Alex's rise to championship 4
Alex shouted "Go Charmander!" as he threw his pokeball. The little pokemon came out spewing fire, as if to intimidate its opponent.
"I choose you Pikachu!" said Drew, (I just now realize I said a signature catchphrase and don't think I did that on purpose). The yellow mouse's cheeks were sparking when it came out and it then gave the Charmander its signature sneer.
"Use ember Charmander!" shouted Alex. The balls of fire shot from its mouth and this time they were a little bigger than before, that training from the afternoon obviously paid off. They actually got Pikachu to take a step back this time.
"Get behind the campfire and use thundershock!" commanded Drew. Alex saw this coming, so he told Charmander to jump to the side, it made it out safe, and the lightning dispersed.
"Hey Drew! Bad idea to get behind that fire" taunted Alex. He told Charmander to use its ember attack, and halfway through it went into the fire and came out twice in size, they nailed Pikachu so hard it flew back into Drew's tent. Everyone knew now the battle was over.
"No way! That battle ended too quickly! I want a rematch" pouted Drew. Wow this guy acts all tough normally, but he's a sore loser thought Alex.
"Well if you want a rematch, your gonna need to use another pokemon", said Alex. At this Drew just stared blankly and made a signal for him to go away. Content with payback Alex left the campsite smiling. When he returned everyone was still asleep, but Derek wasn't back, he must really want to win that gym badge thought Alex. It was so late that he just decided to sleep on it.
Several hours later Lucas woke up to the smell of smoke. When he woke up he saw that there was a fire around the northern part of the camp, not good.
"Guys! Wake UP!" screamed Lucas. Both Quinton and Alex soon realized what was going on, and they all started to panic.
"Where's Derek! We could really use his Squirtle right now!" yelled Lucas. Alex just told him about him going out to train, and he apparently didn't come back yet. So to take the place of Squirtle, Alex used his Shellder, which doused the flames easily with water gun.
"That was weird", said Quinton. Since they had some time to sleep and with this whole fiasco the three decided to pack up and head to Pewter City. Quinton declared that since Derek wasn't here he would just have to find his own way to the city.
When they made it to the Pewter City they were amazed at how… stony it looked. There were many tall buildings, but all of the roads were lined with big rocks, and they were all dirt roads. Since the place looked the same everywhere they asked for directions to the gym, a man said it was just west of Stone park, which was only two blocks ahead.
Great, thoughtAlex more rocks. While walking to the gym they decided that Quinton would go first to face the leader, then Lucas, and finally Alex. Then they noticed a familiar face in the park, "Derek!" shouted Lucas, "Where have you been!".
"Well uh, to tell the truth I was in so much anticipation it was eating me alive, so I challenged the gym, but look! I got the badge", said Derek, who showed them a gray badge shaped like a rock.
"Two things Derek, one I take it the gym leader is a rock type user, and two YOU BROKE THE AGREEMENT! We agreed to go our own ways when we all got our first badge" fumed Alex. (Just to skip a bit along they all argued a bit, anger was vented, and they all went back to the gym.)
As they entered Alex first noticed two things, more rocks… and that the gym leader was intimidating. He seemed to always have a constant glare, which made him look all the more tougher to the new trainers. But finally Quinton walked up to take the challenge.
"We came here for a battle, and I'm going up first", said Quinton.
"Well then how about we get this going", said the leader. The two got to their positions on opposite ends of the field, and the ref held up the flags.
"The match between the trainer Quinton and the gym leader Brock shall begin, both competitors will use only two pokemon, and let the battle begin!" shouted the referee.
The gym leader, Brock sent out a pokemon he called Geodude, which looked like a rock with two arms, and Quinton sent out his Nidoran. Nidoran was commanded to use poison sting, which didn't do much to Geodude, which responded with a rock throw attack. The rocks hit hard, but Nidoran kept going.
"Run up to Geodude!" said Quinton. The pokemon began to bound at its opponent, jumping over rocks and other obstacles, which also included another Rock Throw. Once it made a stop at Geodude's left, it waited for its next attack.
"Use Double Kick", said Quinton, the pokemon then turned around, got on its forelegs and hit Geodude multiple times, which did a lot of damage, this knocked Geodude out.
"Geodude is unable to battle, the victory goes to Nidoran", said the ref.
"Return Geodude", said Brock, then he threw another pokeball, "Go Onix!". Out came a large rock snake pokemon, with a flat horn on the rock that looked to be the head. "Use Rock Slide!" he shouted. Onix then slammed his tail into the ground, and up came a shower of large rocks.
"Hide yourself between the two rocks in the center of the field", said Quinton. Nidoran made it just in time, a particularly big stone almost landed on it. Once the barrage was over, the two rocks Nidoran was hiding under crumbled from being hit too much, but the pokemon was okay.
(I'm gonna skip along and say that Nidoran landed a couple of hits, which eventually defeated Onix, and Brock gave him the Boulder Badge. He said that Lucas could face him tomorrow, and now Lucas and Alex are thinking of their own strategy, which Alex could really use because of his Charmander)