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Note: the following chapter was compiled using a Random number generator. I did this to make all the battles 100% fair. I had no initial intentions for the winner of this fights that followed.

Ver 1.0

Title: The Lost Pokémon Episodes.
By: Hakuzo NightFox

Episode 13: Royal Seafront Assault.

Narrator: Last episode, Hakuzo’s and Andrew’s Pokémon set up a small battle competition. It consists of a bracket tournament, to see which of the 8 Pokémon has the skills and power to rise above the others. They decided that the initial rounds would only test each Pokémon’s physique, and agility. So each battle was has been decided for the most balanced competition.<<<

Wind lightly blows sand around the beach as Miles and Combuskin face each other. Their fur and feathers lightly being ruffled by the strong winds around them, each one sizing up the other. Miles has the speed advantage but Combuskin has the strength advantage in this fight.

Combuskin and Miles slowly circle around the ring as they try to come up with a strategy. For now Miles stays out of Combuskin’s reach, knowing that it wouldn’t take many hits from the powerful Pokémon to be knocked out or thrown out of the ring.

Combuskin crouches low for a second digging into the sand slightly with his clawed feet. He launches forward kicking up sand attempting to tackle into Miles. The Fox Pokémon simply spins out of Combuskin’s reach. Combuskin growls slightly and swings at Miles, Again the vulpine Pokémon jumps back away from the attack.

Miles hangs near the edge of the ring, a risky move but one he hope that will pay off. He tries to draw Combuskin closer and closer while keeping track of his own location compared to the ring.

Combuskin rushes at Miles again, not paying attention to where the edge of the ring, he is too angry at not being able to land a hit to notice. Miles jumps in such a way landing diagonal to Combuskin, and with a quick flick of his hind quarters, he knocks Combuskin off balance and out of the ring in one swift motion.

Hakuzo’s Pokémon cheer on Miles for his win, even Andrew’s pokemon can’t deny that Miles pulled off some well thought out tactics. Andrew’s Pokémon help Combuskin up while Dratini redraw the lines of the arena that got broken up by the fight.

Vinzith and Eleckid take their places in the ring. As an Ivysaur, Vinzith has a bit more defenses than Eleckid, but each one has about the same relative stats. Both Pokémon have equal chance of winning this battle by a knock-out.

Vinzith takes a low defensive stance while Eleckid lands a punch on Vinzith. The punch was rather weak and didn’t even phase the plant like Pokémon. Vinzith then counters with a mule kick of his own landing a stronger hit.

After those initial attacks the two pokemon keep going full force. Eleckid lands another fairly weak punch at Vinzith, again barely slowing the Pokémon down. Vinzith bashes into Eleckid with his bulbous plant on his back, doing mediocre damage.

The two Pokémon start circling each other now, neither pokemon is gaining much leeway in the battle and each one realizes they have to fight even harder to make any progress. Eleckid strikes with a stronger kick this time, the attack being fiercer than before. Vinzith was surprised at the sudden stronger attack, causing his next hit to be very weak.

Eleckid used the momentum and scored another strong hit against Vinzith. The Plant Pokémon fails to regain an edge and again only lands a light hit. Through the amount of blows already to hit, both Pokémon refuse to give up and continue to push even harder now.

Eleckid lands a strong upper-cut to Vinzith knocking him back a bit. Vinzith then rushes forward and slams into Eleckid but trips losing momentum from the attack. The follow-through from the attack causes Eleckid to lose balance as well and his own counter attack barely nicks Vinzith.

Both pokemon are so wrapped up in the battle now each one is starting to make mistakes as they start to become wore out. Both Pokémon roll around and Vinzith kicks Eleckid off of him sending him flying into the ground doing massive damage.

Eleckid growls and jumps back up, still a bit dazed from the hit. Eleckid only lands a light hit as Vinzith almost dodged it. Vinzith spins around and kicks Eleckid hard sending him reeling back again. Eleckid starts to pant from getting tired already for all the hits now.

Eleckid slams his fist hard into the plant Pokémon in frustration causing a lot of damage to Vinzith. Both Pokémon are getting closer to reaching their limit in battle, and continue to try to gain the upper hand. Vinzith attacks again but trips again this time hurting himself critically.

Eleckid take this time to land a good punch on Vinzith causing the plant Pokémon to become more exhausted. Vinzith lands a weak counter-attack, bringing Eleckid closer to exhaustion too.

Both Pokémon are becoming really exhausted now, this battle has raged on for a while. Eleckid lands a very solid hit to Vinzith causing him to stagger to the ground, when it looked like he was about to pass out, he staggers back up with a determined look in his eyes. In a final attempt he rushes at Eleckid but the attack was weak due to the amount of exhaustion the Pokémon is enduring. Eleckid has just enough strength left to land another blow to Vinzith causing the Pokémon to faint.

Miles goes and takes Vinzith out of the arena while Dratini once again redrew the lines again and prepares the arena for the third battle. Sandshrew and Larion enter into the battle field. Larion’s size takes up a lot of the arena and doesn’t give Sandshrew much room to maneuver. Both Pokémon are defensive types but Larion has much stronger attack and defenses than Sandshrew. Larion also has a much more health than Sandshrew as well, but Sandshrew has a speed advantage.

Sandshrew knows that if this comes to another fist fight like the last battle, Sandshrew would quickly get overpowered. Before Sandshrew could come up with a strategy, the other Pokémon announced for them to begin the battle and Sandshrew barely dodges the stomping attempt from Larion.

Sandshrew rolls out of the way of several attacks from Larion. Sandshrew stops underneath Larion and notices that the armor on its belly is not as thick. When Larion first evolves it takes a long time for the armor on it’s torso to harden become nearly impenetrable from all physical attack.

Sandshrew flops on her back then kicks hard at the underside of Larion the attack wasn’t very strong but it caused Larion to falter ever so slightly. Larion blindly stops around trying to hit Sandshrew also kicking up a lot of sand. That was a mistake as Sandshrew’s sand-veil ability raises his evasive capabilities when there’s a lot of sand flying around in the air.

Sandshrew continues to easily dodge the stomps of Larion and even more sand gets kicked up. Sandshrew nails another light hit to Larion’s underside, the attack only provoked the larger Pokémon further. Larion stops stomping around and tries to bash into Sandshrew, but its lack of speed allowed Sandshrew to dodge very easily.

Sandshrew lands another light hit still trying to find just the right spot to do the most damage. The sand starts to settle some and Larion suddenly flops straight down on the ground. Sandshrew becomes pinned under the large Pokémon taking critical damage. Sandshrew digs her way out from underneath the large Pokémon and pants weakly.

Larion tries to get up but is stuck in the sand. He desperately tries to get up but fails. Sandshrew recovers enough and uses this change to land several hits on Larion. Each hit was strong and landed in the weakest part of Larion’s armor. After all of this both Pokémon are effectively at half of their maximum vigor.

Both are panting from the effort they extended thus far, each one trying to figure out how to turn the tables. Larion digs his way out of the sand and tries to slam into Sandshrew. The sand settled down enough and Larion lands a strong slam into Sandshrew. The hit causes the rock Pokémon to stagger backwards bringing it down to a fourth of its overall health.

Sandshrew pushes hard and strike a moderate hit on Larion, though tired already the Pokémon takes the hit and keeps on attacking. Larion lands a solid strike on Sandshrew and it becomes more noticeably weakened.

Sandshrew desperately attacks with all its might, she lands a solid hit bringing down Larion to about one third of its maximum health. Larion counts with a strong stomp almost knocking out Sandshrew but she barely hangs on for another attack. She nails a moderate hit but it wasn’t strong enough to make much of a difference. Larion finishes the battle with one last hit causing Sandshrew to faint.

Larion lumbers out of the arena while Miles and Vinzith drag Sandshrew out of the way while Dratini once again fixes the lines in the sand with his tail. Dratini then takes his place in the arena preparing for the fourth battle. Pidgetto flies over and lightly touches down inside of the arena also preparing for the next battle.

Both Pokémon have about the same speed over all. Even though Pidgetto is a higher evolution than Dratini, it still has lower health compared to the snake like Pokémon. Every other stat is very balanced between the two.

Pidgetto strikes first, landing a moderate peck against Dratini. Dratini coils up suddenly and slams back into the bird Pokémon for a strong hit. Pidgetto strikes back with his wings but only lands a weak hit, Dratini also nails a light hit at the same time with his tail as well.

Dratini follows through and suddenly wraps around Pidgetto. He squeezes tightly into the bird, causing massive damage until Pidgetto manages to dig his claws into Dratini effectively breaking out, though severely weakened.

Pidgetto uses the momentum he gained and lands a strong peck back into his attacker. Both pokemon are effectively weakened now and anyone could finish this. Dratini cracks his tail like a whip and stings the bird Pokémon for a solid hit, nearly knocking out his target.

Pidgetto staggers a bit and counterattacks with a quick scratch of his claw wounding the snake like Pokémon slightly. Dratini coils up again and Headbutts Pidgetto causing it to faint. Once again Hakuzo’s pokemon drags their team member out of the arena and Dratini though tired redraws the lines again.

Andrew’s team still has three members remaining which means that now team members have to battle Each other. Miles has his work cut out if he wants to win, he still has a chance to beat both of his opponents and allow his team to win.

Miles enters into the arena showing no fear at all. He still is confident he can make up where his team members were not able to make it. Eleckid enters into the arena but is a bit scared because Miles is much faster and stronger than himself. The only balanced part of this battle is each one has relatively the same amount of health overall.

Miles runs forwards and smacks Eleckid in the face with his tales before the Electric Pokémon could make a move. Eleckid growls and lands a strong punch against Miles causing him to retreat a bit and rethink a new strategy.

Miles runs around this time striking Eleckid from behind with a pounce like attack. The attack was strong causing Eleckid to camber forward, but luckily he kept his balance. Eleckid lands a solid kick at Miles in counterance. Miles jumps backwards and prepares to attack again.

Miles attempts to feint an attack to the side but Eleckid saw through it and blocked the real attack. The attack pushes Eleckid back into the sand a bit leaving a small rut in the ground. Eleckid breaks out of his guard and lands a medium punch against Miles.

Miles spins around and smacks Eleckid with his tail again hitting him with seven of his nine tails. Eleckid responds by grabbing onto the last two tails of Miles and slams him to the ground for critical damage.

Miles goes sliding a small distant out but still remains inside of the arena. He gets up and shakes the sand out of his fur. That last attack put Miles at the disadvantage wearing out his overall health under fifty percent, even though Eleckid is closer to the halfway mark. Miles rushes forward and slides onto Eleckid causing massive damage to the Pokémon. This attack takes Eleckid by surprise and he lands only a glancing blow on Miles as he springs back up preparing for his next attack.

Miles rushes by for a quick attack that only did average damage to Eleckid but enough to bring it own to one-fourth of its health. Eleckid responds with another average punch to Miles though not doing enough damage to equalize the field. Miles rushes by again but only lands a glancing blow. Eleckid uses this chance to land a strong hit against Miles bringing him close to fainting. The next hit from either Pokémon could end the battle.

Miles then attacks again but his attack wasn’t strong enough to knock out Eleckid. The Electric Pokémon then counters with another strong hit and Miles barely hangs on. He staggers a bit and desperately attacks Eleckid back. Taking all of his strength Miles slams hard into Eleckid making him faint. Miles pants and weakly exits the arena. Combuskin recovered enough during the battles and grabbed Eleckid out of the arena. Dratini redraws the lines in the sand once again and takes his place in the Arena.

His team member Larion stomps into the arena as well. This was a battle they hope didn’t have to happen. Andrew’s team was hoping that Hakuzo’s team would have to go through such a battle as this but in the end it had the opposite effect. Miles was able to overcome strong odds an was able to make it to the final bracket.

Now Larion and Dratini look at each other dreading to fight this battle, Though they know that the winner of this battle will have to face Miles and neither side will have time to recover from this battle before the final one.

Dratini uses his speed to his advantage he will attempt to end this quickly so that at least one of the two pokemon here will have enough strength to fight Miles. Dratini coils up and slams into Larion almost having enough power to cause the larger Pokémon to tip ever so slightly. Larion counters with a stomp to Dratini though only did light damage.

Dratini tries another strike only nailing a medium hit into Larion. Larion slams into Dratini after the hit, his weight causing the attack to do a lot. After feeling that hit Dratini changes his tactics again to try to finish this battle before he takes any more damage.

Dratini coils around Larion’s legs and causes the large Pokémon to fall to the ground hurting its self due to its large size. The gamble paid off and caused Larion to lose a lot of health from the singe attack. Larion staggers up after the attack and prepares to counter attack. He then lands better than average strike to the snake like Pokémon.

Dratini lands a light whip to Larion with his tail. Larion counters with another light hit, causing Dratini to worry. If a decisive move isn’t made right now, no one will have the strength to last long against the final round. Dratini coils around Larion once again this time causing him not only to fall, but fall out of the arena as well. It causes the battle to end and Dratini to remain with close to one-third his health.

This time Vinzith draws the lines with one of his vines to give Dratini a bit of time to recover. Miles slowly enters the battle field having not even recovered half his health. Both Dratini and Miles have about equal health remaining and each one knows this will be hard battle. Each Pokémon is already worn out and it comes down to pure luck at this point.

Miles slowly circles around Dratini his movements seeming much slower than they were. Both Pokémon are too worn out to think much about strategy and soon the Miles strikes almost lazily at Dratini. The hit was light due to the fatigue already accumulated from all the other battle. Dratini’s own counter attack was very weak as if he had no strength left to strike with.

Miles attacks Dratini’s side and lads a stronger hit before causing the snake like Pokémon to become even more tired. Dratini smacks Miles with his tail in return with more determination landing a decent hit.

Miles next his wears down Dratini further the Pokémon getting closer to passing out from exhaustion. Since Dratini’s strength is failing the next hit was light barely being noticeable to Miles.

Miles slams into Dratini with a full body slam almost knocking the poor Pokémon out. Dratini coils up suddenly in one desperate attempt and flies head first into Miles. The hit did a critical amount of damage but Miles was able to hang on from the attack. Both pokemon are seriously worn out now as the pant heavily. Miles delivered a final blow at Dratini and the Pokémon passes out from the effort.

Andrew’s team somberly picks up Dratini and places him aside to rest. Hakuzo’s team cheers and congratulates Miles as he slumps down to sand, resting. A gentle breeze blows along the beach giving a cooling relief to the tired Pokémon.

The rest was short lived as a sudden sound like thunder echoes though the beach, followed by a thunk of something heavy hitting into the water nearby. Miles looks up suddenly at the sound. He notices a Lapris swimming rapidly near the beach as a pirate boat trails behind firing its cannons at the Pokémon.

Hakuzo, Andrew and many others on the beach come rushing up to see what all the noise was about. Everyone watches as the ship continues to fire on the Pokémon each hit slowly inching closer and closer to the defenseless Pokémon.

Everyone’s Pokémon rush up to the beach as well to watch the commotion. Each one still tired from their battle tournament, and they know now they have to help this Lapris. As predicted Andrew ordered Dratini to swim after the boat and try to stop the cannon fire. Hakuzo also orders Pidgetto to attack from the air and harass the pirates.

The tired Pokémon did as they were told, soon catching up to the boat. The familiar sight of Mole, Ana and Rax greeted them. Pidgetto flies by and pecks at the heads to the three corrupt trainers.

Rax grows swatting at the agile Pokémon but Pidgetto easily dodges the attacks. Rax swings the cannon around and starts aiming it at Pidgetto. The resulting boom rocks the boat with its thunderous sound as a modified Pokéball flies out of the cannon. Pidgetto avoids the ball and dive-bombs Rax with another fierce peck.

Dratini caught up with the boat and snaked his way up to where Mole was piloting the ship. The snake like pokemon slowly curls his tail around Mole’s leg then suddenly constricts it knocking Mole off balance. As Mole falls he attempts to grab the wheel for balance but he gives it a hard spin causing the boat to turn sharply and knock Ana and Rax off balance as well.

The Lapris stops in the water as it realizes that the sound of the cannons stopped. It looks over its shoulder and watches as the ship volleys to the side sharply. The Lapris swings around and swims like a torpedo at the ship. It makes it’s body more streamline and slams into the side of the ship.

The ship rocks to its side dangerously close to tipping but regains buoyancy and right’s itself. The three man crew gets tossed around like a pinball, and fight to stay on the boat. Pidgetto simply keeps flight safely above the ship and Dratini coils around the wheel keeping the boat spinning in circles.

Another thud from the Lapris causes the ship to list again and tip dangerously close to its side. Dratini give the wheel a sharp spin and the boat starts to capsize. Dratini lets go of the wheel and lands in the water as the boat tips. Ana, Rax and Mole are sent into the drink, cursing and yelling.

Lapris slams into the boat one final time and it splinters into a thousand splinters. The impact causes the pirate ship to sin to the bottom of the ocean. Dratini swims over to the Lapris along with Pidgetto flying in tow.

Lapris appears to collapse from exhausting but still remains afloat. Dratini reacts quickly and starts pulling the Pokémon towards the shore. By this time a large crowd has formed on the beach front including the local police force.

A police boat is sent to retrieve the criminals that stole the boat and it sails out to their location but when it arrives, the trio of criminals seemingly disappeared. The patrol boat radios in and reports this. Stating the only thing that was left was a jolly roger with a giant red R on it, remained behind floating in the water.

The police force tries to keep the mass populous back as the commanding officer takes assessment of the situation. Hakuzo and Andrew tell the officer that Dratini and Pidgetto are their Pokémon and the two are let forward to retrieve them.

“This Lapris needs immediate medical attention. I’ll escort you two to the Pokémon center while I gather your statements.” The commanding officer says as he leads them with a police escort to the Pokécenter.

Lapris is loaded into a special truck that has a lift designed to carry water based pokemon. The trip to the center was filled with questions about what happened and who the criminals were. Hakuzo and Andrew explained that they are three jokers they ran into before that claim to be part of some unknown organization.

“I see. These three, Mole, Ana, and Rax caused a bit of a stur.” The officer radios in to see if any other reports have been filed and a few minutes later a long list of occurrences involving similar reported criminals are listed off. The commanding officer nods, “This is very bad in deed. These clowns have been causing havoc all over and they need to be stopped. It’s not safe for Pokémon trainers like yourselves to get involved. You have to avoid them at all costs.”

The trainers and officers made it to the Pokécenter and were directed to go straight to Emergency entrance. The Lapris was taken into the Pokécenter operation rooms and the officer continuing to question Hakuzo and Andrew about what then knew about this organization.

After an hour of wait the Lapris was brought back out and given a clean bill of health. The officer nods and the Lapris is loaded back onto the truck. “Lapris will now be returned back into the wild.” The officer was about to give the commands to return Lapris back to the ocean but Hakuzo stopped him.

“I was wondering if…, the Lapris could come along with us? This is a strong Pokémon and we could use its strength if we run into those three jokers again.” Hakuzo asks while looking at the Lapris.

The officer ponders a moment and nod. “You two seem like very responsible trainers. I’ll tell you what; if the Lapris wants to go with you then I don’t see a problem.”

Hakuzo nods and walks over to the Lapris, and kneels down beside it. “How about it Lapris, do you want to join us on our adventure and help us reach the Pokémon League?” Hakuzo ask the Water type Pokémon.

The Lapris thinks deeply about these two trainers coming to its aid. Lapris got a good look at the ones that attacked it, and from its understanding there’s a high chance these two trainers will run into those troublemakers again. Lapris likes the idea of being able to pay those three back at what happened. The Lapris gives a slight nod and says its name.

Andrew places his hand on Hakuzo’s shoulder, “But, who will train Lapris? “

Hakuzo looks up and thinks for a moment. “Maybe we could let the Lapris choose?”

“How could we do that?” Andrew asks but before he could finish Miles emerges from his Pokéball.

“Simple, I can ask it.” Miles states into Andrew’s and Hakuzo’s mind. He walks over to Lapris and starts communicating with the Lapris through telepathically. After the conversation Miles nods and turns to Hakuzo. “The Lapris wants to go with you Hakuzo. It feels you are the right trainer for it.” Miles paws back over to Hakuzo and sits down. Hakuzo looks at the Lapris and it nods. Hakuzo removes an empty Pokéball from his belt and lightly tosses it at the Lapris. The ball hits the Pokémon and opens up. After being drawn in the ball closes and the light on the ball immediately turns off. Lapris is now part of Hakuzo’s team.

The officer nods and orders his men to return back to duty. With that the two trainers are decide it’s time to head to Celadon City. They cut back through Saffron City and head along the road to the large shopping town.

The road to Celadon city was oddly empty for such a well-visited city. The walk was rather quiet and boring. The two trainers were wishing for some kind of excitement to unfold but nothing was to be found.

As they near the signposts that announce the entrance of Celadon city, a group of Pokémon trainers dressed in Forest green block the path into the city. As the two trainers drew nearer, they realize they are Pokémon Rangers, the most elite among trainers. These specialized trained Pokémon trainers are sent out to take care of special missions involving the general safety and welfare of all Pokémon.

Hakuzo and Andrew carefully approach. Once they were in range one of the Rangers calls out to them. “You two must be Pokémon Trainers. We must verify you are registered Trainers to be allowed inside the city. There’s been an outbreak of ‘fake’ trainers sneaking into town and stealing people’s pokemon. Please present your Pokédexes for verification.” The two trainers comply and their Pokédexes are checked over. The Ranger nods, “You two check out, Enjoy your stay in the city and report any stolen Pokémon or suspicious activity right away.”

The city was packed with people shopping and visiting one of the many casinos in the town. Trainers and others alike filled the noisy streets as the sun starts to set. The neon lights of the city blazing brightly in the dimming light.

The two trainers woke look around for Erika’s Gym but in the large city they soon become lost in the swirl of neon lights. As it gets darker they realize they need to find a Pokécenter for the night.

They continue to search around until another trainer comes up to them. He seemed like he was also looking for a Pokécenter as well. The stranger gets close to Andrew then suddenly grabs one of the Pokéballs off of his belt and takes off running.

“HEY, GET BACK HERE WITH MY DRATINI!” Andrew yells out as the two give chase.

Narrator: Andrew has lost his beloved Dratini to a fake trainer. What will this chase hold for the two young Pokémon Trainers? Keep tuned in for the next episode.<<<