Tori's thoughts Logan's thoughts Pipers thoughts
Disclaimer: I would love to own pokemon but I don't I can only clam Tori, Piper, and Logan for this story. I'm not sure if I want to put any bad guys in, I couldn't do Team Rocket because they are following Ash around.
Chapter 5
Pewter City
"There it is Eevee." Piper said looking from the hill she was standing over the city that held the gym where she would win her first badge ever.
'Wow Pewter City . . . for some reason I thought it would be bigger.'
It was true Pewter City was small, only a little bigger than Viridian City and this was because Pewter had a science museum that housed a whole bunch of Pokémon fossils. Three fourths of the city was surrounded by mountains and one side of the thick Viridian forest. The town it's self-had a lot of trees growing around the builds.
Looking down at her watch she saw that if she found the Pokémon center fast she could have lunch before her gym battle and if everything went alright be half way to Mt. Moon by tonight.
Man was she getting excited; her first gym battle was just minutes away. She knew it wasn't going to be easy, after all a gym leader was much stronger than regular trainers and if she was right about the type of Pokémon being used in this gym then she was going to be at a huge disadvantage. "Let's go Eevee." She said than took off running down the path that would lead to Pewter City Eevee close at her heals.
There wasn't much in the way of entertainment, but the gym was enough for her; all she needed to do was find the Pokémon center and she could be on her way.
"Were do you think the Pokémon center could be Eevee?" she asked the little fox pokemon.
"Wii!" Eevee said then stopped to sniff at the air. "Ee."
"You got something Eevee?"
"Vee." Eevee nodded determinedly.
"Ok than lead the way." She followed close behind Eevee as she raced down the old stone side walk, till fifteen minutes later they arrived outside the gym. "Not the pokemon center, but good work Eevee."
"Ee! Wii!" Eevee was pawing at the door.
"What is it Eevee?" Than the door opened, to reveal . . . . "TORI!"
Said girl glared at her. "Yes, is it necessary to yell in peoples ears like that?"
Piper sweat dropped and scratched the back of her head. "No I guess not."
"What are you doing here anyways? Not to take on the gym I hope."
"Why?"
Tori pretended not to know. "Oh you don't know? I guess I couldn't expect anything less from you."
"Well go on miss know it all, tell me what's going on." She practically growled.
Tori pretended to think and Piper was just about to hit her upside the head when she spoke. "Well other than the fact that the gym leader had two battles today already and I might add lost both of them, she's closing the gym for tomorrow."
"So? That still means I can challenge her today." 'I knew Tori was stupid but come on.'
"Oh, please you aren't going to be able to beat her, not with your pokemon that is."
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Oh she was going down now; no one insulted her or her pokemon and got away with it.
"Haha, calm down. If I know you the way I do then you haven't caught any pokemon that are good against rock pokemon."
Piper sweat dropped again. "So what, there's more than type to consider when battling; besides me and my pokemon have been training very hard."
"Not hard enough for a gym battle." Tori said smartly.
"Oh, yeah? Why don't you show how good you are in a pokemon battle?" That would shut her up.
"Ee!" Eevee agreed glaring up at Tori.
"I would love to but you see it wouldn't be worth my time to battle someone without a badge."
"So you're scared?" She asked simply.
"I didn't say that!" She pulled something out of her pocket and held it up for her to see. It was the boulder badge. "See I already have one badge, so there's no reason to battle you."
She looked at the badge than shrugged, it really didn't matter how many badges you had. "Really I just think you're scared."
"I agree." Said a bored voice from behind them.
Piper looked toured the gym and almost groaned out loud, and there he was leaning against the side of the gym. Could her day get any worse? "Hey Logan."
"What's your name again?"
"You have got to be joking? It's Piper!" A vain throbbed on her forehead. "Not only is my Pidgeotto better than yours but so is my memory."
"I'd watch it if I were you, your friend there may have barely won her battle but I did without breaking a sweat." He glared at her.
"Hey!" Tori screeched at him.
"Then don't forget my name." They were completely ignoring Tori until she interrupted their glaring contest.
"How do you two know each other?"
'Once again Tori wants to know if I'm trying to move in on a cute guy.' Piper rolled her eyes. "We meet in Viridian City."
"Oh really." She got close to Piper to whisper in her ear. "There wouldn't be anything between the two of you is there? I'm sure Gary would like to know if there was."
She was both disturbed by how close she was to her and confused. What did Gary have to do with this? "Ok 1: He's all yours I don't want him, and 2: What in the world dose Gary have to do with any of this?" she whispered back.
Now it was Tori's turn to be confused. "You mean you don't know?" she wasn't bothering to whisper any more.
"Know what?" this was starting to get a little more than aggravating.
"Oh nothing." Tori smiled trying hard not to laugh. 'Well if she doesn't know I'm not going to be the one to tell her.'
"What about that battle?" Logan said to gain their attention. 'Girls have such a short attention span.'
"Yeah Tori what about it?"
"But. Not. I don't. Fine, but I want to have my pokemon healed first." She said after a minute, knowing that she wasn't going to get out of it without looking like a coward.
"That's ok with me I need to do the same." They started walking down the road. "Aren't you coming Logan?" she looked back at him to see him walking in the other direction.
He looked at her for a minute than sighed and started for them. "I suppose you'll want me to sit in on your gym battle to?"
"I wasn't going to ask but seeing as you offered I would like you to." She almost laughed at the look on his face.
"I didn't offer." He glared at her.
"Then why did you say anything about it." She smiled up at him. (He's not that much taller about two or three inches)
"Because I thought . . . oh never mind I'll come just to see the leader wipe the floor with you."
"If you think I'm going to lose than you have another thing coming!" (Dose this sound familiar to anyone?:D)
"Wii." Eevee nodded before jumping up to ride on Piper's shoulder.
"Here we are." Tori said after a few minutes of walking.
The pokemon center was probably the smallest in all of Kanto, there was barely enough room for six teenagers to stand in the lobby.
"Welcome, how may I help you?" Said Joy from behind the counter.
"Can you please heal our pokemon nurse Joy?" Tori asked as polite as ever.
'Hope she doesn't strain herself.' Piper's eyebrow was almost twitching with how wired Tori was acting.
"Of course, it will only take a few minutes." After Joy took their pokemon Piper turned to Tori.
"So where should we have our battle?"
She thought for a moment and was about to say something when Logan cut in. (I love cutting her off and so dose Logan.:)) "How about the river bank on the way out of town, not a lot of people go there."
"Sounds perfect." Tori agreed right away.
Piper sweat dropped, she could never get over Tori's fixation with cute guys. It was bad enough seeing the way she acted around Gary, but this was just plan disturbing. 'She'll never change.'
Jump to the battle!—fair warning this battle is going to be a little one sided; I did this because Tori was over confidant and wasn't thinking things though.
"How about a three on three match?" Tori asked feeling and sounding superior.
"Fine by me." Piper smiled at the air head. "Age before beauty."
"Garr." Tori growled before throwing her first poke'ball into the air. "Come on out Ivysaur!"
"Wow you Bulbasaur already evolved."
"That's right, why don't you give up now and save yourself from embarrassment?"
"Not going to happen, but I am happy for you. Now for my Pokémon, go Eevee."
"Oh please this isn't going to be like our first battle, Ivysaur is much stronger. Now then let's make this quick Ivysaur, take down!"
"Dodge it Eevee and use a ferry of sand-attack!" Eevee did as she said and used one sand-attack after another on Ivysaur, moving too fast for the slow Ivysaur to keep up. "Great job now swift attack!"
"You think a little sand is going to stop us, Ivysaur use razor leaf all over the field." Ivysaur sent its razor leaf in every direction, effectively hitting Eevee."
"Eevee, are you ok?"
"Wii." The little Pokémon nodded and stared determinedly at Ivysaur.
"Good, now Quick attack!"
"Match that with your take down!"
The two Pokémon meet in a head on collision and both went flying backwards. 'This isn't good Eevee is taking too much damage, if this keeps up Tori's going to win. I have to think of something.'
"Take down attack!"
'Wait, that's it!' "Eevee dodge then use Swift while using Quick attack."
Tori looked at her like she was nuts, and maybe she was but this was the only thing she could think to do. Piper watched as Eevee's swift hit Ivysaur over and over, the time that they hit it becoming closer together. The swift was also getting stronger with each hit. That was what she needed; after all of those Take downs Ivysaur had taken a good amount of damage. Once Eevee's Quick attack hit it should all be over.
"Hit it Eevee full powered Quick attack!"
"Ee!" Eevee stopped its Swift and charged at Ivysaur and then with all her mite sent Ivysaur flying to Tori with its Quick attack. (_ this happens to their eyes when they are nocked out)
"Great job Eevee!" Piper held her arms open for Eevee to jump into. "You take a rest ok; I may need you again yet."
"Ee." Eevee nodded before jumping down to sit at her feet.
"There now, that's one down and two to go."
"Don't get to confident; I'll still wipe the floor with you!"
"I don't think so, but I'm going to love watching you try."
"Go Nidorina (Girl)!"
"A Nidorina huh, not bad but let's see what Dexter says." Piper pulled out her cute purple poke'dex.
'Nidorina the poison Pokémon, it has a calm and caring nature. Because its horn grows slowly, it prefers not to fight.'
"Well now that your Nidorina lesson is done for the day maybe we could get on with the battle?" Tori said impatiently.
"Sure, come on out Pidgeotto!" Pipers Pidgeotto spread its wings out (made that sound that it makes- didn't know how to write it) and when noticing Logan glared. "Yeah you remember Logan Pidgeotto, let's show him how good we've gotten."
"Piggo." Pidgeotto said determinedly.
"Well at lest you got it to evolve." Logan smirked before pulling a poke'ball from his belt and released his Pidgeotto.
Piper watched as her Pidgeotto's face went red when it looked at the male Pidgeotto. "Are you alright Pidgeotto? Your face is all red." Piper said kneeling down next to the bird Pokémon. Pidgeotto looked at her wide eyed before nodding and looked toward Nidorina as a distraction.
"Really?" Piper looked up as Tori who was looking at her like she was an idiot.
"What?" she asked confused. 'What did I miss?'
"Man you're an idiot." Logan had one hand on his face and was shaking his head back and forth.
"What was that?" she stood up and glared at him, fist clenched at her sides.
He signed. "It's not worth explaining at the moment, just finish your battle."
Piper's checks pushed out word in annoyance but she turned back to Tori nonetheless so that they could start the second match. This wouldn't be a very hard match as long as Pidgeotto didn't get poisoned.
"Gust Pidgeotto." It was better to keep your distance when dealing with a Pokémon that can poison you when you come into contact with it. But with Gust being the only distance attack besides sand-attack, she was going to have to hit it directly at some point.
"Poison Sting!" The Poison Sting was knocked away by the Gust but it also helped to decrease the amount of damage that Nidorina took when the attack hit.
"Smart move; let's see if you can keep it up." Piper glanced up. 'Perfect.' "Pidgeotto fly strait up into the air!"
"What are you up to?" Tori asked looking up trying to find the bird Pokémon but the sun was blinding her.
'Just as I planned.' "Now Pidgeotto Quick attack full power!"
"Smart with the sun she couldn't find your Pokémon and with the added velocity it doubles the damage of Pidgeotto attack." Logan commented then took out a notebook and started writing something down.
"Hey what's that?" Piper asked.
"Nothing to concern yourself with." He smiled and continued to write.
Piper looked back at the battle just as Pidgeotto dive boomed Nidorina, pulling up before it hit the ground, and came to fly a few feet from her. "Great job Pidgeotto."
"Hey don't count us out yet!" Tori said, sure enough Nidorina was getting back to its feet looking like it took a lot of damage. "Nidorina Double kick attack!"
"Are you losing it Double kick is a fighting type move and isn't going to do much damage on Pidgeotto." Logan pointed out.
"Dodge it." Pidgeotto dodged the first one but the second one hit Pidgeotto dead center in the chest. "Pidgeotto are you ok?"
"Piggy." Pidgeotto stood up and looked tired but ready to fight.
"Alright hit it with Gust, finish this!"
"Dodge Nidorina!" Tori sounded panicked, and Nidorina didn't have the strength to dodge in time and got hit with Gust, taking it down.
"Pidgeotto return." Logan said.
"Why did you have Pidgeotto watch?" Piper asked.
"It helps him learn from other mistakes."
Piper tuned back to Tori "That's two, please end it here I really don't want to have to use my last Pokémon."
"Nidorina return." Tori smirked. "Do you really think I'm going to do you a favor after what you did to Ivysaur and Nidorina?"
"This won't turn out good for you, so it's more like me doing you a favor."
Tori scowled. "No way am I giving up, Butterfree go!" Tori taped her foot waiting when Piper didn't send out her Pokémon right away. "Well send out your Pokémon that is unless you're giving up."
"Oh please why would I give up, but don't say I didn't warn you. Pikachu you're up!"
When Pikachu came out of his poke'ball he was more than ready for battle. To say that his appearance shocked Tori and Logan was an understatement, it wasn't every day that you saw a Pikachu was battle scared.
"This battles going to be over before it even started." Tori said finally getting over the shock.
"We'll see." (Quick note: I'm making Pikachu strong like Ash's Pikachu, mainly because I have something planed later on and he needs to be stronger than normal Pikachu's)
"Poison Powder Butterfree."
'Man I hate moves like that, and I don't have a good move to counter it.' "Double team." Within seconds there were a dozen Pikachu spread across the field.
"Don't stop Butterfree hit them all with Poison Powder." Tori's plan worked because as soon as the Poison Powder hit the clones they disappeared and the real Pikachu was poisoned.
"Hang in there Pikachu! Use Thunder wave."
"Dodge it!" Butterfree successfully dodged it. You could tell that it had been trained for dodging attacks.
'So what am I going to do? Pikachu's poisoned and won't last much longer if I can't think of anything.' She thought about Pikachu's moved and how she could use them. Butterfree couldn't use Poison Powder anymore and even if it used Sleep Powder it wouldn't work because Pikachu was already poisoned. That left two moves, one would have to be Gust, but what was the fourth one?
"Pikachu Thunder Shock!" This time Butterfree didn't have time to dodge and it got fried. "Great job Pikachu just a little more."
"Pika." He nodded looking exhausted.
"Your Pikachu isn't going to last much longer with the effects of my poison attack." Tori smiled. "Butterfree confusion."
"Oh no Double Team!" It worked Double Team cut short Butterfree's attack. "No more chances Pikachu use Quick attack than Thunder Shock." Pikachu knew what she wanted it to do without her having to tell him and he eminently-sp?- used Quick attack to get onto Butterfree's back and shocked it with all it's might. They both went crashing to the ground Butterfree knocked out and Pikachu next thing to it. "You did a wonderful job Pikachu." Piper said picking Pikachu up than looked over at Tori. "That was great Tori the hardest match I've had yet."
Tori glared at Piper. "Don't try to make me feel better, I lost three to nothing! No top of that it was to someone who doesn't even have a badge."
"Well if you think about it you have Pokémon that go good against rock type Pokémon and I have Pokémon that go good against mostly grass and flying type Pokémon."
"I don't need your pity or your excuses!"
"Leave her alone, she lost that's that let it go." Logan said. "Let's go get your Pokémon healed up if you want me to watch your gym battle."
"Oh alright." They started back into town when she noticed that Tori wasn't following them. Piper looked back to see her still on the ground, holding her Butterfree's poke'ball. "Are you coming Tori?"
"No, I'll head there later."
"Okay." Piper whispered not really sure it was ok but knew that Tori didn't want to talk to her at the moment.
Ok I'm ending the chapter here, the gym battle will be in the next chapter and I'm going to try my hardest to make it better than this chapter. Wasn't very happy with it. Reviews are always needed or any tips/ ideas that you guys would like to see happen in the next chapter. =^_^=