HtH142 – VS Mega Gengar
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: What? What just happened?
When the bright light that escapes Minara's pxkeball fades, Haunter's thin, floaty, mid-air frame is replaced with a pokemon with a plump, stocky build; it lets out a ghostly roar, overly long tongue flapping in the air before it...
"Gengar! That's a Gengar! Contestant Minara's Haunter has evolved into a Gengar right before the match!"
Back at the commentary booth, Mistrál calls out what had just happened! Normally, a Haunter cannot evolve to its final form by leveling. However! There was a single way to do so. That sole method--- is to trade your Haunter away in a trade evolution! Realization spreads through the crowd of what had just happened...
"But is this really fine though? I know one of your opening pxkemon, doesn't that put you at a disadvantage?"
GOJIRA-Hikari puts a a clawed flapper to the side of her face, concern for her fellow competitor showing! She casts a sideways look to Referee No.1, who is whistling a note in the air with her eyes closed.
"... don't need it."
"What?" Hikari puts down her clawed flipper, like she had heard wrong.
"I don't need it! Your concern!" The girl presses atop the top of her newly evolved Gengar's head with both hands, and both trainer and pokemon stick out their tongue at GOJIRAAAA in unison! "Each and every single one of you... think that I am going to lose anyway! But the person who is going to be in for a shock, is you, GOJIRAAAA!"
Despite not having a microphone, Minara's raised her volume enough to let it send shockwaves through the underground battle stadium! For the first time, GOJIRAAAA-Hikari takes a step back, hit by real-life Minara's parting shot! Those words split the crowd in two, a wave of encouragement cresting for GOJIRAAA to keep fighting on!
"Well folks, you heard it! The match will continue, exactly the way that it started!" By now, House had already slipped back into the announce booth, letting the two main characters take the spotlight for this match!
"What a fierce competitive spirit contestant Minara has. However, the question still remains, will GOJIRAAAA even take advantage of this situation?"
"You betcha she's gonna capitalize on it!" House practically yells into the microphone, "This is a competition, and everyone wants to give it their all in the center of that ring, no regrets! Just you watch!"
Getting pumped up by the encouragement from the audience, GOJIRAAAA-Hikari cradles a pair of pxkeballs in both hands,
"Ah, then let us both play a part in this grand performance--- I too, shall play a part in a finale of shared respect and... acceptance!"
On that last word,
GOJIRAAAA-Hikari moves with an elegance unheard of for a big beefy kaiju, leaping into the air with the tip of her toes, sending out both of her starters!
At the same time, Minara also detaches a pxkeball to send out her second starter!
"Here we are folks! The match is a go-go! And the starters that GOJIRAAAA is going to crush with today are..."
A chill wind blows straight for the announce table, a light hail spreading through the room in showy white!
"In consideration of the possible weather wars we will be having tonight, our live tables have been equipped with light screens so our guests can dine to their heart's content!" The hail stops just before our guest's tables, an invisible wall holding the hail at bay, preventing it from getting into the food! Our event organizer pushes up the side of her holo-glasses, pleased that her preparations have worked out well!
Still, the temperature of the room dropped several degrees, and a pair of shadows emerge from the hail...
On the left, a pure white shadow with nine tails, strutting into the arena's center with great grace.
On the right, a small, sitting silhouette in familiar black, red and gold accents, its horn pointed proudly upwards!
"What a twist! GOJIRAAAA has opened with Alola Ninetails and Kingambit!"
"True to her word, GOJIRAAAAA is not pulling any punches tonight." Flashing statistics appear in the corner of Mistrál's holo-analyzer, tinting her left eye blue from the wealth of data passing through! "Kingambit is a strong competitor, a DARK type that perfectly counters Gengar's GHOST typing. That light hail we are experiencing right now is from Ninetail's ability, 'Snow Warning'."
"When Ninetails enters the field, a blizzard will whip up! But I wonder why GOJIRAAAA decided to open with Ninetails?"
At this, Mistrál shrugs her shoulders as well, since she could not find a logical reason for it. "Perhaps Hikari... No, GOJIRAAAA was expecting a war for the weather at the start?"
In this regulation, there are multiple pxkemon who can set the weather on entering, and perhaps Hikari was looking to seize the initiative by doing so!
On the other side, a loud cat-like roar resonates through the arena, and emerging from the hail is an upright red figure, a wrestling belt wrapped around its waist...
The bulky and heelish figure immediately attracts Referee No.1's attention, her eyes twinkling with sparkles!
"Incineroar! Contestant Minara's partner for Gengar is Incineroar! An amazing choice!"
"Hang on, that doesn't make any sense! I mean, it would if she had a Gengar to start with, but we all saw that was a Haunter!"
In House's mind, there was only one reason one would pair up an Incineroar with a Gengar...
"Sense or not, GOJIRAAAA-Hikari has played right into Minara's mindgames! Incineroar is a FIRE type, which burns away STEEL and ICE pxkemon! STEEL types... like Kingambit, and ICE types, like Ninetails!"
The crowd gasps! Impossibly, even incredibly, does Minara have the advantage now?
Could the girl with the wide grin and swirly eyes have actually played GOJIRAAAA-Hikari like a damn fiddle?!
"It is unfortunate, we are at best evenly matched." Hidden in the snow, GOJIRAAAA-Hikari puts on a poised pose, both flappers in front of her, unworried by the bad typing matchup. Through the snow, she leans down to pick something off the floor, dusts it off, and hands it to her Kingambit,
"You dropped this, king."
A cute golden arm receives the black object, sliding the pair of black sunglasses back on!
It too lets out a loud roar, ready to fight!
"It looks like GOJIRAAAA-Hikari's Kingambit is not backing down from the intimidation, folks! That's some hot-headed Defiance right there!"
"Aren't those Ablam's shades? I must wonder if Ablam knows that Hikari is loaning them out when she is away."
"This is a true show of friendship between our house members! The fact of the matter is that they trust each other enough to help each other out in times of need! That's cool!"
Mistrál nods, with great approval! "And you know what else is cool, house? These limited edition Big Six T-shirts! For a short time, you too can get yourself a cool shirt with one of the Big Six wearing cool shades for yourself and your friends!"
"We're giving priority to those here now at the venue for sizing, but you too can order a shirt for yourself from home! Link is in the stream description!"
At House's side, Mistrál holds up to the camera a shirt with a Charizard putting on cool shades while looking away, the word "GEM." printed at the bottom. An extremely cool pose to be sure, you can't go wrong with big orange for merch!
"Master, we gotta get one of those right away!" Fredrika is practically chomping at the bit to throw money at the announce desk!
"C-calm down! Don't fall for the blatant advertising!" Ayano has to pull her blue-haired apprentice back, the blue bird already fluttering halfway to the announce desk!
Meanwhile, back at at arena, GOJIRAAAA-Hikari is lifting her flippers up, feeling at home in the snow.
"To be honest, I thought your signature would be a Frosslass."
"Life is a series of twists and turns", GOJIRAAAA-Hikari does a dance step, one leg high behind her in the air, "And in this dance of life, every day brings a new step, a new experience---"
Even though the type matchup is bad, GOJIRAAAA-Hikari retains her cute composure, still performing to the crowd!
For she knows... She can always switch the pokemon out for the other two waiting in the back instead!
A small initial setback is not enough to dent GOJIRAAAA's stomping dance all over her opponent!
Or so, she assumed.
For what happens next is completely unexpected.
Minara puts both her hands to the side of her head, like she is having a headache.
But underneath this strange gesture...
She is...
... laughing?
Then, out of nowhere...
...the gemstone upon her headband answered.
That familiar light pulses...
... and syncs with the Gengar on the field, covering it in a spherical shell of power!
We are trying something different! This is a simul-posting at the same time as the Scribblehub release! Go check out the entire series at this link!
