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Within the Ecruteak city gym Morty the gym leader sat at the table within its kitchen. He was thinking still thinking about the battle he had a few days ago against the young trainer Jake and his Eevee, Cherry. It had been a tough match, but in the end Gengar was able to win the battle for him; however, what troubled him was how he had won in the end. He hadn't won in the way most would deem fair he had won by the poison from Gengar's Sludge Bomb attack knocking out Jake's Eevee just before it could defeat Gengar. By all accounts he should have lost that battle, but he hadn't and now he worried for the young trainers Eevee.
"I do hope that his Eevee is ok she did not look well when I saw him rush her to the Pokemon Center." Morty thought to himself as he got up from his chair and poured himself a glass of water.
Then as he put the glass down he heard someone yell from the battlefield area of the gym, "Morty I demand a rematch!"
"What the heck?" Morty asked himself as he walked through the door to the battlefield and saw Jake standing there. "Is that you Jake?"
"It's been a while Morty and this time I will defeat you."
"I will of course accept your challenge." Morty said as the referee came into the room,
"But first I must ask where is Cherry?"
"She is with me and is all better, but she wants her second meeting with you to be a surprise." Jake chuckled.
"Very well then." Morty said taking his place on the battlefield as Jake did the same.
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."
"Let's do this then." Morty said as he threw a Poke ball, "Go Gastly."
"Let's rock and roll Onix!"
On Morty's side appeared his sentient orb surrounded in mist while on Jake's side appeared a rock snake.
"Why would he go with Onix? His Quilava easily defeated my Gastly when we last battled." Morty thought confused by Jake's actions.
Seeing Morty's confusion Jake chose to elaborate, "I can see you're confused as to why I chose Onix to fight Gastly this time instead of Quilava. The reason is because I want this battle to be different then the last one we had so I have to keep you guessing and not do what I did last time."
"Interesting." Morty muttered.
"Let the match begin! The challenger has the first move!"
"Onix use Screech!" Onix leaned backwards before letting loose an earsplitting screech at Morty and Gastly.
"Grr Gastly use Nightshade!" Dark sparks of energy shot out of Gastly's eyes aiming straight for Onix. They slammed into the rock/ground type causing it to yell in pain, but other than that there was no indication they had done damage.
"Nice hit Morty, but just like last time with your Haunter, Gastly won't last long. Now go Onix use your Rock Throw attack." Onix roared before slamming its tail into the ground causing boulders to jump out before it slammed its tail into them sending them straight at Gastly.
"Dodge it Gastly." The Gas Pokémon effortlessly maneuvered around the boulders thrown at it and found itself very close to Onix. Morty smirked, "Now while your close use Nightshade!" Gastly let loose its dark sparks of energy at Onix who could not dodge such a close range attack.
"Take it then use Rock Tomb!" Onix nodded as it took the attack which caused some smoke to appear. Morty however gasped in horror at his mistake a Nightshade at close range meant that Onix couldn't dodge it, but that also meant that Gastly had no way of dodging Onix's counter attack. He watched as Onix came out of the smoke with multiple boulders surrounding it before throwing them at Gastly. Most of them hit sending Gastly into the ground and kicking up a cloud of dust. When it cleared Gastly was on the ground with swirls in its eyes.
"Gastly is unable to battle Onix is the winner."
Morty scowled as he returned Gastly to its poke ball he couldn't believe he had made such a serious lack of judgement when he had ordered Gastly to use its Nightshade. "I'll make sure not to make the same mistake again." He told himself before taking out his second Pokémon, "Go Haunter!" The second stage gas Pokémon appeared in front of Morty ready for battle and chuckling gleefully.
"Onix return." Jake said returning the rock snake before taking out another poke ball and throwing it, "Now go Quilava." Where Onix was now stood a blue and yellow ferret like fire Pokémon.
Haunter vs Quilava! Let the match begin!"
"It's just like last time only this time they're both fully rested. I wonder how it will play out this time?" Morty thought to himself as he watched the two Pokémon size each other up. "Let's redeem your previous loss Haunter. Use Nightshade!" Haunter nodded ready to ready to regain its honor as dark sparks of energy began to form in its eyes then it fired them at Quilava.
Jake sighed, "He really needs to use more than just that attack. Anyway Quilava dodge it and use Smokescreen!" Quilava nodded as it jumped out of the way of Haunter's attack before opening its mouth and letting loose a cloud of smoke across the battlefield blinding everyone. "Now get into position and get ready!"
Morty was confused by the turn of events as he watched the cloud of smoke linger in front of him hiding Haunter and Quilava from his sight. "I need to get Haunter out of there and regain the advantage" Morty thought to himself, "Haunter get out of that smokescreen!" Haunter heard its trainer and began to make its way out of Quilava's smoke cloud.
"Perfect." Jake thought as he heard Morty's command, "Now Quilava!"
Morty was confused by what Jake said as he watched Haunter come out of the smoke cloud, but then he saw Quilava run out of the smokescreen behind Haunter with an Ember attack ready to fire. "Haunter behind you!" Haunter tilted its head in confusion before quickly turning around to see Quilava let loose its ember attack. It began to freak out until Morty gave it another command, "Dodge it quick!" Haunter dodged the attack just in time as the ember flew over its head.
Morty sighed for a second, but then gasped in shock as he saw Quilava who was performing a quick attack go through Haunter and head straight at the wall. The just like the time with Gastly, Quilava pushed off from the wall and headed straight back towards Haunter with its body in a ball of flames.
Haunter yelled in pain as Quilava slammed into it from behind before being slammed into the still smokescreen covered stadium floor. When the smoke finally dissipated Haunter was on the floor knocked out.
"Haunter is unable to battle Quilava wins!"
"Grr. Very clever hitting Haunter while it had just dodged an attack and its guard was down." Morty said as he returned his knocked out Pokémon. Inside however he was fuming, "How had it gone so differently than last time? Before he had at least knocked out Jake's Onix, but this time he hadn't even done that and Quilava was still at full strength. I have to turn this around and with Gengar I should be able to do just that. The only thing that troubles me though is that his Eevee Cherry isn't out of her poke ball and he said she wanted her second appearance to be a surprise which leads me to believe that she evolved. If she evolved into an Espeon I still have a chance, but if she evolved into an Umbreon then this is over."
Seeing Morty thinking so hard caused Jake to smile, "I told this time would be different Morty."
Hearing Jake speak snapped Morty from his thoughts, "True, but even though I'm two Pokémon down I will fight until I am totally defeated."
"I wouldn't expect anything less."
Morty nodded before grabbing his last poke ball, "Go Gengar!"
"Return Quilava. Go Cherry!" Quilava went back into the red and white ball, then where it was appeared a purple cat like Pokémon with a split tail and a red gem on its forehead.
"Gengar vs Espeon! Let the battle begin!"
"Ah I see that Cherry did evolve." Morty mused. "Perfect I'm still in this fight."
"Yep and she's all ready to pay your Gengar back for last time." Jake said.
"Espi!" Cherry growled in agreement.
"Then what are you waiting for?"
"Fine then Cherry let's do this. Use Sand Attack!" Cherry nodded before doing a 180 then kicking sand from the ground at Gengar's face.
"Dodge it and use Shadow Ball!" Gengar jumped over the Sand Attack then while it was still in the air it formed a black sphere between its hands before throwing it at the Psychic type.
"Dodge that and use Bite!" Cherry tensed her legs before jumping at Gengar while also dodging the Shadow Ball attack then it sunk its teeth into Gengar's side causing it to yell in pain before Cherry threw it into the ground.
"Come on Gengar get up and show them you're no push over!" Morty told his Pokémon after it had slammed into the ground. Gengar nodded as it picked itself off the ground. "Now use Nightshade!" Sparks of black energy shot out of Gengar's eyes and slammed it Cherry sending her backwards before she picked herself up.
"Let's pay them back for that Cherry use your new move! Go use Confusion!"
Morty felt his blood run cold as he heard those words. Confusion was a Psychic type attack which on its own was powerful, but with Gengar being weak to it and Cherry being a psychic type that gave it even more power. He watched as Gengar was thrown around the battlefield before being thrown into the wall and sliding to the floor. "Come on Gengar you can do it you can still fight!" Morty yelled to his Pokémon who at first was unresponsive, but now slowly rose to its feet.
"Gengar can't take another attack like that, but maybe it doesn't have to. If I can just get in close and use Hypnosis I can then use Dream Eater and get Gengar its strength back. But how do I do that? Of course I'll use the move that I know they both don't like." Morty thought to himself, "Gengar use Sludge Bomb."
Gengar spat out multiple blobs of Sludge at Chery who just stood there in fear remembering her last experience with that attack, "Cherry it will be ok. Just jump over that attack!" Jake called to her snapping her out of her fear, then she did as he said and jumped over the attack.
"Now use Hypnosis!" Gengar appeared in front of Cherry while she was still in midair. From out of Gengar's eyes came multiple copies of its own making Cherry fall asleep and fall to the ground.
"No! Cherry!"
"Now use Dream Eater." From out Gengar came a mirrored image that flew straight into Cherry causing it to yell in pain.
"Come on Cherry wake up you can do!"
"Gengar let's finish this use Shadow Ball!"
Jake watched as Gengar began to form the shadow ball before looking back at Cherry who was still asleep. "Come on Cherry you can do it wake up!"
"Finish it!" Morty said as Gengar threw the Shadow Ball straight at Cherry.
"Cherry!" Jake yelled as he watched Gengar throw the Shadow Ball.
Deep in the corners of her mind Cherry heard her trainers voice. She looked around and found her self-constricted by some sort of aura and began to struggle against it. Soon enough she broke free and opened her eyes to see a Shadow Ball heading straight at her.
"Cherry you're awake! Use Confusion and throw that Shadow Ball right back at them!" Jake yelled the minute he saw her eyes shoot open.
"Espi!" Cherry yelled as she used all of her psychic energy to take control of the Shadow Ball then she threw it straight back at the shocked Gengar and Morty. The Shadow Ball slammed into Gengar sending it back into the wall and this time it didn't get up.
"Gengar is unable to battle Espeon is the winner! All of the gym leader's Pokémon are unable to battle so the winner is the challenger!" The referee called.
Jake stood there in shock for a while before he ran straight at Cherry who jumped into his arms, "We did it girl! We won!"
"Espeon!" Cherry purred as she nuzzled into Jake's chest.
They stayed like that for a few minutes before they noticed another's presence. They pulled away from each other and saw it was Morty. "Morty." Jake said.
"That was a great battle Jake I almost thought I had Cherry at the end there, but it seems your bond with her helped her pull through Gengar's hypnosis attack."
"Thanks you were great to."
Morty chuckled before reaching into his pocket and pulling out a purple symbol in the shape of a upside down teardrop, "It is my pleasure to award you the Fog Badge for defeating the Ecruteak city gym."
"Thank you Morty." Jake said before pulling out Onix's and Quilava's poke balls and releasing them, "You hear that guys? We won the Fog Badge!" All of them yelled in happiness.
Sometime later Morty, Jake and Cherry stood outside of the Pokemon Center. They had taken there Pokémon to be healed and now they were just waiting for nurse joy to finish healing them. "So where will you go from here?" Morty asked watching the sunset in the distance.
"I don't know really. I think I'll head west to Olivine city and then to Cianwood City I hear they both have gyms."
"The same could be said about heading east and going to Mahogany town and Blackthorn city."
"I know, but I hear that Claire and Price are really tough, plus if I finish in Blackthorn city then I will be close to Mount Silver and I can start training for the Johto league."
"True. Well then I wish you luck. I hope to see you when you come back through Ecruteak city."
"See you then." Jake said as he and Morty shook hands.
"Espi!"
"Don't worry I'll see you too Cherry." Morty chuckled.
The next day Jake left Ecruteak city with Cherry on his shoulder and the two of them headed off on their next adventure.
And so here is the conculsion of this tale of friendship. Please R&R.