Chapter 9- Team Rocket! The second wave!

 

(Location- Teal Ville North Exit/Foot of Ice Blue Mountain)

 

“PIKA!” Pikachu fired a strong bolt of lightning at his target bounding through the tree branches, but missed. “Pika, pika Pikachu!” He called to the other pokémon. Bayleef aimed his leaf, Totodile opened his mouth and Cyndaquil fired up his flame. The opponent came into sight and they all fired their attacks, but missed. Noctowl swooped in attempt to peck it, but missed. It was simply too fast. The pokémon were all sweating and panting, they simply could not hit him! Out of the trees, their opponent came out.

 

“Come on guys! What if I was a big bad Super Fiend? If you can’t hit me, you’d be fried by now!” Ash saw that they weren’t very enthusiastic about attacking their ‘respected master’, “Looks like you need some motivation. Well, heads up, ‘cus it’s coming this way!” He bent over and pulled out a pester ball. All of the pokémon gasped at the ball hit the ground, releasing the foul-smelling purple gas

 

All the pokémon ran as fast as they can out of the gas, covering their noses and coughing. As soon as it cleared, they stepped out, all looking REAL mad.

 

“All right!” Ash flew and spun around in the air, dodging every attack aimed at him. He stood up in front of a tree and stuck out his tongue. “What’s the matter? Can’t hit me? Here comes another one!” He threw a pester ball downwards and laughed. He then moved, which was convenient because the second he moved, a large blast of electrified water came and hit the tree, exploding it to bits. Ash flew quickly, and behind him, another tree was hit with a barrage of razor leaves. The tree trunk fell to the ground in pieces as thin and clean cut as paper. Ash zoomed past three more trees, and the next attacks barely missed him. A tornado ripped a bunch of them out off the ground and into the air. They were burned to ashes when a gigantic blast of fire burned them all. (All of this happened in one and a half seconds)

 

Ash threw five more pester balls at them as he jumped off the board and stood up on a boulder, placing his hands on his hips, looking very superior and laughing. “No matter who it is, nobody can beat me! That’s why I’m MASTER! Which by the way, you can start calling me that anytime now… GYAHAHAHAAA!!!!”

 

“Ash!” A voice called him. Ash’s face went a bit red, he didn’t know why, but lately, he’s been feeling slightly uneasy being around Misty, and not once did he not blush when hearing her voice. He turned to her. “What do you think you’re doing?”

 

“I’m training my pokémon! Can’t you see?” said Ash

 

“When Ebi gave you the pester balls, they weren’t meant to be used like THAT!”

 

“Why not?”

 

“Because pester balls are like tear gas to pokémon, and if you keep using those things on them, along with them trying to attack you, you’ll lose their respect!”

 

“Lose their respect? Not likely…” Said Ash, noticing Misty looking nervously at the pokémon, sweatdrop, and quickly dive behind the boulder. “Huh?” He looked at the pokémon. “WAAA!” He was hosed in the face with a powerful jet of high-pressured water, “GWAAAA!!!!” He was then hit by a blast of fire, “WAWAWAWA!!!!” a huge tornado tossed him into the air, and a barrage of razor leaves flew into the tornado with him… The tornado was completely drowned out when a gigantic bolt of lightning came down, followed by a gigantic explosion.

 

BOOM!!!!

 

“Ah!” Misty was on the ground, he hands was on the ground, her hands covering the top of her head as the rubble fell from the sky. She nervously opened her eyes and blinked. The boulder was gone, and in its place was a large, smoking crater, and in that crater, was a charred, smoking body, Ash’s. “Whoa…” Misty sweatdropped, looking at Ash. “Um… Ash? Are you okay?” Misty slowly approached him, but there was no response, “Are you still alive?” she poked him with a stick

 

“Waaaaaa…” Moaned Ash, “Urgh… I think that’s enough training for today… now call an ambulance… huh? Misty?” Ash looked up at Misty. She wasn’t moving, but she was looking around nervously. “What is it… WAAA!!!” Ash sprung to his feet, forgetting his injuries, and looked around him. In every direction, there were Team Rocket agents! They were completely surrounded!

 

“You!” A Team Rocket agent pointed at Ash, “Are you Ash Ketchum?”

 

“Grrr…” Ash growled, “I dunno, what if I am?”

 

“We’re under orders to take you in, for interfering with Team Rocket!” Said the grunt

“So that’s it. Team Rocket still hasn’t given up, and now you’ve finally found me, huh?” Ash smirked, “Took you long enough” he started laughing

 

“And just what is so funny?!”

 

“You guys have NO idea what you’ve gotten yourself into. You just came at the worst possible time. My pokémon are in a REALLY bad mood, while I’m just ITCHIN’ for a fight!” Ash crossed his arms, “ALL RIGHT THEN! EVERYBODY! GO!!!”

 

(Location- Team Rocket HQ Branch)

 

“All right! You all know why I called you here today!” Giovanni spoke

 

“Um, actually… no sir” Said Team Rocket Elite 002

 

“We haven’t been informed” 003 Said, nervously

 

“It is about 001! He was one of my star agents, and now he is in maximum security prison!” Giovanni punched down on his desk, making the 00 agents jump. “Not only was he an Elite, he was the strongest, and he was defeated by CHILDREN!” He yelled, and then calmed down, “What I am calling for today is to find a decent replacement for him”

 

Agent 009, ‘Domino’ cleared her throat.

 

“You, my next agent 001? I think not…” Giovanni glared at her, “NONE of you are worthy of that position, unless you can show me that you’re skilled enough, I might consider putting your names and the call-back list…” He picked up several pieces of paper, “Here is the assignment” One had Ash’s picture, the second had Misty’s, the third had Brock’s and the last was Ebi’s, “One of my men faxed me these pictures” He pushed Ash’s, Misty’s and Brock’s pictures forwards, “These three are the ones who defeated 001. I didn’t quite catch the names, but these particular ones would be easy to spot. The boy with a pikachu and a pokémon league cap, a girl with bright orange hair, and a teenager with no eyes…” He pushed Ebi’s picture forward, “And their newest member… be careful, none of them are pushovers.” He handed them the pictures, “In other news, I will be selecting a team rocket agent to an elite. Depending on how good he is, he’ll be given a 00 number ranging from one to nine. When a new member joins, the highest one of you,” He looked at 002, “May be squeezed into 001. But if he is good enough, he will become our next star elite agent 001. Not very likely, but within three week’s time, I will decide. In other news, I have my entire ground combat force and two aerial raid forces attacking the ones who have defeated 001! 003, 004, I want you to assist them, because those forces are only for softening them up to the level where you can defeat them.”

 

All the Team Rocket elites left the room, and chatted amongst themselves.

 

“Who do you think’ll be the next 001?” Domino (009) asked, “I’m probably not going to make the cut. I haven’t been in the force for that many years”

 

“Who do you think it’s gonna be?” 005 asked sarcastically and pointed at 002 “Number 2’s gonna be moved. What worries me is that if a new guy becomes number one”

 

“Oh come on!” 003 pushed his shoulder, “It took me EIGHT years just to get a number! Neither Cassidy nor Butch can get a number, and their some of the best of the regular agents. Although Jessie and James HAVE gotten pretty strong lately and surpassed their level by a lot… but none of them are even close to our levels!”

 

“Does that really matter? Even if a newbie joins, it won’t change any of OUR rankings and things will stay the same, although if he ends up as the next number nine, then that means we’ll be squeezed into one level up!” 004 pulled out a pokéball, “FEAROW!”

 

“FEARWROOOOW!” Fearow cawed  

 

“I’ve got a flying type, so I’ll be in the battlefield first! See ya there number 3!” 004 grabbed a rope Fearow held in his talons. Fearow took off into the air, and carried 004.

 

003 sighed, “I have GOT to get a flying type, or at least a car…” She turned around and ran into a corridor. She would have to get there by foot, which would take considerably longer...

 

(Location- Ice Blue Mountain valley, South/Teal Ville North Exit)

 

“Man! They just don’t know when to quit! Well, teach ‘em with HydroThunder!” Ash yelled. Totodile fired jet of water, and Pikachu electrified it. Despite her ground-type attributes, the water took away the electric defence and Nidoqueen went down.

 

“He got Nidoqueen! NO!” A female Team Rocket grunt shrieked.

 

“Okay! She’s down! Hold together guys, they’re almost all gone!” Ash told his pokémon, “Cyndaquil! Smokescreen!”

 

“CYNDA, QUUIIIIIIIIL!” Cyndaquil breathed out a black cloud of smoke, blinding all the pokémon and giving a wide opening.

 

“Noctowl and Bayleef! Quick Attack the Machoke! Vine Whip that Golduck!” Ash commanded his pokémon. The two attacks hit their targets and those pokémon went down. “PERFECT! That’s the last one of her pokémon!” Pikachu jumped and shocked her. The Team Rocket Grunt blacked out… Ash turned to the last one standing. “Heh… that leaves only you”

 

“GRRR! I DON’T THINK SO!” The last one shouted, “I’ll teach you to underestimate me!” He grabbed four pokéballs, “GOOOOOOOO!” He shouted, releasing his pokémon. Hitmonlee! Nidoking! Dodrio! And Porigon2!

 

“Whoa! This one may have some pretty big guys, but we survived Tyranitar and none of those ones are even close to him! All right! You’re up Cyndaquil! Use flamethrower!” Cyndaquil fired his flame attack and Hitmonlee was burned up.

 

“HITMONLEE! NOO!!” Rocket Brother growled, “You may have taken down one big brute, but Nidoking is still up, and I’ve still got my speedster and prize fighter! Porygon2! Freeze them with blizzard! Nidoking, smash ‘em up! And give Nidoking some support thrashing Dodrio!” Porygon2’s eyes flashed and from its body, a freezing, snowy blizzard wind blew, freezing all of Ash’s pokémon in their places. “Ha-HAAA! Once a pokémon is frozen, it’s impossible to recover!”

 

“During the last decade, that may have been the case, but I’ve got a move that’ll defrost my guys, pronto!” Ash turned to the frozen Cyndaquil, “Cyndaquil! Melt the ice with Flame Wheel…!”

 

“HIT HIM WITH POISON STING, NIDOKING!” The Team Rocket Brother yelled out. Nidoking charged and attacked Cyndaquil. The ice shattered, and Cyndaquil went down, poisoned and KO’d. “HAHAHA! I learned a lot from watching Agent 001 fight! Your pokémon are all frozen and useless!”

 

“And you should know, I beat agent 001! I know 001, and you’re nowhere near as strong as him! Even before the defrosting flame moves were discovered, THESE items have been in stores for years!” Ash sprayed his pokémon with something. The ice encasing them started to steam and melt, “Freeze heals and other healing items aren’t normally aren’t legal to use during a pokémon battle, but this isn’t a battle with pokémon league rules and regulations! Pikachu! Attack with Thundershock!”

 

“Pika-CHUU!”

 

“DOOO!” Dodrio went down

 

“AGH! There goes my fast attack fighter! Well, no matter! Porygon2! Use CONVERSION2!”

 

“PORY!” Porygon2’s eyes flashed, and it’s element switched

 

CONVERSION2! Conversion2 is a technique that changes the pokémon’s type to one that its opponent’s attack is weak against.

 

“Ha-HAAA! Way to go Porygon2!”

 

“That won’t work! Pikachu! Paralyze him and the Porygon2 with Thunder Wave!”

 

“PI-KA-CHUUUUUUUUU!”

 

“GAGH! I-I… CAN’T MOVE!” The Team Rocket brother struggled to move, and Porygon2 seemed to be suffering the same effects.

 

“Now smash them with Vine Whip, Bayleef!” Ash commanded

 

“BAY! BAAAAAY-LEEF!” Bayleef grabbed Porygon2 with one vine and the rocket agent with the other. They were lifted into the air, and Bayleef slammed their heads together, and dropped them to the ground.

 

Nidoking roared in anger, and then sweatdropped. He was surrounded by a group of pokémon who could very well beat him up bad, and his trainer was down and out, so there was no one to guide him. No matter! A good trainer trained him and he knows all the attacks he could learn. He could still fight! “GROAAAR! (Double kick)” Nidoking jumped high into the air, ready to attack

 

“USE ICE PILLAR!” Misty shouted

 

CRASH!

 

“GRUARR!” Nidoking dropped out of the fell out of the air when the solidified pillar slammed his face. He hit the ground and fainted.

 

“Misty!?” Ash turned around and saw her

 

BAM! SMASH! POW!

 

Misty swung a large mallet and three Team Rocket agents went flying in different directions.

 

“Misty!” Ash exclaimed, “What are you doing here!?”

 

Misty rested the mallet on her shoulder, “Can’t a girl go out and bash peoples heads once in a while?”

 

Ash sweatdropped, “Yeah, well I told you to go after THOSE ones over there! You’re stealing guys from MY plate!”

 

“I finished my batch before you did, slowpoke!” Misty teased him

 

Ash changed the subject, “Yeah… well… where’s Brock?”

 

“He’s at the mountainside! Battling the rest of the force!” Misty answered

 

“He’s battling? But these guys put up a tough fight, and what if Jessie and James are there? They’re much stronger than earlier, and they’re strong enough to beat Brock! Or even worse, what if there’s a Team Rocket Elite?” Ask asked and started running to the base of the mountains, “We have to go up and help!”

 

(Location- Brock’s battle/Foot of the Ice Blue Mountain)

 

“Geodude! MEGA PUNCH NOW!” Brock shouted. Geodude slammed Drowzee with his stone fist, and Drowzee fainted. “Rock throw on his trainer!” The team Rocket grunt yelped as a rock flew and slammed his face. He went down… “All right! That’s what you get for messing with Brock the Rock! Who’s next?” Brock started hearing laugher. He turned around and saw…

 

“If you think you’ve escaped from trouble…” said Jessie

 

“Then prepare yourself, you’ve just made it DOUBLE!” James shouted

 

“To protect the world from devastation!”

 

“To unite all people within our nation!”

 

“To denounce the evils of truth and love!”

 

“To extend our reach to the stars above!”

 

“Jessie!”

 

“James!”

 

“Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!”

 

“Surrender now or prepare to fight-fight-fight!”

 

“MEOWTH! That’s RIIIGHT!” Meowth jumped from the mountainside

 

“You again?!” Brock exclaimed

 

“We may be late, but that’s because we’ve been practicing and getting stronger!” Jessie laughed, “Even Wobuffet knows some new attacks! Why don’t we demonstrate our new level? GOOOO!” She released her pokémon

 

“UGH! I’m gonna need EVERY one of my guys! EVERYBODY! GO!” Brock released his pokémon. “Onix! Use Rock Slide!” Brock panted, “We have to be careful! They can actually put up a tough fight now!”

 

“Wobuffet! COUNTER!” Jessie commanded. Wobuffet glowed and the rocks that hit him flew back towards Onix.

 

“ONIX! DIG!” Onix dove underground and the rocks missed him. “Attack Wobuffet

from below!” Brock knew that Wobuffet couldn’t counter that way. From right underneath Wobuffet, Onix came from under the ground and slammed Wobuffet into the air. “FINISH HIM OFF WITH STRENGHT!”

 

“GRROOOAAA!” Onix roared and attacked Wobuffet as he fell to the ground

 

“Wobuffet! Hurry! USE DESTINY BOND!” Jessie yelled

 

DESTINY BOND! If one pokémon goes down, so does the other one. Even if the one who used it causes its opponent to faint, it’ll go down too. This attack is usually done by a pokémon facing an opponent MUCH stronger than him or herself.

 

“What? NOOO!” Brock shouted, but he was too late. The second Onix attacked Wobuffet, an aura spread around both of them, and as Wobuffet fainted, Onix got hurt and collapsed… “ONIX! ARGHT! There goes my prizefighter! I’m gonna have to be more careful! GEODUDE! Up your defence with harden and then attack!”

 

“GEODUE! GEEEE!” Geodude crossed his arms and concentrated hard. His stone body was hardening, getting more rugged and tougher, not only was his defence going up, but this meant his stone fists were getting tougher and he’d be able to hit harder. Thankfully, he was a species of pokémon that would benefit in both attack and defence from harden.

 

“Okay! Geodude, time to rock and roll, and trash them! SLAM ‘EM!” Brock commanded

 

“WHEEZING! Use sludge attack! Blind his pokémon!” James yelled

 

“Wheezing! WHEEEZ!!” Wheezing fired several piles of sludge into the faces of Brock’s pokémon, hurting them as well as blinding them

 

“Heh-heh! It’s been a while since I had him do that!” James laughed

 

“NO!” Brock exclaimed. Geodude stopped, and Victreebell attacked him while he was blinded. Brock was losing this battle!  He turned his head and could see Pineco glowing, ready to explode. This gave him an idea! Brock decided to put that to good use. “HAAA!” He kicked Pineco as hard as he can like a soccer ball

 

“Pine… COOOOO!” In a bright flash, Pineco released all of his energy in a gigantic explosion.

 

“GWAAAA! I didn’t even get my chance to fight!” Meowth exclaimed as he flew through the air

 

“TEAM ROCKET’S BLASTING OFF AGAAAAIN (Ping)”

 

Brock dropped to his knees, today has been very exhausting…

 

“BROCK!” Ash yelled and rushed into the field on his board. He jumped off and slung it across his back. “Are you okay? Have Jessie and James arrived yet?”

 

“Yeah…” Brock sighed, “I just sent them blasting off just now…”

 

“Then I guess we won!” Ash turned around, “Ahhhh… here comes Misty”

 

“Ash! (Pant…) Why… don’t you actually… wait for me the next time!?” She gasped for air, “How did you get here so fast?!”

 

Ash smirked, he hasn’t shown the QuickSilver to Misty yet. “Well… another day, another battle. This is what I’ve been training for all this time, and this time when we beat them, I didn’t even have to start using my Tauros herd this time! Maybe the next time, I won’t even have to call back any hurt pokémon and switch for a fresh one! Whew… with all those Missingno and super Fiends, I almost forgot we were fighting Team Rocket…”

 

KABOOOM!

 

“WA!” Ash yelled. There was a loud explosion in the middle of the square and the whole area filled with smoke

 

“Not bad, NOT BAD…” They heard a voice, “You’ve insulted Team Rocket over and over again. You have defeated all the combat squads, Jessie and James, and most importantly, 001…” He stepped out. Dressed in a black and white uniform, with a white headband blowing in the wind. He struck a pose… “I may not be as strong as 001, but I’m just as skilled! Allow me to introduce myself. Just like 001, from the elite ranks of Team Rocket, I wear the number proudly! I am 004!”

 

Ash and Misty pulled out pokéballs, and Brock was sprayed his pokémon with max potions and cracked open Revive canisters over the ones that fainted. Ash was the first one to speak up, “Only number four? Three levels below double oh one! Which means we won’t be having too much trouble with you!”

 

“Heh-heh! Come on little boy!” 004 laughed, “FEAROW! DRILL PECK!”

 

“WAAAA!” Ash yelled as Fearow swooped, spinning like drill. He turned around and sweatdropped as Fearow cut through a tree like a buzz saw. “HEY! That coulda hurt!”

 

“That was the intention!” 004 laughed and pointed at Ash “Fearow, use Drill Peck again!”

 

“Pikachu! Totodile! HYDROTHUNDER!!” The water/electric attack shot forwards

 

“ICE PILLAR!” Misty yelled. The large pillar of ice flew and smashed against Fearow’s body. The pillar went to pieces, and Fearow went down. “Ha-HA! Way to go!” Misty cheered, but Brock groaned.

 

“Everyone’s got a combo move but me…” Brock sighed

 

“GRRR…” 004 pulled out some more pokéballs, “GLIGAR! HYPNO! CLOYSTER! BEEDRILL! MAGMAR! GOOOO!” He released his team, “I’m no average Joe pokémon trainer, and I’m one of the best! Gligar! Start ‘em off with swift attack!” Gligar launched a series of sharp little stars.

 

“PIKACHU! Use light screen!” Ash yelled. Pikachu’s cheeks sparked, and a screen of light formed in front of all of them. The stars broke and went to pieces when they hit the screen. “Bayleef! Razor leaf!” Razor sharp leaves soared through the air

 

“Magmar! Flamethrower!” 004 yelled, blasting the leaves out of the air, “Cloyster! Use spike cannon!”

 

“Cloy-STER!” The spikes on Cloyster’s shell exploded outwards and shot at the screen. The spikes were a lot stronger than the stars, and they punctured the screen.

 

“They’re wide open now! Magmar, attack with Fire Blast!” 004 yelled

 

“Water gun!” Misty yelled. Not bothering to think of who the order was directed to, every pokémon with that water attack sprayed a powerful jet of water, completely extinguishing the powerful flames completely, and also hosing down the sender.

 

“MARRRR!” Magmar lost a lot of HP

 

“Argh! Magmar!” 004 yelled, “Hypno! Use Hypnosis!”

 

HYP-NOOOO…” Hypno started waving his coin

 

“Guys! Don’t look!” Brock turned his head and covered his eyes. Too late, Bayleef, Crobat and Staryu were already affected by the attack.

 

“Ha-HA!” 004 laughed

 

“Quick! The awakenings…!” Ash pulled out several vials of awakenings…

 

“HYPNO! Get rid of those items with confusion!” 004 commanded. Hypno shot his hand outward, and the vials of awakening smashed before Ash could use them. “HA! Awakenings are the only items you could use to wake up your pokémon after an attack like so, and you don’t have a poké flute, so your pokémon are helpless against this attack! DREAM EATER!”

 

“Dream Eater?! NOOO!” Ash exclaimed, but too late. Hypno used Dream Eater, and the damage was done. Not only was a significant amount of HP removed from the pokémon, but the energy went and strengthened Hypno, making him even stronger. Crobat and Bayleef got hurt and collapsed…

 

“Beedrill! Use Twineedle!” On 004’s command, Beedrill swooped downwards and attacked with all his stingers.

 

“GEEE!” Geodude yelled from the stings

 

“You may be an elite, but that wasn’t smart putting a bug type against a rock! GEODUDE! Attack!” Brock shouted

 

“DUDE!” Geodude uppercutted Beedrill, then grabbed onto Beedrill’s head with both hands and pulled him forwards…

 

BAM!

 

Geodude slammed Beedrill’s face with his head. Beedrill backed off, it was still up, but not unscathed.

 

“GRRR… Magmar, use Fire…”

 

“HYDROTHUNDER!” Ash yelled

 

“ICE PILLAR!” Misty yelled

 

Totodile fired a large jet of water, and Pikachu strengthened it with electricity. The hit slammed into Magmar, removing a LARGE amount of his HP. Then a large solid pillar of ice slammed him in the face. As it hit him, his body heat caused it to melt, splashing his entire fiery body with icy cold water. Magmar got hurt and collapsed…

 

“Magmar! NO!” 004 exclaimed.

 

“Perfect! Now use another Ice Pillar… “ said Misty, but she stopped… she had a feeling, something was coming… “THERE!” she spun around and pointed at a tree

 

“HA!” All of the pokémon with the water gun attack fired at the tree

 

“POLIIII!” Politoed froze the jet of water into a solid pillar of ice with his ice beam

 

The solid pillar of ice flew towards a tree, but it swung its branch and smashed the pillar to pieces. A pair of eyes opened up…

 

“What the… it’s a Sudowoodo!” Ash exclaimed

 

Sudowoodo frowned. With all its might, it slammed HARD against the side of the mountain. The mountain rumbled…

 

“WAAA! MOVE!” Ash ran some distance away, followed closely by his friends and pokémon, narrowly getting away from the falling boulders. “(Whew) WHAT WAS THAT?! ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL US!?” He yelled angrily at 004, but 004 just shrugged

 

“What are you yelling at HIM for? That Rock Slide attack was from me!” Everyone turned around. Standing on the side of the mountain, the black scarf blowing in the wind…  she struck a pose “I’m not as strong as 001 either, but with two of Giovanni’s finest soldiers, even a pokémon league champion will fall, and none of you are even close to a champion! I am 003!”

 

“Another one?!” Brock exclaimed

 

“Heh-heh-HEEEH… EVERYBODY, GOOOO!” 003 threw all her pokéballs, releasing her full team, Sudowoodo, Delibird, Jynx, Jumpluff and Sneasel. “All right! Lets start of by debilitating them! Jumpluff! Use cotton spore!”

 

“JUUUUUUUUMP!” Jumpluff launched its attack

 

COTTON SPORE! This attack is grass element and will lower the speed of the opponent pokémon by two levels!

 

“They’re slower! We get first strike and their evade level’s gone down! Now give ‘em a taste of what’s to come Delibird! POWDER SNOW!”

 

“DELIIIII!” Delibird cawed and opened its beak wide. An icy wind flew, and Ash and his friends all felt freezing power of the attack.

 

“AN OPENING! Attack Sneasel!” 003 ordered

 

“SNEASE… EL!” Sneasel leaped forwards, claws outstretched

 

“Let’s give her some heavy support! Use spike cannon, Cloyster!”

 

“CLOYSTER!” Large spikes flew from Cloyster’s shell, towards the group

 

“PIKA-CHUUUUU!” Pikachu put as much power as he can into a light screen attack. Sneasel crashed and slid off the invisible wall, and the spikes were crushed to dust when they hit. Pikachu dropped the barrier.

 

“Nice going Pikachu!” Ash turned to his opponents, “Rest and recharge your batteries, because I’m gonna need you at full power!” Pikachu nodded, and sighed

 

“All right! They’re not the only ones who can debilitate! Cyndaquil’s revived, so use Sacred Fire!” Ash pointed at all of them.

 

“CYNDA… QUIIIIIIIIIL!” Cyndaquil launched the attack

 

SACRED FIRE! This attack has a fifty percent chance of burning an opponent!

 

“Smart move! Burn damage does even more damage than poison!” said Brock, “Well, time to some battling myself! This’ll do some damage! Pineco, use spikes!”

 

“PINECO!” Pineco used spikes

 

SPIKES! Every time an opponent switches a pokémon, it’ll do damage

 

“GRRR…” 00 3 and 4 growled, unless they wanted to do damage to do damage to their pokémon, they’d have to use one at a time like all good trainer do. And speaking of good trainers, the good guys are free to use all THEIR guys at once! Oh well… they’re gonna have to sacrifice the HP for strength…

 

“Before they can attack! Cyndaquil! Flame Thrower the Sneasel! Noctowl, use Psybeam on Beedrill! Totodile, water gun Sudowoodo!” Ash ordered his pokémon to attack the ones they were super effective against. Each one went down from those hits, all except for Sudowoodo…

 

“Sudowoodo! Use FLAIL!” 003 yelled

 

FLAIL! The lower the HP, the stronger the attack!

 

“Su-do-woo-DOOOOO!!!” Sudowoodo slammed all three, Totodile, Noctowl and Cyndaquil, taking them down in one hit.

 

“WHAT?! NO WAY!” Ash yelled

 

“SUDOOOO…” Sudowoodo got hurt and collapsed. The water gun left its HP at 1, and the effects of the spikes attack and the burn damage didn’t help him very much

 

“Sudowoodo! Return!” 003 called her pokémon back into its pokéball

 

“We can’t afford to lose this match!” yelled Ash, “But with Totodile out, HydroThunder is a move I won’t be able to use!”

 

“No sweat! My water pokémon can handle it!” Said Misty

 

“No! That move’s dangerous and the electricity can easily hurt the water pokémon sending the water! The only one of your pokémon who even knows the basic part of the move is Staryu, and even then it’s risky!” Ash growled, “And Ice Pillar is only designed for hitting one pokémon at a time! Well no matter! We’ll just have to beat them the old fashion way! Misty? Do you happen to have a TM 14 on you right now?”

 

“TM 14, is Blizzard, right?” Asked Misty, “No, sorry! But I did give TM 13 (ice beam) to Politoed a while ago!”

 

“Good enough!” said Ash, “Okay! Please, tell your pokémon to listen to my orders!”

 

“Right!!” Misty and Brock answered, they knew Ash had a plan

 

“OKAY!” Ash clapped his hands together and smirked. 003 and 004 however, weren’t about to let Ash unleash whatever attack he was going to use

 

“Sneasel! Use Faint Attack!” 003 yelled

 

FAINT ATTACK! Similar to swift, this attack NEVER misses! Or so you think…

 

“PIKACHU!” Pikachu jumped forwards and attacked Sneasel with his electricity, sending her flying.

 

“ALL RIGHT! LET’S END THIS!” Ash yelled, “On my mark! All water pokémon excluding Politoed, FIRE your water guns!” As the water pokémon’s jets of water were in full blast and made contact with their opponents, Ash called out the next phase, “Use Rock Throw, anyone who knows it!” the large rocks flew into the jet of water. Boosted by the intense water current, they slammed their targets. Ash yelled the next phase “Politoed! Use Ice Beam on the enemies!”

 

“POLI!” Politoed fired a chilling ice beam, freezing the enemies solid!

 

“PERFECT! And to think Ice beam only has a Ten Percent Chance of freezing its opponent! And the final blow… PINECO! EXPLOSION!” Pineco started glowing, and Ash kicked Pineco like a soccer ball towards their frozen opponents.

 

KABOOM!!!

 

“GREAAAAAARGH!” 003 and 004 shouted as they flew through the air

 

“I always thought Jessie and James nothing but failures…” 003 groaned

 

“But these guys really ARE tough!” 004 yelled

 

“We had to learn it the hard way, because WE’RE BLASTING OFF!”

 

“Whew…” Ash dropped to his knees and sighed. He then sprung up, “YES! WE WON!”

 

“HA-HAAA!” Misty cheered

 

“Doesn’t matter who you are, as long as we’re a team, NO ONE can beat us!” Brock clapped

 

“Heh-heh… yeah…” Ash gave one final sigh and collapsed

 

“ASH!” Brock and Misty exclaimed, running over to him

 

“What happened to him?!” said Brock

 

“Hmm… I see” said Misty, “Ash had just been attacked by all his pokémon, and was hurt all along, even through the battle!”

 

“What do you mean?”

 

“Well…” Misty exclaimed Ash’s… Pester Ball training to Brock, “…And even though injured, he completely blocked out everything and was focused ONLY on the battle!”

 

“Whoa… Ash did all that?” Brock said in awe, “That’s crazy! Even among pokémon Masters, very few can pull off something like that!”

 

“Well, Ash IS a future Master, isn’t he?” Misty smiled, “Come on, help me carry him…” Misty pulled Ash up and used her shoulder to support him, while Brock used his. The three of them walked off, leaving the battlefield…

 

(Location- Higher up on Ice Blue mountain)

 

“Hm…” Sky Render watched from above, Misty and Brock carry Ash away. “Impressive. To fight on, even past his limits… this Ketchum may actually grow into a serious contender. But still… if he considers a battle that small to be a real victory, he wouldn’t last a second against us, or the Kaisers…”

 

“That’s it? You dragged us all the way up here, just to see one lousy battle, and then say stuff we already know?!” G.I. Jolt complained, irritated by the cold.

 

“Don’t ever doubt our leader, Jolt!” Said Cleft, “I mean, just look where we are! It’s pretty obvious that he’s in need of MY talents, and just called us all here to watch ME bring victory to the Fiends!” He said triumphantly, “One punch, and I’ll make a huge rockslide that’ll crush them like insects and…”

 

“You know what Cleft? Shut up” Sky Render said firmly, and Cleft stopped talking. “Ketchum is Aquamarine’s enemy, and anyone who gets in the way of his fights get trashed along with the enemy, don’t forget.”

 

“Ugh…” The rest of the Fiends sighed, and Bonsai spoke up “Sorry Sky, but we have to go! It’s way too cold for us up here!”

 

“Speak for yourself, I’m rather comfortable up here!” said AntiArctic as they all left

 

The rest of the fiends walked off, but Sky Render remained, staring down at Ash and the group, leaving the scene. He smirked “Somehow, I get the feeling this battle’s going to be rather interesting… pity that Aquamarine is gonna finish off so sudden, because I wouldn’t mind challenging him myself…”

 

Though the Team Rocket Elites 003 and 004 have been defeated, and Ash and co. are getting stronger than ever before, they are still nothing in comparison of what’s to come. Though they may not realize it yet, Aquamarine is coming! Can Ash survive the dangerous Water Expert, or will his ongoing journey to become a Pokémon Master be cut short by the awesome power of the Super Fiends? Find out next time on Pokémon: Ultimate Adventures!

 

(TO BE CONTINUED)