Chapter 3

Double Trouble

Blue had finally made it to Dewford Town on Blastoise's back. The first thing he was going to do was challenge the gym here. He believed it was a Fighting-type gym. That was fine, he had a lot of Pokémon that could beat them.

It appeared that the gym was built into the cave surrounding the small town. He went in. It was pitch black inside. Suddenly a voice called out, 'Who challenges this gym?'

'I do,' Blue called back to the voice, 'I'm not afraid. I'm a gym leader myself. My name is Blue from Pallet Town, grandson of Professor Samuel Oak and gym leader in Viridian City!'

The light's came on and the voice was given a body who said, 'I'm Brawly from Seven Island and the gym leader here in Dewford Town.'

Brawly jumped from the high rock he was standing on and said, 'If you're a gym leader, why are you here?'

'I still enjoy travelling so I found someone to be caretaker gym leader,' Blue replied, 'but that's beside the point. I want a battle!'

'I accept,' Brawly said, 'I choose Hariyama!'

'Alakazam,' Blue said as Alakazam left its Poké Ball, 'Psychic.' Alakazam's eyes glowed purple and Hariyama was thrown in the air and knocked out.

'Hariyama, return!' Brawly ordered. As Hariyama returned to it's Poké Ball Brawly said, 'Psychic-type, should have known. In that case I choose Heracross! Use Megahorn!' Heracross's speed came to Brawly's advantage as it knocked out Alakazam.

'Go Pidgeot!' Blue called, 'Fly!' Pidgeot used fly to beat Heracross and Brawley's next three Pokémon, Machamp, Medicham and Primeape. Brawly had one left, 'I choose you, Blaziken! Use Thunder Punch!' This knocked out Pidgeot. Then Blue called on his oldest friend Blastoise to take care of the Fire-type Blaziken.

'Now I'm in trouble,' Brawly said.

'Trouble?' said a female voice very familiar to Blue. The same voice then said, 'Prepare for trouble!'

A male voice, also familiar to Blue, then said, 'Make it double!'

'To protect the world from devastation!' the female said with the male saying, 'To unite all peoples within our nation!'

'To denounce the evils of truth and love!'

'To extend our reach to the stars above!'

A woman with waist length red hair wearing white clothes with a big red 'R' on them revealed herself, 'Jessie!' Then the male, with shoulder length blue hair and wearing similar clothes, revealed himself, 'James!'

'Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!' Jessie announced excitedly. James followed up by saying, 'Surrender now or prepare to fight!'

'Meowth! That's right!' A third voice announced belonging to a talking Meowth.

'Team Rocket!' Brawly said sounding annoyed.

'You're back!' Blue said with disbelief.

'Arbok!' Jessie called as James called, 'Weezing!' Then they said, 'Go!' at the same time. This was pointless because Hydro Cannon from Blastoise and Blast Burn from Blaziken sent Jessie, James, Meowth, Arbok and Weezing all flying. Blue and Brawly heard them distantly screaming, 'Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again!'

'You said they're back,' Brawly said to Blue curiously.

'They were at large in Kanto five years ago, then again in Johto two years ago,' Blue told him, 'You never heard about them?'

'Five years ago we had Team Aqua and Team Magma to deal with,' Brawly replied, 'But I did hear about a Radio Tower in Johto being overtaken.'

'That was Team Rocket,' Blue said, 'Anyway let's continue the battle.'

'Alright,' Brawly said, 'Blaziken use Thunder Punch!'

'Blastoise!' Blue called out, 'Use Surf!' Blastoise proved to be faster than Blaziken and won the battle.

'Well done Blue,' Brawly said graciously, 'that was a good battle against both Team Rocket and myself. I would have been happy to just give you the badge after that.'

'As a gym leader I knew that it would be wrong to accept it like that,' Blue told him.

'But you can accept it for beating me so here it is, the Knuckle Badge.'

'Thanks Brawly. I guess if you won I would have to give you an Earth Badge,' Blue joked. He walked away feeling happy but then he had a bad feeling. Team Rocket was back. What if they were worse this time? He had to find out.