Stateside
Ch. 2 First Challenger
Dominic woke up early on Saturday morning to take Totodile out to the lake for some swimming. When he stepped outside his house, he noticed a large box had been placed at his doorstep. When he opened it he found the box divided in half, one half contained many crescent moon badges to give out to trainers who beat him and the other half contained nothing but pokeballs. On top of it all was a note which read:
Here's your supplies, build your party quickly so you have a fair chance of defending your title as gym leader and be strong enough for the Elite Four tournament as well. You will find your gym in the middle of Lake Pontchartrain, here's it's location on the map. Its facilities are at your disposal, use them to help achieve victory. Enjoy and good luck.
Director Stan
United States Pokemon League Official Coordinator
"That's a good point, I do need to build a party. I will just bring a few pokeballs with me in case I encounter any wild pokemon so I can catch them." he thought to himself.
He sat on the shore and watched as his pokemon swim in the water as if he were a kid swimming through a pool of sweets in a candy shop.
"What should my next pokemon be? I guess it would be nice to have a flying pokemon, but where am I going to find one?" he thought to himself.
He looked up and stared off into the clear blue sky. In the distance he saw some birds flying his way, however he soon realized they weren't just birds, they were Wingulls.
"Perfect!" he said, "Totodile!" he shouted. Totodile then looked to him with attention. "We're going to catch one of those Wingulls!" he shouted pointing at one that was leading the others in their v-formation.
Totodile shot out the water with great strength and slammed the Wingull that Dominic have pointed to into the water. The Wingull shot out the water with great speed and used air slash, sending Totodile skidding across the water.
"This one is tough. I would love to add him to my party." Dominic said to himself and smirked.
Totodile shook off the attack and did his strange dance. He then shot towards the Wingull so quickly that he was dashing on the water. Totodile jumped off the water and grabbed Wingull with his mouth. The two of them spiraled towards the water, each trying to dominate the other in time to cause the other to receive the most damage from crashing into the water.
It was a draw and both pokemon crashed into the water with a big splash following them. Dominic watched patiently to see who would surface first. Both Wingull and Totodile surfaced, Wingull looked too injured to fight and Totodile looked like something was plaguing him.
"Now's my chance." Dominic said throwing the pokeball and capturing Wingull.
Totodile wobbled back onto shore and collapsed at Dominic's feet.
"Totodile, what's wrong?" he said kneeling down to examine him. He discovered some purple substance on Totodile's body. "Poison?" he asked himself. "Could Wingull know toxic?" He then shook his head, "No time for that, I need to get these two healed, but where to go?" his mind then began to run around in circles then he remembered his letter from Director Stan.
Dominic took off his shirt and began to swim to the location of his gym. When he arrived, he was shocked to see the sheer size of it. It was a floating stadium that had many other facilities for living and was stocked with supplies. Dominic ran around trying to find a healing machine, he saw a sign that said infirmary in the distance and ran for that. Inside was a healing machine and he placed his two pokeballs on the tray. He pressed the red button and a timer began the countdown until his pokemon would be healed. It only took ten minutes for his pokemon to be restored to full strength.
After the ten minutes was up, Dominic retrieved his pokemon. All of a sudden he heard a voice call out.
"Hello? Is anyone here?" it was a female's voice, she sounded young, maybe his age.
Dominic walked outside to the open stadium to see a brown haired girl wearing a pink t-shirt and a short sleeved, dark green vest with jeans standing on the other side of the stadium. Around her neck was a pink cowgirl hat.
"Hey, are you the gym leader?" she called out to him.
"Yeah, I am!" he shouted back as he walked toward her.
When he finally reached her, she stuck out her hand and the two shook hands, "My name's Mimi." she said.*
"Nice to meet you, I'm Dominic." he replied.
"So, what are your rules here, Dominic?" she asked.
"Rules?" he asked.
"Every gym has some sort of rules; time limits, how many pokemon can be used at once, things like that." she replied.
"Well, given my circumstance, it will have to be a two vs. two battle. I only have two pokemon at my disposal." he chuckled slightly embarrassed.
"Perfect. I only have two pokemon too!" Mimi said happily.
Dominic and Mimi took their positions on opposite ends of the fighting terrain. The terrain itself was mainly land with a body of water in the center of it.
"Ready when you are!" Mimi shouted.
"I'm ready!" Dominic shouted. This was his first battle as a gym leader. Now it was time to see how well he could handle this fight.
*If you haven't gotten the reference yet, she is highly based off Mimi from Digimon. I will explain more next chapter.
