Chapter 63

While Shiftry appeared in front of me, arms crossed and cool as a cucumber. A Nidoking appeared in front of Gary, one thickly muscled leg pawing through the ground and digging a small trench in the grass.

I had to withhold a whistle. Man Nidoking is badass looking. Bipedal, with a a massive gleaming horn on its head, a thick purple hide with sharp spines tracing down its back, and its white front absolutely ripped with muscle.

'Nidoking huh? A perfect pokemon for Gary, he probably caught a Nidorino, evolved it with a moon stone he bought right away and loaded it up with TM's.' I thought. Super easily to fully evolve and a massive move pool, it really was a pokemon that suited Gary for growing powerful quickly through a mass of TM's.

Now that I think about it, a lot of Gary's pokemon were pokemon that evolved through items. Heh, the guy was basically pay to win in the beginning of his journey, it's no wonder he was always two steps ahead of Ash.

"A Shiftry huh? First time I've seen one in person," Gary grinned and pulled out his pokedex. I couldn't hear anything from it due to the distance, but he nodded after a moment and stowed the pokedex away, "A powerful looking pokemon, but a grass type, my Nidoking is part poison type, looks like I have the advantage."

"Think of it as a handicap, you'll need it." I shot back. Shiftry was a powerhouse before I caught him, and he's leagues stronger than he was then now.

"You're kind of annoying you know that kid?" Gary huffed before lifting his hand and clicking his fingers again, "Gimme my tune girls."

Like trained performers, the group of beautiful girls all began to dance in place and wave their pom poms, "Gary, Gary he's our man, if he can't do it, no one can!" they cheered as one.

I rolled my eyes and heard Hilda gag in disgust behind me. If he wanted to waste time with shit like that, fine with me, "Sunny Day." I ordered.

Shiftry immediately lifted one arm, conjuring a reddish orange sphere in his leaf fingered hand and then tossing it high into the air.

It ascended rapidly into the air and expanded in size massively, becoming like a miniature sun and raining sunlight down upon us, the heat throughout the area picking up slightly.

"Oh, for me, you shouldn't have!" Gary laughed and pointed out, "Nidoking, Fire Blast!"

Huh, as expected.

Nidoking roared and threw its head forward, spitting out a massive orb of flame that rapidly expanded outwards into a five pointed star shape that shot through the air like a rocket, becoming larger and larger as it went.

It was a few feet above the grass, but the green underneath it turned charred black from the sheer heat it radiated without even touching it.

Not bad, he was taking advantage of Sunny Day powering up fire type attacks.

I've gotta admit, that is some power! This thing probably knows upwards of at least twenty moves, if not thirty or more.

Still, it's far too slow.

I didn't even bother telling Shiftry to dodge. One moment he was there, the next he was just gone as if never there to begin with. Shiftry was a speed demon for sure, my fastest pokemon on land by far and can keep up with Pidgeotto even without a speed enhancing attack.

And with Sunny Day up, his ability Chlorophyll is going full throttle and increasing his speed.

The massive flame star tore through Shiftry's previous position and hit nothing, flying up into the air and disappearing from view.

"The hell?!" Gary gaped, looking around wildly, his Nidoking not much better, "Where the heck did it go?"

To be honest, even I'm not sure, not that I'll tell him. Shiftry was so fast, even being used to all the fast paced combat my pokemon participated in during spars, I couldn't track him at all.

Gotta work on that.

"Extrasensory!" I called out, trusting Shiftry to have gotten in a good position.

There!

A blur appeared a split moment later a dozen or so feet to the right of Nidoking. It was Shiftry, eyes lighting up with golden power, and then a moment later, twin beams of golden light shot out and converged together into one massive beam and swept over Nidoking before it could even figure out what was going on at all.

It roared in pain as the psychic type energy took hold of its body and bodily lifted it up. Extrasensory was a nasty move, not only did anything caught up in it fall under the physical control of the user, the energy actually hurt whatever it touched.

"Nidoking!" Gary's eyes widened in shock.

"Pull it in and Solarbeam!" I quickly ordered before my opponent could come up with a counter.

Shiftry grunted and the golden beam emitted from his eyes acted like a tractor beam and reeled Nidoking quickly through the air towards him. As the dual poison and ground type did so, Shiftry cupped his hands together at his side, a glowing with sphere crackling into existence and expanding.

"Protect!" Gary shouted rapidly, just as the golden beam disappeared from Shiftry's eyes and he thrust his cupped hands outwards.

"Shift!" my pokemon roared and from his cupped hands, the orb of energy exploded outwards in a massive blinding white beam.

To Nidoking's credit, despite only just getting control of its body back at the last second, it crossed its powerfully muscled arms together, a sphere of protective green energy beginning to expand outwards around its body.

If it had a split moment more, it would probably have been successful.

The spherical barrier shattered like glass under Shiftry's Solarbeam and washed over Nidoking like a tidal wave from the ocean.

Nidoking roared in pain once again as the beam carried it through the air and further away. The beam only lasted for all of a few seconds, and when it did, the ground shook as Nidoking's heavy form slammed into it, limp and unmoving.