"A minor inconvenience at worst," Shiranui answered, thinking to himself that Team Yell were small fry by comparison to the likes of Teams Rocket, Flare, Aqua and Magma, "I can appreciate their desire to be Marnie's cheering section, but I don't appreciate them paving an easy path for Marnie to win. A win without honour is not a true win; and the road to ruin is paved with good intentions."

“Team Yell May cause destruction, we will make sure it is a fair battle.” Jen said as Aura protects Jen in case she made a grunt mad.

Piers turned to the nearby Grunts. "Do not interfere with anyone." The Yell Grunts nodded in confirmation and scurried off. Piers turned back to the heroes: "who wants to go first?"

Shiranui looked over to Liam and Jen, seeing if any of them would volunteer.

“I will go first,” Jen said as she walks onto the battlefield. Grunt comes out and told them this will be a four on four battle and only the challenger can switch out Pokémon. Piers sends out Scrafty, “I choose you Albus.” Jen said as she throws a pokeball and her Galar from Ponyta comes out onto the battlefield. “Dazzle Gleam,” Jen said as Albus cause a blast of light at Scrafty. Scrafty was blinded at the moment, “Fairy Wind.” Jen said as Albus summon a magical wind at Scrafty knocking it out.

Piers sends out Malabar, “Malabar use Payback.” Malabar launches a dark Energy at Albus. Albus takes the hit and the Ponyta took on double damage. “Foul Play.” Piers said as Malabar use Albus power to use against the Ponyta. “Dazzling Gleam,” Jen said as Albus summons a blast at Malabar. It is enough to knock out Malabar as Ponyta is breathing hard.

Piers recall Malabar and sends out Skuntank and Jen switch out Ponyta and switch for Coal the Coalosal. “Earth Quake,” Jen said “Night Slash.” Piers said as the two Pokémon attack each other, Skuntank was stuck with ground on it. “Earth Quake,” Jen said as Coalosal creates another earth quake to knock out the Skuntank.

Piers recall Skuntank for Obstagoon and Jen sends out Aura the Lucario. The two Pokémon got into a fight with fighting type moves and Aura knock out Obstagoon with a powerful punch. Piers recall Obstagoon and walks overs to Jen the dark badge, Jen and Aura walks back to the side line to praise her Pokémon for a awesome battle.

Shiranui went next to face Piers. With a sigh Piers begins, "…So you're finally here, huh? See, I'm…I'm really not a great Gym Leader. Figured that's why nobody was comin' to challenge me. I have good ears, so I overheard the whole thing about the city bein' shut up. When I was alone, it was like my soul was weepin'. This is a simple Gym Stadium. We can't even Dynamax our Pokémon, but well… I still hope you enjoy the battle.

"Now then… I'm the Gym Leader of Spikemuth, Piers, the Dark-type user! You wanna challenge me, even though you know you'll lose? Then this song's for you, foolish Trainer! Get ready for a mosh pit with me and my party! Spikemuth, it's time to rock!" Shiranui was unmoved at Piers' trash talking and formulated a strategy during his monologue.

"This battle will be a four-on-four single battle with no time limit!" a Team Yell grunt announced with a voice that lived up to the Team's name, "Only the challenger can switch Pokémon! Begin!"
Piers opened with his Scrafty and Shiranui responded with Ashika—his Primarina. "Everyone, cheer on my Pokémon! Let's do it, Scrafty! Intimidate the opponent!" Ashika may have felt Scrafty's Intimidate ability, but she knew that it would be for naught. "Scrafty, Fake Out!"
"Ashika, Protect!" As Scrafty was about to slap Ashika with both hands, the Primarina conjured her protection shield and repelled Scrafty's attack.
"Scrafty, give that Primarina some Payback!"
"Ashika, sing Scrafty a Moonblast in soprano!" Using her vocal talent, Ashika fired a Moonblast at Scrafty with a pitch and volume that could shatter wine glasses. Despite his species being tanky, Scrafty couldn't take the exploitation of a double weakness and was knocked out.
"Scrafty is unable to battle! The winner is Primarina!" the Team Yell Grunt arbitrated.

Piers switched out his fallen Scrafty and sent out his Malamar. "Malamar's gonna mess you all up with its Contrary Ability!" he taunted.
"Contrary, eh?" Shiranui comments to himself, "Ashika, return; Mukade, front and centre!" He switches his Primarina out and sends out his Scolipede.
"Begin!" the Team Yell grunt called.
"Malamar, Psycho Cut!"
"Mukade, Megahorn!" Shiranui's Scolipede put her high speed to work and charged at Malamar. As Malamar was winding up to slash at Mukade with a psychic blade, he underestimated Mukade's charging speed and took a big hit from both the Scolipede's horns. As with Scrafty, Malamar couldn't survive the hit and was knocked out.
"Malamar is unable to battle! The winner is Scolipede!" the Team Yell grunt arbitrated.

Piers switched out his Malamar and sent out his Skuntank. Shiranui scanned the mephitid with the Pokédex app. "Skuntank, the Skunk Pokémon. A Poison and Dark type and the evolved form of Stunky. It sprays a vile-smelling fluid from the tip of its tail to attack. It can fire this spray more than 50 metres."
"Mukade, return; Mogura, I choose you!" Shiranui switched out his Scolipede for his Excadrill.
"Begin!" the Team Yell grunt called.
"Everyone's gonna stink, but who cares! Go, Skuntank! Use your Sucker Punch and Toxic!" Piers jeered while making his calls.
"Pop quiz, hotshot!" Shiranui rebutted, "How would Toxic affect a Steel type without the Corrosion ability? Mogura, use Hone Claws and follow with Earthquake!" Skuntank's Sucker Punch failed to work while Mogura's claws increased in sharpness and the answer to Shiranui's question presented itself when Skuntank's noxious spray was ineffective on the Excadrill. Mogura jumped into the air, brought her claws together to form a drill and drilled into the battlefield, starting an earthquake. With the Attack boost, Mogura's Earthquake did enough damage to knock Skuntank out in one hit.
"Skuntank is unable to battle! The winner is Excadrill!" the Team Yell grunt arbitrated.

"I don't do encores, get it? Not songs… Not moves… Not Pokémon!" Piers stated, switching out his Skuntank for his Obstagoon. Shiranui switched out his Excadrill and brought Ashika back out. "Time to meet another member of my crew! Face the proud, high roar of my Obstagoon!"
"Ashika, give Simmons a bar of your Hyper Voice in fortissimo!" Shiranui called, name dropping the lead singer that Obstagoon resembled. Both Ashika and Obstagoon let off loud shouts and Obstagoon's shout cancelled out Ashika's shout through his signature move, Obstruct.
"Here's a number I had saved just for this! You lot in the stands better cheer me on!" Piers announced, resulting in around half of the crowd cheering, "Use Throat Chop!"
"Ashika, Moonblast!" Obstagoon charged at Ashika and gave the Primarina a swift chop to her throat, rendering her mute for a while. Ashika in retaliation blasted Obstagoon with a beam of moonlight at point blank range, resulting in a critical hit and because of it, Obstagoon was defeated with one hit.
"Obstagoon is unable to battle!" the Team Yell grunt arbitrated, "The winner of the match is Shiranui!"

"I'm glad we were able to battle," Piers congratulated, "Seems like my Pokémon feel the same way."
"That's what makes you a great gym leader, even if you think otherwise," Shiranui replied, receiving his Dark Badge, "Much like the trainers who challenge you for a badge, it's the bond with your Pokémon that makes you strong enough to be the penultimate gym leader in the Challenge."

Liam went next. Piers called on a Scrafty. Liam called on Jiraiya the Greninja. Liam called for Double Team. He became a normal-type due to Protean and made many duplicates of himself. Scrafty used Scary Face to give Jiraiya a debuff.
"Hi Jump Kick!" Piers called.
"Jump, Jiraiya!" Liam called. The Greninja changed to a flying-type and leapt into the air, causing Scrafty to miss and crash. Jiriya did am aerial flip and landed Bounce on Scrafty, landing on its back, KO'ing it.

Next, Pierce recalled Scrafty and sent out Skuntank.
"Jiraiya, go underground!" The Greninja did so and avoided the Night Slash. He then leapt out of the ground with an uppercut, dealing a super effective hit. Skuntank retailaited with another Night Slash.
"Use, Water Shuriken!" Liam called. Jiriya launched the stars of water, becoming Water-type in the process. This was a critical hit. Piers called for Toxic. Liam called for Gunk Shot, but was too slow. Jiriya was badly poisoned.
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"U Turn!" Liam called. The Greninja became Bug-type and smacked Skuntank before swapping out for Slushie the Alolan Sandslash.
"Night Slash!"
"Defense Curl!" Slushie rolled up into a spiny ball and cushioned the blow.
"Now, Earthquake!" Slushie leapt into the air and spun in a corckscrew jabbing the ground with his claw, making a great tremor, and KO'ing Skuntank. Malamar took it's place.
"Topsy Turvey" Piers said with a strum of his guitar. Slushie's Def became -1 instead of +1 as Slushie Used X Scissor, dealing considerable damage.
"Malamar, put on your light show" Piers said.
Liam remebering what this did in his research called out to Slushie to close his eyes. Liam blocked his line of sight of Malamar as he fished into his pocket for a Z crystal, plugging it in. He activated the Z Ring and struck the proper poses.
"Alright, since there's no Dynamax here, let's show Piers how they do things in your homeland, Slushie." "From the heart of Po Town, Use Savage Spin-out!" Slushie pointed at Malamar as strong threads issued forth, cacooning Malamar and blocking the lights. Slushie then spun into the caccooned pokemon, causing an explosion. Malamar was KO'd.

He sent out his last Pokemon, Obstegoon.
"Slushie, Brick Break!" Liam called. Slushie charged in to deal the double super effective attack. Piers simply said Counter and reflected the damage back, defeating Slushie. Liam praised Slushie for the attempt and recalled it. Liam sent out Beckham next.
"Beck, use Agility!" The Cinderace upped its speed by dashing along the arena, managing to avoid a Throat Chop.
"Pyro Ball!" Liam called. Beckham used his signature move and scored a direct hit and getting the burn. This time, Throat chop scored a critical hit, leaving Beckham gasping for breath. Obstagoon then used Cross Chop while Beckham was stunned. When he was able to move again, he used Pyro Ball. Obstagoon used Counter and knocked Beckham to low enough that Blaze activated.
"Now, Night Slash before it can use another fire move" Piers ordered.
Liam smirked, "Reversal!" Beckham did a lunging tackle at Onstagoon knocking it to the ground. Beckham then kicked off of it in a backflip, ending with kicking a rock into Obstagoon's head, KO'ing it and giving Liam the badge.

"Holy Miltank!" Shiranui exclaimed, "Piers went harder at you than he did with me."

Jen agree with Shiranui as she scratches Aura’s ears.

"Well, now we have just one more badge in Galar to obtain" Liam said.

"The Dragon-type gym at Hammerlocke," Shiranui added, "Raihan is our final obstacle before we can take on the Galar League.

“We still have not seen everything in Galar just yet,” Jen said excite by the next gym challenge.ït

"We do have to get to Wyndon after we win a badge from Raihan," Shiranui agreed, "And Liam wants to visit the Crown Tundra."

"We still have some time before the tourny, we can delay going to Hammerlocke for a bit," Liam commented. His Rotomphone pinged to inform him of another compeitior in the World Coronation. Liam managed to win using Beckham and Duraladon, moving up to rank 86, and going to the Ultra Class.

It was fine with Jen that they delay going to Hammerlocke.

Liam's Rotomphone chirped. "A World Coronation Battle has been scheduled!"
"That was quick," Liam thought aloud. He checked the message, "Oh, its Bugsy. It's been a hot minute since I've seen him." Liam said.

Shiranui's Rotomphone chirped the same notification. "What do you want to bet that Bugsy's Scyther is a Scizor now?" he asked rhetorically before checking his message, "Now that is a name I haven't heard in ages: Aya of the Fuchsia Gym."

Jen wondering what the message said, she be cheering on Liam and Shiranui.

"That is a throw back," Liam commented. "Looks like we will be taking detours." Liam said. "Let's see, I should probably bring some fire power to my match." Liam was trying to determine who to bring for the fight.

"You should also think about what aerials and minerals you 'ought to bring," Shiranui stated in case Bugsy thought of contingency strategies against Fire-type Pokémon. He had not seen Aya since before he became a trainer and remembered she trained a Venonat back then.