As the trainer and his luxray walked away, Erin and his pokemon were left speechless, they were obviously weaker than this 'shadow' character. Looking down to the nugget he had won beating easily, snatching up the gold and strutting away before the man could speak at all, he was sure that there wasn't more to it anyway. Going back to beating off opponents, Erin was surprised by how well mankey took off with the matches, rattata was doing well but he needed to attack stronger, he wasn't taking to much damage but he didn't have much he could take and before long he was switched out with machop. The two fighting type demolished the opponents but at the end he was attacked by a tauros and had to go to the pokecenter to be healed before going back a final time to train again. After healing his pokemon again Erin began for the gym before hearing a crash from a house and seeing a man in a black suit and a large red R printed on the front. Hearing someone yell "stop that man" erin had machop use seismic toss and followed with a tackle from mankey so that he would be knocked out. "thank you he was trying to take my dig tm my diglett can finally... wait he already knows it? well in that case you can keep it here" said the larger man before giving the disc to erin. Great now if only he could get a machine for it. Running to see if any of his friends wanted the move Erin let out a smile, he hadn't smiled in a while he was so busy being a trainer he forgot to enjoy it.