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NOCT Round 5: VS. Nikky and Roosevelt

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Celadon City, June 14. Contest hall main stage, 9:30 pm

“Coordinators Allison and Nikky to your marks!” the announcer beamed. “You have four minutes to battle it out. Dazzle us with displays of your Pokémon’s toughness! Ready…GO!” I'm not a Coordinator, I'm just a trainer from the past trying to get this over with, I grumbled mentally. I couldn't tell her that, of course.

I looked and felt ridiculous in my thrown-together masquerade ball outfit—long black skirt, plush Shinx tail/ears, simple blue V-neck shirt over a gold tube top, black pumps, cheap blue mask, and exactly one gold bracelet. Across the stage from me, Nikky smiled disarmingly. "Roosevelt, Extremespeed! Try to confuse the Machop!"

The Arcanine nodded once and took off around the stage. Ayumu tried to follow him but only succeeded in making herself dizzy. "Not a chance," he barked before slamming into her.

"Use Low Kick to get some distance!" I called. She kicked where she thought the joints on his front legs were, then backflipped away from him and settled into a ready stance. A thin orangey-white aura formed around her whole body. It looked like a thin curtain.

Roosevelt growled. "You call that a battle aura, shortstack?" Light blue flames erupted quite suddenly over every inch of his fur. "This is a battle aura!" He crossed the distance between him and Ayumu in half a stride, catching her full in the face with a Flare Blitz. Ayumu's scream almost shattered the windows (and I felt my ears pop).

"Ouch! I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that Flare Blitz!" the announcer cringed. Her dress was starting to blacken from the intense heat. I risked a glance at the point monitors--Nikky's point bar had barely gone down, while mine was near the halfway mark. We still had three minutes and thirty-five seconds left.

"Ayumu, get up!" I called. "Come on, you can do it! Use Karate Chop!" Ayumu lashed out and struck him in the muzzle. Roosevelt staggered back, whimpering slightly. She stood up cautiously, gasping and covered in burn marks. "Excellent!"

Nikky gaped. "Whoa...! OK, now Crunch!"

"Dodge and Low Kick again!" The audience cheered when Ayumu landed a solid kick to his front right shoulder. "And that's how it's done," she smirked. Nikky's point bar was halfway down now with 2:55 on the clock.

She laughed her loud raucous laugh. "You're good, Allison! You should think about being a coordinator!" I rolled my eyes. "We're not done yet, though! Roosevelt, Close Combat!"

Wait, what?! Arcanine can't learn that! ...Can they? "Ayumu, think you can use Foresight to dodge that?"

"Why are you asking me a question you already know the answer to?" Ayumu called back. "I can handle this, he's not trained!" She braced herself as Roosevelt raced across the stage and slammed into her. She skidded backward almost to my legs, and fell hard on her back.

Roosevelt grinned a very Mightyena-ish grin. "You're not half-bad for a Fighting-type. Almost makes me sad that I have to kill you."

"Not...a...chance," Ayumu gasped. She Karate Chopped him squarely in the neck. Two identical "bings" sounded from the monitor as our Pokemon collapsed.

"Battle over! Please wait while our judges decide who wins a Kanto Tough Ribbon."

Just in time for once! (Also because I'm going to Europe and bringing my laptop isn't an option.) Nikky and Roosevelt belong to *NikkyDash.
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