Episode 60:
To Be A Master: Part II - Dreams Do Come True

“Wwwwellllcome back, pokémon fans! We have yet another great match lined up for all today. The psychic trainer from Saffron City, Icy, is going to try again to defeat the Elite 4. Icy was beaten by Agatha a few days ago, but he looks like he’s ready to beat them all this time. Let’s see if he’s got what it takes to become a true pokémon master!” The crowd cheered wildly. Icy took his place in the challenger’s box. Sara and Aura watched from the sidelines.

Lorelei came out of the tunnel first. “Well, well, well. We meet again Icy. You may have won the first time, but I won’t let that happen this time. You’ll never make it to Lance!”

“Don’t be so sure of yourself Lorelei.”

“Whatever. I choose, Dewgong!”

“In that case… Ready to fight, come in sight! Icy calls, Vapor!” Icy’s Gastly floated over the field. Lorelei was stunned.

“I didn’t know he had a Gastly…” she thought to herself. “Ok Dewgong, ice beam now!” Dewgong fired the beam of ice at Vapor. The beam passed right through him.

“Good work Vapor. Now it’s time to fight back! Use your lick attack!” Vapor hovered over to Dewgong and gave it a big lick. Dewgong turned bright green and wobbled as the paralyzing effects of Vapor’s lick attack took effect.

“Uwwww… Return Dewgong. So, you’ve got some new pokémon for this match, it doesn’t matter what you use, I’ll never let you win! Go Cloyster!” The giant clamshell pokémon came onto the field. “Aurora beam now!”

“Vapor, become invisible so it can’t target you.” Vapor nodded and disappeared. The aurora beam missed him completely. Vapor reappeared behind Cloyster and tapped him on the back. Cloyster turned around only to be met by Vapor’s tongue. Lorelei was becoming quite upset as she angrily recalled Cloyster.

“Why you! Go Slowbro!” Icy remembered how dopey her Slowbro was and recalled Vapor so he could rest.

“Ha, this is too easy. Ready to fight, come in sight! Icy calls, Buttercup!” Icy’s Butterfree flew over the field. “Buttercup, use your sleep powder to knock him out cold.” Buttercup sprinkled the blue dust over Slowbro but it didn’t look like it had any effect.

“Ha, you were saying?”

“Go ahead, have Slowbro attack if you’re so confident.” Icy was starting to act just like the Elite 4.

“Slowbro, use your amnesia attack.” Slowbro just stood there, eyes wide open. “Slowbro, listen to me! Attack, now!” Finally, Slowbro moved. His eyes shut, and he fell asleep. “Awwww!!!!! You pathetic pokémon, return now!” Icy couldn’t help but laugh seeing how frustrated Lorelei was getting. “Oh, you think it’s funny huh. You won’t be laughing for much longer you little twerp. Go Jynx!”

Icy didn’t want that horrifying pokémon to get anywhere near Buttercup, so he had her return. “Ready to fight, come in sight! Icy calls, Cyber!” The Porygon came out from the pokéball.

“A Porygon, I’ll show you. Jynx, lovely kiss!”

“Cyber, sharpen!” As soon as Jynx was about to give Cyber a smack on wherever his lips are, Cyber jabbed his sharpened beak into Jynx. The viking pokémon shuddered for a sec, then backed as far away from Cyber as she could. “That’s right, you can’t kiss my Porygon. Cyber, finish her off with psybeam attack.” Cyber was happy to vanquish the evil pokémon and sent a psybeam right for her lips. Jynx went down with just one blow.

“AGHHH!!! This is impossible. How can I lose like this? Return Jynx. Go Lapras!” Lorelei sent out her final pokéball containing Lapras. Icy returned Cyber and brought out Hocus. “Oh s***, a psychic. Blizzard attack Lapras!” Lapras prepared its attack.

“Hocus, use you confusion attack. Give Lapras a new weather report.”

“Good idea master, can do! Here’s today’s forecast Lapras. Snow, with a chance of psy-storms.” Hocus used his confusion attack to make Lapras create to blizzard over itself. Although it did little good for Hocus, Lapras was still confused why it was now snowing over it. Hocus fired a few psybeams at it and Lorelei was defeated.

“All right! You did it Hocus. One down, three to go!”

“This just wasn’t my day. You won’t make it much further Icy. You’re going to lose again, just like you did against Agatha.” Lorelei sneered after her last remark. The Elite 4 weren’t exactly known for their kindness, however, which pokémon leader is? Icy recalled Hocus and healed his pokémon to be ready for Bruno.

“Wow. What a short match. Lorelei is blanked completely by Icy. He might just make it folks!”

Nicky was now in the stands. He decided he’d watch some other trainers try to do what he did. After seeing Icy easily beat Lorelei, he decided to see it to the end. “Hmm, he’s pretty good. Maybe I could challenge him to a match later.”

“Are you talking about that there Icy fella,” an old man asked Nicky.

“Uh, yeah, why?”

“He owns a pokémon gym in the Viridian Forest. I think it’s called the Bug Gym.”

“I never heard of a gym in the Viridian Forest.”

“It’s not official. But if you want to challenge him, that’s where to go.”

“Gee, thanks mist…” The old man was gone. “Hmm, that’s odd…”

“Bruno is now entering the stadium. Icy’s second elite match begins now!” The crowd cheered again for the young trainer.

Sara and Aura were especially proud of Icy. “See, you are doing great. You beat her more easily this time than the last time you fought her. Nice work.”

“Yeah. I think Vapor is turning out to be a great addition to the team. Now I’ll just concentrate on using my psychic types to beat Bruno.” Sara gave Icy a kiss for good luck and he took his position.

“So, you beat Lorelei flawlessly. I’m not too impressed. She may be a pushover, but I’m not so let’s get started. Onix GO!” The rock serpent materialized on the field. Icy thought about with pokémon to start with.

“Ready to fight, come in sight! Icy calls, Cyber!” The Porygon appeared in front of the giant snake. “Cyber, conversion!” Cyber reconfigured its body to be that of rock.

“The pile of computer code can’t beat us, Onix, slam that Porygon into the earth now!” Onix wrapped its stone tail around Cyber and hurled him into the ground. Cyber’s rock form protected him somewhat but he was still dizzy from the pounding.

“Cyber, are you alright. Don’t give up Cyber. Let’s see how Onix likes a psybeam to the head.” Cyber regained its pose and fired two psybeams directly at Onix’s head. The first one connected making Onix reel back in pain. Then the second one made the rock serpent fall to the ground.

“Hmmm, good show Icy. Return Onix. Now you can take on the punchy pokémon.” Bruno threw his second pokéball into the field. It was Hitmonchan. Icy kept Cyber in for the match.

“Cyber, double team. Split up, then all fire psybeams at once.” Cyber divided itself into three porygons. Hitmonchan was slightly confused and decided it be best to try taking one of them out before they could all fire. Bruno nodded and Hitmonchan aimed for the center Porygon. “Fire now!” Hitmonchan swung at the middle Porygon which vanished as his glove made contact. It was a fake. The psybeams however, were very real indeed and Hitmonchan learned the error of standing perfectly in the crossfire. It went down before it could realize its mistake.

“What is wrong with me today? Must be the sun… Return Hitmonchan. Go Hitmonlee!”

“Bruno sends out his third pokémon, the kicking fiend, Hitmonlee! Let’s see if Icy can continue his streak.”

“Cyber return. You need to rest now. Ready to fight, come in sight! Icy calls, Buttercup!”

“High kick now!” Buttercup wasn’t ready for it when Hitmonlee connected with her entire body. She fell to the ground, hitting the earth hard. She struggled to get up. “Ha, now I’m doing better again. Finish her off Hitmonlee, mega kick!”

“Buttercup!!! No, get up!” Somehow, she mustered enough strength to avoid getting kicked into orbit, but she couldn’t go on. Buttercup fell once again to the ground and fainted. “Oh… Buttercup, return. You’ll be ok.” Icy took a full heal out of his pocket and placed it next to Buttercup’s pokéball. “You’ll pay for that Bruno. Ready to fight, come in sight! Icy calls, Hocus!”

“Time for you to see stars mister kick boxer.”

Hitmonlee wasn’t amused and took a swing for Hocus. His foot was stopped in mid air and he found himself unable to move.

“What’s wrong with you? Hit him.” Bruno couldn’t stand to lose another pokémon to Icy. Hocus was controlling Hitmonlee via psychic.

“Ok Hocus, finish him off!”

“With pleasure master.” Hocus fired a psybeam straight into Hitmonlee’s chest throwing it across the field.

“D***! Hitmonlee return. You are being a real pain, you know that?”

“Good, now hurry up, I don’t wanna wait till next millennium to become a Pokémon Master…”

“Oh, you’ll never get that far Icy. Go Onix!”

“Hocus, telekinesis. You know what to do.” Hocus nodded and got to work. He summoned all of his psychic energy and the two pokémon both began to glow. Moments later, Onix found itself most tied up as it now took on the form of a rock hard pretzel. Meanwhile, Icy and the rest of the audience and even the announcer were laughing their heads off.

“Hahahahaha… Would you look at that. Icy’s Kadabra has turned Onix into the world’s largest and hardest pretzel. Looks like Bruno is going to lose to Icy as well. He has just one more pokémon left.”

“Onix, return. You asked for it Icy. I’m shutting that Kadabra down. Go Machamp.”

“Return Hocus. I need you to rest and be ready for the next battle. Ready to fight, come in sight! Icy calls, Vapor!” The Gastly floated over the field.

“Now what?”

“This is too easy. Just lick him Vapor.” Vapor laughed and licked Machamp who succumbed easily to the paralysis effects of Vapor’s lick attack. Bruno recalled Machamp and admitted defeat. Icy was back to where he had lost originally, Agatha.

“Well folks, this surely has been an exciting day. First, Nicky defeats Lance to be a true pokémon master. And now, Icy may just do the same. But he needs to beat Agatha next. Don’t go anywhere, this could be the battle of the century here… or not…”

Icy tended to his pokémon, especially Buttercup how looked like she had seen better days. She was badly bruised and Icy applied the full heal potion to her injuries. She began to recover, but she was still not fully healed. Icy came up with his battle plan for Agatha. Sara and Aura watched as Icy rearranged his pokéballs.

Nicky watched Icy carefully from his seat. “He is good. But maybe they were just giving him a break. That looked WAY too easy. But he’s got a real advantage with that ghost pokémon. I wonder how he’ll deal with Agatha.”

“He’ll lose again,” an old lady said in a crackling voice.

“Huh?”

“You heard me. Icy got creamed by Agatha last time they met. Her ghost pokémon are much stronger than Icy’s weak little baby pokémon. You know he’s got what, only 4 evolved pokémon out of the 20 or so he’s captured.”

“Well, perhaps he doesn’t like to evolve them. He is winning you know.”

“He doesn’t have the skill to win. You on the other hand used a vast array of evolved pokémon and won. You are a better trainer.”

“Well, thanks. I guess I’ll…” She too had vanished. “Oh man, I gotta just keep my thoughts to myself. Maybe then these strange old people will stop bothering me…”

Agatha entered the stadium. “So Icy, we meet again. Are you ready to be beaten all over again? Lemme ask you something. Did it hurt to be the laughing stock of Indigo Plateau?” Agatha laughed evilly. Icy just ignored her.

“Let’s get started shall we?”

“I concur. Gengar, go!”

“Ready to fight, come in sight! Icy calls, Leafy!” The Gloom stood in front of the ghostly opponent.

“Hmm, a gloom ehh. That doesn’t scare me, but I wonder if Gengar scares her. Gengar, lick it now!”

“Hmm, she doesn’t learn…” Icy thought to himself. Leafy just stood there while Gengar attempted to lick it. “Leafy, stun spore now.” Gengar was in for a big surprise. He had gotten too close to Leafy and now would learn the error he had made. Leafy wasn’t affected by Gengar’s lick attack, but Gengar seemed to be having a hard time getting his tongue back in his mouth after Leafy sprayed him with stun spores. “Mega drain Leafy!” Leafy drained Gengar life points and Agatha recalled it.

“Oh, I see you’ve been training. Well, that is what’s called dumb luck. You don’t get it each time. I choose Golbat now.” The large bat flew onto the field.

“Return Leafy. Ready to fight, come in sight! Icy calls, Hocus!” Icy Kadabra made yet another appearance. “Hocus, you should be strong against poison types, so just use your psybeam on it.”

“Will do master!” Hocus fired his psybeam at Golbat, but missed. Golbat dodged the beam narrowly and dove for Hocus.

“Bite attack now. Poison that no good psychic pokémon.”

“Look out Hocus!” Hocus was already aware of the approaching Golbat. He sent a psyshock right for Golbat and it fell to the ground, unable to move. “Ok, finish the job.” Hocus gave Golbat another psyshock and it fainted. Agatha was now very upset.

“How is this possible? You weren’t this good last time. Golbat return. I’ll teach you a lesson Icy. I choose Haunter now.”

“Great. Hocus, disable attack now!” Hocus focused on Haunter’s lick attack. He hoped he was successful.

“Now I’m going to take out that meddlesome Kadabra of yours. Haunter, lick attack now.” Haunter prepared to attack, but stopped. “What? What’s wrong? I said attack.”

“Ok,” Hocus replied. He fired multiple psybeams at the purple ghost pokémon.

“No not you! Aghhhhhh!!!! Haunter, return!”

“Well folks, Icy seems to be quite unbeatable this afternoon. I wonder what is giving such good luck today?”

“His luck is about to run out. Arbok, GO!”

“Hocus, return. I choose you now, Buttercup!” Icy slightly injured Butterfree fluttered over the field.

“Go eat your dinner Arbok!”

“Buttercup, psybeam, maximum strength!” Buttercup summoned all of her power and began glowing. She turned a bright blue as a sphere of pure energy formed around her body.

“What’s this, Icy’s Butterfree is really generating a lot of energy. I hope Arbok is ready for this.”

Arbok leapt for Buttercup. Just before he could make contact, Buttercup discharged all the energy directly at the approaching cobra. Arbok held onto the ball for a second before being thrown deep into the ground. Buttercup didn’t fare too well either was she was throw high into the air by the explosion of energy.

“BUTTERCUP!!!!!” Icy watched in horror as she ascended further. Finally, she began heading back towards the surface. Icy homed in on her and used his telekinesis to guide her down slowly. “Buttercup, are you ok?” She couldn’t even move. Icy called for a quick timeout as he rushed his severely injured Butterfree over to Sara. “Sara, I need you to take Buttercup to Nurse Joy quick. I’ll get there as soon as I can. Please, go now.”

“We all hope Buttercup will be ok. But now, let’s get back to the match. Agatha is down to her last pokémon. This is really turning out to be Icy’s lucky day!”

“You may win against me Icy, but Lance will crush you. There I go again, praising that jerk. Do you know how much I hate that filthy piece of trash? I… hmmm, ok, another time then. Gengar, GO!”

“Ok, here we go. Ready to fight, come in sight! Icy calls, Wiggler!” One of Icy’s ten Caterpies wiggled onto the field.

“A Caterpie??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!”

“Shutup! Wiggler, remember what we trained for. Now’s the time to do it. Ok, Wiggler, tackle attack alpha!”

“Owww, the little buggy’s gonna tackle my Gengar, whatever. Gengar disappear, confuse the stupid little bug.”

“My Caterpie is not stupid. However, your Gengar is. Wiggler, finish the move.” Wiggler muffled some cute Caterpie sounds and sprayed its silk string all over Gengar.

“What’s this? Gengar lick, or just eat the bug.” Gengar couldn’t move. Wiggler continued to tie him up with its string. “Just break out of it. It’s only string.” Gengar tried, but Wiggler’s string was too strong, plus he already had almost 5 layers covering him. “This is pointless, return Gengar. I’m going to laugh when Lance crushes you and your stupid little worms.”

“For the last time, they aren’t stupid!” Icy calmed down and had Wiggler return. Everything had gone just as they planned. Agatha stormed out and tried to get Wiggler’s silk off of her Gengar.