No Need to Worry

Author's Note:

Here we are with the Pearlshipping oneshot. So for those of you who don't know, I made a bet last week on Twitter...and lost. So, the condition was, that I would write a Pearlshipping oneshot. "Oh how dreadful!" you might say. But actually...little did you know...I used to be a pearlshipper. I actually enjoyed this quite a lot. Now obviously amourshipping is my thing, but...this was still pretty fun.

So...if you are an amourshipper who hates Pearlshipping, I'd recommend you not read this, because it will not make you happy. And for those pearlshippers who hate Lumiose University for being an amourshipping story...well...here you go.

So this story is set during the final episode of Dawn's Unova cameo. It uses a lot of the same dialogue, but of course, I've added in some emotions and tweaked a couple of things. I suppose it's necessary to say I don't own Pokemon. I wish I did, but I don't. Water type moves would actually overpower fire type moves if I did...but whatever. Off to the story.

No Need to Worry:

Ash gritted his teeth, seeing how exhausted Pignite was. Despite their type advantage over Trip and his Serperior, the fire type was struggling, unable to land a single hit on Trip's speedy grass type. Why are we struggling so much? Ash thought, glancing around the field, trying to spot some kind of way he could use it to his advantage.

His eyes drifted over to his friends, Iris, Cilan and Dawn. They all watched on in concern, seeing that Ash was in a tough spot. What do I do? Ash asked himself, noticing as Dawn's eyes shifted from Pignite to him. He got lost for a moment, staring at the blue-haired Coordinator, who had been so supportive of him throughout his Sinnoh journey. He felt kind of embarrassed that she was seeing this. This wasn't him. He never would've battled like this in Sinnoh. He'd been letting Trip dictate the match. He was letting Trip do what Paul did to him.

Ash narrowed his eyes, looking back towards the panting Pignite. They had to do this. Serperior was fast, sure, but it was still a grass type. If they could land a powerful fire attack, they'd be in a position to win this match, and win the Junior Cup. Ash wasn't going to let Dawn see him lose like this. He wanted to show her just what his Unova Pokemon could do.

"Okay, Pignite, let's wrap this up!" Ash yelled, clenching his fists and looking straight ahead at Trip and his Serperior.

"Pignite!" Pignite called back, still breathing heavily, but bracing himself to try another attack, glaring ahead at Trip's Serperior. He could sense the urgency in his trainer's voice. He knew how badly Ash wanted to win this battle.

Ash turned his body, thrusting his arm forward, his palm facing outward. "Finish this by using Fire Pledge!" he yelled confidently, casting a quick glance over to Dawn and the others before watching Pignite jump up, fire coming out of his nose.

"Piiig NITE!" Pignite shouted, coming back down and slamming a fist hard into the ground. The large pillars of fire shot up in a line, going straight for Serperior, who didn't even move. Then, a moment later, the pillars had circled the Regal Pokemon, beginning to expand. Ash smirked, sure that he and Pignite had trapped it.

A moment later, he was proved wrong, though, as suddenly, the grass-snake appeared in front of the now massive pillar of flames. "Serrr!" it shouted in glee, looking at confidently towards the shocked Ash and Pignite.

"Look at that!" Ash shouted in shock, while Pignite backed up a step from the surprise.

"Frenzy Plant, let's go!" Trip yelled, narrowing his eyes, looking like he knew his victory was about to come.