Okay, there's a reason why I cut off the part from the last chapter; I probably didn't have enough time to actually write it, or just didn't want to write the lines of Team Rocket when they came in, but it was a great chapter nonetheless. Enjoy!
Chapter 28: Fuschia Distractions
The next day, Angelina was bike-riding through the forest outside Fuschia City. The town itself was very big, nothing compared to Saffron or Celadon, but big enough. The temperature was humid and hot and there was many trees around making it seem like the city was hidden away from other societies.
"I wonder where the Fuschia Gym is?" Angelina asked, then she road out into a clearing and looking up at a large wooden mansion that resembled a Japanese-style dojo. It had a blue roof, glass windows, and was surrounded by a tall wooden fence. "Wow, I wonder who lives here?"
Angelina walked inside the mansion and down seemingly endless hallway with wooden floors and decorated in oriental style décor, unbeknownst that she was being closely watched. As she continued to walk down the hallway, she was about to take a step when she heard this strange noise and saw electricity.
"Ahh, Voltorb!" Angelina backed away as she saw implanted in the floor a huge Pokémon that looks like a Pokéball with a face, minus the button. Its top half is red, and its bottom half is white.. She turned around and stopped, upon seeing another Pokémon with purple fur covering its round body, a pincer-like mouth, red compound eyes, and white antennae. "Hey, where did you come from?" she took out her Pokedex.
"Venonat, the Insect Pokemon. Its large eyes act as radar, enabling it to be active in darkness. The eyes can also shoot powerful beams."
"Veno-nat!" the insect Pokemon squeaked and ran in the opposite direction that Angelina just came from.
"Wait! Wait for me!" Angelina yelled, chasing after the Venonat. She kept her eyes on the Pokemon as she ran and turned down a hallway that she's never been down, but then smacked hard into a wall that wasn't even there. "Ooow!" she rubbed her head as she got to her feet. "What's with this mansion?" She raised her hand to see if what she smacked into was still there, and surprisingly found her hand touching something hard and solid, like a wall. "Hmm, it's a wall but invisible."
"Venonat!" came a sound behind Angelina. She turned and saw the Venonat down the hallway but peeking out from behind the corner.
"Why you little…." Angelina growled and began to run toward it, but then ran into another wall not even seen. "Not again!" She banged on the invisible wall, but sighed and gave up. She looked around, then spotting a window. "I wonder if I can climb out of here…." She began to climb the wall, and felt it move forward. "Aaaaahhhh!" She screamed and hung on for dear life. She looked down and saw that the mansion was set on a cliff and below was a river, her eyes widened in fear as she screamed.
"Hahahahaha, do you give in?" said a human but feminine voice.
"Huh?" Angelina looked up, she sighed in relief.
There standing inside the building, but seen where the wall would have been, was a young woman dressed in a loose pink ninja outfit; a pink shirt tucked into pink pants. She also had a white long-sleeved undershirt on. Her green hair was tied back into a ponytail, with small curls of it hanging in front of her ear and a couple of bangs in front of her forehead.
"What do you mean?" Angelina asked, confused.
The ninja woman smirked. "You failed to get through this mansion with the distractions." Then, the Venonat that Angelina saw before appeared by the girl's side. "My Venonat warned me that you were here. Since you couldn't find me and I had to find you, you are not a worthy trainer to battle the Fuschia City Gym Leader."
"Oh, does that mean this mansion is the Fuschia Gym and you're the gym leader?" Angelina asked.
The woman sighed, "Yes trainer, this is the Fuschia Gym." She bent down and grabbed Angelina's arms, pulling her into the building.
"Thanks," Angelina said, getting to her feet. "So are you the gym leader?"
"No." the woman shook her head. "I am Aya, Ninja Warrior."
"Okay, I'm Angelina Murakami from Pallet Town. I'd like to battle the gym leader for a badge."
"Well, young trainer." Aya smiled. "If that's what you wish, but you must battle me first."
"All right," Angelina grinned. "But I warn you now, I'm good."
"If you can defeat me, then that will prove that you are." Aya replied, she and Angelina walked down the hallway and into another room that had a battlefield, which resembled the wooden floor of a dojo and had torches along the side walls. "However, I have been training here to be more powerful than the gym leader, seeing as I inherited some of his Pokemon. Are you ready? Go, Venonat!" She pointed, the Bug Pokemon jumped into the room.
"Ha, go, Shadow!" Angelina threw out her Pokeball and her Dark-type Pokemon appeared. "Start off with Thunderbolt!"
The sickle-like horn on Shadow's face begins to glow with yellow sparks and releases a powerful bolt of yellow electricity at Venonat. The Bug-Type stumbled backwards, but managed to regain its stance quickly.
"Venonat, Psychic!"
"Dodge and use Blizzard!" Angelina yelled.
Venonat's eyes glow light blue, and shoots out telepathic energy towards Absol, who dodges and releases an arctic blizzard at Venonat, knocking it out cold.
"Well, Angelina, I can see why you're a good Pokemon trainer. You are remarkably strong." Aya said, returning her Pokemon.
Angelina smiled after she re-called her Absol, she was about to reply back when she saw the room fill up with white smoke. "Hey, what's going on?"
"Aya, what have I told you about interfering with challengers." said a male voice that Angelina didn't recognize. The smoke cleared away revealing a man with spiky black hair wearing a purple ninja outfit and a red scarf around his neck.
Aya knelt down and bowed to the man. "Dear brother, I am sorry. This trainer almost didn't survive one of your distractions."
"So you're the gym leader?" Angelina asked, staring in shock. "And Aya's brother?"
The man looked up and saw Angelina standing on the other side of the room. "Yes, I am Koga, the Ninja Master of Poison Pokemon."
'Master of Poison Pokemon?' Angelina raised her eyebrow, then smirked. 'Ha! I'll show him who's the Master of Pokemon.'
"Speechless, trainer?" Koga smirked.
"I was just thinking." Angelina replied. "I'm Angelina from Pallet Town and I challenge you to a gym battle."
"Very well, we will be using three Pokemon each. You are allowed substitutions and your reward for beating me is this Soul Badge." Koga pulled out a scroll and unrolled it, inside was a Pokemon league badge shaped like a heart. "Are you ready?"
"After beating seventeen gyms already, you bet I am!" Angelina called back. She took a Pokeball off her belt and threw it. "Hydro, I choose you!" the white light released her aquatic turtle-like Pokémon, Wartortle.
"Impressive, but let's see how well you suffice against the horrors of Poison Pokemon!" Koga yelled as he tossed out a Pokéball into the arena. A blue bat-like Pokémon appeared from the white light with a large mouth, four fangs, and short legs.
So far, Angelina was familiar with the Poison/Flying Pokemon. She knew how to handle it even if she wasn't using the types' weakness. "Hydro, start off with Hydro Pump!" Wartortle releases a powerful jet of water from its mouth toward Golbat.
"Quicker than the eye! Golbat, Sludge Bomb!" Golbat sillfully dodged the jet of water and fires a stream of dark brown sludge from its mouth.
"Dodge, then use Water Gun!" Wartortle dodged the bombs and releases a spiral of water at Golbat, which actually hits, but it wasn't enough to knock it out.
"Golbat, Steel Wing!" Golbat swooped down and struck Wartortle hard with its steel-coated wings. Wartortle was sent sprawling onto the floor and for a moment looked like he had been knocked out, but quickly gathered his remaining strength before Angelina could recall him and pushed himself back onto his feet.
"Hydro, attack Golbat with Skull Bash!" Wartortle shot across the battlefield surrounded by a silver aura, striking Golbat with a quick blow from its head. The Bat Pokemon spiralled downward and hit the floor unable to battle with Xs in its eyes.
Koga wordlessly recalled his Golbat and took out a Great Ball. "You have proved yourself to be very skillful," he said, with newfound respect, however his expression turned cold and serious. "But my ace Pokemon will be quite the challenge," he threw the Great Ball into the air, the white light materialized into what looked like two Koffing fused together with larger eyes and mouths. A third, faceless ball was connected to each of them by a pair of stick-like protrusions.
"A Weezing? Oh my!" Angelina took out her Pokedex quickly.
"Weezing, the Poison Gas Pokemon and the evolved form of Koffing. When two kinds of poison gases meet, two Koffing can fuse into a Weezing. Weezing only pick dirty, unkept houses to be it's home. It can release different kinds of poison gases. Extreme caution is advised."
Angelina had the feeling this wouldn't be easy.
"Weezing, Toxic!" A purple hot bubbling substance sprayed out of both of its mouths and at Wartortle.
"Withdraw!" Wartortle pulls all of its limbs into its shell quickly just as the spray hit it. The goo did not damage the Water Turtle as it slid down the shell, steam came off of it making Angelina glad that attack didn't hit her Pokemon.
"Okay, use Hydro Pump!" Wartortle rapidly spins while it fires powerful jets of water from its mouth through all the shell's openings and flies directly at Weezing. The Pokemon floated directly over it, missing the attack. "Now use Ice Beam!" Wartortle came out of its shell, a light blue ball forming in front of its mouth and launched it in a pale white beam that struck Weezing and pushed it backwards at least five feet. Weezing opened his eyes and gave a dark look at Angelina and Wartortle.
"Now to finish this," Koga said, "Even if your Pokemon some how beat mine, he wouldn't have lasted my last Pokemon, so I'll just make this interesting for the final round. Weezing! Self-destruct!"
Weezing glowed brightly and then blinded the how room with a flash and then a tense explosion. The room erupted into smoke and it blocked Angelina's view. When the dust settled, she looked and saw Koga's Pokemon, definitely knocked out by the power of itself! Then Angelina saw her Pokemon, defeated judging by the swirls in his eyes.
"This match is over now," Koga said gripping his new Pokeball he pulled out, "You'll lose this one, just call it quits here."
"Not on your life!" Angelina said, recalling her Water Pokemon and swapped it for another Pokeball. "I'm fighting till the very end!"
"Have it your way," Koga said releasing his last Pokemon, Venonat. Angelina noticed it looked alot stronger than Aya's Pokemon, possibly ready for its evolution, either way, she was going to be very cautious.
"I choose you, Mistress!" Angelina tossed the Pokeball, revealing her Misdreavus, who appeared with a screech that sent chills down everyone's spines.
"Fatal mistake sending out your Ghost-type," Koga warned. "Venonat, Psychic!"
"Dodge and use Shadow Ball!"
Misdreavus darted around the battlefield with great swiftness, making it hard for Venonat to pin her down with its amassed Psychic energy. Her eyes glowed ready as she formed black energy balls and released them at Venonat. The Bug-type was struck several times, and to Angelina's advantage, flinched.
"Venonat, Giga Drain!" Venonat's body glows green and releases beams of energy from its compound eyes towards its opponent.
"Protect, Mistress!" Angelina yelled, her Ghost Pokemon surrounded itself with a blue force field that blocked off the Grass-type attack. "Now finish it with Thunder!"
Midreavus's eyes glowed red as her body was surrounded with static and unleashed a powerful blast of electricity on Venonat, it was unable to move and its eyes were spiraled in defeat.
"We won, Mistress!" Angelina shouted happily as she hugged her Ghost Pokemon. "You were awesome!"
Koga recalled his fainted Pokemon and walked over to Angelina, smiling as he unraveled the tan scroll revealing the pink heart-shaped Pokemon badge. "You have definitely proven your worth, Miss Angelina. I congradulate you with the Soul Badge."
Angelina un-hooked the badge and stared at it pure amazement. "Yes, I won the Soul Badge!" She returned Misdreavus to her Pokeball for a long, peaceful rest then departed from the Fuschia Gym after she thanked Koga.
Angelina had a new look on Pokemon battles and hoped that the next trainer that came by the Fuschia Gym would be able to surpass the distractions. Although she may have been wrong upon hearing a familiar cry for "HELP" back inside the mansion. She smiled knowingly as she pedaled down the dirt road, it was Ash's turn to earn his sixth Kanto League gym badge.
§To Be Continued§
*Angelina walks through a mysterious mansion filled with traps and Voltorb, and is saved by Aya, who informs she is at the Fuschia City Gym.
*Angelina defeats Aya and her Venonat, then meets Koga, who is the Fuschia Gym Leader and Aya's older brother.
*Koga using Weezing is referenced from the FireRed and LeafGreen games.
*Koga's Venonat does not evolve until it battles Ash's Charmander; it also knows Giga Drain, which can only be learned through breeding from a Paras or Parasect.
*Angelina earns the Soul Badge.
Yep, another great chapter, which Ash doesn't come in until later and that'll be fun again. Thanks for reading, you know what to do. Chapter 28 is on the way!