Chapter 255 - 42 Alex vs Julius

In the VIP room,

Bill said," Finally. I was thinking when his match would begin. Say dratini, electabuzz do you know which pokemon he is going to send out to battle in this match."

Dratini shook.her head while looking forward to his master's battle. Electabuzz just plain ignored Bill.

" Sir, wasn't the last round both entertaining and destructive? " Bark asked his young Boss.

" This level of damage is something more than ten pokemons under Alex can cause without any effort. So do you think I will care about these small things. " He looks at his employees blankly and said," Look at this match carefully for you will see why he is someone who is to be feared."

In the battlefield,

The commentators Marian and Stain started to introduce the two participants in this stage.

Marian started with Alex," Let's start with the youngest Trainer in our tournament, who is also the biggest dark horse of this tournament.

Let's welcome Alex Bart from Floral town. He is the only Kanto trainer who managed to reach top four. And, above all set he is just 12 years old.

We have a powerful trainer in front of us who will become a force to be reckoned with in the future."

"Next we have another trainer from Almia who is called the epitome of Grace by most and is loved by many audience especially women. Let me introduce to you, Julius Ark."

The two trainer stood opposite to each other.

While Alex has a confident look Julius is just as unconfident about this match prospects.

The referee instructed,"This match is a three on three pokemon battle with substitutions allowed. The winner of this match will advance to the semifinals tomorrow.

Please send out your Pokemon.

" Come out, Raichu."Julius sent out the evolved form of Pikachu.

Alex, on the other hand, sent out," Piloswine, battle stance. "

And the make an evolved form of swinub showed his appearance in front of everyone.

Julius just thought to himself on experiencing this cold wave,' This is the power of a true ice type he told me about. This is what he meant when he told me he would crush me.'

In the waiting room,

" This Piloswine is much stronger than yours, Elsa " Rosy said to her opponent.

Elsa's powers are related to Ice and snow so she knows how powerful that piloswine is much better than anyone in this battlefield except Alex.

"This battle, Julius doesn't stand a chance." She mutters softly but everyone could hear it.

While Elsa regards the entire match, the others felt she meant the current round so they didn't oppose her.

Marian said," This Piloswine is really strong. He reduced the temperature of the room by ten-degree just after his release without any attack. It seems we may have underestimated young Alex. "

Meanwhile, stain remains quiet for he felt something dangerous from Alex which he felt from trainers who were much stronger than him.

This confused him, so he chose to keep quiet about it.

The referee has instructed them to start the battle," Let the battle begin."

Alex gave only one order to his Pokemon," Piloswine, complete annihilation."

Piloswine showed no sign of hearing this, but the frozen floor is all one needs to see that he heard him.

Julius orders," Iron tail" for electric type moves won't work and only this move have some semblance of working on this Pokemon.

Just as Raichu appeared close to Piloswine, Alex said," Ice fang, take down then end this with the earthquake."

The two small tusks of piloswine hit Raichu and the overwhelming cold energy of his froze the body of Raichu into ice.

After that piloswine smashed him with a strong take down making him crash into a tree and bringing it down.

Raichu's painful m_o_a_n echoes but Piloswine isn't giving him the chance for he sent a devastating earthquake that even shook the cruise ship slightly.

In the end, the large electric mouse couldnt endure these attacks and faints.

Commentator,

Stain said," Piloswine completely destroyed Raichu without giving him any chance of fighting back.

He has completely dominated the battle from the very start. Let's see if Julius can recover from this loss and win a battle to tie with his foe. "

" But I have to say it is pretty brutal. There was no grace or Elegance in his way of fighting as compared to how Julius fights." Marian said while not appreciating the brutal take down as her profession as a coordinator doesn't appreciate such brutality.

And Stain doesn't like this remark of hers and retorts," This is a Pokemon battle, not a Pokemon contest. There isn't much need to Elegance if the opponent is down. "

Marian didn't say anything back but she doesn't like this.

With the audience,

" Hey do you think Julius underestimated Alex because be is a kid?"

" It might be the case, or how can he take down that Raichu so easily if not for his carelessness.

I am sure he will get back in the next match."

With Elsa and group,

" I guess I know why he said Julius cannot beat him." Elesa muttered with Skyla nodding her head with her.

" Elsa, you should know Julius well. Does he have any pokemon strong enough to beat that piloswine?" Aurea asked Elesa for she is closer in relation to Julius than Alex so she wishes for Julius's victory.

Secondly, after the destruction of Unova in the hands of Samuel who is from Kanto, Unova people don't have any good feeling for Kanto.

So she just doesn't want to see Alex win.

" He has only two pokemons stronger than Raichu. But the difference in strength isn't much. Above all, Alex's Piloswine is at least an advanced level pokemon while all the pokemons of Julius are only in the intermediate stage.

I don't think he has much chance until some miracle happens and Piloswine is gravely injured."Elsa said while feeling sorry for angering Alex.

She felt because of her Alex is humiliating Julius like that.

In the battlefield,

Julius withdraw Raichu without showing any expression on his face, and then sent out," Go Ferrothorn"

A Pokemon resembling a flattened durian appeared in front of them.

Its metallic body is covered in thorns, with three black stripes circling its width, the middle stripe having triangular decorations below the eyes of Ferrothorn.

Its eyes have green rims, yellow scleras, and dark pupils. There is a green spike at the top of its body, and extending around it are vine-like, long green appendages tipped with spiky metal disks. 

On seeing this pokemon, Alex mutters to himself," This could have been troublesome if not for that trick I taught you Piloswine."

His words were caught by Piloswine and although he doesn't understand what he means by those words, he knows that his trainer wants him to be careful.

After seeing this pokemon from Unova, most don't know this Pokemon so Commentator did the job of introducing it.

Stain introduced," This Pokemon is a grass ground type pokemons of Unova region.

(NOTE-- Now the steel type moves and Pokemons are considered as rock type pokemons and moves for their similar semblance and weakness except for fire and water type switched).

It seems that Julius is using a Pokemon which can at least tolerate the extreme cold of Piloswine."

Back to the battlefield,

The referee instructed," Let the battle begin."

" Ferrothorn rollout." Julius orders.

Ferrothorn turns himself into a ball shape and rolls towards Piloswine at fast speed.

But Piloswine wasn't affected by the rolling Pokemon.

" Use ice fang" Alex retorts.

Piloswine hadn't moved a step and readies his tusk for the incoming ball.

When the two collided the shockwave destroyed every rock around them and Piloswine has thrown him in the air.

This made Ferrothorn give up his round form and he orders," Power whip"

The strips around it's body swept towards Piloswine. Piloswine is pushed a couple of steps back from the attack.

Piloswine grabs his strip under his foot and frost seems to grow on it.

" Piloswine Ice beam and end it with take down."

A beam of ice collides with Ferrothorn freezing him. The entire body of Ferrothorn is frozen.

Piloswine rushed for the frozen body and suddenly Julius orders when Piloswine is just a few steps away, "Explosion"

A loud explosion rocked the battlefield and everyone thinks that Julius has finally managed to beat the ice ground type Pokemon.