Private/Closed Kanto league tournament

[Jagson]

" What did you inject into them?" Cortez asked as he watched what was happening. he went back to looking at the parasite. "It's such an interesting creature." He said. He wondered what it might be thinking if it can think. " How is the first test subject holding up?" He asked one of the sceintists.

" It appears that the man might be naucious." The scientist said. " So the TS-01 causes Nausea to the host when it first enteres their bodies."

 

[Hotshot14380]

(Zack's Jams, continued, I recommed you play it during the battle, for dramatic effect XD)
Paramedics had arrived at the field, commanding the two trainers to leave, and started carrying away Zack. In his head, his entire life, literally flashed before his eyes. He saw everything up until that moment. No. This is not how I am going out. That would be pathetic. Zack thought to himself. His eyes sprung open, and he slid off the stretcher.
"T-thanks, I ne-needed a shower anyway," Zack stuttered, slowly hobbling back to his spot in the arena. The entire arena gasped, from the one's in the seats, to people outside, in the training room, everywhere. Everyone saw yet again what Zack was capable of.
"What the fuck?! You should be dead! W-What are you?!" Cody asked, frightened by how he possibly got back up. Zack breathed heavily, completely drenched.
"You... A-aren't taking be down... That fucking easily bitch." Zack told his enemy. Cody was going to pay, bad. "Foliage, u-use synthesis." Zack said, walking over to his pokemon as fast as he could, which wasn't very fast. He bear hugged his Victreebel, and Zack immediately started feeling better and felt better.
"Whoo! That's better! Let's do this Foliage! Go Sludge Bomb, finish this motherfucker!" Zack called out, fueled with limitless energy. Foliage, also being healed, launched a ball of muddy looking sludge at the Blastoise, nailing it in the head, and it fell on the ground KO'd with a crash.
"D-dammit! Return, go Flareon!" Cody yelled with fear, wondering what possibly Zack would do to him if he won. "U-use fire fang!" Cody told his pokemon, with a pathetic squel.
"Wait for it... Sludge bomb now!" Zack called out to his pokemon. Perfectly timed, as soon as the flareon opened it’s mouth, it swallowed a mouth full of brown glop. The flareon slowed it’s running and fell down in agony.
“That’s one way to take out a pokemon,” Cody said, grinding his teeth.
“Go Pidgeot!, use brave bird!" Cody said, sending out his bird pokemon. Even Foliage couldn't dodge it, and got KO'd.
"Damn, well you did extremely well buddy, now let's finish this, go, Speedster, use Thunderbolt!" Zack shouted, sending out his Jolteon. It immediately sent a powerful charge of electric energy straight at the Pidgeot, and it started falling to the ground.
"Finish it! Use what I named you for, wild charge!" Zack told his friend, and it bolted off faster than the eye could keep up with, charging to slam into the pidgeot. The yellow blur charged across the field, and everything went by so fast all you could see was the fainted pidgeot, on the ground with little sparks still bouncing off it.
Pidgeot is unable to battle! Speedster is the winner! Which means the victor of the match is Zack! The announced declared, and the entire stadium erupted. Zack let out a "Woo!" and pet his Jolteon, "Could not have done it without you, or Foliage. I'm very proud." Zack said. Not only was he proud of his pokemon, but his pokemon of him. No normal person could have lived through that, but Zack refused for it to all end like that.
Zack left the arena, and started heading for the training room to see if his friends were there, as he did, a bunch of people got out of his way for him, wide eyed.
"Now this, I can get used to," He said, continuing down the hall.

 

[skycaptain]

Between frantically checking Riley's fever and trying to wake up she caught glimpses of Zacks fight. She let a small smile show on her face as Zack got up by himself to keep fighting "Get em Zack." As Zack finished his match rather quickly Layla started to panic because she knew Rileys match was next "Crap crap, come on Riley you've gotta wake up."

 

[Retro Master]

When Riley looked at his hands as he walked forward into the darkness. They were small, like the size of a toddler's. As he walked forward he could hear screaming and yelling. As he got closer, it started to get brighter. Then he blinked.

When he opened his eyes again, he was in a group of people, yelling at a young and beautiful women, who looked to be in her twenties, being dragged by her hair into the middle. Riley tried backing away, but he was stopped and realized they were trapped in a ring of fire. To him, it felt like he was trapped in a nightmare he had long tried to forget.

Across from him, on the other side of the circle, was a young man, who also looked to be in his twenties, who was being held down on his knees. He was screaming and cursing at the group. Then he yelled a name. "AMELIA!", yelled the man!

"So thats the bitch's name!", exclaimed the man in the middle. "Marowak, bone club!", commanded the man. The Marowak's signature bone started to glow and and then started to smack the women continuously. All Riley could hear was the roaring of the group circling the scene and the man who was being held down yelling at the other man to stop. Riley stared motionless, unable to move, and forced to watch the women being slaughtered by the Marowak.

Riley closed his eyes for a quick second. When he opened them, in front of him was the young man holding the heavily damaged women in his arms. He was in the third person now. The man was begging for the women to stay with him. "I - I will always... love you.", said the woman as she touched the man's cheek. The man grabbed her wrist, clutching it. She smiled at him and turned to the boy with a blank stare, of being dead.

The man looked up at the boy, who just stood there, staring and completely motionless, and was clearly... traumatized.

That was the nightmare of Riley's past that he tried so hard to forget.

Riley woke up breathing heavily. When he looked up, the first thing he saw was the end of Zack's match. Next he looked at the palm of his hands and turned them into fists. He felt better, stronger, and even smarter. When he sat up, an old wet scarf fell off his head. Riley picked it up and just looked directly at Layla. "How long was I out?" Riley asked her, getting straight to the point.

 

[Hotshot14380]

Zack arrived in the training room, seeing Riley on the couch, with a wet scarf on his lap, and Layla near him.
"Woah, I didn't think your push was that strong Laya," Zack joked walking into the training room. He jogged over to RIley and Layla.
"Really though, what happened to you?" Zack asked a little more worried. He kneeled next to his friend. So the injection definitely did something to him. Zack thought, looking at him. Then he turned his attention to Layla.
"Did you guys get in a fight and things went south or...?" Zack questioned. He also wondered where Drew and Nion went. He caught a glimpse of them rushing into the stadium to help him, which he appreciated. Wonder where those two headed off too... He remembered all seeing all his memories flash before him, and suddenly, he got a sharp pain in his head.
"Ow, Fuck!" Zack moaned, trying to keep it as quiet as possible. What the fuck was that? He thought to himself.

 

[skycaptain]

Layla stood up when she saw Riley had regained consciousness. She was surprised how quickly he sat up and she hesitated to reply. "Um, just a little more than 5 minutes probably. Hey slow down, don't rush yourself." She turned to Zack and tried to smile. "No we didn't fight or anything. He just passed out a little after you left." She looked back to Riley but could have sworn Zack moaned something. "You say something?"

 

[Hotshot14380]

"No, but I just got a ache in my head. It probably just from the hit I took form that Hydro pump..." Probably nothing to serious, he said as easily as he could but it. There wasn't really a light way of saying you just got smashed into a wall by a cannon like shot of water. Zack still felt the pain though, mostly it was subsided.
"Yea, probably nothing..." Zack lied.

 

[skycaptain]

After watching him get blasted into a wall she was doubtful he was completely fine but she didn't want to push the subject. "Alright, just don't push yourself. Let me know if you aren't feeling good, yeah?" She turned back to Riley who miraculously woke back up. "How are you feeling?"

 

[Bleach#2]

Nion was having a dream. Nion was laying on a rock when he woke up and there was nothing but darkness around him with no rock when a ball appeared floating it was glowing white he touched it and it went fully dark. Then a stage with him on it popped up a voice statted talking.Have you ever had a very bad day one when you think your life has changed forever Nion hopped of the stage and abunch of people appeared Nion punched them all out but
Then a bottle spilled on the floor and every thING went dark until a man apeared one with a skull as a face and wearing all black Nion ran the opposite direction but black tenticles grabbed him and dragged him to the man the man was taking off his face but there was a flash. All our past haunt us but yours... Nion was in the snow huddles in front of his father's and mothers tomestones Nion was then crying in front of there tomestones kneeling down but then there was darkness again the tomestones were still there a man like figure full of darkness Nion started running but it jumped on him and started beating him. You feel like you have no one but then you meet someone who you feel like is a clone of you..... The dark figure then threw Nion into a big hole. So what's your name? The voice said revealing to be nion. But then there was a flash Nion woke up. Nion got up and saw Drew sleeping he decided he'd be ok and he ran to find Zack Riley and layla.

 

[Retro Master]

Riley just stood up and looked at Zack. "I'm fine." Riley replied, not even looking at Layla. He was too focused on Zack. "You must be slipping Zack because you let that fight get out of hand. That was a pathetic performance." Riley told Zack. Riley felt something growing inside of him. "Listen, when my battle starts, you better be watching because I'm going to show you what true skill really is. After that, I expect you to make it too the finals and that is where I'll defeat you. Now get out of my way." Riley told Zack before shoving him out the way. He grabbed his head but quickly let go and walked toward the battlefield where his match was next. Apparently his opponent was already on the battlefield and they were waiting for him.

"Took you long enough." Joey told Riley who just glared at him. Joey grinned at this. "Good, now that you're here and rested up, I'll make you pay for what you did and embarrass you right here." Joey told Riley. Surprisingly to many, Riley didn't respond. He wasn't in the mood for this. In fact, this new Riley was more annoyed of the boy. The crowd still enjoyed the trash talk as they roared in excitement. The only thing Riley needed to hear was when the announcer told them to begin. Rilley was going to show everyone in the crowd what true skill was.

Riley sent out Charizard while Joey sent out Jynx. Joey cursed under his breath as he knew he was at a type disadvantage. He was about to switch the Jynx when out of no where, a powerful air slash sent Jynx flying right into him. Joey just laughed it off and looked at Riley. "Wow, so cool. You had to hit me with your attack just to show off. Well I can do the same..." Joey was cut off as Charizard suddenly grabbed Jynx, lifted it into the air, and blasted it with a flamethrower.

Joey tried looking for an angle, but he couldn't return his Jynx who was probably feinted by then. It had been a whole minute and Charizard was still firing it's flamethrower as point blank range."Dude, what the fuck is wrong with you?! Jynx is already done, can you let me return it atleast." Joey stated. "Charizard." Riley stated blankly. Charizard dropped the Jynx as soon as Riley said its name. The crowd gasped and some even covered their eyes at the horror. The Jynx was horribly burnt. It's top three layers of skin were gone. Joey was more angered than sad. "I'll get you for this!" Joey exclaimed as he returned his Jynx. Meanwhile, Riley was just focused on the battle. However, he kept putting his hand on his head every few minutes.

Joey sent out his Magneton next which suprised the crowd. Riley, however, had a blank expression. Magneton went straight at Charizard and allowed Charizard to grab it. "Magneton, use thunder wave!" Joey commanded. Charizard tried to let go but it was too late and it was paralyzed. "That's what you get. Did you honestly think it would be that easy? I don't get why people think you're so strong when you're just another weak average trainer." Joey told Riley, more focused on his trash talk than the actual battle. Riley just pointed at the Pokemon. As soon as Joey looked at the Pokemon, Charizard sent a full powered flamethrower onto Magneton and it wouldn't let go. By the time Charizard was done, the Magneton had nearly started melting. Charizard dropped the feinted Magneton to the floor and looked at Joey. "Damn you." Joey said as he returned his Pokemon. The crowd started to roar as they soon realized it could be a three to nothing sweep in favor of Riley. Joey sent out his last Pokemon, a Marowak. "Let's beat this guy together, like we did throughout our journey." Joey told the Marowak. The Marowak nodded as it swung its bone around its fingers. Riley looked at the Marowak before grabbing his head in pain once again. "Charizard, finish it." Was all Riley could say.

 

[Bleach#2]

Nion got a glimpse of Rileys battle and Riley Seems sangry. Nion found layla and Zack. "Hey guys what's wrong with Riley."Nion said. Nion then watched Rileys battle on the camera.

 

[Hotshot14380]

"Dude what the fuck? Way to be a jerk! It's not my fault my enemy went psycho and blasted me with water" Zack snapped back, as Riley just left emotionless. He watched his battle with Layla, crossed arms, as he easily beat all the pokemon so far with his Charizard.
"What the fuck is wrong with him?" Zack asked Layla. "Did he get hit in the head, was it in the serum?" Zack wanted to know what was wrong with him, so he could help fix him, because if they didn't Zack wasn't sure if he could hold himself from kicking his ass. This is not Riley, whatever happened, we need to fix it Zack thought.

 

[Jagson]

Drew walked to the stadium and sat behind the group. "Zack." He said how do you feel?" He asked His eyes turned towards Riley's battle. "Anyway how's the match been?" He asked. He tried to remember what happened earlier but couldn't

 

[Retro Master]

Charizard roared and flew straight at Marowak. "Marowak, use dig!" Joey exclaimed. Marowak dug into the ground, narrowly evading Charizard's fangs. Riley's head started to hurt even more and he grabbed his head in pain. "God damn it! Charizard hurry up!" Riley exclaimed, still in pain. That's when Joey saw it. A sly grin came across his face. "That's why you pulled me off my sofa. Your head was hurting you. Well guess what, you're going to be here for a while. Marowak, just keep dodging." Joey stated as we watched Riley deal with his head ache. Charizard watched as Mariwak went in circles around it using dig. Charizard used flamethrower as it tries to catch the Marowak, but only managed to create a circle of fire. "If I'm going to lose, I might as well make you suffer!" Joey exclaimed as he watched Riley. The whole crowd was cheering for Joey at this point until Riley spoke. "F-fuck you!" Riley exclaimed before pointing at the ground. Charizard saw wherevRikey pointed. The circle dig had in fact been a diversion for Charizard to lose Marowak. Charizard was prepared for the Marowak when it came out of the ground with a full power bone rush only to be frozen solid.

The whole crowd was stunned silent once again by Riley. Joey might've been frozen well as his mouth was hanging open. "Fucking damn it!" Was all Joey said as he watched Charizard used a powerful flamethrower on the frozen Marowak. The fire wasn't what had weakened Marowak. It was the amount of water that came from the ice since it had melted so fast.

"No! I will not let my journey end like this!" Joey exclaimed, starting to break down. "I'll make you-" Joey was interrupted by Riley. "I'll show you some mercy and end this now. Charizard, use your special attack." Riley started Joey just watched in awe as Charizard flew in the air and then dove down. As it five at full speed towards the Marowak, it used flamethrower in front of it. Due to the pressure in the air, the flames surrounded Charizard, almost creating a type of flare blitz except without the recoil damage. Joey watched as his journey through flashed through his memory while Charizard came down. "Noooooooo!" Joey yelled as Charizard came down on the Marowak, creates a huge explosion which also caught Joey in it.

The crowd had stopped cheering at this point and looked to see what had happened. As the dust settled, Marowak knocked out and Joey was on the floor. Riley saw that it was over and returned Charizard without saying anything.

Joey managed to get on his knees and watched as Riley started to walk away. "You think you're so cool Riley. Are you happy now that you've ruined my dreams?!" The boy yelled. The boy was in denial. Riley just kept walking. How could he lose like this if he had worked so hard to get to this point. Joey's eyes just scanned the area looking for some sort of solution. His eyes stopped on Marowak's club that was right next to him and he reached for it. Joey could remember all the training Marowak and Joey did practicing the move boomerang so they could show it off here. Those memories hurt Joey and he couldn't let his team lose like this. The move was imperfect because it was so hard for the club to return to him. Joey looked at the bone in his hand and then at Rikey, then back at the bone before he made his choice.

"I-I won't lose like this. Curse you Riley!" Joey yelled before he threw the club as hard as he could. Riley had almost made it off the battlefield before he heard Joey. Everything happened so fast that Riley didn't even think about what he did next. When he turned around, he saw the bone coming right at him. Joey froze up as he Riley caught the bone. Rikey looked at the bone, then back at Joey, his eyes filled with rage. "F-fuck you." Joey said as he watched him. Riley was so fueled with rage that he didn't even thing when he threw the club right back at Joey, with immense power. The crowd gasped as they heard a crack when the bone hit Joey, and they watched as his body fell. "I-I told him." Was all Riley could say before he walked back into the waiting room.

Riley just walked in off balance, clutching his head with one hand. He walked right past the others and sat back in his sofa and closed his eyes hoping the pain would go away.

 

[Hotshot14380]

"Hey Drew, I'm feeling better. That hydro pump hit me like a truck. Thank Arceus I had Foliage out," Zack responded, watching the battle. Zack saw how fast and strong Riley had thrown the club at Joey. What the fuck is wrong with him? He's turning into a thug1 Zack thought to himself as he walked in.
"What the fuck is wrong with you Riley? First you get all bitchy with me and then you go and almost kill a trainer? I should have known. You are turning into a low life thug. If you're in a tight spot, you resort to violence. At least I try and handle my problem before pelting someone with a club!" Zack yelled at his... associate. They were not friends if this was how he was acting. Zack knew it was the serum, but he still was acting some much like Riley would, Zack barely noticed a difference. They had to find an antidote, a cure, something to help him, and soon, before Zack had to resort to the hard way.
"You guys have any idea on how to fix him," Zack asked his friends, turning to them. The entire time he hadn't noticed Riley seemed in pain. He walked over to him, and put his and on Riley's forehead.
"High temp, fast heart rate, high blood pressure. You may be acting like a douchebag right now, but your safety is first," Zack told him.

 

[Bleach#2]

Nion thought. "You know the guy who's like world peace...He had a serum or something that was like the serum injected into Riley...."Nion said feeling smart. "And he's in our tourament when he goes up to battle we wait for him were the people come out of the arena we grab him we entaragate him there's only one thing that matters................."Nion said. There was a long pause...... "I call bad cop!!!"Nion said out loud.

 

[Jagson]

Drew raised an eyebrow. " And you would know this how." Drew said. Drew handed Nion his phone It had a picture of that Emile guy on it. " When stuff started to go down I decided to do some research on everyone." He said " Emile Rodrigues is the head of some biological firm here in Pale city." He said. " From what I've read their studying the human Genome. If you want to go after him I recommend we sneak into his labs and see what we can find out."

 

[Bleach#2]

"Ok that's actually a realy smart choice and we'll do it but we're also interigatting him who knows who else he could inject"Nion said looking at Drew. Niom them looked for the place they could be hiding out. It was a old abanded lab that realy big. "I think I know where there hiding nion said showing them the ginourmense lab on his phone.

 

[Fishykarp]

"What?"

Yet again Will asked, he was really going to have to come up with something new to say. He had from his place in the stands, watched the happenings of the last two matches.
"What the how?" He asked, "who did nobody get in trouble for either of those, two people could have died! That guy might actually be dead!"
He was suspicious, but hoped he didn't have to get involved, all he wanted was to take part in a tournament...

 

[skycaptain]

Layla stood back completely confused and frustrated at Riley's sudden change to a ruthless personality. She looked at Zack after Riley left the room. "I have no idea, he wasn't like that a few minutes ago.. It has to be something with that fucking injection." Layla wasn't quite sure what was happening with Riley, but she knew there was nothing she could do but watch the match. She was glad to see he was winning but she covered her mouth in shock when he had his Charizard just melt a Jynx. "Holy shit, this is insane- HE is insane!" She flinched at some of the more brutal moves dealt by Charizard, at this point she just wanted the match to be over. She then saw Riley clutching his head several times throughout the match clearly trying to make it quick. "We need to find out what he was injected with, as soon as possible. He's a danger to himself and those around him." Finally the match ended and Riley started walking away and it felt like Layla could breath again. Just when she thought he was in the clear the boy threw a bone at him and Riley whipped it back at him with ridiculous force. Layla actually jumped when the crack was even picked up by the mics. She stared at the screen for what seemed like ages with her mouth wide open. Very quietly in disbelief she mumbled "I-I think he just killed him." Layla stared at Riley in disbelief as he passed them and sat down on the sofa she tried to say something but all said when he past was "Riley..".

"And after.. that match. We have Shane Michael versus Layla Evans." It was evident even the announcer didn't know what to think about that fight. Layla looked back at Riley with serious concern and then to Zack and Drew and Nion. "I don't have a clue what to do for him. As much as I want to help, I need to get out there and try not to lose too quickly." She gave everyone a quick parting wave as she made her way down the hallway and onto the battlefield, with the roar of applause washing over her. She definitely enjoys that feeling. She walked onto the field waving to crowd, she could see several cameras pointed at her from the crew and from the fans. She smiled and waved with a thought coming back in her head. I almost forgot I'm the only female contestant this tournament. Layla got to her stopping point just as Shane was walking up. He looked to be about 5'7, probably around her age with black hair and a slim build. she watched him eye her up and down and smile and wave to her. "Hey, I know you might be a little sad after this match so how about we got some coffee after this?" Layla chuckled slightly as she pulled out her first pokeball. "Let's see what ya got lover-boy." They both exchanged confident smirks just before they threw their pokeballs. "Rapunzel, let's start this off right!" Her Rapidash kicked at the ground and snorted out a huff of smoke. "Show her how it's done Electabuzz!" Both pokemon stared each other down as both trainers did the same. Wow, this might actually be a friendly match.

"Begin!"
"Rapunzel, Flamethrower!" "Thunderbolt!" Both attacks collided in the middle of the battle field with a small explosion. "Charge and use flamethrower again!" "Jump and use Thunder punch!" Rapidash ran and and impressive speed and sent a wave of flames right at the electabuzz that it just narrowly dodged. Electabuzz nailed Rapunzel, sending her several feet back but she quickly regain her footing clearly in pain. "Awesome Electabuzz! Finish it with a thunder punch." Electabuzz ran at the wounded fire horse ready to pummel her into the ground. "Drill run!" Rapunzel slammed her head into Electabuzz's gut with a huge burst of speed and power. both pokemon were on the brink but still ready to fight. They both charged each other and simultaneously used thunderbolt and flamethrower point blank, creating a much bigger explosion. The smoke cleared and Rapidash had fainted on top of the fainter Electabuzz. The crowd uproared, clearly appreciating the close match-up. Layla and Shane stared at the two pokemon for a second before returning them. "Not a bad start beautiful! But this ends with Nidoking!" The Nidoking roared as soon as it appeared on the field. Layla grinned, even though he was flirting a little obnoxiously she was very happy to have a fair friendly battle. "Let's go Jill!" The slowbro appeared on the field and stared toward the Nidoking and tilted her head with a blank dopey expression. "Thunderbolt!" The lighting struck way to fast for Jill to have any hope of dodging but she took the attack without any major damage. "Psychic!" Slowbro's eyes glowed blue and the Nidoking was hit by a big blast of psychic energy, so much it knocked the beast over. It got back on it's feet with another rather obnoxious roar "Darn, Sludge bomb!" A huge mass of toxic slammed into Jill doing a little more than the thunderbolt. Jill wobbled for a second and hunched slightly clearly not feeling well. Damn, poisoned. Depending on his last pokemon it might not be a huge problem. "One more Psychic Jill!" Jill focused again and blasted the Nidoking this time right at Shane's feet, fainted. Shane shook his head and returned him and got out his last pokeball. "Wow I really didn't expect you to push me this far, honestly I'm a little a offended. But don't worry I'll give you a chance to make it up to me later." He winked and sent out his last pokemon with a look of complete confidence. "Charizard let's wrap this up." Layla's fist tightened as her gaze shifted between the two pokemon and the last pokemon she chose for the fight. There was only one thing going through her head as sweat ran down her back. FUCK. Layla knew she didn't have time to waste with the poison still wreaking havoc on Jill. "Hydro pump!" Jill took a wide stance and shot out a torrent of water that hit Charizard directly and did a substantial amount of damage. Layla smiled as the attack hit and tried to calm herself down. Alright if Jill can just land one more Hydro pump everything will be- "Dragon claw." The Charizard flew at an impressive speed and just shredded poor Jill into unconsciousness. Leaving Layla returning Jill if evident hesitation and panic on her face. "Oh sorry about that sweety, but I did come to win. From the look on your face, it looks like I came to the right place." Layla stared at the pokeball starting to accept the lose. She started to consider surrendering. There is just no way he could beat a Charizard. She paused thinking back to the last tournament where none of her pokemon really got a chance to shine after being beaten in the first round. Even if the odds are stacked against them, they deserve a chance. She finally tossed out the pokeball and a tiny little Farfetch'd popped onto the field. "Fuck em up, Hupgup." Shane had to cover his mouth to stifle his laughter. "Well, that's basically a forfeit. Flamethrower." Charizard flew at the duck and blasted fire at it. Both Layla and Hupgup panicked as the fire started engulfing their vision. "RUN HUPGUP!" With a pathetic quack it fearfully flew away from the blast as fast as it could flying all around the field all the while the charizard did not stop. Layla knew she had to make a play, he couldn't keep running forever. "Fly up!" Farfetch'd flew up as high as he could, out of the stadium lights into the night sky. "Slash!" Farfetch'd dived through the flames, cutting deep into the Charizard making it roar in pain and fall helplessly to the stadium floor finally fainted. Shane stared at the Charizard in disbelief and then too the Farfetch'd that just landed. "Your pretty and all, but that was pure luck." Farfetch'd hopped onto Layla's shoulder and she rubbed the back of her head with an embarrassed look. "Yep!" As the crowd roared for the underdog outcome Layla got Shane's attention. "Hey. I really appreciate the fact that you fought fair and square, you are really something else. Don't let this stop you, you need to come back and win the next tournament." Shane actually smiled back and waved as he walked off. "I'll be rooting for you."

Layla walked down the hallway and back into the waiting room to meet back up with everyone. That battle actually took a lot more out of her than it should have. It's probably a combination of the second round going so late that made her so tired. She moved straight to the only spot open, which of course was next to the merciless freak Riley. She didn't care that much at the moment, she sat down at the other and of the couch and let Hupgup rest in her lap for a bit.

 

[Fishykarp]

Realising that he should probably be in the waiting room, not watching the battles in the stands.
Making his way to the room, Will entered and realised that there were no more seats. Sighing he stood up in a corner of the room. Across from him, he noticed Riley, the guy who had literally killed his competitor
"I would not want to fight him next round" he thought to himself

 

[Retro Master]

"The parasite seems to have fully formed. A part of it has reached the host's brain which has seemingly started to change his personality. I hypothesize that it is because this form seems to be more aggressive and it's giving some those traits to its hosts." A researcher told Cortez at their base. "But we can still control it Cortez. The boy is now your pawn." The researched stated.

"Shut up Zack. Like seriously, shut the fuck up." Riley harshly said while still holding his head. Riley felt a bit bad that he didn't get to say good luck to Layla before she went to the battle. The least he could do was watch her match on one of the many tv screens in the room. The match between Layla and Shane was actually one of the first friendly matches Riley had seen in awhile. The battle between the Electabuzz and Rapidash ended in a draw. The Nidoking had a clutch poisoning on the Slowbro. It allowed Charizard to defeat Slowbro pretty quickly. Then came the most interesting part of the match that everyone would be talking about for days. Farfetch'd's slash right into Charizard's flamethrower. Riley thought it was maybe his headache that was making him see things but that was not the case when Layla walked back in, signaling that she did win. "G-good job Layla." Riley told her, but then realized that she was probably scared of him now like she was with Zack.

It was probably worse now that he had probably killed someone. The people around him seemed to be a bit scared of him. It made him feel bad for Zack when he went through this. The injection had changed him for the worse. "You know what, I think I'm going to go now. Maybe some rest can help me." Riley said as he stood up. They probably wanted him gone and Riley decided he should just go before creating any more problems. His back had started to hurt him as well. His headache was also not a regular one as it came and went and he thought he could feel his brain deteriorating from the excruciating pain whenever it came. Riley then started hobbling his way out the room.

 

[Bleach#2]

Nion was thinking how he would infiltrate the building but then... "Nion vs Dane Jones please come to the arena please I'm repeating Nion vs Dane Jones." The announcer said. "Let me show you how it's done without killing someone or getting hurt.....Zack and Riley"Nion said walking out to the arena. He walked to the field and everybody for some reason cheered for him Nion just waved and smiled. Nion then looked at him oponent who was looking at him. "Hey I'll do you a favor and I'll make this quick very quick"Dane said. "Something tells me it's gonna be the other way around"Nion said. "Your gonna be crying to your mommy after this"Dane said. Nion then remember his dream and how his parents were no more Nion got triggered. "Go Ninetails"Dan said. Nion sent out his lapras. playing) "Fire blast"Dane said. Lapras used rain dance which disabled Ninetails fire moves. Lapras then used hydro pump and it koed Dans Ninetails. "Uh wtf this rains powering your moves!!!"Dan said. Dan sent out his Nidoking. Nidoking tried to use sludge bomb but lapras koed it with hydro pump before it could do anything. Dane then sent out his Charizard but lapras koed that too with hydro pump. "H-how" all Dane could say. "First have some variety in your team you had none how did you even get to the second round"Nion said walking back into the waiting room.

 

[Hotshot14380]

"Hey great job Layla, and good job to you too Nion. You both crushed it out there. Riley hasn't been doing very well since you left. It looks like he's hurt or something. We need to find the guys who did this to him, and make him talk. We gotta get a cure soon before it's too late." Zack explained, catching them up on what they missed while there battles went on. He was really happy to see his friends win, the'd be moving on to the next round with him. He turned to Riley, who seemed to be calming down.
"Yea, rest is the best thing for you right now. Head back to the hotel." Zack suggested. Sleep was the best option for Riley right now.
"Hey drew, I believe you match is up next right?" Zack asked, looking at the monitor.

 

[Retro Master]

Right before Riley walked out the waiting room, he decided to go to the vending machine to get something to drink. When he pulled out his wallet to get a Pokédollar out, there was no money there. Riley just shook his head thinking it was a hallucination. When he looked in his wallet again, there was no money. Riley closed his wallet and walked eerily calm towards the group. "Come on guys, I know you like pranks and all but this is not funny. Now can someone tell me where all my money went?" Riley asked, still calm and not looking at anyone in particular.

 

[skycaptain]

Layla jumped slightly when Riley congratulated her on the win and she managed a small tired smile trying to forget how worried she was about him. "Heh, thanks." Layla smiled at Zack and nodded her thanks for another formal congratulations. Layla was glad to see Riley was going to get some wrest but she also wasn't sure if he should be on his own right now. She was very confused when he walked up to the group and asked in a forced calm tone where his money is. Layla shrugged her shoulders clueless. "Couldn't tell ya. Do you know when you had it last?"

 

[Jagson]

Drew stood up. " Sorry can't say that I did anything with it." He said as he started to walk towards the stadium. He did his best to think about what was happening to Riley but he had to push that aside as he got his mind on the battle.

Coertez stood up. He pressed a button soon the screen of his wrist device showed images that were coming from Riley's eyes. " I have to get ready for my match." He said to the scientists. he stopped a little bit ahead and placed the wrist device in a locker. He figured they might try and attack him since he talked about using his serum earlier.

 

[Retro Master]

Riley ran his hand through his hair and chuckled a bit. "Damn it Layla. I'll be the first to admit that you were right. Well it's too late now so there's no point for me to regret my decision. I've lost my mind and money in the same day. How can this get any worse?!" Riley paused as soon as he said that. Too many shows had characters say that quote right before something even worse happened.

"Well, I'm going to go now guys. Um, see you all tomorrow." Riley said, trying his best to act fine. Riley figured that due to the heavy rain still going on outside, it might be harder to fly back but it was worth it. There were probably people out there waiting to attack for what he did and he didn't feel like causing a massacre tonight. If worse scenerio came, and he was attacked, he would take out his attacker and then take the money to get on a bus or taxi. Riley realized he had been thinking for too long and broke out of his thoughts. "Um, yeah, I'm going." Riley managed to say before turning around. He almost fell over because of the dizziness that came after turning his head so fast right after another headache. Another one would probably come in a few minutes, so he had to go. Riley found himself holding on to the walls before he was outside. "This is going to take awhile." Riley said to himself as he kept walking.

 

[skycaptain]

Layla's expression softened as a little bit of Riley came back but was it obvious panic. She was sad that it took all of this strife for him to realize that she was right. He was clearly losing it and having a huge tough time even standing up straight. As Riley left the waiting room Layla gave everyone else a concerned look and started to follow him. "I'm gonna make sure he makes it to his room, good luck with the rest of your guys matches." Layla went out the door and found Riley walking along the wall not very far away. Layla walked up behind him and put her soft hand on his shoulder. She didn't say anything as she lightly placed his arm over her shoulders, offering to support some of his weight to help him walk.

 

[Bleach#2]

Nion just scratched his head. "Guess it's us three going to the old abanded lab"Nion said. Looking at Drew and Zack then."Hey will wanna come with us"Nion said looking at will. "The next battle will begin in 1 minuete"The announcer said. " Hey Drew your battles coming up dont want to miss that"Nion said. "So it's just the there of us If wills coming Zack Let's go save Riley"Nion said walking out of the building. Nion sent out his Dodrio. "Cya there"Nion said while his dodrio was running in the distance. Till he got to the lab.

 

[Retro Master]

Riley's body tensed up as he felt a soft hand touch his shoulder. When he saw it was Layla, he relaxed a little. "Th-thanks." Riley spoke softly as he took her help. Riley wouldn't show it, but he was grateful for the help. "Y'know, this is kind of embarrassing. The future champion being helped to his hotel by a girl." Riley said as they walked.

Truth be told, Riley actually thought Layla would be afraid to even be near him. He had just nearly killed someone. Even though it was something doing this to him, Riley still felt responsible for what he did. Layla had been frightened of Zack when he only knocked someone down. He could only imagine how she would've felt if Zack had nearly killed someone. Now here Riley was, in the same position he never expected himself to be in. Riley couldn't help but ask Layla the question. "Aren't you afraid?" He asked, trying to keep a calm voice.

 

[skycaptain]

Layla did her best helping Riley even though she was naturally shorter. She didn't look at him when he unexpectedly thanked her. She smiled and focused on the ground in front of them. She giggled when he said he was a little embarrassed. "Just try not to fall on your face, Champ." She kept helping him along only struggling sometimes to keep him from falling. She glanced his way after feeling his long brooding stare. "What?" When Riley asked her if she was afraid she looked at the ground inquisitively as if she was trying to find the answer herself. "I mean, yeaaah. But I've seen enough of your personality to know that you aren't a frightning person. Or Zack for that matter. You both are just, Reckless. I know you mean well but you can both can easily go too far. But in conclusion, I'm scared of the injection. Not you."

 

[Jagson]

Drew walked to the stadium. He let out a breath as he looked at his opponent The boy was a bit slimmer. He had short black hair.
" Now Drew Leuric vs Sam Pinale." He said begin.
" Go Pidgeot." Sam said without Drew sent out his nintales. The two pokemon went at each other.

"use fire blast." he said. He said as he looked at her. Kamaru the nintales created a symbol of fire and it flew towards the pidgeot. the Pidgeot broke threw with brave bird and hit the nintales making it slam into the wall Koing Kamaru. " Return." Drew said. " Go Nightmare." Drew said as he threw threw the pokeball out. Nightmare spun around as it made a silly face at the Pidgey.
"Brave bird." Sam said as the pidgeot flew towards gengar. " Dark pulse." Drew said. The beam hit the pidgeot making him fly backwards.

" Don't expect me to be one shoted like Kumaru." Nightmare said as he simply wiggled his finger.

"Return." Sam said. " Go Alakazam." He said as He looked at Drew.

 

[Retro Master]

Riley was glad Layla said that. He couldn't but help but smile a little. It made him feel better knowing that she wasn't scared of him. It was the cursed injection. Riley knew the people who injected him had something planned. They didn't just inject him for no reason. That thinking brought up some more questions. Was he the only one? Why did they inject him? What is Neo Team Rocket trying to achieve? Riley started to chuckle when he realized it. 'It's world peace, isn't it?' Riley thought to himself. Nion must've been right. That guy in the tournament was a part of it.

As they made their way outside, it was still raining and Riley stopped in his tracks as he looked at the night sky only to have rain fall on his face. "Damn it!" Riley exclaimed as he rubbed the water off his face. "So what's the plan?" Riley asked Layla. "I was going to use Dragonite and fly but it's still raining. The only time my Dragonite can fly when it's raining is during the daytime. We either can catch a ride or get close enough to the hotel so my Alakazam can teleport me in." Riley told Layla. He looked at Layla and then thought about what they should do.

There were no buses or taxis there at the moment as most people would usually walk to their hotels. Riley's hotel was like a mile away which was good for walking but bad when it was raining. If he flew on Dargonite at full speed, it would take at least thirty seconds, but that was assuming Riley didn't fall off. Riley could also have Dragonite fly so fast that when Riley loses his grip, he would still be close enough to the hotel to teleport in. The only problem would be that he would have to do call out Alakazam and issue his conmands during free fall. 'If only I had a Pokemon with sunny day.' Riley thought that it would atleast make the rain go away. 'That's my only option then.' Riley thought to himself before he looked at Layla.

"I appreciate your help Layla but I think I got it from here." Riley said as he tried to stand on his own. He was off balance at first but eventually managed to stand still. "I'm going to have Dragonite fly me to the hotel. It might be dangerous but I think he can handle it." Riley said, not bothering to tell her about the truly dangerous part. "If you have any ideas, tell me now." Riley said as he reached for Dragonite's pokeball.

 

[Hotshot14380]

"Well Nion I wasn-" Zack began to say, but Nion was already on his dodrio, and off to the lab. He sighed, and walked out of the stadium. He knew Layla could help Riley alone, but he still wanted to help, even where the help wasn't needed. Though, when he got out, Riley was about to throw out a pokemon. Zack, knowing Riley, knew immediately what he was going to do.
"Wow wow wow, calm down there partner, you're not planning to ride off are you?" Zack said, running up to the two in the rain.
"Come on Riley, you're smarter than that. But down the ball." Zack told him.

 

[Jagson]

" use pshy..." Sam tried to say only for the Alakazam to fall asleep do to hypnosis.
" Dream eater." Drew said. Nightmare simply walked to the Alakazam. He gave the sleeping pokemon a toothy smile before sticking his hand right into the Alakazam's head and taking out a small yellow orb. Nightmare bit into it at the same time the Alakazam whined in pain as his dreams were being ripped from him. Nightmare finised eating the dream before licking his hand tasting any juice that was left over.
"Dark pulse." Drew said. Nightmare fired a dark pulse at point blank range. The alakazam slammed into the wall KOing hi instantly.
" Return," He said. " Go Jolteon."
"Shadow ball." Drew immediately said. " The same." Sam said. Both pokemon started firing balls of shadows at each other. both moves continued to collide with each other. " Thunder bolt." Sam said. A burst of electricity ripped threw the stage Nightmare tried to move back but was shocked. Nightmare shook it off as he sent a dark pulse at the Jolteon. The Jolteon fired his own thunder shock again both moves collided neither one giving up until the combined moves created a shock wave hitting Gengar and Jolteon as well as Sam and Drew. Drew stood up nearly falling down again. He looked at the other guy. " Are you alright?" He asked.
"Yeah I'm fine." Sam said as he stood up. He couldn't help but laugh Drew soon fallowed in the chuckling. " Return." He said to the Koed Nightmare. he looked at the field and saw how destroyed it was do to that shockwave. He whistled before he thought of who he could send out. He frowned as he realized all his remaing pokemon had the same weakness. " Shit." He thought. " Alright Poli let's do this." He said. sending out his friend and partner.
" Come back out Pidgeot." He said. "Ready to finish this?"
"Yes." Drew said.

 

[skycaptain]

LLayla grinned as a few raindrops hit her. She actually loved the rain, but she could agree that being soaking wet isn't the best. Layla gave Riley a look when he tried to have her leave him alone and that he would fly Dragonite to the hotel. "You can barely walk on your own, I'm not going to let you fly at night while it's raining. You already did one stupid thing I told you would end badly today, I'm not going to let you have two in a row." Layla turned surprised as Zack showed up, she wasn't quite sure why he followed but she was glad he was backing up her statement. She ruffled through her back having just remembered something her mom made her pack. She pulled out a small folded up umbrella and undid the strap and opened it up. "We are going to walk, right Riley?" Layla stepped out further from the building under her umbrella expectantly looking at the nauseous nimrod. He still had the pokeball in his hands and Layla took a step closer to him with a sadistic and threatening smile. "If you try to fly off on your Dragonite right now I will have Hupgup personally introduce his stick to your rectum."

 

[Retro Master]

Riley took one good look at Layla too realize she was not playing around. He had already seen what Hupgup was capable of and he didn't want a personal demonstration. "Yeah, I was totally joking!" Riley exclaimed, laughing awkwardly. He quickly put the pokeball back on his Pokébelt and stumbled his way under the umbrella with Layla. "You should've told me you had an umbrella before I got soaked." Riley complained. Twice in one night he had been soaked from top to bottom. Riley noticed Zack had also come to check on them. "Thanks for checking on us Zack, but we're fine I think. See you tomorrow Zack." Riley told him. Riley then looked at Layla who was actually right next to him. He could feel another headache start to come on, but he tried to withstand it until he reached his room. "Let's get going then." Riley told Layla as he started to walk head, but stopped when rain poured all over him. He remembered that he wasn't the one holding the umbrella and walked back under it cursing under his breath. Riley realized that it wasn't the headache that made him do that, it was just him being dumb.

 

[Hotshot14380]

Zack's eyes went as open as they could manage, after Layla's last comment.
"Well that's disgusting, and really, really cruel Layla, jeez!" Zack added, finally catching up. God dammit, I hate the rain Zack told himself. The hotel was still quite a walk away, well, quite a walk away for someone who can barely stand. He nodded to Riley when he said they were fine, but still wanted to ensure Riley made it ok.
"Alright fine, but I'm going to wait for you at the hotel, and if you guys aren't back in 30 minutes, i'm coming back," Zack told the two. Then Zack started running ahead. Before he was too far ahead though, he got a funny idea, and started jogging backwards so he could face them.
"Catch you later, love birds!" Zack called back, laughing to himself, and then turned back to running forwards, heading to the hotel. It was a long, tiring day, and he was ready to pass out, but not until his friends got back.
When Zack finally reached the hotel, he was soaked on every inch of him. He was really annoyed about that, it ruined his hair, his clothes were stuck to him, and he had to bear the extremely annoying squeak his shoes made against the floor. Also, Zack loved fire, and water ruined that. He sat down in the main lobby, looking out the large windows waiting for his friends to come into view, hopefully.

 

[skycaptain]

Layla shrugged her shoulders as Zack reacted with disgust. "Hey man, whatever works." Riley complained and told her she should have gotten her umbrella out sooner. "Oh give me a break, I just remembered. I didn't know the injection also made you allergic too rain." She poked fun at him and handed him the umbrella so she could help him walk. She threw his right arm over her shoulders and started moving with him. The umbrella was pretty small so she was always getting a little wet, but she wasn't going to raise a fuss about it. Zack ran ahead and shouted something about lovebirds. Layla sighed as she could assume what he said and she rolled her eyes. "Very mature Zack." She mumbled as she helped Riley through the rain which only seemed to be coming down harder. Something she didn't plan for was that with night and rainfall it was a little chilly outside, turns out jean shorts and a T-shirt don't keep you very warm. She didn't want to complain about anything after she was the one to force them both down this path. Hiding her slight shivers every once in a while she glanced at the trainer. "Do you think you will be feeling better for the matches tomorrow?"