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Inside Ecruteak City Pokémon Center a young boy sat as he watched his wounded Pokémon that was resting on the hospital bed.
"I'm so sorry Cherry." He said as he looked at his Eevee companion. They had been battling Morty the Ecruteak city gym leader trying to get the Fog badge. They had thought it would be easy compared to their last gym battle against Whitney the Goldenrod city gym leader and her Miltank, but that couldn't be farther than the truth. He remembered what had happened 12 hours earlier.
"I'm Jake and this is Cherry, we're here to win the Fog Badge." The young trainer now known as Jake announced as he walked into the Ecruteak gym with a Eevee on his perched on his shoulder.
Across from him stood a man only a few inches taller with blonde hair wearing a black shirt, long gray sweat pants and a purple scarf, "You seem very eager." He chuckled, "But if you wish to win the Fog Badge first you must first defeat me Morty the Ecruteak city Gym Leader and my Ghost Pokémon."
"Then let's battle!" Jake said as he took his place on the battle field.
"Eevee vee!" His companion agreed.
"Very well then let us begin." Morty said as he stepped onto the battlefield.
Then a referee walked to the middle of the field, "This an official Ecruteak city Gym match, the challenger is battling for a Fog badge. This match will be 3 vs 3 and the battle will be over when all of either trainers Pokémon are all unable to battle furthermore only the challenger will be able to switch Pokémon."
"Are you ready Jake?"
"You bet we are!"
"Vee!"
"Let the match begin." The referee said stepping back.
"Go Gastly!"
"Go Quilava!"
On Morty's side of the field appeared a Pokémon in the form of a black orb with eyes and a mouth surrounded by a purple mist while on Jake's side of the field appeared a four legged blue and yellow Pokémon with flames coming out of the top of its head and back.
"The challenger has the first move!"
"Let's go Quilava use Ember!"
Quilava yelled its name before opening its mouth and letting loose a little pieces of fire straight at Gastly.
"Dodge it Gastly!" Morty called and Gastly flew out of the way of the flames. "Now use your Lick attack!"
Gastly vanished into thin air before reappearing behind a startled Quilava and giving it a strong lick with its tongue sending the volcano to the floor.
"Quilava are you ok!?" Jack called worriedly.
Hearing its trainers words the fire type got up off the ground and gave a nod showing it was still ready to fight.
Jake smiled at Quilava's determination, "Ok then use Quick Attack!" Quilava ran at Gastly gaining speed as it did so fast in fact that light followed behind it as it went.
"You do realize that normal type attacks like Quick Attack won't work on a Ghost type like Gastly." Morty chuckled as Gastly just let Quilava phase through it.
"Yeah I know that's why I wasn't trying to hit Gastly with it." Jake smiled.
"What!?" Morty gasped.
"Yep now I'll show you why. Quilava bounce off the wall then hit Gastly with Flame Wheel!" Morty watched in horror as Quilava bounced off one of the gyms walls and went straight for Gastly, but this time it rolled as it went and soon it was surrounded in a ball of flames. The attack slammed into Gastly causing it to cry out in pain before slamming into the ground.
Quilava returned to Jake's side of the field as Gastly slowly rose up off the ground. "Very sneaky." Morty laughed.
"I have to be if I want to defeat your ghost Pokémon." Jake grinned, "Now let's try this again Quilava use Ember!" Once again Quilava let loose a swarm of flame pieces at its opponent. However, unlike this time Gastly was still to dazed to dodge it and was sent back to the ground with swirly eyes.
"Gastly is unable to battle!" The referee said gesturing to the knocked out ghost type.
"Impressive you managed to take out my Gastly without taking too much damage." Morty praised as he returned Gastly to its poke ball. "But I can promise you that the same cannot be said for my other two Pokémon. Now go Haunter!" A dark purple Pokémon with a big head and two arms appeared in front of Morty.
"Return Quilava!" Jake said as he returned the volcano Pokémon.
"What's the matter scared?" Morty asked.
"Hardly I just want to give everyone a chance to battle now go Onix!" Jack said as the rock snake Pokémon appeared on his field.
"Roooar!" It yelled.
"A rock and ground type against a Ghost/poison type interesting choice." Morty mused.
"Onix vs Haunter. Let the match begin!"
"Use Nightshade!" Morty called as dark sparks of energy shot out of Haunter's eyes and slammed into Onix sending it to the ground and making the ground shake.
"Come on Onix you can do it!" Jake called to his Pokémon as it rose from the gym floor. "That's it Onix now use Screech!" Onix nodded before letting out an ear splitting screech causing Morty and Haunter to cover their ears. "Now use Rock Tomb before they recover!"
Onix's body glowed before large rock's suddenly appeared around it they hovered for a second before being thrown and slamming into the ghost type Pokémon kicking up a cloud of dust.
"No Haunter!" Morty called seeing his Pokémon go down. When the dust cleared Haunter was shown to still be conscious, but it was surrounded by large rocks imbedded into the ground around it.
"I have to finish this quick Haunter took a big hit from the last attack with its defense's lowered by Screech." Morty thought to himself as Haunter picked itself off the ground.
"Haunter use your Curse attack." Haunter nodded before a red aura surrounded it before disappearing and reappearing around Onix then disappearing again.
"Oh no." Jake gasped knowing that if he didn't move quickly Onix would be done for. "Onix we have to finish this quickly use your Rock Throw and end this!"
Onix roared before it created more boulders and began to throw them at Haunter, but even with its speed lowered by Rock Tomb, Haunter was still too fast for Onix and with each boulder thrown Jack could see the red aura reappear around both Pokémon sapping their energy.
"Now Haunter use your Night Shade!" Morty called as the black sparks shot out of Haunter's eyes and hit Onix once again sending it to the ground. This time however Onix didn't get back up as it was shown to have swirls in its eyes.
"Onix is unable to battle Haunter wins!" The referee called, but just as he did the red aura returned around Haunter and it too dropped to the ground with swirls in its eyes. "Haunter is also unable to battle. It's a double knock out."
Both trainers returned their Pokémon before grabbing another Poke ball. Cherry tried to jump onto the battle field, but was stopped by Jake's hand, "Don't worry Cherry you'll get your turn soon." The little Eevee pouted, but nonetheless returned to her perch on his shoulder.
"You don't know how right you are." Morty told him, "My last Pokémon is also my most powerful and he won't go down without a fight. Go Gengar!" In front of Morty appeared a dark purple Pokémon similar to Haunter, but with leg's.
"Go Quilava." Jake said as Quilava returned to the battlefield.
"Gengar vs Quilava! Let the match begin!"
"Quilava use Ember."
"Ember again? Gengar dodge it." And Gengar did just that with little effort to no effort.
"Now Gengar use Shadow Ball!" An orb of dark energy appeared in Gengar's hands before it hurled it straight at the volcano Pokémon.
"Dodge it!" Jake called as Quilava jumped out of the way causing the orb to smash into the ground. "Now use Flame Wheel!"
Quilava's flames began to grow lit up before it rolled into a ball of flames and head straight for Gengar slamming into the shadow Pokémon.
"Shadow Ball!"
Quilava was still in midair when Gengar appeared in front of it with a Shadow Ball in hand and slammed it into fire type sending it into the wall behind it before it slumped to the ground with swirls in its eyes.
"Quilava is unable to battle Gengar wins."
Jake walked over to Quilava as it opened its eyes slowly. It looked down sadly before having a hand pull its chin up to look at Jake's face, "Hey it's ok you did great. Don't worry about the rest of it Cherry has it covered."
"Vee"
Quilava smiled as it was returned to its poke ball. Jake returned back to the battlefield ready to continue. "Ok Cherry it's your turn to battle!" He called as the Cherry jumped from his shoulder to the battlefield.
"Eevee vs Gengar! Let the match begin!"
"Cherry use Sand Attack!" The normal type spun 180 degrees before it started to kick sand from the ground into Gengar's face obscuring its vision.
"Grr. Gengar use Shadow Ball." Gengar stopped trying to get the sand out of its eyes and fired a Shadow Ball straight at evolution Pokemon. However, because of the sand it went to the right and hit the ground completely missing its target.
"Cherry use your Bite attack." Cherry jumped at Gengar before clamping its teeth around Gengar's arm causing it to cry out in pain. "Now throw it!" Cherry did just that sending Gengar slamming into the stadium floor.
"I can't let Gengar keep taking hits like that I have to turn this around," Morty thought as he watched Gengar pick itself off the floor and rub the remainder of the Sand Attack out of its eyes. "Gengar use your Hypnosis!" Gengar began to send multiple eyes straight at the normal type hoping to make it fall asleep.
"Don't let it get you Cherry!" Cherry dodged the Hypnosis attack left and right before it finally subsided. However, in all of its jumping around to dodge the attack the evolution Pokemon had put itself very close to Gengar.
"Now Gengar use Sludge Bomb!" Gengar shot multiple blobs of sludge straight at Cherry. Cherry was so close and the attack was so fast she had no time to dodge and was sent skidding backwards from the powerful attack.
"Cherry are you ok?" Jake asked concerned for his friend. Cherry just picked herself off the ground before nodding to her trainer, however all was not well for as soon as she did a purple hue appeared above her nose and in between her eyes. Oh no she's been poisoned. Should I pull her out she's already taken a beating and I don't want her to get even more hurt? Then he heard Cherry speak to get his attention. He looked over to see the determination to keep going despite her condition. How could he deny her if she was so dead set on continuing the battle. "Ok then let's do this. Cherry use your Bite attack once more!" Cherry jumped at Gengar grabbing onto its lead this time and biting down then before Gengar could counter attack Cherry flipped and slammed Gengar into the ground. Cherry landed back on Jake's side of the field before taking a knee as the poison took its toll.
"I applaud you on your choice to continue the battle at your Pokémon's assurance, but we both know only one of us can walk away from this next bout and I'm afraid it will be me." Morty commented as Gengar got back on its feet.
"We shall see. Cherry let's finish this use Sand Attack then finish it with a Bite attack!"
"Gengar use Sucker Punch!"
Jake's blood ran cold as he heard Morty call his attack. Sucker Punch only worked if the opponent was about to attack and he had just told Cherry to do just that. He racked his brain for a way out of their current predicament, then he remembered the move Cherry had used to defeat Falkner's Pidgeotto. "Cherry use Endure!"
Cherry stopped her Bite attack just as Gengar's fist made contact and dug her heels into the ground taking the attack. "Now use Bite attack!" Gengar was surprised that Cherry had survived the attack and watched in horror as she lunged at him ready to end the match, but to his and everyone else's surprise she dropped in midair as the poison sapped away her remaining strength.
"Eevee is unable to battle Gengar wins, so the victor is gym leader Morty!" The referee called, but Jake didn't care.
He immediately ran to Cherry to check on her and saw that the purple hue was still on her forehead. Knowing she needed help he picked her up before making for the Pokémon center intent on finding Nurse Joy.
After leaving the gym he had raced to the Pokémon Center. He burst through the doors and ran straight to Nurse Joy who at seeing Cherry's condition had taken immediate action. After waiting for about an hour Nurse Joy walked through the doors of the Poke ER and told him that Cherry was going to be just fine, then she scolded him for putting his Pokémon in danger like that. After she was done scolding him she showed him to the room Cherry was staying in and told him that he could check her out the next day. Now he sat waiting next to her hospital bed.
He was about to star mentally beating himself up again when he heard a noise come from Cherry's bed. He opened his eyes to see his Eevee friend coming to and quickly got out of the chair and stepped closer to her.
"Cherry?"
At hearing her name called she opened her eyes slowly and Jake filled her vision. She gave a smile at seeing her trainer.
"Oh Cherry I'm so glad you're ok!" He said as he lunged forward giving her a hug which she promptly accepted.
They stayed like that for a while just enjoying each other's company. Then Cherry began to feel her fur getting damp. She slightly pushed Jake away to get a good look at his face. Once she could see his face she saw tears running down it.
"Vee?" She asked questioningly not understanding why he was crying.
"Oh you mean these?" Jake asked gesturing to his tears and Cherry nodded. Jake sighed before pulling away confusing his Eevee even more. "Cherry I want to apologize and tell you I'm so so sorry for putting you through all of that. I let my drive to win get in the way of your safety. Nothing should be worth your safety even something like a gym badge. Do you think you can ever forgive me?"
Cherry stared at him for a while before tilting her head to the side not understanding what he was at fault for. It was times like this she really wished they could speak each other's languages.
Seeing she wasn't understanding him he decided to explain it more thoroughly to her. "Ok you know how you were about to get hit by Gengar's Sucker Punch?"
"Vee." She nodded.
"Well I had you use Endure to survive it instead of being knocked out by the hit because I thought you could get one more attack in to defeat Gengar before poison knocked you out. But then you ended up being taken out by the poison which I'm sure hurt a lot more than being knocked out by a Sucker Punch attack. So what I'm apologizing for is putting you through more pain then you needed to go through. You may not think it means a whole lot because you also chose to continue battling and went through with my plan, but for me it means a lot. We've both been through a lot since we started this journey, but I've never seen you like that before. You looked so broken and that scared me because I almost thought you weren't going to get up again even after Nurse Joy told me you would. I-I promise that I will never let that happen to you ever again." He told her breaking down again near the end and closing his eyes not able to look at her.
Cherry sat there listening to Jake explain to her why he was so sad and wanted her to forgive him. She listened as he explained how it was his fault and was about to interrupt to point out that she too had wished to keep battling, but he beat her to it by telling her he knew all about that. Then she heard how scared he was for her when she had been knocked out. She had never thought about that, but she knew that she would be the same way if anything happened to him. Just like he had worried for her and had stayed by her bedside while she was unconscious she knew she would do the same. Though she was touched by his kindness and his self-punishment for her condition she knew she couldn't let him beat himself up any longer.
Jake was snapped from his sorrow by a furry nose nuzzling his arm causing him to open his eyes and see it was Cherry. He smiled and picked her up in his arms, "Does this mean you forgive me?"
Cherry answered by giving him a lick on his face. He chuckled before holding her close to his body and giving her a soft hug. Jake closed his eyes content to enjoy the moment while Cherry sighed before resting her head on his chest. Then suddenly there was a flash of light and both of their eye's shot open and saw that Cherry was glowing.
"Cherry you're evolving!" Jake exclaimed as he watched her form change and grow in size. When the evolution was complete all he could say was, "Wow."
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