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Kilik flashed his train pass, and took a step onto the metallic contraption. Flareon hopped from his shoulder, running over to a seat and jumping on. "You want to sit there?" he asked, sitting down, "Nice choice of seats." He crossed his arms over his chest and put one leg over the other, tapping his foot. His eyes cast to the metal ring on his shoulder. Kilik undid the latch, pulled out Scyther's Pokeball and let it out. The train lurched forward as the Pokemon materialized before him. Stars fluttered about the Pokemon flashily.

"Scy!? Scyther!" she flailed her scythes about.

"Settle down, Scyther!" Kilik barked, standing up. There weren't many other people on the train headed toward Petalburg; it was almost as if they had decided to stay at the beach. "Listen, you're not in that tube anymore."

"Scyther?" she blinked at her trainer, then crossed her 'arms' over her chest. "Scy!" she put her nose up in the air and shut her eyes, giving off an impression of being concided.

"Fine! Don't thank me for helping!" The boy growled, sitting back down quite angered by his Scyther's behavior.

"Scy SCY!" she barked out, sitting across from them, assuming a pose much like Kilik's.

The Kingler landed a Stomp move on the oversized Corhpish, grinding it's head into the sand. It beat its chest, taunting the now rising Pokemon. Corhpish let out a cry and lunged forward, Hardening his body and latching onto Kingler's claw with his own, using the Vicegrip move.

"Come on little Corphish!" Mike said, rooting for the underdog of the fight, or so he thought.

The Pokemon both glanced over for a mere second, then continued their fight. Kingler slammed his claw on the ground, hoping to shake the little crab Pokemon off, but to no avail. He pulled back to strike with his smaller claw but the Corhpish easily snagged the weaker little claw. The two were now face to face, neither able to move. Kingler fired a Bubble attack and Corhpish used Bubblebeam, the watery suds bursting and bouncing off of each other. The vastly larger Kingler tried to pull his claws out of the grip of the determined Pokemon, who was holding on so hard his claws were cracking. The larger crab saw this and let out a smile of sorts, Corphish Hardening his body like crazy. Soon Kingler freed his larger claw and beat the Corphish from his other one, but not without the little crab taking it with him. The Pokemon danced around with his enemy's apendage as the Kingler charged in a fury. The smaller of the two proceeded to bop his foe on the head with his own claw, but only a few times before being clubbed into the ground by the Kingler, who was stronger even with one arm.

Mike merely watched the intense battle, he'd never seen two wild Pokemon battling before.

The Kingler launched a Mud Shot attack, burying his opponent in the sand even more, Stomping on the pile in victory. He raised his one claw and shot a few bubbles into the air before scuttling off to the sea.

Moments later, a large claw burst from the ground, a rather large Crawduant lifting itself up. Pissed would be an understatement, this thing was furious. He skated off and tackled the half submerged Kingler the two now of similar size and power. Kingler backhanded the newly grown Crawduant with a Crabhammer, a bruise on his soft underbelly matching the odd chip in the Kingler's claw. The fatuiged Pokemon, a tad weakened from his evolution, danced around, using his new Sword Dance move. His attack raised, he launched one last Vicegrip attack, snapping a peice off of Kingler's crown. The defeated Kingler scrambled away, not wanting to lose any more limbs. Crawduant thrusted his hand in the air before succumbing to his wounds and collapsing. Mike walked over, staring down at the powerful Pokemon. He let a Pokeball roll out of his hand, capturing him with ease. He bent down and gave his newly filled Pokeball a hard look, picking up Kingler's claw. Mike ran the tip of it across the front of the ball, making a really cool looking scratch mark. He stood up and clipped his Pokeball to his belt, walking back to the Pokemon Center.

"Don't worry. You'll be safe with me...Xanthos."

"Hm, I wonder where Flannery went." Mike said, suddenly realizing the last time he saw her was in the Gym. He started to get up, recalling his Pokemon aside from Titanium. "Mind helping me out a little buddy?" He asked, the Steelix gladly lowering his head. Mike climbed on as Titanium lifted up his body, giving his trainer a much better view. Soon Mike spotted the red explosion of hair and asked his Pokemon to take him there.

Kilik hummed a bit to himself. "Dun dun...dun dun da nuna. Dun Dun. Dun dun da nuna." He tapped his foot in rhythm. Flareon looked up at him, and barked the same tune. Scyther shook her head in shame, as if 'I can't believe this is my trainer'. The boy looked at his Pokemon. "What?" he stopped singing, "Don't like the way I sing?"

"Scyther Scyther Scy Scy Ther Scy." Kilik sighed, unlatched the ring on his arm and picked up the Park Ball.

"Fine. Maybe you don't enjoy the fresh air," he pressed the face button and enlarged the ball. A red beam shot out and took Scyther back in. Scyther let out a cry before disappearing into the ball. Flareon laughed a bit.

"Flareon?"

"Ready." The two began to sing the same song once more, Kilik slapping his thieghs to the beat.

Mike leaned over the front of his Pokemon's nose, hovering over the Gym Leader. "Why hello there Drowsee." He said with a smike, his hair all flowing downward onto his face. "Norman's not in, and I left my Nav number for when he gets back, so what do you want to do until then?" He asked with a smile.