Random Battles (Collection of One Shots)

[Ash_Junior]

Spoiler: Table of Contents

Battle 1: Snorlax versus Nidorina, Electabuzz, Torterra (this post)

Battle 2: Skarmory versus Tyranitar and Pikachu

Basically, this thread will be an outlet for Pokemon battles that I have written, am writing, or will write and like but for whatever reason aren't around anymore, got cut from their stories, etc.

Spoiler: Snip

Just quick one shots that don't need any background and can be enjoyed just for the sake of battle. Sometimes I may post an edited form of a battle I'm writing in a fic that I'm writing at the moment (edited so you don't need to understand the context, just enjoy the battle)

First off is a doodle that I wrote for the old version of my "Following in her Footsteps" fic

Spoiler: Things you may want to know before-hand

back when I was going to have her go across a North America that wasn't like our own. But I'm not going to be following through with that, thus the restart of the fic.

But in this alternate universe, the Kingdom of Hawaii wasn't absorbed by the British/Spanish, and then by the Americans, and remains independent, and has an island empire over a lot of the Pacific, including the Midway Atolls.

the "KHS Wallace" stands for "Kingdom of Hawaii Shipping or whatever the S usually stands for

Spoiler: Some other countries I came up with

Some of the others I came up with were the Confederate States of America (the South rose again ), the Hollywood Empire (with Vegas as the capital), Confederacy of Cleveland, New England Protectorate....if I put thought into Canada, it would probably be Canada, Quebecois, and some native-sounding name in the far north.

Yes, that IS supposed to be Paul from D/P anime

Oh, and if it bothers you, sorry, but when I wrote this I was using the lower-case pokemon/moves/type, etc style of writing (and still am currently )




Alora looked up as the hyper beam impacted to her left, and glared at its source—a charging snorlax that was being attacked with long-range attacks, but showed no signs of slowing down. A quick glance around showed her that aside from a trainer that was dealing with six pirate pokemon, she was the only person in a situation to do anything about the pokemon.

Alora took a deep breath, and pointed at the snorlax. "Poison tail, thunder wave." Immediately, her nidorina and electabuzz leapt into action. Slasher, her ever-loyal nidorina, took a darting, zig-zag course towards the ambling behemoth. Mira Nova, Alora's grouchy electabuzz, directed electricity as it arced between the terminals on top of the electric type's head to the eating machine.

Alora glanced over her shoulder to see that passengers were still lining the rails. The evacuation was taking longer than had been planned. Alora gritted her teeth and turned back to the battle. "Thunderbolt, toxic spikes! We're a delaying action. If we manage to bring him down, that's just a bonus." The snorlax was getting closer now, and Alora found herself backing up the ramp despite the fact that the snorlax was still quite a ways off.

The pirates had caught the cruise ship unawares, and had ravaged the Kingom of Hawaii's naval base on the Midway Atoll before any counter-attack could be organized.

Her pokemon charged forward, but Alora could easily see that there was no way that her Pokemon would be able to bring down the pirates' pokemon on their own. Alora closed her eyes and concentrated, doing her best to fall into a zone of total concentration, trying to ignore the earth rumbling beneath her feet. "Trip it up with low kick!" she called out. "Pull its legs out from under it with tail whip!"

She didn't know how long she kept barking commands like that, trying to come up with even the most outlandish of ideas to simply slow the immense pokemon down, all the while knowing that it was futile. The ground beneath her feet shook, and she knew that in moments the snorlax would knock her down, and she'd either be trampled or knocked uselessly to one side. But as long as she bought even a vital half-second for the passengers escaping the ship it didn't matter.

Suddenly the vibrations in the earth shifted, and the ramp beneath her feet shook in an entirely new way. Alora was thrown off her feet, and as her eyes opened, she saw a large, brown creature slam into the charging snorlax, having leaped down the main ramp leading into the maritime vessel. The massive pokemon forced the snorlax back, but only barely.

Staggering backwards, the snorlax took only a few moments to recover, then faced off against the large, grass-type pokemon. Only now did Alora notice that the Sinnoh starter's trainer rode atop the tortoise's back, one hand holding firmly to the tree trunk that grew out of the pokemon's back, the other hand held clenched in a fist at his side. With a bellow, the torterra loosed a hyper beam that hit the massive normal-type pokemon squarely in the chest. Alora found herself calling out orders to her own pokemon as the snorlax stood for a moment, letting the power of the attack wash over itself. The attack let up, and for a moment, the snorlax did nothing.

Then Mira's tail yanked its right leg out from underneath it, while Slasher locked its neck in a vicious poison fang. The snorlax fell with a terrific bang and lay still. A cheer went up from the ship's rail, but Alora ignored it as she scanned the battlefield. The soldiers at the Midway base were still holding off the pirates, but they were being pushed steadily backwards. The trainers who had broken through their ranks had been mopped up, but the damage had been done.

The trainer on the torterra's back turned slowly to face Alora. "That was pathetic," he snapped at her. "Next time, fight your own battles. I won't rescue you." A hundred retorts rose in Alora's throat, but she forced them down. No matter what she might say, he was right. The fact that she didn't have a full team didn't matter. The fact that she had designed her pair of pokemon specifically for the Pokemon League and she was way out of her comfort zone didn't matter. She was assigned to this walkway, and that meant that she, and only she was responsible for it.

"I know," Alora said instead, nodding her head in a quick apology as the torterra turned and began moving as quickly as its lumbering body would allow back towards the ramp that the trainer had been assigned to protect. "It won't happen again." The other trainer held her gaze just another moment, despite his body being twisted around. In that moment, Alora caught a flicker of some emotion she didn't recognize, and then he was gone.

Alora shook her head and turned back to the battle before her. "Clean up the spikes, Slasher. Mira, bring it in. Don't step in anything." Alora took a deep breath, and prepared for the next assault. A quick glance up the ramp showed her that most of the H.I.S. Wallace's passengers had been evacuated. And that was good. The pirates were quickly pushing the remaining Hawaiians back to the ship.

"Forget the cute guy," Alora muttered to herself. "You can make out with him when this is over."* She smiled slightly, and waited for her next bit of action.




Next up, the initial battle from the ORIGINAL version of "Following in her Footsteps"

Skarmory vs. Tyranitar/Pikachu

and it will have a bit of my anit-Pikachu rantage in there, so if you actually like the damn rat, you may want to skip one or two sentences

Spoiler: .

Thunder Stones exist for a REASON! so we wouldn't need to use Pikachus forever!

 

[Ash_Junior]

Skarmory vs. Tyraniter/Pikachu

the lower-case Pokemon/etc style was NOT used in this snippet. Sorry if that bothers you, but they were written at different times.





The top of the Pokemon Tower was silent for a moment as all parties paused to catch their breaths. The dust that had exploded into the air slowed its ascent, then began to slowly settle. Far above, the sun burned brightly through a barely clouded sky, while the local flock of Pidgeotto circled the tower slowly.

A Tyranitar slowly raised its head, glaring at its opponent even as blood slowly trickled down over one eye. A low growl emanated from its throat, slowly escalating to a snarl as its opponent flew out of the sun and began to lazily circle towards the Dark-type Pokemon. Sunlight reflected off of the bird's steel wings as it suddenly banked towards the deadly Tyranitar.

The Tyranitar began to turn, using its momentum to swing its tail into the heavy bird. Without warning, the Skarmory dove until it was gliding centimeters above the surface of the tower, causing the ground-bound Pokemon's tail to miss completely, and caused it to fall off-balance. A human shout of frustration sounded from one edge of the Tower's rooftop as the unmistakable sound of metal against rock echoed across the top of the tower.

The dinosaur-like creature stumbled backwards as the Skarmory landed awkwardly as it rebounded off of the Rock-type Pokemon, running as fast as its short, taloned feet and its squat, heavy body could go. In less than a dozen steps, the Skarmory had leaped into the air and was soaring up, away from its opponent.

The Tyranitar whirled again, this time its heavy tail slammed into one of the steel bird's wings, knocking it out of the air and sending it tumbling across the tower. The bird let out a keening wail as it righted itself and made a run for the edge of the tower and the empty space on the other side. Roaring its defiance, the Tyranitar ran after it, its teeth bared and ready for a feast of steely feathers.

It was a close race, but the Skarmory made it to the edge of the Tower before the Tyranitar caught up to it, and the avian leapt out into open air, diving down and away, wings tucked tightly against its body, letting its incredible weight accelerate its descent. In desperation the massive Pokemon that was chasing it leapt out into the air after it, but the Skarmory unfolded its wings and rolled to one side.

And suddenly, the very heavy Tyranitar was faced with a long drop into Fuji Square at the base of the Pokemon Tower in Lavender City, crowded with humans and Pokemon alike.

Suddenly, the flightless Pokemon seemed to glow with an inexplicable red energy, and seemed to start to break apart. Falling faster and faster, the Tyranitar let loose a bellow that was cut strangely short as it dematerialized in a beam of red light that shot up towards the top of the Tower.

The beam soared upwards until a large statue of the Legendary Pokemon Mew intercepted the beam, and for a long moment, the statue glowed a bright red. At the top of the tower, a human's frustrated cry sounded. Suddenly, the glow of the statue disappeared as a beam of light shot out from the statue and shot into a Silph Company Ultra Ball, held in the outstretched hand of human who looked particularly annoyed.

He had come to the top of the tower flush with victories against trainers before the trainer he challenged, with a sense of importance and self-worth that he had earned by fighting across the province. He had defeated all the Gyms, and was waiting for the Pokemon League to reconvene so he could test his might against the other most powerful trainers of the province, and he had been spinning his wheels until he had heard about a group of powerful trainers that held an unofficial gym within the Pokemon Tower. Cocky with his successes, and figuring that he could not be beaten, he had packed up his favorite Pokemon and had headed for the tower.

The woman standing across the tower's roof cocked her head to one side, and studied the fuming trainer. She had seen all kinds of combat, both with and without Pokemon, for fun and for profit, and she knew this trainer's type. She had, in fact, researched him because he had performed so well, and knew that sooner or later he'd be coming gunning for her and her gym. He was not the first gifted trainer with a superiority complex to lose to her, and he would not be the last.

“Do you yield?” she called across the broad roof.

The trainer looked up from his hand, where he still held his Tyrantiar's Pokeball. Due to the rules she had laid out beforehand, his Tyranitar was now unable to battle because the Safety Protocols had performed a forced recall on the Dark-type Pokemon. That left him with one Pokemon remaining. But that was okay. It was his best performer.

The trainer wiped the sweat from across his forehead up into his spiky black hair that didn't quite hide the blonde roots, and glared at the woman. “I do not yield!” he screamed. “Pikachu go!”

The woman grimaced and shook her head. “Why do all these idiots use Pikachu?” she growled under her breath, feeling that age-old annoyance bubbling back up to the surface. “Just because that one trainer uses one and refuses to evolve that rat, EVERYONE seems to feel the need to use those little vermin.” She scanned the skies for her Skarmory, while keeping an eye on her opponent. “I need to talk to the boss about banning those suckers from the gym. Thunder Stones aren't THAT expensive, especially when you're up this high in the lists. Just evolve the damn thing.”

While she was muttering angrily to herself, a small yellow rodent with two long ears, long, powerful back legs, and short, almost ineffectual forelegs appeared across the roof from her, its round, red circles of electricity sparking angrily.

The woman glared at the Pikachu, and stepped back, letting her simple white dress whirl about her in the wind that blew across the tower. “It's time to finish this,” she growled angrily to herself. “Death to Pikachu!” she bellowed her usual battle cry loud enough for every member of the substantial crowd that packed the top of the Pokemon Tower to hear.

Short, intense bursts of elecricity burst out from the small thunder rat, all going wide as the lumbering steel bird gracefully wove a pattern through the oncoming fire. Flying directly into the sun, the Pikachu finally had to stop attacking, and scrambled across the stone tiles of the tower's roof in an attempt to get an angle where the Skarmory was not directly between the rodent and the sun.

It happened quickly. The Skarmory dove in, wings tucked tightly into its body, bowling over the Pikachu, and driving itseveral yards back along the rough stones of the Lavender Town landmark. Its forward momentum reduced through the Pikachu, the Skarmory leapt into the air with a single flap of its wings. Its talons snaked out and snatched the electric type in an iron grip. Few on the tower paid much attention to the frustrated screaming of the Pikachu's trainer, and fewer still actually listened to hear what his orders actually were. They all knew that the battle was, for all intents and purposes, over.

The rodent squealed, and frantically discharged as much electricity as it could. But the Skarmory was determined, and climbed up, its strong wings beating against the air and the electricity coursing through the bird's veins. Seconds after its initial dive, the Skarmory suddenly rolled over on its back and released its prey.

The yellow Pokemon's momentum kept it traveling further up as the Skarmory dove towards the tower, trying to put as much distance between the two Pokemon as possible. The Electric type's plaintive squeal resonated through the air as its feet frantically scrabbled for purchase on nothing. Electricity was frantically discharged, and a few of the members of the crowd ducked, only to rise sheepishly as the electricity dissipated harmlessly against the force fields put into place for just such a purpose.

All eyes were on the Pikachu as it began its descent, and prepared themselves for the sound of meat smashing into stone. But at the last second, a silver blur snatched the Pikachu out of the air. The Skarmory held the frantic Pikachu in its mouth, still ignoring the electricity that poured from the terrified rat. To its credit, the Skarmory held on rather well, but its course was no longer straight as an arrow. Instead, it wove from side to side, but still managed to pull up slightly as it dropped its payload onto its target.

The Pikachu thumped onto the ground at the feet of its trainer. Blood and sweat matted the poor creature's fur. The exhausted Pokemon looked up at its master, twitched its right ear once, then went limp.

A roar went up from the crowd, and the woman wearing the white dress smirked at the fainted thunder rat.



Hopefully you liked it. Don't know when the next battle will be, or who/what will be fighting. This thread will be updated as the muse motivates me.

Maybe it inspired you to write. maybe it inspired you to write flameage. whatever, I hope you liked it.