A Brawl is surly brewing . . .

"COME ON HURRY UP WERE GONNA BE LATE!" Shouted Rob from the bottom of the stairs, he had waited patiently for today and when it finally arrived, his sister was being slow almost on purpose "hold on I just need to get one thing done before we leave" she said from the other room.

"Well then make it quick!" Rob yelled at her, he looked at the clock, 11: 30 it read 'great were gonna be late if she doesn't hurry up . . . and anyways why does she even need to wear clothing, pokèmon don't wear anything unless they're in a contest or their trainer wants them to look nice' the Hawlucha thought as he waited for the meowstick. When she finally showed in the doorway she was wearing a black sleeve less shirt, all up her left arm were small bands of different colours "okay just um . . . wow . . . I waited for this . . . to think you would act- OW."

The impact of a punch to the head echoed through the house as his sister folded her arms and rob started to rub his head "alright let's get going we've got . . . OH GOD 15 MINUETS WE GOTTA GO NOW!" Amelia panicked; grabbing her brother and sprinted out the door and into the woods to their meeting place.

After an excessive amount of jogging . . .

"Alright their 5 minutes late who had the bet for five minutes" announced James as he held a phone with the stop watch app on it, most of the pokenoid's had already made it to the meeting point; only Tom, Jack, Nathan, Amelia and Rob hadn't arrived yet.

Patrick was flying overhead waiting for jack to appear out of the clouds and surprise everyone, George was sitting on a boulder, his legs crossed and arms folded, his younger brother Josh was running in and out of the forest clearing, playing with his tepig and the other forest pokèmon that had been around at the time.

Chloe was sitting underneath a tree in the shade before she got up and walked over to the eevee "I did . . . and give me back my phone" Chloe ordered sternly as she snatched the phone away from the eevee, he returned the cold glare she gave him with an awkward smile.

Another new addition to stepping out into the public eye was Amelia convincing a few of the pokenoid's to wear clothing; George had been one of them. He wore a very large dark red hoodie with the sleeves rolled up, his spikes had ripped holes in the back of it, with enough force to tear the fabric apart, the chesnaught also wore a large pair of shorts, they were just really baggy trousers but they more like shorts due to his new size.

Chloe was also wearing clothes, however she couldn't really wear much since her ninetails were difficult to put anything over, so she just wore a stretchered out sleeveless shirt. "How did you even unlock it? You don't know the code or anything" Patrick asked as he landed.

"Oh . . . I have my ways" a mischievous smile spread across James face as he held a furry finger up and touched it to his nose, rustling bushes alerted the group that someone was coming, Amelia and Rob came heaving through the bushes as they collapsed in the middle of the clearing.

"We're . . . here guys . . ." Rob heaved as he sat up and looked around, the charizard walked over and helped the pair up.

"Heh about time you guys showed up. Late as usual, fortunately you're not the last one here, Jack and Tom haven't turned up yet, Nathan on the other hand . . ." Patrick pointed towards the tree that Chloe was sitting under and a large amount of rustling came from the tree top, a frogadier jumped out of the tree and landed next to the three pokenoid's.

"Was it really that obvious?" The frogadier asked as he looked up at the charizard, who nodded in response to the question.

"Wait a sec . . . if you were in that tree . . . then you must of . . . YOU!" Chloe charged at the eevee, who started sprinting into the forest.

"N-Now Chloe let's not g-get ourselves w-worked up now- AAHH!" James screamed as an explosion could be heard from in the forest, Chloe walked back with her head held high, and placed on her back was an unconscious James.

"Okay . . . can someone explain why she knocked James out?" Josh asked as he came back through the trees, tepig in his arms, and sat next to the boulder that his brother sat on.

"Well James used Nathan to get Chloe's password from her as she typed it into her phone" George explained as he pulled out a pokèball and held it towards the unconscious eevee, the crimson beam shot out towards the eevee and the second it came into contact with his body, James became the same colour as the beam and faded into it.

Once James was safely in his pokèball George 'he's not going to like that when he wakes up . . .' George thought as he starred at the pokèball. He then gave the thumbs up to Chloe.

The ninetails smirked and she charged at Nathan "THIS IS FOR SPYING ON ME!" She shouted as she released a shadow ball at the frogadier, who simply jumped out of the way and let the charizard take the hit, he was sent backwards a little but other than that he remained in harmed, the charizard pokenoid began to walk towards her.

Chloe whimpered slightly as she realised what had happened "s-sorry. Oh god, I'm so sorry" Chloe bowed her head as she frantically apologized to her friend.

Patrick simply walked past and started flying "I'm fine don't worry about it, if you wouldn't mind I would like to . . . talk . . . to Nathan. Now." Patrick smirked as he looked down on Nathan, he could see the sweat on Nathan's head as his friend thought about having to out run a flying pokèmon. Chloe sighed a breath of relief, she didn't want to tick anyone off Patrick especially.

Moments later -

"OKAY! OKAY I'M SORRY! IT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN JUST PLEASE STOP!" Nathan cried out in alarm as he was dangling from a hand high in the sky, the charizard pokenoid smirked, victoriously, and lowered himself and the frogadier back to the ground "please . . . don't ever do that . . . again" Nathan huffed as he jumped to the floor and collapsed onto his back.

"Wow that was a weird conversation" Josh said as he watched everything unfold before him 'he's so innocent . . . a little too innocent . . .' George thought as he watched Josh ask his questions.

"Well, that was fun to watch" piped a voice from in the darkness of the woods.

"It's about time Tom, your late." Amelia spoke up as she walked over to Nathan and knelt down beside him, she pulled a bag off of her back and began digging through it. Tom walked out of the darkness and sat down next to George and began to chat to him, Tom was also wearing some clothing. The gengar wore his new gengar hoodie for a few comical reasons.

"It's good to see you again, I'm glad you came out with us all." George smiled at Tom happily, the gengar chuckled lightly.

"Well, like I said, I couldn't keep myself cooped up in that room, besides, I couldn't really run away from myself now could I?" He looked at his arm and his shadow "this is me now . . . gotta live with that I guess."

"Yeah, well, we're all like this now, so let's all struggle together" he held out a hand, to which the gengar grabbed and shook.

"Wow . . . he looks paler than his scarf, so is he afraid of heights or something?" Amelia asked as she looked other Nathan, Patrick rolled his eyes and looked down at Amelia

"Nope he's afraid of falling from high places. You don't need any medicine for him, he'll wake up soon enough." The charizard explained.

"But isn't that . . . oh never mind" Amelia muttered, defeated.

"So Jack's not coming . . . well that's just great" moaned Chloe as she rudely interrupted George and tom's conversation, the gengar simply nodded and turned back to face the Chesnaught "oh well so jack couldn't make a bi-" George was cut off when he heard screaming and the sound of paws hitting the ground.

"NNNOOOOO! How will I ever learn his secret to balancing a social life" the ninetails screamed as she kept hitting the floor in front of her in a fit of rage.

". . . um . . . anyways, now that were all here we can finally do something" announce the Chesnaught as he got off his rock.

"Hold it, who made you the leader" Nathan protested as he sat up and stared George dead in the eyes, he seemed slightly annoyed by the sudden announcement of a leader as well.

"Alright then we'll vote . . . whoever thinks I should be team leader raise a hand . . . err, or paw . . . or wing . . ." everyone except Patrick and Nathan raised a paw or wing or hand signifying George victorious, Nathan grumbled something under his breath as he walked over to a tree next to Rob and sat down leaning against it.

"Alright now where was I . . . oh yhea something to do . . . any ideas?" Everyone just stared at him blankly in an awkward silence "c-come on you guys! Help me out here!"

"You're supposed to come up with the ideas 'team leader'" Nathan spoke in an annoyed tone, as he stared at George with a small spark of hate in his eyes.

"Okay, okay just calm down . . . let me think . . ." George paused for a moment "dose everyone know at least 2 moves?" Everyone, except from Josh, nodded and began to catch on to what he was saying "okay so who's in for the first pokenoid grand smack down!"

Patrick stood and began to look around "I guess I could crush a few of my friends" Nathan and Rob both looked at Patrick and each other with both fear and courage in their eyes "there is no way your gonna crush me cus you won't even see me coming" Nathan spoke with pride in his voice as he leapt up and looked Patrick in the eyes, while holding a bit of a ninja pose for intimidation.

"Hold on guys I'll be back in a minuet" George announced as he grabbed josh and ran through the forest.

"Oh where is he going now . . . not quitting already are ya?!" Rob shouted as he watched the chesnaught and riolu disappear between the trees.

"Oh you know him, has to go make some crazy rules we have to follow" Chloe joked as she looked over at the guys "it's just one of his many things you know."

After 30 minutes or so . . .

When he returned, George was carrying a bag as he huffed a little, Josh ran in after him "Okay here . . . are . . . the rules of round one . . . give me a sec here." George said between breaths "okay . . . I'm good. Anyways . . . the rules of round one. You can challenge any pokenoid you come across, if you get beat you're out no lying about that, oh and to prove that here."

George dropped the bag on the ground as it opened it revealed a mound of bands and badges "take a band and put it somewhere, either on your arm head or your leg . . . or tail" George sighed as he looked over at Patrick who chuckled a little at the remark.

Amelia walked over and took a look in the bag "these look really well made . . . where did you get these on such short notice?" The meowstick questioned the chesnaught as she grabbed a purple band and placed it around her waist.

"Well . . . my dad brought a bunch of old badges and gym bands for his gym, but he didn't specify what kind of gym he wanted them for and got a bunch of different ones . . . so he kinds gave them all to me . . ." George said as he rubbed the back of his neck and chuckled awkwardly. "Anyways, everyone take a badge and a band you can take up to three but no more than that." George set the first of many rules.

Chloe lazy walked over to the bag "this sounds really, really, really dumb. But I'm gonna participate, just to get little . . . revenge" Chloe gave her signature cold gaze to Nathan, who felt a small chill run down his spine. Once Chloe had put her band on her front right paw she chose a badge and marched back to where she sat.

Next Nathan and Rob rushed over and took a band and two badges each, Rob put his on his waist like his sister did and Nathan put his on his left wrist "I'm so going to crush every last one of you" Rob declared, pointing to everyone one at a time in a gliding motion.

"Well good luck with that" Tom said calmly as he appeared next to Nathan, which startled the Frogadier and caused him to jump back.

"Stop doing that!" Nathan said as he backed up and away from Tom.

After Tom took his band and badge Patrick came over and grabbed a band and attempted to put it around his tail, only to have it burst into flames and disintegrate into small black dust, Patrick cocked his head to the noise of the riolu, frogadier and hawlucha laughing and chuckling at his attempt, Patrick picked up a second band and pulled it over his arm, his nostrils puffed a bit of smoke as he look at the trio "I'll see you two in the forest" he spoke coldly 'for a fire type that's a little unusual' Tom thought as he looked over at Patrick as he was staring down Rob and Nathan.

"Okay, has everyone got a band now" everyone nodded or replied with a "yeah" or their own version of a thumbs up "great now for rule two, round 1 starts from now till 7 pm anyone left in the will go to the park with Jack's training boulders in if. If you're not at the meeting point by 8pm then you're disqualified, oh and try to collect as many badges as you can. You can wager all of your badges or only a few it doesn't matter, you need to wager at least one in each fight. Now is everyone ready?" Everyone began to rise and get ready to run.

George very quickly checked his phone "It is now 2:40" as the Chesnaught paused everyone saw the spikes on his shell began to emit a white light "let the tournament . . . " as he paused for dramatic tension he released the pin missiles into the sky. The wind picked up as if to build the tension to the scene. The Chesnaught threw his arm to the ground to declare the start ". . . begin!" He shouted as the pin missiles he released came spiralling back to the ground, they came into contact with the ground and they all exploded upon impact, causing a massive amount of smoke to spread from the collision.

The tournament had begun.