Episode 128…

Disclaimer: No, I do not own pokemon. I would love to buy it but that is not an option. So it still belongs to Satoshi Tajiri and Nintendo. Okay?

Destiny belongs to me, along with Pika-chan and some other stuff.

Notes: <> indicates telepathy, ** indicates thoughts, italics indicate poke speech.

Lance = Crystal. She has the Moon pokemon cards and the Clow/Sakura cards.

Ash = Red. He has the Kanto set and is trying to get the Johto set.

Giselle is an imposter who is trying to steal the Johto set…

Xaero – guess you have a point, but those are only the prelims.

SS2 Megami-sama – thank you! ^_^ Yes, I’m still sick. >.< I think its chronic, what a pain… maybe stress?

Link Masters – hai! *Bows*

Ranma – oh yes. Giselle + Final Judgment = ? Also, this is different from the Kanto cards final judgment.

Jarzard – I don’t mind if you say the same thing over and over! ^_^ It still makes me feel better.

Vulpix Dark Flame – well, paint balloons… *thinks* Are paint…

Incomplete13 – no, I didn’t know about chlorine, but now I do!

Digifan1 – hai! ^_^

Tmp – well… I honestly don’t know. But if you can ride a pidgey in the game… I guess Ash could shrink? Well, they were still dealing with Attract.

Aragorn the Ranger – ah well. ^_^ And… True, Crystal is a gem name, I didn’t think about that, but nobody really knows the names of Gary’s cheerleaders. I just use Ruby n’ Emerald etc, so they aren’t nameless.

Psychic Sabrina – I got the Halloween review, but nothing after that. Gary n’ Cary were steal dealing with the attract attack from the Hoothoot, so they never caught up… hehehe. And… the judgment for this set is quite different from Kanto, there isn’t one judgment maker… but I’ll explain it in a later chapter! Ash for more romance? That ought to be coming up as well.

Episode 128: The Cave Competition

“You must have cheated!”
Ash calmly jumped out of the way as Gary’s Scyther tried to attack him.

“Sore loser.” Ash said. “Execcute, go! Use Leech Seed!”

Execcute nodded and used Leech seed to trap Gary’s Scyther in a bunch of vines so it could not attack.

The Scyther tried to break free, but it was no use.

“Grr! Arcanine, go! Use Fire Blast!”

“Dragonair, Surf!”

The Surf attack plowed into Gary’s Arcanine. Gary glared and saw Lance sitting on Tempest’s head, fairly glowing with indignation.

“How dare you! You lost fair and square, yet you try to blame it on him!”

“Stay out of this!” Gary spat.

“No, I won’t!” Lance said. She closed her eyes and muttered a spell. Instantly, Gary began to float up into the air.

“HELP! What’s happening?”

His badges fell out of his pockets and tumbled to the floor.

Ash picked them up and examined them. Then, he pocketed them. “You made a promise, and you have to keep it.”

“I say no!”

“Who cares what you think?” Lance asked. Back at indigo HQ, Agatha answered the telepathic question and nodded.

“He has too much of his grandfather in him.”

And with that, she disabled his Trainer ID, so he would no longer be able to compete in League games.

Of course, Gary didn’t know about this…

The next day…

“And now its time for the finals! The four winners – Red Silver, Andreas Sierra, Stephanie Lin, and Peter Skyhook, will now navigate through the haunted cave! The first to arrive safe and sound at the other entrance wins!”

Lance was giving Ash last minute instructions.

“Now remember, its dark in there, so you can use your magic but only if you have to. The others will probably try to cheat, so be careful. Yes, you can use other pokemon, but people usually just use more flying types because it’s too hard to fit, say, a Nidoking in a tiny tunnel you’re flying through…”

Ash nodded and took a few sips of his cherry soda.

“And be careful!”

“Yes, Crystal.” Ash said obediently.

Pika-chan handed him a miniature flashlight. “Here you go. It might help.”

“Great! Thanks, Pika-chan.”

Peter smirked arrogantly as he preened along with his Golbat. “Prepare to lose, Red! I have won this race twice already, and there’s no way you can beat an expert!”

“What a show-off.” Ash muttered under his breath.

Peter continued to give pep talks to his fan club. A group of girls in white t-shirts with ‘Skyhook 4ever’ written on them were all asking for his autograph and giving him kisses.

Ash turned blue. * Now that’s sickening. *

Stephanie Lin wasn’t much better. She had waist length shimmery sea green hair with blue ribbons from various other competitions woven into it somehow. She was dressed in a clinging yellow tube top and almost illegal low-cut blue jeans. She was talking to her boyfriend.

“And, I’m, like, so going to win, because I’m the best!”

“Yes, Stephanie honey.”

“So, like, you gotta cheer for me, kay?”

“Fine.”

“And, I’m, like, so going to cream, like, those losers!”

Nods came from the silent one.

Her Pidgeot shrugged and continued to eat birdseed.

Ash’s jaw dropped and a bit of drool leaked out of his mouth.

Lance calmly splashed him with some cold water.

Ash turned to stare at her, shaking drops of water out of his hair. “Hey, what was that for?”

< You were staring at the opposition, Ash. With quite an intensive and love-stricken look, I might add. >

< Oh… >
< Don’t look at her. She’s trying to get you to drop your guard. >

< Okay. >

Andreas and his Noctowl were quietly meditating. Ash was relieved that at least one competitor wasn’t totally loco.

The pistol shot rang out and the race started.

Ash quickly got on Murkrow and they shot off.

It was not as bad as he had thought. True, there was stalagmites hanging from the ceiling, but those were easily phased through or avoided.

Soon, however, it got a lot harder.

“Electrode, use Explosion!”

Ash and Murkrow were blown out of the way by the force of the explosion as Peter’s Electrode detonated.

A few shards of rock fell from the roof, but the cavern was still pretty strong.

Ash quickly stopped Murkrow from flying into a wall. * Okay then. So it’s war! * He smiled and pulled out a pokemon card.

“Kakuna, go! Use Tackle!”

Kakuna appeared and tackled Peter’s Golbat. Then, it clung on to one of its wings and would not let go.

“Get off!” Peter said, trying to pry the bug off, but it was no use. Kakuna was stuck fast.

“Metapod, you help too.” Ash said. Metapod fastened on to the other side of the same wing, unbalancing Golbat, so it dropped to the cavern floor.

“D*****!” Peter cursed. He quickly got off, pulled out some Repel, and tried to get the bugs to leave.

Meanwhile, Stephanie and Andreas were nearing the finish line. However, they soon started to attack each other.

“Noctowl, use Foresight, and then Headbutt that Pidgeot out of the air!”

“Pidgeot, like, use Wing Attack!”

The two birds began battling furiously, feathers flying everywhere. However, Noctowl soon proved that it had the upper hand as it began using Peck on the Pidgeot to try and make it submit.

Stephanie began to freak out. “Like, use Steel Wing, you stupid bird!”

Pidgeot nodded and coated its wings with steel, before whacking Noctowl hard. Andreas growled.

“Okay, Noctowl, use Confusion!”
Pidgeot got little floating objects around its head and began flitting around wildly, banging into one thing after another, whether it be a wall, a dangling rock, or some projectile.

“Grr… like, stop this Pidgeot!” Stephanie demanded.

After a frustrating ten minutes, Pidgeot regained its senses. But by this time, Andreas was quite close to the exit.

“Come on, Murkrow, we can’t lose.” Ash reassured the pokemon, who nodded.

They kept flying along, but were soon attacked by a wild pokemon.

“What is this?” Ash asked, as Murkrow use Faint Attack on it.

I think it is a normal-type. Murkrow said.

“Thanks, Murkrow. Okay, then ghost and dark won’t be very effective against it. Let’s try a rock attack.”

Murkrow nodded and closed its eyes, as it brought up the list of attacks it had mimicked from other pokemon.

Rollout! Murkrow said triumphantly, as it barreled into the pokemon.

The pokemon reared up and began to glow, using Rage.

Ash and Murkrow quickly got out of the way, as Murkrow used Rollout again.

Two rollouts later…

The pokemon crumpled to the floor. It began to glow green.

“Pokemon card.” Ash said. “Ah.”

He pulled out his key. “Key that hides the power of the stars, reveal your true form before me! Your master under the seal of contract Ashura commands you, Release!”

His wand appeared. Ash smiled, gave it an experimental twirl, and pointed it at the pokemon.

“Under a new seal of contract, your master commands you, return to your true form, pokemon card!”
White light suffused the pokemon card, and it turned back into card form, landing in front of Ash.

“Dunsparce?”

Murkrow shrugged. They quickly took off, but it was too late. Andreas won the race. Ash was surprised he even made it out alive, considering that fact that Peter ambushed him again. It was lucky that he had brought up a shield before clonking peter over the head with his staff to finish.

“Why didn’t you win?” Pika-chan demanded after the race.

Ash flashed the pokemon card.

“Oh! In that case, you should lose more often.”

“Pika-chan!”

The laughter of the guardian as she ran from her Chosen sang through the air.

End Episode 128!

‘Kay, I am done! Of course, please tell me how this was received. Flames are simply worthless and will be used to heat my house…. Yikes, its freezing here, and I’m in California! And there have been raining n’ thunderstorms for the past few days! ^_^()

It’s not warm n’ sunny here in California.