I walk to him and tap his shoulder as he turns around it is revealed he was around my brothers age and was wearing forest green sneakers along with black jeans his shirt was white as snow and he wore a short sleeved hood jacket that was the same color as his shoes. His hair and eyes were both a dark brown the stood out to me despite being a dark color. "Yes, what is it?" I look at him and take a deep breath "Excuse me but would you like to battle? I heard you are very strong." He looked at me with a tilted head and held up his hand shaking his head chuckling a little as if what I said was just a stupid thought "No thanks kid, my pokemon are all tired already from battling. Thanks for the offer though." I just stood there starring at him as he chuckles and I see his pokemon standing behind him, it was a Sceptile who stood taller than him and looked down at us. I sighed and shrugged smiling "Oh well, my name is Allen by the way." He nodded "Blake, I'm from the Hoenn region." I tilted my head "Hoenn region huh? Awesome." He nodded and chuckled "This region is nice but feels a bit strange since I feel a bit uncomfortable in urban places." I shrug it off a bit as I see a train approaching to a station and Blake follows my gaze "You going to head to the other half of the city?" I looked at him with a confused expression "Other half?" he nodded and started walking towards the train as I followed "The city is connected by this monorail and the other half of the city has a pokemon center and the pokemon gym." I'm glad he told me that since I'm sure I would have been lost if it wasn't for him and we head to the public monorail. When we step onto the train I look around a bit smiling as he make our way to our seats.
Surprisingly there was no fee but makes since considering it is needed to make it to the other half of the city. So as the doors close the train starts moving as I stare out the window mindlessly. For a moment I was just sitting there and I must have had a strange expression as Blake tugged on my shirt "You ok?" I nodded and continued to stare until the train came to a sudden hault. I look around confused as I see a man who's head was shaved clean he had a golden earing and a white jacket with a red undershirt. His gloves were crimson and so were his shades. He had titanium white pants as well. Though I instantly recognized that symbol he wore on his belt, Team Flare. He held up his pokeball and sends out a Houndoom "Alright folks, let's get this over with I'm an Admin from Team Flare and we are attacking the train, if you have a pokemon we demand you put them in this bag." He then goes ahead to take out a knapsack and holds it out for his Houndoom to carry with his mouth as he walks around as the terrified people put a few pokeballs inside the bag I frown and stand up as Blake looks at me with a strange look as I point at the Admin "Hey you! What do you guys think you are doing here!" the Admin tilts his head at me and laughs "Oh so we got a little hero here huh? Houndoom drop the bag and handle this kid." Houndoom lets go of the bag letting it drop as it growls at me I take out my own pokeball and send out Elli. "Elli use return!" Elli then rushes with a tackle knocking the Houndoom down and out right off the bat. The admin grits his teeth and heads out of the car locking the door to the next train car. Blake helps return all the pokeballs as I run outside the train but as soon as I open the door and step outside the train begins moving again. I fall over and land on the platform as I get back up I try to regain my balance and start climbing a ladder over to the top of the train as I crawl along the top of the cart I see a pokemon creeping over to the top of the cart in front of me.
It was an Ariados! The Ariados begins crawling towards me as I get up my balance is so shifty I feel my heart race as I hold out my pokeball and send out Wyane as he easily gains his balance thanks to his weight. "Alright Wyane! Use Brick Break!" Ariados leaps forward as Wyane punches him off the side of the train but the Ariados gets returned into his pokeball as I walk forward I see the Flare Grunt yelping and tries to open the door struggling as the Admin has probably locked it behind him. I return Wyane into his pokeball as I'm about to leap down I see the train is now moving along side a large cliff and I yell grabbing on to the cart as hard as I can I can feel my vision stir up. My heart was pounding so hard I could hear it in my ears and I can feel the blood rushing all over my body as I cling to the cart practically in tears as we enter a large tunnel I drop down and see the Flare Grunt in desperation leaps off the platform once we return to the cliff and he pulls out a parachute as I sigh and try opening the door.
Just I had suspected, the door was actually locked. This just goes to show how loyal Team Flare is to their Grunts. I get on a ladder hold out my pokeball sending out Sydney as he breaks the door down and I return him back and walk through seeing only a few people and all of them on the ground covering their heads as I open the last door I see the conductor working as the Admin looks at me fearfully and suddenly a familiar face that I'm not all to happy to see turns around revealing Synapse. "Are you serious? What the hell are you even TRYING to accomplish this time I mean C'MON I get the whole Key Stone Arc thing but this is just you showing up to remind me that you aren't dead yet." I complain as Synapse laughs "You're funny, but we do have a goal here though for now you will just have to stand there and stay out of our way. You wont be stopping Team Flares advances this time boy." I hold up my pokeball sending out Tibby as he sends out a Metang. "Alright then, if you really want to try facing me then we will have to settle this won't we?"
"Alright Tibby, let's use Dragon Claw!" Tibby then jumps up as his claws glow bright and slashes at Metang as he easily evades the attack with a flip "Now Metang, Bullet Punch!" it winds back his fist and leaves an afterimage as he strikes Tibby against the ground. "No! Use Crunch!" Tibby then gets up and leaps forward and chomps down on Metang bringing him down as he struggles. Synapse shakes his head "Zen Headbutt" Metans body covers in blue energy and strikes Tibby against the wall knocking him hard to where Tibby let go. Metang was not holding back at all. Tibby had a pained look on his face as he began to glow and I couldn't believe my eyes as he began growing larger and finally stopped glowing as he fully evolved with a loud ferocious roar.
"Tibby! You evolved!" He let out a roar and then glared down at Metang. "This won't stop us you know, Metang let's use Bullet Punch!" Metang rushes forward glowing arm as he jabs against Tyrantrum and Tibby barely flinches. "Let's show them our true strength! Tibby use Crunch!" Tibby then crunches down on Metang and tosses him out of the train as Metang is returned into his pokeball Synapse sighs and shrugs smiling at me. "You still don't fail to shock me at all you know that?" I reach over to grab him as Synapse steps aside and leaps out from the train pulling out a parachute as he gently floats down. Blake rushes into the room right afterwards grabbing the admin by the collar before he can run off "Where do you think you'll be going?" The admin quickly surrendered as the train soon quickly made a stop as we made it to Coumarine City or rather its other half. As we got off to the station officers arrested and took in the Flare Admin and I noticed they also arrested the Flare grunt and Synapse having them in the backseat of a police car. I felt the corners of my lips rise to a smirk as I see the car driving off. Now they hopefully won't be an issue anymore.
Coumarine was calm enough as I head to the center with Blake. We heal our pokemon and talk for a bit. I explain to him all the things that Team Flare has done and all the wild things that have happened on my adventure as well as the many crazy events in his. I take my leave from the center after I'm ready and make my way towards the Gym. As I go through the gym I am forced to climb ropes to get higher and I cant help but cling to the wall to avoid the ledge at all costs. I seriously didn't want to deal with heights again, I had enough of those in Cyllage. I am told by a trainer inside that I will have to swing on the ropes and I just stand there frozen starring at the rope and I shake my head. "Nope, nope, I am completely done here there better be a backdoor or something." The trainer pinches the bridge of his nose out of frustration and sighs "Alright come with me." He leads me to a secret door that leads to a bunch of stairs as I come out from under a desk an old man turns to me startled. "Ah you must be a challenger, who let you through the stairway?" I catch my breath a bit and then smile "I was let through since I have a fear of heights." The old man nods with understanding and smiles warmly "Alright sonny, y'all best be ready fer one of the toughest gyms yers ever faced!"
I nod and grin as he sends out his Jumpluff as I send out Lizzy. "Alright Lizzy Flamethrower." Lizzy burns up knocking out Jumpluff in a single hit as he sends out Weepinbell. I repeat my command and Weepinbell falls over knocked out. I feel a little guilty for some reason since I'm just taking down each of these pokemon one after another so easily as I see the old man struggling as he sends out a Gogoat. "Uh…Lizzy Flamethrower?" Lizzy yawns laying down as she fires the next burning hot stream of flames scorching Gogoat but he barely endures the attack "Good job partner, Now Gogoat I reckon it'd be best to use Bulldoze!" Gogoat stomps on the ground causing the ground to ripple a little as Lizzy is knocked over and glares at the Gogoat her mouth setting aflame as she rushes forward to go for a Fire Fang "Wait Lizzy! I didn't give a command!" I cry out as Ramos grins "Use Double Edge!" Gogoat then charges forward and smashes his horns against Lizzy's stomach as she is knocked over and is knocked out. I curse my bad luck as Lizzy is returned into her pokeball and send out Elli "Alright Elli, Dark Pulse!" Elli then fires multiple powerful rings of pure darkness as they crash against Gogoat knocking him out.
Authors Note: Okay first off I have to say, though I haven't finished writing the story yet I did reach the 50,000 word mark! So yay! I wont he Nanowrimo but that aside I'll still be uploading around 3 chapters every few days. It's a good thing I had that Thanksgiving special since otherwise it literally would have been one gym battle the chapter after the previous one XD seriously why did they make it go by so quickly? I threw in Blake and the train thing so that there was at least a little bit of a gap between the two gym battles but even then. Worst part is the next pokemon gym battle is probably right after this one. It's all pretty frustrating. Anyways I hope all of you had a happy thanksgiving and for those who dont celebrate still had an awesome day