//------------------------------// // Twi vs. Shy // Story: Friendship, magic and pokémon // by daniboyi //------------------------------// A/N.. I kind of hate how I portrayed Fluttershy in this chapter, but I hope it is acceptable. Also sorry for the long wait, will try to not make it happen again! Now let's go! Twilight and Fluttershy were currently standing in the arena, ready to battle. Or at least Twilight was, as she looked ready and determined. Fluttershy was currently looking very nervous, near panic, as she was breathing quickly, her wings were folded tightly to her sides, and her ears were hanging low as well. Ash watched this with a smirk. He had a pretty good guess of how this battle would go, and he was quite eager to see the fight. He watched as Brock finally stepped up to the platform, where the judge was supposed to stand, and said loudly “This is the second battle in the Equestrian tournament! This battle will be between Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy! Begin!” Twilight was calm as she levitated a pokéball out a opened it and with a flash a medium sized light and darker-brown bipedal pokémon with a spoon in his hand appeared as she called “Get ready to battle Kadabra.” The crowd looked at the pokémon with an eager smile, as Ash said with a grin “Looks like Twilight starts hard and head-on.” “P-Please come out Bayleef…” Fluttershy muttered nervously, the crowd and Twilight unable to hear, as the large grass type appeared and cried out happily “BAAY!” Twilight was immediately in the match and yelled “Use Confusion!” starting with a weaker attack, which Ash noticed immediately. “O-Oh dear! Please dodge if you want too?” Fluttershy muttered nervously, and Ash groaned. “What?” Asked Rainbow confused. “You… can’t dodge confusion or psychic attacks. They are not a projectile, they are a force, like levitation.” Ash said, as the blue aura wrapped around Bayleef and made her cry out in shock as she was lifted into the air. She was immediately launched into the air and gave a cry in shock, before another cry in pain as she rammed against the top of the shield and fell to the ground with a loud thud. “W-Would you mind if you used... S-Sleep powder?” “Teleport out of the way!” As Bayleef waved its leaf, spraying the powder over the field and towards Kadabra, he teleported away and behind Bayleef, and Twilight yelled again “PSYBEAM!” Kadabra lifted his spoon and spoke “Kadabra!” before the light blue beam shoot out of the spoon and hit Bayleef point blank, making her cry out in pain as she was blasted across the field and stood up weakly, trembling a bit. Ash bit his lip and said “Unless Fluttershy doesn’t do anything, this match will be a victory for Twilight without even taking damage…” Rarity looked concerned at her spa-friend. Fluttershy was biting her lip, tears formed in her eyes in shame of her lack of action, but she didn’t want to attack another being “P-Please use Vine Whip. T-Try to wrap him!” Twilight sighed and said “End this with Psychic.” Kadabras eyes glowed dangerously blue, before Bayleef was wrapped in another, more powerful, blue light and thrown hard against the shield. It knocked her out instantly and Fluttershy released a whimper and recalled the pokémon. Not wanting to fight, but not wanting to disappoint her friend. Brock called out “This match goes to Kadabra! Please send out your next pokémon!” “P-Please come out Kirlia…” the small psychic pokémon arrived at the field and Fluttershy whimpered again “D-Don’t hurt her…. Please?” Twilight sighed again, feeling a bit sorry for her friend and thought she might as well try to get it over with quickly, as she called “Use Shadow ball!” “Shadow ball?” Ash stated with widened eyes “Looks like Twi taught her pokémon some moves they don’t learn naturally.”, and nodded in agreement to the decision. Kadabra let out a cry as it fired the ball of shadows towards Kirlia, who dodged it at the last second as Fluttershy called out in panic “Dodge it with teleport and try to restrain him with confusion!” Kirlia obeyed, her eyes glowing blue as Kadabra felt the restrain on his movements and cried out in annoyance. Twilight bit her lip, before she called out “Use protect and follow with another psybeam.” Again obeyed Kadabra at the spot, creating the shield and blocked the attack, before he fired his own against the small psychic Pokémon. Fluttershy whimpered hard as the attack hit directly, sending Kirlia flying through the field with a cry in pain. She gave another whine as she heard the slam against the shield once more and her ears lowered in shame of her defeat, and how she was betraying her Pokémon. She was just about to give up, when she felt a little touch on her leg. She looked down and saw Kirlia, who smiled softly to her, a fire in her eyes. Kirlia smiled a little, before Fluttershy nodded, a smile forming on her lips. She looked up at Twilight and said, a fire starting inside her and spreading out, “You want to play Twilight? Then let’s play!” She pulled out a pokéball and said “Kirlia come back! Come out and play Granbull!” The crowd gasped in shock as the large normal-type Pokémon appeared, giving a loud growl in determination as Fluttershy called, before Twilight had time to react “Use quick attack! Follow up with Bite and end with Headbutt!” The attack was instantaneous, the Pokémon running up to the psychic type, leaving a white streak of light behind him, and knocked into Kadabra, who let out a cry in pain. The attack was immediately followed by Granbull biting down hard on Kadabras arm, making him yell out in another wave of pain, as the attack was super effective, and he was sent flying by Granbull ramming his head into Kadabras head. He was rammed hard against the shield and fell to the ground unconscious. Ash grinned at the show and said “Now the real fight can begin.” Twilight looked shocked at her fallen Pokémon, before she said “Wow… I guess Fluttershy got some fight in her.” She smirked and looked at Fluttershy “Are you ready for the real battle to begin?” she got a nod in return and called out “I summon you Flareon!” out of the flash, an orange dog wit a cream mane was called out.Twilight smirked and said “Flareon! Use flamethrower!” The fire dog Pokémon moved on command, as he fired a huge flame towards the offending Pokémon, who glared hard at the incoming attack, waiting for orders. Fluttershy did not disappoint this time and said quickly “Dodge and use scary face.” The Granbull dodged with a jump to the side and made a fierce expression towards the Flareon, making it shiver fearfully and its speed lowers. “Continue with a Bite attack please.” She frowned a bit, as Fluttershy didn’t like having to order the attack on another Pokémon, but didn’t want to disappoint her Pokémon either. Granbull charged towards Flareon, who was not too slow to dodge and Twilight said instantly, with wide eyes from the actually planned tactic from Fluttershy. “Flareon! When he gets close, use Fire Fang!” as Flareon cried out in obedience, waiting patiently for the large Pokémon to get close enough, glaring hard. As the large dog Pokémon was right in front of the fire Pokémon, he immediately rammed his teeth into the large normal type’s leg, fire erupting from the fangs, as Granbull roared in pain and tried to get the Pokémon off him. “Use Mega Punch!” Fluttershy called out in fear, her Pokémon was hurting. He obeyed instantly, grimacing in pain, as he rammed his glowing fist down at Flareon, making the fire type scream out in pain from the hard hit, causing Fluttershy to wince again, feeling down right horrible for causing this much pain, but forced herself to continue, her confidence from before rapidly fading as she continued with the battle. “C-Continue with crunch!” The large pitbull-pokémon bit down on the fire type, making it scream out in panic and Twilight yelled out in return to the powerful biting attack “Fight back Flareon! Hit him with close range flame thrower!” it was instantly obeyed as a fire blasted point blank into the Pokémon, making it howl in pain. It jumped back, releasing Flareon in the process, and get down on one knee in a grimace in pain. Flareon herself was also looking quite painful and was obviously in discomfort just by staying conscious. Fluttershy and Twilight both looked, Twilight having a smirk, while Fluttershy was shivering lightly and they called out at the same time “Use Take Down! / P-Please use t-take down is you want to…” as the two Pokémon stormed towards each other. Ash looked at the battle intense as Rainbow said “Granbull should have the advantage right? Because of his weight and larger body.” Ash nodded and said “That is true, but I wouldn’t count Twilight out yet, she seems to have a plan for whatever happens to her.” True to his words and prediction, did Twilight really have a plan as she called out as soon they got close to each other “Jump into the air and use Flame Thrower!” Flareon obeyed instantly, leaping into the air and released a torrent of flames down upon the normal-type Pokémon, who was howling in pain. The flames soon vanished as Flareon hit the ground again and in the scorched area laid Granbull, unconscious and panting lightly. Fluttershy whimpered hard at the sight of her Pokémon hurt. Twilight smirked and said “come back Flareon.” She turned to Fluttershy and said “Call out your next Pokémon Fluttershy.” It was not a harsh tone, but a gentle one as she tried to encourage her friend. Little did it help as Fluttershy whimpered and shook her head as she said “I-I won’t hurt anymore of my Pokémon!” “But if you don’t send one out, then you are going to lose!” she said concerned and a bit surprised. “FINE!” She yelled with tears in her eyes “I'd rather lose this stupid battle than hurt more innocent creatures!” as she turned around and took off, running out of the battlefield as Twilight looked ashamed, never even thought about Fluttershy and how she must feel doing the match. Rarity muttered “Oh dear… Maybe I should go talk to her…?” She was about to get up, but Rainbow Dash, of all ponies, shook her head and said. “I'll talk to her. I know I am not good with all these feelings and stuff, but I have known her for longer. We were friends at flight school and I think it might be best that I talk to her.” The others looked a bit hesitant, but nodded as Rainbow flew off to talk to her shy friend.