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"You're still wearing those goggles?" Joseph asked.
"Sure." Ellery chuckled as he and Joseph wrote their names on the desk.
"All right, the rules work like this, you're supposed to win two out of three preliminaries to qualify for the main tournament, after that the best 32 will advance to the finals." Charles explained.
"Was this really your idea?" Joseph asked.
"Yeah, come on, the tournament two years ago was great," Ellery smiled. "Let's go Infernape, our battle's over here."
"You're fighting?" Kira asked Alexa as she signed up.
"Sure, I can still move, plus my Pokemon will fight not me." Alexa answered, Kira just sighed as he signed up too; even though he didn't agree with Alexa fighting in her condition.
James and Ty signed up, figuring that they'd have a good time and probably win a battle or two along the way.
"I'm counting on you James." James spun around to face Ritchie. "You've got real potential you know. Even though you haven't had much training lately because of everything that's happened, I still think you could go far in this thing."
"Alright. I'll do my best." James said to Ritchie. "And... thanks."
"Go Jake!" Lila yelled as she looked at Jake's battle, the only thing dividing the fields from all the people around was a metal fence.
"All right, Gallade go and use Psycho Cut!" Jake ordered as his Gallade sprinted forwards, its blade glowed in a purple color as it clashed against its opponent's Kangaskhan.
"Don't take that Kangaskhan, use Dizzy Punch!" The Glaceon White ordered as his Kangaskhan charged forward, its fist glowing purple as it prepared to punch Gallade.
"Jump, then Leaf Blade." Gallade jumped up and flipped in the air as its blade glowed green and slashed Kangaskhan chest, knocking it out.
"Kangaskhan's unable to battle, Gallade wins and the battle goes to Jake!" the referre yelled holding a red flag towards Jake's side.
"Nice job Jake." Elliot said through the fence as he gave him a thumb up. "Guess that training I gave you this last two weeks paid off."
"Yeah, thanks sir." Jake nodded.
"Least I could do for my cousin's best friend." Elliot nodded.
James and Ty were battling at the same time, but on different fields.
"Dom!" James shouted to his Dragonite which was circling in the air over the opposing Electabuzz. "Get in there and use Outrage!" After a loud roar, Dom dove and and slammed the Electabuzz to the ground with his tail. Electabuzz got up and hit Dominic with a Thunderpunch but Dom went through the attack and tackled Electabuzz to the ground. Dom stopped and looked a bit dizzy from his rampage, but this didn't matter. Because Electabuzz was down for the count.
"Electabuzz is unable to battle. The battle is over. The winner is Dragonite and James advances to the next round." James pumped his fist and grinned.
"Come on Machamp. You've got this one." Ty meanwhile was having a tough time with his opponent, mostly because he was fighting a tough Pidgeot and dealing with a typing disadvantage.
"Pidgeot, use Wing Attack and finish this off." Ty's confident opponent ordered.
"Machamp, when he gets close... Use Stone Edge." Ty grinned. He'd been saving the super effective attack as a surprise when he knew that it would hit. Pidgeot dove in towards Machamp, who threw a bunch of sharp rocks at the flying type, downing it.
"Come on Pidgeot!" The other trainer shouted, but to no success.
"This battle is over. Pidgeot is unable to battle. Machamp wins and Tyler moves on to the next round!"
"Well, Jake's had a long time since the last time he fought, so I thought, you know he might need some training." Elliot laughed as he turned around.
"All right, my battle starts now, so let's get ready Infernape." Ellery and Infernape clenched their fists and threw them in the air as they went into the field.
"True, true. Oh, Elliot, meet Sammy. She's a bounty hunter." He said, dodging an axe slash from the axe she was wielding. "Don't call me that, how many times do I have to tell you that?" Sam asked, sounding irritated.
James and Ty ran into each other as they left their respective battles. "Hey man. You win?" They both said at the same time. "Of course." They both answered. "Nice." They said to each other as they exchanged their fist pound secret handshake.
"Mine was Machamp vs a Pidgeot. So I beat a typing mismatch." Ty said proudly.
"Well I have a Dragonite." James laughed. "So yeah."
"Hey, nice to meet ya." Elliot said as he stuck his hand out.
OOC: I guess it's the same Sam from Light Vs. Darkness, I'll guess I can give you a reason to why I won't have Peter appear, in Light Vs. Darkness I had planned for Peter to stay in Crash Kingdom protecting Hope while mastering his Light powers.
Infernape was ducking it out with a Rosarade Green's Arbok. "Arbok Poison Sting." Arbok fired a barrage of purple spikes towards Infernape; Infernape held its arms in front of itself to block the spikes as he stood his ground.
"Infernape, grabbed it by its tail and use Seismic Toss!" Ellery yelled. Infernape ducked as it grabbed Arbok's tail and swung it around, Arbok wrapped itself around Infernape and started to strangle it. "Don't let it, use Flame Wheel!" Infernape surrounded itself with fire, which eventually let Arbok to leave him off and fall down, Infernape turned around and roared in victory.
"Arbok's unable to battle, Infernape wins and the battle goes to Ellery!" the referee yelled.
Kira was fighting against a Jolteon Yellow with his Absol, and was fighting against a Tropius. "Go Absol, use Hyper Beam!" Absol held its head up high as it fired a beam of yellow energy, Tropius flew up as it fired a barrage of leaves which Absol managed to dodge, it didn't have a lot to do so it fired a Shadow Ball.
"Tropius use Solar Beam!" Tropius fired a yellow beam towards Absol, Absold was hit by it and was shaken away.
"Okay Absol, use Air Slash!" Kira yelled, Absol fired a slashed made out of wind that headed for Tropius, it dodged it but the slash turned around and gathered more wind as it crashed with Tropius and knocked it out.
"Tropius is unable to battle, Absol wins the battle goes to Kira!" the referee yelled.
Ellery walked out of the field as he saw Kira, they both gave each other a thumb up and walked their separate ways.
"Nice to meet you as well." Sam said, returning the gesture. She saw the match with Ellery and the Roserade Green. "Nice strategy, but a foolish error for the Arbok." She said in her famous cold tone that was nil of emotion.
"Thanks." Both boys smiled at Travis. "But neither was too much of a challenge." James said in a softer tone. "After all, it was only the first round."
"Thanks." Ty grinned before pecking Valerie on the lips as a greeting. "I missed you when you were gone you know. It was the longest few weeks that I can remember."
"Who knew that he could say anything remotely romantic." James whispered to Alexa as he watched Ty. "And yes, I am a little cocky. Hate it or love it, that's who I am." James grinned cheekily.
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