Pokemon: Jordinio Version - Chapter 25.1 (Patreon)

Interestingly, as Misty approached me, I noticed something off about her. She was carrying a pokemon in her arms, or rather arm since she was waving to me with the other.

And it wasn't Togepi.

It was an Oddish.

"Haven't seen you in a while," Misty grinned as she stopped in front of me, "How've you been?" she asked.

"Better than you," I grinned back as i looked her over. She was dirty as all hell, scuff and mud marks over her clothing and bare skin, "Had it rough on the way here?"

She scowled and glared over her shoulder at my words, "Yeah, somebody thought it was fine not to ask anyone for directions." she replied, pointedly looking at Ash as he and Brock approached.

"It's not my fault Brock can't read a map." Ash shrugged.

"Hey, you weren't any better either," Brock shot back, before nodding at me, "Hey Jord, You and Fearow are looking good."

"He's right, have you gotten taller?" Misty nodded in agreement looking me over, "And you're a lot broader now as well, how'd that happen?" she noted appreciatively.

"I train every day with my pokemon," I shrugged, placing my hand on Fearow's long neck and patting it fondly, "Gotta be tough to keep up with these….guys." I trailed off when I noticed Fearow wasn't leaning in to my touch.

In fact, the large bird pokemon was ramrod straight and staring, or rather glaring bloody murder at the small yellow mouse pokemon on Ash's shoulder, and at Ash himself.

And Ash seemed to notice as well, "Hey Jord…is something wrong with your Fearow?" he asked hesitantly.

Oh yeah…

"Yeah…he really doesn't like you and your Pikachu," I winced and explained, "You kinda smacked him on the head with a rock."

Ash's eyes widened, "Ah, that Spearow!" he said in realisation, before rubbing the back of his hat wearing head and giving Fearow a sheepish smile, "I'm really sorry about that Fearow, can you forgive me? I was a big idiot." he actually didn't hesitate to apologise

"Pika pika, pi Pikapi!" Pikachu added and gestured from Ash's shoulder towards my pokemon.

In response though-

"Row!" Fearow reared up on his feet and spread his wings wide and challengingly at them both.

Despite his massive wing span, I didn't feel threatened even standing right next to him.

The other three on the other hand.

They all quickly leapt back out of the way, getting some distance. Quick reactions on their part. As expected really, since both Brock and Misty were technically Gym Leaders and Ash was well…Ash Ketchum.

"I don't think Fearow accepted the apology." Brock grimaced.

I tightened my grip on Fearow's neck a bit, not squeezing, but making sure he felt my hand, "Calm down," I ordered and the huge bird whipped around to glare at me, the first sign of disobedience he'd given me since that very first day. I glared back, "Don't look at me like that, you aren't mad about the rock, it was your pride that got hurt because Pikachu beat you back then even with your huge flock backing you up."

"Row!" Fearow barked at me, angrily.

He wasn't happy about me bringing up that loss. And I don't entirely blame him. It was one thing to lose to Pidgeot one on one, and even two on one, but a thousand to one?

That was just plain embarrassing.

If one guy kicked my ass alongside a thousand others that I was ganging up on him with, I'd be embarrassed too.

"Suck it up and stop being a pansy," I barked right back, staring him right in the eyes, "I don't train pansies. There's a world of difference between the you of back then and the you now."

We glared at each other for a few seconds and I could practically see the electricity sparking between us, before finally, Fearow reluctantly looked away.

I sighed, reaching over and placing my hand on his neck once more, squeezing gently and fondly. Pidgeot wasn't my only pokemon that had some of my same traits, "Don't worry, I'd be no better in your place," I assured him, before looking over at the three, specifically at Ash, "How about you get your own back now, taking Pikachu on one on one?"

"Row row Fea?" Fearow perked up at my words, eyes shining now with glee at the thought.

I grinned and nodded, before looking over at Ash, "You up for a battle? Fearow won't be happy with you and Pikachu until he gets a chance to prove himself." I asked.

Ash blinked, "Is that all?" he asked, then grinned widely when I nodded, "Heck yeah, fine with us, right buddy?" he thumbed his nose and asked Pikachu.

"Pika!" Pikachu grinned as well, looking over at Fearow, cheeks sparking. Fearow's beak somehow split into a malicious grin.

"Oh c'mon, it's always a battle with you," Misty groaned, "You battled like at least five trainers a day on the way here, I'm dirty as all hell and need a bath and to clean my clothes, and you want to battle?"

"Go ahead if you want," Ash shrugged, "No way me and my pokemon will back down from a battle though. Especially from Jord! I've wanted to take him on ever since Brock told me how he beat him."

"Lighten up Misty, it won't take that long," Brock assured her, "Besides, I'm curious to see how strong Fearow has gotten since facing my Onix, Fearow was just newly evolved then after all and had only been with Jord like a week."

"…Fine…" Misty grudgingly agreed.

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With Misty's agreement, I led the three out to the back of the pokemon centre were there was a battlefield free to use.

I took up space at one side of the battlefield while Ash took the other, both Brock and Misty at the side.

"So how do you wanna do this?" I called over, while Fearow settled in front of me, ready and waiting, "Wanna stick to just a one on one or anything more?" I wanted to get moving already, but at the same time, this was a good chance to see how Ash was improving.

If I'm going to leave the world ending events to him, I've gotta make sure he can handle them after all.

"How about a standard two on two?" Ash shouted back, Pikachu leaping off of his shoulder to land on the battlefield at the ready, facing off against Fearow, "Course Pikachu and Fearow will fight first, but I want to show off some of my other pokemon to you as well!"

"Fine with me!" I agreed, seeing one of his other pokemon besides Pikachu should give me a good basis to go from and get me out of here quicker as well.

"Alright, then I'll referee," Brock took it upon himself, "This will be a two on two battle between Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town and Jord Odhar of Viridian City, begin!"

Ash acted instantly, "Pikachu thunderbolt!" he shouted.

"Pika!" the small yellow rodent nodded, cheeks sparking and an instant later, a huge aura of electricity forming around his body and firing off in a massive bolt through the air towards Fearow.

My eyes widened, 'Holy shit.' I almost gaped, the power behind it was near comparable to Surge's Electivire!

"Ground it!" I countered.

"Row!" Fearow instantly obeyed, his wings glowed with bright silver metallic energy and he thrust both huge feathery appendages down into the ground below him, sheathing them deep within the earth just as the Thunderbolt landed.

"Woo direct hi….t?" Ash wooped, before trailing off as he noticed something odd.

Fearow didn't even make a sound as the electricity arced over his entire body. After all, it was all being directed into his steel energy enhanced wings and harmlessly into the ground.

"What…?" Ash gaped at Fearow.

I grinned, "Throw some rocks at them." I ordered next.

Fearow nodded, before jerking his wings, hard.

With the leverage he had, the ground cracked and split apart, and a second later, two large boulders torn from the ground were tossed through the air towards Pikachu.

Who said Fearow couldn't learn Rock Throw?

"Quick Pikachu, Iron Tail!" Ash hastily commanded.

"Follow it with Razor Wind." I ordered at the same time.

Pikachu was completely dwarfed in size by the two huge rocks Fearow ripped from the ground and lobbed at it.

Despite that though, it didn't stop the electric rodent from shooting into the air and cleaving straight through them like a hot knife through butter with a metallic silver glowing tail.

A bad move though, because at the same time, Fearow began to beat his wings rapidly, unleashing a heavy barrage of compressed wind blades from his wings in the dozens.

"Block it!" Ash shouted quickly.

To Pikachu's credit, the mouse rotated rapidly mid-air and using his tail, rapidly cleaved through a few of them, but, he couldn't move well in the air and was quickly overwhelmed.

Dozens of wind blades slashed into Pikachu, tearing the mouse from the air with a cry of pain and slamming him into the ground hard.

"Pikachu, are you okay?" Ash cried, worried.

Pikachu trembled on the ground.

"Lunge in with Peck and hit it with Toxic." I quickly ordered Fearow, giving no mercy.

I knew this wouldn't put that Pikachu down.

"FEAROW!" Fearow shrieked and took off through the air, charging towards Pikachu, shooting over like a bullet, massive beak igniting with power.

"Pikachu! Quick Attack and Double Kick!" Ash ordered the yellow mouse as it struggled to its feet slowly.

Showing grit that just shouldn't be possible for a freaking Pikachu, the yellow mouse recovered and white light exploded from his body throwing him towards Fearow, he flipped around, both little feet glowing.

Foot met beak, and surprisingly, despite the sheer size difference, Pikachu held his own, a small shock wave erupting from the clash of attacks.

Pikachu was quickly being overpowered though, and cried out in pain a moment later as Fearow's beak changed from glowing white, to an ominous dark purple that seeped into Pikachu's body.

Unable to hold on, Pikachu was sent flying back and that was my chance, I punched forward, "Hyper Beam!"

Fearow opened his beak, an orb of glimmering black energy swirling and compressing into existence.

And then Fearow launched his head forward and unleashed his attack, a huge black beam of energy launching through the air and slamming into the mid-air, immobile and stunned Pikachu and washing over its body.

"Pikachu!" Ash shouted in worry.

Fearow released the attack a moment later, and a heavily bruised and beaten Pikachu fell to the ground, limp and unconscious.

Ash wasted no time in rushing over and picking him up.

"Pikachu is unable to battle!" Brock declared, "Jord and Fearow win, Ash, send out your next pokemon!"

Ash made his way back to his position, Pikachu in his arms and laid the little guy down gently, "Good job Pikachu," he praised the electric type before turning to me, "Fearow is really strong, huh?" he mused.

I grinned, "Definitely, he's worked incredibly hard since I caught him." I replied.

Fearow spread his wings wide at my praise and crowed to the sky in victory, "FEAROOOOOW!"

He had avenged his loss to Pikachu before.

"I can see it, but don't think for a second this is over," Ash smirked at me, and I blinked as he suddenly reached up and turned his cap around, "This battle has just begun actually!" he reached down, grabbing a pokeball from his belt and enlarged it.

"Scizor, I choose you!" Ash shouted, unleashing the pokemon within.

My eyes widened in shock as a legitimate gleaming metallic crimson red Scizor appeared in front of him, quickly falling into a crouched and ready stance.

I knew he had a Scyther after what Misty told me…but he'd evolved it already!? Not only that, but comparing Pikachu to what he was like before in the original was like night and day, Pikachu refused to battle half the time at this point and here he actually put up a fight against Fearow!

Interesting, very interesting. This was a whole new Ash Ketchum, there wasn't a single variation of Ash I'd ever seen in any of the canon sources that had a Scizor.

And honestly, Scizor was probably one of the best suited pokemon to Ash. He was always best with fast pokemon, especially ones that could take a hit and keep on trucking.

Scizor was practically geared towards Ash actually now that I think about it.

"Fearow versus Scizor, begin!" Brock declared.

"Quick Attack and then Metal Claw!" Ash wasted no time in getting right down to business.

Like before with Pikachu, white light erupted from Scizor's wings and the bug and steel type zipped through the air, a blur to the eyes.

…And was faster than Pikachu!

"Protect!" I instantly countered.

A green spherical barrier erupted around Fearow, and none to soon as Scizor, red claws glowing metallic silver smashed into the barrier a split moment later.

Not as fast as Pidgeot, but…faster than anything else I had currently. What the fuck?

And that wasn't all…

Fearow's Protect wavered beneath the pair of heavy speed enhanced Metal Claw attacks.

Insane, so not only was it incredibly fast, it was incredibly strong as well!

Scizor reared back and slammed another set of Metal Claw's into the Protect, once again, the barrier wavered massively.

'It can't take another hit like that.' I quickly noted. Another pair of attacks, maybe two more at most and Protect would go down.

This didn't make sense.

Not unless….

'Technician!' my eyes widened.

Its ability had to be Technician!

Let me say one thing here, Technician is a bullshit ability. I only know how it works exactly because my Persian has it. and I looked it up when checking out his moves.

Technician basically massively amplified the power of all attacks used by a pokemon. Not just weak ones like in the games, all of them, and that included their secondary effects. Electric type attacks were more prone to paralyzing, fire type attacks more prone to burning, and Quick Attack for instance…would boost the speed to even greater degrees than normal!

"Scizor, give him a taste of your own Hyper Beam!" Ash altered his command to Scizor.

What, Ash has a pokemon with Hyper Beam as well already!?

A grin spread across Scizor's metallic red face and the bug and steel type opened up his claws, twin spheres of dark energy swirling and compressing into existence into them.

Twin Hyper Beams at that!

Which would be amplified by Technician!

Oh shit…