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Kilik entered the Gym. "Roxanne?" he asked, looking around the Gym, "Leader Roxanne?" he took a few more steps inside. His Eevee cowered back. It was dark and very few lights were on. "Come on..." he picked up the fox and stroked it, heading to the front. "Lady Roxanne?" he sighed, looking at the exit. "Maybe we shoul--" he was cut off by the buzz of lights coming on. A young girl, not much older than him, stood before him.

"Who might you be?" she asked sweetly.

"Kilik, from Verdanturf! I'm...here to battle you..." he said, looking down at his Eevee. Roxanne smiled.

"I'm sorry...but with just an Eevee...you won't win..." she turned her back, "Come back later..." she left. Kilik growled.

"I have faith in my Eevee! Battle me! Besides," he looked at her, "You can't turn down a challenge as a Gym Leader!"

"I told you, Kassie, I don't care to discuss it right now," Lt Surge said, his tone sharp. Kasiya sighed, taking a sip of her lemonade and looking at him.

"If you really don't want to," she said. "You could try to find out what went wrong?"

He laughed. "It doesn't take a tactical genius to figure out what happened. The girl walked in and made mincemeat of my trainers and me. She knew what she was doing, bringing a Piloswine in here, it being part ground type, but I really wasn't expecting it to know Earthquake. My poor Raichu couldn't do a thing."

"At least she was nice about it," Kasiya added hopefully.

Surge laughed again and put his large, rough hand on her head. "I can always count on my Kassie to cheer me up when I'm down," he said. "And for that, I thank you."

Kasiya smiled. "Oh! I haven't shown you my Pokemon yet!" she suddenly cried, very excitedly. She unhooked her Pokeballs and held them out for the gym leader to see.

"Ah, so I see your little egg hatched, eh? Were you suprised?"

"Very," Kasiya said, her grin stretching from ear to ear. "I can't believe it, an Eevee of my very own!"

"That Eevee was specially bred for you, Kassie. You probably don't know, but it knows a special move that it doesn't learn by growing stronger."

"Really?" asked Kasiya, still holding out her Pokeballs. "I'm pretty sure she only just learned how to do Sand-Attack."

He nodded. "She can also do a move called Wish. When she looks like she's taken a bit of a beating, just have her use Wish. She should get some of her health back relatively quickly."

"Wow," Kasiya gasped, taking it to memory. She released Eevee, who sat down on the floor and yawned loudly. "I've managed to catch a Pokemon as well," she added proudly.

"Let's see then," Surge said, picking up the little Eevee in his hands. Her tail flicked excitedly and she tried to lick his face.

Kasiya tossed the second Pokeball on the floor, revealling her Pikachu. "Pikaaa," it said, also yawning.

"Ahaha, taking after me, I see," he said, studying Pikachu closely. "You raise this one well, and it should prove to be very reliable in the future."

He looked up, seeing that they were not alone. A girl stood before them, holding a package in her hands, and looking at them both intently.

"Well, this is most certainly a change from the other underground path," Nina commented, looking around as she walked. What is this material? Misdreavus asked, looking down at the floor. Nina squatted down and let Marill out of her arms, and felt the floor's surface. "It... feels like it is linoleum," she replied, looking to Misdreavus, and then standing again and continuing walking.

It was somewhat silent for awhile, as Nina walked down the path with Misdreavus at her side and Marill at her feet. However, Misdreavus broke the silence by asking Nina, What exactly will you do when you find Sabrina? Nina didn't reply immediately and had her eyes cast to the side. She replied, "I... hadn't given it much thought... there are some questions that I want to ask her, and I was hoping that she could tell me who my birth parents were... She actually knew them; I didn't. I grew up believing that Angela and Richard were my parents... but... I was wrong..." Nina's voice trailed off and Misdreavus didn't pursue any more questions. Marill began to skip along, singing "Mare-rill, mare-rill, mare-rill..."

It wasn't much longer than twenty minutes later that Nina and her Pokemon reached a fork in the path. The left path had its floor still covered in linoleum, but the right had changed to a steel flooring. "Left to Celadon, right to Saffron," Nina repeated to herself, and took the right path.

"Geodude! Tackle as well!" Roxanne ordered. There was a squeal. Eevee was knocked to the ground, while the rock Pokemon hovered above it.

"Eevee! Get up! Tackle again!" Kilik clenched his fists. The fox stood up weakly.

"Ee...vee..." it took a breath and jumped. When its head connected with Geodude, it fell back, gritting its teeth. The Geodude, however, hovered there unscaved.

"You see, Kilik. I didn't want to battle you for this reason...Geodude! Rock throw!" Geodude hovered close to the ground and picked up a pile of rocks from the floor, tossing them at Eevee. Although the fox was weak, it had dodged most of the rocks.

"Eevee...Tail whip!" Eevee shook its tail. Nothing happened. "Er..." Kilik took a step back, clutching Eevee's Pokeball in his other hand.

"Geodude, finish this! Tackle!" The Pokemon swooped down and knocked Eevee over. Before the fox hit the ground, Kilik lifted the ball. A red beam was sent from the center of it and Eevee disappeared inside.

"You were right...Eevee isn't strong enough..." he turned on his heel and left.

"Kilik, wait!" Roxanne called back Geodude and approached him. "The fact you tried is valiant. Just...train a bit harder. Maybe if you evolv---" she was cut off.

"I'm not going to evolve my Eevee!!" he barked before running out of the Gym.

After being trown out of the team magma hideout Edgardo runs to get to the nearest pokemon center.As looking to abra he ask
"are you ok abra?" abra didnt answer and edgardo decided to run faster.

"Wow...you've trained her well." Bryn said without a hint of emotion
"A trainer? no not really. I'm a lab assistant for Prof. Oak. I've just had Hunter here for a few years now. She's been my best friend since the first day. I've never truly battled with Hunter. I've trained her with different tricks that the professor has been teaching me but that's really it." Bryn explained to her.

"He was rather excited to get that parcel...makes me now wonder what was in it."

((Sorry Anya...It's time for me to go to work BLAST))

((Come back soon, Les!!))

"Oh," Kasiya said, feeling slightly disappointed. "He looks tough, though." She thought for a moment. "You know Professor Oak?" she asked, offering Bryn some lemonade.

After waiting for 1 hour Nurse Joy comes out with abra by his side.
"he should be in goodshape now just dont get him hurt that bad next time"nurse Joy told edgardo as she left to attend other trainers.

"well abra are you ok?"as Edgardo asked the question abra nodeed with his head.