Chapter 6! Since I'm using Microsoft Word, this chapter is actually starting on Page 40. This story is the longest document I have on here. Anyway, Pacifica, in such a short time, caught a new Pokemon and evolved her Torchic, first evolution of the story, and now in this Chapter, Dipper will take on Roark, Gym Leader of the Oreburgh City Gym! His team does not feature any new Pokemon from that weren't on his team previously so no need to get your hopes up. Also, I need your opinion: Should another Shiny Pokemon appear? And if so, who should own it?

While you answer that, on with the show!

Chapter 6: Dipper's Battle For The Badge!

Dipper stood across from Roark on the Gym's battlefield, and Mabel and Soos sat in the sidelines.

"This is it." Dipper thought. "My first Gym Battle in the Sinnoh Region! His Cranidos is a Rock and Ground Type Pokemon, so he either uses Rock types or Ground types."

The attendant, who was also the referee, stepped on to a platform on one side of the gym near the middle of the battlefield, but not on it.

"The challenger and the Gym Leader are restricted to 3 Pokemon each! The challenger may switch Pokemon but the Gym Leader may not! Let the battle begin!"

"Go Geodude!" Roark tossed a Pokeball out, revealing a Geodude.

"Let's do this, Magikarp!" Dipper tossed out his Magikarp. "I believe in you!"

"Since you're the challenger, you may make the first move!" Roark said.

"Magikarp, use Water Gun!" Magikarp shot a trail of water at Geodude.

"Dodge it and use Rock Polish!" Roark commanded. Geodude jumped out of the way and surrounded itself in small, glowing white rocks before breaking them and glowing red.

"Rock Polish is a move that raises the opponents attack and speed!" Roark said. "Geodude! Rock Throw!" Geodude grabbed a rock out of nowhere and chucked it at Magikarp.

"Dodge it and use Water Gun!" Magikarp flopped out of the way and shot a trail of water at Geodude. Although Geodude didn't get knocked back that much, it took critical damage. "It was super effective!"

"Wow, you really are a powerful trainer." Roark said smirking. "Geodude! Rock Smash!" Geodude clamped its fists together and brought them down onto Magikarp, smashing it into the ground, creating a little pit.

"Oh no! Magikarp!" Dipper cried. But Magikarp flopped out of the pit unharmed.

"But how?" Roark asked, shocked.

"My Magikarp is a fish! It probably still has water on it from when I captured it on Route 218! It just slipped out of the attack I guess!" Dipper grew a look of determination. "Magikarp, use Water Gun one more time!"

Magikarp shot one more trail of water, landing a critical hit and knocking Geodude out.

"Roark's Geodude is unable to battle! The challenger wins this round!"

"Great job Magikarp!" Dipper praised the fish Pokemon as it flopped around happily. He walked over and poured water on it from a Fresh Water he had in his backpack. "Restores your hit points, and keeps you healthy!"

"Good job! Now for my next Pokemon!" Roark said as he recalled his Geodude. He took out another Pokeball and tossed it. "Go, Onix!"

Out from the Pokeball came a large, long snake Pokemon made of chunky abstract boulders. The head had two eyes and a mouth, a spike on top, and the Pokemon had no signs of hands, feet, arms or legs, but the boulders kept getting smaller and smaller the closer it got to the tail.

"Now see if you stand a chance!" Roark said. "Onix use Bind!" Onix wrapped it's tail around Magikarp, but Magikarp slipped right out of Onix's grasp, sending Magikarp flying up to Onix's face.

"Now Magikarp! Use Splash!" Dipper commanded.

"Splash doesn't do anything, you know." Roark said.

"Hmm…" Dipper examined the situation before having an idea. "Magikarp! Use Splash on Onix's eyes!" Magikarp flopped onto Onix's head and slapped its tail into Onix's eyes, blinding it for a little bit.

"What did you do? Onix can't see!" Roark said.

"Precisely! Magikarp, use another Water Gun!" Magikarp tried shooting out a trail of water, but nothing came out. "What's wrong?" Dipper looked at the Pokedex.

Magikarp

Water Gun: Out of Power Points!

"Oh no! No I can't beat Onix!" Dipper looked frightened as Magikarp sit before Onix.

"Ha! A flaw in your plan! Onix! Use Tail Whip right in front of you!" Onix swung its tail down on to Magikarp. Upon lifting its tail up, Magikarp was knocked out.

"Magikarp return!" Dipper recalled the fish Pokemon. "Excellent job, buddy. We got one down." He took out another Pokeball. "Starly won't be of much use here, so go Chimchar!" Dipper tossed out a Pokeball and out came Chimchar.

"A fire type Pokemon? That won't do much against Onix! Onix use Rock Throw!" Roark commanded.

"Dodge it Chimchar!" Dipper commanded. Chimchar tried to run out of the way, but to no avail. Chimchar was crushed by the falling rock. The rock vanished as if it were a hologram, and Chimchar weakly climbed out of the small indent left by the rock.

"That's it Chimchar! Use Mach Punch!" Chimchar jumped up with a glowing fist and smashed Onix in the head. Onix, feeling like it was in terrible pain, fell to the ground unconscious.

"Roark's Onix is unable to battle! The challenger wins this round!

"Great job Chimchar!" Dipper said.

"Now for my final Pokemon." Roark said, taking one more Pokeball. "Go Cranidos!" Roark tossed the Pokeball and out came Cranidos, ready for battle.

"Chimchar, use Mach Punch again!" Dipper commanded. Chimchar's fist glowed once again.

"Oh no you don't! Cranidos! Use Headbutt!" Cranidos rammed into Chimchar, sending it flying.

"Oh no! Chimchar!" Chimchar landed on the ground, then tried to get up.

"Use Pursuit, Cranidos!" Cranidos, now glowing purple and black, rammed into Chimchar again, sending it flying in to a wall.

"Now finish it with Rock Smash!" Roark commanded. He then noticed that Chimchar wasn't in the hole in the wall anymore, but rather in front of Dipper. Cranidos rammed into Chimchar again, this time punch it with both fists, sending Chimchar smack into the ground.

"No Chimchar! You can do this, please get up!" Dipper cried. "I believe in you!"

As soon as those words left Dipper's mouth, Chimchar got up and opened its eyes, but before Dipper could say a command, Chimchar began to glow white, much to everyone's surprise.

"What's it doing?!" Mabel called from the sidelines.

"It's… evolving!" Dipper said.

Chimchar grew bigger in size, and when the glowing subsided, the new Pokemon had a longer tail with a flame on the end, blue markings and stripes on its body, blue rings around its eyes with red bottoms of the circles, darker orange hair, and dark orange palms with tan fingers and tan toes.

"Chimchar! You evolved into Monferno!" Dipper cried with happyness. "Use Mach Punch!" Monferno's fist glowed white, and with full force, smashed its fist in to Cranidos's face, sending it smashing into a wall, creating a dust cloud. When the dust subsided, Cranidos was knocked out.

"Roark's Cranidos is unable to battle! The Gym Leader has no more Pokemon and thus the challenge is awarded to Dipper the challenger!"

Dipper ran over and hugged Monferno. "We did it buddy! We won!" Monferno returned the hug, very satisfied with the battle. Dipper recalled Monferno as Roark walked over to him.

"Excellent work out there! You're a strong trainer, and the fact that you show love for your Pokemon is a good thing. Remember that." Roark said.

"Thanks, Roark." Dipper replied.

"Now you can have this, the Coal Badge." Roark handed the badge to Dipper. It looked like a flat, gray Pokeball with a rounded top half but a half-hexagon shaped bottom half.

"Yes! I just got the Coal Badge!" Dipper held up the badge in victory. "Now I can use the move Rock Smash outside of battle right?"

"Right. I hope you do well on your journey." Roark said. "It will be a long one, and each new Gym Leader gets tougher and tougher, but if you believe in your Pokemon, you can accomplish anything."

Dipper met up with Soos and Mabel in the lobby of the Gym.

"Great battle, dude!" Soos said, fist-pumping Dipper.

"Nice one Dipper! You're one step closer to completing your journey!" Mabel congratulated her brother.

"I saw the whole battle on TV."

The group turned around to see…

"Wendy!" Dipper said. Wendy, the only other employee of the Mystery Shack, was in Sinnoh.

"I felt like stopping by. I haven't been here in years." Wendy looked around the lobby. "It's a lot nicer than the last time I was in this room."

"Wendy, when did you go on your journey?" Mabel asked.

"A few years ago. I got like, 1 badge then gave up. This one," Wendy reached into her pocket and pulled out a dusty, rusted Coal Badge. "I felt like returning here to see what you guys were up to."

"Nice! How's Gruncle Stan doing?" Dipper asked.

"Yeah how's Mister Pines?" Soos asked.

"He's fine. He said he needed to go somewhere but I have no idea where he went. Mystery Shack is gonna be closed for a bit so I thought why not show up here." Wendy replied. "I didn't come alone, though."

"Who came with you?" Dipper asked.

"This new sleazebag Pokemon trainer," Wendy opened the Gym's doors and pulled in Robbie, Dipper's secondary arch rival.

"But I thought you broke up." Dipper said, hiding his shock that Robbie was in Sinnoh.

"We did, but he followed me onto the plane." Wendy said.

"I didn't follow you!" Robbie said. "I bought a plane ticket and happened to be on the same plane in the same section in the seat next to you." Wendy rolled her eyes.

"Anyways, he doesn't have any badges, he only has 1 Pokemon, and he honestly doesn't know what to do."

"So you're both sticking with us?" Dipper asked.

"Nah, I'm just helping him get his start in the region, then I might head home. I'll probably be in Oreburgh for a bit, we still have to rent rooms at the Pokemon Center, but we'll see you guys around." Wendy and Robbie left the Gym.

"Nice to see old faces here in Sinnoh." Dipper said. "I'm kinds homesick."

"Aw Dipper it's okay." Mabel said. "You have me and Soos and Wendy and Robbie and your Pokemon! You even saw Gideon and Pacifica and Deuce! Even if they are rivals they are still home in a way."

"Yeah you're right." Dipper replied. "Anyway, are you guys going to challenge the Gym?"

"Yeah, we will eventually." Soos said.

"It probably won't be for a while, so why don't you head back to Jubilife City and rest there?" Mabel suggested. "We'll meet up with you as soon as we can!"

"Okay guys, see you soon." Dipper left the Gym and waved goodbye, heading back toward the Oreburgh Gate.

-(End Of Chapter)-

FINALLY got this chapter done! Took forever! Anyway, Wendy and Robbie will make cameos here and there, so that is how I included them, and also, the first evolution for a protagonist! I don't count Pacifica as a protagonist… yet ;). Anyways, expect more from the Pines kids and Soos in the exciting story of Gravity Falls: Sinnoh Adventure!

Stay Tuned!

~087-B