Chapter 12:
Sports super star
The young bunny PE teacher had been thinking of their upcoming match with their main rival school - Perfecto Prep, and knew that there was only one way to really put them in their place. ‘Where is he?’ She thought while walking all over the school, but could not seem to find her target. Eventually the long eared one heard his voice come from the nurse’s station.
“No problem. I’m always happy to help, Ms. Petunia since I know how scary it is to get a shot.” The raven haired wanderer said to the young pig woman after helping one of his students with getting a shot. The two said their good-byes, and he was about to leave the school grounds until a voice was heard.
“Finally! There you are, Ash.” The voice called out causing Ash to look around and saw the source being his Physical Education teacher, who was racing right up to him. The young rabbit seemed to be wearing a smile on her face so the hero knew that there was nothing wrong, but he always felt compelled to ask.
“What is it, Lola? Is there something I can help you with?” He asked while holding a look of great concern on his face. The Pallet Town protector was grateful that her smile was still there, so there was no danger to be heard about.
“Nothing major. I was just wondering if you would be up for playing a few sports with me?” She asked politely after catching her breath. He thought about it and after remembering that she is the PE teacher, which to him meant that she was good at all the sports, and that meant that she would be a worthy opponent for him.
“Sure. I would like to go a few rounds with you.” He said to her which made her happy that he was up for this little challenge. “What sports do you have in mind?” He asked since back at the Warner Brother’s studio he tried to master all of them.
“It’s a surprise. Just meet me at the school gym in about fifteen minutes.” She instructed to him which he nodded in agreement. With that the two parted ways, and after those fifteen minutes were up Ketchum entered the gym.
“I have come as you have asked, Lola. So, what sport will we be playing?” Ash asked to an empty room, but received no answer. “Is anyone here?” He shouted out, and again no answer. Feeling that he got played thee hero turned to leave. As soon as his hand was on the door handle he heard a nose - the bouncing of a Basketball bouncing.
“Sorry about the wait, Ash. It took me a while to find my old team outfit.” The female hare explained as she walked out in full Basketball playing gear. I’ll let you get changed and then we’ll start the first of three challenges.” She informed which he nodded to and left do to just that.
‘I wonder what kind of challenges I can expect from her.’ The shape shifter thought as he swapped out to his PE clothes, and headed to the court to face her in Basketball.
“Good. Those clothes will make sure that you give it your all. After all I want you at your best before I take you down.” Lola proclaimed to him which caused the other to smile out of excitement since he liked it when his opponent was this excited for a fight.
“I won’t lose. I am more than happy to take on any challenge.” Ash shouted back to her not knowing that Lola Dark heard this and gave the rest of her some very…enticing images between her and him. Such thoughts were swept under the run when he spoke again, “So, what’s the story? How are we going to do this challenge?” She shook her head to get those thoughts out before answering him.
“Simple this first challenge is to score a hundred Basketball points first.” She said and with that the game began with the two of them showing great speed in this challenge. The female bunny was impressed with all of the half court, lay-ups, and three pointer shots, but she was giving it her all as well.
“That was one heck of a match, Lola, but I won.” Ash said after taking several deep breaths to try to calm down his heart after a well earned victory. The two took some time before the next challenge with several bottles of water.
“I know that it was, but I’m just a little disappointed in myself to have been done in by a simple free throw shot.” The cream colored woman admitted while shaking her head in defeat. He saw that she was genuinely upset so he comforted her with a pat on the shoulder.
“As I said it was a hard fought victory. I could sense that you were giving it your all, and that’s all I ever want out of my opponent.” He explained to her, and that is what she already knew of him due to the stories that he had told to the studio which in turned shared with them.
“Once our stomachs calm down I hope your ready for the next challenge - Boxing.” She informed him which immediately got his attention since, thanks to his dad, knew a thing or two about that sport.
‘I am impressed that she has been fighting me fairly, and not used any of the toon tricks I have been learning here.’ Ash thought, and was glad that she was taking this honorably. After thirty more minutes the young bunny woman pressed a button on the wall and a boxing ring rose from the floor.
“Let’s deal with this challenge - shall we.” The PE teacher stated which the human eagerly accepted. Once the added gear was on she decided to tell him the rules for this one.
“The stakes for this is simple. All you have to do is survive twenty rounds in the ring with me.” She informed which Ketchum nodded, and judging by the fierce warrior spirit he sensed coming from her it was not going to be an easy fight.
“Bring it on.” The out of towner proclaimed as the two of them stood ready, and with the assistance of a toon bell their match began. In the beginning the bunny girl thought that this was going to be a somewhat easy fight since Ash only knew how to shout out orders back home, so he wouldn’t be a very good hands on type; she was inherently wrong about this.
‘Maybe I should have thought of a different test for agility.’ Lola thought as she was genuinely surprised with how he was doing in the ring. The young man fighting her was either dodging the blows she swung or slamming his fists into hers.
‘Good thing I kept on training with what dad left me every night when I started my journey.’ Ash thought as he survived ten rounds with her and the two were currently resting a bit before starting with the other ten.
“Well, he really passed this test. I just have one more and I am convinced.” She muttered to herself after the other ten matches came and went. Once they were done the two took another long break to catch their breaths.
“Okay, Lola, you’ve challenged me as a Basketball player and as a boxer; what is the next sport?” He asked while slamming both fists into one another - showing that he was excited to go for another test.
“I know that you’ve done it with the Warner Brothers studio, but I was wondering if you still had skills in the way of Baseball?” The female hare asked with a gentle smile, and just like that Ash smiled brightly back at her since he wanted to try another go with that sport.
“You got it. What kind of thing do you want to test me on because I think that that sport is built for more than one player.” Ketchum reminded her with his index finger and thumb rubbing his chin.
“That it is, Ash. However there are only three chosen fields that I’m interested in: pitching, catching, and hitting.” She informed back at him which confused the hero since those were basically the aspects of the game itself.
“So, alphabetically I supposes Catching is the first to be tested?” He asked as he already saw her walking outside with a Baseball laucncher rolling right behind her. Taking the hint the hero raced after the hare where she was already getting everything set up.
“That’s it Ash. I’m going to be sending you some pop flies or grounders, and if you survive fifty shots then we‘ll move onto the next challenge” She informed her friend.
“Sounds like an interesting challenge. I’m in.” The human explained before picking up a catcher’s mitt, and get ready on his end. With him ready the machine activated and the balls came flying or sliding in his direction.
‘Time to try something new with him.’ Lola thought as at random moments remotely changed the speed of the machine from slow to fast or the amount of Baseballs fired. Despite that moment Ketchum kept his cool and fought on.
“That was what I like about training: unpredictability.” Ash informed her with a big smile on his face - showing that he did not mind this challenge at all. Even though during some of them he caught a slider with his mitt hand while catching a pop fly with his bare hand.
“Don’t get too relaxed on me now, Ash. After all that was only catching. Now it is your turn to do the hitting.” Lola instructed while offering the bat to him. Not wasting a beat the human dropped his glove, raced over to her, and took said piece of sport’s equipment for himself.
“So, does this mean it is me against the machine?” Ash asked as he glared at the device before him since he had not forgotten when one of Team Rocket’s ball launcher’s nailed him in the face.
“`Fraid so, Ash, but don’t worry. I’ll be the catcher this time. The only restriction for this is not to hit it beyond the fence.” The PE teacher instructed which seemed like a strange request.
“Interesting challenge, but I’m up for it.” He said back to her and then got ready for the machine to do its thing. At first he did as she said ‘keep them inside the fence’ however the teacher, still armed with the remote, decided to see the full extent of this part of the test.
‘This ought to make him loose his cool.’ Lola thought as she adjusted the speed to maximum. The sad thing was that Ash, using the power of aura sight, saw her do something, and decided to go against her.
“I hope that she can forgive me.’ He muttered before hitting one near her left side which caused her to go after it: leaving her right exposed. With that done he slammed another sphere to her right hand: the one holding the controller causing it to shatter against the fence.
“Sorry. Sorry. I should have told you about the remote earlier.” The female bunny explained with a genuinely apologetic look on her face. The hero only shrugged back at her before replying with his own apology for destroying the remote to the machine that was now permanently off-line.
‘So much for completing this training.’ The monster tamer thought to himself while looking at the now collapsed heap of scrap.
“Don’t be so down, Ash. After all the last challenge is pitching, and we don’t need the machine for that.” Lola explained while carefully wheeling the down device away from the pitcher’s mound.
“Okay, so what is the object for this test?” The hero from another world questioned to her since all of these tests seemed rather unique to someone who doesn’t really fight on his own.
“It’s really simple. All you have to do is hit this wooden bulls eye marker square in the center, and no where else. You also can’t put too much heat on it otherwise the circle will snap in two.” The physical education teacher explained and he understood what she was getting at.
“I get it. Controlled strength and accuracy.” Ketchum responded back to her and really felt that this was all some sort of test for him, but decided not to say anything and just do it. With that said the hero threw and threw baseball after baseball - nailing the center dot every time, and none of them even cracked the wooden structure.
‘Man, he’s been going at this for an hour and a half with no stop and not getting angry at me or this exercise. I can’t believe it.’ The female woman thought to herself as she actually went to sleep, and woke at the sound of him doing as she said. “Alright, Ash, you can stop now.” She called out, and with that he did as she said before gripping his right shoulder.
“Thank you for the break. I didn’t know how much longer I could have lasted.” He admitted back to her causing the teacher to have a confused look on her face. “You never told me how many to throw or for how long, so I kept it up until you gave the word.” He explained to her with his usual honest tone.
‘Seriously, why doesn’t this guy have a girlfriend, yet.’ The bunny woman thought to herself, and decided to think of something else before Lola Dark could make her think of something. “How about we hit the showers and then hit the town?” She questioned to him, and received a nod as her answer. With nothing else needed to be said the two did just that.
“Whew! That was another great workout.” Ash shouted with great happiness as he let the hot water run down his back. “Sure wouldn’t get that kind of thrill back home.” Ash found himself admitting, but then felt sad that he would say such a thing about his home world. There was a part of him, however that liked these kind of adventures a bit better. ‘But…does that make me a bad person.’ He thought in a melancholy sort of way as he redressed and headed out the door.
‘He seems so sad for some reason.’ Lola thought to herself before speaking out, “Hey, Ash, let’s get going. How about a Lunch with some Mini Golf?” The bunny girl questioned with a soft voice. He heard her and it did sound like a reasonable offer.
“Sure, let’s do it, but only for fun, and not any kind of test.” Ash answered back to her which seemed to have surprised her. “I felt that you were testing me, but I have no idea why. Don’t worry; I don’t dislike you or anything, so don’t even think that. Okay?” Ketchum explained to her with that genuine smile that seemed to make everything better.
“Right. Let’s get going.” The bunny woman said back and with that the two of them headed out. As agreed their time at the mini golf course was for fun and fun. “You sure know the lay of the land.” The lightly furred female stated as Ash gave her advice on how to make it in with just two to three hits.
“Lately, I’ve been coming here with the Roches and the Flea Family.” The raven haired hero explained back to her, but that only confused his friend a bit. “Oh, I guess I never got around to tell anyone this, but they are all living with me in my house.” He explained to her, and she seemed to be okay with that.
“That was a great match, Ash. Come on. Let’s go get some chow.” The teacher for physical fitness offered while thumbing over to the connecting diner. The monster tamer nodded in acceptance, and rushed over there. The two ate, and again the toon was surprised at all that Ash could eat by himself. There was just one small hick up with the day.
“No. I insist, Lola. For treating me to such an exciting day, I insist to pay this bill.” Ash explained, and expressed sincere emotions in his statement. Moved by the words she accepted it, and after paying the two bid each other good day, and headed for home. There was just one thing still on the young rabbit woman’s mind.
‘Well, he passed all of my tests to be a big part of our gym team, but how will I convince the others?’ Lola thought as she laid on her couch staring up at the ceiling. It was then the hare glanced over at the coffee table and saw the flier about teacher against teacher hockey match with Perfecto Prep. The next day she would offer this plan to the others.
“I don’t know, Lola. Are you sure this isn’t just crush talk.” Bugs asked as he and the others were hanging out in the teacher’s lounge before the first bell ever rang while drinking a big glass of carrot juice. All of them heard her, but the gray furred one was a little suspicious.
“It may have been a little like that in the end, but I gave him a few tests, and he passed them all.” The female bunny explained back while admitting that she wanted some one on one time with Ash which she could tell that two others were not happy about that. She then tossed them the flier and they understood what she was getting at.
“Alright, let’s go talk it over with him.” The principal stated with a stern look on his face. With that said the lot of them waited until first bell sounded, and with that the bunny got on the loud speaker system. “Attention students, you will be having a mandatory study hall in your classes, but Ash Ketchum please report to the Teacher’s Lounge.” The message said causing a lot of the students to go with the usual ‘oohs and your in trouble’ lines which were easily ignored.
‘I wonder what could be the problem.’ The human thought to himself as he walked over to the teacher’s lounge for a talk of sorts. Even as he was walking the visitor from a foreign land could feel his guard beginning to rise. The hero stood before the selected room, and then carefully opened the door. “You wanted to see me.” He offered while walking inside.
“We heard that you are good at sports.” Porky informed Ash with his usual stutter in his comment.
“Yep. So, why do you need to know that?” Ketchum questioned as he continued to keep his guard up while eying them. He knew that they could be trusted, but judging by the way they were looking at him the trainer did not know any more.
“That’s good because we need someone to help us out with a Hockey match that we have against Perfecto Prep, and we all think that you might have the right stuff. We just need to put you through one final test, you…” Yosemite explained as he ended with his usual kid crack at the end.
“What is this test you guys have in mind?” The out of towner questioned to them with his voice seeming happier since he gets to train again. Without any warning the head rabbit grabbed a Hockey stick from the nearby closet, and tossed it to their friend.
“Show us what you’ve got.” The classic toon offered, but saw that the new guy was going to go for the watch, most likely going to call up an ice class to give them a rink to work with, so he quickly grabbed Ash’s right wrist, and said, “Don’t worry. We can take care of the rink part.” This confused the human for a moment, but considering what these guys could do he decided to sit back and watch.
‘Okay, Hockey, heard of it back home, read about it here, but never played it.’ Ash thought but knew that he had to give it his all since these guys believed in him so strongly. The group got to a rink, and began practicing. It took much practice for Ketchum to find balance with his blades, and even more to determine which position best fit him. After several hours the group knew which spot best fit him.
“Well, it took a while, but we’ve figured out which role you were meant for…Captain.” Bugs informed once their trials were over, and he handed Ash a pure white face mask.
“Are you sure about this? I mean I don’t think I did very good back there.” Ash questioned and reasoned that maybe the head toon should be the team leader.
“You did better than you give yourself credit for. The thing is a team mostly has a total of six, so it’s up to you to decide which of us is going to help you out.” The gray furred one informed and with that the hero gave it some thought before coming up with his answer.
“Are you sure we could win with just those few?” Lola questioned and was a little concerned about the ones that he picked out. For an answer he only smiled at her causing them to realize that he had a reason for choosing those particular teachers. That weekend was their match, or at least the first part of their match with Perfecto Prep.
“Okay, you guys know what we usually do - a match with our elite to see if you can actually take us on.” The leader of the Perfecto Prep staff explained and the masked one nodded in acceptance. “These guys have forgotten how to use toon tricks, so we expect you to do the same.” He ordered and the Acme Looniversity was about to retort in a rude way, but their leader cut them to the quick.
“That won’t be a problem. So, where are your elite hockey players?” The masked man asked as he looked around. The only answer that he got was a pointing finger to the rink behind them. Within skated several brawlik looking guys in purple uniforms, and seemed to be more like thugs than respected players of this sport. Shrugging it off the group walked down to the rink to get ready themselves.
‘Maybe having Ash as our leader wasn’t such a good idea.’ Taz thought to himself as he glanced over and saw how mean looking they were. Ignoring that the group did as they intended, and got ready. Halfway through Lola could have sworn that she head all of the seats filling with people.
‘Their a bit early.’ The female bunny thought before putting on the rest of her uniform. Once that was done the group went out, and just as her hearing was right Perfecto Prep’s stadium was filled to the brim with spectators.
‘The one in the mask must be the one I’ve been observing.’ A man in the stands thought, and decided to continue his watching of this visitor’s progress. The Acme Looniversity came onto the ice, and the hero of them decided to be nice to them.
“How about a nice, friendly game.” The goalie offered to them with a genuine tone of voice. The elite was having no compassion about it since they had heard of Ash, and wanted to make an example of such a good guy.
“Sure, it’ll be a pleasure to smear you all over the ice.” The leader of the Perfecto Prep elite said back with a gruff tone of voice. The others didn’t see the harm in his words, so they took their position and got ready to play.
‘I am so going to get this.’ Daffy thought as he stood ready, but before the mallard could do anything the puck was taken from him and was trampled over. Tina had her legs swept from under her as she tried to go after them. Bugs tried his luck but was ruefully slammed into the boards; which he was not surprised that they did that. Taz, was tackled by three members, and pinned down.
‘Hmm, That’s not very sporting.’ Ash thought but stood ready before hearing the sound of scrapping, and saw that his net was moved. The young man tried to stop it, but was tackled to the ice for his trouble, and the elite score a point.
“This isn’t Hockey. It’s a demolition derby.” Lola, who decided to hang back and watch it unfold, informed the others as they all skated to their leader.
“I say we give these left behind students some major payback.” The male duck of the group informed to the others.
“I’m with you, Daffy, but we’ll do it by the book.” Ash informed them that he was all for it. His tone suggested that he still wanted them to play fair with these guys. That is what they did: Lola effortlessly stealing the puck from the elite, and went on her way.
“Bad little boys. Shouldn’t play with sticks.” The male bunny informed another student as he blocked a high sticking blow that was meant for his fellow rabbit. Back with the puck Lola passed it to Tina. The brown haired one in question dove under a pair of men that tried a sandwich tactic before tossing it to her fellow duck - Daffy Duck.
“Cover me, Taz-Man.” The black feathered one said as he charged the puck right to the enemy’s net. The brown furred one heard and understood what was needed of him. The three kept at him since they believed that he wouldn’t have the weight to knock them down - they were wrong.
‘With Hockey, all things are possible.’ The devil thought to himself as he casually continued to skate. With a bit of tag team the Looniversity was able to score themselves a point. With that Acme Looniversity found their groove and went with it: winning this prologue to their real fight rather quickly with a little help from an air hockey play Lola had been working on.
“We'll give you about thirty minutes to rest up and then the real fight begins.” The leader of the staff informed and felt that they deserved that much. After seeing that this other toon team worked well without toon logic Perfecto Prep teachers thought that it would be best to try it without their usual tricks.
‘Good. He fought on without going down to their level.’ A man in the audience thought to himself as he watched this first round and saw that he didn’t really get angry at their ploys. The man, along with everyone else, took a rest for those thirty minutes as well, and was awarded the main event with Teachers vs. Teachers.
‘Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to take these guys on with Ash on their team.’ The captain of the Perfecto Prep team thought after more then halfway of the match. It was closing, and his team was losing. Sadly they were far from giving in as the leader made a shot to end the tie before the buzzer sounded, but just like with several shots it was blocked by Ash Ketchum. Another one of his men tried, but was stopped by Lola without any effort on her part.
‘Ah, I just love the look of awe when I just steal the puck right in mid-fly.’ Bugs thought as he did as he thought, and stole the puck before it could get to the enemy. Wasting no effort the bunny passed it over to Tina who did have a high level of smarts even though she did not mean to boast. The female duck felt someone behind her, and after giving a three count she stopped causing her pursuer to fly over her out of alarm.
‘Become one with the boards.’ The devil thought as he saw three of them have their puck, so he decided to show off why he is the muscle of their hockey team. He took it, shot it, but was denied. It was then that the second best toon quoted a famous actor before taking the shot, and nailed it.
‘That wasn’t bad at all.’ The person in the stands thought before walking off since the match was over. The man decided to go to the other activity that was bound to have Ash there as well. After a heartfelt shake hands of good sportsmanship the Acme Looniversity teachers and Ash went out for a party.
“Okay, I’ve had fun with the whole Hockey thing, but I am really happy about this after competition party.” Ash informed the rest of his team while chowing down on the sixth slice of his pizza. They continued that until the air changed into something colder as Perfecto Prep came walking in.
“Listen, Looniversity, we’re sorry about the way we were acting when you all showed up. It was unprofessional of us. The one main thing that we were hoping was that Ash could sign a few autographs and that you would take a few alien photos with us.” The leader, an elk, informed them, and not feeling any bad vibes come from these people Ash just smiled at them.
“Sure, I would love to do that. You guys can even eat and drink with us.” Ketchum offered to them while motioning over to all of the pizzas, chips, and sodas at the table. They all nodded in agreement, and with that their fun began: asking him to transform to almost all of his forms, signing just about anything that they gave him, and even let the students of Perfecto Prep meet him; the ones that were about Buster and Babs age. However some of the kids did not like how things went with the teachers this day.
‘They may have gotten off easy because Ash was around, but I bet they won’t be that lucky with our methods for that Competitive Presidential Fitness Test.” The male rodent muttered to his buddies. Sadly, for him, Ash was Eye Guy at the time, and that form had very good ears.
“Sorry to cut and run, guys. I just think I should check in on my roommates. I’ll see you later.” The multi optic man informed before walking out of the restaurant, and to home. Once there he said his hellos and went to work constructing safety measures to counter those kids tricks. By the next Monday at school Ketchum had all that he needed, and showed it to the teachers which they accepted.
“We’ll use this stuff discreetly, kid.” Bugs informed before walking off to meet up with the others. Since that was all that he had for them Ketchum attended his classes as normal. Halfway through, however, there was an emergency assembly issued for all students.
“Great, what did you do now, Buster.” The pink hare stated in accused tone to her fellow bunny as they all walked in since when it came to something like this it had to deal with a prank that went too far.
“I didn’t do anything, Babs. Maybe its some sort of award for the good student.” The blue hare responded back to her as he thumbed to the hero in question. The visitor knew that the long eared one was referring to him, but Ketchum already knew what it was about.
‘I hope my teachers here have a good idea about who to use.’ The monster shifter thought as he took a seat in the back of the gym, due to his height to prevent a wall to anyone smaller then him sitting behind him.
“I say, I, I say class. We have an announcement.” Foghorn shouted out to all of them as he stood on a podium before explaining things. It was just as Ash thought, it was about the event that the Perfecto Prep student was speaking of, and that the teachers of that school had barred the use of toon tricks at this competition.
“No problem. Just send in Studio Handy-Man and we got this in the bag.” The green feathered one called out while thumbing up at the hero of this and his natural world. The man in question stood, and looked around - hearing their chatter that it was the easiest plan.
“No.” Ash called out causing all to look up at him with confusion. “Winning by the power of the Ultimatrix would only prove that Acme Looniversity is lazy and unworthy of any kind of prize at the end of all of this.” Ketchum explained to them while staying true to the path that he has had since the very start of his journey. “If they aren’t going to use toon logic then we won’t as well, and to prove that we are worthy of these wins I won’t use my watch at all.” He went on with his explanation which touched them all.
“If you feel that strongly about it, doc. Then what do you suggest?” Bugs Bunny questioned, and it was then that Ash realized that he got played yet again. The human sucked it up, and went with their ploy.
“First off: we sort of use the same tactic that we did back at the Hockey Rink - a balanced team. Since you teachers know these students better than me than I will let you decide who to be with us on the front lines, and who will be with us in spirit.” Ketchum said to them, and the other teachers nodded in acceptance.
“You got it, but we’ll test them while you relax somewhere else. After that Hockey game I think you could use a break.” The gray furred one informed which was answered back with a nod of his own.
“Right. Don’t make the tests too difficult. After all we need these in fighting shape by next week.” Ash pointed out before walking down the stairs of the bleachers, and headed out the door.
“Alright. Welcome to some serious boot camp, students.” Lola informed them while cracking her knuckles with a happy, to her, look on her face while everyone younger then her immediately felt a cold shiver run down their spins. With nothing else needed to be said the testing began, and the teachers started to make their selection. By the end of the current week the ones best suited for the tasks have been selected.
“Are you sure about this, Bugs. I mean without toon tricks I don’t think these kids will have what it takes.” The rival to the senior bunny whispered as he looked at the selected ones.
“Don’t worry. You know that the scores depend on a group effort not individuals.” The principal reminded his old rival of that little twist. “Besides, they will still have a ‘powerless’ one to defer to.” The long eared one added causing some relief to flow into the teacher.
“Well, if I was able to help out my Warner Brother Studios team with their sports problems then I know that I can help out with theirs as well.” Ash said aloud at his house since he had been using this week to relax with his insect friends and train for this event.
“I’m sure you are going to do just fine, Ash. Just have a little faith.” Maggie said in a sincere tone which Ash looked down and smiled since those words did mean a lot to him. Soon it was time for their matches against Perfecto Prep and both sides were ready.
“Our first challenge will be: Weight lifting.” A referee announced to all of the visitors which one in particular was the man from the rink along with other stops. Just as they planned Perfecto Prep tried their cheating ways, but Ash’s tech factor was one step ahead of them. For this event Daffy wore a pair of weight scanning sunglasses, and texted the information to Tina who was wearing an inviso-cloak: with it she changed the balloon weights the PP students were using with genuine weights. With the change complete the PP team did not pass, but the score was still fairly good.
“Good going, team.” Bugs thought with a smile on his face.
“We’ve got to talk to our principal about this. I mean, come on bowling was the first he thought of for us to do. Lame!” The female rodent informed her male counterpart. Again their cheating was stopped by Ash’s tech: Wile ‘playing’ a game on a DS, and Bugs accidentally tripping and spilling his soda all over Perfecto Prep’s mechanical bowling balls. Ketchum himself was starting to understand why he had to play those sports with Lola.
“Gymnastics: I can definitely do this.” Fifi muttered to herself as she went to work. The opposing team tried their cheating ways, but they were stopped again. This time my a magnet device with an MP3 shell to disprupt their tech and X-Ray specs on Sylvester so that his bulldog opponent knew where to aim.
‘Horseshoes was definitely an interesting choice.’ Ash thought as he held the item that ordinarily reserved only for Ponyta and Rapidash. It did have a good weight behind it, and knew which tech pieces the others were going to use. By now the Perfecto Prep realized that someone spilled the beans of their cheating ways, so this time they decided to play it fair. Surprisingly they got closer than they ever have in the past three events. Even though Acme Looniversity won it was a really close match this time.
“This is the final event. A Relay Race.” Lola informed the others as by now the teachers were now able to just sit back and relax since the Perfecto Prep students have given up trying to sabotage their students. The race was that of Little Beeper, Buster, and Ash against the rodents and an ostrich. Even without XLR8 or Fasttrack Ketchum proved that he was indeed won the race with just the tip of his shoe. With that their event ended with Acme Acres winning by just one point which did inspire some happiness from Perfecto Prep since they did give it their all at the end.
‘He is what I am looking for. There still seems to be a minor problem to deal with though.’ A man leaving with the crowd thought to himself. He was now more than ever determined to make this man a member of a team he was working on due to seeing: his strength, control, agility, accuracy, and speed during those five events.
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The young bunny PE teacher had been thinking of their upcoming match with their main rival school - Perfecto Prep, and knew that there was only one way to really put them in their place. ‘Where is he?’ She thought while walking all over the school, but could not seem to find her target. Eventually the long eared one heard his voice come from the nurse’s station.
“No problem. I’m always happy to help, Ms. Petunia since I know how scary it is to get a shot.” The raven haired wanderer said to the young pig woman after helping one of his students with getting a shot. The two said their good-byes, and he was about to leave the school grounds until a voice was heard.
“Finally! There you are, Ash.” The voice called out causing Ash to look around and saw the source being his Physical Education teacher, who was racing right up to him. The young rabbit seemed to be wearing a smile on her face so the hero knew that there was nothing wrong, but he always felt compelled to ask.
“What is it, Lola? Is there something I can help you with?” He asked while holding a look of great concern on his face. The Pallet Town protector was grateful that her smile was still there, so there was no danger to be heard about.
“Nothing major. I was just wondering if you would be up for playing a few sports with me?” She asked politely after catching her breath. He thought about it and after remembering that she is the PE teacher, which to him meant that she was good at all the sports, and that meant that she would be a worthy opponent for him.
“Sure. I would like to go a few rounds with you.” He said to her which made her happy that he was up for this little challenge. “What sports do you have in mind?” He asked since back at the Warner Brother’s studio he tried to master all of them.
“It’s a surprise. Just meet me at the school gym in about fifteen minutes.” She instructed to him which he nodded in agreement. With that the two parted ways, and after those fifteen minutes were up Ketchum entered the gym.
“I have come as you have asked, Lola. So, what sport will we be playing?” Ash asked to an empty room, but received no answer. “Is anyone here?” He shouted out, and again no answer. Feeling that he got played thee hero turned to leave. As soon as his hand was on the door handle he heard a nose - the bouncing of a Basketball bouncing.
“Sorry about the wait, Ash. It took me a while to find my old team outfit.” The female hare explained as she walked out in full Basketball playing gear. I’ll let you get changed and then we’ll start the first of three challenges.” She informed which he nodded to and left do to just that.
‘I wonder what kind of challenges I can expect from her.’ The shape shifter thought as he swapped out to his PE clothes, and headed to the court to face her in Basketball.
“Good. Those clothes will make sure that you give it your all. After all I want you at your best before I take you down.” Lola proclaimed to him which caused the other to smile out of excitement since he liked it when his opponent was this excited for a fight.
“I won’t lose. I am more than happy to take on any challenge.” Ash shouted back to her not knowing that Lola Dark heard this and gave the rest of her some very…enticing images between her and him. Such thoughts were swept under the run when he spoke again, “So, what’s the story? How are we going to do this challenge?” She shook her head to get those thoughts out before answering him.
“Simple this first challenge is to score a hundred Basketball points first.” She said and with that the game began with the two of them showing great speed in this challenge. The female bunny was impressed with all of the half court, lay-ups, and three pointer shots, but she was giving it her all as well.
“That was one heck of a match, Lola, but I won.” Ash said after taking several deep breaths to try to calm down his heart after a well earned victory. The two took some time before the next challenge with several bottles of water.
“I know that it was, but I’m just a little disappointed in myself to have been done in by a simple free throw shot.” The cream colored woman admitted while shaking her head in defeat. He saw that she was genuinely upset so he comforted her with a pat on the shoulder.
“As I said it was a hard fought victory. I could sense that you were giving it your all, and that’s all I ever want out of my opponent.” He explained to her, and that is what she already knew of him due to the stories that he had told to the studio which in turned shared with them.
“Once our stomachs calm down I hope your ready for the next challenge - Boxing.” She informed him which immediately got his attention since, thanks to his dad, knew a thing or two about that sport.
‘I am impressed that she has been fighting me fairly, and not used any of the toon tricks I have been learning here.’ Ash thought, and was glad that she was taking this honorably. After thirty more minutes the young bunny woman pressed a button on the wall and a boxing ring rose from the floor.
“Let’s deal with this challenge - shall we.” The PE teacher stated which the human eagerly accepted. Once the added gear was on she decided to tell him the rules for this one.
“The stakes for this is simple. All you have to do is survive twenty rounds in the ring with me.” She informed which Ketchum nodded, and judging by the fierce warrior spirit he sensed coming from her it was not going to be an easy fight.
“Bring it on.” The out of towner proclaimed as the two of them stood ready, and with the assistance of a toon bell their match began. In the beginning the bunny girl thought that this was going to be a somewhat easy fight since Ash only knew how to shout out orders back home, so he wouldn’t be a very good hands on type; she was inherently wrong about this.
‘Maybe I should have thought of a different test for agility.’ Lola thought as she was genuinely surprised with how he was doing in the ring. The young man fighting her was either dodging the blows she swung or slamming his fists into hers.
‘Good thing I kept on training with what dad left me every night when I started my journey.’ Ash thought as he survived ten rounds with her and the two were currently resting a bit before starting with the other ten.
“Well, he really passed this test. I just have one more and I am convinced.” She muttered to herself after the other ten matches came and went. Once they were done the two took another long break to catch their breaths.
“Okay, Lola, you’ve challenged me as a Basketball player and as a boxer; what is the next sport?” He asked while slamming both fists into one another - showing that he was excited to go for another test.
“I know that you’ve done it with the Warner Brothers studio, but I was wondering if you still had skills in the way of Baseball?” The female hare asked with a gentle smile, and just like that Ash smiled brightly back at her since he wanted to try another go with that sport.
“You got it. What kind of thing do you want to test me on because I think that that sport is built for more than one player.” Ketchum reminded her with his index finger and thumb rubbing his chin.
“That it is, Ash. However there are only three chosen fields that I’m interested in: pitching, catching, and hitting.” She informed back at him which confused the hero since those were basically the aspects of the game itself.
“So, alphabetically I supposes Catching is the first to be tested?” He asked as he already saw her walking outside with a Baseball laucncher rolling right behind her. Taking the hint the hero raced after the hare where she was already getting everything set up.
“That’s it Ash. I’m going to be sending you some pop flies or grounders, and if you survive fifty shots then we‘ll move onto the next challenge” She informed her friend.
“Sounds like an interesting challenge. I’m in.” The human explained before picking up a catcher’s mitt, and get ready on his end. With him ready the machine activated and the balls came flying or sliding in his direction.
‘Time to try something new with him.’ Lola thought as at random moments remotely changed the speed of the machine from slow to fast or the amount of Baseballs fired. Despite that moment Ketchum kept his cool and fought on.
“That was what I like about training: unpredictability.” Ash informed her with a big smile on his face - showing that he did not mind this challenge at all. Even though during some of them he caught a slider with his mitt hand while catching a pop fly with his bare hand.
“Don’t get too relaxed on me now, Ash. After all that was only catching. Now it is your turn to do the hitting.” Lola instructed while offering the bat to him. Not wasting a beat the human dropped his glove, raced over to her, and took said piece of sport’s equipment for himself.
“So, does this mean it is me against the machine?” Ash asked as he glared at the device before him since he had not forgotten when one of Team Rocket’s ball launcher’s nailed him in the face.
“`Fraid so, Ash, but don’t worry. I’ll be the catcher this time. The only restriction for this is not to hit it beyond the fence.” The PE teacher instructed which seemed like a strange request.
“Interesting challenge, but I’m up for it.” He said back to her and then got ready for the machine to do its thing. At first he did as she said ‘keep them inside the fence’ however the teacher, still armed with the remote, decided to see the full extent of this part of the test.
‘This ought to make him loose his cool.’ Lola thought as she adjusted the speed to maximum. The sad thing was that Ash, using the power of aura sight, saw her do something, and decided to go against her.
“I hope that she can forgive me.’ He muttered before hitting one near her left side which caused her to go after it: leaving her right exposed. With that done he slammed another sphere to her right hand: the one holding the controller causing it to shatter against the fence.
“Sorry. Sorry. I should have told you about the remote earlier.” The female bunny explained with a genuinely apologetic look on her face. The hero only shrugged back at her before replying with his own apology for destroying the remote to the machine that was now permanently off-line.
‘So much for completing this training.’ The monster tamer thought to himself while looking at the now collapsed heap of scrap.
“Don’t be so down, Ash. After all the last challenge is pitching, and we don’t need the machine for that.” Lola explained while carefully wheeling the down device away from the pitcher’s mound.
“Okay, so what is the object for this test?” The hero from another world questioned to her since all of these tests seemed rather unique to someone who doesn’t really fight on his own.
“It’s really simple. All you have to do is hit this wooden bulls eye marker square in the center, and no where else. You also can’t put too much heat on it otherwise the circle will snap in two.” The physical education teacher explained and he understood what she was getting at.
“I get it. Controlled strength and accuracy.” Ketchum responded back to her and really felt that this was all some sort of test for him, but decided not to say anything and just do it. With that said the hero threw and threw baseball after baseball - nailing the center dot every time, and none of them even cracked the wooden structure.
‘Man, he’s been going at this for an hour and a half with no stop and not getting angry at me or this exercise. I can’t believe it.’ The female woman thought to herself as she actually went to sleep, and woke at the sound of him doing as she said. “Alright, Ash, you can stop now.” She called out, and with that he did as she said before gripping his right shoulder.
“Thank you for the break. I didn’t know how much longer I could have lasted.” He admitted back to her causing the teacher to have a confused look on her face. “You never told me how many to throw or for how long, so I kept it up until you gave the word.” He explained to her with his usual honest tone.
‘Seriously, why doesn’t this guy have a girlfriend, yet.’ The bunny woman thought to herself, and decided to think of something else before Lola Dark could make her think of something. “How about we hit the showers and then hit the town?” She questioned to him, and received a nod as her answer. With nothing else needed to be said the two did just that.
“Whew! That was another great workout.” Ash shouted with great happiness as he let the hot water run down his back. “Sure wouldn’t get that kind of thrill back home.” Ash found himself admitting, but then felt sad that he would say such a thing about his home world. There was a part of him, however that liked these kind of adventures a bit better. ‘But…does that make me a bad person.’ He thought in a melancholy sort of way as he redressed and headed out the door.
‘He seems so sad for some reason.’ Lola thought to herself before speaking out, “Hey, Ash, let’s get going. How about a Lunch with some Mini Golf?” The bunny girl questioned with a soft voice. He heard her and it did sound like a reasonable offer.
“Sure, let’s do it, but only for fun, and not any kind of test.” Ash answered back to her which seemed to have surprised her. “I felt that you were testing me, but I have no idea why. Don’t worry; I don’t dislike you or anything, so don’t even think that. Okay?” Ketchum explained to her with that genuine smile that seemed to make everything better.
“Right. Let’s get going.” The bunny woman said back and with that the two of them headed out. As agreed their time at the mini golf course was for fun and fun. “You sure know the lay of the land.” The lightly furred female stated as Ash gave her advice on how to make it in with just two to three hits.
“Lately, I’ve been coming here with the Roches and the Flea Family.” The raven haired hero explained back to her, but that only confused his friend a bit. “Oh, I guess I never got around to tell anyone this, but they are all living with me in my house.” He explained to her, and she seemed to be okay with that.
“That was a great match, Ash. Come on. Let’s go get some chow.” The teacher for physical fitness offered while thumbing over to the connecting diner. The monster tamer nodded in acceptance, and rushed over there. The two ate, and again the toon was surprised at all that Ash could eat by himself. There was just one small hick up with the day.
“No. I insist, Lola. For treating me to such an exciting day, I insist to pay this bill.” Ash explained, and expressed sincere emotions in his statement. Moved by the words she accepted it, and after paying the two bid each other good day, and headed for home. There was just one thing still on the young rabbit woman’s mind.
‘Well, he passed all of my tests to be a big part of our gym team, but how will I convince the others?’ Lola thought as she laid on her couch staring up at the ceiling. It was then the hare glanced over at the coffee table and saw the flier about teacher against teacher hockey match with Perfecto Prep. The next day she would offer this plan to the others.
“I don’t know, Lola. Are you sure this isn’t just crush talk.” Bugs asked as he and the others were hanging out in the teacher’s lounge before the first bell ever rang while drinking a big glass of carrot juice. All of them heard her, but the gray furred one was a little suspicious.
“It may have been a little like that in the end, but I gave him a few tests, and he passed them all.” The female bunny explained back while admitting that she wanted some one on one time with Ash which she could tell that two others were not happy about that. She then tossed them the flier and they understood what she was getting at.
“Alright, let’s go talk it over with him.” The principal stated with a stern look on his face. With that said the lot of them waited until first bell sounded, and with that the bunny got on the loud speaker system. “Attention students, you will be having a mandatory study hall in your classes, but Ash Ketchum please report to the Teacher’s Lounge.” The message said causing a lot of the students to go with the usual ‘oohs and your in trouble’ lines which were easily ignored.
‘I wonder what could be the problem.’ The human thought to himself as he walked over to the teacher’s lounge for a talk of sorts. Even as he was walking the visitor from a foreign land could feel his guard beginning to rise. The hero stood before the selected room, and then carefully opened the door. “You wanted to see me.” He offered while walking inside.
“We heard that you are good at sports.” Porky informed Ash with his usual stutter in his comment.
“Yep. So, why do you need to know that?” Ketchum questioned as he continued to keep his guard up while eying them. He knew that they could be trusted, but judging by the way they were looking at him the trainer did not know any more.
“That’s good because we need someone to help us out with a Hockey match that we have against Perfecto Prep, and we all think that you might have the right stuff. We just need to put you through one final test, you…” Yosemite explained as he ended with his usual kid crack at the end.
“What is this test you guys have in mind?” The out of towner questioned to them with his voice seeming happier since he gets to train again. Without any warning the head rabbit grabbed a Hockey stick from the nearby closet, and tossed it to their friend.
“Show us what you’ve got.” The classic toon offered, but saw that the new guy was going to go for the watch, most likely going to call up an ice class to give them a rink to work with, so he quickly grabbed Ash’s right wrist, and said, “Don’t worry. We can take care of the rink part.” This confused the human for a moment, but considering what these guys could do he decided to sit back and watch.
‘Okay, Hockey, heard of it back home, read about it here, but never played it.’ Ash thought but knew that he had to give it his all since these guys believed in him so strongly. The group got to a rink, and began practicing. It took much practice for Ketchum to find balance with his blades, and even more to determine which position best fit him. After several hours the group knew which spot best fit him.
“Well, it took a while, but we’ve figured out which role you were meant for…Captain.” Bugs informed once their trials were over, and he handed Ash a pure white face mask.
“Are you sure about this? I mean I don’t think I did very good back there.” Ash questioned and reasoned that maybe the head toon should be the team leader.
“You did better than you give yourself credit for. The thing is a team mostly has a total of six, so it’s up to you to decide which of us is going to help you out.” The gray furred one informed and with that the hero gave it some thought before coming up with his answer.
“Are you sure we could win with just those few?” Lola questioned and was a little concerned about the ones that he picked out. For an answer he only smiled at her causing them to realize that he had a reason for choosing those particular teachers. That weekend was their match, or at least the first part of their match with Perfecto Prep.
“Okay, you guys know what we usually do - a match with our elite to see if you can actually take us on.” The leader of the Perfecto Prep staff explained and the masked one nodded in acceptance. “These guys have forgotten how to use toon tricks, so we expect you to do the same.” He ordered and the Acme Looniversity was about to retort in a rude way, but their leader cut them to the quick.
“That won’t be a problem. So, where are your elite hockey players?” The masked man asked as he looked around. The only answer that he got was a pointing finger to the rink behind them. Within skated several brawlik looking guys in purple uniforms, and seemed to be more like thugs than respected players of this sport. Shrugging it off the group walked down to the rink to get ready themselves.
‘Maybe having Ash as our leader wasn’t such a good idea.’ Taz thought to himself as he glanced over and saw how mean looking they were. Ignoring that the group did as they intended, and got ready. Halfway through Lola could have sworn that she head all of the seats filling with people.
‘Their a bit early.’ The female bunny thought before putting on the rest of her uniform. Once that was done the group went out, and just as her hearing was right Perfecto Prep’s stadium was filled to the brim with spectators.
‘The one in the mask must be the one I’ve been observing.’ A man in the stands thought, and decided to continue his watching of this visitor’s progress. The Acme Looniversity came onto the ice, and the hero of them decided to be nice to them.
“How about a nice, friendly game.” The goalie offered to them with a genuine tone of voice. The elite was having no compassion about it since they had heard of Ash, and wanted to make an example of such a good guy.
“Sure, it’ll be a pleasure to smear you all over the ice.” The leader of the Perfecto Prep elite said back with a gruff tone of voice. The others didn’t see the harm in his words, so they took their position and got ready to play.
‘I am so going to get this.’ Daffy thought as he stood ready, but before the mallard could do anything the puck was taken from him and was trampled over. Tina had her legs swept from under her as she tried to go after them. Bugs tried his luck but was ruefully slammed into the boards; which he was not surprised that they did that. Taz, was tackled by three members, and pinned down.
‘Hmm, That’s not very sporting.’ Ash thought but stood ready before hearing the sound of scrapping, and saw that his net was moved. The young man tried to stop it, but was tackled to the ice for his trouble, and the elite score a point.
“This isn’t Hockey. It’s a demolition derby.” Lola, who decided to hang back and watch it unfold, informed the others as they all skated to their leader.
“I say we give these left behind students some major payback.” The male duck of the group informed to the others.
“I’m with you, Daffy, but we’ll do it by the book.” Ash informed them that he was all for it. His tone suggested that he still wanted them to play fair with these guys. That is what they did: Lola effortlessly stealing the puck from the elite, and went on her way.
“Bad little boys. Shouldn’t play with sticks.” The male bunny informed another student as he blocked a high sticking blow that was meant for his fellow rabbit. Back with the puck Lola passed it to Tina. The brown haired one in question dove under a pair of men that tried a sandwich tactic before tossing it to her fellow duck - Daffy Duck.
“Cover me, Taz-Man.” The black feathered one said as he charged the puck right to the enemy’s net. The brown furred one heard and understood what was needed of him. The three kept at him since they believed that he wouldn’t have the weight to knock them down - they were wrong.
‘With Hockey, all things are possible.’ The devil thought to himself as he casually continued to skate. With a bit of tag team the Looniversity was able to score themselves a point. With that Acme Looniversity found their groove and went with it: winning this prologue to their real fight rather quickly with a little help from an air hockey play Lola had been working on.
“We'll give you about thirty minutes to rest up and then the real fight begins.” The leader of the staff informed and felt that they deserved that much. After seeing that this other toon team worked well without toon logic Perfecto Prep teachers thought that it would be best to try it without their usual tricks.
‘Good. He fought on without going down to their level.’ A man in the audience thought to himself as he watched this first round and saw that he didn’t really get angry at their ploys. The man, along with everyone else, took a rest for those thirty minutes as well, and was awarded the main event with Teachers vs. Teachers.
‘Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to take these guys on with Ash on their team.’ The captain of the Perfecto Prep team thought after more then halfway of the match. It was closing, and his team was losing. Sadly they were far from giving in as the leader made a shot to end the tie before the buzzer sounded, but just like with several shots it was blocked by Ash Ketchum. Another one of his men tried, but was stopped by Lola without any effort on her part.
‘Ah, I just love the look of awe when I just steal the puck right in mid-fly.’ Bugs thought as he did as he thought, and stole the puck before it could get to the enemy. Wasting no effort the bunny passed it over to Tina who did have a high level of smarts even though she did not mean to boast. The female duck felt someone behind her, and after giving a three count she stopped causing her pursuer to fly over her out of alarm.
‘Become one with the boards.’ The devil thought as he saw three of them have their puck, so he decided to show off why he is the muscle of their hockey team. He took it, shot it, but was denied. It was then that the second best toon quoted a famous actor before taking the shot, and nailed it.
‘That wasn’t bad at all.’ The person in the stands thought before walking off since the match was over. The man decided to go to the other activity that was bound to have Ash there as well. After a heartfelt shake hands of good sportsmanship the Acme Looniversity teachers and Ash went out for a party.
“Okay, I’ve had fun with the whole Hockey thing, but I am really happy about this after competition party.” Ash informed the rest of his team while chowing down on the sixth slice of his pizza. They continued that until the air changed into something colder as Perfecto Prep came walking in.
“Listen, Looniversity, we’re sorry about the way we were acting when you all showed up. It was unprofessional of us. The one main thing that we were hoping was that Ash could sign a few autographs and that you would take a few alien photos with us.” The leader, an elk, informed them, and not feeling any bad vibes come from these people Ash just smiled at them.
“Sure, I would love to do that. You guys can even eat and drink with us.” Ketchum offered to them while motioning over to all of the pizzas, chips, and sodas at the table. They all nodded in agreement, and with that their fun began: asking him to transform to almost all of his forms, signing just about anything that they gave him, and even let the students of Perfecto Prep meet him; the ones that were about Buster and Babs age. However some of the kids did not like how things went with the teachers this day.
‘They may have gotten off easy because Ash was around, but I bet they won’t be that lucky with our methods for that Competitive Presidential Fitness Test.” The male rodent muttered to his buddies. Sadly, for him, Ash was Eye Guy at the time, and that form had very good ears.
“Sorry to cut and run, guys. I just think I should check in on my roommates. I’ll see you later.” The multi optic man informed before walking out of the restaurant, and to home. Once there he said his hellos and went to work constructing safety measures to counter those kids tricks. By the next Monday at school Ketchum had all that he needed, and showed it to the teachers which they accepted.
“We’ll use this stuff discreetly, kid.” Bugs informed before walking off to meet up with the others. Since that was all that he had for them Ketchum attended his classes as normal. Halfway through, however, there was an emergency assembly issued for all students.
“Great, what did you do now, Buster.” The pink hare stated in accused tone to her fellow bunny as they all walked in since when it came to something like this it had to deal with a prank that went too far.
“I didn’t do anything, Babs. Maybe its some sort of award for the good student.” The blue hare responded back to her as he thumbed to the hero in question. The visitor knew that the long eared one was referring to him, but Ketchum already knew what it was about.
‘I hope my teachers here have a good idea about who to use.’ The monster shifter thought as he took a seat in the back of the gym, due to his height to prevent a wall to anyone smaller then him sitting behind him.
“I say, I, I say class. We have an announcement.” Foghorn shouted out to all of them as he stood on a podium before explaining things. It was just as Ash thought, it was about the event that the Perfecto Prep student was speaking of, and that the teachers of that school had barred the use of toon tricks at this competition.
“No problem. Just send in Studio Handy-Man and we got this in the bag.” The green feathered one called out while thumbing up at the hero of this and his natural world. The man in question stood, and looked around - hearing their chatter that it was the easiest plan.
“No.” Ash called out causing all to look up at him with confusion. “Winning by the power of the Ultimatrix would only prove that Acme Looniversity is lazy and unworthy of any kind of prize at the end of all of this.” Ketchum explained to them while staying true to the path that he has had since the very start of his journey. “If they aren’t going to use toon logic then we won’t as well, and to prove that we are worthy of these wins I won’t use my watch at all.” He went on with his explanation which touched them all.
“If you feel that strongly about it, doc. Then what do you suggest?” Bugs Bunny questioned, and it was then that Ash realized that he got played yet again. The human sucked it up, and went with their ploy.
“First off: we sort of use the same tactic that we did back at the Hockey Rink - a balanced team. Since you teachers know these students better than me than I will let you decide who to be with us on the front lines, and who will be with us in spirit.” Ketchum said to them, and the other teachers nodded in acceptance.
“You got it, but we’ll test them while you relax somewhere else. After that Hockey game I think you could use a break.” The gray furred one informed which was answered back with a nod of his own.
“Right. Don’t make the tests too difficult. After all we need these in fighting shape by next week.” Ash pointed out before walking down the stairs of the bleachers, and headed out the door.
“Alright. Welcome to some serious boot camp, students.” Lola informed them while cracking her knuckles with a happy, to her, look on her face while everyone younger then her immediately felt a cold shiver run down their spins. With nothing else needed to be said the testing began, and the teachers started to make their selection. By the end of the current week the ones best suited for the tasks have been selected.
“Are you sure about this, Bugs. I mean without toon tricks I don’t think these kids will have what it takes.” The rival to the senior bunny whispered as he looked at the selected ones.
“Don’t worry. You know that the scores depend on a group effort not individuals.” The principal reminded his old rival of that little twist. “Besides, they will still have a ‘powerless’ one to defer to.” The long eared one added causing some relief to flow into the teacher.
“Well, if I was able to help out my Warner Brother Studios team with their sports problems then I know that I can help out with theirs as well.” Ash said aloud at his house since he had been using this week to relax with his insect friends and train for this event.
“I’m sure you are going to do just fine, Ash. Just have a little faith.” Maggie said in a sincere tone which Ash looked down and smiled since those words did mean a lot to him. Soon it was time for their matches against Perfecto Prep and both sides were ready.
“Our first challenge will be: Weight lifting.” A referee announced to all of the visitors which one in particular was the man from the rink along with other stops. Just as they planned Perfecto Prep tried their cheating ways, but Ash’s tech factor was one step ahead of them. For this event Daffy wore a pair of weight scanning sunglasses, and texted the information to Tina who was wearing an inviso-cloak: with it she changed the balloon weights the PP students were using with genuine weights. With the change complete the PP team did not pass, but the score was still fairly good.
“Good going, team.” Bugs thought with a smile on his face.
“We’ve got to talk to our principal about this. I mean, come on bowling was the first he thought of for us to do. Lame!” The female rodent informed her male counterpart. Again their cheating was stopped by Ash’s tech: Wile ‘playing’ a game on a DS, and Bugs accidentally tripping and spilling his soda all over Perfecto Prep’s mechanical bowling balls. Ketchum himself was starting to understand why he had to play those sports with Lola.
“Gymnastics: I can definitely do this.” Fifi muttered to herself as she went to work. The opposing team tried their cheating ways, but they were stopped again. This time my a magnet device with an MP3 shell to disprupt their tech and X-Ray specs on Sylvester so that his bulldog opponent knew where to aim.
‘Horseshoes was definitely an interesting choice.’ Ash thought as he held the item that ordinarily reserved only for Ponyta and Rapidash. It did have a good weight behind it, and knew which tech pieces the others were going to use. By now the Perfecto Prep realized that someone spilled the beans of their cheating ways, so this time they decided to play it fair. Surprisingly they got closer than they ever have in the past three events. Even though Acme Looniversity won it was a really close match this time.
“This is the final event. A Relay Race.” Lola informed the others as by now the teachers were now able to just sit back and relax since the Perfecto Prep students have given up trying to sabotage their students. The race was that of Little Beeper, Buster, and Ash against the rodents and an ostrich. Even without XLR8 or Fasttrack Ketchum proved that he was indeed won the race with just the tip of his shoe. With that their event ended with Acme Acres winning by just one point which did inspire some happiness from Perfecto Prep since they did give it their all at the end.
‘He is what I am looking for. There still seems to be a minor problem to deal with though.’ A man leaving with the crowd thought to himself. He was now more than ever determined to make this man a member of a team he was working on due to seeing: his strength, control, agility, accuracy, and speed during those five events.
Copy Rights:
Ash Ketchum, and the others, are owned by Gamefreak/Nintendo and Cartoon Network.
Tiny Toon Adventures, and the others, are owned by WB.
Mighty Ducks, and the moment, is owned by Disney.
Ultimatrix, and all forms, are owned by Man of Action and Cartoon Network.
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