Oooooh! Shiny

Part 17: Gary actually wins his first badge on the first try

-Gare-Bear-

"You can do this Gary." Garry muttered as he stalked towards the gym, plan firmly in place for dealing with Erika. Getting to the gym and ignoring the weird foot shaped dents in the door, Gary walked inside. "I'm Gary Oak, and I'm here for a gym battle." He held his head high, waiting for the women to gasp in awe of his magnificence.

"Whatever." An aide rolled their eyes and led him to a large battle room full of plants.

"She probably just doesn't like men." Gary deduced with his peerless and calculating mine...translate lied to himself to ease his poor bruised ego.

"Yo, Erika." The highly uncouth Kimono girl wearing a food stained uniform shouted as they entered the battle room where the gym leader and her refined Kimono girls were waiting.

"Gary Oak, I have heard of you." Erika stared at him, confidence in her face as she pulled out a Pokéball. "Are you prepared?"

"Bring it!" Gary let out his battle cry and sent out a Flareon as Erika sent out a gloom.

"Vine whip." Erika called out lazily.

"Set the field on fire!" Gary called to the fire type eeveelution which was immune to being hurt by fire.

"What?!" Erika yelled as her grassy field was set ablaze and quickly knocked out her gloom.

"Gym leader Erika, send out your next Pokémon." The ref called.

"But the field's on fire!" the gym leader protested hotly.

"League rules do not allow for that to be a deterrent." The ref responded coolly as Gary remember seeing someone in the Indigo Conference the year before have to forfeit when they only had a fire type which couldn't swim, and the ice field had melted to water.

"But...but...!" Erika protested as the field continued to burn.

"Gym leader Erika has refused to send out her next Pokémon, by league rules the Gym forfeits, and the visiting trainer wins the badge." The ref raises his flag as Gary cheered, a gym battle finally going how it was supposed to.