Briney quickly turned the ship around and headed back to route 104. We were sure we were gonna outrun them, but Briney quickly stopped the boat. As we were about to ask why he stopped , some rocks sailed past us and hit some of the Cavemen. We looked back in the direction they were fired and saw a group of jet skiers with the tag of the Dark Dias.



“This is bad. The ship in the crossfire of gang war. Jazz! You take care of the Cavemen, me and Peeko will handle the Dark Dias.”



Me, Peeko, Poison Jam, and Paloma covered the ship. Jazz sent out Purple Rain as Moon River returned to his Poke Ball. I don’t blame him for retreating. Normal type were weak against Fighting type and a mon like him would be crushed like an ant in a few minutes.



“Poison Jam, put the Cavemen paralyze them with stun sp”
{“Wait!} I shouted, {“Some Fighting type pokemon tend to have the ability Guts.”}
“Guts?”
I nodded {“Guts is an ability that boost the attack power of a Pokemon when its under the effect of a status ailment.”}
“Thanks for the heads up. So I’m guessing sleep powder is also out of the question?”
I shook my head,”Only if they have sleep talk, but that moves to random, so you should be safe.”
“Alright. Poison Jam, use sleep powder and then use confusion. Cinderella and Purple Rain use Wing attack on any that get near the ship. Paloma, help Briney with the Dark Dias by using Double Kick if they get close”

Poison Jam flew above them and rained blue scales upon them. What happened next was the display of fight or flight. Some of them went out the way to save their allies even if it meant risking their life, others just moved out their way to save their own life, while some just froze up and fell prey to deep slumber. The survivors soon rushed toward, angry at their fallen comrades. e and Purple Rain took The Dark Dias were probably happy about this as this meant less of a hassle for them and fired at those who were too busy saving lives or catching Zs.



This was probably the only luck break the Dark Dias had.
“Peeko, use water pulses on them!”

Peeko launched a barrage of ultrasonic blasts of water at them. While some withstood the blow due to Sturdy, they soon became confused and started flailing wildly. The trainers reacted quickly and pulled out their Poke ball and did their best to return them, or tried to toss them into the sea. Meanwhile Paloma was knocking them back with her kicks.
(This is almost easy…too easy.) I looked around the battlefield, (“The Cavemen are not a new gang like the Dark Dias and yet they were using mons like Machop, makuhita, and Meditite. Something not adding up”)
“Grandma,” Peeko said with panic in her voice, “Something in the water!” I looked at the side the Dark Dias were on and saw a frightening sight. Stream of bubble coming straight out of the water, blasting a member, sending them flying,
It jumped out of the water and right onto the boat, in front of Paloma. It was a poliwrath.
Jazz pulled out his Pokedex and scanned it, “Water fighting… Paloma, Get away from there!”
“Poliwrath uses Bubblebeam!” Before Paloma could react, the blue muscle frog launched their attack, sending her flying overboard.
“Paloma, return.” Jazz pulled out her Poke ball and recalled her back.”
“Starter down. 50 pts!”
We looked over at the Cavemen sides and stared at a man on a jet ski coming toward us. He had a youthful looking slender man with spiky long blond hair with red highlights. His outfit was white wet suit with black splotches trailing from a dark red target to his right shoulder. At first glance he looked like he was human, but based on his pointy ears, he was in fact an elf.



“Who are you?” Jazz asked, “And what do you mean by points?”
The man shrugged, “Name is Vale Roman. I’m the right hand man . As for the points, it is part of a little game I like to play with these guys. We get points depending on the targets. For example, "Your starter is worth quite the hefty points and if they die, it doubles. Those rock heads are worth 10 points because they don’t have much going for them. Too bad their leader isn’t here. Would net me some nice points.”



I felt my anger boiling. These bastards were doing this as part of some game.



“Poison Jam, use sleep powder!”
Poison Jam flew over and scatter scales over it
“Poliwrath, use water pulse.” The blue fighter fired a pulse at Poison Jam and blew the sleep powder away and shot Poison Jam down.
Jazz recalled the butterfly back, “Purple Rain tried to poison it with Poison sting.”

Purple Rain charged toward them at full speed.



“Hypnosis,” Vale ordered. The aquatic fighter gyrated as swirls came flying toward the nido and sent them to dreamland, “Now dynamic punch.”
“Peeko, intersect with Wing attack.”
I watched as my grandaughter swooped in and smacked the brute in the back of the head.
Jazz pulled out Purple Rain, Poke ball and recalled him back. Before Peeko could get to safety, Poltiwrath snatched her and slammed her to the ground.
“Pesky feather mop. You ruined my streak. Poliwrath use Dynamic Punch on them.”
{“No!”} I screamed in unison with everyone. I watched in horror at the scene that was happening. The frog's fist filled up with explosive energy and flew toward my granddaughter. Meanwhile Jazz and Briney tried to intercept the attack. My mind stopped working. What could I do? I was still at a low level for Wing attack to do anything and that was my only effective move on me. All I could do was close my eyes and pray for a miracle or wait for it to be over quickly.
Nothing. Not a single explosion or earth agonizing scream, just nothing the sound of the ocean waves. I opened my eyes and saw Poliwrath was unconscious and encased by telekinetic energy.



Vale clasped his head in pure terror “My Poliwrath!”
“Not for long,” I looked in the direction of where the voice was coming from and above us was Steven Stone riding skarmory. Right beside him was a Claydol.
“The Former Champion, Steven Stone.”
“What's he doing here?”
“Whatevers he’s doing here, I’m not staying one second to find out.”
Soon the gang members started to scatter like a pack of frightened Zigzagoons. Vale tried to jump on his jet ski, but Briney, well the old sea dog still didn’t take too kindly to Peeko almost being killed by him and started wailing on him like a machamp on a punching bag.
Steven Stone flew up to them, “Are you okay?”
Jazz held up Paloma’s and Poison Jam’s Poke Ball, “I’m fine, but I don’t know if these two.”
“Send them out,” the drake nodded and sent out Paloma and Poison Jam. The silver haired man pulled out two revives and placed them on their heads. Soon two sprang back to life, “They’re fine now, but I suggest you get them to a Pokemon Center to get them checked out.”
Jazz looked at him in confusion “What were those?”
“Revives. They have the power to restore fainted Pokemon to half health.”
“Tell me,” Mr.Briney held up the battered elf by the scruff of his collar, “Why did you attack us?”
Vale let out a pained chuckle, “We never intended to. You only got caught up in the crossfire. We were just planning on waltzing over to Rustburo City and giving our Condolences to their Dark Dias for what happened to their leaders.”
“What happened to her,” Jazz asked, “Did she finally get arrested?”
The elf shook his head “No. Nicoletta is dead.”

To be continued



There's a lot to unpack. First off is the title. The title is a play on the song Powerman 5000 and the term Power Vacuum. Suitable Considering this follows the aftermath of her death. To explain a power vacuum, it a situation where a someone in power is suddenly removed via sudden death or disappearance. Example of this would be if Andrew Tate was to disappear with no replacement then there would be a form power struggle for control of Youtuber that scam people via self-help tips.
Next is the rival fight. I changed the location of the fight considering the circumstances. Still the fight is the same as before.
Next up is the battle. Originally I was going to go for a battle with Jazz fighting the boss after fighting against a trainer and his Makuhita by opted not to and went with getting into a one sided fight against a poliwhirl. I went with Poliwhirl because it suits the gym location aka being Dewford plus its Paloma's weakness aka Jazz's strongest Pokemon. plus I wanted Steven to shine.

Also Jazz now better at lying.