Quartz explored the city, while he was walking down a street looking at the buildings; he bumped into an old man in a lab coat.
"Oops, sorry sir didn't mean to." said Quartz, waiting for his backlash.
"Not a problem, not a problem my boy, say would you happen to know where a person named Lola is?" said the old man.
"No, sorry, I don't live here I'm just here to collect my first badge." said Quartz.
"It's ok my boy its ok, well good luck on your first badge." said the old man as he walked away.
As he walked away Quartz' fear wore off very quickly and he took one last look at the old man as he departed. Quartz could of sworn he'd seen him somewhere before, oh well, didn't matter he thought as he went towards the Onua Mines. The Onua Mines were actually quite spectacular, at least the center where there was a huge whole with bridges and walkways connecting places, there were SO MANY deposits of iron, copper, crystals, some gold, and more. Quartz made his way to the bottom where there was a decently sized sign that said "Gym this way" so Quartz made his way towards that. When he was about to go in he bumped into someone.
"Quartz, imagine seeing you again so early!" said a surprised Lapis.
"Oh hey Lapis, gotten your first gym badge?" asked Quartz even though he already knew the answer.
"Yep, halfway through route three, I remembered I had a disadvantage, so I caught this," she said as she pulled out a pokèball.
Inside the pokèball was a Stickalis, since a Stickalis was part grass type, which meant, of course, Lapis had an advantage over the gym leader from then on.
"I'm going to check out the city a bit more before I go on to the next route, see you, and good luck with your gym battle." she said as she playfully bumped him on the shoulder and walked away.
Quartz walked into the room to be revealed to a very well done battle arena, with a greyish black color and holes in the arena, symbolizing the Onua Mines, impressed he walked in and a man jumped down.
"Hello there young man, I'm Earthryn, one of Pohatu City's gym leaders!" said Earthryn.
Earthryn had a big beard, had blue overalls with a grey miners uniform. Quartz readied himself, knowing even though he had an advantage against him; Earthryn probably had an advanced strategy to counter his weaknesses, since he was a gym leader of course.
"Now I trust I don't have to tell you I specialize in ground types?" asked Earthryn.
"Of course not sir." said Quartz with his "ready" face on.
"Then let's get started! Go Titua!" said Earthryn.
A Titua popped out of a pokèball, ready for a fight.
"Alright then, let's go Magikan." said Quartz as he threw his pokèball.
"Titua use dig!" said Earthryn.
Earthryn's Titua tunneled underground at a fast rate for a turtle and readied to unleash his dig power, Quartz knew what to do, he had a simple strategy for dodging dig with Magikan, if it were Dratinsplash, he had a strategy for that to, before he came to the Onua Mines he had taken the time to teach Dratinsplash his incredible acrobatics skills, for a new member to the team he had certainly learned fast.
"Wait for it Magikan, wait for It." said Quartz to Magikan, waiting for the attack to commence.
He noticed a rumbling in the ground and the ground rising slowly under Magikan.
"Now Magikan, teleport!" yelled Quartz.
Magikan teleported to the other end of the gym arena just as Titua busted out of the ground.
"Now, psy-punch!" said Quartz.
Magikan used a move exclusive move to his kind, psy-punch, it hit Titua for a good amount of damage since he flinched once it hit.
"Now, a few more times!" said Quartz.
"Dang it, he flinched and now that Magikan is just- wow I'm an idiot! Titua hide inside your shell!" yelled Earthryn.
Earthryn's Titua hid inside its shell as Quartz' Magikan psy-punched it five times."
"Dang, oh well, Magikan," started Quartz.
"Oh no you don't, shell shock!" yelled Earthryn.
Earthryn's Titua stayed inside its shell and started on Magikan.
"Teleport Magikan," said Quartz.
Magikan teleported and Earthryn's Titua missed and smashed into the wall, dealing damage to it.
"Dang it you're a good trainer you are, but I'm still going to beat cha!" said Earthryn.
"Sorry but I don't think so, confuse ray Magikan!" said Quartz
Magikan issued a swirly wave at Titua, confusing him.
"Titua, try a shell shock anyway!" said Earthryn.
Earthryn's Titua again got smashed into the wall, making it faint.
"Dang, well you did a good job bud, alright last one, go Drillzin!" yelled Earthryn as he threw his last pokémon into the battlefield.
Drillzin was a pokémon with a groundhog pokémon with a drill for a nose, it was a strong ground type, and a good choice since there weren't that many in Gabbro.
"Alright then, let's earn our first gym badge Dratinsplash!" yelled Quartz as he threw out his other pokémon. Dratinsplash popped out, eager to fight.
"Alright then, psychic drill Drillzin." said Earthryn.
Drillzin pushed its drill into the ground and small boulders rose out of the ground and hurled them self at Dratinsplash.
"Dodge them our way Dratinsplash." said Quartz.
This move would have been dangerous if it was another trainer in Quartz' shoes, but since this was the "greatest acrobatic in Kopaka Town" he could dodge almost anything. Dratinsplash dodged things "their way, he ran up the wall at a VERY fast rate and dodged the first, jumped on top of the second one, rolled under the third one after he jumped off of the second one, and then just regularly side stepped the fourth.
"Alright then, water gun." said Quartz.
Dratinsplash shot a strong water gun at Drillzin, the effect was almost immediate, and Drillzin fell fainted immediately because of the water type move.
"Well, well, well, good job young man, that was quite the battle, and I must say nice acrobatics with your pokémon. Here's your badge, the Crystal Badge, nice meeting you, to be honest could I have your number so I might be able to learn some of those fancy acrobatics?" asked Earthryn.
"Sure, I'd be happy to!" said Quartz
So they registered their numbers and Quartz slowly walked out of the Onua Mines felling VERY satisfied.