Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon or Harry Potter, I do not have any rights to Pokémon or Harry Potter and I do not make any money from writing these fics.

A/N: Written for Remi's The Alphabet Prompt Challenge. My Pokémon character is Gary Oak and my chosen plot is Gary trying to help Harry Potter find his chosen Pokémon partner...and everything that goes wrong in the process.

Prompt: Dominion.

Chapter 4

With a soft huff as his feet landed on the ground the other side of the fence Harry looked up to find Gary stiffly pushing himself up into a sitting position.

"Are you sure you are going to be alright?" Harry asked as he quickly made his way over to Gary, "You look like you are going to have some amazing bruises tomorrow and by the look of things you already starting to feel the effects of Geodude's anger."

"I will be fine, do not worry about me," Gary replied with a small wince as he rubbed his left arm. "Geodude was just showing off his strength and how he can protection his dominion no matter how small it is...or big.

"Right, well whatever you say," Harry said with a clearly doubting looking on his face as he looked worriedly at Gary. "Do you want a hand up or are you going to be alright? You did travel a very long way."

"I will be fine, I am made of harder stuff than you think," Gary said with a stressed grin on his face as he turned around to kneel on his hands and knees, he did not want Harry, a war hero who had gone through so much to think that he was some sort of weakling who could not take a little bit of rough play. "Just give me a moment alright?"

"Okay, well as soon as you are up we can go and see about that food and advice from your Grandfather," Harry said as he took a step backwards to give Gary some more room to stand up. "Maybe you should ask your Grandfather for some sort of painkillers..."

Gary simply let out a low groan and nodded his head in agreement before slowly standing up. As he stood up he did his best to ignore the dull aches and pains in his body. It seemed that he was hurting more than he thought he would.

"Maybe you are right, I think that from now on we should stick to introducing you to Pokémon who are slightly less harmless...I do not know if my body can take all of this and we have only just started," Gary complained as he stretched. "I wonder...how would you like to be introduced to a nice Catapie?"

"Catapie?" Harry asked in confusion. "I have never heard of that Pokémon before, through than again I have not heard about a lot of Pokémon."

Catapies are nice and harmless," Gary replied as he looked over the fence and to the tree nearest the tree to the lab. "The tree where the Captaies and their evolutions like to live are really close to the lab too."

"Alright, through I hope that we do not end up getting into any trouble with these Pokémon," Harry said as he gave Gary a pointed look. "If anything I do not think that your body can take any more bashing about than it already have."

"I guess you are right but this is part of the job when working with Pokémon. You can never be certain of how a Pokémon will react as each one is as different just like us humans," Gary replied causing Harry to smile at Gary's obvious excitement. "But do not worry, we will find you a perfect Partner Pokémon and both of you will get on great with each other and you will both have lots of adventures!"

"Lots of adventures?" Harry asked with a raised eyebrow as he watched Gary walk over to the fence and eye it with a critical eye. "You remind me of my old Headmaster with all of your talk about adventures, through by the looks of it with how your moving it seems that your body has had enough adventures for a long time."

"Nah, I have not. You will soon come to find out that this is just all part of being a Pokémon trainer or whatever you chose to do with Pokémon," Gary replied with one of his normal smirks. "I hated it to begin with, along with several other people I know, but as you get more experience you will realise that-"

"-it is time to stop and have a rest?" Harry asked dryly with a pointed look on his face only for Gary to ignore it as he put a hand on the wooden fence in an almost testing manner.

"-That it is you making mistakes, learning and processing in your knowledge and skill," Gary finished as he slowly began to climb over the fence while making sure to be careful of his stiff body. "And every time that you do it and practice it you will find that you get better at it and it will hurt less."

"It sounds to me like you are talking about someone working out at a gym or doing gymnastics rather than working with their Pokémon trainer," Harry said with a thoughtful frown on his face. "I think that this is going to become even more dangerous than the war somehow..."

"Nonsense, everything will be alright," Gary said as he offered Harry a comforting look before he climbed over the fence while making sure not to put any pressure on where his body hurt. "This is just...a few bumps in the road on the journey to finding your perfect Pokémon partner!"

"If you say so," Harry said as he quickly climbed over the fence and joined Gary on the other side. "What if there is not a so called perfect Pokémon partner out there for me?"

"There is, and we will find it," Gary said in a comforting manner as he turned around. "Even if your partner is not here at my Grandfather's lab we will continue looking, we will even send you out into the world with a skilled Pokémon trainer at your side to help you look for a perfect match!"

"Now you are starting to sound more like a dating service," Harry said simply as he turned away from the fence. "Have you ever had to do that? Send some out into the world with a Pokémon trainer?"

Walking the few steps towards Gary Harry came to a standstill as he found himself staring at a very shocked and fearful looking Gary. To Harry it was almost as if he was back in the war and someone had seen Voldemort and his Death Eaters right in front of them just moments before.

"What is the matter? You look like you have just seen Voldemort himself," Harry said as he looked Gary over for any signs of what could be wrong only to freeze in shock when he felt the ground under him begin to shake. "W-What was that?!"

"I-Please do not tell me that the ground under us felt like it was shaking, please tell me it was not," Gary said finally as he shot Harry an almost begging look. "Please tell me that it was not what I think it might be!"

"What you think it might be?" Harry asked in confusion, his hand going towards his wand. "What is happening Gary? Is it an earthquake? An attack? Do you have people here that are like Voldemort and the Death Eater's?"

"No, it is much worse," Gary whimpered out fearfully making Harry begin to run through battle plans in his mind.

"What is it Gary? What is causing the ground to shake so much?" Harry asked as he carefully masked his emotions for the battle. "What is happening?"

Gary simply turned his head and looked at Harry with a blank expression on his face. "Diglett and Dugtrio."

To Be Continued...