Midnight's Story

Four Battles

Ash was alert as he walked down route 27 to the Pokemon League, totally focused on finding a pokemon trainer to battle.

However a pokemon trainer found him first.

"Hello," said the trainer. "My name is Blake. Wanna battle?"

"Sure," said Ash. "How many pokemon?"

"I've only got three pokemon, so how about three on three?"

Ash hid his shock. After all, if those three pokemon were better trained then normal, it would make sense.

"Go, magneton!"

Ash took out his pokedex. How strong was this one?

"Level 33."

This was looking bad. If all his pokemon were below L40, there was no way he could have scratched most of the gym leaders' pokemon.

"Go, Sandslash!"

Blake didn't look anywhere near as worried as he should have been. Sandslash was ground and knew ground attacks. Electric attacks couldn't normally hit ground pokemon. Plus, both of magneton's types were weak against ground. Ash noticed all of this as further proof in his theory.

"Magneton, use sonic boom!"

"Sandslash, dig under the ground!"

Before magneton could attack, sandslash dug a hole. The sonic boom missed.

"Now!" yelled Ash. "Attack!"

Sandslash erupted from the ground, slamming into magneton. The super-effective ground move fainted the electric/steel combo.

A scornful thought appeared in Ash's mind. That pokemon must have been horribly trained. It was higher level then Sandslash and shouldn't have fainted so easily, even with a type disadvantage. Of course, he didn't say or even show this thought on his face to the other trainer.

"Oh well. Magneton, return, go quagsire!"

Ash pulled out his pokedex. Strangely, this quagsire was L31

Quagsire, being part water, would have the advantage over the ground type sandslash. Ash withdrew it and sent out Tsunami. The gyarados' water type would protect him from quagsire's water attacks, and his flying type would neutralize its ground attacks. Again, Blake did not seem to realize this. Blake further proved this with the first attack.

"Quagsire, use earthquake!"

"Tsunami, use thrash!"

The earth rumbled and shook, but Tsunami's body absorbed the shock waves without damage. He slithered forward, ramming into the quagsire.

"Keep it up Tsunami!"

"Use water gun!" cried Blake.

Tsunami hit the quagsire again, nearly stunning it. But at point-blank range it fired a powerful water gun attack. However, gyarados is part water. Fire doesn't burn a creature who swims in magma, and water doesn't hurt one who creates whirl pools for fun.

"Now bite!" yelled Ash

"Use water gun again!"

The gyarados attacked quickly, chomping down on the far-slower quagsire, who flinched and was unable to attack.

"Finish it off with dragon rage!" cried Ash.

"Quagsire, use slam!"

Before the quagsire could slam into Tsunami, he unleashed a power-packed dragon rage on it. Quagsire fainted.