"Gothorita!" Allison yelled. "You're up!"

Allison rotated Gothorita's pokeball to the front and it opened, releasing Gothorita.

"Goth!" she cried.

"Furret!" Seiya cried.

Furret appeared. Dino brought out his Pokedex as Allison commanded Gothorita to strike with a Feint Attack.

"Furret, the Long Body Pokemon. The mother puts its offspring to sleep by curling up around them. It corners foes with speed. It makes a nest to suit its long and skinny body. The nest is impossible for other Pokémon to enter. Furret has a very slim build. When under attack, it can slickly squirm through narrow spaces and get away. In spite of its short limbs, this Pokémon is very nimble and fleet. This Furret is Female. Level 35. Moves Known: Slash, Baton Pass, Focus Energy, and Hone Claws. Ability: Frisk."

Gothorita surged forward and Furret scurried out of the way.

"Focus Energy!" Seiya yelled.

"Stop her! Psyshock!" Allison commanded.

Gothorita shot a ball of silver energy at a glowing Furret, who swiftly dodged it.

"Keep dodging and using Focus Energy!" Seiya said.

Topher tapped Allison. "I think I know what they're trying to do-"

Allison ignored him and told Gothorita to use Feint Attack again.

"Baton Pass!" Seiya yelled. The podium rotated by itself and Furret disappeared right as Gothorita struck. A Mienshao appeared and kicked Gothorita across the field.

Gothorita fell in a graceless arc.

"Gothorita, are you okay?" Allison called. The battle was over as soon as one Pokemon fainted...

Dino moved forward and rotated the podium. Carbink appeared.

"Dino!" Allison pushed him away.

"Gothorita was still awake, barely." Dino explained. "So I switched her out-"

"I was about to do that!" Allison snapped.

"Carbink, counter with Power Gem!" Topher yelled.

Allison looked back at the field in time to see Mienshao attack with a Hi Jump Kick, but get knocked out of the sky with a barrage of colorful gemstones.

"Mienshao, Calm Mind!" Shane yelled.

Mienshao clapped it's hands together and closed it's eyes. It began to glow.

"Power Gem again!" Allison yelled.

"Force Palm!" Shane cried.

"Mien!" Mienshao put up it's palm and the gems bounced off of it harmlessly.

"How?" Allison yelled. "It's attack would have to be crazy high to block that move..."

"If you would listen to me, I could tell you what's going on!" Topher said.

"Protect!" Allison yelled. Carbink put up a shield, buying them a few minutes. Allison turned to Topher. "What is it?"

"They're using Baton Pass!" Topher explained quickly. "It passes on stat changes to the Pokemon who is switched into battle. So all of the attack and accuracy stat raises that Furret got from Hone Claws were passed on to Mienshao. And Mienshao is using Meditate now. I bet it plans to pass on it's stat raises, along with Furret's, to the next Pokemon."

Allison nearly broke the podium, slamming her fist into it. How could she have been so stupid? She let the other team out smart her.

Allison looked at Topher and Dino. Topher had tried to tell her. And then Dino saved her Gothorita. And all she had done was ignored them.

Allison suddenly felt like digging a hole and burying herself six feet under. "Guys... I'm so stupid. You two should be giving commands, not me."

Dino glared at her. "No, Allison. We don't want to lead. We want to work together."

Topher nodded, and Allison felt the anger drain out of her. "I'm sorry. I was just mad that Topher disagreed with my plan, so I tried to show you guys that my plan was better by doing it alone. But we're a team. This isn't a competition between us. It's against them."

Dino smiled. "We should be working together, the way Team Geosenge is. Building each other up."

Suddenly, the barrier disappeared.

"Now you're done for!" Fang yelled. He rotated the podium.

Mienshao was sucked back into it's pokeball. A black and blue Pokemon with gleaming gold eyes appered. It barred it's fangs at Carbink.

Allison sprang into action immediately. "Topher, command Carbink! Dino, scan Luxray. I'll man the podium."

Both boys nodded and did as they were told.

Luxray jumped forward and tried tp chomp Carbink with Electrified fangs, but Topher commanded Carbink to use Dazzling Gleam, which was a bright flash of light that blinded Luxray and caused him to stop mid attack and howl.

At the same time, Dino scanned Luxray with his Pokedex.

"Luxray, the Gleam Eyes Pokemon. When its eyes gleam gold, it can spot hiding prey-even those taking shelter behind a wall. Luxray's ability to see through objects comes in handy when it's scouting for danger. This Luxray is Male. Level 38. Moves Known: Wild Charge, Thunder Fang, Charge, and Howl. Ability: Rivalry."

"Allison, switch to Numel! Dino, tell him to use Sandstorm! Then switch back to Carbink!" Topher told her. Allison rotated the podium to Numel.

"Numel, Sandstorm!" Dino commanded.

A cyclone of sand appeared around Luxray, who cried out in surprise.

Allison rotated the podium. Carbink appeared again.

"Power Gem!" Topher yelled.

The gems shot into the cyclone, pelting Luxray.

Seiya tried rotating the podium, but it did nothing.

"You can't switch out a Pokemon trapped in a vortex!" Allison called.

The vortex stopped, and Luxray fell to the ground.

"The win goes to Team Laverre!" the automated voice rang out.

They returned their Pokemon and met in the center of the field.

"That was impressive." Fang said quietly. "Your power is remarkable."

Seiya grinned. "You guys did great! I can't believe you figured out our strategy- not saying you're dumb or anything- of course you're not, I mean the way you combined attacks was really clever- and I thought we were gonna win-"

Shane cut him off with "ahem". "Anyway," Shane said. "Congratulations. Here's the Team Geosenge medal."

Shane put the medal in Allison's palm.

Allison handed it to Topher, who slipped it into their Medal pouch.

Dino hugged his friends. "We won our second Medal!" Dino cheered.

A/N: Reader Question Time! So we have two choices. I can make chapter 42 of my story Pokemon Prodigies take place at the same time at the same time as this chapter, thus putting the main characters of both stories in one place at once for a crossover. Or I could do as originally planned and make chapter 1 of one story correspond to chapter 1 of the other, and so on and so forth. What do you, the readers, think? Should the two stories crossover, or is it too soon?