Midnight's Story

A Strange Battle

Ash walked down the dirt path. All that lay between him and being a pokemon master was walking to the end of this road. That and defeating the Pokemon League, but after all, he did have Midnight, so the walk currently seemed harder then the battles at the end of it.

"Hey you!" called a trainer. "Wanna battle before the Pokemon League?"

"Always!" replied Ash. Now was the perfect time to see how strong the trainers were.

"Ok then, how about three on three?"

"Fine with me."

"Go, bulbasaur!" she yelled.

"Go, Sneasel!"

"Bulba!" called the bulbasaur happily.

"Sne!" chirped Sneasel.

Ash looked at the bulbasaur. While you didn't have to evolve your pokemon as soon as possible, it did make them stronger. A super-powerful bulbasaur would make sense, like the one Ash Ketchem had used, but this bulbasaur didn't look that strong.

Confused, Ash pulled out is pokedex to check it's level.

"Level 32."

Politely, Ash bit down his yelp of surprise. Alright, so she had one weak pokemon. Maybe that just meant that she was using her weakest first. After all, Sneasel wasn't quite at level thirty yet. Still, if her bulbasaur was so weak, why hadn't she evolved it yet?

"Sneasel, use ice punch!"

"Esel!" she agreed, running at the grass pokemon. Her confidence had greatly improved since she had beaten Falkner's Noctowl.

"Bulba..." it groaned.

"Bulbasaur, use leech seed!"

"Sneasel, dodge it and use quick attack!"

Bulbasaur shot a seed at Sneasel, but she was already moving so fast from quick attack it missed. Sneasel rammed into the bulbasaur, fainting it.

Ash was surprised. To win you'd think this trainer would have been smarter then to use a slow-acting attack like leech seed against a pokemon with an element advantage, but oh well. Maybe it was just a rare mistake. No trainer was perfect all the time.

"Go, ivysaur!"

Ash blinked. Why was she using an ivysaur? Serious trainers almost never had the same pokemon on their team. He opened up his pokedex again to check it's level.

"Level 32."

Her second pokemon was the same level? Ash was starting to get a bad feeling about this.

"Sneasel, try your ice punch again!"

This time, the ivysaur dodged the attack.

"Ivysaur, use razor leaf!"

"Ivy!"

Sharp leaves flew at Sneasel, who managed to dodge most but got hit by a few.

"Good job ivysaur, keep it up!"

Ash was slightly surprised by this. The ivysaur was only doing marginal damage, as any halfway educated rookie trainer should have seen. What was going on?

"Sneasel, use faint attack so the leaves won't hit you and attack that ivysaur!"

"Sne!" Sneasel agreed.

The ivysaur and it's trainer, rather then try to figure out what they should do, simply kept up with the razor leaf attacks. Sneasel vanished, and the trainer gasped. The ivysaur looked around, trying to see it's opponent, before Sneasel smashed into it.