Goldenrod City was the group's next destination as they heard of a interregional tournament and headed there to register for it. There are 128 trainers, Firey, Darius, Ariana, Sophia, Sakura, and David are among them along with Sheldon, Firey's sworn rival, and a mysterious man with blue hair.
Everyone got their assignments, with Firey as #4, so he had to face #125. Sakura was #119, so she had to face #10. Ariana was #126, so she has to face #3. David got #73, so he had to face #56. Darius was #37, so he got #92. Sophia was #128, so she was stuck with facing #1.
First match, Sophia vs the Mysterious Man.
"Alright, Smeargle, show time!" Sophia exclaimed.
"Darkrai, let's go!" the Mysterious Man announced.
"Smeargle vs Darkrai, this will be the only battle in this match, begin!"
"Use Dark Void!" The man ordered.
"Smeargle!" Sophia yelled.
"Use Dream Eater!" The man ordered.
Smeargle was seen with swirls in its eyes.
"Ss-smm-Smeargle is unable t-to battle, Darkrai is the winner!" The referee stammered.
"Who ever that man is, he's going down!" Darius yelled.
Over to Ariana's match, she was facing some guy named Carl.
"Swampert, use Hidden Power!" Carl ordered.
"Whimsicott!!" Ariana yelled.
The Mud Fish Pokemon's Hidden Power turned out to be Ice type and it knocked out the Windveiled Pokemon in one hit!
"Whimsicott is unable to battle, Swampert is the winner!"
He received a death glare from Firey and the green spot almost used Flamethrower.
"Easy, buddy!" Firey exclaimed, "I'm going to find Ariana."
"I'm going to guess she wants to calm down?" Carl asked.
"Please don't stand within thirty feet of me right now." Firey said menacingly.
"Really, I can stand where I...!" Carl yelled as a giant shadow loomed over him.
He bolted before learning he might be his next opponent.
Firey faced a girl named Kara, and his Camerupt defeated her Psyduck.
Sakura's Ivysaur defeated her opponent's Quagsire with ease.
David defeated his opponent's Surskit with his Plusle easily.
Darius's Skarmory destroyed his opponent's Sudowoodo.
They prepared for the next round by switching out the Pokemon used, and resting for the night.
The next round began with the mysterious man, whose name is Tobias, using his Latios to destroy a guy's Machamp.
Firey faced Carl, Carl used a Ludicolo and Firey used a Salamence, resulting in Firey landing a critical hit, one hit K.O.
Darius faced a boy with his Granbull, who he had to get from his mother, the boy used a Machop, which was defeated with two hits.
"I have some advice," Darius explained, "Train that Machop, it will be of great help to you."
"Thanks, Darius." the boy said.
Sakura, however had to face David, using Jolteon to completely destroy his recently caught Vaporeon.
So they wrapped up their matches and decided to eat dinner. After dinner, Darius and Sakura left. The rest went back to the hotel to sleep.