Chapter 13
Team RWBY finally made their way towards Cambrian City and are awestruck...again. Some of the buildings have fossils embeded into the stone walls along with colored rocks. There are giant fossil statues of ancient pokemon along the streets and something called the 'Evolution Wall'. A four foot wall that is 20 feet wide and covered in all kinds of evolution stones where trainers take their pokemon to have them evolve. There is even a playground where it appears to be made of bones of ancient pokemon. "Okay," Blake went while wide-eye and stunned, "they don't call it the City of Fossils for nothing." Yang then says, "Yeah, I can dig it. I'm all bone for it! Plus I would love to fossil my teeth." Everyone just ignored those awful puns and continue to find one of the gyms. "Oh come on! What am I?! Fossil-liver!?" But first, they went towards the Pokemon Center to get their pokemon healed up.
They made their way towards the Pokemon Center and they are greeted by...Nurse Joy. "Hello," she greeted them with a bow, "and welcome to the Pokemon Center." "Nurse Joy!" Ruby ran up to her with a smile on her face. "What are you doing here? Did they transfer you?" "Transfer?" Nurse Joy looked confuse for a moment then realized what she means. "Oh, you must be referring to by cousin at...the southeast sector?" "Wait, seriously?" Weiss is surprised to hear that. Nurse Joy pointed at the large picture on one side of the room and it shows rows upon rows of Nurse Joys. (Some from the original series from Kanto to Sinnoh and some from Unova to today.)
After looking at the picture, Team RWBY is surprise to see many identical Nurse Joys in one setting. Yang then looks back at Nurse Joy, "Is there a cloning factory where you all come from?" Nurse Joy just chuckles at Yang's joke. "Oh no. Is just how we are. Anyway, do any of your pokemon need healing?" They give Nurse Joy their pokeballs and just backed away. Still feel weird about the whole identical Nurse Joy thing, but just went to the lobby. While there, Yang noticed a poster for an upcoming event in three days. It shows two shadowy figures on top of a mountain with the sun setting and says: 'Double Tryout! Join in a spectacular event where two trainers get to fight against the twin gym leaders of Cambrian City. Prove your strength, fitness, and endurance in order to win not only both gym badges, but four season passes to enter the fossil mines and admittance to the upcoming Prehistoric Park. Are you up for the challenge?'
Yang gave a smile and ran off to join the rest of the team. "Hey, guys!" Yang yells as she approaches, "There's an event where we can fight against both gym leaders at once!" "For real?" Weiss says as she starts to stand up. "Yeah! Not only we get gym badges, we get season passes to enter the mines AND some fossil pokemon park!" "Cooooool!" Ruby jumps up with excitement. Blake then asks, "When is this event?" Yang holds up three fingers, "Three days. In other words, Ruby and I need to do some serious training. As in tag-team training." "Well there is also the Pokemon Showcase coming up as well in four days." Weiss says as she pulls out a poster. "While you and Ruby train for that, Blake and I will also train on our performances." "Sounds good." Yang agrees. "But where are we gonna train?" Blake asks, wondering where could they go to train. Because the arena in the back of Pokemon Center's aren't big enough or have the necessary equipment necessary.
"How about the Battle Club?" says the male voice behind them. "Huh?" the four turnaround to see a boy that is slightly tall for his age. Has very dark brown hair and pale blue eyes, a white beanie, skin-tight red and black shirt with an odd zipper on the collar and black and dark grey shorts. He wears a green backpack and white and green slip on sneakers without socks. And wears a bracelet on his left wrist with a keystone. "Sorry, I've been overhearing your conversation. My name is Brendan Birch, from Hoenn." "Hi, Brendan!" Ruby greets the strange boy with a wave and a smile. "The Battle Club?" Weiss asks with her head tilted slightly. "Yeah. They have facilities for all kinds, even for Pokemon Performers in these parts." "Thanks, Brendan." Yang appreciates the advice. "By the way," Ruby starts to ask, "do you know a trainer name, May?" "Indeed I do, she and I are rivals. Guessing she's here. But I'll meet her later. Anyway, I have to get going." "Aren't you staying for the Double Tryout?" Yang asks. "Nah, I already got two gym badges. Plus I got places to go, people to see, and pokemon to catch." Brendan loaded the last content into his bag. "Later, hope to see you again." and ran off.
After some quick healing, everyone made their way towards the Battle Club. Which is obvious with the sign with a picture of a fighting arena that has pokeball colors. "This must be it." Blake says, stating the obvious. What stands before them is a four story building that is blue and glass. They enter inside and are greeted by a muscular man with crew-cut hair and mustache while wearing a dark blue sleeveless gi and a blue belt, gi collar, and wristbands. "Greetings trainers, and welcome to the Pokemon Battle Club. I'm Don George, manager of this fine establishment." "Are there clones of you like Nurse Joy?" Ruby asked, just out of curiosity. George starts to laugh, "Ha-ha-ha! If you're referring to my relatives, then yes in a way. Ha-ha-ha! Not only that, so does Officer Jenny." 'There must be a clone factory somewhere.' the four thought in unison while looking a bit pale.
"Anyway, are you here to train for the Double Tryout?" "How did you know that?" Yang asks. "Because everyone comes here to train against the twins. Terry and Barry." "Who?" Ruby is now confuse. Blake was looking up the megadex, "Terry is the gym leader that specialize in ground-types and is the archaeologist that research fossils. Barry specializes in rock-types and he is the mining foreman. Plus he's the one with the fossil pokemon." "That is correct miss." "My name is Blake." Blake introduces herself and her teammates, "This is Ruby, Weiss, and Yang." "Do you have rooms for practicing Pokemon Showcases?" Weiss asks. "Indeed we do. Their in the basement level and enough room for practice."
Ruby and Yang went outside so their pokemon can practice fighting against rock-types by beating up a few boulders. During training, Ruby's Cubby evolved into Cubblfly. "What just happened?" Yang says as she is surprised to see Cubby evolving out of nowhere. "I'm not sure." Ruby is also surprise to see Cubby just suddenly evolve for no reason during training. Ruby pulled out her megadex to see her new pokemon. "Cubblfly. The love bug pokemon and the evolve form of Cubbug. It scatters pollen and seeds in order to help flowers grow. It always smells like flower petals." Cubblfly then snuggles Ruby. Ruby then noticed a nice smell coming from her newly evolved pokemon. "You really do smell like flowers." Cubblfly learned fairy wind and bug bite while forgetting charm and tackle. "Plus you're a fairy-type! This is awesome!"
In the performer training area, Blake and Weiss try to do some routine with their pokemon. Weiss has her Oswald do a water gun along with both Billy and Tilly doing quick attack. They do quick attack spiraling along the water gun with Starling doing wing attack at the lead. They created a spiraling rocket pokemon...thing. Blake uses Minior's swift combined with Spewpa's stun spore to create glittering stars then uses bubble from both Jellicent and Frogadier to create a spectacular view of stars and bubbles. Then the two try to practice some dance moves and acrobatics alongside their pokemon.
Back on the surface, Ruby and Chika are on the treadmill to increase their speed. (Although Ruby's semblance is super speed so she doesn't really need to.) Yang holds a punching bag in place so Chimchar can try to learn some fighting type moves. Afterwards, Weiss and Blake use the pool area to help their water pokemon get into tip-top shape. So basically a training montage. On the day before the tryout, Ruby and Yang walked towards the battle area and heard some form of explosion. They look at each other then ran towards the door to see what is going on.
Through the door, they see a heated battle against two fire-types. They see a Charmeleon and it belongs to Tyrian, the rude and cold trainer. Another is a pokemon they never seen before. "Pyroat. The smouldering pokemon and the evolve form of Kidling. Pyroat's flaming hide can be seen streaking across mountainsides at night. When it collides with other Pyroat, the light and noise can be mistaken for an explosion." (It is a pokemon from Pokemon Sage. Another fan-made pokemon game.) "Look it's Tyrian." Ruby says in surprise. "But who is he fighting against?" "That is Theo." Don George says with his arm cross and focus on the battle. "He was the runner-up at the Tandor League. But lost to his rival." (Theo is the rival from Pokemon Uranium.) "Pyroat, use Ember!" Theo's new Pyroat shoots embers at Tyrian's Charmeleon. Until, "Charmeleon! Use dragon rage!" Charmeleon has a blue orb in its stomach then fires a burst of energy in the form of a dragon right at Pyroat while going through Pyroat's ember. Pyroat has fainted.
Don George: "Pyroat is unable to battle! The winner is...Charmeleon! Tyrian is the victor!"
Yang whistled before speaking, "Guess someone has gotten good." "Not to mention, his Charmander evolved." "Charmeleon. The flame pokemon and the evolve form of Charmander. Charmeleon mercilessly destroys its foes using its sharp claws. If it encounters a strong foe, it turns aggressive. In this excited state, the flame at the tip of its tail flares with a bluish white color." Theo looks like he is about to cry. "Are you seriously crying?" Tyrian asks in a monotone voice and stern look. "I'm not!" Theo yells at Tyrian. But it is obvious that tears are welling up. "*sigh* Pathetic. You're not cut out to be a trainer. At least to travel outside your home region. Just go home and cry like the little brat that you are." "Hey!" Yang stops Tyrian from insulting poor Theo. "That's enough! At least he is trying!" Tyrian looked at Yang with a blank stare. "Who are you?" "EXCUSE ME?!" Yang is starting to get even more angry as her eyes start to glow red. Ruby tries to restrain Yang but is proven difficult. "Look, I don't care who you are, but get out of my way. The only thing I care about is winning. Now if you don't mind, I have to find a suitable partner for the Double Tryout. I have no time for old hag rookies like you." and he walked away. "OLD HAG?!"
Theo then runs in front of Yang after drying his tears. "Hey, hey, hey! Calm down." After Yang calms down, Theo tells them that the Double Tryout is meant for two people working together so they can take Terry and Barry on at the tag battle at the end. With that, Ruby and Yang try a few attack combinations in order to prepare for the upcoming contest. Three days have now passed and the day has finally come as the four head towards the dome for Double Tryout.
Are Ruby and Yang ready to test their physical attributes for the competition? Just wait until the next chapter.