Chapter 13- Kaiser Beast

 

~During my time as a trainer, I have encountered many things, good, bad, strange and dangerous like all other trainers encounter during their lives. But I’m not like other trainers. I’ve made new friends and a lot of enemies, and others I can’t classify. Sky Render for example, he’s far stronger than me, and I’m not sure if I could catch up to the guy. I don’t get the feeling he’s really bad, but just on a different side. I’m a lot like him. He’s following the path he has sworn, and fights not for what he believes in, honour. I can’t help but respect the guy. People say not to judge a book by its cover, because they can be deceiving in some ways, and right in the others. Sky Render may seem bad because he’s the leader of a dangerous group, but he has true honour, and not evil. I can feel it. I guess because of all the bad influence he’s had during his time as a Fiend and the rough crowd. But maybe, just maybe if I can defeat the fiends, I can open his eyes and to show him a different path, and maybe the next time we fight, it won’t be as enemies. But now I have a greater concern, because all this time I was concentrating on the fiends, something much worse has been brewing this whole time. A different enemy, a kind I have never fought before and a greater evil…

 

-Ash Ketchum

 

(Location- Green Forest, near Dark Forest)

 

“CHAARBOK!” Arbok hissed as it slithered closer to its opponent. The massive snake reared its head, doing what it was famous for, with lightning quickness when it…

 

“STRIKE!” Meowth leaped up and slashed his sparring partner with lightning quickness, “Snake pokémon may be known for quick and lethal poisonous strikes, but if you wait too long that’ll give the slowest Slowpoke enough time beat you up before you even blink!” He stretched out his claws, jumped up and spun through the air as he slashed Wheezing, causing him to drop to the ground “Both of you are equipped with poison barbs and that’ll increase your poison power, but it’ll never do you any good if you can’t even hit!” He looked down at his claws, “On the other hand, one item per pokémon may be the legal rules, but rules are things Team Rocket is above! With my Quick Claw, Focus Band, Dire hit, Guard Specs and Scope Lens, I’m invincible!” Meowth growled, “But I’ve got a dragon scale, and up-grade! And all those rare-candies I’ve used, I should’ve evolved a long time ago! What’s wrong with me!?”

 

From the sidelines, Jessie and James were watching the fighting.

 

“Wow, Meowth’s intense! Isn’t he James?” Jessie stared in awe

 

“Yeah, he beat both our pokémon in one-hit each!” James was shaking “It’s a wonder he hasn’t evolved yet!” James sighed “Boy, if he gets any stronger, he’ll be the boss’s next agent 001! I’m starting to feel sorry for those Missingno guys, because when Meowth leads the Team Rocket Soldiers into battle against them, they’re as good as dead!”

 

“This really demeans us though! Being led by some mutant, talking-pokémon freak!”

 

“WHATDIDYOUCALLME!?” Meowth jumped up and used fury swipes on James. With his high-levels and stats-boosting items, the attack was so much stronger and a whole lot more painful too. James groaned and dropped to the ground. “As long as I’m hanging with you’s two losers I’m the boss around here! I’ve got power, I’m strong, I’m cool, and I’ll defeat ANY one who challenges me!”

 

“Is that so, yes? You say you are strong?” an unfamiliar voice spoke

 

“Hmm?” The three turned around, and saw someone… a figure standing atop the trees, watching them, “Who are you?”

 

“Hmph… ha-ha-ha… Team Rocket is pathetic, you even call yourself strong… you no even understand meaning of word…” the stranger’s accent was strange, but it was pretty obvious he was mocking them

 

“Oh really!? You wanna piece of us?!” The trio shouted

 

“No… but I know someone who do” He shook his head, a smile became apparent on his face, “We see how strong you are, when I feed you to Kaiser Beast!” A thunderous roar was heard within the forest. The trio gasped, as trees were being torn out of the ground, as a gigantic creature emerged from the woods…

 

(Meanwhile)

 

It has been ten days since Ash’s battle with Sky Render, and he was fully healed. Despite this, he could still remember the intensity when fighting Aquamarine and Sky Render. The two battles have really opened Ash’s eyes and he’s been training non-stop. The results of his training were apparent, as he had challenged every single pokémon trainer in the city, and defeated each one in a single sweep. The number of battles fought was in the hundreds, and among them included Team Rocket Elites as well as Pokémon Trainers, who participated in Indigo Plateau Leagues, some of which placed even higher than Ash at that time… but at this point, none of them were any match for Ash. He just blew them away, along with every other opponent who fought him. Compared to any other pokémon trainer, Ash had reached a completely different level. After fighting Aquamarine and Sky Render, no pokémon trainer seemed at all like a challenge to him.

 

Right now, Ash and his pokémon were training in the woods. Normally, he would be found fighting against his own pokémon, so that he and his pokémon would get to practice fighting all at once, but this time… the training was a little different…

 

“On my count! Hit the target!” Ash yelled. Each pokémon felt rather uneasy about attacking, “Don’t make me bring out the pester balls!” Upon hearing him say that, Pikachu, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, and Charizard fired their stongest attacks, Thunder, Hydro Pump, Solarbeam and Fire Blast. Ash shielded with the board…

 

BANG!

 

“WAAA!” Lucky for him, the QuickSilver board really IS indestructible and shielded him from the attack, well… most of it anyways. The impact sent him flying into the trees. “Waaaaaa… Not bad” He got up and rubbed his head, “Whoa! You guys sure have levelled up since last I saw you!” He sighed. Naturally, Charizards don’t learn Fire Blast, but Ash gave him the TM to teach him the move. “It was okay, I guess…”

 

“Still trying to master it?” Brock stepped forwards

 

“Uh-huh, and failing.” Ash sighed, “I’ve gotten too strong to train against normal pokémon trainers, but I haven’t seen any signs of the Super Fiends either, so I don’t know how much the training has paid off. But that’s not the problem… it’s this attack I’m trying to master. All it’s been doing was hit me with a strong, lethal impact! And half the time the attacks just flew off in different directions” he complained

 

“Isn’t hitting you with an intense force what it should be doing?” Asked Tracey. “And I noticed you’re only using four pokémon for the so-called super attack!”

 

“I only need these ones! If these four can do it correctly, then the foundation for it has been created! But it’s very hard to do. All they’ve been doing was simply hitting me with their attacks, but that’s not how it works! The four pokémon I’ve chosen each have an element, representing the main four that compose this world (or so I’ve heard in RPG’s…) Earth, Fire, Wind and Water! Bulbasaur’s element is grass, which comes from earth, while Charizard and Squirtle are obviously fire and water. Pikachu is electric, but it can also be classified as wind! If I’m correct, the fusion of these elements will create a power beyond anything we’ve ever seen!” Ash explained, “However… it’s easier said than done. In order to fuse the elements, they have to be in perfect balance, meaning they have to strike as if they were one, with the same strength and perfect synch in order to fuse the four elements into a foundation element. The foundation coming from those fused elements is a base element of incredible power. Like I said, it is a foundation, so once they’ve been joined, any other of my pokémon can join in with an attack of their own, and because of the base element, all of them can be absorbed and their strength will be contributed into the beam! Also that means that if you guys join in, it’ll be stronger! Although that part is more advanced and could be dangerous to ourselves, I’m only gonna try to get the base element beam until we get better at it.”

 

“And you thought up of that one? I didn’t think your brain had the capacity to do that much thinking. One question. A dangerous move like that sounds rather dangerous… if you were to use that on normal people, you could end up seriously injuring, if not killing them” Said Ebi, suddenly popping out of nowhere

 

“Ebi? When did you get here? Ah… never mind…” Ash sighed, “I have no intention of using it on normal people. This technique was made for one thing, to defeat the Super Fiends!” He smirked, looking down at his clenched fist. He’s come so far since he started chasing them… but he still remembered the power he experienced from Sky Render when the two of them fought. Ash was still far from being able to challenge him… “Heh… it’s just so exciting…” he smiled leaning back against a tree, “How much further will I have to climb before I can reach you?” It was funny. From the name of the opponent he was trying to reach, seemed to represent exactly where he stood. Leaning against an ‘ash’ tree, looking up to the sky itself… that was still the distance between them. A tree still growing from the earth, reaching up to sky far above… “One day… I’ll grow enough to reach you…”

 

“By the way Ash, have you made the decision?” Asked Ebi, “Where are we gonna go from this point?”

 

“Yeah! The toughest one has got to be the Team Rocket base. With those elites and army, it’s too much to take on the entire organization, and with the tight security and all, it’ll take the longest to do, so save it for last. I want to get rid of the annoying Missingno gang, so we should go to Scarlet city and eliminate the Missingno gang before taking on the Team Rocket Society. On the way there we’ll have to pass through the dark forest and investigate that monster-thing. With any luck we’ll solve the problem!”

 

“So the order’s gonna be the Beasts in the Dark Forest, then we finish off Missingno gang, and THEN go to the Team Rocket base?” Asked Ebi

 

“Yup” Ash answered

 

Ebi sighed “I can’t help but feel like something’s gonna happen. Just hope you master that super attack

 

“Well before we leave, there’s a few things I wanna do! First of all, I wanna know if any of the fiends are hanging around here.” said Ash

 

“I’m sorry, but they’re all gone.” Ebi shook his head, “The only reason they came is to challenge you. After that, they just got up and left. We won’t find them anywhere near this place.”

 

“Hm…” Ash sighed, “Too bad… I wouldn’t mind challenging them one at a time, maybe find and fight them, and get stronger with every fiend I beat, like an RPG!”

 

“Well, I you’re that determined, then I’ll tell you this.” Ebi straightened his glasses, “I took the liberty of taking care of one of those standard ‘RPG’ tasks, and asked around town. Word on the street is that Cleft has been sighted around the Dark Forest region. If you wanna find him, you better go now. So, shall we?”

 

“Not yet! I want to master this attack! Let us give it another try before we go! Everyone! Get into formation and fire!” Ash commanded, “One more time! Aim for…” Ash sweatdropped, if that was the real attack successfully done, then he’d be killed even if he shielded himself. “Over there!” Ash pointed at a huge boulder about twenty metres away. That way, Ash could see the attack as it flies through the air

 

Pikachu, Squirtle, Charizard and Bulbasaur moved into position. Each one charged up their attacks.

 

“GET READY!” Ash yelled, “FIRE!”

 

Thunder! Hydro Pump! Fire Blast! Solarbeam! These attacks flew through the air towards the target. About halfway, Ebi could see it breaking up. Right before it hit the boulder, the elements broke up and flew in different directions. Not one piece of it hit the target.

 

“At close range, the attacks do hit, but don’t join together! At long range, it breaks up in different directions without even hitting its target!” Ash complained

 

“One reason is because it’s a nameless attack” Said Ebi, “An example is a pokémon doing a cut attack and a trainer calls it cutting, it won’t work. Give it a proper name. A good one that suits it. Pokémon can’t respond properly to a nameless attack. Think of a good name, train them the same way, and you will succeed”

 

“You really think a name could make any good difference?” Ash stared at him

 

“It’ll work. Trust me!” Ebi crossed his arms and nodded

 

(Location- Dark Forest entrance)

 

Ash, Misty, Tracey, Brock and Ebi froze in their tracks at the sight of Team Rocket. Jessie, James, Meowth, Arbok, Victreebell and Wobuffet were all on the ground. Badly bruised, burned and injured.

 

“Waaa… what do you think did that to them?” Ask gulped

 

“Judging by the burn marks and scratches, it looks like they had been attacked by a Charizard, a particularly strong one” Said Ebi, “However… these three are pretty strong, and not just anyone can beat them… especially injure them to this degree…”

 

“Ah, you’re worrying about nothing!” Ash looked down “Remember, I’ve done worse to them in the past, and someone did beat them like this, then he must be pretty good! Hey, let’s going! Maybe we’ll meet the guy who beat them. I’d really like to have a battle with him!” he said happily, running into the forest

 

The others didn’t seem so confident about this. The only monster sceptic in the group was Ash. As they ventured further into the deep dark woods, they failed to realise the danger they were stepping into…

 

The Dark Forest was full with gnarled, grotesque trees. All dead, dense and blotting out the sun. “Is it just me or did this place get uglier than the last time we came?” Ash looked at the forest in disgust

 

“Ugh… even though we crossed it safely, I still hate this place! And now that we know something’s out there, I hate this forest even more!” Misty grumbled

 

“Ah, nothing to worry about. Just dense woods, no sunlight, cold, creepy sounds, dead trees in every directions, darkness everywhere… I want out!” Tracey whimpered

 

“We might as well hurry up, I don’t want to be in this place any longer! It’s almost afternoon and we’re not even halfway!”

 

Ash sighed, he didn’t believe in monsters. He only believed in pokémon, and they were nothing to be afraid of, although they could sometimes be a threat. He didn’t know it, but they were being watched. But within the darkness, was a low growling. Something was coming…

 

(Location- Further in the Dark Forest)

 

Several hours have passed, and the group was still as rigid as before. They have learned that relaxing isn’t a very wise thing to do when in the dark forest. The growling noises have been getting louder. While the rest of the group was scared stiff, Ash was getting impatient. Well, he was, until…

 

“GROOOAR!” they heard a loud roar in the deep woods

 

“What was that?!” Tracey exclaimed

 

“I don’t know, but it came from that way!” Brock pointed in the direction where the roar was heard

 

“Thanks! I think I’ll be on my way now!” Ash dashed off in that direction, “It’s about time! I was starting to think this whole dark forest thing was a waste of time!”

 

“ARGH! That idiot!” Misty ran after him

 

“(sigh) am I the only one who sees the possible danger of running in the direction of a powerful and possibly lethal creature?” Brock sighed and followed them

 

Ash ran in the direction where he heard the sound. This area seemed pretty normal, thick tall trees in every direction, darkness everywhere, everything seemed normal, except for… Cleft?!

 

“A Super Fiend!” Ash growled and reached for a pokéball, but stopped when noticed he was lying on the dirt and not moving. Ash approached him cautiously. He picked up a stick that fell on the ground and poked Cleft with it, “Hey! Are you awake? Are you alive?” Cleft was wounded heavily, and was especially burned all over.

 

“Ash!” Misty finally caught up with him, “AH! It’s Cleft!”

 

“Relax!” Ash continued to poke Cleft, “He’s no danger to us right now!”

 

“Maybe, but I wouldn’t poke him with that if I were you! Fooling around like that on a Super Fiend is like poking a lion in the eye, and Cleft’s even worse than a lion!” Ebi backed off nervously, “AGH!” He exclaimed

 

“What?” Ash asked Ebi

 

“He’s… moving!” Ebi backed off

 

“Ungh…” Cleft was stirring

 

“Watch out…” Everyone kept their distance. The only one stupid enough to stand near him was Ash with that stick

 

Cleft’s eyes opened wide “GYAAAAA!” He screamed, causing everyone to jump, “NO! GET AWAY! PLEASE! LEAVE ME ALONE!”

 

Ash sweatdropped nervously and backed off, “I’m not that scary, am I?”

 

“I don’t think he’s talking to you! Look at him!” Misty pointed at Cleft

 

“No… monster… MONSTER!” Cleft was screaming. He was still on the ground and screaming. After that he stopped screaming and blacked out again

 

“Yikes…” Ash sweatdropped, “Now that was creepy…”

 

“He’s delirious!” Said Ebi, “Something must’ve attacked Cleft and beaten him so badly! Super Fiends always win their fights, so anything that could beat one is worth being afraid of. And these injuries… we have to get him to a hospital or he’ll die! Maybe, he’ll also tell us about what did this to him”

 

“And why go through all that trouble when you have answer right here!” Someone called down from the trees

 

“Wha?” Everyone looked up and saw somebody. Dressed in a red uniform, with a Chinese-sword hanging from his belt, he looked down at them from the tall trees. He wore a velvety red cape, which carried a strange emblem, which looked like a sword wrapped in chains and surrounded by a ring of flames

 

“Who’re you?” Brock stepped forwards

 

“What it matter to you, no-eyes?” Said the red-clad guy. He had a Chinese accent

 

“No eyes?!” Brock growled, and Ash jumped forwards and pushed Brock out of the way before someone got hurt

 

“It’s important! So we’ll know whether you’re friend or foe!” Said Ash

 

“Important… feh, nothing you heathens say is important…” Said the Chinese guy

 

“Huh?” they stared at him, and Ebi spoke up, “Hey, you’re not part of the Missingno gang or Team Rocket or something?”

 

“Only weak-weaklings are part of Missingno Gang and Team Rocket!” He sneered, “I no join stupid teams even if life depends on it!”

 

“What? That’s funny, because you must be from one of them, because you really don’t look like a Super Fiend…” said Ebi

 

“Super Fiend? No even close! That thing lying there is super fiend! I am not! My name is KN-02, better known as Red Kaiser! Super Fiend Cleft was best challenge so far, but we want to complete testing! We need more challengers! You do nicely! Hm? What this?” He looked down at Ash

 

“Hmmm…” Ash looked at this ‘Red Kaiser’ person…, “I don’t know who this guy is, but he just REEKS of bad guy!”

 

Red Kaiser didn’t hear what he said “You! Ash Ketchum! I recognize you! You are strongest in this area, and even fight Super Fiends! Lucky! Good test and food for experimental Kaiser Beast!” Red Kaiser jumped from the branch and shouted “KAISER BEAST CHARRANNOSAURUS! SHOW YOUSELF!” he then ran, disappearing into the darkness.

 

“What was his problem?” Tracey sweatdropped

 

“Kaiser Beast? Charrannosaurus? What’s that supposed to be?” Ash crossed his arms, but his question was answered in just a few seconds

 

Out of the darkness they could see two yellow glowing eyes staring at them. Then it emerged, a real monster. At first it was crawling, but then the gigantic creature stood up straight, half the height of the trees, so it was about fifteen feet tall. It had a long tail, powerful looking wings and its scaly body was red, the same thing as a Charizard. There were red spikes running down the creature’s back from the head to the end of the tail, and the arms were long and built with powerful muscles. The face was similar to a Charizard’s but the mouth had more fangs, and a lot sharper, and it definitely had more firepower than Charizard would ever have. The flame on its tail was huge and blazing with yellow and white flames. There it stood, the Kaiser Beast, Charrannosaurus…

 

“Gah… so this is what he meant when he said Kaiser Beast. This is the monster that’s been attacking the trainers…” Brock gulped

 

“I’ve never seen a pokémon like this…” Misty trembled

 

“I don’t really know if this is a pokémon” Ebi didn’t move. He was petrified

 

“Whatever this thing is, it’s dangerous” Tracey stared at the thing, trying not to faint

 

“And I wanted to fight this thing. I brought this upon myself…” Ash sweatdropped nervously, it was a miracle he hadn’t just run away at the sight of the Kaiser Beast

 

Charrannosaurus raised it’s arm and stretched the claws on each of his fingers. Ash has seen this attack done by pokémon many times…

 

“It’s a slash attack! BREAK UP!” Ash shouted. Every one in the group jumped in a different direction, out of the way of the lethal attack. The Kaiser Beast slashed at them but missed, and tore right through a tree trunk with its attack

 

“GRR… PIKACHU! THUNDER!” Ash yelled

 

“PIKACHUUU!” Pikachu jumped up and shocked Charrannosaurus. Electricity surged through the monster, but the attack did little to no damage.

 

“What the heck is this thing?!” Ebi yelled out, “I know it has to be a pokémon, but it just isn’t!”

 

“It’s because the thing’s NOT a pokémon!” Ash yelled, pulling out some more pokéballs, “Not a natural one anyways!”

 

“Careful!” Tracey yelled

 

Ash threw the pokéballs, “Thanks to the pokédex overriding the six pokémon limit I can use a lot of them! But using a ton of pokémon in a single battle is hard even for a champion! With any luck I might actually be able to use the ultimate technique today! GO!” Ash released Bulbasaur, Bayleef, Totodile, Squirtle, Charizard, Cyndaquil, Heracross, Noctowl and Pidgeot. “This is thick dead woods! Be careful with the flames Charizard and Cyndaquil!”

 

“Either way, defeat it now and learn about it later!” Brock released Onix, Geodude, Crobat and Pineco

 

“Staryu! Starmie! Politoed! Corsola! GO!” Misty released her four main fighters

 

“Two of my pokémon are for searching pokémon, and I may only have one decent fighter, but we need as many as we can get! GO!” Tracey released Maril, Vennonat and Scyther

 

“Man… I’ve got to get a pokémon…” Ebi sighed

 

“We don’t know how strong the thing is, so be careful!” Ash commanded his pokémon “Use the same strategy we used on Tyranitar!”

 

Each one of Ash’s pokémon fired an attack at Charrannosaurus. The Kaiser Beast stretched his wings forwards and covered the front of his body, shielding his face and body from the attacks. The attacks left several mark on the wings, but didn’t do much damage. Charrannosaurus folded his wings as he straightened up and opened his mouth, “GHROOOOOAAAR!” Charrannosaurus attacked! It opened it’s mouth and fired a dragon rage. Charizard countered it with his Fire Blast attack, and both attacks exploded in the air.

 

“That was a dragon rage!” Ebi exclaimed, “It’s so powerful…! Don’t let it hit you!”

 

“TOTODILE! PIKACHU! HYDROTHUNDER!! Charizard, FIRE BLAST! USE SOLAR BEAM BULBASAUR! RAZOR LEAF BAYLEEF! HYDRO PUMP HIM SQUIRTLE! USE RAZOR WIND PIDGEOT! YOU TOO NOCTOWL” Ash then dropped to his knees and gasped for air. “(wheeze) this is why… (wheeze) I don’t like using… (gasp) so many pokémon at once…” he sweatdropped

 

“Fortunately I don’t have to worry about that problem! ICE PILLAR!” Misty commanded. Both Staryu, Starmie and Corsola combined their water guns, and Politoed using blizzard, the pillar was extra large and heavier.

 

“ROCK SLIDE!” Brock commanded, Onix and Geodude both used their attacks

 

“WATER GUN!” Tracey yelled, and Marril fired a jet of water.

 

Charrannosaurus opened his mouth and fired a wave of flames, overlapping all of the attacks launched at him and erasing them all. That wasn’t all. All the pokémon as well as humans bolted to the sides away from the pillar of flames. The fire tore through the trees and burned everything to ashes

 

“WA!” Ash exclaimed as the fire burned everything in its path, “DAMMIT! (wheeze) I did all that yelling for nothing!”

 

“I can’t believe it!” Brock yelled

 

“Incredible! Its flames are hot enough to burn up anything and reduce them to ashes instantly! At least that way the flames won’t spread, but that means it’ll be even more dangerous to us!” Exclaimed Ebi

 

Charrannosaurus growled and opened its mouth again to launch flames, but Charizard swooped forwards and slashed Charrannosaurus in the face before it could do anything and stopping its attack. All the water pokémon then fired their water attacks straight into Charrannosaurus’s mouth, right down his throat, dealing damage as well as causing him to choke and give the opening for another round of attacks.

 

“Quick Squirtle! Hit the Tail Flame with everything you got!” Ash pointed at the tail flame. Squirtle shot a Hydro Pump straight at the flame on the end of the Kaiser Beast’s tail. The water evaporated immediately, but the flame flickered and weakened a little. “Any pokémon of the ‘Char’ family, the size of the tail flame determines the firepower and a sign of living! If we eliminate the flame, it might be strong enough to survive, but too weak to fight until its flame is rekindled!”

 

Charrannosaurus growled, enraged that they tried to attack his flame. The Kaiser Beast growled and charged forwards “SPLIT UP!” Misty shouted. The group barely missed the Kaiser Beast’s stomp attack. Usually that move wouldn’t be that dangerous, but against a fifteen-foot tall dinosaur that looked heavier than a Snorlax, that move could be lethal.

 

“His ranged attacks are strong and fast. But something that specializes at ranged combat doesn’t do nearly as well at close fighting! His melee fighting’s slow, so get in there close and personal, and kick his butt! SKULL BASH! TAKE DOWN! SLASH! SKY ATTACK!” Pikachu and Squirtle soared through the air, ready to slam into Kaiser Beast with their heads, but with his wing on the left, he slapped Pikachu and Squirtle out of the air. Bulbasaur, Bayleef and Cyndaquil dashed forwards, also attempting to tackle him, but he smacked the plant pokémon with his tail. Charizard and Totodile bolted forwards and took a swipe at the Kaiser Beast, but Charrannosaurus struck first and slashed both of them. Noctowl and Pidgeot shot through the air at a rapid speed, but Charrannosaurus flapped his wings, creating a wind strong enough to slow them down, and give him the opportunity to slam Pidgeot and Noctowl to the ground. Ash’s strongest fighters were sent flying with one hit each! “No go! The thing’s too strong to fight up close, and too powerful to hurt from afar!” Ash yelled.

 

Charizard got up. He refused to go down in one hit! Not after he has been training so hard! Even though his opponent was nearly three times larger than him and far stronger, size doesn’t matter! He’s smaller than any other Charizard at Charicific valley, but he trained hard enough to become stronger than any of them! “CHROAAR!” Charizard slashed at the Kaiser Beast’s face, but Charrannosaurus caught that arm in his hand. Charizard slashed with the other, but the giant Kaiser Beast caught that one as well. Charizard didn’t like losing, and hated giving up even more. Charizard blasted flames at Charrannosaurus’s eyes. Charrannosaurus roared in pain and let go of Charizard, giving him the opportunity he needed to strike with several scratches and slashes at the head and neck, and Pikachu and the other pokémon joined in to attack the Kaiser Beast. Charrannosaurus opened his eyes. He was a fire type, so the flames wouldn’t blind him, but they did hurt. Charrannosaurus manages to slash Charizard, him being the largest target out of all those puny pokémon, but one hit isn’t enough to take him down. Charizard’s eyes flashed with a leer attack, throwing the mighty Charrannosaurus off balance and giving them the opening they needed.

 

“HYDRO THUNDER!” Ash yelled. Squirtle and Pikachu fired the electrified water, dealing water damage and paralysing Charrannosaurus. “EVERYONE! ATTACK!”

 

“WATER GUN!”

 

“SOLAR BEAM!”

 

“FURY SWIPES!”

 

“ROCK SLIDE!”

 

Staryu, Starmie, Maril, Bulbasaur, Scyther, Geodude and Onix all attacked, but Charrannosaurus covered itself with its wings and was shielded from the round of attacks

 

“Uh… okay… try that again” Ash sweatdropped.

 

“Fine then!” said Misty, “Let’s combine our water attacks to make a strong one enough to give this Kaiser Beast something to cry about!”

 

“All right!” Ash pointed at Charrannosaurus, “All water pokémon, use the strongest water attack you’ve got! And make it into a HydroThunder with your electricity Pikachu!”

 

The powerful jet of water flew from Squirtle’s Hydro pump, combined with heck a load of water guns from the other pokémon. Pikachu electrified it with his thunder, and the electrified water went straight for the Kaiser Beast.

 

Charrannosaurus roared and opened his mouth. Blazing Flames flew out of his mouth and overlapped the water, reducing it into nothing but harmless steam.

 

“AGH! The thing’s… too strong!” Ash backed off

 

“ONIX! ATTACK NOW!” Brock shouted, and Onix bolted forwards and attacked the Kaiser Beast

 

Charrannosaurus straightened up and grabbed Onix by the horn and swung him to the ground. He didn’t stop there. He continued to swing Onix through the air in circles, slamming Squirtle, Pikachu and the rest of the water pokémon, taking a huge chunk of HP out of them. Crobat and Geodude both charged forwards to attack, but Charrannosaurus slammed Onix into them and sent them flying.

 

“How are we supposed to fight something that’s too strong, skilled and powerful!?” Tracey yelled

 

Brock smiled, “Sometimes one has to suffer for the greater good, also because some of the really good things requires a lot of pain! And I figured out it’s weak point! Even though he has a lot of HP, he has to be on the defensive half the time! That’s the only way he can last so long! If doesn’t let itself get hit, he’s a much tougher opponent! But he can’t defend or counter when its on the offensive, that’s why I told Onix to use the bide attack!”

 

Bide! This attack takes several turns to use, and is very risky. The pokémon who uses it will take a lot of damage from it’s opponent for several turns, and will deal double the damage it received!

 

The Kaiser Beast swung Onix to the ground, but Onix broke free of the grip. Onix roared out loud and bolted forwards at an amazing speed. Before Charrannosaurus could defend or anything, Onix rammed head-on into his face and dealt double the damage he had received. Charrannosaurus stumbled back a few steps. He was staggering and dizzy. The attack knocked him senseless.

 

“ICE PILLAR!” Ash and Misty called the attack. All the water pokémon fired a water attack, and Politoed froze it. The solid pillar smashed into the side of Charrannosaurus’s head, dealing even more damage. Charrannosaurus shook its head and all the dizziness out. Under Red Kaiser’s orders he had fought a lot of trainers, and attacked even bigger groups than this, but never has he faced people this strong! He growled, he was a Kaiser Beast! A superior form of evolution and a higher creature! His strength level was superior and his HP was in the thousands! He can’t let himself be beaten by a bunch of kids and those puny little pokémon!

 

“Whoa! He’s come back to his senses! And he looks mad!” Ebi sweatdropped,

 

“I’m on it!” Ash and Misty yelled at the same time and both pointed at Charrannosaurus “ICE PILLAR! MAKE IT THE LARGEST PILLAR POSSIBLE!”

 

Each of the water pokémon fired as much water possible, and Politoed was sweating from the strain of having to freeze that much water at once, but he knew Ash and Misty had a plan.

 

“GROOAAAR!” Charrannosaurus fired flames at the giant pillar of ice. The heat of the flames did melt the ice, but the pillar was too big and created too much water to be melted in a single flash “ROWR!” Charrannosaurus roared as the water from the melted pillar splashed all over his face.

 

“OH YEAH!” Ash and Misty high-fived each other, “Like you said Brock, he can’t defend and attack all at once!” They both gave him thumbs-up

 

“By now with all those hard hits he’s taken, a few more rounds of attacks will take him down! Everyone attack!”

 

“GRRR…” Charrannosaurus growled. As the attacks flew towards, him, he straightened up into the right posture and took all the hits

 

“HM?!” Brock recognized that posture! Even though it was different from Onix’s, and Charrannosaurus was doing it! “NO! HE’S USING BIDE!”

 

“WA!” Ash exclaimed. All of the moves were projectiles, so they couldn’t stop them! Charrannosaurus had several thousand HP left, so just one round of attacks won’t do the job! The damage from the round of attacks could take down almost any normal pokémon, and it’ll deal double the damage when hit!

 

“CHROAAAAAR!” Charrannosaurus attacked! Usually a bide would be one powerful hit, but when divided among a lot of pokémon, he attacked in a frenzy of slashing and biting. Pidgeot tried to attack with Sky attack, but Charrannosaurus concentrated more energy into his tail flame, causing the fire to grow. Charrannosaurus then spun around and slammed Pidgeot with the tip of his flaming tail and setting his feathery body on fire. Charrannosaurus then concentrated the rest of the bide attack energy and broke into a powerful charge and smashed his way through the troop of pokémon. After smashing his way through them, he made it to the human trainers.

 

“AAAAAAH!” All of them screamed as Charrannosaurus roared at their faces, but Ash looked relatively fine. He was even smiling!

 

“Okay Ebi… time to test the Nitro Ball you gave me…” Ash smirked, pulling out the explosive… “Nitro Ball GO!” Ash hurled the ball into the Kaiser Beast’s mouth…

 

BOOM!!!

 

“GROAA!!!” The ball exploded as Charrannosaurus closed his mouth over it. The Kaiser Beast gave a weak growl and collapsed to the ground.

 

“OH YEAH!” Ash cheered and struck a pose, “I am the man! I am the master! I am SOOOOOO good!”

 

“Wow! The Nitro Ball worked better than I thought! I really oughta make more of those things!” Ebi smiled, “Even I didn’t know they were that strong!”

 

“WATCH OUT! CHARRANNOSAURUS’S GETTING UP!”

 

Charrannosaurus growled, lots of his fangs have been chipped and fallen out, and his jaws were nearly broken from the shock of the explosion in his mouth

 

“GROAR!” Charrannosaurus roared, jumped into the air and stomped the ground, creating an earthquake attack

 

“PIKAAA!”

 

“WA!”

 

“YOW!”

 

The earthquake sent a shockwave through the ground, throwing everyone back. The flyers weren’t affected by the move, so Charrannosaurus dashed forwards and attacked in frenzy with his fury attack, taking out all the flying types.

 

“WA! We may have roughed him up a bit, but he’s still got more HP than we have combined!” Ash backed off, “Uh, Ebi! Do you have any more Nitro Balls?”

 

“No! That one I gave you was the prototype! It was still really dangerous and unstable, and could’ve blown up any time, so I let you carry it for me!”

 

“Uh-huh… You saying I was your test rat for a dangerous explosive?” Ash growled

 

“Uh… eh-heh-heh… yeah” Ebi sweatdropped and backed off nervously

 

“ROAR!” all the pokémon kept firing their attacks at Charrannosaurus, but the Kaiser Beast kept on blasting them into nothing

 

“Charrannosaurus is still fresh and got plenty of HP compared to our guys! We’re running low on energy and won’t be able to attack soon!” Ash spoke to himself. Ash remembered training the pokémon to do it.

 

-Thunder! Hydro Pump! Fire Blast! Solarbeam! These attacks flew through the air towards the target. About halfway, Ebi could see it breaking up. Right before it hit the boulder, the elements broke up and flew in different directions. Not one piece of it hit the target “At close range, the attacks do hit, but don’t join together! At long range, it breaks up in different directions without even hitting its target!” Ash complained-

 

“Every single attempt to use the ultimate attack has failed!” Said Ash, remembering when he trained his pokémon to do it. One after the other, for over a hundred attempts it has failed him, “Even in the most desperate of situations!”

 

-While the powerful beam containing three hyper beams and a bit of each earthly element, it was still an incomplete move without the necessary techniques, and it was going against the inner energy of a Super Fiend. Also, the attack was new, but the Terror of the Deep was practiced for years. The new attack was starting to fall apart… “No! HOLD TOGETHER!” Ash screamed. The beam was breaking “NOOO!” Ash yelled, but too late… each element flew in each direction “WAAAA!” KABOOM! Pikachu, Totodile, Cyndaquil, Tauros, Kingler and Snorlax got hurt and collapsed… and even though Ash wasn’t hit directly by the Terror of the Deep beam, the explosion sent him flying-

 

“And then there’s the name issue! People say names aren’t important, but for something like this it is!” Ash growled. Charrannosaurus opened his mouth and fired another attack. The pokémon had no choice but to run and evade it. “The attack! It’s all of us fighting together as a team! As one! Charrannosaurus…” He looked at the Kaiser Beast, “A creature this strong, this evil…” He clenched his fists, “SHOULD NOT EXIST!” Ash pointed at Charrannosaurus, “PIKACHU! SQUIRTLE! BULBASAUR! CHARIZARD! GET INTO FORMATION!” Pikachu, Squirtle, Bulbasaur and Charizard lined up in position “We attack as one! We fight together, with our hearts, our hopes, joined together in our unity! ATTACK WITH THE UNISTRIKE!”

 

“Pi… ka… CHUUUUUU!”

 

“Bul… ba… SAAAAUR!”

 

“Squir… TEEEEEEL!”

 

“Chr… ROOOAAAAR!”

 

The four elements flew through the air, each in perfect balance, carrying the powers of earth, water, fire and wind, and fusing together into a single base element… the powerful elemental foundation and the ultimate pokémon technique!

 

“CHROAAAAAAR!” Charrannosaurus fired the strongest fire blast it had ever used in its life. The two attacks collided head on… the blazing fire from Charrannosaurus and the beam of true unity from the pokémon.

 

“Heh…” Ash smiled, “It’s working… and the best part is that Charrannosaurus doesn’t even know the best part out of this attack!” The fire shrunk and the beam grew. “This beam is based on worldly elements, and attacks like fire will only make in stronger!” The UniStrike beam absorbed the blazing flames completely and grew in size and power! Charrannosaurus only had enough time to see the flash of the beam right before it made contact. Charrannosaurus, the Kaiser Beast was completely vaporized by the beam!

 

The dust cleared, more likely the dust of the what should have been the remains of Charrannosaurus if he wasn’t completely vaporized by the attack. Ash sighed for a moment. Whatever they had fought, it wasn’t a pokémon, not even a clone like Mewtwo. It was just something programmed to kill, and they have ended its threat.

 

“YEEEES! YES!” Ash cheered, “THE ULTIMATE ATTACK HAS BEEN MASTERED!” It was only a few seconds before Misty, Brock, Tracey and Ebi joined in the cheering.

 

From the treetops, they were being watched, “Aiya…!” Red Kaiser gasped, “I can’t believe Kaiser Beast is destroyed… How is this possible!!” he growled, “They insult us… they will pay…” slowly, his hand moved, gripping the handle of his sword. “Grr… no…” he released it. He could easily kill them on his own… he was far stronger than that Kaiser Beast… (BEEPBEEPBEEP) there was a ringing sound… it was a summon to return to base… “I have to go… report this to master…” he growled, “I go now… but next time… Ash Ketchum… I kill!” and with that, he disappeared into the darkness…

 

From another tree branch, another sword carrying, cloak-wearing individual was watching them, “Congratulations…” Sky Render leaned against the tree, “It’s been fun watching you train and defeat that Kaiser Beast. You have my deepest respect” He smiled, “But just because I respect you doesn’t change the fact that we will fight again, but not today…” He jumped down from the tree branch and walked into the darkness, his white mantle blowing in the wind. “Grow strong… Ash Ketchum.”

 

“Hmmm?” Ash looked in that direction as the wind blew

 

“What is it Ash?” Asked Misty

 

“Oh… nothing, just the wind…” Ash smiled. He knew Sky Render was there. Even though they were enemies, that Sky was an honourable one, and Ash was eagerly awaiting the day…when they could fight as equals…

 

Today has been amazing. Not only have they beaten the Kaiser Beast Charrannosaurus, Ash has mastered the UniStrike! This ultimate attack will surely come in handy in the future, especially against the Missingno Gang they’ll be fighting when they reach Scarlet City! But who is this Red Kaiser? And who does he work for? Find out next time, on Pokémon: Ultimate Adventures! E-mail me at Mikazuchi_@hotmail.com

 

TO BE CONTINUED