Battle Pyramid 3

Now Ash and Brandon were ready for their third battle. Ash knew this would be a tough one especially since Brandon had found Regice and he didn't know what other Pokemon Brandon was going to use. But Ash had faith in his Pikachu, Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise and he believed he could do it this time. Prof. Oak was going to watch the battle as well as Nurse Joy, Scott and the others. The Battle Pyramid's top was open, it was so Ash's Charizard would have the space to fly around. Samuel did the usual introductions and explained the battle was four on four.

Brandon's first Pokemon was a Dusclops. Ash sent out his Charizard.

"Charizard, Flamethrower." Ash said.

"Dusclops, Will-O-Wisp." Brandon said.

Flamethrower and Will-O-Wisp collided with each and caused a small explosion. This meant that Brandon's Dusclops was as strong as Charizard.

"Okay Charizard, Air Slash." Ash said.

Charizard flapped his wings and fired light blue glowing energy blades at Dusclops. The energy blades hit Dusclops, but then it used Shadow Punch and struck Charizard with a shadowy fist.

"Whoa that Dusclops packs a punch." Tomo said.

"Yeah I'd say it's strength is equal to that of Charizard." Max added.

Brandon told his Dusclops to use Mean Look; now Charizard was unable to escape.

"Charizard, Shadow Claw." Ash said.

Charizard flew over to Dusclops with one of his claws glowing black with a purple outline. The aura then took the shape of a claw and slashed Dusclops.

"Shadow Claw is a ghost type move." Prof. Oak said. "An excellent move to use against a ghost type."

"I'm impressed with this." Nurse Joy said.

"Okay then Dusclops, Confuse Ray." Brandon said.

Charizard became confused as a result of Confuse Ray. Then Dusclops made it's way over to Charizard with one of it's hands glowing black with a purple outline. The aura then took the shape of a claw and slashed Charizard.

"Let's do this Charizard." Ash said. "We've fought against lots of tough opponents like this in the past. We even encountered difficulties like this too, but we never gave up and we are certainly not going to give up now are we?"

In his confused state Charizard heard what he said and began to remember all the battles he had been in ever since he was a Charmander. He even remembered when he battled while paralyzed, frozen, confused or sleepy. Charizard then snapped out of his confusion and sent a Flamethrower at Dusclops, which was a direct hit.

"Well done Charizard." Ash said. "Now let's show them your strongest move, Blast Burn."

Charizard's body was engulfed in blue flames and then he punched the ground really hard. Energy from the punch went all the way to Dusclops, and then an explosion of red and orange flames burst out of the ground, striking Dusclops. That did a lot of damage to Dusclops.

"Wow, what a move." Max said.

"What was that?" May asked.

"Blast Burn is a move that only fully evolved fire type starter Pokemon can learn." Prof. Oak explained. "Ash's Typhlosion and Blaziken also know this move."

"So when May's Combusken evolves into Blaziken, it can learn that too." Brock finished.

May thought Blast Burn was an excellent move indeed.

"Shadow Ball." Brandon told his Dusclops.

It was a direct hit on Charizard. Now both Charizard and Dusclops were exhausted.

"Charizard, Shadow Claw." Ash said.

"Dusclops, Shadow Punch." Brandon said.

Charizard and Dusclops struck each other with their attacks. As soon as they did that both Charizard and Dusclops were knocked out, so the first battle was a draw.

"Those last two attacks were too much for either of them to continue." Brock said.

"It was a close match between two strong Pokemon." Prof. Oak said.

Brandon and Ash returned their Dusclops and Charizard then sent out their next Pokemon. Brandon's second Pokemon was a Ninjask and Ash's second Pokemon was Blastoise. Ninjask started off with Aerial Ace, but Blastoise used Rapid Spin and Ninjask was bounced off when it tried to tackle Blastoise.

"Bubble Beam Blastoise." Ash said.

Blastoise stopped spinning and fired bubbles from it's mouth that hit Ninjask.

"Ash and his Pokemon are putting up such a good fight. I can't take my eyes off it." Nurse Joy said.

Ninjask fought back using Sandstorm, making sand fly everywhere. Then Ninjask used Sand Attack. The sand got into Blastoise's eyes and blinded him. Then Ninjask tackled it with Aerial Ace.

"Blastoise, Rain Dance." Ash said.

Blastoise made it rain and the rain washed the sandstorm away. It also got into Blastoise's eyes and cleaned the sand out. So now Blastoise could see and resume battling.

"Show them your special move Blastoise. Hydro Cannon." Ash said.

Blastoise fired two big orbs of water from his cannons and one of them hit Ninjask.