Chapter 8 - First Gym Battle ( part 1)

Next morning Alex quickly got up and headed straight to the gym after eating himself and feeding his Pokemon. He arrived the gym at 9:30 about half an hour early. Arriving there he saw the gates were still closed. So he thought of waiting and think about his strategy today. Though not all will work bit it should be enough to have some failsafe if things went South. Were normal rookie Trainer are confident about their battle he was sceptical. Since he came to the world this is his attitude. Always be cautious who knows what happens next. Only strong have the luxury for relaxation. After all he knew that after some time disaster may come and who k owe if he or any of his family was trapped there. So he always had a sense of crisis in his heart.

Suddenly a loud voice pulled him out of his mushing." Who are you?" After turning towards the voice he saw a Fourteen fifteen year old boy in a green karate suit with the gym symbol embedded in the c_h_e_s_t. Probably a gym trainee. Gyms also recruit some children as their trainee. The league asks the gym leaders to do so that there are ample capable trainers to protect that place. Of course if the gym leaders is too strong he is not bound by this restrictions.

" I am for the gym battle. "

" What a weak punk like you dare to challenge the gym here. Move along kid and go somewhere else there at least you had a chance of victory. Here you will only lose." The trainee tried to intimidate him.

" Even if I lose I lose I will still Battle. "

Along with the trainee there was a girl with similar age to him. Probably he was trying to impress her at his expense.

" Why you? Here I am trying to help you and you are throwing my face. Now let me show you the strength of the gym."pulling out a pokeball, he said.

" You should have already done then." also pulling his own pokeball. "Now now WHAT do we have here. If you want a battle how about we have it in the gym." Marcus suddenly said.

hearing his voice three sets of voice immediately came," Marcus" " Gym leader sir"*2 while the trainee feebly try to say," Sir I was just helping him so he won't cry if he lose.i..i..i wasn't bullyi..." " Stop since it has already come to this let's sold e it with a battle." Marcus first said to his trainee and then ," You don't have a problem having a warm up match before our bout do you Alex"

Alex shrugged his shoulder and said," Sure at least body will warm up " Being ridiculed the trainee was angry but due to Marcus was quiet.

After entering the gym both of them stood at two corners of the battle field while the girl trainee was the referee Marcus became the spectator. The girl started ," This is a one on one Pokemon battle between Archi the trainee of Rock Town gym and Alex of..."

" Floral town"

" of Floral town"

" Then let's the match begin."

" Machop battle stance"

" Metapod go"

" What a metapod are you looking down on me kid" hearing it girl too looked puzzled at Alex

While Marcus thought,' So you want to do that. Humm just as I thought earlier you are very interesting Alex'

Ignoring their gaze Alex said harden your self.

" Machop karate chop"

without command metapod used string shot to dodge by swinging through ceiling.

Metapod now " Spinning tackle"

As we know things when spinning cause a greater damage to things on impact as contrary to normal impact, so Machop was sent flying by the force of harden, tackle and the swing.

Machop though handled his fall and still stood up.

then Archi took a deep breath his eyes were pensive," Use bulk up"

"Metapod continue to harden"

and Machop then rush forward then immediately shouted," Vital throw "

Machop threw him into the air and then jumped and gave two heavy fist impact on it's shell then as he fell, Alex calmly said," Slow your fall." Immediately metapod shot thick string just below and formed a string cushion to lessen the Damage.

All this stimulated him and he shone in bright light. Seeing this Machop stopped. From the cocoon came a Butterfree. Butterfree resembles a vaguely anthropomorphic butterfly with a purple body. Unlike true insects, it only has two body segments and four light blue legs. The upper pair of legs resembles small, three-fingered hands, while the lower pair resembles long, digit-less feet. Butterfree has two black antennae, a light blue snout with two fangs underneath, and large, red compound eyes. Its two pairs of veined wings are white with black accents.

As for why Machop didn't interrupt the evolution was because it was considered sacred by the Pokemon. So taking into account the feeling of Pokemon in all league battle it is asked and ordered not to interrupt it. Of course though in the wild there is no such case.

After evolving Alex commanded, " Whirlwind"

A strong wind blew towards the Machop which threw it in the air and without giving him the chance, " throw him to the ground"

It's eyes flashed blue and through psychic slammed it to the ground hard. A dust cloud rose on impact. After the dust cloud faded, we see Butterfree flying in the air while Machop was fainted.

" Machop has fainted. So this battle Alex and Butterfree won."

"so how do you think it was." Marcus asked Archi."I..I am"

"I had noticed you getting arrogant over the course of the time so I thought it would be good for you if you lose. Although you are one of the best in town there are more trainers out than this town. You should never be competent with your strength. I hope you learned it well."

" Thank you" he bowed his head both to Marcus and Alex.

" So Alex do you want to heal your Butterfree"

" No need I wasn't going to use him anyway.lets get our battle started"

then Marcus nodded to Betty," Now we have a Three on three official gym battle between Challenger Alex of Floral town and Gym leader Marcus. Let the battle begin"

And so the first official gym battle of our hero is about to begin. So stay tuned

to be continued....