Chapter VII: Slowdown and Showdown at Rustboro Gym

A few minutes later, May and Brendan came across a fisherman, who challenged May to a battle, and got whooped. Brendan saw some skyscrapers ahead, so he assumed that that was Rustboro City.

"Come on May," Brendan said while heading to the city. But he saw May was beside an old woman who handed May some kind of weird berry. It was acorn shaped, with a lot of blue at the top, and the bottom was a light brown.

"May, come on lets go," Brendan said.

"Just a minute," May said while pulling out her Pokedex.

"Chesto Berry, # two on the National Berrydex. Chesto Berries wakes up sleeping Pokemon in battle." The Pokedex said. May picked some berries from the two trees beside the old woman, and handed Brendan two of them (Cheri and Rawst). After putting the berries in his case, Brendan grabbed May and dragged her all the way into the city.

"By the way, at the last Route, did you see some kid with black hair run out of that shop in his birthday suit and a yellow Pokemon follow after him.

"Um…yeah, why," May asked.

"Just wondering, because I thought I was seeing things," Brendan answered. "After a few more minutes, they got within Rus city.

"This city is huge," May said.

"I have something that's huge," Brendan said while grinning.

"Yeah, your head," May said while they were searching for a Pokemon Center, but Brendan was searching for the Gym. They both found the center, and a house beside it had a title called "The Cutter's House."

"I don't think we should go in there," May said.

"It'll be fine," Brendan said. "I tell you what; I'll check out the Cutter's House, and you check us in the Pokemon Center," Brendan said while handing May 500P to rent a room for them tonight. May headed inside, and Brendan walked inside the cutters house.

"I see nothing weird about this place," Brendan said while walking up to a man in the house. "Um…why is this place called the Cutter's House?" Brendan asked in curiosity.

"Oh," the man said. "This is where we give this little HM to all the trainers who have the balls enough to come in here even though it seems scary," the man said while handing Brendan a CD that said HM01. "This HM is the move Cut; you'll need to cut down some trees in your journey…"

"I'll take it," Brendan said while noticing a door that had a sign in big red letters "DO NOT ENTER!" "What's in here?" Brendan asked the man while opening the door. While the owner of the house screamed NOOO, Brendan opened the door and saw a man with dry blood all on his face. He had black hair, and Brendan couldn't see what color his eyes were. He was in a (jacket that they put on mental people) and tied up to chains. He had a cannibalistic look in his face.

"MEAT," he yelled. "GIVE ME SOME GOD DAMN MEAT!"

"Greg, were trying to put you on a full vegetarian diet," the owner of the house yelled while tears started forming in his eyes. "I snuck you out of the mental ward, you should be grateful!"

"Give him to me!" the guy named Greg yelled while trying to get out. "I want some damn MEAT!" he yelled. Brendan left this weird ass place very slowly and quietly. He had very wide eyes when he walked into the Pokemon Center and found May treating her Taillow's Poochyena bite that recently started to take real effect on it. Nurse Joy gave May some medicine that Taillow needs to take everyday for a few weeks. May noticed Brendan's shocked face and asked him what was wrong.

"Brendan, are you okay," May asked.

"There's a cannibal in the Cutter's House," Brendan said with that shocked face.

"And the Flower Shop had a woman who raped some guy with black hair and a Pikachu," May said.

"This region is flipped up," Brendan said. "If some odd people have a rapist and a cannibal, who knows about the gym leaders…"

"Oh, the gym leaders are normal, it's just this shop on Route 104 North and the house next door who have crazy people," Nurse Joy said. "Everyone leaves those crazy motha fkers alone." She said.

"Well, in that case, May lets go to the gym!" Brendan said.

"Wait," Nurse Joy said. "Don't you want your Pokemon to be at full health at the gym," she asked.

"Oh yeah, sure," Brendan said while handing Nurse Joy his Pokeballs. After about 5 seconds, she handed them back to Brendan, and the two trainers left the center. After a few seconds of leaving to find the gym, May and Brendan heard a voice from the Cutter's House yelling, "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!" So the two had to run away from the center…

After another 15 minutes, May found a building that looked like a huge rock with a red door. She called Brendan to come over to see if this was the gym.

"This is a Pokemon Gym," Brendan asked. "This looks like a huge rock!"

"This is a huge rock," May said dully.

"Well…nobody asked you," Brendan said with a pink face. "This looks nothing like the Petalburg Gym. It's a nice, dojo looking place, but this is just a big rock," Brendan said while walking inside. When the two got inside, they said a Pokemon stadium with a bunch of rocks in it, along with stands for people to watch the match. Brendan saw a woman with long pigtails, along with a gray school girl outfit, long pink socks, gray shoes, and she even had golden eyes. But the thing was, she was sitting in the corner of the arena and crying . So it was time for Brendan to work his magic boy charm, and walked smoothly over to her.

"What's wrong beautiful lady," he asked while bending his legs to look at her face to face. The woman looked at him, and then slapped him on his face.

"I'm a lesbian for your information," she said while whipping her tears away. May got this odd look on her face, and had an urge to leave, right now. "But if you want to know what's wrong," she said while pointing to her arena. "The last dumbass to come fight me cut one of my boulders, and now it doesn't look like a proper gym," she said while crying harder.

"So wait a minute," May said while coming over to the girl. "Are you the Rustboro City Gym Leader?" she asked.

"Why yes I am," the girl said while looking at May oddly…

"And your crying because a rock is smaller than normal," May asked.

"Well, yeah," she said. May came closer came closer to her, and bitch slapped her, hard.

"What's your name," May asked sternly.

"Roxanne," she said. "Ironically, my name is Roxanne, and I train rock Pokemon. Like with all of the gym leaders in Hoenn, their name sounds like the Pokemon they train…" May slapped her again.

"I asked for your name, not this other crap," May said sternly.

"Honey, you keep this up, it's whatever you want it to be," Roxanne said while looking at May seductively. May backed up and hid behind Brendan.

"Look," Brendan said. "I came here for a gym battle, and I want it whether your damn rocks are short or not." He said.

"Well, I'll battle you when my rock is replaced." Roxanne said. "My workers are coming back with it from the Rusturf Tunnel," she said. "They should be in about 5 more minutes," she said. So Brendan sat around and thinking about his strategy on how to beat Roxanne by checking the Pokemon Type Combat Chart. It told him on all the Pokemon types and what they can beat, and what beats them. And ironically, it said that Water and Grass Pokemon are strong against Rock Pokemon. So Brendan's strategy was Muddy and Warrior. May and Roxanne discussed May and Pokemon Contests.

"I've been to a Contest before," Roxanne said. "There was this man whose Pinser didn't listen to his commands. Then it pinched its big ole pincers to every man's place…"

"Ouch," May said. "Did the ambulance come?"

"Well, while the entire crowd was laughing, I called them to help him out, but when I told them what happened, the ambulance where so weak, they hung up the phone, and they didn't come.

"That sucks…" May said.

"It did," Roxanne answered. Brendan waited for the men to come after 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15, until after 2 hours, the men came back. There were three of them and they looked jacked up.

"Roxanne," one of them said. "We're sorry we're late, but while getting the rocks, some Geodudes attacked us."

"Yeah," another one of them started. "We had to fight them off, so we just started spitting on them after punching and kicking didn't work," he said while the men put some rocks in the arena.

"Thank you," Roxanne said while walking over to Brendan on the stands. He had fallen asleep, and Roxanne came to wake him up.

"Brendan," she said.

"Hmm…" he answered while whipping some drool off of his face.

"You and May have to leave, the gym closed 5 minutes ago." Roxanne said. Brendan shot up and looked outside on the little window. It was sunset, and even though television shows of Pokemon declared that sunset was too late, Brendan thought differently about this.

"Oh hell no," Brendan said while standing to look up at Roxanne. His head was at her chest, but he didn't notice at the moment.

"I had to endure your bitching about a God damn rock; I went to a cannibal's house, I saw a guy with black hair in his birthday suit and a damn Pikachu following him, I've seen two guys with loaded guns right by each others heads, shooting each other and a single bullet didn't hit them, and I just had a dream about…oh never mind, just battle me already dammit!" Brendan yelled. Roxanne had a look of consideration, then gave her answer.

"Sure, why not," She said. "But let's make this interesting." She said. "If I win, I get to spend the night with May," she said while looking at May seductively.

"And if I win," Brendan said determinedly.

"I'll give you this Stone Badge," she said while shining it to Brendan.

"Cool!" Brendan said. "Let's go," he said while going to his corner of the arena.

"Wait a minute," May said. "I won't sleep with you if you win. You're weird, and I don't go that way. And aren't Gym Leaders supposed to give trainers the badge if they win anyway, and if that's the case, then why stake it," May asked.

"Fine, I'll give your 1500P and TM39 Rock Tomb," she said.

"Deal," Brendan said while taking out a Pokeball. "Ladies first, so I'll let you pick your Pokemon first." He said.

"I chose, Geodude," she said while pulling out a little boulder with eyes, a mouth and some arms. Brendan pulled out his Pokedex, and got an entry on this odd Pokemon.

"Geodude, the Rock Pokemon," it started. "When Geodude sleeps deeply, it buries itself halfway in the ground. It will not awaken even if hikers step on it unwillingly. In the morning, this Pokemon rolls downhill in search for food. Whoop that ass Roxanne, or I'll be pissed at you forever," the Pokedex said.

"Shut the hell up, Jessica," Brendan yelled.

"Now you use my code name, you twit," she said while automatically shut off.

"Damn you," Brendan said while throwing out his Pokemon. "I choose you, Warrior." Brendan said. Brendan's Seedot came out and jumped while moving its feet back and forth.

"Your Seedot is cute, but I think it should be in a Pokemon Contest, not a battle." Roxanne said.

"We'll just see about that," Brendan said. "Warrior, use Bide." Seedot glowed red for a second, then turned back to normal.

"Well that was a waste of time," Roxanne said. "Geodude, use Double Edge," she yelled. Geodude glowed yellow, and tackled Warrior while he had a face of pain himself.

"Just keep using Bide Warrior," Brendan said calmly. Seedot turned red once again, and then it went back to normal.

"Geodude, use Mega Punch," Roxanne said. Geodude's fist glowed white, and punched Seedot with full power. Seedot flew to a boulder, and slid down on it.

"Warrior, you can take it," Brendan said. Seedot stood up slowly and glared at Geodude.

"Now, unleash your Bide," Brendan yelled. Seedot started to glow red once again, only to have a bunch of white energy come out of him and strike Geodude. Now it was Geodude's turn to fly over to a boulder.

"Geodude, Rollout attack," Roxanne said. Geodude got up from the boulder, rolled itself into a ball, and rolled on over to Warrior.

"Seedot, dodge it and use Nature Power," Brendan said. Seedot moved from the big rock, and Geodude crashed right into it. Then Seedot turned yellow, and released some yellow looking powder, and shot out to Geodude.

"What was that attack," May said from the stands and pulled out her Pokedex.

"Nature Power turned into the attack known as Stun Spore," May's Pokedex said. "Stun Spore scatters a yellow powder that may paralyze the foe," it finished.

"Hmm…" Brendan said after the entry. "So Warrior just released Stun Spore huh," he said. "Kick ass!" Geodude had a bit of electricity come out of him, and it couldn't move its mouth.

"Geodude, try to move your arms," Roxanne said in a calm tone. Geodude got a constipated look on its face on trying to move its body, but it failed to do so.

"Now Warrior," Brendan said. "Use a Harden attack while doing tackle." Brendan said. Seedot jumped on a boulder, jumped of it, and sped over to Geodude. Seedot's body began to really shine, and this was going to make on hell of an impact. And since Geodude couldn't move, well, Geodude got a direct hit.

"That's it then, time for plan B," Roxanne said. "Geodude, use Selfdestruct!" Geodude, glowed red, then just exploded like that. Seedot got hit as well, and Geodude fell from the sky with circles in his eyes.

"Geodude, return," Roxanne said while returning her Pokemon. Brendan was about to do the same thing, but Brendan saw Seedot stand up.

"See-dot, seed, seed, dot, dot, dot, seed (I won't quit so easily, I am a warrior, just like my name)," Seedot said while standing to glare at Roxanne.

"Do you want to go back in your Pokeball Warrior," Brendan asked while pulling his Pokeball out.

"Seedot, Seedot, seed, seed (you dumbass, I still wanna fight)!" Seedot interjected.

"Brendan wait," May yelled from the stands. "I think Seedot wants to fight some more," she yelled.

"Well, I guess so," Brendan said. "Lets go Warrior, use…"

"Brendan, I didn't even pull out my second Pokemon yet," Roxanne yelled from the other side of the arena.

"Oh, my bad," Brendan said. Roxanne pulled out a Pokeball then threw it out.

"I chose you Nosepass," she said. Instantly, a big gray rock with closed eyes, and a big ass nose came out. Brendan pulled out his Pokedex, and wanted to see what Jessica had to say about it.

"Nosepass, the Compass Pokemon. Nosepass's magnetic nose is always pointed to the north. If two of these Pokemon meet, they cannot turn their faces toward each other when they are close; because they're magnetic noses repel one another." The Pokedex said.

"Alright then," Brendan said. "Warrior, use Nature Power," Brendan said. Seedot turned yellow once more, and out came an odd sparkling purple gas. "That must be Poison Spore," Brendan said with a look saying that he was smart. May pulled out her Pokedex to see what was up.

"Nature Power turned into the attack known as Poisonpowder," May's Pokedex said. "Poisonpowder scatters a purple toxic powder that may poison the foe," it finished.

"Brendan," May yelled. "The attack isn't Poison Spore, it's Poisonpowder, you idiot." Brendan did the anime fall, then looked up at May.

"Well I was close dammit," Brendan yelled to her. The powder scattered all over Nosepass, then he started to hold his stomach while turning purple, turning normal again shortly after turning purple.

"Nosepass, use Rock Throw," Roxanne said. Nosepass picked up some tiny rocks and chucked them over to Warrior.

"Okay Warrior," Brendan said. "Use tackle, but we're also going to take a leaf out of Roxanne's book, and use Explosion when you hit Nosepass!" Brendan yelled. Seedot started turning red while charging to Nosepass. Then it exploded when it got the hit! A huge explosion came in the arena, and smoke filled everywhere. When it cleared, Seedot came and crashed onto May's chest, and she fell over on the stands.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" she screamed. "Get this damn thing off of me!" May yelled while throwing Seedot into the air. Brendan pulled out its Pokeball, and returned Seedot in midair. Brendan took a look at Nosepass, but he looked fine!

"Wait," Brendan said. "Shouldn't your Nosepass be knocked out by now," Brendan said.

"Well…" Roxanne said.

Flashback ( ) means Roxanne talking to them in the present

"Okay Warrior," Brendan said. "Use tackle, but we're also going to take a leaf out of Roxanne's book, and use Explosion when you hit Nosepass!" Seedot rushs towards him, and exploded.

(During the explosion, I ran over to Nosepass and squirted some Super Potion onto him) Seedot came down and hit May, and Nosepass recovers before smoke completely clears.

End Flashback

"That was complete bull spit," Brendan yelled.

"Hey, all gym leaders do it if their Pokemon is weak, we squirt this stuff onto them, and they get better." Roxanne said. "Now if you don't mind, you need to pull out your next Pokemon to end this long ass chapter," Roxanne finished.

"Right," Brendan said while pulling out a Pokemon and throwing it into the air. "I chose you Mudddy," Brendan said while pulling out his Mudkip. "Your mine Roxanne…"

"If you lose, May will be mine for the night." Roxanne said.

"Brendan if you lose, before you leave this gym, I'm going to kick you really hard in the nuts," May yelled from the stands. That was good motivation, because Brendan looked scared for a second, then determination. Brendan would take Roxanne out now that he has water Pokemon out, and hewasn't goingtoget kicked in the nuts…

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