Chapter 8: Jason Gets Training

Jason and old man Thomas make their way into the Oreburgh gate while having a casual conversation about Jason's team when they see a young girl

?: "My name is Diana and I challenge you to battle prepare yourself!"

"Well im too much for a young thing like her so Jason go ahead" said old man Thomas

"Sure whatever" said Jason

They both threw pokeballs in the air and out of Diana's came out a Bidoof and out of Jason's came out Terra

"Bidoof Tackle" said Diana and Bidoof charged toward Terra and slammed into it but Jason and Terra grin.

"Thanks for getting close, Terra use Absorb!" said Jason as Terra emits a red beam from the leaves at top of its head that hits Bidoof and drains it of it's energy," Now hit it with a Tackle" and Terra rams into Bidoof Koing it.

"Oh Bidoof return, you did well. Your a really tough trainer i want to introduce you to someone follow me" said Diana

"Um ok" said Jason

As they followed Diana Thomas congratulated Jason on his win and told him that he should now try to see his battles right now as training prepartions for his gym battle until Dian takes them to a elderly man and a young boy.

"Let me introduce everyone, this is my brother Curtis and my grandfather Grant and these two people are Mr Thomas and Jason who is really strong. I think all of you should have a battle." said Diana and she whispers something in her brothers ear.

"Well im up for it how about you old man Thomas" asked Jason

"Sure but stop calling me old man" said Thomas

"Sure" said Curtis

"Ok but how about we make this a double battle and we only use one pokemon" said Grant

"Double Battle?" asked Jason

"Let me explain" "In a double battle, each Pokémon is part of a duo, meaning that the battle takes place between two teams of two. The number of Pokémon Trainers participating in the battle can be two—in which each Trainer uses two Pokémon, three—in which a pair of Trainers each using a single Pokémon face off against a Trainer using two, or four Trainers—with each Trainer using a single Pokémon." stated Thomas

"Oh ok sounds interesting" said Jason

They all threw pokeballs in the air and out of Curtis's came out a Shinx, out of Grant's came out a Staraptor, out of Jason's came out Terra and out of Thomas came out a Scizor. And Staraptor's ability Intimidate lowers Terra and Scizors attack power

"Ok let keep it like this the young ones battle each other while us elders battle" said Grant. "Staraptor Cose Combat", and Staraptor rushed toward Scizor using repeated kicks, pecks, and wing hits at a fast speed with Scizor damaged heavily.

"Oh no" said Jason

"Don't worry kid i know his weakness, Scizor Double Hit!" said Thomas and then both of Scizor's arms and claws glow purple both of Scizor's claws glow purple and it hits the Staraptor once with each claw leaving Staraptor to fall to the ground. "See the thing about Close Combat is it leaves the user defense and special defense to drop leaving Staraptor more vulnerable to hits and along with my Scizor's Technician ability which doubled the power of Double Hit, so pretty much Staraptor is almost out of the battle.

"Alright your awesome old man Thomas"said Jason

"Thanks but focus" said Thomas

"Shinx use Charge and then Tackle." said Curtis and Shinx's body becomes surrounded by yellow sparks as it gathers electricity in its body then it charged at Terra and rammed into to it cause a nice amount of damage.

Jason started thinking to him self that Terra usually has a high defense and why did Tackle do so much damage to Terra. "Oh well use absorb" and Terra emits a red beam from the leaves at top of its head that hits Shinx and drains it of a little energy. " No way why did Absorb do so little" asked Jason

"My sister told me about how you let you Turtwig get hit so you can get the opponent close and use Absorb so i used Charge to raise Shinx's special defense and i got around your Turtwig's defense by using my Shinx's ability Rivalry since your Turtwig and my Shinx are the same gender his attack power raises up." said Curtis.

"It's you fault Jason, you waited while Shinx charged up you could have tackled it then but you got overconfident probably from the fact you have your own Shinx and it's experiences with using Charge, do not underestimate your opponent." said Thomas lecturing Jason and suddenly Jason's pokedex beeps so he looks at it and grins.

"Well while you are busy teaching that young man i will end this Staraptor Brave Bird" said Grant and Staraptor pulls in its wings and dives down at Scizor like a missile from high up then its body bursting into flames and it pulls out its wings, its body becomes surrounded by a blue aura, and flies at Scizor, "So how are you gonna get out of this once i hit you it's over" said Grant with confidence.

"Easy actually i won't let you hit me, Scizor Flash Cannon" said Thomas and Scizor points at claw at the oncoming Staraptor and its calw glows white while a silver ball forms in the claw and a silver beam shoots out of the claw at Staraptor hittng it and Koing it.

"Great now it my turn to get the win" says Jason .

"Please stop with the overconfidence will ya, Shinx Tackle hit em hard to end this battle." said Curtis.

"Terra Razor Leaf" said Jason and old man Thomas grins, Terra then swings its head and razor-sharp leaves shoot out from the leaves on its head and hits Shinx Koing it. "Yes we win".

"Ok I admit it your tough" said Curtis.

"Yes both of you are" said Grant.

"Well thanks for the great battle" bothe Jason and Thomas said as they parted ways and left.

Jason and Thomas then leave the Oreburgh Gate only to run into Ken.

"Oh hey Jason you're just now making it here" Ken said with a condescending tone .

"Oh be quiet, I have been focusing on getting stronger for the gym battle so now i'm gonna practice on you." said Jason.

"Sorry but i'm not the right opponent for you" said Ken and he flashed the Oreburgh City gym badge the Coal badge at him.

"No way you won already" said Jason

"And that's all"said Ken as he tosses a pokeball in the air and out comes a Prinplup."

"No way your Piplup evolved" said Jason with disbelief.

"Yeah right now im to far ahead of you, by the way who's he, the man looks familar." said Ken .

" This is Thomas,he is a great trainer even though he's getting on in years" said Jason.

"Stop calling me old. but yeah that my name nice to meet you, you seem like a great rival for my young friend here" said Thomas.

"Actually I think i'm to much for him, but now i remember you, i read about you in the past you were a tough trainer known well" stated Ken.

"Yeah but now it time you two to make a name for yourselves Jason lets get going". said Thomas.

"Ok see ya Ken" said Jason.

"Ok but by the way the gyms closed the gym leader went to work, if you meet him at his job you can probably make a appointment for a battle tommorow, he at the Oreburgh Mine" said Ken as he walked away.

"Ok" said Jason.

Then Thomas and Jason made their way to the Oreburgh Mine surprised at how the poeple can work while wild pokemon around and how the wild pokemon also help and went to the bottom floor and asked around for the gym leader eventually reaching a young man with reddish purple hair.

"Excuse me do you know the gym leader?" said Jason.

"Yes I do." said the young man.

"Do you know where he is?" said Jason.

"Yeah he's right in front of you, i'm Roark the Oreburgh gym leader and i guess you want to challenge me well come to the gym first thing in the morning i have to go now feel free to train here if you like bye. said Roark.

With the challenge issue Jason battled the workers and beat them all but his last battle he accidently hit a wild Onix.

"Oh no you hit that Onix, she has a bad temper and goes on a rampage and only Roark can calm her."said a worker.

"It's ok I will handle this" said Jason with confidence, Thomas looked on impressed with Jason's determined face."Go pokeball" Jason said and the ball hit Onix capturing it but it broke out angrier.

"Why didn't you weaken it first, don't you know you to weaken a pokemon first before you capture it?" asked Thomas

"Nope didn't know that, it worked when i caught Gyara" said Jason nervously.

"Yeah cause he is a Magikarp it's all ready weak and even then luck had to make so it worked" stated Thomas

"Well fine Terra come out and use Razor Leaf" shouted Jason and Terra came out and then swings its head and razor-sharp leaves shoot out from the leaves on its head and hits Onix and then Jason throw another ball at Onix capturing it. "Ok i did it the proper way i guess" said Jason and all the workers sighed with relief.

"Come Jason I now beilef you need some training if you are gonna surpass Roark and your rival Ken so we are gonna train on Route 207"

"Um ok then" Jason said nervously at Thomas serious tone

The next day Jason and Thomas stand in front of the doors to the Oreburgh Gym

"You ready?"asked Thomas

"More ready then i ever been" said Jason

The End

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