Chapter 30

After witnessing Yang's destructive side after a bit of her hair got cut off; the gym leader, Satoko, finally gives Yang her gym battle while everyone else sit on the bleachers on the side. "I have a question." Ruby says while turning her head to Mikoto, "Does she always put her challengers in what used to be a death trap?" "Yeah." Weiss thought about it for a moment, "Why does she have that for her challengers?" Mikoto then explains, "Not really. Just the pretty or beautiful challengers that are over the age of 17. She gets jealous of normal size pretty girls." "Well that explains it." Blake says as she turns her head back towards the match.

"Alright," Satoko says while preparing her pokeballs, "you better make this a good match! Otherwise, I will be disappointed!" Satoko says it in a jealous voice as she gives a despising look at Yang. "Ready!" Yang shouts out as she grabs her first pokeball. The referee stands at his position on one side of the battle arena. He is one of the students of the dojo wearing a white gi with a yellow belt while holding two flags. One green and one red. "Today we have the challenger, Yang Xiao Long, facing off the gym leader, Satoko. The gym leader can only use two pokemon while the challenger can use all six of her pokemon. Only the challenger may substitute pokemon in mid-battle." "Wait, what?" Ruby is confuse as she turns to Mikoto for answers. "This is the first I heard of it." Blake says also in disbelief.

"Many gyms across the world have both challengers and gym leaders fight on equal terms such as having a certain number of pokemon on each side. Yet some gyms, like this one, allow challengers to use all their pokemon while the gym leader is restraint to use a certain number. Because the gym leader's pokemon might be stronger than they look." "Guess Yang will have to work extra hard to fight against whatever your sister throws at." Weiss says as she wonders what will happen. Satoko throws her pokeball, "Go Baashaun!" What popped out of her pokeball was a black sheep like creature with an angry expression along with red eyes.

Ruby and Weiss say how cute it is and compliment its looks. Blake just rolls her eyes as she pulls up her megadex. "Baashaun. The hard horn pokemon. It loves to fight dirty, and uses dark-type attacks to destroy its foes. They are found in gangs of 20 or more." "I see." Yang says to Satoko as Blake puts her megadex away, "Here's a joke. Why was a pokemon bashful? Because he was a Baa-shaun!" Sakoto just let out a little snort as she tries to restrain herself from laughing. Everyone else just give off deadpan expressions at how horrible her joke was. "It makes some sense," Mikoto thought out loud, "if you think about it." Yang throws her pokeball, "I choose you, Sparrow!" Yang's Spearow pops out and is ready for combat. "BEGIN!"

"Baashaun, use beat up!" Baashaun charges at Sparrow at full force. "Take up into the air!" Yang ordered. Sparrow rises high in the air as Baashaun misses. "Now use peck!" Sparrow's peak glows white then charges at Baashaun at full force. "Grab it!" Baashaun stands on his hind legs and grabs Sparrow by the beak. "What the-?" Yang says in surprise. "Now use low kick!" Baashaun kicks Sparrow right in the belly that did some major damage. "Quick, get out of there!" Sparrow flies high in the air and stays up there to avoid any more damage. "Rock smash!" Baashaun's fore-hoofs starts to glow red-orange and jumps into the air to attack. "Sparrow, use fury attack!" Sparrow's beak glows as both pokemon battle in mid-air furiously at each other until Baashaun lands on the ground. "Now use beat up!"

Baashaun charges right at Sparrow and lands five strikes. Sparrow falls down on the ground, fainted. The referee raises a flag, "Spearow is unable to battle. The winner is Satoko!" "YES!" the gym leader went in her victory, "Take that normal!" "She's pretty harsh on normal girls, huh?" Blake says after the battle. "You have no idea." Yang is being a sore loser and calls back her defeated Spearow. Then she calls out her next pokemon, "Go, Xiao!" Yang throws her pokeball and Xiao pops out battle ready. "A fighting-type AND bug-type, eh? Well this will be interesting." "BEGIN!" "Baashaun, use beat up!" Baashaun charges at Xiao until Yang shouted, "Counter with aerial ace!" Xiao's wings start to glow light blue and charges at Baashaun full force.

The two made impact and a big explosion was created. "Now that's strong." Sakoto mutters to herself while shielding herself from the blast. "Now use pin missile!" Yang ordered as Xiao's horn starts to glow white and many spiky white darts come out. "Use beat up!" Baashaun uses beat up to deflect the pin missiles, but, "Now use brick break!" Xiao's left arm glows white and lands the blow that sends Baashaun flying...right into the wall. Baashaun has fainted.

"Baashaun is unable to battle!" the referee says while raising a flag, "The winner is...Heracross!" "YES!" Yang does a victory pump for her victory while Xiao bows to the opponents. "Not bad..." Sakoto says with an approval tone, "...for a normal girl." Sakoto calls back Baashaun into his pokeball and prepares for her next pokemon. "Go, Meditite!" Sakoto throws her pokeball and Meditite appears on the field. Blake pulls out her megadex again. "Meditite. The meditate pokemon. Meditite undertakes rigorous mental training deep in the mountains. However, whenever it meditates, this Pokémon always loses its concentration and focus. As a result, its training never ends. Meditite heightens its inner energy through meditation. It survives on just one berry a day. Minimal eating is another aspect of this Pokémon's training." "That's a pretty interesting pokemon." Weiss said over Blake's shoulder. Blake looked over her shoulder, "What? Not gonna say how cute it is?" "It's not really that cute." Ruby responds over Blake's other shoulder.

"Here's another joke!" Yang says after recalling Xiao. "Oh no." Blake said as she looks down in disappointment. "What do you call a meditating meteorite? A Meditite!" "Uuuugghh!" Ruby groans at how awful her sister's joke is as Weiss and Blake looked down. Satoko does her best not to smile or laugh at Yang's horrible joke. Before Yang throws her pokeball, she says something to the gym leader. "Before we start our battle there is something you should know." Sakoto is confuse on what is Yang up to along with the other girls on the benches. "From what I learn, gym leaders like to surprise challengers with a variety of moves and types that counter act their weaknesses such as a rock-type having an ice-type move to fight against grass and ground-types. Baashaun was both a fighting-type and a dark-type."

"Yeah, so what's the point?" "The point is that I know that you would have something that would counter against psychic and ghost-types. Meditite is part psychic-type which also means that it can use ghost-type moves. Yet Meditite is also weak against bug-types, so why did I recall Xiao?" Sakoto tilts her head and tries to figure out what Yang means until she realizes what, "I think I get what your saying now." Yang pulls out her pokeball and throws it, "Go, Hunter!" Hunter pops out of his pokeball, battle ready. After seeing Yang's new pokemon, Sakoto starts bursting out laughing. He says between laughs, "Hunter the Haunter, that's funny!" The Mikoto starts to giggle a little. The rest of Team RWBY are unamused. Then Sakoto starts to get back up after realizing something, "Wait a minute? Hunter's part poison-type and poison-types are weak against psychic-types."

"I know." Yang says with a smile, "So now it is an even battle." "BEGIN!" "Meditite, use shadow ball!" Meditite focuses her energy into creating a ball of dark energy while Yang shouts, "Use confuse ray!" Golden orbs form around Hunter and shoots at the shadow ball which causes an explosion which the rest headed right towards Meditite. "Use confusion!" Meditite's eyes glow pale red as her body outlined in pale red as Meditite deflects the golden orbs. "Now use rock tomb!" Multiple large, gray rocks outlined with white energy form around Meditite as they are sent flying at Hunter. Hunter manage to dodge a few, put Yang ordered, "Use shadow punch!" Hunter's hand become outlined in black and purple aura as he punches the rock back at Meditite. "Use force palm to send it back!"

Meditite's left hand glows yellow as she fires a blast of light at the rock which sends it back to Hunter. "Use shadow punch again!" Again, Hunter use shadow punch to deflect the rock. "Then we shall use force palm again!" Again, Meditite uses force palm to send the rock back. Both pokemon use shadow punch and force palm to send the rock back at each other as our other heroines watch the rock go back and forth with their heads. "Is it just me, or does this feel like a tennis match?" Weiss said as she keeps track of the rock, never breaking her gaze. "I believe so." Mikoto responded who is also keeping track. "Now use sucker punch!" Hunter sucker punches the rock high in the air then charges at Meditite who is watching the rock. "Now use confuse ray!" "Use confusion quick!" Meditite tries to use confusion, but is too late.

Meditite is now confuse. "Oh no!" Sakoto shouted in disarray as her pokemon is now helplessly confuse. "Now we got you, use shadow punch! Full power!" Hunter charges in with the aura of his shadow punch getting bigger and bigger then lands a blow. "Now use night shade!" Hunter releases waves of night shade that did a critical hit on Meditite. "Now use sucker punch!" Hunter charges in and lands the final blow to Meditite that sends her flying into the air and comes back hard. Meditite has fainted. "Meditite is unable to battle! The winner is Yang the challenger!" "YEEEEAAAAHHH!" Yang let out a loud cheer for her victory with hands up high in the air. "She did it!" Ruby jumped high in the air in celebration for her sister's victory. "Way to go, Yang." Blake claps her hands. "That was adequate." Weiss says cross arm, but she did secretly enjoy it.

Satoko approaches Yang after recalling Meditite. "I have to admit, that was pretty fun. You're not half-bad for a normal. And sorry for forcing you to go through my death course." Satoko feels a little guilty at the way she has been treating Yang, but Yang just smiles, "It's alright. I had a lot of fun as well, so consider it even." Satoko smiles back as she is about to give Yang her badge. "Yang, for your courage and tenacity, you have earn the Ki Badge." Sakoto handed Yang the Ki Badge which is a fist surrounded by blue flames. "But, I would like your advice." she says to Yang with a bit of red on her checks. "Can you tell me, how can I get a man?" Yang grabs Satoko's arm while saying, "Listen, here is what you need to do."

The sun is about to set over at the horizon with Team RWBY outside of the dojo's heavy doors with Sakoto and Mikoto about to say farewell. "Thank you, Yang." Sakoto says with gratitude in her voice, "That was very informative. I should cut down on strength and focus more on romance. Guess strength isn't everything when it comes to finding a boyfriend. And maybe looks." The girls giggle a little before Yang says, "Just do your best and you may find the right guy." Yang gives her the thumbs up. "And here is your HM, Rock Smash." Sakoto gives Yang the HM, "This should help you with any rocks that get in your path." "Thanks!" Yang takes the HM and put it in her bag.

"By the way," Mikoto says to Team RWBY, "there is going to be a Pokemon Contest happening in a few days. Are you four gonna enter?" The four looked at each other and smile with Ruby going, "Of course we are!" "Then you better hurry and prepare." Mikoto warns them, "You got four days to get ready." After that they all say goodbye. While walking down the road, the four talk about what are they are going to do after the contest.

Ruby: "So after the contest, where do we gonna do next?"

Weiss: "Well we could head north. There is a place similar to Atlas. Plus there is a gym leader that is also a fashion model."

Blake: "Maybe we could head west. There is an island with an onsen resort."

Yang: "That means hot springs, right?"

Our journey continues. But not next week because I have another story that I'm still working on. So no new chapter next work. Sorry! But I'm still working on this. I just upload one chapter a month on the other story so no worries.