Clutch Victory for Amber!

Blue grins at you, Pokémon Ball in hand. “So, Three on Three sound good? The Nidorans could use a break”

“Yeah, sounds good to me.” You are a little surprised that you managed to keep your voice as steady as it was. Because as you stared down your Husband, Pokémon Ball in hand, you considered very hard what your first move would be. One of the lessons Melody drilled into your head is that the opening move was often the most important move. If you had a strong opening, you could keep up the momentum. But a bad opening could snowball into a disaster. Bell might be your strongest Pokémon, but she also didn’t have an advantage against any of Blue’s Pokémon.

Sorry, girl. “Go Bell!” You hated it, but you’d just have to send her out and hope your Bulbasaur could do something.

Looks like Blue had a similar idea, because he leads with his Charmander. “Go Charmander! Use Smoke Screen!”

Nice try Blue, “Poison Powder!” but Bell didn’t need to see Charmander if she just created a cloud of Poison that flooded out in all directions. Which is exactly what she did.

Didn’t mean that the smoke screen was ineffective. “Ember!” At Blue’s command, you see a burst of flame come from the smoke. “Now move!” You think you see a shadow in the smoke. “Ember!” But when the attack comes from a completely different direction you realize that you have no idea where the Charmander is. “Good job! Keep it up!”

FUCK! You needed to buy time for the poison to take effect. “Synthesis!”

“Really Amber? Ember!” He smirks at you. “If you were just going to throw the fight we could just skip the foreplay.”

“Poison Powder and Synthesis!” You glare at Blue. “I’m not throwing the fight Blue!” You really weren’t, you just knew that the best Bell could do was weaken Blue’s Charmander enough to make a difference.

“Really? Ember! Because from what I can see that is exactly what you are doing.” You glance at Blue’s face and see him give you a confident grin.

“Really?! How many Antidotes do you have Blue?” You know he didn’t have any, because neither of you had any. “Because it seems to me like Charmander isn’t feeling all that good.”

Blue gives another command of “Ember!” and you both see that the burst of flame is a lot smaller than it was at first. “Still doesn’t mean your Bulbasaur is going to win!”

Blue is right of course, “Synthesis!” because Bell looks to be on her last leg. “But Bell doesn’t need to win, she just has to not lose.”

“Ember!” Nothing. “EMBER!” Both of you wait a few seconds for the smokescreen to clear and you see Blue’s Charmander lying on the ground, sick with poison. "You did your best.” Blue recalls his Charmander and gives you a look that almost looks like respect.

You recall your own starter who is barely standing, “Good job Bell” and think carefully on who to pick. You know Blue has a Pikachu and a Bellsprout, so your Poliwag Paul is a no go. Leaving you with only one option. “Go Nancy!” Your Numel.

As you send out your Numel, Blue sends out his Bellsprout. “Go Bellsprout! Poison Powder!”

“Curse!” You had the advantage this time, although you had to worry about Blue using your own tricks against you.

“Acid” Thankfully, unlike your Bulbasaur, his Bellsprout didn’t seem to have any means of healing itself.

Which meant you could still win this. “Ember!” With the smokescreen now gone, your Numel had no trouble hitting the Bellsprout.

“Acid!” You watch the attack land, but Numel barely seems to notice.

“Ember!” But his Bellsprout certainly does notice. Doesn’t mean you have a lot of time. Because you can already see the poison start to take effect. Still…

“Acid!”

“Ember!” it only takes one more exchange before the Bellsprout faints. “Oh, looks like I’ve taken the lead Blue” You try to sound confident, but you and Blue both know that it really comes down to this.

Blue recalls his Bellsprout and sends out his Pikachu. Which you know has no way of really hurting your Numel. So, Blue doesn't even try. “Double Team!”

“Earth Power!” But with the Pikachu dodging, the attack doesn’t even come close to landing.

“Double Team!”

You command Nancy to use “Earth Power!” again. But she doesn’t respond, having succumbed to the poison. “Shit!” You recall your Numel and resign yourself to having to spend the rest of the day with a Dildo up your ass. Still, as you send out your Poliwag, “Go Paul!” you are determined to not go down without a fight.

But as Blue grins at you confidently, you have to admit that your odds are not good. “Thundershock!”

Still, you have one last trick up your sleeve. “Hypnosis!”

You watch as the Thundershock hits Paul, but to your relief the Pikachu then falls down on the ground, fast asleep. You dare not make a sound, afraid that if you shout out the Pikachu might wake up. Because if the Pikachu wakes up there is no way Paul could take another electric attack.

But it seems as if the fight was over. “Damn it! Wake up!” His confidant grin is gone now. “Please?” But the Pikachu remains fast asleep. Blue waits a few seconds, hoping that the Pikachu wakes up, but it does not. Resigned, Blue sighs as he recalls the Pikachu. His head held down in embarrassment, he mumbles so quickly that you can barely hear him say. “You win.”

You won? You won! “YES! WOO HOO!” You run up and grab Paul and give the Poliwag a huge huge. “We did it!”

Author's Notes: A Close fight that could have gone either way. I was half way through writing this when I almost switched the outcome and had Blue win.