Chapter 6

"Okay, you guys ready? Today is our rematch against Forrest. We're gonna beat that Steelix this time around right? Especially now with Bulbasaur's new move he learned yesterday, I told you guys the training would work." From her spot on Ryan's shoulder, Sawyer nodded determinedly with Beedrill and Bulbasaur doing the same. Ryan smiled and then recalled the two before glancing at Nurse Joy "Thanks a lot for healing them Nurse Joy." The pink haired woman smiled "It's no problem Ryan, good luck in your match!" He gave a curt nod in response and then glanced at Nina, who was doodling in her sketch book while waiting for Ryan by the entrance of the Pokémon Center. Earlier this morning, Ryan had decided to get in some last minute training for the rematch against Forrest and that's why he was getting his Pokémon back from Nurse Joy, now he was ready. Ryan clenched his fist determinedly as he exited the Center with Nina in tow "we're definitely gonna win this time around, no doubt!"

"Welcome back Ryan, are you ready for our rematch?" Forrest questioned as soon as they stepped through the gym doors "Yeah, we're ready for you this time Forrest, so prepare to fork over that Badge when this is over!" Forrest smirked and grabbed a ball from his belt and tossed it down "we'll see about that. Geodude go!" The floating rock Pokémon appeared in a sparkling flash of light, hovering slightly above the field its arms poised and ready to fight "GEO!" Ryan nodded and then pulled out his own Pokéball, tossing it down onto the field "Beedrill, I choose you!" Beedrill also appeared in a sparkling flash of light, hovering above the field much like Geodude, its red eyes glared at its opponent, stingers also poised to fight "Driii!"

"I'll start first this time!" Forrest shouted before pointing at Beedrill "Sandstorm Geodude!" Geodude nodded curtly before lifting its arms and summoning a thick whirling tornado of sand at Beedrill, it instantly surrounded the bug type, covering it on all sides. Beedrill began to panic as it buzzed rapidly around the column of sand that blocked its view from the outside world trying to find a way out "Now Geodude, use Mega Punch!" Geodude darted confidently into the Sandstorm with its fist glowing a blinding white and with a fierce 'Geo' it smashed its fist into Beedrill's torso, sending the bug type flying out of the Sandstorm and into one of the nearby rocks on the field, with enough force to cause it to break "Beedrill!" Ryan scanned the field for his Pokémon, waiting for the smoke around it to clear away "D-Drii." Beedrill buzzed as it slowly lifted itself from the rocks, shaking off the feelings from Mega Punch "you alright Beedrill?" Beedrill nodded slightly before flexing its stingers "Drii! Drii!" From her spot on Ryan's shoulder, Sawyer spoke up, pumping one of her small paws in the air "You can do it Beedrill, don't give up!"

"Alright, now use X-Scissor!"

Beedrill then charged at Geodude, its stingers glowing light blue once Beedrill was in range, it crossed its stingers in an X formation and slashed Geodude across the face, knocking the floating rock backwards "Nice shot!" Ryan cheered grinning "now, use Twineedle!" Beedrill then followed up with said attack, speeding at Geodude with its stingers pointing out threateningly, causing Forrest to smirk "Heh, alright, dodge with Dig Geodude!" However, before Twineedle could hit its mark, Geodude disappeared underneath the ground; leaving Beedrill to jab at nothing but thin air. Ryan grit his teeth at Geodude's disappearance and he called out to his bug Pokémon "Beedrill, get higher in the air! Don't stray too close to the ground, move in when I say so." Beedrill nodded and raised itself higher above the gym floor, almost to the point where it practically touched the ceiling "Heh, from all the way up there Geodude has no shot in reaching Beedrill." The brunette smirked smugly to himself as he watched Forrest glare at the ground, scanning the gym floors and then glancing up at where Beedrill was located "What's wrong Forrest?" He called out to the shorter brunette "Stumped on how your Geodude is going to hit my Beedrill from all the way up there?"

Forrest just shook his head and smirked in response "Nope, I know exactly how to reach Beedrill, but you get points for effort. Geodude, I want you to Dig a circle around the field." Popping out from its hole directly under Beedrill, Geodude nodded and then dove into the ground, popping out of the hole to create another one, creating a large circle of holes underneath the floating Beedrill, from its view high above, Beedrill gazed down at the battlefield curiously as several holes were soon created and then connected to form a circle, along with the lone hole in the middle, it looked like a giant eye was staring back up at it. Geodude then disappeared into the ground one last time and stayed there after completing the circle of circles and Ryan narrowed his eyes at Forrest, what was the boy up to?

"I don't get it, how is a circle of holes going to help him reach Beedrill?" Nina murmured to Chewy, who shrugged, he was just as lost as she. Nina chewed her lip thoughtfully as she tried to figure out Forrest's plan, those holes were obviously going to be used to launch the attack that would probably knock Beedrill down to where Geodude could reach, but what exactly could he use. She stood there glaring at the holes on the field thoughtfully before her eyes widened upon figuring out what Forrest had planned "Ryan! You have to get Beedrill out from under those holes now! Forrest is planning to use—"

"Sandstorm Geodude!" Forrest cut off Nina's warning with a shout of his own, revealing the key point in his plan, from below Beedrill, it faintly heard Geodude's cry, before whirlwinds of sand shot out from the several holes surrounding the bug, trapping Beedrill in an extremely large twister of sand, but it didn't stop there, from the hole in the middle one last final twister of sand shot out, but this time Geodude used it to forcefully propel itself into air at Beedrill "Now, use Mega Punch!" While it was zooming at Beedrill, Geodude cocked its glowing fist back in preparation "Twineedle Beedrill!" Beedrill nodded and buzzed once before thrusting its stingers out and flying to meet Geodude's attack head on. Both Pokémon met each other in mid air and slammed their respective attacks into one another with enough force behind them to cause an explosion, Beedrill's Twineedle hitting Geodude square in the head, while Geodude's Mega Punch slammed into Beedrill's torso, both attacks sent the other flying. Beedrill hit the roof of the gym with a loud crash and Geodude was slammed back into the gym floors, thick clouds of smoke kicked up around both Pokémon as their trainers waited with baited breath to see the outcome of their attacks.

Several seconds passed by before the smoke cleared and both trainers eyes widened as they were finally able to see the results of the battle. Geodude was lying in its self made crater with swirly eyes, moaning in pain, while Beedrill slowly floated towards the ground, panting heavily as it glared at the knocked out floating rock. From her spot above in the stand, Nina cheered loudly "alright, Beedrill won!" Ryan grinned proudly and then patted Beedrill, who weakly floated over to its trainer, gently on the head "you did great Beedrill, you deserve a nice rest." Ryan then recalled the bug Pokémon, seeing as how it practically teetered on the edge of unconsciousness. He then looked up at Forrest, who was rolling his next Pokéball in between his index finger and thumb "not bad Ryan it seems your training didn't go to waste."

Ryan grinned in response "thanks, I told you we weren't gonna lose this rematch." Forrest smirked "so it seems, but you've only managed to knock out my Geodude, don't count me out just yet. Crobat go!" The young brown haired man tossed down his second Pokéball and an all too familiar purple bat Pokémon appeared in a flash of light, Ryan glanced at Sawyer, who nodded and hopped off his shoulder and ran onto the battle field, glaring up at Crobat "Croo." It sneered and Sawyer bared her teeth in response "I'm gonna beat you this time buddy." Crobat's sneer just got wider and it gave her a challenging look that said 'try me.'

"Okay, we start this time. Sawyer use Hyper Fang!" Sawyer lunged at Crobat, her teeth glinting threateningly in the light.

"Counter with SonicBoom!"

Crobat responded by flapping it wings at such high speed that they became nothing more of a blur, a cyclone of wind and white circles were soon sent flying at Sawyer, knocking the mouse Pokémon backwards. Sawyer shook her head, hardly unaffected by the attack and began to charge at Crobat again, growling loudly as she did so "Shock Wave!" Ryan exclaimed, pointing at the large purple bat as Sawyer's tail began to crackle and spark with yellow electricity, which then turned to blue as the beam was fired at Crobat, striking the flying type dead center.

"Crobat! You okay?"

"Cro." Crobat gave a curt nod as it shook off the after effects of the lingering electricity from Sawyer's Shock Wave and then flew at the mouse with blinding speed "Wing Attack!" Crobat's two top wings glowed a brilliant white hue as it zoomed in towards Sawyer, smacking the mouse harshly with its wings and causing both she and Ryan to experience a fit of Déjà Vu as the wings repeatedly slapped the mouse before launching her into the air. "Hey, didn't this happen before?" Nina questioned before turning her head to look at Chewy "Pikachu. Pika Pi-Kapi." Chewy mumbled before glancing directly at the readers, causing Nina to blink in confusion "what are you staring at Chewy?" In response, the Pikachu just grinned sheepishly and turned back towards the battle "Pii-kachu!"

"Double-Edge!"

"Supersonic!"

Sawyer charged at Crobat, at trail of yellow light following behind her, and she smashed into the giant bat with a forceful tackle, that sent it skidding backwards in the air. Unfortunately Crobat righted itself in the air and still managed to fire off the Supersonic attack, it opened its large mouth and screeched, causing several transparent circles to appear and hit Sawyer, causing her eyes to become swirled in confusion. Ryan gasped "Sawyer!" He watched as the mouse dizzily began to teeter and totter on her feet, Forrest grinned and pointed at the Rattata "now Crobat finish with Wing Attack!" Crobat darted at the dazed Sawyer, its wings striking the mouse harshly and sending the mouse Pokémon flying back into Ryan's arms "Sawyer! You alright?" She just groaned unintelligibly, her eyes clearly swirled.

"Well, that's one down." Forrest smirked and Crobat mimicked it haughtily "Croo." Ryan scoffed before pulling out his next Pokéball "Bulbasaur use Leaf Storm!" The Seed Pokémon appeared in a flash of light, the green bulb on its back already starting to glow brightly "Bulba!" Bulbasaur then fired the cyclone of leaves from its back, the green twister shooting towards Crobat "Wing Attack!" Crobat's wings glowed white again and it faced the leafy cyclone head on, cutting straight through the attack like it was butter and then kept going, aiming to hit Bulbasaur and Ryan bit back a smirk "heh, I was hoping you'd do that. Bulbasaur, use Vine Whip!" Bulbasaur nodded, waiting for Crobat to get closer and then fired out its signature vines from its back, the twin vines grabbed onto Crobat's glowing wings tightly, causing the bat Pokémon to falter "C-Cro!" Ryan then thrust out one of his arms with a wide grin "Now, toss it!"

"Bul-Baaaaa!" With all the strength it could muster, Bulbasaur whirled around once and with a powerful swing it sent the poison type flying into one of the fields' rocks, which it smashed through due to sheer force from the throw, much like Geodude had done to Beedrill earlier. When the dust that had kicked up from Crobat cleared, the bat Pokémon had swirls in its eyes and it twitched lightly from its spot on the ground, surrounded by broken rocks "C-Crobat." It managed to hiss before Forrest recalled the fallen bat with a slight smile "You did a good job Crobat, return." He then glanced at Ryan with an appraising look "So, you've managed to knock out two of my Pokémon and I got one, I'd say you're doing a lot better than before, but don't get your hopes up yet Ryan. Steelix is my big brother's strongest Pokémon and it's not often we lose!" He dug into his pockets and pulled out his last and final Pokéball "Steelix go!"

Steelix instantly appeared on the field, materializing from its Pokéball in a flash and producing a loud shattering roar. Bulbasaur glared up at the giant Iron Snake Pokémon, while it gazed down at him indifferently. Forrest decided to start this time "Steelix, use Bind!" Steelix roared and then lashed out with its tail, aiming to wrap Bulbasaur up and bind it into submission, but the Seed type, nor Ryan were having any of that "Dodge Bulbasaur, then use Leaf Storm!" Bulbasaur quickly leaped out of the way and then ran up the length of Steelix, its back glowing brightly as it did "Bulbasaur!" With a cry, it fired the Leaf Storm, hitting the Iron Snake right between the eyes, this cause Steelix to recoil back and shake its head from the pain, its tail began lashing out as it did so and Forrest used that to his advantage "Iron Tail!" Once Steelix was done having its fit, the large snake like Pokémon growled and its large tail glinted briefly before turning a shining black color. With another loud growl, Steelix bought its tail down on Bulbasaur before Ryan even had the chance to tell it to dodge, the force of the impact kicked up a brief dust cloud, which covered the gyms floor for a few moments before dissipating. Revealing Bulbasaur was unharmed, in fact the Seed Pokémon vanished entirely from the field.

"Bulbasaur!"

"Where'd it go?"

Both trainers scanned the field for said Pokémon, before their attention snapped towards one of the many leftover holes produced by Geodude, Vines shot out from one of them and they smacked Steelix straight across the nose. The Iron Snake's head lurched backwards from the pain and Bulbasaur jumped out of the hole "Bulba!" Ryan sighed in relief as Bulbasaur landed in front of him, unharmed "I'm glad you're okay Bulbasaur, you had me worried there for a second buddy." Bulbasaur gave a slight nod and then turned his attention back to Steelix, the giant Snake Pokémon looked beyond mad as it glared down its nose at Bulbasaur, a deep irritated growl rumbled low in its throat "DragonBreath Steelix!" Steelix opened its mouth and out came a thick blueish white beam of air, shooting towards Bulbasaur "Counter with Leaf Storm!" Bulbasaur quickly summoned its cyclone of spiraling leaves, they met the DragonBreath attack in mid air, but the leafy cyclone proved to be no match against Steelix's DragonBreath and the leaves got destroyed in the process, while the attack kept on until it engulfed Bulbasaur in a blueish white light. This caused Bulbasaur to cry out as it was struck by the strong attack. Once it subsided Bulbasaur was left panting and wincing "Bulbasaur! You okay?" Bulbasaur clenched its teeth and nodded, shaking away the pain "Bulba!"

"Okay, we don't wanna get hit by another one of those, so Bulbasaur use that awesome attack you learned yesterday!" Ryan pointed at Steelix "Seed Bomb!" Bulbasaur opened its mouth and twin white orbs appeared, then the orbs shot out, two splitting into several glowing seeds "Block with Iron Tail!" Steelix bought up its now black shining tail in front of its face, protecting itself from the explosive attack, said attack collided with Iron Tail and caused a massive explosion! Steelix cried out when its tail was struck, smoke slowly rose from its tail, which shifted back to normal after it took the Seed Bomb attack. Steelix grumbled as it lowered its tail back to the ground "Seed Bomb huh? We'll hafta watch out for that one won't we?" Ryan grinned cheekily "Yeah, Bulbasaur learned it yesterday while we were training for our rematch, his other attacks might not have much effect, but I'm sure this one does!"

"Hm, well I guess we should end this then huh?"

"You bet, be prepared to fork over that badge after this last attack!"

"We'll see about that. Steelix lets end this with DragonBreath!"

"Bulbasaur Seed Bomb and make this one super strong!"

Both Pokémon opened their mouth's with their respective cries to charge their respective finishing moves. The thick blueish white beam of air charging in Steelix's mouth and twin white orbs appearing in Bulbasaur's, simultaneously both trainers shouted go and the attacks were launched, they collided in mid air and created a large and powerful explosion, the force from both attacks sent both Pokémon flying back, even the extremely heavy Steelix, both Pokémon wound up crashing backwards onto the gym floor, dust picking up and covering them briefly before it cleared and both Pokémon stood on their respective sides in front of their trainers, leering at one another. Steelix's low grumble echoed through the gym as well as Bulbasaur's fierce growling, both trainers heaved sighs of relief when they saw the Pokémon standing and Forrest was the first to speak up "That was a close one, now Steelix use—" Forrest was cut off by his own Pokémon, when Steelix gave one last low grumble and then pitched forward onto the gym floor, its eyes blanking out briefly before they turned into swirls. Forrest's mouth dropped open in shock and Ryan's eyes widened in disbelief before a large grin split his face "we did it! We did it! Bulbasaur, you're the best!" Said Seed Pokémon smiled back at his trainer and jumped into the boys arms, nuzzling his cheek "Bulba. Bulbasaur!"

"That was so cool! Bulbasaur, you were amazing!"

Nina came bounding over to Ryan with her special sketchbook in her hands "Look at this! That moment was so intense, I had to draw it!" Opening the blue book to the page she was talking about, Nina showed off her latest drawing, which featured a back view of Bulbasaur and a frontal view Steelix charging their respective attacks, ready to fire "That's amazing Nina." Ryan whistled in awe and Bulbasaur and Sawyer nodded in agreement, the orange haired girl smiled at the compliments and closed her book when she saw Forrest making his way over to them "Congratulations Ryan, that was an awesome battle. I am proud to present you with Pewter City Gym's Boulder Badge." In Forrest's hand was Pewter City's Gym Badge, it was shaped into the form of a gray octagon, simple yet stylish. Ryan accepted the badge with a thankful smile and placed it into his badge case and then recalled both Bulbasaur and Sawyer "Thanks a lot Forrest." Forrest nodded "good luck on your journey, there will be plenty of tough challenges ahead."

"Yeah and thanks again!" With a small wave, Ryan and Nina left the Pewter City gym for their final time and headed straight towards the Pokémon Center, so Ryan could get his Pokémon healed "So, where should we go next?" The brunette mumbled aloud as they walked towards the Center "Well, according to the Guidebook, Cerulean City is where the next Gym is." Nina pointed to an area past the Pokémon Center "we can take Route 3 there and pass through Mt. Moon to get there."

Ryan scratched his head as he stared at Nina "when the heck did you get a Guidebook?" Nina felt a sweat drop form on her head "I got it while you were training with your Pokémon yesterday, I figured I'd get one since we're going to be traveling together from now on."

"Who said that we were going to be traveling together?" He nonchalantly folded his arms behind his head and glanced at her flatly "you're pretty bold for a girl." Nina's cheeks suddenly went red in embarrassment and she began to sputter "W-Well, I just thought that. . . err. . .umm" after a beat of silence, Ryan suddenly burst into a fit of snickers at her loss of words "It's cool Nina, we can travel together." The green eyed girls eyes widened and she gasped softly "r-really, you won't mind me tagging along?"

"Well, I mean you've followed me this far, why not?" He shrugged and she squealed, hugging Chewy tightly "this is wonderful! I can't wait to see what kind of awesome adventures we'll have!" Ryan just smirked and nodded in response, he too couldn't wait to see what they would run into, especially now since he had won his first official Gym Badge, pulling out the badge case, Ryan gazed at the octagonal shape of the Boulder Badge with a swell of pride "One down, seven to go."

Now, for the next chapter, I will be introducing one of Ryan's two rivals in this fic, but since I'm running on empty for creative rival ideas, I want you guys to give me some. I want one boy and one girl, not two boys and not two girls, one of each. I want details for Personality and Appearance not just one liners, give me a paragraph or two, make your character stand out to me, make your character seem realistic and interesting enough for me to want to pick them. I would like these to be sent to me via PM. Not by review. PM. Now if you're interested enough to read through all this and send me an OC, then dammit, could you at least drop me a review? Not that not giving a review will bar your character from being chosen, but I mean if you've read this far, then why not. There is no first come first serve, I will choose the ones I find most interesting and have at least met my criteria. If I like your OC and plan on using it in the chapters, then I'll be PMing you back, and one of the two characters will make their appearance in the next chapter, but if not, then you don't get a PM, that clear?

Name:
Age: (10 to 13)
Gender:
Hometown: (No Isshu region allowed. Anything else is fine.)
Appearance:
Personality:
Team 1: (Team 1 is what the trainer will have when they first meet and subsequent visits. No Eeveelutions on Team 1, I'm sorry but just no. Eevee is so overused its annoying, give me some variety please. Also only Pokémon from their region please, now if they evolve into something not of the region, then that's fine. I want Pokémon that's native to your region. So no Pachirisu's if your character lives in Hoenn. But since you're character is a rival and is traveling here in Kanto for obvious reasons. I will allow only 1 or 2 Pokemon from their Region, if they're not originally from Kanto. 1 of them has to be a starter the second can be anything you wish. The rest of their team are Kanto only.)
Team 2: (Team 2 is their final team. For the league. Minimum is 2 Eeveelutions, because unless you can give me a legit and plausible reason as to why your character has 6 Eeveelutions on their team, then you better stick with your two Eevee limit.)
Other: This is just for miscellaneous info that couldn't be fit in the sections above. Quirks, hobbies, likes, dislikes, etc.