Episode 96!
Disclaimer: NO OWN POKEMON. ‘Nuff said. I do own Destiny, Charlotte, Pika-chan, etc. Steal and die.
Notes: <> Indicates telepathy, ** indicates thoughts, italics indicates translated pokemon speech.
Warning: Non-canon-ness (TAKE NOTE!)
Episode 98: Storm of emotions! Battle on the ice field!
“I hate you!” Teresa screamed.
Lance crossed her arms. “Why are you blaming me?”
“As soon as I saw you I knew you were going to take Ash away from me!”
“Who said he was yours?”
“Why you!” A black aura began to emit from Teresa’s body. “HOW DARE YOU!? I’ll make you pay for what you did!”
Lance’s eyes turned silver. She didn’t move as Teresa blasted her with an equivalent of Hyper Beam. When the dust died down, she still stood there, staring at Teresa.
Silver eyes met violet ones.
“Leave me out of this.” Lance said, as she turned to walk away.
“I’m not done with you yet, Crystal!” Teresa shouted angrily, shocked that Lance was still standing.
“Well, our meeting is over.”
“No it’s not! Kangaskhan, go! Restrain her! Don’t let her leave until after I’m done!”
Kangaskhan obeyed its trainer and grabbed Lance. Lance’s eyes flashed dangerously and she literally burst into flame. Only the flames were icy cold and burned away at Kangaskhan’s skin.
“Leave me alone.” Lance hissed as she levitated out of Kangaskhan’s grasp. There was a flash and then she was gone.
“Teleport.” Teresa muttered. “Darn it!” It was a while before she calmed down enough to return to the house.
“Hi, Crystal.” Ash said as he saw her walk in. Then, his expression turned to one of worry as he noticed the long scratches on her bare arms. “What happened?”
“Teresa set her Kangaskhan on me.” Lance said.
“What? Why?”
Pika-chan floated over. “Oh my! Those are pretty deep. Here, I’ll go get the Wand to heal you up.”
“Teresa claimed that I was taking you away from her.”
Ash blinked.
“I hugged you on national television yesterday, remember?”
“Oh.” Ash said. “But what does that have to do with anything?”
Lance sweatdropped. * In matters of the heart, he’s still a child… *
“She thinks you like me.”
Ash slowly blinked. “She thinks I’m in love with you?”
“Yes.”
“AAAHHHHHH!” Ash began beating his head against the wall in frustration.
Pika-chan came in and zapped him to make him calm down.
“What’s wrong, Ash?”
“Teresa’s trying to kill Crystal because Crystal hugged me on T.V. after my match yesterday and she’s jealous!”
“That’s bad.” Pika-chan commented. “Did Teresa use magic?”
Lance nodded.
“Dark-type magic?”
“I think so.”
“And she wasn’t possessed?”
“No.”
“Well, Ash, confront her after your match tomorrow.”
Ash sighed out a mushroom cloud. “All right…”
“And here on the ice field today, we have another heated match!” The announcer shouted. “The red trainer, Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town, versus the green trainer Shannon Perkins from Celadon City!”
Shannon smiled and winked at the crowd, pink ponytails bobbing up and down happily.
“This match will now begin!” Quoth the referee.
“Poke ball, go!” Shannon said.
Out popped a Gloom.
Ash blinked. “Okay… Rapidash, go!”
Rapidash landed and tossed her mane arrogantly.
“Gloom, use Stun Spore!”
“Incinerate them with Fire Spin!” Rapidash nodded.
“Argh! Gloom, Poisonpowder!”
“Fire Spin again!”
“Um, try Petal Dance!”
Rapidash yawned and used fire spin yet again. * I’m getting bored… maybe I should just hit it with flamethrower. *
Julie was starting to freak out. * I thought he would use a water pokemon, so I used Gloom! Looks like a mistake… *
“Gloom! Acid!”
“Reflect!” Ash said. Rapidash nodded and reflected the acid back at Gloom, before he nodded and Rapidash finished Gloom off with a Flamethrower.
“Oh no!” Shannon wailed.
“Gloom is unable to battle!” The referee said, holding up the red flag.
“Gloom, come back. You did good.” Shannon said. “But this isn’t over yet! Wartortle, I choose you!”
“Rapidash, use Agility!” Rapidash nodded and dashed around, avoiding Wartortle’s attacks.
“Hydro Pump!”
“Jump over it.” Ash said, smiling. Rapidash nodded and flung herself over the blast of water, and the three that followed.
“Come on, Wartortle! One good hit and we can take that Rapidash down!” Shannon encouraged.
Wartortle nodded and kept lashing out with Water Gun, but it kept missing. Rapidash was just too fast.
“Horn Attack!” Rapidash raced towards Wartortle and flipped it into the air using its horn.
“Great! Now use Double-Edge!” The twin balls of light streaked towards wartortle and into its shell, before bouncing back out and hitting Rapidash as well. Rapidash shook herself off, but Wartortle fell to the ice with a loud thump.
“Wartortle is unable to battle!” The referee said.
Shannon started to sweat nervously. * I knew I should have scoped out the competition instead of watching my favorite soap operas… *
“Wartortle, return!” By now, two of the lights on her side of the scoreboard had gone dark.
“Guess I’ll fight fire with fire! Go, Vulpix!”
A vulpix popped out and landed on a chunk of ice. It shivered visibly, wrapping its nose in its six tails.
“Use Confuse Ray!”
Vulpix’s eyes turned gold and it fired off a circle of shimmery stars at Rapidash. Rapidash staggered, and started crashing into ice blocks.
“Return!” Ash said. * I can’t let her get hurt because of confusion. What should I use against Vulpix? *
Pika-chan looked nervous. “That Vulpix looks pretty powerful.”
“I’m sure Ash will be fine.” Lance said, as she handed Pika-chan a chocolate mint bar. Pika-chan immediately turned her attention to the treat.
“Card created by Clow, accept this new star power and take on your new form. Your new master Ashura commands you, Release.”
Ash’s key twinkled for a second as a new card formed.
“Slowpoke, go!”
Shannon’s jaw dropped. * He’s using a Slowpoke?! *
“Vulpix, use Confuse Ray again!”
“Slowpoke, use Disable!” Slowpoke nodded and disabled Vulpix’s Confuse Ray attack.
“Fine, try Quick Attack!”
“Amnesia!”
Slowpoke nodded and didn’t even flinch as Vulpix rammed into it again and again.
Shannon blinked. “Eh?” She began getting complacent.
“Just keep doing Quick Attack, Vulpix!”
Her Vulpix winked and did so.
“Psychic!”
Slowpoke’s attack caught the unsuspecting Vulpix right in the chest and flung it into the air, legs flailing.
“Water Gun!”
Slowpoke opened its mouth and sprayed a stream of water straight at Vulpix.
Vulpix, already weakened by the Water Gun, toppled and fell to the ice, before it lay still.
“Vulpix is unable to battle!”
The crowd went wild, blue and white confetti drifting from the air as balloons popped.
“We didn’t attack the twerp today.” Jake commented.
“Shut up.” Amy said. “We’re supposed to be selling fast food.”
“Oh yeah.” Jake said.
“But soon, we’ll make our move.”
End Episode 98! Well, that’s all of it folks! *Smiles at reviewers* Reviews are warmly welcome! Flames, on the other hand, will be used to forge Glow, who will blind Nelvana long enough for me to drop them somewhere remote.