Pokemon: Radical Redux

i{Unknown location}

Blanche and Articuno landed at the coordinates they were given, the place itself was of the cost of an Island and Pretty remote with nothing but a large mountain and a treeline across the shore.

Blanche frowned and spoke up, "Articuno lend me some power."

Articuno nodded as Mist came out of its breath and spread across the area, Blanche's eyes glowed slightly blue as they both saw the MIst entering into a mysterious opening near the mountain.

"Articuno [Ice Shard] on the mountain," Blanche commanded.

Articuno flapped its wings creating shards of ice that launched and destroyed the base of the mountain, revealing a large opening.

Blanche stared coldly and continued walking and Articuno followed much more begrudgingly.

As they went deeper they eventually came to what appeared to be an underground cave system with a roof about 100 ft up give or take.

And in the center of the room there was Candela slouched down and tied to a chair, Blanche immediately ran over and knelt down.

"Hey Candela, talk to me, are you OK?" Blanche said as the last few bindings fell off of Candela

Candela looked up and grit her teeth as she saw Blanche, "Blanche what are you doing here, this is like villain 101, this is so painfully obviously a trap."

"You know she's right" a masculine voice rang out, from a corner, there was Cliff, Sierra, and Arlo, and a large metal door blocked the opening where Blanche entered from.

"I'm surprised the cool, calm, and collected Blanche fell for our little scheme~," Sierra said

"That doesn't matter.." Blanche responded, "I have Articuno's protection."

As soon as Blanche said that, Articuno flew between them and glared menacingly.

Arlo stepped up and adjusted his glasses, "Isn't that a little unfair, having a legendary against us, I think we oughta fix that."

Arlo held out a purple Pokeball and dropped it to the ground, emerging from the ball was an equally large bird with flames exiting from its head and wings, Moltres. However unlike before Moltres's eyes were now pure red, with streams of darkness on the tips of the fire with an overall darker tone.

"Meet Shadow Moltres!" Arlo said with a large smirk.

Blanche recognized the beast and looked down at Candela, who was staring at it with a shocked expression, completely immobilized.

Blanche looked back and got ready, "It doesn't matter what tricks you have, Articuno and I will take you down, then you're all answering some questions!"

"It seems you've forgotten something," Arlo said with a coy expression, "Correct me if I'm wrong but Articuno is an ice type right? Now remind me again what type is Moltres."

As he said that Moltres let out a Screech into the air.

—-

{Matcha City}

Professor Akihabara walked back into his house, which was much cleaner this time since he programmed his robots to clean up the place because he finally built up the courage to ask out Nurse Joy.

He walked in with a pep in his step and came into his lab where one of his robots helped him put on his coat, but when he walked inside he saw the familiar figure of the guy he only knows as 'D.'

Of Course, this was Ashtwo who was reading a nearby document and admired the new look of the place, "Yo Aki, did you clean up this place for little old me~"

Akihabara rolled his eyes and walked in and to his computer, "Don't flatter yourself, I have a date coming up so tell me what you're doing here."

As he was logging into his computer a card dropped and fell on his keyboard, "Thought you might like that, since it's on my end of the deal, maybe you can take your 'girlfriend' somewhere fancy."

Akihabara took the card and inspected it, "So how can I be sure they aren't going to find out about this?"

"Relax, I made an offshore account for you they can't track it unless they want to go through every single grunt, and by then, well let's just say the trail will run cold."

Akihabara nodded and went into his computer, "And what about Aster, anything on him?"

Ash shook his head, "Not a thing, I can't even find him on the files, which means he is probably on the more encrypted side along with any projects they have cooking."

Akihabara nodded and clicked for something to be teleported, "I expected as much, they wouldn't want that being known by any Rocket grunt, thankfully the thing you asked for came in recently,"

As he finished saying that a yellow disk came out of the computer, "You kept your word so I'll keep mine, I don't fully trust you but as long as we can get this done I don't care, this Up-Grade will help."

Ash smiled under the scarf and took it as he released Porygon, "Cool, let's have some fun,"

Ash put the disk in the place where a mouth should be letting it enter, immediately The Windows XP startup music started playing as Porygon processed the information, and then it started glowing.

—

{Saffron Gym}

The day finally came, the day of the battle, Yellow went to meet everyone at the entrance with Pikachu in her arms and Chuchu on her head, meanwhile Ash and Sabrina were presumably getting prepared.

As soon as they saw each other Misty ran forward and pulled Yellow into a hug, "Yellow it's so good to see you again, we haven't seen each other in a week!"

Yellow didn't resist it, so Brock spoke up as he saw the empty hallway, "So I assume Ash and presumably Sabrina are preparing for battle right?"

Yellow snapped back into reality and pulled away from Misty, "Oh, yeah they are getting started I think they already did start we should hurry!"

Yellow grabbed Misty by the arm and directed her to the stands, followed by Brock, Samurai, A.J., and Jeanette.

As they all reached the top of the stands to look over the battlefield they saw a few other people wearing white robes sitting around the stadium, they didn't recognize any of them but Yellow knew them as Sabrina's students.

In the field, Ash was on one side with his unzipped jacket, and on the other side, Sabrina was wearing the red almost skintight jumpsuit that any fan of Pokemon can remember as her original outfit.

In the middle, there was an older man who Yellow recognized as Sabrina's father who spoke up, "An official gym battle between Gym leader Sabrina and the challenger Ash. This will be a 5 on 4 battle and only the challenger is allowed to switch out his Pokemon. Due to the amount of badges, the field will be enveloped in a permanent Psychic Terrain."

As he said that from the field itself a sparkling purple energy started covering the field, "Are both challengers ready!"

From the top of the stands people were mumbling hearing the rulings, especially Brock and Misty, both of them stared at each other with absolute disbelief.

"You don't think… no he wouldn't," Brock mummed

Misty covered her face, "No, he totally did…."

That just made the four more confused hearing them, but before anyone could ask anything the loud voice called out, "You may now Begin!"

-

Ash and Sabrina both threw out their first Pokemon, on Ash's side was his red Gyarados with a Life Orb necklace, and on Sabrina's was Mr. Mime holding a piece of Light Clay.

Immediately Gyarados stared down at the smaller Human like Pokemon and glared down, making Mr. Mime take a step back in fear.

Ash took the first move, "Gyarados [Dragon Dance] then [Aqua Tail]!"

Gyarados's eyes glowed a purple color as his tail glowed blue, then with a flick of his body, the tail was aiming directly at Mr. Mime.

Mr. Mime's eyes almost flew out of his head as Sabrina calmly reminded him, "[Duo-screens]"

Mr. Mime looked back and slapped his face as a Reflect screen got in the way of the tail attack, and then a light screen also appeared and disappeared.

"Now [Psychic]"

Mr. Mime took the screen that was already in the air and used it as a battering ram and slapped Gyarados in the face before disappearing again, also chuckling it himself the whole time.

"Mime mime~"

"Gyarados give me another [Dragon Dance] then a [Stone Edge]," Ash commanded

Gyarados grit his teeth and glowed a purple Aura going +2 on Atk and Spe, then he raised his tail and slammed it into the ground causing stones to be shot up from the ground and slamming into Mr. Mime, not without being reduced.

Sabrina's face didn't change she just looked forward, "[Nasty Plot] then [Calm Mind]"

Mr. Mime took his position and stood up, and as he looked up he had a Sinister smirk on his face as he boosted himself, and finally getting back to +1

Ash clenched his teeth since he knew what that meant, "Gyarados stop them from moving"

Gyarados charged head first as his teeth glowed a dark color as he was going for a [Crunch],

Sabrina raised her arm, "[Dazzling Gleam] now"

Mr. Mime smirked and started spinning his arms in the air, from this what looked to be sparkles came flying at Gyarados and delivered a good hit in the inside of his mouth.

"Now [Psyshock],"

Mr. Mime raised his arms and shot a rainbow beam that boosted with the Psychic Terrain shot into Gyarados' side, which he shrugged off as he tried to counterattack with a swipe of his tail that was stopped by the invisible screen.

Ash and Gyarados smiled, "Gyarados now [Ice Fang]"

Since the [Reflect] was being used by Gyarados' tail, that left Mr. Mime open, so Gyarados's teeth began glowing a bright blue as he turned and landed a bite into the shoulder of Mr. Mime.

Mr. Mime cried out and forced his way out but by the time he got out, he noticed Ice slowly growing along his arm.

"Σ(°△°|||) Mime mime!" Mr. Mime cried as he shook his arm violently in hopes of shrugging it off to no avail, then when he looked up he saw Gyarados' tail coming down at him not allowing him to dodge and Slapping him across the face.

Mr. Mime was on the ground and struggling to get up, Mr. Mime managed to get up and saw the large serpent. It had taken quite a bit of damage with a bit of chip from the life orb, but he looked like he could still go on.

Mr. Mime's thoughts were cut short by Sabrina, "[Calm Mind] then [Baton Pass]."

Mr. Mime smiled as a Baton was formed in his hand that it channeled energy into, Gyarados noticed it immediately and charged his tail with a bright purple [Aqua Tail].

But before it connected Mr. Mime threw the Baton in the air and almost immediately he Disappeared and was replaced with a pink hippo with a large shell biting on its tail and a helmet of sorts, a Slowbro.

The tail [Aqua Tail] from Gyarados connected but Slowbro didn't react, but Gyarados sure did as his tail was stabbed by the rocky helmet, Slowbro just gave a blank look as the Baton fell and hit him on the head before disappearing in his body.

"Now [Secret Power]" Sabrina commanded her face expressionless as usual

Ash grit his teeth, "Gyarados just like we planned, [Thunderbolt]."

Gyarados's teeth glowed as he spit out a bolt of electricity, on the other side Slowbro was covered in a pink orb that then was shot out as a beam towards the incoming [Thunderbolt], making both collide.

The center exploded into a dust cloud and released a strong gust of wind that even reached the stands.

As the smoke was being dispersed, Slowbro was nowhere to be seen but even still Sabrina raised her arm, "[Trick room] then [Stored Power]."

Before Ash or Gyarados could process what she said the room was covered in a grid-like pattern, from the dust Slowbro dispersed all the dust himself, and then a small pink orb appeared in his hand.

[Stored Power] gets stronger every stat boost the Pokemon has, meaning the orb grew larger, when it got big enough Slowbro shot it out and it blasted through the dust and smoke from earlier and collided with Gyarados' body.

Gyarados tried to counter or even block the attack to no avail, he was enveloped by the pink light and he fell down with spirals in his eyes.

Ash frowned and returned Gyarados back to his ball, before looking up at Sabrina who stared back at him, with her eyes glowing.

Even though they were a good few feet apart he could hear her clearly say, "You said that once you beat me you'll move on, that just means I won't let you win so you'll stay here."