Chapter 25 Another Unlikely Victory and a Very Late Entry

Crobat and Tentacruel started moving towards Eevee and Alexandra quickly. Tentacruel fires a few blasts of Water Gun while Crobat moves in towards the Togetic to fire a Confuse Ray. The Water Guns miss as the Eevee dodges them and Togetic takes flight. The confuse ray doesn't score a direct hit as well and an aerial battle ensues between the Normal and Poison Flying-types. On the ground the Tentacruel moves in close and tries multiple times to Poison Jab its opponent but can't score a single hit as the Eevee dodges and moves gracefully between each tentacle. It charges at the Tentacruel with a Double-Edge, and makes direct contact with its black stomach, forcing it to keel over in pain, opening itself up for a Take Down, which knocks it over and causes it to tumble a few feet.

Meanwhile in the air, Air Cutters are flying back and forth trying to make contact with either foe. Crobat charges in for a wing-attack and gets a glancing blow as the Togetic drops a few feet in the air because it stopped beating its wings. Alexandra decides to use Metronome at this opportunity, hoping to attain the power of a Hyper Beam or Thunder at close range, but as the move is about to be released, the Crobat charges in for an Ice-fang. At the last second as the Metronome fades away, Togetic easily rolls out of the way and dodges, Crobat tries a few more fang attacks but can't land a single blow as the Agility that came from the Metronome made Alexandra so much faster. It used Body Slam as it came close to the Crobat again and scored a solid blow.

Back on the ground the Tentacruel had used Sludge Bomb against Eevee which landed on the ground at its feet, causing the Eevee to be unable to move. This lets the Tentacruel set up for a close range, and powerful Hydro Pump. All efforts to escape the poisonous goo were useless as the Tentacruel charged forward. It stopped hardly a foot away and began to launch a gigantic beam of water at the trapped Normal type. After a few seconds of the terror that was the close ranged water-attack, a black disc pierced the Hydro Pump where the Eevee was standing, causing the Tentacruel to stagger backwards. The mass that was Eevee quickly dashed behind the staggering Tentacruel and used Payback as its opponent fell onto it. The powerful revenge-type move did exponential amounts of damage considering the damage Eevee took from the Hydro Pump. The Dark type move surprised all watching as Eevee doesn't naturally learn that move, then again it wasn't an Eevee using it.

Neither Flying pokemon could land a single blow against each other now that Alexandra had gained the power of Agility and Crobat was naturally just as fast. Ancient Powers from Togetic hadn't landed once while the fangs of the Crobat got closer and closer with each attempt. The new plan was to have Crobat come in as close as possible and hit it full on with the Rock-type move that was sure to make Togetic more powerful. The Crobat dashed in for an ice fang and missed closely as Alexandra barrel-rolled out of the way, but Crobat turned and caught its leg in its teeth with a regular bite attack. This was the chance Alexandra was looking for as at this moment rocks came flying upwards from the ground hitting Crobat's stomach and wings all at once. The Ancient Power had done massive amounts of damage considering the range at which it was used, and Alexandra was powered up from using that move. It became faster than its opponent and it seemed like the next hit it landed would be the last.

Tentacruel, now nearly done in by the Payback attack, was just as surprised as the rest of the crowd when the smoke cleared and there was no Eevee on the field, but an Umbreon that was being commanded by Leonard. It was faster than the Eevee from before and clearly more powerful, and still had a lot of energy left to fight, while the Tentacruel had nearly run out of energy. The Umberon tried to use Bite a few times before resorting to using Faint Attack, which was unavoidable as the Tentacruel walked into its feint and was hit hard. The Tentacruel knew it was defeated and gave in to the clearly superior Umbreon which stood over it with pride. It now turned its attention to the ceiling to see how its partner was faring.

Although critically weakened the Crobat was still able to barely dodge any and all attacks, scoring small glancing blows as the Togetic flew past. Noticing the battle on the ground was finished, Alexandra decided to dip down low to the ground, but the Crobat wouldn't take the bait. Togetic decided to use Roost on the ground near its partner as it went from two solo battles to a two-on-one with no escape for the Crobat and the refreshed Togetic. A red beam hit the Crobat as Koga had returned it to its ball, as well as the Tentacruel. "Thank you for a great battle," said the voice from across the room.

"Thanks Koga, for helping Eevee finally evolve!" Len smiled and laughed happily.

"You two had a great battle, but you don't understand the dynamics of a true double battle just yet. You have to work together, not just take one opponent each and hope the other wins." Jacob didn't have the heart to tell him that he and the little girl who defeated him before actually successfully double battled versus the Electric Gym Leader, even sacrificing his Munchlax for the victory of the two of them.

Jacob leans over to Len and whispers, "Yeah, we should probably work on that."

"Don't worry about it."

A few minutes later during the "Ceremony" of giving the victorious trainers their prizes, a man slams the front doors wide open and starts shouting, "Hold on just one minute Koga!" Everyone looks towards the new voice.

"You missed the battles. Come back tomorrow."

"You know I'm not here for that!"

"I know exactly what you're here for and my answer is no."

"Giovanni says he needs a guy like you to watch his back!"

"I said I'm not going back to that organization."

"Fine, I was told to do this as a last resort but I'll get a hefty pay raise with this!" He pulls out a remote control and presses a button on it. The ground starts shaking while everybody starts to panic and run out the fire doors, within a few minutes the only people within the gym are Koga, his referee, a few of his ninja disciples, and Jacob's group.

Koga turns to Jacob and Company and says, "Stay perfectly still. Don't move until I tell you to." The ground stops shaking for a moment as the ceiling of the building is lifted off of the support beams and foundation of the gym, while a dozen Rocket members come down on ropes whipping out pokeballs revealing Psychic and Ground type pokemon to combat Koga's poison types. Koga turns to his disciples and says but one word:

"Now."