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Despite his best efforts, Rei was the last one to the unfolding battle, having spent much of his immediately available energy trying to not get run over by motorcyclists. He had nothing against motorcycles; indeed, he thought they were pretty cool, preferring the sleek naked bikes over the covered sport bikes or heavy cruisers, but he never cared for biker gangs. To him, they were largely composed of thugs who wanted to feel empowered and cool.

After avoiding another biker who was trying to run him over, Rei decided that diplomacy was out the window, and that a more aggressive course of action was needed. He grabbed a Pokéball from his belt and tossed it at the nearest Biker, jumping off his bike as he did so.

"Yami, knock him off and pin him to the ground!" The thug was thrown off-balance by the sudden force to his side, and he lost control of his bike. The motorcycle crashed onto the asphalt, which caused no small amount of damage to the chrome work and spoked front wheel. The biker watched helplessly as his bike slid from asphalt to the bottom of the hill, bouncing its way to a stop. The cruiser went from ugly to broken, and the owner of the now-ruined bike roared in anger.

"You punk! You're so dead!" He reached into his leather jacket and threw out a Pokéball.

"Koffing! Smog!" The ball of poison, upon exiting its Pokéball, belched out a noxious gas from its innards. Rei was not impressed.

"What a joke. He's only tough if his friends are with him. Yami, slash this Koffing to shreds." The Scyther happily obliged, and went straight for the eyes. The cut was deep, running across both eyes on the Koffing, and ending on opposite ends of the Pokémon's mouth. Critical hits were commonplace with a well-trained Scyther. It was over in a moment. The Biker, undeterred, sent out his backup Pokémon, a male Nidoran. Rei responded by withdrawing his Scyther and sending out his Horsea, Leviathan.

"Focus Energy, Leviathan. Use that new item you've got." His Horsea, holding a Scope Lens, began building pressure in her snout and took careful aim.

The Biker laughed. "Think you'll stop me? Ha! Horn Attack, Nidoran. Ram it good!" The Nidoran charged at the Horsea, jabbing its horn into Horsea's side. The Horsea winced in pain, but allowed the attack to follow through, taking advantage of the short distance between her target and her snout.

"Brine." With one word, the Nidoran was blasted with an immensely powerful spray of water at point-blank. Had it not been for Rei's stroke of luck with critical hits, the fight could have gone longer, but it was not to be. The biker, soundly defeated, and with no room to argue with a Scyther ready to slit his throat, decided to retreat in an un-cool fashion on the back of another biker's motorcycle.

Rei grinned. There was a certain rude phrase that went to riders who chose to sit on the backseat, but he chose not to further provoke the fleeing group, lest they decide to return with a vengeance.

Maddy sent out Muffin as a Binacle rushed up to attack her.
"Leaf Blade!" She cried.
Using her mouth, Muffin pulled a long, sharp leaf off of her mane and slashed at the Rock/Water-Type Pokemon. The blow was powerful, but Binacle managed to hold on to consciousness. It began to furiously polish it's body, reducing it's drag and increasing it's speed. It then rushed forward and hit Muffin with a Cross Chop, striking her square in the chest. Muffin let out a squeal as she tumbled across the ground. She slowly climbed back onto her feet.
"Horn Leech!"
Muffin ran forward and jabbed at Binacle with her horns, draining the rest of it's power and restoring some of her own. Binacle was down for the count.

A Spoink hopped over to meet them in battle. Maddy recalled Muffin and sent out Charmander this time.
"Crunch!" She barked.
Charmander nodded his head and rushed forward, grabbing the smaller Pokemon in his jaws and biting hard. Spoink let out a shriek and jumped away from Charmander. It'd body shuddered as it flinched, unable to remove.
"This one was easy. Finish it off with a Flamethrower!"
Charmander smirked before opening his mouth and letting loose a torrent of fire. Spoink was engulfed in flame and fell to the ground, knocked out.

Rei hopped off his bike and surveyed the scene before him. It was nothing short of chaos. He grabbed his Pokéball and tossed it at the first enemy he saw, a Binacle who was forced from its rocky home by the endless shaking of said rocks by other Pokémon. Rei's Treecko leaped from the Pokéball, eager to challenge the Rock-Water type. The Treecko, considerably faster than the lumpy rock-thing, was the first to strike. Using a leaf as a conduit, Treecko absorbed the life out of the Binacle, dealing massive damage. The Binacle responded by smashing its two heads against the Treecko's arm in a pincer-like movement. Treecko cried in pain, its arm seemingly broken. In retaliation, and to end its pain, Treecko used Mega Drain to finish off the opponent and repair its arm. Rei called back his Treecko.

"Sorry, little guy. I didn't expect him to get you that badly." He noticed his Magikarp's Pokéball shake slightly; the Magikarp, who was holding an Exp. Share, was happily gaining experience without any pain. Rei looked back at the mob of wild Pokémon.

"Perhaps there's a feisty one in that group who would be a good addition, eh, Countess?" His Zubat grumbled in reply, sucking on a liquid-filled gummy Caterpie candy. She wanted nothing to do with rowdy Pokémon. Rei laughed, all too familiar with his Zubat's antics.

"Fine, fine, you don't have to help." He sent out his Venipede.

"Cho, go look for a possible companion." The Venipede bowed and scurried off.

It wasn't often that Cho was allowed to have the level of freedom that Rei's favorite, the Countess, was given. More uncivilized Pokémon under Rei's command would have taken advantage of that. But not Cho. Ever the gentleman, Cho would never dream of causing mischief at Rei's expense. He scurried to quickly find the most honorable Pokémon amongst the rabble, and was rewarded with a polite young Bagon. The two even bowed before clashing against one another.

The Venipede, just a hair quicker than Bagon, spat on its tail and lashed out against the Bagon, scraping and poisoning it. The Bagon responded with a smashing headbutt against the Venipede, ignoring the poison coursing through its veins. Unfortunately, it couldn't ignore the venom in its veins when Cho spat out a Venoshock. Enraged, it rammed its head once more against the Bug-type, smashing it against the rock wall before twitching on the ground, nearing defeat.

Rei tossed a Pokéball and hoped for the best.

Shake.

Shake.

...Shake.

......Click!

Cho and Rei cried the sound of victory. Another successful capture! He recalled his Venipede and hopped back on his bike, noticing the change in the mob. They seemed to be petering out.

After that mess had been sorted out Allen gave a sigh of relief, "At least we're here, at the fun part of the trail." He gave a grin and lead them to a huge downhill that curved around the Northern side of the city. "First one to the bottom is a rotten egg!" He called before pushing off the ground and racing down the massive slope, which it was clear to see, stopped right next to the Hotel.

As Rei coasted to a stop by the hotel, he paused to think.

"Hmm. Route Ten has those stones, right? That should be interesting. I'll head to the Pokémon Center to heal my party, and join up with you in a moment."

He made a quick dash to the Center and, a few moments later, rushed back out to join the team.

Memo nodded and asked Maddy for a quick report on Team Flare as he fixed his cap and also made a quick trip to heal his party.
"If anything this will be fun for the group haha!"
"Chika!"
He also the new member named Michael and have a wave in the boys direction.
"Howdy, I'm Memo and this here is my partner, Cereza. The Chikorita winked and smiled at the boy.

Michael saw Memo raise his hand and walked over. When he introduced himself, he said. "Michael Burch at your service and this is Squirt, Spike, and Draco." When it was time to go he looked at Allen and smiled before beginning walking, but stayed close to Memo so they could continue introductions. When they arrived at the route he saw the unusual stones and gave a puzzled look. "Well this is nothing like Hoenn except maybe Mt Pyre."