Chapter 19

Author's Note:

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As the cloud of smoke slowly vanished, we can see one shadow standing while the other was laying on the ground.

Soon, we saw that beedrill was standing while mankey was on the floor knocked out. Beedrill though was damaged quite a bit but I know that she'll be able to still fight. I didn't want to let her get tired and severely hurt though from consecutive battles so I plan to let her rest for now.

"Gym leader Jean's mankey is unable to battle, and Rem's beedrill is the winner. Now, please get ready yourselves for the next match." The referee said.

"Mankey, return. You did a great job, now let me handle the rest." The old man said as he returns mankey to it's pokeball.

"You did a great job, girl. Now rest for awhile, and let your brother zubat handle the last battle." I said to beedrill after she flew towards me. I returned her to the pokeball since she'll be able to rest there better.

"Zubat, let's do our best, and not disappoint beedrill." I continued, and zubat energetically flew to the stage.

"I can see you have a great bond with your pokemon. That's a great quality of you to see, and let's see how you fare with my next pokemon though." The old man said, and threw a pokeball.

An hitmonlee came out of it, and I know for a fact that this kind of pokemon are great heavy hitters. They also have a high base stat compared to zubats. This will be another hard fight but for the old man only though. I think it's an easy win with my zubat's type advantage.

I first checked it's stats, and found that it has a 4 star potential. It also has the abilities limber, and reckless. Limber makes a pokemon be protected by paralysis while reckless makes a pokemon ditch out higher damage when using a move that has a recoil.

It also knows the moves brick break, fake out, feint, focus energy, helping hand, low sweep, tackle, double kick, low kick, endure, revenge, and submission (Tutored).

Those skills are great but most of them are fighting type moves, and with zubat having the type advantage will make the match an easy win.

"Zubat fly up, and attack with confuse ray." I instructed, and zubat just that.

"Hitmonlee disrupt it with fake out." The old man said, and I know he plans to make zubat flinch but sadly zubat has the ability inner focus so he can't flinch no matter what.

Zubat was hit with fake out but zubat wasn't hurt that much, and he then sent out a confuse ray as a counter attack. This made hitmonlee confused.

"Zubat, use tactic anti-figthing." This tactic consist of moves like gust, wing attack, and air slash. He'll also use this combo many times as long as the opponent is in a confused state.

Confuse ray, and supersonic are really great moves. Hitmonlee was like a punching bag, and was continuously being wounded with flying type moves.

Hitmonlee soon woke up from it's confused state but once again zubat used confuse ray, and made the poor guy confused again. Zubat then continued bullying hitmonlee with flying type moves. I kind of pity the guy.

Soon enough, hitmonlee was knocked off without even doing anything. It turned into an bullying than a match.

"Umm… Gym leader Jean's hitmonlee is unable to battle, and Rem's zubat won the battle. Challenger Rem won against gym leader Jean!" The referee was awkward to say anything at first since the last fight finished fast.

Type advantages is really important in matches, and it can be seen first when zubat faught with that brat's nidoran. With only a few confusion, and zubat was almost defeated. Clearly though, zubat was stronger than that nidoran but still almost lost.

It's like in this situation, and all of the people here can see that hitmonlee was a bit stronger than zubat if no type advantages is included. But with type advantages, zubat became much stronger than hitmonlee.

"Hitmonlee, return. You did your best, it's just that we faced a cunning brat that took advantage of confuse ray, and flying types moves." The old man said, and I can see him frowning. I didn't care though, and I fight with every advantage I can exploit.

"Zubat, you did a great job! I'll reward you with a massage later along with beedrill." I said, and zubat happily screeched, and I patted his head making zubat flap faster. A sign that it was happy.

"Wait for me, kid. I'll get your gym emblem. Also, give me your ID so that I can update your information in the whole region. Since, it's your first gym emblem then I'll have to make sure that your status as a trainer will be upgraded." The old man said, and walked away to get my first gym emblem.

"Congratulations for winning your first gym battle, master." Liz said.

"Thanks but I still have a long way to go." I happily replied to her. I sure have a great mood today considering that I gave a smile to Liz.

"Congratulations, Rem!" Both Karl and Kole said at the same time.

"Thanks." I replied.

"You're amazing for defeating, master. Even though he only used those two pokemon which is very weak compared to his main team, it's amazing either way!" Karl praised.

"That's right! Come back here sometimes, and let's have a pokemon battle when you're free. We need to get stronger fast for our region, and kill those invaders from the other regions." Kole said, and I even saw some imaginary flames on his eyes.

These two kids looks like they are already manipulated by the old man completely. I mean, it's not only the other regions that are invading but also our region. The old man must be instilling these ideas to these two kids.

I really can't trust some people here, and most of them are cunning, manipulative, and greedy people. I don't hate their actions though since I'll also want loyal subordinates under me, and these two kids can be clearly seen as blind believers of the old man.

"Thanks, and I'll work hard for our region!" I replied with fake enthusiasm.