Okay thanks for the reviews, I would like more as well please. I've handled the problems such as the whole ' v " thing I usually just do it out of ease and habit but I'll try not to in future.

EkaSwede- thanks for the review, the reason the chapters are called Vs whoever is because that's the way they were done in the comics and still do. What does anyone else think? I will think up better titles if people want. Thanks for reading by the way.

Chapter 5 – Vs Onix

Red sits nervously eating his breakfast of fruit he has found near his campsite, he calls out his three pokemon and gives them food hoping that it will make them a little stronger for their battle, if only he had enough money to go to the pokemart to buy some potions this battle would be simple but unfortunately he didn't.

Noon seemed to come all most instantly and Red found himself outside the Pewter city gym totally unsure of how he got there let alone whether he should enter. Red takes a deep breath and steps forward as the electric doors swing open. Red is hit by a blast of heat and wonders what's going on till he sees Green standing in the challenger position commanding his Charmeleon to blast a Geodude with a flamethrower. 'Wow Charmander evolved…Who's that?' thought Red as a older boy around seventeen approached the battle stage and climbed into the gym leaders position.

Red wished he could watch the match but a speaker suddenly crackled into life above his head "This is the final call could Red please report to battle arena two." Red jumped as he realised he was late and exited through a door to his left which had Battle arena 2 above it.

Red stepped out into a room identical to the previous one with three trainers standing opposite where he was supposed to. "Which one of you is Brock, I'm here to challenge for a Boulder badge" says red confidently which is why he was greatly surprised that the three fell around laughing.

"You can't just challenge the great Brock you have to beat three of his Gym trainers first" smiled one of the boys "We will each use one pokemon. If you can defeat all three of us Brock will battle you, you may switch pokemon at any time but can use no more then three to battle the three of us."

One of the boys stepped to the centre of the ring to act as the referee as the gym trainer released his Graveller. "Go Pikachu!" ordered red as the pokemon popped out of it's ball looked at the Graveller shook it's head and climbed back into it's pokeball. Red sweat dropped and reached for another pokeball "Go Poliwhirl!" yelled Red as he hurled his pokeball and the blue frog pokemon appeared on the field which caused the trainers to fall around laughing. "What?" asked Red who was confused and angry.

"Your pokemon looks like a stiff wind would knock it out let alone a gym battle" laughed the boy and his Graveller.

"We'll see about that won't…" Red was interrupted as Graveller surged forward. Poliwhirl dodged him on red's orders and started to spin it's whirl in a hypnosis attack which worked as the Graveller slowly drifted off.

"I'm not easily beat after all I am the brother of a gym leader" smiled the boy who Red now realised looked a lot like the other two boys and the others in the room where Green was batteling. The boy hurled an awaken potion onto Graveller who quickly woke up and charged forward again. Poliwhirl side stepped and blasted him with a watergun when Red commanded it.

Red looked at the soaking wet Graveller and smiled "Ice Beam!" screamed Red as a beam of light hit Graveller and froze it into a big block of ice. The trainer gasped in shock of his pokemon's state who was frozen but still not fainted. "Poliwhirl Mega Punch" ordered Red as his Poliwhirl punched Graveller square in the face sending the block of ice shattering in many directions and fainting the pokemon.

"Fine you beat me but you wont get much further" growled the boy as he stepped down and his brother stepped up. Red flinched at the boy's words realising that he was right any attacks on Poli or Saur would faint them and Pika refused to battle.

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"Go Saur" yelled Red as the plant pokemon appeared on the field across the field from the other trainers Sandshrew. "Vine whip" yelled Red as he tried to get the battle over quickly, Sandshrew dodged the vines as they cracked on the floor near it before it's trainer gave it a command and the little yellow pokemon dove into the ground with a dig attack. "watch the ground" ordered Red as bith he and Saur scanned the floor with their eyes waiting for any sign of Sandshrew. Saur flew into the air as Sandshrew tackled it's dig attack from direcvtly below. "Solar Beam" yelled Red as Saur span in mid air, it began to take in light energy then fired a blinding beam of light at Sandshrew knocking it out.

"You okay Saur?" asked Red, Saur nodded and prepared for the next battle. The next trainer stepped up and smiled a cocky smile, he didn't even speak as he released his pokemon Cubone.

"Bomemerang" ordered the trainer as Cubone hurled it's bone which connected with Saur's head and returned to it. Saur growled before it collapsed on the floor.

"You did well Saur…Go Poliwhirl" ordered Red, as Poli popped out the bone went whizzing past its head "hit the floor it's coming back" said Red as POli didved onto the floor and the bone went flying back and hit Cubone in the head. "water gun" ordered Red as a gush of water blasted into the Cubone.

"I've trained hard, my Cubone is resistant to water, you have to try harder then that" said the gym trainer. "Bone club" ordered the boy the trainer causing the Cubone to burst forward ready to attack.

"Mega punch" ordered Red as Poli hurled itself forward towards Cubone, the bone and Poli's fist connected with the other pokemon's heads at the same time causing them both to reel back, the two pokemon stand firm and narrow their eyes at each other, Cubone took a step forward ready to attack…and collapsed.

"Red is the winner" said Brock as he entered the room riding on his Onix "I have been watching and you have proven yourself worthy of battling for the Boulder badge."

"Great" said Red as he smiled at his Poliwhirl, maybe he actually had a chance, Poliwhirl shook it's head and collapsed on the floor. "You did well Poli, you deserve a rest."

"This battle will be a one on one battle for the Boulder badge" said Brock as he sent his Onix to the field.

"Could I be excused for a second" said Red as he danced around nervously in trainers box.

"This is a gym battle so if you need a moment it better be for a good reason" said Brock.

"I need to use the bathroom" said Red as he danced causing Brock to collapse on the floor and jump up again.

"It's the second door on the left" smiled Brock with a chuckle as he wondered how easy this battle was going to be.

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Red walked down the corridor and into the bathroom where he rested against the wall and sighed. "Go Pika" said Red as he released Pikachu. "Please, please, please battle for me, please" begged Red as he dropped to his knees in front of Pikachu who looked at him smirking.

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Back in the arena Red stood in the trainer box as he looked at Pika who had finally managed to get to sit in the battle arena. Onix towered over the little yellow rat roaring.

"Pika quick attack" yelled Red, Pikachu yawned and lay down causing Red to sweat drop.

"You're not well prepared, your pet doesn't even listen to you" laughed Brock "Onix Rock throw" ordered Brock. Onix began to pull large chunks of Rock from the floor and hurled them towards Pikachu, Pikachu easily avoided the boulders and even seemed to be enjoying it as was Red who thought maybe Pikachu was finally going to battle. Pika did a little dance on the top of one of the boulders which it just avoided, a small piece of gravel which came loose from one of the boulders dropped onto Pika's head.

Pikachu narrowed it's eyes, let out a roar like squeak and began to power up it's electricity. Red's heart skipped a beat as he realised he was still in this battle and could win. Pikachu fired a bolt of electricity…at Red dropping him onto the floor as he convulsed from the pain.

"This is pitiful…finish it Onix with Rock throw" ordered Brock. Onix hurled a rock the size of a basketball towards the back of Pika, Red surged to his feet ignoring the pain from the electricity and jumped towards the boulder which connected with his chest and sent him flying back into the trainers box. Pika looked at the boy who smiled at him through the pain and realised what red had done for him and all the things he had done to try and make friends.

"I guess I'm just not a very good trainer" said Red, Pika shook it's head and stepped up to battle with a determined look on it's face. Pikachu hurled itself at the rock snake and slammed into it's hard body but it didn't seem to have any effect, Onix wrapped it's tail around Pikachu and slammed it into the ground before wrapping round it totally as Brock instructed.

Onix began to squeeze causing Pikachu to squeal in pain and fire of random bolts of electricity which had little to no effect. "Oh no Pika" said red as he watched his little Pikachu being squeezed. "I can't win" said Red to himself quietly, suddenly his eyes were caught by the sprinklers and he had an idea "I know it's hard Pika…but aim at the sprinklers" ordered Red as a bolt flew out and struck the sprinklers causing water to rain down on the battle field.

"Not only will water weaken your pokemon but it will make my pokemons attacks stronger" said Red with a smile "Thunderbolt" he yelled as it released a shock and caused Onix to roar before it collapsed on the floor.

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"I hate to say it but you have beaten me" said Brock as he approached Red, "you are the winner." Pika danced around happily at the news that him and his trainer had won.

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The sun began to lower behind the buildings in the town as Red sat looking at his boulder badge with his now healed pokemon, this victory was the happiest moment of his life so far, it would have been better if Green had lost but he heard from Brock he was just beaten by another trainer from Pallet.

"So are we a team" asked Red with a smile as he held his hand out Pika as Saur and Poli sat behind hinm smiling, Pika stook out his paw and smiled wildly before it let out a huge thunder shock, Red convulsed on the floor laughing as was Pikachu which caused Saur and Poli to look at each other confused before they joined in laughing.

To Be Continued…