Felipe and bulbasaur arrived at the Vermilion gym. It was a large building, with lightning bolts sticking out of the roof. Felipe and bulbasaur entered the building.

"Hello? I'm here to challenge the gym leader!"

"And who are you?" asked a voice from the shadows.

"I'm Felipe, where's Lt. Surge?"

"You're looking at him" A huge, muscular man stepped out of the shadows.

"Holy crap! You're Surge?"

"Come on kid, I wanna start today with a victory."

They both proceed to a large room, with the battle field on the center. Two of Surge's trainers were standing against a wall left to the field to watch the battle.

"You ready kid?" They both walked to opposite sides of the field.

"Sandshrew, go! You know what Surge? When I look at you I remember of a song I used to sing when I was a kid," Felipe begun to sing, "Steroids in the morning, steroids in the evening, steroids at night! Steroids are fun at-any-time!"

"You little!!" Surge begun to run towards Felipe but was stopped by one of his trainers.

"Come on, it's not worth it! He's just taunting you!" said the trainer.

"You're right." Surge walked back to his spot.

"Come on already Steroid Queen! I'm waiting!"

"For your information I have this body thanks to exercise!"

"And you think taking steroids after you exercise counts as exercise?"

"I will have no mercy on you, kid! Raichu, get out!" The electric, mouse pokemon appeared in front of sandshrew. It was 4 times bigger than sandshrew.

"Does raichu take steroids too?"

"Shut up and battle! Thunder!"

Raichu gathered electricity and shot a giant bolt of lightning at sandshrew. But it didn't affect sandshrew, it was just knocked back a few inches.

"That would have beaten most sandshrews.... yours is strong."

"Well, mine isn't like most sandshrews! Dig!"

Sandshrew dug a hole and went underground.

"Pay attention, raichu!"

Sandshrew appeared in front of raichu and tackled it on the gut. Raichu was knocked back, but stayed on its feet.

"Thunder-punch!"

Sparks started to fly out of raichu's small arm. It punched sandshrew with all its might, for making fun of him and its trainer. Sandshrew landed right next to Felipe.

"Can you keep going sandshrew?"

"Shrew.....sandshrew!" it got up and charged raichu.

"You know what to do, raichu!"

Sparks were now flying from both of raichu's arms. It punched sandshrew again, making it fall. Then raichu got above sandshrew and begun to punch it without mercy.

"Sandshrew!!" Screamed Felipe as he saw sandshrew get beaten. Sandshrew was almost fainting when suddenly it started to glow.

"Sandshrew?! What's happening to you?"

Sandshrew size begun to increase. Raichu quickly jumped off sandshrew.

"You're evolving!" Screamed Felipe with happiness.

Sandshrew stopped to glow. It was a little taller than raichu now. Spikes were on his back, and big claws sticked out of his small arms.

"You evolved into sandslash! Go get it sandslash!"

Sandslash jumped in front of raichu and slashed it with one of its claws. Raichu was hit by the attack and then jumped back, to create some distance between itself and sandslash. Raichu was breathing hard.

"Finish it off with rollout!" commanded Felipe.

Sandslash curled up into a ball with spikes sticking off all around it. It begun to roll forward, picking up speed every inch it moved. It was now moving furiously moving towards raichu. But raichu didn't have the agility or energy to dodge such a fast attack. Sandslash finally hit raichu with tremendous force. It flew rapidly past Surge and hit a wall. The wall collapsed and raichu landed outside.

"Raichu!" Surge bent over and looked through the hole on the wall. He saw raichu on the grass, unconscious. "You did good, return." He pointed a pokeball towards raichu and called it back.

Surge got up and walked towards Felipe, who was now hugging sandslash.

"Great job sandslash!!" Felipe was ignoring the pain from touching sandslash's spikes.

"As much as I hate this, take the thunder badge. You deserve it."

"Thanks."

Felipe called sandslash back and walked out of the gym, looking at his new badge.

"Pretty cool badge! Now, the next gym is the Celadon gym; my favorite gym!"

"Saur!"

"It's a grass type gym so you will like it!"

"Bulbasaur!"

~ Meanwhile, back at the gym....

"He didn't apologize!" said Surge.

"I guess he wasn't taunting you, just making fun of you. And I don't think he really knows that you take steroids." replied the trainer.

"But.....but, that was so mean! Buaaaaaaaaa!" Surge begun to cry on the trainer's shoulder.

"There, there Surgey. The mean boy is gone!"

Moral of the story: Giving steroids to your pokemon(or yourself) won't make you win matches. Sometimes it will but not always!