"I know!" shouted Jay. "Ivytortle, I choose you!" Jay threw a Super Ball onto the flying arena and out crawled the Ivysaur/Wartortle mixture.

"And Jay’s sent out his Ivytortle, a bad Pokémon choice I must say," declared the announcer. "If Ivytortle’s Jay’s Pokémon choice, then Jay’s out of luck folks!"

"I’m not out of luck!" shouted Jay. "Ivytortle, use your ice beam attack!" Supposedly, all bird Pokémon, except for Artic and Articuno, were badly effected by ice attacks. Even the legendary Zapdos and Moltres.

But Zapdos didn’t attack. Instead it started to glow, focusing its powers.

"Ivy!" growled Ivytortle, as it inhaled. "Tortle!" Then Ivytortle shot a beam of ice up towards Zapdos. The beam hit Zapdos, but it didn’t harm Zapdos that much.

"Zapdos, sky attack!" shouted Michael.

"Zap!" growled Zapdos. It dived down at full speed towards Ivytortle, clawing and pecking the plant Pokémon.

After the sky attack was over, Jay’s Ivytortle has passed out. "Fine then! Ivytortle, return!" Jay recalled his Super Pokémon, then selected a second Super Ball. "Bulk, I choose you!" Jay threw the Super Ball onto the arena, and out appeared the small fighting Pokémon.

Michael nodded towards Zapdos.

Zapdos screeched then fly up high into the sky.

"Alright, perform a high rock slide!" shouted Jay.

"Bulk!" agreed the fighting Pokémon. Bulk curled up into a ball and hurled itself towards Zapdos. Bulk slammed into Zapdos’ head, badly harming the Pokémon.

"Zapdos, fly attack!" shouted Michael.

"Does he always have to shout the attacking word!" growled Jay in annoyance.

Zapdos screeched and dived down and pecked Bulk in the head. The flying attack badly hurt the fighting Pokémon, and Bulk fainted.

"Good, Zapdos should be weaker now," murmured Jay. "Bulk, return!" Jay recalled Bulk, then looked down at Ultra. "All right Ultra, let’s do it!"

"Ra!" agreed Ultra with a nod. Ultra swiftly teleported from Jay’s platform to the arena.

"This should be easy! Zapdos thunder attack," ordered Michael.

"Teleport," ordered Jay.

* * * *

The creature that had given the powering up pills to the six Pokémon trainers had a cloak on and was watching Jay’s battle against Michael. "Jay and his Ultra are strong, as I foresaw. He and his friends were able to defeat Gastly, one of my best. Jay’s already defeated one of my super-powered up Pokémon, Alakazam. Will a Pokémon I didn’t power up defeat him? Michael’s mighty Zapdos?" The monster chuckled. "Maybe I’ve been looking at this all wrong. Maybe it’s not strong, powered up, Pokémon that will defeat the ones who are destined to destroy my warriors and I. Maybe I need some extremely rare Pokémon . . ."

* * * *

"Teleport!" ordered Jay.

Zapdos flew over Ultra, and bolts and bolts of electricity went flying down towards Ultra. But Ultra used his psychic powers to teleport out of the way of the bolts. Ultra had managed to evade of the bolts thrown at him.

"Ultra, metronome!" shouted Jay.

Ultra stopped teleporting and waved a finger back and forth. Suddenly Ultra stopped and inhaled. Ultra then shot a star-shaped blast of fire at Zapdos, performing a fire blast attack.

The blast of fire hit Zapdos and ignited the bird on fire. The fire died down really quickly.

"Thunder attack," ordered Michael.

"Ultra, psytoss!" ordered Jay.

Zapdos sent a blast of electricity towards Ultra, but using his psychic powers Ultra sent the blast of electricity towards Zapdos. The electric shock didn’t harm Zapdos that much, but it did harm the flying Pokémon a little bit.

"Thunderwave," commanded Michael.

"Ultra, light screen!" ordered Jay.

Ultra held out a hand and created a light screen, and the blast of electricity from Zapdos phased out on the screen.

Jay smirked. "I have an idea!"

"Zapdos, peck attack," ordered Michael.

Zapdos dived down and tried to peck Ultra.

"Ultra, teleport onto Zapdos’ head!" ordered Jay.

"Ultra, ultra!" Ultra teleported and Zapdos slammed into the arena. Ultra reappeared on Zapdos’ head.

"Mind control, now!" ordered Jay.

Ultra closed his and he and Zapdos began to glow. Ultra was using his psychic powers to take control over Zapdos’ mind and body. Ultra used the mind control to send Zapdos falling down onto the arena. Ultra smashed Zapdos’ head into the floor, and Ultra leaped off of Zapdos so he wouldn’t get hurt in the impact. The mind control attack was enough to knock Zapdos out after the series of attacks.

* * * *

"Hmmm, just as I thought," murmured the strange creature. "The Zapdos lost. But maybe Michael has the idea, with an additional energized by myself, my Pokémon may be able to defeat Jay’s. Like the Mew of Genesis’."

The strange creature stood up, turned around, and left the arena.