60 Chapter 57 potential rival

Sidney P.O.V

As I was thinking of yestersday, at first I was happy seeing Lucy again after a year and was hopeing on seeing her more when I remembered that Steven told me about his good freind. At first I thought it was just another rich kid from he knew from his fathers circles and that made me a little angry as I had to work for my position as my father gave me no help making me catch my first Pokemon in the mountains by my self even though he is a gym leader at the time before he retired from sinnoh. When I said something I see I made a mistake as everyone defended him but I couldn't take it when they said he was that much better then me the dark genius, as events followed causing me to leave early. When I got back to my hotel and did a little research of his hoenn records that was all I could find officially and it makes a little angry on his similarity in our specialties only he isn't limited as I am in regional Pokémon making me think I should add my buddy that's not on my main team. As his match begins I see him look in my direction and release his Pokémon and it gets me a little angry as he calls out my first partner to make a point at me. As I watch him demolish his first opponent Pokémon making me see he trained his Pokémon for different conditions similar to mine as they look to be close in strength when I hear a knock at the door. As it opens up and reveals Steven

Steven "You know your the closest to me on the elite 4 right, while let me tell you this. That Absol of his he has had less then 2 months and look at it's strength, he has trained it really well as you can tell I am guessing that he has at least doubled his battling capabilities. Kash is a trainer who focuses his Pokémon to follow what he thinks is best causing him to have many different battling styles. I will tell you this his Absol at this point is not even close to his strongest Pokémon the one by his side"

Sidney "That can't be, as I know his Houndoom looks even stronger then any normal one. I was wondering about his strength, if you had to battle him honesty whats the odds of you winning" as Steven is pondering over it

Steven "I honestly think it's 50/50 due to the fact of his type advantage at the moment, in 4 to 5 years he can be stronger then me if nothing changes on my team, but he gave me reason to think why limit my self to regions. I love steel types making it hard sometimes but due to that fact it is somtimes limiting." as I agree to that after learning over the past year of being an elite 4 that many in our position are limiting them selves making it harder to break the champion level or even higher as those very few monsters" as we look at each other in agreement as we look back down and see Kash still with Absol but alot more tired and them getting ready to change the field.

Kash P.O.V

As I proved my point with Absol as I want him to now rest after battling an Volbeat and Dodrio as the field changes to grass field. As I call out Slash who is finaly used to his new form of Shiftry awaiting his first battle since evolving as my opponent calls out an Wigglytuff happy with a little advantage. As she starts the battle as I predicted with sing as I call for sunny day to hopefully take affect before he falls asleep, as it works Wigglytuff starts to use brick break on my sleeping Slash after a few attacks he wakes up causing her to be surprised as I then call for him to use toxic then double team letting that move take affect to deal with his opponent high health. Shiftry jsut has to keeping dodging when she tries to keep using teleport trying to catch him but due to his amazing speed coupled with his other ability makes him almost impossible to catch as it goes on. I then see that my oppoent only has physical moves besides sing as he tries to heal the poison with rest as I call for him to interupt him with fake out. Then to knock him out x-scissor when he is in range

Referee "Wigglytuff is unable to continue, Kash at 6 and Pinky has 2 Pokemon left."

Shiftry is still pretty much fine as he only took a few hits, when my opponent calls out a Flygon and starts the battle with dragon dance to increase his strengths when I call out Solarbeam that has the speed increase thanks the diminishing sunny weather as he unleashes the attacks when my opponent tries to dodge causing only the attack to only graze still doing some great damage. As she calls for dragon rush I decide to test the water with leaf blade as they collide my oppoent comes out a little on top much to her surprise as I am guessing she thought with the powered up move she was going to crush him. As I call for Slash to use double team to increase his ability to dodge, as my oppoent tries to use dragon tail to deal with his speed as he keeps taking damage from leaf blade as they are attack each other and causing them to each connect a few times. As both Pokemon are starting to get hurt and tired from the confrontation as she smiles when calling for roost but as I call for giga drain getting rid of all the energy he just regained as he heals him self. As Flygon is tired and hurt the Pinky decides to retire him from the battle

Referee " Flygon has been retired by his trainer, resulting in Pinky only having 1 Pokemon left"

As I applaud her for thinking of the condition of her Pokemon first insead of winning so does the crowd. As she calls out her final Pokemon to my surprise was a Houndoom, getting a look pf interest from Cinder beside me. I see Slash excited to face one again as he lost quite badly as a Nuzleaf from Cinder before I had caught him. Knowing he is well prepared for this match I have him continue getting some curious stares. As she starts the battle with work up a smart move as I have Slash use double team again as she calls for heat wave sending it in all directions to counter it and deal damage. I hastily call for substitute to save him from being knocked out. With some damage taken I call for low sleep following his strategy as he closes in she calls for counter hiting Slash hard and sending him flying. As I tell him to calm down and be smart he doesnt listen to me and firs off a focus blast mid air sending himself off course and getting knocked out after hitting the wall of the stadium. As I promise to fix his attitude after he is healed when the referee annouces

Referee " Shiftry is unable to contiue, Kash is at 5 Pokemon and Pinky at 1"