Special thank you to 'Shiningheart of Thunderclan' for giving me the idea on how to include Logan in these next to chapters.

Disclaimer: Don't own Pokémon

Chapter 6

Pewter gym

"Oh hello Logan, I didn't expect to see you again so soon. Who's your friend?" Lola asked as the two walked through the front doors of the gym. (I don't know if this is Brock's current mother's name or not, it was the only name I could find.)

"Piper, and I really didn't expect to come back I was nagged into coming." He said bored.

"You're the one who offered." Piper snapped.

"Oh please why would I offer to watch you lose?" he rolled his eyes.

Piper was cut off from saying anything by Lola's giggle. "You two make the cutest couple."

"What? Me and him/her?" they said at the same time making Lola giggle again as they glared at one another.

"Can I have my gym battle now?" Piper said turning away from Logan to hide her blush.

"Sure honey right this way." Lola led them through a door at the end of the small waiting area they were in.

Piper gasped lightly. This was the first time she had ever seen a gym battle field before; it was amazing. The whole field was covered in giant rocks except for the center which held a small circular pool.

"We'll have a two on two match." Lola said, walking over to the leader's side of the field, and Logan made his way to the stands to watch.

The referee stood at the half way point by the battle field. "This will be a two on two battle, no time limit, and only the challenger is allowed to substitute Pokémon." Both Lola and Piper nodded at him when he looked at them for conformation. "The battle between Piper from Pallet town and Lola the gym leader may now begin." (Can't remember what all a referee dose so not going to be much except commentary.)

"You better brace yourself because this isn't going to be like any ordinary Pokémon battle, and I'm not going to go easy on you because you're a beginner." Lola warned.

"Fine by me I wouldn't have it any other way." Piper smiled, holding her poke'ball in her hand.

"As gym leader I have release my Pokémon first, go Omanyte!"

"An Omanyte?" Piper asked shocked, it wasn't every day that you see an ancient Pokémon.

"You do know that this town is famous for restoring fossilized Pokémon right?" At Piper's nod she went on. "Well my Pokémon are all fossils that me and my family have collected and restored over the years." (We never get to see Brock's step-mom in battle, or at least I haven't I think there is one episode like that, but anyway I thought this would go good with the story.)

Piper pulled out her poke'dex and pointed it at Omanyte. 'Omanyte the spiral Pokémon, revived from an ancient fossil, this Pokémon uses air stored in it's shell to sick and rise in water. It has both rock and water characteristics.'

"Alright than, go Pikachu!" she though out her poke'ball. Pikachu appeared in a flash of light and looked more than ready to battle.

'An electric Pokémon? What could that girl be thinking?' Lola thought trying to think of some strategy that could work using a Pikachu against her rock/water Pokémon and came up with nothing. At this rate it didn't seem like the battle was going to last very long.

"Rollout attack Omanyte."

"Use Double team to dodge." The rollout went through one of the many clones of Pikachu. "Great, now use Quick attack and Thunder wave at the same time."

"Electric attacks aren't going to work." Lola said smiling.

"You think so do you, than have a look."

"Huh?" Lola looked at her Omanyte to see Pikachu had leached onto it's back shocking it with all it's might. When Pikachu jumped off Omanyte it was paralyzed. (I saw this in one episode and thought it was a really good strategy.) "But how?"

"Simple; Pikachu's special ability is Static, which works if he comes into direct contact with your Pokémon. Add that to using Thunder wave and it was only a matter of time."

"Smart but this battle is far from over. Omanyte rollout!"

'Quick attack!" both Pokémon hit head on but it looked like Pikachu took most of the damage. 'Oh that's right rollout gets stronger every time it's used, not good'

"Water gun Omanyte."

"Pikachu dodge." But it was still dazed from rollout and got hit head on, and would have went flying into the wall if Piper hadn't run and caught it in time. Piper slammed into the wall, Pikachu safe in her arms.

"Pikachu is unable to battle, Omanyte is the winner." The referee called.

'Stupid girl, why did she do that?'Logan thought gripping the railing in front of the stands watching her make sure her Pikachu was unhurt. It had disturbed him a little to watch her save her Pokémon, for reasons he didn't understand.

"Are you alright?" Lola asked worried. This was the first time she had seen any trainer, but her step-son and his friends do that to save their Pokémon.

"Yeah, right Pikachu?" Piper looked at the little yellow Pokémon as she stood up. Pikachu was watching her in something close to astonishment; it must have been the first time anyone had saved it from being hurt before.

"Pika!" it nodded with a determined smile.

"Alright return Pikachu you did a great job." After Pikachu disappeared inside its poke'ball Piper turned back to Lola. "I'm not finished yet."

Lola smiled at her. "You know you reminded me a lot of someone."

"Really? Who?"

"A friend of my son's, his name was Ash Ketchum."

"Oh I know Ash, we've been friends for years." Piper smiled but sweat dropped. 'How in the world am I like Ash?'

"Then you know my son Brock?" Lola asked in excitement.

"Yes, he's taught me a lot." And he had, he would teacher her new things every time he came to visit, and just last year he gave her a book documenting everything him, Ash, and Misty had done in the Johto region and everything he learned. It was in her backpack right now. "He's a great Pokémon breeder. But that's enough about that; let's get on with the battle. Go Eevee!" she pointed out at the field (Very Ash like), and the little brown fox like Pokémon ran to stand in front of Omanyte awaiting it's next orders.

"Eevee vs. Omanyte let the battle continue." The referee said.

"Omanyte, water gun!" Eevee yelped as the water gun hit it.

"Eevee use Quick attack to run on the water!" Eevee brock away from the water gun and jumped onto the water, running toured Omanyte.

"What? Omanyte dodge!"

"Too late, hit it Eevee than use Dig!" Eevee slammed into Omanyte than with the added momentum flipped over it and went right into a Dig attack.

'Dig?' Logan lifted an eyebrow.

"Omanyte get in the water!" Lola called sounding a little panicked.

"Oh no you don't, Eevee now." Eevee leaped out of the ground below Omanyte, just as it got to the pool, and sent it flying back to its trainer's side of the field.

"Omanyte is unable to battle, Eevee is the winner."

"Omanyte return." Lola recalled her little blue Pokémon than smiled at Piper. "I wasn't expecting an attack like Dig."

"I'm full of surprises."

'That's for sure.' Logan thought actually paying attention to the battle now. 'It seems that she doesn't stick to one strategy like her little friend dose. She changes her strategy as the situation changes, which will make it harder to think of a battle plan to defeat her.' He narrowed his eyes at her, wondering what her next move was going to be. (Yes he was talking about Tori.)

"Well then I should step up my game. Kabuto you're up!" Lola throws out her last Pokémon. Her Kabuto looked like nothing but a brown shell, Piper couldn't see much of anything else.

Once again she pulled out her poke'dex. 'Kabuto the shellfish Pokémon, this Pokémon lived in ancient times. On rare occasions, it has been discovered as a living fossil. It is also a rock/water Pokémon.'

"Well that wasn't much help; don't let your guard down Eevee." Eevee crouched down to show that it was ready to fight.

"Sand-attack Kabuto."

"Dig Eevee." Effectively dodging the sand-attack.

"In the water Kabuto." This time her Pokémon made it to the water and Eevee was forced to surface without hitting her target. Piper tried to find Kabuto in the water but was having no luck. "Absorb Kabuto!" Kabuto surfaced long enough to hit Eevee with its absorb attack, which looked like it was making Eevee glow green, before diving back into the water. "What are you going to do now that you can't find my Pokémon?"

Piper thought for a minute then smiled. "If I can't see where you are I'll hit you everywhere at once. Eevee swift!"

"Wii." Eevee looked exhausted, but it jumped into the air and let off a powerful swift attack. Kabuto was forced out of the water, landing beside it and tried to shack off the damage from that last attack.

"Absorb." That same green light surrounded Eevee, sucking out its strength and using it to heal Kabuto. "Now use Mud shot."

"Use Quick attack to dodge Eevee!" Eevee really couldn't afford to take any more damage.

"Keep up the Mud shot."

Kabuto kept shooting its Mud shot and Eevee was doing a good job dodging them, but she was getting very tired. She wouldn't be able to hold out much longer. Finally a mud shot hit Eevee as she jumped up to dodge the previous one. After that a borage of Mud shots hit Eevee all at once, covering Eevee in a cloud of dust.

'Well the battles over.' Logan and Lola thought.

"Eevee Dig attack!"

Lola and Logan looked at her shocked than back at the battle field. There was only a whole in the ground where Eevee had once been.

'How?' Logan thought shocked and a little impressed.

"What?" Lola said. "Kabuto!" But it was too late Eevee already came out underneath it and sent it flying. "Mud shot."

"Huh?" Piper watched in amazement as Kabuto launched a Mud shot in mid-air. "Eevee dodge!" But Eevee was to slow from exhaustion and got hit. Eevee was thrown backward by the impact, landing a few feet away from Piper.

"It's over." Lola said smiling.

"Eevee is unab-, huh?" the referee stopped.

"Ee!" Eevee said struggling to get to its feet.

"What?" Logan growled, was the match never going to end?

"Eevee." Piper whispered, at a loss.

"Your Eevee's very strong, but it won't last throw another attack. Kabuto Mud sh-." She didn't get the chance to call out the rest of her attack because Eevee suddenly (In slow motion) fell over on its side, knocked out.

"Eevee is unable to battle the winner is the gym leader Lola and her Kabuto!" the referee announced.

Piper stood there shocked for a moment before going over to pick up Eevee who looked up at her sadly. Piper smiled. "You did a great job Eevee, we'll get them next time." Her voice was full of determination.

"Wii." Eevee said licking her face.

"That's the spirit." Lola said as she came over to them and held out her hand. "That was a truly great battle, I can tell that you've raised your Pokémon well."

"Thanks, and next time I'm not going to lose." Piper said shacking her hand.

"Glad to hear it. Since the gyms not going to be opened tomorrow I expect you'll be training outside the city?" (Each gym has a training center; they just don't show it for every gym.)

"You bet."

"Well I wish you luck and I look forward to our rematch." Lola said and walked off disappearing behind a door with her name on it, most likely her office. (This may be important later not sure at the moment.)

Piper turned toward the front of the gym and noticed Logan was leaning against the wall by the doors, seemly waiting for her. "Logan." She said walking up to him. "Well what did you think of the match?" she asked after he just continued to stare at her.

"I think that you need to start training." He said bored.

The attempted insult went over her head. "Wow thanks for telling me what I already know." She sweat dropped. "No comment on the battle itself?"

He shrugged. "You did better than your friend."

"Thank . . . you?" she raised her brow, not sure if he meant that as a compliment or not.

"Anyway there's a good training spot not too far away from where your battle with that girl took place." He turned and walked out of the gym with her following close behind.

When he started walking in the opposite direction of the Pokémon center she placed a hand on his shoulder to stop him. "Shouldn't we go to the Pokémon center first?"

He looked at her confused. "We? Do you think that just because I watched your battle we're going to start traveling together?"

She scoffed. "I wouldn't want to, but you did offer to show me that training spot." She pointed out.

His eyes widened. 'Not this again!' "I did not! You're not going to use my words against me this time." He started to walk off.

"It sounded like an offer to me than and it does now. More to the point I could use a few pointers." She didn't really, but she would never say no to learning something new.

He looked at her for a few minutes before she gave him her best puppy dog eyes, and he sweat dropped. "Fine." He passed her and started toured the Pokémon center.

'Yes!' she thought following him.

'How did I get myself into this situation? Of all the people to get mixed up with it has to be with the one person that the puppy dog eyes actually work.' On the outside it seemed like nothing was bothering him, but on the inside it was taking all his will power not to face palm himself in frustration. He looked over to the girl . . . Piper he thought it was, she was happily walking beside him petting her Eevee. 'This could be a good thing, maybe I can find out her main battle strategy by helping her train because I have no doubt that we will be seeing a lot of each other.'

The sun was setting behind them; there would be no training today, but tomorrow is another chapter.

Sorry I'm cutting off here but I didn't want to make the chapter to long and seeing as classes are about to start back up I may not have the time to update a lot. Like I said in the last chapter please review, and feel free to send ideas or comments about what you would like to see in later chapters. =^_^=

Please let me know what you think about this chapter, namely if it was any better then that last one.