Chapter 767: Aerodactyl Vs Gengar
"Come out, Aerodactyl!!", shouted Axel and threw the ball.
ROARRR
Aerodactyl entered the stadium with a roar. It looked menacing and it was also an elemental rank Pokemon. The crowd was surprised to see another elemental-rank Pokemon.
Axel had only been in the Johto region for a year and now he already had 2 elemental rank Pokemons. That was a huge progress.
Even though none of his Pokemon had fainted, Axel knew that he could not use Primeape anymore. It was already very injured. So, he only had Aerodactyl and Togetic and he was comfortable with this.
Aerodactyl had also improved a lot in the past couple of months. Most of its training was spent on its passive move 'Divine teeth'. The process of taking the teeth out and growing a new one was a slow process and Aerodactyl had now done this 19th time and was at the final stage of the 19th time. Only one of the teeth was left to be taken out. The teeth had become harder and sharper with every process of taking it out.
It also leveled up some of the moves.
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Bite (Aerodactyl) (Level 40): Its shredding power has increased. Has a higher chance of flinching the target in pain.
Tail wind (Aerodactyl) (Level 40): The use of the wind to increase its speed also slightly change the direction of the wind.
Rock Slide (Aerodactyl) (Level 40): The speed of the move has increased.
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The modification was not so huge and drastic but the power of Aerodactyl had increased compared to before.
"Are you both ready to battle?", asked the referee.
"Yes, I am"
"Yes, I am."
"Let the battle begin!!!", shouted the referee.
"Gengar, use 'Nasty plot'", said Norty.
Axel didn't say anything but Aerodactyl gave a roar after the start of the battle. The surroundings started to change as the sand and the dust on the stadium started to rage.
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"Woh, the power of this sand storm is very high for an elemental rank Pokemon.", said someone from the crowd.
"Yes, it is hard to see such a Pokemon nowadays."
The move had now leveled up to level 49 and was now in the process of leveling to level 50. Of course, it was very powerful.
'Nasty Plot' increased the special attack of the user and that was what Gengar really needed right now.
The storm made it difficult for anyone to see what was going on inside.
"Gengar, start with 'Shadow ball'", said Norty.
Multiple 'Shadow ball' were fired by Gengar and Aerodactyl dodged all of them with ease.
"Aerodactyl, use 'Rock polish' and then use 'Stone edge'", said Axel.
It was already a very fast Pokemon and with 'Rock polish', its speed had increased to a new height.
It also used the move 'Stone edge' and huge rocks came from the ground and then tried to pierce Gengar. Gengar was having difficulty in dodging all of them and some of them even hit Gengar right on its stomach.
"GENGAR!!!", shouted Gengar in pain.
Just when Axel was thinking that this was going to be an easy battle, Aerodactyl was bombarded with multiple Shadow balls from the back.
BOOM
BOOM
BOOOM
The 'Shadow ball' to Gengar had clearly been modified as it could fire multiple of them in a small amount of time.
What made Axel confused was how were those 'Shadow balls' able to come from the back.
Axel used the full power of aura to look at what was happening and he was shocked, to say the least.
There was another Gengar that was at the back and Axel could not see it properly due to the storm. Even Aerodactyl didn't know that it existed.
The storm would not only diminish the perception of the enemy but also the user. However, the perception of the user is slightly diminished compared to the enemy.
Aerodactyl didn't have the ability like 'Sand veil' like Tyranitar to negate the effect automatically. It would have to train its body and move to a higher level to have high perception.
Axel had now realized that this Gengar had used the move 'Substitute' and while the substitute took the hit of 'Stone edge', the main Gengar used 'Shadow ball' to attack Aerodactyl.
ROOARRR
Aerodactyl came out of that bombardment with a roar. It was a rock-type Pokemon and it had high defense. It would not go down so easily. It had fully activated the power of 'Unnerve' and now Gengar was a bit nervous. This was the effect of 'Unnerve'. It would make the Pokemon nervous.
Of course, it would depend on the difference in their power and ranks, and as of right now, since the hidden ability had not been fully mastered, it was not a hundred percent chance but even a second of hesitation would be dreadful in the battle.
Aerodactyl took advantage of this and used the move 'Earthquake'. It went down and then used its full power to hit the ground. The ground started to shake and it started to crack.
'Earthquake' was a ground-type move and it was very effective against Gengar as Gengar was weak towards ground-type moves.
The main Gengar was already ready for moves like this and it used the move 'Shadow punch' to hit the ground before the 'Earthquake' and that helped it to jump at the higher distance to avoid the move.
But the substitute was not so lucky. It took the full brunt of the attack and considering that it was already injured from 'Stone edge', its health was already very low now.
Axel was surprised that the substitute had not faded after taking those 2 hits. Gengar really was very bulky.
Norty now knew that Axel and Aerodactyl would be very vigilant against those 'Shadow ball' sneak attacks. So, he decided to use a new strategy.
He looked at Gengar and then nodded his head. Gengar also nodded its head and then it suddenly disappeared.
Axel had all of its focus on Gengar and since it had disappeared, he shouted, "Be careful. Increase your perception."
And then suddenly Aerodactyl could see a black-colored fist right on its face.
BANG!!
BANG!!
2 things happened at the same time. First of all, that black fist hit Aerodactyl right on the face and then it was pushed back by the attack. Secondly, that black shadow was also pushed back by some invisible force.
That black shadow was Gengar and it was hit by 'Stealth rock' that had been planted by Aerodactyl around it for defense. It was hit by that 'Stealth rock'. Since its speed was so high, it was affected a lot by those pointy invisible rocks.
But this begged another question. How was it able to become invisible and then come to attack Aerodactyl so fast? It didn't have any moves like 'Shadow sneak'. After that, he came up with a horrible realization. This was probably 'Shadow connect'.
The description of the move 'Shadow connect' was very simple yet there were infinite possibilities just from reading that description.
The move description was 'Can connect everything with shadow'. This meant that Gengar could manipulate shadows in every way. But even though the move was awesome, since it was just an elemental rank Pokemon, it could do a lot.
From what Axel could guess, due to the storm, there were a lot of shadows from the sand that was flying in the air. Axel could tell that Gengar connected that shadow and used it to move very fast. Like a short teleportation.
The move was very deadly and he wanted Shedinja to learn this move.
"Aerodactyl, cancel the 'Sand storm'", said Axel immediately.
Using this move was no longer an option. The move complimented Aerodactyl a lot in many things. But this didn't mean it didn't have anything to win this battle.
Looking at the current battle, Aerodactyl was actually losing this battle but the tables could turn anytime.
'Aerodactyl has to be near this Gengar to use it.', thought Axel.
The move that he was more expectant were 'Bite' and 'Crunch'. Both of them were dark-type moves and both of them were super effective against Gengar. The bite force of Aerodactyl was also exceedingly very high due to its passive move 'Divine teeth'.
But both of them had physical moves and Aerodactyl needed to get close to Gengar to use it. Axel knew that Norty would not let Aerodactyl do that. Being an experienced gym leader, he was not going to let Gengar be in close proximity with Aerodactyl.
"Aerodactyl, use 'Ancient power' and then use 'Stone edge'."
Aerodactyl started to glow in brown color and the surrounding rocks that were near Gengar started to glow. All of them suddenly came close to crashing with Gengar but Gengar was able to dodge it with multiple 'Shadow punch'. However, after that huge rocks came from the ground and all of them moved to bound Gengar.
BOOM
Gengar had used the move 'Sludge bomb' to counter it and it was able to dodge all of it but in the meantime, Aerodactyl used the move 'Meteor beam' to hit Gengar.
The moves were properly planned and now Gengar had no way and time to dodge the attacks.
"Gengar, use ''Shadow punch' to counter it.", said Norty.
Gengar looked at the sky with a wicked smile and then smiled with all of its teeth coming out.
HAHAHHAA...
It started to laugh like a maniac. Axel could understand what kind of Pokemon it really was. It never had an opponent that cornered it. So, when it was cornered like this after a very long time, it was not scared that it would lose but was excited. It was now going to give its level best and compete against Aerodactyl.
This was bad. Fucking bad. Axel was not scared about the new moves that Gengar had. Every once in a while, he would meet talented Pokemon like this but he had won against them.
What made Gengar scary was its mentality. The mentality to compete against powerful Pokemons to get stronger and then the will to never give up. This was what made the Pokemons strong. It would take a lot of time patience and life battles for a Pokemon to have this kind of mentality.
Even his new Pokemons didn't have this mentality. Togetic was close to having it but it was still not there yet. Since Togetic had made so much progress compared to it, it was currently the strongest of them all.
Gengar looked at the upcoming 'Meteor beam' which was hit with full power by Aerodactyl. Its right hand was coated with a blackish aura of 'Shadow punch' and then the left side was coated with static yellow 'Thunder punch'. It then manically started to punch the beam with sheer power and the surprising thing was that it was actually doing a good job.
It was doing such a good job that it was able to perfectly counter the move. This was wild. Others may not have realized but Gengar had modified its move during this very instant.
Norty had told Gengar to use the move 'Shadow punch' to counter it. So, it must be pretty easy to tell that it could not use 'Thunder punch' and 'Shadow punch' at the same time.
Using 'Shadow punch' with both of its hands was already in the realm of the modified move but Gengar not only did that but also added 'Thunder punch' to it.
Having the punches from 2 different types helped it to counter the move 'Meteor beam' as Axel was pretty sure that it would not have been able to do it if it was not able to modify the move because Aerodactyl had used that move with its full power.
Gengar became confident after doing this and it moved towards Aerodactyl with rapid speed.
"Gengar, maintain some distance.", shouted Norty but Gengar would not listen to it. After such a long time, it had found a worthy opponent. It wanted to face it head-on.
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