Pokémon ABC - Episode 8

Episode 8: Moonshadow, and the Ocean Gym II

By 'Whisper Shadowhunter'/ Kitty Ocean
© Nintendo (their characters) and Kitty Ocean (my characters)

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"Well, it was about time you found out!" Chris replied annoyed.

Gary was astounded. In the other cases Chris was shocked when he revealed a secret from her, but now she was angry.

"What took you so long?" She asked. "All the others already found it out in the maze."

"Why did you lied?" He asked angry. "I'm your nephew!"

"What part of 'hidden gym' don't you get? I couldn't tell you about it. I wished I could, but it's a secret gym! If I told it you from the beginning I would give you privileges. I can't do that, which is unfair against other trainers."

Gary nodded his head. He was angry, but he understood it. "And what about Aemilia? And that unidentified Pokémon?"

"In time… in time."

"In that case I'm challenging you!"

"I thought you never asked…."

Chris leaped back and pushed a button. A dome closed above Gary. An equal dome closed above Chris.

"What's this?" He asked.

"We'll have a 3 on 3 match." She pushed another button. A desk came out. "Place your Poké Balls at the desk."

Gary did what his niece ordered him and he saw she was putting 2 Poké Balls at her desk. 2, he thought, didn't she say it was 3 on 3 match? She flipped a switch and the dome began to rise. After a while, they were placed outside the Gym.

"Welcome at the battlefield." She said proudly.

Gary looked around him. "The ocean is the battlefield?" He asked astounded.

"Yeah, why did you think I called it the Ocean gym?" Chris took one of her Poké Balls. She gave it a kiss and placed it back. "This brings back memories ya know?" She pushed the Poké Ball trough a tube. "Make me proud Poliwrath!"

Gary did the same, releasing his Seadra. "Go Seadra!"

Nephew and niece looked determent at each other. None of them planned to lose this mach. Everybody could feel the tension there was. Gary looked at his niece. He remembered how good she was, but he smiled.

"I knew you were hiding something, so I hid something for you too! I trained them more often than you know! I'm going to win this!

"I sincerely hope you can prove that. Or do you need your fans?"

Gary looked angry at his niece. She was deliberately making me angry, he thought, so I won't go easy with her. But I won't.

"Seadra! Do a Hydro Pump!"

Chris shook her head. "Gary, we are underwater. What is the use of that attack? It will only cause some floating here, not more."

Gary felt he became red. But he thought again. "All right Seadra, attack him with your Bubble attack!"

"Now that's more like it!" Chris said. "Poliwrath, avoid his attack!"

Poliwrath dodged away. The Seadra tried it again, but it failed again. Gary looked at his Pokémon. It seemed the Seadra was too weak for him. No, Gary thought, I'm not going to lose this! I'll show her how good I am!

"Poliwrath, tackle his Seadra!"

The Poliwrath attacked so fast; the Seadra couldn't dodge away. With great impact, it slapped against a rock.

"Seadra, get up!" Gary yelled, pushing himself against the glass wall, hoping his Seadra could hear him better that way.

The Seadra heard his trainer's voice, which gave him hope and strength. It lifted its little head and used his bubble attack. The Poliwrath didn't expect this and was blown away by the force of the bubbles.

"Yes!" Gary yelled. "Go Seadra!"

"Nice move." Chris said. "But it isn't over yet! Poliwrath, double slap!"

The Pokémon reacted instantly and tried to do his attack. But the Seadra was fully recovered and dodged away. It looked as determent as his trainer.

While Poliwrath tried to tackle the Seadra again, the Seadra kept dodging away. His Seadra is fast, Chris thought. The Seadra turned suddenly and dove with great speed to the Poliwrath, using his spikes to hurt his opponent. The first and second time Poliwrath could avoid it, but the third time it didn't.

The Poliwrath banged against the reef, accidentally breaking some of it. The spikes of the Seadra had hurt him, but the strong, poison and sharp edges of the coral hurt him more.

"Stop!" Gary suddenly shouted. "He is injured by the reef!"

"That's allowed. " Chris said to his surprise. "It's part of the battlefield. But don't worry, Poliwrath is strong enough to defeat your Seadra!"

Is that so, Gary thought. He looked at the Pokémon of his niece and it seemed okay. He looked at his Seadra too, seeing it was getting tired. Just a few more spiky attacks, Gary thought, and I won.

"Seadra, use your bubble to distract him!"

The Seadra obeyed his trainer and used his bubble. The Poliwrath was indeed distracted, but Chris reacted instantly.

"Poliwrath, Amnesia!"

The little Pokémon reacted and made the Seadra forget his bubble attack.

"Smart." Gary said. "But not enough. Seadra, tackle him again and use your spikes!"

The Seadra reacted again and swam with great speed to the Poliwrath. The Poliwrath dodged away, but the Seadra turned very quickly and tackled him after all. The Poliwrath slammed against the glass wall of the gym. It fell to the bottom of the ocean, and didn't stand up again….

"Haha!" Gary laughed. "I've beaten you!"

Chris returned her Poliwrath and just smiled. "It's 3 on 3, remember? It isn't over yet!"

She pushed her other Poké Ball trough the hole. Gary looked nervous, what Pokémon would appear?

"Wartortle!"

Gary swallowed. He remembered how the Wartortle's bite attack defeated Shana's Geodude. But that was a rock type, this was water against water. He wondered who was better. The Wartortle, or his Seadra.

"Wartortle, use your tackle!"

"Seadra, dodge away and attack with your spikes!"

The Wartortle attacked, but the Seadra could dodge away. It didn't seem a bit tired anymore. The Seadra turned and attacked the Wartortle with his spikes. But the Wartortle crawled into his shell and the sharp spikes of Seadra didn't hurt Chris' Wartortle.

Gary looked at the battle with nervous eyes. The last time he was nervous at a mach was when he tried to win his Earth Badge, which he didn't succeed in doing that.

"Seadra, bubble!"

The Seadra used the bubble attack again, but the Wartortle stayed in his shell. The bubbles moved the shell, even slammed it against the walls, but it still didn't hurt the Wartortle.

"All right Wartortle." Chris started. "Now do your skull bash!"

The Wartortle revealed himself again and bashed against the Seadra. The Seadra slammed against the walls. Seadra, hold on, Gary thought, seeing his Seadra was getting seriously hurt.

The Seadra saw the Wartortle tried to do a skull bash again, so it dodged away. Though he was weakened, it was still fast enough to keep the Wartortle one step ahead. It tried to do a tackle.

"No Seadra, no tackle!" Gary yelled. "Use our secret spike-attack!"

Chris wondered what attack that might be. She didn't recall an attack what was called like that. He must have made it up himself, she thought.

The Seadra stood still, watching how the Wartortle came by. At the last moment, it used the Wartortle's attack against him. This was the moment Seadra could hurt Wartortle using his spikes.

"Yeah Seadra! Way to go!"

The Wartortle looked annoyed to the scratches the Seadra gave him.

"Wartortle, Wartortle!" He yelled at Chris.

"If you think you'll win by doing that, than do it…." Chris said proudly. "Go for it!"

Gary looked at Chris. He didn't know what attack the Wartortle might do.

"Seadra, what ever he is doing, do your same attack!"

The Seadra nodded. The Wartortle swam again with great speed to the tiny creature. The Seadra was ready to attack again. But suddenly, the Wartortle crawled in his shell again and banged with great impact against the Seadra, knocking it unconscious.

"It can't be…" Gary whispered. He returned his Pokémon and released another ball. "Go Krabby!"
The Krabby looked upon the Wartortle.

"Wartortle, bubble!"

The Wartortle attacked with his bubble attack, but one of the scissors of Krabby protected him from getting hit.

"Great defence Gary." Chris complimented. "You are giving me a hard time."

"You are doing a great job too." Gary answered. "Krabby, Crab Hammer!"

The Krabby hurried to the Wartortle and knocked it over with his scissors. But it didn't affect the Wartortle. It landed a few meters from the Krabby.

"War, war!"

"You are sure?" Chris asked.

"Wartortle, war!"

"If you want that." She sighed. "Do you best Wartortle. You never disappointed me from the day I got you from Grandpa. And you never will!"

The Wartortle swam up until it was out of the reach of the Krabby. Though Gary's Pokémon tried to hit the Wartortle, it didn't hit it. But Wartortle wasn't only dodging away; he used he bubble frequently. Most of the times, the Krabby could avoid the bubbles, though it cost him lots of strength.

"Krabby, end it with a tackle!"

The Krabby tried to tackle it, but instead of hitting it, it bashed himself against the wall. That was the signal of Wartortle to react. He used his bite attack, but that didn't affect the dizzy Pokémon.

"Go Wartortle!" Chris yelled. "I know you can do it!"

The Krabby tried to get on his feet again, and after a few seconds it was standing again, at his trembling legs.

"Come on Krabby!" Gary encouraged his Pokémon.

But the Wartortle used his skull bash and the fight with Krabby was over….

"No, no, no!" Gary yelled and beat his fist at the desk. He returned Krabby.

"Relax!" Chris yelled. "There is no need to break it all you know! You have 1 Pokémon left so the fight isn't over yet!"

Gary took his last Poké Ball.
"Here is my strongest water Pokémon." He revealed. "Go Blastoise!"

"Blastoise!"

"Wartortle War!"

Everybody became silent. This was a fight where Wartortle would get a hard time winning. A fight against evolved forms is usually already lost at the beginning.

"Do you still want to do it yourself?" Chris asked concerned. Her Pokémon nodded. "Please, be careful." She whispered.

"Blastoise, do your skull bash!" Gary ordered.

Chris crossed her fingers while the Blastoise attacked. Suddenly, the Wartortle vanished.

"What was that?" Gary asked.

"I'm sorry Wartortle." She whispered to the Poké Ball. "But you can't win this. He is too strong."

Gary looked at his niece who had returned Wartortle. What would be the next Pokémon she would use, he wondered. He didn't see anymore Poké Balls at the desk.

"Are we going on fighting or are you giving up?" He asked arrogant. Chris didn't react. "I see you don't have anymore Poké Balls…."

Chris smiled. "You are forgetting one Poké Ball." She said. She took her necklace off. "Professor Midol designed this one especially for me." She took the little Poké Ball of her necklace.

What, Gary thought, that's also a Poké Ball? He wondered what it for kind of Pokémon would be. It must be the unidentified one, he thought. He looked at her while she tossed the ball at the battlefield.

Gary swallowed 2, 3 times and rubbed his eyes. He couldn't believe this, this wasn't true! It just couldn't be!

"Gary." Chris said confidant. "Meet my 3rd Pokémon. You like her?"

"This is impossible!" He yelled. "She can't be a Pokémon."

"But she is…." Chris said. "Aemilia is a Ditto!"

Gary looked astounded to Aemilia. With the same smile as Chris she looked at Blastoise, who seemed to be surprised too. He looked back to his trainer.

"No need to doubt you know." Chris said. "My 'unidentified' Pokémon is just a Ditto I trained in a very special way. That's what's making her so unique!"

** Note: Yes, Aemilia the Ditto can breathe underwater. If a Ditto can copy a water type and be underwater, surely they can transform themselves in a way so that they can breathe underwater in a different form **

"A good looking Pokémon is nice, but it has to fight too. Blastoise, skull bash! We'll prove an original is better than a imitation!"

The Blastoise hurried to the blue-green haired girl, but she stood still. She didn't seem to be afraid of the oncoming Blastoise-train. At the last moment she turned into a Vaporeon and became invisible.

"Where is she?" Gary asked.

"Ask her yourself." Chris answered.

Gary looked around him. Like his Blastoise, he didn't see a Vaporeon. But he did see something else. While he tried to catch his breath, he stared at the image that looked just like him!

"Blastoise!" The image started. "He's the fake one!"

It can talk too, Gary thought astounded. "No Blastoise, I'm the real Gary!"

"Blastoise, don't listen! You know who I am. I'm the best Pokémon trainer!"
"He!" Gary yelled. "I don't sound like that! Do I?" Chris smiled. He finally found out, she thought.

The Blastoise became confused, looking from Gary1 to Gary2. He didn't know what to do.

Suddenly, Gary2 turned into a Shellder and used its ice-beam. The Blastoise was hurt by the attack, but it didn't hurt him too much. It was just distracted.

But that was the goal of Aemilia. She turned again into a girl and she looked with her purple eyes to the Blastoise and than to Chris. Chris only nodded. Aemilia turned herself in a Blastoise and attacked with her own skull bash attack.



"What was that?" Gary pushed himself against the glass of his dome in the hope he could see what have happened. Though they were underwater, he could see the smoke very well. A little submarine appeared.

"To protect mankind from devastation."
"To unite everybody within our nation."
"To denounce the evil of friendship and love."

"To extend our reach to the moon above..."

"Shana!"
"And Shane!"
"Team Rocket! Blast off with the brightness of light!"

"We are the best, that's right!"



"You've got to be kidding me." Gary said. "Not now, not in the middle of my greatest fight!"

"My gym!" Chris yelled, seeing her glass gym in shards. Water was floating inside and most of the walls collapsed under the pressure.

"That was for giving Geodude and Raticate a cold!" Shana yelled.

Chris saw the gym was filling itself with water. Within a few minutes it would reach the domes they were in.

"Aemilia! Safe Gary!"

Aemilia reacted instantly and turned again in a human. She swam to Gary. She tapped at the glass. Gary took his Poké Balls and waited. He didn't know what to do. But he saw Aemilia pushing a button at the outside of the dome. And the dome suddenly lifted! All air floated away. She is nuts, Gary thought, but Aemilia grabbed him. Her purple eyes began to glow and a blue shield was formed. Gary felt he could breathe while he and Aemilia lifted up to the surface. But what about Chris, he thought.



Chris flipped a switch and her dome lifted too. She touched her necklace and the moonstone began to glow again.

"You are seeing that Shana?" Shane asked. "She is breathing underwater!"

"I don't care, where is that other brat?"

"Don't know, but she is here and we'll get her once and for all!"

Shane pushed a button and a net came out. A net, Chris thought, how pathetic. She tossed a Poké Ball in front of her.

"Kingler! Cut that net open!"

The Kingler obeyed his trainer and cut the net open.

"All right." Chris said. "Yo Double S! Do you have more of that pathetic stuff?"

"Watch this!" Shane pushed another button, revealing another net.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Chris said. She wanted to give Kingler the same command.

Shana screamed the longs out of her body. The Gyarados had returned and wanted to attack Chris, but accidentally got caught up in Team Rocket's net. With his tail, it slammed around him, trying to get free. But it didn't got free, but hit Chris!

Chris slammed against the cliff, making her necklace break. It felt aan Chris couldn't find it. She felt she suddenly couldn't breath anymore! She didn't doubt any moment and released Wartortle.

"Wartortle!"

The Wartortle saw his trainer begging for air and used his bubble to provide her the air she suddenly needed. Chris grabbed her first Pokémon and together they swam to the surface.



"Chrissy!"

Chris looked around her. She saw Mayla reaching her arm for her. Gary saw she didn't wear her necklace anymore.

"Chrissy, where is the moonstone?"

"I've lost it. But Wartortle saved my bud. As always he didn't let me down." She hugged him and suddenly: "Where is Kingler?"

The surface began to move. Chris climbed with Wartortle on the boat, but it wasn't Gyarados or Team Rocket that came, but Kingler, holding Chris' necklace in his scissors.

"Kingler! You're all right!" She patted him and took gratefully her necklace. "You're the best!"

She turned around, seeing a wet Gary and Aemilia. "We'd better go home." She said. She saw Gary's face. "Mayla, just start the engine would you?" Mayla nodded and went to the rudder. Chris walked to Gary.

"You are all right?" He asked. She nodded.

"Gary, meet the unidentified Pokémon. This is Aemilia, my best friend."

"I'm astounded." He said. "I didn't knew Ditto's could also take a human form."

"I'm the only one." Aemilia answered. "And Chris taught me how. She painted a girl and I took her form. She made me who I'm today."

"Than you have done quite a job." Gary said impressed. "I guess I understand everything now. But what about your gym Chrissy?"

"You know I get bored easily. I think I'll try something new." She looked at Aemilia. "Something I know we both like: travelling!"

Aemilia looked very happy. "You really mean it? Are we going to travel again?" Chris nodded.

"But first things first. I want to go home again. Now I don't have a gym anymore I don't have any responsibilities."

"Than come with me." Gary suggested. "We can go together."

Chris smiled. "All right little nephew of mine, we'll go together! But first: Mayla, to the Pokémon Centre!"

To be continued…

This was the end of Pokémon ABC - The Ocean Gym. It will be continued in Pokémon ABC - The Way Home.