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Chapter 2-

A teen walked through the sliding doors of the Azure Town gym. That familiar feeling of excitement in his stomach began to surface. He walked up to the circular desk with a woman behind it.

"Welcome to the Azure Town gym. My name is Jen, how can I help you?"

"Hello, I would like to challenge the gym leader." he said.

"Okay. You'll be battling with three pokemon, so I suggest you get them ready. I'll page the gym leader." Jen replied.

(intercom) "Tristan? Your first challenger is here!"

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Oh boy, my first challenger. Why did it have to be so soon?

"OK, Jen, tell them I'll be right there."

As he walked to the main part of the gym, Tristan worriedly began to think:

"Oh, Mew, I am not ready for this. Couldn't they have waited a couple of hours? Geez, this person must've gotten up at dawn to get here. My first match. OK, relax, it's probably some new trainer with a starter and like a Tailow or a Zigzagoon or something weak. Nothing to worry about. Oh shoot! I forgot my pokemon!"

He quickly ran back to his room. He went over in his mind who he has that is part ice-type.

"Ok, ice types are weak against fire, fighting, steel, and rock attacks and have a resistance only to other ice attacks. This is why one element pokemon suck. Anyway, I have Sealeo, Piloswine, Lapras, Sneasel, Cloyster, Delibird, and Dewgong, and mom's Dewgong and Glalie. Cloyster is part water so it'll take care of the fire and rock types, and can go in its shell to ward off fighting attacks and its picked up weakness to electricity. I'll take Lapras for the water too. Then I'll throw a fast one at them and bring Sneasel for its dark type. It picks up a weakness to Bug types, but also picks up strengths versus psychic, ghost, and dark types. This should be fun."

Tristan grabbed his pokeballs and quickly ran back to the gym. He told Jen over the intercom that the challenger could enter. He was confident that his careful selections would provide a big surprise for this challenger.

The battle arena was really something to behold. It was covered in frosted mirrors to give the impressions that the battle was happening on a sheet of ice. In the middle of the floor was a small, but deep pool to give the ice pokemon a place to go during battle. The air in the gym was kept at around 45 degrees which was a good compromise between comfort and maximizing the potential of ice attacks. As an added bonus, it was usually an unpleasant feeling for challengers and served to distract them.

The doors opened and in stepped his opponent. He looked to be a little under Tristan's age with spiky brown hair and green eyes. He wore a black polo and what appeared to be purple pants.

"My name is Gary Oak from Pallet and I'm here to challenge the gym leader!"

"OK Gary. My name is Tristan and I am the gym leader of the Azure Town gym." Haven't I heard the name Oak before…?

"You're the gym leader? I heard the leader of this gym was named Sophie."

"Yes, that's my mom, but she is away at a conference and she will be away for three days. I am her substitute, and I can assure you that I am more than a handful for any trainer."

"Very well. Then I guess my battle is with you."

"Great! Just step into the box over there and we will get started.

At this time, Tristan's younger brother Adam came out. He acted as a judge for the battles along with Tristan's father and other brother.

"This will be a three on three pokemon match with no time limit. The challenger, Gary will be battling with the gym leader, Tristan, for a Tundra badge. The challenger is allowed to substitute their pokemon during battle, while the gym leader is not. The last trainer with a pokemon left standing will be the winner. Are the trainers ready?"

"Yes" they both answered

"Then BEGIN!"

Here we go... "Go Cloyster!" Tristan yelled.

"Go Arcanine!"

Just as I thought, a fire type. Too bad Cloyster has no weakness to fire types.

"Arcanine use agility! Then do a flamethrower!"

"Cloyster, wait in your shell!"

Arcanine ran quickly up to Cloyster and let lose a torrent of flames. The flamethrower hit the shell and appeared to have no impact.

"Now Cloyster, spike cannon!"

Spikes came out of Cloyster's shell in all directions, hitting Arcanine.

"Arcanine, shake it off and do Take Down!"

ARC!

"Wait for Arcanine to get close, Cloyster."

Arcanine hurtled towards Cloyster at full force and was about to hit it when…

"Now Cloyster, Clamp onto Arcanine!

Cloyster went up into the air and clamped onto Arcanine's back. The fire dog stopped and began to buck wildly doing its best to try and shake Cloyster off but it would not budge. Gary tried to get his pokemon to calm down but it wouldn't listen.

"Now Cloyster, do another Spike Cannon!"

While still holding on to Arcanine, Cloyster let loose another barrage of spikes at close range. Arcanine howled in pain.

"Arcanine! Try a flame wheel!"

Arcanine did that and the heat caused Cloyster to have to let go.

"It's alright Cloyster. Let that Arcanine hear your Supersonic!"

Cloyster began to emit waves of high pitched sound which made Arcanine confused.

"Arcanine try to calm down and use a flamethrower on Cloyster."

But Arcanine instead fired the flamethrower at Adam who narrowly jumped out of the way.

"Cloyster, finish this off with a Water Pulse!"

The water crashed into the confused Arcanine and when it was over, the fiery dog lay in a heap in the middle of the battlefield.

"Arcanine is unable to battle. Cloyster is the winner!"

"Alright, good job Cloyster! You were awesome!"

"Arcanine return. You deserve a rest. You may have gotten lucky taking down my Arcanine, but try this. Go Nidoking!"

Gary managed to use a well timed Focus Energy and Double Kick to knock Cloyster out, though it did manage to get an Ice Beam off that weakened Nidoking. Tristan then sent out Lapras whose Confuse Ray and Hydro Pump knocked out Nidoking. Nidoking weakened Lapras some before it fainted with a Double Kick. Gary sent out his final pokemon, his trusty Umbreon. The gold-ringed dog took out Lapras using the speed of its quick attack and its dark attacks Assurance and Faint.

"One more for each of us right Tristan? My Umbreon is fast isn't it?"

"Yes, very. I hope that allows you to enjoy my last pokemon even more. Go Sneasel!"

"A Sneasel? Hmm… indeed they are part ice. I did not see that coming." Shoot! My dark attacks are going to be useless. Well, so are his. "OK Umbreon, Quick Attack!

"Sneasel, dodge and use your Screech."

Sneasel dodged the oncoming bullet that was Umbreon and emitted an ear splitting screech. Umbreon ground to a halt trying to cover its ears.

"Good, now use Icy Wind!"

The Icy Wind attack hit Umbreon as it started to get up.

Icy Wind slows down opponents so his speed advantage is now gone.

"Umbreon shake it off and use Shadow Ball!"

The black blob hit Sneasel knocking it down.

"Sneasel, are you okay?" It nodded its head. "Alright then, use your speed and give Umbreon your Slash attack."

"Umbreon dodge it!"

But the effects of the Icy Wind allowed Sneasel to easily catch Umbreon and deliver a punishing slash that hurt Umbreon. Umbreon flew across the field and was slow getting up.

"Sneasel, finish it off with Metal Claw!"

The attack hit Umbreon full force as Gary watched in astonishment. Umbreon lay on the ground fainted.

"Umbreon is unable to battle. Sneasel is the winner. The match goes to the gym leader."

Yes! I won! Take that mom! "Good battle Sneasel, you were excellent. Return."

"Umbreon, return. You did your best buddy." Dang it! I can't believe I lost to that guy. I've never seen Umbreon get taken down that easy. His Sneasel is good.

"Gary, that was an exciting match! As per the gym rules, you must wait at least two full days before rechallenging the gym to allow you and your pokemon time to heal and regroup. And my mom might be back by then, so it'll be easier, but don't tell her I said that." he added, looking around as if she could hear him.

"Then I will be back in two days. By the way, nice pokemon."

And with that Gary went out the doors to the Pokemon Center. Tristan meanwhile walked outside and let out Sneasel, Lapras, and Cloyster to talk the battle over with them and to congratulate them on a great victory. He returned them to their pokeballs and headed back inside where Jen worked with him on the paperwork that he had to do. It took them almost an hour to get through it.

Afterwards, Tristan decided to go to the Pokemon Center in town to give his pokemon a recharge in case he needed them for another battle. He also decided he would get some lunch while he was out too, as that battle took a lot out of him. And with that Tristan walked out the door towards the Azure Town Pokemon Center.

A/N- Gary is way too young to dedicate himself to a life of research! So, he went to Hoenn like Ash did for this story. Remember to review!