AN: Really sorry for the delay I've been quite busy with health on the mend I'm working again, meaning a lot less time to actually write as much as I like.

You probably noticed I deleted the useless An's they were too much of an eyesore for me to keep, I apologize to those whose reviews this might affect but it can't be helped if I wanted keep this story up. If you do want to review and can't I would not mind a Pm on your thoughts.

A real good Kalos fic by 'SuperGV88' actually convinced me to give this season a shot after the horror of Unova and got to say I don't mind Serena or Korrina to be honest.

I recently joined a Pokemone forum which I think is pretty good if you're interested there's a link on my profile

Anyway sorry for the wait hopefully the chapter makes up for it this is unedited and will fixed up properly soon didn't want you guys to wait any longer.

Chapter 7 here we go!

It was like an explosion had gone off around the stadium the noise was through the roof with cheers. The battle had started with a bang for the crowd. The underdog had pulled the first win and now they'd finally see what else this mysterious character Tobias had in store.

Ash had to sigh despite being happy with Darkrai being out of the way, the cost had been high Sceptile was out of this battle no ifs or buts. Looking at the Pokémon it was still clutching it's arm despite no real facial expression of pain it was obvious Sceptile was putting up a front for his trainer and there opponent.

He knew how hard headed his grass type was, he'd keep going despite the pain. But the risk outweighed the gain in this case. Long term injury was the last thing he wanted for his Pokémon, he knew what he had to do even if it might upset some people health came first in his mind.

Ash looked at the referee catching his attention.

"Ref I'm withdrawing Sceptile from the battle. His arm needs urgent treatment!"

The ref nodded announcing it to the crowd through his mike with mixed reactions on the audience's part. Most were happy the young trainer cared for his Pokémon enough to not risk further injury. While other battle hungry fans wanted to see Sceptile in action some more, it had just defeated a legendary Pokémon not something you see every day.

(VIP Box)

Cynthia nodded in agreement with Ash's decision 'best not risk further injury' she thought.

Her view was also shared with everyone else, they were now waiting in anticipation for Tobias and Ash's next Pokémon.

(Battlefield)

Tobias was frowning he was quite honestly stunned with Darkrai's defeat. He had been on top most of the battle pushing Sceptile into a corner but Ash seemingly had an endless supply of tricks to get him out of a pinch.

Pure luck was also involved with Aerial ace's re-emergence but that's how the cookie crumbles when using disable. There was no set time till the disabled move becomes available again and it varied per use sometimes 30 seconds to half an hour it was a lottery.

It took one moment to turn the entire battle around, if his other Pokémon are anything like Sceptile he would have to keep his guard up despite a clear power advantage.

On the plus side Sceptile was out of the battle, seeing Ash return the Pokémon and hand the Poke ball to a Nurse Joy who had run onto the field to give urgent care, probably for its damaged arm.

Despite Sceptile being withdrawn the first round had been his loss but he could not allow Ash to think he had the high ground, putting on a smirking he spoke to Ash.

"Well done, you really pushed me harder than any trainer I've ever faced so far."

"Thanks." Ash nodded.

Tobias grin got broader drawing a poke ball. "But don't think this battle is over yet, you have no idea what I have in store for you next." Before throwing his poke ball releasing a Blue blur who rushed past the surprised Ash and Pikachu before climbing high in the sky.

When the Pokémon settled back down in front of Tobias, Ash gritted his teeth his worst fear confirmed.

(VIP BOX)

"A Latios….. damn!" Barry said both shocked and awed.

Gary was frowning concerned for his friend. "Not what Ashy-boy needed that's for sure."

"Considering he's been using Darkrai to one shot everyone he's facing, another legendary isn't really such a surprise." Lucien said calmly.

Worried glances were exchanged between Misty, Zoey and Dawn this was worst possible outcome, more legendary.

"Ash just needs to be positive, keep his kiai up and I'm certain he'll defeat Latios as well." Candice said being positive to try and lift the mood of the girls next to her.

Brock was calm despite it all this was what they were expecting another legendary. Sceptile had done its job of getting Darkrai out of the way but it was one senior Pokémon down and three left. Ash had been hoping to give his younger Pokémon a bit more assistance in there fights but it was shaping up to be unlikely if the first battle said anything.

Ash really needs both Glalie and Infernape to come through to leave less pressure on their other three senior teammates.

(Battlefield)

'Looks like I guessed correctly there is a Dragon type on his team just not what I was expecting. At least it's not something like a Rayquaza or id be quite literally screwed.' Ash thought sweating at the mere possibility.

Looking at Latios Ash could see it was definitely bigger than the one he encountered in Altomore and definitely more powerful being a trained Pokémon.

'Hopefully our training has payed off, this will definitely be a tight match despite type advantage.'

"Go Glalie!" Ash shouts and throws his Pokeball.

The Large Ice head emerges its twin black horns glinting menacingly in the sun.

"Glllaaaallllieeee!" vapour coming out of its mouth.

"Ash responds with Glalie a wise choice!" The commentator yells, only just getting over the appearance of a second legendary.

Tobias was analysing Ash's choice it was a pretty normal choice in this situation.

'Typical an ice type to counter a dragon, but he's chosen one of the slowest ice types. Surely he's realised this he's going to have a lot of difficulty evading my speedy Latios meaning it must have a defensive move in place.'

Seeing the ref raise both flags Tobias was quick to go on the offensive to test his theory.

"Latios giga Impact!" Tobias ordered.

Swirling purple energy quickly enveloped the dragon as it quickly closed the distance on Glalie.

"Quick protect!" Glalie quickly the green shield went in place just before impact grunting as it was pushed back in the air from the force of the impact but avoided damage.

"Now ice beam!" which was quickly formed between its twin Horns and launched at the frozen Latios.

Tobias smirked at Ash filling the youth with unease. "Don't think just because Latios can't move for the moment it's defenceless, use psychic redirect it back to sender!"

"What!" yelled Ash in disbelief how could Latios use psychic when it needs to recharge from Giga impact.

Latios eyes glowed as Ice beam slowly was turned in an arc and went back the way it came.

Glalie drifted out of its flight path letting collided with the arena wall freezing a good part of it.

"How!" Ash demanded that was not normal at all.

Tobias was now grinning seeing the annoyance on the youths face. " Psychic requires the use of mental/psychic energy which is a different source of power from the reserves Pokémon normally draw from. Because Latios was recharging from the use of its normal reserves it doesn't apply to mental energy, meaning Latios can use psychic moves while recharging."

'But I didn't say it's a lot more draining to do such a thing while recharging but that's a quick fix.' Tobias thought to himself.

Ash was gobsmacked along with most the audience. 'Damn now I can't attack with Ice attack while he's recharging, And I can't use physical moves because he'd just catch Glalie in his psychic grip which is even worse.'

Lucien was wide eyed. "Ingenious way to get around such a drawback, but that will only work with powerful psychic types the mental energy required to both recharge and attack mentally would be immense."

Cynthia gritted her teeth. 'Looks like Ash isn't the only one with a big bag of tricks, but whose is deeper.'

"Ash this should look familiar to you aerial ace!" Tobias shouted.

Ash and Glalie had no time to react as Latios rammed Glalie straight between the eyes like a bullet, slamming Glalie into the ice encased wall shattering the remains of Darkrai's ice spears.

Ash's was sweating seeing Latios sheer speed. 'So fast, that was even quicker than Sceptile's!'

"Now steel wing!" Both of Latios wings turned metallic as it zoomed straight at the slowly recovering Glalie who was just getting itself out of the wall.

Glalie had to close it eyes light was reflecting off Latios wings blinding him from seeing its positioning.

"Double team!" Despite it being blind multiple copies of Glalie appeared along the wall confusing Latios who stopped not wanting to run the risk of hitting a fake and ploughing into the wall itself.

The copies moved to surrounded Latios seeing the danger Tobias quickly formed a counter.

"Knock them all out draco meteor!"

"It knows draco meteor!" Ash screamed.

A ball of energy formed in Latios mouth, quickly pointing its head to the sky it launched the ball. At the peak of the climb the ball exploded in the sky showering the field with mini meteors quickly destroying each copy.

The real one was able to shield itself at the last second with protect saving itself from being knocked out.

Ash quickly wiped his head in relief. 'That was close if that had connected Ice type or not, Glalie would not have gotten up from that.'

"Well done if you had not protected yourself from Draco meteor Glalie would have lost the match." Tobias commented.

Ash gritted his teeth he wasn't sure if that was an insult or genuine praise. It was hard for him to get a read on Tobias.

"I see you're using Protect to cover the lack of speed Glalie has, bold move considering the risk protect carries of failing. So far luck has favoured you, but luck can only carry you so far!"

A stoic expression showed on Ash's face. 'Well that was definitely an insult.'

"But from what I've seen of our first bout, surely there's something else in reserve?" Tobias said eyeing Ash knowingly.

Ash smirked in response. "You'll just have to wait and see."

Tobias own smirk got wider as well chuckling to himself.

"That's enough talk Ash, now let us continue."

"Alright then Glalie let blind them use blizzard." Glalie whipped a snowstorm which was contained inside the psychic barrier not affecting the audience.

Cynthia was pleased by the move 'Good move Ash, use your Pokémon's traits to your advantage.'

Latios was being pelted from a mix of snow and Ice, visibility was very poor it couldn't see thing neither could it's trainer who gritted his teeth annoyed.

"Latios use safeguard!" Tobias realised his Pokémon would also have trouble seeing his opponent so it was best to limit the damage till he could come up with something to get rid of this pesky storm.

"Glalie lets a do a bit of hit and run use the storm to your advantage as cover!"

Glalie himself could see fairly clearly through the storm he was made for these sorts of conditions this was his battlefield time to take control and knockout this pesky dragon he'd been mostly on the receiving end time for some revenge a menacing smirk forming on its cold lips.

Glalie could see Latios was stationary in one position clearly trying to spot him. So he quickly started firing a mix of Ice beam and Ice shard, moving position through each use to make it as difficult as possible for Latios to spot him.

Glalie was really enjoying himself he was pelting the helpless legendary, he definitely had a story to share when he got home, but he had to take down the midget dragon first.

Latios grunted annoyed he was taking major pounding here, if this had been a Pokémon of similar strength he'd have been knocked out by now. But it was clear his Opponent was quite a young Pokémon it's attacks lacked the killer punch to it despite type advantage not to say the Ice attack weren't hurting him. His pride hurt a hell of a lot more from the stupid insults now being thrown his way from the young dynamo who was clearly getting cockier by the second.

It was frustrating not being able to find the horned devil his wings were not solar panels!

Latios in frustration starting firing dragon pulses in any direction he thought he sore the little devil.

Hopefully he'd hit him soon the insults were getting lamer by the minute his breath did not smell like Bacon.

Pikachu could only shake his head at the all-round stupidity going on his little ears hearing every word coming out of Glalie mouth despite the gale winds. He knew Glalie would eventually get what's coming to him, you don't antagonise a legendary ever not matter how big or small it was not worth the trouble.

He was also creating an unneeded opening for Latios to find him and destroy the advantage our team had gained. Pikachu knew he had to try and stop Glalie from making such a mistake so did what came natural being the leader of the team took a big breath and unleashed.

Pikachu didn't realise even though he could hear what was happening in the storm, his voice would not carry the same distance being outside it.

Ash was grinning the longer the storm was up the more likely the battle will go in his favour and it looked like Tobias didn't have a counter for this which made it all the sweeter,.

The only question he had was why Pikachu was shaking his little fist and yelling at the force of nature in front of them like an idiot.

Perhaps he was upset his shiny coat was getting all dirty from dirt being picked up from the swirling winds. Wouldn't be the first time despite enjoying the thrill of Battle his pika pal was a bit of clean freak.

He almost throttled Torkoal for blowing soot in his face when they were travelling in Hoenn. Who he now the mouse kept at least a 10 metre distance away from at all times.

'Either way not my problem.' Thought Ash not realising how wrong he was.

Tobias could sense his Pokémon's frustration, he was as well but it was not time for either of them tolose its heads. While not being able to see through the storm the random specks of light appearing in different direction gave him a good clue what latios was doing.

"Latios use calm mind don't lose your head here, try and anticipate which direction Glalie is going to strike then counter."

Latios took a deep breath trying to ignore the comments and the pain it received from the ice shards his opponents was throwing it's way it's big mouth will be it undoing soon, wait that's it!

Listening carefully to Glalie's voice he was able to pick up the voice was slowly moving into position behind him. Glancing carefully in that direction he made out a round shape.

'Got you, big mouth!' thought Latios grinning at the shape and charged straight at it with steel wing activated.

An oh shit expression formed on Glalies face, he had no time to react before he was smashed with latios left wing straight at the ground forming another Crater in the scared battleground.

"Glalie!" Ash screamed at his downed pokemon the storm quickly started to clear revealing a pissed off yet satisfied looking Legendary.

Pikachu slapped his head annoyed having realised Glalie had probably not heard him his own error of judgement.

'Idiot!'

"Latios luster purge!" Tobias ordered looking relieved to be able to see his Pokémon again.

With relish Latios launched the purple beam right at Glalie.

"Glalie protect!" Ash screamed there was no time to dodge with Glalie clearly feeling the impact.

Moaning in pain Glalie tried to form his shield once more but it dissipated allowing the beam to slam into him causing an explosion where he laid.

"Glalie!" "Pika!" Pokémon and trainer screamed in worry.

"That could be it for a Glalie, back to back direct hits!" Said Flint.

Whose words were mimicked by the commentator?

Candice was quick to punch him on the head for said comment. "It's not over yet, don't underestimate the power of Ice type Pokemon!"

"Yeah you're right, what was I Thinking Ice types rule!" Flint said nervously trying to placate the ice Princess, seeing her fist waving in his face he didn't want another lump this chick was crazy.

Zoey was seen trying and failing to pull her friend away from Flint, much to the others amusement.

"What do you think Brock?" Misty asked.

Brock was calm despite the current drama. "We'll see, either way I don't think Glalie could take another attack in his current state."

Shortly the dust settle revealing a conscious Glalie still buried into the ground but slowly struggling to rise up. Eye's shut grimacing in agony the Pokemon definitely could not take much more.

It slowly got out of hole it was buried into and floated very low to the ground, shaking and glaring with a single eye open at the smirking legendary.

Ash was unclenching his fist nerves slightly easing they were still in this but one more hit like that and that's all she wrote. The question of substituting never crossing his mind despite Glalie's condition his game plan wasn't in ruin yet but it was close call.

Tobias was surprised the Pokémon was still standing or in this case floating. But it looked to be on its last legs but he wasn't entirely assured the round was his, the last match vividly kept replaying in his mind. Did he doubt he could no win no! But was he confident to call it a victory not yet.

'I don't want Ash thinking that he can get back into this match with some hidden surprise best crush that last shred of confidence!'

"Latios you took quite a beating inside that storm use recover to regain your strength!"

Ash gritted his teeth. "Damn that's the last thing we needed!" Latios was glowing brightly its bruises disappearing from Glalie's Ice barrage.

Latios immediately saw the displeasure on the Ice types face to his glee all that effort for nothing.

"What's got your horns bent out of shape?"

Glalie growled. "My horns are perfectly horny thank you very much!"

"What?"

Latios now look disgusted, and Pikachu moaned once more grabbing his face with both hands.

'Still the same as always, Ignorant and a loud mouth!' mentally screamed the mouse.

Glalie looked even more pissed off at Latios expression.

"I said im perfectly horny, what is there not to understand."

"Do you even know what you're saying?" Latios yelled stupefied at the Pokémon's ignorance.

Tick marks formed on Pikachu's face. 'Damn you Bulbasaur, you did this on purpose didn't you!' cursing his friend for not teaching the Pidgey and Beedrills.

Both trainers didn't seem to notice the yelling match between Pokemon and one mouse trying to bury itself. They were far more interested in glaring there opponent into submission.

"Your Glalie is done, it put up some futile resistance but im going to end this right now!"

Tobias didn't normally act like this but Ash just seemed to rub him the wrong way, or it could have just been that Darkrai actually lost a fight to a child of all things.

"Don't think this over, Glalie has plenty more to give starting right now Glalie, power surge!"

His Pokémon grinned at the growling Latios before quickly forming an ice shard and swallowing it.

Glalie's body started shining brightly its glare blinding both trainers and the audience.

"Not again!" Tobias growled out squinting at the bright light.

The light 10 seconds later dissipated revealing the upgraded Glalie earning some raised eyebrows at its appearance.

'What the hell!' thought both trainer and legendary.

Glalie Head had gotten slightly bigger, with an extra layer of ice acting as armour on its thick outer shell. The biggest difference was the appearance of multiple small but thick ice spikes all over its body shooting out in each direction, giving him the similar appearance of a sea urchin. The two original horns on its head were noticeably larger then the others and were now slightly curved upward like a Tauros.

It was quite the change indeed.

VIP BOX

Most of the box was speechless with the change in appearance for the Ice type, with one Gym leader sparkly eyed.

Candice was drooling. "I want one!"

Cynthia was the first get over her shock. "Why is this power surge so different, then Sceptile's!"

To perfectly honest Brock did have an answer for her on that aspect, power surge seemed to react differently for each Pokemon, perhaps it had something to do with the Pokémon's physical development. Sceptile was a speedy Pokémon so the power up added further assistance to said attribute.

Glalie was much more power based then speed.

His thoughts were shared by the wise Professor who said theory verbally.

"If that's the case then why the extra layer of armour, and what's with the spikes?" Barry questioned.

"Im not sure, we won't know till we see Glalie in action in this form?" said Professor Oak.

Gary was more concerned at the likely negative of this form. "It's got be even slower now with how bulked up it is in size, how's it going to dodge now?"

"Shut up! we don't know for sure what the difference till it battles, one thing is for certain Glalie kiai is through the roof!" Candice screamed standing arms raised above her head, eye's still shining Glalie's victory all but assured in her head.

Cynthia, Bertha and Misty applauded her speech ignoring the other spectacle left in her wake.

The rest were more worried about joining #cough# concerned of the smoking body of Professor Oaks Grandson on the ground a large lump pulsating on his head.

Paul just shook his head at everyone, they were all idiots.

Battlefield

Glalie new appearance was an unpleasant but not a completely unexpected surprise to Tobias. He was more surprised the Pokémon still had the stamina to hold this form. It was also very different then Ash's Sceptile's a lot more bulky definitely not suited for speed but the extra ice coating could provide a stronger defence, and those spikes shooting out it's round form would make close range combat very hazardous. Overall quite the menacing appearance but he could not allow Ash to think he was intimidated by Glalie.

"I see you made Glalie an even larger target for my Latios!"

"We'll see!" Ash growled.

Latios seemed to look stupefied at Glalie's appearance, while that was partly true he was far more stunned at something else.

"What?"

"Now that I'm in my extra horny form, I'm going to crush you beneath my body!" Glalie bellowed loudly.

Latios kept blinking unable to comprehend its statement.

"Are you real?"

Surely this was a dream he certainly never seen a Glalie look like this before, or such ignorance in a Pokémon. Clearly whoever taught him the Pidgey and Beedrills did a very poor job.

Pikachu continued to quietly plot the murder of his fellow teammate at home.

(Ash pov)

Ash knew it was a bit of a gamble to use this form now but he didn't have much choice at this point if he wanted any chance of winning this battle though one wrong move could spell disaster.

Its true Glalie is a lot slower than Latios even slower now with the extra weight it's carrying but its firepower had increased exponentially. The major problem was actually hitting the target, he'd need to either have Glalie catch Latios off-guard or manoeuvre him into a position where it could not dodge. At that point Glalie could finish him with his special technique, while it could also be effective on a moving target it was a one use only and Glalie would pretty much be out of power. So we needed to get the most out of his original move.

'Question is how do we score a direct hit on something so fast and that can fly.'

Ash glanced around the ice in the wall from earlier was all shattered from Sceptile jumps and Glalie colliding with it's remains so he couldn't use them. The battlefield was scared with multiple slices in the ground and a couple of large craters.

The field was useless against this opponent being all broken up.

"Wait maybe!" Ash's eyes widened pieces of a possible plan falling together.

"No time to stop and the see the roses Ash, there's a battle going on so don't nap on the job Latios luster purge!" Tobias yelled.

The beam was so fast for Glalie it couldn't move an inch for it connected.

"Glalie!" Ash yelled.

"What's the point in more power if you sacrifice mobility do it again latios?" Tobias commented.

Another beam followed the first into the dust cloud followed by a third for good measure and Latios stopped to catch his breath.

"You're just a sitting duck no matter how powerful it has be….what!"

Tobias face was priceless along with the crowd's expressions.

The dust cloud revealed Glalie looking completely untouched like nothing happened at all.

"How can it withstand such an assault?" Tobias said breathlessly eye's wide along with his Pokémon.

"Nice Glalie!" Ash screamed with glee.

(Vip Box)

"That luster purge barrage was unreal yet Glalie hardly budged!" Barry screamed mouth wide open along with the other teenagers in the room.

The professor was very impressed "Very impressive defence it certainly formidable. Latios will have trouble breaching that defence although it looks like Glalie stamina has not gained the same increase."

Glalie could be clearly seen panting slightly that barrage had tooks it toll despite it still standing.

"Defence isn't going to win this." Flint murmured to himself feeling a glare at his back knowing who she was he was quick to add on.

"Although if it's attacking prowess has gained similar potency then this is anyone's game." Feeling the burning in his back cease Flint sighed in relief, glad he'd satisfied the Ice princess he'd keep his mouth shut from now on.

Volkner shook his head knowingly; Flint never knew when to keep his mouth shut.

"Why isn't Ash retaliating?" Misty asked aloud.

"He's waiting for an opening!" Said Paul.

Lucien nodded. "He's right Ash can't just try to blast him out of sky it would be a waste of energy which Glalie has already used a lot up with that barrage during Blizzard. You have to take into account Latios Psychic abilities as a last line of defence. Close range is also pointless for the same reason."

"Ash has to wait for an opening to present itself and strike like my Torterra does." Commented Paul.

"But then Glalie is just going to get pummelled its defence might be strong but its stamina is clearly not, it won't be long till let's go of that form. What was the point in creating this if you don't have a way to hurt your enemies when there this quick?" Zoey said.

"He can hit Latios!" Brock said out loud but didn't explain how ignoring the barrage of questions.

'This forms not perfect but its true power reveals itself when Glalie lets go of power surge.' Brock thought to himself biting his lip before sighing.

'But even then Glalie would be completely vulnerable when he does and the unleashing might not be strong enough to finish off Latios anyway, if it just continues to keeps restoring health with recover so it's most likely Ash has that planned!'

Seeing Brock lost in his own world they realised it would be best to wait and see what Ash is up to.

What they saw completely contradicted what the group were thinking, it went to show you can never predict what Ash ketchum's next move.

(Battlefield) 30 seconds prior

"I don't know how but Glalie is still standing strong so this is still anyone's match!" Yelled the commentator.

Tobias frowned at Ash he hadn't tried to attack Latios at all, was he trying to bait him into attacking again?

A continued assault would just wear out both Pokémon and Latios would also get slower making it an easier target despite Glalie's own exhaustion.

'So is it pissing contest you want, well then perhaps a change of Tactics is required!' But before Tobias could make a command to Latios Ash was quicker on trigger.

"Glalie use ice beam on the Field!" Ash yelled.

A large ball of ice particles formed quickly between its curved horns before angling it's head forward and immediately froze a small batch of ground in front of him before the Ice quickly spread out and completely covered destroyed field making it near possible for land based pokemon to keep their balance on its slippery surface.

"Glalie has frozen the field, what possible strategy could this play in Ash's favour?" said the commentator.

"You're just setting up your next's Pokémon defeat that was pointless." Said Tobias his Pokémon sharing similar thoughts.

'Good Tobias doesn't suspect us, but this is going to leave us open for attack Glalie will need to guts it out because it will be the only chance we have make an opening!' Ignoring Tobias remarks Ash was quick to make his next move.

"Now climb quickly!" Yelled Ash.

Despite not understanding what Ash planned Glalie had tried it's best to follow orders but the extra weight of its armoured shell was weighing it down making progress painfully slow.

"You're just making this easier for me to win!" Smirked Tobias seeing the slow climb of his opponent, his original plan leaving his mind and a new one taking its place.

"Latios get under Glalie then climb as well." Like a rocket Latios was in position and climbing upwards rapidly approaching its target.

"Use steel wing and spin!"

It's winged glowed with power as it rotated clockwise gaining speed by the revolution soon creating a wind vortex surrounding him.

"Your not the only one that can do combinations Ash now use Giga Impact!" Tobias commanded the vortex quickly took a purple sheen and expanded to accommodate the increase in power.

Tobias was happy to see the surprised face of Ash's it was about time he one upped him.

He was also pleased with his new 'Giga drill' takeing form, spike or no spike defence Latios was going tear through Glalie's armour like tissue paper.

Snapping out of his shock he quickly tried to counter.

"Glalie quick ice beam!" Suddenly stopping Glalie had little time to mount said response before impact occurred.

For the first time since entering power surge Glalie screamed in agony as he was sent hurtling higher into the air shards of Ice falling from the sky as he flew even higher.

Tobias smirked victoriously. "You left yourself wide open with that manoeuvre, that was moronic thinking you didn't even think of attempting to use protect to shield your Pokémon!"

"Grrrrr!" Ash growled realising he made an poor error in Judgement.

Glalie had recovered it flight now hovering at least 50 metres above the arena, the damage it took had been severe the entire underside of Glalies armour had been torn to shreds. With almost all the spikes cracked or splintered in half along with a good amount of its outer defensive shell seemingly been peeled off.

Ash realised they now had a very big opening in Glalie's armour for Latios to exploit, his plan had to come into action now even though Glalie had taken a big hit, Latios had pushed his Pokémon into a high enough position.

Now it was there turn to lay the hurt.

"Glalie Use gyro ball on Latios full speed!" Glalie let go of its levitation, the fall helping increase the rotations of his body and give the added speed to the move he sorely lacked.

The added speed Glalie suddenly gained caught Tobias off guard, but his Pokémon's response more then compensated for it.

Using Aerial ace to get out of the way of the falling hunk of Ice, just in the Knick of time.

Latios didn't dare try to strike back not wanting to risk injury on one of Glalie's remaining spikes despite destroying close to a quarter of them on its underside.

"Use Gyro ball on the field."

"What!" screamed Tobias.

"Not another one!" screamed Mr Goodshow out of character earning some raised eyebrows form the sinnoh elite four and Professor Oak.

Blushing the Old man said nothing and turned back to the battle just in the nick of time.

Glalie came out of it spin just as he made contact with the Ice, it two Massive horn piercing straight through the turf from the added momentum with cracks quickly spreading.

A mrere instant later its round body followed cratering into the Ice with such force the entire field broke into randomly sized pieces of Ice. Which from force of impact caused the Ice chunks to rise vertically showering the stunned Latios nonstop with the thousands upon thousands shards of ice.

"Unbelievable what an Impact creating an Ice shards rise upwards and shower Latios under its fury, I have never seen like this before folks!" Screamed the Commentator grabbing his mike with enthusiasm.

"And it looks like Latios is down as well!"

"Looks like Ash has done it again." Misty said stunned.

"Well that was certainly a creative way to cause damage, I certainly would not have come up with something so….!" Zoey said quietly, a certain word escaping her.

"Stupid, Insane, Unbelievable take your pick." Said Flint shaking his head there was just no reading this kid.

'Looks like you took some inspiration from our battle Ashy boy.' Gary thought to himself lying down on his cushion gazing out the window seemingly having recovered from earlier's knuckle sandwich surprise.

"What is with him destroying my fields?" Goodshow moaned quietly to himself with Proffesor Oak patting his shoulder in comfort. That boy just had no respect for the amount of time and effort it took to design these field.

But deep down he didn't truly mind, seeing Ash Battle like this truly made for it in his mind.

'Makes me wish I was young and battling my way to the Championship.' Mr Goodshow reminisced.

'This is it Ash your opening, now win this.' Cynthia cheered happily in her mind completely enthralled with the match, ignorant of the fact her dairy treat was slowing dripping away.

Volkner noticed something everyone else seemed to miss.

"Wait Glalie isn't moving!"

(Battlefield)

Ash knew this would be the last opportunity for any remote chance of scraping a win, but he could see his Pokémon was not moving.

While it clearly was not out cold with its eyes blearily open staring back at him. Ash could also see further chinks appearing in the armour with more cracks appearing by the second.

That spiralling corkscrew move Tobias created certainly had not helped mitigate the situation, along with colliding headfirst with a thick layer of Ice.

Looking back now it he could see it might not have been the greatest decision he ever made, but for the first time since he started the battle he had been coming up blank ideas wise. But it was only move at the time he could think of remotely having any chance of working and creating the opening needed for the finishing blow.

But Glalie being immobile had complicated things while he didn't need to move to actually use his own special technique, he would also not be able to escape any backlash caused or a possible counter Latios could mount despite it being unlikely.

They did have a plan b in place but that was also in ruins, he needed to be close to Latios to pull it off.

Looking to his opponents Pokémon Ash could see Latios condition was clearly not much better than Glalies, having succumbed to its wounds from the ice assault laying on the field trying to use recover to heal any blood drpping out or cuts on its body.

His trainer also was looking furious if the murderous scowl on his face said anything.

"That's it I've had, I'm tired of these games It's time you showed us some respect Latios Draco Meteor full power!" Tobias screamed ignoring the condition of his injured Pokémon.

Latios gently floated off the ground wincing trying to ignore its wounds a sinister light seemed glow from its eye's, as it opened it Mouth opened slowly forming a ball of energy.

Ash was quick to reach for his pokeball this was not worth putting Glalie through further pain, he had miscalculated on Latios own willpower.

Glalie could see what its trainer was doing, even though he could understand his trainer's feelings on the matter. He wanted to fight and fur fill his role in securing there victory.

Glalie's eye's briefly glowed before several spikes on its left side jutted out pushing against damaged turf assisting the pokemon into an upright position before retracting back into the outer shell.

Ash hesitated with the poke ball seeing his Pokémon rise up.

"Glalie are you sure!"

The ice head rocked it's head forward as if nodding.

Sighing Ash decide to believe in his Pokémon.

"Well I suppose it's actually a good thing, Latios destroyed the underside of your armour otherwise this would nothad been as simple from the ground." Ash said to himself he knew they didn't have time seeing the ball Latios was forming already twice the size of its head and increasing by the second.

"Time to lock and load buddy!"

Glalie's eyes glowed again before all its spikes on it body other then it's horns seem to jut out slightly. A whistling sound from water vapour steaming out of the gaps suddenly created in the body, which seemed to get louder by the second like it was under extreme pressure.

"Say good bye!" Yelled Tobias as Latios fired the giant orange ball straight at Glalie which quickly broke apart mere seconds are leaving its creators mouth, into multiple mini draco meteor which curved and arced towards it's intended target locked on.

Glalie's followed every target approaching seemingly trying to lock their positioning in his mind.

"Let do this return fire Ice missiles!" Yelled Ash as loud as could over the now deafening sounds of the whistling.

The pressure created from the trapped water vapour shot out all remaining mini spikes with alarming force like it name, all curving an arcing towards its intended targets the meteors locking onto their heat signatures.

The collision of the two forces of nature centre field was beyond anything seen so far in the match. With the entire stadium shaking, It's mainly large screen cutting in and out from the vibrations.

Even with psychic Pokémon protecting the people it didn't stop people from holding onto their loved one closely and finding any shelter they could.

After close to thirty seconds the vibrations settled down with a giant dust storm covering the field.

It took a further few minutes for the dust clear much to Ash anxiety and was quickly relieved to see both Pokémon alive and breathing although a lot worse of then previously.

Ash did have to wince at the state of the arena there wasn't much of a grass field only a very small patch had survived on one of the corners on his side of the field, the rest of the field was just one giant crater with the two Pokémon at the bottom of it lying next to each other.

Ash looked at Tobias who seemed to have calmed down after seemingly losing it at them he had a short fuse it seem when put under pressure.

At this point Ash wasn't really sure what will happen both Pokémon had not been called unable battle seeing they were both still conscious and moving if barely.

(Poke pov)

The mood in the crater was quiet both pokemon felt sore and tired.

Tension was thick though with both Pokémon having stare down from there collapsed positions trying to eyeball each other. Which Glalie decided to break.

"Hey Latios!" Glalie said quietly to the equally stricken Dragon beside him.

"What do you want now?" He groaned in equal annoyance and pain as he lay on his belly, covered in burn and scratch marks.

"I'm not horny anymore."

Latios blinked then deadpanned at the ice head beside him, thinking he was joking before realizing to whom he was speaking to.

Somehow managing to gather some energy, Latios looked up to sky as if it had the answer to his problems.

"…. Arceus, Please kill him, he won't be missed." he prayed.

"That's a mean thing to say!" Glalie said, attempting to pout but more having a scowl on his face.

"Go to hell!" Latios groaned.

Glalie smirked despite feeling like his body was on fire and slowly melting, he was satisfied with what had played out. The battle might not have gone completely to plan but he was still happy.

Smirking to his trainer Ash, who was showing concern to his own plight, he gave a slight nod that signalled he knew what he had to do and he intended to follow through.

Ash nodded in return closing his eyes at sight. Their strategy in the end had worked out perfectly, but deep down inside, he was not happy that he would have to put his Pokémon through even more pain then necessary just to try and keep a level playing field with Tobias.

He would remember to reward him later on for his solidarity to the cause.

Mustering up what little strength he had left, Glalie rolled over onto Latios back and pinned the dragon to the ground underneath its weight, despite shedding the armour he was still very heavy.

"What are you doing" Latios moaned under Glalie's heavy body.

"I said that I would crush you underneath my body and I always keep my promises!" Glalie murmured quietly to the stricken dragon.

"So you're going to crush me to death, you do realize that I can always just recover my strength while you are out of power!" Latios said mounting a minor smirk as he started glowing, his scraps and burns slowly disappearing as he winced.

Gritting in its teeth in pain, Glalie managed a smirk as he looked up from Latios back at the sky, seeing a flock of Starly fly by.

'That may be so bacon breath, but don't think I won't go out with a bang!' Glalie thought to himself as he started to glow a bright white light.

"What the hell are you doing?" Latios asked nervously, seeing the white glow out of the corner of his eyes, his Trainer had also repeated said question to Ash.

"Just leaving my own lasting impression on this tournament, you can call me the bomb." he replied.

During the few days of survival training Glalie had spent a majority of his time with Charizard, picking up pieces of advice from the wizened veteran.

One piece of advice he had received during the training, was to enjoy the experience and to make your mark. There were billions of Pokémon in existence, so it was rare for a Pokémon to be on this stage, so make the most of it and show what you can do.

The battered and bruised Glalie remembered as his glowing body grew brighter starting to blind the audience. 'Might not have won this, but it was fun messing with that legendary's head. Never knew mental warfare was so fun, I'll remember to thank Charizard later.'

"It's time Glalie, and thank you my friend." Ash said.

"Explosion!" he ordered.

The field went completely white.

Glalie would later learn he had certainly made his mark on history.

While in reality this match had turned out to be draw, Glalie deep down had felt he had won.

Omake: Alternate very wrong ending

"Hey Latios" Glalie whispered blearily to the rapidly approaching Latios who was coming in for the finishing blow.

"End of the line Ice ball, its time you learnt some respect for your elders!" Screamed Latios his Giga Impact aura intensifying as he approached.

"Im about to blow my load!" Glalie said softly internally building up energy.

"What the!" Yelled Latios who somehow heard Glalie despite how weak his voice sounded.

"All over your insides!" Glalie screamed glowing with energy and exploding catching Latios in it's range.

The dust settled to reveal Latios who had survived the explosion but not without injury his whole body covered in burns, but for some reason he felt extremely cold.

"Why do I feel like I suddenly need to pee?"

An: firstly even though it's obvious yes Glalie knew exactly what he was saying during the match winning the mental battle is the first step to victory.

I know I didn't really explain the mechanics of Ice missile but don't worry that comes next chapter.

I again must apologize for the delay, and I'm sorry if it wasn't up to the standard you expected some of this chapter I wrote months ago but just didn't have the time to finish it off.

I'm currently trying to get back into the writing with the time I now have off along with some gaming have a whole stack of game I've brought which I haven't had the time to play yet.

Anyway later people don't expect to predict what the next match up to be, the first two were pretty predictable fights now it's time to change it up a bit.

Lightningblade49 signing out for now!