Weathering The Storm... (A Pokemon OC Story)

Chapter 16: A Battle for Petalburg Gym!

The day outside was peaceful, as Harry walked out of the Pokemon Centre, ready for his battle at the Petalburg Gym. He breathed the fresh air around, the wind whipping against his face as he walked towards the gym. He felt some rumblings in the ground as he came closer to the building, but took no notice of them.

"It's probably just some building work.", he thought as he got closer to the building. He pushed the double doors open but found that no one was even standing at reception. He was unsure of what to do but figured the gym leader would just be inside waiting. He walked over to the left side, pushing open the door and saying,

"Hey, I'm here for my gy-"

Then, glass poured from the door that he was peaking out of, as a piece of the floor skidded across the reception. He looked again into the room and found a drill in the middle of the room. Ellie was stood on alert, with Ralts and Mudkip by her side ready to battle, while Lucas and the gym leader looked more shocked than anything. But, a symbol on the drill stood out to Harry. A large S.

"Team Storm." he whispered under his breath as he ran into the room, saying to Lucas,

"Need a hand?"

"Yeah. Just get ready for any attacks coming."

"And, you'll do the same?"

"My Pokemon are exhausted from the gym battle, but we'll try."

Lucas and Harry smiled and stood side by side, waiting for the drill to spiral down. Seijo quickly whipped out a Pokeball from his pocket, throwing it into the air, and a strange Pokemon popped out. Lucas would've scanned it, had the drill not unscrewed as soon as the curious Pokemon was released. One man stepped out, with two grunts standing behind. Lucas and Ellie both recognized the woman sitting at the back, the same one who had captured every Zorua on Route 101. However, only Ellie recognized the man standing at the front. The man took a look around, finding Ellie and smiling. He turned to his grunts, whispering something in their ears, and the grunts then jumped off the drill and into the backroom. Seijo quickly followed after the grunts, and the man was left alone with Ellie, Lucas and Harry.

Mudkip tensed up as the man continued looking on at the trainers, and fired off a Water Pulse without the command of its trainer. The man released his Pokemon in front of him, a tall Zangoose blocking the attack like it was nothing. Mudkip went to attack again, but Ellie stopped it and said,

"We don't know what he has planned. We'll need your energy for later."

Mudkip calmed down, still on alert for any sudden movements, as Ellie shouted to the man,

"So, what are you here for? Going to get more Pokemon to abuse?"

The man laughed maniacally, and shouted back,

"No, I wasn't planning on doing much of anything, just planning to have my grunts do the work for me. I especially was not planning on fighting some brat who stole my Pokemon."

"Ellie, what's he talking about?", Lucas asked, turning to a tensed up Ellie. Ellie turned a straight face and said,

"It doesn't matter. Just get ready to fight."

"Alright, but I wanna talk about whatever's happening later."

Lucas looked to Torchic in his arms and asked,

"Do you have enough energy to battle?"

Torchic nodded frantically, not about to let what happened in the forest happen again, and bounced in front of the drill, ready to battle despite its injuries. Zorua's Pokeball then started rattling, and the Dark-type popped out. It took one look at the symbol on the drill. and was hungry for battle against whatever thieves came in its way. Harry stood aside Lucas, both Treecko and Poochyena standing by his side, and all ready to take down this admin. The admin seemingly wasn't scared though, and said,