128 Chapter 128
To be perfectly honest, as big and powerful as Aerodactyl was, using him in an actual serious battle, would have usually been a horrible move.
Especially this one in particular.
Out of the three long range attacks Aerodactyl has, one is horrible against dragon types, another takes up a lot of energy to use and would typically tire a normal pokemon out and the third while super effective against flying types, wasn't going to do much as an opening move.
On top of that, Aerodactyl has no head for strategy and I've not trained with him at all in battle as a pokemon of mine, only them him see the scope of what my other pokemon were capable of in a mock battle.
But, Aerodactyl's biggest fault, was also perhaps his biggest saving grace here. He was a bully that loved to lord his strength over others.
That meant his go to, was always the strongest attacks he could muster to show off his dominance, because he is a dumbass like that.
And it had shown during the time he was getting his ass kicked by the rest of my pokemon earlier.
And the simple fact of the matter was-
That those attacks, did not tire him out as much as they would the standard pokemon, because he'd used them so much.
"Giga Impact!" I ordered.
I may as well put Aerodactyl's love of bullying to my advantage and start off big and flashy.
"Aero!" Aerodactyl howled happily and with a flap off his massive wings, ascended into the air and spun, an aura of blazing purple exploding into existence around him, and then sparking golden energy wrapping around the aura.
And an instant later, with the look of a warhead of pure energy, Aerodactyl changed directions and rapidly shot towards Lance's Dragonite. His sheer size and power making it so he cleared the distance in a few blinks of the eye.
Aerodactyl slammed into Dragonite like a raging meteor that thundered through the air and shook the very earth.
And Dragonite was pushed back about half a metre.
Arms held up in the air, Dragonite had outright caught Aerodactyl clad in the powerful energy of Giga Impact and stopped him in his tracks.
'Insane.' I thought. None of my pokemon could currently even hope to exert such monstrous physical strength.
Not yet.
But totally within my calculations.
The energy around Aerodactyl puttered out almost instantly, and his wide eyed shocked face came into view.
"Hyper Beam!" I didn't order, I demanded of him.
Because one other thing I had learned about Aerodactyl in the scant few hours we've been together since I captured him. Is that he didn't know when to quit when he was ahead.
He was an idiot like that. But even idiocy had its uses.
Aerodactyl's huge jaws snapped open, a huge swirling crackling sphere of pitch black powerful swirling into existence, before promptly being unleashed at point blank range in a wide black beam of devastating power.
A thunderous boom enveloped Dragonite who's arms were pre-occupied with holding Aerodactyl in place as the beam washed over it and drowned out much of the sound, even that of screams and shouts of excitement coming from the spectators.
The hands holding Aerodactyl in place were dislodged with the attack and he happily turned and flew his way over to me and landed in front of me, looking down with a proud preening smug look.
"Not bad," I complimented him, "But if you think it's over from just that, you've learned nothing at all from the beating the others gave you earlier."
And the crowd went wild.
Literally.
And as if to prove my point, the smoke that had obscured Dragonite faded away to reveal Dragonite completely fine and no worse for wear at all, the only sign of Aerodactyl's attack at all, being the huge crater it was standing within.
Aerodactyl's head whipped over his shoulder to stare wide eyed, and a creeping sense horror made its way back into his gaze.
"Not too shabby at all," Lance noted loudly, arms crossed and with an approving nod, "Aerodactyl or not, I wasn't expecting it to be capable of using Giga Impact and then Hyper Beam of all things in quick succession, it has quite the power and stamina already, most gym leader pokemon would be hard pressed to stay standing after an onslaught like that."
My thoughts exactly.
The fact that his Dragonite wasn't even scratched by that though, went to show just how monstrous the gap between a champion and a gym leader was though.
A bit daunting, but I gotta admit, pleasing as well. If a champion was capable of being brought down by something as simple as that, I would have been severely disappointed.
"Now, let's return the favour, eh Dragonite?" Lance grinned at his Dragonite who merely flashed him a thumbs up without turning around.
"Ancient Power, then flamethrower them and set them alight," I decided to nip that in the bud, "Then rush him with Bite, you're bigger, use your weight to your advantage, try and grab it by the neck and slam it into the ground."
Aerodactyl shook his head at my order and his eyes once more lit up with the desire to do harm.
"Aero!" he whirled around massive wings spreading wide, his body lighting up with silver power that then erupted into the form of multiple shining silver spheres that were sent shooting towards Dragonite like bullets, at the same time flames licked within his maw and he spat out a gout of flame that he swept over the silvery rock bullets, lighting them up with blazing embers and turning them into roasting comets of rock and fire power.
"Hurricane." Lance countered simply.
"Droo!" the Dragonite nodded and stepped forward towards the roaring blazing comets of power shooting towards it, leg muscles tensing powerfuly and its head lowering as if facing an incoming storm and then its small, yet incredibly powerful wings began to rapidly beat so fast it sounded like some was smashing a building with a wrecking bell.
An instant later, a massive vertical hurricane of gale force winds tore across the battlefield, sweeping over the combination of Ancient Power and Flamethrower, before slamming into Aerodactyl before he could react.
"AERO!" I heard him roar from within the hurricane winds and saw his wings burst out from the sides of it as he tried to fight his way through.
"Giga Impact, get out of there!" I hurried shouted as loud as I could, in hope he could hear me over the raging gales.
To my relief, purple and gold sparked around the wings jutting out of the Hurricane winds-
Only for Dragonite to jerk and spin to the side as it beat its wings and the huge hurricane swerved, twisting up into the air carrying Aerodactyl all the way, before twisting directions once more and shooting down towards the ground.
Carried by the huge hurricane, Aerodactyl was slammed and ground into the ground of the battlefield with so much force the battlefield cratered inwards for a good thirty feet in diameter and spider web crack spread across the entire field.
Dragonite stopped beatings its wings after a few moments of the hurricane winds grinding Aerodactyl into the ground and the huge powerful winds dispersed to reveal my newly captured Aerodactyl, face down in the dirt and completely out cold.
And the crowd went wild.
Literally.
Again.
