"Fury Swipes!" Carter said, and Teddiursa launched itself at the enemy Metapod. It hardened, lessening the damage, but Teddiursa didn't let up, repeatedly hitting the Bug-type. It finally fainted, and Teddiursa walked back to Carter. Teddiursa was tired, Carter could tell. They had been training for two hours straight, no breaks.

"Okay, why don't we sit down and have some water?" He asked, sitting on a mossy rock. He unclipped his egg container and set it down, then pulled a couple bottles out of his backpack. "Here ya go." Carter said, unscrewing the lid for his Pokemon. They sat there for a couple minutes, and Carter wondered if they would ever beat Brock. His gym trainers were somewhat powerful, but Brock...he was on a whole different level. Not just strength, either. Brock was a skilled battler.

After a few minutes resting at the rock, Carter stood up. "Okay, Teddiursa. Are you ready?" He asked looking down. Teddiursa was fast asleep, sucking on it's paw. Carter smiled and picked up Teddiursa. "Aww. Guess I've been training you kinda tough today, huh?" He pulled out his Pokeball and returned him, clipping the ball back to his belt. He gathered his bag and egg incubator, and turned towards Pewter.

A few minutes later, Carter in the Pewter City Pokemon Center, a sleeping and fully healed Teddiursa in his ball on his belt. He had just gotten a room in the Center, and decided to see if he could find the others. That is, if they hadn't already left town. He went outside and sat in front of the Center.

Yeah, it's pretty cool isn't it..." Terry said as Arari hypnotized the rattata. "This one doesn't like his pokeball, I think his name's gonna be "Romeo" terry said, gesturing to thee eevee on his head, who was taking in the sights of the forest with awe on its face.

Rosina was starting to get tired of facing off against Geodudes, but she didn't complain. She was confident her Cottonee would be able to take on the gym leaders pokemon.

"Okay Cottonee, quick use energy ball!" she told him. Cottonee formed a green ball before sending it flying at the Geodude. The other pokemon, however dodged it with ease. Afterwards, Brock instructed his pokemon to use harden. Rosina then tried to use energy ball, but again it missed. "Oh no... Dont worry Cottonee. Keep trying to hit it!"

"Cott tonee!" The cysle continued, Cottonee would try to use energy ball, but the Geodude would simply dodge it and use harden. Seeing it was going nowhere, Rosina had decided to try a different approach her next turn. "Geodude, use bide!" Brock told him, his arms crossed and a determined look on his face. "Geo dude!" the pokemon said before crossing its arms and balling up. It had seemed that the pokemon stopped moving, but Rosina wasent familiar with what the move did.

"Okay, Cottonee use grass whistle!" she called out. A soft tune filled the room and Brock along with Rosina both covered their ears. The Geodude fell to the ground looking like an ordinary rock then. "Great, he's asleep! Now Cottonee, use energy ball while you can." she ordered her pokemon. Cottonee had done so, sending out the green ball, but it appeared to not have any effect on the sleeping pokemon. The Geodude simple kept on snoring. Brock as well looked pretty unfazed. After repeating the energy ball about 5 times the Geodude woke up.

What!? That pokemon should have fained three moves ago. Whats going on? she wondered in her head. As if he knew what she was thinking, Broke said "It was harden. My Geodude used it so many times now that its defense is at its max. Dont get me wrong, your energy balls did some serious damage, but in the end, it played out in my favor. Geodude, unleash your bide on that girl's Cottonee!"

The Geodude came flying at Cottonee full speed then and slammed into him, making Cottonee let out a shriek of pain, and before he hit the ground, he had fainted. "What! You made him faint in just one move? How?" she said, feeling worried as she returned him to his pokeball. "That is the effect of the move Bide. It lets your opponent hit the pokemon for a few turns and then unleashed double the damage done. Since your Cottonee put my Geodude to sleep, the effects lasted longer and the energy ball made the power that much greater when he woke up."

Chenching her fists, she took Azul's ball off her belt and tossed it out. "Hang in there Azul!" she said.

"Azurill!" he cried, eager to fight. "Alright, lets finish that pesky Geodude off with a bubble beam!" A fast stream of bubble shot out of her Azurill's mouth and at the Geodude who was too weak to dodge it. The pokemon fainted and Brock took it back, still looking as though he had no care in the world. "Go, Onix." he said tossing out the pokeball. What came out of it was a large snake like pokemon that was made of large stones. Looking with awe for a moment, Rosina took out her pokedex to register it.

"Onix, the rock snake pokemon. As it grows, the stone portions of its body harden to become similar to a diamond, but colored black. It burrows through the ground at a speed of 50 mph while feeding on large boulders. This is what makes its body so solid." the robotic voice said. "Woah." That was all she could say in response. Her tiny little Azul was going to face a monster of a pokemon like that? Rosina almost doubted she could win. Almost.

"Onix, use harden!"

"Dont let him use that move Azul, use bubble beam fast!" she yelled.

"Onix, dodge and use harden!" Brock yelled. His Onix had moved out of the way, dodging by simply moving parts of its body like a snake would, then it used harden. "Good girl, now use rock throw!" Rosina was surprised at how fast this large pokemon was as she told Azul to movwe out of the way. Bouncing on his tail to dodge a few, some smaller ones still hit him painfully, and Rosina swore she felt his pain as well. "Hang in there Azul! Use bubble beam again!" she told him. She had begun to feel disheartened when she saw that the other pokemon just dodged and used another rock throw. Rosina had to come up with something fast or she was going to lose miserably. After a moment she realized....thats it!

"Azul, use attract!" she yelled to the small pokemon. He then started to do what looked like a dance, bouncing on his tail then showing it off. The Onix looked at him for a long moment before it appeared to be smiling. "Onix!" it yelled before lowering its head to look at Azul lovingly. It had worked!

"Onix, What are you doing! Use rock throw on it!" Brock yelled. The Onix had heard him, but instead she had chose to ignore it, immobilized by love. "Ha, i have you right where i want you. Azul, use your strongest bubble beams until you take that Onix out!" she called out. "Azurill!" he pokemon said before continuously barraging the Onix with a flurry of bubbles. After some time the Onix fell back with a loud crash, looking like a long line of boulders. It had fainted. Ecstatic, Rosina jumped high into the air before running to Azul and giving him the biggest hug ever. "Great job Azul. You were amazing."

With a sigh Brock returned his Onix to her pokeball and Rosina ran up to him. "That was the most amazing batte i've ever had, Brock. I see now why your a gym leader." she said to him. He fished into his pocket after giving a smile and pulled out a small shiny object. "Here, this is for you. A Boulder Badge shows your proff of beating me. And take this as well. Its a TM, or technical machine. Use it once to teach your pokemon a move. That one is Bide. If used correctly, it can be a devestatingly powerful attack." he said. Taking the badge and putting it in the container with her Trainer Card, she smiled back at him. "Thank you." she said.

After he gave her a prize money of 1000 pokedollars and bid her good luck, she returned Azul to his ball and skipped out of the gym to the Pokemon Center. Looking up at the sky, she noticed it was dark. She had spent a lot of time in that gym, and wondered how everyone else was doing. She saw that Carter was waiting out in the front of the center and waved to him.

"Carter! Carter! Guess what i just got!" she said happily, running up to him and showing him her first badge. "I couldn't have done it without my pokemon, so i need to heal them. It's late and they need a well deserved good nights sleep." she said, walking into the center and getting her pokemon all patched up. Turning to Carter, she asked "Have you seen Lance or Erin? I dont remember seeing them at the gym." she said, walking towards the room he'd rented that had a few various seperate beds. Taking both pokemon out of their balls, she tucked both of them into one of the beds and almost immediately, they went to sleep. She had gotten a bowl of food from Nurse Joy and set it on the table in the middle of the room for them when they got hungry.

"Want to just wait for Erin and Lance before we catch some shut eye?" she asked her friend.

Carter smiled. Rosina had an amazing amount of excitement on her face. "Wow! You got your badge already!?" He said, happy for her. Maybe there was hope after all.

"I haven't seen either one, but Teddiursa and I have gotten strong! Tomorrow we're going to beat Brock easy!" He smiled, and his confidence shone brightly. "Come on, if we wait at the Pokemon Center, they're bound to show up."

They walked back to the Pokemon Center together, and he got her a room across the hall from him. "Here's your room key." He said, handing it to her.

"Thanks." she said putting the key in her bag, walking outside and taking a seat on the ground outside the pokemon center. Sighing happily, she scratched her head and looked at Carter. "Dude....Brock was no joke. It was like he knew what i was gonna do before i did it. It was an amazing experience. And i bet you and Teddiursa are going to do great!" she said yawning and stretching her legs out. She hoped that Lance and Erin would show up soon. As she looked up at the moon illuminating the sky, her red hair blew gently in the wind and a few leaves flew up before drifting away. Then she had an idea.

"Drift! Thats what i'll name my Cottonee! Its perfect, just like how i met him, he kinda just drifted over. Thats a perfect name...Drift." she said happily.

Lance

Lance walks out the pokemon center with Elekid and mudkip. He had over heard that Rosina beat Brock,''Nice job I plan on facing tomorrow with Elekid and mudkip, we were training in viridian forest since Elekid is at a disadvantage'' Lance and Elekid sits next to Rosina and mudkip sits on his lap, Lance then pets mudkip. Mudkip lets out a yawn.

erin marched into the gym, machop was stronger than ever after taking on what he did, he explained what he was doing before running to brocks territory and demanding a battle and being supplied by a geodude using rock throw machop quickly dodged and hit his with a karate chop he was barely dodging the rocked before one smashed him in the mouth though machop quickly recovered he was displayed a wave of more and more rocks, He wouldn't have been able to dodge them if he didn't have rattata to cheer him on, they had ditched the pokeballs, once they were friends he didn't need them anyway he was sure they wouldn't run away and they deserved the right to if they did. again machop used karate chop but continued with break break, knocking geodude cold.Next was onix, he wasn't sure if size made a difference but his plan to use seismic toss all of a sudden was knocked out instantly, quickly he began wailing on the big boulder serpent but was taken out barely keeping onix up he had been beaten bad, but now machop could not battle, it was up to Rattata and being a normal type he was at a disadvantage. Still he went for double team, working as usual and giving a large fury of quick attacks followed by a tackle before he realized he had managed to beat the onix, to his surprise he had won

As the boy sprinted away, terry turned to Hana with a look of disbelief on his face. "Is this how all civilians act?" He asked rhetorically before turning to some nearby grass and proclaiming "I'm gonna go train here, you go and train if you wish, we can meet up at pewter city later." He said, parting ways with Hana and entering the tall grass, quickly encountering Pokemon, and after beating countless mundane bug pokemon terry had lost his way in the spiralling maze, but as he wandered he saw the entrance to pewter city. Suddenly, something caught his eye. It was a small exposed bit of tail, and he recognized it instantly. His eyes widening, he called Romeo over. A while ago, Romeo had learned quick attack and now terry called upon it. Romeo leaped at the pikachu, and caught it off guard, landing a critical hit. The Pokemon electrocuted Romeo and attempted escape, but terry chased it , whipping a poke all at its head as hard as he could, and dizzy, it fell into the pokeball peacefully, caught. Terry huffed and felt like spitting out his lungs as he walked right past route two and into pewter city. Not seeing Hana, he went into the poke entire, healed up his Pokemon, and got a drink, sitting down and waiting for Hana, adjusting his bow tie.

Carter was dozing, only half-listening to Rosina. After running around with Teddiursa, he was tired. He slumped over on her slightly, and snored quietly. While he was snoozing, Terry had apparently joined them.

He dreamed about going to face Brock, and being totally confident in his skills, until Brock's Pokemon beat Teddiursa mercilessly, attacking over and over until Teddiursa couldn't take it, and hisPokemon, his friend lay there with tears in it's eyes, looking to Carter for help that the boy was unable to give.

He woke with a start, tears in his eyes. He wiped them away before anyone could see. "I'm going to bed..." He said, not making eye contact with anyone. He didn't want them to see his tears, and he hurried away.

The next morning, Carter could barely eat. He told anyone who asked the same thing. "I don't wanna talk about it."

Finally, it was time to face Brock. He went to the gym, hands shaking. He was so unsure of himself. What was he even doing here!? Everyone else had won so far. He couldn't even catch another Pokemon...he pushed the thoughts from his mind and entered the gym.

It was still early, and Brock's gym trainers hadn't shown up yet. Brock sat in a chair, drinking coffee. Carter approached, and the older trainer smiled. "Wait, don't tell me, a battle, right?"

Carter nodded and pulled Teddiursa's Pokeball from his belt.

"Well, it's kind of early, but lately I've been getting quite a few young challengers, so I suppose we can make an exception." He smiled and led Carter to the arena, taking his place at the far end. "Okay, show me what you've got, kid!"

Carter took a deep breath and called out Teddiursa. The small brown bear jumped with excitement, clearly not sharing it's trainer's doubts. Brock sent out Geodude. No surprise there. "Geodude! Use tackle!" The Rock-type launched itself at Teddiursa. "Geo!!"

Carter frowned. "Teddiursa, use Faint Attack!" Teddiursa disappeared, the Geodude passing right through where he had been a moment before. The Rock-type put on the brakes, and Teddiursa appeared behind it, slamming into it. "Now use Fury Swipes!" Carter shouted, not sure if Teddiursa's attack had done anything.

Teddiursa slashed at the Geodude multiple times. Brock shouted. "Harden!" And the Geodude protected itself. "Teddiursa! Lick!" Carter commanded.

Teddiursa attacked the Geodude with it's tongue, a Ghost-type move. It went back into a Fury Swipes then. Brock commanded Geodude to Harden each time. It was no use. Teddiursa's attacks weren't doing any damage. Carter clenched his teeth. "Come on, Teddiursa! We trained for this! Scratch!"

"Geodude! Tackle attack, now!" Brock commanded as Teddiursa ran towards it's opponent. Geodude slammed into Teddiursa, knocking it down. "Another tackle!" The Geodude attacked again and again, Teddiursa was barely able to stand. Finally, Carter had had enough. "Stop! I forfeit!" He shouted, running to Teddiursa laying on the gym floor. He picked his friend up and carried him outside, not saying another word. Tears streamed down his face and fell on Teddiursa's fur. "...Tedd...di-urs..." Teddiursa said, and Carter brought him back to the Pokemon Center. His expression could tell everyone the outcome of the battle as Nurse Joy took Teddiursa to be healed.

Carter took Teddiursa, now healthy, back to his room and they sat on his bed.

As Terry and the others left, Hana once again felt alone. Arari hopped up to her side, rubbing against her legs when it realized her trainer's thoughts. 'Everyone else may leave, but I know for a fact, that Arari's going to always be there for me..' she thought, closing her eyes and smiling to herself. Though, the reunion was short-lived, when Arari once again darted away. "H-HEY! ARARI!" she yelled, chasing after the Egg Pokémon through the forest. 'Jeez, I was having a moment.. However, when she caught sight of the rogue Exeggcute, there was something waddling away awkwardly, yet rapidly, in front of them. "Shroom-shroomish!" it cried.
'It's you, again..!' Hana exclaimed in her head, pulling out a Pokeball. "Arari, use.. Barrage!" Just as she finished the sentence, all six of the Exeggcute shot forward into the air, crashing into the Shroomish. The Shroomish froze and shook violently, spraying yellow spores everywhere. Arari began to stumble and rolled into a tree, paralyzed. But Hana was prepared; Arari slowed it down enough for her to catch up. "Hiyah!" she yelled, launching the Pokeball. She stopped running and rested on her, watching the Pokeball tilt and roll. It moved three times, then clicked. "I.. finally did it.."
Hana arrived at Pewter City, the buildings a beautiful orange-red from the sundown. She looked around, and walked into the building with the red roof, where plenty of trainers congregated. Seeing Terry sitting near a table, she took a seat opposite of him and laid the Pokeball down on the table, triumphantly. "I caught the Shroomish~" she cooed, not making an attempt to hide a smile like she usually does.

Moments after Carter had fallen asleep on her, Rosina had dozed off herself, not waking up until both her Azurill and Cottonee jumped on her squealing happily. "Whaaa!? Oh...you two. Did you sleep well?" she asked. They both smiled and both nuzzled her. Upon standing, both in her arms, she stretched out her legs and saw that Carter had come out of the center looking... off. Rosina said hi but he just waved and asked if she could not come watch him battle Brock. Respecting his wishes, she headed to the pokemart to see what new items she could buy. Still having 5 antidotes and 7 potions, she bought 5 each of Paralyze heals, Ice heals, burn heals, awakenings, and 8 more potions to get 15. Having used up most of her money, she went back outside, remembering what she thought about before.

"Oh! Cottonee, i came up with a good nickname for you. What do you think about the name Drift? Kinda like how you float in the wind." she said.

"Cott tonee!" he said looking happy. Rosina was delighted! "Okay from now on, your Drift and Azurill is Azul. This nickname thing is fun huh?"

Rosina had decided to wait for the others on route three, maybe playing with them in the grass, doing a few warm up battles. She started heading that way when she noticed Carter running back to the Pokemon Center. "Oh! Wonder how he did." she said walking that way. She went inside and saw that he was no where in sight. Walking to his room, she knocked on the door and opened it a crack, peeking in.

"Carter....?" she noticed he looked sad and barged into his room. "Whats wrong Carter?" she asked, Cottonee and Azurill were wondering as well.

"Cott tonee?"

"Rill, rill?"

She sat next to him and petted Teddiursa as Cottonee and Azurill hopped on them, hoping to cheer them up. Rosina figured he probably lost. "You know, you cant win every battle." she said softly.

"Nice job!" Terry congratulated Hana with a grin on his face. "I named my Eevee Romeo, and my Pidgey Gabriel, they both got trained up a bit, and I caught a Pikachu!" He said, waving his new pokemon's pokeball triumphantly.

erin yawned as his 2 Pokemon scurried off of him and he looked over to the teddiursa, he knew something was off he couldn't tell but he wasn't ready to ask, he needed to eat, which he would do after pulling a large piece of bread and chowing down, handing pieces to his pokemon who willingly accepted. After he finished he instantly fell back to sleep, he really could be like a snoarlax. Rattata however did want to help teddiursa and quickly hopped on him smilling and jumping up and down wanting to play around. Machop on the other hand began with a large amount of sit ups and push ups followed by dips and ran in place ready to take on the world it seemed, he thought his trainer was the best around, he was very wrong.

Carter forced a smile. "Yeah, it's fine. We were at a disadvantage, really. But...I feel like I let Teddiursa down as his trainer." He frowned and shook his head. It's fine, really. I just want to get going."

He wouldn't say anything else about it to her, and Teddiursa looked sad, wanting to help his Trainer. Carter stood. "We're going to Mt. Moon." He said to her, returning Teddiursa to his Pokeball and running off. He left the Pokemon Center and headed straight for Route 3, which would lead to the Mt. Moon entrance. He rushed past several trainers there, just wanting one thing. To find his dad.

His dad was a researcher, and was currently working in Mt. Moon. Carter would find him there, definitely.

Rattata and machoped the young boy and his pokemon to a large mountain, rattata had seen it before, a cave was inside and there were moon stones inside, they'd be sure to snag one for erin but right now they needed to understand what carson was doing, had he come here to train? they could have done that anywhere, maybe there were pokemon that were around that could be good on his team, either way they were going to find out and help. Meanwhile Erin rolled over thing about his dream of becoming a pokemon gym leader or on the elite four. He pictured machop as a machoke and rattata as a raticate and them both beating everything that came at them, Pidgey, vilplume, steelix you name it.

((Wait. Is it morning already?))
"Wow.. a Pikachu? I heard they're really hard to find!" Hana said, gazing at his Pokeballs, before looking at her first successful Pokeball in thought. 'My first steps as a real Pokemon trainer.. One day, I can be stronger than everyone else..!' While she looked around, she noticed the air of gloom floated around one of the kids nearby, who ran out of the Pokémon Center and leaving his friend. Tilting her head, she thought out loud. "I wonder what happened to him."

Lance

Lance had went to bed late last night, mudkip had been sleeping on his lap. Lance gets out of bed waking Mudkip as well who hops off too. Elekid was sleeping in the bed as well. ''Wow I am hungry'' Lance grabs his bag and gets some food. He then went to the gym

Erin awoke to a slap in the face from a a almost human like hand, slowly opening his eyes only to another smack he noticed the mankey in front of him that kicked him again causing an out rage from the trainer."hey just who do y-" he said before remembering what he learned about mankey they were tough. As Erin looked around to see his two pokemon missing and 2 pokeballs behind the pigmonkey moving in on him. "hey rosina, help me out here" he said before taking off in a circle, the pokemon running after him almost right behind throwing punches that neared erin's backside each time.

(Dude....Rosina isint anywhere near Erin...)

Rosina stayed sitting on his bed for a moment. Looking at her two pokemon, with a determined expression. "Drift, Azul, we gotta make sure we have Carter and Teddiursa's back no matter what. He said we were partners and he cant take that back now. C'mon, he needs us." she said, returning the two to their pokeballs. She walked back to hand in her key then made her way to route 3.

It took her some time, running into two trainers and making quick work of them before finally reaching the mouth of Mt. Moon. She healed her pokemon in the center there and coming out, she had heard a commotion outside.

"Its a rare pokemon i tell you! Get it for just 1,000,000 pokedollars." an older fellow tried to bribe someone who was clearly not interested. Upon spotting her the man called her over. "Hey girl, i found this egg in Mt. Moon. Some trainer must have dropped it. I'll give it to ya for 1,000,000 pokedollars."

Putting her hands on her hips, she said, "Do i look like i have that kind of money? What pokemon is it?"

"Its rare, i'm telling you. No egg is blood red like this." he said picking it up. Sure enough, it was red, with tiny yellow spots on it. He raised it up with one hand. "This one's gonna get me a fortune!" he said laughing greedily. Rosina glared at the man. "Are you even taking care of that egg, keeping it warm?" she asked. Just then, the man clumsily dropped the egg and Rosina gasped. "Dude! What the heck!?" she said pushing him and picking the egg up. She saw there was a crack running along the left side. Glaring at the old man, she growled at him. "You should be ashamed of yourself. There is a life in here, you greedy scum!" she had never been so mean, but then again, never been so angry as well. "Im gonna go ahead and take this off your slippery hands. Free of charge." she took Azul's pokeball off her belt and tried to look intimdating. "Try and stop me."

The older guy looked mad but said nothing, and with that she held the egg close to her chest and ran into Mt. Moon. She released Azul and Cottonee, knowing she needed both hands to carry the thing. She didnt have a nice pouch like Carter did and she frowned, unsure if she would be able to take care of it any better than the old guy. As she held it, she thought it was oddly warm, borderline hot, as if there were a fire inside.

"Carter!" she called, her voice bouncing off the walls. It was kind of dark and scary, even Azul and Drift seemed nervous.

"Stay close to me guys." she said hugging the egg tighter and sticking to the walls of the maze-like cave. She was afraid of the dark, she was afraid of alot of things, and her pokemon who were nervous as well made it even worse.

"Anyone!? Guyssss! You cant leave an utterly defenseless girl alone in a cave!" she shouted, the sound echoing. This was bad.

Really bad.

erin panted as the mankey glared at him, he had given a side kick to it's face and that just made things worse, had he not been training with machop he waouldn't be able to take on a pokemon, but he was ready, he was ganna catch this little bugger, he knew he had bigger arms so if he just punched or kicked before the pokemon did he could beat it easily, only after trying this a few times the mankey threw him into a tree and began endlessly smacking him in the face, only to be countered and an punch was delivered at the same time with each fighter. Finally Erin managed to kick the pigmonkey off and threw a pokeball which barely managed to catch the beast, with a fearful step erin slowly walked over to the new capture and picked it up "I actually caught you" he sad before falling over and passing out.

Machop and rattata wandered aimlessly before bumping into an azurill which jumped and shot a watergun at him and blasted him back rattata calmed it down and noticed a cottonee and they began to chat before Machop returned to them and muttered machop before looking up to the little girl. "machop chop chop ma" he said asking to hold the egg, rattata gaurding them, wandering in circles around them.