Battle of Lavender Castle
The Lord of Celadon had risen in rebellion and the rest of Kanto had rallied to his flag. The Shogun, from his seat in Johto, had gathered all the trainers and pokemon he could muster to meet him in an all-out assault on Lavender Castle. A victory would push open the road to his stronghold in Celadon and all but end the war; a defeat would see his army wiped out and surely cost him the Shogunate which his family had held for generations.
But to most of the trainers on the battlefield – to the men and women standing in full armor (black armor for the Shogun's forces, celadon for the Lord of Celadon's) and carrying swords, but standing behind the unfolding melee and shouting orders to their pokemon, none of that dry political stuff mattered. They just wanted to win.
A company of Blastoise pounded the castle with water while Venusaur used their vines to hurl Electrode and Golem through the fortress' walls. A few brave men on Dragonite and Gyarados charged for the door, only to be taken down by well-placed Hyper Beams. Rain poured down on the battlefield as Thunderbolts from a few elite Raichu fell from the castle onto the Shogunate's flying pokemon. The Lord of Celadon ordered his Zapdos to "join them and Thunder their air force!" It complied with great devastation, killing countless Fearow and Noctowl with a single flap of its wings. A squadron of Charizard and the Shogun's Entei fought back, hurling flames so numerous they burnt up the rainclouds, but did little to damage Celadon's own air force. On the ground below, a menagerie of pokemon fought with tooth and claw and whatever other appendages they had to break through the enemy lines with every physical attack in their arsenal, albeit to no avail; it had become a bloody stalemate.
Within this chaos, his friends and pokemon dying around him, a Shogunate soldier sent his Gligar back into his own side's lines. The flying scorpion maneuvered through the traffic of charging armies and fired a Poison Sting through the shogun's helmet and eyes into his brain, killing him instantly. After their leader screamed his last scream of pain, the Shogun's armies fled. Strangely, the Lord of Celadon let them, for as he saw the countless bodies they left behind, he was made a battlefield convert to the cause of peace.
Weeping over the corpses which littered the fields of Lavender, he declared a perpetual truce and ordered that Lavender Castle be turned into a tower to house the spirits of dead pokemon.
But to most of the trainers on the battlefield – to the men and women standing in full armor (black armor for the Shogun's forces, celadon for the Lord of Celadon's) and carrying swords, but standing behind the unfolding melee and shouting orders to their pokemon, none of that dry political stuff mattered. They just wanted to win.
A company of Blastoise pounded the castle with water while Venusaur used their vines to hurl Electrode and Golem through the fortress' walls. A few brave men on Dragonite and Gyarados charged for the door, only to be taken down by well-placed Hyper Beams. Rain poured down on the battlefield as Thunderbolts from a few elite Raichu fell from the castle onto the Shogunate's flying pokemon. The Lord of Celadon ordered his Zapdos to "join them and Thunder their air force!" It complied with great devastation, killing countless Fearow and Noctowl with a single flap of its wings. A squadron of Charizard and the Shogun's Entei fought back, hurling flames so numerous they burnt up the rainclouds, but did little to damage Celadon's own air force. On the ground below, a menagerie of pokemon fought with tooth and claw and whatever other appendages they had to break through the enemy lines with every physical attack in their arsenal, albeit to no avail; it had become a bloody stalemate.
Within this chaos, his friends and pokemon dying around him, a Shogunate soldier sent his Gligar back into his own side's lines. The flying scorpion maneuvered through the traffic of charging armies and fired a Poison Sting through the shogun's helmet and eyes into his brain, killing him instantly. After their leader screamed his last scream of pain, the Shogun's armies fled. Strangely, the Lord of Celadon let them, for as he saw the countless bodies they left behind, he was made a battlefield convert to the cause of peace.
Weeping over the corpses which littered the fields of Lavender, he declared a perpetual truce and ordered that Lavender Castle be turned into a tower to house the spirits of dead pokemon.