Disclaimer: As always I don't own pokémon or the people in my story

Disclaimer: As always I don't own pokémon or the people in my story.

After a few hours the mountain came closer into view. Soon Steve was upon it.

(Walking here sucked. I'm mankind's savior and I have to walk to the competition. The others must be getting a kick seeing a kid walk to the tournament while they drive there.)

After reaching the foot of the mountain he stopped to rest. As he sat down a voice prodded him to keep moving. (Don't sit down. You have a good day's worth of walking ahead of you. If you don't want to battle stay here but if you stop now you won't get to fight.)

"Shut up and go away. I'll move when I want to. If Zack wants to fight me that badly he wait for me to get there." Steve replied.

(Fine, but I'm just warning you. If you aren't there, no one will be able to stop him. So sit and rest while the others get defeated and are killed.)

"Killed! What are you planning? How can you kill innocent people just because they challenged you! You asked them to attack you, so how can you hold their courage against them?"

(So you realized that I'm talking directly to you. You're a lot smarter than I thought. No matter. There is no courage in those people attitudes. They are kids who think they are invincible. Its arrogance and pride, neither are worthy attributes. Didn't I mention that I would destroy the
human race? What are a few lives of unworthy trainers to the world? You have plenty of trainers who aren't worthy to speak to you because of how they treat their pokémon. Realize that you hold potential above these others. You are much better than people believe you are. Defeat the trainers that pose a problem to you, and succeed in the task at hand. Defeat me Steve. If you can't beat me then I was wrong about your technique.)

Steve decided he had rested up enough and started walking. When he had been walking for twenty minutes he heard a voice calling from below. As he turned he noticed Bill walking towards him.

"Hey, Steve. Are you going to fight that crazy old man?" Bill asked.

"Of course. What else would I be doing halfway up the mountain?" Steve replied.

"I can't let you go on. You have to fight me to get through."

"What? What's wrong Bill? You don't like fighting me."

(A warm-up. Your friend is your first battle up the mountain. And remember the clock is ticking.)

"Bastard. Fine, Bill. Expect no mercy! Go gyaradoes!"

"Raichu, go!"

(Not this again. I don't want to fight my weakness. Oh well, it's training all over again.)

His gyaradoes appeared in the lake across the street from them and his friend let his raichu go near the water. The pokémon stared at each other, thinking of how they could defeat the other. The gyaradoes didn't like the odds of water and lightning and the raichu was hesitant to attack first, still bearing the fear from the fight with blastoise.

"Raichu, thunderbolt the lake itself. It's a sure hit."

"Gyaradoes tunnel over to the Raichu underground."

The Raichu gathered energy and sent a lightning bolt at the water. As the thunderbolt hit the water the gyaradoes jumped out of the water and fired a hyper beam at the Raichu.

(Not what I asked him to do but I guess that works.)

After the attack is finished the Raichu weakly gets up off the ground limping over to the lake and sticks his tail in the water, sending an electrical current through the water. The gyaradoes surfaces at the end of this attack and rams right into the pokémon with a skull bash. After the raichu lands it tries to get up but can't make it.

"Bill, call it back. It's too weak to continue fighting. Come on, this is torture it's going through." Steve screamed at his friend.

"Fine, Raichu return. I'll let you go, but I'll fight you as frequently as possible. Bye Steve."

His friend walked back to the town cursing all the way.

(So you've finished the first test. Keep going Steve. You aren't even close to finishing. Good bye for now.)

(I'll get you for turning my friend against me, you bastard.)