This was a collaborated chapter between 4fireking and Orceanos. I know two teammates battling each other is a little cliche but it's Pokemon, there will be cliche moments.

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July decided to use Ponyta. Ponyta was prepared when it raised its hooves. Elekid was also ready to fight, eager as it was.

"Elekid, use Thundershock on Ponyta."

Elekid created two volts of spark from its plugs before shooting electricity out at Ponyta. Ponyta dodged the attack with a nimble movement to the side.

"Now Ponyta, use Flame Wheel on Elekid."

Ponyta unleashed fiery fury on the small Elekid. Elekid tried protecting itself with its big hands, but still was pushed aback with char burns on its arms.

"Elekid use Shock Wave now."

Ignoring the pain, Elekid clapped it's hands together and released a circular wave of electrical energy. Ponyta couldn't dodge the powerful electricity and eventually was paralyzed from the waves. However, it didn't interfere with their battle. Ponyta was moving a bitter slower now.

"Ponyta use Take Down next."

Ponyta rammed straight ahead for the bipedal electric plug known as Elekid. Elekid twirled it's arms around really fast while static started to build up. At first it looked like Elekid would use an electric attack, but Anna decided to do something different.

"Elekid use Low Kick."

Elekid dropped low and sweep its leg towards Ponyta. Ponyta was so close already it had no chance to evade the attack. So it fell down which made July sorry it hurt it's legs. But Ponyta got up again.

"Ponyta, don't overwork yourself. This is just training between me and Anna." July said.

Ponyta let out an agreeing neigh, but still was eager to continue with the fight.

"Ponyta, use Fire Spin on Elekid."

Ponyta let out fire as big as the pain Ponyta felt on its legs. There was no way of escaping for Elekid.

It was trapped in the swirling flames of Ponyta's Fire Spin. The only thing it could do now was wait for Anna to find a way of breaking it free. However, the extreme heat caused Elekid to collapse.

"Ponyta that's enough!" shouted July.

Ponyta stomped its hoof because it wanted to show its strength. July was not so happy with that, because this was supposed to be a friendly training.

July had to stroke the nose of Ponyta to teach it not to be so mean to other Pokémon.

"Anna and her Pokémon are our friends, I want you to treat them so."

Ponyta's eyes shimmered seeing the seriousness in July's face before it nodded.

July looked deep in Ponyta's eyes. "Strength is important, but friendship is even more important."

Ponyta could understand where it's trainer was going with that.

"Good, now you can rest." said July while she returned Ponyta into its Pokéball.

Anna did the same with her Pokemon. She then put her hands on her elbow to stretch.

"We sure did a lot of training today." said Anna happy.

"It was all necessary to defeat the gym leader we will be up against."

Anna nodded. "Let's go back to the Pokécenter and let's look what my brother and Randy are doing."

They moved in on the PokéCenter right when the two of them left. They didn't just leave, they ran out. It looked like they were running from something. Anna and July really wondered what the two boys were doing.

In David's hand, there was some kind of static from a radio. Anna realized her brother and the boy she was okay with journeying with had spied on someone and discovered something.

July looked confused at them, that was not something she expected from Randy. This better be someone who was worse than Team Rocket or she was going to lecture him on spying on people.

July looked at Anna. "Can you make sure that they are not doing something stupid, I need to got to nurse Joy and let her have a look at Absol."

Anna nodded. She was going to be extra sure they didn't do anything stupid. Anna chased after her brother and Randy while July went inside the Pokécenter to meet Nurse Joy.

Anna wish she didn't train with July now, because chasing them would be much faster with the aid of her Pokémon. Her only option was to run by herself. She dashed after the two numbskulls like the wind.

She cursed about that she had forgotten her bike at the Pokécenter. It came full circle though when she pounded her brother on the head.

"Anna! We were just trying to stop him!" David shouted.

"Who do you want to stop and more important why?"

"This guy who is brainwashing Pokémon Trainers." Randy said. "David saw a boy last night and wanted to confront him after the dumb stuff he pulled, but that boy acted like he didn't have a soul."

"Do you two know how ridiculous that sounds?"

"It's the truth." David whined to his sister. "You have to believe me, sis."

"I believe you, but I also think you may misunderstood things and you are now overreacting." said Anna with an raised eyebrow.

David shrugged his shoulders. Misdreavus floating behind him also looked very surprised.

Anna used her index finger to caress Misdreavus's nose. "Let me guess: You're also involved in this?"

Misdreavus admitted it was by nodding its head to Anna.

"Ok, tell me what happened."

Misdrevus tried talking to her, but of course being a Pokémon it was just yammering. David raised his hand to answer for Misdreavus.

"Kids attacked Nurse Joy because they said she is enabling slavery of children controlling poor Pokémon, but this person is using terrorist act and turning kids into child soldiers."

"You know that this sounds really crazy?"

They both nodded their heads.

"Did you speak with Nurse Joy or are these just rumors?"

"We did!" David and Randy said in unison. David couldn't help but laugh his mouth where it could be heard through the sky.

"Jinx, you get a punch every time you say-"

"Randy, Randy, Randy." Anna said rolling her eyes and touching her face.

"Back to the point, why didn't you call the police?"

"Because we weren't thinking straight." Said Randy.

"We really have to inform some officials about this."

Randy and David nodded at Anna's suggestion.

"We have to go back to the PokéCenter then."

David and Randy followed Anna to the PokéCenter, without really arguing to her which was weird because they were trying to escape a man who was a danger to kids.

But they had to speak with the police and July, also they had to care about their own safety. Good thing Officer Jenny was a good listener. They told her everything they knew.

Officer Jenny listened and took a deep breath in over this. "This is very serious and concerning, I'm very glad that you told me this."

The three of them smiled and nodded their heads. Also Randy and David were a bit embarrassed that Anna had been right. Now things were left in the hands of Officer Jenny. But they were not done jet. They still had to find July and tell her about all this.

Officer Jenny looked at them. "I need to know what you are going to do within the next week, in case I need to talk to you again."

The boys were hesitant to raise their hands, but Anna did it for them.

"We are trying to beat the third gym so we may be heading through the trainer route to get to the last gym leader eventually, but we might be only at the fifth gym next week."

"So you'll be in Veilstone City, Hearthome City or Pastoria City" asked Officer Jenny. The trio nodded their heads to Officer Jenny. Officer Jenny smiled. "Great, now I only need your Trainer-ID-cards and I will inform my colleagues in those towns about you. Just in case we need to talk to you again."

Randy, David, and Anna handed their Trainer ID's to officer Jenny.

She took some quick notes. "Thank you very much for your courage and help."

The boys smiled while Anna just walked away from the officer. She did smile just like them though, she just had more pride. She started to look for July. She quickly saw that July was in a treatment room, where July was comforting Absol, while Nurse Joy carefully examined Absol's broken leg.

Absol wanted to be nuzzling against July's lap while Nurse Joy operates. July did exactly what Absol wanted. Soon Absol was sleeping while its leg was being treated. Nurse Joy was very happy when she saw that the wound took a positive development. Maybe it was thanks to July's care that Absol was recovering nicely.

That was absolutely an important factor.

Absol tried standing up again after Nurse Joy gave the disaster Pokemon some space. It tried really hard, but the leg was still too hurt to put weight on it. July immediately tried to comfort Absol as it winced. July held it tight and rocked it gently. Absol was like a four legged baby in her arms.

Nurse Joy looked at July and the Pokémon. "I know that your Absol is very eager to use its leg again, but it's important that Absol puts no weight on the leg until it has healed properly."

July assured Nurse Joy she would take good care of Absol. She thanked Nurse Joy for her work and left the treatment room, when she opened the door she ran into Anna. Anna looked very happy but before she saw July...she had a tough day.

"Did you find Randy and David?" asked July.

"I found them. Those two idiots are either becoming fairy tale writers when they grow up or they've gone crazy."

"I know they really need us to keep their thoughts straight."

July and Anna were laughing at their own success.

"Let's catch those two before they run off to do something highly questionable, again." Said Anna.

"No need," an out of breath voice huffed out. "We are right here."

"Oh good, after that long day we could all use some dinner now I guess." said Anna with aright smile.

July and David rubbed their tummies while licking their lips.

"Let's get some food then." said Randy cheery.

This new restaurant reminded them of the last one they were in. In fact it was the same where July and Anna had lunch, This time, the boys would be the first to order from the menu. After their day they were really hungry.

The waiter at the restaurant eyed only the girls when they walked in. But it was David that spoke to the waiter first.

"Good sir, can we have a table for four, please."

The waiter had flitted them a table for all of them to sit and eat in. They thanked him with a smile and sat down.

Randy was using his fingers to touch every different kinds of meals on the menu.

July smiled at him. "You have to decide Randy you can't have everything."

Randy stopped at the chicken kaiser with bacon and french fries.

July looked at her childhood friend with slight concern. "You also need some greens or vegetables, too."

Randy without second thought raised two of his fingers in the air.

"Can I also have some salad with that kaiser?"

"Sure!" answered the waiter quickly.

David smirked as Randy was persuaded by a girl.

"I'll have the Cowboy steaks with onion rings and beets, please."

Anna noticed it and smirked to because she knew David would act exactly the same if Krystal was here. Anna handed her menu to the waiter and told him with a smile what she wanted.

"I'd like to have a big Italian salad with roasted garlic bread."

The waiter had this weird smile on his face, like he was happy she chose garlic. Now it was July last to make her order.

"I think I'll take the grilled chicken with grilled bell pepper and mashed potatoes."

"Okay. I'll be back in fifteen minutes with your orders." The waiter said before walking to the kitchen.

"Great!" they cheered.

They had a lot of time to wait. The four of them had things they could question. July looked at Randy. "Did you train today, or were you just chasing people with David,"

Randy blushed while tapping his fingers against the dinner table.

"I trained Prinplup because it knows flying moves before we did the chasing. Hehe."

"You should also train with your Ralts. It'll be very useful at the next gym."

"Ralts...why did I forget to train Ralts?" Randy looked depressed now.

July looked comforting at him. "Don't worry we can train tomorrow with Ralts, I'll help you."

Randy was blushing over feeling excited. His crush was going to train with him. Also this was July's plan to stop Randy from doing something reckless.

"Speaking of training, did you do any training today?" Anna asked her brother.

David scratched the back of his head. "Well, you know I saw that guy in the night and had to do some research in the morning, also I spoke with Nurse Joy. Then I had to find that guy and chase him and then you came and stopped, but ... Nidoran helped me, so that's training, too I guess."

By the time he finished his story, Anna and David's meals arrived first. Their meals looked very delicious. They put their napkins on their laps and choked down with their silverware. It was only a matter of seconds when July's and Randy's meals arrived.

July reached for her fork. When she did so, her elbow accidentally touched Randy's. They both blushed and smiled at each other sheepishly.