Chapter 10: Practice makes Perfect

Selena and Noah start sitting down in a small viewing area as Ben and Revere line up on opposites sides of the battlefield

Revere, "Go Haunter"

Ben, "Go skiddo

referee , "This will be a three on three battle for the Past Badge. The challenger, Ben from Bradford town will have the first move"

Ben, "Alright then Skiddo use sunny day". A ray of light came down from the ominous fog surrounding the city and lite up the battlefield

Selena, "He's trying to get a solar beam of, since it's such a powerful move" remembering when he did it against her

Noah, "I'm not sure how effective it's going to be though, ghost pokemon are generally very fast"

Revere, "Haunter use will o wisp" a flame then got propelled at skiddo who then got a burn from it

Selena, "I'm confused that move didn't look like it did much?"

Noah, "That's cause will o wisp doesn't do any immediate damage but instead burns the victim."

Ben, "Alright skiddo use solar beam" a huge beam of light was then fired at the Haunter

Revere, "Haunter us Hypnosis, quickly" Luckily for Revere skiddo was put to sleep before Haunter took the hit from solar beam

Referee, "Haunter is unable to battle, skiddo is the winner." as he gestures to a sleeping skiddo

Noah, "Ben may have taken out one of Revere's pokemon but skiddo is asleep now and burnt."

Selena, "Wow i never thought of that, Revere has so much time to prepare now."

Revere, "Go Gourgeist use flamethrower" immediately taking out Ben's skiddo

Referee, "Skiddo is unable to battle, the winner is Gourgeist"

Ben, "Alright, go Charmander and use flamethrower" hitting gourgeist with a super effect. However gourgeist appears to be fine.

Selena, "That must be a really strong Gourgeist to be able to take that flamethrower

Revere, "Use Trick or Treat"

Selena, "What did that do?" acting really confused

Noah, "That made Charmander a ghost type which puts it at a disadvantage because gourgeist's ghost attacks"

Revere "Now use shadow ball" knocking Ben's Charmander on to the ground

Ben, "Charmander get up and use smokescreen"

Revere, "Keep using shadow ball" making it nearly impossible for charmander to get up and hurting a lot due to his new typing. A light began to form however from the area charmander was getting hit at. Then all the sudden the smoke and light faded and a Charmeleon appeared.

Revere, "That's a first, someone's pokemon evolving in one of my battles"

Ben, "Wow you evolved charmeleon, show him your new and improved flamethrower" as Ben's new charmeleon used a flamethrower appearing twice as good as Charmander's and being able to knock out Revere's gourgeist.

Referee, "Gourgeist is unable to battle, the winner is Charmeleon."

Revere, "I'm impressed Ben i didn't expect to be down to be last pokemon against you based on our first impression."

Ben, "Thanks, i guess, I've been training a lot for this!"

Revere, "Hopefully it pays out for you Ben, go Sableye"

Ben, "Charmeleon use dragon claw"

Revere, "Use power gem as a counter" Sableye then took dragon claw like it was nothing and when charmeleon was at his closest hit him with power gem. Charmeleon then fainted due to the amount of shadow balls he had taken the match before.

Referee, "Charmeleon is unable the battle, the winner is Sableye"

Ben, "Alright finish this Umbreon!"

Revere, "Would you look at this we are both down to our last pokemon, you may have the first move since you're the challenger"

Ben, "You'll regret that, Umbreon use dark pulse"

Revere, "Use shadow ball" the two moves then canceled each other out leaving a cloud of smoke between the two. And as the smoke cleared Umbreon had appeared to disappear

Ben, "Now use dark pulse again" Umbreon then jumped out of the ground in front of Sableye and hit him directly but appeared fine.

Revere, "Sableye may be a ghost type but he's also a dark type so your strategy isn't going to work"

Ben, "That's fine i guess we'll just have to change, Umbreon use quick attack"

Revere, "I thought you'd know normal type moves don't affect ghost types Ben"

Ben, "i do, now confuse ray." causing Revere's Sableye to be unpredictable attack wise

Noah, "I'm really impressed, i didn't think Ben could think on the fly like this."

Selena watching intently, "Yeah, it's really fun to watch"

Revere, "Sableye snap out of it and use brick break!" however Sableye was unable to and proceeded to use brick breaker on a random area appearing to injury itself slightly

Benn, "Finish this with assurance." as Umbreon ran toward the confused sableye and hit him into the grounding causing him to faint

Selena, "Sableye looked so strong before, how did umbreon faint him with that one attack?"

Noah, "Assurance gets more powerful if the opponent has already taken damage and because Sableye took damage from its confusion it was twice as powerful."

Referee, "All of Revere's pokemon are unable to battle, The challenger, Ben, is the victor"

Revere, "I was very impressed by you battle skill Ben, and for that i award you the," as someone runs up to the battlefield.

"Revere a group of people just robbed the Museum."

Revere, "I'll have to give you this badge after i'm done dealing with this sorry Ben."

Ben, "That's fine can we help you get the artifacts back."

Selena standing up quickly, "Yeah we'd love to help"

Noah following, "That's right"

Revere, "Alright fine you can follow me." Revere leads the three friends back to the entrance to the museum to find a four people trying to fix a black van a block down the road. "Hey those look like they were from the museum!" pointing toward the back of the van as they run toward.

Revere, "What's the meaning of this" one of the four people dressed in purple step forward

"I'd back away if i were you sir, you don't want to deal with team Cosmo now do you."

Revere, "I'll take a stab at it, go.. Oh what all my pokemon are fainted."

Ben, "Don't worry we can handle this, go umbreon"

Selena, "Go venonat"

Noah, "Go Shuckill"

The four criminals then releases a raticate, golbat, ekans, and a Kadabra

Ben "I can take the kadabra and ekans"

Noah, "I'll take the raticate" as Selena nodded confidently knowing she had the golbat

***Noah's battle***

"Raticate use hyper fang"

Noah, "Shuckle protect quickly"

"Raticate use hyper fang again"

Noah, "Dodge it and use Power trick" smiling a bit, "Now finish this with shell smash" immediately knocking out the opposing raticate

***Selena***

"Golbat attack wing attack" going straight for venonat but Selena looked very calm waiting for golbat to get close enough.

Selena, "Now stun spore Venonat" making golbat paralyzed and unable to complete wing attack

Selena, "Finish this with psybeam" causing golbat to faint. She then looked over to Ben who had successfully taken out the kadabra but it appeared his umbreon had fainted battling the ekans. The Team Cosmo grunt then ordered ekans to use poison tail on Ben

Selena, "Venonat use confusion to stop that ekans." Venonat had appeared to stop the ekans for a short time but the confusion was starting to get weaker. "Come on venonat you can do it" and at that moment venonat began evolving and then all the sudden a venomoth had taken venonat's place. Along with its confusion to be twice as strong.

Noah running over, "I think your venomoth learned psychic when it evolved."

Selena, "Alright then Venomoth finish them with psychic" ekans was then hurled at the four Cosmo grunts all next to each other and sent them flying out of the city.

Ben as he stumbles down, "Thanks Selena, thank gosh you were there or i may have been seriously injured." venomoth then floated on top of Selena's hair. Ben, "i can't forgot about you, Thank you to Venomoth." Venomoth appearing happy.

Selena blushing, "It was nothing Ben, you would have done the same"

Ben, "I know but still i owe you one!" Revere then walked over to the group

Revere, "I would give each of you a badge if i could for helping me with this, but only one of you defeated me" looking at Ben. "For that reason Ben, i'm giving you the Past badge!" However i will also give you two a gift for my thanks." as he hands Ben his badge. "For you Selena an egg we found on the beach a few days ago" handing her a Pokemon egg, "And for you Noah, a flute that i hope you treasure and use wisely" handing him a old looking purple flute.

The three in excitement, "Thanks."

Revere, "So where are you guys heading next?"

Selena jumping in front, "We're heading to the Capital, Toshington City, for the contests in a week!"

Revere, "That sounds fun, Toshington is a great city with tons to do. I think the next ship to it leaves tomorrow morning."

Selena, "Really, we better go buy tickets then" grabbing Ben and Noah and running toward the Poke Center

Ben and Noah, "Thanks again Revere!" as their being pulled by Selena's burst of strength

Revere, "I hope to see you guys again, and remember to study the past to improve" Waving to the three running away