I Don't Own Pokemon


I was currently standing in front of the Bug typed gym of the town I'm currently in. Besides all that, at the moment I'm thinking about what Pokemon would want to battle the most here, it's a Bug type gym so Charizard or Pidgeot would be the most obvious answer if I wanted to over kill this, but that's not exactly what I want to do, plus Charizard's recently gotten a good number of battles in, in that Valley a few days back so he's out.

But compared to the last gym where everyone had a type advantage of some kind on the opponent, here it was at least that bit more on the even side, well if you count one side being overwhelming strong in comparison to the other side even footing, then well, to be honest you need to rework your definition of what even is. Whatever, I'll make a choice for this like how I make choices for everything else in life, at the last second.

With that I walked into the gym building, looking around the entrance, I noted that it reminded me a bit of the Celadon Gym, a lot of plant life, enough of it to make my mind connect it to a greenhouse, though this was a lot more foresty than Celadon's gym, and by that I mean there is quite the number of trees in the room. Looking around at the greenery for another moment before making my way deeper into the gym.

After running into a group of metapod, and after getting some directions from them after a bit of talking, I was currently standing in the middle of the arena where I assume that I'll be having my battle whenever I find Bugsy. Well considering my luck with finding Gym leaders, I wouldn't be surprised if he's currently walking up behind me. It would make quite the amount of sense, every gym leader seems to find me before I find me.

"Oh, hello there, I didn't hear you come in" And I could have predicted that forty times out of ten. Still, Absol jumped at the sound a little, which is interesting, because is was just a small scare, it didn't resister as a disaster for her, neat. Well, I'll think about it more later, after all, that whole thing is basically becoming a hobby of mine to study that weird little ability she has. Anyway, back to the gym leader that's in front of me.

"I'm quite quiet when I want to be, I probably should have made myself known though. Anyway I'm here for a battle if you have the time" He just smiled before making his way over towards the other side of the medium sized battle field. Making my way over towards the other box were I'm pretty sure I'm suppose to stand in, I placed Riolu down onto the ground, were she sat while doing her best to get comfortable, while Absol sat down next to her not really knowing what to do besides just follow her lead.

"This will be a three on three battle if you don't mind. Of course you can switch out if you want while I won' be able to, though I have a feeling like you've already heard all this before" Oh, it seems that he might know who I am, it's annoying that I have to assume that everyone already know my name, it's a good bit egotistical and I don't like it at all. Still, I just smiled a small bit and nodded while reaching up and grabbed the sixth ball off the sash on my chest and primed it to throw while Bugsy did the same.

"Three, two, one, Go!" And with that he threw his pokeball out while I gave mine a underhand toss and watched as Lycanroc appeared in front of me while an ariados appeared in front of my Pokemon, I bite the inside of my lip at that as I looked at the Pokemon and with held a slight grimace. Yep that's right, me, the man that gets in near death situations and barely blinks, the man who has fought criminal organisations with boredom, has arachnophobia. Everyone has their faults, and as it happens that's one of mine.

"Lunge!" I frowned as I snapped out of that annoying part of my mind that said I should be at least another forty feet away from my opponents Pokemon. Watching as the ariados shot forwards in a, in my opinion, very horrifying way. After another moment of wasteful contemplation of using overkill to the extreme, I called out instead of my first knee jerk reaction.

"Counter, then Rock Throw" The ariados slammed into my Wolf before shooting backwards as Counter activated, the damage taken wasn't anything special to Lycanroc, but double that damage on a Pokemon that doesn't have half my Wolf's endurance and it packs quite the punch. The medium sized boulder launched at the ariados right after certainly didn't help as it slammed into the still downed Pokemon. After a moment, I let out a small controlled sigh and waited a moment to not say the seven other attacks that really wanted to make its way past my lips.

"Swords Dance and Pin Missle Ariados!" The spider started to spin around rapidly, fast enough to make it look like there was dozens of spiders in a blurring spiral. It was kind of terrifying, I didn't let it show of course but the small amount of time it took for me to fix my face into a properly neutral expression was enough time for the Pokemon to finish up it's dance and launch off it's attack, which was fine, I could have stopped it if I wanted, but even though I really didn't like any of this, Lycanroc likes battling enough that I didn't want to end it to early for him.

"Dodge and Iron Defense to make sure, then Thunder Punch" Lycanroc jumped out of the way of the dozens of pins and rushed forwards at the Spider with his fur glowing a sine coloring to it. After a moment one of his paws lit up with lightning and got close enough to smash it down on top the Pokemon. An annoying image of a spider going splat was pushed to the forefront of my mind, which didn't exactly help my current mindset. Thankfully the hit managed to knock the Pokemon out with that attack.

I watched for a moment as the Pokemon was in the motions of being returned, in that time, I looked over to my right and noted that Absol was looking at the battle with some clear fascination in her eyes, neat, looks like I'll have another Pokemon to train then, not like I mind, it'd be good for Servine to have some to train against that's on equal footing.

Looking a little more downwards though, I noted that Riolu was looking back at me with very clear concern on her face, blinking to myself at the sight, it took a moment to realize why she was looking at me like that. Out of every emotion I can feel, fear is easily one of the ones that I feel the least often, so in her case, me suddenly feeling said emotion is cause for quite the concern.

So with that, I just shrugged at her and held up a finger to indicate that I'll tell her about it later, and once I was sure she got the message, which she didn't seem happy about, I turned back and watched as the second pokeball was tossed out reveling a beedrill. Good, I don't have any traumatic experiences with bees, so I'll be fine now as long as, say, a galvantula isn't sent out next, which would be quite unlikely, but considering it's me, well I wouldn't be to surprised.

"Venoshock Beedrill!" Oh yeah, in the middle of a battle. The beedrill lifted their tail stinger up and from it a blob of dark purple shot out right towards Lycanroc at a pretty fast speed.

"Protect, then Rock Tomb" The very familiar barrier move activated as the Poison type move slammed into the Protect and exploded on contact. As the smoke floated up the in arena, I looked around the smoke as best I could, mostly looking for movement, though it seems that it was a bit unnecessary as before the smoke cleared, I listened to the sound of rocks moving.

Watching on, mostly from just the sounds around me as the smoke was for some reason quite persistent in staying in the air. I noted that the beedrill's wings were beating quite fast and from the sounds of the rocks, it appears that the Bug type s currently trying to out fly the Rock Tomb. I can't really tell from the sounds alone if they were succeeding or not, so I'm just going to wait until I can properly see the field again. Apparently Bugsy could still see though as he called out after another moment.

"Destroy those rocks with Poison Jab!" Listening on to the sounds of rocks being broken apart at a rapid speed. I noted that said sound was beginning to decrease in frequency, I doubt Lycanroc is suddenly running out of steam after only about half a minute of using a move that is like a fifth of the energy consuming as a some of his other attacks. Which means there is the likely hood that I'm about to win this round.

"Endeavor Beedrill!" Oh, well that could be quite the problem, so I should do something about that to make sure it doesn't go off, to bad I still can't blood see anything. For the love of god, there's be less prolonging smoke from some of my Pokemon's attack clashes with the Elite bloody Four then this. Whatever.

"Protect, once they hit it, hit them with Rock Throw" At this point I could probably just close my eyes and it wouldn't improve or hurt my ability to direct in this battle. I didn't of course, mostly because of the fact that I'm to paranoid to keep my eyes closed for prolong periods of time in a battle of any kind. Anyway, backing the focus to my ears, I noted that a medium sounding thud rang out from somewhere in front of me.

And then right afterward a ripping sound then another thud, and the wing beats stopped, so I'm pretty sure that the beedrill is knocked out now. Thankfully, that's when the smoke cleared up properly, which honestly made no sense, and if it wasn't for the fact that I can literally feel illusions then I would presume something weird was happening besides the fact that the smoke was being suborn. It might be because we're in an enclosed building or something, no fresh air to quickly dispel it, well, it's one theory I guess.

"Alright, down to my last Pokemon already, let's do this Scizor!" I have no idea at all why he decided to call out his last Pokemon, but I didn't bother saying anything on it, it doesn't really matter in the long run, so instead I just watched as the Bug Steel typed Pokemon appear in front of me. Fire Punch or Fang could probably one shot it, so not going to use that even if it's what my mind immediately jumped towards.

"Iron Defense then Bullet Punch Scizor!" The Pokemon's body glowed in a familiar looking shine of metallic coloring before shooting forwards with their priority attack. I could call out for a Protect and I'm sure Lycanroc could manage one in time, but instead I just waited until the Pokemon was right about to make contact with my Wolf before calling out to him.

"Counter, then Rock Polish" I could have continued on the attack, but this Bug type seems to be pretty fast, which is a bit surprising, as even though in the show the scyther line seems to be really fast in reality their actually pretty slow, at least in comparison to their physical strength. Back to the battle though, the Pokemon smashed their pincer down on top of Lycanroc's head before being launched backwards as Lycanroc hit them back right in the face.

From there his fur seemed to glow and the parts that always seemed to retain a bit of the shine from Iron Defense glowed before letting off a light glow to them, like the light was being reflected off of his fur. It wasn't the first time that I've seen this of course, though this is the first time that I've used it in a battle. So that's something at least.

"Swords Dance, Agility, Scizor, then Metal Claw" Well then, watching as the Pokemon started to power up, I wondered if it was smart to allow this before shaking my head to myself, it would just make this battle a bit more exciting which certainly isn't a bad thing. It's not like on the off chance of Lycanroc getting hurt is going to have lasing effects from this, well, besides the guilt I'll feel from not stopping it when I could have, I'm sure that wouldn't leave me alone for a long while if that does happen.

"Iron Defense, then block with Focus Punch" His fur glowed again as his defensive got given stronger before crouching down a small amount and clenched one of his paws into a fist that started to glow with power as the very strong Fighting type move began to charge. As it was doing that, the scizor blitzed forwards at an impressive speed, showing that the Pokemon probably maxed out their Agility, which also means Swords Dance is probably maxed out as well, interesting.

Lycanroc still was fast enough to bring up his punch and slammed it into the Metal Claw. I could actually feel the force behind the connection of the two attacks from here, which is kind of nice, been a while since I could feel the impacts of clashes of strength. Feels weirdly nice actually, that's pretty strange all things considered and that probably means something when I'm the one saying so.

Either way, back to the two Pokemon that are currently pushing against each other in a contest of strength. If I was worried I would have called out for Lycanroc to increase his Iron Defense, but I wasn't, not really. That scizor's strength is four times what it normally is and Lycanroc is still pushing back without to much problem, from what I can see at the very least, which is at least an upgrade from the last round.

"Back out Scizor and keep attacking with Fury Cutter!" Of smart, Focus Punch needs some time to build up and Lycanroc can't do that when he's dodging from a bunch of attacks that will only be getting stronger with each successful hit. To bad for him that Focus Punch isn't needed to block those attacks, really if I wanted Protect would have been more than enough, but I can tell that Lycanroc wouldn't have any fun if he didn't get to do something like this, instead of being on the defensive all the time during the battle.

"Block as many as you want with Dual Chop, and then go on the offensive" Both of my Wolf's paws lit up with Dragon typed energy before rushing at the Bug type and started to counter most of their attacks with his own, while managing to get a couple strong hits in himself. Of course, that Steel typing was making it so that the moves damage wasn't as effective as I'd like it to be but I'm sure Lycanroc would be annoyed if his opponent couldn't take at least a few hits, so it wasn't that big of a deal.

Still after a few more moments, almost a full minute in fact, later, the Bug type collapsed down on the ground unconscious. Lycanroc seemed a bit put out at the moment, but he's always like that after a battle, honestly for such a lax Pokemon he is just as battle crazy as Charizard is. Still, I called him back over towards me and gave him a hug before saying.

"Good job buddy, might be a bit underwhelming but hey, this is your first proper solo gym victory" He seemed to perk up a bit at that, which I knew he would. After all, out of the older members of the team, aka the original six I got in Kanto, he's the only one that has yet to win a gym battle all by himself, so now he can say he has. I don't think it matters all that much, but he seems pretty happy with himself and that's all that really matters to be honest.

"Thanks Boss" I just nodded before motioning him to stand to the side for a moment as Bugsy was currently walking up to me with a badge in his hand. Taking it from him, I gave him a small smile, mostly put on just for show, but I'll admit, Lycanroc's good mood was effecting me a little bit. Showing the Hive Badge to my Wolf, he just grinned even more, and I noted for some reason Bugsy looked a bit intimidated at that.

I didn't really understand why, but to be fair I have the same problem in this regard for Luxray as well, so it makes sense I guess that I don't understand why someone would be scared of my slightly lazy Wolf. Oh well, thoughts for another time I guess, so with that I turned and made my way out of the gym after collecting Riolu, who still looked like he wanted an answer for my reaction, which was a bit annoying, but I could understand why she would want one, it's just one of those things that I'm not very fond of remembering. Oh well, I'll deal with that later.


Well then, second badge collected, which is neat, this battle was a bit longer than I originally wanted it to be, as I wanted to include a few things in this chapter after the battle like Kyu's talk with Riolu and Absol's reaction to the battle. But currently it's two in the morning and I should have had this chapter done like four days ago when I started it so I'm just going to end it off here and put all that in at a later chapter. So with that in mind, See ya.