[Comm] Memory of setbacks (Patreon)

Commission for TheSpiralAim

[Story - Writer : TheSpiralAim]

Dusty, who had made short work of Cynthia's lucario was swept under the rug by her garchomp almost as fast as it had been released from the ball. Riley was down to her last. "You have to be serious today, Boone," she said and tossed her premier ball out to the arena. A very large noivern formed as it showily twirled for a moment. It had a beautiful coat and a vain attitude. While these battles were recorded, there wasn't a live audience.

Boone and garchomp stared for a moment. The serious no-bull shit look from garchomp did little to dissuade Boone from acting a bit like a fool. In a showy kind of way, it let out a hyper sonic pulse to make the arena shake a little; something for the kids probably.

Garchomp wasn't having it though it rushed in quickly to end things in a single strike, and much to his shock the noivern, Boone, had moved out of the way and charged its own breath weapon. He barely had a chance to get a barrier up before the beam struck it. The beam even busted the barrier up quite a lot.

"Be careful garchomp, that noivern is very powerful," Cynthia said with a calm confident tone.

"Noivern stop goofing off. Use maneuver delta charlie," Riley said.

Cynthia looked at Riley amused by her need to call out orders to her Pokémon but was at least wise enough to not make it clear what was going to happen.

Noivern flew high just before the garchomp could even get to it. He saw how the garchomp looked frustrated. Clearly it was used to being the fastest thing in the room. Once in the air it spent a moment to make sure the cameras were on it. Riley had told him many times that this garchomp was out right feared, but he could take it down in one strike. It then started to dive while charging a powerful beam to use on garchomp.

Garchomp had spent the time focusing with its forms, it wasn't going to let a delay from a show boating Pokémon go to waste. The beam struck home but garchomp endured it and did so without being too banged up.

Noivern let out some taunting and chattering at the garchomp, clearly, he was the faster of the two. One more strafe and he'd have this in the bag. It took another look around at the cameras, it wanted to make sure the angle was good fo--

Garchomp was NOT having this. Some light weight dragon was not coming into his arena and trying to get movie shots. He rushed in far faster than he had been before.

"Garchomp stop!" Cynthia shouted in a sharp clipped tone.

He didn't pull his claw like he was trained to. This noivern's master had even told him to take it seriously, well now this noivern would forever take fights seriously. His claw crashed right through noivern’s feeble attempt to stop the dragon claw, and through the noivern's chest skin.

Noivern crashed to the ground, stunned. He had really never even been hit before, not seriously. No fight had ever been a challenge to him, and those words, "Take this seriously." rang out in his mind as he collapsed onto the ground, everything became a blur.

"BOONE!" Riley shouted in utter disbelief.