Chapter One - Crushing Defeat
I don't like sticking this here, but I gotta have it: Ok, I don't own Pokemon, any of the characters, etc. They are all owned by their respective owners. I am not affiliated with any of these owners either. Some characters were my own creation. Please don't steal my story idea or characters!
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Gary let out one last sigh as he looked back at the Indigo Plateau. He had tried so hard to get there and failed. From the radio he heard Ash had won his fourth round match, one battle farther than he had made. Gary played the battle out over and over again in his mind, trying to find where the battle had gone wrong. He started the Pokemon League so well, and now...
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Looking back, he remembered the rush of adrenaline as he began. He had taken down Melissa's first two Pokemon easily, then she had used a Golem. He watched Arcanine and Krabby fall with a heavy heart. Hoping that Golem was weaker and that Nidoking could win he threw his last Pokemon, his last hope between victory and defeat. The announcer gave the call and Gary told Nidoking to use take down, no good, Nidoking was stopped in its tracks and with the command Golem threw Nidoking to the ground. Gary felt his heart stop, his head ached with all the questions running through it. "Is Nidoking alright, what happened, how did that Golem get so strong, what will Grandpa think, where did I go wrong?" As the announcer pronounced Nidoking defeated. Gary fell to his knees with an awful feeling that clawed at his stomach so hard he could not stand.
How he made it out of building he didn't know, all he knew was that he had lost. He had failed himself, getting into his car he saw Ash running up to him. Ash tried to talk to him, but Gary shrugged it off. With a last look at his crying cheerleaders he got into the car and began the journey back to Pallet.
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"What can I do to fix this?" he thought. Rain began to fall and he looked up at the sky. "I can't fix it, what's done is done. You can't change the past." Gary swallowed hard, he hoped his grandpa would let him stay the night on such short notice, although Gary was too worried to show up on his doorstep. What would he say? Surely he'd heard the news by now. Gary sighed as he told Maya (his head cheerleader and driver of his car) to turn into a hotel in Pallet.
Gary lay wide awake that night thinking about what had happened that day. "I lost, Ash won his battle, how can that be? I'm a better trainer than he is, aren't I? How do I find out where I went wrong. I don't want to go to Grandpa, but he did say he's here to help me." Gary decided to go see Professor Oak in the morning, it didn't help, he tossed and turned all through the night. How could he sleep? The day had been his crushing defeat...
What do you guys think? This is probably my second fanfiction idea, but the first one I'm actually trying out to get feedback for. Let me know what you guys think!