The next morning Lucy woke up at a nearby hotel in the new town of Pondlily and got ready to fight her first gym in the new world.

That being said, she again had no idea what the new game had in store for her. "What type of gym is Albina the leader of, Nigel?" She asked.

Nigel shook his little furry head and replied "Sorry, I didn't design this game's gym leaders. Ask Tiger, he has a general idea."

Lucy then turned her attention to the colorful Rhyhorn to her right.

He continued. "The gym you are about to face is the Normal-type gym. Neither I nor Nigel have moves that are super effective against Normal…"

Nige's face lit up with sarcasm. "OH! But I am a Normal type…so that's kinda fun."

Lucy waved him away and got back to Tiger. "However, defensively I should have an edge. Also, please keep in mind that Normal-type Pokémon can become any type of Pokémon you want if you teach it the right moves." Tiger explained with great heed.

"Gotchya." Lucy nodded as they went out to conquer the first gym.

When they arrived to their destination Lucy was a bit nervous, but her two friends were with her so she found enough soothing energy to calm down. Then, as the door opened Lucy was greeted by Albina and about 18-20 children.

"Hi Lucy, hope you slept well, your first test will begin. Follow me." Albina said as she led the group to a battle field surrounded by an indoor playground. At the center of the school there was also a little pool. Finally, as everyone arrived to the arena, the children all situated themselves on some bleachers off to the side.

Lucy and Albina then made their way to opposite ends of the battlefield where a touchscreen with Poké Ball slots popped up.

"What is this?" Lucy asked.

"You have to read the touch screen and follow the rules of the battle. The poke ball slots register your Pokémon for the particular battle, and…oh my I sound like a teacher! I'm sure you hate it when Gym Leaders do this!" She laughed at herself and kindly let Lucy figure it out on her own.

"EH!? But I…?" Lucy decided to quit asking questions as Albina never replied. Albina then put her own two Poké Balls on her device.

Lucy looked at her device and read its message. "2 vs 2 double battle. No substitutions allowed. Please select Pokémon." Lucy put Tiger's Poké Ball on the device first and then on the touch screen it showed a silhouette of Rhyhorn as all of Tiger's stats and DNA were scanned. The same thing happened after she uploaded Nigel's ball as well.

"Let's go. Come on out Bidoof and Bunnelby!" the Leader summoned a rodent Pokémon with a goofy face and a familiar rabbit with long ears.

Lucy followed by sending Nigel and Tiger in their respective ball capsules and got ready to test them out.

"Nigel, Tiger, Help me out here!" Tiger's poke ball sent a yellow star vortex that then landed on the battle field and as the stars disappeared Tiger Appeared. Nigel's on the other hand sent out a large cloud of money in the form of Poké Dollars right where Nigel appeared, due to his affluent lifestyle back home.

"Hehe." Nigel laughed, but quickly looked at his trainer Lucy, who was stars struck with awe in her eyes

"That… was… awesome." Lucy said as she enjoyed watching her two friends emerge with style.

"Nice entrance, but that will only get you so far." Albina said. "You have the first attack."

"All right then, take this!" Nigel said as his tail lit up with white, and once it finished he flipped by sending stars at the opponent.

"Nigel used Swift!"

Tiger emerged out of the water of the pool and sent a small glowing rock at the two making them instantly fall down.

"Tiger used Smack Down!"

"Not bad." Albina nodded with approval. "I had no idea Rhyhorn liked water, much less could be able to swim…but it is now my turn."

Bidoof turned into a ball and rammed Nigel sending him flying. "Bidoof used Rollout."

Bunnelby then sent mud into Tiger's eyes obscuring his vision. "Bunnelby used Mudslap! It's Super Effective! Tiger's accuracy fell."

Tiger started to panic due to being blind and unable to do anything about it. "Tiger, calm down, get to the pool. Nigel, help Tiger by being his eyes." Lucy said.

Nigel dodged the 2nd rollout and jumped onto tiger. "Don't worry!" He yelled out. "Just do as I say and you'll be fine! Keep going straight!

Tiger ran as straight as possible.

"Bunnelby, don't let them get to the water." Albina ordered as the Bunnelby was shooting mud again to try and stop them.

"Go left, now right, more to the right, Left, keep going!" Nigel commanded and hopped up and down as Tiger obeyed. They eventually ran into the pool and Tiger's vision was restored.

"Aw yeah, it is payback time." Tiger said as he stomped on the ground causing a mini Earthquake and also making the ground turn into a large wave of land sending both normal type Pokémon flying.

"Tiger used Bulldoze. That nearly knocked them out but Nigel took care of that with another Swift attack.

Albina recalled her Pokémon, and walked over to the victorious blond. The kids all ran to the Rhyhorn and the Eevee with joy in their eyes.

Lucy was still in shock that she won. Nigel had to address his trainer. "Normally you can't learn Bulldoze without a tm…but eh it is fine."

"Yeah, there is something pretty important about this game I need to tell you..." Tiger said but before he could say anything they were swarmed with young children. There was a flurry of "That was cool" and "I wanna touch your horn" and "I just wanna hug you to death."

"Lucy." Lucy woke up from her daze of victory as the gym leader came to her side. Albina was carrying a small white square surrounded by a gold outline "You have passed your test and here is the White Badge. With it, Pokémon up to level 30 will listen to you just like a teacher. And please, take this too."

Albina gave Lucy tm 49. "That is Echoed Voice, the more you use it the stronger it becomes. I hope you become stronger and we will meet again." Albina said.

"Thank you very much! Tiger, Nigel, Lets g…" Lucy stopped in her tracks as she saw 3 kids hugging Nigel to near death and the rest of the kids were on top of tiger.

"Oh dear, I am afraid that my kids got out of hand again." Albina said as Lucy smiled back at her.

30 minuits later

"Alright then, which way do we go?" Lucy asked as they got to a cross intersection.

"Hmm, I think the next gym is a Grass gym…or a fire gym. I can't remember off the top of my head."

Lucy shook her head. 'Well, those are two drastically different options…"

Tiger smiled. 'I'm only kidding! It's the Grass Gym for sure, and it's only a couple of towns ahead. But first let's see if any of our friends are around the area." Tiger said as Lucy got out her Poké Dex and sure enough there was 4 dots each going a different direction.

"There are 2 going that way." Lucy said as Tiger pondered what was in that direction. "If we go left we will run into a Power Plant. If we go right we get to a daycare; and straight ahead is the next town." Tiger said.

"To the power plant then." Lucy replied as they went left. When they got to the power plant, they were greeted by none other than professor sycamore.

"Professor Sycamore? Lucy asked. "Is that you?"

"Yes, I think I remember you. You are the one who stopped Team Flare!" Sycamore said as Lucy nodded.

"Yep that is me." Lucy said.

Nigel leaned over to Tiger and whispered into his ear. "Nice job transferring the X&Y character AI into the new game!"

Tiger smiled and accepted the compliment as they both continued watching Lucy.

"I know this is a bit sudden but, please…could you pick one of these for me?" Sycamore smiled as he held out 3 poke balls.

Somehow, Lucy already knew what was in them. She was about to pick Froakie again until Tiger said, "WAIT!"

Lucy stopped and turned to look at Tiger. "One of your other friends might be in one of those poke balls, so pick carefully! Use the Poké Dex it will help." Tiger instructed as Lucy's eyes widened at the thought of losing a friend.

She got her Dex out and scanned each ball left to right. The middle one had a red dot on it so that was the one to pick. Lucy took the middle one and out came an orange fox with bushy red fur coming out of its ears. In addition, it was also wearing a familiar orange band with a flower on it.

"Wha-? W-where am I?" The voice of Levy Mcgarden came out of the tiny little fox Pokémon, Fenniken.

"LEVY-CHAN!" Lucy yelled with joy. Levy turned around and saw Lucy.

"LU-CHAN!" Levy said as she jumped into Lucy's arms.

"LEVY!" Jet and Droy cried with relief back in Magnolia while they also began hugging each other.

"Oh Levy, it was horrible travelling with two men, but for a guy Tiger wasn't as bad as I thought." Lucy said while crying into Levy's fur.

"Well, sounds like someone's not getting a volunteer's check when we get back…" Nigel said, threatening Lucy with a monetary item that doesn't even exist (or make any sense for that matter.)

After the tearful reunion, Lucy looked around the rest of the power plant proper and came across a sheep with a long tail and red light at the end.

As Lucy instinctually caught it, she was taken away after receiving a hefty shock from the Pokémon's fluffy fur.

In fact, the little sheep's wool turned yellow and it had a lightning scar on its left eye.

"Ugh…huh?" Then, the newly colored Mareep collected its vision and began speaking in the rough and deep voice of Laxus Dreyar.

"Ah great…don't tell me I got sucked into this lousy game again?"

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Hi Tiger here, This was a fun chapter to write but it will be even funnier later on. you will see. I understand if you don't agree with Laxus as A Mareep but it is the only Dragon/ Electric type when he fully evolves and mega evolves. see you soon