OOC: Emm, sorry.. I know my posts could be a bit longer. I'll try harder in future.

As King walked into Venin Valley, he was awed by the flowers there. He knew they were poisonous but they were pretty none the less. It was like a rainbow on Earth. A really pretty rainbow.
Aron had been walking beside him since the lab and it seemed to like him alot. It kept nuzzling his leg and King coldn't help think it was cute. He decided to name it Borat. Just kidding.
"I know. Why don't I call you Nuzzler? Do you like that?" he said to the aron. Aron nodded and said "Oh that's a great name. You're really smart and big and great aren't you.". Aron was obviously awed by his new trainer.
King smiled and said "OK. Nuzzler it is then. Let's find you some friends. Allright?". Nuzzler nodded eagerly, hoping he would like his friend.

[Big improvement. I like it. :3]

A very mauve male Nidoran pops up in front of you like a...pop up-y thing. Not like a popup on the internet, because those are really annoying. It pops up...more like a toaster, really. Anyway, it looks eager for a battle. And poisonous...definitely poisonous.

OOC: Thanks. By the way, can you modify my aron's name to Nuzzler? Thanks.

King saw the nidoran and grinned. If he trained it well, then it might become a nidoking. "OK Nuzzler. Use headbutt on that nidoran. It's poison shouldn't effect you.".
Most pokemon wouldn't be able to use physical attacks against nidoran because of the poison spikes. But Nuzzler was immune to poison and the sharp spikes couldn't pierce his hard head.

[Sure. I actually meant to earlier, but it slipped my mind.]

Nuzzler must be stubborn, from the way he butts heads with the Nidoran. Well, the Nidoran isn't really butting back so much as getting hit. Pretty hard. The little poison Pokemon sucks in a breath of air, pausing a moment as if in thought, then kicking Aron twice. Hard. Double the hits, four times the pain, double kick, double kick, double kick gum! Okay, so that doesn't rhyme, and there is no double kick gum...yet. (Might be a good name for a cinnamon flavor.) Still, that's a super effective hit!

King grimaced as the nidoran kicked Nuzzler around. Those were super effective hits. He'd have to stop the nidoran from using that move.
"OK Nuzzler. Use iron head and follow it up with iron tail. Keep it too busy to try anymore fancy footwork" cried King. It should work. He had thought carefully about it.
If the nidoran was busy trying to dodge iron head, then it's feet would be busy. Then if it did jump out of iron head's way, it would almost certainly get hit by iron tail. A foolproof plan.

Nuzzler lunges for an Iron Head, but to its dismay, no contact! Bringing its tail around for an Iron Tail, Nidoran sees it coming a mile away and puts up a counter! That's double backed power with supper effectivity! Luckily for you, though, the Nidoran barely nicks Nuzzler, but causing some good damage nontheless!

King grimaced. His plan had gone all wrong. If he ever found out that someone had made him fail so miserably, he would hunt them down and burn them from the feet up (Kazokumaru!).
"OK Nuzzler. Use dragon rush. Then follow it up with shadow claw." he cried to Nuzzler. Nuzzler nodded and a blue aura surrounded him. Then he jumped and started flying straight at nidoran.
King crossed his fingers. If this went as badly as the last combo then he'd be in trouble. He started to doubt his own skill. Was he good enough to be a trainer? Was he skilled enough to raise Nuzzler?

(Well, let's find out shall we!!)

Nuzzler sky-rocketed towards the Nidoran... but, it charged full force at Nuzzler... HORN ATTACK!! Nidoran sustained the Dragon Rush and nailed Nuzzler hard. Nuzzler was thrown in the air, but soon did a back flip in mid air and crashed down on the unsuspecting Nidoran with a Shadow Claw. The intense battle was beginning to get tiresome for both sides. What shall happen next? :ghost:

OOC: Oh come on. Dragon rush canceled out by horn attack!

King was seriously beginning to fret. He should have been winning this battle easily. Nidoran wasn't even able to use it's poison attacks. It was just too strong.
King decided that if it couldn't see, then he couldn't block any attacks. "OK Nuzzler. Use mud slap. Then hit it with an iron head. Got it?". Nuzzler nodded and started kicking up mud.

Aron's fighting dirty! Nidoran's just dirty...and muddy, now. And blind as a Zubat...maybe it should look into laser eye surgery! Nidoran jabs its horn toward Aron and manages to connect, but it's only a Poison Sting. Yay for not doing anything! Aron hits it head on with a head made of iron! And then they both walk away, arm in arm, to go see Iron Man. Okay, so I made that part up.

King deided something. He's have to be smart to win this battle. And that meant taking all aspects of an attack into account. Otherwise, Nuzzler would get creamed out there. Hesitating for a moment, he decided on his strategy.
"OK Nuzzler. Use rock tomb to trap nidoran. Then use sand storm on it. If it can't move then it will have to just take the snadstorm." King cried, certain that this new strategy would work. This was one strong nidoran. It had outdone most of his plans but he was sure he would catch it.

Rocks surround Nidoran and damage him, crit. hit, and sand hits Nidoran with so much force that it made it slam against the wall. Nidoran is offically trapped.

King saw that the nidoran was trapped by the combination and decided it was getting pretty weak. If he could get a strong hit in then he might be able to catch it. He knew that Nuzzler had just the attack to do it.
"OK Nuzzler. Use dragon rush and then I'll catch it. Try and weaken it as much as possible without KOing it." he shouted over the noise of the sandstorm. He coughed as sand got in his mouth and then watched Nuzzler glow blue. He then threw a pokeball roght behind it so that it would hit the nidoran right after impact when it was shocked from the attack.

Aron tries to put on one of those Chinese New Year dragon costumes, but it's really too big for one little steel type, so Aron just drives toward Nidoran during rush hour. Which somehow does a lot of damage. :crazy:

The Pokeball sucks in Nidoran with that mysterious Pokeball-ish suction. Who knows how it works? Personally, I think there's a miniature black hole in each one, but I'm not sure how it would get out if that were the case...maybe according to Gilligan's law (which I just made up), the forces would be enough that...oh wait. While I was prattling on, the Pokeball stopped rocking. Congrats, Nidoran is yours.

You smell something putrid before you see it. Because it is putrid. It is a putrid Stunky. All Stunkys are putrid, but this is especially so. Putrid.

OOC: I'd like to name nidoran Merc

King smiled. He now had two pokemon. Then he smelt it. It smelled like year old eggs that had been in someone's diaper for a month. Covering his mouth, he sent out Merc. He hoped that nidoran didn't have a strong nose. Then again, maybe poison pokemon liked the smell.
"OK Merc. Use ice beam. If that freezes it then use poison jab as many times as possible (Gotta love that STAB). If it isn't frozen and it uses a physical attack then use counter." he sad to Merc, who nodded and dove into the stench of tears, sweat and blood... or was that just stunky?

Stunky, strangly because it is SOO fat, dogued all of the attacks (Told you) And instead of following along with your plans, Stunky used acid! Forutunatly, it didn't do much damage...

King saw that nothing had quite gone right in that strategy (Why do I get the feeling you don't like me.?) so he'd have to be even smarter. Merc was a new pokemon so it probably didn't like him much. It was also able to use frustration, an attack that grew more powerfull the less the user liked it's trainer.
"OK Merc. Let's start this strategy off with a frustration attack. If it uses a physical attack, use counter. If it uses a special attck, use protect." King ordered. Personally he hoped that stunky used a physical attack. Merc would be ready either way.

Nidoran uses Frustration, but is frustrated by a frustrating Stunky who frustratingly doesn't look very fazed. Well, that's not entirely true. Upon closer look, you see it favoring the left side - the side on which it was hit - a little. Barely. It's far from out of the fight, though, as proven when it rams into Merc with a vicious Double-edge. The tiny poison pin Pokemon is surprised by the attack and hasn't decided whether to use Protect or Counter in time, so it just shakily gets to its feet and steadies itself to prepare for the next round.

Realizing that his attacks weren't doing much damage, but then King thought that maybe stunky's attacks would do a lot. All he had to do was confuse stunky and the battle would be a lot easier. He took out his pokedex and checked if Nuzzler had any confusing attacks. He was rewarded for his curiosity.
"OK Nuzzler, use supersonic and follow it up with thunder, OK." he said. Nuzzler nodded and turned back toward stunky. This pokemon was really getting on his nerves. Wanting to end this battle, Nuzzler started emitting sonic waves so high-pitched that humans couldn't hear them. This was supersonic.

Did it work? Nothing looked different. But then Stunky used thief... on itself. It stole the cheri berry it was holding and ate it. The berry had no effect whatsoever. Angered by the theft of its berry, Stunky resorted to a stronger attack: Flamethrower. You stepped back to avoid the intense heat. You then found that only one thing smells worse than a Stunky, and that is a burned Stunky. It took some additional damage from the burn. It looked like Stunky was doing a pretty good job of defeating itself. But as any good trainer knew, there was always the opportunity for a comeback.

OOC: My nidoran's name hasn't changed in my rofile. Can someone change it to Merc?

King smiled. Things were starting to fall into place. "OK Merc. Use thunder, the strongest one you can do. That should make him pretty weak. Then I'll throw the pokeball." he said calmly. Merc was a good battler.

OOC: I know it's short but I'm in a rush.

Thunder! Merc starts singing AC/DC...mkay then! It's...not very effective. Maybe if Nidoran was a higher level, or if it had a higher special attack... Stunky's not quite out of the battle yet, though, despite the fact that it's definitely showing fatigue. Astonishingly, it doesn't hurt itself in its confusion, but not so astonishingly, Nidoran doesn't flinch, given that it attacked before Stunky.

Pursing your lips, you launch the capture device at the Stunky with all your might. The skunk is sucked up with a weird suctiony sound. Umm, wow. You have one of the stinkiest Pokemon in the game now. Congratulations?

Hmm. I can't decide whether to have a wild Pokemon or a trainer attack next...so you are attacked by a wild trainer! He grunts and sends out a Kabuto. What do you do?

OOC: iI'd like to name my stunky Kazi

King looked at the trainer and the Pokemon next to him. "I've got to stop drinking extra sweet coffee. Whenever I drink it, I get a hallucination like this one.". Yes, he thought he was allucinating. But who can blame him? Some crazy old guy and an extinct Pokemon? Come on.

The trainer and Kabuto stands there .. "Come on kid, I haven't got all day!" he shouts at you then shakes his head .. "Kabuto, hit the kid with a Scratch attack on the face.. wake him up." he commands as Kabuto starts slashing your face up.

"Ah! Bad hallucination. Bad, bad hallucination. Get off of me." King screamed as he jumped to his feet. He ripped the kabuto off of his face and gasped for air. "OK, I realize you're not a hallucination, but would you mind telling me how you got a kabuto. I thought they were extinct." he said meekly.

The trainer smirked. "There is a lab I went to with this rare fossil. They analized it and brought the Kabuto back to life. I am now on a quest to be the best." the trainer said "If you are off to gather the guardians, I guess we are rivals." The trainer said and smirked as he brushed past you and away they went..

King stared after the trainer and thought "What a jerk.". Then I turned around and picked up Merc, Nuzzler and Kazi in one motion. He hugged them tight and then recoiled at Kazi's smell. Using all of his willpower not to drop the stinky Pokemon, he walked down the path.

"Hey, wait!" the trainer yells at you. "Hey! Hey! Wait! Hey! We're supposed to battle!"

"...really?"

"Yes! When two trainers look each other in the eye, they're obligated to battle."

"Says who?"

"Says...your mom!"

Ouch. Okay, this guy is asking for it!

"Oh you want to talk about my momma?! Well your momma's so ugly, she has to buy two tickets to the zoo. One to get in, and one to get out." King shouted angrily. "Go get him Merc! Use horn drill as much as possible. He can't dodge forever." King cried, transformed inta a screaming, raging monster by the insult to his mother. Kazi and Nuzzler slowly backed away.

Okay, jeeze, kid it was just a... ow! ow.. owwowowowowoww! The trainer cries out in pain as he is hit by horn drill. When he gets Mirc off him, he tosses Mirc onto the side of the road. Okay, you are really asking for it. Lets battle!
Since I am going to win, you can choose your pokemon!

"I choose Kazi, my Stunky. Kazi, if you beat this jerk, I'll give you whatever you want." shouted King, still in a rage. Kazi leapt forward and pawed the ground, raring to go.

"You already know what pokemon im sending out!" The jerk called. The Trainers Kabuto comes slithering down his shirt, and onto the battlefield hissing at you. If you thought it was a hallucination last time, look now. Now the thing was on two legs and hissing!

"Yeah punk! You can attack first!" The jerk yelled out to you laughing the whole time.

Teach this punk a lesson.

"OK Kazi. Use dig. Make holes all over them as a ventilation system for your poison gas. Go now." commanded King. It was an original enough plan. Instead of ventilating fresh air, he was doing the exact opposite. Wait, the opposite of ventilating it is sucking it away and the opposite of fresh air is dirty air so he was cleaning the air... I think. Ow, my head hurts.

"Kabuto, use dig also!" The Kabuto looked confused, but also began digging.. this trainer obviously had no idea about your tactic.

King grinned. So he was using dig as well. That would just make a bigger ventilation shaft and Kabuto would be nearer the stink. "Kazi. Dig into his tunnels and then let loose." he shouted gleefully. Obediantly, Kazi climbed into one of Kabuto's tunnels and releeased his gas.

Poison gas flew out of every hole, and soon a purple haze surrounded your battlefield! Somehow, kabuto... coughed? Strange, since it doesn't really have lungs... Anyways, it was hurt hard, and dug into the ground to escape the haze!

King spotted the gas floating around the arena and an idea hit him. "Kazi. Use defog to get rid of the gas above ground. When there's only gas below the ground, use flamethrower to set it alight.". King knew that Kabuto was extremely resilient to fire, but even for a rock and water type Pokemon, being trapped in a series of tuneels filled with flames that give off a terrible odor was going to hurt.

Defog worked well, and the flamethrower technique worked pretty well.... Although no kabuto came out of the ground... maybe there is a secret strategy?

King frowned. He wasn't sure why his technique hadn't worked but he guessed that the weird trainer was going to counter attack soon. "OK Kazi. Keep using double team . Just keep making more clones." he said unsurely.

Soon, an army of Kazi stood on the battlefield... But the trainer looked confused also! Um... kabuto? Where are you? He started searching through the holes for the pokemon... thats strange....