Now we head over to Kaz as whilst the normal trio were training in the forest, he had reached the first gym. The Rock gym. He entered and checked his Pokémon to see if they were in good condition to battle and put him one step closer to entering the Global Pokémon Contest. He walked to the centre of the gym, where he saw Ryan. It was time to battle.

'I challenge you to a battle!' Kaz stated.

'I accept,' replied Ryan.

'It shall be a three on three battle and when all of the Pokémon on one side are unable to battle then they have lost. Only the challenger can switch Pokémon and the challenger has the first move.' The referee explained to Kaz, 'Are you ready!'

'Yes! Now go, Chimchar!'

'Rhyperior!' retorted Ryan and he laughed at Kaz's choice. 'So you want a disadvantage do you?'

'Let the battle begin!' the referee yelled.

'Use ember!' Chimchar sent a flame hurtling towards Rhyperior but Ryan wasn't worried because it did nothing. 'Use ember but rapid fire, go!' This time Chimchar sent loads of small flames towards Rhyperior.

'When we're done with the fireworks display use earth power,' Ryan ordered and Rhyperior smashed the floor, sending an earthquake to Chimchar, throwing it into the wall behind dealing severe damage. 'Chimchar is no match for Rhyperior,' he laughed but abruptly stopped when he saw Rhyperior was on fire.

'Chimchar did his job and now Rhyperior is burnt,' grinned Kaz, 'Now he can come back to rest.' He said, calling back the weary Chimchar before he was fully defeated. 'Go Deino!' he yelled, throwing the Pokéball into the field, releasing Deino.

'Good strategy,' Ryan muttered to himself.

'Use dragon rage!' ordered Kaz and the blue flame engulfed Rhyperior dealing decent damage. Ryan could see that Rhyperior didn't have long left the way things were going so he would need to take a risk.

'Use rock blast and then rock wrecker!' he ordered, sending a flurry of small rocks and then a giant boulder towards Deino but it was then unable to move.

'Dodge it!' Kaz urged but there was no way possible to avoid all of the rocks and they pounded Deino, leaving him as a sitting duck to rock wrecker. 'No, Deino use headbutt to smash the boulder!' Deino got up shakily and with all of its remaining strength, used headbutt and smashed straight through the rock wrecker and into Rhyperior but it was in vain as headbutt did basically nothing to Rhyperior and Deino had used all of its strength in the last headbutt so it was unable to battle.

'Deino is unable to battle, Rhyperior is the winner!' the referee shouted.

'Come back Deino,' Kaz instructed, 'You tried hard but this Rhyperior is good. We're gonna have to go all out to win this so I choose Buizel!' he said, throwing Buizel's Pokéball into the field. Buizel came out of its Pokéball, looking pumped and ready to battle. 'Use water gun!'

'Use hammer arm to deflect it!' retorted Ryan and it sent the torrent of water spiralling in the completely wrong direction. 'Rock blast, go!' he yelled as Rhyperior sent a barrage of rocks to Buizel.

'Use sonicboom to smash the rocks!' urged Kaz and with a flick of its tails, Buizel had sent a sound wave to destroy the boulders. 'Use water gun to finish this!' ordered Kaz and Buizel sent a jet of water to finish Rhyperior.

'Rhyperior is unable to battle, Buizel is the winner!' exclaimed the referee, clearly surprised at the outcome of the showdown.

'I'm impressed that you defeated Rhyperior but your Pokémon are far too tired to win, go Gigalith!' Ryan roared as he sent out his Gigalith.

'Use water gun to finish this in one move! But use pursuit to follow up just in case,' yelled Kaz as Buizel dished out its orders and used water gun and then jumped right behind it to use pursuit.

'Who cares about water gun?' Ryan roared, 'Use stone edge!' Gigalith also didn't seem worried about water gun and started to prepare its stone edge when water gun made contact. It did nothing. Kaz was awestruck and couldn't figure out what had gone wrong. 'It's called sturdy,' answered Ryan, 'It stops Gigalith from being beaten in one move and it makes trainers do reckless things like getting their Pokémon up close for stone edge!'

Kaz realised what this meant and was horrified. 'Buizel get out of there quickly!' he cried but it was too late for Buizel and Buizel got hit from close range by the barrage of stones being fired at him, leaving Buizel with only just enough energy left to stand. 'Buizel use water gun to finish Gigalith!'

'Finish this with flash cannon!' both attacks collided in mid-air and created a huge explosion, covering the battlefield with smoke. When the smoke cleared Kaz and Ryan were shocked at the result.

'Both Pokémon are unable to battle so err... neither is the winner?' announced the referee.

'You did your best,' said Ryan, calling back Gigalith, 'But now it's time for Golem!' and as he said this he threw out a Pokéball, releasing Golem into the battlefield.

After calling back Buizel, Kaz knew that he had only one choice. 'Chimchar!' he yelled, tossing Chimchar back into battle. 'Rapid fire ember!' he ordered.

'Not falling for that again, use rollout!' Ryan roared and Golem tucked in its arms, legs and head, transforming into a ball and as it gathered speed the ember just bounced off and Chimchar was crushed beneath Golem.

Kaz decided to try a new move before it was too late for Chimchar. 'Use mach punch!' Chimchar was suddenly in the driving seat and had blasted off Golem with mach punch. 'Keep using it!' he instructed and after several punches, Golem was knocked out.

'Golem is unable to battle and Kaz has defeated all of Ryan's Pokémon, he is the victor!' announced the referee.

'Good job Chimchar, now take a rest,' said Kaz, calling back his faithful Pokémon.

'I now give you the Rock Coin!' exclaimed Ryan, handing a coin to Kaz as he spoke, 'Is that your first coin?' Kaz nodded 'Then you've still got fifteen more to go, good luck Kaz and have a good journey,'

'Thanks Ryan.' said Kaz and he looked at his coin. This was only the beginning...