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[Spikemuth: Galar Region]
"What in the world is going on?!"questions Lincoln, who notices that the city that would lead him to his seventh gym badge was locked from the outside world.
"What is going on?!"shouted a gym challenger.
"I can't get in!"shouting another.
"Now am I supposed to earn my next gym badge like this."shouted a female challenger.
"There must be a way to get into the city."said Lincoln to himself, knowing that there must be more than one way to get into the city.
So far, that didn't appear to be the case as no matter where he looked they're only seem to be one main entrance into the city, and that was the entrance that was currently blocked off by a huge metal door. So the young Pokemon trainer began looking around, trying to find something, anything that would help him get into the City, allowing him to face the Spikemuth gym leader for his seventh gym battle.
"Lincoln, over here."whispered someone close to Lincoln, causing the young Pokemon trainer the back away a little before he saw who it was.
"Marnie?!"said Lincoln with shock, as he was not expecting Marnie of all people to appear before him.
"Shush! Or they will hear you!"said Marnie while pressing her finger on Lincoln's lips, making Lincoln blush.
'She's so close!' thought Lincoln, trying his best not to say something stupid in front of the girl he had a thing for.
"Team Yell blocked off the city so that no other gym challenges could get in. I don't know what's gotten into them but I'm going to get to the bottom of it. For now, you need to meet up with the leader of Spikemuth Gym, my older brother."said Marnie, before she led Lincoln into the city.
"Wait...The gym leader is your brother!"said Lincoln, causing Marnie so quickly duck him behind a nearby bus just as a patrol of Team Yell arrived.
"Shush! The streets are crawling with members of Team Yell, so you need to keep your voice down if you hope to get to their leader. Piers!"said Marnie, before she looked and saw that the nearby patrol had left
"So you mean to tell me that your brother is both a gym leader and the leader of Tea Yell!"whispered Lincoln as he couldn't believe that the gym leader was also the leader of the troublemakers causing him constant headaches throughout his journey.
"Team Yell is made up of traders personally trained up by my brother, that is why they specialize with dark type Pokemon. They're really just a bunch of idiots who do what Piers says. I'm sure if you defeat him in a gym battle, that would force the lot of them to quiet down and stop harassing other gym challengers."said Matnie, figuring that if the King was defeated, his army would surrender.
"That makes a lot of sense. Without the leader, these guys can't function."said Lincoln, who knew what he had to do.
"Take me to Piers!"said Lincoln, knowing that he had to defeat Marnie's older brother in order to stop Team Yell.
"With pleasure."said Marnie, before she grabbed Lincoln's hand and began taking him through the back alleys of Spikemuth, in order to get him to the gym without Team Yell knowing.
All the while she did not notice that Lincoln was blushing the whole time.
'Her hands are so soft.' thought Lincoln, trying his best not to be nervous as Marnie escorted him through the back alleys of the city.
-=O=-
A few minutes later, Lincoln and Marnie arrived at what appeared to be a makeshift basketball court, where some guy who looked a lot Marnie was giving a concert to members of Team Yell. Lincoln immediately figure it out that this guy must be Piers, based on the way people were shouting his name and his Aura just screamed that he was the guy in charge.
So, gathering up all the courage he had in his body, Lincoln stepped away from Marnie and made his way into the spotlight as fast and as carefully as he could! Before he took a stand a few feet away from Piers!
"Piers! My name is Lincoln Loud! And I have come to challenge you for a gym battle!"shouted Lincoln, getting the attention of all members of Team Yell.
"How did he get in?!"asked a member of Team Yell.
"Yeah! The city is closed off!"shouted another member of Team Yell.
"I let him in!"Marnie declared while coming into the spotlight.
"Marnie, why did you do that?"questions of female member of Team Yell.
"How about you yankers tell me what you were thinking! Closing off the city so that other gym challenges wouldn't have a chance to earn their seven gym badge! I don't want to beat Leon knowing that I cheated my way through."said Marnie, scolding the members of Team Yell.
"But you're the hope for our city."said a member of Team Yell in his defense.
"Yeah! Your the best pokémon trainer Spikemuth. We need you to win in order to make sure our city doesn't disappear."
"And you think that gives you the right to mess with other gym challengers?! I want to win! But I want to win fair and square! Now you will allow Lincoln to challenge my brother or I'm dropping out of the Gym Challenge!"declared Marnie, causing the members of Team Yell to back away as they did not want that.
"So that is why you did all of this."said Lincoln, who had been listening the whole time..
"Look, I get what you guys are coming from, really I do. I love my hometown of Royal Woods like you guys love your hometown of Spikemuth. But you can't use underhanded methods to help out Marnie as she'll feel like she didn't earn her her position in the Gym Challenge fair and square. Piers, do you accept my challenge?"questions Lincoln as he looks at the gym leader.
"Yeah, why not. I'm not going to be the gym leader for much longer anyway."said Piers, before he got off the makeshift stage and approached Lincoln.
"What do you mean?"questions Lincoln.
"I have been thinking of retiring for a while and letting someone better take my place."said Piers, looking over at Marnie.
"I appreciate you wanting me to take over as gym leader. But I believe that will be impossible since I will be the future champion."said Marnie with confidence.
"Heh, I suppose you got a point."said Piers, before looking over at Lincoln."Look kid, despite me being the leader of these idiots I never ordered them to do any of the things they did. I just wanted them to love Spikemuth as much as I did, but I guess they took it a little too far."
"I understand your reasoning for wanting to protect your city. But I still have a gym badge I need to earn."said Lincoln, before Marnie took position as referee.
"I will be acting as the referee for this battle. That way there will be no favoritism."said Marnie, looking over at the members of Team Yell, who she knew what most likely favor their leader if they acted as referees.
"Alright, this will be a four on four gym battle between Lincoln the Challenger and Piers, the Spikemuth gym leader! The battle will be over when one side is unable to continue. Additionally, only the challenger will be allowed to substitute. With the rules out of the way, let the battle begin!"declared Marnie as both trainers ready their first Pokemon.
"Raboot, I choose you!"shouted Lincoln, as he called out the rabbit Pokemon.
"Scrafty, come on out."said Peirs, before throwing a dusk bowl to call out his Pokemon.
Lincoln immediately pull down his Pokedex to identify the Pokemon in front of him.
Pokedex: Scrafty, the hoodlum Pokemon. As halfhearted as this Pokémon's kicks may seem, they pack enough power to shatter Conkeldurr's concrete pillars.
Piers been smile before he pulled out a microphone."Everyone! Cheer for my Pokemon! Let's do it! Scrafty, use your intimidate!"
"Oh no!"said Lincoln, who knew that intimidate was an ability that allowed Pokemon to lower their opponent's attacks stat.
"Now, let's see how you take on my wicked beats and my dark Pokemon with your Pokemon attack as weak as sheets!"sung Piers, as Lincoln realized that he was dealing with a gym leader who specialize with tricks.
Spikemuth didn't have a dynamax spot, so Pokemon can dynamax here. Meaning Piers must be a powerful pokémon trainer in order for him to be considered the second strongest gym leader in all of Galar!
"How am I going to deal with this?"said Lincoln, with a bit of sweat falling down his brow.
Wondering what the heck he was going to do.