"Burn to ashes!" (The official translation of this move is 'Overheat', but I feel 'Burn to ashes' sounds more imposing, just like how I think the name Lapras is better than 乗龙.)
Seeing Su Sheng's MEGA Altaria get hit, Pachira decisively ordered her MEGA Houndoom to unleash its strongest move.
Houndoom twisted its neck, the temperature burning to the extreme, and an ultra-high temperature flame, subtly changing from red to white, poured out.
It felt like she had completely forgotten that this was just an exhibition match.
"Cotton Guard."
Su Sheng warily eyed the sea of fire descending from the sky, even though Altaria's type resisted fire, taking this move head-on wouldn't be pleasant.
It seems like Team Flare came today with a do-or-die attitude.
Pachira, as the organization's top expert, didn't bother concealing her strength at all.
After MEGA evolution, Altaria's already fluffy feathers further expanded, attempting to use them as a shield to block the high-temperature flames.
"The flames will erode its feathers!"
Pachira raised her eyebrows and shouted.
Cotton Guard, a move that can greatly increase a Pokémon's physical defense.
In the player's lounge, Shigeru asked in confusion, "Why is Brother Su Sheng using Cotton Guard at this time?"
Shigeru, who owned a Swablu, also knew the effect of Cotton Guard, but the problem was that Burn to Ashes was a special attack move!
Using Cotton Guard at this time was clearly meaningless.
As expected, the flames continuously eroded the fluffy feathers, burning them into black ash, and constantly approaching Altaria's main body.
"Then how about adding this?"
Su Sheng's face still held a smile.
Suddenly, MEGA Altaria's original light pink feathers were coated with a layer of black film, isolating Houndoom's high-temperature flames.
"That is——Armament Haki!"
Sonia, sitting in the audience holding a pirated yellow-skinned mouse, exclaimed.
"It's not over yet!"
Rurina had a bright smile on her face, looking at the man in the arena with the eyes of seeing a true destined person.
In the three or four seconds that Armament Haki feathers blocked Burn to Ashes.
The feathers around MEGA Altaria's body continued to expand, getting bigger and bigger, almost occupying half of the battlefield.
In the end, the constantly fluffing fluff actually evolved into Altaria's outline!
"This is——Grind's!?"
Cynthia, who witnessed Joker's battle against the Masked Man on Orchid Island more than half a year ago, immediately recalled Grind's "Ice Version Susanoo" at that time.
"What a spectacle!"
Seeing Altaria's Susanoo-like form comparable to Dynamax, the audience at the scene and in front of the TV couldn't help but exclaim.
"Feather Dance."
Su Sheng casually issued a new command.
Endless light pink fluff flew out like snowflakes.
MEGA Houndoom had no way to avoid it, and in an instant, the hellhound-like jet-black body was covered in fluff.
Feather Dance, a move that drastically reduces the target's attack power by scattering feathers on the opponent's body.
Originally, the high power of the Burn to Ashes move came at the cost of reducing special attack after use.
Unless it was a dual-type Pokémon, ordinary trainers would not easily use this move without absolute certainty of victory.
And now, MEGA Houndoom's special attack has been reduced after using Burn to Ashes, and Feather Dance has greatly reduced its physical attack.
If it were a formal match or a life-and-death duel,
Pachira only needed to recall Houndoom to rest for a while to recover.
But the rules of the exhibition match are 1V1.
Houndoom in this state was already like a cripple, and the outcome was determined.
Just then, a time-up prompt came from the big screen above the audience.
The commentator excitedly shouted, "Time's up! What a wonderful duel! Let us give applause to the two excellent trainers!"
Su Sheng and Pachira's exhibition match had a time limit.
It was also to prevent one side from losing face.
The best result for this kind of exhibition match is a tie.
The audience gave applause very politely.
In the player's lounge, a group of little devils with an average age of no more than 15 showed the same dissatisfied expressions as Su Sheng in his previous life.
"It's over like this, it's really not satisfying."
Blue pouted.
"The victory has been decided."
Red opened his mouth slightly and said.
Although there was no clear victory or defeat, even his younger brother, Andy, could see who was stronger.
"Yeah, but that Pachira is not weak at all."
Blue sighed.
Before coming, he checked the information of the Kalos League, and the official ranking of the Elite Four was Drasna \u003e Siebold \u003e Wikstrom \u003e Pachira.
Blue really wanted to ask the Kalos League if they were blind?
"It was right to come here, I learned another trick!"
Shigeru said excitedly.
He planned to let Swablu practice that move "Susanoo" when he got home.
"Next, let us invite the outstanding trainers participating in this year's Kalos Junior Cup to enter the arena."
At this time, the commentator's shout came from the TV and radio.
"Let's go, we have to enter the arena, well, anyway, in the end, it's me, Blue, who will win."
Blue said confidently.
"I want to become the strongest with my Charizard!"
Alan secretly clenched his fists and thought.
After the exhibition match, Su Sheng and Pachira returned to the VIP stands on the second floor and sat with Fladarry and other senior Kalos League officials.
By the time he sat down, the entrance ceremony was almost over, and the two players in the first round had already entered the arena - Alan and Red.
"Heh～"
Su Sheng couldn't help but laugh.
The scene where Alan's Charizard defeated Greninja in the anime almost made him quit.
Son of the editor VS Silver Mountain Demon King in his growth period.
Interesting.
"Please! Charizard!"
With a loud shout, Alan took the lead in throwing the Poké Ball in his hand.
The Poké Ball cover flying in mid-air opened by itself, and the one falling into the right field was Charizard.
"Hmm?"
Noticing that there was no keystone on Charizard's neck as in the anime, Su Sheng raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Alan's left wrist.
The keystone ring was already worn, indicating that Fladarry had given him the keystone and Charizard MEGA evolution stone, why didn't he use it?
Fladarry suddenly spoke, "Alan doesn't seem to be able to fully master MEGA evolution yet."
Some time ago, he discovered that this little assistant of Platane had potential and should be able to cultivate him into his right-hand man.
So he gave him the keystone and evolution stone,
But after all, he had only been traveling for less than a year, and it seemed that he was not enough to control the power of MEGA evolution.
Su Sheng's eyes moved slightly.
Indeed, he almost forgot that Pokémon might lose their minds after MEGA evolution.
In the anime, Yellow Cucumber's Lucario had such a situation.
"Charmeleon!"
Red didn't waste any words and sent out his initial partner.
It was a bit surprising that the evolution progress was slower than Alan's.
But after thinking about it again, Alan's Charizard seemed to have grown up with Alan since he was a child, while Red had only received that Charmeleon for more than three months, so it was not surprising that the evolution progress was inferior to the other party.
"Why use Charmeleon? Pikachu would be more suitable at this time, right?"
Shigeru in the player's lounge was puzzled.
Blue next to him analyzed, "Maybe, that guy Red wants his Charmeleon to learn something from that Charizard who was highly praised by Dr. Su Sheng."
"Flamethrower!"
Hearing Alan's order, the Charizard, who originally had a hint of disdain on his face, immediately opened his mouth, and a pillar of fire was spewed out.
The pillar of fire passed over the pool in the middle of the two, making the entire surface of the water reflect a red color.
As an evolved form, it has a natural sense of superiority.
Red waved his hand, "Avoid it!"
Charmeleon quickly shuttled through this forest battlefield, using stones, trees and other obstacles to avoid the Flamethrower.
"Flamethrower!"
At the moment when Charizard stopped exerting force, Red finally issued an attack command.
The Charmeleon, who was originally hiding behind a rock, jumped onto the rock, spitting out a pillar of fire and was about to hit Charizard.
"Flamethrower!"
However, at the last moment when the Flamethrower was about to hit, Alan's Charizard had already recovered.
When Charmeleon's Flamethrower was only less than half a meter away from his face, he spewed out flames again to block it, and slowly pushed it back.
"Alan has a greater advantage, after all, Charizard grew up with him, they have been together for a long time, that boy named 'Red' probably hasn't been traveling for long, but he is not simple either."
Dr. Platane, in the Pokémon Research Institute in Lumiose City, watched the live broadcast and said,
"Dig!"
Red ordered concisely.
Charmeleon decisively canceled Flamethrower, and the fire pillar from the opposite Charizard lost its obstruction and rushed over at high speed.
Although the opponent's level was slightly higher than his own, fortunately, the fire type was not effective against Charmeleon, and in the end, Charmeleon still braced himself and used his claws to dig into the soil under his feet and drilled into the ground.
"Fly! Charizard!"
Alan raised his right index finger to the sky.
For Charizard, who has the advantage of flying, ground-type moves are meaningless.
"When he comes out, use Dragon Claw to decide the victory."
Alan ordered.
"Roar!"
Charizard, perched nearly ten meters above the ground, overlooked the entire battlefield, with blue light and sharpness emerging from his claws, as if wearing two steel claw gloves.
Poof!
At this moment, some cracks broke open on the right side of the battlefield.
"Is it there?!"
Alan's pupils shrank.
Charizard swooped down.
However, what broke out of the ground was instant golden star-shaped bullets.
It's Swift!
Under conditioned reflex, Charizard suddenly waved his claws and tore the flying Swift to pieces.
Poof! Poof! Poof!
Cracks broke open in all directions of the ground on the field, and Swift flew out of them one after another.
Relying on its tracking ability, Charmeleon, hiding underground, didn't even need to aim deliberately, and the Swift flying out of the mud automatically fell towards Charizard.
"This kind of weak move is useless to us who pursue the strongest power, Charizard, Heat Wave!"
Hearing this, Charizard twisted his slender neck and released flames.
The moment the hot flames came out, they immediately turned into a fiery red wave, burning the surrounding Swift to ashes in mid-air.
"Don't you just want to be a shrinking turtle staying underground all the time? It's useless to us."
Alan waved his hand confidently, "Let's decide the victory, Charizard, Blast Burn!"
Blast Burn, a must-kill skill that only the final form of the fire-type starter can learn, one of the most powerful fire-type skills in the game.
Suddenly, Charizard was burning with flames, as if wearing a layer of flame coat.
The next second, he concentrated this power on his right fist and slammed it **** the ground.
Boom——the battlefield was shattered, the ground cracked countless cracks like a spider web, and the hot flames instantly poured into these cracks, engulfing the enemies hidden underground.
"Is it over?"
Karuna in the commentary room muttered to herself.
At this time, everyone saw Charmeleon, who seemed to have fainted, lying face down from the cracks in the ground that still had flames remaining.
"We won!"
Alan also shouted excitedly.
Seeing this, the referee was also ready to raise the flag to announce the result of the first round of the battle.
However, at this time, Blue slightly raised the corner of his mouth and said disdainfully, "Idiot, underestimate that guy too much."
"Dragon Claw."
Red spat out two words.
A red figure that suddenly窜 out with blue light in both claws, slashed **** on the back of Charizard's head.
Charizard knelt down on one knee.
Alan and countless viewers, including Karuna, who had announced the victory, changed their faces drastically.
That is——Charmeleon!?
He, wasn't he underground? Where did he come from!?
At this time, the "Charmeleon" in the crack slowly disappeared.
That is...Substitute!
"Idiot, you burned a fake."
Although Alan couldn't hear it, Blue still popularized it to himself, "That guy Red just let Charmeleon hit those few Swift underground not randomly, every attack, he launched from different directions, just to divert your and your Charizard's attention, and then when you show your flaws, he has already come out and hid in the dead corner behind you, it's a pity that you idiot still attacked the ground that was already empty."
Facing Charizard, who was still kneeling on the ground and couldn't move for a while due to the side effects of Blast Burn, Red ordered again: "Dragon Dance!"
Charmeleon made a horse stance, and violent energy of purple and red intertwined surrounded him, strengthening both strength and speed.
"Ne——...——"
At this time, Charizard, who was grunting in pain, resisted the constant pain from the back of his head and forcibly got up to prepare to attack.
Alan didn't care about being surprised, and immediately issued an order, "Charizard, use——"
"Thunder Punch!"
However, Red did not give the opponent a chance to breathe at all.
Charmeleon's claws advanced with thunder light, and the super-effective Thunder Punch, with the blessing of double enhancement of power and speed, hit the abdomen of the evolved body one after another.
"An idiot who only knows how to crush opponents with level, go down."
Blue said contemptuously.
And the Charmeleon on TV has already punched the last punch.
Boom!
Along with Charmeleon's last heavy thunder uppercut.
Charizard's body swayed more and more, and finally couldn't stabilize his body and fell to the ground.
"Pfft, Charizard is unable to battle, Charmeleon wins."
"Ooooooh!"
The crowd erupted in cheers, no one had expected Charmeleon to defeat the evolved form, Charizard.
"Didn't learn anything..."
Red muttered to himself, then took out a Poké Ball to recall Charmeleon and headed towards the player's tunnel behind him.
He had thought that Su Sheng mentioning his opponent meant he was some amazing trainer, so he specifically sent out Charmeleon to see if he could learn something.
Turns out that was all he had.
Red's words before leaving, along with the look of disappointment, though not contempt, under his cap, pierced Alain's pride like two sharp knives.
"Second round! From Alola, Shigeru takes on the son of the Lumiose City Gym Leader, Citron!"
The commentator announced the names of the next two players, and Shigeru walked through the player's tunnel, muttering to himself: "Su Sheng, are you kidding us? That Alain isn't strong at all."
Su Sheng replied that he only said his Charizard was resistant to water, not that he was strong.
After Shigeru defeated Citron, Blue easily defeated an unknown trainer to advance to the next round.
Soon, the three from Pallet Town faced off.
Shigeru was utterly defeated by his older brother Blue, who pointed out that Shigeru had only learned the form of Su Sheng's battle style, but had not grasped its essence.
In the finals, during Red and Blue's fierce battle, Red's Charmeleon evolved into Charizard at a crucial moment, disrupting Blue's rhythm and narrowly defeating him with a slight advantage.
During the handshake, Blue angrily slapped away his rival's outstretched hand, unconvinced, and said, "Evolving mid-battle is just luck, you won't be so lucky next time."
Su Sheng couldn't help but smile when he heard this.
Indeed, Red was lucky this time.
Before they both became champions of the Indigo League, Red and Blue's rivalry was always neck and neck, with Blue even having a slight advantage.
However, after Red became the Indigo League champion and later went to train on Mt. Silver, the gap between them widened.
The former went all the way to the master level, while the latter remained stuck at the peak of the champion level and couldn't break through.
"Congratulations to Red from Kanto for winning this year's Kalos Junior Cup! Before the awards ceremony, there will be a special event: the champion will be granted the opportunity to challenge the Kalos League Champion, Diantha! Red, do you accept this challenge?"
The commentator asked with a microphone.
Red nodded upon hearing this.
Champion, huh? Perfect, let me see how far I am from the top combat power of the league.
In the VIP stands, Su Sheng smiled as he watched Diantha walk onto the battlefield and shake hands with Red.
If I remember correctly, Diantha almost lost when she battled Ash in the anime, right?
Now it's his older brother... it's going to be another interesting battle.
At this moment, Lysandre said, "Mr. Su Sheng, this match shouldn't take too long, you should prepare for the award ceremony."
Su Sheng turned his head slightly.
Oh, here it comes?
"Oh, okay, then Hoopa, let's go."
Su Sheng pretended not to know anything and got up. Perfect, I want to see how you plan to take Hoopa from me.
"Ooh!"
Hoopa, floating in the air, responded and prepared to leave with Su Sheng.
Just then, the door to the VIP room opened from the outside, and a surprised voice came:
"Hoopa, I didn't expect to meet you here!"
"Barza!?"
Hoopa also exclaimed in surprise.
Although she spent more time with Mairin, she also had a good relationship with Barza.
"How was Alola? Is Mairin doing well?"
Barza asked in succession.
"Yes, yes, very good."
Hoopa nodded vigorously.
Su Sheng blinked as he watched Barza chat enthusiastically with Hoopa, as if he didn't see him.
Damn, I almost forgot about this guy.
"Mr. Su Sheng, it's time to prepare for the award ceremony," Lysandre reminded.
Su Sheng glanced at the lion-headed man.
Although it's a very ordinary trick, it's quite effective.
It's the same principle as directly throwing money at a girl.
"Hoopa, you stay here and chat with Mr. Barza, I'll go out for a while," Su Sheng said.
"Ooh! Asheng, I'll come find you later!"
Hoopa waved enthusiastically, unaware of what was happening.
Su Sheng left leisurely, noticing Pachira standing at the door with her arms crossed.
Obviously, she came with Barza.
Su Sheng gave her a bright and sunny smile.
Causing Pachira to frown.
She had a bad feeling.
"Barza, why don't you dare to talk to Asheng?"
Hoopa thought of a question.
"I'm not very familiar with Dr. Su Sheng..."
Barza said perfunctorily.
He didn't want to have too good a relationship with that scumbag.
The photos of him hugging Luna and Karin into the hotel with one arm each yesterday were all over the internet.
Even though Barza's quality was not bad, he couldn't help but curse in his heart when he saw the photos.
He has two such beautiful girlfriends, and he's still trying to steal Miss Pachira from me.
