Gym battle and Team Rocket

As expected the gym was open and Flint was waiting for him.

"I am here to challenge the Gym."

"I accept your challenge. One Pokémon, last standing wins the match."

"Come out." Flint took out his Pokémon.

A Golem dropped with a thud sound.

Vidal smiled. This Golem was clearly different from the geodude form before.

"Let's go Starmie."

"If you are thinking of wining just because of type advantage than you better be careful."

"I know."

'Let's check the water moves first,' Vidal thought and said, "Use water gun and keep your focus."

Flint shook his head, "Golem use dig."

The heavy and big Golem suddenly disappeared underground. There was no sound and movement.

"Starmie, you know what to do. Don't get too excited," the battle spirit in Starmie seems to be swirling.

"Golem, earthquake."

It was simple command and the ground shaking and Golem appeared directly below Starmie.

This could easily end the battle if the Starmie was normally trained but at this time Flint eyes condensed.

Starmie was running around the ground with a graceful and easy movement. And most importantly it was very fast.

"Your Starmie is good. Golem come out and show him your mega punch," Flint shouted.

The Golem appeared directly below the Starmie but it was no problem.

With the speed of Starmie, the punch was easily dodged but last moment the round body of Golem made an unusual turn and….

Zi…Zi…Zi…

Bang!

A punch connected to Starmie and sent it flying out off the arena.

"A thunder punch," Vidal was speechless.

'A TM Move but…' a thought appeared in Vidal mind.

"Looks like we also have type advantage move," Flint smiled.

He ran towards Starmie, "Buddy, are you good?"

"HIyah!" Starmie stood up with some sound and ready to battle again, one move wasn't enough to defeat Starmie, but there was still a scratch on the gem of the Starmie.

Looking at the fighting spirit of Starmie, Vidal didn't stop it.

"Looks like we need to go all out then," Vidal hadn't thought he would be pushed to this extent.

Flint was many times better than Brock.

"Starmie rapid spin and try to get a good angle and full on Hydro pump."

Starmie started the attack beautifully with rapid spin getting high in the air and a vortex started to form.

Swaaaaa!

The vortex has the diameter of around 5 feet which was very big about double the size of Stamie and the power in it is still being concentrated.

"Stop! I accept defeat." Flint said with a dark face.

Flint would have never thought he will concede defeat in such way. The hydro pump not only will injure Pokémon, the arena will also most likely to be destroyed.

Vidal looked at the vortex in shock, and finally came out to reality hearing Flint voice and immediately called Starmie back.

After taking a long breath, "You won. This is the first time seeing a Starmie with such strength." Flint handed a badge and looked at him again.

"Your Starmie is strong enough to win Indigo League easily. And world tournament, it isn't far from your reach."

'Seriously, Indigo league,' this word made Vidal even more excited, and also gained a bit estimation of Starmie power.

"Why aren't you using Golem in other gym battles?"

"It depends on how many badges a trainer has got. Only with a trainer with seven badges, I would battle using Golem," Flint said simply.

Vidal nodded; if a beginner trainer were to fight the Golem, the result can be disastrous. Even he was afraid to fight the Golem in close combat.

"That thunder punch…"

"No, it isn't learned through TM. The hidden attribute of Golem is electric. It took quite a long time to learn and there is still space to increase the power output."

As expected, TM moves aren't common in Kanto. This also increases his expectation for Starmie to learn some new moves related to hidden attributes.

After saying his goodbye to Flint, Vidal took Starmie to Pokecenter.

"You are Pokemon trainer Vidal right," Nurse Joy asked him handing the Pokeball of Starmie.

"Yes, I am."

"If you don't have any problem, can you help me?"

"You can stay in the Pokecenter tonight. The task is for tomorrow morning."

"Thank you. And if I can, I will certainly help you."

…

"These are the bags; you need to deliver them to the Viridian forest," Nurse Joy handed him two bags full of berries.

A group of researchers are in Viridian forest, during their search they found a lot of injured Pokemon, so a bag full of Oran berries were to be delivered there as soon as possible.

Taking his bike he traced back his path to the Viridian forest, it was quite fast when you travel straight without any disturbance.

And who would have thought the researcher was Professor Oak.

"Yo, Professor Oak. How are you doing?"

"Vidal, you are still here. Ash has already won his second badge some days ago. Looks like Pokemon trainer is not the path for you," Professor Oak said.

"You may be right Professor, catching all these Pokemon in the forest; I think I should return home and do some other things."

"Everyone meet Vidal, someday he is going to be a Pokemon Master. I can bet on it," Professor Oak was faster in changing topic than he had seen any other person.

"Professor here, all the Oran berries are in there bags."

"That's good." Other researchers in the team of Professor Oak took the bag and started to feed the injured Pokemon.

"You are just in time."

Vidal also gave a helping hand to feed the wild pokemon.

But at this moment a huge shadow loomed over the researcher team.

Looking up a big cat-shaped balloon appeared.

"Team Rocket," Vidal eyes sparkled.

With their signatures line Jessie and James made their entry.

Throwing the net, all of the pokemon on the ground were caught.

There was no time to be late.

"Starmie hydro pump, no wait. Use water gun."

The balloon popped and the team rocket blasted off again.

Vidal took the bike and followed the trajectory of Jessie and James.

…

"Jessie, I am hungry."

"Shut up. All the food was on the balloon. We are unlucky to come across another puny brat."

"That brat seems to be coming here," Meowth pointed towards Vidal.

"Ekans, Koffing" They both called their pokemon out.

"Jessie, James and Meowth right, I just want to talk to you," Vidal said.

"Ekans attack."

But the Team Rocket wasn't ready to listen to them.

"Starmie, Hydro pump but hit that tree on the side."

Bang!

An enormous tree bottom was decimated and it fell down with a loud thud.

James and Jessie both fell to their knees trembling, 'if it would have hit them.' And Ekan, koffing and Meowth were hiding behind them.

Returning Starmie to Pokeball, "I just want to talk."

Vidal was sitting opposite of Jessie, James and Meowth.

"I am your big fan," Vidal said scratching his head.

James and Jessie looked at each other with a funny face, "Is that you way of saying hello." James pointed at the fallen tree.

"I was just a bit excited."

"Just get to the point. We are very busy person." Jessie said.

"You must have already met a kid with a Pikachu, followed by two other."

"Those brats, we have met them a couple of time." Meowth said.

"Yes that brat with Pikachu is my younger brother."

The three of them turned silent.

"We are sorry. We won't trouble him again," James broke the silent.

Vidal shook his head, "I want you guys to trouble him as much as you can, but just don't go overboard." Vidal smiled.

"Are you really his brother?" the three of them said in unison.

"Yes. And you know coming here in that thing cost a lot of energy," Vidal pointed to his bike with a smile in his face and continued, "I know you guys are underpaid but still the loss of my energy…" Vidal rubbed his hand.

…

"This is unfair. Let's call the Police." Jessie screamed.

"What are you going to tell them? Our fan robbed us." James said with tears in his eyes and growling stomach.