May, Brendan and Wally were currently walking back up to the top of Mt. Chimney so they could take the cable car down to Route 112 and continue on to Petalburg City.

May was strangely quiet for most of the uphill walk, she'd been incredibly happy about her Lombre evolving the previous day but now she's acting like her best friend died.

"May? What's wrong?" Brendan asked but she didn't answer.

"May?" Brendan asked again and grabbed her hand gently.

"Hmm?" May asked and jumped in surprise.

"What's wrong? Why are you so quiet?" Brendan asked.

"I've just been thinking about what Alex said before she left. About how my Dad is one of the strongest trainers she's ever met. I always thought my Dad was strong but I never thought he was that strong." May said.

"Well I'm sure you'll do fine. Alex was probably just trying to psych you out. Wouldn't surprise me honestly." Brendan said.

"Or... maybe she... was trying... to help... you." Wally panted heavily and took a big huff from his inhaler.

"Maybe. Alex does try to help us out in her own weird way." May said.

"What kind of pokemon does your dad use?" Wally asked.

"Normal types. He'll probably be using his Slakoth, Vigoroth, and Slacking." May said.

"How long has he had them?" Wally asked.

"Since before I was born. They were my best friends growing up." May said.

Brendan started to chuckle and May looked at him and asked "what's so funny?"

"I'm just imagining a small pigtailed girl swinging on a Slacking's arm." Brendan said and chuckled again.

"I never had pigtails." May said with a huff.

They continued on and soon enough they saw the top of Mt. Chimney.

"Rhyperior!" a loud pokemon roared which made all three trainers clap their hands to their ears.

Standing in their way was a large and powerful looking Rhyperior.

"A Rhyperior? What's it doing here?" Brendan asked.

"Rhyperior don't even live in Hoenn!" Wally.

"Rhy!" Rhyperior yelled and formed a large boulder in between its hands and threw it at the three.

"Ninjask protect!" Brendan said quickly.

Ninjask was released and summoned a green barrier but the rock shattered the barrier and hit Ninjask which knocked the fast pokemon to the ground.

"Ninjask!" Brendan said with concern and picked up his dual typed pokemon.

"Why is it attacking us?" May asked.

"That Rhyperior must have made Mt. Chimney it's home and thinks we're trespassing." Brendan said and returned his Ninjask.

"But what's it doing here in the first place?" Wally asked.

"I don't know! It's really weird." Brendan said.

"Rhy!" Rhyperior roared before slamming a hand on the ground which caused several large stones to surround May and Brendan but left opening so they could see.

"May! Brendan!" Wally yelled.

"Wally! Run and get help!" Brendan said.

"What? No way! I'm not leaving you two!" Wally said.

"Wally you have to its the only choice!" Brendan said.

Wally looked down at the path that would lead him back to Lavaridge and then he turned to look at Rhyperior who glared at the three trainers.

"Its not the only choice." Wally said and released his three pokemon.

"Wally what are you doing?" May asked with a shriek.

"I'm going to battle this Rhyperior and save my friends." Wally said with confidence in his voice.

"Grovyle." the grass type said in agreement.

"Ralts." the timid psychic/fairy type said with a hesitant nod.

"Pinch! Trap Trap!" Trapinch said with several loud snaps of his mouth shutting.

"Ok, Ralts magical leaf! Grovyle wait for Ralts to attack before hitting it with a leaf blade!" Wally said.

Ralts created several glowing leafs from thin air and with a wave of his hand sent them all flying at Rhyperior.

The leafs hit Rhyperior who didn't react at all, Grovyle then shot forward with his leafs glowing green and turned into blades and slashed Rhyperior twice.

However, like with Ralts magical leaf, his attack did next to nothing.

"Ok now Trapinch bury Rhyperior with rock slide!" Wally said.

Trapinch raised his head into the sky and several dozen rocks fell from the sky and burried Rhyperior.

However Rhyperior jerked it's body and sent the stones flying in all directions.

One stone was sent right at Wally but Grovyle quickly shattered it with whip of his iron tale.

"Wally physical attacks aren't going to work! Rhyperior's defense is too high. Use special attacks!" Brendan said.

Rhyperior then stomped on the ground and summoned several large, sharp stones and then with a wave of its arm sent them all flying at Wally's pokemon.

"Grovyle dodge! Ralts shadow sneak! Trapinch dig!" Wally said.

Ralts melted into the ground which caused the stones to miss him. Trapinch quickly dug underground and Grovyle, with his speed was able to easily avoid the sharp stones.

"Ralts hit Rhyperior with a signal beam! Trapinch come back up and use bulldoze and Grovyle use bullet seed!" Wally said.

Ralts reappeared from the shadows and fired a multicolored beam from his hands that hit Rhyperior at the same time Grovyle's bullet seed hit which caused Rhyperior to hold its hand out to shield it's face from the barrage.

Trapinch however leapt from the ground and then slammed down on it which caused a shockwave to shoot right at Rhyperior which caused it to actually grunt.

"You hurt it!" May said happily.

"Great job Wally!" Brendan said.

"Rhy!" Rhyperior said and formed a giant boulder between its hands again and flung it.

"Dodge!" Wally said.

Fortunately for Grovyle and Ralts they were able to dodge it. By leaping over it and sinking into a shadow respectively.

Trapinch on the other hand wasn't so lucky and hit and sent flying.

"Trapinch!" Wally said with concern.

"Pinch." Trapinch said before falling unconscious.

Wally looked angry returned Trapinch before he said "Ralts magical leaf and Grovyle use iron tail!"

Ralts rose from his shadow and summoned several glowing leafs again and sent them flying at Rhyperior while Grovyle shot at Rhyperior and flipped forward and slammed his glowing tail on Rhyperior's head that caused it to jerk it's head down.

Rhyperior's arm then glowed and tried to swing it's arm at Grovyle but it missed thankfully.

"Get away and then hit it with bullet seed!" Wally said.

Grovyle shot away from Rhyperior's reach and then launched a barrage of seeds at Rhyperior.

"Rhy." Rhyperior said with a grunt.

Ralts sunk back into the shadows and was going to get behind Rhyperior but Rhyperior noticed and slammed it's arm down on the ground which created a crater and knocked Ralts from his shadow form and hit the ground.

"Ralts!" Wally said with concern and picked up his second pokemon.

"Grovyle it's up to you." May yelled.

"Gro." Grovyle said and didn't look worried at all while he stared Rhyperior down.

"Rhyperior!" it roared.

"Grovyle!" the grass type yelled back.

Rhyperior rushed forward with it's horn extending and shining white but while it had plenty of strength and defense, it wasn't that fast.

Grovyle leapt into the air and avoided the megahorn attack and then swung his tail and hit Rhyperior's head.

"Perior!" Rhyperior grunted and swung it's glowing arm at Grovyle but Grovyle quickly ducked under it and slashed Rhyperior several times with his blades.

"Great Grovyle!" Wally said happily.

"Gro." Grovyle said with a smile and a nod.

Rhyperior held both hands at Grovyle and rapidly fired several rocks from the hole in its hands.

"Slash them with leaf blade!" Wally said.

Grovyle blades moved like a green blur as he slashed and hacked every stone that Rhyperior fired at him.

However while Grovyle was busy defending himself from the stones, Rhyperior rushed forward and swung it's arm at Grovyle and sent the grass type flying.

"Grovyle!" the grass type cried.

Grovyle hit the ground and rolled several times and stay there for a moment but he slowly pushed himself to his feet.

"Gro. Gro." Grovyle panted heavily and was clutching his side that was hit.

"Ok Rhyperior that's enough." a familiar voice said from behind the large pokemon.

Stepping out from behind Rhyperior was none other then Earnest with his Eevee on his shoulder.

"Earnest? What's going on here?" Wally asked while helping his Grovyle stand.

Rhyperior stomped his foot and the stone prison that May and Brendan were trapped in sunk back to the ground.

"This is your Rhyperior?" Brendan asked.

"Yep. I wanted to test Wally here." Earnest said.

"Test me?" Wally asked and returned his Grovyle to his pokeball.

"I wanted to put you into a situation where you couldn't win and see how you would react. No offense but I didn't think you had it in you. Looks like I owe Alex an apology." Earnest said.

"Why's that?" May asked.

"Because she said that Wally would stand his ground and try and fight even if he couldn't win." Earnest said.

"She said that about me?" Wally asked with a faint blush.

Earnest noticed this and said "forget about that. Because you passed my little test I have something for you." Earnest said and threw a pokeball at Wally who caught it.

"What's this?" Wally asked.

"Open it and find out." Earnest said.

Wally opened the pokeball and out of it came a small red pokemon with three tuffs of red hair on its head and six curly tails.

"Pix?" Vulpix said while looking around.

"A Vulpix?" Wally asked.

"Your reward for passing my little test." Earnest said and returned Rhyperior to his pokeball.

Wally knelt down to Vulpix's level and said "hey there little guy."

"She's a girl." Earnest corrected.

"Oh sorry little girl." Wally said.

"Vul." Vulpix said with a huff.

"She's a little spoiled but she's a powerful fighter. Just be sure to treat her well and she'll love you." Earnest said.

"Thanks Earnest." Wally said and reached out to touch Vulpix but she just turned her head up at him and walked away.

"Well at least I'm not the only one with a pokemon that's got an attitude problem." Wally said and returned his new Vulpix.

A/N well here we go guys. Wally passes Earnest's little test and gets a Vulpix as a reward.

Now I'd like to thank thewillyrex, Aurawarrior13, Nighttyger, RPG1115, Martyn and QUEENSPELLER67.

Now that's all I have to say so until we meet again.

Jaffa3 out.