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Brock heard a noise in the gym after something that sounded like the door closing. Looking past the shelter of the rocks he was near he saw the young trainer and her Pikachu from the previous day once again in the gym. What was her name again... Train? That sound about right.

"Why hi there!" Brock exclaimed as he walked over to the clearer center of the gym.

"What the heck!" the twins yelled in unison. "Farfetch'd, use Slash on that overgrown venus fly trap!" Ben commanded. The bird, although still a little shaken, grabbed its leek out of its mouth using its wing, and shot forward like a missile, swinging the weapon violently at Trina. Despite its efforts, however, Trina was currently much faster and was able to dodge all of the slashes aimed its way...

Except the last one. The leek was drawn hard and fast against the Victreebel's front side, resulting not in a scream, but rather, a type of pained whine. The damage that was done was more cosmetic than actually painful, but the plant didn't want everyone else to know that. TO retaliate, she lunged forward at Farfetch'd before it could get away, and clamped her mouth around the bird's wing that held the leek. Despite the fact that he flailed his arm around violently and pecked at his attacker, Trina wouldn't let go...

Until she took the leek away, and ate it. She cackled. "Bahaha!" Raimundo laughed, genuinely amused. "Great job, Trina! Now it can't cut anymore!" The plant seemed to grin-- or, at least, an expression came onto her face that resembled happiness.

"Okay, Serena! Now that Farfetch'd is debilitated, use another Metronome! See if you can knock it out before it gets another chance to attack!" Serena trilled, and dashed toward the bird, her index and middle fingers waggling in unison. Sparks started to emanate from her body as she jumped and crashed into the bird, using Volt Tackle. Her attack was not only so powerful that it knocked out Farfectch'd, but it dealt a massive amount of damage to Serena as well. She was a bit dizzy after attacking, and received a temporary case of double vision as she tried to walk back to Trina.

"Dewgong!" Sam yelled, "Take Down attack, now! Don't let that Clefairy get another chance to attack!" Happy to finally have the opportunity to get rid of the menace, the sea lion lept forward, more or less pouncing on the smaller Pokemon; when he had knocked her to the ground, Dewgong slammed his head into her, sending her rolling along like a stone. At this point, it was obvious that Serena had been bested.

"Guh... you stupid thing!" Raimundo yelled, "I won't let you get away with that! Trina, use a rapid-fire Razor Leaf!" Hopping forward and swinging her vine around violently, the plant shot out at least two dozen small, sharp leaves at her opposition with every hop she took. Due to the massive amount of leaves being blasted at Dewgong, it was clearly unable to protect itself from all of them. Eventually, only one Pokemon was left standing.

And that Pokemon was the maniacal plant. She was recalled into her Pokeball after the ended, while Nina walked forward, recalling her fainted Pokemon as well. Walking past the twins to her third and final challenge, she was met by a brown-haired girl that was a little older than her. She said her name was Andrea.

"It looks like you're breaking the pattern, Andrea," Nina commented. "Everyone else teamed up with someone to fight me; why aren't you?" The girl laughed. "I never said I was going to battle alone. Rik, come over here! We've got ourself a potential winner!"

The man who Nina had assumed gave out the nugget as a prize walked to meet up with Andrea. He was dressed in black, with a black hat, shirt, pants, and shoes. There was a red R on his shirt. Nina recognized who he was instantly-- he was the Rocket that had escaped from the Radio Tower. She didn't acknowledge that she even knew he belonged to the organization, however.

A Parasect and a Quagsire appeared from a pair of Pokeballs. Nina unclipped a ball from her belt and Whitney did the same, walking to her sister's side.

Anna floated over the field, joined by Storm a moment later. The Misdreavus and Castform looked knowingly at eachother, and prepared to fight.

"Okay, Anna!" Nina said, wanting to take out her contenders swift and fast, "Now that you've got a powerful Ghost-type attack, let's use it! Hit that Parasect with a Shadow Ball!" The ghost grinned. "Of course." Twirling around a few times, Anna was able to create a good sized dark purple-black orb of energy; it hovered near her for a moment before she spun around again, launching it at her opponent.

The massive mushroom on the Parasect's back disabled it from having an excellent movement, and despite scuttling his little claw-feet along the ground in an attempt to escape, the attack connected, knocking the pathetic Pokemon on its back. After rocking back and forth several times, the Pokemon got to its feet, raising a claw in victory.

Anna raised an eyebrow, and turned to look to Storm, who mirrored her expression. Due to the fact that the sunglight was still beaming down brightly because of what Trina had done in the last battle, Storm transformed into a floating sun with perfectly round, red bubbles going along her head.

"Okay, Storm!" Whitney yelled, "it's time to, like, give that Parasect a totally hard time! Weather Ball attack, like now!" The Pokemon lowered her head for a moment, and then quickly flung it up into the air, shooting a grayish-colored ball into the sky. A few moments later, the ball rocketed down toward the arena, now a bright red-orange color, and it smashed into the Bug- and Grass-type Pokemon.

Parasect flailed around violently, screaming like a baby.

"Hey boy," a voice called out from behind, causing Mike to awaken from his little day dream. A tall girl with slender legs and shaggy pigtails approached the boy, a hopeful smile on her face. "How about a little Pokemon fight?" Mike raised an eyebrow at her, looking the would-be opponent up and down. She seemed nice, why not?

"Alrighty," He chirped, adding in a quick nod. "What are the terms? Oh, and your name?" As he usually did, Mike scrolled through the list of his current Pokemon, already going over strategies in his mind.

"Sherri's the name, how about a simple two on two double battle?" She grinned widely. Her smile was infectious. The girl quickly snatched a Pokeball and Great Ball, she looked quite confident.

"That sounds great." Mike replied, taking out two choices of his own. "Portabello, Beacon, come on out!" The boy sent out his trustworthy Breloom and his peculiar Ampharos, hoping the conflicting personalities would catch his opponent off guard. Let's hope this wasn't a mistake.

Oh. Portabello's eyes widened momentarily at the recognition of his battle partner. This shall be most interesting. A slightly nervous chuckle followed afterwards.

"Plant head!" The Electric Pokemon exclaimed with the usual air headed bliss, throwing his 'hands' into the air.

Most interesting...

"Let's get this started!" Sherri cried out, tossing her two in the air. A Flygon and a Lanturn were released, the former causing Mike to grimace slightly. Oh, this might have been a little bit of a mistake...