Time Trainer 2: The mightiest army
Chapter 11
The kids quickly walked into the gym to find that the place was pitch black. Only one dim light bulb stood feebly flickering every few seconds. Jeremy eagerly stepped forward and immediately disappeared. Rowan and Diana looked around yelling into the dark for Jeremy. Below Jeremy had fallen into a trap hole. He got up and when he tried to climb out the floor beneath him gave way and once again he fell. All rowan and Diana heard from far below was "oh, my ass." Jeremy got up and blindly stumbled through the dark space below. The room felt odd, as if the temperature had dropped ten degrees or something. He looked around at the dark and saw a faint light at the other end. He walked towards the light hoping it was an exit. He moved closer and heard breathing apart from his. "Who's there?" "gen." Jeremy's head swiveled in the direction of the sound. "gar." Now Jeremy was frightened. "What the hell is going on?" he suddenly felt a cold hand on his shoulder and the next thing he knew he was flying up. He screamed the whole way and after a few seconds of going up he crashed down on the floor once again. "What is it with you and dropping me" he said to no one in particular. He got up and once again he fell. He landed on his ass in front of a small shrine. Standing in front of him with his back turned to Jeremy was a young man with a purple jacket and black jeans. He had platinum blonde hair that stuck up in the back and a purple headband. He turned around and smiled at Jeremy. "You know that those traps have only managed to fool one trainer. All this time that one trainer was you." Jeremy got up ready to fire a barrage of his father's choice swear words when from behind him came rowan and Diana. Jeremy stood stunned. "How did you guys get through?" Rowan chuckled. "We used the dim light to see a path outlined in the floor. We walked single file and it led us here." Jeremy just stood glaring. "Well I am Mortimer Williamson the fourth but you can call me morty and I am the gym leader of ecruteak city." "Well then, my name is just rowan and I am here to challenge you," "then let's begin." Morty snapped his fingers and lights all over the gym came on. Morty threw a pokeball yelling "beat them down gengar." Rowan seeing opportunity threw out gastly. Morty chuckled. "I remember when I had a gastly. Gengar use shadow ball." The orb quickly flew towards gastly. It hit with major damage. "Gastly reciprocate." Gastly fired a shadow ball this one hitting gengar. "Gengar use night shade. A wave of darkness seemed to penetrate the atmosphere as it smacked into gastly. Gastly spun around in midair attempting to regain it's bearings. It quickly went back into battle. Gengar threw yet another shadow ball. The ball of shadow missed and gastly began spinning extremely fast and then it let out a huge attack. It was night shade, but much more powerful. Gengar was struggling to get up and gastly's burst of power had put the finishing touches on it's growth as it glowed white. It was now haunter versus gengar. Gengar went to use shadow ball but once again missed. Haunter was about to use curse when morty finally made the right move. "Gengar use hypnosis." The waves immediately came out putting haunter in dreamland. "Now gengar use dream eater." What morty did not realize was that haunter was not the only one who had been affected by hypnosis; it had also worked on rowan. Gengar went unaware into the dark depths of rowan's mind. The onslaught of emotions from rowan sent gengar wild and it quickly left rowan's mind. Gengar came out unconscious and haunter was awake. Rowan got the badge thanked morty and went to heal his team. He felt odd. He hoped he had not hurt gengar for it wasn't his intention to harm it in any way. He stood silent as he Diana and Jeremy made their way to olivine city. Upon arriving in town Jeremy remembered he had to go back to ecruteak to get his shot at the badge. Jeremy said goodbye. They didn't know it but rowan would not see Jeremy for quite a while after this. All rowan knew was that he had a bad feeling about Jeremy leaving but he said nothing. While Diana and rowan were sleeping in the pokemon center Jeremy had just finished capturing a noctowl. Just a few minutes earlier he had also successfully caught a murkrow and a quagsire. He walked happy with his success. From beyond the trees was movement. It was loud too. A curious Jeremy walked towards the sound and saw Cyrus standing there. On Cyrus's shoulder was a honchkrow with no pupils and sharp white eyes. Cyrus pointed at Jeremy and honchkrow brutalized Jeremy. Cyrus returned honchkrow and then when Jeremy was getting back up Cyrus grabbed his head and squeezed at the temples until Jeremy was out cold.