Electric Touch: Chapter 18 (mPikachu x fRaichu)
#18 of Electric Touch
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For a while, the battle went well with for the Typhlosion, as he wss able to knock out three of his opponents without suffering considerable damage, but, as the trainer had figured out that this alignment might happen, the next Pokémon were water Pokémon. The Typhlosion wasn't so fortunate, because by the time he beat the fourth opponent, he had already received numerous water-based attacks and so, was easily defeated by the fifth opponent. After this, the trainer helped the Typhlosion to get up, and they finally shook hands in a deportive manner.
The public was already in a state of excitement, as the deafening roar that was emanating from all the people confirmed it.
Next battle was the battle between Christine Lovelock and John Stein.
The public became crazy again as both trainers began to walk to their places.
Soon after, the battle began, the first Pokémon who battled were a Garchomp and a Sceptile. "Hah! I knew we are the best!!!!" Shouted in amazement the Sceptile who sat by the seats. "Look who's talking! Mr. Modest!" Responded Espeon in a sarcastic tone.
But sadly, after cheering for over ten minutes, the Sceptile battling was beaten. "Noooo!!!" He said as his frustation overcame his body. "And that's how you make him shut up" added Pidgeot.
Afterwards, it was the battle between the weakened Garchomp and a Haunter. It was impossible to the Garchomp to defeat the Haunter. The battle continued for a long time, until John Stein achieved a very close 5-6 victory.
The third battle was between Armando Cavarone and Nikki Hamilton. This time, the public started to cheer frenetically as Armando made his way to the battlefield. The man, somewhere around his mid or late fourties, was also very famous due to his elegant looks, his long hair, and his refinated manners, apart from his battling career.
The man turned to the crowd and made a gesture of affection as he made it to the side of his part in the battlefield.
A moment later, Nikki Hamilton also entered in the arena, as she cheerfully thanked everyone for the support. She knew that there was a very slim chance that she would win the battle, but she was determined to make the most of it! She made a signal indicating that she was ready to start, and Armando responded in a confident way.
The first Pokémon Nikki sent to the battlefield was a shiny Charizard, but everyone in the public was inmediately awestruct as Armando made a gesture to the sky, and an Articuno arrived to the battle. Legends told that it was a powerful and extremely fast fighter. As the battle started, Articuno quickly flew through the air, the Charizard standing still concentrated on its next move, to parry it with a flurry of counter-attacks. But the legendary's vast experience allowed it to detect Charizard's intentions, and, as soon as it got about twenty feet from him, it instantly changed direction, and flew upwards. The Charizard quickly took off, chasing the ice bird trying to catch up with Articuno, but, as the altitude started to rise, the Charizard started to feel a penetraring cold, chilly wind that made the fire Pokémon feel weaker.
This cold had the opposite effect on Articuno, who continued flying up until it was miles above the ground, and then, dived down to the ground, reaching an impressive speed. The Charizard, who was still flying, trying to spot Articuno, was only able to realize what was going on when the Articuno shooted a powerful ice-beam to the fire type, before landing its claws at full-force on Charizard's back.
The Charizard lost control and soon landed head-first to the ground. As the Articuno landed swiftly, the Charizard was revealed to be unable to battle.
Next battle, Nikki Hamilton took out her second Pokémon, a Rotom. Now, Articuno and Rotom were the only active Pokémon on the battlefield.
As soon as the battle began, it became apparent that the Articuno was powerful, as it avoided Rotom's electric attacks, and even countered the clever Pokémon's long-ranged attacks, before countering with an intense blizzard. The Articuno made sure there was no way the Rotom could escape it.
The battle went on for a while, but the Rotom couldn't get past the Articuno's defense, and every attack seemed to make the bird more resistant to it, as if Rotom's attacks were completely useless. After putting on an incredible show, the Rotom was left exhausted by Articuno's continuous dodging, and, with a very quick evasive maneuver, the bird soon managed to make his opponent collapse in sheer exhaustion.
"Rotom is unable to battle!" yelled the commentator.
Nikki Hamilton proudly displayed her third Pokémon to the audience, which was a Poliwrath. Since the Articuno was the only revealed pokémon on Armando's side, many of the crowd believed that the Poliwrath would lose the battle, which would turn out to be the true, due to the latter's being rather slow.
The Poliwrath was incredibly strong nevertheless, and it attacked the bird with a vicious front kick, before making a devastating overhead smash with a powerful, yet elegant powerful kick. The attack was extremely powerful, and, although the Poliwrath couldn't defeat the Articuno when it was weak, it inflicted serious damage on the blue and white bird.
Nikki's fourth Pokémon turned out to be a rather large Lapras. People started to think that there was no way that any of Nikki's Pokémon was able to win to Articuno, as legendaries are known to be the toughest pokémon in the world.
Lapras started using Frost Breath, which turned to be very effective in the battle, as it suddenly changed the air temperature near the surface, making the air suffer a sudden change of density, unstabilizing the Articuno's flight enough to disorientate it.
Then, Lapras continued with Ice Shard. When the attack hit, it hit hard, especially on the left wing, and, when another shard struck it again, the right wing was also affected, as well as the back. This forced Articuno to dive down in order to avoid further attacks, but it was a bad decission.
Lapras appeared on top of the bird, using a devastating water gun at a close range. Articuno withstood the mighty attack, but, unable to take much more punishment, it started to weaken rapidly, and after a few seconds, Articuno fell unconscious.
"Articuno is unable to battle!" The commentator proclaimed, while the audience cheered for Nikki, as Articuno was regarded as a pokémon which nobody could defeat.
Lapras, who had won the battle, gave a salute to the audience, before Articuno was carried away from the battlefield by Armando himself. "Thank you, Articuno, for fighting with us. It was a pleasure!"
The audience then were struck in awe, as Armando made another signal, and the floor beneath him started to crack down. Seconds later, the almighty Entei appeared on the field. People started to raise their hands, screaming out loud.
"You're welcome, Entei, show everyone what are you capable of". Armando said.
Entei roared as if taunting the Lapras to attack, but, the latter showed restraint, as it looked at Entei with an emotionless look on its face. As that tactic didn't yield any results, Entei decided to take the initiative, and let out an ear-piercing roar, trying to intimidate its foe.
Lapras then, without hesitating, headed for the fire beast, who was obviously not expecting such a move. As Lapras tacked Entei, it used a powerful water cannon attack. Entei was not harmed by the attack, but, instead, it was able to react quickly, and wildly dug its extremely powerful claws on Lapras' underside, before using an equally powerful flamethrower to the face.
As a result, Lapras toppled over, and was unable to continue.
"Lapras is unable to battle!" The commentator exclaimed.
Nikki's fifth pokémon was a giant Ursaring. People started to consider that Entei should probably win this battle, as the last encounter was a clear victory for the large fire legendary.
Nikki's Ursaring then, without hesitation, used Bite. The attack was very powerful, and, although it was able to pierce the Entei's thick skin, it wasn't strong enough to seriously injure it.
The legendary didn't flinch, and instead, threw a large fireball at the Ursaring, creating a large explosion near it.
Nikki's Ursaring was simply not expected to survive that attack.
However, Nikki's Pokémon's extraordinary will did not fail it. Even though Ursaring took the explosion to the face, it managed to resist it, and then used Silver Wind. The attack left the Entei a bit more confused than before. But Entei, making good use of his overwhelming close combat skills, was able to lift up its foe in the air, and then slammed the Ursaring against the arena's rock-hard floor.
The impact was so hard, that the Ursaring was knocked out.
At that time, Nikki was obviously a bit tense. She knew that it was difficult to defeat a legendary like Entei, but she also knew that she was a really strong trainer anyway, with her pokémon not even having a single weakness.
The audience started to worry, thinking that Nikki was not able to win, but, she wasn't going to let the audience down, as she called in her last pokémon, Umbreon.
"Umbreon! It's time to show everybody why you're such a powerful pokémon!" Nikki shouted.
The dog-like pokémon, who rose from its default, statical possition, prepared to attack.
"Umbreon, go, use disable!" Nikki commanded.
Suddenly, Umbreon's eyes lit up. A blue light formed at its head, and then a black and blue aura surrounded Entei. Then, the aura faded, and Umbreon started to run towards Entei.
Entei, however, wasn't fazed, and was, in fact, waiting for Umbreon to attack it. When the dog-like pokémon passed close by Entei, the legendary was about to strike another deadly scratch, but an inner force stopped it.
As it stared into Umbreon's eyes, it noticed something.
Umbreon's eyes went blank, and, for some reason, its tail started to glow a silvery color. Then, it started to generate an intense, white light. And, as it continued to generate the light, Entei was absort from reality. Umbreon's hypnosis had succedded, and soon, Entei found itself sitting on the floor.
The audience gasped, and the commentators, shocked, couldn't pronounce a single word.
"Umbreon! use Shadow blast!" Nikki called out. The umbren then emanated a dark, dense energy, which exploded on Entei's back, causing it to flinch. But as the Umbreon got near the legendary, it was revealed that the hypnosos effect had already worn out when the legendary counterattacked with a brutal blow, using its paw as a punch, delivering a sheer amount of force straight to Umbreon's face.
"OHH! Entei has been acting! Impressive!" The announcer commented.
The attack paid its toll on Umbreon, as its condition deteriorated. It managed to stand up, but was barely conscious.
Then, Nikky commanded her Umbreon to use another Shadow blast. The attack was powerful, and, it hit Entei directly, causing critical damage.
Having nothing to loose, Umbreon quickly used quick attack to strike Entei again, but, as Umbreon striked, Entei's paw came out from behind, and pushed Umbreon back, making it roll over a large distance backwards.
Entei was noticeably exhausted from the battle, and so was Umbreon. As they exchallenged a respectful glare, both Pokémon collapsed.
"Entei and Umbreon are unable to battle!" The announcer announced.
Nikki's eyes went empty of emotion, but she soon rallied up, and looked towards the audience, who cheered at them.
"Armando wins by 2-6!" The announcer shouted, as the announcer proceeded to introduce the last battle, Susan Hertz again Ginger Sparklight.