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Chapter 5: The Rock Solid Pokémon Trainer
The four teens were up early the next morning and all were looking forward to their first gym battle. By 9o'clock the four were standing outside a large stone grey building; the Pewter City Gym.
"We all ready for this?" Brett asked as he reached for the doors.
Getting nods in return Brett pushed hard on the doors which swung open to reveal a large Pokémon battlefield covered with large rocks all over it. Surrounding the battlefield on all sides were ranks of seats for spectators.
Two figures stood on the other side of the battlefield facing them. One was a young man about five years older than the four with light brown and dark eyes. The other was an older man wearing a yellow jacket with a Pokeball symbol on the left breast.
"Welcome trainers to the Pewter City Gym, I am the Pewter City Gym Leader Brock," the young man said as the four teens entered. "I specialise in Pokémon of the Rock type and am considered to be the Kanto region's leading expert on them."
The four teens introduced themselves and Brock explained that the older man was the gym's battle referee.
"So tell me, how many badges do each of you have?" Brock asked.
"None of us have any badges yet," Brett replied. "Though we hope to change this today."
"Okay then so the first timer's team then," Brock said walking over to the wall opposite the gym entrance and pressed a button causing a draw carrying six Pokeballs to slide out. "As you may know each Gym Leader possesses many Pokémon of various strengths so that they can match their challenge to the strength of the challenging trainer. Then we also have our own personal teams that are our true teams."
Brett nodded in reply while each of the others looked as though Brock had confirmed their beliefs. Brett of course already knew this because of his father; he knew that his father's personal team was far more powerful than the team he used most often against challengers and if he were to use his personal team he'd almost never hand out a badge.
"Now I only have three sets of first timer's teams so one of you will have to wait until tomorrow to have your Gym battle," Brock explained.
The four looked at each other and nodded before having a few rounds of scissors/paper/rock to decide. Brett ended up winning and choosing to have his battle the next day knowing this would give him a chance to study the Pokémon he'd be up against, especially useful since his starter had a type disadvantage.
"Damn it how do you always manage to win these?" Pete asked causing Brett to simply smirk and walk over to the stands.
"So which of you is going to go first?" Brock asked.
"I'll go," Arthur volunteered.
Diana and Peter walked over and joined Brett in the stands while Arthur and Brock took their positions in the trainer area at either end of the battlefield and the referee took his at the centre of one side.
"This will be an official Pewter City Gym battle between Brock, the Pewter City Gym Leader and the challenger, Arthur from Pallet Town," the referee announced. "Both sides may only use two Pokémon each and only the challenger may substitute Pokémon."
"Geodude you're up," Brock called releasing his first Pokémon.
A small grey rock with two arms appeared out of its Pokeball.
"Geodude the Rock Pokémon, a dual Rock and Ground type with the ability Rock Head. Found in fields and mountains it is impossible to distinguish from rocks causing people to often step or trip on them. They slam themselves against each other in contests of hardness. The Rock Head ability prevents the Pokémon from taking recoil damage."
"Rattata your up," Arthur called releasing his Pokémon.
"This Rattata's ability is Run Away. The Run Away ability prevents a Pokémon from being trapped in battle."
"Geodude verses Rattata begin!" the referee called.
"Geodude Tackle," Brock called.
Geodude threw its body towards Rattata.
"Rattata dodge with Quick Attack," Arthur called. "Then use Hyper Fang."
Rattata's body glowed white before it ran off to the side out of Geodude's path before it turned around and opened its mouth. Its teeth glowed white and Rattata jumped at Geodude who wasn't fast enough to dodge and Rattata struck Geodude with its teeth.
Geodude gave a small cringe before backing off.
"This is going to be difficult for Arthur, Rattata doesn't know any damaging moves of any other type than Normal," Brett said as he examined the battle. "As a Rock type Geodude is resistant to Normal type attacks and they only do half damage. If he wants to win with Rattata he's going to have to rely on Hyper Fang as the most powerful attack Rattata knows. Something I'm sure Brock knows."
"Add to that the fact that despite Rattata's relatively high Attack Geodude has monstrous defence and this may not go well," Diana added.
"Arthur has a plan to counter this," Peter replied. "He didn't tell me what but he has a plan."
Rattata continued to run around avoiding Geodude's Tackle and Rock Throw attacks while hitting it with Hyper Fang attacks at every opportunity.
"Geodude use Mud Sport," Brock instructed.
Geodude began to hover slightly above the ground while glowing brown before dropping heavily back down to the ground. When it hit the ground the brown glow moved down into the ground causing a wave of mud to move out in all directions covering the battlefield with mud. The sudden appearance of the mud surprised Rattata who suddenly found it had a lot less grip on the floor of the battlefield and ended up sliding at high speed into one of the rock on the battlefield.
"Yikes that's got to hurt," Diana said.
"Yeah, Brock realised what Arthur was trying to do," Brett added. "He was using Rattata's superior speed to dodge and take pot shots while trying to tire Geodude out and make it easier to hit."
"You can see why Brock was made a Gym Leader can't you," Peter finished.
"Alright then Rattata we'll have to go for plan B," Arthur said. "Hyper Fang."
Again Rattata jumped straight at Geodude and tried to bite it with its teeth. Geodude responded by throwing its whole body at Rattata. This caused both to go flying backwards from the collision though due to its smaller size and weight Rattata flew further.
Arthur instructed Rattata to continue using Hyper Fang causing Rattata to continue trying to bite down on Geodude who continued to deal out damage to Rattata with Tackle or Rock Throw attacks.
"What is Arthur doing?" Peter asked. "All that he seems to be doing is letting Rattata take damage."
"He is," Brett confirmed. "But I think it's part of his plan. Plus if you look closely you can see Geodude's getting tired as well. It must be using more energy than Rattata because it has more weight it needs to move around that's why its attacks are becoming more sluggish."
"That may be but I don't think Rattata can take more than one or two more attacks," Diana added.
Just then Geodude moved in to perform another Tackle attack but as Brett had noticed its movements were very sluggish, something Arthur also noticed. Just as Geodude got close to Rattata he made his move.
"Rattata now Reversal!" Arthur called.
Rattata glowed white before spinning around on its front paws and using its hind feet to kick Geodude hard in the face. Geodude went flying backwards slamming into a rock; it began to get up when Rattata slammed into it using Quick Attack causing Geodude to collapse.
"Geodude is unable to battle; the winner is Rattata!" the referee called.
"What was that?" Diana asked shocked.
"Reversal, it's a fighting type move that does more damage the lower its health is," Brett explained reading off his Pokedéx. "It's a move it can only learn by tutoring or inheriting from its father. Arthur must have found it in Rattata's Pokédex entry and decided to teach it to it in case his plan of running circles around Brock's Pokémon failed."
"Risky plan, he's just lucky it worked out for him," Peter added.
"Interesting strategy," Brock commented as he returned Geodude. "I really didn't see that one coming."
"Thanks I was hoping I wouldn't have to use it but with the way the battle went I figured it was worth a shot," Arthur replied returning Rattata.
"Let's see how you do against this one," Brock commented. "Go Onix!"
A large grey snake-like Pokémon made completely of numerous boulders appeared.
"Onix the Rock Snake Pokémon, a dual Rock and Ground type Pokémon with the ability Rock Head. Opening its large mouth, it ingests massive amounts of soil and creates long tunnels. The tunnels it leaves are used as homes by Diglett."
"You're up Squirtle," Arthur called.
A small blue bipedal tortoise with a brown shell appeared out of Arthur's Pokéball.
"Squirtle the Tiny Turtle Pokémon, a pure Water type Pokémon with the ability Torrent. It shelters itself in its shell, and then strikes back with spouts of water at every opportunity. The Torrent ability raises the strength of Water type moves when the Pokémon is low on health."
"This should be easy for Arthur Onix is four times weak to Water type attacks," Peter commented.
"True but remember on average two-thirds of Brock's challengers have a double type advantage against his Pokémon, I'm sure he knows how to handle them," Brett replied.
"Onix versus Squirtle. Begin!" the referee called.
Brock began the battle by telling Onix to use Screech to lower Squirtle's Defences. Onix opened its mouth and a glowing white ball appeared in its mouth before it began emitting waves of sound energy in Squirtle's direction. Arthur has Squirtle use Water Gun to lift itself into the air and out of the way of the sound wave using a stream of water out of its mouth before telling it to use Bubble. This caused Squirtle to open its mouth and shoot small bubbles out of its mouth which floated towards Onix. Brock told Onix to dodge but due to Onix's immense size it was unable to dodge all of the bubbles. Those which hit it caused Onix to wince backwards in pain.
Brock instructed Onix to use Rock Throw which caused Onix to slam its tail down onto the battlefield causing numerous rocks to fly up out of the ground Onix then hit these rocks with its tail sending them flying towards Squirtle who was still falling after having use Water Gun to propel itself into the air. Being airborne meant Squirtle was unable to dodge the rocks and was slammed into by them causing it to go flying backwards into the ground. Brock then had Onix use bind before Squirtle could get back up. Onix slid its tail behind Squirtle and wrapped it around Squirtle's body and began to squeeze.
"Ouch, can you imagine being squeezed by giant boulders, even with that shell that's got to hurt," Brett said cringing. "If Arthur doesn't do something soon I don't think Squirtle will last too long like that."
"Squirtle use Withdraw," Arthur called out.
Squirtle drew its arms, legs and head into its shell shine glowed blue quickly before fading.
"Now use water gun," Arthur instructed.
Suddenly a powerful stream of water shot out of one of the holes in Squirtle's shell hitting Onix full force in the body that it was unable to dodge due to not knowing which hole it would come out. Seeing this Arthur told Squirtle to keep using Water Gun out of random holes. Onix kept getting blasted by the Water Gun attacks and after getting blasted in the face let go of Squirtle and backed away. As the two Pokémon stood facing each other it was clear both had taken heavy damage from the recent attacks though Onix was breathing heavier than Squirtle.
"Onix, Tackle," Brock called.
Onix began moving quickly towards Squirtle it large, heavy body thundering across the battlefield.
"Squirtle, finish this with Water Gun," Arthur countered.
Squirtle jumped into the air and threw back its head before throwing it forward and opening its mouth firing a powerful stream of water out of it mouth which hit Onix full in the face.
Ignoring the water hitting its face Onix continued barrelling towards Squirtle who put as much power into the Water Gun as it could. Suddenly Squirtle became surrounded by a blue glowing energy and the stream of water coming out of its mouth became more powerful and ribbons of the blue energy could be seen flowing along with it. As the more powerful stream hit Onix it slowed down slightly but continued its path towards Squirtle.
"Squirtle's Torrent ability just activated," Brett said leaning forward in his seat. "Even then it may not be enough. Onix is still coming and if it manages to hit Squirtle I don't think the little fellow's going to be getting back up even with the defence boost from Withdraw."
As Onix got closer and closer to Squirtle everyone could see that it was also getting slower and slower showing that it was getting weaker and weaker. The only question now was would its health last long enough for it to hit Squirtle.
Just as it looked like Onix would make it the Rock Snake Pokémon collapsed and slid to a stop centimetres from Squirtle's face.
"Onix is unable to battle, Squirtle is the winner," the referee called. "The match goes to the challenger."
Arthur ran onto the field and scooped up Squirtle hugging the Tiny Turtle Pokémon in absolute joy at their first Gym victory.
"Good work Onix, return," Brock said calling Onix to its Pokéball.
"You were great Squirtle, thank you," Arthur said still thanking his Pokémon.
Brock walked up the battlefield to Arthur.
"Congratulations, that was an excellent battle," Brock said shaking Arthur's hand before reaching into his pocket and pulling out a small grey octagon and holding it out to Arthur. "As the Pewter City Gym Leader it is my pleasure to award you the Boulder Badge, proof of your victory over me."
"Thank you very much," Arthur replied taking the badge. "One down seven to go."
"I look forward to seeing if you three are as good as Arthur here is," Brock said turning to the other three smiling. "So? Who's next?"
So there we have it. One of the teens has their first badge. The next chapter will skip straight to Brett's Gym battle and give highlights of Diana's and Peter's.
If anyone is wondering Reversal, which Rattata used is one of its Egg moves from Gen 3 which Arthur taught it to use to help take out Rock types but hopefully i explained that well enough in the chapter.
Also if anyone is wondering about the gender's of the teens Pokemon the only one that has been revealed so far that is female is Diana's Bulbasaur. That's not anything against female's that's just what I've chosen so far for the revealed Pokemon there will be more female Pokemon the teens will catch later on but most of the time it will only be mentioned if it's important to the story or situation. I will say this though Diana will tend to end up with more female Pokemon than the other three. Again that doesn't actually mean anything that's just how things will end up.