Final Preliminaries

Carvanha latches on to the enemy Kadabra. The Kadabra looks rough from the barrage of bites. All of the psychic blasts deal no damage against your dark type partner. You smile knowing your victory is assured. It’s obvious to you that your opponent’s Kadabra doesn’t know any non-psychic attacks, making Carvanha immune to all incoming attacks. The battle is called shortly after, “Amber of Pallet Town is the victor. Walter of Cerulean City is eliminated.” You smile knowing you’ve knocked out yet another challenger.

You step down from the battle spot, the whole building is starting to empty out. The prospective contestants dwindle with each battle. Your phone buzzes immediately calling you for your next battle. The time between battles being nearly non-existent. Walter was already your third battle of the day, and the day had barely begun. Walking past the other spots you see, your friends battling their opponents, you see Blue and Douglas taking on two other trainers. The two brothers are so close to each other, adjacent battle spots, but neither knows who the other truly is. Daisy insists on not telling Blue, but wouldn’t you want to know if you had siblings out there?

Wartortle is up against a Cherubi, not the best type match up for you. The magical leaves fly and land, unable to miss. You command Wartortle into rapid spins, the spinning making the leaves glance against his shell. You need to make it quick, the blows are still landing even if they look to be bouncing off. Wartortle spins into your opponent, popping from his shell Wartortle bites the cherry pokemon. The grass pokemon flinches from the pain, giving your partner the chance to daze the enemy with a point blank water pulse. The Cherubi fires off another magical leaf, the leaves circle around before hitting their originator. Cherubi hit itself in confusion, Wartortle follows up with a final water pulse. “Amber of Pallet Town is the victor. Leroy of Cinnabar Island is eliminated.”

Your phone buzzes, you grab it ready for another battle. “*Congratulations, you’ve qualified for the Rookie Tournament.*” You’re so happy, after years of watching the Rookie Tournament you’ll finally be participating yourself. You wish your mom would be there, but you’ll make sure to get her a recording to watch after the cruise.

“A, did you get the message?” Jack says, approaching you.

You turn to see Jack waving her phone with the same message. You’ve both qualified for the Tournament. John, Roger, and Humphrey meet up with you, all of them having qualified as well. Everyone still in the battlegrounds gather around battle spot 1. You watch as the Celadon City Gym Leader Erika appears on stage.

“Congratulations to our 64 qualifying challengers. The 24 qualifying females will now be asked on stage to receive their promised egg.” One by one, we’re called on stage. “Ashley Ketchum of Celadon City,” Erika calls out, Daisy’s sister walking across the stage. She grabs an egg from the table, before joining the other women called up to the stage. “Amber of Pallet Town,” you make your way on stage.

The table of eggs is filled with all variety of colors and patterns. It’s impossible to tell what is in an egg without prior knowledge of the parents. Plenty of people have tried to decipher the mystery of pokemon egg markings, but none of them have made heads or tails of it. A popular belief is that the markings are a visual representation of the pokemon’s personality. While other think it’s just completely random. You grab one off the table, the white shell covered in a handful of colorful stars.

“Have fun last night,” Ashley mocks as you take your place next to her. “I have more if you want, but the next dose will cost you.” Her egg is covered in a mix of red and black jagged lines, a pattern that you want to describe as angry.

You want to bark back, you want to ask her about Daisy’s dad, you want to punch her. But you hold yourself back, she has shown herself to be dangerous. You watch as a couple more girls are called forward. “Jack of Fuchsia City,” your redhead girlfriend walks on stage grabbing an egg.

She slides in between you and Ashley. “Stay away from her you psychotic bitch,” Jack hisses at the goth girl.

“Oooh, feisty. I’ll have some fun breaking you,” Ashley laughs.

“The tournament will start in the morning with the opening ceremony. You will all be expected in the stadium. The bracket will be sent out later today. The first two rounds of the Tournament will allow two pokemon per trainer. And remember you’ll be on tv, so give everyone a good show, especially on the sexual forfeits,” Erika gives a look to the ladies on stage.

We all know why we were offered eggs and bonus losses in the preliminaries. They expect us to lose and be fucked on tv. But you don’t plan on losing, you plan on winning the whole Tournament. You won’t be the first woman, but it would certainly put you in good company. Sabrina, Erika, Whitney, Clair, Lorelei, and Karen were all victors of the Rookie Tournament in their days. You aim to put your name alongside theirs.

Author's Note:

Amber got her egg. So I put together the poll with the reader suggested options. What is in Amber's egg? I'll leave the poll open until it's time for the hatching.

https://www.strawpoll.me/45239614

And big thanks to everyone who's reading, and I always love to hear any feedback or suggestions.