Alright guys, today is where I face off against the fourth gym leader. Thanks for the reviews, and by your guy's opinion Locsite will be returning to the team. Now I don't have much to say, so on with the chapter!

Disclaimer, I don't own pokemon.

Lavaridge Town, after such a long time, we finally made it. The moment we step into the pokemon center, we all fall down from exhaustion. After resting, me and my team exit the center, and I start explaining the game plan. "Okay, last night I did some research, a turn out this is a fire type gym, sorry C-Run, Raphael, and it's too risky. My best choice would be Skipper, but I want to give everyone else the chance to fight. Now let's go and get that gym badge!" Before entering the gym I return C-Run and Raphael back to their pokeballs, it was a good thing too. The moment I enter the gym, I am hit with a heat wave. Dash and Lavender were starting to sweat, but Skipper and Alistar weren't really bothered by the heat. After beating all the trainers in the gym, we finally make it to the gym leader. I was not expecting to see a teenager with red hair, black shirt, and pants. I also notice she had a script in her hands.

"Welcome…no wait. Puny trainer, how good it is to see you've made it here! I have been entrusted with the…no, that's not right! I am Flannery, and I am the gym leader here! Um…you better not underestimate me! Even though I only have been a leader for a short time. And another thing-" This was just embarrassing.

"How about we forget the script and jump to the battle shall we?" She looks at me then back at the script. She tosses it aside and has one of her pokemon burn it.

"Thanks, anyways, I accept your challenge!" She sends out a slug like pokemon, lava was oozing out of its skin, never saw a slugma before.

"Alright then, show them what you got Skipper!"

Skipper jumps into the battle field, full of confidence, "Prepare to meet your maker, American!" Flannery sends out first a nubel, instant KO, slugma, KO, camerupt, before finishing the pokemon off, it uses sunny day. "Is that all you got, I seen fireflies stronger than you!"

"I have to admit, your Marshtomp is strong, but let's see how he deals with my strongest pokemon, go torkoal!" A big red and black turtle was sent out from her pokeball. It releases a whole bunch of smoke.

Skipper shoots the flame pokemon with a powerful mud shot, but the attack hardly did any damage. Me and Skipper were shock, but he quickly gets excited, "Finally a worthy foe!" The tokaol attacks with body slam, and Skipper counters with mud shot. He had the advantage, but then torkoal suddenly starts to glow red.

"Skipper watch out!"

Skipper wasn't expecting to see a powerful blast of flames to come from the turtle pokemon. The attack, with the added power of sunny day, had sent Skipper crashing through the walls, smoke was everywhere. All of us were worried, especially Lavender.

"Skipper!" A few seconds go by and we hear no response, I was about to assume the worst when suddenly the rubble starts to shake. Then from the ground, Skipper jumps out from the rubble, he was badly damaged, he was having trouble standing up, panting very hard, he was on the verge of death.

"Not…bad…now it's…my turn!" Suddenly his body is covered in a blue like aura, I couldn't believe my eyes. I only heard rumors of the special ability torrent, but was never expecting to see it happening. Skipper gets into position and what at first I thought to be hydro pump, turns out to be water gun. I never knew that torrent could be so helpful. The attack hit torkoal straight on, sending him all the way to the wall. All of us were shock to see Skipper do something like that. Lavender rushes to him, I thought she was gonna give help him, instead she slaps him across the face. He was confused as to why she did that.

She then starts hugging him, "That was for scaring me to death! And this is for coming out alive." She then leans close to his face, and she presses her lips against his. When I saw what was happening I decide bring my attention back to the gym leader.

"Wow, that was a great battle, here is the gym badge. Now you are half way there. Only eight more to go."

"Thanks, next up, my dad." Once Skipper and Lavender were done having their moment, me and my team head to the pokemon center. "You know what guys, we had been working hard, and we all deserve a needed break. I heard this town is a perfect place to relax. So let's go! But first, I need to talk to an old friend." I go to my pc and bring out a certain fire pokemon. "Hey Locsite, I hope you had time to think, because we would all like to have you back on the team."

"…I have been thinking about it since you put me in storage…I'm sorry TM, I truly am."

"You know I will forgive you, but it's Dash you need to apologize to." I step aside to reveal that Dash was right behind me.

"Hey Dash, look sorry for you know…almost hitting you with fire punch."

Dash doesn't say anything, instead he jumps forward with a thunder punch at the ready, and stops inches away from his face. "There, we are even." He then sticks out his hand, "Welcome back to the team."

Locsite takes his hand and they shake, "It's good to be back."

"Alright guys, now we can relax!"

And that's what we exactly did. We spend the whole day, not worrying about trainers, gym leaders, team magma or aqua. But as nice as it was, the day soon ends. Once its morning, I release Alistar, "Don't worry, I'm sure you will remember who you are, for now, how about you stay here. Who knows maybe you will remember something."

"Good luck on your journey then."

I pack my things, buy supplies from the store, once things are set, we leave Levaridge town and start to make our way to Petalburg Town to finally fight my father.

And done. Don't worry, I am going to start working on the next chapter as soon as I post this one. In the battle, torkoal used overheat and almost KO Skipper, he only had 4 hp left! Talk about being lucky! I know this chapter is short but that's because I wanted to tell everyone what the prize will be for the difficult question that will happen next chapter. The prize will be a guest appearance! That's right you get to be part of the story, not an oc of yours but you yourself! You can bring any pokemon from any region (from kanto to unova) If you are doing a nuzlocke, a pokemon journey, or even a pokemon mystery dungeon, you can send in that character. But that's not all, I will also sponsor any story that belongs to you. I notice that I have more than 500 views, so with this sponsorship, I'm sure it will help your story get more reviews. So stay turn for the next chapter, and have a chance to win! Good luck to you all! Don't forget to review!