Group RP The Mystery of the Unown (RP)

Tsubasa watched and listened as the conversation flowed back and forth. He was good at that, perhaps too good. While it may have came off as odd to some, he didn't mind listening as it allowed him to garner knowledge of the scene he was in. As Daphne, Taidana and Tamariel discussed their chances against Falkner.

"Violet City, huh?" Tsubasa thought to himself. Kommander ran around, back and forth in circles. He knew his Squirtle didn't stand a pretty good chance against Falkner as he had no type advantage.

From the side, he heard Daphne's warning. Indeed, it could very easily result in a demoralizing loss for him and his Squirtle. He pondered the thought of battling Falkner and shuddered slightly. If anything, it would be wise to watch his other companions go first. Maybe he could pick up something useful that could help him out.

He nodded slightly in Daphne's direction.

"Noted."

With that, he began to follow after Daphne and the rest of the group who had turned on the right side path to follow the road to Mr. Pokémon House.

 

"Thank you," Taidana nodded towards Daphne as he reached for the first slot before hesitating. Changing his mind he grabbed the second slot and backed away, glancing towards Zolt, who recently returned with Nurse Joy, with a smile. "It's almost time, buddy." In response the Pokémon barked in excitement. Gratefully accepting Tensu's Pokéball back, Taidana glanced towards Daphne again curiously.

"So, any news on that egg of yours? Like what Pokémon it is?" He asked, half out of genuine curiosity and the other half out of wariness of what a potential rival could have in their arsenal.

 

Tsubasa had hoped that no one had seen him when the Shinx had popped out. The little, electric Pokémon had caught him by surprise which had resulted in a somewhat odd shriek. He hated being surprised like that. He had been in awe of Tamariel though who had shown his prowess but capturing the little Pokémon with quite some ease. As they arrived at the Pokémon center, Tsubasa was lost in his thoughts about the preceding events. He had made sure to give his little Squirtle to Nurse Joy for the routine checkups as he was on the fence about fighting Falkner but wanted to try it anyway. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

As he remained caught in the hullabaloo of the day, he missed Daphne's call to pick battle slots.

"...if you are uncertain, you might want to go and train at the Bellsprout Tower before trying to take on Falk." As Daphne's sentence trailed off in his mind, he decided he would have to go and attempt to train if he wanted to have any chance of defeating Falkner.

As he processed all this, he snapped back into the scene and noticed that Daphne had got four slips for battle slots. Taidana, first transfixed on slot one, eventually took two, while the others fit in to leave him with one. Tsubasa grimaced, this would no doubt be a tough task but one he would like to attempt.

He took slot one and made his way to the Falkner's Gym. In the back of his mind, he heard Daphne's warning but decided to wing it against Fallkner. He wanted to test his Squirtle out in battle against the Gym Leader.

Tsubasa was ready! He stood at the challenger's side in the open, dome-shaped gym. Across him stood Falkner, his trademark blue hair flowing.

"Alright Kommander," Tsubasa yelled throwing his Pokéball, "lets go!"

"C'mon Pidgey," Falkner responded, sending out his flying mon.

"Squirtle, Tail Whip!" ordered Tsubasa. The small blue Pokémon twirled trying to hit Falkner's Pidgey.

"Alright Pidgey! Avoid that and counter with Tackle!" Falkner expertly commanded.

Tsubasa gritted his teeth as he saw the Pidgey soar above the failed Tail Whip. He knew he would have to step his game up against Falkner but this was a whole other level. He grimaced as he saw Pidgey swoop for a Tackle. Kommander was too slow to avoid the hit.

"Any more of this and Squirtle won't be lasting too long." Tsubasa thought to himself.

Kommander slowly returned to his feet, the obvious damage had been dealt in that Tackle to the inexperienced Squirtle.

"Kommander, power through! Use Tackle on Pidgey!" Tsubasa hoped the attack could launch some time of offensive flow but Pidgey rendered the attack harmless as it glided over the bounding Squirtle.

"Alright Pidgey," Falkner roared, "Use Tackle again!"

Pidgey sailed towards Squirtle and landed another successful Tackle. Squirtle was clearly too tired to last much longer and dodging seemed not possible in this state.

"Pidgey, finish this! Mudslap!" Falkner ordered. Pidgey successfully connected, hitting Squirtle square and causing him to fall back. Squirtle had fainted and the battle was over. Tsubasa turned his head in shame but knew this wasn't going to be his last time battling. He was sure he could get stronger and return!

"Thanks Falkner" he remarked and turned to his friends.

 

Clapping his hand on Tsubasa's shoulder, Taidana gave him a nod. "It was a good battle, and now you can see how to improve. Next time you should have it." Continuing is walk, Taidana stood where his companion stood beforehand. "Falkner, I would like to make a suggestion. Unlike my companion, I am an experienced trainer with an appropriately experienced Pokémon at my side, at the same time I have a new, and young, Pokémon. If you would be so kind, I would like to battle a team that has similar strength."

With a nod, Falker agreed to Taidana's suggestion. "Very well, challenger, your suggestion has been accepted." Almost in unison, both trainers threw a Pokéball into the air, releasing the creature inside.

"Go Tensu!" Taidana barked, the small rodent appearing on the field with a leap of excitement, realising instantly this was the battle his trainer had spoken about beforehand. On the opposite side of the field stood an aggressive looking bird Pokémon that Taidana knew well, "Spearow huh?" He murmured, his fingers lightly touching Zolt's ball, knowing this was going to be tougher than he expected.

The two trainers stood staring at each other, neither willing to make the first move. Eventually Taidana's patience ran out and he shouted his first command, "Tensu! End it quickly, use Thundershock!" With a cry of his name, Tensu lit up with a yellow light, from which, multiple currents of electricity launched themselves towards the bird Pokémon, who dodged on the command of its trainer.

"Now, Spearow, use Pursuit!!" At Falkners command, Spearow launched itself into the air surrounded by a dark energy before changing its direction so it flew towards Tensu who froze in fear at the sight in front of him.

"Damn it, Tensu move out of the way!" Taidana shouted, his voice barely waking the Pokémon up from his fear in time to jump away, despite avoiding the brunt of the attack one of Spearows wings still connected with Tensu launching the Pokémon to the side with a cry. "Tensu!" Taidana cried in concern, "Tensu you need to get up and attack now!" The concern that layered Taidana's features disappeared as he watched Tensu struggle to his feet. "Good, now be ready." Unwilling to allow Taidana to go ahead with his plan, Falkner shouted out his own command.

"Spearow! Finish the rodent off with a Peck!" Unaware of the smirk on Taidana's face, Spearow launched itself at the smaller Pokémon, its beak gaining a small glow, and as the attack was about to connect Taidana shouted out.

"Now Tensu, thundershock!" Almost as soon as the command was finished, Tensu cried out as he released any pent up electricity into an attack that lit up both Pokémon, and after the light show had cleared, they both lay knocked out. "Damn it, you weren't fast enough." Taidana grumbled, knowing that the Spearows attack connected just before Tensu's.

After returning both Pokémon to their balls, the two trainers grabbed their last Pokémon. "Well that was some good experience for Tensu at the very least," Taidana spoke up, a small grin on his face, "But this is a Pokémon who requires no more experience, let's finish this, Zolt." Before he had finished speaking, the ball in his grasp forced itself open as the Jolteon inside appeared on the field, sparks appearing around his fur as he stared at what would be his opponent. A Honchkrow.

The Dark type Bird gave an bow that reeked of arrogance, something that caused Zolt to bark back in irritation. Their confrontation was interrupted by Falker, "I think we should probably begin before our Pokémon decide they want to fight without us." At Taidana's nod of agreement, Falkner sounded his first command, "Honchkrow, start us off with a Night Slash!" The Dark type swiped the space in front of it with its wing, on the edge of which a dark energy had formed before launching outwards in a slash towards Zolt who dodged without a command.

Scoffing at the attack, Taidana returned fire, "Zolt lets start nice and simple, Echoed Voice!" Zolt reared back his head before barking towards the Honchkrow, releasing a rippling ring with the bark that, on contact with the bird Pokémon, exploded outwards sending the Honchkrow backwards before it was able to regain its balance.

"Impressive, Honchkrow respond with a Dark Pulse!" At the same time, Taidana spoke his own follow up command, "Zolt! Use Echoed Voice again!"

The two pulse like attacks collided in mid air, causing a large amount of smoke to pick up in the aftermath.

"Quickly Zolt, before they can recover use Quick Attack to get in close!" The Jolteon became a blur as it ran into the smoke, the areas in the smoke that dispersed being the only way of tracking the Pokémon until it exited the camouflage and launched itself at the Honchkrow. Or where the Honchkrow used to be, as it had moved higher into the air waiting for its perfect moment which had finally come.

"Now Honchkrow! Night Slash!" Zolt, stuck in the air and unable to dodge was struck head on by the Night Slash that carried the Pokémon all the way to the ground below.

"Damn it! Zolt are you alright?" Taidana cried out, receiving his partners bark in return. Finally the smoke had cleared and Taidana was able to see the two Pokémon. Zolt, shaking off the powerful attack but still showing signs of grogginess, and Honchkrow keeping its distance in the air. "Well if it wants to play the distance game, lets bring it to us. Thunderbolt!" With a bark, Zolt released a large bolt of lightning from his back that barely collided with the Honchkrow's wing as it dodge, causing the bird to drop closer to the ground.

"Perfect, now before it recovers use quick attack!" Blurring out of sight again the Jolteon launched himself at the dark type who quickly responded to its trainers command,

"Sucker Punch!" A purplish energy appeared around Honchkrow's wing as it slammed itself into the Jolteon, who cried out in pain from the unexpected attack.

"Damn it, Zolt quickly while it's in your grasp, use thunder fang!" Electricity roared to life around the four largest teeth in Zolt's maw, at which point Zolt bit down on the Honchkrow's wing releasing the pent up electric and forcing the bird to tumble to the ground with the Eeveelution who struggled to his feet. The Honckrow though, lay knocked out on the ground, finally defeated.

Taidana had won his first Johto Gym battle.

"Good job, Zolt!" Taidana shouted at the weary Pokémon, who was quickly returned back to its ball for a good rest. Looking up from the Pokéball with pride, Taidana accepted the outstretched hand of Falkner shaking it. "That was a tough battle, sir. I'm sure both of my Pokémon have improved." Taidana spoke to the leader honestly, he did not expect the battle to be so tough.

"Yes, it was a tough battle and you won fairly. For that, I present you the Zephyr Badge. May you continue to do well in the rest of your battles." Accepting the badge gratefully, Taidana approached his travelling companions as calmly as he could, but even he couldn't stop the small grin on his face.

 

"Hm, I don't mind either way. To my knowledge Union Cave has nothing of worth." Taidana mumbled, leaning against the wall beside the Center's entrance. In front of him stood Tensu, fully healed from his battle and back to his usual antics. Today's activity was attempting to balance a small stone on his head, and from the sparks of frustration it didn't look like it was going that well. "Tch, look at him. Wouldn't have thought he'd been in a battle not that long ago." Taidana grumbled to himself, despite his vocal annoyance he carried a small smile on his face.

"What about you lot? What do you prefer?" He redirected the previous question back to the rest of the group.

 

"Tensu, come." Taidana commanded as he turned to follow Daphne, the Pichu who was savouring his new found balance only to drop it as he heard his trainers voice. The Pokémon ran over to Taidana, leaping into his arms, causing Taidana to hold onto him to stop the mouse from falling.

"You know, it'd be better if he learned to balance the rock on his own. He'd only come out stronger for it." Taidana murmured to Daphne, his gaze locked onto the clueless Pokémon in his arms.