Chapter 13B
Brendan headed back into the gym, and wordlessly went through the Speed door. He had learned something important from the fight: any major advantages the enemy had for either him or May would leak into the other fight, so each foe would have to be unable to sync up their boosts. He looked at his options, with Zero Reduction to the left and Defence to the right. He checked what May would have to fight, seeing that Defence was to May's left, and Recovery was to the right. He immediately knew that recovery as well as defence would be incredibly hard to penetrate, and neither had a single way to deal a lot of damage. Therefore, the choice was obvious. But as he stepped to the left, he fell backwards, as May had actually gone for the right door.
May asked what he was doing, saying that a high defence pokemon would be hard to beat without reducible stats.
Brendan typed out "It's gonna be harder to beat the high defence + healing"
Brendan waited for a few seconds, until May suggested playing rock paper scissors, best out of three. Brendan agreed, and raised his hand. One, two, three... SHOOT
Brendan raised two fingers. Scissors. May had also done the same thing, so they had to try again. One, two, three... SHOOT!
Brendan held out paper, but lost. May chose scissors. Next, Brendan held out rock, and won! Last game... SHOOT!
Brendan held out paper, then checked what May chose. Scissors. He had won. Brendan nodded happily, then turned to the Zero Reduction room.
Brendan entered, and found a person in the middle of the room, waiting for him.
The person stood up, and said "Name's Peter. I'm the ace trainer for Zero Reduction. Let's start."
Authors note: And chapter 13 is out! Only took me three days but I got it out!