Pokemon Dawn

June 24th, the fourth day of the Quartz League competition.

Ten o'clock in the morning, sub-venue A, grass battle venue.

An old man dressed in black was sitting in the front row of the auditorium, with a serious face as if he was about to fight. Unfortunately, his attire completely ruined the momentum, and the people around him were not interested in watching the game, and all looked towards him as if nothing had happened.

This way.

The old man was not only wearing a thick long windbreaker, but also a hat, sunglasses and a mask. He should have been unbearable due to the heat early in the morning, but miraculously he did not break out a drop of sweat. There was a support headband tied to his hat with a funny slogan on it.

It was filled with pink love - it was not tied directly to the head, probably because it was afraid that the brim of the hat would block the love. There was also a long banner hanging in front of the old man, with the names of the two contestants printed eye-catchingly in cursive letters.

The whole set of actions seems to be a desperate effort to support with life and moral integrity.

The cursive calligraphy contestant standing on the field was moved by his grandfather's warm love, but at the same time he was so embarrassed that he wanted to cry under the strange gazes of others. He didn't know what expression to put on at the moment.

Why did Xiaoling give thumbs up to Grandpa’s crazy idea? I really think it would be great to just sit in the audience and cheer like yesterday, really!

Xiaojie, who was also wearing a black trench coat but was sweating profusely from the heat, said that he no longer believed that the twins had a telepathic connection.

As a little expert in naming who once named the Canglong Fang, Xia Yang Yuanzheng naturally refused to miss the opportunity to come up with code names for his grandchildren. The code names of their brother and sister, "Xingguang" and "May Rain", came from a pair of items preserved by the Xia Yang family.

The name of the twin spears - it is said that they are the weapons of a famous general of the Xia Yang family in ancient times. The two spears, one large and one small, are almost identical in shape and style. They are precious cultural relics that can be written into textbooks.

In addition, Yuan Zheng also explained to the two of them at length the beautiful meanings contained in the text and the various expectations placed on it, such as "the body is like a long rainbow and the movement is like drizzle". The posture of quoting scriptures was not like a retired soldier, but more like

The retired professor was afraid that his two children would not buy his account.

Fortunately, unlike their father, the golden retriever brothers and sisters never quarrel with their elders, and they don't care about their code names. It is a good thing for them to save their brains from thinking about code names, so they both happily laughed on the spot.

He took out the illustrated book and entered the second name given by his grandfather into the identity protection information.

And they all said that their dear grandfather was much better at naming than their father - look at the names their father gave them, "Jie" and "Ling", they were so stupid.

So, under the loving gaze of his grandfather, the newly minted Xingguang player strode onto the field. Although he felt from the bottom of his heart that if Marshal Lieri hadn't had a sudden idea to turn into a fanatical cheering fan in the third round, he would still have

I can walk more proudly.

Unfortunately, in order to make his grandfather and sister happy, he had no choice but to endure it.

After the game started, the passers-by finally had no intention of paying attention to the strange costumes of the people around them. Although both sides were unknown, it was an unexpectedly fierce battle.

"Naughty thunder bomb, the final rolling attack!"

As the energetic voice of the girl rang out, the battle field was filled with a rumbling sound and a light effect that could blind people. When the offensive, which was called rolling but actually more like a big explosion, ended, Xiaojie looked at his own side.

The fallen thunder beast couldn't help but blink twice.

The naughty thunder bomb that exploded with all its power seemed to be seriously injured. At first glance, it looked no different from the one that had used a big explosion. But the girl with black hair and red eyes smiled leisurely and contentedly, with pride on her face.

"Good_shot! Naughty Thunderbolt!" The girl praised her Pokémon enthusiastically, causing the ball-shaped Pokémon to start rolling around with joy.

After recovering the unconscious Thunderbolt, Xiaojie played with the Poké Ball thoughtfully. Rolling is not such an explosive move, right? But Naughty Thunderbolt is still conscious, so it cannot be a big explosion. And...

At the end of the attack, did the speed of the naughty thunder bullet suddenly increase?

However, despite being preemptively won a round, neither Gonjie nor Yuan Zheng, who was sitting in the audience, were worried. Thunderbolt was a Pokémon Gon had conquered in the Land Beyond, and it hadn't been in the team long enough.

In terms of strength, it can only be ranked at the bottom of the team. It is sent in the starting lineup just for training rather than winning. Since the opponent is very strong, Xiaojie is also willing to show all his strength.

"Metal monster."

The dark blue Steel Pokémon appeared from the ball following Gon's call and floated next to the trainer. The girl opposite was not nervous at all because the opponent was a rare and difficult Pokémon, but instead threw it more excitedly

Got red and white balls.

"Fireblast, we've arrived at your home court! Steel and the like are no threat at all in front of flames!"

The tall flame monster looked up to the sky and roared in response to its trainer.

Gon's opponent is named Fuuko Kaguchi. She is ten years old this year. Like Gon, she is a new trainer who has just embarked on her journey. Despite this, this energetic girl does not feel nervous at all when she steps onto the grand stage for the first time. It is obvious that

Enjoy the battle with your Pokémon - the Quartz League every year is always indispensable for the presence of these fearless young people.

After the signal to start the game was given, Xiaojie immediately issued the instruction, "Sandstorm!"

The metal monster's eyes shone brightly, and yellow sand rose from the ground, covering the entire battle field. The camera in the field immediately switched to a close-up view of the interior of the sandstorm, while Fengzi paid no attention to the changes in the weather and gave the attack command straightforwardly, "Firestorm"

Beast, turn on the flame wheel and rush over!"

The fire beast was covered in fire and rushed into the sandstorm. It originally thought that the metal monster was no longer where it was. When it rushed closer, it found that its opponent was still staying there. It immediately roared and rushed towards it with high-temperature flames.

Hit it over.

"Bullet punch." The blond boy's eyes were very bright, almost casting a layer of blurred fluorescence on the black sunglasses.

Silver-gray energy wrapped around the metal monster's arm, turning into a rushing fist shadow, facing the blazing flame wheel.

Fengzi could hear the opponent's trainer's voice amplified by the loudspeaker. She didn't think that a mere bullet punch could deal with the fire attack of her Fire Beast, but after the words fell, the Fire Beast's attack came from the sandstorm.

There was a cry of pain and the subsequent sound of falling to the ground. Fengzi, who could not see through the sand and dust with his naked eyes, felt confused, but through the cameras installed inside the venue, all the spectators saw clearly what had just happened.

The Metal Monster's Bullet Punch is not aimed at the Fire Beast's body, but at its forelimbs that hit the ground while running. The Bullet Punch, known as a preemptive move, is launched very fast, enough to hit the Metal Monster before the Fire Beast enters the attack range.

He had hit the opponent first. However, the fire beast's unsteady center of gravity immediately lost most of its attack power, and it stumbled and fell into the soft grass.

However, the performance of the metal monster still surprised the audience. The faster the weapon, the harder it is to control, and the same is true for the moves. It is difficult to accurately hit a certain point with an attack like the bullet punch, not to mention that the opponent is still in a

In the running action, the audience is more willing to believe that this is a coincidence than it is intentional.

After the fire beast fell down, the metal monster immediately rushed up, and its sharp claws were about to swing down at the back of the opponent's head. At this time, Fengzi, who should not have been able to see the situation on the field, suddenly shouted: "Spit smoke!"

The flames behind the fire beast suddenly swelled, and the raging fire spread to the surroundings. The metal monster was almost caught in it, and was burned on the outside and tender on the inside.

Xiaojie looked in the direction of the trainer's seat opposite with some surprise. Training in the Heart Eye School since childhood made his eyesight far better than ordinary people. Through the yellow sand in the sky, he could vaguely see the height of the not tall girl standing.

Upright, still seems to be smiling.

Is it a coincidence? Or can you communicate with the Pokémon mentally, so that you are aware of the Pokémon's crisis?

However, for Xiaojie, there is no need to speculate on the opponent's thoughts for the time being. His tactics have been successfully launched - the leaping fire beast looked around in the flames and suspiciously discovered that the metal monster had disappeared.

Pokémon's senses are much sharper than humans, and sandstorms cannot completely block their perception of the outside world. Therefore, after noticing that the metal monster disappeared within its sight and hearing range, Firestorm even suspected that the opponent had escaped.

The next moment, an incoming attack interrupted its thoughts. The shadow ball came from nowhere and hit its feet hard. If it hadn't reacted quickly enough, the blow would have hit its head directly.

Up.

The stormy attacks also began. The dark energy balls danced in complex trajectories, making it impossible for the fire beast to judge where the enemy was. Random evasion could not dodge all the attacks, and soon it was scarred and blocked by the sandstorm.

Fengzi, who had lost her sight, was helpless. She only knew that her partner was being attacked constantly and could not find any trace of the enemy. Under her command, the fire beast even swept the entire place with dense high-speed stars, but there was still no trace.

Touched a hair of the metal monster.

Unlike trainers who are at a loss, the multi-angle live broadcast on the big screen makes the audience clearly understand what is happening.

The metal monster is indeed not "on the field" in the usual sense - it is flying high in the sky, and the audience sitting on the bottom can only see a blur of dark blue.

Pokémon's weather moves are different from real natural phenomena. Take sandstorms as an example. The range that most Pokémon's sandstorms can maintain is not very large. Covering the entire place with sand and dust like Metal Monster is the most common level.

.The closer you get to the core, the denser the dust becomes. When you retreat to the auditorium, the sand is so sparse that it hardly blocks people's sight. From a distance, the sandstorm move looks like a ball of surging sand.

The location of the metal monster is at the very edge of the "sand ball", dozens of meters above the air.

Although Firestorm is a Pokémon with sharp ears and eyes, its perception is far from strong enough to see directly through the sandstorm. What the Metal Monster on the edge of the sandstorm does is actually very straightforward - its eyes are emitting crystal blue light, and shadows appear one by one.

The ball continues to be emitted, spinning and flying under the control of super powers, until it falls on the fire beast.

It sounds simple, but in practice it is almost impossible. It is not easy to make moves that can attack dozens of meters away, let alone use super powers to control them to move forward in various complicated trajectories without losing their accuracy. If this is the case

If Metagross was fighting at the time, perhaps the audience's mouths would not be so wide open, because Metagross already has super computing power and is good at precise control; but its pre-evolved form, the metal monster, was not as big as the Metagross.

With such a developed brain, most of the metal monsters are still accustomed to the rampant fighting style of the iron dumbbell era. This strategic air-to-ground precision strike is a bit shocking when placed on the metal monster.

There is no doubt that if the fire beast and its trainer continue to be helpless, it will soon be knocked down by the continuous shadow balls. However, as if to refute this idea that emerged in the hearts of the audience, the ground suddenly shook.

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Xiaojie watched helplessly as the fire beast ignored the attack of the shadow ball and hit the ground almost desperately, covered in flames, burning the soft grass battle field into scorched earth. After this inexplicable attack, its trainer girl

But he seemed to understand something and confidently shouted out the next instruction.

"Fireblast, start [internal combustion engine], fly!"

The flaming monster let out a high-pitched roar, and all the scorching energy was released in one breath. The fire behind it suddenly erupted, and the huge impact carried it into the air, rushing into the sky like a dazzling rocket. The misty yellow

The sand passed quickly in its eyes, and as the azure blue of the clear sky came into its eyes, its sharp gaze captured the prey wearing steel armor.

Amidst the exclamations of countless spectators, Xiaojie looked at the fiery beast in mid-air, covered in flames like a demon, and not surprisingly, one of his guesses came true.

Sure enough, it came.

The girl with black hair and red eyes heard the exclamations from the audience from all directions. She took a deep breath with enjoyment and smiled even more enthusiastically.

Shortly after setting off on her trip, she accidentally discovered a special energy-using technique in the big explosion caused by Fireball. In a mode she named "Internal Combustion Engine", the Pokémon's energy would be ignited like a flame.

Explodes powerful lethality in a very short period of time.

Of course, the weaknesses of this way of using energy are also obvious. Its essence is a technique that erupts all energy in an instant similar to a "big explosion". It has more explosive power but less endurance. Failure to achieve success in one blow means defeat. In the Quartz League arena

Yes, such a desperate Saburo style of play is undoubtedly a kind of gambling, but Fengzi enjoys this kind of gambling from the bottom of his heart.

Since the high-speed stars have swept the entire field without gaining anything, it means that the opponent is not on the field. Then, it is either underground or in the sky.

If the opponent is underground, just knock it out; if it's in the sky, the firebeast can also rely on its complacent flames to give wings to it, so what if it's a big gamble?

Fengzi gathered his hands and shouted to the sky, "Firestorm Beast, use all your strength and rush over!"

The fire beast's eyes were red, and the last flames burst out from its body without reservation. The flames behind it were like a jet, pushing it to complete an astonishing change of direction in the air, and hit the metal monster with determination like a bolide.

The sandstorm surrounding the whole place had gradually dissipated. Xiaojie could clearly see the speed of the fire beast's attack, and understood that the metal monster could no longer dodge this move. At the same time, he also "saw" that the metal monster was exposed and it was

Rampant childhood and its similar look.

The young man smiled and calmly changed his instructions about exiting.

"Metal monster, mind hammer!"

The rich blue light gathered on the metal monster's steel armor and collided head-on with the bolide. The loud explosion almost spread throughout the venue area of ​​the contestant village. After a while, the rising black smoke gradually dissipated, revealing two participating treasures.

It looks like a dream.

The unconscious Firebolt was covered in wounds and lay limp on the metal monster. The dark blue Steel Pokémon was also scarred, but it still flew steadily, carrying Firebolt as it flew down from a high altitude little by little and landed on the soft grass.

"Ah... now I have to say thank you after the game." The girl with black hair and red eyes murmured to herself, scratching her hair, taking back the fire beast without any discouragement, and picked up the next elf ball, with eyes in her eyes.

The eager light refuses to be extinguished at all.

Xiaojie held on to his hat, which was shaken askew in the shock wave of the explosion, and raised a smile. He felt that his brain was still extremely clear and calm, but his heart was beating fiercely.

He originally thought that he had been used to the fierce confrontations between trainers from various schools by his mother's side, but when he stepped onto the Quartz Plateau in person and participated in the battle with a Poké Ball in hand, he still experienced the endless freshness and excitement. Inherited from Utsunomiya

Sharo's share of the fighter's blood was flowing hotly, deeply engraving a certain idea in the mind of the young Xia Yang.

I want to win; I want to stay in this arena until the last moment; I want to see its last scenery——

This is exactly what all free trainers yearn for.

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Xiaoye didn't go to watch Xiaojie's heart-pounding duel.

Her third round of battle was at two o'clock in the afternoon, and finally the curse of the African chieftain was not continued. Since her opponent this time was a very powerful academic trainer, Xiaoye took the Pokémon to the surrounding area early in the morning.

They practiced tactics in an open area in the mountainous area and did not end the training until noon and returned to the athlete village.

Seeing that it was already late, Xiaoye handed the Pokémon to Miss Joy to recover from fatigue and then went straight to the dormitory, wanting to take a shower before eating. As soon as she walked onto the third floor where her dormitory was located, her steps suddenly stopped.

For a moment.

Several boys and girls were walking from the other side of the corridor talking and laughing. Xiaoye glanced at them silently, and continued to move forward without showing any signs of abnormality, but her mind was completely focused on appearing in her room.

On the malicious wave inside.

She opened the electronic lock with the door card as usual, walked into the house and closed the door. The moment the wooden door completely cut off the air inside and outside the house, the transparent gun muzzle that swallowed light was already pressed against Xiaoye's neck.

superior.

The crystal-like weapon flowed slowly like a living thing, which was creepy. The boy wearing it put a hand by Xiaoye's ear and bowed slightly. Xiaoye could almost feel the cold breath on her forehead.

The young man grinned and showed a twisted smile.

"Long time no see, my old acquaintance~"

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small theater:

Golden Retriever Brothers and Sisters: Grandpa, grandpa, why are our codenames Xingguang and Mayyu?

Yuan Zheng: (Seriously) It’s a long story. These two names come from the names of a pair of guns preserved by my Xia Yang family. They have many allusions and beautiful stories attached to them, and their names themselves also have special meanings.

Implication...(Omit the 10,000-word introduction)

Golden Retriever Brothers and Sisters: Dad, Dad, why are our names Xiaojie and Xiaoling?

Yuan Qing: Because it’s easy to remember! (Mistress’ pride)

Golden retriever brother and sister:...(I also want to change my dad today.jpg)