Chapter 4: the New Kory City Gym
***In the middle of New Kory***
As the two new friends walk blindly through New Kory City, it started to seem like they werelost
"I think we're lost, Selena"
"Yea I know, my pokenav isn't getting any signal with all the electronics in this city"
Ben then pulls out his map of the city while Selena continued to stare at her pokenav, the two walked through the streets. Then all of the sudden the two hit what appeared to be a brick wall, and as Ben and Selena look up, they see a very tall man about the age of 50 in a black suit looking down at them
"Are you two alright, are you list?" In a somewhat deep voice
"Um yea, kind of. We're looking for the gym"
"Well that's funny, I'm heading that way now. I can take you two you like?"
"Sure, thank you so much" the two said
"And by the way my name is Anthony, but you can call me Ant for short."
As Selena and Ben walked through New Kory City, Anthony began pointing famous places around the city, acting like a tour guide for them. They even saw a lot of Pokemon around. Then Anthony stopped suddenly and said we're here as he pointed to the tallest building in the city. Both Ben and selena's jaws dropped and simultaneously said "this is a gym?"
"Well the top floor is, the rest is my company, Wild Corp. we make fertilizer and other plant maintenance products. Wears also in charge with maintaining the Kory Forest!"
"Wow that's so cool" said Selena with her eyes wide open 'it reminds me of my dad's' she thought to herself while Ben stood there thinking and eventually blurting out in excitement "does that mean you're the gym leader Ant?"
"Why yes it does Ben and I will accept your challenge to battle, I do only do double battles at my gym though if that's okay"
"Yeah it's good" Ben said with a smile stretched across his face realizing this is his first gym battle
The three then rode the elevator up to the top floor, and as the door opened up they could see a small forest built into the floor with a battlefield carved into the middle.
Ben and Ant took to opposite sides of the field while Selena sat in the viewing area which almost looked like a treehouse at the middle line of the field.
"This is my son Noah, he will be refereeing this battle. He needs to watch all the battles he can" Ben then looked over and saw a shorter light brown haired boy with glasses on, about 15 years old and wearing cargo pants, black boots, and a green short sleeved collared shirt.
"Dad, stop embarrassing me!"
"Fine fine, now back to the battle. Since I am the gym leader I will throw my Pokemon out first, go ninjask, shedinja "
"Wow I've never seen those before" as Ben pulls out his pokedex
Pokedex entry
"Go Eevee, kricketune"
The referee on the side then announced the rules for the gym, and that you were limited to two Pokemon
"Since you're the challenger Ben, you can have the first move"
"Alright, Eevee use quick attack on ninjask, kricketune us tackle on shedinja"
"Ninjask dodge it, Shedinja stand your ground and then use shadow ball" ninjask toddle Eevee with ease while kricketune passed right through shedinja and got hit by a shadow ball, "you have a lot to learn Ben, normal attacks don't affect ghost types" while Selena was face palming in embarrassment
"Alright then, kricketune use bug bite on ninjask, and Eevee use swift"
"Ninjask dodge and use aerial ace" ninjask dodged and got a direct hit on kricketune
"Oh, that's a direct hit" Selena as she gasped thinking it was over but then kricketune got up slowly and then hit shedinja and ninjask with a dark cut and the two were knocked back.
"You just learned night slash kricketune" Ben said in excitement, "alright let's end this Eevee use shift, and kricketune follow up with night slash" Both were direct hits and ninjask and shedinja both fell to the ground
"Ninjask and Shedinja are unable to battle, Ben is the winner"
Ant then returned his two fainted Pokemon and walked over to Ben "congratulations, you've earned the buzz badge"
" yes, I got my first badge!" As his two Pokemon tackled Ben in excitement. Selena even ran out to congratulate her friend
"I'm very impressed in your kricketune's strength"
"Thanks but he wasn't always like that"
"I'd like to ask you something Ben, I'd like to train kricketune and have him help protect the Kory forest"
Ben looked at him stunned, then looked at kricketune who looked shocked to but kind of excited. He then thought who better to learn from than a bug master and protect the forest he grew up in, and said "yes you can." Kricketune then started playing a happy beat
"Oh and one more thing Ben, can my son, Noah, travel with you. I saw something special out of you today and if my son wants to be a gym leader he's got to have that passion?" Ben and Selena looked at each other for a minute, then Selena asked "change cook"
"Yes actually he prides himself on it"
"Them yeah he can" Ben and Selena said in unison.
So Ant hugged his son goodbye, and Ben hugged kricketune reflecting on their memories. Then the three teenagers got on the elevator to go to the ground floor
"Hey I'm Selena"
"And I'm Ben"
"Nice to meet you guys, I'm Noah. Sorry about my dad, you guys are cool with me traveling with you right. I want to explore?"
"Yeah total, but i don't know where we are going next" said Ben
"I thought we could go shopping and watch the Pokemon contest tonight so I can see the competition. And then we could hit the road for the next gym?" Serena blurted out
Then Ben and Noah said together "sure!" As the elevator door opened