LOL would you believe it

gyarados' speed is 81 and togekiss' is 80

wow

711. mundane: typical of this world; commonplace

Around seven thirty, they left together for the gym, hoping to be early enough to avoid most of the reporters. Arabella had rounded up the other trainers to come especially early to get a little practice in before Gold arrived, and they all turned and made a collective gasp when Green and Gold walked in. They stood around with their pokemon, randomly positioned for training on the deactivated tiles. The warm yellow ceiling lights shone down on the dark tiles.

A bored-looking man with a huge camera was sitting in the corner, recording the trainers, but he sat up and immediately starting shooting with a huge grin on his face as he saw the main characters walk on. Green's eyebrow twitched in frustration, but otherwise ignored the reporter. Another stranger popped his head around – he had a Mr. Mime, so it was probably the psychic he'd hired for the barrier.

"Get to your places, I'm going to turn the traps on!" Green jogged to the challenge platform at the other end of the building. The building looked extremely dull, as the floor looked mundane, its neon lights still dead. The other trainers recalled their pokemon and ran to their places. Green looked over his shoulder. "Ready?"

"3, 2… and 1!" The main lights shut off, and the gym fell into darkness. Then, a medley of bright lights flickered once in the floor, before buzzing to life. The neon blues and reds of the glowing arrows on the traps reflected off the walls, casting the walls and ceiling in a shining light.

712. precept: a rule or action of conduct

"…DUDE! Green, this is hella cool!"

Green smirked. "Hope you didn't eat too much for breakfast!"

According to the precepts, Gold was fully entitled to avoid all the trainers he could and just try to find the way straight to Green, but Gold chose to run into every single trainer. Gold was probably enjoying the booby traps too much – he was spinning gleefully and shouting as he crashed into Arabella.

713. belligerent: eager to fight; aggressive; engaged in warfare

Arabella usually was at the front because his pokemon had the most experience of all the other trainers, and he also tended to do a fairly good job in systematically beating novice challengers. Arabella barely caught Gold in time to save the spinning kid from hitting his head on the floor and getting a concussion. After thanking Arabella, he belligerently asked for a battle.

Arabella agreed as per the rules, shutting off the surrounding tiles so they had more space. They backed off to opposite corners of the dead-tile zone, and released their pokemon.

714. colossal: very large

Green furrowed his eyebrows as Gold released Togekiss to battle Arabella's Stantler. The Togekiss was large for its species, easily surpassing six feet, and it appeared colossal when flapping around above the barely four foot tall Stantler. A Togekiss?

Arabella looked equally bewildered – and he told Stantler to prepare for a headbutt whenever Togekiss swooped down for an attack. Gold laughed, and his Togekiss snickered – they say "like trainer, like pokemon" – and Togekiss dropped down out of the air, its wings clasped together in a… brick break?

715. opprobrium: a bad reputation or disgrace gained after a specific action

Green deadpanned. Teaching Togekiss a physical move was almost opprobrium – they had incredibly high statistics for special attack and special defense, but pathetic physical attack power. Even aura sphere would have been a better fighting attack… However, Gold appeared to be just that ridiculous, and Stantler was knocked out.

716. invidious: tending to arouse hostility or resentment

Arabella looked horrified, and although Gold probably had no intention of being invidious, his pokemon battling was breaking all the rules of conventionality. Togekiss used a more traditional psychic blast to take down Tauros, and the overwhelming power caused even the bull to pass out.

717. flagrant: conspicuously bad or offensive

Gold's battling was ridiculous, flagrant even – but his pokemon appeared to be on such a different level, that it defied all logic and he simply had Togekiss overwhelm the trainers one by one. Eventually after careful observation, Green realized that Togekiss was indeed using aura sphere, and simply nose diving to have better accuracy, and making it look like a brick break for showing off.

718. hymn: a religious song; a song of praise

Green a faint understanding as to why fangirl trainers who sang hymns to Gold were such bad trainers. Gold's battling style was something probably perfected after hundreds of battles, which was why he could throw caution to the wind and have his pokemon use such ridiculous strategies. Normal people couldn't just teach their pokemon how to be fearless, how to overwhelm, or how to defy type advantage. Throughout all the battles, Gold used no other pokemon besides Togekiss.

719. juggernaut: a terrible, irresistible force

Gold crashed through the trainers like a juggernaut, and soon, he was in front of the challenge platform, feeding Togekiss a sitrus berry. Green could feel his pulse rising. Gold might even be on the level of Red – good beyond comprehension.

720. hospitable: friendly, kind, and solicitous toward guests; receptive or open

Smarter novice trainers usually figured out how to avoid the other trainers and tried to challenge Green directly, so Green had found it necessary to try to be at least somewhat hospitable. However, confronted by Gold, there was no reason to be hesitant. Green motioned to the psychic to set up the barrier. The cameraman struggled to keep his camera safe as he sprinted across the tiles to get closer to the battle.

The two trainers shook hands and exchanged traditional, somewhat friendly threats before moving to the opposite corners of the arena and releasing their first pokemon. He sent out Gyarados, and Gold sent out Togekiss, and the two sized each other up. Even though Togekiss was large for his size, Gyarados was at least three times its size, and capable of leaping and jumping. The air was no safe zone.

Green and Gold each called out their first commands, and Gyarados coiled up, and prepared to leap up to sink icy fangs into Togekiss' wings. Togekiss glided by and tried to shock Gyarados with a thunder wave to paralyze the enormous serpent, but Gyarados was a hair faster - he reared up, lifting fifteen feet of his twenty foot body length off the ground to jump and bite the jubilee pokemon. Togekiss hissed (Green had never seen such an agressive togekiss) and twisted out of Gyarados' mouth, but its movements were strained and it was forced to land. Gold's smile faded and was replaced by a determined stare. The battle was just getting started.