Chapter 9- A Clue to the Deceiver?
~Aquamarine is the one of the strongest
out of the Super Fiends and second only to Sky Render. His reputation portrays
him as vicious fighter, whose explosive power and utter ferocity makes him
nearly unbeatable. When he first left
-Ash
Ketchum
(Location- Offshore
The wind blew as the clouds were beginning to
gather. It was cold, but the two warriors couldn’t care less. Both of them were
like statues, each in a fighting stance with a weapon and a pokéball. They
glared at each other, just daring the other one to make the first move.
“During our first battle in the
“Says you, unlike you I’m not a psycho obsessed
with killing people. This time I’ll completely wipe the floor with you!” said
Ash
Aquamarine glared at him as he threw his first
pokéball “KRAKEN! GO!” Aquamarine released it. The giant jellyfish pokémon
stood waiting for the trainer to make his commands. Ash noticed that this time
the pokémon was armoured and on the end of each tentacle was a large needle,
hollow so poison can be injected by the pokémon. “Perhaps you’ve noticed the new
weaponry? I’ve updated and improved!”
“Doesn’t matter to me! Whatever you do I’m gonna
win this battle! Bulbasaur go!” Ash threw the pokéball “Bulbasaur! Use Razor
leaf!” said Ash
“Bulba!” The leaves shot forwards, but bounced
off the helmet
“That won’t work on Kraken!” laughed Aquamarine,
“Show him a water gun attack!”
“TENTACRUUUEEL!” Kraken attacked with the water
technique. Bulbasaur was pushed back by the attack
“Use your constrict attack!” Said Aquamarine
“Knock him back with vine whip!” said Ash.
Bulbasaur’s vines swung and slapped the pokémon. Even though it was armoured,
it was light and could easily be knocked back. As it fell over, Ash could see
the weak spot, “Bulbasaur! Hit the black area of its body with your razor leaf
attack!” Bulbasaur did as it was told. The leaves flew and struck the
un-armoured part of the body, dealing heavy damaging. “Now finish it off with
Solar Beam!”
“Bulbaaaaa!” Bulbasaur focused the energy into
the bulb, “SAAAAAURRRR!!!!” The powerful beam flew towards Kraken…
“TIDAL SPEAR!”
CLASH!
“Don’t think I’ll just stand back and watch my
pokémon get hit!” Aquamarine stood in front of the Tentacruel, holding the
trident he used to deflect Bulbasaur’s attack, “Kraken, we’ve been polite long
enough. Let’s show him what you’re really made of! POISON STING!”
“TENTAAAA!”
“WA?!” Before Ash knew it, the Tentacruel had
bounded upon Bulbasaur and wrapped up with the tentacles and had stung him
multiple times before letting go. Bulbasaur lay on the ground, wounded and
bleeding from all those sharp needles. He was paralysed and poisoned.
“Bulbasaur return!” Ash called his pokémon back. The sky was getting dark and
it began to rain. Ash growled, he had to think of a way to win this, suddenly
he got an idea, “Muk! GO!” he said, “Muk’s a pure poison element! None of your
poison attacks will work! Defence curl!”
“Constrict him Kraken!” Aquamarine ordered.
Kraken charged and attacked, wrapping the slime pokémon up, but Muk simply slid
out of the grip
“As you know, defence curl will make Muk even
more watery, slippery and slimy! Nothing that blender you call a pokémon can do
could hurt it! POISON GAS!” Ash shouted. Muk belched out loudly, releasing
toxic gas at both Aquamarine and Tentacruel.
“UGH!” Aquamarine gasped, covering his mouth
before inhaling the poisonous fumes… “GRR!” he growled, twirling his trident
through the air. The wind from the weapon was blowing the smoke away, “Kraken!
Hydro Pump!”
“CAPTURE!” Ash threw an element capture ball,
capturing the water completely. Ash smirked “You’re not the only one who can
interfere in a battle you know?” Ash pointed the QuickSilver at Kraken, “Use
your sludge attack on the tentacles!”
“MUUUK!” Muk slapped a load of smelly, disgusting
sludge at Kraken. Kraken struggled to move, but couldn’t move its thin
tentacles in the thick, rubbery slime. As Kraken struggled to move, Ash fired a
nitro ball at it.
BOOM!
The armour was blown to pieces by the explosion,
and not to mention it damaged the pokémon. Ash then called up Pikachu, “It can’t
move, so focus on power instead of accuracy! THUNDER!”
“PIKACHUUUUU!!!!”
“CRUEEEEL!!!” Kraken cried out as the lightning
surged through him. The jellyfish sighed one last time before it collapsed to
the ground. Kraken was defeated!
“Kraken return!” Aquamarine called the pokémon
back, “You’ll regret that! TAKE THIS! OCEAN LANCE!” he fired a bolt of energy
from the trident at Muk, causing the slime pokémon to explode.
“Muk, return!” Ash called back his pokémon. The
fragments were pulled into the pokéball by the red beam and Ash placed the ball
on his belt
“OGOPOGO! I CHOOSE YOU!” he said as he jumped
into the air and released Gyarados. Aquamarine stood on top of its head, “USE
BITE!”
“WA!” Ash exclaimed as he and the pokémon dove
out of the way, “SKULL BASH!” Ash shouted and threw Pikachu with all his
strength… Pikachu flew like a rocket and slammed the side of Ogopogo’s armoured
head, but bounced off, “That armour is too strong… I guess hitting it with your
own head isn’t such a good idea” he said as Pikachu slapped his leg angrily. He
had hurt himself when he head-butted that armoured pokémon!
“OCEAN LANCE!” Aquamarine fired a bolt of energy
“AAAGH!!” Ash screamed as he took the heavy blow
in the shoulder, “Why you… WAAA!” he dove to the side, missing the harpoon
strike. Ash growled, “TOTODILE! SQUIRTLE!! I CHOOSE YOU!” he released his water
pokémon, “That Ogopogo is nothing but trouble! Show him just how strong you
are! HYDRO PUMP!”
“HYDRO PUMP!” Aquamarine shouted, as Ogopogo
attacked with the water move. Both high pressure water jets struck in mid air,
but Ash’s two seemed to be winning, “Looks like I’ll have to help!” he jumped
down and pulled out his coral weapon and darted towards Squirtle, “CORAL
CUDGEL!”
WHAM!
“SQUIIIIIR!!!” Aquamarine hit him on the back of
the head, knocking him out!
“TOTOOO!!!” Totodile didn’t know how to use the
Hydro Pump, he only had water gun, and not to mention he was going against a
pokémon stronger than him, “DIIILLE!” Ogopogo’s water attack overpowered his
and sent him flying
“Return!” Ash called back his two pokémon.
There’s no way he could beat him in a contest of strength. He had to use
strategy! “He may not be my strongest water pokémon, but… KINGLER I CHOOSE
YOU!” he chose the crab pokémon, “That armour is keeping us from using any
electric attacks! Use that big claw of yours and tear that Gyarados’ armour
right open!” said Ash, “ATTACK, KINGLER!”
“KOKIIING!” Kingler moved forwards, readying its
claw
“Devour him Ogopogo! CRUNCH!” Aquamarine ordered
“GROAR!!!” Ogopogo roared as it lunged forwards,
ready to eat the large crab…
“CRABHAMMER!” Ash shouted
SLAM!
“GROO!” The powerful hit from the claw sent the
Gyarados’ head spinning to the left.
“NOW USE YOUR CLAW TO PIERCE THE ARMOUR!” Ash
shouted
“KO-KING!” Kingler attacked with its gigantic
claw and struck into the side with all its might, cutting through and leaving a
big hole in the armour that protected the neck.
“HYPER BEAM!!!” Ash shouted. Kingler fired a beam
from its claw into the hole. There was a large explosion from inside and
Ogopogo roared as it fell to the ground, not to mention the helmet and the
armour protecting the neck fell off. Ogopogo roared in agony as it hit the
ground, struggling to get up, “That did especially a lot of damage because I
hit its weak point!” said Ash
“A weak point!?” Aquamarine exclaimed
“I bet you didn’t know, but since Gyarados heads
are really heavy, their necks are easy to injure! Not only that, but lots of
the armour is gone as well! And that means… HYDROTHUNDER!” Ash shouted
“KO-KIIIINGG!!!”
“PIKACHUUUU!!!”
The two elements flew into the air. The water
carried the electricity as it flew into Ogopogo’s face and into its mouth.
Electricity surged through the pokémon’s body and Ogopogo fainted from the
attack “NO!” Aquamarine exclaimed
Ash called Kingler back because his other water
pokémon were out and he’d need a strong one if he needed to use a UniStrike.
“Aquamarine, we’re halfway done! So why don’t you just call out Leviathan so we
can beat him so then we can get to beating you?” asked Ash, him and his pokémon
were ready to fight.
“You may have gotten past my other two, but don’t
think you’ll survive this one! LEVIATHAN! GO!”
“FERALIGAATROOOOAAAR!” Leviathan roared. As usual
it was heavily armoured from top to bottom and was armed with blades, talons,
spikes, but the weapons and armour looked deadlier than before
“That Leviathan… really looks dangerous” said
Ash, “Oh well! Looks can be deceiving! Attack him P…”
“HYDRO PUMP!” Aquamarine yelled
“WA!”
“PIKA!”
Both Ash and Pikachu were slammed by the water
blast. They both growled and got up. Ash took a fighting stance and Pikachu’s
cheeks were sparking. Aquamarine took a fighting stance and Leviathan was ready
for battle.
“HAAAAA!” Ash charged towards Aquamarine
“YAAAAA!” Aquamarine charged towards Ash
As the two trainers engaged themselves in combat,
Leviathan attacked with his claws, slashing down at the tiny Pikachu. “Pika!”
Pikachu dodged and shot some electricity back up at Leviathan. Leviathan didn’t
feel the electricity because his armour protected him from such attacks.
Leviathan stamped on the ground with his feet, trying to crush the yellow
rodent, “PIKAAAAA!!!!” Pikachu exclaimed as Leviathan stepped on his tail.
Pikachu growled, turned around and bit hard into Leviathan’s un-armoured foot,
also sending a current of electricity through the water pokémon while he was at
it.
“GATOR!” Leviathan exclaimed and jumped back.
Leviathan growled and swung its hand, slapping Pikachu to the side. The two
pokémon continued to battle, unguided by their trainers.
“SILVER BULLET!” Ash swung his arm, his punch
strengthened by the rocket boost
“CORAL CUDGEL!” Aquamarine roared, swinging the
heavy cudgel…
SMASH!
“GRR!” The two of them were thrown back, their
attacks were evenly matched! They both struck again and again, deflecting each
other’s hits with their weapon. Whenever one could hit the other, the blow was
soon returned. Aquamarine had more power, but Ash was more durable to attacks.
They were too equal. Both combatants jumped back and panting, “You’re… really
strong…” panted Ash
“You too…” Aquamarine also panted. Ash was
completely different from their first battle in the
SMACK! BAM! POW!
Ash took several heavy blows. Ash stepped back,
dazed. Aquamarine pulled out his trident “DEEP SKEWER!”
“AH!” Ash exclaimed… feeling the cold points of
the trident strike into his stomach…
“I’ve been waiting so long to do this!”
Aquamarine smiled evilly as he pushed it harder into Ash’s gut, “Come on! Feel
the pain! For all those blows you dealt me, emotional and physical, SUFFER!”
“Ah… AHHHHH!!!!” Ash screamed,
Aquamarine began to laugh “I WIN!”
“Just kidding” Ash smirked, “SILVER BULLET!!!”
SMACK!
“AAAGH!!” Aquamarine screamed when Ash delivered
a powerful hook, strengthened by the boosters on the QuickSilver, and was sent
flying to the side… Aquamarine got up, “What?! No! I skewered your guts! How on
could you still be alive…!?”
“Weren’t paying attention to Ebi back at Jolt’s
bunker, were you? I’ve got a mesh inside my clothing protecting me!” Ash
smirked, “Not only has it worked well in protecting me, but carrying around the
extra weight has made me even stronger!”
“So that’s it…” Aquamarine growled, “Damn… if
you’re immune to stab wounds, there’s only one thing left to do… CORAL CUDGEL!”
He slammed Ash on the leg, making him fall over
“WA!” Ash exclaimed, clutching his leg where he
was hit…
“If you can’t be impaled because of that armour,
then I’ll simply have to crush your insides with my strength! TIDAL SPEAR!” he
swung the trident.
SMACK!
Ash was sent flying. “URGH!!!” Ash exclaimed. He
got up, he could see Pikachu and Leviathan fighting, and Pikachu was losing
against the big water pokémon, “I’ll have to even the odds a bit!” he said as
he pulled out several nitro balls…
“GATROAAAR!” Leviathan roared and slammed Pikachu
to the ground. Pikachu was exhausted, and because he can’t hurt this enemy with
electricity, he couldn’t win. Leviathan tossed Pikachu up and opened his jaws,
he was crunch this mouse. Pikachu closed his eyes, expecting to be dead, when
suddenly…
KABOOM!
Pikachu opened his eyes and was shocked to see
that Ash had him in his arms. And furthermore Leviathan was on the ground,
unconscious! Ash had used the QuickSilver’s Silver Bullet to speed forwards and
grab Pikachu, at the same time replace him with a load of Nitro balls the
second Leviathan crunched! Leviathan was tough, but even he couldn’t handle
something like that. Leviathan fainted! “That’s the last one of your pokémon
Aquamarine!” said Ash, “You’re all alone now!”
“That’s fine with me” Aquamarine said as he
called his pokémon back, then taking a fighting stance, “It just means I’ll
have you all to myself! HA!” He suddenly darted forward and kicked Ash, sending
him flying and hitting a coconut tree
DONK! DONK! DONK! DONK!
“ACK! OUCH! GAH! OWWWW!!” Ash exclaimed as four
coconuts fell on his head one after the other “You’ll pay for that!” Ash
growled, a tear in the corner of his eye as he grabbed all the coconuts,
“HAAA!” he flung them all at Aquamarine
“JAVELIN RAIN!” Aquamarine threw the javelins.
Each one nailed a coconut and they fell to the ground. When he looked at Ash,
he was gone “Huh? Where did he go?”
“SILVER BULLET!”
“PIKACHUUUUU!
KASMAAAACK!!!!
“AAAAAGH!!!!” Aquamarine took a really heavy hit.
One on the left side of head from Ash’s Silver Bullet, and on the other side
Pikachu used skull bash.
“Nice work Pikachu!” Ash high-fived his pokémon
as Aquamarine gasped and fell to his knees, “That was payback for the
coconuts!”
“Grr… to think that I could be brought down to my
knees by such weaklings…!”
POW!
Ash kicked him and Aquamarine fell, “If you don’t
give up, I’ll bring you down to more than your knees, but down to your grave!
You lose. Misty stays with me.”
“GRRRRR… NO… SHE… WON’T!” Aquamarine snarled as
he grabbed Ash by the leg and twisted, causing Ash to stumble. “All these years
I’ve spent training pokémon!” Aquamarine hit him, “All that time I spent
mastering the art of combat…!” he struck Ash in the stomach, and “All those
wounds I’ve suffered throwing off the shackles that bind this world, and
fighting the servants of the Deceiver! AGH!”
“Whoa, you need to cool down Aquamarine” Ash said
as he caught his arm, spun, tripped him and pinned him to the ground,
“Shackles? Deceiver? What are you talking about?”
“GRRRRRR! GET OFF ME!” Aquamarine threw Ash off
and grabbed his trident and tried to stab, but Ash deflected it and attacked,
“The deceiver who seeks to destroy this world and reshape it as his own… the
same deceiver who has cast its shadow above our heads, and will soon plunge our
world into chaos!”
“What are you talking about?” asked Ash as they
continued fighting…
“GRAAA!” Aquamarine knocked him back as he
grabbed his trident and twirled it. The dark and rainy sky grew even darker and
rainier, “BLACK SQUALL!!!”
WHOOOSH!!!
“WAAAAAAAAA!”
“PIKAAAAAAAA!”
Everyone except Aquamarine was lifted off the
ground into the air by the hurricane he with his trident. Ash and Pikachu
screamed as they flew up into the air
SPLASH!
They landed in the water with all the other
debris of trees, coconuts and a whole lot of other junk. Ash coughed, “MAN!
Couldn’t he have taken it a little easier? I only asked what the Deceiver was!”
He gasped, grabbing onto a floating tree. It wasn’t his fault he didn’t know…
how could he understand what Aquamarine was talking about if he was gonna act
so cryptic? Ash looked at the island, he could see Aquamarine dive into the
water and moving towards him with incredible speed. Ash quickly pulled off the
QuickSilver and attached it to his feet.
“TIDAL SPEAR!” Aquamarine shouted and swung his
trident.
Ash had boarded the QuickSilver just in a nick of
time. He rose above the water and barely missed Aquamarine. Pikachu sat on
Ash’s shoulder. Ash smirked, “Don’t think you can get me just because I’m in
the water!”
“So what if the water doesn’t give you any
weaknesses? It gives me strength! OCEAN LANCE!”
CRASH!
“WAAAA!” Ash exclaimed. The strength of the Ocean
Lance was strong, but when Aquamarine was in the water it was even stronger!
“TIDAL SPEAR!” Aquamarine swung the weapon. The
force of it created a huge wave that knocked Ash, QuickSilver and all into the
water. Ash quickly tried to get out, but before he rose, Aquamarine sped
forwards and slammed him on the knee with the coral cudgel
“AAGH!” Ash exclaimed, holding onto his knee.
“WHY YOU!!!!” He pulled out several nitro balls and threw them into the water.
Aquamarine dove as they exploded.
Ash stood there, waiting to see if any hit when
all of the sudden Ash felt his trainer instincts kick in. It was telling him,
the danger was… “RIGHT BEHIND YOU!” Aquamarine’s voice shouted
“Huh?!” Ash looked back. Before he could react…
“TIDAL SPEAR!” Aquamarine slammed him with the
energy wave, dealing heavy damage
Ash screamed as he fell back. He got up and
panted, trying to fight back against Aquamarine’s fierce onslaught, but it was
no use. Aquamarine was a lot stronger than him. Ash was getting desperate.
Aquamarine being in the water made him stronger and faster! He couldn’t win
like this! He had to get back to land! “MAXIMUM AFTERBURNER!”
“Trying to escape? I think not! OCEAN LANCE!” He
fired a bolt of energy and it hit Ash on the back. Ash groaned, his back was
smoking, but kept on course. Aquamarine dove underneath and swam very fast,
surfacing right in front of him, “TIDAL SPEAR!” he hit him with a huge wave of
energy. Ash tried to turn and run again, but Aquamarine pulled out the net,
“CAPTURE NET!” he shouted as he pulled him close. Focusing his energy, he
struck, “TERROR OF THE DEEP!”
CRRRRAAAAASSSSHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
“AAAAAAAAAAGH!” Ash screamed. He was in pain.
This was the toughest battle ever. This enemy’s long-range attacks were
stronger than Grand Dreamer’s and he was more dangerous in close combat than
Chaos Reaper! He fell into the water, but struggled to stay upright as he was
hit again
“What a loser! Why can’t you just accept it? You
can’t win!” Aquamarine said as he sped forwards, pulling out the trident, “Even
with that Special Mesh protecting you, this move at full power will pierce even
your defence! PREPARE YOURSELF ASH KETCHUM!” he leapt out of the water and dove
down towards Ash, “DEEP SKEWER!!”
“NO!” Ash moved to the side, moved missing it.
“SILVER BULLET!” he shouted. The QuickSilver was still on his feet, but it
still shot upwards and slammed Aquamarine on the chin. As Aquamarine was dazed,
Ash shouted, “MAXIMUM AFTERBURN!” the boosters flared and singed Aquamarine as
Ash zoomed and finally reached land and jumped off the QuickSilver. He pulled
it to his arm, and it closed around his forearm and fist, so now it was a
weapon. “AGH…!” Ash gasped… falling to his knees and breathing heavily… his
body was racked with pain, it hurt to breathe… and he could see Aquamarine
coming towards him once more… “Aquamarine…” He spoke, trying to delay fighting,
for just a little bit longer… “The deceiver… what is it?”
“Then listen closely!” said Aquamarine, “Misty
told you I left
“Free yourself from what?” asked Ash
“From the grasp of the Kaiser Cult… the Shadow of
the Deceiver!” he shouted
“Wa?” asked Ash
“They have cast a shroud of darkness over itself
and hidden itself from the world, and while it remains invisible, it continues
to grow in power and will consume us all!” Aquamarine shouted, attacking. Ash
deflected the hits, but barely, “We the Super Fiends… though branded as wanted
criminals, we are also the only ones stand between the deceiver and its goal!”
Simply talking about this ‘Deceiver’ seemed to make Aquamarine burn with rage…
“All you ignorant people… simply because you hear we’re criminals, you seek to
defeat us… all who challenge Sky Render stands for the destruction of this
world, all of you are aiding THEM in their goal!”
“AGH!” Ash felt a sharp pain. Aquamarine had
struck so hard that one of the prongs pierced the armour Ebi made. Ash groaned
and stepped back, “(I won’t let this psycho intimidate me…)” he gritted
his teeth and ignored the pain. He didn’t know what he meant by Deceiver… but
he did note it involved the Kaiser Cult… “(Again
with the Kaiser Cult… why do their names keep coming up?)” Though Ash
didn’t really understand, talk about the cult and deceiver seemed to make
Aquamarine angry, and when he is mad, he wastes his energy. If Ash could get
him mad enough, he’d go completely out of control and start lashing out,
forgetting to defend himself properly or fight professionally, he would be at
the point where Ash would be able to beat him! “You keep talking about this
Deceiver like it’s actually something serious!”
“What?” said Aquamarine, “You don’t believe me?”
“Why should I believe the ramblings of a psycho
Super Fiend?” said Ash
“Y-YOU…” Aquamarine growled
“You’re an idiot who’ll believe anything! That’s
why Misty hates you, and loves me!” Ash smirked, “And frankly, this Deceiver
sounds made up! If it’s really plaguing the world like you say it’s doing, then
I’ve got no problem with it! Frankly, I like it the way it is! This ‘deceiver’
you speak of is probably a good thing!” said Ash
“What…?” Aquamarine was shocked, “You mean you
support the Deceiver?”
“So what if I do?” said Ash, not really knowing
what this was all about.
“YOU…” Aquamarine’s voice was bitter, with the
most hatred Ash has ever felt. Anger was radiating from his body
“(All right!)” Ash thought, “(When he’s
this angry, he’ll lash out, wasting all his energy, and then I’ll strike! All I
have to do is endure it… which shouldn’t be a problem. If I can do it, then
this battle is won!)” Ash thought, but then Ash saw something strange.
There was a golden glow that began to surround Aquamarine’s body, “Ah… that
light… it can’t be…!”
KASMACK!!!!!
“WAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!”
CRASH!
Aquamarine had dashed forwards before Ash could
even see him move. Ash groaned as he got up, and gasped as he saw Aquamarine!
His body was radiating with energy, each of his weapons were glowing… “N-
“Surprised… Ketchum?” Aquamarine asked, he had
calmed down a bit, but he was still full of hate and anger, “This is power you
can never hope to match… the Power of One. Just like the mighty Sky Render… I
too am a
SLAM!
“AAAAGH!” Ash flew and crashed into a tree. He
wasn’t given a moment’s rest because Aquamarine charged again, “WHOA!” Ash
moved away from Aquamarine’s punch as it split the tree in half. Ash got up and
swung his fist to hit him, but Aquamarine was a lot faster. He caught Ash’s
fist, countered it and hit him, sending him flying back.
“I wasn’t even trying” said Aquamarine
“Damn…!” Ash said, holding onto his face. His
nose was bleeding heavily and was surely broken. “GRRR!” Ash gritted hit teeth
as he got up, “I’m not scared of you! Just because I’m fighting an opponent
who’s using the power of one doesn’t mean anything!” he said bravely as he
stood up straight, “Come at me with all you got!”
“Fine” Aquamarine took a fighting stance
“(Damn. I’m gonna die.)” Ash sweatdropped,
“WA!” He exclaimed as Aquamarine ran forwards and started hitting him.
Aquamarine punched at him, and Ash managed to block with the QuickSilver, but
the hit sent him sliding back a few steps, and when Ash looked at the
QuickSilver he was sure he saw a dent. Aquamarine attacked Ash, and Ash was
having the most difficult time defending. “DEEP SKEWER!” He struck Ash in the
leg with his trident
“AAAAAAAAGGGGH!!!!!!” Ash screamed. The trident
had pierced into his leg and injured him badly. It didn’t end there. Aquamarine
punched him hard, sending him flying back a good distance away. Ash held onto
his wounded leg. The crippling injury Aquamarine inflicted was painful
“Pika!” Pikachu growled, standing in front of
Aquamarine
“No! Pikachu!” said Ash
“PIKACHUUUUUUU!” Pikachu jumped and fired
lightning at Aquamarine. The Super Fiend simply raised his hand and let the
lightning hit him. It didn’t matter because he didn’t feel anything. Aquamarine
slapped Pikachu to the ground, and then kicked the mouse, sending him into the
air and landing near Ash. Ash quickly grabbed Pikachu and held him protectively
in his arms.
Ash growled. Aquamarine had injured him and hurt
Pikachu, but what for? The Deceiver, that was Aquamarine’s reason. Just who or
what is the Deceiver? What could it have done to make Aquamarine even more
determined to kill than when he does it so he could win Misty? Ash just didn’t
know what was going on! He was so confused, and he was gonna die… “NO!” Ash got
up, holding Pikachu, and struggling because of the injury on his leg, “I’ve
made a promise to Misty that I’ll come back to her… and I always keep my
promises! Even if Aquamarine’s a
“It is over” said Aquamarine as he pulled out his
trident, “Nothing will protect you now. And Sky Render doesn’t help supporters
of the Deceiver so don’t count on him coming to save you. PREPARE TO DIE, ASH
KETCHUM!!!!!” Aquamarine howled, whirling his glowing Trident through the air
as he charged towards Ash…
The battle between Ash and Aquamarine has
gotten even more serious, as Aquamarine demonstrates that HE is also a
► TO BE CONTINUED