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An Oddish Gym Battle

Earth 21st June 2018

After being thrown in the deep end they all logged off, Tyson and Yumi exchanged phone numbers in case of emergency, Jack wanted to give Tyson his number but they decided against it considering his age. As soon as he logged off Yumi had called and asked if he'd log on early so she could capture some more Pokémon. Once they had arranged a time to meet up, Tyson got to work trying to put together everything Bill had told them.

Firstly there were ten 'creators', three of them were good and seven were evil. The evil ones want all the powerful Pokémon and to take over VPS, the good ones tried to stop them but failed. Now Bill, one of the good three, wanted their help to stop The Seven bad guys. Tyson was still having trouble working out why he chose them. All he knew is that it was something to do with his Combusken, Bill had called it a superstat Pokémon. He had assumed that he'd been referring to its speed.

He started to wonder if this was part of everyone's game experience or just his and what was with these Black Leathers? Even if they came across how would they recognise it? Tyson was hoping that when they logged on Bill would be able to answer some questions that he still had. That was if they could find Bill again.

PE 5th January 1

Tyson logged on only a few seconds before Yumi, she had obviously realised that they couldn't walk around alone. As soon as she spotted Tyson she beamed at him, glad to see that he'd shown up. They were both well aware that they weren't the best of friends and if it hadn't been for team rocket they wouldn't even be training together.

In the Pokémon world it was six in the morning and the morning darkness still covered the lighthouse. The ground was wet from the salty sea spray, as they left the lighthouse Tyson noticed that trainers were queuing up to fight Misty now that Dragonite was gone. A few of the trainers recognised them, and one or two tried to get autographs but Tyson and Yumi ignored them. The final person stood in the line stuck his foot out, Tyson tripped on his outstretched leg.

The trainer who'd tripped him pulled of the disguise he'd been wearing to reveal the rocket emblem. Tyson quickly jumped to his feet and was about to send out Combusken when Yumi stopped him. She sent out Charmander, the rocket sent out a Bellsprout and almost instantly face palmed realising his mistake.

Yumi ordered ember which knocked Bellsprout out in one shot. What, Charmander is evolving? With a white flash Yumi's new Charmeleon appeared before them. Seeing an even more imposing figure before him the rocket fled as fast as he could. The line of people clapped as Tyson and Yumi walked off into the long grass.

They had a pretty good idea of the two Pokémon they were looking for. Yumi wanted an Abra and a grass type. Tyson had managed to spot about six Abra but every time Yumi threw a poké ball they kept teleporting away. It must have been around half an hour before they saw a grass type. It was an Oddish. Tyson pointed out that Charmeleon would probably kill it in one hit, so he suggested Yumi tried to capture it without weakening it first.

She threw the ball, which bounced off of the Oddish, opened and pulled the Pokémon in with a white light. Beep, beep, ding. As the poké ball closed Yumi gave out a sigh of relief, knowing that she had more than one Pokémon. Now they just had to capture an Abra, the more difficult task. Yumi had developed a plan, all they needed was to wait, in the end they were sat for about twenty minutes before one appeared. As soon as it was there she let the poké ball go it spun through the air. The ball bounced off of Abra with another white flash Abra was caught.

"Ok so how are you planning to train Abra? It only knows teleport!"

"Your Magikarp only knew splash but it's now a Gyrados!"

"Touché"

They continued training for a while, at ten they headed back to the lighthouse to meet up with Jack. When they got there the queue was longer than when they left. They were about to line up when everyone in front stood to one side to left to let them in. Being famous had its advantages. It wasn't until they got inside, that they realised they'd been let through for different reasons.

Inside the lighthouse Jack had logged on surrounded by a group of three rockets, "It took long enough didn't you?" Yumi and Tyson sent out all their Pokémon. "Wow, I can see you've been busy Yumi!"

The rockets were only AI grunts, so they went down pretty quickly, and once they were defeated a cheering crowd greeted them as they left the lighthouse to recharge their Pokémon. When they came back the twerp trio was let straight to the front of the queue.

They climbed the staircase up to the roof floor where Misty was waiting. At the top there was a body of water within a glass dome, the Gym leader stood inside on one of the ice platforms, around the edge of the dome there were seats, Yumi and Jack sat down and let Tyson go first. He entered the dome through the round door, which led onto an ice platform facing Misty. As he closed the door behind him it automatically locked.

Tyson instinctively sent out Pidgeotto, knowing it was his only Pokémon without an elemental disadvantage. Misty's first Pokémon was Starmie. After a couple of attacks Tyson had won. The automatic door clicked open after Misty presented him with Cascade Badge. Next in the dome was Jack who was out just as quickly, using Pikachu to electrocute the water.

As Yumi hadn't yet used her Oddish in a one on one battle yet, she wasn't sure what to expect. As the door clicked behind her, Tyson and Jack heard footsteps running up the stairs. All of a sudden a gang of five rockets burst out onto the roof, the leader of the gang shouted, "There they are! Careful the boss said Bill may be with them."

Tyson was wishing Bill and his Mr Mime was with them, with Yumi stuck inside the Dome with Misty it was two against five. Yumi started her battle off with Absorb, as it was the only grass type move Oddish knew. Starmie countered by diving head first into the water and shooting straight up into the platform sending Oddish flying in the air.

Meanwhile Tyson and Jack had sent all their Pokémon, luckily most of the rockets only had one Pokémon, so it was six on six. Combusken had started by using double kick on the normal type Pokémon. Jack was trying to deal with a Zubat with Pikachu's thundershock, however with an additional three trainers the rockets could control more Pokémon at once.

Oddish was taking a lot of damage and Yumi was finding it difficult to concentrate when her companions were fighting outside. Starmie shot up out of the water again, this time Yumi was expecting the attack and ordered Oddish to use Absorb as the Gym leaders Pokémon came up. Starmie fainted and Misty sent out Seel as her second and final Pokémon.

Jack had managed to make Zubat faint and Combusken had taken out a Rattata, but they were still taking too much damage to win. Tyson ordered Dragon Rage, after an outburst of anger from Gyrados two more enemy Pokémon went down.

Yumi had used the same strategy to beat Seel, the door clicked open. She was about to attack when she realised the battle was over. Tyson had to wonder how five rockets got past all those people on the staircase. As they headed back down he found out why, for some reason they were gone.