3-1 May the Best Trainer Win


"This'll be the easiest battle I've ever won!" Chad confided in himself. 
"We'll just see about that," Crystal said, brushing him off. "Rules are the same 
as the official Pokemon League rules. No time limit and 3 pokemon each."
"Sounds good to me. Let's battle already! Arcanine, go!" Chad threw one of his 
pokeballs out toward the open field outside the pokemon lab. The legendary fire-
canine pokemon appeared ready and willing to win. 
"In that case I choose you Electabuzz!" Crystal yelled as the form of the 
fighting electric pokemon took it's stance. "Start off with a thunderbolt."
"Show 'em your power with a flamethrower attack." Both pokemon shot a stream of 
energy toward each other which collided and created a small explosion. "Now use 
your ember attack." Arcanine opened it's mouth and released a large combustion 
of fire toward it's opponent. Electabuzz tried to dive out of the way but it 
moved to late and it's fur was singed badly. It stood up a bit weak but still 
willing to battle. 
"Yeah!" Crystal cheered for her pokemon's strong recovery. "Keep it up! Use your 
Flash and disable it for awhile." Electabuzz quickly created a strong flash of 
lightning and blinded Arcanine temporarily. It howled in surprise and shook it's 
head side to side. "Power up your energy and finish it off with a thunder punch 
and thunder combo!" Electabuzz charged up all the electrical energy coursing 
through it's body into it's fist and let it out with a powerful upper cut to the 
fire pokemon's stomach, while delivering a powerful thunder attack before it was 
sent flying toward the ground. 
"Arcanine!" Chad cried out. But his cries were to no prevail as his pokemon lay 
dazed in the grass. He recalled his pokemon quickly, showing no signs of his 
disappointment. "Ok Flareon, you're up!" 
"In that case..." Crystal grinned as she too recalled her weakened pokemon. "I 
call out my evolution pokemon, Jolteon." She smiled at the rememberence of past 
battles between the two pokemon, and also the two favorite pokemon of their 
trainers.
As if reading her mind, Chad mirrored her expression and smiled. "This brings 
back memories. I can still remember the day we found the two eevee babies in the 
woods outside the ranch. We battled them that day and I lost badly. I still 
laugh at our innocence back then. You remember don't you Cris?"
Crystal flinched at the sudden reminder of the old nickname she had been given 
by her old best friend. She fought back tears of regret and sneered angrily, 
"Which is what will happen again!"
Chad, stunned at the coldness in her eyes, stared for a moment, then growled 
back. "You obviously haven't learned much since!" He turned and gave orders to 
his best pokemon. "Flareon, let's show 'em what ya got. Use your quick attack 
and knock her into the next world." Flareon sprinted across the field, picking 
up speed with every second until it slammed into it's opponent. Flareon yelped 
as the sharp pricks of Jolteon's fur pierced its skin. Jolteon hadn't gone 
without a scratch, though, as it flew past it's trainer right into a rock. It 
stood on wobbily legs and glared at the other pokemon. It's glare turned into a 
frown as it noticed it's long time brother in pain. It scampered over to it's 
sibling concerned. "Jolteon, what are you doing?!" Crystal yelled in surprise. 
"Stop that! Get away from him!" Her pokemon continued to check on it's brother 
against her orders. Crystal sighed deeply. 
Misty and Ash had been watching from the sidelines. Seeing this action from the 
pokemon, she snickered. "Looks as if the pokemon's feelings toward each other 
haven't changed, even though their trainer's have." Ash just stared in a mixture 
of shock and amusement.
After a few minutes, when Jolteon was sure Flareon was ok, they went back to 
their sides ready to do battle again. "Since battling these two would probably 
take all day, I say we both return them and use different ones." Chad suggested. 
"Oh, alright!" Crystal growled. They both returned their pokemon calling out 
their last two. 
"Go Charizard!"
"Go Sudowoodo!"
As their pokemon took form, Chad looked at Crystal's pokemon in confusion. 'It's 
a tree! It looks like a tree pokemon! She must take me for a fool to send out a 
plant pokemon against my fire pokemon. It's insulting!' Chad thought to himself.
"Hey, it's a Sudowoodo!" Ash beamed as he pulled out his pokedex.
"Sudowoodo. The imitation pokemon. It disguises it's self as a tree to avoid 
attack. It hates water, so it will disappear if it starts raining."
"Huh, that's strange. Why would a plant pokemon hate water?"
Crystal had a glint in her eye as she grinned slyly. "Things aren't always what 
they appear..."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Chad said.
"You'll see."
Whatever...," he said waving her off. 'This outta be easy!' he thought. "Ok, 
start off with a firepunch Charizard!" The lizard pokemon roared and threw a 
flaming punch at the odd tree-looking pokemon. As it's fist met with the 
pokemon's body, time stood still as Charizard stood there for a moment, then 
it's eyes bulged out as it started hopping around in pain, holding its paw. 
"What the..." Chad murmured. Crystal giggled slightly. "Ok, now try a 
flamethrower!" Charizard angrily sent a ray of sweltering flames toward the 
pokemon. Chad was surprised to see it not try to dodge it or move at all. After 
the flame had hit, the tree pokemon stood there untouched and burn free. 
"HUH!!!" Chad gasped with his mouth hung open. Crystal couldn't take anymore and 
she bagan to laugh hysterically. Chad was not amused. "What's so funny!?"
"Did I forget to mention that Sudowoodo is not a plant pokemon?"
"What?!"
"Nope. It's a rock type." Crystal laughed pointing to her pokemon. 
"Sudo sudowoodo do," her pokemon said smiling.
"WAAAA..." both Ash and Chad say at the same time, falling over.

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3-2 A New Stranger


Chad glared at his opponent, "That's a cheap trick!"
"Hey, I may specialize in electric type pokemon, but that doesn't mean I can't 
own pokemon of other types too. Any smart pokemon trainer would know that it's 
better to have more than one type."
"No! You knew this whole time that I thought that thing was a plant type and you 
deliberatly played me for a fool."
"Nowhere in the rules does it state that an opponent can not mislead another. 
It's all apart of the game. Now stop whining and prove me wrong...if you can." 
Crystal grinned. "Maybe this will teach you a lesson not to underestimate your 
opponent. Alright Sudowoodo! Low kick now!" 
"Sudo!" The tree-like imitation pokemon leaped at the charizard, giving it a 
hard low blow to its legs. The charizard fell over in pain from the impact of 
the pokemon's rock-hard exterior. Chad growled. What kind of move could his 
charizard use against a rock type? He had to think of something quick...
"Now rockthrow!" Sudowoodo picked up a giant boulder nearby and was about to 
toss it at the fire pokemon with all it's might when Chad had an idea. 
"Quick, Charizard, Fly away!" Charizard dodged the giant rock soaring toward 
just in time. It flew into the sky out of reach of it's enemy. Chad grinned. 
There was no way it could reach his pokemon up there and that gave him time to 
think of a strategy.
Crystal gave a small laugh and also grinned. "Mimic now!"
Chad looked toward her in shock, "No..." Sudowoodo levitated off the ground as 
if some unknown force had uplifted it. "What? That's not possible! Rock types 
can't fly!"
"Not usually but mine is special. Since it is an imitation pokemon, it knows 
similar moves as, say, a ditto. Like 'Mimic' for example, which allows them to 
learn a move temporarily from another pokemon. So in this case...Fly..." She 
said as her pokemon flew up towards the flying lizard. "Quick attack and seismic 
toss!" Sudowoodo soared toward the lizard and slammed into it at an amazing 
speed for such a heavy pokemon. It then grabbed the charizard with it's branch-
like arms and nailed it into the ground like a nail in wood. 
"Charizard! No!" The fire pokemon lay weakened and dazed on the ground. The 
battle was over. Chad ran over to his pokemon's side to make sure it wasn't hurt 
too bad. "You did great charizard", he said as he recalled his prized pokemon. 
Then he strolled over to Crystal with his hands shoved in his pocket and an 
angry expression, but then he reached out and shook her hand. "Good strategy. 
You did great," he said with a small smile. Crystal just smiled happily and 
shook his hand back. "Like-wise."
Clap clap clap clap
The group turned toward the sound of someone clapping on the other side of the 
field. A figured stepped out of the shadows of the forest nearby. "Well done 
sugar," came the low voice of an older boy, probably about 18 years old. As soon 
as he was in clear view, a look of terror, shock, and anger spread across 
Crystal's face. The boy had dark spiky, hair and wore dark, baggy clothing...  

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HA! Another infamous cliffhanger! I know it's been a while since I last added to 
this. 6 months to be exact...but who's counting, huh?! Anyway, I made this 
chapter only 2 sections long because I thought this would be a good spot to stop 
and also cuz it's late and I'm tired and I want sleep...(Yawn). Expect the next 
chapter or part up soon (hopefully). Bye bye...(snore)    -_-zzz