Nathaniel Keam wrote: Pokemon Battle Strip: The Ashley Chronicles Part 6 (1) by Nathaniel Keam
The Photographer, the Psychic, and the Gym Leader
Kelly was determined to take Ashley to Pokemon Tower in Lavender Town. The two girls stayed in the tower for three days searching for a ghost Pokemon to use against the demonic Sabrina. On the third day, they found what they wanted. After a strange Ghastly had shown no interest in joining up with Ashley, a playful Haunter decided to accept their offer and gladly sauntered into a spare Pokeball.
There was something strange about Kelly. She seemed more enthusiastic about the battle with Sabrina than Ashley did. She’d forgotten that she was just going to be the photographer.
After departing from Lavender Town with their secret weapon, they made their way to Saffron City. Saffron was the home of the Silph Corporation, the maker of the prototype Master Ball and a major target for Team Rocket activity. There were actually two gyms in Saffron. There was a fighting dojo and Sabrina’s gym. The fighting dojo had been stripped of its gym status in a battle with the psychic gym over a year ago.
The Saffron City Gym was an imposing dome shaped building. A strange mist seemed to hang lazily in the air around the outside.
“Ashley,” Kelly said, stopping her from entering. “I need to tell you something about Sabrina before we go in.”
“Go on.”
“She’s a psychic herself. Sabrina almost never speaks when battling because she can communicate telepathically with her Pokemon. I’ve heard her do terrible things, including shrinking people and bending spoons with her mind. I came here as a trainer once.”
“Oh yeah, you told me about that. What happened anyway, you said you’d tell me about that sometime.”
Kelly took her deep breath before beginning her story, “I’d made it through all the gyms you had about two years ago. When I came here I didn’t have any ghost Pokemon. I was a specialist in water, you see. I thought that this was going to be easy, but it wasn’t. It was her psychic powers. As soon as the battle started, she or her Pokemon, I’m not even sure which one, used their weird power to undo my belt. Then they took my skirt off. I was already half beaten before I could even get into it. After I lost my skirt, it was only a matter of time before everything else came with it. She stripped me naked. She took it too far. After that, I went home and was going to get back on it again the next year. I joined up with the Viridian City Chronicle as a photographer and that’s what I did before joining Pokemon Magazine.”
Ashley felt the anger boil up inside her as she listened to Kelly’s story. She hadn’t been taking Sabrina as seriously as she should have been. This was going to be a battle she had to win. That’s why Kelly had been so eager to see Ashley defeat her. She wanted her own revenge, as well.
“Just be careful, kay?” Kelly urged.
“I will. I’ll take her down.”
Ashley was dressed in dark blue jeans with a brown leather belt and black and white sneakers. She had on a black t-shirt and a blue jacket with gold trim. Finally, a red and white trainer snapback sat on her head with a pair of green fingerless gloves on her hands.
Kelly carried her camera half a step behind Ashley. She was obviously nervous about returning to the gym again. The gym was held up by lots of white marble columns at intervals and lit with flaming torches on the wall and in various holders. It was an eerie location that reeked of fear. Was that her fear or Kelly’s though?
The photographer had her shoulder-length blond hair swept across her forehead. The ends of the golden strands were dyed in a rich purple colour. She had a cute face, but it was filled with worry as she bit down on her lip.
Today, Kelly was wearing a pair of black cargo pants with various silver chains hanging out from them. There was a pair of black and white converse on her feet and a silver studded belt hung loosely on her waist. She was wearing various pieces of silver jewellery on her fingers and a small black button-up shirt. The shirt fell to just above her waistline, so her skin bobbed in and out of view as she walked and moved.
They entered the area where the arena was. There was nobody here and the lights were low, casting shadows across the vast open cavern. The lights suddenly blazed up, throwing away the shadows and highlighting the leader of the Saffron City Gym sitting on a gothic throne.
She rose up from the chair, aided by her telekinesis, and floated down to the ground. Sabrina was wearing a rose-red coloured dress that fell down to mid-thigh level, exposing her bare legs and covering the whole of her upper body. The conservative dress had three pairs of gold buttons running up the middle and subtle sections of black on the sleeves and up the sides. She had dark green hair with an arrow cut in the centre between her eyes. Her hair fell down to her lower back. A pair of long black boots went up past her knees to her lower thighs.
Ashley knew that she would have to get both the boots and the dress off, but the dress looked relatively loose and unguarded. Sabrina would be the one with the biggest challenge here.
“So, you’ve come to play?” Sabrina said.
“I challenge you to an official Pokemon League match,” said Ashley.
“You do. I have foreseen this. I have also seen your humiliation. The spirits do not lie. You’re doomed to fail.”
“Not likely. Your psychic powers must be off because I’m not leaving here without a Marsh badge.”
Sabrina sneered to herself, “I see you have brought a friend.”
Kelly gulped, looking taken aback.
“I knew you were going to return here, Kelly. I did not expect you to have given up so easily. Your embarrassment was the highlight of my gym so far. You should feel sad about exposing your friend to the same traumas you experienced.”
“She’s going to strip you down, Sabrina. This isn’t going to be like the last time!”
“The fates do not lie. Let our three-on-three battle begin. Go, Abra.”
Sabrina dropped a Pokeball to the ground to release Abra. The Pokemon sat on the ground with its eyes closed. It was a dark yellow colour and looked as if it was meditating all the time. Kelly told her that this was a trick and Abra was communicating telekinetically even whilst it was sleeping for 18 hours a day.
“Squirtle, I choose you.”
Squirtle entered the arena. The turtle Pokemon had sky blue skin with a brown shell on its back. This would be the debut of Squirtle in gym action.
“Ashley, be careful of its teleport. Abra relies on its opponents to make a mistake first.”
Ashley turned back to the battle. She decided to start the battle off with a water gun to see what Sabrina would do. Squirtle fired a jet of water from its mouth. As expected, Sabrina ordered Abra through telekinesis to dodge the water gun. Abra flew around the room, landing one second and disappearing the next.
“What? Are you gonna battle or what?” Ashley screamed.
“Fool, Abra will continue to teleport until you’re defeated.”
“Oh yeah? Let’s see what Abra does now then!”
Ashley charged at Sabrina. She didn’t even hear Kelly’s protests in her ears as she moved with lightning pace towards the psychic gym leader. It was a mistake. Sabrina didn’t react, but Ashley felt herself being lifted off the ground. She was tossed telepathically across the room back to her starting position, landing in a heap.
“My psychic powers are not limited to my Pokemon. The power is mine.”
“Get away from her,” Kelly said from the side, snapping a picture. “You’ll have to use your Pokemon to get to her. Abra will get tired. Its only move is teleport.”
“Squirtle, keep attacking it with water gun. It’ll tire eventually.”
Squirtle pushed itself harder and harder as it fired off volley after volley. Abra showed no signs of fatigue, but Ashley was confident that it was going to lose its ability to use its psychic power soon.
This went on for minutes before Ashley saw something happening. Abra’s teleportation was getting slower. It wasn’t reacting as quickly, and it would only teleport shorter and shorter distances. She only hoped that Squirtle was able to hold on.
Squirtle fired off another water gun, and it caught Abra right in the centre of its kite-shaped face. It was reeling, its eyes rolling open.
“Finish it with rapid spin!”
The turtle retreated back into its shell and started to spin. The water Pokemon became a spinning disc heading right for the injured Abra. Abra took the hit and was launched back at Sabrina’s throne, falling at the bottom of it, defeated. Sabrina didn’t react to her first Pokemon fainting.
“Go, Kadabra.”
The evolved form of Abra entered the battlefield. It was holding a single spoon in one of its three-fingered hands. It had a red star on its forehead. Apart from the fact that it was standing up and much bigger than Abra, it had much the same look as its devolved counterpart.
“Now you will suffer. Kadabra, use psychic attack.”
The Kadabra stared at Squirtle. At first, it appeared as if nothing was happening, but Squirtle then began to adopt a blue hue around it. Squirtle was gently lifted into the air until Kadabra started to bang it against the ceiling and back to the floor again. Squirtle was being bludgeoned by the Kadabra and was unable to do anything about it.
“Get it out of there, Ashley. It won’t be able to get out of that.”
“Squirtle, return.”
Ashley stopped the psychic punishment and held out her Pokeball for Squirtle to return. Kadabra hadn’t broken a sweat in getting rid of her Squirtle. She was unsure what the best course of action was. Releasing Haunter into the battle now risked exhausting it for Sabrina’s third and final Pokemon. She decided against it and released Pikachu.
“Go on, Pikachu!” Kelly shouted from the sidelines.
“Silence, photographer. This is not your defeat.” Sabrina commanded, becoming increasingly irked at the cheerleader supporting her foe.
Ashley felt a lot more confident with Kelly by her side, but she was no closer to removing Sabrina’s clothing.
“Pikachu, fill the room with electricity to stop Kadabra from teleporting.”
Pikachu charged itself and released a huge thunderstorm onto the battlefield. The bolts of electricity came together on the ceiling and rained down upon Kadabra. Kadabra was hit by the attack. It dropped its spoon in the process and collapsed to the ground.
“Use it on Sabrina!” Ashley called.
Pikachu sent a bolt of lightning towards Sabrina. Sabrina simply cocked her head to one side and the bolt flew overhead. She was, again, unconcerned about the plight of her Pokemon.
“You have not witnessed even a fraction of my power. Kadabra is only my second best Pokemon. You will meet Alakazam.”
Sabrina dropped her third and final Pokeball into the battlefield and Alakazam appeared. It looked similar to Kadabra. It had strong yellow armour sections and was similar in height to a humanoid. It had an IQ of over 5,000 and had a long yellow moustache that dropped down from its face. It held two silver spoons used to amplify its psychic abilities.
“Use kinesis,” Sabrina said.
Alakazam’s eyes glowed blue and its spoons bent forward. Pikachu seemed to be taken in by this circus act. Ashley wasn’t impressed.
“Shock it!”
Pikachu charged up its electricity and fired. The bolt of electricity missed completely and hit the far wall. This happened over and over again. Alakazam made no attempt at moving out of the way.
“Kinesis lowers your Pokemon’s accuracy,” said Kelly, much to Sabrina’s obvious annoyance. “Pikachu will have trouble hitting it.”
“Damn,” muttered Ashley. “I’ll have to think of something else.”
“Psybeam, Alakazam.”
Alakazam’s eyes began to glow again and rainbow coloured circular waves emitted from its head towards Pikachu. The peculiar energy barrelled into Pikachu, knocking it down and out.
“No!” Ashley exclaimed.
“You did not believe. Bring her to me, Alakazam.”
Alakazam turned towards Ashley and used its psychic power to throw her towards Sabrina. Ashley hit the floor at Sabrina’s feet. The Alakazam picked her up again. Sabrina slapped her trainer hat off her head with a guffaw. Ashley was defenceless and couldn’t reach Haunter’s Pokeball to release it.
“Off it comes.”
Nathaniel Keam wrote: Pokemon Battle Strip: The Ashley Chronicles Part 6 (2) by Nathaniel Keam
A strange psychic energy seemed to grip the back of her jacket. Sabrina nodded her head and she was thrown into the centre of the battlefield hard. This time she returned without her jacket, which Sabrina let drop to the floor at her feet. An evil smile appeared on her face as she licked her lips.
Kelly came to the rescue. She nudged a discarded Pokeball on the side of the battlefield towards Ashley. Sabrina saw this. It wasn’t technically cheating, but it was definitely not particularly sporting.
“You.”
Kelly’s head snapped up. She couldn’t help but stare into the piercing purple eyes of Sabrina.
“You have interfered in this battle for the last time. Alakazam, go!”
Alakazam turned its attention away from the prone Ashley and towards Kelly. It captured her in its psychic embrace, lifting her up into the air. The punk girl couldn’t react or respond. Both Alakazam and Sabrina walked towards her with their eyes glowing. It was reminiscent of their battle long ago.
Kelly struggled and tried to break free, but it was no use. She was only a photographer. Sabrina laughed as Alakazam used its powers to break the silver button on her black cargo pants and lower the zip. A small slither of dark violet became visible with black lace at the top. Alakazam brought the floating Kelly towards the master of psychic Pokemon.
For the first time, Sabrina didn’t rely on her psychic powers. She kicked Kelly’s legs out from under her, sending her tumbling to the ground. The weakened photographer couldn’t resist. On her stomach, she felt Sabrina grab some of the chains on her cargo pants. Sabrina pulled until the pants started to come down at the back. Her seductive behind came into view, covered by a pair of lacy violet and black underwear. Sabrina finished pulling off the cargo pants and threw them to the side, leaving Kelly in just a tight black button-up shirt, her black and white converse shoes, and the loose silver belt that hadn’t been attached via the belt loops.
Sabrina stood over Kelly and grabbed the back of her shirt, ripping her upwards. Kelly started to weep as all the memories of her crushing defeat came back to her. The gym leader laughed as she tore the buttons open down the middle to reveal a black bra. She pushed her to the ground again and held the shirt aloft, a trophy of her bonus victory.
“You were always weak, Kelly. You should have never come back. It will be worse than last time.”
As if she needed to prove it any further, Sabrina grabbed the back of her bra and wrenched her to her feet again. Kelly was at least thankful that the bra was strong enough to hold on. Her thick mascara was coming down her face in streams of black now. She was pleading for Sabrina to leave her alone.
Forgotten Ashley tapped the Pokeball Kelly had kicked over and quietly released the purple shade that was Haunter. Its giant pink tongue was stuck out, as it practically always was. The emotional ghost Pokemon was always difficult to predict.
Ashley recovered enough to get to her feet again. She saw what Sabrina had done to Kelly. More determined than ever to defeat Sabrina, she didn’t care what happened as she ran towards Sabrina. Her back was turned and concentrated on holding Kelly up by the hair. Ashley tackled her in the back headfirst, sending the trainer crashing to the ground. Sabrina released her grip on Kelly, who scurried away in humiliation to the side of the battle again.
Alakazam and Sabrina were telepathically linked, so Alakazam was also flung to the ground. The shock of the hit prevented the gym leader from communicating with her Pokemon. Ashley let off a primal scream and grabbed one of the thigh-high boots, ripping it off. She even managed to get the other off before Sabrina could turn over and kick her away. Her work exposed nearly all of her thin white legs. She was barefoot underneath and was now down to her rose red dress only. Only a thin piece of fabric was standing between her and defeat.
Ashley quickly retreated back to where Haunter was. Sabrina climbed to her feet, her hair was blowing as her psychic fury began to get the better of her. She knew that she’d made a mistake. There would be no more taunting as her eyes glowed blue again.
Her two enemies were communicating through telekinesis again as Alakazam moved in for another psybeam. The superior type advantage of Haunter allowed the gaseous Pokemon to avoid it and appear at the side of Alakazam. It gave it a lick with its giant pink tongue. The Pokemon jumped back in horror. Its movements were slowed by the minor paralysis it caused.
“Hypnosis, Haunter!” Ashley screamed.
Haunter began to put the Alakazam to sleep, but it was resisting it at each and every turn. Ashley was getting nervous. She felt Sabrina’s psychic energy move towards her again, trying to attack her.
The energy fell away. Sabrina’s power suddenly disappeared from around her as Alakazam fell backwards in the midst of a deep sleep. Sabrina looked on in shock, her last defender out of action.
“Haunter, dream eater!”
Haunter used its signature move to interrupt the dreams of the sleeping Alakazam, causing a huge amount of damage. The super smart Pokemon never rose to its feet again as it fainted from the ghost Pokemon’s relentless assault.
Sabrina’s mouth was agape at her defeat. What was she going to do now without her psychic powers and Pokemon to protect her?
Ashley didn’t care. She was obsessed with avenging her friend. The barefoot Sabrina attempted to flee. The challenger was forced to chase the Saffron City Gym leader down. Her bare feet slapped off the ground, but Ashley’s sneaker covered feet were gaining fast. Sabrina stopped in the corner near the entrance. The green haired girl was trapped.
“No!” she begged in terror as Ashley grabbed her in a bear hug.
Ashley swung Sabrina round and sent her to the ground. Ashley booted her in the midsection to turn her over again. She attacked the three sets of gold buttons on the front of her dress. Sabrina frantically tried to keep the attacker’s hands away, but it was useless. The top set of buttons came away, then the second set of buttons. Ashley pulled some of the fabric away to reveal a shiny leather amethyst coloured bra.
Sabrina continued to beg and plead for Ashley to leave her alone as she turned her over onto her stomach. Ashley grabbed the hem of her dress and hitched it up. A matching pair of leather amethyst panties came into view. It gave her a great view of the kinky trainer’s ass. Ashley made a point of spanking each cheek once before taking the rest of her dress up her body and off. That ended the battle and left Sabrina rolling around, mortified, in her bra and panties.
“I won!” Ashley punched the air.
Kelly came lumbering over, still breathing heavily and wiping some of the mascara trails from her face. If she was happy to see Sabrina defeated, she wasn’t showing it.
“Where’s my badge?” Ashley asked.
Sabrina didn’t respond. She just pointed towards her throne at the other end of the room. Ashley left her side and jogged over to the chair. The golden Marsh badge was sitting on one of the arms. She tossed it in her hand briefly, savouring the moment, then she heard a scream.
She looked back and saw Kelly on Sabrina, eager to take her revenge. The underwear clad punk latched onto the cups of Sabrina’s bra and practically tore them off her body. Her perky tits were on full display. The nipples were erect and standing to attention like soldiers at dawn. Sabrina screamed and cried in equal measure as Kelly went down to her panties and gave them the same treatment. Her bush was neatly trimmed and manicured.
“You wanna strip me, Sabrina? Is this what you wanted?”
Sabrina only cried in reply.
“You did the same to me last time and you tried to do it again. This is what you get!”
Ashley watched on from Sabrina’s throne as Kelly went back for her camera and picked the defeated psychic trainer up again and forced her to stand against the wall. She took picture after picture of every intimate area she had access to. At point, even making her spread her legs to reveal her holes.
“All these pictures, Sabrina. They’re going straight in the monthly magazine. You’re going to be a laughing stock. We’ll see how funny you think doing this to trainers is then.”
Kelly slapped the psychic around the face and stalked off.
“Kelly,” Ashley called. “Are you okay?”
The photographer breathed in and sighed, “I am, now.”
“She had no right to do that to you, you know?”
Kelly nodded, “Thanks for taking her down for me. I really owe you one for that.”
Kelly flung her arms around the neck of Ashley and gave her a big hug. Ashley wasn’t sure how to respond as she wrapped her arms around Kelly’s midsection and held her tight. Kelly seemed to have forgotten that she was still in her undies, but Ashley didn’t dare say anything.
She gathered up her clothes again and got dressed before leaving the gym. Kelly had had her revenge and put her demons to rest, but Ashley had five badges and a new best friend. Three more and she would be competing in the Indigo Pokemon League.
To Be Continued…