don't need us, Ash?" Brock asked. When the big day arrived, Ash asked Misty and Brock not to accompany him to prove to them that he can battle without their usual assistance.
"Positive, Brock. I want to do this on my own. And to show you two that I battle without any help from you." Ash answered. With each passing minute, the trainers arrived and were all chomping at the bit to fight. In the past 3 tournaments at Rockstar City, a lot of trainers would start battles mere seconds after the tournament officially began!! And a lot of trainers competed in well over 60 matches instead of the 30 minimum. The reason for the high match count is that you would have a better shot of making the cut into the second and most important phase of the tournament, because of a high win/loss total. With a few minutes before all hell broke loose, the big boss of the city appeared on a stage where just a few minutes ago, some dude guillotined his own head off during a rock show.
"Hear ye, hear ye!!! The time for the Pokémon Battle Rockstar Tournament has arrived!! So, let's get this party started... RIGHT NOW!!!" The guy said as the final countdown started. The trainers counted down the remaining seconds and at zero, the first phase of the tournament began. Just one mere second later, bolts of thunder, fireballs, water attacks, razor leafs and every kind of Pokémon attack in existence was unleashed all over the city. All hell broke loose all over Rockstar City. In the park, Ash was already in a battle with a Rockstar City girl. She attacked with an Octillery while Pikachu instinctively got into the fight and had the Water Pokémon on the ropes. As the crowd went crazy, Misty and Brock were in shock on how fast everybody got their Pokémon out and started to battle.
"I've never seen a lot of battles start that fast before!!! There has to be already 24 matches in this park!!" Brock said as he watched a group of girls battle anybody that caught their eye in the melee,
"Looks like Ash and Pikachu are already in a fight themselves." Misty said as she watched Ash and Pikachu take out the girl's Octillery and start defending itself against a Scyther. Already, a band was up on stage and was starting to blast out rock music to make the combatants fight more fiercely. It must have worked because Pikachu let loose a devastating Thunder attack to cook the Scyther well done.
"ALL RIGHT!!! WHO'S NEXT?!!!" Ash yelled out as he waited for challenger #2, his eagerness to fight was showing.
"It's not us. Let's get out of here, Misty. All this Rock music is giving me a headache." Brock said as he made his way out of the battlefield. Misty wanted to stay and watch Ash fight, but Togepi was crying again because it doesn't like the music either. So, she ended up following Brock back to the Pokémon Center where they could watch the fights go on.
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It was already one hour into the battle and Ash has racked up 3 wins and 2 losses in his first matches. He heard that a few trainers are still undefeated after competing in 6 or 7 battles. Ash was a match over the .500 mark, but he needed wins... NOW!!! Pikachu and the others were just getting warmed up and were still eager to battle. Ash was walking down one of the main streets in Rockstar City, looking for some trainers.
"Okay. Come on now. I need some opponents." Ash mumbled to himself as he walked by a café where some people were hiding themselves from the battle. All of a sudden, this kid Ash's age appears from the café, with a Poké Ball in hand.
"Hold up, buddy! I heard you mumbling about needing some wins. Lucky for me, I'm one of the undefeated trainers in this tournament." The boy said,
"Oh, really. Get ready to lose!!! Bayleef, go!!!" Ash said as he tossed a Poké Ball in the air and Bayleef appeared, ready for anything. Or at least Ash thought so because Bayleef happily tackled Ash to the ground.
"Bay, bay!!" Bayleef said happily,
"Not now, Bayleef. We got another battle." Ash said as he pointed to the boy, who let out his Pokémon. It was another Grass type. A Vileplume to be exact.
"Use Razor Leaf, Vileplume!!" The boy yelled out. The giant, walking flower let loose a flurry of leaves right at Bayleef.
"Dodge it, Bayleef!!" Ash ordered and Bayleef propelled herself out of harm's way with Vine Whip. Vileplume kept Bayleef on the defensive by attacking with a Vine Whip and Razor Leaf combo while Ash tried to think of a way to get Bayleef out of this predicament. The street was now filling up with Pokémon fans to see this battle.
"Now use Acid, Vileplume!" Ash's opponent called out,
"Crap. Bayleef, use Stun Spore!" Ash yelled out. Bayleef let loose some spores from the leaves around its neck and absorbed the acid attack, canceling out both attacks.
"That's it!! Sleep powder, Vileplume!!" The boy yelled out, but Ash had another plan.
"Use Vine Whip and send his Vileplume into the air!!" Ash ordered to Bayleef. Before Vileplume got a chance to use Sleep Powder, Bayleef wrapped its vines around Vileplume and chucked the Grass Pokémon high into the air. The Vileplume sailed high in the air until it started to come back down to earth. "Now, Body Slam it really hard!!!" Ash ordered. Bayleef knew what Ash wanted her to do so she used her Vines to propel herself into the air, on a crash course with Vileplume. Suddenly, the two Grass Pokémon collided about 20 feet in the air. The hit knocked out the boy's Vileplume, which was at a lower lever than Ash's Bayleef, so it didn't take much to knock out Vileplume. The knocked out Vileplume landed right into a garbage bin while Bayleef made a 10-point landing on the back of a pickup truck.
"Aw, crap! Return Vileplume! Go, Wartortle!!" The boy yelled out as he recalled his knocked out Vileplume and sent out his Water Pokémon. Ash recalled Bayleef and saw Wartortle. It was much stronger than his Vileplume, but Pikachu could handle this.
"Oh, thank you so much. Pikachu, you know what to do." Ash said as he looked at Pikachu. The small, mouse Pokémon just gave Ash a cute look before letting loose one of its usual Team Rocket special thunder attacks. It was all over right there as Wartortle fell to the ground, cooked.
"Dammit, dammit, dammit!! You should have know that kid had a Pikachu on his head! Stupid, stupid, stupid!!!" The boy said to himself after recalling Wartortle and sulking away after losing. The crowd cheered for Ash as he and Pikachu accepted their accolades before heading off in search of more opponents within Rockstar City.
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The first day ended with Ash getting 13 wins and 7 losses out of 20 battles in his first day of competition. So far, he has a winning average of .650. While that is a good average, a bunch of trainers have more wins than him, one trainer is still undefeated in 18 fights and some are on the momentum of a 10 battle-winning streak. So, Ash and his Pokémon still have a way to go, but there is 2 more days of battling left. He and Pikachu were tired out at 6 P.M. when an official fired some gunshots in the air, signaling the end of the first day. He entered the Pokémon Center where he was staying and slowly trudged up to the counter.
"Hi, Nurse Joy. Can you heal my Pokémon? I'm beat. And I wasn't the one fighting." Ash said tiredly as Joy picked up Pikachu from Ash's head and took his Poké Balls.
"Don't worry about anything, Ash. Your Pokémon will be ready to battle after a good rest." Nurse Joy said as she was about to hand Ash's Pokémon to Chansey when something caught her eye. "Wait a minute Ash. I got something for you." Nurse Joy said before Ash took one more step,
"What's that?" Ash asked,
"This letter came for you an hour before. I think it's from the same person who wrote to you yesterday." Joy said as she handed Ash another small letter. Ash just shrugged his shoulders, placed the letter in his back pants pocket and slowly walked to his room where Brock was waiting for him.
"Hi, Ash. How was your first day?" Brock said as he looked up from his Pokémon Breeding magazine,
"Tiring." Ash said as he fell face first into his bed,
"Well, take a break for a while. Misty and I are taking you to this place later where they serve great food and this rock band dressed up as doctors perform surgery on some dude on stage." Brock said, remembering what Misty had said to him about this place she accidentally discovered yesterday.
"And is that band where the guy chopped his own head off on stage going to be there also?" Ash asked, grinning at the thought of seeing a rock band play with a headless lead singer.
"I guess so." Brock answered,
"Great. I don't want to get up for a while. Fetch me in a hour, will ya?" Ash asked as he turned himself over onto his back,
"Sure, Ash. I'll go flirt with some cute girls outside. I might get lucky." Brock said as headed for the door,
"You might get killed, Brocko." Ash said jokingly and he heard the door close. Now that Brock was gone, his Pokémon were recovering and Misty was out doing who knows what, Ash reached into his pocket and got out the letter he got from Joy.
Once again, to the really cute Ash Ketchum...
Those were some really great battles you were in. I especially liked the battle where you and your Bayleef beat that kid with the really powerful Grass Pokémon. You were really great out there in Rockstar City, Ash. I bet you'll make it all the way to the actual tournament if you keep winning.
So... have you tried to figure out who am I, your secret admirer? Well, you'll just have to wait a bit longer. I want to see you fight some more awesome battles and make it to the tournament itself.
I can't wait until tomorrow, Ashy. You'll beat the competition hands down and make it into the tournament!!
Your secret admirer.
Ashy again? I really don't think it's Misty now. She would never call me that. Ever. And I know a lot of the girls who I became friends with don't have any crushes on me. Or at least I think so. All signs probably point to one girl with a Ditto... I'm so tired. I just want to get some... rest. Ash thought to himself before letting slumber take over his body.
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Over at the restaurant district of Rockstar City, Misty got off the phone with Brock, telling her that he and Ash were on their way. When Brock got back to Ash's room, he was already up and about after his nap. Misty walked around the entertainment district where she would meet up with Ash and Brock. It was there she saw a person whom she never thought would be at a place like Rockstar City.
"Duplica?!! What are you doing here?!!" Misty asked surprised. Sure enough, the Ditto trainer was watching some guys with really long hair and clown makeup play rock music. Duplica gasped a bit and turned to face Misty. There, she spotted the red head Water Pokémon trainer glaring at her.
"I heard that Ash was competing in the Pokémon Battle Rockstar Tournament. So, I came to cheer him on." Duplica answered. In her mind, Duplica wished she had changed her hairstyle from the two ponytails she usually wears all the time.
"Cheer him on? I bet you're here to steal him from me!!" Misty said, her jealous side now taking over. She knew that Duplica had a crush on Ash, so she was shocked to find her rival for Ash's affection at the same place she was. Ash and Brock were going to be there in a few minutes and the last thing Misty wanted was to have Duplica here.
"Steal him from you? What are you saying Misty?" Duplica asked, playing a bit dumb because she knows that Misty has a crush on Ash, just like she does.
"You can't have Ash! He's mine!! I known him forever and I know he has feelings for me." Misty said,
"Do you actually know how he feels about you, Misty? You're going to put words in his mouth." Duplica said,
"I know he loves me! He doesn't love you! He barely knows you! I've been with him ever since he started his Pokémon Journey and he has yet to pay me back for busting up my bike." Misty shot back.
"And what will you do when he gives you that bike? Yell at him? Call him an idiot? Say he'll never become anything? You just want that bike and that's it." Duplica said, stating a hard known fact about how Misty usually treats Ash.
"That's a lie, Duplica!! And you know it!" Misty said. She denied it but she knew it was true.
"And what will happen if Ash doesn't have the same feelings you have for him?" Duplica asked,
"Oh, I got ways to make him see things my way." Misty said, referring to her giant mallet she always carries. "Now, if you'll excuse me... I have to see Ash shortly." She said before walking away down the street. Duplica just shook her head and left the entertainment district for the safety of one of Rockstar City's Pokémon Centers. Upon entering her room, she let Ditto out of its Poké Ball.
"She likes Ash? But, she always puts him down 24-7. Seems like this is one battle I might not win, Ditto." Duplica said as she lied down on the bed,
"Ditto, dit. Ditto." Ditto said,
"I don't want to force myself on him like what Misty has planned. So, that's why I've been writing those little notes to him." Duplica added,
Ditto, ditto. Dit." Ditto said,
"No, I don't think that's a waste of time. People have been writing love notes for years! And I'm not going to let this little crush I have for Ash take over my judgment. I just have to know if he likes me. That's all." Duplica said. Ditto didn't say another thing as Duplica started to doze off and go to sleep.
End Of Part 2
If any of you reviewers guessed that Ash's secret admirer is Duplica... you're right. I guess you people do know me very well. Now you're all guessing what plans I have in store for Ash as he continues his mission to win as many battles as he can to secure a spot in the Tournament, unaware that Misty is planning to win his affections while Duplica is taking a more subtle approach to tell Ash how she feels about him.
Next, I plan to have Team Rocket appear in Part 3 and they will play a big part in derailing Ash's hopes to make it farther into the Pokémon Battle Rockstar Tournament. And Misty will get in on all the action too!! I could make this an AAML fic or I could make this an Ash/Duplica fic. Just wait and see.
As usual, please read and review. Any questions? Send them to Hornet19us@Yahoo.com.
Mario Alvarado
5/30/2003