A.N: Gone all of next week, vacation.
Seeing as how the town was pretty much an amusement park she decided to read up on a book about the mechanics so she could engineer her own roller coaster but first she needed better lighting...
She caught a Miccino, because the mouse thought she was cheese with legs.
This one was female, she noted, speedy and shy.
She trained both for a bit and after a few hours of defeating cats she healed and entered the gym with determination.
Or she would have had she not bumped into a girl about her age.
She had been on the lower step and the girl ran out and her face was in her chest.
She blushed and apologized.
Elesa scratched behind her ear and asked for her name.
"Skyla." She grinned widely and excitedly.
"Elesa." She smiled in return.
Their eyes locked.
"Want to battle? You're going to need the experience." She said sincerly.
Along route 2 they gazed at the other.
Skyla was wearing a blue jacked with a hoodie, with wings stitched on the back and wearing a black polka dot skirt and stockings/leggings. She had long red hair and a warming smile.
Skyla sent out her Woobat and Elesa started with Watt.
"What a cutie!" Skyla called out and Elesa thanked her.
Watt sent shockwaves towards the blind bat and it fainted.
"Aww."
She sent out her last pokemon, a Ducklett and Watt beat that as well.
"I guess I should change my line up..." She pouted.
"I just think you need more than one type. You're raising your pokemon well if you got a badge."
Skyla's eyes glimmered with hope and she raised a fist.
"Alright! From now on, you and I are rivals!" She took Elesa's long hands in hers and held them high.
They were getting looks as she started to blush and Skyla's booming voice was almost shouting to the heavens.
"The next time we meet, I'll be prepared! OH and since you beat me, the gym leader here uses bug types."
She shivered. She hated bugs. She bid her new friend goodbye and Elesa entered with caution.
She found herself stuck in a web and screamed.
"Sorry" One of the trainer said, handing her a towel, as she had to wash the webbing off her hair.
"We normally use that webbing to catch thieves, because there's been a strange things going on in the Dream Lab."
She got it all off and Watt curb stomped the regular trainers, while letting Mici get some battles.
She healed and got to the gym leader who seemed to be in a trance.
"Greetings, I am Alder."
Elesa introduced herself and Alder treated her as a lady until the battle with some small chat.
Mici was the first out and Alder sent out his Shelmet.
Mici could not get past it's armor and was tackled into submission. She sent out Watt next and it used it's armor against it by charging it enough to shock it constantly until it was annoyed and confused. Watt than rammed into it with it's cape and it fainted.
Elesa was just glad that Mici didn't die from an acid attack.
Alder was impressed and sent out his last pokemon, a Karablast.
Thinking about it back then, if Elesa had her signature headphones, this would be the point in which the song on her mp3 player changed into something with hope.
She gave Watt a potion and Alder had Karablast try to bite one of the wings but Watt stayed a float and it tried to stab at the flier with its horn.
Watt dodged as though as if it was in a fencing match and Watt started to flap it's wings rapidly and it blew the bug away.
Seeing the rat gain speed it waited until he was near and tried to stab it again and got a tiny rip in it's "cape."
Watt shocked it and then headbutted it and it fainted. Elesa checked it's wing and Alder told her to head to a pokecenter.
She did so and waited while Nurse Joy healed her pokemon.
Alder followed her and gave her a badge and bug buzz, the TM.
He taught her to apply the CD to the pokeball and a pokemon could just learn it.
He waved goodbye not facing her as he walked back to this gym.
A.N: I think I'm going to discontinue this in favor of my other story. That one is plot heavy while this is supposed to be character building.