Ash's Paldea Story

Chapter 77 Elite Four Battle: Rika

Since Lillie is going to have her own interview, I was just chatting with Nemona and the others about what just happened while waiting for her to finish.

"So you have to do some sort of interview before you can fight the Elite Four?" Reisa says. "That's new, I mean, no other regions would've done that."

"I know." I say. "I was sweating bullets. But now I can finally get to face the Elite Four."

"I'm glad that you've finished the first try, I mean, I failed once and I have to do it all over again." Nemona says.

As Lillie comes out of the building, I ask, "How is it?"

Lillie smiles and says, "I also passed on my first try."

"That's great." Drandon says. "Now both of you can fight the Elite Four."

When we enter the battlefield, Rika also comes with us as she goes to the other side of the battlefield.

"Now then, let's get this started, eh? Let good ol' Rika be the first of the Elite Four to take you on!" Rika says.

"So you're the first one that I have to face. This is interesting." I say.

"I'd say I'll go easy on you, but... I'd be lying! Think fast!" Rika says as she takes out her Pokeball, revealing it to be a Whiscash.

"A Whiscash?" I say, "Then I'll go with Dragonite!"

After sending out my first Pokemon, Rika says, "I finally get to battle you! I've been looking forward to this, so don't you give up too soon!"

Whiscash starts off with Blizzard, dealing a lot of damage to Dragonite. "Dragonite! Hang in there and use Dragon Dance to boost the speed!"

Dragonite starts to do the Dragon Dance, and then I have it go for the Hurricane, hitting the Whiskers Pokemon.

"Now Dragon Claw!" I say, but just as Dragonite approaches near, Rika smirks, and then some portals appear and beams come from it to hit Dragonite.

"That's Future Sight!" Nemona gasps.

"Wait, seriously?" Lillie asks in shock.

"Finish it with Blizzard!" Rika says, and Whiscash goes for the Blizzard attack, easily knocking Dragonite out of the match.

"Are you kidding me? Dragonite is a Pseudo Legendary!" Drandon says. "How come it loses so easily?"

Reisa says, "You have to remember that it is four-times weak to Ice after all."

I sigh and recall my Dragonite, sending out Gardevoir as my next Pokemon. "A Gardevoir... quite an interesting choice." Rika says as she has Whiscash uses Earth Power.

I look at Gardevoir, who dodges the attack by using Teleport without my command. Reisa says, "There it is! The Eye-contacting dodging!"

"Like sister like brother." Luke says.

I have Gardevoir use Psychic, hitting the Pokemon time after time. Whiscash however uses Future Sight again, and then goes for Muddy Water, hitting Gardevoir and lowering the accuracy.

"Let's keep it up! Blizzard!" That move again, I'm not letting it hit Gardevoir. And thanks Gardevoir quickly dodges out of the way, and it continues to dodge the Future Sight until the attack hits Whiscash.

"What?" Rika is shocked.

"Finish with Energy Ball!" I say, and Gardevoir's attack finally defeats Rika's Whiscash.

"Well done, my next Pokemon is going to be Camerupt!" Rika says as she sends out her second Pokemon.

"So Rika is a Ground Type Elite Four member..." Lillie says.