Do You Mind?

Chapter 3 Caught up in flames

After leaving the stadium with my brain it was time to go meet Chairman Rose at the Seafood restaurant. While walking there I noticed Sonia hanging around. She seemed to have also been invited to be with Rose as she was shocked to see me there too. As we took our seats with the exception of Rose's partner Rose talks to Sonia about her research. The process seems to be going well according to her but I was busy thinking about my words. After we ate and had to leave Rose realized that he did not talk to me at all as he had to get back to work. To be honest I dodged a huge bullet as he may have tried to figure out some weaknesses of mine especially to help Bede because of endorsements. Also to include the fact that I am not a talker which could make things a little awkward for the both of us

Anyways after the talk happened I went into the cave to adventure off to the next gym. While looking for some psychics it took a long time to catch one around. However, there was only one psychic around known as Bede. Of course he still arrogantly claims I should get out of his way as he still believes that he is superior despite this, he challenged me for a rematch to which I accept.

Bede leads off with Solosis again which like usual I start with his Solosis just as I send out Chun-Li. Chun-Li continued their usual strategy of slowing the enemy where Solosis tried to deal blows to Chun-Li which admittedly it did a good job on. After a few hits though, Chun-Li took care of the cell. Bede proceeds to send out Gothita to which I respond by sending out Hearth. As I remembered with the first battle his Gothita tends to get a bit competitive so I remembered to not lower its speed as it's clearly gotten stronger. Hearth then proceeds to wipe the floor with the goth with his air cutting skills. After the brush off from Gothita it was time for him to send out his Ponyta. This was actually my trap as I sent out Jessie to trap him from any form of movement. As I remembered psychics tend to be powerful specially but frail offensively knowing this information I can constantly counter him with magic coats which is what I did. Many attacks from the Ponyta later Jessie finally had one last reflect to finish the horse off. Bede finally reveals the Hattena which made me play the long game again which I did not mind. Hattena probably figured me out and used psychic attacks on me knowing that I resisted them despite this Hattena was still easy to counter which did not make Bede happy. After I defeated him with my intelligent mind he stormed off claiming he was still going easy on me. I almost felt sorry for him after he got demolished.

As I went through the cave two members of Team Yell were in my way. They were talking to me as if I was in the gym challenge. Then Hop came and interrupted the entire conversation which honestly was a good idea as they immediately wanted to battle me in most likely a two vs. one.

Team Yell had sent out their gang where Chun-Li and Wooloo had to take care. Hop was probably sick of me almost killing his team but I don't care lowering speed helps and it's funny. After Chun-Li was clearly losing health Jessie came and we had Hop do most of the work minus a few counters. After that scenario we meet more members disrupting Kabu's work by accident. They apologized and cheered from a distance. Maybe they weren't too bad after all? As we went towards Kabu and his Carkol we were discussing how we were waiting to face him and he went home as Hop went to the Budew Inn.

After leaving the cave I went to the Motostoke Outskirts where I met a Hattena that I named Marisa. She was my answer to bugs and the dark. Unfortunately no answers for the ghosts that haunt my dreams yet but maybe we will get there. After working with Marisa to become as strong as the other I was ready for some shut eye. At the inn I met Marnie who wanted to fight me to prove her worth which I decided to agree on.

She starts with her Croagunk which I responded with Chun-Li. Now you would expect me to start by the spin to win right? Funny cause I had Chun-Li use psybeam to kill the Croagunk but not before it sucker punched Chun-Li. Marnie then brings up Scraggy where I respond with Marisa. Scraggy was dealing hefty blows with it's headbutts but Marisa's voice helped remedy the pain before anything fatal happened. Marnie then tries to finish me off with Morpeko as I bring Jessie. Morpeko lands a nice bite to Jessie. Unfortunately for Morpeko, that was planned as Jessie counters it, blasting off Morpeko. Strange normally it would be the other way around.

Marnie thanks me for helping her see where she is at so far despite the demolishing I caused. After that I just went straight to my room to finish the day.

In my room I brought up all my psychics and had them interact, maybe form a plan to fight the next battle. As I was getting ready to shower the lights went out but specifically for me as I called Hop to see if he was going through the same thing. Turns out it was only for me. Strangely enough I also saw ghosts talking about how I am next. Is this real? This isn't even like your ghost type Pokemon such as Dusclops or Gengar this is about people haunting me. They claim that if I continue down my path I will die a slow painful death. As bugs crawl up on me it made me feel like this was a threat. "Three common fears." I said as I was realizing what was happening. Is this reality or am I just being taunted again. The blood trick did not work. What makes you think this will? After the lights went back on and everything had disappeared I went back to take a shower then finally went back to bed.

When I woke back up it was time to take on Kabu, the fire type gym leader. As I went out to the world, the stadium seemed prepared for me to beat the leader. Prepared everybody and got the tactics up ready, march.

The gym challenge was a catching contest. Which made me feel like I already failed until I realized defeating them gave me points. With this knowledge I used Chun-Li and Hearth to defeat every Pokemon I can which helped me win the competition by three points. Now we can finally show Kabu what's what.

As I walked through the stadium I witnessed that he was next to me which made me confused as to why? But anyways he got ready for combat as did I. Readying my team nothing with have him outdo my brain power, not even the hottest flames.

He starts off with his Ninetails as I bring Chun-Li. Chun-Li's usual slow everything strategy was working until I got burned. So I had to balance healing burns and dealing hits which when I had my opening I finally put a nail in the coffin for Ninetails. He then sends out his Arcanine which I responded with using Twilight. Twilight charmed the Arcanine which gave it a weaker attack as Arcanine figured out my strategy and sped up. Arcanine then proceeds to burn Twilight to make her weaker. Unfortunately the synchronization did not help to burn Arcanine because of the fact that it is a fire type. After making Arcanine as weak as possible Twilight started slinging sand at the Arcanine making it harder to hit me. This is where I bring Chun-Li after healing them. The power of the cosmos works a lot as it made Chun-Li as bulky as possible making them tank lots of hits despite being burned multiple times. After healing one last burn and bulldozing the Arcanine, it faints. Kabu sends out his Centiskorch. He chooses to gigantamax the Centiskorch as I dynamax Chun-Li. Two rock tombs later and it was done. The rocks buried the bug as I finally claimed my fire badge.

As I moved on from the fight my reward was the ability to teach the move will-o-wisp which is a useful tool that I should keep in mind knowing how I was constantly being burned and becoming weaker. Now we beat the starter gyms now it's time to move on to the others.