Blue's Trump Card

"Tsk."

It was Instructor Ai's turn to be embarressed.

He looked at Alakazam, who had lost his fighting ability and fainted on the field, his eyes obscure.

Just now, Aisha could see clearly that Alakazam's Psychic was simply not as powerful as before.

It wasn't Psychic at all, but Future Sight!

Blue had fooled Haunter, but not Instructor Ai.

It was because Instructor Ai was a psychic.

His skills were not high, but he could still tell what moves were what.

It seemed that Blue had guessed that his Haunter was carrying Evolite, which strengthened the dual defense of a Pokémon that hasn't evolved into its final form.

As well as that, the Haunter carrying Evolite was protected by Light Screen, and its high defense was not something that Alakazam could fight against.

If Aisha was in Blue's position, he might not be able to force a wave against Haunter in the end.

Instead, it would be better to plant a Future Sight bomb and wait for it to detonate, and there might be a new surprise.

Besides, his Haunter's health points was low, so a random Pokémon could easily take out the bloodied Haunter.

In that case, the Future Sight that Alakazam had planted would definitely blow up on his next Pokémon with its stamina intact.

"Worthy of Instructor Ai."

At this time, Blue gave a meaningful smile towards Aisha.

Aisha returned the smile.

"Your turn!"

Blue rethrew Scizor's Poké ball, and the armored knight with some scorched black marks on its body appeared above the field once more.

"Bullet Punch, Scizor, finish off this Haunter!"

"Yee!"

Scizor transformed into a red lightning bolt all of a sudden and blasted his fist on top of Haunter's head.

Haunter closed its eyes all of a sudden and landed on the ground.

"Jie..."

"Come back."

Aisha retrieved the fainting Haunter with a helpless face.

Blue's Alakazam was excessively strong, its intensity was at least at the level of the top three within his team, and Haunter could have defeated it, which was already considered to be a considerable feat.

He then looked at Blue's Scizor and threw Wash Rotom's Poké ball.

"Rotom, Thunderbolt!"

"Loto~!"

Wash Rotom came out with a beam of golden lightning towards Scizor.

Scizor, on the other hand, used a high-speed move at Blue's command and dodged the blow.

"Scizor, Sword Dance!"

Blue chose to strengthen it.

Otherwise, even with the assistance of Future Sight, the burned Scizor really couldn't beat the big washing machine that was Wash Rotom.

"Thunderbolt!"

"Loto~"

Taking advantage of Scizor's strengthening in place, Wash Rotom's Thunderbolt slashed at its body in one fell swoop, splitting it back and forth.

"Yee..."

Scizor gritted its teeth and held on, and, completed Sword Dance's reinforcement.

Physical Attack was increased by two levels!

"There..." Blue let out a sigh of relief and said, "Scizor, it's our turn to counterattack!"

Although, Blue was surprised by Aisha's overly fierce output of this Wash Rotom.

However, upon closer examination, Instructor Ai's Pokémon seemed to be all of this type.

One or two of them flew up violently.

So, he had no choice but to command Scizor to attack.

"Scizor, X-Scissor!"

"Rotom, Thunderbolt!"

Aisha also shouted out the command to attack.

Immediately, the scene on the field was showing the red lightning transformed by Scizor chased by the real thunderbolt released by Wash Rotom, constantly trying to get close enough to this floating big washing machine, yet being chased by the opponent's overly swift lightning, there was no way to do so, only to force itself to charge upwards against Thunderbolt's attacking power.

"Yee!"

Against the lightning, Scizor's two large pincers slashed in a crossed position on top of Wash Rotom's washing machine lid.

"Go on, X-Scissor!"

"Rotom, Thunderbolt!"

Aisha and Blue continued to gently give orders to attack.

Wash Rotom and Scizor, on the other hand, meticulously complied.

Thunderbolt and X-Scissor collided once more, and this time it was Thunderbolt that had the upper hand.

"Ow!"

Scizor's attack didn't land, however, it itself couldn't stop backing up.

Wash Rotom's lightning was simply too swift and powerful, hitting it with extreme difficulty.

"...Tsk."

Blue's eyes were a bit gloomy.

Scizor pressed the moves that could not hit Wash Rotom.

The last Pokémon in his hand could instead deal huge amounts of damage to Wash Rotom.

However, Wash Rotom, which had a Water-type move, could also deal a lot of damage to it.

This Pokémon is Blue's big general against Aisha's Charmeleon and Metang, and must avoid the Wash Rotom.

Against...

Blue was certain that Aisha had brought Charmeleon on his team to challenge him this time.

There was no other reason, it was a tacit understanding between trainers.

Instructor Ai had taken Charmeleon, who was still a Charmander at the time, from his side, promising to train it up properly.

Over there, this Gym Challenge was the best chance to prove Charmeleon's strength to Blue.

"Almost there."

Blue suddenly read out such an inexplicable sentence.

Afterwards, a flash of seven-colored light appeared between the void without warning.

A beam of lightning made up of spiritual power struck Wash Rotom's body at once as if it had eyes.

It was Alakazam's Future Sight!

It knocked a large chunk out of Wash Rotom's stamina, which was still healthy, all at once.

"Hmph~ Scizor, Fury Cutter!"

Blue laughed and seized the opportunity to shout out a surprising command.

Aisha was stunned, and when he was able to react, Blue was planning to use Fury Cutter with the highest power after connecting it to the highest number of times, to break through Wash Rotom's defense.

"Yee!"

Scizor received the command "Fury Cutter", but as if it had flipped a special switch, its aura changed abruptly.

Its insect cry was excited.

If the previous Scizor was a heavily armored samurai who stood firm on defense, the current Scizor was a disarmed samurai who was determined to succeed or die!

Scizor no longer cared about defense, wielding a pair of large pincers, and rushed to Wash Rotom, which had just eaten Alakazam's Future Sight's attack.

"Stop it, Thunderbolt!"

"Rotom!"

Aisha shouted out the command to attack, and Wash Rotom unleashed a very ferocious bolt of lightning in one breath.

However, the pair of large pincers that were wielded like a pair of steel blades were already frantically landing on top of Wash Rotom's washing machine lid.

Fury Cutter's power was rapidly increasing between the constant effectiveness of the attack.

Gradually, it rose to its peak, and that was the final blow that Scizor swung down!

"Ow!"

It hissed as it slammed down one last pincer, and a horrific force erupted above the pincer, sending Wash Rotom flying in one gulp.

It itself finally disengaged, its wings stopping vibrating along with its eyes closing, its body slamming straight into the ground.

"Scizor who specializes in Fury Cutter... You're really something."

Looking at Wash Rotom, whose physical strength was forced to the danger line by Scizor's sudden outburst, as well as Alakazam's Future Sight, which he couldn't defend against even if he knew it, Aisha looked at Scizor as well as Blue with a bit of a complicated look in his eyes.

He really didn't expect Blue to give him such a show.

Fury Cutter...

Indeed, this thing connected to the end, and the damage was ridiculously high.

However, who would let go of a serious move and not use it, and focus on delving into this not-so-reliable move?

Eh, Aisha saw it today.

Or Blue, the master trainer.

"Well..."

Blue a little awkwardly averted his eyes and said, "Because, that man's Beedrill practiced the Twineedle move almost out of this world, so, for a while, I've had an interest in these low-power, but fast, or with special effects moves as well."

He spread his hands once.

"Although, in the end, only this Scizor's Fury Cutter was sort of practiced, but, didn't that work wonders today?"

"Indeed..."

Aisha nodded approvingly.

He knew who "that man" Blue was talking about.

There was only one person in the world who had honed Beedrill's Twineedle to that level.

That was Giovanni, the original owner of this Viridian Gym, and Blue's half-master.

Looking at it this way... The Blue of today has been influenced by Giovanni's fm radio.

"Hah."

Blue sighed and withdrew Scizor.

This time, the water friends in the live broadcast room boiled over.

Because, along with Scizor's defeat, Blue's Pokémon was down to its last one.

On the other hand, on Instructor Ai's side, even after removing Umbreon, who only had one blood, there was still a Wash Rotom that still had the ability to fight, as well as two undamaged Pokémon that hadn't been played so far.

The light of victory was already shining on Aisha's face...

"Instructor Ai, bull, Instructor Ai actually played a six-on-six matchup and suppressed Blue!"

"My god, Instructor Ai can't really beat Blue, right?"

"Instructor Ai is invincible, Instructor Ai, we respect and love you yeah!"

"It's hard to say, you guys can see that Instructor Ai and Blue's matchups are characterized by instantaneous changes, reversals, and then reversals... Maybe Blue is hiding a big job waiting for Instructor Ai to jump into it..."

"Right, don't open the champagne at half time yet, Blue is really something."

The pop-ups in the live broadcast room rioted madly.

Instructor Ai's countless fans had already opened the champagne.

Although there were still some sensible fans who maintained a steady attitude.

However, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Instructor Ai had a huge advantage.

Besides... Come on, it's Blue on the other side.

It's Blue!

For Instructor Ai to be able to play with such a huge advantage, no matter what the final result was, it was a big deal that could be blown sky high.

"...Hmm."

However, unlike the seething water friends, Lorelei, who was watching the matchup live and was also supporting Instructor Ai, frowned.

This one, the fight was wonderful.

However, her intuition told her that Blue was still holding back something big.

And that was indeed the case.

Because Blue revealed a smile at this time, a smile of confidence.

"Ai-kun."

He called out to Aisha and said, "Do you remember what the Viridian Gym's representative attribute is?"

"Ground, what's wrong?"

Aisha frowned, feeling a little out of sorts, but nonetheless, responded to Blue's question.

Blue, on the other hand, smiled even wider.

He took out the last Poké ball, gripped it tightly inside his hand, and said, "I chose the Ground-type as my representative attribute as a Gym Leader, and aside from the respect I have for the previous Pokémon Leader, there is another reason... I think you know, that reason."

"...Because of 'Secret of the Earth'?"

"As expected of you!"

Blue's tone changed to one of emotion, saying, "I have to say that man really is a, very powerful trainer."

"The 'Secret of the Earth' that he compiled, even I benefited a lot from it... If we didn't really have opposing positions, he and I might have been able to become good friends."

He shook his head and said, "All in all, 'Secret of the Earth' is a very powerful experience, and I hope that you, Ai-kun, will utilize it well and raise your Larvitar up."

"I will."

"Hmm."

Blue nodded.

Immediately, his emotional smile quickly changed to his trademark arrogant and crazy smile.

Blue's tone instantly became agitated as he said, "Then, before that, Ai-kun, let me use this Pokémon that I've carefully bred as the finale of our battle that both you and I have been waiting for!"

He tossed out the one Pokémon ball.

"This is the Pokémon I carefully bred with 'Secret of the Earth' from start to finish, and it's the final trump card I'll use against you in this Gym Challenge!"

"Roar!"

The beast's roar, accompanied by the opening of the Poké ball and Blue's words, resounded through the field of battle.

The massive figure landed with a thud.

Its thick tail slapped the ground, and its body was covered in thick purple armor, as fierce as a large monster.

The unicorn horn on top of this huge beast's head flashed with a heart-eating poisonous light.

"It's really a Pokémon full of that man's style."

Looking at the Pokémon Blue released, Aisha smiled.

Hearing Aisha's words, Blue also laughed out.

"Roar!"

The giant beast roared very ferociously towards Instructor Ai, roaring loudly.

It was Nidoking, one of Giovanni's signature Pokémon.

Now, this Pokémon continued to shine in the hands of the new generation of Viridian Gym's Gym Leader.

"A warm hint, but I have a feeling you guessed it too, Ai-kun."

Blue smiled and said, "The configuration of this Nidoking of mine is also the classic version that carries Life Orb under the Sheer Force Characteristics."