_{Collab between AbysmalDemon & Heckno12}

Alex's smirk only widened as the opposing trainer accepted his challenge. "Nice to meet you Rheese, but just to let you know... I'm not going to take it easy on you. I'm ready when you are." The Beldum floated to the side of its trainer, glaring at the opposing wooper, hoping to intimidate it, if only it had that ability, but it looked like it was working anyway. But the Beldum soon realized the Wooper's look wasn't at fear, but of pure stupidity, like it was a bit... Slow. Alex put a reassuring hand on Beldum's head, who was disappointed that his attempt at intimidation failed.

"Well, to be honest we don't really know how to battle seriously just yet, but maybe we'll figure it out as we go." Rheese responded with a shrug while Wooper bounced around excitedly. It seemed to be much more excited about this battle than he was. "That's right Wooper, be prepared for anything." Wooper looked up at his trainer and nodded, looking slightly serious for just a flash before returning to his usual goofy grin.

"Alright Beldum, we got this. Remember what I taught you about your surroundings." The Beldum gave a slight not, and turned for a second to look at a nearby tree. "Are you ready, Rheese?"

"About as ready as we can be here." Rheese said with a slight waver. It was obvious that Alex had actually trained his Pokemon. Rheese scratched the back of his head nervously. "Honestly though, are you sure you can't go just a little easy on us?"

"We'll see..." Alex said, starting to feel slightly bad for his opponent. He just brushed it off and continued talking. "Alright then, I'll let you have the first move." Alex said with a nod towards Rheese. He wanted Alex to go easy on him, he will... For now.

"Alright, well Wooper. Show him what you do to me on a regular basis!" Rheese shouted at his Pokemon. Wooper quickly turned towards him and prepared a water gun. "Do it to him, not me." Rheese commanded. Wooper tilted his head a bit, but turned back to the opponent. The jet of water was much more than Wooper would have usually used on Rheese, clearly Wooper had figured out that this was actually a battle and not some game.

Beldum closed its eye and took the water gun. It was more powerful than he had seen it used on its trainer, so it was taken aback by the sudden surge of power. Even Alex raised a brow at the woopers sudden will to fight, and not goof around. "It's alright buddy! Show him what you got with iron head!" The Pokémon's head turned a brilliant shining silver as it used its leg to spin and propel himself square into the woopers stomach, sending it flying back onto the stairs.

Wooper took the iron head pretty hard, but quickly recovered and, while Wooper was still in the air Rheese saw an opportunity. "Wooper, propel yourself back over there with a watergun!" The blue Pokemon fired a watergun directly into the ground throwing him back towards Beldum. Once Wooper was above Beldum, he spun around and slammed his opponent into the ground with all of his might...but not to much effect. "Right...steel type." Rheese said, slightly annoyed with himself.

Beldum was surprised by the sudden quick move by the Wooper, but he took little damage and was ready to pack another punch. "Beldum now! What we were practicing at home!" Beldum backed by, his claws planted in the tree funk be sorted nearby earlier. In a split second, purple rings began forming around Beldum's forhead and he pushed off against the tree, the force of the propulsion and the attack rocketed the Pokémon towards the confused Wooper who probably took more damage from the body slam than Beldum did. Beldum felt his forhead connect with Wooper once again, this time with the opposing Pokémon's skull. In a flash of purple light and a gasp from spectators Wooper emerged from a pile of dust at least 15 feet away from where Beldum hit it, barely hanging on, but it still had that glint in its eye, the same way it did when it preformed an unusually powerful water gun. Alex noticed it too. "Beldum, get out of there!"

"Wooper! Are you sure you can keep going?" Rheese called out to his Pokemon. The worry in his voice was clear, but Wooper just shakily nodded in response. "It's no good pal, we're not ready for this kind of thing just yet." Rheese disagreed calmly not wanting Wooper to finish the clearly losing battle. He brought out his Pokeball and tried to return Wooper to it. Wooper dodged the beam and fired a full force water gun directly at the Beldum. "Wooper don't!" Rheese shouted slightly too late. This new side of his Pokemon confused and worried him greatly, the stalwart determination Wooper was showing was foolish, especially in a purely friendly battle.

From what Alex saw, the water gun Wooper fired off looked like a hydro pump, sending Beldum back with such great force it was smashed into the tree it just propelled itself off of and fell to the ground. It got back up, standing on its one foot. It slowly turned it's head towards its trainer, scowling. "Beldum don't! That wasn't meant to happen! It's a friendly battle!" But it was too late. Beldum rocketed itself forward once more its head turning the bright silver it did before. Alex could only stare helpless and wide eyed as he watched his own Beldum's head connect with the opponents, sending it crashing trough the glass doors of the lab. Alex ran towards the Wooper, simultaneously returning Beldum to its Pokéball.

The professor looked up from his desk shocked. "What the..." but as the professor tried run to aid he tripped over a stack of papers. Alex sat next to the fainted Wooper, feeding it the only revive his mother gave him before his journey, and healing it up with one of his potions. "Oh my Arceus! I'm so, so sorry. I don't know what got into him."

"Wooper!" Rheese shouted running to his Pokemon's side. Between the revive and the potion that Alex had given him, Wooper was in decent condition, but he looked up at Rheese with eyes that one could only call upset. Seeing that Wooper was at least alright in a physical sense, he patted him on the head and looked at Alex. "This was all my fault...Wooper lost control first, I guess Beldum must have just been responding in kind. I guess Bonsai was right..if we're going to be battling gyms and other trainers on a regular basis, we'll actually have to train." Despite his calm tone, Rheese was clearly worried about whatever had gone on with Wooper.

"Wooper, Return." Rheese said in a low tone while letting the now quiet Pokemon into his Pokeball.

"No don't blame it on your Pokémon. Beldum knows better." A Wigglytuff with a Pokéball hat came up to the shattered door and used mirror coat as a temporary fix. Alex stood up from his place near the lab. "Um... I'm going to the Pokémon center down the road. Apparently they have new machines that heal Pokémon instantly. Your welcome to come with me. If you want." Alex still felt terrible about what Beldum did, and he didn't know what to do as an apology.