A/N: For those of you who are wondering why Silver Koranai was called Silver Angel in earlier chapters, remember what was said in the preview. All name questions will be answered in this chapter. If you've read my other story, though supposedly it isn't that good, you may know who teams up with Silver and Sapphire. Pairings are close to being decided, though you'll never believe the shock of the first pair. The thing about the HDG, they disappear for awhile after the third gym and the third wave of them No.'s 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 come in to try and finish the fights, by defeating Silver and Sapph, after the fifth gym, by order of their boss. Sapphire and her two near omnipotent pokemon, Wingull and Mudkip are both already powerful enough to fight Roxanne. And sorry to anyone who has read my story for not writing for almost a year.

Current pokemon and their current levels

Silver
Devlis (Poochyena) Lv. 14 Sinless (Torchic) Lv. 13 Arcaina
(Mudkip) Lv. 15 Vigor (Slakoth) Lv. 8

Sapphire
Kaoru (Swablu) Lv. 13 Z (Mudkip) Lv. 14 Wings of Life (Wingull)
Lv. 17 A/N: (it is close to evolving) Psych (Ralts) Lv. 11

Disclaimer: I love pokemon, but sadly don't own it. Enjoy and don't
sue.

Pokemon- Quest for Life
Chapter 5: Rocky waters! Silverado versus Roxanne!

Silver and Sapphire walked towards the gym, happy that they
could finally battle their first gym leader. They knew the hazards
that may await them in the cavernous gym shaped like, and built
entirely of, stone blocks. Silver had done his research and found that
the gym and it's trainers specialized in rock-type pokemon and the
leader used a powerful Geodude and the newly discovered and even more
powerful, Nosepass. Silver was about to walk in when Sapphire stopped
him.

"Silver, how do you seem so confident without being the
slightest bit cocky?" asked Sapphire, always eager to learn more about
the smart and strong Hanyai. "I mean... we haven't even finished
looking through the entire town and already you seem to know
everyplace and even some people like the back of your hand?"

Silver looked at her, not quite sure as to how she discovered
something that he always did, secretly, and surprisingly on accident.
He pointed to his face, where one of his eyes is covered by an
expensive looking patch, and began speaking, "Y'see Sapph... I've
actually got a fully functioning eye underneath this patch. The only
problem, though, is that my eye looks like a cat's eye, and 'cat' is a
part of the eye's name, which is 'copycat'. The copycat eye is a
genetic trait in my family, which allows me to copy a fighting
technique, memories, super-natural abilities, traits, and other such
things, and incorporate them into myself. Does that answer your
question?" Finished Silver, good-naturedly.

Sapphire only nodded, and followed the older boy in. As they
walked up, both boy and girl had to sign their names in, so they could
be called up to battle the gym leader.

3½ hours and four battles later

"Will a... Kiru Angel please step up for your match against gym leader
Roxanne..." blared a voice over the loudspeakers located all around
the building and waiting room. Silver stood up and started to walk up
to the stage. Sapphire followed, but only because Silver went up when
a boy named Kiru was supposed to.

As Silver stepped up, Roxanne was blowing a bubble with a stick
of gum. She saw Silver and said, "Hm? Aren't you that Devil boy,
Silver Koranai?" She smiled and drawled on about how a true trainer
doesn't scare others into getting what they want.

This went on similarly for a few more minutes until Silver had
had enough. "My trainer's ID says right here, Kiru Angel, originally a
Kanto trainer, then Orange islands, Johto, and finally the land of
Hoenn. I've traveled for seven freakin' years as the powerful Kiru
Angel and won't let some chick who thinks she's unbeatable come close
to stopping me, just because she's a gym leader who doesn't check the
holo-board!" he finished strongly. "Now let's get this over with, I've
waited too long to end up losing to you."

"Well then, let's finish what you started!" yelled the
schoolgirl, startling everyone except Kiru. "Go, Geodude!"

Kiru merely pulled out his flute and sent Sinless into battle.
Roxanne laughed at this. From the skill other trainers had shown with
a Torchic, most of them shouldn't have even passed the exams to
receive their first pokemon. Of course we all know that Kiru is very
out of the ordinary. The voice signaled the start of the match,
causing Kiru to act much more quickly than normal, as he began playing
the notes on the flute too fast for human ears to comprehend.
Torchic on the other hand, understood. He rushed forward and
began pecking away at Geodude. Geodude was wildly swinging, hoping to
connect a blow. It did however land a lucky shot, causing Sinless to
shoot back. Sinless regained his footing, and let loose a furious
ember attack, burning Geodude to a crisp. As Roxanne recalled her
pokemon furiously, she, along with everyone else, noticed that Sinless
had just evolved into a Combusken. Silver also recalled his pokemon,
although she didn't see a reason for him to. She sent out Nosepass and
Kiru sent out Arcaina, his Mudkip.

The two pokemon rushed towards each other, and attacked with a
furious Headbutt. The collision sent the smaller, water pokemon
backwards. As Silver saw that Mudkip thought it was being threatened,
its endurance increased ten-fold. Mudkip let loose a giant torrent of
a water gun attack, blasting Nosepass backwards. Mudkip then began
shooting mud shots at the rock pokemon, watching as wave after wave of
mud bombarded the rock pokemon.

As Roxanne saw what was happening, she cried out, "Bulk up!" And
Nosepass's power grew.

Nosepass charged forward, blasting through the mud until it
tossed Arcaina into the air. As Arcaina fell towards the ground, Kiru
yelled out, "Aerial Falling Tundra!" And with that, Arcaina focused a
blast of powerful water down on Nosepass, knocking him to the ground,
unconcious. He then landed atop him and evolved into a Marshtop.

The bell sounded, signaling the end of the match. "The match is
over. And what an upset, Kiru, the challenger, wins!" Kiru walked over
to Roxanne, who looked up at him, blushing.

"I believe I just won the stone badge, Miss. Roxanne..." said
Kiru.

She snapped out of her trance, "Of course, here..." she pinned
it on his vest, under his trench coat, under his cloak. She also
handed him a TM. She then got up on the balls of her feet and kissed
him on the cheek. "And that's for being so damn cute..."

"Whatever..." And he just walked away.

Next Time

Problems arise when the gym closes for the night and Sara-Kinu and her
psychic surprises come along.

Chapter six
Psychic versus steel! Rustboro's Fate!