Sorry for the delay. My dad is almost continually on the computer, so it's hard to find time to write this.
"Well, Midnight, here we are. Do you want to rest or are you ready for Bugsy right now?" asked Ash.
In answer, Midnight leaped away from the pokecenter she had just flown to and towards the gym. She knew where it was because of the large sign and arrow.
Still on her back, Ash blinked a few times, trying to figure out how she knew the way. He could tell it was the right way because of the big sign pointing in that direction, but how could she read?
Arriving at the large, forest-like gym, Ash recalled Midnight and walked in confidently.
"Bugsy! I want to challenge you!" Ash called. A twenty-something man jumped lightly off a low tree branch.
"No problem. Is three on three good for you?" said the man.
"A little friendly advice- most trainers who boast lose. Is that another challenge?"
"You use six pokemon against my three. I'll win!"
Bugsy was surprised, but if the fool wanted to lose, why stop him? "Fine."
Why did I stop there? Simple. I want to know your guesses on what will happen in the battle. As Bugsy rightly pointed out, most trainers on the TV show lose the instant they start to get overconfident.
For all the people who I just know will complain, yes, in the Johto Journeys Bugsy is a kid. Well, SO IS ASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is set in the future, after Ash grows up, becomes a pokemon master, and catches many of the legendary pokemon. So, Bugsy should also be older. For everyone who already understood that, sorry, but someone would have complained.
If you want to understand the following paragraph, read the reviews. To Satoshi a.k.a. Heero YuyZ, why wouldn't Mewtwo punish a trainer for trying to catch him? This is after the first movie(Ash and Prof. Oak are both famous). If it was before it, Mewtwo would have not bothered to save her and(for the sake of explanation) if she had tried to catch him afterwards he would probably have killed her anyway. Hemlock gave the kid the masterball(he IS a pokemon researcher) and in the TV show you can reuse pokeballs(a good example being when Ash tried to catch charmander or primeape) although yes, in the game you can't. I never heard of league rules for starting pokemon, but I may have missed that. But anyway, once you have a starting pokemon, you can go out and catch other pokemon of any level(in theory, a starting trainer could go out with a lv5 pokemon, throw a pokeball and get lucky enough to catch a lv100 pokemon in the TV show. Yes, it would never happen, but it could). The trainers at Nightshade aren't usually given a masterball and told to go catch the strongest pokemon they can find, they have to catch it themselves. If different level pokemon were handed out, then it would be unfair. They just bypass the first part of being a trainer and go straight to catching.