Really, I'd give an excuse, but nothing would be believable. So, er, sorry. Here's a chapter.

Disclaimer: Pokémon, along with any people, places or things from it are not mine, nor do I claim it to be. The only thing I do own is myself and the dream this all started from.

With my newly levelled up team I knew I could take out everyone in the Fuchsia City Gym with no problem. A few things about my team, other than the gain of levels took place as well. Both Rhyhorn and Dratini had evolved, making them Rhydon and Dragonair. Dragonair was also given the TM for Flamethrower and the HM for Surf, making her move set Dragon Rage, Twister, and the two other moves.

I entered the Gym, confident I could take anything that came at me. I proved this by defeating all of the Gym trainers in the Poison type Gym, though it seemed more like a Psychic and Poison type Gym after going through the trainers, the Jugglers: Nate, Kirk and Shawn using the Psychic types, and the Tamers: Edgar and Phil, using the Poison types. Kadabra actually managed to gain a level by defeating all of these trainers.

I went back to heal, though I didn't really need to. I planned on using Rhydon against the Gym leader for the majority of the battle. I returned to the Gym once Nurse Joy handed my Pokéballs back and attempted to go through the invisible maze. After a few failed attempts through it, hitting my head off of the invisible panels multiple times, I made my way to the center of the Gym, where the Gym leader, Koga stood.

"Fwahahaha!" the man in a ninja costume laughed as I approached him, "A mere child like you dares to challenge me?"

"Don't underestimate me," I responded, "It's not the person that's battling."

"The very idea makes me shiver with mirth!" he called to me, though I was standing right in front of him.

"Mirth?" I asked.

The Gym leader didn't bother to explain, continuing to do a monologue, "Very well, I shall show you true terror as a ninja master."

I rolled my eyes, "You're not the one fighting, your Pokémon are!"

"Poison brings steady doom," Koga explained, "Sleep renders foes helpless."

"I'm glad I have Full Heals," I said, growing impatient.

"Despair to the creeping horror of Poison type Pokémon!" the man yelled as we were launched into battle.

Koga's first Pokémon was a Koffing at level 37, which was probably his weakest Pokémon, if I could infer anything from the other Gym battles I had fought. It wasn't too threatening. It used Selfdestruct, but it only did about 50 damage to Rhydon, so it was a useless attack.

Koga then brought out a Muk, at level 39. It was a little more threatening and almost made Rhydon faint by poisoning him. Luckily an Ice Beam froze the Muk so I had the time to heal up my Pokémon. It took a while, but Rhydon managed to knock it out, Muk staying frozen the whole time.

Koga sent out his second last Pokémon, a second level 37 Koffing. I switched out to Poliwrath because I could tell that Rhydon was exhausting his usage of his moves. After training with my Pokémon for such a long time I could now tell when they were getting tired. Poliwrath took out the Koffing with a single Surf.

Koga then sent out his final and strongest Pokémon, a level 43 Weezing. I thought this was going to be a bit more of a challenge, but I was wrong. Poliwrath managed to take it down with two Surfs.

"Humph!" the ninja-Gym leader sighed, "You have proven you worth!"

Our screens disappeared as I replied, "I told you that you shouldn't underestimate me."

"Here!" he responded, handing me a heart shaped badge, "Take the Soul Badge! It'll let you use Surf outside of battle. And take this TM too."

I took the badge and disc from the Gym leader and exited the Gym, not without hitting my face on more invisible walls along the way. I eventually identified the TM as Toxic, which I knew I wouldn't be using.

I went to go heal my Pokémon, and then headed over to the PokéMart to stock up on some supplies before going to a house along the south side of Fuchsia. In this house was a man who seemed to have a hard time talking. This was the Warden of the Safari Zone. I handed him the Gold Teeth I had found in the Safari Zone.

"Thanks you, lassie!" he exclaimed in a Scottish accent, "You're a real lifesaver!"

"No problem," I said, "They weren't anywhere out of the way or anything."

"Don't be so modest," he said, "No one could understand a word that I said, not a one! I couldn't tell anyone about my teeth being missing. I was too ashamed to show my face around the office, even. Let me give you something for your trouble."

The Warden handed me an HM, the HM for Strength. None of my Pokémon would be using it, but in case I would need it some other time I took it so I could give it to my HM slave, which was currently stored with Professor Oak.

It was already getting dark, the Gym taking longer than I would have thought to figure out. Before I turned in for the night I flew to Celadon City so that I wouldn't have to worry about flying there in the morning.

The next morning Mew appeared beside me while we were still in the back room of the Pokémon Center for the first time in a long time.
"Why are we back here?" Mew asked.

"To get to Saffron City," I replied.

"But why here?" she asked, shivering.

I understood why she was asking, "Mew, we'll be out of here soon. I just need to stop at a house here first."

Mew nodded before disappearing again.

Mew didn't like being back here, that was certain. Why? That was a fairly simple question to ask myself. This was the town that she and I were captured in. She didn't want something like that to happen again. I decided, for Mew's sake, that I would hurry and talk to the person I needed to talk to here..