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Written for the One Million Words Added Competition, the Pokémon Writing Diversity Challenge, the Mix and Match Challenge, the 12/30 challenge.
Prompt: Surge, Scott, Dress, My Jobs, Write a fic centred on one characters view on another character, write about a soldier.
Soldier Gym Leader
Scott looked up at the gym leader of the newest gym he had entered, this home region of Ash's certainly had some very interesting people in them. The gym leader that now stood in front of him was a tall muscular fellow, it was obvious that the man had spent a lot of time in the gym.
"My jobs are wide and many but at the moment I just want to know about your gym," Scott said finally as stared at the man who he could only describe as a soldier that had seen battle. "What do you think of yourself? Have you ever played truth and dare? Have you ever lost a poker game and ended up wearing a dress? How did you become a gym leader in the first place?"
Scott fell silent and watched as the emotions flashed across the ex-soldier's eyes while his face remained blank and skilfully closed off. To Scott in his bright shirt and sunglasses this man was the opposite of him but for some reason he seemed to suit this man. The Riachu at his side stared at Scott as if wondering if it should attack or not, to Scott all of the signs were pointing towards the fact that this man had taken part in this regions war that had happened several years ago.
'I wonder how he would react if I just asked him what it was like to fight in the war' Scott thought as continued to wait for the gym leader's reply. 'It seems that I have shocked him into silence...I wonder how long it will take him to come around.'
Realising that no one would be helping soon Scott politely coughed in an attempt to get the man's attention. He did not want the ex-soldier to react badly to unexpected touch nor did he fancy seeing just how powerful the gym leader's Riachu's electric attacks were.
"Sir, maybe we should continued this interview sitting down?" Scott asked kindly while wondering if he would need to get a stool of some kind so he could even think about reaching the man's height to snap him out of the state he was in. "I will be as quick as possible."
With an unsure expression on his face Scott watched as the gym leader slowly came back to reality, his eyes focused on Scott and a frown appeared on his face. Glad that he was wearing his sunglasses so the electric type gym leader would not see his nerves Scott gave a sheepish smile and held out the clip board to the man.
"How about I just give you the paperwork to fill out?" Scott asked as he wondered if filling out a familiar type of document would help. "Errr...did I say something wrong? I was only asking the questions on this questionnaire that I told you about. I did not mean to-"
"You speak too much," LT Surge deadpanned causing Scott to face faulted. "I was trying to work out what you were saying, slow down and explain things more simply this time."
End of Prompt.
