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MajoraaOscar Berg vs Saki Matsusuki
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"Ok, so here's what happened," Sophia began, walking alongside Oscar down the hallway. Well, more like swaying and staggering. Her legs still ached from the long journey, and with her dizziness, every step felt likely to send her off balance. "Rheese, he... He was being taken somewhere, by two Team Noble thugs. They ran away and thankfully left him here, but something's been done to his mind."
She shuddered. "He's missing some memories, and if anyone mentions Team Noble around him... He reacts badly, to say the least. When I tried to get rid of the effect just now, it turned out too strong to do much about." She clenched her fists at her own helplessness. "But there are a few things I saw and heard. I'll explain to both you and Saki."
Oscar follows Sophia and listens to what she says. He doesn't make a comment, reserving his anger for team noble for a later date. He waits until he meets and battles Saki to get more infomation as all he can do now is get stronger and by defeating the gym leaders is the clearest path to do so. Hopefully this will also make the other worry about him less and show that he is capable to fight back.
Sophia staggered into the arena, a spacious room lined with flowers. As Lacey tottered around, staring in fascination at the blooms, Fantoccino grumbled and searched for a dark corner. Beckoning her Pokemon over, Sophia made her way towards the bleachers. "Don't act high and mighty if you win," she told Oscar, with a pointed look over her shoulder. "But... Good luck."
With that, she took a seat, eager curious to see him and his newly evolved Pokemon take on the challenge.
At the other end of the room, a concerned Saki asked one of her assistants to check on Remi. As the assistant nodded and hurried out, Saki approached Oscar, greeting him with a bow and a soft smile. "Welcome," she said, leading her newest challenger to the chalk-lined arena. "If you please, may I ask your name?"
"The name is Oscar Berg. This will be my second gym battle and I will win it. I assume i can choose two pokemon as I have a full party of 6 pokemon?" Oscar sounds determined and resolute as he takes the pokemon balls containing Skoll and Roadrunner. may not be best play but hopefully can over run the gym leader to get enough of a lead to make the rest of the gym battle easier.
Saki nodded. "It's a pleasure to meet you Oscar, my name's Saki Matsusuki. And yes, we certainly can make this a six-on-six double battle if you'd prefer." Taking her place at the other end of the arena, she took two of her own Pokeballs as the referee announced the rules. "Let me know when you're ready."
"I am ready right now! and don't hold back, I am going to bring my full stregth!" Oscar sends out Skoll and Roadrunner as my front line fighters for this gym battle. Oscar looks resolute in winning and looks like to figh tooth and nail for it.
"Nuzleaf, Foongus, go!" In a burst of holographic flower effects, Saki's first two battlers appeared. They recoiled at the sight of the huge Arcanine, but quickly composed themselves, Nuzleaf snickering and advancing as Foongus hopped by his side.
Oscar ordered Skoll to fire fang the foongus, which went down in an intant but made Skoll come into contact ith spores that made skoll fall asleep. Roadrunner flame charged the nuzleaf which made it look really beat up but still on two legs.
Nuzleaf swayed, but laughed as if to say the Combusken would have to do better than that. "Grassy Terrain!" Saki called, withdrawing Foongus. At her command, Nuzleaf spread his hands out and unleashed a green ring of energy that spread over the battlefield, taking on the shape of grass and wildflowers. As the glowing 'grass' brushed against his legs, some of his burns faded.
Sending out her Bulbasaur to take Foongus' place, Saki issued more commands. "Now, Nuzleaf, use Quick Attack on Roadrunner! Bulbasaur, Reflect!" Nuzleaf moved first, charging through the energy vegetation in a blur and striking Roadrunner with a swift punch.
Roadrunner had gained some speed but was hit by the quick attack. while connecting, Roadrunner faired well and Oscar has roadrunner retaliate with a double kick taiking down the nuzleaf. Skoll seems to be alseep much to Oscar's fustrition
Bulbasaur put up a shimmering barrier, but wasn't fast enough to dampen the kicks that sent Nuzleaf toppling. "Flapple, your turn!" Recalling Nuzleaf, Saki sent out a small green dragon, fluttering on wings that resembled apple skin.
Oscar makes Roadrunner attack flapple with flame charge. "Time to make some baked apple pie! if this succeeds!" Despite the set back with arcanine, Oscar is happy with lead he has currantly.
The blow, even with the Reflect weakening it, sent the tiny dragon careening through the air. She steadied herself and fluttered back over, flapping away smoke, far from defeated just yet. When Saki called for her to hit Roadrunner with Wing Attack, Flapple rose up and dived at the Combusken, her peel-like wing striking with surprising force.
"Bulbasaur, use Giga Drain on Skoll!" On command, Bulbasaur aimed a green beam from his bulb at the still-sleeping Arcanine, draining his energy.
The wing attack hits and hits hard against roadrunner. making the combuken faint while bulbasaur hits the sleeping arcanine, not doing much damage. Flaaple and Arcanine heal cos of grassy terrian as Oscar withdraws Roadrunner and sends out Kushala. One down but Oscar knows he can still win this. Skoll wakes up and oscar sends him to attack the bulbasaur.
Bulbasaur yelped as the Fire Fang hit home. He staggered, but remained standing, and used his vines to pull a berry from a pouch around his neck. As he gobbled it down, the burn marks on his skin began to fade, yet the effect appeared offset by an adverse one; he stared around as if unsure what to do.
"Flapple, Wing Attack the Jangmo-o," Saki commanded. Once again, Flapple sped forward and lashed out with a wing. "Bulbasaur, focus and aim Giga Drain at Skoll!" The confused Bulbasaur glanced around, before briefly snapping to his senses and repeating his attack.
The giga drain landed while not effective typing wise, was a critical hit. Skoll is still standing resolute like a champion while Kushala whimpers from the attack. Oscar tells kuskala to use dragon tail on the flapple which lands a solid hit before following up with protect.
Flapple spun back, off of the battlefield, and disappeared into her Pokeball. "Rest up for now, Flapple. Lilligant, go!" Saki sent out an unusual-looking Lilligant; yellow-green, with blue leaves, and a pink flower on her head. "Pollen Puff at Kushala!" Lilligant aimed a sphere of pollen at Kushala, but the Protect went up in time to block it, yellow powder exploding outwards and scattering harmlessly on the floor.
Oscar followed up with fire fang on the troublesome bulbasaur from Skoll, which was super effective and enough to down. Oscar is pleased as it is three pokemon down for the gym leader and only one for himself. just need to maintain this lead.
As Bulbasaur collapsed, Saki returned him and sent out a Lombre. The grassy effect faded from the battlefield, but Lilligant and Lombre stared down their opponents, still able to hold their own. "Lombre, Fake Out at Skoll!" Saki called. Lombre ran up to the Arcanine and clapped his hands, sending out shockwaves that made his opponent flinch. "Lilligant, hit Kushala with Giga Drain." Stretching out her leafy arms, Lilligant shot a brilliant green beam from between them, which hit Kushala full force.
This makes Oscar grit his teeth. He should have expected relation at full force eventually but he composes himself as he might be down a big but not out as Skoll is in the game. Oscar withdraws Kushala, priasing the young dragon as he sends out Nomia the leafeon and has her give a helping hand to Skoll.
On Saki's command to repeat the attack, Lilligant aimed another Giga Drain, the beam slamming into the Leafeon.
they were both solid hits but leafeon is still standing but whimpering making Oscar angry as he sends skoll to thunder fang the lombre, landing a solid hit.
Lombre stumbled, sparks flying around him, and glared from under his lily pad. "Lombre, Mud Shot, Lilligant, Giga Drain, both at Nomia!" Saki called. Raising his head, Lombre fired a blob of mud from his mouth at the Leafeon, and Lilligant followed up with another draining beam.
The mud shot did little to hurt Nomia but the giga drain finish off Nomia. Oscar grits his teeth as things are turning from good to bad and maybe to worse if they continue like this. Skoll goes in for another thunder fang at the lombre and landing with minamal effect. Oscar sends out Aurora the riolu.
"Lombre, Water Gun at Skoll!" Lombre spat forth a torrent of water, dousing the Fire type.
The water gun seemed to hurt the arcanine but not as much as expected. Oscar had Skoll reliate with extreme speed at the lombre. Right away, the Lombre flopped to the ground, unconscious.
"Lilligant, use Pollen Puff on the Riolu!" Saki called, returning the fainted water type. Lilligant flung a clump of pollen, which hit its mark this time, exploding on contact.
This did lots of damage to Aurora but Oscar had Aorura attack lilligant with a metal claw and ready an quick attack at the last pokemon that the gym leader is going to release. Sure enough, as soon as Saki sent out her final Pokemon - Flapple - the Quick Attack struck. With Flapple already weakened, and only two Pokemon left on Saki's side, Oscar was catching up.
"Lilligant, hit Aurora with Sleep Powder." A flurry of spores flew from the flower on Lilligant's head, scattering all over the Riolu and sending her to sleep.
Oscar sees an opening with Skoll to go in for the kill with the more problematic one by using fire fang on Flapple which seems to be the nail in the coffin for the dragon grass type.
Flapple struggled to remain airborne, but the last of the strength left her body and she fell to the floor. "Lilligant, take out Aurora with Giga Drain!" Saki commanded as she withdrew Flapple. One beam was all it took for the Riolu to pass out.
Well, the mistake for the gym leader was that Aurora still asleep and was not the threat while the hurt but very fiesty Skoll unleashed one final fire fang on the lilligant which downed her and finished out the battle. This made Oscar sigh in relief as he goes to skoll and giving him lots of praise.
Recalling Lilligant, Saki bowed and approached Oscar. "That was a good battle there. As a token, please take this Bloom Badge." She held out a small, cherry blossom shaped badge. "And if you wish, you may take one of these TMs." Reaching into a cloth bag strapped over her shoulder, she presented Oscar with four labelled discs. Energy Ball, Giga Drain, Bullet Seed, Grassy Terrain.
On shaky legs, Sophia stood up from the bleachers and strode over. Through the pang of envy coursed an odd sense of relief. She shouldn't have been glad to watch her rival pull the battle back around to his favour, especially considering the deal he'd struck earlier, but somehow she had. Even though she hadn't expected to be. What she'd expected even less was that strained look on his face, that lapse in confidence just before he'd managed to regain the upper hand.
"Well, looks like that's the deal settled," she muttered. "But will you listen to me too?" Taking a deep breath, she gave him a pointed look. "Nobody's doubting you. You can be every level of annoying sometimes, but I've gotta admit, you're a capable trainer. And we all acknowledge that. What I meant, and what Amber was saying, was everyone's gotta be careful. No matter how strong they are."
She huffed. "What was that lecture of yours the other day? If you want to go far, go together? How about you practice what you preach?" Her glare softened. "You don't have to go it alone. Because you're not alone."
Turning her gaze from Oscar to Saki, she continued, "Speaking of... recent events. I was able to find something out."
