Topher, Dino, and Allison faced the morning in three different ways.
Allison woke up early and was never groggy, no matter where the sun was positioned in the sky.
Topher woke up whenever, and hated the world for being there when he did.
Dino woke up later than everyone else but was fully awake and inexcusably loud when he did.
That's how they woke up that morning, before going to meet up with Team Geosenge.
"So, this is it?" Allison asked Topher as they approached the building.
He nodded. "This is the address." Topher looked at the sign above the glass door. It read "AJ's Battlegrounds".
"'AJ's Battlegrounds'?" Dino smiled broadly. "I've heard of this place. It's a training facility or something."
Topher nodded again. He already had his Holocaster out and was on the facility's Poképedia page.
"'AJ's Battlegrounds is one of the best training gyms in the country for Pokemon training,'" Topher read, "'Offering a wide selection of unique battle styles, such as Rotation Battles, Launcher Battles, Battle Simulations, and many more.'"
Dino grabbbed Topher's arm. "Heck yeah! This is gonna be awesome!"
Allison looked at the sign and scowled. "Hmm. I've heard of this place before. It cost a fortune just to get in. I hope whoever's challenging us is also paying."
"Payment isn't a problem."
They turned around. Standing behind them were three boys.
"You three better be worth it." the same voice said. It's voice belonged to a boy with messy black hair that covered his eyes and the tops of his ears, which was parted to one side. His bangs were dyed red. He wore a white shirt with a small black wolf on the right chest, and a dark blue jacket on top of it, with white fur around the collar and at the cuffs of its sleeves. It was zipped up to three-fourths of the way to the top. His jeans were dark blue and his shoes were black and red. He wore black finger-less gloves.
The second boy rolled his eyes. "Stop being a dick, Fang." he said. He had a brown crew cut and was athletically built. "Sorry about him. He's lucky he's cute, cause he has no social skills. I'm Shane, by the way."
Fang sent him a glare. "Call me cute again. I dare you."
The third boy looked nervous. "I'm so sorry for my friends! Shane's a flirt and Fang is asocial- or anti-social- not sure which one is right, or even if they're both words- I'm not good with words- except spelling them- I was in the spelling bee at school- wow, I sound lame, don't I? Sorry. Oh! I'm Seiya! I was named after my dad, my name means-" he stopped to take a breathe, and Allison took that as her cue to stem the word trainwreck.
"Nice to meet you guys!" Allison said. "I'm Allison. This is Topher and Dino. I take it you three are Team Geosenge?"
"Yep!" Shane said. "And you three are Team Laverre, right? Tell me, is everyone in Laverre as cute as you?" he winked at Allison and pulled her close.
"Bad idea..." Allison heard Topher mutter.
Allison blushed and hid her face behind her hair, then pulled away. "W-who, me?" she stuttered. "I'm nothing special. In fact, let me tell you a secret about girls from Laverre."
He leaned forward. Allison grinned and pulled him forward, then turned him around and pinned his arm behind him.
"We don't like boys touching us without permission." she whispered in his ear.
"Hey! Let him go!" Seiya shouted, but Fang grinned.
"It's okay." Shane grunted as Seiya moved forward to help him. "I-I like a girl who can beat me up."
Allison grinned and let him go. "And I like a boy who knows his place." she said, her smirk widening.
Dino sweatdropped. "Is she flirting?"
Topher just shrugged.
"So, can we go in now?" Fang said. "I wanna see if these three are strong enough to give us a good time."
Dino balled his fists and put one in front of his face. "Oh, we are! I hope you've prepared a good eulogy, because we're burying you three six feet under!"
Topher sighed, and Allison pinched Dino. "The deceased don't write eulogies, they're dead. Idiot."
"Anyway," Shane said. "Let's go battle." He led them inside.
The room was a reception area, with a woman behind a desk. She smiled in greeting. "Mr. Yama! You're here for you're noon appointment?"
Seiya nodded. "Yes! This is my appointment- I mean of course it is - it's my reservation- I'm sorry- I'm such a dunce- like, there was this one time I-"
"Let's go." Fang said, grabbing Seiya and dragging him through a set of doors. Allison and the others followed him.
"This is the rotation room." Shane said. The room was a battlefield, but it had two metal cylinders where the trainers would stand.
"The six of us are doing rotation battles." Shane said.
"Rotation battles?" Dino asked.
"They're a Unovan thing." Topher said. He pulled out his Holocaster and keyed something in. It said:
"A Rotation Battle is a type of Pokemon Battle featuring three Pokémon per Trainer, with one Pokémon from each side battling at a time. A Rotation Battle is similar to a Triple Battle, but only one Pokémon can attack at a time, and Pokemon can be switched out at any time by rotating their pokeball to the front of the podium. Pokemon may only switch out when not being attacked. The first Team to have a Pokemon rendered unconscious loses."
"Nice." Allison said. "So the three of us can battle at once. Should be fun."
"So, head to your podium, release your first Pokemon, then put the pokeballs of the three Pokemon fighting in the three holes." Seiya said. "It's easy!"
Relieved that Seiya hadn't rambled on too long, Allison and her friends made their way to the podium.
"We should bring out pokemon with different types, so we can cover the most type advantages." Allison said. "Our Pokemon should be complementary stat wise too. So one with one high stat, two with different high stats. That way our team is balanced."
"So Bergmite or Carbink can be our defense." Dino said.
"Carbink has dual types, so it would have more possibilities of having a type advantage over whatever Pokemon they throw out." Allison said. "And his high Defense will cover any Type vunerability he has."
"Then Numel can be our Special Attack." Dino said. "And Gothita can be our speed."
Topher frowned. He had stayed silent this entire time (shocker!), but cleared his throat now.
"I think we should use Pokemon with high Defense, Special Defense, Speed, and Health." Topher said.
"Why?" Allison asked.
"Because the object is to only knock out one Pokemon." Topher said. "So we need our Pokemon to be hard to knock out. Which means having high endurance and being hard to hit."
"But then our team won't having any hard hitters, so we'll have a hard time knocking others out." Allison said.
Topher shrugged. "Not if we're patient, and wear them down with our attacks."
Allison groaned. It was so like Topher to undermine her plan. "But the longer the battle takes, the better chance they have to knock our Pokemon out. We should just go with my plan."
Topher scowled. "You're plan is good, but mine is better."
"As if." Allison said. "My plan will work!"
"You just don't want to admit someone has corrected you." Topher snapped.
Allison considered punching him. "Are you calling ke a know-it-all?"
"No, I'm calling you stubborn." Topher said angrily.
Dino sighed. "Guys! Stop arguing! We need to work together to win."
Allison crossed her arms. "We're going with my plan."
"Fine." Topher said. "I don't care."
Allison glared at him. He so cared, but now he was going to just sit there and pout the whole battle.
"You guys ready?" Shane called.
"Yeah!" Allison called back. She snatched Carbink's pokeball from Topher, then put it on the podium, along with Gothita's pokeball. Dino put Numel's pokeball down too.
Allison turned to Shane and the others.
An electronic voice said:
" "The battle between Team Ambrette and Team Laverre is about to begin. This will be a one on one battle, Alliance rules, no items or substitutions. Challenger has first move. Trainers, please release your Pokemon!"
A/N: Time for the battle to start! The members of Team Geosenge were created by:
Martyn on Fanfiction . net (Seiya)
Kuromaster on Fanfiction . net (Fang)
Stormlocke on Wattpad (Shane)
Thanks for the characters, guys!