Pokémon: Divine Acension (Started But Still Accepting)

Miguel

We were mere feet from the exit when the roof began to collapse. Harvey took a solid hit from a fist sized boulder, right to the skull. He staggered out of sight through the exit. Unfortunately for me, the way out had been partially blocked. I turned as Shlesh re-appeared next to me from a burrow. I pulled out Derek's Pokeball as I observed the situation.

Photo was hammering anything on the ground with Razor-Leaf, but he couldn't do much against the numerous Golbat and Zubat that were swarming him.

"Derek, take out those Zubat with Ice-Beam! Shlesh, get to work clearing this debris."

I continued giving instruction where necessary, pointing out high-priority targets. However, there were simply too many Pokemon to be able to defeat them all. I was just creating time to enact a tactical withdrawal.

Shlesh had just cleared the exit at the same time I re-called Derek. I shouted up at Photo, "C'mon, lets get out of here!"

Shlesh dived into the ground, digging his way out. I turned for the exit, Derek swooping above me to Body-Slam a Sandshrew. I winced. Glad Shlesh didn't see that.

Just as I was about to reach the end of the cave, a tall guy rode in on a Typhlosion. He shouted, " "Look out guys, I'm here to help. Run to the cave exit. Flames, run to the ceiling of the cave and use Rock Slide then we're out of here."

I finally emerged into sunlight not believing what I had just witnessed. Help? I had the situation under control, never mind being about a foot from the exit. How's his Typhlosion going to get to the ceiling?

A jolt ran through me at the same time as a deep rumble from inside, but as I turned to re-enter Long Caverns the guy re-appeared, laughing.

"Well Flames, we are going to get in so much trouble for that!"

I stormed up to him, jabbing a finger in his face. "Yeah, you will. Do you have any idea how stupid that was? Not only have you now blocked the only way from Pollenville to Biotine City, but you could have killed or at least severely wounded a whole lot of Pokemon! Did you even think before charging in like that? Did it even occur to you to check what was happening, let alone take stock of the severity of the situation, before venting your gung-ho attitude?"

Rant over, I glared at the kid, Harvey just beginning to stir behind me.

Harvey

Unconsciousness was fading out of me, and I awoke to she two faces peering over. "What... what happened?" I stuttered, as I rubbed my head to speed up the evacuation of unsteadiness and pain.

"Never mind," Miguel retorted, a slightly miffed tone coming from his words.

I looked over to the face that did not belong to Miguel, it was Daniel, another guy who had decided to join my quest to find the legendary Pokémon reported in Rohka. He looked a bit... embarrassed, I wasn't exactly sure why though. "Ow, my head... uh. How far we from Biotine City? I'm hungry."

Daniel looked across, "It's just around the corner, we'll be there in a few..."
He was interrupted by a group of three trainers that had barged into us. “Hey, you punks!” one of them yelled, clearly interested in battling. “How ‘bout you take us on? Three on three?” he growled, his lime green fringe stroking across his left eye.

“We’re not afraid of you!” I reacted, loudly, regardless of the damage I had just taken. I looked behind to the other two, but I wasn’t going to just pass a golden opportunity to demonstrate my battling skills. “You’re on!”

“You’re going to wish you didn’t accept, kid,” the trainer laughed, as a tall blond girl stepped beside him, tossing her pokeball up and down as if she was all business. I decided to play Shade, mainly for the point that Biotine was infamous of its poison trainers, and I had trained her for just such battles.
I smiled with arrogance, and then hurled her into battle. “Go Shade!” I shouted, and the ghostly form of a Haunter appeared, hovering a few feet above the fresh, emerald green grass.
The two other trainers had thrown out a Toxicroak and a Wartortle, I had guessed the would attempt to cover each other’s weaknesses. Miguel stepped up next to me, fiddling around with another ball, before tossing it into the feud.

Miguel

Toxicroak. Poison/Fighting. Can't use Tropius. Can't use Shlesh.
Wartortle. Water. Definitely can't use Shlesh. Need to be Derek.

"Go, Derek!"
"Derek? That's a stupid name," laughed one of the trainers.
"You've got a stupid name," I quipped back.
"You don't even know my name."
That's true. "What's your name then?"
"Harvey."
I glanced across at my Harvey, who looked mildly amused and slightly disbelieving.
"That's a stupid name," I repeated, earning a smack from Harvey that was totally deserved.
The new guy jumped in before the situation could escalate.
"Alright, now I'm going to choose a Pokemon!"
I groaned inwardly. His enthusiasm was really going to start wearing on my nerves soon. I just hoped he'd pick something that could take out Toxicroak.

Daniel Adams

A Wartortle and a Toxicroak, Alsing could easily deal with the Toxicroak. "Go Noctus the foes Toxicroak is weak." The Toxicroaks trainer looked at me dumbfounded.

"What's that supposed to mean?" He said in a shocked and hurt tone.

I looked at him with a deadpan face, this was a battle no more joking. "Your Toxicroak has a quadruple weakness to my Alsing's psychic seeing as Toxicroak is fighting and poison."

Miguel and Harvey both looked at me shocked. They said simultaneously, "Awesome Pokemon choice dude."

"I may joke around and be a goofball outside of a Pokemon Battle, but right now is serious time." I turned to the last Pokemon trainer on their side well your turn ma'am."

Harvey

Indeed, this was an awesome choice, psychic versus a fighting and poison, but the fact he had alerted the trainer to this point was not at all awesome. Worst of all, the female trainer had a devilish smile on her lips, as if Daniel had tripped up big time. "Sapphire, use crunch!"

The Wartortle beared its teeth and lunged. "Shade, take the hit!" I commanded, and the Haunter did so. She was hurt, but not knocked out, luckily. I turned over to Miguel, and he'd already ordered his Lapras to use to use magnitude, which was clever, considering Xatu was a flying type, and Haunter had the 'levitate' ability. The Wartortle and the Toxicroak had taken moderate damage, but both still stood.

Before Daniel could announce his attack, the Toxicroak retaliated to Derek with brick break, all of which the huge Pokémon took. He wobbled for a second, and both Miguel and I were afraid he might faint, but he held his ground. Daniel was oblivious to this, and had already told Noctus to counter the attack with psychic, which, quite predictably, had knocked the guy's Pokémon clean out.

The third guy had been observing the whole situation and had decided to play a Jolteon. Clever. I awaited his move with baited breath.

I hadn't reckoned on the Toxicroak knowing a move as powerful as Brick Break.
Stupid, prepare for all eventualities.
And now there was a Jolteon in the mix, I knew Derek was doomed. It didn't help that the new guy had announced his plan to the other team.
I'm going to have to have another word with him if we win. You never let your enemy know your intentions. Unless...
Wartortle and Jolteon both took a shot at Cacturne, with Water Pulse and Pin Missile respectively.
"Derek, take the Water Pulse!"
Lapras jumped into flow of water, absorbing it in the process. He came out of it looking refreshed. Unfortunately, Noctus didn't look too happy at receiving a bug move, what with its quadruple weakness. Thankfully it's not a very powerful move, so it wasn't too dangerous.
"Shade, Confuse Ray!" Wartortle was hit, effectively taking it out of the battle.
"Alright Noctus, slam it with a Needle Arm!" Wartortle now was out of the battle. That just left Jolteon, who's trainer looked nervous.
"I think for your Pokemon's sake you should cede this match", I called.